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A Document on Values
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(1972) What we lose matters.
We even may have well established values for what we lose
which makes it possible to clearly document the value of the loss.
What we fail to gain matters.
It has the possibility, even the probability
of being worth more than what we may lose.
If the performance, the effectiveness of a person's effort
has strongly signified the likely value of future efforts,
it is to be expected that future performance
will not be immensely different.
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Abandoning the Game Yet Keeping in Play
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(1988) "A human being is part of the whole (called by us) 'universe',
a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated
from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task (should we choose to accept it) must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty."
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Arrogance and Humility
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(1987)
This is an exploration of a special definition or metaphorical sense
of the words "arrogance" and "humility".
There has always been a sense of adamant, even refractory holding of a view,
a belief, an opinion or judgement, in the word "arrogant".
When one is "arrogant", one is unyielding.
But there is another element in the meaning: it is the element of claim.
The claim has a sense of attachment and a posture of defence.
The attachment is personal.
The defence is both of the claim and the self which is personally attached.
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Aspects of Personality, Life and The Second (2nd) Law of Thermodynamics
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(1993) The consideration of personality relates to the nature of persons.
Personhood relates to the uniqueness of being of an individual.
Notice the word "unique". Notice the prefix "uni". That prefix means only one.
There are some characteristics common to all,
or common to many persons or beings.
There are some attributes or characteristics common to few, and some unique.
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At the Frontiers of Creation
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(1993) The East Indian Vedas, the oldest scriptures we know about, describe creation. They report that God, in a great fervour, abstained from part of himself,
in the act of creation.
They describe an expression of God as a creator,
another expression of God, as a preserver,
and another expression of God, as a destroyer.
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Bankrupt Destiny
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Bankrupt Destiny
(1990) When one gets or takes as much as they can, as often as they can,
as long as they can, and contributes or gives as little as they can
as rarely as they can, the justice of the greater scheme leaves that one depleted.
It is a feedback consequence.
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Be Not Unequally Yoked
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Be not unequally yoked
with unbelievers
(1991) In order to understand this teaching of Jesus, it is necessary
to consider what yoking means and what an unbeliever is.
A yoke couples two animals together that must pull the load
to which they are yoked with equal or near equal ability, in the same direction,
and with the same or nearly the same height.
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Be Uniquely Perfect
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Be Uniquely Perfect
(1987) To live is to exchange energy and pattern abundantly.
To live is to admit flow, to move and to be moved.
To live is to take apart and to combine, to seek, out of a sense of disbalance
or discontinuity, to find and resolve or complete.
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Because Attention Is Developed Awareness
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Because Attention Is Developed Awareness
(1980) Because attention is developed awareness, attention involves an exchange
of energy and pattern with whatever constitutes the target of attention.
The field awareness is a dim zone of minimum exchange.
We both navigate and propel our thoughts, our minds, our very nature,
by means of that to which we give our attention.
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Beeing - A Commencing Script
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Beeing
A Commencing Script for the DOMAIN Media
(1984) Using the new transcinematic photography and projection system,
the participant enters an individual chamber
and is seated upon a Straddle Hydra-Chair (SHC).
The Straddle Hydra-Chair (SHC) is arranged with a vertical support
pitched forward and inclined.
The arms are supported in a semi-hugging posture.
The chair is cushioned, allowing the head to pitch forward (inclined downward),
without obstructing the line of vision.
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Behaviour Spectrum
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The Behaviour Spectrum
Being and Doing
The Moral and Amoral
(1988) In recent weeks, Kiyo and I have been having discussions
of an alloy diagram he has presented.
On the left of the alloy diagram is behaviour which a person does
in his own behalf and which cannot be performed by another person.
Following that category of behaviour is behaviour which a person does
in his own behalf, but which can be done in behalf of another.
This progresses to behaviour which can not be performed in behalf of self,
but only performed in behalf of others.
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Betrayal Of Trust
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Betrayal of Trust
(1987) This subject was nominated by Kiyo Izumi on Wednesday, July 8th, 1987,
in the presence of Robert Graetz, André Asselin and Zee Charnoe.
Kiyo suggested the use of capital punishment for Betrayal of Trust.
André queried whether betrayal of trust was possible.
Here, now, I question, what is the nature of the trust?
Is it trust in another's intent, their ability or performance,
or perhaps their representation.
I commented at the time the subject was nominated,
Trust is not offered in response to trustworthiness,
but because trust works .
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Blindness, Goals, Goal Seeking
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Blindness,
Goals, Goal Seeking and Coevolution
(1988) Sometimes we have a blind enchantment
with the kind of material well-being
we have enjoyed in recent decades.
During this era of expanding productivity and increasing technology
we have neglected many essentials of life.
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Borders Of The World
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Borders Of The World
(1978) It is a strategic subject.
Each border defines the limits of a system
of law, a government, a culture and often a language.
The system of law, the government, the culture and language
often gives rise to a genetic strain or variety, even a race.
The population within any given set of borders
are a distinct and unique society which interacts
in greater and lesser degrees with other societies.
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Buddhist Yoga Jesus Taught
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(1996) Even studying a harmony of the four gospels found in the New Testament,
the report of who Jesus was, what he taught and what he did, seems patchy.
His birth is elaborately described.
His travel from Israel to Egypt as an infant is reported.
Issues like: Did he learn anything from his surroundings in Egypt
during his early childhood?
Why Egypt? What part of Egypt?;
these and many other questions were untreated.
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Cascades, Triggers
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Cascades,
Triggers,
Pilots and Controls
Growth and Development
(1987) We hear a sound. It provokes a thought.
We turn to investigate further.
We see the direction from which the sound came.
We walk towards it, to try to identify the source of the sound.
We would be helped if the sound occurred again.
We would be helped if the sound were continuous.
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Celebration And Duty
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Celebration And Duty
(1993) Both celebration and duty are mechanisms,
which diminish or eliminate responsibility.
The way in which this is true, is that annual dates
become the focus of a kind of certification.
Marriage is not so much a matter of intent and commitment,
as it is a matter of certification of achievement
of a kind and a degree of relationship.
Anniversaries become celebrations of this certification of relationship.
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Changing The Ending of Factual Account
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Changing the Ending
of the Factual Account
(1988) Friday evening we saw the video Mosquito Coast.
On the one hand we saw the defeat of the principal character.
We saw deficiencies in his ideals.
The issue is still with us:
Is man the means of completing or advancing the creation?
Is technology man's effort to advance creation?
Should man have the powers he has presumed,
but only when he plans and designs with comprehensive elegance?
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Changing The Past
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Changing The Past
(1987) (It was) the day after our trip to Sir Sandford Fleming.
In the car as we were driving yesterday to Lindsay, we stopped for breakfast
early in the morning and I think something just naturally came to the surface.
What occurred is that there was a case history
where this psychiatrist named Milton Erikson, was such a capable therapist,
had had a woman come to him and as she described her problem,
her image of her problem was that she had lacked having a friend in her childhood
and Erickson had a very direct approach to almost everything.
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Children, Education & Parent Participation
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Children,
Education
and Parent Participation
(1987) To: Everyone it may concern
All over Canada and the United States, thousands of parents
are teaching their children at home.
These thousands of parents are teaching their children at home legally,
under the law as it stands now!
They are teaching their children at home out of personal preference.
They are teaching their children at home at their own expense
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