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Feb. 22., 2011 | 04:07 pm
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From June beginnings, '10
Jan. 28., 2011 | 12:47 pm
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(kein Betreff)
Jan. 5., 2011 | 01:01 pm
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(kein Betreff)
Okt. 10., 2010 | 06:59 pm
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(kein Betreff)
Aug. 24., 2010 | 12:08 pm
Explain your reasons for applying to serve in Minnesota Reading Corps. Why do you want to commit the next year of your life to this program?
I have known for most of my teenage and adult years that lending a helping hand is the sort of characteristic I want to mold my life around. I feel that my small experiences here and there have cultivated a personal sense of confidence and virtue. It feels tremendous to connect with people on such a compassionate level, especially with regards to children. Kids give amazing feedback. I know that I would like to focus on a career that involves mentoring children in some way. I think the Reading Corps can be a great opportunity to grow in such capacities as mentorship.
Describe your experience working with children, particularly any experience you have that is related to literacy?
In the past I worked for Community Education, coaching soccer for elementary children and teaching video production to middle school students. Through my own experiences in teaching kids, I have felt myself grow and learn right along with them, although not necessarily in the same way. They may be learning pieces of knowledge that I am sharing, while I, on the other hand, am participating in a seemingly larger mode of schooling internally. The act of giving can transform one, and I feel like I can personally vouch for that.
Describe how you have reached out to help others and/or how you have been involved in your community. What motivated you to become involved in your community?
This year I took a class through a community organization called EXCO, the Experimental College of the Twin Cities, learning self-awareness & meditation techniques. It was a very small class, and I thoroughly enjoyed the people with whom I was exploring. I also participated in a drawing class through the same cooperative, in which I discovered how to push my artistic boundaries. Last summer I volunteered at the student gardens on the St. Paul U of M campus. It felt remarkable to give my time to both the students and the plants. I personally love the idea of communing with neighbors, and the best way to experience that is simply to get yourself involved.
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Apr. 27., 2010 | 10:05 pm
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(kein Betreff)
Apr. 14., 2010 | 11:14 am
10:33amKathleen
any lucidity on your end?
10:34amAlbeba
no
it's weird to compare my first lucid dream to subsequent dreams i've been having.
why do i not realize the craziness and weirdness that is ensuing in the dreams?
i just seem to go along with it.
10:34amKathleen
haha
10:35amAlbeba
is that telling of my waking life? that i'm not taking "control" with my full potential?
10:35amKathleen
:)
clearly
10:37amAlbeba
hum.
10:38amAlbeba
but what's wrong with just going with it? submitting to the tao and whatnot?
10:39amKathleen
because it's a balance. especially when most of the world pushes the will of the tao away and we have to live in that energy.
you need a healthy combination of empowerment and submission.
10:40amAlbeba
how does one discern?
where to place empowerment, where to place submission?
10:41amKathleen
work on the root chakra, study Malkuth.
that has helped me enormously.
with discernment and discrimination.
10:42amAlbeba
what mean you discriminate?
10:43amKathleen
being able to tell what is vital to you and what your mind is tricking you into thinking is vital.
knowing where to embrace and where to step away.
10:44amAlbeba
what is doing the discriminating?
if not your mind? (since the mind is tricking)
10:45amKathleen
your higher self.
and the tao. and mother gaia.
10:46amAlbeba
so, you're not actually doing the discriminating, empowering, and submitting at all? you're just listening to your higher self, yes?
10:46amKathleen
how are you not your higher self?
10:47amAlbeba
i don't understand the question.
do you use your higher self?
10:47amKathleen
i dont understand the question haha
10:48amAlbeba
discrimination.
to me, it is a label, a thought, produced in the mind.
10:49amKathleen
discrimination is?
10:49amAlbeba
si.
10:49amKathleen
that's because you won't stray from your strict associations with words.
10:49amAlbeba
?
10:50amKathleen
what about discernment?
10:50amAlbeba
define discernment.
10:51amKathleen
"the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding. "
10:51amAlbeba
judgment and understanding. logical thinking. mind production.
10:52amKathleen
you cant understand on a level different from your mind?
also, you cant take these words at face value when dealing with this. words are limited in meaning.
