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I have been writing about improving the world through a range of means on my blogs: this blog has been focused on spiritual and psychic means, including strengthening BPM units and clearing nonBPM units, and meditation to generate BPM energy (and units, if you know enough).
This has been done before - particularly during times of crisis.
The climate crisis has been our World War III for some time (with the denialists being, at the very least, the WW3 equivalents of Quisling, Vichy France, etc), and we now have the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the zoonotic SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus (there are other novel coronaviruses), on top of that.
World War II was probably the biggest global crisis before our current dual crises, and during those terrible events, there were a number of people undertaking magickal work, including the work by Dion Fortune (there were others) outlined in the Gareth Knight edited book "The Magical Battle of Britain" (my copy pub. Skylight Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-908011-45-9), which I reviewed here. Ms Fortune directed her team through a series of 136 weekly and (I think) 19 monthly meditations (I originally intended to publish a list at some stage, but it’s so long and comprehensive that I’m concerned about breaching copyright, so I may either see if I can find an online list, or publish something listing the broad themes only). At the end of this, she was exhausted, and that work is considered to have contributed to her death, but a change for the better had been accomplished.
We already have a lot of people doing a lot of work on making the world a better place (including before the current crises), but I would like to extend my contribution to also include a series of weekly - or near weekly - meditations along the line of those directed by Ms Fortune.
I am proposing this be added to the Sunday meditations which are part of my regular psychic work. For convenience, an outline of the meditation is provided at the end of this post.
The notes on each week’s meditation will probably be brief to the point of being terse.
This Week: No. 28 - Inspiration (bringing out the best in people)
In contrast to the concept of outmoded and harmful emotions that hinder people’s spiritual growth, development and wellbeing, this week I wish to consider that which aids people to be better.
The world has been plagued with the simplistic, avoidance-of-shadow-work and at times victim-blaming approaches of so-called “positive thinking” for decades now. Before that, we had, in contradiction of the principle of “first do no harm”, the abuse of physical discipline - for centuries, which was another pole, simplistically possibly considered the other extreme, but actually just another pole that manages to evade the issue of society talking responsibility for societal (and organisational) structures, problems and shortcomings.
What we actually need, is people-based, flexible/adaptive approaches - what works for one person, won’t necessarily work for others - and what works in one context won’t necessarily be appropriate elsewhere.
I’m working on a post in my “risk management” series on motivation, and what I’ve written so far, copied below, helps set the scene.
Based on what worked for me, and what has worked when I’ve used it on others, I am going to suggest, as a starting point:
- have and demonstrate faith in other people;
- when things go wrong, or don’t work out as well as they should, calmly and specifically explain why you consider that wrong or unacceptable, and mutually discuss how to do better;
- protect the people you are trying to inspire to do better against pressure (especially criticism based on what they think would be motivating) from others; and
- be patient, and persist.
There are some other suggestions at https://www.wikihow.com/Inspire-People.
From a Coming Post on My Political Blog:
There are quite a few situations where motivating people to do something may be desirable, important, or even essential.
As examples, consider:
- getting a child to clean their room;
- encouraging workers to be more productive;
- conveying a legal line of argument in a court;
- persuading citizens to comply with actions and avoid other actions in order to contain a pandemic;
- order soldiers to undertake a task in battle with a high likelihood of being killed or injured.
Now, these are all very different situations, and what is appropriate in one will not be appropriate in another - which is why I have chosen them.
In all cases, however, there are a few issues to consider. The following list is a starting point for consideration - don't assume it is complete, as I haven't tried to make it so:
- how effective the method of motivation is in terms of result;
- what is the cost of the method of motivation;
- is the method of motivation legal, ethical, in conformity with principles of inclusion and diversity, proportionate, and reasonable?
- is coercion involved, and if yes, is the coercion legal, ethical, in conformity with principles of inclusion and diversity, proportionate, and reasonable?
- is method of motivation or the thinking and premises it is based on outmoded, inappropriate, or likely to be ineffective or lead to problems such as legal action, police charges, or professional reviews, or is it genuinely innovative and constructive?
