New Stuff on the Doyletics Website:

Read New Essay by Bobby Matherne:       Questions and Answers about the Science of doyletics

Eight General Questions about the Science of doyletics: Asked and Answered on FAQ Page.

The five Most Read Reviews of Authors/Books for the YEAR 2006:

1. Anam Cara — A Book of Celtic Wisdomby John O'Donohue

In this book, O'Donohue leads us to a personal experience of Celtic wisdom and understanding. Anam Cara means "soul friend" and by the end of this book, you will understood what that means and feel like you have found one in John O'Donohue. He writes with lyrical flights of fancy that are insightful and soul-feeling.

[page 22] When you find the person you love, an act of ancient recognition brings you together It is as if millions of years before the silence of nature broke, your lover's clay and your clay lay side by side.

If you have a special friend you consider an anam cara, read this book and find out more about what makes an anam cara.

2. The Archangel Michael by Rudolf Steiner

In our time, the Archangel Michael is up for promotion. He is symbolized in paintings and statues as St. Michael or St. George fighting a dragon. Often St. Michael his is shown standing with his foot on a writhing snake or dragon with his sword ready to dispatch it. This is to remind us that evil is still alive, but with Michael's help we can get rid of it in our lives. Michael is the highest of the Archangels, whom, in comparison to the other Archangels, Steiner likens to the Sun in comparison to the planets. Michael will advance to the nature of Archai, aand, as the Time Spirit for the Earth he will guide the whole of humanity. How will this show up in the material world? Every process in the spiritual world has an imprint in the material world, if one knows how to locate it. Basically the human personality that formerly has come from below, from Lucifer, will henceforth come from above, from the spiritual world. The blood and temperament that formerly were the hallmarks of personality will diminish and the Michael Impulse will infuse our soul with personality directly from the spiritual world.

[page 9] Michael cannot fulfill his mission without humanity's cosmic vocation of freedom, individuality, and love. Human beings, too, depend on Michael for the fulfillment of their task . . . His great joy is helping those who of their own free deed enter the ranks of those collaborating in the great work of the invisible.

3. The Closing of the American Mind by Allen Bloom

This book contains a comprehensive exposition of Allan Bloom's views on education and expands on the view he expresses in his long introduction to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile or On Education. One need only read "Emile" to discover the truth of Bloom's statement that a reading of original texts allows one to form a vital understanding of issues that a reading of shallow rehashes of such texts does not. Bloom discusses in this book two types of Openness, how he proposes to re-invigorate college curriculum, and how his suggestion to use original texts [Great Books] is vilified by the Three great parts of the University today, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.

A paradoxical aspect of Bloom's book is that he deals with two forms of openness and goes on to show how what is called openness in the first form actually amounts to a "closing of the mind". Here are two kinds of openness and the effects that Bloom says each has on students:

I. Openness of indifference — humbling of intellectual pride; be whatever you want to be.
II. Openness to the quest for knowledge and certitude — history and cultures as examples

4. An American Childhood by Annie Dillard

[page 3] When everything else has gone from my brain — the President's name, the state capitals, the neighborhoods where I lived, and then my own name and what it was on earth I sought, and at length the faces of my friends, and finally the faces of my family — when all this has dissolved, what will be left, I believe, is topology: the dreaming memory of land as it lay this way and that.

In this wonderful book Annie Dillard writes about the "dreaming memory of the land" and conjures up her past in this reader as his very own "dreaming memory." A memory of Ben Franklin's Pennsylvania when "a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground." A memory of her beloved Pittsburgh in the 1950's. If a book like this one ever gets in your head, you just gotta set out to see the territory that it portrays. Life on the Mississippi got into her father's head and he had to set out down the river. He never made it all the way to New Orleans, but his daughter grew up, woke up, and found herself at home in Pittsburgh. In the following metaphor she describes how consciousness converged with her at 10 years old:

[page 11] Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.

5. The Emotional Brain by Joseph LeDoux

LeDoux says in the beginning of this book that he wanted to know how brains make emotions. He ends his book with this statement: “The brain states and bodily responses are the fundamental facts of an emotion.” He then proceeds to show how those bodily responses are stored and retrieved from the amydaline structures of the root brain. This structure has two jobs to perform:

1.) store any novel physical body state with its associated perceptual context, 2.) when presented with a familiar perceptual context later, to re-trigger its associated physical body state.

