Pam Maccabee

DO WE LIVE IN AN EMOTIONAL UNIVERSE EMBEDDED IN AN INTELLIGENT COSMOS?

65 years of good learning and good luck.  Raised Christian/Protestant/Congregationalist (little dogma, thank god).  Turned atheistic humanist.  Turned human being in awe of all that Reality/Nature and humanity  have created.  Unambivalently eager to investigate all the possible ideas and mental phenomena and experiences available to our species.   BELIEF:  that we'll be using only half our brains as long as we avoid  intense emotional experiencing of Reality (including the reality of ideas/concepts) -- experiencing that cannot occur unless we discharge emotion, are crying hard and alternating crying and laughing (laughter reduces tension so that we can allow more intense emotion to "surface."  Not talking of "the shadow" here; talking about our capacity to "feel" abstract ideas as well as spontaneously retrieve information and generate images that encapsulate Reality as we knew it and know it, generate images that signal the availability of emotion and information, images that we can "open" by focusing our attention on them and allowing all emotion associated with them to surface.  ENOUGH FOR NOW.

MAJOR OBJECTIVES:  1) To promote the practice of humans exchanging prolonged, patient, concentrated, and dedicated attention with one another since attention activates the deep mind and the warm heart (thanks to mirror neurons);  2) To promote the idea, and provide evidence, that - emotional discharge can function as a meditative practice, one that yields benefits identical to those of meditation;  3) To collaborate on educational and research projects with individuals who both meditate and practice emotional discharge;  4) To become well-informed about the integral vision, integral life practice, and AQAL (?? got it?) as this worldview makes perfect sense to me;  5) to communicate these ideas to others. 

EMOTIONAL DISCHARGE JOURNAL website:  www.emotional-discharge.com

ATTENTION EXCHANGE website:  www.attention-xchange.com