To start this chapter we have a response from the journalist Hippie and friend who uses the name Eternum1 on the web. He was a part of the founding of web logs as these journalists went to the hot spots of the world and kept in touch with each other. I think he sees where I am going with this book.
Dear Robert:
I agree with Sartre in that each being has complete freedom if he will only believe it and I agree with Camus on how the absurd man becomes a rebel. Sartre had de Beauvoir to keep him honest in his musings because most left wing sympathizers had yet to recognize women as the barometer of society’s evolution. As a result Sartre was more of an anarchist in his existential writings while Camus remained a sympathizer to Marxist rebellion, he didn’t quite link Engels statement “judge a society by the position of its women” to the rebellion of his time.
I understand your link to Abby Hoffman and Jerry Rubin… btw I followed up on Rubin’s “student is nigger” with my own catchy title ‘the lumpenproletariat and the revolutionary youth movement’… I know its a real page turner judging by the title…. but it was re-printed in all the new left magazines of the day and translated into French, German and Italian….. it was an analysis of why white middle class youth was dropping out into a sub-proletarian mode of existence… i.e.… the hippy movement….. I explained in more human terms than Rubin… how white middle class and bourgeois children linked the limits on their freedom to racial minorities and the poor, which kind of shook up the socialists of the day who thought labor unions were the radical institutions still….. the idea that lumpys or otherwise déclassé citizens were the future great unwashed disturbed them more than the capitalists it appeared.
I agree that true freedom is the ability to accept or reject all things or as Sartre says psychologically in each one of us this amounts to trying to take the causes and motives as things. We try to confer permanence upon them. “We attempt to hide from ourselves that their nature and their weight depend each moment on the meaning which I give to them”; I find this statement very important, but not original since a similar thing was said by Nietzsche a hundred of years before, because it allows a different view of the things in the world. It reveals the potential of the thoughts. When everything depends on the meanings we give, then, we should think positively and we should give the meanings that we want, however unusual they are, not the ones we are expected to give and this would bring us closer to reaching our purposes.
How often have we seen our motives and causes co-opted and their meanings distorted into what you refer to hole (ass) istic babble. Too often. As we discussed in Babble on Babylon the separation of beings continues without the need for foreign tongues, our own language is used against us.
To the point where words like patriotism, love, freedom all become things not qualities…. but things we attach to like clothing labels.
Sartre makes an attempt to describe what freedom exactly is in Part 4, chapter 1 of his book Being and Nothingness. However, he says, he finds it difficult since describing something is looking for its essence. And “freedom has no essence”… “Freedom makes itself an act, and we ordinarily attain it across the act which it organizes with the causes, motives and ends which the act implies”. That is to say that freedom is revealed by the act, we can experience the freedom only through act. It is not possible to describe freedom that is valid both for me and for the Other, thus no essence of freedom may be concluded. The freedom in one individual is different from the freedom of any other individual; there is nothing in common which can be named essence. Freedom is beyond essence since it is “the foundation of all essences”.
So that is why I say freedom is an individual act but the combined acts of freedom compose rebellion and that is how rebels become existent… not that each finds a particular idealology but each exercises his freedom not to attach to the system or its ideaology. We know that Communism was never practiced by those who called us comrades… ‘from each according to his ability and to each according to his need’ … possibly because the true anarchistic nature of freedom needs people sophisticated enough to implement socialist ideas.
Sartre often speaks of “bad faith” when we surrender our freedom to become soldiers for a cause…. to profess to “love anything” more than our responsibility to freedom is acting in “bad faith”. And when you hand that freedom to a President or his Generals or to the mob of religiosity you give up responsibility for your actions to others and thereby lose true freedom.
I don’t think an existentialist would ever say “we choose to be free” however. Because we are free at every moment. Freedom is not a choice made once and then forgotten. Freedom is not an ideal. Freedom exists within every being at every moment. Freedom on the individual level needs no defending against others unless others try to impose their will. There is no “land of the free” there are only individuals surrendering their freedom every day to causes and idealologys.
Sartre’s version of a radical transformation of society is the paradigm shift in thinking we have discussed in the past. It is the belief that we can be what we choose to be. This requires effort for most of us believe what we are told we cannot do while few tell us what we are able to accomplish.
If Sartre was President he would tell each citizen what they need to do to prevent terrorism and it wouldn’t be surrendering your freedom or responsibility to others and continue grazing passively in the food courts of the nations shopping malls. Nothing is a complicated as the elites would have us believe and the fact that they deny each citizen the right to be fully involved in making a safer world gives the lie to their role of defenders of freedom.
Really if freedom was a project wouldn’t we want everyone working on it? But the co-opted version of freedom is not a project… it’s a banner meant to take away ones options and choices like a valium induces passivity and a payment plan induces obedience.
Dear Et
I recall that lumpenproletariat thing. I liked it and the word. I agree about Simone de Beauvoir and there is another Simone that was important - Weil. Yep - I agree about Sartre and was impressed when he turned down the Nobel Prize. I used to call myself a French Atheistical Existentialist.
