Wednesday, November 22, 2007 @11:14 PM ~ PST
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Hola Dr. Linda ~
Over the last several years I feel that you and I were already kind of like kindred spirits. Times, lifetimes and times of our lives.
My life has been made better, richer and more coherent because of our treasured friendship. We have continued to communicate through some storms and I have kind of mellowed over the years. I sense that you too have kind of softened up some, that is a good thing. We must grow tough without losing our tenderness and not be afraid of showing our natural affection for others in our personal lives and the virtual elements in our own personal lives. Whatever touches the heart, whatever nourishes the soul becomes personal.
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Hola Dr. Linda ~Over the last several years I feel that you and I were already kind of like kindred spirits. Times, lifetimes and times of our lives.
My life has been made better, richer and more coherent because of our treasured friendship. We have continued to communicate through some storms and I have kind of mellowed over the years. I sense that you too have kind of softened up some, that is a good thing. We must grow tough without losing our tenderness and not be afraid of showing our natural affection for others in our personal lives and the virtual elements in our own personal lives. Whatever touches the heart, whatever nourishes the soul becomes personal.
Some of us are doomed to always have our defense mechanisms up no matter how we try to disarm ourselves psychically in order to harvest the humane nature of ourselves despite past betrayals by others.
I have become more on target and know that much of the struggle has been in the psychic-spiritual realm all along, not merely the physical-military realm.
For me, being online is a blessed luxury and I have been through some struggles just staying online in the past. Now I am pretty well set, so long as my health holds out.
My friend and tech-support Brother John G. had to work on my computer systems recently. My laptop crashed I suspect because of a lack of proper ventiliation. It now has a new motherboard. After I moved my desktop from Barbara's to here it got jangled and my desktop had to have a make over. My friend John G., his friend and I suspect Mr. Bill Gates himself helped fix it via telephone high-tech communications.
Mr. Gates is still a die-hard computer nerd at heart and apparently loves helping to fix computer problems for personal friends himself. My friend's friend is actually a personal friend of Mr Gates!
Each morning I wake up, pray and go about my business, then collapse at the end of the day just to prepare for another day of battle. Through it all I have learned the inner value of staying balanced, centralized and at peace with my own iner self. Plus, my time is usually spent offline out of virtual reality in direct reality relating to people in direct ways involving direct counseling and guidance to help others.
I need to spend more time getting into creative writing on certain writing projects and not get sidetracked by pointless distractions.
I wonder what will be left behind after i depart from this physical realm here upon Mother Earth. There will be the memories in other people's minds and many influences I have had in different realms of connected reality in different lives, but I really want to make a lasting difference for many more people than I have to date.
It has been a relaxing relatively non-stressed out Thanksgiving Day for me. My Gal Marie came by and fixed up the turkey. I was going to do but it was still kind of frozen inside, but she thawed it out with her love and patience, then it was cooked for a few hours and came out fine. It is kind of strange being involved in an intimate relationship again. The old bear in me is coming out of hibernation and i am taking time for the simple stuff in life without becoming fixated.
My Gal Marie and I watched a few movies, then I called a Yellow cab and escorted her back to her place ~ which is a haven for women by Loaves and Fishes called Sister Nora's. She is planning to get her own apartment soon through a Program called Shelter Plus!
We will see what we will see and more will be revealed as time goes by and internal psycho-social contradictions reach fruition on an external global level.
I will be glad when the satanic idiot presently in the White House is out of office, then, no matter who is the next president, we will still have to continue to cope with a selfish apathetic people called Americans who are actually accomplices to mass murder and mayhem if only by their own silent complicity. Amerika has earned some really bad karma that will come back to haunt it. From the early genocide upon the ancestors of people who are indigenous to these lands, the Black slave trade, the broken treastires, to allowng the Iraq-nam War continue on into the trillion of dollars and countless innocent lives lost due to war and base government dereliction of duty.
If the household across the street sends killers to my house that place cannot naively expect to be immune to my revenge into his household.
I am not being too harsh. If anything I have been too conservative in the past and now my radicalization transforms itself exponentially.
Right now I am re-reading The Basic Works of C.G.Jung and have found the Lamsa translation of the Holy Bible. For now on I will use it as my basic Bible Textbook, as distinct from the King James Version.
Check it out!
Plus, I have several other books that I need to finish off for at least a first reading. I know I could live out my life quite content with scholary pursuits but there are still demons out there i want to fight back against and aim to rid this world of their evil powers and vile influences. The evildoers rob me of my peace of mind despite any asinine New Age Escapism.
With Prayers, Blessings and Thanksgivings!
