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Weekly Invitational Translation: Sometimes people and computers pretend to give you all the information you need to do something, but they don’t.
Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in the abstract” comparing and contrasting what seems to be truth with what you can syllogistically, axiomatically and mathematically (using word equations) prove is the truth. It is not an effort to change, alter or heal anything. It is a sort of prayer. It is a salute to the answer already arrived.
The claims in a Translation may seem outrageous, but they are always (or should always be) based on self-evident syllogistic reasoning. Here is one Translation from this week.
1) Truth is that which is so. That which is not truth is not so. Therefore Truth is all that is. Truth being all is therefore total, therefore complete, therefore whole, therefore missing nothing. I think therefore I am. Since I am and since Truth is all that is, therefore I, being, am Truth. Since I, being, am Truth, therefore I, being, have all the attributes of Truth. Therefore I, being, am total, complete, whole, missing nothing. Since I am mind (self-evident) and since I (being) am Truth, therefore Truth is Mind. (Two things being equal to a third thing are equal to each other.) Since Truth is Mind, therefore Mind has all the attributes of Truth. Therefore Mind is total, complete, whole, missing nothing.
2) Sometimes people and computers pretend to give you all the information you need to do something, but they don’t.
Word-tracking:
people: mortal
computer: to count, calculate, to figure out, to intend
pretend: to act as if, to lie, to prevaricate, to avoid honesty, to avoid the whole truth and nothing but the truth
prevaricate: to straddle the truth, to seem rather than to be
give: be forthcoming, to be direct
3) Truth being Mind cannot lack understanding or be stupid, therefore Truth is all-knowing and smart. Truth being all is therefore without limit, therefore infinite, therefore eternal, therefore immortal. People, being mortal, are therefore a lie about the immortality of Mind/Consciousness. Since to compute is to calculate and to calculate is to intend and since to intend implies a mind and since Truth is the only Mind in the Universe, therefore Truth is the only intention, the only computer. Truth being all that is, there is no way for Truth to obfuscate from Itself, therefore Truth is always open and direct. Since Truth is whole, complete and perfect, there is nothing that needs to be done, therefore Truth is the Finished Kingdom.
4) Truth is all-knowing and smart.
People, being mortal, are therefore a lie about the immortality of Mind/Consciousness.
Truth is the only intention, the only computer.
Truth is always open and direct.
Truth is the Finished Kingdom.
5) Truth is one smart Computer.
Weekly Invitational Translation Group invites your participation. If you would like to submit a Translation on any subject, feel free to send your weekly Translation to zonta1111@aol.com and we will anonymously post it on the Bathtub Bulletin on Friday.
For information about Translation or other Prosperos classes go to: https://www.theprosperos.org/teaching.
‘Emergency’ World Naked Bike Ride planned in response to troop deployment to Portland
KPTV FOX 12 | Local news, weather Portland, Oregon Oct 2, 2025 The World Naked Bike Ride is planning an “emergency ride” in response to the National Guard’s deployment in Portland.
Jane Goodall on Donald Trump
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How Finland continues its reign as the happiest country on Earth
October 2, 2025 (schwartzreport.net)
Author: Anna Grazulis
Source: CBS News
Publication Date: September 27, 2025 | 1:43 PM EDT
Link: How Finland continues its reign as the happiest country on Earth
Stephan:
As the United States is being taken apart, its democracy destroyed, its healthcare system and science and medical research being taken apart, I thought it might be useful to look at a country at the other end of the spectrum of nations. Finland year after year is assessed to be the happiness country in the world. Free healthcare, free high quality fact-based education, social policies based on fostering wellbeing for all people. Why can’t the United States do this? That I think is the key question to ask. And the answer it because America has become a country with only two social priorities: Greed and the quest for power.
Finland and the Boston Celtics have almost nothing in common besides one thing: The ability to win big, eight years in a row.
For the Celtics, it was eight consecutive NBA Championships from 1959 to 1966, a feat yet to be replicated. For Finland, it’s been topping World Happiness charts for the last eight years. The latter could be considered a bigger accomplishment during such uncertain times, but the mystery of Finland’s happiness eludes many, including the Finns themselves.
The World Happiness Report is an annual report published by the University of Oxford in partnership with Gallup and the United Nations.
“People were going to the survey and trying to figure out, what is wrong with the survey,” explained Frank Martela, a philosopher and professor.
Martela, who this year published “Stop Chasing Happiness: a pessimist’s guide to a good life,” believes the Finns were skeptical because of the way happiness is measured.
I guess like one key reason is what they are actually measuring in this World Happiness […]
The Hidden Power of Gratitude and Forgiveness
Why gratitude and forgiveness are more than virtues—they’re lifelines in love and life.
OCT 01, 2025 (WisdomSchool.com)
A recent study led by Chelom E. Leavitt and colleagues reveals something deeply hopeful about how we cope with loneliness in marriage: gratitude and forgiveness don’t just feel nice, they actually soften the blow.
The research, titled “Loneliness Within a Romantic Relationship: Do Gratitude and Forgiveness Moderate Between Loneliness and Relational and Sexual Well-Being?” used data from 1,614 newly married heterosexual couples and found that “both the husband’s and wife’s gratitude and forgiveness moderated the negative association between loneliness and relational well-being, but we found no moderation effect for sexual well-being.”
That finding matters beyond the confines of marriage.
Loneliness is a universal experience. It can exist in business settings, among friends, with family, even in one’s own inner life. There’s the loneliness of ambition unmet, the loneliness in a large crowd, the loneliness of being misunderstood, the loneliness that persists when we disconnect from our own deeper selves.
