Lucid dreaming

Lucid dreaming refers to a state where one is aware that one is dreaming (see also here, here, here, and here). 

See also “Post No. 751 - Lucid Dreaming”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2015/08/post-no-751-lucid-dreaming.html  

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Lucid living

From https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2021/12/post-no-2118-logic-and-lucid-dreaming.html: 

given that lucid dreaming refers to a state where one is aware that one is dreaming (see also here, here, here, and here), I wonder if a term for living in a spiritual ("mindful", to use a fad term) way could be "lucid living"? That would inherently cover living in a sustainable and inclusive way, as ignoring the climate crisis or being a bigot are inherently unspiritual.

It might also be a constructive riposte to those intellectual cowards / sufferers of LBI/FBU/FoC / enforcers of conformity (aka sock puppets of the elite) who misuse terms such as "woke" as a derogatory reference . . .

 

 

sock puppet (pejorative term)

In recent years, usage of this phrase as a pejorative has tended to refer to fake online accounts, however, originally it meant someone who was being manipulated by someone else as thoroughly as someone does when they put their hand into a sock and use it as a form of puppet. 

It's original use was, in part, a term of crudity - but the meaning of someone who is being thoroughly controlled or deeply is an agent of someone else (such as "enforcers of conformity", agents-provocateur, and other agents of the elite(s) ) still actually applies - fake online accounts are just one form of the original, wider term.

intellectual cowardice

See https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2015/06/post-no-718-intellectual-cowardice-and.html. 

LBI (left brain interpreter)

I have come across the concept of "the left brain interpreter" in Grant Cameron's book "Contact Modalities". This is a possibly plausible explanation for the mental rigidity of both bigots and pseudo-sceptics - for more on that, see here, here, here, here, and here. 

However, logic has a place in the psychic (and spiritual, for that matter) world(s) - see https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2021/12/post-no-2118-logic-and-lucid-dreaming.html.  

 

 

minimalism / the minimalists

A way of existing based on having no more impact on the physical resources of the world than you really have to. 

See:

• https://www.theminimalists.com/;
• https://www.theminimalists.com/minimalism/; 
• https://www.youtube.com/c/Theminimalists/videos; 
• https://www.theminimalistsaustralia.com/; 
• https://theminimalistvegan.com/what-is-minimalism/; 
• https://www.breakthetwitch.com/minimalism/; 
• https://www.becomingminimalist.com/; 
• https://nosidebar.com/why-minimalism/; 
• https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-17/the-minimalists-guide-to-decluttering-and-moving-beyond/9551724; 
• https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-consumption/chinas-young-spenders-say-ditchyourstuff-as-economy-sputters-idUSKBN22G09C; and 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Minimalists&oldid=1049391813.
  

(weekly) psychic weather report

My weekly “psychic weather report” (PWR) is similar to a “weather chart” [1] , also sometimes termed a weather map, isobaric chart, and a range of other terms.

The weather chart is a map showing variations in atmospheric pressure at sea level through lines connecting places with the same pressure - areas adjoining those lines will have higher or lower pressure, just as land adjoining a particular contour line on a map will be higher or lower.

My weekly PWR has lines connecting places with the same “quantity” or strength of nonphysical energy, and areas adjoining that line on the map will have stronger or weaker nonphysical energy. In other words, my weekly PWRs, which I have done since September 2014, are predominantly based on creating contours of BPM and nonBPM energy over the entire planet (a few looked at smaller areas in greater depth).

 

This topic is explored in several of the lessons in my Dowsing The World’s Psychic Weather course. 

 

When I commenced these, I specified an endpoint - after 1,500 PWRs, based on doing this for 30 years, I would cease doing the work. 

More critically, my declining health as I age may result in me having to end doing this work earlier than intended. If my health fails, there will be no warning, just a post regretting that I have to stop doing the PWRs ...

It takes a lot of practice and skill development to be able to do this, and the sooner you start (if you are interested) the better.

PS - my dream is that eventually this work will be done by a team of 1,000 dowsers across the globe - or at least enough that people don’t have to force themselves to work despite other life matters. At the present, there's me, so ... just 999 to go :) 

PPS - based on my actual performance, a more realistic idea for a minimum number is 35 - 40. See https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/09/post-no-2581-psychic-weather-reports.html   Building on that, multiple groups of around that number around the globe would provide backup/redundancy in case of errors/unavailability/etc, and just generally be more likely to get things right or leave room for evolution (development) of this concept than one group (let alone one person working on her own and trying to cover the entire world ... )

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[1] See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weather_map&oldid=1015107725.

democracy

As an initial interim "definition", I'm just going to direct you to three of my posts: 

• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2020/05/in-defence-of-democracy.html; 

• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2021/12/democracy-needs-human-rights.html; and 

• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-hierarchy-of-needs-for-nations.html.
  

