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THE WAY of Intelligence
No. 26 The
Basics of THE WAY of Intelligence, a Talk by Rhondell; Small Business Primer; A
Fable, The Corporation; Life's Word Now Available at amazon.com; The
Three-legged Stool; Manipulating Attention (Food for Thought); Listing of Our
Websites; The Four Forces & an Example; Super-simple Picture of Man;
Super-simple Picture of Man in Conflict; Picture of Man as Designed to Function;
Picture of Man, The Way of the World; THE WAY of Intelligence Reference Pages;
The Pit, & an Experiment; Latitude Chart; "The Fours"
No. 25 What's Going On in the World
Today & How It Really Applies to Us; Role-playing by Rhondell; Notes by Rhondell;
Bulletin Board; Nothing Is Important--Check It Out; Super Simple Picture of Man;
Super Simple Picture of Man in Conflict; Picture of Man as Designed to Function;
Picture of Man, the Way of the World; The "Fours"; Picture of Man in Charge of
Suggestion; Postcard from Life; Awareness Feels the "what," X Does the How;
Mailbox--"Good & Evil"; Rhondell One-liners
Fall 2008 No.24 Pronoia by Rob Brezsny; List of Our Websites; The Four Forces; Axioms by Rhondell; Wisdom Wall; Picture of Man as Designed to Function; Picture of Man--The Way of the World; The "Fours"; Who Is In Charge of My Attention?; Picture of Man Choosing What to Value; Misc. Excerpts; New Address
Summer 2008 No. 23 The Four Forces; Quiz: Four Ways of Man; 19 Points to Understanding Human Beings, Rhondell; Picture of Man as Designed to Function; Picture of Man, The Way of the World; Reference Pages--Fours; Alternatives to the Four Great Games; Words of Wisdom; A Temporary Purpose of Living; Use It or Lose It; Mailbox; Listing of Websites; Picture of Man As Guest at a Big Party; Picture of Man As a Guest Who Doesn't Know the Answers to the Four Great Questions; Bulletin Board.
Spring 2008 No. 22 Mail Truck; The Four Dual Basic Urges; Laughter, the Best Medicine; Up the Down Staircase: Regeneration; The Four Forces; Playing the Victim is Hazardous to Your health; The Four Great Questions & Possible Answers; The Four Great Games; The Four Ways of Man; Listing of Our Websites; Can't Stand Up & Sit Down at the Same Time: We Live in What We Radiate; Picture of Man Free to Meet Challenge; The Living Cycle / The Vicious Cycle; Picture of Man with the 4DBUs as Purpose of Living; Picture of man.
Winter 2007 No.21 Gratitude, Rhondell; Picture of Man in ThanXgiving; Excerpt from the Research Project on Gratitude; The Four Forces & Gratitude; "Not-I and Not-Now"; Four Questions; Four Great Games; Four Dual Basic Urges
Fall 2006 Thanx, Life; Bedtime Story, Rhondell; Vibration; Exercises; Sneaky Influences; Poem, J. Barrow; Power of Tone, Rhondell; Inbox; Fun with Perception; Picture of Man & Vibration; Nature of Reality; St. Teresa's Prayer; Jokes; Bulletin Board
Summer 2006 Assignments, by Rhondell; Bits & Pieces of School Work, by Rhondell; Wisdom Wall; Chat Room; Guest Column by Tom Colucci; In Box; List of Our Websites; Picture; Prayer, from Zena; What Is the Obstruction to Transformation? by Rhondell; Bigger Picture; Bulletin Board; Reference Pages
Spring 2006
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Addiction, Part I, by Rhondell; About the Understanding of I, by Rhondell;
Chatroom, Mailbox, Good News Story, Bits & Pieces from School Work by Rhondell,
Finding a Teacher, What's Not Seen? Bulletin Board, Expanded Reference Pages.
