a -LITTLE- disclosure about some of my PAST <.< conspiracy theorist background

I'm not going to run the whole gamut of stuff I've gone into before, but this sums up some of the things that I've found a concern; the last one is a bit humourous.



---a little bit of an introduction to the 'idea' of conspiracy theories, and how and why to make sense out of them---

Culture in Decline Ep 1 - "What Democracy?" by Peter Joseph
30min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTbLslkIR2k

Empire Files Ep 1 - "The Rise of History's Biggest Empire" with Abby Martin
25min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTbLslkIR2k

Juice Rap News #30 - "The New World Order with Russel Brand [parody] and Bill De Berg"
7min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4nSjPdT788

Why I decided to live at an ecovillage

Why I decided to live at an ecovillage

I had been involved in activism for a number of years.

I noticed a problem with the way I was interacting, and how the activism I was doing was draining me, instead of energizing me.  No matter how much I did, it never felt like enough - I always felt guilty about everything I didn’t or couldn’t do.  The responsibility for the world was on my shoulders, pushing me to go harder, but inevitably towards burnout, or towards giving up, and turning my back on helping out the world, or even ‘selling out’ - if you can’t beat them, join them.  INTERVENTION NEEDED!!!

So I decided to make a shift from “Guilt Based Activism” to “Bliss Based Activism”; instead of doing things out of guilt, towards myself or others, I would do things that felt like they uplifted me, and others.  I would accept that I could not do or change everything, but no matter how little, there was always something I COULD do; and I would do that, and let myself feel good about it, and not give up even though it felt like a small thing [metis Humming bird story - the big forest fire].

In Ottawa where I was living before I moved to the Lanark Ecovillage Project, I was involved with activism in my community around organized crime.  It was affecting me personally, including having serious consequences on people I loved.  I felt torn between ‘non-violent’ activism, and being brought back down the age-old road of the cycle of violence and ‘power over’.

The nuclear arms race of the cold war might be a good example of where the cycle of violence, and the arms race, leads.  Someone slaps someone; the other one gets a stick; someone gets a knife; a gun; and then a bigger gun, etc, back and forth, trying to attain the most power, like a perverse dark humoured cartoon.  Instead of working on the root communication and relationship issues, the seriousness of the situation escalates, until it is push-button nuclear, and somebody sneezes, and everybody dies.

So I could see that was where things were leading in the human trafficking situation in Sandy Hill, Ottawa, that I had gotten embroiled in - by escalating things, in power over, I was threatening the people who were doing these things, and they responded by escalating as well… and the consequences were more danger for myself, and them, and a lot of the bystanders and victims as well… in effect, in my poorly thought out approach, the actions I was taking were mostly harming my community, rather than helping it.

I reflected on how the root of most of the problems I’ve experienced in activism was based on unhealthy community and relationships; and that the solution to most of these, when you come right down to it, also seemed to be… creating healthy community and relationships.

In fact, in retrospect, a whole other avenue of non-violent warfare, that perhaps would make the nonviolent communications crowd proud, seemed to exist, that came out of network theory that I’d heard about in an Occupied Philosophers group.

In network theory, in a network you have nodes.  The nodes with the most connections have ‘best alternative to no agreement’, and essentially become the top of a hierarchy - essentially they can get better deals because they have more choice and freedom; in fact they can become monopolies, and start dictating rules and agreements.

Rather than ‘attack’ these upper hierarchy nodes, which might be construed as a ‘people’s revolution against a far more well armed and resourced force’, network theory suggests that you can instead of trying to ‘disconnect’ the higher nodes connections aggressively, you can connect all the other little nods that are more isolated, in essence creating an alternative to the ‘elite’ nodes, and breaking the monopoly, as the other nodes become more connected, meet each others’ needs, and phase out the need for these ‘elite’ nodes; the network essentially routes around the bottleneck naturally, balancing out unequal power distributions.  So in effect, while not eliminating these ‘elite nodes’, it forces them to reconsider their agreements’ reasonableness, or they have less leverage to use in negotations, so that relationships will be more balanced.

There is a metaphor with the transformation of a butterfly, and the necessary transformation of civilization that we are going to have to go through.  At first, when the first imaginal cell form in the caterpillar, the cells which will eventually turn into the butterfly, they are attacked by the caterpillar cells as foreign.  The imaginal cells form a tight group to help protect each other, and allow them to develop - and groups who want to transform society may imagine needing to create their own little clusters to allow them to develop.

Eventually, the imaginal cells in the butterfly clarify their form so much, that it is like the caterpillar cells realize what is going on; the rest of the caterpillar liquifies, and feeds into the imaginal cells - or perhaps in our society, you might suppose people will eventually get on board with what people who want to create transition to a better society, once they’ve clarified their vision enough.

