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Cynthia Bourgeault…on Narcisstic Personality and what we face today.

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by Cynthia Bourgeault…insightful!…Narcissistic personality disorder Naming It for What It Is Moving Beyond the Madman Archetype I readily admit that I am not a professional psychologist, but in my role as a spiritual teacher I have seen my fair share of psychological abnormalities and have sometimes had to make tough judgment calls to preserve my […]

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Pema Chodron…Troublemakers…Type Nine

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TROUBLEMAKERS SHOW US WHERE WE’RE STUCK Those who give us a hard time, who are difficult to be around or who constantly blow our cover, are the very ones who show us where we we’re stuck. The great meditation master Atisha always traveled with his belligerent Bengali tea-boy because it kept him honest. Without his

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Donovan…Universal Soldier…Type Four

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Donovan – “Universal Soldier” He’s five foot-two, and he’s six feet-four,He fights with missiles and with spears.He’s all of thirty-one, and he’s only seventeen,He’s been a soldier for a thousand years. He’s a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jain,A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.And he knows he shouldn’t kill,And he knows he

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In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver–Type One

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“In Blackwater Woods” by Mary Oliver Look, the treesare turningtheir own bodiesinto pillars of light,are giving off the richfragrance of cinnamonand fulfillment, the long tapersof cattailsare bursting and floating away overthe blue shoulders of the ponds,and every pond,no matter what itsname is, is nameless now.Every yeareverythingI have ever learned in my lifetimeleads back to this:

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Preparing for the journey…from ‘Views From the Real World’ by Gurdjieff

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Go out one clear starlit night to some open space and look up at the sky, at those millions of worlds over your head. Remember that perhaps on each of them swarm billions of beings, similar to you or perhaps superior to you in their organization. Look at the Milky Way. The earth cannot even

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DUNGEON…A Type One Daughter Survives Alcoholism

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DUNGEON…A Type One Daughter Survives Alcoholism by Michael Naylor You visited last night and a casket had you in its grips death holding you tight, squeezing blood from the stone of your heart you, wrapped in an iron veil.             Casually you mentioned you had another day when death wanted you. Or you wanted it.

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