Post No. 1,930 - Magickal Battle of the World - Weekly Meditation - Week No. 56 - Lessons from war

Black Lives Matter!

Stay safe - wash your hands, practice social distancing and wear a face mask in public, and follow informed medical advice - and be considerate towards those at risk or in situations of vulnerability (including economic) while the COVID-19 pandemic is a problem.

I have been writing about improving the world through a range of means on my blogs: this blog has been focused on spiritual and psychic means, including strengthening  BPM  units and clearing nonBPM units, and meditation to generate BPM energy (and units, if you know enough).

This has been done before - particularly during times of crisis.

The climate crisis has been our World War III for some time (with the denialists being, at the very least, the WW3 equivalents of Quisling, Vichy France, etc), and we now have the COVID-19  pandemic, caused by the zoonotic  SARS-CoV-2  novel coronavirus (there are other novel coronaviruses), on top of that.

World War II was probably the biggest global crisis before our current dual crises, and during those terrible events, there were a number of people undertaking magickal work, including  the work by Dion Fortune (there were others) outlined in the Gareth Knight edited book “The Magical Battle of Britain” (my copy pub. Skylight Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-908011-45-9), which I reviewed here. Ms Fortune directed her team through a series of 136 weekly and (I think) 19 monthly meditations (I originally intended to publish a list at some stage, but it’s so long and comprehensive that I’m concerned about breaching copyright, so I may either see if I can find an online list, or publish something listing the broad themes only). At the end of this, she was exhausted, and that work is considered to have contributed to her death, but a change for the better had been accomplished.

We already have a lot of people doing a lot of work on making the world a better place (including before the current crises - and I’ve found this group working at following [and adapting] Ms Fortune’s techniques and purposes), but I would like to extend my contribution to also include a series of weekly - or near weekly - meditations along the line of those directed by Ms Fortune, work which goes beyond my initial response.

I am proposing this be added to the Sunday meditations which are part of my regular psychic work, but there will now also be exercises (“homework”). For convenience, an outline of the meditation is provided at the end of this post.

The notes on each week’s meditation will probably be brief to the point of being terse.

This Week: No. 56 - Lessons from war

One of the many thought provoking arguments of Paul K Chappell, is that peace activists should reclaim the language of the military.

This has been done in other situations - and, to some extent, in the world of peace activism. For example, reclaiming the word “queer”, police reclaiming the word “pig” (they turned it into an acronym for pride, integrity, guts - effective, but failed to address the fundamental reasons why it was being used against them, in the first place), and even Gandhi’s actions were actually quite strong and forceful at times. I understand Gandhi is supposed to have made comments to the effect that although he advocated non-violence, he has never advocated “passive” anything - and emphasised the need for courage, particularly physical courage, in various campaigns.

So let’s consider the notion of possibly using aspects of the military:

Associations

• Disadvantage:
  The military has very strong negative associations from the type of people and thinking they have had (war  crimes, misogyny, racism, LGBTIQ-phobia, etc).
  One of the biggest problems is arrogance - the views that anything goes to achieve the end, and that they matter more than the society they are supposed to defend (which is particularly problematic when they try to impose their backward views on society).
  The biggest negative association, of course, is that the military’s function so often includes the taking of life.
• Advantage:
  Start to change the associations with language, and to challenge and possibly break down the negative aspects of the military mindset.

The main issue here is, in specific situations, the relative strengths of the connections and associations.

If you wish to draw on a military technique - say, concentration of force, your BPM will (intention), strength, and associations MUST be stronger than the nonBPM baggage of the technique in that situation, or your work will be tainted and possibly overwhelmed by the nonBPM energies drawn in by those associations.

And, contrary to what many in the military think, the means DO shape the end.

Final point: there are actually many genuine people in the military (I have several friends and acquaintances who are ex-military), including those who ensure lessons are learned and who are attempting to address abuses like bullying, misogyny, LGBT-phobia, etc.

On the other hand, if you are stronger, and successfully use a particular technique for good, you will start to make it harder for others to use that technique in a nonBPM manner by weakening their nonBPM associations.

It should also be noted that there is a need for justice for wrong doing. Ostracism is not justice.

