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Jung Speaks to the Soul
Carl Gustav Jung Speaks to One's Soul at Presentation of Red Book in NYC October 9th.
"My soul... Where are you?..Do you hear me?..I Speak.. I call you.. Are you there?I have Returned.I am here again.I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet,and I have come to you. I am with you..After long years, of long wondering,I have come to you, again.Should I tell you, everything I have seen?Experienced? or drank in?or do you not want to hear, about the noise of life and the world.But one thing you must know,the one thing I have learned,is that one must live his life..This life is the way,the long sought after way,to the unfamalable which we call divine.There is no other way.All other ways, are false paths.So I found the right way,to let it let me to you, to my soul.I've returned, tempted and purified.Do you still know me?How long, the separation lasted.Everything has come so different.And how did I find you?How strange my journey was.What words should I use to tell you,on what twisted path a good star has guided me to you.Give me your hand,My almost forgotten soul.How long, the joy, at seeing you again.You long disappointed soul.Life has let me back to you.Let us thank the life I have lived,for all the happy, and all the sad hours,For every joy, for every sadness.My soul, my journey,should continue with you..I will wonder with you,and ascend to my solitude.." -C.G. Jung
Man as the Origin of Evil
A clip from an interview with one of the greatest Psychologist in the world. no other than Carl Jung.
Oh It's Barack Obama!
I guess I was shocked a bit realizing that it was Barack Obama who became my first follower in Twitter. Know your first follower too at First Follower.
The Theory of Everything
Thought I know little of this theory, this is really interesting. This is something I should dig and research on.
Baby Sophia's Baptism
50's Parody Educational Film of Thinking
I do not like parodies much but except this one. It's really creative. I like the doctor. And its not really offensive. Communism and Stalin would love this video.
Another Offensive Rubbish
This video sucks. I don't get it why this is so damn funny. Well, of course this video is of no sense whatsoever. Everyone knows women are more than that. This is a serious shit! Men who created this shit should suck on their dicks. The sexist creators of this video must know his limits, for this is an offence to women and a violation to women's rights.
Newly Bought Cheap Book as of 12/15/09
Actually I am not sure as to what content will I be reading from this book except for the fact that the universe with request from my subconscious mind has allowed me to have the book. The Law of Attraction had made it all possible, and perhaps this book will enlightened me further on the law, and the connection between the mind and the universe.
My Sunday Learning on Morality
Just Plain Randomness
Someone or rather many unknown people on facebook has gotten into my nerves, but then I said why should they be much of a nuissance since they aren't deserving of my attention at all. They are but unwise, uneducated, attention-seeking, ambitious wannabes trying to prove something to anybody. Besides, serving their ego isn't gonna help me attract positive vibrations at all. So why hell with them. Anyway, I just found this movie trailer posted by a fellow psychology major on facebook. It's the "Clash of the Titans" to be released on 2010. Sounds interesting, don't you think? Now, its on my list of movies to watch soon.
Recognizing the "I" in Everyone
There was a priest who said that we as Christians must never ever used the word "I" due to its connotation as being selfish. The church says that "We" is the best word to be used because the church, the people are responsible to one another and that "We" work together in harmony under the mercy, grace and love of the Lord; without even considering changing the Apostle's Creed to "We believe in the father Almighty..."
The Apostles' Creed also known as The Creed of Creeds developed between the second and nineteenth century A.D. was believed to have been written by the apostles themselves on the tenth day after Jesus' resurrection. Even the Apostles themselves knew the importance of the word, as I do and my mentor GGG did. "I" as a word shows responsibility, and owning of words. For instance, "I love you" means that I am the one loving you, not we or they. Another is "I hate you." means that I am the one hating you and not us or they. Sometimes, people do not want to own their words due to fear of rejection.
Most times, people are very confluent with others because people are dependent by nature. From the moment of conception to birth individuals depend on a mother or a father. A human baby cannot stand alone without a caregiver, otherwise the poor one will not survive. A human child needs security the same way a grown individual does. The Vatican wants every member of the church to obey them, to be confluent to them, and be prisoner of their own fantasies. And so I will use the word the same way the Apostles' of Jesus Christ and himself did.
This video is your key to getting the riches you ever want, and it starts by saying I. Living life in total harmony, love, abundance and freedom is by recognizing the I in everyone.
