Post No. 593 - Initiations of Nations

Groups of people tend, over time, to build up a Group Mind. That can be done intentionally and relatively quickly (maybe months or years), with a deliberately formed group (e.g., a club, Coven/Temple, circle, or 'intentional community' - or the 'pilgrims' on the "Mayflower"), or unintentionally and more slowly (decades or centuries), as happens with towns, cities and nations.

People who come to one of those places will, if they wish to 'fit in', eventually be part of that established Group Mind. If they don't wish to 'fit in', others who are a comfortable part of the Group Mind will unconsciously sense a strangeness about those new people, and be hostile towards them. If those new, not-fitting-in people are strong enough and persistent enough, it may be that they can change the established Group Mind to something that is accommodating to both established people and newcomers. This can also happen if the new people are simply considered too different by the Group Mind - which is what manifests in the physical as racism, which is a sign that the Group Mind needs to be healed / helped to grow. 

People who willingly leave such places tend to fairly quickly and automatically sever their psychic connections to the Group Mind, although, if they were particularly troublesome to it, the Group Mind may well indulge in psychic attack.

Now, from time to time, those groups, and their associated Group Mind, may undergo what I choose to refer to as an Initiation - in the broadest sense, which includes a personal test of some significance (see here for something I've written on this). In a sense, the World as a whole underwent such an initiation test in 1914 - and failed. My nation, Australia, has failed - and continues to fail - exactly such an initiatory test in relation to our indigenous people, and refugees.

The world as a whole is also failing the current initiations in relation to environmental issues (which should be sub-titled "survival of humanity/the planet") and matters such as poverty and inequity/discrimination generally.

On a more constructive note, the world largely passed (well, maybe a conceded pass) the test created by the existence and activity of the Nazi's.

The USA currently has one such initiatory test (well, a couple at least, actually, but I'll focus on this one) before it: how it chooses to respond to the revelations about torture of people after the terrible events of '9/11'.

President Obama has urged that the torturers be not judged harshly - and certainly their actions would be supported by many people, even now. But the issue remains as to what you are trying to defend, and whether your actions undermine that.

One of the most powerful arguments against the death penalty, in my view, is that governments should be aiming to teach that life is valuable, and should demonstrate that - and taking life when there are other options is not demonstrating a respect for the sanctity of life. There are circumstances when taking a life is necessary - for instance, in the heat of battle during which a terrorist is aiming to take as man lives or harm as many people as he or she can (although, even then, one's conduct can be becoming or unbecoming ... ), but as a matter of a fair and just trial where a criminal has been arrested and brought to justice through proper, due course and the death penalty would be imposed deliberately - coldly, if you will, then the consideration needs to be made:

in the long term, what is going to send the greatest message to respect life: keeping someone alive, despite their harm or even evil, or indulging in short term actions that temporarily seem to satiate a crowd's blood lust ... until next time when they roar even louder?

That question is loaded with emotive wording and bias, of course - mine. I will, furthermore, add that my perspective is that souls are indestructible, and thus killing someone is pain and fear and hatred is only more likely to create a rebirth of that person in those such energies - it doesn't help heal or remedy anything. In fact, it likely feeds the uncooperatives who are inevitably drawn to such people and events.

So, in the context of the USA and its current deliberations, does the reduction of loss of life and damage to property outweigh the harm that is done by torturing people and then covering that up for a decade?

I'm not going to answer that question directly, but I will add a few other points for consideration:

1. maturity is, in my view, a key necessity in being able to consider this issue properly;  
2. I've already mentioned the issue of stopping people who are actively harming others (which most people seem to think of from the physical perspective, but it also covers emotional, mental, financial, spiritual and psychic - e.g., uncooperatives), but I also favour - with qualifications (e.g., staying alive if one has responsibilities for dependents, or so one can be part of a resistance, etc) the view that it is better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees;
3. some commentators seem to be of the view that the actions of the USA and its allies (including Australia) have helped drive people towards terrorism (incidentally, both Australia and the USA have had problems with terrorism before 9/11 - e.g., the Hilton bombing here in 1978, and perhaps the 'Battle of Broken Hill' in 1915, and the Oklahoma City Bombing [I found the children who were killed in that latter particularly disturbing]); and
4. I suspect that future kids will not play 'doctors and nurses' so much as 'TSA agent and passenger' ... and others have posted about people who are not using air travel because of 'security' measures - see here.

