65. Notes - not paying attention

65. Notes -26 November 2019

       Mid-afternoon. Tom S. (M/I supervisor) is here with two workers ready to install the cutout plasterboard to the ceiling for repairs to a three-board heavy truss about three feet tall, each board about an inch and a half thick. You think the reengineering is very cool as they are putting a new piece of plasterboard in its place. Tomorrow they will redo the decorative white ceiling plaster-paint. They plastic covered everything to keep the dust at an absolute minimum. Around four you and Carol are driving up to Tiffin to pick up Carol's sister Linda from Patti's house. The two should be there around five just returning from their week tour of Iceland. - Amorella

       1528 hours. Busy day today. It was neat watching them repair that huge truss. A few weeks ago, the ceiling developed a quarter inch crack all the way across from east to west because the north facing truss board slightly warped out. M/I Home engineers came to the rescue plan and have changed the design so this will not happen to future houses with this house plan (we had added a bedroom and bath upstairs). New twenty-year plus warranty will be in place. I'm sure it will be stable. Just a fluke in three other new houses just like ours. All such houses were fixable. I love how M/I takes care of things. We were happy with our first house (1992) with them in Mason which is the reason we bought again. 

       Post. - Amorella

       1540 hours. But we haven't focused on the human spirit yet. 

       You have, but you were not paying any attention. - Amorella

64. Notes - MH's thoughts

64. 25 February 2019

       Evening. This is Miss Havisham. First, a little enlightenment. I am going to review your chapter one, book one as a soul might. Your characters are central to the story not the plot. The characters are equal in the sense they are 'living' in a fiction, much as you humans are living on a planet. We have three general life settings, a past, a present and a future.

       2151 hours. Interesting. I thought the characters might be central but I did not consider the plot not to be so relevant. You can't have a good story without a plot. I don't know that this is fair that you consider the story from your perspective. I didn't write it for my soul I wrote it over my sense of human worth and dignity. 

       In here that includes your soul as well as heart and mind.- mh

       2202 hours. Your chapter reviews then suggest how I could write not just focusing on the human heart and mind as much, but by focusing on a balanced piece that includes the soul in the greater dramatic theatre, like the works of Sophocles and Shakespeare do. If so, you are writing to produce far beyond my humble station. 

       You miss my point, Mr. Orndorff. I want to broaden your sense of what the soul considers important. It starts with one's character, herorhis real persona, the heartansoulanmind, the immortal-like stuffing of nothing material that you take with you when you leave this physical place. mh 

       2216 hours. I need to adjust to this. I mean, it is interesting-in-a-sort-of-way. I don't really pay much attention to my soul part. It is more abstract and not too interesting because the soul appears to have little to do with the everyday practicalities of life. 

       Post. - Amorella

63. Notes - easier to accept the fiction

63. 24 February 2019

       Sunday evening. When thinking with your soul, intensity beyond the heart comes to mind first, then an esoteric sense of passion beyond the physical level, usually a heartfelt passion about something or someone and an intimate empathy is involved. That's the mix: soulfully deep intensity and empathetically heartfelt passion concerning a person or a people or an idea or a concept such as to evoke humility or anger without a consciously predisposed premeditation. - Amorella

       2135 hours. This is a mix of heartansoulanmind, a human spiritual mix. I do not understand how I can write from my soul's perspective on this blog. I am as is almost everyone else, a mixable unconsciousness of the heartansoulanmind at any moment. Thoughtless and thoughtful weather-like passions of intellect and emotions attempt to rule the next conscious moment. A person must consciously raise the soul up or drop its sense of worth to a lesser level. This is what comes to mind. Under the law some people are guilty of premeditate murder and some people are not. This is also why some people become saint-like and others not. 

       You have nothing else to say. - Amorella

       2201 hours. I like the idea that my soul can take on the persona of Miss Havisham to critique the clarified drafts of the novels, but I cannot really imagine her doing so.

       Perhaps if I continue to play her part as suggested earlier, this will be easier for you to accept fictionally. - Amorella

       2206 hours. It is true, you did write her persona would come through you. Even the underlining in italic Arial print show a direct connection to your own without the underlining. 

       I move at your speed, boy, and at your will. You, heartansoulanmind, are free in this world and the spiritual in this blog, otherwise where would be your humanity? Post. - Amorella

62. Notes - among rather than between

62. 23 February 2019

       

       Saturday evening. Earlier today you discovered an article within "Science Alert" online that shows a new theory on how the universe is a product of quantum mechanics. You find it interesting in that it may be useful as an analogy in terms of the 'human spiritual world' of heartansoulanmind. 

