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Please note this Sleep Mediation is not hypnotherapy, nor is it visualization. Both these techniques are considered ego control adaptation techniques, and are therefore rejected by Strephon as a psychologist in the Jungian tradition. C.G. Jung postulated a center in the human psyche greater than, and other than, ego, the conscious side of the personality, the controller in most people. It is this deeper, inner center that we teach ego to follow in inner, healing and balancing work.

Personal use only is allowed, at your own choice and discretion, taking one hundred percent responsibility for yourself.

Strephon gives the basic value of working regularly with your dreams. He also gives the fundamental technique for finding guidance from almost every dream you dream. Dreams change and develop our perspective on ourselves and life. (21 minutes)

By the way, from whom or what do you take guidance in how to better live the moments of your day?

Our personal egos make our choices, yet for better perspective than we already have, where do we go, what source do we trust?

Even, is there a possibility that a superior guiding source actually exists?

I differ from many dream interpreters and teachers in that I seek guidance from my own dreams through dreamworking them. Too many others focus on offering guidance to others on what their dreams means but judging from experiencing the personalities of these people they seem to lack a certain truthfulness about their own condition and so act the wise savant with others who share their dreams with them.

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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?

I awoke this morning from a dream in which I instructed a woman to release and let go to her death time. If she believed it was coming up soon, then believe in it, accept it, let go to it. Don’t resist and deny, and then it comes up on you unexpected and you don’t react well to it.

Also, I said in the dream, be sincere. If you have the feeling, don’t just talk about it. Act on it.

Then when the time comes and passes you by, you can rejoice in the fact you have further new life. You have not died yet. But what will you do with that further life? What purpose or value will you dedicate it to?

If you die on that day then you have already prepared for it in the best way by releasing yourself from life already.

I suspect that many people when they die don’t release themselves of life and go freely into dying and death. They hold on and try to stay alive, no matter what. This makes their purpose for living being life itself.

Is there not more to life than life?

This is always the question. The answer seems to be: there is more to life than life if we choose for it.

Dedicate your life to a greater purpose than surviving in life. Thus you give the fragment you call your existence to the existence of a greater value than yourself. This is the purposeful life.

What does this have to do with New Years?

At New Years everybody dies and is reborn. If you want to feel the significance of New Years then prepare and act as if the end of the world comes at December 31, and if you are not dead the gods have given you and all humans another year of life.

What I found in giving and getting New Years greetings is that people may have celebrated with a little party with their friends or next door neighbors, or even a big party somewhere if you are young. Some explode fireworks in the night, a rather boring and noisy sight after awhile.

Why? Fireworks represent death-rebirth. You die. You explode in a great mandala of color and are nothing. Just like existence. You are in existence but a moment, and hope to shine, to make an impression, to live richly. But do you? Does anyone notice your existence? How many come to your funeral?

Here’s the solution, whether you choose it or not. My New Years observation this year was that most people did nothing but acknowledge New Years symbolically. They had no personal relationship to it. They did nothing with it, made no great choice to affirm new life.

Here is how it works. New Years symbolizes new birth out of the old dead life. The past year is gone, is dead. It was all you were this past year. Did you review your old year before going into the new? What were your accomplishments, personal and in projects?

Now, going into the New Year, what do you plan to live for? What are your values to realize? What are your projects to achieve?

You can live at these levels:

◦ 1. You live at the survival level, even if comfortable materially. You live, love, work, socialize, accomplish little things. Life for you is just reacting to things as they happen. Someone comes for a visit, you visit. No great purpose in any of this, but at least you are alive and enjoying your existence mostly, except when the problems come.

◦ 2. You are handling your survival level. You are handling your work and relationships existence. You have enough money to live and work and have recreation. Well, it’s nice to have that in order. What more? The time you don’t need surviving you put into bettering your situation. You start a business. You get a better job with more chance for achievement. You get a better relationships partner with more challenge and possibility in it for you. So you can see and plan for yourself a life that is better and more fulfilling in the coming year if things work out. You have your new experiences you choose for. You have your projects. You have also let go of old projects and companions who do not offer you greater value. At least you see that the New Year is the birth out of the death of the old. You are using your life for something greater than you now have.

