The New York Times reported today that Luciano Pavarotti had died of cancer and age 71. He was two years younger about than I am at age 73.His voice was extraordinary as a soul-filled volume of human and transcendent emotions singing the great tenor arias.What we can most recognize Pavarotti for was that he sang to uplift the human soul of humanity. He knew he had this effect on people and so he devoted his life to singing.Still giving concerts in his sixties he was criticized for scheduling concerts and then canceling out of them if he did not feel he could sing well that night. A New York newspaper titled the event once as Fat Man Cancels Concert.Some people expected that Pavarotti always be at his best for singing. However, aria singing at your best is like a physical sport. How many great atheletes compete whether injured or sick or not?Pavarotti was right to cancel concerts because he extended his career into his sixties to inspire large audiences, yet he was fully human.Even his overweight had its purpose certainly of grounding that enormous voice and transcendent inspiration Pararotti gave out to millions.For it must be said that by inspiring others we inspire ourselves, but also that in inspiring others as well as ourselves we then have the opportunity to live richer lives of feeling and emotion and to tie into the great moments of our time and our personal lives.Will our own love a suffering not be enhanced in life because Pavarotti sings?What I have added here in this vodcast is some of my own singing improvisation to Bobby McFerrin singing Bach so that I can express my own deep feelings in the music of my voice and ears.I have inspired many in my workshops to risk expressing themselves in many ways over the years. I cannot do less than do the same.Thank you Luciano Pavarotti for being an inspiritation, making my life the richer also.

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NEW SERIES ON STREPHON SAYSBeginning now in August, 2007 Strephon will again vodcast his talks in his special style that he feels good about, being just who he is at this age in his life.Strephon has taught many adults at universities and in his own trainings in over twelve countries now. But at his present age of 73 he writes his books and gives his talks, like here. Occasionally he may be available to special groups or individual students for three-day intensives. Strephon sees his Strephon Says talks as natural, as natural as natural foods! This means to him that he feels directly in communication with anyone who finds personality and practical wisdom in what he himself relates to in life.With the wide array of information and contacts open to anyone through the Internet you can see if Strephon's personal and sometimes whimsical sharing is something you can feel warm and inspired about.We all need personal contact with certain others who are like as and so mirror life back to us as we live it ourselves.Try us out at strephonsays.com

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Strephon Says and Acts: Break normal connections to create humor, increase creativity and to increase your energy in living life.

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Strephon Says and Acts: Break normal connections to create humor, increase creativity and to increase your energy in living life.

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See this video on MySpaceStrephon composed this poem-prayer about the imperfections of life, the struggle to take personal responsibility for our lives and create conscious meaning from them.

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Strephon composed this poem-prayer about the imperfections of life, the struggle to take personal responsibility for our lives and create conscious meaning from them.

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See this video on MySpaceStrephon reads the creation poetry of Gerand Manley Hopkins and gives commentary on how we live God's creation as our own recreation in the alive moments of existence.

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Strephon reads the creation poetry of Gerand Manley Hopkins and gives commentary on how we live God's creation as our own recreation in the alive moments of existence.

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Strephon Kaplan-Williams talks about using the Masculine Archetype in life for decisive action and focus, and about a ritual for men at a marriage done in Norway.

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See this video on MySpaceStrephon Kaplan-Williams talks about using the Masculine Archetype in life for decisive action and focus, and about a ritual for men at a marriage done in Norway.

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Strephon suggests that the best reason to practice honesty is to come into reality and live your life as it is, and not as you would pretend it to be. Only this way are you effective.

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See this video on MySpaceStrephon suggests that the best reason to practice honesty is to come into reality and live your life as it is, and not as you would pretend it to be. Only this way are you effective.

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One excellent practice that enhances your life is as you wake in the morning to give a focus to your day. Strephon tells how he does this.

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See this video on MySpaceOne excellent practice that enhances your life is as you wake in the morning to give a focus to your day. Strephon tells how he does this.