What this study shows is that the habits of gratitude and forgiveness shouldn’t just be reserved for spouses; they’re tools for life.
Gratitude lets us see what’s present rather than just what’s missing. When people are able to say “Thank you,” to notice effort or beauty or kindness, they shore up connection. When someone expresses appreciation even in small things, what often happens is that it reframes the narrative away from suffering and toward what is good.
In the study, wives who reported higher gratitude saw that the negative impact of their loneliness on relationship satisfaction was “less strong” than for those who reported less gratitude.
Forgiveness does something similar but with a different shape: it frees us from the burden of what has hurt us. When husbands or wives showed forgiveness toward their partners, even when lonely, the study showed the dip in relational satisfaction was less steep.
The pattern of “actor and partner effects” in the study means that one person’s capacity for gratitude or forgiveness doesn’t just help themselves, but also helps those around them. Not only does one’s own gratitude reduce the personal sting of loneliness, but one partner being forgiving can benefit the other’s sense of satisfaction.
In real life that means in workplaces, family dynamics, friendships: when one person practices forgiveness, or expresses gratitude, others in the system benefit.
Yet gratitude and forgiveness are not cure-alls. The study found that these virtues did not moderate the negative impact of loneliness on sexual harmony. That’s a reminder that some aspects of life are resistant to kindness alone; some wounds call for deeper repair, for honesty, for transformation beyond gratitude.
Likewise, in business, some conflicts require structural change; in families, some hurts need confession, accountability, or restoration beyond forgiveness alone.
Still what this research encourages is cultivating an inner muscle. Across all domains of life: at work, with friends, in parenting, in creative collaboration, in communities, it matters what we bring to the table with our hearts.
To believe that we always deserve perfection sets us up for suffering. To believe that others will always fully see us is a fragile hope. But if we choose to cultivate gratitude for what is, to forgive what wounds us, we change what we carry, and how we relate.
In business, gratitude might look like acknowledging unseen labor, crediting small contributions, or saying thanks for someone’s perseverance. Forgiveness might look like letting go of resentment when someone misses a target, or reconciling after a misunderstanding rather than holding a silent grudge.
In family and friendships, gratitude becomes noticing the small gestures, forgiving the missteps, letting love be bigger than error. And toward ourselves, gratitude for our strengths, forgiveness for our mistakes, with an awareness that healing is often slow can be a powerful formula for healing and resilience.
The lesson of Leavitt et al’s study is that loneliness doesn’t have to define the quality of our relationships; we aren’t powerless in its face.
Gratitude and forgiveness may not erase all pain, but they do buffer its effects. They make the terrain kinder, more resilient, and more human. In all parts of our lives, we can practice them.
And in that practice, we meet suffering not as victims but as creators of connection and meaning.
Hafiz on sacred ground
“This place where you are right now God has circled on a map for you.”
~ Hafiz
Khājeh Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (Persian: خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen nameHafez (حافظ Ḥāfeẓ lit. ’the memorizer’ or ‘the keeper’; 1325–1390) or Hafiz,[1] also known by his nickname lesān-al-ḡayb (‘the tongue of the unseen’),[2] was a Persianlyric poet[3][4] whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as one of the highest pinnacles of Persian literature. His works are often found in the homes of Persian speakers, who learn his poems by heart and use them as everyday proverbs and sayings. His life and poems have become the subjects of much analysis, commentary, and interpretation, influencing post-14th century Persian writing more than any other Persian author.[5][6]
A Students Experience At The Prosperos® Assembly 2025
By Calvin Harris H.W., M
It happened a few weeks back, yet every few days I find myself in conversation with someone who wants to know something about where I had gone, what I did, and for what reasons I would leave the desert to go anywhere.
You see I am of an age, that people are surprised when my routine is interrupted or that they haven’t seen me for a few days, or if I appear different in some way the next time, they see me. People seem to want to know “What’s Up”, which usually calls for a description of events and the more salacious the better.
Let me refill my coffee cup and see if I have my thoughts in order to tell you, …what’s that you say? Oh you will have to manufacture your own salaciousness to add to the story, I am not here to do that for you, you all have your own imaginations for goodness’ sake make up your own salacious scenarios.
Well to begin, let me say it was a full somatic sensory experience, beginning with 7am trip, that Thursday morning, to get me on a Train via the Palm Spring Airport to travel over to the Coast, and down to San Diego, California.
Once in San Diego it was a matter of hailing a cab to get me over to Shelter Island, which is a waterfront area in Point Loma, San Diego.
I am dropped off at the lobby entrance to the Island Palms Hotel complex. It is a welcoming Polynesian Tiki facade building reminiscent of Mid-Century Modern architecture. I call this property a ‘Hotel complex’ because there are three separate buildings here, each with unique style. The building which houses the room I will check into has California Mission Revival architecture.
A hotel employee in a golf cart drives me to my building, and upon opening the door I am surprised and delighted to find that my room is in fact not a room but an upgrade suite with a patio. This suite has a view that looked out on to the marina’s side of the island, and its walkway that stretched the length of the marina’s.
Due to several schedule changes, I arrived a day before the event began, and after all the travel on that first day, I am glad I had. This extra day allowed me to balance and recharge myself, giving me time to energize myself for what was to take place in the days to come.
It’s now afternoon, and I am really hungry, I returned to the main lobby building for lunch. The hotel has its restaurant in this main building, with its outdoor patio offering picturesque views of the marina. My sitting on that patio allowed me to survey my surroundings.
