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Well, there's a lot of courses available, and many books need to be made into courses just to make your learning as easy as possible.<br />
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The book above is one. It's long overdue to become a book with 30 daily lessons - enough for a month of mind-changing revelations. Meanwhile, you're inspired every single day to do something better with your life.<br />
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That's why I'm about to launch a huge amount of books out there which have just been gathering dust (so to speak) on my <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Hard disk drive">hard-drives</a>. The ones which show up here will be those which are or could be courses of training you could do.<br />
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Some of them I'll come back and convert them into email courses or full <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-learning" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="E-learning">online courses</a> with binders, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="DVD">DVD</a>'s and everything nice.<br />
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So I'll let you go now, so I can get back to work getting these out to you...<br />
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robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-91989000292021521852011-05-31T10:20:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.884-05:00Until we meet again...Looks like we're wrapped up here.<br /><br />I can't see from this level that there are many more tools to give you. All that's left of this path is the walking. <br /><br />But of course, I reserve the right to make observations from time to time - however, I'll probably include these into my cartooning. Since I've already gone off the "deep end" as far as the general public are concerned, it's simple to just leave "crazy" comments below the funny pictures.<br /><br />When I looked over a preliminary PDF (yes, I'm working to get this into a more usable and final format), it showed up that I've been working to get "back" into cartoons for some 5 or 6 years (practically, my entire life). That's just a common theme with me.<br /><br />The trick was that I had to get something done.<br /><br />And that was this final reorganization and crossover work I had to wrap up.<br /><br />Now, it's done. So there.<br /><br />The final piece was in separating native states from emotions, using the body as a divining rod to see how you're doing toward your own intuitive goals. For all that counts is how you feel about your current existence. Past doesn't matter, it's done. Future never comes. Only the Now really exists - and it's fleeting.<br /><br />But I leave you all this wealth of data (over 300 posts covering 5 years). Just take your time and don't get an upset stomach trying to digest it all at once.<br /><br />Good Hunting!robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-29949878150217049742011-05-29T16:29:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.884-05:00How Life Really Feels.After I decided to just do whatever I (damned-well) felt like doing, it kept coming back to me that perhaps I wasn't being as organized as I could, that I should be dealing more with goals and what-not in order to be more efficient and such.<br /><br />In short, I simply found that I was as or more productive than when I was busy analyzing and planning every week, plus following daily "to-do" lists which accomplished my "strategic" and "tactical" planning.<br /><br />The main point which improved is that I was inspired more often and so actually worked on more stuff which was interesting to me.<br /><br />This made me happier, much happier.<br /><br />And even while I've worked this all out, my studies continue. For that Route to Infinite Freedom, is just a guide. I still have to walk it out myself.<br /><br />In doing these studies, of course there are some interesting crossovers I keep running into.<br /><br />I first ran into this with the <a href="http://releasetechnique.directtrack.com/z/174/CD1518/">Release Technique</a>. There, <a href="http://robertworstell.com/sedona-method-review/larry-crane-releasing-technique/index.html">Larry Crane</a> said that you "felt" the effects of emotions in the body. He and older traditions held that this was the cause of various illnesses - as the feelings in the body areas caused stress, which caused dis-ease to show up.<br /><br />Simply releasing those feelings alleviated or "cured" the illness. (Even though the FDA says no one can actually claim to "cure" anything...) What you were really doing was simply letting go of the stress you had put there. The result was that the lack of ease (dis-ease) you felt disappeared.<br /><br />I was not so surprised that <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/campbell-hero-20/detail/193290736X">Chris Vogler</a> <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/campbell-hero-20/detail/193290736X">("Writer's Journey")</a> mentioned that a well-written story would then show up in influencing the body. A person "gets into" a well-paced narrative, which then invigorates the adrenal and other glandular secretions, so causing "feelings" in that area. <br /><br />But what was interesting was to find <a href="http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=1353498">Jim Britt</a> in a collection of <a href="http://www.peakambassador.com/cmd.php?af=mmi8806&p=1">T. Harv Eker's</a> lecture-series who echoed the same concepts. Now you have to know that Britt uses <a href="http://releasetechnique.directtrack.com/z/174/CD1518/">Release Technique</a> (as does Eker) in his seminars. It's just that useful. Shows up all over the place.<br /><br />Britt found that when he consults his feelings about what he is doing, he can tell rapidly whether he's on or off track. And keeping on track keeps him successful. It brings him more opportunities. <br /><br />The key point is that Britt goes a bit further than Levenson, Crane, or others do in their discussion of what are feelings. He differentiates between body feelings and emotions. There's native states and emotions.<br /><br />Emotions really go back to the original root, which means something that "moves out." They are things you emit, communications. If they are affecting your body, you are holding onto them. Emotions aren't supposed to be held in, suppressed. They are things which are originally supposed to just leave.<br /><br />Now native states are just that. Calmness, Peace, even Love. These are states. They don't flow, they just are. They aren't emotions. But you can't really experience them until you can release all your pent-up or expressed emotions. Joy and happiness are also states.<br /><br />Emotions are things you throw out at other people (or at yourself.) States are just condition of being. You are "angry at" or "critical of" others. You can't just be them. You always have a target in mind. You can be calm, or peaceful, or joyous - and not have anything in mind except the current moment. That's a state.<br /><br />Subtle difference.<br /><br />But you'll be able to tell with their affects on your body. Feelings affect the body and are generally caused by emotions. But our language blurs this thin line - that you can "feel" happy - but states cause good reactions in the body, healthful ones. Emotions cause stress in the body, not healthful (except in small doses, like spice.) You can live without emotions. What's left over are your native states.<br /><br />When you let go of all the programs which cause you to react with emotions - you are left with native states. And these (peace, joy, calmness, love) simply are. Even love - you can love someone, which is a form of sending loving thoughts over their way. And these can be felt.<br /><br />But feelings don't mean something is an emotion. You can feel a certain way, but it doesn't mean that someone else's emotions <i>caused</i> it. No one else can emote to or at you and create anything in you at all. You create all your own feelings. You create all your own emotions. A person who is calm, at peace, can stay completely unruffled by someone else "going off" on them.<br /><br />This isn't widely known. But Zen masters and martial art experts know it to be a fact. If you get or stay relaxed, for instance, you can't remain or become angry.<br /><br />Now, most of the stories Vegler was talking about are not enlightened pieces. They are enabling you to mirror the situations and cause those emotional feelings in your body. If you read books such as The Tao, by Lao Tze, it will help you assume native states of calm and peace. If you read Art of War by Lao Tzu, it can cause you to become angry or excited. If you read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, or Gone with the Wind (another book about war), you can experience the vast repertoire of possible feelings. Or view movies such as the Lion King (which Vogler worked on) and you'll be right there in the mix of emotional responses.<br /><br />It's far more interesting that the most successful self help programs (<a href="http://releasetechnique.directtrack.com/z/174/CD1518/">Release Technique</a>, <a href="http://awsm.co/SH3q">Silva Technique</a>, even <a href="http://www.peakambassador.com/cmd.php?af=mmi8806&p=1">Eker's programs about the Millionaire Mindset</a>) - all these have been tested in part or in whole and found to be very effective. In every single case, they instruct and facilitate the person to reach a high native state (some call it Zen, or "The Zone") and to let go of the emotions which are clouding the mind.<br /><br />For our use, once you can utilize native states as a permanent operating condition, you're ready for spiritual training, which is what these articles are about.<br /><br />Not that you can't entertain yourself with emotions and well-written stories. But the point is that you can achieve more understanding and higher personal ability when you are operating from native states of beingness, not emotions.<br /><br />It's also true that your inspiration and intuition almost only come in when you are in calm, peaceful states of contemplation. While you can have emergency insights which will save your life, this isn't common. And many people report that these insights were operative where the person was somehow "distant" or "detached" from the emergency they were facing - that time seemed to "slow down."<br /><br />Again, we are talking operating at native states, completely removed from emotional patterns, programs, and feelings which were usually common place. (It could be said that the bulk of the victims out there from emergency-type situations are somehow blocked from reaching into any native state to access their intuition for solutions.<br /><br />Takes some experimenting and practice with. But this will help you tons.robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-28833870505724526062011-05-25T06:11:00.000-05:002011-06-06T06:41:30.076-05:00First Things First - How to Proceed with LivingAs in most things "human", we tend to live life backwards. Like looking through our rear-view mirror to go forwards.<br />
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When you meet or confront other objects, identities, or separatenesses - a person tends to put their own individuality first. "Hi, I'm Joe -" and then then extend your hand. Just before that is perceiving that the other person exists.(And some act as "blind" and literally bump into things before they can "see" them. While those without vision will sense something earlier than others who supposedly use their eyesight every waking moment.)<br />
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This really tells why it's so important to get enlightened/clear/satori early on. Because you have to get your own individuality out of the way before you can truly perceive with any accuracy.<br />
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The sequence is actually<br />
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And the reasons for this is that a person is reactive by habit. Their programs are on full-tilt, telling them what they should be doing and how they should be reacting. And these just get in the way (which explains why humor works and why politics, "news", and entertainment are so fascinating - they don't make any sense.)<br />
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Only shaman can approach accurate perception, but only shaman who learn to get their "own self" out of the way and perceive simply what is, first. But before anything can be perceived, it has to be grokked fully.<br />
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This, of course, takes a fair bit of practice before your accuracy comes in. And why the ancient Hawaiians named their European visitors "haole" which means "those who don't breathe." For Hawaiians were taught to breathe deeply before speaking - which relaxes the body and mind, making perception easier.<br />
