LEVELS OF REALITY – WELL consciousness.

Dr. Peter E. Pflaum, GlobalVillages
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What I have in mind is a new and quite different type of training, education, instruction, than what you see on YouTube channels labeled new wave, lifestyle, self improvement, enlightenment, by various Gurus -
I am not a guru or shaman. I am a teacher in the Socratic style guiding people to their personal understandings. There is no dogma or mystic authority. I bring no hidden secrets from far away.
My paths are within a long tradition of enlightenment going back to the beginning of civilization. The proof of the lessons is they work, from experience not quotations of grand masters, just the opposite; quality grows from inside out from the roots not like tinsel on a Christmas tree.
I sign over all rights to you. You arrange production and finance - I am just a consultant with 33% equity in the project when it makes money with film distribution to cable channels, sales of CD and DVDs, book on enlightenment, politics, economics, organizational leadership, education, workshops - foreign sales of rights - the Broadway musical, etc.
GOLD IN THE WORLD NOT OF THE WORLD
Quick synopsis of a business and production plan of 7, ½ hour tapes that are the foundation of:
publications, disks, YouTube and training workbooks for workshops, and certification of franchise presenters or guides to BSC activities, like Amway buy some, sell some;
the seven stages are filmed in Bali, where I live, there are lots of wonderful locations – by a professional productioncompany with real actors
I give the outline of the scripts – the concepts but others turn the into dramatic form and audio visual content. etc
The land of Gold – Nirvana = Paradise
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To understand the "product" you must spend a little time on YouTube and among the web pages. . . (also in the illustrations I have in G+
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And. . touches of Sufi,
The basic books of "all and everything" social relations - Education, Business, Psychology, Political Science, Philosophy, sociology, humanities
1. )The Way to Vibrant Health: A Manual of Bio-energetic Exercises (Harper colophon books ; CN 542) by Alexander Lowen (Jun 1977) and many more books
2. ) Anton Makarenko The Road to Life
3. ) The Last Wave [VHS] (1979)
Richard Chamberlain (Actor), Olivia Hamnett (Actor), Peter Weir (Director) |
4. ) The Seneca -Libidos and ids of the masses, for the greater power of commercial and political interests.
7. ) Adam Curtis's award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC, The Century of the Self, pinpoints Bernays
Extras
a. ) Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism.
b. )Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment [Paperback]
Paul R. Ehrlich (Author), John P. Holdren (Author), Anne H. Ehrlich (Author)
c. ) The Ghost in the Machine is a non-fiction work in philosophical psychology written by Arthur Koestler and published in 1967. The title is a phrase to describe the Cartesian dualist account of the mind–body relationship.
d. )Michels, Robert. 1915. Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy. Translated into English by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul. New York: The Free Press. From the 1911 German source.
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Ayn RAND
The Fountainhead (1949)
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Writer: Ayn Rand (screenplay)
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and Our Daily Bread also by King Vidor

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Peter E Pflaum PhD Born Barcelona Spain during civil war of American journalist and writers Irving and Melanie Pflaum. Education at U. of Chicago Liberal Arts (1953 -58), experience in Europe and LSE (1959 - 1964) InterAmerican University, Puerto Rico (1965 - 1968) Lecturer Ed. M Harvard Graduate School of Education 1968, Florida State University PhD 1971, Mankato State Mi, HEW Chicago (1973) UNO, Ohama, U of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Long Beach State Ca - (1976 -9) College of Virgin Island (1979 - 82) Daytona State U. Fl (1982 - 1992) GlobalVillage Schools (on line education) 1982 -

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The guide to everything - evolution, history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, politics - CONFLICT - old tribal brain v individualism higher consciousness, thesis v antithesis = synthesis, body v soul, reason v authority, humans in troops as other primates, humans as sovereign individuals with rights and self government, responsive authoritarian China v social democratic liberal West, religious traditions v rational secularism, truth v propaganda, wisdom v fools -

I have the common theme that ties the ideas of evolution, centuries of philosophy, history, and psychology together.
CONFLICT - individual v tribal, authoritarian greed v synergy sharing, id (old brain) v ego (consciousness), rural v city, rich v poor, propaganda v truth, church and king v democracy, tea party v secular rational thought and empirical facts, me v IT, responsive authoritarian China, democratic centralization v popular liberal democracy in West, THE LAST WAVE - OPEN v Closed societies - imperialism v liberation, nationalism v globalization, liberals v conservatives, conservatives v radical right, the earth v development, good v evil, wisdom v foolish, knowledge v ignorance, etc. 
The basic books of "all and everything" social relations - 101 -
1) Anton Makarenko The Road to Life
Soviet establishment eventually came to hail his colonies as a grand success incommunist education and rehabilitation. Among his key ideas were "as much exigence towards the person as possible and as much respect for him as possible", the use of positive peer pressure on the individual by the collective, and institutionalized self-government and self-management of that collective.
1) Makarenko wrote several books, of which The Pedagogical Poem (Педагогическая поэма), a fictionalized story of the Gorky Colony, was especially popular in the USSR. In 1955 a movie with English title Road to Life was produced.
1955 a movie with English title Road to Life was produced.
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The organizations that succeeds today and tomorrow will have turned on groups.
MASLOW ( Further Reaches of Human Behavior ) tells how Ruth Benedict was interested in cultures that promoted cooperation and team work , vs. those that were aggressive, cranky, and mean. Team work creates a level of high energy, creativity, focus, and joy.

The excitement and energy of groups is know to good leaders, teachers, coaches, and managers, everywhere and in all times. Organizations that can promote the formation and support of small, stable, focused groups.
These groups are and will be winners. This is the secret of Z organization, quality circles
(Deming), those who will thrive in the new world economy do so because of effective work groups.
These organizations are quick and flexible in the rapid changing market.

CENTURY OF THE SELF (Adam Curtis, 2002)
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Adam Curtis' acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty.
To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. He felt this manipulation was necessary in society, which he regarded as irrational and dangerous as a result of the 'herd instinct' that Trotter had described. [2] Adam Curtis's award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC, The Century of the Self, pinpoints Bernays as the originator of modern public relations, and Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by Life magazine. [3]

How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?
The Freud dynasty is at the heart of this compelling social history. Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis; Edward Bernays, who invented public relations; Anna Freud, Sigmund's devoted daughter; and present-day PR guru and Sigmund's great grandson, Matthew Freud.
Sigmund Freud's work into the bubbling and murky world of the subconscious changed the world. By introducing a technique to probe the unconscious mind, Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society's belief that the pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man's ultimate goal.

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Bioenergetic analysis is a form of body psychotherapy (body-oriented Reichian psychotherapy), based upon the work of Wilhelm Reich, but adding a number of innovations. These innovations include emphasis on the importance of 'grounding', that is being in strong contact with the ground through feet and legs, and on psychoanalytic such as transference, countertransference, dreams, slips of the tongue and Oedipal issues. It also places even greater emphasis on sexual fulfilment than Reichian psychotherapy. It was developed by Alexander Lowen and John Pierrakos,[1] both patients and students of Reich. [2] The idea behind current bioenergetic practice is that blocks to emotional expression and wellness are revealed and expressed in the body as chronic muscle tensions which are often subconscious. The blocks are treated by combining bio energetically designed physical exercises, affective expressions and palpation of the muscular tensions.

The Energetics of Bioenergetics
Bioenergetics: The Revolutionary Therapy That Uses the Language of the Body to Heal the Problems of the Mind [Paperback] Alexander Lowen

Bioenergetics is the subject of a field of biochemistry that concerns energy flow through living systems. This is an active area of biological research that includes the study of thousands of different cellular processes such as cellular respiration and the many other metabolic processes that can lead to production and utilization of energy in forms such as ATP molecules.

Lowen in "Century of the Self", a BBC film by Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis' acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty. The Freud dynasty is at the heart of this compelling social history. Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis; Edward Bernays, who invented public relations; Anna Freud, Sigmund's devoted daughter; and present-day PR guru and Sigmund's great grandson, Matthew Freud.
Sigmund Freud's work into the bubbling and murky world of the subconscious changed the world. By introducing a technique to probe the unconscious mind, Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society's belief that the pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man's ultimate goal.

To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?
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Mahatma Gandhi quotes “Be the change that you wish to see in the world. ”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. ”
― Mahatma Gandhi
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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ”
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“Seven Deadly Sins

Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice. ”
― Mahatma Gandhi
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Make a particular description and delineation of every object that presents itself to your mind, so that you may wholly and thoroughly contemplate it, in its proper nature, bare and naked; wholly and severally: divided into its several parts and quarters; and then by yourself in your mind, call the object as well as its parts, by their proper names and appellations.

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations,
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Stoic idea of Virtue.
This dictum might easily be taken to mean that virtue consists in yielding to each natural impulse; but that was very far from the Stoic meaning. In order to live in accord with nature, it is necessary to know what nature is; and to this end a threefold division of philosophy is made—into
Physics, dealing with the universe and its laws,
the problems of divine government and teleology;
Logic, which trains the mind to discern true from false; and
Ethics, which applies the knowledge thus gained and tested to practical life.
The Stoic system of physics was materialism with an infusion of pantheism. In contradiction to Plato's view that the Ideas, or Prototypes, of phenomena alone really exist, the Stoics held that material objects alone existed; but immanent in the material universe was a spiritual force which acted through them, manifesting itself under many forms, as fire, aether, spirit, soul, reason, the ruling principle.
The universe, then, is God, of whom the popular gods are manifestations; while legends and myths are allegorical. The soul of man is thus an emanation from the godhead, into whom it will eventually be re-absorbed.
The divine ruling principle makes all things work together for good, but for the good of the whole. The highest good of man is consciously to work with God for thecommon good, and this is the sense in which the Stoic tried to live in accord with nature.

In the individual it is virtue alone which enables him to do this; as Providence rules the universe, so virtue in the soul must rule man.

In Logic, the Stoic system is noteworthy for their theory as to the test of truth, the Criterion.
They compared the new-born soul to a sheet of paper ready for writing. Upon this the senses write their impressions, fantasias and by experience of a number of these the soul unconsciously conceives general notions koinai eunoiai or anticipations. prolhyeis

When the impression was such as to be irresistible it was called (katalnptikh fantasia) one that holds fast, or as they explained it, one proceeding from truth. Ideas and inferences artificially produced by deduction or the like were tested by this 'holding perception. '
Of the Ethical application I have already spoken. The highest good was the virtuous life. Virtue alone is happiness, and vice is unhappiness. Carrying this theory to its extreme, the Stoic said that there could be no gradations between virtue and vice, though of course each has its special manifestations. Moreover, nothing is good but virtue, and nothing but vice is bad.
Those outside things which are commonly called good or bad, such as health and sickness, wealth and poverty, pleasure and pain, are to him indifferent adiofora. All these things are merely the sphere in which virtue may act.
The ideal Wise Man is sufficient unto himself in all things, autarkhs and knowing these truths, he will be happy even when stretched upon the rack.
It is probable that no Stoic claimed for himself that he was this Wise Man, but that each strove after it as an ideal much as the Christian strives after a likeness to Christ.

The exaggeration in this statement was, however, so obvious, that the later Stoics were driven to make a further subdivision of things indifferent into what is preferable (prohgmena) and what is undesirable. They also held that for him who had not attained to the perfect wisdom, certain actions were proper. (kaqhkonta) These were neither virtuous nor vicious, but, like the indifferent things, held a middle place.

Two points in the Stoic system deserve special mention. One is a careful distinction between things which are in our power and things which are not. Desire and dislike, opinion and affection, are within the power of the will; whereas health, wealth, honour, and other such are generally not so.
The Stoic was called upon to control his desires and affections, and to guide his opinion; to bring his whole being under the sway of the will or leading principle, just as the universe is guided and governed by divine Providence.

This is a special application of the favourite Greek virtue of moderation, (swfrosuum) and has also its parallel in Christian ethics.
The second point is a strong insistence on the unity of the universe, and on man's duty as part of a great whole. Public spirit was the most splendid political virtue of the ancient world, and it is here made cosmopolitan. It is again instructive to note that Christian sages insisted on the same thing. Christians are taught that they are members of a worldwide brotherhood, where is neither Greek nor Hebrew, bond nor free and that they live their lives as fellow-workers with God.

Such is the system which underlies the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.

11. [@ Frederick S. Perls, Ralph F. Hefferline & Paul Goodman: Gestalt Therapy. Excitement and Growth in the Human
Think of some pairs of opposites in which neither member could exist were it not for the real or implied existence of its opposite.
Consider some everyday life-situations, objects or activities as if they were precisely the opposite of what you customarily take them to be.
Imagine yourself in a situation the reverse of your own, where you have inclinations and wishes exactly contrary to your usual ones.
Observe objects, images and thoughts as if their function or meaning were the antithesis of what you habitually take them to be.
With regard to every experience without exception, verbalize: 'Now I am aware that . . . '
Walk, talk or sit down; be aware of the proprioceptive details without in any way interfering with them.
Pay attention to someone's voice.

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For centuries people believed in the divine order of the ancient regime. The masons and now we all believe in self government, with democratic capitalism as a social contract. The enlightenment of the masons was the radical belief that people could govern themselves. The current crisis is to confirm that such a government by the people, of the people and for the people: does not work as well as the responsive, scientific, and authoritarian regime, with good merit systems, education and research infrastructures as in China and Singapore have demonstrated.
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Civilization and Its Discontents, which Freud wrote in the summer of 1929,compares "civilized" and "savage" human lives

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The questions that these sites approximately and virtually encounter is how ancient wisdom can be applied to modern political economies;

Can traditions such as Sufi, Platonist, Stoicism, guide us as how to model social behavior?
Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the new Millennium is a book of philosophical thought written by the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso published by Little, Brown/Abacus Press in 1999. (ISBN 0-349-11443-9)
Reason and the scientific methods are the critical elements in the enlightenment from 500 years ago and define the character of the modern world.

However, “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. ” the dream-time – gates to the old brain that is as animals think – we can call id
Id, ego and super-ego are the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends sex and death; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego. [1] The super-ego can stop you from doing certain things that your id may want you to do. [2] Civilization and its discontents –

Myths and old stories are the shadow of dream-time and in Plato's tale of the cave of shadows
Modern marketing includes policy, politicians, value making, seeing things, hearing things, that give magical powers to the shades of past and future ghosts. And spirits.

