Motivation

I personally hold a BIG WHY for my motivation to do this work.

I see a world with global systemic and failing models of monetary and market control.

These big things are completely uncoupled from the needs of humans evolving on this planet.

I see a world in which it is absolutely necessary that the entire human race wake up to the shadows in its mind.
And make new choices…

I start here, with me.
I extend to my brothers through the initiation process.
I extend to the community to make possible a healthy human tribe…
of authentic, empowered citizens of the Universe.
There are children coming!

My “big why” is to end the misery, poverty and violence resulting from shadow running the planet!

Bring your own big why, brother!

Comedy Launch

I am reporting a fabulous experience at the Comedy Underground as Translucynt, a gender-warrior character created to serve this part of my mission on the planet. I am advocating a simple shift to a 4-gender system. Since I have been alive, it has become apparent that females can have male bodies, and males female bodies. Paradox always calls me to raise up to the next level of consideration. I have found God this way. The madness I see in the moralistic abuse of genuine persons and the madness that supports a shadow governance by the money masters is all of the same fabric. The soulution (not misspelled) is a new congruence of spirit/mind/body and person/planet as Universal Citizens. Authority is not my truth. Truth is my authority. I am letting you all know I am now here. I have arrived. I am Two-spirit; A Voice in the Wilderness. Blessings to all here.

Important Documentaries

The most important documentaries for the 21st Century

There are some systemic failures in the world. It is not an accident that persons suffer. I call it wise to take a fresh look at how thought becomes policy, becomes tradition and makes a culture that can become quite insane. One the most important and accessible is the Secret of Oz. Please do check data and inquire on your own. Remember, we are creatures of multiiiple brains. Is it possible in a way, the Jurassic period still has its effects? Is the reptilian brain of mankind running the monetary systems of the world? Is there a figurative set of reptiles competing around a water hole? Is this Profiteering tone necessary? Is there another way?

 

These films are typically secular in viewpoint. And for good reason. There is considerable evidence that religious corporations have been as limiting and defeating for the human population as the big dragons. I prefer the acknowledgement of “That Which Matters Most” in a spiritual sense, and awareness of the energy body, and also the perspective of science on this little blue dot sailing through the cosmos. I believe an ability to choose identity withe one’s soul is essential to healing, empowerment, and world service. A fluency with archetypal ways of understanding the personal and collective psyche make affordable to everyone, I judge, a way of perceiving the big picture and making choices with conscience. I definitely support the will-to-good over the will-to-power. The sacred needs not be money or greed.

 

I like the tone and scholarship of these films. Each one has triggered me to include a greater fabric of perception, and to find some hope for my grandchildren.

 

The Zeitgeist Films

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

The three Zeitgeist films are available on Netflix. Please watch them, select them as favorites!

Zeitgeist: The Movie [2007] First out movie by the author, larger scope, cultural mythos.

Zeitgeist: Addemdum [2008] Largely about the monetary system.

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward [2010] Best of all for clarity and wise overview.

The movement home page:  http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?Itemid=50

 

The Secret of Oz

L. Frank Baum wrote the famous story in the midst of the struggle over the monetary system.

There may be an updated version of this. Some quotations repaired.

 

The Money Masters

By the same reporter, Bill Still, who created the Secret of Oz. This has more historicall notes.

 

The Corporation

The design and behavior of these constructs mirrors the checklist of criteria for psychopathology. Corporations have become huge monsters whose appetites must be fed.

 

 

Two spirits

http://twospirits.org/

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/two-spirits/

A young Novajo boy, who was also a girl, murdered by a hater. Good thoughts about the 4-gender system in which males may have female bodies, and females male bodies. I am twospirit. The brutality along the lines of gender on the human world is costly. Broken hearts and minds. How can I not speak to this? It is all of a fabric with the insane devastation of the natural world, and the enslavement of mankind by its own shadow.

 

 

Blue Gold

http://www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com/ 

In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an expediential level as population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the earth.

 

Corporate giants force developing countries to privatize their water supply for profit. Wall Street investors target desalination and mass bulk water export schemes. Corrupt governments use water for economic and political gain. Military control of water emerges and a new geo-political map and power structure forms, setting the stage for world water wars.

 

We follow numerous worldwide examples of people fighting for their basic right to water, from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools. As Maude Barlow proclaims, “This is our revolution, this is our war”. A line is crossed as water becomes a commodity. Will we survive?

 

Wetiko: The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity

This is a little book. An archetypal view of collective human mental disorder!

In Wetiko: The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity, Paul Levy explores the Native American idea of a psycho-spiritual disease of the soul that has been plaguing humanity for several thousand years. Originating in the human psyche, wetiko psychosis is currently manifesting as a world-wide psychic epidemic, as it ravages our civilization and destroys the biosphere, the very life support of our species. Encoded in this malevolent parasite of the mind, however, is a revelation which can potentially wake us up.

http://www.awakeninthedream.com/wetiko/

Multiculturalism

I may have a different view on the multi-cultural idea:

 

The current discussion seems to me structural, and related to money, position, and power. The word ‘privilege’ is wrapped around access and use of resources, whether and how other sorts are included. It seems to have something to do with the freedom of choice with resources can be managed or assigned. Sometimes, the choices of one group may affect the experience of another group on the earth.

