Interaction
Interaction is the involvement of the individual with people and places such as the working of jobs, volunteer work, membership in or creation of organizations, affiliations of various kinds or politics. The advantages of interaction is the real experience of involvement, in social relationships or circumstance wherein knowledge is the result. Interaction is limited in that one can only be in one place at one time and can only do so much in a single lifetime. It may also be limited in terms of the access one can have to different social strata, to the degree of monetary resources the individual may possess, the amount of education one has, and other limitations.
Interaction can also be very mundane and ordinary wherein not much exceptional occurs that would produce beneficial knowledge. In these cases the use of subjective uninvolved observation, as already mentioned, may be useful. However interaction can give a more direct reading of people and circumstances so that one may come to a feeling and knowledge of the true reality of things fairly quickly. The individual may learn how things really work and operate, how things get done and what is involved in the practical aspects of things like social organization, business entities, the production of any kind goods and services, the political dynamics inherent in group relationships, the operations of organizations such as government, business or education. The activity of interaction also possesses the asset of real Consequence to one's words and actions and the positions and roles one assumes, or for others that one observes.
This Consequence provides a depth of understanding in the sense that while people in general may think and believe one thing in the abstract, when real consequence is involved, reactions may take on an entirely different dimension. The activity of interaction can also be viewed as playing roles, wherein the person may be able to move from one position and circumstance to another, assuming the functions of job and volunteer or acting out parts of one's own making, especially when circumstance may enhance and contribute to such undertakings. For example, if the individual found themselves to be living in a national capital for whatever reason, this ambiance of politics and power may be conducive for the individual to play roles such as spy, reporter, advisor, revolutionary, that are totally unrealistic, but represent a context of mind from which to investigate problems such as the nature of power, betrayal, information, influence, change or politics in general.
As the outer reality may reflect questions and statements of mind, a further aspect of External Analysis is that the mind can be studied by the experience of specific kinds of reality. The abstract mind of thinking, memory, planning, imagining or daydreaming is somewhat nebulous like music. It cannot be seen, felt, tasted or smelled, cannot be hammered and nailed so to speak, and thus an efficient or proper use can be difficult.
Since the mind is the operator of the body and the life of the individual and every type of experience, an understanding of the mind and its processes would seem to be important. One may attempt a better understanding of the processes of the mind by comparison with organizational functions of human organizations. For instance if one finds themselves working in the administrative capacity of a large institution, like the storage of public records may be seen as analogous to the memory. The action of an individual such as buying property may cause a record to be made. Only certain actions will cause those records to be reviewed. Those records are stored according to a specific system making retrieval systematic. In another department building plans, renovations, permits and inspection records may be kept and so on.
The creation of experience involves the decision to create specific kinds of circumstance. This kind of decision can be attributable to what one already is, knows and is conditioned to be, or in terms of what the individual believes the future will be. Thus, one may put themselves in the position to experience what they know experience to be, such as the circumstance and identity of soapbox speaker or preacher. However beyond that, may be the experience of all the politics that is involved, in the actual organized agenda of the subject of soapbox oratory, that is unknown to one and thus, beyond the scope of exploration. The individual can only explore,that which is known to be there to explore. The mind or existing identity of the individual may have its own unconscious agenda involving deep-seated conditioning, emotion, fear, misconception or loyalty and security issues.
To transcend these limitations one may employ the method of random experience, or what is termed Metaempiric Power, wherein what is said to be spiritual forces, in some manner creates experience for the individual, that would otherwise be beyond the capacity of the individual to imagine or produce.
What the individual intentionally sets out to learn may be based upon future objectives, the rationale being that one prepares for the future by study, as one may select college courses based on the preparation for some specific career. This assumes that the individual can predict and guarantee the future. However, if the individual does not like the chosen career, and changes to a completely different field of endeavor, then much of that training will have been for naught. If it might be decided that the individual cannot, by facility of the logical mind, predict the future, it might be assumed that facilities of premonition or spiritual forces can. Rather than a premeditative concept of desired experience, the individual may simply wait for things to happen. As things occur, the onus will be on the individual, to make decisions as to what experience to become involved with and what to pass up, since most possibilities may be simply random and others may be dangerous.
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