Post No. 2,699 - Some interesting reading/viewing [Note: Content Warning - links to distressing reports on some topics. Reader discretion is advised]

Note: CONTENT WARNING - some of this content is about upsetting, disturbing or triggering events & attitudes. Seek competent help - including professional - if you need it. READER CAUTION IS RECOMMENDED! 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/. 

Here are some llinks that might of interest or value:

• “The Light Gate – Medium Jenny Lea – Medium, Tarot, Past Lives, Channelling”   https://www.youtube.com/live/QdyQmVXJPHE?si=zIX8m34NJnkA13DX   This is the best programme on mediumship (including “blending”), other dimensions and interactions with those, time / the simultaneity of time, reincarnation, spirit rescue, etc. that I have ever come across. Watch it - I will be recommending this as strongly and widely as I can  
  

• “Hexing Without Baneful Magic Karma, Energy, And The Evil Eye In Italian Folk Magic”   https://youtu.be/8iS1I3-elhI?si=G1Np9MSHRy5pqvqw   This is another absolutely brilliant video from this channel, and I agree wholeheartedly with almost everything, and agree with the rest  
  

• “Caring for Each Other”   https://thorncoyle.beehiiv.com/p/caring   I particularly like the samples of practical acts   

• “‘Work needs rest and rest takes work’: fatigue specialist Vincent Deary on coping with life”   https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/21/work-needs-rest-and-rest-takes-work-fatigue-specialist-vincent-deary-on-coping-with-life   Yes. Yes, they do ...   

• “Existential Lessons of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Depression”   https://aninjusticemag.com/existential-lessons-of-martin-luther-king-jr-s-depression-86991874d328   “Personal Perspective: “Depression doesn’t discriminate” misses the point of Dr. King’s experience   These possibilities ... detract from the political trauma that must have upended Dr. King’s philosophical development, leading to transformations that entailed depression, but weren’t necessarily treatable by clinical means.   We cannot forget that Dr. King spent 15 years witnessing firsthand that there was no “best” way to debunk or disarm white supremacy. A doctorate didn’t help. Devout Christianity didn’t help. Colorblindness didn’t help. Disavowing armed struggle didn’t help. Invoking the innocence of children and the frailty of the elderly didn’t help”   An excellent article  

• this week’s “afterlife report” by the  Zammits (see here for zoom meeting opportunities):   https://www.victorzammit.com/January26th2024/  
  

• my recent posts on my political blog:  
• From the news on:   society generally, and broader issues,   the climate crisis, environmental issues, and nuclear threats/issues,   human rights and humanitarian aid,   the war in West Asia,   and   politics & democracy, and international affairs;
  
  
• “More on utilisation rates ... and productivity / undermining progressive measures”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/01/more-on-utilisation-rates-and.html   
  

• from YouTube:

• “Contactees Inspiring Positive Change”   https://youtube.com/shorts/v-8usIz-R1I?si=6m2S-XRwtllExogz  
  
  
• “Sometimes The Best You Can Do Is To Just Survive”   https://youtu.be/RiWm_ICBC6w?si=wcRQ2f319UdrTZTX   from a channel I respect: the trick is to know whether your life is in the thrive or survive phase, and adjust your way of life accordingly  
  
  
• “10 Life-changing SELF CARE HABITS for the Highly Sensitive Person”   https://youtu.be/eZPLsfOI-nE?si=vUMTHDdDI-8CGaVu   I have some reservations about a couple of these, but not strongly enough to object - you can make up your own mind, Dear Reader, just do reflect deeply on these  
  
  
• on neurodivergence: 
• from Orion Kelly - That Autistic Guy:
  - “PROOF Autistic People Make Great Employees - The Bystander Effect”   https://youtu.be/i6fzTN7CyPo?si=jufVVK6x7Lxo1OVs   The video notes don't include a link to the paper(s), but they can probably be tracked down. This is a good set of arguments as to why some of the corporate rubbish is, indeed, rubbish
  

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Post No. 2,693 - A thought on public lotteries (and air travel)

Something I have occasionally said - or posted - is the thought that, if people want to be sure any good karma comes back to me for having provided help despite me not charging fees, I might get that in the form of a lottery win. 

That is actually a point of convenience for me. 

The truth is, any good karma will find its way back to me without me having to do anything. 

On top of that, I am aware of the energies involved in public lotteries that potentially involve life-changing wins, and they’re not good. 

Those energies include: 

• the sad desperation of those who are being crushed by our materialistic, greedy industrialised culture, and use buying a ticket as hope of a way out of the this bad system - when the better response would be for us all to work together for a better system; 

• the angry desperation of those who step their hope up into a “I want it and I don’t care who doesn’t get help” vibe - which is where things start to move into informal, unfocused but nonBPM nevertheless magick - psychic attack on all others who have bought tickets or even thought of doing so; and 

• the callous indifference of those who profit from this indifference - including governments who use lotteries as a source of funding.
  

