Post No. 838E - the sixth 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 sixth lot of keywords for this post.

Keywords:

abuse of power, anger, animals, artificer, attitudes, authentic presence, awareness, balance, Balanced Positive, Bhakti, blackmail, blood, challenge, change, chaos, children, circle, clairvoyance, concentration, consequences, control, death, Deities, dimensions, discrimination, divination, dowsing, Earth (element), earthbound entities, elements, emotions, energy work, equal and opposite reaction, ethics, evil, faery, faith, family, fear, fight or flight or network and nurture, Fire (element), focus, folk lore, forgiveness, friends, genes / genetics, gifts / giving, grounding, growth orientation, guilt, healing, history, honour, ignorance, informed decisions, insularity, invisibility, invocation, isolation, judging others, justice, knowledge, language, levels, limitations, love, Mӕgan, magic, magickal language, magickal techniques and styles, magickal tools, manifestation, metaphysical mass, metaphysics, moral courage, motivation, mythology, myths, names, neochristianity, nightfall, Paganism, pain, Pentacle, pentagram, personal responsibility, perspective, phenomena, power, prejudice, preparation, prophecy, protection, psychic attack, psychic development, psychism, psychology, racism, reincarnation, rescue, residue, responsibility, revenge, risks, rituals, sacrifice, scepticism, Seelie, self knowledge, sexism, shielding, (the) Sight, society, spells, Spiritual Maturity, spirituality, subconscious, submissiveness, sunrise, survival after death, teaching, telepathy, temperature, tests, thaumaturgy, the Greater Good, train others how to treat us, uncooperative, understanding, undetectability, Unseelie, ward, werewolf, yoga,

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. 739: The Profound Irrationality of War and Prejudice

I saw a documentary (released in 2012, directed by Jacqui and David Morris) last week on the life and work of photographer Don McCullin: it was graphic, harrowing, and very effective in conveying his anti-war, and anti-violence “message”. I can’t find an online link for it (I saw it via Netflix), but it left me thinking about the profound irrationality and amathia of those involved in extreme violence, which reminded me of this article last week, and I found myself contemplating the problem of how to address the problem of profound irrationality.

I’ve started an article (for another website) on a few unconsidered aspects of discrimination (such as the fact that I claim to right to judge those who judge or condemn or discriminate against me – whether consciously or unconsciously [e.g., are they amathiac, malicious, misled sheep, insecure, in denial, etc], and, inescapably, those people are revealing something unsavoury about themselves – even if it is that they are not up to date with knowledge/laws/etc … and I am going to reject the sugar coated euphemism of “discrimination affects mental health”, which some bigots interpret as meaning the problem is a weakness on the part of the victims of discrimination, with the unvarnished truth – e.g., misgendering trans people, which is always a vicious, malicious and highly personal form of violence, is so directly responsible for suicides that it should be considered a form of attempted murder); the article begins by mentioning that there are people who still, nearly five centuries after the circumnavigation organised by Ferdinand Magellan, and just over five decades after humans went into space, people who believe the earth is flat, which will lead later into the fact that you cannot change the minds of everyone, no matter how powerful or correct you are.

In fact, I recently read a quote along the lines of It's hard to win an argument with a smart person but near impossible to win an argument with an amathiac person (based on, I think, a quote by William G. McAdoo, “It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument”; this often seems to be credited to Mark Twain, but Twain said something slightly different), which is useful reminder of this. Be that as it may, however, I’ve found education and talking will enable changes to most bigots – and the gradually changing attitudes towards LGBTQIASB+ people are evidence of that, but (and the persistence of racism, sexism and other forms of bigotry illustrate this point) not everyone will be changed – which is why the great Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., said “the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless”.

This is important: it, combined with:

• having met people who do not need the education in order to, for instance, treat trans people with respect and basic manners; and 
• cisgendered people with problems such as deep voices; 

is why some trans people do not try to “pass” (there are other reasons such as challenging stereotypes, but also many try to pass in order to prevent themselves being bashed or killed), but it also shows that it is important not to base your advocacy or psychic work for the BPLF on an outcome of getting everyone to be better human beings. Trying to do so will lead to imbalance in you, and thus health problems – maybe even emotional or mental problems. Change those who can, and (BPM) “restrain the heartless”.

