Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Eric Berne’s ego states are particularly helpful in looking at the operation I’m doing on myself. What Berne meant by “ego state,” I think, would be the same as what we mean by “states of consciousness.” “Ego’” here just means “I.” If I can adapt his terms, I grew up with a bad-parent ego state […]
I turned to enlightened Gestalt therapist John Enright to help me figure out how being right works. However I felt that some of the distinctions he made are so enjoyable and provocative that I decided to share them raw. John made it his his intention to find out what made Fritz Perls such a successful […]
This transition that I’m going through continues. It’s like a snowball – decades of slow work on vasanas and now gathering speed. I spent nearly six decades healing dissociation. Now I’m using a dissociative fantasy to provide leadership to myself, to assume command over myself. I’m imagining that “I” am an older brother (Big Steve) […]
I can see that I’m on a journey of recovery, as are so many of us. The lessons of the journey seem to be cumulative. The experience of gentleness recently opened a new door of experience for me but it was also the latest in many lessons over time that were showing me the tremendous […]
I felt wretched today – all my friends are away at the moment. I felt lonely, sad, forlorn. Then I wrote a stimulating article and found myself at the end of it saying “Yes!” I immediately saw that what was present in the situation as it existed at the moment was unconscious invalidation (Happy? “Not […]
With the announcement of the delegations and the closeness of the arrival of our star family (see here), the value goes up of continuing to process all unfinished business. All obstacles to the revealing of the always-already pure and innocent natural Self would best be removed. Our star family is already in a higher-dimensional consciousness; […]
(Concluded from Part 1, yesterday.) What’s being asked of us lightworkers is persistence, determination, valor. We’re asked to stay at our posts till the end. That calls on us to expand our estimates in all directions. The Company of Heaven has to watch what they say that they don’t let the air out of the […]
I mentioned some time ago that an occupational hazard of being a financial wayshower is that having wealth could multiply the impact of some vasanas or core issues. That could be for a variety of reasons. (1) The suppression button may be taken off. We now have complete permission to cut loose. (2) We have […]
I was walking along the Sea Wall in Vancouver, when I became aware that I was walking behind a smoker. Until this time I was experiencing love – consciously. I was breathing love up from my heart. Suddenly I found myself inhaling someone else’s smoke. And it was a vape device so the cloud of […]
I was about to write this to an editor, when I realized I was speaking more widely. “We need more and more writers given the task that lies ahead – and more and more of them, women. “It’ll have to be ‘training on the job.’ Everyone is invited to do whatever they can to help. […]
Rep. Elijah Cummings has made one of the most stirring, inspiring, and sensible commentaries following testimony that points to a pattern of … well, how can I avoid saying it? … criminal activity on President Trump’s part. Before turning to that, I’ve heard very few politicians who could reach the places that Cummings reaches – […]
As a result of seeing that “self-command” or “self-possession” included taking charge of my life, (1) I’m taking charge of one aspect of my life after another. Today I’m taking charge of my path. I saw for instance earlier today that my path had to be something that I can do anywhere. I was washing […]
I’m learning so much from exploring this commanding attitude of taking charge. A few months ago, will reasserted itself in the Humpty Dumpty Man. Now he’s taking charge. I see this as part of a radical reconstruction of my self. The prostate surgery had something to do with it as well, AAM told me. Watching […]
Reposted from April 2011. I’ve said on a number of occasions that, as far as I’m concerned, cleaning up our unfinished business is what we need to be doing these days and that one cannot clean up unfinished business unless it’s present. One cannot access an upset that’s not happening in the moment. So when […]
One of the awareness movement’s greatest contributions to us lies in the rich treasury of distinctions made about our ways of being. For example, here’s one from John Enright. According to him, we’re fairly predictable creatures. We follow a round of behavior which he called “the Wheel of Life.” Before I turn to John, I’m […]
