Ordinary Thoughts of a Dilapidated Mind

Oh...yes!

noreply@blogger.com (Chad Maynard) — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 09:31:00 +0000

As far as I'm concerned.......2 ate 7!

Its been a while!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Chad Maynard) — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 05:35:00 +0000

So, no computer since last post and just decided to try the phone app.....I'm just gonna jump right in to it.
When all is stripped down (as far as ego's, titles, labels, ect. All, in which create segregation.) all that remains, is........which, IS!!! Wether there's relation between language and Isis, I'm not sure, I would assume most likely but I haven't dug into it as of yet.
Also, while being stripped down, we can bring our attention to desire vs. need vs. being provided with..... We all need and desire the basics of survival, to prolong life (if that is your desire) yet we find conflict in ALL of life finding the same persuite! And in the end, majority struggle to keep those on their hill tops, while majorities, well bieng, are in the hands of those perched in security and comfort, looking down upon the majority and profiting! Indulging in abundance!
Till next time! (To be continued)

Dis-empowerment of Social Capacities

noreply@blogger.com (Chad Maynard) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:54:00 +0000

This was my freshman thesis, an Informal version but Ill still list my subjects and references.

Subjects

o The 8^Th Habit of Highly Effective People from Stephen R. Covey

o Diminishing people’s capacities and intelligence

o Overcoming the Dis-empowerment

o The Celestine Prophecy from James Redfield

o The nine insights

o Control dramas

o Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Majorities are stuck in a comfort zone, where contentment is worth slaving over. Living life with a pessimistic view, doing the same thing day to day, becoming a robot. Where no matter what you achieve or obtain, contentment is never enough. If we hold people responsible for results, logged with a balanced scoreboard requiring a higher level of character development, only then will we no longer judge one’s character; giving them the responsibility that requires more character.

I’m Opening my thesis with a quote by Stephen R. Covey from his 2004 book titled, The 8^Th Habit of Highly Effective People. Explaining, one of the many problems wrong with the global civilization is dis-empowerment of social capacities.

He starts with, “Think about it….” And I ask that you please do so in hopes that, with your and societies comprehension we may become a stronger, more spiritual and unified world. Returning to the quote Covey states:

“Think about it, if you have an authoritarian leader who controls, what do the followers do? Most passively obey; they wait until told what to do and do what they’re told. The behavior confirms the perception of the authoritarian leader to continue to command and control, which in turn, justifies the passivity of the followers.” (Covey, 2004)

In other words, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. All of this diminishes people’s capacities and intelligence. It turns people into things to be managed or controlled. The cycle of co-dependency eventually nurtures a politicized kiss up culture, where right is defined by compliance or by loyalty and where wrong lies in getting caught.

So what should be gained from what Stephen Covey had said? As long as we have segregation within social class and power it makes those who are not aware of the dis-empowerment's feel inadequate. It also Leads to:

· Dysfunctional agreement where people say yes when they mean no. (Passive Aggressive)

· Elimination of healthy conflict

· Spawns resentment, anger and malicious obedience

· Low trust, low quality and low performance

Thus causing low dependency with authoritarian cultures. So how do we overcome the dis-empowerment? The 8^Th Habit suggests:

· To revisit what matters most to you, your vision and value system.

· To re-examine all your procedures and practices, structures and systems to see if they have institutionalized your visions and values.

· Not to hold loyalty higher than the value of integrity. (With integrity comes loyalty)

· To see yourself as a professional whose highest loyalties are to moral and professional principles not to your institution?

In James Redfield’s book (1997) and movie (2006), The Celestine Prophecy. He discusses various psychological and spiritual ideas. The main character takes a journey to find and understand a series of nine spiritual insights on an ancient manuscript in Peru.

He begins to notice instances of synchronicity and that the realization of coincidences may have deep meaning. In his search he learns that powerful figures within the Peruvian government and the Catholic Church are opposed to the dissemination of the insights. The institutions of spirituality and unity are pursuing the main character in order to continue the dis-empowerment of social capacities to maintain civilizations co-dependency.

