You made me think of this : Kintsugi ("golden joinery"), also known as Kintsukuroi ("golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.
The images of this symbolic and practical repair of broken "things" are very beautiful. And each "thing" repaired becomes a One-Of-A-Kind work of art.
I think this is what God does with broken people. If they say - YES!
As a nurse, and as a Christian, I learned about disconnection on 2 different levels. Medical circles know it as psychosis; Christian circles know it as demon oppression, or possession in worse cases. In the former, the person experiences periods of being unable to recognize reality from unreality, often in the form of hallucinations (sensory input that others do not receive, in the same time and place, which may involve only 1 or up to all 5 senses, at a given time). In ancient times, people were much more inclined to associate what we call mental illness today, with the actions of evil spirits; indeed that persisted well into the 19th century. Ghosts are believed to be the "trapped" (by unfinished business) spirits of dead people, whereas demons are believed, by many, to be more related to the Nephilim who died in Noah's flood, the offspring of human mothers and fallen angel fathers. But it seems to me what you're encountering is more likely the demon sort of spirits, since they need, and will cling to, living humans in order to work their evil in this world, while human ghosts seem more tied to places where bad things happened to them, such as murder scenes or battlefields. Demons carry a connotation most modern folks reject outright as anachronistic, and foolish to believe. And we are not talking the Hollywood versions like the "Exorcist" movies, at all; that's a rare, and very extreme, form of possession, and greatly exaggerated by Hollywood to boot, but Legion, whom Jesus healed, is an example thereof.
Psychosis is most apt to be seen on the urban streets among drunks and drug users, who are generally self medicating to try to tame their "demons", acting out violently, talking to no one you see, or slapping, perhaps, at bugs they feel on their bodies, that are not actually there, things like that. The there are the host of mental defenses the "damaged" use to avoid their demons, and, thus keep others away as well, denial, projecting, belittling or labeling others, to shut down confrontations about the demons plaguing them, etc. "The devil you know is better than the one you don't" is precisely why so many cling to their demons, and refuse to seek help to heal. Although we are born into a world of sin, we are not born "broken", that comes after birth, and most often in the earliest years of life, frequently at the hands of those we should be able to trust to protect us, and it's then the demons latch on. As with Legion, they have to be kicked out, and replaced, or come back worse, with friends. They generally do not go easily, but its not usually an exorcism that kicks them out, it's re-education, not in the sense of "brainwashing", or psy-ops, as we've seen in past efforts to change the thinking of masses; this is more a learning to distinguish what is real, from what is falsely perceived, or believed. You may hear the expression " old tapes" in connection with the healing process. The damage, is most often to the mind and spirit, so those are where healing has to take place. But those damaged, especially before age 6, have these old monologues in their minds that instantly replay, when a similar threat crops up, and those must be "erased" and "recorded over" to stop them interfering in life and relationships now. However, one must be willing to do the work involved in achieving that, which almost always means going back through the trauma emotionally, a painful and scary process, which many reject and refuse to do, hence prescribed or street medication to quell the demons' voices and urgings, but, unfortunately, leave them "in residence", ready to pop up again at the next threat of a repeat to the original hurt. This is what you're encountering, and it's not even you the other is pushing away, but some old wound the person perceives you as copying, so a " threat" to his little "safety bubble". Some little thing you said or did triggered the old tape... It's very like the PTSD soldiers suffer, in fact, but the wounds are not from war; rather, they are from severe physical and/or psychological abuse. The cognitive dissonance for a child, who instinctively knows he needs those adults to survive, but who are the source of his trauma, too, is tremendous, and causes that damage. And since abuse passes down generationally, until someone deliberately breaks the chain, multiplying in severity with each generation, you can see why we are surrounded by broken people now. Even other children not targeted by abuse directly are damaged by it occurring in their "world". Sexual abuse is the worst culprit, and is far more pervasive, and often sneaky, than people in general realize. The damaged people are often like ghosts themselves, as they seek to hide from their pain, and hide it from others, though the demons won't let either happen, but this is our postmodern world. Most are emotionally arrested at some early stage in life, and are truly children in adult bodies, because they can't get past the point of that trauma, 'til they choose to heal.
