Blueprint for Change

by Pete on 05/06/2009

How can we create peace within ourselves and the world?

How can we fulfill our own unique potential?

How can we create a world that is more loving, truthful and joyful?

In other words, how can we have fun without killing each other?

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The 21st Century serves as a natural timeframe for building a dream, a vehicle for life in the New Millennium that will help transport mankind through the next 1,000 years in peace and safety.

Real Talk World is about seeing where we are, deciding where we want to be, and getting from here to there. It is not about right and wrong, good and bad, guilt and punishment. It is not about comparing ourselves to one another. It is not about comparing ourselves and one another to outside standards of being and performance. It is not about fear, separation, competition and survival of the fittest. It is not about seeing ourselves as victims and armoring ourselves against a hostile world. It is not about sleepwalking through life or taking it for granted by mindlessly following the “rules”. It is not about living by value judgment and being controlled from the outside, in.

It is about paying attention to our own unique experience and developing internal values over a lifetime of living and learning. It is about playfulness, experimentation and paying attention to what works for us and what works against us, what we like versus what we don’t like. It is about accepting our own unique being and authority. It is about actively seeking the qualities of life and being we value most, our ideals, and actualizing them to the best of our ability. It is about valuing our oneness as much as our individuality. It is about the value of YOU, ME and US. It is about surviving. It is about consciously changing ourselves and the world for the better. It is about living by value fulfillment and learning how to control ourselves from the inside, out.

An external value system of right and wrong, good and bad (value judgment) is to a child as training wheels are to a bicycle. They help us function until we learn how to walk on our own, or in this case, think on our own.

The following questions serve as a starting point for our discussion.

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What’s going to work best for ALL of us? This question takes YOU, ME and US (everyone and everything) into consideration.

  • What’s going to work best for ALL of us in personal terms? (What’s the best way to fulfill our own unique potential in support of ourselves and the world?)
  • What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of business? (What’s the best way to maintain the health and well-being of ourselves and the world?)
  • What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of education? (What’s the best way for us to learn and grow?)
  • What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of the environment? (What’s the best way for us to relate to nature and the earth?)
  • What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of peace? (What’s the best way to relate to each other as individuals and nations?)

The growing collapse of our economic and social system (increases in the number of people in the world and in jail, homelessness, joblessness, food shortages, disease, wars, global warming, unsustainable growth and the loss of wealth), can be laid at the feet of putting individuality and self-interest (ego) ahead of oneness and the common good. A similar imbalance occurs when we put the common good ahead of self-interest. Why not create a system that valuess both equally? By giving equal value to both our oneness and individuality, we make it possible to cooperate, not compete with one another. And by asking questions that include ALL of us, we not only acknowledge our oneness and individuality, we acknowledge our individual and collective role, and responsibility, in co-creating our shared reality. Responsibility (accountability and self-development) is the price of freedom and long-term human survival.

How we define ourselves and the world around us forms our intent, which in turn, forms our reality.

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Proponents Say Single-Payer Health Coverage is Optimal Rx

by Pete on 06/27/2009

Cynie Downs: “I resent when I call my doctor’s office to make an appointment and they ask who my insurance company is before they ask who I am. We’re at the mercy of those corporations.”

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The Sickening Influence of Campaign Contributions

by Pete on 06/26/2009

Posted on http://www.truthdig.com/ June 24, 2009

Sen. Max Baucus’ Finance Committee is thought to be the best bet for a bipartisan bill. The senator has raised close to $2 million this election cycle from the health sector, according to OpenSecrets.

By Joe Conason

If Congress fails to enact health care reform this year—or if it enacts a sham reform designed to bail out corporate medicine while excluding the “public option”—then the public will rightly blame Democrats, who have no excuse for failure except their own cowardice and corruption. The punishment inflicted by angry voters is likely to be reduced majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives—or even the restoration of Republican rule on Capitol Hill.

Many of those now talking down President Obama’s health care initiative were in Washington back in 1994 when Bill Clinton’s proposals to achieve universal coverage were killed by members of the president’s own party. The Democrats lost control of Congress that November in a historic repudiation, largely because of public disillusionment with their policy failures.

