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Perspective 13 The Ego Chooses

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Strephon does a podcast and vodcast on the nature of the ego. This can be important since what Strephon emphasizes is that everyone has an ego that can get in the way or developed in the right way, make one effective and fulfilled.

The choice is up to you!

Concepts covered: ego, ego identity, ego functions, ego choice-making, choice-making, awareness, consciousness, projecting, creative, right practice.

Suggestion: practice these concepts by making a list of choices at the end of your day, by discussing with a friend, giving personal examples, and by writing in your journal to the following:

1. -What does your ego identity consist of, such as images, expectations, family affiliations, attitudes, memories of who you were, whether you are that way today or not.
2. -Associate your ego self-identity to the strong choices you have made in your life so far. How have they defined you?
3. -Disidentify from these ego identities by knowing them but realizing you don’t have to live them in today’s terms just because they were you in the past.
4. -Soon after you arise from bed list the choices you are going to make today.
5. -At the end of your day before bed, list the choices you have made today.
6. -Keep a Choice-making Journal in which you do identity exercises, such as putting things in there about yourself and your choices at least once a week.

Perspective 12 Benedictus in Gloria

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The Benedictus is a dream chant with Strephon’s own sound of the chant coming from inner, and of course connected to tradition but also improvise to go with inner spirit.

Perspective 11 What Is Your New Years Purpose 2007?

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Strephon talks about choosing and having purpose in the New Year. We are nothing but a flash of existence, like a firework exploding unless we use a greater value to live by.

What indeed characterizes the new year? As is traditional I greeted fellow tennis players I knew when we met after January 1 with a traditional Happy New Year and a shake. But what more is there?

What then is New Years that we celebrate it unconsciously?
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New Years Dream 2007 - Strephon Kaplan-Williams

Strephon had an amazing New Years Dream that came spontaneously in the night of December 31 - Jan 1, 2007.

In working with your own New Years Dream see if you are in positive, creative energy. This indicates potential for the coming year. If you are in negative, draining energy, consider this reflects a key issue or problem you are working on and need to solve in the coming year.
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Perspective 8 Consciousness Commitment

Another in the Concept Series of Daily Perspectives to enlighten and make effective your life.

You can listen to these talks and achieve additional clarity in how you are living and not living your life.

Consciousness is the meta level to existence. You make your choices and take action based on the core principles of existence. In this you are then grounded in what is real in life.
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Perspective 7 Archetypes

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Create With Archetypes

Strephon talks about the nature of archetypes and their power over us. He shows us to bring choice to the archetypes and create with them rather than try to control them.

The definition of an archetype is an inherent energy function in the universe.

-We relate to the archetypes, we do not control them. They mostly control us.

-We have maybe thirty percent choice regarding the archetypes

-What defines us as different from an archetype?

-We look to our dreams and to life to see this.

-The image of oneself in a dream and in life

-the power and variety of choice with have in relation to the archetype

-the awareness of how the archetypes operate in us and in others and what we can do to survive the archetypes and their power

-how through choice to relate to the archetype and create with some of its energy

-how to use archetypal power to create product, whether an organization, a baby, a family a painting or a poem, a religion, and so on. Culture is the attempt by human to channel archetypal power into constructive use

-dreams or fantasies of being controlled by outside forces show how powerful the archetype is over the ego personality of the individual

-We must acknowledge the superiority of the archetypes, yet at the same time assert purpose through choice and creative containment over the archetype

-Through choice we turn fate into destiny!

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Perspective 4 Dream Sex

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Strephon talks about how dream experience sometimes clashes with our unconscious attitudes given us by society. Which do we go with? Society’s attitudes or our own life principles?

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Perspective 3 Masturbation Dream

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Strephon talks about his masturbation dream and its message to free oneself of society’s attitudes of right and wrong.

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Perspective 2 Core Thinking

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Strephon discusses Core Thinking and the use of the principle of Consistency in life.

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Perspective 1 Core Principles

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Daily Perspectives are short consciousness talks sent out daily by Strephon Kaplan-Williams covering various issues of life and dreams.

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