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ROME, (CNA/EWTN News) - Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston says the Church needs more and better prepared Catholic politicians and journalists who can bring the faith into the public square.
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This year Mary Alice arranged for us to have a banner that was hung at the picnic pavilion. Thank you to Ricky Rogers, son of Claudia Rogers, for providing us with the banner which can be adapted and used for many years to come. What a wonderful addition to our reunion!
Oldest family member: Henry Gus Carter 84 years old (husband of Margaret Carter)
Youngest family member: Gavin Hilburn (son of April Cantiberry; grandson of JL Cantiberry, 2 1/2 yrs old
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Roland Miller - 2 members
Susan Miller - 2 members
Frances Miller - 1 member
Mary Belle Miller - 2 members
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February 25th, 2009 at 10:16 AM ^
It's gonna be tough to give it up, this stuff is like water for me. I can switch over to Knob Creek, but I'm not gonna enjoy it (as much). Let's hope AA gets an anti-Ohio version soon so it can all balance out.
February 26th, 2009 at 4:37 PM ^
What would the anti-Ohio version say? "Maybe next year we can hope to be 2-7 against their coach if we get really lucky"? "At least we have a better NFL team"? "At least our state's economy is better"? "At least we used to beat them"? "There is no way they are beating us 12 years in a row"?
I'm struggling to come up with it here. I'm honestly interested in hearing your suggestions....
February 25th, 2009 at 10:23 AM ^
That is part of what makes O$U what they are. Even w/ all their current success over us they still have some sort of complex about us.
I can already see all the Buckeye fans becoming belligerent on Maker's Mark and verbally abusing everything that walks by. Tragic.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:30 AM ^
Indeed, they are obsessed with us. The Schmucks hate us more than we hate them.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:39 AM ^
Yes, the fans are obsessed with us. And you know this because an ad company put up an anti-Michigan banner. That's definitely fan obsession, not a marketing ploy.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:41 AM ^
Before you get all uppity about OSU's issues, may I remind you that this discussion was started by a call to boycott a brand of whiskey due to a perceived slight to our football team.
People in glass houses...
February 25th, 2009 at 12:24 PM ^
Strange also from an historical perspective. When this Ohio - Michigan rivalry started in the 1800's, it was Michigan with the inferiority complex. Ohio had more people, was richer, more developed, was a state (rather than a territory) first, delayed Michigan's entry into statehood, and stole Michigan's land (that's still a topic of dispute, actually).
Over the years, though, our football team has been more successful. We still own the overall matchup between us and them, don't we? (that's a real question)
Most importantly, they will always know that U of M students are smarter than OSU students. The fuckeyes will never feel completely superior, no matter how much they win and we lose.
February 25th, 2009 at 12:36 PM ^
You know, those last two sentences, you really should have paused and thought for a second before putting them together, one right after the other.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:26 AM ^
So apparently Maker's Mark doesn't care about alienating a large potential customer base?
Brilliant marketing.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:42 AM ^
You have to remember that this is in Columbus, and Ohio State does not have a fantastic business program like Michigan does. They are too ignorant to realize that this is atrocious marketing. Their marketing school is basically nothing compared to others, so what can be expected of them? Eloquence, common sense? That will be the day.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:54 AM ^
You do realize that it probably wasn't OSU's marketing program that put up the banner. It may have been an outside firm not associated with the school. Call me crazy, but that may have been what happened.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:55 AM ^
...the marketing people from Maker's Mark are all OSU grads? That companies hire people from the local university when pursuing a one time regional ad campaign?
February 25th, 2009 at 10:27 AM ^
If you're really into the boycott thing, and you like Bourbon at all, you'll be disappointed to know that Makers is owned by Beam Global Spirits, which also owns such brands as Jim Beam (okay, obv), Knob Creek, Basil Hayden's, Old Crow... so if you need a bourbon fix while staying true to the boycott, you'll have to pay close attention to what you pick up.
This will have a permanent impact on my bourbon drinking tendencies. Woodford Reserve, here I come.
February 25th, 2009 at 11:48 AM ^
that has a number of major golf brands including Titleist and FootJoy.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:27 AM ^
May I suggest Bulleit Bourbon? It's a comparable price point, and much better anyway. Maker's is mass-produced, Bulleit is still small-batch. (I'm not employed by Bulleit)
February 25th, 2009 at 10:38 AM ^
A fine recommendation. There are many bourbons that don't have the same cache as Makers or Knob Creek that are exceptional.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:56 AM ^
I really like Bulleit Bourbon and suggest that others try it as well.
February 25th, 2009 at 11:10 AM ^
Yeah, that one is fine, my cousin works in the booze division of Diageo so I've had that and George Dickel (their Tennessee whiskey) a number of times.
Other ones if you really insist on boycotting:
Buffalo Trace. Their single barrel, called Elmer T. Lee, is about the same price as a bottle of Makers. The regular Buffalo Trace is good too. They also make Eagle Rare and a number of others.
Buffalo Trace also now does the distilling for Old Rip van Winkle, which includes Pappy van Winkle and some other good stuff.
The aforementioned Woodford Reserve is always a good choice.
I don't think that sign would stop me from drinking Booker's though. I tend to go with either one of the Buffalo Trace or Woodford for my regularly priced bourbons as it is, and also keep a bottle of stuff at a higher price point around, of which Booker's is, though I'm looking around for my next bottle currently and usually switch it up.
February 25th, 2009 at 11:12 AM ^
I forgot about Buffalo Trace. That's good - I've only had the "normal" variety.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:39 AM ^
The difference between Columbus and Ann Arbor is that Columbus is a major city which treats the Buckeye's like a pro team. Ann Arbor is a medium sized city which is split between being a suburb of Detroit and a college town. If they ran the same ad in Detroit it would be about the Packers or something.
February 25th, 2009 at 7:22 PM ^
It's the 15th largest city in the country... larger than Boston, Seattle, Washington, Denver, Atlanta and more. You could fit two St Louis's in Columbus.
February 25th, 2009 at 8:56 PM ^
Large, sure. Major, eh? That's all I'm saying.
C-bus ranks 32 in metropolitan areas with 1.7m people. I live in Richmond which ranks 43 with 1.2m and still wouldn't talk it up as a "major city" to anyone I meet. I would admit it has a lot of people, though.
(St. Louis is 18 with 2.8m BTW)
February 25th, 2009 at 10:40 AM ^
that's funny. i'm sure OSU fans are more of the Old Crow type.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:41 AM ^
My theory as to why opposing rivals consider Michigan and Notre Dame fans "arrogant" is because we don't stoop to this level. Hear me out....
We don't care enough about our rivals to EVER do something like this. We don't go to basketball games upon being hired and tell everyone we're going to defeat the rival. We don't put up countdown clocks in our locker-room targeting the next time we play our rival. We're Michigan. We want to beat whoever we play. Most of the time we even expect (until recently) that we can beat whoever we play.
