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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:

  1. -What does your ego identity consist of, such as images, expectations, family affiliations, attitudes, memories of who you were, whether you are that way today or not.
  2. -Associate your ego self-identity to the strong choices you have made in your life so far. How have they defined you?
  3. -Disidentify from these ego identities by knowing them but realizing you don't have to live them in today's terms just because they were you in the past.
  4. -Soon after you arise from bed list the choices you are going to make today.
  5. -At the end of your day before bed, list the choices you have made today.
  6. -Keep a Choice-making Journal in which you do identity exercises, such as putting things in there about yourself and your choices at least once a week.



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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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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.



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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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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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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.


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What indeed characterizes the new year? As is traditional I greeted fellow tennis players I knew when we met after January 1 with a traditional Happy New Year and a shake. But what more is there?

What then is New Years that we celebrate it unconsciously?

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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.

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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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