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And this from page 8: "People generally feel bad because of bad behavior. Conscience has been defined as man's ability to evaluate his own actions. Dr. Wierwille defines conscience as habit patterns, or says that it is determined by habit patterns, that one develops during one's life. That conscience or that habit pattern reflex in your mind activates unpleasant emotional and other bodily warning devices; or signals bad feelings about yourself, when you are doing wrongly, when you miss the mark when you sin. When you fail, you feel it." Now, there's some mighty scary jive right there. Did Charles Manson "feel bad" when he was "missing the mark" Frightening, really.

In the chilly hours and minutes of uncertainty I want to be in the warm hold of your loving mind.

-------John Kay and Steppenwolf

This might be something we took in fellowlaborers. It could have been a guest speaker from the Corps, working on their "research" paper. Geeze, I can't believe I can't remember this!

I seem to remember it being in PFAL. Maybe, the fifth session? Dunno. It's probably in one of the collaterals, too. I think the essence of what he was saying was that life is more about the journey than the destination. Not an entirely bad way to look at things.....unless, of course, other people are made to suffer because of the path you take, which is what happened on the path VPW chose to travel.

I don't remember who taught it. It wasn't LCM, though. This transcript is from the mid to late 1970s, I think. There is no author or copyright listed on it.

I found a transcript from a class I must have taken at some point in time. I honestly don't recall even taking it or who taught it. It's called Christian Counseling and it's about 20 pages long. I haven't had time yet to really look at it in depth. Here, though, is a passage from page nine that displays, in my opinion, how The Way grossly lacked any real understanding of what mental illness is all about. "Where does behavior come from? Can I control my behavior? You better believe I can! If a person is depressed, I will bet you that person's house is absolute chaos. The beds will not be made. There will be clothes all over the floor. The vacuuming will not have been done in a month. The ironing will not have been done. There will be inch thick dust all over everything. Find a depressed person, go over to their house, and you will see it. Are they ever going to get out of that depression? Not until they start acting and get that house straight. You always start with the physical." It's pretty scary to think they passed this stuff off as "counseling" training. Even scarier that I once believed it was valid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liX7zPV095Q

Yes, some wonder what it was all about. But, there are still some who say things like, "Gosh, wasn't it swell,fellas?"

"uhhhh....I better tie this into TWI somehow." Tie it into TWI? I thought the reference to drinking too much was a perfect segue.

That's one of the answers my brother knows.

Shuffle a few words and what do you get? My glasses lost (and I had to drink too much.)

The sense of urgency. Yes, we had plenty of that in fellowlaborers. Everything was always oh, so ever urgent. Like the time we had to stay up all night, cutting and laying sod for a new fire circle because the MOG was going to throw a night-owl and it had to be ready in case some great revelation was about to be dispensed from on high around the smoking embers. It just had to be done right away. Never mind that we all worked full time secular jobs through the daytime. Or the time we were called to a special work assignment to destroy all the mimeograph plates for the state newsletter. Wouldn't want the bad guys to ever find out where we lived or something. Or the time we had to wade in knee deep, leach infested creek waters to remove any stones that might make the creek appear disorganized. Then, there was the time we were called out to limb headquarters at 3 am and told the entire future of Word Over the World was in serious jeopardy because we, being so geographically close to Int. HQ, had "blown it". Of course, we weren't told how. We were only told the program was being canceled immediately. Three hours later we were given a second chance but had to resolve ourselves to do exactly as we were told. I could go on and on with more silly examples of how we we were always on red alert in case somebody mistakenly put their socks in the same drawer with their underpants. God is not a God of confusion, dontcha know?

R.I.P., Eddie

I wondered the same thing. Who is Clara T.? Apparently, her editing skills are sub-par, whoever she is. You know? 'cause So_crates has to come to her aid.

Between my brother and I, we know the answer to every question ever posed. Please be kind and refrain from asking me the ones that he knows.

I remember those afternoon twigs. It was just another way of making sure everyone was "on the same page". And, if you got caught "looking ahead in the lesson plan", the teacher's adjunct was quick to give you a swift (figurative) slap with the ruler.

This is not weird. For some Native American peoples, this is standard operating procedure. (Forgiveness and gratitude)

If he really thought this concept was new to the philosophical community, he was quite deluded. Personally, I think he was quite aware this "new insight" was really revamped paraphrasing of other sources. (That's a polite way of saying he ripped it off.)

The Book of the Law (1904) Also known as Liber AL vel Legis * Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. o I:40 This famous statement derives from several historic precedents, including that of François Rabelais in describing the rule of his Abbey of Thélème in Gargantua and Pantagruel: Fait ce que vouldras (Do what thou wilt), which was later used by the Hellfire Club established by Sir Francis Dashwood. It is also similar to the pagan proverb: An ye harm none, do what thou wilt; but the oldest known statement of a similar idea is by St. Augustine of Hippo: Love, and do what thou wilt. Source

I always looked forward to your posts and enjoyed the brief conversations we had in the chat room. Oh, and I found it ironically amusing when I discovered that TWI sent you out WOW to a city that I had just left, a city that was already a hot bed of Way activity. Well, maybe my sense of humor is twisted.