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Be Selfish in 2012!

2012-01-20T07:25:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year! Or is it? A change in the solar calendar is not really as magical as we might like it to be. But I hope your 2012 is off to a good start and turns out to be a great year! The Mysterious Dr. M. did not say that Creating Peaceful Space would be easy. What he did say is that ‘Peaceful Space is the field of energy that emerges when humans interact with each other mindful of the intimate connection we share and the profound positive or negative impact we can have on one another’. Everyone is not going to be responsive to or respectful of your and my efforts to live in alignment with the Prime Directive and to Create Peaceful Space in all of our shared places. Humans (Ti-Enia) have created so many divisions between themselves that the probability of conflicts is increasing geometrically. This is made clear in the Handbook On Being Human, vol I. Now here I am promoting the Enia’s message to Create Peaceful Space and here you are dealing with people and situations on a daily basis where you feel like you just want to shake somebody. The coworkers you wish you could give a piece of your mind. The boss you wish you could tell to grow up. The store clerk you would get great satisfaction out of smacking. The employee you want to fire for their continued insubordination and unbridled disregard for others. Some people are in so much personal pain that their only relief is to syndicate sorrow and misery to others. And you have to deal with them not as a therapist (unless you happen to be one) but as a colleague, coworker, employee, or employer.

To your right and your left, in front of you and behind you, you see people, people who seem to deserve, or at least need, some kind of dramatic intervention. Of course, you probably don’t act on all of those impulses so you end up holding all of those feelings and all of that negative energy inside affecting your own Energy Signature (Ase Ami). Add in the negativity of the media and our world seems to be spinning into total chaos, leaving you and me to ask what’s the point of promoting the Prime Directive and striving to Create Peaceful Space? People seem to be loosing their minds! Nobody wants to listen! Too many people seem to be totally absorbed in their own self-interest at the expense of others! Why should I care enough to make the effort?

The answer is simple and you know it, you feel it in your heart! It is not a matter of whether you should care. The fact is that you do care! Why else would you be a regular reader of this Blog? Because you care about what kind of world you live in. You care about your work environment where you are spending a good portion of your life. You care about the future of your children and our children. You care about the future of the earth and her abundant forms of life. You care about all of the children made orphans and all of the women made widows by the predictable and unpredictable consequences of war. You care about all of the families made homeless by natural disasters, genocidal conflicts, and human greed. You care, but often those problems can seem so overwhelming, so daunting that you find it hard to believe that your individual actions could make a difference. And so you don’t act and then feel a sense of dissonance in your Ase Ami because your heart-mind and your intellectual mind are in conflict. Dr. M. would say that your Fear of Criticism, your Instincts of Pugnacity and Self-Abasement (or Subjection), and your Emotion of Anger are in conflict. If you think about Dr. M’s messages regarding Our Basic Instincts and Emotions then you can understand that your tendency to care and your tendency not to act are both natural aspects of your nature. People often stop caring about various things for a host of reasons, even things that they once valued or felt to be important. You are not alone in that. People often fail to act even when that action can mean life or death for someone else. Again you are not alone. It is part of our nature. We have the capacity of Selflessness and Selfishness neither of which is purely good or bad. None of our instincts, emotions, and drives is good or bad in some absolute or moral sense. They are simply the stuff of which we are made (so to speak) and they can be functional and dysfunctional in any given situation.

Lets Be Selfish in 2012! Being selfish can be quite functional! In the Handbook Dr. M. says, ‘Your brain is designed to function best in Peaceful Space. When your body-mind is experiencing cordiality, friendliness and a sense of belonging, encouragement and supportiveness, empathy and compassion, kindness and sensitivity, and attentiveness and mutual safety, you are operating with a different biochemistry and neuro-physiology, a different energy signature.’ In other words striving to live and work in Peaceful Space is to your own personal benefit. The positive impact on others is icing-on-the-cake! That fact that something you do benefits you does not in any way alter the fact that your actions may also bring great benefit to others. That is one of the reasons Dr. M. and the Enia subtitled the Handbook and named Part IV of the Handbook, 10 Selfish & Unselfish Reasons for You to Create Peaceful Space. Creating Peaceful Space and following the Prime Directive have as much to do with you taking control of the quality of your own life than they have to do with changing or saving our world. The logic of the Enia based on the Quantum Reality is that if your take control of the quality of your own life by following the Prime Directive and Creating Peaceful Space in your own sphere, then in that individual action you change the entire reality. That is why the Ero Enia (the Traveler People) and other members of the Traditions of the People (Itan Atowodowo Enia) visit each and every person who reaches out in their dreams. It is because each and every individual’s Ase Ami makes a contribution to the Quantum Entity that surrounds our planet or to the Oku Enia (the Corpse) that is coming.

You cannot escape your role in this drama. If twelve people are voting and one decides they are going to abstain from the vote, they will change that voting universe. The possibility of a six-six draw will no longer exist in the reality that their choice will create. If you are an organizational, civic, or business leader and you fail to act when someone or something is undermining the Ase Ami of your organization, your decision not to act affects every other individual who works with and for you. As an educator I have to establish protocols for the classroom that create (as much as is possible) an ideal learning environment for my students. If a student violates those agreed-upon protocols and I fail to act, my choice affects the learning environment of every other student in the class. Leadership is about managing Quantum Entities. As Dr. M. says to U in the Handbook, ‘it is all about energy’!

Why should you care enough to Create Peaceful Space? Here as a reminder from the Handbook are the 10 Selfish & Unselfish Reasons for You to Create Peaceful Space.

It is in your nature.
It will improve your health and that of the people around you.
It will heighten your mental performance and powers.
It will extend your social network and enhance your confidence.
It will broaden your access to other people’s knowledge and experience.
It will generate good will towards you and your endeavors furthering your personal success.
It will augment your personal security and that of the people around you.
It will produce a positive contagion and change the atmosphere in your shared places.
It will facilitate a positive future for your children.
It will promote the survival of our species.

In 2012 do it for your self! Do it for your own peace of mind! Go ahead and be selfish this year and Create Peaceful Space for the most selfish of reasons, your own health, well-being, and success. As Dr. M. states in the Handbook:

To succeed you must overcome obstacles and challenges.
To overcome obstacles and challenges you must understand their nature.
To understand the nature of what is to be overcome you must observe and study.
To observe and study you must pay attention and focus.
To pay attention and focus you must calm your mind.
To calm you mind you must enter into Peaceful Space.

Whatever your personal goals for 2012 they will be better served if you live each day of the year in Peaceful Space.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive
is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Creating Peaceful Space

2011-12-20T13:38:00.000-08:00

Peace Be With You!

A friend of mine invites friends, friends of friends, and acquaintances to his home once each month. Each gathering includes a shared experience or discussion, a meal, and a period of informal social interaction. The gatherings are non-religious although the spiritual energy surrounding the gatherings and their home is unmistakable. Remember Axiom 1 from the Handbook states:

When two or more individuals interact a Quantum Personality or Quantum Entity is formed. This Quantum Entity comes into being in the Quantum Field because of the aggregation of human consciousness and is not an independent entity. It is the whole that emerges as a result of the interaction of the parts. [The whole is greater than the sum of its parts but not independent from them.]

This recent gathering was devoted to prayers and songs for Peace. In my friend’s home every person is welcomed as a dear friend and each person’s faith is respected as his or her path to the Divine. The warmth generated by the sense of unconditional acceptance among the fifteen to twenty-five people who generally attend is a genuine expression of Peaceful Space. This past Sunday embodied a rainbow of spiritual traditions, cultures, and languages. There were prayers and songs from the Hindu, Baha’i, African, Persian, Jewish, Christian, and other traditions each in their language. Even when one did not speak the language of the song or prayer the Quantum Entity shared by the group allow each person to realize the meaning and intention incarnate in the mysterious words. For approximately two hours we shared in the experience of Creating Peaceful Space, so that each person present in the moment could have the opportunity to connect with his or her Healing Place.

While listening to the various prayers and songs (and their translations) it was obvious to me that in the absence of specific religious references and terms, the aspiration of each prayer is embodied in the Prime Directive. One guest offered the reminder of just how simple it is to change our world, the same reminded that the Mysterious Dr. M. offers U in the Handbook On Being Human. If we each went to bed this evening and got up in the morning determined not to offend any other person or thing by our thoughts, words, or deeds our world would change instantly.

The year 2011 has been a turbulent one. There have been loud and passionate voices crying out for freedom, justice, and equality in nations across the world, and we have witnessed equally passionate acts of political and military resistance to the legitimate aspirations of the people. Natural disasters have wreaked havoc in many of our lives, yet the generosity and kindness of others has helped our hearts to retain a sense of hope and faith in our fellow human beings. Too many families have been ravaged by war, too many children have been made orphans, too many stomachs have gone unfed, too many people have lost their homes, too many of our elderly have been left alone, too many of our hopes have been dashed against a wall of arrogant resistance, and too of our dreams have been turned into nightmares. But where there is life there is still hope, the hope that in the next year of 2012 things will get better.

The year 2012 can be the beginning of something new. A shift in your personal Energy Signature (Ase Ami), a shift in what you choose to contribute to the Quantum Entity that surrounds our planet. My prayer is that you will choose to Create Peaceful Space wherever and whenever you can!

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Disconnecting Good From More

2011-11-21T17:46:00.000-08:00

Are you stuck in the trip set by the link between good and more? Beginning in Chapter 2 of Letters To U: From The Mysterious Dr. M. – The Handbook On Being Human, vol I Dr. M. explores Your Shared Human Needs, Your Four Desires, Your Basic Instincts and Emotions, and Our Shared Fears. The entire first part of the Handbook deals with our fundamental nature as human beings. I think Dr. M. and the Enia were trying to tell us something very important right from the outset. The message has to do with our predictability and our unpredictability. Remember Dr. M. said, whenever you change a thing, you change more than what is intended. Well, to me that means, we need to be careful about the messages we give ourselves and the choices we make because when you change the thinking of an individual or the ways of a society or culture, you set into motion forces and consequences, some of which are predictable, most of which are not.

In U.S. culture the word good has become highly associated with the word more. In the Handbook Dr. M. describes how your brain thrives on associative links, your mind needs to fill in the blanks, and your imagination loves information in the form of stories. Words and ideas become associated with your feelings and emotions and the network of associative links shape your habits of behavior. Good means to be desired or approved of, pleasing and welcome. I do not see a problem with good. Good seems good to me! Of course, if we insist that everyone see the same things as good then we increase the probability of conflict. If we insist that everyone see the same things as good at the same time that we do we increase the probability of conflict. The Enia believe that good is relative but there are also certain good ideas and values that all Ti-Enia will rise to in their time. Dr. M. said that the Enia have the power to force change on the Ti-Enia but they choose not to because enduring change must come from within. We can all learn from their example. Nurture the inner and the outer will give form to it. Impose form on the outer without nurturing the inner and the outer form will crumble into the void.

It seems to me that in Western Culture, good has become associated with the ownership of things and conspicuous consumption. Power is good! Prestige is good! High Social Status is good! Owning more stuff is good! That may be alright on some level but a problem arises when the word enough becomes negatively associated with good, and the word more becomes so powerfully positively associated with the word good that wanting more of anything and everything that we experience as good seems so obvious as not to require any hesitation or thought. More Power, more prestige real or imagined, more social status, more stuff! Good and more is a problematic association in the environment of human emotions, needs, desire, instincts, and drives. Good’s negative association with the word enough is the other side of the problem. When is good enough, good enough? Maybe a test score or an auto repair job is not good enough. But, maybe there are some things that are good enough just as they are for now. You know the Handbook is about adults’ responsibility to teach the youth so they can rise. So what do you tell them about good enough? What associations do you want them to form between the word, idea, and feeling of good, and the word, idea, and feeling of enough?

We eat something and experience it as good and say ‘more’, instead of saying that experience was ‘good (and I have had) enough’. We are now the most obese population on the planet. I think a good example of the strength of the good-more association is the successful Storage Rental industry. I’m not talking about the people who require temporary storage because they are in transition, or those who use them for business purposes. I’m thinking about all of those people who need to rent storage space simply because they have not disconnected good from more. Our mother earth is a finite reality. The drinkable water, the balanced chemistry of the air, the atmospheric limitation on the suns powerful rays, the vital oxygen given out by the trees, the land under our feet are all under assault because of the unchallenged association of good with more. How can the next generation come to understand that there are times when good is good enough? There are actually times when good enough is the best course of action. There are times when more is not better. In fact there are times when more, even of that which we experience as good, is downright deadly. Water is a good we can all agree on. Yet people have killed themselves from more in the form of over-hydration.

In the Handbook Dr. M. speaks to U about the process of coming into the world, being born into a cultural fish tank. The Prime Directive is a guideline for all of the important decisions we have to make for our children and that they will have to make for themselves and their children. If we teach them to follow in our footsteps they are on the wrong path for sustainability. You know that and there is enough evidence around you for you to believe that what you know is the truth. Humanity is on the brink of an abyss shaped out of our bad choices. Our children need to find a different way of being in the world. Their creativity and natural talents hold the secrets to new ideas, new definitions of community, new ways of building cities, new modes of transportation, new ways of preserving our environment and all of her forms of life. This is what Dr. M. and the Enia are hoping and working for. Their goal is to unlock the potential of our youth by unlocking the minds of those who are closest to them, their parents, teachers, counselors, mentors, and friends. The primary Mission of the Peaceful Space Project is to promote the Prime Directive of the Human Family and give our youth the opportunity to choose a different paradigm for building the future.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Choice AND Consequences

2011-10-20T16:59:00.000-07:00

If you are like me, you can think of some things you wish you did not do, some things that you wish you had done differently, some things that you did with the best of intentions that still turned out bad, and of course, some things you have done (hopefully a lot of them) that you are so glad you did. As the Mysterious Dr. M. points out in The Handbook, choice is the mechanism of our greatest opportunities and our greatest trials. The web of life, the Quantum Field that Dr. M. describes in the Handbook is so interconnected, interrelated, and interdependent that our seemingly simple choices can have always dynamic, and sometimes profound consequences. Something just came to your mind, didn’t it? The memory of some occasion when some seemingly simple or well-intentioned choice you made resulted in consequences that are still there in your mind today. Isn’t that how it is with us? Do you sometimes feel like you were thrown into a game of Choice AND Consequences? I sometimes wonder if our Ancestors and other Spiritual Beings are in their Realm cracking their sides (figuratively speaking) as they look down on our attempts to figure out the rules of the game. Do you ever get that feeling?

With some choices it is pretty easy to figure out that there will be bad consequences. At a certain age some stuff should just be obvious. Ignorance and bad judgment have to yield to a more severe crack in the person’s Ase Ami (Energy Signature) as an explanation for their choices. If you are like me, you probably avoid most of the obvious stuff and try to live – lets say, on the right side of the law and in the general good graces of the society. You definitely don’t go out of your way to attract bad consequences. But this game of Choice AND Consequences is real tricky, isn’t it? Example: You plan to go straight home and it feels right to you but at the last minute you decide to stop at the store. For a moment your Ori cuts through the chatter in your head and reminds you to go straight home but the chatter returns and you head to the store. Of course you get a flat tire on the way and spend the next hour or more worrying about things at home, trying to get your tire fixed, and repeating the infamous chant – If I had only listened to myself! If I had only listened to myself! If I had only listened to myself! And of course you also wonder if your Ancestors and other Spiritual Beings are in their Realm cracking their sides (figuratively speaking) and saying, we tried to guide you but you did not listen. You were not in Peaceful Space!

If you are anything like me what keeps you going are those occasions when the choices you make bring about Good Consequences, in the short or long term. Hey! Moving to Arizona wasn’t really something that I had planned out for years. I’d never been to Arizona! I had never thought about moving to Arizona until about six months before my family and I relocated. If you said the word Arizona to me when I was living in New York the only thing that would have come to mind would have been the legend of the Phoenix Bird. That’s it! But for me, it is one of those choices that changed the course of my life and brought about an abundance of good consequences. Over the years a few of the rules in the game of Choice AND Consequences have been discovered. One of them is that, because of the nature of the Quantum Field whenever you change a thing, you will change more than what you intend. It is the unintended consequences that we don’t anticipate and the negative unintended consequences that we most want to avoid. There are a few other important observations about the CAC game that I can share and hope that they help you in your own CAC process.

The Consequences of our Choices are not completely random or arbitrary.
Just as Bad Choices tend to attract Bad Consequences, Good Choices tend to attract Good Consequences.
Both Good and Bad Choices will produce unintended consequences.
The unintended consequences of Good Choices will tend to be positive just as the unintended consequences of Bad Choices will tend to be negative.

When I think of the Peaceful Space Project I see the Prime Directive as a way for us to gradually master the game of Choice AND Consequences. I mean individually and collectively. From the moment we come into this world until the moment that we leave our experiences will be defined by the Choices AND Consequences that each of us bring to our world as a whole. The Prime Directive is simple (not easy, but simple).

Seek pleasure and avoid pain for your self and others!
Convert negative energy into positive energy through your conduct in the world!
Nurture life and struggle against death for the welfare of the planet and the coexistence of all living things!

Seems like a set of Good Choices to me. What do you think? It is hard for me to figure out what the unintended negative consequences of the Prime Directive would be so I’m committed to the idea. Aren’t we already dealing with enough of the intended and unintended negative consequences of enough people’s Bad Choices? Dr. M. and the Enia’s message to U in the Handbook is RISE. Don’t wait for someone else to change our reality. A single gnat flapping its wings changes the configuration of the Universe. Isn’t it time we each act like we are the most important link in the chain and do our part to live and promote the Prime Directive for our own sake and for the sake of others?

The Choices that matter are the ones that bring a smile to your face, a warm feeling to your heart, and pleasant memories to your mind. They are the Good Choices that make a positive difference in the lives of others in some small way. Like when a student comes up to me after one of my classes and thanks me for something I said, or a video I showed, or a discussion I assigned. In those moments my face, my heart, and my mind witness that I’ve made a Good Choice and my Ase Ami are infused with positive energy and equally positive memories. I know in those moments that a positive Quantum Entity has formed between the student and me as Dr. M. describes in the Handbook.

What do our children think of the choices we have made and the ones we are making today? And what of those who will be born tomorrow into the consequences of the choices we are making today. Change can occur from the top down with effective leadership. But in the absence of leadership change must emerge from the ground up. And for any change to be of lasting consequences it must be seated in or seeded into the minds and hearts of the people. In a movement of the people everyone counts. Especially you!

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Bad Consequences!

2011-09-26T17:00:00.000-07:00

There are an abundance of rewards that come from making the right choice. In Letters to U: From The Mysterious Dr. M. - The Handbook on being Human, vol I the benefits of making the right choice, of choosing to Create Peaceful Space and to align your everyday choices with the Prime Directive are clearly outlined. Every situation presents a new set of choices and each choice opens a different path. In the end, in a spiritual sense, they may all lead to the same state of being. But there are consequences for the choices we make individually and collectively. Throughout the Handbook the Mysterious Dr. M. reminds U that we humans are the primary responsible parties in the welfare of Ile Inurere (the Home of Humanity). And in my humble opinion humans are failing miserably in fulfilling that responsibility. I’m reminded of the fragment the Riri Enia found that repeated the phrase – they refused to see! We see, hear, and experience the benefits of our modern technological world but refuse to see its downsides. And if we do see the downsides, dysfunctions, risks, and obvious negative consequences we complain but still fail to change course. We fail to see the quantum reality and the connections between the Ojiji Aiye (the Shadow World) and the Pataki Aiye (the Physical World). Do you hear concern in my words? That is because there is concern. I just do not see the Ti Enia getting it. And that raises concerns about the Oku Enia (The Corpse). Read and re-read the Handbook. It is all there!

Remember Dr. M’s warning to U in the 16th Letter?

Can you even begin to imagine taking everyone’s fears, pains, suffering, hatreds, ill-will, and murderous thoughts, all of the negative energy generated by their prejudices, lies, breaches of trust, and violations of the Prime Directive (all six-plus billion people on the planet, not to mention the unresolved residue of past populations), combining these energies together, multiplying them at the quantum level, putting them on some new super-performance enhancing drugs, and then letting that deadly mixture take living, material form? Can you conceive of such a thing? That is what the Ti Enia are causing and allowing to happen in the Ojiji Aiye. That is the thing that is trying to come through. And our only hope is to wrap our Ile Inurere in a quantum field of Peaceful Space. The field must leave no cracks. Although there may be conflicting energies to be resolved within the field, the quantum field of Peaceful Space (around Ile Inurere) is as important to the survival of the planet and its life forms as the gaseous atmosphere that surrounds it, or the sun that gives it light and heat. For too many centuries the Ti Enia have been shifting the Ashe Ami of the planet and the characteristics of the Quantum Entity that has protected it for billions of years. Now, the pendulum is swinging back and consequences are coming. Bad consequences!

I wonder how many of the rocket launchers, missiles, and other weapons that Moammar Kadafi left behind are already in route to the wrong hands. Hands that will further feed the Oku Enia. And still they fail to see! What are we doing? This is madness! The Handbook On Being Human is a cautionary tale – it speaks of our potential to do great things and warns us in clear terms that we have already made bad choices that require a re-balancing of our collective Ashe Ami. Looking at the world through fogged lenses communities, cities, states, nations, and continents are being rocked by historic events, yet, the people fail to see! We fail to put the pieces together and understand that a shift in our Prime Directive is the key to shifting our future. There are Ti Enia who are rising to become Enia, especially among the Children of Nine mentioned in the Handbook. They represent a ray of hope but the level of negativity between the Ti Enia is rising at such a rapid rate that the winner of this deadly race in not yet clear to the Riri Enia (the Seeing People).

In discussing 10 Selfish and Unselfish Reasons for Creating Peaceful Space, Dr. M. first states, It Is In Your Nature. Speaking of our ancestors, he goes on:

Left to the rule of their most basic instincts, their Self-Preservation Mandates, and to the basic and sometimes baser instinct of procreation, our Ancestors would never have started the journey that you and I are continuing today. Instead of leaning towards negative social interactions (trepidation, fear, intimidation, hatred, and unbridled competition), our Ancestors chose to follow the positive path of Creating Peaceful Space so that cooperative group formation could take place. They learned to overcome trepidation and fear of each other; they reached down inside of themselves, and then reached out to each other, and found that developing a sense of interrelatedness, interconnectedness, and interdependence between themselves and with their environment created a much more effective means of survival than intimidation, hatred, and perpetual hostility and violence towards each other. The fruits of Creating Peaceful Space were that they were able, through cooperation, collaboration, and mutual support to overcome all of the challenges they had to face. And as a consequence, you are here!

What do our children think of the choices we have made and the ones we are making today? And what of those who will be born tomorrow into the consequences of the choices we are making today. Change can occur from the top down with effective leadership. But in the absence of leadership change must emerge from the ground up. And for any change to be of lasting consequences it must be seated in or seeded into the minds and hearts of the people. In a movement of the people everyone counts. Especially you!

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

The Prime Directive: Competition versus Cooperation

2011-08-19T07:05:00.000-07:00

It was January 31, 2010 when I first shared this Post. Think about what has happened since then and think about how little things have changed. The Paradigm or Directive of Competition is still winning out and as a result the entire human family and most of life on planet earth is suffering. What are we doing? How bad does it have to get before each of us rises (as Dr. M. put it)?

Re-Posted from January 31, 2010:
Who said life is suppose to be easy? It is more about finding the balance between the Fight-or Flight Response and the Peaceful Space Response. As you look around at the natural environment you can see that competition is a central component of life. From the tiniest organisms to the global ecosystem, at every level of existence we see evidence of competition. Even when you try to quiet your mind you must overcome the chatter of what has been called our noisy monkey mind. Competition is present in the inner and outer world, in the micro and the macro manifestations of reality. Even the Dark Matter and Dark Energy that Dr. M. discusses in the Handbook are in a competitive dance with one another.

The natural environment also manifests the characteristics of a cooperative system where each of the parts serves its unique function insuring its own survival through its service to the survival of the whole. This cooperative relationship between planets, animals, insects, and other aspects of the environment appears essential to long term sustainability. Dr. M. wanted to share this story with you!

A very long time ago, three men and their wives lived within view of each other. Each man had a special talent, one a master of wood, another a master of the soil, and the third a master of the animals that lived in their area. Being masters, they were each alpha males, independent, stubborn, and proud. The master of wood built a beautiful home for he and his wife, full of handmade furniture and carved wooden beams. But they had almost no food. In fact, they were slowly starving themselves. From their second story patio they could see the master of the soil and his wife working their land which was full of food that made their mouths water. The master of the soil and his wife had plenty of food but they had only a palm leaf hut as a shelter from the weather and a place to call home. At the edge of the master of the soil’s land, the terrain took a gentle slope into the valley were the master of the soil and his wife could see the master of the animals and his wife grazing and feeding their animals on the dry grass that grew between the slope and the range of mountains that provided a rock canopy as their shelter. Alpha males are by nature more competitive with each other so contrary to their otherwise logical minds, the three masters always took a competitive view of each others condition, a fact that kept each of them limited in their condition and in a state of constant stress (Fight-or-Flight Response).

One night, the Enia made the three women dream together. They dreamt that they were together at a common well. They each shared the good news that they were with child, but none of them was smiling. The wife of the master of wood said that she was afraid for her unborn because they had no food. She shared that she and her husband scavenged their barren land at night like animals to find things to cook that no human should each. The wife of the master of the land said that she was afraid because her unborn might not survive if it they had to take shelter under palm leaves from the weather. She added, but her husband is so proud and stubborn. The wife of the master of the animals agreed that their rock canopy was no place to raise a baby and that they need more than milk and eggs to survive. The women dreamt what their husbands would do when they heard the news.

Weeks later, on the same day, each woman announced to her husband the good news that she was pregnant. That night the Enia made the husbands dream together. They dreamt of their wives and their children not having shelter, being without food, and not knowing that a part of the world was green, yellow, and red. The dream triggered the Peaceful Space Response in each of the masters and the next day they met and worked out a plan to cooperate with each other for the sake of their wives, their unborn, and their mutual survival. The plan was the Prime Directive!

What our world needs now is…! What do you think?

