Post No. 2,571 - Is this blog worth the effort?

Every now and again I wonder whether the effort I put into this blog is worthwhile - which, in my opinion, is a healthy thing: it can be a good thing to review our life choices in case circumstances change, or other factors mean we should change our efforts (e.g., greater need developing elsewhere, changing health or skill sets, etc).

The number of views is often an encouragement for me, as I wrote about here, but something else that I have always appreciated is the wide variety of nations those views come from. 

I recently had a mini-surge in views, and the spread of nations, and I thank all my Readers for being readers of this blog - and the click through to referenced or other past posts is an indication that there is, indeed, genuine readership. 

There is also one nation that experiences a decline in views when social activism is underway, which suggests to me that my readers in at least that nation are activists, which is pleasing to me, and I wish them safety and success in their endeavours, and hope this blog has been of some value to them. 

So I will answer my question with:   yes.

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Post No. 2,570 - normative social behaviour [Content Warning - workplace abuse, psychopaths]

Something I’ve been doing some research into of late is autism, and I found myself relating quite strongly to a comment by one person on YouTube about being uncertain how to behave as a young person, and trying to work out - more or less - “how to behave” (incidentally, I thoroughly recommend  Jessica  Wildfire’s “Unlikable: A Guide for Different Minds”).

I’ve touched on my struggles to comprehend the inanities and strangeness of normative social rules for behaviour elsewhere (and that will be very prominent in my autobiography, if it is ever completed), and am struck by the learning that society as a whole can get from minorities and those who dwell on society’s fringes - whether neurodivergent, challenging of gender norms, or those radicals who believe in peace, justice, and equity - you know, anti-racist etc campaigners like Nelson Mandela, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, and the people listed on my heroixes page.

In my opinion, much of what passes for “normative social conditioning” is a lie - the stated/claimed reasons/justifications are not the truth: it is actually about either ways of behaving that make life easier for others - which is , in some circumstances, valid or perpetuation of patriarchy and other elitist suppression and control measures - which is NEVER valid. 

The battles I had in the 1980s against the one manager in my work experience who was, in my opinion, psychopathic were examples of that. 

He was unsettled by my failure to toe the “unwritten rule” (in his mind) that the new (neoliberal) way he was introducing was the way things were supposed to be - again, in his mind. 

Some of this was also formalising the perpetuation of past abuses. As an example, he wrote a memo about expectations of overtime as one climbed the hierarchy. I converted the pays and expectations to hourly rates, which clearly showed the expectations effectively reduced the hourly rate, and wrote a memo back to him thanking for his offer and declining to accept the offered reduction in hourly rate. 

He was not pleased. 

And he didn’t know how to respond. 

He had grown up in a world where one did what one’s olders (not elders! - parents, bosses, etc) said without question - which is how abuses such as bullying & other abuses of new apprentices etc were perpetuated (a perspective I was aware of at the time, incidentally). 

Now, since then we have actually got evidence (finally!!!) of the harm done to health by long hours and high stress in the workplace (e.g., here), but at that time those of us who were trying to make the world a better place (i.e., activists) had to do so on the basis of principles, not objective evidence of what was obvious. 

I’d like to give one more example of that boss not knowing how to respond. 

In the late 1980s I actually quit one Sunday evening so I could start working as a contractor - which would have been more money for me (and quite bad in the long term, looking back from the other end of my career), and he rang to convince me not to quit. I agreed (giving me about eight hours of unrecorded unemployment :) ).

A few years later, however, he asked me to leave permanent employment and start to work as a contractor. 

Under the changed circumstances those few years later, me working as a contractor was far worse for me and far better for the company (under various tax changes).

I challenged him as to when he was lying: “you can’t say it is better for me to work as a contractor now and also that it was better for me not to work as a contractor back then: which time were you lying - then, or now?”

He lacked the honesty, and possibly the awareness, to admit that circumstances had changed: he expected me to be a mindless puppet and humbly and gratefully allow myself to be <expletive deleted>.

(I took pity on him after a minute or so and suggested “Or are you saying circumstances have changed” - and it was the speed and evident relief in his facial expression and body language that told me he didn’t have that basic awareness.)

He was bad enough - and the formal reprimand he had put on my record was later quietly removed by our HR department over its manifest wrongness - but what really got my goat was the attitude of colleagues who did buy into this stuff - as exemplified by some who had been sent to do his dirty work and - as the euphemism for neoliberalism goes - “have the hard conversations”. 

