Oops? Let me explain - but I have to begin with some background :) And before I start on the background, I would like you to read this:
- "Motorists driven to distraction by their own devices", 4th May, 2013: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/motorists-driven-to-distraction-by-their-own-devices-20130503-2iyow.html.
In my day job, we're trained to consider safety - it's called "safety in design", and I'm glad that legislation and business procedures now make such a big deal about it. It was harder to get people to take safety seriously when I started, over 30 years ago, in engineering. I've even had a stint, early in my career, as - technically - a Mine Safety Officer ... mind you, the "mine" was actually still an operating cattle property in inland Queensland, with the "mining" confined to drilling to confirm where coal was (they found it was too expensive to mine the coal, so didn't develop it in the end :) ). Still, we had safety issues to consider, including the over-confident driving of field assistants, so - at the suggestion of a contractor who was working for us - I arranged some advanced driving lessons, using the driving instructor of a nearby, actually operating mine, to prevent more accidents (no serious injuries in my time, fortunately, but some damage: 'twas a bit hard to do this when I had three months experience after Uni ... ).
Anyway, between that, seeing some serious accidents (such as three teenage girls walking beside a road who were run over by a truck which slid when an idiot in a car cut in front of the truck and caused the truck driver to brake hard to avoid hitting the idiot in the car), having people close to me lose significant others as a result of car accidents (including drunk bloody idiots) and a friend who worked in a respite care house caring for, amongst others, people with ABIs ("Acquired Brain Injuries"), including people who had ABIs as a result of car accidents (this sort of experience is a very good way to get beyond the media's often favourite statistic of deaths), I tend to be somewhat sensitive about the issue of safety in relation to driving. I'm certainly not a fault-free driver - I've had accidents, but at least they've all been injury free, minor things. (And then there was the time my car was hit by a willy willy - a small tornado - and lifted over to the other side of the road, but that's a different matter ... :) )
Tailgating is probably the biggest driving crime in my opinion - and make no mistake about it, it is a crime, both under the road laws AND as an example, in my opinion, of attempting to intimidate someone into committing a crime (i.e., "monstering" them into driving faster or dangerously, so the tailgater can get somewhere quicker) - that I see. Fortunately, I'm finding that using the "slowing" bindrune - see below - and a firm mental projection of "back off" seems to stop most people doing this - well, to me, at any rate. I have less success trying to use it to stop other people being tailgated, which is probably because of the karmic and learning requirements of those incidents being those of the people involved, not me.
"Slowing" bindrune
And that's a clue to what I am going to lead up to in this post.
What I have been thinking about - initially, at any rate - is the issue of people using mobile phones while they are driving. The article I started this post with indicates that up 1,000 Victorians will be killed or injured as a result of this sort of activity in the next five years - so it is clearly something of some significance. From personal experience, I've had people nearly wipe me out when they were on the phone, and it is easy to pick the distracted driver amongst a few others (they inevitably slow and wander off the driving line). How to stop them doing that?
Well, I tried using Isa [2] - in other words, surrounding the phone with astral ice. That would, I hoped, freeze the phones temporarily, almost as if the connection had been lost temporarily, but would later defrost and allow the phone to be used. I had a few misgivings about what would happen if a driver looked at the phone, but decided to try it on a driver on the phone who wasn't near any cars other than me. I wasn't quite sure whether or not it worked, but a couple of times it seemed to after 30 seconds or so - which I didn't like, as I don't want to have 30 seconds with my concentration reduced from driving (another recent article suggests that as soon as attention goes off the road for more than two seconds, the risk of an accident increases).
Anyway, before I was able to take this any further, I had the work trip to Brisbane that I mentioned in a recent post. While away, my phone ... froze a few times :) Karma much? And hence the oops (although, subject to the issue of size of karmic return, which does impact on the order in which karma - good and bad - is returned, that does suggest my karmic status is not too bad, for karma to be returned so quickly; I wrote about this previously - see here).
OK, so I decided I would start to rethink my approach, and realised that a better way would be to increase awareness so people voluntarily stop using their mobile phones inappropriately. That led to the bindrunes below for safety and awareness: my idea was I would project the bind rune of awareness onto the outside (the sheath) of the person's aura, which gives them the choice to let it in or not, then hook it with the rune Eihwaz [2] and draw it up into a bindrune for safety above the top of the person's aura - symbolising increasing awareness of safety.
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Awareness bindrune (rough draft)
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Safety bindrune (rough draft)
Natty idea, I thought - until driving home last night (well, it was last night as I wrote this bit :) ), when I came across a situation where a tram was approaching from the opposite direction, a car was entering from a side street on my right to cut across in front of the tram (we drive on the left here), another car was entering a side street on my left (not quite lined up with the other - and neither car coming in from the side streets seemed to have noticed the other), and a pedestrian running across the street in the middle of all of it (probably to get on the tram).
End result? I sent safety bindrunes every which way. I have absolutely no way of knowing whether any of this worked, but at least no-one hit anything or was hit.
Phew. I'm glad of all that happened before, so that I had that tool available and ready to go.
I've also decided that I'm going to put a selection of my bindrunes up in a single post (linked to in my signature block) so others can use them if they wish. The initial ones are a mixture of rough drafts and more polished drafts (although none are what I consider finalised). I'll update them, and add more, as I keep working.
Watch this space :)
PS - if the price of me saving one life or preventing one major injury was accepting phone problems, my initial inclination would be to say that's fine. However, that could be interfering with others' planned growth experiences (which are not always pleasant), and thus what I SHOULD have done was to ask that everything I do be for the Highest Spiritual Good, and let my BPF Guides sabotage me where that was for the HSG. As it happens, I think the safety bindrune is a better approach - but it still needs to be done "for the HSG". I possibly wasn't allowed to think of it earlier, as the phone problems were actually pleasant feedback for me, and given some of the other pressures and stresses in my life, that was good.
[1] BPF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Forces. See here and here for more on this.
[2] Please see my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").
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First published: Wodansdagr, 8th May, 2013
Last edited: Wednesday, 8th May, 2013
