Sun 05 May 2002 14:04

power went off--did you miss any thing worth typin in?

Home is where people do not drive cars.
Powerful communication with self, with others.
Access to everything immediately
Everyone in one place.

Focus on the pure business of humanity and you will be riding a wave. fun for you and rewarding allways (?)
Business of humanity--what is left when all the mundane routine maintenance is removed/filtered out/optimized/made part of the purpose. Like wilber's paradigm all of that stuff is necessary for the new manifestations to continue to exist.
what am i building on, what needs to be healthy for my work to continue? Cut to the bone, and what is left?
Rationalization of communication? RAtionalization of thinking?

earlier...
Understanding how ideas exist, how survive. How to best cmu a concept.

Motivation for communicating.

--end

de bono- thinking approaches as software!
communication approaches as software...

[I'm eating popeye cut leaf spinach (imported from Canada)]

shall I, like habermas,..

how do lives communicate purposes to themselves?


thinking is the operating skill through which intelligence acts upon experience.

acrobats vs.
? vs. smokers
border guard vs. ?
terrorist vs. ?
schweitzer vs.?
quakers vs.
french vs. ?
the mundane vs.
the well known vs?

I know ______ because.

fundamental shifts
medium is the message.
more of the population is behaving like _______ than before.


which ideas are ascendant, which are lossy

means of knowing.
Imagine, imagine.

systems
quantum
life world v. system
sensors in the system
communication

ultimate principle---emotion, values.

the human body, mons pubis

flesh

tendon sinew defined muscle.

duty

care.

suicide.

destruction

radical change does not exist.

programming consciousness.

We shall have to give computers emotions.


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model communication with computers
create cmu w/ computers

from At a Journal Workshop, 1992, Ira Progoff  
p247
They are subject to the pull of conflicting urges and desires but, not belongong to a cultre that provides a solid frame of reference, they have no criterion for decision when circumstances call upon them to make an act of choice or an act of will.

p249
the forms in which connection to larger units of life may be experienced are exceedingly varied, especially in modern culture, where the pluralism of subjective valus is constantly being increased.

p250 when our life is perceived as having an inner meaning, it produces a great energy that can have tremendous effects.

p252
Since the experience of initiation has lost so much of its cultural support in modern times, the individual can reach an experience of connection to life only through his or her own resources. And the one basic resource we each have is our own life with our inner perception of its contents. It is now the individual life and not the culture that provides the framework and the content for initiation experiences.

Now the connective experience comes at the time or times when the vicissitudes of the indiv's life, its pressures, its circumstances, and the self-directed seeking by the person, bring about experiences so intense that they are connective to the larger scope of life.

that is one important reason why our INtensive Journal work begins by providing a vehicle for drawing our whole life history into view.

connective experiences in my life? Kyle, BelleHaven marina/ windsurfing, CIT goshen--learning false/empty connections: maui, eagle scout, key club pres,rebecca (in both). Success of living-- at times summer.
Still and always: dance.
Swim--
but done right.
reading ideas..
programming (in both)
sleeping.
relationships.

[so wonderful to have one's own room!]

p254- exit phase of the experience
disillusioning us in our beliefs.
We no longer have the certitude with which we moved up to the plateau.

time of exit sometimes abrupt
other times gradual

p255 cycle
but it is not hte same as it was. Something has been added in the interim. It is we ourselves who are different now. We have passed through a full cycle of connective experience, and that means that an additional number of interior events ahave taken place within us. they have left their mark, The queality and the capacities of our inner being are different no in some aspect and in some degree because of them.

mine was a long gradual escaping, building up of processes, many of which have been permanent/not yet rejected.

and which still continues--
but the turning point can be closely marked- if I go back and examing the journals, the time with rbec.

p256
Each time a person passes through a full cycle of connective experience it is as though a cycle of life has been lived, although in miniature and on the interior level. [each relationship is a cycle of connective experience made up of cycles of connective experience] Something of the past, some qualitative belief, has been lost or has been given up, has been allowed to die. And something new has been found. Something new has been brought to life and given form for as long as it can maintain itself. Until it too dies, or is transformed in some other way.

[so what lasts--the words in books and the trail of influences found therein? The performance and life of an acrobat? Training and working with others, passing on her art?]

[answer they exist, they are lasting. some ideas/entities come to exist in more people than in others.]

p256
Because they are experienced with an inward pressure, individuals are forced each time to reach more deeply within themselves to draw on previously untouched inner resources. Moving through each cycle of inner experience, therefore, serves as a challenge to us. It exercises our inner being, creating a pressure that stretches us from within.

[oh, g-d, what more could be next/in store for me? what kind of inner resources shall I have to mobilize, that I have not already mobilised?]

p256 The fact is, however, that the process of continuous inner growth requires that we pass through cycle (sycle) after cycle of experience, learning to absorb the pressures so that they may be transformed into unitary understanding.



p257
the purpose of the Gatherings subsection is to draw together into one place our awareness of all manner of events that may have an inner significance to us and thus play a role in our spiritual history.

we want to draw together as many of hte interior events as we can recall in order to reconstitute the cycles of connective experience which have been meaningful in our lives.

p267
The word spiritual as we use it in this context has a large and general meaning. It referst to our fundamental human quest for understanding the ultimate truths of existence.

untapped capacities of awareness are contained latently at various levels of our being.

p269
in particular, as the work of Journal Feedback multiplies its momentum, the subjective, personal contents of one's life are brought into closer relationship with the deeper transpersonal levels. This progressive deepening enlarges the capacity of inner knowing with respect to the conduct and meaning of our human existence.

p270
Now we take a futhur step. We hold ourselves at the deepest level to which our Journal work so far has taken us, and we now seek to extablish a dialogue relationship with the quality of knowledge beyond understanding that becomes present to us at that depth. It is our attempt to enlarge our contact with wisdom qne 2i5h 5h3 ul and with the ultimates of meaning in life through the particular symbolic forms and contexts through which this may be accessible to each of us.

p271 Now we list in the Spiritual Steppingstones subsection all the instances we can recall of experiences that have involved breakthroughs for us whether in our religious or creative life.

p272 Bear in mind that one key to working with Steppingstones in any of their aspects in the Intensive Journal process is to stimulate the equivalent of the condition of dreaming and yet to remain on the conscious level.

