"Perhaps we should put our efforts toward invoking such a breakthrough, as unlikely as it seems. But how to do so?"
Drugs Daniel, drugs. Yes, I know very well that the so-called psychedelic renaissance is seriously compromised. Jamie Wheal coined a term in a recent article, "Psychedelic Fascism."
But most of us are so thickly encrusted that strong chemicals are needed to dissolve the crust. I believe humanity's best hope for, as you called it, "neurological rewiring," is the skilled, intentional, safe, integrated, and possible guided use of psychedelics. Maybe that's a project a lot of people could get behind.
And yes, I do know it would be naive to think widespread skilled and integrated use of psychedelics is going to change the world in itself. But I think you Daniel have made clear in numerous writings that dramatic measures from the inside out are likely to be essential as the ground of all the other things we'll need to do if there is any hope for us.
On that note, thank you for caring enough to continue addressing this overarching polycrisis and holding some degree of hope that our better angels might eventually win out, despite appearances to the contrary as we look around the world right now.
As Terence McKenna once said, "May the the best idea win."
The truth Stephen is..., Angels do exit. There is a higher way of thinking and creating reality, which anyone can access. It is up to each individual to seek it out . We all are at different levels of observation of these higher realms. Given the baggage our (Karma) , that which determines our own predetermined destiny...
To become fully aligned with our destiny creates a more vivid experience of these higher realms of intelligence. You become more present.
It's all invisible, our goal is to make it real. In matter.
In Whatever form you choose, make it so.
Collectively there is enough direct evidence to prove there is a much better way to live other then the way we do. If we look at ourselves as gardeners and humans were the crop we were growing it's very clear we are growing rotten fruit.
The Majority don't ever get to fully blossom into fully healthy and alive humans. Most die before ever living...
It was clear in 1759 BC, with Hammurabai's Code, that an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Two political leaders who have the power to stop the war. But they don't consider their job to be political leaders, or they would be aware that their level is statecraft is 4000 years old.
Being head of the American arms dealership is the job Biden thinks he was elected for. And he promised to "keep the missiles coming," while turning a blind eye on the bombing of schools, hospitals, apartments and places of worship. Netayahu promises "it will be a long war" just as he's resecured the border.
Stemming the tide of blood on either side, as far as they are concerned, isn't their job. Their priority is to secure the western stronghold in the Middle East with missiles aimed at Iran. The President has one more job: sell weapons.
The UN says that water, shelter, food, medicine, are all rights to life. If you remove these rights for a people, that's genocide. Israel's attacks on these targets in Gaza isn't an accident: it's been their consistent strategy. Why does the President turn a blind eye on war crimes and genocide in Gaza and not Ukraine?
Because now they have the excuse to stamp the last 25 mile strip they left to the Palestinians off the map. And they don't care how many Palestinians die (obviously), as long as all the Israelis don't die to achieve it.
In war, it doesn't matter who is right: it matters who is left.
Clearly political science - with all of the mathematical certainty that belongs to science - says this is, in fact, wrong... because it is doomed.
To understand the solution we need to understand the problem. Nietzche said that politics is strength are not civilization. Civilization requires the power of strength (imperium) bent to the service of the power of judgement (iudicium): aka law courts with the power to enforce the law.
Currently there is no international court with the military power to enforce just law. To stop the bloodshed, we would need Biden (imperium) to say that genocide is wrong on both sides.
Hobbes said that when we rely on a balance of power between militarized states, we'll get energy wars. He says we will have no power to enforce environmental regulations or just law. Is it a surprise to learn the UN peacekeeping force has no jurisdiction over genocide?
Is it a surprise that, despite all the collective mourning and censure of all the citizens of all the world, we have no power to stop this conflict?
We can see where that power has gone. It does not serve the people. It serves greed.
Empire (a "surpanational juridical system with the military power to enforce the law" according to Negri) is the technology to counteract human greed. Imperialism is its shadow. Pillaging, and plundering, it can create temporary economic boom, but it's not sustainable.
Imperialism is the current paradigm. The paradigm shift is Empire. It is not the empire of one country over another. The term empire was perverted by Roman tyrants - and thus all civilization. . Sometimes you have to fight for something, then fight for it under another name.
Like New World Order. This is another name for the paradigm shift, but the term was perverted by 20th century politicians. In it's true form, it is a prophecy:
In the global Information age, all the states of the world will have one last chance to come together and form a golden age, a sustainable system, to create this ideal political system, Empire, learning the lessons from the failure of previous ages, Imperialism. If we fail now, it will be the last age of man.