 

Authoritarianism

• Disadvantage:
  The military is based on authoritarianism - which features obeying lawful orders. This is so officers can order soldiers (and lesser ranked officers) to go into situations where they are at risk of injury, permanent disability, or death (e.g., in World War Two, to determine if there was a sniper around, a soldier would be sent out to see if they got shot … and then there was “going over the top” and the insanity of the US Civil War).
  What is less well recognised is that soldiers are also increasingly trained on the issue of lawfulness of orders and when to disobey an unlawful order - e.g., there were Australian pilots who refused to attack a target next to a school in the second Gulf War, just as there were US soldiers who refused to go on missions with Australians who the Americans considered doing - or verging on - unacceptable conduct.
  And it was a US helicopter pilot who stopped the My Lai massacre when he got there.
• Advantage:
  Aids in facilitating quick actions / reactions where that might be necessary, but those involved have not been adequately trained - see here.

The problems with the “do as I order” approach include the damage done to those being compelled to be puppets (especially during training - which, in my opinion, contributes to the problems when soldiers return to civilian life), and potentially not gaining the value of the skills and knowledge of those being ordered around.

On the other hand, quite a few people I’ve met say they enjoyed being told what to do or think in the military - possibly mental laziness or struggles with the complexity of life, but also because they enjoyed being part of something bigger.

Thus, the military is set up in such a way as to attract people who have, or are inclined towards, the military mindset.

That is off-putting to many others.

 

Organisation (including strategy, tactics, and logistics)

• Disadvantage:
  Authoritarian aspects too easily lend themselves to bullying, misogyny, etc.
  Can be rigid and inflexible.
• Advantage:
  Potentially good for training, support.
  Where lessons have been learned, makes passing those lessons around quicker (which is not always better: there are issues around how people best learn to also consider).
  Aids in facilitating quick actions / reactions where that might be necessary, but those involved have not been adequately trained - see here.

As a first point, it is not only the military who know how to organise. What tends to happen, however, is that those who have a Newtonian mindset tend to appreciate the Newtonian-like versions of military organisation, and thus wrongly assume it is better on the flawed basis that they like it . . .

 

Training

The military operates in a physical arena and involve major risks of physical injury or death, whereas this work is in non-physical realms, so there is a limit to how can be directly learned. However, the principle of training for something is widely accepted and used - for instance, driving a car, flying a plane, being a teacher, being an emergency services doctor, or - informally - walking.

We, as a society, tend to fail on things like relationships, and in the alternative / psychic / spiritual world, lack of familiarity with training and the problem of ego-driven personalities may make training shoddy, ineffective, or even harmful.

 

Injuries (including PTSD)

The injuries the military deal with include physical, emotional and mental. There are also spiritual injuries, but the military is not so good at dealing with those.

The key here is:

the military know injuries can happen, and plan for healing those who are injured, and do whatever preparation they can to minimise the risk of injury.

I consider all people doing serious psychic work should do the same.

 

Preparation for and conduct of specific actions

• Disadvantage:
  Is based in the physical world of conflict, so often not directly relatable to the world of psychic and spiritual contention.
• Advantage:
  To be explored.

This is where I consider we might be able to get some benefit from military approaches - for example, “scouting” before starting a campaign to change something in the world, concentrating forces when trying to heal someone (also described as “getting ones friend and allies to help”, or selecting the best person to make decisions and ensuring they have the training, active (or “live”) information, and communication networks to be able to do so BEFORE a stressful or challenging situation.

 

There are a lot of other arguments for and against this, and aspects to be cautious of. You should commence thinking about these yourself, and keep an active record of them.

The sigil for this week’s work is a repeat of that for insight.

 

Exercise K - The complete set of basic exercises

Establish and check  protection, and then do your initial self-assessment.

