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Byron Katie Newsletter: June 2008 The following quote is exactly what I have been going on about, the need to have an objective observer, one who pushes the ego out of the way and takes a good long look at who we are. The first step to healing is to know what has to be healed. Byron Katie’s “The Work” is an interesting tool for examining how much misery we cause ourselves by forgetting that what is, is. Stop by The Work web page to read and listen to the freebies. I want to go to one of the 5-day events. “To question that things might not be as they seem can shake the very foundation of habitual clinging. This questioning spirit is the starting point for self-reflection. Could it be that this tightly-knit sense of self is not what it seems? Do we really need to hold everything together, and can we? Is there life beyond self-importance? These kinds of questions open the door to investigating the cause of our suffering. “The actual practice of self-reflecti...

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FTC Consumer Information – Your Rights: Credit Reporting It’s a good idea to check your credit report every year. Please ignore TV commercials telling you about free credit reporting sites. Go to the Federal Trade Commission site and use only the web pages they recommend.

I feel very threatened when I hear someone touting the virtues of a religion that espouses death to non-believers. Further, it is predatory to try to suck in vulnerable people by pretending the the Bible is all sweetness and light. I read the bible a couple of times, too. I know what it says. It SAYS that the way to enlightment is blocked by your prophet. In fact, the way has been blocked since the angel with the flaming sword denied us the fruit from the Tree of Everlasting Life. Other traditions consider the snake to be a symbol for wisdom, the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. So again, enlightenment – having your own epiphanies instead of accepting dogmatic interpretations is forbidden. So sad that they block the way by diverting your soul to a sort of holding tank. The road to enlightenment, the cycle of birth and rebirth ends for you at that point. Game Over. Mostly it’s the prophets’ words pulled together as a checklist to follow in ord...

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In order to recognize our self-image, we can no longer identify with it. In other words, we have to learn how to objectify our own mental processes. -Matthew Flickstein, Journey to the Center Reprinted in Daily Wisdom: 365 Buddhist Inspirations , edited by Josh Bartok. www.wisdompubs.org Photo Source – Flickr Author *Gabisa Motonia

Found this in my error log. Apparently somebody drops nasties in people’s image directories and induce other folks to access the nasty. Fortunately the file doesn’t exist in my image directory. I can’t guess whether it was ever there, or whether the tech guys at the host removed it for me. I see from looking online that if it were there, it would download a Bagel variant. [Mon Jun 09 08:55:14 2008] [error] [client 63.123.82.75] script '/var/www/vhosts/ .com/httpdocs/index.php' not found or unable to stat, referer: http:/ .com/images/blst.php

On the way over to Whole Foods today I saw an odd vehicle, a white Cadillac hearse. I said, “What the f**k kind of hearse is white?” My husband’s answer: “A bridal hearse?” Dark, really dark.

ABC News: McCain’s Ambien Use: a Security Threat? So much for that 3AM phone call. With his sleeping pills John McCain won’t even hear the phone ring. A worse scenario, however, is that he gets up and starts World War IV while in a drug-induced fugue state. “The key is to use Ambien-like sleeping medications in moderation and don’t mix them with other sedative drugs or alcohol. Most importantly, avoid use in the event you have to consider escalation from Defcon 4 to Defcon 3.” — Dr. Peter A. Fotinakes, medical director of the St. Joseph Sleep Disorders Center in Orange, Calif.

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Genius May Be an Abnormality : Educating Students with Asperger’s Syndrome, or High Functioning Autism Center for the Study of Autism – Temple Grandin neurodiversity.com – Temple Grandin’s Hug Machine THINKING IN PICTURES Geek Syndrome