tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49182136371262268522012-02-13T20:25:03.627-07:00"Orthodoxy manifests itself; it does not try to prove itself." St. Pavel FlorenskyEugenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13270393663168509250noreply@blogger.comBlogger2011100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918213637126226852.post-37265734441788808892011-05-14T19:31:00.013-06:002012-02-11T12:20:59.840-07:00

Posted: April 23, 2011; Updated: May 18, 2011 On April 23, 2011, I again dreamed of my favorite Orthodox priest, Fr. John H., which gave me a new perspective on Orthodoxy. It clearly follows my first dream of him on December 1, 2010. Below is an Integral Deep Listening interview of this dream. IDL Interview Date of interview:  April 23, 2011 What are three fundamental life issues

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Posted: 6 December 2010; Updated: 6 April 2011 Forest Lodge Dormitory In this personal "Odyssey" I have been concerned with understanding and integrating the Russian Orthodox tradition of my Ukraine-born, Orthodox-baptised father as well as the Mormon tradition of my Arizona-born mother into which I was born and reared. I  have been seeking to integrate and transcend both traditions.

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Posted: 15 November 2010.   Bishop Basil On October 30 I attended the Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Santa Fe to hear Antioch Bishop Basil speak, not knowing what to expect other than he is highly thought of by Fr. John Hennies and Hiermonk John Anderson of our local OCA St. Dimitri parish. Bishop Basil is a member of the Orthodox Episcopal Assembly, which has governance responsibility for all

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A handful of nationalist Ukrainian protestors were arrested on July 26 after being prohibited from staging a protest against the visit to Ukraine of Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. July 31, 2010Week in Review: Russian patriarch visit sparks protests in UkraineYesterday at 22:52 | Mark RachkevychFreedom of assembly took another blow in Ukraine as a court banned protests

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Event: 1 February 1966 Updated: November 2, 2006 Letter to Eugene England Gene: re-entry? Closing scenes The work’s begun. Lonely. Wanting everything to know; Knowing too much to tell. Listening inside For what will one day Come outside. Wanting to tell, To share, To offer. Refused with smiles And frowns: Endured by those Whose words claim knowing. Tired inside But

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Event: Sunday 18 July 2010 Updated: 23 July 2010 Hiermonk John Anderson celebrated the Divine Liturgy on Sunday. In attendance were Monks Silouan and Sebastian from the Monastery of the Holy Archangel Michael in nearby Cañones. Both monks came from the Monastery in California, which was founded by Metropolitan Jonah. Fr. Silouan is acting Superior of the monastery at present. His companion Monk

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Posted: Sunday, 4 July 2010Updated: 14 July 2010 While talking to brother Dimitri in the church study after Sunday's Reader Liturgy on the Fourth of July, I received a phone call that took my breath away! Of all the calls least expected but most dearly hoped and prayed for, it was from my heretofore estranged son, Michael! He called me to announce the birth of his first child, a son. I had much

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Posted: July 2, 2010 Updated:  July 4, 2010 Leo Tolstoy in his last years This past week while browsing in the local Film Festival video store and coffee shop, I came across an important film released last year in 2009 that I had not even heard of. How could I have missed it, when none other than luminaries Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer star in it!? Plummer plays the role of Leo Tolstoy in

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Posted: 3 June 2010 Updated:  Our brother, Dr. Jean-Pierre Julien, a visiting professor of physics at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from France, spent two Sundays with us at St. Dimitri's, which he considers his home parish. Later in the week we had the pleasure of getting better acquainted at the local Film Festival coffee shop. We discussed physics, religion, the up-coming Los Alamos

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Posted: 23 May 2010 Updated:  29 May 2010 At St. Dimitri Sunday morning (May 23), Fr. John Hennies, now in his new role as occasional visiting priest, gave a stirring sermon about the meaning and power of the Holy Spirit suddenly coming upon and changing believers gathered from many countries over 2000 years ago. "The Holy Spirit comes and goes where It wills", Fr. John reiterated, "and is

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Posted: Sunday, 9 May 2010 Updated: Thursday, 20 May 2010 Fr. John came as visiting priest to celebrate the Liturgy on Mothers Day. His sermon addressed the implications of the Gospel of John, chapter 9 in the OCA designated scripture for the day, regarding Jesus healing the man born blind on the Sabbath. The conflict between Jesus and the ecclesiastical leaders bound by tradition and legalism

