empathing toward Andromeda

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Imagine a clear, starry night (probably outside of urban light pollution). The stars are randomly scattered.

But you can see areas of the sky whose stars you regard as a group, and thereby they “belong” together, and are called a constellation.

One oddly-bordered set of stars was called the “Andromeda” constellation by classical Greeks. Why such a jagged grouping?

Someone with lasting influence “saw” the goddess Andromeda spread-
ing her arms across that area of the heavens (here depicted at 90ª rotation). In honor of—in remembrance of, in validation of incompar-
able beauty—the “presence” of the goddess is certified by those stars which belong together, by god, in her name.

OneSelf is not basically a matter of “subjectivity”

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‘Subjectivity’ is a politically-loaded term—coined in early modernity (from Latin)—which originally pertained to the condition of a person as subject to a lord.

The Greek notion of psyche was something else: a conception of Self (which I discussed briefly, a while ago) or soul. I refer to selfality, self (and selfidentity), self/[inter]personal difference, nebulous Self, and altogether a differentiated conception of oneSelf. Homogenous notions of subjectivity are relatively simplistic (as well as ideologically tinged).

loving mental playces

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places of play <—> play of places—mental and / or otherwise.

• playing place: Suppose...
• interplacing: We suppose...
• interplaying: We consider...
• playtiming: “Can you come out and play?”
• playing time: In the beginning,…
• interplayce: We loved that…
• playgrounding: It is the case that...
• interplaycing: Are you wholly in play here?

Free association—reverie, “daydreaming”—has integral value for creativity inasmuch as it serves the mental efficacy which is ordinarily necessary for adaptability, for gaining options to prefer, and for shaping purposes, all of which can be individuative through self-reflective learning: advancing flexibility, enhancing scale of value, and inspiring aspiration.

That efficacy released into novel play evinces options, values, directions, etc. which can be importantly novel: creative.

ValueV or Value

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Some values are integral, even regarded as intrinsic, unlike most values. Integral values have high importance which orient the relevance of other values for action; or override other values in evaluations. Values of one’s mode of life may be understood in light of a specific Value of being one’s life, e.g., integrity. A holism of Values is integrally valuable for wholehearted engagement, commitment, and fidelity to what truly matters.

To preserve the kinship of integral values and other values, I’ve capitalized reference to integral values in my offline notes; so, I’ve done that online. I’ve placed a ‘V’ at the end of ‘ValueV’ when such reference begins a sentence. Better might be to bold the ‘V’.

a singular pluralism of conceptual interests

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Inevitably, aspiration becomes plural. The singularity of a life may have no comprehensive conception (to observers or readers), but obviously one’s life is a singularity.

But finding a comprehensive comprehension of my conceptual interests is less interesting to me, in the near term, than journeying on, which shared journaling expresses.