Psychology - Beyond Forests To See The Tree - Author Jay Wax

Psychology  - Beyond Forests To See The Tree - Author Jay Wax This page is to present my experiences and understanding of psychology. My sources are books, education, employment and peer support.

I seek to reassert a conceptual framework that is fading in biological psychiatry.

Reading Between The Lines Of Computer Code The Enigma of Artificial IntelligenceThere is a natural mystique about the fo...
05/20/2025

Reading Between The Lines Of Computer Code
The Enigma of Artificial Intelligence

There is a natural mystique about the forms and implications of AI, but it is No different from the wonder we experience in studying nature or other forms of science. The understanding of AI or artificial intelligence is what in logic is called a recursive problem. We create machines with our own intelligence and then analyze how the machine itself manifests more complex forms of similar intelligence. While AI is based on electronics and mathematics, the vast array of its manifestations that effect many parts of life in the modern world has created for AI a dubious reputation of being harmful or evil. So too any large scale business engine can be, and is used for both productive and non-productive causes. Photography in the 20th century has profound connections to astronomy, with perhaps equal competition in money making to the Hollywood and related po*******hy abuses.

The development of mass machine technology first became deeply controversial in 1800's England, when factories became able to produce large amounts of capital in money and commodities. Karl Marx goes into great depth to expose the extremely abusive living conditions, particularly in England, when whole families, men, women and children worked in nearly slave conditions of over 12 hour work days, and living in dwellings made only for basic shelter. The pollutions created by large scale coal mining and coal burning created unhealthy lifestyles, of misery and chronic disease.

Machines are useful in replacing human labor for speed, sheer force and the quantity of products. As such they have always been a part of civilization, though historically they were much simpler and less pervasive then what we see today. Aboriginal Americans had irrigation, machines made for fishing, and a intense system of mathematics implicated into the daily life based on astrological calendars. Sadly, I do Not know much in details, partly because of the European destruction of the Aboriginal civilization and literature was committed with unbelievable thoroughness and force.

The major step from using machines in factory settings to AI is that AI is supplementing human beings abilities to use mathematics and logic. The beginnings of computer science owes much to the work of A. Whitehead and Bertrand Russel particularly in the still classic text called Principia Mathematica published in 1910. This book bridged the conceptual gap between logic and mathematics into a system of practical computation. Strictly speaking, for a modern scientist, their is No distinct difference between logic and mathematics.

The puzzling mystification comes because logic is a natural part of human reason and thought while mathematics is learned. Every functioning human being, from early childhood forwards uses logic for survival, communication and creativity, even if the individual does Not clearly realize they do so. However the inspirations for decision making in such simple deductions as 'I am hungry so I will eat.' is in theory of the same kind of reasoning used when a scientist harnesses inventions such as building construction, farming and creating commercial art.

The dark and dangerous fears of AI is that machines can replace human labor in both positive and negative ways. Machines help alleviate heavy physical labor, and can save much time. What would the average consumer do without his electric can opener? In negative ways, mass production controlled by exploitative types of ownership, known as capital, can force and induce large populations into demeaning, basic living wage and unhealthy lifestyles by the conditions created in mass employment, as in offices, factories and armies. Such I think is the same danger of AI abuse in replacing human thinking forms into machines. If AI becomes under the power and economy of large governments, then the development of controls such as data collection and arms manufacture will make it easier for the few in power to control the citizens, whether in democracy or other forms of government. As such the human spirit which depends on morality, love and beauty can be overwhelmed in the face of a world dominated by digital machines.

In his last book, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy by Edmund Husserl, the writer gives a profound warning about the dangers of thinking that science can replace the need for experiencing life in a human context. He says the superimposition of the models of science on our life-world as a whole, a tendencey that began with Galileo, will lead to a loss of meaning and direction, as I understand him. So too, the imposition of the model of AI to become synonymous with the human mind as a whole, is destructive to self-esteem and shared community values.

The fears in the controversy around simulating a human being by AI machines is largely based on the lack of distinction that machines, no matter how complex, can only reproduce what humans have put into them, in thought and in labor; granted in almost astronomically larger output. Medical science recreates AI models of humans for better ability to cope with diseases but that does Not imply the doctors are trying to build a race of robots.

The spiritual contest is that AI can be and is currently harnessed for greater forms of mass destruction by military around the world. Science regretfully has always been a tool for warfare, and the cry of Albert Einstein, referring to the atom bomb, 'If I knew what was to become of my discoveries, I would have become a watchmaker.' often vibrates in my memory. The horrifying possibilities of AI war technology, I hope will force humanity to realize a necessity to ban the development and use of weapons altogether. This ending of a lifestyle of scientific and materialistic aggression has long been the dream of human right activists, religious leaders and the common need for peaceful and productive family/community life.