◦ 3. You use part of your existence to survive, to live more or less securely on the material level. But the rest of your time and energy is devoted to Greater Purpose, or the manifestation of God-Source on earth. You put a lot of energy into improving yourself, solving your neurosis, developing your personality and social skills, intellectual skills also. This may be just to better your life. This can be also bettering the life of the world.

◦ 4. You are surviving but you move into the New Year with a sense of Greater Purpose and you structure your projects and your life around this value. You don’t go in for material gains, like buying a house, because these are distractions that take you away from doing something original and of value to humanity. Here your projects are to benefit others as well as yourself. You create a new piece of software, a new group to teach, you take a new coursework to make you a better person, you write that book, you travel to contribute to people’s lives, you join a cause, an organization that has value to the world.

We note in conclusion then that as we go up the scale of conscious values, people are using the New Years transition as an impetus to live as a better person and in a better life in the coming year. They don’t just do symbolic celebrations.

They commit themselves to live differently, more focused on values, in the coming year. They acknowledge the old year and what they have accomplished. They build on the good things from there in the new year.

They go consciously through a death-rebirth cycle in the New Years transition. These are the conscious people living life.

This is Strephon Kaplan-Williams living life.

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.

This New Years dream shows a healing ritual in Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, in which people touch hands with a person needing humanity contact. Also, this ritual going down to the altar creates an experience of Greater Presence In The Now, an amazing experience in the dream and what could be in enacting the dream ritual in reality as well.

The two great dynamics we need for individual and greater humanity fulfillment are ‘connection with humanity’ in its thrust forward to greater collective value, and ‘immediate direct experience of Greater Presence’ that we can live by in our personal and collective lives.

Strephon feels confirmed in his life purpose happening now and in this coming year, 2007. He invites others to also focus on the aspects and values this dream highlights.

My new article on this subject is too long, yet to the point.

The essence here is to record any dreams or thoughts from the night previous to New Years Eve. Do it for the night of New Years Eve, and do it for one more night, or until you have a dream you remember, the night after New Years Eve.

Now analyze for two themes: In your New Years dream are you losing energy or gaining energy in the activity you are doing? What is the activity you are doing? What is the theme or issue you are relating to in the dream or dreams? How does any of this relate to what you are doing or experiencing in life now?

Dreamwork: If your theme and behavior in a dream is positive, make a project for the coming year that embodies this behavior and theme.

Assume the Dream Source gives you a New Years dream as a perspective for you to focus part of your life on.

If the theme and behavior in the dream is negative or energy-draining, devise a project to do in the coming year that reverses the negatives here to becoming energy enhancing, not draining.

Assume the Dream Source wants you to focus on this negative aspect of your life and solve it this coming year.

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May this coming year be more positive than negative for each of us!

Strephon

*New Year’s Dreaming And Living*
By Strephon Kaplan-Williams

An amazing fact: Your dreams the night before, the night after, or the night of New Years can show you key themes about you and your life the coming year?

Why would you want to know what your New Years dreams mean?

Most of us haven’t a clue as to what is going to happen in the coming year? We often don’t know where to put our creative energy in this next year of our lives.

What is most important to your now as to how you are living your life?

Wasting Our Lives Or Enhancing Them?

Here’s a fact. Most of us use fifty percent of our waking time on survival activities. We work to earn money to eat, to have shelter, and to have some of the good things of life.

That’s fifty percent of our time and energy? What happens with the other fifty percent of our time?

Why, of course, we waste it!

Shocked, alarmed?

Certainly you need to be, you should be. How can you ‘get ahead’ in life if you are wasting fifty percent of your time and energy in life?

Say, you actually live to seventy. If you have wasted half your waking hours that means you have only existed as yourself for thirty-five years.

What are you getting out of watching all those movies and other TV shows? Not a hell of a lot. Why? Because every time we get absorbed in a TV drama, or a novel, we are lost in the story. We are living someone else’s life and imagination in those moments.

You don’t live someone else’s life and live your own life as well at the same time.

Do you really want to give your time and energy to one more movie? Or to hours and hours of socializing with family and friends? What do you get from all this absorption in what someone else is doing when you are barely present to what you should be doing with your life?

