Individuality is one of the over-arching themes in the 4^th School, and the 4^th Classroom, and 4^th Grade, and in lesson four. Hianims comprise the 4^th Kingdom, so you can bet Individuality (and it’s dualistic counterpart, Collectivity) can be observed in the activities of people and nations.

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The needs of a child are simple: nourishment, both physical and psyche-logical and safety, both physical and psychelogical. From those needs being met, trust develops; trust in others, trust in the world, and trust in self.

Our fundamental sense of trust, formed during childhood, permeates our perceptions and we are ever responsive to threats to safety, and nourishment. For the most part, there are no or minimal threats, and we continue on our path of lessons through our gradations of developmental stages working with higher needs of self identity and engagement with the larger community.  But, all the while, within us and within everyone we meet, is the child….with ongoing needs of nourishment and safety….

You might say that a child needs love, care, encouragement, etc.,etc….I agree, and have lumped those all into the psyche-logical nourishment category…..What can be more nourishing to Psyche than love, care and encouragement…..And, when it comes to those things, we are ever children….

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.

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 way way back in time. The body, the “bio” as an organic chemical factory, produces substances which alter the mind naturally. And, of course,  some plants naturally produce mind altering chemicals.  The mere act of sensing the world is mind altering; eating food is mind altering, sports is mind altering, sex is mind altering, education is mind altering…..It is as if mind altering activities are necessary…..

Where would we be if our minds had not been altered? Where will we be if we don’t alter our minds?

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

- Albert Einstein

There is thought behind Bio, Geo, Neuro…and the many prefixes to a word that ends in “logy.” Let’s take a look at “socio-logy.”

Socio originates from the Latin (socius) and translates into Modern English as “companion.”  There is a complex relationship between Psyche, ie., soul or mind, and Scoio, the companion, or companions. The complexities of our world, and our personal life, is due in large part to the interaction of Psyche and Socio, the mind and companions, the individual, and the collective.  But, let’s not forget Bio, as in our body….

Bio is a Greek word. It means “life.” It is the animating intelligent energy which underlies our physical form and functions…It is more than our body; it is the physicality of all animate forms, both gross and subtle, from the obvious to the molecular. Our human body, both as a person and a species,  is but one manifestation of Bio.

So, we have Bio, Psyche and Socio…Life, Mind and Companions. A threesome.  A trinity. A triangle. A gang of three……And they sometimes do beat up on each other.

Psyche Logos is often caught in the middle,  conflicted between the basic, instinctual  animalistic life drives of Bio Logos and the collective cultural conditionings of the company that makes up  Socio Logos. That’s were Therapeutae can be helpful to Psyche Logos which is so often confused about “me” and “we”

Psychelogos Therapeutae, the use of words and language to bring about healing and curing…..

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.

If therapy is, at least in part, about creating change, either in behavior, mood, thought or even physiology, then color has a role to play in helping bring about changes. Colors are generally categorized as hot or cold, warm or cool….Red, orange and yellow are consider hot and warm colors whereas purple, blue and green are are the cold and cool colors. Advertising and design professionals spend a great deal of time considering color for it really does affect the psyche.

Decades ago, when my son was just a few years old, he had a fever. We put him in his bedroom, put blue light bulbs in the light sockets, and let him be in  blue light. Within a couple of hours his fever was gone…..

A lot can be said about color therapy and if you are interested, I suggest you Google it…there is some interesting information out there.

Photography is all about light. Photo, as a word, is Greek in origin and translates to “light.” The graphing of light, however, is incomplete without shadows. Shadows give distinction and character, dimension and shape. Without shadows, a photograph wouldn’t be much to look at.

Psychologically speaking, the same is true about the mind, or the psyche. The shadow part of our personality, the “dark” side, has its place and a fair amount of therapy is geared towards looking at, accepting, and working with this shadow.

The shadow is considered an “archetype.” Archetypes are like blueprints.  Archetypes tend to come in pairs. There is the “good” and the “bad.” The good “hero” is typically considered the antithesis of the bad “villian.” The hero is light, the villian is shadow. The hero, is honest, the shadow is deceitful. The hero is……and the shadow is………so many “positive” and “negative” qualities to list. There are other blueprint types found in psyche: the jester/joker, the magician, the elder, the child, the rebel, the servant, the teacher, the student, the man, the woman……Psyche can be well populated….YOUR psyche, IS well populated……