Freezing the body, the force of the mind: the ritualization of everyday life Thanatophobia
I stand, you sit. I speak, you listen. I could sing. In fact, my seventh-grade daughter, Kaiyuh, sings in the choir at school. My wife and I attended a choral concert in which the 6th, 7th and 8th grade and vocalists musicians played on stage for about two hours. We sat in the audience and listened. The vocalists standing, as I am now, and realized. Part of his required performance with their voices in an unusual way. They had to exert physical force to achieve high and low notes of the range of normal speech. They also had to exercise mental strength to mark the moment and step through several different songs. As I watched my daughter and her classmates do, I also noticed that the rear the stage was walled acoustic panels bowed to the audience at the top. The setting is concentrated all human activity. There was no space and do not require of any other species or their activities to be present. The whole event was anthropocentric.
Having taken note of anthropocentrism, then I started to look more closely at the bodies. All dressed in the same way. They white shirts or blouses, pants or black skirts and black shoes. The girls had little makeup and her hair pulled back and tied tightly in buns or ponytails behind the head. Her dress clearly points to the attention of spectators and players should not be in bodies, but in sounds, words and their meanings. The singers were physically standardized units vocal production. The vocalists were all standing in approximately the same way. Their bodies were straight, their shoulders were down and slightly forward and his head was a little low and forward. This physical position to maximize the opening of the chest for strenuous inhalations and exhalations of breath needed to sing out loud and clear. Indeed, apart from chest and jaws, the bodies were completely still, almost frozen in place. There was no foot tapping, without rocking or swaying, and dancing. The bodies were frozen and the voices were forced.
Imagery of black church choirs appeared bright in the eyes of my mind. I saw in church choirs how bodies swaying rhythms and sealed as the voices rose higher and stronger Jesus and God. But the church also were those who sat and listened, and those who were there and performed. When I asked him, had left this-this gesture that simultaneously freezes and forces? How did we get to freeze the body and strength of mind?
An illustrative response to this question appears in the history of Western music from Gregorian chant to the symphony orchestra and a rock concert. Why Western music started so silent and develop in volume? Of course we can thank the sound amplification technology for some of the changes. Gregorian singers were not Dolby or Bose. They had no electricity to power microphones, speakers and amplifiers. But the difference in the volume seems to mean more than the presence or absence technological assistance. It also means the presence and absence of God.
During the Middle Ages, religion based on two physical structures, the church or cathedral and monastery. Both buildings were places where people could communicate with God. God was not far away and could be reached by prayer whispered sentences spoken in tidal volume and the soft songs of singers. European humanity as his mind opened and loosened his tongue, God began to move more away. In the 17th century, after the revolutionary work of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo, God was a decreasing need for the physical universe. It had become a value added because they had moved beyond human reach. In 1687, the Principia of Newton showed that the human mind can decipher the structure of nature symbols manipulatives that allow accurate prediction of physical events. As the human mind to rise, the mind of God was withdrawn. It seems natural and logical follow this trend by developing physical science and empirical philosophy, until in the 18th century, the musicians felt compelled to cry out to God with the voices of symphonic music.
In our time, we heard many types of music very high. Why should you be so strong? Because the ear the meaning is so far away. As the Baroque composers called to a distant and away from God, so do the popular singers cry out to a distant love. What is really the difference in acoustic structure between letters, Love me, Jesus, my love, honey Love me,, you love me? The distance between the one who wants to love and the only one who can giving love is so great that the sheer volume is necessary to cross the space between them.
Cry for the love of God in Christianity, however, has consequences serious than the cries of the pop stars. The religious person in search of God seeks not only love but also the final testimony that he or she survive death and enjoy eternal life as an immaterial soul. This search for security is to seek divine insurance against the uncertainty of human life. The religious person seeks certainty on the meaning of the birth and survival of individuality after death. The religious person seeks security.
The main fear of being placated for the safety of religion is the fear of death. Fear of death is DU-DU. Fod sounds and how to write the English words "wink" and cod. " But fod "is spelled with an" F "From here, the fear of death is DU. Fod seems to be part of the body's physiological autonomic system. It's like the body's reaction to food poisoning. You do not have to tell your body to vomit. Vomiting bad food is not the result of a conscious calculation. It is a response physiological reaction to something that threatens the body. Fod is also how the immune system's reaction to the presence of pathogens. You do not have to tell cells specialized to form and attack the intruder. Forman and attack the system as a reaction in defense of his own life. In this sense, DU is natural, normal, crude and elemental. Means the desire for life to stay indefinitely.