Each of these may have sub-questions. For instance:
Effectiveness:
· how is that defined;
· how is that measured;
· what biases influence the definition and measurement;
· what knowledge is missing from the definition and measurement;
· what influence does context (direct to that situation and people, indirect - social and broader) and time (the past, the now, and the future) have on the definition and measurement.
Cost:
· what is the cost to the person doing the motivating;
· what is the cost to the person being motivated;
· what is the cost to the organisation or group this is taking place in;
· what is the cost to the broader context (society, those seeing what is happening, those connected to those involved, etc);
· what influence does context (direct to that situation and people, indirect - social and broader) and time (the past, the now, and the future) have on these costs?
This week’s sigils are for inspiration.
If I get it done in time, an audio version of the post can be found on YouTube at <TBA>
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Previous meditations in this sequence are:
1. Introduction, definition of the problem(s), and Realisation;
3. Together;
4. Caution, respect and integrity (aka cunning);
5. Momentum;
6. Insight;
7. Preciseness;
8. Progress;
9. Learning;
11. Conciseness;
12. Measurement;
13. Faith;
14. Proficiency;
15. Alliances;
17. Motivations of the nonBPM;
18. The humanness of the flaws that underlay opposition;
19. Undetectability;
20. Evolution;
21. Perspective;
22. Wisdom;
23. Tradition;
24. The outmoded;
25. Persistence;
26. Discernment;
27. Paleo-emotions.
The Meditation (see here, here, and here) consists of:
- appropriate and responsible protection (see here, here, here), prayer and ritual (e.g., here) to establish and check protection (re-do the protection, or re-schedule the meditation, if you don’t feel safe and secure);
- establish a personal connection to your Higher BPM influences;
- visualise the sigil (see above) for this work. Think of what this work means for you as you do so, then, when you feel you have fully tuned in to the meaning of the sigil, see it as a portal or doorway (you could open it like a door [close it behind you], simply pass through it, visualise yourself shrinking and passing through the centre, or whatever else works best for you), and travel through to to a place created by the visualisation of yourself and others for this work. That place should have:
(a) a visualisation of the workplace you personally prefer - something you can change, if you wish, as you yourself change; and
(b) a shared visualisation of a device to astrally share our knowledge, something developed in a previous project (still active astrally): a visualisation of a large, green, multifaceted emerald. Large: around half the size of the Moon; multifaceted - billions, for all people who wish to be part of this at any time; green - largely tied up with the previous project, but has connotations of nature and growth. One of those facets is yours - choose whatever location and shape you wish (and you may change that as you change [grow] over time), but in the interest of humility and sharing, see it at around human - or human aura - size;- flush one's aura with green (R0, G102, B0), blue (R0, G0, B204) and purple (R153 G0, B204);
- fill one’s Heart Chakra (and maybe one’s Earth Star, Solar Plexus, Third Eye and Crown Chakras) with green, blue and purple; send a weave of three streams of this colour from the Chakra(s) to the visualised gigantic, multi-faceted emerald through your facet until you see your energy enlivening other areas of the emerald and can feel similar energies flowing back to you;
- visualise the rune / bindrune (if given - or, on Sunday, the group of symbols provided);
- generate feelings of love, peace, joy and respect;
- strengthen those feelings (energies);
- radiate those energies to the world for nine to eighteen minutes;
- then, on Sunday, also perform the additional meditation work for around 15 minutes or so: contemplate the topic, and the spiritual (i.e., nonphysical) implications of it, and seek insights and understanding. Do not be distracted by thoughts of physical actions - those are necessary also, but this exercise is about the nonphysical, in the broadest possible sense, and the focus should be on nonphysical actions, energy flows, symbols, and the like, all with the intention of bringing about a change for the better. As a second stage, if you wish, you can meditate on any physical actions which may be necessary, but get the spiritually focused work done first;
- when you have finished your work:
(i) send the thought of any knowledge you wish to store or share through your portal into the group visualised emerald;
(ii) return back through the sigil; and
(iii) close your chakras, centre and ground yourself and close your aura, use the banishing version of the LBRP to open circle, ground and release all excess energy; and make sure you are grounded and closed down – eat, if you need to, or seek help from someone capable and trusted.
WLNGRHDMT
Black Lives Matter!
