When conducting Visual Connection Mapping sometimes I may or may not consider what is justice and what is not justice.
Three components of justice that I may / or may not consider when applying Visual Connection Mapping are from the principles of the Code of Hammurabi from 1772 BC, namely
Sometimes / on occasion
, Visual Connection Mapping would apply theories from others, such as the Just World Hypothesis, namely that actions and conditions have predictable and appropriate consequences.
King Solomon threatened to cut the baby in half in order to find out who the true mother of the son was. 1 Kings 3:25
“The entire world needs diversity of ethno – linguistic entities for its own salvation, for its greater creativity, for the certain solution of human problems, for the constant rehumanization of humanity in the face of materialism, for fostering greater esthetic, intellectual, and emotional capacities for humanity as a whole, indeed, for arriving at a higher state of human functioning.” Joshua A. Fishman (1982)
When I conducted Visual Connection Mapping in the drop in center at Our Place Society on Pandora in Victoria City Vancouver Island, BC Canada every Wednesday morning from 0900 to 1100 am (for a number of years pro bono as a trained and qualified Mental Health and Addictions Practitioner), many individuals without a home and living on the streets of Victoria City, BC would refer to the Bible text of Jeremiah, specifically and often even themselves quoting, Jeremiah 10:23 on the corruption of man. They would not be referring to themselves (the individuals without a home in Victoria City, BC) but rather the staff in charge, the three levels of government and society as a whole.
Title: Rundown of Visual Connection Mapping, Part 1 and Part 2
Part 1
Visual connection mapping is meta-psychology. It supersedes any existing therapy or counseling as it falls outside the realm of social work and psychology.
(Image taken in Saanich, Vancouver Island, Sept 17, 2017)
Visual Connection Mapping believes in the potential that an individual has and it believes in the ability of the individual to by-pass regular symptomologies and systemologies by engineering mind techniques which ultimately enables profound unconscious positive capabilities.
Part 2
Visual Connection Mapping is a triangle technique whereby I (in the role of the helper) listen and draw the conversation by using lines. The lines pull out communication that is otherwise forgotten.
(Image, VCM 121)
It works like a magnet pulling out unconscious language which maps the psychosis abstraction in a logically and concrete way.
Each drawing of the conversation starts as a random set of lines but as the conversation progresses the drawing turns into a structured and balanced whole. When the abstract lines end up representing a structure the organization with the conversation changes from psychotic to normalized providing clarity versus confusion and light versus darkness.
(Image of 2 pink flowers, taken in Saanich, Vancouver Island on Sept. 17, 2017)
Post plan Dated October 23rd, 2014. Have conducted Visual Connection Mapping (VCM) for one (1) year in the drop in center at Our Place Society, on Pandora in Victoria City, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Self evaluation / self reflection on my journey as a VCM helper
What am I doing?
Creating a new way of thought regarding treatment resistant psychosis
How am I doing this?
By leading by example
The strategy is (…)
Validating treatment resistant psychosis especially treatment resistant ambivalence and counterattacking both levels with straight-lining and transparency
Why?
The Mental Health Act in Victoria City, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada and the Involuntary Treatment Clause regarding law around schizophrenia in my mind are not helping but instead causing individuals with treatment resistant psychosis with no resources and no supports to land on the streets; and I do not agree with this. I believe this to be an injustice to humanity.
“We the unwilling, led by the unknowing are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.We have done so much for so long with so little we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.” Regarding Public Service, quoted by
Book:
Title: Istorija Srba
Author: Jireček, Konstantin
Publisher: Beograd : Izdavačka knjižarnica G. Kona, 1922-23
Locations:
McPherson Library: DR317 J53
Baruch Spinoza
“Like golden mist, the west lights up
The window. The diligent manuscript
Awaits, already laden with infinity.
Someone is building God in the twilight.
A man engenders God. He is a Jew
Of sad eyes and citrine skin.
Time carries him as the river carries
A leaf in the downstream water.
No matter. The enchanted one insists
And shapes God with delicate geometry.
Since his illness, since his birth,
He goes on constructing God with the
Word.
The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be
loved.”
– Jorge Luis Borges translated by Yirmiyahu Yovel
Above is a image of Visual Connection Mapping (VCM 34)
While working with the City of Victoria’s most vulnerable population on Pandora ST at Our Pl;ace Society, British Columbia Canada – I often experienced a profound sense of religious feelings. Often Bible verses would help me to understand and gain insight into what I was feeling and they often helped me put undescribeable situations, feelings and observations into some sort of context, which often lead to a kind of transcendence experience, which was impossible to slot into language. It went so far beyond the English Language.
Brainstorming ideas
Books referenced
Quotes and Bible verses for inspiration to help with conducting Visual Connection Mapping
Paintings that I referenced and looked up
Rembrandt, Return of the prodigal son, 1668
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