Read complete article at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090624_the_sickening_addiction_that_may_kill_reform/

Joe Conason writes for The New York Observer.

© 2009 Creators Syndicate Inc.

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People Power Pushed the New Deal

by Pete on 06/22/2009

Published on Monday, June 22, 2009 by YES! Magazine

by Sarah Anderson

During the Great Depression, my grandfather ran a butter creamery in rural Minnesota. Growing up, I heard how a group of farmers stormed in one day and threatened to burn the place down if he didn’t stop production. I had no idea who those farmers were or why they had done that—it was just a colorful story.

Now I know that they were with the Farmers’ Holiday Association, a protest movement that flourished in the Midwest in 1932 and 1933. They were best known for organizing “penny auctions,” where hundreds of farmers would show up at a foreclosure sale, intimidate potential bidders, buy the farm themselves for a pittance, and return it to the original owner.

The action in my grandfather’s creamery was part of a withholding strike. By choking off delivery and processing of food, the Farmers’ Holiday Association aimed to boost pressure for legislation to ensure that farmers would make a reasonable profit for their goods. Prices were so low that farmers were dumping milk and burning corn for fuel or leaving it in the field.

The Farmers’ Holiday Association never got the legislation it wanted, but its direct actions lit a fire under politicians. Several governors and then Congress passed moratoriums on farm foreclosures. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, telling advisors that he feared an “agrarian revolution,” rushed through reforms that helped millions of farmers stay on their land. These new policies regulated how much land was planted or kept in reserve. Although it was eventually replaced by the massive subsidies that today favor large agribusiness and encourage overproduction, Roosevelt’s original program supported some of the most prosperous and stable decades for U.S. farmers.

This is just one example of how strong grassroots organizing during the last severe U.S. economic crisis was key in pushing some of that era’s most important progressive reforms. Social Security is another such case.

The Depression had been particularly tough on the elderly, millions of whom lost their pensions in the stock crash and had few options for employment. Roosevelt, however, felt the nation was not ready for a costly and logistically challenging pension program.

Then a retired California doctor named Francis E. Townsend wrote to the editor of his local paper, proposing a pension system that would also stimulate the economy by offering $200 per month to every citizen over 60, on the condition that they spend the entire amount within 30 days. The idea spread like wildfire. Thousands of Townsend Clubs around the country wrote millions of letters to the President and Congress demanding the pension system Townsend suggested.

Roosevelt, reportedly concerned that Townsend might join with populist Louisiana Senator Huey Long to challenge him in the 1936 election, eventually changed his position. Although he rejected the details of the Townsend Plan, Roosevelt pushed through legislation in 1935 that created Social Security, still one of the country’s most important anti-poverty programs.

Seventy-five years later, these stories offer important lessons for a country again mired in economic crisis. Neither the Farmers’ Holiday Association nor the Townsend Clubs got exactly what they wanted. But their bold demands and action moved the policy debate much further than it would have gone had these social movements not existed.

Like President Barack Obama, Roosevelt was an extremely popular leader, particularly among the disadvantaged who saw him as their champion. But it wasn’t enough to have a generally good guy in the White House. Likewise today, our chances of achieving real change have more to do with the power of social movements than with the occupant of the Oval Office. Obama has opened some doors of opportunity, but to go beyond economic recovery to a more just and sustainable economy, we’ll need to follow in the footsteps of Depression-era activists and organize around bold ideas.

Sarah Anderson wrote this article as part of The New Economy, the Summer 2009 issue of YES! Magazine. Sarah directs the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.

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Single Payer Healthcare Letter to Congress

by Pete on 06/19/2009

Single Payer Healthcare

What’s going to work best for ALL of us – in personal terms and in terms of business, education, the environment and peace? As citizens of a democracy, these are questions we need to filter our decisions through, politicians especially.

