What a week.
A highlight is now having a skip load of rubbish from a clean out
ready to be collected. It is good to do things like that (after five years here for me and nine for my partner, and the moving
out of her children, we were well and truly ready for that:), and some of
the stuff I am getting rid of will assist me in moving on from some past
periods of my life, as well as just enabling a clearing of stagnant energy.
A low point is someone who I have the misfortune to work with
complaining that another culture lives differently during one of THEIR
religious periods. Still, in the course of communicating to our HR department
about that, I came across
this
excellent site. The truly staggering thing about having to sit near
that person is that it came about as a result of a rearrangement of the office
during which a former manager of mine thought that we would all get along
swimmingly. Maybe he thought that being in the same sort of
(advanced) age group would somehow outweigh the arguments I had
heard that person and I having over various topics, but more likely, he just
either wasn’t observant or didn’t actually think correctly about the situation.
He had thought, that’s true enough, but he hadn’t thought CORRECTLY: he
had thought the matter through solely from the point of view of what was
important to himself, rather than, as the old saying goes, putting himself in
another’s shoes.
That sort of sloppy, lazy or ineffectual thinking underlies
MANY of the problems of the Western/industrialised
world. I’ve been watching the excellent
(well,
the first episode was … After loading skips I have to watch the second on catch up TV …
) series
“The
Men Who Make Us Spend” (see here
also for another review of it; I can’t find any useful link on the BBC, which
originally screened it – apparently they don’t make their programmes available
to anyone else in the world), and reflecting on the fact that one of the
reasons Australia has such generally poor politicians is because voters fail to
think properly and effectively about many issues.
(It's also why a lot of people foolishly put personal convenience ahead of internet safety, and expediency ahead of 'right living' ... )
As an example of that last point, ever since the evil John Howard,
Australia’s Governments have been exploiting the politics of fear to get
support for their policies of abusing the victims of war and persecution who
had been seeking a better future for their kids by becoming refugees. Australia
now, in my opinion, is nearly as guilty as the original nations these people
are fleeing in terms of human rights abuses. The response they’ve introduced in
the last couple of years that this is allegedly about safety, introduced, in my
opinion, in response to criticism, is utterly nonsensical.
Their actions are akin to addressing safety problems in the workplace
by preventing workers going to work.
Their actions are, in my opinion, in breach of international Law –
including things like SOLAS
(Safety of Life at Sea [2]
), and have been ever since the
Tampa affair.
Now, most activists approach this issue on the basis of compassion for
refugees, and target politicians. That is admirable, but I don’t think entirely
effective, as the people who REALLY have to change on this is the voters who
put those politicians in. When activists can go into blue collar areas, such as
The Pines, where I used to live, and have arguments about employment and
sovereignty THAT EFFECTIVELY ADDRESS THESE ISSUES FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THOSE OTHER PEOPLE, then we will
be able to start making Australia a genuinely better place to live.
Of course, activists don’t have the resources to do that, so we’re back
to politicians, or perhaps the media, but:
(a) politicians are seeking to immorally constrain the media
(see here),
and
(b) some sections of the media pander to the lowest common
denominator
(see, for instance, here, here
and here).
What is it going to take to have that introduced? And how long will
that take?
I don’t know, so in the meantime, I will keep working on, as the saying
in my signature bloc says, having the world of business and commerce remember
that it is a SERVANT of the
community, not a dictator of what society should be.
Now let’s turn to the topic of peace, and tonight’s meditation.
I mentioned sending energy to sections of Africa in recent posts. Well,
there’s been a plane crash there this week. I could say that the energy didn’t
work (possibly because the quantity or quality of energy was inadequate), or …
it could be that the energy has helped people transition, or has and will help
with the response.
Most times I do this nothing happens that I know of, and I simply have
to persist, trusting that the direction to do so has made some sort of appreciable
difference – hopefully preventative.
An on prevention,
this
article gives some useful information about the value of prevention in
terms of world disasters. On the other hand,
this
article by an excellent media person who I respect, points out the limits
many people feel on empathy.
I’m not going to recommend any specific topics or matters to consider
tonight, other than to point out that there has been a focus on MH17 in Western
media to the exclusion of other problems, including the two other plane crashes,
one into another war zone, the other into a suburb.
The rest of the world still bleeds – not just the Middle East, where
there has been an escalation of violence, but many other places as well. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa continues,
famine is imminent in South Sudan, and so on.
