Politics

Sane - Determining What Is by Dr Gil Eriksen - Beyond Elite Magazine - 301

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 17:44:46 -0500

Sane and crazy are very subjective to how and what the individual determines what is, or what to them are seen as the facts. There are so many standards or methods of ideas for including and excluding of what is used as critical in making conclusions. The goal is to personally use scales for elevating and devaluating, and through it all each sees sane as a confirmation and conformation, and insane or crazy as conflicts to their views. So all is self-determined, and is produced by a lifetime of accumulated judgments and decisions based on their own personal experiences and personal preferences. So it is that what is seen as is means many different things to many different people. And in the process, whether one is delusional or sound, all tend to think that they know what is right or what is fundamentally real, what is.

Social traditions and pressures tend to uphold collective and previously held ideas about what is most beneficial and what is most profound for them, regardless if the determinations hold to fact or fiction, there are many forms of right and real. Everyone then believes and assumes, pretty much pervasively, that all is inclusive in their opinions. People see themselves as the creators of all that is profound, and not as the carriers of traditions or the interpreters of siding up on what pleases them alone, for the whole sense of memory and generating of ideas is more of an unknown phenomenon.

Everyone thinks that they are existentially sane and each holds clearly to that position, and constantly refers and reconstitutes their habits of thinking and acting, and that is their platform and base of their operations. All just is. All is normal and supposedly profitable to them, or so they convince themselves, despite the evidence. Seldom if ever do people check out their own thinking or even checkup on their thinking in form or content objectively, for that would be to scary an would break the trust of them with them. They fear to upset would destroy the myth of them to and for them. It is like we all live in this self-indulgent kindergarten where fantasy abounds and existence is assumed and taken for granted, and so is sanity. So as an example we have the is (facts) of my fantasy and the is (facts) of your nightmares. All is sort of like this horrendously risky game of living on the range of survival of the fittest as the rule, empowerment and valor galore.

What is most overlooked or just not developed in all of this self-determining are ideas of actually what is real. And too there exists a huge neglect to constricted limits by setting and holding to definitions and good use of vocabulary and formal language. So absent are basics of on what is to be viewed as honest as in factual. Nowhere in our education process do we take this focus of what is fact, and we also do not pay attention to what is supported by evidence in fact either. For all is clouded with non-real ideas of what is seen as experimentation and research evaluations methods. I think that there is nothing real in approaching and establishing education by taking leaps of thought and attempts to make theoretical or hypothetical real. Furthermore, I think that basing research and protocols of teaching on a format of imaginative outcomes and also disclaiming of actual outcomes in order to form consensuses of the supposed predictabilities of existences, that do not exist, is all fake thinking, foolish conclusions and grossly in error of what is real.

Inherent also in the normal ways of thinking are the misperceptions between open-minded thinking and thoughts with open-ended thinking and thought-endlessness. Normally people think that they are somewhat liberal in their thinking and willing to consider many ideas as in open-minded, but that is not the case. When they describe their ways and methods of thinking, they will report open-ended patterns in which all decisions are situational, improvised, clouded with personal gains and always changing and none having any lasting confirmation. They pride themselves as being adaptable and see that as responsible and sane. An open-minded position conversely is one that is not set in adamant anything or illusive everything, but has a curious mind to seek what is most functional and workable over time, without pride and without constant willy-nilly.

So as you may see that sane mostly includes the story of oneself has untold implications. Sane for most is seldom if ever takes into account being alive, staying alive, knowing of death and accepting death and finishing. What is not considered or seen or known to be real lasts in our minds shortly and temporarily only. And as for those that think that all goes on forever so much takes all for granted and pays actually all no attention. That, I think, is the mental imaginative construction of isolation and a state of forgotten, or not having learned and not having acquired ideas that are thoughts of facts, that coordinate the facts. Simply most people instead develop thoughts of forgetfulness or forgiveness for lack of associations of ideas and lack of inter-relatedness within one’s mind and also with one another.

These are my ideas when it comes to ideas of sane and crazy and how important that it is for is to be made of facts and not of spontaneous inferences.

