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Seventeen years ago, Rebekah Eden had finally had enough of romantic relationships. She was sick and tired of disappointment, heartache and betrayal, not to mention the sense that she was constantly losing herself and her larger mission along the way.
Here's what she did to manifest her soulmate:
"I declared to the Universe, 'The next man I date is going to have to be my husband, because I am officially not doing this anymore.' I took a year and a half break from seeing anyone.
But in November 2002, I felt a reawakening desire to find my soulmate. A friend who had remarried in her 50's gave me a poem she'd written, entitled "My Beloved". Her soulmate had shown up within 6 months of writing it. The poem so moved me, I cried. I set "My Beloved" to music and sang it over and over again, first with elation, then with despair as my heart's old hurt set in. But I persisted – to my utter amazement, my wonderful husband Michael showed up two weeks later! I had used the song to move through the pain, and as a homing beacon to guide me to the love of my life. Michael and I have now been together for 15 years.
I never shared the song. But recently when a friend complained of her loneliness, I sent "My Beloved" to her. Within one day of listening, her beloved arrived! This ignited a wildfire within our larger circle; after listening to the song, they were suddenly attracting the attention of numerous prospective partners, and those already married experienced an elevation in their relationships. I don't consider the song to be magic – rather, it is a tool I and others have used to open up the door to the manifestation of our hearts' desires."
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Sir Isaac Newton was one of the most influential scientists and thinkers of all-time. As a physicist he helped to define the law of gravity and the motions of planets and stars, and as a mathematician he invented calculus. Newton's discoveries guided other scientists and mathematicians for hundreds of years.
As you might imagine, Newton possessed a very high level of intelligence. But did you know that as an investor he was a failure?
In 1720 Newton lost almost all of his life savings when the price of a stock he owned, the South Sea Company, plummeted (see the full story HERE).
Early in the run-up of the stock price, Newton bought and sold the stock for a very good profit. But he then decided to reinvest in order to make even more money. As you can see in the chart below, he did not get out in time, and he lost most of his principal.
After Newton's financial collapse, he allegedly said:
"I can calculate the movement of the stars but not the madness of men."
Can we learn anything from the unintelligent investing of the scientific genius Sir Isaac Newton?
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Benjamin Graham, a mentor to Warren Buffett and a highly successful investor, explains in his book The Intelligent Investor that:
"this kind of intelligence [investing] has nothing to do with IQ or SAT scores … This kind of intelligence … is a trait more of the character than of the brain."
Instead of IQ, Graham says that virtues such as courage, self-discipline, and patience are the essential ingredients of long-term investing success.
Sir Isaac Newton got caught up in a public hysteria. The South Sea Company experienced an incredible boom and then an equally incredible and rapid bust.
He and many other investors became controlled by their own emotions of excitement, envy, and greed. Their emotions clouded their judgement, and even superior intelligence is not useful in that state (see Why Enthusiasm and Investments Don't Mix).
The book The Millionaire Next Door shares that most millionaires on average do indeed possess the character traits described by Graham. They live simply and modestly. They do not take large financial risks like betting all of their money on one stock. They are not easily persuaded by emotional highs and lows of other investors.
The millionaires described in The Millionaire Next Door probably do not have the IQ of Sir Issac Newton, but they are successful investors. They follow a straight-forward, uncomplicated strategy of saving their money, paying off debt, and investing extra savings consistently and conservatively over time.
Benjamin Graham would have also pointed out that Newton was actually speculating, or timing the market, and not investing at all. While speculating has its place in the financial world, Graham felt strongly that most investors should avoid the practice all together.
In fact he had this to offer for those tempted to make money by predicting price movements,
"In our own stock-market experience and observation, extending over 50 years, we have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly made money by thus 'following the market' [i.e. speculation]"
If you're interested in the approach to intelligent investing that Graham does recommend, you can see my article "An Intelligent Approach to Investing That Protects Your Money."
Like anything worthwhile in life, becoming an intelligent investor is not easy. It will require hard work, persistence, and endurance. It will also require new knowledge and the ability to adapt and change.
But the good news is that you and I can do it. The genius of investing is that you don't have to be a genius! Instead of discovering mysterious laws of the universe, we must discover and master the forces within ourselves.
Thank you for allowing me to share some of my favorite lessons with you. I appreciate the opportunity to help you move towards becoming a more intelligent investor.
Photo of Sir Isaac Newton: Sir Godfrey Kneller [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Extremes Harbor Topological Resemblances, and
the Placebo Effect
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Jan Cox Talk 137, Dec 13, 1984, run time 2:28
Notes by TK
Mechanical behavior is behavior. Extraordinary behavior requires no question of: "was that mechanical or not?"
Good news. How might This Thing be presented today? Religious prophet vehicle is no longer valid, or workable. UFO parallel: the majority of ordinarily educated believe in extraterrestrial life, but discount stories of individual men's claims to have actually met ETs. In same way, religious prophet from external god would be discounted. There must be a kind of mystery involved. Would it be possible for This Thing to expand publicly in a way that could possibly disrupt Life's scheme of expansion?
Extremes harbor topological resemblances which are in conflict with the working of the Yellow Circuit. Belies all sense of reason. Everything is packaged in extremes: the ready availability of opposites, of alternatives.
Seeming emphasis of This Thing on intelligence–need to be more intellectual. This reflects the necessity for all energy to be fully processed and monitored by all 3 circuits; i.e., Yellow Circuit processing must be included. Relates to example of underdeveloped areas of the world suffering natural calamities. Neuralize that Yellow Circuit people suffer fewer Blue Circuit and RED Circuit accidents and diseases.
There should be an unending monitoring of your own speech. Guard against mechanical speech. Example of the laconic hero: strong, silent type, given to few words. At line level, all talk is mechanical talk. What purpose does this serve for Life? ][More on the "placebo effect". An apparent medicine given to "satisfy the patient". Life entertains the phenomena but also induces a negative connotation to it as "not a real process". But how can something 'unreal' have a real effect? Can see in the classification into "imaginary" of anything which does not fit the ordinary grid transfers, or conflicts with the straight line theory of cause-effect. At line-level everything is the placebo effect: given to satisfy. No real problems exist, and no real cures in Life. Example of men's skin care products as "more hope than help". But this is straight line theory. Hope is help.
Ordinary consciousness does not really believe in a singular, all powerful omnipresent god: individual salvation from death-dealing circumstances and consequent praise/thanks to god is a tacit admission of this. Saved from uncontrollable other forces. The overt manifestation-belief is God vs. Satan.
Fanatics possess a kind of attractive assurance. A very limited but deeply coded circuitry. Life allows them, but disapproves of them in the main because of their essential limitation. Life has a need for freedom verging on chaos for the cutting edge of growth. Neuralize the necessity for This Thing to skate the thin line bordering chaos.
Example from Group history to demo that sometimes indirection is the most direct means. Given task of developing a catholic mass–snuffed out in seeming irrational outburst by J. on the night for presentation. All work for nothing. No explanation.
You must see to abandon all grid level fears. There is no fear above line-level. The reality of fear is an electrochemical phenomenon. As long as you feel fear you are at the mechanical. level (psych. localized, personal fears). "Fear" of J. is appropriate–a kind of protection of your own potential.
The seeming loss of motivation for some previously driving Life ambition = gradual loosening of dream energy. This should be replaced by effort to help Life grow, personal expansion, This Thing. Can't wallow in feeling of apathy.
Loneliness. Can't be a hermit; must have a personal energy transfer in the Group (everybody needs somebody). Loneliness exists at line-level for the ordinary as a feeling of vital connections to outside world severed or weakened, and is compensated for by resorting to communal, family feeling; the siege mentality–us vs. them. Should not rule out relationships with people outside the Group.
Hostility in Group. No overt expression can be tolerated. If necessary, absolutely avoid any with whom so engaged.
Heroes have traditionally been men of deeds rather than words–does not mean that today the converse holds.
TASK: 55 min in shopping mall for new Group members. Play blind, wear dark glasses, recruit an older member to assist as guide.
