… or some additional thoughts about Extra-Social Authorities, Heteronomy and Agency.

Extra-Social Authority : here environmental & historical necessities, ancestral traditions, Gods,
religious & governing institutions plus all the Lords, Kings and leaderships that operate outside & above
the common, socio-ecological networks of society & environment, and possess the privilege of impunity.

 

4Caveat lector 3

 

 

 

Here HISstory :

Following the Egyptian monotheistic ideas of Akhenaten,
the Mosaic laws – or ‘commandments’ – launched a major shift
in the intellectual development of our species
and became a pivotal moment in the cultural evolution of humanity.

 

Promoting the new idea of agriculture to a rapidly growing, primarily pastoral society
required a new form of social manipulation or ‘engineering’. [A]

Introducing & combining the concepts of appropriation & monoculture on a spiritual level – thus radically
changing the social-emotional ‘alignments’ of the people’s mindset – became the modus operandi.

To change the attitude & behaviour of a community or a larger group of people, the common sense
or Social-Emotional Intellect of the individual needs to be addressed and manipulated;
Of course, all these alterations happen on a subconscious or spiritual level, at a time when a person is
social-emotionally most vulnerable. Traumatized & desperate people or inexperienced & immature youngsters
are selected, ‘chosen’ or singled out, and then deceived into an individuation process that is rather
machinating them into devoted fans & followers than into autonomous, self-instituted individuals.

 

That’s where an undeveloped or uneducated consciousness becomes foolish and leaves the ‘backdoor‘
to our subconsciousness wide open. An unguarded & unexamined mind allows all kinds of ‘marauders’
and mental rubbish to take control of our life and mental attitude.

This spiritual or socio-psychological groundwork has ‘paved the way’ for a reign over large amounts
of people and still remains the number one crowd-control ‘tool’ of the ‘masters‘, leaders & idols
of our societies.

 

 

 

 

 

A combination of divine entitlements and hierarchic stratifications,
not only unravelled and destroyed the socio-ecological networks of our indigenous,
more egalitarian societies, but also altered our environmental perception,
restructured our social-emotional orientation and reshaped the way we think.

 

 

 

 

 

How the Mosaic Genesis scheme engendered the Nemesis of our species.

Or, how our abstract thinking constructed an utterly absurd belief system that is in discordance with
the multiplicity & diversity of life and, as such categorically contradicts the eco-dynamic evolution,
created a linear paradigm with the One & Only Deity whose Hebrew theonym is ‘Y-H-W-H’ or Yahweh;

In essence, His name itself – a tetragrammaton – ultimately translates into a simple, linear algorithm:
                                   He who – causes to exist, – becomes, – comes to pass.
xxx    xxxx   xxxx     The entire process of ‘Creation’ ends where it ‘started’,
or terminates what initiated its existence in the first place; meaning, with a Beginning comes an End,
where there’s One there’re More & Others^[B], with Good comes Evil and with ‘haves’ come ‘have-nots’  etc…

Revelation 22:13 ‘I am the Alpha and the Ωmega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.’
With the ‘One & Only’ Lord God dividing the whole into two extremes, then making Himself the one & only,
– realigning connection between the two distinct points – is as two-dimensional and linear as it gets.
Even ‘drawing’ the line in a circle, reuniting and completing the whole, does not reflect the
multidimensional diversity, eco-dynamic & homeorhetic Nature of real Life.

 

Building walls & fences, just to keep things separated, might turn inclusion into captivity.

4 Anima vs Animus 3

… genderized thinking, anthropomorphic archetypes and other presumed ‘chasms’,
all created by an entirely abstract, dichotomous bifurcation of Life
that has left our species in a state of mind :
– where Life & Love engender Death & Hate
and nothing makes socio-ecological sense;
– where social-emotions are attributed to Anima
and Intelligence belongs to our Animus,
thus ‘divorcing’ the SYZYGY of our collective Psyche.

This ‘Wonder of Creation’ is nothing more than a 5000-year-old stratagem to gather & transform
a specific group of tribal nomads (– here the Chosen Ones) into an agricultural society with
a designated ‘Homeland or Fatherland‘.
Therefore, the creation or social engineering of a ‘nation’ – just a concept or product of
abstract thinking – required the reframing & redescription of our inherent spirituality and
the alteration, recoding & editing of the traditionally social-emotional, intellectual disposition.