-Dr. Gil Eriksen, Realist & Experience Demystifier

Dr. Gil Eriksen is Editor-in-Chief of Beyond Elite Magazine, Founder and Director of Research at the Institute for Reality Studies, and author of the How to Think book series. A Thinker, Sexologist, Speaker, Author and Trainer, Dr. Gil Eriksen is a Realist and has spent a lifetime teaching mental fitness. For more information on Dr. Gil Eriksen, visit www.gileriksen.com , email him at drgil@gileriksen.com or visit him on the following social networks:

Oh My God Not Haiti by Dr Gil Eriksen - Beyond Elite Magazine - 302

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 17:24:11 -0500

In America we hear of tragedy and suffering in far off places and far away countries like Africa, China, Russia, and Pakistan, but please, not here. We have more than recently had our share of trouble with New Orleans, 911 New York, and fires in California, but please, not so much of real horror. Now, Oh My God, how bad does it have to be, but right at our doorstep with our near neighbors in Haiti? Yes I think that we have been more or less shielded from really bad times in the United States, but Haiti is very scary and very real. And just as we have tried to make the whole world a world village, we are seeing just how low life can be, and bad stuff can really be very bad and difficult at best. I think that the world, or all the peoples of the world, are going though some real growing pains and that our wits and our minds are surely being faced with the test of community, or not.

As we roll out our Sane, Sober and Safe Issue of Beyond Elite, we are being faced with the fact that much of the world lives on the edge of life, and with few to no real resources, and that we have taken much for granted in the land of plenty. Not to be overwhelmed or underwhelmed, I think that much is in front of us in many ways and much work needs to be undertaken in sober ways with sober thoughts. We are reshaping our political, banking, corporate, and everyday policies and forecasting. What needs to be fundamentally a part of our planning and neighborliness is to grab hold of our selves and redefine charity to mean clarity and realize that thousands of years of competing and fighting are really in the way of making for peace on earth, and good will to all men.

Our world organizations and our worldwide efforts have been signaling a real time of cooperation and common good, but maybe, just maybe, much has been superficial, or on grounds that have yet to be or need to be developed. I think that the planet has been shrinking as the population and populations have been expanding. I think that now is an impinging time for mind expansion and time to learn how to stop competing and start cooperating. So Old Man Time has been wearing the beard of independence and not wanting to shave and clean face for interdependence. And what say you? Are we to be all part of the problem or part of the solution of remaking our own new histories and our own new safe havens? Or is it going to be just more “Oh My God”?

Dr. Gil Eriksen is Editor-in-Chief of Beyond Elite Magazine, Founder and Director of Research at the Institute for Reality Studies, and author of the How to Think book series. A Thinker, Sexologist, Speaker, Author and Trainer, Dr. Gil Eriksen is a Realist and has spent a lifetime teaching mental fitness. For more information on Dr. Gil Eriksen, visit www.gileriksen.com , email him at drgil@gileriksen.com or visit him on the following social networks:

Political Intent by Dr Gil Eriksen - Beyond Elite Magazine - 303

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:41:54 -0500

Political intent can have many connotations and many interpretations, for intent can be one of holding to the conventional establishment, or swaying and altering the views or workings of the usual courses of political policies and actions, or either to upset and reestablish or actually redefine the structures and foundations of the political intent. Particular political intent is mostly an expression of opinions and points of view on how to run the government and how to establish the laws and policies that reflect what is thought of to be the best ways, or the best opportunity for success. Political intentions are often reflective of certain religious, philosophical or economic theories and not as much about ethnic or racial preferences or biases. But intent or intentions are more about what is most important to different parties and organizing groups in how they want to confirm, reform or persuade their own views. People look to gain through their political influence and on how they see their preferences coming home to be profitable for them through effecting policies and actions. So, political intent is for many people thought to be the market place of life and living, sort of like cash for cash.