                                                                   

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Science Alert 

PHYSICS

Exclusive: This Wild Paper Suggests Our Reality Is Just a Product of Quantum Mechanics 

By

FIONA MACDONALD 

22 FEB 2019 

A team of theoretical physicists has a mind-bending new explanation for why our Universe is the way it is, and how it emerged in all its strangeness.

According to a recent paper, space-time itself - the very fabric that makes up our Universe - is nothing more than a product of quantum mechanics. And distortions in this quantum 'weirdness' can explain why strange phenomena such as entanglement and quantum tunnelling arise.

It sounds pretty out there, but the idea is actually built upon several previous hypotheses. In fact, it could fundamentally link the two biggest theories in physics - general relativity and quantum mechanics.

Which means we would finally get the much-desired quantum gravity 'theory of everything' that physicists have been lusting after for decades.

"If one accepts that gravitational phenomena like the formation of planetary systems, galaxies or even black holes, have the very same origin as entanglement and the tunnel effect - indeed that gravity is quantum - then a unification between quantum physics and gravity may be at reach," one of the researchers behind the study, Paulo Castro from the University of Lisbon in Portugal, told Science Alert in an exclusive interview.

But before we get ahead of ourselves, let's break down what's going on here.

For anyone who's ever laid awake at 3 am wondering what the Universe is actually made of, you are probably aware that the answer, to the best of our knowledge, is space-time.

Space-time is the strange fabric that merges the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time we experience in our reality, and turns it into the theoretical backdrop of the Universe.

To put it in a less ethereal way, when gravitational waves ripple out from a massive collision of black holes, it's space-time they ripple through.

In fact, according to Einstein's general theory of relativity, gravity is a feature of space-time, created when its curved by massive objects such as the Sun or Earth.

So far, so good. But here's the problem. While general relativity has gravity sorted out, quantum mechanics has never been able to fully explain the force.

And that's not even mentioning the other strange phenomena that we now have evidence for but can't quite explain - such as quantum entanglement and quantum tunnelling, where information appears to travel faster than the speed of light. How do they fit in with general relativity?

That brings us back to this recent paper.

According to the new theory by Castro and his team, the origins of space-time could hold the answer. 

"In general relativity, space-time pre-exists like a tridimensional foldable substance and whatever happens in the world happens inside it," says Castro. "The possible trajectories of all objects and their velocities are determined by the way very large masses, like planets or stars, fold space-time. This is what gravity is."

"In our proposal, space-time does not pre-exist, it is the result of a physical process by which the subquantum medium goes from a chaotic state to a more organised one."

This subquantum medium is something that Castro describes as "a kind of primordial foam from where space-time itself emerges".

You could think of it like a quantum miso soup: initially it's all stirred up, and nothing can be distinguished from the chaos. But as the soup settles and becomes more 'organised', structures begin to emerge.

"In fact, in our theory, these organised states correspond to subquantum waves, imposing how space and time behaves, giving rise to extreme cases, like the ones in entanglement and the tunnel effect," says Castro.

"As space-time different behaviours are, of course, signatures of gravity, you can now say that gravity is quantum."

For now, this is all purely theoretical, but the researchers are working on ways to test their ideas.

One idea they have in mind involves the strange 'quantified' pattern seen in the placement of planets in our Solar System, which the researchers previously suggested hinted at the existence of stationary subquantum waves around our Sun.

If they could confirm that, it might help give more weight to their latest theory.

That's a long way off, but it's a pretty exciting starting point for further calculations and thought experiments.

After all, the Universe is filled with countless phenomena we can't explain - and more are added to the list frequently.

While many researchers argue that 'new physics' is needed to explain what's going on, it's comforting to think that we could make a little more sense of our reality just by rethinking and re-evaluating our existing models.

Watch this space.

The research was published in the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics.

Selected and edited from - https://www.sciencealert.com/a-wild-new-papers-suggests-space-time-is-just-a-product-of-quantum-mechanics 

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       I like these paragraphs from above below. [Amorella]

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"In general relativity, space-time pre-exists like a tridimensional foldable substance and whatever happens in the world happens inside it," says Castro. "The possible trajectories of all objects and their velocities are determined by the way very large masses, like planets or stars, fold space-time. This is what gravity is."

"In our proposal, space-time does not pre-exist, it is the result of a physical process by which the subquantum medium goes from a chaotic state to a more organised one."

