MR TOYIN ADEPOJU
BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
MR TOYIN ADEPOJU IS A MAN WHO IS LOST.
HE SEEMS TO THINK THAT HE SHOULD BE SOMEWHERE ELSE,OR SHOULD BE SOMEBODY OTHER THAN HE UNDERSTANDS HIMSELF TO BE,BE DOING SOMETHING ELSE OR BE OTHER THAN HE IS .
PLEASE HELP HIM FIND HIMSELF.
HIS PHD RESEARCH IS AN ASPECT OF THAT SEARCH.HE HAS SPENT MORE THAN 20 YEARS IN THAT SEARCH AND THE BEST HE HAS GOT ARE THE SPLINTERS OF RECOLLECTION OF A MAN WHO HAS LOST MUCH OF HIS MEMORY,DOES NOT REMEMBER WHO HE IS,HAS TO ACCEPT OTHER PEOPLE'S ACCOUNTS OF WHO IS ,OF WHERE IS GOING,BUT ALWAYS CAN NOT SHAKE OFF THE PAINFULLY DISTURBING FEELING THAT ALL ACOUNTS GIVEN BY ALL THE PROPER AUTHORITIES ARE NOT QUITE RIGHT AND THAT SOMETHING VITAL IS MISSING,SOMETHING VITAL THAT IS LOST FROM THE PICTURE THAT MAKES UP HIS LIFE IS TERRIBLY OUT OF PLACE,MISINTERPRETED OR JUST PLAIN LOST,LIKE A LANDSCAPE THAT IS PERCEIVED ONLY IN BLACK AND WHITE,WITH EVERYONE INSISTING THAT THAT IS ALL THERE IS TO IT BUT ONE SEEMS TO REMEMBER VAGUELY THAT ONE HAS KNOWN THAT LANDSCAPE IN COLOUR.
OTHERS SAY NO,CAN'T YOU SEE THAT THE WHOLE WORLD IS BUILT ON THE UNDERSTANDING THAT BLACK AND WHITE ARE THE ONLY COLOURS?WHY DO YOU THINK YOUR VIEW ALONE CAN BE RIGHT,YOUR ABERRANT VIEW AGAINST THE UNDERSTANDING OF COUNTLESS GENERATIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD?
MR ADEPOJU IS DEEPLY PERPLEXED BY THESE QUESTIONS.HE HOLD A BA AND AN MA IN ENGLISH AND LITERATURE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF BENIN IN NIGERIA.THESE DEGREES WERE ACQUIRED UNDER THE UNDERSTANDING THAT IF HE IS TO SEARCH FOR THE WAY TO WHERE HE SUSPECTS HE IS ACTUALLY GOING,AS DIFFERENT FROM WHERE HE IS TOLD HE SHOULD BE GOING,WHAT HE SHOULD ACTUALLY BE DOING AS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT ALMOST EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING,HE MUST MAKE HIMSELF FIT IN.HE MUST BELONG TO THE WORLD AS IT IS CONSTITUTED,OF PEOPLE WHO HOLD THAT BLACK AND WHITE ARE THE ONLY COLOURS,HE MUST MASTER THEIR TOOLS AND USE THEM IN HIS SEARCH BECEAUSE THOSE ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT TOOLS EXTANT.ONLY THEN ,AFTER ONE HAS ACQUIRED THE TOOLS OF THE WORLD,AFTER ONE HAS SHOWN THAT ONE CAN BELONG IN IT AS OTHERS ARE DOING,AFTER ONE HAS ASSUMED THE CLOAK THEY WEAR EVEN IF ONE IS DIFFERENT UNDERNEATH,HAVING GAINED THEIR WEAPONS BUT WITH A PURPOSE DIFFERENT FROM THEIR OWN,ONLY THEN CAN ONE SEARCH FOR THE WAY THAT ONE HAS LOST;THE MEMORY THAT HAS NOT BEEN RECOVERED BUT WILL NOT GO AWAY.
