The mind is detached, and easily separated from the reality of the body, world, feeling, and the experience of things - not mind. I believe that a more natural life (than so much today) is a more direct and spiritual experience.
My goal is to be an integrated person - with body, soul (mind, will and emotions) and spirit as whole as possible now and constantly striving for more wholeness.
I think that the "mind focus" and the "detached mind syndrome", is probably largely due to our mechanistic, mind focused "educational" indoctrination programming.
A more "natural life" definitely reinvigorates our spiritual roots, viciously suppressed and even slashed by our "secular education" - indoctrination in atheism.
And another kind of indoctrination. I see the rigor of this technologized environment. We don't congregate locally as much, but we do in cyberspace bubbles more-so. A young person says to me, "Don't call, text." That was because I said "Call, don't text." But also, we're not in our jurisdictions here. And why do we all stare at Washington when 99% of those people are not in our jurisdictions? If we were locally connected to our people, then it would be local, district, state, and we'd be on top of them that way, and it would be closer and more real. The whole infrastructure is geared for mass-media and dissemination. [Add: We can have local identities by knowing people where we live]
The psychopaths will reign over the earth until the day integrity becomes preponderant. For now they get their 15 minutes of fame, their day in the sun, but once integrity becomes the true standard, they will be avoided and pitied.
If I were a political architect, I'd say to the customer, "You want morality? You show me accountability and transparency, and I'll show you morality."
I was witness to a conversation about a person who needed urgent surgery over the weekend. The tech said I don't understand why they give everyone pressors (blood pressure reducing meds) and then they expect their surgeries to be successful. The person ended up with an amputation. The MD present said actually the problem was US healthcare because in Europe a person over 75 would never get an ICU bed. Many people are very healthy at 75! This isn't the first time I have heard a doc mention doing too much for an elderly patient. This isn't the healthcare I was trained in and they're intentionally causing harms (through algorithms). The evil is at play everywhere and I doubt many know they are culpable. Stay healthy!
Dr. Vernon Coleman mentioned this in his Substack article today about how the medical industry is using the excuse of combatting climate change to withhold and/or give insufficient care, especially for the elderly.
I don't know when or where u trained, but I remember a friend during their internship & all the fellow doctors had a phrase GOMER used re old patients: Get out of my emergency room! This was 30+ years ago in a respected area/med school. This attitude towards our elderly is not new & is STILL prevalent, particularly in the U.S. where the elderly are not revered, as they are in many other countries.
Concentration camp survivor and Nobel Prize–winning author Elie Wiesel must have been speaking of these vile creatures when he wrote, “Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.”
Nah ... Wiesel was talking about us - ALL of us!
We are mostly responsible for the mess we are in!
The vile creatures could have little and decreasing power, if not for our indifference.
The dark lords grow in power in the shadows, because we don't invade the darkness with the light and expose them, before they can consolidate power.
Why is that?
Perhaps we have some darkness in our own lives, that we want to keep hidden.
Why did the German people enable the Holocaust?
Were they all evil?
They were mostly good protestant Christians supposedly.
Yet because they were indifferent, they died before they died.
Perhaps more Germans than Jews, died in the Holocaust.
Many evil Germans and others, knew exactly what they were doing and didn't care.
The indifference of the rest, enabled the suffering and death.
Thus it was, is now, and evermore shall be.
Unless we do something very different, as suggested in this forum.
The great reset is the great awakening. We always have a choice. It's called free will. The Hawaiian prayer "Ho'oponopono" I'm sorry, Please forgive me, Thank you, I love you, promotes healing and self-love. Getting back to nature is necessary, forest bathing has proven to be immensely helpful. I concur, mistakes were not made.
Have you considered intimacy as a multiplier? To me, like other species we're a species that needs (local) intimate interaction. I think it gets right into our biology and survival that we have it, and I think our modern world throws a twist. Out of intimacy arises a grassroots, organic movement of the people, and this is what we've been missing.
It may seem hard to see, but I think the rearrangement, reformatting, and re-modalizing of us in the modern world has gotten us out of our nature. On my substack, I focus on old-timey, generic, democratic architecture. I welcome you to check out the intro (I'll link it). This includes an idea for implementing our own (democratic) NGO. ;-) Democracy, when done properly, is intimate.
