Mahalo Peter, about two weeks ago I received ALMOST DEAD INDIANS: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects Book 5, by Trace Hentz. What a great read!
Perhaps that is because of how we define "God". Whether we choose to refer to "God" or "Creator" it applies to the epitome of all truth, love and justice, i.e "good". The opposite of all selfishness, pride, lies or deception, i.e "evil". If we "look within" we inevitably fall into the trap/deception of becoming our own 'god'. If we look outside of our self we look to the true "Creator" the true source of all life for all else - both in the spiritual and physical sense. We have to be honest with ourselves - we are not this "perfection". That realm belongs to the Creator alone. The real Creator cannot deny him/her self, cannot act contrary to the "perfection" of "God the Creator" of life. There cannot exist simultaneously good and evil or life and death and be "true" or truly be, "I AM". Such would annilhilate or destroy itself. There are many "wanna be gods" and "wanna be lords". Tessa names them "dominators" which is only one characteristic of them. To have that trait ruling "within" the soul would ultimately destroy itself, the rest of humanity and the world. No one of us created creatures can substitute for the True Creator". Not any thing of the creation can be the Creator. Are we truly living the life the Creator intended for us to live? It's a matter for self-examination and introspection - between each soul and the Creator.
This is the post that I have been waiting for!!!! To say you have nailed the best way to look at life in a single article sounds dogmatic, which I am not. And yet I want to put a ring on this one and marry it!
Your beautiful article, Tessa, just embraced my soul with a warm hug and a gentle kiss.
Here is something which says we are diverging into humans with more loving consciousness, and humans with a more fearful and dominant consciousness. I saw it yesterday, but I saw a much better presentation of it, more geometric, about the time that you first posted this in October 2023. Anyway, here it is, but I disagree with her including entropy and physics in the story. I don't see how it works unless a lot of people go to live in D.U.M.B.s (deep underground military bases) and others like us take our chances on the surface. https://youtu.be/s-2YBblXmPc
When I first started practicing Buddhism, the spring before 9/11/01, I had a lot of conflicts seem to come up like pimples in my life.
An older Dharma friend laughed and said that "people thought they would get peaceful when they began the path, but that actually all of your shit comes up for you to deal with it".
May that be the case now in our shared and co-created world-reality.
Tessa, this just hit me where it hurts. So true. Do not want to take sides. Am sick of the games played by most humans. I just want to be reunited with my soul and this beautiful earth. And other people who don't care for fairy tales or ideals.
My dear, I am sending you hugs, and pray for you to be in the sweetest union with your soul and this beautiful Earth!! You deserve it, you so deserve it
So many deep nods as I read this. Thank you for putting words to what plays in so many of our hearts.
I try to read your work (as I do, everyone’s) with a critical eye looking for places I disagree, or where I feel as if you are convincing me of something. But again and again, you lay down your weapons and simply allow us to see and make choices for ourselves. This is a rare and beautiful gift. Thank you.
"I believe that the world is driven largely by spiritual and emotional states. To me, the most important distinction is not between the “opinion camps” but between the people who respect other people’s free will and the sanctity of their soul—and the ones who don’t.”
I think many people are still in essence lacking an individual soul.
Their soul follows their tribe, whatever it may be.
Building an individual soul is not just building self esteem, but building a connection between reality and what's inside you. The more you are in sync with reality, the less you absorb "reality" through group think. It's not an easy process as we have seen that cancelling comes from both sides stubbornly.
It helps to know that these people are still essentially emotionally children. I think it was Bernays that found out that the average emotional age of Americans was around 12y/o!
Here's another interesting aspect, the fawn response which keeps people following authorities, bullies, abusers, etc
"Yes! This fawn response explains why people who questioned the governments when it came to COVID, go along with horrible wars, trusting the same governments!
It used to annoy me, but these days I see them like emotional robots.
I hope this crap becomes less common, but there's a feedback loop. A maladjusted society leads to people who are maladjusted.
Perhaps the issue is that instead of wanting to know the truth, they just want to know what's the most correct thing to say. Correct is relative to the tribe and is not always the truth."
