On Dialectic Paradox, Health, Pathology, Evolution, Alienation and Integration

Man's 'mind-brain-body' is like a swimming pool full of dichotomies, paradoxes, multiple bi-polarities, desires, restraints, too many desires and not enough restraints, or not enough desires and too many restraints, too much planning or not enough planning, too much thinking or not enough thinking, too aggressive or too approval-seeking, and on and on we could go...

We swim -- and sometimes drown -- in this swimming pool full of dichotomies, paradoxes, bipolarities and oftentimes, underlying hypocrisies or 'dissociated, disconnected, alienated ego-states' in the personality that are not properly integrated into the rest of the personality, into the 'whole of the personality'.

The goal of most dialectic bi-polar psychotherapies -- Psychoanalysis, Jungian Psychology, Gestalt Therapy, Transactional Analysis -- including this DGB approach here, is to help bring about more 'wholistic multi-dialectic, multi-bi-polar, integration' both inside and outside of the personality.

-- dgb, Sept. 27th, 2009.

Evolution -- is 'multiple-bi-polar-dialectic-evolution'. Everything comes about either from 'power over' or from 'integrative union'. Where destruction or anhiliation is not the goal, the second type of evolution among men -- integrative union -- usually works much better with far less human tragedy, traumacy, 'insurgency', and casualties. Not all of the time but most of the time -- dgb, Sept. 27th, 2009.

Physical and psycho-pathology are differentiated -- but similar -- in that they both need to be located on a continuum of a multitude of swinging pendulums of health, balance ('The Golden Mean', 'The Middle Path' -- Aristotle) vs. extremism, extreme swings of the pendulum -- and the resulting physical and/or psycho-pathology that comes with extremism over the edge and into the darkest abyss of humanity, non-humanity, and/or ultimately death.

-- dgb, Sept. 27th, 2009.

Your Dinner Won't Come To You...

You can wait a long time by the river before a roasted duck will fly into your mouth.

(Quoted from facebook...)

Two Hands Clapping...

Two hands clapping are better than one hand clapping air...

-- dgb, Sept. 19th, 2009.

-- David Gordon Bain

On Self-Advancement Thwarted by Self-Negation

Self-advancement is sabotaged by self-negation. Plain and simple. For every one step forward we take in our mind, we second guess ourselves, and backtrack to where we started. Advancement -- nowhere. Zilch.

I found this following quote in a Business Depot outlet -- and it gets at the same point and the same problem in a different manner.

'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.' (Unknown author)


Here's to 'stepping stones' and to not turning back once we have determined the direction of our desired 'self-advancement' -- regardless of the 'obstacles' in front of us.

-- dgb, Sept. 9th, 2009.

-- David Gordon Bain,

-- Dialectic Gap-Bridging Negotiations...

-- Are still in process...


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