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To begin the new millennium (AGAIN!) on New Year’s Day, I got up late and immediately started some black eye peas and cabbage with red potatoes from Buster & Bobby’s garden with the cabbage. Also baked four sweet potatoes. Del and I ate about 1 PM and it was all very delicious and satisfying, in a bodily way that let me know it was a tremendous boon for our bodies to have eaten the traditional foods for health, prosperity, and good luck on New Year’s Day in New Orleans. Didn’t watch the bowl games, but worked on getting my Digest out and in getting my Master Quotes files into .html and on-line at http://doyletics.com/quotes.htm – if you haven’t checked them out, take a look at them now and bookmark the webpage with your Favorites.
Playoff fever was high in New Orleans. The team at the mouth of the Mississippi River beat the team at the middle of the river in the first playoff game (NO Saints beat St. Louis Rams). Then the Saints went to the upper end of the same river to beat the team up there [MN Vikings]. If the Giants had lost and the Saints won, the Saints would have returned to the mouth of the Mississippi in the Superdome to beat the Eagles and go to the Super Bowl. Well, wait till next year when the Saints are on schedule to be the first ever team to win the Super Bowl in its home town!
The next weekend we visited our offspring in Texas. I spent Friday with my two 2-yr-old granddaughters Molly and Evelyn and my new grandson Aidan at a local park in Bellaire. The next day we spent with Jim in Kountze, where he and I watched the Saints lose their game to the Vikings. I learned from that experience when somebody in Texas says, “Let’s go across the street to watch the game,” that we’ll likely be getting in a pickup truck and driving for a mile or two!
The next weekend I was on the road again, this time to take my brother David to go duck hunting in Cheneyville with my son-in-law Wes on his rice field lease. We got our limit of ducks and had a great time. Back home I had two annual meetings to attend, our Timberlane Association and my Round Table Club. On my way to one of the meetings I got a disturbing report of a broken pipe at our apartments, which turned out to be a broken hot water heater, which I had replaced in a couple of days.
I watched with interest the inauguration of our new president Bush and noted this amazing quote from his speech:
“After the Declaration of Independence was signed, Virginia statesman John Page wrote to Thomas Jefferson”:
‘We know the Race is not to the swift, nor the Battle to the strong.
Do you not think an Angel rides in the Whirlwind and directs this Storm.’”
We are lucky to have a moral person in the White again after an eight year absence.
On the 25th I gave a talk on doyletics to my club. I started talking about Gregor Mendel, how I felt as Mendel might have felt some 120 years ago talking to his club about his work with smooth and wrinkled peas and how the attendees might have reacted, thinking “smooth and wrinkled peas, what foolishness!” never guessing the incredible advances in science that would proceed a century later in the field of genetics that sprang from Mendel’s pioneering work.
My lecture was well received, and I may do a follow-up talk later. Anyone who would like their club to hear from me about Doyletics, please contact me, and I’ll considering doing so.
On January 30th, the day after I got notified that my Dolphin Novel, The Spizznet File, had been published and available for purchase, I stopped by to visit my Aunt Carolyn in Bourg, a small bayou town in South Louisiana. She told me about a dolphin that was swimming in the Bayou across the street. We walked across the street, and I shot this photo as the Dolphin surfaced. The dolphin was swimming behind the first home that my parents lived in shortly before I was born. No dolphins have ever been spotted this far up Bayou Terrebonne before. I heard that they were gone several days later.
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What brought me to Johnson's latest book, The Mind in the Body, were two things: 1) my
current research in the nascent science of doyletics and 2) the subtitle which reads: "The Bodily
Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason." If meaning, imagination, and reason have a bodily
basis, that basis must be doylic in nature, that is, the stored physical body states (doyles) from
one's pre-five-year-old personal experiences must form the basis for how we think and reason!
We understand MORE IS UP because we each have some doyle of experiencing UP: when we
are under five, almost everyone is taller than we are and we have to look to see them. The doyles
associated with looking up are stored as full body experiences or doyles, and later in life when
we think UP, those doyles of UP will triggered and those doyles form the very basis for our
understanding of the meaning of UP. We grow UP, that is, we become MORE as we grow
bigger. We are vertical and erect beings, and we, from the perspective of our head, go UP as we
grow. That leads us to our understanding of MORE IS UP. To a horizontally arranged animal,
such as a snake, the concept of MORE IS UP would have little meaning.
Doyle Henderson in his pioneering work established the basis for all feelings and
emotions being due to stored physical body states (doyles) from before five. What Johnson's
work has brought home to me is that our very basis for understanding the meaning of the words
we speak to one another stems from the idiosyncratic doyles we have stored in our individual
bodies before five years old. This hypothesis is equally true for each of us, no matter what
language we speak or country we live in. How this storage of early childhood physical body
states or doyles impacts what we currently know as memory, understanding, and consciousness
is dealt with in my two recent reviews: Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten and The Mystery of
Consciousness. In this review I will deal with how these doyles provide the foundation of what
we mean and understand by the words meaning and understanding. And all this is thanks to the
fine work of Mark Johnson on the bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason itself.
It is clear to me, even at this early stage of the development of the theory and science of
doyletics, that the insights it provides into the nature of consciousness will place its importance
on a par with that of its sister science, genetics, by the middle of the 21st Century.
As Galileo wrote about all the new things he discovered in the heavens, it upset the philosophers of the time in a way he said,
[page 67] “as if I had placed these things in the sky with my own hands in order to upset Nature and overturn the sciences. They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts; not their diminution or destruction. Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth, they . . . hurled charges and published numerous writings filled with vain arguments. . .”
In the following passage Steiner explains the connection between what happens as soon as (directly) we die or go to sleep.
[page 2] When we are living between death and rebirth we cannot, however, speak in the same sense of what is ‘within’ us. For directly we pass through the gate of death, even directly we go to sleep, the conditions of our existence are such that the whole universe may be designated as our inner being.
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