55 min in shopping mall for new Group members. Play blind, wear dark glasses, recruit an older member to assist as guide.]
and THE PLACEBO EFFECT
Document: 137, December 13, 1984
Copyright (c) Jan M. Cox, 1984
Tonight I will be using a somewhat shot gun approach, covering a variety of topics — you might also notice that from a 3-D viewpoint, all of Life's explanations are like firing a shotgun point blank into the face of a hurricane. Occasionally I speak of topics which coincidentally encompass areas you're exploring on your own. This Thing is based on those kinds of coincidences (the term "coincidences" is as good a verbal description as any). It seems to miraculously work; which is not miraculous at all. I don't speak from a gigantic outline that the gods gave me. But I don't simply base my talks on questions that people ask me. A handful of the things I've mentioned may appear to be somewhat isolated form the rest of the material. But if it appears to be isolated in you, it's just your opinion. All of This is connected.
Some of you have posed the question, "What is mechanical behavior and concern for others, as opposed to non-mechanical behavior and concern?" At Line level all behavior is mechanical behavior. The very question itself comes from that level and thus is mechanical. For your behavior to be otherwise, you would have to be operating from an absolutely non-ordinary position. You ask: "I behaved in a certain way and now question if that was absolutely mechanical? Was that just automatic behavior on my part?" There is your answer. If you have the question, you have the answer. At the Line level, all behavior is mechanical behavior.
Life has noted through religions and the would-be mystical theories and ideas, that it's possible to behave in a non-mechanical manner. If a person followed the religion precisely they wouldn't automatically operate at a mechanical level. The reality of this idea has permeated mankind since the activation of the Yellow Circuit — since people began to talk. But note that no one has yet been able to follow the religious creeds precisely. If they did, it would be the end of that religion.
Put this in your Neuralizer: How could This activity be presented entirely as good news? Can you glimpse that what I'm presenting is almost too much good news? It's almost too direct. Up until now, This has always been presented under the guise of a religion or a spiritual endeavor connected to spirits, gods and to forces, which exist outside the ordinary territorial bounds of human existence sending messages periodically through prophets.
What I'm doing is right at the point of the maximum growth of This throughout the world. Life talks through a wide spectrum of other people, but This activity is right at the apex. This is the real avant-garde; and it can no longer be presented in a religious context. We're surrounded by other religious teachers: but anything contemporaneous to This can no longer be presented as a message from the gods or from some cosmic force outside of the system. That religious context is no longer a profitable or equitable means of transmitting the greater message of This Thing.
What other alternatives could be used to present This? I could use the flying saucer phenomenon incorporating visitations of beings from another part of the universe. Opinion polls suggest that 87% of this country's population believes that intelligent beings exist on other planets and more than half believe they've visited this planet. But only 8% of those people believe the stories that others told of actually seeing these beings. The saucers don't seem to fly into major universities or prestigious institutions. But note, the flying saucer approach would be a right angle turn while still being an extension of the theory of gods. What would be the possible outcome of using such an approach for This activity? Why has it not been used for such?
I guarantee that somewhere right now there is a little cult run by people who claim they're in direct contact with somebody from another planet who gave them a secret message. I assure you that that's going on right now, in this country. Somebody's saying, "What I have to tell you came from superior creatures in Galaxy X. They're sending me telepathic messages." But note it has no great effect on Life's growth. People are basically ignored or blasphemed by the general population if they say, "I'm from another planet, or am in contact with someone from another planet who's giving me information about humanity. This information from another planet brings everything in Life into focus. Everything that we've heard before almost looks like a two-dimensional cartoon drawing of what's really going on."
A type of dramatic mystery is necessary for the transmission of This Thing. In the past the continuity of religion was effective. At the time, the stories of the gods talking to people were just this side of being too drastic, and yet they were an immediate selling point. They established the rules around which the religion revolved. And these stories provided a kind of established mystery and fascination which attracted followers.
In my presentation of This I've immediately established that This is no mystery; the gods didn't send me. That has a very, very limited appeal. You may feel that my approach is more high class, intellectual, reasonable than the other vociferous, rambunctious and emotional presentations. I'm not in flowering robes, nobody's trying to recruit anybody else, and you don't swear allegiance to me. This form seems to take on a new high ground. But I'm telling you, this approach has a most limited appeal. While the level of humanity today is far different than it was in the Middle East in biblical times, the mechanical circuitry in mankind has not yet developed to the point where it can comprehend the message of This thing directly. Instead the use of another form of mystery is necessary for the transmission of This.
Let me ask you, would it be possible for someone doing This contemporaneously to go so far as to possibly upset Life's established plan of expansion? What I'm asking you to ponder is: could Life feed information directly through one person? And would it be possible for that person to present that information publicly and apparently upset things? How could that be possible? Can a person upset their own established patterns and limitations of growth? If direct transmission is possible, can a person do it to himself?
Let's assume that there are areas in Life that are extreme in their efforts to grow. This growth information would have to spread or it wouldn't have originated in the first place. Is it possible for the message to be spread too much? If so how is that possible? And if it's not so, what's the purpose of This?
Can you see that extremes harbor topological resemblances? Ordinarily the Yellow Circuit cannot perceive resemblances in aspects of Life which appear contrary or extreme. But can you See a kind of topological resemblance between extremes? Take for instance, the methods of the left and right wing political bodies. Their expressed ideologies can apparently be at direct loggerheads; but beyond the appearances of the three dimensions, the parties harbor a kind of topological resemblance that belies all sense of reason. Politically, the right-wing fascist governments support ideas about the purpose of the state and the obligation of its peoples that are in direct conflict with the left wing ideologies. But resemblances exist; and once you see them, the whole spectrum of differences goes to pieces. Simultaneously, you See something. But if the realization of the resemblance of extremes was forced upon an ordinary person, his brain would explode: because then there would truly be no right or wrong, no up or down for them; and the ordinary, mechanical circuitry isn't prepared to deal with that.
You can look at any area of Life, and no matter how wide-spread or ephemeral, it will house extremes: music, philosophy, the passing fads of taste in literature, the sexual mores of groups of people all have extremes. A resurgence of a philosophy can occur in Life, and whether it's a debate on sex or the economic distribution of wealth, it will immediately begin to attract extreme attitudes. It will be a hot new item appearing on the cover of the well-known news magazine — in the major newspapers every other day. But after only two weeks of being a hot topic, it will develop extremes. A television talk show will sponsor two well known and socially respected spokesmen: Dr. So and so and Professor So and so. They each have extreme, reasonable, educated views on the subject: one may profess the positive aspects, the other the negative. But once you begin to See it, the two extremes resemble each other; and the more extreme they are to one another, the greater their resemblance.
Someone listening to my talks may think that This activity has a purely intellectual thrust: that to fulfill his destiny man should be more intelligent. At the Line level of consciousness, that view would appear to have real validity. This information is intellectual in nature, until you begin to See that I'm talking about the circuitry of tomorrow.
Throughout the history of man as the Yellow Circuit continued to develop, philosophers and thinkers urged, "We have to put man's brain in the forefront. If men were more intelligent and better educated, we wouldn't have people fighting over who's gods were better, or who's hair color was more appropriate. All of those arguments are ridiculous and come from less then fully educated intellects." But actually it is not a matter of feeding only the Yellow Circuit; all energy must be totally processed and monitored by all circuits, no matter what the time or place. Anything less than this, will not even get you to the starting line with This Activity. The Yellow Circuit, as well as the other circuits must have a say in everything that's occurring. Even if you are out digging ditches, trying to lay brick for the first time, hanging a door or learning how to juggle, you must maintain Yellow Circuit involvement. You're throwing away food, not cleaning your plate, if all of the circuitry including the Yellow, does not participate in every activity.
Consider all of humanity as a nervous system. Groups of people in different parts of this planet are located at different places within the circuitry of Life's nervous system. Some of the poorer, underdeveloped countries could be considered to live primarily in Life's Red Circuit while countries like the United States would be located in the Yellow Circuit. Notice how the widespread calamities strike the underdeveloped countries. Now it is not that the U.S. is freed form such catastrophes because "the gods smile down on America" — but such events do not strike this country in the same way that they strike other parts of the world. To put it more simply: people with very active Yellow Circuits have less Red and Blue Circuit accidents than other people, but such Yellow Circuit involvement is still not the mechanical norm for all of humanity.
