Post No. 3,187 - On the benefits of strong, courageous, and EARLY action

Part of my reading material at the moment includes “The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941 (War in the West a New History)” by James Holland (pub. Transworld Digital, 2015,  ISBN 978-1448167029; Penguin, Kobo, Amazon) - I have a strong interest in history, although I am finding the history chapter of  Mitch  Horowitz’s   “Practical Magick: Ancient Tradition and Modern Practice” (pub. Gildan Media LLC, 2025,   ISBN 978-1-7225-2781-5;   Kobo,  Barnes & Noble,   Readings,   Apple Books,   Amazon),   both interesting, as it brings in new information, and heavy going * , as I have read so much on that topic over the years I have reached a state of being ... overfull ... 

From James Holland’s book: 

“It was clear to Warlimont that the main purpose of H_t l_r’s speech was to convince his generals of the rightness of his decision, and assure them Britain and France would keep out. The F_h r_r’s confidence was based on a number of factors, not least his experiences back in March when German troops had marched into Czechoslovakia unopposed. He had been braced then for a more dramatic response from the Western democracies, and yet he had got away with it. He had been getting away with it for years”

“The carefully orchestrated parades, the even more carefully managed showreels of German troops and tanks and skies thick with aircraft, were, to a very large extent, a projection of military might rather than representative of the reality. Germany was by no means ready for all-out war. It did not have enough tanks, vehicles or trained soldiers, and certainly not enough natural resources, to carry out anything more than a short, sharp campaign against a massively inferior enemy: Germany possessed little iron ore, no oil, no copper, tungsten, bauxite or rubber, and, crucially, did not have enough land, sufficiently farmed, to fulfil the food requirements of both the population and a massive military.” 

I have written previously - on this and my former political blog - about the importance of early and timely intervention (I will add links over the next few days);   I have been supportive of the calls for activism against oppression - particularly over the last decade or so, notably in the USA;   and   I have been aware of the benefits of studying history (I will add a link to an excellent book written by a group of historians on this over the next few days) and of seeing how past disasters could have been averted (especially around World War (part) One)   ...   but I don’t recall an example which ties all this together so clearly. 

James Holland’s book also states that the UK’s and France’s combined militaries were larger/more forceful than Germany’s. 

There were critical flaws in the UK and France, but we were so much closer to preventing World War (part) Two than I realised ... 

And the lesson for me now, out of all this, is of the importance of being BPM moral/ethical, and taking action against oppression, backwardness/reactionariness, and evil whenever one can. 

So ... courage, and do what you can: the enemies of decency may be closer to failure than we realise. 

 

PS - to be clear, I have been very much aware of the dangers of appeasement - for most of life, and of the views about the UK rearming (including John F Kennedy's argument that the UK wasn't sleeping but buying time to rearm), and of the strong preference for peace of the population of the UK - but not at any price; what is new to me is the possibility that war was so close being prevented (or being preventable) in the last few months before it started. 

 * As I've progressed further through Mitch Horowitz's book, I am finding it pursues an approach to magic - left hand path - that I rejected a couple of decades ago. I may not finish the book ... 

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. 579 – The past and next week, for tonight’s meditation and reading

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.

This disrespect for international Law continues under Tony Abbott, with breaches of Indonesia’s sovereignty.

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).

Ultimately, the solution is to teach kids to think properly, which is why I am such a fan of Brendan Myers’ “Clear and Present Thinking”.

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.

[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, Wéofodthegn 

(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux? … Morinehtar? … Would-be drýicgan ... )

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 at 9 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate 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.

• 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 19^th Century Episcopal Bishop Phillips Brooks)

Jesus loves you. Odin wants you to grow up.

(Facebook meme, according to John  Beckett)

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, 27^th July, 2014

Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Sunday, 27^th July, 2014

Post No. 415 - Bushfires [Content Warning: bushfires, harm/harmful actions, links to distressing news stories]

A few years ago, my home state of Victoria had some major  bushfires [2]: we're apparently looking at having another bad season [3], so I've decided to post a ritual I came up with a few years ago to try and prevent or minimise bushfires. Obviously, this can be used for other places as well - just use it with the intention of preventing bushfires elsewhere.

