While I am trying to survive the chaos of moving and
trying to help my sister resolve some issues around my father’s estate, I can
only do a very cut back version of this post. My profound apologies.
For everyone’s convenience, I’ve shifted
the reminders / explanations about Sunday’s meditation-clearing
to this
post. I have a simplified blogiography of posts related to this work here,
a list of themes I have identified here,
and my changing the personality of oppressors and other world leaders post is here.
(Also, see here for some
investigation into evidence of the effectiveness of this type of work, which
shows variability [and mentions causes] and cycles in the
energetic/consciousness response … and also here is interesting.) A range of information on emotions is here,
and suggestions on how to work with emotions is here.
This
copy of a speech to one of the Parliament of World Religions also has
excellent, helpful insights on generational transmission of harm, the cost of
war, and ways to heal our hearts.
The purpose of posting these news links is
not only to inform: it is also to stimulate a connection to nonBPM units that
need to be cleared and BPM units that
need to be strengthened. That only works if you don’t let yourself be overwhelmed by this, so take it
in small chunks if you need to, but remember to actively clear and heal!
… including yourself. Also, it is absolutely VITAL that this psychic / metaphysical /
spiritual work be performed non-violently and as is for the Highest Spiritual Good – which is
part of being BPM – on all levels and in all ways. Always
remember (see here): Do you fight to change things, or to
punish? See also here,
here,
here, here,
here,
and my comments about “authentic
presence” in this
post.
Also, in the same way that activists used
to argue that “the personal is political”, the energies we use and manifest in
our daily lives contribute to the larger soup of energies that influence world
events. If you want to, for example, improve the communication of nations,
improve yours. To help stop abuses of power, be always ethical in your conduct.
Want peace? Then work in an informed, understanding, intelligent and nuanced
way for peace in yourself and your life.
Finally, remember that many others are
doing this type of work – for instance, the Lucis
Trust's Triangles network (which has been running for many decades), the Correllian
Tradition's 'Spiritual
War for Peace' (begun in 2014, and the website was recently updated
to include many more activities),
the Hope, Peace, Love and Prosperity Spell
(also from the Correllian Tradition, in around 2007 or 2008), 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); the “Network
of Light” meditations; and
also see here and here –
even commercial organisations are getting involved (for instance, see here).
No doubt there are many others, so, if you don't like what I am suggesting here, but want to be
of service, there are many other opportunities for you.
(Please
note that I now specifically have a role for (absent) healers on Saturdays, as
explained in the Psychic Weather Report posts. Anyone who wishes to be
protector has a role every day :) , including – perhaps particularly - the
first permanent issue I list below. At all times, on all levels and in ways, BOTH must ALWAYS be
BPM in the way they perform such roles.)
Now, if
I am ever late getting my Psychic Weather Report up any week, the default plan is to build up energy in the “Shield of Hope” on Sunday, send energy to West Asia / the
Middle East on Monday, and then extend that to include Europe on Tuesday, the
USA on Wednesday, East and South East Asia on Thursday and Africa on Friday.
Now, the themes – short, medium and long term - that come
to mind for my work this week, after I review all this news, are (and no
apologies if this repeats the themes of any previous weeks – in fact, given the
size of this task, that is to be expected):
(a) based on my interpretation of information here and here with Saturn in Sagittarius contributing to finding an authentic balance (until 20th December, 2017), Uranus in Aries contributing to fresh and possibly radical starts (until some date in the Year 2018), and Pluto in Capricorn contributing to a transformation of power and business (and careers) (until some date in the Year 2024), conditions are ripe for a change for the better in world politics;(b) there is an enormous need to clear nonBPM energy – the thought forms, unattached energy and scars of the collective unconscious created by millennia of violence. This need includes rescuing those who have been trapped by that history, and healing the warped views, seemingly “inherent” biases, and other damage done by the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual violence committed on scales large and small in that timeframe;(c) viewing the overall emotional state of the world from an elemental point of view, this week we need more Air, for insight;(d) I will continue to focus on holding the Syrian ceasefire, with a view to that helping to propagate peace in that region (incidentally, I deliberately choose not to swamp this blog with details, otherwise I would be posting things like “I’ve noticed a lot of the people who need clearing in Syria have nonBPM links into the back of their shoulders and the tops of their heads – which I would expect, but this is far more so than anything I’ve come across in the last three decades” The blog would become oversize and boring, and I would have no time to do more actual work, if I did);(e) the campaign against terrorism continues to be patchy, with some gains and some decisions and acts of stupidity. The problem is some people having an immature view of matters: they need to be assisted by their BPM Guides to a more nuanced, subtle view, one which acknowledges the reality of indirect effects from actions, and that first reactions can make things worse;(f) karmically speaking, Europe’s chooks (from a few centuries ago) have come home to roost(g) freedom, wonderful thought it is, continues to be a threatened commodity – and is threatened by things as varied as the gullibility of people’s acceptance of the unacceptable if gives them something they want in everyday life;(h) the quest for power for the wrong purposes continues to be a problem. It is, however, important to realise that many of the people doing that may genuinely consider them elves as selfless, and wanting the power for some sort of “greater good”;I also take this opportunity to repeat that it is absolutely VITAL that this psychic / metaphysical / spiritual work be performed non-violently and as is for the Highest Spiritual Good – which is part of being BPM – on all levels and in all ways. Always remember (see here): Do you fight to change things, or to punish? See also here, here, here, here, here, and my comments about “authentic presence” in this post.
