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Eurythmics – Thorn In My Side (Official Video)
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Monthly Archives: January 2018
Russell Brand & Tony Howard on The Tempest, Paul Robeson, Hamlet and The Tempest
“As you from sins would pardoned be,
Let your indulgence set me free.”
–Prospero’s final words from The Tempest
Russell Brand
Published on Jan 6, 2018
Is Shakespeare still at the heart of British culture? Tony Howard discusses Shakespeare’s continued relevance in reflecting the shifts in British society; the marginalisation of Black and Asian performers; and how the entertainment sector still faces urgent calls for greater diversity.
Unf*ck Yourself From The Modern World with my new book Recovery
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I’ve Been Buked and I’ve Been Scorned- Mahalia Jackson
KJ McRae
Published on Apr 26, 2015
Mahalia Jackson, March on Washington, August 28, 1963.
ALL RIGHTS TO CBS.
I’ve Been Buked
Mahalia Jackson
I’ve been buked and I’ve been scorned
I’ve been buked and I’ve been scorned
Children
I’ve been ‘buked and I’ve been scorned
Tryin’ to make this journey all alone
You may talk about me sure as you please
Talk about me sure as you please
Children, talk about me sure as you please
Your talk will never drive me down to my knees
Jesus died to set me free
Jesus died to set me free
Children Jesus died to set me free
Nailed to that cross on Calvary
I’ve Been Buked lyrics © Music Sales Corporation
Franz Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Four Pieces by the Mahavishnu Orchestra – From 1972
Recorded for BBC Television in the Paris Theatre, London, on August 25, 1972:
Program*:
“Meeting of the Spirits”
“You Know You Know”
“A Lotus on Irish Streams”
“The Noonward Race”
Personnel (The Mahavishnu Orchestra):
Guitars†, compositions: Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
Electric Violin: Jerry Goodman
Keyboards‡: Jan Hammer
Drums: Billy Cobham
Bass: Rick Laird
Remarks:
Back in the day, I thought these guys were about as good as it gets, and, even after all this time, I still think I was right. Though it was hard to know exactly what to make of them at first – the structures of the music were so different, the melodic ideas so original. Then there was the breathtaking virtuosity, as in: “Play that fast? I can’t even think that fast!”
When I came across this video a while back, it struck me as ideal for the BB. For readers who remember the Mahavishnu Orchestra, it will serve as a short and sweet reminder; for those to whom this music is new, it will provide a brief introduction. Plus, I find this to be a fine example of exactly what humans are capable of when they are sufficiently inspired and dedicated – and, of course, apply themselves with great discipline.
It is also worth noting that McLaughlin studied extensively with the Indian spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy, who gave McLaughlin the name Mahavishnu, signifying “…the Absolute which is beyond human comprehension and is beyond all attributes.”§
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* All four pieces performed here were originally issued on the Mahavishnu Orchestra’s first album, The Inner Mounting Flame. Note that the first two pieces are played continuously.
† The double-necked electric McLaughlin plays here is a Gibson EDS-1275, The acoustic is some kind of Ovation – hard to tell which model.
‡ Hammer was a pioneer of synthesizers , and here he plays a fairly early model of the Mini Moog. The electric piano is a Fender Rhodes. The brand of the baby grand is hidden from view.
§ Wikipedia entry on Mahavishnu, q. v.
Book: “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD”
Grand Central Publishing, Jan 9, 2018 – History – 416 pages
From Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, authors of the PEN Center USA award-winning Dallas 1963, comes a madcap narrative about Timothy Leary’s daring prison escape and run from the law.
