tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79049822012-02-16T13:54:22.903-05:00Joseph Riggio's personal blog site ... outpourings on the MythoSelf(tm), NLP, Hypnosis, Communication, Consulting, Coaching, Community, Culture ... just about any damn thing Joseph's thinking about ... and of course, "... then there's ..."Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1131298398415465952005-11-06T12:33:00.000-05:002005-11-06T12:33:18.490-05:00

In response to Joshua at mythoself-tm@yahoogroup.com Re: Warrior-Magician-Lover-King and the Neurobiological Development of Becoming Fully Human ... [Considerations of Magical Models, The Neurobiology of the Magical Child and Joseph Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey”] Too bad you missed the most recent module of the Mytho2/8 program in the UK I think you would have found it fascinating. I developed an

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1131206216353369142005-11-05T10:56:00.000-05:002005-11-05T10:56:56.936-05:00

In answer to Sarah on mythoself-tm@yahoogroups.com: “Very few people have their emotions, most people instead allow their emotions to have them.” I’m going to layout a brief description of the way emotions are considered in the MythoSelf® Process model, without going through the technical details below. The basis of the model resides in the Soma-Semantic™ model which is a form of physiological

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1130254490730981092005-10-25T11:21:00.000-04:002005-10-25T15:14:35.870-04:00

Howdy all,I heard recently from a friend that I'm displaying a pattern of "philosophical density" in waves ... on ... off ... on ... off ... and so forth. The comment was preceded by an acknowlegement, correctly stated, that my tendency can be to become entralled with an idea and pursue it almost obsessively, yet in doing so leaving some folks behind as I've left behind what seems to be the basic

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1129823703856587072005-10-20T11:55:00.000-04:002005-10-20T11:55:03.916-04:00

Folks, I want to remind anyone who’s reading this that I DO NOT propose any kind of “Truth” or “Truths” (note the upper case “T” if you will), just suggestions for your considered consideration. Essentially these are all “models” and as such barely shadows of the “Reality” (again note upper case “R”) they point towards. Models are designed to allow us to consider specific aspects of “Reality”

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1129689047077271302005-10-18T21:22:00.000-04:002005-10-18T22:30:47.136-04:00

So some of you actually made it through or at least past that last blog of mine ... the good Dr. and all ... Grave(s) material as I've said before.Yet another good doctor friend of mine likes to remind me that it's always best to go back to basics ... and so we shall.Let me begin by recapping very briefly (this will be the only hard "stuff" I promise - then comes the easy stuff, i.e.: very

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1129565697936444182005-10-17T12:14:00.000-04:002005-10-17T12:46:51.000-04:00

This is the posting you’ve been waiting for ... Join the Evolution!!! Applied Behavioral Technologies Institute | PrincetonTools 4 Conscious Evolution Enter your Email Good morning to everyone (in spite of what time zone you’re in or when you might be reading this ...),Consider this a wake up call if you will. I’ve been pursuing an idea on this blog for some time now regarding the ideas of

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1129218843226027362005-10-13T11:54:00.000-04:002005-10-13T11:54:03.276-04:00

Howdy folks, Last we met I began opening a topic I consider to be of the greatest possible concern to the unfoldment of the world as we are currently experiencing it today. Way back when, as early as 1959 and fully presented by 1970 in his major published article, “Levels of Existence: An Open System Theory of Values” in The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Fall 1970, Vol. 10 No 2, pp 131-154,

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1128708015356252912005-10-07T08:56:00.000-04:002005-10-07T14:01:34.890-04:00

'afternoon,(I'd have said "Good Morning" but I'm getting started later than usual today with this - I'm presenting a free teleseminar tomorrow at 2:00 PM - EST and I've been busy getting the word out so to speak - if you're interested go to: Beyond Hypnosis ...(tm) you can get all the information there.)So anyway ... here we are again in (not so) sunny NJ and I'm still contemplating the same

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1128603830320313392005-10-06T08:18:00.000-04:002005-10-06T09:03:50.390-04:00

Hello all,I linked the title of this post to another blogsite "Waiter Rant" that has a particular posting that is enormously connected to what I've been putting out there, and it's also really well written ... I recommend a read ... and while you're there take a look at some of the replies as well ... good stuff.A friend of mine on another list I operate - MythoSelf(tm) at Yahoo Groups - posted

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1128517914775703422005-10-05T08:23:00.000-04:002005-10-05T09:11:54.820-04:00

Hello again all,It's been an interesting few weeks, I promised to come back this week ... and even that got bumped ... kinda like things that go bump in the night. It's really been like that a bit ... things coming out of nowhere that have been really impacting me and my thinking.What's most interesting is how subtle it's been. We're not talking about major life changing revelations that rocked

