Tue 30 Apr 2002 12:22
being with family- lack of self consciousness brushing teeth.
mindlessness of highway driving.

from At a Journal Workshop, 1992, Ira Progoff
p223
Introduction to the meaning dimension

in the original presentation of the Intensive Journal process, the Meaning Dimension was referred to as Process Meditation.

possibilities of recording and selling lectures?

In the quiet atmosphere of our workshops we began to extend our dreams and our Twilight Imagery and thus we began to create new experiences of meaning

-tape lecture in car-shakespeare- hoped to make a living from writing plays.
p224 The Meaning Dimension has five sections:
The Meditation Log; Connections; Peaks, Depths, and Explorations (PDE); Mantra/Crystals; and Testament.
all are necessary to enable us to work out the evolution of meaning in our lives.

p225 humans become more sensitive to the contents of their inner lives when they have a special method of working with them.

their goal is to entertain.

p225 Each person who.. is necessarily engaged in a process of drawing his or her life together and is seeking to position the present situation of his life in a perspective of life as a while. (see appendix A)

p226 Meditation includes all the forms by which we turn our attention inward to consider the meaning of our personal life within the larger context of the universe.

busy plays, no pauses, rapid changes of emotions.

p226 In the conduct of workshops we undertake to establish a deep and quiet atmosphere by reading from one of the three series of Entrance Meditations printed by Dialogue House Library.

p226 The experiences of meditation are taking place to some degree whenever human beings stop the mindless movement of their individual life experience in order to reflect on its significance, refocusing their relationship to its contents and its movement.

Meditation includes all the forms by which we may turn our attention inward, first to consider our personal life within its own terms, and then to place it in the larger context of the universe.

p226 We are engaged in a form of meditation whenever we participate in a practice or an observance or a dicipline that seeks either to explore a truth or to develop our capacity for greater awareness in any context, whether it be religious, philosophical, or our personal sensitivity to spiritual issues in everyday life.

shakespeare, how to spend more time with him?
heightened awareness, fuller experience of many truths. Need speaker's name.professor peter saccio from the superstar teachers series dartmouth college............................................... problems with the period.

My focus on the massest audience. the distributed audience.

p227 The deep process of meditation requires us to acknowledge whatever occurs in our lives, whether at outer or inner levels, so that it can move without being prejudged through the cycles of our life experience and eventually find its proper place and meaning in the continuity of our life as a whole.

p228 For such an interior undertaking, it is necessary that we be willing to work from a position in which we are freed from our personal and habitual opinions. That is the

--he loved talking about shakespeare--and now does it, and people value hime doing it.

requirement that Socrates set in his day as he used his method of questioning (Maieutics) as his technique for achieving it.

it is too much to ask of human beings that they overcome their opinions to such a degree that they can actually be freed of them.

what was the goal that Socrates set?


p229 Wholes are basic
holism as the

p230
--the car land a tradgedy-- few good places outside of NYC in the US.

a black mass- put the cross upside down and say the words backwards.

p230 External phenomena do not distract us now, for our attention is directed to the events of our inner space.

The lecturer is not as amazing-- as

all the senses by which we are accustomed to perceive things outwardly are available to us for our inward perception.

p231 Sometimes the field of inner experience is very active, sometimes it is simply a quietness.

perceiving the depth and fullness of inner space and of experiencing ourselves as being there.
let ourselves be absorbed into the stillness.
p231 When we have recorded our entrance meditation experience, we remain in quietness.

p232 Meditation log II: spiritual positioning

How is it with me now on the spiritual level of my life? On the creative level of my life? on the believing level?

Jim Groves? 7th day?
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p235
What is the atmosphere, the sense of meaning, the tone of our inner life a this time? What are its main contents? What are the messages we have had about it from our dreams or other spontaneous experiences that have come to us? What are the beliefs that are holding strong within us? And what are the doubts, the wonderings, the explorations? What are our involvements in outer activities? What are our concerns about social or political issues? And what are our concerns about the ultimates of truth in human existence? What are the commitments of our life? And what are our hesitations?