There is much more to be said about AI, particularly in relation to energy consumption, our almost total dependence on electricity and the absolute imperative to change from fossil fuel to clean energy. It is my experience, that those most sincere in AI development are also leaders in the production of clean energy, in which AI plays in important role. In a positive note, virtual reality is facilitating wonderful ways of creativity, which I personally enjoy in music and art, and will likely be an important part of classic education for all ages.

There is No stopping the human imagination from the science fiction of AI replacing human beings altogether, of humans evolving into cyborgs and war between the machine and humans. Alien forms of technology said to be under the censorship of government controls, may be implicated in manifestations of AI technology. The more practical and necessary controls is to curtail abuses of AI, in excessively violent and other abusive gaming, in obsessions with technology that take us away from the love of nature, in a philosophy that put the human mind into the form of a machine, rather than the appreciation of a Higher Power creating such an amazing and sacred life form that we embody.

AI simulated the multifaceted nature of human nature; of artistic beauty, of intellectual genius and the needs for leisure because human beings put their own ideas and labor into their construction. On the other hand, we need culture, religion and moral sensitivity to keep under control our baser instincts of greed, tyrannical controls and thoughtless indulgences.

Note - The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy is an unfinished 1936 book by the German philosopher Edmund Husserl. The work was influential and is considered the culmination of Husserl's thought, though it has been seen as a departure from Husserl's earlier work. - edited from Wikipedia

The painting is called the The Robot Uprising by Bryn G Jones.

On this day, May 20th 1925 as grocery prices become the highest form of financial inflation in Canada.

All I Know - (for better or for worse)Thoughts on the song written by Jimmy Webb in the 1970's, recorded by Art Garfunke...
03/27/2025

All I Know - (for better or for worse)
Thoughts on the song written by Jimmy Webb in the 1970's, recorded by Art Garfunkel, Linda Rodstadt among others.

G-d said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, (deceived the human being about the word of god) you are cursed above all livestock and every beast of the field! .........Thus there will put enmity between woman and man, and between her seed and man's. (for taking the word of the serpent over the word of god). The human being dangers to crush your head, and you (the serpent) will bite his heel.

From Genesis, Beresh*th 3:15 of the Jewish Torah, my own paraphrase.

This passionate love song is one of my favourites. It expresses the unstoppable force of the monogamous romantic love between human beings. I was often entranced and puzzled about the symbolism of the lyrics. The connection to some verses of the Jewish Torah adds melodramatic and tragic overtones to the otherwise beautiful declaration of love. I had a dream about myself singing this song, and as a letter sent from god, or an angelic representation, I spent time in meditation to understand my dream.

I have my own beliefs about how the Nachash, the serpent in the paradisal garden of Eden came to symbolize the deception of sensuality in the human body that tempts to subverts our higher morality and spirituality into gross forms of lust. I have written a complete article on this this same page. This form of sensual attachments as an obstacle and evil in our human understanding is universal, and is called 'k**a', or desire by Buddhists and Hindus. Among other religions, it is emphasized that people should regulate their sensual pleasures with a middle path, called Wasatia among Muslims and practicing mitzvas, scriptural commandments among Jews. There are others called hedonists or in a cult mentality who believe and practice exessivity in sensuality, such as in drug taking, s*xuality and food.

It is important to remember that the snake is Not an evil being, but also an important creation by god. There remains symbolism in the nature of the snake as it has little vocal power in its hissing in contrast to the sublime power of the word of god. I do Not intend to cast dispersion or negative judgement on the beauty of love expressed in the song. Here are the lyrics to the song 'All I Know'.

I bruise you, you bruise me,
We both bruise too easily,
Too easily to let show,
I love you, and that's all I know.

All my plans have fallen through,
All my plans depend on you,
Depend on you to help them grow,
I love you, and that's all I know.

When the singer's gone
Let the song go on
It's a fine line between the darkness and the dawn
They say the darkest night
There's a light beyond.

But the ending always comes at last
Endings always come too fast
They come too fast, but they pass to slow
I love you, and that's all I know.

