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Lessons in not getting lost in the news or others, yet affirming our essential existence. We have been taught to live through others. Now we must live to live through our core selves.

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.

Tolle is clearly anti thinking, as with the statement that you don’t reach enlightenment through thinking. Thinking stands in the way. Yet Tolle does some brilliant thinking to arrive at the position: don’t try to think your way into enlightenment.

Strephon takes another view, as a philosopher and psychologist, that logical, clear thinking replicates the laws and inherent relations of the universe itself, and so is in its pure form consistent with the universe.

Thus, to be in reality, in direct experience about what our existence is, we have to use the clearest objective thinking we are capable of.

Don’t give over your thinking function to someone else who seems brilliant to you!

Have a look at the videos of Tolle on the Web and see there a man playing guru, a man playing The Enlightened One. Such a role then evokes the spiritual center within each person, but in an unconscious way. Followers don’t have to do anything but believe in the superior insights about existence coming from the man playing guru.

When you give up your own thinking process you then give up the chance to be clear about yourself, you give up the chance to be in experiential reality as it directly is.

Far from being in the moment, a tenet of Tolle’s, his thought transcends the moment into concepts such as enlightenment, claiming this for himself and for anyone who believes like him.

Strephon, as a philosopher-psychologist, takes the view that to be in the moment is to be in everyday experience but also to be processing that experience according to the core principles and values operating there.

Instead of some sort of aha, enlightenment experience, self-claimed, of course, you have the daily practice of being ordinary and self-reflective, the opposite of those playing guru and followers, certainly.

Strephon as a basis for his talk here also responds to a perceptive listener’s comments so as to be grounded in how others besides himself see things.

While Strephon is articulate, he is no guru. He doesn’t answer spiritual questions. Instead, he questions. This is the method of questioning until you arrive at the core experience that cannot be questioned.

If you don’t ever arrive there in your life, what have you?

Yes, what have you achieved so far in life that you can almost absolutely trust is reality itself, is existence?

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 Says 43 Taking Responsability

Strephon talks about focusing your life on taking responsibility for things your your life with new commitment to positive values personally and in work life. Responding with one’s whole being.

A seven-minute podcast on taking new responsibility in your life for the new year.

Responsibility is responding to life appropriately. Instead of withdrawing or simply reacting, going hysterical, resistive and negative, open yourself, Strephon says, to what is happening and deal with it.

Solve the problem. Develop the new potential.

First, do the New Year’s Death-Rebirth sacrifice. Review last year and acknowledge what didn’t work, where you failed and lost out. Also list what you did accomplish of value.

Then in transiting into the new year, sacrifice what no longer serves the value in the new year and new life you are living. This includes friends as well as habits and hobbies.

Then take on new values and projects you want to take on and accomplish. Take responsibility. Respond.

Also, do not neglect wholeness values. Look at each of the areas of your life and focus your energy in a responsible way. What new thing can you bring to Personal Relating, to Work Projects and Relationships, to Personal Growth?

This is being responsible to the new life emerging before each one of us.

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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- Strephon Says 42 True Meaning Of Christmas

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Strephon talks about the real Christmas and New Years, which is inside us. He says that the greatest gift is the gift of life and existence out of love. Thus the real gift you give is love.

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