 

To appreciate life on Earth in a multi-cultural way, it may be an effort to sample and enjoy different cuisines and style of dress, and maybe a sense of history, religion, art and industry of various regions of the planet, or of the city, or the neighborhood. The flow of time and movement of populations and the experience of such populations moving and flowing through time leads to a melting together and interpenetration of many layers and dimensions. it can be maddening to attempt to discriminate in these days the mixing of the affects of human experience in the living of life of an individual, a family, a clan, a people.

 

It is great to get to know people better, to get a grip or a clue about the story of man, family, clan. Each of us is a rich presentation of many layers and dimensions and layers of such affects of forebears. Some of us grow up in a defined culture, with some congruence of the choices of previous generations. Some of us come up in a melting-pot experience, carrying only fragments of ancient cultural choice and dimension.

 

Interpenetrating are the threads of commonality between all groups. How are females treated relative to males? How important and what care is given to elder members? How are the children raised? does everyone have the benefit of reading and schooling? Is religion severely imposed as the guiding poetry? Are other religions and ideas welcome? Are the boundaries of culture exclusive of all others? Are the gender types that are off-polarity honored or destroyed?

 

I am tending to take a universal view, as if I were (I am) a Citizen of the Universe. One stream of thought that drove me to a greater inclusive level is the idea of holocaust. I do not happen to be Jewish, but I honor the memory of suffering imposed upon many persons of that tribal origin in the last century alone. I am in part Native American, and have absorbed the emotional impact of the Europeans on the indigenous folks in the new world, a complete theft and destruction of cultures across a hemisphere. I married a black woman and have a lovely daughter of that bonding, and have direct experience of denial of rental relationship and services due to mixed race and the  story of enslavement. I include both gender roles in my fluid gender identity, and have long felt the brutal attitudes toward abandoning the dualism. The interpenetration of story and the issues of story makes me reach higher altitude and look anew from a greater focal length.

 

The unifying theme to me as I consider multi-culturalism is a willingness to accept all others with a sense of That Which Matters Most. It is a theme, usually without mention, that runs through my experience in The Mankind Project. Men come forward to generate value in a give-away cooperation in a sacred container holding the living fire for the brothers. This practice that I am calling a reverence for That Which Matters Most is something I sense and celebrate at every gathering of brothers and also in my general community. I have a vision of a source of all life, and the fabric of universe, galaxy, star system, planet and the very bits of star-stuff from which all is made. Within this fabric, I choose to be adequately sensitive and aware to the path of the threads of another man’s life through the intricate universe which we share. I choose to be aware, given some focal length, of the contribution of my own threads to my perception and my judgements. I notice that persons tend to group themselves by differences of skin color, gender and sexuality, mental disciplines, social status, discretionary funding, conviction to established thought systems, independence of thought, and so on. So I carry a banner of reverence for the unifying theme, that I can ever invite those with whom I speak to reflect with me on life, the universe, and everything.

 

Also, we experience the Nothing. The temporary world of time and space, matter, bodies, suffering and the little joys. I vision a new world of sharing and right living conditions for all. One of the divisions of mind in our era is that of Will to Power contrasted with the Power of Love. I can see well the covert play of the reptilian brain in so-called economy and commerce, profit and wealth aggregation without regard at all to That Which Matters Most as I see it. Sadly, it is not yet popular to notice the lizard behind the curtain, pulling the levers of a financial system that has become completely uncoupled from  the sustainable use of resources and technology in service to everyone.

 

I will not respect the protective scattering of egg-shells too much around the warrior work. I will invite each one to the hall of the King in universal citizenship and  to the reverential fire of Truth under the sky of That Which Matters Most. In my judgement, arriving at a new approach to monetary management will demolish many differences of privilege in favor of creative cultural diversity, the safety and enjoyment of future generations, even to the survival of our human species, that we sing out our joyful song in the cosmos a while.

Declaration of Misfitting

Declaration of Misfitting

“Since it is man’s unfitness–his being an outcast and an outsider on this planet–which started him on his unique course, it should not seem anomalous that misfits and outsiders are often in the forefront of human endeavor and the first to grapple with the unknown. The impulse to escape an untenable situation often prompts human beings not to shrink back but to plunge ahead. Moreover, it is in accord with the uniqueness of the human pattern that the misfits of the species should try to fit in not by changing themselves but by changing the world. Hence their bent for reform, innovation, tinkering, and plunging. Thus we find misfits in the vanguard of the settlement of new lands and the elaboration of new ways and methods in the economic, political, and cultural fields.” — Eric Hoffer, The Unnaturalness of Human Nature, from a collection of essays The Ordeal of Change, 1952.

I have come to recognize how much personal energy has been trapped by a denial that I am, indeed, a misfit. I do significant inner work with mindfulness and energetic attention. It is a factor for most of us that maintaining denials and suppressions, and keeping ancient secrets, removes some quanta of energy from usefulness in living life. Getting free is for me a process of controlling the costs of adaptive thoughts and feelings. It is, in my opinion, a worthy work to examine one’s own mind and escape the control of adaptive thoughts inherited and embellished in pre-conscious childhood.

I had the misperception for many years that others saw and understood word concepts and images in a manner like my own. Not that I exalt myself overmuch these days, as to intellectual acumen. I just appreciate that my observational platform of mind is unique in its breadth and reach. I like Hoffer. He lived as a working man, observed carefully, and wrote from authentic first-person narrative. I recently looked up the Colonel Bob character celebrated by the naming of the Colonel Bob Wilderness on the Olympic Peninsula. The namesake is Robert Ingersol, an orator of the Golden Age of Freethought. In Illinois, he spoke, against the grain, of slavery, religion (he was agnostic) and suffrage. I like this guy also. He was not to hold public office above attorney general. In my humble way, these essays I produce declare what personal authority I have acquired thus far, and take a jab at a human world afflicted by its own predispositions.

