[MD] Crystallising Chaos and Boredom

[Heather Perella]

Marsha, and Jos
 
     [Jos]
> Boredom is the feeling you get when a behavioural
> pattern that you have 
> developed forces you to interract with the faded,
> old, unfashionable, 
> districts of existence.

     I can see this.  It's as you said, the longer a
static pattern sticks (latches) around without any
fresh air from any dynamic pattern the more I become
bored and unsettled.  Also, as I mentioned before,
overstimulation can still involve boredom.  I go from
one activity to another, not satisfied with anything
I'm doing.  This can be depressing, which can snowball
into further boredom, for now I don't want to do
anything, it all is boring.  This is when I complain
about everything.  I hold a hope, that something 'out
there' or 'in here' can trigger a change in my
disposition, but for now (when these boring moments
happen) the world is terrible, things need to change,
and thus, I complain about almost everything.  If
there is anything I'm not complaining about, I'm not
very focused on what those satisfying events are in my
life.  
     Now a twist on this discussion, puts history into
this psychology.  Does today's stimulating culture,
full of TV, politics, rushing to do this project and
that project, cleaning the house, rushing to fit in a
visit with the family, regulating work patterns,
etc..., are these events so loud that the dimmer
sounds of crickets and wind blowing have been drowned
out?  Fit this question in with at one point in time,
the crickets and wind blowing where the loudest
sounds.  I've had those experiences while walking in
the woods.  All is soo quiet and then the wind blows,
not very strongly, but for that moment the world is
only wind.  My attention is only on the wind. 
Everything is vortexed into that wind blowing by.  
     Now with the slight changes that have happened in
the past in the woods and compare that with the louder
more constant changes happening in this culture.  Walk
up to a very bright red berry growing on an isolated
bush in the woods.  In the past, or when the nervous
system is more calm, less stimulated (notice also how
the past can = (equal) calm nervous system in this
case), that bright red berry would be fascinating,
after seeing green and brown sooo much during many
hills of walking.  Take that and compare it to coming
out of the house after watching some TV, being
bombarded by many subjects in school for hours, riding
in the car from point A to point B on the map, etc... 
then go directly into the woods and come upon that
bright red berry on the bush right away.  I don't
think the berry would be as fascinating.
     
     Bare with me, but this is a real example of the
carry overs one brings from this culture into the
woods in ones nervous system:
     
     I've read some books by Tom Brown Jr.  He has a
survival school in the Pine Barrens in New Jersey, and
I believe in Florida now, as well.  He  was taught by
an Apache that walked across the U.S. from the
southwest to New Jersey, living off the land.  By the
way, this Apache also in his lifetime, walked to
Western Canada (maybe Alaska I can't remember) and did
walk to South America, and survived by living off of
the land.  This Apache could stalk deer and once a
grizzly bear, touched the bear and then took off
running his friend with him died when the bear caught
him.  His teacher, Stalking Wolf, never tried to touch
a grizzly bear again.  Well, Tom Brown Jr. tried once.
 He got out of his jeep and right away tried to stalk
a grizzly bear nearby.  He got within some tens of
yards and the bear sensed him and ran after him.  Tom
eventually went under his jeep, with his jeep pretty
much totaled by the bear before the bear left.  Tom
lived.  Later, he knew why he didn't touch the bear,
not even getting very close where later in life he was
able to touch a sleeping grizzly bear, and all the
other animals he was able to stalk and touch.  He said
he didn't spend enough time in the woods.  He didn't
allow his disposition to blend in with the woods.  He
stuck out like some foreigner, an alien in a strange
land.  The times he has touch animals, he was in the
woods for a long time, and became part of the rhythm
of the woods.  He blended in, and his senses left the
ringing of this culture.  His senses, his walk, all
harmonized together and he walked in tune with the
wind, the crickets, and all that was in the woods did
not exclude him, but included him.  
     The energy stimulated by this culture
reverberates in our nervous system.  Go into the woods
sometime, do you hear, or picture events loudly from
this culture in your mind?  How much stimulation and
left-overs from this culture will pass through ones
mind while walking in a calm place, as the woods? 
This event would also be similar to being involved in
situations that are very exciting, very boring, and
become worthy of a complaint.  The nervous system is
highly charged and the usual gentle breeze is not
dynamic, but overlooked as something that always
happens, nothing new, and is the same old, just wind
blowing, blah, blah, blah, blah, kind of experience.

     Can anybody else see this fitting together this
way??????


SA

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