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THE FIRST INSIGHT . . . A CRITICAL MASS A new spiritual awakening is occurring in human culture, an awakening brought about by a critical mass of individuals who experience their lives as a spiritual unfolding, a journey in which we are led forward by mysterious coincidences.

THE SECOND INSIGHT . . . THE LONGER NOW This awakening represents the creation of a new, more complete worldview, which replaces a five-hundred-year-old preoccupation with secular survival and comfort. While this technological preoccupation was an important step, our awakening to life’s coincidences is opening us up to the real purpose of human life on this planet, and the real nature of our universe.

THE THIRD INSIGHT . . . A MATTER OF ENERGY We now experience that we live not in a material universe, but in a universe of dynamic energy. Everything extant is a field of sacred energy that we can sense and intuit. Moreover, we humans can project our energy by focusing our attention in the desired direction…where attention goes, energy flows…influencing other energy systems and increasing the pace of coincidences in our lives.

THE FOURTH INSIGHT . . . THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER Too often humans cut themselves off from the greater source of this energy and so feel weak and insecure. To gain energy we tend to manipulate or force others to give us attention and thus energy. When we successfully dominate others in this way, we feel more powerful, but they are left weakened and often fight back. Competition for scarce, human energy is the cause of all conflict between people.

THE FIFTH INSIGHT . . . THE MESSAGE OF THE MYSTICS Insecurity and violence ends when we experience an inner connection with divine energy within, a connection described by mystics of all traditions. A sense of lightness–buoyancy–along with the constant sensation of love are measures of this connection. If these measures are present, the connection is real. If not, it is only pretended.

THE SIXTH INSIGHT . . . CLEARING THE PAST The more we stay connected, the more we are acutely aware of those times when we lose connection, usually when we are under stress. In these times, we can see our own particular way of stealing energy from others. Once our manipulations are brought to personal awareness, our connection becomes more constant and we can discover our own growth path in life, and our spiritual mission–the personal way we can contribute to the world.

THE SEVENTH INSIGHT . . . ENGAGING THE FLOW Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question; then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us towards the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.

THE EIGHTH INSIGHT . . . THE INTERPERSONAL ETHIC We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships. Uplifting others is especially effective in groups where each member can feel energy of all the others. With children it is extremely important for their early security and growth. By seeing the beauty in every face, we lift others into their wisest self, and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.

THE NINTH INSIGHT . . .THE EMERGING CULTURE As we all evolve toward the best completion of our spiritual missions, the technological means of survival will be fully automated as humans focus instead on synchronistic growth. Such growth will move humans into higher energy states, ultimately transforming our bodies into spiritual form and uniting this dimension of existence with the after-life dimension, ending the cycle of birth and death.

THE TENTH INSIGHT . . . HOLDING THE VISION The Tenth Insight is the realization that throughout history human beings have been unconsciously struggling to implement this lived spirituality on Earth. Each of us comes here on assignment, and as we pull this understanding into consciousness, we can remember a fuller birth vision of what we wanted to accomplish with our lives. Further we can remember a common world vision of how we will all work together to create a new spiritual culture. We know that our challenge is to hold this vision with intention and prayer everyday.

THE ELEVENTH INSIGHT . . . EXTENDING PRAYER FIELDS The Eleventh Insight is the precise method through which we hold the vision. For centuries, religious scriptures, poems, and philosophies have pointed to a latent power of mind within all of us that mysteriously helps to affect what occurs in the future. It has been called faith power, positive thinking, and the power of prayer. We are now taking this power seriously enough to bring a fuller knowledge of it into public awareness. We are finding that this prayer power is a field of intention, which moves out from us and can be extended and strengthened, especially when we connect with others in a common vision. This is the power through which we hold the vision of a spiritual world and build the energy in ourselves and in others to make this vision a reality.

©James Redfield

This is to be used to review radio programs. It is one of the assessment tasks for CUFAIR201A Develop techniques for presenting information on radio

Program evaluation sheet

Celestine is enrolled for 3 units (CUFPPM301A Plan and prepare programs, CUFAIR301A Present radio programs & CUFAIR201A Develop techniques for presenting information on radio)

She is collecting evidence for her assessment. This includes

- updating a weekly work log on this website

- putting together a portfolio of 6 radio scripts, including 2 program  introductions, 2 interview introductions and 2 news scripts

- reading the file called ON AIR PRESENTATION  and commenting on the blog, giving 5 points that are useful to you as a broadcaster

- Listening to 3 CAAMA shows and completing 3 Program Evaluation Sheet for each one

(The Certificate III in Media needs 11 units altogether, the next 8 units can be done in 2010, once the first 3 are completed)

I have been reading the book Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield. The more I read it, the more it makes sense. The one point that totally resonates with me, is the one about how we choose our family. I have heard about this from some other people and some other books as well. I really believe that we choose the families that we are with, we choose our parents, and our siblings, because each of them have something really useful to teach us about ourselves and about the world. My father is all about accomplishment. He only believes in making money and being a millionaire. He was really poor when he was young, but now he was pulled himself in the world, but it seems that nothing is ever enough. My mother is patient and she tries to be our friend. But she is still of the old mind, that we should get married and hold the same job for the rest of our lives. She wants us to be either doctors, lawyers or engineers, the penultimate jobs in the Indian mentality.

I want to follow my own path. Something different. I know I do not want to follow the path of the accomplishment, neither do I want the safe life with my career etched in stone. The more I think about it, the more I know that I have chosen my parents, exactly so that I know what path not to follow. Because the paths they followed have never really brought them any joy, I know they are unhappy, I know that is not the path for me.

I was also thinking about coincidences. I totally believe in coincidences, that everything happens for a reason and it keeps on happening to give us clues into what path we should follow. But I always lament that I never receive enough coincidences in my life. Is that a reasonable lament? I am sure I am getting as many coincidences as other people are, but I am just not paying attention.

I feel sad for the girl that I was for the past 2 years, always hankering after another person, wanting him to make me happy. Ugh, when I think about that time, I feel sad for that girl, who was so lonely inspite of being in a relationship. The loneliness was self-wrought, and the pity me, poor me, personality was developed in defense for it. I know that I needed to go through that to become what I am right now, so I wouldn’t be here, if I hadn’t been there. I am glad I went through it, and I’m glad I am over it now, but it doesn’t mean that I cannot look back at the experience and think about it objectively.

CUFPPM301A Plan & Prepare programs

A chapter which covers voice, planning and other things about being a presenter

Please read the chapter, and then add comments on the blog about what you learnt that was helpful for your work as a CAAMA broadcaster

ON-AIR_PRESENTATION

Certificate III in  Media

My name is Celestine Delvene Nakamarra Rowe, I am from Papunya Community, via Alice Spring.