Our ability to discern, differentiate & distinguish combined with divine entitlements and
appropriation schemes transmuted into exceptionalism, chauvinism, and systemic anthropocentrism.
Choices faded into something we call decision-making, and motivation & inspiration concluded
in some, unreflected determination – here from above – that competes, conquers & subjugates
everything else, – the ‘Rest of Creation’.

These, first subtle modifications to psyche & consciousness discriminated ‘One’ from ‘All Others’,
devastated our mental make-up, our social organ that makes us what we are,
and separated or expelled the individual ‘Self’ from its Relational Field,
the collective that constitutes & sustains all ‘Becomings’.

When all this did not go as planned and encountered resistance, “Oh my God” all ‘Hell’ broke loose.
Because the sophomoric concept ignored all the ‘skill, wisdom & intelligence’ of femininity,
– the ‘Holy Sophia‘, repudiated all ‘Others’, and thus contradicted 300,000 years of aggregated
sapience; – this ideology became a disaster in the making.

The ignorance & naivety of this scheme created disappointments of ‘catholic proportion’ and
evoked a lot of ‘divine’ frustration, resentment and anger.
The callow and imprudent response of this omnipotent creator came in form of retaliations
with ‘heavy handed’ commandments and brutal punishments.

The reign of fear had begun,
the social-emotional terror management was upon us,
and all of ‘His Creation’ was to end in one great, divine retribution.

As in all Eco-Dynamics, the Social-Dynamics of our species is not much different; All forms of
communication can make knowledge, ideas & beliefs ‘contagious’ and spreading like a mental virus.

Cutting the umbilical connection, the physical & emotional attachment to our habitat,
and separating us from the common & collective, created a whole catalog of anxieties
and became the Genesis of the Epigenetic Trauma that is haunting our species since.

 

“Collective Mind you say ?”

 

 

Our Brain as a Social Organ

In ‘The Neuroscience of Human Relationships’ Louis Cozolino is challenging us to think of our brain as a social organ that requires stimulation and connection to survive & thrive.
A mind without connection and stimulation of other minds will shrink
and eventually die; moreover, the human brain’s primary environment is our matrix of social relationships, stimulating our emotions, neuroplasticity, and cognitive functions.

For Louis Cozolino, neuroscience is a powerful resource that helps to
explain behavior and provides insight into how patterns of interacting emerge in individuals and communities. He uses it as a reservoir of metaphors that gets us thinking about
what happens between and within us.
At a very granular level, our brains are interconnected networks of neurons that function withpattern and rhythm across structures that we often treat as monolithic – the amygdala does this,the hippocampus is responsible for that – when this is not really the case.The space between each neuron – the synapse – is where it all happens. It is a pool of chemical substances that transmit information from one neuron to the next and stimulates what Cozolino
calls the impetus for neurons to survive, grow and be sculpted by experience.

Synaptic Plasticity

In one of his earliest books, ‘The Neuroscience of Human Relationships’, he challenges us to think
about the synapse as being replicated in the social sphere: “When it comes right down to it,
doesn’t communication between people consist of the same building blocks? When we smile,
wave, and say hello, these behaviours are sent through the space between us.
These messages are received by our senses and converted into chemical signals within our
nervous systems… which generate… new behaviours that, in turn, transmit messages back,
across the social synapse.
The social synapse is the space between us – a space filled with seen and unseen messages
and the medium through which we are combined into larger organisms such as families, tribes,
societies and the human species as a whole…”

 

How the Law & Order theories of a monotheistic ‘Creation’
– with all its jointly exhaustive & mutually exclusive, dichotomic partitioning –
have caused all-sorts of mental compartmentalization
and all kinds of anthropocentric confirmation biases.

including:

Attitude polarization – when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different
x    xxxxxx       xxxxx x x parties are exposed to the same evidence.
Belief perseverance –  when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false.

Illusory correlation  –  when people falsely perceive an association between two events or
x x x xxxxxx x xx x xx x situations.

 

Those ‘Laws-Written-in-Stone’ have fundamental design flaws and are treacherous to our
common sense and the social psychological makeup of our collective consciousness.

The authoritarian conclusiveness ignores the organic networks of our environment and habitat,
it restricts & controls our social-emotional correspondence and systematically blocks the flow
of all our natural inter-connectivities. By missing elasticity & flexibility, these kinds of
laws get ‘broken’ as soon as they are handed ‘down from the mountain’.

