By G.P.: The Wave and Adventure series are such an enormous undertaking in terms of reading, that the average person would have to re-read them in order to grasp all the details. Many of the C's transcripts are incorporated in these series for guidance and reference purposes.

Reading the Cassiopaean materials have increased my awareness tenfold. Before my encounter with the C's, my life went around a routine like most do. Although I had reservations with regards to my religion, there was nothing really solid I could rely on to dispute my religious belief.

When attending the mass before, I would normally pray and ask for things that people who believe in god would ask.  For some reason,  deep inside there's some uneasiness in me that just won't go away no matter how much I pray.  I even looked for and found a church where the old tridentine mass is being offered.   I thought maybe this church which has a very solemn environment (the new catholic mass is like going to a mall and the church itself is like a day care) could help me get some peace. The more I tried to be religious the bigger and louder my question becomes. What really am I here for? Why are we born just to die and disappear? Did God really design it that way? For what purpose?

Before the C's, I admit that I was afraid of dying. Of leaving behind my family if I die first; of not being able to do anymore the physical things that give me joy and happiness.  I was afraid that I would go to hell because I was not religious enough. Now, it's like I’ve awakened from a very deep sleep. I don't exactly know how much it has affected my life.  I still do the same routine everyday but somehow it's different. I can't exactly tell how. One thing for sure is that I'm not afraid of dying anymore. I don't want to die yet, but only because of my family and my duty to learn in this school of our reality. But death holds no more terrors for me. And because I am no longer afraid of dying, I am better able to live.

My awareness has come to a point where I have become conscious of things and events around me and around the world in particular. Every time I watch people around me who are at a different consciousness level or awareness,  it's like watching a movie. It feels like I'm alone. And I ask myself, who else around me knows what I know?   Is there anyone around watching me like I'm watching them? You know,  I have a very big family. We are a very close and happy family that some people here really admire and envy us for this. I have my own lovely family. But sometimes being "aware" can be lonely. Very lonely.

By K.E. I feel like a kid in a candy store!  It's a relief to read intelligent exchanges that aren't candied over or delivering nastiness.  

The biggest shocker from the cass material is "Aliens eat humans."  I had eased into that by reading the material from the beginning I suppose, but it left a knot in my stomach and placed everything into question.  Radically.  I used to love philosophy classes for that same challenge.  This is utterly different.  I get this feeling when I read or think about animal mutilations.  Nowhere to hide.

Before or right when I started reading the Cass website, I was seeing fleeting dark shadows out of the corners of my eyes.  I first thought my eyesight was deteriorating.  Then I thought I was imagining it.  Then I bought a book of Castaneda's and read about the same things.  This was very surprising, and I remained open to that as a possibility, fantastic as it was.  The claim that don Juan makes about the predator giving us its mind, that entire part, really struck me.  

I felt relieved and alarmed at the same time regarding finding this mention of other entities actual & feeding off human energies, as I came across both sources (Casteneda & Cassiopaea) at once after recognizing these experiences in my life.  I had only until then thought of people feeding off others emotionally, financially, etc.  It's what most people do, i.e. use people until they are depleted. 

There are those who feed off of negativity and spend most of their energy creating negative responses in others.  It's habituating.  This includes those that appear to do the opposite, but it's masked.  I'm thinking of hypocrites, most church-goers I've known, and others who try to be too happy-not happy, but perhaps you know what I mean - there's a feeding there too.  I've learned to keep my distance emotionally & change the way I interact with them, which meant re-evaluating all my relationships and ending very many.    

Around this time, I had an experience at work where someone walked up to me and said something that really caught me off guard and it hurt.  Then she turned around and walked away as though it were nothing.  She seemed oddly "empty" at that moment.  I later had a dream that I was at work and someone else, a man, was standing next to me where she had stood, and he did something that created that awful feeling - like poking me sort of ("pushing my buttons") with one hand.  With the other hand he was pulling a twisted rope like thing out of my abdomen with a waving pull (like the motion used when one cracks a whip, but softer).  It was accompanied by this same feeling.   

I've discovered this happening at work through a couple different people, and I think they are completely unaware.  I have found myself doing it also and I do my utmost to remain aware so as to stop it when I can.  

As I get a little better in handling these things so that no one gets a big emotional reaction to feed off of, it seems to occur only at really choice times. It's like playing a game.  The better you get, the more complex the stings become.  It's there to see, but you don't see it coming from the new scenario until it is upon you.  It's like being able to see what appears to be happening, general interaction, with another increasingly visible layer of interaction on top of that, of which not many others seem to perceive. This interaction/feeding happens at every level, everywhere. I think bumper stickers even generate it.

Recently, I read a post by someone who had similar experiences in his workplace and managed to turn it around. With the realization that it can be done, I am trying to turn it around as I find it happening my life in the most subtle way I can. Because, of course, how can one react without having it twisted into an accusation of being preachy or superior, which is the opposite of what is intended?

I have been aware as well that I used to unintentionally attract a certain kind of negativity in public places. Strange, but it seemed as though if I made eye contact with a person that had a really base "feel" about them, it would trigger something, activate them, as though I must have looked like an energetic target, and they would approach me.  Every time it was unwanted and certainly not intentional.  Now I am becoming aware of this kind of interaction, I have been able somehow to not attract this, or at least to curtail it quickly without doing anything overtly.  Somehow I think I have made my energy unavailable.  Not always though. 

I had a dream several months ago that a dog was licking at my face.  I was turning my face away, but I couldn't use my arms at the time, as though I were occupied by tying my shoes or else I just couldn't push it away. The dog wouldn't stop. The dream collapsed as I began to wake, and I realized it was a greyish seal-like, aardvark-like creature that was trying to penetrate my mouth with its elongated, sucking face.  Grotesque!  I kept my teeth clamped and managed to fight it off and woke up. It was as real as could be in every respect except that it was not visible when I was fully awake.  I will read up more on entity attachments as well.  Maybe that will give me what I need to know to really understand this. 

I know there is something very real & important going on that simply isn't perceived by the vast majority of people.  I can barely see it too, but the veil is always getting thinner.  I wish I could have really glorious insights, but I see what I see. About 3 weeks ago I had a dream that I was driving around trying I think to get out of one place/situation.  A fellow in a suit came to me and said something I don't remember.  I got out of the car and walked around the outside of a manufacturing plant.  In one area, like a large staging area/loading dock, there were 3 lines where workers were cleaning up animals one by one with a kind of special care.  They were sort of giving the last polish before shipping them off.  Shining their hooves, special baths, etc.  Then I realized and exclaimed out loud, Oh my god, this is a pig farm!!  I realized I had been only driving in circles around this plant trying to escape thinking while I was doing it that I was driving to another state or someplace far away, and at the same time realizing my illusion was overlaid directly on my daily mundane life.  Get up, go to work, drive here and there, think about the really important things (like existence & trying to figure out what to do to get to another level of being sort of), go to sleep, do it again.  Except it wasn't time/space based but somehow like a direct overlay (metaphorically, but definitely real).    