Do your combined basic energy work drill, which is, as a broad summary:

• Exercise A - self care (Week No. 46);
• Exercise B - links (self work) (Week No. 47);
• Exercise C - links (partnered - whether physical or nonphysical) (Week No. 48);
• Exercise D - objects (self work) (Week No. 49);
• Exercise E - objects (partnered - whether physical or nonphysical) (Week No. 50);
• Exercise F - energies (self work) (Week No. 51);
• Exercise G - energies (partnered - whether physical or nonphysical) (Week No. 52);
• Exercise H - rescuing cooperatives (self work) (Week No. 53);
• Exercise I - rescuing cooperatives (partnered - whether physical or nonphysical) (Week No. 54);
• Exercise J - rescuing uncooperatives (partnered - whether physical or nonphysical) (Week No. 55).

In addition to the skills directly practised, the partnered exercises have practised your ability to work constructively with others. Both sets of skills will now be developed (and pay particular attention to the skills in the lessons on proficiency, countering adaptations, and evolution [which included the “this course as a blog” links] ), but with a focus towards working in larger groups, with a focus on changing the world. These will be based on the Rangers of the Inner Plane, which is no longer physically active (other than me), but is still working on the nonphysical.

Do your final self-assessment and restorative work, re-check yourself (get help if you need it), and then close your chakras, centre yourself and close your aura, use the banishing version of the LBRP to close circle, ground and release all excess energy; and make sure you are grounded and closed down - implement your Psychic Emergency Action Plan if necessary.

Previous meditations in this sequence are:

1.       Introduction, definition of the problem(s), and Realisation;

2.        Determination;

3.       Together;

4.       Caution, respect and integrity (aka cunning);

5.       Momentum;

6.       Insight;

7.       Preciseness;

8.       Progress;

9.       Learning;

10.   Purposefulness;

11.   Conciseness;

12.   Measurement;

13.   Faith;

14.   Proficiency;

15.   Alliances;

16.   Countering adaptations;

17.   Motivations of the nonBPM;

18.   The humanness of the flaws that underlay opposition;

19.   Undetectability;

20.   Evolution;

21.   Perspective;

22.   Wisdom;

23.   Tradition;

24.   The outmoded;

25.   Persistence;

26.   Discernment;

27.   Paleo-emotions;

28.   Inspiration (bringing out the best in individual people);

29.   Inspiration (bringing out the best in oneself);

30.   Ally;

31.   Inspiration (bringing out the best in groups);

32.   Cooperation: the counter to subservience;

33.   Humility: the counter to arrogance;

34.   Imbalance and balance;

35.   Spiritual opportunities from spiritual distancing;

36.   The spiritual needs and opportunities of the climate crisis and the environment;

37.   The spiritual challenges of entangled issues;

38.   Knowing what changes need to be made now and on a long term basis;

39.   How to find a direction for a constructive, evolutionary response;

40.   Knowing when and how to adopt a chosen direction / action;

41.   How to work with the various levels and aspects of oneself;

42.   How to work with the various levels and aspects of others;

43.   How to work in a group or movement;

44.   How to work in a group or movement at a distance;

45.   How to work in a group or movement with ethics and integrity;

46.   A central, unifying image;

47.   How to avoid group think - or a nonBPM group mind / “egregore”;

48.   The allure of power;

49.   The challenge of servant-leadership in this unevolved world;

50.   Managing up - including spiritually;

51.   The long term benefits of planting a seed;

52.   The short term need of decisive, quick, and strong action;

53.   Differentiating between short and long term needs - and finding a holistic solution;

54.   Finding a more spiritual solution;

55.   Finding a psychic solution.

 

The Meditation (see here, here, and here) broadly consists of:

 - appropriate and responsible protection (see here, here, here), prayer and ritual (e.g., here) to establish and check protection (re-do the protection, or re-schedule the meditation, if you don’t feel safe and secure);

 - establish a personal connection to your Higher BPM influences;

 - visualise the sigil (see above) for this work. Think of what this work means for you as you do so, then, when you feel you have fully tuned in to the meaning of the sigil, see it as a portal or doorway (you could open it like a door [close it behind you], simply pass through it, visualise yourself shrinking and passing through the centre, or whatever else works best for you), and travel through to to a place created by the visualisation of yourself and others for this work. That place should have:
     (a) a visualisation of the workplace you personally prefer - something you can change, if you wish, as you yourself change;   and
     (b) a shared visualisation of a device to astrally share our knowledge, something developed in a previous project (still active astrally): a visualisation of a large, green, multifaceted emerald. Large: around half the size of the Moon; multifaceted - billions, for all people who wish to be part of this at any time; green - largely tied up with the previous project, but has connotations of nature and growth. One of those facets is yours - choose whatever location and shape you wish (and you may change that as you change [grow] over time), but in the interest of humility and sharing, see it at around human - or human aura - size;