THAT is what bugs them. We're above this sort of stupidity. They hate that. I think they'd respect us more if we were drunken baffoons who drive through their city throwing bags of flaming cat poop.
I will continue to take the high road on all things rivalry. Hopefully most Michigan fans will do the same. We'll let the other guys obsess over their opponents while we obsess over our own team.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:44 AM ^
Do you think OSU put that up? It's a billboard meant to appeal to their fanbase... if they put that up on Main Street in Ann Arbor people would love it.
February 25th, 2009 at 11:02 AM ^
No OSU didn't put it up, but someone in the marketing at Maker's Mark knew something about their target market in Columbus and decided this is something that would appeal to them.
I'm sure people would laugh if it was put up in AA and like it but I'm sure whoever is in charge of the area would know and think that most Michigan fans would consider ourselves above such things and would decide to take some other type of marketing angle. I may be wrong and this amount of thought is not put into these things but there has to be a reason you don't see ribbing of rivals or scores plastered on billboards around AA. We prefer the national media to take care of that.
February 25th, 2009 at 11:07 AM ^
It's a joke man, get over yourself. If anyone is "above" a joke they must have serious emotional issues. It's a clever joke, targeted at OSU fans (in Columbus, not Ann Arbor) to get them to feel a connection with the product. They're just trying to make sales, don't take it personal. Jesus.
February 25th, 2009 at 11:14 AM ^
This has nothing to do w/ me getting over myself. My point was simply that I do not think you would see something like that in AA. Market research of south eastern Michigan would probably show that there isn't vast expanses of obsessed Michigan fans being there is two major universities and a large city w/ 4 major sports teams. Unlike central Ohio where people have the Buckeyes and maybe the Blue Jackets.
February 25th, 2009 at 11:10 AM ^
Yeah, ok. Above it. Right. Never seen a "Fuck the Buckeyes" shirt in Ann Arbor. Never.
February 25th, 2009 at 11:14 AM ^
I am nowhere near above it and I doubt most rational humans would be either. mmmm...tastes like humor.
February 25th, 2009 at 1:37 PM ^
I wonder what would happen if we woke up tomorrow and there was Makers Mark sign hanging off of the Ford Building or some other like it that was in some way bashing tO$U. I really have to think that we would laugh and giggle about it and write it off as just a joke and a marketing ad. This is a company's marketing ploy and nothing more than that. Let's not make it into the holocaust because Makers Mark made fun of us. remember everybody we went 3-9. For how many years now have we been kicking everybody's asses and now it is coming back to haunt us a little bit. Just smile and go with it.
February 25th, 2009 at 11:32 AM ^
If OSU went 3-9 and some rum company put up a billboard like that in Ann Arbor or Detroit, we ABSOLUTELY would enjoy it and smile. Lord knows I would.
Of course, OSU fans would go batshit, but then I'm sure some M fan like you would, in your most condescending and arrogant tone, explain that it was "just a joke" and it wasn't meant to offend OSU fans and it was only a regional ad blah blah blah. I am convinced this would happen.
When the shoe is on the other foot, there is no evidence to suggest we would behave any differently.
February 25th, 2009 at 8:03 PM ^
wasn't all too long ago.
Anyone recall all of the schadenfreude regarding Notre Dame in 2007?
February 25th, 2009 at 1:30 PM ^
for the most part I agree with your post but in all fairness I really do not think that tO$U had anything to do with this.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:43 AM ^
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February 25th, 2009 at 10:47 AM ^
This is actually pretty funny. We'd love it if there was a similar ad in Ann Arbor.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:53 AM ^
and think its poor marketing to offend your customers (especially the largest alumni network on the planet, and one of the largest fan bases).
I guess their marketing guy/ firm went to OSU business school.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:58 AM ^
You can advertise to a certain market without offending another one...This is poor marketing..
February 25th, 2009 at 11:00 AM ^
If you're offended by this you have bigger problems to deal with. Go get some help sir.
February 25th, 2009 at 11:00 AM ^
The thing is, 99% of Michigan fans will never see that billboard. MM could (and might) throw the same billboard up all over metro Detroit tomorrow.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:57 AM ^
This isn't on national TV... it's an ad in Columbus that you would have never seen if Brian hadn't snapped this picture. And guess what!!!!!!!!!!! I bet they probably have no affiliation with either school! They just want people in Ohio to buy their whiskey. I'll bet $99 they'd put the same ad up in Ann Arbor if it were the same size as Columbus.


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Officers responded around 8:30 p.m. to a call of unknown trouble possibly involving a shooting in the 400 block of Doheny Road and found the woman suffering from a gunshot wound, said Beverly Hills police Lt. Renato Moreno.
The woman was taken to a hospital, but her condition was not immediately available, Moreno said.
It appeared an invasion robbery had taken place at the home, Moreno said.
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By Andria Cheng
J.C. Penney Co. shares jumped 25% to $7.43 on Thursday, their biggest percentage gain in at least 30 years; Best Buy Co. was up as much as 9% before inching lower; Sears Holdings Corp. rose 6.7% to $43.09 after each of them reported their holiday quarter results, beating Wall Street's lowered expectations.
The question then follows, is it time to buy these retailers, at one time or another considered struggling, with their very survival questioned by some?
While the bulls look to be winning on Thursday, there are plenty of skeptics for these companies seeking respectively a turnaround of their own.
David Tawil, a former bankruptcy attorney and an investment banker at Credit Suisse before co-founding the $65 million hedge fund, Maglan Capital, in 2011, said the sharply-lowered expectations for these retailers heading into their releases and some short covering for Penney and Sears contributed to investor enthusiasm on Thursday.
"I'm not buying any of them," he told MarketWatch, adding he doesn't have any position on any of the three after shorting Penney's stock last year. Penney and Sears "are both extremely beleaguered. They both have mid-term liquidity issue and neither of them have found a recipe for success. Both of them are in need of a strategic turnaround and neither of them have expressed a vision."
Penney /quotes/zigman/237947/delayed /quotes/nls/jcp JCP CEO Mike Ullman said late Wednesday that the company is expected to complete its turnaround this year. Penney is expected to have $2 billion in liquidity at the end of the year, he added. However, concerns about liquidity were widespread on Wall Street as many questions for management centered on that topic.
"The liquidity will support JCP's continued work to turn around the business," said Macquarie analyst Liz Dunn, who rates Penney neutral. "However, the heavy lifting to get back billions in lost sales and regain margins is still significant."
Sears, meanwhile, narrowed its loss and again cited its continued increase in sales from its Shop Your Way reward members. The company, which is considering spinning off its Lands' End business, said its "asset-rich enterprise" gives it "multiple levers" at its disposal. Same-store sales dropped 5.1% at Kmart and declined 7.8% drop at Sears department stores in the U.S.
