Post No. 2,912 - A multi-level perspective on runes

As I mentioned in “Post No. 1,429 - Rune book project: “Runes in Space””   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2019/10/post-no-1429-rune-book-project-runes-in.html , one of my projects (currently on the backburner) is a book on runes.

One of the reasons that is on the backburner, apart from the usual health/energy limitations, is that the rune book market is well and truly saturated, but I want to write more about microrunes, which I have only ever been taught by friend “Rune Master from the Bush” (Tony), and have not read anything about. 

Thinking about that topic, and the concept of meridians (“ley lines in the human body”, perhaps?), has given me a new perspective that I also wish to explore - beginning by a quick post here and now to help ensure the concept comes in to this physical realm: 

much as the meridians mapped on to the human body which are used for acupuncture and traditional shiatsu are the external (visible) parts of a looped pathway, with the end of the external meridian looped back to the start via a pathway inside the body and passing through the organ/unit (some have no physical organ) the meridian is named after/associated with, 

I consider that it may be possible that microrunes give a way to link each rune to the northern European creation myths, and that this may involve a looped inner plane (nonphysical) flow of energy as well as an external flow pattern shown by the rune shape.

This will require me to re-appraise what I have already written about microrunes (see my post linked above for an example of what has been done on that so far), possibly in the form of an additional sub-section. 

It also, in my opinion, indicates the following: 

as runes are built up as indicators of manifestation - i.e., creation, the only appropriate form of destruction is whatever is an equivalent of natural recycling. 

Thus, death by natural means such as age is acceptable, but killing is not - it robs the individual and the whole of the resources of the victim and what they could have manifested as they flow through life. Harm that is necessary - such as the equivalent of lancing a boil or regeneration using BPM techniques is acceptable, but sadism, torture, coercion, forced existences of low/bad quality, etc is contrary to the creative principle embodied in runes and thus is not - and is, in fact, evil.

This also, I suspect, applies to other divinatory tools. 

It is quite late at night here, so I won’t go any further into this for now.

For more on this, see my posts under the following labels:   

• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/search/label/runes   

• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/search/label/bindrunes   

• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/search/label/microrunes  
  

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. 2,903 - Recovering from a corporate life - Episode 35: Worth of existence

For anyone distressed by anything in this post, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]), or perhaps try https://www.befrienders.org/.  

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

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

I recently decided to let go of some of my blogging activities (to quite an extent, in response to some life changes), and wrote about that here.

Some of that blogging I did because, without it, I would have felt that my life - my existence - could not have been justified, but I also did that because it was a genuinely important goal to me - and still is: I still want to make the world a better place.

But, as I mentioned in   “Post No. 2,897 - Recovering from a corporate “life” - Episode 34: burnout” (11^th October, 2024)   , I have started re-reading Dr Devon Price’s   “Laziness Does Not Exist”   https://www.amazon.com.au/Laziness-Does-Exist-Devon-Price-ebook/dp/B08BZXM734/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0   , and have realised more fully how my attitudes towards busy-ness and feeling that my existence had to be justified was influenced by unhealthy white Anglo-Saxon protestant values. 

Consider the following, from his above mentioned book: 

“I know a lot of people like me. People who work overtime, never turning down additional work for fear of disappointing their boss. They’re available to friends and loved ones twenty-four seven, providing an unending stream of support and advice. They care about dozens and dozens of social issues yet always feel guilty about not doing “enough” to address them, because there simply aren’t enough hours in the day.” 

“People like this—people like me—are doing everything society has taught us we have to do if we want to be virtuous and deserving of respect.” 

“Most of us spend the majority of our days feeling tired, overwhelmed, and disappointed in ourselves, certain we’ve come up short. No matter how much we’ve accomplished or how hard we’ve worked, we never believe we’ve done enough to feel satisfied or at peace.”

I had to recognise that flaw, and learn how to address it, but not only in my day job areas of life, but also the activities I care about personally and consider personally important - such as this blog. 

There is also the genuine needs being met by those activities to consider, but as the Activist Witch  recently pointed out, if you overdo things the choir you are part of may permanently lose a voice, but if you slow down or pause, the choir may have a quieter voice or a pause from your voice, but you will still be a part of that.

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.

 

If you appreciated this post, please consider promoting it - there are some links below, and there’s also Instagram. 

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here. 

(Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear)   

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).

#PsychicABetterWorld

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2024     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-ShareAlike basis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/    

 

 

 

Post No. 2,897 - Recovering from a corporate life - Episode 34: burnout

For anyone distressed by anything in this post, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]), or perhaps try https://www.befrienders.org/.  

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

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

This is just a quick thought: 

looking back, I now consider that for most (not all) of the last three decades of my working life, I was in a state of burnout - mostly autistic

And that is part of why recovering now is so difficult.

PS - all the damage from abuse I received, and the responses (that I internalised to suppress) to amathia and power imbalances, doesn’t help either. 

PPS - I have just come across this excellent article by Dr Devon Price: 

“You Might Not Recover from Burnout. Ever”   https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/you-might-not-recover-from-burnout   “What grows from the ashes of your old life?”     

On the basis of my experience, I agree with that sentiment ... and I have decided to re-read Dr Price’s book    “Laziness Does Not Exist”   https://www.amazon.com.au/Laziness-Does-Exist-Devon-Price-ebook/dp/B08BZXM734/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0     

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.

 

If you appreciated this post, please consider promoting it - there are some links below, and there’s also Instagram. 

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here. 

(Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear)   

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).

#PsychicABetterWorld

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2024     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-ShareAlike basis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/    

 

 

 

Post No. 2,883 - Recovering from a corporate life - Episode 33: Joy

For anyone distressed by anything in this post, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]), or perhaps try https://www.befrienders.org/.  

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

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

At around thirteen months after retiring, I am now in a position to start acknowledging, thinking & talking about, and seeking joy ... 

Needless to say, this is about the aspects of life I enjoy, not my previous day job. Despite that, it has triggered more personal growth work that I need to do - much of which is related to my previous day job ...

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.

 

If you appreciated this post, please consider promoting it - there are some links below, and there’s also Instagram. 

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here. 

(Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear)   

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).

#PsychicABetterWorld

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2024     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-ShareAlike basis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/    

 

 

 

Post No. 2,832 - Recovering from a corporate “life” - Episode 32: Signs of healing - sleep and dreams (and interventions by friends etc)

For anyone distressed by anything in this post, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]), or perhaps try https://www.befrienders.org/.  

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

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

 

So, at around eleven months, my healing has reached the point where, for the first time in decades I am able to sleep eight hours or more at night - although that is also partly owing to being ill.

What isn't owed to illness, however, is being able to dream about creating artwork again, something else the stresses, trials and travails of work, particularly including corporate “life”.

I also wrote an overlapping post on a topic that was triggered by a comment made about my former job by someone I know, which also covered when people should/shouldn’t intervene in matters. If you wish to have a look, the details are: 

“Post No. 2,831 - “That job was destroying you””   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2024/07/post-no-2831-that-job-was-destroying-you.html     

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.

 

If you appreciated this post, please consider promoting it - there are some links below, and there’s also Instagram. 

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).

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2024     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-ShareAlike basis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/