On
other matters,
I think
this
post was a clumsily written
(the word
‘pathology’ in the heading is inflammatory), and missed the issues of
unearned advantage
(‘privilege’) and
social power, but has a point that is worth thinking about. I gained most food
for thought from the comments. The original person tarred all Pagans with the
same brush, and failed to acknowledge those neochristians who also seek
attention. In terms of the response, it reminds me a situation around a
gathering some years ago where I wanted to provide education about an excluded
group, and was overtaken by someone taking legal action. Education is fine if
you have the time and energy, but many people get tired and worn out, and may
find others are slow to pick up the burden.
There was a
suggestion by someone this week that workers do three 11-hour days, and then
have a four day weekend.
What a load
of rot. This was clearly developed by someone who doesn’t have kids or
housework to contend with, and no interest in stress management or
spirituality.Possibly the suggestion was as a result of psychic influence by entities wanting to increase control over people ... On that, I watched a TV show about Robert F Kennedy this week, and the vagueness of RFK's assassin could be viewed as:
- attempting to deny what one had done, a little like a guilty toddler may deny something with a view to making a parent believe they didn't do it;
- a legal ploy to avoid the death sentence;
- the result of hypnotic conditioning, the line taken by the programme, or
- possession * .
I'm not going to bother to ask my Patron Deities/Higher Self/BPLF Guides which it was: there are more important matters to attend to.
As a final point,
here
is a wonderful story about getting kids to connect with Nature.
* The solution for this would be for other people to (spirit) 'rescue' the possessing entity, and the possessed person to learn about psychic protection. The prevention is for more rescue and psychic education and self protection generally ...
[1]
BPLF = Balanced Positive
(spiritual) Light Forces. See here and here for more on this.
Love, light, hugs and blessings
My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this site) is here, and my glossary/index is here.
- One
size does NOT fit all.
- Don't
be mediocre - seek to excel.
- Gnwmythr's
Stropping Strap: Occam's Razor only works if the simplest solution is actually
recognised as being the simplest, rather than the one that best fits one's
bigotries being labelled 'simplest'.
- Our
entire life experience, with all the many wondrous and varied people,
places and events in it, is too small a sample for statistical reliability
about Life.
- May
the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a
master, of the lives of people.
- Ban
the dream interpretation industry!
- A
home is for living in, not feeling, becoming or being rich or a “better”
class than others.
- Being
accustomed to interacting via certain rules makes those rules neither
right nor universal.
- Like
fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad
master.
- Expertise
at intimacy and emotional happiness is generally not the same thing as
spiritual growth.
- Any
person, male or female, who has neither a serious health issue, dependents
nor an agreement about study. yet expects their partner to work to support
them, is, spiritually speaking, little more than a parasite.
- The
means shape the end.
- BPLF
restraint of uncooperatives is NOT an opportunity for revenge or getting
even - even unconsciously.
- As
words can kill, the right to freedom of speech comes with a DUTY to be as
well-informed, objective and balanced as you can be.
- My
favourite action movie of all time is "Gandhi",
although I've recently come across "Invictus"
and might put that one in to that category. However, I
loathe the stereotypical action movie - and, for similar reasons, I loathe
many dramas, which are often emotionally
violent, more so in some cases than many war films.
- All
of the above - and this blog - could be wrong, or subject to context,
perspective, or state of spiritual evolution ...
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be
stronger [people].
John F. Kennedy (who was
quoting 19th Century Episcopal Bishop Phillips Brooks)
Jesus loves you. Odin wants you to grow up.
We make our decisions. And then our
decisions turn around and make us.
F.W. Boreham
Females, get over 'cute'. Get competent.
Get trained. Get capable. Get over 'cute'. And those of you who are called
Patty and Debby and Suzy, get over that. Because we use those names to
infantalise females – we keep females in their 'little girl' state by the names
we use for them. Get over it. If you want to be taken seriously, get serious.
Jane Elliott
The only thing necessary for the triumph of
evil is for good [people] to do nothing.
(based on
writing by) Edmund Burke
The significant problems we face cannot be
solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein
We didn't inherit the Earth from our
ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the
personality and eats away its vital unity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
True compassion is more than flinging a
coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an
edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Too much and too long, we seem to have
surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation
of material things. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America
by that -- counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to
clear our highways of carnage. ... Yet the gross national product does not allow
for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of
their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our
marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public
officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor
our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it
measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile."
Robert F. Kennedy 1968
There are risks and costs to a program of
action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of
comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
If we could change ourselves, the
tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so
does the attitude of the world change towards him. … We need not wait to see
what others do. (Often degraded to “Be
the change you want to see in the world” – see here)
Gandhi
Tags: about me, attitudes, control, discrimination, energy work, failure, fear, governance, meditation, possession, prevention, society, thinking,
First published: Sunnudagr, 27th July, 2014
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