The Three-Headed Man

THE THREE-HEADED MAN discusses their ideas on the topic of belief.

Jazzy begins by explaining his mother's dementia. Jimmy reminds us of the definition of belief, which is expectation, faith, and trust.

Phreddie considers himself a science person, and THE THREE-HEADED MAN considers data, science, and belief, which leads them to the question, "What is faith?" and "What is certainty?"

Jazzy asks what is Maya? Jimmy responds by saying everyone pretends. We are pretending all the time. Story -- Everything is a story.

THE THREE-HEADED MAN discusses, "I don't wanna..."

Phreddie remembers bumper stickers -- "Just Say No Apathy"

They ask, "Is doing the enemy of apathy?"

Jimmy questions the relationship between apathy and depression. What are remedies for apathy? Inner tasks and outer tasks -- what others can see can be used as motivation.

Jimmy recalls something his father said, "Be good to yourself." Jimmy continues by saying not getting stuff done is self-torture.

Is apathy cheating yourself? "So much to do, so much to do," says Jazzy.

"Little by little," says Phreddie. He continues by saying, "breathe in the good stuff."

Jimmy compares sadness and apathy, and he says, "sadness is legitimate."

Apathy in the now. "if not now? when?"

Jimmy introduces our topic: Crisis. He relates it to an earlier conversation about "the cull", which we have yet to release because we believe the topic is insensitive to those who are currently suffering.

Crisis as a single event, which provides food for moving forward, says Jimmy.

Jazzy adds time and deadlines as factors in business to the crisis discussion. Phreddie questions, "What's a crisis look like in Riondel, BC?"

Jimmy feels the world in changing.

Jimmy asks, "What do we do in a crisis? "Action or eat it," says Phreddie.

Jazzy and Phreddie use video games as a way to practice crisis. They practiced "not panicking."

Phreddie acknowledges that crisis could just be change. Change is progress? asks Jazzy.

Put on a seat belt on and watch events unfold.

"Mood" is the prompt for this week's THREE-HEADED MAN conversation.

Jimmy begins the conversation by referring to himself as a stable actor -- he is stable, steady, simple -- tidy -- that's Jimmy, and he has an aim of "Zero Mood". Moodless.

Jazzy has an evil thought, and attempts to provoke Jimmy, "did Mary call you in the background?"

Phreddie asks, "Does a mood come from outside?"

What changes our mood and attitude?

The conversation advances, are we enslaved to mood? Moods work their way through me. Phreddie experiences "Ugly Reverb". "Mood is a shade that tints my view," says Phreddie. Are we responsible for our moods?

Listen to yourself, says Jimmy.

Phreddie ponders Art and Architecture, and considers their influences upon one's mood.

In contrast, Jimmy interjects his notions on grumpy moods and anger. Phreddie responds saying that he avoids labeling emotions and moods, which prompts Jazzy to recall a story of Mere Baba.

What to do with anger?

Phreddie recalls a practice from Claymont, J.G. Bennett's fourth-way school, where, because he experienced a lot of anger, he was given the opportunity to dig in the earth. He was told that the earth can receive our anger.

Phreddie directs the conversation to The Labyrinth Readers, and the reading The American Book of the Dead. He asks if Jimmy and Jazzy prepare the space for the instructions they read for the recently deceased. Do they use assisting factors to clean and raise the mood of the space?

This propels a discussion of the tools and rituals we use for creating a good reading space, which can be enhanced by an elevated mood for contact with the voyaging spirit.

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This week THE THREE-HEADED MAN quietly discuss Silence

Jazzy is reading prayers for the passing of the Queen of Samadhi. He reads an invocation to the "divine silence of the soundless voice". Jazzy continues with the silence of the Sikh deities and listening. Miracles are obtained by listening.

Jimmy returns the conversation to more concrete experiences -- Silence and Sound -- and the everyday sounds.

Phreddie reminds that "In the beginning there was the word." He wonders whether sound is the first creation in the void of silence.

Jimmy introduces several related topics: Receptivity, Manifestation, and Passivity. He recalls sounds that accompany him on his daily walk, contrasting silence and sound.

Phreddie and listening. Scanning for the necessary information. Impatience. Listening and understanding Spanish. Listening for tone.

Jimmy likes talking to shy people, and the silence of the bush. He continues by questioning the relationship between Harmony, Silence and Spirit.

Phreddie labels himself as an "emanater". Phreddie poses the question, "can one emanate and listen concurrently?"

The THREE-HEADED MAN asks, "Silence is a sound?"

Their conversation concludes with Phreddie recalling a car camping rendezvous with Jimmy and his wife, Mary. Phreddie and his wife, Helena, searched each summer for 'natural churches.' The two couples spent a few days in one of the most churchy natural churches in northern Montana.

Jazzy begins by saying, "A lottery could anything," and Jimmy adds, that "Lottery is a supreme performance."

"You gotta play to win."

Phreddie wonders, "Who is the luckiest?"

Jazzy defines Lottery as the manifestation of something that has tiny odds --

THE THREE-HEADED MAN continues to discuss luck. Luck is recognition. Jimmy says he is pretty good at recognition. He says the lottery is like a joy buzz. Phreddie and Jazzy talk about drops in a video game. "Why is Jazzy luckier than me?" asks Phreddie. What makes a person lucky?

Phreddie tells a story about working in a funeral home. Do numbers suggest themselves? Jazzy tells that If he buys a lottery ticket, and he hopes he does not to win, will it increase his chances of winning?