Your powerful Art Spirit voicing with integrity! You're not alone girlfriend! I must share the following I just found this week as I am confident it will resonate with you as much as it has with me and countless others like us, and inspire us to keep on keepin' on!! - OMFG, the most absolutely brilliant assessment of life on Earth at this Moment - even though it was penned 15yrs ago!
I have experienced what you so perfectly describe all of my life.
The ghost you speak of is actually synonymous with the AI that energizes the matrix. It is a spell that captures the soul eventually if we consent to it and consent to allow it to drain us, manipulate and control us. But as humans we are not well understood by the ghost who looks only to absorb energy, but cannot laugh, create anything, or connect to True Source/Father Mother God, whatever you call our God Parents. When the ghost goes inside it only sees an emptiness that scares it and animates it to consume energy (energy vampire) from anyone willing/consenting at the frequency of fear or anger or hate or sociopathy/psychopathy. You are amazing and I am grateful for you! We are not alone dear one, there are so many of us waking up!
Yes, community. I look at my grandkids so happy and alive. A simple cardboard box can bring hours of joy to them.and to Pop Pop too How to protect and nurture them? How to help them grow. To see them with their cousins and neighborhood families in the same boat gives one hope. But still......
“our culture often specifically rewards the act of siding with the ghosts with attractive temporary participation prizes. It does so in part due to bad collective habits and in part because it helps the Machine eat the participants. This act never ultimately works out for the individual in terms of happiness, and nature tends to punish self-betrayal with loss of control”
Very prescient. It’s interesting you chose to republish this because earlier today I was thinking my entire working career was filled with an uneasiness about what the technology I was working on enabled. That the praise and accolades were hollow. I rejected it and that pretty much stunted my advancement and effectivity.
But you nailed it so eloquently. I endured the pain, provided a comfortable life for my immediate family although detached from them in many ways all those years, and now “rooted in disciplined dedication to wisdom, courage, and one’s soul”.
Ch’en Tsai-heng of my city was sixty years old, a gentle, genial, and humorous man. He was walking at day’s end on the outskirts of the city when he saw two men carrying a fire in a lantern. He tried to light his pipe from the fire but could not manage it. One of the men said to him, “Have you passed your first ‘post mortem’ week yet?” Amazed, Ch’en replied simply, “Not yet.”
“That explains it,” the man said. “Your ‘sun-time spirits’ are not yet used up, so the shade-time fire won’t give you light.”
Realizing that he was speaking with the dead, Ch’en pretended to be one also. “The world claims that men fear ghosts; is that true?” he asked them.
"Not at all,” replied one of the ghost. “The truth is that ghosts fear men.”
“What is it about men that could frighten a ghost? asked Ch’en.
“Saliva.”
At once Ch’en took a deep breath and spat at them. The two ghosts retreated three paces. Glaring, they said angrily, “Then you are not a ghost !”
Ch’en laughed. “In fact, not to deceive you. I am a man who is near to a ghost —near enough to spit on you.” This he did again, and each ghost contracted to half its former size. He spat a third time and they vanished.
Hello beautiful soul. I needed your words just now. Lived in a house not unlike yours. I too am ready to give up fear. Thank you for healing me once again.
What a powerful essay this is. Thank you for calling out the true 'ghost in the machine,' with such clarity that invites us--each and every one--to rise up tall and simply refuse to invest our sacred souls into any such foolishness. What continues to amaze me is how so many people still seem so blind to what is going on. Wishing blessings of love, peace, healing, and freedom for us all!
You made me think of this : Kintsugi ("golden joinery"), also known as Kintsukuroi ("golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.
The images of this symbolic and practical repair of broken "things" are very beautiful. And each "thing" repaired becomes a One-Of-A-Kind work of art.
I think this is what God does with broken people. If they say - YES!
I don't like pain. I don't like fear. I don't like ghosts.
