Cindy Sheehan is invoking the names and lives of soldiers to further her cause.
President Bush is invoking the names and lives of soldiers to further his cause.
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So explain it to me, anti-Sheehanites. Set me straight. What's the difference between her tactic and his? Besides politics, of course, because as we all know, the smears against Sheehan by the lily white Republican Party have nothing to do with something as crass and crude as politics - it's about the soldiers.
So they say.
The beautiful and thoughtful RightThinkingGirl just gave birth to Parker the other day.
Hopefully we'll get some pictures soon (although CJ is notoriously stingy on the picturage).
This is a message to Matt, R, Alli and others who want to tag me with questionnaires:
Social Memory Complex does not respond to terrorist threats.
My normal RTG trolling has become a bit tedious lately. We've gotten all bogged down in whether or not I am an egotistical maniac. That's a shame, because obviously I am and it's a bunch of wasted rhetoric to try and cram it down my throat. I try to tackle anything conservatives assert that is out of line with their professed and supposed love of small gov't, free markets, and personal responsibility. But here's the bottom line: they mean something very specific when they endorse these causes. In other words, small gov't doesn't mean minimal gov't, it means that the intrusions of the state should be as efficient and cost effective as possible. Free markets end up meaning a corporate / state partnership to fix energy, agricultural, and labor prices by fiat, and allow people the freedom to somehow deal with it. Personal responsibility basically means bearing the legal consequences for any actions that the Pat Robertsons of the world deem immoral.
In this light, I can finally say that conservatives tend not to be hypocritical per se, but rather that they are simply imprecise. They speak in broad, inspiring, and harsh terms, but in reality their agenda comes down to a few basic points: defending artificially hierarchical society in all its manifestations. It is a backlash against humanism that, while often asserted by the far left, I never really got until now.
And so it makes me wonder: what makes the conservative tick? Why do they choose this particular set of values that inform their politics? Why do they seek to impose this particular order, and why is hierarchy so important to them? I realize I'm speaking in generalities, but I'm not interested in the specific people - I'm interested in what you could call the conservative "social memory complex" - that body of concepts that govern their value judgments.
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Check out my oh so pretty photographs here.
This is simply sick. (Hattip to Wil) I mean, yeah, I understand the arguments against liberalism - I share many - but to sink to this level is ridiculous. Future generations will look back to this book as a marker on the road to civil war.
The Living the Law of One Seminar is over. Sunday night we participated in a Q'uo session, and today was spent visiting Avalon. I had some great conversations and really connected with people. I also feel reenergized about the Law of One material and living a spiritually activated life. Hopefully my blog will begin to reflect that more. I think I just find the sacred and spiritual too valuable to write about it as flippantly as I treat many topics here on the blog.
My ticket from Louisville to Virginia was cancelled without my knowledge, and I didn't get the bad news till I got to the ticket counter ready to leave. Turns out if you don't take the departing flight on a round trip they cancel the return flight. Retarded - but even more retarded than that is the fact that I asked specifically about this and the Expedia agent told me I could do it the way I was planning (not take the departing flight, just the return). So after an hour on the phone with Expedia I finally got treated fairly, bought a ticket for tomorrow morning, and came back to the L/L house. So I'm chilling with Gary and Paul now, and should probably think about getting to bed... what a week!
Click here to open the diagram Steven used to illustrate archetypes
- What is an archetype?
- Way of making sense of experience
- Kant: common tools for analyzing experience
- We carry tools for understanding whereever we go
- Two categories of analysis / thinking:
- Understanding: thing in itself, linear
- Reason: Non-linear, reflexive, transcendent function
- Reason must be tempered
- Kant left open wide field of investigation into nature of causation
- Ra laid out three archetypical study methods
- The Ra group studied Tarot
- Three groups of seven categories
- Mind, body, spirit group of each systemic set
- Systemic set:
- Matrix
- Potentiator
- Catalyst
- Experience
- Significator
- Transformation
- Great Way
- Additional archetype of the choice (the fool)
- Archetypical systems of previous races in the universe had fewer (3) categories
- All archetypes of tarot meant to be studied in relation to each other rather than singly
- Matrix
- Baseline "clay" of experiential condition - simple awareness
- Background of meditation experience
- Potentiator
- That which biases us from within
- Present in meditation
- The potential and possibilities
- "Awaits the reaching"
- Experience
- Most easily understood - the experience of life and consciousness
- "Contains" matrix and potentiator
- Catalyst
- Point of discovery
- Motivates action in a direction depending on preexisting archetypal conditions
- Realizes the potential
- Significator
- Gives significance to experience
- Stamps and categorizes events
- Paired with choice
- Choice
- Governs the choice of polarity between service to self and service to others
- Key governor of experience that determines outcomes in other systematic areas
- Tied into significator by determining what "kind" of significance is given to experience and catalyst
- Transformation
- Change
- All archetypes contain transformation, but this one is a gateway to the great way
- Great Way
- The totality of synthesized experience in harmony and balanced
- Proportions of these various dimensions are configured
- Why do we have archetypes?
