Yes, this morning my Master Teacher told me to take another day off to “regroup,” as he put it. That’s kinda funny when you think about it from a more spiritual point of view, but it really has merit and it was very kind that he freed me up and gave me some great advice this morning. He wants me to first, tidy things up so that the maids can come in clean (yes, he has so sweetly given me maid service every week. I feel like a Queen. I always wonder where the money will come from, but it is always there). After that, I am just supposed to work on getting better organized.

Before I talked to my Master Teacher, I talked to my Great Spirit Guide. He is really advanced. I met him in a dream (and yes, Joe introduced him to me in this dream, believe it or not) and he is SO beautiful. He is an Indian chief with a headdress and long hair in braids and lots of beautiful bead decorations, but it was almost like he sparkled in rainbow colors. Well, he DID sparkle with rainbow colors. I have never seen such a beautiful human being. I tried to find an image on google, but there are no images that even come close to how he appeared in my dream. I can still see him in my mind, and I wish I could paint the picture. He told me I will rarely see him, probably mostly in my dreams, because he resides in a higher spiritual dimension. I do feel his presence, especially when we have a celebration. He likes to sit in the rocker I have in a special little alcove right between my kitchen and living room, which I turned into a library (the first Joe Lyons Kincheloe library).

Anyway, this morning, my Spirit Guide, whose name is Lanitaweh (which I think means River of Life or River of Knowledge), told me that I was blessed. That always makes me feel good. Basically, what he told me was that a part of my dissertation will be about blending the findings from another person’s dissertation with some other works that he will bring to my attention, all using Joe’s theory, of course. He mainly wanted to give me a reminder: “Just keep your eyes, ears, mind and your heart open.” He likes to give me clues and nudges and I am sure he manipulates the Internet to help me find what I need, especially when I design science courses so that they stay more balanced and holistic, bringing in Native American history as well. As Joe said in his book, the Internet is a fractal and it works the same in all dimensions.

Next, I talked to Uncle Albert. He called me Crystal Rose again. I’m not sure what that’s all about. I learned that an Indian Tribe in my dreams where I go and get special instruction in their culture and knowledges gave me that name. I guess Uncle Albert and my cousin Raphie like the name a lot. Actually, I do, too. It’s a cool name. Anyway, he said he enjoyed watching me on the trip to Tennessee and putting clues out there and trying to get me to see them all. However, he told me, “You have not uncovered all of the clues we gave you – not by a long shot. They are there waiting for you to discover . . . and we are here, my dear, to nudge you on.”

If you have been reading my blogs about the Epistemological Road Trip to Tennessee, I have identified some of the clues.  However, he also told me that I really need to find out where Joe was born and where he had lived until he was 11 because I would find it humorous in some ways, but also I would find that the people there need some assistance. I guess I am supposed to follow up on this. He also told me that my dissertation will be monumental and it will put Joe and Kingsport on the map – especially when I go on Oprah. I don’t know what to think. I keep being told by all sorts of people that this work is monumental and that I will be on Oprah. However, I really don’t even know for sure what my dissertation will turn out to be. I am approaching it in an entirely improvisational manner so that it evolves. Plus, I do not even like being in the public eye. I have always hidden “in the woodwork” until now.

I ended my meeting this morning, talking with my Master Teacher. Again, he asked me to sort of take it easy today. I was getting overwhelmed with his instructions, yesterday because he had given me so many ideas and directions to go, so today he promised me he would hold my hand a little tighter which just means he will give me more precise guidance that leads me along. I assume this “taking it easy” will extend somewhat into the weekend. And by taking it easy, he does not mean to just rest and goof off. I am supposed to do my exercises, my spiritual work, practice the keyboard, organize my files, set up a good tracking system on paper not the computer on account of some things coming up the pike which he discussed yesterday and I wrote briefly about in my blog, etc. In other words, he told me: “Follow the Daily ‘Our Great Mission’ Schedule.” Well, this is a schedule we had actually set up almost a year ago now, and I have not followed it yet. It lists out all of the things (in a flexible format) that I need to do each day. He has been very good about allowing me not to follow it, but today it seems he wants me to start taking it seriously. He concluded, making this exact point, by saying “It is ‘Mission Time.’”

I see two songs there. One, I will need to look up “Our Great Mission” and the other one, “Mission Time.” I will see what YouTube pulls to the top right now when I search on those special key words given to me by my Master Teacher before he left this morning….what’s he got up sleeve this time?

Here’s the first video that came up with the key words, "Our Great Mission." This is a good depiction of a mission, but it does not have to involve religion (and for me, it does not). On the other hand, the Mormons do engage in “good works” whereas some religions preach that you do not get to Heaven by good works alone and I see a lot of people not doing good works on account of that. Personally, I think we should all do good works by sharing our skills and knowledges with other people who are interested in what we have to offer, and by giving a helping hand where we can.




Below is “Mission Time.” I am lost on this one. I am not sure whether the message is that life is a virtual reality game, or whether too many people have come to view it that way and have been desensitized to killing due to all of the virtual reality games they play.

 

Well, I am not sure about the point of these videos. I like the first one, but I don’t like video games with all of the wars and killing such as is shown in the second one. It’s almost like it’s saying we have a choice. Do we want to choose a mission (“select mission,” as was illustrated in the game video) that involves moving “toward the light” so to speak or in other words, toward a higher spiritual evolution and eternal life, or do we want our mission to continue to be a cycle of wars, killing, destruction, and death? It reminds me of a Native American prophecy that tells us we can choose the “green path” or the “burnt path” that was presented by Winona LaDuke at a speech she gave at Oregon State University. When I first heard it, I thought in terms of the environment – do we want to choose environmentalism and taking care of our earth, or do we want to continue down the path that uses up all of our resources and destroys (burns up) our earth.

Now I see this has much more meaning. It is not an either-or path, in a sense and we are the earth – we are a symbiotic part of the earth; people have the right to choose between both paths. The burnt path will not affect those who choose the green path in the long run. Some people will take the burnt path and live a lower dimensional existence which is not going to be fun for them. Other people will be taking the “green path” and leaving those people behind for a beautiful and heavenly earth. It is not “heaven” or “hell” in the way we have been led to believe in so many religions. This is what I am getting. I think I will ask my Master Teacher for more information.

I think I’m right. I just had flowers delivered unexpectedly (just as I had finished writing the above paragraph), so that’s my answer: I am right about the meaning, although other people will have other interpretations; there are always multiple interpretations and we are FREE to have our own idiosyncratic interpretation, which we can change and revise as we learn more. The children from a school down the road go around our neighborhood each year on May Day and deliver flowers. SWEET. The picture shows the flowers -- I put them in the window sill so the children can see them. This is a special THANK YOU to the children from our neighborhood Christian School for brightening my day. I had forgotten it was MAY DAY (or at least, tomorrow is). When I was in elementary school, we made May Baskets and on the way home I would pick wildflowers (and we some really pretty wildflowers, living down a country road as we did) and then hang the basket on my neighbor’s door.

Have a Happy May Day (tomorrow!) and I hope you choose the mission that’s right for you! As my Master Teacher said, It is "Mission Time" and for me, that means working the mission my Master Teacher guides me toward, holding my hand, along with our Critical Knowledge Network -- “Our Great Mission,” as he has put it more than once. I do not know the outcome, but whatever it is, it will be very, very good because it is all done out of love and the wish for peace, joy, justice, and harmony.

Well, I feel like taking a break from the Epistemological Road Trip today. I am trying to gear up for writing my dissertation, which is going to result in a “blockbuster” book before it’s finished. Even my adviser told me yesterday that I will end up on Oprah (I kid you not; I really don't think she was joking), and that is not even the first time someone told me that very same thing. So it’s exciting and I really need to get serious about working. I will resume the Road Trip discussion tomorrow, though. There is a lot of road to cover, and believe it or not it all relates to my dissertation topic.

Today, my message from my Master Teacher was clarification about the rumors about the Internet going down during the 2012 apocalypse hype. I did not watch the movie, but I imagine it probably showed mass chaos. Well, all of this is so hyped it’s ridiculous and many people will not get on a proper, more sane path until we get past 2012 and they all realize they have been duped big time. The hype about the Internet is so exaggerated that a lot of people do not believe it and so they go on their merry ways, depending on the Internet and using it in ways that will serve as their downfall. I really can’t get into the whole story, but suffice it to say, there will be – indeed, there already ARE – issues with the Internet and these will continue to grow until people wake up to what’s going on. Before that happens, there will be a sort of dark period when you will be better off not using the Internet, or at least using it in a wise manner. Long story and I am not at liberty to divulge it all for now. Just be happy that I told you this much and perhaps you can take the appropriate precautions. Research it all for yourself -- really dig into it and you will get a glimpse of what's going on behind the Internet scene and what's coming up the pike. It ain't good for ordinary folks.

Other than that I was so happy to talk to Sam and Ralph, two members of my Critical Knowledge Network. And what did they have to say? Sam gave me forewarning that I would probably have to start from the very beginning in researching his murder case since the people who have the knowledge and have put it out there one way are not likely to be willing to share what they really know or the corresponding documentation (like the author who wrote the book about Sam). But he said they (the critical knowledge network team) are working on a strategy, so perhaps the brush in the path will be cleared before I get started on that particular research.

Ralphie picked up on Sam’s salutation, “Hey Girl” and told me that was a song for me. He said he had fun on the TN trip trying to keep me entertained with all of the clues along the way. And he wrote me a poem:

The way was clear

To a land so dear

Tennessee

She was homeward bound

The rain was done

Someone lit her fire

And true love was found

That took her far away

Travelin’ for many a day

To the heart of the “promised land”

Away she drove

Propelled by love

Of her one and only beloved man

Well, Ralph and I are still working on the communication, so I am not sure that’s entirely right and he was losing connection so he did not get to relay the entire poem. But he did say that next time he will. Ralph does much better if I use the computer (which was the way some of the previous poetry in my blogs were written and they are much better), but he really wants to be able to write better through me, and so I give him the chance to practice.

Well, that’s it for my imaginary work for today. On with my dissertation. Joe always had this philosophy, which he conveyed to me in an email one time. We have two curriculums. One is the boring one where we have to please others, such as meeting educational standards, for example. The other one is where we are free to write whatever we wish, as creatively as we wish. He had implied that that was the reason he gave me the opportunity to write a book for his series – it gave me something fun to write while working on the dissertation (this was back when I was struggling to get approval, but things have changed now at my university and there are people there as excited as I am about the research on the bricolage!) Joe was such a sweetheart, OMG and he gave me such sweet emails. I feel bad because I still have not written that book for him – but before all is said and done, I will have written many books for Joe.

Here is the song from Ralph and Sam. I did the YouTube search on “Hey Girl” and took the first song to the top. What a great song!!! It’s from O.A.R.’s Souls Aflame album and the LYRICS are cool.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 Blog

I awakened early and wrote my blog for the day, with assistance. I thought Sam helped me with it, but I later found out that it was my Uncle Albert (Einstein). Yes, my imagination goes wild.