"To me, the person who hates “the Arabs” and the person who hates “the Jews” are the same person. The person who wishes pain on the unvaxxed and the person who wishes pain on the vaxxed are the same person. The members of clergy who are in favor of annihilating or humiliating various barbarians and infidels—because the outsiders aren’t properly Christian, or Muslim, or Jewish, or Buddhist, or whatever the case may be, are the same person. The conniving agent of the KGB and the conniving agent of the CIA are the same person. The CIA agents moonlighting as Arab leaders, or Jewish leaders, or important members of various clergy, or BLM activists, or brave COVID dissidents—all these extremely diverse individuals, even as they try to kill each other, are the same person, seeking to dominate! "
This resonates deeply. I've always been 'the devils advocate' in that I seem to be able to see both sides. Sometimes I desperately wish I could pick a side. Indeed some people in my life have turned their back on me because I couldn't. Yes, I could see injustice. But where does the injustice originate? What causes someone to hurt another person? How were they disconnected from their humanity to be able to inflict suffering on another. It seems lazy to just demand revenge for injustice without trying to understand that this just adds to the suffering and propagates the pain. It doesn't make sense to me that if someone is acting out their own pain, and we punish them without going deeper and finding out how to resolve their pain, they will continue causing suffering in more and more people. I know that seems naive. And I'm not suggesting for a moment that we let people off the hook for causing harm. I'm suggesting that somehow, we need to stop this reflexive need to shut people down, shame them, treat them like human garbage and start healing our individual and collective suffering. Sometimes it seems hopeless, but we CAN and we MUST reclaim our humanity. I don't think anyone wants the kind of world that we're creating for our children. Healing starts within.
went to a "jazz festival" this afternoon. saw a violinist. she was good, but half of what was playing through the PA was on her ipod.
old technology - she joked about that.
my first reaction was disgust. there are no drum machines in jazz. forget about karaoke. you know me i'm oldschool.
then i thought to myself, maybe i should just appreciate what she was doing without any reference to musical styles, whether this was jazz or karaoke or whatever. and then i just watched her fingers and listened.
divide and conquer is a bitch. especially when it comes to musical styles.
Tessa, I love your way of putting things as it is so in sync with how I feel, how I think, my experience and where I am in my long journey NOW. Thank you for being a voice out there letting me know that soon we can all come together, and I no longer will be told to "shut up" or that I am dangerous, because I have my own unique perspective. One of my favorite authors, Sheri S Tepper; wrote a fiction book, which I believe holds so much fact and wisdom, about a tribe of beings that could not declare anything "truth" until everyone who was present either at the event that occurred or where the discussion was occurring about it, gave their perspective and perceptions about it. Everyone listening to the story, listened with complete attention and actively to what each individual said before the tribal elders came to any conclusion. Every shared experience, individual experience or idea was given an EAGLE EYE view instead of a mouse's view. Everyone was given respect and love and the whole tribal organism was nourished. You described way or seeing things perfectly. And dear woman, you are right that to get off the need to be seated on the "pile of brown" on either side makes you one with the "pile-of-brown" sitters, nothing more and nothing less.
I love raw organic philosophy. More soulosophy, from Tessa the Soulosopher…..
Thank you, Larry!!! Music to my ears :)
Tessa, I love the words Soulosophy & Soulosopher.
“Tessa makes Language spiritually soulful.” The way it needs to be.
Thank you, Larry!!! it is so kind of you
Great description : “raw organic philosophy” … Perfect, beautiful...
Mahalo Peter, about two weeks ago I received ALMOST DEAD INDIANS: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects Book 5, by Trace Hentz. What a great read!
I love Tessa. But philosophy is a dead end. It is man's nonsensical babbling in the absence of God.