I will relay a dream I had last night and my thoughts on it as I try to explain the impact of the idea of the matrix has had for me. I was on a bus that stopped at a station to load/unload. I stayed on the bus.  Later the driver came back and asked where I was supposed to get off, very irritated. I said, "Jeff. High", which was the short name of a high school that I really wanted to attend when I was 14 because I thought it was so cool, new & happening.  Their mascot, by the way, was a red devil.  I then found myself at my old college in the pub perhaps with a group of people I was apparently friends with.  They came to show me a rare, no not rare, but hard to access "book" that was really being sought out by a lot of people -like it was the latest Harry potter book.  There was a lot of excitement and joking around.  I found the "key" which was a clear 2x3" card that I slid into a slot in a clear calculator-like thing.  This activated the book, which was not attached.  It was a clear block that had a warping surface like a glass block the size of a medium sized book.  I stared and altered its angle in the light and finally words appeared.  I started reading, very excited, as the words appeared.  I can't recall all of it, but part of it said, "We are aware.  So be you."  I had the most creepy, bad, alarmed feeling as I read this as though it came from an unexpected place/source. And as though it were a warning.  End dream.

My thoughts are that nothing is hidden even though we think we have a degree of privacy.  That STO & STS sources both have access to this reality and can nudge us one way or another from anyplace. (In the dream I was expecting a STO book/message, but STS came through.  Not sure yet about it all.)  Like a game board where the pieces, people, are gaining in consciousness and learning the game. Abstract ideas, fanciful concepts and scenarios, “what ifs” that are so stimulating to think about are stemming from a real situation that I can only just begin to perceive, and that it is really very much a battle.  It's not a debate or intellectual exercise in forcing a paradigm shift for that cool feeling of disorientation/renewed perspective.   It's actual and everything has a part in its playing out.  But it is real and we must figure it out.   Anyway, this feeling coalesced in a moment of clarity that I felt physically rather than just worked out in my head.  So I think it was a true realization. I am also interested in hearing stories of the personal  impact of the ideas presented in the Cassiopaea material on others. 

By R.H.: There are so many watershed concepts I've gleaned from the Cassiopaean website and  both the Wave and Adventure series' it's hard to pick a place to  start. The breadth and sweep of the material is head-spinning.  What I really resonate with however, are the practical useful clues I  can apply to navigate my life through an increasingly complex  existence. To highlight some of my favorites, I'd propose the following:  

We're participating in a freewill universe....  

STS and STO. Both required. Both balance each other playing-out their  roles in an ascendingly rarified, multiple density universe (1d thru  7th).  

The descriptions highlighting the differences between STS and STO  have been wonderful hints! To recount, STS for instance, may tend to strict controlling hierarchies with there is a chain of command. The presentation of "hemmed-in" double binds. Wishful thinking, inability  to see flaws, errors or vulnerabilities in oneself or system. Love of  the physical, fear, cloaking or hiding information. Calculated manipulations, artificially creating or forcing conditions to desired ends. Severe unrelenting logic, locking the sense of survival and  competition into the most mundane events. The "angel of light"  polished yet counterfeit presentation containing much truth and  slightly twisting or distorting a concept that compromises the entire  appropriate intent into an energy trap.

And STO; an alignment with a  mutual information exchange, networking. Thinking that grows and is  ever inclusive of diverse facts in appropriate place and scale.  Creative inquiry, willing and able to recognize error's in oneself  and one's position and yielding to greater objective knowledge.  Receptive joy, naturally using life and circumstance to effect a vessel for needful change - should the Universe choose to fill it. Consciousness of responsibility to self and the Universe. Firmness in exerting the will to fulfill one's destiny within a hostile environment. "Cautiousness of serpents  yet innocent as doves ", being in the world but not of it.  

Aspects of the STO and STS principles are new to me. Instead of the  conventional (broad stroked) good vs. evil, light vs. dark, etc, an  understanding of STS and STO characteristics yields a concise  distinctive way to identify an alignment of thought, feeling, action  or trend I might take. This is so useful when evaluating appropriate  action.  

Knowledge Protects. Montalk's recent article on the inherent errors  in the new age YCYOR powerfully elucidates the advantage of being  aware and knowledgeable regarding the effects on ones "maneuvering options"  (within the matrix) given one's level of available freewill. I'm  afraid I've been to easily derailed with trendy concepts as "transcend thought" or "thought is the direct manifestation of  man's fall" etc. Many of these ideas may have an application at a  specific place, time and scale. Unfortunately, by not "thinking with  a hammer" one may apply faulty concepts that end up in an obsessive  locks.

Hyper-dimensional nature of earth's 4th density controllers and all  this implies. The time loop hypothesis is quite alarming and if valid,  fuel for real concern. How could one possibly challenge a malevolent  time manipulated scenario?

Variability of materiality in the 3rd and  4th density arena. This idea fleshes-in the holes and gaps we here in  3rd density are so talented at missing! The Cassiopaean rendering of  our human predicament has yielded a model that fits humanity's tragic-sorry history. Locked in recurring miserable wars, detrimental financial systems, Machiavellian measures and countermeasure etc., when individually, even the most spiritually challenged humans  naturally seek peace and calm. This proverbial "Thorn in the foot"  has been one of those "obvious absurdities" that has piqued my  curiosity for years.   

Human DNA modification. Earth's Lizard controllers intervened directly  to dumb down humanity for feeding purposes.  

Imbalanced humanity serves as food for the STS 3rd and 4th density  beings. So... many tactics are marshaled to imbalance humanity in  multiple ways. Imagine the sheer energy volume and emotional provocations the mass media generate for this end! Machiavellian  grist for the mill in any and all reports, stories, conflicts and  special bulletins to inject fear, anguish and turmoil into  the "herd".

