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Forty-seven elected officials, political party leaders, and civic activists from around the world are participating in the IVLP project “The U.S. Electoral Process” to observe U.S. approaches to political campaigns and election administration. The participants from 45 countries were welcomed to the State Department by Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs Marie Royce; the Director of the Office of International Visitors Anne Grimes; and IVLP program officer Stephen Taylor. The meeting also included presentations by officials of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor:
- Christie Arendt, Global Affairs Section Head, Office of Multilateral and Global Affairs, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL/MLGA),
- Carolyn Zander, Lead Program Analyst, Rapid Response, Office of Global Programming, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL/GP)
Emulsion made from pansy petals.
The print using the pansy leaves for the emulsion didn't really work. 1 outta 2 ain't bad.
I'm naturally strawberry blonde and last July decided to go brunette and over the months continued to go darker and then added red highlights... I finally decided I'm over it (mainly for monetary and upkeep reasons because I'm not much of a high maintainence chick). I spent almost all day at the salon I used to work at while they stripped, processed, foiled and rocked out my hair. The next time it should be fully back to it's natural state :). We just had a lot of goofy fun during the whole process so I wanted to share it.
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More heavily processed pictures of Tigger. The original image was of Tigger getting my attention while standing in a warm sunbeam in the Kitchen.
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A couple I recently photographed a wedding for.
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This is a photo in two parts because I couldn't get back far enough to capture the whole thing in one shot. This is an installation for the Culture Crawl preview show. I'm trying to demonstrate the process of making an altered book.
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A T T E N T I O N:
P S Y C H O A C T I V E
_____________________________The “Vajra” Self-Rectifying Process
A word in advance: This entry contains instructions for procedures that, due to their simplicity, are “advanced” practices. Known together as, The Vacuum Cleaner for Your Mind, they require sufficient control of your attention muscle to do them. Without that adequate control, some may find that their thinking-word mind is producing too much noise, noisier, even, than The Vacuum Cleaner for Your Mind — impossible for some, for now. The key, for such ones is practice of The Gold Key Release and the Middle-Way Memory Matrix Ritual.
In this entry I present two procedures, The Ka-Bong and Flashing the Unknown Unknown, that, when combined, provide a quick, even instant way to disarm and dissolve grips seemingly held upon us by unconscious habits of self-contraction and distress, so they can be sucked out of our mind. Right then.I present them, one at a time, for practice. Once you are practiced in them, you can follow one immediately with the other. In my experience, the immediate result is the recognition and release of self-contraction patterns felt, bodily, as a postural shift and relaxation into a new postural shape, accompanied by relief from the psychological tension you are addressing, and a new sense of presence. The Rationale for The “Ka-Bong”
The Ka-Bong is a “back-door” maneuver for dissolving hidden grips that keep us in the grip of our world-mind inheritance, confused, and stuck.
Those hidden grips show up as repetitious patterns of behavior that are recognizable and characteristic of the person, that have a feel to them that is part of the person’s sense of self, and part of the person’ way of harmonizing by which others recognize them. These grips are the chronic issues and ongoing complaints of a person’s existence, as well as the virtues to which they adhere. They are the programs of a person’s life.
Once recognized (generally, something we do or experience again, and again), the experience (as remembered) can be passed through The Ka-Bong, which dissolves the “part” or aspect of that behavior pattern that we still confuse with the basic reality of life. At that moment, the field of radiant awareness that underlies all can be intuited.
The reason The Ka-Bong works is that our habitual states are always forms of definition, or limited conditioning, whereas reality is inherently formless and, contrary to everything we are taught or have heard, is unknown by us (not a form of knowledge, at all, but ineffable experience). What we know is our conditioning, which we confuse with reality, “itself” (there is no “itself”, except in a manner of speaking). When we do the release step of The Ka-Bong, though we may think we are releasing the effort to intuit, identify or “locate” reality, what we are really doing is releasing an effort that keeps us stuck in our conditioning (which, as I said, we confuse with reality). Said another way, when we release the effort to intuit reality, the force of our conditioning releases along with it,
This way of saying it is a concession to our pre-conceived notions of reality as “the real conditions of our life.”