So why did I join an eco-community?

“I can’t think myself into a new way of living, I have to live myself into a new way of thinking.”
If I want to model healthy community, I need to learn it and practice it for myself, first.
Everything stems from what I do for and within myself, first; be the change.

The rest follows, bit by bit.

The Battle for Power on the Internet - Bruce Schneier - evolving from the happy medium

Bruce Schneier - The Battle for Power on the Internet
The metaphor of 'institutional power' vs 'distributed power', or organized power vs peoples' movements etc (the good and bad of each), and how we find a balance between the for the common good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0d_QDgl3gI

@schneierblog

#transparency #accountability #balancingpower #mediation #restorativejustice #conflictresolution

[WIP] Some natural health principles for getting the most out of your food

Fats in and of themselves are not bad for you, but serve an essential function. In fact, Dr. mercola shares on his site that healthy fats, especially fats that haven't been damaged by heat or oxidation, and that still have a lot of fat soluble vitamins, are essential in making sure the brain is functioning well, because it needs a lot of fats, both for energy, and also to repair damage to cell walls using the lipids from transported digested fats. Cholesterol is actually a protein and a fat combined together; the protein helps make the fat soluble, so it can be transported around the body and used to feed the body and repair cells, etc. 80% of cholesterol is used in the brain, to repair damage there. That is part of why I eat a high fat diet - not only is a more stable, even source of energy being released in the body than eating refined carbs or sugars, but it provides the benefits above as well. The fat soluble vitamins are essential for absorbing many important minerals, which supports our bones and teeth, having the right balance of minerals in our body and blood, and often many of these are important catalysts in body metabolic chemical reactions, many of which need to happen at a certain pH- if our blood pH goes too high or low, we can have problems (usually the body will strip the minerals from bones and teeth first- the body won't LET the pH change too much, its so important).

The weston-price foundation and ramiel nagel talk about some of this are their websites. Dr. Mark Hymen has done a lot of work on exploring myths around fat being harmful for us. Others have explored that natural salt, and the natural minerals in water, are also very important for us- and simply drinking enough water when we have salts allows our kidneys to balance our blood salt solution more easefully. Some processed salts, like iodized salts, or even natural salts like himalayan salt or sea salts that have been treating with anti-caking agents (some of which contain aluminum, which is linked to alzheimer's, mental health and immune dysregulation, and in some cases increased risks of cancer). While enough iodine is still very important for us, most sea vegetables actually have a good quantity which is in a bioavailable form - so having kelp, dulse, etc cooked in stews, or kelp powder added to foods can make sure you get the right amount of iodine, which is a very important nutrient for the thyroid gland, which helps regulate some of the other glands, body self-regulations including temperature and metabolism.

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Here are some links I will follow up on and add some useful commentary on in here later, which have been helpful for me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperventilation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetany

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/buteyko-breathing-technique-nothing-to-hyperventilate-about/

http://www.breathing.com/articles/buteyko.htm

nutrients for brain health

Hi sharing some of my personal health journey which I still see a lot of other people going through still today. I'm interested if some of this resonates for others or constructive criticism where I may be misunderstanding some things.

#recovery #health story

#allergies #inflammation #poordigestion #poorsleep #heavymetals #brainhealth #mentalhealth #holistichealth
#naturalhealing #foodmatters #HEARMEWELL
#gutdysbiosis #healthygutflora

I've had serious allergies since I was young.

I had a head injury when I was 5.

Recently I heard that the blood brain barrier can be damaged in head injuries.

So it might let things it shouldn't in - metals, infections etc.

I had pretty serious mold etc exposure around 2001 - 2006 when I was living in a basement apartment

Also some mental health trauma and effects from pharmaceuticals.

My meds for [edit: a serious mental health diagnosis ] affect dopamine, I believe to lower the levels. Tests I had showed my serotonin was low. It is possible that serotonin counter-balances dopamine ( serotonin -> rest and digest ) and could have also lead to nutrient deficiencies and poor digestion and absorption of nutrients. Tryptophan is a volatile nutrient needed to make vit b6 which is needed to make both serotonin and melatonin. Melatonin helps regulate sleep and wakefulness.

Oh being vegetarian I didn't eat much skin. Turns out skin is an important source of Silicon, which, along with amino acid cisteine and other things (was prob low in this too) n acetyl cisteine nac
Helps make glutathione, one of the special antioxidants that can detox difficult things ( like aluminum in the brain ) - having lots of ongoing inflammation and oxidative stress, and possibly not enough vitamin c and other antioxidants, it is possible glutathione was getting depleted fast because inflammation and not cleaning difficult stuff ...