A “competitive” public option does not go far enough to lower the cost and improve the quality of healthcare for everyone. Single Payer Healthcare is the only way to accomplish this goal. We cannot let leaders in Congress and private healthcare control the narrative. America is being torn apart by the forces of separation, selfishness, fear and greed. In effect, government controls the poor and serves the rich. This is why, to many Americans, the word “government” is a bad word and why it can be used against us so effectively to stop meaningful legislation.

Government IS bad when it uses public money to benefit the few and oppress the many! To keep government from effectively serving all the people, wealthy and powerful insiders insist on privately funding political campaigns so they can exercise control over politicians and the legislation they write. It doesn’t help that corporations have been given the status of personhood and that lobbyists, business leaders and politicians have easy access to one another. When we are hungry for money, power and privilege it’s easy for us to form relationships with others who seek the same. In the process we forget our promise and responsibility to the public at large. Perks (favors, bribes?) in the form of product and service discounts, jobs for family members and players themselves, contribute to an incestuous relationship that breeds destructive policy and threatens the very existence of a democratic America.

I know I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know and I’m not saying you have fallen into this trap but I think it is important for the public to educate itself and get its head out of the ground. We are all responsible for this sorry state of affairs and it is time for all of us to stand up and set it right if we care for our children and the future they will create. It’s not what we’ve done, it’s what we do from now on that counts!

EVERYONE deserves affordable healthcare and Single Payer is the most cost-effective way to provide it. We need to do the right thing. We need to make government work for ALL of us, not just the few who hypnotize themselves and their friends with the Darwinian mantra that “life is about survival of the fittest, it’s eat or be eaten, kill or be killed.”

Responsibility (accountability and self-development) is the price of freedom.

Please let your friends and constituents know that T-shirts, signs, hats and buttons with the Single Payer design on them are available at The LifeSong Store: http://www.thelifesongstore.com. We have removed our mark-up from this product so customers can purchase items at our cost, what Café Press, an Internet company, charges us for buying our own products.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Pete

http://realtalkworld.com

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Michelle Obama, A Symbol of Transcendence

by Pete on 06/10/2009

View Michelle Obama’s speech at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School, April 2009, in London, England. It’s an extraordinary story of transcendence, a triumph of spirit over the mundane.

Excerpts:

Michelle: “Nothing in my life’s path would have predicted that I (the First Lady of the United States and a descendent of slaves) would be standing here. I wasn’t raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of. I was raised on the south side of Chicago. I was the product of a working class community.”

Referring to many excellent family values, she noted one that seemed particularly interesting to me: “…and we all had admiration for each other’s unique gifts.”

Her first date with Barack was a community organization meeting in Chicago: “He talked about two concepts, ‘the world as it is and the world as it should be.’”

Quoting Barack further, she added, “All too often we accept the distance between those two ideas and, sometimes, we settle for the world the way it is even though it doesn’t reflect our values and aspirations. We all know what fairness, justice and opportunity look like. We all know!” 

Michelle: “And he urged the people in that meeting to devote themselves ‘to close the gap between those two ideas, to work together to try to make the world, the way it is and the way it should be, the same.’”

 

Yes, too often we accept the world the way it is instead of trying to make it better. This is true of ourselves as well! Too often we accept ourselves the way we are instead of trying to make ourselves better. It doesn’t matter who we think we are right now, what we’ve done in the past or where we’re starting from. It doesn’t matter whether we have outside support or not. What does matter is what we do from this moment on!

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Michelle and Barack Obama, by word and deed, reflect what we can all accomplish when we invest our energy into becoming what’s best in ourselves and the world instead of giving in to what’s least in ourselves. As Barack says, “There is the world the way it is and (the world) the way it can be.” If we focus on creating the world the way it can be, at some point the world the way it is and the world the way it can be will be the same.

Pete

http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Responsibility is the Price of Freedom

by Pete on 05/28/2009

Ultimately, who is responsible for what you do? Who is responsible for what I do? And who is responsible for what we do in groups we choose to be part of?