"Sears reported its worst year since (CEO Eddie) Lampert combined Kmart and Sears nearly a decade ago," said Credit Suisse analyst Gary Balter, adding on an EBITDA basis the company lost about $3.18 a share but had cash outflow of about $12.43 a share when combining pension payments, interest expense, tax payments, and capital spending. "What is the longer term game plan as Sears is a long way from being cash flow positive? The company's continued denial on improving their store shopping experience, which remains where the vast majority of sales happen and to allow competitors with higher service levels to chip away at Sears' market share, makes one wonder how Sears turns cash flow positive. Without that, we will continue to see the better assets being stripped away."
Balter rates Sears underperform.
Sears /quotes/zigman/95136/delayed /quotes/nls/shld SHLD "is burning the furniture just to keep the house warm," Tawil said. "At the end of the day, the house is gonna be worthless. The emphasis on members club and online side isn't enough to offset the losses occurring in stores."
On Best Buy, Tawil said the company's focus on consumer electronics, which are increasingly considered commodity products subject to more aggressive competition from online retailers, isn't a winning strategy.
In the fourth-quarter, Best Buy's "only saving grace is cost-cutting initiatives," said Tawil, who in late January bought Best Buy's smaller rival HHGregg Inc. after its stock was sold off because he likes HHGregg's /quotes/zigman/462162/delayed /quotes/nls/hgg HGG increased focus on appliances and furniture, categories that he said aren't as vulnerable to online competition. "The value proposition of bricks-and-mortar retailers is more specialized offerings. Unless you are Wal-Mart /quotes/zigman/245476/delayed /quotes/nls/wmt WMT , you are not going to win in the mass offerings."
Best Buy's /quotes/zigman/219712/delayed /quotes/nls/bby BBY holiday sales declined as it blamed factors including weather, declining store traffic and intense promotions. Its gross margin also narrowed, hurt partly by price discounts and matching. The company, under CEO Hubert Joly, has cut $765 million in costs last year, higher than its previous target. It's raised its cost-cutting projection. Best Buy reportedly told 2,000 managers on Wednesday they are being laid off. The company confirmed it's "realigning its field organization" but said it's not disclosing numbers. Best Buy has a total workforce of 145,000.
"If the company is laying off a bunch of sophisticated people and product specialists," how do you get consumers interested in the specialty offerings? Tawil said.
Craig Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners, said while he's glad to see Best Buy making cost-cutting changes and "right sizing" its business, he agreed that the company needs to map out its broader strategy.
"They need to rethink the entire concept about consumer electronics superstore," Johnson, whose firm advises institutional investors and retailers, told MarketWatch. "Will that store that was conceived in the 1980s be suitable in today's times?"
— Andria Cheng
— Follow her on Twitter @AndriaCheng.
More news from Behind the Storefront:
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Office Depot's challenges don't end despite merger with OfficeMax
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Willie Lanier
(August 21, 1945– )
Athlete and entrepreneur
Born in the Halifax County town of Clover, Willie Edward Lanier (August 21, 1945 ) graduated in 1963 from Richmond's Maggie Walker High School as a star football player. He attended Morgan State University, in Baltimore, where he became a two-time Small College All-American. A second-round pick of the American Football League's Kansas City Chiefs in the 1967 draft, Lanier became the first African American to play middle linebacker, the position often described as "the quarterback of the defense." As the leader of the defense on the field, in 1970 he helped spur the Chiefs to an upset win in Super Bowl IV. Nicknamed "Contact" because of his aggressive tackling, Lanier was named to league all-star teams each year between 1968 and 1975 and missed only one game during his last ten seasons. He received the NFL's Man of the Year Award in 1972 for his community volunteer work.
Lanier retired in 1977. One of football's greatest linebackers, he was elected to the National Football League Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1986 and named by the NFL in 1994 as one of the top seventy-five players ever to play the game. The Richmond Times-Dispatch/Touchdown Club of Richmond's award for the best small-college football player in Virginia is named for him. Since retiring from the game and returning to Richmond, Lanier has become a successful business executive. Active in many charitable causes, he lives in Midlothian and directs the Lanier Group LLC investment firm.
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By John E. Pfeiffer
Not even in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine that I could or would go to Russia. The desire to visit the land where my forefathers had lived for a century had always been deep in my subconscious, but the possibility of ever doing so never seemed to be more than wishful thinking.
Several months ago, when Aberdak Travel Service of Aberdeen, South Dakota began to advertise a Russian Adventure Tour, which included Odessa, I immediately inquired as to the possibility of visiting the nearby area which my great-great grandfather had helped to colonize in 1808, and from which my grandfather had emigrated first to Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan, in 1898, and then to America in 1900.
On being assured that my request would be given consideration, I dazedly went through the process of obtaining a passport, making payment for the tour, applying for a Russian visa, and getting a smallpox vaccination. It all seemed unreal, and as the date of departure neared, a lifetime of negative conditioning made me apprehensive about going to the secluded land, and I could easily have been persuaded not to go except that forfeiting 25% of the payment as a cancellation penalty seemed intolerable.
And so, at 9:25 on the rainy morning of Wednesday, May 24, 1972, with remarks like "What do you want to go there fore?", "What if they don't let you come back?", "What if they send you to Siberia?", still ringing in my ears, I found myself uneasily boarding a North Central Airlines jet, along with nine other tour members from the area, at Saunders Field for the first flight of what was still an unreal venture into the unknown.
At Minneapolis, we were joined by two more tour members, and, shortly after noon, we boarded a huge Northwest Orient 747. Dinner was served immediately upon being airborne and an hour and a half later, after a spectacular view of New York City, we landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport. There, three more members joined the tour, and we were soon met by a representative of Russian Adventure Tours who presented us with our passports which now included our Russian visas. Upon examination of the visa, I suddenly found myself illiterate, for I could not even read my name which was written in Cyrillic script (p ??????? Dryon).
About 8:00 P.M. (CDT), after a tumultuous rush for seat assignments, and after filing through a metallic detector and a search of flight bags by U.S. Customs officers, we boarded a Soviet Airlines (Aeroflot) jet. We were greeted by English-speaking Russian stewardesses in brilliant uniforms, and what was to become the distinct scent of all Russian planes—something which smelled like an early morning meadowland in full bloom. After what seemed to be utter confusion resulting from rearranged seating, we were airborne at 9:15 P.M. (CDT). The stewardesses, in colorful pinafores, passed trays of hard candies and glasses of mineral water. A tasty supper was served at 11:20 P.M. (CDT), and, shortly thereafter, we were amazed to see the sun rising over the Atlantic Ocean. At 3:30 A.M. (CDT) we had a magnificent view of London, England, where we landed at Heathrow Airport for an hour. It was then 9:30 A.M., Thursday, May 25, London time, and the Queen's Building Terminal was hushed but crowded with very proper Englishmen.