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How to read and learn from the enlightenment texts. . skim, wander, it is not linear but goes in circles around and builds upon itself, as life is lived not as a band marching but as a traveler wandering and asking for directions. The themes repeat as in a symphony, music of the spheres, poems and lessons, structured as is the St. Benedict's mass and the book of common prayer. Socrates didn't write a cookbook because the recipes change with people and conditions . Rule books, instructions, are bad for the mind and spirit, freedom in chains. So let us have a conversation, asking questions and discovering our own truth in our own way. The truth is out there but can not be canned (tinned) - dialogues please
1. ) Welcome, come to me all that are heavy laden
2. ) we make a commitment to love thy god with all our heart, mind and spirit and above all to love each other as yourself as in the unconditionally love of the lord, this is the law above all laws for on the night of our death
3. )if we believe in a creed and great mystery - lessons, prayer of the people and sermons
4. ) for on that night of death and suffering,
5. ) we are given a new life; in the manson of our father, here is the
6. ) gift of food and drink of resurrection and eternal life
7. ) my soul lives, hosanna in the highest for the love that passes all understanding will go with you always hallelujah
Now that sells for 15 centuries. . .
The Ghost in the Machine is a non-fiction work in philosophical psychology written by Arthur Koestler and published in 1967. The title is a phrase coined by the Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle to describe the Cartesian dualist account of the mind–body relationship. Koestler shares with Ryle the view that the mind of a person is not an independent non-material entity, temporarily inhabiting and governing the body. One of the book's central concepts is that as the human brain evolved, it retained and built upon earlier, more primitive brain structures. The work attempts to explain humanity's tendency towards self-destruction in terms of brain structure, philosophies, and its overarching, cyclical political–historical dynamics, reaching the height of its potential in the nuclear arms arena.

Born in Budapest in 1905, educated in Vienna, Arthur Koestler immersed himself in the major ideological and social conflicts of his time. A communist during the 1930s, and visitor for a time in the Soviet Union, he became disillusioned with the Party and left it in 1938. Later that year in Spain, he was captured by the Fascist forces under Franco, and sentenced to death. Released through the last-minute intervention of the British government, he went to France where, the following year, he again was arrested for his political views. Released in 1940, he went to England, where he made his home. His novels, reportage, autobiographical works, and political and cultural writings established him as an important commentator on the dilemmas of the 20th century. He died in 1983.

The Open Society and Its Enemies

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The Open Society and Its Enemies is a two-volume work on political philosophy by Karl Popper. Written during World War II, The open society is a concept originally suggested in 1932 by the French philosopher Henri Bergson,[1] and developed during World War Two by Austrian and British philosopher Karl Popper. [2]

Popper saw the open society as standing on a historical continuum reaching from the organic, tribal or closed society, through the open society marked by a critical attitude to tradition, up to the abstract or depersonalised society lacking all face-to-face transactions. [3]

For its advocates, government in the open society is purported to be responsive and tolerant, and political mechanisms are said to be transparent and flexible.
Popper saw the classical Greeks as initiating the long slow transition from tribalism towards the open society, and as facing for the first time the strain imposed by the less personal group relations entailed thereby. [4]

Whereas tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs, so that individuals are unlikely to challenge traditions they believe to have a sacred or magical basis, the beginnings of an open society are marked by a distinction between natural and man-made law, and an increase in personal responsibility and accountability for moral choices (not incompatible with religious belief). [5]

For centuries people believed in the divine order of the ancient regime. The masons and now we all believe in self government, with democratic capitalism as a social contract. The enlightenment of the masons was the radical belief that people could govern themselves. The current crisis is to confirm that such a government by the people, of the people and for the people: does not work as well as the responsive, scientific, and authoritarian regime, with good merit systems, education and research infrastructures as in China and Singapore have demonstrated.

Popper argues that the ideas of individuality, criticism, and humanitarianism cannot be suppressed once people become aware of them, and therefore that it is impossible to return to the closed society;[6] but at the same time recognized the continuing emotional pull of what he called “the lost group spirit of tribalism”, as manifested for example in the totalitarianism of the 20th century. [7]

While the period since Popper's study has undoubtedly been marked by the spread of the open society, this may be attributed less to Popper's advocacy and more to the role of the economic advances of late modernity. [8] Growth-based industrial societies require literacy, anonymity and social mobility from their members[9] - elements incompatible with much traditional-based behaviour but demanding the ever wider spread of the abstract social relations Georg Simmel saw as characterising the metropolitan mental stance.

One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy of science, but from 1938 until the end of the Second World War he focused his energies on political philosophy, seeking to diagnose the intellectual origins of German and Soviet totalitarianism. The Open Society and Its Enemies was the result.

An immediate sensation when it was first published in two volumes in 1945, Popper's monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right and is credited with inspiring anti communist dissidents during the Cold War. Arguing that the spirit of free, critical inquiry that governs scientific investigation should also apply to politics, Popper traces the roots of an opposite, authoritarian tendency to a tradition represented by Plato, Marx, and Hegel.
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The Ghost in the Machine is a non-fiction work in philosophical psychology written by Arthur Koestler and published in 1967. The title is a phrase coined by the Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle to describe the Cartesian dualist account of the mind–body relationship. Koestler shares with Ryle the view that the mind of a person is not an independent non-material entity, temporarily inhabiting and governing the body. One of the book's central concepts is that as the human brain evolved, it retained and built upon earlier, more primitive brain structures. The work attempts to explain humanity's tendency towards self-destruction in terms of brain structure, philosophies, and its overarching, cyclical political–historical dynamics, reaching the height of its potential in the nuclear arms arena.

What DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE IN COMMON?
"V. S. " Naipaul's Trinidad, Rumi's poems can be heard in churches, synagogues, Zen monasteries, Edward Bernays, Freud's brother in law, zen master of advertising, PR, and Propaganda, Edward Deming quality control circles, GURDJEF, fourth way, The last wave; the themes are in this film: The nature of socialization - the dream land - subconscious and the reality of the magic powers of belief; shaking a bone at a true believer causes death, a super strong placebo effect.
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RE: Arrogant and foolish:Hubris Arrogance False Pride

For behaviorist if it can't be measured it doesn't exist
Hubris Arrogance False Pride

Someone has to be the decider. George Jr. felt he was the one chosen.
Decisions can be hard. Even personal ones from buying from the 1000's
of things on offer, to partners, to investment, work and play,
because the future is uncertain. Even how we will fell tomorrow, and
will they love us in the morning is uncertain. Dogs may be counted
on but people not so much. We will be disappointed. Our expectation
are too high, our rationalizations, or projections too strong and
hidden even from ourselves, but choices have to be made, Since no
choice is a choice to put up with the devil you know (he/she work,
car,computer) has its good points and will I still love it in the
morning? We fool ourselves, and others and are fooled more than once
but then have to live with the consequences.

Since big complex systems have multilayer interlocking parts; decisions have not only known effects, and known unknown effects, but unknowable effects in many different ways, time and costs and benefits. So it takes Hubris Arrogance False Pride to make decisions and never look back with regrets. Hubris Arrogance False Pride Que carbonates or ovaries.

The religious right is most radical, the liberal left most conservative.
The idea of conservatism is there is wisdom in tradition and social
political experiments are dangerous, and don't work out as desired.
The left was founded by radicals who believed in making things better
by change. It has been disappointing since the end of socialism and
Hegelian - thesis - antithesis - synthesis belief in progress - Wars,
betrayal, show trials, mass propaganda making popular anti-progressive
hate and violence.

The fundamentalist have no such reservations - after all God made the
world in 6 days and it took Hubris Arrogance False Pride to take the
7th day off. Hubris Arrogance False Pride will do it every-time
They are not confused by science and facts but trusting in mircles and
magic and it will do it overtime - or it will sometime - trust me and
the word of the lord.

I have false pride and am immensely stupid. I believe that my pathetic ideas are a authentic representation of reality. How could my shallow thoughts reflect the order of nature itself. How could my thoughts comprehend the true nature of life, physics, the cosmos, time, and even my own being. To think my ideas are reality, is indeed most arrogant and foolish. It is said that the beginning of wisdom is awareness of ones ignorance. I am worse than rocks, than beasts and savages because I try to impose my foolishness on the world.

I come to believe that what I think is - it is indeed a "grand Illusion" of false power enlight fake glory. I even believe that - that is all there is - nothing more! I could try to allow my being, mind, body and spirit rest in its own existence. I could come to terms with myself but I am too busy with needs and desires. I could come into some kind of meaningful relationship with creation if. . . I could feel the proper respect for the other but I am too afraid of letting go of my false faces, defenses, passions, and hidden doubts. Sophist are those who adjust, subconsciously perhaps, their ideas to their interests. They reflect the popular beliefs and glow in reflected self-admiration. They think they are smart because of the praise of fools. I am a sophist, and bask in the false light of praise. I think the thoughts that will be rewarded and reject hard truths that will get me into trouble. I am devious, untrue to my self or others, can not be trusted, I forget the little wisdom, I once knew, I flounder in new and fashionable theories.

As we are to deal with meaning, let us begin with a paradigm: viz. , that sacred symbols, the Geist that functions to synthesize a people's ethos--the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood --and their world view--the picture they have of the way things in sheer actuality are, their most comprehensive ideas of order. In religious belief and practice a group's ethos is rendered intellectually reasonable by being shown to represent a way of life ideally adapted to the actual state of affairs the world view describes, while the world view is rendered emotionally convincing by being presented as an image of an actual state of affairs peculiarly well-arranged to accommodate such a way of life.

This confrontation and mutual confirmation has two fundamental effects. On the one hand, it collectivizes moral and aesthetic preferences by depicting them as the imposed conditions of life implicit in a world with a particular structure, as mere common sense given the unalterable shape of reality. On the other, it supports these received beliefs about the world's body by invoking deeply felt moral and aesthetic sentiments as experiential evidence for their truth. Religious symbols formulate a basic congruence between a particular style of life and a specific (if, most often, implicit) metaphysical, and in so doing sustain each with the borrowed authority of the other.

Religion has marketed itself with cliches platitudes, truisms, banal slogans that works so well in advertising. The church has fought the modern world since the renaissance and Galileo. “The 13th century was good and leave us alone to rule in peace” .
This is the legion on the birth of Civilization:
It began thousands of years ago in monasteries high in the Hindu highland or Kush. Pāriyātra Parvata(Sanskrit: पारियात्र पर्वत) or Paropamisadae (Greek: Παροπαμισάδαι), is an 800 km (500 mi) long mountain range that stretches between central Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. The highest point in the Hindu Kush is Tirich Mir (7,708 m or 25,289 ft) in Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
The monks over the centuries, had developed a practice of enlightenment. This involved being free of the passions and attachments to self and becoming a part of the cosmos. They discovered this gave them powers over the elements of human life dependent on external reinforcements. Since they were free of social constraints they could do things, think things, make things, using the laws of the universe as practical possibilities.

The skills were grown by practices, a set of lessons somewhat similar to mystics and cults such as that founded by the Jesuits, being highly and clearly aware of the present, but not of the world, free of emotions, conscientious and unconscious. They developed a management and personal development training program, offered at ransom prices to the princes of the area. The graduates were very successful and kings and superiors came from all the way from China and Mesopotamia, Egypt and then went home and founded the ancient Civilizations. The rulers could become masters of Sufi propaganda and marketing still used in our time

The rulers could become masters of Sufi propaganda and marketing still used in our time by Bernay. Propaganda by Edward Bernays (Author) , Mark Crispin Miller (Introduction) Crystallizing Public Opinion by Edward Bernays Paperback $10. 83

Propaganda Bernays・honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies.
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党The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. 迫Edward Bernays, Propaganda
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To Sigmund Freud, Bernays was the brother of his wife, and father of advertizing sciences and PR public relations. Bernays applied Freudian depth psychology to techniques used in the manipulation of the libidos and ids of the masses, for the greater power of commercial and political interests.

These Lies and half truths appeal to Unreasonable passions, that are the foundations of modern civilizations; capitalist and socialist. Sex and violence, us and them, death wishes, transference, rationalization, sublimation, frustration, repressed, subconscious, Oedipus complex, phallic symbols, collective conscientious, archetypes, interpretation of dreams , Friedan slips, all in selling the product be it a president or a fast car, or financial service, or a public policy, a war and, military industrial complex, a happy pill, beer, cigarettes, religions and popular entertainments.

Civilization and its discontents
"Grateful Dead"
"We now return our souls to the creator, as we stand on the edge of eternal darkness.
"Let our chant fill the void in order that others may know. In the land of the night the ship of the sun is drawn by the grateful dead. "
-- Egyptian Book of the dead shows the way on the path of life, how Souls that by the way of their living gave power to future life which then returns to be grateful that their lives turned out to have meaning after all.
Revelation 9. 6 "During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them. "
I was told that that referred to the 'grateful' dead -- those that when death finally arrived, were so thankful for it that they welcomed it with open arms. The name "Grateful Dead" was chosen from a dictionary. Some claim it was a Funk & Wagnalls, others, the Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book Of the Dead), but according to Phil Lesh, in his biography (pp. 62), ". . . Jer (Garcia) picked up an old Britannica World Language Dictionary. . . (and). . . In that silvery elf-voice he said to me, 'Hey, man, how about the Grateful Dead?'" The definition there was "A song meant to show a lost soul to the other side. " [15] According to the Garcia biography, Captain Trips by Sandy Troy, the band was smoking the psychedelic DMT at the time.
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Thus the difference between tribes, peoples, nations and 党Civilizations媒 is that the leaders in civilized cultures are not subject to traditional law and beliefs themselves, not to the cultural fads but the other way around, they can manufacture and use the law where traditions of magical thinking becoming tools of economic and political power.
This takes a mind with compartments 凡 where cogitative dissonance become comfortable and skillful. They have to work with people where they are, use what tools they have while being awake to the really real. . .
Traditional leaders are representatives of ancient belief and completely bond up in history, superstitious magic and mythology. Thus the church is not civilized but a cult or tribe.
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RE: Arrogant and foolish:
Behaviorist: if it can't be measured it doesn't exist

As we are to deal with meaning, let us begin with a paradigm: viz. , that sacred symbols, the Geist that functions to synthesize a people's ethos--the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood --and their world view--the picture they have of the way things in sheer actuality are, their most comprehensive ideas of order. In religious belief and practice a group's ethos is rendered intellectually reasonable by being shown to represent a way of life ideally adapted to the actual state of affairs the world view describes, while the world view is rendered emotionally convincing by being presented as an image of an actual state of affairs peculiarly well-arranged to accommodate such a way of life.

This confrontation and mutual confirmation has two fundamental effects. On the one hand, it collectivizes moral and aesthetic preferences by depicting them as the imposed conditions of life implicit in a world with a particular structure, as mere common sense given the unalterable shape of reality. On the other, it supports these received beliefs about the world's body by invoking deeply felt moral and aesthetic sentiments as experiential evidence for their truth. Religious symbols formulate a basic congruence between a particular style of life and a specific (if, most often, implicit) metaphysical, and in so doing sustain each with the borrowed authority of the other.