Perhaps that is because of how we define "God". Whether we choose to refer to "God" or "Creator" it applies to the epitome of all truth, love and justice, i.e "good". The opposite of all selfishness, pride, lies or deception, i.e "evil". If we "look within" we inevitably fall into the trap/deception of becoming our own 'god'. If we look outside of our self we look to the true "Creator" the true source of all life for all else - both in the spiritual and physical sense. We have to be honest with ourselves - we are not this "perfection". That realm belongs to the Creator alone. The real Creator cannot deny him/her self, cannot act contrary to the "perfection" of "God the Creator" of life. There cannot exist simultaneously good and evil or life and death and be "true" or truly be, "I AM". Such would annilhilate or destroy itself. There are many "wanna be gods" and "wanna be lords". Tessa names them "dominators" which is only one characteristic of them. To have that trait ruling "within" the soul would ultimately destroy itself, the rest of humanity and the world. No one of us created creatures can substitute for the True Creator". Not any thing of the creation can be the Creator. Are we truly living the life the Creator intended for us to live? It's a matter for self-examination and introspection - between each soul and the Creator.
This is the post that I have been waiting for!!!! To say you have nailed the best way to look at life in a single article sounds dogmatic, which I am not. And yet I want to put a ring on this one and marry it!
Your beautiful article, Tessa, just embraced my soul with a warm hug and a gentle kiss.
Thank you Steshu Dostoevsky, this is quite a compliment!!! Thank you so much
Here is something which says we are diverging into humans with more loving consciousness, and humans with a more fearful and dominant consciousness. I saw it yesterday, but I saw a much better presentation of it, more geometric, about the time that you first posted this in October 2023. Anyway, here it is, but I disagree with her including entropy and physics in the story. I don't see how it works unless a lot of people go to live in D.U.M.B.s (deep underground military bases) and others like us take our chances on the surface. https://youtu.be/s-2YBblXmPc
When I first started practicing Buddhism, the spring before 9/11/01, I had a lot of conflicts seem to come up like pimples in my life.
An older Dharma friend laughed and said that "people thought they would get peaceful when they began the path, but that actually all of your shit comes up for you to deal with it".
May that be the case now in our shared and co-created world-reality.
I find your raw philosophical rants very restorative because they ring true and inspire hope - thanks
Thank you, Andrew!! It is very kind of you to say that!
Tessa, this just hit me where it hurts. So true. Do not want to take sides. Am sick of the games played by most humans. I just want to be reunited with my soul and this beautiful earth. And other people who don't care for fairy tales or ideals.
My dear, I am sending you hugs, and pray for you to be in the sweetest union with your soul and this beautiful Earth!! You deserve it, you so deserve it
So many deep nods as I read this. Thank you for putting words to what plays in so many of our hearts.
I try to read your work (as I do, everyone’s) with a critical eye looking for places I disagree, or where I feel as if you are convincing me of something. But again and again, you lay down your weapons and simply allow us to see and make choices for ourselves. This is a rare and beautiful gift. Thank you.
Also, I thought your drawing was perfect.
Thank you, your words are so honoring. Big hugs to you!!!
"I believe that the world is driven largely by spiritual and emotional states. To me, the most important distinction is not between the “opinion camps” but between the people who respect other people’s free will and the sanctity of their soul—and the ones who don’t.”
Yes!!
Thank you, Peter!!
I came upon this recently
"Understanding is a three-edged sword:
your side, their side, and the truth"
Vorlon proverb
Babylon 5
I think many people are still in essence lacking an individual soul.
Their soul follows their tribe, whatever it may be.
Building an individual soul is not just building self esteem, but building a connection between reality and what's inside you. The more you are in sync with reality, the less you absorb "reality" through group think. It's not an easy process as we have seen that cancelling comes from both sides stubbornly.
It helps to know that these people are still essentially emotionally children. I think it was Bernays that found out that the average emotional age of Americans was around 12y/o!
Here's another interesting aspect, the fawn response which keeps people following authorities, bullies, abusers, etc
https://hopeshortcut.substack.com/p/the-fawn-stress-response
My response to that article:
"Yes! This fawn response explains why people who questioned the governments when it came to COVID, go along with horrible wars, trusting the same governments!
It used to annoy me, but these days I see them like emotional robots.
I hope this crap becomes less common, but there's a feedback loop. A maladjusted society leads to people who are maladjusted.
Perhaps the issue is that instead of wanting to know the truth, they just want to know what's the most correct thing to say. Correct is relative to the tribe and is not always the truth."
Hey Tessa, talking about concepts of domination, “The Chalice & The Blade,” by Riane Eisler. copyright 1987, Harper & Row.
Thank you, Larry!! I will check it out!