You apparently see where I am headed as I draw the Goths and Beatniks into this (tie it back to Cathars and Cynics long ago too). As the movie Braveheart ends the life of Wallace and the Keltic Creed that held the world in Brotherhood for millennia says - FREEDOM and NO FEAR - which you see all over the place. These symbols and the one for Peace are powerful legacies and archetypes. We need to show people some cultural through-lines and help the Goths be understood. - Robert
The same issue of what a Goth really is can be made in comparisons to Flower Children and the people who really study what might be the core principles. The Goths I have known seem more able to defend their approach to life than the normal average or everyday person. But I seem to know the upper echelon of them perhaps. I find few are doing it just for the attention which certainly was not as true with the Flower Children. At the same time one can find a wide variety of perspectives and wonder if there is any true Goth culture at all. Certainly the journalists and social commentators who were all the rage after Columbine’s Massacre did not clue in to some truly important things. Those kids were under psychiatric medication and there are other extreme issues they faced. But I will make a little analysis of what I think might be going on with them and a host of other Church-burnings and the like.
In my time in the Caribbean I met people who knew some things about the ‘Lodges’ as well as Rastafarians or the followers of Bob Marley. There is something similar to the Peace, Love and Brotherhood message in these approaches and there are myths that make one smile. One of the things I intuit is operating has to do with the ‘Rastie’ symbol and flag of ‘Irie’ and I could be wrong but Eire seems to be there as a spiritual part or connection to the Kelts and the ancient Brotherhoods be they Olmec or Phoenician. Many black people there know that they were there long before the Spanish heathens and Empire-Builders came to wreck havoc and enslave them or perform an outright genocide on the likes of the Taino in Cuba. Their aversion to Babylon is a metaphor for all that is wrong with the materialistic Empires that control so many people. This continues in the black community to the present and many are they who abuse this knowledge and act as criminals. Who can really blame them? I deal with these things in depth in my historical books.
The stele I found at Chichen Itza had many ancient Masonic symbols including the old T-square which is the symbol of the Egyptian builder-god Ptah. It may have been put there by Rosicrucians and there was one member of their inner sanctum watching over it. The Goths who did the deed at Columbine were heard speaking about Plato and Aristotle and the day they chose to do it was the birthday of Adolf Hitler. The extent to which certain people know about these things or write about them has been hard to tell. I know authors like Marshall McLuhan knew about the influence of secret societies and yet he did not disclose what he knew. It can still be difficult for truth tellers. We must tell some of the root story of these Mystery Schools within what I call the ‘octopus’. Hitler was a student of them too.
There are at least a thousand different stories that would fill the equivalent of the thirteen volumes the CORPUS HERMETICUM entails. Stories abound with re-written history and co-opting the people who told the truth by creating fictions about them or eliminating facts like who tried to assassinate James ‘The Righteous’ leader of the Essenes and probable brother of Jesus. This tale is mentioned in the Bible without saying who tried to assassinate him. Thus the reader is led to think it was an uprising of common people who distrusted James rather than the fact that Paul was diametrically opposed to the teaching of James; who as Michael Baigent says was much closer to Jesus than Paul ever was, even if James was not the actual brother of Jesus. The Roman scribes and lies are so complete as to make it exceedingly difficult to even guess what the nature of truth was. Unless one actually gets first hand experiential knowledge by means of such things as ‘direct cognition’ with such dimensional knowledge as the akashic or spirits might allow. That is what is known to me, alone; a simple sole and single searcher for truth - imagine how many other stories of even greater import there might be. It is hard to write about one without running into another but let me try to tie Aristotle and the life of Hermes in with Jesus and the enigmatic ‘Emerald Tablet’ so that you can see some different perspectives from academics. At the end of this story is a personal tale of soul-grabbing that makes the idea of the Lévi to Crowley to Hubbard and Miscavige soul entity continuance seem more possible. By the way, it is highly unlikely that Jesus did not visit Alexandria to see her great Lighthouse and Library during the long time he studied before his short period of missionary work that may have only been a couple of years at most.
After the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. which can be called the birth of Christianity or more properly ‘Churchianity’, the Gnostics were attacked four times over more than one hundred years. The agents of empire-builders like Constantine or Caliph Omar, did not want people to know the truth of the prophet Jesus, who spoke about all men being ‘the children of God’ in equal terms. They wished to be the Divine interpreters for whatever it is that we call God. In fact, they wished to be the sole interpreters if that were possible, but they knew they might have to share some of this power with others who also had armies and legions of willing ’sword or cannon fodder’ that would follow like sheep in the proverbial ‘flock’. The scribes were busily re-writing the apocryphal Bible or Septuagint and Targum Onklos with due regard to the Torah and Hebrew Bible. Part of the agreed upon purpose was to remove the story of the wise Miriam, whose counsel in her day (with Moses) was the most sought after in her land. This was once in the Bible under the name Jasher, but when the Council of Carthage removed women from the priesthood in 397 A.D. they allowed such heresy no more.
Enoch was another book of the Bible which told of psychic and spiritual realities ‘within’ and ‘without’, that mirror and elucidate the sayings of Jesus. Mary Magdalene, a priestess with the Essenes and part of the ‘Therapeutae’ who were a watered down version of the ‘Great White Brotherhood of Master Craftsmen’ from a couple of millenia before, was probably the wife of Jesus. Such truths would have rendered the ‘Bible Narrative’ incredible and without power to wield a ’sharp sword’ of fear over the souls of all men. For if Jesus was not ‘the only begotten Son of God’ as the Jews and original Celtic Catholic Church say; then the concept of easy ‘Salvation’ (and its special dispensations that Martin Luther railed against) would be unable to generate the money-making and power creating outcome that has been with us these past 1500 or more years.
