Improvising With The Great Flow of Qi: Innovative Applications of Tai Ji Quan To Contemporary Performer Training

Tai Ji Quan (TJQ) is generally viewed as an effective means of achieving the spiritual unity of the body. This article aims to discuss how TJQ as a mindfulness-based practice can be innovatively applied to contemporary performer training, especially in the form of improvisation. This unique way of movement training is based on the motion principle of TJQ: consciousness guiding the qi, the qi guiding the body, then the body forming the shape. Practitioners are expected to improvise with being aware of qi, and are therefore able to stimulate spontaneity in improvisation, and to achieve the moment of integration of the body and mind: doing and being. 

SOCIO-CULTURAL PROBLEMS OF INTEGRATION PROCESSES: THE ROLE OF KYRGYZSTAN

Certain features of Eurasianism integration participants become independent subjects to the basics of the voluntary solution of common interests, without any pressure and coercion. Let us single out the principle of the abolition of pressure and the use of force, which is actively implemented in the political practice of Kyrgyzstan since its independence. Kyrgyzstan is unique and strong in its multiethnic nature, which was the result of long historical processes. A unique multicultural space based on spiritual unity has been formed here.

In search of tolerant paths in renewing of the World

Discussed is the problem of search for tolerant paths in the spiritual renewal of the world. The modern world is oppressed by a person and forces to admit that he did not choose this world in goodwill, in which a lie, hypocrisy, meanness, envy, hatred, betrayal. The need to rise to a higher level of knowledge of the world in relationships and mutual understanding of people is the requirement of time. It is important through the tolerant consciousness to find bonding paths leading to spiritual unity with all people of the planet. The technique creates convenience, but also lead to the crisis of human relations. It cannot specify the value guidelines, reveal the soul of the person and fill the content of those kind basements, without which the human life does not make sense. It is necessary to find ways in the modern world uniting all people and expand their intellectual and moral possibilities, through education and culture

"MY TRUTH, THE TRUTH OF ALL MY BEING ...": SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF M. TSVETAEVA IN LETTERS TO A. TESKOVA

The object of the article: letters from M. Tsvetaeva to A. Teskova (1922 - 1939) as documents of his personal biography, past events, which became a reflection of creative searches and reveal the innermost essence of the poet. The subject of the article: M. Tsvetaeva's self-consciousness and world perception in the emigrant period, which represent the life of the Poet's Soul as much as possible. The article is devoted to the consideration of reflection in the act of writing, deepening loneliness, and a break with the reader. The task is to analyze the letters of M. Tsvetaeva to A. Teskovoy as a literary text, the internal space of which is united by the translation of spiritual unity with a pen pal, to identify semantic dominants. Research methodology: a holistic analysis of letters in the light of the reflection of the methodology of poetic thinking involves an appeal to the structural-semiotic and biographical methods of research. Results: autobiographical episodes in the assessment of reflective self-consciousness are considered. Scope of application of the results: literary studies.

In a Dialogue with the Poet

The article devoted to questions of musical and poetic synthesis raises the issue of the relationship between the composer and the poet in its special interpretation, defined as spiritual “affinity”. In Elena Gokhman’s song cycle “Insomnia” analyzed from this position, a whole range of points of contact between the artistic worlds of the poet and the composer opens up to the poems of Marina Tsvetaeva. The analysis of the musical-poetic text at the pre-musical and musical levels of its organization, in the unity of syntagmatic and paradigmatic structures, which unfold, on the one hand, as a psychological “drama of the gap”, on the other — as a metaphorical discourse in the space of the title image of the cycle, allowed us to reveal in Elena Gokhman’s “Insomnia” a hidden intertextual plan, also dating back to the work of Marina Tsvetaeva, revealing the closest contact between the creative natures of the poet and the composer. At the same time, spiritual “affinity” as it is considered reveals “flaws” of incompatibility of creative consciousnesses, which, in accordance with the etymology of the Old Slavic “co-kinship”, allows us to see the dialogue between the poet and the composer in the dynamics of rapprochements and divergences — not only moments of striking spiritual unity of artists belonging to different cultural eras,but also differences that determine the exclusive spiritual appearance of the work born in dialogue with the poet.

