
Books in English
Cavitation: the emergence of Archiarchy
(an Archan novel...)
by Clinton Callahan, 2024.
Here is what people reading Cavitation are saying:
I cradle Cavitation in my arms. My eyes brim over with tears. I’ve been longing to read this book my whole life. I so wanted to collaborate with the likes of people whose stories are told in these pages. I thought I would need to write this book myself if I wanted the thoughtmaps to exist. But here they are! Now I can hardly contain my impatience to meet anyone else who has read Cavitation so we can get on with creating Archiarchy together.
- Nicole Hartley Bradford
Each time I put Cavitation down, I long to hold it in my hands again. The pages are transparent doorways leading to precious, ancient, transformational chambers from an infinite labyrinth. Each story is a download of practical wisdom, woven into a novel of realistic loving discoveries. I don't want the book to be over too soon, but I can’t resist reading further. I keep wanting to find out what becomes of me when I continue on this journey. This book is a celebration!
- Michaela Kaiser
Cavitation tells the kind of stories that pull the rug out from under your belief system and drop you into a new reality by giving you models not bound by the limitations of your current worldview. This is a book of doorways to seemingly impossible worlds. But when you go through a doorway, the new world is no longer impossible, because the book gives you the tools to bring it to life yourself.
- Sophia Wegele
The most exciting part for me while reading Cavitation was at some point being overtaken by the surprising experience that I am not only reading a story about transformation, but actually experiencing transformation happening in me! I began feeling strange, effervescent sensations throughout my body. A pleasant, energizing flow was somehow coursing directly from the book through the cells of my body, drawing me into its thrilling evolutionary current. How could this be happening? It seems to me that Clinton Callahan writes with such clarity, such conviction and commitment, with so much playfulness and creativity, rage, sadness, love and desire, that what he writes simply begins to acquire the force of reality.
- Marc Tognotti
Published by Thoughtware Press.
Rancho Campo: the first Bridgehouse
by Clinton Callahan, 2025, with Phyllis Goldman, Kat Felkner, Alan Friedman, and Ed Clark
The wild calls for you.
Do you answer?
Are you ready to create a private school for learning exactly what you want?
Fear stops most people due to not knowing how to thrive in unstructured space.
This book proves it is possible!
Rancho Campo is your practical handbook for:
- How to find courageous people.
- How to distill a common purpose.
- How to learn the skills for unleashing precious potentials.
- How to work out the details: who, what, when, how, why, where?
- How to share the treasures you find.
Get ready to create a life you may only have dreamed of.
Website: ranchocampo.mystrikingly.com
Available through Thoughtware Press.
White Witch of Tenerife: seventy-five years successfully treating patients modern medicine abandoned as hopeless - the life and work of Elsemarijke Koster in her own words
by Clinton Callahan, 2023
There are rare individuals - certain shining stars - who, by birth or by revelation, escape the fiercely-enforced restrictions about what a human being can become. They establish their own relationship with the Universe. A very few of these eccentrics dedicate their lives to helping whoever knocks on their door to experience less pain and more opportunities. One such 'angel' is Elsemarijke Koster, born during a German air-raid attack on Amsterdam in 1943. Nearly unknown, except in those circles where her potent blessings have caused ripples of impossible healings, Elsemarijke leads a life of unlikely coincidences and challenges, each building one-upon-the-next to culminate in her discoveries about healing and human potentials. This book tells Elsemarijke's personal tales, documented by Clinton Callahan during a month-long interview in 2013. Anyone in the healing, transformation, or medical professions may find this volume deeply inspiring and exceptionally useful. Already we are receiving feedback about the book:
"I just finished reading, ‘The White Witch of Tenerife’… perhaps the MOST INSPIRING read ever in my lifetime! It is incredibly well written in credit to Clinton! I am THOROUGHLY INSPIRED:
* to be a more humble person
* to be a more aware and conscious being
* to be much more a ‘giver’ vs. ‘taker’ in my life
* to continue to GROW on my PATH
* to MORE TRULY APPRECIATE the diverse and equally IMPORTANT 'paths’ of others
* to be MORE INTERNALIZED in my way of being and doing things…..
and a whole list more.