This ritual is to seek to minimise damage from bushfires, by

- seeking to minimise the chance of bushfires occurring, including by asking wind and rain to help, and by trying to get arsonists to grow to an awareness which leads to them not lighting fires

- making sure those who have the duty of looking after the bush to prevent bushfires or of fighting bushfires do so properly, and

- helping all people to appreciate ALL the various forms of life in the wild places.

The core of the ritual is five chants, one to each quarter, and one for the centre (repeat each as many times as feels comfortable):

(Southern hemisphere - north; Northern hemisphere - south)
“Artemis[4], Baba Yaga[5], Pachamama[6] and Cernunnos[7],
help us connect to the wild places
- show us all the beauty of all the life there,
human, animal, plant or mineral,
help all who touch these places,
to truly know and care for them,
for their own innate worth.”

(east)
“Brigid[8], Maeve[9] and Isis,
inspire and help all those who care for the bush or fight bushfires,
let them fulfil their duties with passion and inspiration;
and inspire and heal those tempted to do harm
to such responsibility and caring
that they can NOT commit such sacrilege,
but may Ma’at[10] bring swiftly to justice all who do.”

(Southern hemisphere - south; Northern hemisphere - north)
“Nu Kua[11], bringer of order to chaos,
bring your ordered way to the wild places;
let the rains fall and the winds blow when and where they are needed;
Durga[12], protector against demons,
set boundaries on any fires which may occur,
and protect the wild places from the demon “bushfire”;
Cerridwen[13], transform all harm and damage done into growth: death into rebirth.”

(west)
“Gyhldeptis[14],
we call on you to help synthesise all these threads,
love, responsibility, inspiration, justice;
ordered rain and wind, protective boundaries, transformation;
help these many ways become one great whole,
for the good of all the wild places, and all the wild life.
throughout this coming bushfire season and beyond.”

[15]

(centre)
”Artemis, Baba Yaga, Pachamama, Cernunnos,
Let us love the wild places;

Brigid, Maeve, Isis and Ma’at,
Heal and inspire responsibility and justice;

Nu Kua, Durga and Cerridwen,
Tame, bound and transform the demon bushfire;

Gyhldeptis,
Bring all this together.”

Proposed Order of Service:

Most rituals consists of 5 major parts, which you will notice below are segmented into the five elements.  Air, Fire, Water, Earth and Spirit, but not in that order.  Each Elemental correspondence has its own unique role within the ritual.

In most cases they are broken down as follows:

·         East – Air – Athame – Opening – This is the basis of preparation, introduction of the ceremony.

·         South – Fire – Wand -  Invocations – This is the basis of invocations, prayers of the ceremony.

·         West – Water – Chalice -  Offerings – This is the time of offerings, libations, and honour

·         North – Earth – Pentacle – Closing – This is the time of devocation and opening of the circle.

THE RITUAL

AIR - EAST OPENING

Clear and Release.

Cleanse salt, water, incense and fire.

Charge salt, water, incense and fire.

Cast Circle

FIRE - SOUTH Invocations

Invoke the Four Quarters  (optional / depending on type of ritual)

Invoke the Goddess  (optional / depending on type of ritual)

Invoke the God  (optional / depending on type of ritual)

Invoke your Patron Deity (optional / depending on type of ritual)

Invoke the Ancestors  (optional / depending on type of ritual)

SPIRIT - CENTRE Ritual

This is the main body of the ritual. The actual purpose of the ceremony is presented here. This can be for initiation, healing, dedication, or any other purpose. The statement of intents, and the act of powers are also performed at this time, depending greatly on the ceremony.

(Southern hemisphere - north; Northern hemisphere - south)
“Artemis, Baba Yaga, Pachamama and Cernunnos,
help us connect to the wild places
- show us all the beauty of all the life there,
human, animal, plant or mineral,
help all who touch these places,
to truly know and care for them,
for their own innate worth.”

