Extraordinary Sense

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Buzz: Common Sense That Has No Sense
Ali Anani looks at logic and sense relationship while questioning a popular quote by Carl Jung

Ali Anani began his buzz with a Carl Jung quote, which he challenged and the result was a different lens to look at lens between the swinging pendulum of logic and sense.

Immediately I too was chopping at the Jung quote. My first disappointment was that though this quote has been quoted by so many people, I did not find one instance online which attributed the actual source of this quote. The internet is famous for both misattribution of quotes and using quotes out of context. That is why it was important for me to know where Jung actually said this, so I could read the actual context that Jung was referencing.

The reality of interpretation is the same one that I heard from singer Joni Mitchell in an audience with her fans. As fans poured forth the meaning of her songs, Mitchell asserted that as a song-writer all of the meanings her fan prescribed were not what she had in mind, she acknowledged the sense-making of her fans but did not fuel those meanings. The same encounter happened with John Lennon meeting a homeless man who began to tell Lennon the meaning of his songs, Lennon replied honestly in this clip :

"Don't confuse songs for your own life"John Lennon speaking to a Homeless Man about the Meaning of his Songs The idea of "common sense" is more than a commonality, it is a thirst for certainty. Why do I want to make a living out of pushing the drug of certainty into people's lives, when uncertainty is the norm. For sure biologically our brains crave certainty as children, but if I am at all concerned about self-development or learning or any such ilk about personal growth, then it is uncertainty that I must explore - and uncertainty is not common sense.So it is that I saw Ali Anani's post title through my own eyes removed of the word "THAT" and only as "Common Sense is NO Sense". If it is common then what am I sensing?Uncertainty also does not mean that my life should be about swinging across fences, if anything in embracing abundance and knowing certainty, I can discern between what is knowledge and what is learning. For the most part I question whether I really have extended my sense-making or whether I am just responding as I am psychologically and biologically programmed to do.Randomness is a form of swinging here, there and everywhere, whereas finding one's center and presence in uncertainty is quite a challenge - either we are swung or we at the most peaceful point of a cerebral and spiritual hurricane, which is at the center. If I have truly found this center then I should be considered a fool, because a common sense view is what that looks like, so it is that I identify with another Beatles track that speaks of the "Fool on the Hill". <figure class="image"></figure><picture><source sizes="(max-width: 767px) 250px, 950px" srcset="https://contents.bebee.com/users/id/12027761/article/extraordinary-sense/_99373293-950.webp 950w, https://contents.bebee.com/users/id/12027761/article/extraordinary-sense/_99373293-587.webp 587w" type="image/webp"><img class="img-fluid" loading="lazy" src="https://contents.bebee.com/users/id/12027761/article/extraordinary-sense/99373293.png" alt="Cognitive Resolve SI OE REET I SPIRIT physical Resolve"></source></picture> Here is where the theoretical construct weighs heavy as a sense overload and the deprives us from experiencing our own "what is", because when my senses are defined by a theory of everything or everyone, we can only begin to relate all that old that sits outside of us and very little in regards of the new that sits within us. This for me is the difference between self-reflection and narcissism - self reflection is discovery of the new which is a personal freedom, but narcissism is revolving in the old of enslaving others, which is a public control. Instead of being the center of the world where narcissism feeds leadership and the ascent of leaders in modern corporations, I can personally risk unemployment by being different. I don't have to be an empath to know people, I don't have to be a narcissist to know people - for me the responsibility for people to know themselves is theirs and theirs alone. Those who think that personal branding isn't a form of narcissism are only kidding themselves - or they brand me. I have known for some time that there is a flow in my own existence that I have not mastered, even though I have focused on individual elements. This is not about using common sense but focusing on this realization of what it takes to develop extraordinary sense. This now amounts to a cycle of virtuous resolve - and as I improve my own sense-creation, I am no longer sense-making but sense-discovering and this is what I assume is the flywheel at the center of this virtuous resolve, and this in my minds eye looks like this : <figure class="image"></figure><picture><source sizes="(max-width: 767px) 250px, 950px" srcset="https://contents.bebee.com/users/id/12027761/article/extraordinary-sense/_7346020f-950.webp 950w, https://contents.bebee.com/users/id/12027761/article/extraordinary-sense/_7346020f-587.webp 587w" type="image/webp"><img class="img-fluid" loading="lazy" src="https://contents.bebee.com/users/id/12027761/article/extraordinary-sense/7346020f.png" alt="7346020f.png"></source></picture> At this point when common sense prevails there are ah-ha moments popping inside our heads but life is not a bottle of champagne, where all the bubbles rise in the moment we find it on social media. In the temporal availability of so much media we are more apt to get lost and thus if this view is right, then I am damning myself unless it is possible to develop extraordinary sense. Every life should not be anymore predictable than our own, for if each life is rich with diversity and self-reflective genius then how can I predict any life in a teaspoon of their experiences - that we repeat so many of these experiences is only a lack of our evolution. If my response is as a rebel then I continue to be a programmed as those who conform and I am rejecting conformity not because it prevents me recognizing extraordinary sense but I am focused outwards at conformity and not finding the equanimity necessary to be personally present to my own extraordinary sense development. It is not as if any of us where given a users guide to our own brain - when it comes to the magic hidden in our brains we are all absolute beginners - all of us, and that is where I start from, not a blank slate but a white page. That I conduct this exploration in a social space means I must be carefully how I look at the rise of social bubbly, and at the end of day what and how we interpret our senses is either ours to discover or it is champagne supernova - and if it is a social and group-think, then I have lined up that famous Oasis song - and whoever listens to it can interpret meaning from it at their hearts content - but when we so interpret spare me the comparisons when it comes to this discovery.<figure class="image"><img class="note-video-thumb" src="https://std1.bebee.com/re/3112547116/900?s=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FZqE-iT8qKoI%2Fhqdefault.jpg" alt=""></figure> <h3>All I know for sure is that common sense is the drug we all get to smoke on a daily basis otherwise why would it be so common? </h3>Extraordinary sense is only a possibility IMHO if we understand what makes us socially drunk on inputs, that define the quality and presence of our own output - an output that has always been called "Know Thyself" - and on the whole (including myself) we never get to experience that, so what is the point of learning as personal growth if what we really share here is a conformity called "common sense". If this is not a source for my self reflection, there is always another Oasis song to line up anytime I like and I can interpret life from others lyrics and not my own. 