I THANK the UNIVERSE for this precious Treasure!"
This book is only available privately.
No Reason: 21 years with Western Baul Master Lee Lozowick
by Clinton Callahan, 2022.
True stories of Clinton's twenty-one year apprenticeship with the archetypal mage, Lee Lozowick. Here are teachings learned in the streets while Lee Lozowick delivers immediate alchemical process. In addition to Clinton's articles published in the Hohm Community's periodical 'Tawagoto', and the Hohm Sahaj Mandir Study Manuals III and IV, No Reason includes never-before-shared distinctions, liquid states, private feedback and coaching, heartbreaking insights, incredible opportunities, embarrassing blunders, and startling breakthroughs. This book is a treasure-chest of hard-earned and never-to-be-forgotten evolutionary jewels... the training of a Possibilitator.
Published through Thoughtware Press. Available from Bowker.
No Reason has been translated into German by Sophia Wegele. To read about the German version, please click HERE.
Conscious Feelings: living life closer to your own truth
by Clinton Callahan, 2022
After ten years of further research, the original manuscript has been completely reworked to include new thoughtmaps with the 5th Body, White Widow, Decontaminating the Adult Ego State from Child, Parent, Gremlin, and Demon Ego States, and much more. Many new Experiments have been added to make this a life-changing thoughtware-upgrading skill-building guidebook for Inner Navigating. This opens the door to effective collaboration to create and inhabit Archiarchy - the culture naturally emerging around the world now that Matriarchy and Patriarchy have run their course.
Website: consciousfeelings.mystrikingly.com
Available through Thoughtware Press.
The original edition is translated by Marion Lutz into German as Die Kraft des bewussten Fühlens and a few copies are available through Thoughtware Press. Currently, Die Kraft des bewussten Fühlens is being updated to the most recent English version by Sophia Wegele and should be available late in 2025 as Bewussten Fühlens.
Additionally, Conscious Feelings has been translated into Portuguese, Spanish, and Polish, and is available through Thoughtware Press.
Building Love That Lasts: secrets for creating an extraordinary life and profound intimacy with your partner
(a re-release of Radiant Joy Brilliant Love)
by Clinton Callahan, 2020
This hard-hitting and innovative book about partnered relationship immediately challenges the deceptions about love and intimacy rampant in today's patriarchal culture. At the same time, Building Love That Lasts reveals a step-by-step process for discovering and living out extraordinary and even archetypal possibilities. The experiments in this edition are expanded and given Matrix Codes to register in your free account at StartOver.xyz.
Study Group Website: buildinglovethatlasts.mystrikingly.com
Available from Thoughtware Press.
Also available in German translated by Marion Lutz as Wahre Liebe im Alltag from Thoughtware Press.
Goodnight Feelings: the book that makes your day just a little bit better, no matter what kind of day it was
by Clinton Callahan
illustrated by Timo Wuerz
This book miraculously reconnects parents and children. Really.
Available in English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese from Thoughtware Press.
Goodnight Feelings is currently being translated into Polish and French.
Directing The Power Of Conscious Feelings: living your own truth
THIS EDITION IS SOLD OUT
In 2022, Hohm Press released my expanded and revised edition of this manuscript under the shortened title Conscious Feelings. See details above.
by Clinton Callahan 2010
Feelings are for handling things. Emotions are for healing things. If you do not know the difference, how can your relationships work at all?
Available in German translated by Marion Lutz as Die Kraft des bewussten Fühlens from Next Culture Press. See details below.
Radiant Joy Brilliant Love: secrets for creating an extraordinary life and profound intimacy with your partner
THIS EDITION IS SOLD OUT
In 2020 this text was re-released with a new cover and a new title as: Building Love That Lasts. See details above.
by Clinton Callahan 2007
You can learn to navigate the three spaces of love: ordinary, extraordinary, and archetypal. If you do not navigate these spaces of love consciously, then you will spend most of your days - and nights - in spaces of ordinary love. If you are tired of that, this book is for you. It is a handbook to a new way of life.
