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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 4:17:10 PM 

Good news:  it looks like Dice, Monster, and CareerBuilder are all 
active sites.  After posting my resume on these three sites, I can 
see that recruiters are actively scanning it.  


Monday, April 12, 2004 3:04:21 AM 

Yesterday was Easter, a rare Easter that coincided in both the 
Catholic and the Orthodox calendars.  I went to the East Bay Church 
of Religious Science for the celebration, and I heard once again a  
mystical interpretation of the Easter story as it related to my 
personal life and power.  Rev. Elouise Oliver was raised in a 
Pentecostal environment, and she related this New Thought philosophy 
to Christianity very effectively, with compelling references from 
both the Holy Bible and The Science of Mind.  

By the way, the music was superb.  

How interesting it is, that as the amount of information available 
increases, the need to discern and compare increases also.  The 
Catholic Online Saints indicates that Emperor Constantine, a.k.a. 
St. Constantine the Great, "was baptised a Christian only on his 
deathbed."  This failed to explain to me why he had established the 
Christian faith as a Roman state religion, or why he used the Chi Rho 
symbol as his military standard.  I turn, as usual, to one of the 
most extensive references on the Web, the Encyclopedia Britannica, 
which states that Constantine the Great converted to Christianity in 
321 A.D., which is the date of the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.  
Constantine claimed he converted to the Christian God through a 
revelation that came in a dream, and that he fought the Battle of the 
Milvian Bridge under the Chi Rho symbol.  His triumphal arch declares 
his victory by virtue of the "Inspiration of the Divinity."  [1]

I find that the history of the Christian Church is rife with 
intolerance, excommunication, and heresy.  Heresy, I find, is just 
one's rejection of another's point-of-view, and as it is such, we are 
all heretics.  I take comfort that Martin E. Marty writes, in the 
Encyclopedia Britannica, that a phenomenological historian, faced 
with all the controversies over the nature and beliefs of 
Christianity, will accept at face value any person's claim that he 
or she is a Christian.  [2]

Now I can accept Ernest Holmes' claim that Science of Mind is a 
Christian discipline.  He said it is, and so it is.  For the 
various churches fought, one philosophy against another, for 
dominance and orthodoxy, and most of all against syncretism.  Yet 
it has only been through syncretism, dialogue, and forgiveness that 
the Christian churches survived at all.  So the New Thought embracing 
of elements of Gnosticism and Neo-Platonism does not negate its 
essential Christianity, and it seems that the Living God is still 
appearing in revelation to Man on Earth.  I find it interesting 
that Fundamentalism, Mormonism, and New Thought are all movements 
established in America in the 19th Century.   

"We believe in the direct revelation of Truth through our intuitive 
and spiritual nature, and that anyone may become a revealer of Truth 
who lives in close contact with the Indwelling God."  
  -- Ernest Holmes, Declaration of Principles

[1]	"Constantine I." Encyclopędia Britannica. 2004. Encyclopędia 
	Britannica Premium Service. 12 Apr. 2004 
	<http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=117744>. 

[2]	"Christianity." Encyclopędia Britannica. 2004. Encyclopędia 
	Britannica Premium Service. 12 Apr. 2004 
	<http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=108294>. 


Wednesday, April 07, 2004 5:48:02 PM 

Today I filled out an application at BrassRing.  What can I say, but 
it's good that I hunt for jobs occasionally, so I can update my 
job-hunting advice.  The database engine for BrassRing is painfully 
slow; building a resume online takes hours.  A search for jobs opened 
in 2004 in California turned up nothing.  Nothing.  I'm taking 
Brass Ring off my list.  There are other agencies in California that 
have current business.  Tomorrow I will explore another agency.  

Funny, it's already tomorrow in Tokyo.  Stocks are trading somewhere.  
We think tomorrow never comes, but on a global scale, tomorrow is 
already here.  

Caution, dates in calendar are closer than they appear.  


Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:14:00 AM 

The time between contracts is not just a time of publishing resumes, 
interviewing, and catching up on personal business.  It is also a time 
of reflection.  

I have been out of contract.  One account manager asked me what was my 
gut feeling about my current situation. It took me by surprise; here 
was a sales person asking me about my intuition.  Letting myself come 
to center, I felt that I would probably wind up back at my last 
position, after this brief hiatus.  The hiatus, and my taking it as 
a genuine end-of-contract event, has led me to discover that I am 
no longer paid above-market rates; the market has risen to meet me.  
I also feel that the Universe is giving me an opportunity to 
contribute in new and more prosperous ways.  

A second insight came to me as Margaret counted her income streams 
yesterday.  I thought about my own, and I have discovered that I also 
have multiple income streams.  

This is a time to open my mind to new possibilities, to decide that 
what I already know is a historical experience and does not govern 
what happens today.  

On this day in 1830, Joseph Smith founded the Mormon church.  The 
Mormons are some of the largest Christian denominations in North 
America; perhaps it is time to pay some attention to their philosophy.  
Everywhere I turn I meet Mormons today, and they are very successful 
people.  

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