180 Degree Rotation
Angsty with my religion that I am, says a friend, and yes. Another friend asked if I believe in heaven and hell, and I said not anymore. Then I kind of realized that yes there is hell and its called Earth. I am at some point attracting negative forces to my vibrational resonance, as the Law of Attraction would say. But then this HD video not only made my day but also rotated my beliefs on 180 degrees view and totally opened me to a new perspective. I guess so much in the world should be appreciated for its beauty. Life is not about pain, anger, hate, grief, depression, and sorrow but it's about planetary aesthetics, beauty from every people's heart, love, freedom, and living harmoniously with other human beings. Life is about social consciousness and social feeling as Alfred Adler wrote. Life is not about me (well, at some point its about me) but its about the energy around us. The cosmic ability everybody must have known before our souls were embodied and before we gained consciousness, from the time our delivery to the first time we opened our eyes to the world that was given to us by the universe. Perhaps, there is one supreme being and it is not a human God but the universe as a God.
Optimism as the Key
It is not Extra Sensory Perception but the Law of Attraction. Optimism as the key to open The Secret. I live by the Law, I call a "cosmic ability".
My Lousy Realization
Earlier while my students were recollecting their unembodied soul's knowledge and perfection (as Plato had theorized/concluded) via an essay examination, I was on my introspection moments. I suddenly started sketching on the black board geometrical shapes, which has lead me to further understanding and explanation on my very own geometrical/mathematical model of Sigmund Freud's and Carl Jung's Unconcious theories and of at the same time opened me yet to another realization.
Fredrick "Fritz" Perls has always believed and affirmed in his Gestalt therapy Gestalt Psychology's infamous line "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" which means that the summation of individual parts/elements that make up the whole isn't as important as the whole.
A person must not be looked down or elevated with reference to indvidual elements of a person (disposition, physical traits, emotional-personal, social characteristics), but must be acknowledged and appreciated as a whole human being who is basically good.
But mathematically speaking, the statement is incorrect because the whole is not greater than the sum of its parts but rather equal to the sum of this parts as illustrated below.
I guess this late realization is kind of lousy. I am so lousy.
The Secret Uncovered
Overall vibrational resonance/vibrations/vibes--whatever you want to call it--is influenced or shaped by our environment.
Humanistic Psychology says that we are a result of our environment. Growing up in a Catholic family, all beliefs are being passed on to me by my parents. Hell, for instance is the only alternative for the sinners, while heaven are for those who are good. The fear of damnation may consume me (or has consumed me), and the more I fear, the more I am actually attracting fear and even negative energies associated with it.
The Law of Attraction, which states that we are attracting more of what we think. We make our own destiny via thoughts we have. If a person is pessimistic by nature (which according to Bob Boyle is not a his/her fault, rather to the environment where he/she is shaped), pessimism and other energies linked to it such as despair, temper, hopelessness and others will be pulled in to the person.Optimistic thinking, on the other hand will attract good things.
The Law of Attraction as the greatest secret is not just for personality development but is beyond psychology, personality, paranormal, transpersonal or philosophy. May it be Quantum Physics or Metaphysical, the law of Attraction is more than everything that we know. It transcends beyond knowledge written on books. It's more of a cosmic/universal idea. I call it cosmic ability, and everyone of us can learn it with full understanding, proper practice and mastery.
To be honest with you, I only know little about it, but I am positive about reading the book. If the time element in this cosmic ability is deactivated, I would definitely have the book now in just a snap of my finger or in just a wrinkle of time. If you don't understand what I am talking, watch the first 20 minutes of the movie and then decide whether you believe it or not.
"The Secret" Curiosity
Though I have seen the The Secret books in National bookstore, and seen The Secret Movie being shown in theatres, I never gave so much attention to it to the thought that they're just another "How to get rich" or "self-self" books which I do not need at all. Not being able to be cognizant of this secret is like losing half of my life. Good thing a friend of mine, who was a classmate in my Bachelor's degree in Psychology--now studying Linguistics, officially introduced me with the secret.
I was intrigued and so I figured the need to know it. I find it really interesting that I am consumed with it as of the moment. So, what is it about? The Law of Attraction which is the greatest secret our great philosophers knew from the very beginning just taught me something, I know It will teach you the same.
Listening to Epica "Cry For The Moon"
Seriously, this song speaks reality (truth). Points to consider:
1. Forgiveness is not for sale, and neither is it for free.
2. We are made Indoctrinated minds, Christian Shaw calls it linear thinking/learning--uncritical learning, a.k.a. introjection...
