Wow. Thank you Demi, what a fascinating and meaningful dive into what appears to be profoundly universals. I have three or more riffs surfacing provoked by your essay: I have a personal nuanced take on this feeling, a longing for an attainable home and love; that this exploration is a key to understanding people, motivations, and cultures--understand their keys, and most everything makes sense; your approach in general, which this illustrates, is one roadmaps to understanding emotional intelligence.
The word "saudade" is not important because it' s unique (or not), but because it became a way of life for the portuguese. That is why americans, russians and other nations, complain about portuguese being sad all the time (that's how they perceive our nostalgic culture). Saudade became a part of our personality - of our culture. This is the difference: even though everyone has that feeling of longing, it does not become a part of their culture. Just like portuguese feel positivity, but positivity is not a part of our culture.
Growing up out west in the US, everything is new unless you explore the ancient Native American ruins; most are remote and hidden. When I regularly traveled, I was so amazed by antiquity that I felt the experience of doing things like crawling inside an Egyptian pyramid or touching an old Roman ruin. I honestly can feel like I was there. It’s a strange, perplexing sensation that leaves me oddly homesick.
Thank you for defining this vibe , Demi. I’d never heard of the term saudade until I read your post. So much meaning seems to be missing from the English language.
The words are usually about some feeling or emotion that another group of people share so prominently that they create a word for that when the rest of us require a paragraph to describe the same thing because that particular idea is not at the forefront of our particular flavor of the zeitgeist. It’s interesting to note how these ideas end up bubbling up.
This is another article getting bookmarked for a deep dive. The thievery corporation track you shared was 🔥 but also reminded me of something I'll share. When I lived in LA I was working with a producer that was... WAY more experienced than I. He shared his experience with me, because he had been a lifetime musician and DJ who had traveled to so many countries. I was merely there to learn from him. He told me, "the best music is the blend of hopeful melancholia." If I examine every single song that has impacted me most in my life... that is fact. That is an acid test for the sound that imprints on the spirit. That strange melancholia - poetry in motion, the nature of this life. ♥️
I feel like our souls are all imprinted with a need to rediscover the roots we have been violently separated from. We are encoded in this way with an emotional pull toward figuring that out. I think tapping into that stirs us in a way you can make feel cathartic so that we can find purpose in it while also expelling it. What we miss we ache for, but we miss it in order to show us a discrepancy between what is and what might have been or what used to be so that we will feel a drive to discover what has been lost and create those factors over again.
And of the 3 conscious minds, one of the 3 seems to dominate over all of them. Most commonly, the cerebral mind. And it seems to be the smallest of all the minds. Even with its so very limited capacity in holding and maintaining information, It also has the greatest freedom to choose what’s the focus. Unfortunately, most of us have a drunk monkey at the steering wheel of our conscious mind (individually and collectively).
It seems that the conscious mind is made of 3 different minds in itself. The fascia, the guy neurons, and the cerebral neurons.
And one purpose of the conscious mind is to give voice to the subconscious mind. It’s also able to program the subconscious. The cerebral mind is also capable of programming the subconscious mind to tell it what to focus on and what problems to solve.
And the super conscious mind is full aware of how to solve many problems innately, but the conscious mind seems to stop it
Wow. Thank you Demi, what a fascinating and meaningful dive into what appears to be profoundly universals. I have three or more riffs surfacing provoked by your essay: I have a personal nuanced take on this feeling, a longing for an attainable home and love; that this exploration is a key to understanding people, motivations, and cultures--understand their keys, and most everything makes sense; your approach in general, which this illustrates, is one roadmaps to understanding emotional intelligence.
I’m excited to read your takes on this!! Thank you!! <3
The word "saudade" is not important because it' s unique (or not), but because it became a way of life for the portuguese. That is why americans, russians and other nations, complain about portuguese being sad all the time (that's how they perceive our nostalgic culture). Saudade became a part of our personality - of our culture. This is the difference: even though everyone has that feeling of longing, it does not become a part of their culture. Just like portuguese feel positivity, but positivity is not a part of our culture.
Growing up out west in the US, everything is new unless you explore the ancient Native American ruins; most are remote and hidden. When I regularly traveled, I was so amazed by antiquity that I felt the experience of doing things like crawling inside an Egyptian pyramid or touching an old Roman ruin. I honestly can feel like I was there. It’s a strange, perplexing sensation that leaves me oddly homesick.
Thank you for defining this vibe , Demi. I’d never heard of the term saudade until I read your post. So much meaning seems to be missing from the English language.
The words are usually about some feeling or emotion that another group of people share so prominently that they create a word for that when the rest of us require a paragraph to describe the same thing because that particular idea is not at the forefront of our particular flavor of the zeitgeist. It’s interesting to note how these ideas end up bubbling up.
This is another article getting bookmarked for a deep dive. The thievery corporation track you shared was 🔥 but also reminded me of something I'll share. When I lived in LA I was working with a producer that was... WAY more experienced than I. He shared his experience with me, because he had been a lifetime musician and DJ who had traveled to so many countries. I was merely there to learn from him. He told me, "the best music is the blend of hopeful melancholia." If I examine every single song that has impacted me most in my life... that is fact. That is an acid test for the sound that imprints on the spirit. That strange melancholia - poetry in motion, the nature of this life. ♥️
I feel like our souls are all imprinted with a need to rediscover the roots we have been violently separated from. We are encoded in this way with an emotional pull toward figuring that out. I think tapping into that stirs us in a way you can make feel cathartic so that we can find purpose in it while also expelling it. What we miss we ache for, but we miss it in order to show us a discrepancy between what is and what might have been or what used to be so that we will feel a drive to discover what has been lost and create those factors over again.
AAAAHHHHH YOU ALREADY KNOW WHY IM HAVIN THAT REACTION !!! YES
Hahahahaha! 🙏💜💫
Why is the conscious mind seemingly so ignorant of the subconscious mind and the super-conscious mind?
It doesn’t need to be. This is what it is to “awaken.” It’s to strengthen that resonant awareness and to be able to phase in and out of it at will.
And of the 3 conscious minds, one of the 3 seems to dominate over all of them. Most commonly, the cerebral mind. And it seems to be the smallest of all the minds. Even with its so very limited capacity in holding and maintaining information, It also has the greatest freedom to choose what’s the focus. Unfortunately, most of us have a drunk monkey at the steering wheel of our conscious mind (individually and collectively).
I like your drunk monkey analogy! Yes! Getting control over this is the key to altering our relationship with it. :)
It seems that the conscious mind is made of 3 different minds in itself. The fascia, the guy neurons, and the cerebral neurons.
And one purpose of the conscious mind is to give voice to the subconscious mind. It’s also able to program the subconscious. The cerebral mind is also capable of programming the subconscious mind to tell it what to focus on and what problems to solve.
And the super conscious mind is full aware of how to solve many problems innately, but the conscious mind seems to stop it