But forever is forever. The idea that a living being can transcend, in whole or in part, limits death of her experience of persisting in a different state forever is an addition. This addition reflects an idea of surplus in excess, as eternal, all kinds of lack or infirmity. This addition also provides important justification for the rituals of everyday life in and through countless that reducing fear, hope and attempt to secure existence amplify immortal or eternal life. Religion, however, has not been the only effort to provide such security.
In the history of mankind, there have been four efforts to provide human beings with the certainty of the unknown before birth and after the unknown death. These four are the myth, philosophy, religion and science. When these four map through linear time, I see a rhythm. It begins in the hunting period and gathering that preceded agriculture in human life. Agriculture brought new security and satisfaction. The movement of nomadic and hunger were reduced so significant reliance on cultivated plants and domesticated animals. Then, in about 1000 BC C., travel, trade and communication between different groups people who brought a very different world views in contact and collision. insecurity and growing dissatisfaction as traditional worldview has had to rely on their own not universal. Philosophy appeared, like all the monotheistic, for the next 1500 years, including the establishment of Christianity as a religion Official Roman Empire. In this context, the death of the life safety after an increase for many people because of their adherence to monotheistic religious practices and doctrines that the universality reestablished on land that rationalism freely mixed with mystery. That world of security, called the Middle Ages in the West, unraveled with new thinking, of contact, discoveries and inventions that led to the period of uncertainty in which all live, modern age, with its amendment in the post-modernism.
A long wave of security and insecurity ripples through changes in human socio-economic systems. These systems deploy forces to many have brought ritualization of FOD-thanatophobia-in everyday life. This oscillation begins with the development of the human species as a biological organism and ends with the end of the same species. The logic and timing of wave forces are ours to address and understand. However, the absence of a massive change, dramatic in our biological structure we'll always be somewhere, and in the long-wave oscillation of security and insecurity.
Like looking through a hall of mirrors, we see through four thousand years of human civilization. We can recode all of it as designed to ensure one thing: human life, the existence and reproduction. All what has been aimed at a meta-knowing where we come from and where we go. Everything worked with a binary logic that has finally seen the same problem: a unit in which there is no principle of differentiation. binary logic or the logic of identity and contradiction, assume the difference for your operation. No difference the logic of identity and contradiction dissolves into incoherence. The assumption of logic echoes the hypothesis of physics: no positive and negative charges, would be no matter or energy. However, like logic, physics can not explain the origin of the charge, ie, the origin of the difference in the fundamental structure the physical universe. In fact, none of the major mental structures of the last four thousand years may explain the origin of the difference. Binary logic has reached its ceiling in the myth, philosophy, religion and science. Something new must come for humans to move from where we are four thousand years after trying to understand ourselves and nature with the binary logic.
A new approach, we must be able to get rid of the old. With this Finally, I would suggest a thought experiment. It has several steps:
Vacuum traditional reference language and meaning
Empty regional reference language and meaning
Empty the local reference language and meaning
Vacuum reference language and family meaning
Human beings continue to live
But language does not guarantee the thought or perception
The human beings continue to act, produce and consume
But language is not consistent relationships
Consequences:
1. Language writing appears to be more secure and more reliable.
2. Spoken language is presented as art, entertainment and handling
3. The boundary problems are multiplied in all areas of human verbal activity
Consequences of the consequences:
1. Individuals and groups increasingly diverge from traditional norms.
2. Divergence includes attempts to recover the past and security as an attempt to discover new forms of security. For example, the growing religious traditionalism with scientific research, philosophical speculation, and artistic and social experimentation.
This experiment synopsizes the change in human culture from the Archaic period in Europe and Asia to the emergence of Axial religions, which postulates a invisible reality, as the ultimate source of poor human security, safety and happiness. The traditional ability of humans to be satisfied with life in the natural world gone to the extent that only the idea of belief in an eternal life and the natural world brought satisfaction. However, polytheism was unsatisfactory because that rely heavily on the connections of the deities of the natural world. What the human spirit needed was a way to disconnect completely from the world of nature. All Axial religions and philosophies lean forward ideas that were mutually exclusive and designed to guarantee individuals under conditions that are independent of the natural time and space. natural social and shortages came to mean a shortage of human satisfaction and security. natural and social surplus came to mean plenty of satisfaction and security available in the natural world, social trans-theological immortality.
