Tarot: The Hanging Man...
10/11/08 18:36 Filed in: Free Thinking
Tarot? The hanging man? Death? Torture by the Inquisition?
We are getting there, or close, but not in the way you think!
Tarot? Yes, of course! Not better or nor worse than a Rorschach test, with the difference that the shock-effect is an essential ingredient of the ink-blot-experience. Whereas the tarot is known, but still yields different results with every person every day! Thus two nearly indistinguishable sets of initial conditions for the same system (shuffling the cards, introduce another dealer, etc) would result in two final predictions, which differed, vastly from each other (see below).
The tarot is doing that? Of course not! ‘We’ are doing this “through” the Tarot-cards.
Death? Yes, death of the old systems, the traditional fossilized ways of perception, distorted by prejudice, by layers over layers of rationalisation, of cultural sediment, inherited meanings and visions, unchallenged, and by remaining unchallenged de facto un-proven. Never read Popper did you?
Torture? Yes, every confrontation with a new quantum-reality is torture. Will reality hold up? Which reality? Will my personal “default settings” survive the clash with the new, chaotic and unruly environment? Worst-case scenario: “Will I have to ‘change’ my ways, adapt to survive?” Oh no, everything but not change, please!
Inquisition? Yes, in the meaning of “being inquisitive”!
>>interested, intrigued, prying, spying, eavesdropping, intrusive, busybody, meddlesome, snooping; inquiring, questioning, probing, searching; informal nosy, Nosy Parker, snoopy.
Antonym uninterested.<< (dictionary)
See how these meanings, wrongly called “synonyms” evolve through scales of negative connotations, reflecting the reaction of society to “searching”, to “change” and to anybody involved with change. Be it the discovery of change, the analysis of change or the description of change, but even more once you get involved in the creation of change or the management of change.
When I was a child, over half a century ago, one of my favourite games was “standing on my head”, looking at the world upside down, creating, even when only momentarily, a quantum-reality where the laws of gravity and physics didn’t apply or were inverted, thus creating momentary havoc and chaos. But what I didn’t know then (or did I?) was that “At the time of its discovery, the phenomenon of chaotic motion was considered a mathematical oddity. In the decades since then, physicists have come to discover that chaotic behaviour is much more widespread, and may even be the norm in the universe.”
This uncertainty about “reality” which is present in any real (=child-like = open) assessment arises from the fact that any imaginable observation/measuring device, even if designed as perfectly as the human brain, is used imperfectly and can only record its observations with a finite precision thus creating an infinite series of quantum-realities.
Until the blood rushed to my head.
It still does when I experience a paradigm shift, especially when I try to “initiate” a paradigm shift.
But we should not forget the load we carry: thousands of years of prejudice, some of it genetically reinforced by now, transmitted and enhanced generation by generation, laid down in solidly “welded” synapses.
“Western society has experienced a dramatic paradigm shift away from the notion that excellence is achieved through negative feedback. Relying on negative feedback to achieve excellence could not be farther from the truth. Evidence shows a 9 to 1 ratio for the difference in achievements in an environment rich in positive thinking compared to negative thinking.” Well, it’s a “statement” (can’t remember by whom, but that is not the point anyway) like any other statement, only ‘true’ when you recognize yourself in it.
But can we escape this thought-“trap”, the trap of negative thinking? Looking at the body language of the majority of people I pass in the streets in Western Europe seems to prove the contrary. Negative thinking is and remains a constant, maybe “the” constant. Resisting change is a daily job and only reluctantly accepted (implemented!) through the sweeteners of more and faster communication tools (TV, GSM, computer, internet) that in fact are very rarely “communication”-tools.
Things, messages, doctrines, ideologies, news are being communicated ‘to’ us, and are as such not “com”-munication (>>together<<), “commune”-nication (>>exchange on a spiritual level<<), but indoctrination, where feedback is not requested, and if requested, is reduced to pre-programmed multiple-choice answers, where again the ‘right’ answer is rewarded with, money, applause, gifts or 1 minute of “fame” on local, national or international TV.
Maybe a ‘symbol’ of age, but more and more metaphors of youth spring to mind.
Change seems to become equal to “letting go”.
“Let go of the bike, mama! (Wobble, wobble)…Look, I can ride it alone.”
“Let go of my swimming-trunks, teach. (Blurb, blurb)…Look, I’m floating and swimming”
“Let go…”
“Let go…”
Want more ‘intellectual’ metaphors? What a prejudice! Well Just for once, and do not tell me I don’t listen to you!
Let go = Strategic inflection point that changes the whole system.
Wobble/blurb = Perturbation of the old ways. Thus two nearly indistinguishable sets of initial conditions for the same system would result in two final results, which differ vastly from each other. (ride>
Let go/let go = exciting the breakthrough and gaining critical mass to perfect the newly changed and enhanced process
Satisfied?
Doesn’t “change” a thing anyway.
And if it makes YOU feel good, why not?
Only 3 questions remain for today
“Ready to get hanged, upside down and undo the laws of physics simultaneously…and enjoy the blood rushing to your head?”
