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Looks like I’m on a 2 week or so post schedule. I think I lost one along the way in a forced laptop shutdown. No worries. I guess you could say, that as a blogger who doesn’t get read, it doesn’t really matter how often I post. I think I said it best early on-“I’m looking at this as a way to externalize my life.” It’s also nice to be able to remember the events in my life that would otherwise slip past in memory.<\/p>\n

OK, so what’s happened the past 2 weeks-I went to Chicago for 2 days. My mother in law is in town. Went to a Touchables<\/a> show outside in Oregon City last night, picked up school and church friends at the airport Sat. Erika rearranged the kids’ rooms. Busy working-it’s tough going right now. Gamelan is good-we’re working on several Lou Harrison<\/a> pieces-I’m pretty solid on them, but I’m a pretty solid player and my parts aren’t that complicated. My job is to act as an anchor. Trying to get the boys into the school routine. Need to workout and do t’ai chi, move to the next inner development thing.<\/p>\n

The Chicago trip was too short-redeye Sunday, afternoon flight Tuesday. We got into Chicago at 5-I laid out in the lobby until 7ish, wandered around trying to find a breakfast place, ate, went to the office, worked. Meetings, then out drinking ’til 12. Up early, more meetings, plane ride home. Whew! Erika made me stay home from gamelan. Nice to meet everyone, though.<\/p>\n

The world spins as usual, and makes its journey around the sun, while the sun makes its journey around the galaxy. We are approaching fall, and school, and the time to move inward with the seasons. The Michael thought and filling the earth. Temperance is coming.<\/p>\n

In news, pray for the trapped Chilean miners-they have a long road ahead. The economy is in mixed territory, but only if you look at corps-it’s been in the tank for regular people all along and didn’t improve at all as the “economy” did. Then there’s the egg recall, the Glenn Beck rally and the Pakistani floods.<\/p>\n

I watched What the Bleep<\/a> on the plane ride back. Bleh. Fuzzy-headed crap. Fu*kin’ Ramtha BS. I like Marlee Matlin, though, so that was nice-though she did come off a little credulous. Some of the science was on-a skosh dated after 4 years, but it’s still Unity garbage that presupposes a bunch of inner development that the majority of people haven’t done and aren’t willing to expend the effort to do. 500 years from now, maybe. When you say “everything is one”, and “your thoughts create reality”-these are truisms, but unless you understand what lies behind, above, around and underneath that, they become dangerous concepts that lead to credulousness, egocentrism and lead you away from the work, among a host of other nasty side effects. This is why the Steiner work and program are much more effective-you have to do the work, gauge the results, and understand the limitations. The inner work should NEVER have a negative impact on your outer life, and you should NEVER talk about it with others, and you should ALWAYS keep your moral compass.<\/p>\n

Sh!t like Ramtha does-saying you’re channeling a 35,000 spirit that doesn’t incarnate, doing the cult thing, in it as a money-making proposition-no, no and no. Your path is incorrect, you’re misleading people. Lying is one of the bad things-you need to come clean. Chopping up interviews to support your viewpoint, no. The thing that tipped me off was the inclusion of Ramtha among a host of scientists-that made no sense. You really can’t link science and spirituality-you can use the method of scientific investigation in a spiritual context, but the 2 realms are too different to use the tools and materialistic focus of science. That way lies Ahriman.<\/p>\n

The problem is that this stuff fills a deep need in modern people to find a way to get back to a spiritual focus rather than a materialistic one. And the necessity to link the two-this just isn’t it. The problem is the inherent one in modern people-wanting to get the benefits of the work with actually having to struggle and make the effort required to get there. I’m lucky in that I’m motivated to do the work, and know that the journey is the goal. I’m also lucky to have some of these abilities already developed a little, and a good discerning nature, which is super important. Hopefully I can make some progress this lifetime and be able to teach others. I’d like to be able to make a living at it, but I’m not overly concerned about that.<\/p>\n

Listening to: <\/i>Rage Against The Machine, Brian Eno, AC\/DC, Brian Eno-David Byrne, Henry Wolff & Nancy Hennings, attack attack attack, Amethystium, Suicidal Tendencies, George Clinton, mystified, Vapors (off on random from the storage unit), Rush, Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Dephyer (why did I pull this crap off of Bill Nortman’s computer???), Roger Eno, Pere Ubu, Steve Roach, Marco Lucchi, Gentle Giant, Steve Roach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looks like I’m on a 2 week or so post schedule. I think I lost one along the way in a forced laptop shutdown. No worries. I guess you could say, that as a blogger who doesn’t get read, it doesn’t really matter how often I post. I think I said it best early on-“I’m … <\/p>\n

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