Notes - same place / definitions / commentary

      Late morning. Kim's cleaning ladies come about  eleven to eleven-thirty and leave two hours later. Thus, you are again on the north side of Hyatts Road across the street from their subdivision. The roads are in but no other construction has begun. The day is cloudy and rainy though not at the moment. Carol is reading an article about 'A new view on window treatments' from "Living Spaces" in last Sunday's Dispatch. Make that, was. She has returned to The Postcard Killers, page 198. Building and selling a house plus the variety of aspects of actually moving are anything but "the usual". - Amorella

       1139 hours. It's not that bad, Amorella. Carol shows more concern than I do, but she is as relaxed as she's going to be until we are moved and settled. Settled means new routines will become the norm and eventually the norm becomes "the usual". In some ways it will be better in that raising kids is anything but hum-drum so Owen and Brennan will set are everyday pace in living. Last night we ate at the Mellow Mushroom pizza place on Polaris not far from First Watch. We liked it. So, we found a new place to eat. Tim King has suggest Mellow Mushroom before but whenever we went to the restaurant it was packed with cars. That should have told us something. Tim called yesterday to say that two of our old built in fire alarms had fired up so he went over and unplugged them. Twenty-six years shows they are a bit out of warranty. Tomorrow when we are home for the day I'll buy new ones and hope Tim is around to help me replace them if I need help, i.e. ladder assist. Once home from supper we watched NBC News (old routine) and then watched one of Kim's most favorite movies which she had copied, Love Actually. This was a fun change for us, watching an old movie. I still need to Wikipedia "muse", but most of what I'm searching for is the scientific approach to "vibes" or "gut feeling" in terms not of 'gut' but 'heartansoulanmind' feeling once it is fully established. In real life heartansoulanmind are rarely in full agreement on a goal or objective. Too much wiggle room, too many unsolicited doubts if the rational mind is too much attached to the program. Elon Musk is an excellent example of someone using his or her heartansoulanmind. He knows and accepts who he is and acts on his life objectives and goals in a rational manner. (1200)

       It would seem such a person might be difficult to live with on a personal level. An artist dealing with her or his living muse is the focus you are looking for is it not? - Amorella

       1202 hours. True. You are right. Friendship and its unconscious strengths are more to the key. The collective unconscious and muse are my research words of the day. Thank you, Amorella

       You are too easily sidetracked boy, it's no wonder you rarely actually get anything done. Take a break. - Amorella

       You drove to the house and found they are working of three trucks was for plumbing. After, on to Graeter's in Westerville where you had ice cream and sat facing out the front window (to watch traffic) at State and College. Later, a stop at North Star a fairly new restaurant at the corner of Plum and State. Pleasant enough decor but the food, while good was expense but what turned you off is that you stood in line and ordered, after ordering they asked if you wanted  to give a ten, fifteen or twenty percent tip or none. You said none because you hadn't had any service yet. Carol had soup and a salad and you a deluxe cheeseburger which turns out was fifteen dollars. You left no tip because a girl brought your food, that's all. Not your cup of tea or Carol's either it turns out. The brownish pudding-like soup didn't have anything in it, not even a piece of potato, tomato or bacon. You tasted it twice and couldn't decide what the soup was. The salad contained a few greens, nothing special but dandelion greens. The cost was about thirty-two dollars which included Carol's glass of ice tea. You had 'filtered' water. You are stopped presently waiting for Carol to pick up milk at Kroger's. - Amorella

       1428 hours. There are other restaurants here and about. We'll find some that more meet our fancy. I had a bowl of tomato soup at Potbelly's the other day and it was more than fine with a couple of bags of little cracker stirred in. Very satisfying.

       You are home. Ellie is being fed the other two are hanging out. Poor Ellie can't eat solids like she used to; old cat and alas, the other two know it. She makes for a lot of hissing but no bite. - Amorella

       1450 hours. I'm pretty much in the same place.

       Post, orndorff. - Amorella

       Up from a much needed nap. Tomorrow you and Carol are leaving for a day trip home to do chores and errands before going home again Friday night. Carol is reading away while Jadah is curled asleep on a blanket at her right. Now to 'muse' in the dictionary. - Amorella

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muse¹ noun the poet's muse: inspiration, creative influence, stimulus; formal afflatus

muse² verb I ponder, consider, think over/about, mull over, reflect on, contemplate, turn over in one's mind, chew over, give some thought to, cogitate on; think about, be lost in contemplation/thought over, daydream about.

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Below from Wikipedia:

The Muses  (Ancient Greek: Μοῦσαι, Moũsai) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science and the arts in Greek mythology. They were considered the source of the knowledge embodied in the poetry, lyric songs and myths that were related orally for centuries in these ancient cultures. They were later adopted by the Romans as a part of their pantheon.

In current English usage, "muse" can refer in general to a person who inspires an artist, musician, or writer.