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<i>Before </i>you start seeing or hearing, you need to be grokking. Most people simply go through life throwing up their programs out ahead, before they even truly look at what is happening around them. Or even at objects that are just sitting there, waiting to be perceived.<br />
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The biggest "breakthroughs" are when you can get a person to sit still and just observe what is actually there. This is just inviting them to quiet their mind and quit using it instead of their actual perceptions.<br />
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However, the next step is to get them to just drop everything else and simply grok the world around them. You will find many more realities exist in that space than you can perceive through the senses or the mind. It is apparent that the "mind" is really only good for operating as a defense mechanism in the first (subjective) level. And it only gets in the way when you start operating on the other levels.<br />
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To really utilize your capacity for living, you'll need to learn to grok more fully - in every waking and sleeping moment.<br />
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Grok first, then perceive, then mind what's around you. "I don't mind" would be a good motto to adopt as you break that bad habit you've had for so long.<br />
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Have fun with this...robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-70618525381694141312011-05-24T21:35:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.884-05:00And was it all a dream?Just listened to the final video in the set of <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/campbell-hero-20/detail/B003SXHZEA">Joseph Campbell's "Power of Myth".</a><br /><br />A very stirring 6 videos overall. And I recommend it.<br /><br />However, Campbell and I disagree at the end point. He of course has me out-ranked in comparative religions. However, the essential point is in whether the importance of individuality is more vital than regaining the One-ness of Self.<br /><br />His opinion was that the Oneness was a metaphor. He still, in all his studies, considered that humankind was a collection of identities.<br /><br />My variance is that the identities are the metaphor.<br /><br />He didn't, to my knowledge, tap into the shamanic studies within <a href="http://bit.ly/fQAkaT">Huna</a>. And this is what takes the entire scene right out into the ether.<br /><br />I've several times told you not to believe anything I've said and I double-down on that now.<br /><br />Consider me the Trickster in this play. That what I've been telling you is just the opposite of what you should really be understanding and taking as Gospel truth. Perhaps I'm only here to sell books and collect affiliate sales commissions.<br /><br />Label me a scammer, a fake, a fraud. Consider me the anti-Christ and all I say as lies (including this statement.)<br /><br />Make up your own mind. Follow the leads of hermits everywhere and venture into the wilderness where you can detach from "normal" or "average" thought programs - just to find your own way.<br /><br />At the "end", it will be "you and you alone" who has to make your peace - or not.<br /><br />For all we know, the highest purpose humankind can attain is sitting in front of the boob-tube every night, beverage of choice in hand, having just put in some more hours for "The Man". And on the weekend (if we don't have to put in overtime), we can take our boat down to the lake and sit in another chair with more beverages, and look out at nothing - or watch sports on another portable screen.<br /><br />Perhaps that is all there is to life.<br /><br />Consider me the Trickster - and your parents and teachers and authorities as all telling the absolute truth, and always have...<br /><br />For me, I'm quitting this scene and handing it all over to you. I've got cartoons to draw and cattle to raise. Both of which make mockery of the seriousness we humans make of our lives. That's just my choice.<br /><br />I still wish you the best, whatever you choose.robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-33065666978394081042011-05-23T20:29:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.885-05:00Relax, it's all alive - and all yoursOf course no one really wants to accept this, however you could practically found your religious beliefs on what is covered here today. But the logic is pretty simple - if you accept the basic tenets. (But I'd suggest you reject this completely until you can prove it to yourself. And be warned: almost no one else will believe you, either.)<br /><br />1. Your ideas create your reality, so <a href="http://bit.ly/fQAkaT">Huna</a> says. As well, there are no limits; we are all connected.<br /><br />2. Next point is that we are all here with the purpose of getting back to Self. Practically, regardless of what name you use, it's patent that a collective consciousness is already present - just on the basis that we are all connected. It's the created fiction of "individuality" from which stems all problems and imagined conflicts.<br /><br />3. In this, the world is what you create it to be - so if you weren't here, it would cease to exist. That defines everything in this world and universe as actively put there by you. <i>So it's all alive</i>. All of it. You "cease to exist", everything "ceases to exist".<br /><br />4. But practically, there isn't anything such as death. There is a rearrangement of forms, but the spirit which animates that body is connected with all others (part of a larger whole), so only the dream "You" are living changes - and that body changes to other mineral combinations in that previous dream. That individuality which you call "Me" doesn't particularly cease - as it's part of "everyone else".<br /><br />That's as short as this logic goes. If you don't believe in the oldest surviving philosophy on this planet, then fine. If it's not workable for your world view, that's perfectly OK. (Move along then, nothing to see here...)<br /><br />But this logic also says:<br /><br /><ul><li>Everything, including each thought and idea, is alive.</li><li>All life continues indefinitely, eternally. </li></ul><br />Arguments for or against specific diets on the basis of saving lives, or lobbying commercials by activist groups trying to save "endangered species" cease being effective. (<a href="http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/pets_or_pensions/">HSUS as a scam</a>, anyone?)<br /><br />It does bring farming and gardening back to their high pedestals, since they integrate all forms of life into harmony. And the idea of philosophy and story-telling as some of the highest (re)unions of life-forms, both physical and metaphysical.<br /><br />Controversy about war become academic only - since "killing" people does what? Gives another non-survival lesson, one of many. While the reasons for war, such as attempted denial of basic "human rights" in terms of the ability to make their own living and improve their life-quality (i.e. interfering through force or threats of same) - all these have the rug cut out from under as well. (How could you "force" an immortal being to give up their rights - except maybe by deception, which they'd still have to decide to buy into...)<br /><br />Here also is Justice, since people are only affecting themselves when they treat another "individual" poorly. Any attempts at harmful acts will also just come back to the perpetrator - since anyone trying to hurt another is just hurting themselves (and brings the basis to the Golden Rule.) Have the perfectly innocent verifiably pure at heart throw the first stone. Otherwise, have that jury and judge also man the prisons and throw the switch at the execution they order, meanwhile personally paying the restitution they awarded...<br /><br />And brings the point that the best way to get through life is to constantly treat people even-handedly and look for the win-win solution to every situation. One has to look through the eyes of that "criminal" and see how they are looking at themselves.<br /><br />Practically, this gives the religious objection to being part of anyone's war - and even participating in destructive government policies of <i>any</i> kind. (The idea of having to have a government is itself built on deception.)<br /><br />As well, the entire planet becomes your house of worship - since it is all Divine Creation and we are all caretakers of it.<br /><br />Now, before you get all "dogmatic" about this - these beliefs also include the idea of personal responsibility to solve your own problems and situations. There will never be "laws" or "edicts" or "fatwa's" saying anything at all. Because this belief-system says that people will work out their best solutions "on their own" by tapping into their spiritual inheritance - the commonality of Self.<br /><br />None of this calls for any organized religion. Rather, it preserves the "ad hoc" quality of living. Obvious, since no idea is truly original, and inspiration is just a meditative moment away for all.<br /><br />This doesn't mean anyone who takes these ideas as their own will be above local or national law. Rather, they would always interpret what was requested of them against the criteria of benefiting all concerned. And would preclude (usually) sitting in judgement over others. But nothing is set in stone - everything is balanced against optimal life-quality for everyone.<br /><br />As I said, we're all here to make our way back to Self.<br /><br />But don't believe me - work it out on your own. Make it yours.<br /><br />And may you be showered in blessings.<br /><br /><a href="http://midwestjournalpress.com/just-be.php">Just Be</a>.robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-42887980332550717182011-05-21T08:27:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.885-05:00Winning Your Infinite FreedomIf I were going to compile a guidebook based on this blog, that would be the title. (So we're trying it out on the header above.)<br /><br />Don't know at this point that a book is ever going to happen. This fits better on a blog, where people can find the links. And it makes finding your freedom easier...<br /><br />The pages at the top, and the links on the side really tell you all you need. Or at least I think so. The whole point is to give you all the options you could use in order to sort out and build your own route to freedom.<br /><br />As I've covered before (in <a href="http://bit.ly/eO21KX">"Freedom Is"</a>) - you already have all the freedom you could possibly have.<br /><br />This whole site continued to evolve after that book was published. As I cover in <a href="http://amodernview.blogspot.com/p/why-this-approach.html">"Why This Approach?"</a>, it becomes a point of, "So you're enlightened, - now what?" That's what <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/sedonamethod-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=3">Lester Levenson</a> ran into after he solved a life-threatening physical situation. Spiritually, he was completely free - but still here on this physical plane.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/alanwattspath-20">Alan Watts</a> covered this in his various lectures. Zen Masters who achieved satori and simply then returned to their old trades or professions. Didn't change what they had gone through or their personal result. Life was different.<br /><br />I could probably go on for hours with this, another over-long, too-verbose post. Listening to Joseph Campbell's <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/campbell-hero-20/detail/B003SXHZEA">"Power of Myth"</a> video gives you completely different views on life and living. The point brought up last night was that there are many more shamans out there than are thought. Most don't have the structure in their lives to start to learn what to do with that event.<br /><br />For some, they've suffered through a near-death experience. Other's have a flash of inspiration when in Nature, or doing their normal daily lives. (Claude Bristol covers some of this in his "<a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/hardcover-book/law-of-attraction-magic-of-believing/838912">Magic of Believing</a>". Another book Bristol references is "<a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/cosmic-consciousness/4283157">Cosmic Conscousness</a>" by Maurice Bucke.)<br /><br />My own life had one of each. I survived cancer in my early '20's and decades later had a life-changing epiphany while walking along in the woods - all thought dropped away for a few minutes, giving me the personal peace I hadn't realized I was looking for. Convenient to say "change of life", but harder to explain from the inside out.<br /><br />It's just now that it's all settled into place.<br /><br />And I'm letting you in on the path I followed to get there. Nothing more.<br /><br />Your own mileage may definitely vary. Because the road you follow won't be the identical one to mine.