Charles Drago Wrote:Happy Easter, Ed.
Hear Brubeck's "Forty Days."
I have three copies of it, the best likely the latest featuring Millitello, though it's hard to beat the original. They are loaded onto my iPod, and I listen to them frequently.
I'll see your "Forty Days" with this:
I also had two copies of something you ought to read, if you haven't: "Resistance and Contemplation" by James Douglass. I gave one of them away to a friend who has since abandoned me in his haste to suck up more of the neo-con millions and participate in their continued "transformation" of the world, including his native country; he's recently become a US citizen but I told him I cannot in good conscience rise for the national anthem when it is played at his son's forthcoming appearance in the Fens.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMjzxHzZnnI
Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while sleep
We will find you
Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world
It's my own design
It's my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help make the most
Of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do I'll be right behind you
So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world
I can't stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the world
Say that you'll never never never need it
One headline why believe it ?
Everybody wants to rule the world
All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
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It will have been a hyper-busy weekend.... I prepped for a sleep-over featuring a little boy almost four who is a handsome and intelligent young man who is often adamant -- like his father and perhaps me -- in his anti-authoritarian attitudes, and his kid sister: cute, loving, feisty and exclaiming her identity at age 1.5, followed by preparations to join wife's father at Easter services tomorrow with wife, then traveling to visit her mother in the nursing home, then traveling to spend
Easter egg hunt with steaks grilled event at the cherubim's other grandma's house, then racing home to catch the premiere of this year's
Chopped All-Stars second annual championship ( I discovered them last year when Nate Applebaum won and I wrote to him, and he called me on the phone). I do love to cook.
The weekend also featured a deep read (this the second time through) of Ann Jauregui's immense and intense little book entitled "Epiphanies" (along with side references to related texts like Mayer's "Extraordinary Knowing"), and the receipt of the new Holosync discs along with a special extra freebie entitled "
The Conscious Thought Generator" (The Map of Realty Expander [TM]). The relevant parts (and the weekend's musings) will be written up for forthcoming blog entries. [The last entry "Why Bother?..." set an immediate blog record for number of hits.]
During the sleepover, the four-year old got to play with "the grand piano" attached to the computer. Not yet savant material, he spent most of the time going up and down the available five octaves with one finger and on the fourth trip said
"When things get repeated, they form a pattern."
How fascinating.... Perhaps I'll get him a membership at DPF for his fifth birthday.
Having listened to the first Holosync disc ["Awakening 2.0"] as instructed, this thought came to mind when I was five minutes into it:
Every one of us comes with the necessary "factory-installed" equipment to accomplish some of the extra-ordinary metacognitive capacities discussed in the books listed in the bibliography at Summon The Magic. It's merely a question of whether we want to acknowledge, explore, develop and add customization in finding the appropriate and functional higher quality "after-market" enhancements.
"Forty Days" speaks musically without words about the internal challenges that arise when lost in meditation in the ultra-silence of the desert (echoed by Jauregui's accounts of her evenings and days in Death Valley). "Resistance and Contemplation" speaks from the Merton example of monastic meditation. The bibliography of "Epiphanies" is a tour de force in post-modern physics and spirituality, and I will continue to mine it.
Easter is one of the major celebrations of the theory of
immanence, something also understood in their own way by New England's transcendentalists on whose periphery sat Sarah Orne Jewett. Gaffney's, whose book "Black 9/11" is pre-ordered, also wrote of Jesus' initiatory teachings on immanence.
Happy Easter.
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If you bring forth what is within you,
what you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you,
what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
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