This subquantum medium is something that Castro describes as "a kind of primordial foam from where space-time itself emerges".

You could think of it like a quantum miso soup: initially it's all stirred up, and nothing can be distinguished from the chaos. But as the soup settles and becomes more 'organised', structures begin to emerge.

"In fact, in our theory, these organised states correspond to subquantum waves, imposing how space and time behaves, giving rise to extreme cases, like the ones in entanglement and the tunnel effect," says Castro.

"As space-time different behaviours are, of course, signatures of gravity, you can now say that gravity is quantum."

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Here is why I, the Amorella, find it interesting. Space-time exists in the material universe. It does not exist in the 'human oriented spiritual universe'. That's how it is in this blog. 

       2218 hours. So, there are no gravitational waves, black holes, space-time, quantum entanglement, quantum tunneling, speed of light or general relativity in the 'human spiritual universe', as it were. 

       As it were, boy. Yes, as it were. - Amorella

       2233 hours. In here, with souls there are relationships rather than stars and planets. That is, relationships among souls, whether heartsanminds are included or not. 

       You use 'among' rather than 'between', that is an important distinction. Post. - Amorella

61. Notes - raw thinking concepts, analogies / logos

61. 21 February 2019

       You woke up early with a flash-vision: characters - many characters/personalities connect in the chapter and the many characters connect through the medium of characters/letters (alphabet). This is a sense of how Miss Havisham's environment works. Each personality is as a letter in the alphabet. Thus, all the personalities in the novel connect in a social construction the soul (system of souls) understands - an intricate system similar with a thought construction. Each character/person is as a noun/verb sequence to the soul. Noun/verb is as emotion/reason or heartanmind. - Amorella

       0522 hours. I awoke about 0455 thinking - soul thought environment. This communication analogy above/here (two paragraphs) deals with thought construction via a flash-vision. A human personality in the novel is as a grammatical thought construction beginning with a simple noun and verb -- a simple metaphysical mindanheart construction from a soul's perspective. The soul encases each mindansoul as a sentence. The heartansoulanmind is a sentence, a life-long and never-ending novel analogy for who knows what reasons. Biblically, "I am the Word". 

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(Reference to John 1:1 and John 20:30-31)

By starting out his gospel stating, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” John is introducing Jesus with a word or a term that both his Jewish and Gentile readers would have been familiar with. The Greek word translated “Word” in this passage is Logos, and it was common in both Greek philosophy and Jewish thought of that day. For example, in the Old Testament the “word” of God is often personified as an instrument for the execution of God’s will (Psalm 33:6; 107:20; 119:89; 147:15-18). So, for his Jewish readers, by introducing Jesus as the “Word,” John is in a sense pointing them back to the Old Testament where the Logos or “Word” of God is associated with the personification of God’s revelation. And in Greek philosophy, the term Logos was used to describe the intermediate agency by which God created material things and communicated with them. In the Greek worldview, the Logos was thought of as a bridge between the transcendent God and the material universe. Therefore, for his Greek readers the use of the term Logos would have likely brought forth the idea of a mediating principle between God and the world.

Selected from - https://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-Word-God.html

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         The above is how you piece these concepts together. A spiritual/religious/cultural rational on which to base a fictional analogy construction. Such is your natural bent, your humor - a fictional construction of a heartansoulanmind in the three-dimensional physical construction with the material body being as a shell (a protector-wall) like the soul is as a shell (protector-wall) for the heartanmind. - Amorella

         0553 hours. Thank you, Amorella for better construction of my raw thinking concepts and analogies. 

       Post. - Amorella

       Morning. You are waiting for Ann F. across from the Bethany United Church of Christ off I-71 and SR. 123 not too far from the new Flying J gas station on the east side of the freeway. - Amorella

       1047 hours. I re-read the above and though a couple of errors in grammar it is understandable and not so crazing sounding as I might have imagined. Ann is running late so eventually we'll have to go on so Carol can meet with Morata and I can meet with Bud. 

         Evening. Carol did have lunch with Morata and you had lunch with Bud. Tonight, you watched a 'Midsomer Murders' and 'Rachel Maddow'. 

         2253 hours. I need to place a definition of 'logos' here in reference to the 'Got Questions' piece above. 