 - flush one’s aura with green (R0, G102, B0), blue (R0, G0, B204) and purple (R153 G0, B204);

 - fill one’s Heart Chakra (and maybe one’s Earth Star, Solar Plexus, Third Eye and Crown Chakras) with green, blue and purple; send a weave of three streams of this colour from the Chakra(s) to the visualised gigantic, multi-faceted emerald through your facet until you see your energy enlivening other areas of the emerald and can feel similar energies flowing back to you;

 - visualise the rune / bindrune (if given - or, on Sunday, the group of symbols provided);

 - generate  feelings of love, peace, joy and respect;

 - strengthen those feelings (energies);

 - radiate those energies to the world for nine to eighteen minutes;

 - then, on Sunday, also perform the additional meditation work for around 15 minutes or so: contemplate the topic, and the spiritual (i.e., nonphysical) implications of it, and seek insights and understanding. Do not be distracted by thoughts of physical actions - those are necessary also, but this exercise is about the nonphysical, in the broadest possible sense, and the focus should be on nonphysical actions, energy flows, symbols, and the like, all with the intention of bringing about a change for the better. As a second stage, if you wish, you can meditate on any physical actions which may be necessary, but get the spiritually focused work done first;

 - when you have finished your work:
     (i) send the thought of any knowledge you wish to store or share through your portal into the group visualised emerald;
     (ii) return back through the sigil;
     (iii) close your chakras, centre and ground yourself and close your aura, use the banishing version of the LBRP to open circle, ground and release all excess energy; and make sure you are grounded and closed down – eat, if you need to, or seek help from someone capable and trusted; and
     (iv) make sure you are yourself again - free of any lingering attachments or (misguided) ideas of being subservient, respectful of yourself and your integrity as you should be of others.

The work for the assigned exercises broadly comprises the following:

 - establish appropriate and responsible protection (see here, here, here), prayer and ritual (e.g., here) to establish and check protection (re-do or re-schedule, if you don’t feel safe and secure);

 - establish a personal connection to higher BPM influences;

 - flush one's aura with emerald green, royal blue and royal purple;

 - fill one’s Heart Chakra (and maybe one’s Earth Star, Solar Plexus, Third Eye and Crown Chakras) with emerald green, royal blue and royal purple; send a weave of three streams of this colour from the Chakra(s) to a visualisation of a gigantic, multi-faceted emerald (which has been created to facilitate networking of BPM workers) through your facet until you see your energy enlivening other areas of the emerald and can feel similar energies flowing back to you;

 - visualise this week’s sigil;

 - generate  feelings of love, peace, joy and respect, strengthen those feelings (energies), and radiate those energies to the world (ideally for nine to eighteen minutes, but do what you can), focusing on the planetary region(s) and attributes for that day as specified in this week’s Psychic Weather Report (as, if none, as you consider necessary or best);

 - perform the meditation or other work and exercise(s) as set out in this post;

 - close your chakras, centre yourself and close your aura, use the banishing version of the LBRP to close circle, ground and release all excess energy; and make sure you are grounded and closed down – eat, if you need to, implement your Psychic Emergency Action Plan if necessary (e.g., seek help from someone capable and trusted). As a final point, note that your BPM family of choice (i.e., friends - especially those outside this area of your life) and BPM family will help keep your life grounded - but they must be BPM: as the Wiccan  Rede says “With a fool no season spend, nor be counted as their friend” . Similarly, you should focus on all that you love in life outside this work at the end of a session - and, if you have nothing else, you must broaden your life for the sake of being balanced and thus capable (and seek expert help, if necessary); and
 - make sure you are yourself again - free of any lingering attachments or (misguided) ideas of being subservient, respectful of yourself and your integrity as you should be of others.

 

WLNGRHDMT

Black Lives Matter!