Being armed with this knowledge enables us to be vigilant to  the deception. However, significant balance, responsibility and  discipline are required to evolve in our manipulated 3rd density theatre. Given the shocking revelations of our divinely allowed  Lizard controllers (and their abilities) poses a monumental challenge  for one wishing an STO alignment. After becoming aware of these  extrapolations, who hasn't emotionally railed against these apparent  inequities? However, there lies the profound "rub". This in itself will be food-for-the-moon and the "trap" has sprung (yet again). Our  energy to evolve ourselves is our birthright; yet, it's so easy to be  duped out of it. The discipline, careful self-observation and the possibility of non-identification are imperative to maintain balance  in the face of apparent STS atrocities while "bearing" STO  inclinations. Both are necessary. Both are required at this "key"  time in world history.  

Game theory as an insight into the dynamics and payoffs for current  STS world strategy and how they apply to individuals and collective STS goals.

The psychopath factor and how they further the STS aims and target STO biased interests in our world today.   

And concurrent to all this, an impending change:  

The Wave as a realm border crossing. A point of possible density  change (graduation) for those who have learned their respective  densities lessons and all there is are lessons. The enabling fact that when all is said and done, (even to physical death) the  scenarios played out through our lives have an incontrovertible value to the soul via the implications of multiple lives.

The cyclical  nature of time vs. linear time harmonizes with facts we observe in our natural world and cosmos. This takes the "sting" and fear out of  the relentless (monotheism inspired) linear time view and softens the  reality of moving through excruciating trials knowing they're temporary  and a "leveling of the field" is imminent.   

Additionally, in a Cassiopaean exchange with Laura, the drama of Adam  and Eve was being articulated. The idea of receiving all truth from  one source, (in this case the serpent) was described as a distortion  of reality and that to receive a more objective truth, efforts were  required implying a search involving multiple sources. The act of eating the apple, representing a single source and expectations and  results stemming from this "one source wishful thinking"  subtly "corners" us objectively. Simple Huh? Yet, for me, this (over  time) quaked my Instinct, emotion, intellect and spirit. One of those  powerful pieces of the puzzle with sweeping implications, as I reviewed my life path and recognized derailments and attendant obsessions due to missing this clue!

That "Eureka" effect I have  experienced multiple times perusing the Cassiopaean material. This is  an INDICATOR for me. A sense that you "know" this, but it seems "jammed" from coming into our consciousness and being articulated with words. The  Cassiopaean's gracefully steer our curiosity and inquiry and ultimately we will publish these lessons so vitally needed right now.

By D.B.: With the exception of "Knowledge Protects," the WAVE series did not at first seem as much a matter of specific concepts to be applied as it did a cyclonic expansion of existing concepts to be explored.  I am a musician (pianist) by training, a former opera singer and a student of the Alexander Technique (a method of psycho-physical re-education).  In a manner very similar to the study of metaphysics, each of these disciplines require the student to put it all together for himself. 

For me, the WAVE series dovetailed beautifully with my love of objective knowledge.  Although my initial reaction to the idea of being preyed upon by 4th density STS was startlingly similar to Laura's - pure horror - by the time the series was over and done with, my response was a realization of the necessity to focus on uniting the intellectual and emotional centers, for the purpose of beginning to create an "inner body"; a magnetic center.

The ADVENTURES series elucidates many of the ways and means of identifying those who would thwart the best intentions of those who hope for a better world.  "[I]t is clear to those who have been paying attention to what is going on in the world, that there are forces that do NOT wish for this possibility to manifest!"

Overcoming pre-programmed emotions is not for the faint of heart. I would say that I learned objectively many lessons that I previously had only subjectively sensed.

About a year into the WAVE series my long-term companion and best friend passed away unexpectedly.  Even then, the thrust of the theories and concepts as expressed, while impersonal, gave me considerable comfort and encouragement to go on.  And I am grateful. 

Until recently I have had to be satisfied adding the energy of my own goodwill to the [Cassiopean] enterprise with an occasional encouraging e-mail (I was even anonymously quoted in Part 20 of the ADVENTURES series).  But lately I find myself very much in agreement with Boris Mouravieff's statement that "[o]ne must find a genuine esoteric task being carried out in the world, make oneself useful in that work, and take an active part in it."

For the last five years or so I have been studying the materials on a daily basis, and each day I have looked forward to and frankly, loved this work more than I can express.

By S.R.: Regarding the nature of existence and the two polarities in our 3rd density reality that are discussed in the Wave and Adventures series there are many things to be said.

As a youth I went down the road of life looking for answers. Most of what I found when I looked was, of course, the many flavors of religion and later metaphysics. When one believes they don't have the answers they tend to look "outside" for the answers.

Christianity and the main religions of the world stress monotheism. Most of the systems out in the world present outside authority figures of various kinds. To choose any particular one is to seemingly earn the wrath of some or most of the other systems. So I was in the position of searching for that "true authority" that would result with being right with God.  

No matter which system I tried and how devoutly I tried to follow the rules, it just didn't seem that I was finding God, or getting closer to home, or achieving whatever I felt I needed to be doing. The Wave and Adventures series describes with great detail the STS and STO perspectives and how they relate to this experience of the seeker.

My life experience of following the monotheistic approach could be very well described in the STS perspective. The strife, conflict, discord and other problems that I could see in my life and the life of others is extremely well predicted and explained by the STS perspective as taught in the series.  

Without the benefit of the clear concepts one must attempt to learn from their life experiences what to make of things. I was learning, painfully, that everywhere I went there were "takers" who claimed truth but always at a price.  Through each experiment I would become poorer in most ways and continually frustrated. There just didn't seem any way out of the jungle. I got to the point that I would repeatedly ask "God" the question: "Who's in charge?" This question was continually asked over the months then over the years. I wanted to be with the God who was the god of everything and all mankind.  

One night in a dream I became lucid and I remembered my burning question so I asked it: "Who's in charge?". Nothing was said; there were no words in reply but instantly before me I was shown a beautiful huge billowing tree. It had an almost hemispherical broad canopy of innumerable leave, many branches, and a huge powerful trunk into the earth.  

Now this picture totally perplexed me. I had no idea at the time what this meant. In retrospect it's one of those things you should dig into for understanding. At the time it just flew right past me. I just dismissed it as some meaningless trick my mind, or the world, or whatever was playing on me. It just so happens that the Wave series uses just such a metaphor for describing the STO orientation and the "network".  

While going through the Wave series and discovering the "network" concept I remembered this dream. I was overjoyed with the beauty of the concept and the wisdom of how it correlated my life's experiences. Up till then I had quite a bit of experience about what didn't work, but only an unconscious longing for the answer that would truly set me free.  From this big "truth" you can branch out to so many other "truths".  