- System for understanding perfection of creator
- Way of integrating our partial perspective into the perfect unity of the creation (macrocosm)
- Way of integrating the creation within (microcosm)
- First distortion: Free will
- Historical, transcendental problem of all religions and philosophies
- Why is there evil in a perfect creation?
- Why are there imperfect creatures in this creation?
- Explanation: gift of creator experiencing self
- Creator is NOT complete: there is something to be discovered in / of the Creator by the Creator
- Putting yourself in the mind of the Creator to understand the purpose
- Archetypes: means that arise within the Creator as a function of self discovery,designed to articulate the question the Creator is asking itself
- We're the answer!
- By being imperfect and incompletely formed, we provide opportunities for self discovery
- You must let go of what you created, and then observe what it does and as / with what it returns
- Free will allows for maximal discovery of Creator
- How are Kant's categories applied to free will and historical development?
- Understanding problem of freedom
- How do we understand who we are?
- Ways of understanding / predicting actions through patterns
- Over time there will be tendencies towards certain categories of activity and development
- Archetypes are not tangible / provable
- Function as self-reflexive analysis of where you are on a particular issue (category)
- No right and wrong answer: not factual
- Example archetypal analysis: Death
- Transformation of the spirit
- "Dark night of the soul"
- Previous eagerness - making progress - elements in place
- But then a wall is hit
- Trying to "recapture magic"
- Work needed: initial enthusiasm not there
- Become a new person through your work
- Understanding needs to sink down into roots
- Old identity needs to be released or to "die"
- Figuring out where the old identity is "hooked in" and learning to trust the need for letting go of old patterns and energy / thought configurations
- You have to "own" the self you are now willing to let die (ergo, need for understanding)
- Once released, who are you? Will you be anything (to self or otherselves)
- YOU ARE EXPOSED
- Faith comes into play - trusting the process without knowing the outcome
- Let go of all expectations about spiritual path you have been over
- Uniquely relevant in light of political and geological / astronomical changes
- We don't know where we're going
- Hope within and with otherselves
- Basis of spiritual community
Now we're going through the question and answer phase.
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- The outer heart - green / heart chakra
- Integrating the shadow self into the heart ("Know Thyself, part 2")
- Temple of heart is where mind becomes known to self
- We have darkness, violence within ourselves with which we must reckon
- We psychically negatively greet ourselves!
- Ritual can help: confession, absolution
- Honesty can show shadow self
- Everything in self has merit, contains information about self that needs conservation, understanding, etc.
- All parts of self are worthy, but one needs to love, redeem and accept them
- Knowing self is scary and uncomfortable
- Judgement, overcoming and patience
- Judgement becomes a distraction
- FORGIVENESS OF SELF
- The work is hard
- Patience and compassion for self / otherself is a long process
- Demonstrating love for others = demonstrating love for self
- "Tell world your story" - be completely vulnerable
- The temple of the heart is guarded against premature entry
- Heart is a source of tremendous power once it is unblocked
- Forgiveness and acceptance is the key
- Freedom to love = freedom from need to judge / condemn
- Letting go of fear
- Rest is important
- The inner heart - green / heart chakra
- Working directly with love
- Exercises
- Where is the love in the moment?
- Look into another self's eyes: see the creator
- Look in the mirror: see the creator
- Look at the creation (everything): see the creator
- Balance brain work with intuition and love
- Sexuality can be ennobled and made sacred through green ray work
- Pure red / orange sexual experience is fleeting
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- Great potential in green ray sexual exchange
- This exchange takes work
- Healing
- Heal from / within the heart
- Draw power / guidance from green ray
- Green ray exchange / sharing of energy is involved in healing
- The healer offers an environment in which person can be healed / heals self
- Must maintain attitude of non-judgement
- Unconditional radiation of pure love / light that goes where needed
- Healer must be unblocked to radiate best
- The blue / throat chakra
- Honesty / open communication
- Work on honesty with self to be honest to others
- Is it useful to teach?