(I just had a thought: maybe that was also his inadvertent acknowledgement of my having bested him too many times?)

Not all colleagues became willing sock puppets - one older colleague joined with me in refusing to go into the expected sequence of promotions in management, choosing instead to stay in technical roles at a time when there was no consideration of that being a valid career choice. (A year or so later, a formal structure was developed where people could choose either to be technical, or management - and we now have a few career pathways as the new, healthy norm.)

Those who became willing enablers and puppets, however, were disappointing - and their actions ended a few friendships/potential friendships.

Those other willing enablers and puppets are one of, if not the, biggest of the unacknowledged problems of the perpetuation of wrong doing in the world at the moment. 

Consider the following: 

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed”.

Simone  de  Beauvoir, “The Ethics of Ambiguity”  

the problem of “anticipatory compliance” that Timothy  Snyder wrote about in "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" (pub. Vintage Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-1847924889 [Amazon]), and that I have touched on in the following posts: 

• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/04/life-cycles-age-business-world-and.html; 
• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/06/giving-up-power-and-anticipatory.html;  
• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-problem-of-giving-in-to-evil.html;
  
• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/04/on-leadership.html;
• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/05/what-im-currently-reading.html;

and, while I’m at it:

• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2020/05/on-dentists-and-professionalism.html; and 
• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2021/03/p-and-other-miscellaneous-thoughts-on.html.
  

There may be limits to the activism you undertake (for instance, having dependent may make going to protests where you might be arrested problematic), but I consider it well worth resisting evil in whatever ways you can, where and when you can, and, I submit to you, Dear Reader, that not being an active enabler is one such choice to very deliberatively consider.

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

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Post No. 2,569 - Planets in retrograde (astrological)

I learned something today from the excellent Time Nomad astrology app (see https://apps.apple.com/au/app/time-nomad-astrology-charts/id1092841332): 

when planets go into retrograde, their expression becomes more inwardly focused - which is presumably why Mercury in retrograde results in external communication - i.e., between people - being problematic, as the skill and gift of good communication has shifted to an internal focus.

Hmm. Interesting - and a take on that topic which actually makes sense and is digestible for me. If only I’d been able to access that sort of clarity when I - briefly - tried to study astrology I might have stuck at it.

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Post No. 2,568 - Rewards

Having outlasted evil and lesser abuses long enough to be able to retire from my day job with the respect of my colleagues (which means any criticisms I make of that profession will not be dismissed as coming from “a failure”, or “a weakling” - which reflects the savagery of some people in that profession ... especially the “old school” social dinosaurs who need to die out [of natural causes - old age), I’ve had a personal reward: identification of details from two more of my lives. 

I can add these to having been recognised at a glider school in the 1980s by a former colleague (still living) from my night fighter incarnation in World War (part) Two and one other life about which I have identifiable information.

I won’t go into anything further than saying one is tracking down who I was at the Battle of Gettysburg (I was a Union soldier with character flaws - but an abolitionist ... and my biases then explain why I was reincarnated into subsequent nations [which explains why I have often commented to people that thinking about where your dislikes could take you in your next life is more important than looking to the past for an "explanation" [in truth, seeking a justification] of current biases) and which submarine I was on in the near-World War One era that sank - leaving my then- and now current partner on her own (an ex- of mine was on one of the planes I shot down as a night fighter), and me with claustrophobia until I went back to that life. 

None of these lives are famous, by the way (other than locally in one of the lives), so you’re not missing out on any “juicy” reincarnational gossip by not knowing :)

Here are a few other posts that may help with thinking on this, in addition to the inline links above: 

• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2007/06/about-me.html and http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html;
  
• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2008/02/giving-oneself-kick-up-backside.html; 
• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2009/10/trouble-with-change-your-other-yous.html;
• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2009/11/control-family-and-living-in-burbs-rant.html;
• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2010/05/changes.html; and
  
• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2015/05/post-no-708-how-do-i-clear-or-channel.html.
  

Also, on the massively harmful consequences of having got through so many decades of engineering, see: 

• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/08/post-no-2566-recovering-from-corporate.html.
  