(east)
“Brigid, Maeve and Isis,,
inspire and help all those who care for the bush or fight bushfires,
let them fulfil their duties with passion and inspiration;
and inspire and heal those tempted to do harm
to such responsibility and caring
that they can NOT commit such sacrilege,
but may Ma’at bring swiftly to justice all who do.”

(Southern hemisphere - south; Northern hemisphere - north)
“Nu Kua, bringer of order to chaos,
bring your ordered way to the wild places;
let the rains fall and the winds blow when and where they are needed;
Durga, protector against demons,
set boundaries on any fires which may occur,
and protect the wild places from the demon “bushfire”;
Cerridwen, transform all harm and damage done into growth: death into rebirth.”

(west)
“Gyhldeptis,
we call on you to help synthesise all these threads,
love, responsibility, inspiration, justice;
ordered rain and wind, protective boundaries, transformation;
help these many ways become one great whole,
for the good of all the wild places, and all the wild life.
throughout this coming bushfire season and beyond.”

(centre)
”Artemis, Baba Yaga, Pachamama, Cernunnos,
Let us love the wild places;

Brigid, Maeve, Isis and Ma’at,
Heal and inspire responsibility and justice;

Nu Kua, Durga and Cerridwen,
Tame and bound the demon bushfire;

Gyhldeptis,
Bring all this together.”

WATER - WEST Offering

This is traditionally done with a chalice of juice, wine or water passed around the company within the circle AFTER the dedicationary offering has been completed.

Then it is common practice to pour out a small libation, and dedicate that to your Ancestors, physical and spiritual, and to all your friends in Nature, seen and unseen.

Dedicate what remains in the Chalice to the Goddess and the God.

(After the ritual, the libations may be emptied outside, or otherwise respectfully disposed of.)

NORTH - PENTACLE Closing

It is now time to give thanks, and close the ritual.

Devoke the Ancestors  (optional, depending on type of ritual)

Devoke your Patron Deity (optional, depending on type of ritual)

Devoke the God  (optional, depending on type of ritual)

Devoke the Goddess  (optional, depending on type of ritual)

Devoke the Four Quarters  (optional, depending on type of ritual)

Take down the Circle itself. You might say something like the Traditional;

“As Above, So Below. As the Universe, so the Soul. As within, so without. Merry meet. Merry part. And merry meet again.”

And as always - clear and release all excess energy.

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[4] Greek Goddess of animals and wild places

[5] Slavic Goddess: the “wild woman”

[6] Peruvian and Bolivian Goddess of healing and wholeness with ability to connect to natural world

[7] Celtic God – the Horned One, often portrayed as a stag

[8] Celtic Goddess of Inspiration

[9] Irish Goddess of Responsibility

[10] Egyptian Goddess of Justice

[11] Chinese Goddess who brought Order to Chaos

[12] Goddess from India who helps set boundaries, and took the name Durga in honour of the demon Durga, who she slew

[13] Welsh Goddess of the Cauldron, associated with Death and rebirth

[14] Tlingit and Haida Goddess of the Forest, who held a feast to get powers together which transformed a dangerous whirlpool into a calm river

[15] Most of these interpretations are from “The Goddess Oracle” by Amy Sophia Marashinsky

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

[2] Please see my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia.  


[3] See "State risks worst fires since Black Saturday", 26th November, 2012: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/state-risks-worst-fires-since-black-saturday-20121125-2a1n8.html

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear")
My "blogiography" is here. I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ...
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 International Labour Organisation's definition of "full employment" is wrong, useless and misleading.
Armageddon is alive and well and happening right now: it is a battle between the indolence of "I only ..." and/or "I just ..." on one side, and perspicacity on the other.
Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master. Spiritual love is far more than just an emotion - it is a concept, thoughts, actions and a way of living.
The only prejudice should be against prejudice. 
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger [people]." JOHN F. KENNEDY 
One size does NOT fit all ... and don't throw the baby out with the bathwater as a result of knowing a little ... 

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing. 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.

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

Tags: bushfires, energy work, harm minimisation, justice, prevention, rituals, society,

First published: Manadagr, 26th November, 2012

Last edited: Monday, 26th November, 2012