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the Westbury High School Rebels Introduction Individual ontology, referenced here as the essence of
being human, functions out of the brain's phylogenetic capacity to integrate
the organism not just for survival but for expanding itself, making itself
more. That ontology is comprised of several elements: molecular learning
represented in the neural modulation of synaptic underpinnings (substrate) of
existential components of identity; caring; systemic use, application and implementation
of caring; will; creativity; functional compartmentalization of memory
storage; feeling states and individual emotions; and the ability to reason
during and for decision making. Simplifying for this summary, the "identity"
component in this explanation - definition of human ontology (essence) refers
to values, beliefs, images and other realities and with an emphasis on
existential — referring to those elements pertaining to the continuity
of life or instead to the prospective ending of it — which then produce moral
values, etc." Components of the Neuro-Endocrine Substrate of Human
Ontology The phylogenetic brain integrative process beginning
of the integrative molecular activity is housed in the interplays between
both Long Term Potentiation (LTP) and Long Term Depression (LTD and not to be
confused with the term clinical depression) of synaptic processes, the
molecular storage units for learning and memory. That activity is in turn
facilitated by the HAPA (Hypothalamus - Adrenal - Pituitary - Axis) or
behaviorally termed Stress Response. During neural and endocrine activity
stimulated by the changes confronting the identity stored in the synapse, the
neurotransmitter systems, for example and principally, the Noradrenergic,
Opioid and Glutamate systems accord the brain the plasticity (morphological
changing of old and the engendering of new synapses and their functional
strengthenings necessary for the changes in synaptic LTP and LTD and
their interactions with genetic encoders to take place. Attending the
molecular learning process, Noradrenergic modulated (of Opioid system)
bindings or not (failures to bind) on predominantly Opioid post synaptic
membrane receptors presents behaviorally as emotional pain, summarized here
as various and cyclically presenting levels of grief, the intensity of which
is determined by the amount of morphological LTP and LTD required during
the brain integration effort. Thus emotional pain experienced behaviorally in
response to loss (for example, changes in reality to identity - loss of a
loved one) is fundamentally instrumental to and facilitative of molecular and
thus its manifestation through behavioral learning. To the other side of
learning where expansion of capacity to Be occurs, the same neurotransmitter
systems facilitate, but in conjunction with others like the Serotonergic, Glutamate,
Dopaminergic and Endorphin systems support the integrative activity. Twenty
years ago, fifty differing neurotransmitters were identified as interacting
with the brain's integrative functionings. There are more recognized today. Absent the role of genetics in the adaptation activity,
that was/is the gist of the simple description of molecular learning, but
which is made complex by numerous other neuro system participations and
redundant operational mechanisms which have to do with not just functioning
but locations of the integrative activities. Studying the brain has been
analogized by its investigators as nothing less than being comparable to the
exploration of space. I realize that you likely all know these things regarding the substrate of memory and learning —
old news for now going on two to three decades of brain study. Related to my
work, I wrote a book on the subject at that
earlier time, which is why I know something about it, needing to be sort of precise
about both its functionings and their meanings as an element of meeting
my responsibilities in my professional training and teaching activities. Even
though I did most of the original study twenty years ago (1991-1994),
continuous research affirms that the same principles still hold today. Better
than that, new neuro-philosophers are hammering out additional and much more
complex descriptions of the closely related processes to those considered in
this sketch. What is not as well-known is the means through which
that biogenetic composition manifest as the quality of caring. I have
concluded over these years that that phenomenon is a function also of the
phylogenetic integrative aspects of the brain's biology which is particular
to each organism. In this use of that term (care), I am referring not yet to
its extended manifestation in interpersonal relationships, which that use as
described next is eventually one that rather refers here primarily to
the phenomenon as an impetus for application of Being. Europeans developed
the thesis in 1907 of the Elan Vital or life force
(Henry Bergson). Mayans and other civilizations from the past have said that
this force or caring was derived from the sun; all living things would draw
from this willingness to live and exist. Aside from the term
"impetus," we can use another clarifying word: impulse, and not reactionarily as in a behaviorally considered fight or
flight response to a stressor, for example, as an electronic shock to the
tail of a snail which culminates in the retraction of the animal's gill used
for breathing underwater. Caring provides human ontology with the
trait (also meaning capacity) recently being referenced but not limited to
the concept of Intelligent Design. No matter that some theoreticians for
polemical purposes demean that term — they think it is just a replacement
argument for the theory of Creationism — as the extraordinary
philosopher and journalist Melanie Phillips iterates, and with which I've
agreed, it is a more logical explanation of that which is otherwise
unexplainable regarding the essential functionality of some cellular activity
than anything else around. I'll
add some detail later to the concept of the phylogenetic aspects of
this concept of caring in the section on the molecular purpose of
philosophy (see under Manichaeism below). For now, one addition or example
can be considered in the earlier referenced Frenchman's, Henri Bergson's,
1907 interpretation of Elan
Vital.