Winter 2005--Light,
Love, Laughter--Life
Light, by Rhondell; Advantages of Getting the Mood Up; Laughter, by Rhondell;
Jokes; Guest Columns by Dr. Neil Fradkin and by Tom Colucci; Books, Movies, Cool
Sites; ThanXgiving.com; Chatroom; Love, by Rhondell; Influence, by Rhondell;
Wisdom Wall; That Mona Lisa Smile; Bulletin Board; Reference Pages
Fall 2005
About the Understanding of I, by Rhondell; Wisdom Wall; Guest Column by Holly
Robbins; Chatroom; Mail Truck; Wisdom/War, by Rhondell; Bulletin Board; Bits &
Pieces, by Rhondell; Rise & Shine, by Martina Auger; Reference Section
Summer 2005
Con Job; Rhondell, on Opposites, and on Reporting; Chatroom; Sioux Legend; Jokes
& Quotes; Guest Columns by Helen Turley and by John Barrow; NAMI (&KTMU); "The
Program" excerpts; Think, Act, Feel; Thank you! Reference Pages
January 2005
Letters from Rhondell: Action, Ideals, Not-I's, the Purpose of the Teaching,
What do I need?, "Why?" & "What?"; The 9-Step Journey; Real Knowing; Nuggets
from the Internet; Ascending/Descending Feeling Tones. Diagrams: The Vicious
Cycle, The Living Cycle; Ideals & Disappointment; Guest Column by John Barrow,
"The Birth Story of New Man"; Reference Pages
September 2004
Language; Condensed version of "The Place of Language" by Rhondell; Not-I
Village; Reference Pages
February 2004
Primer on Love; Sexuality, by Rhondell; Quotations on Surrendering; Chapter 8
from "Life's Word": Awareness & Union; Mary's Jar; "He praises me and I praise
Him..." by Ibn al Arabi; The Picture of Man with Eros as a symbol of function;
Reference pages
June 2003
Sanity Island; Coffee Shop; Worry/Joy; The Picture of Man; The Four Forces;
Definitions of some terms used in THE WAY of Intelligence; Book Review, "The
Roots of the Self"; Picture of Man Diagrams: A Challenge Met to My Advantage*
and Meeting Challenge with Conflict*; Reference Section
*These two diagrams had to be reduced to fit and are not very legible. Click
below for larger, clearer diagrams:
A Challenge Met to My
Advantage
A Challenge Met
With Conflict
May 2003
Shock & Awe; Chatroom; Notes on Evil, Depravity,
Ignorance; Interesting Idea about Boredom; The Picture of Man for Warmongers;
Reference Section
January 2003
Living THE WAY of Intelligence; Chatroom; Reporting; Rhondell on Evolving;
Rhondell on Transformation; Healing; Dr. Bob's Fresh Salsa Recipe; What happens
when you turn your inner state over to others; Expanding Awareness for Fun &
Profit; Picture of man "The Money Game--Investing Division"; Reference Pages
November 2002
Two Worlds, by Rhondell; Four Great Games; You Can Determine How You Feel; You
Can See Differently; No Need to Change; Ending Bondage--When?; Using
Intelligence; The World Reflects How You Feel About It; Good Book Excerpt, "A
Movement and a Rest" by Larry Underwood; Reference Pages
July 2002
More on the Picture of Man; What and Where is "Truth"? Aspects of Man; All
Life has a Function Going On; Definition of Pain; Definition of Nondisturbance;
Rights & Privileges; Recognizing Privileges; Decisions Usurping the Real Self; A
Truth One Lives By Is Not Bad or Good, May be Inappropriate; Personal Truth Can
Become Obsolete; Don't Assume this Material, Check it Out; Q & A; much more;
Reference Pages
NOT July 2002 (previously mislabeled
here) May 2002
The Picture of Man, Part Two; Frame-by-frame Drawing of the Picture of Man,
taken from the animated, narrated video at
www.pictureofman.com; Picture of Man workshop
by Rhondell: Aspects of Man, All Life has a function, Rights & Privileges and
How We Turn Privileges Into Rights; Institutions & Dependency; Definition of
Pain; Duality = Disintegration; Can't Add New Truth to Old Truth; A Truth One
Lives By Is Not Bad or Good, May be Inappropriate' Beginning the Work; X Does
Everything; Ancient Schools Now Degraded; School of Magic; Book Recommendation;
How Energy Is Like Money; Religious Feeling; much more. Reference Pages
March 2002
The Picture of Man, Part One. Frame-by-frame drawing of the Picture of Man,
taken from the animated, narrated video at
www.pictureofman.com; Picture of Man Workshop
by Rhondell; Conclusions We're Unaware that We've Made; "X"; Function;
Environment; Awareness; Feelings, How We Really Are; The Master Decision;
Transformational Thinking; Not-I's; Seeing X and Awareness as Partners; more.
