A friend tells a story about a conflict he had with someone he ghost writes for. Although they had a Non-Disclosure Agreement, he freely emailed private material to a 3rd party (who is also in the same business as the one he was writing for). The names have changed but I wrote: \u201cI’ve been reading about the incident with Luke.\u00a0 It’s not my place to get into your stuff, but\u00a0non-disclosure means you do not disclose about that person or that topic, period.\u00a0 If you’re ghost writing, you’re a ghost, you’re invisible, you don’t publicly exist in the world\u00a0of that person or that topic, despite\u00a0personal privilege.\u00a0 If anyone knows you’re ghosting, then you’re no longer ghostwriting, you’re now editing.\u00a0 Karmically, you’ve shared words of Luke with another writer, and those words have sparked connection within her and so basically now everything in her world is colored by that filter, which you provided.\u00a0For better or worse. \u00a0Legally, any future product she produces if ever anyhow derivative of his inspired idea, would entitle him to legal compensation.\u00a0 Especially since the info was transmitted by a party to a Non-Disclosure Agreement.\u00a0 Which opens possible criminal charges since it was sent via email.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Of course signing a Non-Disclosure Agreement riles you up, you came here for the purpose of\u00a0“Disclosure”.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve known you for lots of years, through agreements and disagreements about beliefs and the man you are now is\u00a0more expansive and broader minded, and much less resistant by far.\u00a0 However, it seems that “boundaries” is still one of your lessons, as is “defining”.<\/p>\n
In contracts, we include a definition of terms so that everyone knows what everything means, it is all spelled out.\u00a0 In speech, we don’t do that.\u00a0 We say a word and assume the listener will hear and define the word the way we do.\u00a0 They don’t, misunderstanding occurs,\u00a0discord ensues.\u00a0 Example: Say the word “peace” – how could anyone object to that word?\u00a0 A lot of Republicans and evangelical Christians will think you are unpatriotic, spouting “peace”.\u00a0 They don’t define the word they way you do.\u00a0 You’re just unpatriotic.\u00a0 You know the types: “If you didn’t vote for Bush, you hate Jesus”.<\/p>\n
But you know what disclosure is, and although it’s not easy to overcome the proud self that wants recognition and acknowledgement, it’s a choice in every moment.\u00a0 Trust that if you start keeping more and more juicy tidbits to yourself, that includes gossip in all forms, you will begin having that inner awakening and experience that place of experience without judgment, that place of true power you write about below.<\/p>\n
It’s like that is your reward for letting thoughts and ideas cook within you, instead of lifting the lid off and letting the steam release, dissipating the energy by talking about it with others.\u00a0 Your reward is a deep and rich stew, that place you call the void, that place in between, and it is a place of total enlivened and heightened perception and sensation and understanding and knowing.\u00a0 The longer you keeper the info in and\u00a0don’t share it, the increasingly deeper and richer your experience will be.\u00a0 Gregg Braden calls\u00a0that walking between the worlds.<\/p>\n