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gaelen:
A great, great podcast. Telling it like it is. Highly energizing and inspiring in a butt-kicking-slap-around-the-face-with-a-large-haddock kind of way.

http://signs-of-the-times.org/podcast/index.php

Raising awareness of lies is surely the way and something we can all participate in. Onwards.

J.

Laura:
Needless to say, not everyone is so enthusiastic.  Go here: http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=457&p=2  

and scroll down a bit to see what Melissa Conrad's take on the podcast was!

Guest:
Melissa Conrad is far more toned down than Durand. That may be because she does not seem to be concerned about accumulating a following to her veiw point ("positive thinkers" already have a pretty strong movement anyway). Personally, I think of it as the ostrich effect (sticking your head in the sand and hoping the boogy man will go away).

Apparently her tidy little reality is threatened by the state of affairs in this world. It is true that there are some people who revel in Apocalyptic scenarios. That is another form of psychopathic denial, of course, where the individual projects inner chaos outwardly, hoping to gain security through the misery of others. These people are by far more dangerous than the Melissa types. The latter just need to grow up and practice what they preach and leave those who choose to roll their sleeves and address the situation in peace.

Melissa is a lotus eater (term from the Odessy of Homer) in the psychic sense. It seems, however, that she does not understand the nature of positive thinking. I consider myself a positive thinker. As such, I recognize what is going on and am positive in that we need not fall into despair, and that solutions do exist. As Dylan Thomas so eloquently said: "Do not go quietly into the night".

What Melissa does not understand is that negative energies exist, and become active on their own when we deny them and try to shove them in dark corners. That is when they come back to bite us. On the other hand, it is OP thinking to understand oneself as a computer that can be "reprogrammed" to generate only positive output. Personally, I would like to think I am more than that.

Lucy:

--- Quote from: EsoQuest ---Melissa Conrad is far more toned down than Durand. That may be because she does not seem to be concerned about accumulating a following to her veiw point ("positive thinkers" already have a pretty strong movement anyway). Personally, I think of it as the ostrich effect (sticking your head in the sand and hoping the boogy man will go away).
--- End quote ---
Frankly she sounds rather spaced out to me.  Addicted to the drug of positive thinking; an effective buffer between Melissa and Reality, which keeps her too passive to be another Durand, but turned on just enough to stay tenacious.  As Laura asks:

--- Quote ---I wonder if there is such a thing as a schizoidal OP?  
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=457.msg2139#msg2139
--- End quote ---
Perhaps she's simply a very good example of the inhabitants of "the schizoidal reality" where "truth has no value."

Lucy

anart:
It also sounds like she's completely given up.  When faced with the pain of objective reality, she balked and gave up - period.  Looking at things the way they are wasn't easy, wasn't fun, didn't make her want to get out of bed in the morning, so what's the point?  She appears to be living her life FOR the illusion of it all, which, of course, is her choice - but she has obviously become very comfortable with being food for the moon.


--- Quote from: EsoQuest ---I consider myself a positive thinker. As such, I recognize what is going on and am positive in that we need not fall into despair, and that solutions do exist.
--- End quote ---
I also consider myself a positive thinker, but moreso along the lines of: the universe can take care of itself.  No matter how bad things get, I know that everything is going along as it is going along and I will do what I do and learn what I learn.  This does not mean that I don't have to try, or that it is not hugely important to push myself when i don't want to try - it just means that worrying about whether I have enough 'sleeps' left to get done what I need to get done is just plain silly.  I will do what I do.  Or so it seems to me.

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