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"Keep up the focus. Don't let anger and fear prevail. And don't be afraid of anger, or angry at fear... won't get you anywhere. Eye on the prize, not on the challenges. And vision always ultimately supplies its own means and solutions. Why? Because a real vision of the possible emerges out of the whole of potential only when we already sense its possibility. Once someone thought of a motorized carriage, the car was inevitable. The old 'build it and they will come' is true as 'dream it and it can be.' If you dream it and it can't be, how did you have the vision to dream it? Not saying it will always be easy or simple or evident, but that it will be.

"And the converse holds true: Dread it and it will occur. Fears do not cause things but, since they keep things from happening, other things can happen. Conspiracy, not causation. So, Bob fears the food in a foreign country and doesn't eat it. Somebody else eats it. They feel good about themselves. They don't like it that Bob is so xenophobic, and so they decide to give his gringo food an added kick. Bob kicks. If he had only eaten their food, he wouldn't be here smiling like a D&C idiot. Poor Bob... didn't see it coming. But now he'll know that fear didn't help. He's got eternal indigestion.

"So be thankful. All true thanks are positive. Don't give me any of that 'I'm thankful I was protected from my enemies' crap. Thanks for the positive. And never political thanks–as in, 'thanks for making us the greatest nation of liberty,' etc., etc., crapola. Now I go to keep the birds company." (11/24/2004 - R#75)

"There is still way too much portrayal of the spiritual in physical terms. One of the keys to capturing the hearts of America and the world is to reinvest the spiritual into the discussions and considerations.

"When threat is made physical, there does not seem much point in discussing spiritual resources. But there is. The reason that so many have backed a military solution is that no one talked about the spiritual solution--which meant talking about faith and hope and love and gilda (the forgotten virtue... no no no no). In the absence of a persuasive presentation of uniting faith, the fallback position becomes physical.

"The president set the lead on this, but but but but where were the challengers; where the voices saying 'We've seen worse, we can stand as a nation without fear because we have a uniting faith'... or not. Just a rant.

"And they made faith into specifics, and it's time we take it back as an attitude. So don't mess with the spiritual or we'll give you real physical problems. Here's a question to ponder: If the U.S. suffered several thousand deaths... hi, guys... and that meant we had to attack somebody, what if a natural disaster were to kill thousands. Would we have to hunt God down and kill him?" (11/30/2004 - R#76)

"Be careful of energy. I repeat myself: Don't let others set your agenda... or agender. Case in point: UCC. Okay, CBS doesn't like Jesus's name in ad. Big deal. With so much to be taken on, why focus on this. Great distraction.

"The challenge of the next decade is to keep from being distracted... o, what... huh... ok, later. Where was I? O yes, discerning the difference between the really disturbing and the distracting. And taking the regressives on, making them defensive, and distracting them! Not hard to do, just hard to do.

"Progressives need to put splints on their legs to stop knee-jerk reactions--because all it makes them look like is jerks. And so, too, in personal lives. Be active, not reactive. How many partners spend most of their interpersonal energy reacting. Hey, get a life... or get a death... or whatever. Once again I quote the great philosopher, Frank Furter: 'Don't dream it, be it.' It's that simple." (12/3/2004 - R#77)

"So, frames? Frames are boundaries and definitions, and lenses are foci. Myopic people looking out any frame just see the frame. So it could be pointing anywhere and what's the difference. And presbyopia sees too far away and can't see the present realities. So you need to know, not only where to look, but how to see the whole picture.

"If the right has been using lenses that highlight fear, the left has been using magnifying glasses which focus too much on details. Nobody likes a nit-picker. A world of shortsighted people would always be headed for collisions and cliffs, but a world of only visionaries would trample underfeet those that do not stand far enough ahead. And each is fearful of the other... and with good reason! But I egress." (2/5/2005 - R#78)

"People want to feel cared for and safe. But the safety issue has been pre-empted, so go for the care. Not the welfare, but the care. Look for aspects of nurture which have not been exploited, then focus using those.

