I look at the Libra solar eclipse, tell some of what I learned roaming Western New York, consider the CIA's potential involvement in A Course in Miracles, and visit with James Joyce.
"How do we get through the day...?" makes me think of laughter in the trenches.
Oscillating apogee/ Dark Moon Lilith gives me a dark, yet pleasant shiver. Hmm...(?)
At apogee Moon is under the least influence and most distance from Earth before swinging back around.
This suggests to me something about using the time away from spheres of influence for reflection, regrouping and such.
Trust. Fidelity, sound recording-wise is closeness to original source. Spiritually awakened could be said to be high fidelity. Our physical source is mother, metaphysical source Prime Creator. If one's mother damages one's trust does this damage spiritual trust? This then is one of the reasons for religious, political, gender fanaticism. The guilt, fear, anger, violence that comes from missing the whole divine point altogether. Rather than the calmness that ultimately comes from turning back to face the progenital Cosmic Cunt and the ongoing inner teacher.
Lovin the Vision Quest. Glad to hear you're rekindling.
Two of the great and memorable songs in this genre describe young men's feeling of alienation from women. This is in the early/mid 1980s..."I Ran" by Flock of Seagulls and "Temptation" by New Order. Then there is "Modern Love is Automatic" (more Seagulls, that's a curious dystopian song).
Then we have Alphaville...wherein you make out with your girlfriend in the middle of an intersection because it's the thing to do...you get excited about going to the movies...experience the incredible freedom of jet air travel...and openly appreciate the liberty afforded by modern society. I love them.
Great to hear about the Western New York excursion. Never explored the area along Lake Ontario, indeed only up in Western New York that one time, in September 1964, to visit Niagara Falls.
I can't even think of as many as 10 people i encounter frequently (in person), a few of them in retail spaces and farmers markets. I just don't get around much in the post-COVID world, and living in Covidian Berkeley doesn't help.
One segment , Seneca Falls, i feel put forth something which someone could have thought you meant, i don't think that's what you meant. Sure, the world has not changed for the better since Seneca Falls due to changes in how society treats women. But that's not remotely simply because of the changing treatment. Much more because of society being colonized, industrialized, mechanized, electrified, digitized,....with energy sucked out of humans and the natural world in order to enrich a small and shrinking elite. Modern destructive "feminism" is more a symptom of this than the cause.
I am not saying feminism caused these changes, and it was likely the result of increasing electrification of society that created feminism (I will share my emails to Fiamengo privately). However, it's a perverse theory that defined men as perverts and slave-drivers and defined problems in a self-destructive way.
Feminism, which has nothing to with anyone or anything being feminine, is the equivalent of Cola-Cola being a suitable solution to a person needing hydration. It's like watering crops with Gatorade in the movie Idiocracy. It's the wrong solution to a misunderstood, misstated problem and amounts to nothing more than a thoughtless power grab.
Without feminism, women would have attained parity with men in many fields of life. It would have happened in a more holistic way and been less involved with economics. And with a more enlightened feminism, the concept of rights would be matched by that of responsibilities. Women need to be teachers, not people with a crow bar smashing liquor bottles in a tavern because men are evil. And let's be real. Drunk women are as much of a problem as drunk men.
And lets be real: temperance/suffrage/feminism which were one movement that won prohibition and created the uprise of the ultimate patriarchy, the Mafia.
Yeah, i said i was pretty sure that wasn't your perspective, only that it left an impression of this for someone who doesn't know your full perspective. Good analogy re Coca Cola!!
"Without feminism, women would have attained parity with men in many fields of life. It would have happened in a more holistic way and been less involved with economics." Speculative, like saying African Americans would have attained parity without the Civil Rights Movement, or slaves would have been free without the Civil War (there are revisionists saying that).
"And lets be real: temperance/suffrage/feminism which were one movement that won prohibition and created the uprise of the ultimate patriarchy, the Mafia."
Of course it's speculative. We don't have another world to experiment on. And I dare say that the civil rights movement had much more integrity than feminism. Former African slaves and their descendants had a lot more to complain about than pampered wealthy women.