I was fostered by a white family when i was little i came back to NT to live when i was 13.

I have two Children Alexis and Samuel they go to childcare while i am at work. I enjoy writing and write poetry everyday.

Before i came to CAAMA i wanted to put in my application to become a paramedic as i use to do St Johns Volunteers.

I am working at CAAMA radio as a Trainee Journo/ brodcaster.  I look for news stories and edited news.  I really enjoy my work and my work mates.  I am going to do my Certificate III in media, which will be fun, i have learnt alot here at CAAMA, alot of stuff i have already learnt will help me pass my studies..

I love computers, so i guess i am a sort of a nerd… most of my life is wisked away sitting on the computer and internet..

Here’s a completed phi ratio coil built by Celestine.

Original web page found here.

Building this coil took just 4 days from the drawing board to completion.

On the original page, there is discussion about the direction of the second coil (whether it should look back the other direction), the proper angle of the apex (tip) of the cone (33 degrees), and filling the copper tube with 4mm quartz beads.

I noticed that this coil used a relatively thick hollow copper tube with copper elbows to connect the two individual coils.

Also only about 3 loops were made in each coil. You can see that when the coils pass through each other near the center, they get relatively straight.

Not sure what difference this makes yet, but just noticing the structure of the design.

A book with a flower name and all  about  a mother Materena’s as a listener .It was a story about a family and the traditions in t Tahitian island from a Tahitian author Vaite.Author coveys a deep respect for women’s strength.
While reading her words any woman cannot stop thinking about her mother or herself.Materena learns she’s pregnant with her second child,but at that time her husband Pito leaves her over a pay dispute.Then she takes professional cleaner as her job for “financial independance”.When the traditional needle test confirms she is carrying a daughter Materena is thrilled .She shares a lot of things to her daughter Leilani even before she indroduces her to the world.’Girls hurt their mother from the day they come into this world…. Girls are a curse,’ say some island women, but Matarena is delighted with her baby, Leilani, who soon grows into a free-spirited, curious, and sometimes troublesome girl.
“Welcome to Womanhood” speech to her daughter is an epitome of her motherhood.But Leilani is an exceptional little girl with a bright intelligence and an analytical mind which constantly challenges Materena’s knowledge as it taxes her patience.
Materena’s character is given the opportunity to develop into more then a mother and homemaker which allows her to accept Leilani’s decision to leave Tahiti in pursuit of her love and dreams.She is a best except for her loving daughter Leilani.
Frangipani-a story about the ongoing tension between a mother and daughter,husband and wife ,with the society.I enjoyed all the warm lines of the book and made me to feel “I have searched so long for you ” Frangipani.

“Be strong,We ‘re not women for nothing”  Sensible words from Materena to Leilani

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Im Buch wirds drei zeitliche Ebenen geben – das Jetzt, wo MagdaLena ein relativ normales Leben führt – und grad eben wieder mal aus der Asche entsteigt, um sich selbst neu zu er.finden.

Dann die Vergangenheit der aktuellen Inkarnation, in der immer wieder Dinge passiert sind, die zu den aktuellen Problemen führten – und die mit unterschiedlichen Möglichkeiten gelöst werden konnten und können.

Und frühere Leben, aus denen auch einige Verstrickungen und Themen ins Hier und Jetzt mit hinein spielen – phantastische und phantasievolle Vor.Leben, die auch einen gewissen Reiz haben.

In Summe wird der Roman also wieder einiges von den Thematiken haben, mit denen auch ich mich real beschäftigt habe in den letzten Jahrzehnten – und die einfach “meins” sind.

Ich schreibe die jeweiligen Zeiten in unterschiedlichem Layout, werde dies aber im Buch selbst nicht gesondert anführen, aber es wird schon ersichtlich sein, dass immer wieder in frühere Zeiten geblendet wird.

Für mich ist es jetzt eine Herausforderung, “meine” Themen diesmal nicht fachlich und strukturiert auf zu schreiben und mit.zu.teilen, sondern eben in einer Geschichte zusammen zu fassen, die trotzdem einiges an Erfahrungen beinhalten wird, die auch schon in meinen früheren Büchern beschrieben wurden.

In Summe wird es ein Werk werden, wo sich jede.r das heraus nehmen kann, was ihr/ihm wirklich weiter hilft auf ihrem/seinen Weg.

Ich orientiere mich jetzt allerdings nicht an den einschlägigen esoterischen Romanen, wie zB Mary, Mysterio, Die Kammer des Wissens oder auch Celestine – wobei die natürlich schon ausschlaggebend dafür waren, dass ich überhaupt auf die Idee kam, meinen eigenen Roman zu schreiben.

In diesem Sinne, ich schreibe mal wieder weiter

I have an inherent sense of curiosity that overrides all tendencies to be close-minded. And Truth comes first and foremost, simply because there is nothing I could consider more important than the process of learning – of evolving – yet simultaneously not searching at all.

I was born a Mage, but I didn’t realise it until I was 22. Basically, if you could imagine a heavy intellectual with a mental map of how the universe worked – a perfect set of rules that seemed to apply to every situation via scientific empiricism – lost in a view of the world, that’s what I was. Confined to the subjective paradox.

I was studying Communications (Media & Filmmaking) – I was/am passionate about the medium of film and storytelling. Part of the criteria was to educate us on the great western minds that changed the paradigms of civilisation. Marx, Jung, Einstein, social theorists such as Foucault, and a delving into the ways in which the world is controlled by the media, manipulated by the media, inspired at times – and ever so rarely, how the media was used righteously to bring to light an obvious truth… the latter didn’t happen that often in history. I learnt linguistics and the notion of does the word create the meaning, or does the meaning create the word? I was made aware of the illusion of considering science to be factual. These are all extremely plausible and well set out arguments I was privy to, so in essence I learnt about how confused the world was made to feel under the veil of postmodernism. Merely another means of control.

By the third year, I realised that I didn’t really have anything of substance I actually wanted to say in my films – and I couldn’t accept that. During this scenario, I meet a woman, who soon enough begins talking to me about energy, and feelings, charkas and Reiki…

My instant response was, “What the fuck are you talking about?”

I sit her down, and she talks all night, and I just listen to what she has to say because at that point I was so involved in my head that I literally didn’t have a clue. She was explaining it to me not just in words… and at an instant… I had an inkling… and every one of my chakras began to unwind and blast open! My whole body was vibrating – which was – well – unexplainable to myself. I couldn’t put words to it… concepts to it… it was foreign – and yet right at home. There began the war in my mind. I literally drove myself insane trying to find a perfect “scientific theory” for what was going on. This is understandable, since it’s what I’d been doing my whole life.