On the moonlit evening of September 12, 1970, an ex-Harvard professor with a genius I.Q. studies a twelve-foot high fence topped with barbed wire. A few months earlier, Dr. Timothy Leary, the High Priest of LSD, had been running a gleeful campaign for California governor against Ronald Reagan. Now, Leary is six months into a ten-year prison sentence for the crime of possessing two marijuana cigarettes.Aided by the radical Weather Underground, Leary’s escape from prison is the counterculture’s union of “dope and dynamite,” aimed at sparking a revolution and overthrowing the government. Inside the Oval Office, President Richard Nixon drinks his way through sleepless nights as he expands the war in Vietnam and plots to unleash the United States government against his ever-expanding list of domestic enemies. Antiwar demonstrators are massing by the tens of thousands; homemade bombs are exploding everywhere; Black Panther leaders are threatening to burn down the White House; and all the while Nixon obsesses over tracking down Timothy Leary, whom he has branded “the most dangerous man in America.”
Based on freshly uncovered primary sources and new firsthand interviews, THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA is an American thriller that takes readers along for the gonzo ride of a lifetime. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon’s careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy Leary winds its way among homegrown radicals, European aristocrats, a Black Panther outpost in Algeria, an international arms dealer, hash-smuggling hippies from the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and secret agents on four continents, culminating in one of the trippiest journeys through the American counterculture.
How Astrology Took Over the Internet
By Amanda Hess (NYTimes.com)
I’m a Gemini, so I’m of two minds about the fact that astrology is suddenly trendy again. My curmudgeonly twin points out that astrology is fake. But my open-minded twin just downloaded a new horoscope app that solicited a few biographical details, indexed them with real-time NASA data, and then advised me to “get wasted and do something bad.” So who am I to argue with the wisdom of the universe?
That app is called Co-Star Astrology, and it’s one of a suite of new internet products rebranding the Zodiac for the digital set. Seemingly every cool-girl online brand — including Lenny, Bustle, Broadly, Girlboss and The Cut — features its own astrology column. An algorithm-powered subscription service, The Daily Hunch, offers personalized packages starting at $4.99 a month. Zodiac sign memes dominate Twitter, where popular accounts like @astrology serve “aesthetically pleasing astrology posts” and @poetastrologers rewrites horoscopes with literary flair. And a new set of internet-famous gurus are on the rise. Chani Nicholas — a kind of social-justice astrologer — has amassed a following with her chicly appointed newsletter, Twitter feed of self-help one-liners, and Instagram account where she shares empathic memes.
1st date
Gemini 1: Blah blah blah blah blah
Gemini 2: Blah! Blah blah blah? Blah!!!
As astrology has caught on, justifications for its rise have swirled. Maybe young people are turning away from religion, and woo woo spirituality is filling the gap. Or maybe the unpredictable results of the last election have encouraged us to throw out traditional scientific methods and look to the stars.
But I think the astrology boomlet owes as much to the dynamics of the modern internet as it does to any sort of cosmic significance about the millennial’s place in the universe. Astrology checks several boxes for viral-happy content: It provides an easy framework for endlessly personalized material, targets women and accesses ’90s nostalgia. It’s the cosmic BuzzFeed quiz.
Horoscopes have always been tailored to their audiences. Newspaper astrology columns used to offer different advice in papers catering to working- and middle-class readers, with middle-class horoscopes recommending spending more money, traveling more, and focusing more on their careers. (Both versions were feminized, encouraging readers to nurture others and avoid confrontation.) But these new online products advance the game by offering seemingly endless customizations. Co-Star bills itself as “hyper-personalized astrology,” serving “algorithmically-generated insights personalized to a degree unattainable elsewhere.” Its name implies that every user has a supporting role in the drama of the universe. And it works off the user’s natal chart, not their basic sign: When you sign up, you’re prompted to plug in the date, time and place you were born. (If you don’t know your exact time of birth, you’re directed to “text your mom.”) As The Daily Hunch puts it, “You’re one in 7 billion — not one in 12.”
Modern horoscope apps and columns are also fitted to satisfy up-to-the-minute psychological fixations. Co-Star has advised me to keep up my “rituals of self-care,” while Lenny has warned that the pressures of “the internet and commerce and politics and fashion and relationships” can “have a blinding effect on our third eye.” Other internet-savvy astrologers are explicitly branding their practices as tools of the #resistance, looking to planetary alignments to shed light on the machinations of the tax bill or Russian election meddling. And Ms. Nicholas has linked her astrology with other front-of-mind millennial preoccupations, like capitalism and the patriarchy.
