Nynke June 5th, 2007
How to recognize when your dream is “lucid”?
Simple. You seem to consciously realize that you are dreaming while being in dreaming. You remember daytime dreaming stuff like intent you set for your dreaming, can apply systems thinking freely and reflect on effects, while the dreamscape actually looks “lucid” — “light” is emanating from “things”. I see “light coccoons”.
And if you do it a lot, day time becomes like a dream in a dream in a dream. Day dreaming.
Nynke June 5th, 2007
“Half of the earth is water; our body is three-quarters water. Water represents the interface between the 4th dimension in which we live and the 5th dimensional sphere of our soul. Many studies have shown subtle effects of healers upon hydrogen bonding and infrared absorption of water. None of these scientific studies can compare with the beauty and clear messages shown by Dr. Emoto’s elegant work. The impact of thought and beauty has never before been demonstrated so well.” — C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D.
More on these messages: http://www.masaru-emoto.net/
And this is how I do my “controlled dreaming”. I set intent with water, drink half of it before going to sleep, and in the morning drink the other half of the water before doing anything else, and quietly remember my dreams.
Advantages of controlled dreaming? It’s like some kind of experiential systems thinking so all those benefits apply. A parts party of sorts. I get to practice in a safe setting and the beings that appear are always the right ones to appear. Of course, the ones that appear and do not make themselves known, don’t get to play. I have guardians as well.
In short, main advantage is I don’t have to shoot the arrow each time on Earth to figure out what to aim for that would work best to bring joy to self, life, and others, and can easily find the most congruent aim for if and when I will shoot my arrow in “controlled folly”. Guarded anticipation.
Over the years, when people asked me about my controlled dreaming, I passed this “way” on, and all have reported it works for them too. Philip Thunder Panther Trice, a similarly inclined colleague does also. He even repeated this way to me. I would love to hear more from his experiences with “passing it on” and the feedback he received from people that chose to try it out for themselves.
By all means and meanings made, don’t take my words for it and make up your own mind. Try it yourself and turn on some beautiful relaxing music from Beethoven, Bach or Mozart, then do the water ritual. It may take a couple of days before changes take effect … and it never hurts to drink water.
I don’t care how something works,
nor do I care about scientists fighting over universal meanings made,
or religious leaders fighting over assigned significance to meanings made,
I don’t need any followers or become a world leader in anything,
I just follow my own two (or four) feet …
and as long as something works for me,
and brings me, life, and others
Joy
I’m game!!!
Nynke May 30th, 2007
Thank you Hans Konstapel, for your blog on “Why is Western Civilization so Extremely Violent?”
I have a desire to reply, to add to it, from a Druidic perspective.
From ancient times there have been those few bright women and men who, following their hearts filled with love and compassion, have dared answer existential questions of birth and death fully realizing who we truly are. Who we all are, universally, and without exception.
The intent of Sacred Sex is to experience Divine Disclosure (God/Goddess) using sexual energy as vehicle. This energy is the most powerful force within the human body and can lead to spiritual experiences and intense physical pleasure and bliss. Shamans, and Druids being one group of those, use their sexual energy with awareness, love and respect, for themselves and everything.
Everything in the universe is in a state of vibration. We are swimming in fields of energies, vibrating at various frequencies, and are constantly interacting with an amazing range of other energy fields - from the mundane to the cosmic: matter, space, time, forces, people, animals, plants, stones, things, … And all the various parts of our body are in a state of vibration too: organs, tissues, bones, nerves, skin … the whole vedic shebang.
Harmony is the result of balancing our energies giving us a flowing and enjoyable life without restriction and suppression.
Our energies that make up our bodies regularly become unbalanced, resulting in health problems, sleeplessness, pain, loss of focus, and many other unwanted conditions including subjugation, grabbing and poking, and that not only during sex. Violence in every day life is a result.
Practicing Sacred Sex we bring our bodies into a balanced state before engaging in any sexual activity. Bodies become our temples. Then we become whole.
The gain?