After a year or so, I slowly regained my grounding… am actually able to converse with people again without feeling a deep-set loneliness that no one understands me. I reintegrate into society… into simply being able to talk about nothing all over again.

Upon hindsight… that first moment was the true flowering of the warrior code in me – but damn there was much to face yet. It was during this period that what was known about magick, and most of those that claimed/practiced it were of little to no help for me… because as good or bad as they may be at it… as much as they might have fine-tuned abilities… they still had emotional issues. They weren’t happy people… they weren’t complete. They were still imprisoned by their own selves. And I was nowhere near grounded to realise this… Of course, there was much that happened during this process of attempting to learn magick, but most of it was an orgasmic/painful struggle of achieving great feats and simultaneously failing miserably. Which can be a great teacher indeed. Yet the frustration was in not being able to have a base… a fundamental grounding that was intact and unshakable.

A good example I can use to explain is when about two months after my conversation with the first witch, I was speaking to a woman who was clinically diagnosed as unable to have children. She was an empath who was teaching me to fine tune my chakra awareness. When we were finished, she asked for a hug. As we hugged I felt a bolt of sacral chakra essence leave mine and enter hers. Two months later her hubby managed to knock her up! Now here’s the relevance of the example: There was no ritual involved… I didn’t read books or create spells about this… most important… I didn’t even know what I was doing. All I know is that I had the wish to help her – to repay her for her teachings.

After such incidents, to talk to other mages who insist on spells and reading a million useless books and especially… who insist on complicating the whole process of magick for ego gratification, seemed futile. I rather wanted to know how I did it. Even then I wanted to know the essence. Such incidents reoccurred many times, but the struggle was always that I couldn’t pinpoint the core of magick. I could theorise as much as I wanted… others could all have their opinions of how it may have happened… but it all seemed dogmatic on some level. What finally hinted that this wasn’t where I was going to find my liberation was the powerful sensation that something is “missing”.

All I could do was let it go…

At which point, I turn to discovering Buddhism.

The aspect of Buddhism that attracted me so intensely was its crystal clear logic, its ability to explain everything in such simplicity – and more importantly, the choice to focus on certain questions and to see the unimportance of other questions as relevant to one’s happiness.

I suppose at this stage I will explain Buddhism as I see it in order to lay some groundwork for what’s to come. What is often misunderstood in Buddhism is the notion that there is no God. As explained in the texts of Vikramaditya and the Vampire, there are three definitions of an atheist:

1. One who believes that there is no God or Gods.
2. One who believes that God/s may exist, but doesn’t really care about our welfare.
3. One who believes that God/s may exist, but isn’t really important in the whole scheme of things.

The Buddhist view of God/s falls into the third definition. There are 84,000 different paths within Buddhism, and some use deity worship as a tool to be harnessed up to a certain point of realisation. Some use the path of a hermit. Some use a meditation of daily action – no matter where you are or what you are doing: whether it be cleaning dogshit or having sex. And some – very few, but some – use everything as a means to realisation.

It is this great open mindedness that truly appealed to me. At first I didn’t realise the nature of this objective clarity, but I could literally feel a hint of the wisdom yet to be realised simply because the words and meanings offered within Buddhism seemed to come from a source completely free from restriction – Even the restriction of Godhood.

But of course, for the first year I lapped up everything Buddhism could offer to recreate a new mental picture of how the Universe worked. By the end of it, I could argue and debate Buddhism with the best of them – yet there was nothing there that was spoken from experience.

The notion of complete liberation seemed far more challenging, and far more frightening than the deepest pits of magick. The topic of which questions the Buddha considered important, and which he considered useless, can help in explaining this clearly:

As we all know, Man is in suffering. Most of us never seem to be able to keep our fleeting happiness… it comes and goes, and for many of us there is so much suffering that happiness could almost sound foreign. In the midst of this, a depressed scientist may try to find a temporary peace by involving himself in a new discovery. When the discovery is finally made, after a few moments of exaltation he returns to his melancholy. Men and women consistently ask questions about the universe, about purpose, about how everything works, if God exists, if we have a soul, what our purpose is, etc etc. It becomes an entertainment of sorts for most, and for others these questions take a far more serious purpose.

Yet, here’s the clincher. What if you knew the answer to all these questions? Then what? You’d probably go, “Ah, that’s what it is.” And return to a life of frustration, imprisonment, habit, reaction – the fight or flight instinct, moments of great joy, clinging, betrayal… etc etc. Knowing your purpose doesn’t make your path any easier. So you know that today you are going to fall into a ditch and break your arm… but it has a divine purpose… yet it doesn’t make the falling any easier.

It was during this period that I meet a guy who lives halfway across the world, who claims to be my teacher from many previous lifetimes – thousands in fact – and tells me that he is here now to reawaken me. The only thing that convinced me that he may be genuine was the wisdom of his words whenever he explained Buddhism, or anything about the nature of things, for that matter. It is the same with all things, and my first lesson in realising that it doesn’t matter who tells you something – it doesn’t matter how many people think highly of him/her – what matters is what they say. How close it rings to your own truth. It is as the Buddha says: Don’t take my word for anything – investigate the truth for yourself, and when you have experienced that what I say is true, then, it will be your truth.

Once again, curiosity gets the better of me, so I pack my bags and catch a plane to England. And there begins my training in the Highest Tantra. Yet, from the moment go every single preconception I had of Buddhism was ripped away. Every concept about the way the universe worked – all shred to pieces. They were concepts, after all. The Truth isn’t in the concepts. It’s like the difference between reading the menu and eating the meal.

There I went, thinking of what Buddhism is, what Hinduism is, what Paganism is, what Magick is, what Christianity is… each in its own little stereotypical box. And BOOM, suddenly, the whole thing was shown to be one and the same – only varying in levels of depth and nothing more. The Highest Tantra is a complete integration of mind – negating nothing, throwing nothing aside. I realised that there are four secret lineages of Buddhism, each which is a Coven in its own right. Yet the number of miracles I witnessed in the time I was there remarkably only managed to tear wide open that little doubt I had in me before that something was “missing.” Because now I knew that I truly knew nothing. The members of the Coven were such pure vessels of channelling that I had the fortune to speak to Krishna, Diana, celestial beings from the astral world, Buddhas, and on one occasion, Bob Marley, etc. Each with their own lesson to impart – their very own blessing to bestow. Despite the proof of such things, given in more ways than one, what defeated me was the training itself.