End of original Post!

I am not surprised by the conflict we see in our world. The Mysterious Dr. M. and the Enia predicted this relentless degradation if the Ti-Enia do not change their attitudes and behaviors. Each of us has a role to play. The Enia plant their seeds of wisdom into the Ti-Enia's dreams. But in your and my reality most of the Ti-Enia are asleep even when they are walking around and going through their daily life. We say people should have the opportunity to make informed choices. Our children are growing up thinking that this competition-driven madness is the only way to be in the world. They should at least be told and shown that there is an alternative. You could plant the Prime Directive in someone's mind everyday, like a seed, trusting that when the time is right the seed will grow.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

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The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and The Prime Directive

2011-07-20T10:28:00.000-07:00

In the Handbook On Being Human the Mysterious Dr. M. and the Enia provide us with a set of ethical arguments for Creating Peaceful Space. They are a set of arguments that focus on the welfare of the individual as well as the survival and advancement of the larger community of life on planet earth. The consequence of accepting the arguments presented in the Handbook must logically and ethically be to align your life with the Prime Directive of the Human Family. However, human logic and ethics are constantly challenged by human emotions, egotism, and self-interest. The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being (Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago).

The role of the Prime Directive [to seek pleasure and avoid pain for yourself and others, to convert negative energy into positive energy through your conduct in the world, and to nurture life and struggle against death for the welfare of the planet and the co-existence of all living things] is to provide a universal guideline for ethical decision-making. It is a paradigm for socializing our children into an ethical worldview through the systematic cultivation of fair-mindedness, honesty, integrity, self-knowledge, and a deep concern for the welfare of others. This early childhood cultivation is the process for engineering an ethical world. The proper role of ethical reasoning is to highlight acts of two kinds: those that enhance the well-being of others and therefore warrant our praise, and those that harm or diminish the well-being of others, and therefore warrant our criticism. As a general rule it is fairly simple to establish agreement about what is and what is not ethical behavior. Ethical reasoning and principles are not based on religious, political, cultural, or philosophical worldviews which have historically been the basis of divisions and conflict among the human family. The key to understanding ethical reasoning and ethical behavior is a set of simple questions! How would you feel is someone did that to you? How would you feel if someone cheated, deceived, exploited, harmed, abused, embarrassed, ignored, avoided, ridiculed, diminished, or otherwise undermined you in some way? By asking these kinds of questions the governments of the world, were able to come together in 1948 and agree on the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Have you ever read the document? Our global implementation of its protocols is flawed to say the least, but the aspirations and declarations of the document are a benchmark of progress in the ethical understanding of our species, our world, and the global human and inter-species relationships that support our existence.

The Preamble to the Declaration states:

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

The Prime Directive of the Human Family is the quintessence, the refined extract of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Forty-four words that any adult or child can commit to heart. Consider Articles 1-10. They are all elaborations of the Prime Directive to seek pleasure and avoid pain for yourself and others. Consider Articles 11-15 as examples of the directive to convert negative energy into positive energy through your conduct in the world. In fact each element of the UDHR is embodied in the Prime Directive of the Human Family. Consider Articles 24-25 in the context of the third protocol of the Prime Directive, to nurture life and struggle against death for the welfare of the planet and the co-existence of all living things. Article 29 states that, everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. This is perhaps the most important article because without a sense of individual responsibility, the aspirations of the UDHR and the Prime Directive cannot be realized.

Article 26 of the UDHR states that, everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. It further states that, education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

Governments, corporations, and organizations are social institutions that do not run the world. People do! Humans breath life into institutions. We tend to forget that all of the world's leaders, heads, and decision-makers were once children raised by one or more of us. Raise the child's body on a diet of nutritious food and regular exercise and they will tend to grow into physically healthy human beings. Nurture the child's mind and spirit on ethical wisdom and practice and they will tend to grow into socially conscious and responsible individuals whether they become postal worker, a teacher, an entrepreneur, a community leader, a corporate mogul, a head of government, or the head of a powerful international organization. So the only way to change the policies and practices of our social institutions (government, economy, education, health care, family, etc.) is to change the worldview of the people who run them now, and (perhaps more importantly) those who will run them in the future. We are preparing the leaders of tomorrow in our homes, classrooms, and neighborhoods today. The Prime Directive should be promoted, instructed, nurtured, and exemplified in every home, every classroom, and every neighborhood. The children who grow into leaders from those kinds of environments will become the kind of leaders who encourage and support our process of healing our world. You can help make a difference by simply promoting the Peaceful Space Project web site and blog among your family, friends, coworkers, community social and civic leaders, government representative, and anyone else you can think of. No product to sell although I would hope that they would read the Handbook. No complex philosophy to try and articulate. Just be a planter and drop the seed at every opportunity trusting that when it is time for that seed to grow, it will! We cannot afford to give up on our own species because that means allowing ourselves to descend further into the nightmare abyss that the Enia outline in the Handbook. We have to believe that our children are capable of facing and overcoming the many social and environmental obstacles to survival that we have placed in their path. We have a responsibility to give them all of the fundamental tools the meet those challenges that we can. The Prime Directive is a fundamental tool, the quintessence of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

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(Reference: Understanding the Foundations of Ethical Reasoning, Dr. Richard Paul, Dr. Linda Elder, Foundation for Critical Thinking, ISBN: 0-944-583-17-2)

(Reference: United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights) (link)

A Fathers Day Message

2011-06-18T20:02:00.000-07:00

It’s difficult not to think of all of the young males, especially the young Black males who have little or no relationship with their fathers. No one they can call, no one to whom they can send a card, or who they visit with a smile and a hug to say “Happy Fathers Day dad!” My personal pain goes even deeper when I think of all of the young Black males who will grow up feeling abandoned by their fathers, whether their fathers are living or deceased. My empathy and compassion are deep enough to feel for all of the boys who are missing a father in their lives. But, for young Black males, who are already disenfranchised from the greater society at birth, their loss seems to be the greatest of all. Any young male can relate to the sense of loss of the young Black male who grows up without a father although there are differences both in degree and kind of pain.

The word father can denote the inherent relationship between a man and his natural child or children (male or female). In a broader and more significant sense, father refers to a man who assumes continuous care and protection of a child or children, whether the relationship is based on birth, adoption, or foster care. As the Mysterious Dr. M. points out in the Handbook On Being Human, each child comes into this world as pure potential, driven by an innate Destiny Mandate yet malleable and ready to be shaped by their environment. What a father’s love, caring, and protect brings to the environment of the child, especially the young male is irreplaceable. Let the voices of fatherless boys tell you about the silence in their heads as they ask questions for which there are no answers, not even a voice trying to answer. Let them tell you about the blank spots in the mirror where nothing is reflected back to them about why they are the way that they are, “is that a trait of my father’s?” Let their broken voices tell you of their struggle to achieve the most confusing and impossible thing, manhood, without anyone to guide them, without a father to show them the way. It is their voices, speaking to the emptiness in their souls, that reveals the importance of celebrating and honoring fatherhood on this Fathers Day, 2011.

The proverb, like father, like son is of no small importance in understanding the role and responsibility of the father and his affect on his son(s). We come into the world as pure potential and someone meets us here, and they begin the process of our becoming, Dr. M. states in the Handbook. The father begins the process of the son’s becoming. The natural relationship between the father and his son is that in the beginning the son(s) is in the process of becoming the father. The father is his role model for being in the world. When that role model is missing the child is subject to falter in his process of co-creation of the self. The father and the son co-create the son’s foundational personality together. In the absence of the father the foundational personality structure is full of cracks resulting from the son’s attempts at figuring everything out on his own, and from not having someone in whom he has unwavering trust.

Every father who has embraced the responsibility of their role as father with pride, joy, and commitment is an example to those who have not. And for those fathers who have somehow fallen short in honoring that role, it is never too late to seal whatever cracks can be sealed. The presence of a father’s love is intended by our nature to be guaranteed. If it breaks down, it can and should be repaired and may have to be replaced. But it should always be present in some form. Hence the African proverb, it takes a community to raise a child. It is also said that, a father can raise a son but only the community can raise a man. As important as these things are, we should not let education, work, careers, friends, hobbies, emergencies, must-dos and the host of other reasons, excuses, and priorities get in the way of being good fathers. Not to mention drugs, women, and a bad disposition about life. The role of father is too important.

The Prime Directive of the Human Family as outlined in the Handbook is a guide to successful fathering. When viewed from the perspective of fatherhood, the Prime Directive provides a guideline for the relationship between the father and his son(s). As a father, seek pleasure and avoid pain for yourself and your sons and teach them to do the same. Convert negative energy into positive energy through your conduct in the world and with your sons and teach them to do the same. Nurture life and struggle against death for the welfare of the planet and your family, and teach your sons to do the same. Teach your sons how to live in and how to Create Peaceful Space!

Sometimes the challenge of all that responsibility can be overwhelming, frightening. But being a good father is in your nature. Don’t run from it! Embrace it! Don’t rush to become a father but once you are a father rush to answer its call and fulfill its responsibilities! And whether your father is dead or alive, if you have been blessed to be close to your father, to have a nurturing and loving relationship with him, let this be the day that you celebrate and be thankful for your that relationship with your father. And if like Dr. M., myself, and so many others you live with the scares of a breach in the father-son bond, then let this be a day to through off your burden of anger, resentment, regret, sadness, loss, and abandonment and say to your father, face-to-face or in their absence, from your heart, Happy Fathers Day, dad!

To all of the men out there striving to be the best fathers they can be, Kudos!

Happy Fathers Day!

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

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Conflict and The Prime Directive

2011-05-19T11:32:00.000-07:00

In most of what I write on this and my other Blogs I try to be both realistic and optimistic. That is not always easy! The reality of what the Ti-Enia have made of the world is heartbreaking and conjures a sense of foreboding that we are on the verge of a cataclysmic collapse of our social and natural environments. It feels inconceivable and obvious to me that the Ti-Enia’s arrogance and ignorance cannot go unchecked. The Ti-Enia are so busy blaming each other for this and that, so busy pointing the finger at them, that they fail to ask the most important question. What are we doing to our world? Conditioned into short-term memory, instant gratification, conspicuous consumption, hard-heartedness, and thoughtlessness many Ti-Enia seem blind to all of the signs that are in front of their faces. Their vision is too shortsighted to put the pieces together and see the bigger picture. Every social institution and every area of the global ecosystem seems to be experiencing some kind of unexpected and disruptive crisis yet, the Ti-Enia refuse to change course.

I am reminded of Dr. M’s 15th Letter to U where he discusses some of the fragments that the Riri Enia (Seeing People) have found. Remember, they connected each of the statements in the fragments with specific historical and current events. What I’m reminded of is the recurring statement, ‘They fail to see!’ The message is repeated eight times and then ends with ‘They are forced to see!’ I know that for all of you out there who do put the pieces together it is probably as difficult for you as it is for me to be optimistic, to wake up each day looking forward to the beauty and joy that each moment of life could hold. Of course, for you to deny the ignorance, arrogance, greet, prejudice, hatred, sexism, the dark side of globalization, and the faults that lie at the foundation of our political, scientific, and technological pursuits is not a solution. Going through life as though it is all good is as flawed a perspective as thinking and acting like it is all bad. Chaos and conflict are a part of the creation. The wisdom of The Architect of Creation is that It has put chaos and order, conflict and harmony into a fecund balance from which all of the wonders of the Universe emerge.

In Letter 15 Dr. M. states,

People who think that this reality is designed to sustain a world without tension and conflict fail to understand the nature of the world and the nature of our species. The aim of the Enia is to live in accordance with the Prime Directive of our species. There is no question as to whether conflict will emerge between Inurere. It will! The question is whether or not we use our wisdom to alleviate the conditions from which conflict emerges, and when conflict does emerge, to choose the method of mitigation and resolution that produces the least negative Unpredictable Consequences in the Pataki Aiye and the Ojiji Aiye.

The Ti-Enia have already set things into motion and planted seeds that are bearing poison fruit. Yet the Ti-Enia, from world leaders to common everyday people, continue to look away focusing their attention on empty pleasures and futile solutions to orchestrated problems. Did you hear the predictions about the end of the world? One group predicting it will end this Saturday, May 21, 2011 and the Mayan Calendar predicting that the world will end in 2012. Who knows for sure? People have been predicting the end of the world by divine intervention for thousands of years. Some people have spent their entire lives waiting for it to come. To me a Divine Day of Reckoning is a matter of personal belief and each should be free to believe as they choose. But reckoning is not restricted to divine or spiritual sources.

Reckoning means retribution, doom, punishment, and nemesis. But it also means fate, and your fate is the consequences of your choices. Once again the message of the Handbook rings clear, you are responsible for your choices and through your choices you shape your and our worlds (the Pataki Aiye and the Ojiji Aiye). You and I can choose to Create Peaceful Space in our own little part of the world. Dr. M. makes it clear that everything is connected to everything else. So when you choose to make a positive change in your little part of the fabric of creation, you actually change the whole thing. You change the Universe! More importantly, you can change the lives of the people around you. Remember, it doesn’t have to be big. A small act of kindness can truly go a long way. It can be something as simple as sharing this Blog and the Prime Directive with a friend, acquaintance, or coworker. Or how about sending them a copy of the Handbook On Being Human as a gift?

The Prime Directive is something to anchor your self to when conflict emerges. It is also a reminder of how to avoid conflict.
The Prime Directive can give students the words to speak to address bullying.
The Prime Directive can give parents the words to guide and socialize their children.
The Prime Directive can give teachers words to establish their protocols for classroom management.
The Prime Directive can give life-partners the words to define the parameters of their relationship.
The Prime Directive can give business and political leaders the words to frame their relationship to the people whose lives they affect in such profound ways.
The Prime Directive can be that choice that you and I make that changes our world by moving us in the direction of decreasing conflict and chaos, in the direction of Peaceful Space.
The Prime Directive can be that thread that ties all of us together into a beautiful quilt.

But it can only become these things if those who accept and align their lives with the Prime Directive share it with others. One-By-One!

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Creating Peaceful Space

2011-05-01T11:24:00.000-07:00

This should have been posted as my second Post of April but I was lost in my thoughts and feelings about the natural disasters that struck the US over the past few weeks. I still plan two more post in the month of May. I hope you, your family members, and friends were spared the wrath of the storms. I also hope that you will pause to feel the pain and suffering that so many of our human family are experiencing. The natural disasters are a function of us being in the way of Mother Nature’s own life processes. We die, we cry, and we hope! The nuclear crisis in Japan is a result of the intersection of Mother Nature’s own life processes and human choices. We die, we cry, and we hope! Our wars are purely our own doing. We die, we cry, and we hope! Creating Peaceful Space is about learning and choosing to find balance in our relationship with Ile Inurere (the Home of Humanity) and in our relationships with each other.

In the Handbook On Being Human the Mysterious Dr. M. states, “You cannot really control other people, (even children). The greater the degree of control over another individual or group (through fear, intimidation, or violence) the more of a nemesis they become for the individual or group attempting to exercise control.” We can see the truth and wisdom of Dr. M’s words being played out across the Middle East, North Africa, and other parts of the world today. “You can however control yourself. You can choose to Create Peaceful Space!” In the Handbook, Dr. M. discusses the Multi-Causality Formula that states, “Any social phenomenon that we choose to call ‘Y’ is invariably the result of more than one causal element ‘X’." He goes on to give a brief list of 16 Causal Elements that will nurture the emergence of Peaceful Space. Here is a prescription for teaching our children how to create a better world. Here is a curriculum for unlocking the positive and beautiful potential of our species. Here is a simple set of guidelines for facilitating the rise of the Ti-Enia.

Understand the basic nature of life and your species.
Understand the composition of your own personality.
Live up to the Prime Directive of our species.

Seek pleasure and avoid pain for yourself and others,
Convert negative energy into positive energy through your conduct in the world,
Nurture life and struggle again death for the welfare of the planet and the coexistence of all living things. (The Prime Directive of the Human Family)

Look beyond the surface of things and feel the people around you.
Recognize diversity as a fundamental and unalterable characteristic of creation.
Develop a sense of empathy regarding the common human condition.
Accept the uniqueness of each individual’s journey.

Dr. M. points out in the Handbook that we create Quantum Entities when we interact with each other. These Quantum Entities take on the energetic qualities associated with our interpersonal interactions, positive or negative. The more we open ourselves up to the feelings of empathy and compassion for others, the more the Quantum Entities we create take on those attributes.

Be true to yourself.
Be self-determined and self-defined.
Honor each individual’s right to choose.
Embrace the positive and rise above the negative.
Encourage the best and support the highest aspirations of everyone you meet.
Do things that make you feel good about yourself and then nurture that good feeling in others.
Give people time to grow out of their fears and misery.
Plant seeds of wisdom wherever you can but don’t hang around waiting for them to grow.
Trust in the Process!

To which of these guidelines would you say, “No, I will not do that!” “No, I cannot do that!” Each of these 16 Causal Elements for the emergence of Peaceful Space is totally within your control. It is all about how you choose to live your life, everyday, every minute of every day.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Self-Determined Evolution

2011-04-14T19:42:00.000-07:00

In his documentary Journey of Man, Spencer Wells comments that if we took the DNA of one individual and could stretch it out to its full length, it would stretch from earth to the moon 3,000 times. Imagine that! And each piece of that DNA is packed full of information. And just think! Among all of the forms of life that Mother Earth has produced and sustained, we (Inurere) are the only ones who have the capacity for Self-Determined Evolution. The Mysterious Dr. M. speaks of this concept in one of his Letters to U. Self-Determined Evolution is the progression and enhancement of the physical and mental capacities of our species through the agency of thought and based upon cognitional and intuitional approaches to fulfilling the Prime Directive. He also states that the key to Self-Determined Evolution is choice.

Creating a world where we, our children and grandchildren, and our descendants to come can live in Peaceful Space is the challenge of our times. Current events speak to the volatility of the moment. We are living in the grip of Social Change of the Fourth Kind described in the Handbook On Being Human as rapid, sustained, far-reaching, dynamic, and a precipitant of social dysfunctions and Anomie (a breakdown of social order). Creating Peaceful Space as a global phenomenon will not be easy but there is no other creature on the planet that is equipped to play your and my role. There is no one else and nothing else to pass the responsibility to, unless we simply decide to pass it on to our children.

Dr. M. and the Enia make a clear prediction about the path that we are currently following. Today, the technologies we have engineered and infused into the Global Society are precipitating unexpected changes and latent effects. Powerful social and technological forces are driving social change under the influence of their own inertia and dynamic tendencies (for example, social media versus parental and government controls). We have arrived at a generation of children who have spent more time with a piece of electronic equipment than they have in a park, at a lake, wondering at the stars, or making their own toys out of the scraps of their everyday environments. For many of them the sense of connection to Mother Earth, to our many relatives, and to each other is breaking down or non-existent. We have to ask ourselves what kind of qualities, characteristics, and protocols do our children need in order to cope with and progress during this period of Social Change of the Fourth Kind. What should be the goals of Self-Determined Evolution for our children?

The Mysterious Dr. M. and the Enia have written the Handbook to help answer those questions. Remember these hints:

Creativity is the use of imagination or original ideas. In order to solve the problems of our times individually and collectively we must develop in ourselves and nurture in our children inventiveness, vision, initiative, inspiration, resourcefulness, and enterprise.

Intuition is the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. It is a sense of knowing based on an instinctive or subjective feeling rather than an objective observation. Who could possibly record the number of times that a hunch, feeling-in-the-bones, inkling, sneaking suspicion, idea, sense, notion, gut feeling, premonition, presentiment, or instinct (an innate behavior pattern or natural skill) has changed the course of in individual life or world history? Teaching and training our children to be sensitive to and to trust their intuitions is a very important part of preparing them for the challenges of this life.

Instincts are natural tendencies, inherent tendencies, inclinations, urges, drives, compulsions, and needs. Our instincts and their effects are extensively discussed in the Handbook. Instincts also manifests as talents, gifts, abilities, aptitudes, faculties, skills, flairs, knacks, bents, and genius. It is very important that we observe and respond to the instincts of the next generation rather than simply thinking that as parents and adults, we know what is best for them. Many of us have been directed into career choices and activities that were not in alignment with our instincts and denied the opportunity to express ourselves in areas that were more aligned with our instincts. The result is internal dissonance and dissatisfaction.

Adaptability is the ability to adjust to new conditions. It is a kind of self-modification to meet a new need or fulfill a new purpose. Adaptability could require a change in your Foundational Personality but it can also be built into the personality of children starting at an early age. Routine behavior development is very important to establish positive life-style behaviors. But nurturing adaptability is also extremely important. During Social Change of the Fourth Kind, Self-Determined Evolution must anticipate the need for versatility, modifiability, convertibility, alterability, adjustability, and multi-purpose functionality.

Flexibility is the ability to bend easily without breaking. Like adaptability it is characteristic of an individual or organization that can easily modify itself to respond to altered circumstances or conditions. Flexibility is characterized by pliability, suppleness, plasticity, give-and-take, cooperation, amenability, tolerance, and willingness to compromise. Adults and children who share this characteristic will be less prone to be overwhelmed by disappointments and changes in their everyday lives.

Resilience is the ability to spring back into shape after being bent or compressed (or to recover one’s health or spirits quickly). Both flexibility and resilience are essential qualities for Self-Determined Evolution. Resilient individuals are strong, hardy, buoyant, irrepressible, and hardwearing.

Insight is the capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of a person or thing. Dr. M. talks about the human brain in the Handbook. The Brain thrives on associative links, the mind needs to fill in the blanks and complete pictures, and the imagination loves stories. Insight is critical to problem solving and in its Middle English origin means inner sight, mental vision, or wisdom. With insight come the abilities of discernment, perception, awareness, understanding, appreciation, penetration, acumen, judgment, and apprehension.

We are a unique and wonderful species capable of so much good. Each day each one of us chooses the aspect of ourselves that we are going to call forth or allow to be aroused by outside stimuli. Each day we choose to give into our Fight-or-Flight Response and all of the negative thoughts and feelings that come with it, or we choose to Create Peaceful Space. As Dr. M. and the Enia point out in the Handbook not even death frees us from our responsibility for Self-Determined Evolution.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Let's Make a Deal

2011-03-30T15:41:00.000-07:00

The Handbook On Being Human is not a book written to or for children. However, it is a book about raising children and giving them the tools and insights necessary for them to navigate their unique journey towards Self-Actualization. The Handbook discusses the journey from before birth to after death and the stages of the journey in between. Let’s Make A Deal is the subtitle of Chapter 26 of the Handbook On Being Human. The main title of that Chapter is Arrival. I’ve been rereading the Handbook for additional edits. As I reflect on current world events and review the message that Dr. M. and the Enia presented I’m taken by the insights of the Riri Enia (the Seeing People). Dr. M. said that the Riri Enia saw into the Shadow World (Ojiji Aiye) and into the future and said that the Oku Enia (the Corpse) would cause increasing natural and man-made catastrophes as it tries to push its way into our world. Think about the events that have taken place since the Handbook was published in 2009.

Most of the people-in-the-know have been saying that the events in the Middle East and North Africa caught them and everyone by surprise. Well, not everyone! I don’t often quote whole paragraphs of the Handbook in my Posts but as the forces of Social Change of the Fourth Kind sweep across the region (and the world) Dr. M’s words ring as true as the other predications of the Riri Enia. Here is a quote from Chapter 26.

Most parents believe that their way of seeing the world is the right way for their children to see the world. This belief is both true and false. It is true because there are certain fundamental lessons that are critical to the welfare of the child, the preservation of social order, and the survival of the species. It is false because the parents and the child do not live in identical cognitive, cultural, or social realities. Each has to make an effort to understand the cultural reality of the other. As a parent you can give your children insight and navigational skills to access the culture. Your children on the other hand are born to bring social change. Herein lies an essential tension between parent and child, adults and children, the present generations and those to come. It is best if this potentially explosive tension is resolved in Peaceful Space. When the youth are under-educated, unemployed, disenfranchised, and their essential nature stifled, they will seek to bring about change by any means necessary. Look at the countries around the world where the innate potential of youth has been denied to the violent detriment of the society. Most modern societies around the world have shifted their focus away from the needs of their children, the future of their children, and the Prime Directive in favor of the selfish short-term interests of adults, especially those who exercise the various forms of social power (governance, economic, institutional authority, or social status).

Current events speak to the truth of Dr. M’s message. In the Handbook, Dr. M. says that the collective experience of the Inurere (Humanity) forms a Quantum Personality with its own Energy Signature. And every change that takes place within the Energy Signature of our planet (Ile Inurere – the Home of Humanity) affects everything as a whole (the land, water, and air, the micro-organisms, plants, insects, fish, birds, animals, and Inurere). What is happening now in the Middle East and North Africa is just the tip of what is pushing its way into the Pataki Aiye (Material World). I wonder to what extent we in the United States are pushing our own children towards a confrontation with the established order that it would be best for us to avoid. Clinging to things that are by nature impermanent is the source of suffering was the Buddha’s message. Change and adaptation are in the nature of things and in the nature of our children. If a society chooses to cling to that which is contrary to the nature and needs of its children it does so to its own great peril.

Across the US children are living in poverty, being under-educated for the needs of the times, being driven into lifelong poor health through the consumption of unhealthy foods, and being seduced to believe that their worth as human beings is based on their level of consumption. We should take current events as a warning of what lies beneath the surface of our present social order. Promoting the Prime Directive as a fundamental and essential aspect of our social interactions with each other and in the nurturing and education of our children is another step towards establishing a Human Contract that works.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Cracks

2011-03-09T16:05:00.000-08:00

The Handbook On Being Human was written as a teaching tool. Throughout the Handbook the Mysterious Dr. M. and the Enia remind and inform you about your quantum, genetic, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual makeup. The message of the Handbook was prescribed by the Enia to help humans (the Ti-Enia) Create Peaceful Space in their personal lives and in the global human family (the Inurere – Humanity). In the Handbook Dr. M. talks about the Door of Good Fortune (Ilekun rere) and the Door of Misfortune (Ilekun buburu), and about the way that your individual choices can create cracks in the barrier between the Pataki Aiye (material world) and the Ojiji Aiye (shadow world). The Door of Misfortune binds negative energies in the Ojiji Aiye. When you create cracks in the Door of Misfortune more Predictable and Unpredictable Negative Consequences can escape and push their way into our world and your personal life. I’m sure we have touched on this topic in several of my previous Post. After reading this Post you should have a better understanding of how some of these cracks are created and therefore how they can be avoided.