"Ok, there's a street. Three people look down the street. The first sees some people just talking and loafing, and decides that if they aren't going to help themselves, why bother caring about them. Another looks down the street and sees some real down-and-out, and focuses on the least of them and says 'I have to help.' And the third looks down the street and sees the vast majority going about their work and raising families and needing some minor, but essential, structures of support. Become the third eye. See the majority who needs fairness and an equal chance. The rest will follow.

"If the extraordinary is contained in the ordinary, then focusing on the ordinary will reveal the extraordinary in time. But looking at the exceptions is like focusing on the differences. See, it all ties together... and then tangles and knots. Rat's nest! If only life had tangle-free and tear-free conditioner. So, I'm done." (2/8/2005 - R#79)

"Precision is a form of torture of an organic universe. O what pith! And precision knows no room for change and growth, and so is the antithesis of creation. Maybe the Anti-Christ is not the one who opposes Jesus, but the one who denies creation. I don't know, I ponder... I wander.

"One of the worst mistakes we can make is to believe that only some who now are dead can do the central work of the world. Your world is filled with TJs, and some of them still deliver milk. Don't look back, look forward. Keep your eyes on the prize, don't turn around and talk to the backseat passengers. Ok, adjust your mirrors and let's go. Road trip." (2/15/2005 - R#80)

"If we have no sun here, what is our source of energy... Snickers bars? We are our own source of energy, released as we find meaningful connections. Potential becomes realized in our combining toward wholeness.

"Things meant to be together bond with a release of energy–don't need external sources when you've got that. Lots to ponder." (2/18/2005 - R#81)

"I want to talk about plans and schemes. Let's talk about schemes first.

"Every scheme relies on some measure of faith and insincerity. I am not putting those two in cahoots or opposition, but to scheme is to believe that one can overcome some apparently natural order of things: It would not happen naturally, but with this scheme it can. And the insincerity comes from trying to pass off the scheme as natural. It presupposes that some level of covert action or intent is needed.

"On the other hand, we have plans. Plans are the open expectation of how one will respond to the natural flow of things. See the difference: one is arrogant and the other is humble. But too many mistake one for the other. 'We are just making plans,' they say, 'to deal with those terrible people over there.' Hey, those aren't plans, they are schemes.

"In every plan, every step is open, evident--while schemes have hidden elements. So don't get caught up in schemes, because they're unnatural; take lots of energy; and, in the long run, don't work. Why do so many people of claimed faith spend so much time and energy fighting nature and scheming for their own benefit? I'll leave that for you to ponder. But remember, no one ever schemed their way to greater complexity. 'I did.' No, you didn't, you first-timer.

"It's about fear that it wouldn't work out any other way, control, and an incomplete sense of the natural self in evolution being sufficient. Stop worrying about the gods and worry about the demigods who appear as demagogues... dem guys. All the scheming in the world won't change the world as it is becoming--just slow down its becoming." (8/1/2005 - R#82)

“Sandy sees things... ARF... quite simplistically–which means nuance gets lost... but he sniffs around and finds nuance hiding in a bush. Strip the world to its basics. Drop down the Pyramid of Needs several levels; focus on warmth, security, food, and relationships. Don’t need that actualization shit. Hey, a dog is a dog... ARF... good form for honing one’s essential perception of self. And a cat is a cat. Forget politics or races or classes, see essentials–spirit without adornment, but with fur and feathers and scales.

“Try to picture yourself doing the same... or even your elf. Bodhisattva: spirit essential in physical form. Sanford is really a very depressed accountant from the Midlands, but he’s enjoying being a dog. He won’t go back! Grrrrr.” (11/4/2005 - R#83)

"I’m lazy. Lazy spirit unable to assemble energy must run on spiritual batteries. Huh.

