Autographical Now
First up, I’m honoured to take up the ‘inky’ nickname that was formerly assigned to my older brother, the late Keith William Inglis who was dubbed ‘big Inky’ by his peers when we were kids going to primary school and I was referred to as ‘little Inky’ being his next in line sibling. I can’t recall whether the idea of the ‘inky’ tag was extended to my younger brothers or not.
On a more serious note, I have a yearning to explore holistic consciousness from the perspective of ending the contradictions, conflicts and confusion endemic to so-called individual consciousness, psychologically. I want to see and feel out whether it may be possible for the remaining chronological time of this lifespan to occur with a newly discovered sense of freedom which was not possible by living with a dualistic outlook through thought processes that are limited by setting down fixed choices. The three blogs I have written provide more information into my quest to understand the somewhat oblique criteria for holistic thinking, health and wellbeing. These blogs might be renamed: “Graham’s version of Mental War and Peace”.
To be holistic, there’s nothing which can be identified as living according to the principles of cause and effect or subjecting myself to concepts of futuristic projections that thought wants to establish, psychologically. To be whole would be like experiencing an immense unknown force of nature similar to a moving of clouds stretching across the horizon that has no fixed point characteristics. But, one isn’t consciously aware of the flow, because we have been programmed to think about everything in terms of words that carry fixed meanings, especially those which I think relate to me.
Programmed conditioning for the brain’s five main sensory organs act similarly to a radar signal system that continuously monitors the outer spheres of physical, physiological, sociological and psychological surrounding environs as an early warning alarm mechanism alerting the whole organism of changes that may potentially be likely to become dangerous over time. Soon after activation of an alarm signal, the psyche’s reactionary structure swings into it’s ‘doing’ movement phases to materialise resistance and/or positive force to restore order to the particular insecure circuits using it’s database of knowledge and experience.
Its momentum is approximated by the brain’s inbuilt nervous configuration directly influenced and accrued over long periods of time. Newly detected sensations are quickly identified and the conversion process begins immediately to restore and maintain the organism’s status quo.
What’s not part of the awareness and restoration plan is that any new creativity is squandered by the traditional restorative practices, so real progress can only happen if it seems to accord with the existing past known registrations which presume to be innovative ideas and ideals motivated by choices that are designed for future success in becoming better or more noble. However, it inevitably gets entangled in its own internal blockages and limitations that result in dualistic conflicts and confusion emerging from the corridors of opposing visions and imaginations.
That is a description of the common stereotypical themes operating within the daily routine lives of members of the so-called highly civilised society that guides the multitudes of people seeking to achieve their own dreams and aspirations predetermined by the principles of positive psychology and so-called uniquely progressive individual consciousness. Too bad if it succeeds in developing wide-spread selfishness and violent enmity towards others who are deemed to not belong to the inner circle of the chosen group. Tribalism remains innately rooted in modern societies. Tribalism is founded on two polarities — remembered wars’ triumphs or remembered wars’ tragedies whose tentacles reach back to tribal roots.
Overall, it’s a sad indictment of what initially promised so much out of mankind’s evolutionary renaissance period and the age of reason. Woke movements and other modern cultural trends presently give off many indications of regressing to its own inevitable demise through self-interest domination, written indelibly in large and small scales alike. Political and religious institutions are not immune to the downfall either, because they pander to individualism and collective self-governing instincts that corrupt the cosmic welfare of human beings which is a total affair, undoubtedly.
That’s a brief summary of what the global scene appears like presently, but what about closer to home?
Since April 2024, I’ve teamed up with a wonderful friend who lives in America to inquire, via internet connection, openly into what constitutes an understanding of the existential psychological happenings around living expressly within our own particular contexts; and whether J Krishnamurti’s extensive teachings regarding awareness of ‘what is’ can shed some light upon the question of seeing how reality’s inputs may be affecting ordinary daily lives.
Experimenting by co-mingling our respective minds, hearts and intellect was slightly daunting at first glance, but it took on a new dynamic of co-operation shortly after we got to looking seriously into issues without having to worry about definable answers. Therefore it is not a question of forming abstract ideas or theories. Actually, it’s simply the sharing of each other’s personal reality that drew us into forming the new partnership in the first place. There’s no obligation on either side to take heed of any facilitated notions of compulsion or objectification beyond that which we agree upon ourselves.
Strangely enough, it has meant by-passing overt pressure to report on our activities to anyone else. The arrangement between us is as flexible as we agree on, full stop.
The psychological background of matters that we’ve looked into so far is mostly inter-related conditionally which means that its contents are merely binary combinations using concepts, the nature of which are matched with traditional principles of causality and mechanical systems of motion over time. Clearly this is the problematic nature of the old evolutionary buildup in the memory system of the brain’s self-serving mechanisms.
Alternatively, the manner of looking holistically is a complete disavowal of the authority of orthodox logic and reasoning established by the consensus of relevant moral officialdom. Obviously, it’s possible to examine dead records from the past and derive conclusions that are assumed to approximate living situations. However, the living thing itself is constantly changing its intrinsic nature. Consequently, the living thing is not remaining permanently in a state that’s static enough to enable one to make meaningful concrete conclusions about it’s future livelihood. Near enough is not good enough, the traditional methods used psychologically within society are flawed, therefore the judgement process is faulty too. People’s lives are at stake and hastily predicted problem-solving processes are prone to make matters potentially worse instead of better or clearer.
FAVOURITE QUOTES
“When you see life as a whole, there is no problem whatsoever. It is only a mind and a heart that is broken up into fragments that creates problems” —J Krishnamurti
For ever and more, free creative flow
“Whatever it is, it surely does not wait for you to exist. And if it does, it must be your own idea. How can there be any relationship or dependency between that which is outside of time and the fleeting, ever-changing movement of time? It’s not waiting for you. It’s not about you. It’s not for you. You may momentarily become a guest in realising this and touch upon an understanding that it is not about you. In that realising, how can there be any conflict?” —-Observing Beauty
The Winds Gentle Truth: The Heart’s Pure Voice
“Your heart knows not to bear the burden of distorting words, and so its message is carried by the wind.” —-Observing Beauty
Listening
“A listening that is not trying to listen….” —-Dan Kilpatrick
Hope
“There is hope in people, Not in society, Not in systems, But in you and me”. —-J Krishnamurti
Relationship
“To understand myself, I must understand relationship. So, relationship is a mirror in which I can see myself. That mirror can either be distorted, or it can be ‘as is’, reflecting that which is. But most of us see in relationship, in that mirror, things we would rather see; we do not see what is.” —-J Krishnamurti
Reveal it now
“In that state, you, as an explorer, are constantly creating. When you look, it’s creation. When you listen, it’s creation. There may or may not be an output. Output is not creation. But the now teaches, evolves, and learns. It empties itself, all the time, wherever you are, now.”—-Observing Beauty
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