Wow! Thank you Laura, and everyone else who was at this session.
This one was particularly special for me: it was on my birthday! And not only that, but the major subject of the session - the electrical nature of the Sun, comets, Earth changes etc - is a particular research interest of mine. I've actually been wanting, for a while now, to post a 'Question for the C's' along the lines of, 'Is there anything to this Electric Universe thing, or is it just more disinformation?' Too bashful to actually pose it, however. And now you spend almost an entire session on precisely that topic! And largely confirm that there
is something to it (although not perhaps as extreme as the position of the EU proponents). I don't think I could ask for a better birthday present.
Once again, thank you! :) I hope those of you who got sick make a speedy recovery!
zlyja said:
Thanks for the session, all. I hope that Ailén and Atreides feel better soon, and that you two don't have pain. :)
Endymion said:
Bluestar said:
The observation and conclusion I have come to is that many people just can not absorb the info or choose not to because they have too many distractions.
To me it seems that many people have lost their curiosity. They had it as children. People are resigned, which is probably a product of the education system which does not encourage true curiosity. This is why it sometimes seems like 'casting pearls before swine', because one's remarks do not provoke others' curiosity. The converse of this is that people who have retained their curiosity are seen as unusual. The proverb goes: 'curiosity killed the cat'. The Cs said somewhere that curiosity is a spiritual attribute (I can't find the quote right now).
I agree with this in its entirety. My experience with school has just been essays, citations, tests, rinse, lather, repeat. If there's a topic that's even remotely interesting to me, such as the state of health care, curiosity decays exponentially as the deadline approaches. The educational system is just one big program that incites laziness and kills curiosity in its tracks; it's a mentality that screams, "Just give me the answers, I'm too tired to do this anymore." It just sucks so much energy out of people. Combine that with working full time, struggling with illness, etc., and I guess most people don't think they have the time to act on any curiosity that they may have.
I reflect often on how fortunate I was to be able to maintain my own curiosity about the world. School does indeed destroy it ... academia has a way of taking even the most fascinating topic and converting it into yet another slog through drudgery. And of course this may well be one of school's primary purposes: make learning seem a chore, something that one only engages in when either forced to or bribed to, and - when either inducement is removed - the well-programmed subject will cease to learn. Combine with near-total control over the curriculum and presto! A perfect recipe for a perfectly deluded populace, with heads full of outrageous fabrications and not the slightest desire to correct any of them.
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Perceval said:
I suppose the point I am making is that it is a rare breed of person who is motivated to take on both the basic challenges of the reality of normal life AND attempt to face into and fix the problems of reality on a global (or larger) scale. And I'm not sure there are enough.
Unfortunately, my own experiences would tend to support this. Among those I would call friends and associates, almost all are fully absorbed in their own lives and do not spend any time or energy looking more closely at what is going on around them. A small handful are somewhat curious, but even the most open-minded spend very little time actually reading or researching. Many people I know spend what little free time they have simply distracting themselves. One thing I have noticed in the past couple years is how few people actually know how to go about researching a subject. I watch for opportunities to inject an idea here and there, but unless a person actually takes it upon themselves to 'make it their own' by doing some work on their own, it remains just an idea among many others. I can personally attest to the fact that many people actually begin to feel pain if their ideas about things are challenged.
The effect of this on me has been discouraging on one hand, but has also served to increase my appreciation of the immensity of the forces of inertia, which in turn has made me intensify my own efforts to go in the other direction. Having contact with others who feel the same, through this forum, is life and soul-saving.
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Like many others here, I've been experiencing a progressive loss of interest in 'waking people up'. It just seems as though those who will awaken, are doing so and as for the rest, the Great Soul-Smashing awaits, perhaps. There's also issues with ego-gratification (needing to win arguments, be perceived to be 'right', etc) which are ultimately destructive to the goals of the Work. The psychopathic nature of the government, the hand of the Secret Team, the lack of even the pretense of economic justice, the shameless lies in the media ... it has all become so obvious, for those who choose to see. But of course, few do, or will, and so the world continues to fall apart. It certainly can't sustain itself like this for long. The psychopathic infection will burn the house down around itself presently, and as that happens the Earth will be going through its own upheavals. I cannot stop this; none of us can. Nor can I plan for it: the chaos is too great. Will the Ice Age bury my little corner of Ontario under a glacier? Will I get hauled off to a camp by our government as the totalitarian fist comes down?
All I can do now - all any of us can do - is to keep working on ourselves. Reclaim our bodies, our minds, our souls, and once reclaimed, fortify and strengthen them, for the challenges ahead. Not for our own sakes, individually, but because we shall ALL need strong allies, and as many of them as we can get.
However, another, more bracing thought suggests itself. If the control system clamps down on the 'Net, using Assange and his 'leaks' as an excuse, SoTT and the forum may be taken down. Earth Changes could do the same, disrupting the communications infrastructure ... something along the lines of the Carrington Event, for instance, would set us back to the Iron Age. In either case we would be wholly cut off from one another, save for those of us who live in physical proximity. In which case we shall all individually be left in our geographical locales, still with our global and cosmic perspective but with our communities restricted to those who do not share it.
BUT ... another thought ... this new DNA. I have wondered for some time if the 'Net isn't 'training wheels for telepathy'. Maybe, just maybe, this new DNA will give those who receive it the ability to network telepathically, without technological infrastructure?