10-14-2011, 12:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-14-2011, 01:03 PM by AnthroHeart.)
I'm working now with certain character archetypes as I see them. Personalities that can represent emotional aspects that I desire to experience and learn.
For instance, I look at a picture of Dodger from Oliver and Company, and I ask "what is the capacity of Dodger to offer me pride?" Then I feel the emotion of pride coming in very strongly. I do this till I integrate.
Then I take a character who can represent anger very well, and ask what the capacity they can offer me anger is. And there are different flavors of anger. Or I could say something like "what's the capacity of Jim Carrey to offer me humor?" Whatever resonates.
It's one way of using contrast to integrate emotions through metaphor. In the moment, I define this character as an archetype of let's say anger, and then that becomes a basepoint that gives me greatest contrast to where I am now.
Then I will offer an emotion that the character might not possess, and that also helps me integrate them within myself.
Take betrayal for instance. In my mind experience, I was betrayed by one to be tortured by my desires. When I accepted this great betrayal with compassion, this one became my best friend. A new metaphor that has integrated the betrayal. Now, a greater density of emotional possibilities, greater width of experiencing, and much finer nuances in the experiencing. Because I've built and integrated my own emotional database (or octave). It's important to me because a dense, contrasty emotional database is my gift to the social memory complex.
For instance, I look at a picture of Dodger from Oliver and Company, and I ask "what is the capacity of Dodger to offer me pride?" Then I feel the emotion of pride coming in very strongly. I do this till I integrate.
Then I take a character who can represent anger very well, and ask what the capacity they can offer me anger is. And there are different flavors of anger. Or I could say something like "what's the capacity of Jim Carrey to offer me humor?" Whatever resonates.
It's one way of using contrast to integrate emotions through metaphor. In the moment, I define this character as an archetype of let's say anger, and then that becomes a basepoint that gives me greatest contrast to where I am now.
Then I will offer an emotion that the character might not possess, and that also helps me integrate them within myself.
Take betrayal for instance. In my mind experience, I was betrayed by one to be tortured by my desires. When I accepted this great betrayal with compassion, this one became my best friend. A new metaphor that has integrated the betrayal. Now, a greater density of emotional possibilities, greater width of experiencing, and much finer nuances in the experiencing. Because I've built and integrated my own emotional database (or octave). It's important to me because a dense, contrasty emotional database is my gift to the social memory complex.