Is it possible to control the dice? Manipulate the randomity?

Jimmy tells a story about Black Jack and the music of Little Feat. He believes there is a negative quality to the lottery. The big win is not a pleasure. Jimmy doesn't want a big win. He wants to spread out the joy. Money is a cheap lover.

THE THREE-HEADED MAN concludes their conversation with Magic, Intention, and Ritual -- their Lottery.

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Jazzy introduces the topic of gaming through the board game of "Monopoly." He learns t try something different to win.

Jimmy adds that games can become like war and that games are an illusion. Eliminating the war quality of games is how he views games. Jimmy continues by discussing teammates. He remembers creating equal teams when he played soccer. Jimmy desires competitive balance.

Strat-o-matic games. Phreddie talks of his lucky, and that he views gaming as way to spend time among friends.

"Art of War" -- Jazzy introduces deception. A Sucker Punch?

Jazzy and Phreddie recall Diablo II, and Jazzy remembers a moment in the sanctuary that concludes Act IV. Both Jazzy and Phreddie learned to win with limitations. The limitations encouraged technique and how to be a team player. Phreddie sees his "hero complex" during his gaming. Games expose the player's tendencies. Phreddie discusses how games are a mirror.

Jazzy asks about the "Game of Life" -- How are we going to play the game of life? How do you play the game?

THE THREE-HEADED MAN surmises that most intend to win the game. Jazzy laments the end game of having a lot of money and a big house. They continue their conversations by wondering about the relationship between aims and games.

Jazzy reminds himself and the other heads of "Jason and the Argonauts" -- In this film he realized the various perspectives of the game. Godly perspectives and human perspectives. Character classes in life. Role playing our lives. "I am going to play it this way." Some become trapped in the role.

This week's conversation is an exploration of exalted spaces. THE THREE-HEADED MAN chases and attempts to capture the wordless experiences of extraordinary experiences with words. Phreddie concludes his introduction of the topic by asking, "Why say anything in an exalted space?"

Jimmy thinks in partials. We are not in one or the other spot, exclusively.And he adds, "Churchy" -- Things get churchy in an exalted space.

Jazzy continues to chase by contributing the idea that there must be someone or something within us who recognizes it is an exalted space.

Jimmy introduces the notion of juxtaposition - the conflicting division. The conflict allows one to notice change. Comparables and correlations. Phreddie tries to ask, "can one create an exalted space. Is it the space that rises or does something within carry us along? Or is there something internal, within us, that rises?"

Jazzy ponders the "perceiver." What is the role of the observer?

Jimmy tosses out a story about Mary following him as he skies. He almost sings "Spanish Moon." Exalting harmonies.

Jimmy's story prompts Phreddie to recall his flying dreams, and he tells about the effects of looking down as he flies in his dreams. Phreddie questions those who go about "collecting" exalted spaces -- those who seek and chase after exalted spaces. He concludes his wonderings by saying, "the work is in the lower spaces."

Jimmy and Phreddie recollect a few experiences at Falling Leaf Lane. Jimmy summarizes his experiences at this particular exalted space by recalling the tedium and frustrations he experiences. Then he returns to his home in Canada as he "comes down" from the exaltation, "Turning our homes into 'Whatever-ville'."

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"A rut is a habit," says Jimmy, and "being in a rut with yourself is not so good," he adds. Jimmy has Ruts on his road, and he can work with those. A rut is a habit, a pattern.

Jazzy considers positive and negative ruts. A groove is a rut. Jazzy and Phreddie ponder getting into a groove with a group.

Is a personality a rut?

Language -- Jazzy speaks Punjabi and English. Each expresses language differently, and it could be argued that a language is a rut, which prompts Phreddie to ask, "What is a Spanish Fred?"

Phreddie rambles a bit and concludes by saying, "the painting painted itself as it always does."

Jimmy asks, "can I make habits?" THE THREE-HEADED MAN asks, can we make adjustments? Can we tinker or influence habits. Jimmy states, "Normal people don't think they should change," and THE THREE-HEADED MAN is not normal.

Habits that are formed automatically. Those cannot be changed.

Is a rut a tool? Train tracks, ruts in the road. Ruts guide.

Tying shoe laces. The shoe is tied. Did it perform itself? Phreddie asks Jazzy if he ties his turban automatically or does he participate in the task?

Jazzy wraps-up this conversation by explaining that a 90 degree turn to get out of a rut is difficult. Instead, Jazzy suggests a slight angle to exit the rut

Learning is floundering. Flounder with joy.

Jazzy begins the conversation by commenting upon self-made folks, those who do it all by themselves.

Phreddie changes the direction by adding dividing help into receiving and giving. Helping others is not linear path. Do some suffocating others with help? Phreddie adds the adage: "Go where they're at."

Jimmy -- help is a state, and that help goes both ways. Joy, Love, and Help -- each are giving and receiving.

Then, they discuss too much help or inappropriate help -- "Let me help you be like me." Or, "From my perspective you need help."

The conversation broadens to include: life coaches and seminars. Jazzy relates stories about cold calls and speaking in front of others.

Jimmy talks about the being dropped into a dangerous world. The Three-Headed Man havs helped each other "play the game". Jimmy prefers happy data from happy people who know. He likes spotting the people who know -- information from happy people.

"Help is the secret of the universe," says Jazzy. How do we help students through difficult activities and situations? Phreddie notes that various approaches to helping are beneficial for students.

Jimmy concludes the conversation with his notions on certainties and playing marimbas.

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