Dancing in the Shadow of Tyranny,
An Activist's Guide to Inner Disarmament

1. THE NEW CHIVALRY

This is about the code of chivalry and how that applies today to our world. The strengthening of our future harmony on Earth through extolling of virtues that brings the noblest human experiences possible. What those virtues are and what they have always been. How to know a true code and a false. How to work with others in cultivating a code for future survival of life on Earth.

2. AWAKENING FROM TYRANNY

Begining in March 2003 I began to have an accelerated personal growth experience. Influenced by the communication breakdowns happening in my most important relationships, I had to wrestle inside myself for clarity. Then the bombing of Iraq began. My peace activist nature was challenged to the max and I began to write about what was happening to me as I processed all my feelings. I address my past experiences about tyranny and anger and what is happening on planet Earth today.

3. EVOLUTION: WITHIN YOU AND WITHOUT YOU

Understanding about evolution and Life is understanding ourselves. Buckminster Fuller, Tielhard de Chardin, drugs, bottled water, coal, oil, Hopi, digital communications, Internet, war in Iraq, the Project for a New American Century (the military-industrial-oil complex's "Mien Kampf"). What is the big picture, not just our personal melodramas but both "as above so below"?

4. A SHORT HISTORY OF HUMAN TYRANNY

Where does the bully impulse come from? Why do humans oppress and murder each other? How does the impulse manifest in our communication and behavior our political history. Kings, the Roman Catholic Church, the Industrial Revolution, the Dupont family, discovery of oil and the internal combustion engine, state-of-the-art technological war. All with authoritarian control just like our family lives, male privilege control.

5. POWER

What is "power"? Gary Zukav defines "authentic power" as internal, "external power" being very temporary and limited. What is "Love"? What is "fear"? What is "energy"? How do we relate to power, what are our personal experiences with power? The "forcing current" is a term coined by Eva Pierrakos in her Pathwork Guide lectures. How do we humans use this forcing current? How does our media present power to us in movies, how do heroes act? Non-violent communication models of Marshall B. Rosenberg. Inner child - inner tyrant, the unconscious bully. What was the power of Ramana Maharshi? And finally the ultimate power, Omnipresence and the power of change.

6. THE JUDGE

Judgment and anger and tyranny go together hand in hand. My personal experiences with these are why i believe productive relationships are possible only when the the reins of power are not held by these forces of judgment. How to free ourselves of this tyranny. What is our attitude toward getting what we want or not getting what we want? Intimacy, communication and the judge. What works and doesn't work anymore? the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. My own personal judgements.

7. BETWEEN DA FENCE, DA WALL, AND DA NILE

Defences and walls and denial all have one thing in common, I explore this commoness within us and describe how the Rock Opera "The Wall" relates to our current world situation. Where, when, why and how this wall inside humanity can be dismantled in our own lives.

8. GROWING UP

Maya, the illusion, the "conditioned" experience. Self-awareness, the unfolding experience of consciousness. My personal experiences with my bullies. The "parent" culture. Growing up under the tyranny of immanent world destruction. Humanity is evolution waking up as 6.5 billion people, going downhill in a vehicle out of control with no one in the driver's seat. Sex and the difference btween male and female. My lilac bush mother and "mom".

9. SEX, LOVE, ANGER AND TRUTH

Sex and sexual identity and orgasm and everything that comes to mind when the word "sex" is used is not "sex". "Sex" is how the universe is run. It is how we got here and anything else gets here. Sex and war and growing up discovering what is real about either. And Love, what does love have to do with it? Tantra. Tantra? Tantra! The human quest for fusion. Trust is the glue, truth must be sought and anger must be released - carefully.

10. FREEDOM

How do we free ourselves of the inner and outer tyranny? What is freedom really? How can we evolve politically without war? How free do we allow our dear ones to be? Freedom from terrorism, the bully inside and outside: fear.

11. SELECTIVE AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

The books, the people, the links: all the real influences that I wrote this book from, all described here and reviewed.