I agree! Once everything became "automated" we lost touch. No more customer service you can do it all online! I hate it and try to interact with people when possible. It broke my heart when my company did this and it severed relationships we had with our CS team. I bet it ruined them too. We are being turned into automatons whether we want to or not.
"If there is an all-wise God who made everything, how could he/she/it make a mistake and create evil … or was this part of some plan?"
Folks who ask this question overlook that the creator is, in human terms, inhuman. The creation of evil was part of some plan. There is no need for a salvation plan if there is no need for salvation.
1. the embodiment of evil that you mention, would in fact require an oppositional force. The embodiment of good and that would be a noticeable force with an unmistakable signature in all of our lives. Now before anyone says, "God is..." to paraphrase from Genesis, "...you were created in the image of a God who created both the dark and the light." Which brings me directly to my next point-
2. We, everyone of us including the philanthropaths, have within us the full spectrum capacity for doing totally self dis serving evil and total self dis serving good. By going in either direction fully, we destroy ourselves. Both extremes come with their own destructive sequences, such as on the one hand, a total lack of concern for the well being and suffering of those around them or even an active compulsion to harm those around them. Either way, they end up with no one around them willing to do anything but tale advantage and end them when the situation presents itself. On the other hand the total lack of concern for one's own well being or suffering or even the altruistic compulsion to give everything of oneself to others, they end up with no one around them but those wanting to take advantage and end them when the situation presents itself.
2b. We exist in a material plane wherein we must consume from a finite set of resources in order to survive. On this plane, the only thing more detrimental to survival than giving all of that resource to others, is gathering it all to oneself while surrounded by those whose own survival requires them to take it from you. Accepting the fact that we are born with both the dark and the light within ourselves and working from that frame of reference is the only way to go forward. We must fight when we have to. It is not indifference or disinterest that keeps the "Good Germans From stopping the Bad Nazis." It is cowardice and that is unforgivable. As evil knows and does not care, we know and yet, do nothing. That is because each of us is too afraid to be the first to say "Stop" and mean it, backed up by our own blood. We need to overcome our own cowardice by realizing that this life will no longer be worth living if we fail to put our lives on the table for what we know is right, right now.
3. Dealing with the philanthropaths... the first step is kinda simple and is really just a change of mindset. "Power corrupts" and anytime anyone says that cliche, they follow it with "absolute blah blah blah." The human brain can't conceive of absolutes so it renders the whole thought process moot, the lesson unlearned. Start thinking of it as this, "Power corrupts and petty power corrupts petty people. We are all petty, therefore once anyone has been given any power, they can no longer be given the benefit of the doubt." Power should not be respected. It should be actively suspected of everything imaginable and treated appropriately. This is a first step. Fixing this world is going to take a number of steps greater than 12. We'll solve the other steps when we get the 1st one accomplished.
Side note- We must remind our journalists that no one other than themselves and the powerful benefit when they "speak truth to power" since the odds are power has not gifted them the with the truth. All power has done is enthralled them with the possibility of getting that gift. That codependent and exclusive relationship needs to end, now. What is needed of them is to "Speak truth about power to the people after taking the time to lie, cheat, steal or straight up shovel the truth, by any means necessary, from the powerful.
Have a great revolution and future or apocalypse and enslavement, which ever you choose!
Whenever people bring their concerns about evildoing through systems, or power/control hungry groups and individuals, to a beloved spiritual master, the response is often, “It’s Kali Yuga.” As in: duh, this is the age of immorality. The typical, cryptic advice on how to navigate it tends to boil down to “do good things and don’t do bad things” or “just give love.”
Your piece describes what that looks like and why it matters. Whether for tikkun olam or to resist the demons of indifference from infiltrating our minds and souls, this kind of care is crucial.
Mental, emotional, and spiritual hygiene is the boundary work of our time, like the internal equivalent of gray rocking a narcissist. The more of us who commit to not feeding the beast with our attention, our outrage, or our desperation to be understood, the less power it has. Eventually, it loses interest.
They do know and don't care because they've succumbed to evil forces due to their love of money. The devil and his minions don't care about money, they can acquire it easily from bankers who create it at no cost. They care about acquiring souls in this world to prevent their eternal life with God through salvation in Jesus and get additional joy and power from the suffering of the innocent and unaware people who are caught up in their plans.