Karma or the original ‘law of Retribution’ would require right living on a daily basis and people would have to live in the true path of Jesus, and never be able to EXPECT a simple ‘absolution of sin’ through such things as confessionals. The great stories of ‘Eternal n Damnation’, ‘The Resurrection’ and ‘Hell’ would have little theological or philosophic support. The Pope has said there is no Heaven or Hell in the months leading up to the millennium and as part of damage control or spin-doctoring but is there any proactive course of change and when will the dogma and doctrine of Paul’s ‘Epistles to Timothy’ that say ‘man is the head of woman’ etc., be expunged in all their vile prejudice against women? St. Augustine’s portrayal of Genesis and the ‘original sin’ with women as the harbingers of that which disconnected us from God are damnable destructive influences to this very day.
Let me illustrate the academic conundrums and obfuscated idiocies attendant with Hermes and Jesus. Aristotle was able to keep his hermetic or alchemic inclinations sufficiently shrouded and thus lived a long life from the time his father taught him as physician to Alexander’s father King Phillip of Macedon. (384-322 B.C.) He was motivated and guided by ‘The Emerald Tablet’ and the work of Hermes Trismegistus. According to the ‘Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology’:
“Emerald Table: The (of Hermes)
Believed to be the earliest statement of the principles of spiritual alchemy, ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, after whom alchemy has been named the ‘Hermetic Art’. Hermes Trismegistus is a shadowy figure, possibly mythical. The old alchemists believed him to have been an Egyptian living about the time of Moses; others have claimed him as a personification of Thoth, the Egyptian God of learning. There is a legend that the Emerald Table (also known as the Smaragdine Table) was discovered by Alexander the Great in the tomb of Hermes in a cave near Hebron.
The earliest printed version in Latin dates from an alchemical work of 1541, but a Commentary on it was known three centuries earlier, and the Table might well be ancient. The original was believed to have been inscribed on emerald (smaragdine) in Phoenician letters, later translated into Greek and Latin.” (1)
Author of Diverse Druids, Columnist for The ES Press Magazine, Guest writer at World-Mysteries.com
While recently doing some research on the preschool learning and preschool homeschool curriculum, and what type of preschool activities would create a positive self motivation preschool learning environment for the homeschool, I came across some ideas that are so simple it was almost embarrassing that I had to discover this through my ‘research’ time.
When one preschool teacher was asked ‘what is the one preschool teaching tool or tools in your classroom that you could not do without? She answered real life stuff. Pots and pans, staplers, hole punchers, anything around the house that will provide real life experiences for preschool activities.
Think about it…. Every thing you need for your homeschool preschool is just around the corner at a yard sale! If your going to teach preschool homeschool your classroom should be set up like a real life home. Imagine that. A real life home environment for the preschool child, and you did it. Can you teach that way? Of course, you can.
You probably already have, and do allow your child time to play, read, run outdoors, and discover the world on their travels. And you do so in a loving environment.
What you provide will far exceed what is provided for in a public preschool learning environment.
You are the best teacher the child will ever have and your home is the best leaning environment for the preschooler. You certainly don’t need to spend vast amounts of money equipping your home for preschool activities. As mentioned earlier, thrift stores and yard sales can provide more than you could ever use.
Also remember, real life experiences. Let the child help you bake, do laundry, and other household experiences. They all offer visual, hands on, and subtle problem solving. And you thought homeschool preschool would require a classroom setting.
Not hardly.
Mary Joyce is a former educator, successful homeschool parent, and has written many articles on
teaching your child at home for the Homeschool-Curriculum-4u website. Please visit (http://www.homeschool-curriculum-4u.com) for a complete list of Mary’s articles.
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Hook up two of everybody’s ultimate interests and you have got is a phenomenon that’s termed a web based sportsbook. Seriously, what could be more inventive… Imagine a troop of sports devotees clapping to support any given favored sports club, and incessantly lays will be geared up tied in to the turmoil. Hoping to catch some of the exhilaration, on-lookers on a regular basis try to augur who will make it the forthcoming contest. Put together, all of this develops into a nice little contest known as web based sportsbook.
To bet, you’ll call on a web based sportsbook, i.e. a setup that takes in web based sportsbook. In the U.S.A., you will find no less than four states where to go for sportsbook betting absolutely legally, but informally you can do it practically anywhere as long as you pinpoint a bookie AND you’re a legal adult. On the list of sports activities you’ll be able to bet on are pro plus, to boot, college class basketball as well as football, professional hockey and baseball, plus, to boot, betting on both dog and horse racing. Visitors will have a choice of wagering on the complete combined score of a game, when one of the contesting parties will be vanquished, and even whether a tossed coin in a game lands either heads or tails.
It stands to reason that there are sundry brands of bets– parlays, straight bets, where you’ll pinpoint the club you feel will prevail or take a licking, over-unders, teaser stakes, and many more, the straight being the most prevalent in sportsbook betting.
So, why don’t you simply experiment with it, and enjoy the amusement at one go… But ensure that you won’t get seized and waste your entire retirement fund frivolously! If not, you’re bound to end up being sorry all your life!
Material or physical success is often measured by the level of prosperity achieved.
We can define prosperity as having or owning all that we idealize and desire. With this definition, we can see that even a monk who has taken on vows of poverty, silence and chastity can be prosperous, if he has those three things in abundance.
How, then, can we become prosperous in all aspects of self, including but not limited to the materialistic? How can we arrive at a definition of success that encompasses all types of success, including the non-material?
Success can be defined as being when the manifest result matches the originating ideal.