All nine insights are valuable and relate to this subject but the fourth insight describes the dis-empowerment's more than the others.

We must face up to our particular way of controlling others. The fourth reveals, that humans are always short of energy and have sought to control each other to acquire the energy that flows between people. Explaining the classifications spoken of in the manuscript; everyone manipulates for energy either aggressively, directly forcing people to pay attention to them, or passively playing on peoples sympathy or curiosity to gain attention. The other three dramas are interrogator, aloof, and poor me.

Some people use more than just one in different circumstances, most of us have one stronger control drama that we tend to repeat. The explanations of the four control dramas are as follows:

· Intimidator – Someone threatens you, verbally or physically, and you are forced for fear of something bad happening to you. To pay attention to him, giving him your energy. The person threatening you would be pulling you into the most aggressive kind of control drama.

· Interrogator - People who use this means of gaining energy set up a drama of asking questions and probing into another person's world with the specific purpose of finding something wrong. Once they do, then they criticize this aspect of the others life. If this strategy succeeds then the person being criticized is pulled into the drama. They suddenly find themselves becoming self-conscious around the interrogator and paying attention to what the interrogator is doing and thinking about, so as to not do something wrong that the interrogator would notice. The psychic deference gives the interrogator the energy he desires.

· Poor me - Everything said and done puts you in a place where you have to defend against the idea that you're not doing enough for this person. That's why you feel guilty just being around them.

· Aloof - Less passive than the poor me.

Depending on your parents control dramas is how you have developed yours through child hood to now. Aloof personalities create interrogators. Interrogators make people aloof. Intimidator's create the poor me approach or another intimidator. Once we see our drama, we are truly free to become more than the unconscious act we play. We can find a higher meaning for our lives, a spiritual reason we were born to our particular families. We can start to become clear on who we really are. By being honest with ourselves it can energize our lives, for this truth tells is who we are, the path we are on and what we are doing. In order to find our true spiritual identity you must look at your whole life as one long story, trying to find a higher meaning. Ask yourselves these following questions.

Why was I born to this family?

What might have been the purpose?

What did your father stand for?

Has he been able to do so?

Have you thought about why?

And what about your mother?

Can you see what their lives represented?

So where did that leave you?

The point is they wanted your allegiance. Wasn’t that why they were interrogating you? To make sure you weren’t siding with the other? Didn’t they both want you to think their way was the best? On a grander scheme of things, think of how the governmental institutions have formed the up bringing of your beliefs. School, church, state, pharmaceutical and the federal banking systems, having the power to manipulate and control the economy, your and the global environment you were raised in.

I thank you all for having the patience, focus and for being so open minded. I leave you with this last thought. Know that deception and lies are the biggest manipulation against civilization. James Redfield could not have said it any better.

“We cannot progress by using logic alone, we have to attain a fuller consciousness, an inner connection with a higher power because only then can our evolution toward something better be guided by a higher part of ourselves.” (Redfield, 1997)

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe perfectly states, “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Tying in with another quote by Von Goethe, he says, “The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.”

Through the years we’ve accumulated mass technology and as we attain more and more time, a larger percentage of civilization is dumbed down and has become so closed minded due to social standards through medias aspects. As long as we have what they have, look like they look, and act like they act we can be content, if we cannot achieve the standards we set for ourselves we then feel inadequate.

With media, currency and commercialization, we’ve become a global shopping mall. Our values are weighed on assets and materialistic wants, instead of purpose and needs. We now live in a world where everything has a price, even life. An illusion for each soul is created by its intentions, the illusions alive at each moment with the most appropriate lessons that you can have for your soul to heal.

