Peter E. Pflaum - Golden Globe - The Synergy Network http://www.wiredbrain.net/ Pflaump@wiredbrain.com VILLAGE ENTERPRISES 225 ROBINSON ROAD NEW SMYRNA BEACH FLORIDA 32169 904 - 428-9609 DR. PETER E. PFLAUM August 18, 1994 Sufi path to Human Potential: This is a unique and highly successful program of human development. Participants learn how to integrate their personalities, solve personal problems and develop more powerful interrelations with others. There are 33 steps in four levels. Who should attend: anyone who want to live a better life and gain control over their lives. Counselors, teachers, supervisors, parents, religious people, couples, students, just interested people. Teacher (Guide) Dr. Peter E. PFLAUM has twenty years of experience and practice with his unique system. Others will enrich the Yoga, and other special methods (Zen). WELLNESS SEMINAR: Level One (Steps 1 to 9) Each session contains a warm up, a lesson from a 350 page workbook), individual and group exercises. I. BLUE - Body Mind Work Stage one: WELLNESS The practice is to work directly on the stoppages - the blocks - then rational thought can begin to solve problems - not before. You didn't talk you way in you can't talk you way out. The words, centered, balance, grounded, mean something in practice. You do it not talk about it. (The Way to Vibrant Health ) Harper 1977 Alex and Leslie Lowen - The process of life by respiration and metabolism creates energy. The mind and body are identical and one is a reflection of the other. How you feel effects how you think and how you think effects how you feel (Also Norman Cousins interesting book on Health - Bill Moyers series on public T.V. Benison on Stress etc) 1.) Getting in touch - breath 2.) Getting in Touch - metabolism - (great for weigh control) 3.) Bioenergetics - (Alexander Lowen) grounding -charging 4.) Self-possession and self-expression - being in touch 5.) The Exercises - getting loose - getting the energy flows unblocked. 6.) The expressive Exercises and Gestalt - Feeling (mind -body) 7.) Sexual exercises (optional) massage and setting up a regular schedule. 8.) Autogenic - relaxation techniques.) Meditation and Imagination* Alexander Lowen, Bioenergetics - (Harper & Row) a form of Gestalt - Autogenic and other names (Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer by Pelletier, Kenneth) and Wilhelm Reich - ( but goes back to every Shaman I know ) has a simple and direct approach. Emotions are feeling - feeling are NOT thoughts - they are physical. (Thoughts exist in the brain but I talking about fight/flight a series of body reaction to emotions) This has been called the Stress syndrome - ) 9.) Stress and THOUGHT control: Level two - getting control of your thoughts - II. Yellow Love and Spirit FIVE HABITS OF MIND 1.) Perspective - viewpoint Where am I (you) coming from, and why? ME and NOW 2.) Alternatives - others point of view? Why? Understanding others and their attitudes. 3.) Evidence (facts) Reality - Why is one theory (idea) better? Objective beyond self - why should anyone believe you? 4.) Relationships - how does it fit into the "Big Picture" Reflective and connections with other ideas 5.) So who cares? Why is it important? What difference does it make? Answer the following questions. What is the meaning of life? What is real? How do you Know? Life is a process, with an inherent quality - being is reality - in a meaningful relationship with the environment (nature). Gaia .. What makes humans "human" ? Seeking the wholeness we once had but lost - come alive - even at a higher level * family, good work, friends, a health society - respect - honesty to oneself and others - sincere - truthful - kind - a person of "character" that can be trusted - creative - empathic - at peace with yourself - Wake UP! Stage two: IN TOUCH WITH FEELINGS - INDEPENDENT TO INTERDEPENDENT Out of touch means not only with our feeling - how up-tight we are, how afraid, how uncertain, (The ad with the kid inside that wants the frosted side ) out of touch with the "child within", with our spouses, our kids, our students, or communities - This is the dream world - the sub or unawareness - most of the forces that control our lives. The "real" world is an illusion created by social norms, language, advertising, political interests, etc. The real world is in our dreams. Hard to believe? Difficult to believe? 10.) Thought stopping - assertiveness training 11.) More effective - listening - parent - teacher - person 12.) Dealing with Irrational ideas and passions 13.) Coping skills - proactive 14.) The seven habits of Effective People (Stephen Covey) 15.) Biofeedback - nutrition - advanced exercises (Yoga) 16.) Getting unstuck - independence - freedom from reactions 17.) Yoga (Shalom) Love - cloud - visualizations and breath 18.) No Fatigue, no sore muscles, perfect posture, the sounds 19.) Introduction to Zen and the art of paying attention McKay, Matthew; Davis, Martha; Fanning, Patrick (New Harbinger Publications) Stress and Relaxation and Thoughts and Feeling Workbooks. III. Red - ORANGE - Brown Pay Attention! Passion - Energy - Grounded STUDIES ON THE WAY - the path of knowing Stage Three: BEYOND SELF - four - DREAMS and UNION Magic is real - real is magic. Magic is the use of perception of forces that we may not be aware of today - or a trick - something appears to be different from what it is - like matter - stars - other people - The President - social conventions - et al. How do I know? I don't. You have to practice - body knowledge - and see what you feel. How do we treat the society, the world - by practice - by example - by doing- not talking and directly at the emotional base of behavior and being Level three - The path to knowledge 20.) The world of illusions and images 21.) The Aesop fables and Sufi tales - the three levels of knowledge. reading and meditations 22.) Morals, character, independence - beyond self - love 23.) Total experience - peak experiences Discovering Values: To learn new values you will have new experiences. 24.) See twice - Peter Weir's The Last Wave - Rhino- Home Video 25.) Wallace's The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca, (In paper reprint from Random House about $10) read it, twice? Introduction to the dream world. 