is there any philosophy that says this? i am looking for one to research a little about it because i felt that once…on mushrooms
the only tme i ate them…
basically i felt that like my facial features are the way my ‘soul’ is and that like…my body and face are like…my inner…expressed.
and that my life and i was only the comination of my parent’s karmas…
like… the conclusion of them or something… like ‘thesis, anthithesis and conclusion’ …something like that… it sounds VERY weird…and i cant explain it better cause i only felt that vaguely…i mean i felt it deeply but now i remember it vaguely and can barely explain it in words…
so…i wanna research into it.
Its called “body language”. Our demeanor, mood, feelings etc are constantly being given off by our unconcious movements (and are usually also detected unconciously by other people). Of course it can be faked, and consciously read, but by and large our body language would give away the things that you want to claim are do to your “karma”.
If “body language” isn’t quite what you’re looking for, Emmanuel Levinas is one philosopher you might want to look into. If you’re brave you should try to read some of “Totality and Infinity.”
Among other things, he argues that the dimension of the divine opens forth from the human face.
“Faciality” is a theme also briefly touched upon in some of Felix Guattari’s later, much stranger work on cybersociology.
Well, I’m sure you know that “karma” is an Eastern religious concept meaning, roughly, the collective meaning of all the actions you’ve performed, and is without a near correlate in the Western tradition. Sartre examines somewhat similar grounds when he considers the fact that a man is nothing more or less than his life, that is, his deeds.
You might find Carl Jung interesting when he speaks of a collective symbolic unconscious, which could be something very close perhaps to the sort of awakening to a deeper consciousness ‘experience’ you’re describing. You might also read Avital Ronnells “Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania”-- it’s actually a pretty exciting read and she’s asking, among other things: “Why is there no culture without drug culture?”
The most likely philosophical implication of these phrases would be the fact that they are Marx’s terms for the phases of the Hegelian dialectic, although they would usually be found being used more in the context of social divisions and historical development rather than the family (although it’s by no means completely out of place.)
My facial features look a lot like those of the man who I believe to have been my previous incarnation (after having read a short biography about him).
Argh… I took a lot of time, writing out a lot of info (pertaining to WHY I think it was my previous incarnation, but not saying who it was), but I decided it is probably best I don’t get into all that. It is personal information.
I won’t say who it was, but I will say that it wasn’t a HUGE figure (Hitler, Napolean, Alexander, Jesus, etc).
He was a very successful novelist (in terms of influence, not money).
It’s a shame I can’t collect royalties… especially from the film adaptations.
I don’t know of any philosopher who tackled this. And I have yet to write my first book.
One’s character is determined by one’s genes. How one’s environment affects the shaping of one’s character is determined by how one’s nature digests, and adapts to, one’s environment. And the “inner” (one’s “soul”) is indeed a mirror of the “outer” (one’s body - too bad for ugly people who want to believe there’s beauty inside of them!). As Nietzsche says, the Self is the body. There is no dualism. You are an animal of the species homo sapiens sapiens. Nothing “divine” about you (unless you are a pantheist, like me).
yes, i agree with this… you make me want to do mushrooms. i definitely thnik the face / body is an expression of a person’s nature, and i highly suspect a person’s nature is the synthesis of their parents. although i’ve heard that around the age of 30 a person grows out of that and becomes theirself. i’m 29.
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