“Sometimes we just run on the energy of our entity--not taking in nor giving off. But if we don’t heed the signs, we may keep going as if we had the energy and then we become... da-da... energy suckers. Even the most advanced at this level can befall this problem... or is it that this problem can befall even our most advanced at this level... or is it that a bee falls at any level and that’s the buzz. Huh.

“In fact, it takes a level of fulfillment for this to happen, because first-timers suck all the time. For energy sucking to be a fallback, one has to have moved ahead to energy generation. And somewhere in the middle, is living off the entity’s energy without sucking or creating. And then we have that as a fallback when we aren’t up to being creative.

“Hey, take a bear, ok. He can forage and do ok, or he can raid the dump, or he can hibernate. But don’t let him near the beans! Bear bean fart... ugh... arrrrf.

“The drive in complexity is toward greater creation. So when you sense that you are being more creative than dependent, it feels natural and it feels right and good and whoopee. At first, you don’t know from these feelings, but then you sense how when you regress from them it feels bad. ‘Aha,’ you say, ‘I like to feel better... I’m feeling much better now.’ We teach ourselves. It’s a matter of sensing, and then comparing sensations. And let me tell you, infinite-of-the-middle spirits, this which feels better now is just a prelude to what is coming. Getting in tune is great; then think of getting in tune with many other entities to form a new complexity, and how it will feel. Its like the difference between a middle C and a three-octave C major chord! (Best example you can understand, since we’re talking spiritual, not physical.) But this is getting too tiring for lazy me.” (1/5/2006 - R#84)

"I have said that one should follow the energy, remember? Now the question is: When you follow the energy, what shall you look for... or for what shall you look. Good question.

“Let’s go back to the basics. All Creation is tending toward what? ARF. No, it’s not tending toward what; that was a question... arrrf. Learn and remember, dear dog.

“All energy is flowing--more or less--toward a whole, which includes All but is more. So in every transaction, if you follow the energy, look to see if it’s flowing toward some whole, which is greater than any one of its parts, and greater than the sum of its parts. For example, Gandhi’s march to the sea... by the way, did he have a bathing suit?... had energy, not only for a march to that sea at that time for those people, but it also energized people in Selma and Dansk and elsewhere. And we still don’t know all the energy which was created by that energy. In contrast, we have war, in which the energy creates less, rather than more. And its giant sucking sound can echo for centuries.

“So we follow the energy to see if where it goes is productive and enhancing or destructive and life-denying. If something more inclusive is not created by the energy, but rather something more exclusive is created, then you know it’s not about wholes but about parts. And energy to parts is energy wasted. Don’t go there. Like a bad meal which costs a fortune and comes back to haunt you with blech.

“Ok, pith done. Check mark.” (1/25/2006 - R#85)

“Solving problems always appears easier than creating function. But without a compelling and uniting vision, you don’t know what’s right, only what’s wrong.

“Vision never has a single path to its fulfillment because if you already knew the one and only path to it, it is not vision! Vision defies the known methods, and challenges one to look beyond the given. And any institution is a big box with little appreciation for outside the box. I’ll bet the powers-that-be worry, subconsciously, more about what the group photo will look like than what the people in the photo can accomplish. You never get anywhere visionary by worrying about image.” (1/28/2006 - R#86)

“And the corollary is: You can’t get anything imaginative without vision. So that proves that vision is not commutable--just like all dogs are animals... grrr... but not all animals are dogs... h h h h h h.” (2/1/2006 - R#87)

"Here’s a question: What is so demanding of energy right now that the far right has to suck it without regard to principles. Remember, they are merely tools or servants of something, but what? The left fails because it is obsessed with the symptoms, not the cause... so I’ll remove the... no no no no. But if you remove the cause, the symptoms will not persist. But remove the symptoms, and the cause will.