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Logos

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Logos (UK: /ˈloʊɡɒs, ˈlɒɡɒs/, US: /ˈloʊɡoʊs/; Ancient Greek: λόγος, translit. lógos; from λέγω, légō, lit. 'I say') is a term in Western philosophy, psychology, rhetoric, and religionderived from a Greek word variously meaning "ground", "plea", "opinion", "expectation", "word", "speech", "account", "reason", "proportion", and "discourse".^[1[2] ]It became a technical term in Western philosophy beginning with Heraclitus (c.  535 – c.  475 BC), who used the term for a principle of order and knowledge.^[3] Logos is the logic behind an argument.^[4] Logos tries to persuade an audience using logical arguments and supportive evidence. Logos is a persuasive technique often used in writing and rhetoric.

Ancient Greek philosophy

Stoics

Stoic philosophy began with Zeno of Citium c. 300 BC, in which the logos was the active reason pervading and animating the Universe. It was conceived as material and is usually identified with God or Nature. The Stoics also referred to the seminal logos("logos spermatikos"), or the law of generation in the Universe, which was the principle of the active reason working in inanimate matter. Humans, too, each possess a portion of the divine logos.^[29]

The Stoics took all activity to imply a logos or spiritual principle. As the operative principle of the world, the logos was anima mundi to them, a concept which later influenced Philo of Alexandria, although he derived the contents of the term from Plato.^[30]In his Introduction to the 1964 edition of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, the Anglican priest Maxwell Staniforth wrote that "Logos ... had long been one of the leading terms of Stoicism, chosen originally for the purpose of explaining how deity came into relation with the universe".^[31]

In Hellenistic Judaism

 

Philo of Alexandria

Philo (c. 20 BC – c. 50 AD), a Hellenized Jew, used the term Logos to mean an intermediary divine being or demiurge.^[7] Philo followed the Platonic distinction between imperfect matter and perfect Form, and therefore intermediary beings were necessary to bridge the enormous gap between God and the material world.^[33] The Logos was the highest of these intermediary beings, and was called by Philo "the first-born of God".^[33] Philo also wrote that "the Logos of the living God is the bond of everything, holding all things together and binding all the parts, and prevents them from being dissolved and separated".^[34]

Plato's Theory of Forms was located within the Logos, but the Logos also acted on behalf of God in the physical world.^[33] In particular, the Angel of the Lord in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) was identified with the Logos by Philo, who also said that the Logos was God's instrument in the creation of the Universe.^[33]

Christianity

In Christology, the Logos (Greek: Λόγος, lit. ''Word", "Discourse", or "Reason'')^[35] is a name or title of Jesus Christ, seen as the pre-existent second person of the Trinity. The concept derives from John 1:1, which in the Douay–Rheims, King James, New International, and other versions of the Bible, reads:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Islam

The concept of the logos also exists in Islam, where it was definitively articulated primarily in the writings of the classical Sunnimystics and Islamic philosophers, as well as by certain Shi'a thinkers, during the Islamic Golden Age.^[70][71] In Sunni Islam, the concept of the logos has been given many different names by the denomination's metaphysicians, mystics, and philosophers, including ʿaql ("Intellect"), al-insān al-kāmil ("Universal Man"), kalimat Allāh ("Word of God"), haqīqa muḥammadiyya ("The Muhammadan Reality"), and nūr muḥammadī ("The Muhammadan Light").

Jung's analytical psychology

Carl Jung contrasted the critical and rational faculties of logos with the emotional, non-reason oriented and mythical elements of eros.^[81] In Jung's approach, logos vs eros can be represented as "science vs mysticism", or "reason vs imagination" or "conscious activity vs the unconscious".^[82]

For Jung, logos represented the masculine principle of rationality, in contrast to its female counterpart, eros:

Woman’s psychology is founded on the principle of Eros, the great binder and loosener, whereas from ancient times the ruling principle ascribed to man is Logos. The concept of Eros could be expressed in modern terms as psychic relatedness, and that of Logos as objective interest.^[83]

Jung attempted to equate logos and eros, his intuitive conceptions of masculine and feminine consciousness, with the alchemical Sol and Luna. Jung commented that in a man the lunar anima and in a woman the solar animus has the greatest influence on consciousness.^[84] Jung often proceeded to analyze situations in terms of "paired opposites", e.g. by using the analogy with the eastern yin and yang^[85] and was also influenced by the Neoplatonists.^[86]

In his book Mysterium Coniunctionis Jung made some important final remarks about anima and animus:

In so far as the spirit is also a kind of "window on eternity"... it conveys to the soul a certain influx divinus... and the knowledge of a higher system of the world, wherein consists precisely its supposed animation of the soul.