I find that Shelter Island is a manmade barrier island that was created by dredging some marshy flats and piling up the mud to make a long skinny “island” that parallels the shoreline of San Diego Harbor. My view from this patio is the backside of the island, that was dredged to contain water and create the marina’s. These marinas are filled with row, upon row of dinghies, small boats, and grand yachts moored on their docks.
You could say that being on Shelter Island was in a way like being in the middle of the waterfront action of the city’s waterways. The “front” side of the island faces San Diego Harbor, with the city skyline, away in the distance, while the sheltered “back” side of the island is filled with the marina crafts.
I returned to my room; put away my clothing; and opened the room to the sea air. I made a cup of herbal tea, and pulled a chair up to the dining table. I spread reports and my talks over the table to review for the upcoming meetings that will take place later that weekend.
I got up, stretched and open up the plantation shuttered windows to a view of people strolling on the path and across to the homes situated on the hill beyond. I enjoyed taking in these sites while eating the rest of my afternoon lunch and watching the sunset. I did a technique called Translation®, then got up, and moved into the bathroom for my evening self-care routes. Then into bed with my friend Lee Hollis book called “My father always finds corpses”, eyes now heavy, it’s light out and the surrender to sleep.
The next day, I awake 7:30 a.m., I get up, and walk the path that skirts the marina, heading to the hotel’s main building, I am enjoying the view of the lush flowering foliage adjacent to pathway. Then my real exercise for the day happens. It’s up the stairs, and then up the ramp, to the Restaurant above, by way of the pool area. Once on the restaurant patio, I am sipping coffee, and thinking to myself… that walk, then the stairs, and then the ramp, well, is just a little more exercise than I care to have…note to self, it is the golf cart from now on.
It now 8 a.m. the morning mist had dissipated, there is the fresh sent of sea air, and the panorama of the marina and blue sky. I found myself chatting with two of the other guests of the hotel, seated at the next table, about the beauty of the morning, a Husband and wife, who are regular seasonal guest at the hotel, and who after they ate, were going to their dinghy, that was anchored in the marina just in front of us.
We talked about how we enjoyed Humphrey’s by the Bay, the Hotel and Concerts space at the entrance to this island. We talked about the Jazz, and Musical performers seen at that venue, they mention seeing even Willey Nelson perform there. They asked me why I was at the Hotel, and I spoke to them about being here for the Prosperos® Assembly; the concept of Ontology; and the Prosperos® School. Our chat covered subjects like consciousness, the power of mind, AI and what is sentient existence.
Afterwards, the couple with a handshake, and a hug, departed for their dinghy and next I saw them, they were heading towards the jetty, and to the ocean beyond. I was acutely aware of the guest around me and in the pool below. From time to time, I’d glance down to the walkway and dock. I watched a seal, or the sandpiper or the pair of seagulls play in the shallow water of the marina below.
A striking man of 50 years old, with a lean muscle build looked up and waved at me, as he was running past with his dog bounding ahead on its leash, when all of a sudden, the pooch abruptly turned and plunged into the water for a quick swim. He emerged quickly, and jumped back onto the path, shaking water off everywhere, the dog looked very happy, and the man looked up again, as we laughed and he and the dog continued down the path.
I finished breakfast and my third cup of coffee and decided to go through to the lobby and request a golf cart take me back to my suite. I waited at the front entrance of the Hotel, that faced the grassy park area in front which extended the length of the island on this harbor side of the island. When just then a Naval Vessel engulfed the view as it passed on its way to sea.
On this island, just a ways beyond the Island Palms property was the Kona Kai Resort, a newer upscale property that boast of its manmade sandy beach, I was fortunate enough one evening to have dinner with Mara Pennell, H.W., M.. at their resort. My impression, other than the Kona Kai being newer, I felt it and the Island Palms both had the same vibe and feel about them, and that I was getting very good value for my dollars, in this older more rustic location.
One other vivid seaside experience that stands out to me, happened that Sunday afternoon during the break in Assembly activities.
A longtime friend Marco James and his partner, whom I have known for over 30 years, since our residence in Laguna Beach, CA. They had come by the hotel to whisk me away for appetizers and drinks. Marco is the owner and a grower of carnivorous and exotic plants in San Diego.
Knowing I was in town for just a short time, he felt he’d take the time to catch up on what we were doing.
They took me to the “C” Level Lounge about a mile or so from the Island Palms Hotel, on what is called the “Waterfront on Harbor Island”, also in Point Loma.
“C” Level was an eating complex, with a high-end restaurant, a relaxed outdoor/indoor Lounge, and a separate large banquet building as part of a duo with Island Prime. Now this Lounge was literally situated on stilts, on this man-made peninsula.
It has sweeping, panoramic views that include the Bay, the downtown San Diego skyline, and Coronado island. There was a slew of water activities in this part of the harbor. While we sipped, munched and talked, I enjoyed seeing a ships, sailboats, and a string of rowing teams go by, and in the distance the San Diego skyline as the sun had the buildings change color with its sunset decent.
All of this was truly a visually sensuous backdrop for the Assembly.
Friday Evening the Prosperos® Assembly began with a Reception, but throughout the day there were chance Meet and Greet’s each as students arrived mingled in the lobby or saw each other on the path to their rooms.
A “Live” Prosperos® Assembly, can present challenges if your goal is to be there. The student, who meets that goal, finds it most rewarding and that they are richer for the experience to connect/reconnect with the teachings and with love ones in deeper ways: to renew or make new friendship; to witness each other’s growth; and to support each other through our stories of challenge and sorrows. To take-in new insights. OR, To feel, as one student remarked, “I am home. “
I had not seen some of the students in more than 3 or 5 or 10 years, yet it felt like yesterday. When in a look, a word, a tone of voice, or a smile, done face to face, can stimulate the action of connections where the past and present merge.
