A sense of 'drama' and 'intensity' is what a person brings to the forefront of their life when there is hole in it, or rather put, when they are lacking something fundamental as it would pertain to their self esteem. This type of 'substitution-behavior' is usually coupled with addictive behaviors that are secretly acted out. The backside of this are the dark depressions that come when the addiction is not met and the hole not filled. Finding the root, or causation, is an ongoing process that may take as much time as it has to arrive at the awareness of the problem. Examples of this would be shopping addictions, sexually based addictions, shop-lifting or theft. Through the manifestation of these activities the individual rebels against conformity, exercises control or what they think would be independence that has a probability of creating complex issues that increase the 'drama' and 'intensity' which fill the void of what is missing. These folks usually go through life blindly not caring about the wake their boat leaves in the calm waters of the people around them and simply place the blame on others, wondering: what's wrong with them. Then they happily go about their life after re-creating their 'drama' and 'intensity' in what had been a safe place or sanctuary for themselves, not even realizing the embarrassment they have caused themselves by their inappropriate behaviors. They need to know the latest gossip and have to be in the middle of the mix and then again say, "Well, that's not me!" If they were even partly aware they, those who structure their life like this and under these conditions, wouldn't act in such a manner.

Families shape the concepts of self as does the lack of family-structure, with the choice of emergence swinging in either the direction of success or failure. Is it any wonder that we, as individuals, don't even realize where we are at within ourselves, or within our 'choice' of family when we have been assaulted from conception with a constant bombardment of "You should be," "You should become," "You should look like," "You should make," "You should act like," and on and on, from family, friends, media and advertising? False images of beauty that come with colorized tag lines, thirty-second advertising spots and cosmetic coverings are like finely painting an old and weathered house in preparation for resale. The buyer is taken in by the package only to find leaking pipes and a list of repair bills looming in the near future, which will undoubtedly compromise the buyer's ability to enjoy that which they thought would give ease of being and satisfaction.

Often these types of people bring their drama and crisis into the calm of other's lives, seeking to have it rub off if you will, for lack of better terminology, when in actuality they create unbalance wherever they tread, always wondering what is wrong, why everyone else is making their life difficult, why everyone else is doing a poor job and that they alone set the tone of stability.

Everything else is just buying into the decorations and adornments of superficiality without having to deal with what lies under the rock when you pick it up. The challenge comes when people who are used to drama, gossip and intensity are faced with calm. What do they do? They question if the calm is possible or if the bottom is going to drop out and the proverbial shoe is going to drop. And sure enough, the shoe drops and they reaffirm where they were, because 'it', whatever the situation which could have been successful and calm, was proved out to be unstable because they introduced that 'fear' and instability into it. Then they retained the control; they were proven out and their life continues.

The world you live in indicates who you are. Do you have friends? Do you have joy in your life? Do you have relationships that bring you happiness? Do you go about your life and work with an ease of being and look forward to being with those you work with? Or is your world lonely when you go home? Are you searching and yet not finding? When you turn the key in your door do you find emptiness? Is your life devoid of laughter? Does everyone seemingly have things easier than you? Do you feel used and taken for granted? You alone know where you fit into these questions and therefore you alone can continue your path or change it and walk a new journey and awaken to a new sense of discovery.

What most get caught up in is conformity and the messages that you begin to believe that reinforce where you are, rather than moving forward into a better place of abundance. These messages all promote images that serve an agenda, outside the individual's conscious awareness, rather than supporting the individual to go beyond the norm and expand into a greater sense of knowing and reality, leading them to an improved and expanded social consciousness. The individual sets the view that others will take of them. Due to this many people send out contradictory messages and signals. You must remain calm throughout all this. To maintain a psycho-physical wellness the individual should focus on their own life by maintaining a strident choice of stabilizing interactions. It is important to have direction and balance. People will feed off your emotional level and body language. You alone establish the confidence level others have of you. This is one of the simplistic steps to success.