We are all tempted many times in the course of our life and make choices between following the wide and easy path with many others or the narrow and difficult path by ourselves. God has given us free will to choose for ourselves whether or not to have integrity and be righteous despite the personal cost and effort.
Anne Can't Stand it wrote and drew about this in her post today regarding Stefanie Turner, collegiate fencer who refused to compete against a former male athlete. The doctors and nurses in the Abbotswood Care Home Massacre chose the other path. See this and try not to be moved https://substack.com/home/post/p-160122913
I've led such a sheltered, privileged and blinkered life that it took until my fourth decade to personally encounter the prospect of evil. It is the only concept I have to 'explain' that our society injects babies with poison. Repeatedly. An act of violence, delivering poison, held up as life-saving. It doesn't get much more vulnerable and defenceless than a baby.
Completely agree with "“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist.”
Also have no trouble believing that "They know and they don't care". The belief by many that the cruelties don't know and would change course if they did provides the cruelties with even greater capacity to continue to do as they please. But for many (most?) people, reality is too much too bear; they prefer the lie.
Margaret, this Guest Post By Will T. Wilkinson was also excellent. I just listened to 'Battling the "Cruelites" podcast and I apologize because I lose my way getting around your site, but I just wanted to acknowledge all your hard work and express my appreciation.
Your words are so profoundly insightful and comforting! Thank you.
It's always humbling to realize I am the one who needs what I'm writing about! Indifference... what a scourge it's been in my life. Changing!
Behind the lie that "the devil" does not exist is the lie that "God" does not exist.
A society that descends into atheism is sliding into "hell".
More common sense, meaningful input and wisdom than I have seen for a long time.
The mind is detached, and easily separated from the reality of the body, world, feeling, and the experience of things - not mind. I believe that a more natural life (than so much today) is a more direct and spiritual experience.
Thank you for your input mark.
My goal is to be an integrated person - with body, soul (mind, will and emotions) and spirit as whole as possible now and constantly striving for more wholeness.
I think that the "mind focus" and the "detached mind syndrome", is probably largely due to our mechanistic, mind focused "educational" indoctrination programming.
A more "natural life" definitely reinvigorates our spiritual roots, viciously suppressed and even slashed by our "secular education" - indoctrination in atheism.
And another kind of indoctrination. I see the rigor of this technologized environment. We don't congregate locally as much, but we do in cyberspace bubbles more-so. A young person says to me, "Don't call, text." That was because I said "Call, don't text." But also, we're not in our jurisdictions here. And why do we all stare at Washington when 99% of those people are not in our jurisdictions? If we were locally connected to our people, then it would be local, district, state, and we'd be on top of them that way, and it would be closer and more real. The whole infrastructure is geared for mass-media and dissemination. [Add: We can have local identities by knowing people where we live]
Thank you for your thought-provoking words, Seeds, and I’m grateful to hear you appreciated Will’s essay as much as I do.
The psychopaths will reign over the earth until the day integrity becomes preponderant. For now they get their 15 minutes of fame, their day in the sun, but once integrity becomes the true standard, they will be avoided and pitied.
I appreciate your insightful, Apocaloptimistic comment, William, not only because I agree but also because I consider integrity my core value from which all my other values (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/my-two-year-stackiversary-lattice) naturally flow.
I once wrote in a Substack Note:
“Never compromise your integrity. It is your most precious possession and the only one that can never be replenished.” (https://substack.com/profile/35383324-margaret-anna-alice/note/c-15182066)
If I were a political architect, I'd say to the customer, "You want morality? You show me accountability and transparency, and I'll show you morality."
I was witness to a conversation about a person who needed urgent surgery over the weekend. The tech said I don't understand why they give everyone pressors (blood pressure reducing meds) and then they expect their surgeries to be successful. The person ended up with an amputation. The MD present said actually the problem was US healthcare because in Europe a person over 75 would never get an ICU bed. Many people are very healthy at 75! This isn't the first time I have heard a doc mention doing too much for an elderly patient. This isn't the healthcare I was trained in and they're intentionally causing harms (through algorithms). The evil is at play everywhere and I doubt many know they are culpable. Stay healthy!
