Albert Eisenstein Link

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Evolve or Die Watching the Show

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It’s always been fixed!

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5350734-trump-ice-hotel-agriculture-restaurant-raids/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR50fw4QSZrF4R6egIVD0nk2RtmHvBZdb1qWynKCSZhTH1rESl7E7JkCF1xfIA_aem_veAG_bevdKHAEHlt9sM-Vg

 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!

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.

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:  

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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.  

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

¡Topple Trump!

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. 

The journey of healing and spiritual realization

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 The journey of healing and spiritual realization will by its nature feel lonely at times. Even though we’re interconnected with others and with all of life, there is a solitary aspect to the path. 

No one can truly know what it’s like for us - for our hearts to break, what keeps us up at night, what is meaningful for us, what it feels like, for us, to fall in and out of love; or to be sad, ashamed, scared, or joyful. 

It’s not easy to make this journey on our own. As open, sensitive relational human beings, we’re wired to connect, to love and to be loved, and to support one another as we open into the mysteries.

Whether our primary interest is in tending the wounds around love – attachment, trauma, narcissism, betrayal in soul – or in exploring within the experiential depths of the transpersonal (communion, union, Oneness, Unity with the divine ground), we do so by way of an unknown and mysterious relational field, through the dance and play of love in form.

I know many have been through so much this year and lost many of their familiar reference points, unsure where to look for refuge and meaning, confronting feelings of groundlessness and uncertainty. 

In so many ways, we’ve been asked to turn toward the unlived within us. To provide a temple where the shattered pieces of the heart can come to reassemble.

Rebirth is tied intimately to our willingness and capacity to grieve, a holy activity not always honored in our world. But here we are, the misfits of despair, ecstasy, sorrow, and wonder, knowing the aliveness we long for will only be found in embodied attunement to the full spectrum.

The process of “falling apart” is not some great cosmic error or mistake we need to correct or repair, but an emissary of wholeness, a way shower of what will emerge from the ashes of reorganization.

It is love, of course, that will guide the reorganization. But it is love, too, that is the substance of the ashes, and also the tears. 

There’s a certain longing that appears in the middle of the process of death and rebirth, but the object of that longing is not always clear and is of the mystery. The vastness of the Other looms in personal and collective networks. 

All the old reference points are washed away, dissolved, and made to dust. A cleansing deep in the subtle body. Emptied out, with nothing yet to take its place. Just a shimmering, and a periodic glimpse of the scintilla, the pieces of light.

And so it goes on the path of the heart…

Of course, it’s natural to want to escape the shakiness, claustrophobia, and not-knowing. It aches there, as it is the ground of the unlived life.

At the same time, another potential pathway appears: to stay with the uncertainty, turn all the way into the tenderness, attune to the imaginal, and to the wisdom of the feeling body. There is data and information here that is only available in times when the psychic quo is being tenderized and dismantled.

A door swings open that is usually closed or hidden behind the veil. There are letters and engravings on that door that can only be deciphered by you. It’s not a collective door, but one that has emerged unique to your own soul print. The script on that door is written in the letters of grief.

The passing of an old dream – me and my life and how it was all going to turn out, supposed to turn out.

There is no rebirth without an embodied tending to the unlived, the ancestral, and the figures of grief who dance and spin and twirl within us, come not to harm or take us down – not as an obstacle on our path, but as the very path itself.

When we meet with someone who is feeling melancholic, empty, restless, or down, we can quickly become convinced that something is wrong, and that our role is to act urgently to fix them.

And to engage in techniques, theories, and ideas to help them replace the actuality of their experience with what we believe they should be having instead.

It’s totally natural to want relief for those we care about and we want to do whatever we can to help; we don’t need to pretend this isn’t the case. We can hold that larger intention that they feel better, while simultaneously staying open to a call emerging in the field between us into deeper territory.

Perhaps it is something more subtle, more nuanced, more meaningful than relief that they are most longing for. For the Friend, for a companion who will go with them into the dimly lit, endarkened landscape of the soul.

From an alchemical perspective, there is wisdom and guidance in the images, emotions, and somatic data arising into the relational field between you, vital communication from the soul serving an initiatory function beyond what we can perceive.

We don’t want to short-circuit that, especially as a result of our own anxiety and discomfort.

