How do spirts and balance explain my constant inclination to do or learn everything by the hardest most painful route.  Does it mean that I am out of balance...or is that my particular center of gravity?  Can one change one's center of gravity, 'cause I sure would like to slide for awhile.

-jc

And don't think for a minute I didn't pick up on the "educational potential" crack.  I just can't rise to every challeng all the time!

Ken Follett wrote:

 

I do believe there is a higher incidence of good luck if one is doing good things.  Recognizing ourselves as stewards of small but vital parts of a great whole and continuum is a start.

Leland,

I spend an inordinate amount of time checking in with the underlying powers -- I consider commuter scrying as a reasoning technique, as well as paying attention to dreams, and when awake have used for many years both the I-Ching and runes in order to gain a sense of perspective over business/life decisions. Mostly I use divining techniques as a control managament task. At times any answer provides a calming focus.

On the other hand... I pick up all of the pennies I find laying around in public and worry if I see one and miss it. I believe that if you think about the money in your pocket that there is a large cosmic conspiracy and that suddenly a force will come along and remove all of it. I also believe that there are spirits in some buildings and that you have to look out for them.

My penchant for books... it amazes me the number of times I have walked into a bookstore and right off found what I was looking for, not too disimilar than opening the bible or a phone book and pointing at a word with a pencil. On a recent trip to Rhode Island I walked into a used bookstore and the first book I put my hand on turned out to be a humorous pitch, The Specialist, a talk by a traveling salesman re: the profession of outhouse building. Everything else in the bookstore was delightful, but downhill from there.

I think that most of what we really need to know in life comes to us when we need it... quite similar to Cuyler & the history of glazing points. If it were not for serendipity I think we would all know a lot less. I also believe that some geographic locations have more innate educational potential than others.

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