Post No. 3,360 - A past life of mine, and some reading/viewing

One of my past lives was as a mother a few centuries ago in the north west of what we now know as the USA. 

It was a ... “close to nature” sort of life, a polyamorous relationship, and I had three surviving children (some had died of illness) when I died in childbirth. 

That life was also when I realised - deeply, viscerally - that there were times and circumstances when it was not enough to “just” be a parent - I could love and care for my children to the best of my ability, but that would have no impact on the sort of experiences and events that my children would go through. 

That life was when I realised (during my post-life review) that it was an essential part of being a good parent to care what was happening in the world, and to act as best one can to fight against the larger, harmful influences and for the larger, more helpful influences. 

That included social movements, being prepared for climate and weather variations, and getting involved with things like politics - to prevent wars, to be prepared, and promote broader minded changes. 

And in this life, that has included not having children myself, so I can better continue my task of being a better parent - but for ALL children. 

And after that, here is some reading/viewing that may be of interest: 

• “This Christmas, peace won’t come from the politics of envy. It will come only by building a more equal Australia”   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/24/christmas-peace-a-more-equal-australia-cost-of-living-wealth   “Wealth is shifting upwards, basic universal services are outsourced and improving the lives of the Australians doing it toughest is being ignored. So where can we find hope?”   

• “Every economy runs on light”   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9fhIFH9wCA   “Every economy runs on light. That is not a metaphor – it is physics.   Without light, there is no life. Without life, there is no labour. Without labour, there is no economy. Yet modern economics behaves as if energy, health, and human limits do not matter.   In this Boxing Day video – part three of my Christmas series on light – I explain why labour is transformed solar energy, why burnout is an energy failure, why infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible, and why fossil fuel capitalism is about power, not necessity.   Light reconnects economics to life itself – and forces us to rethink wealth, growth, and what an economy is actually for.”   and   “Light, entropy and why care keeps us alive”   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5A_28igS5Y   “In this video, I explore light through the lens of entropy and explain why care, maintenance, and public services are not optional extras, but are survival mechanisms.   Austerity withdraws energy from our systems. Neoliberalism assumes self-maintenance. Both are wrong.   If we want societies to endure, we must invest in care, because entropy never rests.”   and   “Economic questions: the Schrödinger question”   https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12/24/economic-questions-the-schrodinger-question/   “Why have I included Erwin Schrödinger? That is because his work underpins three things that have been of significance for me this year. One is the work I have been doing with Jacquieline on quantum economics, which should restart in the new year. The second is that his thinking directly contributes to and informs my concept of the politics (and economics) of care. The third is that this informs my Christmas video series, which starts today.   Schrödinger was a physicist, and not an economist. But in his book, What Is Life?, he showed himself to be a multidisciplinary thinker, creating ideas that crossed boundaries because of the universality of their application. They most certainly belong in the sphere of political economy, and it would be very much richer, more appropriate, and focused on human needs if that were the case. That is why he belongs in this series.”   More excellent thoughts from Richard J Murphy   

• “Toxic Witches Behaviours that make me CRINGE 😾 Trans Inclusive Witchcraft”   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmYrGmKq7cA   “Join Raven as they spill the tea on their personal witchcraft journey discussing their witchcraft icks, all those witchy behaviours, especially online on instagram and tiktok, that are making witchcraft worse for everyone”   and   “when white people feel cornered they will show you their privilege and use it against you”   https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ppqI5lLL-3w   More excellent content from the Activist Witch channel   

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. 3,317 - principle, or “scale of focus”, orientation (~410 words, ~3 minutes)

Photo by Jason Strull on Unsplash 
(Bare winter trees on a bank reflected in the foreground water with fog behind flowing to fog-shrouded, leafy tree-covered ridges and a nigh sky with patches of cloud) 

 

In my time writing this blog, I have written about a number of ... "orientations" - such as growth orientation, life orientation, mention of s_xo__l orientation, spiritual orientation, and input orientation (i.e., are you more sensitive towards internal [psychic, psychological] or external [sensory] stimuli, are you more sensitive [as in, react to and/or affected by] BPM or nonBPM - or urban areas/the World of Nature). 

That last one leads in to what I want to write about in this post, but first ... I wish to briefly touch on where we get energy/a sense of reward from - which is not necessarily easily accomplished, nor the same for everyone. 

For neurodivergent  people, it is a struggle to get dopamine rewards from the sorts of everyday activities that are rewarding for neurotypical people. 

A perhaps more familiar example for many people is the introvert/extravert divide - which also needs to include ambiverts. To simplify, extraverts are likely to feel energised by mixing with people, introverts are more likely to recover their energies by times with a few or even no people, and ambiverts could be either or both, possibly changing over time or depending on circumstances. 

Differences in ways of learning also probably illustrate this point. 

 

In terms of this post, I was thinking about a difference between being energised/healed/inspired more by interactions with people (friendship, BPM family, connections with humans and/or other forms of Life/Sentient Life - including pets, and Nature), or by principles - such as responsibility, critical thinking, duty, etc. 

There is overlap between these two - particularly with love, empathy, and compassion ... depending, to some extent, on the form of those. 

Interpersonal love (of a partner, or family member) is different to an agape style love that is focused on all humanity, or all life, or all of the planet - or larger.  

To the first group of people, their principles are likely to place caring for people above matters such as duty, responsibility, etc, but the second group are more likely - not so much as to place above, as to see duty, responsibility, etc as an expression of love that has more priority than the personal/interpersonal forms of love. 

Some could see these as being linked, with each being a form of Bhakti  yoga, or agape, perhaps. 

 

I could call this principle orientation or, maybe, scale of focus orientation ... which I will now spend some time contemplating and meditating on, and see if it leads anywhere 😊 

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.
  

 

If you appreciated this post, please share it. I am now on SubStack, Patreon, 
and you can support me at PayPal (or PayPal Repeating Support Options) or Ko-Fi 
Any and all support will be greatly appreciated, and will aid me in continuing this work 

 

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   and  

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here, and Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear  

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2025     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/