Fitting is normally considered a good thing. As a carpenter of many years experience, I have had much to do with adapting square boxes to un-level and un-straight building surfaces. This activity is sometimes called coping, as is the cutting the shape of a trim profile to butt a corner rather than mitering. Coping is good. I must adapt to some extent in order to effect a livelihood in the world. However, the point is well made that perfect adaptation to a dysfunctional system can hardly be called sanity. Once I realized the system to harbor much dysfunction, coping to it seemed more perverse and difficult. I am not a particular success in the world of capital and career.

Ahh, there is nothing like a good fit! I love fitting in. I love not having to misrepresent myself to fit in. I love blending and harmonizing in a choir. So, what is it that has me exalting the idea of misfit today? I married a black woman in the 70′s. I have a lovely daughter of that union who identifies more or less with the black community in her city. I have watched the disparagement of the earth by industry, and the externalizing of the costs on human community by industrial corporations. Collectively, our economic system has all but destroyed the family farm, known to be more efficient per acre, for huge agro-business which grows huge amounts of material which is of questionable nourishing quality and also extends markets globally making a dependence on international shipping and the weaknesses inherent in this. The water table is pumped below recoverable levels all over our country. This aquifer problem is coming our way soon. With modern technology, we are succeeding in over-harvesting fish world-wide. Government subsidies make it possible to consume beef products inexpensively at fast-food restaurants. This subsidy makes it affordable for many to hurt themselves with poor diet. One can go on with conspiracies of the undoing of health and life for profit.

I mentioned above work in one’s personal levels. I do not mind calling attention to the fact that the rearing of children, the unreadiness of young parents, often the unstudied adamance of grandparents are all too typified by the harshness of the playground. Children are very hard on each other. Usually, anomalies and suspected differences are hammered upon with great fervor. This is the playground of the ego, a particularly unyielding opponent. We each have one, and often enough, are one. One of the reasons I am an advocate for the initiation schema supported by The Mankind Project and similar groups is the effective bestowal of the essential toolkit for managing one’s mind and behavior. The prospect that we collectively take back our world from the systematizers and bean-counters is a delicious prospect. I am happy to imagine more and more of our children growing with a support network that promotes all the good things about human nature, and grooms an awareness of the shadows that erupt time and again. Watching shadow for an initiated person involves mindfulness and mission, not reaction and attack. This is very simply put, a choice for love over fear. In the world, this would be a choice for the power of Love v. the love of Power.

It has been my experience, and this is ratified with many colleagues in circles of transformation, that not only happiness, but performance and effectiveness is hampered by the load of guilt that is the burden we carry. My sensitivity to and ability to understand feeling has grown greatly in recent years. I find that there has been literally, a hampering and shutting down of my mental resources due to this burden. There is, observing in myself, a head-aching feeling and an angst that runs through the body like a hot wire of discontent. I find, when this schema is active, that I cannot handle complexity and generally discount my ability to understand and manage information, even for my personal good. It is not hard for me to imagine that such a syndrome can lead to falling down. I look to the disconnected and displaced with sympathy and sadness. Clearly, we too often are taught to beat ourselves up. The ghosts of pummeling and threat of fracture haunt me at these times, and sometimes I lose my inner sight for a while. I feel that this experience is not so special. It is also likely, as uncomfortable as it is, that many self-medicate and bury beneath callous the feedback from the body that I am a misfit that needs some work. Rather than fitting the world, seen as untrustworthy due its painful response to me, I deepen and delve for the Truth of my Being and nature. I find at last a Teacher within and learn to use the technologies of attention to release guilt and shame for the sake of a personal expression which serves the soul that I am.

As a misfit, I find a way. As a misfit, I find my brothers. As a misfit, I show out this way in my diligence and my life. As a misfit, I even risk the financial danger of no money or job, if I need to heal and grow rich in awareness and practice for a time. I come to fit the universe of my intentional cosmology. I reach ever for a more inclusive view, and greater altitude. Also, I call upon the four directions, the above, the below, the within, the without, and ground my vehicle to this lovely planet and its peoples crying out for love. I am not proud to be a misfit. I am glad that my heart is a loving one, and that I have work to do in its service. We often say “it is what It is,” when declaring an inability to change one thing or another. This implies fitting in to insanity, often enough. I celebrate “That Which Is,” and declare that what appears to be in our collective world is misfit to vision of human mature potential that I hold dear. If I were to work a miracle today, it would be that we see more Truly, find love and acceptance more easily, and respond more readily. I will bring my jumbo crayons, and as many of my marbles as I can find.

As a declared elder, I think of these things.

Religion, Politics and Mission

Unfortunately, religion an politics have in common the difficulty of examining intellectual material in the level in which the material resides. These two works describe programmatic responses to the world to organize life. I feel largely the same about political concerns as I do about religion. Usually, there is some attempt to accord with what is perceived as true, and to create systems of understanding and behavior, these systems fall far short of what we find over time is more true. Large paradigms of thought permeate the extensions of civilization effort. Evolution is required. Evolution can have a steady, conscious flow to it, or can have instead the quality of tectonic plates slipping and adjusting, with the resulting quakes and tsunamis.

