This article was posted on Substack today, synchronicity working as it does. It goes some way to answering my question, but poses dangers of its own. Finding this power within ourselves requires us to use it wisely. The key is in how to use it wisely. Do we use it as individuals, and how useful can that be? Or do we use it as groups. All the cults, including Hillsong, and most of the Indian gurus, know how to create, amplify and manage this energy. They work through a phenomenon called group mind or egregore, where they build emotional harmony within a group of people, who can then act in concert and with a certainty that did not exist before they were united, via emotion, into a group mind. A family, a community, a church, a political party, a nation, are all examples of group minds in which individual people become emotionally invested. The unscrupulous know how to engender this energy and engage it for their own end, rarely to the common good. It is dangerous in the wrong hands. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
We must use the human emotions, but we must work out how to do that without it degenerating into control.
A timely piece, especially on a personal level - I was recently contacted (via Facebook messenger) by an individual proclaiming to have his own "true" ministry of Christ, (truer than all the others of course) and over the course of a few weeks he bombarded my inbox with a spam link directing me to potentially donate to the furtherance of his ministry, as he alone, with enough money, could effect positive change against the evils of this world. Very Jim Jones. I did not reply ...actually, I didn't even see his repetitive messages (until much later) as I have multiple accounts and the messages are only accessible when I log in on the desktop... anyway, he tired of my unwillingness to read his manipulative nonsense garnished with the typical "fundamentalist" zealotry... and decided to end things with:
'God is coming for you! Don't think you can hide behind your avatar as a psychological blanket!'
A little extreme! I certainly wouldn't want to be aligned with his god ...Sounds like he is invested in the Hebrew Old Testament 'jealous and vengeful god of destruction...' what utter lunacy...
Do you remember Graham Hood? I had so much time for him at the start of the resistance to the lockdowns. But gradually he increased his references to god, and now his FB group, Hoodies Heroes sums everything up in terms of their idea of god. They do not seem to understand that any group that thinks it has the one true path to whatever this god being is, is, by definition, dividing the world into multiple battling cults all trying to out do one another. I believe that the resistance of western nations to the influx of Islamists, is not that these people are Moslem, but that they believe they have the one true religion, and most importantly, the right to impose it on everyone else. I feel the same way about biblical fundamentalists, that I feel about Zionists, that I feel about Islamic fundamentalism. It is the apparent right that all of these groups feel to impose their world view on others. They are entitled to any world view they like, as long as they treat me with respect. But all forms of fundamentalist are unable to respect the sovereignty of those not part of their particular cult. Until we get over this, the human race cannot "grow up" and fix this problem we are facing with a ruling elite that doesn't like us very much.
Such a wise post, Christine. Thank you. I, too, have a huge respect for Naomi Wolf - especially her and her team's diligent work exposing Pfizer's clinical trial fraud. I have struggled to comprehend the sheer evil that pervades the planet these last few years, and so when I read Naomi's post about the ancient gods, it resonated. After giving it more thought, however, I now find it deeply troubling. I worry we will descend into some kind of medieval religious fundamentalism as we seek to make sense of the Covid madness. Like you, I believe humanity just needs to grow up and take responsibility. No one will save us but ourselves.
I have always been spiritual but never been religious, and I find myself using the word evil now in a way I never grasped before. I always knew there were bad dudes around, but this is next level and sooner or later we have to come out of the closet and talk about who these bad dudes really are (some of the ancient gods in facts) and just how we can combat them. But I think it is a trifle too early to get into that yet. Where I diverge from Naomi is in imagining that some old man in the sky is going to come and save us.
Yes, exactly, the people behind this are next-level evil in a way I never dared imagine. It's like we have all left our homes and gone on an extended vacation, and whoever the hell these people are have moved in, turned on the TV, and are sitting on our couches eating popcorn.
Satan is what we become when we lie to ourselves and one does not need to belong to a religion to do so. Get real, be a patriot to the human cause - or leave. Time to draw lines to protect ourselves and our kids. Read Thomas Paine.