And in this book Jung again emphasized that the animus compensates eros, while the anima compensates logos.^[87]

Selected and edited from Wikipedia - Logos

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         The 'logos' selections you chose give you a variety of ways the word may be understood. - Amorella

         2320 hours. True to my nature the one definition that I feel intuitive greets my own is that of the Stoics.

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Stoics

Stoic philosophy began with Zeno of Citium c. 300 BC, in which the logos was the active reason pervading and animating the Universe. It was conceived as material and is usually identified with God or Nature. The Stoics also referred to the seminal logos("logos spermatikos"), or the law of generation in the Universe, which was the principle of the active reason working in inanimate matter. Humans, too, each possess a portion of the divine logos.

The Stoics took all activity to imply a logos or spiritual principle. As the operative principle of the world, the logos was anima mundi to them, a concept which later influenced Philo of Alexandria, although he derived the contents of the term from Plato.In his Introduction to the 1964 edition of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, the Anglican priest Maxwell Staniforth wrote that "Logos ... had long been one of the leading terms of Stoicism, chosen originally for the purpose of explaining how deity came into relation with the universe".

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       2326 hours. First, what comes to mind is this. 'Logos is the spiritual principle' also within the individual's heartansoulanmind, the human spirit. Second, the sentences immediately above are only intuitional imagination with no scientific validity. 

       Post. - Amorella

60. Notes - Miss Havirsham's definitions for her Overview

60. 20 February 2019

       Shortly after noon local time of course. You are sitting in the living room with Owen and Brennan who will be going out for lunch with you shortly. Both are playing with their computers with the 'nick' on TV in the background. It's settled, you are heading to Potbelly's for lunch. - Amorella

       1351 hours. We are back. Carol and the boys are upstairs playing a board game of their choice. Carol plays board games with the boys and I play chess. 

       You have your silencer earphones on facing north towards the double window in the living room observing a male cardinal on the feeding post in a background of a snow-covered hill with brush, pasture land and trees. You are anxious for Miss Havisham to critique the first chapter. She will set her own style for her reviews. - Amorella

       I call these Soul Assessments "Overviews" because overviewing the heartanmind is what I do. This is focus on 'word choice, context, intent and continuity'' from a soul's perspective. If I were in a public high school system my function would be, when needed, guidance counselor to the Living and/or Dead individual's conscious and unconscious heartanmind. While I'm at it I need 'dream' defined because for all intents I am overviews a series of dream fragments in a three novel or trilogy format. - mh

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Dream

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.^[1] The content and purpose of dreams are not fully understood, although they have been a topic of scientific, philosophical and religious interest throughout recorded history. Dream interpretation is the attempt at drawing meaning from dreams and searching for an underlying message. The scientific study of dreams is called oneirology. . . ..

Opinions about the meaning of dreams have varied and shifted through time and culture. Many endorse the Freudian theory of dreams – that dreams reveal insight into hidden desires and emotions. Other prominent theories include those suggesting that dreams assist in memory formation, problem solving, or simply are a product of random brain activation. 

Sigmund Freud, who developed the psychological discipline of psychoanalysis, wrote extensively about dream theories and their interpretations in the early 1900s. He explained dreams as manifestations of one's deepest desires and anxieties, often relating to repressed childhood memories or obsessions. Furthermore, he believed that virtually every dream topic, regardless of its content, represented the release of sexual tension. In The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), Freud developed a psychological technique to interpret dreams and devised a series of guidelines to understand the symbols and motifs that appear in our dreams. In modern times, dreams have been seen as a connection to the unconscious mind. They range from normal and ordinary to overly surreal and bizarre. Dreams can have varying natures, such as being frightening, exciting, magical, melancholic, adventurous, or sexual. The events in dreams are generally outside the control of the dreamer, with the exception of lucid dreaming, where the dreamer is self-aware. Dreams can at times make a creative thought occur to the person or give a sense of inspiration.

In literature

Dream frames were frequently used in medieval allegory to justify the narrative; The Book of the Duchess and The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman are two such dream visions. Even before them, in antiquity, the same device had been used by Cicero and Lucian of Samosata. . . .

They have also featured in fantasy and speculative fiction since the 19th century. One of the best-known dream worlds is Wonderland from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, as well as Looking-Glass Land from its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass. Unlike many dream worlds, Carroll's logic is like that of actual dreams, with transitions and flexible causality.