Dr. Vernon Coleman mentioned this in his Substack article today about how the medical industry is using the excuse of combatting climate change to withhold and/or give insufficient care, especially for the elderly.
I don't know when or where u trained, but I remember a friend during their internship & all the fellow doctors had a phrase GOMER used re old patients: Get out of my emergency room! This was 30+ years ago in a respected area/med school. This attitude towards our elderly is not new & is STILL prevalent, particularly in the U.S. where the elderly are not revered, as they are in many other countries.
Concentration camp survivor and Nobel Prize–winning author Elie Wiesel must have been speaking of these vile creatures when he wrote, “Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.”
Nah ... Wiesel was talking about us - ALL of us!
We are mostly responsible for the mess we are in!
The vile creatures could have little and decreasing power, if not for our indifference.
The dark lords grow in power in the shadows, because we don't invade the darkness with the light and expose them, before they can consolidate power.
Why is that?
Perhaps we have some darkness in our own lives, that we want to keep hidden.
Why did the German people enable the Holocaust?
Were they all evil?
They were mostly good protestant Christians supposedly.
Yet because they were indifferent, they died before they died.
Perhaps more Germans than Jews, died in the Holocaust.
Many evil Germans and others, knew exactly what they were doing and didn't care.
The indifference of the rest, enabled the suffering and death.
Thus it was, is now, and evermore shall be.
Unless we do something very different, as suggested in this forum.
The great reset is the great awakening. We always have a choice. It's called free will. The Hawaiian prayer "Ho'oponopono" I'm sorry, Please forgive me, Thank you, I love you, promotes healing and self-love. Getting back to nature is necessary, forest bathing has proven to be immensely helpful. I concur, mistakes were not made.
Have you considered intimacy as a multiplier? To me, like other species we're a species that needs (local) intimate interaction. I think it gets right into our biology and survival that we have it, and I think our modern world throws a twist. Out of intimacy arises a grassroots, organic movement of the people, and this is what we've been missing.
It may seem hard to see, but I think the rearrangement, reformatting, and re-modalizing of us in the modern world has gotten us out of our nature. On my substack, I focus on old-timey, generic, democratic architecture. I welcome you to check out the intro (I'll link it). This includes an idea for implementing our own (democratic) NGO. ;-) Democracy, when done properly, is intimate.
https://markgmeyers.substack.com/p/now-and-for-the-future
I agree! Once everything became "automated" we lost touch. No more customer service you can do it all online! I hate it and try to interact with people when possible. It broke my heart when my company did this and it severed relationships we had with our CS team. I bet it ruined them too. We are being turned into automatons whether we want to or not.
Yes, I think the technology is isolating. I think it's like building a human zoo.
Exactly
@Will T Wilkinson
"If there is an all-wise God who made everything, how could he/she/it make a mistake and create evil … or was this part of some plan?"
Folks who ask this question overlook that the creator is, in human terms, inhuman. The creation of evil was part of some plan. There is no need for a salvation plan if there is no need for salvation.
Well written essay. Thank you for writing it.
A couple points, of possible contention.
1. the embodiment of evil that you mention, would in fact require an oppositional force. The embodiment of good and that would be a noticeable force with an unmistakable signature in all of our lives. Now before anyone says, "God is..." to paraphrase from Genesis, "...you were created in the image of a God who created both the dark and the light." Which brings me directly to my next point-
2. We, everyone of us including the philanthropaths, have within us the full spectrum capacity for doing totally self dis serving evil and total self dis serving good. By going in either direction fully, we destroy ourselves. Both extremes come with their own destructive sequences, such as on the one hand, a total lack of concern for the well being and suffering of those around them or even an active compulsion to harm those around them. Either way, they end up with no one around them willing to do anything but tale advantage and end them when the situation presents itself. On the other hand the total lack of concern for one's own well being or suffering or even the altruistic compulsion to give everything of oneself to others, they end up with no one around them but those wanting to take advantage and end them when the situation presents itself.
