Beginner's Mind - May 6th, 2008
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ISSSEEM Annual Conference
ISSSEEM Annual Conference
The International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine will hold its annual conference in Boulder CO June 20-27, 2008. I was a member of the ISSSEEM for a few years, but now I am just on their mailing list. I stopped being a member when I realized that even though their work and their interests are important and interesting, they are completely irrelevant to the central consciousness issues of our time, namely, mass violence and ecological suicide.
The persons involved in ISSSEEM are psychically sensitive and can do interesting little things, but they cannot modify the deep priorities of world elites. They operate somehow at the edges of consciousness, not at its center. In order for their talents to find full scope in the world, something has to happen to modify central priorites. My personal opinion of course is that the way to do that is to relieve the tension of the trauma imprints of harsh child rearing practices. This process is not nearly as exotic or flashy as what the subtle energy folks are doing.
I was happy to notice that an old friend of mine now turns up as a presenter at the conference. She is Rue Anne Hass, who I knew back in the seventies when she was Rue Wallace from Danville Illinois, teaching English at a community college in Chicago and dating Steve Stucky, who is now abbott of the San Francisco Zen Center. Those were the days of The Other Cheek commune. Rue went to Findhorn for the summer in those days, stayed for several years, married Mr. Hass, took up Neuro Linguistic Programming, and now has added EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) to her repertoire and "Intuitive Mentor" to her job description.
I have no doubt that working with Rue can help people with fibromyalgia, and would be a startling and beneficial experience for a lot of people. I'm just wishing she could take on as clients Vladimir Putin, Osama bin Laden, Rupert Murdoch, Donald Rumsfeld, or any one else in that stratum of world society that makes the decisions that determine the fate of the whole human race.
Which is never going to happen. So, the question remains: what is the central issue of contemporary consciousness, and what, if any, is the process of healing it?
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