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RE: Arrogant and foolish:

I have false pride and am immensely stupid. I believe that my

pathetic ideas are a authentic representation of reality. How

could my shallow thoughts reflect the order of nature

itself. How could my thoughts comprehend the true nature of life,

physics, the cosmos, time, and even my own being. To think my

ideas are reality, is indeed most arrogant and

foolish.

It is said that the beginning of wisdom is awareness of ones

ignorance. I am worse than rocks, than beasts and savages

because I try to impose my foolishness on the world. I come to

believe that what I think is - it is indeed a "grand

Illusion" of false power and fake glory. I even believe that -

that is all there is - nothing more!

I could try to allow my being, mind, body and spirit rest in its

own existence. I could come to terms with myself but I am too

busy with needs and desires. I could come into some kind of

meaningful relationship with creation if... I could feel the

proper respect for the other but I am too afraid of letting go of

my false faces, defenses, passions, and hidden doubts.

Sophist are those who adjust, subconsciously perhaps, their ideas

to their interests.

They reflect the popular beliefs and glow in

reflected self-admiration.

They think they are smart because of

the praise of fools. I am a sophist, and

bask in the false light of praise. I think the thoughts that will

be rewarded and reject hard truths that will get me

into trouble. I am devious, untrue to my self or others,

can not be trusted, I forget the little wisdom, I once

knew, I flounder in new and fashionable theories.

I could be more than a beast and less than an angel but am afraid

of what others might think. I am caught up in angers, prejudices,

tricks, and overwhelming greed. I want things my way are refuse

to listen to advice. I will do anything to

get what I want, first my self deception then by fooling

others. I subdue or seduce the unwary and fool myself. I am

indeed arrogant and foolish - I am humanity.

WELLNESS SEMINARS

INSTITUTE OF HUMAN

RESOURCES

225 Robinson Road

New Smyrna Beach

(P.O. Box 2176) FL 32069

(904) 428-9609

DR. PETER E. PFLAUM

Human Potential Training and Education:

This is a unique and highly successful program of human

development. Participants learn how to integrate their

personalities, solves personal problems and develop more powerful

interrelations with others.

There are thirty-three steps in four

levels. Each level is four weeks, three nights a week, (M.W.F.)

for three hours a session. (12 SESSIONS x 3 HR = 36 hours).

Who should attend? Anyone who wants to live a better life and

gain control over their lives will benefit from these programs.

Counselors, teachers, supervisors, parents, religious people,

couples, students, just interested people.

The Teacher (Guide) is Peter E. PFLAUM, Ph.D. who has twenty

years of experience and practice with his unique system. Others

will enrich the Yoga, and other special methods (Zen).

WELLNESS SEMINAR: THE BODY - Summary: Stage one:

The practice is to work directly on the stoppages - the blocks -

then rational thought can begin to solve problems - not before.

People didn't talk their way into blocks and can't talk them

selves out of their problems.

The words such as; centered,

balance, grounded, mean some thing in practice. You do it, not

talk about it.

The Way to Vibrant Health by Alex and Leslie

Lowen is based on the process of increasing the life force. New

energy is released by proper respiration and metabolism.

The new

energy is great for lasting weight control.

The mind and body

are identical, one is a reflection of the other. How you feel

effects how you think and how you think effects how you feel. (

Norman Cousins interesting book on Health - Bill Moyers series on

public T.V. Benison on Stress are good examples.)

Level One (Steps 1 to 9) Each session contains a warm up, a

lesson from a 350-page work book, individual and group exercises.

1.) Getting in touch - breath

2.) Getting in Touch - metabolism - (great for weigh control)

3.) Bioenergetics - (Alexander Lowen) grounding - charging

4.) Self-possession and self- expression - being in touch

5.)

The Exercises - getting loose - getting the energy flows

unblocked.

6.)

The expressive Exercises and Gestalt - Feelings (mind - the

body)

7.) Sexual exercises (optional) massage and setting up a regular

schedule.