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#Extraordinary Sense #Carl Jung #John Lennon #Ali Anani #Jung

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CityVP Manjit

7 years ago #6

#16
It means a lot to me to see you active again on beBee Melissa - there was a moment last year when Deb 🐝 Helfrich and I contemplated the return of a great spirit and these moments are a felt-experience because we know what we notice. I do think that we need to look at the word "revolution" and the word "spin" and see how one has continually been connected to other - and yet what is contained under our skin is a biological miracle and for sure as we evolve in our own skin, and the quality of our homes, and from there kindred spirits and somewhere along the line, our societal system gets to mess with that, rather than let life be. I am more akin, as a result, to give the word "evolution" a chance - and I hope we can find peace in that nurture. Our regards also focus upon those with difficulties and Aaron Skogen 's recent post about him helping Haitians brings that home. There are plenty of people in this world of ours without any personal brand but with massive amounts of humanity and this is the greatest blessing of all, to know the good that is within people that we are among. The kind of people Aaron brought water to, and tomorrow at my Saturday speakers club I hope to a listen to an international student speak, her name is Christelle, she is from Haiti and she is Christelle - who happens to be from Haiti. Sometimes we forget the reality of this knowing because the pull on our attention can draw our senses away rather than closer to what matters and where life is actually lived. Sometimes a difficult challenge gets in the way of what matters and then we can pray those have the strength to battle thorough. We can each think the best, do the best and live according to our humanity.

CityVP Manjit

7 years ago #5

#10
Dear Gert [ Gert Scholtz the chief gift of life is what we have inside of us and what we have inside of us contain answers unique to who we are. This takes me to an idea of image and being which I will try to articulate later on today as another buzz. Our senses can bombard us with answers rather than liberate natural answers within, and to develop extraordinary sense must accompany an inner sense of freedom. I am thinking even if the world outside of us isn't free, what we take in and what flows out of us depends on the quality we nurture within. I think all of us don't give ourselves the permission to be. Why seek revolution in society when we have not sought evolution within ourselves?

CityVP Manjit

7 years ago #4

#11
There are two things that is worth thinking about What is the difference between wanting to get rid of something and things falling away because they no longer serve a purpose or way The other is self-awareness - is it a trying or a becoming? Ultimately for me self-awareness is arriving to a point where we would never go back to the old way of thinking, because it is obsolete because we have learned to see. At the same time we have to be excessively kind to ourselves because self-awareness as a learning may trigger regret.

CityVP Manjit

7 years ago #3

#9
Yes, Laurent, I can see how refraction can take us to a place that is creative instead of an inevitable end destination called idealism. On thinking about this our inability to refract probably is more responsible for bringing us to dead ends. I can see how that opens rather than closes possibility. Refraction is a great suggestion in terms of discovering our own extraordinary sense. Just when we head off in a far more creative direction, the paradox is critical thinking, questioning why we refracted. If we are not reflective about this we get stuck, but if we can be reflective - we make creative and critical a catalyst to each other - allowing our right brain freedom and our left brain control. Ultimately the question becomes, what would this change, and one thing it should change is that if we cannot coexist in our own contradictory mind, how do we expect to coexist in the world=at-large?

CityVP Manjit

7 years ago #2

#2
Siraj, learning in digital medium is a humble pursuit rather than an affirmation. I look upon learning in this space as an emergent practice i.e. no two people have the same learning pathway, just as no two people have the exact replicated DNA code. In working with digital code I see learning equivalency with our own DNA code. Instead of learning in natural ways, we have culture code dictating digital code. The digital lexicon is moving much slower than the technological taxonomy that is producing new capabilities. No wonder technologists are investing more time on the internet-of-things where computers talk to computers. Culture code is tribal. Digital code is new. DNA code is who we are and who can be because this code equals our evolution. Tribal is the past, and what is the point of being increasingly tribal when it keeps our biology in the cave?

CityVP Manjit

7 years ago #1

#3
Dear Laurent, that "singularity of the context" is actually becoming frighteningly true, that computers are learning human action and displacing people from both blue and white collar jobs, but human action is not learning to adapt to computers. It is so absurd that some countries are now thinking of paying people to learn rather than work, The irony is that we have to teach ourselves to learn in these new digital environments and hopefully engage that which actually works, so nations start studying their own people. If nations know that there are going to be these gaps then fix the educational and work training system rather than expect success from ways and actions of people who are not aware of systemic realities or progressive/sustainable relationships. Nations have no need currently to ask or study their citizens, for even after the Trump election, the same old ways of tribal practice persist. It is frightening how many people are welcoming new technologies without a comparative shifts in mindset. For sure we have the gift of digital speed and network intelligence but are we seem too set in our old ways that we won't even learn from our kids or our grand-kids how to shape a new way of learning and working with digital properties. The singularity it might not be, but technological change is trouncing individual human change - and that represents a great amount of rework, waste and non-value add. Here I am only talking about adapting at a personal level as a digital unit of one.

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