Desire may be complicated by memory and imagination, leading to pursuit of desires that may not be all that well in line with our entelechy, our going for the heart of our heart's desire. The operative word, here, is "limitations" -- self-limitations and apparent circumstantial limitations. Another way of seeing it is, "how we define everything" (to ourselves, fundamentally). Limitations and the ways we define everything (to ourselves) modify or make us want to control our desires and what we may do, about them, or want to do about them, or feel we should want to do about them -- or not. They complicate how we go about aiming into our entelechy.
There is a drive, in all of us, to achieve or acquire some sense of an ideal outcome in every circumstance. We may not be particularly clear on the direction of our ideal outcome, complicated as we are by memory and perhaps inadequately informed by imagination -- but we have at least some sense of direction. Because of our complication by memory and anticipatory imagination, we may not be very direct about things, but roundabout, pursuing what we can remember to pursue or what seems available to pursue -- or what we imagine we might pursue (perhaps suggested by some memory). Ring a bell?
And so, in our overcomplication by memory*imagination, we are misguided by memory and imagination.
The problem is not memory, per se, nor imagination, per se, but the involuntary and unwitting, controlling influence they seem to have. Too much of one or too little of the other, or both, lead to poorly-modulated behaviors -- clumsiness, awkwardness, difficulty listening, unintelligent responsiveness, attention going off-point, poor timing, resistance to education or development, behaviors tending toward regression or excess, these are poorly modulated behaviors.
Entelechy operates best when free of all of that.
If we have access to memory
while having room for imagination
If we can intend to place attention somewhere
and intend to have it stay there,
If we can keep our attention in line with our intentions
we are available to locate our Entelechy increasingly directly.
That is the emergence of wisdom.
When attention and intention engage memory and imagination, rather than the "attention:intention" complex being unawakened (or off-line, unconsciously driven), ATTENDING*INTENDING draws upon IMAGINING*REMEMBERING for orienting reference points, memory-reference-points. (To draw upon imagining requires that what was imagined be captured as a memory.)
DESCRIPTION OF A DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED
If IMAGINING*REMEMBERING is not made the subject/object of ATTENDING*INTENDING, ATTENDING*INTENDING remains diffused.
If ATTENDING*INTENDING remains diffused, a kind of unresponsiveness exists.
If INTENDING*ATTENDING activates, too much, on the other hand, another kind of unresponsiveness exists, a kind of fixity of attention in memory, an "internality".
One is the fixation of "diffusion"; the other is a fixation of "internal concentration".
Two kinds of fixation.
Of the two, "internal concentration" is more likely to result in repetitive behaviors. It's a "search" mechanism to get oriented -- orientation depending, of course, on memory. Memory depends upon deliberate and repeated imagination and/or upon sufficient intensity of an experience. The greater the intensity, the less the repetition is needed -- and that may be the booting up of primitive reflexes by developmental stages, the repetition of "learning life-experiences" or deliberate self-repetition by imagining or doing something repeatedly to remember it.
If there's a disconnect between INTENDING*ATTENDING and REMEMBERING*IMAGINING, actions do not properly form into accessible memories and so development or learning gets stuck. In the developmental process of individuation , the "booting up" of the operating system of a human being, INTENDING*ATTENDING and REMEMBERING*IMAGINING must coalesce into a sufficiently integrated unity to arrive at the coherence of a sense of self. When it doesn't, somebody appears looney.
Because awakening and gathering our faculties is an imperative of individual existence, because our Entelechy is the direction of our sense of our own awakening and gathering of our faculties, our imperative to emerge into existence, and because that emergence may be stuck, for a certain person, a process of self-stimulation may go on "auto-repeat" to get a transfer of experience from ATTENDING*INTENDING into IMAGINING*REMEMBERING. In this case, ATTENDING corresponds to SENSORY and INTENDING corresponds to MOVEMENT. Take a moment so feel how they go together:
REMEMBERING corresponds to MOVEMENT MEMORY (readiness for movement or "muscle memory") as IMAGINING corresponds to LEARNING MOVEMENT
Repetitive self-stimulation emerges from a primal depth, the imperative of Entelechy to awaken as an individual, to get integrity of:
One is the fixation of "diffusion"; the other is a fixation of "internal concentration".
