Month: January 2010

  • Conflict Is Perception

    Conflict Is Perception

    Most people see conflict as drama and feel it there moral duty to avoid it, but you can’t avoid conflict. You are very likely involved in more conflicts than you currently perceive. It’s only your perceptions that bother you. I’ve often had people comment on an interaction after the fact that they saw as a…

  • Understanding Conflict

    Understanding Conflict

    Conflict is not an easy thing to understand. If one can recognize that it is a matter of opinion, and that it isn’t necessary to agree. Most of the ways you get “wronged” are in fact not about you or your well being at all. I love a good debate. I have learned it is ok…

  • Choice In Conflict

    Choice In Conflict

    Let’s get a bit wild. Let’s say you have a haunting. How many of you follow this research? Ghost hunters anybody? I’m not a hunter, but I believe in them and I like shows about haunting though I sometimes question the accuracy. The accuracy is specious, but I’m just checking if we have a perceptual…

  • Third Option

    Third Option

    Perhaps more explanation of the third “win-win” option? That I can do. You have your ego, and your publicly perceived self. For most of us these two things don’t match up. Whenever someone comes into conflict with you, they are dealing with your “public image” which is actually more connected to your natural/physical presence. So…

  • Dealing With Conflict

    Dealing With Conflict

    One of the members of ‘One World, Many Paths’ seemed to use the group as a pulpit. He has very strong opinions. The funny thing is that he actually does know what he is talking about if you give it the test of time and let it play out. It’s just the way he comes across that…

  • Reality Checking In Conflict

    Reality Checking In Conflict

    I’ve noticed how some things I’m fine with, and others will drive me nuts, and I’ve wondered what’s the difference between them? The things you are fine with though you don’t know why, are consistent with your brains “reality checking” mechanism. All of our minds engage in this process. It’s a necessary behaviour for survival.…

  • Magical Insight

    Magical Insight

    The four states of matter themselves seem to exist in tension, seemingly destroying each other. But for water “destroying” fire (read “transform), there is no destruction. Destruction is not even possible. Now let’s apply this to impersonal conflict. Instinctively, we don’t make any choice for the purpose of destruction. The subconscious mind doesn’t even have…

  • Ways Of Acceptance

    Ways Of Acceptance

    People get very hung up on “who they are”, and protest the unfairness of others not realizing who they are. For some people getting angry is actually quite functional, for others it isn’t at all. But I ask you, are we entitled to dictate an ego to others and insist they accept it? (Ego =…

  • Hawaiian Story Time #1

    Hawaiian Story Time #1

    We are honored to have MaiLe Firehawk share her native Hawaiian culture. She shares tales of Hawaiian values of spirit, mind and body. Aloha, everyone… yes! Hawaiian Storytelling is back! Lehua, Storyteller is now Maile, Storyteller. And that is its own story. But, never mind, come one, come all. There will be an old favorite,…

  • Theory Of Archetypes

    Theory Of Archetypes

    Archetype is a modern word for a force that has always been present in life. Their legitimacy is still being debated, but there are some questions that find their answers in the theory of archetypes that have no answer in any other paradigm. Example, children are born with a section of their brain exclusively prepared…

  • Using Archetypes

    Using Archetypes

    To use archetypes, I’m thinking that by our conscious intention to impress upon them we can “change the world” potentially? Indeed, but it’s not really possible to “tag” an archetype. They won’t incorporate psychic graffiti. It’s more setting up a system of relating to the archetype. An example is the Navajo snake dance ceremony. All…

  • Practical Application Of Archetypes

    Practical Application Of Archetypes

    When you see that reality is made of the exact same symbolism as occurs in your dreams, you can begin to make decisions and choose behaviours that incorporate the power of this same symbolism. Behave in an intelligent and conscious way toward the content that is in your environment anyway. Now you might ask, what’s…

  • Sloth As Human Nature

    Sloth As Human Nature

    I intend to explore sloth as a facet of human nature, as well as its impact and other related issues. Sloth is defined as a disinclination toward doing any work, and it was and is still a recurrent phase in human behaviour, and one that society in general is still conditioned to believe is an…

  • All Is Available

    All Is Available

    Plato attributes the rise of misanthropy (hatred for humanity) first to trust of humanity. An inclination in the individual to see all human beings as entirely virtuous. Then as their faith in humanity proves untenable, they developed first the disconnection, then an active avoidance of human community. In a sense, this faith is sloth is…

  • Retrograde Meditation

    Retrograde Meditation

    Guided meditation for navigating mercury retrograde recorded on Reflection Island in Second Life. A planet is described as retrograde when it appears to be moving backwards through the zodiac. Mercury retrograde provides the opportunity to adjust our thoughts, attitudes and decisions and adjust our new direction. Mecury is thought and communication. Mercury retrograde is communication…

  • Acts Of Ego

    Acts Of Ego

    I have laughed in intense horror. I have laughed in incredible shame and pain. I came to this point because in my youth I spent a great deal of time in tears. I came to grieve so deeply that I could not grieve any further. I could not see my grief as real. I would…

  • Energetic Signatures

    Energetic Signatures

    I’m going to try to bring hauntings and related spirit world phenomena down to earth as much as possible. Hope I will succeed. First off, everyone know what the supposed cause of human thought or consciousness is? Scientifically, consciousness is a product of electrochemical processes in the brain induced by stimuli that are mostly also…

  • Spirit Phenomenon

    Spirit Phenomenon

    I’m thinking of an experience I had, and wondering if it was a haunting of some sort. I was doing a consult job and staying at a hotel. I brought a lot of work back to the hotel: calculator, medical records. I had everything on a table. Copious amounts of tape running from the calculator.…