Self and Meta-Self / Individual and Community (long)

[Kate Armstrong]

Bernd,

I am reading the most amazing book as I am also reading your posting. 
It's Mona Lisa Schulz (MD, Ph,D., medical intuitive) new book, The New 
Feminine Brain. The title is a bit misleading, I think, because what 
she  writes about is both female and male ("not better, but different") 
brains. Her research is about keeping the brain, emotions, thinking, 
and actions in balance so that we might gain/regain optimum health). It 
is medicine/science/psychology oriented, and she does include reports 
of her readings (and compares with the "facts") of her clients. I find 
it ultimately positive, helpful, healing reading as it gives me much 
more of a sense of HOW I can have better health - physically, 
emotionally, psychologically, energetically. That's a gift, imho. ;-)

If you would like this book and cannot get access to a copy, I would be 
happy to assist.

Sending rose-colored light and healing energy for your health,
Kate


On Aug 24, 2005, at 12:37 PM, WeBe TrainConsult wrote:

> Dear Michael,
>  
> I think you are right.
> And I read, what your write, in its immediate application also as a 
> personal message to me. So I'll try. Not so easy though....
>  
> I think I showed myself on the list for a while, but then I 
> disappeared for a long time. The reason is, that in 2002/3 I got some 
> bad health problems and after checking for all the possible tropical 
> diseases I finally got a Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis in Brazil, 
> confirmed then in Zimbabwe and finally in Austria. Since then I am 
> undergoing quite a deep transformation process. I had to find new 
> priorities, to work less, produce less stress for me (and hopefully 
> others). I had to practice this a lot, because I had been one of these 
> hyperactive guys, a complete adrenaline-junkie. I decided to do more 
> meditation, got myself radically "out of action" concentrated on the 
> central things in life. Meaning, the "Here and Now", the little 
> things.
>  
> I took the big poster "It is never too late, to do nothing"  (which 
> Carrie Snow via ho had shared with the OSLIST, it served me well for a 
> while, thank you) from my wall and substituted it by "NOW is the time 
> to DO NOTEHING" because I perceived, that the original version 
> permitted a reading, which was not so good for me, because it is a 
> fact that "it CAN be too late to do nothing" ;-) if I wait too 
> long....
>  
> I remembered my old nickname from school times, when I started doing 
> Yoga-praxis ("Bodhi"), went to Venezuela and learned to practice 
> better from Namkhai Chögyal Norbu Rinpoche at the Gar in Margarita 
> Island. None of the gurus I had known of or met before had been the 
> right one, since I had defined myself as "fighting for enlightenment 
> and emancipation" I had even learned to "hate the GURU-ism". But this 
> was the right moment...
>  
> I started to do a lot more of pro bono consultancy than before, mainly 
> for the people around me here in Beira. Slowly coming back to action I 
> started a permaculture garden around our house, trained Jaime and 
> Armando and Sergio-José (our guards) to become permaculturists 
> (together with me); gave micro-entrepreneur consultancy to Estrela, 
> the daughter of the fisherman, who brings regularly fresh shrimps to 
> our garden, she is now a reflexologist with a growing stock of 
> clients; did consultancy for Manuel, one of the beggars, a polio 
> victim in wheel-chair, who had always  been waiting for me in front of 
> Shoprite, the South African Supermarket in Beira, to establish a 
> "negócio de petróleo" (which went so well, that he got over exited in 
> his new role as micro-entrepreneur and invested, without discussing it 
> with me, all the money he had earned , in fireworks, which he wanted 
> to sell before new years eve, but, alas, police confiscated everything 
> and I had some trouble getting him out of prison- we are quite a 
> corrupt culture here, but that is another story); all this with a 
> concept of "opening micro space in everyday life... gave money to 
> Ignatious, an orphan student in Zimbabwe to finish his professional 
> training; money and a lot of consultancy at various levels to 
> Humberto, another polio wheel chair guy in Guiné-Bissau, who had 
> sucessfully established a private school there, but a thunderstorm had 
> torn down their mud buildings. ...
>  
> Neither lurking nor contributing to discussions list was high on my 
> priority list, as you can perhaps imagine. I was finding new role 
> definitions for my further life.   
> But I think I am now stable enough to connect again with some of my 
> networks, without getting lost in secondary activities in my further 
> life. So I came back to the OSLIST a short while ago.
>  
> HERE I AM
>  
> I send some African energy to all of you
> Bernd
>
> Am Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:05:34 +0200, schrieb Pannwitz, Michael M:
>
> > I feel that one of the consequences for the way we communicate on
> > this list and elsewhere, and I experience it in this list a lot
> > already,
> > is to show myself.
> '
> >all your lurkers out
> > there, next time you facilitate an ost event, show yourselves.
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