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Social Conditioning

Faith

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In my 70 years of life on this earth I have seen how relatives and friends have given up or relaxed their rigid worldviews. To some it’s because the have mellowed. To others it’s because they are no longer at home with the structures. To some others it’s because religion has been differentiated from spirituality. some of the young have simply become cynical although many have opted to be even more idealistic. Others prefer to go by their individual paths. A great number especially among the highly educated have chosen to take the sociological attitude of observing and not making any judgment.

M Tamura wrote: No matter how good something looks or feels or how much it may work for someone else, if it’s not from within you, it’s not for you.

Carmelita Roxas Natividad wrote in the Philippine Daily Inquirer of June 20, 2013: Today, when many humans have evolved beyond the mundane and humane, there is a great need for a new kind of spirituality.

M. Beck wrote: There is no one stable path to humanity”s best future: we live in the time of infinite paths. The only thing we need to share is our commitment to traveling the wild new world through presence, compassion, imagination, and creation…If enough people accept this leadership:     if a critical mass of human beings begin to live as wayfinders, a new dominant worldview could soon arrive on our planet.

Rev. Kali Pietre M. Llamado wrote in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on June 25, 2013: What we need is to come home to the Church and to look for the true and authentic meaning of Jesus Christ’s teachings which the Church has wonderfully preserved and explained for centuries.

Rabbi Belfour Brickner wrote: Faith is not a fixed phenomenon, not a body of answers, so much as it is a process, a constant refinement, a constant incorporation of new knowledge and new wisdom from many different sources.

Beauty

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Spending hours with my husband, friends, and former students a la Juanita Brown Conversations can be energizing. It made the reality of letting go of our one and only daughter much easier. I like a statement made by Cynch Baga about Cardinal Ratzinger”s letter to artists. The former pope said something about beauty saving our world.

The statement was made even more meaningful in the context of a gathering of friends each on a different level of his or her spiritual journey.

That brought me back to Sardello’s Artistic Living as an antidote to terrorism; to Steiner”s education of the senses and return to Nature.

I personally can’t be inspired when my surroundings are in a mess. Ariel and Shya Kane’s second principle: no two things can occupy the same space at the same time is applicable.I can’t deal with disorder and at the same time have beautiful thoughts.

Tamura”s neutral state, Joe Vitale’s Zero Limits, Laura Bushnell’s and Loori’s inner silence all urge one to connect with the beauty of stillness in one’s self.

 

Nightmares

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It’s happening again! A week or so after practising what Ariel and Shya Kane wrote in “Working on Yourself Doesn’t Work” plus using the Waki blanket to bed, I have had nightmares again.

This could be an effect of Kane’s first principle: what you resist, persists. It could be that the electrical charges emitted by the Waki blanket energizes my subconscious to create havoc in my thoughts. It could be a kind of shaman’s sickness as described in Martha Beck’s book.

For 2 months or so I had a peaceful life living according to Joe Vitale’s “Zero Limits”: the Ho’oponopono paradigm. In my desire to hasten my recovery to be able to walk again without a cane, I have searched my numerous books for a non-traditional type of healing. I want to know how my thoughts may be sabotaging my healing. I want to know whether I am affected by the Law of Perversity I wrote about in May of this year.

“Structural learning and spontaneous intuition are not really at war with one another.” So wrote Jim Gilkeson. This is comforting to know as I continue to temper my rational thinking with awareness and education of the senses.
“The more truly differentiated our knowledge base and the more tools it has at its disposal, the greater the variety of our intuitive repertoire.” Jim Gilkeson continued.

Untrained Mind

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     Laura Bushnell wrote:” the untrained mind is held back by all the negative thoughts that are clamoring about inside.”
     This is the Monkey Mind that Maria Nemeth discussed in her book “The Energy of Money”.We are better served when our minds are still and quiet so that we can listen to our hearts. Bushnell continues: How can a whisper of truth or understanding find its way in when there is already such noise and disharmony going on in the mind?
     When we are stuck in the mind, it’s easy to get caught up in analyzing things, viewing them in a positive or negative way. The mind has been taught to operate in a mode of fear and anticipation. It loves to have problems to analyze.
     Every problem has a solution, but one can rarely find it by holding on to a problem and going over and over it in one’s mind.

Artistic Living

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Uncanny but my thoughts about general education curriculum have been inspired by terrorism and the terrorists as discussed by Robert Sardello.

     Terrorism turns fear into a god – invisible, all powerful, a great and mighty punisher, the lord of death himself.
     The terrorist is no longer afraid of death. His life means nothing to him, and thus neither does anyone else’s.
     Terrorism kills the sense that we have a future, a life destiny… It views people as objects, and we become objects, even to ourselves.
     The potential for each of us becoming our own terrorist can be found in the loss of faith in life.
     An antidote to terrorism according to Sardello is artistic living which consists of developing the
the ability to display through our actions and attitudes, the power of soul and spirit.
     Furthermore, Goodness consists of the capacity to go beyond ourselves, beyond our self – interests, and into the lives of others.
     Personally, I pray I can see this coming into reality in my lifetime.