Some additional links: 

• “Dem_dec: Democratic Decay & Renewal - Bringing Democracy Defenders Together”   https://www.democratic-decay.org/  
  

• “Can Social Media Activism Actually Work? - PBS Voices”   https://youtu.be/0IkQ-AxJb8A?si=dG_cJ1dev7lSr37E   Yes, is the answer - if it is done correctly      

• “(efficacy of) nonviolent protests”   https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2023/04/efficacy-of-nonviolent-protests.html   including links to   “Post No. 1,614 - How Large Do Movements Have to Be to Succeed?”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2020/07/post-no-1614-how-large-do-movements.html   and   “Powering Learning about Nonviolent Action”   https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/index.php/   “The Global Nonviolent Action Database provides free access to information about hundreds of cases of nonviolent action, from all continents and most countries, for learning and for citizen action. The database is a project of Swarthmore College”   and https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/browse   &   https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/search/node?keys=  

• “Freedom House”   https://freedomhouse.org/   

• “Bertelsmann Transformation Index”   https://bti-project.org/en/   “analyses transformation processes toward democracy and a market economy in international comparison and identifies successful strategies for peaceful change”   
  

• “The president we need”   https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-nomination-of-kamala-harris-for     

And as warnings: 

• “The Strongman Fantasy - by Timothy Snyder”   https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-strongman-fantasy   This is excellent writing making points of great importance: I consider it should be widely read    

• “How Trump is Following H*tl*r's Playbook | Robert Reich”   https://youtu.be/WSxJRIiCNs8?si=WB-a9MGyJPusORp5  

• “What Aristotle Knew About Oligarchy That We Forgot”   https://youtu.be/HMguSl8PHS4     
  

 

 

 

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human rights

PS - I’ll start adding some additional links here: 

• “Thirty years after Rwanda, some thoughts on genocide [Note: Content Warning - links to reports on genocide, sexual assault, other extreme human rights abuses. Reader discretion is advised]”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/04/thirty-years-after-rwanda-some-thoughts.html   
• “[Content Warning - discrimination, harm, wrongdoing] activism”   https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2014/04/activism.html  
  

• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/search/label/human%20rights   ,   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/search/label/human%20rights%20abuses   ,   and  https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/search/label/DEI   

• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/search/label/human%20rights   
  

Rights are, in a general sense, matters that one is entitled to. Human rights are those which humans are entitled simply as a result of being human. Animal rights are similar, but pertain to the broader category of animal life - and, more recently, some parts of the environment (e.g., rivers) have been given “legal personhood”, which is a sort of acknowledgment of inherent rights that that part f the environment has as a result of existing . . . but that may also be connected to the impact that degradation of that part of the environment has on other forms of life whose rights have been more clearly accepted.

One day the rights of all sentient forms of life may be acknowledged by humans, but we are not there yet.

Even in the field of human rights, there has been considerable evolution, including argument, discussion and reflection on why humans / animals / sentient life / etc have those rights (I’ve even started examining the starting point of human rights at the time in history when humans first came into existence [which gets into the overlap of animal rights and a few other issues] - see https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/02/humans-humanity-and-human-rights-update.html) - and what those rights actually are. In my opinion, the history of human rights has been most clearly described in Geoffrey Robertson’s “Crimes Against Humanity”, and outlining of what what those rights is described best, in my opinion (IMO), in that book, the online MOOC Chile course “Introduction to Human Rights”, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s [1] “Four Freedoms” speech [2] , the United Nations’ “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (UDHR), and a few other places.

Roosevelt’s four freedoms were:

• freedom of speech;
• freedom of worship;
• freedom from want [3] ; and
• freedom from fear.

On the UDHR, there are some important points that not enough people know about. From Geoffrey Robertson’s “Crimes Against Humanity”, and Mary Ann Glendon’s “A World Made New”:

• the United Nation’s Commission on Human Rights, chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt [4] , supported by Canadian law professor John Humphrey [5] , and with outstanding contributions from China’s PC Cheng [6] and Lebanon’s Charles Malik [7] , and France’s René Cassin [8] , had the task of developing the UDHR;
• the appalling crimes committed by nazi Germany and imperial Japan (see World War (part) Two) were major influences on the Commission’s thinking:

o   “except in cases prescribed by law” was removed from Article 3 because the nazis did many murders in accordance with their perverted laws;

o   parent’s right to choose the education of their children was a reaction to the brainwashing of the nazis;

o   the emphasis on individual rights in response to totalitarianism unfortunately also resulted in minority rights not being protected (also not helped by Australia’s assimilationist thinking);

o   legal protections were partly because of nazi show trials, but others also had a history of show trials;