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Making  a million dollars, Strephon suggests, is deceptive. Much better is to limit spending to basic, healthy living. Then invest your surplus into effectiveness values.

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See this video on MySpaceMaking  a million dollars, Strephon suggests, is deceptive. Much better is to limit spending to basic, healthy living. Then invest your surplus into effectiveness values.

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Strephon elaborates on perspectives raised by his listeners about the issues and thought that Eckhart Tolle talks and writes about. Renew your perspective on life.

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See this video on MySpaceStrephon talks about the contrast with Consciousness Thinking and "Eckhart Tolle Thinking." Why?So we are not seduced into unconsciousness by Tolle's kind of passive, guru thinking. Why?So that we can affirm the value of thinking for ourselves and not giving over our consciousness awareness to any guru type, no matter how brilliant in their thinking they seem.Read more...

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Strephon contrasts unconscious ego identity with creative ego function. Good for focus and discussion with friends during your day. Give examples from yourself.

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See this video on MySpaceStrephon does a podcast and vodcast on the nature of the ego. This can be important since what Strephon emphasizes is that everyone has an ego that can get in the way or developed in the right way, make one effective and fulfilled.The choice is up to you!Concepts covered: ego, ego identity, ego functions, ego choice-making, choice-making, awareness, consciousness, projecting, creative, right practice.Suggestion: practice these concepts by making a list of choices at the end of your day, by discussing with a friend, giving personal examples, and by writing in your journal to the following:-What does your ego identity consist of, such as images, expectations, family affiliations, attitudes, memories of who you were, whether you are that way today or not.-Associate your ego self-identity to the strong choices you have made in your life so far. How have they defined you?-Disidentify from these ego identities by knowing them but realizing you don't have to live them in today's terms just because they were you in the past.-Soon after you arise from bed list the choices you are going to make today.-At the end of your day before bed, list the choices you have made today.-Keep a Choice-making Journal in which you do identity exercises, such as putting things in there about yourself and your choices at least once a week.

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Strephon has been working for years now on his 100,000 word Jesus Novel. He has one more major revision to bring it to completion.Here is the text he reads on the vodcast. Can you see the humor in it as Strephon makes his Jesus as human as the rest of us, yet already empowered by mission?No publisher or agent yet. This is the big one intended to last centuries. Who knows? Who cares? What happens happens only now, says Strephon.

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Strephon talks about focusing your life on taking responsibility for things your your life with new commitment to positive values personally and in work life. Responding with one's whole being.A seven-minute podcast on taking new responsibility in your life for the new year.Responsibility is responding to life appropriately. Instead of withdrawing or simply reacting, going hysterical, resistive and negative, open yourself, Strephon says, to what is happening and deal with it.Solve the problem. Develop the new potential.First, do the New Yearâs Death-Rebirth sacrifice. Review last year and acknowledge what didnât work, where you failed and lost out. Also list what you did accomplish of value.Then in transiting into the new year, sacrifice what no longer serves the value in the new year and new life you are living. This includes friends as well as habits and hobbies.Then take on new values and projects you want to take on and accomplish. Take responsibility. Respond.Also, do not neglect wholeness values. Look at each of the areas of your life and focus your energy in a responsible way. What new thing can you bring to Personal Relating, to Work Projects and Relationships, to Personal Growth?This is being responsible to the new life emerging before each one of us.

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The Benedictus is a dream chant with Strephon's own sound of the chant coming from inner, and of course connected to tradition but also improvise to go with inner spirit.

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See this video on MySpaceThe Benedictus is a dream chant with Strephon's own sound of the chant coming from inner, and of course connected to tradition but also improvise to go with inner spirit.

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Strephon talks about choosing and having purpose in the New Year. We are nothing but a flash of existence, like a firework exploding unless we use a greater value to live by.

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See this on MySpaceWhat indeed characterizes the new year? As is traditional I greeted fellow tennis players I knew when we met after January 1 with a traditional Happy New Year and a shake. But what more is there?What then is New Years that we celebrate it unconsciously?Read more...