News and other
matters from this week include the following
(opportunities/good news are shown in green;
comments are 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 BPM [1] Leaders be kept BPM safe, including keeping them undetectable to the nonBPM and keeping all their Significant Others inviolable against being used for indirect psychic attack, and may they have all the BPM opportunities and assistance (so-called “good luck”) for them to be BPM effective at influencing the world’s direction, development and unfoldment, all as is for the Highest Spiritual Good;
- Permanent issue: may all humans recognise, irrespective of the appearance of difference, the essential shared humanness of other people, the inherent resilience, the dynamic power, the strength of BPM collaboration, and the opportunities of having a diverse, inclusive and welcoming population, and may all people choose fairness, when such decisions are before them;
- Permanent issue: may all humans choose to live modestly – to forgo outdoing others, or trying to have more than they need - for the sake of an easier, more manageable life, if they cannot do it for the sake of the planet;
- With regard to democracy, freedom and governance (e.g., here and here):
Nigeria has removed 24,000 ghost workers; Chad’s long-ruling President is facing his largest challenge; Gambia’s current President is considering a fifth term in office; Burma’s military junta has manoeuvred to keep Aung San Suu Kyi out of the presidency; the kingdom of Morocco is at a critical point in its history; the Brazilian Supreme Court has voted to back corruption charges against the speaker of the lower house of Congress;
why US presidential candidate Crazy Don (aka Trump), who is now accepting Ku Klux Klan support, “should have been expected”; Crazy Don’s latest shenanigans may be costing him some Republican support; an analysis of Crazy Don’s appeal for some voters;
a good assessment of the role of Australia’s Prime Minister; former Australian Prime Minister Abbott is now trying to undermine the current PM, including a defence of the “rules based” aspects of the defence White Paper; a critique of the simplistic assumptions underlying the defence White Paper;
politics – and the world - will be better for this resignation, and his possible replacement would make politics and the world a better place;
links on the Pacific; - With regard to violent extremism (aka, terrorism - e.g., Da’esh) (and, incidentally, I consider ALL people advocating hate or discrimination in
response to violent extremism to actively be doing the work of violent extremists. This PARTICULARLY includes those cretins [including in
the media, and Amnesty International] who use the acronym ISIS (see also here), which is actually the Greek name of the Egyptian Goddess Aset – and others (see also here) - and actively perpetuates the
patriarchal and sacrilegious evil that terrorists are trying to accomplish in
this world – which will be countered, in
part, by the sort of approach advocated by “Cure
Violence”,
and, in part, by addressing real and perceived disempowerment and acknowledging
the variety in what provides genuine, BPM fulfilment as a counter to fanaticism as a source of meaning. I also am
inclined, personally, to include here the last two millennia of neochristian
and colonialist social engineering, which has led to suppression of women,
child abuse, the Crusades, the Inquisition, etc, as violent extremism, but that
would take too much explaining.):
terrorist attacks have occurred in Afghanistan, Somalia, Nigeria, Iraq, Iraq (2nd), the Philippines, Somalia (2nd), India (cyber-attack), India, prevention has or may have occurred in Jordan (home grown terrorists), Tunisia; a Swedish girl held as a hostage has been rescued from terrorists by Kurdish special forces; Cameroon has freed hundreds of hostages in an anti-terrorist operation; Tunisia has killed several suspected terrorists on its western border, with Algeria;
a terrorist group has accepted a pledge of allegiance from another in the Philippines, as it executed one of its finance ministers and 8 Dutch deserters and 15 others; a Saudi-led bloc of six Gulf Arab nations has joined the USA, Canada, Australia, France and the Netherlands, and formally branded Hezbollah a terrorist organisation (the European Union, New Zealand and the United Kingdom have proscribed Hezbollah's military wing as a terrorist organization);
an opinion piece that former US Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia was more Salafist than the founder of that movement; a judge in the United States has ruled that Apple cannot be forced to give the FBI access to a locked iPhone in a case that echoes an ongoing legal battle; - With regard to refugees: the UN Secretary-General is following with great concern the increasing number of border restrictions along the Balkan land route. On a more positive note, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are joining forces to set up special support centres for children and families along the most frequently used migration routes in Europe; Germany is trying to get Northern African nations to take back more refugees; the International Organization for Migration has said it is scaling up the repatriation of African migrants suffering abuse and exploitation in Libya, mainly at the hands of the police and the militias; the problems experienced by Palestinian refugees in Saudi Arabia; the UN has warned that the European refugee crisis was accelerating into a "self-induced humanitarian crisis"; the European Union has approved $750 million in aid for those nations initially receiving refugees; an opinion that “The real problem with our asylum policies is not that supporters have a cold-blooded indifference to the plight of others. It's that they make a conscious decision to follow a harsh approach in pursuit of a supposedly higher purpose”; in a twist on refoulement, the Australian Government has sent a gay couple to Nauru, where they are now effectively home prisoners;