These bodily responses that comprise emotions, feelings, and all non-real-time bodily states are called “doyles” or “doylic memories” in the nascent science of doyletics. Brain states are accessible by neural researchers like LeDoux with their micro-electrodes; our physical body states are accessible by everyone as a circadian fact of life. LeDoux’s work dramatically demonstrates that physical body states are stored in and retrieved from the amygdala. That makes his neural research extremely important to the science of doyletics.

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New Grabbag Tidbit of Humor:       Suspected Al-gebra Terrorist Arrested in Phoenix
Submitted by Anna Keller on January 9, 2007. Thanks, Anna!

At Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport today, a man was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a tee-square, a slide rule, and a calculator. Homeland Security later discovered that he was a public school math teacher.

At a morning press conference, a spokesman said the man is being charged by the Dept. of Homeland Security with carrying weapons of math instruction. They believe the man is a member of the world-wide Al-gebra movement.

"Al-gebra is a fearsome cult," he said. "They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search of absolute value. They use secret code names like 'x' and 'y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we have determined they belong to the common denominator of the Axis of Evaluation with Coordinates in every country.

When asked if he will be brought to trial, the math teacher said, "As the Greek philanderer Isosceles liked to say, 'There are 3 sides to every Triangle.'"

Other New Stuff on the Website:
• New Tidbit in Grabbag

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  Obituary for an Entertainment Icon Submitted by Jeff Parson on January 19, 2007. Thanks, Jeff !

  Please join me in remembering a great icon of the entertainment community.

  The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and trauma complications from repeated pokes in the belly. His last words were, "Oo! hoo-hoo-ooo!" He was 71.

  Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and Captain Crunch. The grave site was piled high with flours.

  Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man who never knew how much he was kneaded. Doughboy rose quickly in show business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not considered a very smart cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times he still was a crusty old man and was considered a positive roll model for millions.

  Doughboy is survived by his wife Play Dough, two children, John Dough and Jane Dough, plus they had one in the oven. He is also survived by his elderly father, Pop Tart.

  The funeral was held at 3:50 for about 20 minutes.

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Movies we watched this past month:

Notes about our movies: Many of the movies we watch are foreign movies with subtitles. After years of watching movies in foreign languages, Arabic, French, Swedish, German, British English, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and many other languages, sometimes two or three languages in the same movie, the subtitles have disappeared for us. If the movie is dubbed in English we go for the subtitles instead because we enjoy the live action and sounds of the real voices so much more than the dubbed. If you wonder where we get all these foreign movies from, the answer is simple: NetFlix. For a fixed price a month they mail us DVD movies from our on-line Queue, we watch them, pop them into a pre-paid mailer, and the postman effectively replaces all our gas-consuming and time-consuming trips to Blockbuster. To sign up for NetFlix, simply go to http://www.netflix.com/ and start adding all your requests for movies into your personal queue. If you've seen some in these movie blurbs, simply copy the name, click open your queue, and paste the name in the Search box on NetFlix and Select Add. Buy some popcorn and you're ready to Go to the Movies, 21st Century Style. You get to see your movies as the Director created them — NOT-edited for TV, in full-screen width, your own choice of subtitles, and all of the original dialogue.
P. S. Any rumors that Netflix doesn't deliver DVD's promptly is hogwash so far as I am concerned. Our new DVD's are delivered with a couple of days of the old ones being put out on my mailbox.

