Saturday, 22 November 2025

Post No. 3,342 - Pagan reflections on, and interesting reading/viewing from, the past week

 Matters for reflection :    

From my SubStack channel:    

 “Pause”   https://musingsofgnwmythr.substack.com/p/a-pause   

A purple rectangle with the title "Pause" of a post by me on Substack
  

And the "shareable" for my SubStack post on My informal humanness and decency blog series culminating in “Legalistic human rights advocacy vs humanistic human rights advocacy””:   

a cloudscape with the title of a post of mine on Substack ("My informal humanness and decency blog series culminating in “Legalistic human rights advocacy vs humanistic human rights advocacy”") across it

   

Significant posts this week from this blog:   

“Post No. 3,331 - Changes (~370 words, ~3 minutes)”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2025/11/post-no-3331-changes-370-words-3-minutes.html   This is my response to political analyst Kos Samaras writing about the collapse of the post-World War II political order, exemplified by Zohran Mamdani’s New York victory, signalling a shift toward the more dynamic political landscape humanity has generally known, and includes the need to address urgent youth concerns like climate change, inequality, and housing, and systemic patriarchal/toxic masculinity cultural issues harming young (or all, actually) people’s mental health and work capacity. This political shift will likely affect institutions such as the UN, and may see new micro-parties emerging as mainstream parties decline.   

“Post No. 3,333 - The problem of this world being cold hearted ... and a counter to that (~670 words, ~4 minutes)”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2025/11/post-no-3333-problem-of-this-world.html   “In addressing the cold-heartedness of contemporary society, I highlight the detrimental impact on individuals’ self-esteem, particularly those affected by CSA, SA, neurodivergence, and marginalised  identities. This societal rigidity can lead to significant health issues, aggravated by stress and the pressure to secure employment. Reflecting on my personal experiences, I revisit the Telepathy Tapes, which I initially perceived with scepticism owing to my fears of exploitative narratives around disability. However, as a result of listening to a recent interview, I now am satisfied the Telepathy Tapes are genuine investigations into nonphysical capabilities, although there are still some genuine disability concerns. This knowledge could help with the changes needed to combat the pervasive negativity of neoliberal ideologies - the nurturing of individual healing may provide a pathway to broader societal change.”       

“Post No. 3,334 - Legalistic human rights advocacy vs humanistic human rights advocacy”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2025/11/post-no-3334-legalistic-human-rights.html   “One of the major benefits of anti-discrimination laws in Victoria in the late 1990s was that it significantly bolstered efforts to educate the public on transgender issues. While some believe that human rights outcomes are only valid through legal action, that sort of “legalistic” human rights advocacy actually, IMO, hinders accomplishing real, lasting, and effective social change, and makes backlashes of the types seen this century (and, arguably, at their most extreme in the USA) inevitable. “Humanistic” advocacy, which emphasises education and countering misinformation, addresses the long-standing and too often unacknowledged societal issues of patriarchal parenting, as well as promoting children’s rights to develop into their authentic selves - independent thinkers free from hate indoctrination, which should be achieved by prioritising education and empowerment of parents.”      

 

As a rewording/variation to the “tolerance is a social contract” idea, an argument that “tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty” - and it turns out there is a scale for measuring tolerance

An eloquent and important video on why "top tier" professionals often resist change.  

An important warning about the personalisation of brainwashing by cults.  

A LinkedIn newsletter (apologies to those who cannot access it) with excellent commentary on the value of local, community building voices over global.       

 

 Some llinks that might be of interest or value:

  • “The Science of Magic with Dean Radin | ConnectIONS Live”   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7JVhx5hXqg   Institute of Noetic Sciences   12m:40s   27th Sept., 2025   An interesting discussion on how to test for, and analyse results, psychism - part of a discussion on Dean Radin’s “new book The Science of Magic - exploring how consciousness shapes reality and today’s magic becomes tomorrow’s science”       
  • An etymological history of the word Æther - which dates back to the ancient Romans and Greeks, which explains to me why I always pronounce it a-e-ther;      
  • also from YouTube:


 

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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

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