Time can be measured in any number of units and the intervals can be assigned arbitrarily or by some logic (i.e., Logos)…. both linearly, and cyclicly.  Cycles of time, repeated rounds  of measured intervals, is best represented by the change in seasons.  Although time might appear to be linear,  just as empty space appears to be solid,  we really measure time in cycles. A year is a cycle….A decade is a cycle, as is a century, an age, a millenium…..A minute is a cycle, an hour is a cycle….time goes round and round in cycles. Time recycles.

And cycle, as one might see, is kin to circle; so, time is a circle – except for the linear perception of time which makes the circle into a spiral – 22 is further along the linear path than 21, even though, after one year, you’ve returned to the very same season, in the very same month, on the very same date…. one year later -  you have passed through 4 seasons worth, 12 months worth, of personal experience – and that makes all the difference. It may be the same season, the same month, the same place, but it’s not the same….it’s a year later.

It appears we are moving towards a future, away from a  past……movement through measured intervals of days, weeks, months, years, decades…, in a linear fashion…which, though actually cyclical,  can be viewed more as a spiral motion, round and round in circles and, at the same time, moving along what appears to be a linear path – able to look back down at where we were, and project up front where we hope to be…..

You don’t have to agree with this; just consider what if….

There is a  structure to our psyche-socio development; there are 7 phases, stages, arenas….classrooms…

What if….consciousness manifests and develops itself through experiences in 7 Classrooms-each classroom with 7 Grade Levels and each grade level having 7 Lessons. Whether it is personal consciousness or national consciousness, or solar consciousness, there is a process of ongoing metriculation into the next grades, and the next classrooms, over time.

Time becomes an element to consider; how long are the seven lessons  of the seven grades  in the seven classrooms…..That information is somewhat dependent on Time Consciousness. Personal time consciousness operates within the days to decades framework. But, national consciousness can operate within decades to centuries, and solar consciousness ages to eons.

What if…..our solar consciousnes has just entered 4th Grade in the 5th Classroom, and our national consciousness is about to leave fourth grade and enter 5th Grade,  in the 2nd Classroom – different curriculums for sure, although there are 7 Themes which permeate developmental stages at whatever level it is operating…..

Our personal consciousness is so colored by the national consciousness (and the solar consciousness) that developmental themes at the personal level, to be rightly understood, must include the context of national consciousness.

National Time Consciousness is a calendar kind of thing…..What year is it? According to who?

So, let’s say it’s the year 2012. As a national entity, the age is “20″ and there remains 89 years as a twenty year old. Then a birthday, and then the national consciousness matures from a twenty year old to a twenty one year old in 2101.

Let’s say it’s the year 4056….The national identity is that of a 40 year old, with 45 more years until the forty year old becomes a 41 year old…

Just as a person changes, matures, grows, develops, adjusts, compensates, creates….from when they were 20 years old to when they are 40 years old, so too national identity, national consciousness, was born…grows, develops…..decays, and dies. Through 7 Grades of 7 Classrooms.

Let’s focus on this year: 2009,  a few months from 2010. One year difference. A lot can happen in one year, from the personal consciousness point of view; but, not much happens from the solar consciousness point of view. Some significant developments can occur within the national psyche during a year, but most of the real national changes happen over several years, and decades.

Your an adolescent. No matter how old you are personally, nationally, you, as an integral member of a society that claims itself to be in the year 2009, have a national age, which fits within the schema of psyche-socio developmental stages.  As an integral part of  socio-national  consciousness, you (the national self you, not the personal self you), were born 20 years (centuries) ago; you’re a twenty year old. Everybody in the nation is a 20 year-old. Anybody who says “this is the year 2009″ is an adolescent, from the national self consciousness perspective.  Adolescence.

Well, actually, the twenty year old is in that nebulous dangerous mind altering period, stage, phase, classroom of decaying adolescence and the emergence of early adulthood, the blossoming of which, from the national consciousness point of view,  will take many hundreds of years….if it does not fall ill or die in some invasion,   or become  poisoned or plauged….and morphed into distortions or even the antithesis of its original Logos.

Health care is a hot topic today. Most people realize the debate is not really about health care, or insurance reform; it’s more  about economics. Economics is an interesting word and deserves as much if not more scrutiny than the word health. Each of these two words, health and economics, have meanings, within our minds. These words have no meaning whatsoever outside Psyche. Health economics is a purely human convention.  And, if we dive down into the root Logos of Psyche,  health economics becomes wholistic household management.

