Post No. 834B - the third set of keywords

Owing to Blogger's limits on keywords, when I have a lot I have to post them in batches. This is the second lot of keywords for this post.

Keywords: 

abuse of power, anger, artificer, authentic presence, blackmail, breathing exercises, clairvoyance, colour, consequences, control, courage, death, Deities, demons, denial, discrimination, divination,dreams, dynamic balance, ectomancy, emotions, energy work, ethics, expectation, evidence, evil, faery, faith, family, fear, fight or flight or network and nurture, flaming, folk lore, friends,garlic, governance, healing, hypocrisy, ignorance, informed decisions, law, levels, limits, knowledge, magic, magickal techniques and styles, meditation, mediumship, metaphysical mass, moral courage, mythology,necromancy, pain, phobophage, possession, power, preparation, proof, prophecy, protection, psychic attack, racism, responsibility, rites, rituals, sacrifice, scepticism, Seelie,society, spells, survival, survival after death, teaching, tests, thaumaturgy, transmigration, understanding, Unseelie, vampire, vulnerabilities, zombie, Valkyrie, visualisation, ward, time magic,

Post No. 833B - the third set of keywords

Owing to Blogger's limits on keywords, when I have a lot I have to post them in batches. This is the third lot of keywords for this post.

Keywords: 

artificer, authentic presence, change, circle, clairvoyance, compassion, concentration, cryptozoology, demons, denial, discrimination, dreams, earthbound entities, ectomancy, emotions, energy work, evocation,equal and opposite reaction, faery, focus, folk lore, forgiveness, ghost, guilt, hauntings, honour, inappropriate reactions, invocation, karma, knowledge, law, levels, Mӕgan, magic, manifestation,metaphysics, motivation, myths, names, neochristianity, obsession, perspective, phenomena, possession, potion, prejudice, prophecy, protection, psychic attack, psychic distance, psychism, rescue, responsibility,abuse of power, rituals, scepticism, Seelie, sexism, shapechanging, shielding, (the) Sight, spell, spirituality, subconscious, sunrise, talismans, thought form, threshold, uncooperative, Unseelie, vampire, ward, werewolf,

Post No. 137 - Hotel Rwanda

Last weekend, after watching my favourite action movie (Gandhi [1]), my partner and I watched the film Hotel Rwanda.

Wow.

I actually have trouble watching the movie because it depicts such horrendous events, but the actions of the lead character, Paul Rusesabagina, are, to me, as inspiring as those of "Mahatma" Gandhi [2].

Interestingly enough, in the special features section of the DVD, there was an interview with Don Cheadle, who plays the role of Paul Rusesabagina, where Mr. Cheadle comments that Paul felt his actions were quite selfish, as he (Mr. Rusesabagina) wouldn't be able to live with himself if he didn't try to do something. Reminds me a little of one my past posts.

Also interestingly, there is quite a bit about the past history leading up to the Rwandan Genocide, including past massacres of Hutus, at Wikipedia.

Things are so rarely black and white: there are almost always shades of grey ...

In fact, one of the aspects of seeking world peace that I consider most important is that, to do something effective about the psychic atmosphere of negative energy that saturates too much of this planet, is the importance of people on and around this planet finding personal peace - there are seven billion of us on this planet: if, say, five billion are desperate because of poverty or hunger, that desperation can lead to emotions, such as jealousy and resentment, which not only can directly lead to violence (i.e. through terrorism), but will also contribute to aggression and defensiveness in other people as well - it is like the old idea of people having two wolves inside them: which wolf are you feeding? [3] That not only dictates who you are physically, it also dictates what psychic influence you have on the world.

We are ALL capable of great evil, and great good: we may establish a habit of being one or the other, but those habits are just that - habit, and we can be shaken out of those my great events or trauma, such as, perhaps, having a child or some other loved one taken or harmed or threatened. [4] Gandhi, I understand, felt he was always struggling (striving?) to do what was "right" (morally and ethically); I've never felt that I can take things easy in terms of my spiritual growth (see here).

For the achievement of an end to violence (and I consider world poverty and world hunger and world thirst also to be forms of violence), yes, we need to address injustices and specific issues: but we also need to address the psychic sewers we are all living in, in our daily lives, or we will find these problems continue to recur - just as we need to address the underlying separation of "us" and "them" in our hearts, or otherwise the bigotry those attitudes lead to will simply keep finding another way to manifest itself as.

(See here, here, here and here for some of my past posts.)