Now, my opinion on this is clear from the above, I think. The point is: what is your considered and properly informed view? Are you prepared to allow others to have different views, or do you want to control them (psychic or otherwise) - or is there an extent to allowed disagreement (e.g., allow different views unless they are advocating violence)?

There are other nations undergoing such initiations as well - Israel, Gaza, Ukraine, Russia, several in Africa, and so on. When you've finished thinking about my question in the context I've posed. put yourself into these various other situations and rethink it.

[1] BPLF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Light Forces. See here and here for more on this.

[2] Please see here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr, Wéofodthegn 

(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux? … Morinehtar? … Would-be drýicgan ... )

My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this site) is here, and my glossary/index is here.

I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me at 9 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate for peace), and here for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend learning how to flame, ground and shield, do alternate nostril breathing, work with colour, and see also here and be flexible. 

I am a Walker upon the Path of Balanced Positivity, seeking Spiritual Maturity.

• One size does NOT fit all.
• Don't be mediocre - seek to excel.
• Gnwmythr's Stropping Strap: Occam's Razor only works if  the simplest solution is actually recognised as being the simplest, rather than the one that best fits one's bigotries being labelled 'simplest'.
• Our entire life experience, with all the many wondrous and varied people, places and events in it, is too small a sample for statistical reliability about Life.
• May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
• Ban the dream interpretation industry!
• A home is for living in, not feeling, becoming or being rich or a “better” class than others.
• Being accustomed to interacting via certain rules makes those rules neither right nor universal.
• Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master.
• Expertise at intimacy and emotional happiness is generally not the same thing as spiritual growth.
• Any person, male or female, who has neither a serious health issue, dependents nor an agreement about study. yet expects their partner to work to support them, is, spiritually speaking, little more than a parasite.
• The means shape the end.
• BPLF restraint of uncooperatives is NOT an opportunity for revenge or getting even - even unconsciously.
• As words can kill, the right to freedom of speech comes with a DUTY to be as well-informed, objective and balanced as you can be.
• My favourite action movie of all time is "Gandhi", although I've recently come across "Invictus" and might put that one in to that category. However, I loathe the stereotypical action movie - and, for similar reasons, I loathe many dramas, which are often emotionally violent, more so in some cases than many war films.
• All of the above - and this blog - could be wrong, or subject to context, perspective, or state of spiritual evolution ...

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger [people].

John F. Kennedy (who was quoting 19^th Century Episcopal Bishop Phillips Brooks)

Jesus loves you. Odin wants you to grow up.

(Facebook meme, according to John  Beckett)

We make our decisions. And then our decisions turn around and make us.

F.W. Boreham

Females, get over 'cute'. Get competent. Get trained. Get capable. Get over 'cute'. And those of you who are called Patty and Debby and Suzy, get over that. Because we use those names to infantalise females – we keep females in their 'little girl' state by the names we use for them. Get over it. If you want to be taken seriously, get serious.

Jane Elliott

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing.

(based on writing by) Edmund Burke

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Albert Einstein

We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America by that -- counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. ... Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile."

Robert F. Kennedy 1968

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. … We need not wait to see what others do. (Often degraded to “Be the change you want to see in the world” – see here)

Gandhi

Tags: abuse of power, control, crime, discrimination, group dynamics, Group Mind, history, initiation, justice, maturity, society,

First published: Laugardagr, 13^th September, 2014

Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Saturday, 13^th September, 2014

Post No. 440 - The Magical Battle of Melbourne, Australia and Humanity

By the way, for those who would like to contribute to this project by lighting on-line candles, I have created shrines over at the nshrine site: 

• http://nshrine.com/shrine/Group_Mind_of_Humanity; 
• http://nshrine.com/shrine/Group_Mind_of_Australia; 
• http://nshrine.com/shrine/Group_Mind_of_Melbourne.

