When studying the occult, I was introduced to the idea of initiation. In the occult usage, it was a ritual, either short and intense, or long a grueling to produce koan-like effect. A person puts their full concentration into something, their whole self is engaged, and then the subject of focus is completed, or taken away.. and for a while the self disappears with the task, and something is revealed.
I think that this is possibly a positive effect of the self- improvement racket. People who truly try, truly try to follow all Seven Strategies, or the tenets of the Celestine Prophecy, or whatever will eventually get their efforts worth. They will achieve their ideal selves, and will still have themselves to contend with. On Dec 31, 8:22 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > In theory, bumblebees should not be able to fly, but they do. Because > they have to. But people, no matter how smart or how skilled they > might be, do not always get off the ground. We are all born with > common sense, but we don't always, or often, use it. > > Must we drift without direction the rest of our lives? Are we doomed > if we seem incapable of using our common sense? No, says bestselling > author and professional speaker Barry Siskind. In Bumblebees Can't > Fly, he shows you how to develop and follow his Seven Strategies of > Common Sense. After mastering these simple yet shrewd strategies, you > will begin to make more confident decisions, improve your foresight, > listen to the wisdom already deep within you - and fly, like the > bumblebees! > > Yeah, right! Sadly for this dork and many other flat earth common > sensers, we do know how the bumblebee flies in theory and practice. > They make use of turbulence, like moths. The seven simple yet shrewd > strategies come to you from a berk daft enough not to do basic > research on the metaphor central to his pitch. This is the essence of > personal development - first find a market segment so stupid it will > swallow any old tosh and then write that old tosh! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