By dismissing versatility & tolerance, these commandments contradict the all-present collaborative
and dynamic consonance of our ecosystem and so inadvertently trash & ruin the wonderful & brilliant
design of ‘Creation’ itself.

Thus exposing the ‘Creator’ himself as an artificial, extra-social, super authority,
a ‘Wizard of OZ’ which is rather a clever ‘Design’ of some ruthless opportunists that found
an effective scheme to turn a community of individuals into an amenable flock of ‘sheep’,
than a cultivation or enrichment of our mental capacities.

Like a virus, the linear, hierarchic ideology entered thru an unattended, ‘spiritual backdoor’
of our psyche. In absence of the ‘Holy Sophia‘, a whole array of unsophisticated & unbalanced
emotions infested our subconsciousness and contaminated our Central Nervous System (CNS).

Beginning with God’s malicious envy and anger ^[D], this belief system has inundated us with
negative affectivities or emotions until we surrendered our sense of agency or ownership
and subjugated our lives to the heteronomous reign from ‘above’.

Like a computer malware, these ideas hijacked our cognitive functions, corrupted & numbed all
our social-emotional sensitivities and made our species environmentally ignorant and ecocidal.

XX  Now we are social-emotionally frayed and eco-dynamically bankrobbed !  XX

 

 

… and, if you pay attention, you will see :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Neolithic Mythologies to AI Delusions

All those commonly accepted, monotheistic beliefs & concepts, that are now better understood
as being anthropocentric and chauvinistic, have engendered all kinds of theories that reach
from idealism & absolutism to racism & colonialism, fostered the ideologies of fascism,
nationalism and countless other isms. 

‘Together we are strong’ morphed into a fascistic mentality
that has now imbued most social-political ideologies and belief systems.

 

 

Renouncing the Holy Sophia – our Wisdom and Sapience – and dismissing our ‘Love for Wisdom’ 
– the ‘philosophical guidance system’ that characterised our species till then –
sabotaged the entire eco-dynamic ontogenesis of our species.

Rejecting & demolishing our complex correlations with ‘Mother Nature’ has eradicated all
social-ecological coherence and banished the metamorphic dynamic & synergy from
the commons, out of communities, out of our lives !

 

 

xxxThe Nemesis will come over us like a hurricane ! xx

Partitioning & dividing heaven, land & people, and elevating One exceptional part
into superiority & divinity broke up and destroyed – at least in our abstractions –
the Whole Ensemble of Life.

Systematically hacking into the environmental networks, resisting the natural,
‘solution-forming’ synergy of life, kept us mentally and physically disconnected
from the communalities of our environment.

Constantly disrupting or fighting the eco-dynamic connectivities & processes
– that keep us & everything in harmony & balance – has left us social-emotionally
confused, disturbed and vulnerable;

– the Immature ‘Self’

That’s where the ‘Self’ got distinct from the interrelated processes of reality,
where the ‘Me’ or ‘I‘ was singled-out as an ‘individual‘ and kept in a state of infancy;
This is where the emancipation process of our species got stuck and we surrendered
our Sense of Agency to an Extra-Social Authority.

Now, our ‘Self’ yields, not to the common & collective, but to a selected, sanctioned and
authorized group of people, an idolized elite that is entitled, accredited & empowered
by the princes & heroes of our fairytales & propaganda ^[E], all sainted, endorsed & inculcated
by a ‘spiritual’ or mundane ‘Superiority’ from ‘Above’.

Those ‘Holy Agents’ govern our lives according to some, always outdated rules of law
that constantly require violent implementation and brutal execution.

 

Now spiritual, economic & political leadership is constantly persuading & directing us with scores
of logical fallacies, cognitive biases & artificial algorithms, all along the lines of thinking
that have already crippled us psychosomatically and intellectually.

 

The constant brainwashing and ‘bleaching’ of our Cognitive Sensitivities eventually left us
intellectually & emotionally impaired, fragmented and incoherent; Our Abstract thinking
created – or better constructed – a new, Artificial man, the Homo-Sociopathis.

