In our culture, rarely is anything given without the expectation of receiving something in return. People give gifts, and expect a thank-you. People smile and expect the other person to smile back. People are nice, and they expect that same niceness to flow back to them. People love, and expect the object of that love to find them just as ...

Hi Folks, This argument goes back to Seth lists as well. The classic is what we call the NIMR (not in my reality) defense, which can be a form of denial and marginalization, another form of ''New Age guilt'' that says, you're creating your shitty reality and as such, I don't have to do a thing. Tag you're it, not my problem, etc. So this is the ...

Hi Bill, It's an important issue to contemplate for sure. I'm not clear on how the decision to down a plane, including terrorists and civilians, doesn't involved ''judgment'' within the belief system of duplicity. In my view, you have to judge a threat as a threat, weigh the horrible decision to ''the lesser to two evils,'' and judge to take some ...

Hi Bill, This is a rich and complex topic, as you know. Generally speaking, you'll notice a trend in most of my writing from the past 4-5 years, one that moves from a ME-centered version of conscious creation (agentic, individual, narcissistic, solipsistic, egocentric events) into a WE-centered version of conscious ...

Nice Topic Don! I wanted to add a key factor that is still so often missing on conscious creation-related dialogues, namely, the impact of stages of human development. Einstein said, paraphrasing, ''the current problems we face can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.'' It shows how in very broad systems terms, that the ...