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"I can't get no satisfaction. Quick, what's the difference between satisfaction and fulfillment. One is about the past, and the other about the future. When you are fulfilled you are also satisfied, but when you are satisfied you may stop looking for fulfillment." (10/3/2003 - R#56)

"If we focus on subgroups of the whole in an attempt to get to the whole, we get a hole, not the whole.

"Every time we focus on less than All That Is, we settle for less than All That Is. And we all do that, but the question is how little and how limited is the piece we identify with. And one of the best ways to measure is to ask: 'What identifier do I find I need to defend most often.'

"If we need to defend some element of our perceived being, then that element is taking our energy, not supporting or informing it.

"So if you take great offense at a racial, but not racist, comment, you are defining yourself racially--which is one poor and small piece of the All That Is pie. And if you find you now must defend cakes against this identification of All That Is with pies, then you are wasting energy by identifying with cakes.

"In an existence which is bigger than any spiritual pâtisserie, to argue about pies and cakes is to miss the big picture. Small circles keep spirits small in an infinite reality." (12/1/2003 - R#57)

"And now, a hit from the past: wham! That was Napoleon to Josephine over the brioche remark. And now, a low blow: ouch! That was Josephine's knee to Napoleon's crotch over his flack over the brioche remark.

"Everybody is here... but shhhh don't tell Nappy he's going on a trip but won't be coming back. Well, he will be coming back, but as several primal entities. Actually, it is about to happen and it is happening and it happened long ago--all true without time.

"All dictators end up that way. It's like thinking of a good slave master. Good dictator. He was such a nice homicidal maniac. He held the door open on the ovens. And he prayed to Christ like a good Christian." (1/8/2004 - R#58)

"We have hit a low, but will it rise or sink? Stay tuned. Sometimes the people rise and the leaders follow, sometimes the leaders rise and the people follow, sometimes they just sink together. If one waits for the other, they sink... plop. So don't wait for someone else. You may later decide you were following; but hey, maybe you'll find out you were leading!

"Hey, life is not a spectator sport. Troughs occur when too many become spectators of sorts. I am out of sorts, I need to order more. Let's just sort this out. But you can't wait for someone else to tell you... not even moi." (1/12/2004 - R#59)

"Sometimes you have to bail out the boat so much when you're in a trough, that you don't have time to steer. Ponder that... another of enigmatic clues to the contemporary situation in the physical world." (2/3/2004 - R#60)

"We've been looking for Kerry's spiritual footprint on history, and we can't find it. He is as vacuous as GWB (not to be confused with GW), his imperial weirdness. Why didn't he show up for 6 months? Can we say binge and rehab. At least he's honest when he says he doesn't remember. Dean will do fine if the press leaves. They distort. That's the seeds of revolution.

"Revolution never comes from the hotheads, but when the wise but conventional folk say enough. The Greens would never get it together, but the Deans just might. Shut down this time, shut out the next, and then we'll shut it down! A system that thwarts the common person cannot stand. Just ask Louis... bye bye. 'Sire, just put your head on the line.' And if you think this time is threatening, wait for '08... whoa.

"It is very hard to swim up out of a trough. It is also very hard to swim out of a trout. Sometimes you gotta tread water, which seems discouraging but rests you up for the big swim on the crest. It is also hard for many to see the lighthouse when they're that deep in the trough. And they mistake the life saver for the lighthouse keeper. Ponder that. One saves, and the other points the way and you save yourself. And lighthouses were not about warning, but guiding. I'm a guide, you know. I guide spirits. It's good work and lots of job protection." (2/13/2004 - R#61)

"It does seem as if people are being piquish--sign of the trough! When energy abounds--or I should say, when it feels to us like it abounds--we don't get on our high horses as much. But when it is hard to see the sky down deep in the trench, everyone complains about the mud." (2/27/2004 - R#62)

"What is it about veneration? We fill our own sense of inadequacy with the overblown portrayals we give to those who can't speak for themselves. I have a thought. We should start looking for 2 mountains: one grand and tall and picture-perfect, and an adjacent one that is small and short and not that well formed and always in the other's shadow. So when both Bushes are dead, we can name them after them: 'There's Mount Bush and, look below, there's Mount W.' W gets water only through trickle-down.

