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Peter E. Pflaum. Ph. D.
In Search of the Miraculous:
The Ancient Ways of Knowledge (Sufi)
There are four paths to understanding your full capacities as a human:
The
wagon is the body (one).
The horses are the passions, the driving force
(two).
The driver is the mind (three) and the master-passenger is the soul
and spirit. (four) Seven colors for stages of awareness.
Path One:
The Magician
(
The Wagon) BLUE (Sensual) Progressive Relaxation - Autogentics - "Body Knowledge"
- bioenergics and deep relaxation - learning
to feel the "life force" - become fully aware of the body, and your real material nature - WAKE UP! Getting in touch with your natural powers of intuition, and perception - the keys to good heath; Nutrition - Exercise
Path Two:
The Lover
(
The Horses) YELLOW and RED (Loving and Passions) Self-Hypnosis, reprogramming and dream work - Biofeedback and New techniques free the emotions and passions that are the "driving Force";
Understand the animal nature. WAKE-UP the free energy that now is wasted in blame, guilt, shame. Center renewed strength through love, compassion, hope and union - WAKE-UP your power to have compassion for yourself and love for others -
The keys to good relationships and mental health.
Path Three:
The Mind
(
The Driver) RED to BROWN (passion to grounding) Meditation and visualization - Open the Imagination - Yoga, Tantra - the
Science of Breath - focus of the mind - Spiritual nature - PAY ATTENTION -
Zen - WAKE-UP to your powers of concentration and focus - the keys to contentment and satisfaction - success in the tasks of life Coping Skills -
Assertiveness - Thought Stopping - LETTING-GO
Path Four:
The Commander
(
The Master - Dominating Self)
WHITE Union- GREEN mystic, BLACK passing-on - CLEAR passing-into the light, you will experience enlightment. You will get in touch with more of yourself. You will improve your relationships with others. You will be successful in the tasks of life. You have learned to control the horses (passions), you have learned to take care of the wagon (the body); the driver is awake and sober (the lucid brain) - now you are master of all your spirit -
You are in COMMAND. You have learned Self-observation;
Self-remembering
You have been here before and you will return again
Benefits:
Understanding created by this class will create an autogenetic response leading to better self-management Techniques. This experience will help you think and feel much better. It will help you relax and reduce stress. You will learn how important and valuable it is to integrate the mind, body and spirit.
The exercise will help you to observe and understand your own feeling, character, and gain more control of your own life.
These sessions will create a feeling of pleasure, joy, and over all well being.
You will become a calm and relaxed person - with rejuvenated body sensations, you will see more clearly, you will have clear and focused thinking. You will experience cheerful thoughts, you will have a more healthy body, you will be joyful of spirit, you will be full of energy, you will have clear goals, you will experience less self-destructive behavior. You will straighten up your thinking. You will release your energy that has been tied up in internal feeling of guilt, blame, accusing others and yourself. You will be able to forgive others as the cause of your problems and pain. You will become aware of these negative feeling of shame, fear - these negative feeling will be replace by positive feeling of trust - security - certainty - patience - inspiration - You will become a calm focused person. People will want to be with you. People will love you. You will know true intimacy - love and union, mind, body and spirit. You know true intimacy - love and union, mind body and spirit; beyond any desires, passions, need, wants,
YOU ARE PERFECT -
Book:
The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, Davis, Martha; Eshelman, E.R.; McKay, M.; New Harbinger Press
Note on prices: Average cost = $1000 a day plus expenses
COURSE OUTLINE
PFLAUMP@freenet.scri.fsu.edu
RE: Notes from
The Secret Garden:
Mahmud Shabistari, (E.P. Dutton & Co, 1974)
Sufism is not a religion.
The Sufi practice is a the science of man, or the "Science of Certainty." In most societies, most of the time, the Sufi could not find acceptance or a
fair hearing. Any ideas that were not devoted to the service of the state and the prevailing ideology were regarded as not only odd but dangerous treason, and was feared as subversive.