What has been programmed into religion are thoughts that separate us from the creator, see that one as a punishing and judging one, and threaten us with hell and damnation unless we accord with someone’s interpretation of one book or another. All blessing under these paradigms are conditional. Many categories of persons whose natures are apart from the interpretations have been marginalized and stricken, even to mass murder. In my life, I have noticed this as a partial Native American, a bi-gender individual, one who married a black woman in the 70′s. I consider myself an average example of the diverse experiences most of us bring to tomorrow.

Some of the religious paradigm leaks into politics, as we see with the ongoing debates about birth (abortion), death (with dignity) and what is recognized as a legitimate union between individuals (marriage). We have an economy based on a philosophy of scarcity and reptilian competition. A monetary system that creates debt with every dollar, and expands for banking profit through interest, is enslaving and not sustainable. Draconian efforts have resulted in a Federal Reserve Act and the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution which have empowered corporate artificial persons and bonded them to government, all under the reptilian enactment of capitalism. Capitalism taken as a moral philosophy is bankrupt in its origins. Whatever the reptile gets away with is OK. We just make a new law to attempt to guide the dragons behavior.

I believe it is possible to consider the diversity of human thought in a universal way. If I enfold science and mathematics, and philosophies and religious reports, spiritual studies and techniques, engineering and psychology, music and song, If I can enfold in myself the engineer and artist, the mystic and the martyr, and the soldier and the mother, and the grandparent, and so on, I have the possibility of a whole-cloth perception. I call what this requires ‘altitude.’ A more inclusive view from altitude allows the greater fabric of politics and religion and economies to fall into a tapestry from which patterns of activity and development can be noticed.

What goes unnoticed at large is the work of evil thought (contrary to life) that has the smarts to use all knowledge of psychology for marketing, Despite the conspiracy to control the planet through its monetary and economic systems, and to facilitate this through warfare and miscreant attitudes, we have had a measure of individual peace, for those of us lucky enough to be OK in our modern lives. I believe it is fair to say that the emergent human paradigm is one of inclusion, of diversity, and of sharing. It is fair to say we are creatures whose home is a spiritual home, and we are striving in a physical experience. How we actualize our understanding of this will eventually drive the practical affairs of religion and politics. I see a wave of awareness running about the globe. It is not  avoidable to feel at least somewhat dissatisfied with the observance of how we humans have organized ourselves, and police ourselves. It appears to me sometimes that there is so much that is upside-down and backwards, that that which is forward and upright is an unwanted anomaly.

This is to say that thoughts are things. We can own them, or they can ride roughshod over us. I say this for the matter of managing my personal mind, and I say this for the management of the human experience. Perhaps it is best to avoid discussion of the complexities of religion and politics in sacred circles. I suggest that another approach is to hold forth on ever more inclusive understanding and conscious creation along the lines of the more complete and universal paradigm of our grandchildren. I would continue to dispatch thoughts from my personal mind which have limited my expression and celebration of my individuality, to hold for myself a mission of unfoldment in alignment with what I would consciously create. This mission touches the world as a pebble in a pond. We are many pebbles.

Universal Citizenship

Men, male and female,

I have been loving the exchange regarding spirit and religion, and think this morning to share some thoughts I have found useful.

We come to a turning time in the evolution of our species and our planet. It would seem to any person that what has gone before has taken a very long time. Yet in the observance of years, decades, centuries, and eons, our advent in the earth is a very thin line indeed. The deployment of consciousness has been rapid in comparison to geological time. There are many mysteries, and the grand mystery of existence. We have addressed these questions in various ways and with various degrees of actual and presumed authority. We as a species have built many golden halls, in thought and in the earth. Shadow also has tailed us and even leapt ahead, railroading collective creativity to various pits of doom, world wars, armageddon dreams. I have grown up in a sad world. The noble striving of the good and seemingly endless reports of war, starvation, and horror have filled my data stream for decades. My generation is the first to have had TV added to radio and movies as the huge data streams we have enjoyed and endured.

Part of the data stream in my life has been the availability of literature and experiences developed from the spiritual and religious traditions around the world over a very long time line. The practice of reason through science and mathematics has been a great blessing with the rigor of thought and requirement to recall the origins of lines of thought; primary assumptions and axioms. Logic has also welled up to assist me in engaging many thought systems in a meaningful way with structural observations of consistency and anomaly. Faith gets us in trouble over and over, for we learn eventually that everyone has 100% faith. What matters is the belief in systems of thoughts. Whether for good or ill outcomes, our feelings and motivations follow the thoughts in which we believe. I have found this to be true individually as a great gift of understanding, for it is possible to release thoughts of blind perception and encompass by choice more congruent and integrated thoughts. It is also true collectively, for our experience in the world is shaped by what we actualize as a people. I believe that there is a symbolic coherence between the thought system of individuals and the collective. The good news is that collective thought can be responsive in a way similar to cultivation of a mature, complete, wholesome individual.

It has been my experience that exposure and investigation of the esoteric technologies and histories is advisable. I have now the great benefit of understanding the mind which I am, and how to cultivate it in a useful and meaningful way. Before Freud and Jung, we could not even speak of such things as soul, psyche, ego, complexes, and so on. Now, there is a flow of insightful renderings which not only assist the understanding, but provide technology for practical effect. It has been said that BELIEF is the most powerful force on the planet. In a world run by the reptilian brain, despots have oft burned libraries and destroyed intellectual classes as a way to control the population. We have the possibility of awakening, en mass, in a volume of persons not before seen on this beautiful and painful blue planet.