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Posted: May Day 2010 Updated: 23 May 2010 On May Day 1965, 45 years ago, I awoke from a dream that put my life into upheaval trying to understand it. See the dream here and its analysis here. Dreams continue to be of increasing importance to me. When I first began remembering my dreams in summer 1962, I was in graduate school at the University of Utah, working as a summer graduate research

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Posted: 23 April 2010Updated:  It was a strange time with a surprisingly large congregation, compared to last week. All undoubtedly came to meet the new dean and get a preview of how the parish will fare after Fr. John's departure. Dean Fr. Seraphim Hish (sp?) celebrated the Liturgy and met with the Parish Council following the fellowshipping period. Although I had resigned my council post

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Posted: Sunday, April 11, 2010 Updated: 16 April Birgitta and I came together to hear and experience Fr. John's last sermon as the priest of St. Dimitri's. I had agreed to sing the Epistle at his request. (It turned out that the scripture was from the book of Acts, rather than from a letter by St. Paul, which made a difference for me). I had intended to be silent during the Liturgy as I had

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Original Post: Friday, April 9, 2010 Updated:  As we approach "Bright Saturday" (the Saturday after Pascha or Easter, which includes Sunday morning), St. Dimitri's priest Fr. John Hennies and I had a few final email exchanges relative to his final Sunday service before retiring: On Wednesday, 7 April, at 7:12 P.M. Eugene wrote: Dear Fr. John,When you are up to it, let’s get together and

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Posted: 26 March 2010 Updated: 17 April 2010 In March1990 I presented a paper called The Values Crisis to the Fourth Annual Sunstone Symposium West in Pasadena, California. It was a continuation of a paper presented in Concord [California] a year earlier, which contained an account of recent personal and professional experiences in the arena of Soviet-American trade [obviously before the fall of

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“Is it permitted?” Ask our two Moscow guests On a Long Beach bench As sacred emblems pass our way “We are not members Of your church.” “Yes,” I whisper, “All are Christians And believers here.” Then we three as one With tear-stained smiles And Slavic souls communing Took thus the broken loaf And through the Ancient date A Mystery rose to fuse The Awful Fission. Long Beach 30 Apr 89

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Original Post: Ides of March 2010 Updated: 17 April 2010 In recent weeks Fr. John has been calling me "The Singer of Israel", because I love to sing the Epistles during the Liturgy prior to the Eucharist. When he first started calling me that as I received the Eucharist, I felt a thrill of recognition and confirmation. Before first singing those Epistles, which tradition says were written by

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Posted: Monday, 15 March 2010 Updated: Saturday, 17 April 2010 On Sunday, 14 March, Fr. John gave one of his marvelously passionate, extemporaneous sermons. This time the story was as reported in Mark 9:17 where the father of a son possessed appealed to Jesus as a last resort. The father had previously appealed to the chief disciples, who were powerless to help. Fr. John was careful to point

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Posted: 28 February 2010Updated: 16 March 2010On Sunday, 28 February 2010, my wife Birgitta forwarded a surprising contradiction to a scripture that has been at the center of my life's work since graduate school in 1961.The above image of the smith beating his sword into a plowshare is a Russian artist's conception of Isaiah 2:4, which scriptural reference ["Исa 2:4"] is carved into the base of

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Original post: Sunday 14 February 2010 Updated: Sunday 18 April 2010 The future of meeting in this beautiful place after Fr. John Hennies retires on Bright Saturday up-coming, is uncertain at best. IMHO it will depend on whether we individual parishioners and the ecclesiastical leaders from the Diocese of the South (DOS) in Dallas are able to put our personal and collective egos aside enough

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Yesterday, at our weekly Wednesday discussion, Priest Fr. John H was feeling low. Beyond his considerable physical ailments he was distressing over the fragile health of his friend Hiermonk John, the abbot of nearby St. Michael's monastery, who had again just reported to the Los Alamos ER with reoccurring symptoms. Fr. John H had recently attended an Orthodox conference in Dallas where he met

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Note: Since the RPK experiment is unfolding with surprises, I have copied all previous posts related to this subject and placed them into a dedicated site. All future posts will also be found there. See here.. ..