I strongly recommend that all of you read The 8^Th Habit of Highly Effective People and also The Celestine Prophecy. In doing so I hope you will put it to use in your daily lives, not only will it help you think for yourself and get you out of a socialistic mentality but it will help you be honest with yourself by comparing what was, to what is and what is, to what is not, as stated on page two about over coming these dis-empowerment's. Gary Zukav writes in The Seat of the Soul,

“Understanding this dynamic is at the heart of spiritual psychology. It is the foundation upon which spiritual psychology is built so that when pain is seen it is not responded to with judgment or ugliness or avoidance, but recognized as the soul shattered. In this way, we shall say, in this circumstance, let us heal him. Let us heal her. Let us not run from the unattractiveness of a shattered soul.” (Zukav, 1990)

References

The four control dramas:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/2911/controldr.html

The nine insights:

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Celestine_Prophecy

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe quotes:

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/johann_wolfgang_von_goeth.html

Covey, Stephen R. (2004) 8^Th Habit of Highly Effective People

Simon & Schuster Inc. New York, NY: Free Press

Zukav, Gary. (1990) The Seat of the Soul

Simon & Schuster Inc. New York, NY: Fireside

Redfield, James. (1997) The Celestine Prophecy

Warner Books Inc. New York, NY: Time Warner

Social Class, Failure and Inadequacy

noreply@blogger.com (Chad Maynard) — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:50:00 +0000

Tisk, Tisk, Tisk.............To all of us "Failures" out there! Us ourselves, creating enormous insecurities that due us in, most the time before we can even create ourselves the chance! Looking for reasons to fail; Can't afford it... No way I can do that.... Who would care..... etc. Failures and Winners alike, naturally we look towards anything to blame because our perception of thinking already prepares us for the loss, the emotion of loosing, but it's the thought of winning, of achieving, of prosperity that gives us the idea, hope, will and chance to overcome, forcing us not to give up. Is that not what we are taught and that with failure comes success? Try, try again!!!!
So why then is it that every time someone fails at something it comes with humility? Society looks down upon failures, I had recently read the book "Duh! The Stupid History Of The Human Race ", by Bob Fenster. In it he explains how he sent out 100 letters to Stanford professors and 100 letters to Harvard professors asking them to explain something stupid they had done. He only received a few responses between the two schools, with pretty funny stories. His intent had concluded that it's human nature to fail at things yet, when you throw social class in the mix of ego one shuns the humility. In my eye's, preventing growth, how else would we learn and overcome the obstacle that had caused us to fail. "Human" forbid we admit to our follies.
I believe we should welcome failure, it takes chaos to create change so perhaps we can use failure as the accelerant to ignite the fire under our butts and start accomplishing!!!!! We need to stop hiding in our little comfort zones, embrace the fear of stepping out and encourage our own humility, become humble in the journey of life and know that no matter what you or anyone thinks, success is an invisible bar that we set with our own expectations, why let someone else' pedestal of expectations make you feel inadequate in accomplishing your own feats?
So, because one has money, objects and perhaps fame to show for their success, because media spreads such an unobtainable projection of how life "should" be, those who strive and don't accomplish usually turn to depression, the feeling of being inadequate, the downside of the Jones effect but they're not troubled by the misery you put yourself through because you set these "ideals" that you feel come standard with life and you got left out.
The whole camel through the needle....... It's the mentality that prevents, so overcome the mentality.
How? By being grateful for what you do have, (even if it is a piece of crap car like mine) by realizing life will always have it's up and downs by trying to find the balance by realizing the over abundance of anything is never too good. It's a constant pressure we put upon our own shoulders by giving it, it's said "value" of worth. To me the stress isn't worth the value of material things, as long as I have the necessity of life and basic needs of the universe life seems pretty simplistic and I'm able to enjoy so much more of it, rather being in my dark corner alone with my blind fold of inadequacy because my expectations weren't met and I'm unwilling to let go of the B.S. . I'm one to know, it's still a daily struggle for myself to practice these things and stay out of the gloom that social class casts down upon our consumer nation. To have more (typically for oneself), the intent of the world, perhaps it's demise, that which keeps us separated and better than others, more than education, race, religion, beauty or lack of, among all the other judgement based institutions, yet we're so afraid to realize the misery these "thoughts" create among those who struggle day to day to feed families and so on. When money and expensive objects cause more desire than the natural beauty, enjoyment and curiosity of life.
Our moral values went down the wrong path somewhere and it's going to take ourselves to create a solution, not to rely on religious institutions and pharmaceutical means of poisoning those who can't afford to be poisoned, for a financial profit? When the reason for such poison is typically bogus in the first place. "Humans" are quick for a solution and it's a lot easier to swallow a pill than pick up a book, or go online and research "human" nature. Big brother knows how gullible and naive "humans" can be and the extent to which we'll go to satisfy our materialistic desires. In order to evolve we must let go of that which no longer serves purpose, the problems of the world today project just that, the unwilling to let go of fallible ideals and foundations.
Knowledge is power and the biggest power is profit, the invisible man made energy of evil we call money, currency, bling-bling!!!!!
The biggest profits are lies, misery and "human" sacrifice!!!!
Yet we're all just as stuck as the next guy that only wants his "natural rights as a human", since the moment we come out of the womb all the corporations, media, institutions, everything man made and corrupt is right there waiting to pounce with right and wrong beliefs, competitive marketing, labels of social class with medicare/medicaid, poverty or wealth, opportunity from the get go or none at all unless we can come to grips with reality and not allow ourselves to become subdued into mental hospitals, pharmaceutical dependency's and corrupt systems that create a cycle of misery that at times just cannot be broken due to lack of ones tortured will.
So when someone you know fails at whatever attempt, don't ridicule or damage their psyche even more than they are doing to themselves, find compassion and encouragement for them to get back up, re-evaluate and re-attempt whether they've already failed 50 times or failing at the thought of accomplishment.
Life is not so difficult when we encourage failure instead of going against it.