I came to some interesting conclusions after understanding my dream of myself singing this song. The subtext of the meaning is in the tragedy that accompanies romantic love when such a relationship is Not accompanied by forms of self-realization, whether psychological or spiritual. The couple deep in love experience the sensuality of s*xual devotion exclusive to understanding further, deeper and more comprehensive meanings of their attachment. Thus like the deceit of the Nachash, the serpent, the way god arranges for people to be partners in love, marriage, and usually parenthood, is overridden by overwhelming emotion. Thus the woman and man bruise each other (to include same s*x relationships) like the serpent may bite the foot of person when the person has been walking carelessly and steps near or on the head of a nearby snake and is bitten in return.

The romantic monogamous love thus brings in the elements of tragedy. The marriage is like a song so that when 'the singer is gone, the song goes on'......'but the ending always comes at last' (perhaps in natural death, or disease, an accident or war), 'endings always come too fast' as life is short.

Even in happy relationship of true love, 'All my plans have fallen through,' as the individual may experience traumas in the career, or in traumas in the lives of their children such as disease or addictions, but in the true love, 'all my plans depend on you, depend on you to help them grow', as the partners do their best to overcome the trials of life, 'I love you, and that is all I know.' The love remains from the beginnings of falling in love until to keeping the vow unto the time of inevitable death. 'They say the darkest night, There's a light beyond.'

The thesis I am presenting is that true love as many experience it, the passion and beauty of monogamous romance is Not complete in itself. Under the spell of the deceitful Nachash, the serpent of paradise, (also seen as the arrow in the heart from K**a, or Cupid), people will live their lives, accepting with gratitude the sensualities and culture of family life to be accompanied by inevitable tragedies, the inevitability of death, and the swinging moods of good and bad fortune.

The psychologist Dr. Carl Jung of the 20th century has written extensively on the healing that can come in the psychological appreciation of marriage as an essential part in self-realization. While remaining the limitations of his scientific and practical forms of therapy, self-realization is also term borrowed from Indian yoga and Hinduism. 'Know thyself' was pronounced by the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates as the wisdom the oracle of god. The major religions, and also Aboriginal and African spirituality are intended to activate a lifestyle for finding god within natural creation, within oneself and the everyday world, female and male, Yin and Yang as in the Oriental understanding.

There are those who choose a life of celibacy as a Nun or Monk in devotion to a Higher Power, and see themselves as in a symbolic marriage to god as the partner.

Some will conclude that the best a person can hope is to have a life of relative prosperity, peace and enjoyment accompanied by benevolence with other peoples in work and their environments, agreeing with the wisdom of King Shlomo, Solomon who conveys 'All is vanity, no matter how profound our understanding and acts may seem.' - my own paraphrase.

My dream as it appeared to me, has shown me that passionate monogamous love with its beauty and power is Not complete in itself, though it tends to be presented to appear that way. The true love of partners is a gift to be put in perspective as a gift from god, intended to include higher powers of religious, spiritual and humanitarian forms of self-realization.

I hope this essay does Not reduce whatever beautiful feelings any one including myself may experience in hearing this song. I recommend along with respect for my commentary, that when listening to a song such as this to practice mindfulness and turn off the inner dialogue of judgement for the few minutes.

The painting is The Garden Of Eden by Katherine Roundtree

"All I Know" is a song written by American songwriter Jimmy Webb, first recorded by Art Garfunkel on his 1973 debut solo album, Angel Clare....More recently, Webb invited Linda Ronstadt to join him in a duet version for his 2010 album Just Across The River. - edited from Wikipedia

Jai Joseph Noonday Wax

On this day March 27th/ 2025 as the fans at the opening baseball game of the Blue Jays in Toronto boo the U.S anthem.

Splitting The Truth For EnergyNominalism and Realism in Philosophy, Psychology and Spirituality"Say the word and you'll ...
02/12/2025

Splitting The Truth For Energy
Nominalism and Realism in Philosophy, Psychology and Spirituality

"Say the word and you'll be free,
Say the word and be like me,
Say the word I'm thinking of,
Have you heard the word is love?" from the song The Word by John Lennon with The Beatles.

'In the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god.' from the New Testament of Isa, Jesus Christ.

There is among philosophers in history a debate contrasting beliefs in the ultimate value of words; either as merely a collection of signs denoting an object, or that words embody an idea, often called the contrasts of nominalism with realism. There is a corresponding contrast of understandings in phenomenology as the passing existence of events and experiences in human life, and those who in differ in their beliefs in spiritual forces such as destiny, karma and fate. I believe these 2 ways of seeing the world can co-exist and also be reconciled as emanating from a source of Higher Power.