At 4:45 A.M. (CDT), we were again airborne for Moscow, where we landed at Sheremetyevo Airport at 8:00 A.M. (CDT). However, we had passed through eight time zones since our departure from Aberdeen; so it was already 4:00 P.M., Moscow time. Thursday, May 25, was a short day. Inside a sterile, colorless depot, we passed through a passport check, where one copy of each visa was removed, and were then met by Alla Malvinsky, who would be our Intourist guide for our entire tour of the U.S.S.R. She arranged a quick passage through Customs, where only our written declarations of currency brought into the country was required; there was no Custom's check of baggage.
Soon we were aboard a bus for the fifteen mile ride to Mockva (Moscow), the capital of the entire Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (CCCP) as well as the capital of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. It was raining. We passed many picturesque wooden houses along the way only to learn that they are a stereotype of old Russia that modern Russia is rapidly replacing by high rise apartment buildings. Cranes and construction were evident everywhere. We were told that nobody in Moscow, a city of more than seven million, lives in a private home.
We were soon in the heart of Moscow, passing that part of the Kremlin where President Nixon was then staying. Not far away, on the granite-faced banks of the Moscow River, we surrendered our passports for registration and room assignment in the skyscraper Ukraina Hotel. Keys for the rooms had to be obtained from the "key lady" on each floor and returned to her before leaving the floor. From our sixth floor room, we could see the domes and turrets of the Kremlin, and the hustle and bustle of the big, modern city. During supper—steaks and what would become the ever-present unusually flavored carbonated beverage—in the crystal chandeliered dining room we were entertained by, of all things, an amplified combo playing American jazz. Afterwards, we shopped in the Beryoska kiosk (store) in the hotel where foreign currencies only can be used. There were many interesting and beautiful items, and I bought a few—matryoskas, which are nests of colorfully painted wooden dolls, and a black and white Uzbek cap, which represents one of the 130 nationality groups living in the Soviet Union.
I was up bright and early the next morning and went for a stroll around the block-square, 30-story hotel. Women were hosing down and scrubbing the sidewalks and streets while several men, stripped to the waist, were doing calisthenics in a park across the street. Women's Lib has long been a reality in the Soviet Union and we eventually saw women laying bricks; driving busses, trucks, and streetcars; and working on road construction and in the fields.
After breakfast, we spent the morning sightseeing by bus. From the hotel, we proceeded along the banks of the Moscow River to Krasnaya or Red Square (krasnaya means red or beautiful). Undoubtedly, the most eye-catching structure in this beautiful, cobblestoned square is the multi-domed, multi-colored St. Basil's Cathedral. Now a museum of history, it dates back to the 15th century. Our tour of the city took us down wide streets past many monuments, fountains, tree-studded parks, beautiful old buildings and modern new ones, and gorgeous flower beds everywhere.
Then to Lenin Hills, where the gigantic 45,000 roomed structure
of Moscow University stands; past the huge, modern Luzhniki Sports
Complex; and the 16th century Novodevichy Convent where many famous
Russians, including Khrushchev, are buried. In the afternoon, we
rode the fantastic Metro (subway), which carries four million passengers
daily. Eighty-seven miles of track with eighty-nine underground
stations, each one of which is meticulously clean and a work of
art unique from each other, are some 200 feet underground and are
reached by speedy escalators which seem to go straight down. To
ride the Metro costs five Kopeks (about seven cents), and one can
ride all day from 6:00 A.M. to 1:00 A.M. without paying another
fare. The trains of eight cars each run on absolute schedule at
speeds of around 50 M.P.H. That evening, we attended at magnificent
performance of "Gizelle" by the world-renowned Bolshoi
Ballet in the Bolshoi Theater. A German tourist, in the same box
I was in, recognizing me as an American, asked, in English, if I
had come to Russia with my President.
Early the next morning, Saturday, May 27, we were bussed to the Kremlin's Corner Arsenal Tower, opposite the turreted, red-brick Museum of History, and in view of the eternal flame of the grave of the Unknown Soldier, where a group of Pioneers (Communist Youth Organization) were placing flowers, we were given preference in an endless line for the trek across Red Square to view the body of Lenin lying in state in his red granite mausoleum. The hushed orderliness of the crowd, which was scrutinized by intermittent policemen and soldiers, was incredible, as was the solemn precision of the changing of the guard within the tomb just as we passed through. In the well-kept and carefully guarded cemetery garden along the Kremlin wall behind the mausoleum, we viewed the burial places of such notable Communists as Josef Stalin, cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin, and John Reed, an American. From there, we walked across Red Square, opposite the Kremlin walls, to the huge State Department Store (GUM), where we mingled with the hurried crowds in a bazaar-like atmosphere. We returned to the bus, warily crossing the street since we had already quickly learned that vehicles have the right-of-way in Russia.
The afternoon was spent at the National Economic Exhibition, which
covers 550 acres, and has 300 structures and 78 pavilions with some
100,000 exhibits on the industry, agriculture, transport, science,
and culture of the U.S.S.R. After a thorough tour of the Space Pavilion,
I drifted off by myself to an outdoor stage opposite the beautiful
Stone Flower Fountain where I finally heard an excellent balalaika
orchestra play Russian fold melodies. That evening, we went to the
immense, very modern Arbat Restaurant (PECTOPAH) for a gala, evening
of food, drink, and entertainment. Our meals had always been very
good in quality and quantity, but this was a banquet fit for a king.
The musical accompaniment was again amplified American Jazz.
The next morning, Sunday, May 28, arrangements having been made the night before for a cab to take me to the American Embassy, I paid the driver seventy-six kopeks for fare—tipping is frowned upon in Russia, and more often than not is refused—and thought I could just walk in. But two Russian policemen, standing guard at the entrance, asked to see my passport. Upon producing it, they saluted and permitted me to pass through the arched entrance. Two little American girls showed me the way to the Community room, where I attended the 9:00 Mass. Father Richard, the American Chaplain for the Catholics of the Foreign Diplomatic Corps in Russia, and about twenty-four persons celebrated the Eucharistic Banquet. I had a lengthy conversation with Father afterwards and learned that there is a Roman Catholic Church—St. Louis—in operation in Moscow. I then went to call a cab for me; instead she had an Embassy car take me back to the hotel. I was very grateful for this, because it was pouring rain outside.
We left the hotel at 11:45 for the airport. On the way, we passed a couple walking down the highway in the rain; he was wearing a raincoat and holding an umbrella overhead while she walked unprotected a few feet behind him. The countryside was very greed and wooded. Inside a small depot, which reeked of the bitter smell of Russian cigarettes, we waited with ordinary Soviet citizens and a number of soldiers for the flight to Leningrad some 400 miles northward. We were airborne at 12:25 and landed at the very clean and attractive Leningrad Air Terminal at 2:00 P.M. On the short drive into the city of three and a half million, we again saw cranes and construction everywhere. Once in this beautiful city, which is built on 101 islands where the Neva River flows into the Gulf of Finland, gorgeous beds of tulips were abloom everywhere. Nina Olehova, who met us at the airport, was our special Intourist guide for our stay in Leningrad. She soon had us registered and dining in the beautiful Hotel Leningrad on the stone-faced banks of the Neva opposite the Naval Academy and the historic museum-battleship "Aurora." For two centuries after its founding by Peter the Great, until the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Leningrad, known first as St. Petersburg and then Petrograd, was the capital of Tzarist Russia, and its imperial elegance is still very evident, as we say during a late afternoon bus tour. We could have toured all night, for we were in Leningrad during the eerie "White Nights," when the sun never quite sets and it is light all night long.
The next morning (Monday, May 29), we ascended the magnificent
Jordan Staircase of the Hermitage Museum to view its fabulous treasures.
This huge palace was the winter residence of the imperial family.
It has 300 gorgeous rooms and more than two million exhibits, including
8,000 priceless paintings. I was particularly impressed by Murillo's
"Immaculate Conception", because it is reproduced her
in St. Mary's Church. An interesting episode took place upon
entering the Hermitage: it was a cool, breezy morning so I had worn
the Uzbek cap which I had bought in Moscow into the entrance; another
member of our group had on an ordinary cap; he was asked to remove
his headgear, but nothing was said to me, which demonstrates the
high regard held for this particular nationality of the U.S.S.R.
It is said that an Uzbek never removes his cap except to go to bed.
In the center of the immense Palace Square stands the Alexandrovskaya
monument, a 154 foot high solid granite column commemorating Tzar
Alexander I's victory over Napoleon in 1812. Alexander I was
the Tzar who invited my people to establish agricultural colonies
in the Odessa region in 1804.
The afternoon was spent on the island fortress of Peter and Paul, which was planned by Peter the Great himself, and was the first structure to be erected in the city in 1703. On entering the fortress via the Ioannovsky Vorota (St. John's Gate), two well-mannered, well-dressed teenage boys who obviously wanted to show off their knowledge of English, walked along with me. One was very intent on making a trade for my K of C button, and only relented when I told him it meant much to me. Once inside the fortress walls, we passed through the mammoth Petrovskie Vorota, which has the imperial coat-of-arms carved high above its stone archway. Then by the arsenal, the engineers building, the guardhouse, the commandment's building, Peter the Great's boathouse, and then into the Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral, where all the Tzars and Tzarinas from Peter the Great on are buried. Asked why last Tzar, Nicholas II, is not buried there, our guide said, "He did not deserve it".
On Tuesday morning (May 30), we boarded a Hydrofoil (a large enclosed boat, which seats about a hundred passengers, and which travels at great speed that it hardly touches the water) for a twenty-five minute cruise on the Gulf of Finland to Petrodvorets. Among the passengers was a large group of children on an end-of-school-year holiday. Petrodvorets (Peter's Palace) was originally conceived by Peter the Great as the imperial retreat. His palace, on the Gulf, is modest in comparison to the Great Palace and the score of other palaces and pavilions which now make up one huge landscaped holiday park. The grounds were swarming with vacationers. We arrived just as the 161 fountains and three waterfalls leading to the Great Palace began their daily spouting and flowing of water. One fountain was particularly ingenious; called the "Dubok" (Oak-tree), it did indeed look like a tree, but was made of metal, leaves and all, which periodically sprayed forth a fine mist. It was a very popular place for children who squealed with delight when it happened to go off as they stood beneath it. Our guide told us that this paradise had been severely damaged by the "fascist barbarian invaders" during World War II. Leningrad itself had been under siege for 900 days, during which 600,000 of its inhabitants died of starvation. We returned to the city, eighteen miles distant, by bus in sudden downpour. In the afternoon, we visited the very interesting Museum of Ethnography of the peoples of U.S.S.R. We also went into a large department store, but like Moscow's GUM, everything was delightful confusion. Several of us returned to the hotel by a mini-bus, which carries about ten or as many passengers as can get it, at a cost of two kopeks each; everybody but the driver seems to give out the receipt for the fare. That evening was spent at the Kirov Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet for a fine performance of the ballet "Cinderella". A New Yorker present was wearing a "McGovern for President" button.
The next morning (Wednesday, May 31), we went twelve miles by bus to Pavlovsk to visit the horseshoe-shaped palace and ground given to Paul I by his mother, Catherine the Great. ("They hated each other," our guide told us.) From there, we went to nearby Tzarskoye Selo (now called Pushkin Village in honor of the famed writer who attended the institute there), where the elegant Bolshoi Dvorets stands. This huge, blue palace, with its beautiful gardens, was where Catherine the Great spent her last days; it was also the permanent residence of the last Tzar, Nicholas II, and his ill-fated family. Both palaces were badly destroyed by the Germans during World War II, but have now been completely restored. Back at the hotel, another member of the group and I went on an excursion of the Leningrad Metro. It is as efficient, though not as elaborate, as the Moscow Metro. The supporting column of the Avtova station were covered with decorative glass, and one wall was covered by a huge, beautiful mosaic dedicated to world peace. The evening was spent at Sadko's, an internationally famous restaurant, for what was probably the most enjoyable evening of the entire tour. There was champagne, vodka, Georgian wine, caviar. After several courses of delicious appetizers, came a delicious borsch, followed by the biggest and tastiest piece of meat I have ever eaten—shashlyk (each individual piece was served from the sward on which it had been roasted over hot coals). A talented group of singers, dancers, and authentic balalaika orchestra, all in folk costumes, presented a most enjoyable and memorable evening of magnificent Russian entertainment. We were all sorry to have this evening of pleasure come to an end.
On Thursday morning (June 1), we viewed one of the best collections of Russian art (some 250,000 works are on exhibit) in the whole country at the Russky Musee (formerly the Mikhailovsky Palace). I was particularly entranced by the icon section for I had hopes of being able to buy at least one in a Beryoska store, but none were ever for sale. We then went to the third largest church structure in the world—St. Isaac's Cathedral (Isaakievsky Sobor) which was built by some 440,000 workers between 1815-1858. Suspended from the interior of its central dome is a 98 meter Foucault pendulum which demonstrates the motion of the earth's rotation on its axis. Though few churches in Russia are used for religious services, most of those that we saw were, nevertheless, preserved as churches. That afternoon being free, I took a mini-bus to and from a point nearby the Kazansky Sobor (Cathedral of the Holy Virgin of Kazan), now the museum of the History of Religion and Atheism. I spent several hours examining thousands of exhibits pertaining tot he history of all religions from primitive times to the present; whatever was atheistic about the displays must have been contained in the printed Russian explanations, which I unfortunately could not read. I bought some postcards at a sidewalk stand. The attendant did not have a one kopek coin for change due, so gave me a small chocolate bar instead.