<br /><br />Just the way it is.<br /><br />But if you've had that very unique experience, then you may want to digest this blog in different ways to search for what you feel you now need to become complete.<br /><br />A subtitle could well be "Learning how to release your inner shaman - steps and techniques for fully living life."<br /><br />That's probably the surprise hooker which startled me most. The point: just that anyone can live on these additional levels. And until they do, they really don't know what they are missing. However, it's more along the lines of that old phrase, "Many are Called, Few Choose." Because your life, your Now, is all a matter of choices, a matter of decisions.<br /><br />Drop all your old programs and get spiritually free. Then complete your training to become fully alive in that freedom. That's the advice I'm following.<br /><br />And have fun with all this. Lots and lots of it.robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-49062251487188615012011-05-20T07:21:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.885-05:00The Fiction of IT, the Reality of THOUOf course, after my discourse on <a href="http://amodernview.blogspot.com/2011/05/using-masks-to-light-your-way.html">shapeshifters, shadows, and tricksters</a> - I then watched a bit more of Joseph Cambell's "Power of Myth".<br /><br />He brought up the fact that by looking at people as "Thou's" instead of "It's" you change your own psychology.<br /><br />This comes back to the point that <i>you</i> are only looking back at <i>you</i>.<br /><br />Of course, this is the explanation for war and conflict of all types. Even these despots who are starving their country's people. They consider themselves separate from everyone around them.<br /><br />That's the trick with operating from the first level. It's all separatist thinking. There really is no one else.<br /><br />And that is what makes these stories fascinating for their viewers. The tragic hero has all these lacking qualities - among them that these people are living for their own identity. And only that.<br /><br />Their lives are much, much harder to live than anyone who is looking at life from the other, additional levels.<br /><br />Consider this idea that all around you - plants, animals, rocks, minerals, even air and water - are full of life. That they are actually you.<br /><br />Of course, this gives you the reason for the "Golden Rule" as a shorthand credo to live life by. As you simply follow this, you are treating others as you would treat yourself.<br /><br />That's closer to the truth than most people suspect.<br /><br />And you knew that.<br /><br />It changes how you deal with any nemesis you may meet. For they are really asking for your help, and your lessons.<br /><br />What a great life this is.robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-62498469983748236272011-05-20T06:27:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.886-05:00Using Masks to Light Your WayThe key point of <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/campbell-hero-20/detail/193290736X">Vogler</a> is to know that he's only and strictly talking about scripts and storytelling - or is he?<br /><br />When you start to apply his ideas to "real life", the first point you have to understand is that life isn't "real". Shakespeare's point that "All the world's a stage and all the people on it merely players" has more to do with actuality than you may think.<br /><br />Step back and take this idea that you already are an immortal being. Further, any lifetime you have would then be a temporary affair. We are not taking up reincarnation or past lives here at all. We are taking up the Now, which is your only real constant.<br /><br />The point you have is that you can affect or change the Now with your ideas. For better or worse, depending on what solution you want to find. But it's just a story, all the same, just stagecraft.<br /><br />The game is exciting and involving, but all the players and playing field are creations of Self.<br /><br />A practical application is "What the hell do I do with these people and companies I can't trust?" You may be affected by people or groups who aren't what they appear to be. Terrorists groups who want you to convert to a Dark Ages lifestyle. "Humane" extremist groups who want you to turn vegan-only (and have poorer health and also screw up our environmental and cultural balance through their tunnel-vision fixation.)<br /><br />These of course may be shadows, tricksters, shapeshifters. Pick your poison.<br /><br />Taking this seriously, it means that there is something lacking, some lesson you should be learning.<br /><br />If you take up Wayne Dyer, the answer is Unconditional Love. Bless them out of existence. Send understanding their way.<br /><br />Actions down this line would be to simply expose them for what they are, so others can see their duplicity. In that case, you treat them as a tragic hero in their own script. The lesson you give them is that they can run, but not hide - that they have to learn like the rest of us.<br /><br />I did that once with a scammer company. They had taken a good chunk of my money after a long, long sales pitch and then didn't deliver the goods. It took me over a year to get my money back. During that time, I learned all the lines and methods of using the "authorities" to change them - and what their actual Achille's heel was. Then I started telling other people about how to get their money back. Mostly, I moved on with my life, since it was up to others to apply what I told them or not.<br /><br />One day, I suddenly got sued by these guys. And they settled for making me quit telling people about how to get refunds. Plus, they also had to agree not to talk about me anymore. Shortly after, the government hit them with a lawsuit for nearly a million dollars - not the company, which was designed to simply drop out of existence. The government sued the actual individuals behind the scene - gave them their own personal lesson. And online complaints about that company (what they hated most) dropped to nothing after that. (I did find later that every single person I had told about that method had gotten their refund.)<br /><br />In that case, the nemesis had gotten affected by a stronger force for truth - and had to learn their own lesson in this. But I was unaffected. That lawsuit simply got me educated in how the American law-system works. It really cost me nothing more than some pocket change and time invested. (Check out <a href="http://bit.ly/gjJJ6U">Jurisdictionary</a> if you want the real scoop - and learn about a hero who is working to revise the legal system through education.)<br /><br />Shadows don't like daylight. Tricksters and Shapeshifters don't like meeting forthright people who understand them.<br /><br />The shorthand is to simply Be. Some intermediate techniques would be to do all necessary releasing in this area. You could also go to your Huna Garden and look for the dream symbols to change, asking the Master Gardener there for advice. Or visit your Mental Laboratory (<a href="http://awsm.co/SH3q">Silva</a>) and work your wonders with the advice of your Advisor there.<br /><br />In all cases, you are dealing with symbols and masks. You only lose if you give them power over you. But all power comes from within. So realize that the truth you are is greater than the fiction you create.<br /><br />Another point to consider is whether you really want to play that game. Will it profit you to keep going down this line. Or should you just let it go and let it play out? Again, this is just a simple approach:<i> quit creating the problem</i>. All life is generated problems. Release, Meditate, Be. And the solution is then obvious.<br /><br />Best of luck with this.robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-24725615497480927752011-05-19T16:58:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.886-05:00You, Automaticity, and Everything ElseOf course, this is more deep-end thinking which you can discard outright. After all, I only claim to be a scammer and an aspiring cartoonist. (I've written and published some books, but almost anyone can do that - same for the college degrees.)<br /><br />The logic starts with Daddy Bray (from Laura Yardley's "Heart of Huna") saying that the 3 parts of Humankind are metaphoric. (conscious, subsconscious, superconscious).<br /><br />In Urban Shaman (and even more in Max Freedom Long's books), the Ku (subconscious) is referred to as an entity of itself. This is a workable approach.<br /><br />However, when you mix in the concept that the subconscious is mostly accepted programming - such as through Levenson and Silva training - then any "identity" for the subconscious would be another program.<br /><br />Review <a href="http://amodernview.blogspot.com/2011/04/huna-3-selves-another-view.html">http://amodernview.blogspot.com/2011/04/huna-3-selves-another-view.html</a>, which outlines the world as being concentric, these 3 parts extending outside the individuality themselves. (A limited metaphor, but works for our argument.)<br /><br />The consideration here is that what sits between you and Self (infinite potential, by any name) is a set of programs which are more or less accessible to you.<br /><br />The subconscious controls the body, but by breathing you can get some control over several functions and turn semi-automatic to your control. Some have gone as far as stopping blood flow to specific areas - useful in accident situations.<br /><br />Extend that metaphor out, and you'll find it workable in explaining how the universe around you continues to operate - mostly on full automatic, regardless of your input.<br /><br />As you follow <a href="http://amodernview.blogspot.com/p/4-levels-of-reality.html"><span id="goog_937911900"></span>the four levels of reality<span id="goog_937911901"></span></a>, you can see that this is far from an unchanging state of affairs. By getting into more and greater communication with that universe around you, and in increasing your own responsibility for it, you will then improve your abilities to change it in different ways.<br /><br />You are essentially expanding your individuality beyond the tiny core we start out at and through the body itself and into the universe. We aren't talking "control" here - that is separatist. We would be talking instead along the lines of cooperation and coordination.<br /><br />Eventually, as you take complete responsibility for everything around you - being, doing, and having all that you can experience and sense - then you become One with everything, another name for resuming Self. At that point, you can make any amount of changes to anything - if you feel like it at all. (Some say that then you'll see the perfection of creation just as it is, so would no longer need to change anything - but the effectiveness of that statement is up to you.)<br /><br />The summary of this is that as you improve your own abilities, you will be able to improve your ability to change or adjust the environment around you. It starts with your own body and your own life, being as successful and healthy as you want. Then the physical universe starts changing exactly as you would want it to - and more success comes your way.<br /><br />It's all a matter of changing your considerations about your own limiting programs. And starts with what you consider about your individuality.robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-13704956905080776322011-05-19T16:57:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.886-05:00Stories, Parables, SportsThere are key reasons that Jesus and other philosophers spoke in parables, and why mythology survives.<br /><br />The lowest level is defined by its separation - <i>people are picking fights as <u>entertainment</u></i>. Competition is what rules.<br /><br />So in talking to people, they pick you out as a competitor <i>first</i>. And this is why they hold onto their touchiness and imagined affronts.<br /><br />To a truly free person, being offended is for all practical purposes impossible. A mild curiosity about an inefficient or non-optimum solution being implemented is just about as bad as it gets.<br /><br />And this also offers reason the <a href="http://robertworstell.com/sedona-method-review/larry-crane-releasing-technique/index.html">Release Technique/Sedona Method</a> is so effective and hasn't ever really gone mainstream - quite regardless that it's been proved effective by studies over and over.<br /><br />Churches and Religions <i>thrive</i> in such a competition-climate just as soon as it becomes an "us vs. them" situation - as soon as dogma's are built and the underlying basic tenets have been translated into something you could have a fight over. At their core, Islam and Judeo-Christian beliefs have no argument. It's what came later on both sides that throws salt in the wound.