With the STO and STS dichotomy most everything I had experienced in this life began to correlate well to the framework. The nature of what most people who dare to look conclude as "evil" is given it's proper place, indeed it's necessity. The series recounting of the Sufi teaching on this point with the many "names of God" teaching, upon my deep reflection and looking at things the way they are, gave me peace and confidence that the world actually is just the way it is supposed to be.  

How effective the monotheistic illusion is! It programs you to look away instead of soberly looking "evil" in the eye to see things as they truly are. That was one I had some trouble with but I had become convinced that reality is your friend! Don't run from reality!

From the STS perspective, there can be no peace until all "evil" is vanquished: and the ends justify the means. From the STO perspective, finally you are able to love both the "good" and the "evil" in a way that seems heretical to most people. You can finally say, as I had learned previously in life to say: the ultimate "ends" are usually illusions, focus on the means. This relates back to the series teaching, "all there is is lessons".  From there you can go to free will, choices, awareness, and knowledge.  

For a person in ignorance, being repeatedly pushed in the STS direction, the "pulls of the flesh" seem almost irresistible. Like the Apostle wrote: "that which I would not, that I did, and that which I would I did not." The law of the "flesh" as it were. When you are able to view things from many different viewpoints and have knowledge, it boils down to choices. I choose to serve others or I choose to serve self. The choices become very clear at that point. Once I knew without a doubt that the choice for me was STO then the veil of temptation for me was lifted. Several "temptations" and destructive habits that I had not mastered suddenly became trivial and of no consequence. This change for me was STUNNING!  

The Wave series gives you the concepts of how real knowledge gives you choices and the option to exercise and build free will. When you maintain your focus on the issue at hand, the choice you choose to make, you come to the place where you can laugh at the old temptations. The "pot of gold" loses it's glitter.

WOW! What a great gift we have in free will!  What a deep thing knowledge is.  

It is my experience that "truth" seems multidimensional. It is helpful to experience something from many points of view when trying to truly know something. And the knowledge that can come from painful STS experiences, it is possible to avoid the pain by experiencing a viewpoint hypothetically without having to suffer. "Illusions" need not be experienced directly.  

The series reference to the Montalk site material resulted in much correlation of my own life experience. How valuable this material is. So much pain could have been avoided. And the STO flip side: "Not the hearers but the doers shall be justified ...". Since a STO lesson is a true spiritual concept: it must be lived not just thought! The exercise of the will gives substance to the divine reality you are grasping!

Here is where I have some work to do. At least I am aware of the goal and the methodology now.  All this knowledge interlinks and fits beautifully. It all "fits." One thing joins to another and other things build on those pieces. My sense of true knowledge is that you can build on it because what you are building upon will not evaporate. Eventually that which is "true" always fits.

I am reminded of the Wave series references to taking steps up the staircase. From one level of knowledge and awareness you are made capable of reaching higher steps. One doesn't skip the steps because one appreciates the value of each "lesson" and the awareness it brings. Who wants to have blind spots? But one may have confidence in the "network" and with patience those blind spots are revealed.

Regarding energy exchanges, energy theft, and "feeding," I am aware of experiences I had that fit with the series teachings on these matters. When I was trying to leave a manipulative spiritual group, I noticed that my mind was clouded and I couldn't focus or concentrate. It was all I could do to maintain my decision and leave the group. It required a great effort of will. I felt very drained and violated afterward.  

I also noticed many years ago I was "telling off" a parent who loved me. The parent chose a "loving", surrender response because they agreed with what I said. That person was suffering greatly. I didn't particularly want that person to suffer, I just wanted to be left alone but I noticed a strange energizing sensation as that person was suffering. I was also repulsed by the episode and resolved not to do something like that again.  

It occurred to me later that there were people who sought such exploitation of others as a way of life. I had noticed that this compared to the "loosh" feeding concept that Robert Monroe and others talked about. I knew a woman where I worked who was very pleasant to be around. You felt like her light was always shinning and she was helpful and wanted other people to learn and discover. She had a companion who gave me the creeps. In retrospect now he may fit the profile of a programmed energy conduit, perhaps even a psychopath. This woman with the beautiful soul started to weaken and got cancer. She fought the cancer with all her strong will and resources she had but she just continued ever so gradually to slip.  

She did finally die and later I talked to the former companion. This person had become much more vicious, almost frantic and insane and I broke off further contact. It might be noted that this companion had earlier urged that I take LSD to develop my spiritual abilities. I refused. He also wanted me to go to one of those gurus who offer instant enlightenment and I refused that as well. His partner with the beautiful soul on the other hand suggested books that were helpful for me in making some spiritual progress.  I have seen how those in a deceived state seem to strengthen those who have deceived them. This of course matches the information given in the series. I have instinctively learned to disassociate myself with people and organizations that work this way.  

The series information on this subject is detailed consistent with my experiences. I had learned many of these concepts from other sources, here a bit and there a bit but the Wave and Adventure series had it all together in a well presented whole. I have noticed the path of misery of mankind for all of known history. In trying to make sense of this irrationality of it all I had come to the conclusion that those most attuned to the STS path seem to tie into a spiritual dimension of viciousness.   

Today with the whole planet deteriorating under the weight of the most powerful STS money and power influences. It is appears they are insane or as the series mentioned in a state of "wishful thinking". They get cut off from reality and what seems to drive them is inflicting the most suffering on the most number of people. The ones who are the most powerful see that the world's suffering as inevitable. They claim "enlightened self interest" and argue that if they don't do it someone else will. And given the nature our STS world there do appear to be endless others waiting to top the pyramid. They LOVE what they do. These power addicted souls work 12-14 hours days. They can't get enough of it. Very interesting.  

The only way it can make sense is that there is a spiritual component that they are tied into. Someone higher up is using them. The Series info on this important subject matches the facts exactly. How very interesting that the efforts by your foundation and others to give people valuable information that could empower them, that these efforts are viciously attacked in a coherent way from seemingly unrelated parties. The aspect of soul control and organization at a non-human dominant level becomes very apparent. This is one of the most valuable pieces of truth that a human can learn on this planet.  

Those people who would restrict more and more freedom, constrain more and more people to not be able to evolve and grow. More and more succumb to a sick sleepy slavery. Whatever it means to be human is violated by such a process. This explains why in this world it sometimes seems that no good deed goes unpunished!

And yet no matter how dark the world there are those like Laura and others who insist on shining a light in the darkness. That is just the way some of us are. With the tools of this series an effective path is laid out for victory without fighting a war that one must inevitably lose.   