I wish all of the above away.
I am free.
Drugs are bad, umkay.
As a nurse, and as a Christian, I learned about disconnection on 2 different levels. Medical circles know it as psychosis; Christian circles know it as demon oppression, or possession in worse cases. In the former, the person experiences periods of being unable to recognize reality from unreality, often in the form of hallucinations (sensory input that others do not receive, in the same time and place, which may involve only 1 or up to all 5 senses, at a given time). In ancient times, people were much more inclined to associate what we call mental illness today, with the actions of evil spirits; indeed that persisted well into the 19th century. Ghosts are believed to be the "trapped" (by unfinished business) spirits of dead people, whereas demons are believed, by many, to be more related to the Nephilim who died in Noah's flood, the offspring of human mothers and fallen angel fathers. But it seems to me what you're encountering is more likely the demon sort of spirits, since they need, and will cling to, living humans in order to work their evil in this world, while human ghosts seem more tied to places where bad things happened to them, such as murder scenes or battlefields. Demons carry a connotation most modern folks reject outright as anachronistic, and foolish to believe. And we are not talking the Hollywood versions like the "Exorcist" movies, at all; that's a rare, and very extreme, form of possession, and greatly exaggerated by Hollywood to boot, but Legion, whom Jesus healed, is an example thereof.
Psychosis is most apt to be seen on the urban streets among drunks and drug users, who are generally self medicating to try to tame their "demons", acting out violently, talking to no one you see, or slapping, perhaps, at bugs they feel on their bodies, that are not actually there, things like that. The there are the host of mental defenses the "damaged" use to avoid their demons, and, thus keep others away as well, denial, projecting, belittling or labeling others, to shut down confrontations about the demons plaguing them, etc. "The devil you know is better than the one you don't" is precisely why so many cling to their demons, and refuse to seek help to heal. Although we are born into a world of sin, we are not born "broken", that comes after birth, and most often in the earliest years of life, frequently at the hands of those we should be able to trust to protect us, and it's then the demons latch on. As with Legion, they have to be kicked out, and replaced, or come back worse, with friends. They generally do not go easily, but its not usually an exorcism that kicks them out, it's re-education, not in the sense of "brainwashing", or psy-ops, as we've seen in past efforts to change the thinking of masses; this is more a learning to distinguish what is real, from what is falsely perceived, or believed. You may hear the expression " old tapes" in connection with the healing process. The damage, is most often to the mind and spirit, so those are where healing has to take place. But those damaged, especially before age 6, have these old monologues in their minds that instantly replay, when a similar threat crops up, and those must be "erased" and "recorded over" to stop them interfering in life and relationships now. However, one must be willing to do the work involved in achieving that, which almost always means going back through the trauma emotionally, a painful and scary process, which many reject and refuse to do, hence prescribed or street medication to quell the demons' voices and urgings, but, unfortunately, leave them "in residence", ready to pop up again at the next threat of a repeat to the original hurt. This is what you're encountering, and it's not even you the other is pushing away, but some old wound the person perceives you as copying, so a " threat" to his little "safety bubble". Some little thing you said or did triggered the old tape... It's very like the PTSD soldiers suffer, in fact, but the wounds are not from war; rather, they are from severe physical and/or psychological abuse. The cognitive dissonance for a child, who instinctively knows he needs those adults to survive, but who are the source of his trauma, too, is tremendous, and causes that damage. And since abuse passes down generationally, until someone deliberately breaks the chain, multiplying in severity with each generation, you can see why we are surrounded by broken people now. Even other children not targeted by abuse directly are damaged by it occurring in their "world". Sexual abuse is the worst culprit, and is far more pervasive, and often sneaky, than people in general realize. The damaged people are often like ghosts themselves, as they seek to hide from their pain, and hide it from others, though the demons won't let either happen, but this is our postmodern world. Most are emotionally arrested at some early stage in life, and are truly children in adult bodies, because they can't get past the point of that trauma, 'til they choose to heal.