THAT APPROACH HAS NOT WORKED.IT IS A LIE.A LIE THAT SUCKS ONE ALMOST INEXORABLY INTO THE WHEEL THAT IS CALLED SOCIAL LIFE,SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY.THE PERSON BECOMES A RESPONSIBLE,FULLY ACCEPTED MEMBER OF SOCIETY,BUT IS STILL LOST.
MR ADEPOJU IS LOST.
THERE SEEMS TO BE A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE,SCATTERED ACROOS TIME AND SPACE,WHO ARE IN AGREEMENT THAT THEY ARE LOST AND ARE IN DEAD EARNEST ABOUT FINDING THE WAY TO THEIR ACTUAL DESTINATIONS,WHICH THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN BUT THE MEMORY OF WHICH THEY ARE DETERMINED TO RECOVER.THEY ARE LIKE THE MAN WHO,AFTER LOSING HIS MEMORY AFTER AN ACCIDENT, USED THE WEBSITE OF FRIENDS REUNITED TO REGAIN CONTACT WITH OLD ACQUAINTANCES WHO HELPED HIM REGAIN HIS MEMORY.THESE PEOPLE HELP EACH OTHER PIECE TOGETHER WHO THEY ACTUALLY ARE AND WHERE THEY WERE GOING BEFORE THEY LOST THEIR MEMORIES,LOST THEIR SENSE OF DIRECTION AND BEGAN TO WANDER.
IT WOULD SEEM THAT KATHERINE MALTWOOD AND SUSANNE WENGER ARE TWO SUCH PEOPLE.THEIR SEARCH IN THE TEXTS OF VAROUS TRADITIONS,THEIR TRAVELS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES, ATTESTED TO THAT.AT TIMES AS WANDERERS WHO DID NOT KNOW THAT WAS WHAT THEY WERE,AT OTHER TIMES AS SEMISENTIENT WANDERERS,WHO SEARCHED WITHOUT KNOWING THEY WERE SEARCHING OR WHAT EXACTLY THEY WERE SEARCHING FOR, PEOPLE WHO WERE LOOKING FOR MARKS OF SOMETHING THEY COULD NOT FULLY GIVE SHAPE TO BUT WHICH RESONATED WITH THEIR QUEST.THEY DID NOT KNOW EACH OTHER.THEY LIVED IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES,GREW UP IN DIFFERENT PLACES.MALTWOOD IS DEAD BUT WENGER IS STILL ALIVE,IN THE SMALL NIGERIAN TOWN WHERE HER WANDERING AND SEARCHING TOOK HER, FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO,FAR AWAY FROM HER NATIVE AUSTRIA.YOU CAN SEE THE PULL OF THE SEARCH.MALTWOOD TRAVELLED WIDELY IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD,AND EVENTUALLY MOVED FROM HER NATIVE ENGLAND TO CANADA WHERE SHE PUT DOWN ROOTS.AGAIN,THE IRRESTIBLE INFLUENCE OF THE PULL.THE SENSE OF LOSTNESS.THE NEED TO SEARCH FOR THE WAY HOME WHEREVER IT CAN BE FOUND, SINCE WITHOUT IT,NOWHERE IS HOME.
PERHAPS AT THE MUSEUM TO WHICH SHE BEQUESTHED HER ESTATE WE SHALL SMELL THE AIR SHE ACQUIRED IN HER JOURNEYINGS,IN HER SEARCHES.THAT AIR COULD HELP US REORIENT OURSELVES.ONE SEARCHER IGNITING ANOTHER WITH THE MEMORIES SHE HAS BEEN ABLE TO REKINDLE IN HER OWN SELF.PERHAPS THEN,MR.ADEPOJU WILL COME CLOSER TO FINDING HIS WAY HOME.
BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
MR TOYIN ADEPOJU IS A MAN WHO IS LOST.
HE SEEMS TO THINK THAT HE SHOULD BE SOMEWHERE ELSE,OR SHOULD BE SOMEBODY OTHER THAN HE UNDERSTANDS HIMSELF TO BE,BE DOING SOMETHING ELSE OR BE OTHER THAN HE IS .
