A Protocol For Regrets

By James Saint Cloud

Do regrets have a purpose? Saint Cloud tells us, indeed they do: It's so we'll survive. Speaking to an audience he'll ask what function regrets play; and when we're done he'll provide us with the one we'd never think of on our own. One we'll hesitate to believe when told. Though the one we need to overcome the mystery. He demands we challenge him, for a proof he must provide. Regrets are part of an outdated mental operating system for the mind, an out-of-the-box computer program that it's time to replace now - with some gentler, wiser methodology sans all the mental noise. Regrets are really 'fear.' The mind's fear of lost control as it considers 'errors in judgement.' Losing control is not something the mind allows. We need not be so 'at effect' of the mind's stampede of thoughts. Real control awaits, what the author calls 'being at cause,' once we understand what the mind really is and how it develops to be the control freak it is. To understand is to have its tentacles let go. It is a story needing to be told us on our mother's knee, the author says: The body-mind's disastrous survival plan. The author employs stories he has written in the "style of" the poet Rumi to provide us with his discoveries --- with a mystical quality we might expect from Rumi himself. "So many let slip the opportunity of Earth, ever farther into darkness no matter light's been offered them. What brightness shall they hold when time's steel cage is sprung? Shall they know they own wide wings to fly when the prison door swings open and they're told, 'Away, up! The sky is yours!' Shall they not blink at the sudden sun, so bright? Clutch the shadows to themselves and ask, 'Where is there to hide from so much light?'"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692382976
• ISBN13: 9780692382974
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Let It Be Publishing
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"