Our word health is derived from the Middle English hal which translates into Modern English as “whole.” Economics is derived from  the Greek oikonimika and translates to “the science of household management” (Websters).

Health Economics > Wholistic Household Management

Insurance. Or, assurance? There is no insurance, or assurance,  against illness and disease. There are, however, for the most part, cures. And, there can be some semblance of insurance, and assurance, about cures.  Many cures  are really just care; for the most part, the core of cure is care.  Dependent on the style of household management available in the country, cures, and care, is available, to some degree or another.  Generally, in a capitalistic society, that which is needed, such as a cure, or care,  becomes a commodity, sold in the marketplace to be purchased by consumers. Competition within a capitalistic society tends to  keep commodities at market value. In a  social society, a necessary commodity  is commonly  made available to all who are in need. Competition and market value are not introduced into the equation. Although America is a capitalistic society, it is still a society and does include common social services available to all. The conflict over health care insurance reform is about where on that continuum it should be placed.

The current health care insurance reform debate in The United States of America  is a socio-cultrual conflict within the national psyche as it strives to redefine itself; call it growing pains- from adolescence to early adulthood. The ethos and logos of “care” witihin the national adolescent psyche is struggling to emerge as something re-formed in early adulthood. It’s a national developmental crisis; a national psyche-logos transformation.

Change is difficult, at best. More commonly, change is resisted, avoided, fought against…As people, we tend to prefer the familiar, no matter how ineffective or miserable it might make us. The new is an unknown, unpredicatable, anxiety producing. Fortunately, change is inevitable…and there are those who inspire us to change, to move ahead, to leave the familiar; otherwise we’d still be arguing over whether or not t o venture across the seas and nobody would have a cell phone…..

What is “house?”

Well, it’s a shape with a form and a function;  it’s a structure, a dwelling, a shelter. There are little houses, and big houses. There are one roomed houses, and multi-roomed houses. There are houses with no yard, small yards, big yards, and huge yards.

Houses are generally inhabited.

A beehive is a house. The yard extends for miles.

A nest is a house. The yard extends beyond counties and even state lines.

The human nest, the human hive, the human house has many rooms and yards…..

Logos is what Psyche attributes to “house.”  For most, “house” is the four walls holding up a celing which covers 2 bedrooms, a bath, living room and kitchen. House may or may not include the yard. It certainly does not include the neighborhood. “My House” is not the same as “my neighborhood; but it could be,  just a larger version. Some old cultures use languages that don’t make distinctions between my house and your house, or their house….the community itself is the house.

Because a house, at whichever level you want to think about it, is likely inhabited, there is an inherent need for organization and management. The more inhabitants, the more complex the interactions and interdependencies. The modern science of ecology is about the organization and management of  interactions and interdependencies within adaptive systems.  Its a complicated science.  A nuclear house hold of two parents and three children is an ecological system and often already too complicated; the thought of managing an ecological system, i.e., a “house,” which encompasses a community…..or even a state, a nation, a continent, a planet….a solar system, or any ecosphere, can be overwhelming.

Eco Logos.

The meanings ascribed to house.

The American logo is, of course, the flag. But, the Logos, the inward thought, is more along the lines of The Declaration of Independence and, more specifically, the seminal sentence within that declaration: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

There are some problems with this. First, the idea of independence is an illusion. The reality is actually interdependence.  Nothing in the world is really independent. Everything in the world is really interdependent. Independence is a rather adolescent concept. Interdependence is a more mature point of view. This is validated by modern quantum physics, and the science of ecology; and with a little observation, interdependence can be validated by direct experience.

The second problem is the idea  “pursuit of happiness,” more specifically, the word “pursuit.” Pursuing happiness will yield about as much success as chasing a rainbow. If the guiding principle, the programming, the ethos,  is pursuit, then the actual achievement or attainment of happiness is in contradiction. We have not been “programmed” to achieve or attain happiness, only to pursue it. The ethos of the American psyche, the habit and custom of the American mind, is not geared to have happiness, but to endlessly pursue it. The idea of radiating happiness, sharing happiness, being happiness, is even more foreign.

The third issue about the American ethos is that there are additional unalienable rights beyond life, liberty and the “pursuit” of happiness. The Declaration states “….certain unalienable rights, that among them are…..”

What are those other unalienable rights?