Hi Zahra, I thought Negri and Hardt were critiquing the idea of "Empire" in their book of that name, and promoting "multitude" (a postmodern update to the Marx's proletariat) as a response?
I was merely borrowing a phrase they used, and applying it to Empire, because the definition of Empire is a collection of states, equal as states, with the power to of judgement and the ability to use military force to enforce the just rule, international law and international regulations.
You recommended the series, I bought it, and I haven't finished it, alas, so I can't critique their theory. International political science hasn't changed much since Thucydides. I'll lay out the political science of it in response to your newer post. And I'll read the books!
This is just another crusade. The Holiest of Holies is a term referring to a empty, dark room in the Valley of the Kings, where once a day the light illuminates it. It means the light in the dark, the point is nothing. I fail to see yours.
The “Holy of Holies” was the inner sanctum of the ancient Jewish Temple, the place where the “Most High” dwelt. It was central to the Jewish sacrificial system and therefore to the Mosaic Covenant. Since ancient Hebrew did not have superlatives, the sacred authors did not refer to this place as The “Most Holy Place,” but used the more circumlocutive term, the “Holy of Holies”. The very richness of this term, “Holy of Holies,” is precisely what is needed to lead us into the depths of the reality it indicates.
You've always been quite the philosophic collagist! I applaud your art. You've done a spot-on job of taking everything on the table into consideration. Good points, all. I'm still working on that morpheogenetic field resonator game. Goddess-willing there will still be a power-grid for it to spread out on by the time it's ready. That said, I take hope in knowing that the mere work of focusing on it is a prayer inoculating the MGField with peaceful vibes 😉 It's times like these Terrance's words bring some relief, "The world isn't stranger than we think it is... it's stranger than we CAN think it is!" Through it all, I trust the Universe knows what it's doing.
Thanks Daniel, for your noble effort to make sense of the titanic madnesses. Two thoughts come to mind. Firstly, the only redeeming grace that might come from this bloodshed, will be the many acts kindness, and risk-taking, to help one another, even total strangers. It's like the alien, in Starman, says: "People are at their best, when things are at their worst." To answer your last question, "What can we do?" There are stories of masses of people flocking to churches, or other sacred places, to sing and pray during times of crisis. John Michell claims the ancient world was 'held together' by an enchantment stemming from a 'perpetual choir' performing 24/7- year-round. Back to the point: people come together in times of impending war and disaster. People have gathered en masse, to invoke the will, or mercy, of the Creator.
It’s sloppy and uninformed at best to start any “thoughtful” essay on the current situation with a sentence that includes “both sides.” In fact, this languaging dehumanizes the actual people involved. In Israel alone, there are countless “sides,” including Jews and Arabs that exist on a spectrum of experience, feeling, and allegiance, informed by personal experience, bias, ancestral trauma, etc. I would imagine (but don’t know personally) that you would find countless varying opinions from Palestinians in the West Bank, and those would likely differ from Palestinians who live in Gaza. I would suggest you continue your education by trying to speak to people who live in the region. It is eye and heart opening.
Thanks for writing this Daniel. As ever, I am in agreement with the subtle nuance of your position. The strong man perspective and western ideology sees no alternative to the narrative of if you fire I will fire more. The wise man turns the other cheek, right?
It's ruthless barbarism on the side of Hamas; it doesn't get any more depraved than beheading of babies. How can you hold the consciousness vibration of love and forgiveness in the face of such unforgivable acts? And yet the reaction that we see now is a stunning own goal (possibly predicated on the dehumanising perspective): it will only perpetuate the cycles of violence and polarisation.
So, the challenge is to promote the wise man's reaction. The trouble is the wise man becomes the strong man / or righteous man when he says that the wise man's reaction is the only/right way. It therefore seems like we must HOLD THE PARADOX of encouraging the wise reaction whilst also forgiving the strong one too.
In other words, we need to "sell" ourselves on the wise attitude delivering long term outcomes, rather than it being the "right" reaction. You could even go as far as to brand it the "wrong" reaction but the best solution (for long term peace/breaking cycles of violence).
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Thank you. ! I fear the Israeli strategy is to destroy Gaza , making it uninhabitable and thereby displacing its two million residents. Who will organize the humanitarian outreach to these people as days go by ? Russia ? China ? Obviously not the US or Israel. Someone will need to stop the genocide if that’s what it turns into.
