There is religion [note]Wikipedia: Religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to the supernatural, to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values[/note] and there is religiousness. People of religion are fakes, pretenders, and not religious. [note]Religiousness is listening keenly to the call of the Universe… and heeding it, behaving and acting in harmony with all, all living and not living things. When you heed the written and dead word, you cannot be religious, because you yourself are not alive, you yourself are dead.[/note]

All religions were, originally, a world view, a world view, forever changing. As soon as more phenomenon was experienced, the more it changed. This is the true nature

With the start of the new Playground group two weeks ago I am beginning to learn yet another wrinkles in human culture? psyche? that I hadn’t encountered before.

Not accidentally, I think, the people with that different world view, different thinking, are from different cultures…

• Wrinkle #1: If my behavior makes me unhappy towards unpleasant or disagreeable things, what I need to do is change my behavior
• Wrinkle #2: If what I am saying and how I am saying it is not reality, not real, then I must change what I am saying, but still say the same
  

Dark Side Part 3

Showers, walks, drives are excellent times to feel, to allow things to come to you. A time or reflection, very meditative. It’s an emerging phenomenon, the mind is almost dormant.

I went for a walk this afternoon, and by not being busy, neither in body, nor in mind, I was able to observe that

1. The Dark Side cycles through 9 thoughts and 9 emotions.
2. You will get hooked by the ones you are pre-sensitized to.

For example, one of the emotions closely mimics heart pain moments before a he

Like with anything below the obvious (where most people live their lives, maybe even you?) you need to remove the top layer, to see the next one.

This is exactly what happened today.

I shared with a friend, that if I could figure out what was going on during the 19 days that the Dark Side seemingly stopped broadcasting, I would know more about the Dark Side. Obvious… right? Maybe enough to start countering their influence…

I hung up with the friend and published part one of the Dark Side post, and then, boom, I had a revelation.

I have been watching and reading the stories of Sherlock Holmes. Until a few days ago I had never read any of the stories. Probably because the movies I had seen glimpses of,

It’s Saturday and I cancelled all my engagements so I can have some time to clear my head

And then… this persistent inner weeping came up… again.

I asked Source: do I have a reason to grieve? yes. did I lose something? yes. was it ever mine? no. was it love? yes.

So I have been grieving over the loss of something that was never mine, that I never had… so I could not have lost it… and I am grieving nevertheless.

so I ask Source: is that stupid? yes… was the answer.

But what is really happening? I say: the feelings meditations are doing their work.

I had anger for decades… now I have the grief… and when it’s gone I’ll have maybe sadness… and when that i

Give your inner wisdom a chance to talk

I have been changing up what I do in my business to find… again… what works.

What do I mean ‘works’?

In business (but my hunch is everywhere in life) things work well for a while and then they don’t.

You may have noticed that when you start taking a supplement, it works like gangbusters. Or when you change your diet: often it makes dramatic improvement, for a little while.

Even carefully muscletested food lists work only for a little while.

Very very few things are able to keep up the dramatic improvement for a long time… and even then other things may spoil the pictu

The all or nothing attitude (Gentian)

Sometimes I wish I were some other teacher… and could write my articles, learn my lessons, without having to get into it, and wade myself through the much and the mire of an attitude, or situation.

But, maybe because I am an empath, this path is not available to me: I have to get dirty myself.

They say: fake it till you make it… but what people understand from it is not what the saying means. People make it mean: lie through your teeth, deceive people, create a pretense, a public persona, and the truth will follow.

I refuse to lie. So this article will tell you the raw truth, however painful it is, otherwise it won’t teach you anyth

It wasn’t always… It is getting worse… In my generation, in my country of origin… in my ethnicity it wasn’t predictable…

But America… it is. In California: it is. In the South: it is. In New York: it isn’t. In England: it isn’t. In South Africa: it isn’t. In Canada: it is.

What is it? What is that predictable thing?

Whenever I say anything that even hints on you not being perfect,

I have written about increasing your vocabulary, I have said it in coaching calls, I have been asking people to do what it takes, and the answer is… nothing. [note]Read this other article to see some of what I am talking about when I talk about vocabulary and languagese[/note]

One possible reason is that you don’t know what I mean.

I have two st