Religion has marketed itself with cliches platitudes, truisms, banal slogans that works so well in advertising. The church has fought the modern world since the renaissance and Galileo. 党The 13th century was good and leave us alone to rule in peace媒 .
Tiger ego above
dragon id & libado below

Culture vs Civilization
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All humans have a culture, language, manners, social relationships, myths 凡 except those raised by wolves 凡 or as the saying goes for those without manners 党were you raised in a barn?媒 I worked, a thousand times, with my children on how to hold a fork, the three words, please, thank you, I'm sorry. Manners taught by bears in childcare books on how to maintain their culture taught to me by my parents and their parents back in the mist of times lost. So they could have tea in the palace.

This is the legion on the birth of Civilization:
The fourth way:
http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Rumi#Teachings
Way of the monk (brown)
of the mystic (green)
of the magician - faker (red)
Fourth way of the sufi:
"According to this scheme the Qur'an has four levels of meaning corresponding to the four realms of existence [for as-Simnani: Lahut, Jabarut, Malakut and Nasut]. The exoteric dimension the Qur'an relates to the
Human Realm,
the esoteric level to the secrets of the Realm of Sovereignty,
the limit of the Qur'an to the Realm of Omnipotence,
and the point of ascent to the Realm of Divinity. " (Elias, TC, pg. 108)

Shahram Shiva asserts that "Rumi is able to verbalize the highly personal and often confusing world of personal growth and development in a very clear and direct fashion. He does not offend anyone, and he includes everyone. . . . Today Rumi's poems can be heard in churches, synagogues, Zen monasteries, as well as in the downtown New York art/performance/music scene. "
According to Professor Majid M. Naini,[64] "Rumi's life and transformation provide true testimony and proof that people of all religions and backgrounds can live together in peace and harmony. Rumi筑s visions, words, and life teach us how to reach inner peace and happiness so we can finally stop the continual stream of hostility and hatred and achieve true global peace and harmony. 媒

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Propaganda Bernays・honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies. Noam Chomsky
党The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. 迫Edward Bernays, Propaganda
To Sigmund Freud, Bernays was the brother of his wife, who used the deep psychology with tools that could be used to manipulate the libido and id of the masses, to the greater power of commercial and political interests that are the foundations of civilization.
Thus the difference between tribes, peoples, nations and 党Civilizations媒 is that leaders in civilized cultures are not subject to mass traditional beliefs, but the other way around, they can manufacture and use traditions and magical thinking as tools of power.
Traditional leaders are representatives of ancient belief and completely bond up in history and superstitious magic and mythology. Thus the church is not a civilized tribe.
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Death and Rebirth of Seneca

Anthony Wallace
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 1, 2010 -Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 1, 2010 - History - 416 pages

This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society that he and his followers achieved in the years around 1800.
This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society -
When people in groups face serious changes in the paradigms they live by and are threaten in their essence that make a culture what it fundamentally is, and without which it loses its identity. The white southern men of the 都ilent majority・of the ongoing culture wars against lberals・and secularization, integration, feminism, the counter culture, the rise of scientific methods over the traditional authority of religion.
党You peasants can't handle the truth媒

See The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879・880). http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor
As we are to deal with meaning, let us begin with a paradigm: viz. , that sacred symbols, the Geist that functions to synthesize a people's ethos--the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood --and their world view--the picture they have of the way things in sheer actuality are, their mostcomprehensive ideas of order. In religious belief and practice a group's ethos is rendered intellectually reasonable by being shown to represent a way of life ideally adapted to the actual state of affairs the world view describes, while the world view is rendered emotionally convincing by being presented as an image of an actual state of affairs peculiarly well-arranged to accommodate such a way of life.

This confrontation and mutual confirmation has two fundamental effects. On the one hand, it collectivizes moral and aesthetic preferences by depicting them as the imposed conditions of life implicit in a world with a particular structure, as mere common sense given the unalterable shape of reality. On the other, it supports these received beliefs about the world's body by invoking deeply felt moral and aesthetic sentiments as experiential evidence for their truth. Religious symbols formulate a basic congruence between a particular style of life and a specific (if, most often, implicit) metaphysical, and in so doing sustain each with the borrowed authority of the other.
Religion has marketed itself with cliches platitudes, truisms, banal slogans that works so well in advertising. The church has fought the modern world since the renaissance and Galileo. 党The 13th century was good and leave us alone to rule in peace媒 .

Religion has marketed itself with cliches platitudes, truisms, banal slogans that works so well in advertising. The church has fought the modern world since the renaissance and Galileo. 党The 13th century was good and leave us alone to rule in peace媒 .

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The natural human desire to find explanations underlies both science and magic. People like or need to find reasons for what is going on. Anthropologist found that tribes will use evidence and facts when they have them. They are very material and practical. They also have magical solutions to everyday problems when there are no better alternatives. Questions of weather, animal migration, disease and other natural phenomena are matters of life and death, so people want some control over these events. Magic gives them that sense of doing something and having an input into the process of life and death. All religions are based on faith and magic where performing certain ceremonies have powers of healing, rain making, even eternal salvation and the triumph over death. Gods and saints can give hope to the hopeless and direction, rules, order to civilizations. The claims are magical and hysterical calls to worship or patriotic emotions that underpin civic order. A spiritual and traditional sense of purpose, direction, order and meaning are required by humans to organize their societies.
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Magic Science and Religion: And Other Essays, by Bronislaw Malinowski.
Selected, and with an Introduction by Robert Redfield
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Death and Rebirth of Seneca

Anthony Wallace
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 1, 2010 -
This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society -

When people in groups face serious changes in the paradigms they live by and are threaten in their essence that make a culture what it fundamentally is, and without which it loses its identity. The white southern men of the silent majority・of the ongoing culture wars against 斗iberals・and secularization, integration, feminism, the counter culture, the rise of scientific methods over the traditional authority of religion.
党You peasants can't handle the truth媒

Everyday the news reports give explaining reasons why the 党market媒 has gone up or down. They sound like the market has purpose and intention. In fact no one knows why markets have day to day variations beyond there are more buyers or more sellers at a moment of time. Thousands of individuals andcomputer programs make thousands of individual choices partly based on what all the other actors are doing and making assumptions about the reasons behind these decisions. Except when there are great events most of the time there is a random element that defies explanation. Never the less some magical words are used to explain the unexplainable.

The desire to find purpose and intention in evolution and human existence is quite natural and also impossible. Disposing with the idea of an external, perhaps even supernatural, vitalizing force, describes how we have arrived at the picture of ourselves and all organisms as Self-Made Things. Our creations include governments, constitutions, institutions, magic, superstitions, ceremony, ritual, flag waving, songs, etc. Our gods are made by us not the other way around. They are made because we need them. They should not (but often do) become a Frankenstein.

So we have to take things for what they are. Social conventions, religious ceremony, national character, are useful and even necessary. They are NOT science or material facts. There are very important ideas and beliefs beyond or outside science 凡 arts and literature, song and dance, mystery and magic, wonder and dreams 凡 Santa Claus and the tooth fairy the lands of wonder and magic 凡 the problem arises when belief systems make material judgments (stem cell research) outside theircompetence. Science can be arrogant about people筑s useful and practical beliefs. (Alternative medicine). Science must support the moral and useful desire to do good works, spread truth and justice, equality and fairness which have no material meaning (you can筑t find the stuff of kindness and measure it) or do these beliefs have a scientific basis.

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Paradigm shift

I first became clear about the concept of a quantitative and qualitative leaping change in thinking with a study of native American tribal cultures. The white Europeans said 党take me to your leader媒 assuming a hierarchical structure with someone in charge. In native'scommunity it just doesn't work that way, they have wise men, tribal elders who discussed everything until they reached consensus. Sometimes the Japanese do this which is slow but implementation is better and faster because they all know the goals, process, and expected out comes. The idea of elections was problematical because it involved conflict and someone putting themselves forward as being better than someone else. Real leaders in-bodies the living containers of the culture, they are the law in so far it is inside and they reflect the customs and are preservers of the traditions of their forefathers in generations past. They are truly judicial conservatives living with the law as handed down to them. Traditions are the way of survival, where the knowledge helps find where game and is used when it works and answers 党what does the weather patterns mean媒. .

A second paradigm shift was with a understanding of Edward Deming quality control groups.
The core of the shift is that inspection, fixed procedures and rules, close supervision, only make things worse beyond rote activity. It is quality is not oddments hung on the tree but needs to grow from the roots.
". . . Robert Michels, a friend of Weber's, also was concerned about the
depersonalizing effect of bureaucracy. His views, formulated at the
beginning of this century, are still pertinent today.

The Iron Law of Oligarchy

"Michels (1911) came to the conclusion that the formal organization of
bureaucracies inevitably leads to oligarchy, under which organizations
originally idealistic and democratic eventually come to be dominated by a
small, self-serving group of people who achieved positions of power and
responsibility. This can occur in large organizations because it becomes
physically impossible for everyone to get together every time a decision
has to be made. Consequently, a small group is given the responsibility of
making decisions. Michels believed that the people in this group would
be come enthralled with their elite positions and more and more inclined to
make decisions that protect their power rather than represent the will of
the group they are supposed to serve. In effect Michels was saying that
bureaucracy and democracy do not mix. Despite any protestations and
promises that they would not become like all the rest, those placed in
positions of responsibility and power often come to believe that they too
are indispensable, and more knowledgeable than those they serve. As time
goes on, they become further removed from the rank and file. . .

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University adminstration and profesors, school professionals, labor unions, military industrialcomplex, law enforcement and security empires, congressional leadership, etc

They all are there to serve the public interests but end up taking care of their managers first - they can to Washington to do good and they end up doing very well.

"Bureaucracy happens. If bureaucracy happens, power rises. Power corrupts. "[3] Any large organization, Michels pointed out, has to create a bureaucracy in order to maintain its efficiency as it becomes larger抑many decisions have to be made daily that cannot be made by large numbers of disorganized people. For the organization to function effectively, centralization has to occur and power will end up in the hands of a few. Those few抑the oligarchy抑will use all means necessary to preserve and further increase their power. [2][3]

Michels, Robert. 1915. Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy. Translated into English by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul. New York: The Free Press. From the 1911 German source.

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The questions that these sites approximately and virtually encounter is how ancient wisdom can be applied to modern political economies;

Can traditions such as Sufi, Platonist, Stoicism, guide us on how to model social behavior and governance?
Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the new Millennium is a book of philosophical thought written by the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso published by Little, Brown/Abacus Press in 1999. (ISBN 0-349-11443-9)
Reason and the scientific methods are the critical elements in the enlightenment from 500 years ago and define the character of the modern world.
However, “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. ” the dream-time – gates to the old brain that is as animals think – we can call id
Id, ego and super-ego are the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends sex and death; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego. [1] The super-ego can stop you from doing certain things that your id may want you to do. [2] Civilization and its discontents –

Myths and old stories are the shadow of dream-time and in Plato's tale of the cave of shadows
Modern marketing includes policy, politicians, value making, seeing things, hearing things, that give magical powers to the shades of past and future ghosts. And spirits.

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How to read and learn from the enlightenment texts. . skim, wander, it is not linear but goes in circles around and builds upon itself, as life is lived not as a band marching but as a traveler wandering and asking for directions. The themes repeat as in a symphony, music of the spheres, poems and lessons, structured as is the St. Benedict's mass and the book ofcommon prayer. Socrates didn't write a bookbook because the recipes change with people and conditions . Rule books, instructions, are bad for the mind and spirit, freedom in chains. So let us have a conversation, asking questions and discovering our own truth in our own way. The truth is out there but can not be canned (tinned) - dialogues please

1. ) welcome, come to me all that are heavy laden
2. ) we make acommitment to love thy god with all our heart, mind and spirit and above all to love each other as yourself as in the unconditionally love of the lord, this is the law above all laws for on the night of our death
3. )if we believe in a creed and great mystery - lessons, prayer of the people and sermons
4. ) for on that night of death and suffering,
5. ) we are given a new life; in the manson of our father, here is the
6. ) gift of food and drink of resurrection and eternal life
7. ) my soul lives, hosanna in the highest for the love that passes all understanding will go with you always hallelujah
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The way home The Ghost in the Machine is a non-fiction work in philosophical psychology written by Arthur Koestler and published in 1967. The title is a phrase coined by the Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle to describe the Cartesian dualist account of the mind–body relationship. Koestler shares with Ryle the view that the mind of a person is not an independent non-material entity, temporarily inhabiting and governing the body. One of the book's central concepts is that as the human brain evolved, it retained and built upon earlier, more primitive brain structures. The work attempts to explain humanity's tendency towards self-destruction in terms of brain structure, philosophies, and its overarching, cyclical political–historical dynamics, reaching the height of its potential in the nuclear arms arena.

Born in Budapest in 1905, educated in Vienna, Arthur Koestler immersed himself in the major ideological and social conflicts of his time. Acommunist during the 1930s, and visitor for a time in the Soviet Union, he became disillusioned with the Party and left it in 1938. Later that year in Spain, he was captured by the Fascist forces under Franco, and sentenced to death. Released through the last-minute intervention of the British government, he went to France where, the following year, he again was arrested for his political views. Released in 1940, he went to England, where he made his home. His novels, reportage, autobiographical works, and political and cultural writings established him as an importantcommentator on the dilemmas of the 20th century. He died in 1983. The Open Society and Its Enemies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen. wikipedia. org/wiki/The_Open_Society_and_Its_Enemies

The Open Society and Its Enemies is a two-volume work on political philosophy by Karl Popper. Written during World War II, The open society is a concept originally suggested in 1932 by the French philosopher Henri Bergson,[1] and developed during World War Two by Austrian and British philosopher Karl Popper. [2]Popper saw the open society as standing on a historical continuum reaching from the organic, tribal or closed society, through the open society marked by a critical attitude to tradition, up to the abstract or depersonalised society lacking all face-to-face transactions. [3]For its advocates, government in the open society is purported to be responsive and tolerant, and political mechanisms are said to be transparent and flexible. Popper saw the classical Greeks as initiating the long slow transition from tribalism towards the open society, and as facing for the first time the strain imposed by the less personal group relations entailed thereby. [4]Whereas tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs, so that individuals are unlikely to challenge traditions they believe to have a sacred or magical basis, the beginnings of an open society are marked by a distinction between natural and man-made law, and an increase in personal responsibility and accountability for moral choices (not incompatible with religious belief). [5]Popper argues that the ideas of individuality, criticism, and humanitarianism cannot be suppressed once people become aware of them, and therefore that it is impossible to return to the closed society;[6] but at the same time recognised the continuing emotional pull of what he called “the lost group spirit of tribalism”, as manifested for example in the totalitarianisms of the 20th century. [7]While the period since Popper's study has undoubtedly been marked by the spread of the open society, this may be attributed less to Popper's advocacy and more to the role of the economic advances of late modernity. [8] Growth-based industrial societies require literacy, anonymity and social mobility from their members[9] - elements incompatible with much traditional-based behaviour but demanding the ever wider spread of the abstract social relations Georg Simmel saw as characterising the metropolitan mental stance. [10]One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism.

Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy of science, but from 1938 until the end of the Second World War he focused his energies on political philosophy, seeking to diagnose the intellectual origins of German and Soviet totalitarianism.
The Open Society and Its Enemies was the result. An immediate sensation when it was first published in two volumes in 1945, Popper's monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right and is credited with inspiring anticommunist dissidents during the Cold War. Arguing that the spirit of free, critical inquiry that governs scientific investigation should also apply to politics, Popper traces the roots of an opposite, authoritarian tendency to a tradition represented by Plato, Marx, and Hegel. Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist. He is remembered for developing the theory of general semantics. Korzybski's work argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and by the structure of language. Korzybski thought that people do not have access to direct knowledge of reality; rather they have access to perceptions and to a set of beliefs which human society has confused with direct knowledge of reality.

Korzybski is remembered as the author of the dictum: "The map is not the territory". the distinction between a map and a territory made its debut in Alfred Korzybski's 1933 seminal work, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics. The idea seems simple enough -- who, after all, would confuse a roadmap with a road, or a menu with a meal? Yet Korzybski observed that people often confuse what they think with 'reality'. The distinction between a map and a territory made its debut in Alfred Korzybski's 1933 seminal work, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics. The idea seems simple enough -- who, after all, would confuse a roadmap with a road, or a menu with a meal? Yet Korzybski observed that people often confuse what they think with Reality'.

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What you need to know about the futureLiving in Asia Expats SE AsiaLEVELS OF REALITY – WELL consciousness. A little before it is news RE: Arrogant and foolish:Hubris Arrogance False PrideFor behavorist if it can't be measured it does't exist Hubris Arrogace False Pride

Someone has to be the decider. George Jr. felt he was the one chosen. Decisions can be hard. Even personal ones from buying from the 1000's of things on offer, to partners, to investment, work and play, because the future is uncertain. Even how we will fell tomorrow, and will they love us in the morning is uncertain. Dogs may be counted on but people not so much. We will be disappointed. Our expectation are too high, our rationalizations, or projections too strong and hidden even from ourselves, but choices have to be made, Since no choice is a choice to put up with the devil you know (he/she work, car,computer) has its good points and will I still love it in the morning? We fool ourselves, and others and are fooled more than once but then have to live with the consequences.

Since bigcomplex systems have multilayer interlocking parts; decisions have not only known effects, and known unknown effects, but unknowable effects in many different ways, time and costs and benefits. So it takes Hubris Arrogance False Pride to make decisions and never look back with regrets.

Hubris Arrogance False Pride Que carbonates or ovaries. The religious right is most radical, the liberal left most conservative.
The idea of conservationism is there is wisdom in tradition and social political experiments are dangrious, and don't work out as desired. The left was founded by radicals who believed in making things better by change. It has been disappointing since the end of socialism and Hegelian - thesis - antithesis - synthesis belief in progress - Wars, betrayal, show trials, mass propaganda making popular anti-progressive hate and violence.
The fundamentalist have no such reservations - after all God made the world in 6 days and it took Hubris Arrogance False Pride to take the 7th day off. Hubris Arrogance False Pride will do it every-time They are not confused by science and facts but trusting in miracles and magic and it will do it overtime - or it will sometime - trust me and the word of the lord. I have false pride and am immensely stupid. I believe that my pathetic ideas are a authentic representation of reality. How could my shallow thoughts reflect the order of nature itself. How could my thoughts comprehend the true nature of life, physics, the cosmos, time, and even my own being. To think my ideas are reality, is indeed most arrogant and foolish. It is said that the beginning of wisdom is awareness of ones ignorance. I am worse than rocks, than beasts and savages because I try to impose my foolishness on the world. I   come to believe that what I think is - it is indeed a "grand Illusion" of false power and fake glory. I even believe that - that is all there is - nothing more! I could try to allow my being, mind, body and spirit rest in its own existence. I could come to terms with myself but I am too busy with needs and desires. I could come into some kind of meaningful relationship with creation if. . . I could feel the proper respect for the other but I am too afraid of letting go of my false faces, defenses, passions, and hidden doubts.

Sophist are those who adjust, subconsciously perhaps, their ideas to their interests. They reflect the popular beliefs and glow in reflected self-admiration. They think they are smart because of the praise of fools. I am a sophist, and bask in the false light of praise. I think the thoughts that will be rewarded and reject hard truths that will get me into trouble. I am devious, untrue to my self or others, can not be trusted, I forget the little wisdom, I once knew, I flounder in new and fashionable theories. RE: Arrogant and foolish: I have false pride and am immensely stupid. I believe that my pathetic ideas are a authentic representation of reality. How could my shallow thoughts reflect the order of nature itself. How could my thoughtscomprehend the true nature of life, physics, the cosmos, time, and even my own being. To think my ideas are reality, is indeed most arrogant and foolish. It is said that the beginning of wisdom is awareness of ones ignorance. I am worse than rocks, than beasts and savages because I try to impose my foolishness on the world. I come to believe that what I think is - it is indeed a "grand Illusion" of false power and fake glory. I even believe that - that is all there is - nothing more! I could try to allow my being, mind, body and spirit rest in its own existence. I could come to terms with myself but I am too busy with needs and desires. I could come into some kind of meaningful relationship with creation if. . . I could feel the proper respect for the other but I am too afraid of letting go of my false faces, defenses, passions, and hidden doubts. Sophist are those who adjust, subconsciously perhaps, their ideas to their interests. They reflect the popular beliefs and glow in reflected self-admiration. They think they are smart because of the praise of fools. I am a sophist, and bask in the false light of praise. I think the thoughts that will be rewarded and reject hard truths that will get me into trouble. I am devious, untrue to my self or others, can not be trusted, I forget the little wisdom, I once knew, I flounder in new and fashionable theories. As we are to deal with meaning, let us begin with a paradigm: viz. , that sacred symbols, the Geist that functions to synthesize a people's ethos--the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood --and their world view--the picture they have of the way things in sheer actuality are, their mostcomprehensive ideas of order.

In religious belief and practice a group's ethos is rendered intellectually reasonable by being shown to represent a way of life ideally adapted to the actual state of affairs the world view describes, while the world view is rendered emotionally convincing by being presented as an image of an actual state of affairs peculiarly well-arranged to accommodate such a way of life. This confrontation and mutual confirmation has two fundamental effects. On the one hand, it collectivizes moral and aesthetic preferences by depicting them as the imposed conditions of life implicit in a world with a particular structure, as merecommon sense given the unalterable shape of reality. On the other, it supports these received beliefs about the world's body by invoking deeply felt moral and aesthetic sentiments as experiential evidence for their truth. Religious symbols formulate a basic congruence between a particular style of life and a specific (if, most often, implicit) metaphysical, and in so doing sustain each with the borrowed authority of the other. Religion has marketed itself with cliches platitudes, truisms, banal slogans that works so well in advertising. The church has fought the modern world since the renaissance and Galileo. “The 13th century was good and leave us alone to rule in peace” .

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Florida State University, Department of Government, Ph. D. , 1972 fields include Educational Administration, Regional and Urban Planning and Human Resource Economics. Dissertation topic: "The Use of Geographic Coding in Public Policy and Planning, acomputer application of districting and Redistricting. "Harvard University, Graduate School of Education, Center for Education and Public Policy, Ed. M. , 1969 Human Resource Planning and Economics, Master's papers on National Assessment Program. University of London School of Economics, International Modern History and Economics, Papers on Economic, Political and Social Impacts of Science and Technology from the 18th century to present. University of Chicago,The College, A. B. degrees, in Liberal Arts and Social Science, American History and Economics. Graduate work at Columbia, General Studies. TeachingCertificates, some Spanish and French - Somecomputer languages Fortran and BasicHIGH SCHOOL: EVANSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS, ILLINOIS1978+1982 PROFESSOR/DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, COLLEGE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, MBA/MPA1975 +1978 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, California State University at Long Beach, CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION; Director of Institute of Health and Social Policy1969+1972 Associate Professor/Research Associate, Mankato State University, Minn. Assistant Professor, Inter-American University, San Juan Puerto Rico; Hato Rey and San German Puerto Rico, Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, Political Science and History. Lecturer in St. Albans, England; FIET Institute, Turin Italy,ON THE JOB TRAINING incomputer analysis (systems analysis) and small area data and graphics; social program analysis; investment strategies; workshops and seminar planning and training methods in basic supervision management planning (goals and objectives), stress workshops, training of trainers. Bioenergetics is the subject of a field of biochemistry that concerns energy flow through living systems. This is an active area of biological research that includes the study of thousands of different cellular processes such as cellular respiration and the many other metabolic processes that can lead to production and utilization of energy in forms such as ATP molecules. http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/BioenergeticsThe Mystic Masseur – (1957) (film version: The Mystic Masseur (2001))Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V. S. " Naipaul, TC (born 17 August 1932) is a Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Trinidadian heritage of Brahmin[1][2] known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism. He has also written works of non-fiction, such as travel writing and essays.
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Way of the monk (brown)
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Shiva asserts that "Rumi is able to verbalize the highly personal and often confusing world of personal growth and development in a very clear and direct fashion. He does not offend anyone, and he includes everyone. . . . Today Rumi's poems can be heard in churches, synagogues, Zen monasteries, as well as in the downtown New York art/performance/music scene. "

Fourth way of the sufi:
"According to this scheme the Qur'an has four levels of meaning corresponding to the four realms of existence [for as-Simnani: Lahut, Jabarut, Malakut and Nasut]. The exoteric dimension the
1. Qur'an relates to the
Human Realm, (brown, yellow)
2. the esoteric level to the secrets of the Realm of Sovereignty, ( orange, red),
3. the limit of the Qur'an to the Realm of Omnipotence, (black and white)
4. and the point of ascent to the Realm of Divinity. " (Elias, TC, pg. 108) (green, gold)

According to Professor Majid M. Naini,[64] "Rumi's life and transformation provide true testimony and proof that people of all religions and backgrounds can live together in peace and harmony. Rumi’s visions, words, and life teach us how to reach inner peace and happiness so we can finally stop the continual stream of hostility and hatred and achieve true global peace and harmony. ”
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The foundations of the contemporary economy are the magical powers of the banking system. The system creates assets out of blind faith in the accounting system, very few understand;

The banks make 10 to 30 times more loans that can be materially based on money on deposit. This was a practice of medieval gold merchants who could give letters of credit greater than the gold on deposit as long as everyone doesn't claim cash at the same time -with no runs on the bank by the loss of faith in high finance magic. The banks are highly profitable, their managers rich, the economy grows and governments are elected, and reelected.

These loans are counted as assets by banks – so the more the leverage they use the greater the assets of the society and wealth increases, creating a immense money pool that is used for more and more risky investments.

The liabilities are accounts of deposits and accounts with Goldman and the central bank where interbank loans are fully collateralize by the same loans and assets created by the banking system, giving resources largely to governments so politicians can spend money created by the system, and have low taxes and high benefits so loved by voters.

The old ladies of the banks, the central bank, and the Treasury are the witches who circle the cauldron of growth as it bubbles and boils, while chanting that no harm shall   come to our wealth until the forest of bad debt   comes home to dominate a harder reality, the really real out of the cave of shadows and the dreamland mythology.

There is no viable alternatives. A fixed base such as the gold standard is to doom society to stagnant standards of living and social mobility, without invention, innovation, increasing poverty, social unrest and revolution.

When the bank makes an additional loan, the person receiving the loan gets a bank deposit. At this stage, when the bank makes a loan, the money supply rises by more than the amount of the open-market operation. This multiple expansion of the money supply is called the money multiplier. Bank loans and purchases of securities are described as bank credit. It is the existence of bank credit that makes the money stock larger than the monetary base, also known as "high-powered money". High-powered money consists of currency and bank deposits at the Fed.

Because money is used in virtually all economic transactions, it has a powerful effect on economic activity. An increase in the supply of money works both through lowering interest rates, which spurs investment, and through putting more money in the hands of consumers, making them feel wealthier, and thus stimulating spending. Business firms respond to increased sales by ordering more raw materials and increasing production. The spread of business activity increases the demand for labor and raises the demand for capital goods. In a buoyant economy, stock market prices rise and firms issue equity and debt. If the money supply continues to expand, prices begin to rise, especially if output growth reaches capacity limits. As the public begins to expect inflation, lenders insist on higher interest rates to offset an expected decline in purchasing power over the life of their loans.
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All humans have a culture – except those raised by wolves – or as the saying goes for those without manners “were you raised in a barn?” I worked, a thousand times, with my children on how to hold a fork, the three words, please, thank you, I'm sorry. Manners taught by bears in childcare books on how to maintain their culture taught to me by my parents and their parents back in the mist of times lost. So they could have tea in the palace.

This is the legion on the birth of Civilization:

It began thousands of years ago in monasteries high in the Hindu highland or Kush. Pāriyātra Parvata(Sanskrit: पारियात्र पर्वत) or Paropamisadae (Greek: Παροπαμισάδαι), is an 800 km (500 mi) long mountain range that stretches between central Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. The highest point in the Hindu Kush is Tirich Mir (7,708 m or 25,289 ft) in Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
The monks over the centuries, had developed a practice of enlightenment. This involved being free of the passions and attachments to self and becoming a part of the cosmos.
They discovered this gave them powers over the elements of human life dependent on external reinforcements. Since they were free of social constraints they could do things, think things, make things, using the laws of the universe as practical possibilities.
The skills were grown by practices, a set of lessons somewhat similar to mystics and cults such as that founded by the Jesuits, being highly and clearly aware of the present, but not of the world, free of emotions, conscientious and unconscious. They developed a management and personal development training program, offered at ransom prices to the princes of the area. The graduates were very successful and kings and superiors came from all the way from China and Mesopotamia, Egypt and then went home and founded the ancient Civilizations.
The rulers could become masters of Sufi propaganda and marketing still used in our time by Bernay. Propaganda Paperback by Edward Bernays (Author) , Mark Crispin Miller (Introduction) Crystallizing Public Opinion by Edward Bernays Paperback $10. 83
Propaganda Bernays・honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies.
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“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ”—Edward Bernays, Propaganda
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To Sigmund Freud, Bernays was the brother of his wife, and father of advertizing sciences and PR public relations. Bernays applied Freudian depth psychology to techniques used in the manipulation of the libidos and ids of the masses, for the greater power of commercial and political interests. These Lies and half truths appealed to Unreasonable passions, that are the foundations of modern civilizations; capitalist and socialist. Sex and violence, us and them, death wishes, transference, rationalization, sublimation, frustration, repressed, subconscious, Oedipus complex, phallic symbols, collective conscientious, archetypes, interpretation of dreams , Friedan slips, all in selling the product be it a president or a fast car, or financial service, or a public policy, a war and , military industrial complex, a happy pill, beer, cigarettes, religions and popular entertainments.
"Grateful Dead"
"We now return our souls to the creator, as we stand on the edge of eternal darkness.
Let our chant fill the void in order that others may know. In the land of the night the ship of the sun is drawn by the grateful dead. "
-- Egyptian Book of the way on the path of life Souls that by the way of living gave power to future life return to be grateful that their lives turned out to have meaning after all.
Revelation 9. 6
"During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them. "
I was told that that referred to the 'grateful' dead -- those that when death finally arrived, were so thankful for it that they welcomed it with open arms. The name "Grateful Dead" was chosen from a dictionary. Some claim it was a Funk & Wagnalls, others, the Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book Of the Dead), but according to Phil Lesh, in his biography (pp. 62), ". . . Jer (Garcia) picked up an old Britannica World Language Dictionary. . . (and). . . In that silvery elf-voice he said to me, 'Hey, man, how about the Grateful Dead?'" The definition there was "A song meant to show a lost soul to the other side. " [15] According to the Garcia biography, Captain Trips by Sandy Troy, the band was smoking the psychedelic DMT at the time.