- With regard to human rights and discrimination (including
associated violence / crime):
a concerning trend towards violence amongst human rights activists;
a call to stop domestic violence in Morocco; the problem of sexual assaults disguised as “virginity tests” in Afghanistan; the Australian Federal Police, which is supposed to reflect the community it serves, has set targets for women; there is a wide range of views on menstrual leave: as I’ve seen my partner laid out for up to a week at a time by her periods, I consider this highly overdue; "Invest in Her" means more than money;
abuse of an LGBT teenager has led to a court case against Victoria’s education department; the problems of gender / sexuality bullying in schools, including teachers not having the tools and will to deal with that; more moves for equal marriage in Australia; homophobia in sport; more LGBT abuses in Indonesia; this article on LinkedIn has received a staggering number of comments from people who simply don't get it: the article is promoting having a more inclusive workplace - many workplaces are NOT inclusive, in many workplaces LGBT people fear being subjected to the sort of comments and stupidity (being gay is a choice??? Come on, they disproved that years ago!!!) being exhibited here by people who think everything is fine as it is. Those people need to read this article, which shows that people have inbuilt biases around what is normal. Another point here is that not all LGBT people are invisible - for instance, some trans people can be read, so it DOES crop up in interviews. If successfully hired, bi (and poly) people may have the issue of which partner to be open about. As for researching the culture of an organisation before joining it, that is not always possible, and many people may find themselves in a situation where they don't have the luxury of that choice; this is the sort of superficial comment that ignores the real evidence that discrimination causes mental health problems, and that expressing anti-LGBT views DOES lead to some people taking violent action against LGBT people and thus an atmosphere of fear; a hint of the sorts of distortions and attacks that will continue to happen over the “debate” in Australia over equal marriage (also, many same sex attracted people have kids that were “created” in hetero relationships that were entered into because of the sort of pressure bigots like these ones exert;
ongoing concerns over human rights abuses have led to a questioning of Europe’s growing relationship with Azerbaijan; the French military appears to be more tolerant on religion than French society;
xenophobia could be jeopardising hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign investment needed by Australia; thoughts on making a more racially tolerant Australia; ten key moments in the history of indigenous rights in Australia; an explainer on why blackface and blaming indigenous culture are both wrong; calls for a state-wide enquiry into indigenous deaths in custody in Western Australia;
why calling out abuse in online culture is worth it; Guatemala is leading Central America in using its justice system to pursue justice for civil-war era crimes and present-day corruption – bolstered by a UN-backed Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala - and El Salvador has also taken a critical step down this path; “my life with microcephaly: what it’s like to live with the birth defect linked to Zika's outbreak”; - With regard to crime, judicial matters and policing: Cardinal Pell started his testimony on child abuse by having his guards assault journalists; an article on the need to sue organisations hiding child abuse; proposed cut backs of the police service in South Australia include civilians doing administration (good) and intelligence (bad), and cutting back 24/7 stations in the city to one in an unsavoury part of the city (bad); Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister claimed to be surprised key child-protection legislation had not been certified, and undertook to remedy that; a call for a better system for the problem of sex slaves;
- With regard to press aka the media, and freedom of expression (keeping in mind that claims of presenting “both sides” of a debate can be WRONG if the other side is RUBBISH –as is the case on LGBTIQ issues): a film crew covering the refugee crisis in Europe have been attacked in Sweden;
- With regard to overcrowding and “modern” lifestyle issues (is YOUR smart phone free of conflict minerals? I was recently pleasantly to find IT manufacturers now making at least some effort in this regard. Are you being duped by modern mantras?): mental health “apps” for mobile phones have very poor basis for their construction; the stupid idea of standing desks (what about people with arthritic knees / collapsing desks / etc?); the challenges facing Mexico’s “chinampas” – floating gardens on wetlands, dating back to the Aztecs; somebody in the USA has finally worked out Australia has experience in managing droughts; stress causes cancer to spread (surprise, surprise, Einstein); the problem of “ghost nets”; a call for the credibility of online health advice for parents to be improved, as the parents don’t trust it; the downside of financial networks amongst the poor; Australia is underprepared for dealing with killer heat waves (especially with our stupid low heat mass, flammable houses); with profound apologies for posting a social media link, a great article (on LinkedIn) on why positive thinking does not work for introverts;