I understand that a word can be both present in its sensual, passing form and also be an absolute idea. The means for putting these together, is the way that god manifests through presence is in the sacred names. The name of god is co-existent with the hearing, seeing and understanding of god as here and now. Thus, particularly among the Hindus, the chanting of god's name is a very important part of the religion, right through the history of India, and more recently reasserted by KrshnaChaitanya of the 1500's. In the Judaic tradition, we have the same personality represented as Baal Shem Tov, as 'master of the good name'. Among the Sufi Muslims, the 80 Names of god are elucidated as revealing the love, the wisdom and truth of god.

Here is a form of the argument, traditonally called 'the ontological argument', that states god's essence implies god's existence. This argument implies that since god's essence is infinitely manifold, then existence is also contained and implied by god's essence. I am stating that god's name is an essence that also brings god into existence in our human awareness. This belief is shared and goes back over 1000 years to the assertion by the Jewish philosopher/theologian M. Maimonides, Z. L, that the first principle of Jewish faith is that god has a name. People of other faiths share this doctrine, perhaps Not directly stated this way.

The contrast between essence and existence also manifests in the current emphasis among existential psychologists of belief in the phenomenological passing of transitory experience and thought. Thus we can only follow our understanding of human nature through the flow of passing experience, and that the human mind has Not enduring permanent substance. Existential or phenomenological psychology was put into a more complete form by Jean Paul Sartre of the 1900's particularly in his book 'Being And Nothingness'. Previous and contemporary for this kind of thinking was also a focus for Edmund Husserl and F. Hegel among others, who were inspirations for J. P. Sartre's exposition.

The ideal of god exhibiting both essence and existence may seem to stagnate when applied to human nature and our individual psychology in general. The statement of faith in god's name does Not bring in scientific or imply practical applications in the vast realm of healing and self-realization in the pathology of psychological disorders and mental illness. However the remaining void between the phenomena of human life and deeper meaning can also be put in the perspective of further elaborations among religious and spiritual philosophy.

To state simplistically that god is one, and that the rest of reality is frail, nebulous and too vaporous to grasp may Not provide much for a person to live by and grow. The Jewish Torah says everything in creation was created in pairs. Thus a duality also maninfests in the spirit. We may see in the teachings of Judaism, the way our mind perceives truth is by a balance of Binah and Chochmah. Binah refers to a more precise focus and Chochmah the more pervasive wisdom. When they are in balanced co-operation we have a 'sechel-tove' (Hebrew), a good understanding.

So too in an Aboriginal Yaqui way of knowledge, revealed in the books of Carlos Castaneda of the 1960's era, there are 2 primary forces of the intellect and spirit known as the nahwal and the tohnal. The tohnal is seeing in precise focus. It is our knowledge of reality in a steadfast, solid and unchanging form. The nahwal is the every changing flow of concepts, the ungraspable river of ourselves as a living being.

Among the Chinese and other Orientals, the ancient concepts of Yin and Yang represent the feminine and masculine entities that complement each other and together form the way we live and experience nature.

It is from the name of god, that the dualities of binah and chochmah, yin and yang, tohnal and nahwal come forth. As stated in the Tao Te Ching of China, 'From the one emerges the two, from two the three follow and from the three all of creation.' my own paraphrase. While the Taoists affirm that the Tao is nameless, that what is named is Not the Tao, we may also understand the One G-d as the source of dualities and the flow of endless multiplicity. So I am asserting god is the One, and in creation more profound principles of duality and further multiplicity remain in our practical lives that we may heal from splits that occur in human nature, that correspond to apparent splitting in nature and reality as a whole.

The levels of duality that come from god's name, including binah and chochmah, yin and yang, tohnal and nahwal are also spiritual entities that provide further links to our relation to reality and our lives as a whole. They are called forms of melech, angels, in Jewish Kabbalah. These spiritual powers also manifest in the angelic sephirote, circles of energy in 10 forms that pervade both our own personality and all of creation. The chakra wheels of energy described in Hindu Yoga, while in details are very different, presents a similar theology.

As I see it, it is only in the faith and understanding a person may have in the unity of god, that comes from the many names god reveals, that a source of ongoing and steadfast abiding in truth may occur. The connection to the nature of god is always unitary, while the outflow of energy of phenomena is change, illusion and timebound. We may continue in our quest of spirit in following the Tao that is expressed in dualities of yin/yang, binah/chochmah, and tohnal/nahwal among belief systems of other nations.