The next phase in the growth of Life is the development of another circuit in humanity. The center of gravity of those attracted to This now is more intellectual; though not necessarily more educated. Historically this was not always the case. The great prophets weren't intellectually oriented — they didn't have Ph.D.'s: there's no record of them even going to school. The religious teachers didn't sit down and talk to people about mathematics: "The way to find the kingdom of heaven and be enlightened is… and here's the mathematical reason why it works." No, that thinking was for people with pointed heads and beards, up in ivory towers. Supposedly these prophets were touched by superhuman elements not connected with the intellect and its purpose.
Try to See this information I'm about to present from the 4-D spherical world of consciousness. We all have a bricklayer down in our nervous system — behavior centered in the Red Circuit — and so you should be able to understand this. The 3-D voices say, "Red Circuit people are in better physical condition than Yellow Circuited eggheads. You know the type — a 90 pound guy with big old thick glasses lecturing on physics. He stands up and drops papers; goes to draw something on the board and hits his knee on the desk, and then he trips. He seems to live in a world of the mind, and his body's like an unnecessary appendage." That makes sense, doesn't it? But again let me point out the truth: Yellow Circuit oriented people have less Red and Blue Circuit accidents than Red and Blue Circuit people do.
Yellow Circuit people have less colds than Red Circuit people. You could explain that away with, "Red Circuit people are out working year round in the freezing cold, where as this other guy is a stockbroker. The Red Circuit person works around physical objects. It's not surprising that three or four times a year a bricklayer is hit on the head by a brick falling from a scaffold. Or a carpenter takes off the end of his thumb while putting up studs. What opportunities does a stockbroker have for accidents? What could he do? Get falling arches or hemorrhoids from sitting around?" That makes sense, right? Don't be too sure. It may make sense but only if you're in the wrong dimension.
Who has the most Blue Circuit problems? Why is it common to find Blue Circuit oriented people accusing Yellow Circuit people of being heartless. "Yellow Circuit people have no soul. Can you imagine a Yellow Circuit person writing the kinds of songs that touch people's hearts? No! You have to have somebody that feels the intensity of emotions to write like that. You can't take some physicist in a 3-piece suit with thick glasses and ask him to write us a song. He's out of touch with ordinary human emotions. He's probably the kind of guy who would turn on a TV soap opera and laugh at it, or else go to sleep. Just watch a Yellow Circuit person at a party. Other people stand around and talk about their lives, how many divorces they're had, the troubles they're having with their children. These Yellow Circuit people kind of listen and then just wander off, like they have no interest. They act as though the kinds of things we suffer over are just gibberish. They have no feelings. Something's wrong with these people." So goes the accusation from one part of Life's body to another. And perhaps from Line level it reflects an accurate accounting of the actions of such types. It appears that the Blue Circuit oriented person experiences more emotional suffering.
Let's move from these apparent manifestations into the functioning of the circuits themselves. Within each individual's circuitry lies the continuing possibility for Red Circuit accidents and Blue Circuit problems. However, this possibility cannot exist even mechanically if all three circuits are operating in equilibrium; i.e., if the Yellow Circuit was participating as much in the processing of the energy as the lower circuits. If I could suddenly snap my fingers and make this occur within one person, this person would appear to have lost their "soul". They would lose some of their propensity to get sick and their tendency to have accidents. From an ordinary viewpoint, this person would be less attractive. Their friends would say, "You're not near as much fun as you used to be. You're still married to your fourth wife, aren't you? You're no longer going through drug rehab programs every six months. What's happened to you? You're just no fun anymore."
Humanity is mechanically evolving towards a Yellow Circuit orientation. Everyone involved with This needs to become a little more intellectual though not in the same manner as someone operating at Line level. You're not doing This correctly if the Yellow Circuit doesn't function in everything you do, no matter how physical or emotionally charged it may seem.
A related matter: a person involved with This should continually monitor his speech. Someone asked, "When am I operating and speaking mechanically?" A golden thumb rule is: your speech is mechanical any time you wonder, "Why did I say that?" You may not have offended or upset anybody; nobody seemed to notice or laugh at you. But you feel, "I wish I hadn't said that." What you are tasting after the swallow and after the fact is mechanical speech. Just as mechanical behavior is Line level behavior, mechanical speech is Line level speech and is necessary for the transfer of certain energies. But you can transfer, transmit, and transform energy without engaging in mechanical speech. Throughout history there persists within various eras and cultures tales of a hero who is a person of few words. Literature and movies even today portray the hero as being the strong, silent type. He comes into town and you know by his dress (and the fact that he's the star) that he's the good guy. People talk to him, threaten him, warn him not to fool around in other people's business and he just stands and looks at them. He doesn't respond with, "You can't talk to me that way." During 75 minutes of the movie he's pushed around, and then finally he says something to the effect of "Alright, I've had enough," and he either kills everybody or beats everybody up, and throws them in jail. And that's it.
Look back in your own nervous system and relate what you see to your knowledge of horizontal history. Now picture past prophets or legendary heroes. Can you imagine those people sitting around or hanging out in the neighborhood, constantly running their mouths off? You don't expect somebody who knows something, a hero or prestigious figure, to engage in ordinary rambling and mechanical talk. It doesn't fit into anyone's notion of a hero. Do you not find that interesting? While a general awareness of the unprofitable nature of excessive talk has permeated humanity, different degrees of mechanical talk are apparent to Life. To ordinary consciousness certain mechanical talk appears glaringly unprofitable whereas other examples of verbal intercourse seem beyond reproach. In reality at Line level, all talk is mechanical talk.
You should question the purpose of ordinary mechanical talk in Life, and develop a distinct distaste for your own participation in mechanical talk. In a nonmechanical way, you should be very disturbed any time you find yourself feeling "Why did I say that? I wish I hadn't said that." Disturbed enough that not doing it becomes a part of your continuing awareness. You may find yourself standing at the water cooler, or the line at the grocery store and someone will say, "Boy, the holidays are a really hectic time." Don't mechanically respond with, "Yeah, don't I know it. I have three relatives coming down from Indianapolis to live with me for a week." You have no business talking that way — unless you do it on purpose and it has nothing to do with your relatives, Indianapolis or the holidays (and no one would have the nerve to tell me they'd done such as that on purpose). Mechanical talk is a bleeding process, a process wherein you are transferring necessary energy for Life, but at your own expense. You're going to transfer mechanical energy as long as you're alive. But there are other ways of doing it. Ofttimes the way to respond to mechanical energy is by silence, a nod, a wink, a shrug. But if you have the feeling, "I shouldn't have said that", you're right.
Consider the placebo effect. In Latin "placebo" means "I please thee" or "I shall please thee." The definition of placebo is basically a nonmedicinal substance given to a person, merely to satisfy their need to be cured by a pill. The patient may come in with complaints which seem to have no physical basis and the physician might say, "It's just their nerves; their imagination. But the person drives me crazy wanting medicine." So he goes through the act of writing a prescription, but orders sugar pills. The patient drives all way to the pharmacy, the pharmacist fills the prescription. The patient takes them and feels better.
Though Life provided the placebo effect, it simultaneously gave it a negative connotation: it's viewed as a nonfunctional activity. Physicians feel, "These patients are a waste of my time and so I give them placebos. I know it appears to work at times, but scientifically it isn't really doing anything. I actually disapprove of it even though it supposedly cures the patient. I didn't go to school twelve years to learn how to do that. That's no kind of treatment." Life's consciousness is saying, "Placebos work and yet somehow they don't exist. They aren't true medication. They aren't real. But how can something work and not exist? How can something function and yet be nonfunctional? How does it produce results if there's no basis for it?