Once again, even if you knew all the answers to the Universe, jumping off a cliff is still a scary thing, even if a Dragon promises you he’ll catch you.

What I will not share here is the amount of information I received in terms of the nature of celestial beings, the relationships of the Gods, the gems within the Astral Planes, the true potential of channelling. Not only are these things not relevant here, but to share them would simply be a means of speculation. If you had told me of such things and I had not experienced them myself, I would not believe it. So, I don’t expect you to either.

That, however, was not the lessons I learnt from my teacher. So, let’s continue:

While I was there, being shown exactly how much of the world I had assumed to be factual and real, and how illusionary that truly was, I had more than a million questions. As one would. Most of the questions were egoistic dribble – theoretical, philosophical, and utterly unproductive to my own well-being. So, after a while my teacher made a rule that I was only allowed to ask one question a day.

This was the teaching of learning to ask the right question. Because if you had a million questions, and you knew that you could only ever ask one, you will learn to discern which one is most important to you – even if you learn the hard way.

Which leads to the skilfulness of knowing the right questions to ask. The ones that can actually help you in some way or form. There are three important questions within Buddhism:

1. What is the origin of Suffering?
2. What is the origin of Ignorance?
3. What is the meaning of Creation?

I’ll explain how this pertains to me. More than anything, the intention for Buddhism is to eliminate suffering. It is to eradicate it, to transcend it, to overcome it. To become liberated from the nature of cycles, of Birth and Death. Most people only truly turn to meditation when their suffering becomes so unbearable that their madness frightens them. Until then, people make all sorts of excuses to keep living life the way they are.

And that’s fine.

The most important question for Buddhism, to alleviate all ignorance of why you are imprisoned by the Universe, by Time and Space, by Matter, is; what is the origin of suffering? Knowing the answer to this is far more beneficial, because it can change you as a person. It’s like suddenly seeing for the first time exactly what material your prison is made of.

1. The Origin of Suffering is Self-Grasping.
2. Ignorance comes from sense of “I”.
3. The Meaning of Creation is Self-Realisation into our original form. When all are self-realised, then creation will end, as we will be creation itself.

With all the pieces falling into place, perhaps the best way to explain the meaning of these three answers is by retelling a story.

Around five hundred years ago, in a sacred mountain beset with caves, a few dozen hermits, yogis and holy men spent their time meditating to attain realisation. There were so many caves that each of them lived in seclusion, intently focused on their goal. The plethora of meditators were from different paths, and some believed in such a thing as a soul, a self, and attempted to attain this experiential understanding. Others believed that there is no such thing as a self or soul, so they focused on the realisation of this nothingness.

One day, a newcomer entered the arena. Pretty soon the yogis were convinced that this man was literally mad, because he wouldn’t leave them alone. He would invade their seclusion and scream at them.

For the yogis who were meditating on realising self, he would scream, “You fool! There is no self!”

And for the others who were focused on realising no-self, he would roar, “You blithering idiot, of course there is a self!”

The yogis knew nothing about this man, but he carried a knife with an engraving of a Dragon, so, that’s how they began to refer to him. Pretty soon it became obvious that he wasn’t leaving, and neither was he going to leave them alone. So, they came to a conclusion. They would hold a grand debate by the lakeside, and if they won, then he would either have to shut up, or leave. If he won, they would convert to his view. And if he lost and still didn’t leave, they pretty much decided they would kill him.

The day arrived. At sunrise the debate began – and those who were debating for Self sat on one side, those arguing for No-Self on the other. What happened next they didn’t expect.

Dragon kept switching sides! When one side presented an irrefutable argument for their view, and the opposition was lost for words, Dragon would come to their rescue and offer a counter-argument. And when the other side could not respond, again, he would explain a greater logic still. In fact, he presented far clearer views of both Self and No-Self than the swarm of hermits combined. Yet, as the debate continued, he was like a wild tiger, rampant, running around like mad, chopping off people’s hair. Screaming. An infinite reservoir of energy.

Finally, sunset falls upon them, and the debate is nowhere near concluded. So, the hermits propose to Dragon to somehow end the debate. Dragon looks across and motions to the only female meditator in the group, and he says, “There is a Dakini present among us. Let her decide the fate of this debate.”

The Dakini also happened to be the only person that Dragon had never bothered since his arrival. She replies, “Let’s meditate on it.”

And the congregation fall into a deep Samadhi – a deep state of pure awareness.

An hour later, when the hermits came out of meditation, each of them had realised the truth of Dragon’s teaching. One by one, they returned to their respective caves. Dragon, he entered his cave, and never bothered them again.

The realisation was this: To have a view of Self, or a view of Non-Self, are both extreme states of illusion. The hermits who believed in Self/Soul, believed it to be an absolute truth. And the hermits who believed in Non-Self, also thought of it as absolute. But how can one ever realise the absolute when one is looking at it from an angle? From a point?

This is the lesson of Tantra:

“The Truth can only ever be told in the contradictions. Or in Silence.”

Because a contradiction negates both opposing views, and thereby, eradicates them. Objective truth can never be in a view. It is like a finger pointing at the moon, but not being the moon itself.

Zen works in the same way. When you truly believe something as true, and then one day you suddenly see that its opposite is equally true, the two beliefs cancel each other out – creating a moment of silence in the mind. It is this moment of silence that is truly precious.

Dragon, is my teacher. The story is from one of his past lives – A small taste of his method of teaching.

And so, we come to Self-Grasping.

We constantly have thoughts: “I am this… I am that… I do this… I do that… I love this… I hate that…” If we let these thoughts come and go, just watching them objectively, with equanimity, well, then we are not slaves to anything. But the moment we cling to a thought, because we love the way it feels, because we want to feel more of it, at that moment, we open the door of suffering.

And finally we arrive at the completion of explaining the essence of Buddhism. Only one thing is left. The human imprisonment is formed in this way, according to the Buddha:

First; there is the Form, the Object. For instance, consider a waterfall.

Second; the Arising of Consciousness. Each sense consciousness is completely different and unique to the other. To see the waterfall is nothing at all like hearing the waterfall. The consciousness of it is different. So, when you hear the waterfall, Hearing Consciousness arises.

Third; Perception. This is the calculation of the information you are receiving. Your perception imputes that the sound is that of a waterfall, and makes a judgement based on the information: “Ah, a waterfall. I love waterfalls!” or “Damn, a waterfall, I can’t stand that annoying noise!” Perception is always subjective and relative to the individual.

Fourth; Sensation. If perception concludes that you love the sound of a waterfall, then you will get a pleasurable sensation – soothing, erotic, energetic, however you see it. Or if you hate the sound, you get a painful or uncomfortable sensation.