If life in our beloved Clown World has kept you from checking it out yet...just scroll down to the bottom of the page and choose/click on Epub or PDF format. The site doesn't make a specific recommendation about using a VPN, but I always use one...just in case. https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/riane-eisler/pdf-epub-the-chalice-and-the-blade-our-history-our-future-updated-with-a-new-epilogue-download-97200544886/
All Wars Are Banker Wars.
Including Smedley Butler's speech "War is a Racket".
Also see " Everything is a Rich Man's Trick", if you haven't already. It's on youtube.
https://rumble.com/v3jj4nw-documentary-all-wars-are-bankers-wars.html
Longer form of his 1930s touring speech, with chapters & all that stuff...but a very fast read. Scroll to bottom of page & choose Epub or PDF. Just in case, use a VPN if you have one. https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/smedley-d-butler/pdf-epub-war-is-a-racket-download-43948340369/
'....but his soul knows'.
What we need, are conscious souls.
❤
"To me, the person who hates “the Arabs” and the person who hates “the Jews” are the same person. The person who wishes pain on the unvaxxed and the person who wishes pain on the vaxxed are the same person. The members of clergy who are in favor of annihilating or humiliating various barbarians and infidels—because the outsiders aren’t properly Christian, or Muslim, or Jewish, or Buddhist, or whatever the case may be, are the same person. The conniving agent of the KGB and the conniving agent of the CIA are the same person. The CIA agents moonlighting as Arab leaders, or Jewish leaders, or important members of various clergy, or BLM activists, or brave COVID dissidents—all these extremely diverse individuals, even as they try to kill each other, are the same person, seeking to dominate! "
This resonates deeply. I've always been 'the devils advocate' in that I seem to be able to see both sides. Sometimes I desperately wish I could pick a side. Indeed some people in my life have turned their back on me because I couldn't. Yes, I could see injustice. But where does the injustice originate? What causes someone to hurt another person? How were they disconnected from their humanity to be able to inflict suffering on another. It seems lazy to just demand revenge for injustice without trying to understand that this just adds to the suffering and propagates the pain. It doesn't make sense to me that if someone is acting out their own pain, and we punish them without going deeper and finding out how to resolve their pain, they will continue causing suffering in more and more people. I know that seems naive. And I'm not suggesting for a moment that we let people off the hook for causing harm. I'm suggesting that somehow, we need to stop this reflexive need to shut people down, shame them, treat them like human garbage and start healing our individual and collective suffering. Sometimes it seems hopeless, but we CAN and we MUST reclaim our humanity. I don't think anyone wants the kind of world that we're creating for our children. Healing starts within.
This is a very beautiful piece, written by someone with a very beautiful soul. Thank you.
Thank you, Phillip!!
went to a "jazz festival" this afternoon. saw a violinist. she was good, but half of what was playing through the PA was on her ipod.
old technology - she joked about that.
my first reaction was disgust. there are no drum machines in jazz. forget about karaoke. you know me i'm oldschool.
then i thought to myself, maybe i should just appreciate what she was doing without any reference to musical styles, whether this was jazz or karaoke or whatever. and then i just watched her fingers and listened.
divide and conquer is a bitch. especially when it comes to musical styles.
Tessa, I love your way of putting things as it is so in sync with how I feel, how I think, my experience and where I am in my long journey NOW. Thank you for being a voice out there letting me know that soon we can all come together, and I no longer will be told to "shut up" or that I am dangerous, because I have my own unique perspective. One of my favorite authors, Sheri S Tepper; wrote a fiction book, which I believe holds so much fact and wisdom, about a tribe of beings that could not declare anything "truth" until everyone who was present either at the event that occurred or where the discussion was occurring about it, gave their perspective and perceptions about it. Everyone listening to the story, listened with complete attention and actively to what each individual said before the tribal elders came to any conclusion. Every shared experience, individual experience or idea was given an EAGLE EYE view instead of a mouse's view. Everyone was given respect and love and the whole tribal organism was nourished. You described way or seeing things perfectly. And dear woman, you are right that to get off the need to be seated on the "pile of brown" on either side makes you one with the "pile-of-brown" sitters, nothing more and nothing less.