Peter E. Pflaum - Golden Globe -
The Synergy Network
http://www.wiredbrain.com/ Pflaump@wiredbrain.com
RE: Discovering Values:
Or how even Economist could find values.
Values are what you do. If I said that once I said it a 1000
times, values are what you do.
They are not "where the tire hits
the sky". If you believe in traditional social values you live
that way. If you believe in God it effects your
life. (Stephen Covey - Seven Habits of Effective People).
The learn new values you have to change your experience.
Here is my lesson plan.
There are 33 steps but I can't take you
past about 20 if we are luckily - here are the first 3 or so.
Lesson Plans
1.) See twice - Peter Weir's
The Last Wave - Rhino-Home
Video
2.) Get Wallace's
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca, (In paper
reprint from Random House about $10) oh and read it, twice?
3.) Steven Halpern - Music Halpern Sounds, 1775 Old Country Road
#9, Belmont CA 94002 Spectrum Suite, Comfort Zone or
something newer, he is getting popular ( names and address maybe
out of date) and/or River of Light. or At Rivers edge from
EarthLight Center, 13906 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks CA 91423 (why
are there people in LA, need I ask) - Medicine
Wind Productions Amethyst Music, 86 N.W. 55'th Street,
Gainsville FL 32601 (they are not in CA or is) Vital Body
Marketing, Box 703, Fresh Meadows NY 11365 - Songs, Chants, Sufi
Sounds -catalog. Chants are in - my students tell me.
4.) Relaxation tape - many on the market - Psychology Today had
Daniel Goldman - very good - (Will this stuff be in the Whole
Earth Catalog? Is there a on line service?) Listen to the sounds
- in a quiet place - 20 minutes - do the relax
tape - relax.
5.) Yogi Shalom - Charles Schoelen, 487 W. San Jose, Fresno Calif
- Yoga of the Old Master - a set First tape and LOVE.
4.) Herrigel, Eugen ZEN (Zen in the Art of Archery)
The
Method of ZEN (McGraw-Hill)- and/or OM Creative Meditations - by
Alan Watts - (Celestial Arts, MillBrae, CA) Electronic Education
Program P.O. Box, Mill Valley, CA 94941
A couple of Sufi books -
They are hard to find so get what you
can. ( did you get the reading list?)
I sure hope some of these people are still in business - if not
do the best you can. Alternative - Hero with a 1000
Faces- Stephen Covey, Seven Habits of Effective People, this is
getting expensive? BUT this is great stuff. We
had a baby (
The editorial we) with the earth sounds -
The
staff was so impressed it become standard procedure, also the
massage therapy got copies.
The "baby" is now 12 so all this
stuff is old.
Let me know how it goes and we can move to 4, 5, 6 getting in
touch -
It Takes magic
I afraid to do things useful it will take magic. I don't
know another answer. When hunters are not finding the game they
need to survive they randomize the search. Some put
bones in the fire and use the cracks as a map.
The same
methods are used to hunt enemy submarines. It time to put
some bones in the fire.
THE ANSWER IS MAGIC:
Thesis; Treat the society that is out of touch as you would
a person who doesn't know who they are?
Out of touch -
The dream world - reality - illusions
When people have profound psychological problems - the
general belief is that you need to deal with the emotional basis
of the causes - While there are many theories of
practice - rather than talking or running away - we go
through the experience. To help someone with a stutter you
practice the stutter until it is under control. We are going to
learn mind control.
5.) Alexander Lowen, Bioenergetics - (Harper & Row) a form of
Gestalt - Autogenic and other names (Mind as Healer, Mind as
Slayer by Pelletier, Kenneth) and Wilhelm Reich - ( but goes back
to every Shaman I know ) has a simple and direct approach.
Emotions are feeling - feeling are NOT thoughts - they are
physical. (Thoughts exist in the brain but I
talking about fight/flight a series of body reaction to
emotions) This has been called the Stress syndrome -
6.)