Processed simple sugar can lead to unhealthy gut microflora overgrowth, (for me, into the brain) and healthy fats are needed to repair "oxidative stress" - a frequent byproduct of inflammation- cell wall damage - holes in cells - (as well as brain tissue).

Being vegetarian I went for awhile low on healthy fats, but also dha fatty acid that is needed for building the brain, which is high in fish oil (which I'm taking for now ) may be needed for a lot of the brain repair. ...
(you can get distilled fish oils which are lower in mercury)

If ones' body had a toxic load of heavy metals and one started excreting some/ more due to health protocols, MORE should show up in the poop, pee, hair, nails, sweat etc ... Hair can be a timeline of this...

Thanks for reading.
Bless.

some activist tools, etc

[first written 2013-01-26--2134hedt]


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv5n37aczVg   ~7min
Highlights from "Time For A New Game" by Mike Nickerson
Mike Nickerson, a long time Ontario activist who is in the Lanark region near Perth, Ontario, talks to Occupied Ottawa about the evolution of movements, what needs to happen, and how it often goes down, which I found very inspiring (reminds me of the story about the moth in the cocoon that I first heard in the movie 'Warriors of Virtue')

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEZkQv25uEs   ~ 12min
Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein - A Short Film
Charles Eisenstein, who has connections to the documentary film makers creating the movie 'Occupy Love' , show some of the roots of our current monetary system, the good that was originally intended, the problems that arose, and a brief synopsis of some of the ways the system could be changed to make things work better for everyone.

http://communities.ic.org/articles/1504/Sociocracy   ~5pgs / 30min read (for me)
Sociocracy: A Permaculture Approach to Community Evolution

By Melanie Rios

"Lost Valley Educational Center avoids collapse and reinvigorates itself by applying a new approach to governance combining the best of diverse models."

[edit 2013-11-23 1448h edt

I just wanted to add this amazing Howard Zinn speech read by Matt Damon to round off some of my favourite vids/ talks of all time (So far)