- With regard to education: the NSW government is requiring reporting of what is considered “antisocial” or suspicious behaviour, which it acknowledges could be just normal teenage angst. The guides refer to racial abuse of others, but nothing on LGBT abuse, and use mentioning Da’esh (aka “ISIS”) as inappropriate – but no acknowledgement of the Goddess! Another poorly thought out reaction … ;
- With regard to Africa, the Africa
Center for Strategic Studies (and other sources) also has:
Eritrea is using Dutch courts to silence its critics;
Shell is being sued over oil spills in the Niger delta – again;
Burundi will accept African Union human rights and military observers; Burundi has started registering foreigners;
China is continuing to increase its involvement in African defence forces;
the ongoing fallout from sexual abuses by UN “peacekeepers” in Central African Republic – including lack of support for the victims, some of whom are conflicted over having had babies;
Egypt is aiding the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) with a dam – possibly with a view to getting more water into the Nile;
an assessment of the coming meeting of the East African Community (EAC):
Nigeria has called on OPEC to stabilise oil prices as they are “too low”;
Angola is attempting to diversify its economy away from oil; - With regard to China and East and South East Asia: China is continuing to prance and posture like a colonial power in the East and South China Seas, and appears to be set to increase its military spending; the UN has toughened sanctions against North Korea, which has responded by celebrating with a six missile salute and checking that its nukes are ready to go;
- With regard to the Indian sub-continent, The Hindu and other sources
have:
possible changes to India’s judicial structure; is India at a critical point in its history?; a review of the first decade of India’s independent newspaper ombudsperson; police have reported no rapes occurred during the recent Jat riots; an editorial calling for universal health coverage; “The current strategy of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is to mount relentless rhetorical attacks on the “anti” in anti-national while leaving the “nation” in national carefully empty”; an interesting interview on sedition and nationalism; a university student, released on bail after being charged with sedition, has said the aim is “freedom in India, not from India” – see also here, and this very good article on the importance of dissent; what is effectively caste and gender based slavery;
India is working on a policy to get newer cars onto the road;
the execution of a former police “commando” who assassinated a governor has led to protests by those who consider him a defender of his faith;
the Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province has called upon India to ensure that the spirit behind the 13th Constitutional Amendment (federalism) be retained in the new Constitution; Sri Lanka’s President has honoured a Tamil writer who recently passed away;
an interview with former Maldivian President, recently jailed but allowed to travel for health care, where he urges India to stop appeasing dictators; - With regard to the conflict in Iraq (noting that Iraq was once a peaceful and prosperous society, before the USA / CIA backed revolution – see here): the USA has warned its citizens to be ready to leave Iraq in the event of what it has said could be a catastrophic collapse of the nation's largest hydro-electric dam near Mosul, reflecting Iraq’s warnings – see here for a report which also advises the emergency actions underway;
- With regard to the Libyan civil war: reports of an air strike against a suspected terrorist convoy;
- With regard to the Russia (see also Syria): Chechnya’s dictator is making a play for Putin; from the category of pot, meet kettle, Russia has criticised the Saudi-led air bombing camping in Yemen, and said the Yemeni government’s conditions for a ceasefire will result in a long war;
- With regard to Sudan and South Sudan: Angola claims to have proposed a UN arms embargo on South Sudan, whilst, meanwhile, South Sudan has welcomed USA’s deferral of the UK-proposed arms embargo;
- with regard to the conflict in Syria: the ceasefire has been a bit rocky, but deaths have reduced, delivery of aid has increased, and the USA and Russia are in harmony – for the nonce, at least. Later in the week, an assessment rated it as making progress, but fragile; Russian and US manufactured weapons are being trialled against each other in Syria (which some have suggested was at least one of the reasons Putin wanted this involvement); an in-depth review of the USA’s options and the – military - shades of grey they all have; an opinion piece blaming US President Obama for the scale of the disaster in Syria (to that I would add the disaster that happened in Iraq after the First Gulf War. Then US President Bush created that disaster by urging the Iraqis to overthrow Saddam Hussein, then standing back and doing nothing to help the one-sided slaughter);