8.) Autogenic - relaxation techniques

9.) Meditation and Imagination

* 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 - Every "Shaman"

I know has a simple and direct approach. Emotions are feeling -

feelings are NOT thoughts - they are physical. (Thoughts exist

in the brain but I am talking about the fight/flight syndrome, a

series of body reaction to emotions, This has been called the

Stress syndrome - )

THE MIND - Stage two: IN TOUCH WITH FEELINGS -

INDEPENDENT TO INTERDEPENDENT

Out of touch means not only with our feeling but with reality.

We are not conscious of how uptight we are, how afraid, how

uncertain. As in a popular ad with the kid inside who wants the

frosted side, we are out of touch with the "child within ," we

fail to communicate with our spouses, our kids, our students, or

communities.

Our behavior is established in the "dream world" - the sub or

un-awareness - most of the forces that controls our lives are out

of sight and out of mind.

The "real" world is an illusion created by social norms,

language, advertising, political interests, etc.

The real world

is in our dreams. For those who don't know, this is hard to

believe but when known is obvious. Did you ever have a

tightness that you only identified when it let go? You say, I

didn't know it was so tight. You get used to being in knots, off

balance, out of tune.

Stress and THOUGHT control: Level two - getting control of your

thoughts -

10.) Thought stopping - assertiveness training

11.) More effective - listening - parent - teacher - person

12.) Dealing with Irrational ideas and passions

13.) Coping skills - proactive

14.)

The seven habits of Effective People (Stephen Covey)

15.) Biofeedback - nutrition - advanced exercises (Yoga)

16.) Getting unstuck - independence - freedom from reactions

17.) Yoga (Shalom) Love - cloud - visualizations and breath

18.) No Fatigue, no sore muscles, perfect posture, the sounds

19.) Introduction to Zen and the art of paying attention

Stage Three: BEYOND SELF - four - DREAMS and UNION

Magic is real - real is magic. THE SOUL -

Magic is the perception of forces AND REALITIES that we may not

be aware of today. Life is full of tricks - things are different

from what they appear to be. For example physical matter - the

stars - other people often give false impressions -

The

President - social conventions - et al. How do I know? I

don't. You have to practice - gain body knowledge - and feel

what you feel. How do we treat the problems and the world - by

practice - by example - by doing - not talking? We will work

directly on the emotional base of behavior and the nature of

being.

STUDIES ON THE WAY - the path of knowing

Level three -

The path to knowledge

20.)

The world of illusions and images

21.)

The Aesop fables and Sufi tales - the three levels of

knowledge. Reading and meditations

22.) Morals, character, independence - beyond self - loves

23.) Total experience - peak experiences

Discovering Values: To learn new values you will experiences new

feelings or remember feeling you have forgotten.

24.) See twice - Peter Weir's "

The Last Wave" - Rhino-Home

25.) Wallace's "

The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca," (In paper

reprint from Random House about $10) read it, twice? This will be

our introduction to the dream world.

26.) Steven Halpern - Music Halpern Sounds, Visualization of the

perfect self -

27.) Relaxation tape - to take home

28.) Yogi Shalom - Charles Schoelen, a set of tapes.

The first

one is on LOVE, then the rock, the cloud and other meditations.

29.) 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 - THE ANSWER IS MAGIC:

Level four: THE DREAM TIME -

30.) 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 as the

cause. While there are many theories of Psychological practice,

we focus on direct experience - by exercises and psychodrama,

rather than analysis, talking or running away. To help someone

with a stutter you practice the stutter until it is under

control. We are going to learn mind control.

Certainty for our Time:

31.) LAWS OF PHYSICS:

Imagine the atom; the core of particles held together by great

force, the fields of electrons vibrating in their courses.

The

electrons can only operate in certain fixed Quantum, they can be

in only certain ways in relationship to each other and the

nucleus.

These fixed ways allow for chemistry.

The elements

can combine with Certainty depending on the fixed nature of

physics. God cannot do things against his nature.

The laws of

nature are not imposed from outside but re side within the nature

of things.

32.) SCIENCE:

The ways the elements combine, the very order of the Cosmos

itself defines the possible. Science and technology are doing

the possible.

The difference between alchemy and chemistry,

astronomy and astrology, is the knowledge of the possible.

Knowing, some thing of the ways of nature is knowledge. 33.)