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Thus the difference between tribes, peoples, nations and “Civilizations” is that the leaders in civilized cultures are not subject to traditional law and beliefs themselves, not of the cultural fads but the other way around, they can manufacture and use the law where traditions of magical thinking becoming tools of economic and political power.

This takes a mind withcompartments – where cogitative dissonance becomecomfortable and skillful. I have to work with people where they are, use what tools I have while being awake to the really real. . .

Traditional leaders are representatives of ancient belief andcompletely bondup in history, superstitious magic and mythology. Thus the church is not civilized but a cult or tribe.

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Magic Science and Religion: And Other Essays, by Bronislaw Malinowski.
Selected, and with an Introduction by Robert Redfield
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Death and Rebirth of Seneca

Anthony Wallace
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 1, 2010 -
This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society -
When people in groups face serious changes in the paradigms they live by and are threaten in their essence that make a culture what it fundamentally is, and without which it loses its identity. The white southern men of the “silent majority” of the ongoing culture wars against “liberals” and secularization, integration, feminism, the counter culture, the rise of scientific methods over the traditional authority of religion.
“You peasants can't handle the truth”

See The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor

As we are to deal with meaning, let us begin with a paradigm: viz. , that sacred symbols, the Geist that functions to synthesize a people's ethos--the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood --and their world view--the picture they have of the way things in sheer actuality are, their mostcomprehensive ideas of order. In religious belief and practice a group's ethos is rendered intellectually reasonable by being shown to represent a way of life ideally adapted to the actual state of affairs the world view describes, while the world view is rendered emotionally convincing by being presented as an image of an actual state of affairs peculiarly well-arranged to accommodate such a way of life.

This confrontation and mutual confirmation has two fundamental effects. On the one hand, it collectivizes moral and aesthetic preferences by depicting them as the imposed conditions of life implicit in a world with a particular structure, as merecommon sense given the unalterable shape of reality. On the other, it supports these received beliefs about the world's body by invoking deeply felt moral and aesthetic sentiments as experiential evidence for their truth. Religious symbols formulate a basic congruence between a particular style of life and a specific (if, most often, implicit) metaphysical, and in so doing sustain each with the borrowed authority of the other.

Religion has marketed itself with cliches platitudes, truisms, banal slogans that works so well in advertising. The church has fought the modern world since the renaissance and Galileo. “The 13th century was good and leave us alone to rule in peace” .
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The natural human desire to find explanations underlies both science and magic. People like or need to find reasons for what is going on. Anthropologist found that tribes will use evidence and facts when they have them. They are very material and practical. They also have magical solutions to everyday problems when there are no better alternatives. Questions of weather, animal migration, disease and other natural phenomena are matters of life and death, so people want some control over these events. Magic gives them that sense of doing something and having an input into the process of lifer and death. All religions are based on faith and magic where performing certain ceremonies have powers of healing, rain making, even eternal salivation and the triumph over death. Gods and saints can give hope to the hopeless and direction, rules, order to civilizations. The claims are magical and hysterical calls to worship or patriotic emotions that underpin civic order. A spiritual and traditional sense of purpose, direction, order and meaning are required by humans to organize their societies.
Everyday the news reports give explaining reasons why the “market” has gone up or down. They sound like the market has purpose and intention. In fact no one knows why markets have day to day variations beyond there are more buyers or more sellers at a moment of time. Thousands of individuals andcomputer programs make thousands of individual choices partly based on what all the other actors are doing and making assumptions about the reasons behind these decisions. Except when there are great events most of the time there is a random element that defies explanation. Never the less some magical words are used to explain the unexplainable.

The desire to find purpose and intention in evolution and human existence is quite natural and also impossible. Disposing with the idea of an external, perhaps even supernatural, vitalizing force, describes how we have arrived at the picture of ourselves and all organisms as Self-Made Things. Our creations include governments, constitutions, institutions, magic, superstitions, ceremony, ritual, flag waving, songs, etc. Our gods are made by us not the other way around. They are made because we need them. They should not (but often do) become a Frankenstein.

So we have to take things for what they are. Social conventions, religious ceremony, national character, are useful and even necessary. They are NOT science or material facts. There are very important ideas and beliefs beyond or outside science – arts and literature, song and dance, mystery and magic, wonder and dreams – Santa Claus and the tooth fairy the lands of wonder and magic – the problem arises when belief systems make material judgments (stem cell research) outside theircompetence. Science can be arrogant about people’s useful and practical beliefs. (Alternative medicine). Science must support the moral and useful desire to do good works, spread truth and justice, equality and fairness which have no material meaning (you can’t find the stuff of kindness and measure it) or do these beliefs have a scientific basis.
Benedict tried to over come the idea of cultural equality (not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity, what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies are “anxious”, surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful, this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the Chuckchee, the Ojibwa, The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies were “nice” people,
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I first became clear about the concept of a quantitative and qualitative leaping change in thinking with a study of native American tribal cultures. The white Europeans said “take me to your leader” assuming a hierarchical structure with someone in charge. In native'scommunity it just doesn't work that way, they have wise men, tribal elders who discussed everything until they reached consensus. Sometimes the Japanese do this which is slow but implementation is better and faster because they all know the goals, process, and expected out comes. The idea of elections was problematical because it involved conflict and someone putting themselves forward as being better than someone else. Real leaders in-bodies the living containers of the culture, they are the law in so far it is inside and they reflect the customs and are preservers of the traditions of their forefathers in generations past. They are truly judicial conservatives living with the law as handed down to them. Traditions are the way of survival, where the knowledge helps find where game and is used when it works and answers “what does the weather patterns mean”. .
A second paradigm shift was with a understanding of Edward Deming quality control groups.
The core of the shift is that inspection, fixed procedures and rules, close supervision, only make things worse beyond rote activity. It is quality is not oddments hung on the tree but needs to grow from the roots.

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The Grand Illusion
The only point is to live with a constructive happy illusions and avoid destructive unhappy ones. Beyond our common illusions is a magnificent illusion. We are not the center of the Universe. The sun does not stand still. We are a part of the animal kingdom, descended from the apes. We act on all kinds of impulses below our awareness, we confuse dreams, stories, and wishes with external reality. Our societies are often determined by social class, ruled by special interests, oppressive and unfair. Even the most hard nosed science has the illusion of power and understanding of profound mysteries, and the false belief in control and progress. There are great and wonderful benefits of all the illusions, of freedom, of justice, or "truth", and what good comes from shattering these dreams ? If one can choice ones illusion, or be retrained or programmed into beliefs, should they not be happy ones. Can I not prefer to avoid and ignore unhappy "truth" ? Where does mercy and the law error on the side of the angels.

A. H. Maslow in "The Farther Reaches of Human Nature" article "Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen, Penguin Books 1976 ISBN 0 14 00. 4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191

Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics) an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret Mead in 1970.

Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality ( not everything is equal or right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity, whatever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful, this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the Chuckchee, the Ojibwa, The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh, The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).

The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can produce mutual benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers) vs. unselfish, altruism (win/win).

Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership,comforting vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions, are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a outbreak of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hindmost, winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).

RE: Personal responsibility: (and character)
In the Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevski describes a scene where the Grand Inquisitor interviews Christ who has returned to Earth in the 16th Century. He tell Jesus that ordinary people just aren't up to the challenge of making up their own minds and finding their own way to salvation.

Therefore, the Church takes it upon itself, at the sure loss of their own souls - to giving them only part of the way. The Inquisitor knows he can't save souls by formulas and ritual. But this is all people understand and it would be cruel and dangerous to take illusions away from them. Jesus is just going to have to die again - maybe it can be different next time.

All Ideologies say the same thing - we know better - do this or that and all will be well. People like that. Freedom is not much fun it carries responsibilities.

No one can impose freedom on another. Their is no solution from above - right - left - center - The freedom is a state of mind. I think, at the moment, it takes magic. The other text is Wallace the Death and Rebirth of the Seneca.


When the current power structure doesn't work there are ghost cults and belief in magic. The way of the Sufi - is to be in the world but not of it - people need - leadership - hope - guidance - but also freedom to be stupid and wrong. The "fakir" can be different things to different people and appear to be what is not - and at the same time not have any doubts about what is real and what is "illusion". The magician know its a trick and doesn't belief in magic. This is the way to power - but it's not easy.

Martin Luther King says in the I have a Dream speech - One day my little children will be judged - not by the color of their skin but the contents of their character. For those that want rights (back, gay, women, fat, etc) I say that day has come. I do not judge you by the color of your skin, who you sleep with, your sex or gender but the contents of your charter. The Rodney King (no relative) rule "Can't we just get along. " The planet and our souls need attention. The moral and political system needs leaders - let's focus on the prize, folks. The current word is "Sustainable";

The only point is constructive happy illusions and destructive unhappy ones, beyond our illusions is a greater illusion. - In general system terms biological systems tend to exponential growth only restricted by negative feedback - (Like in Central Africa). Balance is a dynamic process of each genetic organism pushing its limits and being pushed back by environmental factors andcompetition. Human evolution through social technology has temporarily pushed the limits on a planetary scale. The Club of Rome report in the 1960's may not be wrong only a little off in timing. (Limits to Growth = sudden collapse of whole systems )

There are no moral problems, or political problems, or economic problems, scientific or technical problems but real problems - which come with all these considerations. For academic and technical reasons, we have divided reality up into departments. (one problem is that the liberal arts have been pushed out by specialist) The blind are feeling the elephant - with CAT scanners, satellites, remote probes, macro and micro models - but they do not understand the nature of elephants?


Edward O. Wilson - Socio-biology argues that there are genetic programmed groves - like language. One major groove in the troop or clan or human group. The natural size of this group us under 80 members. Groups over a certain size become impersonal. The solution to almost everything is decentralization. A Global economy and ecology but people making decision in small groups, in neighborhoods, in regional organizations, as small as possible. This was called community action and self help projects.

Intervention - receivership - mandate - what ever you call is an answer when all else fails. We do not live in and Island home - but are part of all humanity - a community of nations. Global problems will not go away and can not solve themselves. The General Assemble has been very shy of intervention - there are a number of members in bad shape themselves - but without the cold war a East-West agreement is hard to stop.

Russia wants UN cover for intervention in areas of the USS-was that are in chaos. We want UN cover in Haiti, and international caretakers after we take over. Such a care-taking operation needs to be in place for years - Their are no easy and quick answers in a country without independent institutions - infrastructure - tradition of law and civil administration - poor - illiterate and independent.
The ecological - environment conditions in Haiti and parts of Central Africa - can be the cause - The reason for intervention is not just political, or refugees, or humanitarian but to stem a ecological disaster.
There are good people working today in Rwanda and Haiti - they are doing what they can - what more could be expected of them. What more do we expect of ourselves? I have suggested there are first principles and they can be applied to work toward improvements in real situations (there are no answers or solutions only some actions that do more good than harm). I would like to work on this is a non-directive group of about a dozen.

RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:

Covey, S. R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT, 84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials

Wallace, Anthony F. C "The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca," New York Vintage Books 1972

Bennett, William John "The De-valuing of America New York Summit Books 1992

Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Handy, Charles The Age of Unreason - Harvard Business school Press 1989

Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior and Motivation B-values

Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)

Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"

Reich, Robert B. The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A. A. Knopf 1991) The Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)

Senge, P. M. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)

Sergiovanni, T. J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore, J. H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989

- Facts follow vision -

Logos, pathos, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge (ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge ( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves and give meaning and purpose to all activity.

The global context - Earth values?

How much of our time, our lives is spent on activities of our own determination, doing what we determined to do, actions selected with our own purposes and goals in mind, time and effort spent with a firmness, perseverance, sense of mission, based on our own volition and choice. Not much ! The question is how to expand the area where we govern ourselves, where we have control, where we have a real free choice.

We are controlled by socialization. We filter our world with many screens. We understand only the information, propaganda, greed, desires, passions, needs, loves, hates, fears, false ideas, demands and expectations of others; by their prejudice and limited perceptions, by the limits of our knowledge and skills, by events, the environment, biology, mortgages, car payments, and the boss and society's demands. It's not so easy to gain command of ourselves and our lives. We are in a waking dream, sleep walking, unaware of whole ranges of choices and possibilities.

For the 35,000 years of human culture, people knew the forces that controlled their lives and went with the flow. They knew in their glands and in their entrails that they were part of a larger force field, one element of the life force, a part of a tradition going before and coming after. It would be crazy to think you could force your will on nature and the gods, on the spirits that surround you. The `spirit man' taps into a flow of the universe, he does not make personal choices. If he uses `the force' for himself it doesn't work and he loses `the power'.

The industrial, political, social, scientific revolution of modern times is based on a false, too thin idea of freedom, choice, power and control. The more we try to force our petty needs and desires as THE be all and end all of social and ecological existence the less power and less control we have and the system breaks down. Most of our problems, crime, poor schools, un-wed mothers, dysfunctional families, stupid politics, dumb media, decline in the meaning of language, thought and action; all this is do to the breaking of the bands of biology. We have tried over reaching evolution for temporal and false hopes. We all know that.

Power comes from integration, from mobilization of focus, of facing ourselves as we are, from finding true self beyond self, from sounds, from music, from being rock, water, air, sky, stars, plants, reptile, hunter, mixed bag of biology that we are. We all know we get jerked around, get our strings pulled, put up a false front, pretend, avoid, become angry, lose control. For 35,000 years culture has built systems of integration of the human spirit into larger wholes. That is the power of Japan, that is the force field of good schools,communities, and larger spirits. Freedom comes for within the bands but not of the bands. Tribal limitations need to be integrated not ignored. That's not easy but has been done a 1000 times in a 1000 ways.

