Ending the new beginning

I guess it was about six to eight months ago that I claimed I was going to be good and post on a regular basis. Unfortunately and not unentirely unexpectedly I remain a "slogger" instead of a blogger. Some many things happen so fast that it seems almost a waste of time to take the time to document what is happening in my life and what I think about what is happening in the life of others.

However, I think of my blog often and fondly. For me blogging does not serve a commercial purpose. So it is, by my definition of life, a toy. Being a toy and having toys and even playing with toys is not a bad thing even though they have that connotation in terms of adults in American society. Being able to take a break and enter the world of toys and imagining is a powerful skill, ability, and power to have. In fact being able to play with toys opens a door into an inner world that is akin to being in trance. During this period we are hypersensitive to suggestions.

Trance can work both ways just like dreams. If you enter a trance, either self-induced or induced by others, you view your imagined environment as real. During this period you assume the trappings and behaviors of your imagined world. What does the brain know? If we turn of the internal critic, the mental 'governor' then the brain accepts the mental manifestations provided it and in turn expresses them physically. This thought has a number of parts to it. It connects to stories of people who exhibit physical infirmaties when adopting different personalities. It connets with the behavior of our dream self and the impact that our waking self has on it. It relates to our waking self and the impact our dream self can have on it. It relates to religious estatic possession, demonic possession and daydreaming. All this from toys.

This brings the mind the impact of contemporary videos and wii-electronic environment interfaces, and such. What does it do to us and our chilcren to not have a stick that we can mentally transform into a horse or a cardboard box that we can transform into a house? Toys can be useful. Money is not the end all and be all. Saying that reminds me of the maxim that those who feel that way usually don't have any and won't be getting any. But I think the wisdom of the Native American Cree proverb ('only when the last tree has been cut, the last buffalo hunted, the last fish has been caught will the White man realize you can't eat money) is the last word on that. but it doesn't let any of us off because "the White man" in this proverb is a metaphor for the culture of consumption that many of us partake in.



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