This applies public lotteries that potentially involve life-changing wins, but not to smaller, fund-raising raffles, etc, and does NOT apply to all ticket buyers ... but it does apply to enough for it to be significant, and I consider buying a ticket should be acknowledged for what it is: a limited cost form of gambling.

Those energies are why I have rarely ever bought a ticket - and I think the best winss are when people buy tickets as an expression of good wishes for others, which is how I won $99 in the 90s, from a ticket someone I knew then bought for me as a birthday present, and $30 from a ticket my birth mother bought me nearly two decades ago. 

But if it will save me from a two hour waste of time explanation of what a non-Newtonian world view is to someone who is well-meaning but stubborn in their insistence that I buy into their zero-sum game view of reality, I may use that “I’ll buy a lottery ticket later” argument again. 

The other thought for this week that I wish to write about is how pervasive and damaging air travel has become. 

When I was working I occasionally pointed out the environmental damage of air travel at work, which almost mortally offended those people who were addicted to air travel at company expense - or in their own time because they were addicted to an utterly fantastical, unhinged-from-reality image of what it was to be a jet setter. 

None of them were what I would consider a genuine traveller - there was only ever a superficial touristy glimpse into images - almost parodies - of local cultures, no real understanding, let alone a real connection with Earth energies of a region. (I have a theory that it is being torn out of one set of Earth energies and then plopped down in another, unbonded set of Earth energies that contributes to what we refer to as jet lag - although the physical impacts are also genuine impacts.)

It is possible for that to happen: I formed such a strong friendship with the woman who cleaned the mini-hotel I stayed in when working in Hà Nội, Việt Nam and with the translator for my first work trip to China that we stayed in touch for years, I loved being in the Gobi for the energy of the place (and found out about some local plants for cooking ... and stayed in touch with someone from the company office in Ulaanbaatar even after she left the company), and there were other connections.

I was not the only person to do so - others lived locally for years and also formed genuine, respectful connections with local cultures (two married local people), although many did not, and viewed travel as a chance to flash their bright, shiny, western qualifications at others who they thought of - quite wrongly - as lesser. 

I also wish to point out that I am very aware of the survival value of tourist dollars on local economies. I would not attempt to drive prices down to what a local would spend when I was bargaining, for example (and, with that attitude, it could be quite fun). But that also applies locally - for instance, we chose to go to Gariwerd after some fires there in around 2003 or so to help the local economy recover. 

But all of that has to be balanced against the environmental impact of now pervasive air travel - and the psychological damage of much of what air travel has become. 

On that latter point, many people have mastered the ability to shut down or ignore matters - thus they no longer notice background noises/smells/bright lights nor how their bodies react (which is why they later think mindfulness is so surprisingly good at helping them start dealing with the trauma their body has been screaming about for years or even decades, when all they needed to do was pay attention at the time, rather than using fear of consequences [especially FOMO] as a motivation to shut themselves down). 

I’ve written about the psychological harm of air travel security elsewhere, so I won’t go into that again, but I do want to record my thoughts after helping my former partner recently meet some relatives from overseas at my home city’s airport:

• the experience is a sensory nightmare - particularly for some (probably many) neurodivergent people, such as myself;

• the design and construction is intended to foster and cash in on a sense of elitism (special parking services, for instance, are closer to the terminals than what poorer people can afford) and thus directly undermines social cohesion (think of that, Dear Reader, when you are inclined towards any deals meant to create a sense f being special - and many ongoing bargains aim to do exactly the sort of social divisiveness I am writing about); 

• the compulsion to use tech such as smartphones involves personal security risks that I consider unacceptable; and 

• the spread and busyness of the airport - apart from things like bad signage - shows how ubiquitous, pervasive and endemic the unthinking use of air travel has become.
  

We moved to Queensland when Melbourne airport was being built - you can read a little of the history here, but perhaps most telling is, from here, that traffic has increased 200% from 1998 to 2023, a period when Australia's population increased from 18.9 million to a little under 27.0 million (Jan 2024 population), or a 43% increase ...

This is environmentally damaging in many ways; the benefits of travel that many extol largely belong, in my opinion, to the older, slower, more expensive forms of travel (still available, if people choose to do things like take passage on cargo ships ad use trains etc); and new dis-benefits have come into being. 

Please think carefully before using air travel - consider the information here, here, here, here, here, and here, which is mostly focused on the emissions aspects of flying, although the first gets in to some of the other impacts.

If you have to travel, consider some of the mitigations at the above links, and remember how traumatising the experience has become.

Here’s another link which may be of some use: 

• “Walking away from marriage, children, and other stuff we're supposed to have”   https://youtu.be/aWGZadtZHwo?si=qs-MYnNmPbSMAdr7   Well worth watching and giving some genuine consideration to  
  

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. 2,639 - Fighting the forces of evil

One of the things about almost all films and movies about psychic/spiritual conflict of the good vs. “evil” type is that the evil is portrayed as coming in from outside everyday life and threatening everyday life. 

But ... what if it is that everyday life that is the true evil? The life that includes, say ... endemic bigotry, enabling and supporting the climate crisis, soul crushing lifestyles, etc ... Or people or groups who are living that "everyday life"?

If that were true ... it might mean we could not separate and hate one clearly discernable group as evildoers, instead having to recognise the complexity that it is us who is part of the problem, and that, even if there is someone to target efforts against, that person is still a human being and thus as deserving of consideration as we are (although the harm they are doing MUST be contained, neutralised, and undone).

It would mean "everyday" places like the work office are places of contest, places where we need to speak up for and support human decency (doing things like this, avoiding the mistakes outlined here) instead of normalising greed and prioritising the lazy, selfish desires of corporations above humanity ... 

This has been triggered partly by watching the streaming series “The Railway Men”, about the chemical  leak  disaster at Bhopal, India in 1984,     partly by beginning to rewatch “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace”, which begins with a corporation putting an entire planet under siege,     but mostly a life which has included (not all directly experienced) things like   the Chernobyl  disaster,   seeing the fight of tobacco companies against  being  held  accountable,   the so-called decade of greed (the 1980s - when the zeitgeist of even regional and outback Queensland was infested by the sense that greed was, if not good, then at least OK ... remembering that I was there, living through those times),   the spread of neoliberalism - a  philosophy of evil enabled by everyday people who fooled themselves that they were being economically savvy (they weren’t!!!),   a still ongoing series of wars,   the ultimately disappointing end to the Cold War and the associated sense of a permanent threat of nuclear extinction,   the spread of christo-fascism,   the long foreseen climate crisis,  the corporation free alternative of the original Star Trek TV series (why is that not included in the Wikipedia article? It is a key point - corporate influence? Or incompetent and uninformed editing?),   the counterculture movement, personal experience of the harm done by corporate working conditions governed by financial targets and aggressive admin departments   ...   and the clear promise of UBI. 

So why is UBI such a promise? 

Well, it gets rid of the vicious attack by bureaucrats on the mental health of citizens for starters, but, more importantly, it means people are not beholden to corporations for survival - they do not need a job to have the modern life survival staple, which, like it or not, is money. Their lifestyle may be cut back on a UBI, but they have the ability to choose to leave if working conditions or ethical ... conundrums become unacceptable to them. 

This concept has been revisited for the latest in the series of existential challenges by one of my favourite writers at https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/what-if-free-money-is-the-only-answer-to-ai-8cca7e6ab96a.

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Post No. 1,364 - Slow Living {Content Warning - mention of existential crises]

There are, in my opinion, many significant problems in human society these days. The climate crisis is top of the list, of course, given its existentialist threat to the human species, but there are others.

Most of those fit to quite an extent in the neoliberalism category - overwork, erosion of work conditions, people's complicity in those changes, and so on. Of course, consumer goods are substantially cheaper as a result of all that, but the price we, all of humanity, has paid includes the aforementioned climate crisis, insecure and superficial lifestyles, and the loss of our soul.

In many ways, I consider capitalism has been nearly as bad as communism from a spiritual perspective, but the problem with that comment is it focuses on economic matters, rather than the truth of the matter, which is: why are we alive?

Science is useless (as are, incidentally, those morons who think the means of production are the key for defining economic systems) on this matter, and old, as opposed to mature, religions, marked by their unthinking adherence to dogma - a fanaticism only matched by communists like China's Chairman (aka "President"), are quite destructive.

Above all else, we need to learn to reflect - to take time out, not to follow peer pressure, and to simplify our lives. We need to follow the philosophies of minimalist living and slow living.

After nearly half a century of struggle to make the world a better place and two decades of personal and family members' illnesses (some leading to passing), I need to start focusing on "slow living" (I'm already a minimalist to quite an extent) as well - for the sake of my health. Unfortunately, I can't just cut everything out (I still have a family to support): there will be a transition. I will be making a few changes when I can (including building myself another small boat when I can find somewhere to do so - anyone got a spare garage? :) ), and the effort I put into news posts and Psychic Weather Reports on this blog will be cut back (but not stopped) in favour of writing. (I stopped running workshops, which are exhausting, a few years ago.)

So, as they say: watch this space :)  

 

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