The next point to consider is how to bring those who are unbalanced, profoundly irrational, or amathiac back to a state of balance. In some cases, that won’t happen until their next life, which makes the matter the responsibility of that person's Higher Self, not someone else. Of those who can be brought back, some must be BPM restrained first and foremost, others will only respond to treatment from those who they are physically with, or from people they respect – often meaning people who have been through the same experience (that latter category can include discarnates), but there are some we can help from a distance, by clearing – as is for the Highest Spiritual Good - nonBPM units, and – with acceptance of their right to use their free will to reject it – by sending BPLF healing. I may try to write a post about this sort of work at some stage …

Another point here is that exposure to extreme violence, or the threat of extreme violence can and often does lead to major problems. According to the Ken Burns TV series “The War”, the US Army figured soldiers would be utterly broken after 240 days of combat. I’ve posted other links along this line, or about the changes that can happen (e.g., to here), but there are children in places like Syria who have known nothing but war in their lives. The war in Yemen started in March this year: five months ago … in another three months, will problems of the type I am discussing start to affect its conduct and negotiations even more?

[1] BPLF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Light Forces. See here and here for more on this.

[2] Please see here, here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").

[3] I apologise for the formatting: it seems Blogger is no longer as WYSIWYG as it used to be, and there are a lot of unwanted changes to layout made upon publishing, so I often have to edit it immediately after publishing to get the format as close to what I want as possible.

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr, Pagan Energy Worker, Wéofodthegn

(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux … aka Morinehtar … would-be drýicgan or maga ... )

My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this site) is here, and my glossary/index is here.

I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me for a few minutes at some time between 8 and 11 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate-clear for peace), and here for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend learning how to flame, ground and shield, do alternate nostril breathing, work with colour, and see also here and be flexible.

I am a Walker upon the Path of Balanced Positivity, seeking Spiritual Maturity.

• Neither eloquence nor inarticulateness inherently indicates correctness, but, 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.
• 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'.
• I mourn the desecration of the term 'Light Worker' by commercial interests, and the warping of the word 'Light' away from 'Clear Light' by the "(Fluffy) White Lighters".
• Presuming that everyone has, or wants, a smartphone is discriminatory, unspiritual, and downright amathiac.
• Obsessive love may be a cover up of guilt.
• Proxy embarrassment is both a form of control, and an internal barrier to truth, honesty and perspicacity.
• 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.
• Notwithstanding the greatness of exploring the world and humanity, the greatest exploration is of mind, spirit and Soul.
• May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
• Life is not a struggle for status. 
• 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.
• The means shape the end.
• 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 ... and blogging has been described as graffiti with punctuation :)

Human dignity is the inherently cumulative holistic combination of human rights, wellbeing and potential, and all actions or interaction which promote, realise or facilitate same. The converse also applies: whatever degrades, diminishes or robs humans of dignity, is inherently undignified.

Gnwmythr

The “purpose” of spiritual evolution is not the attainment of “spiritual perfection” - not in the sense of not having to evolve further, at any rate, since there is no such thing. We need to evolve in order to grow - but we can take rest breaks (hopefully well earned :) ) along the way. No, the “purpose” of evolution is, rather, to perfect our ability to learn, and thus grow.

Gnwmythr

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

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

Tags: bigotry, discrimination, insanity, judging others, personal characteristics, personal responsibility, prejudice, society, amathia, violence, war,

First published: Manadagr, 10^th August, 2015

Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Tuesday, 11^th August, 2015 (edited 2nd last paragraph)

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Post No. 468 - Living in chakras and other stuff - Part I

Well, I've survived another week.

I left work early, yesterday (Friday), partly because of exhaustion (although I've brought work home :( ), partly in deference to my colleagues, who thought my coughing fits sounded like a death rattle.

I had a few nice things happen on the way home, though.