“The Devil Wears Prada” (2006) and an Angel who loves her writes for the NY Mirror in the end. A pointed look at high heels and the high-up heels who wear them and make other women wear them. Throw a peach into a pressure cooker and you expect it to get mushy, but this peach is a survivor! She walks away from fame and Paris to become her own person. A Don’t Miss Hit!
“Lady in the Water” (2006) is a new Grimm-like fairy tale for the twenty-first century. A man whose feelings have been submerged out of sight since his wive and children suddenly died many years earlier has those feelings surface when the Lady in the Water comes out his swimming pool and into his life. This movie may give little children scary dreams which makes it a double bonus for attaching them to their physical bodies as the Bros. Grimm knew years ago when they first wrote scary fairy tales for little children.
“Voices of a Distant Star” (2003) Evocatively beautiful images of a love affair which bridges Sirius and our sun in this 30-min anime film. Forget the details, just watch this extraordinary movie.
“Antonio’s Line” (1995) proceeds from herself to her daughter (Artist), grand-daughter (Math Whiz), and great-grand-daughter (Writer). Her line also include Loose Lips, DeeDee, a bachelor farmer and his five kids, and anyone who will follow her home where they will be welcomed and loved for their unique qualities. A small town in Holland full of zanies: the lustful priest, the Mad Woman who bays at the moon, to name a couple. A amazing epic of the life of a strong willful woman who was the light of the village. A DON’T MISS HIT!
“Seabiscuit” (2003) Since watching this movie in 2004, I watched the earlier version with Shirley Temple. Watching it again, I’m aware of the amazing difference in the stories. The back stories of Chris Cooper (trainer), Tobey Maguire (jockey), and Jeff Bridges (owner) are better developed and lead inevitably to a cosmic convergence with Seabiscuit (the horse). Red Pollard, the jockey, has the best line about the three men and the horse's relationship: “We fixed each other.” See Documentary.A DON’T MISS HIT!
“Uptown Girls” (2003) 2nd Viewing. A self-indulgent rich girl who never worked a day in her life, loses her money and has to get a life. As a nanny to an uptight 8-yr-old overachiever (Dakota Fanning), they make a hilarious odd couple and both undergo smoothing of their rough edges and find true love and meaning in their lives.
“White Banners” (1938) “Turn your white flag of surrender into white banners” Hannah advised. She had done that her whole life and now she has found a loving family she can be cook and advisor to. Jackie Cooper plays a young adult who helps Claude Raines invent the first electric and then first gas refrigerator. When the final truth comes out of everyone’s relationship, the movie itself raises the white flag to the Hollywood censors and Hannah must go out into the wintry cold at the end of the movie because she has sinned. Luckily, we and Hollywood have outgrown such purile foolishness. Watch this great classic and write your own ending for Hannah's life. A Don’t Miss Hit!
“Tallagdega Nights” (2006) The delivery of laughs begins with a sudden stop! and continues non-stop the rest of the way. Hollywood unloads their jar of red-neck jokes and stereotypes and the movie still ends up a HIT in spite of that.

Misses (Avoid At All Costs): We attempted to watch these this month, but didn't make it all the way through on most of them. Awhile back when three AAAC horrors hit us in one night, I decided to add a sub-category to "Avoid at All Costs", namely, A DVD STOMPER. These are movies so bad, you don't want anyone else to get stuck watching them, so you want to stomp on the disks. That way, if everyone else who gets burnt by the movie does the same, soon no copies of the awful movie will be extant and the world will be better off.

“Sacrifice” (2000) this DVD to the gods! Hop and chop bummer. Luckily, it became unplayable and will be discarded by NetFlix when it gets back to them. A DVD STOMPER!
"Mirror" (1974) If you take a long look in this mirror, you won't like what you see. Stomp first and ask questions later.
“A Scanner Darkly” (2006) “Does Charlie Brown Dream of Cartoon Sheep?” Philip K. Dick bombs on this drugged-out movie with a picture of a sheep that looks like a dog. A waste of talent and a paean to bad taste. Conversion to cartoon format by computer processing was interesting to watch (esp. Keanu’s coat of many people), but lugubrious story got in the way.
“All the King’s Men” (2006) Seems like this script was taken apart by the writers and guess who couldn’t put it back together again? Lack of continuity, things left unsaid in dialogue should have been said, a few great screen shots, but mostly mumbled dialogue and jumpy transitions. Frisbee time for the DVD!

Your call on these — your taste in movies may differ, but I liked them:

“Happiness” (1998) Happiness where are you? I haven’t a clue. and you won’t either if you watch the movie with a "Happiness" title song. Three sisters like the 3 Bears: 1 woman — too many men, 1 woman — no men, 1 woman — 1 man (but not "just right"). Their mother divorces and the four women seem to find happiness together in the end, all single, around the dinner table with the dad talking about one man.
“The Order” (2003) An anti-Catholic movie about an obscure monastic order called the Carolinians whose head dies mysteriously and the two remaining priests seek the “Other” — the killer of their mentor who is suspected of being a “sin eater.” They locate instructions for killing the sin eater, but too late find out the instructions have an other sinister meaning. Quotable quote: "Every fear hides a wish."
“Black Dahlia” (2006) Elisabeth Short’s life and death in 1947 is examined in this well-done period piece, only marred by its dark scenes, mumbled dialogue, and lack of continuity. Turn on subtitles for this one. Josh Hartnett one of the mumblers of the crew.
“Hollywood Homicide” (2003) On second viewing, this movie is a joke, or rather one joke after another. This is a comedy not a police drama. How else you explain the Keystone Kops scene where Josh Hartnett is driving lickety-split down the wrong side of a Hollywood avenue and Harrison Ford is on the passenger side on his cell trying to close a real estate deal? ! Maybe I took it too seriously the first time. Watch it, let your guard down, and have fun. It’s a hoot. A spoof. A send-up, not a shoot’em-up. See also Digest #54 for November, 2004.
“Alexander Nevsky” (1938) The people of the land of Rus (Russians) are besieged by the Mongol Hordes from the East and the Teutonic Knights from the West. Alexander Nevsky must lead his people in a huge fight against the more dangerous Germans threatening their lives, families, and farms. Amazing period piece of Russian history and filmdom.