• the USSR opposed enforceability and eventually got the USA on side so enforceability was removed, giving us “just” a declaration instead (the “twin covenants”, however, make the rights listed in the UDHR enforceable - and Australia suggested an international human rights court). The USSR and its puppets also blocked mention of democracy, but were - together with Central and South American nations and Sweden and Norway - an influence in getting tights to work, education, and basic subsistence included;
• India’s Hansa Mehta [9] was responsible for “human family” being used in the preamble instead of “man”;
• anthropologists warned the Commission, who wanted to avoid cultural imperialism, of the dangers of ethnocentrism, and UNESCO had a group of philosophers perform a cultural survey in 1947 that supported the universality of these rights - it was not thought of as Western or Eurocentric at the time, but as obvious;
• some matters were omitted that would have been possibly beneficial - such as a commentary on economic rights that was based on an ILO definition, and the prevention of statelessness;
• the UDHR was adopted by 48 nations on 10^th December, 1948, with eight nations abstaining - the USSR and 5 of its puppet states, South Africa (which wanted to keep its apartheid laws), and Saudi Arabia (which wanted to punish people who change religion);
• the 56 nations of the General Assembly included 14 Asian, 4 African, and 20 Central or South American nations.

The UDHR lists the following human rights (which I’ve rearranged and abbreviated a little):

• all humans are equal in dignity and rights, and are entitled to rights without discrimination;
• everyone has the right to life, liberty and security;
• slavery and the slave trade is banned in all its forms;
• no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
• everyone has the right to equal treatment before the law (“everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law”) and associated rights;
• everyone has the right to privacy and to the protection of law in that and honour and reputation (and to protection of property);
• everyone has the right to freedom of movement, and to seek asylum;
• everyone has the right to marry and found a family;
• everyone has the right to freedom of thought & religion, to freedom of opinion and expression, of association or not, and to cultural & intellectual rights;
• everyone has the right to take part in the governance of their nation;
• everyone has the right to social services, fair work, and an adequate standard of living;
• right to education.

The are other international treaties which add details or expand on these rights - for instance, the rights of children, and specifics around countering sexism and racism.

There is also a vexed, IMO, bit of nonsense from some people (mostly on the right) about responsibilities, which I consider a reaction against having to be decent - for instance, what responsibility does one have to fulfill in order to not be tortured or enslaved? Nevertheless, in some places mention of responsibility is necessary in order to get laws protecting human rights - and, in some aspects I can see the point: for instance, one should be prepared to serve on a jury as part of receiving the rights to fair treatment before the law.

Also vexed but clearly not nonsense, is the issue of enforcing rights. There has been a gradual development and exposition of human rights and their enforcement, which has been countered by lack of political will, covert and overt opposition from despots and those who do not wish to cede power, and double standards (e.g., the USA’s insistence on capital punishment and refusal to be subject to the International Criminal Court while expecting other nations to be subject, and the unresolved [sometimes even unacknowledged history of colonial nations).

Currently, the realisation of rights could be considered to include:

• prevention:

o   promoting awareness of human rights;

o   promoting changes in values and organisations that favour inclusion and diversity over discrimination - e.g., requiring companies to have suitable policies, public reporting on measures, etc;

o   quotas - which is often described as “controversial”, but that description is almost exclusively used by people not in the group being discriminated against, and quotas are capable of achieving the desired result;

• accountability for breaches:

o   national laws (e.g., Australia’s “Genocide Convention Act 1949” [10] , my home state’s anti-discrimination acts and charter [11] ) and courts;

o   regional courts, such as the Inter-American Court on Human Rights [12] ;

o   larger range international bodies, such as the International Criminal Court [13] ; and

o   universal obligations, such as the Genocide Convention, which requires all nations everywhere to use their facilities to prosecute offenders.

There is an excellent tabulation on international treaties / instruments and which clauses cover specific rights at https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/commission-general/chart-related-rights-and-articles-human-rights-instruments-human-rights.

Prevention, rather than cure, is always, in my opinion, better, but some people are so intransigent, rigid, and determined to be elitist that court actions is sometimes necessary.

