Important Decisions ... You only make a few really important decisions in your whole life, the ones that are life changing. Most people think they make important decisions every year, or month, or week ... or even every day. Some really self obsessed folks think they make really important decisions every hour! The reality is that most decisions have a very limited half-life, i.e.: the amount of time that decision lingers until you can make another decision that changes whatever happened as a result of the previous decision. The simple reality is that virtually all decisions have a half-life of some kind, meaning they can be changed or even completely reversed as though they never happened at all. Even getting a tattoo isn't a permanent decision, but for now removing a finger would be, although even that decision leaves you with prosthetic options. So when you think about it the only really big decisions, the important ones, are the ones that ripple out in space and Continue Reading
L’Chaim …
“To Life …” This morning I was inexplicably brought back to a memory of sitting on a small bench overlooking the bridge that crossed the pond at the Blue Dell Farm in Pemberton, NJ during a break, while at an NLP training with Roye Fraser. I’d gone there to study NLP with him, and discovered he was weaving a magical score with something he called “The Generative Imprint” using NLP to deliver and train in this model of transformational change he’d been developing for about a decade at that time. This was an unusual way to teach NLP, not by a series of exercises to teach either concepts or techniques, like representational systems or swish patterns, but in what he called “wholeform” (something I’d come to appreciate more as I delved into the work of the quantum physicist David Bohm). We’d all sit in the “Hypnotorium” Roye’s name for the room we worked in with him, that was a converted mechanics garage on the property he owned there in Pemberton. Roye would begin Continue Reading
Claiming Your Right To Be … Become The Buddha
Taking A (Semantic) Stand ... What Would It Take To Get You To Put A Stake In The Ground, And Claim That Space As Your Own?” One version of the story about the Buddha sitting under the Bodhi Tree seeking the complete unfolding of consciousness tells of his last challenge by the gods before his enlightenment. Just prior to realizing his final enlightenment the gods, represented by the demon Mara had him send his most beautiful daughters, sometimes thought of as “Lust” and “Desire,” to seduce the future Buddha, but he was unmoved by them, so they departed. Then Mara sent his monstrous army into the fray, and again Siddhartha Gautama, the future Buddha, sat unmoving and untouched. They launched their weapons, arrows and spears darkened the sky they flew in such profusion, but as they reached the future Buddha they fell around him having turned inflight into a shower of flowers. Finally Mara himself stood against the future Buddha, and he proclaimed his right to the seat Continue Reading
Reinventing Reality …
Why Sir Issac Newton Had To “INVENT” Calculus … (and why his reason should matter to you) “If you can’t tell if it’s reality you’re dealing with, you can’t possibly expect take action to create the results you want.” - Joseph Riggio, Ph.D. author of “The State of Pefection: Unleashing Your Hidden Code To Mastery” For decades I’ve been on about the alignment between our perceptions of reality (all I believe we ever have with regard to our sense of reality and our ability to act in the world as we know and experience it) and … What’s beyond beyond our subjective, or constructed, experience .. the manifest and extant data in the environment … “objective, empirical evidence” … what we must accept as true even when we don’t agree with it or like it … as we know it to be through our own empirical, sensory perceptual experience. BUT … this is no ordinary or easy task … i.e.: arriving at an empirical experience of reality that simultaneously allows for what cannot be known except by Continue Reading
