Post No. 553 - for tonight's meditation

First up, I have found the time of 9 PM on a Sunday evening EXTREMELY inconvenient. The time goes back to the channelled suggestions of “The Nine” in Phyllis V. Schlemmer's "The Only Planet of Choice" (p. 279). Now, Sunday evening is important for me as it is part of my preparations for the coming work week (and likewise for others in my family), but I can do the meditation if the time is shifted. What suits me is doing the meditation earlier, at around 8 PM, or later, at around 11 PM, so I am now going to suggest that the meditation is done (for 9 to 18 minutes - not continuously!) between 8 PM and 11 PM, at 9 PM if you can.

In terms of tonight's meditation, my concerns include what is happening here in Australia under Tony Abbott's government. His appalling 'turn back the boats' campaign, which involves breaches of other nation's sovereignty, also includes endangering lives by removing safety equipment and deportation by means of unsafe boats (see here). Now, I know that members of the Australian military are trained to assess orders for their lawfulness: at what stage does deliberately endangering other people's lives and making deliberate incursions into a foreign nations territory become unlawful??? Maybe this is something that GetUp will have to mount a court challenge on, in order to make clear the unlawfulness of it.

In addition to this and killing Australia, Abbott and Hockey are enforcing neochristianity in schools. See http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/14/budget-it-will-be-chaplains-not-secular-social-workers-at-schools, and note that the rules around this have been chosen so as to prevent any option other than neochristianity. 

The sooner he calls an early election and gets voted out, the better. 

None of this pressure, worry and stress is helping anyone in Australia (other than the rich), and it is bad enough witnessing things like road rage during the morning commute to work (that also is due to the unacknowledged pressures of living in urban areas, along with the desperation created by materialism) - all of which is validly part of the stuff to work on during meditation.

And now, to finish on a more positive note, this is a great initiative (which I may already have posted): http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/data/spi.

'See' you tonight :)

[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 - currently not up to date) 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: governance, materialism, meditation, society, urban living, 

First published: Sunnudagr, 18^th May, 2014

Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Sunday, 18^th May, 2014

 

Post No. 255 - Cities, Ley Lines and Trees

I recently read the transcript of an ABC programme about pagans; in that, someone (I think the President) of the Pagan Awareness Network was talking about why they had chosen the location that they hold their public full moon rituals, and a key part of that related to the flow of energy that goes with movements of people - in other words, being close to several major transport routes (public and private) was, more or less, a modern equivalent of the old idea of ley lines.

Interesting - sad, in some ways, as it means we have moved so far away from the natural world that we are a part of that we become more significant than our native world. Nevertheless, change is the only constant in the Universe, so there comes a time when it may be better to "go with the flow".

For me personally, I would rather be somewhere peaceful, and full of natural energies - as I am while doing the first draft of this post, at a house in regional Victoria. Others, however, prefer more "excitement" (I could put my tongue in my cheek and use the word "frenetic", but I'll save that for when I grumble about how the pace of life is generally faster than it was "in my day") - particular if they are young adults, at the stage where they are exploring interactions with other adults.

In fact, I like to build structures that complement and work with natural energies wherever I live - such as labyrinths. Or I work with crystals ...

However, for central business districts, which these days tend to be the hubs at the centre of a wheel of spokes made of roads, railways and development (Melbourne even now plans for "green wedges", as they've decided to give up fighting developers - who appear to have been responsible for losing the green belts Melbourne was supposed to have a century or so ago), natural energies are going to struggle, or be swamped or overloaded with the stress, anxiety, selfishness, freneticism, superficiality, predatoriness, and other such energies that accumulate in such places because of the way people in many parts of the world conduct business these days.

Well, what do we do about this?

Well, I know of Druids having placed a large stone in a position to help the flow of energies along a motorway in Britain which is supposed to have reduced the number of accidents there. Such henges could, perhaps, be of some benefit in cities, but I would be concerned whether they would be adequately protected, or whether they would be eroded by frequent vandalism/disrespect. I think the stone I referred to was not in an obvious or publicly accessible place, so it was protected.

I know of some buildings (skyscrapers) that have large crystals in the foyer. Potentially good, but does anyone look after those? The ones I've seen are of such a size that they would need a group of people to act as carers - and the carers would need rest from time to time as well, as during the day the vast numbers of people in the building would often be busy generating negative energy ...

Having cities on rivers can potentially help, if the cities have enough flow to carry away the negative energy, but then one has to think of what happens to the energy: where is it going to be dissipated or dissolved or in some way "made good"? What makes this worse is when the river is disrespected, and allowed to become polluted. (I found the River Torrens that Adelaide is on to be a slow, stagnant river, full of negativity and not much use for cleansing, when I was there a few years ago.)

I would like to see city councils stop trying to get as much as possible on their land (which means they get more rates) and ensure that EVERY skyscraper has a zone around it that is planted out with well maintained trees. Trees can act as light pumps, but they have other benefits that I have posted about previously as well. If every tall building had a zone of trees for a distance of between one ninth and one sixth of the height of the building around it, I think people would find the workplace cultures that developed in the building would be less gossipy, less backstabbing, less bullying, less blame-focused, and less vicious in every way. They might even become pleasant to work in ...

The emerging trend towards "green roofs" could be of some help, but those trees lack direct contact with Mother Earth (the earth they are planted in provides some indirect contact, though) and are too inadequate in extent for most of the multi-storey buildings I've experienced. Having parkland nearby can be good, provided it has lots of trees, or flowing rivers or a large, clean lake.

By the way, I have worked in a fifty storey building (and have spent a couple of decades working in a ten storey building), so there is some practical experience in this assessment.

This also applies to multi-storey residential buildings. Although they tend to have gardens around them, they don't have as many trees, in my experience as they need (and there are many other things wrong with such developments, but others have researched and written about those aspects ... ).

Ideally we would all become so aware that no-one would have the temerity or crassness to try and build such monstrosities. Sadly, that is a long way off, and it behoves those of us who do have such awareness to consider what we can do to make this world a better place, and concentrated human misery in cities across the world is one such task for us to work on. It is hard to fight the entrenched and domineering interests of the commercial and financial sectors, especially as it is run by people who are too often (but not all) lacking in spiritual or psychic awareness, but large scale public movements have been successful in the past, and maybe that is exactly what is needed now.

I've written to councils about various issues including planting more trees. Maybe we all need to write to councils about trees, clean rivers and space for fresh air and light between the proposed skyscrapers ....

Good luck if you choose to do so: going by experience, you will need it - but I or others working to make this a better place will be there, standing metaphorically (or astrally, in some cases!) behind your shoulder :)

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear")

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Tags: trees, energy work, negative energy, cities, urban living, ley lines, energy flows,

First published: Tysdagr, 26th April, 2011

Last edited: Tuesday, 26th April, 2011