The Moslem cults, the brotherhood, and many others are mixtures. Will the real Sufi please stand up.
Sufi cloaked their teaching and activities in the outward garb of religion.
The ability to pretend and remember what is image and what is real, is a critical Sufi art - but many cults came to believe the outside as inside. Sufis focused on cultural pursuits which in authoritian societies allows certain freedoms and contacts with different people.
The Persian-speaking Sufi's dominated the classics, which became convert Sufi textbooks.
The public forms of Sufism are imitations.
The desire for fantasies led to groups and activities that are popular and acceptable to the dogmatic climate. Imitation Sufis abounded. Scholars and the public are naturally confused on what is true Sufism and what is mystic popular imitations.
The Christians have the same problem - the unreal imitations of Christ and popular but weaken practices. A belief that some cult has a special way.
Spain became a Sufi center in the Middle Ages, and still in the south reverberates in songs and stories.
The spread of Culture from Spain and the Renascence brought Sufi practice to Europe.
The Freemasons were partly based on these traditions.
The Sufi have a special science in psychology and the study of man. All Sufi activity in the West until after WWI was private. Sir Richard Burton only saw imitation cults and did not know of the small private non-cultist Sufis.
The Russo-Armenian philosopher Gurdjief published the first western text about a origin in Central Asia with links to the distant past, early forms of Christianity and the monasteries in the Hindu Kirsh. Ouspensky, a disciple, transmitted these ideas in lectures, demonstrations, and books.
Dr. Maurice Nicholl and Dr. Kenneth Walker used the psychologically-oriented to attempt a system of practice.
The authors of the Bloomsbury group brought Sufi ideas to literature which continues today by many writers - Borges, Lesing?, (many more).
The true Sufi potential was largely untouched. Sufi does not have authority figures, a or a set of customs or habits. It is more open than Zen and even more difficult to fix in place. Hadrat Sayed Idries Shah in the major book "
The Sifis" brought light to the confused situation. His work has brought the Sufi tradition back into focus for the West.
The all too human desire to have a talisman, a messianic figure who would transform the world is not true Sufi but many cults still seek such a ideal. Idries Shah would not confine himself to closed groups who thought they had key to wisdom.
The desire to feel special, to have secrets, ceremonies and special knowledge is not unique to these Sufi cults. It is tribal.
Poets, scientist, professors of literature and physics, anthropologist claimed something of value in Idries Shah's work. Serious sociological journal found the ideas of prime importance in solving current human problems in advanced societies. It's vital importance to education and learning became the Society of the Understanding of the Foundation of Ideas (1966).
So what is Sufi - first you find a Guide - to be continued.
1. FEELINGS - THE NATURE OF BEING HUMAN
After the first exercise each group will report about it's activity feelings. Each activity will include a presentation on the next set of activities
The students need to read and discuss the short outlines, ideas, and saying in their groups then assign someone to write up a summary of the discussion and its connection to the activity. This is the first level.
The purpose of sufi science is to think systematically about human behavior including your own. Physical sciences have accumulated "knowledge" of the "laws of nature." Because of magnified thinking, science and technology has changed human life in basic ways over the last few centuries. Science makes a distinction between opinion and facts. Facts are parts of knowledge that can be believed beyond a reasonable doubt. Facts exist independently of the attitude of the person, their culture and interests.
The practical applications of knowing more and having greater skills is not a matter for debate. If the student as a person and as member of a society is better informed and better organized than other persons or groups they will be more sucessful.
The smart coordinated will gain more points than the stupid and poorly organized. Compare Haiti and Switzerland or Florida and Massachusetts or Volusia County and Seminole County, to see the effects of different levels of wealth, education, skill, political institutions, and general sophistication. We must make these distinctions or everything becomes a meaningless blur. Of course, some people will not like the comparisons.
