"Life Strategy 2: Manifest"

And on my side it is so well apparell'd,
So clear, so shining and so evident
That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye.
William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part I Act II Scene 4.

"Goldfinches and Forsythia #3" © 2010
Spidey-Hole Series / Spring Forward Subset
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In our last chapter, we looked at Life Strategy 1., Intention. Now that you have mastered Intention in your life, let us move next to Life Strategy 2., Manifest. Many define Manifest as that which is clear and requires no proof. This concept operates most completely when clarity is available. But, you may ask yourself, what of obfuscation? Exactly.

"Towards Sheryl's House - 7:11 AM"© 2010

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While Manifest may infer a certitude in the understanding of the obvious, we must constantly be on guard as to what the obvious must mean. It is a proven Scientific fact and Matter of great import, that indeed even Light itself is composed of one aspect of existence even while maintaining all the reasonable and authentic aspects of another.

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"Manifest Intention"© 2010

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From "The Systemic Amazement Factorial"©

And, so (we discover) that life may come to follow Science, especially as you implement Life Strategy 2., Manifest. One may be confused in the possibilities offered in a multitude of reality choices. But what then of confusion? Once the decision as to what aspect of being is to be chosen, so collapses the situation into a particular trajectory.
Practice now to relax into the astuteness of confusion, turning your face and heart to the light of clarity. Commitment may come at our next session: Life Strategy 3., Manifesting.
Please do not attempt to actualize Manifesting until you have Mastered Strategy 3. Empathinc. makes no claim and/or notion as to the safety of such an endeavor.

This meant that electrons in experiments could only exhibit one aspect or the other, but not both at once. If one experimented on an electron as if it were a wave, that was what it would be for the duration of the experiment, and similarly, if one treated it as a particle.
Bohr called this "complementarity".
Arthur I. Miller
Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung



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"Transformed. Now What?"

"Yes, we are the nation of progress, of individual freedom, of universal enfranchisement. Equality of rights is the cynosure of our union of States, the grand exemplar of the correlative equality of individuals; and while truth sheds its effulgence, we cannot retrograde, without dissolving the one and subverting the other. We must onward to the fulfillment of our mission -- to the entire development of the principle of our organization -- freedom of conscience, freedom of person, freedom of trade and business pursuits, universality of freedom and equality. This is our high destiny, and in nature's eternal, inevitable decree of cause and effect we must accomplish it.
John L. O'Sullivan on Manifest Destiny, 1839

Yes, that would be one way of looking at things.

"Lynch Mob"© 2008
From "The Spidey-Hole Series"

Cause and effect is a wonderful concept, and works quite well when dealing with apples, agendas and perhaps even Nations. And would probably work really well with human dynamics if the equation of exchange held the symbol of equality as being essential to the key expressions. Maybe in comparing apples to gravity, our friend Newton gave us cause and effect, but not necessarily equality.
Perhaps he left those considerations to his private investigations of Alchemy.
I can only speculate. And do. Often.

"Manifesting Destiny"© 2008

From "The Systemic Amazement Factorial"©

But I can't help but wonder that if we are awash in the brilliant effulgence of truth: and if that truth is intended to Enlighten our way, and blah blah blah blah blah. That's just me yakking out of a contrived belief system. Which, like cause and effect works well enough on most days. But well enough is just a beginning. See, I think we are so much more than we believe and so much less than we think. I intuit that the ancient light of stars cross in each of our cells and create us again and again. Transformation is a constant. It is altogether complete in each moment and then incomplete in the process of living. Any destiny we own is the trajectory of this process. And if we have any input into its
creation and course, then we better get cracking.

Transformed. Now what?

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"Transforming My Selves"© 2010

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From "The Systemic Amazement Factorial"©

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way.

Jack Handey