Exercise
Write out a story, or at least a description, of the idealized version of your life. Write this in third person, seeking to objectively portray who you ideally would like to become. By then creating a storyline around this character, you begin building a model in your mind of how you might become that character. [...]
Processual symbolic analysis, or comparative symbology, refers to the study of symbols used within cultural, or more specifically ritual, contexts. See Turner, V. (1974) Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society
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Burroughs, William and Odier, Daniel. (1974) The Job
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Carroll, P. (1992). Liber Kaos — Your mileage may vary.
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Repeating affirmations you simply don’t believe causes resistance each time you repeat them. It’s much more productive to start with affirmations you occasionally find yourself believing to begin with, focusing on moving toward your goal organically, rather than through immediate, catastrophic changes.
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An example of another film which uses non-linear narration to good effect is The Usual Suspects.
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Jenkins, Henry (2006) Convergence Culture pp 101-103, sidebar.
Henry Jenkins’ work can provide an excellent starting point in understanding trends in contemporary media culture. See the suggested reading list in the back of the book for a wealth of follow-up material.
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Three Brain-Balancing Exercises:
1. Practice singing or rapping on a particular topic; trying to focus on rhyme, melody, and rhythm. Do not rely on memorized materials. Record yourself so you can go back later and look for unexpected or unintentional utterances.
2. Describe, in present tense, spontaneously arising mental images using concrete detail in all five senses [...]
A rhizomatic network is one with multiple non-hierarchical entry and exit points. Here’s a particularly compelling visual demonstration: (video)
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As previously discussed, Mastermind groups are nodal points for group mind consciousness. The multimind is a breakdown of the structures and protocols of one’s personal consciousness. While we’re not declaring this as a conclusion, we do feel that using the multimind model as a way to evaluate a group mind at least provides a starting [...]
Ornstein, Robert. (1986) Multimind: The multimind is the non-unified parts and separate processes that run the actual work of mental cognition. An example of this is sub-personalities; elements and triggers that form specific responses that make up an overall personality structure.
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Proprioception is the awareness of internal, muscular systems at work. Being aware of the movement of muscles, the heart beating, or one’s lungs working is a proprioceptive awareness.
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Hoffer, Eric. (1963) The True Believer and Frank, Thomas. (2005) What’s the Matter with Kansas? bookend nicely the problematic nature of democracy.
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“Language for the Kabbalists is always mystical. It ‘reflects the fundamental spiritual nature of the world’. Speech reaches God because it comes from God. This belief is echoed, incidentally, but in a secular way, by the post-structuralist thought of people such as Jacques Derrida whose proclamation of a ‘new thinking’ holds that [...]
Dilts, R., Grinder, J., Bandler, R., and DeLozier, J., (1980) Neuro-linguistic Programming Vol. 1
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Calhoun, Craig, Ed. (1992) Habermas and the Public Sphere pp 109-142: Nancy Frazer’s “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy” provides an excellent starting point in understanding the function of the subaltern.
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Both public and counter-public spheres of discourse are social spaces, even subaltern groups have their own internal networks that influence the larger social spheres. That which cannot be referenced in public discourse will find its expression elsewhere in the social spaces of a culture. A quick primer on how subalterns form outside of the hegemonic [...]