The wisdom of the ages, though solid, has somehow become deficient, in our current times. Somehow? We have wondered and wandered, we have stumbled on success or at least learned not to crowd the back side of a jack-ass. We have practiced prayer, meditation, fasting, and a host of intentions of reuniting the body and spirit, and walking in our best practices. That was then, this is now. The old, has become less a teacher and more a subject matter of inquiry and curiosity. Curiosity killed the cat, inquiry rarely detracted and often led to new perspectives. "The seeker" is the term, albeit in a language almost no one could follow or comprehend, is the term Pythagoras used for this state of "higher" human existence, thought's, word's, and actions.
The stressor's and pressure's of today's world are unlike any ever seen in human history. "Standard temperature and pressure" is a law of physics and chemistry, being 1 atmosphere, sea level weight of air at sea level, and a variable temperature gradient ranging from around 72 degree's to body temperature. From a societal view, both the temperature and pressure have increased from any previous recorded or oral histories. Our very survival, depends upon our flexibility during these profoundly different times.
Han's Selye coined the term "stressor's", wrote the definitive treatise on neurological, bio-chemical presence, titled "Pain", it's influence on nutritional and bio-chemical status, and is considered the "father of physiology", His time was post WWII, 1950's, a time of relief, hope and optimism. The stressor's of the day, were quite measured, as compared to current times.
Rarely has the world seen government's in such public disdain, without revolutionary response. We might well look at today, as lemming's aiming for the sea, and opossums playing dead, and dead to the dance of life. The causes of adrenal overstimulation, of hormonal irregularity, of immunologic pertrabations, of family and village upset, of toxic detriment's are unmatched in human history. it is not that the thoughts and views of the past were wrong, it's just that the pressures and stressors of today require new thought.
This is an "Art of War" moment for our kind. We need to retreat, seek counsel, review, analyze, and then find intentions of action. The next Mentor dude will discuss my analysis of what needs to change for our world and societies to heal and change.
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