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Understanding comes from practice of good habits, caring about the result, wanting to do better so we need the next step
RED Think again - there maybe new ideas, challenges, confessions; remorse the act of contrition

if you think you have all the answers, that there is only one right way, are afraid to go out on your own or speak up, nothing interesting is going to happen. We all need a little humble pie, a little perspective on what's important. To get perspective we need the next step:

BROWN It's OK, forgive yourself and others, the act of absolution grounding, centered I'm OK, your OK.
I know who I am, what's important to me, my family, mycommunity and country, my values. I can't be jerked around and will hang in there for what I believe. In order to get a well grounded set of values SEE STYLES PAGE we need the next step:

WHITE The peace that passes all understanding, you have   come into the family of believers.
We can't just make up anything that suits us at the moment. We need some universal and long lasting truth, beauty and wisdom. We need to place ourselves in a meaningful relationship with the universe so we mirror reality from out there, inside out, we become a mirror. To make the wine the grapes must be squashed, emptied. To be a mirror, a true reflection requires a smooth surface, ground down. To learn new habits we must empty ourselves of false belief but to do that we need the next step.

BLACK, reunion, union, quiet means overcoming the fear of failing, failing, even death itself.

GREEN remember - you have courage, see you have a medal, a testimonial, a degree, honors to remind you to be honorable, because sometimes we forget
CLEAR beyond reminders, rewards, living in a corrupt and petty world without becoming that way - being in the world but not of the world.
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Hermes of Egypt, Mary the Hebrew, Democritus of Greece, Morienus
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Arabist School of Montpellier (Jews from Spain) Medicine - Dr. D. Campbell) The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Lawrence of Arabia) Abu Bakr, Umar, Ali, Bilal, Ibn Riyah, Abu Abdullah, Salman the Persian (Zoroastrians)
The Rose, Rosicrucians, Rosary from the Spanish illuminist (Saracens the Reciter) Jungian archetypal from Ibn El-Arabi (Modern Man in Search of a Soul" C. C. Jung) Robert Graves "The Crowning Privilege"

"Mankinds' moral sense is not a strong beacon light, radiating outward to illuminate in sharp outline all that it touches. It is, rather, a small candle flame, casting vague and multiple shadows, flickering and sputtering in the strong winds of power and passion, greed and ideology. But brought close to the heart and cupped it one's hands, it dispels the darkness and warms the soul. " James Q. Wilson ************************************************************
RE: Humor #1 Scholars I am asked "are you the secret teacher?" "Yes, I am. " I say "But you don't know anything about Sufi teaching. " they say. "That's right - but that's the secret. "

A Sufi camping one night put a bottle under his head for a pillow. His student said "surely that is going to be too hard?" "as an ordinary bottle, Yes," the Sufi said " but I am going to stuff it with straw before I put my head on it. "

Acomputer translation system is set up for the Russian Republic - the message is sent "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. " The terminal in Moscow quickly types " The Vodka is ready but the meat is devitalized. "

Time fly s like an arrow but

Fruit Flies like Bananas (Chompsky)

Unconsidered Trifles = Neglected Puddings

A famous Professor was demonstrating, before fellow-members of the learned Academy, a remarkable discovery. First he took three flies out of a match box. Then hecommanded them to fly three times around the table. Then. on hiscommand, they jumped five times. Finally they danced a silent tap dance on the table, their /images magnified through a gigantic apparatus devised for the purpose of making such demonstrations visible to a large audience.

The onlookers were spellbound. "and now," said the scholar, "I will give you the real demonstration. It is the illustration of my discovery. " He took the flies and placed drops of honey on their feet, sticking them to the table. Then he shouted "FLIES JUMP!" The flies went on licking the stick stuff. "And that ladies and gentlemen," concluded the Professor "demonstrates that flies, when their feet are covered in honey, cannot hear!"

A whole band of Sufis were being admitted to heaven. Each was admitted without any ceremony, the doors simply closed and open for the next. Right at the end came a scholar, with a reverent look and majestic gait, full of confidence. He was the most respected academic of his age. As he step forward the gates swing wide, the trumpets sounded, there was tremendous applause from the assembled multitude. The shining figure of St. Michael himself came to escort him within. "This is most gratifying", said the scholar, " to know that the learned are recognized for their importance. But why all this ceremony?" "Well", said St. Michael, "it is something of an occasion. You see, this is the first time that we have had an academic among us. . "

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WELLNESS SEMINAR: THE BODY - Summary: Stage one: The practice is to work directly on the stoppages - the blocks - then rational thought can begin to solve problems - not before. People didn't talk their way into blocks and can't talk them selves out of their problems. The words such as; centered, balance, grounded, mean some thing in practice. You do it, not talk about it. The Way to Vibrant Health by Alex and Leslie Lowen is based on the process of increasing the life force. New energy is released by proper respiration and metabolism. The new energy is great for lasting weight control.

The mind and body are identical, one is a reflection of the other. How you feel affects how you think and how you think affects how you feel. ( Norman Cousins interesting book on Health - Bill Moyers series on public T. V. Benison on Stress are good examples. ) Level One (Steps 1 to 9) Each session contains a warm up, a lesson from a 350-page work book, individual and group exercises.

1. ) Getting in touch - breath
2. ) Getting in Touch - metabolism - (great for weigh control)
3. ) Bioenergetics - (Alexander Lowen) grounding - charging
4. ) Self-possession and self- expression - being in touch
5. ) The Exercises - getting loose - getting the energy flows unblocked.
6. ) The expressive Exercises and Gestalt - Feelings (mind - the body)
7. ) Sexual exercises (optional) massage and setting up a regular schedule.
8. ) Autogenic - relaxation techniques
9. ) Meditation and Imagination *

Alexander Lowen, Bioenergetics - (Harper & Row) a form of Gestalt - Autogenic and other names (Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer by Pelletier, Kenneth) and Wilhelm Reich - Every "Shaman" I know has a simple and direct approach.

Emotions are feeling - feelings are NOT thoughts - they are physical. (Thoughts exist in the brain but I am talking about the fight/flight syndrome, a series of body reaction to emotions, This has been called the Stress syndrome - )


THE MIND - Stage two: IN TOUCH WITH FEELINGS -
INDEPENDENT TO INTERDEPENDENT Out of touch means not only with our feeling but with reality. We are not conscious of how uptight we are, how afraid, how uncertain. As in a popular ad with the kid inside who wants the frosted side, we are out of touch with the "child within ," we fail tocommunicate with our spouses, our kids, our students, orcommunities. Our behavior is established in the "dream world" - the sub or un-awareness - most of the forces that controls our lives are out of sight and out of mind.

The "real" world is an illusion created by social norms, language, advertising, political interests, etc. The real world is in our dreams. For those who don't know, this is hard to believe but when known is obvious. Did you ever have a tightness that you only identified when it let go? You say, I didn't know it was so tight. You get used to being in knots, off balance, out of tune.

and the art of paying attention
Stress and THOUGHT control:

Level two - getting control of your thoughts -

10. ) Thought stopping - assertiveness training
11. ) More effective - listening - parent - teacher - person
12. ) Dealing with Irrational ideas and passions
13. ) Coping skills - proactive
14. ) The seven habits of Effective People (Stephen Covey)
15. ) Biofeedback - nutrition - advanced exercises (Yoga)
16. ) Getting unstuck - independence - freedom from reactions
17. ) Yoga (Shalom) Love - cloud - visualizations and breath
18. ) No Fatigue, no sore muscles, perfect posture, the sounds

19. ) Introduction to Zen
Stage Three: BEYOND SELF -
four - DREAMS and UNION Magic is real - real is magic. THE SOUL - Magic is the perception of forces AND REALITIES that we may not be aware of today. Life is full of tricks - things are different from what they appear to be. For example physical matter - the stars - other people often give false impressions - The President - social conventions - et al. How do I know? I don't. You have to practice - gain body knowledge - and feel what you feel. How do we treat the problems and the world - by practice - by example - by doing - not talking? We will work directly on the emotional base of behavior and the nature of being.
STUDIES ON THE WAY - the path of knowing Level three - The path to knowledge 20. ) The world of illusions and /images

21. ) The Aesop fables and Sufi tales - the three levels of knowledge. Reading and meditations 22. ) Morals, character, independence - beyond self - loves

23. ) Total experience - peak experiences Discovering Values: To learn new values you will experiences new feelings or remember feeling you have forgotten.

24. ) See twice - Peter Weir's "The Last Wave" - Rhino-Home

25. ) Wallace's "The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca," (In paper reprint from Random House about $10) read it, twice? This will be our introduction to the dream world.

26. ) Steven Halpern - Music Halpern Sounds, Visualization of the perfect self -

27. ) Relaxation tape - to take home 28. ) Yogi Shalom - Charles Schoelen, a set of tapes. The first one is on LOVE, then the rock, the cloud and other meditations.
29. ) Herrigel, Eugen ZEN (Zen in the Art of Archery). The Method of ZEN (McGraw-Hill)- and/or OM Creative Meditations - by Alan Watts - (Celestial Arts, MillBrae, CA) Electronic Education Program P. O. Box, Mill Valley, CA 94941 A couple of Sufi books -

THE ANSWER IS MAGIC: Level four: THE DREAM TIME - 30. ) Out of touch - The dream world - reality - illusions When people have profound psychological problems - the general belief is that you need to deal with the emotional basis as the cause. While there are many theories of Psychological practice, we focus on direct experience - by exercises and psychodrama, rather than analysis, talking or running away. To help someone with a stutter you practice the stutter until it is under control.

We are going to learn mind control. Certainty for our Time:
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31. ) LAWS OF PHYSICS: Imagine the atom; the core of particles held together by great force, the fields of electrons vibrating in their courses. The electrons can only operate in certain fixed Quantum, they can be in only certain ways in relationship to each other and the nucleus. These fixed ways allow for chemistry. The elements cancombine with Certainty depending on the fixed nature of physics. God cannot do things against his nature. The laws of nature are not imposed from outside but re side within the nature of things.

32. ) SCIENCE: The ways the elementscombine, the very order of the Cosmos itself defines the possible. Science and technology are doing the possible. The difference between alchemy and chemistry, astronomy and astrology, is the knowledge of the possible. Knowing, some thing of the ways of nature is knowledge.

33. ) IDEOLOGY: The evil and false pride that people have when they think their ideas are equal to the ways of nature. The ways of the universes exist in a grain of sand. The natural processes in a drop of water are infinitely more powerful than any human belief. Science endeavors to put our beliefs in tune with reality. The electrons change their quanta in fixed patterns. They do not move through the intermediate space. We cannot go from here to there without passing through the intermediate space. Particles do not conform to our concepts but we try to understand the reality as best we can.

34. ) FALSE PRIDE: It is a source of evil and false pride to foolishly believe our ideas of nature are just relative. The " anything goes approach" and "do you own thing," encourages the belief that anything is possible. We must live with the really possible not in illusions and fancy. The covenant is the fixed law of nature where possible becomes real. Reality is the wisdom of God's' creation, his own presence. Human wisdom shrinks before the infinite. The unity of all things appears in the billions of stars and atoms, the Eternal essence. I am God, you are Gods also is a rather special way. We are perfect in harmony with the universe and nothing, a small spark outside the rules of nature. Is there a contradiction here - our ideas are not reality - so how can we know God?

RE: Arrogant and foolish: I have false pride and am immensely stupid. I believe that my pathetic ideas are a authentic representation of reality. How could my shallow thoughts reflect the order of nature itself. How could my thoughtscomprehend the true nature of life, physics, the cosmos, time, and even my own being. To think my ideas are reality, is indeed most arrogant and foolish. It is said that the beginning of wisdom is awareness of ones ignorance. I am worse than rocks, than beasts and savages because I try to impose my foolishness on the world.

I come to believe that what I think is - it is indeed a "grand Illusion" of false power and fake glory. I even believe that - that is all there is - nothing more! I could try to allow my being, mind, body and spirit rest in its own existence. I could come to terms with myself but I am too busy with needs and desires. I could come into some kind of meaningful relationship with creation if. . . I could feel the proper respect for the other but I am too afraid of letting go of my false faces, defenses, passions, and hidden doubts. Sophist are those who adjust, subconsciously perhaps, their ideas to their interests. They reflect the popular beliefs and glow in reflected self-admiration. They think they are smart because of the praise of fools. I am a sophist, and bask in the false light of praise. I think the thoughts that will be rewarded and reject hard truths that will get me into trouble. I am devious, untrue to my self or others, can not be trusted, I forget the little wisdom, I once knew, I flounder in new and fashionable theories.

I could be more than a beast and less than an angel but am afraid of what others might think. I am caught up in angers, prejudices, tricks, and overwhelming greed. I want things my way are refuse to listen to advice. I will do anything to get what I want, first my self deception then by fooling others. I subdue or seduce the unwary and fool myself. I am indeed arrogant and foolish - I am humanity.

35. ) REMEMBER - The particles of corporal existence do not have a personality. Reality is not confined to man. If we are transformed into vanquished space and are no longer self but a new being, we can come close to looking into the face of God. If this is not clear it is because it is very difficult to express. The truth is said often and many different ways but while many hear only a few, listen. 36. ) It is difficult to explain to the Bat who lives only at night and avoids the bright sun what shadows are like. Maybe some time in your life you knew you were in tune - had certain know ledge of being - Being just what you are, MASLOW in the Further Reaches of Human Behavior explored this aptitude. He called it transcendence, beyond self to being or B values. He said it gave life meaning and purpose. Effective people knew the meaning of B-values and therefore had focus and energy that created a successful life. Beyond self. So simple and so hard. Can you explain to the blind about the colors of the world? The drunken, desire their drunkenness and do not desire the truth. If is not this or that: then what is it?

37. ) The Perfect Truth: To go from the possible (the ways of nature ) to the essential is the spring of reason. First we gain true perception and then a sense of being and passing through and beyond personality to real character. We can be worse than beasts, fiends, stones or storms - we have the avarice, envy, pride opposes knowledge. We do not overcome these by an act of will but by rites of passage. In Joseph Campbell's hero with 1000 Faces, these "all too human" passions and monsters are passed in the mythical JOURneys in the underworld (clearly a representation of our reptile unconscious minds). The Hero emerges from thinking and feeling to being and knowing.

38. ) BEING READY: There are few shortcuts. If you love God, God will love you. You are beloved, the union with all exists in you and all around you. In pure obedience, there is true freedom. When you are master then you are slave. You are the sweet fruit in the shell, ready to ripen, the suns warm beams has put us into the right stage of life. Our estate is prepared and we are ready. 39. ) If this is obscure to you, it is meant to be clear. The vail of metempsychosis passes and you sees clearly the obvious - AH HA! The circle iscomplete, I am what I am, and feel good about it. (Union) The seal is broken and the secret reveled - it was here all the time but you weren't looking, you did not listen, I guess you were too busy with more important business. Faith and peace, and eternal wisdom are not so important? They require truth and justice and cannot be used for personal gain. They have no market value.

