I tried a bunch of times to do an annual subscription but it keeps screwing me around - first declining, then making me do like a thousand captcha's and in the end, declining my card! Can I send you an e-transfer?
Thanks - it could be just because it's me - I objected to Substack maintaining my cc info but I thought they told me too bad - maybe I'm being punished?
I remember as a toddler a kind adult bending down to tie my shoelace. I got an incredible, warm fuzzy feeling of being loved and cared for in the pit of my stomach that buzzed and permeated through my whole being. Lovely!
It is important to be loved as a young child. Bullies were stupid. I would explain that. I would get punched, and I would fight back. (Bullies grew faster than I did, and came in 2s and 3s, so I ran through the forest sometimes)
Tessa it was my great joy and pleasure to catch the radio show :)
You mentioned that the middle managers (politicians, bureaucrats etc) are more afraid of their bosses than they are of us and I agree 100%. So how does this relate to the idea that the depopulation crew are different from the covid-industrial complex? Are the various teams siloed to the point where nobody sees what the other group is doing?
You brought up another issue I had not considered which is that if you feel love for yourself, you feel compelled to give that love to others. Seems to me, tragically, that you are in the minority and that in general people become hoarders of self-love. they overdose on it. I think that's the scarcity myth taken to its sick logical conclusion.
As far as self-love, my person definition is that self-love is synonymous with understanding of your soul's purpose on this planet. If a person understands it, it is almost automatic that one would love oneself, and in the state of loving yourself, it is much easier to be kind to others from the position of strength.
That is very different from selfishness, which expresses itself as "being dicks to others." Selfishness is kind of self-love but not a very elevated kind, and it may have nothing to do with understanding one's soul.
i think what you call "self-love," i would call "self-actualization." a truly self-actualized person (who has done the hard inner work and reflection and seeks to understand what their purpose here is) would not be a dick to other people and would want the spread the love around...
self-love can also be...ummm...something a selfish person would do alone ;)
It has been my observation that in most cases where self-actualization is for real, self-love, self-respect, and total respect for other people's souls is almost automatic. The thing is that self-actualization doesn't work very well from theory, it has to come from within as a very strong desire and a lot of work. Our society, going back centuries, is trying to beat the internal knowledge out of people and shame them for it, so it's difficult, like it is difficult for the grass to grow through asphalt. The society is ruled by maniacs!! But the grass still grows, and grows, and eventually breaks through the asphalt.
ok, my understanding of self-actualization is a 100% internal thing. maybe i need a new term, it has been hijacked and then monetized by a lot of people who I suspect are not very well self-actualized themselves!!
Thank you!! And sorry I am just responding now, I wanted to think this through as this is such a complex mosaic of everything!
I think that the middle managers on the level of even country presidents are more afraid o the mafia that has them by the balls than they are of their own constituents. They used to have to pretend to care about the people, that ended in 2020. I think the depopulation crew is tight and small, and I think we are also looking at some older documents (like the famous 1974 report). By now, it is maybe only in Africa that the population is actually growing significantly, in the so called developed countries the problem is that there are more and more old people and not enough young people, and even fewer young people in good health (and the robots, hype notwithstanding, are not very good, so as much as they want to replace pesky people with obedient robots, they can't do it very well at this time). They are probably after Africa at this point mostly in terms of trying to control the population growth, while continuing to rob the continent and loot the riches into their shameless pockets.
my sense is that the core cabal (hardcore psycho genocidal fanatics) is very small. including the first layer out - central banksters, silicon valley velvet mafia, the crew who go to all the event 201's - and i don't think we're looking at more than 10k people. maybe as few as 5k.
he unpacks the ongoing global population decline - and all this is public data so it's impossible that the weffies aren't aware of it. just as you mentioned, most of the world is not reproducing at replacement level and hasn't been for quite awhile
I have always been intrigued by the idea of self-love, as well as the religious idea that "God - or/and Jesus - loves me".
For some reasons, these ideas seem very odd to me.
In the case of self-love, who is loving what? Where does such a self begin, where does it end, and who is in charge of loving, who is in the position of receiving that love? Are there two selves, a subject and an object, is the self split in two? It must be. Additionally, why the emphasis on a form of love that is received (even if self-generated) rather than given? Where is the unconditional love for humanity, for tress, animals, the earth, all life? Where is the love and appreciation for life? Why must love be primarily directed towards the self? Has not the entire universe already proven that it loves every one of us? Has not the gift already been given?
Similarly, regarding the idea that God loves us, I rarely if ever hear religious or spiritual people say that they love God (or Jesus for the Christians). Same thing, where is the love for God?
Jesus commanded us to lie others as ourselves. The unspoken, but obvious next statement is that we must learn to love ourselves. Today,we have far too much evidence that part has never been understood at all, and people ARE loving others just as they do themselves, which is not at all. The "self" is the essence of who you are, warts and all. The " love" here is agape, the Godly love, but that love does not extend to condoning everything about us, it involves correcting the warts. The closest human equivalent is "tough love". You can't live another unless you can first love yourself despite the imperfections, but that doesn't' mean you don't work at correcting them, to become the "self" Yhwh God created you to be, how He sees you through the blood of Jesus hen you have been redeemed. Those who never paise or thank Him, or speak of loving Him, may not be among the redeemed, but again, this love is not the eros or philios we share between ourselves and fellow humans either. The "universe" isn't a living entity, so not capable of giving or receiving love. And once again, if one doesn't properly love oneself, there can be no love for anyone or anything else. This love is less emotion, and more act of the will.
When I properly love myself, I can choose to act in love toward others, even when they are behaving in hateful and abhorrent manners; but without properly grounded self love, that becomes virtually impossible
I don't mean to offend you by asking the following question, but since you appear to have very strong Christian beliefs (I am not a Christian), I thought you might be the perfect person to ask: why did Jesus specifically need to bleed, to suffer physically, in order to offer humanity the possibility of redemption? (I have my own thoughts regarding this but I do not need to share them, because I do not want to get into a debate, I am merely - and sincerely - intellectually curious). I have asked other Christians in the past but I get a different answer each time.
