[warning: this email may have some too explicit imagery for some] This morning in my am meditation, I had a minor aha right as I was about to ring my tibetan temple bells to usher me into a NOW, which while expanded, very expanded, I (k)now can be even be a bigger NOW, a fatter NOW, a jumbo NOW, full like the 900lbs. person I dreamt of last night (somehow that fat person began slimming down, don't remember how).
There I was holding the bells and there was a small gap between each dish (what DO you call each 1/2 of the bell?), and there I was, right at the Big Bang. That's the power of the bells, we are reliving the birth of the universe each time we ring those bells. This time, though, there was a serendipitous short pause before I rang those bells, as if I caught in slow motion the experience of Right Before Now. This whole Big Bang imagery takes me back a few days to some really strange places I have been recently in the course of joyously working with my own aggression-- I have been using processwork for the innerwork on aggression. I worked at taking the aggression to the source, and I haven't gone far enough with it. Where it has taken me thus far, though, is meeting God (he looks like a composite of two aging hippies I know) and raping him, him being unfazed by it, and I go further to the Beginning, and there I am outside, then inside the pea of the Big Bang humming the energy frequency that that pea emits right before It All Happens. It was great to be there. And, of course, that place is a place like any other. Just let it go. This work I think is helping me to love everything and everyone around me like never before. It is absolutely delicious! Marei, when you shared about your plans, I saw some of me because I sense right now I am on the cusp of something big. I say, go for it! And I know the power of liberation from limiting beliefs. While I don't have avatar (which I would like), I am working with my limiting beliefs to the extent I can. And that liberation is oh so sweet. And it's great to pose those same hard questions to others-- when it feels right-- and see those gears turns inside people's heads. Posing those questions have this quality of half-stopping-the-world. Kind of like riding in a lime green, rusty open top run down sports car at full pitch and slamming the breaks, slowing down While I am still teaching English and not fully thrown into doing OST and Genuine Contact work, I am bringing more and more elements of OST and GC into English. And it's delightful. I will be using the medicine wheel in two classes soon (both in a transnational corporate setting). I will be ringing temple bells at the beginning of a one to one English class soon too. Man the NOW can be delightful! [It's great to] Open (the) Sesame (two way) Street to your heart baby! --another message brought to you by the letter "r" p.s. In my book, the artist who exemplifies well the creative spirit of Open Space Technology is independent radio artist Joe Frank (joefrank.com) Some of his audio is available for free at joefrank.com (you need to go thru free registration first). Some of his imagery can be rather violent and disturbing for me, but at its heart his work is about his relationship with faith, God. I wonder if he knows about OST. My favorite piece of his is called Escape from Paradise about a trucker who loves his work, who has only one accident in which 200+ people die and thousands are evacuated because the chemicals he was transporting blew up in a huge mushroom cloud. After which, that trucker is hospitalized, after recovery the trucker comes back to a changed trucking market, he is forced to transport contraband (first marijuana, then illegal aliens), and then the trucker is caught, lands in prison, but the prison is not your typical prison, it's a progressive one, with ballet, a film club, opera, poetry workshops and the like. But there is a revolt anyway-- over artistic direction...I can upload this piece for folks to listen (12mb) and you'll need a piece of software called real audio, too. (8mb). Or you can read about him at http://www.joefrank.com/newsarch/LAW97.html mailto:[email protected] * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