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1127914968285712782005-09-28T09:28:00.000-04:002005-09-28T09:42:48.313-04:00

Hello folks,I do hope some of you are still tuned in ... I know I've taken quite an hiatus, but a lot has happened. When Katrina hit the Gulf Coast I was also personally hit by a storm of similar magnitude ... but my storm was an internal sweeping away and flood. So it's been rebuilding time for me and that's where I've been.Today I'll just give you a quick insight with regard to the last month's

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1125439730194188272005-08-30T13:31:00.000-04:002005-08-30T18:08:50.246-04:00

G'day all,Some of our compatriots here at home in the U.S. don't have a home any more thanks to Katrina, which at various times was a category 1-5 hurricane and at this moment downgraded to a tropical storm. It landed in Florida, then crossed the Gulf of Mexico to hit Louisiana and Mississippi. There's been loss of life and the most material damage ever caused by a storm in the U.S. in recent

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1125337769053285912005-08-29T13:49:00.000-04:002005-08-29T13:49:29.106-04:00

Hello again ... from deepest, darkest Princeton (it’s not really true, the sun is shinning and it’s a beautiful day ... but it is deep and dark in other ways), I was reading an article about King Mswati III of Swaziland getting ready to take a new wife (Number 13) from among 50,000 dancing virgins clad only in short skirts and doing their best to attract his attention ... G-d only knows how that

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1125174356722152662005-08-27T16:25:00.000-04:002005-08-27T16:25:56.780-04:00

Hello all, I hope my hiatus from writing has thrown anyone off kilter or out of contact ... this week has been mucho hectic ... much more chaotic than I’d thought it would be. My wife often tells me that I’m overly optimistic about how long things tend to take (erring on the side of under) ... and this was a classic case of proving her correct (although she needs little confirmation about this

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1125068361760545992005-08-26T10:59:00.000-04:002005-08-26T10:59:21.833-04:00

Howdy folks, I do apologize for going missing this past week ... I got a little blindsided. We moved house from Ridgewood to Princeton and it was a bit of chaos for the past four days. The boxes were over our heads from Monday until today ... and my computers just got hooked up the internet yesterday so that I could check into my mail ... stacks of it!!! I haven’t been able to get my blogs up

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1124710307432437022005-08-22T07:31:00.000-04:002005-08-22T07:40:51.640-04:00

Hello all, I’m expecting today to be an intense one in NJ – first of all we’ve been watching the weather do its best to reach 100 – degrees and humidity (percentage – for those of you in “dry” climates) - kind of typical NJ late summer weather, yet somehow even after forty plus years of “expecting” it is catches me my surprise every time. “It can’t be this hot and humid, can it ... what are we

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1124461334168380832005-08-19T10:22:00.000-04:002005-08-19T10:26:06.203-04:00

Mornin’ All You All, The days are getting cooler, or at least it’s cooled off a bit ... here in New Jersey. I’m preparing for my move down south (and west) and the packers are packing as I’m sitting here writing ... so it will in fact be happening. That makes it damned hard to get all the things done that are a’looming on the horizon of my attention and calling to me. But I’ve have decided to

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1124404576695601672005-08-18T18:10:00.000-04:002005-08-18T18:36:16.773-04:00

G'day mates,Here I am in the West looking East - and at the same time those in the East look West. It seems this is the nature of things all over the globe. Today's news is no different.What do you all think of the Israeli withdrawl from Gaza? Should they, would you, if you were them - any of them what would you be hoping for next, could you - would you - should you trust your neighbors - friends

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1124287088065478892005-08-17T09:58:00.000-04:002005-08-17T09:58:08.110-04:00

Good Morning from a Cool and Sunny NJ, Busy days here in NJ ... at least for Moi. Sorry about the “missing blog” yesterday (for those of you keeping up on a daily basis). I’ve been moving myself from a Ridgewood location to a Princeton location and yesterday was a moving day. Had a bit of help from two of the boys ... Louis and Joshua ... THANKS AGAIN GUYS! ... and we humped it all day long. The

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1124118458292964822005-08-15T11:07:00.000-04:002005-08-17T19:50:04.273-04:00

Hello all,Welcome back after the weekend off `;-> While you’ve been playing, sunning, sleeping ... whatever ... the world’s been happening. Israel moved forward on removing people from Gaza (with some protest by the Israelis as expected), Iran has pull one nuclear enrichment site “off the table” while offering to discuss yet another with Europe, right here in NJ Phil Mickelson leads in the PGA

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1123857819716701102005-08-12T10:43:00.000-04:002005-08-12T11:10:17.046-04:00