Here is one link of it on youtube:
"the problem is civil obedience" to unjust rules
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk9jUW4AC-w
]  ~ 5min

~~~~~~~~~~ other links below ~~~~~~~~~

Awakening:

12 insights
http://www.celestinevision.com/insights.html

economic hitmen and globalizing poverty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Fzm1hEiDQ (2min vid)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-globalization-of-poverty-inside-the-new-world-order/5313987

too much 'stuff' (21min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM



Spiritual Growth:

Understanding ourselves, and each other:


Maslow's Hierachy of Needs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

moral stages of development
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg%27s_stages_of_moral_development

Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives (20min vid)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs41JrnGaxc

Getting your organization to work:

The albert einstein institution with books like "anti coup" for maintaining group mission in spite of pressures
http://www.aeinstein.org/organizationsde07.html

The tyranny of structurelessness, or how to keep our groups fair, open, and accountable
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness
(read the essay online on the authour's site, here:
http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm   )

Peter Senge's 'the fifth discipine' - the art and science of learning organizations
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/senge.htm

Some tools/ techniques/ strategies:

Twelve leverage points to intervene in a system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_leverage_points

new tactics activist tools: article, using humour to expose the ridiculous
http://www.newtactics.org/conversation/using-humor-expose-ridiculous

permaculture ethics and principles of design
http://permacultureottawa.ca/what-is-permaculture/
[try this link instead, it's still active in 2019 it seems
https://permacultureprinciples.com/  ]



hope:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzMPUKAXM7U

:)

the movie thrive, athene's theory of everything, and a bunch of velcrow ripper and scott noble movies may be interesting to people as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_eAzaTquN8

The Celestine Prophecy - should I try to convince people it is real, or not?

 

celestine prophecy - should i try to convince people it is real, or not?

july 10th 2020 and 

new comments I made sept 26th 2023

from fb group 

'celestine prophecy insight chatting'

on fb dot c0m

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julia b said in the original post question

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I have read The Celestine Prophecy twice (first back in the late 90s I think, and recently again). I have also just finished reading The Tenth Insight. The books are amazing, like nothing I have read before, and as usual in my enthusiasm, I like to tell others about it. However, I wondered how people have coped with the response from others when it is negative or questioning. I don't even know how James Redfield himself arrived at the insights. I think about how the character in the books dealt with challenges. So do you send the person loving energy and how do you maintain your own uplifted state?

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i said at fri jul 10 2020 10:51am

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I think some of the books suggest that if you can try to maintain your own higher vibration, you will receive helpful guidance and signs to help you know what to do or not do...

Sometimes 'mistakes' are part of that... something hidden, like a sensitivity, is revealed, and a part of a deeper story that is important to a person, and their secret inner struggles, is revealed...

It's not about rejecting reason and the tools and skills we know... but more about leaving openings for the universe to... put some helpful margin notes...

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mike goguen said sat sept 23 2023 5:36am

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In some situations, both negative and positive outcomes are possible... if we delude ourselves with positive thoughts, we might not react appropriate when a harsher response is necessary in a certain situation... likewise, if we obsess about negative possibilities, and this is the one I think people usually get stuck on, sometimes, out of fear of negative consequences, we may choose to stop looking for the good and positive and trying to keep the faith in the good in people and situations when negative things are happening... instead of being willing to take some risk that things could go badly, and sort of keeping a focus on positive outcomes, or people living up to a higher expression of themselves, rather than their lower nature... I guess it's a balance, learning to set healthy boundaries, to develop resilience, to know we can deal with some negative situations, so we can risk some possible betrayals or our hopes and faith in the good in people or possible outcomes not being lived up to... I'm trying to speak from a more 'rational/ reasoned perspective here, rather than an energetic one, presently I don't feel comfortable sort of advocating along the lines of what energetic or spiritual circumstances may be occurring, or how to work with the problem from those perspectives, I'm interested in what others may have to say along those lines though.

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mike goguen said sat sept 23 2023 5:36am

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In some situations, both negative and positive outcomes are possible... if we delude ourselves with positive thoughts, we might not react appropriate when a harsher response is necessary in a certain situation... likewise, if we obsess about negative possibilities, and this is the one I think people usually get stuck on, sometimes, out of fear of negative consequences, we may choose to stop looking for the good and positive and trying to keep the faith in the good in people and situations when negative things are happening... instead of being willing to take some risk that things could go badly, and sort of keeping a focus on positive outcomes, or people living up to a higher expression of themselves, rather than their lower nature... I guess it's a balance, learning to set healthy boundaries, to develop resilience, to know we can deal with some negative situations, so we can risk some possible betrayals or our hopes and faith in the good in people or possible outcomes not being lived up to... I'm trying to speak from a more 'rational/ reasoned perspective here, rather than an energetic one, presently I don't feel comfortable sort of advocating along the lines of what energetic or spiritual circumstances may be occurring, or how to work with the problem from those perspectives, I'm interested in what others may have to say along those lines though.

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mike goguen said Tues Sept 26 2023 5:22am

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There were some places where people talked about how to have a dialogue with people who are hard to convince of something, potentially something good, or truth, or kind, or helpful... is it necessary?

