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@LastThursday ? Well maybe if a couple were to work together in taming or getting work out of a donkey which in my view could represent Carlos Castenada’s Petty tyrant. Something along those lines maybe. I’ve read the symbolism of Jesus riding a donkey into Jerusalem was that Donkeys represent peace and humbleness where the horse represented an animal of war. I’m just not seeing it,,,, .Not with the donkeys I’ve known. They were nothing at all close to peaceful or humble.

Thanks @Eternal Unity Great link you posted!

Donkeys and Bulls Managing and caretaking of Bulls on a ranch can really be a pain sometimes. Inevitably they fight and develop a pecking order of hierarchy in regards to who is the alpha male. I’ve had bulls who were similar in body weight and bad ass attitude who fight and head butt one another through multiple barbed wire fences and even out onto a state highway. With no regard for traffic or anything outside their fury these two bulls in their fight went right down the double yellow line for a ways at times going off to one side and then back. They weighed well over a ton each and both in ill temper. Now, how do you break that fight up? Yeah, that was an interesting day. A hilarious and interesting trick I learned years ago was introducing a donkey into this mix. In essence, a six hundred pound donkey will absolutely establish his dominance over a group of bulls each weighing more than a ton each. Not all donkeys are alike though. Generally the more cantankerous the better for this particular role. Ive had bulls end up with deformed ears because of a donkey who would latch-on and have a good chew. The right kind of donkey will also balance on his front legs and like a professional boxer, ‘machine gun’ with his hind feet into the face of a stubborn bull. There will be times when the bull with his enormous weight and size will just barrel through the donkeys efforts but the donkey will not tire like the bull and dancing around with his ears sticking up will prevail by the end of the day and establish himself as the alpha male. Domestic dogs gone wild or those poorly cared for are much worse than coyotes when it comes to killing calves. Unless the cows group up in their efforts against dog attacks, the dogs can easily kill a calf and chew up some damage on a cow trying to give birth. Introduce a donkey into your cow herd though, and you will have zero problems from packs of domestic dogs behaving badly. If a dog comes into a pasture within a donkeys sight, you’ll see the donkey lay his ears back and make a beeline towards the dog. Even if it’s just a friendly dog, the donkey don’t give a shit and will go after any dog like the infamous honey badger might. Again, I must add that not all donkeys are created equal for such tasks. Among jackasses (male donkeys) anyway. I never tried employing a Jenny (female donkey). An Instinctual intuitive guess is that on average, Jacks would be best for bull management and Jenny’s would be good for running with the cow herd. As stated previously, I no longer have any management responsibilities with the family ranch. It is now seen over by my niece and two nephews. I shared the existence of this journal with my niece a while back. I can see her rolling her eyes if she were to read the opinions of those here who espouse veganism. In ways, she has attributes similar to those of donkeys in that, although she is small in size, she self initiates and shows no fear.

I fell asleep and woke up as Leo’s video Understanding impermanence from September of 2019 was playing. Very pertinent concernmy “Death wish” expressed earlier . Another topic. Love with a big L, agape is Love for all. If held as a standard to live by, it turns into an ego trap or fate creating falsity. Some quotes about Love. The idea of both conditional and unconditional love comes from the collective ego, and reveals its thinking in terms of opposites. Giving love on conditions is the ego's way of withholding love until it gets what it wants. True love is a Cosmic gift to a person's true self, and is meant to flow from there to other's true selves, and back to the Cosmos, in a complete circle. This Cosmic gift is never meant to be thrown away at the ego because the ego is outside the Cosmic principles. The collective ego has invented the idea of unconditional love to rob the True self of its very life force, under the pretense that it is "spiritual" to extend one's love to everyone, regardless of the ego's presence." -from The Oracle Of The Cosmic Way. When You are Complete Love Arises for Everyone and Everything When you are complete, the action is love. Just as your body needs food and safety when you're taking care of it, your environment needs care when you're complete. From the perspective of completeness, the whole universe is your body. There is no separation, so you take care of it as an action of love. There is no sense of isolation, of feeling you are separate from other things and not caring about them. Love arises for everyone and everything. Diamond Heart Book Three, pg. 98 Your Personality or Ego Does Not Know How to Love The first thing you need to know is that your personality or ego does not know how to love. It cannot love. When you say, "I love you," it is always a lie, because the person who says, "I" cannot love, and doesn't know what love is. The personality does not know how to love. The personality is the product of the lack of love, so how can it know love? The personality is what you usually think is you, what you call "I," "myself." When you say "I," it is a lie. "I" doesn't love. "I" doesn't know how to love. "I" is there because you don't know how to love. "I" is there from the beginning because of the loss of love. The very existence of an "I" is the absence of love, the blockage and distortion of love. The "I" knows how to need; the "I" does not know how to love. It is not possible. What we call "I," our separate identity, is our self-image. Even if the self-image knows what love is, it does not have the love and cannot be a source of love. In fact, when there is love, love tends to melt away the "I." The "I" relaxes and gets out of the way. Diamond Heart Book Two, pg. 153

In going through my previous attachments that I’ve posted I’m encountering a few that I’m going to share again. This is from Nassim Haramein. Above chart is from Cynthia Bourgeault’s book Eye of the Heart in which she discusses the Causal Realm or as she uses the phrase Imaginal Realm. She places the Kingdom of Heaven beginning at World 24 (Gurdjieff terminology) Today I realized what a handy description of the Ray of Creation the following 3:43 YouTube gives.

My Death Wish I would like to cultivate the state of mind where I eagerly await death. To do it sincerely and not be doing it to just be putting on a show. That would be a real accomplishment. To look forward with curiosity instead of dread or macabre false bravado. Physical death of the body is pretty inevitable so why not? I’ve already decided in the past it would a good thing to not have any money left in the bank. I’ve always paid my bills and stayed away from debt so I wouldn’t want to owe money to anyone. My house could be either clean or dirty. It doesn’t matter. It’s a sure thing that I won’t die with good teeth. I’ve still got my hair but if I were to go bald, it doesn’t matter either. I would feel better if I had more lucid dreaming under my belt or some serious mystical experiences to inform my intuition . To absolutely not fear death and instead be looking forward with an optimistic curiosity would definitely be a good thing. My father left this Earth at 66 years old. He wore his body out and Cancer got a hold on him at 63. I’ve probably been exposed to as many carcinogens as he had been exposed to and the thought already occurred to me at the time of his death that I should not take for granted a life lived past 66 for myself. That gives me about 12-13 years left. The last 12 years has flown by so it will be here before I know it. In Gurdjieff terms. Will I have a completely formed causal body? This also brings up a notion that I heard recently expressed by Alan Watts. How can we part if we’ve never met?

Ive reached my limit for attachments to my Journal. Actually this happened a few months ago and I’ve gone in and deleted a good many of them but I’m reaching a point where I just hate to erase any more like the one above which I’ve copied and pasted from my attachments list. I could use some input from someone on my options for being able to upload new attachments. Can/should I start another journal for this purpose? If no one responds, I’ll make contact with a moderator for advice.

My I CHING reading this morning. hexagram 2- Nature line 4 forming 2nd hexagram 16- Enthusiasm Just a part of line 4-

Got this on 8 track tape when I was about 10 or 11,,, late 70’s,,, I like that above. When I was done dying. I had forgotten about it but I saved it this time.

Integration and Individuation Should and ought to are usually coming from the voice of the superego. I’m not completely done by all means but I’ve come a long way. I got the following in my email a couple of days ago. To me it looks like work on superego. That’s good,,, A liberated sexual energy is fuel for the spiritual journey. Dear spiritual voyager, What is actually happening in you when you respond to a situation with strength and confidence? What fuels that boldness? And why can you do this sometimes, yet at other times, you shrink back; from your boss or your parents, or from overwhelm at the immensity of current events like the pandemic or environmental crises? How can you be more consistently courageous and self-assured? On April 24 & 25, Diamond Approach teacher Zarina Maiwandi will host Boldness to Be, the third installment in our six-part Lightness of Being series. Zarina will guide us back to that subtle quality of being, the red latifa, that supports our natural fieriness of spirit and sense of adventure, that allows us to, as she says in this short video, “get big in the face of something big.” In Boldness to Be, we will learn that: Inquiring into where we are in this moment is the portal to reconnecting with the fiery initiating force of our natural boldness and strength The purity of our boldness and strength can help us channel our anger and aggression in healthy and effective ways in our lives This force helps us dismantle old assumptions about our bigness that come from our personal histories, our conditioning, our society, and other sources We can meet the world’s difficulties—and our own—in bold and daring ways “What if the scale and might and vibrancy that you see outside…is also possible inside you?” asks Zarina. “What would that be like?” We invite you to come find out for yourself.

Self-love or Just Plain Selfish? (part 3 of 3) by Dr. Jim Rosen ©2021 Dr. Jim Rosen Perhaps you haven't learned to balance your own needs with the needs of others. So you don't yet have true self-love. You're either too far one way or the other, and you need to learn the skills at the other end. If you've been too self-centered, you need to acquire the skills of giving before you can have self-love. You won't learn these skills by doing them occasionally. Instead, you have to make a devoted study of other people's needs, and forget about yourself for the next year or two. You need to be like Scrooge after being visited by the Spirits of Christmas. But if it's your life pattern to be the people-pleaser, then you need a long-term visit with the needs of self. For the next year or two, your task is to say "no" to other people and "yes" to yourself. Your primary questions have to be "what do I want?" and "what do I need?" You will not become a selfish person. That's just your fear. You'll actually learn to value yourself, and you'll discover that others value you too. With much practice, your new learning becomes your new habit. Now you’ve acquired the skills at both ends of the continuum. So, now you’re able to make real choices – you’re not just stuck in one place. This is where balance and true self-love come to the forefront. Sometimes you choose to take care of yourself, and sometimes you choose to take care of others.

Still a lot of projections and miss interpretations going on. IME I’ve been pretty busy lately. I’m tired and sleepy now. I’m going to try not to overanalyze if I can remember that there’s nothing wrong with having nothing to say. For now anyway. ✌️

The amount of projecting that goes on in the world is staggering. The amount of identifying that goes on in the world is staggering also. Its not sex but negative emotion that makes the World go around. People unconsciously feed on negativity. Observe the media,,, Everyone is a multiplicity but everyone thinks they are the exception.

What I was describing above is ‘inner considering’ using Fourth Way lingo. Itoklanoz awareness was the phrase used in Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson which means two centered awareness. Three centered awareness which is proper for 3 brained Beings was referred to as Fulasnitamnian awareness. To enter the Kingdom, which is at hand by the way, requires Fulasnitamnian awareness. We can’t maintain any kind of balance or “have our being” if we’re lopsided in our awareness. This morning,,, well, yesterday morning now, in my I CHING reading I got - hexagram 27 - Nourishing lines 2,3 and 6 creating a second hexagram 11- Peace I’ll share the interesting commentary from line 6 of hexagram 27-

Friends don’t let friends get stuck and stay in their head. A good friend will recognize the phenomena and say, “Hey, you’re thinking too much” or “”Hey! -friends name- do you realize you’re stuck in your head?” “You’re not going to be able to embody diddly-squat while you got that going on,,,,” A good friend will be a placeholder and their effectiveness in busting someone out of neurotic thought and thinking too much can be a measure of their skillful means. This can mean initiating conversations with friends while they’re in different states of consciousness and help to stretch their frame of reference so that later on a simple statement can be enough to help bust someone out.

Robert Thurman, Buddhist scholar and Deepak Chopra toss it back and forth. I bought this dvd off Amazon a few years ago. It’s both entertaining and educational.

Good commentary from Stan Grof, Francis Vaughn, Charles Tart, Ralph Metzner and a few others.

Stanislov Grof https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Grof https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/2131-stanislav-grof http://www.holotropic.com/ Charles Tart I recommend his book Waking Up https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Tart Charles Tart Official Home Page https://www.paradigm-sys.com/ In videos I've seen where both Grof and Tart claims to have coined the term 'Transpersonal' in relation to psychology. ?‍♂️

Projections can quietly and steadily gain momentum. To gain clarity is to become free inside of all the others in order to hear again one’s inner truth. Inner truth connects all the way back to beginners mind. Cleaning one’s atmosphere is paradoxical in that becoming free of everyone, unity is attained with all others. Clearing the luminous egg and then metaphorically making it hermetically sealed is an act of Will and Love. The luminous egg needs to be clean while the assemblage moves or slightly shifts to keep one’s awareness free from liens and mortgages. Don’t put a property tax on a burned out village. Let go and become free once again in unity and inner quiet. In times past that seemed extraordinary, I found it necessary and worthwhile to build an adjoining pen to my luminous egg in order to let the ego run wild. The pen encircled the luminous egg making it seem larger than it actually was. Having attained inner quiet in a particular way, there is an obscure bylaw which allows one to make up rules within certain parameters. It was an unexpected discovery. Being free from negativity and violence bestows on one a curious power. If you expectantly look for it though, it will not appear.

Two more depressing songs from the Eagles. I sang this song above before a huge audience in one of the few lucid dreams I ever had. TMI,,,