2b. We exist in a material plane wherein we must consume from a finite set of resources in order to survive. On this plane, the only thing more detrimental to survival than giving all of that resource to others, is gathering it all to oneself while surrounded by those whose own survival requires them to take it from you. Accepting the fact that we are born with both the dark and the light within ourselves and working from that frame of reference is the only way to go forward. We must fight when we have to. It is not indifference or disinterest that keeps the "Good Germans From stopping the Bad Nazis." It is cowardice and that is unforgivable. As evil knows and does not care, we know and yet, do nothing. That is because each of us is too afraid to be the first to say "Stop" and mean it, backed up by our own blood. We need to overcome our own cowardice by realizing that this life will no longer be worth living if we fail to put our lives on the table for what we know is right, right now.
3. Dealing with the philanthropaths... the first step is kinda simple and is really just a change of mindset. "Power corrupts" and anytime anyone says that cliche, they follow it with "absolute blah blah blah." The human brain can't conceive of absolutes so it renders the whole thought process moot, the lesson unlearned. Start thinking of it as this, "Power corrupts and petty power corrupts petty people. We are all petty, therefore once anyone has been given any power, they can no longer be given the benefit of the doubt." Power should not be respected. It should be actively suspected of everything imaginable and treated appropriately. This is a first step. Fixing this world is going to take a number of steps greater than 12. We'll solve the other steps when we get the 1st one accomplished.
Side note- We must remind our journalists that no one other than themselves and the powerful benefit when they "speak truth to power" since the odds are power has not gifted them the with the truth. All power has done is enthralled them with the possibility of getting that gift. That codependent and exclusive relationship needs to end, now. What is needed of them is to "Speak truth about power to the people after taking the time to lie, cheat, steal or straight up shovel the truth, by any means necessary, from the powerful.
Have a great revolution and future or apocalypse and enslavement, which ever you choose!
Whenever people bring their concerns about evildoing through systems, or power/control hungry groups and individuals, to a beloved spiritual master, the response is often, “It’s Kali Yuga.” As in: duh, this is the age of immorality. The typical, cryptic advice on how to navigate it tends to boil down to “do good things and don’t do bad things” or “just give love.”
Your piece describes what that looks like and why it matters. Whether for tikkun olam or to resist the demons of indifference from infiltrating our minds and souls, this kind of care is crucial.
Mental, emotional, and spiritual hygiene is the boundary work of our time, like the internal equivalent of gray rocking a narcissist. The more of us who commit to not feeding the beast with our attention, our outrage, or our desperation to be understood, the less power it has. Eventually, it loses interest.
And just like that, it disappears.
They do know and don't care because they've succumbed to evil forces due to their love of money. The devil and his minions don't care about money, they can acquire it easily from bankers who create it at no cost. They care about acquiring souls in this world to prevent their eternal life with God through salvation in Jesus and get additional joy and power from the suffering of the innocent and unaware people who are caught up in their plans.
We are all tempted many times in the course of our life and make choices between following the wide and easy path with many others or the narrow and difficult path by ourselves. God has given us free will to choose for ourselves whether or not to have integrity and be righteous despite the personal cost and effort.
Anne Can't Stand it wrote and drew about this in her post today regarding Stefanie Turner, collegiate fencer who refused to compete against a former male athlete. The doctors and nurses in the Abbotswood Care Home Massacre chose the other path. See this and try not to be moved https://substack.com/home/post/p-160122913
Forgiveness gives power to the perpetrator. Self-forgiveness gives power to oneself.
The filantropaths have hidden it well, in plain sight. You will love this one:
https://dhughes.substack.com/p/lissa-johnson-transhumanism-and-covid
I've led such a sheltered, privileged and blinkered life that it took until my fourth decade to personally encounter the prospect of evil. It is the only concept I have to 'explain' that our society injects babies with poison. Repeatedly. An act of violence, delivering poison, held up as life-saving. It doesn't get much more vulnerable and defenceless than a baby.
Completely agree with "“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist.”
Also have no trouble believing that "They know and they don't care". The belief by many that the cruelties don't know and would change course if they did provides the cruelties with even greater capacity to continue to do as they please. But for many (most?) people, reality is too much too bear; they prefer the lie.
Margaret, this Guest Post By Will T. Wilkinson was also excellent. I just listened to 'Battling the "Cruelites" podcast and I apologize because I lose my way getting around your site, but I just wanted to acknowledge all your hard work and express my appreciation.