Of course, that only applies so long as the unpredictable is seen as hazardous. It could be possible to develop a state of mind where the unpredictable is understood as non-threatening. Most personal/spiritual growth seems to be ways of devising that kind of mind state.

The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Work

There is NO technical reason to think that google would mark ordinary HTML higher than wordpress files.

Spiritual reasons then, indulge me!

There are ways to speed up loading time - like installing the wp-cache plugin.

What WOULD definitely get you better results in google however is to make sure your title tags are formulated a bit more efficiently. Starting them with ‘The Tim Boucher Experience’ isn’t exactly optimal. Try the all in one SEO pack and perhaps some of the other plugins collected here:

http://www.squidoo.com/wordpress-plugins-thanks

Also, a google image search for Liber Divinorum Operum turns up some good stuff. Strangely Tibetan looking stuff, for a medieval European nun….

http://www.complaints.com/june2002/complaintoftheday.june15.33.htm

I was told, by a machine, that I was not allowed to speak with a “live” oporator because my service was suspended. I tried every phone number I could think of to speak with someone, with no luck. So, I fibbed. I pressed option one for connecting a new phone, and low a behold, a “live” person ready and willing to take my money.

as to the pickford coincidence, not surprised: i’m just jacked in right now… what can i say?

Have you ever seen the movie “chaplin”, by the way? its on Hulu.com right now. pretty enjoyable, i bet you’d like it. its about innovation and storyingtelling.

Heck, if people won’t be my friend unless I’ve got a radio phone, f*ck ‘em. ;-D

My boss thinks I’m absolutely nuts. This is a good thing.

And let me tell you, were I looking for a new cellphone company (and I might be soon), I definitely won’t be going with these guys…

One of their selling points on their site is “First Month FREE when you buy any phone online today!” and their FAQ has a ready answer to why this doesn’t happen? WTF.

You have experienced being in the presence of God enough times to know when it is happening.

And now I feel like I’m getting lost in my own comment…

http://img202.yfrog.com/i/io3b.jpg/

I think its his destiny. I think he is being the person he was born to be. He is a friendly Giant going around helping people.

But Like Tim said, These people are all kind of con Artists, but in the end they help people.

I just think that is how life is. The Universe is not as moral as some would like it to be. I am talking about the perspective of the website you linked to and other perspectives like that. Michael Moore and so forth and these anti- Obama factions.

Traveling around the country I meet anarchist kids that shop lift and scam the government and corporations in various ways in order to survive. There was a time when I would never do anything like that. But when you are in a real jam its good to know that stuff.

I bet if either of us three here, Tim, Ian or I became really ambitious and decided to put ourselves out there as Some kind of Amazing Guru and go around giving people advice, we would be able to pull it off just as well as any guru, Ken Wilber included and help just as many people just as much.

I think the pituitary glad is a source of growth hormones, which, if it is as overactive in Tony as it certainly appears to be by his physical stature, it might have something to do with his rather extreme approach to personal development as well.

Then it worked really well, and it kind of freaked me out a little.

I backed off.

I keep meaning to repeat this experiment.

1. Something that is completely out-of-place with its surroundings and seems to appear without any cause or source. If you find a book on your shelf that you didn’t put there and that no one else who lives in your residence can account for, maybe you should read it.

2. Something that has importance within your current pantheon/worldview/working. If you’re dealing with Eris, and you walk by a building with a golden apple painted in the window then maybe you should pay attention.

3. When chance helps further your goals, this can also be a sign from the reality matrix that you are on the right track in a Daoish way.

So then, what happens? I meet a gorgeous woman my age, with an awesome body, named….Leonora!

But, to be truthful, I am such a dork. I lost my nerve. I am not cool or a pick up artist at all.

I just asked her where the Library was and struck up a conversation with her. I totally could have gotten her phone number. She was into me. I mean I had a premonition in pretty explicit detail about what this imaginary chick named after Lenora street would look like and this vision of a person literally manifested before me.

So it really is true, that fortune favors the bold. So for being a wimp and pussing out, the Universe took care of me that day by connecting me with this friendly, but troll-like “rubber tramp” that gave me food and a place to stay.