Fifth; Reaction. There are only two types of reactions. Craving or Aversion. If the sensation is pleasurable, the mind instantly craves for more. It’s the natural reaction. If the sensation is painful, the mind reacts with aversion. And by this craving and aversion, the reactive human is formed.

Every time you don’t respond to the craving or the aversion, in that moment, you are free. It is the non-reactive moments that hold the essence of your will.

When you remove everything that is not you, what will remain will essentially be you.

Now, this explanation of the five aggregates, as it is called, is not a Buddhist one. It was known in Hinduism, and most probably, even before. Yet during the time the Buddha was alive, every great spiritual teacher explained that the way to free yourself from being a reactive being is by transcending the Form/Object. If you crave beautiful women, then change the way you view beautiful women. Etc etc.

This didn’t work. At this point, Hinduism had lost its core to the decay of time. Buddhism began when the Buddha made a rediscovery. The key to liberation is not in the object of attention – but in the sensation on your body. By being equanimous – which is – to watch both your pleasure and your pain with a deep, passionate objectivity, you free yourself.

Now, I have explained everything you need to know about how I understand Buddhism – laid the groundwork for what’s to come. Now I can resume my story of the rebirth of the Warrior Code.

I was never very good at sports in school, so, I took up debating. I wasn’t very good at that either, but at least I didn’t feel so useless because of a lack of co-ordination. In fact, from as far as I can remember I never really finished what I started. Whenever I was faced with immense adversity, I’d give up – or pause. I suppose this is true for many people to an extent, but I really took it to the extreme. As I grew, so did this tendency. It was the primary cause of my depression. Much later I discovered that it is an attribute of ADHD – Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder – a neurological phenomena where the dopamine that is a trigger chemical for focused attention is blocked from accessing the frontal lobes of the brain. As much as this is a limitation, it is also a gift – because those with ADHD have an uncanny creative potential. At 17 I wrote a screenplay for a film without knowing how one should be written. I made a short film without learning how to make one. I was finally following through – finishing what I started. The fundamental reason why is because I loved what I was doing. And that love kept me at it. But even this love for film has a spiritual basis.

Thus, it was inevitable that I would return to film. While I was busy grounding myself with this new spirituality that had invaded my life with its unavoidable truth, I meet an old friend who was doing a course in film. He tells me that it was me who inspired him to pursue filmmaking as a career – and suddenly the old spark ignited. I remembered my passion for it, and I took up the same course, where I left off. We made a short film together. Then, everything went pear shaped.

“When the student is ready, the teacher arrives.”

I find it difficult to explain the conviction that made me pack my bags in the middle of the night and leave for England with all the money I had in the bank, which was just enough for a return ticket. Indeed, I had fears that beat like little pangs at times, saying, “What if you’re completely deluded? What if he’s a serial killer?” My response to that almost inherently was, “Oh well. Fuck it. Gotta find out once and for all what the hell this is all about.” I’d never trusted that whisper in the silence within me as much as I did then – it was the first time it truly transcended all other emotions. The way I saw it, either I was completely wrong, or right on the mark – and this was going to be the proof. I’d die wrong, and well, it’d have been a lesson. Or… well, the opposite held possibilities unfathomable.

I must stress here that I wasn’t going to a so called “teacher” to escape from my world. It wasn’t a journey to a saviour who’d remove all my worries and with a wave of his hand, enlighten me. Romantic notions, indeed, came up, but when they subsided, the motivation was something else entirely. I didn’t believe because I needed to believe, or had to believe cause I had no other choice. I just had to see for myself, if that makes any sense.

Switch flights in England for Manchester, turn up, get picked up by one of Dragon’s students, and about a minute before we enter the front door of the house, I decide to turn around and go back home. *laughing* I didn’t.

Now. Explaining the rest is going to be difficult. Let’s see…

The moment I walk in and look into my teachers eyes, there was a recognition that took place that I still don’t understand – because the very moment afterwards, my brain kicked in. There were a few things I was expecting. I was expecting to see some sort of holy man. A guy in robes, perhaps. Anything that conformed to the regular doctrine of religious principles. Anything remotely “spiritual” in a visual form. But no. Just a guy, with eyes that blazed with a calmness that made it difficult to look at them for too long. Much later I discovered that I always turned away from his eyes because when people look at him, they see themselves – as they are – which can be very frightening.

He introduced me to the members of the Coven. The High Priestess, whom he was about to marry that very night, and I was to conduct the ceremony. Each of the members were called by their spiritual names. As in, the name of one’s celestial self. Every one of us has a spiritual name. Our body, and the collection of our actions and our thoughts in one lifetime may be given a name. But, when we die, and we return to the group of friends we will always have – they will welcome us by our spiritual name. Because it is the one that doesn’t change. It is the name of your essence, if you will. You don’t necessarily have to believe any of this, nor do you have to agree. I believe it because of the events that proved it to be true in my life. My spiritual name is Vajra.

This was one of the first contradictions that boggled my perception of things, because though we were made aware of an Essence that is unique to each person, one of the first things my teacher tells me is that there is no soul. *laughing* Now I have an inkling of why.

Emptiness is Form. Form is Emptiness.

About ten minutes after I’d sat down, after a long haul halfway across the world – I was feeling invigorated, unable to think, yet overjoyed – I felt I was home. Then, the second big surprise happened. About ten minutes after I’d sat down, Dragon gets up and says, “Come on, let’s go get some hash.”

I thought I’d come for some serious meditation training. Drugs?

I was soon to find out what Tantra really was. There are no books written on Tantra that can teach you what it is. It is not philosophical, nor logical, nor intellectual. The first step of Tantra is to transcend the mind. This is why Tantra negates nothing. Compares nothing. It doesn’t have a mental rulebook of morality. This is also why Tantra is perhaps the most misunderstood, and its methods controversial. This is why when asked about Tantra the Dalai Lama commented, “If you can eat a piece of shit, and it tastes like caviar, then, you’re Tantric.” The Dalai Lama kindly opted out from such practices. *laughing*

As you’re reading this, you may have several thoughts running through your mind as to the credibility of a spirituality that does not conform to a sense of morality. But morality itself is man-made. It is like that insightful line from K-Pax where the doctor asks the visitor, “So, if you have no rules in your planet, how do you know the difference between right and wrong?”

And the Visitor replies as if it is the most obvious thing conceivable, “Everyone knows the difference between right and wrong.”

It is an inherent knowing. And yes, in Tantra, one can do the wrong thing. But the wrong thing is not judged by the action. But by the intent.