The book that started it all...
Seeds: experiments in synergetic education and temporary community
by Clinton Callahan, 1980, limited edition, out of print
This is the tale of the first-ever Bridge-House, which came to life in the wilds of Baja California, Mexico, 1975, with Kat Felkner, Ed Clark, Clinton Callahan, Alan Friedman, and Phyllis Goldman.
Now available from Thoughtware Press as Rancho Campo: the first Bridgehouse!
Safespace Project Handbook
by Robert and Marilyn Miles, and Clinton Callahan 1978, limited edition, out of print.
Co-authored with Robert and Marilyn Miles during the second Safespace Project in Phoenix, Arizona in 1978, while building a 65 foot catamaran in the middle of the desert to be used as a floating university.
In 2003, Robert Miles wrote a science fiction tale of the vision behind this project called Safespace.
Bücher auf Deutsch
Gute Nacht Gefühle
Das Buch, das deinen Tag ein kleines bisschen besser macht, … egal, was es für ein Tag war. Dieses Buch verbindet auf wundersame Weise Eltern und Kinder wieder.
Erhältlich bei Next Culture Press.
Die Kraft des bewussten Fühlens: ein Handbuch, um näher an Ihrer eigenen Warheit ze leben
geschrieben von Clinton Callahan 2009 / 2016
übersetzt von Marion Lutz
Gefühle sind für den Umgang mit Dingen. Emotionen sind für die Heilung von Dingen. Wenn Sie den Unterschied nicht kennen, wie können Ihre Beziehungen überhaupt funktionieren?
Erhältlich bei Next Culture Press.
Wahre Liebe im Alltag: Das Erschaffen authentischer Beziehungen
geschrieben von Clinton Callahan 2020
übersetzt von Marion Lutz
HINWEIS Diese Ausgabe ist die gleiche überarbeitete und aktualisierte Version mit einem rot-goldenen Cover, die 2020 von Next Culture Press mit einem neuen Cover erneut veröffentlicht wurde.
Dieses knallharte und innovative Buch über partnerschaftliche Beziehungen stellt sofort die Täuschungen über Liebe und Intimität in Frage, die in der heutigen patriarchalischen Kultur weit verbreitet sind. Gleichzeitig offenbart Building Love That Lasts einen schrittweisen Prozess zum Entdecken und Ausleben alternativer Möglichkeiten.
Erhältlich bei Thoughtware Press.
Wahre Liebe im Alltag: Das Erschaffen authentischer Beziehungen
DIESE AUSGABE IST AUSVERKAUFT
Der gleiche Titel und Inhalt mit einem neuen Cover wurde 2020 von Next Culture Press veröffentlicht.
geschrieben von Clinton Callahan 2015
übersetzt von Marion Lutz
Sie können lernen, durch die drei Räume der Liebe zu navigieren: gewöhnlich, außergewöhnlich und archetypisch. Wenn Sie nicht bewusst in diesen Liebesräumen navigieren, verbringen Sie den größten Teil Ihrer Tage - und Nächte - in Räumen der gewöhnlichen Liebe. Wenn Sie es satt haben, ist dieses Buch etwas für Sie. Es ist ein Handbuch für eine neue Lebensweise.
Das Buch, mit dem alles begann ...
Wahre Liebe im Alltag: Das Erschaffen authentischer Beziehungen
DIESE AUSGABE IST AUSVERKAUFT
geschrieben von Clinton Callahan 2007
übersetzt von Marion Lutz
Diese Erstausgabe ist noch in gebrauchtem Zustand über Amazon.de erhältlich.
Abenteuer Denken: 52 Abeneuerreisen zu größeren Möglichkeiten
geschrieben von Clinton Callahan 2007
DIESE AUSGABE IST AUSVERKAUFT
Der gleiche Titel und Inhalt wird in Kürze über Thoughtware Press veröffentlicht.
