Family Systems Rules, Rituals and Myths

The unifying force that rules, rituals and myths have does not limit itself on the larger community. On a micro level, family units follow their own set of rules, rituals and myths. Their rigidity or flexibility, permeability or closedness to the outside world determine how the family function as a system and how its individual members adapt (or not) to their ever changing environment…

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Sleepwalking

I have four exams and a 25-35 page paper due next week re effect of alcohol consumption on performance on stroop test, not to mention a 7-10 page goal statement due by Monday. As always, it’s Saturday and I found every excuse in the book not to read or write a single page, thus far. I feel like my life has been spent sleepwalking — a lifetime of daydreaming interspersed with sporadic, but minute moments of self awareness and then back to daydreaming.

Wonder what Rene Descartes meant when he said “Cogito, ergo sum” (”I think, therefore I am“)? Was he daydreaming, too? I would care to argue that his statement was uttered not in support of the question of our existence. I believe that is a given. Rather, what he meant was that reality is subjective, and that each person creates his or her own version of what is real. Simply put, whatever it is “I think” has to be true. hmmm… brings to mind another dilemma found in Tao writings (Dao — a Chinese philosophy) wherein a character dreamt he was a butterfly and then he woke up. When he did, he wondered: is he a man who dreamt he was a butterfly or is he, in fact, a butterfly now dreaming he is a man?

ahhh… Matrix. What hath thou wrought?

Okay, that’s enough. Gotta read.