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I think the word "genocide" is not apt here. I do not believe that Israel seeks to eliminate the Palestinian "kind" of human being. I think that Israel definitely kills too many Palestinians and demonstrates a disrespect for Palestinians that lends itself to killing them and conjuring poor justifications for doing so, but I don't think we can characterize this as "genocide," a word that is loaded with meaning particularly as it pertains to Jews. Unfortunately for the Gazans, it appears that Israel could be satisfied with pulverizing the place, then allowing the survivors to fester in perpetuity to make an example of them.
I did qualify the use of genocide ...."if that's what it turns out to be" as the World watches. My concern is that Israel now thinks it cannot be safe as long as Gaza is inhabited by so many Palestinians. I hope I am wrong. Though I think Hamas may have plotted and calculated this wounded Israeli rampage, believing that indeed victims of genocide can be/ or have been in their estimation perpetrators of it. I do think that part of the plan if not genocide / total depopulation of Gaza is to destroy the infrastructure to a degree that it can no longer support a significant population.
Still no way out of Gaza for civilians . US has asked Egypt to open its border to them but so far they only want to send humanitarian aide. Citizens and foreign nationals in Gaza will soon have no power. The Israeli defense department is quoted as saying : "fighting will intensify" and warned that scenes coming out of Gaza would be "difficult to understand and cope with.”
I can understand those who think this was allowed to happen by the Israeli authorities (much like certain 9/11 conspiracy theories), so the Israeli military could have a free hand. And just as with 9/11, it may end with Israel losing significantly. in the longer term.
Thank you. I will watch and listen. Update : I read today the Israeli defense minister or whomever was "removing all constraints on Israeli soldiers" whatever that signals. It does appear from a distance that the Israeli response is going to dangerous extremes purposefully provoked by Hamas. Israeli's may also be using this as an opportunity to "clear" Gaza of Palestinians and destroy the infrastructure there, so no stone is left unturned. So far in the psychological war Hamas seems to be winning. I suspect they think that if Israel devastates Gaza , most other Arab nations will rise up again against Israel.
"The collective consciousness of humanity could, of course, mutate, breaking through to universal love and compassion, via the 100th Monkey Principle or “morphic resonance”.
From Deep within the Torah it claims this time around it will take a Collective of 40 million to right the ship were on ...
Long ago in a conversation with a Rabbi I was told it said in the Torah this current time around it won't be a single individual whom brings peace to the world it will be a collective 40 million strong...
It's like the re: telling the story of David and Goliath.
When this smaller group of 40 million come together in a social economic and political manner that these three forces bind together in such way it is completely obvious to anyone who can open up to see, this new way of seeing and knowing is so much better then living in fear of the unknown...
To be able to sense within these higher realms one would have done things consciously or unconsciously to nurture these senses to actually feel them in their bodies.
Beyond our 6th intuitive sense is our 7th sense and that is extraterrestrial, we have these organs lying dormant , p.s no amount of knowing about it will ever truly take you to the experience, it's the experience itself that is fully revealed. If one hasn't done the right amount of preparation ones experience can be somewhat diminished...
As always, you point to the many threads relating to each other that form the knot that seems impossible to untie. But one factor you don't mention here, except perhaps for your reference to Edward Said, is Jewish supremacy, which as with ingrained racism clouds perception. Why do liberals who could so easily see South African apartheid and support boycott there, think boycotting Israel is wrong and antisemitic and instead support arming Israel even more than it already is? Why do people who support violence in response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, not even understand Palestinian violence after decades of brutal occupation? Something I wrote well before the current violence: http://www.crossingtheboundary.org/crossing-the-ism-boundary/
That said, it will take the same "miracle" of changed human consciousness to cut through this knot of horror. Thanks for your efforts in this regard.
Hi Jaysun, the first step is embracing what you feel. Being true to yourself, no matter whether your mind tells you good or bad or indifferent (which are judgements that our mind will naturally bring). Stay with them and see where they want to go. Breathe into them and don't hold on to the judgement, as polarised feelings will nearly always move by them selves if you give them space and time. Just hold them, breathe and allow yourself to feel into where they take you, as all sorts of emotional baggage and brain chatter is normally attached to them. Remember, try not to judge them, as our mind has been trained to judge; but the judgement leads us into duality. If you practice, your mind can learn another pathway, as non duality is really our Nature.