There would have been many forces of society driving the need for women's participation, including their desire to do so, and diminishing serious objections by men, for example, to women being educated and voting. There were some early feminists who felt that gradually, as parity was attained in things like education, legal practice and so forth, that "feminism" would give way to a program of improving society for everyone.
But that does not wash with a philosophy where there can be no definition of winning because the battle must always rage on. And we think that this is a battle between the sexes, but that is the scrim. It's a battle among women and within women's bodies; it is feminism that has turned women's bodies into a battlefield by twisting the meaning and definition of womanhood beyond recognition. It has turned many women against themselves.
We do have to ask ourselves if anything is better thanks to any of these movements. We think that slavery was abolished, but the 13th Amendment merely moves it to the prisons, where black people are severely disproportionately over-represented. Totally legal slavery, of millions of black men. Today.
The contemporary forms of acceptable slavery are never seen as such. It's always legacy definitions of slavery that people have problems with. Nobody with an iPhone or any electronic device made by Foxconn or whoever has a right to whine about the slavery of 1850. The people who make these devices are wage slaves, often confined to a "campus," but we choose not to see this as slavery. This is why digital carriers can afford to give phones away free.
And there are no civil rights in a country where George Zimmerman is acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin. We do a lot of kidding ourselves with these narratives.
All wage workers are wage slaves. There were hardly any people living by wage work till the large landlords in late medieval England began expropriating the ancestral lands of subsistence farmers, expelling them from the land, furthermore enclosing more and more of the Commons, depriving them of hunting-gathering territories. The dispossessed had no way of surviving outside of wage work. This was The Enclosures, this was the start of actual capitalism. This system was extended elsewhere to first the rest of the British Isles, then Europe, then other continents, including North America, where ALL the land was stolen from its indigenous inhabitants, who were then kept out of their traditional territories, as were those Europeans and Africans who didn't own any of the stolen parcels handed out by large interests. That's how the WHO:LE WORLD Is, bro' . Seriously, having a cellphone does not remotely render one not a wage slave, it's a survival necessity in the modern industrial world, often a necessity for one's wage labor position.
"We do have to ask ourselves if anything is better thanks to any of these movements."
Seriously? You think getting rid of blatant segregation, even re water fountains, was no big deal? You weren't around to see the reality of that. Yes, we as a society have not gone remotely far enough beyond that, for sure, but that's hardly to say that nothing is better. Would it be better for the US to still be in a war in Vietnam?
So are cars, TVs, radios,......, virtually everything we buy, including most of our food. .Remember how and where the "assembly line" started? But yes, indeed a problem that wage slaves who use these as well as cell phones aren't aware of the fact that these items have all been produced by slaves, wage slaves, and that they are as well, regardless of their access to such goodies.
Eric, Re Course in Miracles, an evolutionary astrologer, Ari Moeshe Wolf is devoted to the study of the Course in Miracles. He sometimes shares his insights, and speaks of trying to study daily. His wife Michelle is astrologer, and they have young family. Ari has Jewish background and is song writer also. (my first natal chart reading was with Ari). I Trust this information is of assistance, from Julie (nz.)
Helen Schucman was not the embittered person you seemed to portray her to be. Helen didn't want the material to turn into another 'Seth Speaks.' Helen didn't want to be a celebrity. I would strongly suggest that you read 'Absence From Felicity.' Kenneth Wapnick was the hand behind 'Absence From Felicity.' Kenneth Wapnick explains in the book that Helen still and always loves Jesus. I also suggest Kenneth Wapnick's Journey Through The Text, and Journey Through the Workbook. He also wrote 'The Journey Home,' 'A Vast Illusion of Time', The Message of A Course In Miracles,' 'Love Does Not Condemn.' Jesus & Forgiveness.' Helen wrote her own autobiography called Helen's Autobiography.' It's a free download @ Foundation For Inner Peace.