Other fictional dream worlds include the Dreamlands of H.P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycleand The Neverending Story's world of Fantasia, which includes places like the Desert of Lost Dreams, the Sea of Possibilities and the Swamps of Sadness. Dreamworlds, shared hallucinations and other alternate realities feature in a number of works by Philip K. Dick, such as The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and Ubik. Similar themes were explored by Jorge Luis Borges, for instance in The Circular Ruins.

In popular culture

 

Modern popular culture often conceives of dreams, like Freud, as expressions of the dreamer's deepest fears and desires. The film version of The Wizard of Oz (1939) depicts a full-color dream that causes Dorothy to perceive her black-and-white reality and those with whom she shares it in a new way. In films such as Spellbound (1945), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Field of Dreams (1989), and Inception (2010), the protagonists must extract vital clues from surreal dreams. . . ..

In speculative fiction, the line between dreams and reality may be blurred even more in the service of the story. Dreams may be psychically invaded or manipulated (Dreamscape, 1984; the Nightmare on Elm Street films, 1984–2010; Inception, 2010) or even come literally true (as in The Lathe of Heaven, 1971). In Ursula K. Le Guin's book, The Lathe of Heaven (1971), the protagonist finds that his "effective" dreams can retroactively change reality. Peter Weir's 1977 Australian film The Last Wave makes a simple and straightforward postulate about the premonitory nature of dreams (from one of his Aboriginal characters) that "... dreams are the shadow of something real". In Kyell Gold's novel Green Fairy from the Dangerous Spirits series, the protagonist, Sol, experiences the memories of a dancer who died 100 years before through Absinthe induced dreams and after each dream something from it materializes into his reality. Such stories play to audiences' experiences with their own dreams, which feel as real to them.

As excitations of long-term memory

Eugen Tarnow suggests that dreams are ever-present excitations of long-term memory, even during waking life. The strangeness of dreams is due to the format of long-term memory, reminiscent of Penfield & Rasmussen's findings that electrical excitations of the cortex give rise to experiences similar to dreams. During waking life an executive function interprets long-term memory consistent with reality checking. Tarnow's theory is a reworking of Freud's theory of dreams in which Freud's unconscious is replaced with the long-term memory system and Freud's "Dream Work" describes the structure of long-term memory.

Role in strengthening semantic memories

A 2001 study showed evidence that illogical locations, characters, and dream flow may help the brain strengthen the linking and consolidation of semantic memories. These conditions may occur because, during REM sleep, the flow of information between the hippocampus and neocortex is reduced. . . . 

Dynamic psychiatry

Freud's view

In the late 19th century, psychotherapist Sigmund Freud developed a theory (since discredited) that the content of dreams is driven by unconscious wish fulfillment. Freud called dreams the "royal road to the unconscious." He theorized that the content of dreams reflects the dreamer's unconscious mind and specifically that dream content is shaped by unconscious wish fulfillment. He argued that important unconscious desires often relate to early childhood memories and experiences. Freud's theory describes dreams as having both manifest and latent content. Latent content relates to deep unconscious wishes or fantasies while manifest content is superficial and meaningless. Manifest content often masks or obscures latent content.

Jung's view

relates to the dreamer's unconscious desires. He described dreams as messages to the dreamer and argued that dreamers should pay attention for their own good. He came to believe that dreams present the dreamer with revelations that can uncover and help to resolve emotionalor religious problems and fears. 

Jung wrote that recurring dreams show up repeatedly to demand attention, suggesting that the dreamer is neglecting an issue related to the dream. He called this "compensation." The dream balances the conscious belief and attitudes with an alternative. Jung did not believe that the conscious attitude was wrong and that the dream provided the true belief. He argued that good work with dreams takes both into account and comes up with a balanced viewpoint. He believed that many of the symbols or images from these dreams return with each dream. Jung believed that memories formed throughout the day also play a role in dreaming. These memories leave impressions for the unconscious to deal with when the ego is at rest. The unconscious mind re-enacts these glimpses of the past in the form of a dream. Jung called this a day residue. Jung also argued that dreaming is not a purely individual concern, that all dreams are part of "one great web of psychological factors."

Fritz Perls' view

Fritz Perls presented his theory of dreams as part of the holistic nature of Gestalt therapy. Dreams are seen as projections of parts of the self that have been ignored, rejected, or suppressed. Jung argued that one could consider every person in the dream to represent an aspect of the dreamer, which he called the subjective approach to dreams. Perls expanded this point of view to say that even inanimate objects in the dream may represent aspects of the dreamer. The dreamer may, therefore, be asked to imagine being an object in the dream and to describe it, in order to bring into awareness the characteristics of the object that correspond with the dreamer's personality.

