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Strephon Says Episodes - | Luciano Pavarotti Dead | Play in Popup. | 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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| Strephon Says Identity 1 | Play in Popup. | 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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| Perspective 13 The Ego Chooses | Play in Popup. | 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 Talks Jesus Novel | Play in Popup. | 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 Says 43 Taking Responsability | 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 Yearās Death-Rebirth sacrifice. Review last year and acknowledge what didnāt 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. | Get at Short URL | Download - Strephon Says 43 Taking Responsability | Play in Popup.
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| Strephon-Kyria Church Chant | Play in Popup. | 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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| Perspective 10 Spiritual Aikido Sword-part1 | Play in Popup. | 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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| Perspective 9 Logic Fallible? | Play in Popup. | 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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| Perspective 8 Consciousness Commitment | Play in Popup. | 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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| Perspective 7 Archetypes | Play in Popup. | 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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| Perspective 6 Planning | Play in Popup. | 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.
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| Perspective 5 Aggression | Play in Popup. | 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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| Vodcast 2 Choicemaking | Play in Popup. | 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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| Part 1 Prologue Jesus Novel | ĆĀ 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 | Get at Short URL | Download Part 1 Prologue Jesus Novel | Play in Popup.
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| - Strephon Says 26 Alleluya 5 voice healing chant | This five-part chant is for healing. It brings disharmony into harmony. Listen over and over and it will reblend your chaotic emotions into creative harmony, restructure chaos into transcendence and grounding.This Alleluya is a form of Dream Chant discoverd by Strephon Kaplan-Williams from his work with the harmonium of India. Just like in dreaming you allow yourself to go into a gentle trance state in which you tune into a transcendent place within yourself, the Source, wherein a healing and universal harmony exists if you can let go enough to let it come through and sound it.Read more... | Get at Short URL | Download - Strephon Says 26 Alleluya 5 voice healing chant | Play in Popup.
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| - Strephon Says 14 The Da Vinci Code Truths | Last Supper by Leonardo Da VinciDan Brown's Da Vinci Code is as true and as fictional as the Christianity's New Testament, points out Strephon in this talk about the value of truth in life. Strephon confronts the Church with its hiding the earliest Christian Documents in its Secret Archives. He praises Dan Brown for his courage to dramatize the Church's hiding the truth of who Jesus was. Strephon goes on to assert the value for each of us living from truth in our own lives. (22 minutes)Read more... | Get at Short URL | Download - Strephon Says 14 The Da Vinci Code Truths | Play in Popup.
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| - Strephon Says 12 Understanding the Holocaust | We need to face Evil in life so that we may the better deal with it. Experiencing with understanding aspects of the Holocaust, the killing of the Jews, helps us live life in real terms, says Strephon. (21 minutes)This picture is of Jewish women stripped just before they are to be killed in the holocaust during the Second World War. Imagine the power these standing men feel, ordered, or volunteering to guard these women who are no physical threat to them. How can anyone be so evil? How they must have destroyed their own ability to love in life. For the women, they have lost life because there is no one to protect them from such evil, and they cannot protect themselves. We note especially the young woman with the long pigtails. Imagine that it is just that morning that she or her mother, or a friend, has made those pigtails for her as a sign of warmth, affection and love - love of life and beauty as well. They made her strip but she has kept her pigtails, signifying the wonder and beauty of life that is her right but is now being taken away from her. In our hearts we are very, very sad for her and her situation. We also cry out in frustration and rage that we could not have been there to have decimated these killers of the best that is life. In the end we simply pray that we ourselves respect and love more than we hurt and destroy with our own beliefs and actions. We pray that we are doing our part in life to stop evil whenever we can. | Get at Short URL | Download - Strephon Says 12 Understanding the Holocaust | Play in Popup.
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| - Strephon Says 5 Childhood-Adult Dreams | We take an adult dream about childhood dynamics and point out how the dream shows the dreamer's struggle to become fully herself by seeing her parents now in their true reality, including their dark sides that she must watch out for. (17 minutes)Principles to live by:-Separate out from parents to be your own person.-Make conscious your childhood identity created by your biological parents so that you can free yourself from this childhood identity and become truly adult in an adult world.-Use your dreams and dreamwork to separate out from inner images and attitudes of childhood attached to images of parents and you as a child.-The work of becoming adult means freeing yourself of childhood images, expectations, defense systems, attitudes and values.-Become your own person. Choose to be your own self in your adult life.The inner key to adult life is to remove from your inner self the parental influences of childhood that keep you dependent inside to the images and attitudes put on you in childhood.Thus, even if you are not seeing your parents, or living with them, you can still be controlled by the image of yourself that you had to identify with, even as you rebelled, so as to get along with your parents who dominated you in childhood. | Get at Short URL | Download - Strephon Says 5 Childhood-Adult Dreams | Play in Popup.
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| - Strephon Says 2 Dream Casket | Dying or coming back to life in dreams and life, as indicated by a dream. Strephon shows what to do about such a situation in the dream and in your life. Does the dream man come to life again or not? Should he be let go to die? (17 minutes)Dream shared at Consciousness Forum, dreamwork2000.comFriday, April 14, 2006 DreamI dreamed a man was in a casket...had been embalmed...I walked by and saw his body was lightly covered with fine , greyish ( like what looks like mice have been shredding). Apparently he had been in the casket a while... the shocker was this..as I was looking at the body he started opening his eyes...and they had the slimy stuff like fish's eyes... I was terrified but I still made a tremendous effort to get other's attention to say he must not be buried ...he's coming back!!! Then a white coated dr. scientist "type" woman came to me and said....No way ,,,we have never seen this actually happen and it's too late.... I gathered my friends and we hurried and pushed the casket thru an old maze like barn area where horses and cows were kept...we were going to hide him so they could not bury him...any comments?
See Consciousness Forum at www.dreamwork2000.com
and the works of Strephon Kaplan-Williams, famous dreamwork
psychologist and writer. Author of the best selling Dream Cards and
other books on dreamwork. | Get at Short URL | Download - Strephon Says 2 Dream Casket | Play in Popup.
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