There was a control thing going on with Kenneth Wapnick and the publications. Eventually it all got sorted out the most wonderful way and the 'Circle of the Atonement' Made a Complete & Annotated Edition which is based on the original handwritten notes of Helen Schucman. Truly a beautiful publication that opens up the whole Course wonderfully! I have most books written by Kenneth Wapnick about A Course In Miracles. I guess you might qualify me as a scholar of A Course In Miracles because I have been reading the Course and most books related to the Course for the last 13 years, including Marriam Williamson & Jon Munday publishing about A Course In Miracles. The CIA affiliation with Bill Tetford I found to be before the Course was ever channeled.
Helen went back to school after graduating in 1937. By 1958 she was a psychologist and during the years with Bill Tetford she wore many hats including consultant to research programs together.
At the end of her own autobiography Helen wrote; "...Forgiveness is the means by which we will remember. Through forgiveness the thinking of the world is reversed. The forgiven world becomes the gate of Heaven, because by its mercy we can at last forgive ourselves. Holding no one prisoner to guilt, we become free. Acknowledging Christ in all our brothers, we recognize His Presence in ourselves. Forgetting all our misperceptions, and with nothing from the past to hold us back, we can remember God. Beyond this, learning cannot go. When we are ready, God Himself will take the final step in our return to Him."
"We're watching the whole thing played back in reverse"
Exactly!
Eric, consider this general sentence that I heard from a historian and politologist: the State is always at war with the Nation.
I think it explains a lot. This seems true to me. The Nation is somewhat natural, organic. The state is a counterfeit, a bad solution for the classic problem of civil war. The survival of the state depends on perpetual expansion, and on eroding anything natural about human interpersonal relationships.
Nationalism is dehumanizing and it always ends up feeding the State and crushing the Nation. These days people conflate, perhaps by ignorance, Nationalism with Patriotism. The difference is: nationalists exploit the corpses of victims and the tears of survivors, like in a natural disaster, but patriots join the victims and raise them from the mud.
The people of every Nation have a natural right remove from power the people who run the State. Karl Popper argued in his definition of Democracy: the legal possibility to peacefully remove a Government is the main characteristic of a Democratic Nation, and the opposite is tyranny.
I think that the Nations who lose that legal possibility are in deep trouble, and of those who have it and don't use we can say their trouble in the long term is much worse.
It's the love of your land coupled with the preference of good things happening to your people, even those who you don't like, simply because of a common culture that banefits everyone.
It is pre-political insofar as ideas, beliefs and preferences of this kind have probably existed long before there was any polis or city, and any classical form of politics.
Sometimes, wandering individuals are incorporated into a nation. This is more difficult with wandering groups of people. But politics forces people of a nation to destroy their land and to do things that damage everyone.
I think politics is self-servient always, and any peaceful group of people are targets of destruction of politicians.
Then we have individualism, a concept that has good arguments for and also some good critiques. I just want to say that, at least for now, I think individuals are better off within a well-functioning nation than completely at the mercy of the State. Politics is a great evil that is not going away yet. The idea of absoulte indiviualism in practical terms of today amounts to be enslaved with heavier chains than pre-political concepts.
There are bio-regions, which make sense in a physical sense, and the people who inhabit them. And then there is the notion of "nation," which is based entirely upon a human construct, a political entity. What makes Germans German? How did Pomeranians figure in? And Prussians? (The history is what i'm talking about)
Iām talking about the emotions and beliefs of people. Something like intangible intellectual inheritance. All those things existed before modern politics and its irrational jargon.
Itās wrong, in my opinion, to use modern and postmodern language and anti-concepts to study very ancient realities of the human experience.
You are ignoring my angle. I deduce that any further exchange will be disadvantageous for both you and me.
"How do we get through the day...?" makes me think of laughter in the trenches.
Oscillating apogee/ Dark Moon Lilith gives me a dark, yet pleasant shiver. Hmm...(?)
At apogee Moon is under the least influence and most distance from Earth before swinging back around.
