Saturday, 27 December 2014

Post No. 629 – For tomorrow night’s meditation



As a reminder, I started this meditation regime based on the idea of generating the energy of peace, as set out in the channelled teachings of “The Nine” in Phyllis V. Schlemmer's "The Only Planet of Choice" (see p. 279 - well, in my copy at least :) ), which was the follow up to the brilliant "Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth" by Stuart Holroyd. “The Nine” proposed getting twelve (or a minimum of three) people to meditate for eighteen minutes (or a minimum of nine minutes) at 9 PM Sunday in Jerusalem, which is based on using the Magickal Principle of Harmony (of time), from the Watery Magickal Law of Frequency, and the Magickal Principle of Effect, from the Earthy Magickal Law of Strength and Common Sense. In other words, get everyone working together, at the same time, and as many people as possible, for as much impact as possible. Now, that is valid, but getting people to work at the same time across the world is an incredibly difficult proposition – and, in my experience (including for multinational companies in my day job) leads to fewer people taking part. That experience also includes my time at the Correllian Shrine of the Crystal Web, where one member (not me) pointed out that having people perform work at the same hour by their local time can build up a wave of energy going around the entire planet, which is the Magickal Principle of Dynamism from the Fiery Magickal Law of the Taijitu. That worked well there, and so I have adopted it for these meditations. I also am happy for every person who wants to contribute to do so, rather than waiting until there is a group of a minimum size, which relies on harmony of focus being a way of overcoming physical separation (which is the Magickal Principle of Magickal Distance, from the Airy Magickal Law of Distance). I also include the use of clearing, so there is more than one difference to the original proposal. However, the more people who join in, the better. I would also like to point out that other people have been working on the use of coordinated, group meditation for beneficial effect, including the Lucis Trust's Triangles network (which has been running for many decades, since before World War Part Two, I think), the Correllian Tradition's 'Spiritual War for Peace' (begun in 2014), the Healing Minute started by the late, great Harry Edwards (held at 10Am and 10PM local time each day, and one can pay to be officially registered. This also has been running for decades); and a Druid ritual for peace, to be performed at each Full Moon (begun in 2014, I think).


In ‘the West’, or, more accurately, those nations/cultures with a Judaeo-Christian background, this time is one of holidays. These days, the celebrations have little religious significance for many people, although that is still there for some, but it is nominally a time for focusing on family. It is a time that comes with enormous expectations around
   (a) having a loving family
   (b) the amount of money one will spend on gifts, and
   (c) the time, energy and money to spent on ‘feasting’ – which is, really, overeating and wasting food.
It is a time of year I have seen many people suffer in – people who don’t have a loving family (I have several loving families, incidentally, so am multiply blessed in that regard – and am aware enough to appreciate it … and to not ram that down the throats of others who don’t), and find the enforced get-togethers a strain, and those who are financially strained by the gift-giving (a lot of gifts, by the way, are not that appropriate, and many reinforce materialism, stereotypes or violence). I’ve had some personal experience of the problems this can create, dating back to the time I worked as a (trained) volunteer phone counsellor, and beyond, and I was certainly not surprised to read Kerr Cuhulain’s description of the problems that police get called to at this time of year in "The Wizard".

Having made that point, I’ve been pleasantly surprised this year by the good experiences that have evidently happened to quite a few people. As an example, my partner found a nearby shopping centre that is often an energetic nightmare at any time of the year to be reasonably pleasant – people weren’t snarling or stressed or unpleasant to each other, despite it being very busy and crowded.

Maybe the energy work is starting to pay off – which is encouraging feedback for the energy work to be done tomorrow night, as war doesn’t take a break, despite any culture or set of nations having a set of holidays.

So … the news this week. One item is that this is the 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami. Some areas are still suffering the effects of that terrible catastrophe, as are most of the survivors, but some areas are now better prepared for future such events, and there have been a few ‘feel good’ survivors stories in the media.