I think that we all have some understanding of these political process and living in a vibrant republic; but what goes wrong and what is meant by ‘Washington is broken’ and money talks and buys influence? Do we all know how political intention becomes political clout? And is all of this about the different fair push and pulls of all the members and players in a democratic process or not? And how do we know if the political intentions are the voices of the people or a considerable group of people, or the more about the manipulations of the few? How does benefit spread and how does benefit get sold and controlled? And what does the average person think about all of these political intentions? In speaking with the average person, the common point of view is that politians and those that lobby political attention and favor is that corruption is a main stay of politics and usual in the running of government. Be it Afghanistan, the United States of America or Russia today the public sees those in charge as being shady. So the word on the street often cries, care about your family, don’t worry about the capital or city-hall, don’t get involved, don’t even vote and seem to appear smug like you just know what is going on, and that makes you smart, and let’s not forget complicit. All is a common position and writing off what it is to use democracy, elect for the Republic and to pay active attention and participate in the outcomes for sane, sober and safe living. Often common political Intent is about being aloof and feeding into the compromising of all, and hoping that you will be lucky.

Our present Political Calling ‘08 seems to have elected or reflected one of breaking the history and cycles of tyrannical governance and getting off the couch, or from behind the guns long enough, to change outcomes by changing the political processes in an involved community like manner for many more people. Here comes the real battles or battle grounds, those at home; for the enemy is our own apathy and our own fatalism and not so much a guy wearing a turban and talking strange talk. It is, or will be new, in recognizing that we talk strange within our own families, within our own neighborhoods within our own schools and houses of worship. We are duplicate, pointing fingers and politically intended to point fingers. Or are we questionably finally growing out of blaming and shaming and instead cleaning our own minds and our own houses?

We have been told that in the capitalistic markets in our country that he average American has used their own houses for piggybanks to be piggy. True or not, maybe we have stood by and watched while expecting our government to be the piggybank through our own one eye closed, while hoping and praying for a fat piece or the whole pie? True or not, is the whole world maybe complicit with ideas of fortune telling and looking always for the bonanza? And are all peoples secretively thinking to hell with my working, saving and investing? If government and political intentionality is seen to be about a marketplace, then everything about us is commercial and invested at risk, like a lottery ticket.

I think that government is to be open and provide a safe place for a marketplace and not be the marketplace or the piggybank for the few. I think that we have taken the constitution and made it over, and the made over the congress to be a place of hawkers and that is what is seen to be a Broken Washington. The new administration is a new day and speak of a new way. Let’s see if we all can participate in turning Washington right side up.

Dr. Gil Eriksen is Editor-in-Chief of Beyond Elite Magazine, Founder and Director of Research at the Institute for Reality Studies, and author of the How to Think book series. A Thinker, Sexologist, Speaker, Author and Trainer, Dr. Gil Eriksen is a Realist and has spent a lifetime teaching mental fitness. For more information on Dr. Gil Eriksen, visit www.gileriksen.com , email him at drgil@gileriksen.com or visit him on the following social networks:

Non-established Connections by Dr Gil Eriksen - Beyond Elite Magazine - 304

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:51:02 -0500

Learning to be disassociated from one’s own personal connections within the establishing of their own individual minds, and also from their own unique preferences, is critical in seeing and knowing the whole disconnect across the board. How people are fooled into using their minds, and expected to live out, is left to the interpretations of the mystics and the religious to dictate and determine. Mentally we are convinced to hide away from our knowing our own mental operations, our own mental dynamic gets denied to us and proclaimed to be unreal. That is how we get disassociated in the first place. We learn to not see us as us and as we are, and instead convinced that we are spirits at large within some existential world of out of body realities, which takes us out from and away from real and true and denies what we are in fact. We are totally forbidden to see how and what we think to be actually of our own creations and our own doings of us. Therefore all that is actually associated with participating in formulating our own minds, and observing and monitoring our own minds is seen as not real, off-limits and against God and God’s Laws of Nature. We are threatened, forced and scared to think of thinking for ourselves. We disassociate from our own minds and pay lip-service to what are brains are all about.