I could have stayed with a gorgeous babe, but either way, the Universe will provide for you.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/t...rofessor-is-left-stranded-820856.html

I could totally make a puppet!

huckster Look up huckster at Dictionary.com
c.1200, M.Du. hokester “peddler,” from hoken “to peddle” (see hawk (v.)) + agent suffix -ster (which was fem. in Eng., but not in Low Ger.). Derogatory sense is 16c.; specific sense of “advertising salesman” is from 1946 novel by Frederick Wakeman.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=huckster&searchmode=none

Anyway, I used to do puppetry with my mom when I was a really little kid, but haven’t messed around with it since though.

But yeah, thanks! I feel like some of the historical research I have been doing is beginning to pay off!

Overall, I get a positive vibe from the guy, always have. I do have reservations about this flavor of personal development and how it can be too materialistic borderlining on greed, but in a way that’s on the person following the technique and their choice.

You can apply it to other goals too.

Great article, Tim.

Sometimes I wake up beaming with gratitude for the roof over my head and I feel like my life is perfect. Then, I go to work and stress out again.

Considering one of these instances featured a breathing exercise by Isreal Regardie, I think that it would be rather foolish of me not to think of this having a mystical signature.

First heard about that in a guru-busting article on Robbins found here, to give credit where it’s due.

Heh.

But if I go hand -> foot -> foot -> hand, I lose it pretty quick.

Yeah, I’m finding the same thing. It all depends on how you cluster it, how you chunk or break it apart and how you accent it.

If I can go across the bottom (foot -> foot), then back across the top (hand -> hand), it works fine. Works fine in the reverse direction as well.

But if I go hand -> foot -> foot -> hand, I lose it pretty quick. A hand/foot will jump too soon, before the one prior to it.

It seems that in the first case, I’m really only holding two elements of a pattern in my head, whereas in the second case, I have to separate the process into four distinct elements and so it becomes more difficult.

Weird.

Count Enforcement Street Direction of Enforcement at Cross St
1 33rd Street EB @ The Alameda
2 The Alameda SB @ 33rd Street
3 Caton Ave NB @ Benson Avenue
4 Caton Ave SB @ Benson Avenue
5 Liberty Heights Avenue EB @ Hillsdale Road
6 Liberty Heights Avenue WB @ Hillsdale Road
7 Harford Road NB @ The Alameda
8 Edmondson Avenue EB @ Cooks Ln
9 Edmondson Avenue EB @ Woodridge Road
10 Edmondson Avenue WB @ Woodridge Road
11 Frederick Avenue EB @ Catherine Street
12 Harford Road NB @ Christopher Avenue
13 MLK Jr Boulevard SB @ Pratt Street
14 Franklin Street WB @ Pulaski
15 Harford Road NB @ Rosalie Avenue
16 Walther Avenue NB @ Glenmore Avenue
17 Wilkens Avenue EB @ Desoto Road
18 Cold Spring Lane WB @ Hillen Rd
19 Cold Spring Lane WB @ Loch Raven Boulevard
20 Sinclair Lane WB @ Moravia Road
21 Sinclair Lane EB @ Shannon Drive
22 Sinclair Lane WB @ Shannon Drive
23 Orleans Street EB @ Linwood Street
24 Eastern Avenue EB @ Kane Street
25 Hillen Road SB @ Argonne Drive
26 Liberty Heights Avenue NB @ Dukeland Street
27 North Avenue WB @ Howard Street
28 Northern Parkway WB @ Springlake Way
29 Northern Parkway WB @ Waverly Way
30 Northern Parkway EB @ Greenspring Ave
31 Northern Parkway WB @ Greenspring Ave
32 Charles Street SB @ Lake Avenue
33 Reisterstown Road SB @ Fallstaff Road
34 Cold Spring Lane EB @ Tamarind Rd
35 Wilkens Avenue EB @ Pine Heights Avenue
36 Erdman Avenue EB @ Macon Street
37 Erdman Avenue WB @ Macon Street
38 Madison Street WB @ Caroline Street
39 Franklin Street WB @ Cathedral Street
40 Orleans Street EB @ Gay Street
41 Park Heights Avenue NB @ Violet Avenue
42 Patapsco Avenue WB @ 4th Street
43 Perring Parkway SB @ Belvedere Avenue
44 Pulaski Highway EB @ Monument Street
45 Northern Parkway WB @ Park Heights
46 Park Heights Avenue NB @ Hayward Avenue
47 Park Heights Avenue SB @ Hayward Avenue
48 Cold Spring Lane EB @ Roland Avenue
49 MLK Jr Boulevard NB @ Washington
50 Lombard Street WB @ Gay Street
51 Harford Road SB @ Walther Avenue

Occasionally also both feet want to go up together.

