Author: sashen
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Rearranging furniture in imaginary houses
When I was 8 years old, my parents discovered that I had $42 in my piggy bank. “An eight year old shouldn’t have forty-two dollars!” they said, as if I had somehow come into possession of a stolen painting. And with that proclamation, they took my $42. Over the next 30 years, I attended all…
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Abraham Maslow did yoga?
I don’t know what it is about breakfast, but when I’m making eggs is when I get hit with a lot of interesting ideas. This morning’s was, “Abraham Maslow is upside-down! Stand his ideas on their heads and it’s more accurate.” Any questions? 😉 Okay, let me elaborate. Maslow is famous for his Hierarchy of…
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I’m addicted to addiction
I was in a room full of people not too long ago, where the well-known and, in many circles, well-respected speaker announced, “We are addicted to unhappiness,” and almost everyone in the room began nodding with a collective sigh. Now, if you know me at all, you know that nodding is my cue to, instead,…
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How to make anybody do anything…
I can make anybody do anything for as long as I want, and so can you. Here’s how: Think of the goofy thing you want them to do. If you can’t think of any, here’s a quick list that might give you some ideas… Go to a specific building every week (or more) Speak or…
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The little experiment that could
I have a friend who meditates for a living. Yup. Gets paid to sit on his butt. He’s living in Fairfield, Iowa, the US home of TM (Trancendental Meditation). Apparenly, some gajillionaire (I think he actually has gajillion dollar bills!) believes that if enough TM people meditate (long, hard, with feeling, without feeling… something) enough,…
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Seriously, don’t tell anyone about this…
I’m thinking of selling a new ebook. The title: “The Secret Secret that Secret People Behind The Secret Secretly Wanted Kept Secret” It’s only four pages: 1) If you want to win the lottery… 2) … get off your ass and buy a ticket! 3) And, if you want anything other than a lottery ticket……
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I’m positively negative
I was featured in a Toronto Star article about self-help and The Secret (www.thestar.com/article/193263) and since then have been getting quite the collection of emails in response. My favorites are, of course, the people who agree with me and think I’m smart and funny. I love when people agree with me. But in second place…
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Look, Ma, no brains!
I got a phone call today. “This is Jim. I’m calling because you bought our ebook about affiliate programs — are you looking to make more money, or quit your dayjob, or are you not serious about changing your life?” “Well,” I replied, completely unaffected by his opening gambit, “it’s interesting to hear you frame…
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The (hidden) Secret
After weeks of reading/hearing/watching the back-and-forth about “The Secret,” tonight I realized that what *most* interests me is NOT whether it’s real or not, but the *type* of discourse that has surrounded it. More specifically, it’s incredible to watch both supporters and detractors cling tenaciously to a belief (rather than examine the belief, or even…
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Humans, the greatest thing since… uh… well…
Don’t get me started on “Intelligent Design.” I’ll just say one thing and then leave it alone: If there were an “intelligent” designer for these things we call bodies, don’t you think he/she/it would have made it a bit easier to scratch the middle of your back? Or to find a woman’s g-spot? What was…
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Act “as if”… as if!
First of all, my apologies for the long gap in my postings… I got on such a roll with Amazing Magical Clothing (now at www.Delightenment.com) that I lost track of blog-time. Okay, now onto something that makes me want to scream… This weekend I ran into an old favorite of the transformation biz: “Act as…
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A petition for more powerful magical clothing
I was vacuuming the house this morning and came across something that has made more than one person upset — a prayer book and prayer shawl (in a decorative bag) on the floor. Understand that this is a room without any furniture. No desk. No shelves. No end table from Pier 1. Oh, there is…
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The Buddha Su-u-u-cks
My favorite thing about the title of this blog post is that it might get some people a bit hot under the meditation cushion, but it’s not too likely to get my website firebombed. However, had I replaced Buddha with Jesus or Mohammed… well, that could lead to a whole different set of consequences. And…
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I had a dream… I think
(This morning, I felt the urge to tell this story rather than examine something about psychospiritual thinking… but perhaps it’s the same) Three years ago, on my honeymoon, I had a dream… maybe. I’m a middle-aged man living in a village. Date? I don’t know. But it’s a small-ish village. Dirt streets, simple wooden buildings,…
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You can be the next Tiger Woods, guaranteed!
WARNING: This will be an unusually short post for me 😉 I already talked about this particular issue, so I don’t need to rehash it. But I ran across the PERFECT example of it, so I had to bring it up again. So… There’s a new movie called Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint directed by a…