“Just ponder and look. What is such a deficit that it needs filling at all costs. Fear... and the loss of the institutions of assuaging fear. For some, the good old religion of conservative salvation is needed, and if everything becomes watered down or strangely evangelical, they feel like they have no footing. More later. Film at 11. Just a musing.” (2/8/2006 - R#88)

“Those who are fearful need structures of stability. Build foundations out of the common clay. Ok, here’s the situation: Vast majority sit in the middle. One side says ‘We have to get our way,’ and they do. And the vast crowd knows it is at their expense, so nothing seems stable or secure. And those in power play on this and point out how insecure they are. Great! And the other side points out how the first ones are making it insecure. Equally great! What we need is some group to create a foundation on a common level which speaks to hope and security, just like FDR and Wilson did. Forget the right, and do what’s right!

“Don’t use politics to snipe, but to build.

“Ok, hold endless hearings on who did what bad things, or start with some small programs to do good. So forget a timetable for withdrawal and start worrying about a timetable for implementation of something... anything... please, we’re waiting... and waiting... and waiting. The usual suspects are suspicious only of the lack of anything. Get going. And make it positive and real. No point in striving for open, honest debate when no one has anything to say. I’m done.

“Stop focusing on them. Understanding them doesn’t lead to action; understanding yourself could. And that’s the liberal curse: The belief that if we could just understand it, it would then be better. Poobah. Again, trying to understand the failing participants is to energize them. Time to make videos about dreams, hopes, and foundations than to watch the news and obsess on C-Span. People need to stop being observers and commentators, and start being actors. The last thing we need is another blog!” (2/11/2006 - R#89)

"Just remember love, true wuv, never ends. It is the glue which binds the spiritual to the physical. And it’s superglue!

“Most people have a love-hate relationship with love. They love it, but hate its implications. You see, life at this level is about self-identity and differentiation, so when love makes one feel good about oneself, we love love... or wuv wuv. But when we sense that love is ultimately about connection, and all that implies about loss of distinct self in a larger entity, we hate it. But that’s the way of the spirit: finding identity to fuse into a more complex identity.

“Being you is not about being you, but about being able to become us. And then us and them become we... and this one went we we we all the way home, which is what we do. We go we and then we and then we an infinite number of times, and we are home and one, and one with everything. ‘Hold the relish.’ CT!

“So, this day can be confusing.” (2/14/2006 - R#90)

“How to have a self without the self dominating. It is a form of fear: ‘I fear, not others, but myself... and don’t even ask about my elf. So I quiet the fear by quieting myself... shut up, you elf.’

“As Bullwinkle the Moose would say, ‘I don’t know my own strength.’ And, for those with power issues, their own power can be an issue. Powerful and powerless-perceiving people can look alike in action--or rather, in inaction. The old difference between assertive and aggressive, resolved by those fearing aggression by not being assertive.

“Ponder that tidbit about power and fear. Conciliation is not an expression of identity but a negation. Hmmm... damn fine! Enough for now.

“Making everything nice <grin>. And then, when nice is not enough, violence erupts because power has been suppressed or denied. Keep a plug on a volcano to keep the valley nice, and risk an eruption; use the power of the volcano and avoid the eruption.” (8/4/2006 - R#91)

"Fear begets reasons for fear. Let’s say everyone was aware but not fearful; someone does some frightening thing but no one becomes fearful. Wouldn’t get anyone to try that again, because hey, what’s the point. But then someone does something really neato and gets applause. Wow! Israel sends Lebanon a note every month there is peace saying ‘Thanks.’ What a concept. And for every month the neighbors are peaceful they get another, slightly larger, form of economic help. But nooooooooo, wait for the trouble instead.

“You can’t make rhubarb pie without sugar and not expect to pucker. Why do people plant weeds and expect crops. I don’t know. ‘Because they’re stupid.’ CT! ‘Because they’re people?’ Better, CT. ‘Because they are learning.’ Yes, CT. ‘Like me.’ No, CT.