<br /><br />Most PR firms will tell you to push something controversial in order to get it picked up by the press - who make their living selling advertising in order to reach people who are fascinated with tabloid trivia and disasters. (Advertisers want to get people who are ruled by their emotional desires - addicts, basically.) Controversy is just another fight - people can't agree on what's the most workable and effective truth for any given situation. Their solutions are even worse - greenie-enviro's want the "government" to get involved. This means they can't simply get people to buy other products which are made better, safer, or more environmentally responsible.<br /><br />(And then you get the <b>HSUS</b>, which by reports is trying to get people to <i>go vegan</i>. So they get government to regulate stuff in order to drive up prices so people will quit eating meat. Nice job when you can get it. Less than one percent of their donations go to actual shelters, at something like $3,000 per animal... ref: <a href="http://humanewatch.org/">http://humanewatch.org</a>)<br /><br />There is actually <b>no</b> fight between <b>anything</b> - there <i>are</i> people who elect themselves to become fighters. Nazi Germany was a self-generated scene of separatists. They had to be fought - invited and took on the whole world in fact. However, many good things actually came from the actions which occurred during that conflict - for one, we learned how to streamline automation and developed enough manufacturing capability to feed and clothe and house the world.<br /><br />Since WWII (and before) it has always remained a problem of the poor doing their darnedest to <i>remain</i> poor, and a few "leaders" getting them to give up their power of choice so that their poverty could become institutionalized via government. (Got to love them competitive politicians.) And despot-run governments are creating the <i>only</i> places currently where mass starvation is occurring on this planet - as well as higher unemployment. (As that "We Are the Children" group found out.)<br /><br />But after that war, it became plainly obvious that Malthus had been and remains wrong on his warped statistics which proved that there is a limited amount of resources to feed, clothe, and house an increasing number of people. (Oh, in case you're curious - continuing census predictions say we top out around 2050 as a species - Italy, Ukraine, and a few others are already starting to go backwards.) There is <i>tons</i> of stuff around to take care of <i>everyone</i> - as well as the environment we live in. Just takes education, organization, and actual transparency. Oh yes, leave any government out of it.<br /><br />Our charity organizations have been most effective when they <i>taught</i> people to fish or bake bread rather than handing out fish sandwiches. Passing out money only <i>continues</i> poverty, unemployment, and poor schools - been proved time and time again. The worst charity organizations (HSUS, United Way, and a few others) wind up spending most of their money on executive perks and fundraising, plus PR. Give directly to <i>local</i> animal shelters and <i>local</i> charity organizations where you know who runs them.<br /><br />- - - -<br /><br />Shortly, I'll be moving back into my cartoons. Because entertainment is the one communication line which doesn't deal in conflicts, it simply makes fun of everything equally. The "making fun" is in non-sequitur comparisons.<br /><br />Perfect for a philosophy which says <a href="http://robertworstell.com/freedom">people are natively free</a>, that their only limits are self-imposed.<br /><br />Just in this blog itself (outside of a few early errors which are corrected in later posts), you have everything you need to re-create your own freedom. For eternity.<br /><br />But I don't need to create more antagonism or problems for people - other than helping them wake up a little bit. Any good dish needs a dash of spice to improve it.<br /><br />May all your roads rise up to meet you.robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-90820802736850017802011-05-19T14:10:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.887-05:00Now for something completely Mystic...Apologies to Monty Python fans, but this point seems a natural following to earlier posts today:<br /><br />In remote viewing, that's just another fiction. <a href="http://nightingale.directtrack.com/z/10602/CD2041/">LaTourette</a> covers that point (see ad at bottom of page). There is no real "over there". There is no real space for Self. That's why telepathy in it's own definition is another fiction as well - you don't "tele" anywhere. Because practically you are just talking to yourself.<br /><br />Of course, this is all the First Principle of Huna, which is that "Your Ideas Create Your Reality."<br /><br />And this is the bottom line to The Golden Rule. You only do to yourself.<br /><br />Gives us a new way of looking at things - doesn't it.<br /><br />Yes, this is fourth-level stuff. Neat, though.<br /><br />- - - -<br /><br />Watching the <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/campbell-hero-20/detail/B003SXHZEA">Power of Myth videos</a>. This is giving more mental fruit to chew on. Expect more posts shortly...<br /><br /><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">- - - -</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Of course, this also brings to fruition the concept Jesus the Christ spoke of (very tortuously translated) as "The Kingdom of God is within you."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">For that matter, it also means "Home is where the Heart is."</div>robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-16823563851642220702011-05-19T07:48:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.887-05:00Another (holistic) view of people<a href="http://amodernview.blogspot.com/2011/05/who-hero-really-is.html">The punchline to this joke is that it's just you looking back at you.</a><br /><br />That's the guy who is making faces at you, trying to get you to mirror his emotional outburst. That's why "news" casters always play up the over-wrought people in their interviews, always playing "gotcha" with politicians. And why politicians (since they were first recorded in Rome) always pick up babies during their campaign stops.<br /><br />Self is all their is, in the final analysis.<br /><br />So it's just Self to Self, if you think about it.<br /><br />Try considering that when you get a critical thought about "somebody else."<br /><br />Cheers!robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-13051641809914966972011-05-19T07:03:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.887-05:00How to find workable life improvement techniquesOf course, this becomes obvious if you've been following this blog for any amount of time (or want to review it's archives - note to self: I really need to create some books out of this stuff readers can download...)<br /><br />The best techniques work on all levels.<br /><br />The worst technique simply stick you into playing separatist games on the first level.<br /><br />If a dogma, belief-system, or simply says how some other people are "bad" or "lesser beings" than you and your tribe, then it's simply not the most effective technique you could be using.<br /><br />Anyone can use the "Shadow" mask to point out weaknesses in whatever character you're currently carrying around.<br /><br />The best techniques will tell you that it's just a mask, and you can take it off. (See Vogler's "Writer's Journey" book.)<br /><br />And if you are rejecting what I say, simply get a few hundred of Alan Watt's recordings and listen to them.<br /><br />This is why I don't recommend Scientology - even though I spent over 20 years of my life studying just that. It doesn't really give you any solution to this very separatist world we live in. Much like extremists have taken over most of the religions on this planet and turned them sour. The ones which are inclusive of all other beliefs and faith and thought-systems will be the ones which are most workable and effective for the greatest number of people.<br /><br />Of course, if I hadn't done all that work and blind study, I wouldn't have been able to find all this data you have in front of you now. Within that body of work are all the clues you need. But you are going to have to tip over the apple-cart so you can see all the apples for what they are. (Just unhitch the horse first, OK?)<br /><br />The simple approach is to look for techniques which work on all levels, that don't just work on or try only to explain the "real world". You won't wind up being an Islamic martyr or a starry-eyed zombie repeating back the corporate, party-line talking points. (And politics becomes far more fascinating, as does the "news", because you can see both sides of the story and simply pick the most effective, most win-win solution out of what they are saying.)<br /><br />Have fun with this - and the rest of this life.robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-66667141793932621922011-05-19T06:48:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.888-05:00Who the Hero Really IsVogler covers in his "Writer's Journey" that the hero always has a missing part, a "fatal flaw" which needs rectifying. Something lacking.<br /><br />And if I haven't exposed this fiction before - here it is: You are already whole, complete, and perfect. Any game you are playing was created simply ignoring your own abilities, talents, and knowledge.<br /><br />This is what makes self-help and success so easy. If it seems difficult, it's because you've made it that way.<br /><br />The logic behind this is pretty simple as well. I first ran into it in LaTourette's version of Silva Ultramind. And then it showed up in Hale Dwoskin's material on Levenson's Release Technique.<br /><br />You are rising to Self. <i>But you already are</i> Self. And the Master Gardener in Huna, the Advisor in Silva's Mental Laboratory, Hill's "Invisible Counselors" - they are all <i>you</i>. They are just "masks" you wear in order to have a metaphor you can readily understand and use.<br /><br />You are already Self. Your journey is simply getting rid of the barriers you set up so many, many, many years ago as part of creating this nice little individuality you carry around. This is how you "identify" yourself.<br /><br />And of course, that is the real explanation for why "psychic" talents such as telepathy, "akashic records", and stories of instant healing and superhuman strength in emergencies exist. You are simply letting your own light shine. You are just talking directly to you - temporarily pulling out all the stops.<br /><br />So the game from here on out is how fast you can let you in on what you already know.<br /><br />Techniques like Releasing work, because you are dropping the old programs you created which keep you from knowing what you need. (And is why releasing needs to be developed into an always-on habit.) Silva Method allows you to "go to level" quickly and bypass the various blocks you put in place so you couldn't know something - and their 3-finger technique allows you do assume state this near instantly.<br /><br />Vogler tells this as the reason all these archetypes exist in a story as characters - they are all bringing or supplying something the hero is lacking. They all have lessons the hero must learn to be complete.<br /><br />This then bridges the symbolic (3rd) level over to the holistic (4th) level. When you look for the lessons and archetypes in the world around you, then you can simply get the lessons Self is trying to tell you.<br /><br />And by <i>simply</i> <i>being</i> everything, every person, every mineral, every waft of etheric vapor - you then become whole.<br /><br />As you become more whole, you become more Self. And that's where holistic bridges over.<br /><br />Now, since you already know everything about everything, you aren't stuck operating at any single level. You can use techniques from every level to sort out whatever is in front of you. The levels themselves are just metaphors - ways to organize data into segments so they can be more easily understood.<br /><br />That is also why I've assigned material to various levels, saying that you are just going to go over and over these until you "get it". But any material can be applied on any level. Because all these levels really exist simultaneously, not as a linear path - but you can consider them this way if you like.<br /><br />The most consistent advice I've heard from people who have collected the best and most workable techniques (Dwoskin, Levenson, Eker, among others) is to "not believe a word I say." Prove it for yourself. If it doesn't work, then simply move on.<br /><br />An individual has set up various (and multitudinously infinite amounts of) programs which keep that individuality intact. By definition, they each have unique programs which maintain that individuality. You could say that no one else has the exact same pattern. Otherwise, they wouldn't be individuals. (No Duh...)<br /><br />So your path will be your own, and different from anyone else's. The metaphor-concepts I've covered in this blog continue to be the broad strokes. Because you have to fill in the details.