Gnwmythr's Glossary: October 2024

Thursday 31 October 2024

Introduction and Index [Content Warning - some definitions address distressing matters]

I make no claims or inferences whatsoever that this is in any way, shape or form authoritative: I just wanted somewhere I could link to rather than trying to find other online sources and then monitor them for accuracy/credibility and suitability. The starting point for this dictionary is what I have written for a glossary in a book I am hoping to publish one decade or other … and the context is my blog, Musings of Gnwmythr, (as such, it includes a few words more than just psychic/metaphysical concepts … ).

Where I link to posts under aany definition, you may be able to gain some further, useful insight (particularly in the form of examples of usage) from those.

Note: CONTENT WARNING - some of these definitions are about upsetting, disturbing or triggering matters. I am in the process of progressively placing Content Warnings (shown as [CW] below) as I get the time to do so, but reader caution is recommended - and noting that personal history may make some matters more triggering. Seek competent help - including professional - if you need it. For anyone distressed by anything here, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]).

A

abundance

abrahamic religions

[CW] abuse of power

[CW] accelerating the rate of karmic return

Active Protection / psychic disarmament

[CW] activism

Æther (element)

Airy Magickal Law of Distance

Air (element)

Ajna - see Third Eye chakra

Akashic Record

altered states of consciousness

alternative reality

amathia

Anahata - see Heart chakra

anecdotal evidence

anger - see emotions

animism

anomaly - see here

antiwisdom

apparition - see here

apperceive

(character) archetypes

arguably

(the) aspiration paradox

assemblage point and "moving" chakras

attraction to elitism

aura

authentic presence

automatic writing

B

Balanced Positive

Base chakra (Hindu system: Muladhara)

BCE (Before Common Era)

[CW] bigots / bigotry (including privilege, intersectionality, trauma, rebuttals of GFE’s nonsense, etc)

(list of) biographies

BPM

breathing

"Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth"

Buddhism

[CW] buttons

C

[CW] carrying on like a pork chop

Causal Star chakra

CE (Common Era)

CE-5 - close encounters of the fifth kind

(to) centre oneself

chakras

(channelled energy) healing

channelling

[CW] (aspects of) character (collection of links for reference)

Charter for Compassion

checking

(Ben) Chifley

[CW] Christian / neochristian

[CW] christo-fascism

circle (partial DRAFT)

civility trap

clairaudience

clairvoyance

classification of nonphysical units

"clear and present thinking"

clear light

clearing

climate change and the climate crisis

Collaborative Communication /"Non-Violent" Communication

cold spot - see here

[CW] (the) Cold War

come through

communication

compassion

complementary

confidence - see emotions

conflation

conjecture

consciousness

[CW] conspiracy fantasies (including intellectual cowardice)

contentious

[CW] control (negative, psychic etc)

cooperative

courage

Coven (partial DRAFT)

[CW] COVID-19

Crown chakra (Hindu system: Sahasrara)

crystals

[CW] cults (interim)

[CW] cultural appropriation

Cure Violence

cynicism

D

[CW] death

definitive

deign

deism

Deity

democracy

denial - see emotions

diatribe

dictum

differentiation (psychic)

dignity (human)

dimension(s)

Dion Fortune

direct voice

discarnate (partial DRAFT)

discipline (interim)

discrimination

doppelganger

double blind

Druidry

duotheism

dynamic balance

E

earthbound (partial DRAFT)

Earth (element)

Earth empath

Earth Star chakra

Earthy Magickal Law of Strength and Common Sense

ectoplasm - see here

egregore

electronic voice phenomena (EVP) - see here

elements

ellipsis

Emergency Action Plan

emotional intelligence

emotions

the end does NOT justify the means

(nonphysical) energies

energy psychic

entity - see here

ESP ('extrasensory perception')

Ether (element)

etheric (partial DRAFT)

etheric travel (partial DRAFT)

Etheric Law of Existence

Ethics

(practice) exercises - see https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/09/post-no-2572-practice-exercises.html

extraterrestrials (ETs)

evidence

evil

evolution (spiritual; partial DRAFT)

F

(the evil that is known as) fascism

FBU - flummoxed by (the) unfamiliar

fear - see emotions

feminism

Fiery Magickal Law of the Taijitu

Fire (element)

(psychic) flaming

FoC - fear of complexity

forgiveness - see emotions

Franklin D Roosevelt

frequency

G

Gandhi

geas

gender flat earthers (GFEs)

ghost lights - see here

God - see Deity

Golden Rule

(the evil known as) gossip - yet to be written

grief - see emotions

growth orientation (path)

Guides (partial DRAFT)

H

hate/hatred - see emotions

hate speech

haunting - see here for a definition: I may write something on this one day ...

