La Rochefoucauld

It is only with the heart
that one can see rightly:
What is
essential is
invisible to
the eye.

-maxims

Diversity of mind

Social subjection influences the progressive self-realisation of individuals; hampering or facilitating the process of self actualisation. 

Highly diverse individuals -  autonomous, systematic, rational - subject themselves to a range of social situations to provide the opportunity for catalysts for change and growth. 

The highly diverse individual continuously decodes their surrounding environment. If they meet someone similar, they tend to resonate together, exhibiting a unity of comparison in spite of any of their face-value differences. It feels like a hot burning sensation on the skin and a 'wired' mind. It might be between a 21-year old woman and an 80 year old man; the connection seeming so real and intangible; and neither can explain why, as they may have only exchanged words on woodworking techniques and non-verbal communication on how to operate in the physical world. Nonetheless, the communication and appraisal of each other can be profound and the resonance of each other detected.

When you are resonating with someone else, it feels like you are slightly outside of consciousness, but just below the surface so as to be able to be roused by the slightest touch. The world seems soft, supple, fluid, and you can attain a visual micro perception revealing both spaces and voids as well as the loss of boundaries.

As each individual grows in their path to actualisation, each strives to achieve a connection to a certain resonance through time. It the only word I can think of that describes the indescribable that I have experienced. I believe our 'resonance' is directly related to our brain chemistry and structure; however this is known to change throughout life and brain plasticity can be manipulated. Thus, what once created a resonating effect may not always - and this makes sense in reality as we grow out of friends, partners. 

Australian society understandably accepts one marital partner as 'normal' and its in our law system. 

All of a sudden I can see the idea of marrying one person your whole life as seeming absurd; however if I really had the kind of resonating relationship that I desire then I would choose to remain in it as long as it was 'good' or still had potential. I do not subscribe to the view of locking ourselves into anything forever though, other than the commitment to lifelong learning and actualisation.  

Nietzsche's Zarathustra

According to Nietzsche's Zarathustra there are three or even four dangers: First, fear, then Clarity, then Power, and finally great Disgust. The passion for abolition. One can guess what Fear is. We are always afraid of losing, we do not want to lose, it is is our genes, in the very blueprints of evolution within us. Survival, once our most important instinct (however I believe altruism has been around for a long while).

We are afraid of losing our security. -on security "the great molar organisation that sustains us, the aborescences we cling to, the binary machines that give us a well defined status, the resonances we enter into, the systems that dominate us - we desire all that. The values, morals, fatherlands, religions and private certitudes our vanity and self-complacency generously grant us are so many abodes the world furnishes for those who think on that account that they stand and rest amid stable things; they know nothing of the enormous rout the are heading for ... in flight from flight."

Maurice Blanchot, (1971) L'amiti'e. p. 232, Paris: Gallimard.


People flee from flight, they rigidify their segments; everything is involved: modes of perception, kinds of actions, ways of moving, ways of acting, lifestyles, semiotic regimes.