There is a tendency to think of success strictly in materialistic or physical terms, but since success begins with the idealization of some idea or concept created originally in purely imaginary terms, it is more appropriate to think of success as a metaphysical concept.
That is to say, success is dependent upon factors that are above and beyond (or meta to) the physical. Any defined or measurable success, even the purely materialistic, has elements that are more than physical. There are emotional, mental and spiritual (or etheric) elements that are not only necessary for success to be attained, but are also inherent in its definition.
Success, then, can be seen to be much more than the accomplishment of a defined goal. It can be understood to be a continuous process of agreement intertwining the real with the ideal. The best way to achieve success comes from an understanding of this process and a conscious intent to apply harmony to its’ individual elements.
The behavior of all things existent within our universe, from subatomic particles to entire galaxies, from individual thoughts to an entire cultural mythos, are fundamentally understood to be vibratory in nature. Vibrations interact with other vibrations to create either a harmonic or a discordancy.
When the result is in tune with the ideal, we have succeeded in creating what is desired.
When the result is dissonant with the ideal, we have failed in creating what is desired.
Success, therefore, can also be defined as the attainment of harmony. Failure can be defined as the attainment of discord.
In order to achieve success by choice rather than by chance, it is wise to know all the elements of the process and then to consciously bring them into harmony, in order that the ideal can be made real. The realization of an ideal is accomplished through intentional harmony brought to bear upon all the elements of the process of materialization or manifestation.
The power to effectuate or make manifest defined ideals comes from the application of the knowledge of the process of creation.
Gaining that knowledge and then, applying it, elevates the individual from being a creature of circumstance (or victim of life) to being a creator of circumstance (or victor in life).
The personal power to achieve success is dependent upon the harmony of ideal, intent, thought, emotion, action and result.
Victory is thereby accorded. If failure is defined as discord or conflict, then success can be said to be conflict resolution or the attainment of harmony. Success is harmony. The desire to achieve success is the desire to be in harmony.
When we are in conflict with the conditions of our life, we have failed. When we are in accord with the conditions of our life, we have succeeded.
Nothing would exist in the universe if the natural order of things did not have a tendency towards accordancy or harmony. Our planet would not orbit its’ star without the balance or harmony between velocity and gravity. Our hearts would not beat if each and every heart cell did not do so in harmony with each other. Individual atoms and therefore all matter would not exist without the balance (poise or position) existent within the various subatomic components that make it up.
The existence of the universe (all creation) is therefore understood to be reliant upon vibrational harmony. Our individual success (or ability to create that which we desire) is achieved through the application of universal principles of creation.
Just as the ideal of the molecular structure named deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is made manifest or effectuated by a continuous process of bringing the various elements of its’ construction into harmony, so is your ideal (simple or complex, material or ethereal) effectuated by the continuous process of bringing the various elements of its’ construction into harmony.
The result, whether it be success or failure, is the effect or that which is effectuated. This is a causal universe we exist in. Every effect must have a cause. To know and control the cause is to be capable of creating the effect.
If the conditions of our life are understood to be that which is effectuated (the effect), then we, when we claim our individual power to choose our ideals, our thoughts, our emotions, our words and our actions, are understood to be the cause.
Victims choose to be caught up in or controlled by circumstance and condition.
Victors choose to be the cause of circumstance and condition. Success is victory. Victory is harmony. Harmony is peace.
Success is accorded to those who choose to be causal. The causal always requires harmony in order to effectuate. Thus, the ideal ideal, so to speak, is, of necessity, harmony. Concordance.
Returning to our original questions, it can now be understood the prosperity comes from peace. You are rich and successful when you are in harmony, in accord with the universal and its’ natural laws of manifestation.
You prosper as creator of circumstance when you are in tune with the infinite, which as we know, is the embodiment of peace and love and harmony andprosperity. After all, the infinite can be said to idealize and possess the entire universe.
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“We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.”
- William James, 19th Century American psychologist and philosopher
I’ve noticed I often take myself, my work, and my life way too seriously. I blow events out of proportion, demand perfection, and generally behave as if my needs are at the center of everything.
I agonize over small decisions, worry about personal interactions, wrestle with each word of a simple e-mail, and wake up at night with my heart pounding in anticipation of tomorrow’s presentation or with angst about what happened today. Was I good enough? How can I get this right for a change? Why did I say THAT?! The minutest detail is not too small to escape scrutiny when I’m in this frame of mind - when life becomes very, very serious.
When this happens I lose my self, my center, and my perspective. I step out of the precious present moment and into anxiety about the future or the past. I forget that there’s nothing I can control except right now, right here, this moment and my availability to it.
Happily, remembering this personal truth is what shifts me back into the present. I begin to breathe again and slip seamlessly into the realization that right now, at this moment, I am okay. Sanity returns as I focus on what is at hand.
Vibrant and Joyful
I practice a martial art called aikido, whose flowing and graceful movements belie the power behind them. Aikido is based on principles such as centered response and utilization of energy, and it has practical applications in the world of conflict resolution and self-management. Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido, called it the Art of Peace, and said that we must “always practice the Art of Peace in a vibrant and joyful manner.” Aikidoists try to remember this as we throw each other around the mat, smiling and having fun while we work to perfect our technique.
As we push on into the first decade of this new century, it is likely that life will become even more complex than it already is. Here are some suggestions that might help when you become separated from your perspective:
- Acknowledge - Often all it takes to change your current stressed out state is to notice it. As you bring your awareness back to the present moment, you regain a sense of perspective and possibility.
