Scandinavian observations and perspectives

[thorbiorn]

This was a good one, in terms of the reporting on the bombardment by the media towards preparation for war against Russia. Malinen, who was interviewed, repeats the story of how easily it would be to isolate Finland and be forced to negotiate if Stockholm is destroyed and the island of Gotland in the Baltic sea is taken by Russia. This would be an extreme scenario, and seems to be highly unlikely, but it shows the absurdity of a hypothetical full-scale NATO war using Finland as one of the launching grounds.

The above scenario brought up the question of the Danish Straits, because what would be the value of Finland and Gotland if the straits are closed.

When we look at the maps, the Danish Straits are narrow:

In the comment, it is written:

Map of Danish Straits maritime chokepoints
The Danish Straits, a series of channels that connect the Baltic Sea to the North Sea, are an important route for Russian seaborne oil exports to Europe. An estimated 3.2 million b/d of crude oil and petroleum products flowed through the Danish Straits in 2016. go.usa.gov/xRvFp

That was a few years ago!

The places where larger ships can or do sail is small.
A map with more details is from danpilot.dk, a service that offers ship guidance through the waters:

There is strategic advantage of these straits, which is maybe why the US called them chokepoints, since Denmark is a part of NATO.

The two larger islands in the straits are connected with a tunnel and a bridge, Zealand and mainland Scandinavia too, Jutland and Fuen with two bridges. To close the straits for a shorter or longer term would be doable. If that happens what gets choked?

Given the above background, is there any significance in the following.

8. January at 00:45

Russian ships have been sailing around the Kattegat for over a day

Text by /ritzau/
For at least a day, two Russian ships have been circling in the middle of the waters of the Kattegat between Denmark and Sweden.

This is written by the Swedish media TV4.

The Swedish Coast Guard has informed the Danish authorities about the ships.

- We have informed the relevant authorities and those responsible for surveillance in Denmark, says Klas Loven, who heads the command center at the Swedish Coast Guard.

According to the Swedish Coast Guard, the ships are in Danish waters.

On radar images, you can see that the ships have been circling a small area in the Kattegat at least since Monday evening.

It is immediately unclear why the ships are in the water, writes TV4.

- They have been there for a while. I can't say it more precisely, says Klas Loven from the Swedish Coast Guard to TV4.

According to Ritzau, these are the two ships 'Sergey Balk' and 'SB-123'.

It is permitted for Russian ships to sail through Danish waters, but for a long time the focus has been on the activities of the Russian shadow fleet in the Baltic Sea and around Denmark.

For example, the Chinese ship 'Yi Peng 3', which was at anchor for several weeks in the Kattegat, as it had a suspicious route past cables that were soon found to be damaged.

Published on January 8 right after midnight and claiming they have sailed around for at least 24 hours it is remarkable that Donald Trump Jr visited Greenland on January 7! If the US goes to Greenland if not Svalbard, what will be the response?

 

[thorbiorn]

Comment to the discussion of early trauma

Regarding deep childhood trauma, I was wondering if NO sessions coupled with reading a book outloud to yourself like "Healing and Developmental Trauma" or another book on trauma and abuse in early childhood would be a useful tool in the toolkit. From what I understand, NO provides a mirror of your brain activity and shows your brain what it's doing can do a course correction so to speak and reading a book(s) like that might help the brain and body to release those early traumas, consciously or unconsciously. I don't remember where I read about the specific benefit of reading outloud to yourself - I think it may have been in Gurdjieff's work.

In Transcripts related to children, there is a post Feb 11, 2022 that mentions neurofeedback and reading. Here is a part of it,

"The following excerpt discusses the belief center, and the role beliefs play in our lives. It is a topic that potentially could influence the way we bring up children.
Session 10 February 2018
[...]

(Mikey) My question is along the same lines. In 1994 in one of the sessions, the C's said one can have only positive emotions if one chooses to. And then they brought in the connection with the belief center. I would like to know if it's useful to develop the belief center because they also said that most power necessary to alter our physicality and reality lies in the belief center. That sounds like something that's interesting. Is it something for us to work on? And how to do it? Is belief something that's true, or something that's an illusion?

(L) Didn't Joe ask something like that in a previous session?

(Joe) You have to get rid of all of your beliefs and then you can change reality if you don't have any limiting beliefs. You have to be completely open, and then you can maybe read from the information field or something. And then you might be able to change something.

(L) It's like getting rid of expectations or assumptions about how things are going to be.

