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Member Profile: transpersonal
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"Living a Life of Transformative Mutuality, Meaning, and Purpose"
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I am a:
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69-year-old Man (Single)
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Located in:
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Austin, TX (USA) |
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Seeking a:
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Woman (18 to 90) |
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For:
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Serious Relationship |
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Spirituality:
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Spiritual, not religious, Other |
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| About Me
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Very serious, disciplined, serene, empathetic, sympathetic, broad-minded, focused, directed, and driven!
Mission-oriented, Consecrated to something "Greater", "Big Picture" visionary, and Compassionate.
Last of the "hermit-monk-philosophers?": equanimous, sincere, conscientious, an ideas-person.
Toward a Life of Transformative Meaning / Purpose, Integrity, Solidarity, and Consecrated Service.
"Love in Conscious Co-Productivity."
Dane Rudhyar, Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mirra Alfassa), Helena P. Blavatsky (early Theosophy), and Arnold J. Toynbee
Summary as above, details so below!
About Me - brief background and motivation
Many, many years ago I reached a point in life where I needed to answer the question of "what am I alive for?" After wrestling with this issue for awhile I came to the conclusion that I could not answer that question until I first answered another one: "what is humanity alive for?" Well, the picture kept getting larger until the question of "what is the universe alive for?," became the fundamental question. For someone formally trained in accounting and business, with a very concretely-oriented mind, these sorts of questions were not easy to address, but addressing them and actualizing the answers has been what my life has been about now for more than a third of a century, four decades and counting!
In brief, my answers to the above questions involve aspiring to live a transpersonal life. A transpersonal life is one that is to be spirit-inspired and spirit-directed and that serves a function for and as an integral part of the Earth and its development. Such a life includes an inner mutation and an outer transformation, thereby changing both one's self and the Earth. The inner mutation involves changing the quality and scope of one's motivation, will, thoughts, feelings, desires, emotions, values, etc. The outer transformation entails changing the quality and scope of one's behavior and activity in the world, therefore also one's relationships with others and with the Earth as a whole. Such a mutation and transformation is to be founded upon, infused with, and impelled by an all-inclusive, universal, Divine Love-Compassion.
One function of the inner mutation and outer transformation is to redirect one's allegiance from the many lesser wholes---one's family, people, country, etc. (multiplicity)---to our mutual greater planetary whole (unity), that Being within which we live and move, and which IS our being!
Another function is to contribute to the preparation of the foundation for a future global society. Such a society is to be founded upon the wholeness of the planet and also to be appropriately and appreciatively inclusive of both planetary unity and multiplicity. At the present evolutionary moment making such a contribution means to establish a new vision, way of life, and meaning for being; one that is based upon the Earth as the foundation---the Earth, in all of its material, biological, mental, and spiritual aspects.
All of which is much easier said than done! (And saying it is not that easy either!!) At any rate following through with my aspiration I could probably be described as a very serious, disciplined, highly-focused, and broad-minded person---perhaps the last of the "hermit-monk-philosophers"---and as a "big picture" visionary consecrated to something "Greater," with extra helpings of sincerity, honesty, directness, equanimity, sympathy, empathy, and compassion to go along with that!
The driving force, the dharma of my life is to work towards and contribute to the establishment, sustentation, dissemination, and exemplification of the vision that infuses and guides the transpersonal way of life. Thus my interests are consonant with and actuated by that vision: transpersonal philosophy and practice (jnana and karma yoga?); personal and planetary transformation; world social, political, ecological/environmental, and spiritual issues and current events. I have formal training in accounting and general business, and psychology and counseling; and informal exposure and interests in many other areas. Among these areas are: spiritual philosophies, metaphysics, theosophy, comparative religion, history, diet and nutrition, etc.
Given the driving force of my life to fulfill the dharma, function, or purpose for which I was brought to life, for me then it is not so much of what " I " want or desire, or what makes me happy in life. Rather it is what the Earth needs of and through me. Back in the 1980s I came up with a phrase that succinctly describes such an approach to living: "I am open, receptive, discriminant, ready, willing, and able to do whatever is necessary and appropriate through me." I could probably write several pages explaining nearly every word in that phrase but for now I will leave it as it is.
Such an approach to living is what I described earlier as "aspiring to live a transpersonal life" and it is not necessarily a "spiritual" approach per se---or perhaps I should say that it is not a strictly "spiritual" approach per se. The aim---if the lengthy and arduous path of development ('training, preparation, and discipline') goes well or at least satisfactorily---is to have one's life increasingly inspired and directed by "spirit," or rather by the Earth as a whole. For me the Earth is a multilevel whole of being, a being that includes spheres of matter, life, mind, and divinity. "Spirit" in this case would be the directive force of the sphere of divinity, attempting to actuate or fulfill the plan or 'vision' (or a set of QUALITIES) of the sphere of divinity throughout the other three spheres of the Earth---"on Earth as it is in heaven!"
The call and challenge of a pan-human rebirth, transfiguration, and global society is upon us. May all those who are able to 'hear,' answer that 'vocation!'
What I am looking for
I am seeking someone who is interested in living FOR something, hence living a life of transformative Meaning and Purpose. There is a specific vision that guides the transpersonal life and I am seeking a co-working companion who might come to feel a MISSION, a CALLING, to share in the establishment, sustentation, dissemination, and exemplification of that vision. The vision is inspired primarily by the works of Dane Rudhyar, and secondarily and supportively by those of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mirra Alfassa), Helena P. Blavatsky (early Theosophy), and Arnold J. Toynbee. Thus pursuant to the actualization of this vision I am summoning someone infused with---or with the potentiality of becoming infused with---a spiritually transformative Aspiration, a receptive creative Fecundity, and a mobilized expectant Potency for a co-working companionship that would be founded upon and consecrated to a mutuality of perspective, purpose, focus, and function for the Earth. Hence LOVE would be a function for the Earth as a whole and not just of biology and / or personal or mental satisfaction.
Such a co-working companionship---a "Love in Conscious Co-Productivity"---would be one that works towards the inner mutation and outer transformation mentioned above, and that manifests and radiates both as single persons and as partners, the following qualities: Tranquility, Serenity, Stillness, Equanimity, Autonomy, Centrality, Willingness / Will, Discipline, Responsibility, Attunement, Receptivity, Adaptability, Detachment, The Art of Letting Things Happen, Knowing Where One Belongs, Simplicity, Tolerance, Ease, Non-Identification, Comradeship, Personal Integrity, Service, Courage, Non-Possessiveness, Intellectual Honesty, Sensitivity, Discrimination, Equanimity in Love, Non-Competitive Efficiency, Creative Visualization, Self-Reliance, A Sense of Humor, Faith in the Future, Aspiration-Ardency, Hope-Expectancy, Sincerity, Perseverance, Gratitude-Appreciation, All-Embracing Openness-Sympathy-Empathy, Love-Compassion, Knowledge, Wisdom, Solidarity, Cooperation, Agency-Functional Participation, Fulfillment, Belongingness-Communion-Devotion, Self-Forgetfulness, Self-Surrender, Self-Consecration to the Greater Whole, and MORE!
This transpersonal partnership-relationship would require earnestness and discipline, with effervescent and contagious overtones of Compassion, Self-Sacrifice, Devotion, Service, and Transformation. It would require the self-consecration and focusing of one's life in a particular direction and the acceptance of the responsibility that comes with such a dedication. ("Sacrifice" and "consecration" like "sacred" are all derived from the Latin roots "sacr-" or "sacer" which have meanings of "sacred" and / or "holy").
Essentially the function of the transpersonal partnership-relationship that I would be willing to participate in would be to do whatever we can while we are alive to establish, sustain (nurture), disseminate, and exemplify the vision that guides the transpersonal life, so that when we partners disappear the "vision" will be self-capable of sustaining, disseminating, and embodying itself in and through the lives of other people. Said people would hopefully be as consecrated in their own lives to the planetary 'line of development' embodied in and expressed by the "vision," as the original transpersonal partnership-relationship had been. To put the issue in simple, plain, and direct language, every way of life needs people---followers, participants, and practitioners; persons whose hearts, minds, and lives are infused and inspired by that "way"---or else it does not exist!
- - - - - "For where two or three have gathered together in" the name of the "vision" IT is "there in their midst." - - - - -
So the intent and function of the original transpersonal partnership-relationship would need to be to engender a self-sustaining movement ensouled and inspirited by the "vision" that guides the transpersonal life.