40. ) The dream that becomes reality is in the union of mystic lore and the way. The doors are open, are you ready for no-existence. If you give up existence you will find it. If you cling to the things of life, you cannot pass this way. That is the myth of the "grateful dead. " To win you must surrender, to triumph, give up. You all know that. The phantoms pass away, nothing but the truth remains. THE UNION comes when the possible have passed its ordered limits and become the essential - science has become knowledge and certainty. (This is beyond 40 and me at the moment). Who firmly grasps the mystic meaning of the union of possible and the promise of the essential has a higher wisdom than plain mortals. More is less, far is near, we are no longer afraid of our own shadows, the fire has no terror and the book of changes.

(To be continued - Mahmud Shabistri "

The Secret Garden," only 57 pages - A Dutton Paperback) Be Careful - Notes from The Secret Garden: Mahmud Shabistari, (E. P. Dutton & Co, 1974)

Sufism is not a religion. The Sufi practice is a the science of man, or the "Science of Certainty. " In most societies, most of the time, the Sufi could not find acceptance or a fair hearing. Any ideas that were not devoted to the service of the state and the prevailing ideology were regarded as not only odd but dangerous treason, and was feared as subversive. The Moslem cults, the brotherhood, and many others are mixtures. Will the real Sufi please stand up. Sufi cloaked their teaching and activities in the outward garb of religion.

The ability to pretend and remember what is image and what is real, is a critical Sufi art - but many cults came to believe the outside as inside. Sufis focused on cultural pursuits which in authoritian societies allows certain freedoms and contacts with different people. The Persian-speaking Sufi's dominated the classics, which became convert Sufi text books. The public forms of Sufism are imitations. The desire for fantasies led to groups and activities that are popular and acceptable to the dogmatic climate.

Imitation Sufis abounded. Scholars and the public are naturally confused on what is true Sufism and what is mystic popular imitations. The Christians have the same problem - the unreal imitations of Christ and popular but weaken practices. People want to believe that their "cult" has a special and secret way. Spain became a Sufi center in the Middle Ages, and still in the south reverberates in songs and stories. The spread of Culture from Spain and the Renascence brought Sufi practice to Europe. The Freemasons were partly based on these traditions. The Sufi have a special science in psychology and the study of man. All Sufi activity in the West until after WWI was private. Sir Richard Burton (1001 Nights) only saw imitation cults and did not know of the small private non-cultist Sufis. The Russo-Armenian philosopher Gurdjief published the first western text about a origin in Central Asia with links to the distant past, early forms of Christianity and the monasteries in the Hindu Kirsh. Ouspensky, a disciple, transmitted these ideas in lectures, demonstrations, and books. This became popular with the Kennedy crowd and actors.

Dr. Maurice Nicholl and Dr. Kenneth Walker used the psychologically-oriented to attempt a system of practice. The authors of the Blooms bury group brought Sufi ideas to literature which continues today by many writers - Borges, Lesing, Kipling and many more. The true Sufi potential was largely untouched. Sufi does not have authority figures, a or a set of customs or habits. It is more open than Zen and even more difficult to fix in place. Hadrat Sayed Idries Shah in the major book "The Sifis" brought light to the confused situation. His work has brought the Sufi tradition back into focus for the West. The all too human desire to have a talisman, a messianic figure who would transform the world is not true Sufi but many cults still seek such a ideal. Idries Shah would not confine himself to closed groups who thought they had key to wisdom. The desire to feel special, to have secrets, ceremonies and special knowledge is not unique to these Sufi cults.

It is tribal. Poets, scientist, professors of literature and physics, anthropologist claimed something of value in Idries Shah's work. Serious sociological JOURNAL found the ideas of prime importance in solving current human problems in advanced societies. It's vital importance to education and learning became more widely known. *****************************************************

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This is the legion on the birth of Civilization:

It began thousands of years ago in monasteries high in the Hindu highland or Kush. Pāriyātra Parvata(Sanskrit: पारियात्र पर्वत) or Paropamisadae (Greek: Παροπαμισάδαι), is an 800 km (500 mi) long mountain range that stretches between central Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. The highest point in the Hindu Kush is Tirich Mir (7,708 m or 25,289 ft) in Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

The monks over the centuries, had developed a practice of enlightenment. This involved being free of the passions and attachments to self and becoming a part of the cosmos.
They discovered this gave them powers over the elements of human life dependent on external reinforcements. Since they were free of social constraints they could do things, think things, make things, using the laws of the universe as practical possibilities.

The skills were grown by practices, a set of lessons somewhat similar to mystics and cults such as that founded by the Jesuits, being highly and clearly aware of the present, but not of the world, free of emotions, conscientious and unconscious. They developed a management and personal development training program, offered at ransom prices to the princes of the area. The graduates were very successful and kings and superiors came from all the way from China and Mesopotamia, Egypt and then went home and founded the ancient Civilizations.

The rulers could become masters of Sufi propaganda and marketing still used in our time by Bernay. Propaganda Paperback
by Edward Bernays (Author) , Mark Crispin Miller (Introduction)
Crystallizing Public Opinion by Edward Bernays Paperback $10. 83

Propaganda Bernays・honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies.

Noam Chomsky
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ”—Edward Bernays, Propaganda

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To Sigmund Freud, Bernays was the brother of his wife, and father of advertizing sciences and PR public relations. Bernays applied Freudian depth psychology to techniques used in the manipulation of the libidos and ids of the masses, for the greater power ofcommercial and political interests. These Lies and half truths appealed to Unreasonable passions, that are the foundations of modern civilizations; capitalist and socialist.

Greed and fear

Thus the difference between tribes, peoples, nations and “Civilizations” is that the leaders in civilized cultures are not subject to traditional law and beliefs themselves, not of the cultural fads but the other way around, they can manufacture and use the law where traditions of magical thinking becoming tools of economic and political power.

This takes a mind withcompartments – where cogitative dissonance becomecomfortable and skillful. I have to work with people where they are, use what tools I have while being awake to the really real. . .

Traditional leaders are representatives of ancient belief andcompletely bond up in history, superstitious magic and mythology. Thus the church is not civilized but a cult or tribe.

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RE: Arrogant and foolish:
Behaviorist: if it can't be measured it does't exist

I have false pride and am immensely stupid. I believe that my pathetic ideas are a authentic representation of reality. How could my shallow thoughts reflect the order of nature itself. How could my thoughtscomprehend the true nature of life, physics, the cosmos, time, and even my own being. To think my ideas are reality, is indeed most arrogant and foolish. It is said that the beginning of wisdom is awareness of ones ignorance. I am worse than rocks, than beasts and savages because I try to impose my foolishness on the world.

False materialism

I come to believe that what I think is - it is indeed a "grand Illusion" of false power and fake glory. I even believe that - that is all there is - nothing more! I could try to allow my being, mind, body and spirit rest in its own existence. I could come to terms with myself but I am too busy with needs and desires. I could come into some kind of meaningful relationship with creation if. . . I could feel the proper respect for the other but I am too afraid of letting go of my false faces, defenses, passions, and hidden doubts. Sophist are those who adjust, subconsciously perhaps, their ideas to their interests. They reflect the popular beliefs and glow in reflected self-admiration. They think they are smart because of the praise of fools. I am a sophist, and bask in the false light of praise. I think the thoughts that will be rewarded and reject hard truths that will get me into trouble. I am devious, untrue to my self or others, can not be trusted, I forget the little wisdom, I once knew, I flounder in new and fashionable theories. knew, I flounder in new and fashionable theories.

As we are to deal with meaning, let us begin with a paradigm: viz. , that sacred symbols, the Geist that functions to synthesize a people's ethos--the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood --and their world view--the picture they have of the way things in sheer actuality are, their mostcomprehensive ideas of order. In religious belief and practice a group's ethos is rendered intellectually reasonable by being shown to represent a way of life ideally adapted to the actual state of affairs the world view describes, while the world view is rendered emotionally convincing by being presented as an image of an actual state of affairs peculiarly well-arranged to accommodate such a way of life.

This confrontation and mutual confirmation has two fundamental effects. On the one hand, it collectivizes moral and aesthetic preferences by depicting them as the imposed conditions of life implicit in a world with a particular structure, as merecommon sense given the unalterable shape of reality. On the other, it supports these received beliefs about the world's body by invoking deeply felt moral and aesthetic sentiments as experiential evidence for their truth. Religious symbols formulate a basic congruence between a particular style of life and a specific (if, most often, implicit) metaphysical, and in so doing sustain each with the borrowed authority of the other.

Religion has marketed itself with cliches platitudes, truisms, banal slogans that works so well in advertising. The church has fought the modern world since the renaissance and Galileo. “The 13th century was good and leave us alone to rule in peace” .

Culture vs Civilization
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All humans have a culture, language, manners, social relationships, myths – except those raised by wolves – or as the saying goes for those without manners “were you raised in a barn?” I worked, a thousand times, with my children on how to hold a fork, the three words, please, thank you, I'm sorry. Manners taught by bears in childcare books on how to maintain their culture taught to me by my parents and their parents back in the mist of times lost. So they could have tea in the palace.

This is the legion on the birth of Civilization:
The fourth way:
http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Rumi#Teachings
Way of the monk (brown)
of the mystic (green)
of the magician - faker (red)

Fourth way of the sufi:
"According to this scheme the Qur'an has four levels of meaning corresponding to the four realms of existence [for as-Simnani: Lahut, Jabarut, Malakut and Nasut]. The exoteric dimension the Qur'an relates to the
Human Realm,
the esoteric level to the secrets of the Realm of Sovereignty,
the limit of the Qur'an to the Realm of Omnipotence,
and the point of ascent to the Realm of Divinity. " (Elias, TC, pg. 108)

Shahram Shiva asserts that "Rumi is able to verbalize the highly personal and often confusing world of personal growth and development in a very clear and direct fashion. He does not offend anyone, and he includes everyone. . . . Today Rumi's poems can be heard in churches, synagogues, Zen monasteries, as well as in the downtown New York art/performance/music scene. "

According to Professor Majid M. Naini,[64] "Rumi's life and transformation provide true testimony and proof that people of all religions and backgrounds can live together in peace and harmony. Rumi’s visions, words, and life teach us how to reach inner peace and happiness so we can finally stop the continual stream of hostility and hatred and achieve true global peace and harmony. ”

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It began thousands of years ago in monasteries high in the Hindu highland or Kush. Pāriyātra Parvata(Sanskrit: पारियात्र पर्वत) or Paropamisadae (Greek: Παροπαμισάδαι), is an 800 km (500 mi) long mountain range that stretches between central Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. The highest point in the Hindu Kush is Tirich Mir (7,708 m or 25,289 ft) in Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

The monks over the centuries, had developed a practice of enlightenment. This involved being free of the passions and attachments to self and becoming a part of the cosmos. They discovered this gave them powers over the elements of human life dependent on external reinforcements. Since they were free of social constraints they could do things, think things, make things, using the laws of the universe as practical possibilities.

The skills were grown by practices, a set of lessons somewhat similar to mystics and cults such as that founded by the Jesuits, being highly and clearly aware of the present, but not of the world, free of emotions, conscientious and unconscious. They developed a management and personal development training program, offered at ransom prices to the princes of the area. The graduates were very successful and kings and superiors came from all the way from China and Mesopotamia, Egypt and then went home and founded the ancient Civilizations. The rulers could become masters of Sufi propaganda and marketing still used in our time by Bernay. Propaganda Paperback
by Edward Bernays (Author) , Mark Crispin Miller (Introduction)
Crystallizing Public Opinion by Edward Bernays Paperback $10. 83
Propaganda Bernays・honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies. Noam Chomsky
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ”—Edward Bernays, Propaganda
To Sigmund Freud, Bernays was the brother of his wife, who used the deep psychology with tools that could be used to manipulate the libido and id of the masses, to the greater power of commercial and political interests that are the foundations of civilization.
Thus the difference between tribes, peoples, nations and “Civilizations” is that leaders in civilized cultures are not subject to mass traditional beliefs, but the other way around, they can manufacture and use traditions and magical thinking as tools of power.
Traditional leaders are representatives of ancient belief andcompletely bond up in history and superstitious magic and mythology. Thus the church is not civilized but a cult or tribe.
If it were not abortion, it would be other wing nut issues
Magic Science and Religion: And Other Essays, by Bronislaw Malinowski.
Selected, and with an Introduction by Robert Redfield
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Death and Rebirth of Seneca

Anthony Wallace
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 1, 2010 -
This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society -
When people in groups face serious changes in the paradigms they live by and are threaten in their essence that make a culture what it fundamentally is, and without which it loses its identity. The white southern men of the 都ilent majority・of the ongoing culture wars against lberals・and secularization, integration, feminism, the counter culture, the rise of scientific methods over the traditional authority of religion.
“You peasants can't handle the truth”

See The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879・880). http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor
As we are to deal with meaning, let us begin with a paradigm: viz. , that sacred symbols, the Geist that functions to synthesize a people's ethos--the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood --and their world view--the picture they have of the way things in sheer actuality are, their most comprehensive ideas of order. In religious belief and practice a group's ethos is rendered intellectually reasonable by being shown to represent a way of life ideally adapted to the actual state of affairs the world view describes, while the world view is rendered emotionally convincing by being presented as an image of an actual state of affairs peculiarly well-arranged to accommodate such a way of life.

This confrontation and mutual confirmation has two fundamental effects. On the one hand, it collectivizes moral and aesthetic preferences by depicting them as the imposed conditions of life implicit in a world with a particular structure, as mere common sense given the unalterable shape of reality. On the other, it supports these received beliefs about the world's body by invoking deeply felt moral and aesthetic sentiments as experiential evidence for their truth. Religious symbols formulate a basic congruence between a particular style of life and a specific (if, most often, implicit) metaphysical, and in so doing sustain each with the borrowed authority of the other.
Religion has marketed itself with cliches platitudes, truisms, banal slogans that works so well in advertising. The church has fought the modern world since the renaissance and Galileo. “The 13th century was good and leave us alone to rule in peace” .

Religion has marketed itself with cliches platitudes, truisms, banal slogans that works so well in advertising. The church has fought the modern world since the renaissance and Galileo. “The 13th century was good and leave us alone to rule in peace” .