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Original post: 1 February 2010 Fr. John at dinner at The Blue Window BistroOn Sunday, January 31, after more than three rich and fulfilling golden years our beloved priest Fr. John Hennies announced to the congregation during the Liturgical sermon that he is retiring after the coming Bright Saturday on April 10. We of the parish community owe him much as he has given us a labor of love

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New dome and housing under construction at St. Dimitri of Rostov mission parish in Los Alamos, NM in May 2009.Sunday morning, 24 January 2010This blog series would be meaningless if I didn't acknowledge an event during today's Sunday Liturgy.I came to St. Dimitri's with heavy heart this morning, not intending to take the Eucharist. Something had happened between priest Fr. John and me via email

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Original post: 24 January 2010Updated: 2 February 2010Strategy ReviewPurpose: we are attempting to generate a non-consensus reality (NCR) event within the field of consensus realty (CR). Remote psychokinesis (RPK) is the NCR event anticipated. The RPK device with surveillance cameras and digital video recorder (DVR) equipment is the CR field. See here for RPK experiment review.Stage 1. Week One

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Original Post: 17 January 2010Updated: 24 January 2010RPK device in light-tight box with door open. Note monitor below + DVR PC to its right.Note also the painting in the background.Close-up of monitor image showing two hanging objects viewed by two dome cameras mounted at right angles.Sunday, 17 January 2010The DVR (digital video recording) equipment is up, running and ready for phase two of the

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(Click on images to enlarge)With thanks to Gary Larson's The Far Side.When Birgitta gave me this birthday card last November, I laughed out loud and recalled the first time she had appeared in my dreams. It was in 1977. We had met in Pasadena the previous September 1976 on the eve of her return to Sweden after a singing tour in California. I felt then that she would be important to me in the

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Initial post: 3 Jan 10Updated: 21 Jan 10Preliminary design light box containing RPK device with two surveillance cameras mounted at right angles to the cylinder on a base plate. This RPK thing is far more than mere scientific curiosity for me. It is my path for pursuing "Truth". As my first poem began to compose itself in November 1964, before I was aware of where I was heading, I wrote: "He

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(Click on images to enlarge)Youngest son John and friend Dylan came from Salt Lake City to spend as much of the Christmas holidays as weather and work would permit. They were delayed two days before Christmas by a regional snow storm and had to leave a day early to avoid another storm on their return. We did manage to spend Christmas Day through the following Sunday together. What fine

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Original post: 27 December 2009Updated: 14 January 2010(Click on image to enlarge)One of the delights of coming to St. Dimitri parish is meeting people such as Jean-Pierre Julien and his family. Although they live in France, Jean-Pierre considers St. Dimitri his home parish where he was Chrismated. He works off and on at Los Alamos National Laboratory as visiting professor of physics from the

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Original Post: December 25, 2009Updated: January 3, 2010(Click on pages to enlarge)When I read this article about actor Jeff Bridges' character in the current movie Men Who Stare At Goats in a magazine received the day before Christmas Eve, I laughed out loud! How timely and appropriate! If you read carefully, you will see mention of Jim Channon's commanding officer. Victoria, the wife of that

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December 23, 2009Latest update: December 24, 2009Metropolitan Jonah and members of the Strategic Planning CommitteeIn reading the account of the December 14, 2009 meeting of the 10-member Strategic Planning Committee of the Metropolitan Council (MCSPC), several items caught my eye. They heartened my waning optimism for the OCA in general and for our local St. Dimitri of Rostov Mission in

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Original post: 15 December 2009 Latest update: 16 December 2009 After entering the local MVD (Motor Vehicle Department) office on Tuesday, December 15, to renew my commercial bus driving licence and taking a queue number to join those waiting along the east windowed wall, I noticed a vacant seat next to a young man with a Cal Berkeley jacket on. I sat next to him saying, "It would seem you are a

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December 12, 2009Updated: December 23, 2009In reflecting on the origins of my most recent attempts at an RPK (remote psychokinesis) experiment, I recalled an intense dilemma long ago when I first began trying to reconcile what my heart was witnessing to my head. I was then a professional physical scientist. The moment was on April 23, 1965, during work at General Atomic Laboratory in La Jolla,