It is this area of “judgement” that is most interesting. Judgement must always be left to the heart, for the mind is like a mad monkey. But that is a difficult principle to follow. The mind works with rules – that may or may not apply to a situation. It is always subjective, and therefore, biased in judgement. When the mind is transcended, judgement takes on a whole new meaning. Now judgement is done according to the situation.

There is a story:

The Buddha was once walking by the riverside when he came by a merchant ship that was about to set sail. Suddenly, he grabbed an oar, walked up to a man in the ship, and clobbered him to death.

This is the situation. The parts that are not seen in the situation is this: The Buddha, upon having attained enlightenment, could see both the infinite present, the past, and the future. He could also see the karma of every sentient being in the Universe. When he came to the ship he saw that one man intended to kill all 500 merchants in the ship, and steal their cargo that very night. He also saw the best way to resolve the situation was to kill this thief, because in that act, the thief would be absolved of all negative karma from his past.

Firstly, we can’t do this. We can’t see these things. And so, we can never have a pure intent to kill a person. At the same time, we can question if anyone can see such things, but that would be to miss the point. Which is that there are several factors that contribute to any given situation. So, the mind is never a good judge of things.

It’s like if you ever had an experience in your life when you suddenly are compelled to do something – with no idea why, and no logical reason to it. In fact, it seems almost crazy – but once you’ve done it, everything falls into place. And then, you see the purpose of the action. But what was the reason for this action? What were you trusting?

The final thing to say here is that there is an immensely fine line between trusting in, what I simply refer to as “my heart”, and being deluded by imagination. And part of the spiritual journey is to be able to discern with clarity exactly what it is you are listening to. And exactly what it is that is worth listening to.

We went out and got some pot, came back, smoked. As much as I had tendencies to believe that there is a quick-fix way to enlightenment – a method of ecstasy, of orgasmically attaining liberation and great understanding – my delusions of this were sharply broken soon enough. Dragon’s lesson was to teach me about the nature of craving. Unlike most spiritual traditions which use methods of abstinence and purity – which also brings with it the danger of elitism (but so does all things) – Tantra would allow you to crave for something, and then show you the suffering that is inevitable because of it. It is the Warrior path, the way of the few, the Thunderbolt path, immensely difficult to tread.

Yet it is said, “The harder the path, the greater the Enlightenment.”

The lesson of being able to use anything at all in your path to realisation is that as long as you don’t crave it, you master it. If you can smoke hash to your heart’s content while it lasts, and as soon as it’s finished, and there is no possibility of getting any more, if you can as happily move on – then, you’re Tantric.

There is the offshoot to this also. As much as we learn to not crave the greatest ecstasy – to experience a deep, beautiful, truly breathtaking experience, and then, without clinging to it – thirsting for more – continue to feel content. In this same way, if we can be as objective about the opposite, dark, harsh pain, loneliness, great doubt, torture… then, we are Tantric.

For we neither cling to pleasure, nor have aversion towards pain.

von Benjamin Pogadl

Esoterik? Schon mal gehört …

Wirft man den Begriff Esoterik in den Raum trifft man oft auf sehr ähnliche Reaktionen. Die Einen können damit so überhaupt nichts anfangen und andere haben zumindest eine grobe Ahnung davon, was man sich unter Esoterik vorzustellen hat. “Das ist doch das Zeug mit den Geistern, Steinchen und Teebaumölen und so.“ Übersähe man die Polemik in diesem Satz wäre das gar nicht so verkehrt. Und lustigerweise kommen solche unbeholfene und schwammige Definitionsversuche einer wissenschaftlichen Betrachtungsweise doch sehr nahe.

Das mag jetzt paradox und blödsinnig klingen, ist vielleicht am Ende dieses Artikels aber gar nicht mehr so abwegig. Aber bevor du dich jetzt komplett desinteressiert von diesem Artikel abwendest und meinst eh schon alles zu wissen, lass mich doch ein wenig mehr Licht auf das Phänomen werfen und versuchen zu erklären, warum das so ist.

Denn an sich, so sagt man sich gern, hat man ja mit Esoterik so überhaupt nichts am Hut. Aber seien wir doch einmal ehrlich. Energetisch geladene Steine, kleine Figuren, bei denen man sich nicht sicher ist, was sie eigentlich darstellen sollen, Duftlampen, oder ein Deck Tarotkarten – irgendwas, ob nun mit „religiöser“, bzw. „spiritueller“ Intention verbunden, oder nicht – hat doch jeder zu Hause herumfahren. Grund genug sich einmal mit dem Hintergrund
des Phänomens ein wenig auseinanderzusetzen.

Hierfür möchte ich zunächst versuchen den Esoterikbegriff im Allgemeinen zu diskutieren und herauszuarbeiten, warum eine klare Definition dem Phänomen am Ende nicht gerecht wird. Danach werde ich mich bemühen eine vermeintlich bessere Herangehensweise von Kocku von Stuckrad vorzustellen und mit dieser das Fallbeispiel „Die Prophezeiungen von Celestine“, einen Roman von James Redfield, auszuleuchten.

Warum Esoterik am Ende doch keine “Esoterik” ist

Wie kaum eine anderer analytischer Begriff, ist derjenige der Esoterik von kaum zählbaren Kontroversen umgeben. Das zeigt sich schon allein bei seinem erstmaligen belegten Auftreten als französisches Substantiv im Jahre 1828. Eine enge Verbindung mit den Herausdifferenzierungs- und Abgrenzungsprozessen der Aufklärung lässt sich hierbei nur schwer wegdenken und tatsächlich wurde er damals vor allem mit Bewegungen assoziiert, die damals besonders unter den Begriffen der Mystik und der Gnosis gefasst wurden. Das hat unter anderem dazu geführt, dass die Esoterikforschung sich bis in 1950er vor allem mit diesen beiden, als Gegenbewegungen zu den Schriftreligionen aufgefassten Strängen beschäftigte, wobei problematisch war, dass man hier die entdeckten Traditionslinien gegen die etablierten der Schriftreligionen ausspielte, was zu dem Trugschluss führte, eine wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit dem „Aberglauben“ sei nicht notwendig.

Die Wende der Esoterikforschung kam schließlich mit Frances A. Yates Veröffentlichung „Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition“, die eine radikale Gegenposition zum damaligen Konsens anbot. Anstatt den „Aberglauben“ auszugrenzen, stellte sie die umgekehrte These auf, die neuzeitliche Wissenschaft sei durch den so genannten Hermetismus der Renaissance überhaupt erst ermöglicht worden, was eine heftige Diskussion um die Relevanz von als „esoterisch“ gedachten Traditionen auslöste. Auch wenn das so genannte „Yates-Paradigma“ heute von kaum noch einem Wissenschaftler vertreten wird, kann man es doch als ersten Anstoß einer ernsthaften wissenschaftlichen Beschäftigung mit Esoterik sehen.

