The Expanding Man: Grounded? Seven Tools and TWA, FTA, FAT.

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Grounded.

On the tarmac.

The Expanding Man.

What does this mean?

Throw a kiss? Say Goodbye😗

Webs? Enmeshment.

Or Healthy Intertwine.

At this stage of the game. It unity at all possible?


Who wants to win. Who needs to lose.

Exactly.

In order for world order to be, well, ordered. To some extent at least. The this that is this.


Ain’t working.


Fifteen minutes of fame.


Nope.

Won’t carry anybody for the long haul. At all.


Stranded.

Grounded.

Nobody going nowhere. Really, is not the way “it” is supposed to be.


Where do we begin?

Clarity.

The there, here and commitment.

Love is a long road. (tp). For some a longer road they they would like. For others, a short cut into the land of “I do not care.”


The good news. Clarity is alive and well. Really! It is!


But.

We gotta get there first.

And.

The here to there can be quite overwhelming.


Quite. Overwhelming.


O.k.

Clarity. The clarity of the there is potentially the most important item.(dk)


Repeat: The clarity of the there is potentially the most important item.


O.K.

Now let’s get started. On the unity of all things.


People. Humans. And all other beings.


Hint: (Before the sellers try to sell a bill of goods of “huey” to the masses.)


“Clarity comes from internal harmony.” (dk) “Clarity. Comes from the internal harmony and unity of the systems thinking and the five whys.” (dk)


Huh?


Glad you asked.😊


Transendence?

Maybe. But. Let’t not put the cart before the horse. As has been done to the core. There are many mouths to feed and scores to settle. Right?


Wrong.


Once we can establish our transcendent there, we have to communicate it with others.


Exactly.

This is the “where” things can get “dicey”.


Why?

The barriers to communication that are ourselves.

And.

There can be many.

They can be vast.

They can be dicey.

They can be cast.


Out on a fish pole with no hope of returning. Without a whale. Dragging along the whole dire consequence of actions, reaction and subtractions.


See? What I mean. Persons hope upon one another for the best of one another.


Not. The this that is this.


Huh?

Wait your turn?

No. Not me.

Yes. You.🫵🏻

Wait your turn.

Follow the rules.


Why?

Humans. Are vastly imperfect.

(He. Is not)

He knows when you are sleeping, He knows when you’re awake. He knows when you have been bad or good. So be good for goodness sake…….


In the meantime?

Batten down the hatches.


And.For God and goodness sake pay attention to how “it” is packaged.


Please.

”It”

Yes.


Ugh.

Yes.

Ugh.


Please. Sit down. Listen and Learn. “Once we know the there we have to know our current reality.”


Huh?

Ugh.

Yes.

Ugh.


Now. The bad news. (Depending on how you “look” at it.)

There are five forms. To mentally fill in and fill out.

Huh?

Five forms of influence all around us. Every minute of every day.

Yes.

There is a path to the madness of the moment should you decide, as it is, right now, your free will to do, to take the fork in the road……


Huh?

Please. Be patient. It is, after all.

A virtue. (Patience). He taught us this. Not the influencial influencers……….


(There are many, but that is another lesson, should you pass this lesson….first…..)


And begin a life of true service to and of your fellow man. Fellow men.


The Five Forms. Of influence:


  1. Position.
  2. Coercive
  3. Reward
  4. Expert
  5. Reverent


Multiple choice question: Which do you think is most influential? (Sports, idols and Taylors, do no count, right now…….)


Why?

He asks you to.


Think. For yourself.


The plane is stranded on the tarmac anyway. You ain’t going anywhere. Why not make the most of the time on the tarmac, in the hallowed halls of all things “transportive.”


After all. At the end of the day. Someone has got to pay for the gas…… right?


Are you ready for the hard truth?

The hard answer?

Before you trample one another to enter the doors of the local worship center….perhaps now is when you wish you worshipped someone other, than…..


It is ok.

We will wait for you. To catch up.

After all. We really do love you as yourself. Always have and always will.


But those influencers can be so influential. It’s. Ok. We are the real party of forgiveness.


My apologies. Diversion became diverted.

O.k.


Hopeful, not to have lost you, did not lose you in the translation.


”The tenets of referent power are physical, social, mental/emotional, family/team spiritual and financial.” (dk)


Whoa.

A whopper of possibilities.


Wait just a second.

Yes.

A second.

There is a foundation! Yes.

Much as you like all the influential influencers and all the glitter and balloons.


Ugh.


My apologies for being a barn burning party trasher.

Someone has to. Be the reality check.


The reality check.

Because at the end of the day. A verrrrrry long day.


”The foundation for the tenets of referent power is your values.” (dk)


Caught ya sleeping did I?


”Sorry.”

That you did not see it sooner.

But, again.

We will wait. We have the patience of the saint.


We may be moody. But. More importantly. We are reverent.


The path from here to there must be constantly reevaluated.

Yes.


Why?


The pit of despair hits hard.


Huh?

Glad you asked.

”The only difference between your pit and the next person’s pit will be the depth.” (dk)


The pit.


So. Before you cast an important decision about, well, pits, understanding is a vital, essential part of understanding.


The pits.


This may seem a bunch of gibberish rots and pits.

Maybe.

As always. The choice is yours. Who to follow. Which way to look. There are difficult moments of who to follow, there are conflicts, moments of truth, and two circles come into play. (dk). We usually find intense emotions here.


The rub?


Learning.

Progression.

In the interest of the order and the law of the order of the law.


It is complicated, but as most humans profess to do: they complicate that which they think they deserve over that which they think another person deserves.


And the vicious cycle continues uncensored un-numbed and un encumbered by the vices that holds us hostage to ourselves.


Ourselves selling the bill of goods that is ourselves to those who think they seek a better self than what they are.😳


Which one and where is the broken path of dishonesty and deception leading the masses to their demise?


Again. For now. Still your choice to decide. In the end. “Hopefully.”

It will not be too late. For you.🫵🏻



August 24, 2024 00:45

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