 

Post No. 1,929 - Interesting reading, and on Uganda, Burma, and from the news

On psychic, spiritual and related matters, including interesting reading:

• the USA's Pentagon has not tried to attribute the UFO/UAP sightings it has admitted it cannot identify to anything (so yes to UFOs/UAPs, but no comment that they are extraterrestrial in origin). Unfortunately, as predicted, they are trying to turn it into a false flag event; 
• finally a review of Bruce Cathie's calculations that I understand - and a conclusion that Cathie's approach is not reasonable (mind you, I found the rest of that website a little too strange for my tastes, but the maths and analysis in the review was sound);
  
• more interesting thoughts from one of my favourite authors: "Finding Spiritual Support in an Era of Solitary Practitioners"; 
• I've found the Covenant of the Goddess site is still active, and appears to be more progressive than I remember (although they still seem to be US-focused/US-centric). I did find an updated version of Ma'at's 42 laws (described as ideals) here.

 

(Mægan) 

 

On Uganda this week:

• Museveni is continuing his stay in, and abuse of, power; 
• a police officer has shot and killed a 13 year old girl; 
• hospitals in Uganda accused of profiteering; 
• the OTT Internet tax will end; 
• business rent and tax problems in Uganda - and a call for direct cash transfers; 
• Uganda's opposition wants an urgent recall of Parliament to address lockdown issues; 
• Uganda will compel all vehicle owners to pay to have electronic tracking devices fitted; 
• the Constitutional Court has ordered that civilians be tried in civil courts, NOT military court-martials; 
• Museveni's mob are arguing against aid to those in need ... .

On Burma this week:

• the protests and killing continue, 
• "the brutal military junta in Myanmar is targeting independent journalists and lawyers in attempts to crush the opposition to its rule"; 
• an analysis of the growing risks from violent opposition to the coup; 
• the victims of sexual violence in Burma; 
• the Burmese military which violently seized and holds power in Burma has objected to being described as a junta and threatened legal action against those who do so; 
• an opinion that Burma is "trapped in a vicious cycle of violence".

 

From the news this week:

• on the climate crisis and the environment:
  we are still behind on electric vehicles;   call for "debt-for-climate swaps";   hundreds of millions of people are at risk NOW from rising seal levels;   a heatwave in western Canada and the USA's Pacific northwest has killed  hundreds of people - and a town hit by the heatwave has now been engulfed by fire;   complacency (or stupidity) on spending to address climate risk;   "European Union countries have given the final seal of approval to a law to make the bloc’s greenhouse gas emissions targets legally binding";   urban farming in Argentina;   "via an unprecedented wave of lawsuits, America’s petroleum giants face a reckoning for the devastation caused by fossil fuels" - see also this;   UK police have raided places used by XR - and possibly one that isn't - to limit imminent protests against the climate crisis;   "taking action on climate change will ultimately boost economic growth, particularly as new technologies come into play that open up new job possibilities. The data currently available suggests that countries need not sacrifice sustainability for economic security or vice versa";   plans for limiting emissions by carbon storage are running in to the problem of not enough carbon storage;  
  
  
  (responsibility)
  
  
  
• on international relations including war:
  the danger and risks of autonomous weapons (which helped Azerbaijan win last year's war in Nagorno-Karabakh);   a dissident's experience suggests that a diplomat's view of China is wrong;   on probably the most appalling and shameful event in Australia's recent history: "how Australia cheated East Timor of its oil";   what would happen to us (Australia) if the USA and China had "a conflict" (war?) over Taiwan (and what would happen to the global chip supply???!!!! Actually, on that, see this assessment - US steps may make that less of an issue, at the expense of Taiwan's security ... );   "China’s domestic security measures and its foreign policy actions have incensed a global array of [religious extremist] elements";   following recent Russian naval aggression, NATO and Ukraine are conducting a naval exercise;   an assessment of what Pakistan could do to promote peace in Afghanistan when the Taliban take over;   rebels in Tigray are continuing to fight - and claim to have made gains;   the history and basis of the "rules-based order";   an examination of drone warfare in West Asia;   continuing "anger against an authority many Palestinians feel is out of touch";   "Ethiopia denies trying to ‘suffocate’ Tigray region";   "the United Nations Security Council will likely meet next week to discuss a dispute between Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt over a giant dam built by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile";   "Israel launches air strikes on Gaza after incendiary balloons spark small fires";   China has taken action to suppress Thailand's sovereignty in the Mekong basin;  
  
  
  (BPM group leadership) 
   
  
   
• on the COVID-19 pandemic:
  recurring lockdowns show the need for vaccination;   politics and "the frankly rabid bias of the Murdoch tabloids";   collective trauma;   the Royal Flying Doctor Service is delivering vaccines to remote areas;   rising house prices are a threat to economic recovery after the pandemic;   a report on the impact of the pandemic on Indigenous and minority peoples;    yet more information on how early lockdowns are better (economically) than the higher death toll alternative;   Israel is showing the benefits of high vaccination rates (amongst Israelis, at any rate);   "small businesses take on insurance giants ... in COVID pandemic class action";  
  
  
  (Berkana - healing & compassion)
  
  
  
• on genocides and other human rights issues:
  the continuing crisis facing Rohingya refugees;   more on the national neolib nitwits cracking down on dissent / free speech / activism by charities;   an "orgy of killing" is likely when the Taliban conquer Afghanistan;   Sudan signals ex-dictator to face International Criminal Court;   "the Bangladesh government has failed to address widespread allegations of torture and ill-treatment by its security forces";   unrepentant slave keepers in Australia;   the underemployed;   an unprecedented rate of executions in Egypt;   pro-democracy protests are sweeping eSwatini - but claims police have killed pro-democracy protestors;   a controversial former South African president being tried for alleged corruption has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court;   a UN call for global action against systemic police racism;   there is an urgent need to repeal a "draconian" anti-terrorism law in Sri Lanka;   another independent media voice in Hong Kong has been silenced by the CCP;   Nigeria is considering extending its ban on one social media platform to all news media;   an exposé of the CCP's lies;   a killing and multiple revenge killings associated with divisions in Haiti's police;   a permanent gun amnesty;   "New South Wales police officers are testing out the federal government’s controversial facial recognition system to access passport photos as part of criminal investigations, despite legislation governing its use not yet passing parliament";   "rampant impunity" in Mali;   "Genocide Watch considers Poland to be at Stage 3: Discrimination, Stage 4: Dehumanisation, and Stage 6: Polarisation for its policies restricting the rights of women and LGBT+ persons. Poland is also at Stage 10: Denial concerning Polish cooperation in the Holocaust";   India's police have been acting as stooges of the CCP by arresting pro-Tibet protestors;   Uganda will compel all vehicle owners to pay to have electronic tracking devices fitted;   changes to defamation law;   US announces third gender category in passports;   Philippines' government will form new militias;   a Turkish national has been abducted and deported from Kenya - contrary to a court order;   security flaws in the EU's new rush-developed digital vaccination certificate;   child traffickers in the Côte d'Ivoire's cocoa sector have been jailed;   "UN expert calls on Morocco to stop targeting activists over Western Sahara";   human rights organizations have called for accountability in Afghan civilian deaths;   a notorious former US defence secretary has died before facing justice for his role in war crimes and torture;   Cuba is continuing to silence critical voices;   we need corporate responsibility laws;   continuing gender-based violence in Senegal;   an Iranian-German national is still wrongly detained in Iran;   French prosecutors have opened an investigation into four companies operating in Xinjiang for possibly concealing crimes against humanity;   "fear mounts for the stateless Vietnamese fishing community in Cambodia as COVID-19 rages on both sides of the border";   "US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in the Trafficking in Persons report that inequities undercut [the USA's] battle against human trafficking";   repression has made "Russian politics to be little more than a charade in which carefully curated “selectorates,” which owe their positions to fealty rather than legitimacy, govern for themselves instead of their citizens";
  
  
  
  
  
