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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Strephon talks about the contrast with Consciousness Thinking and "Eckhart Tolle Thinking." Why?

So we are not seduced into unconsciousness by Tolle's kind of passive, guru thinking. Why?

So that we can affirm the value of thinking for ourselves and not giving over our consciousness awareness to any guru type, no matter how brilliant in their thinking they seem.

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Strephon does a podcast and vodcast on the nature of the ego. This can be important since what Strephon emphasizes is that everyone has an ego that can get in the way or developed in the right way, make one effective and fulfilled.

The choice is up to you!

Concepts covered: ego, ego identity, ego functions, ego choice-making, choice-making, awareness, consciousness, projecting, creative, right practice.

Suggestion: practice these concepts by making a list of choices at the end of your day, by discussing with a friend, giving personal examples, and by writing in your journal to the following:

Strephon has been working for years now on his 100,000 word Jesus Novel. He has one more major revision to bring it to completion.

Here is the text he reads on the vodcast. Can you see the humor in it as Strephon makes his Jesus as human as the rest of us, yet already empowered by mission?

No publisher or agent yet. This is the big one intended to last centuries. Who knows? Who cares? What happens happens only now, says Strephon.

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The Benedictus is a dream chant with Strephon's own sound of the chant coming from inner, and of course connected to tradition but also improvise to go with inner spirit.

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New Years Dream, January 1, 2007 of Strephon's. It points out two fundamentals: humanitas, the connection to humanity's consciousness, caritas, Greater Presence.

Strephon had an amazing New Years Dream that came spontaneously in the night of December 31 - Jan 1, 2007.

In working with your own New Years Dream see if you are in positive, creative energy. This indicates potential for the coming year. If you are in negative, draining energy, consider this reflects a key issue or problem you are working on and need to solve in the coming year.

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You must have courage to allow transcendence into your life.

At its best the Kyria arouses in one that special feeling deep in ones breast of the Greater Transcendence of God. How can words express such a feeling? You must do it, be it, for the full experience.

Even if you do not the chant out-loud in a specific place, like a church when no one else is around, you can still observe, hear and be with the Kyria Chant through inner listening and seeing.

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Here at age 72 Strephon demonstrates Spiritual Aikido Sword.

Strephon has developed Spiritual Aikido from regular Aikido. He has trained in regular dojo Aikido since he was 46. Strephon has used his Spiritual Aikido practices in his professional trainings in dreamwork psychology as a regular practice, and in his own life. He has taught Spiritual Aikido courses to adults in spiritual centers.

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Issue - Is logic fallible?

-if logic is fallible then how can we prove this?

-if logic is not fallible then how can we prove this?

-if logic is based on the evolution of our brains as an organizing function in a body replicating the universe and its laws of integrative order creating one whole.

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Another in the Concept Series of Daily Perspectives to enlighten and make effective your life.

You can listen to these talks and achieve additional clarity in how you are living and not living your life.

Consciousness is the meta level to existence. You make your choices and
take action based on the core principles of existence. In this you are then grounded in what is real in life.

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Create With Archetypes

Strephon talks about the nature of archetypes and their power over us. He shows us to bring choice to the archetypes and create with them rather than try to control them.

The definition of an archetype is an inherent energy function in the universe.

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What's the plan?

To plan is to organize ones thoughts, possibilities and resources in time towards the goal of getting something valuable into reality.

One great task and secret of life is to plan all your significant events, not rigidly but towards project goals of significance.



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War is the deliberate destruction of human beings and their artifacts to gain dominance over a group, its lands and its culture.

War depends on mobilizing the aggressive instincts of animal human being.

The instinct of attack and destroy is built into human animals for a purpose. It cannot be rooted out. It needs safe cultural expression or it breaks out.

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Strephon talks about how dream experience sometimes clashes with our unconscious attitudes given us by society. Which do we go with? Society's attitudes or our own life principles?


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Strephon talks about his masturbation dream and its message to free oneself of society's attitudes of right and wrong.


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Strephon discusses Core Thinking and the use of the principle of Consistency in life.


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Daily Perspectives are short consciousness talks sent out daily by Strephon Kaplan-Williams covering various issues of life and dreams.




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Strephon offers a perspective on the God issue.

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Strephon talks about the thinking process interconnected with the principles of the Universe.

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Spam is not just out there! Spaming each other is something, unfortunately, we can all do, maintains Strephon, as he teaches about both defending ones space and not intruding on the space of others.

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Strephon does wacky humor with a point. See him interact with his favorite plant of the moment, and maybe learn something about love. Maybe not!

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Strephon talks on love, not the experience of love. Love is what you do with the experience of love.

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Hi! This is Strephon, psychologist philosopher.

It is amazing to me that perhaps the most important life skill is not taught in schools. So we teach it here.

If you don't learn how to make effective choices you will always be reacting to life instead of acting in life.

You are in conflict, little or big. Time to make a choice.

A choice is saying Yes to one thing and No to everything that opposes it. We direct energy one way and not another.

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Battle is one in a series called Life Vodcasts by Strephon Kaplan-Williams.

This series has started today, October 4, 2006, and will last as long as it will last.

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