- Center - Breathe. Smile. Be.
- Call someone and talk about it, better yet laugh about it.
- Read a poem.
- Listen to music.
- Take a walk or go for a run.
- Dream up some practices of your own.
Use your growing awareness to lighten up, smile, live and love in a vibrant and joyful manner. And stop taking yourself so seriously!
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© 2005 Judy Ringer, Power & Presence Training
About the Author: Judy Ringer is Founder of Power & Presence Training, specializing in unique workshops on conflict, communication, and creating a more positive work environment. Judy is also a black belt in aikido, and is writing her first book on the connection between aikido, conflict, and living a more purposeful life. To sign up for more free tips and articles like these, visit http://www.JudyRinger.com
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The Truth …
Lace every action with a thought; that’s the first cut in the key.
Assign every act with a series of options and select which of them was the most probable.
And you are absolutely correct; for this is the unlocking, the door beyond which reside all the secrets of perception.
There is no doubt, you are absolutely correct.
You are indeed reading minds.
You must think; you must have active and almost instant thought processes.
For speed and focus are vital, since in the mists of time lie forgetfulness and the distortion of truth and fact.
Do not risk time before you think.
Time dissipates the strength of the answer that comes through your power of perception, making you become dependent on substantial facts outside of yourself after the hesitation, for the weaker answers grow stronger and drown out the rest.
Trust in your inner voice. It is the channel of knowledge into your mind.
First it comes, swiftly it comes, and then the ‘rationalizations’ over other foreign voices you have gathered into your thoughts from your experience.
Trust only in yourself, and in your voice above the others.
Separate the others from your source; your source within, focus only on it and develop it with the voices that agree. They would have grown closer, and you will be able to embrace them, repelling the others from you, intimidating them out of existence.
Your thought comes to be. You have determined events. You have inserted your will into the big weave.
Reading the Thoughts of an External Mind …
The existence of a man is a weave composed of his thoughts and impulses.
He is at every second of the way, because of a reason.
He goes to the bathroom and passes out waste— because his body contains accumulated waste that must be expelled.
He may be delayed, but the thought beneath the surface, the need, endures however silent its voice becomes, until the opportunity to relieve his body comes at last.
All along the thought thrived. And the thought is the key to the future event that must come into being.
PRINCIPLE; Focus on the event/action to determine the thought/impulse that came before it, focus on the thought/impulse to determine the action. There is always a link however dubious the possibility might seem.
Therefore,
[1] No thought or action is isolate.
PRINCIPLE; Events and thoughts are linked, coming to be in groups, batches, growing into networks, like a growing family of inbreeds, all related to each other, all marrying each other, swirling in one blood, linking hands with each other.
[2] No thought or action is separated from a chain/sequence of thoughts and actions.
Therefore,
- by determining thoughts/impulses you can predict actions/events
- by identifying what actions/events mean you can determine thoughts/impulses, and read minds …
And,
- you determine the thoughts/impulses that come before actions/events to predict them [THINKING BACKWARDS FROM THE PRESENT TO MOVE FORWARD]
- you identify what actions/events mean i.e. by considering the reasons why they exist [working out the possible options that were available, the ones that were selected, and the most accurate reason why these particular actions/impulses emerged], painting a picture of thought from a paintbrush of action, and vice versa, reading thoughts, reading actions, reading minds.
Basically, determining thought and action is simply classifying the both into ‘the most probable reasons why they exist’.
Identifying and labeling.
Asking questions in your mind and answering them with the facts.
- What is he doing?
- He is in the bathroom relieving his body
- Why is he in the bathroom relieving his body?
- Because he determined in his mind that he needed to expel the waste matter in his body
And you develop,
- What is he doing now?
- He is in the bathroom relieving his body now
- Why is he in the bathroom relieving his body now?
- Because he considered in his mind that he needed to expel the waste matter in his body now
- Why now?
- It is impossible for him to hold it any longer than now
- He saw an opportunity to relieve his body now in the bathroom and so he took it
Then you think backwards,
Relieving[act]—Need to Relieve[thought]—Fill Up with Waste
Matter[act]—Need To Be Filled Up with Waste
Matter[impulse]—Consuming of Drink and or Food Material[act]—Need To Consume Food Material/Hunger[impulse/thought]—Work/Activity that Used
Body’s Energy[act/event]—Need For Work/Activity[impulse]—Consuming of Drink and or Food Material/Infusion of
Energy[act/event]—Thought/Impulse—Act/Event—THOUGHT—ACTION—THOUGHT—
In essence, it is a chain, like a sequence in math, with known and unknown factors.
Determine and identify the pattern, match the pattern with the most likely option in your series, amongst the thoughts that fill your mind, starting with the INNER VOICE THOUGHT, for your unconscious mind is much more accurate and swift than you, and proceeding.
The web begins to unfold.
For expanding this ‘chain theory’, every [act/event] relates to the rest of the [act/event]s, relates to the rest of the [thought/impulse]s, relates to the [thought/impulse] before the [act/event] and the [thought/impulse] that came after.
Interconnected by NEED, for NEED is the REASON WHY, the TRUTH, the LOGIC however illogical, the MOTIVE, and the FACT.
THE UNTRUTH
Distortion of the truth comes with MISREPRESENTING, WRONG PERCEPTION and INCORRECT DETERMINATION [consciously or otherwise].