[NOTE: Response on mythoself-tm@yahoogroups.com in response to the Social Ontology blog at www.blognostra.blogspot.com – simultaneously posted in both forums. - JSR] Robert, Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; I must admit I don’t “get it” ... a lot of words and little point. You the “master” of “simplicity”

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1123774500259510642005-08-11T10:48:00.000-04:002005-08-11T11:35:00.306-04:00

The idea of communication is pervasive. That is the idea that we are communicating. Yet, how often is it that we are truly communicating? Well first of all we'd have to agree about what it is that communicaiton is, so let's start here shall we? Communication - com-mu-ni-ca-tion (n) 14th century1. an act or instance of transmitting2. a) information communicated b) a verbal or written message3. a)

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1123691474707560702005-08-10T11:43:00.000-04:002005-08-10T12:31:14.760-04:00

Howdy,Just curious before I begin "officially" ... how many of you out there are reading this and listening to my audiocast as well, I'd love to know. And, while you're at it would you mind dropping me a line about what you think of them ... either or both??? THANKS!Now "officially" ...Of course I've ordered the book ... if nothing else the guy knows how to market his stuff - after all he's

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1123594903795890312005-08-09T08:33:00.000-04:002005-08-09T09:41:43.846-04:00

Good Morning from NJ,When I'm in NJ I somehow always have a sense of being more "grounded" - that somehow this place is more "real" than some other places I've been to in my travels. It's not that those other places physical features are any less 'Real," it's a function of the "attitude" of the place. In the sense that I'm using "attitude" it a kind of pervasive thing, a gestalt of perception

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1123512898818284612005-08-08T09:58:00.000-04:002005-08-08T10:54:58.850-04:00

Good Morning Monday!We'll must say that I am amazed. CNN has a lead story about something positive that's happened ... the Russian Sub that was entangled in some cables some two hunderd meters below the surface off the eastern coast of Russia in the Pacific Ocean was freed and the crew rescued. That's simply amazing ... both the story and that a major news network ran it "as is." (They tried to

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1123256501476838022005-08-05T10:52:00.000-04:002005-08-05T11:43:14.493-04:00

One of the most significant aspects of being human is the "social" aspect. I put social in quotes because 1. I want it to stand out, and 2. I want to adjust the meaning of it as I'm using it here. This is a convention I use often in my writing, to define the terms I'm using, or using in a special way. What I often find is that people use language in a particular way, or to convery a very specific

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1123179364080985232005-08-04T13:41:00.000-04:002005-08-04T14:16:04.150-04:00

The Chinese have won! We do live in interesting times. The question of course is whether this is a blessing or a curse. I'll let you decide ...Following the thread I'll share with you a story of Al Qaeda ... but first I'll go back a step or two before taking a few more forward.A few folks have suggested to me that I somehow sent a message that Hawaii is a more "enlightened" place than elsewhere

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1123081921641527322005-08-03T10:16:00.000-04:002005-08-03T11:12:01.690-04:00

Good morning - once again from the Southern California Coast,(Remember we could be vacationing in Hawaii ...) I'm feeling much better this morning for two reasons ... I got yesterday's post out ... of me and onto the screen, and I didn't read or listen to the "News" this morning.This idea of the "News" is an interesting thing of course. On a basis of "what's out there" (in the world proper) it's

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1123023025354656162005-08-02T18:12:00.000-04:002005-08-02T18:57:35.626-04:00

Good afternoon from Sunny Southern California,How are you doing today? How the hell would you know of course without asking anyone? This is the clear message that most people in "modern, Western" society (see my recent postings here on Blog Nostra for definitions) are living under. That they can't possibly know anything without finding out what they think, who they are, what's real or anything

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1122907132580181412005-08-01T09:49:00.000-04:002005-08-01T10:38:52.623-04:00

Mornin' ...An interesting thing I observed years ago ... probably when my son was a tot - oh, fifteen or so years ago now - was that for children it's always a beginning. Literally, where ever they are it's a beginning, or has the potential to always be one ... the beginning of something. What's so unique about this is how people typically lose this experience as they grow older. What occurs it

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1122824815936679942005-07-31T11:14:00.000-04:002005-07-31T11:46:56.006-04:00

Hello again,It's now tomorrow and the biggest key in getting something done is getting started. I said that I might not be writing daily, but I also said I'd be writing consistently and often. Knowing what I know, I know that the trick in building a muscle is using it ... and if there's going to be a significant output here it's going to be like building a muscle ... using this forum as a point

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1122745230376469702005-07-30T12:59:00.000-04:002005-07-30T13:45:37.726-04:00

