Kids and circuits
Currently re-reading RAW’s Prometheus Rising and thinking again about the 8-circuit model of consciousness. That sounds all intellectual and stuff, but actually I’m just finding an excuse to babble about my kids, so think twice before you click the link.
I see Dot as just entering the second circuit, the emotional-territorial circuit. She’s potty-training, she’s learning her responsibilities in the family, and she’s figuring out ways to better her position. She still loves to cuddle, but that’s punctuated by fits of independence and willfulness that are designed to make things bounce her way.
Whacko is past that, in the third–semantic–circuit. It’s not specifically developed by RAW or by Leary, from what I can tell, but the implication is that this is the area where the work of Joseph Campbell comes into play. Logic and symbolic thought go hand-in-hand with the processing of heros, icons, fantasies, myths, and legends. Whacko has these in spades. Cartoons and comics, martial arts, stories, and his own wild imagination make his amazing little mind an amusement park for the archetypes of humanity.
Yakko is transitioning to the socio-sexual circuit that the rest of us spend most of our adult lives on. He’s developing an interest in government and history that he never had before, making new friends, talking about girls, and generally growing into a maturity that he doesn’t completely comprehend yet.
November 10th, 2006 - Posted in Parentgeekness | |