Tu Amigo, Peter S. Lopez 
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Linda Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
"Many of us have meaningful relationships with people we are not with physically," she said. "Some people are using technology in amazing ways, but are not obsessive about it."
So there are two sides to the coin, Peter. After all, we have never met face to face. But I agree that some people really do leave the physical world and dwell just in a virtual one. I notice few kids in the neighborhood these days; mostly they are indoors in the computer. That can't be healthy for a growing kid any more than watching TV eight hours a day. And yes, as a person on the computer most of my working day, I have to take time away from it when not at work and just walk and do household chores. Otherwise I know my health will suffer.
Linda
"Peter S. Lopez de-Aztlan" <sacranative@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-na-techstress22nov22,0,1880045.story?coll=la-home-center
Too wired, techies regroup, reach out
Kevin P. Casey / For the Los Angeles TimesLeif Hansen, shown at Gas Works Park in Seattle, coordinates workshops in which self-described technophiles look for ways to relinquish high-tech and find a balance between the virtual and real worlds. "I see people very overwhelmed," he said.Calling their dependence on technology an addiction, some attend retreats near Seattle to take the first step and admit it.TUKWILA, WASH. -- Like many professionals, Mark Stiffler spent countless hours surfing the Internet, typing e-mails and talking on a cellphone. The "wired" life took a toll.
It made him edgy and disconnected. His dependence on high-technology began feeling much like addiction and, like many addictions, this one affected his personal relationships.
"Many of us are wondering if technology is taking over," said Stiffler, who owns a Web development firm.
He isn't alone in his concerns. Recently he joined an eclectic cadre of techies intent on weaning themselves from their dependence on high technology. The group meets for workshops to assess the cost of all that pinging, surfing and blogging -- and to make the changes it feels are necessary.
Perhaps it's to be expected that such a group would form in the Seattle area, the hardware and software mecca that is home to such high-tech juggernauts as Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc.
The participants don't exactly rage against the gadgets, but they have decided to back off from all things high-tech, said Leif Hansen, founder of Spark Northwest, sponsor of the workshops.
The sessions are held at a retreat center on Orcas Island in the Puget Sound. With its twisting Madonna trees and spectacular vistas, the tranquil setting lends itself to decidedly low-tech reflections.
"I see people very overwhelmed," said Hansen, a Gig Harbor, Wash., theologian and personal coach. "It's a touchy subject. As with any addiction, people are somewhat in denial. Part of it is people really like living in their virtual worlds."
With technology, "we are increasing the ability to reach each other," Hansen said, "but the depth and quality of that reach is not increased."
Some of the exercises used at the sessions are as simple as sitting around a chalkboard, listing questions and then answering them.
Typical questions: Is Internet overuse similar to kleptomania or compulsive shopping? How does technology affect human fulfillment? Where is it going? And about cellphone implants: Would you be first in line or head for the hills?
Other exercises incorporate elements of improvisational theater. Most activities get participants out of their chairs and moving to relate to one another more physically and to use more senses than they would in cyberspace.
At one recent session, Hansen had people stand around different points in the room to represent where they are on a tech-consumption continuum: nonuser, avid technophile or balanced in between.
In another exercise, similar to musical chairs, one person was put in the center of a circle of people and made a statement such as "I like chocolate" or "I spend too much time online and it's affecting my relationships." If anyone identified with the statement, the person had to move to a seat at least two spots away. The hitch is there's one fewer chair than there are people, so the person without a seat winds up in the middle and starts a new game.
"It's a great game of getting to know others, establishing commonalities and differentiating, etc.," Hansen said. "Many surprises come up as well."
Next, the group broke up into pairs to discuss their personal visions and goals and how technology helps or hinders them. They listed the big issues on butcher paper, and they talked.
For at least one day, it was a low-tech, high-touch exploration, taken seriously.
Hansen said the workshops enabled sufferers to work out problems and solutions together. And they serve as reminders that individuals with these issues are not alone.
Hansen sighed and says he feels sad when he sees a couple at a restaurant and both are talking on their cellphones. "But I feel some empathy too, because I've been there," he said, glancing around a Starbucks just south of Seattle that provides WiFi and widescreen TVs.
Not all participants are in crisis. Some just seek thoughtful discussion about how to enhance online and phone relationships.
Nancy White, for one, revels in her super-connected lifestyle. She is a Seattle-based independent consultant who helps corporations collaborate online, often involving workers in different cities. The people she works with don't get to have many face-to-face interactions, but she said she hoped to bring more humanity to electronic communication.
"Many of us have meaningful relationships with people we are not with physically," she said. "Some people are using technology in amazing ways, but are not obsessive about it."+++++++++++++++++++++
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Peter S. Lopez ~aka:Peta
Sacramento, California, Aztlan
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