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New Years Dream, January 1, 2007 of Strephon's. It points out two fundamentals: humanitas, the connection to humanity's consciousness, caritas, Greater Presence.

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See this video on MySpaceNew Years Dream, January 1, 2007 of Strephon's. It points out two fundamentals: humanitas, the connection to humanity's consciousness, caritas, Greater Presence.Strephon had an amazing New Years Dream that came spontaneously in the night of December 31 - Jan 1, 2007.In working with your own New Years Dream see if you are in positive, creative energy. This indicates potential for the coming year. If you are in negative, draining energy, consider this reflects a key issue or problem you are working on and need to solve in the coming year.Read more...

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See this video on MySpaceYou must have courage to allow transcendence into your life.At its best the Kyria arouses in one that special feeling deep in ones breast of the Greater Transcendence of God. How can words express such a feeling? You must do it, be it, for the full experience.Even if you do not the chant out-loud in a specific place, like a church when no one else is around, you can still observe, hear and be with the Kyria Chant through inner listening and seeing.Read more...

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This functionality requires a browser that supports in-line frames. Christmas TreeStrephon talks about the real Christmas and New Years, which is inside us. He says that the greatest gift is the gift of life and existence out of love. Thus the real gift you give is love.

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See it on MySpaceHere at age 72 Strephon demonstrates Spiritual Aikido Sword.Strephon has developed Spiritual Aikido from regular Aikido. He has trained in regular dojo Aikido since he was 46. Strephon has used his Spiritual Aikido practices in his professional trainings in dreamwork psychology as a regular practice, and in his own life. He has taught Spiritual Aikido courses to adults in spiritual centers.Read more...This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License.

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See it on MySpaceIssue - Is logic fallible?-if logic is fallible then how can we prove this?-if logic is not fallible then how can we prove this?-if logic is based on the evolution of our brains as an organizing function in a body replicating the universe and its laws of integrative order creating one whole.Read more...This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License.

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See it on MySpaceAnother in the Concept Series of Daily Perspectives to enlighten and make effective your life.You can listen to these talks and achieve additional clarity in how you are living and not living your life.Consciousness is the meta level to existence. You make your choices and take action based on the core principles of existence. In this you are then grounded in what is real in life.Read more...This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License.

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See it no MySpaceCreate With ArchetypesStrephon talks about the nature of archetypes and their power over us. He shows us to bring choice to the archetypes and create with them rather than try to control them.The definition of an archetype is an inherent energy function in the universe.Read more...This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License.

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See it on MySpaceWhat's the plan?To plan is to organize ones thoughts, possibilities and resources in time towards the goal of getting something valuable into reality.One great task and secret of life is to plan all your significant events, not rigidly but towards project goals of significance. - see where the chaos is and there impose structure - see where the new potential is and their create a developmental structure. You might develop a convergent structure also. - get commitments to your plan, yourself and others involved. - a commitment is a choice to sustain certain actions in time, such as on a daily basis. - evaluate the results of your ongoing work to shift the plan to greater effectiveness as the reality of your efforts develop. - don't expect things to turn out exactly as planned. - keep planning and re-planning as the process develops. - follow guidance in planning and carrying out the plan. - your plan helps you set priorities in your work life. - count the cost in your planning and accomplishments as well. Where the results worth the effort? How can we do better as we continue forward? - planning helps one emerge out of chaos into accomplishment. - by planning and keeping to the plan, one becomes active rather than reactive in life. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License.

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See it on MySpaceWar is the deliberate destruction of human beings and their artifacts to gain dominance over a group, its lands and its culture.War depends on mobilizing the aggressive instincts of animal human being.The instinct of attack and destroy is built into human animals for a purpose. It cannot be rooted out. It needs safe cultural expression or it breaks out.Read more...This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License.Creative Commons copyright: for personal use only and not commercial use without permission. The author states that these messages are not advice but personal opinion. Experts and people often differ in their points of view. Please take responsibility for your own insights and actions. We are not responsible for what you think and do.

