In the post “Sphere Of Influences” a table was presented which linked stages of psyche-socio development to ever larger spheres of community influence from the home through the city and state to the global influence as a whole. This post is going to link these relationships more closely to our biological clock: our “age.”
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Spheres Of Influence
No man is an island, no woman either for that matter. We are all influenced by our surroundings. Our consciousness is really not our own, but belongs to the environment in which we exist.
In family systems therapy, the sphere of influence most addressed is generally the nuclear family, although it could easily expand to extended [...]
Chrono Logos
Chronology. Chronometer. Chronic. Chronicle. Chronograph. Chronoscope. Chrono is alive and well in the Modern English Language. Chrono is the old god of time, Chronos or Kronos. And Time, as a word, goes back to Early Middle English…..and one of the defining characteristics of time is “measured intervals.”
Time can be measured in any number of units [...]
And On The Seventh Day….
God rested. Really? God gets tired? And angry? And eats fast food, talks on a cell phone and works 8am – 5pm? God is a word. And a sound…Three letters. One syllable. A word with meanings….lots and lots of meanings….meanings that move people to pray, and fight; to hope, and fear.
But, that aside, it appears [...]
Planted In Peace
The breeze is lightly rustling through tropical leaves
and birds are chirping on sturdy branches;
The sound of Iao Stream is carried on the wind
and the warm Maui sun is filtered through cloud;
There are no voices to be heard and thought is stilled
eyes rest upon the colored scene feet planted in peace.
The Needs Of A Child
In a sense, we are all children….the fundamental needs we had as a child don’t go away just because we are now an adolescent or an adult; those needs are still quite prevalent; but, because they have been met, are taken care of, on a daily basis, we focus on higher more pressing needs….
The needs [...]
Addled Lessons
To be addled is to be confused; that about sums it up for adolescence. Actually, the word “addled,” from the Middle English period, translates as “mud, filth.” Adolescence is a dirty, filthy, confusing time. Adolescence, as a word comes from Latin and translates into English as “to grow.” The word “adult” comes from the same [...]
Stages Of Psyche Socio Development
In a previous post I touched on the subject of developmental stages. A lot has been said, and can be more said, about these developmental tasks, challenges, crisis, milestones… Stages of biological development are fairly observable; psyche and socio logical development is less so. Although most of the these posts will focus on Psyche Logos, [...]
Psychedelic!
You’d think the word psychedelic was entirely modern; but, “delic” comes from Greek (delein) and means “to make manifest.” So, psychedelic is about making the psyche manifest…well, at least aspects of Psyche which had hitherto been unmanifest. Psychedelic experience is referred to as mind altering.
Mind altering substances are part of just about every culture going [...]
Socio Logos
There are a lot of words that end in “logy” as in sociology, biology, geology, neurology, etc., etc…The suffix “logy” is generally interpreted to mean “the study of or the science of.” However, as has been posted, that word “logy” is Logos which is defined as “ the word by which the inward thought is [...]