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We
are pleased to present the following
excerpt from the book
Human Being:
Self, Desire, &
Consciousness
by Frank Martin DiMeglio
Eloquent Books - March
2008
SYNOPSIS
This book presents original and
fascinating ideas regarding consciousness,
life, being, experience, thought, emotion,
desire, depression, anxiety, dreams, art,
music, and genius. This book is an attempt
to achieve a superior understanding and
true growth of our being, desire,
instincts, and of our consciousness in
general (including thought, attention, and
memory). Such growth is ultimately
dependent upon the comprehensiveness and
consistency of both intention and concern
in relation to experience in general (that
is, in relation to the natural,
integrated, and extensive manifestations
of sensory experience, including the range
of feeling thereof); for the self
represents, forms, and experiences a
comprehensive approximation of experience
in general.
Given the successful and increased (yet
limited) involvement of the unconscious,
the highest (or ideal/true) form of genius
involves a superior integration of a
greater totality of experience, thereby
achieving a fundamental integration,
growth, and spreading of being and
experience (and of desire, thought, and
emotion). Attention and memory are both
improved and relatively sustained in
conjunction therewith. Elevated and
sustained desire (i.e., both intention and
concern) and energy are connected with
both courage and genius, and with the
advancement of consciousness and life as
well. In opposition to this, the
reconfiguration (i.e., disintegration,
alteration, reduction, and/or replacement)
of sensory experience in general
(including range of feeling) is
progressively involving a disintegration
and contraction of being and experience
(including thought). This is evident in
(and includes) sleep disorders,
depression, anxiety, and the experience of
television.
INTRODUCTION
The goal of this book is to present an
improved, original, fundamental, and
consistent account of what consciousness,
life, being, experience, thought, emotion,
desire, depression, anxiety, dreams, art,
music, and genius really are. I have
sought to improve upon what is the
inconsistent, fragmented, divided, and
incomplete understanding(s) of our being
and experience. When people are asked why
it is that they experience what they do,
or what it is that they should be
experiencing, many are either clueless or
unconcerned. It is as if you were asking a
non sensible and irrelevant question;
however, this is indicative of a real
problem. In this day and age, everyone
should be increasingly aware of what it is
that they are experiencing. This book is
essential reading for: those who are
concerned with self-improvement; students
and educators in philosophy and
psychology; people suffering from anxiety
and/or depression, as I have extensive
experience in dealing with, managing,
understanding, and successfully overcoming
both depression and anxiety from my
firsthand experience; those who endeavor
to make their lives more purposeful,
beautiful, and gratifying; and those who
are genuinely concerned with the
advancement of humanity. This book is
designed to open your mind and awareness,
and to get you to truly think big and
properly.
This book is also of interest and value
to anyone who is interested in the
improvement of their understanding and/or
experience in regard to the following:
1) What is our fundamental instinct or
desire? What is desire? What is the
relation (and role) of desire in regard to
experience in general.
2) What dreams are, and what they do.
Dreams are essential for thoughtful and
emotional balance, integration,
comprehensiveness, consistency, and
resiliency.
3) Why dreams are an emotional
experience that occur during the one third
of our lives that we spend sleeping. Why
chimpanzees live comparatively longer than
the time we spend sleeping (which includes
dreaming), and yet less than the total
time (then including waking experience as
well) that we live. In keeping with this,
the experience of chimpanzees can be
better understood; and this includes not
only the similarity of their experience
with that of our dreams, but also the
range (and nature) of their experience of
feeling in relation to ours while waking
and dreaming.
4) The comprehensiveness and
consistency of both our intention and
concern are central to our consciousness,
life, and growth.
5) Why depression involves a feeling of
heaviness, and why this constricted
feeling also occurs in anxiety; and how
depression and anxiety involve extremes of
concern.
6) An improved perspective regarding
what is the loss of our common sense,
instincts, true concern, and genius, and
of our capacity to appreciate, experience,
and advance the beautiful as well. True
genius advances life and consciousness,
including the beauty and desirability of
experience.
7) What is the fundamental nature of
consciousness, genius, being, and
experience.
8) What television actually is and
does.
9) What music and art do and
involve.