The practice is to work directly on the stoppages - the
blocks - then rational thought can begin to solve problems - not
before. You didn't talk you way in you can't talk you
way out.
The words, centered, balance, grounded, mean
something in practice. You do it not talk about it. (
The Way to
Vibrant Health ) Harper 1977 Alex and Leslie Lowen -
The process
of life by respiration and metabolism creates
energy.
The mind and body are identical and one is a
reflection of the other. How you feel effects how you think and
how you think effects how you feel (Also Norman Cousins
interesting book on Health - Bill Moyers series on public
T.V. Benson on Stress etc)
Out of touch means not only with our feeling - how up-tight we
are, how afraid, how uncertain, (
The ad with the kid
inside that wants the frosted side ) out of touch with the "child
within", with our spouses, our kids, our students, or communities
- This is the dream world - the sub or un
awareness - most of the forces that control our lives.
The "real"
world is an illusion created by social norms,
language, advertising, political interests, etc.
The real
world is in our dreams. Hard to believe? Difficult to
believe?
Magic is real - real is magic.
Magic is the use of perception of forces that we may not be aware
of today - or a trick -
something appears to be different from what it is - like
matter - stars - other people -
The President - social
conventions - et al. How do I know? I don't. You have to
practice - body knowledge - and see what you feel.
How do we treat the society, the world - by practice - by
example - by doing- not talking and directly at the
emotional base of behavior and being.
Be Careful - 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.
AUTHOR
Abun-Nasr, Jamil M.
TITLE
The Tijaniyya : a Sufi order in the modern world London :
Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of
International
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1965.
al-Suhrawardi, `Abd al-Qahir ibn `abd Allah, 1097-1168.
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al-Najib
al-Suhrawardi
PUBLISHED
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TITLE
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al-shari`ah wa-anwar al-haqiqah.
English Inner secrets of the path Longmead, England :
Element
books in association with Zahra Publications,
AUTHOR
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TITLE
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1843-1947 Cambridge <England> ; New York : Cambridge
University
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1905-1969.
Sufism; an account of the mystics of Islam.
Allen & Unwin, 1950
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PUBLISHED
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`Attar, Farid al-Din, d. ca. 1230.
Mantiq al-tayr. English conference of the birds
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
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AUTHOR: De Garayalde, Giovanna.
TITLE Jorge Luis Borges : sources and illumination
PUBLISHED London : Octagon Press, 1978
Burckhardt, Titus.
TITLE
An introduction to Sufi doctrine.
PUBLISHED
: Lahore, Sh. M. Ashraf
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The Sufi path of knowledge : Ibn
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TITLE
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at a South Asian Sufi center
PUBLISHED
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c1992.LOCATION
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South
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:
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PUBLISHED
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Feild, Reshad.
TITLE
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EDITION: 1st ed.San Francisco : Harper &
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mystic, Mevlana Jalalu'ddin Rumi York :
Macmillan, 1975.
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<1st
ed.>
PUBLISHED
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The message in our time
: the life and teaching of the Sufimaster, Pir-o-murshid
Inayat
Khan EDITION: 1st ed.
PUBLISHED
: San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1978.
Inayat Khan, 1882-1927.Music PUBLISHED
New Delhi : Sufi Publishing, 1977, c1962.
Music and Art play and important role - the lotus is the
sign
Jalal al-Din
al-Hikam al-`Ata'iyah. English
TITLE
:
The book of wisdom
PUBLISHED
: New York : Paulist Press,
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Discourses of Rumi. EDITION: <1st American ed.>
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The Sufi path of love : the
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Popular with the Kennedy crowd, actors leaders.
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TITLE
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PUBLISHED
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"Mankinds' moral sense is not a strong beacon light,
radiating outward to illuminate in sharp outline all that it
touches. It is, rather, a small candle flame, casting vague and
multiple shadows, flickering and sputtering in the
strong winds of power and passion, greed and ideology. But
brought close to the heart and cupped it one's hands, it
dispels the darkness and warms the soul."
James q. Wilson