In evolution and "creationism" the idea of scientific facts is tested against strongly held religious beliefs.
The facts of geology, astronomy, evolutionary biology and even genics "prove" that the universe is about fifteen billion years old and life is several billion. History is carried in our genes. We all agree the earth spins around the sun, energy and matter are neither created nor destroyed, to every action there is and equal and opposite reaction, E=mc2 and we believe in other "laws of nature."
These are "theories" that explain phenomena until there is a "better" theory.
The clockwork image of the Newtonian theory has been replaced by a "probability" quanta theory because of new observations in physics.
The first issue for discussion is the nature of "knowledge" and the role of science in the understanding of human relations.
Question two is about the nature of human interactions. Can there be a scientific study of man and society? If so what "laws" have been discovered? Is there a natural law in human affairs?
CONNECTION TO EXERCISE:
The beginning of understanding starts with ourselves and our "group." We learn to listen to each other and find out what is important to us as people. What do we know about ourselves? "Who am I?" We learn by interaction with others and seeing how we are the same and different.
The beginning of awareness of the "world" is by opening windows into ourselves and others. It has been called conscienceness raising. A primary goal of social science education is to become more aware of the connections between what we are and the larger social and global context.
Discuss these ideas in your group. Write up a short statement of what you believe. (Agreement and disagreement)
Then the groups pick someone to make a report to the class. Find the connection to the empathetic recall exercise. What is the mission for your life ?
PERSONALITY
SUFI Science depends on a theory of psychology. Psychology and the social sciences are not two separate subjects but just ways of looking at the same issues. TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS or SOCIAL RELATIONS is the study of people within systems. People are not fully "human" except for social systems and groups and societies are only collections of people.
The "ME" is the interpersonal self and the "I" is the personality held out to the world.
Psychology is based on the working of the brain.
The under standing of nerves and biochemistry of mind-brain functions can give a solid foundation to understanding how people function.
The right and left brain (for right-handed people) is a physical characteristic where the linear language center is located in the left part of the brain and the visual holistic centers are in the right brain.
The YIN and YANG of personalities are the balances between the ordered step-by-step left brain compared to the pattern seeking and generalizing right brain.
The Myers-Briggs method is based on a psychology developed by Jung.
The four dimensions of the test which are; introvert/extrovert, intuition/sensing, feeling/thinking, and perceiving/judging fit into the two dimensions of the yin/yang right/left brain types. People tend to be practical (extrovert, sensing, thinking and judging) or spiritual, (introvert, intuitive, feeling, and preceiving ) male or female, structured or weblike. One type is extroverted, sensing, thinking, judging (practical - concrete sequential/experience) the other is introverted, intuitive, feeling, abstract and reflective.
Social groups reinforce certain characteristics and suppress others. Learning and behavioral "styles" depend on biology (temperament) and social conditioning.
The "ME" depends on the nerves and chemicals in the brain, the "I" is the result of family and social life.
The two may match or conflict.
The individual seeks pleasure and avoids pain. Social systems "function" as pathway of individual behavior - accepted or repressed.
These pathways can be open, partly open, closed or completely closed. Evolution, cooperation and competition, set the biological framework for the species. Human appear to have evolved from packs.
The "pack" or tribe has both cooperation and competition in gaining protection from predators and other packs.
They cooperate in the long process of raising children. (Compare the movies "Arrowhead" of Ayn Ryan MGM? and "Our Daily Bread" or "
The Salt of the Earth" from Warner Brothers)
The big brain of people requires and large head. Babies have to be born small enough to get out. Human infants are especially helpless for a long time and need the protection and support of the group. Men are only 20% bigger than women. This suggests that stable pairs rather than dominate male mating patterns were common. In animals where one male dominates the herd the males get very large because only the toughest male gets to breed.
The function of social groups is to survive and reproduce.
The development of language, technology, social habits help one society grow and expand, while other societies decline and disappear. Vast majorities of "tribal" societies have not survived and have been overrun by more successful groups.
