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"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)

"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#68)

"Provocation is not provocative. Provocation is antivocative 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#69)

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... should pose that as a tongue-in-cheek item.

"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#70)

"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#71)

"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 US 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#72)

"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#73)

"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#74)

"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#75)

"If we have no sun here, what is our source of energy... Snicker 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#76)

"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#77)

“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#78)

"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#79)

"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#80)

"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#81)

“Those who are fearful need structures of stability. Build foundations out of the common clay. Ok, here’s the situation: Vast majority sit in the middle. One side says ‘We have to get our way,’ and they do. And the vast crowd knows it is at their expense, so nothing seems stable or secure. And those in power play on this and point out how insecure they are. Great! And the other side points out how the first ones are making it insecure. Equally great! What we need is some group to create a foundation on a common level which speaks to hope and security, just like FDR and Wilson did. Forget the right and do what’s right!

“Don’t use politics to snipe, but to build.

“Ok, hold endless hearings on who did what bad things, or start with some small programs to do good. So, forget a timetable for withdrawal and start worrying about a timetable for implementation of something... anything... please, we’re waiting... and waiting... and waiting. The usual suspects are suspicious only of the lack of anything. Get going. And make it positive and real. No point in striving for open, honest debate when no one has anything to say. I’m done.

“Stop focusing on them. Understanding them doesn’t lead to action; understanding yourself could. And that’s the liberal curse: The belief that if we could just understand it, it would then be better. Poobah. Again, trying to understand the failing participants is to energize them. Time to make videos about dreams, hopes, and foundations than to watch the news and obsess on C-Span. People need to stop being observers and commentators, and start being actors. The last thing we need is another blog!” (2/11/2006 - R#82)

"Just remember love, true wuv, never ends. It is the glue which binds the spiritual to the physical. And it’s superglue!

“Most people have a love-hate relationship with love. They love it but hate its implications. You see, life at this level is about self identity and differentiation, so when love makes one feel good about oneself, we love love... or wuv wuv. But when we sense that love is ultimately about connection and all that implies about loss of distinct self in a larger entity, we hate it. But that’s the way of the spirit: finding identity to fuse into a more complex identity.

“Being you is not about being you but about being able to become us. And then us and them become we... and this one went we we we all the way home, which is what we do. We go we and then we and then we an infinite number of times and we are home and one and one with everything. ‘Hold the relish.’ CT!

“So, this day can be confusing.” (2/14/2006 - R#83)

"Even some evolved don’t pay attention. SP is not for the faint of heart... and not for the faint at Hearts. People sometimes seek instead of see, and want harmony over understanding. Confessor’s role: Listen but don’t advocate... nor avocado.

“How to have a self without the self dominating. It is a form of fear: ‘I fear, not others, but myself... and don’t even ask about my elf. So I quiet the fear by quieting myself... shut up, you elf.’

“As Bullwinkle the Moose would say, ‘I don’t know my own strength.’ And, for those with power issues, their own power can be an issue. Powerful and powerless-perceiving people can look alike in action--or rather, in inaction. The old difference between assertive and aggressive, resolved by those fearing aggression by not being assertive.

“Ponder that tidbit about power and fear. Conciliation is not an expression of identity but a negation. Hmmm... damn fine! Enough for now.

“Making everything nice <grin>. And then, when nice is not enough, violence erupts because power has been suppressed or denied. Keep a plug on a volcano to keep the valley nice and risk an eruption; use the power of the volcano and avoid the eruption.” (8/4/2006 - R#84)

"Fear begets reasons for fear. Let’s say, everyone was aware but not fearful; someone does some frightening thing but no one becomes fearful. Wouldn’t get anyone to try that again, because hey, what’s the point. But then someone does something really neato and gets applause. Wow! Israel sends Lebanon a note every month there is peace saying ‘Thanks.’ What a concept. And for every month the neighbors are peaceful they get another, slightly larger, form of economic help. But nooooooooo, wait for the trouble instead.

“You can’t make rhubarb pie without sugar and not expect to pucker. Why do people plant weeds and expect crops. I don’t know. ‘Because they’re stupid.’ CT! ‘Because they’re people?’ Better, CT. ‘Because they are learning.’ Yes, CT. ‘Like me.’ No, CT.

“I just gave you much pith.” (8/10/2006 - R#85)

"By the way, I may be nappy-headed but I’m no ho (just to keep Imus off my case.)

“Hate has no place in One Human Family. Hate speech should be illegal. Then we could torture Ann Coulter with the soft cushions and the comfy chair. She could be ordered to say nice things. Or just throw a bucket of water on her... 'I’m mellllttttiiiinnnngggg.'

“Why is hate violence illegal, but not hate speech. Someone should use the Rico laws to say there is a conspiracy of hateful harassment.

“I think they should have a hate-off with Coulter and O’Reilly, with the most vicious--or, I should say, more vicious--being able to slay the other. Gladiators of the Word. Can Ann make Bill cry. Rush: Is he quick to fold. Their egos are so largely inflated, they couldn’t stand being one-upped. But inflated egos are a sign of small senses of self. Real people don’t need to inflate anything.” (4/15/2007 - R#86)

"Define energy. Define physical. Energy that becomes mass is only energy of some dimensions. And physicality is related to mass in only some dimensions. I am physical now but not in a mass sense. I am materialized, not diffuse. I am energy, gathered and ordered. ‘Hey, I ordered a cheeseburger.’ CT!

“The universe is filled with the potential of energy, and where it hangs out (that’s a technical term) is a manifestation of that energy field. It has dimensions--which is the definition of physical--but the dimensions are of energy. ‘Go figure.’ Papa! Geez, I get to a big point and they’re all here.

“We are together. Teaching moment: If all of our energies are together, and together is a physical descriptor, then we might as well be physical. Odds are that we are here, and here is always physical--even if you don’t know the dimensions or have lips. Hey, don’t give me any lip. Plug that in your sinuses and see what runs.” (4/17/2007 - R#87)

"So, understand what I said? Mickey was right, it’s all about fun! And squeaky voices. We squeak here because our vibrations are much higher. Sure... that’s the ticket.

“Let’s get serious. Ok. People always make hierarchies out of everything... ‘And some people do this more than others’... CT! So we get this stuff about higher vibrations. But I ask, do the castrati have more wisdom? I don’t think so.

“So why are higher vibrations more advanced than lower ones. Because people are obsessed with size. ‘I’m not.’ Yes, you are! But but what if it were not a matter of hierarchy, but inclusion. Those who can detect and understand the broadest spectrum are more advanced... well, not advanced, but complex.

“So some detect higher frequencies and think this makes them advanced. But what if we get, you get, he get, they get, higher but lose lower--no net gain. So with complexity comes awareness of more complex energies. And then there’s the whole realm of what is beyond energy. Whoa. Trans-energy existence. But we can’t go there yet.

“Don’t believe that it’s only energy and mass. Sometimes it’s a good Sabbath service, too. So, ponder that.

“You have to look beyond the physical. The physical contains the spiritual but the spiritual is not by any means limited to the physical (and by that I mean all of what we call energy.) Spiritual energy is a form of energy, but spirit is not a subset of energy. Spirit is more than just energy as you know it, and if you try to treat spirit like energy--say, measure it or record it or come up with a theory of it--you’ll get an image of it but not its essence.

“Gamma rays come out from the sun spots, but they are not sun spots. And that’s all I have to say about that!” (4/21/2007 - R#88)

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