Loosing Control #2

                                         Loosing Control #2

 

 

                                

Evolution is an unpredictable machinery. It is fraught with; 1) random punctuated periods of equilibrium, in which there is an emerging order and thriving adaptation and, 2) periods of instability, chaos, catastrophe, and extinction, guess which one we're in?

 

Our modern/post-modern culture in my view is behind door #2. This is not a doomsday message, it's just an honest point of view. If I were accessing our culture as I would assess an individual I would be treating, I would say we are a narcissistic personality with borderline features and delusions of grandeur, we have extreme ADHD as evidenced by our inability to be still and pay attention for more than 22.3 seconds. We are actively suicidal and need to be on 24/7 watch. We have severe substance dependency, eating disorders, and body dysmorphic symptoms. We meet criteria for depression, anxiety, mood instability, and PTSD. Extreme family of origin issues that will warrant family therapy are recommended. Anti-social, as well as concurrent co-dependency are demonstrated, whose simultaneity presents with Schizoid features, (Rule out psychopathic serial killing tendencies).
 

Physically, we are morbidly obese and anorexic simultaneously, we have coronary heart disease, high blood pressure and are hypoglycemic. Our nervous system is fried (not a clinical term), and we have poor posture and misalignment due to sedentary or unsafe manual labor which causes horrendous back problems and all the joints to ache. Internally we have huge digestive disorders, ulcers, colitis, heart burn, and flatulence. We are allergic to nature, including being allergic to ourselves.
 

So, this seems out of control to me and it is worth a first step admission of out of control powerlessness. The book “Out Of Control” by Kevin Kelly was one of about 7 books that were required reading for the cast of the film “The Matrix.” In this book there is a discussion of a non-zero sum game, which is how evolution works. The conflict and instability of organisms and their environment, predator and prey, symbiotic relationships, etc. means the ecologic whole can reward (or cripple) all members.
 

We are brainwashed into being competitive, when the clear evolutionary advantage is to cooperate. In terms of loss of control, it's where we're at on the map, the acknowledgment and acceptance is the first step in cure. It is that moment of reckoning after the Doctor or whomever has given you some frank, objective news/feedback about something that totally sucks!
 

This is the heroic call to the adventure that is healing, awakening, being humble, and using your gift of life to it's fullest. We have to recognize what we've lost before we can recover it. Modern technology is taking things from us at a staggering pace, all under the guise that it is making our lives fuller. The biggest theft is our humanity itself, the mammalian brain that is organized in primates to recognize, give and receive social cues on very sophisticated multisensory, and vibrational attunement (such as with Eco location) pathways is being lost.
 

 

Other thefts are attention, wisdom, socially connected, intimate, and communal relationships, intuition, creative inspiration, and emotional well being. This comprises a spiritual crisis, much like when the addict reaches his bottom (see Anne Wilson Schaef's book "When Society Becomes An Addict). The 12-steps idea of a High Power was informed by C.G. Jung in a letter he wrote to Bill W., I'm paraphrasing; “ it will only be through a spiritual awakening that an addict can recover, he cannot do it through his will, this is the instrument through which his disease was originally caused.”