From Ontario, Oregon, we trekked back out on the interstate. We had some bad weather for a short time through the mountains in Idaho, but once we got past them, it was clear all the way to Kingsport and even all the way down to St. Charles where we spent some time on the beach. On Tuesday, we passed through Idaho, Utah, and on into Nebraska. The landscape and mountains were really very beautiful. We had smooth sailing that day and made it to Laramie, Wyoming where we stayed the night. It was a very uneventful day of driving, listening to music and enjoying the beautiful landscape.

We did get to go through a long tunnel and that was cool. It reminded me of what it would be like going through a wormhole and seeing the “light at the end of the tunnel.” There was a little remnant snow on the ground, but the highway was clear. Epistemologically, we found the billboards to be quite interesting, informative, and entertaining. It seems that the graphic artists are getting very creative with their play on words these days. Later, we found it got even more interesting as we drove further into the “Bible Belt” where there were frequent anti-abortion billboards interspersed with Adult Stores for your convenience, just off the Interstate.….interesting combination; I wonder if there is a link.


My Morning Meeting With My Master Teacher

Last Thursday, during my morning meeting, my Master Teacher informed me that I would be running into some potential obstacles relating to education, but his advice was not to let them manifest as obstacles. My Master Teacher is able to help me turn the sourest lemons into the sweetest, most delectable lemonade. Sure enough, today his prediction came true for me right in the heart of Joe’s hometown, Kingsport, Tennessee. So, I am not only busy with my dissertation, trying to earn enough funds to keep a roof over several heads, and writing blogs, I am also very busy making lemonade with people in Kingsport. There will be more details about this to come. For now, my Master Teacher had given me this divine song with a powerful message, which he had handed to Rainbow Princess and she passed it on down to me last night (I guess he knew I was going to need this). It appears that music is the answer:

Live Out Loud by Steven Curtis Chapman

So, this morning after I started deflecting misrepresentations and correcting the misconceptions that certain people in Kingsport had about me, my Master Teacher told me I was doing great. He said the people who were responding to me negatively were the “gatekeepers” and that they do not really represent the people of Kingsport. I did get a really sweet message from someone from Kingsport who thanked me and basically said, “You go girl!” (not exactly in those words, but that is what she meant).

My Master Teacher did not give me a song this morning probably because of the cool song he gave me last night, “Live Out Loud.” I love that song because, basically what it is saying is that we need to have music. Music is so important for the educational process and to help us be happy, as Joe has shown us so well in his work. I sort of begged my Master Teacher for another song because it did not seem right to end the morning meeting without one. So, he came back, saying, “You want a song, I see. ‘You can’t get there from here, Baby.’”

Well, I thought for sure the song was going to be “You can’t get there from here,” but when I plugged the entire clue, “You can’t get there from here, Baby,” the following really cool song came up to the top.

I like it!

A lot of people keep seeing the numbers 11 and I am one of those people. They literally show up for me several times a day, usually on the clock, but also in addresses and dreams. For example, I have written about this "11 phenomenon" before and a while back I had a dream of what looked to be a plaque with a house address 7013 and that number adds up to the soul mate number, 11. It is quite an odd phenomenon. For many of us, these two numbers represent the soul mate number and when they come in pairs, they represent some sort of a powerful “gateway” which is something else that keeps coming up for me. In fact, my Master Teacher had asked me to buy a movie about Gateways a while back when I was doing research about Sherlock Holmes, which I did and I ended up watching. Going through gateways, which can be represented in multiple ways, is a very powerful experience, which will be taken up at a later date for much further analysis. Related to this, I was reviewing my paper, "My Personal Philosophy," posted on Academic Papers and Articles. As I had stated:

eductive logic pulls learners out of the reductionist forms of learning by acknowledging there are many possibilities. A simple notion such as 1+1=2 can be vastly altered with eductive thinking. 1+1 can be anything; suddenly possibilities are infinitely expanded"

I also need to mention that last night my Master Teacher explained to me that I need a lot of practice with hermeneutic and phenomenological analysis. He said that the university failed me by not providing any instruction in these forms of qualitative methodologies and that as a result, it might lengthen the time I have to spend on my dissertation. He said it would be helpful to review parts of the book by Tobin and Kincheloe, Doing Educational Research, but the bottom line is that these blogs are my practice and he said that “the quickest way of gaining the skills is by practicing them.” He wants me to make the university aware of the fact that they are shortchanging students by their focus on quantitative methods, especially since the paradigm is changing so rapidly. They will need to make some rapid changes to keep up with the changing paradigm.

Speaking of changing paradigms, I posted an introductory paper, "Shifting Educational Paradigms: What's Preventing Progress" in the Academic Papers and Articles pages of this site. I will need to expand on it, but it is interesting to note, if you read this paper, it points out that Joe’s book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction actually walks us through (with Joe holding our hand) from the old paradigm to the new. If you read Joe's book all the way through, you will gain a new a whole new mindset. It is a very powerful journey to walk along the paradigmatic winding trail he has blazed for us with this book. It will change you. You will learn how to "slip through closing gates."

Interestingly, as my Master Teacher ended our session last night, he gave me the following clue for a song to look up on YouTube, only it turned out not to be a song. He told me, “Get good rest, Babe, and we’ll come out of the ‘closing gates’ running.” It sounds like we are just barely going to make it through the gates in time, so we must hurry! I looked up “closing gates” on YouTube, and here’s what came to the top:

This is funny, and yet it is not. Here, we have the fact that the gates are “self-closing.” Well, that is not a good thing and there are many implications as to our complacency and complicity in this matter – no wonder we have to hurry and run through them! On the other hand, the video points out that the gates are “removable.”

Therefore, we must overcome our fears of “taking a hit” and work to remove the gates. As I have expressed many times in these blogs and is something I learned from another teacher, fear is an illusion (false energy appearing real). Yes, this is what we will be using Joe’s theory for! We shall overcome our fears of “taking a hit” and go forward to simply remove the gates.

Now I understand why my Master Teacher gave me this message. First, in the song I analyzed yesterday which he had given me to alleviate my anxiety over taking off on the long epistemological road trip, the lyrics spoke of slipping through the closing gate (as I was instructed to get on the Interstate). Apparently, he figured I would be running into some closed gates and timing is everything. Today, he telling me “we’ll come out of the ‘closing gates’ running.”

Thus, I have to deal with the gates in Kingsport that I ran up against. There are certain actions we have planned and I have been “dragging my feet.” He is telling me to “get with it,” “go for it” and stop being afraid of “taking a hit.” In other words, he is telling me I must go ahead and take the actions we have worked out together so that we can remove those Kingsport gates I encountered. “Onward and Upward!”

I hope Kingsport is ready for some changes….

Today’s blog is a bit late. My Master Teacher requested this for some reason. I did have a few errands to run, but nothing that took this long. Maybe he was busy; he did say this morning that he wanted to help me with this blog.

For today, I am simply continuing yesterday’s topic by presenting the analysis I had done on the bizarre (but very relevant) song that came up for me just before I was about to take off on my road trip to Kingsport for a celebration and to present Joe's work to some of the residents there. The song was pulled up from YouTube by a just as bizarre phrase that was given to me by my Master Teacher, “Don’t let a blue Friday slip into the weekend,” but it was relevant to the weather at the time as well as my reservations about taking off down the interstate in the rain. 

Finding music each day for my blogs this way is a continuing phenomenon that I really don’t think our standard FIDURODian worldview and its science can explain. First, you need a clear understanding of what Joe had meant by FIDUROD and how it affects us. I encourage people to read his book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction. He has several chapters outlining FIDUROD. Chapter 6: “Down and Dirty: Outlining FIDUROD” is especially relevant for education. Here, Joe discusses in detail how it has resulted in the way education operates today – often, teachers have become nothing more than “information deliverers” (p. 126). And the information is quite dull, often incorrect, incomplete, and out of context.

To begin the analysis, I will repost the song, this time with the lyrics. Again, this continues from yesterday’s blog which built on the blog for Friday, March 26, 2010. The reason I bring this out is that this constitutes a simplified form of the bricolage. From what I understand, I am to weave through these blogs relating to the epistemological road trip to TN multiple times, revisiting issues and covering other aspects, going into more depth, etc. Thus, at this particular point in time, while I can see there is much more significance than I first identified, I will only be presenting some of what I had identified when I first analyzed this back on March 26 as I had presented to my Master Teacher. As I always say, this is an evolving process, so we shall see where it all goes and what it accomplishes in the future. What ends up evolving is a critical aspect, although it never “stops” evolving, either. And we do not apply Joe’s theory, the critical bricolage, for no reason. It is always for the purpose of ultimately taking actions that serve to alleviate suffering or for obtaining social justice, whether for ourselves, other individuals, or other groups of people – or for us all.

Here is the song again, and below that is the analysis I wrote back on the day the song was “handed down” to me.

These White Lights Will Bend to Make Blue by Azure Ray – Lyrics

(Comments and interpretations are in brackets)

[The name of the group, Azure Ray, is highly significant, which I just today recognize and will discuss in the future. The title is significant, but for now I have no interpretation.]
Drive away
Just get on the interstate
[Because, from my perspective, the lyrics are essentially words handed down to me from my Master Teacher from a higher realm, they become especially significant. Thus, he is telling me to just “go for it” – just drive away from home, get on that interstate. This was very reassuring for me, because in my experience, all of my guidance from my Master Teacher has been divine and I know that if I follow his advice/guidance, everything will be just fine. As I told him, back on March 26, when he gave me the song, “I loved the way you addressed all of my fears about taking this trip to TN, almost 3,000 miles across the U.S. First, my concern was all of the rain – it has been absolutely pouring down for the last couple of days and so I dreaded the thought of taking off down the interstate (I-5) in such a downpour. And what do you give me, but a video in which the driver was taking off in the pouring rain, in the dark even….in other words, it’s ok, just do it – and don’t miss this gate.”]
And slip through this closing gate
Pulled into this cheap hotel
["Here, you are telling me it’s fine to save money on a motel/hotel. You know I do not believe in squandering funds on expensive places."]
I called just to wish you well
You said don't let love break you down
Well just show me how and let me never be broken
Tomorrow a new point of view
[This makes me think of the purpose of the trip. The people in Kingsport are very conservative (so I have been informed) and Joe’s work is a new point of view for them.]
These white lights will bend to make blue
[Blue comes up all of the time and is very significant, although I will omit the analysis for now. Some of the terms in previous blogs include The Code Blue Mission, Blue Ray Lightworkers, true blue soul mates, The Deep Blue Mariner Reaps the Soul Surprise Treasure Hunt, blues music, blue knowledge.]
Now this can all look new to you
[It is totally new to me to take a trip like this.]
Are you still living there
Walking the streets with your hollow stare
[This reminds me of the people who are still asleep, acting like robots, going along with the status quo.]
You say there's loneliness everywhere
So we have nothing to lose
[I had no help with this project and was feeling alone; it also represents the fact that my being at the very bottom of the socioeconomic ladder and knowing I can never make it to the top no matter how hard I try, not that I would want to, puts me in the position of having nothing to lose.]
The music plays all day long
[Yes, I had to drive all day – listened to music all day long.]
And sorrow looks beautiful
[As I wrote, this gives me hope that the celebration will be beautiful. Indeed, even though it did not turn out the way I would have wished, it was beautiful – and it is not over yet.]
And lovers seem mystical
Tomorrow a new point of view
These bright lights will bend to make blue
Now this can all look new to you

The Initial Analysis
The above is just a partial analysis of the song; there is more, of course, some of which I am not willing to share on a public forum and some which I have yet to analyze. My Master Teacher thanked me for all of the preparatory work I had done for the celebration, stating that I had “gone far beyond what was expected, thus the blessings shall go far beyond what you might expect.” With this he mentioned things like keeping a roof over our heads, the bills paid, and food on the table and he promised me more than “bare bones.”