I guess I'm confused about the definition of nonduality in this context. I think I know what it means generally but it sounds like you are merely describing a mindfulness practice to try to be free from reactive narrow views of the world. We live in the material world of duality and have to carry on as individuals, making judgements in nearly every moment, necessarily. Seems like judging judgment as bad is not good, although I agree that being able to hold opposing perspectives within consciousness is good. I just don't see how we can actually 'practice' nonduality as living material beings.
Thanks Jaysun, it is mindfullness as you say and it needs to be a constant practice as we have so many layers of conditioning and constant programming that what we can do is position ourselves so as to re-program our own minds. It's much more useful than shrugging things off, or worse, becoming impervious to that which touches us as negative. We have learnt through repetition, so to unlearn or reprogram, constant consciousness is pretty much all we have; at least that's the way I try to go.
Continued. In the American Jewish community it is a gut defence of Israel. I was on a kibbutz in 1979, the so called golden era for Israel and even then I saw trouble ahead. There was second class citizens thing happening inside Israel proper let alone the occupied territories.
Hurt people, hurt people. This goes for both sides. What a nightmare for them and possibly the entire world unless cooler heads prevail to take stock of the immediate situation.
Thanks Daniel. Our separation from the living world blinds us from seeing the natural cycle of a system that we, also nature, have created. Unraveling and decay was always inevitable. While the seeds of a new system sprout everywhere, the fire has not yet completely torn through the old forest. My hope is that while the old forest burns, the new saplings grow fast enough to catch as many people as possible in their branches.
"Perhaps we should put our efforts toward invoking such a breakthrough, as unlikely as it seems. But how to do so?"
Drugs Daniel, drugs. Yes, I know very well that the so-called psychedelic renaissance is seriously compromised. Jamie Wheal coined a term in a recent article, "Psychedelic Fascism."
But most of us are so thickly encrusted that strong chemicals are needed to dissolve the crust. I believe humanity's best hope for, as you called it, "neurological rewiring," is the skilled, intentional, safe, integrated, and possible guided use of psychedelics. Maybe that's a project a lot of people could get behind.
And yes, I do know it would be naive to think widespread skilled and integrated use of psychedelics is going to change the world in itself. But I think you Daniel have made clear in numerous writings that dramatic measures from the inside out are likely to be essential as the ground of all the other things we'll need to do if there is any hope for us.
On that note, thank you for caring enough to continue addressing this overarching polycrisis and holding some degree of hope that our better angels might eventually win out, despite appearances to the contrary as we look around the world right now.
As Terence McKenna once said, "May the the best idea win."
The truth Stephen is..., Angels do exit. There is a higher way of thinking and creating reality, which anyone can access. It is up to each individual to seek it out . We all are at different levels of observation of these higher realms. Given the baggage our (Karma) , that which determines our own predetermined destiny...
To become fully aligned with our destiny creates a more vivid experience of these higher realms of intelligence. You become more present.
It's all invisible, our goal is to make it real. In matter.
In Whatever form you choose, make it so.
Collectively there is enough direct evidence to prove there is a much better way to live other then the way we do. If we look at ourselves as gardeners and humans were the crop we were growing it's very clear we are growing rotten fruit.
The Majority don't ever get to fully blossom into fully healthy and alive humans. Most die before ever living...
So much more to be said in this regard . How we educate ourselves into being fully Human is the most essential task at hand.
It was clear in 1759 BC, with Hammurabai's Code, that an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Two political leaders who have the power to stop the war. But they don't consider their job to be political leaders, or they would be aware that their level is statecraft is 4000 years old.
Being head of the American arms dealership is the job Biden thinks he was elected for. And he promised to "keep the missiles coming," while turning a blind eye on the bombing of schools, hospitals, apartments and places of worship. Netayahu promises "it will be a long war" just as he's resecured the border.
Stemming the tide of blood on either side, as far as they are concerned, isn't their job. Their priority is to secure the western stronghold in the Middle East with missiles aimed at Iran. The President has one more job: sell weapons.
The UN says that water, shelter, food, medicine, are all rights to life. If you remove these rights for a people, that's genocide. Israel's attacks on these targets in Gaza isn't an accident: it's been their consistent strategy. Why does the President turn a blind eye on war crimes and genocide in Gaza and not Ukraine?
Because now they have the excuse to stamp the last 25 mile strip they left to the Palestinians off the map. And they don't care how many Palestinians die (obviously), as long as all the Israelis don't die to achieve it.
In war, it doesn't matter who is right: it matters who is left.
Clearly political science - with all of the mathematical certainty that belongs to science - says this is, in fact, wrong... because it is doomed.
To understand the solution we need to understand the problem. Nietzche said that politics is strength are not civilization. Civilization requires the power of strength (imperium) bent to the service of the power of judgement (iudicium): aka law courts with the power to enforce the law.
Currently there is no international court with the military power to enforce just law. To stop the bloodshed, we would need Biden (imperium) to say that genocide is wrong on both sides.
Hobbes said that when we rely on a balance of power between militarized states, we'll get energy wars. He says we will have no power to enforce environmental regulations or just law. Is it a surprise to learn the UN peacekeeping force has no jurisdiction over genocide?
Is it a surprise that, despite all the collective mourning and censure of all the citizens of all the world, we have no power to stop this conflict?
We can see where that power has gone. It does not serve the people. It serves greed.
Empire (a "surpanational juridical system with the military power to enforce the law" according to Negri) is the technology to counteract human greed. Imperialism is its shadow. Pillaging, and plundering, it can create temporary economic boom, but it's not sustainable.
Imperialism is the current paradigm. The paradigm shift is Empire. It is not the empire of one country over another. The term empire was perverted by Roman tyrants - and thus all civilization. . Sometimes you have to fight for something, then fight for it under another name.
Like New World Order. This is another name for the paradigm shift, but the term was perverted by 20th century politicians. In it's true form, it is a prophecy:
In the global Information age, all the states of the world will have one last chance to come together and form a golden age, a sustainable system, to create this ideal political system, Empire, learning the lessons from the failure of previous ages, Imperialism. If we fail now, it will be the last age of man.
Hi Zahra, I thought Negri and Hardt were critiquing the idea of "Empire" in their book of that name, and promoting "multitude" (a postmodern update to the Marx's proletariat) as a response?
I was merely borrowing a phrase they used, and applying it to Empire, because the definition of Empire is a collection of states, equal as states, with the power to of judgement and the ability to use military force to enforce the just rule, international law and international regulations.
You recommended the series, I bought it, and I haven't finished it, alas, so I can't critique their theory. International political science hasn't changed much since Thucydides. I'll lay out the political science of it in response to your newer post. And I'll read the books!
Your view is extremely narrow.
This is the Holyist of Holy Wars. The War between Good and Evil...its all Bibliographic!
This is just another crusade. The Holiest of Holies is a term referring to a empty, dark room in the Valley of the Kings, where once a day the light illuminates it. It means the light in the dark, the point is nothing. I fail to see yours.
Sorry Brother your misunderstood 😔
In "other" words...
The “Holy of Holies” was the inner sanctum of the ancient Jewish Temple, the place where the “Most High” dwelt. It was central to the Jewish sacrificial system and therefore to the Mosaic Covenant. Since ancient Hebrew did not have superlatives, the sacred authors did not refer to this place as The “Most Holy Place,” but used the more circumlocutive term, the “Holy of Holies”. The very richness of this term, “Holy of Holies,” is precisely what is needed to lead us into the depths of the reality it indicates.
You've always been quite the philosophic collagist! I applaud your art. You've done a spot-on job of taking everything on the table into consideration. Good points, all. I'm still working on that morpheogenetic field resonator game. Goddess-willing there will still be a power-grid for it to spread out on by the time it's ready. That said, I take hope in knowing that the mere work of focusing on it is a prayer inoculating the MGField with peaceful vibes 😉 It's times like these Terrance's words bring some relief, "The world isn't stranger than we think it is... it's stranger than we CAN think it is!" Through it all, I trust the Universe knows what it's doing.
Thanks Daniel, for your noble effort to make sense of the titanic madnesses. Two thoughts come to mind. Firstly, the only redeeming grace that might come from this bloodshed, will be the many acts kindness, and risk-taking, to help one another, even total strangers. It's like the alien, in Starman, says: "People are at their best, when things are at their worst." To answer your last question, "What can we do?" There are stories of masses of people flocking to churches, or other sacred places, to sing and pray during times of crisis. John Michell claims the ancient world was 'held together' by an enchantment stemming from a 'perpetual choir' performing 24/7- year-round. Back to the point: people come together in times of impending war and disaster. People have gathered en masse, to invoke the will, or mercy, of the Creator.
