A long time ago, the musical group Pink Floyd wrote and performed a song with the title, “Another Brick in the Wall.” The song is basically about what has come to be called “Social Control.” If you aren’t familiar with the song (and it is “ancient history” at this point), see “Another Brick in the […]
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Posted May 31, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 May 2020 May 31st, 2020 | Tags: 1984, Brave New World, brick in the wall, bricks, cart, culture, customers, dystopian, futuristic, grocery store, jails, license to drive, Music, paranoid, Pink Floyd, political party, social control, society, uniformity, utopian, walls | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted April 30, 2020 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 30 April 2020 The way we experience time is not the same for everyone, and it changes for us moment-to-moment. NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) is the study of the structure of experience, and our subjective experience relative to time is about as subjective as one can get…. This past December, January, and February our time “flew” while we were […] April 30th, 2020 | Tags: abundance, Beyond Mastery Newsletter, COVID-19, Debra Basham, DebraBasham.com, Embrace Reality, Energy Medicine, Healing Touch, holistic health, Joel P. Bowman, mind-body, neurolinguistic programming, NLP, Reiki, Reverend Debra Basham, Sacred stories, SCS Matters, scs-matters.com, snowbird, timeline, timeline therapy, Tips for Well-Being, wholesome thoughts, Yellow Brick Road | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted April 30, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel P. Bowman, on 30 April 2020 The title of my article for this month comes from a song popular in the 1950s, “Time Was”: Time was when we had fun On the school yard swings When we exchanged graduation rings One lovely yesterday Time was when we wrote Love letters in the sand Or lingered over our coffee and Dreaming the […] April 30th, 2020 | Tags: 5 minutes, awareness, beach, California, childhood, choice, consciousness, Edward Fitzgerald, hay rides, heart, hikes, history, ideal time, John Lennon, life, Morris Massey, moving finger, Omar Khayyam, peaceful time, relaxation, rest, Rubáiyát, speaker, the beach, time, tomorrow, Vietnam War, What You Are, Where You Were, workshop | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted March 31, 2020 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 31 March 2020 Deep Spring Center Thought for Today Your world today is so filled with people who hate one another, who blame one another, who are filled with fear. You cannot just decide to be compassionate, and say, ‘From now on I’m going to be compassionate.’ Compassion is a result. For compassion to arise, […] March 31st, 2020 | Tags: 4 questions, Aaron, Barbara Brodsky, Beyond Mastery Newsletter, body, Byron Katie, compassion, Compassion Virus, COVID-19, Debra Basham, DebraBasham.com, freeze frame, Gary Zukav, holistic health, inspiration, Joel P. Bowman, John Orr, mind, natural health, reminders, SCS Matters, scs-matters.com, Seat of the Soul, spirit | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted March 31, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel P. Bowman, on 31 March 2020 The term WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) came into common use when computer screens became capable of putting letters and words on the screen that would look the way a page printed from them looked. At this point, of course, you have to be pretty old to remember what things were like in the “old days,” before WYSIWYG […] March 31st, 2020 | Tags: altering eye, automobiles, Blake, change, cities, computers, countries, experience, geeks, Kalamazoo, Mexico, Michigan, middle age, perspective, Shakespeare, smart phones, states, terminals, the Mental Travller, typewriter, Vietnam, water buffalo, what you see is what you get, William Blake, wisdom, WYSIWYG | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted February 29, 2020 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 29 February 2020 Deep Spring Center Thought for Today Spread your love like grass seed. Move out. Don’t be afraid of potentially negative situations. See each as a place to grow more flowers, to cast your inner seeds out on this now fertile soil. For as this time of transition draws nearer, the soil is increasingly fertile. So […] February 29th, 2020 | Tags: Aaron, Beyond Mastery Newsletter, body, Debra Basham, DebraBasham.com, Deep Spring Meditation Center, emotional words, emotions, feelings, feelng words, Glass Sword, holistic health, inspiration, Joel P. Bowman, mind, natural health, reminders, Robert Plutchik, SCS Matters, scs-matters.com, seeds of light, spirit, ultimate list of emotions, Victoria Aveyard | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted February 29, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 29 February 2020 One of my joyful memories from childhood was looking at the night sky. I grew up in Los Altos, California, when it was still a small town in the middle of agricultural properties, primarily apricot orchards and bean fields. Between the time my family first moved there and my graduation from high school, the whole […] February 29th, 2020 | Tags: agriculture, apricot orchards, bean fields, California, camp fires, curiosity, curiosity killed the cat, grasp, harbor, Heaven, high bar, jets, light plollution, literature, Los Altos, Moffett Field, Navy, night sky, protagonist, reach, science fiction, ships, Star Trek, star-studded, subdivisions, suburbia, Tennyson, Ulysses | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted January 31, 2020 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 31 January 2020 In NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming), world view is called a “map.” Everyone understands that a map is not the actual territory. It is a representation. What if our beliefs, even our religious beliefs, were also maps? I received the following text message: “OK. I have to ask you. Verge of war; earthquakes; Australia on […] January 31st, 2020 | Tags: Beyond Mastery Newsletter, body, Debra Basham, DebraBasham.com, fires, galaxies, George Lakoff, holistic health, inspiration, Joel P. Bowman, LOFAR, map, Mark Johnson, Metaphors we live by, mind, model of the world, natural health, reminders, SCS Matters, scs-matters.com, spirit | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted January 9, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 9 January 2020 At one time, handbaskets were common. Briefcases (cases originally designed to hold legal briefs) have basically replaced them other than for the use of the term, “going to hell in a handbasket.” Both handbaskets and briefcases are small and relatively easy to carry. The saying about going to hell in a “handbasket,” implied a quick […] January 9th, 2020 | Tags: 40 degrees, Adults and children, assume, assumptions, beliefs, black white, briefcases, briefs, cold, communication, communicators, cultural differences, drag out, English, English Channel, females, film, French, gender, German, handbasket, handbaskets, Hell, history, hot, human, ice, knock-down, language, lawyers, limitations, males, map, maps and territory, meaningful communication, Morris Massey, Nanook, nice day, perception, perceptions, process, rain, reality, representation, snow, sun rise, sun set, sunrises, symbolic, territory, Where You Were When, winter. French, your idea | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted December 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 31 December 2019 The angel number 2020 symbolizes huge potential. When you keep seeing this angel number, it’s time to use your gifts and talents to accomplish your goals and have the life that you desire. … The appearance of angel numbers 2020 indicates it’s time to live your life with optimism and enthusiasm. ~ Trusted Psychic Mediums […] December 31st, 2019 | Tags: 2020, Beyond Mastery Newsletter, body, CaterpillarstoButterflies.com, Debra Basham, DebraBasham.com, emotions, finger signals, holistic health, inspiration, Joel P. Bowman, limiting beliefs, LVAD, mind, natural health, NLP, reminders, SCS Matters, scs-matters.com, spirit | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed |
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