Regarding the "4th way" as given in the series. As I have sought instruction in my life I have repeatedly gotten the sensation that an area of knowledge I would encounter may have at one time been very effective in promoting spiritual progress but something had died and most all that remained had been corrupted and twisted to sabotage what once was. I learned that I needed to be part of a dynamic process that is current and happening. This process involves each one playing their part and sharing. Not following. It is the living group process I needed to find and become a part of, not some system's body of knowledge and teaching. In your group and the fruits of it's efforts I sense such a dynamic process. This idea is consistent with how the series has presented your group and it's efforts. Your group is as different from most of the others as day and night. "By their fruits you will know them".    

I am also able to comment on the cyclical destruction, the 3600 year cycle, and science's rejection of data. I have noticed what is presented in the series is similar to information I have found elsewhere. The pattern of 3600 year upheavals is well established from multiple sources. On top of that are what appear to be supper extinction cycles that occur in varying multiples of 30 million years. I am aware of many out of place pieces of data that those who are trying to control science consistently try to hide and destroy. Anything that would help people to get a grasp on our true history is blocked. That which would shed light on what is really happening to us is always suppressed and hidden. This is consistent with a hyperdimensional management model and the teachings of the series.    

In my view the Perseus Foundation/Cassiopaea Group is doing something very important and I agree with what I have learned about what the organization is accomplishing. The fruits are valuable and the group deserves support of those who seek progress for the STO approach.

Laura at several times warned in the material that people should not follow a outside authority. That you have to put things to the test in your life. The more your experiences correlate with a piece of knowledge the more confidence one earns for that knowledge. Given the nature of the realm we inhabit, error may introduced from time to time. Specific sessions where Laura states that Frank may have been influencing answers were given as attempts at resistance. It is up to each of us to test our information and awareness. Increases of awareness that do not turn out to be illusions are a good indicator of progress. We are on a path of lessons that will not end. At our level the opportunity for error is a necessary part of those lessons we are learning.

As we learn, the things we once held as true are sometimes subject to revision. I have experienced such "revisions" in my own life. I have learned when something seems unclear or at variance that if you do more work and research and get more experience the apparent variance may often disappear.

Each person has the potential for their own "blind spots". Their situation might introduce error in their perceptions. In such cases if a person's attitude is to "bear one another's burdens", rather than to personally enrich the self (STO not STS), then disagreements may be opportunities growth even within a STO organization. Attitude and alignment would be paramount in such a process, not focusing on this or that frontier of knowledge as though anything were a doctrine or dogma that needed defending. What "is" can stand the tests of life. It is the illusions that give trouble.   

In some of the sessions various disasters are predicted "when the sun is in Libra". No date is set so potentially any "future" sun in Libra condition might fit. Now this is just hypothetical at this point so there is no experience to invalidate the claim. Suppose 2012 comes and nothing we experience as a "wave" takes place and there are no earth changing disaster, etc. Well at a higher level our reality is something that can change greatly. The sessions are asserting that the wave will occur in the near term no matter what. Well in the above hypothetical case did we change the future? Were the Cassiopaeans "wrong"? The Cassiopaeans mention not to look to dates.  

We must always remain open to developing knowledge and revising earlier held views if experience warrants. If and when such a situation were to develop then at that time I would offer that it would be helpful to reevaluate prior views and conclusions.  Some things in the materials have more of this provisional aspect to them and others are well established in many people's experiences. Some session info was understood to be at variance with other sessions and this was explained as examples of "outside" interference. For me no materials as presently given are a source for current trouble given where I am NOW. This is rather an interesting place for me to have come to because my past experience with "channeled" material would stress caution.

Given the caution, the material states, and I agree, that we must continually be vigilant. Be vigilant in preparation for attacks, but also proactive in the creation of a "better" reality. 

By T.P.: I am lucky - Born a Jewish Buddhist with a Step father who is a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, and my family are organizers of a group called O___ Friends of Tibet, I learned at a young age one of many proper ways to meditate (without getting overwhelmed by the bliss and getting lost in my head, or tricked)

I have to admit that at a certain point in my development, I went from STS (teenage angst resulting in anger lashouts) to a false sense of STO, wherein I tried to "blast love and light" at everything negative.  Before I started reading your work, however, I began to learn about Balance and the existence of Light & Dark being realistically the same thing. STO is a gradual process, understandably. The shedding of my STS tendencies (starting with awareness of them) also began to open my eyes to more and more illusions existing in our society.

In August 2001, a friend and psychic partner of mine were already beginning our Culture Jamming campaign throughout our city - IE: Taking pictures of people eating at McDonalds, smoking Cigarettes... we had a radio show and everything on Disinformation and Theft of Free Will & Silent Social Weapons and things like that.  Mostly, it was STS behavior on our part with the intentions of "waking up" the world, which is to say, we were trying to force change on others.  It turns out that the simple sharing of my knowledge in conversational context was enough to open a lot of people's minds to the possibilities I was presenting.  I found that Sharing, and not Preaching, was the best way to acquire more depth of knowledge in my studies.

Lately, I have been fighting a constant battle to not become "obsessed" with the discovery of new information.  It's very STS of me to only look for materials relating to End Times, Wars and Alien Invasion for the purpose of surviving the coming troubles.  In fact, I started reading your page with those very intentions, I read your Post Sept. 11th materials, and that led me on this journey that I am happily on, to read and examine (as objectively and cynically as you recommend we do) all the materials the C's have proposed.

The effects of my gradual awakening are affecting my girlfriend, as some of her "friends" that she made prior to the start of our relationship are proving to be Users, and are (subconsciously) "stealing" from us.  I myself, am watching my choice of friends change, as I now have far more "acquaintances" that I prefer to keep at a distance, and unawares of my knowledge, than Friends who I trust wholeheartedly.

We are beginning to feel the Shedding of the Old Ways, and the illusions are starting to peel away, revealing, as you yourself stated, a depressing reality filled with people hurrying to build up their illusions, and stealing from their "friends."

I believe wholeheartedly that To Know and To Love mean the same things.  Compassion means to Know through Love. On that note, I Love what Laura and the C's are talking about, and I Love and understand the insights, and would like to continue my development and build my knowledge base.

Laura's literature and teachings are credible, and what's more, insightful, and constantly "ring" those little bells inside my head - "This sounds right, this fits," and I am one of the people who is and has been taking the time to read and digest all of her writings.