That refers to the evolving life force that in that theory pervades the
molecular structure of all life. Regardless of the
final cellular epistemology of this ontological element to be discovered,
caring in this use is more than a behaviorally learned concept. And it
goes to the heart of the phylogenetic integrator functioning of the brain which pretty much everyone in the
know — like me — agrees. That activity, caring, then facilitates that
integration based upon its both common and unique construction to draw from
other (persons) also similar but equally unique manifestations comprising the
human being. It accounts for such psychological capacities used in system
management as empathy, projection, identity fusion and
transference — natural experiences of the human interpersonal processes
ongoing at virtually all stratifications of intrapsychic (individual -
personal), interactional (individual relationships such as couples) and
systemic (multiple relationships as in families, organizations, cultures and
nations) existences. That force, caring, for
doing that job most perfectly is vested — genetically engineered — within
each and all of those systems as they function both independently and
relationally. The biological substrates for caring and identity
manifest behaviorally through the measurement of the concept of will. It of
course can be given up, taken from us through horrendous and usually long
term stress, or added back through the interpersonally applied gift of caring
from others. Being conscientious to clarify the differences between
will and caring and thus their roles, "will" occurs and
subsequently exists in direct proportion to the ebb and flow of the synaptic
changes that underpin identity. Striking down identity through whatever
measures — self or externally imposed behavioral contradictions to that
molecular storage — simultaneously depreciates will, but depending on the
caring capacity of that ontology of the affected entity, not without a
struggle, through LTD (Long Term Depression) of the synapse (memory traces).
LTD is also referenced as, that is plays the fundamental role in, the
molecular extinction of the synaptic traces that comprise the identity being
lessened. But no matter declination of will, caring — although it may
lose its brightness or visibility —
remains as a thread of the phylogenetic brain integrative intelligence
guiding the organism, doing so until its biological end-death. As my work with trauma victims whose identities have
been more devastated than is comprehendably conveyable through cognitive or
didactic story telling, that caring thread
continues to exist at a depth that is not conceivable to objectified
exploration or inquiry. That is, no matter its appearance of complete sundrance, like an ember buried in the ashes of an old
and seemingly dead camp fire it is still there to bring the human
consciousness back; and it responds and becomes invigorated when
not-as-so-affected outsiders' caring, which is most often experienced
as — and very may well be — divine
intervention as it reaches in through others to participate in the
restoration of the identity and will. The former is often and otherwise
believed incorrectly by many to be unrecoverable or not restorable. But it
always is so if those surrounding the persons who've been hurt understand and
know how to respond most effectively to the human ontological composition. That activity, recovery or uplifting is augmented by a
fifth element of human ontology: creativity. Thus art coming in the forms of
visual replications (paintings, photography, graphic story telling as in
stage plays and movies) of life, music and literature interface, facilitate
and interchange or otherwise communicate well with the identity elements of
ontology to assist in its restoration or other strengthenings of the whole.