Furthermore, even to attempt to be objective about mental ideas like memory, recall, decision making, individual judgments, collective communications, civil order and fact-finding ways of thinking are excluded and for fear of death avoided in some mad attempt to survive under rule as a species. In so obeying, and in so doing, we remain disassociated from ourselves, from our own attitudes, from our own desires to self-direct and from seeking self-satisfaction into a deterrent of selflessness and conformity. Take the idea of memory as an example. If you ask a normal person what is memory, and do you have memory, you will get a much disassociated responses, like ‘I suppose so.’ Almost like, ‘I guess so.’ And ‘I guess so’ referencing is the makeup and format of any and all thinking and, at best, is disassociated from self, our selves, and from what is real. When you directly ask a question about recall or the exercise of recalling, you will get mostly blank stares, dribblidous rambles, and mad stabs at an answer or not and just another stare. When you look to solicit plans of personal choices and personal identity, personal planning, personal involvements, and personal preferences, personal anything, you will get an abstracted opinion that fails to hold content, substance, methodology or clear conceptual identifications. Every test is reacted to with non-specific jargon and adlibbed attempts at attempting to appear intelligent and in control, but lack integral and integrative comprehensive substance and association with self. And many times in a response to or creating still another equally disassociated response as a non-specific turnabout, comments would be in an effort to exercise empathy, understanding, analysis, interpretations and reading the other persons mind, as if that were real or personally embodied.

An alternative to spiritual and believing practices would be to think and work within reality. To associate with one’s own mind and identify as a thinker, known needs to be built upon and unknown needs no longer to be seen as what is real. When real and being and living real is established as important, seen as necessary and noted as being the critical choice of function, then learning to be functionally sane, practicing being sober and opting for personal and civil safety is in the lead, and needs labored development and continued practice.

First for each and for all, establishing the connections and correlations between sane and sound with that of what is obvious, obviously productive and lasting needs to be confronted, demystified and concluded, and at best resolved cognitively, and recognized as cognition dependent in function, process and human skill building as well. This will come out of recognizing that the only things and ideas known are those ideas that are observable and measurable, this we see and this we know so this is what is real. The experience and the research are not by traditional ways of theory or hypothesis but by merely wanting to learn by outcomes and fact finding, and to in turn learn to be personally responsible and capable. Mastering and comforting in knowing I am a thinker, I can and do learn by my own experience and i can and do make conclusions and establish my values out of knowing what serves and preserves my being alive and living well.

Second in observing conditions, creations and altering of conditions, being able to categorize in language and form, being able to think interactively with self and others will yield the awareness incidents of chemical influences and the affects of chemicals on perceptions of judgments and conclusions. So choosing to be selective and careful about chemical ingestions is to be taken seriously mindfully and carefully. So sober, useful, deterrent, complicating, complimentary and the like take on whole new meanings and whole new significance in conducting cognitive exercises and preserving wellness while prolonging death and avoiding illness.

Thirdly and as a related consequence, prolonging life, instilling life, maximizing living, accepting the roles and working within the limits of physical conditions, making clear and long lasting observations and decisions are what safety and being well is all about, and what is able to be attained from a new paradigm of thinking where humans are not only allowed to think but at the same time taught and encouraged to think, be specific and be realistically aware.

There is so much more to say and examine on the regiments of ruling in and ruling out of ideas, or better yet establishing what is factual and what is wrong and / or fiction. People need to see all the correlations and connections of not only how and what they think as thinkers, but also how they have created their own desires, politics and circumstances. Connections and associations are majorly important and not to be denied or ruled and fooled in or out under intimidations.

Dr. Gil Eriksen, Realist at the Institute for Reality Studies
And made in the USA

Dr. Gil Eriksen is Editor-in-Chief of Beyond Elite Magazine, Founder and Director of Research at the Institute for Reality Studies, and author of the How to Think book series. A Thinker, Sexologist, Speaker, Author and Trainer, Dr. Gil Eriksen is a Realist and has spent a lifetime teaching mental fitness. For more information on Dr. Gil Eriksen, visit www.gileriksen.com , email him at drgil@gileriksen.com or visit him on the following social networks: