Audiobook
by Pierre F. Walter
ISBN 978-1-933137-11-7
Production / Copyright
©2007-2010
Playing Time
3.3 Hours
Spoken By
Pierre F. Walter
Download Size
188 MB
Price
33$
Description
EIGHT DYNAMIC PATTERNS OF LIVING required several years of research into shamanism and aboriginal cultures for providing the evidence for the present cross-cultural study that forwards the thesis that there are eight dynamic patterns of living that are universally respected and applied by major tribal cultures all over the world. The audio book concludes that it is these dynamic patterns of living that are the secret why tribal cultures that apply them in their life paradigm live peacefully, respectfully and integrally, and why they are in harmony with nature and live basically without crime and major lifestyle diseases such as cancer, heart disease or aids.
The tenor of the study is that it’s because these patterns are conscious with native cultures that these peoples live peacefully, constructively and ecologically in accordance with their environment and the cosmos as a whole. The evaluation of multi-disciplinary scientific research clearly shows that postmodern international consumer culture triggers worldwide destruction economically, socially, health-wise, military-wise, ecologically, and in other ways.
The audio book namely puts up the hypothesis that the true reason of this destruction comes from the fact that all patriarchal dominator civilizations, without exception, have disregarded or even shunned every single of the eight dynamic patterns of living. This is so because the continuum balance that the eight patterns provide simply is lacking in patriarchal civilizations and in their latest historical vintage: postmodern international consumer culture; it is lacking in modern culture’s philosophy, science, military policy, diplomacy and foreign policy.
From this insight it becomes evident that the eight patterns are ideally suited to be taken as a guide concept to be implemented in a more wistful international culture of the future, perhaps within a greater paradigm of deep ecology as Fritjof Capra and others have suggested it.
This would then have to be worked out on a joint-governmental and supranational level and as part of our presently evolving post-industrial global culture.
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
THE EIGHT PATTERNS OF LIVING
Autonomy
Ecstasy
Energy
Language
Love
Pleasure
Self-Regulation
Touch
THE AUTONOMY PATTERN
THE ECSTASY PATTERN
THE ENERGY PATTERN
THE LANGUAGE PATTERN
THE LOVE PATTERN
Culture and Pleasure
Pleasure-Denial and Violence
Pleasure and Violence
Anthropological Evidence
Love Osmosis
Love versus Morality
Rebuilding Trust
THE PLEASURE PATTERN
THE SELF-REGULATION PATTERN
THE TOUCH PATTERN
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I listened to some more chapters from ‘Eight Dynamic Patterns of Living’ on my iPod Touch. I wanted to say that one benefit the podcasts gave me today was that it allowed me to hear Madame Dolto’s first name in French and second, the name of the psychotherapeutic setting pronounced where she conducted her work with the young.
I love to hear French as the language sounds very beautiful to me, for lack of better words and so hearing Dolto’s first name along with the name of the treatment house in French was a treat to my ears. While it is true that most parents and child care professionals talk to small children using baby talk, this approach was reportedly not used in the house. I too practice this kind of communication (non-baby talk) myself in my interactions with tourist children since long and thought on repeated occasions, why I had done so, why I did not speak to children in the same way as those who actively cared for them, after all this was the common practice. I did not really come up with any answer to that question, only having recognized that I used the same fashion of communication with them as I did with adults. Little did I know, this was also the case in the private and special setting where the late French child therapist treated the young.
I thought it was interesting that in the therapy house children were greeted first thus resulting in the parents being able to maintain some level of privacy as their names were not verbalized, but rather the child himself or herself only, as you pointed out. What this approach to greeting was able to accomplish, it seems, was enhanced confidentiality so as the parents of the mentally ill children would feel less discomfort, perhaps less shame over visiting such a place that they would normally not really want to visit, but given the mindfulness of the Dolto staff, I sense that the atmosphere was extremely child as well as adult sensitive and the utmost of friendliness. Thank you for sharing the Dolto story.
– Nelson, San Francisco
By the way, the Maison Verte was not designed for mentally ill children, but normal children, but it would actually not matter what kind of children, they would not discriminate. The main reason was to prevent early child trauma through the separation between mother and child when children are prematurely given in day care.
The idea was to prepare the parents, more than the child, to suffer this separation because Dolto’s observation was that the children are ready much earlier for this separation than their mothers, which means that mothers give a double-tongued message to their children which in the extreme can create child psychosis.
To prevent this parents need to communicate with each other, which is considered more important even than communicating with a childcare professional. In parent to parent communication when similar life stories are exchanged, a healing process can be engaged and a process of emotional maturity for the mothers. The main problem with modern mothers is their narcissistic fixation, that is the co-dependence with their own parents, that renders those mothers almost impossible a separation with their child while at the outside level those mothers would act ‘adequately’ and give their children in day care. The result would be that the child will be pumped up with guilt feelings because the child feels that ‘mother suffers’ and feels guilty for being in daycare, while given in daycare by their own mothers. This obvious logical contradiction can really create psychosis, autism and a number of behavioral problems. I have seen it with my own eyes over years when working in day care centers and in families. Dolto was unique in her approach.
Thanks for clarifying the matters surrounding Madame Dolto’s Maison Verte as I was under the false impression that the center was for mentally ill children only. But I see now that all children were embraced and what was interesting about your follow up remarks was that, in a sense, it was the mothers who harbored problems over the distress separation between mother and child often causes.
I also wish to address the notion of language as you mention it in the podcast as it seems that the primary tool for working out such matters concerning separation, having to leave the child in daycare and with staff is language, talking, communication, active communication, not only between the parent and child but also between parents as well, as I understand it now, so that their is an active and productive exchange among these women who are all confronted with the same situation at hand: specific sharing is what seems to have been advocated here.
It made sense to me what you were explaining as I understand it, what causes potential trauma on the child’s part, is the parent’s subtle inner conflict in the form of their attachment to their own parents which they in turn project onto their own young, thus it is really the parent who is causing the initial distress due to their dual messages to the child (the need to separate for the day as mother needs to go to work while at the same time harboring her own inner fear).
What seems so true is that we can only become whole again after talking with the therapist because in that realm communication occurs, language is actively engaged in, thus release of the utmost occurs, thus resulting in well being. You put it so well, actually, when you say that when communication, language breaks down, people start engaging their fists at each other because they have cease to use words.
– Nelson, San Francisco