An image comes to mind: it is likened to the future example of the Governor of New York State using the laying of the corner-stone and dedication for the structure to be built on the site of the 911-ground zero attack of two years ago this September 11th. In the beginning this was to be hallowed, sacred ground that was never to be partisan. How better to secure your place, even in history, by political standards, than to displace reality and put focus on something outside yourself and the conditions that surround you and your abilities. It, the events of September 11th, represented ALL of us and is allegedly to be attempted to be used by the Republicans as a partisan event. This is from a party who did not capture Bin Laden, nor Saddam Hussein and while I write the U.S. is taking more casualties than during the actual 'action'. Yet the voice of American people is more silent now than before and the reason for this unthwarted apathy is the mass illusion that middle-America is better off than it has been in years with more leisure-income and expendable income, which of course most economists will agree it is not. This all ties into the aforementioned and continued dissertations for conversations and thoughts I put forth.

For this is an image to witness for true potential to become. One political figure my channel and senses look to as one of the finest political figures to date is ex-mayor of New York City, Giuliani. In this individual's opinion he is among the greatest politicians that has ever lived, going back to a career as a young attorney and District Attorney who went up against organized crime, which at the time was a massive undertaking, showing his early resolve to follow through and complete the tasks he undertook. His model for management, in this individual's opinion, is management by strong leadership through consensus while making sure those he delegates his authority to are fully accountable for their actions. He manages directly, as an extension of his personality, which is hands-on, for the betterment of the people, his constituency. This man of ethics and good sound being has held the second most important job and position in this country, being the Mayor of New York City. The only job which would be of greater significance would be President of the United States. I strongly urge and suggest that Mr. Giuliani run for President, and if he does, I further support that he will become President of the United States of America.

Times will continue to advance the global connection we all share. American news and media coverage, including most writers, have become part in parcel packaging giants which shape thought that 'dumbs down' society. News and information is given in bites and bits resulting in limited attention spans that have become the prototype for future generations. Thinking outside the box and questioning the human condition, let alone, the individual-life condition has become profoundly attitudinal, separating people along ideological lines.

There is a 'discounting' sense, an inverse-approach encroaching upon the world as we know it. What you, the individual, and we as a society are being taught is that you have to 'go along to get along'. You have to remain 'dumb downed', low-classed and under-educated to survive and you'll get along just fine. The question that should come to mind is: Why?

Why should you be any different than those that set the example? If a President can have oral sex performed on him in his offices and conglomerates merge to control entertainment and news media, then how can the average person expect to rise above the fray? We live in a world of uncensored online sex and pornography (freely downloadable, with no parental supervision required), radio shock-jocks, pop singers who have open sex in public parks and all this and more is put out into the media, making more people aware that somehow they no longer have to rise to a higher standard of behavior. Couple this with the Wal-Marting and discounting of America and you have a reduced level of expectation where the individual is always seeking out the lowest value and assigning it to themselves as their identity-label. There is a progression of depravity that is reflected throughout history. All of this reinforces that YOU shouldn't be that exceptional. Keep your place and 'go along to get along'.

Being exceptional and living abundantly well would be quite the antithesis and an extreme notion that belies virtually everything you are being programmed to think and believe. So where do you start to challenge the Zeitgeist that has been laid before you? By realizing what is occurring. For some of you it is rather hopeless, and others of you continue to thrive in repeating the same old, same old patterns. Rather like a bird trying to talk to a rock. You will not change and will succumb to your own tendencies. To lead and change it takes an individual of centeredness, focus and the ability to think outside the box. There will always be lost minions. All you can do is choose healthy relationships and a healthy life-style.

There is one last image that comes within this writing. There are two stone, square-cut block-shaped Persian lions facing each other at an entrance gate. They spread their wings and 'rise in red'. Those who were thought, but not in the sense that they died, become a tribunal. In these days the orbits will turn as clay upon a potters wheel and collapse as a rocket emerges forth to new lands and sits down where it has not been before in this manner. The lions will gather upon the redness of night and within a full circle of light a brightness is brought forth as never seen before and man shall know his futility once again. For what he, whose generations comprise his awareness of self has set forth is that which will be revisited, and this is what he shall be known for. His intent was self-serving and he shall be known for as such. He is much more than the other, who was nothing more and nothing less than that which stands in the shadows of greatness.