Try this in the hopper of Neuralization: Beyond the field of medicine, what seems to be the placebo effect in Life is ordinary consciousness labeling as "imaginary" any phenomenon that doesn't fit into the current grid of greater reality. Using the example of medicine (just to put flesh and bones on it), the illness and cure are seen as imaginary; they don't fit into the collective acceptance of what the real treatment of illness is.
Here's another way of attempting to peek up under the dress of such things: the placebo phenomenon conflicts with the Life-produced notion that events move in a straight line, and that a cause produces an effect. There seems to be no physical basis for placebos causing a cure; and yet the person is cured. Can you See in a certain way that everything is the placebo effect at Line level? Everything is simply medicine given to satisfy the patients, i.e., everyone. From a higher perspective, everything can be seen as the placebo effect — no real treatment, no real illness. The whole running history of humanity is nothing but the placebo effect.
You can see the placebo effect in specific areas of Life. An article recently stated that 43 million dollars will be spent this year on men's skin care and facial products. The article pointed out that many "real men" use expensive facial products. And in the article a dermatologist was quoted as saying, "These new products offer more hope than help." Of course, then I must ask, is hope not help?
I'm not saying that the dermatologist's view is foolish — that I'm right and everything else is wrong. Life's level of development varies from time to time and locale to locale. From one of Life's viewpoints, what the dermatologist is saying, is true about the skin care products.
To give another example, one area of Life feels that religion is foolish: "Those idiots who go to church believe that they're going to die and live in some nice little place where nobody gets sick. That's idiocy. Nobody can prove it. These people are fools; they're behind the times. While another area of Life's consciousness is still saying, "I would die for my faith. I have no doubt that when I die, I'll go and live with the gods. I'll go to paradise, and you other people won't." Neither view is right; neither one is wrong. Life doesn't grow in a straight line. It just appears that one mode of thinking has precedence over another at any given time.
If you free yourself from Line-level consciousness you can See Life progressing. There is no shred of evidence saying that Life is going downhill, that skin care products are useless, that religion is foolish hope, or that the use of placebos is a non-functional activity. Those are merely opinions expressed by various aspects of Life. You See that something either works in a specific place and time, or it doesn't.
A person involved with This has no views, but The View (with a capital "V") — because incorrect views don't exist.
Ordinary consciousness doesn't truly omnipresently believe in a single, all-powerful force. People of all religious persuasions within the body of Life express praise towards the gods when delivered form a dangerous situation: "There I was in the field, and the other army attacked. They killed everyone and thought they'd killed me, but I tripped and fell below a chariot. I lay there half-unconscious and they assumed I was dead. I was the only living person out of 10,000. The gods saved me." Or, "I was driving on the highway. I didn't know I was going that fast, but I knew as I hit that curve that I'd lost it, and I was going to fall thousands of feet into a ravine. I knew I was gone. I had no control, but suddenly… it's almost as if the car straightened itself out. The gods saved me specifically." Those stories are tacit, unrealized admissions that a single, all-powerful force doesn't exist: that other forces are involved. To say, "I'm expressing the belief that an all-powerful force could do no such a thing as specifically single me out and save me from this dangerous situation", is to admit the presence and power of other forces who got you into the situation. The person recounting the story doesn't question being put in that situation in the first place: "If something else put me in that situation, the one force isn't really completely in control." More than one force is involved in Life, but the closest that consciousness has come to dealing with multiple forces is through the binary ideology of gods and devils. Only Yellow Circuit oriented people can ask, "If the force is so powerful, why does it put up with the devil? Why doesn't it just send him elsewhere?" The understanding of it never occurs at the ordinary level of consciousness.
The need for an awareness of the multitude of forces hasn't yet arisen in Life's general consciousness. Line-level consciousness can't deal with the concept that many forces exist, even as a theory; this concept won't compute in the hard-wired consciousness of man. You can't pray or give thanks to the gods and simultaneously have a real awareness of the fact that they aren't all-powerful.
I'll now take this discussion down a small side street. Historically and presently, there's a continual appearance and healthy survival rate of fanatics who attract certain people. Fanatics exist in politics, religion and many other fields. They'll say, "I'll tell you what's wrong with the world, what's wrong with humanity. I'll tell you the truth about religion (or politics)." A good fanatic has a very deeply encoded, but highly limited circuitry which can attract some people. To varying degrees the circuitry within you is attracted to that. You don't necessarily pursue it much further, but a type of assurance in them is attractive, even though they may appear insane on the surface. But note fanatics don't attract most people.
Why would Life simultaneously have people saying, "I know the absolute truth. Here's the way things are; and then disapprove of this talk in its mainstream? Can you See that on a grander scale Life disapproves of any limitations of possibilities.
This Thing can only exist and flourish in the progressive countries or areas of the world. A kind of freedom, almost verging on potential chaos is necessary for This to bloom within the short period of one person's life, and still expand into the next generation. You almost have to live in a major city, and not the country. The optimal environment of This would be a large metropolis: one that's the epitome of the civilized world, and is simultaneously about as close to coming apart as any other place on this planet. A latitude is needed that almost verges upon anarchy.
The optimal environment is also needed at the individual level. At Line level, everything in you says that extraordinary effort must occur within the very strict confines of some kind of ritualistic, established, noteworthy, identifiable system such as religion, with its holy books, prayers, chants, and other things which you can depend on. But to actually be properly involved with This, you have to skate a thin line between almost unbridled possibilities and almost certain chaos.
Take into account some of the other hints I've given concerning efforts in This: such as, the progress can't be too drastic or you may explode. Or my asking if a person could possibly upset the scheme of Life. I've also said This can no longer be presented as another extension of religious revelation. With all of those ideas being true, how can you present This to people? How can you tell a person that an unimaginable Aim exists that's almost beyond words: an Aim which isn't a personal one, but is Life's own. How can you speak to a person of This and then say that almost no restraints can be put on the person pursuing the Aim: they must have the optimum amount of freedom?
Wouldn't you like a little assurance? Wouldn't a first rate fanatic make you feel good by saying, "I've tried to see all different kinds of viewpoints, but let me tell you where religion went wrong, or how humanity is about to destroy itself. I'll tell you the truth. Here's how it is and what you have to do…" Wouldn't it make you feel good to have such a fanatic around even just once a year? Or, I could privately visit you at times when I knew you needed it and say, "There, there, don't worry. It's not your fault. It's some religion's fault. It's history's fault, or your mother's fault. Don't tell anybody else. I know I told them that such things don't occur; but I've talked to you enough and can tell through my mystical abilities that your stepfather and mother ruined your life. So there's a real basis for your being as upset, neurotic and fearful as you are." Wouldn't that feel good sometimes? Then you could say, "At least I know where I stand."
Quite simply and directly, you must abandon all grid-fed fear. "Fear" only exists at one place: the Line level of consciousness. Fear is the process of transferring particular energies in a specific manner; it isn't a psychological phenomenon. It's an electrochemical phenomenon occurring at and below the Line. You feel your fear is a personalized thing, some kind of invisible force that's passed from mother to daughter, or from father to son. Like hatred, jealousy, and anger, fear seems to be something special, specific, localized and personalized. But this type of energy transfer is an ordinary, impersonal, Line level activity. Outside of the Line level of consciousness, there's nothing to fear. If you're fearful, you're engaged in mechanical behavior. You aren't doing anything; you're not a part of This Thing. It's that simple.
Some people have expressed a feeling of being afraid of me. I know what you mean, but "fear" isn't the right word. A kind of distance exists between me and a person who has reached a certain level of understanding of This. It's not a game, or some kind of ritualistic behavior. Instead, the distance is a kind of protection of their own potential and possibilities that might arise.
I've told people, "Whatever you do, try your best not to think of me personally. Don't wonder about who I am, what a nice guy I may be in private, or what a real tyrant I may be in my spare time." Forget the word fear, but the feeling you have towards me isn't improper. Keep your distance, not because you have anything to hide, but because you're protecting possibilities. If you don't, you're playing with your own potential, and you could forfeit your connection here. This isn't a trick, and I'm not trying to keep you at a particular distance for a personal reason. The word "fear" doesn't describe the feeling. It's a kind of self benefiting respect and protection of your own possibilities in connection with This. (I've always kept my distance from me. And as things have worked out, I'm glad I took that approach. It's paid off all down the line.)
Some people have mentioned that they feel a temporary lack of motivation. Everyone involved in This passes through a stage where they seem to have lost some of their motivation in Life. You may feel, "I don't care as much about my personal appearance as I used to. And I used to have dreams of succeeding in business, but nowadays, they could fire me and it'd probably be a relief." There's a reality to those feelings, but it's temporary, so don't get yourself engaged with it. If you get to the point of really being negative about the lack of motivation, count yourself back among the foolish. You have to play the game if you're living in Life, or you're being an idiot.
In truth, a loosening occurs from the dream energy you were tied to in the past. You may have thought, "I had dreams of being a famous piano player. I have nothing against the career. I like it, I enjoy playing… but, if someone told me that I would be famous if I just walked across the street, I don't know whether I'd do it. I've lost the motivation to succeed." Don't let it go past that point, and don't let the voices tell you, "I've lost the motivation to live." Anything that can be lost like that should be highly suspect. You're just losing your dream energy. It's a temporary, gradual loosening of the kind of dream energy which motivates everybody at Line level, and which until recently has motivated you. You can't recover that previously established direct connection to that dream energy. It then becomes your responsibility to expand yourself in the proper manner by continuing your efforts to expand yourself and assist in Life's growth.
You may experience a feeling of loneliness that comes and goes. To some degree everybody needs a kind of personal transfer relationship. You can't be a hermit. Even those in the ordinary world can't successfully be hermits. But when involved with This, you can't even abide and entertain those voices and urges which say, "If I had enough money, I'd go home, lock myself in my room, send out for pizza, read, meditate, jog a little, and play the guitar. Then I'd be satisfied." To varying degrees, that's not true. Some of you involved with This live as close to the hermit level as anybody in Life. And others may find it disagreeable to be alone for any length of time. That is, your feeling of being alive and progressing at a tolerable level seems dependent upon having friendly people around you. But within that living spectrum of responses, you can't fall off the deep end of either extreme. To a varying degree, everyone needs someone.
You may have a feeling of being cut off from those acting at the mechanical level: "We're the chosen; we're the enlightened ones, and then there's everyone else." I've never encouraged those feelings. People within ordinary groups seem to separate themselves from Life, under whatever name or for whatever assumed purpose. That is the normal behavior of people who have had their connections to the outside world weakened. But those properly involved with This Understand their connectedness with all of Life.
Let me give you an immediate band-aid rule that you must take seriously. If any of you find yourself involved in a hostile dance, don't analyze it. Absolutely abandon the dance as much as possible. Don't dance; don't play the game. You can't be hostile while involved with This. As long as you are alive and breathing Life is still operating mechanically through you. But you can, by full use of the circuitry, overtly stop hostility. You can quit playing that game.
Someone asked how they could tell if they were being conscious or mechanical in their concern for someone else. You can develop a very close sexual or friendship relationship with a person who isn't blood related, but in Real concern the caring feels undebatable and inescapable. It would almost be nonverbal. The connection between blood relations also appears to be beyond any discussion: "I can't debate it or explain it. It's not that I want to care or don't want to care. I just can't escape the caring and I don't even want to."


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Carolyn Olsen
Carolyn Olsen is a licensed social worker and currently works in hospice. Prior to Hurricane Sandy, she and her husband were living in Ocean Beach III in Toms River Township. The storm flooded their home with more than three feet of water, causing severe damage and destroying much of their personal possessions. About two years after the storm, she experienced loss again when her husband passed away. She now resides in Allentown, New Jersey, where she makes plans to rebuild her house on the shore.
Did the hurricane affect you as a homeowner?
Yes. The island was evacuated for Hurricane Irene and it also was evacuated for Hurricane Sandy. I believe the evacuation was supposed to be Sunday morning before the storm. As a hospice social worker, I had the island from Point Pleasant down to Seaside Park, so my job was to evacuate my patients in nursing homes and to try to get the families home. So I was doing that until Saturday night, and my husband said to me, "so what are we doing?" which I hadn't really thought about. We did what a lot of people did, we were kind of on the fence saying, well, we were fine for Hurricane Irene so we'll be fine for Hurricane Sandy. Well, Sunday night was pretty awful. I remember Monday morning, my husband was still sleeping, looking outside and seeing the bay. The water was literally being sucked out of Barnegat Bay and away from our house and I was watching the news, and the weatherman said that if you see a situation like this, it's going to come back twice as bad, and that's what happened, so my husband and I made the decision to evacuate. We packed up some things and did what a lot of people did, we packed medications and all for a couple days, thinking we'll come back. And when we left, I already brought my car to higher ground in Toms River, but we drove through Ortley Beach, and it was pretty frightening because it was already starting to flood. We stayed with cousins of my husband's for the first night until they lost power.
Where do those cousins live?
They lived in Toms River. They lived on high ground in Toms River, so we stayed with them. My husband had a lot of comorbidities, and one of them was he had to sleep with a C-pap at night. It's a machine that goes over your face and blows air in to your lungs, so if you have sleep apnea, it helps you to sleep, whereas you're not waking up when your heart stops. So we stayed with them the first night, and then we could not stay with them any longer because they had no power. So we evacuated to my son up in Cranford, and we stayed with them. And from there, we realized we wouldn't be able to go back for a few days. At that point, I contacted FEMA for the first time.
We had to go out and buy clothing. I went back to work on Friday, the storm was on Tuesday and we had a couple of days where it was just crazy. We realized that we should've brought more of everything, so we had to kind of reinvent ourselves. We had to buy new clothing as I said. My husband had to wear special shoes. I work for a health care company and they were very helpful in helping me get parts to my husband's C-pap machine. The pharmacies at the hospitals were taking prescriptions and filling them even though it wasn't time yet, so we were able to get his medications and my medications. We had our vital information, fortunately. After Hurricane Irene, my husband had put it into a safety deposit box in Brick, and that wasn't flooded, so we were lucky in that we didn't have to, unlike other people, completely reinvent ourselves, get a social security, get your birth certificates, things like that, we had that safely stored away, so we were lucky.
I commuted from Cranford down to my job for a week. I guess a good thing about being a social worker is I kind of went back to my Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and was thinking about, so what do we do in order to survive? We needed food, we had that, we needed clothing, we were able to get that, we needed shelter. Our options through FEMA were to go to apartments and to be moved around whenever they could accommodate us, because we did need electricity, so we made the decision to look for an apartment. So my daughter had friends who had a friend who was a teacher, and she had lived here for several years, so we wound up coming here [apartment in Allentown, New Jersey] and they had a vacancy, so we've been here since December 1st, 2012. I will say a lot longer than I expected.
Why did you choose to move to Ocean Beach III?
When we moved up here [from the Washington, D.C. area] to be with my mother, we made the decision. We lived up in Cranford near my sister where my mother was staying, and we liked Lavallette. So we bought a home on President, which was right near the Crab's Claw in Lavallette. It was right on the beach block. It was a nice little home. It's still standing, I may say. It was built in 1893, and it's still standing. But, we couldn't live there. We were thinking in terms of retiring there, because my husband with his illness had a lot of difficulty with stairs, so we looked around for an alternate home, and this home that we bought was a ranch. It was a one level so that was ideal for us. There were two bathrooms and four bedrooms, so our family could come stay with us, and a beautiful view of the water, and we had access to the beach, and he liked fishing, so it was ideal. So we made the decision to move there.
What did you like most about living in that community?
It was a beautiful area. Where we were, it was on the other side on the bay side so that we didn't get the impact of the storm that people on the ocean may have gotten. And we had beach passes for our family. It was very quiet after Labor Day and then, being where we were, there were renters, but it was nothing like in the ocean side in between, so we didn't have as many renters. So you felt like you were in another world.
We were right on Barnegat Bay, so we were on the bay side. We were right on the water. I guess to walk it would take about ten minutes from the bay shoreline to the ocean shoreline.
In the days before Sandy, what preparations did you make for the storm?
We put our vital documents into storage and we had packed bags with some clothes. The problem was that we did not pack anticipating that we would not be able to return to the island. There was the National Guard. They had lock down. The roads were devastated so you couldn't get safely back there. We waited for about three weeks and then the only way you could get onto the island was to report to Toms River Fisher Boulevard, and then we had to give them our licenses and then we boarded a bus and there was a policeman or a detective on each bus. They took us to our neighborhoods. We had to walk to the road to our home. We had an hour to take everything that was important to us, with us, which, by after three weeks, I don't need to tell you. It was awful what we saw. And then we got back to the bus and drove back to our car on the mainland.
Overall, what damage did you sustain?
We had about three feet of water, so we lost all of our belongings. The nice thing about it
was that it was a ranch. Everything was on one level. The bad thing about is was that it was a ranch and everything was on one level. We did find our family was wonderful in that family and friends helped us empty everything out of the house. The house had obviously mold. We got things. I have glassware and things that were from the waist up. We lost about everything– documents, and things that we really had to look at. We had to make a decision whether or not to keep them. I mean anything fabric that could acquire mold we had to get rid of. Fortunately to another thing is we were empty nesters, my husband and I, so the things that people really treasure, our family photos, it keeps coming back in conversations. I divided all of the pictures that I had from our moves in to three boxes and gave each of my children their pictures.
We had toiletries and foodstuffs and things like that. All of our furniture was gone. I do have a couple of lamps that made it. So basically we lost everything. But what we did gain was the knowledge that we were surrounded by love. We had a lot of support. Everybody pitched in. We bought the sofa and this chair, other things that we see around here may be circa 1970 if you look at it, but it was given to us by friends of our daughter. We got bedclothes. We got a table. We had got the kitchen table, a friend of mine had donated that little desk in the corner that has been great. It has been wonderful. People have been very kind. And my company, there was a grant that I was eligible for, so we got some money to help to defray the cost of trying to recreate our lives.
Did the house have to be gutted?
I have to tell you a story, and I guess it's how you deal with life. And I think you just assume that the path of least resistance. We had an adjustor come and take a look at the house, and he kind of minimized the damage. And then we had a pool in the backyard on the deck and we had gates around it. Before we left, my husband had told me to make sure the gates were closed. So I went to shut the gate on one side of the house and I couldn't get the door closed. It kept hitting the side of the house. And I kept looking at it and thinking, "wow, this fence must have been moved." When the engineer came, the one that we hired, he came and said, "the house moved, that's why you can't get the gate closed." The house had shifted off of its foundation. The foundation itself had been cracked, so we felt that the cost of repairing the home and possibly having the mold come back was as much if not more than to replace it, so we just made the decision to demolish it.
Do you think the National Weather Service did a good job in preparing people for the storm?
I do think they did. I remember hearing on the news to not minimize the impact of this storm. It was frightening, and I got the impression that they were right on the money. They were urging people to evacuate. So in terms of the National Weather Service, I think they did a fine job. The sad thing was we had to evacuate the island. The people across on the mainland, Toms River, people who had lagoons, did not. I had a patient who was in Lavallette. I evacuated her. She wanted to go to her daughter's in Toms River. She lived on a lagoon. This is a woman with dementia and a lot of pain. She went to her daughter's, and they were flooded, and she had to be evacuated by boat, and then brought to the hospital. I felt horrible about that. I felt horrible. The people on the mainland just didn't anticipate.
I had a colleague in the hospital who lives right off the Mantoloking Bridge, in Brick, so on the other side, the land side. She had her home. One of the homes from Mantoloking came across the inlet and landed on her home. So she and I are both kind of in the same boat right now. She's in the process of rebuilding her home. And the disadvantage that she had that I didn't have was I could live here because I didn't have children who had to be in the school system, so she wound up moving about four times with her daughter. And every time they needed something, they had to go to storage. We lost most of our stuff, so we didn't have that problem, but we have things in different people's basements and garages.
Are there any stories that you would like to share about your work before the storm as a social worker?
A big job that I had was preparing to evacuate my patients. They couldn't even go to the hospitals. They were deterred from the hospital if they didn't require acute care. They had to go to shelters or to nursing homes. My bereavement coordinator at Hospice, she's also a Presbyterian minister and her husband is the Presbyterian minister for a church in Point Pleasant. And she predicted that we would see a lot of deaths post- Sandy for about two years. She says, "you're gonna see quite a few. You're gonna see people dying." And I'd had several elderly gentlemen who had problems like my husband, and this just exacerbated everything. There was this one little street in Bay Head, and these women all knew each other, and they called it 'the neighborhood of sick husbands', and I had about three of them pass away after going through the stress of trying to rebuild. And they wound up restoring, but still, they had the headache of these big beautiful homes that were going to be raised. The the cost was prohibited. Many, many people lost their homes, and that was very sad, and I'm still seeing it. I never dreamed seeing it in my patients. I had some ah-ha moments.
I knew it was devastating for my husband. I guess you push things down in order to do your job. You compartmentalize, that there were signs that I was seeing in my husband that I just kinda said okay, we're gonna get past this, and I didn't, and he was another victim of Hurricane Sandy, and that was a sucker punch that I didn't expect. But he had asked me to rebuild and sell it. We had done everything for the REM grant we are getting, a grant to help us rebuild, and with all the work he put into it, he asked me to rebuild it. "If I die," he said, because he knew something was happening, he said, "if something happens to me, I want you to rebuild the house and then I want you to sell it," so that's kind of what we're going through now.
My son is helping me with the forms and contacting people. He does this as a literary agent. He's always going over contracts, so he's been wonderful, so that I can work. My daughter has been so supportive. She's been there for me. She doesn't like me to be alone. I'm learning how to be alone after 37 years. I'm also a twin, so I've never been alone. I'm working, so that helps, and I think just being normal, trying to get some normal. And I think if I didn't have my job, it would be a lot harder. But working in Hospice, I did see a lot, and because I was in that highly impacted area, I saw my patients, I lost my patients, patients who died, patients who had to, in the end of their life wanted to end their life where they felt comfortable, and they were just uprooted, and they never came home. They had to go live with children up in northern New Jersey. It was just very devastating for them.
How long after the storm did your husband pass away?
He died in August of last year. And without getting too personal, he had heart issues. My husband, he had a sense of humor. I'd say to him, "okay, I'm going to work, I'll be at the hospital and I'll be home in X amount of time, and he'd say, "well, I'm dialing for dollars." To know that these grants were coming up, its called a REM grant, that was the big one. To you, among thousands and thousands of other people are on the phone trying to get in touch with someone to get even the application. So my husband spent hours on the phone calling, and there was also another grant called a SHRAP grant, and it was a grant where you were given a certain amount of money to help you. Because right now, I'm still paying my rent, my mortgage, my real estate taxes, and utilities, for a house that's not there. I'm paying for a second home, and this is not a vacation home, folks, so the cost has been pretty prohibitive.
So this grant came through, and my husband applied for it, and when he went to the office initially, they said, "well you don't meet the criteria, we're not gonna be able to help you with anything." And it's very demeaning when you have someone coming from the life we built to asking for help and being told you don't meet criteria. And the sad thing was he had gotten everything ready. He went for a pace maker and then he died of a massive heart attack a couple of days after he had the surgery. So after the funeral his best friend and I went and brought the application for the REM grant, and when the case manager looked over the application, he called me and said, "you meet criteria for the full amount," and I said, "we're only gonna get a little bit of help for anything so we'll take anything," and we met criteria for everything, and I thought to myself, "I wish my husband had known because he gone through so much."
You say the insurance companies were not very helpful to you?
Because it was a super storm, it wasn't wind damage so to speak. Our homeowner's insurance gave us a total of $350. They gave us basically the money for spackle. And then we had $250,000 for flood insurance. And we got about $88,000. We had to rebuild a home with that. It was hard enough having them come in and go through your house, and we also had FEMA come through, but to have them come back and say, "you don't have to rebuild, you can just restore your house," we had to go through an appeal process. And we hired our own engineer who came in and he came in at quite a bit more. We also hired someone to go through the appeal process through the insurance, so we had to get all the documentation together, and they weren't able to do anything unless we hired an attorney. And we just said, enough is enough. We'll just kind of let it go. But now FEMA is reopening a lot of their cases, so they're looking back and saying they had a surplus of money and I think our adjuster, well, I can't say, but I think that we should've gotten a lot more than we did.