This suggests to me something about using the time away from spheres of influence for reflection, regrouping and such.
Trust. Fidelity, sound recording-wise is closeness to original source. Spiritually awakened could be said to be high fidelity. Our physical source is mother, metaphysical source Prime Creator. If one's mother damages one's trust does this damage spiritual trust? This then is one of the reasons for religious, political, gender fanaticism. The guilt, fear, anger, violence that comes from missing the whole divine point altogether. Rather than the calmness that ultimately comes from turning back to face the progenital Cosmic Cunt and the ongoing inner teacher.
Lovin the Vision Quest. Glad to hear you're rekindling.
oye this world š
Two of the great and memorable songs in this genre describe young men's feeling of alienation from women. This is in the early/mid 1980s..."I Ran" by Flock of Seagulls and "Temptation" by New Order. Then there is "Modern Love is Automatic" (more Seagulls, that's a curious dystopian song).
Then we have Alphaville...wherein you make out with your girlfriend in the middle of an intersection because it's the thing to do...you get excited about going to the movies...experience the incredible freedom of jet air travel...and openly appreciate the liberty afforded by modern society. I love them.
And their distinctly lighthearted view of queer: "If she's a lady, I'm a man. If she's a man, I'll do what I can."
euro pop!! kraftwerk, new order, OMD, human league
pet shop boys and daft punk
Flock of Seagulls...
Great to hear about the Western New York excursion. Never explored the area along Lake Ontario, indeed only up in Western New York that one time, in September 1964, to visit Niagara Falls.
I can't even think of as many as 10 people i encounter frequently (in person), a few of them in retail spaces and farmers markets. I just don't get around much in the post-COVID world, and living in Covidian Berkeley doesn't help.
One segment , Seneca Falls, i feel put forth something which someone could have thought you meant, i don't think that's what you meant. Sure, the world has not changed for the better since Seneca Falls due to changes in how society treats women. But that's not remotely simply because of the changing treatment. Much more because of society being colonized, industrialized, mechanized, electrified, digitized,....with energy sucked out of humans and the natural world in order to enrich a small and shrinking elite. Modern destructive "feminism" is more a symptom of this than the cause.
I am not saying feminism caused these changes, and it was likely the result of increasing electrification of society that created feminism (I will share my emails to Fiamengo privately). However, it's a perverse theory that defined men as perverts and slave-drivers and defined problems in a self-destructive way.
Feminism, which has nothing to with anyone or anything being feminine, is the equivalent of Cola-Cola being a suitable solution to a person needing hydration. It's like watering crops with Gatorade in the movie Idiocracy. It's the wrong solution to a misunderstood, misstated problem and amounts to nothing more than a thoughtless power grab.
Without feminism, women would have attained parity with men in many fields of life. It would have happened in a more holistic way and been less involved with economics. And with a more enlightened feminism, the concept of rights would be matched by that of responsibilities. Women need to be teachers, not people with a crow bar smashing liquor bottles in a tavern because men are evil. And let's be real. Drunk women are as much of a problem as drunk men.
And lets be real: temperance/suffrage/feminism which were one movement that won prohibition and created the uprise of the ultimate patriarchy, the Mafia.
Yeah, i said i was pretty sure that wasn't your perspective, only that it left an impression of this for someone who doesn't know your full perspective. Good analogy re Coca Cola!!
"Without feminism, women would have attained parity with men in many fields of life. It would have happened in a more holistic way and been less involved with economics." Speculative, like saying African Americans would have attained parity without the Civil Rights Movement, or slaves would have been free without the Civil War (there are revisionists saying that).
"And lets be real: temperance/suffrage/feminism which were one movement that won prohibition and created the uprise of the ultimate patriarchy, the Mafia."
RIGHT ON!!
Of course it's speculative. We don't have another world to experiment on. And I dare say that the civil rights movement had much more integrity than feminism. Former African slaves and their descendants had a lot more to complain about than pampered wealthy women.
