[Oe List ...] Larry, Marshall, Lucille and Pat's e-mails

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Larry,
Thank you so much for putting this out for us.  It seems so  timely.
 
The meditation I've been practicing is to separate the ego mind from  the 
essence mind.  The dark night of the soul happens only to the ego  mind.  (in my 
humble opinion)  The essence mind observes  the doing of our behavioral 
(ethical) body and the knowing of our  ego minds.  A helpful (to me)  exercise that 
one of my teachers  developed is to visualize an auditorium, with the events 
of our lives happening  on the stage, the ego mind sitting halfway back in the 
audience making  judgments, and the essence mind at the very back, observing 
from a place of  spaciousness, knowing it's all good, received, approved, and 
that the field of  potentiality is infinite.  This helps me with Eckhardt 
Tolle's work that  others have mentioned.
 
I hope everyone knows that Wesley Lachman has published a beautiful little  
book, The Shortest Way Home: A Contemplative Path to God.  Marcus  Borg wrote, 
"This clearly written introduction to the contemplative way actually  mediates 
the spaciousness of which it speaks.  I felt my own consciousness,  my own 
experience of life, becoming more spacious as I read it."  I believe  it's 
available on Amazon, or from O Street Publishing, P.O. Box 50572, Eugene,  OR  
97405.  It's written from courses Wes taught at his local  Presbyterian church to 
interpret for Christians what he and Sharry practice  with an interfaith 
community called the Center for Sacred Sciences.
 
It's seven and a half months since Fred's departure from his beloved  body.  
Part of me is reluctant to go ahead, further from the time when I  could 
actually touch and be touched by him.  And part of me is aware that  he is as close 
to me as he ever was in our almost 52 years together in  form.  What a 
mystery.  I'm so grateful that we shared part  of our journey with the Order, and 
with many of you.
 
Happy Birthday, Marshall!  Your growth symbol for the coming year is  IX  - 
The Hermit.  "The Hermit, or way-shower, contains the principle  of 
introspection and completion, which opens the space to initiate or expand  something 
new." - Angeles Arrien, The Tarot Handbook.
 
And congratulations to Lucille and Richard Chagnon and Dan and  Pat Tuecke on 
their anniversaries!  Take good care of one  another!
 
Love and blessings,
Jann McGuire
 



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