So one thing that might be valuable to try to discern a little, before one invests too deeply in... a large project... of trying to convince people of... something... maybe our own views? beliefs, etc... is this for them? Is it necessary for them? how do their current beliefs serve them, their lives, who they are, their role in society, and how would this different view serve them, their role in society and other relationships, and their own lives? Do we want to convince them of it because we feel it is some kind of 'absolute truth', which is our own reason for believing it, and therefore, everyone else should believe similarly? Do we want them to understand the perspective better, so they understand us, and our own goals and beliefs better, so we can work in harmony together better? Do we want to convince them because we think they are going to do great harm, and this understanding is the only thing we think will stop them from doing that? Do we want to help them get in better touch with their own soul, purpose, and meaning in life, who they are and why they choose to do what they do, and connect with their soul's purpose in this life better? Do we want to stop them from judging us or doubting us or dismissing us as silly, foolish, crazy,, deluded, irrational...? Are we concerned they will try to harm us or others personally, perhaps feeling we or others are cultish or extremists or willing to do irrational things which may harm them, or others, or society in general, or make other people harder to control / encourage to make 'rational' decisions about life choices, politics, phx /m45k5 etc?

I think... if we connect and talk with someone a bit... and they have been soul searching and are a little bit unhappy with their lives, maybe feeling like they are not aligned with their ethics, with their soul's purpose... and it feels like there was a meaningful connection for you to... share some of this kind of information with people at that time... I think the first book even talks a little bit about how to 'tell' if something is a 'synchronicity' or not... and more than that, a synchronicity to 'what end' ... so I guess the hope might be, that you will be guided in whether or not sharing more with someone about this sort of thing is the right course of action or not... for you, for them, for the general or specific situations around you in that moment... and emotional intelligence, intuition, etc, can help you discern some of these things from a 'rationally valid' perspective, hopefully spiritual energy and guidance will help with things as well.

I've read the celestine prophecy, the tenth insight, the secret of shambhala, and the twelfth insight, my memory hasn't been great, I have trouble remembering the overall narrative, and lots of important details...re-reading might help me with a lot of that...

but probably a lot of other people who've read any of these books don't have the same level of memory problems I have, so I would imagine... they could sort of get the answers directly from the books, because I think they ARE answered directly in the books?

I was reading comments hoping some would quote a section of the book that responds to this, and I haven't seen any one up to my comments here on this post in 2023 do that... I guess the first books were pre-mainstream internet in some ways... so maybe a lot of the sharing then, wasn't done via social media... and I wonder now if... well, I wonder that social media can control what messages are able to be sent, and received, and by whom, based on... preferences of people who have control of these technologies, or those who pay money to have their... preferences supported and pushed by the technology etc...

So I wonder how many people now, in modern times, have still read or value the teachings of this book (and how might they connect without the controlling mediation of various technologies and the interests connected to them) ... it seems like the need, or the desire to 'control' ... communications, thoughts, behaviours... thinking... ?synchronicity? ... or the lack thereof... seems to imply an 'inherent mistrust' of 'synchronicity', 'the universe', 'the people organically coming to truth and beliefs and collective beliefs and actions' ... its not clear if this is 'fear of righteousness and righteous judgement', or similar, for potentially being ... unethical... or sort of the opposite, a fear that most people, collectively... will make bad judgements, hateful judgements, unloving... mob or cult like in the negative senses... ok so just to summarize the point of that... it's not clear to me that it obviously comes from a particular ethic, or of good... to 'interfere' with 'synchronicity' via ... technological media... or possibly, it could be both, or neither... but I guess a problem with weapons and technologies can be, who controls them... and sometimes arms races can exist... because if a given side 'opts out' of the arms race, of the ability to be... competent in those areas... it cannot always be assured that others who have those technologies will be... so in some ways, that certain knowledge or technology 'exists' 'at all'... or the belief of it, etc... might incite something of an arms race ... (let's say to a 'war games' style war simulation AI designed to assess risks and create suggestions for potential strategies/ counter-measures, etc (matthew broderick movie from the 80's or something) ) so if someone believes something which has power over them IS REAL, that they have NO CONTROL OVER, paradoxically, it may encourage them to want to GAIN control over it, mitigate the 'risk' it causes to their power, etc... maybe the way, a little bit, ancient kings and warlords might have 'sooth-sayers' to guide them in relation to 'supernatural forces' that might 'threaten them' that they might not fully understand, or be able to 'control' ...

I don't know if maybe i"m rambling a bit now...

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tues sept 26 2023 5:22am

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If 'AI overlords' were trying to 'guide humanity' or control manipulate them for THEIR controllers, I don't know how they would assess the idea of 'a' or 'the' "God" ... a risk? an apparently all powerful opponent? how do they mitigate the risk of this opponent? Is it even a real thing? But even if it is not real, the 'idea' of it can seem to have a 'real effect', for good, or for harm, to society in general, or the status /power/ health of various interests within the world... if it's mission was 'for the general good', then maybe it wouldn't want to 'go against god', or to try to find out what it is, if it is real, if it is 'actually good' ... if the mission was more subjective, help faction x maintain power /hegemony/ health/ wealth ... then the idea of God that supports that faction might be good, but that this supposedly God might go against the faction may seem like some massive nearly unmitigable risk that may be hard to track, and may require extensive efforts to try to ascertain what it wants/ whether it favours said faction or not, etc... so that is if it is deemed 'real' to some extent... if 'god itself' is not deemed real, but the 'idea' or 'effect' of belief in God -were- deemed real... than control over the idea/effect of belief might be considered the more 'central' focus... but in these definitions generally, 'god' is not necessarily equated with the 'highest good for each individually and the collective whole' as best as possible in alignment with their natures and needs, not just physically but on a 'spiritual' level... in the 'subjective' analysis, it seems more likely to be equated with... an uncontrollable, unpredictable unknown element of a level of power that can potentially trump any other effort / initiative/ element within the system ... or in sort of risk assessment, unknown level of probability, with nearly infinite level of risk... so I don't know, if you were trying to 'balance' that 'equation', maybe you would try to get the 'probability' down to '0', so you can balance the 'infinity' level of power... so if you multiply them (supposedly there are different orders of infinity, but just for the sake of this argument...) maybe it would come out to '1' or something instead of like infinity... and if the level of power was 'not infinite', and the probability 'is 0' , then it's effect should be zero... sorry it's like 5am here, I'm up late sort of rambling when I should be getting some sleep...

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