There would have been many forces of society driving the need for women's participation, including their desire to do so, and diminishing serious objections by men, for example, to women being educated and voting. There were some early feminists who felt that gradually, as parity was attained in things like education, legal practice and so forth, that "feminism" would give way to a program of improving society for everyone.
But that does not wash with a philosophy where there can be no definition of winning because the battle must always rage on. And we think that this is a battle between the sexes, but that is the scrim. It's a battle among women and within women's bodies; it is feminism that has turned women's bodies into a battlefield by twisting the meaning and definition of womanhood beyond recognition. It has turned many women against themselves.
We do have to ask ourselves if anything is better thanks to any of these movements. We think that slavery was abolished, but the 13th Amendment merely moves it to the prisons, where black people are severely disproportionately over-represented. Totally legal slavery, of millions of black men. Today.
The contemporary forms of acceptable slavery are never seen as such. It's always legacy definitions of slavery that people have problems with. Nobody with an iPhone or any electronic device made by Foxconn or whoever has a right to whine about the slavery of 1850. The people who make these devices are wage slaves, often confined to a "campus," but we choose not to see this as slavery. This is why digital carriers can afford to give phones away free.
And there are no civil rights in a country where George Zimmerman is acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin. We do a lot of kidding ourselves with these narratives.
All wage workers are wage slaves. There were hardly any people living by wage work till the large landlords in late medieval England began expropriating the ancestral lands of subsistence farmers, expelling them from the land, furthermore enclosing more and more of the Commons, depriving them of hunting-gathering territories. The dispossessed had no way of surviving outside of wage work. This was The Enclosures, this was the start of actual capitalism. This system was extended elsewhere to first the rest of the British Isles, then Europe, then other continents, including North America, where ALL the land was stolen from its indigenous inhabitants, who were then kept out of their traditional territories, as were those Europeans and Africans who didn't own any of the stolen parcels handed out by large interests. That's how the WHO:LE WORLD Is, bro' . Seriously, having a cellphone does not remotely render one not a wage slave, it's a survival necessity in the modern industrial world, often a necessity for one's wage labor position.
"We do have to ask ourselves if anything is better thanks to any of these movements."
Seriously? You think getting rid of blatant segregation, even re water fountains, was no big deal? You weren't around to see the reality of that. Yes, we as a society have not gone remotely far enough beyond that, for sure, but that's hardly to say that nothing is better. Would it be better for the US to still be in a war in Vietnam?
I said that having a phone and being against "slavery" is a contradiction...that the phone is the product of a modern kind of slavery
So are cars, TVs, radios,......, virtually everything we buy, including most of our food. .Remember how and where the "assembly line" started? But yes, indeed a problem that wage slaves who use these as well as cell phones aren't aware of the fact that these items have all been produced by slaves, wage slaves, and that they are as well, regardless of their access to such goodies.
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Eric, Re Course in Miracles, an evolutionary astrologer, Ari Moeshe Wolf is devoted to the study of the Course in Miracles. He sometimes shares his insights, and speaks of trying to study daily. His wife Michelle is astrologer, and they have young family. Ari has Jewish background and is song writer also. (my first natal chart reading was with Ari). I Trust this information is of assistance, from Julie (nz.)
Helen Schucman was not the embittered person you seemed to portray her to be. Helen didn't want the material to turn into another 'Seth Speaks.' Helen didn't want to be a celebrity. I would strongly suggest that you read 'Absence From Felicity.' Kenneth Wapnick was the hand behind 'Absence From Felicity.' Kenneth Wapnick explains in the book that Helen still and always loves Jesus. I also suggest Kenneth Wapnick's Journey Through The Text, and Journey Through the Workbook. He also wrote 'The Journey Home,' 'A Vast Illusion of Time', The Message of A Course In Miracles,' 'Love Does Not Condemn.' Jesus & Forgiveness.' Helen wrote her own autobiography called Helen's Autobiography.' It's a free download @ Foundation For Inner Peace.