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The natural human desire to find explanations underlies both science and magic. People like or need to find reasons for what is going on. Anthropologist found that tribes will use evidence and facts when they have them. They are very material and practical. They also have magical solutions to everyday problems when there are no better alternatives. Questions of weather, animal migration, disease and other natural phenomena are matters of life and death, so people want some control over these events. Magic gives them that sense of doing something and having an input into the process of life and death. All religions are based on faith and magic where performing certain ceremonies have powers of healing, rain making, even eternal salivation and the triumph over death. Gods and saints can give hope to the hopeless and direction, rules, order to civilizations. The claims are magical and hysterical calls to worship or patriotic emotions that underpin civic order. A spiritual and traditional sense of purpose, direction, order and meaning are required by humans to organize their societies.

If it were not abortion, it would be other wing nut issues
Magic Science and Religion: And Other Essays, by Bronislaw Malinowski.
Selected, and with an Introduction by Robert Redfield
http://scholar. google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=magic+science&btnG=

Death and Rebirth of Seneca

Anthony Wallace
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 1, 2010 -
This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society -
When people in groups face serious changes in the paradigms they live by and are threaten in their essence that make a culture what it fundamentally is, and without which it loses its identity. The white southern men of the silent majority・of the ongoing culture wars against 斗iberals・and secularization, integration, feminism, the counter culture, the rise of scientific methods over the traditional authority of religion.
“You peasants can't handle the truth”
Science, magic, superstition and finding answers:
https://sites.google.com/site/dynamicsynergyworkshop/
The natural human desire to find explanations underlies both science and magic. People like or need to find reasons for what is going on. Anthropologist found that tribes will use evidence and facts when they have them. They are very material and practical. They also have magical solutions to everyday problems when there are no better alternatives. Questions of weather, animal migration, disease and other natural phenomena are matters of life and death, so people want some control over these events. Magic gives them that sense of doing something and having an input into the process of lifer and death. All religions are based on faith and magic where performing certain ceremonies have powers of healing, rain making, even eternal salivation and the triumph over death. Gods and saints can give hope to the hopeless and direction, rules, order to civilizations. The claims are magical and hysterical calls to worship or patriotic emotions that underpin civic order. A spiritual and traditional sense of purpose, direction, order and meaning are required by humans to organize their societies.

Everyday the news reports give explaining reasons why the “market” has gone up or down. They sound like the market has purpose and intention. In fact no one knows why markets have day to day variations beyond there are more buyers or more sellers at a moment of time. Thousands of individuals and computer programs make thousands of individual choices partly based on what all the other actors are doing and making assumptions about the reasons behind these decisions. Except when there are great events most of the time there is a random element that defies explanation. Never the less some magical words are used to explain the unexplainable.

The desire to find purpose and intention in evolution and human existence is quite natural and also impossible. Disposing with the idea of an external, perhaps even supernatural, vitalizing force, describes how we have arrived at the picture of ourselves and all organisms as Self-Made Things. Our creations include governments, constitutions, institutions, magic, superstitions, ceremony, ritual, flag waving, songs, etc. Our gods are made by us not the other way around. They are made because we need them. They should not (but often do) become a Frankenstein.

So we have to take things for what they are. Social conventions, religious ceremony, national character, are useful and even necessary. They are NOT science or material facts. There are very important ideas and beliefs beyond or outside science – arts and literature, song and dance, mystery and magic, wonder and dreams – Santa Claus and the tooth fairy the lands of wonder and magic – the problem arises when belief systems make material judgments (stem cell research) outside theircompetence. Science can be arrogant about people’s useful and practical beliefs. (Alternative medicine). Science must support the moral and useful desire to do good works, spread truth and justice, equality and fairness which have no material meaning (you can’t find the stuff of kindness and measure it) or do these beliefs have a scientific basis.

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Paradigm shift

I first became clear about the concept of a quantitative and qualitative leaping change in thinking with a study of native American tribal cultures. The white Europeans said “take me to your leader” assuming a hierarchical structure with someone in charge. In native's community it just doesn't work that way, they have wise men, tribal elders who discussed everything until they reached consensus. Sometimes the Japanese do this which is slow but implementation is better and faster because they all know the goals, process, and expected outcomes. The idea of elections was problematical because it involved conflict and someone putting themselves forward as being better than someone else. Real leaders in-bodies the living containers of the culture, they are the law in so far it is inside and they reflect the customs and are preservers of the traditions of their forefathers in generations past. They are truly judicial conservatives living with the law as handed down to them. Traditions are the way of survival, where the knowledge helps find where game and is used when it works and answers “what does the weather patterns mean”. .

A second paradigm shift was with a understanding of Edward Deming quality control groups.
The core of the shift is that inspection, fixed procedures and rules, close supervision, only make things worse beyond rote activity. It is quality is not oddments hung on the tree but needs to grow from the roots.
". . . Robert Michels, a friend of Weber's, also was concerned about the
depersonalizing effect of bureaucracy. His views, formulated at the
beginning of this century, are still pertinent today.

The Iron Law of Oligarchy

"Michels (1911) came to the conclusion that the formal organization of
bureaucracies inevitably leads to oligarchy, under which organizations
originally idealistic and democratic eventually come to be dominated by a
small, self-serving group of people who achieved positions of power and
responsibility. This can occur in large organizations because it becomes
physically impossible for everyone to get together every time a decision
has to be made. Consequently, a small group is given the responsibility of
making decisions. Michels believed that the people in this group would
be come enthralled with their elite positions and more and more inclined to
make decisions that protect their power rather than represent the will of
the group they are supposed to serve. In effect Michels was saying that
bureaucracy and democracy do not mix. Despite any protestations and
promises that they would not become like all the rest, those placed in
positions of responsibility and power often come to believe that they too
are indispensable, and more knowledgeable than those they serve. As time
goes on, they become further removed from the rank and file. . .

http://www.spunk. org/texts/places/germany/sp000711. txt

University administration and professors, school professionals, labor unions, military industrial complex, law enforcement and security empires, congressional leadership, etc

They all are there to serve the public interests but end up taking care of their managers first - they can to Washington to do good and they end up doing very well.

"Bureaucracy happens. If bureaucracy happens, power rises. Power corrupts. "[3] Any large organization, Michels pointed out, has to create a bureaucracy in order to maintain its efficiency as it becomes larger—many decisions have to be made daily that cannot be made by large numbers of disorganized people. For the organization to function effectively, centralization has to occur and power will end up in the hands of a few. Those few—the oligarchy—will use all means necessary to preserve and further increase their power. [2][3]

Michels, Robert. 1915. Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy. Translated into English by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul. New York: The Free Press. From the 1911 German source.

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The origins of the TEA party - tribal traditions in fundamentalism and totalitarianism.

Civilization and Its Discontents Study Guide & Literature Essays . . .
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Civilization and Its Discontents, which Freud wrote in the summer of 1929,compares "civilized" and "savage" human lives in order to reflect upon the.
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22 quotes from Civilization and Its Discontents: 'Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility,
RE: Social Pathology, Alcohol (drugs), Violence, Witch Fear, Disunity - and the Great Revival -
(Wallace, Anthony F. C. ,The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca. )
and what is happening in the 21st century Western Civilization social stability:
What happens when a people face changes that require a paradigm hift?http://www.scoop. it/t/future-by-peter-e-pflaum
The old ways no long work. Old authority and belief systems are out of joint. Acompetitive new world order has a clear competitive advantage.

The Problem: Western countries are at acompetitive disadvantage to China, Korea and SE Asia. The high wage low skill jobs supported by cartels, protectionism and unions are gone or going. Technology replaces telephone operators, bank clerks, many manual workers, journalist by the internet and many others.

Democracy is not just the American Variety - or just in the house or senate - but centralized in China - The CCP personal system is very effective - leadership is placed and moved according to performance. Singapore shows how popular an efficient authoritarian can be. Technocrats are not motivated by getting re-elected as politicians who thereby fail to focus on the common welfare and the facts.
http://apo. org. au/research/accountable-authoritarianism-why-chinas-democratic-deficit-will-last

Democracy is capitalized in Singapore - radical ized in Venezuela, bureaucratized in Germany, institutionalized in Britain, popularized Egypt, theoractric ized in Iran, sect ized in Iraq, tribalized in Afghanistan, militarized in Egypt, Burma, demonized in Rome, machine ized in Chicago, etc. .
the overwhelming
majority of Americans, young and old, politically active and not,
including a great many people in public life and the mass media who
should know better, don't have a clue about what the framers of the
Constitution designed our system of government to do or why. NOT a democracy but a republic (no king or equivalent) The founding fathers,
including both the Revolutionary Generation and the framers of the
Constitution, were NOT democrats; they were republicans. "
The Analysis: the Seneca as a model of what happens. Some die from drink, (drugs) violence, some go mad, there is a outbreak of social pathology, doomsday and ghost cults flourish, and the culture sickens and dies.

The solutions (or policy that helps and does no harm) are in human resources. An intelligent educated population is key to everything. The national interest require that the educational budget greater than the defense budget. National collapse is a much greater threat than armed enemies, terrorists, immigration, the important national debt is in human resources and
infrastructure.

The ancient regime, kings and the Catholics church faced a systems change in the 18 th century. Under threat are Liberal individualism and capitalism,communism, (GM, IBM, Congress) the public school system, all could be the story of Louis XVI or the Seneca.

Or maybe there is a revival - a new spirit, a new vision from the new synthesis raising from the ashes. Literally a VISION of Handsome Lake. We say people should have vision -
but if they have a vision - they are maybe crazy.

The Six Nations of the Iroquois suffered every possible disaster. From the 1650's the white man had brought desires for material things, diseases, (natives had no resistance to European illness) wars, and destruction.

The confederation had for many years brought peace among the tribes and defended their territory. Their culture and religion provided a basis for understanding and dealing with their
environment and each other.

The Rebellion of the American Colonies ( The War for Independence) was a great and final disaster for these tribes.

They had fought (and in a way won) with the British and the Loyalist.

The British had protected their lands from the greed of the colonies. Now the new nation, bought, stole, or just took almost everything leaving them in "Slums in the Wilderness".

The population was cut by 75% from before thecoming of the white man.
The war had reduced their numbers by as much as 50%. more.

Their villages had been destroyed .
Thousands took refuge in Canada.
A people's way of life, customs, and beliefs form a paradigm. The Seneca "worldview" came from the myths of the great spirit. (The twins - good and evil)
The creation tale is told in the long house. A legion very similar to the story in Genesis.

They were a fiercely independent, democratic, cooperative, spiritual people.
The dream land sent messages to the tribe through visions.

They were knowledgeable about human manifest and latent desires. (page 61) Ondinnonk - is a secret desire of the soul manifested in dreams.
Life on the frontier was hard.
They had lost the old ways and their hunting grounds and didn't want to become "white men" and follow their ways. Men traditionally spent most of the summer hunting and raiding outside tribes. Women raised corn, swash, and other crops.
White men lived in fenced-in farms and men plowed with horses.
The men stayed home.

Seneca lived in family groups rather than in villages.
They lived in houses rather than in the longhouses (of about 50 maternally related people) and the white men were Christian.

Some natives wanted to learn the new ways, others to remain with Indian customs.
The social and political structure of the six tribes fell apart. (1782 - 1800)
The Iroquois took to drink and fighting, they were dirty, poor, suffered from self-hate and deeply doubted their place on earth. Their way of life had failed.

The social pathology was not limited to Indians. Isolated settlers also suffered from the loss of hope. While thousand of new people came and built farms, towns, roads, and a new civilization, thousands of others failed in the harsh test of the wilderness. Fire, flood, poor location, the wrong crops (European grains unsuited to the location) disease - Rum and violence - werecommon elements of the frontier experience. Indians also became dependent on welfare. (payments for tribal lands)

There was a crisis of VALUES and family breakdown.

Revival meeting were a powerful release.
The origins of the TEA party - tribal traditions in fundamentalism and totalitarianism.

Whereas tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs, so that individuals are unlikely to challenge traditions they believe to have a sacred or magical basis,

Lack of personal bonds, of strong family and clan relations, religious ceremony and rituals and traditions, the lack of conventional and legal tribal connections; creates estrangement, alienation and acrimony or apathy. Work and educational groups, social clubs, and civic activity is a weak substitute for primordial passions

One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism he attributes to personal isolation.

There must be a common theme in Western Civilization
not due to long standing systems faults
not due to leadership
but to global economics - the much greater returns to capital than labor
much higher entry levels skills required for a good living in come - much more than high school
the Asian market has many advantages - Western countries have many disadvantages- social overhead, high costs of not wonderful labor, regulations, health care costs, and unwarranted self satisfaction or hubris - he who rides a high horse. .
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/friedman-why-i-still-support-obamacare. html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0
unions had greater leverage. The result was a middle class built on something called a high-wage or a decent-wage medium-skilled job, and the benefits that went with it.

The proliferation of such jobs meant that many people could lead a middle-class lifestyle — with less education and more security — because they didn't have to compete so directly with either a computer or a machine that could do their jobs faster and better (by far the biggest source of job churn) or against an Indian or Chinese who would do their jobs cheaper. And by a middle-class lifestyle, I don’t mean just scraping by. I mean having status: enough money to buy a house, enjoy some leisure and offer your kids the opportunity to do better than you.

But thanks to the merger of globalization and the I. T. revolution that has unfolded over the last two decades — which is rapidly and radically transforming how knowledge and information are generated, disseminated and collaborated on to create value — “the high-wage, medium-skilled job is over,” says Stefanie Sanford, the chief of global policy and advocacy for the College Board. The only high-wage jobs that will support the kind of middle-class lifestyle of old will be high-skilled ones, requiring acommitment to rigorous education, adaptability and innovation, she added.

It is also Europe’s new reality. All over, established political forces are losing ground to politicians whom they scorn as fear-mongering populists. In France, according to a recent opinion poll, the far-right National Front has become the country’s most popular party. In other countries — Austria, Britain, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Finland and the Netherlands — disruptive upstart groups are on a roll.

Lack of personal bonds, strong family and clan relations, religious ceremony, rituals and traditions, the lack of conventional and legal tribal connections creates estrangement, alienation and acrimony or apathy. Work and educational groups, social clubs, and civic activity is a weak substitute for primordial passions


“History reminds us that high unemployment and wrong policies like austerity are an extremely poisonous cocktail,” said Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, a former Danish prime minister and a Social Democrat. “Populists are always there. In good times it is not easy for them to get votes, but in these bad times all their arguments, the easy solutions of populism and nationalism, are getting new ears and votes. ”

In some ways, this is Europe’s Tea Party movement — a grass-roots insurgency fired by resentment against a political class that many Europeans see as out of touch. The main difference, however, is that Europe’s populists want to strengthen, not shrink, government and see the welfare state as an integral part of their national identities.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/world/europe/right-wings-surge-in-europe-has-the-establishment-rattled. html?hp

now make the connection to:
Death and Rebirth of Seneca The story of Paradigm, gestalt death and rebirth
Anthony Wallace
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 1, 2010 -
Then Handsome Lake had his vision. A revival began. (but That's another story)