the past week has been interesting because I am moving in a more spiritual direction and as Steve said some time ago that I was cramming for finals.  There is no doubt that trying to reach beneath my ego.  I have been listening to the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle and it has and a greater effect on me than last year and the year before.  More and more committed to search for nonverbal communication.  I am searching for some of the problems in ego through my experience in AA and now more recently in my church.  I plan on going to a three-day retreat to Conyers Georgia in the hope of finding more about what is inside of me it is worth saving and what is inside of me that I need to blow away before my goodbyes.

I made a commitment to Fr Jeff that I would offer my services as a coach for those suffering mental health problems and particularly problems with addiction.  He accepted my offer and so I move ahead.

I will continue to seek participants for the supportive person group process workshop and to the list of issues under investigation the phenomenon described in the book Blink called adaptive unconscious.  He describes in a more vernacular fashion the power to think without thinking.  This is the interaction that I hope to demonstrate within the two persons within the group setting were in support of each other.

addendum

There will be a meeting of SPGP on March 1st Sunday at 3 PM. Both Karen and Gary believe we should have at least one more meeting because to them at least it went well last time. I am willing to be embarrassed if this is a stale message. I very much believe in what I am doing.
What this group may do for you:

1. help go beneath your ego to a richer level of interaction with people
2. Find that there is non verbal presence in this group but you have to be "in it" to feel it.
3. find that you can not only be supportive without a lot of words but you can experience support from another person in a new and refreshing way.
4. develop the experience of having someone "at your back"
5. realize that this group does not require a professional of any kind
6. I hope that you experience the Balance that this method offers.

to name a few things............but approaching 82 I am pumped up but hopefully it is not my ego doing the pumping.

Although I have been reading Eckhart Tolle for several years some things are just drifting into my awareness.  Although the supportive person group process is designed to attenuate or dampen the effective the individuals ego and group, I did not really appreciate the implications that Tolle makes in the Power of Now until very recently.

    Based on Gary and Karen's recommendation I am going ahead with another session at the Alachua Presbyterian Church on March 1 at 3 PM. on reflection I do believe that the supportive person group process is a good thing to promote.  For one thing it should be free and should be able to function without any professional leadership.