 

Cognitive Sensitivity refers to the sensitivities of the central nervous system in coalescence
with the comprehension & processing of physical, social-emotional stimuli; Thus enabling the
individual to engage & participate in a cognitively stimulating manner, while being attuned to
the interactive partner’s environmental circumstances and emotional state. ^[F]

WITHNESS THINKING & PARTICIPATIVE THINKING

 

By obstructing or prohibiting all direct & personal engagements with our environment, all the diverse
and lateral interrelations with ‘Other’ unauthorized things, spirits or deities, got subverted or
restricted to a linear-hierarchic chain of commands.
In this archetypical order or paradigm, all connections – to & with – are redirected and required
to pass through an intermediary or agent, a religious or political authority, some ‘gatekeepers’
that guard the access to a ‘higher’ level of their artificial stratification.

 

 

When dreams & visions became the privilege of a few ‘Chosen Ones’ – the priests & prophets of
the Old Testament and the ‘noble’ elite & leadership of medieval feudalism – the individual’s sense
for the universal inter-connectivities and its symbiotic Synergies in Life faded away.

Those feelings of being chosen or elevated to demigod status, to be empowered & entitled to
subjugate & exploit the ‘Rest of Creation’, triggered a whole new set of emotional response and
ultimately created our anthropocentric attitude.

The illusion of being exceptional and the ‘Lord’s favorite‘
fractured our perception of reality.

 

With this, our civility & courteousness, our consideration & tolerance for all ‘Others’,
– for all there was, there is and will be – began to dissipate.

Since the entire scheme is based on the divine justification of appropriation and the accumulation
of knowledge, wealth & power, all common, social values & ethics are turned upside down 
and the inherently reciprocal & altruistic ethics are now revised, aligned & restructured
in hierarchical order.

Today it’s the business tycoons & oligarchs with all their shiny values and faked ID’s, that hold
the key of fiat money, faulty technology and delusional AI to our ‘bigger, better & brighter’ future.

Now, in this disenchanted economy-of-appropriation which commoditized everything & everybody,
our species – as a collective – has lost its sense of social-emotional participation
and environmental involvement.

 

 

Where today we have to add the privatisation of collectively accumulated, scientific knowledge
and ‘human trafficking’ in the form of ‘Brain Drain’ and many other types of ‘Skill Migration’
and ‘Human Capital Flight’.

What’s left is the hope for a ‘greener’ tomorrow and a belief that the almighty power of this is higher,
extra-social authority – or intelligence – will keep things going, and that our endless fight for
a ‘better world’ will eventually ‘turn things around’.

But since our artificial state of mind lacks all the eco-dynamic qualities
that are needed to keep us in tune with the environmental realities,
running on such ‘square wheels’ will be a hopeless endeavour.

All those linear hierarchic stratifications & segregations that characterise monotheism and
monoculture were ‘fathered’ by Chauvinistic Exceptionalism, an alien concept that is rooted
in a very abstract construct or operating system that has caused the ‘Mental Circumcision’
of our highly individualized but immature Self.

 

Our systematic separation from all common – as in the expulsion from the Garden Eden –
and the ideological deconstruction of our collective, social-emotional intelligence
has cut deep into our emotional make-up, left many open wounds in our estranged psyche,
and ripped communities apart.

 

Since One only exists in relations and context to all ‘Others‘,

the dichotomous bifurcations of our economic models are not only
environmentally misapprehensive and incongruent with reality,
but are also full of informal fallacies [F] that are based on those inherent misconceptions
and faulty principles that have no ecological substance or relevance !

 

 

If I ‘read’ all this right, the Abrahamic belief systems are based on a ‘Philosophy of Appropriation’ where ‘biblical’ estate stratifications, social categorizations and intellectual compartmentalizations
categorically deny & restrict any collaboration with all that is ‘OTHER‘ than our chauvinistic US.

The frantic use of fossil fuels, combustion engines and thermo-nuclear weapons,
all to burn down or blow-up homes & habitat, is just a demonstration of the grave,
socio-psychological infantilism that plages our species.

The religious paternalism is always handing its arrangements or commandments
from the top down !

 

Thus,
– all I‘s (eyes) are looking ‘UP’ for help,
waiting for instructions from above
and hoping for divine interventions –

 

a severe, mental ‘short-sightedness’

 

distracts us from all the other communalities around us, separates & isolates the individual
from its environment and causes severe connection outages (LOS) and network damages.

All those mental restrictions and intellectual confinements to OneSelf, compromise our innate
capacities to communicate with Others and to cooperate with our environment.

Now that our natural ‘CPU‘ is corrupted, all prayers go OUT to a Higher Power
and all Hope turns to some kind of Extra Social Authority or Artificial Intelligence.