26.) Steven Halpern - Music Halpern Sounds, Visualization of the perfect self - 27.) Relaxation tape - to take home 28.) Yogi Shalom - Charles Schoelen, a set First tape and LOVE. 29.) Herrigel, Eugen ZEN (Zen in the Art of Archery) The Method of ZEN (McGraw-Hill)- and/or OM Creative Meditations- by Alan Watts - (Celestial Arts, Mill Brae, CA) Electronic Education Program P.O. Box, Mill Valley, CA 94941 A couple of Sufi books - WHITE _ SPIRIT Mineral - vegetable - animal (Evolution) THE ANSWER IS MAGIC: Level four: THE DREAM TIME - 30.) Out of touch - The dream world - reality - illusions When people have profound psychological problems - the general belief is that you need to deal with the emotional basis of the causes - While there are many theories of practice - rather than talking or running away - we go through the experience. To help someone with a stutter you practice the stutter until it is under control. We are going to learn mind control. Certainty for our Time: 31.) LAWS OF PHYSICS: Imagine the atom; the core of particles held together by great force, the fields of electrons vibrating in their courses. The electrons can only operate in certain fixed Quantum, they can be in only certain ways in relationship to each other and the nucleus. These fixed ways allow for chemistry. The elements can combine with Certainty depending on the fixed nature of physics. God can not do things against his nature. The laws of nature are not imposed from outside but reside within the nature of things. 32.) SCIENCE: The ways the elements combine, the order of the Cosmos itself become the possible. Science and technology is doing the possible. The difference between alchemy and chemistry, astronomy and astrology, is the knowledge of the possible. Knowing something of the ways of nature is knowledge. 33.) IDEOLOGY: The evil and false pride that people have when they think their ideas are equal to the ways of nature. The ways of the universes exist in the grain of sand, the natural process in drop of water are infinitely more powerful than any human belief. The endeavor of science is to put our beliefs in tune with reality. The electrons change their quanta in fixed patterns. They do not move through the intermediate space. We can not go from here to there without passing through the intermediate space. Particles do not conform to our concepts but we try to understand the reality as best we can. 34.) FALSE PRIDE: The evil and false pride that our ideas created the laws of nature let to belief in all possibilities. The covenant is the fixed laws of nature where possible becomes real. Reality is the wisdom of god's creation, his own presence. Human wisdom shrink before the infinite. The unity of all things appears in the billions of stars and atoms, the Eternal essence. I am god, you are god also. We are perfect in harmony with the universe and nothing, a small spark outside the rules of nature. Is there a contradiction here - our ideas are not reality - but we are god? 35.) REMEMBER - The particles of corporal existence is not personality and confined to man. If we are transformed into vanquished space and are no longer self but being we are close to the face of god. If this is not clear it is because it is very difficult to express. The truth has been said at many times and many ways but while many hear only a few listen. 36.) It is difficult to explain to the Bat who lives only at night and avoids the bright sun what shadows are like. Maybe sometime in your life you knew you were in tune - had certain knowledge of being - Being just what you are, MASLOW in the Further Reaches of Human Behavior explored this aptitude. He called it transcendence, beyond self to being or B values. He said it gave life meaning and purpose. He said effective people knew B-values and thereby had focus and energy in life. Beyond self. So simple and so hard. Can you explain to the blind about the colors of life. The drunken, desire their drunkenness and do not desire the truth. If is not this or that: then what is it? 37.) The Perfect Truth: To go from the possible (the ways of nature ) to the essential is the spring of reason. First true perception and then being and passing through our personality. We are worse than beasts, fiends, stones or storms - we have the avarice, envy, pride oppose knowledge. We do not overcome these by an act of will but by rites of passage. In Joseph Campbell's hero with 1000 Faces, these "all too human" passions and monsters are passed in mythical journeys in the underworld (clearly our reptile un-conscious minds) and the Hero emerges from thinking and feeling to being and knowing. 38.) BEING READY: There are few shortcuts. If you love god, god will love you. You are beloved, the union with all exists in you and all around you. In pure obedience, there is true freedom. When you are master then you are slave. You are the sweet fruit in the shell, ready to ripen, the suns warm beams has put us into the right stage of life. Our estate is prepared and we are ready. 39.) If this is obscure to you, it is meant to be clear. The vail of metempsychosis passes and you see clearly the obvious - AH HA! The circle is complete, I am what I am, and feel good about it. (Union) The seal is broken and the secret reveled - it was here all the time but you weren't looking, you did not listen, I guess you were too busy with more important business. Faith and peace, and eternal wisdom are not so important? They require truth and justice and can not be used for personal gain. They have no market value. 40.) The dream that becomes reality is in the union of mystic lore and the way. The door is open, are you ready for no-existence. If you give up existence you will find it. If you cling to the things of life, you can not pass this way. That is the myth of the "grateful dead." To win you must surrender, to triumph, give up. You all know that. The phantoms pass away, nothing but the truth remains. THE UNION comes when the possible has passed its ordered limits and become the essential - science has become knowledge and certainty. (This is beyond 40 and me at the moment). Who firmly grasps the mystic meaning of the union of possible and the promise of the essential has a higher wisdom than plain mortals. More is less, far is near, we are no longer afraid of our own shadows, the fire has no terror and the book of changes. (To be continued - Mahmud Shabistri "The Secret Garden", only 57 pages - A Dutton Paperback) ************************************************************ "Mankind' moral sense is not a strong beacon light, radiating outward to illuminate in sharp outline all that it touches. It is, rather, a small candle flame, casting vague and multiple shadows, flickering and sputtering in the strong winds of power and passion, greed and ideology. But brought close to the heart and cupped it one's hands, it dispels the darkness and warms the soul." James Q.Wilson ***********************************************************