TAKE NOTE: On the first day of #Saturn in Capricorn the #Republicans have gone against the people and push through their tax scam for the rich.
They are going down or we, the people, are.
Stand up and make your voice heard. #RESIST#TaxBill#TaxScamBill #GOPTaxScam
A lot of the updated signals are aesthetic ones. Old-school astrological images of constellations and line-drawn star signs have been replaced by pastel illustrations and mixed media collages. The dominant look is nostalgic but not staid. (Broadly has called the Co-Star interface, which features high-contrast black-and-white images of rocks and disembodied hands, “chic as hell.”) The rise of astrology, Instagrammable crystals and generalized coven-talk all evokes a throwback for ’90s kids, who grew up watching “The Craft” and playing with cardboard Hasbro Ouija boards at slumber parties.
All of this speaks to astrology’s return as a compelling content business as much as a traditional spiritual practice. The Daily Hunch was started by a former journalist, Steph Koyfman, and the occult-y internet brand The HoodWitch, which offers a set of “witch tips” along with its weekly horoscope, lists its business as eCommerce but also “visual storytelling.”
Astrology’s personalization tool can be applied to almost any subject. Broadly recently published a guide to Zodiac-informed weed consumption, with advice including “your ideal strains and what kind of highs to avoid.” (High Times, too, has a resident astrologer.) HelloGiggles offers 2018 beauty trends as predicted by your Zodiac sign. When Girlboss published an “astrology gift guide” this month, with personalized ideas for each sign, the site explained that “Astrology-based gifts scream ‘considered and magical,’ even if the relationship between said sun sign and said gift is tenuous.” At the very least, it’s “a sure sign that you know when their birthday is.”
It can be disquieting, and maybe a little dangerous, to see otherwise journalistic publications look to pseudoscience for answers. Astrology’s online uptake doesn’t feel too different, at times, than outright conspiracy theorizing. It risks becoming the free-spirited liberal equivalent of pushing aside facts inconvenient to one’s worldview as “fake news.” But reports of astrological acceptance rising among younger generations might overstate the case. You don’t have to actually believe in astrology to be into it. That position is best exemplified by the Twitter meme, “astrology is fake but.” As in, “Astrology is fake but there’s also a $200 rose gold trash can that I want, which is probably the most Leo thing ever.” “Astrology is fake but” is also the theme of a rollicking horoscope column on The Hairpin by Rosa Lyster.
Many successful modern astrologists adopt a wry distance to their subject matter, a departure from the sincere and anodyne advice of traditional newspaper astrologers. The Cut’s resident astrologer, Claire Comstock-Gay, goes by the kicky name “Madame Clairevoyant.” The poet and essayist Melissa Broder offers “Lennyscopes” on Lenny Letter, which read like a slyly sarcastic version of the Zodiac that undercut the practice even as they reinforce it. There’s a silly kind of pleasure to be taken in twisting scientific data points — birth dates, orbits, planetary alignments — into little morality plays about our inconsequential personal dramas.
The Daily Hunch addresses the issue head-on. A tab on its website, “Astrology Is Nonsense,” explains, “Physics isn’t happy with the idea that planets are meddling in our love affairs, and confirmation bias keeps us from being dissuaded when horoscopes miss the mark.” Instead, its founder, Ms. Koyfman, presents astrology as a way of filtering the world through a specific narrative. “This book deals primarily in archetypes. Those are literary devices, not scientific instruments,” she writes. “The story is cyclical like the seasons, and life, and your Netflix shame spirals.”
Crucially, the “story” astrologists are telling is now capable of unfolding at the pace of the internet. Twitter allows astrologers to push out updates to fans that keep pace with the news, and A.I. and machine learning can churn out predictions at speeds unmatched by flesh-and-blood astrologers. When I plugged my information into Co-Star, it came already stacked with two dozen “updates” charting my position relative to the stars. I learned that my moon is “conjunct to natal Venus,” which meant I should “spend time with friends” because I was “particularly magnetic” that day. Also, my Mars is “quincunx to natal Sun,” so I should “excavate and examine the person you really are” and also “take a break from social media if you can.”
