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" Your sense of self will cease unexpectedly. "

I got this "fortune" from a Neopets "Island Mystic." It's a column A,
column B, column C random construct, I'm sure, but I thought it was interesting.

Just this morning while doing dishes I was thinking about the simple but
serious dilemma involved with discussing unschooling, which is (I think, this
morning) that some people want to do it without changing themselves or their
families or their relationships and others believe that the change is what does it
altogether.

And I was thinking about philosophy (the idea of it) and spirituality (the
reality of the effect of spirituality) and was thinking about the brain research
that says there's a place in your brain that is stimulated during meditation
or prayer, and that the sense of being one with the universe has a physical
(physical meaning biochemical, so physical on a cellular level) reality.

Probably feeling "one with" one's children is some of that. Probably the
difference between feeling adversarial (separate and "right" or martyred or
resentful) and feeling that you are your child's partner and ally has something to
do with that part of the brain.

And if so, this all probably has something to do with Howard Gardner's
intrapersonal intelligence (knowledge of self) and the
proposed-but-not-fully-accepted intelligence being referred to as metaphysical or spiritual.

Then my dishes were clean and I stopped thinking about it, until I was
playing Neopets and wondering whether the unexpected cessation of one's sense of
self was a bad thing, or maybe kind of a good thing.

Sandra


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Deb

--- In [email protected], SandraDodd@a... wrote:
>
> " Your sense of self will cease unexpectedly. "
> Then my dishes were clean and I stopped thinking about it, until I
>was
> playing Neopets and wondering whether the unexpected cessation of
>one's sense of
> self was a bad thing, or maybe kind of a good thing.
>
> Sandra
Could be either I suppose - depends on whether it's in the
meditation/Zen-like positive losing self in a greater whole, one of
those transcendent type moments that pop up often (usually?) without
planning or expectation. Or it could be a more negative type as in
suddenly having an earthquake-like blast that shakes the very
foundations of self you thought were stable (maybe similar to a
grown person suddenly finding out that s/he was adopted and mom is
actually grandma and sister is actually mom and uncle bill is
actually dad).

(and it might be fun to play with it a bit - we typically add the
phrase "in bed" to all fortunes just to 'spice' things up a bit lol)

--Deb