“Ready to feel alive?”
“READY FOR CHANGE?”
We are getting there, or close, but not in the way you think!
Tarot? Yes, of course! Not better or nor worse than a Rorschach test, with the difference that the shock-effect is an essential ingredient of the ink-blot-experience. Whereas the tarot is known, but still yields different results with every person every day! Thus two nearly indistinguishable sets of initial conditions for the same system (shuffling the cards, introduce another dealer, etc) would result in two final predictions, which differed, vastly from each other (see below).
The tarot is doing that? Of course not! ‘We’ are doing this “through” the Tarot-cards.
Death? Yes, death of the old systems, the traditional fossilized ways of perception, distorted by prejudice, by layers over layers of rationalisation, of cultural sediment, inherited meanings and visions, unchallenged, and by remaining unchallenged de facto un-proven. Never read Popper did you?
Torture? Yes, every confrontation with a new quantum-reality is torture. Will reality hold up? Which reality? Will my personal “default settings” survive the clash with the new, chaotic and unruly environment? Worst-case scenario: “Will I have to ‘change’ my ways, adapt to survive?” Oh no, everything but not change, please!
Inquisition? Yes, in the meaning of “being inquisitive”!
>>interested, intrigued, prying, spying, eavesdropping, intrusive, busybody, meddlesome, snooping; inquiring, questioning, probing, searching; informal nosy, Nosy Parker, snoopy.
Antonym uninterested.<< (dictionary)
See how these meanings, wrongly called “synonyms” evolve through scales of negative connotations, reflecting the reaction of society to “searching”, to “change” and to anybody involved with change. Be it the discovery of change, the analysis of change or the description of change, but even more once you get involved in the creation of change or the management of change.
When I was a child, over half a century ago, one of my favourite games was “standing on my head”, looking at the world upside down, creating, even when only momentarily, a quantum-reality where the laws of gravity and physics didn’t apply or were inverted, thus creating momentary havoc and chaos. But what I didn’t know then (or did I?) was that “At the time of its discovery, the phenomenon of chaotic motion was considered a mathematical oddity. In the decades since then, physicists have come to discover that chaotic behaviour is much more widespread, and may even be the norm in the universe.”
This uncertainty about “reality” which is present in any real (=child-like = open) assessment arises from the fact that any imaginable observation/measuring device, even if designed as perfectly as the human brain, is used imperfectly and can only record its observations with a finite precision thus creating an infinite series of quantum-realities.
Until the blood rushed to my head.
It still does when I experience a paradigm shift, especially when I try to “initiate” a paradigm shift.
But we should not forget the load we carry: thousands of years of prejudice, some of it genetically reinforced by now, transmitted and enhanced generation by generation, laid down in solidly “welded” synapses.
“Western society has experienced a dramatic paradigm shift away from the notion that excellence is achieved through negative feedback. Relying on negative feedback to achieve excellence could not be farther from the truth. Evidence shows a 9 to 1 ratio for the difference in achievements in an environment rich in positive thinking compared to negative thinking.” Well, it’s a “statement” (can’t remember by whom, but that is not the point anyway) like any other statement, only ‘true’ when you recognize yourself in it.
But can we escape this thought-“trap”, the trap of negative thinking? Looking at the body language of the majority of people I pass in the streets in Western Europe seems to prove the contrary. Negative thinking is and remains a constant, maybe “the” constant. Resisting change is a daily job and only reluctantly accepted (implemented!) through the sweeteners of more and faster communication tools (TV, GSM, computer, internet) that in fact are very rarely “communication”-tools.
Things, messages, doctrines, ideologies, news are being communicated ‘to’ us, and are as such not “com”-munication (>>together<<), “commune”-nication (>>exchange on a spiritual level<<), but indoctrination, where feedback is not requested, and if requested, is reduced to pre-programmed multiple-choice answers, where again the ‘right’ answer is rewarded with, money, applause, gifts or 1 minute of “fame” on local, national or international TV.
Maybe a ‘symbol’ of age, but more and more metaphors of youth spring to mind.
Change seems to become equal to “letting go”.
“Let go of the bike, mama! (Wobble, wobble)…Look, I can ride it alone.”
“Let go of my swimming-trunks, teach. (Blurb, blurb)…Look, I’m floating and swimming”
“Let go…”
“Let go…”
Want more ‘intellectual’ metaphors? What a prejudice! Well Just for once, and do not tell me I don’t listen to you!
Let go = Strategic inflection point that changes the whole system.
Wobble/blurb = Perturbation of the old ways. Thus two nearly indistinguishable sets of initial conditions for the same system would result in two final results, which differ vastly from each other. (ride>
Let go/let go = exciting the breakthrough and gaining critical mass to perfect the newly changed and enhanced process
Satisfied?
Doesn’t “change” a thing anyway.
And if it makes YOU feel good, why not?
Only 3 questions remain for today
“Ready to get hanged, upside down and undo the laws of physics simultaneously…and enjoy the blood rushing to your head?”
“Ready to feel alive?”
“READY FOR CHANGE?”