10:53amAlbeba
of course not! that's the purpose of hermes (rationality; mind). he's the translator, the integrator. the mind connects the conscious to the subconscious.
10:53amKathleen
i dont believe that.
10:53amAlbeba
that's all we have to work with at this moment is words. that's a poor excuse. :P
10:53amKathleen
you just take them so seriously.
its about the energy.
not the semantics.
10:54amAlbeba
semantics are important! they're not the live all breathe all, but they are vital for communication to be able to thrive.
10:54amKathleen
i feel like i couldnt even get my point across because you distracted me with semantics.
:P
i'm not gonna lie, it's a liiiiittle frustrating.
10:55amAlbeba
i agree. and i'm sorry if i seem hard on you or seem frustrating to you, but i do think semantics are important to acknowledge.
what can i say, i'm an earth sign :P
10:56amKathleen
i understand that. but you could try to reach out your perspective for awhile before arguing
10:56amAlbeba
it's not an argument. :) it's a discussion.
10:56amKathleen
that's my dad's favorite phrase haha
i have to go anyways
10:57amAlbeba
srsly?
we were getting somewhere, i thought
10:57amKathleen
i dont think i'll ever make it back to my original point which was the important part
10:57amAlbeba
k
seeee ya later
10:58amKathleen
here, i'm going to type something but dont distract me.
11:00amKathleen
malkuth is kingdom; it is everything that is physical in the world, it is our connection with our body and our surroundings. when we discern, we are connecting to our physicality and choosing what is right for our physical world. when you are connected energetically with malkuth, you can pick out the necessary vibrations much easier.
if you get caught in what you THINK is rational mind and what you THINK is not, you are still THINKING. and still trapped. this is about feeling. and knowing.
okay.
im done.
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(kein Betreff)
Feb. 22., 2010 | 02:20 am
The patent truth is that nobody, regardless of race, religion, or personal enlightenment, nobody knows whether or not there is an afterlife. Only the dead can say for sure, and they aren't talking. Energy never perishes, so the concept of reincarnation makes a certain amount of sense, but there's absolutely no proof, "memories" of "past lives" notwithstanding. Despite all absence of evidence, however, there thrives a popular and stern faith in the end of time; and that faith, that wishful - or fearful - thinking, constitutes a veil so thick, so sturdy that it's a wonder we can see to get out of bed in the morning. If nothing else, the sixth veil is an effective sun block.
As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes.
To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
Meanwhile, the thermodynamic and cosmological forces that form the basis for "time" spiral merrily along without going anywhere very much. Just around. And around again. Order expanding into disorder contracting into order at a rate so incredibly slow that it bores and bewilders us to the extent that we have to invent psychological endings for it. What the sixth veil conceals is not a blank clock but a relieved expression, the expression on our own faces as we meet ourselves coming from the opposite direction, free to enjoy the present at last because we are no longer fettered by the future that is history.
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(kein Betreff)
Feb. 6., 2010 | 01:00 am
Of course, religion's omnipresent defenders are swift to point out the comfort it provides for the sick, the weary, and the disappointed. Yes, true enough. But the Deity does not dawdle in the comfort zone! If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up wild cataracts, dive in deep fjords. One must explore the labyrinth of the reef, the shadows of lily pads. How limiting, how insulting to think of God as a benevolent warden, an absentee hatchery manager who imprisons us in the "comfort" of artificial pools, where intermediaries sprinkle our restrictive waters with sanitized flakes of processed nutriment.
Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.
Those who witness the dropping of the fourth veil might see clearly, that not only is religion divisive and oppressive, it is also a denial of all that is divine in people; it is a suffocation of the soul.
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(kein Betreff)
Jan. 29., 2010 | 04:06 pm
Inanimate objects, destined to spend their existence in outwardly passive and obedient behavior, understood perhaps more sharply than humans that true freedom was an internal condition not subject to the vagaries of POLITICS. Freedom could not be owned. Therefore, it could not be appropriated. Or controlled... In the not too distant future, in some abrupt movement of the dance, the third veil, the veil that permitted political expediencies (usually transitory, often stupid, regularly corrupt) to masquerade as timeless universal expressions of freedom, virtue, and good sense, could conceivably fall away.
