These are the posts which don’t show up in the list of top posts that I consider are worth a further look:
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No. 1,476 - Personal responsibility, and the evil of social status
I’ve written about personal responsibility quite a few times now - as a convenient example, my previous post, which is on politics mentioned the price of politics, and a lot of that comes down to the expectations of voters. Other examples are what consumers buy (not only whether one is being environmentally responsible or not buying slave-made products, but what effect is your purchase having on the nature of society),
In Australia, every person who voted for the neoliberal coalition government that we have is personally and directly responsible, albeit to a small extent perhaps, for all that the government has done - resisting action on the climate crisis, human rights abuses of Australians and others in our care, reducing firefighting capabilities, and lying about it all - in the cause of their laissez-faire interpretation of the neoliberal ideology.
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No. 1,695 - A Dowsing Dream
One day, I have a dream that there will be a network of 1,000 or more dowsers preparing a daily assessment of balanced (BPM) and unbalanced (nonBPM) energy around the world.
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No. 1,552 - Spoons of Courage
There is a concept from the management of chronic fatigue syndrome that has become fairly widely used, and that is “spoons (of energy)”.
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No. 1,477 - A reaction (NOT a review) to the latest Star Wars film (The Rise of
Skywalker)
This is NOT a review of the film: you can find that at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Rise_of_Skywalker, and elsewhere.
One of the things that I’ve always disliked about the Star Wars franchise is the sanitised, cartoonish way that violence is depicted - little blood, no real signs of physical pain, and very little of the lasting emotional trauma that comes with seeing, receiving or giving cruelty, crippling injuries, or death. None of the stormtroopers shows signs of PTSD or similar problems until the last trilogy.
I’ve started reading the novelisations, and they do a better job on the emotional side of things - which one would expect, as they aren’t trying to fit a story into a roughly two hour framework, and they aren’t limited to visual/audio presentation (they can present the thinking of characters, for instance, and directly describe emotional reactions and consequences).
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The depiction of one person having energy to influence others is portrayed as being a physical influence, but in reality, outside Hollywood, such influences exist in a nonphysical way. In a “positive” sense, think of Gandhi, Mandela, and John F Kennedy; in a “negative” sense, there is Hitler, Stalin, and bin Laden.
Those influences also exist psychically - which is what much of this blog is about, and thus the need for proper psychic protection (which is also about protecting oneself against energies that are simply not in harmony with oneself) and care for one’s nonphysical health, strength, and wellbeing.
(I’ve touched on this previously - for instance, when describing how one can also be a knight in everyday life.)
The idea that people can exert a constructive nonphysical influence is the intention behind many meditation groups and the like aiming to help create peace - and has, to some extent, been documented by people like Lynne McTaggart. (Amazon).
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No. 1,573 - Evidence supporting meditation
I’m a bit late coming across this book - I knew there had been scientific (REAL scientific studies, not POTUS45-isms on social media) studies into the benefits of meditation, but I had considered they were all like the ones I had seen - short term states of mind, health benefits, ability to work harder as a cog in the economic machine (yes, that last point’s sarcasm), etc.
I’ve now found that wasn’t the case.
The book “Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body” (pub. Penguin, 2017 , ISBN 978-0-241-97570-1, Amazon) by Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson is aware of the progression of meditation, that more important things than mindfulness (which I was taught as a prelude to meditation) such as loving-kindness meditation, and that there are long term aims from meditation
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No. 1,550 - Working with Other Meditation Styles
Something I’ve experienced is people assuming that the form of meditation that works for them must be best or required for others because it works for them - which is utterly stupid, apart from being wrong.
People should be thought of as orchestra players, where the instruments represent different meditation styles/methods/approaches: some people specialise in only one, or maybe a few “instruments” (meditation styles), some can play most - but when they are well combined, the effect is magnificent.
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No. 1,501 - When is a (Spirit) Rescue not a (Spirit) Rescue
. . . when it is a normal meet-someone-who-has-died, and help-them-pass-over.
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No. 1,577 - Emotional Intelligence is not . . .
Emotional Intelligence is not code for “positive thinking”.