It was interesting that the first week I returned from the trip, I was essentially more than paid for the trip with an unexpected refund for tuition. One thing I have learned in all of this divine work I do, the rewards come from surprising places. For example, while the celebration itself did not reap anything at all (yet, and I have to stress that this was just the beginning, not the culmination), the universe is very creative in how it provides for those who choose to do good work. Next, my Master Teacher asked me to provide an analysis of the images and symbols in the song. The analysis continues tomorrow. . .

Discussion
There is no space in FIDUROD that allows for phenomenological human experiences such as the fact that I keep being handed down clues to music and, no matter how off-topic the clues sound, they always bring up a totally relevant and meaningful song or video. This particular example is powerful, because, as I stated in yesterday’s blog, I was very reluctant about taking off on the longest trip I had ever been on, entailing that I get on the freeway in the pouring down rain; I had even informed my Master Teacher I was getting “cold feet” about the trip. The song was very reassuring. There is no debate about whether this experience and similar ones happen and continue to happen for me. They are documented throughout my blogs.

Of course, some people think they have all of the answers to these sorts of experiences, yet according to critical complex epistemological considerations, and as Joe has pointed out in his work, none of us can have all of the answers. And so, we have many different answers, ranging from explaining this as our “higher selves” that have access to all knowledge that can formulate these sorts of experiences to it being “God” or “angels” or, as I represent in these blogs, “Master Teachers.” Personally, I find the concept that it all comes from within, as some accounts portray, and that we all have divine and complete knowledge within ourselves a Westernized, egocentric view that overlooks the fact that we are all still individual entities symbiotically linked and that, as Joe stressed in his work, it is relationship that is important, most notably symbiotic relationship. This discussion of symbiotic hermeneutics was a specific reading he directed me to in his book (with Berry) on the bricolage, just before he passed over. He was conveying to me how important the concept is to the bricolage.

We will probably never have the one “true” final answer as to what creates these phenomenological experiences, but just because we do not know where they come from, does not mean we should overlook them or, as our “rational irrational science” would dictate, just not see them because they really must not exist if science cannot explain them. In fact, these powerful experiences are the very things we need to be looking at for guidance as we travel our individual and collective paths to greater knowledge.

Western culture with its blinders has harmed many people deeply with superior attitudes that entirely cut out subjective, phenomenological experience. In my view, the joke is on those who formulate such an empty, self-limiting mechanized position. People who succumb totally to this prescribed epistemology that is dictated from power wielders at the top of the food chain have become nothing more than DROIDS who operate as machines that cannot see the very gifts (treasures) all around them every day that are there for the receiving, or if they do see them, they cannot comprehend that there may be a amazing significance to such gifts that just might serve to alleviate some of their suffering, anxieties, fears, and even give them a sort of divine guidance to a better way of being in the world. Some misguided people simply go about their lives choosing to harm those of us who partake in uncovering the gifts and living our lives to the fullest. It is possible to transcend the negativity, however, and Joe’s work shows us how we can change our perceptions to do that.

Of course, there are many works out there that show us how we can transcend the limitations imposed on us; however, Joe’s work deals directly with one of the most resistant disciplines to change and one we most need to change due to its overarching reaches: education. Interestingly, Doreen’s reading was about this very topic – Change. Her message is relevant and so I have included it here.

My Morning Meeting With My Master Teacher

I have not been feeling well; My Master Teacher always stays on top of my health and has lots of suggestions and often naturopathic remedies for making improvements so that I don’t go to the doctor and get bamboozled with expensive and unnecessary medication. There is a pill for everything (including pills for the side effects from the pills you take or pills to make your pills work better). This time, his advice was simply, “Just give it a few more days and you’ll be ‘back on track.’ Ah yes, a song must be hidden in those words,” he told me.

So, I plugged “back on track” into the YouTube search box and this divine song came right up to the top – once again, it is very meaningful. I hope more people unite in love.

As I had discussed in yesterday’s blog, I was not that anxious to embark on a 6000 mile round trip journey, especially given the downpour that was hitting my part of the country (Oregon) at the time. Also, yesterday, I reviewed the crazy clue my Master Teacher had given me for a song just before I started on this long journey. I call him my “Magical Music Man” for this very reason. He can give me the most “off the wall” search terms to use on You Tube that bring up the most relevant song you could find. And usually, if you were to try to find a relevant song using a more “rational” approach – using “logical” search terms, you would not find a song more relevant than what he is able to find.

I actually posted this particular song way back on the day he gave it to me, but as I said, at the time, the epistemological road trip to Tennessee and the Appalachian Mountains was classified since it was also the day of the kick-off for our mission (a mission which actually involves people all over the world). That reminds me, I am going to need to backtrack even more. The reason for needing to do so is that, now that I think about it, my teacher was preparing me to get in the right mindset for the trip even several weeks before the trip because he knew I was reluctant and he probably had some relevant information in those lessons. I will review that tomorrow.

For today, the clue he had given me for the music just before I was supposed to take off on the trip – in the rain – was, “Don’t let a blue Friday slip into the weekend.” And, indeed, it was the Friday before I was leaving. I was going to leave on that next Sunday, but changed it to Monday, knowing I still had plenty of time to reach Kingsport by Friday (the day before the celebration). As I stated yesterday about these particular search terms for finding the music on YouTube:

My thoughts were – this is hilarious. What kind of song could possibly come up with lyrics like that? And how would it relieve my stress, anxiety, and suffering over the fact that it was only three more days before I would be leaving for this 6000 mile epistemological road trip I was not excited about taking -- and in the pouring down rain at that?

For today, I will just direct people back to that song which was posted on the blog for Friday, March 26, 2010. This is a very long and significant blog, but if you scroll down, you will find the song. Amazingly, the title of the song is as bizarre as the clue my teacher gave me to find the song on YouTube, which turned out to be “These White Lights Bend to Make Blue”  by Azure Ray. There are so many signs and symbols in that song that my Master Teacher asked me to write up an analysis, which I did on that particular day and the next day as well, with additional prompting from him relative to the images in the song. I will cover that tomorrow. For today, I will just repost the song since it was so spectacular and it really relieved my anxiety about taking the trip by addressing all of the fears that had cropped up for me in relation to taking off on a long trip in the pouring down rain. It was my Master Teacher's sweet way of telling me that everything was going to be just fine.

And so, I am curious. If I plug the clues in again today, will the same song come up? I don’t know how many people are aware of this, but because of the way the Internet works, when you do searches on the same terms, it will not always pull of the same things (the Internet is a dynamic, changing, evolving, fractal entity). I will try it right now!

Oh, Wow! Looky here! It DOES bring up the same song. How interesting.

This is interesting because, in case you have not figured it out, my Master Teacher, while he is VERY real for me, he is not “real” in the FIDURODian way of thinking. (Joe defines FIDUROD throughout his book, and in particular, on pages 21-24.) That is a long story for another day, and one I have also briefly discussed in previous blogs if you want to backtrack. Suffice it to say, our imagination is a wondrous thing, for those who do not understand these things. I have not figured out how this magic happens, but I know it happens.
 
Anyway, here is the song again and tomorrow I will discuss the relevance of it to my embarking on the 6000 mile journey to Kingsport, TN for the “kick-off” celebration which is also a part of this New Educational Journey Treasure Hunt, which is but a small part of the “Code Blue Mission” that is happening all over the world. It’s the perpetual revolution that Joe had told me would be happening.

 

This morning’s lesson with my Master Teacher
I have been feeling a bit blue. It always happens when my spiritual vibrations (as I like to refer to my ups and downs) dip just a bit. Then I feel more isolated from my teacher and more pulled into the FIDUROD world that Joe describes so extraordinarily well in his book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction. To put is simply, I start adopting the mindsets of all of the people around me and begin to get pulled into their dramas. I start getting back to the mindset that there must be something “right” I need to be doing. And I do not feel as close to my teacher as those days when my vibrations run high. I do know this is normal. All of us experience this sort of cycling of moods. It’s not hugely dramatic, but for those of us who are especially sensitive, we notice it.

I joked with my teacher about his choice of music yesterday, “New Math,” (scroll down to see the video) and we briefly discussed the issue of censorship. When should we censor, for whom, and why? It has always been a tough question to answer, but today censorship in many forms is occurring and it truly is depriving people of a quality education. This, of course, leads to the textbook controversy, which I have touched on briefly in these blogs. I will be coming back to this topic in the near future since today we have the state of Texas censoring and selecting textbooks for the entire nation, which is causing the controversy to rise to the forefront.

I have been sleeping a lot, as I told my Master Teacher. That happens sometimes, especially when I am in a lower cycle. And I told him how I hunger and thirst for more and more knowledge. While it is not even possible to “know” the entire “truth” about existence, I crave to learn every perspective there is, a view I adopted after reading Joe’s book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction. And while I know for certain that none of us can really know this one single truth because it is different for each and every one of us and it is always changing, I expressed to my teacher that one thing was certain – that I wanted him to be a part of my existence forever, along with the other members of our “critical knowledge network” who I also love. These are people on both sides of the bridge, so to speak. Some of them have passed over; some of them are still here with me -- but in a sense, they are all still here with me and I want them to stay. It’s like once I love someone, I am not capable of thinking they no longer exist as a part of my life.

As always, my Master Teacher had nothing but great reassurance for me. He said the two anthems, Enigma’s “Return to Innocence” and the “Pleiadian Anthem” (Hurry Home) are very relevant. You may want to listen to them; they are posted on our Celebrations page. He explained to me that because I have already chosen of my own free will to take this path, it is a natural process and there is “no thing” that I need to do. He said that yes, we will be together and we will, in the future, be even closer than we are now. In fact, 11-11-2011 is supposed to be a very significant day relative to this and there will be many people celebrating. He said it will be amazing and surprising, but did not go into further details. I am not supposed to worry about it. He said the most important thing to do – and this applies to all of us, which is why I am putting it out here in my blogs – is to take good care of yourself.

