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without background music provided to Radio KOWS 92.5 FM broadcast of the
Scent of Light episode for insert into the Radio Spotlight Magazine
with host Andre Marc.
Transcript
In this episode on the Scent of Light I will speak on Feeling, the
last word on this series treating the Ten Words to the Creative
Spirit, in which my mentor Dr. William Hermanns wrote:
Give me Feeling so I can vibrate your truth.
The fact that my mentor was a Poet and so willing to
address and express his feelings was a strong attraction for me. He
challenged the values of my male upbringing in the 1950s to limit my
feelings to anger and pride. Sensitivities for us boys were generally
confined to doing right actions and belonging to a winning team. I was
taught that boys should be boys wrestling and playing hard at sports and
skateboarding. I did like gardening and the beauty of flowers, but this was
something I did not tell my male friends about as our conversations
preferred adventure and excitement.
I liked that my mentor would take the time to explore
his feelings, pleasant or not, to understand better why he makes decisions
the way he does and by this introspection gain a hint of general patterns of
human behavior. He had seen war at the frontlines in World War One as an
enthusiastic and patriotic volunteer to help his Kaiser defeat the enemy of
the nation, only to discover his conscience on the march to Verdun when his
eyes caught the terrified eyes of a French mother holding her baby in front
of her burning house at the edge of a village the Germans had just
conquered. He felt her anguish, an element of war that did not enter into
his original decision to volunteer to become a soldier in the Kaiser's war.
His feeling of a common bond of humanity now challenged his choice to go to
war. It was no longer just simply he being on a right side, of him being a
German citizen fighting to save his country, as now there was the humanity
side of the enemy in the equation presented by his conscience through a
feeling.
Feeling is present in each of the other nine Words to
the Creative Spirit that I have treated in my Scent of Light episodes these
past 8 months. Feeling allows me to so incorporate the Ten Words so that I
more than think about the truth but vibrate the truth of the Creative Spirit
in my whole being, enlivening my decisions with a higher unitive purpose.
The truth of Creative Spirit is more than an intellectual speculation based
on our limited knowledge, it is a living vibrating presence of cosmic laws
responding to the Creative intention at the moment of choice.
When I first introduced the Ten Words to the Creative
Spirit on the Scent of Light episode I mentioned how I value them as my Soul
Craft's control panel. I begin each day reading these Ten Words followed by
a period of meditation in the stillness of my mind. I do this so the words
are freshly remembered and felt for the day and present when I make the
decisions that will need to be made. I will conclude this episode with a
reading of these Ten Words to the Creative Spirit, and encourage you to feel
each of these Ten Words as an integral part of you.
Give me Grace so I walk uplifted through this
day.
Give me Joy so my heart has enough and to spare for others.
Give me Peace so an angelic spirit accompanies me wherever I go.
Give me Love so darkness changes to sunshine where I am.
Give me Healing so spirit is the light of the flesh.
Give me Mercy so my free will chooses mercy.
Give me Trust so no despair can grip my soul.
Give me Power so I can speak with authority.
Give me Wisdom so I cannot be bribed by intellect.
Give me Feeling so I can vibrate your truth.
This is Ken Norton on the Scent Of Light. You can contact me via Ken at
KennethENorton.com. The Scent of Light episodes are archived on the web at
kennethenorton.com. Thanks for listening.
Ken Norton earned his master's degree in Materials Science from Stanford
University as the Vietnam War was ending. During that time Ken served as the
personal assistant to a poet/sociologist Dr. William Hermanns as he prepared
his writings for publication, exposing Ken to not only the sciences but also
the humanities and comparative religion for making conscious and
conscionable choices.
Ken is a regular contributor to Radio Spotlight Magazine with his episodes
on the Scent of Light.
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