 

For more on this see:

• https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/human-rights,   https://ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/WhatareHumanRights.aspx,   https://www.amnesty.org.au/how-it-works/what-are-human-rights/,   https://www.britannica.com/topic/human-rights,   https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-human/,   https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/human+rights;
• https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights,   https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/universal-declaration-of-human-rights/,   and   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights&oldid=1059230127; and
  https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights,   https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Nations,   and   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_Nations&oldid=1058211371;
• http://lemkinhouse.org/about-us/life-of-raphael-lemkin/,   https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/coining-a-word-and-championing-a-cause-the-story-of-raphael-lemkin,   http://genocidewatch.net/2013/03/14/raphael-lemkin-defines-genocide-2/,   and   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Lemkin;
  and
  https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml,   https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/learn-about-genocide-and-other-mass-atrocities/what-is-genocide,   http://genocidewatch.net/2013/03/14/raphael-lemkin-defines-genocide-2/,   and   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide;
  and
  https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide-convention.shtml,   https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/cppcg/cppcg.html,   https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CrimeOfGenocide.aspx,   https://www.history.com/topics/holocaust/what-is-genocide,   https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide-convention.shtml,   and   https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C1949A00027;
• Books and courses:

o   “Crimes Against Humanity”, by Geoffrey Robertson [14] , pub. Penguin Group, 2012 (4^th Ed., first pub. [1^st Ed.] Allen Lane 1999), ISBN 978-0-14-190080-3, on Amazon at https://smile.amazon.com/Crimes-Against-Humanity-Struggle-Justice-ebook/dp/B002XHNNT8/ref=sr_1_1;

o   “A Problem from Hell”, by Samantha Power [15] , pub. Pub. Harper, 2010, ISBN 978-0007172993, on Amazon at https://smile.amazon.com/Problem-Hell-America-Age-Genocide-ebook/dp/B003RRY3UG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0;

o   “Bad People and How to be Rid of Them”, by Geoffrey Robertson, pub. Vintage, 2021, ISBN 978-1-76-014561-3, on Amazon at https://smile.amazon.com/Bad-People-Them-Human-Rights-ebook/dp/B08QZFWQQY/ref=sr_1_1;

o   “The Responsibility to Protect”, by Gareth Evans [16] , pub. Brookings Institute Press, 2009, 978-0-81-572504-6, on Amazon at https://smile.amazon.com/Responsibility-Protect-Ending-Atrocity-Crimes-ebook-dp-B00B0XZ07O/dp/B00B0XZ07O/ref=mt_other;

o   “A World Made New”, by Mary Ann Glendon, pub. Random House, 2002, ISBN 978-0-67-946310-8, on Amazon at https://smile.amazon.com/World-Made-New-Roosevelt-Declaration-ebook/dp/B000FC1L2Y/ref=sr_1_1;

o   MOOC Chile “Introduction to Human Rights” - https://mooc.udp.cl/introduction-to-human-rights/;

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_human_rights&oldid=1056941660,   https://www.humanrights.com/what-are-human-rights/brief-history/,   and   https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/education/brief-human-rights-timeline;
• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/02/humans-humanity-and-human-rights-update.html,   human dignity,   evil.

 

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[1] See https://www.britannica.com/biography/Franklin-D-Roosevelt,   https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/franklin-d-roosevelt/,   and   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franklin_D._Roosevelt&oldid=1059135113.

[2] See https://www.britannica.com/event/Four-Freedoms,   https://www.fdrlibrary.org/four-freedoms,   and   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Four_Freedoms&oldid=1056820616.

[3] See http://www.aboutfranklindroosevelt.com/the-2nd-bill-of-rights/486/,   http://www.rooseveltsecondbillofrights.com/,   and   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Second_Bill_of_Rights&oldid=1053774861.

[4] See https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eleanor-Roosevelt,   https://www.humanrights.com/voices-for-human-rights/eleanor-roosevelt.html,   https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/eleanor-roosevelt,   and   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eleanor_Roosevelt&oldid=1059122484.

[5] See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Peters_Humphrey&oldid=1042581932.

[6] See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=P._C._Chang&oldid=1047798280.

[7] See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Malik&oldid=1052416748.

[8] See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ren%C3%A9_Cassin&oldid=1059608136.

[9] See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hansa_Jivraj_Mehta&oldid=1059336491.

[10] See https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C1949A00027,   https://www.humanrights.vic.gov.au/legal-and-policy/australias-human-rights-framework/,   and   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2021/12/we-have-magnitsky-style-act.html.

[11] See https://www.humanrights.vic.gov.au/legal-and-policy/victorias-human-rights-laws/.

[12] See http://corteidh.or.cr/   and   D:\Tattoo_Mage\Active 2b Further study project\16 Law\Inter-American Court on Human Rights WIKIPEDIA.pdf.

[13] See http://www.icc-permanentpremises.org/,   https://www.hrw.org/topic/international-justice/international-criminal-court,   and   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=International_Criminal_Court&oldid=1058629805.

[14] See https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/geoffrey-robertson-qc   and   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geoffrey_Robertson&oldid=1053368763.

[15] See https://samanthapower.com/   and   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samantha_Power&oldid=1056091356.

[16] See http://gevans.org/,   https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=VD4,   and   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gareth_Evans_(politician)&oldid=1056618154. 

 

 

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