A crack is a line on the surface of something along which it has split without breaking into separate parts, like that crack in your car’s front windshield or in that old pair of glasses that you still keep around for some reason (just in case). In your social world this kind of crack comes about when your actions or inaction changes the quality and strength of the bond between you and a family member, friend, co-worker, supervisor, employer, or other individual or group. It is the kind of crack that weakens but does not break relationships. But it does make those relationships easier-to-break. The quality of the negative energy that emanates from this kind of crack leaves legacies like, we still did things together but it just wasn’t the same after I (he, she, they)…

Crack(s) can also refer to the narrow space(s) between two surfaces that have broken, been separated, or otherwise moved apart from each other. In the Handbook Dr. M. shared his experience of seeing a single blade of grass growing in the crack of a boulder when he stopped to tie his shoe. A blade of grass is not the only thing that can grow and come out of a crack of this kind. Just think for a moment of what can happen if you get this kind of crack (separation) in your skin. Bad stuff can get into your body and poison you, even take your life. More times then not you know when you have created this kind of crack in your social world because you find yourself wondering if it will ever heal, if the offended party will ever forgive you, if they hate you, are they angry enough to want to get back at you, and all of the other thoughts that your imagination can conceive. This kind of crack produces a narrow space or separation between your Energy Signature and in the Quantum Entity you share with the person or persons affected by your choice(s). In other words, there is hope that the pieces can be mended back together like a once broken vase.

An intended or unintended gesture, a word spoken in the wrong tone or at the wrong time, an action taken without a thought as to the possible consequences, sometimes even something done with the best of intentions can produce a crack that breaches the barrier between you and the Door of Misfortune. This is why the Enia allowed Dr. M’s discussions with U about the quantum nature of reality to be published in the Handbook. Everyone needs to understand the profound power of our thoughts, words, and actions. Our choices create our reality!

A crack is also a sudden sharp or explosive noise like the crack of thunder that not only reaches your ears but also makes your body vibrate right down to your bones. It is most important that we get the Ti-Enia to understand the power of their tongue. What comes from their mouths is more powerful and potentially damaging than anything that Shango has manifested in the sky. (Spoken by one of the Olukoni Enia, the Teacher People). A sudden harshness or change in the pitch of your voice can cause your words to penetrate so deeply into a person that their vibrations will resonate in that person's Energy Signature for days, weeks, months, years, even decades. A critical or unkind joke intended to provide laughter for some might indeed cause significant damage to another. This is why Dr. M. talks about racism, sexism, classism, and all forms of prejudice and discrimination among the Ti-Enia. These are cracks in the barrier between the worlds.

The message of the Handbook is that we must live our lives mindfully, paying close attention to how our individual and collective choices affect the people around us, and the environments we share. A crack in your window not only lets in the outside air. It also allows your controlled atmosphere to dissipate into the outer environment. The crack also allows insects to enter into your private spaces and the weather to damage the things that you cherish. So why be careless or uncaring and create cracks in your own Energy Signature and in the Quantum Entities that you create and share as you go about your daily interactions with those with whom you share the world? Why make choices that create cracks in the barrier that separates the worlds and invite misfortune into your life? Why do that?

No doubt we are all guilty of creating cracks and have already experienced some of the Predictable and Unpredictable Negative Consequences of our choices. If you want to Create Peaceful Space and make the kind of difference in our world that Dr. M. and the Enia talk about in the Handbook than Step 1 is to determine to stop making choices that create avoidable cracks. Step 2 is to seal the cracks that you have already created, like making a stained-glass window. The Handbook provides you with an understanding of human nature and you can use that knowledge to begin the process of healing old wounds where possible and rising above guilt where necessary so that you can achieve Peaceful Space within yourself. From that vantage point you can Create Peaceful Space with others.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

The Serenity Prayer and The Prime Directive

2011-02-18T08:17:00.000-08:00

Tens of millions of people have heard, recited, and internalized the Serenity Prayer. It is hung in millions of offices and homes as posters and plaques. I recently received a calendar that posts the prayer in sections for the first three months of 2011. What a wonderful prayer to begin the New Year! What a wonderful prayer to recite each day! What a wonderful embodiment of the spirit and essence of the Peaceful Space Project and the Prime Directive!

Grant me the Serenity to accept the things
that I cannot change,

The Courage to change the things that I can,

And, the Wisdom to know the difference.

Serenity is the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled. Its Latin root, serenus means clear or fair. As a noun in archaic language the serene refers to an expanse of clear sky or calm sea. In the Traditions of the Enia we would say clear path. The first expression of the Serenity Prayer is a supplication that you might live your life in Peaceful Space (to accept) even when the places and events around you are not as you would wish them to be. The Mysterious Dr. M. makes the distinction between a peaceful place and Peaceful Space very clear in the Handbook On Being Human. This appeal for serenity is at the same time an acknowledgment that life, by its very nature will challenge you. The metaphor of your journey up the mountain that Dr. M. shares with U in the Handbook makes it clear that there will be obstacles to overcome as you strive to realize your Destiny Mandate. It also reflects your acceptance that you are a limited being (the things that I cannot change) and only part of a much larger creative process and journey. The first expression of the Serenity Prayer also aligns with the description that Dr. M. gives of the relationship between the Peaceful Space Response and the Fight-or-Flight Response. Dr. M. states that the normal condition of human life is Peaceful Space. This is the condition you naturally seek. Your nature is to gravitate to Peaceful Space just as water returns to stillness after being disturbed. Dr. M. says that human potential can only be realized in Peaceful Space. The Fight-or-Flight Response on the other hand is a reaction to a threat or perceived danger (real or imagined). It is the alarm and the resource to fuel our reaction and our solution to the disturbance. Once the problem is solved you (should) gravitate back to Peaceful Space (Grant me...). Create Peaceful Space!

The second verse of the Serenity Prayer gives expression to the Prime Directive and to a purposeful life. Recognizing that life is full of challenges and obstacles as Dr. M. describes throughout the Handbook, living a purposeful life requires determination and resolve. Living a purposeful life is about striving for Self-Actualization, overcoming obstacles to achieve your Destiny Mandate, and growing a heart big enough to care for a world. Grant me the courage to change the things that I can! Courage is the ability to do something that frightens you. It is a state of strength in the face of pain, grief, or ordeal. This second verse acknowledges that although you are a limited being, you are not a powerless being. You can facilitate positive change in the world. Seek pleasure and avoid pain for yourself and others, transform negative energy into positive energy through your conduct in the world, and nurture life and struggle against death for the welfare of the planet and the coexistence of all living things.

The third part of the Serenity Prayer aggregates your sense of limitation and your sense of personal empowerment and petitions for higher consciousness to emerge in you. Grant me the wisdom to know the difference! It concedes that your personal power lies in your capacity to choose. This is one of the most important messages articulated in the Handbook On Being Human. Choose! Choose to Create Peaceful Space!

Through the Serenity Prayer some of you reach out to your concept of Creator and seek an enrichment and revitalization of your spirit. By aligning your life with the Prime Directive and inviting others to do the same your regenerated spirit can be put into action making difference in the world.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

The Desire for Peaceful Space

2011-02-01T06:27:00.000-08:00

Everyday the message of The Handbook On Being Human takes on greater and greater significance. Throughout the Handbook the Mysterious Dr. M. stresses the fact that the Peaceful Space Response is locked into our genetic code. Human survival has depended heavily on our ability to cooperate, to experience empathy for each other, and to act in concert when confronted with that that threatens the welfare of the individual or the group. Dr. M. and the Enia use the term ‘rising’ to describe the emergence of a higher consciousness and an understanding of our true nature as a species and of our relationship to the cosmos, this planet (Ile Inurere – Home of Humanity) and all of its creatures and life forms. The Handbook was written as a catalyst to this emergent process. Because of the relationship between thought and the Ase as described in the Handbook, the mere process of writing the Handbook has its effect upon the Quantum Personality and the Ashe Ami (Energy Signature) of Ile Inurere. In the Handbook Dr. M. and the Enia predict increasing shifts in the quantum field as we resolve the tension between our Fight-or-Flight Response and our Peaceful Space Response. The human family must find balance. We can no longer sustain our extreme patterns of existence. The Fight-or-Flight Response has become the norm of our everyday experience and this is the very condition under which the fabric of our individual and collective humanity breaks down.

The Ti-Enia (those members of humanity who have not yet penetrated the veil of illusion or escaped false consciousness) are getting tired and are becoming disenchanted with the tricks, lies, and illusions of the Ashodi (the Opposers). In the Handbook the Mysterious Dr. M. states,

We have called to you for 8,000 years and still you raise children who will not follow the Prime Directive. You blame everyone for your actions and some of you have declared war against your own concept of God. Your personal pain, your anger and bitterness have blinded and poisoned you. You’ve witnessed the indiscriminate destruction that can come from human choices, yet you remain set in making the wrong choices. But you should be aware that when you think of bringing the system down, of precipitating a breakdown of social order and chaos, of sitting on a throne of political and financial power, and other illusions of personal glory, you are not talking about or thinking about what is actually coming.

The Ti-Enia are penetrating the veil of illusion and escaping false consciousness. As the events sweeping across the Middle East and other parts of the world unfold the words of the Prime Directive should be echoing over and over in your head. Seek pleasure and avoid pain for yourself and others. Convert negative energy into positive energy through your conduct in the world. Nurture life and struggle against death for the welfare of the planet and the coexistence of all living things. In 3 sentences, 205 characters, and 40 words Dr. M. and the Enia have given expression to the voice that must be heard, the voice of many languages but one message. Create Peaceful Space for us and our children. That is what I hear in the sound of the people yearning. The people affected and touched by the events in Tucson, Arizona. The people affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and those who have lost family, friends, limbs, and lives to the horrors of terrorism. The voices and words of the peoples of Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan, and other countries around the world are the cries of people longing to live in Peaceful Space. All of the people affected by the failure of their governments to meet their most basic needs, much less their highest aspirations. People all around the world are crying out for the Prime Directive and the fruits it can bear, Peaceful Space and all that stems from it. As Dr. M. points out, it is in our nature to seek Peaceful Space.

In the Handbook Dr. M. warns us that there are things that we have already set in motion and there is no escaping all of the consequences of our past actions. Our scientist come up with new words, theories, models, and constructs to explain the extreme shifting patterns of the weather, the birds falling from the sky, lakes and rivers dying, ice caps melting, bee colonies disappearing, wild animals converging on towns and cities. Their constructs can often serve to keep you from putting all of the pieces together. In other words much of what we are told by the experts about events happening in the world is just that, words, theories, models, and constructs about separate events rather than explanations of the broader changes taking place on Ile Inurere. We are experiencing Social Change of the Fourth Kind (excerpt) as discussed by Dr. M. Not only our natural environment but all of our social, political, and economic institutions are now in flux. We are locked in the battle that Dr. M. and the Enia describe in the Handbook. The Oku Enia (the Corpse) is causing shifts in the earth’s quantum field and the Enia are touching the hearts of the Ti-Enia who are reaching out in their dreams and are influencing them to rise.

There is a better life that we can all choose for ourselves. It is a life in which we are all co-participants in helping each individual to achieve our Survival, Self-Preservation, and Destiny Mandates as Dr. M. describes in the Handbook. It is a world where the people greet and interact with each other in the spirit of the East Indian greeting of Namaste’, the best in me salutes the best in you, the best space in myself is open to the best space in yourself, the god in me acknowledges the god in you. It is a world where the people and their governments seek to Create Peaceful Space and where the Prime Directive is instilled into the heart of every child by both instruction and example. It is a world where the people respect and care for their cosmic home and all of her creatures, and in return, the land, water, and air, the plants, fish, insects, birds, and animals all contribute to a positive Ashe Ami (Energy Signature) for Ile Inurere. The only thing that stands between us and a better life for ourselves and our descendants is the process of inviting each other, One-by-One, to an understanding and acceptance of the Prime Directive, and to the selfish and unselfish reasons to Create Peaceful Space as discussed in the section of the Handbook entitled 10 Selfish and Unselfish Reasons For You To Create Peaceful Space. Hope you will share this Post with someone!

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Tucson Shooting: A Sacrifice for Peaceful Space and The Prime Directive

2011-01-21T15:40:00.000-08:00

It was another one of those profound events that filled the mediums of communication. Did you cry as you listened to the reports? Did your body go numb? That happens because of some internal understanding that to feel anything would put you at risk of feeling the burden of everything. The self acts to protect itself and gives us time to accept the reality of such tragic events. I cried and that numb feeling came over me for a while and I thought about the Prime Directive and the Peaceful Space Project.

I started thinking about Posting on the subject of the shooting a week ago but my emotions were too intense, the news media was still trying to get the story straight, and I didn’t want to be part of a swarm of flies in pursuit of the scent of death. So I waited and gave myself time to reflect. Saturday January 8, 2011 was a day like September 11, 2001. It was the kind of day that marks the kind of events that create the opportunity for significant social change. It was the kind of day that stops you in your tracks, makes you take a few steps back, and moves you to ask yourself if you (we) are going in the right direction and making the right choices. It was the kind of day that encapsulates all of the reasons why we need to create for our children a world that is aligned with the Prime Directive.

In the Handbook On Being Human, the Mysterious Dr. M. talks about the belief of the Enia that we (humans) are sentient energy forms (spiritual beings) who choose to come into the world in physical form. I thought about the idea that we know the general course of our lives before we come into the world and that we agree to come even in the face of what (from this vantage point) would be considered a horrific experience or a tragic ending. I thought about all of the people and victims who were present that day and wondered, if they knew that the events of that day were going to occur how many of them would have gone anyway? And, if the victims knew, before they came into the world, that this horrific experience or tragic ending was On Path for them, why would they have chosen to come anyway? I thought about Representative Gabrielle Giffords, the tragedy of her being shot in the head (negative energy) and the miracle of her survival and miraculous recovery (positive energy). Christina Taylor Green’s death was a wound to my heart but then I remembered that she chose to come and again, I asked myself why? Why would Christina, and Gabrielle, Federal Judge John Roll, and the other victims of the shooting have chosen to come into the world with this tragedy On their Path? Could it be because as spiritual beings they believed that their sacrifices would make a difference in our lives?

We humans are willing to make great sacrifices for each other. We will even make the ultimate sacrifice if we believe that the sacrifice of our life will make a difference in the lives of others. We are good like that! There was an uncanny rhythm to the flow of positive and negative energy as my emotions responded to the news clips of victims and villains, heroes and heroines. Almost immediately came the public calls for more civility in our public discourse and I thought, yes, let there sacrifice count for something, let it make a difference, change course. That must be why they came! But, oh how in the face of hardship we (humans) make such great promises and then forget when the crisis has passed. I did not resist the tears when President Obama said, "I want to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as Christina imagined it. . . . All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations." For me, that says it all. If we determine to create a better world for our children we will in the process be creating a better world for ourselves.

We failed at changing course and choosing the right direction after the events of September 11, 2001. We knew it was a critical moment. We knew it was a time for reflection, renewal, and realignment. But we didn’t reflect deeply enough, we failed to renew our commitment to our highest ideals and instead renewed our commitment to our old habits of behavior, and we failed to realign ourselves with the most sustainable system of values. We were offered another opportunity to reflect, renew, and realign during the U.S. and global economic collapse of 2008 and we failed to get the message that Dr. M. outlines in his extensive history of the choices of the Ti-Enia. Now, Jared Lee Loughner (the reported shooter), Representative Gabrielle Giffords, little Christina Taylor Green, the other victims, heroes and heroines have given us another chance. Once again we are called upon to take a couple of steps back, reflect, and change course to avoid the predictions that Dr. M. and the Enia discuss in the Handbook.

In the death of Christina Taylor Lee there is motivation to make a change. In the survival and progressive recovery of Representative Gabrielle Giffords there is inspiration to accomplish the change. The spiritual, community, and political leaders of Tucson, the families, friends, and coworkers of the victims, the heroes and heroines of this nightmarish event could use this moment to make Tucson Arizona the first City in America to make the Prime Directive a part of their operating policy and social protocols. More than six lives were lost to the citizens of Tucson (and to us) on Saturday, January 8, 2011. They (and we) lost that all-important sense of Peaceful Space that Dr. M. talks about throughout the Handbook. We are all losing it and much more with each new overwhelming event, whether it is a natural disaster bringing record-breaking destruction in its path or an unnatural disaster shredding the fabric of our humanity and sense of social order. Aligning their city and our country with the Prime Directive is a choice that would make the sacrifice of our brothers and sisters in Tucson worth their suffering and precious lives. If you have relatives, friends, or contacts in Tucson you can play your part by sending them a link to this Post and letting them know that as a supporter of the Peaceful Space Project and reader of this Blog you understand that we are all in this together, that we are Interrelated, Interconnected, and Interdependent. We are Abi ati Ara! (Extended Family)! Together we are Inurere! (Humanity).

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Ref: N.Y. Times: Girl's Death Hits Home for Obama

New Year 2011

2011-01-05T18:05:00.000-08:00

Most of the world is already full stride into New Year 2011. New Year’s resolutions have already been made, many are off to a good start, and some resolutions have already been broken. Some of us are full of optimism and positive anticipation about the year, and too many of us, nationally and internationally, are full of despair, feeling hopeless and helpless, and see only hardship and more suffering ahead. The Mysterious Dr. M. and the Enia refer to the later as the Shonu (the Lost) and the Leru (the Fearful). Among the various categories of humans (Ti Enia) there are in Inurere (Humanity), the Baja Enia (the Strivers) are the ones who are in the best position to make a difference. Dr. M. makes this clear in the Handbook On Being Human. The Baja Enia are humans who are dissatisfied with the ways things are, in their personal lives or in the world. They are in a state of questioning this reality and are pushing against the veil. They are the ones (among the Ti-Enia) who see that we are on the wrong path. They are the ones who are ready to rise (as described in the Handbook).

As new events occur around the world I am reminded of the insights, warnings, and descriptions that Dr. M. presents in the Handbook. The year 2010 was an example of the escalating social tensions and natural disasters the Enia predict in the Handbook. Remember his definition of the Ashodi (the Opposers)? The Ashodi are humans who have lost the essential elements of their humanity and therefore cannot see or connect with the humanity in others. They mask their own pain and dissonance behind the façade of arrogance and aggressiveness, and selfishly satisfy their uncontrolled base appetites by syndicating sorrow on others. You can think back over the past year of news events and put a human face on those referred to in the Handbook as Ashodi from the people and events reported in the news. In many of my Posts last year I reminded you about the ongoing struggle that confronts us inwardly and outwardly. We live in an energy-based universe (the Ase) and there is a tension between positive and negative forces that has its expression in the Kikegbe Aiye (Social World, the world of social interactions). A good example of this tension between these positive and negative forces manifesting in the social world can be found in the DVD entitled The Mean World Syndrome based on the research of George Gerbner. In the video Gerbner describes the range of negative social effects of the violent images that have become a part of contemporary media storytelling. The entire video is worth viewing. (Preview clip Caution: some content may be emotionally disturbing.)

The New Year 2011 will bring changes into our lives, some good, some not so good. Change is the natural consequence of the energy-based tension in the universe. Some changes will come as a result of the successful execution of your resolutions and plans, and some will come like an unfamiliar form materializing from a nebulous mist. Some changes will make you feel euphoric and elated. And some of the changes that are already taking shape in your life will make you feel overwhelmed and for a moment, desperate or numb. But, as with all of the years before 2011, these changes occur and we manage to adjust, overcome, accommodate, and thrive in the face of change. Things will change in the world around you, and things will change in your personal, everyday reality. It is important to remember that you cannot control or even anticipate all of the changes that will occur. It is also important to remember that there are a host of changes over which you exercise considerable control. This is the area where you should focus your attention, time, and energy during this New Year. The Handbook On Being Human is about our personal choices and how those choices and the consequences of those choices aggregate to create the social atmosphere or energy field or Quantum Personality of our planet (Ile Inurere, the Home of Humanity). The better your choices, the better the world!

Marking the New Year with promises to our selves and others is one of the magical things that we humans can do. It is one of the many wonderful things that distinguish us as members of the family of Earth Creatures. We have the ability to set a course for ourselves. We can set the occasion to make a change in our lives. We can determine to make a change in the lives and for the benefit of others. We can resolve to do things differently. We can take a different view of the past, change our mind and behavior in the moment, and envision a future very different from the present. Not only can we envision a different future, we also have the capacity to bring that vision into manifestation. We can apologize and forgive. We can step outside of ourselves and into the person of another to unlock empathy and compassion.

Aligning your life with the Prime Directive and inviting others to do the same is a change that each of us can make. Choosing to Create Peaceful Space and encouraging others to do the same is a choice that each of us can make. As we kick into stride for New Year 2011 let us resolve to make a big difference in a small way each day, week, and month of 2011 that the opportunity presents itself. Or be more proactive and seek out opportunities to make a difference and feed your spiritual life force in the process. I hope you will make the Peaceful Space Project one of the projects that you focus on this year. There is a lot that you can do to help spread the word and support our efforts. I hope you will make a commitment to making a difference in the lives and future of our children in 2011 and the years to come. As Dr. M. points out in the Handbook, we write history in advance through the seeds we plant in our children. I hope you will choose to take better care of yourself, feeding yourself a balanced mental, physical, and spiritual diet. I hope you will make the time to engage nature with the wonder of the child that you use to be, the child that still lives within you. It is all in the Prime Directive! The best hopes, wishes, and dreams that we can have for ourselves and for others.

Have a Peaceful, Joyful, Blessed, Wonder-filled, and Prosperous 2011

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Nature's Way to Peaceful Space

2010-12-20T14:27:00.000-08:00

In a recent Post I talked about the game played with my youngest son. The game about what God has created and what man has made. There is something very mysterious, almost magical about our natural environment. If you get it, we can pass it on to the children. In the midst of a cosmos fueled by unimaginable and often destructive forces, you and I sit on this sphere of dynamic energy, products of its life-giving powers. And throughout our lives we remain related-to, connected-to, and dependent upon this sphere that Dr. M. and the Enia call Ile Inurere (the House and Home of Humanity). The Earth and her many environments and forces have an affect on us, mentally and physically, as the Mysterious Dr. M. points out in the Handbook. We share a quantum connection with the earth and with the thread of her garments. We are related-to, connected-to, and dependent upon the Ile Inurere because the earth, air, fire, water, wood, and iron that are woven into the design of her garments are also woven into the design of our garments. We are her children! Each of us finds comfort, meaning, inspiration, and peace in one of the layers of her robes. Some of us are keenly aware of a shift in our energy when we are around bodies of water, like oceans, rivers, or lakes. Some of us have a particular energetic response to mountainous areas covered in foliage or dry desert rock. For some of us the environment of personal cultivation is a wooded area full of tall, awe-inspiring trees with brilliant seasonal colors. Like our animal and plant relatives, we can have strong reactions (positive or negative) to wind, rain, fog, lightning, temperature, and other shifts in the dynamic forces that sustain the garment of Ile Inurere, of which we are a part. Clouds can cause a shift in your mood and your health, the direction of the shift depending on whether or not you are a Cloud Person (someone who tends to have a strong reaction to all manner of cloudy skies) and what kind of Cloud Person you happen to be, positive or negative. When we are seeking Peaceful Space each of us has a natural environment that we can go to where we can be nurtured into our Healing Place. It’s important to know what that environment is and then to go there when you need renewal, rejuvenation, and vitality.

Your Ase, the field of energy that defines your Energy Signature, shifts when you are around animals, plants, children, adults, or the seniors of our kind. Being aware of these shifts is an important part of understanding the special way you need to plug into the energy field that feeds all things on this planet. Those select environments that allow you to potentiate Ase are a part of who you are and who you have to potential to be in the world. It is as important for you to plug into your Energizing Environments (EEs) as it is for you to drink water, eat food, and sleep. Every aspect of your being requires that you draw energy through your EE periodically.

Few of us are wealthy enough to be able to design our homes to bring nature right into our rooms. Sometimes people need to relocate to a different environment in order to blossom, maybe from hot to cold, maybe from cold to hot, maybe from highland to low land or vice versa. We all have EEs but it is different for each individual, even in the same family. I have a sister who lives in New York and the cold is a no-no for me! Moving to a warmer climate was a good thing for me. Many of us have no problem making the choice about the general climate in which we want to live. However, we often forget that we need shifts in our environment on a regular basis. Man-made environments and natural environments are not the same. Being in your home is not the same as being in a park, garden, or field. You can go from home, to your car, to your day office or school, to your car again, and to your evening school or work, and to your car again, to home, and to bed, and then repeat that process for days, sometimes weeks, maybe months before you plug into your Energizing Environment. Increasingly, we are equipping ourselves with all of the gadgets necessary to stay in our homes, cars, offices, and classrooms, and avoid all contact with our natural world. This trend will have a profound effect on our physical and mental evolution as well as on our social development and environmental consciousness.

Perhaps you are what the Enia would call an Omo Eshu, Child of Eshu, who thrives with opportunities to travel, draws energy from bright colored clothes, and has a need to be outside, in the open, and unrestricted by confined places. In confined places restricting circumstances your sense of humor, your knack for practical jokes, your sensuality, and your sense of right and wrong would all be negatively affected. Or perhaps you are an Omo Ogun who is attracted to metal, woods, and mountains. Spending time working or playing with metal, and time in the woods or mountains periodically will help you to maintain your profound sense of right and wrong, your enjoyment of physical things, your inclination to ‘do’ rather than talk about doing, and your strong physique.

You may be an Omo Obatala and find your Energizing Environment in being alone around your home during a beautiful sunset or other significant change in the weather, or perhaps in a garden or yard, or on a rooftop looking at the stars, or maybe in a familiar park near your home. This alone time helps you to think, to feed your love of new ideas, to nurture and reflect on your sense of justice and honor, and to mentally rejuvenate. Without this alone time in quiet places you may lose mental potency, your nerves may fray easily, you may disengage from your regular and desired routine and activities, and you may be prone to headaches and head colds. Knowing the location of your EE is as important as knowing your birth date or social security number.

One of the benefits of the Traditional Martial and Healing Arts [TMHA] as a developmental tool for educating our children is that these arts nurture a healthy attitude towards the natural environment and teaches each student of their special place as a thread in the garments of Ile Inurere. TMHA teaches the Prime Directive by encouraging students to see themselves as part of the whole, with special benefits derived from the whole and special responsibilities owed to the whole. Creating Peaceful Space for yourself and others requires effort in a world so charged with negativity. Spending time in your natural Energizing Environment is the way to start with you. Pay attention to yourself as you move from one environmental experience to another. Observe how your energy shifts until you hone in on your ideal natural Energizing Environment.

To be continue!

To all my readers, Have a blessed, safe, and wonder-filled Holiday and New Year!

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Nurturing The Way of Peace

2010-12-06T14:49:00.000-08:00

In the Handbook On Being Human, the Mysterious Dr. M. talks about the value of Traditional Martial and Healing Arts training for our children. To some it might seem like a contradiction to look to the martial arts to discover and nurture The Way of Peace. But if you understand the purpose and content of Traditional Martial and Healing Arts training you will see that there is a paradox but not a contradiction. A paradox is a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true. A paradox is a situation, person, or thing that actually combines or integrates apparently contradictory features or qualities.

In the book, “Wu-Te, A Guide for Parents: Why Train Your Children in Traditional Martial and Healing Arts?” the author states, “As the soldier prepares to meet and defeat the enemies of the state, the traditional martial artist daily meets and defeats the enemies of the self. The Traditional Martial and Healing Arts turns the practitioners’ attention away from the mundane and trifling annoyances of daily life, and instead focuses their attention on the higher aspirations and possibilities of the self.” According to Da Mo, one of the patriarchs of the Shaolin Temples of China (one of the foremost centers of traditional martial arts training in the world) ‘we practice the martial arts to develop the qualities of discipline, restraint, humility, respect for human life, and the principle of Do No Harm’.

Having studied and taught the traditional martial arts for the past 40 years, I’ve experienced and witnessed the profound benefit that these disciplines have brought into the lives of thousands of students. And every day I become increasingly aware of the dire need that the youth of today have for an experience and a teaching that will help them to unlock their unique inner potential and to realize their connection and responsibility to the larger social order and environment. Training in the Traditional Martial and Healing Arts has rescued thousands of youth from drugs, crime, a sense of hopelessness, helplessness, and worthlessness. It has nurtured in them a sense of pride, purpose, confidence, courage, discipline, respect, kindness, patience, humility, and determination.

We have a responsibility to teach our children how to live together in peace and how to be good caretakers of this magnificent planet that they will inherit (if we don’t destroy it first). The word traditional distinguishes martial arts training from mere self-defense training and fighting or combat techniques. Traditional Martial and Healing Arts training embodies a philosophy that nurtures the highest aspects of human character and potential. According to the late and great founder of the Art of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba, the Way of Peace begins with you (the individual). It requires that you work on yourself and your appointed task. As Dr. M. points out in the Handbook, everyone has a spirit and personality that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow or Destiny Mandate that they are driven to realize. Our children are not here simply to be consumers of the endless and latest array of products that appear in the marketplace. They are here for no other purpose than to realize their inner divinity, to manifest their innate enlightenment, and to achieve their Destiny Mandate. These are the same reasons that you and I chose to come into this world.

We are here to nurture and foster Peaceful Space. The thousands of Traditional Martial and Healing Arts schools across the United States and the tens of thousands around the world are places where children (and adults) can learn how to discipline themselves, control their appetites, face their fears, overcome their weaknesses, recognize and build upon their strengths. These schools, temples, and dojos (rooms or halls for martial arts practice) are places that nurture the virtues of humility, kindness, patience, and diligence. Students of the Traditional Martial and Healing Arts learn that one does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art or Way of Peace. They learn that heaven is right where they are standing in any given moment, and that is the place to train some aspect of their mind, body, or spirit. They learn the critical lesson embodied in the Prime Directive. That is, all things, material and spiritual, originate from one source and are related as if they are one family. Likewise, the past, present, and future are all contained in the life force or quantum field of energy as Dr. M. explains in the Handbook On Being Human. The students of the Traditional Martial and Healing Arts learn that the universe emerged, developed, and is sustained by one source, and we evolve through the optimal process of harmonious integration, that is, Interrelatedness, Interconnectedness, and Interdependence. As Ueshiba said, the Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of the Way of the Warrior is futile, for the power of the body is always limited. The Way of the Warrior must be the Way of Peace.

Traditional Martial and Healing Arts training is a wonderful way to rescue our children from the addiction of consumerism and the stupor of technology intoxication. It is a venue where they can learn to internalize the Prime Directive and how to Create Peaceful Space.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Ref: The Art of Peace, Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens, Shambhala Pocket Classics, ISBN: 0-87773-851-3

A Spiritual Worldview

2010-11-17T15:11:00.000-08:00

There are some 2 billion Christians inhabiting the Ile Inurere (the Home of Humanity). There are approximately 1.2 billion Muslims, 800 million or more Hindus, and over 700 million followers of other religious traditions. If we take the broader view of religion, a personal set or institutionalized system of religious beliefs and practices, we come to recognize that more than half of the world’s inhabitants, almost the entire human population, believe in and acknowledge the existence of a Divine, Supreme, and Sentient Being responsible for the creation of the world. When we speak of a spiritual worldview we broaden the family of believers even further for here we are referencing all of those seen and unseen manifestations and forces that affect the human spirit or soul in transcendent ways.

When my youngest son was just a little boy of five or six years old we started playing a game. It was a very important wisdom game to help him in developing a spiritual worldview. A spiritual worldview and a religious worldview may be related but they are not necessarily the same. When we speak or think of a religious worldview or more specifically a religion we are generally referencing a particular creed or dogma that is distinguished from some other religious ideology and belief system. However, when we speak of a spiritual worldview we are referencing a way of seeing and being in the world that is able to appreciate and even embrace the core idea in all of the various religions and even those beliefs and practices that would not necessarily be viewed as an organized religion. As my son and I would drive to our destination I would point to or reference a particular thing like a bird, a tree, a car, a house, the sky, or a mountain, and I would ask him whether it was made or created. The key to his answers was the idea that God creates things and man makes things from what God has created. That was the first level of our wisdom game.

At the next level of our wisdom game he was taught that what God creates, the sky, the sun, moon and stars, the birds, animals and trees, the fish, rivers and oceans, the land and the mountains are all infused with spirit; and anything that has spirit should be respected and honored because it is an expression of the creative impulse of the Creator of All Things, The Greatest Creator of All. With this wisdom he was taught the lesson that all of these things are a gift to humans from the Creator, that we are dependent upon them for our survival, and that we have a responsibility to care for them as we would care for a beloved relative.

Next came the understanding that when we humans use that which is created to make something from it, we must be careful to honor and try to preserve the spirit of the things that we use. In other words, when we cut down a tree to build our house we need to be in the right frame of mind, have the right attitude and show proper respect, appreciation and gratitude for the Creator of the tree, for the water, earth, and air that sustained it and helped it to mature, and for the spiritual energy that resides in the tree itself.

As I traveled in Southeast Asia and Africa, and in my experiences with our Native American brothers and sister it was clear to me that there are still many of us who still have a spiritual worldview and who understand this spiritual way of being in the world. However, it saddens me to see how too many of us conduct ourselves in the world today. Many of us, especially in the so-called modern and advanced Western societies, and increasingly in the developing and underdeveloped parts of the world, have lost or are loosing our spiritual way of being in the world. And we will suffer great hardships because of the decline of the spiritual worldview. Science is a wonderful thing. The scientific method is a reflection of who we are as human beings. But science that is devoid of a spiritual worldview, that is infused with arrogance and disregard for the spiritual nature of the world, says that whatever can be done should be done. This is a dangerous road to travel. When science is guided by a healthy respect for the spiritual nature of our world, its interrelatedness, interconnectedness, and interdependence it will lead us to frontiers of discovery that will not destroy Ile Inurere or the life that thrives on her abundant gifts.

The Prime Directive of the Human Family as described in the Handbook On Being Human is based on a spiritual worldview that adheres to the principles of Interrelatedness, Interconnectedness, and Interdependence. (1) To seek pleasure and avoid pain for yourself and other. That includes all of our relatives, all created things, the plants, the animals, the land, and the animals. (2) To transform negative energy into positive energy through our conduct in the world. Do no harm and wherever possible be a healer for all aspects of Ile Inurere. (3) To nurture life and struggle against death for the welfare of the planet and the co-existence of all living things. What we make from the created things should not kill the spirit of those things. When we build our house from a tree we should want the positive spirit of the tree to be a part of our house. Managing this earth and the many gifts that it sustains is not an easy task. As the human population continues to increase our challenge will become even more difficult. But we are brilliant creatures in our capacity to solve problems. We simply need to align with a Prime Directive that will inform and guide our problem solving efforts.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Community & the Prime Directive: Or, The Fall of America

2010-11-01T16:06:00.000-07:00

On this eve of the 2010 Elections in the U.S. the warnings of Dr. M. and the Enia are echoing in my head. I can feel the Oku Enia (the Corpse) getting stronger by the moment. I am aware that there are people who have awakened to the very real threats that we face as citizens of the U.S. and in our now globalized world but I am also aware of the many souls who are asleep in the middle of the road. The Peaceful Space Project calls to you to align with the Prime Directive of the Human Family and to Create Peaceful Space, but my voice is like a whisper further muffled by the noise of social disintegration. My heart aches with the thoughts of what is to come from our collected wandering in the world of illusion and deception. We are being lead to the slaughter and most of us are too blinded by prejudice to see what is happening.

In one of my earlier Post (The Process of the Middle Way, Part III) we discussed the Door of Good Fortune and the Door of Misfortune. Behind the Door of Good Fortune are the blessings, benefits, and opportunities that you and I can call into existence with the power of our good intentions, the manifestations of our dreams. But behind the Door of Misfortune is something that is not waiting for us to call it forth but rather horrific and nightmarish experiences that are seeking an opportunity to push their way into our world. The negative energy that will fuel these nightmarish experiences seeps like air and water through whatever cracks it can find and on this eve of the election we have provided many cracks for this negative energy to manifest itself into our everyday lives.

On this eve of the 2010 elections with the airwaves full of negative ads, backbiting, slander, and lies, I am reminded of the words I read in Milton William Cooper’s book, Behold A Pale Horse, words spoken by those who have little regard for the hard working people of the world but rather seek their own empowerment and self-gratification:

"The primary reason why the individual citizens of a country create a political structure is a subconscious wish or desire to perpetuate their own dependency relationship of childhood. Simply put, they want a human god to eliminate all risk from their life, pat them on the head, kiss their bruises, put a chicken on every dinner table, clothe their bodies, tuck them into bed at night, and tell them that everything will be alright when they wake up in the morning".

"Since most of the general public will not exercise restraint, there are only two alternatives to reduce the economic inductance of the system.
(1) Let the populace bludgeon each other to death in war, which will only result in a total destruction of the living earth.
(2) Take control of the world by the use of economic “silent weapons” in a form of “quiet warfare” and reduce the economic inductance of the world to a safe level by a process of benevolent slavery and genocide".

"The general public refuses to improve its own mentality and its faith in its fellow man. It has become a herd of proliferating barbarians, … a blight upon the face of the earth. They do not care enough about economic science to learn why they have not been able to avoid war despite religious morality, and their religious or self-gratifying refusal to deal with earthly problems renders the solution of the earthly problem unreachable by them. It is left to those few who are truly willing to think and survive as the fittest to survive, to solve the problem for themselves as the few who really care".

A Community is a group of people living together in one place, especially one practicing common ownership of a system of norms, values, beliefs, and common interest. A community is a group of interdependent organisms living together in a symbiotic relationship of interconnectedness and interrelatedness. Simply put, to form community the parts must unite on the basis of what they have in common (common –unity). The Handbook On Being Human and the Prime Directive beckon us to unite on the basis of what we share in common for our own sake, for the welfare of our planet, and the co-existence of all living things. On this eve of the U.S. elections 2010, it appears that we have lost all sense of community and have given ourselves over to the few who do not have our best interest at heart. Dr. M. and the Enia have given fair and clear warning of the consequences of our failure to understand the true nature of our world and the power of our choices.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Behold A Pale Horse, Milton William Cooper, 1991, Light Technology Publishing, ISBN: 0-929385-22-5

Reassert Empathy

2010-10-17T11:35:00.000-07:00

As I observe our evolving or perhaps devolving world it seems to me that many of us are losing our capacity for empathy. This is a profound loss because it is one of the essential qualities that serve to hold our societies and our world together. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. We have a model of the empathetic relationship in our own bodies. We might say that each cell in your body is in an empathetic relationship with all the other cells. Each of the cells of our bodies is in constant communication with all of the other cells so that any cell can send out an alarm when some problem is taking shape. Long before the body is dehydrated a few cells have already sent out an alarm signaling that a fluid drought is beginning to take form. Long before the body experiences starvation a few cells have already sent out an alarm signaling that nutrients are becoming sufficiently depleted and that they need to be replenished. Of course the essential key to the success of this advanced warning system is that the various cells that make up our bodies have to be paying attention and listening to each other.

You can think of your family, neighborhood, the larger community or State, your Nation and our world as social organisms that operate in pretty much the same way. They are integrated systems where you and I are the individual cells that make up the various organs that in turn perform their unique functions all for the benefit of sustaining and protecting the welfare of the entire organism. You don’t have to stretch your imagination too far to realize what happens when the various cells of the social organism stop communicating or when they become insensitive to each other. How many times have we heard members of a family, where a member has committed suicide, say I just wasn’t paying attention to the signs, or I just didn’t see or realize how much pain he or she was expressing? How many times have we heard members of a neighborhood, social group, or religious community where some tragedy has occurred say that they just didn’t think something like this could happen in their community; he or she seemed a little different but…?

As I listen to the hostile, insensitive, and virulent political dialogue taking place during this current election cycle I cannot help but reflect on the words of the Mysterious Dr. M. about the Quantum Entity called the Oku Enia and how it must be feeding on all of the negativity that we are generating in our political and social environment. As I witness what to me seems like a complete breakdown in the relationship and sense of mutual responsibility between the working class and the financially elite members of our society I find myself reluctantly anticipating the collapse of the world’s premier experiment in Democratic Capitalism. As I reflect on and feel the pain in our youth as they are increasingly indoctrinated into the notion that their worth as individuals is to be measured in terms of the things they have or don’t have as oppose to the content of their character and their conduct in the world, I cannot help but think that the future we are shaping is far from the American Dream and much closer to a horrific nightmare that none of us will want to live through. Are we (humans) going mad? Are we losing our minds? Have we become so pathologically disturbed and narrow in our thinking that we can no longer anticipate the consequences of our actions? Have we reached that critical turning point in our history when we can no longer see the majesty of our animal relatives, that we can no longer appreciate the beauty of the flora and vegetation that surrounds us, that we can no longer understand that we are the sole caretakers of this wonderful ecosystem that the Enia call Ile Inurere, the House (Home) of Humanity?

In the Handbook On Being Human, the Mysterious Dr. M. and the Enia make it very clear that we humans come into this world from the Realm of Infinite Possibility, that we come into this world as Pure Potential, and that the environment into which we are born will shape us. This present environment that we have created and that we are perpetuating is not one of harmonious interaction. Instead, it is filled with hostility, insensitivity, anger, violence, hatred, selfishness, greed, disrespect, disregard, lying, cheating, crime, war, mayhem, and anomie – a lack of the usual social or ethical standards necessary to sustain the social order within and between individuals, groups, societies, and nations. A loss of faith in our institutions, a sense of hopelessness about the future, and a disturbing sense of helplessness in dealing with our current problems is becoming pervasive in U.S. society and is spreading like a pernicious epidemic around our world.

We can either surrender to this blighted future or we can fight back with all of the passion and power that we can muster. It is after all an ideological battle, that is, a battle of ideas and attitudes. That is why the Prime Directive is so important. The Prime Directive represents the ideological counterbalance to the madness that we see consuming our world. The proclamation to align with the Prime Directive and to Create Peaceful Space is a statement of power. The power that is inherent in our capacity to reassert Empathy as an essential protocol for the survival of our species and for the welfare of our planet. The Prime Directive is a guideline for reestablishing the Empathetic Civilization. Without this bold step all of our advanced technologies will simply speed up the process of our self-destruction and lead to the decimation of our planet. According to Dr. M. and the Enia, each of us chose to come into this world and to be here during this particular time period. They state that we came for a purpose and that each of us has an important role to play in shaping the future. The purpose of the Peaceful Space Project is to invite each of you to do what you came into the world to do – make a difference!

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Hurting For Tyler Clementi

2010-10-04T15:04:00.000-07:00

It seems that my heart is in constant pain over the meanness, cruelty, and inhumanity that is sweeping across our world. Human social life is steadily degenerating into something that makes the worst of Hollywood’s horror films into PG13 movies. Each day I think about the Oku Enia (the Corpse) and the tragedy that is growing in the Ojiji Aiye (Shadow world) and making its way into our Pataki Aiye (Material world) as described by the Mysterious Dr. M. and the Enia in the Handbook On Being Human, vol. I. Each day it becomes more challenging to remain optimistic in my belief that the human family will turn things around. This past week has been especially difficult. I’ve found it almost impossible to shake the pain my heart feels over the senseless death of Tyler Clementi. I know that I am not alone in feeling this deep sense of hurt for him, for Megan Meier, and for the tens of thousands of other young souls who suffer the abuse of bullying and senseless condemnation. Have we really become so blind, callous, and crude that we can take pleasure in the sadistic disregard for the pain and suffering of others?

The national and global reaction to Tyler’s death is the tread that ties my heart and my faith to the hope that we have not all degenerated to the depths of no return. The expressions of genuine empathy and compassion that have emerged in the face of Tyler’s provoked suicide offer me a ray of hope that we have not all descended into the abyss of dehumanization where tragedy and destruction are waiting to consume us for our offenses against our own humanity.

I also viewed the PBS documentary entitled Soldiers of Conscience this week and it also helped me to hold on to the optimistic belief that One-By-One we can turn things around and save ourselves from the consequences of the negative energies that we are generating in our world. If we can teach our children to go to war, to kill animals and other human being, and if we can create the conditions and environments for them to learn how to be mean, cruel, crude, uncaring, insensitive, and even diabolical, then why can’t we also create conditions and environments for them to learn and internalize the Prime Directive of the Human Family? Tyler Clementi’s death strengthens my conviction that this message has to be spoken and this choice has to be put on the table as an option.

Please don’t sit on the sidelines in silence and let our children live and die in such pain. Please help to promote the Prime Directive of the Human Family in any way and every way that you can. Can’t you see that we (the human family) have lost our way; that we have forgotten how to live in harmonious coexistence, that we have forgotten how to Create Peaceful Space, and that we are condemning our children to a nightmarish existence of horrific cruelties, unspeakable crimes, harrowing experiences, and disturbing realities? Can’t you see how important your voice is in making a difference?

The Prime Directive states that you should seek pleasure and avoid pain for yourself and others, that you should transform negative energy into positive energy through your conduct in the world, and that you should nurture life and struggle against death for the welfare of the planet and the coexistence of all living things. As we advance in our development of new technologies we also need to advance in our moral and ethical protocols, in our empathy and compassion for each other, and in our understanding of human nature and the human condition. There are those who would dismiss the senseless cruelty of Tyler’s suicide as just one of those things. There are those who would have us believe that war and terrorism, that crime and murder are just inevitable facts of life. But our babies don’t come into this world with war, terrorism, crime, and murder written into their genetic code. Nature prescribes our capacities but it is nurture that shapes our choices. Lets join together in nurturing the Prime Directive into every human heart and in teaching each other how and why we should Create Peaceful Space.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Your Secret Trial: Personal Reality Check

2010-09-18T12:21:00.000-07:00

Your body-mind is an integrated system of specialized parts each working interdependently for the benefit of the whole. At least they should be working for your benefit. But sometimes the system works towards its own detriment undermining the ideal relationship between your body, mind, and spirit. A Personal Reality Check [PRC] can help to keep the system working to your best advantage and to the benefit of the entire human family and our home (Ile Inurere). If you are going to do a PRC you need a standard or criteria against which to take your measurements or make your evaluations. The Prime Directive provides you with the perfect criteria. The Prime Directive states that you should seek pleasure and avoid pain for yourself and others, transform negative energy into positive energy through your conduct in the world, and nurture life and struggle against death for the welfare of the planet and the coexistence of all living things.

Personal Reality Check – Step 1: Take a few moments to contemplate the relationship between your body and your mind. Recognize that it is a mutual relationship, that is, the body provides a vehicle and medium for the mind to experience the world and the mind acts as the command and control center from which the actions and experiences of the body are regulated. In other words, your mind is in charge, at least it should be.

Step 2: Take a few moments to contemplate the nature of your body. It too is an integrated system of specialized and interdependent parts that ideally work together for the benefit of the whole. The heart, kidneys, liver, digestive system, spleen, pancreas, lungs, and other organs and biological systems each have their unique function. These parts also depend on and support each other in order to maintain the health and well-being of the body as a whole. Much of the inner workings of this dynamic system take place without the conscious involvement or intervention of your mind.

Step 3: Think about the structure of the body that supports your ability to interact with the outer world, especially the social world. Your body has feet and legs, hands and arms, mouth and tongue, nose, ears, and eyes, and it is these parts that are designed to respond to the conscious commands of your mind.

Step 4: Understand that since the mind is given the command and control function, all the various parts of your body lay claim to innocence.

Step 5: Call on that wonderful capacity of your mind that we refer to as imagination. Imagine that you are in a courtroom with your mind as the defendant or accused. And imagine that each of the parts of your body mentioned in Step 3 is given an opportunity to speak and to account for the actions and experiences they have engaged in up to this point in your life.

Step 6: Listen carefully as each of your parts bears witness to what they have done and as they each turn to the judge and jury and declare it was not I who chose to do these things. I was commanded to do these things by the one who is in charge.

Step 7: Sit silently, open your mind, and listen to the testimony given whether good or bad, whether uplifting or depressing.

Step 8: Imagine what your feet and legs would say about where they have taken you at your command.

Step 9: Imagine what your hands and arms would say about what they have done to yourself and to others at your command.

Step 10: Imagine what your mouth and tongue would say about what you have put into your body and about the words they have spoken under your command.

Step 11: Imagine what your eyes and ears would say about what you have fed your mind through them.

Step 12: Now ask yourself if the testimony that has been given makes you feel good or bad about who you have been and how you have acted in the world. Is the testimony something that you would proudly share with someone whose friendship and respect you value, or is it something that you would rather hide from the world and deny to yourself?

The Peaceful Space Project is about changing the condition of the world through an individual social evolutionary and developmental process. We can all make better choices and a first step in that process is a Personal Reality Check. In the Handbook On Being Human, vol. I, the Mysterious Dr. M. takes U through a series of lessons designed to help U to discover and unlock the higher potential that lies dormant in each of us. We have the capacity to create a better world for ourselves, our children, and the yet to be born. That capacity is expressed in the choices you and I make each and every day of our lives. Choose to Create Peaceful Space and to align with the Prime Directive.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Seeking Peace: Reality Check

2010-09-05T13:25:00.000-07:00

The atmosphere is so full of drama, so charged with noise and distraction, so burdened with pain and suffering that we long for a moment to be in Peaceful Space and to live in a world that is finally at Peace. In the Handbook On Being Human, vol. I, the Mysterious Dr. M. states, Peace does not descend down. It stems from the individual human heart and branches outward like a vine seeking to wrap itself around other hearts.

Reality Check Step 1: Take a few moments to imagine this world without the human factor. Just close your eyes and erase the human animal and our cultures from the canvas of your mind. Plants would still grow, fish would still spawn, and the oceans and fecundating rivers would be flowing with life. Predators species would still hunt, prey would still breed, and the weather would challenge them both. Birds would still fly bringing beauty to the sky and mammals would still roam the earth. The earth’s life process of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, droughts, hurricanes, floods, and ice ages would still occur. All aspects of life on planet earth would be in a symbiotic dance giving off a harmonic vibration that the Mysterious Dr. M. and the Enia refer to as the Quantum Personality of Ile Inurere (the House of Humanity, Earth). Every creature and thing would still feel the struggle, which is the life process itself. The processes of coming and going, of rising and falling, of expansion and contraction, of ebb and flow would still occur. This is the Ile Inurere, the House of Humanity! As you hold that image in your mind consider that it represents the world into which we (humans) were born. Gift or chance this is our home! Think of the words you would use to describe that world! Not much need for negative terms and judgments in your description is there?

Step 2: This time close your eyes and create a list, with pictures, of some of the current problems going on in the Ile Inurere, the ones that give you particular concern. Call to mind an image or picture for every item on your list. After you have completed the list in your mind you are certain to have a clearer vision of the obvious. The critical items and images in your list are not inherently characteristic of Ile Inurere, the House of Humanity. In other words, it is we humans that have brought most of our current problems into and upon our house. Social discord, division and conflict, poverty and war, terrorism and environmental degradation, greed and ambition, selfishness and disregard are part of the human factor in today’s world.

Step 3: Play the blame game! Go ahead and unload. If there is no one else around you can even do this part out loud. After all, some people seem to really enjoy playing the blame game. Maybe there is something to it! Now go ahead and name all of the national and international organizations, institutions, industries, corporations, agencies, governments, and countries that you blame for the problems on your list. Take as much time as you need. You wouldn’t want to let any group off the hook!

Step 4: OK! I know that was difficult because I suggested listing only groups and you so wanted to mention some individuals that you blame for some of the things on your list. No problem! Welcome to Step 4 where you get the chance to blame whoever or whatever you want for the concerns you listed. Don’t hold back! You don’t know when you will have an opportunity like this again.

Step 5: Calm down! Relax! Breathe!

Step 6: Recognize that there was no difference between Step 3 and Step 4. National and international organizations, institutions, industries, corporations, agencies, governments, countries, and other designated groupings (ethnic, racial, religious, and political groups) don’t do anything. These are mere labels, organizational structures, policies and protocols that define agendas. These bureaucratic structures cannot act and in fact would not exist without the agency of the human factor.

Step 7: Reflect on Axiom 1 from the Handbook, when two or more individuals interact a Quantum Personality or Quantum Entity is formed. This Quantum Entity comes into being in the Quantum Field because of the aggregation of human consciousness and is not an independent entity. It is the whole that emerges as a result of the interaction of the parts. [The whole is greater than the sum of its parts but not independent from them.]

Step 8: Recognize that what these national and international organizations, institutions, industries, corporations, agencies, governments, and countries do and what they experience is a manifestation of the Quantum Entity emerging from the aggregate of the choices made by the individuals in and interacting with those groups. It is ultimately about each individual and our capacity to choose.

Step 9: Understand that the human factor is the greatest influence on the Quantum Personality of Ile Inurere. Reflect on Axiom 7, human societies exist within a quantum reality and no aspect of their functioning can be separated from the Quantum Field or fully explained without consideration of Quantum Social Forces.

Step 10: Understand that we human are the only species who can write our history in advance. We can shape the course of our future if there is the will and determination to do so. We can choose the direction and the conditions of our future to a greater extent than any other creature.

Step 11: Understand that the key to writing our history in advance is to plant the seeds of an alternate future in our children. Ask yourself what seeds we humans are planting in our children today and then compare those seeds with the seed of the Prime Directive and the encouragement to Create Peaceful Space. Which message is likely to bear the fruits that you hope for your descendants?

Step 12: Do something to make a difference. It happens One-By-One! Peace does not descend down. It stems from the individual human heart and branches outward like a vine seeking to wrap itself around other hearts.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

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Open Letter To God: From a Leru

2010-08-25T19:32:00.000-07:00

Dear God,

I know that some people say that you aren’t real and that you do not really exist, that you are just something people have made up in their minds like Santa Claus. I’m not one of them! I believe you are real. I also know that many other people believe in you too, but they all seem to be so confused about who you are so they argue, fight, and kill each other in your name, which doesn’t make much sense to me. That is part of the reason that I’m writing this letter to you, because there is so much arguing, fighting, and killing going on in the world that I’m really afraid for myself, my family, my friends, and really for all of us. I’m not so much afraid that you will become so disappointed in us and that you will punish us. What I really fear is what we are doing to ourselves and to this beautiful world that you created for us. My mother read the book Letters To U: From The Mysterious Dr. M. – The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I, and she read some of it to me and talked to me about it. When the Mysterious Dr. M. described the Leru, the Fearful members of the human family, I felt like he was describing me. He said, the Leru are humans who are so disturbed by the negative energy in human social interactions that they become frozen in fear, unable to pursue their dreams, and unable to share their gifts, insights, and talents with the world. That is exactly how I feel most of the time and I sometimes wish that you would just call me home to you so I could stop feeling so sad. But then I remember that I’m just a kid and that I still have time to make a difference and maybe change things. At least I hope I still have time!

People who say that you don’t exist say, how can there be a God? They say you don’t exist because there is so much pain and suffering in the world and that an All Powerful God would not allow all of the horrors that I see. I don’t think the pain, suffering, and horrors are your fault. I think they are because of the choices each of us make and because so many of us have been making very bad choices. When I was 6 years old, which wasn't that long ago, my dad showed me how to seed and grow a plant. After a few weeks the plant began to come out of the soil. That was really a wonderful thing to see. It was like I created life and I thought, Wow, I can only imagine how you must feel having given life to so many things. After a few months some of the leaves and flowers on my plant began to turn colors and then they fell off and died. My dad said that he wanted me to understand how life and death work together. He said that a few leaves and flowers had to die to make room for new leaves and flowers to come forth, and sure enough new leaves and flowers replaced the ones that had died. It was a pretty cool thing! It seemed really natural. I took care of my plant for a couple of years and I often thought about you while I was watering my plant. I imagined you taking care of all of the beautiful things that you have planted into existence and even helping me to take care of my little plant.

Then one day I came home from school and my plant looked kind of funny, like it was not as healthy as it was before. My mom said that the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth are a natural part of the life process. That was what my dad told me too. But she also said that plants could catch diseases and get sick and that sometimes the disease could be so bad that it could kill the plant. I continued to water my plant and even gave it some extra food that my parents bought for me from the plant place (I forgot what they call it) but after a few weeks it started to die. I was really sad and even when the plant was dead I kept it for a long time because it was just too hard to let it go, to say goodbye. It was like losing a friend. Then my dad said I could put the plant into the compost that he keeps to feed the garden and that my plant would live again when we returned it to the ground in the garden. He said my dead plant would become part of the new plants and herbs and flowers growing in our garden. That made me feel a little better but I still hated to see my plant die. I wondered if it suffered while it was dying. It was in the moment that I put my plant into the compost that I realized that you would not want to see any part of your creation suffer. Do you also feel sadness?

After that experience, my parents allowed me to work with them in our garden and I learned a lot about how you have designed your creation for things to work together and in harmony. Over the past couple of years I learned that people, and families, and communities, and nations, and really the whole world is like a garden and we are suppose to work together and in harmony. But I think we have caught some really bad disease and like my plant our world is dying and I’m afraid, sad, and feel so alone because so many people don’t seem to care or even to recognize what is happening. And I don’t know what to do. So I decided to write to you and see if you can offer any suggestions on how I can help save what you have created.

In the Handbook, the Mysterious Dr. M. and U were able to communicate with each other by writing into each other’s minds. I don’t have a mailing address for you but my parents said that if I sat down and wrote this letter to you that you would be able to know exactly what I wrote and exactly how I feel. They even helped me with my spelling and grammar so it wouldn’t be so hard for you to understand me. My parents said that you could also communicate with me in my dreams like the Mysterious Dr. M. and the Ero Enia (the Traveler People) in the Handbook. So I hope you will visit with me and help me to figure some things out. I don’t want our world to die. I don’t want to see the oceans and air polluted. I want to be able to swim in the ocean, to drink clean water, and to breath clean fresh air. I don’t want to see so many of your beautiful animals die because of our bad choices. And I’ve come to think of your wonderful plants and trees as relatives and friends who come with gifts of beauty, shade, nutrition, and healing. I want us to stop killing each other and to begin loving and caring for each other like we are all family, because we are all family. My parents told me that Dr. M. said that Creating Peaceful Space is a choice. They told me about the Prime Directive of the Human Family and it makes so much sense to me. I believe we all need to be reminded that each of us has to part to play in taking care of your creation. Would you help me make a difference?

Thanks for reading my letter. I’m hoping to hear from you really soon because the disease seems to be getting worst and I feel sadder everyday.

Your Creature

Filled with fear and sadness but holding on to hope!

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

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Fasting for Peaceful Space, Part II

2010-08-14T16:29:00.000-07:00

Most of the spiritual traditions of the world include some form of Fasting as a way of giving thanks, cleansing, and transcending the mundane concerns of everyday life. For millions of Muslims around the world, the month of Ramadan (on the Islamic lunar calendar) began this past week. Fasting the month of Ramadan is prescribed for the Muslims in their sacred text, the Holy Qur’an. During the month of Ramadan (which moves throughout the year based on lunar cycles) the believers are enjoined to fast from dawn in the morning until sunset. During this period the believer consumes neither food nor water. In fact, nothing passes the believer’s esophagus except what forms in the mouth. In Arizona, for example, fasting during our record-breaking heat wave like this August, 2010 is a great challenge. The summer that I arrived in Arizona, June 1980, the temperature reached 116 degrees during the first week of Ramadan, which began the first week of July that year. I can remember how attentive and appreciative I was at the end of the day to sit and drink a simple glass of water. Funny how fasting does that! It makes you appreciate the simple things in life! During the Ramadan fast, the believer is also enjoined to avoid arguing, mischief of any kind, fighting, and also intimate relations during the daylight hours. The month is to be spent in mindfulness, meditation, prayer, reflection, and in Peaceful Space. At the end of the day the believers can eat and drink. The Ramadan fast is not simply for the individual believer. It is designed and enjoined to enhance the feeling of Peaceful Space among and between all elements of the larger community. Unfortunately, over the past several decades more and more acts of violence have occurred during the month of Ramadan, much of that violence being perpetrated by Muslims upon Muslims. In the Handbook, the Enia have suggested that this is a sign of the growing strength of the Oku Enia (the Corpse).

The key expression in beginning a fasting discipline is gradual process. Your body, mind, and spirit are designed to communicate with each other and to work together for your survival and well-being. If you pay attention and listen your body-mind-spirit will communicate to you what is working and when to make a change. If you currently eat three meals per day and stuff in-between you can begin by cutting out the stuff. Take the money that you would spend on stuff (munchies) each day or week and give it to a homeless person or someone else in need. That simple act adds positive energy to your actions and enhances your energy signature. Having eliminated the munchies, you can begin moving from three meals per day to two meals per day or two meal every other day or every three days. Start by replacing the morning meal with only fruit and then only an enhanced fruit juice blend like I described in my last Post. Over time you might begin moving your midday meal later and moving your evening meal earlier. The goal is for your midday, late afternoon meal to become your main meal of the day, and for your evening meal to become a lighter meal of the day. Your stomach will rebel and protest some of these changes and that is where gradual process and a nice cup of herbal tea come in. Over time the late meal can be eliminated and the late afternoon will be your one main meal of the day. Remember, this is not about one size fits all. It is about you getting in touch with yourself!

There are many possible paths to a fasting discipline. You can gradually replace your three meals with fruit so that you end up eating only vibrant color (fruit) one or two days per week. This is sometimes referred to as a cleansing fast. Abstinence is only one way of thinking about fasting. Actually, we sometimes give more to the body-mind by fasting than we do by feeding it. Eating is a labor-intensive process, not only for you in the preparation and consumption of the meal, but also for your body in carrying out the process of digestion and elimination. While you give your body-mind time to rejuvenate from this process you also give your spirit time to feed on the silence and the emptiness that accompany the fast. As the Enia believe, “Immortality exists in the space in-between events. Honor transition!”

Do parents still tell their children, think about all the hungry children in the world and eat everything on your plate? I’m not sure if that ever really worked to solve the problems of hungry children around the world but perhaps it did help to establish some sense of interconnectedness in our minds. Taking a portion of the money you save by fasting and donating it to some worthy cause is a wonderful and tangible way of elevating your fast and strengthening your spirit. Life can feel so negative and overwhelming sometimes. We can feel helpless to do anything about the horrendous problems we see in the world. Too many fires to put out! As fast as one problem is dealt with two or three more erupt into blazing fury! The more we try to change things, the more things there are that seem to need changing. Thoughts like these are a sign that the left-brain, our logical, rational mind is at-its-wits-end. They are also an indication of the need to shift to a more balanced approach between the Masculine Principle of Mind and the Feminine Principle of Mind. If the direct, mechanical, objective, logical approach to problem solving isn’t working, why not shift to a spiritual, intuitive, quantum approach? Fasting is an alternate approach to problem solving, a different way of affecting the world. Fasting unlocks the powers of the Feminine Principle because it is a transcendent discipline. Remember the example that the Mysterious Dr. M. gave in the Handbook of the Effect of Meditation on Crime Rates in Washington D.C.? Fasting for a higher purpose can have that some kind of effect.

Fasting is a silent discipline. It moves through the Quantum Field like the sonar of whales moving through the depths of the oceans. In the Muslim community it is not considered appropriate to ask a believer if they are fasting. That fact is between the believer and the One who enjoined the Ramadan fast. Likewise, with your self-imposed fast, it is not something that you proclaim, boast, or brag about. It is your silent way of moving the Ase (Quantum Energies) and affecting change in the world through indirect, spiritual means. When a Muslim breaks their fast or is unable to fast it is not an occasion for shame or ridicule. Instead the believer is enjoined to feed a poor person the equivalent of what they feed themselves. There will be days when you will break your fast for one reason or another, although these will hopefully come to be rare occasions. When this happens, be like water! Go with the flow! Fasting is about silent and unselfish giving without the expectation of acknowledgment or reciprocity. Don’t use the discipline of fasting as another excuse to beat yourself up because you failed! . Fasting for the enhancement of Peaceful Space in our world is a silent and unselfish way of making a different in the world. When you fast, you are not simply abstaining from food. You are also mindfully abstaining from adding any more negative energy into the Quantum Field. You are denying the Oku Enia (the Corpse) the fuel that it needs to enter our world with all of its vengeance. During your Day of Fasting your Energy Signature will be more calm and radiant, and that calming radiance will have its positive affect on the people around you. You will feel insulated from the effects of their negative actions, interactions, and reactions. You will also feel better able to transform negative energy into positive energy through your conduct in the world, part of the Prime Directive of the Human Family.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Fasting for Peaceful Space

2010-08-06T09:11:00.000-07:00

One of the questions I’m frequently asked is how to stay centered in Peaceful Space. For most, the difficulty is not in understanding the concept or in achieving the experience of Peaceful Space when you are in control of your environment. The challenge that we all face is maintaining our state of Peaceful Space when confronted with the negative and disturbing actions, interactions, and reactions of others.

Here are several things to remember!
(1) Your state of Peaceful Space must be a characteristic of your Quantum Personality. It must be genuine. You must be at peace with your own Path and Process.
(2) Peaceful Space is itinerant and goes where you go. It emerges from your attitude about your self and the world, it exudes from you, and it travels with you from place to place.
(3) The dynamic energies that make up your Quantum Personality and your Energy Signature are directly influenced by your thoughts and feelings. When you experience an emotion, anger or gratitude for example, your experience is reflected as a shift in your Energy Signature. Self-denial or self-deception will affect your Energy Signature and can be felt by others.
(4) Your ideal state of Peaceful Space requires that your body be a peaceful place for your mind to reside, that your mind be in a state of resolution about who you are, and that your body-mind is nurtured and continuously revitalized by a positive spirit.
(5) Peaceful Space is not a static state. It is more like a calm lake that once disturbed immediately seeks to return to its natural state of equilibrium. Total isolation is the only way to escape the disturbing experiences, trials, and tribulations of human social interaction. But our ability to grow in knowledge, wisdom, and understanding are stifled through isolation. So you cannot hide from life and yet claim that you are living. Water yields and responds, absorbs and redirects the energies that disturb its calm without giving up or denying its essential nature. Water is true to itself. Be like water! As the Mysterious Dr. M. points out in the Handbook, both the positive and the negative aspects of human nature dwell within each of us. They must and can be managed!

It was back in the 1960s when I was first introduced to the idea of Fasting. I read and listened to the comedian Dick Gregory who later became known as Amiri Baraka and became a guru of healthy eating and vegetarianism in the African American and larger community. My experiences in the traditional martial and healing arts, in studying Eastern philosophies and traditions, and in fasting the month of Ramadan, also helped to guide me into this discipline. I’ve spent perhaps half of my life fasting. Over the years I’ve eaten one meal per day, one meal every other day, and one meal every three days for years at a time. In my personal experience fasting is an excellent discipline for bringing the body, mind, and spirit into harmonious interaction and balance. Fasting brings health to the body, calm and discipline to the mind, and vitality to the spirit. As added benefits it will also eliminate any concerns about dieting and weight control, it will give you a greater appreciation for the foods you do eat, and it will save you money on your grocery bill.

Fasting requires a high level of discipline in this consumer culture that tempts you with foods, candies, and beverages at every corner and occasion. Food trays in the office, business luncheon meetings, free samples in the grocery stores, drive-thru for your convenience. We have been seduced into being the most obese population on the planet (approximately 1/3 of the U.S. population is obese) with health consequences that dwarf the negative impact of all of our wars (past and present). To be able to look those temptations in the face and turn away is very self-empowering. To dedicate your fast to a higher purpose is even more empowering and rewarding. Fasting is a way of affecting the world through a spiritual discipline.

For the past few years, I’ve dedicated my fast to creating more Peaceful Space in the world. Fasting is different than dieting. Dieting is like being a farmer. A person diets with a personal goal in mind and therefore has the expectation of timely and measured results. Like the farmer they are subject to failure and disappointment. Fasting for a higher purpose is more like being a sage who drops a seed here and there along the path of their journey with faith that in time, when the season and conditions are right, the seed will grow. If you’ve read the Handbook and understand the quantum nature of things as described by Dr. M. then you know that our every thought, intention, and action has its affect upon the Quantum Entity that surrounds and emanates from our planet. At the end of 2009 I invited a friend to join me in the fast and he enthusiastically agreed. We have fasted every other day for the past seven months of 2010 and intend to maintain our fasting discipline indefinitely. Each day of the fast we send each other a few words of encouragement. And now we want to invite you to take up the Discipline of Fasting for Peaceful Space as part of your personal way of making a difference in the world and in yourself.

You cannot and should not attempt to jump right into an every-other-day fast (one meal every 48 hours). It will take time for your body-mind to figure out what it is that you are asking it to do. Your body metabolism will need time to adjust. Your stomach will need time to accept the fact that it is no longer in charge. It will take time to alter your course from living-to-eat to eating-to-live. In fact, because of your unique chemistry, an every-other-day fast may not be the best thing for you. Maybe your ideal is fasting once every three days, or perhaps fasting one day out of the week, or once day every two weeks. You will need to experiment and discover what discipline really feels good and right for you.

Here is what a fasting discipline might look like using myself as an example. We eat every other day. On the days that we eat, I eat one meal of vibrant colors (fruits and vegetables), herbs and spices, grains, carbohydrates, and nuts. The meal is spread out over a one to two hour period in the late afternoon or early evening. Most components of the meal are organic, home grown, or carefully chosen. Each morning I have a drink-blend of fruit juices (for example, orange, mango, peach, white grape, blueberry pomegranate, and strawberry), raw fruit (for example, seedless grapes, nectarines, and kiwi), and supplements (for example, a tablespoon or so of wheat germ, flaxseeds, flaxseed oil, chia seeds, and protein powder). My juice blend is also enhanced with liquid vitamins and minerals. On the days that we don’t eat, I have only the juice blend in the morning and herbal teas and water throughout the rest of the day.

The Days of Fasting allow the digestive system to fully process the previous day’s meal, to completely extract and absorb the meal’s nutrients, and to eliminate the meal’s waste products. The Days of Fasting will also help you to calm and focus your mind, to connect with the higher spiritual aspects of your nature, and to exude the positive energy of Peaceful Space into your world.

In Part II of this Post, I’ll talk more about how to get started moving toward an every-other-day fasting discipline and how to gradually eliminate meals until you are at your desired discipline.

To be continued:

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

The Burden of Hate

2010-07-31T19:57:00.000-07:00

It is all about energy! When we look beyond the veil of the Pataki Aiye (Material World) and see creation in its fundamental form we can’t help but understand and feel the interrelatedness, interconnectedness, and interdependence of all things, seen and unseen. The Mysterious Dr. M. and the Enia, in the Handbook On Being Human, vol. I, teach about our Energy Signatures. If we could all see our Energy Signatures in the radiant colors that emanate from and surround our bodies, if we could all see how those fields of energy shift as we act, interact, and react to each other, if we could see clearly, with our own eyes, the dance of vibrant yet nebulous forms that emerge with our every thought and action, we would be in awe and wonder, and we would be in dread of an evil thought. We would especially want to avoid the Burden of Hate. A burden is a load, especially a heavy one. Burden implies a duty or misfortune that causes hardship, anxiety, or grief. To burden means to weigh down, encumber, hamper; overload. To be under a burden suggests trouble, worry, distress, strain, stress, and being overwhelmed. Dr. M. talks about how our thoughts and actions, our interactions and reactions influence our Quantum Personality and the Quantum Entities that emerge between one’s self and other people.

To hate implies a feeling of intense or passionate dislike for someone or something, to have a strong aversion to someone or something. Hate also denotes hostile actions motivated by intense dislike or prejudice towards some individual, group, or idea: a hate crime. To harbor hate is to loathe, detest, despise, abhor, or execrate someone or something. It is to be repelled by, be unable to bear or stand something, to find it intolerable, to recoil from it, to shrink from it, or to look upon it as an abomination, something that should and deserves to be removed from existence. To nurture hatred in your heart is to feed your soul with feelings of abhorrence, aversion, hostility, enmity, animosity, antipathy, revulsion, disgust, contempt, and odium. These are the antithesis of love. They are the sour fruits of the Fight-or-Flight Response. Hate and the feelings that accompany it are thorns in one’s mind, body, and spirit. Hate is a very powerful negative form of affective energy that can place a greater burden on the one who hates than it places on the person or thing that is hated. Dr. M. is very clear about the negative consequences of letting the Fight-or-Flight Response dominate in our everyday lives, distorting our view of the world and robbing us of joy, hope, happiness, vitality, vision, creativity, companionship, and the love of life.

The Burden of Hate begs the question, when is hatred an appropriate reaction and to whom or what should that response be applies? Part of me argues that hatred is never an appropriate response to an animal or other living thing. In fact, hatred is never an appropriate response to a natural thing, animate or inanimate. Animals, trees, plants, insects, creatures of the sea and air, mountains, valleys, caves, meteors, and the weather to not warrant the response of hatred. Granted, you may feel uncomfortable, and in fact may be endangered by some of these living things and environments, and granted, you may wish to avoid them, but what you hate is not the thing or environment. It is the way it makes you feel. The way it disturbs your nature, the way it breaks your inner peace and sense of balance, the way it seems to put you at risk. Avoidance or challenge would both be appropriate responses. You might choose to simply avoid being around certain kinds of animals or in certain environments. Or you may choose to face the discomfort, face your fear, and take it on as a challenge to be overcome. Either way, blaming and hating the nature of things is hardly of benefit to you.

Part of me says that people fall into a different category because people have a capacity for choice and reason that is not shared by other members of our earth family or other aspects of our earth environment. So is it appropriate to hate people? I think not! Something in my Ori says people should not be hated for the conditions of their birth. Something in my Ori also says people are responsible for the choices they make but hating them for their choices serves no positive end. That is not to say that we would not hold them accountable for their choices. To hate what they do, how they act, interact, and react, to hate the pain and damage they bring into the world, Yes! Or maybe! Because, if hatred is a negative form of energy (and it is) then even hating the things that they do will serve no good purpose. It will only generate more negative energy. Hatred burns deep in the soul, it feeds on the spirit, it enchants the mind into exaggerations of reality and it distorts the truth giving credence to illusions and lies. Hatred casts a veil over the eyes, a screen or filter that enhances the color red that emerges from the dark background of fear. To hate what some people choose to do? Yes! But hatred is a poison. It is a toxic and corrosive emotion that consumes from within. It seeds in the mind, in words and ideas, and then it enters the nerves and bloodstream so that it can travel to and root itself in the heart. From their it burns hot urging the enraged soul into some kind of hostile action, a word, a deed, a glance, a frown, an act of violence.

The Prime Directive of the Human Family states that we should convert negative energy into positive energy through our conduct in the world. Yes! It seems impossible to avoid that feeling and the passionate expression of it, I hate…! But then what? What should you do with that negative energy, that poison? It is all about energy remember? Energy is neither created nor destroyed only changed from one form into another. Rather than responding to the things that we abhor with hatred, hostility, opposition, and vehement protest against them, adding more negative energy to the Quantum Entity that reflects the Energy Signature of our planet as a whole, perhaps it would be wiser to contemplate the opposite of those things that we abhor, and to focus our minds, bodies, and spirits on calling and being those good things into existence. To stand against something or someone makes you wholly dependent on them. You open a crack in your Energy Signature and invite that negative thing into your consciousness like bacteria entering an open wound. Ask yourself what price you are willing to pay for the satisfaction of hating. And know for a certainty that there will be a price to pay.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

The Process of the Middle Way, Part III

2010-07-18T10:17:00.000-07:00

This is a somewhat lengthy but hopefully meaningful conclusion to our topic. The Middle Way is not a structure laid out before you. No one can provide the specifics of your unique path. But there are common elements in our individual journeys as the Mysterious Dr. M. points out in the Handbook. The Middle Way is your ideal way of being in the world. The word Process comes for the Latin processus meaning progression or course. A process is a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end. It also implies a natural or involuntary series of changes like the aging process, the process of photosynthesis, a spiritual or ceremonial process, the maturation process, or the process of change. When you speak of the Process of the Middle Way, you are inquiring into the actions or steps that must be taken in order to achieve the Middle Way or the Middle Path in your particular life journey. How can you avoid the emotional extremes that are like jagged rocks making your journey more of a struggle than you want it to be, or than you feel it needs to be?

Remember the first two letters between U and the Mysterious Dr. M.? And remember the image that is printed throughout the Handbook On Being Human, vol. I? The image of the mountain, off in the distance, standing alone, crowned by clouds, yet appearing to be illuminated. In those first two letters, U and Dr. M. discuss the dream that brought them together. And throughout the Handbook Dr. M. uses the image of the mountain to describe the process of our individual journeys through this life. In U’s dream there was no clear path or way, only the inner feeling that U had to reach the top (the Destiny Mandate). Dr. M.’s description of the wheels on U’s car and the process of the wheels gradually rounding are hints at the difficulty of achieving the Middle Way. The fact that there is no clear path in U’s dream also indicates difficulty and that the ultimate route that U takes to the top of the mountain will be the consequences of U’s choices. And as another hint about our life journey, notice again that the image of the mountain is in the distance. You know that from a distance and even when you are in the midst of the climb, you cannot always tell how many peaks, fissures, and valleys lay on your path. And finally remember that Dr. M. tells U that he has traveled into people’s dreams who have given up on their journey because of its difficulty. Throughout the Handbook Dr. M. encourages you and me to trust in the process!

In the last Post we repeated, the Process of the Middle Way is about being sensitive and responsive to the signals and signs that indicate when you are approaching an extreme (going off-path). In other words, it is U trying to be in the moment to traverse the immediate challenges of the terrain and also looking ahead in order to anticipate the future choices that will ultimately get U to the top of the mountain. But you can't anticipate everything! Sometimes on your journey you may come to a sudden drop, requiring a sudden downward (or backward) movement. Think about struggling to climb to the summit of some difficult mountain only to find that you will either have to retrace your steps and try another route or you will have to risk a potentially life changing fall into the darkness below not knowing the depth of the abyss. Either way, you are going to have to go down before you can climb up the next peak.

Sudden downward movements can present their own set of choices about how you should respond to your experiences. The first thing to remember is that it isn’t just happening to you! Sudden downward movement is part of the nature of our common journey in life. No one escapes the experience. It is a part of the Laws of Vibration and Rhythm. The second thing to remember is that there is always a lesson to be learned from a sudden downward movement, a lesson that (if learned) will make your choices wiser and your journey smoother in the future. The third thing to remember is that your response to a sudden downward movement in your life will determine the depth of the movement. A host of negative feelings, attitudes, and behaviors can emerge during sudden downward movement if once again the Fight-or-Flight Response suppresses the Peaceful Space Response. A negative response to sudden downward movement increases the cracks and deepens the fall. When you allow your energy signature to shift towards envy, jealousy, resentment, anger, cynicism, animosity, bitterness, malice, and general negativity, you open the Door of Misfortune for more adversity, woe, and tribulation to come into your life as Dr. M. points out in the Handbook. A positive response to sudden downward movement (trusting in your process, aligning with the Prime Directive, Creating Peaceful Space, listening to your Ori) will heighten your intuition and creativity, illuminate the lessons to be learned from your experiences, seal the cracks in your energy signature that required the lesson, and enhance your ability to recover from the sudden downward movement with greater personal power.

The Prime Directive says that the Process of the Middle Way is to seek pleasure and avoid pain for yourself and others, to transform negative energy into positive energy through your conduct in the world, and to nurture life and struggle against death for the welfare of the planet and the coexistence of all living things. The Peaceful Space Response is a response to the conditions that you call into existence when you align you life with the Prime Directive. In the Handbook, the Enia proclaim that the Peaceful Space Response is a necessary condition for the sustainable existence of social order and life on this planet.

Whether we are talking about our hypothetical young lady, or Michael Steele, or U in the Handbook, or you, the Process of the Middle Way is really the process of learning to trust in yourself and in the universal laws that you see operating in your life. Who among us has not had that strange sense that the universe or something unseen within it has had some influence in your life, that it has saved you from some hardship or misfortune, that it has warned you without words of some event to be avoided, or that it has guided you toward some opportunity or good fortune? The Middle Way in your life can only be realized by you listening to your self, your Ori. Therefore, the Process of the Middle Way must be an act of paying attention to your self, of listening to yourself, and of trusting yourself. As Dr. M. points out in the Handbook, the Yoruba word Orisa is said to derive from Ori (to see) and sha (to choose) – meaning to choose to see. To choose to see what? To see your own way to be a positive influence in the world, your way of seeking, avoiding, transforming, nurturing, and struggling while avoiding the extremes!

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

The Process of the Middle Way, Part II

2010-07-09T14:22:00.000-07:00

In The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I, The Mysterious Dr. M. states that each of us comes into the world with a Destiny Mandate. He describes the Destiny Mandate as that evocative energy that drives you to fulfill some purpose in your life, whether large or small, distinguished primarily by a sense of personal fulfillment. We don’t need to continue using the language of Bollinger Bands because now you understand (from our previous Post) that Bollinger Bands are to stocks what Path is to you. What defines your Path is your Destiny Mandate, the reasons you chose to come into the world, that is, the things you came to do (large or small), to learn, and to experience. Your Destiny Mandate generates the gravitational force that pulls you to your Middle Way, your most direct route to personal fulfillment and self-actualization, your innate way of being in the world. But of course, the world challenges you!

Dr. M. also explains that your Fate is the consequences of your choices. Your choices are like the individual movements of a stock’s price, sometimes moving up (forward), sometimes moving down (backward), and sometimes remaining unchanged. Dr. M. states that we live the consequence of our choices, and that the only way to escape the backward swing of the pendulum (that is, to escape the negative consequences of our bad choices) is to rise to a higher plane or higher energy signature. How do you know when you are making choices that will tend to take you Off-Path? What are the signs and can you see them in other people? We were talking about sudden upward movement in our last Post so lets finish that discussion.

Lets call our hypothetical young lady, U! What are some of the negative shifts in U’s energy signature that might be predictive of a future fall? Just think about some of the movie stars, television personalities, athletes, and other successful people who have gone off-path and precipitated a fall. I think a good current example of the negative consequences of being unprepared for sudden upward movement is Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, the first African American to become head of the RNC. Success, especially success in the form of sudden upward movements, brings with it a host of trials and temptations. In the Handbook, the Mysterious Dr. M. mentions the Instinct of Pugnacity (L. pugnax – to fight) and states, this instinct is called forth from the internal interpretation of a feeling or an experience, like being challenged, threatened, constrained, or deceived. The condition of its excitement is rather any opposition to the free exercise of any impulse, any obstruction to the activity to which the creature is impelled by any one of any such instincts. Pugnacity brings with it the Emotion of Anger. One of the first signs that U is going off-path is that she will experience the Instinct of Pugnacity and the Emotion of Anger that are both inconsistent with her success. U might also experience either Self-Abasement or Self-Assertion as described in the Handbook and manifest these instincts in ways that alienate the very people she needs to help stabilize and sustain her sudden upward movement.

Dr. M. talks about cracks in the Handbook and we have discussed them in our Posts. In the last Post we said, the Process of the Middle Way is about being sensitive and responsive to the signals and signs that indicate when you are approaching an extreme (going off-path). Those signals are both internal and external because the way we change inside affects the way the world response to us. When success creates cracks in your energy signature it opens the way for negative energies like arrogance, narcissism, greed, egotism, haughtiness, pugnacity, anger, hostility, paranoia, and an obsessive need for power and control over others. When these feelings, emotions, instincts, and dispositions begin emerging in your thoughts, they are in the process of shaping your view of the world and your energy signature is shifting to the negative. As your energy signature shifts your attitudes and choices will also shift and you are inclined to lose all of the benefits that Dr. M. outlines in 10 Selfish And Unselfish Reasons For You To Create Peaceful Space. As your energy signature is depleted of positive energy the potential for a fall increases. As Dr. M. states in the Handbook, Your power emerges in Peaceful Space! If your path is unfulfilling to you, you are not in Peaceful Space! …You decide whether your world is full of potential enemies or potential friends! …Shape yourself into a being you can love and give others a chance to love you too!

The Pataki Aiye (the material world) and the material consciousness that we have internalized about it cause us to focus our attention on a superficial level of our existence. This is an energy-based reality, everything is connected, and you are capable of feeling, sensing, knowing when significant changes are coming into your life. You have an inner guide that tells you when you are going off your Path. The Fight-or-Flight Response is not our normal state of being. It is a reaction to internal and external stimuli and forces. Our normal and ideal state is Peaceful Space! Even your physical body signals to you when you are going off your Path. If you observe, listen, and response to those signals you will know when your choices are consistent or inconsistent with your Destiny Mandate.

You may also experience sudden downward movements in your life journey. Sometimes you make a choice even after you get that certain feeling inside that it’s not the right choice to make. Your Ori speaks to you and you don’t listen. Not listening can sometimes cause sudden downward movements that take you off-path.
To be continued:

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

The Process of the Middle Way

2010-06-28T15:00:00.000-07:00

A PSPBlog reader and I recently had a conversation like many others that we’ve shared. He will occasionally call and simply give me a keyword or concept and I will try to provide some insightful comments. This last conversation was about what he called the Middle Way. The concepts of Bollinger Bands and the Moving Average (view video) which we discussed in a previous Post provided me with an immediate avenue to explore his keyword(s) for the day – the Middle Way. Towards the end of our conversation I had the pleasure of hearing him say that as a result of the analogies and comments shared he could better understand some of the things that have been happening in his life recently. That, after all, is the hope of this Blog. That is, to share something that might assist all of us to gain understanding and insight into that which will make a difference in our lives and in the lives of those around us. To Create Peaceful Space!

Our conversation ended with the observation that there is a difference between the Concept of the Middle Way, and the Process of the Middle Way. He suggested this topic for the Blog. The Concept of the Middle Way or the Middle Path is basically to avoid the extremes in everything. The Process of the Middle Way is about being sensitive and responsive the signals and signs that indicate when you are approaching an extreme. If you reviewed the earlier Post then we can go on from there and say that there are shifts in your energy signature that signal to you if and when you are going off your path (moving outside of your Bollinger Bands). And of course, one of the reasons for you to strive to stay in Peaceful Space is so that you are always alert to those subtle signals that often whisper to you or appear fleetingly. Lets see if our stock market analogy can hold up when we apply it more deeply to the human experience. We will probably have to do this in parts. Hope you will tag along and add your comment! We'll discuss the extremes first, the things that happen around the boundaries of your path. Lets talk first about sudden upward movement (sudden success). If we are going to have sustainable success then we have to set a strong foundation to support the measure of our success. Sudden upward movement occurs with and without the necessary foundation. As you strive for success in whatever way that you define it, it is helpful to remember that life is process and everything in the universe is subject to the Law of Vibration - everything experiences its ebb and flow; its waxing and waning, that includes your life journey and process.

When the price of a stock moves or jumps outside of its upper band (positive change in price), one of two things can happen. The upper band may move upward to embrace the new (higher) price, or the jump may be too big (or too fast) for the mood of the market and the price will move or fall back down, inside the band (sometimes very dramatically). Sudden upward movement is not uncommon in the human experience. She was going nowhere, moving fast enough to be going backwards. She had a past with no observable benefits and her path was more narrow than that navigated by a colony of ants. Her future was a dark abyss beyond the reach of light. She breathed only in those moments when she could sit at her makeshift art table and draw. And then one day, someone saw her art, her talent, her soul and suddenly her life changed. Sudden upward movement! Many people have experienced sudden upward movement because of their natural talents in the arts, music, athletics, dance, mechanical or technical skills, intellectual rigor, or a sincere heart and gentle spirit coming to the attention of others. Then there are those who experience sudden upward movement based on a less substantial foundation, winning the lottery for example. An individual who has no real plans for how they would manage and use their good fortune is like a stock price move that has jumped way outside of its upper band and there is no support for that higher price in the market. Both the price of the stock and the individual’s good fortune are likely to crash.

If in those moments when she could breath our young lady also imagined a bright future in spite of the darkness, if she read magazines and books about being an artist and learned all that she could, if even in the midst of hopelessness she formed a vision of what she would do and how she would do it if ever… – dare she hope, then when that moment of sudden upward movement occurs, her path may open and the upper and lower boundaries of her path will rise to embrace the change in her life. But, if she could not see through the darkness, if she failed to prepare and imagine, then with all her artistic talent she will nonetheless feel outside of her element, she will unwittingly activate her Fight-or-Flight Response in her social interactions, and will likely have negative energy experiences even while experiencing temporary or modest success. If she knows that she is unprepared for the change, the sudden upward movement, then she should also be prepared for some setbacks and negative experiences to come through that crack.

Lets assume that our young lady was prepared and achieved success. What shifts in her energy signature would be signals to her (or to you) that she is heading for a fall? Remember, as Dr. M. points out in the Handbook, everything about every individual is present in their energy signature and your energy signature is always transmitting, affecting the universe. Success can change your energy signature in both positive and negative ways. If the shift is positive, no problem! You Create Peaceful Space as you move ahead. But what are the signals of a negative shift in energy signature emanating from sudden success or an inability to handle or manage the level of success that one achieves? What are the signals or cracks that are predictive of a retraction or fall in the life of the individual? The signals will show up as expressions of the Fight-or-Flight Response manifesting in the attitudes and behaviors of the individual. The signals will also manifest in the body-mind because of the biochemistry of our basic instincts and emotions as outlined in the Handbook. They will also emanate from the individuals energy signature and feel evident to anyone who is sensitive to the quantum experience of life. Can you guess some of the signals?
To be continued:

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Our Ancient Way of Being In The World

2010-06-17T08:57:00.000-07:00

Have you cried recently? Watching or listening to news of the suffering of others over the past few months (or years), have you felt that mounting pressure in your chest, a pressure filled with emptiness? Have you felt that shift in your respiration, the sudden lack of strength, the emergence of moisture in your eyes, and the final release? Or perhaps you got all the way up to the threshold of release but forced yourself to hold the tears and the pain inside. I watch men do the later all the time when they are being interviewed on the news about some horrific or painful event. I’ve witnessed it up close and personal as well. Of course, women do this also but much less than men. I think one of the reasons people hold back is because for many men and women the pain, fear, frustration, anger, denial, alienation, and guilt that they live in everyday is so great that they are afraid to let go. Afraid that if they let go, if they give in to the release they will empty themselves of all will to go forward in the face of what they have seen and experienced in the world. So they deny the pain, suppress the tears, and harness the energy of those painful feelings to move forward one more day. And in so doing, they also escape the pain of criticism. (see Handbook)

When the Mysterious Dr. M. shares the fragments found by the Riri Enia that describe the angry and violent history of our species, he was pointing to a fork-in-the-road. A point in the journey of our family when we would (must) by circumstances or by fate, come to realize that this world cannot be governed by the Masculine Principle of Mind alone. The current angry, abusive, dehumanizing, isolating, destructive, and self-destructive condition of the human family has emerged because rationality without the guiding influences of the Feminine Principle of Mind is an imbalanced state. The Handbooks describes the tension between the Masculine Principle of Mind and the Feminine Principle of Mind in terms of the dynamic push and pull between our innate (in women) and nurtured (in men) Peaceful Space Response [PSR] and our Fight-or-Flight Response [FFR].

If you have shed a few tears for others recently or felt the urge then you should feel good about yourself (females and males). Those feelings and tears of empathy and compassion are a clear indication that the Peaceful Space Response is still alive in you. It means that it is still alive in our species and that there is hope that the human family can recover from our destructive disorientation. In the ancient dawn of our species females nurtured males into the Peaceful Space Response. Since competition was more functional to the survival of male genes than cooperation the PSR was not an innate, gene based characteristic for the survival of males. But it was increasingly necessary for the survival of the gene pool of the group. It was because of this nurturing by females of the Peaceful Space Response in their female and male children that our ancestors were able to live in accordance with the Prime Directive and thrive in Peaceful Space, as Dr. M. points our in the Handbook.

The right and left hemispheres of the brain, the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, the right eye and the left eye must cooperate with each other. Cooperative systems eventually become interdependent AND interdependent systems must cooperate for their mutual survival. This is the rational and underlying message in the Prime Directive. Our ancient ancestors understood (on some level) the important role of nurturing the Peaceful Space Response into the children, especially the male children while they were still young, before puberty. They understood on some level that the driving forces of male nature could undermine the welfare of the group and therefore of the children. We see the results of an imbalance manifest in our world today. I also believe that many men are beginning to see what the patriarchal imbalance has reaped for our species and are ready to embrace a more balanced way of being in the world.

The Prime Directive offers a simple guiding message for nurturing of the Peaceful Space Response in our children. Cry for them and then do something! Teach them that their innocence need not be lost, painfully surrendered to a cruel world of denial and facades, and a cruel way of being in the world - angry, hostile, selfish, materialistic, phony, and mean. Teach them that their magical view of the world and their intuitive sense of its wonder, beauty, and unity are not childhood fantasies but a message from the distant past when their ancestors choose to live in alignment with the Prime Directive and to live in Peaceful Space. Teach them that they can choose to advance our species into the knowledge and wonders of this earth and the mysteries of the universe with the Prime Directive and the commitment to Creating Peaceful Space as their guides.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Resource: Some of you might enjoy some of the writings of Jeremy Griffith for a further understanding of the evolution of human anger.

Being On Path: Bollinger Bands

2010-06-09T14:40:00.000-07:00

Are you at all familiar with technical analysis in stock trading? No! That's OK! I'm sure you will be able to understand this Post with no problem at all. Technical Analysis is a way of looking at a stock based upon a statistical analysis of the relationship between changes in price and other variables like volume of sales verses purchases. There are a number of technical analysis tools. One tool is called Bollinger Bands. It might be helpful to view the brief video before reading on. While viewing the video clip picture the path laid out by the Bollinger Bands as a metaphor for Your Path in life. Imagine that the price movements of the stock are the consequences of the choices that you make each day of your life. Don't worry about understanding the trading details of the video. Just get the general concept! (view now)

The Bollinger Bands set out the boundaries for the natural movement of the particular stock based upon its own unique characteristics. Running between the two boundaries is a moving average of the price that defines its central path. Are you seeing the analogy? If you look at the Bollinger Bands for different stocks you will see that each stock has its own unique path characteristics at the same time that they also exhibit a number of common traits. It is the same with you and me. You have a Path in life that is uniquely yours. And there are boundaries to what will feel like it fits in your life, on Your Path and that which feels foreign and out of place, out of alignment. In the video the presenter points out that when a stock price pushes outside the boundaries defined by its Bollinger Bands, a significant change can be expected. Likewise, when we act too far outside the natural boundaries of our unique nature we create the conditions for significant changes, positive or negative.

Note that if the Bollinger Bands and Moving Average are trending upwards over time, the downward fluctuations in price do not override the general upward trend. Often, when we are striving to attain some goal or realize some dream and we experience a setback, we give up thinking that it is a sign of failure. But as the Bollinger Bands show there is a natural oscillation (up and down, back and forth) even when we are making progress over time, even when we are being successful. The question you need to ask, the observation you need to make is, how is your life trending? When a stock price pushes too far beyond the upper boundary of its bands, we can expect a contraction. Why? Because the universe is constantly seeking balance (the center line). To be successful you have to build on a strong foundation. If you build or grow too fast it creates a crack in your natural boundaries and a contraction will occur. When the stocks price pushes too far below the lower boundary of its bands, we can expect a new opportunity for growth because total failure is a possibility but not a probability. It is like bending you knees and pressing yourself against the earth so that you can jump higher than every before. Everything vibrates! Everything has its ebb and flow! (The Kybalion)

Not only can we apply Bollinger Bands to individual stocks but we can also do a technical analysis on the entire NY Stock Exchange, or the S&P 500. Likewise, the Bollinger Bands analogy can be applied to you and me as individuals and to the human family as a whole. The Prime Directive of the Human Family is like the Bollinger Bands or natural boundaries for our interrelated, interconnected, and interdependent journey in life. The call to Create Peaceful Space is the ideal Moving Average of the human choice set. Right now, in this particular moment the trend of the Bollinger Bands and Moving Average of human choices is downward.

If a stock price moves down, but the Bollinger Bands are still trending upward over time we expect a recovery in price.

If the will of the people is strong, the spirit of the people vibrant, and the desire of the people is the universal good, then the bad decisions of a few do not represent a real threat to the upward movement of humanity over time (the price moves down but the trend is still up).

If all technical indicators are trending downward the forecast for that stock is poor, very poor.

If the will of the people is weak, their spirit broken, and the desire of the people is selfish self-interest then the bad decisions of the few are sure to annihilate the dreams of the people.

The Prime Directive and the choice to Create Peaceful Space can be your signal lines for the intuitive analysis of Your life and Path.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Promoting a Prime Directive for the Human Family

2010-06-01T13:09:00.000-07:00

When I think about the adventure we've undertaken it certainly occurs to me that some people will consider the idea of a universally accepted Prime Directive an unattainable ideal, and perhaps it is. But my instincts and best thinking tells me that the rewards of pursuing that ideal are far better than the consequences of not striving for its achievement at all. Besides, it is not like some other very smart people don't have the same idea, that is promoting a global prime directive. Billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives have been sacrificed to achieve their version of a prime directive for the human family.

Where PSPinc's Prime Directive states that we (humans) should seek pleasure and avoid pain for ourselves and others, their prime directive states that they should seek pleasure and avoid pain for themselves and let others take care of themselves. And in their world, the greatest pleasures are to be derived from the accumulation of profit, prestige, and power. The pains to be avoided at any cost are poverty, lack of enviable status, and powerlessness. Those who are not successful under their prime directive are viewed as resources and materials to be used in the attainment of their goals and the reconstruction of our world. You know I don't like getting into this kind of in-group versus out-group discussion (us vs them), but I didn't create this reality. I was born into it and like you, I chose to come at this time. So if my Ori speaks truth to me, I feel that I should speak truth to you. That's the example that Dr. M. set for us in the Handbook.

PSPinc's Prime Directive states that we should convert negative energy into positive energy through our conduct in the world. Their prime directive states that both negative energy and positive energy (good conduct and bad conduct) should be used to keep the masses in confusion, desperation, and competition with each other so that they can not see a way to be anything but negative, hostile, and alienated from each other. It is sad to see how far we (humans) have fallen backwards as our technologies and sciences have advanced so far forward. This divergence makes for a very problematic future.

PSPinc's Prime Directive states that we should nurture life and struggle against death for the welfare of the planet and the coexistence of all living things. Again, their prime directive takes us in a completely different direction. Their prime directive states that they should nurture profit and power for the short-term benefit of themselves, their families, and their associates regardless of the negative impact on other humans, animals, or the planet itself.

My hope is that (with each new event, personal observation, or news story) each of you will come to truly understand that we are already engaged in a struggle to establish a prime directive for the human family. Their prime directive is articulated in the reassuring language of Capitalistic Democracy, Rugged Individualism, Market Freedom, Individual Rights, and the like, but these ideas veil hidden agendas. Our Prime Directive is articulated in the simple message to Create Peaceful Space. 10 Selfish & Unselfish Reasons For You To Create Peaceful Space.

Again, let me remind you that I am not talking politics in my comments. I'm talking about the choices that people make because of the weaknesses in our nature and because of the ideologies and philosophies to which we attach ourselves. Advocates of these competing prime directives know that ultimately, if the future is to be theirs, they must get the children (all of the world's children) to internalize their ideal. As I think more and more about the Peaceful Space Project and its mission, I realize more clearly how important it is that someone invite you to choose one prime directive over the other. I have to ask you openly and honestly to consider the seriousness of the situation and to choose to act. Don't expect to be a spectator during the greatest drama to be acted out in all of human history. Do something! Say something to someone! You alone may not be able to change the world but you can certainly change something about the world. Start by changing something about yourself - negative to positive, passive to active, observer to participant and then, be ready (always ready) to help someone else in their process.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

The BP Oil Leak & The Prime Directive

2010-05-25T16:32:00.000-07:00

It has been a few weeks since my last Post. I've been working on rebuilding the Peaceful Space Project web site. Hope you will give a preview. The web project gave me an opportunity to review my ideas about PSPinc and about its Mission. Over the past few weeks several things have happened that have increased my passion and commitment regarding the Prime Directive and Creating Peaceful Space. Someone recently asked me why do you give so much of your time, energy, and attention to others when so often they don't even do anything to show their gratitude or repay you in any way? My response was that although the doing may be directed towards them it is not really for them. The doing is for me! They are the medium through which I express the qualities in my heart. I believe that when we are questioned about our journey in the world, we will not be asked about other people and how they responded to what we did. We will be asked, did we do what our heart and higher self (Ori) called out to us to do? Around that same time I had sent out an email to a group of my associates. A reminder about the importance of using the health and wellness techniques that they have learned from me so that they don't get overwhelmed. A few days later I received an email response from one of the recipients. It stated, Your email was a blessing and came at the right time. I've not been doing very well and was really contemplating suicide, but your email... It was a sad and wonderful confirmation that the little things (simple acts of caring) that we do for others can have profound significance in their live. One-by-One we can make a difference!

Something else has really stoked my passion. The BP Oil Leak!!! Seek pleasure and avoid pain for yourself and others. Was that thought in place throughout the entire BP Drilling Operation from Contract Application to Contract Approval, from Research and Development Verification to Engineering and Installation, from System Failure to...? NO! But it should have been. Our technological capabilities are too profound for them to be left under the influence of humanities weaker nature. This is what Dr. M. and the Enia are sharing in the Handbook! Negative Predictable and Unpredictable Consequences emerge from the quality of human choices.

Convert negative energy into positive energy through your conduct in the world. Was that thought in place when the tragic loss of life and leak occurred? Why has there been misinformation, false information, and withheld information coming from BP? Why didn't the Government immediately commission a diverse team of scientists to monitor the leak and the process and progress of its repair instead of relying on BP to provide them with that information? Why didn't the Government immediately have BP deposit a sum of money into a reserve account to be used (to pay residents, scientists, engineers, or the Nation Guard) in the event that the leak posed a more significant problem than BP initially anticipated? Why didn't BP, the Coast Guard, and the Government listen to the local fisherman and residents about the most important areas to protect and (based on their knowledge of the coast and its currents) the best way to protect them? Why? Why? Why? The thing to remember is that BP, the Government, the National Guard, the Coast Guard are just the names of corporations, institutions, agencies and the like. Whatever influence these entities have had and will have on your and my life, it is because of the people who operationalise the mission, protocols, and policies of those entities. That is why extending the invitation to every individual to align their lives with the Prime Directive is so important. Because everyone is going to end up somewhere in this social organism. And the Prime Directive is our way of protecting the future from the worst of the choices each of us can make.

Nurture life and struggle against death for the welfare of the planet and for the coexistence of all living things. Why is a foreign corporation drilling oil off of our pristine and vital coastline and wildlife sanctuary anyway? Why are we still so oil dependent when we knew oil was a problematic issue decades ago? Because people who came up in a time of increasing global temptation also came up without internalizing a universally accepted Prime Directive that would have guided and supported them in making right choices. Humans are bound to fall short of perfection but that is no reason to foolishly dance down the path to our own self-destruction.

We need a Prime Directive and to revitalize our Peaceful Space Response. I know that many people today will see the idea of a globally accepted Prime Directive as unrealistic. But as I see things through the eyes of the Enia, it is just a matter of time before the fabric of the social and natural order unravels to the point where eyes will be opened. For those who can see what is coming, their eyes will open like one awakening from sleep. But for those who choose not to see, their eyes will open like the deer in the headlights. Dr. M. explains this clearly in the Handbook.

I'm concerned for us, our children, and our unborn! How about you! One-by-One we can make a difference.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

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The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I: About the Past, Present, & Future

2010-05-10T07:44:00.000-07:00

The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I is about the past, the present, and the future. Dr. M. makes it clear that these perceptions are inextricably linked together through Cosmic Laws and human choices. It is true that we cannot alter the past. But it is equally true that our past actions can generate energies (positive and negative) that will come back into our lives (again and again) until they are resolved. Your past is a vortex, window, door for select energies to find easy access to your mind, influencing your moods, attitudes, and choices. The influence of the past often asserts itself in the I-Me Chatter (good stuff or bad) sometimes shouting in your head and sometimes whispering ever so softly in the silence of your heart. The influence of the past is to try and prove that your perceptions of the past are true by influencing your choices in the present. In this way, the actions of the 'I' aspect of self are justified (for better or for worst). The Handbook invites the reader to look at past experiences in terms of the kinds of energies they provoke and then to engage in the kind of conduct that will convert any negative energy into the fuel for positive expression and development of the self. This applies to individuals, groups, and nations.

The Handbook sees the present as the quantum consequence of past events and choices, but more importantly Dr. M. invites the reader to see their present choices as the building blocks of the future. This is why the Enia put forth the Prime Directive and the choice to Create Peaceful Space at this time. They are concerned that the current direction of human affairs does not bode well for the future of Inurere (Humanity). The Enia see that most Ti-Enia (humans) are not looking to the past seeking the Wisdom of the Ancestors and the Ancient Ways as solutions the their present problems. Instead, they plan only to follow science into an unknown future without regard for the consequences of their choices. They are in need of a Prime Directive to regulate their actions or they are sure to call disaster into the future. That process has already begun.

In the Handbook, Dr. M. stresses the Quantum Nature of Creation. That is, all of this, all of what we are experiencing is about energy, Sentient Energy, Quantum Personalities, and Quantum Entities manifesting and shifting in response to the aggregating force of human choices, thoughts, and feelings. It is only by gaining control over our thoughts, attitudes, and choices that we can generate an Ashe Ami (Energy Signature) that is nurturing of life and a healing to the world. The choices you make now set into motion the probability that certain things will be true in the future. You are a co-creator in life, not just a spectator or victim of it. As Dr. M. says in the Handbook, you are a scientist in a lab and you have some important choices to make because you are responsible for handling some very powerful chemicals and forces harnessed within your own genetic code.

Everyday I hear or read about events that turn my mind right back to Letters to You: From The Mysterious Dr. M. - The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I. Everyday I think about how different things could be. How simple are the steps to changing our future. Simple, but not easy, yet steps worth taking. Everyday I hope that another person will read the Handbook, hear about the Prime Directive, or read this Blog and get it. One-person-at-a-time, until the circle is complete and everyone has at least considered the possibilities. Everyday I hope that we can avert what the Riri Enia (the Seeing People) say is coming! Everyday I hope that, the flicker of light burning in the human soul will burst into a blazing passion for change guided by the Prime Directive and fueled by the desire to Create Peaceful Space for all the human family. Everyday I plant a seed somewhere. A planter, not a farmer, I move on trusting that when the conditions are right, that seed will grow. And every now and then, when it seems that I am most in need of rejuvenation, the fruits of one of those seeds, planted in the past, comes into my life nourishing me in the present and assuring me that the past, present, and future are connected, and our choices matter.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

Arizona Immigration Law 1070 & The Prime Directive

2010-04-30T19:29:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday, Augustine came by the house to do a roof inspection. I didn’t know Augustine. He was simply the company employee who happened to be assigned for the service call. Of course I asked! So what do you think about the new immigration law? He felt strongly that it was a bad law with bad consequences. He volunteered his own observation about himself, ‘I go in the same stores I’ve gone in for years, but now it feels different. I feel like people are looking at me differently. I can see the question written on their faces, Is he…?'

Dr. M. and I mindmerged (communicated mentally) recently about Arizona Immigration Law 1070 and its impact on the Quantum Personality of the State of Arizona and on the Quantum Entity that emanates from our planet (Ile Inurere – the House of Humanity). If you have read the Handbook On Being Human, vol. I, then you can probably guess some of what came out of our discussion. Dr. M. started by saying the conditions that allowed for the emergence of this law would not exist if the Prime Directive had been internalized two generations ago. But, the time was not right then. The Fight-or-Flight Response has been provoked in its many variant forms by the passing of this law. Today many more people are reaching out in their dreams because of their psycho-emotional suffering generated by the passing of this law and the circumstances from which it emerged. There will be many Negative Predictable and Unpredictable Consequences. He also said that if the Prime Directive is put in place in the next two generations of the Ti-Enia (Humans), this and similar laws will have nothing to feed them and they will fade away.

We discussed the emergence and impact of Arizona Immigration Law 1070 in this and other dimensions of our reality. Dr. M. said that the Seeing People (the Riri Enia) have made a number of observations tied to Interconnectedness, Interrelatedness, and Interdependence (as described in the Handbook). The Riri Enia said, the U.S. is one of the most drug dependent nations in the world. This drug dependence is a crack in the Energy Signature (Ashe Ami) of the U.S. and it invites drug crimes to push through our borders and feeds their emergence in our cities and communities. This also creates cracks for other types of crimes to emerge. The profit-driven U.S. economic system thrives on inexpensive labor that invites desperate people to seek avenues (legal or illegal) to fill the demand for cheap labor. This in turn creates the conditions for human smugglers and traffickers to emerge. The convoluted U.S. Immigration Laws invites and indeed drives some people to settle on the illegal route to access the U.S. market which invites further criminal activity. The degree of interconnectedness between the U.S. government and the U.S. economy is such that, the national interests of the many are too often sacrificed for the economic interests of the few. Dr. M. gestured in my mind’s eye and said, ‘They (humans in the U.S.) travel thousands of miles away to protect the borders of other nations but leave their own house doors and windows wide open during a storm.’ The persistence of xenophobia (fear and hatred of things strange, foreign, or different) in U.S. culture is an unspoken source of impedance in immigration reform and a crack through which Negative Predictable and Unpredictable Consequences will continue to come. Arizona Immigration Law 1070 does nothing to address these critical cracks. At the root of all of these cracks is the absence of the Prime Directive and the commitment to Creating Peaceful Space.

The Riri Enia (the Seeing People) also observed that in another dimension the citizens of several border and adjacent states, including Arizona, closed ranks and through the unanimous voice of their political representatives and the power of the peoples’ unified presence on the streets, are forcing their Federal government to effectively address the challenges of border security and immigration reform. But the people started moving in that direction before this law was passed in their dimension. That means that there were people here (in our reality) who were thinking about making that choice but did otherwise. There is also a dimension where citizens from several states retaliated for the death of the rancher before this Law 1070 was passed and their retaliation has resulted in a level of crime and violence (not only in the southwest border states but across the entire U.S.) that is unimaginable to most of the Ti-Enia (Humans), especially to U.S. Citizens. What these citizens did, changed more than what they intended. Their world is in turmoil. The U.S. Ti-Enia of our reality are fortunate that they did not make that choice, though some were obviously thinking about it. The outcome would have been horrific for the entire U.S. well into the future!

I asked Dr. M. what the Riri Enia, the Seeing People saw in the Ojiji Aiye (the Shadow World) as a result of Arizona Immigration Law 1070. He said, the Oku Enia (The Corpse) is feeding on the people's confusion and negative emotions, it is growing, and most of the Ti-Enia are ignoring the signs. Remember what Dr. M. pointed out in the Handbook about earthquakes and other unnatural natural disasters. There are signs of what is happening in the Ojiji Aiye and the unintended consequences that are pushing through the cracks back into our world (the Pataki Aiye). Regardless of what your personal opinion may be about Arizona Immigration Law 1070, remember that you (your thoughts) are affecting the Ashe Ami (Energy Signature) of our planet. Be careful, very careful, what you call into existence!

The land, oceans, trees, sun, and air interact with each other to produce weather on Ile Inurere (the House of Humanity). We, the Enia (The People) and the Ti-Enia (the Humans) are the ones who change the atmosphere regardless of the weather. Arizona Immigration Law 1070 has brought about a significant change in the atmosphere and not in the direction of Creating Peaceful Space. Its existence highlights the need for the Prime Directive of the Human Species.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Preview The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I

The I, The Me, and The Prime Directive

2010-04-19T16:10:00.000-07:00

Many of my meditation students ask the same question, How do I quiet the chatter in my head when I'm trying to meditate? Part of the answer is to focus the attention or mind on a specific thought, image, emotion, object, or sound, and to continue to refocus each time the mind strays. In time the mind will yield to the discipline. It is also important to occasionally take the time to analyze the chatter in your head whether you are trying to meditate or not. Of those approximately sixty thousand thoughts that we think each day, there are two categories of thoughts that should be sifted out and evaluated. Before we discuss these two categories of thoughts we have to understand the concepts of the Masculine Principle of Mind (the I aspect of self) and the Feminine Principle of Mind (the Me aspect of self).

The Mysterious Dr. M. and I were recently discussing one of our ancient Ancestors, the great Egyptian scholar and teacher Hermes who proposed that each individual has a Masculine and a Feminine Principle of Mind. The Masculine Principle of Mind is active, conscious, voluntary, spontaneous, objective, and idiosyncratic (unique to each individual based upon their unique set of experiences). It is the intra-active aspect of the self. The Masculine Principle of Mind is ever present but always unseen by others. It is expressive but speaks and acts through a emissary. The Feminine Principle of Mind is passive, unconscious, involuntary, and subjective, the social and interactive aspect of the self. The Feminine Principle of Mind is the emissary of the Masculine Principle of Mind and it engages the world of experience at the request and according to the directions of that aspect of mind. The mind of every male and every female has both of these aspects of the self that we experience as the I aspect of self and the Me aspect of self. Many of the problems of modern male-dominant societies emerge from the false dualistic idea that males are exclusively masculine and females are exclusively feminine, and never the twain shall meet. This notion sets the stage for internal dissonance and the constant, stress inducing chatter between the I and the Me, the Masculine and Feminine Principles of Mind innate to each individual.

The I aspect of self is the part of you that wills your Me aspect of self to act along certain lines. The I aspect of self is responsible for directing and shaping the experiences of your Me aspect of self and of anticipating the consequences of your actions. Your I aspect of self is (should be) in control. Your Me aspect of self is the intuitive, creative, generative, unconscious problem-solving, and social aspect of self. The I aspect of self observes how the physical and social worlds respond to the Me aspect of self, and then makes adjustments in your actions and presentation of self in order to protect your Me aspect of self from the things Dr. M. describes throughout the Handbook (and especially in Chapters 3 to 19). This idea becomes clearer as soon as you begin analyzing the chatter in your own head. The chatter is mostly a conversation between your I aspect of self and your Me aspect of self and it tends to fall into one of two categories of thought (chatter).

The first category of thoughts to which you should pay attention is I-Me chatter, the chatter that contains sentences and thoughts that begin with I and end with Me, and that contains self-evaluation in between. "I like this look on me!" "I wonder if this will work out for me!" "I love who I am (I love Me)!" "I hate myself (Me) for ...!" (Note: You don't always think in complete sentences but the sense of the I and the Me is always present in I-Me chatter.) The words that are thought between the I and the Me in the I-Me chatter can empower you with confidence, infuse you with a sense of the beauty in and around you, and lift you to heights of personal joy and spiritual bliss. Or, the words you tend to place between the I and the Me in your inner dialogue can plunge you into the depths of self-derogation. Remember the statement, "I think, therefore I am" ("Cogito ergo sum" - Rene Descartes). To analyze the first category of thoughts you must listen to your chatter and answer the question, 'what do I think I am?' ('What do I think of Me?') In other words, 'how to I feel about Me?'. That is the content of much the chatter in your mind. It is your Masculine Principle of Mind that is responsible for controlling the content of the I-Me chatter. As Dr. M. clearly points out in the Handbook, the content of the I-Me chatter must itself emerge from some source and have something that is feeding it.

The second category of thoughts to which you should pay attention is the I-He/She/They-Me chatter, the chatter that begins with I, ends with Me, and has a He/She/They content reference in between. I should say that often the I part of the thought remains in the background. Sometimes we think, 'I believe he insulted Me'. But too often we think, '...He insulted Me'. 'I wonder if he(she) like me?' I wonder if he/she/they are mad at Me because I ...' 'She made Me so angry, I could have...!' (In reality what happen is that she did something and I allowed Me to get angry over it, and in my lost of control I could have...!') This second category of thoughts has to do with your Me aspect of self, your Feminine Principle of Mind, making subjective and intuitive evaluations or judgments about how other people are responding to you, acting towards you, or what they are thinking about you. This is the interactive aspect of the self. It is the aspect of your overall self through which you engage the world. "Though you may see Me, you can never truly see who I am." Correct or incorrect, these evaluations or judgments about how the world sees Me can create powerful physical, mental, and emotional changes, and are a second source of much of your mind's chatter and your stress.

It is negative content in both categories of thoughts that create the kind of annoying and disturbing chatter that challenges you in meditation, and most important for my intended message in this Post, it is this negative chatter that challenges your desire and ability to live a harmonious existence and to Create Peaceful Space. This negative chatter provokes your Fight-or-Flight Response and all of the consequences of the stress associated with that response as Dr. M. points out in the Handbook. Choosing to align your life with the Prime Directive is a way of reducing the negative chatter by rising above the perceptions, attitudes, behaviors, actions, reactions, and predispositions that precipitate the Instinct of Self-Abasement (or Subjection) and the Emotion of Subjection or Negative Self-Feeling and their corollaries. (see the Handbook, Chapter 19)

Let me leave you with a thought about our children and the consequences of bullying as an example of the power of this inner dialogue. Open your mind and heart to the children who are being bullied right now. But don't think about the actual moment of their experience. Painful as it is, that is not the worst part! Instead, think about the chatter in their minds as they lay their heads on their pillows tonight trying to go to sleep, trying to escape the negative recordings playing over and over in their minds. Think about the I-Me chatter and the I-He/She/They-Me chatter that has driven some of our children to take their own lives. The Prime Directive has a place in solving this and other problems and so does the knowledge of the Masculine Principle of Mind and the Feminine Principle of Mind, the I aspect of self and the Me aspect of self. Will you share that knowledge with someone?

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

The Prime Directive: Avoiding The Seven Tribulations Of Humans

2010-04-11T15:36:00.000-07:00

Life challenges us! Dr. M. makes this point clearly in the Handbook by speaking about his own trials. Today I met with a friend who is dealing with a medical problem. As we spoke I was reminded of the Ajogun (the tribulations of humans) that we all seek to avoid. There is a Yoruba prayer that we say in Ifa that speaks to these tribulations. In translation, the prayer says:

Death is no more!
Sickness is no more!
Tragedy is no more!
Loss is no more!
Obstacles are no more!
Unforeseen Evils are no more!
Being Overwhelmed is no more!
The longevity of our fathers!

These are the Seven Tribulations of Humans. These are the common experiences that we face with anxiety and fear. Remember, Dr. M. touches on the relationship between these tribulations and fear when he outlines Our Six Shared Fears in the Handbook On Being Human. These Seven Tribulations can emerge under both natural and human orchestrated conditions. And it is important note the obvious, human choices can have the effect of altering the natural condition of our world in addition to fertilizing their own fields of misery. The ability of the Ajogun to affect your life is dependent (in significant part) on your choices; what you decide to do with the Two Gifts of the Moment. (see Post: Two Gifts of the Moment: Now and Choice). The wisdom of the great spiritual teachers of the ages as well as our pragmatic knowledge is that the Ajogun are facts of this life that should be both accepted and avoided. And it is your choices that either open the door of your life to the Ajogun, giving them access to your Energy Signature, or closes the door, puts a lock on it, and erects a barrier between it and you so that the points of entry for the Ajogun are minimized. In every moment, you make a choice about something. Some moments are more important than others in terms of the consequences of the choices made. Now think again about the Prime Directive and the intention of Creating Peaceful Space. Can you see that aligning your life with the Prime Directive and choosing to Create Peaceful Space is not just about doing good for the world? It is about sealing the cracks in your own energy field to deny the Ajogun entry into your life. That is why your Gift of Choice is so important. Because you are a co-creator of the reality that you will experience in this world.

The above prayer also carries another important message. This prayer is frequently associated with any supplication to our Ancestors. This is significant because the only time that the statements of the above prayer can become true in an absolute and eternal sense is when one enters the Realm of Ancestors. In the tradition we say, Aiye lo'ja, Orun n'ile (this world is the marketplace, the spiritual world is home). Most of us will experience periods in our lives when the Ajogun seem far away and preoccupied with others. Dr. M. speaks of the Pataki Aiye (the Material World) and the Ojiji Aiye (Shadow World) in the Handbook. We experience the Seven Tribulations only in the Pataki Aiye. Once you enter the Realm of Ancestors the Seven Tribulations can no longer affect you. This is true not only for the Believer, but for the believer as well. (see Post: On Being a Believer). For if indeed all of this (life) amounts to random probabilities emerging out of chaos, and there is not intelligent design or purpose, then when we pass from this world the statements of the prayer will nonetheless be true.

The choices we make create avenues for the Seven Tribulations to enter. How you react to any of the Seven Tribulations if they do enter your life will either strengthen their negative power in the Ojiji Aiye causing the tribulation to increase upon its return, or your reaction will cause the negative energy of the Ajogun to be transformed into positive energy (because of your conduct in dealing with it). When you internalize the negative energy of any of the Seven Tribulations and direct that energy out at others with anger, resentment, envy, and jealousy, you strengthen the impact of the Ajogun in our own life. The conduct that transforms the negative energy of the Ajogun into positive energy emerges only when you are in Peaceful Space.

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

Making a Difference in Every Moment

2010-04-04T16:07:00.000-07:00

Again this week I heard from someone who is in touch with the pain and suffering that is in our world. He feels torn between pursuing his own life agenda and a compelling need to make a difference in the conditions of the people and direction of world affairs. He was seeking guidance in settling the argument in his head and heart about what to do, pursue his life agenda or to make a difference. Dr. M. discusses the Destiny Mandate in the Handbook and points out that each of us comes into the world to fulfill some purpose and inner calling, and to manifest some particular set of talents. This is the voice of our Ori (Handbook), a compelling voice that speaks to us from the silence in our minds and moves us to move forward toward an often unknown but sensed purpose. We are also moved by the conditions of the world based upon the emotional capacity of our Foundational Personality and our Personality Superstructure as described in the Handbook. This empathic response to the conditions faced by many of our global family members is a sign of one who is Baja Enia (humans who are dissatisfied with the way things are, in their personal lives and in the world. They are in a state of questioning this reality and are pushing against the veil.) I assured the young man that he should feel both wonderful and blessed that he is able to experience empathy and compassion for the world.

There need not be a fork in the road that puts you into an either-or conflict about pursuing your life purpose or making a difference in the lives of the people. It is wonderful and necessary that some of us be able and willing to have direct, hands-on involvement in changing the lives of people who are suffering the ravages of war, famine, disease, and natural disasters. But we are not all called to the same thing nor did we come for the same reasons. What Dr. M. and the Enia point out in the Handbook is that on the quantum level it is equally important for each individual to be involved in shifting the energy field and adjusting the Quantum Personality of our planet (Ile Inurere - Home of Humanity) as it is for some of us to be more directly involved. This is something that each of us can do everyday. There are many ways to make a difference. Too often we think our part has to be big and far-reaching. But the Handbook reminds you that on the quantum level even an apparently insignificant gesture can have profound energy consequences (both positive and negative). Even our thoughts, prayers, and meditations make a difference.

The Two Gifts of the Moment will present themselves when you are sitting home alone or interacting with family; as you surf through the television stations, ponder which book to read, or decide what to have for dinner. But the Gift of Now and the Gift of Choice will also be present in your everyday interactions with other people. Here is where you and I can make a difference everyday by choosing to Create Peaceful Space, by choosing to live in accordance with the Prime Directive, and by presenting everyone we meet, while following our unique paths, with the option to choose. Living in alignment with the Prime Directive is a choice to which everyone should be invited! How can they choose if they do not know? How can they know if they are not informed? You can make a difference one person at a time and if they are moved by the choice, they will share with others what you have shared with them and the positive effect of your small effort will be multiplied in the Pataki Aiye (Material World) and the Ojiji Aiye (Shadow World).

We are losing too many of our children to the chaos of the times as they are daily confronted with the worst examples of human potential. But many more of our children and youth are striving and crying out for leadership and a sense of direction that is not toxic with bitterness, anger, hostility, conflict, and death. Those desperate children and youth are not just suffering in underdeveloped nations around the world, but right here in our own nation, communities, and homes. That is why the Peaceful Space Project and this Blog have some small significance and why your participation as a reader is so valuable. PSPinc. hopefully provides you with a simple way to link someone to the message of Creating Peaceful Space. You can help the message, the choice, to move from friend to friend, co-worker to co-worker, and parent to child until every member of Inurere (Humanity - the complete family of humans that live on planet earth) has reflected upon the Prime Directive of the Human Species and considered its benefits to themselves, their families, and to the larger world community. That would be making a difference! You can make a difference in every moment of your life!

Learn from the Past, Live in the Present, and Plan for the Future!

Create Peaceful Space!

Peace, Love, and Health

Note: Dr. M. and the Enia have predicted increasing earthquakes and nature disasters as the Oku Enia (the Corpse) gets stronger. As I was writing this Post, I felt the earthquake that just hit the Mexicali, California area. They do seem to be getting more frequent, don't they?

Two Gifts of the Moment & The Prime Directive

2010-03-28T11:56:00.000-07:00

Our condition in life certainly affects how we feel about The First Gift of the Moment, The Gift of Now. Most of us will experience moments when it is excruciatingly painful to be alive, physically, mentally, or emotionally. Today, many of our family members around the world are suffering such levels of pain. Yet most of them and us will also cling to life whenever and wherever we are threatened with the loss of The Gift of Now. This is a gift worth preserving! Life exists only in the Eternal Now and all that you and I hold dear can only be experienced in this Most Precious Moment. Many of the people I've spoken to over the years speak of a sense of purpose. They feel something pushing them from inside towards the completion of some task that defines their purpose for being in the world. The task itself may be a clear vision or as obscure as darkness itself, yet they feel pushed and pulled towards that something that will fulfill the demands of this silent and relentless call that dwells in the Eternal Now. Often people come to me to help them in clarifying their choices.

The Second Gift of the Moment, The Gift of Choice is both a gift and a challenge (a trial for the Believer). The gift is that we get to actually be the architects of our own lives. The Ifa Tradition of Yorubaland, West Africa holds the view that every human chooses to come into the world and that we come for a purpose. Ifa and some other worldviews also hold that we even choose our parents before we come into the world (this is, you choose to come knowing who your parents will be and the influence they will have on your life). Some of us come because of that knowledge, others in spite of it. From a psychological and sociological perspective we might hold the view that we can not be the architects of our own lives until we reach the maturity of reason or the age prescribed by norms and customs. The point still remains that wittingly and unwittingly, we are co-participants in our process of becoming. The person we become and the life that we experience are inextricably interwoven with the Two Gifts of the Moment, The Gift of Now and The Gift of Choice.

The challenge or trial of the Gift of Choice is that (for better or worst) our choices operate under the laws of cause and effect, and as the Mysterious Dr. M. points out in the Handbook, the effect of our choices are much more dynamic and far-reaching than most humans realize. Most of our everyday choices produce subtle ripples that fade from our awareness once they have manifested their intended effect. There are also choices that we make that produce immediate and observable shifts in energy (positive or negative) and that cause long-term shifts in our Energy Signature and the topography of our social landscape. According to the Enia and Dr. M., what the Ti-Enia (humans) don't understand is the aggregating effect of their collective choices in the quantum field and on the Quantum Entity of our planet. It is these aggregating effects that the Prime Directive is intended to address.

This weekend I spent time with some students in various wellness training programs. I was reminded of how many wonderful souls there are trying to navigate the cultural fish tank and to make a difference in the world. Their Energy Signatures radiate with the vibration of the Prime Directive. Every where I go I meet people who have that innate sense, that subtle awareness, that they came into the world to live in alignment with the Prime Directive of the Human Species, to seek pleasure and avoid pain for themselves and others, to transform negative energy into positive energy through their conduct in the world, and to nurture life and struggle against death for the welfare of the planet and the coexistence of all living things.

Remember that you can make a difference! You chose to come and you chose to come for a reason - to complete a task. And you can't be in Peaceful Space unless you are On Path to answering that inner call. A positive shift in your Energy Signature can bring about dynamic changes in the Energy Signature of those around you and even further away. When you are paying attention, you can actually see the change, the shift in people's Energy Signatures taking place right there in front of you. You can see it in their faces, in their eyes, and in the language of their bodies. Right now! You can choose to do something different. Something that will create a small but positive shift in your own life, in the life of someone you know and care about, or even in the life of someone you don't know. It is a choice! And the only moment in which you can exercise the power of choice is now! Living in alignment with the Prime Directive is a choice to which everyone should be invited!

Choose to Create Peaceful Space!

Peace and Love

Two Gifts of the Moment: Now and Choice

2010-03-23T11:36:00.000-07:00

Whether you are a believer or a Believer, there is an inescapable fact that exists for each of us. Regardless of what you choose to believe about First Cause (whether It is sentient or not), the mere fact that you are reading this Post means that you are experiencing the Two Gifts of the Moment. The First Gift of the Moment is called now or the Eternal Now (depending on your ethos - worldview). It has been said that we think some 60,000 thoughts per day and that the great majority of those thoughts are of the same things we thought the days before. And I would add that a majority of those thoughts are about the past and the future, more past than future. So many of us pass by the Gift of Now by spending it dwelling on the past as if the past could be changed. Some of us pass by the Gift of Now by spending it fantasizing about the future without understanding the relationship between our future, the Gift of Now, and the Second Gift of the Moment.

Now or the Eternal Now is the only moment in which we can have an experience. We can call up memories of past experiences or images of a future yet to be made manifest, but these memories and images can only be experienced in the singular, yet eternal, moment of Now. You may believe that this moment of your sentient being-ness is the result of some random events, or you may recognize, as I do, that this moment contains a Gift, one of the Two Gifts of the Moment, the Gift of the Eternal Now. And it is in this moment of your sentient existence, and this moment only, that you can experience life and embrace the Second Gift of the Moment. That is one of the Laws of your Creation. Your past and your future are bound by the laws that govern the Two Gifts of the Moment!

The Second Gift of the Moment is the Gift of Choice. Dr. M. drives this point home in the Handbook, over and over exalting you to recognize this profound gift and power that is in your control. A dynamic web of cause and effect, of Interrelatedness, Interconnectedness, and Interdependence shapes your and my world through the agency of our choices. Your choices about what to think, what to believe, how to be in this world shape the world that you experience. It is so important to remember that the only time that you can exercise the Gift of Choice is in the Eternal Now. Right now! That is a Law of Creation. As Dr. M. points out, your choices of yesterday (of even a moment ago) have already created their quantum effects in multiple worlds. Their energy can not be called back, only altered, transformed by the choices that you make right now. In this Most Precious Moment!

"To live is to be aware of the experiences and the choices that we allow to emerge within each precious moment!"

I hope you've taken the time to read some of Sandra's comments to my various Posts. She has been very thought provoking and shared some great references.

Trust Your Process!

Create Peaceful Space!

On Being a Believer

2010-03-17T18:43:00.000-07:00

It is certainly rewarding to believe in that which can help you to understand your world. It is even more rewarding to believe in that which can inform and comfort you when inexplicable events happen in your life. On the continuum of stability this reality is neither total chaos nor perfect order. It lies somewhere in between and we tend to experience it as a shifting condition over time. On the continuum of belief you may entertain the notion that there is no prevailing order and no ultimate purpose to creation and that you are experiencing a kind of mechanistic probability, or at the other extreme you may hold to the view that there is an absolute, deterministic, sentient, and unconditional force underlying and controlling every aspect of creation, and that you are without choice in the matter and affairs of your life (predestination). Each individual chooses to view the world from some vantage point along that continuum of belief. In that sense, we are all believers (in something) but we are not all Believers.

Your system of beliefs may be based on spirituality, religion, metaphysics, tradition, philosophy, or science. It may be part of an organized path or your own unique process. Science is very good at feeding the rational mind, but when the heart and mind are assaulted by life's Unpredictable Negative Consequences (as discussed in the Handbook), the arguments and explanations that Science provides in order to inform us do not necessarily give us the comfort and sense of purpose that our hearts seek. That is one of the reasons that I feel so blessed to be a Believer and that my vantage point on that continuum of belief is one that connects me to a Sentient Being that is full of wisdom and power, compassion and love. I remember reading once that, "...the one thing that God can not command is your Love, for Love must be given willingly and willfully." So, the mere act of choosing to believe in a Sentient First Cause is in itself an act of love. And since the Gift of Faith is itself an act of love (from First Source to us), choosing to be a Believer brings double comfort to my mind.

To me it is difficult to imaging a world thriving in Peaceful Space in the absence of a common belief in a Sentient First Cause. To believe that life is just purposeless chaos is a crack and opens the door of misfortune for the individual to justify any action against themselves or others, without a sense of regret or remorse. All members of the human family need not frame their concept of this God, and of this Ultimate Relationship and Connection, in the same way nor practice the same traditions. But it would seem that those most likely to hear and respond to the message of Creating Peaceful Space are those that have a sense that there is a purpose to life and a higher purpose to their individual lives.

The Prime Directive is a stepping stone to a higher level of social acceptance and appreciation. It may be that the first step in finding Peaceful Space within yourself is to locate yourself on the Continuum of Stability and the Continuum of Belief. Is your world tending towards chaos or order? And what of our world? Do you believe this experience is the result of random events disconnected from any conscious intent? Or is yours a world full of Beings and Entities that fill your moments of hopelessness and despair with the spiritual power to move on in spite of the difficulties? You experience the world in accordance with your system of beliefs and you pave your way with your choices!

Create Peaceful Space!

Missed Placed Priorities

2010-03-01T15:54:00.000-08:00

In the Letters to U: From the Mysterious Dr. M. an alternative view of the world is put forth. In that world, Quantum Forces are at work impacting our daily lives and influencing global events. Quantum forces that are influenced by human thoughts and actions. Although the language of Dr. M.'s world is the scientific language of Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Physics, and Quantum Sociology, and the world of the Enia pulls at your imagination, what Dr. M. describes is as real as the chair in which you are sitting. It is as real as the empathy you feel when you see so many people suffering.

Remember how God (whoever or whatever that means to you) use to get all the blame for our pain and suffering. I think it is a step forward that today more and more people are looking to governments, decision-makers, and power brokers for answers to the question we always took to God. "Why?" I'm sure that God appreciates our small step forward. Now that so many of us have come to see that it is our individual and collective choices that are exerting the greatest negative influence on our planet we can hopefully see why Dr. M. emphasizes the importance of the Prime Directive. It is about aligning human priorities.

Does it even begin to make sense that we (humans) spend billions of dollars slaughtering our own kind and then turn around to spend billions of dollars more rebuilding what we have destroyed? Oh, and millions more in humanitarian aid to assist victims of natural disasters the impact of which could have been mitigated by a change in priorities before the disaster occurred. Had the development of Haiti and the safety of its people been a priority in this geographic region, Haitians may have lost fewer lives then they did by comparison to Chile', even given the differences between the Haitian earthquake and the Chile' earthquake. Haiti could have been better prepared but for a shift in priorities before the event. How about spending just a small portion of the billions-4-war to provide safe homes-4-humanity? Or on unlimited and state-of-the-art training and equipment for coordinated legions of First Responders and Disaster Relief Personnel?

War is too costly for most and too profitable for a few. It will not go away without effort at Creating Peaceful Space. Peace has to become a human priority and that will not happen without a Prime Directive that is the will of the people. The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I tells you that you are a being of power, great power. That you have the ability to influence the world around you in ways seen and unseen. Not that it will happen anytime soon, but just consider the fact that if tomorrow every individual on the planet said I will not take up arms or act to harm another human for one year, we would have a year of Peace. Image that!!! Nothing else would have to happen! No Extraterrestrial Beings coming to force us to get along. No Divine Entities coming to bring the fear of final judgment. Just you, and me, and all of our family saying, enough is enough! Peace be with you! And then, keeping our word. Think about it!

Create Peaceful Space!

The Conspiracy of Silence

2010-02-17T15:16:00.000-08:00

The Mysterious Dr. M. talks about the conspiracy of silence in The Handbook On Being Human, vol I. I have been thinking about that lately - The Conspiracy of Silence. Sometimes it seems like people are just more comfortable living in denial and it is understandable to a degree. It is not easy facing big problems. If I might paraphrase the great sociologist C.Wright Mills from his benchmark publication The Promise where he states, what ordinary men are aware of and what they do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live. In other milieu they feel trapped, so they come to focus on their job, their family, and their neighborhood. Don't run! I know! We get tired of hearing about all of the escalating threats to our Peaceful Space. Drug crimes, people leaving the scene of accidents, road rage and drive by shooting, child predators and identity thieves, tainted food and killer toys, failing schools and the politics of the absurd, terrorist threats and new fronts, endangered species and global disaster. It is the environment of fear and although some good may emerge from it (you may become more alert and aware), the bad far outweighs the good. Stress mounts and people begin to reach their psycho-emotional threshold and the social fabric begins to shred. The negative aspects of fear have to be counter-balanced by the positive energy of hope. Do you realize that you have the power to give hope to others? As Dr. M. states, it can be a simple as a smile.

If you've read the Handbook you know that Dr. M. talks quite a bit about The Emotion of Fear. If you allow fear to drive you back from engaging life and facing its big problems, those problems will simply continue to grow until the consequences of neglect make the problems insurmountable and unavoidable. Dr. M. states that we have already set some negative consequences in motion. I'm still feeling like most people just don't get it. I observe and interact with people and too many seem absolutely clueless that we are a world in crisis. The sense of banding together for the common good, that sense of community seems to be bleeding in the streets and people are just walking by as if it is not their problem. The sense of urgency that we expect to grab someone in the face of life-threatening danger is absent. There is a quote on my office door, "the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of moral difficulty, do nothing."

The Handbook states that everyone has a part to play. And every part is important whether big or small. Hey, today we have proof in our electronic devices that there can be great power locked up in little things. You can do some small thing each day to stay engaged in the process of Creating Peaceful Space. The positive pushing back against the negative is in the nature of things. You can unlock the radiance of your Positive Energy Signature and transform negative energy into positive energy.

The Handbook was written because our family and planet are suffering. I for one, want to make a difference. As a father and grandfather, I want to be able to look my children in the eyes and say I did something to try and leave the world a better place than I found it. Collectively, we have failed in that legacy but individually, you can still live up to that commitment. Please help someone to rise to Enia. Share your comments on this Blog and the Handbook with someone you care about! Thanks!

Peace

Peaceful Space and an Attitude of Gratitude

2010-02-08T13:29:00.001-08:00

It is still not a certainty that Airborne™ works but the container is an absolute treasure for Tehuti, our cat. It is a joy to stop and watch him push, tap, and chase the thing from one room to the other. And to see him stop, sit, and look at the container as if he expects it to move by itself. Oh! And then there is the way he wiggles his backside as he stalks and prepares to lunge at the round prey playing possum. Yes, it is a small thing in the greater scheme of things, but when I’m away from home and doing the things that we have to do in the world, and dealing with the things we have to deal with just about every day, the images of Tehuti will flash into my mind and bring with them Peaceful Space and an Attitude of Gratitude.

Of course our dog Akilah would be miffed if she did not receive equal mention at the cat. Akilah had to take some medicine recently and of course I tried the usual tricks like sticking the pills inside a piece of frankfurter or inside a piece of bread with peanut butter coating. Those worked for a while but Akilah got smart very quickly and stopped trusting my late night antics. When I want to smile and remember what is really worth living for, I can just think of Akilah sitting there on the kitchen floor, tail wagging like a snake on the move, ears perked, tongue lapping, and my wife standing there making faces and high pitched sounds to which Akilah responds by taking her medicine with great enthusiasm.

And then there is our new raised-bed garden and the view from our kitchen window, and the weather and waking up each day, and having our health, and so much more. And in those moments when life challenges me to become tense and brittle, to become cynical and angry, to withdraw and abandon interest in making a difference, instead I think of some of the things that I am grateful for, things that make me smile. These and other memories and feelings act like a flowing stream that carries me to the meandering river of inner joy that leads to the ocean of Peaceful Space.

In the face of the difficulty of Creating Peaceful Space in this often hostile world, Dr. M. says thinks of this wonderful planet that supports us, think of our insect, plant, and animal relatives that share this magical place with us and how they help to support our existence. Think of your own majestic creation, the special being that you are and determine in your own heart that you will not let this planet and the life that she bears die without doing your part to follow the Prime Directive and to Create Peaceful Space!

Peace

The Prime Directive: Competition versus Cooperation

2010-01-31T11:21:00.000-08:00

Who said life is suppose to be easy? It is more about finding the balance between the Fight-or Flight Response and the Peaceful Space Response. As you look around at the natural environment you can see that competition is a central component of life. From the tiniest organisms to the global ecosystem, at every level of existence we see evidence of competition. Even when you try to quiet your mind you must overcome the chatter of what has been called our noisy monkey mind. Competition is present in the inner and outer world, in the micro and the macro manifestations of reality. Even the Dark Matter and Dark Energy that Dr. M. discusses in the Handbook are in a competitive dance with one another.

A very long time ago, three men and their wives lived within view of each other. Each man had a special talent, one a master of wood, another a master of the soil, and the third a master of the animals that lived in their area. Being masters, they were each alpha males, independent, stubborn, and proud. The master of wood built a beautiful home for he and his wife, full of handmade furniture and carved wooden beams. But they had almost no food. In fact, they were slowly starving themselves. From their second story patio they could see the master of the soil and his wife working their land which was full of food that made their mouths water. The master of the soil and his wife had plenty of food but they had only a palm leaf hut as a shelter from the weather and a place to call home. At the edge of the master of the soil’s land, the terrain took a gentle slope into the valley were the master of the soil and his wife could see the master of the animals and his wife grazing and feeding their animals on the dry grass that grew between the slope and the range of mountains that provided a rock canopy as their shelter. Alpha males are by nature more competitive with each other so contrary to their otherwise logical minds, the three masters always took a competitive view of each other’s condition, a fact that kept each of them limited in their condition and in a state of constant stress (Fight-or-Flight Response).

What our world needs now is…! What do you think?

Create Peaceful Space!

The Haiti Earthquake and The Four Desires

2010-01-25T15:29:00.000-08:00

In the Handbook On Being Human, vol. I, the Mysterious Dr. M. stresses that the needs, desires, instincts, emotions, and fears that he discusses are innate forces in every human being. It is the commonality of these characteristics that allows us to empathize with each other and to demonstrate compassion. Haiti is just the current heart-wrenching case in point, isn't it? There have been major disasters in the recent past (Katrina, Indonesia, China) and according to Dr. M. and the Enia there will be major and mega disasters in the not so distant future. If we really understood our fragile nature and were focused on meeting the basic survival and self-preservation mandates of our species, we would be much less vulnerable to these kinds of disasters and much better prepared to deal with the aftermath when they do impact members of our global family.

Dr. M. discusses the Desires for New Experiences, Security, a Response, and Recognition. If you recognize the power of these desires in yourself and how your everyday life is built around their fulfillment, then you can empathize with our Haitian brothers and sisters with a deeper level of understanding. These are some of the innate forces erupting behind the faces that you see on the television. "Oh God! This is not something that I every wanted to experience. Was I ungrateful for the little that I had?" Isn't is amazing how a simple curtain across a doorway can give you a relative sense of security? You know what it feels like to have that degree of security violated. So you can truly imagine the level of anxiety and fear that is a part of the Quantum Entity that is now emerging among our brothers and sisters in Haiti. "Mommy, mommy!!!" Have you seen the anguished face of a child who got lost in you local supermarket or Mall? Or maybe, you were one of those children. By touching your own experiences and memories you can identify with the suffering of others. The Haitian children's faces full of tears and void of comprehension.

Empathy and compassion are nurtured by making these kinds of connections and by recognizing and accepting our common nature. We are all The People. Tens of thousands of people, millions praying, hoping, and waiting for a response. And each face in the crowd praying, hoping, and waiting for their moment of recognition. You don't have to reach far, not very deep into your heart or your past to make the connection and feel their pain. It is from that connection with their pain that the Peaceful Space Response emerges in you in the form of Compassion.

The Prime Directive calls each of us to care about the other for in the larger scheme of things we are all part of a single organism and Entity. Make the connection.

Share your thoughts!

The Prime Directive: The Crisis in Haiti

2010-01-17T18:50:00.000-08:00

The heartbreaking news this past week was all about the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Unless you have had a similar experienced, it is difficult for us to wrap our minds around the pain and anguish the people are feeling. The crisis in Haiti provides a case in point regarding the Prime Directive. Don't you feel something pulling at you from inside as you watch the news or read an article, as you look at the faces of the people and the magnitude of their losses? And doesn't your heart experience a certain kind of warmth and pride as you think about all of the people around the world who are reaching out to help? Yes! There are logistical problems getting things where they need to be, but the reaching out, the rush to assist, to aid, to save lives can make you want to be a part of that effort. In these moments of crisis the best of who we are as a species comes to the forefront and it can move you to imagine a more perfect world. The crisis in Haiti provides us with an example of the Peaceful Space Response emerging in the face of horrific human suffering. That feeling of connection of spirit is your innate Peaceful Space Response. The actions being taken are an expression of the Prime Directive.

From the standpoint of the Prime Directive, the crisis in Haiti also raises an important question which relates to the level of destruction that the island nation experienced. After so many decades of contact and interaction between the U.S. and Haiti, how is it that Haiti remains one of the poorest and underdeveloped nations in the world while located just a few hundreds of miles from the richest and most powerful nation in the world? Why have the people of Haiti not been more proactively supported in becoming valued and viable economic and political partners and neighbors? The Prime Directive calls upon us to act in the interests of the whole and each of its parts at all times. Not just in times of crisis and devastation! In the Handbook On Being Human, vol I, Dr. M. predicts that there will be more natural disasters, of increasing magnitude and scope. He also suggests that beginning to teach and live the Prime Directive and the process of Creating Peaceful Space now is the key to being prepared for what is coming.

In the Handbook, Dr. M. outlines the instincts, drives, needs, desires, and wishes that fuel human behavior and influence human choices. He also describes a way of seeing the world that can give us greater understanding of the long term and short term consequences of the choices that each of us make each and every day. We are shaping the future in each moment of the present. It should be obvious that if different choices were made in the past, and if Haiti had been more developed, the level of destruction from this particular earthquake would not have been as great. So people in the past wrote this possibility into the future, and we and our brothers and sisters in Haiti are now experiencing the consequences of those past choices. And the choices that we are making right now will influence the future that will confront us, our children, and our grandchildren for decades and generations to come. According to the Mysterious Dr. M. the Prime Directive and Creating Peaceful Space are about self-determined evolution.

I hope you'll answer the survey questions, make the Prime Directive an important part of your life, recommend the Handbook On Being Human, vol. I to a friend, and share your comments on this Blog.

Balancing Positive and Negative Energies

2010-01-08T15:52:00.000-08:00

I just scanned through some of the news blogs I try to follow. You know what I found! The failed Christmas Terrorism Attack, Police close N.Y. School after ..., parents killing children, children killing parents, new fronts in the Global War On Terrorism, just to start a short list. It is enough to make even the perpetual optimist frown. As I thought about the Headlines and the message in the Handbook about what is coming (the Oku Enia), my mind drifted to the message that runs like a thread through so many of the sacred teachings of the world. The Holy Qur'an states that humans are born into toil and struggle in this world and that it is a place of trial. The Buddha stated that this world is a place of suffering because of the attachments we form with things that are not permanent. The Bible paints the picture of a demonic force that starts out as a serpent in the Garden and ends up as a Dragon that seeks to consume this world by influencing human choices. Maybe we really should not be so surprised to see so much suffering in this world. From a scientific perspective we know that the positive and negative do co-exist in the universe, and they are interrelated, interconnected, and interdependent. What should concern us is the degree of negative energy as compared with the degree or amount of positive energy that we see manifest in our world. The direction of things. Are people getting healthier, wiser, more stable and productive? Is life robust? Or are we experiencing increased negative energies in our everyday lives? Are you feeling more optimistic or more pessimistic as the days go by?

The Quantum Sociological Perspective that the Mysterious Dr. M. presents in the Handbook is a key to understanding how you and I can and do participate (wittingly and unwittingly) in shifting the balance between positive and negative energies and thereby creating cracks or sealing the cracks through which Negative Unpredictable Consequences can come into our lives. Some negative consequences are predictable. If you stick your hand on a hot plate, you will be burned. But there are also Negative Unpredictable Consequences. The experiences of sickness, loss, tragedy, obstacles, unforeseen evils, being overwhelmed, and death that can force their way into your life like a sudden and unanticipated wind.

What Dr. M. is pointing out in the message about Creating Peaceful Space is that the more you witness the manifestation of negative energies in your world, the more important it is for you to strive to Create Peaceful Space as a counterbalancing force. It is all about energies! Did you get this?

The Prime Directive: Nurture and Struggle

2009-12-28T11:50:00.000-08:00

The third element of the Prime Directive is to nurture life and struggle against death for the welfare of the planet and the coexistence of all living things. For decades there has been much talk involving the key (buzz) word sustainability. The Prime Directive puts this talk to the test and so can you. Can you have infinite growth in a finite or limited system? The answer is clearly, No! Ask yourself what proportion of our national and global resources go into projects that nurture life (education of children, sustainable use of energy resources, protection of our fresh and salt water resources, etc.) and how much of our national and global resources go into projects that undermine life and facilitate death (poor industrial waste management, counterproductive food production and contamination management systems, research and development of chemical, biological, nuclear, and electronic tools of war, etc.). In the Handbook the Mysterious Dr. M. states that peace does not descend down from governments and powerful organizations and corporations. Peaceful Space, the kind of Peace that emanates from your heart and emerges from a new perspective on life, that peace comes about through your and my individual choices.

How did you nurture life this week? Planting a flower is nice but how about the life of the many people with whom you had contact this week? Were you conscious of nurturing the life force within them? And what about how you treated yourself this week? Were you kind to yourself, self-encouraging? Did you treat your body well? Did you feed your spirit? How can you call Peaceful Space into the world if you can't make it emerge within yourself? We all die over time! A little bit at a time! Sometimes the death is so subtle that those around you miss the signs. And sometimes they miss the signs because they simply aren't paying attention. And sometimes, even you can miss the signs of your gradual and piecemeal death. Can you relate?

The Prime Directive is about mindfulness - about being present in each of the moments when your choices can be of profound affect. This world is a place of struggle. Life and death enter this world together and it is up to you to orchestrate the battle that takes place between them on all three planes, mental, physical, and spiritual. How are you doing with that struggle? How wonderful it would be if you and your family and friends decided to adopt the Prime Directive as a guide for your choices in 2010, and if each of your chose to Create Peaceful Space.

May you be in Peaceful Space in the New Year and Decade!

The Prime Directive: Transformative Conduct

2009-12-20T11:19:00.000-08:00

Think of how your life experiences would have been different if everyone around you, if everyone in your world was seeking pleasure and avoiding pain for themselves and others. The Mysterious Dr. M. talks about the many people who reach out in their dreams because of the pain they are experiencing in their everyday lives. Think back into your own childhood or youth and ask if the Prime Directive could have made a difference in your actions or someone's actions towards you. Now imagine how different your world would be if everyone had internalized the second element of the Prime Directive - to transform negative energy into positive energy through your conduct in the world. The key words here, the key reference is your conduct. Do you still suffer from hurts that were never given the treatment they needed to heal? And how many others are suffering today because of your attitudes and behaviors in the past? Life is simply too complex for us to imagine a world where there are no slights, no mistakes, no mishaps, no offenses to others, no insults or rebuffs. But you can imagine a world where wrongs are righted and where mistakes, mishaps, offenses, insults, and rebuffs are acknowledged and genuine efforts and practical steps are immediately taken to heal the hurts before they fester into wounds from which chaos can emerge. According to Dr. M. it would be a world in which every individual would understand the nature and power of the Quantum Entities that emerge from our social interactions.

The directive of practicing transformative conduct applies to all aspects of your existence, that is, your relation to the earth, to the other life forms that share this planet with you, to the ecosystem that supports your existence, and to the many individuals to whom you are directly and indirectly connected. Can you live up to the expectations of the Prime Directive? Do you have a heart big enough to care for a world?

Seek and Avoid: Imagine a World

2009-12-11T14:27:00.000-08:00

The first element of the Prime Directive is to seek pleasure and avoid pain for yourself and others. In the Handbook On Being Human, vol. I the Mysterious Dr. M. says that we (humans) have the capacity for Self-Determined Evolution. That is, we can write our cultural and biological histories in advance. We do this through the power of our aggregated choices. But how can we exercise that capacity without imagination? Imagine the world three or four generations from now. A world where every adult and child has been raised by instruction and by example to seek pleasure and avoid pain for themselves and others. Now think of the many problems that you and I face and hear about everyday that would no longer exist. As children some of us take pleasure in bullying others. As teenagers some of us take pleasure in harassing, rejecting, and isolating others. And as adults some of us take pleasure in dominating, obstructing, and discouraging others. Human instincts and drives, emotions and desires as described in the Handbook can often push someone to become narcissistic in the pursuit of their personal pleasures. Often those pleasures are hurtful and damaging to others. But the Prime Directive states that if those pleasures cause any pain to others then their pursuit is a violation of the Directive. If in this future world the Prime Directive has been internalized by succeeding generations of our yet to be born then our efforts today will Create Peaceful Space for our children in the future.

Dr. M. emphasizes the fact the it is about you. It is your choice that makes the difference. The collective will emerges from the aggregate of individual choices. Industrial and technological planning, scientific methods, economic and political models are developed by people, groups of individuals. Conflicts and wars emerge from the imbalanced pursuit of personal pleasure and 'strategic interests' without regard to the pain caused to others. Imagine how these institutions would change as succeeding generations of our descendants moved into their time, having been nurtured on this first element of the Prime Directive. You can start today with the young minds that surround you. What do you think?

Seek and Avoid

2009-12-04T16:09:00.000-08:00

The first part of the Prime Directive states that as members of the human species it is in our nature and to our benefit to seek pleasure and avoid pain for ourselves and others. To seek means to attempt or desire to obtain or achieve something. Throughout the Handbook, Dr. M. encourages U to strive to be in Peaceful Space and to Create Peaceful Space with others. To seek implies some kind of mental or physical effort, so Dr. M. also outlines the benefits to U and to others who make that effort.

To avoid means to keep away from or stop oneself from doing something. In the Letters to U, Dr. M. describes the Unpredictable Negative Consequences that are generated in the Ojiji Aiye (the Shadow World) by our negative thoughts and actions, and he explains how those negative forces take form and work their way back into the Pataki Aiye (the Material World). Don't you see and feel the unnecessary pain that people inflict on each other everyday? Does it feel like simple civility is losing in its battle against disrespect, rudeness, and outright disregard? What do you think?

Welcome

2009-11-16T15:35:00.000-08:00

The non-profit Peaceful Space Project is a U.S. based Global Leadership and Community Development Program. The focus of PSP is the education and development of youth and the mitigation of conflict through a heightened sense of community. This blog is dedicated to discussions about the Prime Directive of the Human Species and the underlying and obvious messages in the Letters to U: From the Mysterious Dr. M - The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I - 10 Selfish and Unselfish Reasons For You To Create Peaceful Space. This blog invites you to share your comments, thoughts, reactions, suggestions, and other positive contributions to a productive and purposeful discussion. You can preview the Prime Directive and The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I (here).

A good place to start our discussion may be with your comments on the Prime Directive. As a unifying and guiding philosophy for the human species, the language of the Prime Directive must promote the concepts of interconnectedness, interrelatedness, and interdependence. The language must call humanity to rise above our national, ethnic, racial, political, and other cultural divisions to address the needs of all humanity and the welfare of the planet. The language also needs to speak to the matter of individual responsibility and choice. What do you think? Can you agree with or accept the Prime Directive as written?