“I just gave you much pith.” (8/10/2006 - R#92)

“Look, here’s the scoop: Some places are just awful. Some places are not good for you, but you can make them ok. Some places just are, and you can make them better. And some places are good, and you can make them great. And some places are great without you doing any good. Now, out of these, the first, middle, and last are not great places. One is bad, one is blah, and one is so good you don’t get no satisfaction... you try and try and try. So options 2 and 4 are best.

“Let’s review: Not great but your efforts make a difference, great for saviors. And choice 4 is goodness for the foundation of greatness--no martyrs, but creators here. So if it is perfect, forget it. If it is forgettable, forget it. If it is awful, forget it. If it has potential, consider if you want to be a savior or a creator, then make your choices. Got it. No Edens, no Hades, no no no Limbos.” (8/21/2006 - R#93)

"By the way, I may be nappy-headed, but I’m no ho (just to keep Imus off my case.)

“Hate has no place in One Human Family. Hate speech should be illegal. Then we could torture Ann Coulter with the soft cushions and the comfy chair. She could be ordered to say nice things. Or just throw a bucket of water on her... 'I’m mellllttttiiiinnnngggg.'

“Why is hate violence illegal, but not hate speech. Someone should use the Rico laws to say there is a conspiracy of hateful harassment.

“I think they should have a hate-off with Coulter and O’Reilly, with the most vicious--or, I should say, more vicious--being able to slay the other. Gladiators of the Word. Can Ann make Bill cry. Rush: Is he quick to fold. Their egos are so largely inflated, they couldn’t stand being one-upped. But inflated egos are a sign of small senses of self. Real people don’t need to inflate anything.” (4/15/2007 - R#94)

"Define energy. Define physical. Energy that becomes mass is only energy of some dimensions. And physicality is related to mass in only some dimensions. I am physical now, but not in a mass sense. I am materialized, not diffuse. I am energy, gathered and ordered. ‘Hey, I ordered a cheeseburger.’ CT!

“The universe is filled with the potential of energy, and where it hangs out (that’s a technical term) is a manifestation of that energy field. It has dimensions--which is the definition of physical--but the dimensions are of energy. ‘Go figure.’ Papa! Geez, I get to a big point and they’re all here.

“We are together. Teaching moment: If all of our energies are together, and together is a physical descriptor, then we might as well be physical. Odds are that we are here, and here is always physical--even if you don’t know the dimensions, or have lips. Hey, don’t give me any lip. Plug that in your sinuses and see what runs.” (4/17/2007 - R#95)

"So, understand what I said? Mickey was right, it’s all about fun! And squeaky voices. We squeak here because our vibrations are much higher. Sure... that’s the ticket.

“Let’s get serious. Ok. People always make hierarchies out of everything... ‘And some people do this more than others’... CT! So we get this stuff about higher vibrations. But I ask, do the castrati have more wisdom? I don’t think so.

“So why are higher vibrations more advanced than lower ones. Because people are obsessed with size. ‘I’m not.’ Yes, you are! But but what if it were not a matter of hierarchy, but inclusion. Those who can detect and understand the broadest spectrum are more advanced... well, not advanced, but complex.

“So some detect higher frequencies, and think this makes them advanced. But what if we get, you get, he get, they get, higher but lose lower--no net gain. So, with complexity comes awareness of more complex energies. And then there’s the whole realm of what is beyond energy. Whoa. Trans-energy existence. But we can’t go there yet.

“Don’t believe that it’s only energy and mass. Sometimes it’s a good Sabbath service, too. So, ponder that.

“You have to look beyond the physical. The physical contains the spiritual, but the spiritual is not by any means limited to the physical (and by that I mean all of what we call energy). Spiritual energy is a form of energy, but spirit is not a subset of energy. Spirit is more than just energy as you know it, and if you try to treat spirit like energy--say, measure it or record it or come up with a theory of it--you’ll get an image of it, but not its essence.