The expansion of the "White, Western" civilization in the last few centuries was based on advanced military technology (growth of modern science) and governmental and private systems of finance, insurance, taxation, and other forms of social organization. Honda and General Motors compete. One form of social organization is superior to the other.
There are winners and losers of market-share. So it is with cultures and empires.
The western capitalist system also is a form of "character" or personality.
The attributes of adventure, change, enterprise, is summed up in "Achievement Motivation." Expanded roles of individuals is seen through builders and conquerors of new worlds. Money, wealth, possessions are seen as the symbols of success.
The stress on individualism lets us forget that capitalism was and is a social event. Democracy (western style), capitalize (western style), Protestant religion, and science and technology are part of a "seamless web" of social interactions.
Our superior civilization is now under attack by other cultures with other advantages. History does not stop but keeps the pressure on. Success leds to "arrogance" and the sin of pride (hubris) is man's downfall.
3. Session 3 - CREATIVITY
Humans become human by training. People learn their role and "how to behave" from the social system - families, schools, churches and other institutions. This is tradition, folkways, customs, morals, totem and taboo. Gemeinshafts are small village and clan systems where people are individuals within a semi-closed society. Gesellschafts are complex modern societies whichbecome impersonal. People become roles and function, rules aresemi-rational and technical, and there is more competition, exchange and conflict.
Information processing - setting goals and objectives (sub-goals) - knowing where to find information; ordering the vastamounts of data (good, poor, and terrible) into a useful system,looking for alternatives, and making choices based on facts and reasoned risks is the critical survival skills of today and tomorrow. We start with creativity because first we have to look out side the ruts we are all in. Social systems and traditions are both guides and ruts. If you are lost its sometimes a good idea to follow in the ruts of others and hope they know where they are going - but sometimes its a good idea to look up and set your own goals based on your own vision.
First we need to pay attention. Open our eyes! What is going on here? What do we do when we don't know what to do?
Dr.
Peter Pflaum 
Copies of the SYNERGY JOURNALS sent by request: wiredbrain@earthlink.net Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D. , Headmaster GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE 225 Robinson Road, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169 (904) 428-7924
We still need a name for the UCD: UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE
or "information - communications - appliance - utility-
network computer, cable or wireless black box modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ), play station,
boom box, CD, DVD, telephone, wireless, cordless, portable, TV,
radio, pager, laptop, notebook, library, GPS, map, yellow pages,
combat walk and talk and call in air strikes more". Technology is going to make the world around us smart
as we move away from proprietary architectures to a standards-based
ecology of information.
The market for the bandwidth and the appliances is
global - with billions of clients world wide.
The money is in software now moving from "programs" to
content. The content will be interactive media that includes
program functions. ISP such as AOL, will provide multimedia E-mail
as a word processor that can handle graphics, photographs, soon
video and data files. The browser becomes a universal systems
package do all the most common functions as plug-ins. The USB
universal serial bus ties to printers, sound and video systems,
play stations, phones, keyboards and voice commands, other
appliances and services. Microsoft-NBC-General Electric, merge
into a convergence of media and communications services. Time-Warner,
the News Corp., Disney-ABC, are positioning themselves for the
transformation of many business into one. The current crop of
Internet stocks are unlikely to be very important.
Other business includes finance, matching buyers and sellers, and
a thousand other ideas and items. The ISP becomes a bank and
travel agent, department store, and service center. Wal-mart,
Sears and other may need their own ISP. Clients will pay the ISP
for telephone service, cable, lease of hardware, Internet, credit,
and may buy their insurance, tickets, or dishes from a company
they trust, so it all adds up.