Distortion is created by human nature; it is the human factor of perception, which is the faculty to gather other truths despite or in accordance with THE TRUTH delivered by the INNER VOICE.
To perceive, observe actions, identify reasons for thought, shut out the world and focus on the FIRST THOUGHT, weave the chain, remerge into the world, search for an identical sequence to the chain.
You read a mind as the chain fits it, you can predict future events by continuing the string of thought you have perceived.
Remembering,
There is a reason for every action
There is a reason for every thought
The answer explaining its existence to you simply by being in the thing that came before it, so that you trace the backwards pointing arrow, this reason why, the fact of the need for the action or thought to exist becoming our CONSTANT.
THE REASON WHY is always alerted by the NEED…
Natasha Ashwe has embarked upon a wonderful journey, unraveling the secrets of the human mind and both big and little truths about perception.
The world continues to point the path and her footsteps continue to follow after.
This summer (2005) huge crowds in England and Australia have been following the 5 test match series between England and Australia. The sides are evenly matched and have played some of the most exciting cricket seen for many years. Whether you play cricket or not, you will find some great success lessons in this series of matches.
The first success lesson is that you and I must not dwell on our mistakes however humiliating they are. We have to be tough minded and just focus on the next ball to be bowled or the next project in our lives.
Cricket is a team game but there are only 11 players fielding (bowling and catching the ball) and they are spread out on a large field. Any mistakes you make are seen at once by your team mates and the audience. The mistakes of the batting side are also clearly visible as only two people bat at a time.
Kevin Pietersen, the promising England batsman, dropped two catches in the first test when he was fielding but then went on to a play a good batsman’s innings. A commentator remarked that he must have a strong mind to get over the disappointment of dropping the catches enough to allow him to bat well
Geraint Jones, the wicket keeper, had also dropped two catches and again a commentator remarked that you can try to put your mistakes at the back of your mind but it is not that easy. The memory keeps recurring. However, Jones batted well in spite of the memory that must have haunted him. Later in the series, he also took some magnificent catches to make up for the ones he had dropped.
Both captains, Michael Vaughan and Ricky Ponting, batted poorly in the first two tests and were heavily criticized in the papers. However, in the third test match both captains batted extraordinarily well. They both showed the fighting spirit to get over the depression they must have felt after the first and second matches and the criticism they were receiving daily.
A second key success lesson is that you must not get distracted from your goal of scoring runs or anything else by mental or physical pain. In ordinary life, many painful things can happen which can demoralise you unless you are determined enough to keep going in spite of the pain. Keep focused on your goals and dreams whatever happens.
Those who have not played cricket may not realise how hard a cricket ball is. It is especially hard and bouncy when it is new. Fast bowlers are usually given the new ball so that they can bounce it high to hit the batsmen in the head, throat, ribs or hands.
Once the batsmen get distracted by the pain in their head or hands, they will be vulnerable to the next ball and will do something silly like knocking up a catch or failing to protect their wicket (the three stumps or sticks protruding from the ground) from getting hit by the ball.
Brett Lee, the Australian fast bowler, was run out when he hesitated before running. He wanted to flap his hand to get rid of the pain. His index finger and then his thumb had been hit by fast balls. Later, however, in another match, he redeemed himself by batting well even though he had been hit hard on the head and the arm!
On the second day of the first test England were bowling at the Australians who were having their second innings (chance to bat).
However, the England bowlers were not harassing the batsmen enough. Boycott, the former great England batsman, commented that the ball should be whistling about the batsmen’s ears and hitting their gloves:
“The ball is new and hard. Now is the time to hit the batsmen before the ball gets too soft. Once the batsmen get too comfortable, they will start thinking: ‘I fancy scoring a hundred.’”
Even the tailenders or weaker batsmen who bat last have to suffer. The bowlers cannot allow them to stay in too long. Boycott continues:
“Bowlers should hit the tailenders in the ribs or on the hand before they get too comfortable. That’s what you have to do as a fast bowler. You have to hurt the opposition tailenders. Tailenders are alright if there is not a likelihood of them getting hurt. They’re not too brave.”
On Saturday, the third day of the test, the Australian tail enders were batting. Gillespie, one of the tailenders, was hit in the stomach near the belly button. He grimaced in pain. A few balls later he was hit in the groin by a ball from Harmison and doubled over in agony. The ball was travelling at about 90 miles an hour. The crowd roared with laughter. Harmison had been aiming for the throat and the toes and the crown jewels
It can take a good over (6 balls from the same bowler) or two to get focused after being hurt. But Gillespie is a gutsy player and practises hard at his batting. He realizes it is important for a tailender to score runs or at least stay in. He batted on bravely.
The gutsy performance of the Australian tailenders had much to do with the Australian success in the first test match of the Ashes series. They had learned how to overcome sharp physical pain and recover their focus quickly.
We all need to learn to accept the fact that we will suffer mental and physical pain at some point in achieving our goals. The secret is to forget the pain as quickly as possible and just concentrate on doing what we have to do.
Further success lessons came from the third test match. One of them is that sometimes it is better not to listen to the critics whether they are outside or inside your own head.
Australia had won the first test match and then England won the second test on the 7th Aug 2005 a date that will go down in history as the date of one of the greatest cricket matches ever played.
England won the match by 2 runs only - an amazingly close margin. Much of the success was due to the England captain, Michael Vaughan, but Vaughan had not scored enough runs himself in this test or the first one. He could guarantee that the papers would be having a go at him in a big way. His solution was simple. He did not read the papers.