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Healing or Stealing? "You are brilliant, and the earth is hiring—"

by Pete on 05/18/2009

The Unforgettable Commencement Address to the Class of 2009, University of Portland, May 3rd, 2009 By Paul Hawken

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Universal Health Care

by Pete on 05/17/2009

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Universal Health Care

Do you support universal health care? Some people in America don’t. These folks say that “only those who can afford it should get it”, even though these same people are eliminating jobs in America and the cost of health care insurance is rising so fast fewer  business owners and working people can afford it. Ironically, some people against universal health care have publicly funded health care plans themselves. They might even represent you in Congress! What do these people think?  That the uninsured should stop complaining, lie down and suffer or die if they get sick? You hear them talk about life being a matter of survival of the fittest; it’s “eat or be eaten, kill or be killed”, they say. Is this the America we want to live in? Is it the America we want to create? If you say “No!”, the question is, what are you willing to do about it?

As members of society we need to make our voices heard by the people we elect to represent us in Congress. We can call, write, email or fax our representatives to push for Universal Health Care. We can also wear Universal Health Care products to show support in our communities (T-shirts, yard signs, buttons, magnets and more).

As owners of The LifeSong Store (http://www.thelifesongstore.com), my wife and I have decided to remove the profit margin from our Universal Health Care line of products. The price you pay is what Cafe Press (a non-union company) charges us to print and ship these items.

Stand up America! Our strong sense of community tells us to care for everyone and common sense tells us to pool our resources to moderate and control the runaway cost of health care. Do what works best for ALL of us!

Roger (Pete) and Sandra Peterson – send this article around the web!

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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The Jack True Interview on Human Potential

by Pete on 04/27/2009

Jack and I shared many ideas we had independently arrived (at), from different routes. Painting had unlocked many doors for me. Jack had ventured into creative areas that went far beyond the traditional notion of hypnosis as a method for planting suggestions.

JON RAPPOPORT

www.nomorefakenews.com

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Caring, for Real – the last speech of Dr. E.F. Schumacher

by Pete on 04/25/2009

A writer in The Times noted, “he combined scientific thinking at its most vigorous with religious commitment at its most compassionate”. Barbara Ward wrote in the same paper, “To very few people, it is given to begin to change, drastically and creatively, the direction of human thought. Dr Schumacher belongs to this intensely creative minority and his death is an incalculable loss to the whole international community”.

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Sylvia’s Life Story

by Pete on 04/24/2009

I remember my spiritual character came out when I was 4 years old. Walking hand in hand with my mother I asked her about the omnipresence of god. ”Mom, does god know what we are doing at this moment?” “Yes.” She said. “And does he know what I am thinking?” “Yes.” She said. And I was a little bit scared, because I’ve been told: God will punish us if we are not good children. So I started my spiritual career with fear and with my inner obligation to be a “good child”.

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America’s Culture of Punishment

by Pete on 04/24/2009

Book Review by Eve Pell

Book author: Anne Marie Cusac

cruel_unusual_cover182 Why does our nation, with 5 percent of the world’s people, have 25 percent of its prisoners, about 2 million? Why do we keep at least 25,000, maybe double that, in long-term isolation, a situation known to cause insanity, when other nations have more effective and humane methods of managing violence? Why do we inflict intense physical pain, sometimes to the point of death, with tasers, stun belts and restraint chairs at a time when violent crime is not on the increase?

Read full review on Truthdig

Cruel and Unusual looks at dominant American cultural beliefs, attitudes, values and expectations towards crime and how they shape the style and character of our prison system. It gives us insight into how other institutions are formed in America and around the world as well. It’s a great discussion piece!

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Interview With A Hypnotherapist

by Pete on 04/22/2009

 

Q: What do you make of the constant idea that “there is something in the air, something afoot”?

A: It stimulates people, which isn’t a bad thing. But it also gets people to think that every good or bad thing, on a grand scale, is a Force to which they should hitch their wagons. It’s a human attempt to FIND ENERGY SOMEWHERE.

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Excerpt on Gratitude

by Pete on 04/14/2009

Thought you’d like this excerpt from a book advertisement in the Simple Truths newsletter.  The title of the book is: Learning to Dance in the Rain, written by Mac Anderson and B.J. Gallagher.

