Life is made up of the stories that a man tells about the everydayness
of his existence. As a people we can never allow ourselves to
create ungrounded, simplistic, visions of some idealistic future.
Man today knows that life is mundane. The mundanity spin is meant
to allow a man to see that saying yes to that mundanity is the
heroic cleat of our times. The spin allows a man to see that he
can create the relationship he takes to his everyday cares and
chores and happenings. By looking at them as the events that they
are, he can transform what life is all about. A spin allows a
man to risk the fear of knowing that this is all there is in life.
A spin is not meant to teach any thing or give direction or place
any imperatives on any one. Rather it is a way of seeing the wholeness
of life and sharing it with others so that they too may have their
lives given back to them and no longer jealously long to live
some other more spectacular life
A spin is not out to notch trees like a lecture or get people
to reflect like a conversation, but rather it is the musing of
one man as he spins about his own life and answers his own questions.
It is built in a tight lecture rationale in relation to the Other
World Charts and then given in the relaxed 'spin method' of presentation.
It is a man's search for the internal sustaining structure for
the task. It is something which everyman does or can do. The nonchalant
delivery of the spin grows out of the understanding or the acceptance
of the absurdity of one man standing before all of creation and
seeing both his minuteness and his greatness. It is a man laughing
in his tears as he reflects on his life and what he wants to accomplish
with the time and space given him in this universe.
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MONDAY Lord, in whose hands are life and death, by whose power we are sustained, and by whose mercy we are spared, look down upon us with pity. Forgive us that we have until now so much neglected the duty which thou hast assigned us, and permitted days and hours to pass away without any endeavor to accomplish thy will. Make us to remember, O God, that every day is thy gift, and ought to be used according to thy command. Grant us so to repent of our negligence, that we may obtain mercy from thee, and pass the time which thou shalt yet allow us in diligent performance of thy commands; through Jesus Christ. Amen.
TUESDAY O Almighty God: who hast entrusted this earth unto the children of man, and through thy Son Jesus Christ callest us unto a heavenly citizenship, grant us we beseech thee, such shame and repentance for the disorder, injustice and cruelty that is in our midst, that fleeing unto thee for pardon and for grace, we may henceforth set ourselves to establish that city which has justice for its foundations and love for its law, whereof thou art the architect and maker. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
WEDNESDAY O God, who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright; Grant to us such strength and protection, as may support us in all dangers and carry us through all temptations; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
THURSDAY We praise and bless thy glorious name, O Lord, for the devoted sacrifices of thy servants who have laid down their lives that we might live. Into Thy holy keeping we commend their souls, and humbly pray that we, like they, may give and never count the cost, fight and never heed the wounds, toil and never seek for rest, labor and ask for no reward save the knowledge that we do thy will, through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Our Lord. Amen.
MONDAY Almighty God, Bestow upon us, we beseech thee, such love and charity as were His, to whom it was more blessed to give than to receive, and who came, not to be ministered unto, but to minister. May the same mind be in us which was also in Christ Jesus, that we might be consecrated to the service of all who are in need; for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
TUESDAY Almighty and everlasting God, give unto us the increase of faith., hope and love; and that we may obtain that which thou cost promise, make us to love that which thou cost command; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
WEDNESDAY O God, we pray for thy Church which is set amid the perplexities of a changing order, and face to face with a great new task. Baptize her afresh with the lifegiving spirit of Jesus. Bestow upon her a swifter compassion for suffering, and an utter loyalty to the will of God. Put upon her lips the ancient Gospel of her Lord. Fill her with the prophet's scorn for tyranny, and with a Christlike tenderness for the heavyladen and downtrodden. Give her faith to espouse the cause of the people. Bid her cease from seeking her own life, lest she lose it. Make her valiant to give her life up for humanity, like her Lord. In His name, Amen.
THURSDAY O Spirit of God, Brood over the world filled
with strife, bitterness and unholy rivalries; quiet the fears
of men; and breathe into them the spirit of forgiveness and loving
service, that peace and goodwill may prevail on the earth. This
we ask in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
1. Corporate Reality:
Everyman receives from his culture an
image of what a human is, and he manifests ontological discipline
by living his life in relation to those images.
2. Perpetual Watchman:
The dynamic of discipline is present
when men play the role of perpetual watchmen in a group whether
he is up front or in the back of the room, always alert to the
trends emerging in the group and always asking what is necessary
now.
3. Decisional Symbol:
Within the group, the presence of discipline
is manifest and enabled when one or several members of the group
become a decisional symbol, radically embodying their vision of
the necessary deed that must be picked up by the whole body.
4. Trust Your Colleague:
The "payoff" of the style of
discipline is that one is able to trust his colleague thus participating
in the corporate effectiveness that happens when there has been
decision to enable a common model.
1. Discipline is requiring of one's self
attention to care for the physical well-being and worldview of
one's neighbor.
2. Discipline is enabling the neighbor
to intentionally and comprehensively exercise his will.
3. Discipline is continually exposing
the ontological deeps to the neighbor so that genuine healing
can take place.
4. Discipline is keeping a sharp eye
on one's own physical, intellectual, volitional and spirit facets
so as to ba able to care for the neighbor
I. STRUCTURE OF LECTURE:
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to normally taken for granted | s/c relative
to dread of life's nowness | The rational, structural ground for the mundanity lectures is the Other World Charts and specifically the categories which compose the given Trek
of the discourse. It is not merely the | |||
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story dread
experi- universal enced exper. | relating of an interesting story of experience. It is rather a lecture on the Trek as it manifests itself in the midst of a concrete, mundane experience of life. In terms of method, the lecture begins with a brief contextual grounding of the assigned Trek, then | ||||
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life's new-ness all there is | moves immediately to the relating of a concrete, mundane life happening in which the Trek is experienced. The discourse is about how the transparency occurred in one's own experience. It is the dawning of a new awareness of the | |||
| fact that life's everydayness is all there is everyday and it is glorious and can be embraced. | |||||
The interior dynamics of the discourse
are like a "stopaction" movie camera which records
the ordinary, everyday ongoing activities of life, but halts or
freezes the action at crucial point; to enable depth reflection
on the fact of the Other World in the midst of the mundane. The
Other World charts provide the iron structure of the State of
Being rationality which is the guide for the reflections at the
points of the "stopaction." The dynamic is that
of exposing the universality of human experience, exposing the
dread and fascination at the core of everyday life. By weaving
together these dynamics in a tight, rational structure (which
is not obvious in the delivery of the discourse) one's own everyday
life experience is intensified and the transparency happening
is revealed "in the midst of this world."
II. RATIONALE FOR PREPARATION
(see following formats for preparation)
I. Read the four state of being lines
which make up the trek and list any experiences and/ or examples
that ground the specific state of being.
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II. Write a statement in your own words on what this trek is about in light of the
above brainstorming.
| Experience #1 | experience #2 | experience #3 |
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IV. Using the rational categories of
the Other World charts as basis, create a 4X4 articulation of
your experience of the trek in light of the above work (pull it
through the charts}
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Think (Selftalk) | |||
Feel (Fear/fascination, dynamic) | |||
Resolve
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| V. In light of the brooding done above, recreate the concrete life happening in which the trek was experienced and write out the discourse. | |||
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