Howdy all,It's been more than six months since I've blogged ... it feels like a confession to say this ... however it's true.The reason has been I haven't felt strongly enough about something to write about it regularly on this blog ... BUT NOW!Those of you who give a damn will find that I'm going to being laying out here a new platform for the work that I do and the foundational basis (and bias)

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1103827010801146472004-12-23T13:34:00.000-05:002004-12-23T13:36:50.800-05:00

23 December 2004 Howdy all and happy holidays, I know that for some of you it’s better put … Happy Holi-daze … because this time of year really sets some people up for being dazed and confused for sure. The mere act of coming into proximity with so many others can be reason enough for some people to become unsettled in themselves. Yet what’s more interesting can be the lack of

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1101908976528646842004-12-01T08:49:00.000-05:002004-12-01T08:49:36.526-05:00

Hello again fellow blogers … and blogees, It’s a rainy day in Jersey (New Jersey that is …) … a perfect day for contemplation … for those people who do that sort of thing I guess … but not too many of them live in New Jersey. You see if you live in New Jersey … and have since you’ve been a child, and now you’re an adult you’ve demonstrated beyond any shadow of a doubt that

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1101400576199477492004-11-25T11:04:00.000-05:002004-11-25T11:36:16.200-05:00

Well it been ... well forever since I last blogged and I'm Jonesing for a good blognation about now ... so here it is for anyone who's still out there. For those of you who aren't up to date on our quaint American customs today is Thanksgiving Day 2004 ... and I'm in Vermont spending it with my wife's brother and his family ... as well as my wife and daughter of course. Jason (my son) isn't up

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1093021780617270092004-08-20T12:47:00.000-04:002004-08-27T13:17:42.110-04:00

Coming out seems the thing to be doing in New Jersey it seems these days. Our grand governor has done just that in the past week ... and of course we can expect all the dirty laundry to follow. While I'm not fan of McGreevy's I can and have said that no one's personal history can withstand glaring scrutiny. Put most simply ... I believe everyone has a skeleton or two ... (maybe even three) ...

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1092887243430341482004-08-18T12:44:00.000-04:002004-08-27T13:19:42.726-04:00

The most thing evident this afternoon in New Jersey seems to me to be how utterly self-absorbed I am most of the time. I mean I almost never get out of thinking about the world the way I think about it. Now while this may seem utterly obvious to most of you ... it nonetheless holds great relevance to me ... not an epiphany exactly ... but more like an "Uh-huh ..." as opposed to an "Ah-ha!" No

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1092696462296296572004-08-16T18:46:00.000-04:002004-08-16T18:50:15.173-04:00

I hear from my colleagues and clients in the U.K. the "new" season of the Sopranos has begun for them over there. This season is actually last year's season to us, but nonetheless is their new season of the show. So even though I know what's going to happen I'll keep my mouth shut ... it just seems so appropriate for that show anyway. You know they film much of that show not far from where I live

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1092376583878497052004-08-13T01:42:00.000-04:002004-08-13T01:56:23.876-04:00

Well, if you’re still with me after that last one then we can talk ... The essence of what fascinates me as I said last - the “Work.� Its essence ... the mystery. Somehow, most likely a product of my generation, I was awoken to something, let’s call it an idea in the very early 1970’s - ‘71/’72 – and began thinking about something beyond the edge of my experience, my very world,

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1092273604114285742004-08-11T20:43:00.000-04:002004-08-12T01:37:54.493-04:00

This "Work" I've been and remain engaged in that I call the Mythogenic Self Process or MythoSelf(tm) for short ... continues to hold my fascination. More and more as I engage in and enter the depths of this work I come to expand the realization of what I've been initiated to and undertaken for myself. One interesting point of my personal search ... the process of "finding myself" as I

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1092095183407717082004-08-09T19:45:00.000-04:002004-08-09T19:55:50.680-04:00

As I'm tooling around the whole bloggin' world I'm thinking that there has to a be a purpose that connects the whole thing together ... something larger than ourselves that contains us, supports us, nurtures us and even gives our lives meaning ... and yet doesn't constrict, condemn or control us. Those of you who are familiar with my banterings know I'm referring to what I call ... G.T.S. .. or

Joseph Riggionoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904982.post-1092065156940776672004-08-09T16:45:00.000-04:002004-08-09T14:39:22.763-04:00

"... this is a test ... this is only a test, had this been a real occassion something surely would have happened ..." So there you go about it ... a new fangled way to reach out and touch someone ... blogging. In some ways it couldn't be easier to say something ... whether or not you've actually got something to say ... and in another way ... why would anyone want to read another thing coming

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