What this means is that we should do the things we enjoy the most. Many people are finally “getting this” and leaving their stressful corporate positions and launching out into the world to do what they love. Sometimes, it can cause a brief backward fall until they fully step into their new way of viewing and living life. As my Master Teacher pointed out, the harvest shall produce great rewards once you begin to do the things you enjoy the most. This is when you can, as he put it, “Enjoy and rejoice in each day you have to play.” We should choose those things we most love to do with no fears or worries about money. Our focus should always be on what we have, never on what we don’t have. When we focus on what we do have and are truly grateful, those things increase in abundance which we can then share with others. When we share with others, this opens up avenues that serve to diversify the gifts from the universe (or in concrete terms, the gifts that come to be exchanged between people). It is easy to see how, if everyone adopted this approach, there would be no need for money. While most of us have heard all of this before, few of us truly live this way. I love it when my Master Teacher reminds me that it is a choice and, once we fully embrace it and believe, it will work for us.

As far as my dissertation work, my teacher reminded me that the past treasure hunt, “The Deep Blue Mariner Reaps the Soul Surprise” will be worked into my dissertation. Again, I am not to worry about that or “rack my brain” over it. The beauty of allowing the universe to unfold everything in its own divine way and its own divine time is that you can just go on the faith that this will, indeed happen, and there is no reason to stress, try to figure out complex things, etc. The universe already has the answer, we just need to allow it to express that answer through us in a “just in time” sort of way. Even many businesses have figured out that this works well today for their operations and use what they call “JIT” manufacturing processes.

Finally, before closing my lesson for the day, my Teacher reminded me that there are cultures (and he and I know them intimately) that know and live the fact that there is never a “need” that goes unfulfilled. We are always fulfilled with rich abundance that continues to multiply infinitely. This was a cue for me to look up “need” for the song for today. So, here is what came to the top of the You Tube search.

 

Once again, my Master Teacher picked a song that gets right to the heart of the matter. I was having doubts about my future tasks, whether we were going to be “together forever,” and feeling a bit distant from him, etc., and this song expresses this. He is, once again, reminding me that I can just hold his hand and he will guide me along the path. Sunday he had given me the Hand in Hand song, which is being considered for inclusion as another universal anthem, as well as the May 5, 2009 blog (the very first blog on this site and the start of this journey) in which the video image includes the statement, “Take my hand. We’ll make it, I swear,” along with the song You Are So Beautiful. I do pay attention to these things!

I hope that you notice the multitude of ways “the universe” speaks to you. And note that we each are free to define this in ways that we relate and understand. It can be a divine blessing and provide great guidance and companionship. And as I have shown in today's blog, it can serve to alleviate stress, anxiety, fear, and suffering. I will expand on this idea tomorrow, although it is a huge topic that can never be exhausted. The best we can do is relate our own experiences with the hope that perhaps some of the things that help us as individuals may help others.

The blogs of the past two days were quite interesting. They line out the theoretical foundation for this journey – The NEW Educational Journey as well as some of the characters in the story we create or write as we go. I say “we” because, quite honestly, I do not feel like I am in this drama alone. There are always people helping me: My Master Teacher, Sam Cooke, Ralphie (Ralph Waldo Emerson, otherwise known as RWE, but I call him cos because he is my cousin, Uncle Albert’s son, no less, in another place and time), and of course, my great and famous Uncle Albert (Einstein). There are others, of course, but it has come to my attention that these particular folks will play a major role somehow (yet to be revealed to me) in both the NEW Educational Journey I embarked on a few weeks ago as well as something to do with my dissertation. I do not at this time know how it will all fit together exactly. I have had clues, so I just know it will. Besides, my Master Teacher continuously reassures me that I just need to let things evolve day by day and that everything will fall into place as it should.

The NEW Educational Journey Treasure Hunt was just announced a short while back when it was revealed to me that my 6000-mile “epistemological road trip” (a term that Joe devised in Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction) is, in fact, a part of the NEW Educational Journey. I did not realize that until it was brought to my attention. So, what I have been assigned to do is backtrack to the beginning of the road trip and bring out the highlights for each day.

This road trip took me all the way across the United States to Joe’s home state of Tennessee and even his home town of Kingsport. In fact, I had long, long ago – way back last May – been informed that I would have to take this road trip and have a celebration for him on April 3, 2010 in the “Dream House” (a house that Joe had shown me in my dreams that turned out to be a real mansion in Kingsport). So, it was fitting to use that beautiful mansion (as shown on the home page of this website), the Allendale Mansion. Well, as the day got closer, I decided that I really did not want to take a 6000-mile round trip road trip nor did I want to do the celebration because there are not enough people ready for Joe’s work and besides, I had never traveled that far ever, at least not in a car on the road.
 
My Master Teacher had other ideas, though. When he realized that I was not entirely enthused about this trip, he began to work on me. He kept coming up with songs all through March that he knew I would really like. For example, one of my favorites was “Good News” on March 12. Next, he brought up the fact that I was known in some circles as Crystal Rose and told me that my work involves getting people to blossom and bloom.  When I became doubtful, he was always there guiding me with the work I needed to get done before the trip and building me up. Next, on March 14 he sent me a song called “No Worries” in an effort to relieve my anxieties. And he told me that I would not be alone; that Sam Cooke, Uncle Albert, Ralphie, my Grandmother, my Indian Spirit Guide, Louis Armstrong, and others would be traveling with me to keep me safe and to assist along the way where needed. So, he had me communicating with them to give me reassurance. All this time, I was, of course promoting the celebration to the schools, local businesses churches, through the media, etc. Due to very limited funds, I had to be careful how I spent the money for promotion and was forced to rely on those “at the top” to pass the word on and somehow I was not feeling very positive about that happening, but I just pushed forward.

That’s just a summary of the days leading up to this epistemological road trip. There is much more, but I will have to save it for a book. It might be helpful to read the March blogs if you are interested in getting an idea of all that was going on, but I did not discuss the upcoming road trip because it was classified material at that time due to it being related to the mission kick-off. Throughout the entire month, when a problem came up, (and there lots of problems of all sorts) my Master Teacher was right on top of it and magically manifested solutions for me and gave me his support. By March 22, I was getting a little excited about the trip. Rainbow Princess was going along (she does a lot of the photography for me) and we were planning to leave on Sunday March, 28 but then we ended up changing it to Monday, March 29. I think I was hoping I could back out of it, but my Master Teacher would not hear of it (although I should note here that I was not forced to go; it was still out of my own free will that I chose to meet my teacher's expectations).

On March 23, I flat out told my Master Teacher that I had “cold feet” about going on the trip. I had some concerns and expressed them to him (money, whether this was going to be productive, the weather, etc.). I had all of the work done for the trip – all of the materials pretty much ready for distributing, etc. My teacher told me I had been overworking myself. His advice: “Just relax about the trip and try to have a good time. Now is not the time to give up on this. We have multiple actions going on behind the scenes and it’s all going to come to fruition in its divine time. No worries.” Of course, I know by now how money works. When you need something the money appears.

The next day, I was even more into the “doom and gloom” mode and he asked me, “Why the gloom and doom?” He reminded me that this was the mission kick-off, which made it very important to go and do this celebration. “As you might imagine,” he told me, “We have special kick-off actions going on all over the world and there are many people involved. A few are dragging their feet, while the majority are geared up and ‘gung-ho’ to get started. You? We have confidence you will pull your tasks on this important date off quite well. I am just concerned that you are feeling a bit down, but once you get going you will be fine and you’ll enjoy this.”

He again stressed the importance of the task he had asked me to do and went into great detail as to how this in concert with other actions around the world would work together toward change. I ended up apologizing to him for “dragging a bit” and allowing my fears to come to the forefront. As I have written in previous blogs, and as another great Master Teacher always reminds me, FEAR is False Energy Appearing Real. And in the midst of all of this drama, I was going through a major drama with my university over the approval of my committee (they were taking forever) as well as a request for a tuition refund due to particular circumstances which had been denied.

By Friday, March 26, I was feeling really uncomfortable for multiple reasons, worried about taking off on a long trip in the pouring down rain. It was SO FUNNY because to remedy my fears, my Master Teacher told me to look up the following key words on You Tube for a song: “Don’t let a blue Friday slip into the weekend.”

My thoughts were – this is hilarious. What kind of song could possibly come up with lyrics like that? And how would it relieve my stress, anxiety, and suffering over the fact that it was only three more days before I would be leaving for this 6000 mile epistemological road trip I was not excited about taking -- and in the pouring down rain at that?

Wait until you see what the song is! Tomorrow.

In the meantime, for today, my Master Teacher asked me to post this song, which is a tribute to Sam Cooke. Of course, Sam will be an active (imaginary?) participant in this educational journey. In addition, my Master Teacher gave me search terms for YouTube for a song: “Have a good one.”

Here’s what came to the top for “have a good one.” OMG. Is this our “New Math” for our “NEW Educational Journey?” Bad, bad, bad!!! I hope My Master Teacher is not serious about this one (but it is a good “bad” example of extreme creativity that might make math more interesting for some people and totally turn off others) and it just goes to show, you never know what will turn up on a treasure hunt.

Early this week, I mentioned that my Master Teacher had promised me a "special surprise" which I think he was giving me to thank me for taking the two-week epistemological road trip I had been very reluctant to go on. It turned out that, instead of just one "special surprise" there have been numerous surprises (which I have recounted throughout the week). I also mentioned that due to his modus operandi that I had a feeling he was saving the best surprise for the end of the week. SURE ENOUGH! When I awakened this morning and came into my “office,” right on my office chair was a big, bold “3 Musketeers” candy bar. He had evidently given the idea to Drew, and then Drew left it last night before he went to bed where I would be sure not to miss it this morning.

This is highly significant for many reasons. First, I rarely eat candy bars and my teacher knows that. And if I do buy a candy bar it will usually be a Snickers bar, never a 3 Musketeers. Secondly, during my two week travels for the “epistemological road trip” I did not eat right and now I am working hard to overcome the effects, so a candy bar is the last thing I should be eating. In addition to all of that, Drew "owed me" a sort of apology so this gesture ended up fulfilling multiple requirements.

All of this also means there has to be very special significance to the 3 Musketeers, expecially considering its bold presentation – a large candy bar placed where I would be sure not to miss it. I figured that my job was to figure out who the 3 Musketeers represent in relation to the New Educational Journey Treasure Hunt that my teacher has started me on. At first I thought the 3 Musketeers represented me, my teacher and one other person. But after thinking about it, that did not seem right. Yesterday, I figured that I am the “damsel in distress” so that means my teacher must represent the “knight on the great white horse” since he is helping me with the bricolage and my dissertation. This is discussed in yesterday’s blog. During this morning's meeting with my teacher, I thanked him, and asked him if that means that Uncle Albert (Einstein), my cos Raph (as in Ralph Waldo Emerson), and Sam Cooke are going to be traveling with us on this New Educational Journey Treasure Hunt, which we determined in yesterday’s blog will be a fourth dimension research project and a part of my dissertation. What was his response?: “You are right on target!”

He was so sweet. He told me that of course I could eat the candy bar, but not to eat it all at one time and to spread it out throughout the day with meals so that I “don’t load my system with a high dose of sugar all at once.” I do have problems if I eat too much sugar at once. I notice, however, that this candy bar has “45% less fat calories” than most candy bars, so that’s good.