Two kinds of fixation.
Of the two, "internal concentration" is more likely to result in repetitive behaviors. It's a "search" mechanism to get oriented -- orientation depending, of course, on memory. Memory depends upon deliberate and repeated imagination and/or upon sufficient intensity of an experience. The greater the intensity, the less the repetition is needed -- and that may be the booting up of primitive reflexes by developmental stages, the repetition of "learning life-experiences" or deliberate self-repetition by imagining or doing something repeatedly to remember it.
If there's a disconnect between INTENDING*ATTENDING and REMEMBERING*IMAGINING, actions do not properly form into accessible memories and so development or learning gets stuck. In the developmental process of individuation , the "booting up" of the operating system of a human being, INTENDING*ATTENDING and REMEMBERING*IMAGINING must coalesce into a sufficiently integrated unity to arrive at the coherence of a sense of self. When it doesn't, somebody appears looney.
Because awakening and gathering our faculties is an imperative of individual existence, because our Entelechy is the direction of our sense of our own awakening and gathering of our faculties, our imperative to emerge into existence, and because that emergence may be stuck, for a certain person, a process of self-stimulation may go on "auto-repeat" to get a transfer of experience from ATTENDING*INTENDING into IMAGINING*REMEMBERING. In this case, ATTENDING corresponds to SENSORY and INTENDING corresponds to MOVEMENT. Take a moment so feel how they go together:
ATTENDING*SENSING INTENDING*MOVING
REMEMBERING corresponds to MOVEMENT MEMORY (readiness for movement or "muscle memory") as IMAGINING corresponds to LEARNING MOVEMENT
IMAGINING*LEARNING REMEMBERING*MOVEMENT READINESS
Repetitive self-stimulation emerges from a primal depth, the imperative of Entelechy to awaken as an individual, to get integrity of:
INTENDING*IMAGINING*ATTENDING TO*REMEMBERING
or
ATTENDING TO*REMEMBERING*IMAGINING*INTENDING
THE FOUR-PART INTEGRITY OF A PSYCHE
WITH DIFFERENT ORDER HIGHLIGHTING DIFFERENT ASPECTS
WITH DIFFERENT ORDER HIGHLIGHTING DIFFERENT ASPECTS
THE FOUR-PART INTEGRITY (HARMONY)
That integrity awakens, develops, and so emerges as it comes into relation with the "not self" (the objective aspects of life), which has its own four-part integrity. Now, this is chewy, so I'm going to give you some AUDIO (forthcoming) but for now, imagine saying or thinking each of these these, to yourself (3x). Put yourself on auto-repeat, each unity (e.g., ACTIVITY*EXISTENCE) 3x:
ACTVITY*EXISTENCE | LINE OF DEVELOPMENT*EMERGENCE | LOCALIZATION*LOCATION | PERSISTENCE*CONTINUATION*TIMELESSNESS
or
LOCATION*LOCALIZATION | CONTINUATION*PERSISTENCE*TIMELESSNESS | EMERGENCE*LINE OF DEVELOPMENT | EXISTENCE*ACTIVITY
AS THE FOUR-PART INTEGRITY OF OBJECTIVE EXISTENCE
you know -- EVERYTHING HANDLE-ABLE.
That will have gotten you to the "ballpark". The feeling you get when these come to life in you (or won't quite come to life) is the strange attraction of Entelechy.
Entelechy*Eros
We've already written and read about Enchelechy. Now, it's time for Eros.
The experience of Eros is the experience of being strangely attracted in some direction.
Entelechy is the target, the thing we go for by means of the things we go for, subject to self-limitations and the apparent limitations of circumstances.
Entelechy is direction we "swing to hit the "ball" in The Ballpark of Life and the strange attraction we have to swing that way -- swinging as well as our memories and imagination allow us to locate the ball.
Question: Does that mean that when we locate our Entelechy, we have a ball?
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