First, as I walked from the office to car park, I had a Willy Wagtail singing and dancing in front of me for most of the way. Then, on the way home I saw a couple of ducks flying through the trees beside the road as I sat in Traffic Jam No. 3 (of 4 on the way home - they're the reason I don't normally bother to leave work early, but no-one - no matter how much I say that - seems to take any notice of it: "Oh why don't you just go home a bit early?" Well, because doing so doubles the travel time. Idiots). Spring is definitely here - time to use the lovely compost I've been nurturing over the weekend and do my planting (just corn, this year) and re-potting.

I also had a magnificent rainbow to look at as I drove home - there was a spring storm ahead of me, and the setting sun behind me gave one of the brightest rainbows I've ever seen. I've been blest by quite a few very spectacular rainbows in my life - seeing the complete circle of a rainbow, or double rainbows - once seeing almost complete circles of a double rainbow as I drove over a ridge into a valley; another time I saw a ghostly third rainbow.

Ah, lovely. [3]

I'm not going to make any trite remarks about such things making up for the trials and tribulations of life, because they don't. They're lovely - magnificent, marvellous, worthy of being enjoyed, but seeing them doesn't make up for the sorts of trials people may have. How could, for instance, a family starving to death in a lovely valley think seeing a rainbow compensated for what they are going through? It does happen you know - some of places where calamities (whether physical or social) occur are physically lovely.

Anyway, to work - my other, done-for-love-not-money, work :)

I mentioned recently that I had delivered a chakra workshop. It went well - and I had one person say that the chakra I thought only I was developing, between the throat and heart, had been identified by someone else - gushingly - as a way of connecting to Universal wonderfulness.Well, nice that someone else has confirmed the existence of the chakra, but it's just connecting the heart and the throat - which I could see could actually be interpreted by some as connecting to something wonderful, if they were "living in the throat chakra".

Now, "living in a chakra" is a concept I have discussed previously [4], and I also touched on it in the chakra notes (a copy is included as Part II of this post - albeit with a few problems around layout and figures; as always, if you want to buy a PDF copy, email me - the email address is at my website), but I came across something in my daily life which illustrated it even more effectively. It all started when I read a media article commenting about a recent, far too publicised incident that led to a debate on the so-called "raunch culture". The writer started off by indicating largely indifference to the incident (which was largely, in many ways, busybodies minding other people's business [5]), and then continued to make the point that neither side was completely right in their claims. I haven't given a link to this article, you'll notice: that is because the author made the mistake of finishing with a line which was probably intended to be humorous, but actually came across rather unpleasantly, and spoiled the whole article.

But the basic point was basically correct: neither side was entirely right, which I would also extend to neither side was entirely wrong, either - that is, both sides had some valid points.

The "debate" can probably be summarised thus:

• on one side are people, stereotyped as young but I have to say that people of all ages are capable of a health sexuality (I recently read an article about Masters and Johnson's [2] work, written as an obituary for Virginia Johnson, which gave a timely extra angle on this debate), who are of the view that "raunch" is empowering / liberating / "what-will-save-the-world"; 
• and on the other side are people, stereotyped as old but I know a few such who are young, who - allegedly - claim that such behaviour will end the world and cause the sky to fall.

Well, the extremist protrayals of each side in the media are really just the vain imaginings of a desperate editor wanting to sell more papers through sensationalism, perhaps, but I have a different take on this.

As we mature, we tend to "activate" (use more, or use the attributes of more effectively/consciously) the chakras, beginning at the base and working upwards. The stereotypical younger exponents of raunch culture seem to me to be those who have discovered the sexual aspects of the first chakra (which are the "me-focused" elements of sexuality; they haven't necessarily got the true intimacy of the sexual aspects of the second chakra) and, to some extent, the third chakra (in particular, the me-focused emotions aspect of that chakra). To some extent, they remind me of our cat Luna, who was incredibly timid when she first came to us (the runt of the litter and, I suspect, abused by the people we got her off), but now is confident and has made that incredible realisation that she can ask for, and get, pats. In much the same way, these stereotypical younger(the qualification is significant) people have realised they can get pleasure through sex, and can do so openly, as an adult. As a result, they start to draw on some of power of the base chakra, and it is a marvellous, magnificent, truly personally empowering experience for them ... and then they make the mistake, based on lack of life experience, of thinking that it's wonderful for them, so it must therefore be wonderful for all the rest of reality.