The "Root" of Emotional Thought

noreply@blogger.com (Chad Maynard) — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 22:58:00 +0000

I watched Green Lantern Last night, I am a comic book super hero nerd, wouldn't say the utmost fanatic. Mostly X-Men, Marvel in general, not so much DC but DC definitely has some good story lines and plots, I don't know much about Green Lantern's original story lines but the movie I thought was pretty good, worth watching from a more, I don't know if spiritual view is the word, perhaps moral on the humanitarian level is a better description.
As of a few years ago, I feel my mind has "evolved" (I think is the best way to express it) matured if not in the same. On a vibrational level my mind senses things different than most I assume, logically, predictably, something just clicked and I perceive life in a grander scale.
In all of this, things now make more sense and everything is connected, like our cardiovascular system working hand in hand with every other circulatory system that make "humans", "humans".
To me, the "thought" system, I guess, is no different, from sub-conscience and dreaming to learning and creativity, the non-physical thoughts can produce a physical object through the necessary energy it takes to produce it and create it in "reality". Thoughts also have a ripple effect, projecting said energy into the universe like radio waves and such. People believe in karma by action, I also believe the karma of thoughts, like a magnet do you want to attract negative or positive, when you accept one you push away the other by your moods (bi-polar) HA!
So to control your emotions one must control the thoughts, much harder that it sounds, but like any muscle the more you exercise it the easier and more powerful thoughts can become.
Peoples emotional "Downward spirals" are fed by their continual bad attitude attracting more things that add to the fire.
People who control their attitude can switch there thoughts into finding a constructive way to pull themselves back up mostly by realizing that tomorrow or a year later, none of this is really going matter. The quicker you can let things go the quicker life can be more enjoyable. We are emotional beings, from sadness to anger, jealousy, frustration and hatred to gloriously happy like were in "heaven" ecstatic on top of the world, nothing can get us down....till we wake up the next morning and realize we have to do something we despise that makes us miserable and gives us these thoughts that are hard to break unless you realize whats really happening.
With this movie, there is a connection, the "magic" alien ring that turns thoughts into manifested green, raw energy, is powered by will of all creation in the universe,(powerful ring) fear is the opposite of this ring, it's nemesis.
I had looked at the "root" of our raw emotions as one polar opposite FEAR and LOVE, but my theory of emotion had a loop hole I couldn't quite get around, if fear creates all the negative and love all the positive, then how is it that love can also create negative, jealousy, hatred, it seemed that love was one of the biggest creators of fear.
I fear for anything bad happening to my family and naturally get negative thoughts, but the fear is because I love them so much and would never want to loose any of them due to being released from this reality.
The movie made me realize that will power is more powerful than love, and that love is not the opposite of fear, will power is. Fear prevents one from accomplishing and moving forward where if one had the will power they could face and overcome the fear, because after all the only thing to fear is, fear itself. You in your mind, by thought, give it value in power to exist whether it be thoughts of courage to create or thoughts of fear to dissolve.
So how do you perceive daily thoughts and emotions, what damage or creativity do they create and by your actions what thoughts are you creating others to have, Most "humans" I know prefer to be around those who have peace and calmness in there thoughts, words and actions. No one likes a downer, although with compassion "humans" can find it in there hearts to put there thoughts aside and assist another with changing there thought process and changing there mood.