Continuation of the consequences of the consequences:
Capitalism, driven, secured and protected by the theologies and monotheistic religions, is the socioeconomic consequences. It is an economy of surpluses and shortages refers to the natural world as something totally useless, except for its potential to transform into products that promote some aspect of human security, pleasure, happiness, health or welfare. Capitalism is the application of the religions of the scarcity to the economy. On behalf of an idea of human security is divorced from the natural world as life on a space station fully mechanized, capitalism is killing and the possibility of life on earth by destroying the support systems basic life of the biosphere, such as air, land and water.
A brief history illustrates the fluctuation old ego that preceded the rise of capitalism monotheists. Linguists specialized in ancient Greek history have speculated on the origin of the first person singular nominative pronoun, egwge, which became in America, the ego, which in turn has become the English, ego. One possibility is that, based on their uses in ancient layers of ancient Greek writing, that word represents a gesture. The gesture can be imagined as follows. People in a group are talking to each other. At some point, part of the conversation includes a unique person the other, for example, a person may have caught a fish on a day when no one else did. The word, egwge, accompanied a hand gesture pointing to the body of that person who made the catch. In the context, he stressed egwge a body without removing the body, whether past or group activity the current conversation. In subsequent years, the former Western ego goes through writers like Homer and Hesiod Heracleitos, Empedocles and Parmenides.
In time of Plato, the Western ego was afloat in a sea of cultural differences that continually require a kind of self-assertion, or self-centered statement to obtain and maintain security in social interaction. As the sea of cultural movements and became Thunderstorms over the centuries to come, more and more people have sought refuge outside the uncertainties not only traditional natural processes, such as earthquakes, floods, droughts and famines, but also social processes increasingly confused and disturbing cultural mix. Axial religions and philosophies, contrasted with dualism is a universal global condition that with that, or, on condition of another world, appeared and flourished to this day.
In fact, we have not been here before? By "we" I refer to the human conscience. By "here" I mean at this stage of world order. With "Before" I refer to a passage in the linearization of the experience known as the human story. We have, as naturally and repeatedly as the body produces antibodies, produce our own lens through which to reduce FOD. We alternatively, rhythmically, with force captured our need for security in mental objectives. First there was the myth with polytheism, then came the philosophy with sophistry and the beginnings of natural science and mathematics, and then came the exclusive monotheistic religion that preached absolute dualisms; following wine science and technology. Each lens has completely satisfied desire of some people to get definite answers to questions about the origin and purpose of existence and all of human existence. But each lens has become a layer of human consciousness. Now the cloak of science and technology seems to be evolving into another layer of religiosity fundamentalist.
This metamorphosis has launched modernism and postmodernism in strong relief contemporary intellectual life. You can easily understand modernism and postmodernism as long-wave oscillations of security and insecurity. The seeds of the two "isms" were planted at the beginning of the era of European exploration, when Europeans began to appear suddenly on the shore, on land and in the faces of people who had not known that Europeans existed. This was the beginning of the reduced transitions in human life worldwide. The rise of the middle class, who made his money from his own efforts in trade and manufacturing, and without ceremony, mediations or transitions of the monarchy, aristocracy, nobility and the papacy, further fueled the decline in transitions. Now, in 2006, generations human beings have arisen in the visual media of photography, film and television in which the scene changes require that the spectators do transitions in their own minds.
Modernism reacted to the decline in transitions to censor the fragmentation and the invention of compensatory like the novel, in which the author can create an alternative reality that is whole and complete and smooth. However, most contemporary people have tried to unite and accept the fragmentation rather than beating or reject it. More and more people travel from one physical place to another in such a short time they move from one culture, language, religion and ecosystems over time only as a transition flight. people increasingly see the visual media such as television and films, which decrease transitions in order to increase the speed of delivery and amount of content. postmodernism makes the absence of transitions a virtue and an aspect of art and life. Both isms, modernism and postmodernism, express the human beings trying to adapt to changes in the basic structures of human existence on which depend the security and insecurity. Both isms are long-wave oscillations in the security and insecurity.