The Earth is evolving also. I see this tired old girl as a very dangerous place to live. There is substantial danger geo-physically in tectonic adaptations, the spinning of  a liquid core, and the circulatory patterns of weather. There also is substantial danger astro-physically, for there is dark bits cruising through the same space we traverse with our wonderful living spaceship. To perceive the parameters of any system, I believe most would agree, requires a view-point which can encompass the greater system in which the subject system resides. A  lovely motivator is that we need each other. Caring for each other as shipmates on a cosmic voyage enfolds all the good of all the great teachings. So I dare to make the following assertion for our benefit and entertainment.

I am a citizen of the universe. I have received the blessing of scientific observation and insight that allows me to vision planets, star systems, and galaxies. I have come to believe the universe is alive, and that this is one of many living worlds in which consciousness is expanding. I have come to believe that there is a hierarchy of levels and dimensions beyond the perception of the body’s senses and that there is present help in the organized intelligence that persists outside of our time/space apparent reality. I have come to understand that my mind is split. I have a personal life with a body and an ego, an also a life in the psyche, the soul with which I may learn to identify and to serve. As I take, by practice, a seat in my soul, I am granted a fearlessness that allows the patterning in my person to transform in alignment with my evolving preferences for enlightenment and world service. The practice of faith in my life, as my cosmology evolves, is become my religion. My religion is my own. I am happy to experience overlapping world-views and sensibilities with many others, yet no one person or group is likely to mirror me precisely. Thanks to Spong and others, my Christian vector of connection with the divine has been wrenched away from the controlling despots of the churches. There is, in my world, a Creator. There is a Son, Christians and esoteric masters call Christ, which is a way of claiming the truth of divine extension of the soul of me. What we refer to as the Holy Spirit is a direct vector to Source which comes as an answer to the confusion of the Big Bang and our temporary perception of separation. One glance here to evil is the notion that the creative hierarchy has individuals within it that have the possibility of going adverse to the plan. On more than the physical level, we have the possibility of making new choices in a field of potentials, some of which are true, and some not.

An assertion to remember is that, as I work to heal my own small pains and confusions, some benefit extends to the collective. There are possibilities that such blessing and healing reaches also through time. This potential to serve the world effectively by doing my inner work has been a powerful motivator for me, for I did not and still oft do not, perceive myself as a worthy contributor to the world, my family, my community. So I say to you that religion is personal thing. It reflects how I support myself in my days with the thoughts and tools available to me. My religion spans the shaman and the artist, the scientist and the philosopher, that which suffers, and that which is ever at peace. We have the possibility of object language, understanding that thoughts are but things. We enter into the world through a burning ring of fire to learn to choose, and to choose again, as these thought objects show their patterns on the ground. My teacher is no longer the ego, the past, the convention of idiocy.  I release the addiction to dualism, a sickness healed only by altitude. My teacher is the connection that has been granted me to Source, and what this brings forward in my waking life.

So, I say it is helpful to hold a generic spirituality and ceremonies that remind we persons of our souls and our connection to each other and the divine. It is a way to make a place to exchange the gifts we are and which we bring. It is a pot-latch of many tribes of multi-cultural beings. It is helpful to be grounded in axis mundi. I write to you now from the intersection of these directional vectors. The horizon of mystery is pushed back. I assert with my personal authority my informed will to good. I am a citizen of the universe, devoted to God and Goddess in its expression unfolding through me, and we of good heart.

As I sit here weeping, I dare to imagine I have danced these words well enough to ring a chime of Great Love. Blessing in this Holy Instant, and in the days that come.

A Multi-cultural man

A Multi-Cultural Man
A declaration for my higher good.

One of the difficulties that beset us, and has had me, in this lifetime, is running into what seems to be an enforced dualism in gender and sexuality. Those of us who live on the rainbow between the opposite poles have what feels like a hard road. I am very glad that study and practice in spiritual matters and psychology have brought me to a conclusion. As a New Warrior, and a man with a mission, I stand for myself and any like me in declaring in a public place the essence of what I have learned. Since gender and sexuality is an area in which folks tend to make harsh judgements, I am also no longer exposed to extortion.

It is not black and white. Humans are not binary. Symbolically, I imagine a group of rainbow wheels stacked up in my energy body and linked with my physical body. These rainbow wheels are arrayed with sectors that symbolize a range of vectors of predilection, or choice. Arranging these wheels around their shared axis, my personality operational center, makes for a particular combination. I can live a personality expression according to this combination for a minute, an hour, or for years. For some, like me at least, this combination idea explains some variability which may be deeply determined in the psyche, and may also be consciously variable. My gender identity is variable, and I love it! The truth is, it is necessary to acknowledge and give some life-space to a full range of expression for health. Love and acceptance is so much a better road than suppression and denial.