Diagrams: The Vicious Cycle and The Living Cycle; Reference Pages
Missing Page 8
(replaces duplicate page 6)
January 2002
Long transcript of a Rhondell workshop about esoteric schools. THE WAY of
Intelligence--Journey into the Light.
November 2001
ThanXgiving, by Rhondell (Ideals, How to Be Capable, The Only Human Problem,
Terrorists & Warmongers, Suggestion, Conclusions, Perpetual Change, Saving the
World; Motion--Holding, Returning, Destroying, Creating; Worrying, What Can I
Do? and more); A note about September 11; Reference pages
July 2001
The Party Story, by Rhondell; Reference Section
May 2001
"Smile--You're On Candid Camera" (Self-remembering); Chatroom; A Story by
Rhondell: The Four Ways; Plagiarism? (Isaiah's Job); HealingHandBook; Reference
Pages
March 2001
The Picture of Man; Words of Wisdom from Rhondell: Adaptation, Authorities,
Discomfort & Peace, Self-acceptance, Thoughts & Thinking, Competition, Unevolved
Man, Evolving, Wanting to Know, Sentimentality, Problems, Disidentifying, Having
a Calling. HealingHandBook; KTMU & NMAI; More on the Vicious Cycle
January 2001
(First Issue) Introduction to THE WAY of Intelligence; Picture of Man--The Way
of Ignorance, Picture of Man--The Way of Intelligence; Definitions by rhondell
of some words used in this material; The Four Forces; The Four Dual Basic Urges;
Short excerpt from "Knowing How To Know" by Idries Shah (for sale from Harmony
Workshop).
Awareness Journal
Fall 1992
The Map; Worker's Tool Box--Role Models; The Picture of Man Diagram;
Standards, Ideals and Taste--Fault-finding; What's Going On Here?--Current
Events--Suggestion & Fact; The Vicious Cycle--Adaptation; The Picture of
Man--What Am I?; Not-I Page--Erroneous Decisions; The Picture of Conditioned
Man; Contrived Resistance--Who's In Charge of Your Inner State of Being?; What
Is My Purpose--Insatiability; Ancient Text Deciphered; Book Reviews: Travels
with Dr. Death, Revelations, The Book of J, Lost in the Cosmos--The Last
Self-help Book; The 4 A's--Experiencing Freely vs. Wallowing in It; What Can I
Do?--Practical Work; The Four Dual Basic Urges; Q & A; Where Am I?; the
Spell-checker joke; Caution--my definitions of "masculine" and "feminine"; The
Four Forces
Spring 1994
Forums (Chat Rooms); Mail Box: An Experiment; Craps, You Lose, Making Friends,
Fear, Plans, Buttons by Jonathan H., FTE, Feelings, Beeping Awake, Self-knowing
AND, Out of the Mouths of Babes, Promotion, The Human Experience; Beliefs,
Suggestions, the Four Forces; Conflict--"Problems"; Leah's Page--Love; Four
Types of Love; The Picture of Man--Miracle of the New Man; Book Reviews: The
Fifth Child, The Chosen, Hinds' Feet on High Places, The Magic Monastery, Sacred
Eyes, Extremes "Reflections on Human Behavior", God's Laughter "Man & His
Cosmos", The Female Ancestors of Christ; Awareness--Discovering "Femininity";
"He/She" Picture of Man; What's Going on Here--War, Brutality, Victims;
Living/Dying In the Midst of Violence Pictures of Man; The Trip--Parable of the
Pilot by Jonathan H.; Being Responsible--A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard;
The Four Dual Basic Urges
Winter
1994
Growing up; Picture of Conditioned Man; Reaction/Response; Forces;
Harmlessness; Suggestion; Violence Debate; Fun; Method; Mysticism; History of
the Material; Grace; Addiction to Not-I Thinking; Contemplation; BalancING;
Discipline; Friends; Forgiving; Think, Act, Feel; Female Chauvinist Piggy?