52 Abenteuerreisen ze größeren Möglichkeiten.
Dieses Buch ist nicht in englischer Sprache erhältlich.
Alle verfügbaren S.P.A.R.K.s in verschiedenen Sprachen können von dieser Website heruntergeladen werden: http://sparks.nextculture.org/en
Abenteuer Denken: 52 Abeneuerreisen zu größeren Möglichkeiten
geschrieben von Clinton Callahan 2004
übersetzt von Marion Lutz
DIESE AUSGABE IST AUSVERKAUFT
Der gleiche Titel und Inhalt mit einem neuen Cover wurde 2020 von Next Culture Press veröffentlicht.
52 Abenteuerreisen ze größeren Möglichkeiten.
Erhältlich bei Genius Verlag. Dieses Buch ist nicht in englischer Sprache erhältlich.
Alle verfügbaren S.P.A.R.K.s in verschiedenen Sprachen können von dieser Website heruntergeladen werden: http://sparks.nextculture.org/en
Abenteuer Denken Hörbuch: 52 Abeneuerreisen zu größeren Möglichkeiten
geschrieben von Clinton Callahan
übersetzt von Marion Lutz
gesprochen von Marion Lutz
52 Abenteuerreisen ze größeren Möglichkeiten.
Erhältlich bei Next Culture Press.
Dieses Buch ist nicht in englischer Sprache erhältlich.
Alle verfügbaren S.P.A.R.K.s in verschiedenen Sprachen können von dieser Website heruntergeladen werden: http://sparks.nextculture.org/en
Livros em português
Sentimentos Conscientes: Um guia para uma revolução pessoal, relacional e cultural
Escrito por Clinton Callahan
Por Clinton Callahhan, 2022. Traduzido do Inglês 2025 por: Joana Ribeiro, Joana Cruz, Vera Luísa Franco, Juliana Martins, Isadora Galant, e Luís Miguel Trindade.
Edição: Luís Miguel Trindade, Danielle Barros, e Sónia Gonçalves.
As ideias da cultura moderna sobre sentimentos são tão distorcidas que equiparamos sentir-se bem a não sentir nada. Na verdade, não queremos nos sentir felizes. Queremos nos sentir entorpecidos. As atuais crises globais e o fracasso geral de humanos aparentemente inteligentes em criar um futuro viável para si mesmos refletem uma profunda desconexão de nossos próprios sentimentos. A idealização do herói forte e sem emoções pode exterminar a raça humana. O livro pega o leitor pela mão e diz: A escolha pessoal de não ter emoções pode ter sido feita inconscientemente. Mas neste momento você pode mudar de ideia e aprender a sentir conscientemente. E então ele mostra passo a passo como. Esta tradução é da edição revisada e expandida de 2020 com distinções adicionais e mapas de pensamento atualizados. Os experimentos receberam Códigos de Matriz para StartOver.xyz. Novas seções foram adicionadas sobre White Widow, o Quinto Corpo, Transformação Gremlin, Descontaminações do Estado do Ego Adulto e Relacionamento Radical. Este livro é revolucionário! Pense onde você pode deixar uma cópia de Sentimentos Conscientes em um Café favorito onde as pessoas vêm para se refrescar com novas perspectivas. Pense em quais "líderes de pensamento" não têm o software de pensamento Archan - e se você os enviasse a eles? Considere realizar um Grupo de Estudo para ler Sentimentos Conscientes junto com seus amigos. Tente se lembrar de quando você aprendeu pela primeira vez que há uma diferença entre Sentimentos e Emoções, o quanto isso mudou sua vida. Pense em seus primeiros Experimentos de Sentimentos de baixo nível e como é emocionante descobrir que você pode diminuir sua Barra de Dormência e começar a usar a inteligência prática e a energia dos Sentimentos de Baixo Nível. Quantos dos seus amigos e colegas ainda não têm essa Clareza em suas vidas e relacionamentos diários? Cada livro que você coloca lá fora é um Bilhete Dourado para um novo mundo!
Publicado por Thoughtware Press.
Ordem em Portugal: https://forms.gle/r2qWuBspT7grPp8h8
Ordem no Brasil: https://forms.gle/dQjszVfvpWAdo6Vy5
Bruxa Branca do Tenerife: setenta e cinco anos tratando pacientes com sucesso, a medicina moderna abandonou-os como desesperadora - a vida e a obra de Elsemarijke Koster em suas próprias palavras
Escrito por Clinton Callahan
Existem indivíduos raros – certas estrelas brilhantes – que, por nascimento ou por revelação, escapam dessas restrições sociais ferozmente impostas sobre o que um ser humano pode se tornar. Eles estabelecem uma relação particular com o Universo. Alguns desses excêntricos dedicam suas vidas a ajudar quem bate à sua porta a experimentar menos dor e mais oportunidades. Um desses "anjos" é Elsemarijke Koster, nascida durante um ataque aéreo alemão a Amsterdã em 1943. Quase desconhecida, exceto nos círculos onde suas poderosas bênçãos causaram ondas de curas impossíveis, Elsemarijke leva uma vida de coincidências e desafios improváveis, cada um se construindo sobre o outro para culminar em suas descobertas sobre cura e potenciais humanos. Este livro conta as histórias pessoais de Elsemarijke, documentadas por Clinton Callahan durante uma entrevista de um mês em 2013. Qualquer pessoa nas profissões de cura, transformação ou medicina pode achar este volume profundamente inspirador e excepcionalmente útil.
Já estamos recebendo feedback sobre o livro:
"Acabei de ler 'A Bruxa Branca de Tenerife'... talvez a leitura MAIS INSPIRADORA da minha vida! É incrivelmente bem escrito, graças a Clinton! Estou COMPLETAMENTE INSPIRADA:
* a ser uma pessoa mais humilde
* a ser um ser mais consciente e atento
* a ser muito mais uma pessoa que 'doa' em vez de 'recebe' na minha vida
* a continuar a CRESCER no meu CAMINHO
* a APRECIAR MAIS VERDADEIRAMENTE os 'caminhos' diversos e igualmente IMPORTANTES dos outros
* a ser MAIS INTERNALIZADA na minha maneira de ser e fazer as coisas... e muito mais.
AGRADEÇO ao UNIVERSO por este precioso tesouro!"
Ordem em Portugal: https://forms.gle/r2qWuBspT7grPp8h8
Ordem no Brasil: https://forms.gle/dQjszVfvpWAdo6Vy5
Boa Noite Sentimentos
Escrito por Clinton Callahan
Ilustrado por Timo Wuerz
O Boa Noite Sentimentos convida os pequenos e os grandes a encerrarem o dia juntos com imagens e partilhas de coração para coração. Quaisquer momentos tristes, frustrações fortes ou sutis, surtos de medo e ondas de alegria - todos são vivenciados e finalizados durante uma troca respeitosa e guiada com atenção. Cada sentimento tem o direito de existir. Quando você ouve atentamente seus próprios sentimentos e os sentimentos dos outros, os sentimentos podem explicar as interações e curar feridas que o pensamento lógico jamais poderia resolver. Boa Noite Sentimentos pode se tornar o livro mais empolgante da estante de seu filho, pois cada vez que vocês o leem juntos, as histórias surgem com profundidade e frescor surpreendentes.
Ordem em Portugal: https://forms.gle/r2qWuBspT7grPp8h8
Ordem no Brasil: https://forms.gle/dQjszVfvpWAdo6Vy5
Książki w języku polskim
Dobranoc uczucia
Napisane przez Clintona Callahana
Ilustrowane przez Timo Wuerza
O Boa Noite Sentimentos convida os pequenos e os grandes a encerrarem o dia juntos com imagens e partilhas de coração para coração. Quaisquer momentos tristes, frustrações fortes ou sutis, surtos de medo e ondas de alegria - todos são vivenciados e finalizados durante uma troca respeitosa e guiada com atenção. Cada sentimento tem o direito de existir. Quando você ouve atentamente seus próprios sentimentos e os sentimentos dos outros, os sentimentos podem explicar as interações e curar feridas que o pensamento lógico jamais poderia resolver. Boa Noite Sentimentos pode se tornar o livro mais empolgante da estante de seu filho, pois cada vez que vocês o leem juntos, as histórias surgem com profundidade e frescor surpreendentes.