PLEASE HELP HIM FIND HIMSELF.
HIS PHD RESEARCH IS AN ASPECT OF THAT SEARCH.HE HAS SPENT MORE THAN 20 YEARS IN THAT SEARCH AND THE BEST HE HAS GOT ARE THE SPLINTERS OF RECOLLECTION OF A MAN WHO HAS LOST MUCH OF HIS MEMORY,DOES NOT REMEMBER WHO HE IS,HAS TO ACCEPT OTHER PEOPLE'S ACCOUNTS OF WHO IS ,OF WHERE IS GOING,BUT ALWAYS CAN NOT SHAKE OFF THE PAINFULLY DISTURBING FEELING THAT ALL ACOUNTS GIVEN BY ALL THE PROPER AUTHORITIES ARE NOT QUITE RIGHT AND THAT SOMETHING VITAL IS MISSING,SOMETHING VITAL THAT IS LOST FROM THE PICTURE THAT MAKES UP HIS LIFE IS TERRIBLY OUT OF PLACE,MISINTERPRETED OR JUST PLAIN LOST,LIKE A LANDSCAPE THAT IS PERCEIVED ONLY IN BLACK AND WHITE,WITH EVERYONE INSISTING THAT THAT IS ALL THERE IS TO IT BUT ONE SEEMS TO REMEMBER VAGUELY THAT ONE HAS KNOWN THAT LANDSCAPE IN COLOUR.
OTHERS SAY NO,CAN'T YOU SEE THAT THE WHOLE WORLD IS BUILT ON THE UNDERSTANDING THAT BLACK AND WHITE ARE THE ONLY COLOURS?WHY DO YOU THINK YOUR VIEW ALONE CAN BE RIGHT,YOUR ABERRANT VIEW AGAINST THE UNDERSTANDING OF COUNTLESS GENERATIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD?
MR ADEPOJU IS DEEPLY PERPLEXED BY THESE QUESTIONS.HE HOLD A BA AND AN MA IN ENGLISH AND LITERATURE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF BENIN IN NIGERIA.THESE DEGREES WERE ACQUIRED UNDER THE UNDERSTANDING THAT IF HE IS TO SEARCH FOR THE WAY TO WHERE HE SUSPECTS HE IS ACTUALLY GOING,AS DIFFERENT FROM WHERE HE IS TOLD HE SHOULD BE GOING,WHAT HE SHOULD ACTUALLY BE DOING AS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT ALMOST EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING,HE MUST MAKE HIMSELF FIT IN.HE MUST BELONG TO THE WORLD AS IT IS CONSTITUTED,OF PEOPLE WHO HOLD THAT BLACK AND WHITE ARE THE ONLY COLOURS,HE MUST MASTER THEIR TOOLS AND USE THEM IN HIS SEARCH BECEAUSE THOSE ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT TOOLS EXTANT.ONLY THEN ,AFTER ONE HAS ACQUIRED THE TOOLS OF THE WORLD,AFTER ONE HAS SHOWN THAT ONE CAN BELONG IN IT AS OTHERS ARE DOING,AFTER ONE HAS ASSUMED THE CLOAK THEY WEAR EVEN IF ONE IS DIFFERENT UNDERNEATH,HAVING GAINED THEIR WEAPONS BUT WITH A PURPOSE DIFFERENT FROM THEIR OWN,ONLY THEN CAN ONE SEARCH FOR THE WAY THAT ONE HAS LOST;THE MEMORY THAT HAS NOT BEEN RECOVERED BUT WILL NOT GO AWAY.
THAT APPROACH HAS NOT WORKED.IT IS A LIE.A LIE THAT SUCKS ONE ALMOST INEXORABLY INTO THE WHEEL THAT IS CALLED SOCIAL LIFE,SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY.THE PERSON BECOMES A RESPONSIBLE,FULLY ACCEPTED MEMBER OF SOCIETY,BUT IS STILL LOST.
MR ADEPOJU IS LOST.