Maureen Malanaphy H.W., a student from Hawaii, who had brought from her home garden, the sacred and versatile Hawaiian Ti leaves. It symbolizes protection, good luck, and purification, and is used in spiritual ceremonies. A Hawaiian Ti leave, she placed on each table, as well as on the podium and lectern. While this was occurring more of the students arrived into the room and you could hear conversations become livelier, and the laughter coming from the belly.
I found, through conversations with some students, new insights as to where they were in their journeys in life. Some sadness or disappointment was felt for those students missing, who were not able to come. Much was shared and exchanged in those few hours.
After that first night event, I get back to my room, and I am settling in for the evening, I took pause to reconsider one or two of the points I took away from my conversations that evening, and that I could cover in my talks in the coming days, to make them more relevant to the students in attendance.
That next morning, Saturday, I am up at 4:49 a.m… up, showered, with a cup of coffee and a half-eaten breakfast bar. I began typing the new points to my presentations that had come to me through last night’s conversations. I found getting up early, gave me a chance to also practice my talk for clarity to be ready with my presentations later that morning. By clarifying and practicing my talk early that morning, it afforded me the chance to take in and not miss out on the other speakers and what they came to present. Affording me the full value of the Assembly experience.
By 9:05 a.m., I had called for a golf cart pick-up and now was headed to the main building. I was sorry that the lift in the lobby was not working, since it meant maneuvering my walker through the pool area, up the inclined ramp to the second-floor restaurant and bar, and then on through to the meeting room beyond. The upside to all that was on my arrival in the meeting room, to my delight, there was coffee and pastries available, that I savored with every bite.
9:48 am the bell rang, and the Assembly began. A warm welcome was given by Mara Pennell H. W., m.
The Assembly began with reports on the yearly activity from the Prosperos® School’s Associations, the Prosperos® active Groups that are found on two Continents and three Countries. To highlight the accomplishments, value, and contributions these teams have made in keeping the School alive and active, while providing value to the Prosperos® Community, in the way of students and staff, to group activities that teach and encourage students to use Class Techniques and to engage in Group Centered functions.
First report from the Australia Study Group #2 which has been an ongoing group for several years; they had two reports given – One report, by Rick Thomas H.W.M about the closeness of that group given that it been over the internet, as a Zoom group. This Study Group has membership on two continents and in regions on three countries. Over the years, they have availed themselves of the use of The Prosperos® Library of Taped Workshop and Classes. A Second Report was delivered via, video recording by Student Bridget Stewart of Australia about the Groups future involvement with the class Cosmic Intention Therapy Revision Project taking place in 2026.
Hugh John Malanaphy H. W., M. followed with a report on the progress of the Dream Group, which is held over Zoom. Hugh John talked about the benefits of working with dreams. the growth that has occurred for members of the Dream Group within a safe environment in which members could speak freely about their dreams. As we move towards 2026, He invited students interested in joining the group to contact him for more information and enrollment eligibility.
Hanz Bolen, H.W., M, mentioned the work of the Northwest Study Group with Mike Zonta H.W., M, Melissa Derfler H.W.,M, Hanz Bolen, H.W.,M, and Richard Branam.
High Watch Mentors Report followed, prepared by Sara Walker H. W., (who through hospitalized and now recuperation) was not able to attend the Assembly.
Her report was presented by Mara Pennell H. W., m.
The High Watch report consisted of information on the number of request for the Translations® technique, through the H.W. Translation Service, The number received and worked on by Translators, as well as follow-ups on request, and concluding correspondence. In Sara’s report, she discussed her coming to a deeper understanding of the challenges of planning and preparation of an Assembly and an appreciation of those who came before her who made it look easy. This was followed by applause and gratitude for Sara’s work. Her report included names of her Assembly Team members, as well as her mention of thanks to all the various other student volunteers that helped make the event happen.
A New High Watch member was presented to the Prosperos® this Assembly, the Executive Council, had bestowed upon Alana Fennie all the rights and responsibilities of the H. W. degree. Applause and congratulations were given to Alana.
Mentors Association Report was by Calvin Harris, H. W.,M – He reminded people the life of the School is its Students and thus the Associations Key focus is the development through workshops on learning environment, that teach or improve on staff development of teachers, counselors, and writers in community engagement.
He hinted at the introduction of new workshop learning in 2026.
No New Mentor was announced by the Executive Council this year. But the Mentors Association has had activity this year spear-headed by the team of interning Mentor Mara Pennell H. W., m. and Pam Rodolph H. W.,M. in their endeavors of developing a Mid-West Center of activities.
The Central West Project Report was next presented by Mara Pennell H. W., M., that highlighted the work she and Pam Rodolph H. W., M. has done in developing the Mid-West States activities in 2025. Mara report Live Presentations of Translation® and Releasing the Hidden Splendor© were presented in Tulsa Oklahoma. Online Zoom workshops were presented for both techniques. Mara reported that two student get-together Dinner’s had been scheduled for the students, in efforts to develop monthly community actives. Plans are being finalized for a 2026 -Find Yourself and Live tape group; as well as 2026 Live Presentations of Translation and Releasing the Hidden Splendor classes and workshops.
Hugh John Malanaphy H. W., M reported next on the Membership Project and the Students Membership Portal explaining the advantages and ease of use of the portal both for the students and in the Schools record keeping. A way to more effectively add more value to the students learning experience.
A break was taken and when group reconvened.
