Photo: Ancient Fresco from Pompeii

Hello,

I thought to try broadcasting throughout the day on my Dream Share TV channel on justin.tv on Christmas Eve 24 and Christmas Day 25, maybe New Years as well going into New Years.

I broadcast from the Netherlands, which means six hours back to New York and nine hours back from here to San Francisco.

What will I talk about?

Some deep things such as the myths around Christmas and Jungian interpretations of such, doing mediations with the transition to a new year.

And giving true stories from my life like at former Christmas and New Year times.

Plus, just to be a presence with any of you who join to watch and hear, or to make your presence known in the chat box.

So if you want to include a connection with us as part of your Christmas and New Years transition time, feel free to do so.

Stefania and I will excerpt the 'good parts' for later browsing for any of you who don't make it.

I have connected significantly with certain people over the years and so I just thought it's a nice way to tune in and be connected. And meaningful and warm, something that does not always happen at these outer holiday times. Yes, we will include some things on The Dark Side Of Christmas, and something from my writings. Maybe some of you have something to share?

Those we have connected to have all contributed to how we have and are living our lives. So there is good energy there.

The live feed broadcasting is open to anyone from the public and we have functions on Justin.tv for controlling spammers and other objects out there in the unconscious universe.

So the best to all of you these holidays. I shall certainly be sharing a number of things from my life I consider important in a kind of informal style.

I have peeked in on some of my fellow broadcasters on justin.tv. They are almost all young people in their twenties unlike me at age 73. But that does not phase me because they talk and have fun and share themselves and interact with chatters. Some are not boring, depending what they have in the way of personality. I shall simply be broadcasting as another human being.

So I shall do the same. Just share and interact.

Please join me for a little while anyway. Sometimes throughout the day and evening here I will be online broadcasting. Other times maybe off resting, eating and being with Stefania. So you just have to tune in when you have some time and see what's happening.

Maybe see you there.

Wait what the New Year brings!

Don't ask for more than you can handle - ask to handle more than you thought you could!

Strephon

Strephon Kaplan-Williams
                                                                                                                         
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formally from Berkeley, California

The Person Prayer

May the Greater Light shine over us.
May the climb back from the abyss make us real.
May the soft hand of our inner child calm us.
May the mirror of life light our souls.
May the joy of renewal  open us.

Let us affirm insight, courage and conscious love.
Let us affirm friends before enemies.
Let us affirm our commitment
To meet potentials and challenges to the full.

As we live, so shall we die.
As we die, so shall we have lived.
Amen, Shalom, Proost and Good Journeys!
From all to all.

The New York Times reported today that Luciano Pavarotti had died of cancer and age 71. He was two years younger about than I am at age 73.

His voice was extraordinary as a soul-filled volume of human and transcendent emotions singing the great tenor arias.

What we can most recognize Pavarotti for was that he sang to uplift the human soul of humanity. He knew he had this effect on people and so he devoted his life to singing.

Still giving concerts in his sixties he was criticized for scheduling concerts and then canceling out of them if he did not feel he could sing well that night. A New York newspaper titled the event once as Fat Man Cancels Concert.

Some people expected that Pavarotti always be at his best for singing. However, aria singing at your best is like a physical sport. How many great atheletes compete whether injured or sick or not?

Pavarotti was right to cancel concerts because he extended his career into his sixties to inspire large audiences, yet he was fully human.

Even his overweight had its purpose certainly of grounding that enormous voice and transcendent inspiration Pararotti gave out to millions.

For it must be said that by inspiring others we inspire ourselves, but also that in inspiring others as well as ourselves we then have the opportunity to live richer lives of feeling and emotion and to tie into the great moments of our time and our personal lives.

Will our own love a suffering not be enhanced in life because Pavarotti sings?

What I have added here in this vodcast is some of my own singing improvisation to Bobby McFerrin singing Bach so that I can express my own deep feelings in the music of my voice and ears.

I have inspired many in my workshops to risk expressing themselves in many ways over the years. I cannot do less than do the same.

Thank you Luciano Pavarotti for being an inspiritation, making my life the richer also.

NEW SERIES ON STREPHON SAYS

Beginning now in August, 2007 Strephon will again vodcast his talks in his special style that he feels good about, being just who he is at this age in his life.

Strephon has taught many adults at universities and in his own trainings in over twelve countries now. But at his present age of 73 he writes his books and gives his talks, like here. Occasionally he may be available to special groups or individual students for three-day intensives.

Strephon sees his Strephon Says talks as natural, as natural as natural foods! This means to him that he feels directly in communication with anyone who finds personality and practical wisdom in what he himself relates to in life.

With the wide array of information and contacts open to anyone through the Internet you can see if Strephon's personal and sometimes whimsical sharing is something you can feel warm and inspired about.

We all need personal contact with certain others who are like as and so mirror life back to us as we live it ourselves.

Try us out at strephonsays.com

Strephon Says and Acts: Break normal connections to create humor, increase creativity and to increase your energy in living life.

