I guess my questions to Archaea would be: 1) did you read the forum guidelines? 2) are you familiar with the work of Gurdjieff and Mouravieff and Castaneda?
If the answer is "no", then it may just be that Archaea doesn't understand what the forum was created to do, how it is done, and why it is that emotions do not characterize my responses - it is all "business", so to say, in the Gurdjieffian sense.
If the answer is "Yes" to those questions, then it seems to me that there is a personal antagonism toward me that includes projecting and/or possibly serious Dunning-Kruger syndrome.
Allow me to share something that I've had to reiterate a number of times over the years:
On our forum, we have a clearly stated Mission which is described in the forum guidelines. At the end, these guidelines state the following:
We the moderators reserve the right to do anything and everything we see fit to ensure a friendly comfortable environment for our guests; that includes deleting you and all of your posts if you break any of these rules or act like a psychological deviant at any time past present or future. Oh yeah people, I said future, Tom Cruise has nothin' on us.
Now, that is stated rather humorously, but there IS a history behind it.The fact is, we, the creators of this forum, that is, Ark and myself, have had many, many years of interacting with people in a didactic setting, quite effectively, I should add. I also have many years experience as a hypnotherapist and researcher, mother of five children who have, I should add, turned out very well (the proof and the pudding and all that). I have also conducted an experiment in superluminal communication that has produced extremely interesting results (interesting enough to bring down the ire of the psychopaths on my head!). Ark has been a student of Gurdjieffian ideas for many, many years, as have I. We worked on ourselves separately, and then together, effecting dramatic changes in our personal lives and our expanded reality. We then began sharing the results of our work on the net. This attracted people and
we began to help them connect with each other and work on themselves in the same ways that we found gave rapid results.
We do NOT use telepathy to "diagnose" anyone. In fact, we don't diagnose: we assess and give our opinions and
frame our words and actions based on those assessments. So far, based on the history of this forum, we bat them out of the park almost every time. In short, the historical track record, preserved on this forum for anyone who has the time to find and read the threads, is our primary data that our method of studying "word gestures", semantics, etc, is a viable assessment tool. And it is also a valuable WORK modality.
Sometimes I feel like a "fast gun" who has to be constantly challenged by every other fast gun who comes into town. And even moreso because, shudder!, women most definitely must NOT be fast guns! I am not fast because I practiced to engage in any kind of contest with anyone... I am fast because I have been practicing on
sacred cows that have threatened me, my family and others, and what I really need is not to have to defend my fastness, but some help with those damn cows! I have a limited amount of time left on this earth and
I conserve my energy.
Consider Annie Oakley who became such a fantastic shot because her father was dead and feeding the family depended on her aim and efficiency. Bullets were scarce, and if she missed, her family went hungry. She was highly motivated to be both fast and accurate - out of her "female nurturing" orientation! If it had been just for the sake of competition, she might not have been so motivated because competition is not generally part of the female archetype. Cooperation for the survival of others is, however.
And that's what drives me.
The bottom line question I always test everything by is: Do I trust this enough to recommend it to my beloved children? If it doesn't pass that test, you can bet that I won't. Is it the TRUEST thing I can find to give my children?
Because, after all, I do expect to be gone from this planet some day and they must carry on. Let me give them the best I can, and let me work as hard as I can so that this best IS the best.
And that means I don't have time for people who can't be helped.
Take that however you like.
Now, is that "cow-like" enough?