After supper, we went to the airport to fly some 500 miles southwest to Minsk. After getting up above the clouds, we witnessed the spectacular sunlight of "White Nights". It was then 10:00 P.M. At 11:50, we arrived in Minsk, the capital of Byelorussia, one of the fifteen republics. It had just rained and was cool, but our bus ride through the city gave us a good view of a well-lighted, very tidy city, which, it was hard to believe, had been 86% destroyed during World War II. We were registered at the very new and very modern thirteen-storied Jubileinaya Hotel on the northwest edge of the city near a huge Sports Palace, and opposite a quaint village. From the picture window of our fifth-floor room, we had a fine view of the city and especially the 17th century cathedral, one of the few relics of the past to survive the destruction of war.
The next day (Friday, June 2), our local Intourist guide, Irene, who had a charming sense of humor, told us that Minsk is now larger (over a million) in population than ever before in its 900 year history, and that it is now a city of young people since a fourth of the population of Byelorussia was killed of during the war. She also described Byelorussia as a heavily wooded plain dotted with many lakes, and she proudly pointed out that it is a land of powerful industry as well. Our subsequent tour of the city took us past a computer plant, a high-powered tractor plant, a watch factory, a ball-bearing plant, and a motor plant. Nevertheless, Minsk can boast of clean air and an abundance of greenery; the wide embankments of the Svisloch River, which flows through it, are carpeted with colorful flowerbeds. A tour of the Byelorussian Museum portrayed the past and present of the Byelorussain (White Russian) people. At supper that evening, in the land noted for its distinctive music and cymbalist virtuosos, we were entertained (?) by an electrified, amplified combo, dressed in Byelorussian costumes, playing American jazz. That evening, too, a couple of our tour members were met by relatives from a nearby village. I gave the man a pouch of American tobacco, and was surprised when he later presented me with a pack of Russian cigarettes; it seems that it is customary to reciprocate a gift in Russia.
Saturday morning (June 3) was spent at what was one of the most impressive events of the entire tour. Irene, having obtained complimentary tickets for us in a reserved section of the viewing stand in the city's Central Square, we walked about a mile and a half from the hotel (vehicular traffic had been halted for the event) to witness 15,000 youngsters—ages 7 to 17—marching smartly to a military band accompaniment in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Byelorussian Pioneers (Communist Youth Organization). Neatly and colorfully dressed, well-groomed and well-ordered, this spectacular performance evoked much admiration from our tour group. We were invited to be special guests at the afternoon festivities—gymnastics; folk dancing, singing, and music; poetic renditions; etc.—but we regretfully had to decline because of a mid-afternoon flight to Odessa.
At 4:00 P.M., we left the hotel for the airport, where we picked up much free literature (books, maps, newspapers—all in English) in a very pleasant and comfortable waiting room for tourists. We were airborne at 5:45, and, as we neared Odessa, some 600 miles south of Minsk, we flew over a checkerboard of grain fields, vineyards, and orchards, as well as several limans (the long and wide lagoons formed by the rivers which drain into the Black Sea). We landed at Odessa at 7:00 P.M.; I had "come home" to my historical origins. The neatness and cleanliness of the airport terminal, with its well-tended trees, lawns and flower-beds, was reminiscent of the early memories I had of my people who had emigrated from this area to "Little Odessa" in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
The Black Sea climate was balmy, and its effect was evident in
the dress and relaxed attitude of the people (a contrast to the
feverish activity of the Moscovites). The short drive into the city
was a complete surprise for I had never seen such tree-shaded streets
anywhere. Many of the acacia trees, of which I had heard my grandparents
speak so often, were just then in full bloom with clusters of white,
fragrant flowers. Odessa is a strikingly beautiful city with many
historic old buildings and monuments, and shady parks with gorgeous
flowerbeds everywhere. We registered at the old, elaborate Hotel
Odessa, overlooking the Black Sea. Across the street (Primorsky
Boulevard) was a long, tree-lined strip of park with flowerbeds
stretching along both sides of the center walk. The park is on the
cliff overlooking the harbor, docks, and very modern sea terminal
of the port of Odessa, which was founded as such in 1794 by decree
of Catherine the Great under the supervision of General Count Suvorov-Rimnikski.
We entered the Victorian-styled dining room of the hotel for supper,
where a wedding party was in progress and a band was playing "Yes
sir, she's my baby". Afterwards we went for a stroll
down Primorsky Boulevard to the "Sea Gateway", in the
center of which is a bronze statue of the Duke of Richelieu, the
French émigré' nobleman, who, as Governor General
of Novorossia (New or South Russia) from 1803 to 1814, had done
so much for the welfare of my people who had been invited to establish
agricultural colonies in the area at that time. On the seaside of
the monument was the famed Potyomkin Stairway which was constructed
in 1841. This broad stairway, which was well known to my grandparents,
goes down 191 steps to the seaport. From above, it appears to be
a series of platforms; from below, all one sees are steps. There
were many ships docked in the spectacularly lighted harbor, and
the sounds of loading and unloading could be heard all night. Ships
from more than 70 countries call at Odessa.
Breakfast next morning (Sunday, June 4) was served at 8:30, with an American flag on our table. Since I had asked Alla Tashchenko, our Odessa Intourist guide about going to Mass that morning, she had obtained the time and directions to the Roman Catholic Church for me. On my way, one of several young fellows standing on a street corner asked me if I were from the United States. He couldn't quite understand that I should be walking the street of a Russian city without being able to speak Russian, and then commented: "If I visited your country, I would speak English". When he noted the American Legion button in my lapel, he regarded me as some kind of a hero, and had to explain to his companions that I was an Amerikansky Legionaire. His hint that he collected such items met with my "But, it means much too much to me to give it away". The church was only several blocks from the hotel, and the beautiful mosaic above its entrance was inscribed with "Sanctus Petrus". The interior was not large and there were no pews, but it was, nevertheless, crowded, mostly with women. It seemed very cluttered with holy pictures, statues, candlesticks, flowers, and three high altars. The priest, vested in a gold, Roman-style chasuble, said Mass according to the old Latin ritual, and was assisted by four men wearing long surplices and yellow capes. After Mass, he preached in Russian, followed by benediction with a ciborium containing the Blessed Sacrament. I sang "O Salutaris" with the people.
On the way back to the hotel, as I was walking in front of the circular landmark—the Odessa Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet, I heard a chorus of voices calling my name. It was my fellow tourists who had just begun a bus tour of the city. I was very grateful that they had spotted me, for I would otherwise have missed seeing some of the sights of the city, such as the beautiful park and monument to the Unknown Sailor, where the Pioneer honor guard changes every quarter hour; as well as the excursion to "Arkadia", one of the many sanatoria-resorts in the area for which Odessa has become famous as a medical, health, and holiday center.
It may be of interest to note here that Soviet citizens receive fully paid vacations to these facilities. It is also interesting to note that 80% of the doctors in the Soviet Union are women, and the medical attention and hospitalization is free to all Soviet citizens. This also applies to tourists, a fact which was realized by an Englishman sitting next to me on the flight home from Moscow to London. He had been on a cruise of the Black Sea and had contracted pneumonia aboard ship. Put ashore at Sotchi in the Crimea, where he was hospitalized for four weeks until cured, he was sent to Moscow by jet and then put aboard the same flight that we were on. He was as amazed as I was that he was not charged on kopek for medical treatment, hospitalization, or even the plane fare home.
That afternoon, we visited the Picture Gallery (the former Pototsky Palace, built in 1803). I was surprised to learn that Taras Schevchenko was not only the great national poet of the Ukraine, but an artist as well. In the evening, we enjoyed an outstanding performance of orchestral, vocal, fold song and dance, and the ever popular American jazz so dear to Russian hearts, at the Palace of Pioneers, a few steps from the hotel. This magnificent structure was formerly the palace of the Governors-General of Novorossia, and until the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-91, had been the site of the Turkish Fortress of Khadzhibei.
I woke up very early on Monday morning (June 5) in anticipation of the trip. I had been given permission to make to Tiraspol, some 70 miles northwest of Odessa. I had requested to go to the villages along the Kutschurgan Liman in particular, for I especially wanted to pay my respects to the graves of several generations of my ancestors who lie buried in the cemetery at Blagodatnoje (Baden). However, "for reasons", which were not specified, this request was not granted. But, from information I had of the area, I was under the impression that the highway to Tiraspol would take me through two of the villages (Mannheim and Strasburg), which are located about half-way between Odessa and Tiraspol, so I was content just to be able to see the area of my origins. Others in the group wanted to go also, but, for whatever reason, I was the only one allowed to do so.
Before going to Tiraspol, however, we spent the morning in what was probably the most impressive event of our Russian adventure. We visited a neighborhood kindergarten, where four and five year old children, boys and girls, entertained us with an impressive program of song, dance, and poetic recitations. The poise, confidence and mannerliness of these youngsters was incredible, and the presentation of a freshly-picked flower to each of the ladies in our group, evoked a warm emotional response. We learned that since most women in Russia work 9 the male population of Russia suffered a great loss during World War II), pre-school age children spend much of their time in nurseries and kindergartens, where for a few rubles (100 kopeks in a ruble amounts to $1.22 in American money) a month, they are well-cared for. A tour of the building and grounds revealed very clean bright, cheerful dormitories, dining rooms, play rooms, and class rooms; as well as pleasant, tree-shaded play grounds with an abundance of grass and flower-beds. As we left, these lovable children gathered around us to shake our hands and bid us "dosveedenya" (good-bye).
At noon, I met my driver at the hotel for the afternoon trip to Tiraspol. The car (a Volga) looked and smelled brand new. There was quite a bit of traffic, especially trucks and busses, on the black-topped highway, which was lined almost all the way with trees. The countryside was lush with thick fields of headed grain and well-tended orchards and vineyards as far as the eye could see. Water was spouting from irrigation pipes everywhere, and in one place a helicopter flew overhead spraying the orchards and vineyards. Modern farm machinery was in operation along side of horses and many people (mostly gaily clad women and girls) working in the fields. The highway took us through Vasilievka, where the church in excellent condition, appeared to be operational; then through Kamenka, where the church, its spire removed, seemed abandoned.
Next came Kutschurgan, with its trim bus station on the highway and the railroad station not far behind. The villages I had hoped to visit were just a few miles south of here; but since we had gone by a different route that I had anticipated, we had not gone through Mannheim. The Kutschurgan Liman at this point is wide, reed-covered valley; looking southward, I could see a high bridge over the liman (probably the highway through Mannheim and Strasburg) and three tall smokestacks (probably at Selz). The afternoon was warm and breezy, and the lay of the steppeland was slightly rolling and with more trees than I had expected to see—I could very well have been in my native Brown County, South Dakota. I was soon returned to reality, however, by the striking monument signifying entrance into the Tiraspol city limits. Instead of the shabby, remote village which I had expected to see, I saw instead a very clean and rather large modern city with much construction going on. Since my driver could not speak English, and I could speak even less Russian, and since I had not eaten since breakfast (it was now about 2:00 P.M.), I had eating motions. He asked a policeman where there was a restaurant, and we were soon in an immaculate hotel dining room. He did the ordering for both of us since the Cyrillic-typed menu was meaningless to me. We soon had a bottle of mineral water, bread and butter, and slices of cold ham with horse-radish. This was followed by a bowl of homemade chicken-noodle soup, and then a plate of chicken, French fries, and peas. Then came a dish of ice cream and coffee-espresso. I paid the bill for both of us; it amounted to 2 rubles 46 kopeks (less than $3.00), a contrast to the $2.15 I had paid for a plat of spaghetti (no meat balls) and a cup of coffee at JFK in New York.


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Obituary published in the Raleigh Register, Raleigh, North Carolina on Friday, 2 Oct. 1846:
DIED - In Missouri, on the 24th of August last, Mrs. Martha Reeves, a native of Wake County, and wife of Elder Thomas Reeves. Also, on the next day, their daughter, Ephrata, aged about 17 years.On the 1st of January 1850, he married Mrs. Winifred Phillips. Thomas Reeves died in 1855 in Ray County, Missouri. His estate was contested by the widow, Winifred, who remarried to Jacob Darneal on 20 Jun 1855. Winifred Darneal filed suit against the estate for payment of certain specific legacies bequeathed by Thomas Reeves. The suit was eventually argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri.
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Nonduality.com - An Introduction
by Jerry Katz
One day in 1997 I was shown how to use the Internet and a search engine. The first term I looked up was nonduality. I saw nothing that came close to my vision for nonduality, a vision that enjoyed all forms of expression from all kinds of people. without orbiting around a single sage or tradition.
I had no teacher, no tradition, no guidance, and nothing to lose. Although the domain name nonduality.com was not purchased until about a year later, the spirit of Nonduality.com started in November 1997.
Cross a bridge to 2007. In that year I was a guest with Rollye James on Coast to Coast AM radio show and talked about nonduality to an audience of 2 million. That is the largest audience ever to hear the word nonduality spoken and discussed.
The purpose of this website has always been to consider the varieties of expression about nonduality and to make nonduality as easy as possible to approach and understand.