We humans unfortunately act as if we are binary. I have looked into the numbers, and have discovered there is a problem. A problem with two (2,) 1 x 2, 2 x 1. Two. From my own petty inner pain, I have looked out at a world of woe. We humans have a dastardly habit and addiction. We fall into two (2) over any thought, opinion, initiative, proposal, or option. The axis of good and evil seems to show up everywhere. We make it up. There is a problem with Two (2.) It brings division and embattlement. We tend to identify with one side or the other. This breaking ever into two (2,) is killing us, hurting us, denying the oneness that came before, during and ever after two (2.) There seem to be fascination, whether sport or battle, or any of thousand axes of separation with attack on the ones (1) that choose one side of the Two (2.) We seem addicted to vying for power and influence in the fencing of the two (2.) Look at the conflicts in the world that have taken so many lives. See the draining of global wealth into the the purses of the globally rich few. Keep away. The taker society. Starvation in a world of plenty. The ponderous obscenity of 2-party politics. It seems to me, does it not to you? that altitude is required. Looking at tiny men on a battlefield from orbit makes things so much more clear. We need the altitude made available by spiritual practice and awareness. My experience observing humanity during my lifetime does not report sanity to me! There is a problem with two (2!) and it takes a change of viewpoint to become free of this ancient trap!

I love the ability to identify psychically with my women friends. I know some awesome, beautiful, powerful and wise women. To be clear, I am not a woman. I do not currently plan to alter my physical self to accommodate living socially as a woman. I respect that the XX chromosome pair brings experiences I do not have this lifetime, including the socialization, hormonal environment, and caring for the childbearing equipment in all its dangers and mysteries. I love to sit in circle with women from time to time and feel welcome. The flow of feeling between women in sharing is fascinating, as is the variety of sense and rigor various women bring to their circles. It is delightful to know some excellent crones and crones-in-the-making! They know that I can’t go the distance in woman style sharing, but are kind to me, nonetheless.

I am not broken, at least not anymore. Things happen in life, some of which require recovery. Sometimes, it can take decades. I reckon I was not ready to do this work earlier, for I was filled with terror and contempt fed to me as a boy, and accepted unconsciously a choice to hide myself from my Self in a childish survival strategy. The sad part is the limiting of the mind and the expression as a person by what could be described as fragmentation, or broken-heartedness. I laughed out loud when I realized the analytic term schizophrenia means broken-hearted. Laughter and the presence of the cosmic joke has helped me endlessly on this tearful road. It need not take so long to come to love and acceptance for oneself. I have been a strong-minded sufferer. It took decades of study and experience, and also growing old and waiting for my children to become mature, for me to feel safe to do this work. It also took moving to a city wherein I have felt, in my circles, recognized and loved. So I have gone inside, this last year, and experimenting in my privacy, arranged to relax into a slightly modified lifestyle. I love encompassing in my days the sensitivity and grace that are available to my feminine/female aspects. I love coming to a new expression of wholeness, of unified personality.

I love my brothers, and have many, all over the world. We have agreed on a general course of action, we have each a personal mission, and we have protocols to process our commitment to self and others in the work of waking life. Naturally, I do not easily fall into the herd or the pack mentality, and men who easily live in this mode may find me aloof. I also do not fake my way here, and care not to watch sport on television. Yet, I have produced many projects in the manly trades of carpentry and mechanics over the years. I am a middle-sex person and enjoy the middle way. I read that many whose natures are similar to mine often find themselves drawn to roles resembling the medicine man, or shaman, or scout. Sure enough, I am a minister without any worldly ordination. Readers can see this in the messages I have posted regarding topics stimulated by my participation in The Mankind Project. The 1000 generations of grandchildren that follow me spur me on to say and do what is helpful by way of harmonizing myself and my world, within and without.

So here is my current category of how I dial in with my wheels: In private, I don a few articles of female clothing to suggest to my imagination this alternate way of perceiving self. I relax into a femme modality. Most importantly, I practice spiritual awareness and open my body, heart, mind and face to a flow of love and acceptance, in the midst of this living universe. I enjoy receiving self-attention to my sensual desires through massage, dancing, stretching, and sexual play. Over some time, the old strictures that hampered me emotionally and showed up as pain channels in the body have begun to ease. I keep a nice pedicure and paint on my toenails to symbolize for myself a constancy in support of my divine multi-self. One of the things I have envied in women is the comfort in self-acceptance and the relative ease of beauty and grace in the face and demeanor. I had always felt nervous strictures in the body, and am much relieved to be less constrained by them. It is important to note that the mirror practice of acting this sort of thing out requires a willing suspension of disbelief, a powerful imagination, and of course, indirect lighting. It is certain that my aesthetics will not have me parading my inner woman in light of day, except, perhaps, for purposes of comedy. I am totally in sympathy with the range of sex and gender expressions (that yet care for the innocent.) I have not yet declared that I am a gay man. I don’t feel often in a place of wanting males sexually, but it does come along in fantasy, especially when I am playing the sex plaything for myself. So, who am I kidding? I still prefer to adore and romance the soul of a woman. Clearly also, I have options. These options are merely a palette from which I might draw entertainment for those with whom I may have the privilege of intimacy.

The dysphoria of gender and sexual levels hardly seems, faced against my conditioning, a worthy axis of primary work. The world is saddened by so many mis-creations and misunderstandings. Yet this is a core issue, one that reflects some important choices about who is included or excluded, welcomed or rejected, raised in wholeness and happiness, or battered about in order to accomodate the perceived social matrix. There are things afoot in our grand global, species’ situation that are crying out for soul evolution and the healing this implies. Individual soul evolution promotes the evolution of our race of creatures and our relationship to our evolving earth. She also is alive and evolving. We have an opportunity to accord cooperatively in this grand endeavor. We need our mystics and visionaries. We need me. I need all of me. It is my honor to stand the bridge between male and female, masculine and feminine, between the soul and the earth. For all men and boys and girls and women who walk this bridge, I declare myself openly, that I and we may live freely and love openly. I am a multi-cultural creature, as, it would seem, are we all in these days.

