Sunday, 25 December 2011

Post No. 350 - S.O.S. - 'tis the Season of Stupidity! (and a bit on auras)

Well, as far stupidity goes, the season has been a bit milder than usual - for instance, coming home from work I've generally only seen four drivers on the phone (although I did see someone driving who had clearly been recently in an accident - hood of car pushed up and to one side, speeding, driving through red lights, engine smoking ... but with a VERY distinctive numberplate), and the kamikaze pedestrians have been fewer (although made up for "ninja bike riders").

At least there has been some acknowledgement of the stress and trouble caused at this time: the local media had reports of a senior police officer advising that, on Christmas Day, they were generally called to a domestic violence incident once every ten minutes. Now, violence is not acceptable, but can we spare some thought for the commercialism and social pressures that lead to MASSIVE amounts of stress and conflict? Wouldn't it be wonderful if we all focused on our family of choice, our friends, rather than doing elaborate, expensive and fake feasts out of a sense of duty or obligation? We're lucky: we had a solstice celebration (I still need to post a ritual for that apologies) with a family of choice, an early event today with - largely - family of choice, and will ring family members who mean something to us later.

And all when the weather is stinking hot - and with a complete lack of sophistication for our multicultural society, a lack of sophistication which includes forcing people in workplaces to take holidays and leave now, which may not be the time of significance to them. Years ago (in fact, decades ago :) ), a company I worked for let one of it's employees who was Chinese work at this time of year, and take the time off for Chinese New year. No-one lost out from it - in fact, some clients were pleased we could keep working for them, but, somewhere, some idiot - possibly some idiot who doesn't have to do the planning, cooking and other preparation , management of fights and flare ups, and cleaning up afterwards (including the fall out from the fights) - has decided that everyone must be forced to fit the one mould, and take leave when it is administratively neatest. Whoever that was certainly did NOT have any good intentions towards people ... either that, or else they were incredibly lacking in life experience - to the point of ineptitude.

Worth a thought, perhaps ... as may be the following:
I also found a few links on Galina Krasskova's website which are worth a look:
  • pagan heroes and martyrs - here;
  • her policies for readings - here;
  • links;
  • the practice of ordeals (not my scene - I get enough ordeals through living life as a member of several minority groups ... although I do get tattoos when I can, tattoos which all [but one] have a spiritual significance) - here;
  • honouring the land (interesting) - here;
  • lore vs. "UPG" (unverified personal gnosis [knowledge]); and
  • "European indigeny", about the fact that Christianity was brought to Europe, and that - particularly in northern Europe - mch of it's spread was through violent, forced conversions - here.

On reading, I recently started looking at a book on healing that my partner bought a little while ago: "A Gift for Healing - How You Can Use Therapeutic Touch", by Deborah Cowens, M.M., R.N., A.N.P., with Tom Moore (pub. Piatkus, 1996, ISBN 7499 1698 2 , first published Crown Trade Paperbacks). I was enjoying the book, and saying things like "I agree with that!", when my partner informed me she had actually bought the book because it had stuff in it that I was saying :)

Now, that was pleasing to the ear, but there are a couple of things I would express lightly differently, largely around how the aura is constructed. That also led me to consider preparing a sketch of how the chakras develop as people mature spiritually, which I touched upon recently here. So, enjoy the figures below, and I hope they make sense :)




(I'll post the figures when I can scan them - apologies for the delay)




Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear")

Tags: attitudes, commercialism, communication, conflict, emotions, family, history, reading, society,

First published: Sunnudagr, 25th December, 2011

Last edited: Sunday, 25th December, 2011
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