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Sunday, June 15, 2025
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Evolve or Die Watching the Show
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It’s always been fixed!
Trying to effectively enforce ICE worksite enforcement in the US would be like trying to to effectively enforce US speeding laws in the US.
Or effectively enforce US drug laws!
IMPOSSIBLE!
As things stand now and have stood in this country for decades, America can’t economically prosper, feed itself or survive without the labor of migrants undocumented or not.
For years elites on both sides of the border fence have been enriched by this failed US immigration system.
US political parties have used this failed immigration system to further careers and enrich themselves for decades too.
Undocumented workers are not and have never been the problem. What many Americans don’t grasp is the ultra corporate and political rich in the US and in all countries involved, are the culprits.
This charade of Making America Great Again by arresting and deporting the relatives of people who helped make America originally great IS FOX brainwashing by political power and billionaires at their very best.
With this Trump presidency their $hit$ki is finally hitting the fan.
Evolve or die watching the show!
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
US MILITARY OATH
OATH OF ALL US MILITARY SERVICEMEN AND SERVICEWOMAN:
I, [Name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Monday, May 26, 2025
Memorial Day (United States)
We have been programmed to be what we’re not.
John Randolph
Memorial Day (United States)
To know love we have to tell the truth to ourselves and to others. Creating a false self to mask fears and insecurities has become so common that many of us forget who we are and what we feel underneath the pretense. Breaking through this denial is always the first step in uncovering our longing to be honest and clear.
—bell hooks, All About Love
Richard Rohr describes the temptation to hide and deny what we’ve been taught is unacceptable within us:
We identify with our persona/mask so strongly when we’re young that we become masters of denial and learn to eliminate or hide anything that doesn’t support it. Neither our persona nor our shadow is evil in itself; they just allow us to do evil without recognizing it. Our shadow self makes us all into hypocrites on some level. Hypocrite is a Greek word that simply means “actor,” someone playing a role rather than being “real.” We’re all in one kind of closet or another and are even encouraged by society to play such roles. Usually everybody else can see our shadow, so it’s crucial that we learn what everybody else knows about us—except us!
Holy or whole individuals, the ones we call “saints,” are precisely the ones who have no “I” to protect or project. Their “I” is in conscious union with the “I AM” of God, and that is more than enough. Divine union overrides any need for self-hatred or self-adoration. Love holds us tightly and safely and always. Such people have met the enemy and know that the major enemy is “me” (to borrow from the comic strip character Pogo). But they do not hate the “me” either; they just see through and beyond the little “me.”
The closer we get to the light, the more of our shadow we see. Thus, truly holy people are always humble people. Christians would have been done a great service if the shadow had been distinguished from sin. Sin and shadow are not the same! We were so encouraged to avoid sin that many of us avoided facing our shadow, and then we ended up “sinning” even worse—while unaware besides! As Paul taught, “The angels of darkness must disguise themselves as angels of light” (2 Corinthians 11:14). The persona cannot bear to see evil in itself, so it always disguises it as good. The shadow self invariably presents itself as something like prudence, common sense, and justice. It says, “I’m doing this for your good,” when it actually manifests fear, control, manipulation, or even vengeance. Isn’t it fascinating that the name Lucifer literally means “light bearer”? The evil one always makes darkness look like light—and makes light look like darkness.
The gift of shadowboxing is in recognizing the shadow and its games, which takes away most of the shadow’s hidden power. No wonder that Teresa of Ávila said that the mansion of true self-knowledge was the necessary first mansion on the spiritual journey. Socrates said the same thing, “Know yourself!”
Reference:
Adapted from Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, rev. ed. (Jossey-Bass, 2024), 83–84, 85.
Image credit and inspiration: Flavie Martin, untitled (detail), 2022, photo, Unsplash. Click here to enlarge image. With cautious breath and glimmers of light, we step into the shadow—drawn by the gifts it holds—seeking the clarity and courage to name what hides.
Friday, May 23, 2025
New Self New World
An essential book by Author Philip Shepherd
The history of Western culture over the last eight thousand years follows a broad exponential curve—beginning with the Neolithic Revolution and accelerating precipitously into and through the twentieth century—in which man increasingly stepped back from the world of nature, acquired technological mastery over it, and gained specific
knowledge of it that enabled him to evict wonder and kinship from every pine needle and worm and drop of rain, until now he finally stands alone: a world unto himself, superior to all he surveys, without peer, he also finds himself lacking spiritual relevance, purpose and affinity for his world—lacking even the assuring sense that his own experience is real. Of course, reality is fulfilled only through relationship—and how can any of us relate to a world to which we believe our lives are fundamentally irrelevant? That is the problem we have created for ourselves.
The trajectory of the arc that brought us here has been driven by the urge within the male element to assert itself and refute its dependence on anything feminine. As we have seen, that urge has uprooted us from our own sensitivity, and our diminished sensitivity has in turn numbed us to the body, to the earth, to its wisdom, and to the guiding imagery and intuitions of conscious being. As the child individuates and separates from its mother, so too has modern man individuated and separated from maternal Being. Today we are witnessing a slow and reluctant awakening to the crisis to which our separation from Being has brought both us and our planet. As a species that prides itself on reason, you might think we could have anticipated that being without Being would be a problem.
~ Philip Shepherd, from the book New Self New World
#crisis #being #kinship #spirituality #earthwisdom
Sunday, May 18, 2025
GO ASK ALICE
I've come to realize that my whole life has been a struggle against the societal norms that stifle human growth and potential.
The influence of parenting, media, schools, governments, religions, and cultures can be overwhelming, and it's clear that primary
driven by greed and profit.
But l've been fortunate enough to discover the truth through music and medicine, like ketamine, which have given me the existential experience of Presence.
It's heartbreaking to realize that our birthright has been exploited, and that we've been conditioned to live in a way that's not true to ourselves.
Now, at 74, I'm conscious of the difference between my true self and the person I was conditioned to be. It's a bittersweet realization, especially when I think about the state of the world today.
I'm grateful for the awakening, and it's also painful to see how far we've strayed from our true nature. God bless.
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