It was good advice. I logged out of the app and never returned.
Amanda Hess is a David Carr Fellow. She writes about internet culture for the Arts section and contributes regularly to the New York Times Magazine. She has written for such publications as Slate, ESPN the Magazine, Elle and Pacific Standard.
A version of this article appears in print on , on Page C1 of the New York edition with the headline: Astrology’s Web Boom Was Always In the Stars. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
A Cage Fighter With a Soft Touch for Hard-Core Jihadists
Usman Raja, a burly 40-year-old and onetime pioneer of bare-knuckled mixed martial arts fighting, was back for a few rounds of sparring at his home gym in a town south of London. But before stepping into the ring he wanted to talk instead about his new vocation: the rehabilitation of Islamist militants.
“The biggest things these extremists get from it is community,” Mr. Raja said, ticking off the names of the convicted terrorists now working with him. “They treat each other with love and they hate everybody else.”
These are boom times for Mr. Raja’s new line of business. The retreat of the Islamic State from its last Syrian strongholds is raising alarms about militants returning home to Britain and the West, and the British government has enlisted Mr. Raja to work with at least 30 Islamic State returnees. Groups as far-flung as the Los Angeles Police Department and the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point have sought out his advice on how to deal with violent extremists.
That is part of the reason he was back at the gym. “I can’t lose my Spartan warrior reputation,” he said. “That is my legitimacy in the prisons.”
Over the last eight years, Mr. Raja and his group, the Unity Initiative, have helped reintegrate more than 50 released prisoners convicted of terrorism offenses. He has counseled more than 180 young Muslims to shun radicalization, all of them referred to him either by members of their communities or law enforcement. None, so far, has gone on to commit a terrorist act.
“Usman has taken on some of the most hard-core, extreme cases that the U.K. has to offer, and he has a very good success rate at getting them back into productive roles in society,” said Douglas Weeks, a scholar who studies radicalization and provides unpaid advice to the Unity Initiative.
Most other counter-extremism or rehabilitation programs try to argue militants out of their ideology, often by disputing interpretations of the Quran. Mr. Raja works the other way around. He forms personal relationships with the young men at risk, usually spending five to eight hours a week, one-on-one, with each, sometimes meeting five days a week. He builds their sense of engagement in a community, and then watches for the ideological or religious arguments to fall away.
“That is where the mixed martial arts come in,” Mr. Weeks said. “It gives him street cred, and a starting point to have some of these conversations.”
Mr. Raja might pass for one of the convicts he works with. He shaves his head, trims his thick beard back to his jawline and wears a braided leather cord close around his neck. A silver ring on his right hand is shaped like a talon, to double as a weapon.
He speaks in a thick East London-Cockney accent, and his words gush out in a jumble of enthusiasm, hopping from musings about the human condition to reflections on the history of Islam and anecdotes about the many jihadists he has known.
Like Ali Beheshti, a former top leader of a London-based extremist group, Al Muhajiroon. Mr. Beheshti once set fire to the house of a publisher who produced a novel about the Prophet Muhammad. That earned him four years in Belmarsh prison, which is where Mr. Raja first encountered him.
“Ali has a tattoo on his forearm that says, ‘Only God can judge me,’” Mr. Raja said. Most Muslims scholars say Islam forbids tattooing, but militants often pick and choose the scripture that fits their purpose.
Mr. Raja met with Mr. Beheshti five days a week for a year and a half, trained him in fighting and eventually brought him out to the gym to spar with a white British soldier.
“From Ali’s point of view, ‘This is one of the guys I have been preaching to kill for years,’” Mr. Raja recalled. But the soldier told Mr. Beheshti, “Congratulations, we are really proud of what you are doing.”
Now, Mr. Beheshti volunteers to help the Unity Initiative, although he is not yet ready to help out the police. “He is still street-respect oriented in that respect,” Mr. Raja said.