The problem isn't that "humans" are not willing to hand out compassion, it's that they are un-trusting and worried they will get "screwed" one way or another, usually when a helping hand is offered they who need the assistance allow there negative attitude (ego) to deflect the will of another find offense and they who do offer do not feel enticed to offer again for they don't want to draw the negativity into their life.
Biting the hand that feeds you. I'm sure we've all been there, I know I have and it was a pretty tough lesson to finally soak in.
I've found that by realizing the two "root" thoughts, causing various emotions that create action.
Majority of things in life have lost the value I once gave them, the process has sifted through all the B.S. whining and complaining, negative unnecessary, wasteful thoughts of energy that drain until there's nothing left and no one wants anything to do with you.
Man kind can change by changing the way they think. We need to stop segregating each other and finding labels to divide each other into separate groups. If everyone walked around without clothes and accessories, we couldn't tell those who were rich or poor, if we could strip our skin there would be no gender, we are still all the same, we all share the same energies that create or damage and keep life flourishing, we all have the same thoughts good or bad, its what thoughts we play off of. What thoughts we choose to keep floating and reoccurring through out that creates our perception of life. The difference in how each of us is raised with which traditions are better than others and which way is right or wrong and judging on actions and appearances, who has what and who doesnt but all in all, none of it matters, it's all value placed in alternate places, whether good or bad, most the time it's all out of our control, yet we cannot accept that things just happen.
For every action there's and equal and opposite reaction. (so far)
There are law's of the universe that even the universe is unable to break. Physics and Sciences that allow us to know we are wrong or right and what is for "certain".
So, where is the science and physics for thoughts, sub-conscience and conscience I believe there are laws of physics that we as "humans" passed up or that of which have been undisclosed to society. Primitive abilities that we are ignorant to that have the power to change Man kinds perception of all existing life but that's another post for another day.
Put your will power to the test and see what thoughts, actions and perceptions start to develop into creative energies.
It starts with accepting your fallibility to learn and change, self honesty is so huge, if you can't be honest with yourself your most likely lying to everyone else too. Take responsibility for your own individual thoughts and actions, stop passing blame and accuse yourself before assuming someone else is at fault, "humans" have so much more control of the world surrounding them and really can achieve "impossible" things and prove society wrong, we are still such a young, gullible and naive species, we really don't know all that much about us as a creation or the oceans, space the deepest parts of earth and the nature of our mind, our connection with all other existence. We build walls of comfort with our thoughts and emotions that we surround ourselves in, then hope for protection, yet we create the turmoil we are running from that tears our walls down allowing us to feel vulnerable.
So to those who want to have a better life, it's all you, it's how you perceive and translate life, believe it or not, life still goes on if you have a flat screen or not, life still goes on when you have to sell your sail boat because you cant afford the docking space at the marina, you choose to harness negative emotions because of or choose to move on along with life and enjoy whatever may come.
"Humans" need to be grateful for what they do have and realize that what should be and/or shouldn't be is not up to them, to let go of expectation and stop putting so much irresponsible value in petty things.
Life too has it's seasons, an ebb and flow that brings you to and from the shore and horizon, enjoy the view whatever direction!