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr

Notes:

1. There actually is quite a bit of "action" in this movie: most of it is spiritual action, but there is also some quite violent events depicted in the film (although, perhaps, not as graphically as in most "action" movies) - basically, it's a bit of a running family joke we have, that I class Gandhi as an "action" movie :)
2. The word "Mahatma" means "Great Soul": Gandhi's name was actually Mohandas K. Gandhi. Oh, and, according to the Wikipedia post on "Hotel Rwanda" (link given above), the film was listed by someone or other as one of the 100 most inspiring films of all time.
3. I think this is a Cherokee story - see here, for instance.
4. It is worth thinking on that. One of the things hostages in Iraq found was, I understand, that they would not be directly threatened: often, they were tearful and upset in videos being released because people close to them were being threatened - i.e., "cry on camera or I will kill or torture your innocent driver". What sort of provocation would cause you to want to retaliate violently against someone? What would you do if you were in a situation where you thought - rightly or wrongly - that being threatening or doing something like torture could save or protect someone - or something - you cared greatly about? If you can do this sort of exercise GENUINELY, you are far better placed to do something constructive about preventing abuses of power than people who argue only from the position of principle, although that is also vital.
   
   You are also better placed to be a Paul Rusesabagina, or a Mohandas K Gandhi, if ever you find yourself in a situation where that is needed.

This post's photo is yet to be posted.

Tags: about me, attitudes, daily life, discrimination, earthbound, group dynamics, hate, hunger, love, materialism, media, obsession, peace, perceptions, personal characteristics, poverty, rescue, responsibility, self knowledge, selfishness, selflessness, socialisation, world thirst, violence, war,

First published: Monday 26th July, 2010

Last edited: Monday 26th July, 2010

Post No. 092 - Shades of exorcism

Something I have posted about is spirit rescue of earthbound entities. One of the reasons this is necessary - apart from the entity's wellbeing - is that such people can influence the living. This is usually in the form of low level possession called "obsession", where the earthbound entity's desires influence a living person - most commonly, a dead drinker will cause a living person who is drinking to have more alcohol than they intended or wanted. In these cases, the earthbound entity gets the "kick" of sharing the sensation of the alcohol from the living person (the auras of the two are entwined).

In fact, any time you find yourself acting seriously "out of character", include the possibility of possession/obsession in the list of possible causes you examine to find out why that happened (note that that does NOT mean that such problems can be written off as "someone was influencing me": apart from anything else, if such happens, my experience is that the overwhelming majority of such cases are due to the "victim" being irresponsible on the topic of psychic protection).

Of course, such influences can come from the living, both through psychic and other means.

Going back to rescue, I teach people a basic distinction of techniques: "cooperative" entities, those who are simply lost or afraid to pass over (e.g., one young woman was raped and murdered by someone who then committed suicide, and she avoided passing over out of fear of meeting her attacker), and "uncooperative" entities, who fit into the category of evil I alluded to in my post "Logic Flaws".

Stronger techniques are also available, but they are best taught, in my opinion, face-to-face. The techniques I am thinking of involve having the earthbound entity taken into a medium, who basically uses their training (particularly at clearing negative energy such as fear, anger, hate, denial, etc, etc, etc) to help remove such influences from the entities aura, so they can be talked to without the "filter" of the rubbish in their aura. There have been a couple of good books which came out of South Africa by an entity "John", who was rescued this way by a spiritualist group an then came back to help, on this method: I'll add their details at some later stage.

The spectacular stuff you see in films such as "The Exorcist" is, by and large, a Hollywood invention. (Note that some people confuse what can happen on the astral plane with things that can happen on the physical.) Apart from anything else, strategically, the best way to fight an entity is on YOUR terms, not theirs. This means you (a) bring the entity to you (using the help of those in the astral, commonly), an (b) you take the entity out of the victim and put it into a trained medium. Mind you, I have taken part in rescue sessions where such a trained medium was held down by a few others (and have performed the role of that trained medium myself - that training being the start of my serious psychic development).

At this point, I have to emphasise that the vast majority of alarmist stories about harm that can be done are basically complete, absolute, utter rubbish - especially most of the crap about curses. Practise and use even basic techniques of psychic protection and you will be OK against most psychic risks/dangers. In truth, most of the fear stories I have heard are base in people trying to make themselves feel significant.

Nevertheless, there are dangers. I bought a book yesterday as a Litha present; I hope to buy a copy of it for myself in the very near future, but it looks quite good, and I suggest it may be worth reviewing. The details are:

"The Ghost Hunters Survival Guide", by Michelle Belanger
Pub. Llewellyn, Woodbury, Minnesota, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7387-1870-5

I won't end this by writing "stay safe"; I'll write what should be said, which is "stay responsible and free of melodramatics".

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr

Tags: personal responsibility, protection, rescue, psychic health, Psychic attack, possession, obsession, earthbound

First published: Sunday 13th December, 2009

Last edited: Sunday 13th December, 2009