*The Big Question*

Back to our key question: What are you doing with that fifty percent of your life that you don’t have to use to survive with in this coming year?

Why not invest this time in what is likely to enhance your time and energy, and not detract from who you can be?

One way is to set goals for oneself, but ground these goals in concrete projects and values.

*The New Years Life Tasks To Do*

It takes energy to create energy.

Set your project goals and values to what can increase energy, resources and values for yourself. Make a commitment to carry through on these projects.

As a companion task make a commitment to give up all activities that drain energy from you.

This means give up maybe half or all family activities for the coming year.

Really! Is this so hard? Ask yourself what are you getting out of relating to family? All life is based on life, is it not? If people are draining your energy and not giving back equally in return, you are losing some of your precious life. That is death. That is dying while you are still living.

So, don’t do it! You don’t owe anyone anything anymore. All debts should be well paid in the moment. In any energy-exchange relating you should both gain some good, positive energy and resources while you are interacting, not just at some hoped for time in the future.

If we are not moving ahead we are falling behind.

If we are not creating new and more valuable energy we are losing the present energy we do have.

Life is increasing the energy, death is draining the energy without much renewal.

Make all your relationships positively creative now. Ones that are not, shuck out the back window. Say a nice goodbye but say it!

We started with wondering about our New Years dreaming. Yet we talked about outer things to do. Almost certainly, you will find the above themes in your dreams.

*How To Work With New Years Dreams*

First, record your dreams, write them down regardless of whether you like them or understand them yet.

Then when you have some dreams, or just one dream, analyze for issue and theme. These are themes from the above ideas presented here.

◦ energy drain: in your dream you, the image of you: are you losing energy or gaining energy?

◦ if gaining energy, what is the activity you are doing? How might this activity be important for you in the coming year? What project and goal can you design to do this coming year based on this activity?

◦ if what you are doing, or what is happening to you, in the dream is negative, draining energy, weakening your in some way, then analyze what that activity or dynamic is in yourself or your life. Make it clear and create a project to deal with this issue and change it or stop it from happening.

*Dreamwork Definition*

Dreamwork is finding the issue or theme in the dream, and also seeing how you in the dream, your dream ego, is handling or not handling the issue.

Most dreams highlight these two points. Now the third thing to do is to create dreamwork. You see the issue and how you presently do or don’t deal with it. Now you create a realistic attitude and activity to make it possible to deal with and transform your issue presented in the dream and also present in your life.

Do this much and you will have a good and useful handle on your New Years dreams.

*New means new!*

It’s a new year for each of us. So let’s not waste any of it in energy draining and life-defeating things!

Let’s cut down that fifty percent waste to just twenty percent waste.

Don’t ask how to do it. Just do it.

You will learn how to change things only by starting to change things.

See you next year! Don’t say I haven’t given you something to work with.

Best of love and energy to you!

- Strephon Says 42 True Meaning Of Christmas

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Strephon talks about the real Christmas and New Years, which is inside us. He says that the greatest gift is the gift of life and existence out of love. Thus the real gift you give is love.

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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.

Commitment to living core principles means you are eating away at the unconsciousness that you and most people live at.

You know what you are doing, and you do what you know.

You are living life consciously.

You become aware of things as they are.

CONSCIOUSNESS

-as in the above

CORE PRINCIPLES

Live from core principles, such as balance the energy, integrate opposites, create wholes including all the parts, choose to integrate and affirm new unities.

REALITY AWARENESS

Live from awareness of what is. This means accept all of reality as it comes your way, rejecting nothing. Yet balance the energy. Don’t try to overwhelm someone or something. Don’t lose. Don’t win.

CHOICE

Make choices, choosing one thing and not other possibilities. Choice is the one absolute. What we choose is what we become.

GREATER GUIDANCE

Choose to follow greater guidance than ego in your life. When you do this you have the larger perspective. You do not put your own ego desires first but choose a greater value to live by.

You make choices based on core principles and values.

You make purposeful and meaningful your life.

COMMITMENT

You make a sustained choice to live from a greater source than ego. You do not fail this choice. Commitment to a value is the sustained choice that underlies all other choices that you make in daily 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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