Benefits of this practice
So Hans, I fully agree … Sex is an artful path, not a science, and to be treated as sacred. The Druid Way:
“Inner and Outer, Self and Other, dance together as do the words Nwyvre and Wyvern - the Druid kundalini and the fire-breathing dragon - the kundalini of the earth goddess. The purpose of both dragons, inner and outer, is the same. They convey the creative fire, the fertilising breath that brings life and abundance - both to the individual and to the land.
For all sorts of reasons beyond our understanding, these dragons have been allowed to sleep. But in the old days they were awake - and it was the old sage, the Druid or Druidess, who knew how to direct and utilise this inner and outer fire, to creative ends. The quest for personal fertility - of ideas, of children, of song and music - and of earthly fertility in abundant crops - were united in the ancients, and need to be united by us again as we try to extricate ourselves from the wasteland we have created within and around us.”
If you walk the Druid Sacred Sex path without commitment, discipline, intelligence, courage, and fearlessly “letting go”, Her guides, Hawk, Wulf, Lions, and Fire Dragon will rip you to shreds and mark you with Her flames. Wulf will kill your Grendel body by chopping off its head, leaving nothing but a sack of skin with bones in the 3D world, and sending the rest of you off to become One with the metamorph collective …
Nynke May 24th, 2007
A new blog has appeared. Welcome Hans Konstapel, welcome to blogland where thoughts are woven freely.
Nynke September 29th, 2006
To see problems before they see us, or, at minimum, at about the same time, and most importantly, to see what solutions we have already found. The sooner we see our most frustrating problems already may have been solved, the more time we have for moving forward with more enjoyable things. We cannot afford to waste the time we have. And that can give us our (competitive) edge.
What if this is an excellent example for illustrating use of chakra’s to figure out where we are in the Now - meaning in which state we physically are - and to consciously steer where we go with self, other and context in mind?
Condition red is where we can install and/or reveal new drivers. This is where we can (re)program our balance and coordination of states of mind. We can code things like “we do NOT immediately fire on just about anything that makes a noise or moves”.
There are many many ways. For instance, by what-iffing we can pose tactical problems that perhaps need to be resolved going forward. To my knowledge, playful games work best.
Our newspapers and media are full of the most exulting and horrible things. I step in the shoes of others involved and ask myself how I would have felt in and likely handled those situations. Like, could I have avoided this horror? If not, what could I use to evade or counter and safely remove myself from what seems to be happening here?
I also use movies woven in imaginative journeys like mystery space ship mocking bird.
And I regularly play “biker games”. These are games where I practice physical awareness. Like, how many, and which of my colleagues, can I make myself disappear with, and sneak up on? How many of them can sneak up on me - if colleagues notice, and figure out the game I am playing, and join in, the game becomes quite foolishly neat ;-))
And I often play a simple awareness game at conferences: Every time I see someone I know before they see me, I score, and each time they see me before I do, I subtract a point of my score.
My esteemed colleagues of course! How to recognize who we are?
When we are actually being attacked by a predator. So we need regular coaching, consulting and facilitation gigs to practice and tune our timing of Fight-Flight-Freeze patterns.
For example …
Excitement likely won’t kill me, but surprise can, easily, so let’s buy some time so I can still respond and not have to react!
What if we were to build and practice some kind of “power and strength continuum scale” (so that we do not bring a kitchen knife to an all-out corral gunfight?)
What if we practice/integrate/embody/exchange on “How to effectively … avoid, evade, and counter predatory people”, so we can focus on making our own dreams come true, and perhaps those of our esteemed colleagues, in expansively optimistic professional resource circles.
An example of such a power and strength scale for fearlessly engaging with victimizing chaos and predatory dominance dogma’s could be:
Do you have more ideas for playfully raising awareness and learning mental aikido?
Nynke August 22nd, 2006
Bubbling in the bath, I watched my stew from the feedback I received on Blogging Benefits. Late last night, babbling with Lynne, she asked me about my tag cloud on Stone Circles and I explained to her how I use it. Worth a separate blog entry I believe.
A blog is an alarm clock for counting tyrant moves
As I journal the times of my life, certain things can keep re-appearing. I can gather some idea of what is working in my life and what is not. With this externalized memory in hand it is much easier to see patterns, changes, and shifts. I ask myself what Jerry taught me to ask, “What do I want to keep or change in, or remove from my back pack?“. Works for me!