Thus a potential partner would need to be inspired and / or motivated by her own relationship to that "vision." Being attracted to me as a person, potential partner, lover, etc, would be insufficient regardless as to how personally gratifying it might be to me as a person. As I envision it the potential partner would need to expose herself to the "vision" and eventually come to or develop the feeling that, "this is important. This is what I want or rather need to do with my life. I need to work to make sure this 'new way of life' becomes alive in the world in order to help to contribute to planetary evolution." To say it in a different and slightly more spiritual / metaphysical way, the potential partner needs to come to sense and feel that it is her Dharma / Rita / Function / Vocation / Calling to ceaselessly work for the "establishment, sustentation, dissemination, and exemplification" of the vision that guides the transpersonal life, alone if need be but if a suitable partner is available then also with that partner. From yet a different and more figurative perspective the prospective partner would need to become 'pregnant,' and our 'child' would be the "self-sustaining movement ensouled and inspirited by the 'vision' that guides the transpersonal life." Perhaps a way of essentializing the transpersonal partnership-relationship could be in the words of a great spiritual personage of the 20th century; she wrote, "Without him I exist not; without me he is unmanifest!"
- - - - - - - - - -Yea, "Love in Conscious Co-Productivity" in its Fullness!! - - - - - - - - - -
May Divine Love-Compassion bring together the conscious co-producers for the transpersonal way, and may we become the foundation necessary to transform life and living into planetary acts of creative power!!
And may a potential "we" be so worthy, for indeed so worthy is the world!!!
Two fundamental questions, two divine directives, and a supernal summons:
What are you going to do while you are here?
What will you leave behind when you disappear?
Find your self !
Fulfill your function!!
Let us one and all assume our responsibility of all-inclusive growth and transformation, and move forward in consciousness and participation, in service to the emerging World Community--the consummation of humanity as a whole--working to call forth creative tomorrows and a greater Life for the Earth, that Being within which we live, move, and which IS our being! |
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Basics
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My Sign:
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Scorpio |
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I speak:
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English |
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Occupation:
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Retired / was Public Administration |
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Education:
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Graduate Degree |
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Height:
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5 11" (180 cm)
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Body Type:
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Average |
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Eye Color:
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Brown |
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Hair Color:
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Black |
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Lifestyle
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I live with:
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Live alone |
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Have kids:
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No |
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Want (more) children:
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Probably not |
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Willing To Relocate:
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Maybe
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Diet:
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Vegetarian |
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Smoking:
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No |
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Drinking:
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Exercise:
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exercise regularly |
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How I spend my free time:
- In study, spiritual/esoteric discipline/practice, and "imagineering": Thinking; Intuiting; Contemplating; and maintaining Quietude, Tranquility, Serenity, Stillness, Equanimity, Autonomy, Centrality, Self-Reliance, Responsibility, Aspiration-Ardency, Courage, Openness-Sympathy-Empathy, Faith, Sincerity-Simplicity, Hope-Expectancy, Gratitude-Appreciation, Belongingness-Communion-Devotion, and Productive Activity.
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| Personality
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My Personality:
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Caring, Intelligent, Quiet
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When out with friends, I'm usually:
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The quiet one
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I'm happiest when:
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Fulfilling the function for which I was brought to life, and working towards the inner mutation and outer transformation mentioned above at "About Me - brief background and motivation."
What are four of your best life skills?
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Understanding local, national, and world events.
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Remaining calm yet resilient during crises.
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Listening to and engaging others with empathy and compassion.
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Continuing to expand awareness, knowledge, understanding, wisdom, attunement, solidarity, and communion.
Name six things that you can't live without:
Air - Water - Food - Sleep - Understanding - Meaning!
What is the first thing that people notice about you?
That I am a good listener, with extra helpings of sincerity, honesty, directness, sympathy, empathy, understanding, and compassion to go along with that!
Give five ways your friends would describe you:
Genuine - Good Listener - Compassionate - Thoughtful - Intelligent
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The best day of my life was when:
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It might be when we initiate a 'transpersonal partnership relationship!' Otherwise it may be on that 'last day' during that 'last moment' when I look back through life with that 'panoramic vision,' to see what has been both fulfilled and left unfulfilled through my performance of the purposeful function, the dharma, for which I was brought to life.
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If I could have dinner with any three people, they would be:
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Five people actually: Dane Rudhyar, Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mirra Alfassa), Helena P. Blavatsky, and Arnold J. Toynbee. Their works have made a profound contribution to my development so far, and it would be interesting and potentially enlightening and transformative for me to be able to observe and possibly participate in whatever interaction that might occur.