Matters from this week include the following (opportunities are shown in green; good news is shown in purple; WARNING: some of these links may contain triggers around issues such as violence, sexual assault, discrimination, etc):
  • permanent issue: may all actual and potential BPLF Leaders be kept safe against any/all attempts to divert them away from effectively fulfilling their role of Service to Life by being effective BPLF Leader(s), including keeping them undetectable to the nonBPLF and keeping all their Significant Others inviolable against being used for indirect psychic attack (including also being kept undetectable to the nonBPLF), all as is for the Highest Spiritual Good;
From the UN’s Daily Briefings:
  • an Arms Trade Treaty, signed by 130 nations and ratified by 61, has come into force less than two years since its historic adoption by the United Nations General Assembly. This is a major issue: the small arms that do most of the damage in the many conflicts around the world (and in violent crimes) came from somewhere, and that somewhere may well have been an official source before they were diverted into illegal arms trafficking. As an example of the scale of the problem, this Wikipedia article indicates the illegal arms trade is about 10-20% of the legal international arms trade of $60 billion a year (or which $8 billion is attributed to pistols, rifles, machine guns, and bullets). For more on this, see here, here, and here (ignore the reported diatribe by the NRA fanatics). Now, to see that this agreement is effectively implemented … ;
  • there has been an attack on the African Union Mission in Somalia, a nation which the new leaders had been welcomed and the former leader thanked for his contribution to peace the day before by the UN  Secretary-General, who also urged all to continue working towards an inclusive Federal Government (“Political leadership is required to deliver the ambitious agenda of peace building and political transformation. He encourages the country’s leadership to redouble their efforts to this end and take steps to prevent future political crises”) and noted the successes on this, and against Al Shabaab;
  • Sudan is taking stupid actions against UN staff, and needs to start putting the welfare of its citizens ahead of petty power struggles (the International Crisis Group has also reported on conflict in South Sudan);
  • flooding in the West Java and Aceh provinces of Indonesia has displaced around 100,000 people (Aceh bore the brunt of the aforementioned Indian Ocean tsunami);
  • there has been between conflict Palestinian militants and the Israel Defence Forces in the southern Gaza Strip resulting in casualties on both sides, following a series of armed incidents since the end of November;
  • in Haiti, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and other members of the ‘Core Group’ (Brazil, Canada, France, Spain, United States, the European Union and the Organization of American States) welcomed the decision taken by President Martelly to designate Minister of Public Health and Population, Florence Duperval Guillaume, as the interim Prime Minister, and encouraged all to respect the constitutional legitimacy of the President, in order to preserve stability and create a climate of confidence, serenity and mutual respect, which allows for the holding of inclusive and fair elections as soon as possible;
  • the UN is obliged to notify the Syrian Government of humanitarian aid shipments prior to crossing the Syrian border: may this advance notice NEVER be used to subvert those shipments;
  • the Secretary-General commended the Tunisian people on their successful holding of the second round of democratic presidential elections on 21st December, which historic event is a critical step in the country's transition and a clear demonstration of the people's desire for accountability and representative government, and expressed the hope that the Tunisian people and their newly elected authorities will continue to embrace the spirit of inclusiveness that has guided the transition up to this moment - all of which suggests that, in the nation it originated, the Arab Spring is continuing to be successful, although, sadly, that does not apply elsewhere;
  • a new report by the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) says that persistent fighting between armed groups in western, eastern and southern Libya has killed hundreds of people and caused mass displacement across the country (450 dead and 15,000 families displace in Benghazi, a city of 1,110,000 people, for instance);
  • the Kurdistan Regional Government and the UN have called for an additional US$152 million to meet the basic needs of the close to one million displaced Iraqis (close to half of Iraq’s 2.1 million displaced people, a group swelled by 946,000 since January) across the region until March 2015. This appeal is part of the revised $2.23 billion Iraq Strategic Response Plan (SRP) launched in October, which aims to address the protection and humanitarian needs of nearly 5.2 million Iraqis across the country through 2015, and as of this week faces a funding gap of $1.5 billion;
  • the UN enquiry into the Gaza conflict appears to be being obstructed by the Israelis, but the Egyptians have offered to facilitate access so that the commission can talk to victims and relevant authorities. In the meantime, he Commission of Inquiry is in the process of interviewing witnesses and victims in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory “using technology”;
  • the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said it was concerned by the deteriorating situation for Muslims in the Peuhl ethnic minority in the Central African Republic, and fighting has also continue there between anti-Balaka members and peacekeepers;
  • the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that a global effort is needed to prevent the rapid spread of the deadly Fusarium wilt disease that hits bananas;
  • Ebola remains an emergency in West Africa;