The myth, philosophy, religion and science have tried to make sense absolutely reliable human thought and language and, through thought and language, human life. As the security, stability and reliability of the referents of the language have changed, so has the meaning of human life. Security has produced over the larger meaning, security less and less sense the more search for meaning.
In this process, philosophy has made the fatal assumption that meaning is ultimately understandable language. Language is a function from part of the brain. The brain is a small organ in a body much larger. How could the expression of a part of a body of understanding the meaning of the whole organism? Impossible. Just as only a small part of the physical universe is accessible to the brain through vision, so that only a small part of the semantic universe is comprehensible to the brain through language.
It is a personal conclusion of this reflection is possible? I think it is. First, take note of what you do not complete. I do not conclude, as many monotheistic religions, the ultimate goal of human life should be to leave life completely. If the experience of emptiness shows that God and the Devil are one, that the rescuers are one, that all religions mask of the same reality, that all experiences, states and conditions are temporary, transient and without going through the substance or effect, that is, to put it briefly, in Buddhist terms, that nirvana and samsara are one, then what difference can make it possible if I am alive, dead or in any other condition?
In other words, there are always other words, no? There are always other words, because human beings are so diverse and the human mind is so productive. But the words of others, after all, only words. Therefore, it is not my conclusion. No, all the teachings of the monotheistic religions, philosophies, myths and science is a wisdom recent. There is a greater wisdom. It is accessible through language but not the language. Meaning is silent throughout the enterprise of semiotics that efforts to articulate the meanings of our experience.
In this regard, I remember a video of an African tribe dance. The dance took place in a square of land was wide and flat, red in the center of town. The villagers, men and women, girls and boys, were dressed in bright red cloth ended, it became and wrapped around his brilliant, coffee and chocolate colored bodies. Everybody was dancing in a big circle. Everyone had a role in the song, and some dancers playing instruments they were carrying, other participants were near the outside of the circle, playing instruments and singing and moving their bodies. The observer was the person taking the video. Otherwise, there were no observers. No observers! Everyone danced, sang and played an instrument. There was no time or separation performance of human activity on nature. The land was under his feet and the sky was over their heads. There was nothing to signify a distant subject or object being observed. There is no dualism. The sounds, gestures and dance moves were as natural as the wind in the trees or water on the rocks or animals crossing the plains.
For the subject of analysis, this dance represents the ancient wisdom. It is the participation of the human body in a universe whose dimensions continuously opening and closing in, through and around us. But what is constantly opening and closing in, through and around us, constantly making a difference in how we think and feel over the world. So what is the nature of this difference that participation not only does, but part of all aspects of our conscious experience?
When the whole theology is correct, it all started in a god that was absolutely pure, unique and the same as … if it is true that astrophysics the universe began in a singularity that was pure and full of the same kind of energy … if Buddhism is true that ultimately there is only emptiness which nothing can be predicated … if it is true that mysticism is all one and one is all … So I'm still faces the same questions unanswered. What is difference? What is the origin of the difference?
I understand that the human mind can be quieted to stillness that can step through the stages samadhi to the point where there is no experiencer, experience and expertise. But only the human mind. electrons and protons So? What is the origin of charge? Can calm down electrons and protons to rest so that there is no difference in charge? If so, this would not be the end of all matter?
This reflection leads our thinking to the end of the logic of the last four thousand years of human civilization. Each dimension of the combined logic, if myth, philosophy, religion, science or mysticism, leads to the same limit. No way, using any of the branches of this logic, to account for the existence of difference. Each branch of traditional human logic leads to a unit that is prior to any differences. There is a principle of differentiation, there is power to be or to make a difference, whether within or outside the unit. Therefore, none of the traditional branches of human logic can account for the existence of difference.
All the rocker balances of civilization on an axis: security and insecurity. But this is an axis of feeling, not necessity. People feel insecure, even when their needs physics are satisfied. The 9 / 11 attack on the U.S. made a nation of people who mostly have no trouble meeting their physical needs feel very insecure. Traditionally, invasion or threat of invasion is an important source of human insecurity. Connected to this human threat is the threat that has persisted since the myths of evil images of aliens or demons hostile invasion from outside the human realm. This type of extra-human invasion also appears as the evil principle of many religions, like Satan in Christianity.