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Interests
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My interests, hobbies, and pastimes include...
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Reading
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For fun I like to...
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Study, ponder, and envision, and exercise a continual spiritual/esoteric discipline/practice and "imagineering": Thinking; Intuiting; Contemplating; and maintaining Quietude, Tranquility, Serenity, Stillness, Equanimity, Autonomy, Centrality, Self-Reliance, Responsibility, Aspiration-Ardency, Courage, Openness-Sympathy-Empathy, Faith, Sincerity-Simplicity, Hope-Expectancy, Gratitude-Appreciation, Belongingness-Communion-Devotion, and Productive Activity.
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My favorite movies:
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There are no movies that I can call "favorites." However, there was one movie that was very important to me, given the stage of development that I was in at the time that I first saw the movie. (The time was in late 1977, approaching my 23rd birthday.) That movie was "It's A Wonderful Life." Given everything else that was unfolding in my life at the time, the movie had a profound and pivotal impact upon me. The results of that impact were immediately assimilated and remain ongoing today.
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My favorite music:
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In the past I have listened to classic rock (of about 1964-1977), jazz, classical, and the blues. These days I hardly listen to anything; mostly my attention is focused on "The Voice of the Silence!"
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My favorite books:
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The works of Dane Rudhyar, Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mirra Alfassa), Helena P. Blavatsky (early Theosophy), and Arnold J. Toynbee have had a profound impact upon my development so far.
Rudhyar:
The Planetarization of Consciousness;
Rhythm of Wholeness;
Modern Man's Conflicts;
Directives for New Life;
We Can Begin Again Together;
Occult Preparations for a New Age;
Culture, Crisis, and Creativity;
Beyond Individualism;
The Fullness of Human Experience;
An Astrological Triptych;
Return from No-Return;
Aurobindo:
The Life Divine;
The Synthesis of Yoga;
Letters on Yoga, Vols. 1-4;
The Mother:
(compilations) --
The Mother's Vision;
Being of Gold;
Becoming One;
The Process of the Integral Yoga;
Blavatsky:
The Secret Doctrine;
The Key to Theosophy;
The Voice of the Silence;
The Collected Works of H. P. Blavatsky, Vols. 1-15;
Toynbee:
A Study of History, Vols. 1-12;
Surviving the Future.
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Values
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The things I'm most grateful for in life are...
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Being alive and having had the supportive, challenging, and exacting circumstances that I have had throughout my life.
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Having the opportunity to become exposed to the works of Dane Rudhyar, Helena P. Blavatsky (early Theosophy), Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mirra Alfassa), and Arnold J. Toynbee, and the time to deeply study, assimilate, and live according to the themes presented through those works.
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Having been brought to Life in order to be able to work towards and contribute to the establishment, sustentation, dissemination, and exemplification of the vision that infuses and guides the transpersonal way of life.
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My goals, and what I want out of life...
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To fulfill the function for which I was brought to life, that being to work towards and contribute to the establishment, sustentation, dissemination, and exemplification of the vision that infuses and guides the transpersonal way of life, which involves working towards the inner mutation and outer transformation mentioned above at "About Me - brief background and motivation" and MORE!
Hopefully thereby my living would exemplify and radiate the following qualities: Tranquility, Serenity, Stillness, Equanimity, Autonomy, Centrality, Willingness / Will, Discipline, Responsibility, Attunement, Receptivity, Adaptability, Detachment, The Art of Letting Things Happen, Knowing Where One Belongs, Simplicity, Tolerance, Ease, Non-Identification, Comradeship, Personal Integrity, Service, Courage, Non-Possessiveness, Intellectual Honesty, Sensitivity, Discrimination, Equanimity in Love, Non-Competitive Efficiency, Creative Visualization, Self-Reliance, A Sense of Humor, Faith in the Future, Aspiration-Ardency, Hope-Expectancy, Sincerity, Perseverance, Gratitude, All-Embracing Openness-Sympathy-Empathy, Love-Compassion, Knowledge, Wisdom, Solidarity, Cooperation, Agency-Functional Participation, Fulfillment, Belongingness-Communion-Devotion, Self-Forgetfulness, Self-Surrender, Self-Consecration to the Greater Whole, and MORE!
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My greatest accomplishments in life have been...
