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...
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.
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...
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.
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