Calvin Harris H.W., M – was introduced and he presented the first talk of the day. The talk title: “Living in a Time of Transition.”
This was “Part 1” of a two-part presentation. This portion of Calvin’s talk was about living in the midst of cataclysmic changes and that this weekend, we give ourselves permission, the space and the time to explore what’s behind the upheaval of our times.
He suggests it is caused by the evolving “Evolution of Consciousness.” Mankind believes there are two paths open to living this journey of life. He gives a description of the two paths. He moves on to cultural changes, life speeding up and that AI is just one representation of the changes taking place. People are fearful of change, but that we do not want to give ourselves over to fear, but instead take responsibility, that is the ability to respond and align with the Truth behind appearances. That the Prosperos® School of Ontology since its inception is about the ethical alignment of the psychological, physical, and emotional elements of our Conscious Somatic (physical/emotional) Expression, regarding the Ontological reality behind the universe of time, space, and change, and our fundamental and changeless reality.
The question he poses is what path will you choose or will the path, through someone else’s ethical or inhumane programing become yours?
The need now is not fear, but the responsibility we have today towards the clean-up of unconscious negative habits, emotional baggage , thinking and triggers. This can be accomplished through consistent use of Translation® and Releasing the Hidden Splendor©.
Homo-sapiens are coming into a new sense of identity about themselves, moving from a previous state of earthbound material human to a new state of flow in understanding itself as Consciousness. That Translation and RHS are the tools to not only be able to live but to thrive in this time of transition. Understanding ourselves as individuations of consciousness, each with our unique voice to be heard.
Calvin hinted at the second part of his talk, which was Communities working in the truest sense of Group Dynamics and Creative Problem Solving will help to keep you on the leading edge of advancement and in alignment in this Era of the Information Age as we prepare for the evolutionary jump into the Age of Consciousness.
He ended his presentation by reminding each of us, of our uniqueness by mouthing the words, that lead him to sing the words from a Carpenters song called “Sing” and then having everyone join in song with him.
Alana Fennie H. W. presented next, a light-hearted and energic look at Words. with her talk titled “The Play of Words; The Poetry of You.” Alana reminded us that we are all products of a world-built world. And the importance of looking closer at the words we use.
She gave examples such as:
“I and the father are one.” Meaning we are the Source.
“Dominion” referring to sovereign power meaning internal beingness.
She delved into Lateral metaphors as a technique within lateral thinking, using a comparison to familiar concepts to reframe an idea and force a new, innovative perspective by avoiding established patterns of thought as a way to play with words.
She then hinted at concepts of astrological energies and alignments that would be happening soon, and our freedom to play with or have word play, with the possible effects. She expressed more information about these astrological energies and alignments would be discussed in a talk by Anne Bollman H. W., M. occurring the next day.
Something happened between the space of time that the song “Sing” ended and Alana’s presentation on giving permission to play with words because towards the end of Alana’s talk, a student, who for weeks was dealing with a difficult decision to let something go, had a personal insight. It caused the student to spontaneously stand up and emotionally speak the words “I’m Free… I have Freedom from my situation.” Tears of joy falling onto her cheeks, as other students in proximity, go to her, having her feel She was supported. Everyone was affected and processed the scene in their unique ways. A feeling for me was, that we are all here as one, all connected in this space now…to free ourselves from what holds us back.
A break was called. When we returned
William Fennie H. W., M. Dean, was next to present “Cosmic Intention Therapy® (CIT) Revised Part1.” Which was in effect was lesson three of Thane’s original teaching notes of CIT.
William’s aim, I believe, was to give an update version of the material with extracted jargon found in its original 1980’s presentations. He pointed out that the State of the world has changed, and so is the unfolding of infinite mind. The concept of the proto-mutant has become a generational adaptation archetype to the destruction of outworn constructs of the previous generation. We want to be cognizant during these times of change, to not throw (principal), the baby out with the bathwater ( misinformation and misrepresentation) as we address successive generations.
The Proto-mutant’s of today, their challenge is Social Issues, information overload, and Hyper Sexualization having consequences of un-achievability or confusion with notions of what being connected is, sexuality; and manhood, especially for young males.
The importance of choosing accurate source material. Especially when creating the story we tell ourselves about who we are and the way things are.
With the Atom Boom came a reconsideration of identity and beliefs as to what is material and what is non-dimensional, abstract, and conceptual. That would include the concept of male and female attributes within each person as not being one or the other, not separate but as a merge of power that is creative energy within each one of us.
Privacy is a myth.
Willaim ended with, we needed to understand mankind is not earthbound but a participant in Universal Minds intention which when understood properly can bring a great peace and everything becomes beautiful.
A break was called. When we returned
Rick Thomas, H.W., M, was our last speaker of the day. His subject was “Honoring Emotions in RHS.”
Rick began his presentation with a breathing exercise to help us connect with our soma and beingness.
He then discussed the value of embracing our full array of emotions, not only those that are socially acceptable. He spoke about the necessity to get in touch with those emotions that have been suppressed or denied. By using a healing method of taking these hampered emotions into the love of your heart. He led us through a guided meditation to that. He suggested practicing this on a regular basis.
He stated that there may be an avoidance to this because we live in a “comfort culture”, and we avoid discomfort where we can. He reminds us that through Translation® , we know that discomfort is a lie about comfort.
He reminded us that we learn from all of our emotions and by getting in touch with them we can learn emotional intelligence. Rick then open the floor up for questions & answers which concluded his presentation.
We broke for Dinner,
It was a lovely evening in San Diego and many enjoyed each other’s company in stories at the Hotel’s Restaurant.