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See it on MySpaceStrephon talks about how dream experience sometimes clashes with our unconscious attitudes given us by society. Which do we go with? Society's attitudes or our own life principles?This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License.

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See it on MySpaceStrephon talks about his masturbation dream and its message to free oneself of society's attitudes of right and wrong.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License.

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See it on MySpaceStrephon discusses Core Thinking and the use of the principle of Consistency in life.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License.

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See it on MySpaceDaily Perspectives are short consciousness talks sent out daily by Strephon Kaplan-Williams covering various issues of life and dreams. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.

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Watch this vodcastStrephon offers a perspective on the God issue.

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See this vodcastStrephon talks about the thinking process interconnected with the principles of the Universe.

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See this vodcastSpam is not just out there! Spaming each other is something, unfortunately, we can all do, maintains Strephon, as he teaches about both defending ones space and not intruding on the space of others.

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See this vodcastSee this vodcast on GoogleVideoStrephon does wacky humor with a point. See him interact with his favorite plant of the moment, and maybe learn something about love. Maybe not!

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See this videoWatch this vodcast on GoogleVideo Strephon talks on love, not the experience of love. Love is what you do with the experience of love.

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Strephon talks on how to make choices in life, a skill we use every day but which no one has taught us about. Strephon teaches the skills of choicemaking here.

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See this vodcast - fast loadingSee this vodcast on GoogleVideoHi! This is Strephon, psychologist philosopher.It is amazing to me that perhaps the most important life skill is not taught in schools. So we teach it here. If you don't learn how to make effective choices you will always be reacting to life instead of acting in life. You are in conflict, little or big. Time to make a choice. A choice is saying Yes to one thing and No to everything that opposes it. We direct energy one way and not another. For those who like to read more, go to Bookblogs...

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Battle is one in a series called Life Vodcasts by Strephon Kaplan-Williams.This series has started today, October 4, 2006, and will last as long as it will last. See the videocast See this video on Google Read more...

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God defined realistically in terms of our now experiences. Relating to the God of Now, the Tao of Now, is conscious practice for all the moments of life, positive or negative.***Read more...

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Video: Ovidiu Brazdau See the videocast See this video on Google VideoStrephon trains his Romanian Psychology Students in Spiritual Aikido Practice and term Strephon uses for teaching Universal Energy Principles that show up in dreams and life.Read more...

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In Part II Prologue Jesus A Philosophic Novel we find the philosophers debating life principles. They are interrupted by a worker who seems smarter than they in debating why the crucified man had to die.

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ÃÂ 2006 Strephon Kaplan-Williamsauthor: The Dream Cards and Jungian-Senoi Dreamwork ManualA Reader's Copy For Feedback - September 8, 2006Strephon, the writer has incorporated elements not commonly used in today's novels, while at the same time using the conventions of both the genres: Thriller, and Literary novel.Read more...We offer this for your listening and reading pleasure. If you do read this first chapter and like it, please let us know here, even if to say only "I like it, please continue to write your novel."Yet, you might say more, from little difficulties of style to describing personally the effect of the chapter on you and a description of what you see in the Prologue.If you want to be on a Select Mailing List to get further chapters, let us know.Strephon desires your reading appreciation, criticism and support as he takes this year now to write chapter after chapter of this philosophic novel until complete and ready for publication.If you are a regular supporter, in whatever way possible, you will not be forgotten.You should be able to see already that this is not a Christian religious novel but a literary, philosophic novel that has nothing to do with modern Christianity. Strephon has ancestors and a father who was Jewish and a mother who was not. He knows Christianity through growing up in an Episcopal boarding school then going to a military school with the insistence on church every Sunday, then the last two years, the best, in a Quaker high school. Strephon has taught a number of people at collage and adult levels on the historical Jesus texts as spiritual texts, along with teachings in Hasidic stories and Zen stories.So, join us if you can. Any opinion and support is worth something to us.***Prologue - A Crucifixion

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