The interrelated field 2

Are we different from cell phones? Well, cell phones can not adjust themselves. But can we adjust ourselves?
If we see ourselves as a fixed identity with a fixed body, we can not adjust. We are as we are.
But if we see ourselves as a field in relation to a body and mind, we have to adjust all the time. Noting is stable, nothing is given. Of course, we might decide to do almost the same thing today as we did yesterday, but it is the result of a fresh decision.
The organism we are given at birth is extremely complex. We should not try to change it lightheartedly. So in a way it is good that we do not see all our options.
But it is not good to limit our perspective artificially.
If we are a field - which we are - our identity is not necessarily in what we are now but in the ideal. We are like children, seeking our identity.
Also if we are a field, we can act in rational way. We change the field by changing the material situation and by study and practice - we knew that. If we see our self as a field we can be more daring and exact.

Meaningless or meaningful 2

Can we experience the meaningless as meaningful? Indeed, we can. It is quite normal.
War is meaningless. All conflicts can be solved in other ways. But once a war has started it is experienced as most meaningful. War is the extreme form of the combination of exaggerated desire, anger and confusion.
In war we are desperate to win, we hate the enemy and the confusion about purpose and means is total.
This is the problem with mind. It can lock itself in a strange way, making the meaningless look meaningful.
How can such a mind be unlocked? It is a matter of identity. If a person identifies himself or herself as a person in the extreme, it is a serious loss of face to become "normal".
But if the person sees the extreme activities as temporary and quite alien to the true identity, it is a relief to leave the extreme.
So the therapeutic method could be not to try to jump directly from the extreme to the the balanced, but to go from the extreme to a neutral identity and later to the socially balanced identity. And it is a process without drama - the extreme steps are what we want to avoid.

Get an identity

Subjective, objective, subjectivity...
We are all individuals living among other individuals.
We have a subjective identity. This identity has by itself a surface, which is the objective part of ourselves. The surface can be seen by others. This surface can be elaborated in order to give a certain impression to the others.
The objective identity can be different from the subjective one. It can be a mask that is hiding the "real" person behind.
The objective identity can be changed more or less easily by changing style of clothes, home, car and many other things.
The "real" person behind can also change, and should change as a result of systematic study and effort. That is the existential function of being human.
Can we get to know the real person - the dynamic subjective subject - by using hostile means?
These days there are so many ways to get information about people. Video cameras on many places, with face recognition. Everything done on the computer, cell phone, Internet, in e-mail and so on can be observed.
This is hostile. It is distrust from those who happens to have the task of analysing these extreme amounts of material.
But can it disclose truth? If the means used are very damaging and negative, the picture will be of something damaged and negative. This was not there before the investigation. This is not the original truth. It is an effect of the hostility.

Mind mechanisms

"I am here" - never before in human history this existential reality has been so obvious as now. Thanks to blogs, twitters and miniblogs, YouTube and facebook and lots of other sites on Internet, the number of people saying "I am here" is bigger than ever.
This is interesting in the existential analysis as the self should be described as "I am here". The identity is not only a personality but also the situation the person is in. The situation is part of the subject, the identity.
This subject, the "me and my situation" is under constant change. We want that. We want things to get better, in relations, economy, knowledge, health, home and many other aspects. Often things deteriorate instead. Individuals lose their jobs, banks loose a lot of money.
If we ask: How to do to improve the situation, there are probably millions of answers. Get an education, get a job and a nice relation would be common.
But the best answer is: Mind. Mind will get us the identity we want. Nothing else can give us our identity and the things related to it.
The mechanism of mind is that we get (and become) what we do to others. If we are nice to others, our future will be nice. If we help others make money, we will get money ourselves. If we support others in becoming famous, we will be famous ourselves.
The problem is that the mind gives us what we do to others even when we do not want it. If we have done bad things, we will be the victim of badness.
If we know that mind is the important level, we have a reason for not doing meaningless negative things (like bad words and evil impulses) even in secret.