Culture
Nov. 29, 10 07:44:26 PMThe refinement of cultural expression is the hallmark of collective maturity.
The root of the word 'culture' essentially relates as "to cultivate". Cultivation in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe became associated with improvement that extended to referring to betterment, or refinement. In practice this became polluted by the self-importance of elitism and concepts of civilisation, creating division between high and low culture and civilised/uncivilised states of being. 'High culture' being associated with art, fashion, style, classical music, and haute cuisine etc, which feeds the self-importance of refined/unrefined. Whereas 'low culture' referred to the uneducated masses and uncivilised indigenous 'savages'.
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Culture is not easily defined, nor is there a consensus among scholars, philosophers and polititicians (nor, probably, among the rest of us) as to what exactly the concept should include. The association of culture with education and refinement towards perfection has created confusion about the nature of culture. Intellectual debate about culture has failed to understand or clarify the cultural enigma. |
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'High culture' created eductaional elitism and the supposition that culture is bound to learning. Current educational models tend to perpetuate intellectual separation.Yet it is equally true that culture is also inherited. The culture that we are born into shapes our behaviour and consciousness within a human society from generation to generation. Indigenous peoples globally express rich culture; distinct from the homogenous western mindset.
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"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity."
Immanuel Kant
It is our collective intellectual self-importance that keeps us from the maturity that would allow us to understand culture , and ourselves, better. We have reduced our mind to the intellectual determinism of our internal dialogue, the small part of the mind that thinks. This reduces mind to only the brain, and we know we only use a very small percentage of our brain's capacity. The brain itself is in fact the organ that receives all of the information we receive via our senses. Its function is to translate the input into cognitive perception and sensation. Therefore 'mind' would be better understood as the entirety of our sensory receptivity capacity.
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While our five physical senses receive the input stimulus of our 3D environment, our energy body extends to energetic interaction beyond the confines of 3D cognition. Therefore 'mind' actually includes ALL of our energy sensing and receptivity. While our physical senses receive the stimulus of our physical world and channel the input to the brain via neural pathways; simultaneously our energy body receives the energy stimulus of our existence extending beyond only the 3D phenomena of experience to the purely energetic reality of all dimensions of experience. This stimulus is also channeled to the brain via the chakra and meridian systems of the human being. The brain is the receiver of all of the input stimulus that we are exposed to and it translates the energy input into perception according to the nature of symbol references retained within the experiencing being. This is the very nature of the language of symbol, and symbols are integrally related to culture. In fact cultural symbols are definitive of community identity. |
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Symbols carry the cultural agreement of meaning. It is important to understand this agreement. Perhaps the first place that collectively agreed symbol interpretation is found, is in language. Vocal communication is purely stringing together a sequence of sounds, and written language simply a sequence of shapes in certain relationship, and yet, because we agree upon their meaning we are capable of conveying complex information. At a purely physical level this isn't difficult to grasp, and yet sounds and shapes also convey powerful emotive resonance.
It is the combination of the physical relationships and the energy resonance that stimulate recognition and this applies to our entire symbol interpretation. |
Our cognitive perception is embedded in resonant memory. The neuroanatomy of memory encompasses a wide variety of anatomical structures in the brain. The hippocampus stores and encodes memory. The hippocampus’ right side is more oriented towards responding to spatial aspects, whereas the left side is associated with other context information. Located below the hippocampus in the medial temporal lobes are two amygdalae (singular "amygdala") The amygdalae are associated with both emotional learning and memory, as they respond strongly to emotional stimuli. The amygdalae also have a role in the process of memory storage. The cerebellum plays a role in the learning of procedural memory. The basal ganglia are a group of nuclei which are located in the medial temporal lobe, above the thalamus and connected to the cerebral cortex. The basic functions of these nuclei deal with cognition, learning, and motor control and activities. The basal ganglia are also associated with learning, memory and unconscious memory processes.
The Cortical structures, (Frontal lobe, Temporal lobe, Parietal lobe and Occipital lobe), are also involved with memory, although more in terms of how the input stimulus is translated into perception according to symbol resonance of stored memories. The frontal lobes help a person select out memories that are most relevant on a given occasion, it is recognised they are very important in the coordination of information. The temporal lobes are concerned with recognition memory. The parietal lobe has many functions and duties in the brain and its main functions can be divided down into two main areas: (1) sensation and perception (2) constructing a spatial coordinate system to represent the world around us. The occipital lobe is known as the centre of the visual perception system.
The brain is the center of the nervous system. The cerebral cortex of the human brain contains roughly 15 – 33 billion neurons, perhaps more, depending on gender and age; linked with up to 10,000 synaptic connections each. Each cubic millimeter of cerebral cortex contains roughly one billion synapses. These neurons communicate with one another by means of long protoplasmic fibers called axons, which carry trains of signal pulses called action potentials to distant parts of the brain or body and target them to specific recipient cells. The brain controls the other organ systems of the body, either by activating muscles or by causing secretion of chemicals such as hormones and neurotransmitters. This centralized control allows rapid and coordinated responses to changes in the environment. Every moment of your life, your five senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch) are sending information to your brain and your energy sensitivity is receiving input stimulus from your entire multi-dimensional energy being. How all of that is processed; encoded, stored and retrieved, is the bedrock of culture as the fundamental resonance of meaning within a collective symbol system, and it is essentially based in 'agreement'.
The brain not only assembles our perception but is also responsible for secretion of body chemistry, which has a direct impact on cellular interaction with the DNA code base. It is known that the concentration of neurotransmitter receptors in the brain, which reflect sensitivity of the system, responds rapidly to small changes in the activity of the neuroreceptors and the DNA/RNA coding for protein synthesis. That the activity of cell membrane neuroreceptors influence protein synthesis as transmitted by mRNA is profoundly significant when considering that body chemistry changes rapidly in direct response to emotive quality of experience. The body chemistry is radically different under conditions of stress than under conditions of pleasure.
| The consciousness of life as a bio-energetic feedback process of evolution, transforms the attitude towards all that impacts the quality of experience. It is recognised that both ancestral inheritance, as habituated cell receptor patterns creating repetition in frequency of specific qualitative experiences; along with forward visioning and the anticipation of fruitful actualisation, both dramatically impact body chemistry. These aspects combine in interaction with the multi-dimensional energetic that exists in the moment, and all three determine the receptor activity at the cell membrane. It is this chemistry which directly impacts the specifics of the DNA coding that is unbound via the RNA and assembled as proteins etc. Thus it has a direct impact on how reality assembles. |
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The maturation process of life experience will alter ancestral coding as evolution. Imagination and liberty hold the keys to a hopeful future development. Being present with consciousness to the quality and frequency of energy in the moment, facilitates acuity of receptivity to infinity's intent, as expressed in the multi-dimensional flux of the moment. Infinity's intent is the intelligence of the Universal energy of chaos. It is creation energy in free motion that has qualitative frequency and resonance, or thought; where thought is understood as perceptual cognition through interaction with energy within any given space. |
Therefore, if culture is the refinement of our human condition via cultivation, and that such cultivation empowers collective identity, then perhaps the required cultivation of a culture's expression is to enhance the collective capacity for receptivity to infinity's intent. That western cultural inheritance has been built on symbols of scarcity, war and dogma, the resonance of this symbol reality is maintained only by our agreement. Infinity is abundant, life giving, sacred and beautiful. The symbol resonances that we agree to, formulate our culture.
We all agree that the world is as it is and to the symbols of our culture. If we change the agreements we change the world.
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