After Dinner, a Closed meeting of those in attendance at Assembly convened under the Title of High Watch Convocation this turned out to be an opportunity for students to speak freely, in an open forum about how they felt about the School, or concerns they may have about it function or functioning. Because of the nature of the meeting, I will not say much, but my observations I can share is this, and I believe it was helpful for some people to hear themselves say out loud what they were feeling, and for others it was healing, and for still others it showed them where they needed to do some introspective work.
It had been a full day of activity, I went to my suite, ponder the day, prepare for bed, and fell quickly asleep, grateful for such a full day.
It’s 5:15 a.m. I’m up, but only in my underwear, as I prepare the in-room pod coffee, to go along with some muesli type granola bar. I sit at the table and go over my talk for the day, even making sure I have the right music tracks to give to Sarkis Balayan to play. Sarkis is acting as the sound engineer for this Assembly. He has even brought the sound system with him, producing a much-appreciated upgrade level of sound quality to our Assembly experience.
It’s 9:30a.m. and where has the time gone? I am showered, gotten dress, Pulled my notes together and am on the golf cart to the Lobby. To my disappointment there are no pastries in the room, but with the Restaurant across the way I can order coffee and a pastry.
9:40 a.m. with most of the student in the room, the bell is rung and we begin.
Mara Pennell does the Morning Greeting, makes announcements and does the roll call.
Mara is our next presenter, she asked Janet Cornwell H.W.,m. to come join her on the riser in the front of the room.
Together they re-enact Bob Newhart’s, Humorous sketch about a psychiatrist with his patients complaints, and the iconic response all mental health providers at one time or another wish they could say: “STOP IT.” This was from the MAD TV show, 2001 (Season 6) episod, called STOP IT.
This also happened to be the name of Mara’s talk. “Stop It” . We know this phrase is a command or request for someone to cease an action, often one that is annoying, bothersome, or harmful. It literally means to cease immediately, from doing something.
Mara’s points to her talk was
To recognize that we do stuff that is on an automatic loop.
Let’s pay attention to what we are doing/saying. Find the triggers for those actions, RHS them, and STOP IT!
Calvin was the next speaker up. This presentation was the 2nd Part of Living in a Time of Transition.
He pointed out that the Key to all of this was Identity. Understanding what Existence is.
Understanding we are sentient beings in a Somatic Conscious form called homo-sapien. That Consciousness animates the awareness and knowing of experiences; of having subjective feeling, such as pain, pleasure, joy and distress; centered around critical, creative, and analytical thinking skills.
Key traits include curiosity, objectivity, analytical skills, intellectual humility, self-awareness (introspection), open-mindedness, persistence, and strong communication abilities;
Human Consciousness reasons in time – past, present, and future; and can due abstract reasoning and calculations.
A Human who is self-absorbed within themself, creates a life path that contains isolation, fear, and hopelessness. But just like the song “old man river” there is another path, based on an older Truth – a choice, that is for a life being alive and thriving in the flow of all life, and that it keeps on moving along, weather it is recognize or not.
In other words, the self of an individual, the consciousness of the individual works best in relationship to what is in all life.
We live by the knowledge of the relationship to the “other”, generally referred to as other people. It is in relationships that we get to know who we are, what we think, and what we advocate when we are relating with others and vise-versa. It is in the interacting of each other’s stories that we grow and become intelligible to ourselves.
Group Dynamics help keep you on the leading edge and in alignment in this Era of the Information Age as we make the step forward for the evolutionary jump into the Age of Consciousness. Which will be seen as co-creative, intelligence, and the merge and flow between person to person and personalized dialogues; machine and human learning, that unlearns, reformulates, adapts, Listens, and evolves.
Homo-sapiens work best in community, interaction, and engagement, where curiosity in challenges and work is turned to fun, and curiosity is foremost in the alchemy of the alignment of the mind / emotional balance, which is maintain best through the application of Translation and RHS.
Otherwise we find ourselves in a world where we consume more and more but do not apply what we learn and thus enjoy less and less lashing out in fear and from isolation… part of our unlearning process is in the action of expressing what we have uncovered about ourselves. That we are all Consciousness’ which is interconnected with all beings in sentient flow of shared experience called Conscious existence. What most people don’t realize is that their outcome is tied to their input. For Consciousness and matter are intertwined. The Universee itself responds to human thought. Call it quantum entanglement.
We must understand that a shift from the industrial work age has happened, from an economy centered on labor to one of information technology.
Recognize it or not, we are in a new age, called Information Age, or Digital Age. This concept of AI, is an indication of something larger, pointing a finger at something larger.
What we now know is that the speed of Light is no longer the fastest speed in the Universe, The fastest thing in the Universe, is the Expanding Universe, finding and knowing itself, more and more. Universal Consciousness knowing itself as all there is, more and more.
When we step into the flow of consciousness in all that we do, our alignment then is with all life. Translation® and RHS will show you how to think and feel through everything deeply.
We need to see more clearly and act more bravely as we move into the Age of Mind Power. So if you are ready to take your spiritual practice to the next level= beyond where people can barely breathe because of fear, when everyone else is in the world is fight, flight, or fawn then join me in the fun/work concept of the Prosperos School, of unlearning materiality through classes, and community all designed to keep you keep on the cutting edge of your future.
We took a Lunch Break
After the Break was Anne Bollman H. W,. M. talk on The Saturn-Neptune conjunction in Aries– The Evolutionary Change We Can Expect.”