This article was posted on Substack today, synchronicity working as it does. It goes some way to answering my question, but poses dangers of its own. Finding this power within ourselves requires us to use it wisely. The key is in how to use it wisely. Do we use it as individuals, and how useful can that be? Or do we use it as groups. All the cults, including Hillsong, and most of the Indian gurus, know how to create, amplify and manage this energy. They work through a phenomenon called group mind or egregore, where they build emotional harmony within a group of people, who can then act in concert and with a certainty that did not exist before they were united, via emotion, into a group mind. A family, a community, a church, a political party, a nation, are all examples of group minds in which individual people become emotionally invested. The unscrupulous know how to engender this energy and engage it for their own end, rarely to the common good. It is dangerous in the wrong hands. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
We must use the human emotions, but we must work out how to do that without it degenerating into control.
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/fighting-the-spiritual-battle-on
A timely piece, especially on a personal level - I was recently contacted (via Facebook messenger) by an individual proclaiming to have his own "true" ministry of Christ, (truer than all the others of course) and over the course of a few weeks he bombarded my inbox with a spam link directing me to potentially donate to the furtherance of his ministry, as he alone, with enough money, could effect positive change against the evils of this world. Very Jim Jones. I did not reply ...actually, I didn't even see his repetitive messages (until much later) as I have multiple accounts and the messages are only accessible when I log in on the desktop... anyway, he tired of my unwillingness to read his manipulative nonsense garnished with the typical "fundamentalist" zealotry... and decided to end things with:
'God is coming for you! Don't think you can hide behind your avatar as a psychological blanket!'
A little extreme! I certainly wouldn't want to be aligned with his god ...Sounds like he is invested in the Hebrew Old Testament 'jealous and vengeful god of destruction...' what utter lunacy...
Do you remember Graham Hood? I had so much time for him at the start of the resistance to the lockdowns. But gradually he increased his references to god, and now his FB group, Hoodies Heroes sums everything up in terms of their idea of god. They do not seem to understand that any group that thinks it has the one true path to whatever this god being is, is, by definition, dividing the world into multiple battling cults all trying to out do one another. I believe that the resistance of western nations to the influx of Islamists, is not that these people are Moslem, but that they believe they have the one true religion, and most importantly, the right to impose it on everyone else. I feel the same way about biblical fundamentalists, that I feel about Zionists, that I feel about Islamic fundamentalism. It is the apparent right that all of these groups feel to impose their world view on others. They are entitled to any world view they like, as long as they treat me with respect. But all forms of fundamentalist are unable to respect the sovereignty of those not part of their particular cult. Until we get over this, the human race cannot "grow up" and fix this problem we are facing with a ruling elite that doesn't like us very much.
Such a wise post, Christine. Thank you. I, too, have a huge respect for Naomi Wolf - especially her and her team's diligent work exposing Pfizer's clinical trial fraud. I have struggled to comprehend the sheer evil that pervades the planet these last few years, and so when I read Naomi's post about the ancient gods, it resonated. After giving it more thought, however, I now find it deeply troubling. I worry we will descend into some kind of medieval religious fundamentalism as we seek to make sense of the Covid madness. Like you, I believe humanity just needs to grow up and take responsibility. No one will save us but ourselves.
I have always been spiritual but never been religious, and I find myself using the word evil now in a way I never grasped before. I always knew there were bad dudes around, but this is next level and sooner or later we have to come out of the closet and talk about who these bad dudes really are (some of the ancient gods in facts) and just how we can combat them. But I think it is a trifle too early to get into that yet. Where I diverge from Naomi is in imagining that some old man in the sky is going to come and save us.
Yes, exactly, the people behind this are next-level evil in a way I never dared imagine. It's like we have all left our homes and gone on an extended vacation, and whoever the hell these people are have moved in, turned on the TV, and are sitting on our couches eating popcorn.
Satan is what we become when we lie to ourselves and one does not need to belong to a religion to do so. Get real, be a patriot to the human cause - or leave. Time to draw lines to protect ourselves and our kids. Read Thomas Paine.
https://open.substack.com/pub/kwnorton/p/you-will-have-nothing-and-you-will?r=boqs0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Who are you exhorting to "get real, be a patriot..."? No me I hope.
I think "a patriot to the human cause" is exactly what I am. I am saying, "human race, get off your knees", you are worth more than this.
Exactly. I am exhorting all of us. Me, you, everyone. Patriotism is an equal opportunity employer.