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How about a little LOVE for today’s beautiful oil painting selection, The Arab Jeweler by Charles Sprague Pearce. I am drawn in by the detail – and transported to this jeweler’s studio space for a lesson in the alchemy of fine metal arts. The face is so focused, the hands, and feet are amazing – in color, size/scale, and in expression of action/motion; even the toes/toenails are perfection.The clothing is captivating as it has texture and pattern while it wraps and falls against/around the body. The background textures of the rug and walls + the platform floor expertly frame the scene. Am feeling the focus. Deep appreciation for the Artist creator who chose this humble scene.
(Yesterday’s selection by the same artist was also lovely).
It is good to be uplifted by the gifts of man as they find their Way into the world and BEOND.
LOVE and Gratitude Ilargi.
LOVE to All who drop in here.
RE: April 8 and beyond…
Some new concepts for the TAE tribe in this link.
Perhaps a Way to respond to all of the above chaos?Be Present
Be the Light
Be LOVEShine on Friends.
Aaron Bushnell.
Integrity. Purpose. Courage. -> Align. In the action of spontaneous combustion.
In to the LIGHT.
Dear ONE.My eyes are on you. Standing. YOU are LOVED.
Aaron Bushnell Burned Himself Alive To Make You Turn Your Eyes To Gaza
LOVE and GRATITUDE to Ilargi.
Thank you for creating a space for us to meet and share/exchange musings. This site also provides an opportunity for REFLECTION. “Without reflection there is no learning.” ~ Baba Hari Das
I value and honor your contribution Ilargi – with extra special LOVE for the daily art, the animal videos and Calvin + Hobbes.
I value and honor the contributions of ALL who post here.
May the New Year bring awareness and positive change. May PEACE find you.
LOVE,
Susanoxy and cooch: Appreciate the conversation above (as above so below).
The following is beautiful, and worth repeating. LOVE is the key to unlock the door. From oxy:
“The alternative is to empty the mind, allow awareness of Timeless/Ceaseless Cause (GOD) to occur. Fear blocks the willingness toward silence of mind and true emptiness where we become filled vessels of Love’s presence. The mechanism to reduce fear is to look at the choice of alternatives. I choose distractions and suffer. The humility helps.”
WISDOM comes/is learned through direct experience (Dr D’s point in his post above). Oxy is clearly doing “the work” which involves mindful awareness + a courageous Heart + action/engagement in the world. Distractions and suffering are his tools of choice; with awareness and humility, he uses them to dismantle/disable the egoistic state. With ever heightened awareness, practice, and repetition, he will eventually transcend the fear-based matrix – for more than a wrinkle in time.
Brilliant. BRAVO oxy.
The LOVE “matrix” is our HOME. Some of us are holding a VISION (a mustard seed within) for LIFE outside the fear-based matrix. War is over – if you want it…
The VISION is a creative/active invocation/expression that aligns us with TRUTH, the essence of who/what we are: beings of light and LOVE. Open the door!
You can develop/cultivate HOME by chopping wood or walking in the woods. Song always facilitates openings. I offer the following music + mantra for the moment. (I recently had the JOY of singing/chanting with Kavita and Dave).
LOVE and gratitude Ilargi for making it possible to meet here.
“The Trinity”, today’s artistic selection by Russian painter Andrei Rublev, is beautiful. I LOVE a good TRINITY – don’t you? Am always attracted to them (or do they find me?) while being called to uncover connections that reveal their meaning.
Clicking on the art: “The Trinity depicts the three angels who visited Abraham at the Oak of Mamre (Genesis 18:1–8), but the painting is full of symbolism and is interpreted as an icon of the Holy Trinity. At the time of Rublev, the Holy Trinity was the embodiment of spiritual unity, peace, harmony, mutual love and humility.”
Painted on a board/wood, The Trinity has a soul of its own. I appreciate the reminder that this painting brings – a connection to something greater, a divine mystery. As we know, inspiring and or cultivating spiritual unity/connection and mystery is not the point of life in the matrix of chaotic insanity.