How I much easier see patterns, changes, and shifts using my blog?
For each blog entry I determine its key words as closing procedure of writing or making changes to an individual entry. I choose key words that are used in the entry and together describe its skeleton gestalt for my intent with it. Not only tags, but also amount of tags entered typically differs per entry. I enter the key word in the tags field of the entry form in the backend. Not only are tags entered used as metatags for search-engines identifying the permalink page, the tags are also used in my tag cloud. Key words that are repeated become bigger.
My tagcloud - and if you cannot see it in the navigation bar on the left you are either reading from systemsthinking net or have come here through the permalink URL of this entry, you can go to Stone Circles Homepage to see it - has four layers distinguishable by the size of the tags: thickest word representing sourcering word, semi-thickest words conscious keys, “normal” words subconscious keys, and smallprint unconscious, yet determinable keys.
At the time of writing this tag cloud entry …
Hmmmnjah. Having Joy as tyrant isn’t so bad, and connections and transparency are quite welcome guests, my subconscious quite supportive and showing what’s already there and happening, and the field of words and potential tyrants seems to describe a garden with fluffy bunnies and a woolly mammoth running around in it … Not bad at all … :-))))))))))
Tag clouds can be organised purposefully
for transparent self reflection.
And for transparent community reflection,
like some additional collective unconscious layer,
for example the Technorati Tags.
conscious, joy, measurements, source, subconscious, tags, transparency, unconscious
Nynke July 5th, 2006
In Mystery space ship Mocking Bird I wrote
Guide me / us Into the Unknown …. investigating cultures on other worlds, going where no (wo)man has gone before, picking up some (new) patterns that may be helpful for me / us on Earth.
And
2. Bridge. (Re)Cognition of far-out philosophical truths.
Western culture seems a technical culture and with the expansion of the internet and computer science a new situation has appeared. We can create a new culture uniting soul and spirit, if we choose to. And this is not my only reason for writing about meditation practices.
In the past four years several people asked me about my meditation practices. (Likely some others believe I went crazy, or minimally irrelevant.) And with the freemason family culture I grew up in believing the world about cubed stones, even if the world appears a sphere in 3D ;-), my mind was made up. On top of that, the current situation on Earth makes me not feel so good.
These all, and more, converged to nudge me for writing about meditation. I may not be big or great. I may not have much influence, but I think every little bit helps. If not, I would indeed be/go crazy.
As mind oriented ways, meditation seems to hold ancient knowledge for training our spirit. Meditation is taught by many religions and mystical systems, by numerous philosophical and spiritual traditions, in a wide variety of cultures.
Western culture seems to not use meditation, if we don’t recognize praying as such. A lot of people in Western culture indeed do not meditate and focus on technological innovations, and western culture seems to rapidly expand, pushing its technological will on others.
“Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.”
It’s those darn borg cubes again!
Meditation is not just another distract-from-chaos-strategy. It can lead to vibrating silence (verrrrry restful), increased objectivity, and self-control. And more … we can connect with Beyond, with Global Oneness, and more fully humanness, if done “whole”.
If done merely “left”, meditation can seem an illusion and mislead us, like when hypersensitive spirits experience emotions and ghosts that can then be interpreted as manifestations of dreams.
Yet if “left” cubes add extrasensory perception to the “right” stuff, it can form a bridge creating connections between all individual spirits that have trained themselves to empty their minds to create vibrating silence. A silence in which the noise of daily life on earth is minimized.
Forming mind links in a mind network means entering a familiar Unknown of resonant thought focusing on the same images, strengthening each other. Like cubes experiencing resonating extrasensory forces.
Cubes and technology can effectively give us first experiences, much like the way we have been practicing with virtual cyber space sofar. Yet I think it would be verrry unwise if we didn’t develop our own human extrasensory perception.
We wouldn’t want to depend on cubes and become borgs?
For example,
seven and nine, not seven of nine
(though I like her a lot)
Nynke June 9th, 2006
… open a channel …
“This is Captain Fluffy Bunny from Mystery spaceship Mocking Bird.