  • the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has said that he deeply regrets the lifting of the moratorium on the death penalty in Pakistan and Jordan, reversing the moratoria on the death penalty that they had put in place in 2008 for Pakistan and 2006 for Jordan. Mr. Zeid said that this was particularly disappointing given that just last week, a record 117 States voted in the UN General Assembly in favour of an international moratorium on the use of the death penalty, and he also stressed that no justice system, no matter how robust, can guarantee against wrongful convictions. More importantly, in my view, the use of the death penalty inherently goes against the purpose of teaching the lesson that life is sacred, and should be respected rather than taken;
According to the “Wronging Rights” blog:
From other sites:
  • The Institute for War and Peace Reporting has been trying to develop Libyan radio stations “to enhance editorial skills and improve output”, and reports that the International Justice Tribune has been relaunched, opposition groups in Armenia have accused the government of ordering attacks on their members, Azerbaijan's war-disabled are struggling to access home care, and on the challenges in Bosnia;
  • http://www.theage.com.au/world/living-in-fear-of-lethal-spillover-from-the-syrian-war-lebanese-villagers-brace-for-the-worst-20141226-12dml9.html;
  • http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-26/four-png-women-13-children-in-danger-accused-of-witchcraft/5989134;
  • Human Rights Watch has reported on the despair of civilians as “both sides break the rules” in eastern Ukraine (is Ukraine ready to start viewing it’s claimed citizens as actual citizens yet? Is Russia ready to start focusing on issues it should – such as the collapse of the rouble and general economic woes? Wake up, and start acting like adults instead of school children!);
  • the “War on the Rocks” blog has a gloomy assessment of the likely responses to the recent atrocity where over a hundred school children were killed, which I see as a challenge to use the techniques of clearing nonBPLF energies, units and influences and strengthening BPLF energies, units and influences to get that nation to do better than expected (and I will use the article to assist in that work);   and refers to other sources:
    -   “Clear language might be the first requirement for honest policy. In “Torture, American-style,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist’s Hugh Gusterson urges Americans to remove the phrase “enhanced interrogation” from the official lexicon and call torture by its true name”;
    -   “[a]s a result of the report on torture, the United States’ stature abroad is likely to suffer without greater individual and institutional accountability”;
    -   “[b]race yourself for another comparison of the recent conflict in the Middle East to the Vietnam War. Published earlier this week in Small Wars Journal, Gary Anderson’s “Rethinking our Strategy in Iraq and Syria” outlines a strategic framework to re-address our military and political objectives against ISIL. According to Mr. Anderson, ‘the people who are planning the war effort don’t see the irony [because] the Ivy League schools that produced the Obama Administration’s brain trust no longer require the serious study of history’ ” (warning: the included link includes some biased sniping against the anti-Vietnam war protestors –who were largely, as far as I am concerned, correct, just as those who expressed concern about the invasion of Iraq has also to quite an extent been proven correct. The referenced article raises arguments along the lines of Turkey, and also raises the importance of thinking about the desired final situation, which is why I have include it); and
    -   discusses (favourably) the potential use of political (i.e., non-violent) action against Da’ish (aka ISIL). The article includes the following:
       “As long as people obey the rules set by Islamic fighters, the insurgency is secured. If they decided to unite and rebel, ISIL would fall in the same way more than 50 brutal (and arguably more powerful than ISIL) regimes fell between 1900 and 2006 after people self-organized, withdrew their consent to be governed and engaged in disruptive civil resistance actions. In that sense, the militants’ power, at its core, is political rather than military because it is based on obedience and support of the population they attempt to rule over. However, the automatic and familiar response of “a steady influx of guns and money” to ISIL’s opponents fails to consider the political bases of ISIL’s power. The coalition must carefully map out ISIL’s web of allegiances and voluntary obedience and, at the very least, avoid taking actions that strengthen them.”   and
       “Admittedly, a political struggle is not a panacea for every type of violence, but nonviolent organizing and mobilizing against violent actors have proven to be historically twice as effective as and three times shorter than armed struggle, not to mention almost 10 times more likely to bring about a democratic outcome within 5 years after the end of the conflict than its violent counterpart.”   and
       “In past nonviolent political struggles, people would not only engage in visible direct action such as strikes, street protests, and demonstrations but would call in sick and not show up at workplace, would work slowly and ineffectively, create bureaucratic red tape without getting much done, or botch implementing orders of their superiors. Adversaries were helpless in trying to figure out how to counter inefficiency or address incompetence.”   and
       “Billions of dollars committed to military efforts could be redirected to developing sophisticated strategies of social communication, political agitation, provision of humanitarian services, and inducement of inefficiencies, incompetence, and defections within the adversary’s base of support. If ISIL’s reputation and credibility depend on restoring electricity, delivering clean water or oil, providing health services, or making bakeries operational, then there are a number of dependency relations that could be severed from inside (violent outside attempts far too often were used by ISIL for its propaganda advantage)”.


[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").

Love, light, hugs and blessings


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First published: Laugardagr, 27th December, 2014
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