3. Not practicing what is preached by the believers and those who are in power.
4. Hellish fire for those who have sined (which I believe is a blasphemy).
5. Silence kills.
6. Sexual abuse.
7. Abuse of power.
8. Proclamation of a false freedom (hence, no freedom).
9. The truth will set everyone free.
10. NAME IT! ......
Follow your common sense
You cannot hide yourself
Behind a fairytale forever and ever
Only by revealing the whole truth can we disclose
The soul of this sick bulwark forever and ever
Forever and ever Indoctrinated minds so very often
Contain sick thoughtsAnd commit most of the evil they preach against
Don;t try to convince me with messengers from God
You accuse us of sins committed by yourselves
It's easy to condemn without looking in the mirrorBehind the scenes opens reality
Eternal silence cries out for justice
Forgiveness is not for sale
Nor is the will to forget
Follow your common sense
You cannot hide yourself
Behind a fairytale forever and ever
Only by revealing the whole truth can we disclose
The soul of this sick bulwark forever and ever
Virginity has been stolen at very young ages
And the extinguisher loses its immunity
Morbid abuse of power in the garden of Eden
Where the apple gets a youthful face
Eternal silence cries out for justiceForgiveness is not for sale
Nor is the will to forgetFollow your common sense
You cannot hide yourself
Behind a fairytale forever and ever
Only by revealing the whole truth can we disclose
The soul of this sick bulwark forever and ever
Forever and everEternal silence cries out for justice
Forgiveness is not for saleNor is the will to forget
You can't go on hiding yourself
Behind old fashioned fairytales
And keep washing your hands in innocence
Me Want!
Only the latest album by my favorite EPICA. You know what's so sucky? It's when you want something but you cannot get it easily, just like wanting to buy this album, but its not available in my country. Amazon is an option but shipment's really expensive and would take three to four months before the purchased product is obtain. :(
Sad Lad
Inspired by a boy I saw on the street, I initially drew a sketch of a sad boy on my notebook which I always bring everyday, and further added colors using Adobe Photoshop.
My Childhood Fairytale Fantasy
I read an article from Emery Gondor's book Art and Play Therapy from an Adlerian concepts and application book compilation, which I have been reading in the past few weeks. Art and play are a child's medium of expression which reminds me of my own childhood. I was solitary, shy, dependent, and less of a talker than I am now. I liked paper dolls so much to the point of even sketching and cutting my own paper dolls and chose my own characters. If I remembered right, I wasn't at all showing my own family events, but was presenting my own fairy tale fantasies. All I wanted was to become a princess with those beautiful tiaras, dresses, and shoes. So in my play, there would always be a princess (me) and a slave, particularly a girl slave--someone who I can command and demand. Probably because I was so dependent with my parents, I had no voice, I never had the courage to voice out, and try to initiate things; I wanted to become boss in my little world of fantasy. My mum (mother) was the bossy type, so that's where I get that ideal attitude as a child, but I am never bossy at all, not even now. And then, there wouldn't be a princess without a kingdom, would there? So I made sure I structured/built very well my kingdom using books and a small cottage I built using papers. The paper cottage would depict the poverty a slave deserve--my ideals as a child. So what's the issue about the slave thing? I wanted someone below me. Sounds more like Lavinia and Princess Sarah. haha. The only difference is that I was not rude with my slave. In fact, I was at all friendly but only a bit bossy only because I was the princess. It's like my fate and hers. Anyway, since I was the princess, I had all the nice dresses and a very huge golden mirror, where I look at my self at my mirror. (Now, I am really taking!!) Well, my princess paper doll looks at her mirror and she was so pretty, and prettiest among all the princesses. Gosh! this was what I got from watching princess cartoons. And a princess wouldn't be a princess without her knight and shinning armour, yes I had a prince paper doll which I drew and cut. And they lived happily ever after. Haha, you know I feel good while recalling my past. Today I learned something about my self and my childhood self. One is that I am greatly influenced with my environment. Another is that I wasn't who I am today. That's a good sign, don't you think?
Freedom
When I was in college, a Psychology Society officer asked me make a T-shirt design for the Psychology Society semester T-shirt and I kinda drafted this, but I have decided on not using this for the tee design because this art is really personal. It's my projection of the freedom that I was deprived of. Its been really quite long until I realized what freedom really is and I am kinda happy now. I'm not telling that I am free now, it's just that I found another definition of the word. According to Lydia Sicher freedom is "a matter of conviction" and an attitude towards the self within this cosmos that we are living. The moment we see our self as an integral part of this universe, and actively playing a role in society,which Alfred Adler calls social interest or social feeling, then that per se is freedom. And great freedom always goes with great responsibility.
"Individuation requires exercise of responsibility for responsibility for oneself and, as a functioning entity within the extrapersonal entity of the world, co-responsibility for the welfare of others. Freedom is an ethical outlook on life. The free person knows that he is his brother Abel's keeper; the person at liberty proves--in most cases, at least--that he has not violated moral laws of his society through he may not have kept the ethical laws inherent in the community of man." - Lydia Sicher
Why Into Nowness?
