=KIT001.txt

PVK - COLLECTED KIT's

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Introductory note from Steve Amdur, Campra, Ch-6718 Olivone,
Switzerland

Respects and best wishes to all.
I hope all is well with you, and yours, and that your work is
going well.

Things are ok here at Campra.  Weather has been pretty grey and
bleak for the past week, which is the week of Sukot this year
(which is a leap_year, so Sukot comes late)..  Hills here have
just about finished turning colour, and gone bare of deciduous
trees.

I am most greatful to the Vanzetti's for all the help they have
given me.

This starts my collection of PVK KITs.
This collectdion is no more and I hope not much less than a copy
of the Collection made by 
kaivan@centrum-universel.com , www.centrum-universel.com

As noted, I took his CD and called each KIT in turn and on each:
Right Click / Select All
Cntrl_C
Open Word 2000
Contrl_V
File / Save_As text_only  


As noted, KIT 15 had a number of musical illustrations - SCAN's 
of a few little pieces of scores, I suppose - which did not copy. 
I don't how to copy them, so I'll do an alphaetic transcription of
the melody line of each snippit of score.

I hope this is complete collection of KITs, but I don't know.
There are several gaps in the numbering.

Respects and best wishes to all.
As always
Z.
Stephen Benjamin Amdur
Steve Amdur

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Update 16 Nov '05 -- 14 CheShvaN -- don't know Islamic date yet --

I've gone through the KIT Curriculum Lessons, and ZIP'd them up
into =kitcsa1.zip 
Had to put in all the quotation marks, that took a few weeks. 

I'll still have to slap together some sort of PVK Bibliography,
using whatever I've got at hand, especially the appended
sequnetial References in 'In Search of the HIdden Treasure'.

Before I forget to note it:  Kaivan has also input a translation
of the Koran (Qu'aran).  He uses the Yusuf Ali translation, which
is apparently what PVK uses, so that should be a very big help in
doing hypertext links to PVK's KIT References to the Qu'aran.
Kaivan notes that the Yusuf Ali translation was HIK's "favorite
translation."

Well, maybe there's a beter one been done since.  Or maybe not.
They sure ain't improved on the King James Bible.  Except of
course the Rashi.

And even if there is now a better translation, it is valuable to
have at one's fingertips the translation quoted by HIK and PVK.


Now I'm going back to the numbered sequence of KIT's.
I have already checked to make sure I didn't leave out any text at
the bottom of the doc, and to make sure I didn't miss or misname
any doc.  Found about 2 omitted docs.

Now I need to check to see if I need to put in any quotation marks
-- ie if the Kaivan used only font_change (colour and/or italics)
to indicate quotes, since that's stripped out without notice in
the Word 2000 text_only save, may all the monsoons in SouthEast
Asia track to Redmont Washington.

I also need to cross_check this Kaivan English set of KITs against
the Kaivan German set of KITs, to see that there's nothing in the
German set that's missing in the English set.

Looks like we might bet the first Campra snow of the year tonight.

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This set runs from 1 through 125, then there is one unnumbered
KIT, then there is a gap in numbering until 132 , then after 133
there is a gap until 136, and the numbering ends with 137.
There are some unnumbered titled KITs in between, but not enough
to fill in the numbering sequence.                          

I'll have to assign a consistent sequential numbering system, and
then note that here.
The KIT's are listed in =kittc.txt

The run from KIT 1 continuously to KIT 125
Then, unnumbered;
World Crisis - The Spiritual Approach
Then KIT 132 and KIT 133
Then:
Enjoy the Challenge
War or Peace
Institutionalization of Spirituality
136 - The Message of Forgiveness
137 - What is Meditation?
That is the last numbered KIT;
Curriculum 1 through Curriculum 28 (apparently the last) follow.

I have noted the titles of each of those lessons in =pvin511L.txt

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Sa=Steve Amdur, Campra, CH-6718 Olivone, Switzerland
23 Oct '05 - 20 Tishrei - 6th day of Sukot - Josef - 20 Ramadan
Modeim l_simcha - Seasonal (harvest) Festivals for joyousness.


The following text in this and all other docs in this ZIP is all
and only a copy of PVK's KITs etc.  
I have made no additions, deletions, nor changes to PVK's text.
I have however failed to resist the temptation to insert, though
mostly to append, various quips notes and the like, all bracketed
and initialed.  You can surely recognize them all, and can take
them out easily enough.  Though there's more in't than first may
seem; irony ain't always facetious.