On Thursday, England went in to bat. Michael Vaughan was in third and was under great pressure to perform. This is where his policy of not reading the papers paid off. He scored his first century of the series. The audience were up and out of their seats applauding as he succeeded. He had scored 13 fours (hits to the boundary).
A captain who scores runs can lead by example. It is important that he is in form as actions speak much louder than words. In the end he made a large total of 166 runs with about 20 four’s and at least one six (a hit over the boundary).
He told an interviewer that before batting he had talked to the young boy who was the England mascot for the day. The lad had already had three heart by pass operations. This made Vaughan feel less tension as he realised that, at the age of thirty, he had so much to be thankful for and that scoring or not scoring runs was not that important in the whole scheme of things.
He also decided to bat on intuition and not to think too much. He had already done his thinking and his practice. Once he was facing some of the best bowlers in the world, he would not have time to think. His plan worked and he smashed the ball all over the place.
However, in the end Australia held out for a draw. They were saved mainly by the rain which meant that England had less time to get them out than was necessary.
So then: keep going even if you make embarrassing mistakes in full public view. Regain your focus on your goals even if you have been hit by physical or mental pain. Even the great Jim Rohn lost a million dollars after he had signed a form without realising the liabilities involved. He soon regained his focus and the lost money. Refuse to fill your mind with the views of your critics and keep your life in perspective by thinking of those millions of people who are so much worse off than you. Finally,once your thinking has been done, take action wholeheartedly without worrying about the results.
About the author
John Watson is an award winning teacher and fifth degree black belt martial arts instructor. He has recently written several books about achieving your goals and dreams.
They can be found on his website http://www.motivationtoday.com along with a motivational message and books by other authors
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Human trafficking and people smuggling are multi-billion dollar
industries. At least 50% of the 150 million immigrants the world
over are illegal aliens. There are 80 million migrant workers
found in virtually every country. They flee war, urban
terrorism, crippling poverty, corruption, authoritarianism,
nepotism, cronyism, and unemployment. Their main destinations
are the EU and the USA - but many end up in lesser countries in
Asia or Africa.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) published the
following figures in 1997:
Africa had 20 Million migrant workers, North America - 17
million, Central and South America - 12 million, Asia - 7
million, the Middle East - 9 million, and Europe - 30 million.
Immigrants make up 15% of staid Switzerland’s population, 9% of
Germany’s and Austria’s, 7.5% of France’s (though less than 4%
of multi-cultural Blairite Britain). There are more than 15
million people born in Latin America living in the States.
According to the American Census Bureau, foreign workers
comprise 13% of the workforce (up from 9% in 1990). A million
have left Russia for Israel. In this past century, the world has
experienced its most sweeping wave of both voluntary and forced
immigration - and it does not seem to have abated.
According to the United Nations Population Division, the EU
would need to import 1.6 million migrant workers annually to
maintain its current level of working age population. But it
would need almost 9 times as many to preserve a stable workers
to pensioners ratio.
The EU may cope with this shortage by simply increasing labour
force participation (74% in labour-short Netherlands, for
instance). Or it may coerce its unemployed (and women) into
low-paid and 3-d (dirty, dangerous, and difficult) jobs. Or it
may prolong working life by postponing retirement.
These are not politically palatable decisions. Yet, a wave of
xenophobia that hurtled lately across a startled Europe - from
Austria to Denmark - won’t allow the EU to adopt the only other
solution: mass (though controlled and skill-selective) migration.
As a result, Europe has recently tightened its admission (and
asylum) policies even more than it has in the 1970’s. It bolted
and shut its gates to primary (economic) migration. Only family
reunifications are permitted. Well over 80% of all immigrants to
Britain are women joining their husbands, or children joining
their father. Migrant workers are often discriminated against
and abused and many are expelled intermittently.
Still, economic migrants - lured by European riches - keep
pouring in illegally (about half a million every year -to
believe The Centre for Migration Policy Development in Vienna).
Europe is the target of twice as many illegal migrants as the
USA. Many of them (known as “labour tourists”) shuttle across
borders seasonally, or commute between home and work - sometimes
daily. Hence the EU’s apprehension at allowing free movement of
labour from the candidate countries and the “transition periods”
(really moratoria) it wishes to impose on them following their
long postponed accession.
According to the American Census Bureau’s March 2002 “Current
Population Survey”, 20% of all US residents are of “foreign
stock” (one quarter of them Mexican). They earn less than
native-born Americans and are less likely to have health
insurance. They are (on average) less educated (only 67% of
immigrants age 25 and older completed high school compared to
87% of native-born Americans). Their median income, at $36,000
is 10% lower and only 49% of them own a home (compared to 67% of
households headed by native-born Americans). The averages mask
huge disparities between Asians and Hispanics, though. Still,
these ostensibly dismal figures constitute a vast improvement
over comparable data in the country of origin.
But these are the distant echoes of past patterns of migration.
Traditional immigration is becoming gradually less attractive.
Immigrants who came to Canada between 1985-1998 earn only 66% of
the wages of their predecessors. Labour force participation of
immigrants fell to 68% (1996) from 86% (1981).
While most immigrants until the 1980’s were poor, uneducated,
and unskilled - the current lot is middle-class, reasonably
affluent, well educated, and highly skilled. This phenomenon -
the exodus of elites from all the developing and less developed
countries - is called “brain drain”, or “brain hemorrhage” by
its detractors (and “brain exchange” or “brain mobility” by its
proponents). These metaphors conjure up images of the inevitable
outcomes of some mysterious processes, the market’s invisible
hand plucking the choicest and teleporting them to more abundant
grounds.