I had quite a few technical achievements in my day job, but the amount of abuse and damage has left me with no pleasure in any of that - in fact, I experience a powerful revulsion - or anger - at even thinking of that job, because of what I went through.

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Post No. 2,567 – This Week’s Psychic Weather Report and Work No. 0359

Black Lives Matter! Be Anti-Racist, Anti-Sexist, and Actively Inclusive in ALL Areas. 

Vote Yes for the Voice in Australia - see this backgrounder.

The Climate Crisis is real, urgent and existential!
The Pandemic is Real, and Vaccinations save lives. Stay safe - wash your hands, wear a face mask in public if prudent to do so, and follow informed medical advice.

This week’s assessment is: 

no map this week

This week’s plan is as listed below (incidentally, if you disagree, please use your own interpretations, or your own divinations):

Sunday: refer to map

Monday: South East Asia, central Africa, and Central America 

Tuesday: East Asia, Siberia, and the West & Eat Pacific 

Wednesday: Antarctica, the North & South Atlantic Ocean, South & North America, and the Arctic

Thursday: the Southern Ocean, southern & northern Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Australia 

Friday: West, Central & South Asia 

Saturday: this day will now be reserved for rest, recuperation and healing – of all those who are trying in a BPM way to make this planet a better place.
May any and all healers who wish to contribute to this, take a few minutes to contribute to this goal on this day.

(The colours for the days are:   Sunday - gold,   Monday - grey,   Tuesday - orange,   Wednesday - green,   Thursday - blue,   Friday - violet.)

In addition, regarding all right wing/far right / white supremacist / misogynist / LGBTIQA+phobic / antisemitic / ableist etc extremists - wherever they may be, may: 

• all nonBPM units be cleared away from those people, and all people/units  controlling those people or associated with or, controlled by, them; 
• all nonBPM influences associated with those people, and all people/units controlling or associated with them, be BPM neutralised, BPM isolated, BPM reversed and utterly BPM undone - including protecting, healing, and strengthening all who have been harmed, including strengthening BPM connections to all people's Higher Selves, BPM  Guides and BPM  Matron/Patron Deities; 
• all BPM people/units who are opposing such evil be protected, healed, and strengthened, and inspired and given every aid in their BPM work; 
• all nonBPM influences be swamped, displaced, and replaced by all spaces/places/times/levels being filled with constructive BPM influences/units/aims; 
• BPM influences/units/people be so prevalent that any future recurrence of such evils be absolutely prevented.
  

See also this post.

Routine Explanation / commentary

My “Magickal Battle of the World”, dowsing, and other courses on this blog can be found at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/p/on-line-courses-on-this-blog.html.

There is an introduction / reminder / explanation about these posts here (and 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). 

Please also note that I hope this work will be taken up by a network of competent dowsers and BPM psychic warriors (also, this blog was created for spiritual reasons, including a course: this is just part of it). See also this excellent analysis on this topic.

As you read this, consider this: how does one outflank an idea, or attack an emotion in the rear? It is as well to consider what those who are nonBPM could do to good ideas and emotions, as well as considering BPM ways to outflank or “attack in the rear” bad ideas/emotions. 

Also consider geopolitics, and this mapping exercise.

Remember, the meditation (see here, here, and here) consists of the following, and I suggest (that is NOT a rule - convenient times mean you are more likely to do this, and contribute to the wave of energy rolling around the planet) you do this at 9 pm your local time:

 - appropriate and responsible protection (see here, here, here), prayer and ritual (e.g., here) to establish and check protection (re-do or re-schedule, if you don’t feel safe and secure);

 - establish a personal connection to higher BPM influences;

 - flush one's aura with emerald green, royal blue and royal purple;

 - fill one’s Heart Chakra (and maybe one’s Earth Star, Solar Plexus, Third Eye and Crown Chakras) with emerald green, royal blue and royal purple; send a weave of three streams of these colours from the Chakra(s) to a visualisation of a gigantic, multi-faceted emerald (which has been created to facilitate networking of BPM workers) through your personal facet until you see your energy enlivening other areas of the emerald and can feel similar energies flowing back to you;

 - generate  feelings of love, peace, joy and respect;

 - strengthen those feelings (energies);

 - radiate those energies to the world for nine to eighteen minutes;

 - close your chakras, centre yourself and close your aura, use the banishing version of the LBRP to close circle, ground and release all excess energy; and then make sure you are grounded and closed down – eat, if you need to, or seek help from someone capable and trusted. As a final point, note that your BPM family of choice (i.e., friends - especially those outside this area of your life) and BPM family will help keep your life grounded. Similarly, you should focus on all that you love in life outside of this work at the end of a session - and, if you have nothing else, you must broaden your life for the sake of being balanced and thus capable (and seek expert help, if necessary);

and

 - make sure you are yourself again - free of any lingering attachments or (misguided) ideas of being subservient, respectful of yourself & your integrity, just as you should be of others.