Wahabi Mohammed, who was convicted in 2005 of withholding information about his brother’s failed attempt to bomb the London Underground, said in an interview that when he was imprisoned he met with numerous counselors who tried to argue him out of his extremist convictions.
“I felt like a guinea pig,” he said. “I gave them two hours a visit, and it never went further than that.”
He had heard from other prisoners about Mr. Raja’s cage fighting before he met him. “In prison, it definitely helps,” Mr. Mohammed said. “It says: ‘I am not just somebody from a university. I am from the streets, my perspective comes from a valid experience.’”
So he was surprised to get a hug from Mr. Raja the moment they met, in 2010, in a room in the prison. “I wasn’t sure how to take it, but it felt nice,” Mr. Mohammed recalled.
They began talking as peers, about the shared problem of “how to be a Muslim, and how do you fit in the modern world?” Mr. Mohammed recalled.
Mr. Mohammed was released on probation in 2013 and now works in construction. He lives with his wife and five children in West London, and he, too, helps the Unity Initiative.
Mr. Raja is the son of Pakistani immigrants who had an arranged marriage in Britain when his mother was only 15. They were soon divorced, and Mr. Raja was raised by his single mother in a predominantly white, working-class town near the gym, in an area dominated by the British army base in Aldershot.
He learned his first lessons about fighting by brawling with the soldiers’ sons, who used racial slurs about Pakistanis. By the mid-1990s, Mr. Raja was making a name for himself as a fighter and trainer in the gyms of East London, and young British Muslims hoping to join the jihad against the Bosnian Serbs sought out his coaching. Mr. Raja thought about joining them but instead became a disciple of a Malaysian Muslim scholar who preached a more pluralistic and tolerant understanding of the faith.
The American-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000s furnished ample new material for jihadist preachers all over London, and Mr. Raja fell into a kind of voluntary social work. He mediated sectarian feuds, and befriended a small group of Kurdish immigrants who practiced what Mr. Raja called “gangsterized Islam,” justifying their street crimes by targeting non-Muslims. He tried to convince them that their faith required decency to all.
Mr. Raja’s street demeanor and liberal theology caught the attention of Quilliam, a counter-extremism group founded by British Muslims that was supported with millions in grants from the British government. He was hired to run outreach programs but quit after two years, finding the group too removed from the streets.
One evening in 2008 an officer from the Central Extremism Unit of the British police called to talk about Yassin Nassari, a British Syrian who had been convicted of terrorist plotting after being apprehended at Luton Airport with plans on his hard drive to build a rocket.
At that point, Mr. Nassari was up for parole, but he was refusing to talk to the government’s de-radicalization specialists. He had heard of Mr. Raja, however, from friends who had trained with him. He was the only one Mr. Nassari would work with, the officer said.
Mr. Raja started filing papers to create the Unity Initiative that night. He then immersed himself in Mr. Nassari’s life and trained him in mixed martial arts fighting. Mr. Nassari now works at a charity providing support for other Muslim ex-convicts.
Nine years after that call, Mr. Raja was climbing back into the ring again, in part to keep up his cage fighter mystique.
His sparring partner was Lyubo Kumbarov, a famed 33-year-old Bulgarian fighter and instructor. Within two seconds, he rammed his bullet-shaped head into the side of Mr. Raja’s neck, picked him up, spun him in the air like a top and threw him crashing down flat on his back.
“Make sure you note that Lyubo is a wrestling master,” Mr. Raja said, struggling to his feet and catching his breath.
Cosmic Intention Therapy – An Online Class
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COSMIC INTENTION THERAPY
Online Class Information
DATES: February 12, 19 and 26, 2018
TIMES: 5:00 – 7:00 pm Pacific Time
CLASS FEES: $75 – First time / $45 – Review
Use this link to REGISTER for the COSMIC INTENTION THERAPY – Online Class
WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE
- The Cosmic Intention Therapy Workbook
- Three 2-hour Cosmic Intention Therapy class sessions
- All Cosmic Intention Therapy lectures will be recorded and available to students for 6 months.
