In the spirit of a Coyote Valley that is self-sustaining, we should be exploring some of these other financing options. What we're trying to identify is that there are techniques out there should the [San Jose City] Council choose to use them.

Intuition, whether spirit-guided or guided by God, is vital. It's the first voice that I hear when making a decision. I understand how powerful that voice is.

Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

Give unto me, made lowly wise,/ The spirit of self-sacrifice.

But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see. If we refuse to face our shadow, it will project itself on someone else so we have no choice but to engage.