Increased Necessity; The Remover of All Difficulties; Pumpkin Parable; 2nd Force
is Essential; Worker's Tool Box--Get a Grip; Love; Predictability; The Four Dual
Basic Urges
Summer/Fall 1995
Role Playing; Diagrams: Unconscious PLAY of One's Life, Conscious PLAY of One's
Life; The Four Forces; Something Interesting about Pyramids; Reaching the
In-between, by Claudia; Who Is God?; Some of My Friends' Work; The Chain of
Command by Rick L.; Gifts from the Magi; Reflections from Bob T.; The (Really)
Big Boys; Book Reviews: Say I Am You--Rumi; A Woman's Book of Grieving, How to
Argue and Win Every Time, The Immune Power Personality, Illuminata, Wherever You
Go There You Are; Mail Box; Remarks about the Oklahoma City Bombing; Words of
Wisdom
Winter 1995
A personal note regarding the passing of Rhondell; Mail Box; How do I STAY
awake? Loving; Conditioned Others; Wake-up Tools; Ignore Not-I, Not People;
Reporting; 2nd Force--Real and Contrives; What Is My Purpose?; Pains in the
Neck; Baraka; Doing the Work; Some Things Are None of My Business; Letter from
Robin F. Parable from Bob T.; The Four Dual Basic Urges; Relationships--Xmas
Blues & The Work; The Four Forces; Cartoons by Bob T.; Christmas Card; Bulletin
Board
Winter 1996
Self-knowing; Diagrams--The Picture of Man, The Picture of Conditioned Man; The
Four Dual Basic Urges; Natural 2nd Force and Contrives 2nd Force; Mail Box;
Buzzwords: "Karma"; Spiritually Correct Bedtime Stories; Book Reviews
More issues coming soon.
Sophia, Creating a
Soul--Wisdom Journal
1990s
This newsletter is THE WAY of Intelligence as seen through the lens of "The School of Romance," using art and literature as it might relate to the principles. Sophie was written for women, though eventually the mailing list was nearly half men (all of whom requested to be added). It is a specific point of view, and not to everyone's taste.
Number 1
Creating a Soul; Picture of Man with Properly Function Awareness or "Soul";
Wither Thou Goest: "This is the time of tension between dying and birth..." from
T.S. Eliot, "Ash Wednesday"; Excerpt from "The Book of Wisdom"; Remembering
Wisdom; Picture of Conditioned Man; Cover Story ("Eros & Psyche" by Canova); The
Four Forces
Number 2
Why "Sophia"? "He & She" Picture of Man; Cover Story: Life is the Lover,
Awareness the Beloved; Ballad; "She'll Walk Till She Finds Him"; "He praises me
and I praise Him..." Ibn `al Arabi; The Motherless Child; Erroneous Decisions;
Creating a Soul; Picture of Conditioned Man; The Four Dual Basic Urges; Second
Force; Bulletin Board
Number 3
Picture of Man; Angels; Quote from Psalms; Angel Stories; The Four Dual Basic
Urges: Botticelli Picture of Man? The Four Forces and the Removing Angel;
Commentary on Angels
Number 4
Recognition; Reality "The man in the bed and the lady in the chair must suffer
this event, but in reality it is almost nothing."; Listening and Discovery and
Service; A Meditation on Eve; "`Twas a long parting..." Emily Dickenson; Mary's
Journal--"Goodbye"; Picture of Conditioned Man: Mary with 7 Devils; Mary
Purified of 7 Devils, Reunited with Her Beloved
Number 5
Process; The Map; The 9-Step Journey; The Four Dual Basic Urges; The Four
Questions; The Four Forces; The Four Ways; Mail Box; Eve's Apple; "He/She"
Picture of Man; The Tree of Life; Wisdom; "If she is..." by Linda Solomon; What
is "She"?; Picture of distorted, perverted "feminine aspect; Picture of fully