Kocku von Stuckrad

In der darauf folgenden Zeit lässt sich ein gewisser Wandel des empirisch-sozialwissenschaftlichen Denkens feststellen. Man entfernte sich langsam von stringenten und monolithischen Denkweisen und rückte mehr und mehr das Individuum in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses. Das führte unter anderem zur Feststellung, dass religiöser Pluralismus, den man bis dato eher als Kind der Modernisierung betrachtet hatte, bereits seit der Antike als Regelfall von Europäi-
scher Religionsgeschichte zu sehen ist. Es besteht hierbei ein enger Zusammenhang zwischen Pluralismus, Identitätsbildungsprozessen und den Begriffen Diskurs und Tradition. Der Religionswissenschaftler Kocku von Stuckrad sieht Religionsgemeinschaften nun nicht mehr als homogene Blöcke, sondern betrachtet vielmehr die diskursiven Verstrickungen zwischen den jeweiligen Akteuren. Den großen „Religionen“, wie dem Christentum, Islam und Judentum, räumt er aber dennoch einen geschlossenen Kern, eine Tradition ein, die sich allen voran in Theologien niederschlägt und innerhalb von Diskursen interpretiert wird. (Religiöse) Identität bildet sich dabei ebenfalls diskursiv, wobei Abgrenzung und Anneignung von Traditionen eine nicht zu unterschätzende Rolle spielen.

Ausgehend davon versucht Stuckrad Esoterik nicht als Phänomen mit klaren Grenzen zu verstehen, sondern sagt deutlich: „«Esoterik» als Gegenstand gibt es nicht“, und „existiert nur in den Köpfen von Wissenschaftlern“. Stattdessen sei auch das Konstrukt Esoterik immer nur Teil eines Diskurses, weshalb anstelle von „Esoterik“ von einem esoterischen Diskurselement der Europäischen Religionsgeschichte gesprochen werden soll. Dieses lasse sich nun anhand folgender Marker identifizieren:

1. Erkenntnisansprüche, an eine umfassende Wahrheit, ein umfassendes Wissen
2. Dieses Wissen wird durch Modi, wie z.B. verschiedene Seinszustände (wie in einigen Formen des Channelings), oder verschieden Stufen einer Initiation, zugänglich
3. Eine Dialektik von Verborgenem und Offenbartem, bzw. Rhetoriken einer verborgenen Wahrheit
4. Eine Betonung von individueller Erfahrungen, durch die diese verborgene Wahrheit zugänglich wird

Es handelt sich hierbei – und das sollte man sich immer wieder vor Augen führen – um keine konkrete Definiton, sondern vielmehr um ein heuristisches Muster, anhand dessen sich verschiedene Diskurse verorten lassen.

Ist das Esoterik? “Die Prophezeiungen von Celestine”

Die Prophezeiungen von Celestine

An einer solchen Verortung wollen wir uns im Folgenden auch versuchen. Als Fallbeispiel möchte ich hier „Die Prophezeiungen von Celestine“ anführen, einen Bestseller von James Redfield, der gerne mit Esoterik in Verbindung gebracht wird und eine Bewegung mit sich führt, deren Anhänger sich, wie wir sehen werden, durch ganz spezifische Rhetoriken auszeichnen. Veröffentlicht wurde der Roman im Jahre 1993 und hat sich bis heute über 20 Millionen Mal verkauft.

Da wir hier ja diskursorientiert arbeiten wollen, wird es, um das Phänomen zu verorten, notwendig sein, sich mit den Rhetoriken der tatsächlichen Akteure zu beschäftigen. In diesem Fall bietet sich dafür eine rudimentäre Internetforschung an, da ein Großteil der angeführten Akteure in eben diesem Kanal regen Austausch pflegen.

Bevor wir uns jetzt aber im Gewirr von Blogs, Foren und persönlichen Homepages verlieren, versuchen wir doch einmal ganz systematisch vorzugehen und das Wichtige vom Unwichtigen zu trennen. Ganz nach der Prämisse, dass nur das im Internet existiert, was auch von Google gefunden werden kann, habe ich dafür zunächst einmal die Begriffe „celestine prophecy“ in den TouchGraph Google Browser eingegeben. Das Programm leistet dabei wenig mehr, als die Google link search, also die Google-Suche nach aufeinander verlinkende Sites, grafisch darzustellen. Säubert man das Ergebnis von Seiten, die nichts mit dem Roman zu tun haben, erhält man dabei Folgendes:

Es lassen sich hier nun drei größere, zusammenhängende Cluster herausdifferenzieren. Einen um „The Celestine Prophecy Gateway“, einen weiteren um „The Celestine Prophecy Home Page“ und einen letzten um „CelestineVision.com“. Die ersten beiden verorten sich schon in ihrem Titel in einem Diskursfeld um „Die Prophezeiungen von Celestine“. Bei der letzten aufgeführten handelt es sich um die offizielle Homepage von James Redfield und seiner Frau, weshalb sie, nicht nur durch ihre werbende Funktion, automatisch zum selben Kontext zuzu-
ordnen ist. In Betracht gezogen soll hier auch eine Polemik zu dem Roman, die in unserem Beispiel praktischerweise sehr Zentral liegt und sich mit „Why I Hate the Celestine Prophecy“ betitelt.

Es sollen hier nun gar nicht die spezifischen Inhalte der jeweiligen Seiten aneinander abgeglichen werden, sondern versucht werden festzustellen, dass jede dieser Seiten eine unterschiedliche Funktion erfüllen soll, die oftmals auch sehr fern von der eigentlichen „Theologie“ des Romans liegt. Ausgehend von dieser Erkenntnis sollen Spezifika des Diskursfeldes herausgearbeitet werden, anhand derer sich dieses unter Verwendung von Stuckrads heuristischem
Muster verorten lässt.

Ich unterstelle dabei, dass sich, je inhaltsferner Erzeugnisse sind, in unserem Fall also je ferner die primäre Funktion der Homepage von der reinen Inhaltsvermittlung ist, desto mehr beschränken sie sich auf diejenigen Elemente und Charakteristika des Diskurses, die dem Autor zentral und wichtig erscheinen. Mit dieser Prämisse im Kopf schauen wir die Homepages einmal an.