(channelled energy) healing

Heart chakra (Hindu system: Anahata)

henotheism

heuristic

hierarchy

Higher Self

Highest Spiritual Good

holistic

(the problems with) the "Hollow Earth" theory

hope - see emotions

human dignity

human rights

I

Immature Soul / Young Soul

inappropriateness

incredulous

indirect psychic attack

initiation

[CW] innocent until proven guilty

intellectual cowardice

intermediary

internalised sexism / victim blaming

intersectionality

IPOC

Irony

J

James Baldwin

jealousy - see emotions

judgement - see emotions

K

karma (interim - and do NOT use to victim blame or for spiritual bypassing!!! It is for YOU to look at YOURSELF ONLY)

Know Thyself

L

Laws of Magick

LBI (left brain interpreter)

Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (LBRP) (interim)

levels of consciousness

levels of reality

Ley lines and Earth energy centres/vortices

LGBTQIASB+ (was LGBTQIA+)

lifestyle vulnerabilities

limits (interim)

(nonphysical) links

lip service

living in chakras

Lobsang Rampa

"Lord of the Rings" (commentary by John Beckett)

Lucid dreaming

Lucid living

M

(Dr) Martin Luther King (Jr)

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Matron/non-binary/Patron/Tutelary Deity

Mature Soul / Old Soul

maturity

the means shape the end

the media (press) (collection of links for reference)

meditation

meditative state

medium

meridians

metaphysics

minimalism / the minimalists

monism

monotheism

moral licensing

Muladhara - see Base chakra

N

Nature of Reality

negative learning

Nelson Mandela

[CW] neochristian/pseudochristian / Christian

[CW] neoliberalism - interim partial definition only

Newtonian (non-physical) worldview

[CW] “no notoriety” campaign

nonphysical

nonphysical energies

nonphysical health, strength and wellbeing

nontheistic

"Non-Violent" Communication / Collaborative Communication

(efficacy of) nonviolent protests

nuclear threats and their management (collection of links for reference)

O

objective (psychism)

(nonphysical) objects

obsession (partial DRAFT)

Old Soul / Mature Soul

omnitheism

orbs - see here

P

Paganism (interim)

panentheism

pantheism

parallel

[CW] PFD - Paranoid Fear of Difference

paranormal - see here

past life regression

patriarchy

Matron/non-binary/Patron/Tutelary Deity

Hope, Peace, Love and Prosperity Ritual

physical manifestation - see here for a limited or partial definition

planes of existence - see levels of reality

poltergeist - see here for one definition, and here regarding evidence

polyamory

polytheism

portal - see here for a limited definition

possession (partial DRAFT)

practice exercises - see https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/09/post-no-2572-practice-exercises.html

privilege (the unearned advantage of accidental social status privilege)

(psychic) protection (interim)

psi - see here

psychic - see here

psychic attack

psychic disarmament / Active Protection

(weekly) psychic weather report

psychokinesis (PK) / telekinesis (TK) - see here

[CW] psychopath including sub-clinical (collection of links for reference)

purpose

R

(Lobsang) Rampa

(past life) regression

reincarnation

remote viewing

(spirit) rescue

resisting tyranny / evil / nonBPM

revenant - see here

rishi(s)

(Franklin D) Roosevelt

S

Sacral/"Second" chakra (Hindu system: Svadhishthana)

Sahasrara - see Crown chakra

séance - see here for one definition

"Second/Sacral chakra (Hindu system: Svadhishthana)

self actualising (partial DRAFT)

Sensitive

servant leadership

[CW] sexism/misogyny/misandry

sexual assault (interim, partial DRAFT)

shadow self / work (partial DRAFT)

shamanism (partial DRAFT)

sheeple

Significant Other(s)

sleep state work

(the evil known as) social status

sock puppet (pejorative term)