Choose for the Best

“What does EAT-O-TWIST mean?”
Everything Allways Turns Out The Way It’s Supposed To.

“Yes, but what do you suppose that means?”
I suppose that means: Whatever one wants to be happening
      or
Whatever one is afraid of happening
      will happen.

“How am I supposed to choose for the best?”
Whatever you want,
       you create with your will,
Whatever you’re afraid of,
       you create with your will,
And whatever you will
       you will create a memory in the future
       which will seed the action in your present,
       in your presence.

“EAT-O-TWIST?”
Yes, and even more.

“Even more?”
Yes, you get to choose:
Whatever you will
  Whenever you will
   You will create a memory of the future
       to seed the action in your present,
       in your presence.

“I suppose I’m supposed to choose my supposing very carefully.”
Yes, that’s what EAT-O-TWIST means.

“Do you suppose I’ll ever learn?”
If you suppose you will, it will turn out that you will.

“Oh, EAT-O-TWIST!”
EAT-O-TWIST!

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NOTES: "Choose for the Best": Written on June 1, 1998.
This poemlet helps explain EAT-O-TWIST in some detail, which explanation
is long over due, some might say. I say, EAT-O-TWIST!

And for my Good Readers, here’s the new reviews and articles for this month. The ARJ2 ones are new additions to the top of A Reader’s Journal, Volume 2, Chronological List, and the ART ones to A Reader’s Treasury.

1.) ARJ2: The Physics of Human Experience by Stephen Edelglass

       With the advent of the twentieth century and its quantum mechanics paradoxes, physicists were in a dilemma as to which model to believe the particle or the wave model for light. They had reached the limit of their object-based models of the world and had to step back and reconsider the usability of such models at all. They adopted Goethe's model-free approach to science as soon as they were forced to focus solely upon creating relationships for the phenomena they observed, and they reluctantly tossed their object-like models of quantum mechanics into the dustbin of history.

[page 134] No longer could physicists feel that they were cognizing reality. Their models were merely models, their knowledge merely operational. Modern physics makes clear the inability to gain reality through an object-like mechanistic basis conceived as the causation behind the phenomenal world.

       Einstein sought to achieve an acceptable model for quantum mechanics and was confronted with such incommensurable enigmas as his famous Einstein-Poldosky-Rosen (EPR) Paradox. If one describes the EPR Paradox from a purely phenomenal standpoint, it is understandable, even though it seems to describe that any two objects in contact with one another remain in contact no matter how far they are separated in space. The problem is the use of the pseudo-phenomenal term object in the above explanation. Objects in the real world have no definable boundary — they extend outward infinitely and thus there is no complete separation in the phenomenal world, only in our abstract pseudo-phenomenal world of objects.
       We have come to learn that there are no suitably imaginable models of quantum mechanics. Once we let go of our unsuitable object-based models, the paradoxes disappear. It is time for us to retrofit earlier science with this knowledge gained in quantum mechanics and discard all pseudo-phenomenal models and ways of talking about reality.

[page 134] However, the paradoxical nature of quantum mechanics is connected with the unimaginability of the model. Pseudo-phenomenal model-free epistemologies are therefore not subject to such paradoxes and thus do not undermine our sense of reality.