Where epiphanological level experiences originate with the referenced
molecular learning activity, they get their wave- and rocket-like rides out
of creativity, which regrettably no one quite yet knows the molecular source
(Am waiting at this writing for Kandel’s March,
2012, book on the substrate of artistic capacity to explain it to us
regulars). At least we can know that its origin or fundamental components
derive from the accelerated LTP of the synapse. But saying again for
emphasis, when seemingly irreversibly sundered by horrific-traumatic events,
and nevertheless the degree of that depreciation, identity is always recoverable
- restorable no matter the negative views attending ignorance of the
ontological delineation and functioning of these natural biological
attributes of the physical human consciousness; creativity through the
experience of epiphanies can play a magnificent role in that restoration. And
for many, even most, the behavioral manifestation is of, again, intervention
by an influence invariably appearing to be greater than the oft referenced
self. An additional two biological elements of human ontology
pertinent to this discussion include the means and manner through which the
brain integrative process compartmentalizes its integrative activities and
the most common but not always clearly delineated manifestation of feeling
and its attendant states. In the former, the brain uses its cerebral or
abstract thinking capacities to organize or store elements of the integrative
process. Again, as told by Eric Kandel, Francis
Crick ─ considered to be the greatest contributing biologist to the
understanding of the molecular elements of consciousness – believed and
argued cogently that the great integrating capacity for moving these elements
of being around, that is, the “conductor” of this ontological “orchestra”,
lay in the claustrum. It is a sheath or layer of neuroplasticity that exists
below the cortex and between it and the amygdala, the area playing the big
role in emotion. The claustrum, according to these extraordinary and
intuitive scientists, derives its best bet as the primary organizer of this
compartmentalization ─ which facilitates the integration between
conscious and unconscious aspects of being ─ from its unique status of
and as being connected neurologically to all the variables that produce the
human experience. There's so much that bombards it that some of the
memory and experience referenced so far is maintained stored eventually as
unrecalled. The shifting of memory from short term to long term, respectively
and sometimes from the mossy fibers of the Hippocampus to the Cortex
decreases many of those memories' recollectibility. But it is all still
there, maintained eidetically, to mean recallable
as if a movie or photographic images. From my view of using the TRT structure to address what
Scrignar called the psychodynamic overwhelmedness
attending storage of the emotional and thought consequences of traumatic
events, the conscious ticket into an ordered recall is supplied by the magnificent
contribution of the Limbic system. It provides for experiences that function
as protective states against too rapid a change to identity. They come in the
form of shock, numbness and disbelief. Endogenous Opioid neurotransmitters'
bindings on post synaptic Opioid system membrane's receptors underpin those
states providing for the identity's transition to the new reality. The Limbus gives the location and basis for the molecular
response that when identified consciously provides for the feeling delineation's
essentials: mad, glad, sad and afraid. And they can and are expanded,
depending upon the degree of stimulation or nature of the identity change to
include terror and horror; embarrassment and great shame; anger and rage;
profound guilt, sorrow and loss; and if we live right or are lucky, happiness
and immense joy. One primary benefit to the brain integrative activity
of these experiences is that they lead into that referenced storage area,
sometimes termed the vast unconscious, presenting us with a path to and for
the conscious determination of the identity changes undergone. That, then, leads
additionally to reconciliation, restoration and satisfaction-comfort.
Re-strengthening of will completes and is one of the fine benefits of the
whole phylogenetically directed brain integrative identity restorative or
uplifting cycle, depending upon the circumstances attending the change. Although marshaling information so that it may be
compared for the purpose of reaching a decision takes the organism far into
the abstract, the substrate or neuro functioning of which stems from the Cerebellum - Cortex and thus seemingly
away from its core being, that trait nevertheless influences constructively
that essence of existence. A problem for observers of the ontological definitional
process is that this abstract (cerebral) capacity sometimes appears to be the
all of being, which is far from an accurate interpretation. And this
reasoning is seen to set humans apart from other living organisms (meaning
primarily other people). It is that apartness that often results behaviorally
in this brain integrative element appearing to predominate over its other
components. But that appearance is actually a function of the earlier
referenced compartmentalization that supports the full molecular learning
activity. Interpretations of how this molecular interactivity occurs within
the complete integrative neural procedures are both born out of the learning
effort and part and parcel will influence its effectiveness or non upon, by
and in conjunction with the whole of individual ontology, making its
definition a struggle. I would like to say at this point of this essay, that I
began my study of the neuroendocrinology of trauma etiology twenty years ago
by going straight to the journal studies of trauma neuro-investigators. That
is what they call themselves. But the nomenclature and the attendant depth of
knowledge overwhelmed my learning efforts. So I ended up having to buy and
read Eric Kandel’s undergraduate textbook that
explained what was known then to newbies, me of course being one of them.
