What is a blog without a proper introduction? I decided to divide it into three parts. This first installment is on the definition of Ideholistic Impressions itself.
What is ideal?
An ideal is often considered something that is perfect; other times it is an ultimate objective like some one in search of his or her ideal self. Sometimes an ideal is thought to be unobtainable and exists solely in the imagination. My ideal is reaching my full potential only as I see it, and not fretting about others’ expectations. Everyone’s ideal is different. It’s hard to say whether humankind shares an ideal or not, but that can be left for another time.
What is holistic?
Holistic or holism is the sum of all parts. The focus is on the whole picture rather than all the details. It seems that somehow the idea of holism has been lost to us. Everything around us has been categorized into basic components in the simplest form that we can understand them. In doing so, we have forgotten not only the interconnectivity of those pieces, but the importance of the whole as well. It can be seen everywhere from school subjects to philosophical ideals. It is here at least that I bring all things together. I cannot specialize or ‘find a niche’ without leaving out something important. Therefore, holism is the only logical course.
What is an impression?
An impression is many things. For the purpose of this blog, it is the effect produced from everything around me and inside my own mind. It can be first impressions or lasting ones. Anything that has imprinted itself on my memory has the potential to be engraved here. I am not about to limit something that is limitless in nature contrary to what ‘experts’ might say.
What is Idehol?
Idehol is my world. My universe. It is as much a playground as it is a reflection of everything I am. It is ideal and it is whole. I cannot impart what Idehol is in pieces. I can only present the whole. And that has always been what I wished to do. Ideholistic Impressions is as much a journey through Idehol as it is about me accomplishing my dreams which will be brought up in the next installment.
Thus, Ideholistic Impressions is a place for me to express myself, expand my horizons, and offer my impressions of things. Which means nothing if you don’t know who I am.
I am Shyshaeia. Some call me Shy.
Who is Shyshaeia?
She is me, but I am not always her. It is best to say that she is me when I am at the computer, maybe it was a way to hide. Nevertheless, I am no longer hiding. Shyshaeia is someone who I could not otherwise be in ‘real life.’ Her words are my own. Therefore, I feel it best that her name be my own when writing here.
Dear Shy,
This is a good start. Elementary, simplistic, and juvenile; but, penetrating and personal. It is you speaking to you. That is as it should be. After all, we all communicate by speaking to ourselves and our fund of knowledge and experiences, as well as, our emotional response to ‘the all’. (Note that the reference to ‘the all’ is in the sense of the Hermistic expressions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_All
The hierarchy of being is a stack of mental perceptions, such that an idealistic reference can be established in the mind. Some express as fiction, others express as science, and religion. None are illegitimate in their own realm.
I see all reality as being. Language does not do justice to the distinctions perceived, but does contribute to the need to communicate over time and distance, as well as a means for the storage of experience and impressions. The computer is the epitome of my lifetime journey to the 80th decade reached the 25th of June, 2008. It is a tool to be wielded, an instrument to be played, and an alter ego of my realized self.
The mundane world is the one in which we live, breathe, eat, sleep, work, and play. Above that is the ideal, which is all in the mind. It includes all that the brain is capable of dealing with to our satisfaction. Included in ‘the ideal’, are all images of what is and what could be with the disjunction of what could be, but is not. Statistics, math, logic, and linguistics establish the connection to our being and faith, that what we are is real and our being is personal and unique in all time and place.
I believe that your comments establish that you are in the process of creating the details of the venue for your writing. Good start.
Hermetistically, a scientific hypothesis is but fiction until statistically justified. It is never proven as such, but probability is established beyond question for practical purposes. Fiction is similar, except that the need to establish probability is abandoned. Yet, fiction is unreal, but believable, while science is believable as well as real. Religion is unreal, though believable like fiction, but established by overwhelming subscription over time beyond the life of individual fans.
Did you ever wonder where the working potential of the gene lurks in existence before the elements of the DNA come together in a functioning organism? There is the faith that there are unknown forms that have never come to be, forms that have functioned and are extinct, and forms that would be non-functioning even when brought together. Fiction fills the gaps between what is and what could be, what was and what could have been, and what will be, and what will never be.