Tragedy as a Novel and Philosophy: Architectonics of the Tragic at Dostoevsky

The article is devoted to the study of the tragic value spectrum of F. Dostoevsky’s works. In the analysis of the critical works of V. Ivanov and L. Shestov identify the constants of the tragic architectonics proposed by these researchers. The conclusion is made about the semantic multidirectionality of the tragic assessments in the reading of F. Dostoevsky. In Ivanov’s interpretation, the hero perceives the lost harmony of spiritual unity as a value and seeks to restore it. In Shestov’s philosophy, the pathos of tragedy consists in the voluntary heroic rejection of harmonious ideals by the individual. In both cases, the tragic, as an architectonic value, acquires specific semantic overtones of 20th century art.

LINGUOCULTURAL NATURE OF MENTALITY

The article is devoted to the linguocultural explaining of the concept "mentality". The object of research is the concept of "mentality", which is used in modern linguistics in two semantic aspects: first, when talking about ethnic or social conditioning of our mind and, secondly, when they try to justify the origins of the spiritual unity and integrity of the people. The mental symptoms of the national consciousness are objectified in language, and in this regard the following categories of cognitive semantics are in demand in the linguistics of language in their synergistic and cognitive understanding: the value and meaning, the inner form of nominative units of language, means of secondary and indirect derivative nomination, cultural connotations etc. The author's aim is to explain the concept of linguocultural mentality. The author concludes that the mentality can be described as a synergistic perception of the world through the prism of the interaction of the language, consciousness and culture; linguoculture is a way of expressing ethnic mentality as a special vision of the world in concrete chronotopic terms of artistic and creative life of a people.

Urpaqtar sabaqtastyǵy arqyly ulttyq bіregeılіktі saqtaýdaǵy dіnı nanymdardyń rólі [The Role of Religious Beliefs in the Preservation of National Identity Through the Succession of Generations]

This article analyzes the worldview of our nation formed by generations. The analysis was conducted from the philosophical point of view and on the basis of the particular family’s attitude towards ancient Turk religious beliefs and preservation of national identity. The article also discusses the evidences of ancient people’s faith left on old Turkic manuscripts, and its trail left on the mentality of further generations. Moreover, it was found that the perception of the blue wolf totem, played a significant role in the preservation of the national identity. It was also revealed that a succession of generation to the Sun (Mitra), in ancient Turk worships, has a significance in keeping spiritual unity. As a result, the basic functions of preserving a national identity through succession of faith across generations were suggested. Бұл мақалада халқымыздың дүниетанымындағы ұрпақтар сабақтастығы туралы идеялар сараланды. Оның жеке отбасынан бастау алып, ұлт руханияты арқылы жүзеге асатындығына шолу жасалды, көне түркілік діни сенімдердің ұлттық бірегейлікті сақтай отыра, ұрпақтан-ұрпаққа сабақтасатындығы философиялық тұрғыдан талданды. Көне тәңіршілдік сенімнің көне түркі жазба ескерткіштеріндегі көріністерінің ұрпақтар арқылы жалғасқан менталитеттік көріністері сарапталды. Сонымен қатар, көк бөрі тотемінің көнеден бері сабақтасқан дүниетанымдық қырлары да ұлттық бірегейлікті сақтауға айтарлықтай ықпал еткендігі дәйектелді. Күнге (Митра) табыну дәстүрлері көне түркілік руханияттық бірегейлікті сақтауда айтарлықтай қызмет атқарғандығы да бұл сенімнің сабақтасқандығы бойынша ашып көрсетілді. Нәтижесінде, діни сенімдердің ұрпақтар сабақтастығы арқылы ұлттық бірегейлікті сақтаудағы негізгі қызметтері ұсынылды.

