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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/02/2017 17:48, Holy Mountain
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<blockquote
cite="mid:CACpSwUcdeAbLx0VB5iP1DHj1s50pj1Wrp97Ny3U4B1DDdaKZBA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">The public debate is being shifted to the right in
Europe and the US. The debate is no longer between conservative
and liberal. The terms of debate are being framed by the
anti-democratic ideas of the extreme right against democratic
conservative/liberals.<br>
Few are equipped to recognise that there are fundamental
philosophical issues at the heart of all this.</blockquote>
Hi Kevin, it was good to meet again recently at the ECA. I have
found this conversation very valuable and I'd like to contribute
something from a more psychological perspective that constantly
seems to go missing (though Lakoff's scientific perspective has been
hugely valuable). This below is from the treatment for a movie I am
developing. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Myriad Pro"" lang="EN-US">Trance-induction<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">Trance
induction, aka hypnosis, is well-understood psychological
intervention in which
we are invited to give intense attention to a single sensory
input, so that the
context of where we are is suppressed. While entranced we may be
highly
suggestible. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">This
innate human capacity through words and gesture and presence, to
entrance
others and be ourselves entranced by a desire, a belief, of what
counts as
desirable or a necessity, has recently become weaponized by
political
interests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Myriad Pro"" lang="EN-US">Benefits
of trance-induction<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">Humankind
is primarily a wilderness of bodyminds in relationship,
bodyminds that are made
up of an internal wilderness of bone, muscle, nerves, neurons
and grey matter. Trance
induction helps us cohere psychically, interpersonally and
socially..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Myriad Pro"" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Myriad Pro"" lang="EN-US">Disadvantages
of trance-induction<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">Our
bodymind wildernesses have been vastly extended by the rapidly
accelerating
growth of technologies in recent decades. The scale of both our
ability to
communicate with others and the scale of how much we do
communicate has been
astonishing, the global village throbs with a 24/7 plethora of
files, messages,
images and video.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">This TV,
phone, text and image-based chat is great and it acts to create
and sustain new
forms of relationship between humankind wildernesses across
frontiers and
different languages. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">However,
the benefit we get from them is always accompanied by
amputation, especially
the loss of context. We see and hear a video or read a message
but we don’t
engage with the sender’s presence. The clues from feeling and
intuition we
would pick up if we met in person are missing. These clues are
an essential
element of trust.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">To repeat:
focusing narrowly, so as to concentrate on a sound or an image
or a thought,
while its context is side-lined or absent, is the basis of
hypnotic
trance-induction.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">Being
entranced is commonplace, it's a basic human capacity that, </span><span
style="font-family:"Myriad Pro"" lang="EN-US">we can
navigate through life reasonably
well if it is </span><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">coupled with
frequent reality-testing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">A huge
part of what minds do in our daily life is the generation and
interplay of
trance-inductions, <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>opinions
about people
and products, for example where we work and where we play, and
the
trance-inductions of music. Alongside this, a key feature of
getting on with
other people, is fielding trance-inductions, checking out how
far we can trust
somebody and checking out what they are offering or what they
are demanding.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Myriad Pro"" lang="EN-US">Abundant
messaging but missing context<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">In the
global village all of us now inhabit, while messages are more
than abundant,
context in our communications tends to more and more scarce.
This means that we
can be way more susceptible to predatory trance-inductions,
lies, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">manipulation,
coercion, 'alternative facts', spin, marketing strategies and
'brands'.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Myriad Pro"" lang="EN-US">Trance-induction
assertions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">Examples
would include claims that something is ‘inevitable’, ‘natural’,
‘evil’, ‘the
truth’, and ‘essential’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">Along with
the local subtleties of our daily relationships,
trance-induction has become a
core part of political ‘spin’, and business, advertising and
marketing and how
they work. The Trump presidential and Brexit campaigns have been
signal examples,
'lock her up', 'fake news', 'take back control', 'enemies of the
people'.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Myriad Pro"" lang="EN-US">Fielding
trance-inductions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">The
elimination or suppression of context from the signals, images
and messages we
receive mean that we become very susceptible to
trance-inductions that intend
to manipulate us, or to coerce, control or persuade us. When
context is absent,
messages in the form of appetising lies can be difficult to
refute. What goes
missing is trust.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Myriad Pro"" lang="EN-US">Capital
trance-inductions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">Interrupting
the trance-inductions of capital and its families and friends is
very tricky.
It means interrupting its ethosthat wealth does not equal
righteousnessthat capital
accumulation is not just and essentialthat they are not right
about the need
for unlimited growth and unlimited debtthat the planetary
damage and dissolution
of trust this entails does matter. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Myriad Pro"" lang="EN-US">Recognizing
trance-inductions <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">Becoming
trance-savvy seems to mean becoming alert, even to begin with,
hyper-alert,
about recognising trance-inductions when they are pointed at us,
so as to have
more choice in whether we follow what they are suggesting, plus
diligently
reality-testing those trance-inductions (such as this movie)
that we generate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad
Pro"" lang="EN-US">Perhaps
most important, when someone insists that something is ‘natural’
or
‘inevitable’, this is likely to be a trance-induction, if so,
look for the
missing context.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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