[Oe List ...] Salmon: a response to Jann McGuire

[William Salmon]

Jann,
    Thank you for a useful perspective on the ego and what I call the Really Real. For the purposes of reflection, the separation of the ego mind and the essence mind is a helpful tool. I'll want to use these terms in my own brooding about the interior life. I call such brooding opportunities for rumination, however it is the ruminent spital that occasionaly gets me in trouble with folks.  
    Also, I appreciate the notice of the publication by Weslie Lackman, and I'll order the book. I suppose everyone is aware of the new publication by John Baggett, "Seeing Through the Eyes of Jesus." Our intellectual heritage continues to offer insights into the deeps of life. Evidently, the book is available at local book stores, and published by Eerdman's Publishing Co. 
    Recently you walked a deep valley to find that the valley does not define us.Perhaps, your experience of the essence mind reveals this experience to be very spacious indeed. You've been sustained by the spirit of all those on the Journey to the East-- at least this is my prayer for you. 
    Inner Peace, 
    Bill Salmon
  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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