Academic Convenience 19 - Take but Little Luggage

This convenience advises the client to leave behind emotional and mental baggage, and asks the client to remember that the baggage must be identified.As much as many of us might wish to magically lose our [mental and emotional] baggage, that magic rarely appears, and a practitioner can find it difficult to effect change if the client is too invested in the past.The practitioner can often help the client drop the baggage, but the client must become willing to abandon the unneeded luggage.

Convenience 19

Take care to hold but little baggage

Remember that baggage must be identified

Some people save themselves trouble by dropping baggage in the "left-luggage" station

Homestead Convenience 1G - The Eternal Mystery

Convenience One is different for every convenience writer, because it is the text in which each practitioner describes her (or the occasional his) initial experience with the convenience mysteries.This writer clearly stated that she believed that the ability to understand mystery was within the realm of possibility for all. 

Convenience 1G**

Many years ago a woman spoke of the Eternal Mystery as within reach for all.

Visit the possible.

 **Please note that the 1G name is merely a scholarly designation intended to make it simpler for future students to differentiate among the various first conveniences. 

Homestead Convenience 100 - Sinking into Grace

Convenience 100 implies an interesting question, and then it suggests an answer.How do we sustain the beneficial changes and growth that have occurred in our lives? Which of us has not experienced a backslide into old behavior, even if that behavior is harmful in some way?This Convenience suggests that maintaining change is a matter of grace.Some Convenience activists have fiercely disputed the suggestion that grace is required to maintain progress. They have argued that activism is definitely required.Are they wrong?Here again, the either/or question: contemplation or action.Later Convenience writers consider the either/or question to be a fallacious one.They would say it is both.

Homestead Convenience 6 - Visionary Art, Observations, and Rich Memories

This convenience writer emphasized the visionary arts and the importance of observation and memory.As you are undoubtedly coming to realize, each convenience writer tends to emphasize the qualities that she herself possesses.I don't personally read The Conveniences as indicating that each convenience writer believed that only her qualities are/were suitable for service.But it is true that several convenience scholars have read the pieces with an exclusionary eye, and some contentious academic disagreements have broken out over the years.Some scholars have made a career out of rebutting others' arguments in various academic journals.Most of the disagreements seem to rest on right brain/left brain conflict.Do The Conveniences describe process? Logic? Art?All of it?

Convenience Six - Visionary Art, Observation, and Rich Memories

Find new inspiration by becoming familiar with visionary artists.

Work may be improved by some observation,

deepened with a store of rich memories.

Homestead Convenience 4 - Put Things in Their Places (mind, heart, soul)

This convenience seems to be about focus.The convenience writer suggests that we have everything we need (mind, heart, and soul), and that we can focus on that fact to go about building a future more in line with our dreams.The writer tells us to use what we have.

Convenience Four

Put Things in Their Places

We have a mind and a heart and soul ready for use in the right place,

and that are good by themselves and the rest should go.

Throw the rest out of reach

Academic Convenience 14 - Herb of Grace

The writer of this version of Convenience 14 was clearly familiar with Harry Houdini's publication, The Conjurers' Monthly Magazine.As many of you may already recognize, this writer has used phrases from the book review page of the September, 1906, Volume I.The fact that the writer has used a 1906 source for part of the writing suggests that this version was composed near the start of the 20th century.This writer also clearly favors the herb of grace over any hints of magic. Herb of grace refers to rue, a common garden herb that is said to protect against witches.A little bit of research reveals more of Houdini's commentary and his claims about the origins of the phrase hocus pocus (commentary found in the same volume referenced above):So, here again, we have a clever Conveniences writer who intertwines and juxtaposes meaning: hocus pocus, grace, protection against witches, rue, and (by inference) consecration.This writer also uses the more formal format of a brief essay which is written on a heavier linen paper and is decorated with a border.

Commercial Convenience 2 - Quality

This convenience speaks to the inclusive and nondual nature of the path.Despite disagreements about how to interpret The Conveniences and which types of people should be allowed to work on them, everyone and everything is still part of the one. 

Convenience 2

Quality Trade Mark

Whatever the requirements,

whatever part of the country,

you find the same quality, comfort, and adaptability everywhere.

Always one: Perfect, excellent, beautiful.

only the one

Homestead Convenience 10 - Garden of Dreams

This convenience tells us that dreams grow the self.

History shows us that growth has occurred under many different circumstances, from the sublime to the tragically criminal.

Some convenience theorists believe that this convenience speaks less about dreams of nonviolence and harmony than to our reactions to the dreams.These theorists, known as Harmnone Theorists, suggest that dreams be met with discernment. 

Convenience 10

Garden of Dreams

A theory of dreams constructed without violence and in harmony.

The experiences of dreams grow the self.

Homestead Convenience 20 - Inside and Out

I'd planned to share the conveniences without comment, but, knowing myself, I did question how long I would be able to resist adding some academic, textual, or theoretical analysis.The answer: until today. So here I go.This convenience uses the word wife, but I've always been taught that the word is not used in the human-conjugality sense. No one is necessarily married here.In this context, the word wife comes from the Old English wif or wyf, and it means woman or lady.Some convenience scholars do disagree with this interpretation, but it has proven to be the most historically accepted reading of the word.It's an interpretation I much prefer as it seems very inclusive; no woman is excluded, regardless of marital status or any other status. All are welcome.

Convenience 20

Good wife, in your house abide.

Whoever uses her work is found, inside and out, and the trouble generally ceases for the time.

Longevity is increased by keeping kind, inside and out.

Homestead Convenience 51 - Advantage the Good

Convenience 51

Evenly overlap the centre as shown.

Equally suppose care and waste, too much and too little.

The consequence is growth.

There is work about this, but it is, as a rule, common to advantage the good of every sort.

It is possible.

Conveniences Preface

Conveniences Preface

The Reason

For this little book is the belief that a great many will welcome a guide book

For The Study of Dreams.

The endeavor has been to keep the contents well within the subject of title.

A few exceptions have made to meet popular interest in the 'strange' dream.

Historical interest and great care have been used in selecting accounts of mystery, beauty, and peculiarity.