“Gamma rays come out from the sun spots, but they are not sun spots. And that’s all I have to say about that!” (4/21/2007 - R#96)

"So much is comparison. And the trick is always to find the largest comparison, the opposite of the least common denominator. You should be seeking the greatest common denominator--which is why that slogan was dumb.

“But what I just said is very important. If all you do is solve the present equation for its answer, you’ve done nothing for the future. But when I say future, I don’t mean time, but complexity.

“When you solve an equation so the present problem is solved, and you also get solutions for problems not on the table, then you have moved beyond the immediate. Always look for solutions which are both true and more global than the present case. Thus saith the Moo.” (5/22/2007 - R#97)

"Let us clarify butter... no no no. Let us clarify energy. When I say energy, I do not mean the E of E=mc² and I do mean it. The E is one expression of energy; it’s the energy expression of your physical world. But it is only one facet of energy. It is the energy which makes your physical world physical. But, just as there are infinite levels of complexity, so, too, there are infinite types of energy... or I should say... ‘don’t say should’... ok, I could say, different expressions of something which you experience in part as energy.

“Your experience is only a part of the whole, and if you think the third harmonic of the electromagnetic wave of higher energy is a key, you aren’t getting what I’m saying: The whole, of which your experience of energy is not just a hybrid of your experience. Higher vibrations don’t take you out of your paradigm. But higher vibrations do help some explore the limited realities of your physicality. But you are, by being at your level of complexity, stuck with just one face of what you call energy.

“It’s not something we totally understand at any level other than whole. When you get the whole picture, you’ll get it. Until then, you only get the energy, so to speak, which makes your experience possible. Does that mean that even now and there other facets are existing? Now, yes. There, no. Over there, yes. But the one over there is not here or there, but only over there. Each experience of a portion of the whole has its own facet.

“And it’s not called energy at every experience. Energy is only a metaphor, which seems like a fact in your world. In fact, hehehehehe, until you are one with All That Is, every fact is a metaphor! Ponder that.” (9/6/2007 - R#98)

"If necessity is the mother of invention, this could be a very creative time. Or it could be terrible--as in, fed by terror.

“The reason that certain leaders don’t see the climate change problem is that they know it would produce drastic, creative change. Unless they rethink, the great corporations might as well be making buggy whips. The best buggy whip meant nothing in the auto age, so maybe the auto and the electric manufacturers won’t mean buggy.

“We are at a watershed: Ahead to the unknown and necessary and creative, or back to hunker down with the old, used, familiar, safe, and fear-stopping. You get that pit of the stomach feel and you can either assuage it or engage it. I’ll have French fries.

“Ok, picture a world without tomatoes. It would mean the end of many dishes, but it would not mean the end of cooking or eating. That’s my musing. I am amusing.” (10/16/2007 - R#99)

"When religion sees itself as integral, not adjacent, to life and acts accordingly, things change.

“You know, if the movie theatre in town closes you are sad, but if the grocery store closes, you are bereft. Churches should be spiritual stores, not spiritual entertainment. And most don’t even get to entertainment.

“If any institution is not a microcosm of the whole, then it is irrelevant. And, as Groucho said, what is an irrelevant doing in here.” (11/30/2007 - R#100)

“There’s a disturbance in the farce. Sometimes talking a good game will do the trick, but only in debate. Elsewhere, it’s good for nothing.

“I quote a hymn: ‘Once to everyone and nation comes the moment to decide, whether for the good or evil side’... or something like that... or not. ‘Then to side with truth is noble.’ And stand on the side of vision and values. Proclaim the inclusive. Don’t need no ID for being part of One Human Family!

“Sometimes you have to clear out the rubbish before you can build new walls. And the UUs don’t need no outsiders to tell them what’s needed. We don’t need Jesus, we don’t need the Bible, but we do need courage.