<br /><br />And it's all part of rising back up to Self - who will tell you all these details if you simply sit still, relax, and open up to the lessons which are always there, always incoming. Just accept this idea that<i> you already know the solutions to any problem or situation you are facing</i>. Then pick the most optimal one which does the greatest good for you and everyone concerned.<br /><br />Keep that idea as a new habit and you'll find all sorts of people, books, recordings, events - all entering into your life to tell you and remind you how great you are, how perfect you have always been.<br /><br />The next step is believing them. Believe. Be.<br /><br />- - - -<br /><br />You may wonder why so many of these posts are in the early am. If you've studied Silva Method, you'll see this is because I'm just waking up from the delta wavelength of sleep and have trained myself to study my dreams to get the lessons they contain. And more frequently than not, I'm then urged to get up and blog about it so you can share these. Look it up under "Glass of Water" technique.<br /><br />My own variation on this was from Huna. There, the answer you got depends on the question you ask. So you want to keep in mind as you go to bed that you will know the question you have to ask as well as the answer. Then drink half of that glass of water. When you rise and drink the other half, it all becomes obvious.<br /><br />But that technique is just a crutch until you can do it on your own.<br /><br />The next step is to be able to access those questions and answers anytime during the day. And then life becomes a great deal of fun, since it speeds up immensely.<br /><br />Living on all four levels at once is much more fulfilling than just one. You look forward to playing the game of what lessons you can get today and how Self is sending them to you. Great fun.<br /><br />Best to you and yours this day and from here on out.robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-65828564335007829572011-05-18T14:04:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.888-05:00How the Body Clues You In to Living StoriesThere's points <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/campbell-hero-20/detail/193290736X">Chris Vogler</a> made in his "<a href="http://astore.amazon.com/campbell-hero-20/detail/193290736X">Writer's Journey</a>" Appendices which give a different view of this universe and how it affects us.<br /><br />The first, and very interesting idea is that stories themselves are alive. This is a logical extension that our creations are from us (Self) and so are alive to the same degree our bodies and everything else which is part of this creation are alive.<br /><br />One could make the same point for various belief-systems, such as religions and Locke's ideals (which were written into the Constitution) and also the Magna Carta - a person's rights to his own property being above any rights of a King or other sovereign. But read Vogler:<br /><br /><blockquote>"In the course of my adult wanderings through what is normally considered children's literature, I came to a few firm conclusions about stories, these powerful and mysterious creations of the human mind. For instance, I came to believe that stories have healing power, that they can help us deal with difficult emotional situations by giving us examples of human behavior, perhaps similar in some way to the struggles we are going through at some stage of life, and which might inspire us to try a different strategy for living. I believe stories have survival value for the human species and that they were a big step in human evolution, allowing us to think metaphorically and to pass down the accumulated wisdom of the race in story form. I believe stories are metaphors by which people measure and adjust their own lives by comparing them to those of the characters. I believe the basic metaphor of most stories is that of the journey, and that good stories show at least two journeys, outer and inner, an outer journey in which the hero tries to do something difficult or get something, and an inner journey in which the hero faces some crisis of the spirit or test of character that leads to transformation. I believe stories are orientation devices, functioning like compasses and maps to allow us to feel oriented, centered, connected, more conscious, more aware of our identities and responsibilities and our relationship to the rest of the world. </blockquote><blockquote>"But of all my beliefs about stories, one that has been particularly useful in the business of developing commercial stories for the movies is the idea that stories are somehow alive, conscious, and responsive to human emotions and wishes. </blockquote><blockquote>"I have always suspected that stories are alive. They seem to be conscious and purposeful. Like living beings, stories have an agenda, something on their minds. They want something from you. They want to wake you up, to make you more conscious and more alive. They want to teach you a lesson disguised as entertainment. </blockquote><blockquote>"Under the guise of amusement, stories want to edify you, build up your character just a little by showing a moral situation, a struggle, and an outcome. They seek to change you in some small way, to make you just a bit more human by comparing your behavior to that of the characters."</blockquote>Vogler and I agree on one point, which I concluded years ago - that people use other's lives and the entertainment they see on the movie and video screens to evaluate their own life against.<br /><br />Taking this to the next step, we are seeing that stories themselves are trying to influence our lives. It just depends on how intuitive a person is, how much they are in tune with the Universe around them.<br /><br />The more separated, the more individual, the less likely they are going to see these inputs as lessons they should apply in their own lives. And the more desperate the stories will become to affect them at some level.<br /><br />Vogler's next point was in defining what a "catharsis" was and why it's important to any and every story:<br /><blockquote>"Several times in this book we have used the word catharsis, referring to a concept found in the works of Aristotle, one of his terms that has survived to become part of the general theory of drama and narrative. It is a critical concept, the point of drama according to Aristotle, and its roots go back to the beginnings of language, art, and ritual. </blockquote><blockquote> .... </blockquote><blockquote>"Nowadays we may use the term catharsis more broadly to mean any kind of emotional release or breakthrough. Catharsis was adopted by the psychological community to describe a therapeutic process in which repressed thoughts, fears, emotions, or memories are deliberately brought to consciousness, triggering an emotional release or breakthrough that is supposed to relieve anxiety and relax tension. Movies and stories as well as art and music can have a role to play in triggering a psychologically healthy cathartic reaction."</blockquote>Taken together, these may say that the story, as well as any particular person you know, is working to help you with your life (and vice-versa). Every person in your life (as well as objects and elementals) are wearing masks for your review. They are each there to help you resolve your lacks.<br /><br />The ideal is to surround yourself with stories which bring you to that catharsis. Of course, the top-level catharsis would be an epiphany. Which would just confirm or set you firmly on your own shaman path.<br /><br />Third point I'd tell you from Vogler is that he's worked up a theory that the story actually affects the body itself. Indicators of pulse and endrocrine secretions tell you how the story is affecting you:<br /><blockquote>"THE BODY AS A GUIDE TO CRITIQUING </blockquote><blockquote>"It's not easy to critique your own writing work or that of others. It can be hard to articulate what's wrong, how the story made you feel, what was lacking. Sometimes the best way to measure a story's effect and diagnose its problems is to ask 'How did it make me feel - in the organs of my body? Did I feel anything physical at all, or was I just having mental processes that didn't much involve anything but the brain? Did it make my blood run cold? Did it make my toes curl with horror or delight? Did it make my nervous system alert as if the dangers the hero faces were actually threatening me?' If not, there may be something missing, an appeal to the body, a physical threat, an emotional tension. </blockquote><blockquote>"As a professional evaluator of stories I became keenly attuned to the emotional and physical effects a manuscript could have on me. I came to depend on the wisdom of the body to determine the quality of the story. If it was bad and boring, my body would grow leaden and the pages would weigh a thousand pounds apiece. I knew it was bad if, as my eyes scanned down the page, my head kept drooping and I nodded off to sleep. The good ones, I noticed, the ones that ultimately made good movies, had the opposite effect on my body. They woke me up. The organs of my body came to life one by one. The body became alert, light, and happy, squirting fluids into the pleasure centers of the brain, 'the proper pleasure' as Aristotle called it, of experiencing emotional and physical release through a well-told, cathartic tale. </blockquote><blockquote>"As we watch a good movie or are engrossed in a good novel, we actually go into an altered state of consciousness, with a measurable change in brain waves detectable by the tools of science. Perhaps changes in the rhythm of the breath, combined with focusing the attention on the imaginary world of the story, bring about this almost hypnotic effect."</blockquote>This then brings a very personal reality home - if you take all these three points together.<br /><br />Stories represent the symbolical level of our existence. It's not particularly a stretch to say that they take on a life of their own. And the purpose of those stories are to make a change in our own lives - to help us achieve our own goal of regaining Self.<br /><br />What's interesting in this is that point of affecting us through the body. This is the last refuge of the "hideaway" soul. The person who has given up almost everything in order to just let the subconscious run their lives. Cubicle, factory workers - wage-slaves.<br /><br />Yet the story now has most effect even at this level. As a person climbs up and takes more responsibility, healing of dis-ease becomes easier, illness harder to succumb to. The person less and less able to be the effect of their body in general. The body becomes easier to live around and more responsive.<br /><br />If you follow this right on out, you may get a clue that the Universe itself is alive and working its hardest to get everyone - even the lowest on the pole - to wake up and start living again. And it sends stories out into the world (authored and created by the most intuitive among us) to wake everyone else up.<br /><br />This points to the fact that there is no such thing as "harmless distraction" in entertainment. You are going to get a lesson in spite of yourself.<br /><br />You aren't separate from the world and universe around you. It's all alive, in every part, and just up to you to learn what you can from all you experience. <br /><br />So the next time you are in a bookstore - be mindful of books and stories which seem to "leap out at you." It may be a lesson you should be listening to.robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-66416987546074873372011-05-17T17:11:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.888-05:00The Masks You Find On Your PathChris Vogler hands us clues to the fourth level as well as the third. (It's notable that on the first level, as well as other levels, you are given all the tools you need to solve all levels. It's only how you use the tool that determines its results for you.)<br /><br />He goes into substantial work about the archetypes. Defining each in terms of their use in film examples. Very convenient for a modern world.<br /><br />Vogler also brings up an interesting point - that the archetypes may be understood as simply masks worn by the characters. This explains various complex movie characters who seem to be different archetypes at different points.<br /><br />Again, here we don't need to fall into semantic problems. One person's name for their understanding of God will not necessarily be used by another. Once you understand the purpose/function of an archetype, then it's appearance is easier to use as a symbol.<br /><br />The other idea Vogler uses at the beginning is that the Journey our Hero takes helps find the various parts of personal beingness which are insufficient or lacking. The journey is for wholeness.<br /><br />And this is why it becomes a route on the fourth level as well. But the main use (for this discussion) is on the third level - that of dreams and symbols.<br /><br />So I say to study both Campbell and Vogler in order to fully understand these concepts and how they relate to solving life problems.