The book Phenomenology of The Spirit by W. Hegel of the 1800's goes to great length to try and bring the readers to transcend the ongoing dualities of thought into the Spirit in a similar understanding; however W. Hegel does Not put the Spirit into a revelation of god in god's name as I do here. E. Husserl representing similar ways of thinking, does Not go into any detail in connecting religious faith with attempts to reduce phenomenological appearance into personal eidetic, ideal absolutes. J. P. Sartre entertains the concept of god purely speculatively and his array of brilliant and compassionate literature still leaves one the 'dizziness' and 'nausea' he himself experiences. The theologian S. Kierkegaard of the 1800's leaves the dual nature of existence/essence in the category of 'paradox' and does so with great compassion and wisdom without exploring the forms of universal spiritual duality I am suggesting.

This eclectic collection of thoughts, ideas and beliefs would Not have much practical application in modern psychology as it Now exists. The depth and variety of the concepts would Not suit most peoples interest. Such disparity between psychology and religion in the situation of god having different names in different languages and religions is most disturbing and creates unsolvable conflicts in many ways. As such, the remnant of Babylon, the curse of god in dissipating humanity from vain attempts to build their own heaven as described in the Jewish Torah, remains in the disparate and conflicting way god is revealed in language and culture. Thus these frail attempts to integrate religion with psychology has little to share with the medical definitions of chemical imbalance, and the hostility in the world forum between the religions of world nations.

The continuation for the quest for absolute knowledge in philosophical terms and in history and the present, provides ongoing stimulation for advances in art, science and religion, despite the recurring frustrations that such knowledge does Not coalesce into an enduring and pervasive system. Philosophy has agonized with solidifying a system of thought that is absolute, complete and eternal over its 1000s of years of intense investigation. Thus the play of yin and yang, chochmah and binah, tohnal and nahwal play out independent of the faith of most prevalent collective organizations and their belief systems.

As seen in existentialism, phenomenological beings must remain in such forms for our lives to continue but the core of our self is represented in the name of god, in this situation the most precise being Adam Kadmon, as I believe in the participation in Jewish Kaballah as the primordial human being, both female and male. The name of god is unique in that it embodies concept, word, sound and spirit under one umbrella. This is the profound meaning of Isa's, Jesus Christ's statement in his New Testament, 'In the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god.' as I understand it and present it here.

Dr. C. Jung of the 1900's said that anyone he knew that healed from a serious psychological disorder, a mental illness, did so concurrent with developing a religious attitude. In his vast systemization of related beliefs are offered many ways of finding the religious attitude, though more specifically from the Christian perspective.

Note - 'Dvaitadvaita Vedanta ...... is the philosophical doctrine of "natural identity-in-difference" or "natural difference cum-non-difference." It was propagated by the medieval Vedānta scholars Nimbarkacharya and Srinivasacharya, as an explication of bhedābheda, difference and non-difference of Atman and Brahman.' - edited from Wikipedia.

The painting of 'Truth of the two sides', is by Gina Grandi

On this day Feb 12/2025 as a crisis line for psychological stress is presented to Canadian farmers.

Lilly or Lo**ta?A Summer of Love or Persecution of The HippyConsider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin ...
01/01/2025

Lilly or Lo**ta?
A Summer of Love or Persecution of The Hippy

Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. - From the Testament of Isa, Jesus Christ.

The term 'hippy' was applied to the age group of teenagers of the 1960's eras, particularly those who wore colourful and unusual clothing, young men with long hair, young women with short skirts, indulged in psychedelic drugs, loved rock'roll music and human activists particularly in the protest of the Vietnam war, among other eccentricities. The term hippy was proceeded by the term 'hep' which was applied to Jews in an anti-Semitic way, though I do Not know the more precise details. Alongside of the s*xual exploitation in particular of young women, the word 'hippy' associates to the biological reality that teenage women develop broader hips than men, as an instinctual preparation for child birth.

This generation associated to the 'summer of love' were very much in the media, accompanied by financial exploitation of various kinds. The teenage buyer market became one of the largest targets for business growth in a variety of legitimate and also corrupt ways. The amazing and multiple forms of beautiful music left the world with a collection of innovative works of genius, in music creation, poetry and electronic instrumental mastery. However the large market for uses of ma*****na and the po*******hy of the Pl***oy cult, were mostly under control of criminal elements and mentality, though in the long run both forms of intoxication became legal commodities. Many teenagers fell into more serious forms of drug and s*xual addictions, including prostitution, promiscuity that brought on s*xually transmitted diseases, unwanted teenage pregnancies, death by drug overdose, and mental illness, today growing more prevalent over time.