Since that time, when I need to upgrade or do a review of changes that are
affecting this field’s breakthroughs and so forth, I go to Kandel to explain it all. He does so with intuitive (for
determining my interests and needs) understandable language – clarity – for
the non-neuroscientist. Every time, about every five or so years, I come back
to this subject I say to myself “God bless Eric Kandel
and his explanation of what is going on in the exploration of this inner
space.” I think of this great Nobel laureate as the Mars Rover of
interplanetary space exploration. From
Molecular Learning to Thought: Historic Philosophical and Management Outcomes
of Compartmentalization Thesis: Since the beginning of Greek philosophical
thought, to include the works of Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, Western
Civilization philosophy and the majority of management methodology which
respectively defines and advises how to manage the human consciousness and
society has been generated out of the referenced (above) compartmentalization
process which in turn has been affected by traumatic events. The
philosophies, with the exception of the explanations provided by a few sophists
and the deity known as Jesus of Nazareth and the original Buddha, which and
whose works demonstrate the value of caring and love and the timing and
appropriate application of the use of force as a defender of such approaches,
are actually compartmentalization responses to trauma. Sometimes they're good
and sometimes not. Absent those particular existentialist-oriented thinkers
who advocate caring for others with referenced necessary defenses as a
preponderant life modality, the subsequent definitions of how the human consciousness
is designed and functions are skewed to accommodate the neurological
molecular learning process following changes (rapid and radical in the
instance of trauma) to identity. Thereafter, the philosophers, which have been providing our leadership for the past
several thousand years, are trying to figure out what hit them. That means they’ve been traumatized people who’ve
required compartmentalization (the uses of delusion, denial, suppression and repression) to
protect themselves as their own brains underwent molecular-based integration.
In some instances those thoughts produce some and even much intellectual
value; but some of the time it is psychopathology born out of trauma. In the
latter case, abstractions by non-directly affected traumatized person like
third party observers of the political scene will also adapt their molecular
changes being undergone as a result of their observer experiences of the same
traumatic events. In those observer cortexes, the views that detract from the
victim’s integration activity by either blaming the victim (for example, the Disturbed Personality Hypothesis and Attraction to the Trauma – meaning by
the spouse of the Alcoholic or
batterer – theories) and those notions that support the perpetrators,
or which shift the focus of the tragedy / loss to some other subject (which
is usually very broad in its abstraction), has gargantuan negative impact on
the victim’s or most directly affected persons’ capacities to complete the
extinction of the original LTP’s process. In other words, hysterical answers to
wild interrogatories keeps people from resolving psychological trauma
in the deeper areas of the brain (again, the hippocampus). Conversely, and
which is the subject of other books pertaining to offensive trauma manager (terrorism)
tactics (GuerrillaWarfare’s – Terrorism’s Pathogenesis and
Address-Cure), precluding that interference within the TRT module so that
the extinction of the primary trauma survivor / target molecular substrate
may run its course will preclude the projection by the hysteria onto both the
primarily traumatized person/target and the polity. When the polity is spared
the angst of hysterical abstractions, the Etiotropic approach being applied
to the wider affected system for its resolution brings it about more readily,
simultaneously strengthening the identity and will of those targeted. That is
a subject related to the strategic application of ETM to systems-communities
and of SHOM (at the time of this writing in theory) to even nations and civilizations,
one purpose being to stop perpetrators of trauma from using it to manipulate those
populations, thus getting the perp’s way by, for
example, murdering innocents. You can stop hysterical third party responses to trauma
by ensuring that the most directly affected person is allowed to complete the
cellular extinction – thus speaking behaviorally or ontologically to resolve
completely or cure the trauma. No matter the social consequences of those
constructs, the compartmentalization activity is allowing the trauma affected
human brains to create abstractions, fantasies, hallucinations, hysterias, philosophies
or other intellectual views that serve to protect all the organisms involved that
otherwise are experiencing their endings while the cellular adaptations to
the underlying molecular extinctions run to completion. That process can be
facilitated, again, by precluding the abstractions’ pathological
interferences (for example, as does the so called Stockholm syndrome where
the hysterical response/abstraction begins in its most bizarre manifestation
to support the person/perpetrator causing the trauma-causing events), keeping
the focus of care on completing the original extinction. Reiterating, end the
original extinction process and end the systemic use (social response) of the
bizarre application of the Stockholm or otherwise known as suicidal-styled
syndrome. The Substrate and Molecular Purpose of Philosophy
─ In this instance using the Example of Manichaeism or the Duality of or
in the Universe and so on Although inquiry into philosophy has not
been my interest, I’ve had to enjoin that journey for the purpose of framing
the Etiotropic perspective of
brain
