CONTEXT

We are engaged in writing our own Journal of the Dark Night and the Long March. We will do so in the setting of viewing and reflecting on "Man of La Mancha".

The exercises move us through grounding the qualities of the Dark Night and the Long Harch in our own lives, creating a mosaic montage on our care for the world, and engaging in colloquies with the Mystery.

When we return from the film, we will meet in our guild spaces for lunch and reflection, and then continue in a solitary style through the exercises. (A ruler will be helpful in the mosaic exercise. )

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Global Research Assembly

i OURNAL WRI T I NG LAB

THE JOURNAL OF THE LONG MARCH


July 20, 1974

Journal Writing Global Research Assembly Lab Mosaic Summer '74

· MOSAIC MONTAGE ­ CARE FOR THE WORLD

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7. What visual flow would order (hold) my understandings diagonally from corner to corner to the center, from the center in a swir] an exp].osion from one corner

8. What tensions need to be held?

i.e., serenity­­­busyness dark­­­light curved­­­angular

large­­­small vertical­­­horizontal progression­­­inset

9. What use of color would be appropriate?

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shades of one color (light to dark) the whole range of a primary color (pale yellow to dark, dark, red) two complementary colors (yellow, green) black and white with color accent

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I cl~oose rny pi.cL''res ­ u`­;ing m''l~lpl`~; ol

.~;izc al~cl~ sl~ape.

L decicle tl~e ;,eneral arrangement.

I cbeck measurements to be sure piCLUrL' L'Cij't'S l a l I `~, i ~< l' I i Ilt ;

I glue pictures to grid. (Add or slll'Lract.)

I place white tape at 1" intervals, leaving outside edges till 1ast

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.lol~rnal Lab

COLLOQUIES ON THE

DARK NIGHT AND THE LONG MARCH

Summer '74

Global Research

Assembly

In these two colloquies I enter into a dialogue with the Mystery, in which we discuss the qualities of the Dark Night and then the Long March. Such a colloquy might sound something like this:

I walked in And I cried: "Ah, God take me from this place"' A voice said, "It is no desert." I cried: "Well, but... The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon." A voice said: "It is no desert."

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lach colloquy is designed to last about one hour. In the first one on the I)ark Night, I describe to the Mystery the humiliation, weakness, resentment and suffering I experience in the Dark Night, and the Mystery describes to me the glory, strength, care and salvation of my being in the Dark Night.

In the second colloquy, I describe to the Mystery the deception, ineffectiveness, weariness and unfulfilment I experience in the Long March, and the Mystery describes to me the fidelity, miracle, spirit and yerfection of my being on the Long March.