Individual differences

In line with the salience hypothesis, there is considerable evidence that people who have more vivid, intense or unusual dreams show better recall. There is evidence that continuity of consciousness is related to recall. Specifically, people who have vivid and unusual experiences during the day tend to have more memorable dream content and hence better dream recall. People who score high on measures of personality traits associated with creativity, imagination, and fantasy, such as openness to experience, daydreaming, fantasy proneness, absorption, and hypnotic susceptibility, tend to show more frequent dream recall. There is also evidence for continuity between the bizarre aspects of dreaming and waking experience. That is, people who report more bizarre experiences during the day, such as people high in schizotypy (psychosis proneness) have more frequent dream recall and also report more frequent nightmares. 

Hallucination

A hallucination, in the broadest sense of the word, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus. In a stricter sense, hallucinations are perceptions in a conscious and awake state, in the absence of external stimuli, and have qualities of real perception, in that they are vivid, substantial, and located in external objective space. The latter definition distinguishes hallucinations from the related phenomena of dreaming, which does not involve wakefulness.

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Oneirology

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oneirology (/ɒnɪˈrɒlədʒi/; from Greek ὄνειρον, oneiron, "dream"; and -λογία, -logia, "the study of") is the scientific study of dreams. Current research seeks correlations between dreaming and current knowledge about the functions of the brain, as well as understanding of how the brain works during dreaming as pertains to memory formation and mental disorders. The study of oneirology can be distinguished from dream interpretation in that the aim is to quantitatively study the process of dreams instead of analyzing the meaning behind them.

Definition of a dream

The definition of dream used in quantitative research is defined through four base components: 1) a form of thinking that occurs under minimal brain direction, external stimuli are blocked, and the part of the brain that recognizes self shuts down; 2) a form of experience that we believed we experience through our senses; 3) something memorable; 4) have some interpretation of experience by self. In summary, a dream, as defined by Bill Domhoff and Adam Schneider, is "a report of a memory of a cognitive experience that happens under the kinds of conditions that are most frequently produced in a state called 'sleep.' "

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       I also am adding a definition of 'hypnotic trance' because Richard used  the device throughout this trilogy. This is, as it were, dreaming the novels with cognitively open eyes. mh

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Hypnosis

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Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention, reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion. The term may also refer to an art, skill, or act of inducing hypnosis. 

Theories explaining what occurs during hypnosis fall into two groups. Altered statetheories see hypnosis as an altered state of mind or trance, marked by a level of awareness different from the ordinary state of consciousnessIn contrast, nonstatetheories see hypnosis as, variously, a type of placebo effect, a redefinition of an interaction with a therapist or form of imaginative role enactment. 

During hypnosis, a person is said to have heightened focus and concentration. Hypnotised subjects are said to show an increased response to suggestions. Hypnosis usually begins with a hypnotic induction involving a series of preliminary instructions and suggestion. The use of hypnotism for therapeutic purposes is referred to as "hypnotherapy", while its use as a form of entertainment for an audience is known as "stage hypnosis". Stage hypnosis is often performed by mentalists practicing the art form of mentalism. . . .

Suggestion and Auto-suggestion

Coué was so deeply impressed by Bernheim's concept of “suggestive therapeutics” — in effect, "an imperfect re-branding of the ‘dominant idea’ theory that Braid had appropriated from Thomas Brown — that, on his return to Troyes from his (1886-1886) interlude with Liébeault and Bernheim, he made a practice of reassuring his clients by praising each remedy's efficacy. He noticed that, in specific cases, he could increase a medicine's efficacy by praising its effectiveness. He realized that, when compared those to whom he said nothing, those to whom he praised the medicine had a noticeable improvement (this is suggestive of what would later be identified as a "placebo response").

     "Around 1903, Coué recommended a new patent medicine, based on its promotional material, which effected an unexpected and immediate cure (Baudouin, 1920, p.90; Shrout, 1985, p.36). Coué (the chemist) found “[by subsequent] chemical analysis in his laboratory [that there was] nothing in the medicine which by the remotest stretch of the imagination accounted for the results” (Shrout, ibid.). Coué (the hypnotist) concluded that it was cure by suggestion; but, rather than Coué having cured him, the man had cured himself by continuously telling himself the same thing that Coué had told him." 