Speaking of insanity, are you ready to check this out…
I don’t see much discussion of Ana Maria Mihalcea’s work on TAE. She’s gone way beyond clots – looking at the blood of vax and no-vax folks (animals too) and finding alarming results. A recent article (one of many) is linked below. The title/headline is also the conclusion: “All of Life is Infected with Nanotechnology and Synthetic Biology”.
If true, it’s bad, very bad. The sheer magnitude of the situation – across every front, micro/macro, nothing spared – is hard to grasp. The more you know (the bigger the picture) the simpler it gets (perspective matters) – as keenly reflected in today’s Calvin strip.
Once you begin to grasp it, you come to one conclusion: this is a Life/Death battle (across every front, not just bots in blood). We are in a kind of “end times” (also recall John Day’s charts from yesterday highlighting multiple endings of key cycles) – and close to THE moment of TRUTH.
Since the scale is grand – it’s not too far out to accept that accumulated evil must be recognized and dealt with now or we will be eliminated on its/their terms.
How we got here/who did it, and all of that – falls away because it doesn’t matter in relationship to what’s coming and how we respond. We can transform/transcend the evil planted here. Now that we “see” it, in/with focus – and begin to UNDERSTAND emerging/potential implications.
You are standing on a battlefield. Find TRUTH and stand up for it. In all realms you inhabit.
Forever in creative Partner-ship with The ONE who left us here – ALL are called to redesign your/our DESTINY.
As we “rewire” ourselves, we rewrite their plans for our destruction, one TRUTH at a time.
LOVE to ALL.
@ John Day: Appreciate you for sharing detail from the RFK Jr. tribute – where the highlight of his speech was the wise counsel his mother had offered him when his brother Michael died.
There is a valuable key here. The “practice” is facing loss (life) with LOVE. When applied in daily living, it brings new life to life. Beautiful!
“…the way we do that is by incorporating the best virtues of those people that we lost into our own character, and in making that effort, we build ourselves—we build our character, and we give those people a kind of immortality, because we’re thinking every day about how to improve ourselves by incorporating the lessons of their lives and the virtues they displayed when they were with us, and at the same time, we grow ourselves into bigger people. ”
This “practice” may seem insignificant to some given the scope and demands of recent issues and events. Yet it can be applied to so many circumstances. What happens when we Heart-fully accept/acknowledge loss, take responsibility for our actions/role, and extract lessons/learning from the experience? We grow ourselves into bigger people one choice/one experience at a time.
May the Light of clarity/LOVE/potentiality shine on you.
LOVE to Ilargi.
LOVE to All who visit TAE.
@ Dr D: RE: A book recommendation for exploring the SCIENCE of Yoga.
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali would be a good starting point.
A must-have version is “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, translated/with commentary by Sri Swami Satchidananda.
Also – “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Books 1-4 by Baba Hari Dass (my Teacher).
The Yoga Sutras are a ROADMAP – they provide direct instruction (not just words or philosophy) on the essential practices for understanding the mind. Without practice, nothing can be known/achieved.
“Within the space of these 200 short Sutras the entire science of Yoga is delineated: its aim, the necessary practices, the obstacles you may meet along the path, their removal, and precise description of the results that will be obtained from such practices” ~Swami Satchidananda.
Happy that you also asked.
LOVE to Seekers.
@ Michael Reid: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali would be a good starting point.
I have found that it helps to reference/work with several translations simultaneously. The Sutras were recorded by Patanjali in Sanskrit and need to be translated into English; each author has slight variation in interpretation.
A must-have version is the one translated/with commentary by Sri Swami Satchidananda.
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali – Book 1 by Baba Hari Dass (my Teacher). Translation and commentary.
The Science of Yoga: The Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali in Sanskrit with Transliteration in Roman, Translation and Commentary in English by I.K. Taimni.
Any commentary by Eknath Easwaran is enlightening (including his stunning commentary on the Bhagavad Gita).
Happy that you asked.
Appreciating the on-going conversation. Your contributions are genuine and insightful. Am grateful to Ilargi for giving this conversation focused space and time (in the fertile gardens of TAE).
In my world: there is a single > force/LIGHT/energy/ Source/Self/Sound (OM)/LOVE/GOD > that is LIFE giving/sustaining/destroying > to/for/in > ALL. Nothing is separate or outside. ALL are ONE.
I am aware of this through direct experience. The “main event” happened when I was a young girl in the 8th grade – during English class. It started as a single epiphany, and over the years has blossomed into many awakenings.
My life has been dedicated to exploring/discovering/interpreting/understanding what happened. The young girl Susan did not understand that this was a death experience (death of ego/self), with the added gift of a deep inner vision/wisdom about the reality of ALL creation (showing answers to questions I had not yet asked). Or that this vision/wisdom came from within.
@Dr D: “we have the delusion or illusion of separation, which is why the system was built like this and what you were incarnated for. It’s SUPPOSED to have the separation. That’s its PURPOSE.” Yes. The mind/body complex has limitations. It is an insider’s invitation to question its grip, and to go beyond. Most are hung up in the duality. This is life.
@zerosum: GOD is. No beginning and no end.I have found that the SCIENCE of Yoga (yes, it is a science: the concepts are available to directly prove/experience for yourSELF) accurately explains the gifts I have been given and my successes and or failures in the act of daily living.
LOVE to SEEKERS.
Vincent van Gogh Gypsy Camp near Arles 1888: The beautiful color palette pulls me in, sits me down, and fills me with joy. Oh that blue-green sky! Fuzzy and focused figures, a warm color immersion with crisp cool color detailing. I love the layers of color within color and the textures they generate. Upon closer inspection I see a family gathering – countryside, in a meadow in the shade. What is that white line? It would be nice to be there.
Then I read the title.
Gypsys! Even more exciting. As a young girl in Ohio it was my fantasy to be a gypsy. My grandma used to speak about them…and what she described sounded like me.
Life is Teacher, so they say – and so I have learned. I can take this gem of a van Gogh and ask what’s the message in this for me today? Let’s see what comes through.
LOVE to the Gypsy in you and me.
Long but thoughtful post:
“To this end, the counterrevolution’s guiding purpose must be to reanimate the instinct for self-government and to mobilize an organic movement of citizens who will reassert their influence in the institutions that matter: the school, the municipality, the workplace, the statehouse, the Congress. The antidemocratic structures—the DEI departments and the intrusive bureaucracies—must be dismantled. The rule of experts must be replaced by the rule of the people; the threat of violence must be met with the power of justice.”
“The question that troubled Nixon during his presidency was the basic one of politics: Who rules? He saw that the deepest conflict in the United States was not along lines of class, race, or identity but between the bureaucracy and the people. And the Revolution of 1968, which sought to connect ideology to institutional power and to shape human society through elite guidance, was ultimately antidemocratic. Nixon understood that bureaucratic rule meant the end of our constitutional order.”
How do real people reanimate/reclaim the instinct for something better – and then channel it into tangible/practical actions in daily life?
Recent musical moments are igniting the Hearts/Souls (intuitive nature) of real people. The on the ground response to “Try That In A Small Town” and “Rich Men North of Richmond” show me that the people are longing for a voice. Bob Marley getting ya off your arse is another good sign.
What would this site be without the art? Love or hate the daily selection, it has the potential to stir something within. If it makes you ask yourself “what and why am I reacting/responding to?” – and you learn something about your SELF, that is a victory. We find ourselves on the path to revolution.
@Phoenix: May LOVE be with you and your family as you reclaim your power. LOVE will prevail.
@Run for the Hills: happy to hear from you. What a lucky bugger you are to have oxy as a friend that you can put your arms around. Please bearhug him for me. Then on to the wine.