Such a way of life in which I myself indulged, is also known as 'youthful folly', and is depicted in the Tarot cards used for divination as the first card usually called 'the Fool'. As such it was always present among the wide variety of cultures throughout time and the world. Many saw such times as permitted for necessary exploration and as kindness from permissive parents. The financial freedoms of the 1960's era, particularly in the Americas, allowed and encouraged teenagers to avoid paid employment, so that hitch-hiking, communes and party-like atmospheres in places such as Haight-Ashbury in San Fransisco, California and Yorkville in Toronto, Canada to became popular neighbourhoods for young people to buy drugs, spend the day and sometimes night.

In the history of human civilization and its variety of cultures, the growth of children from puberty into teenage years was seen as the introduction of being an adult. Most cultures, and still represented to some degree in parts of the worlds, saw teenage life as a time to find a role in society for serving the community in employment or profession, and creating a family in marriage, including same s*x partnerships. We can imagine these cultures assumed a responsibility and maturity among young people that was Not to be included in the category of the 'hippy' teenage style of life.

I am Not all endorsing what manifests as child labor or child marriages in parts of the world. To be honest I know little in detail of these ways of life in religious, spiritual forms of migration in life from childhood to adulthood, ways that hardly remain evident in our times. However my thesis is that 'teenage life', is an artificial construct that developed spontaneously, but in particular for exploitation by financial markets, crime and perversions among older generations in power.

In the Hindu mythology of India, we can find the character of K**a, known in English as Cupid. In European culture Cupid is seen as a playful trickster, who with a symbolic arrow, pierces the heart of his victim to cause them to fall in love and become enamoured by s*xual desire. Alongside the reality that belief in this character was purely symbolic and fictional, among the Hindu teachings, Cupid as K**a is seen as a real and malevolent being. K**a means 'desire' in Sanskrit, along with associations of the variety of the pleasure of the senses, including food, s*x and sleep. Particularly in Buddhism, k**a is seen as the primary evil temptation presented to human nature, k**a to be overcome by a middle path between natural enjoyments and excessive addiction. In the Hindu myth, K**a is burned away in the fire of the angry eye of Shiva, a great and pious god, who is protecting meditating yogis from curses of temptations and distractions in their spiritual realization and life. It is also said K**a had a partner named Rati, and Shiva out of kindness allowed Rati to remain.

Rati seems to have infested the mentality of the teenage generation associate to the 60's and is thus a natural phenomena part of human nature and lifestyles. I do Not at all wish to judge the young people of this time, and do Not impute guilt or wish to spoil the fond, endearing memories many of us have of this young, adventurous time of life. There are those who had a ball at this time, and matured into professional employment with happy families. However we can see the epidemics of mental illness, drug addictions and s*xually transmitted disease including AIDs to be a devastating scourge particularly among young people; ways of abusive and destructive lifestyles that are growing despite vast investments in social services and financial support for healings.

In the wider view, I think it best to view the negative and positive sides of the hippy revolution as the phenomena of the teenage life Not in a form of institutionalized psychology. Yet also the many forms for creativity in the arts, the spiritual explorations and the human rights activism associate to this generation remain in our day as important and essential functions to preserve in our cultures.

There remains another unfortunate name for the phenomena I am describing here as the Lo**ta. The Lo**ta personage is the young, promiscuous, teenager, sometime adolescent woman who was an object of inspiration for comic, and adventurous eroticism seen in literature and dramatic expression. As remaining in purely dramatic or symbolic expression, Lo**ta as a young women may be harmless, but too often young women exploited in real life as a kind of Lo**ta become victims of pedophiles and pimps among other forms of abuse.

The name itself of 'Lo**ta' brings us back to the spiritual question, and the inclination to make a final judgement. The Sanskrit word 'lila', means 'to play' and 'to dance'. It is left to our own discretion whether we wish to view the pleasures of life as innocent play within boundaries of moderation and spiritual restraints, or alternatively to seek like a predator the young woman as a Lo**ta for our own abusive indulgence, whatever the form that may take.

The painting is called 'Shiva's Third Eye' by Anubhav Tripathi.

Note - Lo**ta is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Kabokov that addresses the controversial subject of hebephilia. - from Wikipedia

Note - Hebephilia is the strong persistent s*xual interest by adults in pubescent children who are in early adolescence, typically ages 11-14.....- edited from Wikipedia

On this day of Jan. 1/2025 with a spectacular burst of the volcano in Hawaii.

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