integration of trauma and loss’s influences on thought. In that capacity, I’m
often challenged by those who would invoke the concept of Manichaeism into
the discussion. That evocation invariably prevails for those students-psychotherapists,
usually with religious backgrounds and trainings, who inquire into the
molecular aspects of the meaning of brain integration as viewed in the
context of human duality’s good and evil. That
Etiotropic molecular answer to that set of interrogatories can be long and
drawn out. It would take us away from the subject of this book. And, I would
have to show the comparison contrast ETM thesis within a host of
philosophies. So let me summarize this important one, only because the
question plagues some students in such a manner that it demands at least a
summary response from me. Duality
or good and (or versus) evil are from this Etiotropic perspective functions
of brain integration of trauma-loss and its relationship to the so called Elan Vital or life force. The latter is phylogenetic in
theory and drives the organism toward, as the US Army would say to “Be the
best that you can be!” That theme has always underlied the concept of
competition; that is, excelling from all the genes handed down to an organism
and combined with striving from what the figurative heart can produce. The
life and movie of
the racehorse named “Big Red” and “Secretariat” particularly as
demonstrated in the last challenge in the Triple Crown’s Belmont Race,
emphasize that theme as the meaning of the film and attendant story. The
adage “Run your own race.” as used throughout the film meant just that: be
what you are with the striving application of the best of what that is. “Strive”
is the key word in that concept. It is the last admonition, the very last words, that the first great Buddha spoke to his followers
and disciples as he died at eighty-eight years of age, now approximately
twenty-five hundred years ago. “Strive”
to understand ─ to Be. In
this ETM interpretation, all that is learned and compiled within the
molecular long-term potentiation of the synapse as related to that striving
to Be, is rendered into its molecular anti-thesis,
long-term depression of the same synaptic traces, which is brought about in
this Etiotropic view by an inhibiter of the original reality bearing synapse.
The inhibiting activity is the long-term potentiation of the new and always
countervailing reality attending the event (trauma and loss). When a
traumatic event is imposed upon that organism, or the experience is of loss
as attends failure, and which can present into the milieu of experience of
living things, the brain’s integrative activities consisting of the
inhibiting of the original LTP manifest consciously and behaviorally in terms
of thought as the ending of the organism as the molecular process proceeds.
The integrative activity will send the brain into the compartmentalization
activity, which of course is the use of the various cortexes to explain away
the ending ongoing, usually as current guesswork holds, in the mossy fibers
of the Hippocampus. That process is facilitated endochrinologically, again,
by the HAPA response which includes Noradrenergic and Opioid system bindings
or no with other molecular neurotransmitter influences intended modulation of
previously constructed synapses and the building with protein and other
neural modulators of new synaptic substrates of reality. The full description
of the theory of how
that change occurs in detail is provided in my first book (twenty years ago)
on this subject but without consideration of the role of gene influence. That
title is The Neurobiology of Trauma
Etiology and Its Resolution (Cure) with Etiotropic Trauma Management. The
opposites that prevail within those molecular changes are experienced
consciously in thought along a continuum of very bad and bad, to nothing, to
non plus or neutral, to not so good, good, very good, and then even
extraordinary best. That continuum is interpreted in the cortex as an image
of duality and consciously stored there as philosophy, at least until the
brain integration (extinction of the original LTP representing the pre trauma
thought and perceptual reality) molecular process underneath, most of which
is done in the unconscious in the hippocampus, has completed. Due to the
complexities inherent in brain redundant systems, the preponderance of the
brain will participate in the integration. And I don’t know of the locations;
nor will I pursue them as the functionings of the brain continue to be revealed in the
literature. The molecular functioning of the brain is not my interest, but
only something I’ve had to pursue to take the academic or scientific mind in
my training programs off of the behavioral or CB approach to the study and
thus interpretation of the human psychological process during its influence
by psychological trauma. The
brain during extinction of some of its elements always asks through the
compartmentalization attributes what these ongoing molecular changes mean to
the organism. The behavioral manifestation (question posed and attemptedly answered of that interrogatory is almost
always, at least, “Why did it happen?” and then “What can be done about it?” The
experience of duality underpinned by the actual molecular changes being
undergone that act to work against the temporary and apparent demise of
existence retards or gives the appearance of countervailing the so called,
again by Bergson, Elan Vital. It will attempt to
overcome the molecular
changes in memory (ongoing molecular extinction), and will if
the original extinction process is allowed to run its course. That can be
facilitated by the intrapsychic, interactional and systemic participations of
caring focused upon the underlying or original extinction activity and the
preclusion of the external variables referenced in this work as “exogenous”
ones. When
done, the need for the compartmentalization creation of Manichaeism in the