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Original post: 22 November 2009 Updated:23 November 2009 Click on image to enlarge Dear Annie, It is fascinating how truth can come to light in unexpected ways. For example, In your last letter to me dated October 1, you stated you were "done" with your grandfather and summarily shut him out of your life. Surprised and shocked by this, I shared it Birgitta immediately. After

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Original post: 14 November 2009.Last updated: 28 November 2009This experiment takes on new life with the advent of the current movie Men Who Stare At Goats! Click here for the First RPK Experiment. This experiment was originally designed to address paragraph A on page 5 of the ERI Concept Paper.On Monday, November 16, the video motion detection and recording (VMDR) system is finally up and

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Original post: 14 November 2009Updated: 17 November 2009A bean field in ArizonaDear President Eyring,Your father was on my doctoral dissertation committee in 1964 when he was dean of the graduate school at the University of Utah. Two statements of his stand out in my mind every time I think of him, which is every time I see or hear your name. The first is from his oft-stated story about his

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The prophet Jonah warning Nineveh Original post: November 11, 2009 Updated: July 24, 2011 Dear Metropolitan Jonah, We were introduced by Fr. John Hennies of St. Dimitri Mission in Los Alamos, New Mexico, during the July 2009 DOS assembly in Atlanta. I was wearing a Ukrainian shirt given to me by relatives in the old country. Fr. John urged me to write directly to you regarding your response to

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Original post: 29 October 2009Latest update: 20 November 2009Below is an exchange between a Christian missionary, Scott Lively, who came through Los Alamos on Sunday, October 25, and whom I learned about from an email that morning from our pastor friend, Doug Partin, of the Los Alamos Christian Church. The announced topic was to be what the Bible teaches about the family. So I went to The

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On Tuesday morning (October 20) I dreamed of being at and on a basketball court with my wife Birgitta, two Mormon participants (RTP and wife M) and other unidentified players. The dream came in response to my prayer request the previous evening for clarity regarding a renewed dialogue with RTP, a former Mormon stake president (like an Orthodox diocese bishop). Here is Joseph Dillard's Dream Yoga

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Original post: Friday, 23 October 2009Latest update: Monday, 26 October 2009On Tuesday morning (October 20) I dreamed of being at and on a basketball court with my wife Birgitta, two Mormon participants (RTP and wife M) and other unidentified players. The dream came in response to my prayer request the previous evening for clarity regarding a renewed dialogue with RTP, a former Mormon stake

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Original post: Wednesday, October 7, 2009.Latest update: Tuesday, February 16, 2010.I have begun this post with the hope that years of misunderstanding between Russ and me can be brought into the light and resolved. I hope this open dialogue will help us both reset and/or transform our attitudes and/or views as needed. I have chosen this approach because of the impasse that has developed

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Original Post: October 3, 2009Last Update: October 7, 2009Consider a Recent Dream of Saturday morning October 3, 2009. Dream: 0630, October 3, 2009Scene a. Driving a car fast on a curving road like coming down the main hill from the mountain plateau of Los Alamos. There is one male passenger. Suddenly, I loose control of the vehicle and it veers into the cliff side to our right and dissolves. As

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Sunday, September 27, 2009."Never in my career of decades has any parish so small ever dared to call me for such a music retreat," said St. Vladimir Seminary Professor-emeritus David Drillock at the end of a transformative musical weekend here in Los Alamos at St. Dimitri of Rostov Mission of the Orthodox Church in America.To us it was miraculous! All our months of struggle to communicate with

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This morning I awoke from a most interesting dream full of charming characters and situations. In reflecting on it the main non-human character is a large vehicle in the form of an elephant. Here is the dream:Monday, 0500 21 September 2009Scene a: With two men in an open field area. One man is a vigorous, disciplined, independent and take-charge type guy. He seems to be surveying the scene with

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An angel prevents the sacrifice of Isaac.Abraham and Isaac by RembrandtFor the past couple of years I have had an interesting and stimulating dialogue with Rabbi Gershon Steinberg-Caudill, former rabbi of Idaho. I first became aware of Rabbi Gershon when he commented on a Sunstone Blog post regarding the recent controversial California Proposition 8 issue on gay marriage. Both my son Nick and I

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Sunday, September 6, 2009Merriam-Webster definition of "cult":Etymology: French & Latin; French culte, from Latin cultus care, adoration, from colere to cultivate — more at wheelDate: 16171 : formal religious veneration : worship2 : a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents3 : a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its body of adherents4 : a system for