The birth of "Conscious Autosuggestion"

Coué discovered that subjects could not be hypnotized against their will and, more importantly, that the effects of hypnotic suggestion waned when the subjects regained consciousness.^] He thus eventually developed the Coué method, and released his first book, Self-Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion (published in 1920 in England and two years later in the United States). He described autosuggestion itself as:

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... an instrument that we possess at birth, and with which we play unconsciously all our life, as a baby plays with its rattle. It is however a dangerous instrument; it can wound or even kill you if you handle it imprudently and unconsciously. It can on the contrary save your life when you know how to employ it consciously.

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Although Coué never doubted pharmaceutical medicine, and still advocated its application, he also came to believe that one's mental state could positively affect, and even amplify, the pharmaceutical action of medication. He observed that those patients who used his mantra-like conscious suggestion, "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better", (French: Tous les jours, à tous points de vue, je vais de mieux en mieux; lit. 'Every day, from all points of view, I'm getting better and better') — in his view, replacing their "thought of illness" with a new "thought of cure", could augment their pharmaceutical regimen in an efficacious way.

Conceptual difference from Autogenic Training

By contrast with the conceptualization driving Coué's auto-suggestive self-administration procedure — namely, that constant repetition creates a situation in which "a particular idea saturates the microcognitive environment of 'the mind'…", which, then, in its turn, "is converted into a corresponding ideomotor, ideosensory, or ideoaffective action, by the ideodynamic principle of action", "which then, in its turn, generates the response"— the primary target of the entirely different self-administration procedure developed by Johannes Heinrich Schultz, known as Autogenic Training, was to affect the autonomic nervous system, rather than (as Coué's did) to affect 'the mind'.

The Coué method

The Coué method centers on a routine repetition of this particular expression according to a specified ritual, in a given physical state, and in the absence of any sort of allied mental imagery, at the beginning and at the end of each day. Coué maintained that curing some of our troubles requires a change in our subconscious/unconscious thought, which can only be achieved by using our imagination. Although stressing that he was not primarily a healer but one who taught others to heal themselves, Coué claimed to have affected organic changes through autosuggestion. 

Underlying principles

Coué thus developed a method which relied on the belief that any idea exclusively occupying the mind turns into reality, although only to the extent that the idea is within the realm of possibility. For instance, a person without hands will not be able to make them grow back. However, if a person firmly believes that his or her asthma is disappearing, then this may actually happen, as far as the body is actually able to physically overcome or control the illness. On the other hand, thinking negatively about the illness (e.g. "I am not feeling well") will encourage both mind and body to accept this thought.

Willpower

Coué observed that the main obstacle to autosuggestion was willpower. For the method to work, the patient must refrain from making any independent judgement, meaning that he must not let his will impose its own views on positive ideas. Everything must thus be done to ensure that the positive "autosuggestive" idea is consciously accepted by the patient, otherwise one may end up getting the opposite effect of what is desired.

Coué noted that young children always applied his method perfectly, as they lacked the willpower that remained present among adults. When he instructed a child by saying "clasp your hands" and then "you can't pull them apart" the child would thus immediately follow his instructions and be unable to unclasp their hands.

Autogenic training

Autogenic training is an autosuggestion-centered relaxation technique influenced by the Coué method. In 1932, Germanpsychiatrist Johannes Schultz developed and published on autogenic training. Unlike autosuggestion, autogenic training has been proven in clinical trials and, along with other relaxation techniques, such as progressive relaxation and meditation, has replaced autosuggestion in therapy. The co-author of Schultz's multi-volume tome on autogenic training, Wolfgang Luthe, was a firm believer that autogenic training was a powerful approach that should only be offered to patients by qualified professionals. Its effectiveness has been confirmed in several studies. 

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       Evening. The Wikipedia material in today's blog shows my base sense of definitions used within my Overview of the Books by Chapter.The purpose of this is to give a general 

background to both Richard and to any other interested public Reader. mh

       2234 hours. This background gives me a greater sense of ease with Miss Havirsham. In context with this Encounters blog I accept her as a persona of my soul just as I accept I have a persona based on heartansoulanmind and that I have a friend, Amorella, who I trust to help share my fictions mixed with some underlying intuitive concepts about a plausible nature of the invisible reality we humans sometimes sense to be in our spiritual humanity (nature) but by its nature cannot be proven scientifically (nor should it be provable because we are less than purely spiritual beings). 

       Tomorrow you are to Cincinnati for lunch, Carol with her old friends from Blue Ash Elementary School and you with your old friend and one-time neighbor in Mason. Post. - Amorella