Saturday, 4 July 2015

Post No. 726 - Reading

My apologies: the scheduling set up didn't work!

These links are, in part, to pass on useful or potentially useful information to help others learn and grow and develop, as I have been helped by others doing the same for me. If nothing else, some of these at least might stimulate some useful thought – and disagreeing intelligently with something can sometimes be a useful exercise.

However, there is more to it than that – particularly as most of these links, in my more recent readings posts, are news links.

As you may well know from Psychic Weather Reports, Dear Reader, every ‘bad’ news story is something that, in general, requires:
(i) clearing of all negative energy associated with the event directly (e.g., pain, fear, etc on the part of the direct victims) or indirectly (e.g., fear, overreactions, inappropriate reactions, or seeking to outdo others’ reactions in others reached via the media);
(ii) healing of those harmed;
(iii) that those responsible be found through BPLF [1] means and brought to BPLF justice (if otherwise, as the means shape the end, the result will a society that is lessened and a strengthening of the so-called ‘law of the jungle’ [2]); and
(iv) that BPLF inspiration be given to enable all to rise above this, and take BPLF actions that will ensure a BPLF prevention of a recurrence, in the sense that USA President John F Kennedy talked of “true and lasting peace”.
Thus, every one of the ‘bad news’ stories which I may have provided links for is an opportunity – but, furthermore, so are many of the ‘good’ news stories, which often requires nonBPLF units to be cleared to prevent blocking of improvements, to help those who are busting their guts and becoming exhausted trying to make good things happen, and to provide some much needed BPLF healing, energy, inspiration and encouragement –
every
single
good
news
story.
Also, keep in mind that reading these stories may well stimulate links you personally have to similar units (energies, links, etc). Immediately, that gives you a chance to improve both yourself and the world by dealing constructively with any nonBPLF units through good shadow work, and by strengthening any BPLF units.

I now lump these links into three broad categories:
  • Links on spiritual/metaphysical/psychic/Pagan matters;
  • Some other links I consider relevant to consideration of spiritual/moral/ethical and related matters;
  • Links on other matters.
As you read these, I wish you good hunting, good working, and the odd bit of fun :) , so let’s begin.
G'day, hello, howdy, hi, zdravstvujtye (some of my work colleagues are Russian), guten tag (where I have connection owing to a recent past life), sveiki, czesc (I have friends, not just colleagues, at work who are Polish), bonjour (colleagues at a former workplace were French, and we practised and tried to extend my woeful and limited range of this language), selamat pagi (one of the best junior engineers I ever worked with was Malaysian, and she taught me a few words), annyeonghaseyo, pryvit, bitaem, como vai (a friend of mine a few years ago, although not Brazilian, had Portuguese ancestry), ¡Hola (a former work colleague and friend, a VERY talented artist - with a Mexican sensibility to her artwork, particularly around the Day of the Dead - used to teach me Mexican Spanish), Selamat pagi, ni hao (ah, my work trips to Asia, and the many wonderful, wonderful people I have met there - and some excellent work colleagues and friends here, as well), bongiorno (my current home city of Melbourne has lots of Italians, who have made our culture far richer - and made us coffee snobs :) ), hoschakal, hejsan, ciao, jo napolt kivanu, chào bà, chào ông, yiassou (from the city which has, I understand, the largest collection of Greek people outside of Greece), ceau, salam wa aleikum, sawas dee ka, dia duit, hoi, hei, namaste, marhaba, dobry den, hej, konnichiwa, kihineh, hæ.
Links on spiritual/metaphysical/psychic/Pagan matters:
  • this author, Rhyd Wildermuth,co-found er of the Gods and Radicals site, has written quite a few good articles before. This article continues that, with some perceptive well-informed and interesting comments on history, including our more communal ways of life prior to the development of capitalism (there are also some good comments about the consequences of people collectively forgetting how to support themselves here, all of which is why I ultimately want to build a micro-home and garden for myself; see also here for an analysis of the British royal family’s PR): http://wildhunt.org/2015/05/column-the-revolt-of-remembering.html;
  • some (non-academic?) but sensible/logical sounding thoughts on attitudes towards LGBTIQ people a couple of millennia ago around the Mediterranean Sea;
  • some good thoughts (meaning: along the lines of how I think on this topic :) ) on “appropriate” prayer;
  • some good thoughts (meaning: along the lines of how I think on this topic :) ) on magickal tattoos;
  • some thoughts on the actual and mythic history of Wicca here and here; and on the oft-claimed inching of dates in neochristianity from Paganism here; and on adaptation of ritual to the Southern Hemisphere here and here;
  • a couple of thoughtful posts on problems in Heathenry here and here;
  • a review of how Australia’s reduction of emissions compares against other nations; (badly!);   a debunking of claims that climate models are largely wrong;
  • I would add to this that, from time to time, if I am in a crowd – which I always find draining  and in need of energy, I can sometimes ask telepathically for help from anyone who is able and willing to safely give me a boost (incarnates, as well as my BPLF Guides/Helpers and my Higher Self), and will sometimes get that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTj31oBfxxk;
Some other links I consider relevant to consideration of spiritual/moral/ethical and related matters:
  • I have never liked the way casinos have been set up here – and I know people who have, for instance, lost homes, through gambling addictions. This report shows the problems just continue on;
  • with apologies for using a LinkedIn URL (I wish people who posted facebook links would apologise for doing so, instead of assuming everyone is there!), a rather brilliant article on introversion vs. extraversion, and a “New Group Think” that is imperilling creativity and innovation;
Links on society generally and other matters:
  • a claim that some people spend up to 5 hours a week taking selfies;
  • an article on the possible advantages of “apps”;
  • a teenager who has chosen not to be connected;
  • interesting links on the Dukha people of Mongolia here, here and here;
 * that link may have disappeared, so here is the relevant section rom my off-line copy of that New York Times article by Harriet Brown on 17th September, 2012 – and I have come across other, similar articles:
“Dr. Neil Ruderman, an endocrinologist at Boston University School of Medicine, was the first to identify a condition he called “metabolically obese normal weight,” in 1981. Such people have weights in the normal range on the B.M.I. chart but also have metabolic abnormalities, including high levels of insulin resistance and triglycerides; they tend to carry fat around the middle, which is more apt to affect the heart, liver and other organs than fat in the hips and thighs.