I respect your honesty, it's refreshing these days. So to answer your question... The answer originates in the OT, in Leviticus. Since I don't know your level of acquaintance with any of the Bible, I don't mean to be condescending if you are familiar with all this, but it is the basis. In Leviticus, there are lists of animal sacrifices for various sins or circumstances, including a feast day called the day of atonement, the Israelis were to practice henceforth. In explaining all these sacrifices, and the attendant rituals, God, through Moses, declared there can be no remission of sin without the shedding of blood. This was the pattern set forth.
With the birth of Jesus, there is a shift. Even though the Sanhedrin ( the ruling Pharisees and Sadducees), and the bulk of Israelis of his day, refused to recognize Him as such, His coming was the fulfillment of many prophecies concerning a long promised Messiah. He was also called the Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world, or Paschal (Passover) Lamb ( an earlier animal sacrifice to protect Israelis from the Angel of death passing through Egypt, taking the lives of evry 1st born male, and which is celebrated annually still with a seder, every spring). The blood of that lamb placed on the door posts and lintel of Israeli homes formed a cross, foretelling the cross on which the final sacrifice would be made. But the reason it must be Jesus, whose blood was shed is that only He carried the untainted by sin blood of His Father, Yhwh God, and only that blood could become the remission of all sin, for all time, to those who chose or will choose to repent their sins and seek it's covering. Another of Jesus' names is Emmanuel (God with us), reminding us His blood alone was pure. An human baby almost invariably has a different blood type than it's mother, unless hers is the same as the father's, and if their blood comingles while the baby is in utero, the mother's immune system will attack it, causing ABO and/ or Rh incompatibility, and frequently kill the baby, if the co-mingling happens early enough in the pregnancy. If it comes later, in the 3rd trimester, the baby may survive, but must be treated for the incompatibility. As a nurse, I've seen cases of both incompatibilities. So even though Mary was His very human and sin tainted as we all are, mother, His blood was, as always, from His Father, and His Father was not an human. That's why His blood had to be shed on that cross: He literally bore the penalty due each and every human who has or ever will live, all of it, and then shed His blood to cover our sins in the presence of His and our Father, so that we can enter His presence once again, without dying for doing so.
I hope this meets your need in terms of explanation. If there's something I haven't been clear enough about, please feel free to ask. I sometimes assume knowledge not there, because I know what I'm taking about, and forget not everyone has my background. I won't take offense. Honest curiosity is a pleasure to answer. If I don't know or am not sure, I make that known too.
Have a blessed weekend, Raphael ( God's healing, the meaning of your name in English).
Thank you for your kind answer, it confirmed my own thoughts, with a few added and important details. I find all of it very interesting. I have a different perspective regarding our relationship with the Divine, but I understand and absolutely respect the Christian teachings and they are evidently very important.
What I find lacking in many people is an earnest desire to come to the Truth...You seem to have this desire, but most lack such a desire, they just want to cruise along and compromise themselves and their own conscience, because everyone else does it. Some do terrible things and then confess and ask for forgiveness...and then begin the whole cycle again, and again, indefinitely up to their last breath.
When I was very young (and extremely naive) I thought I wanted to be a priest or minister. It makes me chuckle now thinking about it, I did not know much then, but I always had that sincere hunger to know God above all else, even as a teenager (I know, it is hard to believe). It is still with me, and I have gotten some answers along the way, and had some interesting experiences.
I knew about my name, thank you for mentioning it, my mother chose that name, I am glad she did.
One of the things I have learned in my later yrs is that, for most people, truth is too scary, Like the Jack Nicholson line in "A Few Good Men", they generally can't handle the truth ( not that that to which the line referred was truth, or militarily sound, for that matter). Even in small doses it scares them, and if you knock over a sacred cow? YIKES, do they come unhinged!
Some call that the "God shaped hole" in us all, only He can fill it. I've had my ups and downs with Him too, mostly caused by other people and my own expectations of them, which don't materialize because I expects modicum of actual Christian behavior from them when they profess Christianity, If it helps any, God would love to have a relationship with you too.
I grew up in "Mafia country" so I know exactly what you mean about confession and then starting in again. We used to see the body guards in our ER regularly, call the police to report the wound, as required by law; they never showed up. I can imagine what those priests heard every Saturday. And I can imagine the shock on faces when they hear "I never knew you, depart from me, years wicked", at the Bema seat.
I'm glad you did ask, and I'm open to answer any other questions, if you like. As I said, if I don't know, or am unsure, I will say so. And I'm glad your Mom chose that name for you. I've seen some real doozies slapped on innocent babies.
The problems of the world are so numerous, so complex and so immense that they seem to be overwhelming and that no real, practical solutions could ever be implemented, because we have been trained to look at them within the context in which they were created, such as within hierarchies. We look at the elites, at government, at the authorities, at the powerful, and we complain, justly, and then we react to their edicts and policies, rather than acting completely independently of them according to the authentic needs and aspirations of our sovereign hearts and souls. We thus are always kept on the defensive and are kept busy looking and possible raging at a mirage, at the illusions of power and authority existing above us and keeping us down.
A month long journey into a pristine wilderness, far away from any trace of civilization, would reset our psychic clock and cause us to discover the completely illusory nature of civilization's hierarchical conventions, of power and authority and their absolute illegitimacy.
But we (I mean most of humanity) look for experts and leaders to save the day, for the good leaders to replace the bad ones, and some even hope for the coming of a mashiach or the return of a messiah. The thing is, we are all looking up as if we still were powerless and helpless children.
But we will reclaim and save our world when we stop looking up and instead look at each other, and understand that the power is within us and among us, it always was and always will be. The power is within our relationships (I mean in the way we relate to each other, I am not talking about intimate relationships or even family relationships). The power returns when we think of "us" rather than "me" exclusively or "them" (those above us). This "us" is not about collectivism, which is also held together by coercive command and control, by authoritarianism, totalitarianism and a strict pecking order, but about our humanity and the spiritual and physical kinship and unity of all life on this planet, which is a very real, tangible, practical, palpable thing as well as a spiritual reality.
We are all related (and "we" includes everything, all life forms and the planet itself, as well as the Divine presence that holds it all together).
That's the globalists' method! WE are not the power in creation! He Who created us is. He created each of us with a purpose in mind, and whether or not we find and fulfill that depends on our fre will choices in this life. But many in rebellion against Him seek to usurp His position, power and authority, by totalitarian control, yet He chose to give each and every creature free will, to choose the path to follow.
We are all connected, by virtue of having been created by Yhwh God, but we are not "related" to inanimate creations in the same way we are to living creatures, nor are we related to "lesser" creatures in the way we are connected to fellow humans or our Creator. The "Divine Presence" is not found in the lower forms, in the same way, and is not some mystical glue. He is the Holy Spirit, and He is only present among the redeemed.
Secular Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud displaced the spiritual concept (the Holy Trinity: “the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit), with “The Ego, The Id, the Super Ego).
Also, Freud redefined the concept of Eros as “Libido.”
To go deeper into the Mind of Freud, read: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 1920. And, The Ego and the Id. Also, Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930.
I got acquainted with Freud, Jung, and others, during my student nursing days, back in the '60s, but I was Biblically oriented well before that, so I understand how people tick, but from the "God's eye" view. The Bible is, perhaps surprisingly, full of sound psychology.
Carl G. Jung,one of the best of his era. I read all of his books.
After writing a Thesis on Sigmund Freud, I concluded he had a dark side, which motivated him to write: MOSES and Monotheism, copyright 1939.
Dr. Freud was very popular among the Hippies (the counter-culture). Every where you go, the concept of Ego is ubiquitous. In a college debate team I was known as the anti-Freud guy. The pro-Freud students hated me, because I won every time…
Yes, Freud as a very sick man, in fact, IMO. One lesson learned early in my psych rotation, at a state hospital (we still had those), was that the majority of people who go into psychology and psychiatry do so in an effort to understand their own broken minds, and self heal, or find ways to cover up and excuse that brokenness; the latter has become dominant over the past several decades, and in excusing themselves, they're doing so on a general basis. By almost universally denying Yhwh God and our spiritual component, they can ignore free will choice involvement, and sin, both, as components in the brokenness, and make the absurd claim they were "born that way", the go on wild goose chases for "science" to back that up, while not fixing the problem at all. It's a sad statement on humans that Freud's theories still are popular in many circles. Good for you, seeing through his issues to the fact he was as sick as those he purported to "help".
www.DrJudithReisman.com/video. I recently read her last book: STOLEN HONOR-STOLEN INNOCENCE: How America was Betrayed by the Lies and Sexual Crimes of a Mad “Scientist.”
copyright 1998, 2000, 2003, 2014. Previous editions were title ,KINSEY: Crimes & Consequences.
Thank you for sharing Sandra. I was born in Hawaii 1951 to a secular working class family. In college I studied all the different “Brands” of Psychology, including the Paranormal (ParaPsychology). I wanted to be a Psychologist, however I shifted to Comparative Religion / Linguistics.
I would like to suggest a author: Neil Douglas-Klotz is an internationally known scholar in the fields connecting religious studies (comparative Semitic hermeneutics) and psychology as well as a poet and musician.
His latest book: Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus: The hidden Teachings on Life & Death.
“The Aramaic translations of Neil Douglas-Klotz cut through the rote & bring us to the deeper meanings of Jesus’s teachings that can still touch our hearts, and move our Souls, and ignite our action.”- -Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing.
I'm originally from MO, but relocated to TX now. I will look this author up. I read a select group of truly Bible oriented teaching authors, . Since you're interested in the Aramaic, you might like to check out George Lamsa's translation if the Bible itself, from the Syriac (Aramaic language) version. There are some interesting variations from the typical translations into English, that I find intriguing. It's available on Amazon. I do find Israelite who have come to know Jesus too, to be very enlightening, when they don't stray too far out of the Torah into the Tanach teachings. Thanks for the tip; I haven't run across this author in my "travels" as yet.
Have a lovely blessed evening and week to come, from Irving.
Good evening Sandra, thank you for tip: George Lamsa.
I came across Neil Douglas-Klotz @ batgap.com, (Buddha at the gas pump)Podcast by Rick Archer. The video featured Neil Douglas-Klotz interview discussing his latest book.
I will not respond in a meaningful way, however, because I will not debate strong beliefs. Everyone is entitled to theirs, and to keep them as long as they serve them. Besides, it is almost impossible to have a real conversation in writing, as every word can and will be misinterpreted.
So what do we have in common? We both believe in a Creator. We both reject the globalist and authoritarian control that attempts to abolish free will, this most precious of Divine gifts. And we are both human beings.
I unfortunately feel the same way about most 2 legged critters...It is my belief that the world would definitively be a better place if it were populated by a vast majority of Christians who would actually walk the path of what is called "righteousness" (by this I simply mean choosing right over wrong, which is always a good start). Even merely applying something as basic as the golden rule, if nothing else, would cause some improvements!
Many religious individuals unfortunately pick and choose what they want to abide by, when it is convenient for them, and omit the rest of the teachings. They treat those teachings as a buffet, to indulge in what they want. Then they ask for forgiveness or to be saved, according to different doctrines. They are hypocrites. But hypocrisy is a common human trait, that is also seen everywhere in the political arena. Even some Native Americans have become hypocrites, talking very eloquently and beautifully but following a dark path. Very few people walk their talk, because it is difficult, and today more than ever...so it is always better not to talk so much and do more, or to be very upfront about our imperfections and failures.
Christians or not, everyone has a conscience...we know that we might be able to fool the entire world, but we cannot fool ourselves or erase our own actions from our own consciousness. Sooner or later, everyone has to face himself or herself. Some call it a "life review".
Many individuals believe that they have been hurt or are victimized, but are completely oblivious to the fact that they have hurt or are victimizing others as well. This is a universal problem that is exacerbated within the context of all close relationships (families, friendships, couples). Declaring oneself a total victim is then worn as a badge of honor, while forgetting that it usually take two individuals to create and maintain a bad situation, and that very few such situations are black and white (I once knew such a person, who deeply hurt everyone she was close to, including all of her friends, children and grandchildren, and yet always saw herself as a complete victim while often violently asserting that she was).
I believe that introspection and coming to term with our past, understand how we might have hurt others and why, how we affected them, and how we might have been hurt by others and how deeply, and how it has affected us, are always good ideas while we are still alive in the physical.
There is nothing wrong with following religious instructions...but honesty and sincerity are more important than anything else, in my view, because the Creator knows what is in our hearts, even when we try to hide it from others or from ourselves.
This brings up a very interesting point about the importance of experiences we had as infants. As our present culture doesn't seem to have much of a heart connection to infant rearing, with all the best of intentions we create some disastrous conditionings which have long term effects on our happiness and our cultural structure. Very briefly, infants need to have their needs met, and caregivers need to understand what those needs are. If needs, for example - need for attachment, is not being met repeatedly, the body will eventually have a trauma response to that lack and shut down. The body learns that it won't get what it needs, and learns not to trust that it will get what it needs. This knowing is in the body. When cognition comes along, the infant learns to deal with this issue cognitively, but that does not change what the body had already learned. But we want to be happy, so we look outside ourselves to find happiness: material things, success, power, distraction after distraction. But we never get enough - we confuse 'pleasant distraction' with happiness, which comes from the inside. Years ago I read that Gandhi and the Dalai Lama said that once our basic needs are met , happiness is an inside job. And if you want to understand the science of it all, please read Gabor Mate's recent book, 'The Myth of Normal'.
Gabor Mate is truly great...he parallels what Arthur Janov discovered and worked on before him, although they differ in their healing methods. One of Janov's best books is The Primal Revolution, and another good one is The Feeling Child, as well as Primal Mind: The New Consciousness. They might be out of print but can be found.
What does it mean to be “in the world, but not of it”? As spiritual aspirants, “How does this apply to me in my life, and is it really possible, especially in today’s technological world, which can be hective, invasive, confusing, and stressful and dangerous at times”?
When the weight of the World feels heavy or overwhelming, Jesus said, “Wear the World like a light garment.” In other words, you notice it, you experience it, but it is not your ultimate destination…it’s only transitory. The idea is not to sacrifice the Soul for the mortal body. There is far more than this earthly life.
“In the World, but not in it”- Jesus said to wear the world like a light garment. In other words, you notice it, you experience it, but it is not your ultimate destination…it’s only transitory. The idea is to not sacrifice the Soul for the mortal body. There is far more than this earthly life.
We are like a plant whose birthplace and home is the open and pristine nature, transplanted into a small pot. This is a transitory experience, which we should fully embrace while remembering that we are more than this. It is a balancing act, which Native Americans describe as walking with a foot in this physical world and a foot in the Spirit world.
Yes, we are called "human beings", not "human doings" or "human "havings"...Being should come first and always, and being involves love, which means giving and sharing.
Life is an endless creative experience, and we are shaping at every moment by every decision we make.
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons for coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. If it chooses to leave your heart or the heart of your lover, there is nothing you can do and nothing you should do. Be glad that it came to live for a moment in your life. If you keep your heart open, it will surely come again… Love Cove...
Love does not belong to us...we belong to it. When we try to hold it, to make it captive because of our own insecurities and fears, it escapes, because it needs to remain free.
Hyper Consumer Culture transforms all of Life into Commodities, objects, nouns, etc.
LOVE is defined and expressed as a thing, object, commodity, a packaged gift, etc.
To Love is an activity, a verb.. We love, rather than we “make” Love. Love as a commodity? LOVE for SALE!!! To love unconditionally. Remember the popular song,”?" Where is the Love?
In this case, Love is an object someone is looking for. Or, how about the song “Feel Like Making Love,” This is the manufacturing of Love. Industrializing Love...
Yes, love becomes a commodity, something to possess to "serve one's needs", or even a trading currency, something people use to obtain what they really want, which usually makes for a very long list, but which has absolutely nothing to do with love.
There are as many forms of love as there are individuals in this world, yet I believe that very few know what love truly is, or even care to know, very few know or want true love.
It takes tremendous courage to love, to truly open one's heart and be completely vulnerable, and very few have that kind of courage. Besides, when you really open your heart, all kinds of things come out into the open, all kinds of old wounds are revealed, to oneself and to the other. True love and a large ego are not compatible, and most choose the ego. So they would rather not do this and just pretend and play the "game of love", but their hearts never actually open, and they consequently never understand the meaning of life and have to invent one, to "create meaning and purpose" in otherwise empty lives.
What incredibly beautiful words. Thank you so much.
Thank you, Zoë!! xoxo
I tried a bunch of times to do an annual subscription but it keeps screwing me around - first declining, then making me do like a thousand captcha's and in the end, declining my card! Can I send you an e-transfer?
Thank you, Zoë!! Oh wow, I didn't know about this issue, thank you for letting me know! I will email you.
Thanks - it could be just because it's me - I objected to Substack maintaining my cc info but I thought they told me too bad - maybe I'm being punished?
Oh, Tessa, your heart and your voice are so beautiful and filled with light.
I can't wait to listen to the interview.
Thank you, Sheila!!! xoxoxo
I have a vivid example triggered by your words...
I remember as a toddler a kind adult bending down to tie my shoelace. I got an incredible, warm fuzzy feeling of being loved and cared for in the pit of my stomach that buzzed and permeated through my whole being. Lovely!
That is a beautiful story!!! Sometimes the smallest act of love and understanding make the sun shine on us, and it makes such a difference!
Love is the answer!
It is important to be loved as a young child. Bullies were stupid. I would explain that. I would get punched, and I would fight back. (Bullies grew faster than I did, and came in 2s and 3s, so I ran through the forest sometimes)
;-)
I can relate! :-)
Tessa it was my great joy and pleasure to catch the radio show :)
You mentioned that the middle managers (politicians, bureaucrats etc) are more afraid of their bosses than they are of us and I agree 100%. So how does this relate to the idea that the depopulation crew are different from the covid-industrial complex? Are the various teams siloed to the point where nobody sees what the other group is doing?
You brought up another issue I had not considered which is that if you feel love for yourself, you feel compelled to give that love to others. Seems to me, tragically, that you are in the minority and that in general people become hoarders of self-love. they overdose on it. I think that's the scarcity myth taken to its sick logical conclusion.
As far as self-love, my person definition is that self-love is synonymous with understanding of your soul's purpose on this planet. If a person understands it, it is almost automatic that one would love oneself, and in the state of loving yourself, it is much easier to be kind to others from the position of strength.
That is very different from selfishness, which expresses itself as "being dicks to others." Selfishness is kind of self-love but not a very elevated kind, and it may have nothing to do with understanding one's soul.
What is your observation?
i think what you call "self-love," i would call "self-actualization." a truly self-actualized person (who has done the hard inner work and reflection and seeks to understand what their purpose here is) would not be a dick to other people and would want the spread the love around...
self-love can also be...ummm...something a selfish person would do alone ;)
It has been my observation that in most cases where self-actualization is for real, self-love, self-respect, and total respect for other people's souls is almost automatic. The thing is that self-actualization doesn't work very well from theory, it has to come from within as a very strong desire and a lot of work. Our society, going back centuries, is trying to beat the internal knowledge out of people and shame them for it, so it's difficult, like it is difficult for the grass to grow through asphalt. The society is ruled by maniacs!! But the grass still grows, and grows, and eventually breaks through the asphalt.
ok, my understanding of self-actualization is a 100% internal thing. maybe i need a new term, it has been hijacked and then monetized by a lot of people who I suspect are not very well self-actualized themselves!!
relates to alicen's post today https://alicengrey.substack.com/p/virtuous-blindness-why-the-third
Thank you!! And sorry I am just responding now, I wanted to think this through as this is such a complex mosaic of everything!
I think that the middle managers on the level of even country presidents are more afraid o the mafia that has them by the balls than they are of their own constituents. They used to have to pretend to care about the people, that ended in 2020. I think the depopulation crew is tight and small, and I think we are also looking at some older documents (like the famous 1974 report). By now, it is maybe only in Africa that the population is actually growing significantly, in the so called developed countries the problem is that there are more and more old people and not enough young people, and even fewer young people in good health (and the robots, hype notwithstanding, are not very good, so as much as they want to replace pesky people with obedient robots, they can't do it very well at this time). They are probably after Africa at this point mostly in terms of trying to control the population growth, while continuing to rob the continent and loot the riches into their shameless pockets.
my sense is that the core cabal (hardcore psycho genocidal fanatics) is very small. including the first layer out - central banksters, silicon valley velvet mafia, the crew who go to all the event 201's - and i don't think we're looking at more than 10k people. maybe as few as 5k.
did we ever talk about Stephen J. Shaw's documentary Childless World? https://rumble.com/v2okppk-birthgap-childless-world-by-stephen-j.-shaw-part-1.html
he unpacks the ongoing global population decline - and all this is public data so it's impossible that the weffies aren't aware of it. just as you mentioned, most of the world is not reproducing at replacement level and hasn't been for quite awhile
here's a good tara henley interview with the filmmaker https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/a-childless-world#details
I have always been intrigued by the idea of self-love, as well as the religious idea that "God - or/and Jesus - loves me".
For some reasons, these ideas seem very odd to me.
In the case of self-love, who is loving what? Where does such a self begin, where does it end, and who is in charge of loving, who is in the position of receiving that love? Are there two selves, a subject and an object, is the self split in two? It must be. Additionally, why the emphasis on a form of love that is received (even if self-generated) rather than given? Where is the unconditional love for humanity, for tress, animals, the earth, all life? Where is the love and appreciation for life? Why must love be primarily directed towards the self? Has not the entire universe already proven that it loves every one of us? Has not the gift already been given?
Similarly, regarding the idea that God loves us, I rarely if ever hear religious or spiritual people say that they love God (or Jesus for the Christians). Same thing, where is the love for God?
Jesus commanded us to lie others as ourselves. The unspoken, but obvious next statement is that we must learn to love ourselves. Today,we have far too much evidence that part has never been understood at all, and people ARE loving others just as they do themselves, which is not at all. The "self" is the essence of who you are, warts and all. The " love" here is agape, the Godly love, but that love does not extend to condoning everything about us, it involves correcting the warts. The closest human equivalent is "tough love". You can't live another unless you can first love yourself despite the imperfections, but that doesn't' mean you don't work at correcting them, to become the "self" Yhwh God created you to be, how He sees you through the blood of Jesus hen you have been redeemed. Those who never paise or thank Him, or speak of loving Him, may not be among the redeemed, but again, this love is not the eros or philios we share between ourselves and fellow humans either. The "universe" isn't a living entity, so not capable of giving or receiving love. And once again, if one doesn't properly love oneself, there can be no love for anyone or anything else. This love is less emotion, and more act of the will.
When I properly love myself, I can choose to act in love toward others, even when they are behaving in hateful and abhorrent manners; but without properly grounded self love, that becomes virtually impossible
I don't mean to offend you by asking the following question, but since you appear to have very strong Christian beliefs (I am not a Christian), I thought you might be the perfect person to ask: why did Jesus specifically need to bleed, to suffer physically, in order to offer humanity the possibility of redemption? (I have my own thoughts regarding this but I do not need to share them, because I do not want to get into a debate, I am merely - and sincerely - intellectually curious). I have asked other Christians in the past but I get a different answer each time.
I respect your honesty, it's refreshing these days. So to answer your question... The answer originates in the OT, in Leviticus. Since I don't know your level of acquaintance with any of the Bible, I don't mean to be condescending if you are familiar with all this, but it is the basis. In Leviticus, there are lists of animal sacrifices for various sins or circumstances, including a feast day called the day of atonement, the Israelis were to practice henceforth. In explaining all these sacrifices, and the attendant rituals, God, through Moses, declared there can be no remission of sin without the shedding of blood. This was the pattern set forth.
With the birth of Jesus, there is a shift. Even though the Sanhedrin ( the ruling Pharisees and Sadducees), and the bulk of Israelis of his day, refused to recognize Him as such, His coming was the fulfillment of many prophecies concerning a long promised Messiah. He was also called the Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world, or Paschal (Passover) Lamb ( an earlier animal sacrifice to protect Israelis from the Angel of death passing through Egypt, taking the lives of evry 1st born male, and which is celebrated annually still with a seder, every spring). The blood of that lamb placed on the door posts and lintel of Israeli homes formed a cross, foretelling the cross on which the final sacrifice would be made. But the reason it must be Jesus, whose blood was shed is that only He carried the untainted by sin blood of His Father, Yhwh God, and only that blood could become the remission of all sin, for all time, to those who chose or will choose to repent their sins and seek it's covering. Another of Jesus' names is Emmanuel (God with us), reminding us His blood alone was pure. An human baby almost invariably has a different blood type than it's mother, unless hers is the same as the father's, and if their blood comingles while the baby is in utero, the mother's immune system will attack it, causing ABO and/ or Rh incompatibility, and frequently kill the baby, if the co-mingling happens early enough in the pregnancy. If it comes later, in the 3rd trimester, the baby may survive, but must be treated for the incompatibility. As a nurse, I've seen cases of both incompatibilities. So even though Mary was His very human and sin tainted as we all are, mother, His blood was, as always, from His Father, and His Father was not an human. That's why His blood had to be shed on that cross: He literally bore the penalty due each and every human who has or ever will live, all of it, and then shed His blood to cover our sins in the presence of His and our Father, so that we can enter His presence once again, without dying for doing so.
I hope this meets your need in terms of explanation. If there's something I haven't been clear enough about, please feel free to ask. I sometimes assume knowledge not there, because I know what I'm taking about, and forget not everyone has my background. I won't take offense. Honest curiosity is a pleasure to answer. If I don't know or am not sure, I make that known too.
Have a blessed weekend, Raphael ( God's healing, the meaning of your name in English).
Thank you for your kind answer, it confirmed my own thoughts, with a few added and important details. I find all of it very interesting. I have a different perspective regarding our relationship with the Divine, but I understand and absolutely respect the Christian teachings and they are evidently very important.
What I find lacking in many people is an earnest desire to come to the Truth...You seem to have this desire, but most lack such a desire, they just want to cruise along and compromise themselves and their own conscience, because everyone else does it. Some do terrible things and then confess and ask for forgiveness...and then begin the whole cycle again, and again, indefinitely up to their last breath.
When I was very young (and extremely naive) I thought I wanted to be a priest or minister. It makes me chuckle now thinking about it, I did not know much then, but I always had that sincere hunger to know God above all else, even as a teenager (I know, it is hard to believe). It is still with me, and I have gotten some answers along the way, and had some interesting experiences.
I knew about my name, thank you for mentioning it, my mother chose that name, I am glad she did.
Have a blessed weekend as well Sandra!
One of the things I have learned in my later yrs is that, for most people, truth is too scary, Like the Jack Nicholson line in "A Few Good Men", they generally can't handle the truth ( not that that to which the line referred was truth, or militarily sound, for that matter). Even in small doses it scares them, and if you knock over a sacred cow? YIKES, do they come unhinged!
Some call that the "God shaped hole" in us all, only He can fill it. I've had my ups and downs with Him too, mostly caused by other people and my own expectations of them, which don't materialize because I expects modicum of actual Christian behavior from them when they profess Christianity, If it helps any, God would love to have a relationship with you too.
I grew up in "Mafia country" so I know exactly what you mean about confession and then starting in again. We used to see the body guards in our ER regularly, call the police to report the wound, as required by law; they never showed up. I can imagine what those priests heard every Saturday. And I can imagine the shock on faces when they hear "I never knew you, depart from me, years wicked", at the Bema seat.
I'm glad you did ask, and I'm open to answer any other questions, if you like. As I said, if I don't know, or am unsure, I will say so. And I'm glad your Mom chose that name for you. I've seen some real doozies slapped on innocent babies.
Brave Heart + Brave Soul = Tessa Lena…..
Thank you, Larry!!!! Same to you!! There are so many of us who fit this description, and in that, there is hope!!
Happy Sunday Tessa.
Yes, many of us are on the journey from the Head to the Heart, and to the Divine Soul………..
a Souling we go……. Lantern Cove.
That is way too much.
Over-the-top writing!
Free will is a beautiful thing! :-)
The problems of the world are so numerous, so complex and so immense that they seem to be overwhelming and that no real, practical solutions could ever be implemented, because we have been trained to look at them within the context in which they were created, such as within hierarchies. We look at the elites, at government, at the authorities, at the powerful, and we complain, justly, and then we react to their edicts and policies, rather than acting completely independently of them according to the authentic needs and aspirations of our sovereign hearts and souls. We thus are always kept on the defensive and are kept busy looking and possible raging at a mirage, at the illusions of power and authority existing above us and keeping us down.
A month long journey into a pristine wilderness, far away from any trace of civilization, would reset our psychic clock and cause us to discover the completely illusory nature of civilization's hierarchical conventions, of power and authority and their absolute illegitimacy.
But we (I mean most of humanity) look for experts and leaders to save the day, for the good leaders to replace the bad ones, and some even hope for the coming of a mashiach or the return of a messiah. The thing is, we are all looking up as if we still were powerless and helpless children.
But we will reclaim and save our world when we stop looking up and instead look at each other, and understand that the power is within us and among us, it always was and always will be. The power is within our relationships (I mean in the way we relate to each other, I am not talking about intimate relationships or even family relationships). The power returns when we think of "us" rather than "me" exclusively or "them" (those above us). This "us" is not about collectivism, which is also held together by coercive command and control, by authoritarianism, totalitarianism and a strict pecking order, but about our humanity and the spiritual and physical kinship and unity of all life on this planet, which is a very real, tangible, practical, palpable thing as well as a spiritual reality.
We are all related (and "we" includes everything, all life forms and the planet itself, as well as the Divine presence that holds it all together).
That's the globalists' method! WE are not the power in creation! He Who created us is. He created each of us with a purpose in mind, and whether or not we find and fulfill that depends on our fre will choices in this life. But many in rebellion against Him seek to usurp His position, power and authority, by totalitarian control, yet He chose to give each and every creature free will, to choose the path to follow.
We are all connected, by virtue of having been created by Yhwh God, but we are not "related" to inanimate creations in the same way we are to living creatures, nor are we related to "lesser" creatures in the way we are connected to fellow humans or our Creator. The "Divine Presence" is not found in the lower forms, in the same way, and is not some mystical glue. He is the Holy Spirit, and He is only present among the redeemed.
Secular Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud displaced the spiritual concept (the Holy Trinity: “the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit), with “The Ego, The Id, the Super Ego).
Also, Freud redefined the concept of Eros as “Libido.”
To go deeper into the Mind of Freud, read: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 1920. And, The Ego and the Id. Also, Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930.
Happy Sunday from Lantern Cove.
I got acquainted with Freud, Jung, and others, during my student nursing days, back in the '60s, but I was Biblically oriented well before that, so I understand how people tick, but from the "God's eye" view. The Bible is, perhaps surprisingly, full of sound psychology.
Carl G. Jung,one of the best of his era. I read all of his books.
After writing a Thesis on Sigmund Freud, I concluded he had a dark side, which motivated him to write: MOSES and Monotheism, copyright 1939.
Dr. Freud was very popular among the Hippies (the counter-culture). Every where you go, the concept of Ego is ubiquitous. In a college debate team I was known as the anti-Freud guy. The pro-Freud students hated me, because I won every time…
Good night Sandra,,
Yes, Freud as a very sick man, in fact, IMO. One lesson learned early in my psych rotation, at a state hospital (we still had those), was that the majority of people who go into psychology and psychiatry do so in an effort to understand their own broken minds, and self heal, or find ways to cover up and excuse that brokenness; the latter has become dominant over the past several decades, and in excusing themselves, they're doing so on a general basis. By almost universally denying Yhwh God and our spiritual component, they can ignore free will choice involvement, and sin, both, as components in the brokenness, and make the absurd claim they were "born that way", the go on wild goose chases for "science" to back that up, while not fixing the problem at all. It's a sad statement on humans that Freud's theories still are popular in many circles. Good for you, seeing through his issues to the fact he was as sick as those he purported to "help".
Blessed night, and peaceful rest to you, Larry.
Thanks for blessing me.
Did you know Judith A. Reisman past away? www.DrJudithReisman.com,
www.DrJudithReisman.com/video. I recently read her last book: STOLEN HONOR-STOLEN INNOCENCE: How America was Betrayed by the Lies and Sexual Crimes of a Mad “Scientist.”
copyright 1998, 2000, 2003, 2014. Previous editions were title ,KINSEY: Crimes & Consequences.
Thank you for sharing Sandra. I was born in Hawaii 1951 to a secular working class family. In college I studied all the different “Brands” of Psychology, including the Paranormal (ParaPsychology). I wanted to be a Psychologist, however I shifted to Comparative Religion / Linguistics.
I would like to suggest a author: Neil Douglas-Klotz is an internationally known scholar in the fields connecting religious studies (comparative Semitic hermeneutics) and psychology as well as a poet and musician.
His latest book: Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus: The hidden Teachings on Life & Death.
“The Aramaic translations of Neil Douglas-Klotz cut through the rote & bring us to the deeper meanings of Jesus’s teachings that can still touch our hearts, and move our Souls, and ignite our action.”- -Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing.
Happy Sunday Sandra, from Lantern Cove
I'm originally from MO, but relocated to TX now. I will look this author up. I read a select group of truly Bible oriented teaching authors, . Since you're interested in the Aramaic, you might like to check out George Lamsa's translation if the Bible itself, from the Syriac (Aramaic language) version. There are some interesting variations from the typical translations into English, that I find intriguing. It's available on Amazon. I do find Israelite who have come to know Jesus too, to be very enlightening, when they don't stray too far out of the Torah into the Tanach teachings. Thanks for the tip; I haven't run across this author in my "travels" as yet.
Have a lovely blessed evening and week to come, from Irving.
Good evening Sandra, thank you for tip: George Lamsa.
I came across Neil Douglas-Klotz @ batgap.com, (Buddha at the gas pump)Podcast by Rick Archer. The video featured Neil Douglas-Klotz interview discussing his latest book.
Interesting...
I will not respond in a meaningful way, however, because I will not debate strong beliefs. Everyone is entitled to theirs, and to keep them as long as they serve them. Besides, it is almost impossible to have a real conversation in writing, as every word can and will be misinterpreted.
So what do we have in common? We both believe in a Creator. We both reject the globalist and authoritarian control that attempts to abolish free will, this most precious of Divine gifts. And we are both human beings.
That's a pretty good start. Maybe more than I have in common with most of the 2-legged critter on Earth....
I unfortunately feel the same way about most 2 legged critters...It is my belief that the world would definitively be a better place if it were populated by a vast majority of Christians who would actually walk the path of what is called "righteousness" (by this I simply mean choosing right over wrong, which is always a good start). Even merely applying something as basic as the golden rule, if nothing else, would cause some improvements!
Couldn't agree more!
How many Christian Leaders actually obey the Ten Commandments?
How many Christians do you know, who remember and can repeat the Ten Commandments?
What are Christian Values in America today?
Many religious individuals unfortunately pick and choose what they want to abide by, when it is convenient for them, and omit the rest of the teachings. They treat those teachings as a buffet, to indulge in what they want. Then they ask for forgiveness or to be saved, according to different doctrines. They are hypocrites. But hypocrisy is a common human trait, that is also seen everywhere in the political arena. Even some Native Americans have become hypocrites, talking very eloquently and beautifully but following a dark path. Very few people walk their talk, because it is difficult, and today more than ever...so it is always better not to talk so much and do more, or to be very upfront about our imperfections and failures.
