Themes for October 22nd to November 19th

Welcome to the nitty-gritty of 2006. This is what you’ve all been waiting for all year. First, we get to play Shaman. Unless you live in AZ where the real Shamans are, next weekend most of the country will be reverting from daylights saving time to standard time. This is a cultural manipulation of our daily experience. Soon we’ll rise in darkness and head home in darkness each evening. It’s the first of three indicators that we’re entering the ‘dark side’ the cycle of transition. First we change the clocks, then the darkness envelops us, followed by the cold. We won’t emerge from this 'chill-ness' until the clocks are magically ‘sprung forward’ on March 11, 2007. That’s right, a month sooner. In our never ending attempt to manipulate our biological rhythms so we can extract some economic gain, next year we’ll have ‘more time.’ If we can print meaningless money, we can create fake time...

On August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This Act changed the time change dates for Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. Beginning in 2007, DST will begin on the second Sunday of March and end the first Sunday of November. The Secretary of Energy will report the impact of this change to Congress. Congress retains the right to revert the Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedule once the Department of Energy study is complete. http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html

As an aside, I liked this little verbal jab at the name ‘daylight saving time’.

The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time. Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Similar examples would be dog walking time or book reading time. Since saving is a verb describing a single type of activity, the form is singular. Nevertheless, many people feel the word savings (with an 's') flows more mellifluously off the tongue. Daylight Savings Time is also in common usage, and can be found in dictionaries. Adding to the confusion is that the phrase Daylight Saving Time is inaccurate, since no daylight is actually saved. Daylight Shifting Time would be better, but it is not as politically desirable. http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html

But let’s focus on this lunar cycle, an interval we can’t vote on. It’s a critical one in terms of how we want to align our relationships with our lifestyle as we wind down the Summer-Fall Cycle of Transition and prepare for the inner world musings of the Winter-Spring one set to begin December 13th.

By now you may or may not have grasped that the calendar we are conditioned to live in and the one we rhythmically move in are disconnected. By that I mean, we are all so indoctrinated into a linear, normative arrow of time by both our narrative coherence (see the first link below) and our social-shared ‘day of our lives’, that we hardly notice the cyclical, recursive nature of human experience. The 5th lunar cycle brings us in somatic contact with the boundary conditions we have formed with time itself. So it’s appropriate that I highlight a resource that exemplifies what I’ll call my Far Eastern Standard Time. Let’s get in touch with this…

The skills required to fully appreciate the subtleties of pulse diagnosis are developed over decades of practice by trained acupuncturists. What we want to do with this readily accessible bit of physiology is awaken some dormant sensitivity in ourselves. Here’s my tried and true method for that… I call it 'Tai Cheating'...

Now, once you get a ‘feel’ for this process you can use it to amplify the underlying theme of this lunar cycle. We’re heading into the phase of the cycle of transition that takes us, as I say in my YES Factors e-book “Beyond The Body”. It’s at this point in the year that we begin to internalize our social interactions and take them below our conscious awareness for integration with our life story. John Barresi’s work on identity points out that we all dovetails the events of our lives between the ages of 17 and 25 to form an autobiographical or ‘extended self’. He describes 4 core processes.

Temporal coherence
the ability to string out events in one’s life in a temporal order.
Cultural concept of biography
learning the rules of biography.
Causal coherence
explaining how events and personality relate to each other and account for change.
Thematic coherence
provide organization to threads of personal change and life-history.
http://jbarresi.psychology.dal.ca/Papers/Tucson2002.html

His work is based on some of the stirring work by English Romantic critic, William Hazlitt. He was one of the first thinkers to factor in the role of personal experience and the emergence of self-interest into human behavior. His ‘prescription for peace’ was concise. It takes a lifetime to do.

#1 The only way for one to connect to the future is through imagination.
#2 One must learn to give preference to ones own future self over that of another.
http://jbarresi.psychology.dal.ca/Papers/Tucson2002.html

So by practicing the Tai Cheating work as part of your entrainment this cycle, maybe doing it before and after your SIMPLES, you are bringing the core to surface. This is a form of what the Toltecs Sorcerers call ‘recapitulation’. We are constantly re-telling our past within ourselves. During this cycle we have an opportunity to embody a new harmomic. Carl Jung used to guide clients through a Western version of this called a Jungian Induction. I’ll leave you to employ this over the ‘time change’ weekend. It’s also a great nightly sleep prep to let the residue of the day dissipate and keep the arrow of time from piercing your kinesthetic bubble.

Jung used the inductive approach to help people access a state of self-knowing that was not fully conscious, yet undisputed by your surface experiences. It uses time.

The “target” for Jung was to expand the sense of self by using the chronological order everyone adopts to effectively “clean the heads” on the memory loops we live in that cause us to identify with our disempowered selves more often than not.

There are several ways to perform a Jungian Induction. Here’s a simple one…

1. Count from now to your birth year slowly to yourself…
2. The trick is to not stop, just observe the images {1980, 1979, 1978…)
3. Then count back to now. Stay in the awareness that you are here and here again.
4. Repeat steps #1 - #3 three times…
5. Now go forward from now the number of years you’ve lived (ex. 2003-2041)
6. Reverse from where you stop and count back to now. Again, you’re always here.
7. When you’ve done steps #5-#6 three times, you are now in that desired state…

This process is augmented by getting in a comfortable position, using all your other tools and by opening yourself up to the images that will present…

See you on the other side, MRF 10.22

Further Reading…
http://asweknowit.ca/evcult/LitEvol.shtml
http://www.hypnosisforyou.com/mind2.html
http://www.headless.org/
http://www.naturalskincare.ws/stuff-0898623820.html
http://www.newvision-psychic.com/bookshelf/ToltecPathof.htm
http://www.yinyanghouse.com/chinesetheory/theory-pulse.html#meridiancorrelations