abstract is over. The philosophy as a molecularly housed abstraction as maintained in memory will
dissipate (also become extinct) as the original substrate’s (LTP) extinction
is completed. Extinction of the original molecular learning (thought reality) as it had interacted
with the phylogenetically-based in
this usage again called “life force” is manifested behaviorally or in psychological
thought and experience as grief. The more pain and denial attending that
manifestation, the greater the need for and amount of integration-extinction
ensconced in their compartments (Hippocampus and cortexes) filled with
abstractions (philosophies and theories) required molecularly in the
substrate. Generally
speaking, CBT competes with the instantiation of molecular substrates of
philosophy in the cortexes. A CBTer will listen to
someone who has adapted Manichaeism, for example, as a coping mechanism to an
event like a war or familial alcoholism, and then didactically offer an
alternative view to the one of good opposed by evil: another philosophy, for
example by providing, again, a medical or psych disorder model that is
suggested to be a better coping thought system. That’s
how TV talk shows and “How To” self-help styled books work. They bring
hundreds of guests on to the show or publish the “How-to” descriptions in a
way so that they can help as many people as possible through those mediums
─ give their interpretations and advice to millions of affected folks
at a time. Although help for many is gained, that didactically presented
coping information also sets off additional molecular inhibitive LTP to LTD
molecular unlearning and relearning in the various cortex regions housing the
competing theorems and philosophies at play with each other. Of course that
results in great confusion not to mention diversion from the hippocampus
area’s ongoing or attemptedly so that the molecular
extinction of what existed before the original traumatic event occurred can proceed
unadulterated or otherwise unencumbered. In
contrast, ETM is not a didactic anything, so it doesn’t work from TV or Self-elp guide books (unless co-facilitated by a TRT therapist) for advancing
one’s mental status condition. Its (ETM’s) TRT module stops the CB interplay
of cortex molecular interrogatories-explanations as to why, attended by competing
answers cold with its rules barring for example, codependency-styled
discussions, or also called shoot-the-breeze interpersonal dynamic guess-works.
TRT then focuses the preponderance of human ontological capacities on the
deeper existential change, referring in this instance to how trauma creates a
loss of continuity to that existence. And it’s done structurally and
incrementally – one contradiction to identity, an associated feeling state
and then individual feelings (again, one presenting at a time until they
dissipate) attending the individual loss that will be identified at the end
of that structured existential process. Good and evil conceptualizations and
other replacement philosophies are headed off to preclude their didactically
induced diversions while the hippocampus (likely) locused
work is completed. Philosophies
like Manichaeism are not the only thoughts providing diversions or
obfuscations of the original trauma initiated synaptic extinction. The
construction of the earlier referenced Survivor takes up compartmentalized
residences the same whenever needed. Knowing where, exactly these defensive
learning and unlearning thought processes, whether they function
pathologically or not from
a behavioral perspective are not important to this theory and application (ETM). But the idea or
notion that they exist predominantly as connected
diversions or again obfuscations of the underlying extinction is. “Connected” means that the neuronal
structures will function to reduce the diverting survival thought constructs,
whatever and wherever (developing in other organisms through their capacities
to share in the experience of the traumatic event through the phenomena of
empathy, projection and transference) they are, as the original extinction
activity in the most directly affected target (or victim) proceeds and then
completes. Upon
learning these axioms of trauma some thirty plus years ago, I subsequently
organized all clinical and systemic management response to adapt to those
concepts. The rules were to, while empathizing with the need for them in
part, preclude at other times the supports of the diversions and engineer a
structure that maintain caring focused upon facilitating the original
extinction along its neuromolecular path. That cordoned and structurally
caring focus on etiology resulted in the resolution process, or cure for both
the psychological trauma and the so called disorder, PTS. It
was not my purpose in the exposition of this theory to argue against a God or
devil or just good and evil or the replacement you-have-a-disorder-so-work-on-it
model. Those possibilities fall mostly into the category of the unknown, with
the exceptions of what experts have
told us, again in the hypothetical, about how those unknowns interface or not
with our situations. Examples of experts in those instances would be
theologians in the former expression and CBTers or analysts in the latter. This
subsection only provided my understandings of the molecular substrate of the Etiotropic
concepts of the brain’s integration of life (traumatic) events as professionals
and other students inquire of those ideas with and from me. Because I’m the
one who thought this Etiotropic stuff up, it’s been my responsibility and
obligation to answer the questions as they are asked and as I am capable. And
of note, I’m not a student or investigator of the subject of spirituality or
religions as a believer from within their contexts, other than as I’m
required to show how they interface with the ETM TRT resolution-cure of
psychological trauma and bring an end to certain kinds of criminal violence.