That extrapolating from the small to the universal is something that has always annoyed me - when we were children, one of my sisters said no-one should go to bed with wet hair because that had absolutely categorically resulted in split ends for one of her friends. .... As an adult, I've had (female) friends state just as absolutely and categorically that getting hair trimmed every six weeks will result in more growth. Rubbish. I've even demonstrated, getting shorter and shorter hair, and the ... person still wouldn't admit that she was wrong. Other examples of this sort of unthinking stupidity are those morons who say that "exotic" forms of white bread are healthy because they're not mainstream (wholemeal is ALWAYS better), or that sugars in fruit don't matter for diabetes because it's in fruit so it's "healthy" - which is bullshit.

I've also encountered similar stupidity around chakras - especially claims that a certain meditation will raise the kundalini.

Again, rubbish - super-double-rubbish-with-cream-on-top, in fact.

If your kundalini has raised, you will be able to do miracles - levitate, telekinesis, etc. If you can't do miracles, you haven't raised your kundalini.

And don't dare be so stupid as to claim that something which takes great mystics years of dedicated, intense, ongoing work living away from the world, can be done by a half hour meditation.

The TRUTH is that, much as we apparently use only a small percentage of our brain, we also use only a very small percentage of our chakras capabilities. If, as a child you are using, maybe 1 to 3% of your base chakras strength, and then you found - perhaps through sex - that you were using maybe 6 to 8% of the chakras capabilities, you would experience an up to eight-fold increase in those characteristics ... and still be using only one twelfth to one fifteenth of the chakras capabilities. (The people who claim to be stimulating the kundalini seem to be getting the percentage up to 20 to 30%, which is a valid and worthy increase in use of the chakras capabilities, but it is still NOTHING to do with the kundalini.) Even more overwhelming would be the lack of anything to judge the experience by - which is part of the trials and tribulations of growing up.

A similar situation applies to the opponents of raunch culture - those who are stereotypically older. I can see they are living in other chakras, and what i wrote earlier also applies.

Neither side in this unbecoming "debate" is being mature, or particularly considerate of other people, but to a large extent, they are just people living their lives as they experience them.

And, on that, I had an interesting dream recently, where I perceived each life we live as a single lecture at a university. Each life was part of a longer series of lectures that was a course aimed at developing a set of skills - and that really is, in many ways, a better way of thinking about reincarnation than obsessively focusing on all the lessons of just one particular life. True there is a lot to learn in any one life, but don't let attention to detail rob you of the bigger picture here.

OK, so moving briefly on to other matters ...

I've mentioned previously that Blogger let's us see generalised statistics. Well, I've decided I might try starting my readings link posts with a summation of greetings from some of the countries the stats page says my blog has been viewed from.

Of course, I view such stats with a degree of caution - I don't know that just because Blogger says my blog has been viewed from nation X means the person is in nation X, nor do I know that it is not some sort of check or collection of data, but I do get some hope from the repeated viewing of my blog from some places that at least some people get something useful from this small part of my life's work ...

Anyway, here's what I have come up with so far (although I haven't been able to access the stats for places with only a few hits, such as some African nations, and so haven't been able to include those, and in some cases I have had to use what I can find off the Internet, but ... well, here's what I've come up with so far:

G'day, Hello, Howdy, Hi, Zdravstvujtye (some of my work colleagues are Russian), guten Tag, sveiki, czesc (I have friends - not just colleagues - work who are Polish), bonjour, selamat pagi (the best junior engineers I ever worked with was Malaysian), annyeonghaseyo, pryvit, Como vai, ¡Hola, selamat pagi, ni hao

And now ... the housework. Yes, even bloggers dust, sweep the floor and clean the loo!

Hmm ... might give myself a few more hours of rest yet. At least this weekend it has been agreed that I can take some time off to go out of the city - anywhere will do, so long as I have a chance to escape the endless psychic pressure here, and even better if it has some nice scenery.