"But isn't all the hoopla about us, not Reagan. It says much about the poor state of today that Reagan is so venerated... or about Bonzo... and a distraction from terror and war. It once was bread and circuses, now it's funerals and tax cuts. O, let them eat brioche.

"Let's put it this way: He will be sooo excited when he is chosen and told to prepare for a new role, just for him. Wait, remember about people being chosen to play special roles: 'Who, me? I am so special.' 'Bye-bye.' First-timer or complete, is there a difference. Yes, but technical: One is oblivious and the other thinks themself omniscient, and knowing nothing and knowing it all are virtually the same. One doesn't know what to question, and the other thinks there's nothing to question--too much certainty either way. Whoa, I'm getting serious. So I'll stop." (6/10/2004 - R#63)

"We are entering a field of dangerous possibilities--which is always true. The ones which ultimately will be the safest will be the most dangerous ones. Huh. Ok, an example:

"When the Cold War was at its hottest, there were 2 dangerous options: build up defenses, or nuclear disarmament. And disarmament was the more dangerous, it seemed, because it held the least control--or illusion of control--but in the end, it was the safest.

"The path to a reduction of fears will always be paved with its own fearsomeness... Elliot Ness, Fearsome Ness... and my friend, New Ness. The appeal of the apparent often leads astray the lazy. How do you get to a quiet and easy retirement. Hard work. How do you get beyond fears. By doing some seemingly scary stuff. Not all is as it appears. If it were, you'd know it all.

"By the way, the Alpha Market in Seattle overcharges for tomato sauce. File that away. Ummm, bacon! I digress.

"Can't diet without sacrifice. And when the hawks claim you need war to achieve peace, they forget how easy war is and how hard and scary peacemaking is. Drop all of your defenses and you'll see what I mean.

"Great leaders have always been those who could drop their defenses and thus gain unimaginable power. Defend nothing; express all of value." (6/14/2004 - R#64)

"Watch out. As the ship goes down, the rats get more anxious and desperate. And the ship is going down. Party-boy is going, but don't assume his replacement is a savior.

"Just don't get too complacent... and don't get too cynical. And don't get sucked into the scenario, which would take your eyes off the prize. It's always about values, not circumstances. Keep the focus--no matter what!

"Get the story, but seek the values. And you will see details galore in the next months, but details do not understanding make. And facts do not equate with meaning, and there's the possible trap: The current folk try to have meaning without supplying facts. So it may seem a relief to get facts, but they alone aren't much better than factless suppositions.

"Remember algebra. Teachers always liked to trick students by asking them to solve what was only one side of an equation, and students would complete long and arduous proofs of solutions which were meaningless. Have to have both sides of the equation: details and the larger picture, facts and values, this and that. And what does a complete knowledge of the past mean without a vision of the future. And what does a vision of the future mean without a knowledge of the past. Everything is always complex, it's that simple." (6/22/2004 - R#65)

"You know, we think it is ironic that an elected president should use the term sovereignty. Does he think he's a sovereign. Hey George, you're not! Let's talk about the difference.

"Habitual and hereditary rulers get their power from something other than the governed. The governed are told who the leader will be. In a democracy, the governed tell someone who will be leader--you're it, tag. Big difference.

"Ok, let's elevate it a step. Gods usually are seen as those forces which say 'I am the Lord thy God,' etc., etc., etc.... baaaarf. Sandy, did you know some people worship dogs... aarf? Woof. And then there are the forces of nature and creation, which are treated with awe and respect because of their affect on the believer. They rise to the level of divinity--not by their essence, but by their experience.

"And if we take it a whole bunch of steps further, the All That Is is not an entity that is self-defining and proclaiming, but is experienced as the unity of All. That's quite a different concept: All That Is in constant creation, rather than All That Is as a constant. Created versus creative.

"Now let's take it back down. A leader is one who helps the whole see what they are creating. The leader is a revealer more than a creator. Otherwise, you get stuck with static realities. To simply proclaim is to announce the stop of motion.

"When anyone says this or that is the truth, period, all the world stops... or not. Maybe just the thinking and experiencing stops, because the world ain't stopping for no hothead. Why do you think the world has had, and continues to have, revolutions. Because some hothead decided to pretend the world had stopped at her or his truth. And while the obedient stop as well, the world spins on, until the pressure between the stoppage and the realities is too great. Most revolutions are not about a leap forward, but about a step of catching up. The world is already where they're pointing, or else they'd make no sense and no one would revolt. Revolutions are about a sudden sense that 'Hey, there's the world over there, what are we doing stuck over here. Off with the heads'--and I mean the hotheads of those who denied progress, as an illusion of security.

