Everyone is capable of doing something active to defend themselves: learn to set up magickal defences to keep you invisible from and divert away those who are violent or wish you harm - whether they are physical or non-physical (see elsewhere on this blog - I don't have time to find the links for you, but search for "protection"). We had a bloke turn up at our door on the weekend asking for work he could do so he could EARN some money from us: we had a nice chat as he swept our front porch and had a nice cool drink, and he said he would make sure all the local criminals knew to stay away from us. Well, I'm a little dubious about the claimed knowledge of local criminals, but even more so I've got tried and tested faith in the defences I set up.
When I was living in "The Pines", the household I was in wanted to get rid of an old music system, so we - half jokingly - left it on the front porch, and waited for someone to save us the trouble of taking it to a recycling centre by stealing it. Darn - no such luck.
You don't have to be more violent to defend yourself against violence - the Tibetans, according to - I think - Marco Pallis in "Peaks and Lamas", have the view that if some form of violence happens, perhaps such as ... being attacked or bitten by a dog, the fault was yours for not having an aura that was so strong with peace that it engendered feelings of peace in those around one.
On that, my life partner and I chatted about the bloke who came to our door, which is not the only occasion. He had said there was a lovely energy in our garden (and there is - which I don't claim credit for: most of it comes from the partnership between my life partner and a sycamore we have out front), but his energy was lovely as well. We were enjoying some early summer sunshine in our back garden, and the first hint we had someone might be here was when the dog went to the back door, wagging his tail enthusiastically - so the visitor's aura was along the lines that the Tibetans talk of. I wonder, however, if others in our neighbourhood might have given him a hard time because he was indigenous. I would hope not, given his aura, but, sadly, that's what racism is like ...
My defences don't always prevent problems happening - someone did try to break in to the house in "The Pines", for instance, but they were disturbed before they could actually get in. [3]
So, need a violent so-called 'hero'? No - need a peaceful aura, good wards and an understanding of the true versions of the heroic myth.
Need a rescuer? No you don't - and that is a message society needs to start teaching to young women in particular, instead of the ... evil rubbish about needing a knight to come and 'rescue' you.
[3] I also once found someone breaking into my car (a passenger had not locked a door). I'd been shopping and went back to the car a little earlier than I had planned - for no particular reason, I thought :) - and found this well over 6' bloke leaning in through a back door with several possessions of mine in his hand. Without thinking - oh I shudder at times when I think of this - I marched straight up to him and said "What are doing? That's my car. Put those back inside it now, and get going. I'll give you five minutes before I call the police." ... I must have been channelling my inner granny that day, as he meekly did as I said. Oh, and we did report him, but the police agreed just to go and give a talking to, rather than charge him. That way, he got a lesson (and I am satisfied there would have been no violence by the police, based on my assessment of their auras, and the fact that we were saving them considerable paperwork), but he didn't get necessarily punished for what were possibly harsh circumstances.
[1] BPF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Forces. See here and here for more on this.
[2] Please see here and 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").
Love, light, hugs and blessings
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux?)
My "blogiography" (list of all posts - currently not up to date) is here.
I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "pagans for peace" project (and join me at 9 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate for peace), and here for my bindrune kit-bag.
- One size does NOT fit all.
- Gnwmythr's Stropping Strap: Occam's Razor only works if the simplest solution is actually recognised as being the simplest, rather than the one that best fits one's bigotries being labelled 'simplest'.
- May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
- Ban the dream interpretation industry!
- A home is for living in, not feeling, becoming or being rich or a “better” class than others.
- Housework is for ensuring a home is comfortable to live in, not competing to outdo or belittle others.
- Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master.
- "Following the crowd" is not "going with the flow".
- Armageddon is alive and well and happening right now: it is a battle between the indolence of "I only ..." and/or "I just ..." and/or "Everyone knows ... " and/or "they can ..." and what Bruce Schneier [2] calls "security theatre" on one side, and perspicacity and the understanding that the means shape the end on the other. Indolence vs. perspicacity, and expediency vs. honour.
- The means shape the end.
- Sometimes you just can't argue with a biped that is armed with a sharp stick, a thick head and not too much in the way of grunts.
- As words can kill, the right to freedom of speech comes with a DUTY to be as well-informed, objective and balanced as you can be.
- My favourite action movie of all time is "Gandhi". However, I loathe the stereotypical action movie - and, for similar reasons, I loathe many dramas, which are often emotionally violent, more so in some cases than many war films.
Do not pray for easy
lives. Pray to be stronger [people]. JOHN F. KENNEDY (quoting 19th
century Episcopal Bishop Phillips Brooks)
Jesus loves you. Odin wants you to grow up. (Facebook meme, according to John Beckett)
Females, get over 'cute'. Get competent. Get trained. Get capable. Get over 'cute'. And those of you who are called Patty and Debby and Suzy, get over that. Because we use those names to infantalise females – we keep females in their 'little girl' state by the names we use for them. Get over it. If you want to be taken seriously, get serious. JANE ELLIOTT
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing. (based on writing by) EDMUND BURKE
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." EINSTEIN
Females, get over 'cute'. Get competent. Get trained. Get capable. Get over 'cute'. And those of you who are called Patty and Debby and Suzy, get over that. Because we use those names to infantalise females – we keep females in their 'little girl' state by the names we use for them. Get over it. If you want to be taken seriously, get serious. JANE ELLIOTT
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing. (based on writing by) EDMUND BURKE
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." EINSTEIN
We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Those whom we cannot stand are usually those who we cannot understand P.K.SHAW
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, and the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change." SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY (US Attorney General 1966 Speech)
Too
much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and
community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross
national product ... if we should judge America by that -- counts air
pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our
highways of carnage. ... Yet the gross national product does not allow
for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the
joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the
strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the
integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our
courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor
our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except
that which makes life worthwhile." ROBERT F. KENNEDY 1968
Tags:attitudes, aura, discrimination, myths, protection, society,
First published: Wodansdagr, 20th November, 2013
Last edited: Wednesday, 20th November, 2013
