SOUNDGARDEN - LIVE Searching with my good eye closed

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from ANGEL TECH: An Introduction...

   We are, in essence, beings of light.  Most of us have forgotten this, some of us are starting to remember and a few of us are living the truth.  If you are reading this now, you are probably somewhere in the middle... between forgetting and living.  Those forgetful among us would have no reason to read this book unless they, perhaps, are waking up at this time.  Individuals already living the truth are very possibly too busy to read a book about it.  How do I know these things?  I'm the one writing this book and if I were living the complete truth, maybe I'd have no purpose writing about it, would I?  However, I've a story to tell and writing is my way of organizing my thoughts so that I might communicate and, proceed.  My bias is to approach living as consciously as I can...  eyes open, through the center and out the other side.
   ANGEL TECH is an Invisible Institute for Higher Learning dedicated to Intelligent Survival with the Planet.  The Teachers walk amidst our daily lives prepared to share the appropriate information when we are ready for it.  As we evolve, the lessons present themselves more clearly.  for those of us who are too headstrong to learn from other human beings, lessons will duly arrive in the guise of Situations, Dreams, and other Self-generating activities.  The rest of us who can learn from each other directly, will share the opportunity of meeting the Teachers in the flesh.  They are us.  We appear in a vast array of masks, cloaks, and roles and many of us will not even take the credit for something which comes as natural as helping each other.  These Teachers, however, have been recognized in the following services:  Gas Station Attendants (Self-Serve), Grandmothers, Stumbling Drunks, Astronomers, Cats, Landladies, Ferns, Newscasters, Mozart, Hardcore Punk Music, Madmen, Crystals, Children, Presidents, Indian Chiefs, Movie Stars, Plumbers, Telephone Operators and the list goes on forever.  It's all Spiritual and the Teachers are everywhere.  It just takes a certain kind of perspective to see this.

What is self defense?

excerpt from, mildly edited;):  Martial Arts Pressure Points - Bruce Tegner

     A modern definition of self-defense is in order.  One way of defining self-defense is to explain what it is not.  Personal self-defense is not warfare; it is not vengeance; it is not an art; it is not a sporting event; it is not a movie or television fight scene.

     Self-defense is preparation to minimize the possibility of assault.  It is training to learn and use appropriate and effective physical actions if there is no practical alternative.

     Self-defense instruction is the beginning of a process of learning how to avoid being a victim.

     Many victims of assault are victims not because they lack the capacity to win fights but because they have been given absolutely no preparation to cope with this special kind of emergency.

     The old-fashioned view that self-defense instruction is training to reach a high level of fighting skill has the effect of eliminating those individuals who have the greatest need.  It is precisely those people who are unable or unwilling to become fierce fighting machines who benefit from practical self-defense instruction to the greatest degree.

     Our capabilities ought to bear some relationship to real-life objectives.  People learning to defend themselves against assault out not to be trained as though they were preparing for warfare.  The concepts, techniques, and methods appropriate for training Samurai warriors are not those appropriate for teaching self-defense as a practical skill for today.

     The legal and moral definition of self-defense expressly limits the degree of force to the least which can be used to avert, stop, or escape from an intended assault.

     In old-style self-defense, every assault is viewed as a very vicious assault.  Real life is different.  There are degrees of danger.  Assault intentions range from mildly threatening to the intent to do great bodily harm.  More important, there are mildly threatening situations which, if handled properly with assertive self-control, can be prevented from escalating into physical violence.

     There must be a full range of responses to correspond to the range of possible situations.  Otherwise there is only the all-or-nothing response, which is not a choice -- it is a dilemma.  The person who cannot cope with a mildly threatening hostile act does nothing, or responds to the mild threat as if it were a vicious assault and assaultive action is more likely to occur.  Reacting to a mild threat as though it were a vicious assault is inappropriate.

     The objective of ethical self-defense instruction is to teach appropriate and effective reponses.  The objective of this book {and blog} is to give information and guidance toward making those appropriate responses. 

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1. Airport Security
2. Aliens
3. Ancient Weapons
4. Bees
5. Birth
6. Your Body
7. Death
8. Duct Tape
9. Germs
10. The Internet
11. Meteors
12. Milk
13. Mosquitoes
14. Obesity
15. Rats
16. Sex in Space
17. Sleep
18. Space Disasters
19. Sperm Banks
20. Weather
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This makes for an oddly disturbing poem, but the book itself is wonderful!