"Don't look to revolutions for ideals, look to them for realism. What they replace is delusion. And the quickest path to delusion is an unshakable belief in one's own absolute truism. Phew. Calm down, Rikkity. I spout, I spume, I spit... ARF... I foam at the mouth, I'm rabid, I'm not a rabbi.

"Peeps usually mistake catching up for progress--sign of the spiritual level of complexity. Can't tell the difference. How come you and I used to call ideal states things like Heaven and Nirvana--as if they were elsewhere and at other times. Why not there and now. What if someone were to act as if ideals were realities. Revolutionary? No, beyond that: radical... or radishes. Ok, enough... stop... grrrr. You already know. But do you dare. Here's CT:"

"Hello. Actually, I told her that when she got here, and she said 'Whoa, no shit?' We dare each other, because we know we don't know, and we know we know already. And our knowing and being it are not revolutionary, but simply catching up. Ever notice how when you get a new idea--when you really get it--it seems obvious and familiar. Catching up, not changing. And when a desired event happens, it often feels like it is already part of us. Well, here she is again... and already." (6/29/2004 - R#66)

"Follow the energy! People would prefer a beacon of hope, but without it they'll settle for a security blanket. See, I made a blanket statement.

"There is a vast untapped pool of psychic energy waiting. We go swimming in it... ARF... but you could use it if you could tap into it. More at 6, film at 11." (9/15/2004 - R#67)

"Keep heart. Don't get angry, don't waste energy on fuming and fussing. Focus on the good. And the sleek shall inherit the Earth--which some think is spelled s-l-i-c-k. If, in any situation, you can't see what you can do positively and will actually start doing it, then you are more of a problem than a hope. Getting fired up is not the same as forming a bucket brigade.

"One question keeps coming from the readers of SP: 'Will I get a clue of what is coming next?' And the answer is: You will get your future, and there is no clue as to what that is, by which you can know it all in advance.

"The best model is one of engagement and letting go. Engage your life as if your life depended on it, and let go of the outcomes. Each experience in the physical needs to be its own journey, not a prelude to a destination.

"Someday they will build planes without windows so you can get there faster, but you might not see the mystery you fly by without noticing. Don't ever let your life be windowless--even if you think you have your compass locked on target.

"And also, the clues you might be able to get--if there were any--might take you to a consequence which is not your only possible outcome. Knowing ahead would lock in one probability... and what might be lost in the bargain, is all." (9/25/2004 - R#68)

"I have to say this again: Focus energy on your positives, not on somebody else's negatives. If you try to cross a river just by stepping off the bank you don't want, you'll drown. Yet politics these days is too much about not going there, rather than let's go here.

"I think it was the scarcity of those times of the Great Depression, coupled with another fear. This is the great fear that no one is supposed to speak: that America is not all it's cracked up to be. In fact, we are just another of the run-of-the-mill countries, trying to make it. We do some things better and some things not. And just because we got the money and the resources, we think we got it made, but fear we don't, so we stop seeing where we could grow--scarcity; fear of flying, so to speak; and our failure, for several generations, to take seriously the integration of newcomers into the dream.

"We once taught people civics; now we ask them to know facts. So we get, not a land of citizens, but a country of factoids. Try Preparation F. We now ask people to show that they are good citizens, where once we helped them become good citizens. Maybe the change is because we have forgotten the dream. Maybe it died in the 30s, when the wealthiest nation couldn't feed and house its people. And once we failed, we have pullen the covers over anything less than that ideal.

"We haven't dreamt a shared dream in too long. And the soul grows weary when it cannot dream. And those in intense fear dare not dream for worry of a nightmare. We choose a dreamless sleep rather than risk the nightmare of our own recognition. We do not see the charlatans at the helm. And we also do not see the saviors in each of us. Enough! I depress myself more... and I depress my elf, and he's short already. He's short because he's standing in a hole. Hey, isn't that a metaphor for now.