We are on a peaceful mission.”
In “Debugging” Sessions Willem writes, “Nynke e-mailed me about the relevant use of a reaction. In case of an emergency, like seeing people in a burning car, careful deliberation is usually not the preferred choice of action, we can trust ourself / our memory telling us that rescuing the shocked people in the vehicle is the best choice.“
The hairs on my crown prickled, and my body loaded up a tremendous amount of energy and awarenesses. Insisting voice of convergence …
Okay to go?
Okay.
I watched my body running for the singled out car with the smoke coming from under the hood.
My body was acting without me.
I could hear myself speak “Sir, you and your kids will have to come out of the car. Now, please.” Soft and relaxed, yet insistent with focused resonances. As if the sounds, not what I said, conveyed a whole story.
After the man behind the wheel focused on my voice, we looked at each other, connected, then moved together as One, each feeling where and what the other was doing, picking up kids and their connected bear, bunny and, after a nod from the man at my questioning look, a green and yellow fluffy dragon, and no silly stuff like other material belongings, then, he carrying two kids, and me carrying one kid, we ran away from the now more smoking car.
An audience had gathered to “catch us”. The man who had been behind the wheel turned to me and said with emphasis and some surprise at the end, “You had totally dark eyes?”
I remember suddenly feeling naked and replying, “No. My eyes can be grey, blue, green, light brownish, depending … Perhaps it was some kind of pupil dilation.”
I looked back at the highway. Four more accidents behind us and a traffic jam as far as I could see. No more smoke or other alarming signals.
I looked forward and since our car had been three cars behind the first set of cars when they kissed rather roughly, I saw our way clear around obstacles to an empty highway ahead. I got back in our car, and asked my still frozen boyfriend, “Can we get going?”
I remember suddenly doubting the whole thing as we drove off. I had behaved like a fool, again! Smoke doesn’t always mean fire, especially not when coming from under the hood of a car. I recall listening to voices from within, “harmless smoke would smell differently, more oily … it was the colors …”, when my boyfriend driving the car, flashed his eyes at the rear view mirror, nudged me, turned halfway in his seat, and looking back hisssed, “Jesus”. I turned to see what had brought him to his exclamation, and saw the car I had just helped empty itself, in flames.
My boyfriend named me a hero afterwards. That was and is confusing. I am not a hero. It wasn’t me. I know that for certain. I wasn’t controlling anything. That is not how “It” feels.
I remember being amazed at my body’s effectivity. With an unbelievable strength for my rather small body of around 50 kilo’s, I opened a by the accident crumpled car door stuck in a now wyrdly bent chassis. The door seemed to nearly fly off its hinges.
Time seemed different too. Simply non-existent. “It” is timeless and my memories of occasions of “It” always come with huge waves of vivid details that are easily recollectable. I will spare you from most of that “chaos”, for it saves me from having to find the words for “things” that can’t be worded that easily anyway. You gotta have experienced “It” before you can hear me, and if you have, you don’t need the words.
“It” feels powerful. All wheels temporarily separate and align to create a portal, with our consciousness sensing everything from a distant perspective. Another way of describing the distancing experience, is that we have jumped out of our body.
We can look at ourselves taking action and in all directions, dimensions, and worlds, we can hear ourselves speak, yet do not know where “It” comes from.
What if we take a God or Great Spirit perspective for/of “It”?
As God or Goddess we would not have a limited mind. There would be no boundaries, and we would know what is best for life on Earth. For all of life on Earth. Not only that. We would know for all stardust too. We would control both inner and outer world perfectly. We would be in control of the Althing.
This was so and will be infinitely so. It is for all time, and hence timeless. And all of our present plans are perfect too, for they were made by the One that Knows All. Imagine knowledge to be going round in circles, with the known on the inside and the unknown on the outside. The more we know, the more we know we don’t know. We can accept all, for everything in creation is enjoyed by the Alfather.
We wouldn’t want to change a single thing, now would we?
And if “It” wants to use one of us to intervene on Earth, like when we see people sitting shocked in a smoking car just after an accident took place, we become action-able for wyrd ways.