<br /><br />Obviously, if you are simply applying this to your own life in a pragmatic, first-level world, it becomes useful as a nice metaphor in the objective world - suitable for study and entertainment.<br /><br />On the fourth level, the tool this book gives is to <i>be whatever it is that apparently opposes or hinders your success</i>. For only a lack of beingness on the holistic level is what keeps you in that problem or situation, or keeps that existing at all. <b>Be all, solve all. </b>(And again, I told you these levels all segue into the next, just as most people in the "real world" are intermittently psychic.)<br /><br />Good Hunting!robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-53504271299965075712011-05-17T16:50:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.889-05:00The Artist's Journey<i><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/campbell-hero-20/detail/193290736X">Chris Vogler</a> has this essay as the last of his book (other than his appendices). It is as applicable to anyone "following their bliss" as it is to the writer or any of the artist-inclination. Within his framework, it applies the archetypes to that apparently unique worldview. But you may also see that it applies to anyone making their way on this planet, in this universe - whether they recognize it or not.</i><br /><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/campbell-hero-20/detail/193290736X">The Writer's Journey</a></b></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The beauty of the Hero's Journey model is that it not only describes a pattern in myths and fairy tales, but it's also an accurate map of the territory one must travel to become a writer or, for that matter, a human being.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Hero's Journey and the Writer's Journey are one and the same. Anyone setting out to write a story soon encounters all the tests, trials, ordeals, joys, and rewards of the Hero's Journey. We meet all of its Shadows, Shapeshifters, Mentors, Tricksters, and Threshold Guardians in the interior landscape. Writing is an often perilous journey inward to probe the depths o f one's soul and bring back the Elixir of experience - a good story. Low self-esteem or confusion about goals may be the Shadows that chill our work, an editor or one's own judgmental side may be the Threshold Guardians that seem to block our way. Accidents, computer problems, and difficulties with time and discipline may torment and taunt us like Tricksters. Unrealistic dreams of success or distractions may be the Shapeshifters who tempt, confuse, and dazzle us. Deadlines, editorial decisions, or the struggle to sell our work may be the Tests and Ordeals from which we seem to die but are Resurrected to write again.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But take hope, for writing is magic. Even the simplest act of writing is almost supernatural, on the borderline with telepathy. Just think: We can make a few abstract marks on a piece of paper in a certain order and someone a world away and a thousand years from now can know our deepest thoughts. The boundaries of space and time and even the limitations of death can be transcended.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Many cultures believed the letters of their alphabets were far more than just symbols for communication, recording transactions, or recalling history. They believed letters were powerful magical symbols that could be used to cast spells and predict the future. The Norse runes and the Hebrew alphabet are simple letters for spelling words, but also deep symbols of cosmic significance.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This magical sense is preserved in our word for teaching children how to manipulate letters to make words: spelling. When you "spell" a word correctly, you are in effect casting a spell, charging these abstract, arbitrary symbols with meaning and power. We say "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me," but this is manifestly untrue. We know that words have power to hurt or heal. The simple words of a letter, telegram, or phone call can strike you like a hammer blow. They're just words - marks on paper or vibrations of air - but mere words such as "Guilty," "Ready, aim, fire.'" "I do," or "We'd like to buy your screenplay" can bind us, condemn us, or bring us joy. They can hurt or heal us with their magic power.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The healing power of words is their most magical aspect. Writers, like the shamans or medicine men and women of ancient cultures, have the potential to be healers.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>WRITERS AND SHAMANS</b></span> </blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Shamans have been called "the wounded healers." Like writers, they are special people set apart from the rest by their dreams, visions, or unique experiences. Shamans, like many writers, are prepared for their work by enduring terrible ordeals. They may have a dangerous illness or fall from a cliff and have nearly every bone broken. They are chewed by a lion or mauled by a bear. They are taken apart and put back together again in a new way. In a sense they have died and been reborn, and this experience gives them special powers. Many writers come to their craft only after they have been shattered by life in some way.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Often those chosen to be shamans are identified by special dreams or visions, in which the gods or spirits take them away to other worlds where they undergo terrible ordeals. They are laid out on a table to have all their bones removed and broken. Before their eyes, their bones and organs are split, cooked, and reassembled in a new order. They are tuned to a new frequency like radio receivers. As shamans, they are now able to receive messages from other worlds."</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They return to their tribes with new powers. They have the ability to travel to other worlds and bring back stories, metaphors, or myths that guide, heal, and give meaning to life. They listen to the confusing, mysterious dreams of their people and give them back in the form of stories that provide guidelines for right living. We writers share in the godlike power of the shamans. We not only travel to other worlds but create them out of space and time. When we write, we truly travel to these worlds of our imagination. Anyone who has tried to write seriously knows this is why we need solitude and concentration. We are actually traveling to another time and place.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As writers we travel to other worlds not as mere daydreamers, but as shamans with the magic power to bottle up those worlds and bring Them back in the form of stories for others to share. Our stories have the power to heal, to make the world new again, to give people metaphors by which they can better understand their own lives.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When we writers apply the ancient tools of the archetypes and the Hero's Journey to modern stories, we stand on the shoulders of the mythmakers and shamans of old. When we try to heal our people with the wisdom of myth, we are the modern shamans. We ask the same ageless, childlike questions presented by the myths: Who am I? Where did I come from? What happens when I die? What does it mean? Where do I fit in? Where am I bound on my own Hero's Journey?</span></blockquote><div><br /></div>robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-13302903324873665492011-05-17T06:06:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.889-05:00Cambell's Call to Adventure<i>From Joseph Campbell's "Hero With a Thousand Faces", here is the last essay. </i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><i>It seems another call to adventure - like you didn't have enough already - but you may find your friends and mentors already on this journey...</i><br /><br /><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The Hero Today</b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All of which is far indeed from the contemporary view; for the democratic ideal of the self-determining individual, the inven-tion of the power-driven machine, and the development of the scientific method of research, have so transformed human life that the long-inherited, timeless universe of symbols has col-lapsed. In the fateful, epoch-announcing words of Nietzsche's Zarathustra: "Dead are all the gods.'" One knows the tale; it has been told a thousand ways. It is the hero-cycle of the modern age, the wonder-story of mankind's coming to maturity. The spell of the past, the bondage of tradition, was shattered with sure and mighty strokes. The dream-web of myth fell away; the mind opened to full waking consciousness; and modern man emerged from ancient ignorance, like a butterfly from its cocoon, or like the sun at dawn from the womb of mother night.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported. The social unit is not a carrier of religious content, but an economic-political organiza-tion. Its ideals are not those of the hieratic pantomime, making visible on earth the forms of heaven, but of the secular state, in hard and unremitting competition for material supremacy and resources. Isolated societies, dream-bounded within a mytholog-ically charged horizon, no longer exist except as areas to be exploited. And within the progressive societies themselves, every last vestige of the ancient human heritage of ritual, morality, and art is in full decay.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The problem of mankind today, therefore, is precisely the op-posite to that of men in the comparatively stable periods of those great co-ordinating mythologies which now are known as lies. Then all meaning was in the group, in the great anonymous forms, none in the self-expressive individual; today no meaning is in the group - none in the world: all is in the individual. But there the meaning is absolutely unconscious. One does not know toward what one moves. One does not know by what one is pro-pelled. The lines of communication between the conscious and the unconscious zones of the human psyche have all been cut, and we have been split in two.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The hero-deed to be wrought is not today what it was in the century of Galileo. Where then there was darkness, now there is light; but also, where light was, there now is darkness. The mod-ern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated soul.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Obviously, this work cannot be wrought by turning back, or away, from what has been accomplished by the modern revolution; for the problem is nothing if not that of rendering the mod-ern world spiritually significant - or rather (phrasing the same principle the other way round) nothing if not that of making it possible for men and women to come to full human maturity through the conditions of contemporary life. Indeed, these con-ditions themselves are what have rendered the ancient formulae ineffective, misleading, and even pernicious. The community today is the planet, not the bounded nation; hence the patterns of projected aggression which formerly served to coordinate the in-group now can only break it into factions. The national idea, with the flag as totem, is today an aggrandizer of the nursery ego, not the annihilator of an infantile situation. Its parodyrituals of the parade ground serve the ends of Holdfast, the tyrant dragon, not the God in whom self-interest is annihilate. And the numerous saints of this anticult - namely the patriots whose ubiquitous photographs, draped with flags, serve as official icons - are precisely the local threshold guardians (our demon Sticky-hair) whom it is the first problem of the hero to surpass.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nor can the great world religions, as at present understood, meet the requirement. For they have become associated with the causes of the factions, as instruments of propaganda and self-congratulation. (Even Buddhism has lately suffered this degradation, in reaction to the lessons of the West.) The universal triumph of the secular state has thrown all religious organizations into such a definitely secondary, and finally ineffectual, position that religious pantomime is hardly more today than a sanctimonious exercise for Sunday morning, whereas business ethics and patriotism stand for the remainder of the week. Such a monkey-holiness is not what the functioning world requires; rather, a transmutation of the whole social order is necessary, so that through every detail and act of secular life the vitalizing image of the universal god-man who is actually immanent and effective in all of us may be somehow made known to consciousness. </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And this is not a work that consciousness itself can achieve. Consciousness can no more invent, or even predict, an effective symbol than foretell or control tonight's dream. The whole thing is being worked out on another level, through what is bound to be a long and very frightening process, not only in the depths of every living psyche in the modern world, but also on those titanic battlefields into which the whole planet has lately been converted. We are watching the terrible clash of the Symplegades, through which the soul must pass - identified with neither side.