Those are my goals; they are not to lead anyone into the spiritual ever-after
or to contribute to spiritual serenity as do the yogis, Buddhists, and a
couple of Christians holding séances or to compete in the general living
philosophically supported world with those who do. The
section does explain or suggest, depending on the number of times you’ve
applied ETM TRT to a traumatized person, the molecular explanation of the
difference between Cope and Cure of psychological trauma. CBT (or didactic
education models wrestle around in the cortex with the conscious philosophy or
other manifestations of the Survivor while trying to make coping more facile
with alternative perspectives and so forth and as the hard work (extinction)
is being done in the hippocampus; that is, where the core address for trauma
has to be and without diversion into the recesses if one wants to cure or
otherwise completely rid an individual of trauma-loss. And that’s pretty easy
to do if as a helper you can put a lid on hysterically embraced or imposed
philosophies and drug/alcohol/medication use; they both retard the natural
molecular phylogenetic capacities of the brain to reconcile what has happened
to it. Etiotropic Human Ontological Theory General Purposes The Etiotropic perspective of the brain integrative
process serves several purposes.
Because of the imbuing experiences accompanying the
referenced neuroendocrine substrate and interactions with itself and other
organisms (people), ontology of the human consciousness is routinely
referenced or also metaphorically conceptualized as the human spirit when it
is understood and properly exploited (meaning effectively addressed) by
good souls. Hence the value of the existential aspects of valued religions
and humanist recognitions of the wider and sometimes thought to be
unidentifiable aspects of consciousness and their concepts of forces that are
perceived in their existences to be greater than are we, as we are
otherwise known solely as or by ourselves. There's a political spin to these base-biological
functional activities. Within those referenced molecular interplays ongoing
within the substrate of the human consciousness and its collective
manifestation in systems — again referring to centrifugally interacting
effects upon individual relationships (two people), then spiraling even
further out to families, neighborhoods, football teams, whole communities,
organizations, regions, nations and entire civilizations — every human entity
draws its sustenance from itself, its own identity, will and caring first,
and then secondly as that compendium of cells integrate with others
(referring to the various and often interlocking systems that support each
other) through that equally phylogenetic capacity to care. Imposing, for example,
behaviorally or attempting forcefully to define identity elements through
implementation of the foregoing referenced hierarchically implemented
management approaches of Leninism-Marxism, Fascism, other dictatorshipisms,
and behaviorally sustained religions like Islamism — without
consideration for the natural individual molding required to run its course
existentially, to emphasize in this instance meaning biologically, will
eventually result in the overthrow of the imposition so that the qualities
inherent in the original ontological - biological essence of uniqueness will
prevail in determining the actual identity biologically comprising that human
individual and or collective entity. Another way of saying the same thing behaviorally or
again in political terms: consensually based social management models will
always overturn behavioral or top to down societal management approaches, but
with one caveat. The overturn will occur if the biology is not killed off:
the ashes retain no embers at all. Which is why controlled systems have to so
rigorously maintain themselves with well-constructed vigilance (use of force
in defining how to Be) against free thought and open discussion. That's the
behaviorist's implementation model requirements if it is going to continue to
exist when otherwise having to operate contiguous to / with consensual or
also termed open systems - societies: democracies that foster and maintain
(as in fighting for) due process. Its all about
human neurobiology and the way that it functions most naturally,
purposefully, efficiently and congruently, and various thinkers' and groups'
best efforts in figuring it all out and then bringing about the desired
outcome: getting people to do what management wants them to do versus figuring
out what people want the managers to do and then following
the self-governs' directions. Where many of this past two century's historians,
philosophers, writers and seers have concluded that the forces driving
civilization's conflicts are three — economics, race and the acquisition
of power — I've opined in contrast (when addressing this issue
publically in political discourse) that the matter is much simpler than that.
