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.

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!

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Strephon elaborates on perspectives raised by his listeners about the issues and thought that Eckhart Tolle talks and writes about. Renew your perspective on life.

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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 contrasts unconscious ego identity with creative ego function. Good for focus and discussion with friends during your day. Give examples from yourself.

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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.

Strephon talks about focusing your life on taking responsibility for things your your life with new commitment to positive values personally and in work life. Responding with one's whole being.

A seven-minute podcast on taking new responsibility in your life for the new year.

Responsibility is responding to life appropriately. Instead of withdrawing or simply reacting, going hysterical, resistive and negative, open yourself, Strephon says, to what is happening and deal with it.

Solve the problem. Develop the new potential.

First, do the New Year’s Death-Rebirth sacrifice. Review last year and acknowledge what didn’t work, where you failed and lost out. Also list what you did accomplish of value.

Then in transiting into the new year, sacrifice what no longer serves the value in the new year and new life you are living. This includes friends as well as habits and hobbies.

Then take on new values and projects you want to take on and accomplish.
Take responsibility. Respond.

Also, do not neglect wholeness values. Look at each of the areas of your life and focus your energy in a responsible way. What new thing can you bring to Personal Relating, to Work Projects and Relationships, to Personal Growth?

This is being responsible to the new life emerging before each one of us.

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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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.

Strephon talks about choosing and having purpose in the New Year. We are nothing but a flash of existence, like a firework exploding unless we use a greater value to live by.

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

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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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Over 43,000 Listeners Achieved - Report January 1, 2007

The predicted growth-rate was for 30,000 listeners by the end of the year. We started at zero on April 16, 2006. Stefania and Strephon celebrated this achievement in their New Years Eve toast and talk as the Dutch fireworks banged away outside.

Success And New Website Coming

Now we have the experience of success like this we are quickly switching for 2007 to implementing a new website organized around two areas of subject matter: Writer's Interface Writing Tools, and Expert Psychology. The sub-branches will be many subjects in both fields.

What does our success so far mean for 2006?

The goal was achieved of seeing whether there was good interest in the style of presentation and the ideas that Strephon has taught his students for years, and written into several books now not exactly in print that much.

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My new article on this subject is too long, yet to the point.

The essence here is to record any dreams or thoughts from the night previous to New Years Eve. Do it for the night of New Years Eve, and do it for one more night, or until you have a dream you remember, the night after New Years Eve.

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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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Christmas Tree

Strephon talks about the real Christmas and New Years, which is inside us. He says that the greatest gift is the gift of life and existence out of love. Thus the real gift you give is love.

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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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Creative Commons copyright: for personal use only and not commercial use without permission. The author states that these messages are not advice but personal opinion. Experts and people often differ in their points of view. Please take responsibility for your own insights and actions. We are not responsible for what you think and do.

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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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