The idea of Satan places among human beings the chance of evil and good and eternal happiness eternal. This arrangement not only promotes insecurity, but also promotes the constant dissatisfaction with oneself and others. You never know, in terms monotheistic religious doctrines, how God is going to go, by the person or against them. You never know who act, big or small, could tip the balance to an eternity in hell or baking a pilgrim of eternity in heaven. You never left behind or exceeds DU.
This insecurity can also FOD be seen as an engine of another characteristic of fundamentalists Western Europe, North America and increasing global awareness: speed. If the devil is chasing you back, and the Last Judgement looms ahead, then one way to end the anxiety surrounding the uncertainty of not knowing eternal future destiny is to accelerate the process and get the apocalypse and doomsday is over. The impatience with moral lapses is historically rooted in all types of Christianity, Islam and Judaism, and the certainty with which regularly apocalyptic groups have announced the end of the jointly determined example of this distortion of time about the psychological conditions of insecurity moved by religious beliefs. The movement away from drugs such as opium and peyote, with people through long and sometimes very slow passages illusory to drugs such as crack cocaine and methamphetamine also coincides with this attempt to compress the natural time in faith-based chronology.
Question: What is the hurry?
Answer: The eternal life.
The complete draft of the Western intelligentsia has been the attempt to draw the human mind to stay. It is not the immortal gods and goddesses who have always lived in the bush. Olympus. It is the first principle of water, air, love, flow, the one, the atom, which has always existed and that everything has arrived. It is the only God, whether Jew, Christian or Muslim, who is eternal and that everything been and will always come. There are modern philosophers, from Descartes to Kant, Nietzsche, Russell, Wittgenstein, Husserl, Sartre and Derrida, trying to find the seat and source certainty, and the person who can judge the truth and falsity, certainty and uncertainty, good and evil and the relevance and lack of respect. Of course, philosophers agree. The only truth they have discovered is the conflict between their divergent views. It is also the unified field theory of the natural sciences, such as Big Bang explains the permanent structure of the physical universe and all forms of matter and energy in it including humans. The whole project of the intelligentsia This has been similar. It is not the immortal gods and goddesses, is not nirvana, is moksha, satori is, not the end and all creative-yin and yang.
Everywhere that human beings have sought since the time of providing food, water and shelter, there have been thinkers who have tried to link the human mind to stay. Why? To alleviate insecurity. The long wave of security and insecurity is the logic and timing of forces. The logic and timing are in the forces. There is no foothold, no place to ride, than in others and in the wave. Security means the permanent identity. insecurity means difference from permanence. The struggle for permanence is fight to eliminate the difference. But no struggle there can be no difference, all fighting takes, needs and requires the existence of difference. Difference in the fight continues residence and in the search for meaning. If the difference persists, not unlike the permanence that we seek? If difference every dry land surrounding the unit as oceans, lakes and rivers surrounding the islands, then, is not unlike the permanence that we seek? If so, then we see the birth as apostasy and death as marriage, birth and the time difference and death as the moment of identity, life as the locus of insecurity and death as security approach.
In conclusion, there is no necessary conclusion to this matter. We followed a deduction of establishments. They did not follow a hypothesis through experimentation. Nor have we engaged in the symbolic interpretation guided by idealistic or moral principles. Rather, verbal process has participated in the power of looking through semiotics, to make transparent, the daily lives of humans. You are looking through end only as a stage transparentizing attention turns elsewhere.
Freezing the body, strength of mind. Freezing the body represents the fear of the body, the fear that is going to die, fear of mortality. Forcing the mind, through the voice, emotion and mental effort, represents the hope that a human being can leave the body, nature go out and get to an immortal state. These fears and hopes have been largely ritualized in human social practices. They represent all together, a huge effort to give humans thanatophobia final release of DU. This initiative raises, of course, a certain type of question:
If death is so terrible, why do we keep having children?
If the birth is so natural and beautiful, why is not death as well natural and beautiful?
If the birth is to be valued and sought, why it is not death to be valued and sought?
Is there any difference between the beauty of a sunrise and a sunset?
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