Interesting how the feet seem a lot harder to control than the hands which pretty much do what they’re told.

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/11/22/best-dexterity-exercise-ever/

Much more difficult than it seemed at first like it would be. Found that my hands kept trying to jump out of sequence and I had to *really* focus to get the pattern to stick. Will keep experimenting with this and would love any other ideas for similar exercises people might have come up with or seen!

Evidently, civil rights have been “temporarily” suspended there…

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — An emergency decree that prohibited large street protests and limited other civil liberties following the return of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya will be repealed within 24 hours, the country’s interim leader said Monday. [...]

The decree empowered police and soldiers to break up public meetings, arrest people without warrants and restrict the news media, with armed troops stationed throughout the capital to enforce the order.

The main effect of the emergency decree was to close down the two main pro-Zelaya media outlets, Radio Globo and Channel 36, and it blocked protest marches for several days. Zelaya supporters eventually ventured out to demonstrate, but in much smaller numbers than before.

While the decree was in force, the government also retook control of a government Agrarian Institute building that had been occupied by protesters. They detained about 55 people and lodged sedition charges against 38, who were still in custody over the weekend.

Police spokesman Orlin Cerrato said about 1,000 people were detained for violating a curfew that was imposed before the decree.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/10/02/space-clown-laliberte.html

http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/edward-carr/last-days-polymath

http://www.examiner.com/x-14795-Page-O...iner~y2009m9d29-American-Police-Force

The Muixeranga (Valencian pronunciation: [muj?e??a??a]) is the collective name given to the performance of ancient street dances and human castles, originating in the Valencian Community, which are still preserved in the town of Algemesí, 30 km southwest from Valencia.

The muixeranga is much more than an artistic acrobatic dance. It is a collection of ancient human choreographies of enormous plasticity illustrating various figures and shapes, which are held during the Algemesí town festival (September 7 and 8th), in honor of the so-called Virgin of Health (Mare de Déu de la Salut).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muixeranga

The motto of Castellers is “Força, equilibri, valor i seny” (Strength, balance, courage and reason).[7]

* Strength: A casteller is usually a stocky person. The first castellers were peasants that were accustomed to holding great weights and were under much physical exertion.
* Balance: For supporting other above in the castell while relying on those below for support requires a strong sense of balance and trust.
* Courage: The most important characteristic for castellers, especially for young children forming the highest levels of the castell.
* Reason: Rehearsing and performing requires a great deal of planning and reasoning. Any error can cause the structure fail and break apart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castell

But this little item stands out to me from the USA Today story, an “unusual wrinkle”:

Mercedes SUVs belonging to APF began showing up recently in town with magnetic decals that said “City of Hardin Police Department.” The decals were later removed.

How quirky, I’m sure. Reminded me of something I clipped on my site about rules and ruses of war - not that this is what that is. It’s just food for thought. I’m all about cross-disciplinary research is all:

In some cases, which international law accepts as a legitimate “ruse of war”, a direct action force may infiltrate to the target area in civilian clothes, but must make some distinguishing insignia visible before taking any combat actions. Had the hostage rescue force in Operation Eagle Claw actually moved into Tehran, they would have worn dark, nondescript clothing with American insignia under black tape. Before taking any combat action, they were to remove the tape.

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2009/04/13/black-tape-other-ruses-of-war/

The double-headed eagle is a common symbol in heraldry
Heraldry

Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of devising, granting, and blazoning Coat of arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms….
and vexillology
Vexillology

Vexillology is the scholarly study of flags. The word is a synthesis of the Latin word vexillum and the suffix -logy, meaning “study of”….
. It is most commonly associated with the Holy Roman Empire
Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a union of territories in Central Europe during the Middle Ages and the Early modern Europe under a Holy Roman Emperor….
and with the Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople….
. In Byzantine heraldry, the heads represent the dual sovereignty of the Emperor (secular and religious) and/or dominance of the Byzantine Emperors over both East and West
Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople….
.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Double-headed_eagle

http://www.goarch.org/special/usvisit2002/galleries/liturgical/lit0/view

Really interesting how Copeau was given an opportunity to export his theatre to America pretty much expressly for the purpose of spreading good will towards and influence under French culture. Few people seem to discuss the political purpose - usually unstated overtly - of so much of theatre…

http://www.jstor.org/pss/1844987