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This essay is intended for my Mormon, Orthodox and Christian families. Original Post: August 31, 2009 Last updated: December 2, 2009 Chapter One: Early Years Chapter Two: Four High Council Encounters Chapter Three: Santa Fe Stake Reorganized Chapter Four: Russian Easter at Long Beach Third Ward Chapter Five: Angry Granddaughter Chapter Six: Stake Presidents I have known Chapter Seven:

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So asked Birgitta this morning at breakfast. That surprised and gave me pause to answer carefully. What first comes to mind is OCA Metropolitan Jonah's recent speech entitled "Creativity and Tradition". I'm proud to have joined a tradition, especially that of the Russian Orthodox, that has produced such great artists as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn, as well as composers Borodin

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For reasons I do not yet completely understand, some ecclesiastics in the Orthodox Christian tradition do not generally value dreams. With due respect for this tradition I believe that in light of new knowledge and experience, this attitude should be reexamined.In the early 1990s, while teaching a dream seminar in Ventura, California, the week's subject focused on the four basic patterns of

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Original Post: Thursday, August 13, 2009Latest Update:Tuesday, December 1, 2009Arny & Amy MindellI first met Dr. Arnold Mindell in Los Angeles in the late 1960s during his visit from Zurich, where he was with the Jung Institute. This was well before he developed the now internationally celebrated discipline called Process Work. We discussed my coming to Switzerland to develop a collaboration, but

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30 July 2009 Professor Zenon Wasyliw In a letter published in the Kyiv Post on July 30, Zenon V. Wasyliw, professor of history at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY caught my attention. The thing that puzzled me was that the Orthodox Church in America was not universally recognized by the world-wide orthodox community as an autocephalous Orthodox church. Here is the Kyiv Post news article:

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Sunday, July 26It was a pleasure to attend the OCA Diocese of the South Assembly in Atlanta this past week as an observer. I had two main objectives: 1) meet Metropolitan Jonah; 2) sing in the choir. Both were met. Beyond this was the making of several new friendships. Three were choir directors, one a Lutheran minister and the other a recent convert like myself. I look forward to deepening

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Original post: Monday, July 13, 2009Latest update: Sunday, January 17, 2010Jack Houck, inventor and developer of the PK Party Monday, July 13, 2009.Today Jack Houck, retired aerospace engineer with McDonnell Douglas and director of special projects (read: classified projects), called to inform me he had arranged to conduct the first remote PK Party tomorrow afternoon from his home in Huntington

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July 11, 2009Dr. Joseph DillardBelow is a recent email from Dr. Joseph Dillard giving an excellent example of his Integral Deep Listening (IDL) technique. He has generously allowed me to publish it here. The bold questions may be applied to any dream or event. His personal responses give insights that speak for themselves.Joseph Dillard's IDL website is: http://www.integraldeeplistening.com/ Dear

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Father John at dinnerSunday, June 28, 2009During our fellowship discussion after Liturgy at St. Dimitri's this morning, Fr. John eagerly shared with the parish participants two vivid dreams he'd had last night. Both were powerful, amazing and puzzling. One appears to be anticipatory and we look forward to discussing them on Wednesday. The first dream he shared contained every single Parish

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(Click on image to enlarge)Yesterday (June 26), in reflecting on pivotal life events, I recalled my long ago baptism by John Howard in the icy Colorado River. I telephoned John at his home in Portland to ask if he still had a photo from that trip and if he would send it for my blog. We reminisced about those eventful days and our many conversations about "the important questions". Yes, he said

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. Says granddaughter Tina: Kaylee and Emma absolutely love each other. A week or so ago, Emma started calling Kaylee "Dee Dee," and any time Kaylee is not around, Emma will go around the house saying "Where's Dee Dee?" until she finds her. They are so cute to watch. Last night, Kaylee helped Emma brush her teeth. She loves taking care of her little sister-at least until Emma wants to play with

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"I stand before you, gathered here, in great humility, as the 'least among equals', the youngest head of the smallest and youngest autocephalous Orthodox Church in the world."So said recently enthroned Metropolitan Jonah on June 20, 2009, to an OCA conference on the future of Orthodoxy in America.This remarkable young leader is a man to watch. His remarks in "1917 Council and Tomos: St. Tikhon's