I hope I have managed to write this in a manner that does no harm to any who may visit this blog. If I help but one person into love and self-acceptance and forgiveness, it is worth to me whatever personal risk this may imply. This is now no longer a secret. Without binding, I invite you to celebrate the trust of discretion. Protect my privacy In your regard, please, and give this gift to others whom you sense are struggling with the issues discussed here. Let this be a sharing of the Light and a blessing for all. I am complete for now.

New Warrior Training for men’s circles

This is the project that changes men’s lives. It has changed my life, and I have a gentle commitment to include MKP in my ministry for the duration of my life. This is men’s work. Men’s work has been held secret for good reason for many years, in many cultures. There is a change coming that allows more transparency in sharing the processes that are employed, but still I will be reticent by agreement in describing particulars. The processes are not strange to a person that has participated in the many offerings by others in the “consciousness movement.” It can be fairly said that the New Warrior Training is a stellar and well-knit series of experiences that traverse separation from the day-to-day world, an ordeal of awareness, and a return with blessing. This takes place in a weekend that runs from Friday evening through Sunday. It has been maturing for decades now and is very successful in its effects. Continuing work in quality of delivery is always ongoing so that each man continues to be supported by current excellence. The NWTA is offered five times a year here in the northwest, and many times around the world.

“Most staff members are volunteers, and because all have experienced the initiation process themselves, they have a compelling sense of male initiation and authentic self-examination. In the final analysis, however, you run your own training through the responses and decisions you make along your journey. The staff serve as your guides and mentors, but you choose your own level of commitment, and you decide how far you will explore the inner terrain of your life, to discover the treasures, and obstacles buried within your self.” [mkpnw.org]

A word about what the NWTA is not. It is not religious, though spiritual connection is fundamental. All religious backgrounds are welcome. It is not about changing men’s sexual or gender orientation. All cultural expressions are welcome, understanding that each man, these days, is a multi-cultural expression. There have been NWTA gateway events designed for special groups such as persons of color, the deaf, prison inmates, and alternate gender/sex. It is not about separation from or dominance of women. It is about embracing love of self, living in integrity and accountability in family and community with a mission drawn from guided introspection. The initiation of women by women is supported by referral and promotion. It is not about profit for share-holders. This work is accomplished by men helping men and we support financially our own efforts to staff, to learn to be facilitators of the work and to lead the trainings.

The NWTA is a beginning. Having absorbed an experience of the tools and protocols, a man has at least an opening ability to discover and declare his intentions, to live in integrity and to be accountable for what he has chosen as responsibility as an authentic man. He has become aware of his “shadow,” the psychic levels and influences that tend to undo our best intentions if we do not see them. This work can continue in the community groups called Integration Groups or I-groups. It also continues in volunteering for staffing the trainings. My experience of joining and holding a sacred container as an MKP staff member is an unparalleled experience of alert positive intention and effective service in a long life of working with men in various groupings and industries. The leadership track for those who coordinate and lead the trainings is demanding. The men who are welcomed into these ranks are highly reviewed and well prepared for the sacred duties, safety oversight, and management of the experiences that touch the very fire of a man’s life.

“The New Warrior is a man who has confronted this destructive “shadow” form and has achieved hard-won ownership of the highly focused, aggressive energy that empowers and shapes the inner masculine self. Sustained by this new energy, the New Warrior is at once tough and loving, wild and gentle, fierce and tolerant. He lives passionately and compassionately, because he has learned to live his mission with integrity, and without apology. Our intention is twofold. To enable men to live lives of integrity, accountability, and connection to feeling. To be of service to the community at large, both as individual men with a renewed sense of passion and personal responsibility, and as communities of men working together to build sustainable relationships. We foster loving families, strong communities, and productive workplaces in a sustainable environment.” [mkpnw.org]

My opinion having delved in various men’s work over the years is that the NWTA as devised by The Mankind Project is the very best shared experience from which to continue men’s work in its many forms. To advance the gift of the NWTA, MKPNW has hosted several types of events. Many I-groups are open to visiting men for a taste of the work. There is an open-house event, and also a one-day introductory event. It may be possible, with further consultation, to organize a special event for ongoing groups who desire the structural magic so well practiced by the Mankind project. There is an elder track and community within MKP as well. I am a delegate to the World Elder Gathering in London in a few weeks in which we shall discuss the global thoughts concerning man and the world and the ongoing role of The Mankind Project.

Invitation to Happy Families

Hello friend,

I have been involved with the consciousness movement for many years. Many of you have also followed along. In 1980, Marilyn Ferguson published The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s. This book organizes a view of a “great awakening” that comes along now and then in human history. The 80s, 90s and now the new millennium have been a period of deepening and realization that has sown seeds into the depth of our thinking as individuals and as a society. One of the awakenings has been a notice that the initiation process common to tribal peoples, which so strengthens the person and the tribe, had been lost to us. Initiation, simply put, is a ritual process that includes a recognition of the essential value of the individual, a bonding to the earth in appreciation of a spiritual reality, an acceptance and accountability for individual mission and action. The tools that have come about by study of transpersonal psychology now can assist the individual in ongoing healing of the shadows within the mind and a stabilization of the individual in the greater world.

The mission that has come to me for my own life-stream is as follows: “To co-create a world of powerful, gentle harmony by unity with spirit.”