"A dream in a hole is only one of getting back to the surface, whilst horizons dance beckoningly all above. I've said it. Done." (9/28/2004 - R#69)

"Provocation is not provocative. Provocation is anti-vocative for thoughtful people, because controversy is about claiming others' energy, not about claiming one's own. Now there's enough pith to go around.

"They don't want to argue. Their first response is to sense how much energy they will have to commit, because once you've responded, you have to keep on responding. They think, but don't want to engage." (10/6/2004 - R#70)

This is the prayer we say before each session:
May we be connected to all things loving,
Protected from all things evil,
And guided in all ways gracious.

"... guided in all ways gracious. Ok, let's run with that. Forget the loving, forget the evil, forget the guided and the protected. Gracious: what does that mean. I'm not going to offer an answer! But that's the central question.

"People want grace more than anything else. They want to know they'll be ok no matter what. So learn how to articulate grace. Sometimes it appears as money, sometimes as security. But wrestle with this: In the absence of discussion about grace, people settle for safety. A gracious nation is a generous and abundant nation.

"Not the best week, eh. Not the worst week, eh. Ok, so we've put it in perspective. Now you've got the choice: Focus on what's worse or what's better. Most will do neither; they will focus on the space between the hoped-for and the actual. A few will say 'Hey, it could have been worse.' 'How.' 'Oy vey, could it have been worse. Don't ask.' But then they'll say 'How.' Fewer still will understand the answer is between the hoped-for realities and the dreamt hopes.

"Going to center is not the answer. If it were, everyone would live in Kansas. Invade the red states. Get a look at the losing margins and have that many move 30 days before the next election.

"We should take a lesson from Washington Square Park speed chess. Speed politics: Each candidate gets 30 minutes of time total... waste 2 minutes on something trivial and lose it. Have those little timing clocks to slam stop. 'What is our biggest dilemma today.' 'Deficit'... slam. 'Social Security'... slam. 'Next question.' Forget sound bytes; get sound bits: 'Today the candidate utters a profound syllable... 'gh'... woog–the Sanford McPooch school of debate... f.

"We always expect it to go differently, but we've learned to deal with disappointment... we're dead. We never ever count on tricks. Fear is a big trick... and our friend, chad. But fear is the big one.

"Got to work, not against fear, but toward hope. We can is the mantra. Yes we can. Hmmm... heard that from my man... another dark whitey like me... although he went to that trade school in Cambridge." (11/5/2004 - R#71)

"Forget the naysayers, connect to the yeasayers. Picture the wagon train waiting to leave St. Jo: Someone is talking about the promise of the West, and then someone says 'What about the natives,' and a great debate starts about what to call them. And then, some others begin to talk about how many are out there, and they produce conflicting maps with little dots on them. Before long it's dark, and so they don't start out. The next day they spend arguing about who is their leader, and the next about the best order for the wagons, etc., etc., etc. And so now their descendants live in St. Jo, and none have ever seen the coast, and they believe the vision of an ocean is just a hoax.

"It is! possible to talk and discuss and move and act at the same time. If we wait for the perfect plan and the perfect time, hell, we might as well just give up! And get done what you can get done, not worrying about what is not getting done... unless it's a roast." (11/12/2004 - R#72)

"Horizon thinking. Don't be a dragging anchor of criticism, be a beacon light of guidance. Two ways to ride out a storm: Drop anchor and hope for the best, or chart a course--often at right angles or head-on--and head for where you need to go. In either scenario, you might go down. But wouldn't it be better to do so heading to port." (11/16/2004 - R#73)

"One of the fallouts of the religious right's crusades is the diminution of the spiritual in life. They want religious, not spiritual, values, and we who dabble in the occult... oooOOOooo... will feel a chilling wind... oooOOOooo... as any form of diversity or creative experiencing is seen as heresy. Heresy Brothers, the department store in downtown Oshkosh. Their motto: Something for everyone. But seriously, folkettes, this will probably mean that some who would have explored will now, out of fear, not look. And that's sad... boo hoo.

"The start of the Middle Ages was the small suppressions of diverse thinking and exploring. If you think the Inquisition was bad, remember it was the last gasp, not the first breath. Consolidation of view and opinion--under the guise of religion--started it all. Constantine demanded that everyone believe the same, and wed church and state, and set up the popes to have power. I hear faintly familiar rings in your present... not determined, so awareness is the key.

"MCP has something to say. MCP, come to the front of the class, take off your hat, and speak."

