Spellbound

spellbound person A very dark road, just a little bit of a hazy moon …

And in the middle of it a rabbit …

A fast approaching car with high beams …

Can you see already see what will happen?

Fortunately we are not rabbits and we would never do something like this rabbit - you know - staying in the middle of the road, staring into the approaching light and not moving an inch!

Never!

Or would we? - Let’s see.

We will look at fear of heights. Not everybody has that fear so this example might not work for you, but many of us will be able to relate.

Imagine the ocean, a high cliff, we go close to the edge to take a look, and the depth seems to pull us down and we have to make an effort to stay back.

Isn’t this even worse than the situation with the rabbit, which only became frozen instead of being drawn into doom?

Twenty feet back from the cliff, on level ground, we have no problem going up very close to a line drawn in the sand. We might even put our toes a bit over the line without being in any danger of stepping over the line, short of being pushed. But there is nobody around, who would push anyway.

Now what is the difference between standing with the toes over this line in the sand and the line dividing land and ocean some 100 feet up?

I have no idea, but it sure is interesting to ponder. We can not really say anymore that we are so different from the rabbit which could easily just hop off the street and be safe.

I think there is a lesson to be learned here. Could this be the effect that lets us run straight into misfortunes in life when things turn out dangerous?

An example is the burst of the internet bubble. How many investors lost their fortunes because they could not turn and hop away. They were frozen, spellbound by the falling charts, but they held on to their stocks because “it has to go up again!”

This burst was actually not that much of a burst. In the beginning of the grumbling there would have been plenty of time for those not frozen - and I am sure some were not - to get out and invest in real estate - something many did when it is way too late. So there seems to be the spellbound-factor.

I am trying to figure out why we do this. From an external point of view it would be very simple to just turn, and hop off the street. Why do we insist on continuing the same path, even if it scares the living daylight out of us?

One idea I came up with is the ego, that thing in us, or that part of us that Wayne Dyer describes as something in total need to be right. This part that makes us fight with the husband or wife we actually love - over minor disagreements.

We all probably know people who have this characteristic predominantly showing - going out of their way to prove to you that there are right, even if nobody denies. With a mental image of such a person in front of our inner eye - usually red-faced - we can nicely see that there is no way that that person would just turn and hop away. No SIR! Somebody might get the weird idea that he could be wrong!

So, if we don’t want to be right anymore, does that mean, we can just hop away and out of danger?

Does it mean that - facing some disaster in our life - we can just turn and walk away?

I sure hope so - - - - - but I better don’t need to be right about it!

Posted by Merlin Silk - April 9th, 2007

Apr

7

Personal Integrity - a Reminder

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Reminder to keep Personal Integrity Sometimes we need little reminders of the things we already know - it’s just this little knock to the back of our head that we need to shake loose this stored info.

VERNON HOWARD LESSON:
(The Power of Your Supermind)

Behave the way you really are, even if it ends a relationship! Never suppress yourself in an effort to influence, hold, or win someone. When we are unreal, so are our rewards. To say this in another way, never behave the way you think the other person wants you to behave, but in the manner you must. Nothing you really need to do or have ever requires a yielding to person or custom.
Never deal with a neurotic or an unpleasant person on his terms. Deal with him on your terms or not at all. This means you break the relationship as far as the Inner World is concerned, even though it continues in the Outer World. Never sacrifice your inner integrity to anyone, anytime, anywhere.

Posted by Merlin Silk - April 7th, 2007

Apr

2

Right v. Ability to Vote

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I got really scared the other day - after I first laughed real hard and then realized what I was laughing about.

Before I continue, let’s watch that little video together that scared me so much…

It’s funny, I agree, but somehow then we start choking on that laugh once we realize that these are people who have the right to vote - and some of them even use it. After watching this clip it suddenly becomes crystal clear why George W. could win that second term. There is no need any more for a conspiracy or vote fraud - it works all without that.This also makes it so easy to understand why Larlen Rose - after showing very clearly in court that this income tax did not apply to him - or that at least he firmly believed that - he nevertheless was convicted for willful failure to file a tax return. It actually does not matter if his argumentation is right or wrong, he could not be found guilty if he really believed in his reasoning to be correct.

The story goes that one supporter of Larken followed the jurors after the ‘guilty’-verdict and overheard two of the jurors flirting and setting up a date, and that after having just sent a man to jail, a man who had been fighting for their freedom.

May this story be true or false, after watching this video it seems at least very probable, and it makes you wonder if there should not be some kind of test before you have a say. But I just realize that the right to vote was attached to an ability in the past, but somehow we lost it - pity!

Strange actually that I say that because I might not have been a person with a vote in the old system - most likely not.

Posted by Merlin Silk - April 2nd, 2007

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