- Find Yourself and Live is a Group Dynamic study course that is offered (and inexpensively made available) to all students following the class.
- A 1-year membership in The Prosperos School of Ontology
- (Each class consists of approximately 60 minutes of lecture, 10-15 minutes of video, 20 minutes of practical application (such as writing or drawing exercises), and 15-20 minutes of open discussion.)
For you, who want to make your life better…
… the Cosmic Intention Therapy Class was first developed in 1969 by Thane Walker to help his students thoughtfully participate in the huge LEAP IN AWARENESS that clearly is upon us. “We have a culture with an advanced Star Wars technology AND a Stone Age emotional mentality!”, said E.O. Wilson, American biologist. Humanity is in trouble. There are old patterns (unconscious fear and aggression drives) that we each must move beyond.
There are also timeless principles of life that we need to understand and incorporate more consciously into our daily lives.
After WWII (1945) and the dropping of the first nuclear bomb, Thane believed that a new kind of human being was being born. This new human being did not carry as much of the ancient fear-aggression behavioral conditioning. In the 60s we saw the young people demanding that we MAKE LOVE NOT WAR! Thane called this new human being a “Protomutant”. Proto means “first in time” and mutant means “sudden variation”. The Protomutant, is a person of any age, who feels great disappointment with the world as it appears today. Political, religious, scientific leaders today are NOT able to sit down together, feel empathy for one another, discuss critically important world problems and together create solutions to benefit everyone. Leaders today spend their time blaming, criticizing and threatening each other rather than working together to solve problems.
The entire curriculum of The Prosperos School of Ontology provides each student with three essentials:
1) Knowledge of essential principles of LIFE
2) Experiences (classes, tape group activities (online and in person), annual assemblies, and more) that empower you to practice the essential principles of LIFE that you are learning
3) Creative opportunities that open your Heart and guide you in successfully making the necessary leap in awareness that is so essential to creating a livable future for us all.
Come explore how to approach personal as well as worldly problems as Evolutionary Drivers.
Learn how to see the changes going on in the world, and in yourself, from a COSMIC point of view.
Rollo May addresses the evolutionary leap we are all living in: “We are part of a culture that is dying in order that a new society may be born. This dying period is certainly no picnic for any sensitive person. While we have psychotherapists of all kinds trying to meet this need, for the most part, they are equipped only to patch people up. The breakdowns of our morals and family life are part of the radical change. If we can see this, then we can move ahead with courage. We must realize that we are building a future.”
CIT – SESSION #1 – February 12 – Historical Perspective of Evolution
In the first session (February 12), your teacher will provide a clear and convincing historical perspective about the previous leaps in awareness that humanity has already lived through and accomplished, beginning with the early pre-history of humanity. This long-range perspective will help you to understand better how we got to where we are today and also it provides clear evidence of what our role is in the evolution of consciousness.
You will explore and learn how the unconscious mind constructs our world view. You will also explore and learn that within you is the ability to solve our problems.
- We are living in a time of profound change.
- A new kind of human is evolving in us today.
- “We have Star Wars technology…and yet our emotions are still in the stone age.”
- We must be willing to break with the patterns of FEAR/AGGRESSION
- We must realize that the pattern of this new human is LOVE
- We must realize that we have a relationship with the Creative Force.
- We yearn to become all that we can become.
CIT – SESSION #2 – February 19 – Waking up to our True Identity as Consciousness
The ancient teachings taught that all suffering comes from ignorance of the Nature of Reality. When a person is ignorant of the Nature of Reality, he or she becomes easily poisoned by greed (needing to acquire more) and hatred (thinking others want your stuff). We are living in the era of Trump and Kim Jong un – both saber rattling with nuclear weapons. We must WAKE UP from our ignorance of the Nature of Reality (of principles and the orderly arrangement of the Universe, the deeper Truth within). We each must become more consciously aware that we are part of the COSMIC INTENTION. What is this? Agatha Christie says, “There is a brave new world, but only for special people – the lucky ones…the ones who carry the making of that world within them.” We are all lucky – when we WAKE UP and become aware of our responsibility in the evolution of Consciousness! We are all fortunate when we become consciously aware of our membership in what Barbara Marx Hubbard is calling “Generation One” – the first generation of humans who recognize that we have the power to destroy our planet OR to evolve into a higher understanding of our connected ONENESS.