The Vision
When this website was started in 1997, few heard of nonduality. At that time the vision was stated that there would eventually be so much about nonduality available online that no one would be able to keep up with it all. The vision came to pass after a few years.
Nonduality.com is still a great place to begin your search. You will stumble upon many good things. Because "stumbling" is so important, there are no suggestions on how to carry out your search. Just start or continue somewhere and somehow.
The Future
Where's nonduality as a spiritual and cultural movement headed? It's becoming more and more popular. There will be more incorporation of the word nonduality into peoples spiritual and psychological work and into everyone's conversations, more online publications, more online activity of all kinds, more MeetUps, more gatherings, more conferences, more public relations, more nondual perspectives identified and developed.
Nonduality is headed to the major mainstream. When? I'm writing this in late 2010. It could be any day, literally. It wouldn't surprise me to see the major mainstreaming of nonduality in 2011.
The Danger
The teaching of nonduality has always been around and always will be. There's no danger of losing it. There is a danger that the current explosion in the dissemination of the teaching will lose credibility and that it's momentum will be redirected toward spiritual and cultural fashion.
I'm starting to see it happen as I write this in late 2010. People are jumping onto the nonduality bandwagon. They're glossying-up nonduality. They're "getting" nonduality overnight, it seems, and starting major websites and publications. Most of those efforts won't last long. The creators will burn out or sell out to spiritual fashion or wake up to the futility of what they're doing and not be able to handle it. I've seen it happen to the best of contributors to the online nonduality scene. But are things futile? No. They're just what they are. They're not even that.
Therefore, I have to extend my vision. Yes, nonduality will continue to expand and it will become known through major media probably during 2011. By 2014 there will be a major and almost spontaneous burnout. Many players will disappear. We'll return to a form of nonduality that was common prior to 2003, prior to the advent of blogging. Out of that a new kind of popularity will emerge, and the cycle of popularity will begin again using new technology, new teachers, new forms of expression.
So what can you do? Enjoy it! That's what I'm doing.
What is nonduality?
Nonduality means "not two" or "nonseparation." It is the sense that all things are interconnected and not separate, while at the same time all things retain their individuality. An awareness of nonduality gives you a bigger perspective on life, a greater sense of freedom, and brings you a more stable happiness.
Why do we need to know about nonduality? How is it helpful?
The word nonduality is commonly seen in the spiritual press and blogs. Nonduality bears on quantum physics, movies, education, psychology, ecology, sexuality, art, music, dance, organizational theory, and many other fields. A knowledge of nonduality can change the way we look at ourselves and the world. That change is in the direction of a unified perspective. This perspective, if pursued, is found to go far and deep.
The Perception of Nonduality
If you have ever had a sense or experience of "something" deeper and more meaningful that lies beyond the everyday you, yet that is you in some way, you have had a taste of nonduality.
The taste of nonduality is the sense or experience of unity, peace, "something" vaster than the everyday you. The taste may be known through an experience in nature, from music or art, from being deeply involved in a hobby or work, from being in the "zone" during an athletic event, from sex, a walk in the park, dance, surfing, having a few beers, or other social interaction.
It may be known in meditation, Yoga, any other spiritual practice, a near death experience, while driving your car, or in the midst of any activity, or for no apparent reason at all.
If you have ever felt deeply dissatisfied, intensely unhappy, psychically imprisoned, it might be said that you can only feel this dissatisfaction because part of you knows there is a place of freedom. That freedom is the experience of nonduality. Your unhappiness may be viewed as the hunger for the taste of nonduality, nonseparateness.
The Pursuit of Nonduality
After experiencing or sensing the taste of nonduality, you may begin to pursue nonduality. Your pursuit may take you to books, teachers, ashrams, India, Internet groups. You may engage spiritual practices, attend meetings with nondual teachers, go on retreats.
Since you are not separate from the "something" that is deeper, vaster, more meaningful than the everyday you, it follows that this pursuit is the discovery of who you really are.
For whatever reason you are here, congratulations on discovering nonduality and looking beyond the everyday you.
Some short descriptions of what nonduality is:
"The concept, often
described in English as "nondualism," is extremely
hard for the mind to grasp or visualize, since the
mind engages constantly in the making of
distinctions and nondualism represents the rejection
or transcendence of all distinctions."
What is meant by
nonduality, Mahatmi?
"Advaita (nonduality)
does not mean "one" in the sense of eliminating all
differences. The differences are present in the one
in a mysterious way. They are not separated anymore,
and yet they are there."
"Advaita" in Sanskrit
means "Non-Duality." This is a difficult concept for
most people as we look about us and see multiple
objects. But what we see are only transformations
not permanent forms, whether we are speaking of a
chair, a tree, or a human being. Each exists
provisionally, but is certainly not lasting. One day
the tree may become the chair and the human body
will be eaten by worms. The "I" that observes all
this may disappear and become another "I".
Lama Yeshe: When you contemplate your own consciousness with intense awareness, leaving aside all thoughts of good and bad, you are automatically led to the experience of non-duality. How is this possible? Think of it like this: the clean clear blue sky is like consciousness, while the smoke and pollution pumped into the sky are like the unnatural, artificial concepts manufactured by ego-grasping ignorance. Now, even though we say the pollutants are contaminating the atmosphere, the sky itself never really becomes contaminated by the pollution. The sky and the pollution each retain their own characteristic nature. In other words, on a fundamental level the sky remains unaffected no matter how much toxic energy enters it. The proof of this is that when conditions change, the sky can become clear once again. In the same way, no matter how many problems maybe created by artificial ego concepts, they never affect the clean clear nature of our consciousness itself. From the relative point of view, our consciousness remains pure because its clear nature never becomes mixed with the nature of confusion.
Noted scholar Georg
Feuerstein summarizes the advaita realization as
follows: "The manifold universe is, in truth, a
Single Reality. There is only one Great Being, which
the sages call Brahman, in which all the countless
forms of existence reside. That Great Being is utter
Consciousness, and It is the very Essence, or Self
(Atman) of all beings."
Q: Again, rather technical. Perhaps there's a more direct way to talk about Nondual mysticism?
KW: Across the board, the
sense of being any sort of Seer or Witness or Self
vanishes altogether. You don't look at the sky, you
are the sky. You can taste the sky. It's not out
there. As Zen would say, you can drink the Pacific
Ocean in a single gulp, you can swallow the Kosmos
whole--precisely because awareness is no longer
split into a seeing subject in here and a seen
object out there. There is just pure seeing.
Consciousness and its display are not-two.
If you wish to explore further descriptions of nonduality, look at our What is Nonduality pages.
Welcome to the world of nonduality. If I can be any assistance to you, please write me:
I also give talks on basic nonduality and am available for interviews in all media and for general audiences.
Jerry Katz


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