THERE SEEMS TO BE A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE,SCATTERED ACROOS TIME AND SPACE,WHO ARE IN AGREEMENT THAT THEY ARE LOST AND ARE IN DEAD EARNEST ABOUT FINDING THE WAY TO THEIR ACTUAL DESTINATIONS,WHICH THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN BUT THE MEMORY OF WHICH THEY ARE DETERMINED TO RECOVER.THEY ARE LIKE THE MAN WHO,AFTER LOSING HIS MEMORY AFTER AN ACCIDENT, USED THE WEBSITE OF FRIENDS REUNITED TO REGAIN CONTACT WITH OLD ACQUAINTANCES WHO HELPED HIM REGAIN HIS MEMORY.THESE PEOPLE HELP EACH OTHER PIECE TOGETHER WHO THEY ACTUALLY ARE AND WHERE THEY WERE GOING BEFORE THEY LOST THEIR MEMORIES,LOST THEIR SENSE OF DIRECTION AND BEGAN TO WANDER.
IT WOULD SEEM THAT KATHERINE MALTWOOD AND SUSANNE WENGER ARE TWO SUCH PEOPLE.THEIR SEARCH IN THE TEXTS OF VAROUS TRADITIONS,THEIR TRAVELS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES, ATTESTED TO THAT.AT TIMES AS WANDERERS WHO DID NOT KNOW THAT WAS WHAT THEY WERE,AT OTHER TIMES AS SEMISENTIENT WANDERERS,WHO SEARCHED WITHOUT KNOWING THEY WERE SEARCHING OR WHAT EXACTLY THEY WERE SEARCHING FOR, PEOPLE WHO WERE LOOKING FOR MARKS OF SOMETHING THEY COULD NOT FULLY GIVE SHAPE TO BUT WHICH RESONATED WITH THEIR QUEST.THEY DID NOT KNOW EACH OTHER.THEY LIVED IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES,GREW UP IN DIFFERENT PLACES.MALTWOOD IS DEAD BUT WENGER IS STILL ALIVE,IN THE SMALL NIGERIAN TOWN WHERE HER WANDERING AND SEARCHING TOOK HER, FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO,FAR AWAY FROM HER NATIVE AUSTRIA.YOU CAN SEE THE PULL OF THE SEARCH.MALTWOOD TRAVELLED WIDELY IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD,AND EVENTUALLY MOVED FROM HER NATIVE ENGLAND TO CANADA WHERE SHE PUT DOWN ROOTS.AGAIN,THE IRRESTIBLE INFLUENCE OF THE PULL.THE SENSE OF LOSTNESS.THE NEED TO SEARCH FOR THE WAY HOME WHEREVER IT CAN BE FOUND, SINCE WITHOUT IT,NOWHERE IS HOME.
PERHAPS AT THE MUSEUM TO WHICH SHE BEQUESTHED HER ESTATE WE SHALL SMELL THE AIR SHE ACQUIRED IN HER JOURNEYINGS,IN HER SEARCHES.THAT AIR COULD HELP US REORIENT OURSELVES.ONE SEARCHER IGNITING ANOTHER WITH THE MEMORIES SHE HAS BEEN ABLE TO REKINDLE IN HER OWN SELF.PERHAPS THEN,MR.ADEPOJU WILL COME CLOSER TO FINDING HIS WAY HOME.
On disjunction between psycholgical development and dominant social values,particularly in terms of a conflict between individual and group Weltansschaung-world view- as represented by one's society, see the work of Kazimierz Dąbrowski, Colin Wilson and Abraham Maslow.Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration,in particular, could be understood to embody much of my experience in the tension between aspects of my domestic crisis and its metaphysical collerate that is central to this blog.
Along with a site dedicated to his work,Kaminski Battaglia's PhD dissertation does a scholarly overview and analysis of his work in relation to Dąbrowski's biographical and social context.
Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy as described in perhaps his most famous book,Man's Search for Meaning, will also be useful.The Viktor Frankl Institute of Vienna site contains a complete biblilography and references to the growth of the discpline.
posted by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju @ 2:29 PM
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