More strictly speaking, reality is always already the case and always already our present condition, so anything we may do to intuit reality is in addition to that — and can only obscure the intuition of reality as our already-condition. The release that occurs in The Ka-Bong simply clears the way for that intuition. The way to intuit reality is to let go of it and any efforts to intuit it. Then, something entirely unexpected flashes forward. Beyond these words, nothing useful may be said.
So, try The Ka-Bong a few times in a row. Notice the result. It gets interesting.The “Ka-bong!”The “Ka-bong!” is thus:Ka-
Fully feel your experience, whatever it is, whatever you have chosen —
whether some ideal or your sense of “Here-Now”.
Notice whatever you do to locate or identify it.
Stop doing that.Bong!
Do it repeatedly, releasing whatever comes up until the true, formless-ness of your ideal
becomes intuitively obvious.
It’s a form of “drilling down” until you reach the result.Now that’s know-how!Expounding on The “Ka-Bong”
The “Ka-Bong” is the simplest, most immediate maneuver,
for the effect it produces.
It consists of two phases:"Ka-": the set-up"Bong!": the follow-through.
The set-up sets the stage —
a direction of movement
locating or identifying a subject or object
that has a certain intensity —
an ideal outcome of some kind
or the intuition of “what about existence has been the same all your life”
or the sense of “Now-ness”
or the sense of “Here-ness”
— something generally binding upon us.
The follow-through action
is the recognition that whatever we are doing to locate that intuition or sense of reality
is unnecessary and does not represent or produce that which we seek,
and so we instantly desist from that effort of locating it.
The direction of movement is thus:
Identifying “Now-ness”
and then recognizing:
What I call, “Now-ness” is memory
and so I cease to regard it as “Now-ness”,
but regard it as memory.
Now-ness is unknown
and does not become known
until it is remembered.
“Now-ness” is not the so-called “present”.
“Now-ness” is unknown.
Our perception of everything delayed by the reaction time of our nervous system.
By the time we perceive it, it is past (short-term memory).
Everything emerges from “Now-ness”, into “Now-ness”, and exists in “Now-ness”
as the form of “Now-ness” —
but very “Now-ness” is unknown.
The direction of movement is thus:
Identify “Here-ness” for ourselves,
then recognize our two options:
We may mid-identify “Here-ness” as our surroundings.
or
we may identify “here-ness” as our own ever-presence.
In either case, we notice that we identify “Here-ness”
by means of some movement of attention or recollection
by which we refer to “hereness”.
It’s a gesture of intention.
AND THAT’S NOT IT, so LET IT GO, like throwing back a fish.
For “hereness” is the “self-hereness”,
the sense that always, wherever we are, no matter how we are moving,
before anything,
that sense of “here-ness” is unconditionally, always “here”
— omni-conditionally.The Rationale for “Flashing the Unknown Unknown”One of the fundamental predicaments of human beings is that we are involuntarily caught in experience — engaged in ways often not consciously of our own volition — ways that directly cause us pain and distress and lead to dysfunctional behavior and dysfunctional results, ways we have inherited from our parents, society, mass media, “educational” system, and the collective consciousness (“noosphere” or morphogenetic field). We are stuck in repetition of ourselves. Our attention is stuck in “the known” and our intention is stuck in our reactions to “the known”.So — how to get unstuck?The first step is to get a clear (or clearer) perception of the way in which we are stuck; we “surface” the sub-conscious material. Only with a sufficiently clear perception can we release (not repress or suppress) it.When surfacing sub-conscious material, it helps to contrast that material with something else.
There is one condition that stands in contrast to all other conditions: It is the condition of the Unknown Unknown (also known as “I-I”). It requires a release of attention from whatever attention is on to contemplate the Unknown Unknown.
But the Unknown Unknown cannot be known. Only its erroneous proxies (approximations) and our gestures or movements of attention toward it (internal representations) can be known — and they are not the Unknown Unknown — only representations of what we erroneously identify as the Unknown Unknown — the “Known Unknown”.
Actually, that’s not a problem, but actually the very stuff we need to successfully unstick ourselves. We can’t go wrong in this procedure, because any approximation of it gets released in the procedure, itself, leaving us freed to some degree. Repetitions free us more.
An observation by Buckminster Fuller makes it simple: There is only one way into (or toward) something, but infinite ways out of (or away from) it. Ponder that for a moment until it’s obvious. It is obvious, isn’t it?
Since what we’re doing in Flashing the Unknown Unknown is moving out of conditioning, even if we do it wrongly (doing the steps as given), we get the right result.Flashing the Unknown Unknown means intuitively to recall the sense of, Unknown Unknown. This is an act of intention and of faith, of sorts.In general, we first feel fully into the grip we are in — into the dense conditioning — and secondly, while feeling it, we intend to feel beyond it — the Unknown Unknown. It’s a movement outward. So, it’s first into the conditioning, then outward, beyond, toward the Unknown Unknown.
The fact is, we can’t do it. Anything we identify as the Unknown Unknown is, the Known Unknown.
In fact, the Unknown Unknown is always already present and as known as it’s ever going to get — which is to say, NOT! If you can know it, it ain’t the Unknown Unknown.
So, it’s a safe bet that whatever we are doing to intuit the Unknown Unknown is not it and obscures that intuition with effort; and a safe bet that any effort we are making to “Flash the Unknown Unknown”(after making the full-effort) is right-effort. We can’t go wrong. The effort to feel the Unknown Unknown takes us away from our habitual conditioning, both weakening our grip on it and providing a contrast to it, so we can apperceive it (perceive it within) in a new, more complete way that makes it more vulnerable to release. To touch base with (or to intend) the Unknown Unknown changes our experience of the known, reducing its solidity (memory-grip).The Unknown Unknown may be intuited as open-mind-space, an indefinable field of openness, which cannot be remembered, only intended (that’s not a typo or error; I mean intended). Even if we do that step poorly and feel only the effort to locate the Unknown Unknown still confused with the known, we get the intended result — as long as we put our best effort into it.Why do this? Because as we release the effort to intuit the Unknown Unknown, the effort of wrangling with experience also releases. A few repetitions may be necessary.Flashing the Unknown Unknown, alternating with the Ka-Bong, gets verrry interesting. One useful preparation for Flashing the Unknown Unknown is to refresh our sense of attending to something, intending, remembering, and imagining (the TetraSeed). For that preparation, we do The Spell-Maker/Breaker. (to be discussed)Helpful Preparation (click and do)"Flashing the Unknown-Unknown" is thus:
Fully feel your experience, whatever it is, whatever you have chosen.
Feel its location in you, size, shape and intensity.Intend your attention beyond or “larger than” it, toward the Unknown-Unknown.Clearly notice the effort it takes to do that.
Return to your limited experience.
Relax all efforts of attention.
Feel the release."Wash, rinse, repeat."Don’t bother trying to understand this. Just do it. You can’t do it wrongly.Relevant Perspective
What we look for, beyond seeing,
and call the unseen,
Listen for beyond hearing,
and call the unheard,
Grasp for beyond reaching,
and call the withheld,
merge beyond understanding
in a oneness
that does not merely rise and give light,
does not merely set and leave darkness,
but forever sends for a succession of living things
as mysterious as the unbegotten existence
to which they return.
That is why men have called them empty phenomena,
meaningless images in a mirage
with no face to meet, no back to follow.
Yet one who is anciently aware of existence
is master of every moment,
feels no break since time beyond time
in the way life flows.
~~ The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu, The Tao Teh Ching, verse 14
Witter Bynner translation
Integration
Having practiced both procedures, follow one immediately with the other.Reason: Subconscious vestiges of dissolved identity structures may remain even after thoroughgoing practice of some TetraSeed Modulations; procedures that set a new direction flush up what may remain, to which you may then apply one or more of the other TetraSeed Modulations
The “proof” of the “pudding” is in the “eating”.
other TetraSeed Modulations
The Gold Key Release
The Middle-Way Memory Matrix Ritual
The Wish-Fulfilling Gem
Esoteric Somatics and Tibetan BuddhismSEARCH KEYWORDS:(to return to this entry again, later.
caring | | 42
harmony | 85 | 94
memory | | 89
identification | 7 | 148
perpetuation | 78 | 162
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