Heart and Home

Packing and more packing....and it doesn't look like it. I've been thinking about consciousness studies the past few days while I take apart one sort of creation: home. Did you know that one can get an MA and a PhD in Consciousness Studies? I tried....then I got pregnant, and was secretly relieved to give it up. I would learn about the nature of the universe through mothering rather than through research.

As much as I love traveling and journeying, I also love traversing history - models of thought, scientific paradigms, psychological schools. What I have learned more than anything is that what we know about reality is mostly built upon assumptions. Assumptions that become belief and beliefs that become tenets of theories. Some thoughts become so core to a theory that, even though it's just an idea, it becomes like rock in order to support all the following research on top of it.

I like to wade down through it all and discover the seed idea. When I was in school I spent a lot of time researching and studying about notions of self - what we believe self to mean. This is very significant because science and psychology form a myriad of definitions about self and reality based on a few originating ideas. You'd be surprised.

One reason for my inquiry is that, as a therapist, I was tired of a 'paradigm of pathology'. The way we make the smallest behavioral veering pathological. According to who...and why....what is the standard of 'normal' that they are basing all this upon?

So....more on that. For now.....want to come over and hang out while I pack? Would you like some tea?