4 pillars, personal development, psychology, and the South

Pillars:
1. Intrapersonal = What's inside yourself
2. Extrapersonal = Your family, friends, social organizations
3. Vocation/Work
4. Spiritual

So I'm back at my southern home, and on the front porch reflecting on what I feel I'm lacking out here when I'm in the South, and trying to figure out what I'm getting when I'm on the West Coast...what make me happy and feeling more fullfilled...

And I'm looking out over the neighborhood and I'm not seeing people, no one - not a single person. Big yards, bigger houses, single folks riding in their single cars, and I'm suddenly hit by what is lacking here - just PEOPLE, and with the absence of people, most importantly, diversity. There's no people interacting with other people - there is hardly any diverse population base interacting with other diverse populations. The primary socializing places (including diversity) in the South are church, the workplace, and educational institutions (colleges and universities).
I realized that I (and most others?) need their environment to provide the diversity and social interaction within those 4 pillars I mentioned above, to be a complete, wholistic and authentic human being. Aren't we all social creatures? Don't we, developmentally speaking, gain from our (hopefully) richly diverse environment? Isn't passage through the Eriksonian stages highly dependent on a richly diverse social network?

Why do we pay so much attention to the importance of one's environment for infants and children, but not for adults? I think one's social environment, and the effects of it on our development as whole human beings - our attitudes, our values, etc. - is just as important in adulthood as it is for youngsters. Is there diversity in your states/geographical region, in one (or all!) of those 4 Pillar areas?

Marzo è pazzarello! and the Singulation process

Well, maybe not CRAZY, just nuts!

OK - so here's the rest of the singulation process - it's pretty much done.

1. Reality as ambiguious space (can be multidimentional space) no movement

2. Classical physics (unidirectional)
Matter comes together with time via observation = Singulation happens!

3. Our reality = normal perception allows for 3 dimensional experience

Arrow of time past ......present......future = as we perceive it in the role of observer
(This is why we can't see into the past, because singulation has happened, so singulation = absolute spacetime
That's why we can't see into the future because singulation HASN'T happened yet.

Platonic revelations

I had a philosophic revelation yesterday during class. McDermott was handing around books, and one of the them, The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition by Andrew Louth, gave me a damn momentous insight about Plato and the meaning (interpretation) of nous.
The whole Introduction discussed the importance of the meaning of the word nous, and how its meaning was more spiritual than intellectual one.
“Nous is usually translated as “mind” or “intellect”. Part of the problem is that neither of these words is as rich in derived forms as the Greek nous (they have, most significantly, no verb)....The most fundamental reason for this is a cultural one: the Greeks were pre-Cartesian, we are all post-Cartesian. We say, ‘I think, therefore I am’, that is thinking is an activity I engage in and there must therefore be an ‘I’ to engage in it; the Greeks would say, ‘I think, therefore there is that which I think – to noeta’.

OMG! What a difference interpretation makes!