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…
it’s about learning to dance in the rain!"

I thought…that’s it! We all face adversity in our life. However, it’s not the adversity, but how we react to it that will determine the joy and happiness in our life. During tough times, do we spend too much time feeling sorry for ourselves, or, can we, with gratitude…learn how to dance in the rain?

It almost sounds too simple to feel important, but one word…gratitude, can change your attitude, thus, your life, forever. Sarah Breathnack said it best…

"When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present….we experience heaven on earth."

Mac Anderson

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Experiment in Socialism?

by Pete on 04/01/2009

(Every thought is a suggestion that affects the way we think, act and react in the future. Similar to a snippet of code added to computer software, it affects the reality we create. Like computer code, thoughts can be malicious or beneficial, which is why we need to use critical thinking to evaluate the consequences of ideas that are capable of influencing our thinking in large ways.

The anonymous story below is one of many being shared through the Internet. Their purpose of these “arguments” is to shape public opinion and reaction. This one attacks the concept of “socialism”, which is conveniently left undefined. On the surface, it looks like a jewel of clarity, a profound indictment of socialism, but, is it? What is socialism? What is the intent of the author? Where is the author coming from? Did the author write this piece of his or her own free will? Was she or he paid to write it? If he or she was paid, or charged to write it, by whom were they paid and what is that person or organization’s purpose in manipulating public opinion?

None of the possibilities above can be explored or substantiated without the person, or persons, responsible for this piece stepping forward. Although we’re unable analyze the underlying purpose or intent behind this article, without input from the person, or persons, who wrote it, we can analyze the content of the argument itself and see that human behavior is not as simple and clear cut as this story makes it seem.

What is socialism? What is capitalism? What is communism? Are they mutually exclusive? Is it realistic, or even possible, for us to lump together complex elements of human behavior and then define them meaningfully with single words or slogans? Should we let other people think for us or should we learn to think for ourselves? Should we let other people control our behavior or should we learn to control our own behavior? What’s going to work best for ALL of us, as individuals and societies? Should external rewards, like the promise of money, power, privilege and grades, be all we use as motivation to develop skills and excel at what we do? What about harnessing the power of natural passion that is released when we strive to be who we love to be and do what we love to do? Why isn’t society and its institutions helping us do that? What about partnership versus competition? What about oneness AND separation versus a belief in separation only? What about common goals AND individual goals versus individual goals only? 

There are many questions to ask in response to this article because ALL things are interconnected, both one and separate. Join the discussion and add your questions and comments. Don’t take one, limited example of human behavior and generalize it out to blanket every aspect of human behavior.  We are much more than we think and we need to understand that. – Pete)

“Read and absorb…. it says a lot and it tells you about our future if we stay on this same path.

An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said ok, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.

All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too; so they studied little.. The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great; but when government takes all the reward away; no one will try or want to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that…”

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Financial Crisis: No Return to Normal

by Pete on 03/27/2009

Excerpt from excellent article in the Washington Monthly by James K. Galbraith, entitled, No Return to Normal, Why the economic crisis, and its solution, are bigger than you think.

Barack Obama’s presidency began in hope and goodwill, but its test will be its success or failure on the economics. Did the president and his team correctly diagnose the problem? Did they act with sufficient imagination and force? And did they prevail against the political obstacles—and not only that, but also against the procedures and the habits of thought to which official Washington is addicted?

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What Kind of Energy?

by Pete on 01/27/2009

Suppose, for a moment, you could let go of all old memories of past mistakes, failures, losses, judgments and reaction patterns that have shaped your life up to now? If, for one moment, you could be free of all fear, anger, hurt, hate, doubt and suspicion, what kind of energy would you want to send out into the world? When I ask myself this question the answer always comes back, love.