It is in this spirit that I reach out to you today. Today we have a new summary book available, this by Arjuna Ardagh, The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World. This book is based on interviews tape recorded over many years, and formatted topically to show what has been going on since The Aquarian Conspiracy was published. Many of us, just plain citizens, have noticed that the world in which we live, the human world that we made up and call “civilization” seems to operate in ways that appear upside-down and backward to what would feel more sensible. We also have endured pain in our personal levels that needs attention and healing. The very thought that we carry personally, and also the thoughts that drive our society have an observable temporary quality, in that these thought may have served us for awhile, but are no longer appropriate or adequate from here on. We individually find ways to transform. We influence by living our new selves and teaching and contribution. Ardagh has a term for the culture which is insanely ego-driven. He says we are in the Iago trance. Iago is a character in Shakespeare’s Othello. He plays one character against another, creating separation and distrust.

A critical awareness that popped out for me in the learning is the importance of recognizing the split-mind condition of humanity. This is very important because the ego loves to study itself, is genius, and can experience what we consider good emotions as well as harboring the difficult emotions. Problem is, the ego is fundamentally insane. It includes what we think of as personhood: the body, emotional body, memories, dreams, the whole story. It is developed early in life as a reaction to the world it perceives as fearful. There are many types of egos, or personalities. The other side of the split is what I call the individual self, that which is created by Source, however you imagine Source to be. It is in constant meditation and connected to all spiritual resources. Here I am, writing away as an ego, a person, who has had at least some disposition to attune to that which I am as an individual, and allow its meditations to flow into me as inspiration. I also have been taught by a three-year-old boy recently about the egoic development. The primary point here is that we need to embrace our individuality in order to support evolutionary changes in the person. there are many forms of spiritual practice. I personally turned away from everything churchy for many years, preferring a more general and global study. These days, I have adopted again the term religion, for my religion is my own and is not run by a church of any kind but that which is in my heart. I am a religionist and have faith, a scientist and enjoy the benefits of reason, a philosopher with the connecting capability of logic, the beauty of prose and poetry. All this is to say that taking a seat in the soul is the way.

Getting grounded in the body, on the earth, is also the way. I have experienced the initiation process as demonstrated by The Mankind Project over many years for many men. It uses the tools that have come along in the consciousness movement in a powerful and compassionate manner to host a man to new levels of acceptance, appreciation, and understanding. I have witnessed the efficacy of my own personal work advance mightily because I have brothers with whom I can process, do a piece of work, share, and acknowledge my work in mission and account to my agreements with myself and others. I want you to know that this type of work can go deep and wide. Much benefit also comes in service. This is not a commercially motivated enterprise. Men gather from all over the world to staff the weekend training for new initiates. Most of us pay our travel and the expense of our board. The men who pursue leadership tracts may receive some stipend because their experience is highly valued for this work. Many men take their enhanced level of heart/mind/action congruence into other service ministries.

I began this in order to say something about families and communities with this thing called initiation in mind. My experience of families with both partners having experienced an initiation process is that of watching calmness and wisdom in action. Imagine a couple in relationship that can step outside the Iago culture and observe with care and accountability what is being set forth by word and deed, in family operations as well as interpersonal and private matters. Imagine being able to address matters with this respectful acknowledgment of what I am seeing, feeling. (We avoid “you” statements, which tend to separate and feel like attack.) Imagine relating to someone who is directly and immediately accounting for the presence of “shadow elements,” otherwise known as egoic patterns, operating under the radar! Just imagine growing up in such a household! The best families I have been privileged to know have some semblance of these good qualities, preferring. as an example, the “choices and consequences” behavioral schema over the old “crime and punishment” method. One of the benefits of shared initiation is congruency in understanding and application, and, importantly, the ability to spread the practice and to pass it on. I am a big fan of the next 1000 generations of grandchildren.

We have big trouble these days, across the economic board, keeping marriages and families together. I know so many single moms, no man present for the children, or a series of men in some cases. Sometimes boys pursuing adolescent themes, appearing as men. Single dads, too. There is something in initiation as a shared experience that can make possible the safety and well-being of children in their community of family and friends, the extended family, the village. Initiated persons know something about sacred containers. How to create and maintain a sacred container is crucial to sacred duty. Raising children is sacred duty. Firstly, I believe marriage-type relationships are better formed within the umbrella of initiation. I wish someone could have hot-seated me as to my motivations, desires, and also the shadow elements I was about to bring to my marriages. (I bless my ex-partners!) If these parenting relationships do fail, then there can be a concept that protects the hearts and minds of the children better that church or state. The children are the initiates, and the family container is for them. Since all parties in the container are respectfully regarded, the traumas evident in divorces and separations may be much eased or eliminated. The load of raising children is thus spread out to a wisdom-village. Community elders, sage men and crone women, can care, direct, and counsel the young with blessing. It is not necessary to limit this to blood family. Often enough, there is no blood family available. It is possible to merge families into a clan for increased resource sharing. Sacred containers. We have only just begun to uncover the potential.

This is a long enough writing for today. I may have said what I mean, depending on your read. We can speak again. Here are some links to explore the immediate possibilities:

For women: Inner YAGA http://www.inneryaga.org/

For women: Woman Within http://www.womanwithin.org/

For men: The Mankind Project http://www.mkp.org/

For men in the northwest: The Mankind Project http://www.mkpnw.org/