Now write the brief statement of your spiritual position, in the silence.

My spiritual position is... that I'm focusing on this reading and typing now as a means to pass the time of confinement to a car between NYC and Montreal.

p236 More than that, those memories and awarenesses may contain energy and ideas that will be drawn upon in a later phase of our inner experience.

may contain energy.

of all of Shakespeare's plays. most truly and most falsely say I am a king.

still not sure what are Feedback sections?


Shakespeare mythmaker- true love myth.

Shakespeare wrote myth. myth as entertainment-. myth taken seriously?

only the psychobabble is obligatory

p381 In a profound sense, each human life has the potential to become an artwork. To that degree, each of us can become an artist-in-life with our finest creation being our own self.

Feedback appears to be the process of doing the exercises, how that affects one--When one puts jars on the shelf of memory, one knocks others. The responses arise by the process of quantum matching of consciousness, or intuition, or ...
p176 Just as we do in the Journal Feedback process, he established a dialogue relationship with the event of his captivity. In principle, he recapitulated the life history of the event, its past and its future.
"You intended it for evil, but god intended it for good."


His  enclosed, encloistered egoism is also part of human life. Malvolio, twelth Night.



he that chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath - porsche

p133 These emotions are an integral part of the process in which we are working, the process of loosening the soil of our inner lives. Having stirred them, we must now recognize them, give them space and time to be felt, and then record them as part of our Journal Feedback work.
As we read the statement back to ourselves we take note of whatever feelings now arise in us.

"it's always educational to experiece the reality of a fantasy- joanna, and fantasy of talking with woman of physical intimacy as play.

1144 jews accused of murder--jews turned into cannibals- kill babies in order to use their blood in unleaveaned bread..

p134
We observe our subjective responses, and we record them as objectively as we can. In this way, we feed into the Journal the raw, empirical data of our inner experience, cumulatively gathering it so that it can feed itself back to us at progressive levels of reintegration as we proceed with the Journal Feedback process.

p139 The latter method has the double advantage of enabling you both to read it aloud and to hear it read, and these are valuable aspects of Journal Feedback.
p236 How did we arrive at our present beliefs and opinions? What questions were we asking that called those issues to our attenttion? What questios are we still asking? Who were the persons who influenced us and played a role in our inner experiences? What was the chain of circumstances, what were the outer events and pressures of life, the book we happened to find, the speakers we happened to hear, that led to our present state of belief?


In continuing this, I should be more clear about what my questions are...

Mechant of venice.

Cut the forced conversion to christianity...

baudelairism on ethnic and racial grounds-

Should, ala Schank, develop a more structured approach to each text? And to what degree just let it happen- wash over, approach without strucutre.

Am much more diffuse and distracted today because of car trip, listening to lecturer guy, etc.

p236 We are retracing the presence, and also the times of absence, of a sense of meaning in our life, personal and more-than-personal.  We want to recall and record as much as we can of the changing phases of our beliefs, our doubts and intuitions, our certitudes and confusion,

2002-04-30-1848
We made it to Mont RÈal and Erin has tons of stuff and tons of space. (she used to have tons of space, buuuuuut now has tons of stuff). Somewhat eerily erin has bookshelves that look too closely related to those of my mother. The clutter of my mother has spread with one of her X chromosomes.

Obviouuuuuusly (the u is not working) I'm not going to memorize his book but see if I can capture for myself the essential aspects of his technology without having to go to tons of his journal workshops. Or, I'm also using his book to decide if his technology is special enough to merit spending a lot of time in his workshops.

p236 continued --that whole time in the car I really was hardly paying attention to what I was reading, unfortunately, but it was a reasonably decent way to pass the time of the car ride.--
 our certitudes and confusion, our intellectual ideas, our symbolic understandings, our participation in rituals, our agreement with others, and our arguments on doctrines and beliefs.

 p237 Some of us may even be led to think that they are not there [thoughts and feelings of a spiritual nature], that we personally do not have such awarenesses and desires.

p238


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