Saturday 2 August 2014

Post No. 581 – The past and next week, for tomorrow night’s meditation and reading



It’s been an eventful week – but, before I get to that, I’d like to cover a few other matters.

First off, I had an idea some time ago to dowse for energy states around the world, with a view to coming up with something like a weather map so people everywhere could see where negative energy was building and do clearing, or where positive energy was declining, and send such energy. I’ve not had the time to do this properly (and no-one else has volunteered to take it on –and I don’t have the skill with creating contours to do something like this easily or effectively anyway).

However, I have had one insight into one of the energy flows I want to map, which is that the pain and misery resulting from war and its associated demons of famine, poverty and disease in central Africa, negative energy that, in my view, Western nations created, flows into the earth’s energy field in the area south east of the Cape of Good Hope that I have been directed to send positive energy to.

It’s sadly ironic that one group of people abusing another, or failing to help another group of people, will eventually come back to affect the wrongdoers – which is something I touched on recently, and could have covered more in other areas of the world. I shudder to think what white and some other Australians are creating for themselves karmically by the appalling treatment of the indigenous people of this land, and of refugees. (Perhaps being trapped in terrible situations for long periods? Recession/economic depression, anyone? On that, I wonder if the loss of dignity at airport security at present is karmic return for Westerner’s robbing so many other people of their human dignity for so many centuries?)


Now, one of the areas mentioned in that link is Ukraine – which is not helping itself by pressing its attacks on Donetsk, killing civilians (some possibly supporters of Kiev? Lessons in how to radicalise a group of people, anyone?) and contributing to the difficulty of accessing the MH17 site, rather than being patient, considering human life and taking advantage of the international pressure that MH17 has led to being placed on Russia.

Russia, for its part, is not helping itself by threatening to leave the nuclear arms limitations treaties. Whilst there are those who admire Putin for standing up to the West (see here), even they’re concerned about what is happening in Donetsk.

So … what is happening? Well, this is, in my view, where the military people around Putin need to be considered. Apparently US President John F Kennedy had some sympathy and understanding for the biases of those in the military during the Cuban missile crisis (and I note that Kennedy had served in the US Navy during World War Part Two); well, one can have sympathy and understanding for people, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are correct.

In the case of Russia, I suspect the issue is one of a combination of believing rumours, and personal bias. The rumours are about the USA’s motivations; the biases are that the Russians are assuming the yanks are as dead set on getting an empire as some of the Russians are. Well, some yanks are, but most aren’t. (Many, it seems to me, are consumed by the struggle to simply survive, never mind any sort of imperial aspirations.)

This is a time for sowing seeds of positive doubt, and a more mature perspective on conspiracy-theory type suspicions – which I cannot recall EVER being useful in any way  in the minds of those people, by means of sending positive energy to them and their BPLF Guides, and clearing negative units (energy, links, entities). That’s what I’ll be aiming to do tomorrow, at any rate.

Now, turning from rumours to evidence, it also appears that Hamas is guilty of using human shields – according to Amnesty International. See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/its-immoral-for-hamas-to_b_5629548.html.

On the other hand, questions are being raised about Israel’s military competence (see http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/gaza-civilian-death-toll-military-training-experts), and about the Israeli military’s morals by former Israeli soldiers (see here) - which they have been doing for some time: see here. Locally, we’ve even had a humorous article with a point on the situation: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/true-confessions-of-a-very-bad-jewish-boy-20140730-zyjq4.html.

What has happened? Why the decline in morality – and what do about from a distant place, using only meditation and clearing of negative energy?

I’m not sure: I’ll be meditating on the matter, though.

Now, one thing about the situation is that the USA has a role in what’s happening: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/30/us-firm-condemnation-shelling-un-school-gaza.

But something about the USA, is that it is capable of learning. This video of a statement by Obama is a major step forward: http://media.theage.com.au/featured/obama-after-911-we-tortured-some-folks-5646012.html.

On learning, something that I think a fair few people have to learn is to watch out for the Hydra effect when taking action – whether that is assassinating people, changing the economy, or personal decisions. The Hydra was a many headed monster from Ancient Greek mythology which, when a head is cut off, grows two more back.