How did you feel after you were given such a small sum of money to rebuild your home?
My husband died in August and I just was busy trying to change things over to my name, deal with the loss, the state stuff. I've been robbed of my grieving time. I guess in a way, he's given me a gift in that he's given me something to do, so I'm grieving instrumentally. An instrumental griever is someone who does things for somebody. It's a person who can't maybe give hands-on care, but they can do things to help maybe pay bills.
How do you think the federal government responded after the storm?
When I called up FEMA, I got the number right away from them. They seemed very compassionate. My husband met a FEMA worker, and they wound up meeting at a McDonald's parking lot and talking because they couldn't get on the island. I think we did get some help, from the government, to help with bills and all, but in terms of FEMA, with the flood insurance I was very disappointed. You can't sue the government. You can't sue FEMA. You can sue your insurance company, but you can't sue FEMA. I'm thinking of the New Jersey government, not so much the federal government, but it's the appropriation of funding went a lot to businesses, which was important to bring back the tourists, because the tourist trade is very important to the Jersey Shore, but I think some of the money could have been diverted more to homeowners. I mean, look at Seaside Park. They got money back to help rebuild and then there was a fire. I just feel that we probably could have gotten some more help than we did. I think to be constantly making phone calls and to get the help we needed, you felt almost like a second-class citizen. It's been very humbling going through this.
How do you think the governor responded?
When Barbara Buono and Governor Christie had a debate before the election, my husband and I were sitting and watching the debate. Barbara Buono was asking him about his response to Hurricane Sandy. He was very pro-business and, as I said, a lot of funding went a lot to businesses. But, his response to Barbara Buono was 95 percent of the people who were out of the homes are back in their homes. My husband and I were sitting in our apartment in Allentown, New Jersey and looking at the TV and knowing many people who are not back in their homes. We were just amazed. So I think he was compassionate, but I also think he could've done more for the homeowners than he did.
Do you think that your social work background helped you cope with the storm?
Yes. It helped me because I focused on the important things initially. Looking at the entire picture of the house was one thing. I felt very responsible for getting my husband into a safe environment, and I thought of him as my right hand man, but it was not the same as evacuating people. He was still ambulatory and all, but I felt a responsibility to get him away from the island, to get him into a home so that we can start to have a little bit of normal while we were trying to put our lives back together again.
Has your experience changed your outlook on religion?
When we weren't sure what we were going to do, whether we were gonna rebuild or restore, we applied through the Presbyterian Church in Point Pleasant, which has work groups and people come from all over. I don't know if anyone here is Protestant, but they do this volunteer work and it's just what they do. They volunteer a certain amount of time and it's part of their religion. We had work groups come in and they tore the wallboard down. They did remediation. They pulled things out, they ripped out our deck, I mean it was around seven degrees, and there was no heat in the house, and the house was damp. They came and they helped us out. Well, my church in Bay Head, they sent me envelopes. I didn't get any help from them.
Catholic charities told me they're running out of money, and what they were requiring of me was bank statements. They went through my budget for the month and I was told that I had a couple extra hundred dollars a month and I didn't meet the criteria, and I forgot to tell them that I paid $11,000 in real estate taxes last year, which brings it up quite a bit. But they also said they wanted all of my personal information on my husband's retirement benefits, any IRA's, anything like that. And I made the decision at that point that I'm not 35 years old and I have 30 years to accumulate for my retirement. I am 62, and I'm going to need that money sooner than later for retirement and to be able to live, so I made the decision not to send anymore documentation other than to talk about my current salary and my living situation. So I got nothing from Catholic charities.
I'm kind of jaded. I haven't been going to church and I thought part of it was my husband couldn't attend with me, but I'm beginning to think that I'm a little jaded toward the support that I did not receive from my church. They found me, they were sending me envelopes, they were asking me for the Bishop's Annual Appeal for the propagation of the faith. I'm getting all of these requests for donations, and I also got a request for donations because the church has been so impacted in the Hurricane Sandy area, and so far I really have not gotten any help from my church, so it's been a little disappointing. I was raised Catholic, I went to a Catholic elementary school, but the support I've received was from the Protestant church.
Do you still plan to retire in Ocean County?
I have not had a chance to grieve. My husband has given me a project and I still feel like he's telling me what I should be doing. He was very organized. He left things in places where I could find them. He kind of anticipated that there would be a flood insurance thing coming up with the lawsuits with FEMA. He left things there. He put everything in order so that if he didn't make it I could still go ahead and find things. So I'm finding things and I'm still going through the process o rebuilding. I don't have the interest in it that he did. I don't give a damn what my faucets are going to look like. I mean, I'm going to have to get an interest in them now. I'm going to have to go to Lowes. But once the house is rebuilt, I know that I will be living in Ocean County until I retire or close to it because I don't know if I want to be traveling an hour each way.
I have to reinvent myself in order to keep my sanity. I think in order to get the job done, I am partializing, and I think the social work is helping me tremendously. I like the psych part of it, and that's why I went to Fordham and I'm glad I did. I am partializing. I'm really focusing on rebuilding the house. I have no idea what the next step is for me. I know I'm going to continue working. That's my normal that I've had. My family has been wonderful and supportive. But, again, I don't know where I'm going to wind up after I retire. If my health keeps up and I can maintain my health, I mean, this has been very stressful. I tend to internalize things, so what happens is I'll go along, and then all of a sudden, I'll just pass out. That's just the way I'm dealing with it. Literally, I get lightheaded and my doctor said, "just find a floor, just sit down." So, this is very, very stressful.
I think monetarily I'll be okay, but I just don't know what I want to do with the rest of my life, because even just working in the area was about trying to maintain a lifestyle with my husband. So I'm going to have to go on after the house is built, think about what I'm going to do for me and where I want to be. I want to be near my family, so, my son's up in Cranford, my daughter's in Titusville on the Delaware and my other daughter's in North Carolina. New Jersey is a very expensive state to live in, but I don't know. I'm thinking in terms of, do I want to be a homeowner, and every time something breaks, it's up to me to fix it, now that I'm living alone? So that's one thing I'm thinking about, but, again, I don't know what the next step's going to be. But I'm not worried about it. I'll figure it out as we move along, because there's a lot of moving parts right now, but right now I'm just focusing on getting my house built.
Interviewed by Shannon Yeager
Assisted by Meghan O'Brien and Allison Jones
Edited by Shannon Yeager
Allentown, New Jersey
Recorded March 29, 2015
Photo by Carolyn Olsen


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By default, Caldera Forms submission data is stored in the database and emailed to the site administrator. For some users, this or what can be done with an existing add-on plugin, is sufficient, but some developer may need a more customized solution for the needs of a specific site or application they are building.
This tutorial will show you two ways that you can capture the data from a form submission and use it in whichever way you need. It will cover firing a WordPress action, with all data from the form submission exposed and running a JavaScript callback function on form submission.
You could also create register your own Caldera Forms processor, if you need an admin UI for it. How to do that will be covered in a future tutorial in detail. A simple example of how to do so is provided here.
These two methods — using a hook, or a JavaScript callback — allow developers to use Caldera Forms as a front-end UI tool, while processing the data, and responding to it dynamically according to their own needs. Combined with the ability to save and manipulate form settings in the file system, the form validation and entry tracking in the database, Caldera Forms is an excellent tool for developers with advanced and unique needs.
Using A WordPress Hook
The easiest way to capture data from a form submission and pass it to a WordPress hook, is using the Caldera Forms Run Action processor. This simple processors allows you two set a WordPress action to run, which is passed the current submission's entry data.
You can use as many of these processors as you want in a form. This is useful if you want to fire multiple actions, or if you want to use Caldera Forms' conditional logic to fire different actions based on the inputted data.