MCP: "Hey-a. When I traveled with my papa and uncle, we went east--not just because of trade, but also because we were freer there than we would have been in Europe. In Europe, we had to watch our speech and our backs; in Asia, we did not. You can't explore if you are constantly looking over your shoulder. Fear makes a bad traveling companion because, though you may move, you don't really travel. I'm done-a. Here's-a her-a, and she's-a one cute-a babe."

"MCP! Be aware, speak out. Doors can only be shut when no one is holding them open! So don't gather in seclusion, but in the public eye. Secret wisdom doesn't serve in a closed society. And organize. With the advances in communication, you don't have to go dark like that (Middle Ages = Dark Ages). The internet is a hope, as is writing and speaking and witnessing and partying. I am saying you should say what you feel you need to say, before your silences become custom.

"Historically, the most tragic victims were those who suffered and had not spoken out. If you are going to have to endure whatever, at least make it for doing something of value.

"This is a time, not for anxiety, but for commitment. Nothing is cast in stone... ok, some things are, but they're usually tombstones and dead precepts (Ozymandias). I theenk thees ees eet." (11/20/2004 - R#74)

"Keep up the focus. Don't let anger and fear prevail. And don't be afraid of anger, or angry at fear... won't get you anywhere. Eye on the prize, not on the challenges. And vision always ultimately supplies its own means and solutions. Why? Because a real vision of the possible emerges out of the whole of potential only when we already sense its possibility. Once someone thought of a motorized carriage, the car was inevitable. The old build it and they will come is true as dream it and it can be. If you dream it and it can't be, how did you have the vision to dream it? Not saying it will always be easy or simple or evident, but that it will be.

"And the converse holds true: Dread it and it will occur. Fears do not cause things but, since they keep things from happening, other things can happen. Conspiracy, not causation. So, Bob fears the food in a foreign country and doesn't eat it. Somebody else eats it. They feel good about themselves. They don't like it that Bob is so xenophobic, and so they decide to give his gringo food an added kick. Bob kicks. If he had only eaten their food, he wouldn't be here smiling like a D&C idiot. Poor Bob... didn't see it coming. But now he'll know that fear didn't help. He's got eternal indigestion.

"So be thankful. All true thanks are positive. Don't give me any of that I'm thankful I was protected from my enemies crap. Thanks for the positive. And never political thanks–as in, thanks for making us the greatest nation of liberty, etc., etc., crapola. Now I go to keep the birds company." (11/24/2004 - R#75)

"There is still way too much portrayal of the spiritual in physical terms. One of the keys to capturing the hearts of America and the world is to reinvest the spiritual into the discussions and considerations.

"When threat is made physical, there does not seem much point in discussing spiritual resources. But there is. The reason that so many have backed a military solution is that no one talked about the spiritual solution--which meant talking about faith and hope and love and gilda (the forgotten virtue... no no no no). In the absence of a persuasive presentation of uniting faith, the fallback position becomes physical.

"The president set the lead on this, but but but but where were the challengers; where the voices saying 'We've seen worse, we can stand as a nation without fear because we have a uniting faith'... or not. Just a rant.

"And they made faith into specifics, and it's time we take it back as an attitude. So don't mess with the spiritual or we'll give you real physical problems. Here's a question to ponder: If the U.S. suffered several thousand deaths... hi, guys... and that meant we had to attack somebody, what if a natural disaster were to kill thousands. Would we have to hunt God down and kill him?" (11/30/2004 - R#76)

"Be careful of energy. I repeat myself: Don't let others set your agenda... or agender. Case in point: UCC. Okay, CBS doesn't like Jesus's name in ad. Big deal. With so much to be taken on, why focus on this. Great distraction.

"The challenge of the next decade is to keep from being distracted... o, what... huh... ok, later. Where was I? O yes, discerning the difference between the really disturbing and the distracting. And taking the regressives on, making them defensive, and distracting them! Not hard to do, just hard to do.

"Progressives need to put splints on their legs to stop knee-jerk reactions--because all it makes them look like is jerks. And so, too, in personal lives. Be active, not reactive. How many partners spend most of their interpersonal energy reacting. Hey, get a life... or get a death... or whatever. Once again I quote the great philosopher, Frank Furter: 'Don't dream it, be it.' It's that simple." (12/3/2004 - R#77)

"So, frames? Frames are boundaries and definitions, and lenses are foci. Myopic people looking out any frame just see the frame. So it could be pointing anywhere and what's the difference. And presbyopia sees too far away and can't see the present realities. So you need to know, not only where to look, but how to see the whole picture.

