The Ideas Are Secondary To The Primary

It Would Be Wonderful If People Could Grow Together In Groups, Teaching And Learning Communities Where They Empower, Evoke, Explore The Enormous Capacities Of The Human Condition.

What I Often Do In My Work Is To Take A Great Story, Such As The Odyssey, The Search For The Grail, The Story Of Jesus, Or The Story Of The Great Peacemaker Who Helped Create The Iroquois Confederacy In The 15th Century. I Then Use These Tales As Templates Upon Which To Weave Psychological And Spiritual Exercises Which Allow Us To Open Ourselves Up To The Larger Venue Of A Story.

What Happens Is That You Discover You're Carrying So Much Weight That 90 Percent Of What You Thought Yesterday You Are Thinking About Today And Will Think About Again Tomorrow. Your Mind Doesn't Change Because You Are Carrying Too Large A Load. So The Mind Is Caught. It's Seized By Its Own Structures. It Can't Consider Different Ways Of Thinking Or Doing Or Being Or Relating. It's All You Can Do With Your Psychic Energy To Keep Pulling Yourself Along With This Huge Bag That You Are Dragging Behind You.

Try To Spend A Few Moments Each Day Holding A Picture Of Your Body And Your Mind In A State Of Splendid Health.

Just As You Would Not Neglect Seeds That You Planted With Hope That They Will Bear Vegetables And Fruits And Flowers, So Must You Attend To Nourish The Garden Of Your Becoming.