       Reductionism, which worked so well for scientists in the field of mechanics after Newton's time, no longer works in the new world science has led itself into. It must now let go of reducing all phenomena to mechanical explanations and trust its direct perception of reality. By doing so, science may once again regain its senses.
       You have now read the blurb on the review, and are qualified to jump into the whole review or perhaps to take a quantum leap directly into the book itself.

http://www.doyletics.com/arj/phyhumex.htm

2.) ARJ2: The Lost German Slave Girl — The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans by John Bailey

       The story of Sally Miller has been told several times before this book, but those earlier stories and books were devoted to sensationalizing Sally's life, instead of documenting it. What John Bailey provides us in this book is something rarely found in literature: a compelling account of Sally Miller's attempt to be free from slavery combined with a full documentation of the twists and turns of the court cases. In addition to the battle for Sally to be freed once and for all from the stigma of slavery, there is the battle for her original owner, John Miller, to be free from the stigma of having impressed a white woman into slavery. Both battles will be vociferously fought in Civil Court, Louisiana Supreme Court, Federal District Court, and miscellaneous other courts and courtyards of early nineteenth century New Orleans before the amazing resolution is reached by the end of the book.
       This is a vibrant book full of life, heartaches, promises, misery, separations, and reunions. The story pulls you irresistibly along and by the third chapter, "The Year Without A Summer", you will likely be as hooked as I was. I read it straight through in about six hours, pausing only long enough to eat and sleep overnight before finishing it. By the last third of the book, I felt as though I had entered the nineteenth century -- I could hear the man pushing his wheelbarrow of watermelons through the French Quarter, and the urchins tap-dancing on the sidewalks for coins, and horse-drawn carts making deliveries. The courts were located in the Presbytere, the building to the right side of St. Louis Cathedral, off Place des Armes (later renamed Jackson Square when the statue fo Andrew Jackson was added as its centerpiece).
       The author is a lawyer from Australia and he stumbled upon Sally Miller's case while studying law reports on slavery cases. He saw an opportunity to tell a compelling story while reaching his objective of shedding light on how slaves were treated in the American court system. In the Author's Note, Bailey writes:

[page x] I found judgments touching upon almost every conceivable aspect of slavery. Even litigation concerning a mortgage reveals much when the mortgaged property is a ten-year-old girl. The judgments told of blood-curdling brutality, iron discipline, and a judicial hardness of heart. But they also told of compassion, clemency, and a high regard for justice. It was a checkerboard of darkness and light. I read those decisions of judges who flexed the law to free slaves, and of those who bent the law to ensure that slaves could never be free.

As for Sally's case, he writes:

[page xi] Litigation about the identity of Sally Miller ran in the Louisiana courts for years. What commenced as a petition for freedom developed into a trial about the honor of a wealthy Southern gentleman accused of the heinous misdeed of enslaving a helpless white girl. As claims and counterclaims were made, and mutual accusations of fraud, lies, and simpleminded gullibility were leveled, Sally Miller's fate became a cause célèbre and was discussed at length by river men in the taverns, traders in the markets, idlers in the coffeehouses, and matrons in the parlors of the highborn. People strained for a glimpse of her whenever she walked abroad so that they too could pass judgment on whether African or German blood flowed in her veins.

       This book describes the roller coaster ride which Sally Miller went through. I hope this blurb gives you some sense of the ride which awaits you in the book. It is now up to you to get aboard and enjoy a preview of the ride by reading the review. Hop aboard and take a trip into another world, the world of the nineteenth century, when some people could be bought and sold as property, and whether one was such a person or not could be determined by evidence and judges in a court of law. If you undertake this journey into the past, you will return from it with a better appreciation of the land in which you live, and if you live in New Orleans, a better appreciation for how your city came to be the way it is today.

http://www.doyletics.com/arj/lostgerm.htm

3.) ARJ2: Earthly Knowledge and Heavenly Wisdom by Rudolf Steiner

      Steiner shares with us in these nine lectures some "earthly knowledge" of how the human being works in body, soul, and spirit, and some "heavenly wisdom" in his description of how the evolution of humanity progressed from ancient Persian times up to our modern age. In the eighty plus years since Steiner gave these lectures in 1924, our technology has progressed to the point where Artificial Intelligence claims to be able to duplicate human thinking. The movie "A. I." gives us a cold, dark, but accurate look at the ultimate end to such materialistic thinking and concepts.
      Steiner helps us understand where we are in an evolutionary sense. Remember Louis Reed's haunting lyrics of "September Song"? "It's a long, long while from May to December, but the days grow short when we reach September." It is September in human evolution.