“If we’re open-minded when we look at the data, we often find confounding factors that can explain the disease associations we blame on weight,” said Linda Bacon, a nutrition professor at City College of San Francisco and author of “Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight.”

Fitness is an important, and often unmeasured, confounder, and the growing pile of paradoxical evidence is forcing experts to re-evaluate its importance. The link between obesity and health derives in part from research like the Framingham Heart Study, which has followed thousands of men and women since the 1940s. But Paul McAuley, a professor of health education at Winston-Salem State University, has noted that Framingham and other longitudinal studies often fail to take into account physical activity and fitness.

Research that does tease apart weight and fitness — like a series of studies conducted by Steven Blair at the Cooper Institute in Dallas — shows that being fat and fit is better, healthwise, than being thin and unfit. Regular aerobic exercise may not lead to weight loss, but it does reduce fat in the liver, where it may do the most metabolic damage, according to
a recent study at the University of Sydney.

“More often than not, cardiovascular fitness is a far more important predictor of mortality risk than just knowing what you weigh,” said Glenn Gaesser, author of “Big Fat Lies” and director of the Healthy Lifestyles Research Center at Arizona State University. In 2005, an epidemiologist, Katherine Flegal, analyzed [sic] data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and found that the biggest risks of death were associated with being at either end of the spectrum — underweight or severely obese. The lowest mortality risks were among those in the overweight category (B.M.I.s of 25 to 30), while moderate obesity (30 to 35) offered no more risk than being in the normal-weight category.”

[1] BPLF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Light Forces. See here and here for more on this. 
[2] Please see here, 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").
[3] I apologise for the formatting: it seems Blogger is no longer as WYSIWYG as it used to be, and there are a lot of unwanted changes to layout made upon publishing, so I often have to edit it immediately after publishing to get the format as close to what I want as possible.
Love, light, hugs and blessings
Gnwmythr, Wéofodthegn
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux … aka Morinehtar … would-be drýicgan or maga ... )
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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 for a few minutes at some time between 8 and 11 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate-clear for peace), and here for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend learning how to flame, ground and shield, do alternate nostril breathing, work with colour, and see also here and be flexible.

Tags: activism, Atlantis, discrimination, energy, environment, ethics, history, karma, paganism, reading, society, trance, violence,
First published: Fryrsdagr, 3rd July, 2015
Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Friday, 3rd July, 2015
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