• on democracy:
  the problem of militarism in civilian governance;   more protests against the Palestinian Authority - and a resignation - after a critic of the PA "died" in custody;   the Auditor-General has criticised another programme that appears to be a rort;   concerns about repression ahead of elections in Zambia;   Bitcoin WILL be taxed;   Sudan has arrested supporters of the former despotic dictator on suspicion of planning violence;   talks in Europe on a way towards elections in Libya;   a fact check has supported the ALP leader's claim of flat lining wages;   an element of realism has crept into Australia's long term economic forecasting;   concerns about the likely reduced effectiveness of anti-corruption in Indonesia;   a suggestion for a revised basis for viewing skills in migration assessments;   "Colombia needs to reduce its extreme inequality if it is to overcome vulnerability to unrest. In the short term, the government should embark on comprehensive police reform, support efforts at national and local dialogue, and invite international observers to negotiations as a trust-building measure";  
  
  
  (democracy)
  
  
  
• on LGBTIQ+ matters:
  hypocritical companies that give messages of support for Pride events but also support anti-LGBT haters;   "Transgender job quota law seen 'changing lives' in Argentina";   a controversial right wing pollie is holding an enquiry that is as homophobic/transphobic and unbalanced as the anti-LGBTIQ+ legislation he is currently proposing;   a transphobic bigot in Qld has lost his legal appeal;   Honduras has been ordered to track and investigate anti-LGBTIQ hate crimes;  
  
  
• on racism:
  George Floyd's main murderer has been sentenced to over 20 years jail;   disturbing levels of racism against women of colour;   the Kakadu township, Jabiru, has been returned to its traditional owners;   "powerful first-hand accounts of racism" and a call for "a "bold" and "revolutionary" multicultural vision for Australia";   "another 182 unmarked graves were discovered at a third former indigenous residential school in Canada as two Catholic Churches went up in flames on Wednesday, with anger mounting over the mushrooming abuse scandal";  
  
  
• on sexism and misogyny:
  reproductive coercion;   a critique of the national neolib nitwit's latest attempt to not be sexist;   a "barrister who specialises in discrimination and harassment law is the new chair of [a sporting organisation]'s independent panel investigating allegations of abuse in the sport";   period poverty in Lebanon;   as it announced some months ago, misogynistic Turkey has now formally withdrawn from a treaty preventing violence against women;   a researcher who "has studied misogynistic abuse on social media as part of his PhD and said he has serious doubts about the tech giants' commitments";   "financial firm Bessemer Trust asks to be withdrawn from Britney Spears's conservatorship case";  
  
  
• on ableism:
  no Auslan services for deaf patients in hospitals;  
  
  
• on animal rights: 
  a monk in Chinas has rescued and re-homed 8,000 dogs;   a court case is seeking access to video from cameras potentially showing cruelty in abattoirs.
  
  
  

Post No. 1,928 - ETs, humans, and hybrids

I've started reading "Meet the Hybrids: The Lives and Missions of ET Ambassadors on Earth" by Miguel  Mendonça and Barbara Lamb (pub. 2015 through Amazon CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1518741012; foreword by Grant Cameron, which is how I found the book; blog at https://meetthehybrids.wordpress.com/), which is apparently part of a three book series known as "The Disclosure Series". 

It's quite an interesting book (I bought it after reading a free sample), and I am inclined to get the rest of the books when I can. I tend towards sceptical at times, and so I find some of the events described a stretch - even as someone who has accepted the reality of extraterrestrials for most of her life, but the book is quite balanced and well-presented (I'm also going to be looking at some of Mr. Mendonça's other books - beginning with those on wisdom and then on sustainability). 

The people interviewed for this book are also an interesting group - a wide range of people, all sharing their opinion that they are hybrids of some sort, and all dedicated to some form of service. 

I was particularly impressed by Vanessa  Lamorte, who has comments I consider quite sound on all humans having an element of hybridisation, some miscarried babies being entities "testing the vibrations of Earth", living in humanity (meaning embracing being incarnated as a human), and the awareness of choice around interactions (although I suspect others who find it difficult may be finding the body blow to their worldview so distressing everything seems painful and distressing). 

As with many of the others interviewed, there is a sentiment of ETs being here to help, but not do the work for us.

This book is well worth a read, in my opinion. 

As always, think for yourself on everything you read - including this post.

PS - see also this post of mine.

PPS - I'm now (mid-July, 2021) reading the second book.