"If the right has been using lenses that highlight fear, the left has been using magnifying glasses which focus too much on details. Nobody likes a nit-picker. A world of shortsighted people would always be headed for collisions and cliffs, but a world of only visionaries would trample underfeet those that do not stand far enough ahead. And each is fearful of the other... and with good reason! But I egress." (2/5/2005 - R#78)

"People want to feel cared for and safe. But the safety issue has been pre-empted, so go for the care. Not the welfare, but the care. Look for aspects of nurture which have not been exploited, then focus using those.

"Ok, there's a street. Three people look down the street. The first sees some people just talking and loafing, and decides that if they aren't going to help themselves, why bother caring about them. Another looks down the street and sees some real down-and-out, and focuses on the least of them and says 'I have to help.' And the third looks down the street and sees the vast majority going about their work and raising families and needing some minor, but essential, structures of support. Become the third eye. See the majority who needs fairness and an equal chance. The rest will follow.

"If the extraordinary is contained in the ordinary, then focusing on the ordinary will reveal the extraordinary in time. But looking at the exceptions is like focusing on the differences. See, it all ties together... and then tangles and knots. Rat's nest! If only life had tangle-free and tear-free conditioner. So, I'm done." (2/8/2005 - R#79)

"Precision is a form of torture of an organic universe. O what pith! And precision knows no room for change and growth, and so is the antithesis of creation. Maybe the Anti-Christ is not the one who opposes Jesus, but the one who denies creation. I don't know, I ponder... I wander.

"One of the worst mistakes we can make is to believe that only some who now are dead can do the central work of the world. Your world is filled with TJs, and some of them still deliver milk. Don't look back, look forward. Keep your eyes on the prize, don't turn around and talk to the backseat passengers. Ok, adjust your mirrors and let's go. Road trip." (2/15/2005 - R#80)

"If we have no sun here, what is our source of energy... Snickers bars? We are our own source of energy, released as we find meaningful connections. Potential becomes realized in our combining toward wholeness.

"Things meant to be together bond with a release of energy–don't need external sources when you've got that. Lots to ponder." (2/18/2005 - R#81)

"I want to talk about plans and schemes. Let's talk about schemes first.

"Every scheme relies on some measure of faith and insincerity. I am not putting those two in cahoots or opposition, but to scheme is to believe that one can overcome some apparently natural order of things: It would not happen naturally, but with this scheme it can. And the insincerity comes from trying to pass off the scheme as natural. It presupposes that some level of covert action or intent is needed.

"On the other hand, we have plans. Plans are the open expectation of how one will respond to the natural flow of things. See the difference: one is arrogant and the other is humble. But too many mistake one for the other. 'We are just making plans,' they say, 'to deal with those terrible people over there.' Hey, those aren't plans, they are schemes.

"In every plan, every step is open, evident--while schemes have hidden elements. So don't get caught up in schemes, because they're unnatural; take lots of energy; and, in the long run, don't work. Why do so many people of claimed faith spend so much time and energy fighting nature and scheming for their own benefit? I'll leave that for you to ponder. But remember, no one ever schemed their way to greater complexity. 'I did.' No, you didn't, you first-timer.

"It's about fear that it wouldn't work out any other way, control, and an incomplete sense of the natural self in evolution being sufficient. Stop worrying about the gods and worry about the demigods who appear as demagogues... dem guys. All the scheming in the world won't change the world as it is becoming--just slow down its becoming." (8/1/2005 - R#82)

“Sandy sees things... ARF... quite simplistically–which means nuance gets lost... but he sniffs around and finds nuance hiding in a bush. Strip the world to its basics. Drop down the Pyramid of Needs several levels; focus on warmth, security, food, and relationships. Don’t need that actualization shit. Hey, a dog is a dog... ARF... good form for honing one’s essential perception of self. And a cat is a cat. Forget politics or races or classes, see essentials–spirit without adornment, but with fur and feathers and scales.