[page 3] As members of the human race, we have to find this inner sense of direction in the awareness that we belong to this or that century, which, in turn, has a special place in the total evolution of our planet, just as the month of September has a special place in the course of the year. In other words, we have to become aware of how our soul life will enter into our particular historical epoch.
      This is something we still have to work on by entering more and more deeply into the development of the consciousness soul. We have to be conscious that we live in this or that epoch and are not fully human if we leave our life to chance, or karma, which has placed us into our earthly existence at birth. We are fully human, in the true sense of the word, only if we take into account what the historical evolution of humanity demands of our soul life in the epoch in which we live. Animals live in accordance with the course of the year. Human beings, on the other hand, have to learn to live in accordance with a historical epoch.

      When we study the epochs of human history, we must be aware of changes in human beings as dramatic as the egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and butterfly stages of certain insects. Otherwise we will err as a butterfly-historian who might write about how high butterflies flew when they were caterpillars! Yet, that is, in effect, what historians do who are ignorant of the tremendous changes in human processes, such as thinking and consciousness, have undergone in historical times. Ancient humans were like butterflies trying to know their real selves while they are still crawling around the Earth in the caterpillar stage of their existence. The butterfly does not exist to crawl upon the Earth for its entire existence, any more than human beings exist to live in physical bodies and remain forever in the caterpillar stage of human evolution.

[page 7] The philosophy of life fundamental to all ancient civilizations was that human beings do not belong to the earth in the same way as the creatures of the other kingdoms of nature. The real home of our true essence is not on earth but elsewhere, in the supersensible world. This conviction was not unfounded; people arrived at it through a crisis in their soul lives after they had learned everything about nonhuman life on earth that was appropriate for their times. In fact, this inner crisis could be resolved only because people in ancient times were still able to look at pre-earthly life and also at post-earthly life, at life after death.

       People in ancient times were unable to experience full humanness until they had passed through the portal of death. We living humans today are able to experience full humanness and it behooves us to do so or we will become like a butterfly sans wings who is doomed to crawl about the Earth as a caterpillar because it repudiated the very essence of its evolutionary growth, its future as a butterfly.
       But we humans have changed from the ancients and when we awaken from sleep now we feel a sharp demarcation between sleeping and waking. Nothing from the sleep state continues to live in us as it did with the ancients. Since 1453 A. D. we have moved on to pure intellectual thinking when we are awake and we sleep in a state of "nothingness." Where do most people's thought come from today? From their study of nature or historical documents or from the concepts fed them by teachers in school. They take these things and mirror them and call them ideas. This creates a passive way of thinking which has replaced creative thinking. But there is a still a way of infusing our thought with inner reality. It requires "enough will to push our night being into our waking life." Steiner devoted his book, The Philosophy of Freedom to enlightening people how to accomplish this.

[page 29] At the time, I could not express it in the same words I do now, but it really is true that when we are asleep, we free our I-being, and then we can insert it into our pure thinking. We become aware of our I-being in pure thinking when we live actively in our thoughts.

       Since Bacon's time, science has been taught passively. Steiner was well aware of the dangers of teaching or learning anthroposophy (his spiritual science) in a passive manner: those who learned it passively would be unable to stand up for it. One of the things we must know about our thoughts is that they are like the corpses or dead bodies of the living spiritualness which lived in us in our previous spiritual life before we were born. Some of that aliveness remained in us as children, but soon disappeared as the behest of the adults around us for whom such thoughts and visions as we had during our pre-five years no longer existed and had been long forgotten.
      Steiner's words, rightly understood, are to be used as crowbars by us, Good Readers, to pry away the boards of natural science which have been covering the windows of our reality, up until now. With my own background in natural science (physics) I would often include tables and diagrams to illustrate various points in Steiner's reviews. I am chastened by what Steiner writes in this next passage, and, picking up earlier hints by him, for some time now I have avoided any tables or diagrams in my reviews which might re-cover the windows of the world with the boards which Steiner strives to tear away with his words and living thoughts.
      We have become Baconian hermits living in Plato's Cave staring at the shadows on the wall and wondering what is really there that those shadows are giving us hints about. Those shadows are the abstract laws which Bacon and his followers have shaped their explanations of how the natural world around us works, but they tell us nothing about soul and spirit. If you want to learn more about soul and spirit, learning about earthly knowledge and heavenly wisdom is a good way to start your search.

http://www.doyletics.com/arj/earthlyk.htm

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I hear often from my Good Readers that they have bought books after reading my book reviews. Keep reading, folks! As I like to remind you, to obtain more information on what's in these books, buy and read the books — for less information, read the reviews.