Sa

START PVK KITs

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KIT 01 - Christmas Message

From The Abode

May my Christmas message reach you from my pod in the middle of
the woods at the Abode. May it be a joyous one, and may the New
Year open up exciting new perspectives, and may your life be
blessed by making room for the divine presence.

Christmastide evidences our attunement to the seasonal cycles of
Planet Earth. We, too, just like the plants, do go through a
threshold state of soul-searching, lying low, in anticipation of
the rebirth of life when the light tide changes and daylight wins
over the dark night. There is anxiety before the unknown. As we
hear echoes of alarmist presages of an escalation of belligerent
conflicts, we, of course, interrogate ourselves as to the wisdom
of meeting a threat with a show of strength. Throughout the globe,
there have been demonstrations of public opinion against the use
of nuclear weapons that could lead us to the point of no-return by
igniting the world arsenals. A demonstration of the absurdity of
giving vent to warring instincts was to be found in the first
world war when, on Christmas eve, soldiers on either side of the
line used to drop their guns and play cards.

On the other hand, we are told how naive it is to assume that by
disarming ourselves we will stay the hand of any potential
violator of a gentlemen's peace pledge simply by being less
threatening. Truly, when threatened, animals become more
aggressive. "The one who draws the sword first will perish by the
sword." But there are always the ones who will attack covetously
or maliciously. Animals will hold each other at bay by threatening
displays, but it takes but a little inadvertency to lose one's
nerve and the truce is lost. Then things escalate beyond control.

The threat parade becomes absurdly self-defeating when, for
example, in order to save one's side, one enters into a situation
in which everything is inevitably blown up, which is the sardonic
paradox of our time. On the other hand, non-violence would prove
self-defeating, for example, in the hypothetical event of a Nazi
holding one hundred hostages at gunpoint, given that one were
placed before the choice of either shooting him and saving the
hostages or observing non-violence and letting the hostages be
sacrificed. Does not our sense of honor and chivalry call upon us
to protect the victims of wanton violence? How can one do this
without retaliating in violence?

Is there a way out of this dilemma? How could one become a warrior
of Peace? Remember Bernard Shaw's wager?: "Dare you wage war upon
war?" Gandhi's non-violence was not quietist, as the historic
peace march to the sea showed. The marchers were mown down
mercilessly by the troops, yet kept on advancing to the extent
that the conscience of the masses of Britons at home was stirred
ad nauseam. This resulted in India's freedom. Christ's "turn the
other cheek" is not passivity; it requires valiance. Pilate
carried the power of Rome behind him while Jesus stood in front of
him on the bench of the accused in the consciousness of the divine
sovereignty suffering from the limitation of the existential
condition, yet still sovereign. Pilate did everything he could to
browbeat Jesus, who had previously been tortured. Finally, he was
so impressed with Jesus' composure that when he was requested to
have the plaque announcing "Jesus King of the Jews" removed, he
refused, saying "It has been written." Such is the power of God-
consciousness.

An application of this disarming valiance is to be found in the
case of the Admiral in the Indian Navy who went out unarmed to
face a raging mob of sailors and persuaded them to turn back by
dint of his masterful sovereignty. The mad elephant can only be
controlled by the madhzub - the dervish who is gifted with the
sovereignty resulting from God-consciousness. When unsure of the
strength of our being, we resort to the force of arms. In so
doing, we will never plug into our own resourcefulness.
Consequently, we neglect to fall upon our real inner power. We
have no idea as to the extent of the power we represent jointly. I
mean, the forces of goodwill in the universe are immensely more
powerful and numerous than the individuals who flaunt the dignity
of the human person and his/her right to self-expression and
justice. But we are not as well-organized as they are, and are
bickering in our own party disputes rather than linking together
while respecting each other's idiosyncrasies. This is networking -
networking for peace in the consciousness of our joint power in
the name of the spiritual government of the world.

May this be our motto for the New Year, for the message of
Christmas is goodwill in gratitude for the return of light after
the threatening increase in darkness. The rejoicing celebrating
the changing of the light tide at Christmastime acquires a new
relevance at Easter. A few days before, Jesus had enjoined upon
his disciples to stand by him through the night until the light
started dawning. "Did you watch with me?"

May every day of the New Year be a Christmas day for you. I am by
your side in loyalty in our mutual dedication.

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