Showing posts with label patriarchy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label patriarchy. Show all posts

Saturday, 12 September 2026

Post No. 3,527 - Some (hopefully) interesting reading / viewing / listening - Saturday 12th September, 2026

I recently found the following interestingoand/orouseful, and am posting them here inocase anyoneoelse does asowelll.   

  • “What is The Role of Two Spirit?” by Jennifer  Lisa  Vest    https://youtu.be/d8kO6zWZSRU   “A lecture given by Dr. Jennifer Lisa Vest, in May, 2026 with special guest Dandilion Cloverdale, on the Role of Two Spirit in society. This talk was given at the Say It Out Loud conference at the Tulalip Indian Casino and Resort in Washington State.”   This includes history, a broader understanding of the term than I suspect many people have, and reclamation/resistance   
  • “Navigating UAP Discourse”   https://rogerstack.substack.com/p/navigating-uap-discourse   “Asking deeper questions; Revealing new possibilities”   AND ALSO   “ETLetsTalk Carlos Chigre CE-5 Interview”   https://youtu.be/63zsjI8_TDI   “ETLetsTalk and The People's Disclosure Movement member, Experiencer Carlos Chigre of Brazil, relates his many encounters with Star People and Star Craft throughout his life using CE-5 (human-initiated, interactive contact with Star People) protocol.”    
  • “What If the Secret to Remembering Is Learning to See?”   https://wisdomschool.com/p/wake-up-and-take-pictures   “My mentor wouldn’t allow a single photograph at Salem. Forty years later, the memory research caught up with him ...”   Photos can be for others, though   

 

I’ve decided to throw a few smalll personaloobservations (and/or vents/rants) into these posts - the sort of passingocomment that doesn’towarrant a note onoSubstack, let alone a complete standalone post here. And my next such comment is:    

It has been interesting seeing how many (female) writers are also coming to conclusions that I had through the execrable experience of working in engineering - including things like many men being more submissive than women, and performative gender. They’ve expressed these points better than I (I’ve been linking to their work over the months), and none of this undoes or makes easier the sadistic / psychopathic abuses I went through, nor does it get us to a situation where the vile, evil patriarchy is undone, but it is step towards that by arming everyone with the verbal weaponry needed. And on that, it is good to read articles on Substack like the Snarky Gherkin’s work, and Thom Hartmann’s column on the need for truth to expose past lies that were used to get submissive men to “lead” nations into disaster (the info on Cheney’s money problems were new to me).   

 

On neurodivergenceoand associatedomatters:    

 

On society, governance, humanorights, etc:    

  • “The Old America Is Dying. Who Will Build the New One?”   by Thom Hartmann   https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-old-america-is-dying-who-will-73c   “Economic desperation opened the door to both FDR and Hitler. Nearly a century later, America again faces competing visions of who should rule and whom government should serve ...”   AND ALSO   “Germany’s Far-Right and Trump’s Billionaires Are Proving FDR’s Darkest Warning Was Right”   https://hartmannreport.com/p/germanys-far-right-and-trumps-billionaires-ac4   “For forty years America restrained concentrated wealth and built the largest middle class in history. Then billionaires rewrote the rules, bought political power, and began taking democracy apart ...”   AND ALSO   “9/11: America Can’t Let the War Lies Go Down the Memory Hole Again”   https://hartmannreport.com/p/911-america-cant-let-the-war-lies-102   “America has been lied into too many wars. It’s cost us too much in money, credibility, and blood. We must remember the lies, and tell our children about them so that memory isn’t lost ...”   and similarly for other nations. These lies are also called propaganda ...   
  • “‘Profound’ increased death rate for welfare recipients”   https://michaelwest.com.au/profound-increased-death-rate-for-welfare-recipients/   “People on disability, unemployment or carers payments had an average mortality rate nine times higher than those outside the welfare system, a study has found.   ...   The report showed ... there were also higher rates of “deaths of despair” associated with alcohol, drugs and self harm, University of Queensland social science research fellow Mark Robinson said.   “The findings point to the profound health inequities in Australia despite its comparatively strong health record,” Dr Robinson said.   “It demonstrates Australians facing economic disadvantage are carrying a much higher burden of premature mortality than others.””   

 

Selectedopopularoand other posts on my otheroblogs and former YouTube channel:   

 

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlightopossible flaws / issues youoshouldoconsider: 

  • there mayobe flawedologicaloarguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ freeoonline course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
  • I could be wrong - so keep your thinkingocaps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.

 

Gnwmythr 

teaching the "good" (balancedopositive and spirituallyomature) 
safer ways to counter the "bad" (outoofobalance, spirituallyoimmature) 

IMO, OTAAT (“one term at a time”) is the next action to save representative democracy  

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Remember: we generallyoneed to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgenderingois an act of activeotransphobia/transmisiaothat 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 descriptoroto 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 2007-2026     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. AI was NOT used to write this article. 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/  


 

 

Saturday, 8 August 2026

Post No. 3,503 - Some (hopefully) interesting reading / viewing / listening - Saturday 8th August, 2026

I recently found the following interestingoand/orouseful, and am posting them here inocase anyoneoelse does asowelll.  