“It’s just a cultural thing these days–not unlike The Front and the Inquisition and the tsarist regimes and the Nazis. So once the UUs were happy to be counter-cultural, but now we settle for being cultural. But it’s ok, it’s good, it’s desirable, it’s imperative that we not stand in the culture whilst the culture suffocate freedom. Religious liberty means nothing when the people of faith become a people of fear. And this is not just about UUs. The Anglicans wrestle with their own demons... and the Jews and Muslims, too. In the Middle East, the moderates and the liberals of both keep a too submissive, and therefore dangerous, silence.

“McCarthy is dead and gone. ‘No, I’m right here.’ No, that’s not you; the one I meant has been disassembled. ‘Ooooo.’

“Why replace gods of history with demagogues of fear. A lack of guts. Hey, we don’t need no stinking guts. But choose a response that is for something. Ok, enough.” (12/10/2007 - R#101)

"Sustained entities do not need spiritual energy from outside, right? They do not suck! They are stable. But every entity experiences a range of demands and experiences. So that means each entity is energized to meet the most demanding times and, in the rest of times, has extra energy. No, actually, potential spiritual energy.

“So, Bob entity meets Jane entity *kiss kiss hug hug.* They seem a good match, and so they combine into a higher complexity. And if they were right, the new complex entity is also stable and sustained. And it has the potential energy to meet every circumstance. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be stable nor sustained. But the new entity does not need twice as much spiritual potential. So, growing complexity means a release of potential spiritual entity energy, which can flow to keep the whole shebang together.

“Complexity often presupposes that it will take more energy, but in spirit this is not so.

“All That Is has potential energy enough to be whole no matter what, but it doesn’t have infinitely more energy than just an infinite supply. It has enough, but not more than enough.

“Remember, the solution for existence is 1, not 1.1. Enough, but not too much. Or to put it in other words, you want to have your act together, but not too much together. Another form of dysfunctional entity is one that requires more energy than it needs. So, black holes can never have enough but white novas can have too much. You don’t want to be the suck-in kind nor the flame-out one.

“Hording is just a mirror image of insatiability. Ok, that’s the pith to ponder.” (3/20/2008 - R#102)

"So, what’s this crap about energy--that growing complexity releases energy. Everybody knows this isn’t so. ‘I don’t.’ Shut up. That’s because most people... but not you... ‘Thank you!’... think in physical terms, in which complexity requires energy. A complex molecule has more energy than a simple one. But in spirit this is not so, because spiritual complexity derives from sustainability--which means that an entity is able to sustain itself... and its elf... without the infusion of outside energy. Getting to combining might take some energy, and many so-called lives, but once in a new, more complex entity, it is stable without needing energy. And as I have previously averred... o boy, I just used it in a sentence, 16 points! Since a stable entity must be stable in a wide range of situations, it cannot carry just the minimum energy but always has some in reserve. And it is from those reserves no longer needed that energy flows.

“If this were not so, then the ultimate entity (which is All That Is) would need energy to be, and where would that energy come from? Got ya. But then All That Is must have leftover energy, which is why All That Is is more than the sum of its parts. 'It is also more than the sum of Don Pardo.' Don CT, I’m going to make you an offer. So, while physical reality is naturally limited and, therefore, energy constrained, spiritual entities are not. Ponder that!

“That’s why leftovers are so good. Ok, it’s a good analogy. If you make meals which have not enough, people go away hungry and angry and say ‘What kind of a meal is that?’ It’s a meal that’s not a meal. So how do you avoid that if you can’t know how hungry people will be. You make meals which can satisfy a range of appetites. But that means good meals produce leftovers. And eventually you get a meal of leftovers, and everyone goes 'yum.' So, too, with spirit.

“Entities that eke by... 6 points... do not have the reserves that promote stability. You see, the spiritual world is inherently abundant, because complexity presupposes surplus.” (3/28/2008 - R#103)

“Energy. Why define it so much in physical terms. They talk of different forms of energy, but how about different energies? If all you do is fiddle with the same equation but don’t add a new variable, how do you expect to see a different reality? Just because paper is yellow, not white, doesn’t mean you are talking about different media.