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Pursuing the opportunity to become exposed to the works of Dane Rudhyar, Helena P. Blavatsky (early Theosophy), Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mirra Alfassa), and Arnold J. Toynbee, and taking the time to deeply study, assimilate, and live according to the themes presented through those works. These accomplishments are still in progress and hopefully the exemplification and dissemination of those themes will be accomplished as well---all within the overall endeavor to fulfill the function for which I was brought to life!
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Five or ten years from now, I see myself...
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Retired, focused on fulfilling the function for which I was brought to life (as mentioned above) . . . for the rest of my life!
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My political inclination can be described as...
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Some other viewpoint
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Spirituality
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Spiritual Orientation:
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Spiritual, not religious, Other
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I consider my spirituality...
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The central focus of my life
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What brought me to my spiritual path and motivated my interest...
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As I wrote above at "About Me - brief background and motivation":
Many, many years ago I reached a point in life where I needed to answer the question of "what am I alive for?" After wrestling with this issue for awhile I came to the conclusion that I could not answer that question until I first answered another one: "what is humanity alive for?" Well, the picture kept getting larger until the question of "what is the universe alive for?," became the fundamental question. For someone formally trained in accounting and business, with a very concretely-oriented mind, these sorts of questions were not easy to address, but addressing them and actualizing the answers has been what my life has been about now for more than a third of a century, four decades and counting!
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I consider the purpose of my spirituality to be...
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Connecting to something greater than myself, Other
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After the body dies...
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Other
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The spiritual books and authors that have had the greatest impact on me...
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The most influential person in my life has been: Dane Rudhyar.
His works served as my eductor and initiator. They provided me with Meaning and Direction for Life. They helped to engender Creative-Redemptive Love-Compassion and the Will to Wholeness and Service in the being that I am. They stimulated the aspiration and drive for 'Self-Consecration' to the Greater Whole within which we live, move, and which IS our being!
Secondarily, the works of Helena P. Blavatsky (early Theosophy), Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mirra Alfassa), and Arnold J. Toynbee have supported, broadened, heightened, and deepened the foundation established by Rudhyar's works.
All of these personages have truly been the pillars of Life and Living for me.
Books
Rudhyar:
The Planetarization of Consciousness;
Rhythm of Wholeness;
Modern Man's Conflicts;
Directives for New Life;
We Can Begin Again Together;
Occult Preparations for a New Age;
Culture, Crisis, and Creativity;
Beyond Individualism;
The Fullness of Human Experience;
An Astrological Triptych;
Return from No-Return;
Aurobindo:
The Life Divine;
The Synthesis of Yoga;
Letters on Yoga, Vols. 1-4;
The Mother:
(compilations) --
The Mother's Vision;
Being of Gold;
Becoming One;
The Process of the Integral Yoga;
Blavatsky:
The Secret Doctrine;
The Key to Theosophy;
The Voice of the Silence;
The Collected Works of H. P. Blavatsky, Vols. 1-15;
Toynbee:
A Study of History, Vols. 1-12;
Surviving the Future.
Gratitude and Blessings!
If you have made it this far through my profile you have my gratitude and blessings for taking your time to read through my long musing. If nothing else I can only hope that the written words were worth the time that you spent reading them. If not, alas. . . .
If the words have sparked a sense of inspiration then that in itself is a blessing. May that inspiration carry you forth to greater living during this Life.
And finally, if my long musing has brought forth a "resonance" and the potential for mutuality and "conception" then with open heart and mind I await, arms outstretched toward the companion who might come. May such a potential meeting of the ways call forth creative tomorrows and a greater Life for the Earth, that Being within which we live, move, and which IS our being!
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Who I'm Looking For
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I'm seeking a:
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Woman (18 to 90)
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Ethnicity:
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Any
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Height:
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4' 6" to 7' 0" (137cm to 213cm)
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Body Type:
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Any
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Hair Color:
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Any
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She should speak:
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English
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Education:
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Doesn't Matter
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Annual Income:
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Doesn't Matter
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Smoking:
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No
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Drinking:
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Doesn't Matter
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Vegetarian:
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Doesn't Matter
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Has children:
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Doesn't Matter
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Wants children:
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Doesn't Matter
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Personality:
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Doesn't Matter
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When out with friends, she would be...
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Doesn't Matter
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Spiritual Orientation:
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Any
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She would consider her faith or spirituality...
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The central focus of her life
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