The 29nth Anniversary of being Baha'i

Today is the first day of Kamal. It is also the first day of August. This Baha'i Year has gone real fast.I was in the hospital a few months ago. I experienced the same problem ten years ago at the same time. Twenty nine years ago I declared myself a Baha'i at John and Susan Mead's at 109 Drew Road. This is the only time of the year where the Gregorian Calendar and the Badi Calendar coincide.This is one of the major reasons the term Cortaca Baha'i evolved. Thirty years ago I discovered the Baha'i Faith in Cortland, twenty nine years ago I declared myself a Baha'i . At the time I joined the Baha'i Faith John wasn't a Baha'i even though I thought he was one.Sue said Baha'i Prayers and eventually he declared himself a Baha'i about two years latter. One of the other blogs here is titled:The Meads of Eternal Holiness.It is that time of the year where I'm preparing next years calendar. Cindy Escoba and I have been quoting Sir Ralph Waldo Emerson. I mentioned Cindy in my last blog. Cindy is a very good """"FRIEND""""".Ralph Waldo Emerson is a very important link in history,especially when viewing his concepts about fate:"THE BEST USE OF FATE IS TO BRING OUR CONDUCT TO THE LOFTINESS OF NATURE. Ala or Loftiness is the last month of the Badi Calendar.Sir Ralph Waldo Emerson,as Cindy calls him corresponds in idea with the Z Note of Traveller's Narrative and the Menok-I-Khrat. Sir Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas about fate and liberty corresponds with the writings of Robert Charles Zaehner.

Surah 57:3 and the Johari Window.

A few months ago a friend of mine in the Philippines introduced me to a concept known aa Johari Window. Cindy Escoba is one of my friends from the Philippines. She introduced me to the Johari Window.The Johari Windows consists of four quadrants.One is the Arena,the other the Blind Spot,another the Facade and the last Unknown. The Arena is the one quadrant where ideas are known to self and known to others. In some ways this resembles what Stephen Covey calls the Four Paradagms of Interdependence: Win Win,Loose Win, Win Loose and Loose Loose. The Johari Window has been compared to the Myers Briggs Test to determine whether one is an introvert or an extrovert. Introvert and extrovert were terms coined by Carl Jung. He developed terms like the archetypes and the Collective Unconscious.The Subjective Psyche is the Ego Conscious while the Objective Psyche is the Collective Unconscious. The Sufis developed the idea of the inner and outer aspects of life,the inner being the spiritual and the outer the material.Carl Jung developed the idea of psychological functions. The four main ones were Intuition,Thinking,Feeling and Sensation. Buddha spoke about the Fiur Noble Truths and there are the four creatures in the book of Ezekiel.All this corresponds with Surah 57:3 of the Quran where we read : " HE IS THE FIRST AND THE LAST,THE SEEN AND THE HIDDEN AND HE KNOWETH ALL THINGS" Baha'u'llah speaks about Surah 57:3 in The Valley of Unity in His Book titled: The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys. The Four Valleys is derived from Surah 57:3 addressing the Four Wayfarer States of: The Intended One,the Praiseworthy One,the Attracting One and the Beloved.