The referenced imposition's subsequent conflict resulting from cultural
or national managements' mistaken understandings of how the human ontological
substrate is designed and functions, and then combined with its subsequent
miss-uses or miss-applications are the root causes of most of those
disruptions — some occurring to the point of catastrophe — repeatedly
ongoing between the various both intra and international existential level
disputes. The natural substrate underpinning ontological focus-first
model (democracies that assiduously defend due process) provides an
individual and a culture or polity with the abilities to evaluate, to combine
with others, to care at more profound levels, to know what is right for
themselves, and to negotiate that belief in rightness with its external
environment, much more effectively and efficiently than can be surmised or
otherwise induced by a few statist- and behavioral-based philosophers
who from time to time try to figure out how to get the masses to do their
bidding. To throw a little necessary ad hominem into this
discussion, in the end I've argued often and do again today that those
managerial (behavioral-based) type thinkers are just trying to get others to
be like them in order to shore up their own weakness in identity
construction, and in so doing cater to those otherwise periodically
floated-as-superior and usually restricted-to-cerebral-use (miss-guesses in
how the human being's consciousness is supposed to function) only whims.
Ensuring the opportunity of those natural variables to function individually
and collectively properly (in accordance with the actual and full capacities
of the substrate of how we think, feel, care and strive to be) is what
America is predominantly about. They are the discoverers of this knowledge, the people
who hammered out this true wealth of our society — the most accurate
understanding of the complete construction of the human consciousness and how
it best manages itself. And those societies and their people subsequently are
the beneficiaries of their discovery, which is perpetuating itself throughout
the world, perdurably protected by the best person in us all — the endogenous
capacity to strive, to care, to struggle, to both endure and learn from loss,
and through our resilience to even love. And as in some instances we are so
gifted by providence to live in our time in this reality and as our stronger
believers of faith argue is available in another and
better life, again and again, and then again. The subsequent congruity attending the American human
management model is although usually not always analyzed as I have endeavored
to do so for my reasons over the years, is nonetheless felt very strongly by
its citizenry; and it is this strength of experience that doesn't just bring
and hold us together, at least during the really hard times — for
example, when our innocent loved ones and neighbors are being murdered — but
that also undergirds with additional strength those who've been born,
raised and continue to live in non consensual-based
controlled systems. Our work in and life of freedom calls to them, sometimes
as from afar; no matter the distance, this phenomenon dramatically influences
the likes of the Sharansky's, Ali's, Glazov's and Gabriel's — those four Rebels are now free
persons who have become the truest of freedom fighters — and at the same time
recognizing those who are still remaining in those darknesses
to aspire to acquire the same experience of freedom to Be that we live,
breathe and then with grace give back to the entire world every day. Conclusion: The Importance of the Neuro-Endocrine
Substrate of Identity to Our Lives From the time recorded history began,
philosophers, seers, cultural managers and other deep thinkers-leaders have
attempted to produce abstractions that defined the basis of human thought and
experience, and how it should be managed. Although we have not reached the
end of that discussion, the last two decades has produced well documented
neural and endochrinological descriptions as to how those two areas of study
and subsequent operational implementation actually exist and function,
letting us reach some pretty rational conclusions. Without ambiguity or
equivocation, that body of information and other knowledge support the
concepts and management thesis underpinning consensually based organized and
administered societies — explicitly emphasizing the John and Abigail Adams
and George Washington versions (emphasized in the original essay from which
this abstraction on molecular ontology was
taken-borrowed) as opposed to current European social democracy adaptations —
over those that have elected competing hierarchically conceived and
orchestrated programs. Moreover, the substrate's analysis further supports
both the value and necessity of strategically defending the environment of
management of thought that enhances that neuro-endochrinological reality of
consciousness. Those two ideas, existentialism and defense through fighting,
are immutably mutually inclusive. They need and co-facilitate each other to
do good for the individual as he and she integrate most effectively —
albeit not always without painful learning experiences, naturally and
as imbued spiritually by many-most, otherwise born out of conflicts emanating
from functional differences and similarities ongoing between state and
behavior — with the rest of the world. In the ideological wars regarding
how we should all be and get along, America’s management epistemology,
following a couple of hundred years of struggling and sometimes painful
additional definitional work, was correct. Given how the neuroendocrine
elements of human ontology function, she was on the right side of those wars in
the end. © 1979-2012 |
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Summary: Etiotropic Theory of the
Neuro-Endocrine Molecular Substrate of
Individual Human Ontology |