This story happened many many years ago. Again, I am no hero. I believe the connection with “It” to be the greatest gift one can receive and pass on. Everything related to the car accident seems to have been engraved in my memory and the associated state is easily accessible by recollection. Pretty much like a “hotspot” in memory.
For “It” is the thing that my ego steps down easily for with great joy, so that my body can freely pass on whatever “It” is. My ego embraces and trusts ironic core. I have mystery by my side.
Our true power lies in being able to have our ego stand up and down, and in recognizing when to and when not to allow for dancing, in order to most effectively serve self, life, and others for a particular context and purpose.
Professionally, I dance for expanding (professional) optimism and I like dancing the five freedoms of Virginia Satir for organisational development.
My reason for being on Earth is to enjoy finite boundaries and imperfections. If I were to try to make everything perfect, I am placing “It” in the apparent world, an “It” without boundaries, thereby deleting my reason for having come here in the first place. I prefer to dance local dances with local people. Each to their own ways, and choreographing the (w)hole dance together as much as possible, hopefully with awarenesses dancing of joy.
Thirteen
The tiny particles which form the vast universe are not tiny at all.
Neither is the vast universe vast.
These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife,
always chipping away at the Tao,
trying to render it graspable and manageable.
But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and
that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable.
There is, however, this consolation:
She who lets go of the knife, will find the Tao at her fingertips.
– Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu
If I play Goddess perspective, and write about what choreographies work for me in terms of universal-for-all, without context, every thing would be(come) perfect. Every body would be the same, stuck in Heaven on Earth as Agile Immortals, and the world would cease to exist for people having come to Earth to enjoy playing with finite boundaries. I’d have my head pretty much up my back-end. What (re)useful smells would I likely detect there?
Indeed.
My own cowshit.
And apparently I’m not alone relating to and
stabilizing a cultural portal.
From my partners in crime:
Marc’s “Bullshit 2.0″
Willem’s “Customer oriented architecture”
Nynke May 31st, 2006
Today apparently, is a day for receiving rainbows. The wonderful manifestations that esteemed colleagues Marc and Maroesja sourcered together, namely their sons, Marden and Marijn, sent me drawings for my birthday. Colorful drawings from original artists, I might add. The drawings are so beautiful, that I wish to share them with the world.
Marden’s gift:
And Marijn’s gift:
On top of that, I received feedback from Graham that, after giving me feedback on my diagram in Happiness - a highly underrated “thing” , my diagram helped him reperceive dilemma’s he was working on. And Pat sent me feedback to improve Expressing ourselves with. (Comments and improved diagrams are at the bottom of the entries)
As if all of those gifts wasn’t enough, Raphael sent me a sacred rainbow systems diagram, and Willem put the photos he made of the rainbow we saw at European Consultants Camp 2006 online.
I feel overwhelmed with a colorful world inhabited by many different beings mirroring back at me! I love it! Thank you!
Nynke May 28th, 2006
Who did not experience this non-expansive political exercise at some point in time in some “professional” context?
(Executive) Management and consultants say they want change, continuous improvement, introduction of systems thinking and Satir utilities for congruence, yet their own actions seem not to match their own words. (Executive) management not walking their talk, and not talking their walk.
Not so long ago a manager told me, “In the end, its always about people.” with quite the emphasis (and broad smile). Nice Seductive Talk. Then we got to see him Walk. He seemed to avoid all involvement in the team, to hide behind other problems, and shot his own political arrow, totally changing the converging presentation of results the team had built together. After that, a deep silence on his part set in.
Wow! I still wonder who he meant by “people” when he talked.
The power of leaders in creating values, context, culture and actions is often highly underestimated. And the effects on others and the organization of screwing that up too.
Want to know how to “walk your talk” and “talk your walk” to enable healthy change towards increased professional production in your organization?
Want to undo the power of complaints that you don’t walk your talk? Complaints that freely seem to be walking and talking in your halls and corridors?
If ideas and memes you (wish to) promote are congruent with your core values, the following actions will be quite easy for you to do.
“Become the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
I Wish you Happy and Effective Walking!
Photo by Steppen_Wolf