Oh definately... gut instinct! I'm deeply attuned to my gut.... I even envision it seperate from my mind. I can be thinking of something intellectually when suddenly my gut responds with a loud "No!", or opposite, or shades of grey that cause me to continue a certain line of thought. I dislike having to defend or explain my gut. Especially in business situations. On a personal level, I've become more comfortable explaining "it's my gut feeling" and nothing more, except when the others may say something to insult following this vague, non-logical explanation. I get along better with people who have their own gut feelings. It seems to be a guiding light. I've thought about it some and I think our gut feeling is rationalizations we've made and decided without further debate to be good things. Such as "don't hit old people." Or, "don't rape" and "don't kill." We don't need to rationalize our belief anymore, our "gut" tells us these things are wrong.

My gut is telling me now I am moving in the right direction, even though I don't know each and every step in the path. I trust the guideposts that have chosen to illuminate the next few steps. I believe the answers will present themselves at the apporpriate times, on the level that I am able to deal with them.

Thank you all for humoring me with this... you guys are THE BEST!

Here are the questions.. I eliminated two of the nine questions because of similarity.. so there are 7 total.

1. How did the dragon come to be?
2. How did the dragon grow?
3. What is the dragon about?
4. What does the dragon want?
5. How can we help the dragon?
6. What can we learn from the dragon?
7. How will we re-integrate the dragon?

You may rephrase the questions to fit your definition of the dragon (i.e. inner child; cloud; etc. ) using why and who, etc in place of how and what as appropriate.

My idea was to ask one question at a time, feeding back on each other until the question is understood and answered satisfactorily to ourself. This literally may take weeks, but I'm willing if anyone else is.

Goodnight to all

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall." Confucius