Is some cases, it is a matter of relearning – which, to change context, is something I have observed in my day job over the decades. Many of the papers presented at a major national conference are really just re-presenting lessons which had been learned earlier. Maybe it is ego, but I think it is more likely the hubris that sometimes goes with people applying a new word or phrase to something, blind rejection of anything beyond a certain point (as a tongue-in-cheek comment, what stereotypical teenager - many are not like that! - ever thinks their parents know anything, for instance? :) ) and a failure to listen to and learn from more experienced, older people. (Mind you, there is some adaptation sometimes needed by those older people to context … and I’ve yet to come across a management that had an effective way of harnessing such knowledge – and could guarantee that it wouldn’t affect the job security of those older workers … ) In the case of my industry, this loss of knowledge also came about because of the massive loss of people as a result of the changes introduced by Jeff Kennett in the 90s (which, ironically, is also the reason the Hazelwood power station is still operating, if I may dive into another industry for a moment). There was a need for some change (the industry had been too inflexible in terms of change), but you don’t ‘fix’ something by throwing it out and then introducing something completely new – which brings with it the necessity of debugging that new system.

On a more positive note with this issue, I was pleased to come across the “Life at 9” TV programme, part of the ABC’s “Life At” series. Finally! Something getting rid of the helicopter parenting / no-risk / unwarranted praise / etc problems that are a modern day plague leading to some kids - including some I have lived with since moving off the boat - who are incredibly rude, arrogant and even violent.

I want to be clear, however, that I do NOT favour a generic return to ‘the good old days’.  I consider conventional medicine is much improved, violence overall has reduced and there are other benefits I consider it would be foolish to throw out with the bathwater – but there are aspects of modern life that I do consider merit criticism. Our excessive consumption in the West is one such matter, for instance, as is our addiction to being online continuously and living life at a frantic pace. Here are a few links on this which it might be worth your while reading and thinking about (I apologise about the LinkedIn article for those who are not on LinkedIn):


Related to that is the links about Theodism that I recently came across in this Wild Hunt post. I’m in favour of democracy - there is a place and, at times, a need for hierarchy, but … that path has no appeal for me at all.

Oh! And I recently watched the film “Wrath of the Titans”. Hollywood has a lot to answer for in the rubbish that is portrayed about the Goddesses and Gods – well, mostly about Gods, as a result of the male bias in that industry. Those Deities do NOT need belief, prayer or being remembered in order to exist or do their work (neither is being remembered by people in ANY way, shape or form a valid form of survival after death). The expression of such views are, in my opinion, attempts to actively influence the views of an uncritical audience towards atheism, or possibly neochristianity (I’ve been re-watching some other films as well, and am appalled at the anti-pagan / anti-witch line many of them take).

What to do about that?

Teach children (and adults, for that matter) to think – which gets us back to the “Life At” series. (I did have one criticism of the programme: some rules which may seem silly may actually have a valid basis – some safety rules, such as traffic laws, are like that. And on that point, I was pleased to see a pedestrian who was foolish in Canberra lost his case against a driver that the pedestrian had walked out in front of. The pedestrian was found to be at fault for not taking care – he had ear plugs in, and as a result didn’t hear the car, which was being driven correctly and properly. The pedestrian had to pay the legal costs of the driver. Good.)

I’m going to end this post with a something from the activist part of my world: a sorry tale of some people who tried to ‘befriend’ a trans woman, but mixed incorrect gender references into their conversations with her. That’s like trying to befriend an African person and dropping the N word into conversations with the African person (see this link as a starting point if you need any of the wrongness of this explained to you).

I advised the woman that any person who needed an explanation as to what constitutes basic manners, or appropriate behaviour around her, had failed the basic eligibility for friendship – this is a matter of common sense: no explanation or discussion is required. Some people are so stupid as to need explanations as to what constitutes appropriate behaviour for friendship. Such people are not fit to be friends. Ultimately, such people are morally – but not legally - guilty of attempted murder of the person they claim to be trying to befriend. A bit like what Putin is also trying to do to LGBT kids in Russia …

That’s a piece of advice I’ll be thinking of for my own life as well.


[1] BPLF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Light 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").

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  • Don't be mediocre - seek to excel.
  • 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'.
  • Our entire life experience, with all the many wondrous and varied people, places and events in it, is too small a sample for statistical reliability about Life.
  • 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.
  • Being accustomed to interacting via certain rules makes those rules neither right nor universal.
  • Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master.
  • Expertise at intimacy and emotional happiness is generally not the same thing as spiritual growth.
  • Any person, male or female, who has neither a serious health issue, dependents nor an agreement about study. yet expects their partner to work to support them, is, spiritually speaking, little more than a parasite.
  • The means shape the end.
  • BPLF restraint of uncooperatives is NOT an opportunity for revenge or getting even - even unconsciously.
  • 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", although I've recently come across "Invictus" and might put that one in to that category. 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.
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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."
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Tags: discrimination, energy work, friends, history, karma, nonviolence, peace, society, violence, war,
First published: Laugardagr, 2nd August, 2014
Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Saturday, 2nd August, 2014