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Jim and Dad at Jim's construction siteI would never have supposed Fathers Day would turn out so great! Son Jim called me the day before from Santa Fe to ask what I was doing that day, since I am batching it while wife Birgitta is with her family in Sweden for the summer solstice. I thought Jim intended to come up here to Los Alamos, but when I learned the opposite, I begged off with some lame

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A week ago I received a letter from a guy who writes fiction under the name T. H. E. Hill. Col. Bob Browne had referred Hill to me after Hill had read Bob's new manuscript, which contains my contribution to the manuscript in an appendix.. [See Col. Bob's book, posted on May 3, herein.] Hill wanted me to review his recent book Voices under Berlin, a tale of a Monterey Mary, a novel about the

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On Monday, June 8, my youngest son John turned 25. He called the Thursday before to invite me to celebrate with family and friends on the Saturday before. The celebration was held at the family "cabin" [read "chateau"!] in a magnificent forest near the Sundance resort off Provo Canyon. The photos: 1) John and brother Mark accompanied by mother Barbara; 2) guests enjoying the concert; 3) Johnny

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2009There we were, Dad's oldest son (me) and two grandsons, Jim and Steve, plus my wife Birgitta, sitting at dinner in a Brazilian restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Tuesday, May 19, 2009. This was near the train station where we three had met Jim who had taken the Railrunner down from Santa Fe. The restaurant is on the main street [now Central Avenue] that was near the

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Sunday 17 May 2009.Morning, before church. "Who sings prays twice", Fr. John once told me when I first confessed two years ago about having trouble praying aloud in public after we first met. And so my appreciation for the Divine Liturgy began to grow. I love singing the liturgical hymns and other songs with others in the simple a Capella harmonies of the Russian Orthodox tradition. But because

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May 7, 2009This morning at breakfast with Birgitta, I read aloud the prologue to a new book by Thomas Cahill just downloaded on our Kindle. It made us both weep. The book is titled A Saint on Death Row. The author's description of meeting an enlightened, transformed innocent black man on death row before his execution made us realize, strangely enough, what is missing in our local parish. What

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I received Col Bob's book a week or so ago. [See "Berlin Again" blog posting of 20 Feb 09.] British professor David Stafford, author of Spies Beneath Berlin, is now in contact with Col. Robert T. Browne. Interested parties may order a copy from Col. Browne whom I can now identify, since the CIA has finally signed off on his manuscript.

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April 29, 2009Two books by two great Russian writers came to my attention this past week. The first book was Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Warning to the West, published in 1975. One of his major warnings was of the then policy of detente, which he felt was a cynical Communist device to exploit western vulnerabilities. Yet it was because of detente that made it possible for me to finally get to Russia

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23 April 2009Forty four years ago today, I received a book that changed my life and that of my family. It was sent to where I worked as a research scientist at General Atomic in La Jolla, California, and its repercussions are still affecting me and family. The book was called Truth by Reason and by Revelation, written by Dr. Frank B. Salisbury, a respected professor of plant physiology at

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Original post: April 18, 2009Latest update: October 31, 2009On Wednesday morning of Holy Week (4/15/09) I awoke from a dream: I'm trying to find the right pitch on my pitch pipe to sound for members of the parish council. We are in an open, barren area with a paved street, concrete curb, gutter and sidewalk. A long narrow dirt-colored carpet has been rolled out on the sidewalk and then moved

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Original Post: April 10, 2009 Last updated: November 1, 2009 FIRST PARISH COUNCIL The first parish council of St. Dimitri of Rostov Mission of Los Alamos was formed at a retreat held at St. Michael's Skete on March 21, 2009 by parish priest Fr. John Hennies. Included as first council members to aid Fr. John in its administration were founding member Elizabeth Bezzerides, life-long Orthodox

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Pavel (Paul) Florensky and S. Bulgakov - by the painter Nesterov The Russian word prelest is the most important new word I've learned in twenty years. Like the word beloving years ago, it has not only been convicting but liberating. It has enabled me to comprehend decades of puzzlement as I struggled with ecclesiastical conflicts encountered as a truth seeker while growing up in an institutional