About Me

noreply@blogger.com (Chad Maynard) — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:09:00 +0000

A musician and a writer, I try to find comedy in every situation so it isn't taken so seriously.

I have a weird sense of humor, it seems some people just don't get me. I find myself hilarious and see it as "humans" being too quick to move onto the next, they don't want to burn energy in trying to analyze why I say the things I say. Most the time I'm just curious as to each individual reaction or whether or not someone takes the time out to indulge in my methods of madness (typically in one ear and out the other).

Music has inspired my life since a child, writing continued to indulge my curiosity of knowledge all through my education and will continue to until my death. I have always felt it less constraining to communicate through music and I definitely write better than I speak out loud, thinking it's because my mind (past tense of removing something) has time to process and mold the outcome, where as with speaking I feel it must be shotout in an instant reply, most the time a waist of breath. I'm better at improvisation when writing or performing and creating music.

Art-the truest form of expression, I feel too many people use their words in uncreative and nonconstructive ways. Causing impulsive, damaging actions. Words are the patrons unwillingly forced onto an emotional roller coaster, stuck until the ride stops, but the damage still replays remaining a scab in the mind that is continually, mentally picked until it eventually heals over and a scar is projected within the thoughts that are embedded, now these impulsive thoughts trigger emotions that are willfully difficult to let go of, creating fear, preventing further evolution of the mind, stuck in a cycle that’s perceived to be unbreakable, til you give the mind something of greater value "love" and "creativity", the negative thoughts no longer serve the purpose of keeping the emotional and mental scar it's value of perception.

I live in Salt Lake. Grew up back and forth between here and California.

I use to play sports (maybe sports knocked a few neural connections loose in my brain that or all the weed (it's never the weeds fault though..EVER!) or the constant strain that men give value in allowing women to cause on ones thoughts and vice versa.)

I love nature and all that is and tries to be that of. I have somewhat of an authoritarian complex in certain circumstances,mostly due to my belief that all life is equal and those who choose to disrespect it cause me to have judging thoughts (that's been my biggest mental challenge is in reprogramming the way I was raised in thinking and the way media instills thoughts of judgement, segregation in race, social class, religion, beauty, and most of all the LACK OF TRUTH!

Society has allowed a dumping down of intelligence, and I’m just as much to blame, with a new segregation in technological advancement, those who adapt and those who fall behind, those who fall behind are looked at as dumb if you don't have a smart phone,but more importantly it separates those who can afford it or who cant fathom the thought of this "space age advancement" creating the separation of knowledge and sophistication residing in the hands of the few that control it's advancement and seemingly never ending outcome ,as all the "Sheeple" follow and "OBEY" what is instilled upon this consumer based nation. (To a point where it's very difficult while one is in need to be forcefully placed in a position where you must rely on the fallible monetary market against ones will, when all that is desired is to survive, to enjoy a quiet, simple life, to live off the land and be nourished by OUR Mother Earth and to support my family, not in being told and forced to live this way or that at any others expense (because I don't fit the mold that "they" created) when the value of my families life is based on an education or equity in what one has or lack of in the majorities case, when it seems life can hardly exist because so much irresponsible value is placed upon invaluable things to posses, and not when, but after the iron legs come crashing down upon their foundation life is going to require very little in desire, perhaps only love and nourishment, affection from one another. Like single celled life that work together in creating and enhancing life not in ridiculing and segregating each other in any and every damaging way possible,imaginable, and eventually plausible). George Carlin said something along the lines of the world being one giant shopping mall, especially more so now with the globalization through the internet and social site's. Don't get me wrong I too am a user of these things (apparently) but I don't allow "things" to have more value than the requirements of life, I would sell this laptop or my musical equipment at the drop of a dime if needed to support my family. I acquired the possessions once why would it be impossible to achieve it twice? So, these are some of the thoughts that make me who I am.

Simply Put

noreply@blogger.com (Chad Maynard) — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:29:00 +0000

For my first post I just want to thank everyone for reading and I look forward to this venture of my life. Please subscribe, donate and/or comment and please keep returning.