If we slow down and reflect, we might discover how much of our “fixing” activity, the movement toward relief, arises not from true compassion but from an unresolved relationship with our own darkness, with our own historic core vulnerabilities and untended complexes, and from the spinning and twirling of the ghosts of our own unlived lives.

It is possible that the most skillful and kind thing we can offer our friend is to sit in the charged energy with them, bearing witness to pure feeling together, in that claustrophobic or restless space, and stay near; to remove the burden that they come out of their experience, “feel better,” or heal in order for us to stay close.

Perhaps they don’t need to be healed, but to be held, to be heard, and to feel felt and understood, for someone to companion them as the hidden wisdom unfolds.

Where, together, we weave a safe home, a sanctuary, a wholeness-temple where the shards of a broken world can reassemble.

The Strike Is Coming

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It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power.

https://generalstrikeus.com/?

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich shreds Donald Trump

 BREAKING: Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich shreds Donald Trump for his disastrous tantrum with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — and provides the perfect antidote for the emotional hangover we're all feeling.

This is a must read if you're feeling hopeless right now...

"If you were shocked and disgusted by the scene in the Oval Office yesterday, with Trump and Vance belittling and berating President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, you’re not alone," Reich wrote on his Facebook page. "Fourteen Democratic governors have released a joint statement condemning what occurred:

"'Donald Trump and JD Vance used the sacred Oval Office to berate President Zelensky for not trusting Vladimir Putin’s word. Americans must protect our strong democratic values on the world stage instead of undermining President Zelenskyy’s work to fight for his nation and the freedom of his people after being invaded by Russia.'"

"They speak for much of America."

They certainly speak for us here at Occupy Democrats. Yesterday was nothing short of a historic low point for the United States of America and our nation's once proud reputation on the global stage.

However, it's deeply reassuring to hear that so many Americans are feeling the same way right now.

"For more than three years, President Zelenskyy has courageously and nobly contained Putin’s aggression," Reich continued. "Zelenskyy has maintained the morale of the people of Ukraine while diligently soliciting and getting help from Europe and the United States. He has waged a war that few assumed he could win, but he has not flinched."

"He deserves our heartfelt thanks rather than the cruel rebuke delivered today by Trump and Vance," said Reich.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1A31Y9PemE/ This part is particularly relevant now as reports have begun to merge that Trump is demanding a public apology from Zelenskyy before he will resume talks. The ones who deserve an apology are Zelenskyy himself and the brave people of Ukraine.

"Why did they hammer him?" Reich went on. "Because they don’t want Americans to view Zelenskyy as a hero. That view will complicate Trump’s plan to surrender Ukraine to Putin. Trump is ready to give Putin everything he wants. And then carve up the world."

"Make no mistake: Putin’s aggression will not end with Ukraine," he continued. "By giving in to Putin, Trump is inviting him to invade Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Poland — and then the rest of Eastern Europe that used to be under Soviet and Russian control."

"Trump wants Canada, Greenland, Panama, and much else," Reich wrote, drawing a direct parallel between Putin's aggression and Trump's own imperialist ambitions.

"Yesterday's meeting in the Oval Office was a stage show. It will also be remembered by future historians (to the extent they have access to the truth) as a prelude to conquest," stated Reich. "Trump believes only in power — which in his mind means complete and utter control. Putin does, too. The two dictators deserve each other."

"The rest of us must make it clear — to our fellow Americans, as to the remainder of the free world — that we believe in democracy, that we appreciate Zelenskyy’s courage and tenacity, and that Trump and Vance do not speak for us," he went on.

And indeed they do not. Now is not the time to give up hope. Now is the time to double down on our democratic principles, stand up, and fight back.

MAGA might be one of the darkest political moments in American history, but it is not our future.

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Updated: Denaturalize Musk, Revoke US Citizenship, Deport to South Africia?

 Read first link, Washington Post, detailing how Musk first fraudulently broke immigration laws then covered that up to obtain US Citizenship:

Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally - The Washington Post

UPDATED 3:16/3025

Now click on the length below:  NOTE:  8 USC 1451 seems to have replaced what was INA 340.  Both deal with revocation of Nationalization.

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Trump-Musk Dictatorship

Coming from the man who has saved tens of thousands of  lives via seatbelt legislation!  

 https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-musk-dictatorship

Ustedes Tienen Derechos Si Agentes De Ice Llegan A Su Puerta

 

Elton Musk - Did He Obtain US Citizenship By Fraud?

 Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally - The Washington Post

“Corporate Coup”

MUST READ Common Dreams

https://www.commondreams.org/news/musk-coups

Read Ralph Nader - "Let's Start The Revolution"

Let's Start the Revolution - Ralph Nader

Trump Will Fix Immigration?

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IN RESPONSE TO THE LINK ABOVE 

The author worked for Wall Street, and he sounds like a Foxaholic too. 

The racism, misinformation and propaganda spewed by Fox and Friends has lobotomized, brain washed and panicked nearly half this country. 

So it’s OK with all those Biden hating Hispanics that Trump took down the Spanish speaking communication lines to the White House?

https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-spanish-language-website-62224890c5b05c8ce0878358ba4a5266

Enough so that maga is putty in the hands of the current reich.

Right out of the old Nazi playbook to which most of maga is absolutely clueless.

Not that the entire system didn’t need to be overhauled.  Bernie had it right for years but the duopoly wasn’t having anything to do with his ideas. 

Hence the chaos of today.  

And MAGA thinks Trump will take care of them now that he is elected?  

He will if you’re a billionaire (which knocks out (guessing) probably over 95% of you.

¡Cien por ciento de los hispanos y la mayor votantes de maga engañados por el diablo! 😈

SPANISH TRANSLATION BELOW

El trabajó para Wall Street y parece un adicto a Fox. 

El racismo, la desinformación y la propaganda arrojada por Fox and Friends ha lobotomizado, lavado el cerebro y provocado pánico en casi la mitad de este país. 

Entonces, ¿está bien para todos esos hispanos que odian a Biden que Trump haya cortado las líneas de comunicación en español con la Casa Blanca? 

https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-spanish-language-website-62224890c5b05c8ce0878358ba4a5266

Lo suficiente para que MAGA sea masilla en manos del actual Reich. 

Directamente del viejo manual nazi del que la mayoría de MAGA no tiene ni idea. 

No es que no fuera necesario revisar todo el sistema. Bernie tenía razón durante años, pero el duopolio no tenía nada que ver con sus ideas. 

De ahí el caos de hoy. 

¿Y MAGA cree que Trump se ocupará de ellos ahora que es elegido? 

Lo hará si eres multimillonario (lo que deja fuera de combate (supongo) probablemente a más del 95 % de ustedes).

¡Cien por ciento de los hispanos engañados por el diablo! 😈

Foxaholics Anonymous

 They need to start a Foxaholics Anonymous (FA) group in America.  

This disease is much more devastating than alcoholism or drug addiction🙏☮️

God Please Protect Her

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US Anglo-Saxon techno-financial oligarchy

 THE BELOW IS A MUST READ IN ORDER TO BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT IS TAKING PLACE IN WASHINGTON 

Anglo-Saxon techno-financial oligarchy

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-american-empire

Immigration Sweep Smoke and Mirrors

 Here is what US and Mexican politicians won’t say publicly:  

Both groups of elites running both countries profit off of cheap Mexican labor and the very political systems that keep illegal migration and illegal drugs unresolved binational problems.

Effectively stoping illegal immigration would be similar to effectively stopping all speeders and drunk drivers in the US.  

Or effectively stopping all illegal drugs from coming into in the US.  Or effectively STOPPING all mass school shootings and all firearm related deaths in the US. 

There are not enough cops to effectively stop any of these, and the US can’t afford to pay for a budget that would.  

Never mind the countless politicians who have been making careers off of these very issues for years.

And that the oligarchs who have been and are coming into office really don’t care what happens to We The People (including MAGAs) who aren’t billionaires.  

On top of all this, Fox News and friends have pulled off complete disinformation related home “lobotomies” of close to half this country.  

Finally why have we never heard of one single US politician ever suggesting that our government deal directly with the Mexican government to insist that they provide for their own people?

They wouldn’t come here if they had one ounce of prosperity at home.

Or perhaps US politicians are too afraid of messing up profits from binational 

trade or US factories operating in Mexico?  

As I have said, the super rich, super corrupt shot callers on both sides will continue to increase their wealth by scapegoating the undocumented and maintaining this decades old, insane illegal immigration status quo.

It is all political smoke and mirrors.  

This immigration sweep will cause untold suffering by not only the non criminal migrants, but also the US taxpayers who will continue to suffer the consequences of being used by the same binational billionaires who abuse the undocumented.