 

The collapse of our Collective Mind – the knowledge network that gave our species the sapience –
left us with a systematically deconstructed psyche, and if at all, a new, sophomoric but complacent Self. 

Now we are just a presumptuous bunch of sociopaths with an altered perception of reality !

We became a species that – in an endless, circuitous spectacle of insanity –
is desperately pursuing infinite but illusive economic growth
and thus constantly violates environmental boundaries and limitations.

 

With this artificial & demented intellect,
how can machinated people like us survive the Next ?

 

 

 

 

By prohibiting the access to any other gods & spirits out there, and by making
the use of certain life-giving, natural resources a punishable offence,
the mother of all emotions – our Curiosity – was banished

After this curiosity – and only hell knows where this feature came from – got us expelled
from the abundance of Life & Nature, our attention narrowed to a tunnel vision;
– Just focussed on the promise, – a bright, blinding light ‘at the End of it’.

 

 

Only by ‘sticking’ our heads together, ‘rewriting’ the dichotomic storyline,
editing its linguistic contrivances, and giving it a nonlinear narrative,
we can ‘rephrase’ our self-conception and begin to rejoin
the collaborative networks of our habitat.

 

 

 

Our ability to think abstractly, to connect emotionally and/or spiritually with all ‘Others’,
allowed us to develop a special kind of social-emotional sensibility or common sense.
This pronounced form of intellectual interconnectivity and responsiveness made
each & every individual mind a part of our comprehensive & collective intelligence.

Together and interconnected, we developed & cultured various forms of language and
communication competencies that allowed us to tap into the vast memory and
knowledge networks of our socio-ecological communities.

 

 

Thru time & space we could acquire skills from our ancestors and distant others,
we were able to learn from our habitat and understand much more of those  
‘Other Things’ and phenomena Life keeps ‘in store’ for us.

As soon as we realize that an ‘individual’ only exists in context of a collective,
and that one can only operate in corelation with its environment, we will recognize
the utter importance of interactive correspondence in the interrelations of life.

Under this premise, the homogeneity and autonomy of an organismic individual or Self
becomes conditional to an operating network. That means, information exchange 
and communication is the key & link to the collective of all ‘Others’ and sets
the organic networks of life in motion.

Our ‘individual’ mind or our ‘Self’ is just part of a larger, ‘social’ organism.
Moreover, body & mind of our ‘Self’ are tightly interconnected with an even greater
network of organisms, we call (our) ecosystem.

These natural communication networks are very common and exist everywhere.
From molecular & cellular communication to synaptic transmissions to mycorrhizal networks
and the bio-communication of plants, everything is in motion or alive.

 

 

 

Consequently, all modern computing networks – like the cloud networks of the internet –
are just bio-mimicking the networks of our biosphere, and by connecting
the capacities of a larger number of processors & communication devices,
we can boost our computation power exponentially.

Only by recognizing the importance of these, our universal correlations and that only a
reciprocal correspondence & cooperation can sustain our existence on this planet, we can
comprehend the mind-boggling devastation this incongruent belief system inflicted on us.

This Artificial Operating System – we sold our soul to – can only be overcome on a
social emotional ‘level’ of thinking. Only non-linear, non-hierarchical philosophies
that keep things in motion can transcend the ‘Dead End’ we are currently facing.

Most people haven’t realized that the ‘Genesis of Anthropocentrism’,
with all its Eco–idiocy and ‘Artificial Intelligence’ comes with an
inevitable entailment, the logical consequence or retributive justice
that eventually arrives like Nemesis, the Goddess of Vengeance.

She’s not even coming ‘down’ – as many people believe – to punish us for all our ‘sins’,
but is already here as debt collector to recover some of the riches we borrowed
from the common, our provider – Mother Nature.

Unfortunately, for all those who are trapped in this mind frame with some big ‘hope’
for a better tomorrow, this will be just another ‘rebirth‘ into a world
we did not choose, an awakening that is just as traumatizing as its creation.

 

Until we discover the potential of non-linear thinking
and realize that in real Life nothing gets lost or is ever finished,
all things will get uglier & nastier for us !

 

The decentralized dynamic & meaning of non-linear, non hierarchical Ecology
can only be understood by an ongoing interdisciplinary & wholistic analysis
of the decentralized  & collective mind …

 

…time to feed your own Curiosity   

 

 

…on an Other Level of Thinking !

 

 

Comments or questions are welcome.