 

 

  • “The Occult View of Identity in The Neverending Story”   https://matauryn.substack.com/p/the-occult-view-of-identity-in-the   “Alchemy, Jungian Shadow Work, and Thelemic Philosophy   ...   To me, this is one reason so many occult traditions place such a strong emphasis on developing the practitioner alongside developing power. We are almost always our own greatest obstacle. Without self-awareness, humility, and a willingness to confront our own flaws, the pursuit of power can become the very thing that undoes us.”   
  • “ET Contactee SHARES Messages From the Lyrans & Her NDE!”   https://youtu.be/En28AUVs-hk   “Near-death experience and UFO Podcast guest is Ash Banta, near death experiencer, psychic channel and ET Contactee that reveals messages from the Lyrans and More!”   An interesting - unusual, compared to my experience, but still interesting - perspective.   
  • “Can You Belong To Two Religions at Once? | A Quaker Perspective”   https://youtu.be/K4GvD2llhC8   “In this video, I talk about 'hyphenated Quakers' - Quakers who identify with another faith tradition. I talk about why this can happen in Quakerism, what the history of it is, the advantages and disadvantages and, if I were to be a hyphenated Quaker - which one would I be and why?”   Wow - I could be a Quagan :) FWIW, I started attending Quaker meetings (a) out of respect for Quakerism, and (b) for a regular gathering of a spiritual type, as I have constraints on my physical mobility, and online Pagan events are a bit rare. I view myself as a Pagan visiting in to Quaker space at those times, and don't consider I could, for instance, talk about Quakerism (apart from some historical matters such as involvement in abolition - and that only from the public history aspects), and I certainly DON’T see Christ as my saviour or anything in particular. However, after watching this video, I’m going to think about all that a bit more.   

 

I’ve decided to throw a few smalll personaloobservations (and/or vents/rants) into these posts - the sort of passingocomment that doesn’towarrant a note onoSubstack, let alone a complete standalone post here. And my next such comment is:    

I have changed my breathing exercises: I no longer work up to the final visualisation from a basic starting point, I just go straight to the final visualisation - which saves time and energy, and helps preserrve motivation  

 

On neurodivergenceoand associatedomatters:    

 

On society, governance, humanorights, etc:    

  • “Patriarchy in action”   https://youtube.com/shorts/bsWz5eIz4hU   “Women are not the problem ... stop participating in the system”   AND ALSO   “The idea of the ‘company man’ was forged decades ago. Its problems still haunt leaders today”   https://theconversation.com/the-idea-of-the-company-man-was-forged-decades-ago-its-problems-still-haunt-leaders-today-288731   “...   This history helps explain why greater representation has not delivered equality.   ...   Rather than asking how we can get women to “lean in” to the typical corporate leader, the future of corporate leadership may well depend on leaving the company man behind.”   Yep: but that last sentence should read MUST, rather than may ...   AND ALSO   “Virginia Bell rejects suggestion Palestinian group’s counsel ‘hijacked’ commission, inquiry hears”   https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/05/bell-rejects-suggestion-palestinian-groups-counsel-hijacked-commission-and-condemns-abusive-emails-ntwnfb   “Antisemitism royal commission also hears from former n_o-N_zi who discovered ‘brotherhood’ was a ‘load of lies’   ...   Life in multi-ethnic Australia helped decouple a former skinhead from neo-Nazi groups as he discovered the brotherhood was “a load of lies”.   ...   He suggested early intervention and openness to other cultures could have changed his course as a younger man.”   The witness’s (expert, on the basis of lived experience) comments are worth noting, and are similar to remarks from others who have reformed (becoming a parent is also a major influence)   AND ALSO   “Reflecting on the NolanoXavieroWells Tragedy: Why White [Racist Hierarchy] Hurts Everyone”   https://youtube.com/shorts/soDikyYToTc    
  • “One of science fiction’s greatest writers warned us about AI. Could his ideas help us avoid a dystopian future?”   https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2026/aug/07/science-fiction-warned-us-about-an-ai-powered-dystopian-future-does-it-also-hold-the-remedy   “What might a modern day equivalent of Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics look like? Guided by the author, I propose the three laws of AI”   The biggest problem would actually be defining harm - it has to include emotional wellbeing and thriving and mental health, and inclusivity (especially of asymmetric bifurcations that hard righters don’t like - variations of sexuality & gender, and neurodiversity, and nonapparent disabilities/differences, etc). But having made that point, I like the proposed three AI laws - they’re probably an excellent starting point for discussion    

 

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlightopossible flaws / issues youoshouldoconsider: 

  • there mayobe flawedologicaloarguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ freeoonline course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
  • I could be wrong - so keep your thinkingocaps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.

 

 

Gnwmythr 

teaching the "good" (balancedopositive and spirituallyomature) 
safer ways to counter the "bad" (
outoofobalance, spirituallyoimmature) 

 

If you appreciated this post, pleaseoshare 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
oappreciated, and willoaid me in continuing this work 

 

Remember: we generallyoneed to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgenderingois an act of activeotransphobia/transmisiaothat 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 descriptoroto 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 2007-2026     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. AI was NOT used to write this article. 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/