It’s sloppy and uninformed at best to start any “thoughtful” essay on the current situation with a sentence that includes “both sides.” In fact, this languaging dehumanizes the actual people involved. In Israel alone, there are countless “sides,” including Jews and Arabs that exist on a spectrum of experience, feeling, and allegiance, informed by personal experience, bias, ancestral trauma, etc. I would imagine (but don’t know personally) that you would find countless varying opinions from Palestinians in the West Bank, and those would likely differ from Palestinians who live in Gaza. I would suggest you continue your education by trying to speak to people who live in the region. It is eye and heart opening.
Thanks for your perspective. I have spoken to some people in the region, in the past. If you have recommendations, please let me know.
Thanks for writing this Daniel. As ever, I am in agreement with the subtle nuance of your position. The strong man perspective and western ideology sees no alternative to the narrative of if you fire I will fire more. The wise man turns the other cheek, right?
It's ruthless barbarism on the side of Hamas; it doesn't get any more depraved than beheading of babies. How can you hold the consciousness vibration of love and forgiveness in the face of such unforgivable acts? And yet the reaction that we see now is a stunning own goal (possibly predicated on the dehumanising perspective): it will only perpetuate the cycles of violence and polarisation.
So, the challenge is to promote the wise man's reaction. The trouble is the wise man becomes the strong man / or righteous man when he says that the wise man's reaction is the only/right way. It therefore seems like we must HOLD THE PARADOX of encouraging the wise reaction whilst also forgiving the strong one too.
In other words, we need to "sell" ourselves on the wise attitude delivering long term outcomes, rather than it being the "right" reaction. You could even go as far as to brand it the "wrong" reaction but the best solution (for long term peace/breaking cycles of violence).
Very well said!
You need to do some serious fact checking before applauding this nonsense
The beheading of babies is fake, it’s not real, it’s completely made up by Israeli propaganda and now you’re parroting it like it’s fact
I will take it out - CNN was reporting it etc
The counter propaganda on this fact is itself fake. I have seen the footage of reporters at the site communicating this
X (twitter) has been fired a warning from EU on fake media purportedly debunking this and other facts
Thank you. ! I fear the Israeli strategy is to destroy Gaza , making it uninhabitable and thereby displacing its two million residents. Who will organize the humanitarian outreach to these people as days go by ? Russia ? China ? Obviously not the US or Israel. Someone will need to stop the genocide if that’s what it turns into.
I think the word "genocide" is not apt here. I do not believe that Israel seeks to eliminate the Palestinian "kind" of human being. I think that Israel definitely kills too many Palestinians and demonstrates a disrespect for Palestinians that lends itself to killing them and conjuring poor justifications for doing so, but I don't think we can characterize this as "genocide," a word that is loaded with meaning particularly as it pertains to Jews. Unfortunately for the Gazans, it appears that Israel could be satisfied with pulverizing the place, then allowing the survivors to fester in perpetuity to make an example of them.
I did qualify the use of genocide ...."if that's what it turns out to be" as the World watches. My concern is that Israel now thinks it cannot be safe as long as Gaza is inhabited by so many Palestinians. I hope I am wrong. Though I think Hamas may have plotted and calculated this wounded Israeli rampage, believing that indeed victims of genocide can be/ or have been in their estimation perpetrators of it. I do think that part of the plan if not genocide / total depopulation of Gaza is to destroy the infrastructure to a degree that it can no longer support a significant population.
Still no way out of Gaza for civilians . US has asked Egypt to open its border to them but so far they only want to send humanitarian aide. Citizens and foreign nationals in Gaza will soon have no power. The Israeli defense department is quoted as saying : "fighting will intensify" and warned that scenes coming out of Gaza would be "difficult to understand and cope with.”
I can understand those who think this was allowed to happen by the Israeli authorities (much like certain 9/11 conspiracy theories), so the Israeli military could have a free hand. And just as with 9/11, it may end with Israel losing significantly. in the longer term.
I found this interview to be useful... https://x.com/davidrkadler/status/1711103806002377167?s=20
Thank you. I will watch and listen. Update : I read today the Israeli defense minister or whomever was "removing all constraints on Israeli soldiers" whatever that signals. It does appear from a distance that the Israeli response is going to dangerous extremes purposefully provoked by Hamas. Israeli's may also be using this as an opportunity to "clear" Gaza of Palestinians and destroy the infrastructure there, so no stone is left unturned. So far in the psychological war Hamas seems to be winning. I suspect they think that if Israel devastates Gaza , most other Arab nations will rise up again against Israel.