By R.N.: The first concept that grabs my attention is the whole STS vs STO battle. Learning that there is no right side, but a side of creation and the other side of destruction helped clear things up for me in terms of why religion would try to fix everything that they deem wrong with society and the world. 

I used to subscribe to the new age idea of "there is no evil" because I did not subscribe to the religious rhetoric.  I was ignorant to follow this idea for a short time, even though I have had a sense that it wasn't correct in me.  I thank Laura and the C's in helping me see that there is indeed a choice to be made in this level, contrary to the new age ideas which seem to put half truths into my mind that are only true when one reaches fourth density!  This also applies to when I was trying to create my own reality.  Nothing would happen for me, but learning that it was just a trick to make us feel like we are responsible for creating the evil!   

The seven density levels have also intrigued me a lot.  The analogy of how the snail can only "see" pleasure or pain which leads it to travel only on a line and is not able to see beyond its own "reality", shows me how we can sit here in 3rd density and not be aware of what happens above us.  Also, the story of the sheep and the evil magician helped me see how we are purposely kept blind to what 4d STS has been doing to us cycle after cycle.  It is also interesting that STS is in densities above 4 only as potentialities because of their recycling into primordial matter.  After all, aren't they are the matter side of existance? I look forward to one day being in 4th density and not being the "property" of other life forms.  It would also be cool to not have to eat other life forms to live.  This has given me hope that I am not stuck in this existence forever, life after life!

Another topic that I have learned a lot from is learning and assimilating instead of just gathering information.  This relates to me a lot career-wise and when I was in school.  I know people who would know a lot of information from books, but could not go beyond that information, they seemed like robots to me (especially Bible thumpers).  When I was in college, I noticed how the whole curriculum was emphasizing rote memorization over thinking.  I started to feel like a robot!  This was one of the reasons why I ended up leaving college. 

Then there are people who read or do things and learn from their own thinking, and those people are the ones who have been the most interesting to speak to!  Information is like having the source code to a computer program.  It's text in a file that cannot actually do anything on the computer.  Learning is like running a compiler on that information, which turns it into knowledge, which is the actual executable file.  This exe file becomes a new ability of the computer.

I have experienced being blind to the bad things that others have done. Since I'm a type of person that helps when I can (also the "be nice" programming), I ended up being used by some past friends.  At the time I didn't notice, but they used me to pump up their own egos and fix things for them.  They had a habit of twisting my words when they wanted to start arguments for no reason, which also made the hair stand on my back of my neck when I read about this at the site. They eventually got involved in drugs and taking advantage of other people. I woke up to being ignorant of them when I started high school, when I had more time alone and noticed how I felt so weak around them. They could have been petty tyrants so I'm happy the friendship ended. 

Since them, I have had close friends who don't find the need to feed off of others!  Another attribute I have experienced is the difficulty of adjusting, and alienation to this reality. I have felt annoyed at how things work in the world.  Competition, money, and other worldly things didn't make sense to me at first, I guess because its not natural to me. Perhaps this means I do have the "personality disorder"[that is generally ascribed to "wanderers"] but then, I did also have a family that had problems, so it could have just been caused by that.

Even though I may not be one, the wanderer information has helped me understand that I was not messed up for growing up with a different view of life. 

By S.N.: I am a 23 year seeker and student.  I was born and raised  amongst the various monuments and disparate neighborhoods of Washington, DC.

Since youth I have maintained a sense of wonder and awe at the process of  nature and society developing around us.  I first expressed this wonder at the workings of things as a fascination with technology, and I was a consummate tinkerer and builder of gadgets.  I also loved working on bicycles and the free feeling of zipping along unimpeded with the wind in my ears and hair. 

Like many children, I dreamed of being an astronaut or test pilot, careers that would allow me to explore what I perceived to be the foremost frontiers of human innovation and discovery.  As I grew and learned more about the world and about science, technology and the process of discovery, I realized that part of my fascination with things like bikes, stethoscopes, telescopes etc. came from the experience of extending perception and understanding about the world and our relation to it through practical and reproducible interactions, aided by technology.  As I planned for undergraduate education, I felt that these interests would be best expressed through a major in either biomechanical engineering or industrial engineering (human factors eng.). 

After sitting out a couple of years and learning and searching on my own, without as many formal boundaries, I came to my current chosen discipline of Symbolic Systems (CS, Psych, Linguistics, Logic), which I pursue formally at S___ University, and avidly on my own.  That choice is born in great part by realizing that the most potent technologies for interacting with our world are part of our inherent intellectual and genetic heritage and that the practical and reproducible tools can be techniques and not just (nuts and bolts)technologies.  I have grown to understand the symbols and interactions of life as reflective symbols in a universal language that includes infinite diversity of patterns, and semantic association, limited only by our own curiosity and process of discovery and perception.

[Because of the Cassiopaean Material] I have realized that all of the excitement that I yearned for as a youth is arrayed plentifully about us, even in our daily "mundane" interactions - it is not all "nice", but the process of learning the nature of nature is truly rewarding when approached with awareness and "the mood of a warrior".

By J.P.: For thirty years I have actively been a “seeker”. I find it interesting that so many have found Gurdjieff and Castenada as mentors. In Search of the Miraculous  introduced me to the search, (my initial reaction to the book was similar to Laura’s) and shortly after a friend introduced me to a “Fourth Way” school that had just started a “branch” where I lived.

After four months (the summer of ’72) of study I came to the realization that I had learned what I had needed, and left. During the same period A Separate Reality  (Casstenada’s second book) was given me. It too had a profound affect on by thinking.     

While browsing a bookstore in Sacramento, I ran across  The Sufis by Idries Shah. After buying and perusing the book, and not being especially attracted, I gave it to a friend (the same who had given me Ouspensky’s book) and he found it to be inspiring. Two years later in an Aspen bookshop I again found the book. This time it was a quite a different experience. After a careful reading I knew I had  found a source of Truth.

From that point to the present, my respect and reverence for the Sufi’s has only increased. I am not a Sufi. Remember, a Sufi is not someone on the way, but someone who has arrived. I caught up on all of Shah’s published material and read the new as it came out. Perhaps his most enduring gift to mankind (he passed on in 1996)  is the collection of Sufi stories published in a variety of books over the years. These stories are a source of the most valuable knowledge available to mankind on the planet. They are nothing less than maps of the human mind. As complex as the mind, are too, these stories complex. Yet the average person sees only their entertainment value. Their many layers of meaning and multidimensionality remain hidden.   