Here are two simple examples of how it can be used:
You can also create a very similar system, without the Run Action processor, using the "caldera_forms_submit_complete" action. This action passed the complete form configuration. You can use
Caldera_Forms::get_field_data( ) to get the entry data for each field, as shown below:
Using A Custom JavaScript Callback Function
Please note, that Connected Caldera Forms does not support this feature. See this doc for more information.
This function will be passed an object containing information about the form submission, and the form. In addition it contains an object called data. This will, contain an index "cf_id" with the form entry ID. In addition, it will include any "passback variables" you have set in the "Variables" tab.
Normally passback variables are used to pass variable from the form to the redirection URL. This is useful for forms that trigger redirects, and need to pass data, as GET variables to the next page request. Since passback variables are also included in this object, they can be used, after an AJAX submission to use the form results dynamically.
For example, imagine an order form that was displayed on an account page that showed total charges. In order to remove the need to refresh the page after a new order, you could add order total as a passback value, like this:
Then in your JavaScript callback function, you can create a new object out of the details from the submission, like this:
Note that I used the "status" index to ensure that the object is only created when form submission is successful.
More Hooks and More Information
This article is a brief overview of a few ways to modify processing of Caldera Forms submissions. We also have documentation for our filters and actions. Here is more suggested reading for understanding how to customize Caldera Forms to fit your needs:
- Overview Of Form Processing in Caldera Forms
- Creating a Custom Validation Processor
- Creating Caldera Forms Processors
All Power To You
Creating great looking forms, with as complex as conditional logic as you need, is something that Caldera Forms excels at. Using Caldera Forms to create the front-end interface for a WordPress-powered app, or in any site with lots of user interaction, will save you a ton of time. In these types of projects, it is hard to rely on "off the shelf" tools to do exactly what you need with the submissions.
The examples I have shown in this tutorial illustrate how to expose submission data for use server-side or client-side. I trust that as a talented developer, you will be able to use this to do whatever you need with your data.


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Discover the challenges, rewards, and art of working as a duo
DJ duos are, and will always be, an exciting and dynamic experience, both for the audience and indeed the DJs involved. Their value to the underground scene as a whole is, however, under appreciated and many view back to back or group acts as novelty and unserious. But nothing could be further from the truth. Through the annuals of dance music's past, the DJ duo has always been a mark of artistic excellence. One only has to look at such luminaries as Masters at Work, Deep Dish or Kemistry & Storm to see how working as a team can enhance the audiences auditory experience. Look deeper still at Sasha and John Digweed's alliance over the last 25 years and their ground breaking Delta Heavy tour across the US and you'll find two gifted DJs with an almost telepathic ability to select music. Sasha and John Digweed represent something of an anomaly in the DJ duo world, in that they were always two solo DJs that worked as a team. Their residencies at Renaissance in Nottingham and Twilo, New York saw them take the back to back dynamic to its absolute limits in the 90s. Hailed by many as a supergroup, their set up at the time was light years away from what other artists were using at the time and that allowed them to push boundaries in sound and DJing. Notably, their return in 2016 playing a surprise show at Ministry of Sound and then later at The Social Festival was one of the highlights of underground year and instantly propelled their mythical status into the hearts and minds of a new generation of clubbers.
"From a performance point of view it works for us because it allows you to really read the crowd for that moment your not actually playing. I have no idea what Orde is going to play and he has no idea what I'm going to play, so it keeps you on your toes and I love the spontaneity that gives you." – Stuart MacMillan (SLAM)
I spoke recently with Stuart McMillan from Scottish techno giants Slam about working as a duo and asked him if he remembers why they decided to team up, "We gravitated to each other because we had similar tastes in music." He said, "In the beginning, we were sort of doing our own thing DJ wise. I'd do an hour and Orde would do the same, but in the last few years we decided it was stronger if we went back to back." And like many DJ teams, 'back to back' takes on a life of its own as many find they can express themselves creatively by augmenting each other. What I mean by that is rather than simply taking turns to play music, each compliments the other by adding percussion or melody to the current track playing: something a single DJ would struggle with. "We both DJed separately in the past but then we started producing music together as a duo," Son Of 8 told me, "When you make tracks together, it makes sense to play them out together and watch the crowd's reaction."
Working as a team has a host of benefits. Not least traveling with a pal over long distances; sharing the experience of endless, boring airport transfers and hours on the road, "[You] can imagine it's pretty lonely doing it on your own," Ben (OC & Verde) says, "We always have each other to take the piss out of the other one which keeps you sane. Also if one of us is ill or can't make the gig the other one can fill in so the show will still happen." Creativity, as I've mentioned, is also a big plus for the DJ team: "You can come up with something in the studio that you're really feeling" continues Jon (OC & Verde), "But sometimes you need someone to come in and say "That's pretty shit actually" which happens from time to time haha!"
Of course, there are downsides too. Many of these problems will go unnoticed by the majority of people as they tend to involve booking the artists to play. Two plane tickets, two hotel rooms or at least a double, two meals (as some contracts stipulate) and more, meaning only really serious promoters can afford them, or so it would seem. Ben O'Conner from OC & Verde argues it's all perception and the facts are very different, "Our fee is only the same as other solo artists at our level," He says, "We don't cost more because there are two of us which is what some people think, that's not the case, the only extra cost is the travel tickets". One way this has been overcome by agents is to book the DJs to play separate venues on the same night. It's something all of the artists I spoke to didn't agree with, but yet, it happens and as someone who's attended gigs excited to see a double act, it's absolutely ruined my evening to find only one of them turned up. "If you DJ as a duo or group, people pay to see the duo or group. If we DJ on our own, we will always play under different names." Son Of 8 told me. There are however, times when one of the DJs might be sick and in those cases, it's totally understandable to see a solo act, but splitting a pair up for financial profit isn't fair to the fans, the promoters or the DJs themselves.
DJ Duos' strength comes from a shared love of music.
They go beyond the back to back performance by being so in tune with each others sound and so merely playing a few records takes on a creative life of it's own. "When we DJ together we don't play back 2 back," Ben (OC & Verde) explains, "Jon (Verde) has 2 decks on Traktor with an iPad controlling effects, I have 2 CDJ's with USB's playing acapella's and samples and doing tricks, scratches etc. This is controlled and mapped out on a DJM 900 nexus,. We also both use the Pioneer RMX 1000 for extra effects and build ups. That way, we are both working at the same time and it looks like more of a performance than two guys going back to back." Slam's Stuart MacMillan tells me they have a more traditional approach "We tend to play 2 or three tunes each but that can change it's really fluid though, sometimes we'll do one each it depends on the vibe on the night."
So the next time you see a DJ duo on the bill, don't dismiss them as novelty but come to realise they are no different to any indie band or pop group enjoying the music and looking to make the audience smile and escape the pressures of modern life. And promoters, don't be put off that they might be expensive, make a connection, have a conversation. As you've read above, they aren't all divas and actually want to help you out. Ultimately, because of DJ teams like Futuristic Polar Bears, Son Of 8, OC & Verde and Slam leading the way, dance music is in one of it's most creative and expansive periods ever.
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Producing a great song that stands the test of time is no easy feat. Many attempt it, but few are able to capture the required ratio of genuine emotion, wide demographic appeal, and a little bit of luck that create a top-selling hit. Here are seven examples of songs that did it right—with three songs tied for fifth place, these are the five all-time, best-selling singles across the globe.
5. "It's Now or Never," Elvis Presley
Year released: 1960
Sales: 20 million copies
5. "We Are the World," USA for Africa
Year released: 1985
Sales: 20 million copies
5. "I Will Always Love You," Whitney Houston
Year released: 1992
Sales: 20 million copies
4. "Rock Around the Clock," Billy Haley & His Comets
Year released: 1954
Sales: 25 million copies
3. "Silent Night," Bing Crosby
Year released: 1935
Sales: 30 million copies
2. "Candle in the Wind 1997" and "Something About the Way You Look Tonight," Elton John
Year released: 1997
Sales: 33 million copies
1. "White Christmas," Bing Crosby
Year released: 1942
Sales: 50 million copies