- with regard to Turkey: Turkish Kurds have begun a fast to the death in protest at not being able to retrieve the bodies of their children, which are lying in the street;
- With regard to West Asia / the Middle East,
the Middle
East Eye and other sources have:
Palestinian-Israeli violence is continuing; a record number of Palestinians are under administrative detention; Israel is improving its missile defence systems; a critique of the two-state solution (which I, perhaps sadly, adhered to until recently :( ); the European Union has released over $200 million in aid for Palestinian health and education; a critique of the time taken for the ICC to perform a preliminary investigation into crimes during the recent Palestinian-Israeli conflict; following commencement of legal action by an Israeli human rights group, the Israeli army will return West Bank land it requisitioned nearly 40 years ago to its Palestinian owners in what a human rights group called an "extremely unusual" move; Israel is easing some of the financial pressure it is exerting – and failing to recognise that Palestinians want peace, not money; the battle for Israel’s soul;
tensions in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp;
a report that the Gulf states may be seeking nuclear weapons;
an assessment of Saudi Arabia’s capacity to make war; a European Parliament vote to impose an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia has increased the pressure on Canada to review its own, multi-billion-dollar weapons deal with the Gulf power;
Iranian reformist have won a majorities in parliament and the religious “Assembly of Experts”;
leading Egyptians, including media figures, are starting to criticise President al-Sisi; an opinion piece on what Egypt would now be like if the military coup a few years ago had not taken place – to which I would add that, had the Muslim Brotherhood stuck to an early agreement and not nominated anyone for President, they would possibly still be in power; human rights advocacy group Privacy International has accused Finnish telecommunications firm Nokia Networks and controversial Italian cybersecurity firm Hacking Team of secretly selling surveillance equipment to the Egyptian government so it could spy on Egyptian dissidents; - With regard to natural and other catastrophes: after recently being hit by a cyclone, Fiji is in urgent need of aid;
- With regard to peace and/or spirituality generally, and
the occasional nice story:
one of the issues this world is currently facing, is that the struggle to survive is getting harder for many people in the developed world, not easier. My adoptive sister and I are struggling with what should be an easy matter – my late father’s estate, our move has become impossibly complex and financially demanding, and I know no-one who is flourishing at the moment. To quite an extent, a l of this is, looking more generally, due to greed – bigger and fancier houses (and more money for houses in my home city of Melbourne), bigger and fancier cars, more and fancier electronic gadgets, etc - which all have to be paid for, but also, people are allowing themselves to be duped by cheap, sensationalist politicians like Crazy Don, Tony Abbott, John Howard, and so on. Perhaps more fundamentally, we have to learn how to cope with an economy that is sustainable – which means it is either not based on growth, or the concept of growth is changed to something that doesn’t consumer resources;
the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson, has said, at the General Assembly Thematic Panel Debate on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), that, 10 years after the adoption of the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document, individual states and the international community continue to fail in their responsibility to protect, we continue to see situations in which people are suffering horrendous abuses - some possibly genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, and this is a clear indication that we require an urgent and fundamental shift in how we approach R2P – we need to do better at prevention; respond faster and more decisively; as well as do more in peacebuilding, both financially and politically; a call for the world’s rural poor to have social protection; an article on ways to address malnutrition, including inadequate micronutrients;
there are concerns by local people over the appearance of ELN rebels in formerly FARC areas in Columbia; chilling parallels have been drawn between Crazy Don’s supporters and the banality of passive evil that Hannah Arendt revealed in Eichmann in Jerusalem; five non-permanent members in the UN Security Council (Egypt, Japan, Spain, New Zealand and Uruguay) are working on a new draft resolution to demand a halt to attacks on hospitals and medical facilities in Syria, Yemen and other wars;
an interview with Leymah Gbowee, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, on how she helped bring peace to Liberia – including the use of prayer, and being involved for peace, not political power;
From other sites (note that
articles from these sites may have already been provided):
- the US-based and -centric “War on the Rocks” blog (which I have found may also have other articles that I have concerns with - and thus do not provide links to, unless I want you to think … :) ) also has: a call for the USA to invest in a more flexible military, rather than just focusing on dealing with large rivals;
No signature block this week