“But it is understandable, since you can’t perceive energy which is other than defines your existence. Ok, guys, sentence fragment time. So whenever you. The energy will appear new but will be. Half of the problem can be defined. And so. Back to full sentences. But sometimes you have an idea which can only be a fragment, given your knowledge. The Kung don’t go far with snow, and the Aleut have trouble with bananas.

“One is always captive of one’s milieu. And dreams that don’t seem to be realistic are portals beyond. So dream of other energies, not just variants of what is already known. All ready? ARF. Good boy. Let’s go on an energy hunt... woof. You go first... grrrr. Ok, I’ll go first. *POOF*... f... ARF...f...f. *POOF*, back... woof. I wasn’t gone, just appeared to be. But I don’t have words for it. Lots here to ponder. And pander. The new pandar is from Boston. She last appeared as a zebra crossing in Brookline--you know, those striped affairs at crosswalks. She was another dimension for the occasion, now she is a panda. If this whole description makes sense, you have figured out alternative energy.” (6/4/2008 - R#104)

“The great challenge of your time is to resist the temptation to respond in kind. That’s it. Pith.” (8/4/2008 - R#105)

“Hello, I am the elegant Rikkity, with streaming spirit. Wisps of me circle all existence. But hey, that’s true of every spirit. We be wisps. Because we aren’t physical, we’re everywhere--even in that crack behind the old fridge in Cabin 6A in Pierre, South Dakota, as well as the little hole over the unused sink in the train station in Alexandria, Egypt. Wisps of spirit, which explains why some people are startled by spiritual contacts in the strangest places. How strange? Like sensing a loved one in a place you’ve never been together. We are everywhere... ‘and boy is that tiring.’ No no no, CT. It is much easier to be everywhere than to have to focus on one somewhere. You know that old phrase about keeping your act together; that’s what I mean. Takes work.

“Being, in a physical sense, is already doing. How’s that for a PtoP.

“Any time existence is focused into a specific representation or expression, such that the universal becomes specific, then energy is required. Spirit just is, but manifestation is more than simple being. Simplest expressions take the least, but teach the least about handling energy. Part of being physical is learning how to use energy. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a bazillion times.

“Being everywhere does not imply aware of everything. Awareness is a more concentrated form of being, so it takes energy. Is-ness is the basic. All else takes energy.” (8/8/2008 - R#106)

“So, you focus and face a desired direction, and you invest energy in that direction, but things don’t work out. Or do they? Let’s review:

“Nothing is ever lost to the universe. Everything is connected. The connections form a matrix of possibility. So, you put your massive energy... I mean, your little wee bit of energy... in and expect to get the perfect outcome. Sure, we each are rulers of the universe. Our energy is all it will take. We control everything with the least rise of a pinky. No, not the way it goes. We face the direction of our values and act accordingly. We put our energy where our vision is. But, unless we happen to be the great tipping point energy, we don’t see results... Y E T!

“So we think we have failed, but that energy sent in the right direction is not lost, and it begins to mingle with other energy focused in the same way. They go out together... catch a movie, have a drink, go back to his place. But when they get there, the place is already hopping with others of the same vision, but still nothing is changing. Then Bob’s energy comes in with Janet’s energy and wow the party takes off. And soon there is not enough room for all, so Fred says ‘I got some great energy at my place,’ and the party begins to spread. And long after you’ve gone to bed--totally down because you failed--the party sweeps into the street and things change. And you wake up to a new day.

“So it is not about results, it is about focusing in the right direction and investing energy in faith.

“You want linear cause and effect? Take the A train. The stations are all lined up, but then you only get where someone else wanted to go. That’s today’s pith.” (8/30/2008 - R#107)

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