(Joe) Because they're limiting, and you don't have the whole banana. It's just not how it works. People think they're going to change reality like by a light beam coming out of my head and I can change anything I want. But it seems to be more like a 2-way process where you engage with something else. You have to get in tune with something that already exists that's objectively real in order to manifest that potential for change. It's not like you can just dream up anything and make it happen. Right?

A: Yes

Q: (L) Well, they said the power for changing reality lies in the belief center of the mind. But then they also said something about emotions. Emotions that are limiting, and then emotions that help to progress... So, maybe the belief that one needs to cultivate - if any - is the belief in unlimited possibilities AND also in the benevolence of the universe and the process. Maybe that's what it is?

A: Yes yes yes!

Q: (Joe) The other phrase was that the one thing you have to do before transitioning to 4D is to think in completely unlimited terms. That doesn't mean you have to be able to think of everything that exists, but...

(L) You have to be open.

(Joe) Right, no expectations. That means getting rid of your hard and fast beliefs about things.

(L) And I think that comes back in a funny sort of way to this “Healing Developmental Trauma” book. One of the problems of early trauma is that children come to believe that the universe is not a safe place or it's scary. They just get completely wrong ideas which lead to thought errors. That's something that's preverbal…

(Pierre) And very limiting.

(L) And those are the kinds of things that probably the neurofeedback can fix more easily than anything else because those are things that produce certain brain waves that persist over time. There's no other way to get to them because you can't TALK your way through something that's preverbal! You can get into some kind of body therapy and spend years with a therapist, but why do that when you can just go directly and change the brain waves? And if you change brain waves, the brain's going to change. Right?

A: Yes yes yes!

Q: (Mikey) So, the trick is to get rid of the negative beliefs, and then find positive beliefs and everything should sort out, right?

(Artemis) No

(Joe) No, not positive beliefs.

(Andromeda) Beliefs are limiting.

(Joe) Any fixed, hard core beliefs. Think about all the books we’ve read. It's not that we're gathering information, but instead that we're discovering that all the things we thought we knew are wrong. Just the information in those books that you read that supplants the more limited beliefs, that gives you a broader perspective on things. But that's still not the whole truth. No matter how many books you read, you can never say, "I know this for sure!" So, the process of learning is about getting rid of stuff related to limiting beliefs.

(Pierre) What I understand from this discussion is that the healthy beliefs are the unlimiting beliefs, but...

(L) Why believe anything?

(Pierre) Yes; beliefs by definition ARE limiting. If you don't believe this, then you believe that. So, I guess unlimited beliefs is sort of a transcending of the very notion of belief. It's going beyond beliefs.

A: Become like little children...

Q: (Artemis) Inquisitive, but without bias or beliefs.

(L) And adventurous, open to experience, and not formed up with any beliefs. And one hopes that it's a little child that has not been developmentally traumatized! [laughter]

(Chu) I think it comes down to what the books say, really, which is that if you're in the present, you stop having the wrong beliefs. Instead of living in the past, you're in a state where you're curious again. So, it is a positive emotion in the end, but it's not the positive emotions as we normally understand them with all the wishful thinking that goes along with them.

(Andromeda) Right.

(Chu) It's like let's live life as an experiment, and...

(L) Like, "This is interesting to see what happens next..."

(Andromeda) But you still have the ability to feel negative emotions as a response to something that happens. Which would be proper.

(Pierre) A lot of PK events or paranormal events involve children. And children, compared to adults, have less of those limiting beliefs. Therefore, they can connect and experience a wider range of events.

(Artemis) So basically, neurofeedback plus reading will help people increase their receivership capability...

(L) If they apply what they read...

(Artemis) ...will help them become conduits for positive forces in the universe.

A: Yes

The above resonates with the following excerpt:
Session 9 September 1995

September 9, 1995 Frank, Laura, SV, Tom French, Cherie Diez This, too, ended up being a direct channeling session, but again, it seems to be rather good. In fact, it is one of the better informational sessions. Q: (L) Hello. A: Other. Q: (L) What do you mean by "other?" A: Re: discover...

A: Emotion that limits is an impediment to progress. Emotion is also necessary to make progress in 3rd density. It is natural. When you begin to separate limiting emotions based on assumptions from emotions that open one to unlimited possibilities, that means you are preparing for the next density.

It should be possible also for children to be helped by neurofeedback and reading. And children frequently like to have stories read to them, though it is not all genres and authors of children's literature that will be helpful for the development of a child, and children also have different interests and abilities."

 

[thorbiorn]

I think we will have to move the discussion of Greenland to a new thread, probably in Geopolitics. Maybe some posts from here could be moved.