Footnotes and References
Note 1:
Though the story is set sixty years into the future, I have blatantly and intentionally ignored all possible and plausible futuristic technological advances.
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Note 2:
Timeline - I have considered September 27, 2015 as the date for the sindoor wedding' because that date was the full moon night. My story here, considers the lunar anniversary (both the days September 24, and 27 being full moon days) The serial episode was telecast on September 17, 2015.
I hope this tiny alteration is overlooked.
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Note 3:
Metanoia, an Ancient Greek word, meaning "changing one's mind", may refer to:
Metanoia (psychology), the process of experiencing a psychotic "breakdown" and subsequent, positive psychological re-building or "healing"
Metanoia (rhetoric), correction, a rhetorical device
Metanoia (theology), repentance
Metanoia (psychology) has been used in psychology since at least the time of American thinker William James to describe a process of fundamental change in the human personality.
The term derives from the Ancient Greek words (met) (meaning "beyond" or "after") and (noe) (meaning "perception" or "understanding" or "mind"), and takes on different meanings in different contexts.
William James used the term metanoia to refer to a fundamental and stable change in an individual's life-orientation. Carl Gustav Jung developed the usage to indicate a spontaneous attempt of the psyche to heal itself of unbearable conflict by melting down and then being reborn in a more adaptive form - a form of self-healing often associated with the mid-life crisis and psychotic breakdown, which can be viewed as a potentially productive process. Jung considered that psychotic episodes in particular could be understood as an existential crisis which might be an attempt at self-reparation: in such instances metanoia could represent a shift in the balance of the personality away from the persona towards the shadow and the self.
Jung's concept of metanoia influenced R. D. Laing and his emphasis on the dissolution and replacement of everyday ego consciousness. Laing's colleague, David Cooper, considered that "metanoia means change from the depths of oneself upwards into the superficies of one's social appearance" - a process that in the second of its three stages "generates the 'signs' of depression and mourning". Similarly influenced was the therapeutic community movement. Ideally, it aimed to support people whilst they broke down and went through spontaneous healing, rather than thwarting such efforts at self-repair by strengthening a person's existing character defences and thereby maintaining the underlying conflict.
In transactional analysis, metanoia is used to describe the experience of abandoning an old scripted self or false self for a more open one: a process which may be marked by a mixture of intensity, despair, self-surrender, and an encounter with the inner void.
Metanoia (Rhetoric) in the context of rhetoric is a device used to retract a statement just made, and then state it in a better way. As such, metanoia is similar to correction. Metanoia is used in recalling a statement in two ways"-to weaken the prior declaration or to strengthen it.
Metanoia is later personified as a figure accompanying Kairos, sometimes as a hag and sometimes as a young lady. Ausonius' epigrams describe her thus: "I am a goddess to whom even Cicero himself did not give a name. I am the goddess who exacts punishment for what has and has not been done, so that people regret it. Hence my name is Metanoea."
Weakening
The use of metanoia to weaken a statement is effective because the original statement still stands, along with the qualifying statement. For instance, when one says, "I will murder you. You shall be punished," the force of the original statement ("I will murder you") remains, while a more realistic alternative has been put forward ("you shall be punished").
Strengthening
When it is used to strengthen a statement, metanoia works to ease the reader from a moderate statement to a more radical one, as in this quote from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations (Book One):
"I still fall short of it through my own fault, and through not observing the admonitions of the gods, and, I may almost say, their direct instructions";
Here Aurelius utilizes metanoia to move from a mild idea ("not observing the admonitions of the gods") to a more intense one ("not observing... their direct instructions"); the clause "I may almost say" introduces the metanoia.
Metanoia, (theology), can be defined as "a transformative change of heart; especially: a spiritual conversion."[1] The term suggests repudiation, change of mind, repentance, and atonement; but "conversion" and "reformation" may best approximate its connotation. In The King James Version of the Bible, its verbal cognate metanoeo is translated as repent
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Note 4:
The painting used in the backdrop of the banner is by Saatchi Art Artist Alison Johnson coincidentally named "Metanoia"
The same has been downloaded from the internet and is reproduced below. I do not believe there is any copyright infringement. Edited by Nynaeve - 8 years ago
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