Świadome uczucia:
Przewodnik po rewolucji osobistej, relacyjnej i kulturowej
Napisane przez Clintona Callahana
To jest poprawiona i zaktualizowana edycja przełomowej (niektórzy powiedzieliby „rewolucyjnej”) książki Clintona Callahana: Conscious Feelings, przetłumaczona na język polski przez zespół Possibilitatorów we współpracy z wewnętrznym tłumaczem Manendry. To pierwsza książka o zarządzaniu możliwościami (Possibility Management) przetłumaczona na język polski!
(Conscious Feelings w tłumaczeniu na język polski) wkrótce dostępne w Wydawnictwie Manendra.
Libros en español
Buenas Noches Sentimientos
Escrito por Clinton Callahan
Buenas Noches Sentimientos invita a pequeños y mayores a completar su día juntos compartiendo sus sentimientos de corazón a corazón. Los momentos tristes, las frustraciones fuertes o sutiles, las rachas de miedo y las ondas de alegría se completan y se desvanecen durante este intercambio respetuoso y guiado con seguridad. Cada sentimiento tiene derecho a existir. Cuando escuchas atentamente tus propios sentimientos y los de los demás, los sentimientos pueden explicar interacciones y curar heridas que el pensamiento lógico nunca podría resolver. Sentimientos de buenas noches podría convertirse en el libro más emocionante de la estantería de tu hijo, porque cada vez que lo leéis juntos las historias emergen con sorprendente profundidad y frescura.
Pida Buenas Noches Sentimientos pronto.
Sentimientos Conscientes
Escrito por Clinton Callahan
Las ideas de la cultura moderna sobre los sentimientos están tan distorsionadas que equiparamos sentirse bien con no sentir nada. En realidad no queremos sentirnos felices. Queremos sentirnos entumecidos. Las crisis globales actuales y el fracaso general de seres humanos aparentemente inteligentes a la hora de crear un futuro viable para sí mismos reflejan una profunda desconexión con nuestros propios sentimientos. La idealización del héroe fuerte y sin emociones puede exterminar a la raza humana. El libro toma al lector de la mano y dice: La elección personal de no tener emociones puede haber sido hecha inconscientemente. Pero en este momento puedes cambiar de opinión y aprender a sentir conscientemente. Y luego te muestra paso a paso cómo hacerlo. Esta traducción es de la edición revisada y ampliada de 2020 con distinciones adicionales y mapas de pensamiento actualizados. Los experimentos recibieron códigos de matriz para StartOver.xyz. Se han agregado nuevas secciones sobre la Viuda Blanca, el Quinto Cuerpo, la Transformación de Gremlin, las Descontaminaciones del Estado del Yo Adulto y las Relaciones Radicales. ¡Este libro es revolucionario! Considera dónde puedes dejar una copia de Sentimientos Conscientes en una cafetería favorita donde la gente viene a refrescarse con nuevas perspectivas. Piense en qué "líderes de opinión" no tienen el software Archan: ¿qué pasaría si se lo enviara? Considere iniciar un grupo de estudio para leer Sentimientos conscientes junto con sus amigos. Intenta recordar cuándo aprendiste por primera vez que hay una diferencia entre sentimientos y emociones, cuánto cambió tu vida. Recuerde sus primeros experimentos con sentimientos de bajo nivel y lo emocionante que fue descubrir que podía bajar su barra de entumecimiento y comenzar a utilizar la inteligencia práctica y la energía de los sentimientos de bajo nivel. ¿Cuántos de tus amigos y colegas aún no tienen esta Claridad en su vida diaria y sus relaciones? ¡Cada libro que publiques es un billete dorado a un mundo nuevo!
