Clinton Callahan - Building Love That Lasts: Secrets for Creating an Extraordinary Life and Profound Intimacy with Your Partner

About The Author

Clinton Callahan (http://clintoncallahan.org) began originating Possibility Management thoughtware upgrades (http://possibilitymanagement.org) in 1975. He also writes S.P.A.R.K.s (http://sparkexperiments.org), the Distinctionary (http://distinctionary.xyz), and StartOver.xyz (http://startoverhere.xyz). Born in Kansas, BS Physics from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, California, Clinton has lived and worked in the USA, Australia, Japan and Europe, and now carries a passport from the nanonation of Possibilica. Callahan is a trainer in the Possibility Management Trainer Guild, author, speaker, and memetic engineer at General Memetics (http://generalmemetics.org). He invented Expand the Box innovation soft-skills training in Germany in 1998, and has been a student of Western Baul Master Lee Lozowick since 1989.

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to:

Pauline Aiko Lamprecht who first introduced me to the experience of Countenance, without warning, one Monday afternoon in a noisy, smoke-filled Viennese caf in the fall of 1994. As my reality horizon expanded into infinity and I could hardly breathe, she calmly said that she never opens this door for anyone. She just waits until someone visits.

Mayli, Aikos teacher, who obviously trains her students with a rare deference.

Clinton Callahan Jr., my father, a King who read this whole manuscript out loud to my mother Virginia, who couldnt read anymore, just so she could hear what it says.

My ex-wives; my not-ex-daughters; and every person who has ever encouraged me to learn more about love.

Sue Nestrud, who spent hundreds of unpaid hours transforming piles of badly recorded talk tapes into words on paper that built the foundation for this project.

Tilman and Dagmar Neubronner of Genius Verlag, whose unmitigated enthusiasm for our work and for revolutions in general helped entice this book out of the womb.

Regina Sara Ryan and the Hohm Press team, who excel in the compassionate art of working kindly with cantankerous authors to make a better book.

Werner and Hannelore Lutz, whose creative financial ideas and simple exuberance for life greatly supported the final writing of this book.

Mike McDonnell, for all those hours talking to me about responsibility under the streetlights on the far side of midnight.

Anyone who has ever tried (or even wanted to try) to write a book that would somehow help people, because many of those books have helped me.

Everyone who participated in Possibility Management Laboratories experimenting together to discover what works and what does not work.

Marion Lutz, for being the listening into which I could write Building Love That Lasts .

Lee Lozowick, a man who has many secrets but none worth telling, because he knows that a person keeps only what they authentically discover themselves. You are a space through which Archetypal Love does its work in the world (just my opinion). This manuscript was completed only because you said, I want to see the book. Where the words are best the words are yours. Thank you for never ceasing to kick the ass connected to this one.

NOTE: This book intends to empower you as an experimenter. We have found that experimenting builds matrix for holding more consciousness. Each section in this book that invites you to try new behavior has been given a Matrix Code, for example, BLTLCH00.01, which deciphers as Experiment 01 in Chapter 00 (the Introduction) of Building Love That Lasts . Reading this entire book earns you 3 Matrix Points. The Matrix Code for reading this whole book is BLTL000.00.

The theory is that through trying new behavior you earn real Matrix Points by weaving new distinctions into your Being. The more matrix you build, the more consciousness your Being catches. The idea is that if together we can earn one million new Matrix Points we will upgrade the morphogenetic field of the human race and change the status quo for the better.

You can register your Matrix Points by setting up a free account at http://StartOver.xyz., an entryway into our massively-multiplayer online-and-offline personal-transformation thoughtware-upgrade game.

The game has the same purpose as this book: to upgrade thoughtware for what it means to be human. Through your StartOver.xyz account you will be able to see the global number of Matrix Points we have built in each category, and also the total number of Matrix Points weve all earned together. Will you help us do this experiment?

We made an online catalog of all the website bubbles in the StartOver.xyz bubble-net at http://StartOverHere.xyz.

We are populating over 250 StartOver.xyz websites with distinctions and experiments as fast as our little Team at GeneralMemetics.org can do it. If you ever made a website before, you know that those things are alive! They dont stand still for long. They evolve and morph into new territories of their own accord and sometimes they die. Dont be surprised if you find a few of our websites to be incomplete or with a dead link. Please let us know what you need and we will regard your necessity as kick-butt. Thanks for being an experimenter!

P. S. It Is All True

You probably wont believe what I am going to say.

You probably wont believe it because I am using words.

Words wont impact you enough for you to get it

Unless you have already been there.

My question to you is this: are you willing to recall a memory?

Because you have already been there.

And without having to think about it much you already know

That it is all true.

All the legends of gods and goddesses,

Of radiant golden floating temples made of marble columns and flowing silk,

Of Archetypal angels and demons, upperworlds and underworlds,

Of a sanctuary where uninterrupted being-with can occur.

Its all true.

All the subtle energetic levels of multidimensional fluid reality

All of the best ideas communicated in this book

The wildest most outrageous inconceivable ideas in this book

Are all true.

Waiting to be explored, experienced, employed by you.

Does it matter?

No.

Is it all true?

Yes.

You can go directly to the core of the mythical labyrinth

And float in the being of the One

Any time that you achieve floating conditions.

It is not personal.

The opportunity never goes away.

Long before you were born and long after you die

The opportunity is there waiting.

She is there waiting

The One. She is waiting.

The beautiful, quiveringly tender, limitlessly accepting One.

The One with wisdom and knowing beyond words.

The One who waits, who can only wait

Until you the Man become a stillness sanctuary where She can rest

And be-with the brilliant radiance of Her being,

The glow of Her presence, the Countenance of Her raw wild power,

And Her peacefulness that surpasses all understanding.

Words are far too crude and solid to talk about this.

Even thoughts get in the way.

So much of what happens falls through the gaps between thoughts.

Nonetheless, it is all hereby confirmed to be true.

Now, tell me this. What are you going to do about it?

C.C.

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