IDEOLOGY:

The evil and false pride that people have when they think their

ideas are equal to the ways of nature.

The ways of the universes

exist in a grain of sand.

The natural processes in a drop of

water are infinitely more powerful than any human belief.

Science endeavors to put our beliefs in tune with reality.

The

electrons change their quanta in fixed patterns.

They do not

move through the intermediate space. We cannot go from here to

there without passing through the intermediate space. Particles

do not conform to our concepts but we try to understand the

reality as best we can.

34.) FALSE PRIDE:

It is a source of evil and false pride to foolishly believe our

ideas of nature are just relative.

The " anything goes approach"

and "do you own thing," encourages the belief that anything is

possible. We must live with the really possible not in illusions

and fancy.

The covenant is the fixed law of nature where

possible becomes real. Reality is the wisdom of Gods' creation,

his own presence. Human wisdom shrinks before the infinite.

The

unity of all things appears in the billions of stars and atoms,

the Eternal essence. I am God, you are Gods also is a rather

special way. We are perfect in harmony with the universe and

nothing, a small spark outside the rules of nature. Is there a

contradiction here - our ideas are not reality - so how can we

know God?

35.) REMEMBER -

The particles of corporal existence do not have a personality.

Reality is not confined to man. If we are transformed into

vanquished space and are no longer self but a new being, we can

come close to looking into the face of God. If this is not clear

it is because it is very difficult to express.

The truth is said

often and many different ways but while many hear only a few,

listen.

36.) It is difficult to explain to the Bat who lives only at

night and avoids the bright sun what shadows are like. Maybe

some time in your life you knew you were in tune - had certain

know ledge of being - Being just what you are, MASLOW in the

Further Reaches of Human Behavior explored this aptitude. He

called it transcendence, beyond self to being or B values. He

said it gave life meaning and purpose. Effective people knew the

meaning of B-values and therefore had focus and energy that

created a successful life. Beyond self. So simple and so hard.

Can you explain to the blind about the colors of the world?

The

drunken, desire their drunkenness and do not desire the truth.

If is not this or that: then what is it?

37.)

The Perfect Truth:

To go from the possible (the ways of nature ) to the essential is

the spring of reason. First we gain true perception and then a

sense of being and passing through and beyond personality to real

character. We can be worse than beasts, fiends, stones or storms

- we have the avarice, envy, pride opposes knowledge. We do not

overcome these by an act of will but by rites of passage. In

Joseph Campbell's hero with 1000 Faces, these "all too human"

passions and monsters are passed in the mythical journeys in the

underworld (clearly a representation of our reptile unconscious

minds).

The Hero emerges from thinking and feeling to being and

knowing.

38.) BEING READY:

There are few shortcuts. If you love God, God will love you.

You are beloved, the union with all exists in you and all around

you. In pure obedience, there is true freedom. When you are

master then you are slave. You are the sweet fruit in the shell,

ready to ripen, the suns warm beams has put us into the right

stage of life. Our estate is prepared and we are ready. 39.)

If this is obscure to you, it is meant to be clear.

The vail of

metempsychosis passes and you sees clearly the obvious - AH HA!

The circle is complete, I am what I am, and feel good about it.

(Union)

The seal is broken and the secret reveled - it was here

all the time but you weren't looking, you did not listen, I guess

you were too busy with more important business. Faith and

peace, and eternal wisdom are not so important?

They require

truth and justice and cannot be used for personal gain.

They

have no market value.

40.)

The dream that becomes reality is in the union of mystic

lore and the way.

The doors are open, are you ready for

no-existence. If you give up existence you will find it. If you

cling to the things of life, you cannot pass this way. That is

the myth of the "grateful dead." To win you must surrender, to

triumph, give up. You all know that.

The phantoms pass away,

nothing but the truth remains.

THE UNION

Comes when the possible have passed its ordered limits and become

the essential - science has become knowledge and certainty.

(This is beyond 40 and me at the moment). Who firmly grasps the

mystic meaning of the union of possible and the promise of the

essential has a higher wisdom than plain mortals. More is less,

far is near, we are no longer afraid of our own shadows, the fire

has no terror and the book of changes.

(To be continued - Mahmud Shabistri "

The Secret Gar den," only

57 pages - A Dutton Paperback)

"Mankind's 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

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 text books.

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. People want to believe that their

"cult" has a special and secret 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 (1001 Nights) 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. This became popular with

the Kennedy crowd and actors.

Dr. Maurice Nicholl and Dr. Kenneth Walker used the

psychologically-oriented to attempt a system of practice.

The

authors of the Blooms bury group brought Sufi ideas to literature

which continues today by many writers - Borges, Lesing, Kipling

and 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 more widely

known.

God, does he/she believe in me;

HERE IS THE VISION: or a story about it -

The Covenant:

For Friends who may have knowledge of spirits or

leading let me be as straight as possible. I will try not to get

carried way but keep my feet on the ground.

1.)

There is a connection between life and the environment.

This is the Covenant:

The purpose of life is to exist within a niche and

expand as possible. If life doesn't keep in balance there is a

collapse. Too much algae, not enough oxygen, life itself is

balance of resources and the demands on resources.

There is a

little misunderstanding about dominion and be fruitful and

multiply. We are different from other life in that we

are aware.

The forbidden fruit is self consciousness.

The

covenant is sub-conscious - it's in the dream time. We are beasts

and as living creature have in our very existence a sense of

where we belong.

2.) When the Covenant (Life and its environment) is broken all

hell breaks loose (Isaiah 34 ) Rwanda - it is a moral or value

problem because we have lost touch with the earth that sustains

us. (Earth Summit Agenda 21)

The problem is

emotional, passions, needs, desires, greed, self-centered - et

al. Surely we all know that man must have a purpose

beyond himself. Maybe some don't know that - Those that know will

have no trouble in understanding - those that don't

know or don't care will wonder what they lived for, and get into

trouble, in the long run. (In the long run we are all dead - Lord

MK) (I have been seeing the "Last Wave" by Peter Weir)

3.)

The answer (maybe) in the Sufi way - believe it or not the

Sufi's created civilization about 6,000 years ago.

The "teacher

of the Age" taught people to be human. It was a

trick - an illusion. Human passion were too strong, the

animal character too important, so there had to be leaders - a

responsible elite.

The leaders would have training (step by step

practice) and education (discussion and meditation) in the way of

wisdom.

Leaders could be "in this world but not of this world" while the

masses were just in the world and believed in illusions. Leaders

could see and feel beyond themselves, their

passions, and needs and desires. It happens slowly but each one

could teach one and Civilization could continue. It was a secret,

in that the leaders knew the illusion they created for the masses

were just that an illusion.

They were the

Wizard of OZ (another Sufi tale)

The little boy in the

Emperors New Cloths who shouts out - but it's just a

illusion - get into a lot of trouble - as does Socrates,

Jesus, and other who challenge the old or create a new

illusion.

(I still feel funny saying this - nothing new or has not

been said in the last 6000 years but not on INTERNET anyway - If

I am wrong forgive me - it is just the sounds of birds - no one

will listen - it has not been done without forty years of

thought - I am ready for - I have had the dream of death of white

nothing, beyond self, it's the children - and their children, God

give them a chance - some chance - any chance - I don't have to

justify myself )

Now we are in the age of mass publics - of TV - and of many

leaders - many voices - and the elite is in disarray.

The

obligations of leadership, George Bush learned at Phillips, or I

learned at the University of Chicago, a British Public Schools,

have been overwhelmed by commercial, entertainment values of no

substance or worth. Does William Jefferson

Clinton know who he is? What is behind the image - more

images? Surely you need character as described in the James O.

Wilson article. (Aristotle's virtue)

The world is in deep

trouble.

The secrets needs to be advertised, let go. Our

only hope is a larger group of people that have access to

the wisdom. ( I hear the distance voices - shame - shame - you

will destroy what you need to protect - no - but its not likely

to do much good, my friends, either way - I think

it's time to experiment, even the F&A M.)

In tradition such knowledge would be dangerous. People would

misunderstand and create another dogma. Yes, that true and they

may or will. But, think of the alternatives.

The

overwhelming power of the western values (commercial,

temporal, materialist, short-tern, selfish, vulgar, have

overwhelm the society of taste - manners - style - quality -

class - yes class - the tradition is that the poor don't

have time or interests in the "higher things" let them have their

desires and their unquestioned faith -

The Grand

inquisitor was right)

In the face of this ecological crisis we have to expand the base

of people with wisdom and judgement beyond the 1% or

2%, that have maintained civilization for six milium

Now maybe 2% even know the vaguest idea of what I am talking

about. In most peoples experience, their paradigm doesn't

include the concept that civilization is not a natural

process but created and maintained by a tiny group.

They can see

it can fall apart.

They may understand it is a process not just

there! (Survival is not a given)

A spirit has suggested to me that a broader education while not

likely is possible. If not now, sometime in the next

generation. We need to prepare Western Teachers. Sufi's sort of

gave up on the West but that as you see it was a mistake.

The

environmental movement has hope.

There are economist who are

thinking about value, there are new religious feelings, a few

leaders are thinking about sustainable - earth values - the dream

time.

It is so sad - so little so late - too late for me - but the

grandchildren of my children -

The grand cycle is coming to a

close. I would like the new one to begin peacefully. Most

uncommon - but if there is only one chance - what else can I do?

Can we just watch as Isaiah 34 takes place. Am I Jacob of Isaiah

44 - no I think not - don't get me wrong - but we sure need one -

If not me - WHO? If not now when? (45)

The Bible - it is the text

for the Christians and Jews - and has tribal wisdom it. (also

almost everyone has one - so they

can go look it up)

God knows- I have prayed - I have visions - little of it

good, should I pretend it is - we all need hope. Yes, why

not, another illusion? Ye call me master, and obey me not. You

seek the light, but follow me not. This is the way, you do not

walk with me. I am the life, you do not desire me, since I am

wise, you do not obey me. Be gracious and trust not in me or

yourselves, be noble and serve not the blind

spirits - be mighty and honor not my name. and do not serve your

master, be noble and give not honor where honor is due, be just

and without fear, for if I condemn you, do not blame me or

yourselves, the times are out of joint.

The covenant is broken.

God, does he/she believe in me;

The Sufi way is tricky, you appear different to different

people and in different situations. This is the way of a

guide or teacher. I am safe and comfortable being who I am, but

you (the others) have expectations and needs. To need is to

expect, to expect is to demand. How am I to live up to

your needs, your demands, your expectations? God is the

same. He is mysterious. He/She is very comfortable being

what he is. He/She has no way of meeting all my needs,

satisfying all my demands, or coming up to all my

expectations. I have to take care of myself. God loves me

but like a good parent or teacher, encourages me to do the best I

can, be on my own. So I do with students. I can't do the work for

them. God can't live my life for me. We have

tasted the forbidden fruit and have gained judgement. To

judge is to be in error, and to live with mistakes. I'm only

human.

God was here before me. I put myself in relationship to God. All

existence is the face of God. I care to understand and be

understood.

I am complex, I live in many roles and have more than one

face. Teacher, father, husband, citizen. gardener, sailor,

writer, thinker, materialist, greedy, faker, fraud,

pretender, dreamer, lover, I run away, I hide, I do a little

dance, I sin against my better self. I fail to that which I know

I "should". I live in the Dream Time, I live in the

"real world", I live in my scull. Who am I, you want to

know. How can I tell you. I am no one and everyman. God does all

these same things. I am in God and God in me. First

understand, then be understood. Holy Mary mother of God the

father, the Son and Holy Spirit, be with us now and in the hour

of our death. Something we are not meant to understand but are

mysteries.

They are beyond words. I have a deep

appreciation for the mystery of existence.

I have been here for fifteen billion years.

The Adam of my atoms,

the sound of the harmony of the universe has been

with me from creation. I did not come from nothing and when the

voice is quiet, I return to where I came from. I do not expect

or demand from my God and He/she gives freely to me. All the

sense of time itself, the awareness of great glory.

These are

free gifts of our creator, manna from heaven. God does not judge

me, for who am I to be judged. He lets me be and hopes for the

best. If I pay very close attention, clear my brain and soul of

distraction, I can come into the great love of God. It surround

me with light and love.

The glory of the heavens surround me.

The

wonder of the world, the rain and wind, the spirits of the living

planet whisper in my ear.

Does it matter what I believe? I know the love of God and

the spirit of heaven. My ideas are only sound and furies,

signify nothing. Quiet my restless soul and tinkered voice -

quiet - and listen - open your ears, - open you eyes and

see- really see - clearly - Plant your feet into the soil - be

there quiet restless soul and you will know God and God will know

you.

I was with my father the day he died. It was in a small

hotel in Alicante. We were alone. His last words were "I

don't want to die." Oh might Ceasar! dost thou lie so low? Are

are thy conquest, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this

little measure? ..die many time before their death, the valiant

never taste of death but once. ..Seeing that death is a necessaey

end, Will come when it will come.

The Sufi way is tricky, you appear different to different

people and in different situations. This is the way of a

guide or teacher. I am safe and comfortable being who I am,

but you (the others) have expectations and needs. To need is

to expect, to expect is to demand. How am I to live up to

your needs, your demands, your expectations? God is the

same. He is mysterious. He/She is very comfortable being

what he is. He/She has no way of meeting all my needs,

satisfying all my demands, or coming up to all my

expectations. I have to take care of myself. God loves me

but like a good parent or teacher, encourages me to do the

best I can, be on my own. So I do with students. I can't do

the work for them. God can't live my life for me. We have

tasted the forbidden fruit and have gained judgement. To

judge is to be in error, and to live with mistakes. I'm only

human.

God was here before me. I put myself in relationship to God.

All existence is the face of God. I care to understand and

be understood.

I am complex, I live in many roles and have more than one

face. Teacher, father, husband, citizen. gardener, sailor,

writer, thinker, materialist, greedy, faker, fraud,

pretender, dreamer, lover, I run away, I hide, I do a little

dance, I sin against my better self. I fail to that which I

know I "should". I live in the Dream Time, I live in the

"real world", I live in my scull. Who am I, you want to

know. How can I tell you. I am no one and everyman. God does

all these same things. I am in God and God in me. First

understand, then be understood. Holy Mary mother of God the

father, the Son and Holy Spirit, be with us now and in the

hour of our death. Something we are not meant to understand

but are mysteries.

They are beyond words. I have a deep

appreciation for the mystery of existence.

I have been here for fifteen billion years.

The Adam of my

atoms, the sound of the harmony of the universe has been

with me from creation. I did not come from nothing and when

the voice is quiet, I return to where I came from. I do not

expect or demand from my God and He/she gives freely to me.

All the sense of time itself, the awareness of great glory.

These are free gifts of our creator, manna from heaven. God

does not judge me, for who am I to be judged. He lets me be

and hopes for the best. If I pay very close attention, clear

my brain and soul of distraction, I can come into the great

love of God. It surround me with light and love.

The glory

of the heavens surround me.

The wonder of the world, the

rain and wind, the spirits of the living planet whisper in

my ear.

Does it matter what I believe? I know the love of God and

the spirit of heaven. My ideas are only sound and furies,

signify nothing. Quiet my restless soul and tinkered voice -

quiet - and listen - open your ears, - open you eyes and

see- really see - clearly - Plant your feet into the soil -

be there quiet restless soul and you will know God and God

will know you.

I was with my father the day he died. It was in a small

hotel in Alicante. We were alone. His last words were "I

don't want to die." Oh might Ceasar! dost thou lie so low?

Are are thy conquest, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to

this little measure? ..die many time before their death, the

valiant never taste of death but once. ..Seeing that death

is a necessaey end, Will come when it will come.

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) -

The English Freemason Lodges in India had contact with Sufi

tales. Kipling as a very active Mason was taken with the

Legend of Alexander and other tales.

The is the basis of

that wonderful story and movie -

The man who would be King,

The Light that Failed,

The Absent-Minded Beggar,

The

Soldiers Three,

The Jungle book, and Just-so-stories, could

be look at as lessons.

The Sufi contribution the literature

is vast.

INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RESOURCES

225 Robinson Road

New Smyrna Beach

(P.O. Box 2176) FL 32069

(904) 428-9609

August 18, 1994

DR. PETER E. PFLAUM

Human Potential Training and Education:

This is a unique and highly successful program of human

development. Participants learn how to integrate their

personalities, solves personal problems and develop more powerful

interrelations with others.

There are thirty-three steps in four

levels. Each level is four weeks, three nights a week, (M.W.F.)

for three hours a session. (12 SESSIONS x 3 HR = 36 hours).

Upon the completion of each stage a certificate is earned in

human potential training. Upon completion of all four levels

people will be certified as trainers. (Fees are $100 per week

for 12 hours or $300 for the complete 36 hour process, in groups

of 10 or so) Materials other than the workbooks are extra. (

The

Workbook is included with the fee) Advanced workshops will start

on Tues. and Thurs. evenings.

Who should attend? | Anyone who wants to live a better life and

gain control over their lives will benefit from these programs.

Counselors, teachers, supervisors, parents, religious people,

couples, students, just interested people.

The Teacher (Guide) is Peter E. Pflaum, Ph.D. who has twenty

years of experience and practice with his unique system. Others

will enrich the Yoga, and other special methods (Zen).

WELLNESS SEMINAR: THE BODY - Summary: Stage one:

The practice is to work directly on the stoppages - the blocks -

then rational thought can begin to solve problems - not before.

People didn't talk their way into blocks and can't talk

themselves out of their problems.

The words such as; centered,

balance, grounded, mean something in practice. You do it, not

talk about it.

The Way to Vibrant Health by Alex and Leslie

Lowen is based on the process of increasing the life force. New

energy is released by proper respiration and metabolism.

The new

energy is great for lasting weight control.

The mind and body

are identical, one is a reflection of the other. How you feel

effects how you think and how you think effects how you feel. (

Norman Cousins interesting book on Health - Bill Moyers series on

public T.V. Benison on Stress are good examples.)

Level One (Steps 1 to 9) Each session contains a warm up, a

lesson from a 350-page workbook, individual and group exercises.

1.) Getting in touch - breath

2.) Getting in Touch - metabolism - (great for weigh control)

3.) Bioenergetics - (Alexander Lowen) grounding - charging

4.) Self-possession and self-expression - being in touch

5.)

The Exercises - getting loose - getting the energy flows

unblocked.

6.)

The expressive Exercises and Gestalt - Feelings (mind - the

body)

7.) Sexual exercises (optional) massage and setting up a regular

schedule.

8.) Autogenic - relaxation techniques

9.) Meditation and Imagination

* 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 - Every "Shaman"

I know has a simple and direct approach. Emotions are feeling -

feelings are NOT thoughts - they are physical. (Thoughts exist

in the brain but I am talking about the fight/flight syndrome, a

series of body reaction to emotions, This has been called the

Stress syndrome - )

THE MIND - Stage two: IN TOUCH WITH FEELINGS -

INDEPENDENT TO INTERDEPENDENT

Out of touch means not only with our feeling but with reality.

We are not conscious of how uptight we are, how afraid, how

uncertain. In a popular ad with the kid inside who wants the

frosted side, we are out of touch with the "child within," we

fail to communicate with our spouses, our kids, our students, or

communities. Our behavior is established in the "dream world"

- the sub or un-awareness - most of the forces that controls our

lives are out of sight and out of mind.

The "real" world is an illusion created by social norms,

language, advertising, political interests, etc.

The real world

is in our dreams. For those who don't know, this is hard to

believe but when known is obvious. Did you ever have a

tightness that you only identified when it let go? You say, I

didn't know it was so tight. You get used to being in knots, off

balance, out of tune.

Stress and THOUGHT control: Level two - getting control of your

thoughts -

10.) Thought stopping - assertiveness training

11.) More effective - listening - parent - teacher - person

12.) Dealing with Irrational ideas and passions

13.) Coping skills - proactive

14.)

The seven habits of Effective People (Stephen Covey)

15.) Biofeedback - nutrition - advanced exercises (Yoga)

16.) Getting unstuck - independence - freedom from reactions

17.) Yoga (Shalom) Love - cloud - visualizations and breath

18.) No Fatigue, no sore muscles, perfect posture, the sounds

19.) Introduction to Zen and the art of paying attention

Stage Three: BEYOND SELF - four - DREAMS and UNION

Magic is real - real is magic. THE SOUL -

Magic is the perception of forces AND REALITIES that we may not

be aware of today. Life is full of tricks - things are different

from what they appear to be. For example physical matter - the

stars - other people often give false impressions -

The

President - social conventions - et al. How do I know? I don't.