• The Celestine Prophecy Gateway
  Diese Site scheint, dem Ersteindruck nach, eine rein persönliche zu sein. Es werden neben Inhalten um den Roman auch viele Inhalte, die offfensichtlich off-topic sind, wie z.B. eigene Gedichte und eigene Interessenfelder, wie die Sektion über Wölfe, vermittelt. Beschäftigt man sich etwas tiefer mit der Site, scheint eine sehr zentrale Funktion der Site aber doch die Rubrik „A New (Celestine) Economy“ zu sein, in der der Autor versucht seine eigene Vorstellung einer „Economy“, die sich stark an Ideen aus dem Roman anlehnt, an den Mann zu bringen.
  
• The Celestine Prophecy Homepage
  Bei dieser Homepage handelt es sich um eine Art Linksammlung zu Seiten, die sich mit den „Prophezeiungen von Celestine“ beschäftigen. Neben eigenen Inhalten wird hier auch stark auf externe Seiten verlinkt.
  
• CelestineVision
  Hier nun die persönliche Homepage von James Redfield und seiner Frau. Zentral sind hier neben dem „Celestine Store“ vor allem die Sektion, die für den Film zum Buch werben soll und die interaktiven Elemente, wie das Forum.
  
• Why I Hate The Celestine Prophecy
  Hierbei handelt es nun schließlich um eine klassische Polemik, die sich auch kreativ mit dem Phänomen auseinandersetzt und sich als nichts anderes als eine Polemik versteht.
  

Wie zu sehen ist erfüllen die „Brennpunkte“ des Internetclusters allesamt unterschiedliche Funktionen. Betrachtet man nun, welche Elemente für die jeweiligen Autoren zentral erscheinen fallen relativ schnell Rhetoriken auf, die auf die im Roman vorgestellte Energielehre rekurrieren und die sich in jedem Beispiel in unterschiedlicher Form finden lassen. Energielehre meint dabei eine Art verborgene Wahrheit, die besagt, dass jedem Lebewesen (und manchmal
auch nicht lebenden Dingen) eine Energie innewohnt, die alles Lebende verbindet und darüber hinaus auch kommunizierbar ist. So lässt sich Energie von anderen Lebewesen schöpfen, aber auch an diese weitergeben. Da die Wahrnehmung und gezielte Kommunikation dieser Energie nur Eingeweihten zugänglich ist kann man hierbei von einer Dialektik von Verborgenen und Offenbartem sprechen. Darüber hinaus werden durch diese Rhetoriken natürlich implizit auch Erkenntnisansprüche geäußert.

Um diese verbogene Wahrheit nun greifbar zu machen sind für viele Akteure die so genannten 11 Erkenntnisse von zentraler Bedeutung. Diese werden in jedem Beispiel zumindest angesprochen und finden sich in kurz zusammengefasster Form meist in einer eigens für sie angelegten Sektion. Sehr häufig verbinden sich die 11 Erkenntnisse mit der Vorstellung, dass diese jeweils chronologisch und individuell Erfahrbar, nicht jedoch durch die Ratio begreifbar sind. Durch die Chronologie der Erkenntnisse fungieren diese auch als Modi, durch die die Lehre
nach und nach erfahren werden kann.

Wie zu sehen ist, lässt sich der Diskurs um „Die Prophezeiungen von Celestine“ durch die beiden zentralen Motive der Energielehre und der 11 Erkenntnisse relativ eindeutig im westlichen esoterischen Diskurs verorten. Inwiefern ein solches Ergebnis nun den Aufwand wert ist, bleibt dem Leser zu entscheiden.

Verwendete Literatur:

Kocku von Stuckrad (2004): Was ist Esoterik? Kleine Geschichte des Geheimen Wissens.

Die Weisheit des I-Gings hat mich schon früh gelehrt, dass ein „Rückzug“ weise sein kann. Ein Freund fragte einmal eine Frau, die in einer großen Gemeinschaft abgelehnt worden ist und nicht von alleine gehen wollte: “Spürst Du, wie Du Dich selbst verletzt, wenn die anderen Dich nicht wollen? Bleibst Du gerne dort, wo Du unerwünscht bist?”

Das, was ich in diesem DING Forum (*) erlebt habe, habe ich in meiner Zeit als freier Journalist noch nie erlebt.

In meinen Kursen würde ich es mir nicht erlauben, mit meinen TeilnehmerInnen auf diese Weise zu reden. In den Workshops dreht es sich um “Kreatives Schreiben” und um “Humanität.” Zu Beginn des Kurses eine gute Stimmung, eine Rose für jede Teilnehmerin, für jede Teilnehmer, ein Kerzenlicht. Dann die Vorausschau, die Ermutigung.

Und in der Tat. Von Donnerstag Abend oder Freitag Abend bis zum Samstag Abend entstanden Texte mit literarischer Qualität. Am Sonntag dann die Lesung der Texte. Jeder Kurs, jeder Workshop seit 1998 hatte erstaunlichen Erfolg; begleitet von dem Gefühl, ich könne zu jeder Lesung die regionalen Medien einladen, ein kleines Buch zusammenstellen oder die Texte ins Internet stellen.

Wer Schreiben lernen will, lernt dies spielerisch mit den Methoden der Emotionalen Intelligenz. Die Zeit der Peitsche ist vorbei.

Wenn ich gehe, so ist das keine Aufforderung an andere, ebenfalls zu gehen. Doch ich erweitere über die Möglichkeit des Bloggens – egal bei welchem Provider – meinen Horizont. Das Feedback, das sich jeder wünscht, kommt offenherzig und mit Wärme. Lernen in Freude ist ein Biotop des geistigen, emotionalen und seelischen Wachstums.

Um Schreiben zu lernen, braucht es nicht viel. Meine Oma hat mit 85 Jahren angefangen zu schreiben – alleine. Ihre Enkelkinder, all ihre Freunde und Vertrauten waren ihr dankbar. Sie wollte nicht für die Ewigkeit schreiben, doch sie hat uns für Lebzeiten ein großes Geschenk gemacht.

Und darum dreht es sich mir beim Schreiben. Um das Würdigen des Geschenks. Um die andächtige Haltung, wenn das Geschenk überbracht wird.

Das Spiel, das ich hier kennengelernt habe, heißt “Macht”. Was das bedeutet, kann jeder bei den Prophezeiungen von Celestine nach lesen.

Verlassen?

Ich verlasse niemanden. Wir sind räumlich alle voneinander weit entfernt; virtuell werden wir uns mit einem Klick wiederfinden, wenn wir es wollen.

Liebe Grüße, von ganzem Herzen
Burkhardt Nowak

(MY DINGELING)

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* DING – Forum “Lust am Schreiben”, siehe auch “Kommentar”