The Saturn-Neptune conjunction is an astrological event where these two planets align closely, approximately every 36 years in a formation involving a causal effect in relationship to a third planet. The next exact conjunction occurs in Aries, in February 2026. To put this in historic context, The last conjunction was in 1989, in Sagittarius, that coincided with significant global shifts, including the end of the Cold War and major revolutions.
Anne in her talk went over the historic chronological order of these critical cross-cycle planetary relationships were, what resulted happen during, and/or in their aftermath.
This rare event, this go-round signifies another major shift or “cosmic restart” for humanity, prompting some type of integration or degeneration of spiritual ideals along with social/political realities.
This current Saturn-Neptune conjunction happening in Aries will display archetypal energies such as
Saturn, representing structure and responsibility,
Neptune, representing dreams and illusion,
Align in the sign of Aries, representing action and new beginnings.
This combination brings themes of ambitious but potentially confusing inspiration. This creates a Blur of Reality: The conjunction may blur the lines between what is truly possible and what is merely a dream, leading to situations where taking action might feel difficult without clear vision affecting collective identities and individual purpose.
Anne also asked us to ponder what is symbolized by the Aquarian (age) drive, that brings into focus technology, innovation, and progressive new ideas that will also change the future as we have known it.
Break time
Followed by our last speaker of the day, William Fennie, with part two of Cosmic Intention Therapy Revised.
William began by doing something completely out of character for him, and that was to parody one of Peggy Lee’s old standard songs. It brought humor and laughs to the group and signaled a change in what we were about to hear.
William talk is on the revision of lesson 8 of CIT. He goes over what was called the Rules of Conduct for a good life and it entailed such ideas as – Energy out equal energy in; Quality of Output equals quality of input; Rules of ultimate Purpose; Recognize and display patterns of Love; If you want to stop hurting, then stop hurting others; To see Truth, you must face it naked; To Grow you must help others; Give what is needed; Live a good rich life; Learn to tell the Truth; Learn to communicate; Demonstrate Love; Show respect to all; Clarify your understanding; and You will experience reality. Develop yourself in such a way that you bring people to you by pleasing others;
William talked about the quality of your Energy; Doing a Check-up on your levels of energy when applied to your Purpose; Love; Beauty; and of course the energy level in your Persistence in what you are doing.
William pointed out that we are all Teachers in one way or another; To make sure the Bill is Paid (not only monetary but in all that you owe); The importance in creating benefits not only for yourself, but also for others.
He emphasized that all of this was having to do with experience and alignment with reality.
That Sunday Evening, was the celebratory Banquet event, with its food, wine, and dance. A time to recognize new achievement such as Alana in receiving High Watch designation, Mara her Road Runner designation, A Special honor to Rick Thomas.
Of course the gratitude for those who put in the work:
Assembly Team Sara Walker, H.W.,m.; Anne Bollman, H.W., M.; Janet Cornwell, H.W., m.; Richard Hartnett, H.W., M.; and John Atwater H.W.
Planning: William Fennie, H.W.,M.; Mara Pennell, H.W.,m.
Audio/Visual: Sarkis Balayan; MC: Greta Balayan; Flowers and Leis: Maureen Malanaphy, H.W.,M
A Big Thank You went to all of our Speakers and Presenters and a Special thank you to our Registrar: Janet Cornwell, H.W.,m. who handled the book table and registration desk single handedly all four days.
The Banquet for many can be a bitter / sweet moment, knowing that we will be leaving The next day.
The highlight of the evening came after the meal, awards and salutations. It was the entertainment which was in the form of first Sarkis Balayan playing the accordion followed by Greta Balayan joining him on the floor to dance a traditional European folk dance, followed by her cutting loose in wild abandonment, and bring up a group to dance with her in free form dance style.
Like the Song One last aloha and then it time to say good-bye, The after-banquet hugs, filled with alohas love and hugs as we moved out of the banquet room and towards our quarters. Back in my suite there was so much to think about that had happened over these last few days, finally I settled down and went to sleep.
Next morning it was time to pack and get ready for our last sessions all I can remember about that last day was the joy I felt being with the Prosperos® Family. The final stories we told to each other, the hugs, the laughs and the picking up of the Hawaiian ti leaves that Maureen Malanaphy had graced our meeting room with that we now take back to our own homes as a remembrance of this Assembly 2025 weekend.
Aloha, A hui hou kākou
Calvin
Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation
By Maria Popova (themarginalian.org)
Every act of communication is an act of tremendous courage in which we give ourselves over to two parallel possibilities: the possibility of planting into another mind a seed sprouted in ours and watching it blossom into a breathtaking flower of mutual understanding; and the possibility of being wholly misunderstood, reduced to a withering weed. Candor and clarity go a long way in fertilizing the soil, but in the end there is always a degree of unpredictability in the climate of communication — even the warmest intention can be met with frost. Yet something impels us to hold these possibilities in both hands and go on surrendering to the beauty and terror of conversation, that ancient and abiding human gift. And the most magical thing, the most sacred thing, is that whichever the outcome, we end up having transformed one another in this vulnerable-making process of speaking and listening.
Why and how we do that is what Ursula K. Le Guin (October 21, 1929–January 22, 2018) explores in a magnificent piece titled “Telling Is Listening” found in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (public library), which also gave us her spectacular meditations on being a man and what beauty really means.
Ursula K. Le Guin by Benjamin Reed
In the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut’s diagrams of the shapes of stories, Le Guin argues that “our ruling concept of communication is a mechanical model,” which she illustrates thusly:
She explains:
Box A and box B are connected by a tube. Box A contains a unit of information. Box A is the transmitter, the sender. The tube is how the information is transmitted — it is the medium. And box B is the receiver. They can alternate roles. The sender, box A, codes the information in a way appropriate to the medium, in binary bits, or pixels, or words, or whatever, and transmits it via the medium to the receiver, box B, which receives and decodes it.