Strephon Says and Acts: Break normal connections to create humor, increase creativity and to increase your energy in living life.

We are happy to report that we have had almost 63,000 listeners and viewers to are over 100 podcasts in our first year. This is significant to show a large number of people interested in serious presentations and not just entertainment.

We will be able to see from this view of the statistics page of our top draws what people are most interested in as subjects and from Strephon's perspective on things.

It shows for instance that people are interested in the title: Loving Laurie. It's the first chapter that can be easily turned into an audio book and later a written book. Such a book is in the works after we have set up a new style of web pages that are geared to selling e-info product and not just giving away free reports, information and podcasts.

The statistics have proven that although Strephon at 73 is in retirement and so not an active force in any society, he is not without people who value both his delivery and his information about living life.

The first phase of this marketing test has been passed. People want what Strephon has to offer, not because he in an international expert or a big name, which he isn't, but because he is valued in what he offers now through the Internet.

Strephon has not published a major new book by a big press since 1991. He has written a number of books since then, but the marketing of serious information, rather than pop psychology, has become difficult for him and many other writers.

Strephon was advised in the eighties by a self-made millionaire consultant to go into pop psychology in a big way. This he refused so as not to waste his life in making money by watering down his intelligence and insights into the average intelligence and curiosity of the median culture.

Now with the birth of the Internet and these biggest publisher of information in the world Strephon Kaplan-Williams is committed this past year to take full advantage of reaching the right audience for serious and in depth inspiration and wisdom knowledge in spiritual perspective and depth psychology.

Truly, these are again exciting times for the world with a new evolutionary step possible in making humanity conscious of its true self and values.

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Strephon composed this poem-prayer about the imperfections of life, the struggle to take personal responsibility for our lives and create conscious meaning from them.

Strephon composed this poem-prayer about the imperfections of life, the struggle to take personal responsibility for our lives and create conscious meaning from them.

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Strephon reads the creation poetry of Gerand Manley Hopkins and gives commentary on how we live God's creation as our own recreation in the alive moments of existence.

Strephon reads the creation poetry of Gerand Manley Hopkins and gives commentary on how we live God's creation as our own recreation in the alive moments of existence.

Strephon Kaplan-Williams talks about using the Masculine Archetype in life for decisive action and focus, and about a ritual for men at a marriage done in Norway.

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Strephon Kaplan-Williams talks about using the Masculine Archetype in life for decisive action and focus, and about a ritual for men at a marriage done in Norway.

Strephon suggests that the best reason to practice honesty is to come into reality and live your life as it is, and not as you would pretend it to be. Only this way are you effective.

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Strephon suggests that the best reason to practice honesty is to come into reality and live your life as it is, and not as you would pretend it to be. Only this way are you effective.

One excellent practice that enhances your life is as you wake in the morning to give a focus to your day. Strephon tells how he does this.

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One excellent practice that enhances your life is as you wake in the morning to give a focus to your day. Strephon tells how he does this.

Making  a million dollars, Strephon suggests, is deceptive. Much better is to limit spending to basic, healthy living. Then invest your surplus into effectiveness values.

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Making  a million dollars, Strephon suggests, is deceptive. Much better is to limit spending to basic, healthy living. Then invest your surplus into effectiveness values.

Sidney Sheldon sold millions of copies of once-reading, popular novels, his avowed goal to excite the reader. More power to him. He died where the extremely rich die: in California: Palm Springs, retirement home city to actresses, directors, assorted rich novelists, and movie stars.

We have only fifty thousand listeners to any of over sixty podcasts. Our numbers are rising at more than 1000 listeners a week.

Could that be because we have something to say, because we speak to the soul of the world and its people?

We define the soul, not as certain religions do, but as your core being that you make conscious and live from in a life of value to yourself and others.

When you read a Sidney Sheldon book, or a John Saul book, or a Dan Brown book, you don’t get any wiser about yourself or your life.

The contrary usually happens. Like the philosopher Gurgief said, most books are written to keep you asleep so that you never wake up to the realities of life.

We here at StrephonSays.com put our efforts into waking up to life as it is and dealing with everything that comes our way in the context of purpose and life meaning.

If you are on a similar life journey, if you want to wake up to life as it is and not be fooled anymore, you will appreciate this.

We are as poor as a synagogue mouse, but we have not chosen money to write to because then we would not live a life of creative purpose and meaning.

50,000 listeners is a lot of conscious people living their lives in the world and having an influence.

Millions of unconscious people bowing out to money and the sins of unconsciousness are worth nothing to the humanity of the future.

Their numbers are large, yet they count for nothing.

Our fifty thousand people, and climbing, is our way of saying, “Hello, world! Wake up please! Save yourself if you can. If a better world is not to be, at least live a better life. Each one of us counts if we are conscious, if we are practicing a life of purpose on a daily level. Hello, world!!!�

Thanks to all of you who support this effort, talk about the talk, walk the walk, have a wisdom influence with your friends, make choices that count sometimes in the real world.

Thanks to all of you!

Strephon and Stefania