In this section I like to comment on events in the world, in my life, and in my readings which have come up during the month. These are things I might have shared with you in person, if we had had the opportunity to converse during the month. If we did, then you may recognize my words. If I say some things here which upset you, rest assured that you may skip over these for the very reason that I would likely have not brought up the subject to spoil our time together in person.

1. Padre Filius Sees a Billboard this Month:

Padre Filius, the cartoon character created by your intrepid editor and would-be cartoonist, will appear from time to time in this Section of the Digest to share us on some amusing or enlightening aspect of the world he observes during his peregrinations.

This month the good Padre reads a Self-Advertisement on a Lamar Sign Co. Billboard:

2.Comments from Readers:

• EMAIL from Anna in Luling, Louisiana:
  Ahoj Bobby,
  Your pictures of Czech Republic brought back many memories as this is where I last saw my dad's remaining sister in 1975, (At Chodov and Ostrav nad. Ohri) and toured Praha with my cousin, Dr. Ivo Brozik. His mother was my first cousin, Ludmila Brozikova. I well remember the grandeur of that ancient city, and the compound of Hradcany Castle with the guards goosetepping in their jack boots across the cobblestoned square in front of St. Vitus Church. So many cobblestone streets!
  Na shledanou, (See ya!)
  Anna
• EMAIL from Betty in Louisville, Kentucky:
  Happy New Year Bobby & Del
  Gosh, what a full Press Digest and not as full as the good time you seemed to have. The pictures were outstanding, as usual.
  I wish you both a wonderful 2007 and do hope our paths cross sometime, somewhere this year.
  Hugs to you both, Betty
• EMAIL from Doc in Metairie, Louisiana:
  Happy New Year to you and Adele, and may the Child whose Birthday we have just celebrated allow us to choose health in our activities and in our nutrition, goodness in everything we do, freedom ever appreciated, friendship ever deepening, sanity, love — evermore love, and (dare we hope) peace in 2007 and beyond. Mark
• EMAIL from Curtis & Diane in Shreveport, Louisiana:
  Dear Bobby and Del,
  Great pictures. It was good to hear from you. Happy New Year! We got to see Michaela at the book signing in Shreveport.
  Thanks again,
  Curtis and Diane

• EMAIL from AAA Wayne's wife in Gretna:
  Mr. Matherne,
  I wanted to thank you for sharing your vacation pictures with Wayne and me. They were spectacular. I particularly enjoyed the pics of Prague. Maybe one day we will take a trip like that.
  That is, if I can get Wayne north of the Mason-Dixon Line!
  Again, many thanks.
  Eileen
• EMAIL from Chicago:
  We are all following closely the big game on Sunday. Of course the Saints are the emotional favorite after their rebirth, except in Chicago where only Katrina survivors don't root for the Bears. In should be interesting to see if the Saints can survive our subzero weather.
  Greetings to Del,
  Joe
• EMAIL from Warren in Oregon:
  Bobby,
  Congratulations, you did an excellent job tackeling the job of disproving the theories of the conventional therapists [about the existence of Hard-Wired Emotions]. Being able to modify or control my emotions with Doyletics principals makes it patently obvious even to me, they are using faulty logic in their conclusions. [See Commentary Immediately Below.]
  Warren L. Liberty
  

3. Are there any Hard-Wired Emotions?

Some of my Good Mountain Press Digest Readers know about doyletics, which is what the website which supports this Digest is devoted to. What is doyletics? It is a nascent science of the human emotions which clarifies and explains many of the puzzling aspects about human emotions, feelings, and many other aspects of what it means to be a human being. One of the useful tools provided by doyletics is called the Speed Trace which provides a way to convert unwanted physical body states, called doyles or doylic memories, into just memories. In other words instead of having some anxiety arise in a social situation, after doing a Speed Trace on your anxiety, the next time you're in that same social situation, no anxiety will be present, only a dim memory of the event below five years old which originally stored the feelings of anxiety in you.

If there were Hard-Wired Emotions, then emotions such as anxiety could not be modified by a simple memory technique known as the Speed Trace, and yet Doyle Henderson and I have helped people removes such states for the pasty forty years. Our experience has proven beyond a doubt to us that any emotional component can be removed by a Speed Trace thus modifying an onerous emotion into a more manageable one. So far as we can tell, since using this new technology, there are no basic emotions which are hard-wired into human beings from birth.