Etymology

The word "Muses" (Ancient Greek: Μοῦσαι, Moũsai) perhaps came from the o-grade of the Proto-Indo-European root *men- ("to think")

or from root *men- ("to tower, mountain") since all the most important cult-centres of the Muses were on mountains or hills.

 R.S.P. Beekes rejects both etymologies and suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

Number and names

The earliest known records of the Nine Muses are from Boeotia, the homeland of Hesiod.

Some ancient authorities thought that the Nine Muses were of Thracian origin.

There, a tradition persisted that the Muses had once been three in number.

In the first century BC, Diodorus Siculus quotes Hesiod to the contrary, observing:

Writers similarly disagree also concerning the number of the Muses; for some say that there are three, and others that there are nine, but the number nine has prevailed since it rests upon the authority of the most distinguished men, such as Homer and Hesiod and others like them.

Diodorus also states (Book I.18) that Osiris first recruited the nine Muses, along with the Satyres, while passing through Ethiopia, before embarking on a tour of all Asia and Europe, teaching the arts of cultivation wherever he went.

According to Hesiod's account (c. 600 BC), generally followed by the writers of antiquity, the Nine Muses were the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (i. e. "Memory" personified), figuring as personifications of knowledge and the arts, especially literature, dance and music.

The Roman scholar Varro (116–27 BC) relates that there are only three Muses: one born from the movement of water, another who makes sound by striking the air, and a third who is embodied only in the human voice. They were called Melete or "Practice", Mneme or "Memory" and Aoide or "Song". Three ancient Muses were also reported in Plutarch's (46–120 AD) Quaestiones Convivales (9.I4.2–4).

However, the classical understanding of the Muses tripled their triad and established a set of nine goddesses, who embody the arts and inspire creation with their graces through remembered and improvised song and mime, writing, traditional music, and dance. It was not until Hellenistic times that the following systematic set of functions was assigned to them, and even then there was some variation in both their names and their attributes: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Eiterpe (flutes and lyric poetry, Thalia (comedy, epic poetry, Melpomene (tragedy), Terpsichore (dance), Erato (love poetry), Polyhymnia (sacred poetry), and Urania (astronomy).

Functions

In society

Greek mousa is a common noun as well as a type of goddess: it literally means "art" or "poetry". According to Pindar, to "carry a mousa" is "to excel in the arts". The word derives from the Indo-European root men-, which is also the source of Greek Mnemosyne and mania, English "mind", "mental" and "monitor", Sanskrit mantra and Avestan Mazda.

The Muses, therefore, were both the embodiments and sponsors of performed metrical speech: mousike (whence the English term "music") was just "one of the arts of the Muses". Others included Science, Geography, Mathematics, Philosophy, and especially Art, Drama, and inspiration. In the archaic period, before the widespread availability of books (scrolls), this included nearly all of learning. The first Greek book on astronomy, by Thales, took the form of dactylic hexameters, as did many works of pre-Socratic philosophy. Both Plato and the Pythagoreans explicitly included philosophy as a sub-species of mousike. The Histories of Herodotus, whose primary medium of delivery was public recitation, were divided by Alexandrian editors into nine books, named after the nine Muses.

For poet and "law-giver" Solon, the Muses were "the key to the good life"; since they brought both prosperity and friendship. Solon sought to perpetuate his political reforms by establishing recitations of his poetry—complete with invocations to his practical-minded Muses—by Athenian boys at festivals each year. He believed that the Muses would help inspire people to do their best.

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From dictionary dot com:

collective unconscious

noun

1.

(in Jungian psychology) inborn unconscious psychic material common to   humankind, accumulated by the experience of all preceding generations.

British Dictionary definitions for collective unconscious.

collective unconscious (expanded)

noun

1.

(psychol) (in Jungian psychological theory) apart of the unconscious mind  incorporating patterns of memories, instincts, and experiencescommon to all mankind.   These patterns are inherited, may be arranged into archetypes, and are observable through their effects on dreams, behaviour, etc

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collective unconscious in Medicine 

noun

In Jungian psychology, a part of the unconscious mindthat is shared by a   society, a people, or all humankind. The product  of ancestral experience, it contains such concepts as science, religion, and morality.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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collective unconscious in Culture

Memories of mental patterns that are shared by members of a single culture or, more broadly, by all human beings; originally proposed by the psychologist Carl Jung to explain psychological traits shared by all people. He theorized that the collective unconscious appears as archetypes patterns and symbols that occur in dreams, mythology, and fairy tales.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Expanded definitions selected and edited from dictionary.com

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       I, the Amorella edited the above for Richard's purposes. He already realizes that the definitions above contain only smatterings what he has in mind in terms of both 'muse' and 'collective unconsciousness'. Post. 

       2324 hours. The above doesn't help much. I need to attempt to look at this intuitively from the heartansoulanmind perspective. For instance, is the soul or the heart or the mind that is best swayed by unconscious connections between two friends? I would think, going into this, that the soul is involved first not the heart or the mind. Or, the soul and the person's unconscious self is intuitively involved first.