A and B can be thought of as machines, such as computers. They can also be thought of as minds. Or one can be a machine and the other a mind.
But the magic of human communication, Le Guin observes, is that something other than mere information is being transmitted — something more intangible yet more real:
Paralleling Hannah Arendt’s assertion that “nothing and nobody exists in this world whose very being does not presuppose a spectator,” Le Guin points out that all speech invariably presupposes a listener:
Live, face-to-face human communication is intersubjective. Intersubjectivity involves a great deal more than the machine-mediated type of stimulus-response currently called “interactive.” It is not stimulus-response at all, not a mechanical alternation of precoded sending and receiving. Intersubjectivity is mutual. It is a continuous interchange between two consciousnesses. Instead of an alternation of roles between box A and box B, between active subject and passive object, it is a continuous intersubjectivity that goes both ways all the time.
In a sentiment that calls to mind Nikki Giovanni’s magnificent ode to what amoebas know about love that we don’t, Le Guin writes:
This, too, she illustrates with a diagram:
In an exquisite passage at the intersection of biology, anthropology, and sheer literary genius, Le Guin elaborates:
This is very similar to how people unite themselves and give each other parts of themselves — inner parts, mental not bodily parts—when they talk and listen. (You can see why I use amoeba sex not human sex as my analogy: in human hetero sex, the bits only go one way. Human hetero sex is more like a lecture than a conversation. Amoeba sex is truly mutual because amoebas have no gender and no hierarchy. I have no opinion on whether amoeba sex or human sex is more fun. We might have the edge, because we have nerve endings, but who knows?)
Two amoebas having sex, or two people talking, form a community of two. People are also able to form communities of many, through sending and receiving bits of ourselves and others back and forth continually — through, in other words, talking and listening. Talking and listening are ultimately the same thing.
Reminding us that literacy is an incredibly nascent invention and still far from universal, Le Guin considers the singular and immutable power of spoken conversation in fostering a profound mutuality by syncing our essential vibrations:
If you mount two clock pendulums side by side on the wall, they will gradually begin to swing together. They synchronise each other by picking up tiny vibrations they each transmit through the wall.
Any two things that oscillate at about the same interval, if they’re physically near each other, will gradually tend to lock in and pulse at exactly the same interval. Things are lazy. It takes less energy to pulse cooperatively than to pulse in opposition. Physicists call this beautiful, economical laziness mutual phase locking, or entrainment.
All living beings are oscillators. We vibrate. Amoeba or human, we pulse, move rhythmically, change rhythmically; we keep time. You can see it in the amoeba under the microscope, vibrating in frequencies on the atomic, the molecular, the subcellular, and the cellular levels. That constant, delicate, complex throbbing is the process of life itself made visible.
We huge many-celled creatures have to coordinate millions of different oscillation frequencies, and interactions among frequencies, in our bodies and our environment. Most of the coordination is effected by synchronising the pulses, by getting the beats into a master rhythm, by entrainment.
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Like the two pendulums, though through more complex processes, two people together can mutually phase-lock. Successful human relationship involves entrainment — getting in sync. If it doesn’t, the relationship is either uncomfortable or disastrous.
Art by Salvador Dalí from a rare 1969 edition of Alice in Wonderland
This entrainment, Le Guin argues, occurs organically and constantly, often below our conscious awareness and beyond willful intention:
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Listening is not a reaction, it is a connection. Listening to a conversation or a story, we don’t so much respond as join in — become part of the action.
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When you can and do entrain, you are synchronising with the people you’re talking with, physically getting in time and tune with them. No wonder speech is so strong a bond, so powerful in forming community.
Illustration from ‘Donald and the…’ by Edward Gorey. Click image for more.
In a complement to Susan Sontag’s terrific treatise on the the aesthetics of silence, Le Guin considers the singular nature of sound:
Speech, the most specifically human sound, and the most significant kind of sound, is never just scenery, it’s always event.
This event of speech, Le Guin argues, is the most potent form of entrainment we humans have — and the intimate tango of speaking and listening is the stuff of great power and great magic:
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The voice creates a sphere around it, which includes all its hearers: an intimate sphere or area, limited in both space and time.
Creation is an act. Action takes energy.
Sound is dynamic. Speech is dynamic — it is action. To act is to take power, to have power, to be powerful. Mutual communication between speakers and listeners is a powerful act. The power of each speaker is amplified, augmented, by the entrainment of the listeners. The strength of a community is amplified, augmented by its mutual entrainment in speech.
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This is why utterance is magic. Words do have power. Names have power. Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.
Art by Sydney Pink from Overcoming Creative Block
In a sentiment that calls to mind Anna Deavere Smith on the art of listening between the lines, Le Guin argues that this entrainment and our intuitive expectations around it are at the heart of how and why great art compels us:
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So people seek the irreproducible moment, the brief, fragile community of story told among people gathered together in one place. So children gather at the library to be read to: look at the little circle of faces, blazing with intensity. So the writer on a book tour, reading in the bookstore, and her group of listeners reenact the ancient ritual of the teller at the center of the circle. The living response has enabled that voice to speak. Teller and listener, each fulfills the other’s expectations. The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude.
The Wave in the Mind, which borrows its title from Virginia Woolf’s timeless meditation on writing and consciousness, is one of the most intelligent, insightful, and profoundly pleasurable books you can ever hope to read — the kind guaranteed to far surpass any expectations seeded in this very sentence.