Some time ago, I reviewed  Dion Fortune's book "The Magical Battle of Britain". I'm now rereading that, and it is prompting some thought, which has crystallised a little after a dream last night.

First, let me "define" a few terms/concepts:

• much as we are more than just a physical, we are also more than consciousness: we also have our unconscious (or subconscious, if you prefer: I understand shrinks also talk about preconscious), which I consider is likely to be those parts of our self that are our parallels or soul parts, our Higher Self, and so on and so forth [3];
• there is a concept that we are all one: this is actually fairly complex, as we are also - at this level - also all truly individual and unique, but we share a string of connections to Higher Selves and ultimately to the Goddess: one of the ways that connectedness is realised on our level of reality is through what Jung refers to as "the collective unconscious"; another is through the mind and soul of various groups we are members of (see here [2] );
• the group soul, which could arguably be considered to be akin to the unconscious of a group, and is more difficult to change;
• group mind, which is more changeable, and equates more to the social mood of a group; 
• we can have an effect through non-physical means - i.e., through psychic means, which can be either beneficial or harmful (and I chose to interpret those terms as the BPF [1] do, in a spiritually mature manner).

What Dion Fortune describes is using psychic means to bring spiritual forces down from higher frequency levels of reality to the astral and etheric levels (or planes) of reality (or existence). The energy being channelled was aimed at giving those in Britain (not just the British) and her allies the strength of character, morale and spiritual backing necessary to resist and then defeat the evils of Nazi Germany.

Where I got to last night, Dion Fortune was discussing the effects of loss of morale in those nations invaded by Germany, and describes how it was determined that this was due to harmful psychic influences. It all brought to mind the evils of John Howard [2] playing up the fears of Australians, particularly around asylum seekers/refuges, in the 90s. that evil is something I am still working against, physically (letters to politicians, mostly) and non-physically - using techniques a little similar, in principle to What Dion Fortune and her group were doing (and see also here, and here).

Then we come to last night's dream, which was of working on the foundations of a massive building. As an engineer, I know that the foundations of a building can take as much effort as what is above the ground, and that's the sense I had. It explains (again, I'll admit) that I'm acting partly (our life's purpose is a manifold thing) to help do the behind-the-scenes changes that will lead to a better world down the track. (It also explains that I'm also helping to bring ideas from the astral into the physical, which can take a certain amount of effort to overcome the resistance of those who don't want change - and the masters of those people, in some cases [4]. I've  had half a dozen potentially patentable ideas, and have had to watch as others did patent them in a couple of cases. My frustration at that led me to "give up" and create a blog where I could post my ideas, but I don't have the time to keep up with what keeps coming through :) ) 

So ... what am I going to do now?

Well, I'm going to continue with all the other goals, such as writing ideas and concepts that I know others - possibly with more time and resources than I - are also working on, with my teaching and healing, with my personal development ... and I'm going to modify what I loosely call "my meditation work" to include projecting images to various group minds.

Now, when I started working with psychic matters, as a teenager back in the 70s (Goddess - I was a teenager last century!), I didn't know about visualisation, so I used to just will peace, love and joy to the world, as I did Lobsang Rampa's alternate nostril breathing exercises. It was actually great practice for me at developing the use of my will, but I was very relieved to find out how to use visualisation - it made what I was trying to do much easier. In exactly the same way, finding out how Dion Fortune's group used visualisation has given me a direction on how to improve work on changing group minds: use symbols.

Of course, I'm a pagan, not a Christian, as Dion Fortune effectively was, so I'm going to use the technique I am most familiar and comfortable with: runes - specifically, bind runes. I will create a bind rune for each purpose, then after I've done my colour breathing etc, I'll combine part of my breathing work with projecting these images to the various group minds I can work with.