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Artist: Valery Balabanov 1989 In discussing two of my most recent blog posts with my wife Birgitta [namely Berlin Again & Nobody Knows], she asked what they had to do with my Orthodox Odyssey. Her question surprised me, since I thought the connection obvious. But I had difficulty answering her. "Can you not see a convergence?" I asked. I had to acknowledge that my response felt unsatisfying,

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When pressed for proof in GalileeHe spoke of Jonah's journey.Amid the ruins of ZerahemlaHe cited a Lamanite's cry.What will He say of Los Alamos?...Of Los Alamos He will laugh To say their priest is richNo matter what he wears And better than the Golden Calf Are his friendships whom he serves.And as its Nazarene pastor strivesTo wake his struggling flockMany other Watchmen sleep...What will he

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Yesterday a surprise call came in from a retired career Army colonel, who had only learned my name a few days ago. He informed me that he had been in the Washington side of the clandestine project that he and I both served in during the Cold War. Furthermore, since that project had now been declassified by the CIA, he was writing a book about it to give credit and appreciation to all those

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Yesterday in our Wednesday morning conversation, Fr. John expressed something that moved me deeply, having to do with singing in our parish. It evoked the memory of a wonderful Russian Orthodox man, Maestro Jakob Ivanovich Petrov, my first voice teacher, whom I will always revere for what he did for me in 1953. Surely it was he who first evoked the love of beautiful sounds from a classical

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This past Monday I received a belated Christmas present from my son Steve, who lives near Washington, D.C. When I opened it and saw the inscription on the DVD it contained I was speechless. "Could this mean what I think it might mean?" I asked myself silently. I called Steve to ask him how and why he had sent it.It turns out that Steve had attended a Sunstone Symposium East session recently,

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It is refreshing to see these words representing the first published statements by our new Metropolitan Jonah. Although his paper with that title was written almost a decade earlier when he was a hiermonk in a California monastery, these two words symbolize to me the clarity of his vision for the Church.

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"The days of leadership by intimidation are over!" These words were the heart of the speech that Bishop Jonah gave to the OCA leadership on November 11, 2008, which were met to choose a new patriarch. The Church had undergone 30 years of corrupt leadership and Bishop Jonah fearlessly described the situation: "Christian leadership is based in love", he said. "Obedience to leadership is cooperation

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On November 30, 2008, I was Chrismated a member of the Orthodox Church in America as Arseny Pavel Kovalenko by Father John Hennies of St. Dimitri of Rostov Mission Parish in Los Alamos, New Mexico. It felt like a full circle generational coming together of my father's baptism in the Russian Orthodox Church as an infant in Melitopol, Ukraine in 1903.I chose the name "Arseny Pavel" in remembrance

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A week or so before my scheduled Chrismation, I asked Fr. John to discuss the service text, word by word, so that I could enter the Church community wholeheartedly, without reservation. He agreed. The review took more time than expected, which was interrupted by typical demands on Fr. John's priestly ministry. When we finally completed the review, he paused to look at me and then softly

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A few days after The Decision I drove to Father John's to discuss it. He was waiting on his porch as I drove carefully into his driveway, got out of the car and staggered up the stairs into his house to the chair he had prepared. Angus, his black Scottie "guard dog", lay down on my feet and went to sleep. Then Fr. John took a deep breath and exclaimed “You will forever be a pimple on the

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I had just finished unloading students at Barancca Elementary School at the last part of my morning school bus run on September 19, 2008, when I felt the decision. It was not rational, but it was clear. When I got home Birgitta greeted me at our back door and before I could say anything, she said she knew what had happened. I had decided to apply to the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) for

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Headline caption from Ukrainian newspaper reads: Orthodox American. [See Comment #1 for translation.]Thursday, June 28, 2007Having returned last night from Ukraine, there is much to report. That will take time. In the interim I have two comments:1) In a discussion of my "Orthodox Odyssey" with Russian Orthodox relatives, cousin Olga observed that my sub-title [which had been "Remembering my

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May 5, 2007; Updated: 15 Jan 12 At dinner shortly after meeting Fr. John Hennies at the annual Bliny Breakfast, he asked if I would sing the chant I'd sung in the church basement that February day we first met. He said he would be screening a recent prize-winning Russian film, The Island, for the local population, which had an Orthodox theme and wanted me to set an Orthodox mood for the audience

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Event: April 1, 2007 Brother Virgil calls. FLC had died at 77. I call Glennie. Talked to oldest son Lee. Ferren had a huge effect on my life, beginning with his challenge to me in summer 1957 when, as bishop of the Laguna Beach Ward, he called me "the biggest hypocrite" he'd ever met in his life. In response to this I made a silent vow: "No one will ever say that to me again and tell the truth.