So why Nowness? Link: Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow never comes William Moulton Mraston asked 3000 person. "What have you to live for." He was shocked to find out that almost 95% are simply bearing the present while they wait for tomorrow; parents wait for children to grow up, and old people to die. They are waiting for tomorrow without realizing that all everyone has is today; because yesterday is gone and tomorrow never comes.---Douglas Luston Power of Positive Living
"The past is gone. The future has not yet come. The present is all we have. We cannot change the past nor can we draw upon the future. But we can use the present. Time is does not begin at once to live and count each day as a separate life." ---Sereca
The most important things in the world are in the here and now. So seize the moment while its still there before you loose it and cry in despair.
My Other Birds
We had six birds before and they all died gradually. I never gave too much attention on them that fact that they were'nt mine but my pop's. Perhaps I was too busy with school and with other things. But now pops got another five birds from his friend, and now a newly hatched egg (hatched a few weeks ago)--a bird I named Six. I love them all even if they aren't attending to Six's needs. Well, they're birds, living in a small community inside a world they call there own, a world I call a cage--a prison cell.
Six, My Sixth
He/she's just soooo cute I couldn't help it. I named him/her Six because he/she is my sixth bird, and also the first from a hatched egg. I think I'm so attached with this bird I always think about how he/she is doing or if he/she has eaten (sometimes he/she doesn't eat). Six is very isolated among my other birds, probably because he/she's too young for the others. Six is still exploring the world around him; the world i knew he/she would hate (a prisoner in a cage--deprived from knowing and exploring the big world out there where he/she is supposed to be). But I guess its fate that lead him here. Even as a little bird, he/she is now on his/her own that even his/her own mother doesn't care no more. Poor one. But I do. What's so different about this bird is that he/she's not afraid about foreign animals (predators like cats) and which worries me the most. Those cats are gonna eat him/her and Six is just standing there doing nothing even if cats try to attack him/her due to the fact that seldom those cats climb the big cage and try to reach my birds. I don't hate those cats, i love cats. It is nature, they just happen to be on the upper part of the food chain, while the birds are on the lower part. It's instinct, which they are branded for. Gosh, I cannot believe I don't know Six's biological sex.
The Transitoriness of Life
All composite things are doomed to extinction. These are drawings illustrating the ephemerality of life; that we live to die, and die to live. Drew this on 2007.
Solitude
This is one of my many screwed up water color paintings, which I did when I was on college. I probably was so emo, most of my previous paintings are associated with negative feelings, sometimes with introspection, and loneliness; because I first and foremost am introspective, alone but not at all lonely. Anyway, it is always good to have solitude--some time alone. Some people cannot appreciate it because they are not willing to know their selves better, or are probably too sick, too afraid, to coward to know the truth about themselves. Like they always say, "Truth hurts." and it fucking does!
The Reason Why I am Saving Money
You are the reason why I am saving money (aside from school tuition fee).
Teleology of Man: His Death
If only I was like Veronika, death would have been easier, unfortunately i am as sane (or rather insane) as you and as fearful to death as majority of people living in the cosmos.
In just as I am curious as a cat, I am wondering how it was like to be in Veronika's neurotic mind, or more like psychotic than neurotic since i already am the former like everyone in the planet is. freud said we have a degree of insanity in all of us. He and other psychologists, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts are not an exemption, nor am I or you.
So what is man's purpose then? Death is his or her purpose as some people would say, but Existentialist Victor Frankl said that man must find meaning in life. Meaning varies according to individuals and changes depending on the situation. Frankl added that we can find meaning in love, in work and others. It is not necessary that we have a meaning in life in general sense but meaning in all aspects of the parts that make up the whole.
I am blogging now because I find meaning in this endeavor as i find meaning in reading or in going to school or in working. Veronika found meaning in death and so she decided on giving up the life that was given to her. it was freedom that she found.
Yes, suicide is psychologically speaking, a form of escape pattern, but verinoka sees it otherwise. perhaps, in order to really understand the human psyche is to look at things in a neurotic's or psychotic's perspective, dig deep, and have an open mind.
I am suddenly reminded of the movie "The Cell" starred by Jennifer Lopez. She was a child psychologist who journeys through the mind of a comatosed serial killer to find a missing girl. It was then that she found the morbid events that happened to him as a child that influenced his later personality. The task wasn't easy but she understood what it was like to be trapped inside trauma with the darkest of the memories the human psyche can contain.
While I was reading Veronika, it was like journeying through her mind, knowing and understanding her narrow but meaningful perspective. She finds meaning in her situation and she found happiness even if she decides to end it all.
