#93: Spiritual Springtime -- Awakening Wise Seeds Within and a Blunt Look at Anger
ONE: (2:25) The real meaning of the Bible's "new birth." TWO: (4:22) Historical changes and adaption in the Great Work. THREE: (7:38) How proof of growth is the recognition of a new absence. FOUR: (10:16) A deep look at Christ's words, "Of myself I can do nothing . . . " FIVE: (12:29) A blunt and healing look at anger. SIX: (15:29) The higher meaning of the Bible's word fasting. SEVEN: (17:43) How anger is a protective mechanism for the false self. EIGHT: (18:28) The novel "The Secret Garden." NINE: (19:00) Symbolism and ceremony in the Eastern Orthodox Church. TEN: (21:13) The "hive mind" and real prayer.
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Hi Tom & Fred
At the end of the latest podcast you dared us to take a risk and ask you a question. My burning one is similar to what St Paul was talking about in Romans 7:18-24, when he describes a split in him, with his will or mind wanting to do one thing (the "good") and his body making him do the opposite (the "bad".) Now, mine's not so much a mind-body split so much as a mind-mind split. You know the old thing where you are so committed to the true way, so desirous of staying on it and doing everything you can to further your progress, but even so all the time you're shooting yourself in the foot and arguing against yourself as though you were the very devil himself. What can I do to heal this split? What can I do to make me actually walk the walk instead of just talking the talk - for so much of the time that's the sum total of all that I do:talk the talk to myself and con myself into believing that I'm really getting somewhere? It's fear of the unknown the stops me taking even a first step, I know. And I don't want it to get so that in the end only some awful shock will be enough to jolt me out of my sleepwalking complacency.
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I CAME ACROSS SOMETHING IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL COMMENTARIES, YESTERDAY, WHEREIN DR. NICOLL TALKS ABOUT 'A CRYSTALLIZATION INTO TWO' THAT CAN HAPPEN TO PEOPLE WHO DO NOT DEVELOP WILL. HE MUST BE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO SEEM TO UNDERSTAND WORK IDEAS IN THEORY,BUT WHO MAKE NO EFFORT TO PUT THE IDEAS TO PRACTICAL USE IN THEIR LIVES.
THE WORK IDEAS ARE BEAUTIFUL AND IT IS TEMPTING ,FOR ME ANYWAY,TO SHUT MYSELF UP IN A ROOM WITH MANY VOLUMES OF WORK RELATED BOOKS, AND WORSE, TO CONFUSE WHAT I'M READING WITH WHAT I AM.
FORTUNATELY, MY FAMILY AND MY JOB MAKE DOING THOSE TWO THINGS DIFFICULT.
I HAVE ABUNDANT OPPORTUNITY,AND NEED, TO PUT WORK TEACHING TO PRACTICAL USE.
AT THE MOMENT, I'M ALSO READING TOM RUSSELL'S BOOK SuperWisdom, WHICH SEEMS TO BE A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WILLING AND LIVING WORK IDEAS.
Still,I too,am often horrified, at things I see in myself. I've thought alot about it. I'm starting to understand that the parts of my Personality that I don't approve of cann't be changed. Personality, and all it's many 'i's',is programmed into us by accident and circumstance.
I've been trying to understand the idea of Second Body. Through willing [we will what we love?] and living Work teachings, we develope this thing called Second Body which can control personality. I've read that Second Body can transcend time and survive death.
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Jan, Yes, Fred and I will address this fascinating question very soon.
Tom
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What about trying to live without buffer for ten minutes-to one hour at a time. Learned from Mr. Howard. I am interested to hear what Tom and Fred have to say about healing this split if it exists also. Because I don't know about what happens further on after the process of applying the exercises. Maybe nothing for a long time. You do not have to post this comment. Thankyou Tom.
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