@John Day: you are a bright LIGHT in the world. Keep shining! The Enneagram is an interesting tool. I studied in-person with Donson (Dobson)/Hurley whose work gave me deep insight into the 3 centers of human “intelligence” (wisdom). Understanding that all 9 types roll into 3 centers referred to as – Head, Hands, and Heart (Thinking, Doing, Intuiting (feeling)) was a key lesson. Note we have a dominant center that functions in tandem with a secondary – and there is a third center completely underutilized. It takes equal synergy of all 3 centers to create BALANCE. There is more…@Dr D: Appreciate YOU. LOVE you.
LOVE to Ilargi and to All who visit here.
Great conversation on the late end of last night’s thread. Who knows?
The redirect problem continues.
Even a bit worse as you have to really “work it” to get access to any link including having the replies/comments to show up. Only happening at/on TAE site. Is this post #19?
Have cleared my browser history. After every attempt.
The World of Warships keep coming up.
Am now being redirected at the very first click from homepage on today’s Debt Rattle. New: pop up redirect is now happening from this Reply To: box.
Just tried my iPhone – and the redirect happened there as well.
I am having the same issue as Dora.
It started yesterday. It happens when I click on any link posted on the TAE site. Am redirected to a video game site. On a second try, am redirected to the link posted.
@Red @Dr D – and Friends
Appreciate the link to Edward J Curtin, Jr. and his post “Trinity’s Shadow”. Beautifully written and linked to other unexplored treasures.
I found this quote and thought it would give Dr D answers to his frequently asked question “WHY”+ laments (Dr D even “sounds like” Pinter).
The English dramatist Harold Pinter, in his Nobel Address, put it bluntly:
“It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.”
Key thoughts from Curtin:
“But back to Bird, who, in writing a piece about Oppenheimer’s “tragedy” and defending science, has also subtly defended a trinity of other matters: the government “science” on Covid, the transformative power coming from AI, and the U.S. propaganda about Russia and nuclear weapons…
…I sit here now at the end of the day. Shadows are falling and I contemplate such trinities. I am stunned by the fact that we exist, but under a terrifying Shadow that many wish to ignore. Jung saw this shadow side as not just personal but social, and when it is ignored, the collective evils of modern societies can autonomously erupt…
…Bird argues that nuclear weapons are the result of a scientific quest that is unstoppable. He writes that Oppenheimer “understood that you cannot stop curious human beings from discovering the physical world around them [and then making nuclear bombs or designer babies]….
…This is the ideology of progress that brooks no opposition since it is declared inevitable. It is a philosophy that believes there should be no limits to human knowledge, which would include the knowledge of good and evil, but which can then be ignored since it and all thought and beliefs are considered a priori to be relative. The modern premise that everything is relative is of course a contradiction since it is an absolute statement. Many share this philosophy of despair disguised as progress as it has crept into everything today. It is tragic, for if people accept it, we are doomed to follow a Faustian pact with the devil and all hell will follow.”
The ideology of progress and the philosophy of despair disguised as progress…
I look inside of myself – where am I stuck, and what can I do about it? What kind of opposition am I mounting in my daily living of life?
I exist. I am here to experience the world. Am I making the most of it? I am accountable in the asking as well as in the answering.
Am I translating my REALITY – my EXPERIENCES and OBSERVATIONS – into tangible and actionable UNDERSTANDING? This process is the fountainhead of VALUES.
What do I value? Am I protecting what is valued, PRECIOUS, and SACRED?
Contemplating and embracing my role by living on PURPOSE. Grateful for the opportunity to BE here and share the LOVE. I am inspired to carry on.
LOVE to SEEKERS.
I have always LOVED this album cover.
Thoughts on the Warhol series displayed over the last week (and over time here at TAE).
The works “perform” better when viewed as a series or group of works benefiting from the same stylistic “treatment”.
When I factor in that Warhol was an avid photographer, and view him as a photographer first – it enhances my appreciation. He truly scored some great shots of the very famous, not easy to do.
Inspired by the times because he was the times – at the time, Warhol was a driver of POP! By crafting/exploring new dimensions in Pop Art application, he successfully commercialized the famous people (and himself) in a whole new way.
Remember that digital art was just coming on-line and not a factor in these creations. That makes these pieces more intriguing. Love it or hate it – these works are a product and moment of the times.
Album cover art was a big thing back then, so it makes sense that artists were creating exciting new works for the music media/platform. Personally I had an affair with numerous album covers over past years (Sgt. Pepper’s comes to mind); it would be hard to pick a favorite album cover of all time.
Hey Ilargi – how about some album cover art?
Side note: Warhol may not have always used his own photos.
LOVE to CREATIVES.
Here’s another excellent overlay for viewing our PRESENT circumstances.
Beyond Thaumatophobia 3: The End of the Age of Reason – post by John Michael Greer
“You know that an age of reason is coming to an end when magic escapes from these marginal environments and begins to find a home in pop culture. That inevitably faces savage push-back from the managerial caste and their hangers-on, and understandably so; the rise of magic is an exact measure of the failure of reason, since people turn to magic when the officially approved options of their society don’t work. Since no managerial caste anywhere seems to understand that their push-back just makes rejected ideas more popular, that guarantees the spread of magic through the crawlspaces of society.
The revival of religious institutions comes a little later in the process. What drives that revival is the terminal collapse of the claims of rationalism to provide meaning and value to human life, and that collapse is driven in turn by the failure of the managerial caste to follow through on its grand promises. In the wake of that failure, people left adrift by the collapse of the rationalist promise look for other sources of meaning and value, and a great many of them find it in the old religious institutions of their society. Oswald Spengler, who studied this process carefully in half a dozen civilizations, referred to it as the Second Religiosity.
You can deal with that by practicing a traditional religion—and the operative word here is “practicing,” not merely believing; the rites, sacraments, and everyday practices of traditional faiths have as one of their benefits the attunement of the individual to positive spiritual currents, which drive off the noxious influences just mentioned. You can also deal with it by practicing some form of traditional occultism. Ethics won’t do the job by themselves but they’re a necessary ingredient in either path.
Pretending that the Unseen does not exist, though, emphatically won’t cut it any more. The age of reason is ending, and whether or not you believe in metaphysical powers is irrelevant, since their existence and action does not depend on your opinions; whether you believe in them isn’t that important, since they also have a say in the matter. The question at this stage of history’s arc is simply whether you’re going to deal with their reality in a constructive fashion, or in a destructive one, or whether you’re going to close your eyes and let yourself become the passive implement of forces you won’t let yourself perceive. The choice is entirely yours, dear reader. Which will you do?”
LOVE to SEEKERS.
Guess that album cover dedication sounded good at the time. Money/power/fame corrupts – over time. No time or need to reflect, revisit or recant.
Who didn’t sell out? Help me out with this list – if you can. Are they ALL dead?
1. John Lennon
2. JFK
3.LOVE to the COURAGEOUS
DBS: your daughter knows how to SHINE.
“Do something that you absolutely are capable of doing right now and without any other preparation or protection. Concentrate every sparable effort possible upon strengthening anything and everything that connects you to the people and groups that you want to be part of, no matter how small or inconsequential that action might seem at the moment. If it helps even a little then just do it, and then do it some more. There is simply no way you do not benefit from strengthening ties with friends.”
Yes. Do it with care – with great LOVE and a sharp, informed, focused mind. Make it a habit. All will BE well.
LOVE to the LIGHT WORKERS.
jb-hb: re: “boomer” zeitgeist gets played out for way, way longer than you would expect.
Some boomers (those you describe as “at the top of the pyramid”) gave up their distrust of The Man/the system (driven by war/Vietnam, Watergate, burning rivers, DDT, nukes to name a few) for the promise of prosperity (money, status, degrees, comforts, things) – and in the end, became the system itself. Not just the gatekeepers! They are so completely integrated that they can not see anything but themselves as the center of the universe. Note that the Greatest Generation (their parents) were the ultimate ass-kickers/can-doers and had the GREATEST OF EXPECTATIONS for their kids. With the internet coming on-line, boomers had the tools to git’er done big-time. They built things and gave themselves full credit for it too!!! Conveniently “forgetting” where they came from and how they got there….which is the key to why they can’t let go.
LOVE to the QUESTIONERS
mpsk:
Sayer Ji (his wife is Kelly Brogan) is the founder of Green Med Info dot com – a site directed at exploring health and wellness/well-being across many fronts. As a member, I have additional access to the science collected on numerous subjects – and find the information collected there to be helpful.
It was their position(s) on Covid that got them on the list. Plus: their support for natural healing strategies and supplements also makes them a target.
LOVE to Healers.
“Not to make you responsible or anything, but it’s YOUR inability to imagine it, and therefore deny it, that allows the evil to BE so large. …Collective “Your”. And I don’t know what to do about it. Is it a good thing to make yourself open up to and believe such horrors? Bring them into your reality and soul?”
Yes. It is essential to ACCEPT that evil IS here/there/everywhere. As individuals and as family/community, we have to “go there” – dig it out, face it. To EXPERIENCE the reality/impact (as if it happened/is happening directly to us) so that we see it and know it for what it is.
It doesn’t matter which form of evil delivers you to your breaking point. It’s important that you get there! And that you experience your own SWORD IN THE STONE/”There’s no place like home”/“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that”/TVASSF/bonus hole + chest feeding/WAR IS PEACE/cluster bombs 4 thee/“We’ll always have Paris” moment(s).
REJOYCE in your new-found freedom! Stand up. Call it out. Name it. All of it. Good and evil. The power, the force, the LIGHT is you.
In the process, you strengthen and sharpen the gift of discernment – the ability to recognize truth/good/LOVE from lies/evil/hate. IMAGINING, remembering, and knowing that there is as much capacity/capability for GOOD as for evil. You choose.
Be good. Be LOVE. In every thought, word, deed.
You just keep throwing yourself at LOVE with LOVE – until you know that YOU ARE LOVE.
LOVE to Ilargi and Friends that gather here.
@VP
No response is what it is. If my life experience has the potential to add something valuable to the thread/conversation, I post. No expectations.
I knew TM was not your path. Thanks for clarifying and reminding us of another Way to PEACE.
On meditation: It can’t be emphasized enough – it’s a process. It is powerful. It is also personal, a journey for one (that’s why the path is “narrow”).
Finding like-minded Souls who are also journeying is helpful, but not essential. My experience is that a wise Teacher is key.
I am not hearing you say that your Way is better than David Lynch’s TM or my traditional Ashtanga Yoga meditation. Your path is different and there is value in you sharing your direct experience. I appreciate you for doing that.
Side note: The paring of the words: HARD + TRUTH seems off base (iron fist velvet glove-ish). TRUTH is. How about ONE TRUTH or just TRUTH?
HARD is: maintaining a practice with patience and persistence. Meditation is a practice that helps you experience infinite goodness, creativity, and LOVE.
Worth repeating: “expanding upon one’s “inner reality” on a daily basis makes “outer reality” more apparent & easily identified/understood…” So darn true!
What’s in your inner reality?
P.S. TAE Summary is a riot. Laughter is the Great Escape.
LOVE to TRUTH Seekers.
Last night/late post offered at #137977 by VP – The David Lynch video (16 minutes) on Transcendental Meditation, is excellent. It clearly presents a solution/Way forward in response to our current condition(s).
It would be beneficial to hear your comments on the content of this contribution. We spend lots of time identifying the impact(s) of the problem(s) and not so much on what WE can do to change course.
What if – the process of TM (Transcendental Meditation) resulted in TRANSFORMATION as the video describes? Can you see how that is possible?
Access to/awareness of your TRUE NATURE (my words), goodness/creativity/LOVE – is yours by releasing the forces of fear. The video says that we are powerful when we are not in fear. TM is a practice that helps you experience infinite goodness, creativity, and LOVE.
The video also makes it clear that your inner reality is your outer reality. Your thoughts?
TM is for everyone – but almost no one will initiate and sustain the effort needed. No one can do it for you, you have to do it for yourSELF. Personally, I find the challenge + the potential of transformation compelling. My own experience reveals that it works.
LOVE to all WISDOM Seekers.
“All you need is Love”. I’m gonna stand by it.
LOVE is sacrifice – in action.
“Love” without sacrifice is selfish, therefore not Love.
LOVE to Lovers.
More RFK:
” …Is it any wonder that as America has waged violence throughout the world, violence has overtaken us in our own Nation? …It has not come as an invasion, it has come from within. Our bombs, our drones, our armies, are incapable of stopping the gun violence on our streets and schools, or domestic violence in our homes. waging endless wars abroad, WE HAVE NEGLECTED THE FOUNDATION OF OUR OWN WELL-BEING. We have a decaying economic infrastructure, a demoralized and despairing people…We have deteriorating mental and physical health. These are the wages of war. What will be the wages of PEACE?…”
The RFK video “Is this REALLY who we are?” (linked above) is pure TRUTH – monumental and beautiful.
Monumental because in minutes, he summarizes EVERYTHING. All of it.
Beautiful because his words, are pure TRUTH. They even bring him to tears (at the very end).
These words are a FORCE of NATURE – as the TRUTH is: Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent.
Know that these words resonate BEYOND this moment – transforming the unreal. All HEARTS are made PRESENT in these words. Sharing these words, this TRUTH – opens channels for LIFE to transcend the paradigms of oppression.
Quotes from his conversation:
“Let’s re examine our attitude – We’ve become addicted to comic book good vs. evil narratives that erase complexity and blind us to the legitimate motives, to legitimate cultural and legitimate security concerns of other peoples and other nations….We have internalized and institutionalized the reflex of violence as the response for any and all crisis. Everything becomes a war….Is this really who we are?”
LOVE to RFK.
LOVE and GRATITUDE to Ilargi.
How to “encourage” kindness?
BE KIND/KINDNESS with/in every thought, word, deed.
Then: Be still. KINDNESS will come to you.
Praise be the gifts that are present for the praising.
Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu
(May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all).
Caitlin Johnstone offers thoughts on “the problem”. If we all can’t/don’t agree that there is one, including the definition of what “the problem” is/who is responsible, then the exercise to do something – craft plans/solutions, is futile. Feeding more failure/defeat into the mix and reinforcing our inability to make things better.
“So much of modern political life consists of the ruling class tricking the public into trading away things the ruling class values in exchange for things the ruling class does not value. ”
“It’s a pretty well-established fact by now that free will doesn’t exist nearly to the extent that most religions, philosophies and judicial systems pretend it does. Our minds are very hackable and propaganda is very effective. If you don’t get this, you don’t understand the problem.”
“The amount of energy the western empire has poured into killing all leftist and antiwar movement is staggering, but people just think the acid wore off and the hippies turned into yuppies and the Reagan administration happened on its own. It didn’t. They had to work hard at that….
The revolution didn’t organically fizzle out, it was actively strangled to death. And what’s left in its place is this defeatist attitude where people want a healthy society but believe it can’t be attained, so it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. We COINTELPRO ourselves now.”
More in the post linked below.
LOVE to Bosco for this:
“Me, I had a pre-dawn epiphany: about all I can do positive in this life is encourage kindness and praise it when I see it. All the rest at best is mere kvetching and distracting myself from what joy may avail…”. Sounds like a good idea/plan! Stay with it, friend. GRACE in action is beautiful – and powerful.
Our Systems Reward Dysfunction And Destruction: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Hi Boscohorowitz. RE:” On the magical thinking mentioned in the article that Red shared: magical thinking is absolutely necessary to human survival. But keeping it separate from one’s rational thinking is necessary lest we just go nuts individually and collectively.”
Gonna have to disagree. It’s magical thinking to think that magical thinking is essential to our survival. That is exactly what has gotten us in “trouble” across so many fronts. Your idea that rational thinking has a role in this is correct – as it could generate an implementation plan which would immediately move magical thinking into the INTENTIONAL realm . That’s the whole point: magical thinking without a plan (without answering the how aspect) is pure fantasy.
LOVE to Dreamers with PLANS.
More “Hard Truths” regarding consciousness and spirituality, with inspiration from Dr D – “the Constitution lives INSIDE US, and not out there where they’ve killed it”.
With these conversations, we find ourselves discussing the origin/source of all things. Everything exists – begins and ends on the INSIDE, and not “out there”. The distinction is critical. Recognition thereof, and the living of this understanding is life changing. It is the Way to create real and lasting LOVE/PEACE/JOY in this life.
Inward facing practices reveal pure CONSCIOUSNESS, going beyond the thought waves of the mind. Clarity and TRUTH shine forth! Be silent, sit calmly, follow the breath…and you will hear – not with your ears but with your HEART, what needs to be known.
Outward facing is a giant projection – of thought waves/mind/ideas into/onto the manifest world. When the outer projection becomes the only reality (as is the case for most folks today), people are subjected to Heaven/hell and Good/evil (the “play” of opposites) in this life. It’s a rough Constitution-killing ride out there.
When you understand that your projected world is not the ONE reality, your response to life changes. Once you get re-oriented, there is no one/nothing “out there” to point to, to blame. It frees up lots of negative energy and opens channels for opportunity/potentiality.
With devotion, TRUTH will find you.
LOVE to All Seekers.
@phoenx: “I think what it comes down to is that populism is organic, edgy, and impossible to control — and that is the antithesis of what our powers-that-be management desires.”
Well said. And true. What needs to be acknowledged is that genuine populism (in today’s world) is always corrupted/co-opted by TPTB. What need to be understood is how fast and completely that is accomplished – and what might be done in response. When organic expression is overridden by stealth manipulation designed to rewrite/rewire the original inspiration, we lose.
Right now RFK Jr is organic – authentic and hot. Truth burns bright! I believe he can finish what Trump spoke of doing but was unable to do. The “wildcard” aspect of his candidacy is that he is resonating with people from all sides of the political spectrum.
Ilargi: Appreciate all you do here…and beyond. Smiles returning to faces.
LOVE to the LOVERS.
Germ would have posted this from Walter M. Chestnut: “Friday Hope: Spermidine: Clearing the Spike Protein.”
It offers up several original ways to induce Autophagy (pronounced “ah-TAH-fah-gee”) (which is your body’s process of reusing old and damaged cell parts) – to clear the spike protein. Sauna (heat) and coffee are on the list.
Couldn’t resist this flashback after viewing the 999 stairs to heaven and glorious mountainside opening pictured above. Makes me wonder how long it takes the average person to make the ascent.
Ahhh the Stairway song. It was everywhere back then. It is still here, ringing in my Heart as always. Slow dancing in the basement on Christmas break, the entire dorm hallway dancing to the sounds of Zep records spinning, live in concert in Cincinnati; it was Heaven. (I may have missed the hippie thing but was full immersion on the late 70’s after party). The best part is that we were all in on it TOGETHER. We shared an era of truly great music. (Thankfully the incredibly isolating, personalized play/set lists, ear buds, and phones did not exist). We didn’t know how good we had it.
Deep experiences of sharing something extraordinary with a group/entire generation of other beings – lives on in some of us. Wisdom gleaned from direct experiences of coming together is essential to attracting more of the same. Even in times of disenchantment – ENCHANTMENT finds us in our everyday lives.
For those of us who made the Half Dome (Yosemite) climb, the shared togetherness of accomplishment at the top never leaves. Same goes for the final “slog” of reaching the top of the South rim of the mighty Grand Canyon after starting over on the North rim 4 days earlier. There’s nothing like giving yourself to life.
Appreciate your contributions, Ilargi. Makes me wonder how you do it.
LOVE to All.
