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January 25, 2008
by Frank Martin DiMeglio
Being and experience are becoming excessively (and increasingly) unconscious and less animate. The contraction and disintegration of being and experience go hand in hand. Relatively unconscious (or dream) experience is excessively combining with waking experience, thereby resulting in a contraction and disintegration of being and experience that is consistent with anxiety, depression, and the experience of television. That experience is becoming excessively dream-like and/or unconscious/inanimate is evident in both anxiety and depression. To the extent that relatively unconscious (or dream) experience excessively (and increasingly) combines with waking experience, as these two states are combined as such, there is understood to be a removal (or loss) of experience in general; and this is consistent with both anxiety and depression. In both depression and anxiety, experience becomes excessively (and increasingly) dream-like and unconscious, thereby precluding sleep (and dreaming) for the same reason that dreaming (and sometimes sleep) increases in depression. That the self represents, forms, and experiences a comprehensive approximation of experience in general is the great revelation of music, art, dreams, waking experience, and genius. Such is evident in becoming "one with the music". Emotion that is comprehensive and balanced advances consciousness. The highest (and ideal) form of genius truly and fundamentally advances the integrated extensiveness of being and experience (including thought) in time. The advancement of consciousness (and true genius) involves the improvement of the connectivity and extensiveness of being, experience, desire, intention, concern, feeling, energy, emotion, and thought. In the advancement of consciousness involving the experience of true genius, the extensiveness of intentionality in regard to experience is properly understood as having increased; as intentionality becomes comprehensive and consistent (or connected, balanced, and relatively extensive). Indeed, the thoughts of genius are more fundamental, comprehensive, consistent, connected, balanced, and relatively extensive. Desire consists of both intention and concern. In keeping with this, all living things grow. Ideally, genius involves true concern. Since great music increases feeling and the comprehensiveness and consistency of emotion, growth and the feeling of becoming "one with the music" are facilitated. Music, language, and laughter involve superior desire. Beethoven's music, as the creation of one man, allows for the realistic, free, and true growth of the individual (or self) in the superior synthesis, extensiveness, and unity of expression that involves (and is the result of) such emotional and thoughtful consistency and comprehensiveness. The thinking (and attention) behind quantum mechanics/atomic physics and the experience of television is relatively shifting, variable, narrow (or reduced/specific), and disintegrated, thereby progressively and cumulatively involving (and contributing to) a disintegration and contraction of thought, attention, emotion, memory, and experience in general. Critically, the reduction in the [balanced] range and extensiveness of feeling is opposed to the integrated, comprehensive, and balanced consistency of being and experience (including thought). In the [modern] disintegration and contraction of experience that includes depression and anxiety, being and experience (including thought) become unfocused, disintegrated, contracted (or lessened), ungrounded, and detached. The toxic, artificial, foreign, and unnatural reconfiguration (i.e., alteration, reduction, disintegration, contraction, and/or replacement) of feeling, energy, and sensory experience in general is reducing life and consciousness; and this includes food, water, the atmosphere, television, indoor experience, etc. Modern (and indoor) experience involves a significant reduction in the natural range and extensiveness of the experience of feeling, thereby lessening consciousness. On the other hand, exercise (and weight lifting) naturally increases and extends the experience of feeling, thereby advancing (or improving) consciousness, life, and health. Thought and feeling are proportionately reduced during dreams. Thoughts and emotions are differentiated feelings, as dreams involve a fundamental integration and spreading of being and experience at the mid-range of feeling between thought and sense. Accordingly, the self represents, forms, and experiences a comprehensive approximation of experience in general. (Dreams involve a sense of relative familiarity with the experience therein, thereby increasing the capacity for both memory and understanding.) It is clear that the self has [essential] extensiveness of being and experience (also in and with time) in conjunction with the integrated and natural extensiveness of sensory experience. Indeed, in the experience of the transparent sky, this transparency (and extensiveness) of vision is also present in the body (or eye). Since the self has extensiveness of being and experience (in and with time) in conjunction with the integrated and natural extensiveness of sensory experience, we spend less time dreaming (and sleeping) than waking. Accordingly, chimpanzees have less memory, less experience (in general), reduced consciousness, and less life expectancy than humans. Chimpanzees live somewhat longer than the time we spend sleeping (which includes dreaming), because their being and experience is more extensive than that of our dreams. This reduction in memory is understood as involving less of a past, and therefore less extensiveness of experience in (and with) time. This is consistent with experience as babies, and with our inability to remember such experience as well. The alteration, reduction, and/or removal of the integrated and natural extensiveness of sensory experience (and life) is the disintegration and contraction of being and experience, thereby reducing life expectancy as well. As attention and memory are improved in conjunction with the integrated and natural extensiveness of being, thought, and experience (including dreams and when waking), disorders and deficiencies involving attention and memory will also rise. It is because dreams involve a fundamental integration and spreading of being and experience at the mid-range of feeling between thought and sense that fatigue, tiredness, and a lack of energy are absent during dreams. However, when experience becomes excessively (and increasingly) dream-like, unconscious, and inanimate, a contraction and disintegration of being and experience result; and fatigue, tiredness, loss of energy, depression, and anxiety occur. Since dreams [already] involve a fundamental integration and spreading of being and experience at what is the mid-range of feeling between thought and sense, the sense of smell very rarely occurs while dreaming, and the lighting and sound levels are fairly constant (and proper) therein. In both depression and anxiety, the emotional disintegration and contraction of being and experience involves increased feeling at the emotional center of the self. In anxiety, this is consistent with excessive concern, the reduction in the desirability of experience, emotional imbalance (or variability), bodily aches and pains (i.e., emotional disintegration), the mind "going blank", panic attacks (involving a sort of generalized paralysis and loss of experience), etc. Comparatively (and similarly), in depression, there is a contraction, detachment, disintegration, and loss of being and experience that also involves a loss of emotion. The desirability and extensiveness of experience (including memory) in both depression and anxiety is reduced; as there occurs a significant loss involving the comprehensiveness and consistency of both concern and intention. (Desire consists of both intention and concern.) The loss of desire in both depression and anxiety involves a significant reduction in the comprehensiveness and consistency of both intention and concern as they relate to experience in general; and this has the dream-like effect of reducing thought, emotion, and memory, including the desirability and totality of experience as well. Depression is known to involve apathy and a loss of concern. However, the narrowing (or excessive concentration) of concern in anxiety also constitutes an effective, actual, and overall loss of concern (in relation to experience in general). Concern is excessively concentrated and disintegrated in both depression and anxiety. With anxiety, however, concern may be concentrated (or compressed) at an even higher level of feeling, thereby resulting in the feeling of excessive concern, panic, the mind "going blank", etc. Ideally, concern is balanced and improved in conjunction with an increase in the comprehensiveness and consistency of intentionality in regard to experience. Elevated and sustained desire and energy are connected with both courage and genius, and with the advancement of consciousness and life as well. In opposition to this, the disintegration and contraction (and this includes detachment) of being and experience go hand in hand. In depression and anxiety, being and experience become excessively (and increasingly) dream-like, inanimate, and unconscious. In considering the excessively dream-like (and unconscious) nature of depression and anxiety, consideration should also be given to the fact that the emotional experience of the dream even includes the experience of touch. Emotion is differentiated (and manifest) as sensory experience and feeling. Emotional disintegration may include emotional pain. 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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