@Peta_de_Aztlan Blog: Checking In: On the End of May!Por Peta-de-Aztlan

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I will just write this off the top of my head. I want to get into writing more and that catch with that is that a writer must write. In general, I am busy all the time that I am awake on one thing or another. With my life the way that it is I rarely have or make the time I should to devote to writing. I know that I need to get into better time management.

For one thing I need to sleep less than I do, though I usually average around six hours a sleep a night, but then my energy levels feels down at time. I think one solution is for me to get involved again in a workout program as I use to do. I know that energy begets energy and exercise will give me more energy.

I am working as a Counselor at the Salvation Army Homeless Shelter here in Sacramento and when I am there I am usually stationed at my desk doing what I do, dealing with lists, paperwork, counseling clients and networking with other agencies.

Plus, I am the Field Coordinator for CASA ~ a progressive Christian Recovery Group, plan to create a non-profit education corporation called Humane Horizons and am interested in building up the Humane Liberation Party as an Vanguard political party with an emphasis on mass education.

Naturally, my main agenda as a humane being is a humane rights agenda and I have other related political, spiritual and psycho-social matters that I want to address over time in different venues.

I try to educate people about the concept of work in terms of what is work for a humane being and what is not work. Most people under corporate capitalism feel that if they are not hard-working wage slaves that they are not working. The truth is that when we are engaged in practical activity, whether it be social or personal, that indeed we are working.

When our minds work, our bodies work and our spirits are engaged in basic practical activity that is fruitful, helpful and beneficial to us, then we are actually 'at work' whether we are 'on the clock' or not. Work, like love, is a many pedaled flower, takes many manifestations, surpasses many base definitions.

Exodus 35:35
Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

On a deeper esoteric level, this ties in with our self-esteem in terms of how we identify who we are, what we are and our whole personality, in essence, our total value as a social being in society to ourselves.

In striving to simplify the complex, not complicate what is basically simple, how we conceptualize work has a lot to do with our personal self-esteem: that is our self-efficacy or personal competence and our self-respect or self-worth.

From:
http://www.lifepositive.com/mind/personal-growth/self-love/esteem.asp

"The answer lies in that contentious issue: self-esteem. "Psychologically, it's a core issue," says Mumbai-based psychiatrist Dayal Mirchandani of India. The well-known psychologist Abraham Maslow, who charted out a hierarchy of human needs, put self-esteem above basic survival needs such as food, shelter and clothing. Nathaniel Branden, the guru of self-esteem issues, says in The Six Pillars of Self-esteem: "The level of our self-esteem has profound consequences for every aspect of our existence—how we operate in the workplace, how we deal with people, how high we are likely to rise, how much we are likely to achieve."

In his book, Healing The Shame That Binds You, John Bradshaw says: "Total self-love and acceptance is the only foundation for happiness and the love of others. Without total self-love and acceptance, we are doomed to the enervating task of creating false selves." Anand Tendolkar, reiki master and workshop guru, recalls his lifelong attempt to match up to his father's expectations. "My father was a perfectionist and a larger-than-life figure. For 40 years, I tried to be like him. Today, it's such a freedom simply to be me," he says.

Self-acceptance, self-love, a positive self-image, the freedom to be ourselves; all these are crucial aspects of self-esteem. Whether seen from the ultimate perspective of spirituality, which exhorts us to be our true self, or from the more modest psychological imperative to develop a positive self-image, the struggle towards self-esteem is everyman's journey.

Says Branden: "Healthy self-esteem correlates with rationality, realism, intuitiveness, creativity, independence, flexibility, ability to manage change, willingness to admit (and correct) mistakes, benevolence and cooperation. Poor self-esteem correlates with irrationality, blindness to reality, rigidity, fear of the new and unfamiliar, inappropriate conformity or inappropriate rebelliousness, defensiveness, an overly compliant or controlling behavior, and fear or hostility towards others."

Self-esteem becomes a wide-ranging term for it is intimately connected with our relationship with our selves. That relationship determines everything about our lives. Every problem that we have—relationships, health, money or work—is ultimately caused by inadequate self-esteem. Branden, in fact, describes it as the one common denominator in all neurotic problems. He sees them either as direct expression of or a defense against inadequate self-esteem. Yet the subject has not received the kind of attention that it deserves. Unless our self-esteem plummets to the extent that we can no longer handle our lives effectively, we are content to leave it alone. The reason is that few of us are really conscious of its wide-ranging impact on our lives."

So work goes well for me. I have discovered that I am a tortuously slow writer as I have a perfectionist tendency which often gets little done in terms of complete writings. At times goes by I will explore ways of writing better, though I know that regular daily writing is the key, along with the art of learning.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNqo0_qqoBk

http://www.joshwaitzkin.com/
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The above is a collage I call Peta Evolution which on the upper left begins with my alcohol relapse after I left Mather Community College in the Summer of 1992, then, when I lived in bum-fuck Egypt in the south area off Power Inn, then, later when I got back on the horse and back into sober recovery and my continued spiritual evolution.

For me, revolution is the ultimate solution for all our social ills and problems.

To me, the concept of social revolution is a quantum leap in humane evolution where the social governmental structures are dissolved, are transformed, are completely overthrown, in order to make way for new sensitive social structures and governments that are relevant to the basic needs of the broad masses of the people. If you have not noticed in your comings and going, this world is wild, lost in chaos and ruled by greedy evildoers who together comprise the Corporate Capitalist Ruling Class. Until the governing ruling class is toppled by the masses there can be no major impact on the oppressed conditions of life that many of the six (6) billion plus people upon Mother Earth must endure on a daily basis.

However, after we have ideologically evolved beyond archaic Marxist-Leninist concepts and arrive at the truth within ourselves we should see that the real revolution that must come to pass is actually within ourselves and then the social state structures of present-day governments that blocks and retards our natural evolution as an endangered species of life!

We must overthrow our own deeply ingrained character defects: the poison of hate, the selfishness of greed, the laziness of sloth, the competitiveness of envy, the animalism of lust {i.e. ~ men looking at women as objects to be fucked to satisfy their physical gratification} and others.

The revolution begins within but it must also evolve outside of our individual existences into connected reality that exists objectively and persistently outside of our subjecive minds.

As Marx said, "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point is to change it!"
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And here below is picture of a new sister I chatted with via Yahoo IM today. I think she looks lovely. We both live in California and I hope to meet her between here and death.

I just thought I would be silly and take the liberty of throwing it in.