VALUE-BASED FOUNDATIONS OF INTERACTION BETWEEN FAMILY AND SCHOOL

Обосновывается актуальность определения духовных сущностей взаимодействия семьи и школы в условиях ценностного плюрализма современного общества. Подчеркивается возрастание образовательных потребностей родителей в процессе воспитания детей, стремление к диалогу с педагогами. В исследовании используется экзистенциальный подход, позволяющий описать взаимодействие семьи и школы в целостности их со-существования. В результате исследования выявлены духовные экзистенциалы взаимодействия семьи и школы: любовь, свобода и ответственность, соборность. Взаимодействие семьи и школы характеризуется как социальный союз, строящийся на любви, задача которого состоит в том, чтобы развить в ребенке коммуникативные способности и индивидуальные особенности, необходимые в социальной коммуникации. Взаимодействие требует единства в принятии и родителями, и педагогами ценности свободы и ответственности в непрерывном образовании детей, способствующих активизации процессов самопозна ния, саморазвития и самоопределения, формирующих умение осуществлять свободный выбор и нести ответственность за него. Отношения семьи и школы характеризуются как соборность, то есть духовная связь, основанная на чувствах любви, уважения, солидарности. Школа при этом является устроителем «встречи» взрослых и детей, позволяющей обнажить ценности и смыслы разных поколений. Делается вывод о том, что взаимодействие семьи и школы – это творческий процесс обретения смысла в педагогической деятельности и педагогов, и родителей, где модус их со-бытия строится на ответственности за судьбоносный период в жизни детей, их личностного становления. Отношения педагогов и родителей основываются на значимости для них общих ценностей: любви как принятия ребенка в его уникальности, ценности и неповторимости, развиваемых в ситуации социальной коммуникации; свободы и ответственности через осмысление историчности и неповторимости образовательной ситуации, соборности как переживания единения, основанного на общности судьбы, бескорыстности и всеобщности «добра» как регуляторов взаимодействия. The importance of identifying spiritual foundations of interaction between a family and a school in the reality of value-based pluralism in contemporary society is explained. The growing demand on education among parents to provide proper upbringing is emphasized, as well as their desire to communicate with the teachers. The research is based on the existential approach that makes it possible to describe interaction between a family and a school in the unity of their co-existence. The research results revealed the following spiritual existential units of interaction between a family and a school: love, freedom and responsibility and spiritual unity and cooperation. Interaction between a family and a school may be treated as a social unity based on love, the goal of which is to develop communicative skills and individual features necessary in social interaction. Such interaction requires understanding of the value of freedom and responsibility in continuous education by both parents and teachers. It will stimulate self-cognition, self-development and self-identification that contribute to the skills of independent choice and form the ability to bear responsibility for the choice. The relations between a family and a school are characterized by spiritual unity, in other words it is an inner link based on the feelings of love, respect and solidarity. A school in this case provides a “meeting” between adults and children that allows revealing the values and spirit of different generations. The following conclusion about interaction between a family and a school is made: it is a creative process of finding the meaning of teaching by both pedagogues and parents, where the modus of their co-existence is based on responsibility for the crucial period in children’s lives and for the process and result of their personalities shaping. Relations between teachers and parents are based on the role of common values: love in the form of acceptance of the child and his/her unique features, his/ her importance and individuality developed during social communication; freedom and responsibility via comprehension of educational situation, and spiritual unity and cooperation as togetherness based on similarity of fate, unselfishness and universality of “the good” as regulators of interaction.

Some words on Jung, self, and mandala

Trying to reconcile the continuity of being with the discreteness of consciousness, modern seekers for the truth appeal to the Eastern mystical traditions based on the idea of the unity of all things and singularity of the world. In terms of analytical psychology, to overcome the human alienation from the world and from themselves is to return to his/her Self. C.G. Jung considered the reintegration of a personality to be a prerequisite for solving the spiritual, social, ethical, and political problems humanity is facing now. This process is the basis for the integrity of the psyche. Successful reintegration requires centering, that is, unification with everything that exists into one organic whole. Observing his patients, the psychoanalyst concluded that the idea of centering was archetypal to the spiritual pole of the unconscious. His therapy was aimed at achieving the Self in the process of individuation, i.e., the reintegration of the instinctive and spiritual poles of the psyche. The process of individuation is similar to the reintegration process in Yoga philosophy, which is symbolized by a mandala that reintegrates the perception of the world and helps us to reconcile with the total cosmic reality. According to C.G. Jung, a mandala is the universal psychic image, the symbol of the Oneness, the deep essence of the human soul. C.G. Jung believed that the achievement of the Self was a natural process embedded in the individuals. The questions posed by a great psychoanalyst push us into searching for ourselves, the golden mean in ourselves, our actions, and our views. The salvation of a modern human in the contemporary world full of conflicts is to find the way to the spiritual unity with humankind, which is the highest manifestation of the spiritual unity with the universe. This becomes possible due to a return to our Self. The paper aims at analyzing the Jungian concept of the Self in the context of oriental religious and philosophical teachings.