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But there is one thing we may know, namely, that as the new symbols become visible, they will not be identical in the various parts of the globe; the circumstances of local life, race, and tradition must all be compounded in the effective forms. Therefore, it is necessary for men to understand, and be able to see, that through various symbols the same redemption is revealed, "Truth is one," we read in the Vedas; "the sages call it by many names." A single song is being inflected through all the colorations of the human choir. General propaganda for one or another of the local solutions, therefore, is superfluous - or much rather, a menace. The way to become human is to learn to recognize the lineaments of God in all of the wonderful modulations of the face of man.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With this we come to the final hint of what the specific orientation of the modern hero-task must be, and discover the real cause for the disintegration of all of our inherited religious formulae. The center of gravity, that is to say, of the realm of mystery and danger has definitely shifted - for the primitive hunting peoples of those remotest human millenniums when the sabertooth tiger, the mammoth, and the lesser presences of the animal kingdom were the primary manifestations of what was alien - the source at once of danger, and of sustenance - the great human problem was to become linked psychologically to the task of sharing the wilderness with these beings. An unconscious identification took place, and this was finally rendered conscious in the half-human, half-animal, figures of the mythological totem-ancestors. The animals became the tutors of humanity. Through acts of literal imitation - such as today appear only on the children's playground (or in the madhouse) - an effective annihilation of the human ego was accomplished and society achieved a cohesive organization. Similarly, the tribes supporting themselves on plant-food became cathected to the plant; the life-rituals of planting and reaping were identified with those of human procreation, birth, and progress to maturity. Both the plant and the animal worlds, however, were in the end brought under social control. Where-upon the great field of instructive wonder shifted - to the skies - and mankind enacted the great pantomime of the sacred moon-king, the sacred sun-king, the hieratic, planetary state, and the symbolic festivals of the world-regulating spheres.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Today all of these mysteries have lost their force; their symbols no longer interest our psyche. The notion of a cosmic law, which all existence serves and to which man himself must bend, has long since passed through the preliminary mystical stages represented in the old astrology, and is now simply accepted in mechanical terms as a matter of course. The descent of the Occidental sciences from the heavens to the earth (from seventeenth-century astronomy to nineteenth-century biology), and their concentration today, at last, on man himself (in twentieth-century anthropology and psychology), mark the path of a prodigious transfer of the focal point of human wonder. Not the animal world, not the plant world, not the miracle of the spheres, but man himself is now the crucial mystery. Man is that alien presence with whom the forces of egoism must come to terms, through whom the ego is to be crucified and resurrected, and in whose image society is to be reformed. Man, understood however not as "I" but as "Thou": for the ideals and temporal institutions of no tribe, race, continent, social class, or century, can be the measure of the inexhaustible and multifariously wonderful divine existence that is the life in all of us.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The modern hero, the modern individual who dares to heed the call and seek the mansion of that presence with whom it is our whole destiny to be atoned, cannot, indeed must not, wait for his community to cast off its slough of pride, fear, rationalized avarice, and sanctified misunderstanding. "Live," Nietzsche says, "as though the day were here." It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal - carries the cross of the redeemer - not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.</div><div><br /></div></span></blockquote>robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-41243396179367127602011-05-16T22:26:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.890-05:00Life as you knew it is over - but it always has been.Watching one of these funny tragic end-of-season dramas. Funny because it's based in the most limited concepts possible.<br /><br />But we've all been there.<br /><br />Look, any of the various techniques and methods I've discussed here take you completely beyond the tragic ending.<br /><br /><ul><li>Napoleon Hill - "Think and Grow Rich" - the complete method to achieve anything you want, regardless.<br /></li><li>Levenson's Release Technique - get into an unflappable calm, an "inperturbability" which doesn't quit - ever.<br /></li><li>Silva Method - through modern meditation techniques, you enter into high planes of intuitional understanding which gives you all answers to any situation. Then just pick the best.<br /></li><li>Eker's Millionaire Mind Intensive - same results as above, getting rid of fears which hold you back - just do it from the game of making money.<br /></li><li>Serge Kahili King's Huna (as well as Max Freedom Long) - find out how the universe really works and get all your questions answered on this or any other plane we exist on.</li></ul><br /><br />Any and all of these, especially when used in conjunction with each other, can give you any health or life or relationship quality you want. Abundance in everything you touch.<br /><br />It just really becomes too easy. And I only picked the ones which appealed to me. These all followed on themselves and each lead to the other - most cross over into the others at one point or another. And there are side routes, such as "The Secret" and "switchwords" which really and only compounded solutions and cross-confirmed the others as workable.<br /><br />The above is the path I've chosen. It probably isn't yours. But you can use any or all of it you want.<br /><br />All lead beyond fear, beyond body death. And beyond caring what people think or react about you. Because you're too busy helping them make a better success out of their own lives.<br /><br />You are an immortal being. As all of us. We are simply here to rise higher as we can to becoming Self.<br /><br />These tragic TV shows which pass for entertainment - might as well watch an empty screen for what good they do. And I'm tired of explaining the motivations and reasons they do what they do. It's not a waste of time, but that's because you are taking other lessons from it than what they give.<br /><br />Take this hint: learn all the 5 sets of study above. Learn them cold, until you have all the answers to anything and everything. At that point, you get the punchline to the joke you wrote so very long ago. You learn why it is that you've created this individuality you call yourself.<br /><br />- - - -<br /><br />I'm just about done working up this spiritual training lineup.<br /><br />Tonight, I started piecing together the parts of the 4th level, holistic.<br /><br />That's where I start drawing and publishing my cartoons from. Being the trickster might be a nice mask to wear for a change.<br /><br />These final notes are just that - and as you've been following right along, it shouldn't be too hard a stretch.<br /><br />Don't know if this lineup will ever come out as a book. I don't know that it's really necessary. More than likely, it will have to be a book of cartoons.<br /><br />But I do know that we are in for some very interesting times. End times, actually. Because the world is waking up - and as they do, they waken to a different dream than the one they woke to last time. Like we do every day.<br /><br />You see, the past is constantly changing in order to help us make sense of our present Now. This is why cops can't ever really piece together what happened from witnesses. Because as the minutes or seconds pass, they change. This is one datum that no one has really looked at before. And you won't see it until you start operating on the holistic level. Just about the point where time really stops mattering at all.<br /><br />Best of luck to all of us with our journey(s).robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-76510491998143339642011-05-16T16:08:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.890-05:00Reading your Life-Dream as a Hero's JourneyThis is intended as a short-hand crib-note to make use of Campbell's Hero's Journey in your own dream working (3rd level).<br /><br />The basic plot (from <a href="http://www.thewritersjourney.com/hero%27s_journey.htm">Vogler</a>):<br /><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial;">The hero is introduced in his ORDINARY WORLD where he receives the CALL TO ADVENTURE. He is RELUCTANT at first to CROSS THE FIRST THRESHOLD where he eventually encounters TESTS, ALLIES and ENEMIES. He reaches the INNERMOST CAVE where he endures the SUPREME ORDEAL. He SEIZES THE SWORD or the treasure and is pursued on the ROAD BACK to his world. He is RESURRECTED and transformed by his experience. He RETURNS to his ordinary world with a treasure, boon, or ELIXIR to benefit his world.</span></blockquote>The 7 archetypes:<br /><blockquote style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">HEROES</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate;"> </span></blockquote><blockquote style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">SHADOWS</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate;"> </span></blockquote><blockquote style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">MENTORS</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate;"> </span></blockquote><blockquote style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">HERALD</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate;"> </span></blockquote><blockquote style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">THRESHOLD GUARDIANS</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate;"> </span></blockquote><blockquote style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">SHAPESHIFTERS</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate;"> </span></blockquote><blockquote style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">TRICKSTERS</span> </blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;">In these, you could create a checklist to study just about any aspect of any life. Or simply print out this post to have it at hand in whatever is your "office". (It would fit on two sides of a note-card for your wallet or purse, for instance.)</span><br /><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;">As example, if your life is boring beyond all belief, was there a call to adventure which you didn't heed...?</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;">As well, you may find yourself wearing masks for others - like the trickster or herald or mentor...</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;">You can find this cycle in every single business cycle you enter, if you only look. Too often a product fails because it doesn't translate into an actual boon for mankind. But was there a trickster in the mix?</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;">That is the first call: <u>to look</u>. (Only after that do you get the red pill, blue pill treatment.) But again, this is just a model. Use it or not. Treat it as you will. I'll readily assume any archetype you assign me. That's my job, it seems.</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;">Luck to us all.</div>robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-90005269743366691192011-05-16T08:53:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.890-05:00Good vs. Bad vs. UglySorry, but the "news" got to me again. Just more to release and meditate on, I guess.<br /><br />Getting to higher levels than the one most are "stuck" on tells you instantly that there is no bad or good, just as there is no evil or saintliness. The world is as perfect or rotten as you consider it to be. Nothing more or less.<br /><br />As you rise in your own consideration of your own abilities and blessedness, you can see that most of the games being played - and all the "popular" media - revolve around emotional conflicts and controversies. It's all Us vs. Them, or the single individual against the rest of the world.