In case any others would like to be part of this work (invoking Yesod can help, if you know how to work with the Qabbalah), I'll post the designs as I complete them on this post. They might even be part of the next batch of tattoos I get ... if I can work out where I'm going to fit them :)

To the group mind of all humanity:
self reliance (which is a marvellous source of growth and personal development, apart from being a brilliant manifestation of true spirituality), responsibility (which is also a nice practical and real application of spirituality - especially around the lessons of agape, compassion, which I decided not to include as so many others are focused on them ... albeit possibly in an immature way ... ) and maturity (my first design for this project, which has been subsequently revised; peace was also a strong contender ... see here, for instance) 

To the group mind of all Australians:
perspicacity, self discipline (too much focusing on partying and being drunk here - see this post, for instance) and welcoming (which is to overcome our xenophobia and racism, although anything which would counter the fear that Howard engendered would be useful; see also here)

To the group mind of all Melbournites / Sydneyites:
spirituality, slowing (I think cities are too crowded for wellbeing, and the pace of our life is, in general excessive - see, for instance, here, and here, here) and civility (which is partly inspired by the problems I encounter when travelling on the roads, especially at this time of the year - see, for instance, here) 

PS - I stopped reading Dion Fortune's book when she started rabbiting on about how the struggle was between nice Christianity and nasty paganism. What utter rubbish.

PPS - my next Group Mind and bindrune project is about the Australian Parliaments, based on the use of the following - more to come :)

[3] This also could lead into another topic we were discussing in the development group I am a sitter in: projections from people who are incarnate, such as perhaps former family members who have subsequently reincarnated yet still come back to greet former family members who pass over. How? 
    Confused? Let me explain :)
    Let's say person A dies in 1985, and is reincarnated in 1995. In 2010, person B, who was related to A in A's former incarnation that ended in 1985, dies. Person A can still appear to Person B in the image they had when they were Person A. This can occur as: 

• the astral is very malleable, and basically follows our thought, so people tend to appear as they wish to (or, if they forget to think of clothes, without clothes - and hence the uncomfortable dreams some have when they forget to think of being clothed while in the astral :) Others aren't bothered by such trivialities). Thus, the astral of Person separates -or, more accurately, likely, part of the astral of Person A separates - from where Person A's physical body is, perhaps at the request of a BPF Guide, and travels to where Person B is dying. Thinking of the life in which Person A knew person B, Person A will resume the image by which Person B knew them. 
• this is termed bilocation, and can be done consciously (it is a part of the Wiccan training I had, which began with "exteriorisation of the chakras"). Ever feel distracted, or wonder what happens when you're day dreaming? One answer is (that it could be) bilocation (there are other possibilities). This is something that grounding, or more properly, centering and grounding, aims to get under control when it is not deliberate - which is often known by the term "doppelganger", although that may also involve a degree of manifestation [2]. 

     (I'll also thank my Cariad for giving me the example to express all that *mwa ) 

[4] Look up the topic "control" on this blog - for instance, here, here and here. And maybe here, and here, here, here, here, here, and here, which are all relevant to this post anyway.

[1] BPF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Forces. See here and here for more on this.

[2] Please see my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear")

My "blogiography" is here.  

I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ...  See here for my group mind project, and here & here for my "pagans for peace" project.

• May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
• A home is for living in, not feeling, becoming or being rich or a “better” class than others.
• Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master. 
• Armageddon is alive and well and happening right now: it is a battle between the indolence of "I only ..." and/or "I just ..." and what Bruce Schneier [2] calls "security theatre" on one side, and perspicacity and the understanding that the means shape the end on the other. 
• The means shape the end. 
• Spiritual love is far more than just an emotion - it is a concept, thoughts, actions and a way of living.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger [people]. JOHN F. KENNEDY 

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing. (based on writing by) EDMUND BURKE

Your children are not your children. ... They come through you but ... they belong not to you ... for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow KAHLIL GIBRAN

We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Those whom we cannot stand are usually those who we cannot understand P.K.SHAW

Tags: about me, attitudes, connectedness, control, Dion Fortune, Group Mind, Higher Self, Jung, levels, parallels, planes of existence, psychic work, runes, society, Soul, soul parts, subconscious, unconscious, visualisation,

First published: Fryrsdagr, 29th March, 2013

Last edited: Saturday 20th April, 2013 (added PS and all sigils, tweaked signature block plus link to nshrine shrines; added next project)