We have no special thoughts in our mind, but we let ourselves feel the movement of our life. We feel the passage of time, the changes in our life, We do not think about what they are, but we feel the movement that underlies the contents of our lives. We feel the flow of it, and especially we feel the movements of beliefs and our varied reachings toward meaning through the continuity of our inner life. Sitting in stillness, we feel the flow of our inner life. Nothing more specific than its continuity is in our consciousness, just the flow of it, a moving river at the depth of our being. We feel the flow of it, and we let it reflect itself to us in whatever forms of Twilight Imagery it chooses.

Being in the stillness of the twilight range, we are open to perceive whatever is presented to us, images that we see, sounds or words that we hear, streams of thought that move through us unbidden, intuitions or insights that come to us as flashes of awareness.

p273
The reflect the way we seek, and occasionally find, a larger meaning in our personal and human existence.

There is a great need to balance the repression of peronal spiritual experience in society, and that is one of the roles that the IJ work undertakes to fulfill.

p274
In collectin this inner data, we were in the first place paying respect to our interior life as individuals by recognizing and recording the facts of its experience. In the second place, we were strengthening its intuitions by feeding it into the integrative process that will carry it toward further understanding.

limited to 12 steppingstones regardless of length of life.

p275 let us now speak aloud the Steppingstones of our inner development..

at the San Diego museum of natural history/museum of man seeing a display of a cave person and realizing that I would / everyone would die...shock.

Tom Dooley's books?

Being inside the vision of Isaiah

I fell in love with Socrates.

p278
In whatever way you read your Spiritual Steppingstones back to yourself, let yourself feel their import with the fullness of your being.
And each time take note of the old emotions that stir in you, and new emotions that arise, and describe them.

p279
The are, rather, individual who personify wisdom for us because of the way that the quality of their inner being speaks to our own being.

I would rather embody love than wisdom.

p280
in authors of books that influenced us greatly.

Whoever has spoken to us in the depth of our being, spoken word, books, music, paintings, lives and the legends and symbolism that grown around them.

The transpersonal wisdom figure, on the other hand, belong to history and the universe.

p280 It is in this sense that God, in one aspect, is a transpersonal wisdom figure with whom we can establish a dialogue relationship.

p281
The personal wisdom figures  are human beings as we are and share our real of life, but the quality in them toward which we reach is more-than-personal.

As human beings they have activated within themselves an aspect of the transpersonal depth of inner wisdom.

we are reaching toward the transpersonal depth of wisdom within them seeking to establish a relationship between that and the corresponding depth wisdom in ourselves.

It is in this fundamental sense that all persons may be spoken of as transpersonal wisdom figures, including ultimately ourselves.

one or two or three wisdom figures or as many as come to mind.

p281
What can be most valuable for our first Inner Wisdom Dialogue is that it be with a person the very thought of whom, the mentioning of their name, causes us to become quiet and feel centered within ourselves. Let our first dialogue be with one whose presence we have expereinced in an atmosphere of profound understanding, perhaps also of warmth and supportive love.

Perhaps it will be one with whom we have been in contact in time sof prayer or solitude.

What is most important is that it be a person to whom we can open our hearts fully on any of of our deepest concerns, and that we can do so with no reservation, knowing it will all be accepted.

_kyle_


p282 This first Inner Wisdom Dialogue will not necessarily be profound, or poetic, or a great spiritual revelation.

dialogues can have those properties only unexpectedly.

we are merely saying hello, but in a deep sanctuary part of ourselves.

In this relaxed way we make the experience of deep inner dialogue available as a continuing, open-ended contact with the transpersonal wisdom of life.


It is not uncommon for the script of an Inner Wisdom Dialogue to shift its cast of characters while it is taking place.

p283
In the stillness we feel the presence of this person, this wisdom figure this being.


We feel their life, their concern, their desires, and we speak to them.
We say what we feel of their life and of their quality of life. We say what we feel of our life, our concerns, and our questions. We speak of our relationship to them, why we come to them, why we call upon them, and what we have to ask.

p284
in the silence it will renew itself and continue when it is ready.

p285
where else in the Journal can I go to explore and extend the material I have now recorded? What feedback leads do these entries give me?

Do they lead me to memories that should be recorded in the Life History Log? Or to the realization of Intersections, of roads taken and roads not taken in our inner life? Or do they suggest to us connections to be purused in ohter sections of the journal?

p284
when you have recorded your observations regarding the side aspects of the experience..
During that pause, a flow of additional thoughts, perceptions, insights, images, and awarenesses will very likely be activated within you.

Hey kyle, what's up?

Not much.

Must be something you ate.

disgusting!

Where are you?

I'm in arizona.

I'm in Nyc, and it's almost my bed time. Perhaps I shall talk with you more later. But I'm a bit tired and will talk to you again soon.

O.k.! Thanks for saying hi.

sure thing.


p285
as we extend our Inner Wisdom Dialogues, expanding their variety and their range, these become a major resource for the progressively deeper experiencing of our lives.

p287
its cycles and changes as we have been reconstructing it.

p289
experiencing the unity of nature in sexuality, and its disunity;

2143
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