Important note: although I show the flow of energy using arrows, they are really - to continue the weather chart analogy - more like the passage of a frontal system as shown on a synoptic (“weather”) chart.

It is also worth contemplating that one of the greatest weaknesses of those who oppose Balanced Positivity is the inherent suffering of their aims and means. It may take time, but people WILL eventually realise what is not good, and will take action (e.g., this) – which, as an example, is why slavery is no longer ubiquitous, and why the march to freedom and democracy is underway – tentatively, and with backsliding and mistakes along the way, but inexorably nevertheless.

Also, if you’re interest is healing, I have set Saturdays aside for doing healing.

In addition, those interested in providing protection for others always have a place.

Finally, a reminder that if none of this is of any interest to you, but you would still like to contribute energetically / psychically to making the world a better place, there are other options – for instance, this comprehensive list, and see also here, here, here, here, here, here, here (and here), here, here , and this group (based on coherence of heart energies via an app and broadcasting love) – and, no doubt, many other places on the internet.

WLNGRHDMT

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Post No. 2,566 - Recovering from a corporate life - Episode 12: an emotional and mental crash

Posts in this series are now listed at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/p/recovering-from-corporate-life.html. 

PS - expect these to be edited fairly often. Writing these is part of the healing process, and will bring up more insights,etc.

Something I didn’t expect quite so soon was a crash of mood. 

After the high of my last day in engineering, the trauma of socially widespread (endemic is probably more accurate) bigotry and the accumulated trauma of this demanding and often abusive profession hit home in a rush. That wasn’t helped by reading of the appalling attempts by the cismale heterosexual head of Spain’s soccer organisation to cover up his misogyny, which I wrote about here, nor reading this attempted resurrection of two decade old bigotry (which reminds me of the need for what I wrote here and here ... such people have built emotional and mental palaces on a series of false premises, and are so amathiac that they think to change is to threaten to bring down all their goals - whereas the truth is that if they accept reality, grieve the minor changes to their place that are necessary, they will, in fact, wind up with an edifice on solid ground).

For Goddess’s sake people, you don’t even really have to try being better: just stop being such backward reprobates. 

That sort of attitude and response is the worst of the corporate world - the sort of dinosaur attitudes that are being successfully countered by so many people in the corporate world. 

And, writing as a former Board Director, if Board Directors are doing their job competently, they’ll get rid of those dinosaurs.

I hope Directors will learn from this series I am writing - and, now that I have written some of the stress and trauma out, time for some meditation and exercise (and then sleep). 

And hopefully I can slow down and write fewer, more reflective & deeper posts ...

Blessed be.

I am writing this series in the hope that it will contribute to a better understanding - or at least better research into the effects of - the so-called developed world’s economic systems - which are based on the world-destroying amathia of perpetual growth, and patriarchal oligarchical capitalism expressed as often expressed corporatism and neoliberalism.

 

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Post No. 2,565 - Some interesting reading/viewing

Here are some links that might of interest or value:

• excellent thoughts by T.  Thorne  Coyle on love; 
• Neuroplasticity with Lucid Dreaming with Charlie Morley
  Gaia Consciousness
  “What if there was a way to maximize your sleep-time to build muscle, expand consciousness and solve problems? Charley Morley explains how we can use lucid dreaming to rewire our brains and improve every aspect of the waking world.  Host: Regina Meredith Guest: Charlie Morley”
  Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/gaia-consciousness/id1620917042?i=1000624613211  [Content Warning: stereotypical gender binary expressed by host, but guest took a broader view]
  
• research shows autistic people care more;  
• this weeks Light Gate  episode was engaging and relatable;
  
• changes are coming to the global consciousness project; 
• what makes a place sacred?;
• this week’s “afterlife report” by the  Zammits. 

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