Steve Jobs: A Lesson?

Mike Adams from the Health Ranger wrote about Steve Jobs. Here's the para that caught my eye:

"Here's a question for you: In his final days of life, would Steve Jobs have traded every bit of wealth he owned for a healthy new liver and pancreas?You bet he would!And yet he couldn't. Because it doesn't work that way. When it comes to organ health,there are no second chances. You're given one set of organs to live with, and if you can't figure out how to take care of those with nutrition, healthy foods and avoidance of environmental toxins, all the money in the world can't save you."

The interesting aspect of Steve Jobs' life and career (for they seem the same) was that he never really seemed to release himself from work. Perhaps he was simply driven by his creativity to such an extent that he could not stop, but as Mike points out, there is always a decision - and that decision sits patiently in the 'wings' of our life, never pressing us to decide on a healthier lifestyle. Its patience is amazing considering the fact that most of us re-toxify on a daily basis and abuse that one set of organs Mike referred to.

I am reading up on Ken Wibur's Integral Theory and at the same time I'm reading Hua Ching Ne's Book of Changes. Wibur says that we are all on a spiral of consciousness and that when we can identify where another person is on the spiral, we can understand how they see the same world we may live in with different views. It's a way of understanding that most people actually can't see beyond their level of consciousness development and so we can begin to relate to them, understand them and hopefully forgive them. 

Job's zeal at being the first, at aggressive marketing, together with his amazing ability to create, makes me see that he had no choice in the matter. he was, at some level known only to him,  on the run, with a need to create safety, which he believed came from market domination.

Hua Ching Ne is a Tao Master and he points out that the Tao sees a swing of fortune as not only inevitable but neccessary in the development of our mental and spiritual life. he says that if a person attempts to create a personal utopia he may be inadvertently avoiding the natural progression of his spirit, which benefits from both 'good' and 'bad' experiences. The Tao says that like Yin and Yang, there is a time for going forth, and a time for withdrawing. A summer, a winter. A good time and a bad time. Steve Jobs was obviously not a student of either philosophy, because he saw this need to strongly protect his 'good time' from anything and everything, and in so doing it could be argued that he put off - but accumulated - the bad times that eventually came knocking in a way that could not be staved off with the best lawyers on the planet.