Initially the Cassiopaean material and the articles Laura provided on the site grabbed my interest because of the history and cosmology being provided had a strong resonance of Truth. I also noticed that the psychological aspects of man the C's were giving were virtually the same as what the Sufi's have always taught.  That knowledge is key and unlimited in an unlimited Universe is a concept that was also strongly attractive. And I have learned something of attack and how knowledge is a necessity to both understand and prevent it. Awareness here, it has been verified, is key.

By T.T.: One of the main concepts that the C's talk about that interested me in the beginning was the  division of the universe into seven densities. The concept was first  described to me by a friend who drew me a diagram of all seven densities and described what kind of energies inhabited each  realm. Having been familiar with Ouspensky's writings on the law of  seven, as well as his chapter on the fourth dimension in New Model of the Universe, it seemed to confirm a lot of what I had already learned. 

What was novel for me then was the overlapping or interpenetration of  one density into another. I had previously thought that the astral  plane or spirit world was seperate from us and the beings that occupied  this realm were almost as ignorant of us as we were of them. It had  never occured to me that they might be able to 'live among us' and  remain unseen.

When I first considered the possibility of malevolent beings lurking everywhere in a hyperdimensional state it  bothered me a great deal. I was reminded of my days back in sunday  school where I carried around the idea that 'God was watching me  constantly' and there was nowhere to hide from his omniscient gaze.  Only now instead of sitting in judgement, or even observing  dispassionately, these 'Gods' are manipulating us, feeding off us, using  every trick in the book to keep their sheep asleep.

As I continued to  live with this new awareness, I began to go about my day sensing that  they were with me everywhere I went, and by doing so, my fear of them  gradually decreased. I found myself engaging and interacting with  others in the usual way, while inside being aware of subtle influences that might be generated by the Lizzies. On several occasions I caught myself in the moment before becoming involved in what could be described  as a petty dispute, and not wanting to be food anymore, chose to act  differently knowing that 'they' were up there ready to feast. Rather  than producing feelings of paranoia, this new knowledge allowed me  accept the natural order of things yet still be free to act in ways that  need not support the status quo.

Another concept I learned alot from  was the whole STO/STS dichotomy. Like many people who are interested in the true nature of reality, I have always had some difficulty coming to  terms with the problem of good and evil. There are so many different  systems claiming to have the one moral code that if only everyone  blindly obeyed would rid the planet of all injustice. Yeah, right! 

Also, there are people who would argue that anything evil could be  viewed as good under the right circumstances, and vice versa. As if!

I  remember one person claiming that Hitler was necessary in order for  mankind to see how evil we could be, and learn never to do such a  horrible thing again. I don't feel we need to learn the Hitler lesson  again. All I have to do is witness the mother beating her kids in the  supermarket (as I did last week), or listen to the gunshots from the  hunters across the lake (as I did last night), in order to know deep  down inside of me that hurting folks is not the way to go.

Service to  Others or Service to Self. It's beauty lies in it's simplicity. It  works because it really does empower people to make choices based on a  model of sharing and equality rather than one of personal consumption  and greed.

This can be a difficult concept to put into practice  sometimes because it is not always easy to tell what a person's motives  are when they make a request. However, I have been able to reassess  some specific instances when I would normally give without thinking,  like giving loose change to the bums who hang out in park near my store.  Giving them money so they can continue to drink themselves into  oblivion is definitely a service to self request, even though when they  ask their need seems genuine.

I also learned from Laura's questioning  of the Cassiopaeans that alien abductions could be resisted. I'm not  sure if this has any bearing on my situation because I can't recall ever  having been abducted or even dreaming about aliens in general.

One  night last month, after seeing the movie Signs, I had a dream that I had  one of these aliens trapped in my closet. In the dream, the door wasn't  fully shut and I knew that if only I could click it closed the alien  would be unable to escape. I was pushing hard against the door with my  shoulder and the alien was pushing equally hard back, so in one final  desperate attempt I jumped back and kicked at the door with all my  might. At the same moment I must have kicked out hard with my physical  body because both of my cats went flying off the end of my bed, and I  woke up. Ever since that very vivid dream I've thought that maybe my  resistance to the alien entity was perhaps inspired by knowledge that  they could be resisted.

On the more practical side, because of reading  the Cassiopaean website, I have begun taking melatonin every evening  before I go to bed, as well as eliminating all flouride containing  toothpastes from our house. I live in the country so we don't  have to worry about flouride in our well water. Also, I have done some  research into reiki, which I had heard about before but never explored,  and have now located a reiki practioner in E___ who appears to have kept  close to the original teachings, and I hope to make an appointment with her next time I travel there.

I was grateful to read that Cassiopaeans  were not in favour of immunizations, as we decided not to vaccinate  our child when he was a baby, which was (and still is) a very controversial decision around here.

Lastly, the concept of free will  according to the Cassiopaeans is something that I have learned much from  in these past few months. Free will is solely about one thing; choice,  and choice can only happen at one time; now. That's what I think the  C's mean when they say "it's when you choose that  counts."

Free will ties in directly to the STO/STS paradigm, because  it is in our choices concerning how we interact with others in the  moment that determines whether we are acting according to STO or STS.  For all our planning, scheming and wishful thinking for the future,  nothing can prepare us for all of life's extraordinary encounters, and  only by living in the present, meeting life as it is without  expectation, can one exericise free will effectively.

The more I live  with the new knowledge I am accumulating and endeavor to put it into  practice the more I hope to be able to truly become an STO candidate. 

By G.P.: For many  years I have felt a certain degree of dissatisfaction with the nature  of the world and reality in which we live. I felt that something was  missing in my life – that I seemed to have "forgotten" something of  great importance. It was also quite clear to me that my awareness and  level of knowledge did not provide a sufficient foundation for me to  build a house of understanding. My "cup of knowledge" was, indeed, half empty.

So, like many others, I began a personal quest for  meaning. I investigated all of the major religions. I researched  ritual magic. I joined the Masonic Lodge. I joined the Rosicrucian  Order. I studied all of the New Age philosophies and engaged in any  number of meditative practices. I built a very large library of books  dealing with phenomena and esoterica of all types. I eventually  reached a point where I felt that my "cup of knowledge" was half  full. But something was still missing.

Then I stumbled across the Cassiopaea Website.

My initial impression of the material was that it was simply  another site in the seemingly endless parade of channelled material wherein "ET saves humanity from itself". However, as I continued to  delve deeper into the material, lo and behold, pieces of my personal  puzzle began to fall into place. I was stunned. The information  resonated very strongly within, and I began to process and connect bits and pieces of knowledge into a model of being that began to make  sense. With increasing excitement I began to build a real structure  of knowledge on the foundation that already existed. Talk  about "eureka" moments!

