Department of Re-Education

To get an idea of how wonderful the public education system is here in the United States, go back and read some of the Federalist Papers. Somehow the founding fathers were able to articulate whole thoughts through complex and succinct language. Yet they were able to express themselves intellectually without the benefit of the Department of Education. Look how far we have come ... or should I say, look how far we have fallen. What we have now should really be called the Department of Re-education. We have produced a population of younger individuals that are prone to propaganda and the dispensation of hearsay as news. Despite the abundance of instantly available information, we have a population that is less informed than  their counterparts of two hundred years ago.

Many students in Wisconsin, upon being interviewed about their participation in the protests in Madison, do not even know what they protesting. It is amazing to me that we have become a giant herd of sheep.

I put this comment in the golf blog because I was thinking about another great piece of literature. It is titled, The Art Of Golf, by Sir Walter Simpson. It is a fine display of the art of language. I encourage all golfers to read this book.

The all sport correlation

I want to do for golfers what this young lady does for surfers.

The Indoboard is something I have yet to try ... but I imagine it to be a wonderful tool for balance. Golf is similar to surfing because the act of getting up on the board requires an explosive movement ... a core based willingness to move with precision ... to move in the moment. Golf is similar ... the willingness to snatch the right moment ... with the quiet mind ... and place the hands into orbit ... whereby they are whisked away out of their orbit down to smite the ball. In both cases a wave is being ridden. This is the secret. Each activity requires a mind that has reached the moment of singularity ... the it before the big bang. This sounds deep ... and it is.

Surf Camp! I think I just added one to the Bucket List.

Yasi

Here we are a day later and Yasi is displaying a beautiful Golden Spiral at the bottom.

The bottom line in golf ... there is a self-correcting nature in form when the mass of the body becomes aligned with this waning and accumulating motion. Look! It's the Yin and the Yang of nature.

Here is the text I am about to post to a golf forum.

... Praying for safety of the Australians caught in this monster storm.

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This photo pretty much says it all.

This photo pretty much says it all.

Has this thread been beaten to death?

Does everyone agree that there absolutely no way that a pure golf swing can be separated from this powerful expression in the natural world? How could it be possible? This action moves beyond the contemplation of hitting vs. swinging, left vs right, up vs. down, in vs.out. Likewise in golf, the mechanical mind must release itself to that now moment. Golf, to me, is an act of simply placing the hands into orbit and removing them from orbit. If the hands are stable, the clubhead is stable. This was the Ernest Jones understanding ... he said, "the swinging club through the hands, finds its own center." I believe that all mass, through time, seeks to organize itself along this spiral. If we allow an eye wall to develop inside the body, this powerful wave can be accessed. Here then arises the notion of power through efficiency. When this efficiency is realized, time shrinks to nothingness, and the pure strike emerges ... ahh, a fine shot indeed.

So this is the nature of the Golf To The Core workshop. My purpose is to help the client realize and enhance the body's ability to find this efficiency ... reveal techniques on how to develop the inner eye-wall and how to develop the inner eye.

goldengolf

Yasi

Here is another spectacular weather spiral ... Cyclone Yasi is hitting Australia.

The monster winter storm of 2011

That's a big beautiful spiral!


ZOOM

The next frame. Here I frame the spiral against the upper right hand corner. As the sun sets the spiral looks like a zygote floating in the womb.