There was a control thing going on with Kenneth Wapnick and the publications. Eventually it all got sorted out the most wonderful way and the 'Circle of the Atonement' Made a Complete & Annotated Edition which is based on the original handwritten notes of Helen Schucman. Truly a beautiful publication that opens up the whole Course wonderfully! I have most books written by Kenneth Wapnick about A Course In Miracles. I guess you might qualify me as a scholar of A Course In Miracles because I have been reading the Course and most books related to the Course for the last 13 years, including Marriam Williamson & Jon Munday publishing about A Course In Miracles. The CIA affiliation with Bill Tetford I found to be before the Course was ever channeled.
Helen went back to school after graduating in 1937. By 1958 she was a psychologist and during the years with Bill Tetford she wore many hats including consultant to research programs together.
At the end of her own autobiography Helen wrote; "...Forgiveness is the means by which we will remember. Through forgiveness the thinking of the world is reversed. The forgiven world becomes the gate of Heaven, because by its mercy we can at last forgive ourselves. Holding no one prisoner to guilt, we become free. Acknowledging Christ in all our brothers, we recognize His Presence in ourselves. Forgetting all our misperceptions, and with nothing from the past to hold us back, we can remember God. Beyond this, learning cannot go. When we are ready, God Himself will take the final step in our return to Him."
the final step in our return to Him."
I did not know Helen personally and did not do any portraying. I have provided my source material for this piece.
"I feel betrayed by the Jewish cause"
Wow.
"We're watching the whole thing played back in reverse"
Exactly!
Eric, consider this general sentence that I heard from a historian and politologist: the State is always at war with the Nation.
I think it explains a lot. This seems true to me. The Nation is somewhat natural, organic. The state is a counterfeit, a bad solution for the classic problem of civil war. The survival of the state depends on perpetual expansion, and on eroding anything natural about human interpersonal relationships.
Nationalism is dehumanizing and it always ends up feeding the State and crushing the Nation. These days people conflate, perhaps by ignorance, Nationalism with Patriotism. The difference is: nationalists exploit the corpses of victims and the tears of survivors, like in a natural disaster, but patriots join the victims and raise them from the mud.
The people of every Nation have a natural right remove from power the people who run the State. Karl Popper argued in his definition of Democracy: the legal possibility to peacefully remove a Government is the main characteristic of a Democratic Nation, and the opposite is tyranny.
I think that the Nations who lose that legal possibility are in deep trouble, and of those who have it and don't use we can say their trouble in the long term is much worse.
What is "the Nation"? It's what Vonnegut would call "a granfalloon." an artificial construct.
I think nation is a pre-political concept.
It's the love of your land coupled with the preference of good things happening to your people, even those who you don't like, simply because of a common culture that banefits everyone.
It is pre-political insofar as ideas, beliefs and preferences of this kind have probably existed long before there was any polis or city, and any classical form of politics.
Sometimes, wandering individuals are incorporated into a nation. This is more difficult with wandering groups of people. But politics forces people of a nation to destroy their land and to do things that damage everyone.
I think politics is self-servient always, and any peaceful group of people are targets of destruction of politicians.
Then we have individualism, a concept that has good arguments for and also some good critiques. I just want to say that, at least for now, I think individuals are better off within a well-functioning nation than completely at the mercy of the State. Politics is a great evil that is not going away yet. The idea of absoulte indiviualism in practical terms of today amounts to be enslaved with heavier chains than pre-political concepts.
There are bio-regions, which make sense in a physical sense, and the people who inhabit them. And then there is the notion of "nation," which is based entirely upon a human construct, a political entity. What makes Germans German? How did Pomeranians figure in? And Prussians? (The history is what i'm talking about)
We disagree.
You haven't bothered answering when it comes to a specific.
Iām talking about the emotions and beliefs of people. Something like intangible intellectual inheritance. All those things existed before modern politics and its irrational jargon.
Itās wrong, in my opinion, to use modern and postmodern language and anti-concepts to study very ancient realities of the human experience.
You are ignoring my angle. I deduce that any further exchange will be disadvantageous for both you and me.
Take care!