developed "feminine" aspect; Helpers on the Journey; Instructions for Meeting
Your Guardian Angel; Interesting Quotes; Picture of a cowboy "in touch with his
feminine side"
Spring 1996
Cover Story--Mary's Jar; The Dance; The Four Dual Basic Urges; Symbols--Form and
a Meaning of Form; What's Going on Here; Music; Mary; Diagram: Four Facets to
Spirit Having a Human Experience--Mary & Spirit Radiate; Wisdom; Picture of Man:
Mary with "Seven Devils"; Book of Wisdom; Particle and Wave; The Four Forces;
Mail Box
Summer 1996
Selections of merchandise from our Good Leather (& Good Books) Store, including
reviews of some books we sell (Marion Woodman, Doris Lessing, much more); Mail
Box; Wisdom; Picture of Man "Human Being Acquiring Wisdom"; Picture of Man
"Human Being Without Wisdom"; The Four Dual Basic Urges; The Four Forces &
Creating a Soul
FTE (Free to Experience)
A Newsletter for Awareness
Late 1980s, early 1990s
Vol.I No.2
Work; Parable: "Spilling the Rose Oil"; Self-knowing: Disidentification &
Rejection; Worker's Tool Box: Practice & Power; The Gatekeeper--What Is In The
Way?; Ideals--Holiday Blues; Q & A; Real I Is Love--Self-esteem; We Get Mail;
Poem from a Shy Guy; What's Going On Here?--Drop-Outs (regarding suicide);
Foundation--The Three-Legged Stool (Patience, Repentance, Service); Leah's
Page--Power; What Am I?--The Picture of Man; Not-I Page--The False Self; "I
Am"--The Thunder Perfect Mind; Let's Lighten Up--The Great Game; The Four Dual
Basic Urges
Vol.1 No.4
Awareness Function of Life, or, The "Feminine"; What's Going On
Here?--Healers, Priests, Purpose; The Vicious Cycle; Adaptation, or "Dis-ease";
Self-Knowing--Beliefs; Not-I Page--Idiot-savant; Picture of Man Diagrams; Leah's
Page--Annie Knew Love; Q & A; The Four Dual Basic Urges--A Conscious
Purpose--and "Opposites"; On the Path--"A-ha!"; Worker's Tool Box--Tools Wrongly
Used Don't Help Create, They Destroy; ...and a Time to Laugh; What Can I
do?--Conscious Man; Psychology; The Four Forces
Vol.I No.9
Interpretation; Sensation; Column for Men (and Interested Others); Wisdom,
drawn by Helen Turley; We Get Questions; Worthy Quote, "Self-absorption unto
death"; The Right to Know and Our Real Bill of Rights; Definitions; Emily
Dickenson poem; Diagrams, The Picture of Man and The Picture of Conditioned Man;
Article, Twin stars more common than ever expected; Symbolism--Parable, by
Phyllis Robertson; Ecology
Vol.I Nos.10 & 11
Surrender; The Picture of Man; An Ideal World? Positive Thinking and the
Four Forces; "Why Don't People DO IT?" Noblesse Oblige; It Balances; The Loaves
and the Fishes; Mutterings of a Journey; Responsibility; To a Friend by Carolyn
F.; FTE by April; Know Yourself; We Get Letters; Free to Be An Idiot;
Personality UNIT? Column for Men (and Interested Others); The Four Dual Basic
Urges; Storytelling for Fun & Profit; The Will of God; Wisecracks; We Get
Questions; New Books
Vol.II No.1
Fulfillment Is Within; Tension & Conflict; The Four Forces; A Fable; The Mundane
& the Divine; The Temple; We Get Questions; Paradox & Either/Or; Loss & Time;
The Foundation; Putting a New Patch on an Old Garment; Not-I's; Quickies
Vol.II No.2
Baraka; The Not-I is NOT I! Suicide Machine; Ignorance; "The Wise One" by Cindy Bullen; Spitting at Life; Unmasked: Crisis; We Get Questions; Free Will; If You
Want to Write or DO Anything; Picture of Man Diagrams
More issues coming soon
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