Tao Of Now

Perspective 19 The Masculine Archetype

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Strephon Kaplan-Williams talks about using the Masculine Archetype in life for decisive action and focus, and about a ritual for men at a marriage done in Norway.

Perspective 18 Lying Honesty

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Strephon suggests that the best reason to practice honesty is to come into reality and live your life as it is, and not as you would pretend it to be. Only this way are you effective.

Perspective 17 Give Focus To Our Day

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One excellent practice that enhances your life is as you wake in the morning to give a focus to your day. Strephon tells how he does this.

Perspective 16 How To Make A Million Dollars

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Making a million dollars, Strephon suggests, is deceptive. Much better is to limit spending to basic, healthy living. Then invest your surplus into effectiveness values.

Perspective 14 Consciousness Thinking

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Strephon talks about the contrast with Consciousness Thinking and “Eckhart Tolle Thinking.” Why?

So we are not seduced into unconsciousness by Tolle’s kind of passive, guru thinking. Why?

So that we can affirm the value of thinking for ourselves and not giving over our consciousness awareness to any guru type, no matter how brilliant in their thinking they seem.

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Perspective 13 The Ego Chooses

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Strephon does a podcast and vodcast on the nature of the ego. This can be important since what Strephon emphasizes is that everyone has an ego that can get in the way or developed in the right way, make one effective and fulfilled.

The choice is up to you!

Concepts covered: ego, ego identity, ego functions, ego choice-making, choice-making, awareness, consciousness, projecting, creative, right practice.

Suggestion: practice these concepts by making a list of choices at the end of your day, by discussing with a friend, giving personal examples, and by writing in your journal to the following:

1. -What does your ego identity consist of, such as images, expectations, family affiliations, attitudes, memories of who you were, whether you are that way today or not.
2. -Associate your ego self-identity to the strong choices you have made in your life so far. How have they defined you?
3. -Disidentify from these ego identities by knowing them but realizing you don’t have to live them in today’s terms just because they were you in the past.
4. -Soon after you arise from bed list the choices you are going to make today.
5. -At the end of your day before bed, list the choices you have made today.
6. -Keep a Choice-making Journal in which you do identity exercises, such as putting things in there about yourself and your choices at least once a week.

Strephon-Kyria Church Chant

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You must have courage to allow transcendence into your life.

At its best the Kyria arouses in one that special feeling deep in ones breast of the Greater Transcendence of God. How can words express such a feeling? You must do it, be it, for the full experience.

Even if you do not the chant out-loud in a specific place, like a church when no one else is around, you can still observe, hear and be with the Kyria Chant through inner listening and seeing.

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Perspective 10 Spiritual Aikido Sword-part1

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Here at age 72 Strephon demonstrates Spiritual Aikido Sword.

Strephon has developed Spiritual Aikido from regular Aikido. He has trained in regular dojo Aikido since he was 46. Strephon has used his Spiritual Aikido practices in his professional trainings in dreamwork psychology as a regular practice, and in his own life. He has taught Spiritual Aikido courses to adults in spiritual centers.
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Perspective 9 Logic Fallible?

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Issue - Is logic fallible?

-if logic is fallible then how can we prove this?

-if logic is not fallible then how can we prove this?

-if logic is based on the evolution of our brains as an organizing function in a body replicating the universe and its laws of integrative order creating one whole.

-did the universe itself evolve from the simplest of laws, becoming more complex as it expanded, but still being an ordered whole? (more…)

Perspective 8 Consciousness Commitment

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Another in the Concept Series of Daily Perspectives to enlighten and make effective your life.

You can listen to these talks and achieve additional clarity in how you are living and not living your life.

Consciousness is the meta level to existence. You make your choices and take action based on the core principles of existence. In this you are then grounded in what is real in life.
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