Of course, the problem with such actions is that they risk simply emphasising what I don't have in my everyday life ...



[3] On rainbows, I used to have step-grandchildren in a previous relationship (I miss them - not the relationship, though ... ah well, that part of life is over now), and while driving one of them from her home to visit other family a few hundred kilometres away, we saw a rainbow: 
"What's that?" 
"It's called a rainbow, dear" 
... a few minutes after we'd driven out of sight of the rainbow: "I wouldn't mind seeing another rainbow now"

[4] See http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/forms-living-in-chakras-more-fear-and.html and http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/sain-bain-uu.html. 

Also, http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/a-laugardagr-post-on-chakra.html, http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/kundalini-thought.html, http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/thou-shalt-not-say-not-and-addiction-to.html, http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/colour-visualisation-and-breathing.html, http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/tensegrity-and-th-earth-star-chakra.html, http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2010/11/trial-run-of-ranger-technique.html, http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2010/05/working-together.html, http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2009/12/chakras-less-happy-view.html, http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2009/06/chakras-and-push-pull.html, and http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2007/10/secret-science-of-hugs.html.

[5] I often wonder if such reactions are because those reacting are resentful that someone has shown them that they had a choice, and didn't have to live in  particular way. I think I started thinking about that when, in my early 20s, I heard a couple of very elderly women discussing modern knickers: 
"That's all they wear these days" 
"Must be all they need" 
"Yes - ah well, good on 'em" 
There was a note of ... envy, I guess in their voices - perhaps a wish that they also had had such garments available when they were younger. 


[1] BPF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Forces. See here and here for more on this.

[2] Please see here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"). 

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr 
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux?)

My "blogiography" (list of all posts - currently not up to date) is here.  

I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ...  See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "pagans for peace" project, and here for my bindrune kit-bag.

• One size does NOT fit all. 
• May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
• A home is for living in, not feeling, becoming or being rich or a “better” class than others.
• The secret to being (financially) rich is not to have lots of money: it is to have an income above the poverty line, and then make whatever sacrifices are necessary in order to live within 90% of your means.  
• Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master. 
• Armageddon is alive and well and happening right now: it is a battle between the indolence of "I only ..." and/or "I just ..." and/or "Everyone knows ... " and what Bruce Schneier [2] calls "security theatre" on one side, and perspicacity and the understanding that the means shape the end on the other. 
• The means shape the end.  
• Sometimes you just can't argue with a biped that is armed with a sharp stick, a thick head and not too much in the way of grunts.
• Spiritual love is far more than just an emotion - it is a concept, thoughts, actions and a way of living. 
• One of the basics of serious spiritual / psychic work is that the greatest work is that which we do on ourself, which seems trivial to many. Our own Innermost Essence, which is our Higher Self / Soul / Spirit, has the power to do so much, and is actively participating in the creation and sustenance of this physical reality. Some mote of our conscious or unconscious knows that, which is why we seem inclined to be dismissive of Self Mastery - which is a bit like the child who sees an adult spending money to buy toys, and fails to recognise the daily grind of work which has led to having the money. 
• My favourite action movie of all time is "Gandhi". 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.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger [people]. JOHN F. KENNEDY 

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing. (based on writing by) EDMUND BURKE

Your children are not your children. ... They come through you but ... they belong not to you ... for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow KAHLIL GIBRAN

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.

Those whom we cannot stand are usually those who we cannot understand P.K.SHAW

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, and the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change." SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY (US Attorney General 1966 Speech)

People I'm currently following or reading, or have considerable respect for, include:

• Red Catherine, a Romani woman living on Artemis, in South Australia; 
• T. Thorn Coyle;  
• Fire Lyte; 
• http://paganinparadise.blogspot.com/; 
• The Wild Hunt;and
  
• the Order of Scathach. 

You can find news sources I use here. 

Tags: about me, attitudes, chakras, immaturity, maturity, prejudice, society, stages of life,
First published: Laugardagr, 31st August, 2013

Last edited: Saturday, 31st August, 2013