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By the way, I am looking forward to watching the movie adaptation of the book. It was released first on Brazil, Poland, and Sweeden in August and October 2009. For UK, USA, and hopefully in Asia; the release is scheduled on 2010.
FFS Coin Finder
ffs coin finder script source code below:
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WordTrotter by Filipino Developer
And oh yeah I figured downloading one for my desktop. I'm sure pops and mum will love to play it too. And talk about games, I have not played any Facebook games lately. I have been busy with projects QS, SC and this (don't ask or start guessing)...Or maybe not. :p
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GM_JQ.src = 'http://jquery.com/src/jquery-latest.js';
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if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); }
else { $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); }
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window.setTimeout(GM_wait,5000);
// All your GM code must be inside this function
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if(window.location == "http://apps.facebook.com/friendsforsale/users/show/null")
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window.location = "http://apps.facebook.com/friendsforsale/users/show/139739423";
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Open Heaven, Open Happiness
While I was in Manila, I took this picture and edited it to make it look like Coca-Cola is heaven's gift to all due to the reason that I wasn't allowed to drink coke at the time (I had skin disease). Secondly, I am a fan of Open Happiness.
The Hitch-hiker
This art work is based on my previous dream. What suck the most is that I cannot even remember details on this particular dream except for this hitch-hiker waiting for apasserby
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Pamugasay mortals
Due to my inability to login at Facebook, I am to the point of boredom's doldrums which has conduced me to a sudden realization or rather introspection as to how much I am missing few people who at some point became a part of my training to become a teacher that I am now i am i nto nowness...me and my DPE classmates, photos taken during the first semester.
Absolute and Relative Morality
Found an informative and an illuminating idea on relative and absolute morality.
Absolute vs. Relative Morality
By Adam Kemp
Absolute vs. Relative Morality
The basic definition of absolute morality is that there is some set of moral rules which are absolute and universal. Relative morality takes the other stance: that morals are not absolute; they depend on the situation.
A problem arises when one tries to define exactly what morals are. After all, by explicitly defining what you believe is moral and immoral, you are deciding for yourself whether someone else is moral or immoral, according to your choices. I could declare that eating broccoli is immoral and that you are immoral if you eat broccoli. You wouldn't have any choice in the matter. This is hardly a useful method of determining morality.
This, in essence, is the problem with the belief in absolute morality. If one believes that there is a global set of absolute morals which everyone must follow, then the immediate questions arise: what are those morals, and how do we know? Since no religion in history has every agreed on a set of absolute morals, and even members of the same religion often disagree as well, we think that the concept of absolute morality is useless. Since anyone could declare that their particular moral beliefs are absolute (and many do), and no one can demonstrate the validity of those claims, the whole thing is arbitrary. Anything goes in that system of belief, for any rule can be declared absolute.
The alternative to absolute morality is relative morality. Unfortunately, this phrase is often mischaracterized and misunderstood. Relative morality does not mean that "anything goes"; it does not mean that any action may be justified; it does not mean that you can't judge anyone for their actions just because you don't know that they're wrong. Rather, relative morality simply takes the stance that no single set of moral rules can possibly account for every situation. Instead, moral decisions should be made rationally, taking into account the consequences of each potential choice.
Relative morality, which I prefer to call rational morality or reason-based morality, can be used to derive a set of basic moral guidelines, such as "don't kill" or "don't steal" or "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". The difference, though, is that each of these morals must have a rational basis. They must, in other words, be shown true in most cases, either logically or perhaps from past experience.
Another important difference is that these morals are general guidelines, but not one-size-fits-all mandates. This is the part of relative morality which bothers many people, but this is usually due to a misunderstanding in what is meant when we say that the rules can be broken. Relative moralists do not arbitrarily choose to break the rules to suit their needs. The rules are broken when the positive effects of breaking the rule outweigh the positive effects of following it. For instance, killing a man may be justified if it would save the lives of other people.
This is what is meant when we say that the morals are not absolute. Morals are tools to help us make decisions which will improve our lives and society. An inflexible mandate would fail to serve that purpose, especially when that mandate is arbitrary and irrational.
Relative morality is often accused of being arbitrary or allowing for anything, but in reality the opposite is true. It is absolute morality which is arbitrary. Sure, absolute moralists have a definite, unchanging set of moral rules, but those unchanging rules change from person to person, religion to religion. One person's mortal sin is another's harmless act. That shows the brutal truth: there is no such thing as absolute morality. All morality is relative. Once we acknowledge this, we can start the real debate about what the rules should be, and that debate can be properly based in reason and fact.