Solar Plexus chakra (Hindu system: Manipura)

Soul

soul part

Soul Star chakra

source book

"Speaking one's truth" chakra

spirit - see here for one definition

spirit rescue

spiritual bypassing

spiritual ecosystem

spiritual evolution (partial DRAFT)

spiritual maturity

Spiritualism

“spontaneous trait transference”

spoons of courage

Stellar Gateway chakra

[Content Warning] stochastic t_rr_r_sm

street cred

(the five) stress responses

subjective (psychism)

survival after death

Svadhishthana - see "Second/Sacral chakra

symbiosis

syncretism

systems justification

T

telekinesis (TK) / psychokinesis (PK) - see here

telepathy - see here

Temple (partial DRAFT)

"TERF" - see gender flat earthers (GFEs)

(the) aspiration paradox

theism

Third Eye chakra (Hindu system: Ajna)

thought form

Throat chakra (Hindu system: Vishuddha)

tonglen

Touch for Health

[CW] toxic forgiveness

toxic loyalty

[CW] toxic masculinity

[CW] toxic positivity

trance

transgenocide - which links to https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-transgenocide-is-underway.html

transmigration - see walk in

transmisia (suggested replacement for transphobia, but doesn't seem to have been accepted widely enough to be useful)

[CW] trauma

Trinitarianism

tuned in

Tutelary/Matron/non-binary/Patron Deity

(Bishop Desmond) Tutu

U

UBI - Universal Basic Income

UFOs/UAPs

[CW] uncooperative

Unitarianism

United Nations

(nonphysical) units

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) - interim partial definition only

upstairs

[CW] (the) US civil war

V

Virtue signalling

Vishuddha - see Throat chakra

(Earth) vortex / power spot / energy centre - see here

Vulcan ears

[CW] walk in

walkabout

Watery Magickal Law of Frequency

Water (element)

Western Mystery Tradition / Western esotericism

Wheel of the Year (interim)

[CW] white light

(the evil known as) white supremacism

Will (magickal) (interim)

Wiccan Rede

[CW] World War (part) One

[CW] World War (part) Two

Y

yoga

Young Soul / Immature Soul

Z

Zoroaster

(more definitions to come :) )

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resisting tyranny / evil / nonBPM

After listening to the following, I have decided I should start collecting a few links on the topic of resisting tyranny / evil / nonBPM:

"On Tyranny right now (audio)" https://snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny-right-now-audio However, making eye contact and small talk is difficult or even impossible for neurodivergent people, and those and similar recommendations need to be adapted to be more inclusive / less ableist.

Other links are:

"On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century", by Timothy Snyder (pub. Vintage Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-1847924889 [Amazon])

“Autocracy and Poverty” https://snyder.substack.com/p/autocracy-and-poverty

“On Freedom” by Timothy Snyder (pub. Vintage Digital, 19 September 2024, ISBN 978-1-529-92927-0; website, NPR review, goodreads; Penguin, Kobo, Apple books, Amazon)

“Timothy Snyder: a Trump victory threatens freedom | Media Confidential” https://youtu.be/XnYBlel3Z5s This has excellent commentary on the difference between freedom-the-term and freedom-the-concept, that freedom “isn’t just the government not being in the way, freedom is the government enabling people to become free thinkers”, and “the significance of freedom of speech is that it allows humans to speak truth to power, and when we ... find ourselves ... defending the ... utterances of billionaires and ... heads of state rather than defending the right of actual humans to say things that would challenge the billionaires and the heads of state” - and that’s just the first few minutes: the rest is also excellent, and worth watching or, if you prefer, listening to the full length podcast. The discussion on truth, value, heroism, collective labour, social media, misinformation & disinformation (and the consequences thereof), and the risks of a second Trump term is of considerable importance.