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Sexual Behavior Discussion Regarding MySpace and Facebook

by Pete on 01/17/2009

From: Robert Warden

To: Pete

Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 8:03 PM

Subject: Re: Seth on the Christ Personality

P.S. I have tried both MySpace and Facebook, and in my humble opinion, both of them really suck. Facebook is not offensive, but you have to already know people in order to contact them on Facebook, so what is the point? (Actually, I put my wife’s profile on it, and she didn’t know anyone there, so it seems a waste.) I find MySpace offensive, and really makes me worry about the future of the Internet and our youth. (I saw an episode of the People’s Court yesterday, where predictably, the former couple or whatever they were had met on MySpace.) You can meet people there, but in order to get much attention, one needs to be a potty-mouthed jerk, basically, or a celebrity. At least it seems that way to me. I am still on MySpace, though. I keep thinking that things will get better there. Meanwhile, MySpace assaults me with all sorts of sexually oriented material while my beautiful wife sits about 5 feet away as she is now. MySpace basically seems like a human "meat market" and training ground for juvenile delinquents. In fact, one of my nephews got into a dispute with someone on MySpace, assaulted him with a stick, got arrested and put in jail for awhile. That was about a year ago. Fortunately, he is out of jail now. When I first put my profile on MySpace, I thought I would try to contact him and offer him some guidance. Apparently, he was not supposed to be on MySpace anymore, so a couple days later, his profile was no longer there. I guess that is for the better. I had some posts on my blog about the problems I see with the way the Internet is being used by many people and the lack of oversight of the Internet, which I also put on MySpace, making me even less popular there than before. But darn it, I have this honesty thing, and this bizarre belief that self-examination and honest critique is needed sometimes to correct our shortcomings. Otherwise, we would be going along assuming everything is fine, just like the Bush Administration, until things go boom boom and it all collapses.

I am looking forward to seeing your Real World site, and relating more to people such as yourself who I think know what I am talking about. Your friend, Robert

Sunday, January 18, 2009 10:59 AM

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Hi Robert,

I get concerned too when I see a video advertisement of a young girl performing a sexual come-on for everyone to see and react to. She opens herself up to every sort of sexual advance, which can result in serious consequences to her. I suspect communicating without having to look into another persons eyes, as the Internet affords, emboldens us to open up with others in ways we haven’t felt comfortable with before. Any force as powerful and consequential as our sex drive needs to be confronted and openly discussed, not pushed underground to build up energy and pop out as it may. Sexual play is fun but, like everything else we do or are capable of doing, we need to manage its expression, not let it manage us, except under conditions of our own choosing. Otherwise our lives and relationships can suffer serious disruption.

Most of us are afraid to discuss sex openly because of the arousal factor and where it might take us. It’s such a powerful energy, we want to discuss it about as much as we want to hold a hot potato in our hand. In spite of how much it scares us, we need to discuss sex openly with our children and one another. It’s a part of who we are and nothing to be ashamed of. Our silence on the matter only adds to the belief that sex is something to be ashamed of. There are many practical reasons to manage the expression of our sexual energy and, somehow, we need to engage our kids in this discussion, without guilt or fear.

I remember as a young boy dreaming/wishing for adults in the world who were totally uninhibited and natural about sex. These imaginary teachers not only talked to me about sex but demonstrated it for me. They also shared the role sex plays in our lives. They told me it’s primary function is for reproduction and the continued existence of man. But beyond that, it is meant as a way to bond with one another, to celebrate and remind ourselves of our oneness through the giving and sharing of mutual pleasure.

Our sexuality will be one of the discussion topics on Real Talk World once it’s finished. It’s time to embrace ALL that we are, including the idea that we are basically good, not bad. Only by embracing the things we’re afraid of can we move through them and gain control over them. It’s the only way to inject common sense and wisdom into what we think and how we act.

In the absence of openness, honesty and wisdom, what’s left for us to do but experiment and learn on our own?

Live in Love, Truth, and Joy!

Pete

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Visit The LifeSong Store often. It’s where the world comes to shop for inspirational and life-changing ideas on T-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, hoodies and more. Change the world for the better with POTS! (Philosophy On T-Shirts)

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The LifeSong Store Newsletter #2

by Pete on 12/30/2008

Live in Love, Truth, and Joy! Why? Because love is the opposite of fear. Truth is the opposite of lying. Joy is the opposite of sadness.

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