The specific concepts that  I have learned from the material are definitely too numerous to  mention in a short essay. I will just summarize some of the concepts,  in no particular order, that seemed most important to me.

All there is is lessons. Knowledge is the key and knowledge  protects. We have free will and free choice. We are responsible for  ourselves, including our ignorance, which is itself a choice to  enhance learning and growth. Everyone has a role to play in the  lessons we are learning. We can choose to get better at who we are and what we do or we can retreat into our personal belief systems and  close our eyes to the universe around us.  

Everything that happens on this planet is a symbol of some  interaction between STS and STO energy at higher levels. STO appears  to be a total absence of concern for oneself, a complete transcendence of the ego.

From my perspective one of the more compelling revelations involved  the discussion of anticipation and desire. Desire is anticipation and avoiding anticipation is the key to shaping the future. It is almost  as if anticipation collapses the probability waveform and negates the  intent.

Regarding the application of these concepts to my experiences, I  can only say that I seem to have a greatly intensified awareness of  the nature and structure of the events that are currently playing in  the theater of my life.

By L.C.: My studies in the nature of this current "phase" of reality we are  experiencing really started for me in my early teens, which is when I  basically "woke up". Like most people this happens to, the immediate  aftermath of this process was a lot of misery and disillusionment with the general world around me. However, after awhile and a strengthening of my will and increase in my knowledge, I no longer felt depressed but instead took it upon myself to DO something about the state which caused this depression and disillusionment in the first place.

One significant factor in my recovery from the initial shock of  "wakefulness" was the meeting and interaction with others who felt the  same way, and had experienced similar things.

When I encounter new people, I generally get an intuitive sense about them. What this sense tells me usually determines whether or not I feel comfortable in talking to them about matters relating to the kinds of subjects that are discussed in the Cassiopaean material, or in a more general sense, "Matrix issues". There are some people whom I simply can not really relate to on anything but the most superficial level, whilst others seem to resonate a frequency that immediately gets my attention and it is these people I usually wish to communicate with. Again to use Matrix terminology, the former category of people could be classed as the sleepers or food for the machines, whilst the others are at least potentially members of "resistance cells".

It is here that the Cassiopaean material has really made the biggest difference to my life. For a long time now, whenever I have encountered awakening humans, I have endeavoured to help them as best I can. In recent times I have encountered people who are either in the process of waking up or have recently had an experience which has left them in the  state of "waking shock" that I referred to earlier, some of them have  also been experiencing attempts at "derailment" via agents.

As I have experienced this before and at the time basically had no guidance from anyone, nor any real support from understanding persons, I understand the metaphysical shock they are experiencing and seek to assist them through it. In this regard, the Adventures series for me has been the most significant influence on my ability and enthusiasm to do this. 

Although I found The Wave to be highly interesting, it was more so on a purely intellectual level as it contained a lot of potential answers and theories on questions and areas of study I had been investigating for a long time. The Adventures series however, through its excellent explication of personal events in the lives of a group of awakened humans with essentially the same ultimate goal and intent as me, has served as an amazing tool for me to help others experiencing the same archetypal events. It has also enabled me to look back upon certain events in my own past with various individuals whom I was interacting with on a "metaphysical" level and understand more clearly what was going on.

At the time these events were happening, I became convinced that there was kind of veiled agenda going on on what I call the "Meta-level" (which has been referred to on the Cassiopaea site as the Theological reality).

Such ideas at times seemed like paranoid fantasies, but the clear rationale for these types of scenarios that is presented in the Adventures series has really helped me on a personal level, and also in my ability to help others deal with similar events.  This has led to a much greater general understanding and I think, a much-increased ability to fend off "attacks".

I shall finish by saying that now hardly a day goes by when I do not make some kind of association with the general events and news of the day to concepts expressed in the Cassiopaean material, and I regularly make references to it to other people when discussing these types of issues (which is very regularly). The Cassiopaean material has become a fascinating new area of serious study for me, and in that regard alone it can be said to have affected my daily life.  

By C. W.: I'm the kind of person who was always looking for a better cosmology to help me understand myself and other people, my experiences, and the world around me. In this respect, I have learned a lot from the Wave and Adventure series and the other material on the Cassiopaean website

The first concept that made a difference was the idea of the seven densities as levels of awareness. Previously, I had been working with the more complex and confusing ideas of planes, like the astral plane, the mental plane, the causal plane, etc. This new (to me) concept of densities with realm borders like the skin between water and air, and a separate concept of dimensions as perpendicular realities makes it much easier to think and talk about our worlds.

Realm Border Crossing - can't wait, I think to myself. But I know I'm not ready, and I know it won't be all love and light.

Organic Portals - We recently had to evict a woman from our housing co-op (a 44 unit townhouse apartment complex) after eight years of compassionately extending ourselves to help her overcome her apparent inability to pay her fair share of our costs. This approach has worked before, for instance with a woman who was a shopaholic, but not this time. At the last board of directors meeting that she attended, we finally had to admit that we were dealing with a psychopath. She would lie to us about something, we would expose the lie, and she would just shrug and move on to the next lie. We gave up trying to help her, and she's gone now.

The fascinating part for me, however, was seeing an organic portal in action. When she came into the room, she spread out an atmosphere of agitation like black ink from an octopus while appearing calm and cool on the surface. There appeared to be two brains at work: one on the surface, making excuses and telling stories; and the other behind the scene carefully choosing words so that she could tell herself that she was being honest while at the same time conveying the impressions that she wanted us to receive. At one point, she made a comment that pushed a button for a couple of directors who responded with an almost incoherent rage that they couldn't stop. Far from being bothered by this, our evictee seemed to feed on the energy - her skin glowed, her eyes shone, she looked good.

The STO/STS distinction seems clear in the abstract, but how to apply it usefully? For example, it seems to me that even the Evil Magician is acting to serve others by being the meanest teacher imaginable. I suspect that we are each serving the Whole whether we know it or not, and that our understanding of what we are doing is severely limited. I find the attributes of the distinction more useful, such as "does this activity or belief help me grow or cause me to shrink?"

All in all, the use of the Cassiopaean concepts in daily life, both for interpreting and navigating, is enormously effective. I never realized that seeing and understanding the negative aspects of existence side by side with the positive would enable me to more fully choose what was positive and to deal with what is negative more effectively so as to have more energy to give to that which is truly of Love and Light and Knowledge.

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