This COSMIC INTENTION class offers insights and practices that you need now to help you become an effective agent for GOOD in the world.
The COSMIC INTENTION CLASS is a foundation class that clarifies the purpose and intent of the Teachings offered by The Prosperos School of Ontology. The Teachings are based upon the idea that our True Identity is NOT our ego (separate sense of self). Our True Identity is Awareness or Mind or Consciousness – the ability to think. Every little baby is born into this world as Awareness. As we grow up, we learn (from our family and community) the names for things that are in our awareness. But seldom are we taught or reminded that we are Awareness!
In simple terms, the Cosmic Intention is YOU becoming all that YOU can become in this life.
CIT – SESSION #3 – February 26 – A new kind of Leadership
Learn how to be a real leader! At one time in our history a pantheon of gods exhibited a complete range of attributes which somewhat successfully guided human behavior. In ancient Greece there were over 60 different gods, each with unique powers and patterns for people to admire and integrate into their own lives. Today our pantheon of gods is a list of celebrities (TV hosts, movie stars, politicians, business magnates, etc.) While gods are admired – leaders are responsible for some people. I am inviting you to explore “Self Leadership” and learn what shapes your unique Point of View. John Pratt, a scientist at the University of Michigan rates the failure of leadership as the third greatest threat to the survival of our civilization. The first greatest threat is a nuclear war; the second greatest threat is a worldwide plague.
Learn how to be a real leader!
“The nearest each one of us can come to god is by loving the Truth. If we don’t program the computer truthfully – with all the Truth, nothing but the Truth – we won’t get the answers that allow us to make it.” ~ Buckminster Fuller
In this Cosmic Intention Therapy Class you will experience a new understanding of the gods. Instead of seeing god and everyone else as outside of you, you will begin to see and feel god as an energy within you. Also, you will learn 4 Rules of Conduct, 10 steps to becoming a Teacher, 3 test questions to ask yourself for every serious endeavor, a few drawing exercises and much more. You will practice a variety of exercises in Self Observation. Learn how to succeed in your life with minimum effort.
COSMIC INTENTION THERAPY – Online Class
YOUR TEACHER: Heather C. Williams, High Watch Mentor
Here is Heather’s story: http://www.theprosperos.org/community/people/williams_h
BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT COSMIC INTENTION THERAPY – ONLINE CLASS
DATES: February 12, 19 and 26, 2018
TIMES: 5:00 – 7:00 pm Pacific Time
(Each class consists of approximately 60 minutes of lecture, 10-15 minutes of video, 20 minutes of practical application (such as writing or drawing exercises), and 15-20 minutes of open discussion.)
CLASS FEES: $75 – First time / $45 – Review
Use this link to REGISTER for the COSMIC INTENTION THERAPY – Online Class
WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE
- The Cosmic Intention Therapy Workbook
- Three 2-hour Cosmic Intention Therapy class sessions
- All Cosmic Intention Therapy lectures will be recorded and available to students for 6 months.
- Find Yourself and Live is a Group Dynamic study course that is offered (and inexpensively made available) to all students following the class.
- A 1-year membership in The Prosperos School of Ontology
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The Prosperos is a Community
Everyone needs the support of kindred spirits, especially when living in such a challenging time as we do today. The Prosperos is a community of very different individuals who share a common desire to evolve and re-identify as consciousness. As Carl Jung said, “Everything depends on the development of the consciousness.” When you take a Prosperos class, you’ll be able to participate in a private online social network created exclusively for participants in this course.
You are invited to attend monthly, free, online talks with Heather, titled: “Activate YOUR Creativity”! These take place on the second Sunday of every month. Just click this link at 11:00 am PST: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/523715789.
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Astrology Map for your 2018?
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