Dance of the Pyramids
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Our inability to relate and share may be the misstep and stumble to our final downfall. Current global distress is not so much due to the increasing number of people on the planet as it is due to fatal non-relationship creating. The pyramids ain't dancin'! The hard part of life is found in living it, moment-to-moment; but the fun part of life is found also in the moment-to-moment living. Life's best moments, our honored, historic mentors tell us, are found in her stiffest challenges. Why would they lie? Our experiences and emotional awareness, our responsible maturity tell us that social is better than loneliness; love, better than fear; altruism, better than greed. What makes up relationship? Can I grasp it, hold it in my hand? Are the links of this chain more air than steel? Relationship is a process, not a circumstance. It is created, not found. Time-space coupling is not relationship. Two people together do not a relationship make by their mere spatial togetherness. Skins touching is not the same as selves touching. Life is a journey of choices, an ever changing process, an adventure of learning. Learning social cooperation is the key to pacing your life effectively with Nature, others, and self. All acts of living, both personal and interpersonal, are based upon contextual choices, concepts and theories. A Personal Philosophy of Life forms the primary stones at each level of each person's Pyramid of Wisdom. What answer comes to mind when you ask yourself: "How do I view the world? It is an okay place? A troubled place, but capable of improving? A hopeless hell-hole? What are my assumptions about living?" Your answer tells you much about you. In living, your assumptions are created relative to how you evaluate changes and choice points of moment-by-moment events and thoughts. The color of your future is a personal designation. Assumptions and expectations are twins, birthed by beliefs and sired by attitudes, conceived in the beds of our past joys and disappointments.
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Dance of the Pyramids
Here we stand, ready or not, on the threshold of a fresh century. The time for us to consolidate the fragments of our knowledge of human motivation, personality development, social cooperation, and ecological unity is calling our names. This book is a private invitation to the reader to join the writer in discovering the linkage of love, fear, joy, and distress-- trust, humor, respect, productive activity, patience, and awareness. It is a book about creating positive choices and changes within the context of health, balance, and harmony in living.
Our challenge is to move forward from the 20th Century’s worn, nearly exhausted models of mental illness to the high ground of a personal and social wellness model for the 21st Century. The Dance is a step toward creating a forum of opportunity and value, of positive hopes, dreams, and potential.
Dance of the Pyramids is the first in a series of Living With Awareness books. A personalized, signed copy can be purchased by contacting:
Mike Nally
DAMI Institute, Inc.
P.O. Box 611
Coeur d’Alene, ID 83816-0611
Inquiries can be placed:
e-mail: damidlm@aol.com or telephone: 1-208-676-8126
Price: $10.95, postage and handling $4.00 – Total: $14.95 each.
Book #2 Exercises, Games, and Rhythm Setting, An Applied Read of Awareness, Learning, Enhancement and Performance has been completed and will soon be available. A third book Awareness and the Multiple Aspects of Self is under pen, and a fourth book Motivation, Productive Activity and Human Purpose is being note-ified, with eighty pages in ragged draft. The DAMI S-M-A-R-T Method of Applied Awareness – Learning Experiences is available for immediate placement.
About the Author
Mike earned a Ph.D. in psychology about 25 years ago; in living, he is still earning his wings. He believes that it is time to shell the nut of awareness and to move into the forum of the new century with chin up, head high, and eyes on the challenges that would thwart us from reaching for the greatness of our human potential. Mike is a flexible poet with no set meter, who believes in the positive possibilities of social networking. He was born in 1938, in West Virginia, and now lives in Idaho. He is interested in joining others who are motivated to create a forum of awareness and energy for the mutual joy of opportunity, sharing, heart, and dignity. Mike’s lantern is up and turns slowly in the winds of change and choice. Mike is contact friendly – try him.