Yet, this is far from being true. The developed countries, once
a source of such emigration themselves (more than 100,000
European scientists left for the USA in the wake of the Second
World War) - actively seek to become its destination by
selectively attracting only the skilled and educated citizens of
developing countries. They offer them higher salaries, a legal
status (however contingent), and tempting attendant perks. The
countries of origin cannot compete, able to offer only $50 a
month salaries, crumbling universities, shortages of books and
lab equipment, and an intellectual wasteland.
The European Commission had this to say last month:
“The Commission proposes, therefore, that the Union recognize
the realities of the situation of today: that on the one hand
migratory pressures will continue and that on the other hand in
a context of economic growth and a declining and aging
population, Europe needs immigrants. In this context our
objective is not the quantitative increase in migratory flows
but better management in qualitative terms so as to realize more
fully the potential of immigrants’ admitted.”
And the EU’s Social and Employment Commission added, as it
forecast a deficit of 1.7 million workers in Information and
Communications Technologies throughout the Union:
“A declining EU workforce due to demographic changes suggests
that immigration of third country nationals would also help
satisfy some of the skill needs [in the EU]. Reforms of tax
benefit systems may be necessary to help people make up their
minds to move to a location where they can get a job…while
ensuring that the social objectives of welfare systems are not
undermined.”
In Hong Kong, the “Admission of Talents Scheme” (1999) and “The
Admission of Mainland Professionals Scheme” (May 2001) allow
mainlanders to enter it for 12 month periods, if they:
“Possess outstanding qualifications, expertise or skills which
are needed but not readily available in Hong Kong. They must
have good academic qualifications, normally a doctorate degree
in the relevant field.”
According the January 2002 issue of “Migration News”, even now,
with unemployment running at almost 6%, the US H1-B visa program
allows 195,000 foreigners with academic degrees to enter the US
for up to 6 years and “upgrade” to immigrant status while in
residence. Many H1-B visas were cancelled due to the latest
economic slowdown - but the US provides other kinds of visas (E
type) to people who invest in its territory by, for instance,
opening a consultancy.
The UK has just implemented the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme
which allows “highly mobile people with the special talents that
are required in a modern economy” to enter the UK for a period
of one year (with indefinite renewal). Even xenophobic Japan
allowed in 222,000 qualified foreigners last year (double the
figure in 1994).
Germany has absorbed 10,000 computer programmers (mainly from
India and Eastern Europe) since July 2000. Ireland was planning
to import twenty times as many over 7 years - before the dotcoms
bombed. According to “The Economist”, more than 10,000 teachers
have left Ecuador since 1998. More than half of all Ghanaian
medical doctors have emigrated (120 in 1998 alone). More than
60% of all Ethiopian students abroad never return. There are
64,000 university educated Nigerians in the USA alone. More than
43% of all Africans living in North America have acquired at
least a bachelor’s degree.
Barry Chiswick and Timothy Hatton demonstrated (”International
Migration and the Integration of Labour Markets”, published by
the NBER in its “Globalisation in Historical Perspective”) that,
as the economies of poor countries improve, emigration increases
because people become sufficiently wealthy to finance the trip.
Poorer countries invest an average of $50,000 of their painfully
scarce resources in every university graduate - only to witness
most of them emigrate to richer places. The haves-not thus end
up subsidizing the haves by exporting their human capital, the
prospective members of their dwindling elites, and the taxes
they would have paid had they stayed put. The formation of a
middle class is often irreversibly hindered by an all-pervasive
brain drain.
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Q. I have just recently come to recognize that I don’t handle change very well, although my husband and friends have told me that for years. I seem to have trouble with changes that are out of my control. And then when I try to change things I want to change, I just don’t know what to do and get bogged down. What do you recommend?
A.
I believe that most people do not like change because they either don’t know how to respond to it or they respond poorly.
One way to think about this is that change is like waves on the beach. Just like change, waves are relentless and can be powerful, and there’s really only three things you can do with a wave: Let it knock you down, survive it or ride it.
Let’s take a closer look at each of these three ways to handle change.
We let the waves of change knock us down when we take what I call the dead roach approach to change - flat on our back, feet in the air and just out of control.
You can tell you are taking this approach when you say things such as:
“I’m so stressed out!”
“I can’t take this!”
“This isn’t fair!”
“Why does this always have to happen to me?”
Doesn’t surviving change sound like a good thing to want to do? Though in a few cases it’s really the only thing you can do, it really isn’t the optimal approach to take. I don’t know about you, but merely surviving doesn’t sound like a very compelling way to live.
If you’re thinking or saying these things, you’ve probably settled on merely surviving:
“How can I get through this?”
“What’s the worst that could happen here?”
“I don’t know if I can take this.”
“What can I do to get by?”
The problem with taking a survival approach is that you just merely get by. When you’re ready to do more than just get by, it’s time to begin managing change.
Riding the waves of change means moving from a state of survival to a state I call “thrival.” Thrival is simply the process of making change work for you.
Here are some questions to ask to begin to learn how to thrive on change:
How can I make this work for me?
What’s good about this?
What does this change allow me to do that I couldn’t do before?
What positive things might this change force me to do.
Change is inevitable. How we handle it is optional. Make the choice to ride the waves and you’re likely to create a compelling life for yourself.
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