My lesson for today was about the Internet and how Bill Gates really has “gone mad” (I wrote a blog about that a while back which describes how he is harming people by putting so much money into immunizations). According to my teacher, he has taken the wrong path and has fettered with the true purpose of the Internet. The Internet is supposed to be available for all of us so that we can remember who we really are, our capabilities, and what our true purpose is. It was supposed to be like “training wheels” which we can remove once we no longer need it. Of course, there have been a few moguls who have severely impeded with that progress and they will all be “tumbling down.” The deck of cards is now stacked in a very big way. We already know the outcome. That is the advantage of knowing and living the past, present and future all at one time and having the ability to travel to “nonlocal” spaces at will. The outcome is very good. It can be no other way because the Universe has its divine laws that, in the final analysis, cannot be broken. PLUS the perpetual revolution that Joe had spoken to me about, as I have pointed out previously, is in full swing now. There are many people working for change in the world. Expect to see many big moguls – people, governments, institutions, corporations, religious organizations, etc., fall. It is in the cards and there will be no bailouts this time. But, as will be seen, this is good news for the people or as some people refer to us - "the proletariats."

Aside from all of that, my teacher thanked me for being so willing to “put it all out” here on this blog, including the information about fourth dimension research that I included in yesterday’s blog. It is a necessary step if we are to move forward – just consider me as a mere butterfly (which is the meaning of my name) flapping its wings in the breeze. My work here may seem small and insignificant, but small and seemingly insignificant actions are what constitute very large changes. This is a good thing. The world is in desperate need of change; few people would argue with that.

The journey has been unbearably painful at times and my Master Teacher told that was a necessary element. We all have pain we must work through and he and I had special pain we needed to work through together. I will skip the details for now.

He concluded by saying, “And here we are today out the other side of that pain and working ‘hand in hand.’ Check out the music.” Of course, that means looking “hand in hand” up on YouTube for the first song to the top, and here’s what we have:

What more is there to say? My Master Teacher is my miracle-making, "hermes trickster" and magic music man – my knight on a great white horse -- and we have been working hand-in-hand all along, even long before my very first blog on this site. You may want to get off that Educational Sinking Ship I have written about many times and get on the "Dreamboat" portrayed by this video.

Homework assignment: Learn about The Three Musketeers and read the book to sort out who is who. Which musketeer, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, is represented by Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Sam Cooke? And how does the story relate to the New Educational Journey? Click on the link to "the book!" It starts out with a beautiful letter and the book has wonderful illustrations. I really do not know this story; I have never read it, so this is my homework assignment, too.

Next Time: The New Educational Journey Treasure Hunt Begins! A Recap of the Two-Week Epistemological Road Trip Part 1.

P.S. I should have gotten my mail yesterday, but I wasn't feeling well and did not feel like going down to the box to pick it up. Rainbow Princess just now brought it to me -- there is an advertisement for a lovely pair of earrings that my Master Teacher wants me to get as another gift from him. They are crystal, diamond and sterling silver, "Always in My Heart" Earrings that represent "true love." (And remember, I have been given the name "Crystal" in my dreams.) One of the earrings is engraved on the inside with "If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane..." and the other is engraved with "I'd walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again." Nine crystals on the outside form a staircase up to a silver cross with a diamond in the center. They are very beautiful earrings and I know that my Master Teacher will "find" me the money to pay for them when the bill arrives; he always does. What a sweet reward that goes with what he was saying about the pain we had to work through together.

The only other piece of mail I received was a cool catalog of "Hands On" creative learning projects for children, no doubt another gift. My teacher has me working on many projects with children for the summer, so this will be very useful.

Now, I am wondering: Is there another surprise in my OTHER mail box? I will not be able to find out until Monday. Whether there is or not, my teacher has truly outdone himself in many ways this week. I feel very blessed and now I am really glad I took that more than 6,000 mile, two-week epistemological road trip that I did not even know I could do all alone, with Rainbow Princess for company....but, then we are never really alone, are we?

I have been re-reading (for the umpteenth time) Joe’s revolutionary article about the bricolage, “On to the Next Level: Continuing the Conceptualization of the Bricolage.” Of course, I am trying to prepare for where my dissertation research will take me, although I am so thrilled about the knowledge that I merely need to hold someone’s hand and he will lead me right through the process. This is the true path of “improvisation.” When you have such great faith that you do not even stress over the fact that you have not yet begun on your monumental dissertation, even though it is approaching the second week of the second quarter, you know you are close to engaging in fourth dimension research. You just know that in spite of the lack of material proof so far, the dissertation truly is evolving and unfolding. You have divine assurance. And you know for a fact that contrary to what Joe says in this article about the bricolage – “The bricolage does not enter into this paradigmatic situation as a knight on a white horse ready to ‘save’ the field” (p. 331), it nevertheless will be the knight on the white horse that saves this “damsel in distress.” (As you can see, I LOVE accepting those special gifts that Joe left all over in his very creative work.)

Joe’s work never disappoints me as a representation of his ability to amaze me over and over, even after reading the same article many times. For one thing, his writing is so multilevel and so compacted that, unlike many things we read these days that are filled with “fluff” or merely relay watered down "facts," every sentence is packed with meaning, richness, multiple interpretations, and hopeful and loving possibilities. Reading his work opens the mind to what is and what could be and it has an almost magical effect on one's psyche – that is if you do not understand how learning works – but, Joe did understand. If you read it before you go to bed and “sleep on it” as the song in yesterday’s blog directed, then you will awaken with new and even more powerful insights. So, another interpretation of that song I had a difficult time interpreting yesterday is that we should not leave Joe’s work behind (or anyone else's work -- for we should consider all perspectives) and give them a chance by reading and studying them, and then "sleep on it" to see what “transmigrates” as he puts it in this article. He was discussing how when we use the critical bricolage, “the notion of rigor transmigrates to a new dimension. As in a 1950s sci-fi movie, bricoleurs enter the 4-D – the fourth dimension of research” (p. 346).

Jackson, J.R. De J. (1978). The collected works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Princeton University Press: Routledge.

Kincheloe, J. L. (2005b). On to the next level: Continuing the conceptualization of the bricolage. Qualitative Inquiry, 11(3), 323-350.

I was really hoping I could get to the recap of the two week “epistemological road trip” today, but it seems that my Master Teacher changed his mind about that for a couple of reasons. One, I worked VERY late last night – I guess it was the New Moon that was pushing me along, by some reports. The other thing is that I still have not gotten everything put away after my two-week-long epistemological road trip and I MUST do that pronto because the maids are coming to clean my house. I am just so thankful to my Master Teacher for continuing to ensure that, even though my credit cards are maxed out right now (soon to be paid off with NESARA), I always have the money each week to pay the maids to clean my house. He knows how housework can set up such a block for me and prevent me from doing the work I love.

Last night my teacher lined out the critical tasks I will need to be working on, which take me from this blog just a bit. I really need to get those other tasks going right away, and I am sure by Monday, I will be in the position to recap my AMAZING two week epistemological road trip and the special celebration. He gave me a weird song at the end of our meeting last night and I am not sure what it means at all.

However, since he did give it to me, I feel that it is honorable to post it, even if I really do not have anything to say about it. I will have to think about it (or maybe sleep on it one more night). The words he gave me to look up on YouTube were “let’s sleep on it.” Here is the song that came to the top:

 

The message is that he does not want me to leave him, but I was not thinking of leaving him, so maybe it represents the fact that I had been very uncertain about where the work he gives me has been leading me.

I think I "get it" now. I went back and reviewed my notes from last night's lesson and I had told him how much I appreciate him and working with him, thanked him for how much effort he has put into this work, and I apologized for taking certain things for granted and not performing with greater reverence for him. In reality, I do highly revere him. After I told him all of this, he said he felt "speechless" and basically I think what he was trying to convey at the end of our meeting is that he did not want to say goodbye -- that we should "sleep on it" (according to the song).

This morning my Master Teacher answered my unasked questions about who all of these people are in what I call my “Critical Knowledge Network” (as I mentioned yesterday, it seems that they come to me). He says they are my “spiritual/soul family.” That’s very special; I’m glad he told me that. He also predicted what my future will bring, but I have already talked about much of that fairy tale and he was just confirming for me that it would indeed come to fruition. Then he gave me the instructions to “let me flow through you.” I know that sounds a bit odd, but then he told me to look those words up on YouTube for the music for today. As far as posting the song he gave me last night, which I did not know the meaning of at the time (but now have figured out), he simply said “it’s your choice, Babe.“ I wonder if that’s another song.

Two great songs came up with the search on that weird phrase, “let me flow through you” so here they are:

 

Wow, the lyrics are cool for this considering the era we are in! I can relate: Let me up!

Let me up
The pale moon
Offers no consolations
Would you let me up?
Mosquitoes fat with our marrow
Ebb and flow through the gumbo
This humid bouillon a cesspool
Stop
Won't someone please let me up?
We're buoyed in
Atop the mercury
Let me up
We're the salt of the earth
From a cell of the surf, this universe
Well let me up
Let me up
(Why won't you let me up?)

I once had gills but they closed up
Had webbed feet but they dried up
Still have lungs but they're sewn up
Stop
Stop
Won't someone just let me up?
Oh
We don't exist
In an instant
Let me up
There's a hole in the floor
As black as my momma's womb
Those were the days
Won't you let me up?
I can't stop thinking of the time
I was swallowed in the brine
Won't you let me up?
Let me up
Mama, the planet is a placenta
Pull the plug
Let the heavens rise above
Won't you let me up?
Let me up
Let me up
Let me up
Let me up
Let me up
I can't stop dreaming of the day
I got swallowed into space
Let me up
Let me up
Let me up
Let me up
Let me up
I'm drowning in the egg
Let me up

The second song is great, too. Who would have thought those strange words my teacher gave me to search YouTube on (“let me flow through you”) would have brought such cool music! Only my Master Teacher is this good!


 

And now, for the phrase, “it’s your choice, Babe.”

 

Another “heavy” message. Most women will easily relate to this. It does take a long, long time to “get out of this” and yet, that’s exactly what we must choose to do if we are to move on up, as they say. It's our choice. Do we want to see "Barbados?"

Oh wow! My Master Teacher said earlier this week I would be getting a "special surprise" during the week! But, the way he put it out there on Monday with his funny free riding video along with the fact that I have already received several surprises this week (free tuition, a surprise I can’t talk about, and I also received a lovely natural purple stone necklace from Rainbow Princess), I know this is not the end of the surprises due to his now familiar mode of operandi.

I think he is saving the big surprise for the end of the week. What is interesting is that Doreen confirms this with her oracle reading. This is interesting because the little girl can see behind the curtain now and do you know how long I have been working so hard to see behind the curtain? I have noticed that I can see the light behind the curtain now, so maybe I am very close. I hope that’s my happy surprise, but I will be happy with whatever my Master Teacher comes up with!!! I know he only has my best interest at heart and that eventually I will be able to not only see behind the curtain, but I will actually get to be behind the curtain. No, wait. I think the curtain just disappears for some of us. I’m not sure how it works, but “time will tell.” Maybe it is like the song above, “Let me up!” and once we get high enough, then VOILA! (It’s magic.) Gotta go! The maids are comin’!