Lord have mercy
Excellent Daniel!
"The collective consciousness of humanity could, of course, mutate, breaking through to universal love and compassion, via the 100th Monkey Principle or “morphic resonance”.
From Deep within the Torah it claims this time around it will take a Collective of 40 million to right the ship were on ...
how do you get this "40 million" number ?
Long ago in a conversation with a Rabbi I was told it said in the Torah this current time around it won't be a single individual whom brings peace to the world it will be a collective 40 million strong...
I wish I could offer more evidence 😔
Daniel
It's like the re: telling the story of David and Goliath.
When this smaller group of 40 million come together in a social economic and political manner that these three forces bind together in such way it is completely obvious to anyone who can open up to see, this new way of seeing and knowing is so much better then living in fear of the unknown...
To be able to sense within these higher realms one would have done things consciously or unconsciously to nurture these senses to actually feel them in their bodies.
Beyond our 6th intuitive sense is our 7th sense and that is extraterrestrial, we have these organs lying dormant , p.s no amount of knowing about it will ever truly take you to the experience, it's the experience itself that is fully revealed. If one hasn't done the right amount of preparation ones experience can be somewhat diminished...
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA243/English/RSP1985/19240821p02.html
As always, you point to the many threads relating to each other that form the knot that seems impossible to untie. But one factor you don't mention here, except perhaps for your reference to Edward Said, is Jewish supremacy, which as with ingrained racism clouds perception. Why do liberals who could so easily see South African apartheid and support boycott there, think boycotting Israel is wrong and antisemitic and instead support arming Israel even more than it already is? Why do people who support violence in response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, not even understand Palestinian violence after decades of brutal occupation? Something I wrote well before the current violence: http://www.crossingtheboundary.org/crossing-the-ism-boundary/
That said, it will take the same "miracle" of changed human consciousness to cut through this knot of horror. Thanks for your efforts in this regard.
A time for practicing the only thing We really can do;
non-duality;
walk our talk
How do you practice nonduality?
Hi Jaysun, the first step is embracing what you feel. Being true to yourself, no matter whether your mind tells you good or bad or indifferent (which are judgements that our mind will naturally bring). Stay with them and see where they want to go. Breathe into them and don't hold on to the judgement, as polarised feelings will nearly always move by them selves if you give them space and time. Just hold them, breathe and allow yourself to feel into where they take you, as all sorts of emotional baggage and brain chatter is normally attached to them. Remember, try not to judge them, as our mind has been trained to judge; but the judgement leads us into duality. If you practice, your mind can learn another pathway, as non duality is really our Nature.
I guess I'm confused about the definition of nonduality in this context. I think I know what it means generally but it sounds like you are merely describing a mindfulness practice to try to be free from reactive narrow views of the world. We live in the material world of duality and have to carry on as individuals, making judgements in nearly every moment, necessarily. Seems like judging judgment as bad is not good, although I agree that being able to hold opposing perspectives within consciousness is good. I just don't see how we can actually 'practice' nonduality as living material beings.
Thanks Jaysun, it is mindfullness as you say and it needs to be a constant practice as we have so many layers of conditioning and constant programming that what we can do is position ourselves so as to re-program our own minds. It's much more useful than shrugging things off, or worse, becoming impervious to that which touches us as negative. We have learnt through repetition, so to unlearn or reprogram, constant consciousness is pretty much all we have; at least that's the way I try to go.
Thank-you, Daniel. I so appreciate you and all your “meager efforts at sense-making” in this bewildering and painful time. 🙏
Continued. In the American Jewish community it is a gut defence of Israel. I was on a kibbutz in 1979, the so called golden era for Israel and even then I saw trouble ahead. There was second class citizens thing happening inside Israel proper let alone the occupied territories.
Hurt people, hurt people. This goes for both sides. What a nightmare for them and possibly the entire world unless cooler heads prevail to take stock of the immediate situation.
Thanks Daniel. Our separation from the living world blinds us from seeing the natural cycle of a system that we, also nature, have created. Unraveling and decay was always inevitable. While the seeds of a new system sprout everywhere, the fire has not yet completely torn through the old forest. My hope is that while the old forest burns, the new saplings grow fast enough to catch as many people as possible in their branches.