<br /><br />Even the concept that someone has to "make money" or "earn a living" is pretty much moot as being vital or necessary. Jesus the Christ had no job or income, yet stayed at some of the richest houses in the areas he visited. And he had to refuse many expensive gifts, or allow their giving only to give them away in turn. Mahatma Gandhi had a similar lifestyle, as did the Buddha. Give it all up and still have everything you could need or want.<br /><br />So what reason, then, are we watching what passes for "news"?<br /><br />Right off, I'd say mental bad habits. Or, you're working to help someone else improve and this is part of the background noise of their environment.<br /><br />The point of this post is to get yourself back to the point where you don't have to accept or reject what the TV and other news media give you. You can let it be - even bless it. And take what lessons you're sending yourself for what they're worth.<br /><br />Just part of moving from Individual -> Mind -> Universe -> Self.robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-79582930843624166432011-05-16T06:38:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.891-05:00Key points to spiritual training<ul><li>Nothing is permanent, the only constant is change.<br /></li><li>There is no right or wrong - except on first level, and that is just a way to short-hand concepts.<br /></li><li>Ideas are dreams, and dreams are a third level substance - but not limited there.<br /></li><li>Nothing and everything is valuable. What the spiritually free do for goals isn't the same that the mass of humanity do. We aren't here for approval, security, or to escape control. We actually create our own freedom with all the actions we take and the blessings we send.<br /></li><li>It's only living through all four levels that your life becomes really alive, in the fullest sense.<br /></li><li>And so, we are blessed.</li></ul>robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-52229691561728662332011-05-16T06:28:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.891-05:00Starting the Hero's JourneySo starts our study of a hero's journey.<br /><br />Now this has been over-thought, over-reviewed and transmorgraphied beyond belief. So I'm going to stick to the main points. We'll use the Wikipedia version (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth</a>) for best simplicity - but that's pretty involved in itself. What is needed is a simple view of things. The safest thing for me to do is to boil this down as much as I can, and then get out of the way.<br /><br />Chris Vogler made his mark by converting Hero of a Thousand Faces to his "Writer's Journey" (<a href="http://www.thewritersjourney.com/hero%27s_journey.htm">http://www.thewritersjourney.com/hero%27s_journey.htm</a>). The proved workability of this idea is in Disney's success with Lion King as well as others - this is what prompted me to zero in on this particular line. There are tons of discussions on this area, and it's a case of: "so what?" The point is to get an effective technique, not worry about perceived flaws. If it doesn't work for you, move on to something else. That this line of work has produced effective entertainment opens it up to use in other fields. By all rights, you could do the same in boiling down all the proved bestseller classics, as Louis La'Mour did, and then use this common thematic approach for the same end.<br /><br />For our use (and in keeping this simple) there are only Campbell and Vogler to study - even though these make it quite tough enough.<br /><br />The journey consists mainly of 3 parts: Departure, Initiation, Return.<br /><br />There's an opportunity, dealing with it, and returning home with the goods. All of these steps have "or not" attached to them. Just like life.<br /><br />This has been broken down in to 17 steps or nexus-points within the overall cycle:<br /><br /> <b>The 17 Stages of the Monomyth</b><br /><blockquote>I Departure<br /> 1 The Call to Adventure<br /> 2 Refusal of the Call<br /> 3 Supernatural Aid<br /> 4 The Crossing of the First Threshold<br /> 5 Belly of The Whale<br />II Initiation<br /> 1 The Road of Trials<br /> 2 The Meeting With the Goddess<br /> 3 Woman as Temptress<br /> 4 Atonement with the Father<br /> 5 Apotheosis<br /> 6 The Ultimate Boon<br />III Return<br /> 1 Refusal of the Return<br /> 2 The Magic Flight<br /> 3 Rescue from Without<br /> 4 The Crossing of the Return Threshold<br /> 5 Master of Two Worlds<br /> 6 Freedom to Live</blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="File:Heroesjourney.svg" 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/></div><br />And the wikipedia article details each of these. Needless to say, I consider these a bit more "academically-inclined" than necessary. <br /><br />Within this overall cycle show up several archetypes from Karl Jung, which themselves are a form of shorthand from many different religions and philosophies. Oddly, there are 7 of them, which is itself a mystic symbol. <br /><br />Here's an excerpt which lays out Vogler's understanding of the archetypes:<br /><br /><b>Hero</b>: "The Hero is the protagonist or central character, whose primary purpose is to separate from the ordinary world and sacrifice himself for the service of the Journey at hand - to answer the challenge, complete the quest and restore the Ordinary World's balance. We experience the Journey through the eyes of the Hero."<br /><br /><b>Mentor</b>: "The Mentor provides motivation, insights and training to help the Hero."<br /><br /><b>Threshold Guardian</b>: "Threshold Guardians protect the Special World and its secrets from the Hero, and provide essential tests to prove a Hero's commitment and worth."<br /><br /><b>Herald</b>: "Herald characters issue challenges and announce the coming of significant change. They can make their appearance anytime during a Journey, but often appear at the beginning of the Journey to announce a Call to Adventure. A character may wear the Herald's mask to make an announcement or judgment, report a news flash, or simply deliver a message."<br /><br /><b>Shapeshifter</b>: "The Shapeshifter's mask misleads the Hero by hiding a character's intentions and loyalties."<br /><br /><b>Shadow</b>: "The Shadow can represent our darkest desires, our untapped resources, or even rejected qualities. It can also symbolize our greatest fears and phobias. Shadows may not be all bad, and may reveal admirable, even redeeming qualities. The Hero's enemies and villains often wear the Shadow mask. This physical force is determined to destroy the Hero and his cause."<br /><br /><b>Trickster</b>: "Tricksters relish the disruption of the status quo, turning the Ordinary World into chaos with their quick turns of phrase and physical antics. Although they may not change during the course of their Journeys, their world and its inhabitants are transformed by their antics. The Trickster uses laughter [and ridicule] to make characters see the absurdity of the situation, and perhaps force a change."<br /><br />A preliminary inspection of these shows all the steps and archetypes to be fluid. None are set in stone or immovable.<br /><br />- - - -<br /><br />The story with this level is that it deals with dreams. Dreams are stories, nothing less or more. They have the force and effect you wish them to. For all of us as individualities, one can assume that we are in any role compared to others around us. <br /><br />But the trick is that there are always options. And symbols are interesting things. They are best interpreted against workability - what improves the situation you're in. You're looking for the most optimal solution.<br /><br />And that brings us right back to King's Shaman studies.<br /><br />Our use is to "make sense" of them, to simply use dreams as the shaman would - to improve our understanding of this universe we live in.<br /><br />Again, I don't expect you to believe me or follow this as any Gospel - which it most certainly isn't.<br /><br />This is just another way to dream in this cock-eyed universe you and I created. It's simply another road, another journey. You're option to be a hero or not.robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5451261520406751057.post-56370287459201790042011-05-16T06:17:00.000-05:002011-06-01T06:17:44.892-05:00Seven Shamanic Talents<i>This section is quoted directly from Serge Kahili King's "Urban Shaman", which reference you probably will need for your library if you want to continue in these studies.<br /></i><br /><i>These came to me as more important than before. You may want to try these out in various formats to get your own experience up. While King only talks about first and second levels, that was just an example. These 7 talents apply to all four levels.<br /></i><br /><blockquote><blockquote><b>The Seven Shaman Talents</b></blockquote><blockquote>The seven shaman talents are simply derived from the principles. they represent essential skills to develop, rather than specific techniques.</blockquote><blockquote><b>Seeing</b> (from The World Is What Yon Think It Is)</blockquote><blockquote>This the ability to operate in the world from the perspective of the principles, to "see" things from that viewpoint rather than in the ordinary way. We often call this operating at second level (ike papalua)instead of at first level (ike papakahi). In first-levelthinking, the "ordinary" reality of most folk, the world is in independent of your thinking, everything is separate, energy flows by physical mediums only, the past has more power than the present, to love is to risk unhappiness, power is outside of you, and effectiveness is a matter of genius, reward, strength, or luck. Operating at second level in a primarily first-level world is not easy, but is the key to a shaman's success. What makes it especially challenging is that you also have to hold the first level in awareness so you can communicate with others operating at that level. </blockquote><blockquote><b>Clearing</b> (from There Are No Limits)</blockquote><blockquote>For the greatest effect this means using the best means at hand to keep the connectiosn clear between all parts of yourself and the universe around you, mostly by continually releasing mental and physical stress and tension as well as remembering to bring other aspects of yourself and the world into conscious awareness.</blockquote><blockquote><b>Focusing</b> (from Energy Flows Where Attention Goes)</blockquote><blockquote>The skill involved here is that of keeping your intentions, objectives, goals, and purpose in mind, which means frequent review of your motivations for doing whatever you do. This helps you maintain a high degreee of efficiency and a low degree of frustration.</blockquote><blockquote><b>Presence</b> (from Now Is the Moment of Power)</blockquote><blockquote>It is important to remain in the present moment as much as you can, especially when dealing with present-moment affairs. From hard experience I have learned that peopel I am talking two can sense a drop in my energy level if I let my mind wander, but not knowning what it is, they take it as aloofness or rejection on my part. The greater your presence, the greater your influence and effectiveness.</blockquote><blockquote><b>Blessing</b> (from To Love Is to Be Happy With)</blockquote><blockquote>To bless is to reinforce actual or potential good by word, image, or deed. When you acknowlege beauty, admire skill, or appreciate kindness you are giving a blessing. What the shaman does that's extra is to bless potential. "May you have a safe journey'" "I wish you success in your venture," "Let the wind be always at your back" are examples of this type of blessing. And remember that telepathic blessings can be effective, too.</blockquote><blockquote><b>Empowering</b> (from All Power Comes from Within) </blockquote><blockquote>We empower something whenever we attribute any kind of power to it. People who attribute special powers to certain crystals are empowering them, and they will get more benefit from the crystals as long as they maintain the empowerment. Another way to empower is tp personify, to attribute human qualities to nonhuman entities or objects. The skill of empowering also implies the skill of disempowering. You can empower or disempower anything at all, including people, places, things, the past, the future, and endlessly on and on.</blockquote><blockquote><b>Dreamweaving</b> (from Effectiveness Is the Measure of Truth)</blockquote><blockquote>As a weaver of dreams, the shaman weaves dreams for himself and helps others to do the same. This is also calles "shamanic healing" A first-level masseur doing a massage is using the physical body as a tool to weave a new dream and heal the spirit. It might look the same, but it isn't. Dreamweaving doesn't depend on technique. It has to do with having a healer's attitude and taking healing action, mentally or physically, in every situation you encounter. At least, that's the goal.</blockquote></blockquote>robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0