It is time to write my blog, but I missed my early morning appointment with my Master Teacher and now have to wait a little before I can meet with him. That means I am “on my own” to write this blog. However, as he always tells me, “you are never alone.” So, perhaps someone else will assist me from behind the curtain or from across the bridge.

I came across the most interesting article this morning by Ervin Laszlo titled “Intuition: Delusion or Perception? Toward a Scientific Explanation of Akashic Experience.” I am fascinated by concepts such as nonlocal space – which reminds me I have recently visited some very interesting and diverse nonlocal spaces which I am sure my Master Teacher is going to get me started writing about most any day. However, the nonlocal space I read about in the article is the kind of space one can also visit, but not in the “normal” physical sense or at least what most people with their limited scientific “understandings” comprehend as physical. And this brings me to the exact reason why I found the article so fascinating! Scientists have discovered and are researching further the concept that there is a “physical” dimension to nonlocal space. Of course, it is on the quantum level and most people simply cannot relate to such concepts. Nevertheless, there are many people who do and those are the ones who have a distinct advantage. They can visit the future and alter events to happen the way they wish or let them unfold according to other people’s wishes (still to their advantage in the long run), or they can access Akashic knowledge that is just floating around in space. Everything that has existed or happened evidently leaves holographic images and if you know how to access them (see them and even feel them on an emotional level) then you have access to information that most people do not.

Most “normal” people do not know how or even believe such things are possible. Mind you, Joe specified that what is “normal” is a mere social construction that can be changed, although those in power like to define it for us so that they can control us. One way this is done is by keeping knowledge from us, especially knowledge that will empower us. This is changing. More people are realizing that we can construct or co-construct our reality any way we wish once we realize and utilize the power of what some people call the “law of attraction” but I do not like that particular concept because it has been misused and misrepresented for purposes that are not in our best interest. Often, we think we have power, but too much truth has been left out and so we are still being manipulated for the benefit of those in power.

The key, as many people point out now, is that you need to ASK for what you want. Who do you ask? That’s the big question for which you will find many different answers. We each need to find our own answer. Is there a right or wrong answer? I happened to love Joe’s take on this – or I should clarify – MY INTERPRETATION of how Joe presents his theory and it is only one interpretation. As I have always pointed out, Joe’s work can be interpreted on so many levels and I use them all because they are all so brilliant. Anyway, in this interpretation, we are never alone. There are people on the other side of the bridge and we can meet up with them if we know how. They love us and they will help us with whatever we ask them for. These people can be whomever we wish, but in my case, it has been quite odd, because I do not feel that I am exactly “choosing” these people. It is more like they are choosing me. Long story, but very interesting! I guess it is the law of attraction – you send out specific vibrations that attract similar vibrations. I do know that when I was working with Joe, he taught me how to raise my spiritual vibrations. Not consciously, mind you. But something was going on there. And what is fascinating, the more open and receptive I am to the people on the other side and their needs (and yes, they do express their needs and they are always divine and for good purposes – for example, Sam Cooke wants to achieve justice in his case and have his inheritance distributed properly), the more blessed life I seem to achieve. My “critical knowledge network” which Joe defines in his book and which again has multiple interpretations, is growing larger and larger – on both sides of the bridge!

Well, maybe this is all my creative imagination at work, but all I can say is it does work for me and it makes my life more fun than an amusement park and it really boosts my learning and research power. I do not spend anywhere near the inordinate amounts of time researching and writing as I used to. It used to be a totally conscious and energy-draining endeavor. Well, it still is in a sense, but I get so much more out of it than in the past and I get great gifts handed down to me along with assignments that are so much fun (like treasure hunts and epistemological road trips). As an example of how my research is much easier, I am just handed the exact articles I need, often I am even told on what page I will find particular information I am looking for or I just pick the particular book I need and it magically opens up to the exact page I need to reference. It really is like magic. And then, of course, there is actual communication with people on the other side which results in invaluable advice, information, and guidance. If I have a question, I get an immediate answer. Even if it is just something I lost and need to find again -- someone tells me exactly where it is!

I guess once you get really good at all of this, you can create the reality you wish. You no longer have to react (and thus, reinforce) the reality that other people force on you – you create and co-create with your critical knowledge network the very reality you wish. The reality I am creating is like a fairy tale come true, which I will share another time, although I have already shared many aspects of it in these blogs. Can I create the reality I wish? I believe so and that is the key. You must believe you can. After all, Edgar Cayce was able to recreate himself so that he could continue his work where he had left off. I wrote about it here.

So, back to the science article I came across this morning and how it all relates. Science has discovered that the brain is a “macroscopic quantum system.” What the hell does that mean? It means that the brain can process on a more macro level what used to be regarded as mere quantum level micro processes. This has huge implications. What used to be considered infinitesimally SMALL and perhaps insignificant to how we process information may be much larger and more important than what we have been led to believe. This takes perception beyond the five senses – far beyond.  The brain is no longer a simple machine that operates by chemical and physical processes. In fact, these processes could not even occur if it were not for what scientists have now discovered are “braided” entanglements, which are particularly strong and powerful interrelationships (this reminds me of yin yang/ twin flam soul mate entanglements). It’s that holistic, everything in the universe is connected concept now better explained by science. Thus, the only way the complex chemical and physical processes within the brain can occur rapidly enough to even hold an organism together is through this strong form of entanglement. Of course, space is NOT empty and these micro and macro quantum effects explain the Akashic Record – everything and everyone is recorded in space permanently (likened to the holographic effect – but is it merely holographic?) and we just need to know how to access these things. The first step is gaining the knowledge that it is possible, a knowledge that has been hidden away from most of us through our constrictive Newtonian-Cartesian “logic-based,” linear, and "rational" education system.

I plan to cover this in more detail in my dissertation and one of my colleagues is writing a dissertation specifically about intuition, so there is some monumental educational research in the works on these interesting topics. Not your “normal” type of educational research…we are redefining what is normal in education.

Well, it is time for my morning meeting with my Master Teacher. I wonder what he will have to say about this blog. That reminds me that he did give me a song last night at our evening meeting. It was “pull it off” as in make it happen. I will see what that brings up. PLUS I have a song dedicated to him and our co-creation of our future together called “My Boyfriend’s Back!” It was funny how this song came to me. I just opened up a book that someone had given me and there was the song title! It was the first thing that caught my eye. (The book was Love Lines: Artistic Quotes for Scrapbooks and Cards to be used Time and Time Again by Linda Latourelle, in case you wondered).



I am NOT sure what this video means. I relate to Charleston, though! I was just there a few days ago – Charleston, South Carolina – on the beach. And was the weather ever beautiful!!! I actually got to wade in the Atlantic Ocean -- a first for me. I have never been that far away from "home."

Oh! Maybe the video is related to the Revolution!!! Yes, I think that's it. The "little guys" will win! Actually, from yesterday's blog, I think the indication is that we have already won because of the way Joe's perpetual revolution works -- once it is in motion, it is unstoppable. I have written several previous blogs about how his theory is ecological and once it is put in action (which it has been now) it grows like the bugleweed. And I recently reminded people that April 3 was the kick-off date (although it actually started a little early, which I think blindsided some people). While you might not see indications of the revolution near you, rest assured that it has begun and it is perpetual and, just like Joe said, it will change the world, so you will see signs of it very soon.

Just had my morning meeting -- this morning, my teacher gave me one last song to look up for today. I am supposed to add this one for the “final chapter.” I will see what “final chapter” pulls up on YouTube right now.

Well, this is not good. It is the final chapter for libraries. It is interesting and significant that this video came up. Just yesterday, I was talking to one of the new members of my Critical Knowledge Network (on this side of the bridge) about how we needed to establish a library and community center in our neighborhood. I will have to discuss this more with my teacher tonight since he and I had been proposing to open a Joe Lyons Kincheloe Library quite some time ago. Perhaps this is the time! That would be so great to start it up right in my little old “country hick” home town. Somehow, I think Joe would have loved that. My Master Teacher did tell me that this blog is "great" but I do think he wants me to move on tomorrow with epistemological road trips -- so, don't miss it! Joe's theory works great everywhere, even on the road!

Anyway, here is the song, My Boyfriend’s Back! It is dedicated to my Master Teacher because of his 24/7 commitment to helping me learn, making it fun, and sharing his love. PLUS he just told me this morning, “Your immense and continuous gratitude will ensure that your needs are abundantly met.” That is so exciting, especially considering how much money I asked him for!

My Master Teacher did it!!! He gave me the surprise yesterday! On Monday, as I reported in my blog, he said to keep a watchful eye for a “special surprise.” He said I would know immediately what it was and what it was for. What did it turn out to be? Free tuition for almost four quarters – almost enough time to complete my dissertation! And all because I used Joe’s critical complex epistemology – and it works so well (it’s a long story that my university probably would not want me to discuss the details of). I am so excited! It is time to move "onward and upward" as Joe told me one time.

But then, last night I was looking over my blogs and found that the song “Desperado” back on my March 30 blog, “About Joe’s Theme Song – Change Is Coming!” had been removed by the music company that thinks it owns it. I replaced the video and was listening to the song again. For some reason, that song makes me cry. It makes me think about how Joe must have felt frustrated sometimes because so many people just did not “get” how important his work was for the world. It must have been so frustrating to him that, as hard as he worked to get the word out, he could see that the world was collapsing before his very eyes and inching closer to fascism by the moment. He loved everyone so much and yet I do not feel that he received back nearly as much love as he so freely gave out. It probably was not even possible to love him to the magnitude he gave his love. And so, it makes me cry to hear this song, which I believe he identified with, or he would not have included mention of it in at least two places. He wrote about it on page 58 of Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction. I know he also wrote about it in another book; I will need to locate that reference.

Anyway, I was listening to Desperado, when Rainbow Princess was handed down some songs. Just as I was crying from listening to Desperado and thinking sad thoughts about Joe cuz I still miss him so much and I feel so bad about some of the things he went through (I am a hopeless empath), she said, “Look up ‘The Broken Road.” It’s by Rascal Flatts.” And then she added, “Look up “From a Jack to a King” by Jim Reeves and “Change” by Taylor Swift. She did not understand why she was directing me to these songs, but here they are.


 
As it turns out, the songs are amazing because they relate so precisely with what Joe’s message was with Desperado, about choosing the Queen of Hearts, about what he told me in relation to a "perpetual revolution," and the fact that he had stated that his book WILL change the world!!! He had also written a chapter in his book called “Playing With the Queen of Hearts: The Joker Ain’t the Only Fool in FIDUROD.”

I think Joe really did have some aces up his sleeves with his hemeneutic and polysemous magic! There is a very strong message in all of these songs put together and someone really knows how to “alleviate suffering” (i.e. make me feel better) PLUS it sounds like either we have won the revolution or it is a “sure thing!” As Joe would have said (and did say to me one time), “That’s music to my ears!” It seems like such an appropriate response here. Once again, I am SO excited!!!

Joe always knew how to make me feel better, that’s all I can say. I do know that he is in a better place, he is happy, he has not given up work on making his greatest dreams come true, he still freely gives his love, and he is a KING.