You have to practice - gain body knowledge - and feel what you

feel.

How do we treat the problems and the world - by practice - by

example - by doing - not talking? We will work directly on the

emotional base of behavior and the nature of being.

STUDIES ON THE WAY - the path of knowing

Level three -

The path to knowledge

20.)

The world of illusions and images

21.)

The Aesop fables and Sufi tales - the three levels of

knowledge. Reading and meditations

22.) Morals, character, independence - beyond self - loves

23.) Total experience - peak experiences

Discovering Values: To learn new values you will experiences new

feelings or remember feeling you have forgotten.

24.) See twice - Peter Weir's "

The Last Wave" - Rhino-Home

25.) Wallace's "

The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca," (In paper

reprint from Random House about

$10) read it, twice? This will be our introduction to the

dream world.

26.) Steven Halpern - Music Halpern Sounds, Visualization of the

perfect self -

27.) Relaxation tape - to take home

28.) Yogi Shalom - Charles Schoelen, a set of tapes.

The first

one is on LOVE, then the rock, the

cloud and other meditations.

29.) 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 - THE ANSWER IS MAGIC:

Level four: THE DREAM TIME -

30.) 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 as the

cause. While there are many theories of Psychological practice,

we focus on direct experience - by exercises and psychodrama,

rather than analysis, talking or running away. To help someone

with a stutter you practice the stutter until it is under

control. We are going to learn mind control.

Certainty for our Time:

31.) LAWS OF PHYSICS:

Imagine the atom; the core of particles held together by great

force, the fields of electrons vibrating in their courses.

The

electrons can only operate in certain fixed Quantum, they can be

in only certain ways in relationship to each other and the

nucleus.

These fixed ways allow for chemistry.

The elements can

combine with Certainty depending on the fixed nature of physics.

God cannot do things against his nature.

The laws of nature are

not imposed from outside but reside within the nature of things.

32.) SCIENCE:

The ways the elements combine, the very order of the Cosmos

itself defines the possible. Science and technology are doing

the possible.

The difference between alchemy and chemistry,

astronomy and astrology, is the knowledge of the possible.

Knowing, something of the ways of nature is knowledge.

33.) IDEOLOGY:

The evil and false pride that people have when they think their

ideas are equal to the ways of nature.

The ways of the universes

exist in a grain of sand.

The natural processes in a drop of

water are infinitely more powerful than any human belief.

Science endeavors to put our beliefs in tune with reality.

The

electrons change their quanta in fixed patterns.

They do not

move through the intermediate space. We cannot go from here to

there without passing through the intermediate space. Particles

do not conform to our concepts but we try to understand the

reality as best we can.

34.) FALSE PRIDE:

It is a source of evil and false pride to foolishly believe our

ideas of nature are just relative.

The " anything goes approach"

and "do you own thing," encourages the belief that anything is

possible. We must live with the really possible not in illusions

and fancy.

The covenant is the fixed law of nature where

possible becomes real. Reality is the wisdom of Gods' creation,

his own presence. Human wisdom shrinks before the infinite.

The

unity of all things appears in the billions of stars and atoms,

the Eternal essence. I am God, you are Gods also is a rather

special way. We are perfect in harmony with the universe and

nothing, a small spark outside the rules of nature. Is there a

contradiction here - our ideas are not reality - so how can we

know God?

35.) REMEMBER -

The particles of corporal existence do not have a personality.

Reality is not confined to man. If we are transformed into

vanquished space and are no longer self but a new being, we can

come close to looking into the face of God. If this is not clear

it is because it is very difficult to express.

The truth is said

often and many different ways but while many hear only a few,

listen.

36.) It is difficult to explain to the Bat who lives only at

night and avoids the bright sun what shadows are like. Maybe

sometime in your life you knew you were in tune - had certain

knowledge of being - Being just what you are, MASLOW in the