Christians or not, everyone has a conscience...we know that we might be able to fool the entire world, but we cannot fool ourselves or erase our own actions from our own consciousness. Sooner or later, everyone has to face himself or herself. Some call it a "life review".
Many individuals believe that they have been hurt or are victimized, but are completely oblivious to the fact that they have hurt or are victimizing others as well. This is a universal problem that is exacerbated within the context of all close relationships (families, friendships, couples). Declaring oneself a total victim is then worn as a badge of honor, while forgetting that it usually take two individuals to create and maintain a bad situation, and that very few such situations are black and white (I once knew such a person, who deeply hurt everyone she was close to, including all of her friends, children and grandchildren, and yet always saw herself as a complete victim while often violently asserting that she was).
I believe that introspection and coming to term with our past, understand how we might have hurt others and why, how we affected them, and how we might have been hurt by others and how deeply, and how it has affected us, are always good ideas while we are still alive in the physical.
There is nothing wrong with following religious instructions...but honesty and sincerity are more important than anything else, in my view, because the Creator knows what is in our hearts, even when we try to hide it from others or from ourselves.
SPIRIT OF THE VALLEY:
The spirit of the Valley never dies,
the mystic mother whose pregnant womb
gives birth to All things.
That’s why she is called the root of nature.
Simply hold onto this, and
you will not need to work to understand.
—Lao Tze, 6th century BCE. (from the Tao Te Ching), China.
This brings up a very interesting point about the importance of experiences we had as infants. As our present culture doesn't seem to have much of a heart connection to infant rearing, with all the best of intentions we create some disastrous conditionings which have long term effects on our happiness and our cultural structure. Very briefly, infants need to have their needs met, and caregivers need to understand what those needs are. If needs, for example - need for attachment, is not being met repeatedly, the body will eventually have a trauma response to that lack and shut down. The body learns that it won't get what it needs, and learns not to trust that it will get what it needs. This knowing is in the body. When cognition comes along, the infant learns to deal with this issue cognitively, but that does not change what the body had already learned. But we want to be happy, so we look outside ourselves to find happiness: material things, success, power, distraction after distraction. But we never get enough - we confuse 'pleasant distraction' with happiness, which comes from the inside. Years ago I read that Gandhi and the Dalai Lama said that once our basic needs are met , happiness is an inside job. And if you want to understand the science of it all, please read Gabor Mate's recent book, 'The Myth of Normal'.
Gabor Mate is truly great...he parallels what Arthur Janov discovered and worked on before him, although they differ in their healing methods. One of Janov's best books is The Primal Revolution, and another good one is The Feeling Child, as well as Primal Mind: The New Consciousness. They might be out of print but can be found.
What does it mean to be “in the world, but not of it”? As spiritual aspirants, “How does this apply to me in my life, and is it really possible, especially in today’s technological world, which can be hective, invasive, confusing, and stressful and dangerous at times”?
When the weight of the World feels heavy or overwhelming, Jesus said, “Wear the World like a light garment.” In other words, you notice it, you experience it, but it is not your ultimate destination…it’s only transitory. The idea is not to sacrifice the Soul for the mortal body. There is far more than this earthly life.
“In the World, but not in it”- Jesus said to wear the world like a light garment. In other words, you notice it, you experience it, but it is not your ultimate destination…it’s only transitory. The idea is to not sacrifice the Soul for the mortal body. There is far more than this earthly life.
We are like a plant whose birthplace and home is the open and pristine nature, transplanted into a small pot. This is a transitory experience, which we should fully embrace while remembering that we are more than this. It is a balancing act, which Native Americans describe as walking with a foot in this physical world and a foot in the Spirit world.
A balancing act; the Physical & the Spiritual as one…
“Science without Spirituality is lame.” " Spirituality without Science is blind.” A. Einstein.
Hawaii time, 3:10 AM. Thanks for your analogy. Good Morning.
We were not born to lose ourselves in activities. Our purpose on Earth is to give and share the gifts our Soul desires to give and share….
Yes, we are called "human beings", not "human doings" or "human "havings"...Being should come first and always, and being involves love, which means giving and sharing.
Sharing is caring. Caring is sharing.
Life is an endless creative experience, and we are shaping at every moment by every decision we make.
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons for coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. If it chooses to leave your heart or the heart of your lover, there is nothing you can do and nothing you should do. Be glad that it came to live for a moment in your life. If you keep your heart open, it will surely come again… Love Cove...
I couldn't agree more.
Love does not belong to us...we belong to it. When we try to hold it, to make it captive because of our own insecurities and fears, it escapes, because it needs to remain free.
Hyper Consumer Culture transforms all of Life into Commodities, objects, nouns, etc.
LOVE is defined and expressed as a thing, object, commodity, a packaged gift, etc.
To Love is an activity, a verb.. We love, rather than we “make” Love. Love as a commodity? LOVE for SALE!!! To love unconditionally. Remember the popular song,”?" Where is the Love?
In this case, Love is an object someone is looking for. Or, how about the song “Feel Like Making Love,” This is the manufacturing of Love. Industrializing Love...
Yes, love becomes a commodity, something to possess to "serve one's needs", or even a trading currency, something people use to obtain what they really want, which usually makes for a very long list, but which has absolutely nothing to do with love.
There are as many forms of love as there are individuals in this world, yet I believe that very few know what love truly is, or even care to know, very few know or want true love.
It takes tremendous courage to love, to truly open one's heart and be completely vulnerable, and very few have that kind of courage. Besides, when you really open your heart, all kinds of things come out into the open, all kinds of old wounds are revealed, to oneself and to the other. True love and a large ego are not compatible, and most choose the ego. So they would rather not do this and just pretend and play the "game of love", but their hearts never actually open, and they consequently never understand the meaning of life and have to invent one, to "create meaning and purpose" in otherwise empty lives.
Right on, Raphael !
Coming soon, the Air we breathe will be a commodity. Air for Sale...