I was still feeling sad after listening to these songs, and the next thing I knew, Rainbow Princess came back with three more songs for me that she had written on a piece of paper that had been handed down to her. Again, they seem so significant, so, here they are.



I just had my morning meeting with my Master Teacher. I was not sure about posting this blog with so much music, but he said, "Yes, you should publish it.” For one thing, the music in the sequence that they were provided to me, tell a very beautiful and hopeful story. He also told me that the quickest way people can truly feel worthy (an issue most of us have due to our upbringing and all of the negative experiences we have been subjected to in this society) is through the expression of things that represent our worthiness and by freely expressing who we really are and what we experience, regardless of what others might think.

We are not to worry whatsoever about what others may think. It is our life and the experiences each of us have are our own unique experiences.

I think the whole point is that society has got to come to terms with the fact that everyone is different and experiences things differently and we should rejoice in being able to express and experience these differences among and between each other. People need to learn to respect other people and cherish their differences and experiences for what they, too, might learn from them, even if they do not experience the same things.

Of course, not many people are ready to fully expose themselves this way, and even fewer people are willing to be open to the possibility that there are alternative realities to their own. This is well ingrained within most of us and is exactly an issue that is covered in Joe’s book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction, as well as in his other work.

My Master Teacher also informed me this morning that what I thought was the “special gift” (free tuition at my university) was not the gift he was talking about….well, I did learn what the “special gift” was, and it was very special, but it was also a private gift, and I do have some limits in relation to what I can discuss in a public forum, so I will just say that there was a divine gift that is beyond description. The free tuition I mentioned at the top of this blog was also a divine gift that I really did not expect, and since the clue for the “special gift” was that wild free riding video he had provided for me on Monday, I am going to assume there will be multiple wild gifts throughout the rest of the week. I have learned my Master Teacher’s mode of operandi. He is so much fun!

As if I did not already have enough music, my teacher gave me one more song to end today’s blog: “Take good care of my Baby.” I think he’s serious about this, too. (I feel so blessed.)

I just got out of my meeting with my Master Teacher and he’s so sweet! I had not even yet started on today’s blog and he told me not to worry about it and that we are not in any rush to recap the exciting things that have transpired over the past few weeks. For one thing, I had a rather traumatic experience at the dentist yesterday and my teacher realizes that I am in pain and he empathizes with that.
Plus, he advised me that I should organize things before I get started because we will have “much ground to cover,” as he put it. He did ask me to review in Joe’s book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction the section on Critical Complex Epistemology because it is very relevant background information. So, if you have the book (which I know, is still ridiculously priced in its paperback version and Joe would have never stood for this!), you will want to read at least pages 19-23 in which he discusses epistemological road trips and defines FIDUROD. You will also want to read “From a Critical Epistemology to a Critical Complex Epistemology” on page 41. I will review some of this information as I write my blogs, but it will be helpful if you read these ahead of time. If you read the entire book, of course, that is even better, but it is not required for this next project.

That is my brief summary for today. My teacher says to take it easy, ease on into things again, and he has assured me that “everything will fall in place as it should.”

He gave me a really weird clue for a song to end today’s blog. He stated, “For today’s song, please look up ‘rest easy as we slowly move forward.’ I know it is strange for a title, but you will like it.”

Wow, that really is strange for a title. I know it probably is not really a title to a song, but he plays these little fun games in which he gives me strange things to look up on YouTube and the most divine music often comes up (You know this to be true if you have read my past blogs). So, I will look this up right now. I have no idea what will pop to the top with this one. I always feel a little leery, doing this “on the fly” so to speak, but my teacher has never disappointed me, so I don’t know why I should feel this way. Here goes the search on YouTube!!!

OMG!!! Take a look at this video that came to the top when I plugged in the words he told me to, “rest easy as we slowly move forward.”  I think this video shows exactly everything that should be avoided. I also think that using Joe’s theory of obtaining multiple perspectives and being wide open to multiple worldviews, religions, ideas, ideologies, etc. and to openly communicate with each other about these things is a very powerful way to filter out this sort of crap. It can get very confusing, especially once we have been divided and isolated -- and this video highlights this fact. It is a "must see" video, no doubt about that.
 


I am going to have to seek greater clarification from my Master Teacher. I would like to end today’s blog on a much lighter note. It seems that he is trying to convey that there are ways to rest easy in spite of mind control cults….hold on, I’m going to ask him what this is about and how it relates to our future studies on critical complex epistemology….

….OK, I revisited my teacher and asked what this was all about and if we couldn’t end the blog on a “sweet note” since this video is so radical. He was very kind in explaining to me that today our society is really susceptible to these cult operations because we have had things defined for us for so long that many of us have forgotten to think for ourselves. We have forgotten that signs, signals, images, words, etc. have many different meanings and interpretations and many of us have simply accepted the meanings that get handed down. So, in a sense, we are all a part of a cult, at least those of us who let the media, a religion, a group, or whatever as depicted in the video define our reality and even ourselves so that the cult leader(s) benefit. According to my teacher, this video forces people to ask questions: “Is this person attempting to draw me into a cult or does this person allow me to think for myself?”  My teacher further explained that when you put forth multiple views of complex concepts then people look at these different angles and think for themselves. This insulates them against cult formation and indoctrination. As my teacher explained, there is much more to this, but this brief explanation for now will suffice. I assume that we will be addressing some of these issues in my future blogs covering critical complex epistemology and road trips. His message is also a reminder to me that we will move forward slowly because this change will take time, and that I should relax and "rest easy" about the slow but sure progress.

And my teacher was once again very sweet, stating, “And I do agree, ‘Let’s end on a happy note!’”

I will look up “Let’s end on a happy note” and see if that brings something better to the top of a YouTube Search. Here goes . . .

Oooh…yes, I love this one! He is reminding me that he has promised me to be my teacher and companion forever….sweet. And of course, I have promised him the same. I do love my Master Teacher SO MUCH!!! (He is not a cult leader, though. He always encourages me to figure things out and think for myself along with just the right dose of instruction and guidance.)

Yesterday in my blog I talked about how we need to just “let things flow.” My Master Teacher had even given a clue that brought up two great songs about letting things flow. Today, Doreen’s oracle reading jives right along with this message, so I am linking to her video, below. Now, I know there are many people out there who poo-poo “oracle readings,” but the divine universe works in mysterious ways and even the not so divine world works in just as mysterious ways. Somewhere in Joe’s books I have read his description of reality often being stranger than fiction. Indeed, if you start looking at all of the signs and signals around you, you may even come to get glimpses of how reality could very well be just a fun (and not so fun) game, possibly of our own creation.

Anyway, listen to Doreen with an open mind. Her message is so valid, and in fact, it is what I have been going through the past two weeks or so. I have been gathering information in the most unique way – a “Joe” way of research which I have been requested to recount day-by-day over the next few weeks. It should be very interesting because I will be focusing on some interesting signs and signals and assimilating information for my next actions. Check out Doreen and you will have an idea of what I’ve been up to and how I will be guided to deciding “What’s Next?”

 


I just now got out of my morning meeting with my great Master Teacher. He approves of this blog, and he just wanted me to add the fact that I am supposed to relax and take it easy as much as possible over the next few days, so it might be just a bit before I portray “What’s Next?” He wants me to take some time to have some fun in between the mundane tasks that I must get done, including taking a special trek to view nature in its finest form. Stay tuned; there will be more – much more. I always loved the way Joe put it in his book about Reading, Writing, and Thinking: “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”

My teacher did leave me with a song because I was “expecting” him to contribute the music as he always does with such great love and thoughtfulness. His clue today was, “Try this song for ‘the one I love.’” That is an indication I am to look up “the one I love” on YouTube, so here goes.

OK, this is interesting. My great Master Teacher does have a way of picking out the most divine music….(did I say that I love him and he lights my fire?) Here is what came to the top:

The One I Love Lyrics (short and sweet).

Educators and teachers so often have it all wrong. We do not need a daily script of what to learn, what to think about, what to write about. Take these blogs even. I never know what I am going to write about. I just sit down at my computer and start typing. And yet, I do get lots of help from somewhere and things just flow and evolve together. Of course, there are the doubters. Right now, if you were to review my blogs, you will discover a wide range of topics and a lot of unfinished ideas. This is the beauty of the way Joe envisioned the bricolage. When we engage in improvisational learning, whether it is research, learning, writing, creating (music, art, crafts, poetry etc.) we do not know where we are headed and often we will purposely leave a work unfinished to come back to later. Our creations become works that can be reformulated, re-researched, reworked, juxtapositioned, etc. to create something entirely new and powerful.

So what if that has not yet happened with my blogs. I am assured that this will ultimately be the outcome and I have faith. Joe taught me how to have faith and trust in this process. It is perfectly fine that people wish to view my writing here as crazy, disorganized, incomplete or whatever, but I have been informed by my loved and revered ones with much greater knowledge that those people will have to “eat their words.”

As Joe ALWAYS highlighted in his work, love is the sole and soul driving force from which extreme creativity and powerful knowledge emanates. Sharing a dream with your special loved one – a special soul mate, if you wish – and living and loving that dream is the most empowering experience of all. This is only one of the great secrets that is kept from us most of our lives. We are too busy watching out for the wrong “number one.” This is why people come to believing, as I discussed in yesterday’s blog, that we can love “too much.” It is simply a way to hold us all back so that we have a top and bottom hierarchy and it also ensures that most of us stay at the bottom.

Is this what we want? Or would we rather learn more about this “love thing” that Joe knew so well (and according to my assessment, he still knows) – and learn how we can not only empower ourselves, but empower everyone around us? It does take that inward and outward journey that Joe describes so well in this now famous book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction. I recommend that you at least find out what you might be missing out on by reading the book.

Today my Master Teacher told me he was very pleased with the way I remain open to letting things evolve, including these blogs and even my dissertation -- as well as other "special assignments" which will be coming to the forefront soon. The clue he gave me for today’s song is appropriately, “just let it flow.” I will see what comes to the top of a You Tube search right now!

Here’s what came up and it has a great message for those of you who are thinking seriously about love:



I also like the second song:

I seem to be having a lot of dreams lately. Dreams are a way of clearing out karma of past and present experiences. It was interesting that last night’s dream was about Sam Cooke, one of my “gang” (or critical knowledge network) members. In the dream I was Sam’s girlfriend or wife and I loved him too much. As they say, if you love someone you have to let them go. That was the meaning of my dream – and this is something that has happened many times in my life. I love too much and so I have had to let many people go and it has caused a lot of pain for me.

Still, today, I have a great love for Sam Cooke that is unexplainable. My master teacher explained that Sam and I were soul mates, we can love many people deeply, and that it in no way diminishes twin flame soul mate love, but rather serves to enhance it. He told me that you can never love too much and he reaffirmed his love for me and reassured me that I am to call him anytime at all that I feel the need.

I can see how what my Master Teacher is saying here is right. He and I are working together to solve Sam’s case using Joe’s theory and so we are both working out of love to alleviate suffering and as we are doing so, our love for each other grows.