A limited set of functions and libraries in or around a CPU, with
the capacities of a play station, will run a package of on demand
utilities called from the network. Once there is a break in the
bandwidth, your browser can quickly call down any packages it may
need - high speed smart updates means you don’t have to have
everything stored. Office systems can do this now but are afraid
to be pioneers with arrows in their backs. Once Sun, Oracle, IBM
or others really have high performance objective networks there
will be no need for the bloated windows operation systems.
The market often is as slow as the political process in facing
the inevitable forces of technology and social history. Cartels
and semi-monopolies are the natural outcome of free competition
because organizations can join together to control markets.
The robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th century, such
as Morgan, Carnegie, Mellon, Rockefeller, Stanford, Dupont
controlled steel and oil, railroads and chemicals. General Motors
president Alfred P. Sloan worked with the du Pont's to control
the auto market. A U.S. Court of Appeals finds that Aluminum Co.
of America (Alcoa) held a 90 percent monopoly in U.S. aluminum
ingot production before the war, a monopoly enjoyed by the
Mellons for more than half a century. See RCA (NBC - Victor )
below..
Sun's McNealy portrays perils of running the Wintel 'gauntlet' )
( Windows/intel )
http://www.excite.com/computers_and_internet/tech_news/zdnet/?article=zdnews2.inp
Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc., one could easily
draw the conclusion that most of the ills in the computer
industry stem from one company and one company only.
The charismatic McNealy used large portions of his keynote
address here Thursday at Sun's JavaOne developers conference, as
well as a subsequent press conference, to paint Microsoft Corp.
as a ruthless monopoly destroying companies and promoting a
flawed business model.
" The market economy works until somebody gets so much market
power that they are beyond market principles," he said.
McNealy said Microsoft's monopoly on the desktop through the
Windows operating system enables it to sell "bloat"
like Office 2000 that people have to buy.
" The other opportunity it has is to go out and buy little
companies that wouldn't normally be successful, bundle them into
their Windows or Office hairball and use their lock-in and
monopoly leverage to make them successful and drive everyone else
out of business," McNealy said. "That makes everybody
want to sell their company for a price lower than they want to
because if you're not the one bought, you're done."
One of the best examples of how new technologies can be dominated
by powerful forces that control standards was the companion
development of hardware ( Radios, phonographs, and then
television ) as well as soft ware, the programming, records and
content necessary to sell the product. People won’t buy
radios or TV if there are no stations, there can’t be
stations until people have radios or TVs. RCA supported the
networks in order to sell radios. Then they made more from the
broadcasting then they did from hardware.
Sarnoff, David, 1891–1971, American radio and television
pioneer; b. Russia. He worked for the Marconi Wireless Co.,
winning recognition as the narrator of the Titanic disaster (1912).
After the Radio Corp. of America absorbed (1921) Marconi, Sarnoff
became general manager. As president (after 1930) and chairman of
the board (from 1947) of RCA, he played a major role in the
development of television.
A superheterodyne circuit developed by U.S. Army Signal Corps
major Edwin Howard Armstrong, 26, became the basic design for all
amplitude modulation (AM) radios. It greatly increases the
selectivity and sensitivity of radio receivers over a wide band
of frequencies (see 1906; FM, 1933). Radio Corp. of America (RCA)
was founded by Owen D. Young (see 1919) who loans Ernst
Alexanderson to RCA which will employ him as chief engineer for 5
years (see 1906). RCA acquired the Victor Co. and become a radio-phonograph
colossus but anti-trust court actions will separate RCA from GE (see
VICTROLA, 1906; NBC, 1926). David Sarnoff urges marketing of a
simple "radio music box." The American Marconi Co. says
his plan will make the radio "a ‘household utility’
in the same sense as the piano or phonograph" (see 1912;
1920).
American radio and television pioneer who proposed the first
commercial radio receiver and in 1926 formed the National
Broadcasting Company. The first vinylite phonograph record
appears in October. RCA-Victor issues a new recording of the 1895
Richard Strauss work Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche, but
vinylite will not displace shellac until the perfection of long-playing
records (see 1948).