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Event: March 2007 Updated: 31 July 2010 A few weeks after we met in February 2007, I went to see Fr. John as a man of God to ask him to help me remove a burden I had been feeling about the Mormon Church for decades. His response surprised me. "Don't be in a hurry to have this burden removed. The Lord has placed it on you for his own purposes. He will remove it in his own time." I left our

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Sunday, February 17, 2007On Friday, February 15, Birgitta learned about the existence of St. Dimitri of Rostov parish of the Orthodox Church in America here in Los Alamos from one of her gym partners, a long time OCA member. The parish was serving its traditional annual "Bliny Breakfast" the followig Sunday and we were invited. I jumped at the chance to become acquainted with local Orthodox

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24 December 2006From today's perspective (September 2, 2009) here is my astonishing email request to Russell T. Pack, Santa Fe Stake President Dear Russ,This morning my young Ukrainian cousin Rodion Gordeev, 22, called me from Ukraine to wish us “Congratulations” for Christmas. He asked if we were still planning on coming next summer to attend his graduation from the University in Kharkov. (Our

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On Christmas Eve, 2006, Rodion calls from Melitopol, Ukraine, to ask if I am coming to his graduation from the Kharkov university next June. I say yes, having no idea where the means will come from. But I am now committed, having promised and wonder who might sponsor a musical mission. I think of approaching Mormon stake president Russell T. Pack.Rodion is the young cousin whom I met on my first

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On Monday, December 18, 2006, Joseph Dillard sent this message with an attached MP3 musical file I don't know if you will get this music file in a playable form, but I'm gonna try. I think you'll like it! If it comes through and you like it, tell me and I'll send you more of the "Chorovaya Akademia" (Google it for more information!) J This note and the attached music changed my life! Joseph

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Event: Saturday, November 18, 2006; Updated: May 4, 2011 [edited with color] Dream Yoga: Glennie's Counsel, Part 1 Date of interview: 23 November 2006 What are three fundamental life issues that you are dealing with now in your life? Being authentic Finding others who are or want to be authentic Helping others be or become authentic Tell a dream you remember... Los Alamos 18 November 2006

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 06, 2006Dialogues with Joseph, Part 6 November 6, 2006. [Continuing the Family Round Table] .[Note: this is the last in a series of six "Dialogues with Joseph".]ENK: Katya [Eugene's daughter], from your recent Body Talk perspective with me, please tell how you see this entity, who calls himself "Joseph Smith".KKS: Dad, my take is that this entity is an impostor! An opportunist.

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Blog 1. Eugene's Journal This is the original blog for Eugene Kovalenko. It was created initially in March 2005 as a venting for an unresolved conflict with a local Mormon Church leader. Its purpose has gradually expanded into a journal of events and for inner work, which includes memories, dreams and reflections. It also includes an invitation to others for comments. Monday, November 13,

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Saturday, October 01, 2005I'm grinning like a little kid, having just finished my first reading of Ken Wilber's book A Brief History of Everything. Where in the world have I been?!! That particular book (written already ten years ago!!) has filled my mind with thought food which may take years of slow digesting. Then, when I Googled Wilber's Integral Institute website, I felt like I'd entered

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Seminar support team at Los Alamos National LaboratoryIn 1993 a plutonium reprossessing plant in Tomsk, Siberia, blew up and scattered plutonium over a wide area. The incident was not a nuclear explosion, but a chemical one due to operator procedural error. Because American nuclear materials reprossessing procedures are similar, a team from LANL was quickly put together to help the newly

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The LANL Nuclear Safety Group hires me to organize and coordinate a seminar for American and Russian nuclear scientists to study and develop new safety procedures for reprocessing nuclear materials. This was the result of an incident in 1993 where a Plutonium reprocessing plant blew up in Tomsk, Siberia. I am sent to Defense Language Institute (the old Army Language School) for refresher course

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