Publicado por Thoughtware Press.
Articles In English
Most of my articles can be found online at these platforms:
S.P.A.R.K.s
S.P.A.R.K. stands for Specific Practical Applications of Radical Knowledge.
S.P.A.R.K.s are being translated into a number of languages.
They are all available here.
Distinctionary.xyz
Distinctions are the basis of the thoughtware you use to think with.
The core distinctions from Possibility Management are online here.
Film and Book Writing Projects
Stories and filmscripts in process...
BRIDGES TO NEXT CULTURE (interviews) by Clinton Callahan et. al.
Following an impulse from Marion Lutz in 2012, a team of between 3 and 9 Possibilitators followed the whims of Gaia through South-East Asia and around the world for three-quarters of a year. We called ourselves the 'Gaian Road Team'. During our Quest we made video interviews with over 60 astonishing edgeworkers about their projects and the insights that allowed them to succeed. These interviews are uploaded to the Gaian Road Team website. They are perfect for a film/link/quote book, and then woven together into a full-length documentary. Who wants to do this with us at General Memetics?
GALAXY BABES (filmscript opening scene) by Clinton Callahan
Carola and Suzanne are ironing together. They wear t-shirts with a big logo that says 'Ironing Maidens.'
Suzanne farts and makes a kind of focused face. She does not stop ironing.
Suzanne farts again.
CAROLA: “If you could teach me to fart like that we could shove tubes up our butts and heat these irons with bio-gas.”
Suzanne farts again.
CAROLA: Wrinkles her nose at the stink. “Or is this a new perfume you are developing to prove to our customers that we are vegetarian?”
Suzanne glances up at Carola but keeps ironing.
CAROLA: “What I still don’t understand is why a trained quantum physicist like you has chosen a career of ironing shirts.”
SUZANNE: “That’s simple to answer. It is because I get to spend my time with you telling me jokes instead of with university bureaucrats telling me they are going to reduce my funding.”
Carola laughs.
SUZANNE: (continues) “…plus I like getting rid of wrinkles…” She proudly holds up a freshly ironed shirt that she has buttoned around a simple wooden hanger, and grabs another un-ironed shirt from the basket for comparison. “I get to change this (the wrinkled shirt) into this (the ironed shirt). It’s exceptionally rewarding.”
CAROLA: “I think it’s funny how much you can tell about a person’s life by digging through their laundry. For example, I know that Janice ate curry, Sam has a new girlfriend, the Dinkel family went out to the steak house after church, and that the Stevenson boy, what’s his name? Garth! Had a rough football game… This is what I am thinking about. What are you thinking about?”
SUZANNE: “I was thinking about wrinkles, about time, and about opportunities. I was thinking how I can only choose to use an opportunity when that opportunity is present. So having an opportunity arises when one wrinkle of cloth touches another wrinkle of cloth and opens the door to a new future. If you choose to use the opportunity doorway you jump from one wrinkle to the next wrinkle. Using a rare opportunity is making a space-time jump. It changes everything.”
CAROLA: Has stopped ironing and stares at Suzanne. “You heard of that story called A Wrinkle In Time?”
SUZANNE: “Sure. But what is most amazing is to get it that if human beings in the future ever figure out how to do time travel - to jump from one time-wrinkle to the next - then the time travelers are already here.”
In that moment the door knocks in the secret pattern that only the two of them know...
GAMEWORLD (story) by Clinton Callahan
In the book Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Castaneda briefly mentions a set of distinctions he got from his teacher Don Juan Matus, who called these ideas the four enemies of a man on the path. I am sure that women on the path have the same enemies…
Many years after first learning of them their importance finally struck me. If it is wise to know your selves, it would be equally wise to know your enemies. Your selves and your enemies are dancing together in vampire and victim gyrations.
The way to get to know your enemies is to fight them. By struggling against your enemies you discover the profoundness of the grip they have on you and you discover who you are. You detect where in you they hide and by what mechanism the enemies lock into your Being and you discover your inner structure.
The first enemy of a Being on the path of personal emergence into adulthood is fear.