“Try to picture yourself doing the same... or even your elf. Bodhisattva: spirit essential in physical form. Sanford is really a very depressed accountant from the Midlands, but he’s enjoying being a dog. He won’t go back! Grrrrr.” (11/4/2005 - R#83)

"I’m lazy. Lazy spirit unable to assemble energy must run on spiritual batteries. Huh.

“Sometimes we just run on the energy of our entity--not taking in nor giving off. But if we don’t heed the signs, we may keep going as if we had the energy and then we become... da-da... energy suckers. Even the most advanced at this level can befall this problem... or is it that this problem can befall even our most advanced at this level... or is it that a bee falls at any level and that’s the buzz. Huh.

“In fact, it takes a level of fulfillment for this to happen, because first-timers suck all the time. For energy sucking to be a fallback, one has to have moved ahead to energy generation. And somewhere in the middle, is living off the entity’s energy without sucking or creating. And then we have that as a fallback when we aren’t up to being creative.

“Hey, take a bear, ok. He can forage and do ok, or he can raid the dump, or he can hibernate. But don’t let him near the beans! Bear bean fart... ugh... arrrrf.

“The drive in complexity is toward greater creation. So when you sense that you are being more creative than dependent, it feels natural and it feels right and good and whoopee. At first, you don’t know from these feelings, but then you sense how when you regress from them it feels bad. ‘Aha,’ you say, ‘I like to feel better... I’m feeling much better now.’ We teach ourselves. It’s a matter of sensing, and then comparing sensations. And let me tell you, infinite-of-the-middle spirits, this which feels better now is just a prelude to what is coming. Getting in tune is great; then think of getting in tune with many other entities to form a new complexity, and how it will feel. Its like the difference between a middle C and a three-octave C major chord! (Best example you can understand, since we’re talking spiritual, not physical.) But this is getting too tiring for lazy me.” (1/5/2006 - R#84)

"I have said that one should follow the energy, remember? Now the question is: When you follow the energy, what shall you look for... or for what shall you look. Good question.

“Let’s go back to the basics. All Creation is tending toward what? ARF. No, it’s not tending toward what; that was a question... arrrf. Learn and remember, dear dog.

“All energy is flowing--more or less--toward a whole, which includes All but is more. So in every transaction, if you follow the energy, look to see if it’s flowing toward some whole, which is greater than any one of its parts, and greater than the sum of its parts. For example, Gandhi’s march to the sea... by the way, did he have a bathing suit?... had energy, not only for a march to that sea at that time for those people, but it also energized people in Selma and Dansk and elsewhere. And we still don’t know all the energy which was created by that energy. In contrast, we have war, in which the energy creates less, rather than more. And its giant sucking sound can echo for centuries.

“So we follow the energy to see if where it goes is productive and enhancing or destructive and life-denying. If something more inclusive is not created by the energy, but rather something more exclusive is created, then you know it’s not about wholes but about parts. And energy to parts is energy wasted. Don’t go there. Like a bad meal which costs a fortune and comes back to haunt you with blech.

“Ok, pith done. Check mark.” (1/25/2006 - R#85)

“Solving problems always appears easier than creating function. But without a compelling and uniting vision, you don’t know what’s right, only what’s wrong.

“Vision never has a single path to its fulfillment because if you already knew the one and only path to it, it is not vision! Vision defies the known methods, and challenges one to look beyond the given. And any institution is a big box with little appreciation for outside the box. I’ll bet the powers-that-be worry, subconsciously, more about what the group photo will look like than what the people in the photo can accomplish. You never get anywhere visionary by worrying about image.” (1/28/2006 - R#86)

“And the corollary is: You can’t get anything imaginative without vision. So that proves that vision is not commutable--just like all dogs are animals... grrr... but not all animals are dogs... h h h h h h.” (2/1/2006 - R#87)

"Here’s a question: What is so demanding of energy right now that the far right has to suck it without regard to principles. Remember, they are merely tools or servants of something, but what? The left fails because it is obsessed with the symptoms, not the cause... so I’ll remove the... no no no no. But if you remove the cause, the symptoms will not persist. But remove the symptoms, and the cause will.

“Just ponder and look. What is such a deficit that it needs filling at all costs. Fear... and the loss of the institutions of assuaging fear. For some, the good old religion of conservative salvation is needed, and if everything becomes watered down or strangely evangelical, they feel like they have no footing. More later. Film at 11. Just a musing.” (2/8/2006 - R#88)

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