This Introduction contains additional
and important considerations/perspectives
that the reader should bear in mind, as
they will be of further benefit in
understanding what will follow in this
book. It is of great importance to realize
that the reconfiguration (i.e.,
alteration, reduction, and/or replacement)
of sensory experience in general [from
what was previously natural] induces
and includes foreign, unnatural, and toxic
effects. This makes the self increasingly
unconscious and reactive in unpredictable
ways. As being and experience become
increasingly inanimate, unconscious,
and/or dream-like (as in the experience of
television), it is important to consider
the following. Are the foreign, unnatural,
and toxic effects involving fundamentally
reconfigured sensory experience in outer
space treatable? Also, is dream experience
"treatable" and predictable? This is a
very real (and long-term) problem.
Experience that is natural is generally
sustainable; and, "an ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure". It is critical
to realize that the self represents,
forms, and experiences a comprehensive
approximation of experience in general. If
you walk away from reality, it will walk
away from you.
This book has very important,
fundamental, and broad applicability. Is
autism not a disintegration and
contraction of being and experience (and
of consciousness)? The increased incidence
of body spinning or rocking in autism is
an attempt to [properly]
integrate, balance, increase, and extend
[the range of] their experience of
feeling, thereby increasing the integrated
extensiveness and desirability of
experience in general. Is the generally
heightened autonomic arousal in autism not
indicative of a disintegration and
contraction of being, experience, and
consciousness? Being and experience are
changing in an accelerated, haphazard,
disintegrated, and unnatural fashion.
Consciousness and language involve the
ability to represent, form, and experience
comprehensive approximations of experience
in general. This includes art and music as
well. Genius is rare for a very good
reason; because consciousness is intended
to advance slowly. It is also intended to
advance in a truly integrated and
sustainable fashion. This is why the
highest (and ideal/true) form of genius is
far more rare than that which is also
[generally] considered to involve
(or be) genius. Experience is not intended
to be excessively thoughtful (and/or
intentional) in its construction and
effects. When experience becomes
excessively thoughtful in its construction
and effects (including the time that is
occupied by thought), there is a
disintegration and contraction of being
and experience that is evident in
television, depression, and anxiety.
Emotion that is comprehensive and balanced
advances consciousness, as it is the
wellspring of intuition and of the flashes
of genius and inspiration. The integrated
extensiveness of experience (including
thought) is essential to the avoidance of
sensory deprivation and hallucinatory
experience.
All too often, addictive, unnatural,
dysfunctional, excessive, and/or unhealthy
practices or behaviors are encouraged,
legalized, advocated, and/or
institutionalized. It is true, moreover,
that the weak like (and often advocate)
what is weakening by their very weakness;
as the strong like (and also need) what is
strengthening by their very strength.
Greed is, in no small part, ruining our
experience. Money is made by changing
experience from that which is natural.
When profits and money are over-valued,
people (and labor) are devalued.
Conversely, when the exchange of goods and
necessities involves trade, people and
their labor are rightly valued and
respected; and profits are fair.
Ironically, arbitrary and inflated prices
are more easily assigned to goods that we
do not need because they are not of true
and definite value; that is, they do not
have true and concrete value in regard to
our true advancement or survival. The goal
of the mass media is to get you to spend
more money; and in order to spend money,
you have to make more money; and corporate
profits are then taken from both ends.
Dissatisfied people spend more money. The
mass media spreads dissatisfaction, and by
using the means of television as a device
to further accomplish this, our ability to
think properly (and for ourselves) is
reduced. (I do not, by the way, have a
television.) We are excessively dependent
upon money (as opposed to direct trade)
for our very survival; and this is
associated with less healthy, extensive,
natural, realistic, and sustainable
relations not only among people in
general, but also involving experience
(and the environment) as a whole. People
are increasingly treated and considered as
employees and consumers as opposed to
being people and citizens. Although the
size of the government and mass
media/corporate profits are very much at
stake, a trade-based economy involves a
more natural, healthy, and sustainable
lifestyle/experience; and this pertains to
families, employers/employees, and the
environment as a whole. It is to the
extent that being and experience have
become less sustainable that we are
increasingly dependent upon money for the
provision of our very survival, needs, and
experience in general. Money has
increasingly become the crutch (and
implement or tool) by which people evade
and diminish themselves, other people,
life, experience, responsibility, and
reality. The desire to be excessively
comfortable is weakening and dividing us,
and it is diminishing our capacity for
truth as well.
This book will really and truly get you
thinking. This book is a testament and a
tribute to the greatness of human
achievement and endeavor. It is my desire
to truly advance consciousness, desire,
and understanding, and to help people to
come into the full possession and command
of their experience.
Frank
Martin DiMeglio lives in Maryland and is
currently writing a book about philosophy.
He has a Bachelor of Science degree
(Honors, 1987) from Towson University in
Geography and Environmental
Planning.
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