You were trained that fear is bad, fear is negative, fear means something is wrong and should be avoided at all costs. Because of your lack of initiation into an adult, conscious, responsible relationship with fear, when you feel afraid – even barely-detectable 1% intense afraid – it stops you dead in the middle of creating a new future. Not only that, it usually retracts you reflexively back into your comfort zone, the turtle popping back into his shell. Perhaps you never again explore in that direction. How many opportunity doors have you closed this way?
Without luck, without accidental help from your friends and enemies, without courage and real efforts on your part to grow up, you may remain a victim of fear for the remainder of your life, never battling this enemy into submitting to your ownership. You may know people crystallized at this level? Still afraid of fear. Still hesitating rather than going forward into the transformational jaws of new possibility. You do not have to be one of them. The cure for fear is clarity.
By discovering that fear is one of the four feelings accompanied by anger, sadness and joy, your fear is tamed. You experientially detect what fear feels like, the quickening of reaction, bypassing the mind to escape fast enough, or thrash out against the threat. The hair standing up on arms and the back of your head. Eyes wide, fingers out, the tension in your chest, the terrifying high-pitched scream at the top of your throat. These sensations can now be consciously detected and navigated, start and stop, from 0% to 100% intense, a lively but neutral energy and information that serves you in practical ways. With the clarity that fear is not bad or negative, fear becomes an ally, an intelligent tool. Fear tells you what to take care of, what to watch out for, what to notice and handle so things come out well. Fear gives you subtle warning that turns into precision for navigating delicate maneuvers and spaces. You cannot navigate spaces of love without direct and ongoing access to the carefulness generated by fear. Clarity about fear frees you from your enemy!
You can dare! You can show up, even if you are afraid! You can choose options that are not offered on the menu. You can speak out and ask for what you want. Clarity is your hero.
So you start collecting clarity, all the clarity you can get... more and more clarity, and more clarity, until you realize that you can't actually do anything with the clarity. To do things you need power...
STARTOVER.XYZ GAME (GDD Game Design Document) by Clinton Callahan
Massively-Multiplayer On-and-Offline Thoughtware-Upgrade Matrix-Building Personal Development Real-Life Adventure Game.
KARMA KOPS (filmnovel) by Clinton Callahan
No one would do bad stuff if they fully realized the automatic karmic consequences created by their actions. Instead of police going around trying to catch people in crimes, and courts trying to punish people after they made a mess, Karma Korps trainers go around giving people a chance to see the karmic consequences of their actions so they get more of a choice about what they are creating for themselves in their near future.
Police typically create a power struggle by arresting someone to judge whether what they`ve done is right or wrong. Egos clash. It’s a contest about who is baddest, who is fastest, who has the most powerful weapons, who is clever enough to win.
Guy Pendrift starts having dreams that show him non-confrontational engagements that the Karma Korps could use. His girlfriend thinks he's gone nuts, but life gives Guy plenty of chances to try out his new skills. He fails more often than not, while his feisty fight or flight reflex gets him in trouble with bigger and bigger enemies.
MOMENTA (filmscript scenes) by Clinton Callahan
JOHN:
“And inside the hollow thing… is emptiness…”
“I think it was always like this...”
“Before now I was not ready to accept it”
“I thought I had to be somebody in the world. Be somebody for you so you would love me.”
MIRCA:
Being completely still.
FIRE:
Close up of wood burning in the stove, orange and red, crackling, becoming glowing coals.
JOHN:
“Now… that ‘somebody’ is gone.”
“It was only an illusion… or delusion… all those needs… pressures.”
He sighs.
“Now I am an empty space.”
NANO (story) by Clinton Callahan
Alan is an electronic genius and a secret billionaire (...a billion is nano). While testing his highly sensitive new Geiger counter in San Francisco the meter goes crazy. He discovers an underground stockpile of fissionable Plutonium hidden there by terrorists. Alan’s team decides to capture the plutonium and drop it into a live volcano in Hawaii using their quad drones. But there is a downside to radical responsibility…