- Yes - teach what you are learning
- Is it useful to teach without being asked?
- No - pure radiation is most helpful
- Talk about what you know if asked
- Serve when requested
- The indigo / brow chakra
- Meditation
- Body not used to meditation, used to activity
- Set aside time daily - takes about a month to get in a routine
- Backlog of messages from the subconscious
- Many ways to work in consciousness
- Acknowledge dark / dissonant /chaotic voices, accept them as self
- Prerequisite to consciousness work: open heart
- Take responsibility for your thoughts
- Discipline of mind = crystalizing self / chakras
- People come together to crystalize with others
- ritual / white magic - patterns of activity / thinking / speaking to signal subconscious for consciousness work
- What do you desire?
- Study your desires - they offer clues to understanding self
- listen to small voice
- What is your service?
- Radiation of love / light is only service
- Every specific service is a form of this
- The violet / crown chakra
- Contact with intelligent infinity
We just participated in a "grid activation" meditation.
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- Have you looked in the mirror today?
- Why do we recoil from those imperfect reflections?
- This is a metaphor for the spiritual experience of life
- Look into the experience of each chakra / density
- What is the distinguishing factor of each density?
- Elemental / red ray existence
- Survival / prefer to exist
- Maps to the physical vehicle
- Orange ray existence
- Emotional preference
- Preference to be comfortable
- Seek the "light" (physically speaking)
- Yellow ray
- Self aware
- Preference to controlling environment / creating circumstances / manipulate and model reality
- Logic / reason
- Social interactions
- Intellectual experience
- Green ray
- Heart center
- Spark / spirit that inhabits body and "makes life interesting"
- Address four corners of universe / four elements
- Reflects self in a universal sense
- ALSO reflects the entire creation
- This is important to understand -- the distinction is not always relevant
- Which ray body is speaking in any given situation
- Understand self by understanding aspects of universe
- Mirrors reflect everything in front of it
- Context
- Light is a factor
- How do we identify self -- WHO ARE YOU?
- What are we offering to the creator?
- How to decode the reflection
- There is truth in the mirror
- You can't "help" anybody
- They have to accept the help
- You have to allow the service to be given, and disregard concerns about the results
- Simply radiate love/light
- Purpose: to BE, not to do anything specific
Tobey gave a very enlightening and interesting lecture about his experience as a parent raising according to the Law of One. His son Elijah also demonstrated his profound and especial understanding of the material and insight into the true nature of reality. I'm posting my notes directly to the blog
- Magic
- Raising children should be regarded as a cosmic, magic honor
- JOY
- WONDER
- Free will / discipline
- First exercise of free will is choosing incarnation and parents
- Very powerful idea for children
- Find ways to be fair to children in terms of discipline
- Establish boundaries so that children make the choice to bear consequences rather than accept punishment
- Acceptance
- How to handle situations without stifling child's uniqueness and individuality
- Put thought into which energy center you are coming from
- Traits that may drive parents crazy may actually be the gifts they brought in
- Strive for balance -- reinforce acceptance and healthy expression
- How to strike balance between acceptance and discipline?
- Worship
- Ra says children should share in the parents' celebration and worship of the Creator
- Church attendance
- Acceptable behavior in public
- What is appropriate to talk about vis a vis the Law of One?
- Many opportunities for catalyst
- Evaluation of comfort level
- How to phrase things in other people's terms
- Results?
- Challenges parents
- Questions reach limits of parents' understanding
- "There are no mistakes."
From left to right: Tobey Wheelock, Vara Lingklip, and Carla Rueckert
Not a lot to blog - no way I'm recording all these questions. But the conversation is quite enlightening!
- Introduction
- Boston College scholarship recipient
- Sargent in Marine Corps
- Moved to Bay Area - volunteer work
- Helped Caesar Chavez set up computer system
- Politics
- Politics for these purposes means dynamics of human interaction
- not talking about Republican, Democrat, etc.
- discuss the spiritual outer experience rather than spiritual inner experience
- What's going on?