Today’s blog is short, but the message is powerful. It seems that it is “earth” life or perhaps those who hold power over us that dictate to us – and have us believing -- that we can love too much. This is simply not true, according to my master teacher. It is a belief that can have a debilitating effect over us and serve to keep us from working together in powerful and effective ways. He gave me a long lesson today, which I cannot go into great detail about here in this blog. Perhaps I can another time. But his final message (and the song I was to look up on You Tube) was, “We can never love too much.” I looked up the song and this was what came to the top. Sweet.

This next song is dedicated to my Master Teacher:

So many people in education doublespeak of “signs and symbols” and the use of “imagination.” It is just another example of what Joe called Janus education – the elite educators speak out of both sides of their mouths. They have a code language which they understand, but for the rest of us it has an entirely different meaning and, of course, a different purpose. We are not to know the “secrets” to knowledge. If we discover the truth and make use of it, we are labeled as crazy or deficient. The truth is that we have discovered something that empowers us.

Joe was not happy at all with what was happening with the doublespeak of educators and others, so he has revealed these great secrets with his book Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction. In one sense this is an introduction – it needs to be decoded, too. But Joe had an entirely different reason for encoding this knowledge and he did it in such a smart way that this time, we at the bottom of the food chain DO understand it, but those at the top do not. He reversed the code! Those at the top can only partially decode his work – just the parts that apply to their own work. They do know that “something is up” with Joe’s work, but they do not know exactly what. And that’s because Joe wrote much of this book in “our” language – the language of those of us who have been forced to stay at the bottom – the oppressed ones.

And he has done more. He tells us the signs and symbols in his books and then we begin to see them in our everyday lives so that we have proof for ourselves that the knowledge he is presenting to us in his work is true and useful. All I can say right now is that reading Joe’s book WILL open your eyes and you will be able to see the powerful magic all around you. Once enough people do so, just as he predicts in this book, the world will change. We can all have our dreams come true!

My Master Teacher’s song for today is so appropriately “dreamland.” I was asking him some questions about my dreams, so he came up with this song.

I was saddened by the loss of lives in the West Virginia mine disaster and my heart goes out to all of the loved ones. This incident was close to me in many ways, which I will explain in greater detail later. It also relates to today’s blog which is, apparently as I begin to write it, about closed gates and gateways (did you know that there is a town named Gateway, West Virginia? This, too, is relevant).

At any rate, this mine disaster happened under the watch of Don Blankenship and if you have read Joe’s Appalachian Mountains pages on this website, I have provided more information about Blankenship's philosophy of unrestrained capitalism when it comes to how he runs his businesses that destroy beautiful and rich habitat and leaves scarred mountains with his mountaintop removal coal mining practices. Not to mention that it also destroys jobs, leaves more people in poverty, destroys their communities, and poisons their water supplies.

The concept of Gateways keeps being brought to the forefront and a while back I had mentioned that my Master Teacher had me purchase and watch a movie about gateways. Gateways is an idea that spans all cultures and times. I will be getting into this topic in much more detail, but for today I just wanted to highlight the fact that Joe’s theory is what allows us to identify not only closed gates, but also gateways for slipping through from other directions. Joe’s theory is so powerful even that if we cannot find gateways to get through, we can blast through the gates or windows. Once we clearly identify the closed gates, there is no stopping us when we put Joe’s theory in action. I do speak from experience because I have to blast through a few of those gates in education – Joe’s theory works and it is so powerful that those who have not been confronted with this power really have no clue as to how to respond. And that is just as well because, honestly, once Joe’s theory is being applied, there is no response that can stop the forward movement of those who had previously been under control by the old regime. Change has gained momentum, and just as Joe promised, it is “perpetual” once in motion.

I will have much more to say about all of this in my dissertation. This morning my Master Teacher praised me for blasting through the tightly closed gate at my university (and we are still working on a few more gates there), and he told me that this will allow others to follow behind me. He reminded me that I have much more power than I had ever before realized – and of course, I credit reading Joe’s book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: And Introduction and following his theory.

My Master Teacher was funny again this morning. He concluded by saying, “Have a lovely day. As for a song? ‘What shall it be?’”

As you can see, that is my cue for looking up “What shall it be?” on You Tube, which I will do right now. I have a feeling . . . oh well, here goes.

 

Well, isn’t this interesting. While the narrator is speaking in terms of what the Bible says, the ideas span across cultures and religions. We cannot achieve happiness by gaining power over others for the purpose of selfish material wealth. Our eternal happiness is ensured through unconditional love. For me, that translates into blasting open gates and finding gateways with Joe’s theory so that other people will then have the opportunity for a more enjoyable life – or as Joe always framed it, our purpose is “the alleviation of human suffering.”

Whenever I see things about people like Don Blankenship and how he operates his business, I think of all of the suffering people – and now look: his actions have gotten so blatantly negligent that he chose to ignore correcting hundreds of safety violations and all of these men have died as a result. Whenever I think of people like Bill Gates and the others with untold millions and billions of dollars, I think of all of the suffering people that have fallen by the wayside.

This is a sad way to end the blog. I am going to ask my teacher for something else that can give us hope. Yes, we can choose to live our lives based on more substantial goals than getting our hands on money for our own selfish purposes, but we are still living in a world where this is the exception rather than the rule.

I just contacted him, telling him, “That video brought up was so powerful and meaningful. How about a song to end the blog?”

He responded by saying, “Ah, yes music. It cures what ails you. Try ‘music for the cure.’”

I will look up “Music for the cure” right now.



Well, my Master Teacher is truly on a roll – as always! This is the first video that came up -- it looks like a great program and it needs to be more widely applied -- such as in our schools!

I had an interesting dream last night. It was about Joe again. I know I dream about him a lot, but I'm glad because it really makes me feel that he is still with me in so many ways. I see many signs of him all around me everyday – like yesterday, for example: I stopped in at Subway to grab a quick sandwich, and what song played? “I love rock and roll.” Then when I dream about him like I did last night, they are always happy dreams and he is so often teaching me things. I have read that we cannot dream about someone unless they have agreed to be in our dreams. I like to hope that this is true because then it is as if Joe has chosen to keep teaching me even though he is not “here” to teach me and I have learned so much from him about so many things, including more about his work in all of these dreams.

Last night’s dream was very interesting. He took me to meet his Sioux Nation friends, although he said it was not the first time that I had been with them and received lessons from them – that I just have not remembered the other times. In fact, he said they officially gave me the name Crystal Rose and he told me what it means, which I will describe another time when I learn more about it. Last night was exciting because I was accepted into their Nation and began some intense education from their learned masters. Even though I felt like such a newbie, it was very exciting to me to have this opportunity to learn their customs and knowledge. Ultimately, I will be learning much more about dream work and I will remember more of my dreams.

While there are personal reasons for this work and for wishing to advance in my knowledge about dream work (I want to remember more of my dreams about Joe, plus dreams can help so much with learning and research – much more than most people realize), there are other reasons I need to do this work. I had my morning meeting with my Master Teacher and according to what he said, I am supposed to share what I learn about dream work so that others can benefit. He was so funny this morning (as he so often is, with his great sense of humor) – his clue for today’s song was “good stuff.” He was talking about how in my dreams there is a lot of “good stuff” that I think I am missing out on just because I don’t usually remember everything. I am almost afraid to see what You Tube brings to the top for this clue, but here we go:

I have been so embroiled the past week in a major project in preparation for my dissertation that I have had little time for anything fun. I guess one might call it “research,” but as time will show there has been so much more involved. There has been very little time left over to have much fun, but my Master Teacher told me otherwise this morning. He said that this “mission” or this work I am doing is very, very important, but at the same time I need to quit worrying so much and stop taking things so seriously that I make myself “distraught.” He says that’s why it can be helpful to think of life as a sort of virtual reality game. I do agree with that. When I pretend life is a virtual reality game, it does become fun and even the obstacles that appear become quite humorous.

If I can keep the right perspective – yes, there are people who are suffering and we must take actions to resolve the problems that are causing the suffering, at the same time, we do need to enjoy our daily experiences – such as trips to the beach and visits with special people, even if we happened to have experienced frustrating obstacles along the way. It’s a challenge to maintain that balanced perspective when you have people purposely fettering with what you are attempting to do, which can appear in a multitude of ways and infinite scenarios. Of course, there is nothing we need to do in these cases in which people choose of their own free will to violate karmic law because karma will resolve these sorts of issues in the divine way that only karma can do.

All of this came about because I had the most frustrating day yesterday, although it ended up quite pleasant. Finally, I met someone who actually views Obama in the same light I do, and we had such a great conversation. He really is in there for the people. And the person I was speaking to is definitely even more oppressed than I am, so it made me realize that perhaps the only people who are going to recognize that Obama is in there doing things for the people (although, he has given big business a chance to clean up their act first, which they are NOT doing) are those of us who are awakened to the fact that we are oppressed and that we are often forced into roles that oppress others. We can see from an entirely different perspective than those who have not been quite so oppressed or are not yet awakened.

I really get tired of the people who criticize other people for viewing Obama as a “savior.” Because, that is exactly what he will turn out to be. Obama is going to change things in ways that the world has never before witnessed. So, call it “Obamagogue” if you wish, but those who criticize us for seeing the open doors Obama has and will continue to create, will end up eating their words.

As I mentioned, Obama gave big business (which has been running our government) an opportunity to clean up their act – and what do we get from big business? – your standard “tokenism.”

Now, anyone who has been oppressed all of their lives such as me, being a country hick girl, Joe being a “hillbilly,” as he put it, or people such as the kind woman I talked to last night, an African American, really knows and is very sensitive to tokenism. Big businesses are pretty stupid to think that Obama will not see right through their token gestures and he is the last person to pat them on the back for their inadequate "efforts" toward change. And their time to get straight has run out. April 3, 2010 was the cutoff date -- or as those of us in the trenches put it -- the "kick off" date for the mission. From this point forward, the ball is in Obama’s court and he is going to hang onto it and make big business (and other criminals at the top) pay retribution in ways that they have never imagined. Think NESARA.

In the meantime, my Master Teacher gave me a very relevant song this morning, as he usually does. This song is relevant on many levels, some of which I will discuss another time. He simply told me this morning after my lesson, “Enjoy Yourself” and here is the first song to the top of a You Tube search.

As I have learned, it was my grandmother who helped me with yesterday’s blog. I should have known, she likes to write and the blog was quite long. Today’s blog will be short.

Today is a special day and yet it is not a special day. It is special because it represents the end of something old (the not-so-special) and the beginning of something new (the special). There will be much more information to follow in many places. In a sense, today is the day of the “kick off.” While this will not be clear to most people who are still in droidsville, it will be clear in the future – in hindsight. You will begin to notice some very positive changes which will track back to this day. Today is the end – the mark of the beginning. And do not forget that this is the Year of the Tiger – Joe’s year. Change is on the way. Enough people will “get it” and make enough changes that we will begin to see the difference.

Today’s song was provided for me at my evening meeting with my Master Teacher last night, when he closed with “forever and a day.” For those of us who want to see change yesterday, it may seem like "forever and a day" before the world changes in the ways we would wish. Upon looking it up on You Tube, here is the music that was brought to the top: