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Are you a mad monarch or simply cross?

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The Grail

The Grail is a holy cup, the vessel of life-force, it's not so much the cup itself, but the implied sacredness of the more ineffable substance it might hold. We are all on a quest. When we begin any path of healing or self-transformation, we start to engage the energies of the psyche that know all about the quest. It may have many different qualities, it may express itself in more covert or overt ways, more masculine or feminine ways, but essentially, it's the soul's drive toward wholeness, self-knowledge

Via http://www.coresequencing.com/reading/lancelot.html

The Grail

The Grail is a holy cup, the vessel of life-force, it's not so much the cup itself, but the implied sacredness of the more ineffable substance it might hold. We are all on a quest. When we begin any path of healing or self-transformation, we start to engage the energies of the psyche that know all about the quest. It may have many different qualities, it may express itself in more covert or overt ways, more masculine or feminine ways, but essentially, it's the soul's drive toward wholeness, self-knowledge

Via CoreSequencing'>http://www.coresequencing.com/reading/lancelot.html">CoreSequencing

Pat William's review of
Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling
by James Lawley and Penny Tompkins
ISBN 0-9538751-0-5 published by The Developing Company Press
Research has recently shown that metaphor is neither arbitrary nor a decorative optional extra, but indivisible from human thought and action -- which would explain why metaphorical work is currently so interesting to the therapeutic world. If metaphor is, so to speak, hard-wired into the brain, then making changes in the metaphorical landscape will be tantamount to making changes in cognition. That, in turn, will surely generate healthy changes in thoughts, feelings, and behaviour -- the very objective very of therapy.
Long before the current interest in metaphor manifested, however, psychotherapist David Grove was helping his clients enter the truth of their own metaphors: first discovering and experiencing the inhibiting force of their personal symbols, and thereafter finding revealed their own powerful, personal metaphors for growth. He coined the lovely phrase 'clean language' for the method he developed (and is still developing) in which the therapist's associations are kept clear of the client's metaphors, and in which adjectives and adverbs can be lifted off, one by one, from the nouns they qualify - thereby removing the associative emotions from those nouns. What is experienced as a dangerous task, for example, is simply ... a task -- quite neutral, when the adjective disappears.
Grove developed a pattern of recursive questions which allows metaphors to emerge into the light of awareness and help the client unwrap perceptions one by one: questions which freeze the perceptions in time, so that they do not race from one to the next to the next. This gives the client an opportunity to explore a moment, a place or an event in great detail. And the metaphors may even be non-verbal: for example, right at the outset the client determines where the therapist will sit, so that he or she does not barge into the line of sight of a client's symbolic perception of the surrounding space.
The book is for the most part Lawley and Tompkins' account of Grove's work, and their own. Grove himself says in the preface that while his work remains in the therapeutic context, the authors have synthesised elements from a variety of sources, such as NLP, clean language, and systems thinking, and by doing so have taken it into the fields of education, health and social services. They have also systematised and formalised what was intuitive in Grove's work. But this is the way of the world: Milton Erickson's followers have done the same, and in doing so, it could be argued, have made his methods more accessible.
Keeping language clean is difficult to describe, but easily demonstrated, so I was grateful for the long and useful transcripts of sessions. Here is a taste:
C: I'd like to have more energy because I feel very tired.
T: And you'd like to have more energy because you feel very tired. And when you'd like to have more energy, that's more energy like what?
C: It's like I'm behind a castle door.
T: And it's like you're behind a castle door. And when behind a castle door, what kind of castle door is that castle door?
C: A huge castle door that's very thick, very old, with studs, very heavy.
T: And a huge castle door that's very thick, very old, with studs, very heavy. And when a huge castle door is very thick, very old, with studs very heavy, is there anything else about that huge castle door?
C: I can't open it and I get very very tired trying to open it.
T: And you can't open it and you get very very tired trying to open it. And as you get very very tired trying to open it, what kind of very very tired trying is that?
C: Like I'm struggling on my own and not getting anywhere. It takes a lot of energy. I feel like I'm banging my head on a wall.
But seven transcript pages and many metaphors later the client can open and close the door at will, and 'gold' has filled the 'hollow' and cooled the 'dry darkness' of the 'desert' within her.
The close attention all this pays to the client's inner metaphorical world is meticulous and marvellous: it can only make for effective work and I personally would like to learn more about it. The crux of it, I think, is that Grove has developed not so much a stand-alone therapy but a brilliant hypnotic technique, in which the metaphors do not have to originate from the therapist; in which the client is in a waking trance, internally focused but actively engaged, as metaphor after metaphor is unpacked until clients are brought to the door of their own truth.
The bulk of the book takes the reader through the process of symbolic modelling and the stages of working with clients in the symbolic domain, and there are useful introductory chapters on metaphor in general. Lawley and Tompkins are immersed in the theory and practice of their work, but they are not natural writers: I found their dense and intricate book hard going, even when animated and lit by their metaphors. So it's a book to study, if you're interested in these techniques. Otherwise, if you're simply interested in metaphor, the most fruitful approach would be to dip into it, often, but a little at a time.

Via CLEAN LANGUAGE

Pat William's review of
Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling
by James Lawley and Penny Tompkins
ISBN 0-9538751-0-5 published by The Developing Company Press
Research has recently shown that metaphor is neither arbitrary nor a decorative optional extra, but indivisible from human thought and action -- which would explain why metaphorical work is currently so interesting to the therapeutic world. If metaphor is, so to speak, hard-wired into the brain, then making changes in the metaphorical landscape will be tantamount to making changes in cognition. That, in turn, will surely generate healthy changes in thoughts, feelings, and behaviour -- the very objective very of therapy.
Long before the current interest in metaphor manifested, however, psychotherapist David Grove was helping his clients enter the truth of their own metaphors: first discovering and experiencing the inhibiting force of their personal symbols, and thereafter finding revealed their own powerful, personal metaphors for growth. He coined the lovely phrase 'clean language' for the method he developed (and is still developing) in which the therapist's associations are kept clear of the client's metaphors, and in which adjectives and adverbs can be lifted off, one by one, from the nouns they qualify - thereby removing the associative emotions from those nouns. What is experienced as a dangerous task, for example, is simply ... a task -- quite neutral, when the adjective disappears.
Grove developed a pattern of recursive questions which allows metaphors to emerge into the light of awareness and help the client unwrap perceptions one by one: questions which freeze the perceptions in time, so that they do not race from one to the next to the next. This gives the client an opportunity to explore a moment, a place or an event in great detail. And the metaphors may even be non-verbal: for example, right at the outset the client determines where the therapist will sit, so that he or she does not barge into the line of sight of a client's symbolic perception of the surrounding space.
The book is for the most part Lawley and Tompkins' account of Grove's work, and their own. Grove himself says in the preface that while his work remains in the therapeutic context, the authors have synthesised elements from a variety of sources, such as NLP, clean language, and systems thinking, and by doing so have taken it into the fields of education, health and social services. They have also systematised and formalised what was intuitive in Grove's work. But this is the way of the world: Milton Erickson's followers have done the same, and in doing so, it could be argued, have made his methods more accessible.
Keeping language clean is difficult to describe, but easily demonstrated, so I was grateful for the long and useful transcripts of sessions. Here is a taste:
C: I'd like to have more energy because I feel very tired.
T: And you'd like to have more energy because you feel very tired. And when you'd like to have more energy, that's more energy like what?
C: It's like I'm behind a castle door.
T: And it's like you're behind a castle door. And when behind a castle door, what kind of castle door is that castle door?
C: A huge castle door that's very thick, very old, with studs, very heavy.
T: And a huge castle door that's very thick, very old, with studs, very heavy. And when a huge castle door is very thick, very old, with studs very heavy, is there anything else about that huge castle door?
C: I can't open it and I get very very tired trying to open it.
T: And you can't open it and you get very very tired trying to open it. And as you get very very tired trying to open it, what kind of very very tired trying is that?
C: Like I'm struggling on my own and not getting anywhere. It takes a lot of energy. I feel like I'm banging my head on a wall.
But seven transcript pages and many metaphors later the client can open and close the door at will, and 'gold' has filled the 'hollow' and cooled the 'dry darkness' of the 'desert' within her.
The close attention all this pays to the client's inner metaphorical world is meticulous and marvellous: it can only make for effective work and I personally would like to learn more about it. The crux of it, I think, is that Grove has developed not so much a stand-alone therapy but a brilliant hypnotic technique, in which the metaphors do not have to originate from the therapist; in which the client is in a waking trance, internally focused but actively engaged, as metaphor after metaphor is unpacked until clients are brought to the door of their own truth.
The bulk of the book takes the reader through the process of symbolic modelling and the stages of working with clients in the symbolic domain, and there are useful introductory chapters on metaphor in general. Lawley and Tompkins are immersed in the theory and practice of their work, but they are not natural writers: I found their dense and intricate book hard going, even when animated and lit by their metaphors. So it's a book to study, if you're interested in these techniques. Otherwise, if you're simply interested in metaphor, the most fruitful approach would be to dip into it, often, but a little at a time.

Via CLEAN LANGUAGE

The Four people you meet in heaven

Saint Peter waits for no man?

the first to get in are the: People who worked hard on earth

the second group are the halt and lame<>

the third group are those who made it to heaven on time this presents a paradox

the fourth group are those who were late not very democratic is it?

Understanding the scapegoat from a Post-modernist Perspective

Girard’s Thought
Picture two young children playing happily on their porch, a pile of toys beside them. The older child pulls a G.I. Joe from the pile and immediately, his younger brother cries out, “No, my toy!”, pushes him out of the way, and grabs it. The older child, who was not very interested in the toy when he picked it up, now conceives a passionate need for it and attempts to wrest it back. Soon a full fight ensues, with the toy forgotten and the two boys busy pummeling each other.
As the fight intensifies, the overweight child next door wanders into their yard and comes up to them, looking for someone to play with. At that point, one of the two rivals looks up and says, “Oh, there’s old fat butt!” “Yeah,” says his brother. “Big fat butt!” The two, having forgotten the toy, now forget their fight and run the child back home. Harmony has been restored between the two brothers, though the neighbor is now indoors crying.
It would not be much of an exaggeration to say that Girard builds his whole theory of human nature and human culture through a close analysis of the dynamics operating in this story. Most human desires are not “original” or spontaneous, he argues, but are created by imitating another whom he calls the “model.” When the model claims an object, that tells another that it is desirable—and that he must have it instead of him. Girard calls this “mimetic” (or imitative) desire. In the subsequent rivalry, the two parties will come to forget the object and will come to desire the conflict for itself. Harmony will only be restored if the conflicting parties can vent their anger on a common enemy or “scapegoat.”
Via Touchstone Magazine

My outside work (volunteering) You mean you have to pay to volunteer here?

I showed up here to volunteer to feed the homeless last Sunday It is a very middle class organization-the said I would have to donate a 10 dollar gift card in order to volunteer_ I confronted them and told them that in the dictionary it doesn't say that volunteering means that you pay to work for free they let me stay and I helpe feed over 60 people.

The Acute Stage: This stage occurs immediately after the assault. It may last a few days to several weeks. During this stage the victim may:
seem agitated or hysterical or s/he may appear totally calm (a slogan that s/he could be in shock).
have crying spells and anxiety attacks.
have difficulty concentrating, making decisions, and dolling simple, everyday tasks.
show little emotion, act as though numb or stunned.
have poor recall of the rape or other memories.
In the second stage, it seems that survivors begin to resolve their issues. This stage is also called the "flight to health." But denial frequently masks the under lying problems as survivors make an effort to re-establish the routines of their life and bring back some semblance of control. Sometimes, in an effort to feel back in control, rape victims make dramatic changes in lifestyle or environment. They may quit a long-standing job or move to a new location to get a fresh start. They may dramatically change their appearance; cut their hair or perhaps change the colour. None of the changes brings about the security they search for as nightmares and phobias emerge. They work hard to suppress the feelings because dealing with them is so very painful.
The Outward Adjustment Stage: During this stage the victim resumes what appears to be from the outside her/his "normal" life. Inside, however, there is considerable turmoil which can manifest itself by any of the following behaviours:
continuing anxiety.
sense of helplessness.
persistent fear and/or depression.
severe mood swings (e.g. happy to angry, etc.).
vivid dreams, recurrent nightmares, insomnia.
physical ailments.
appetite disturbances (e.g. nausea, vomiting, compulsive eating).
efforts to deny the assault ever took place and/or to minimize its impact.
withdrawal from friends and/or relatives.
preoccupation with personal safety.
reluctance to leave the house and/or to go places which remind the victim of the rape.
hesitation about forming new relationships with men and/or distrustful or existing relationship.
sexual problems.
disruption of normal everyday routines (e.g. high absenteeism at work suddenly or, conversely, working longer than usual hours; dropping out of school; travelling different routes; going out only at certain times).
But the feelings do not go away as easily as before. Their re-surfacing introduces the third stage of the rape trauma syndrome. The client no longer denies the issues; she/he may want to talk about what happened. The client finds themselves more willing to accept counselling and get in touch with the feelings and emotions associated with the rape. Survivors may feel overwhelmed as they attempt to deal with feelings they struggled to suppress since the assault. Often some sensory stimulation triggers memories that call to mind the sexual assault. Suddenly the survivor seems to be re-living the trauma as the rape comes to life again. Nightmares, phobias, depression, reoccurring thoughts and sexual dysfunction monopolize her thoughts. She / he feels anxious to talk about it; to deal with it and is ready to seek therapy although she may not understand why the issues surface at that time. The stages are not linear and can vary as the victim works their way through. Survivors find themselves taking one step forward and two back as they vacillate between stages and labour to find their way.
The Resolution Stage: During this stage the rape is no longer the central focus in the victim's life. The victim begins to recognize that while s/he will never forget the assault, the pain and memories associated with it are lessening. S/he has accepted the rape as a part of her/his life experience and is choosing to move on from there. Some of the behaviours of the second stage may flare up at times but they do so less frequently and with less intensity. In this fashion the person who has survived has moved from being a " victim" to a "survivor".

Me and my leg that's a pet rock from Iraq

He grabbed his own medical bag, ran a few yards and was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. It did not explode, but took off his left leg. He was then shot — six times. "I look down and there's a puddle of blood under me that's just getting bigger," says Worley. "And I realize that literally, I had seconds to live." And then this young medic methodically went to work — on himself. "Thank God I have a little tourniquet that I keep on my vest right there," says Worley. He tied the tourniquet on his own leg. “And I shoot myself up with morphine, 'cause I knew if I'm passed out from the pain I was done," he says. Doc Worley is lucky. And he knows it. "I commend any Corpsman that strives to work with Marines," says Worley. "It is the greatest thing I have done in my entire life — other than having my baby.” If you ask them, these soldiers will still say they are lucky. New limbs? They’re a minor setback for most. Those looking for self-pity at Walter Reed will not find it. "I was under the impression I was gonna die," says Worley. "I went through the whole bargaining and through the anger and depression, and went straight into acceptance. The left leg was a fair trade, you know. Getting out of Iraq, that left leg was a fair trade, I'm happy. I've got no complaints."

Via CNN

How does Kurt Cobain come up with new material does he go to a dead psychic?

Are you experienced I mean prejudiced...

IAT tests examine our subcouncious beliefs; this one deal with race did you fail?https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

breaking Danny

Shot taken by Orogeny Productions.

Note to self:a new million dollar idea:monogrammed motorcycle jackets for b-list celebrities so when "fans" see them they know who they are looking at.



I want the old <-----Danny

leg

http://www.nismat.org/orthocor/programs/lowbody/lowbdex.html

Talk to her5 go ahead she's only an anima

What should I say to her?

The Road less travelled is surreal

Pics

Tolstoy said ...

That if there is a gun in in the 1st act it must go off in the third act. no not that cliche; I meant: all happy families are the same it is only unhappy families that are different because of the narrative that they hold distinguishes them.

portmanteau for the day restaurantourage

Tsotsi" Celebrates Miramax's Oscar Nominated Best Foreign Language Film at Spark Woodfire Grill (BH)
South Africa has earned its second consecutive Best Foreign Language Film nomination in the country's history; "Yesterday" 2004 and "Tsotsi" 2005. Written and directed by Gavin Hood and based on a novel by Athol Fugard, both South African natives, "Tsotsi" would be the country's first Academy Award.



/24-7PressRelease/ - LOS ANGELES, CA - March 06, 2006 - Set amidst the sprawling Johannesburg township of Soweto - where survival is the primary objective - Tsotsi traces six days in the life of a ruthless young gang leader who ends up caring for a baby accidentally kidnapped during a car-jacking.

Pico Boulevard and Spark Woodfire Grill are also new to Oscar night festivities; however this Special Event Team has worked together before. Danilo Terribili (Spark Co-Owner), Fredy Escobar (Executive Chef) and Pamela Saunders (E-Marketing Director/Event Producer) created two previous Academy Awards parties ("Antonia's Line", "Before Night Falls") with one of Tsotsi's Executive Producers, Robbie Little at the now closed Alto Palato on La Cienega.

The accolades for "Tsotsi" have been abundant; Pan African Film and Arts Festival Jury Prize for Best Feature Award, British Academy Film Award Nominee, Los Angeles Film Festival Award, Best International Feature at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, Denver International Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, Capetown World Cinema Festival, St Louis International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film

On Sunday, March 5th, beginning at 4pm (PST) guests will start filing into Spark Woodfire Grill on Pico Boulevard for a cocktail hour before sitting down for the show. The Oscar's will be visible on seven screens throughout the three levels of the restaurant. A vegetarian buffet will be served along with some imported South African wines. The event is closed and for invited guests only.


via the oxymoronic 24/7 press relese .com

when did you know and when...

I have kind of a sinking feeling in my gut right now . I was listening to what people were saying: they didn't know, so therefore it was an issue of a learning curve. You know, from this tape it looks like everyone was fully aware.Ray Nagin Mayor of New Orleans

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