Gnwmythr's Glossary: 2022

Thursday 22 September 2022

[Content Warning] toxic masculinity

See:

https://theconversation.com/toxic-masculinity-what-does-it-mean-where-did-it-come-from-and-is-the-term-useful-or-harmful-189298;

Saturday 6 August 2022

Western Mystery Tradition / Western esotericism

See :

Thursday 2 June 2022

“Dion Fortune (born Violet Mary Firth, 6 December 1890 – 6 January 1946) was a British occultist, ceremonial magician, novelist and author. She was a co-founder of the Fraternity of the Inner Light, an occult organisation that promoted philosophies which she claimed had been taught to her by spiritual entities known as the Ascended Masters. A prolific writer, she produced a large number of articles and books on her occult ideas and also authored seven novels, several of which expound occult themes. . . . “one of the most significant occultists and ceremonial magicians of the early 20^th century”.

Although I’ve read (and still have) several of Ms Fortune’s books and respect her sound knowledge and approach, I don’t follow her path. In the context of this book, I’ve referred to Ms Fortune because of the psychic work she did during World War (part) Two to aid the Allies in winning by countering / containing evil, as . . .

“outlined in the Gareth Knight edited book “The Magical Battle of Britain” (my copy pub. Skylight Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-908011-45-9 [1] ), which I reviewed at http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/encouragement-and-magical-battle-of.html. Ms Fortune directed her team through a series of 136 weekly and at least 19 (I have not found out how many in total) monthly meditations (I originally intended to publish a list at some stage, but it’s so long and comprehensive that I’m concerned about breaching copyright, so I may either see if I can find an online list, or publish something listing the broad themes only). At the end of this, she was exhausted, and that work is considered to have contributed to her death, but a change for the better had been accomplished.”

For more on this topic (written by experts, rather than me), see :

· http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_Fortune;

· https://dionfortune.co.uk/;

· https://www.chalicecentre.net/dion_fortune_holy_grail.html;

· https://globalbizarre.com/dion-fortune/;

· https://smile.amazon.com/Dion-Fortune/e/B000AP9XOO%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share;

· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternity_of_the_Inner_Light;

· https://www.innerlight.org.uk/;

· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophical_Society;

· https://www.ts-adyar.org/;

· https://www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett/2021/08/spiritual-warfare-and-a-pagan-worldview.html.

[1] See http://skylightpress.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/the-magical-battle-of-britain-the-war-letters-of-dion-fortune/.

Sunday 22 May 2022

emotional intelligence

On emotional intelligence, see:

Thursday 31 March 2022

[Content Warning - war, violence, hate, discrimination, social control] The US civil war

A war fought within the United States of America from 1860 to 1865 which killed more US people than any other conflict that nation has been involved. It came out of a range of internal traditions, most notably over slavery (claims of states’ rights as a cause are diminished by the prominent mention of slavery in the various declarations issued by the pro-slavery southern states at the state of the conflict).

The conflict saw developments in the use of military weapons and inventions such as railways (and photography), and included a wide range of human rights abuses (especially against people of colour, but also generally against civilians) but also advances such as the 13^th Amendment banning slavery.

The anti-slavery northern states are generally considered to have been hindered by poor generals in the early stages of the war. US Grant eventually led the forces of the northern states to a victory noted by its magnanimity towards the forces of the defeated southern states, and later became a President who continued actions in support of human rights (albeit with flaws and scandals).

A notable, perhaps exemplary, role was played the US President Abraham Lincoln, with speeches that promoted unity. Lincoln was assassinated by disgruntled southerners just after the war, which resulted in transfer of power to the destructive (of human rights) Johnson.

Grant undid a portion of that destruction, but the tensions resulting from the conflict (and perhaps especially from the assassination of Lincoln, who was most likely to pull the still divided nation together) last to this day (despite the efforts of people such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1960s President Johnson, whose desire for civil reform was undone by the Viêt Nám War) and can be seen the the Black Lives Matter protests and the resultant white supremacist backlash.