Let's look at what is being taught in the academy. I am taking a Teaching Company Course, "The Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions" taught by Prof. Robert C. Solomon at the University of Texas. He gives this definition of "basic emotions" in the Part I. Course Guidebook:

[page 11] In contemporary psychology, anger is generally viewed as a basic emotion, that is, one that is physiologically "hard-wired." Fear is another basic emotion. Such an emotion stems from a certain neurological, hormonal, and muscular syndrome that is triggered by a certain kind of event. What follows is more or less automatic.

We know from the premise of the science of doyletics that emotions are complexes of doylic memories and can be easily removed or erased from having any effect by the memory technique known as the "Speed Trace". That emotions are "not" hard-wired is a simple matter to prove to oneself. Once one has removed some onerous emotion using a memory technique, one can no longer hold that the emotion was hard-wired, can one? Why debate whether something is a fact or not, when one can determine the truth immediately for oneself?

As Prof. Solomon reveals in the quoted passage above, he is not familiar with the nascent science of doyletics or he would be unable to view anger, fear, or any other emotion as a hard-wired basic emotion.

How is it possible that experts in the field of emotion could view an emotion as hard-wired? The answer is that doylic memories, when triggered by some event will create neurological, hormonal, and muscular effects exactly as one would expect from a hard-wired physiology. And these will be triggered every time that event recurs, with equal intensity and virulence, for a person's entire lifetime, if no conscious or unconscious doyle trace is performed.

Solomon's statements in the above quotation allows me to dramatize the amazing insight Doyle P. Henderson had back around 1975 when he postulated that "emotions are recapitulated physical body states stored during an original event from before five years old." With that statement and some forty years of hard work, we now have easily available proof to anyone that there are no basic emotions for the simple reason that any emotion's component parts can be traced and erased by anyone with a few minutes of practice.

If you have been told or read that certain emotions such as anger, fear, depression, sadness, moodiness, and phobias, among other things, require drugs or extensive therapy to overcome, consider that perhaps the person who told you that believed in the establishment paradigm which claims that there are basic emotions which are hard-wired at birth. But, you don't have to take my word that there are no hard-wired emotions which cannot be removed. Simply learn to do the Speed Trace and remove them in yourself.

As Principal Researcher for the Doyletics Foundation, I have yet to encounter an individual who is unable to remove unwanted doylic memories which comprise emotions and feelings and other bodily activities. There are some who have difficulties getting started, but with some effort on their part and a little guidance from others who have been successful, soon they are removing unwanted doylic memories on their own and improving the emotional balance of their lives.

What about you? If you have some unwanted bodily states that you would like to remove permanently, read the Introduction Page and learn how to use the simple memory technique called the Speed Trace to improve the quality of your life. Does it work? Try it out for yourself. Our Motto at the Doyletics Foundation is, "When in Doubt, Trace it Out!"

May 2007 be a Happy New Year and full of Good Doyles to All!

Bobby Matherne
Principal Researcher
The Doyletics Foundation

P. S. Check out these two new website additions on the subject of doyletics:
1. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS: An Essay by Bobby Matherne
2. FAQ Addition: EIGHT GENERAL QUESTIONS

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5. Commentary on the Earth’s Robustness

Take a long look at the statue of the Earth in the photo below. It was made of stone by human beings to illustrate their illusion that the Earth is fragile. The sculptor and investors were so positive the Earth was fragile that they invested their time and money (over a million dollars) to create this behemoth statue to their illusion. Will it survive to demonstrate their illusion to future generations? No. It didn’t even last one generation. Not even three months! See the photo at left. EAT-O-TWIST!

What the producers of this folly forgot is that everything allways turns out the way it’s supposed to, EAT-O-TWIST! The sculpture is gone in three months and the Earth is still around as robust as ever — oblivious to water damage, human vandalism of every kind imaginable. Our Earth holds itself together as a testimony to its robustness while the grandiose products of human imagination go down in rubble (like Rome), flames (like Vesuvius), disrepair (like Giza), and so on. The only thing that is durable is the human spirit, and only fragile spirits would build monuments to fragility upon a robust Earth.

Associated Press Quotation (Times-Picayune, January 5, 2007): "A million-dollar stone sculpture, intended to remind future generations of the Earth's fragility, made its point a bit early: Just three months after its unveiling, it collapsed. The 175-ton ‘Spaceship Earth’ lay in ruins, at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga., after falling to pieces last week. University officials say they suspect water damage or glue failure, but they are also considering the possibility of vandalism."

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