- Politics has a spiritual dimension
- How to balance outward reality with inner reality
- Psychic Experiences
- Emotional communicationg with deceased animals
- Experience communicating with dolphins and whales talking about how to change things
- Whales = foundation energy of the earth, according to dolphins
- Whales and dolpins administer oceans
- They look to humans for change
- Information stream experience
- Chakra openings
- Hope Freeman and CIA threat
- Zacharia Sitchin
- Searching for proof of concept
- Felt compelled to
- Spiritual Activism
- Promotion of spiritual concepts in society
- Non-aggressive
- non-confrontational
- Not our obligation to help people bring about 4th density
- Neither can we withhold it
- Impatience with inactivity
- What is the way to serve?
- Promote popular spiritual consciousness
- Open conversations
- Fear of ridicule > fear of death
- Help faciliate openness to talk about these ideas
- Give people an opportunity to discover these ideas
- Make the message of 4th density as ubiquitous as possible
- "All is one" written everywhere
- Promote the concept of unity in ways that make people think
- Subtle changes in use of words
- Bumper stickers
- T-shirts
- Baseball caps
- Events (conferences, celebrations, gatherings, study groups, singing)
- "Real world" political points
- Dollar represents debt, not value
- Federal Reserve Bank is a private institution
- Control over money = control over society
- Council on Foreign Relations / Trilateral Commission
- Media / Military / Finance under central control
- Both parties run by same people
- Congress is ignorant
- Concentric layers of power
- Encourage Activism
- Must be subtle in popular transmission of this information
- It's hard to reach people who aren't aware of true reality of power on Earth
- Experience reaching out to people!
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- Breakdown of history of densities
- 1st density
- Chaos of the elements
- Fire and wind taught earth and water
- 2nd density: animal life, pack consciousness
- 3rd density
- shortest: 75,000 yrs long (3 25k cycles)
- purpose: to choose polarity (positive / negative)
- 51% of actions / intentions need to be service to others as oppose to service to self
- conscious choice is not required - demonstration is all that is neccessary
- Hallmarks of the end of 3rd density
- Wanderers (indigo children, starseeds)
- from higher densities
- from other planets
- here to lighten vibrations
- Short term increase in negatively oriented entities and social complexes
- Harvest will likey be small despite best efforts of the Confederation
- Less than planet is capable of handling
- Most entities on Earth will need to find another 3rd density planet
- Hallmarks of 4th density
- Communication by thought, not words
- No possibility for deceit, less for misunderstanding
- Motives are laid plain
- Disharmony in self and without is impossible
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- True collectives are possible
- 4D entities must be hidden from 3D entities to conserve possibility for 3D choice
- Light body instead of chemical body
- Service to others is perceived as the prime motivations
- Physical construction will be accomplished through mental effort and discipline
- Started around the time of Hiroshima/Nagasaki
- 100-700 year transition into 4D
- How do we get to 4th density?
- We have chosen a particular path to attain 4D through practice, consciousness, experience, empathy, etc.
- Lingo was searching for how to activate whole brain - achieving brain self control
- Saw horror and futility of war and decided to move humanity forward through consciousness research
- Center consciousness in frontal lobes where abstract thought takes place
- Studied how primitive man thought and acted
- Sought optimal brain state for humans
- Invented a process to train his mind
- Paying attention to dreams, journaling
- Seeing patterns that were preincarnatively programmed
- pinpoint early pains
- Neurodramas: closing "circuit" of past emotionally traumatic memories to get flow of thought further forward in brain
- Helps you achieve this emotional and intellectual understanding of frustration
- Understanding releases the need for attention
- Circuits in mind can be "closed" instead of being locked
- Meditation
- focused state without distractions
- contact with higher consciousnesses more apparent and readily observable
- higher self contact more efficient
- Open chakras to achieve efficient and free energetic flow
- (Ritual) Magic: being able to effect changes in consciousness at will or access higher self
Gary asking a question of Jim, Tiffani listening intently
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- 4th density is about living in group harmony
- Knowing the thoughts of others
- Sharing
- Individualists must find consensus to cooperate
- Compassion for those in 3rd density
- Impossible NOT to live Law of One
- Figuring out polarity is the task
- Connection with nature is important
- All organizations are mostly service to self
- power structure, hierarchy
- There is always a balance that can be achieved
- Finding this balance is what the Law of One is all about