Your powerful Art Spirit voicing with integrity! You're not alone girlfriend! I must share the following I just found this week as I am confident it will resonate with you as much as it has with me and countless others like us, and inspire us to keep on keepin' on!! - OMFG, the most absolutely brilliant assessment of life on Earth at this Moment - even though it was penned 15yrs ago!
https://dark-mountain.net/about/manifesto/
Let me know how this lands on you! peace love
I have experienced what you so perfectly describe all of my life.
The ghost you speak of is actually synonymous with the AI that energizes the matrix. It is a spell that captures the soul eventually if we consent to it and consent to allow it to drain us, manipulate and control us. But as humans we are not well understood by the ghost who looks only to absorb energy, but cannot laugh, create anything, or connect to True Source/Father Mother God, whatever you call our God Parents. When the ghost goes inside it only sees an emptiness that scares it and animates it to consume energy (energy vampire) from anyone willing/consenting at the frequency of fear or anger or hate or sociopathy/psychopathy. You are amazing and I am grateful for you! We are not alone dear one, there are so many of us waking up!
Yes, community. I look at my grandkids so happy and alive. A simple cardboard box can bring hours of joy to them.and to Pop Pop too How to protect and nurture them? How to help them grow. To see them with their cousins and neighborhood families in the same boat gives one hope. But still......
Thanks, Tessa, you're a treasure.
“our culture often specifically rewards the act of siding with the ghosts with attractive temporary participation prizes. It does so in part due to bad collective habits and in part because it helps the Machine eat the participants. This act never ultimately works out for the individual in terms of happiness, and nature tends to punish self-betrayal with loss of control”
Very prescient. It’s interesting you chose to republish this because earlier today I was thinking my entire working career was filled with an uneasiness about what the technology I was working on enabled. That the praise and accolades were hollow. I rejected it and that pretty much stunted my advancement and effectivity.
But you nailed it so eloquently. I endured the pain, provided a comfortable life for my immediate family although detached from them in many ways all those years, and now “rooted in disciplined dedication to wisdom, courage, and one’s soul”.
This resonated deeply, thank you✨🙏🏾✨
The Truth About Ghosts
Ch’en Tsai-heng of my city was sixty years old, a gentle, genial, and humorous man. He was walking at day’s end on the outskirts of the city when he saw two men carrying a fire in a lantern. He tried to light his pipe from the fire but could not manage it. One of the men said to him, “Have you passed your first ‘post mortem’ week yet?” Amazed, Ch’en replied simply, “Not yet.”
“That explains it,” the man said. “Your ‘sun-time spirits’ are not yet used up, so the shade-time fire won’t give you light.”
Realizing that he was speaking with the dead, Ch’en pretended to be one also. “The world claims that men fear ghosts; is that true?” he asked them.
"Not at all,” replied one of the ghost. “The truth is that ghosts fear men.”
“What is it about men that could frighten a ghost? asked Ch’en.
“Saliva.”
At once Ch’en took a deep breath and spat at them. The two ghosts retreated three paces. Glaring, they said angrily, “Then you are not a ghost !”
Ch’en laughed. “In fact, not to deceive you. I am a man who is near to a ghost —near enough to spit on you.” This he did again, and each ghost contracted to half its former size. He spat a third time and they vanished.
—Huang Chun-tsai.
Hello beautiful soul. I needed your words just now. Lived in a house not unlike yours. I too am ready to give up fear. Thank you for healing me once again.
This is the Zombie Apocalypse, I thought it would be different, I expected more gore, but it’s as painful.
Oh, to heal and avoid all the ghosts
To drive the demons up the coast
The universe is one
Repairs have already begun
Have a happiness party... be the host.
https://timothywiney.substack.com/p/agenda-2030
What a powerful essay this is. Thank you for calling out the true 'ghost in the machine,' with such clarity that invites us--each and every one--to rise up tall and simply refuse to invest our sacred souls into any such foolishness. What continues to amaze me is how so many people still seem so blind to what is going on. Wishing blessings of love, peace, healing, and freedom for us all!