“Fascism and Fear” https://snyder.substack.com/p/fascist-froth “The Moment, The Media, The Election”

Anne Applebaum’s “Autocracy, Inc.” (Penguin, 2024, ISBN 978-1-802-06213-7; reviews by NPR, Foreign Affairs magazine, Good Reading; purchase at Penguin, Kobo, Apple Books, Amazon) Just the introduction, with its description of how authoritarians have created a parallel/shadow international order/economic order to enable mutual support, has been incredibly thought provoking

“Marvel Defenders of The Status Quo” https://youtu.be/LpitmEnaYeU YES!!! (See also the critique of Superman’s actions at https://80000hours.org/career-guide/high-impact-jobs/ )

“Witches Unite for Palestine Mutual Aid: Raffle, History and Activism Fatigue” https://youtu.be/2ckXM8QqLaw This is, as usual, excellent, and has some outstanding advice starting at around 12:20: “… what I'm bringing to you with the second phase … is literally take things at your pace. Do what you can, recognise the energy that you have, and do not castigate yourself for the things that - oh I can do more … I understand how easy it is from the, kind of almost echo chamber that we got in, being activists, because … you’re privileged to live in the Western World, you need to do more and I get that, but … you need to take care of yourself … [which] means that you retire and make your energy and bring it up enough so that you can do something again, because, again, when we are in a choir if you take a moment and you can take a breather, other people are holding the note for you; if you push and push and push yourself to burn out, then you go lock yourself in your room, you don't want to know anything else and at that point the choir has just lost a voice” and “Witchcraft under Capitalism 🏡 Cottagecore, Witchcore, and the Classism of Ethical Consumerism” https://youtu.be/ort0f2YRwjY and “Silence Of Love And Light Community On Palestine 🍉 Problematic Witchcraft Ep.3” https://youtu.be/f0npsdhWMY8

and also from that channel: “Witchcraft and Activism with Briana Pegado author of Make Good Trouble” https://youtu.be/vSl_tKAUd-o “Cast Your Vote Like A Spell! 🗳️ Don't Miss Your Chance To Make A Difference” https://youtu.be/sLxbbdJoe9o “Activism Struggles and Burnout” https://youtu.be/5dNmDTNQdOY “I'm Ashamed 🔮 Witchcraft as a Fat Queer Autistic Person of Colour” https://youtu.be/4m0iia9LkGU “Witchcraft IS Activism 🍉 Witches Unite for a Free Palestine” https://youtu.be/1bB4fEJ2bcI “7 DEADLY Feminist SINS dissected 🖤 Witches Black Lent” https://youtu.be/Puij2noEA-Y “Spiritism & Brazilian Folk Magic's Struggle Against Racism with ‪@asterperpetua‬” https://youtu.be/t9KnATcaGn8 “Hexing Without Baneful Magic 💣 Karma, Energy, And The Evil Eye In Italian Folk Magic #storytime” https://youtu.be/8iS1I3-elhI “Maiden Mother Crone 👩 Breaking Down the Problematic Divine Feminine Goddess Archetype” https://youtu.be/FAUZngFlYeY “Why so many Witches are TERFs? - The Transmisogynoir of JK Rowling against Imane Khelif” https://youtu.be/aniVXrBYnHA “Why so many witches are TERFs? Part 2 - Starhawk, Maiden Mother Crone, White Feminism and JK Rowling” https://youtu.be/tKHdon3HSys “Propaganda All Along 🔮 A REAL Witch reviews Agatha, Marvel and Media Literacy” https://youtu.be/T6zTRZkBo-8

and some of my posts:

from my main blog:

“Post No. 2,908 - Important psychic and spiritual work in the USA” https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2024/10/post-no-2908-important-psychic-and.html

“Post No. 2,891 - On resisting progressive change” https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2024/10/post-no-2891-on-resisting-progressive.html

“Post No. 2,877 - #PsychicABetterWorld” https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2024/09/post-no-2877-psychicabetterworld.html

“Post No. 2,570 - normative social behaviour [Content Warning - workplace abuse, psychopaths]” https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/08/post-no-2570-normative-social-behaviour.html

“Post No. 1,536 – Magickal Battle of the World Meditation - Week No. 2: Determination” https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2020/04/post-no-1536-magickal-battle-of-world.html

The following labels (noting posts will likely appear under multiple labels): accountability, activism, backsliding, Balanced Positive, BPM, control, evil, group dynamics, integrity, justice, leadership, moral courage, morality, nonBPM, nonviolence, persistence, personal characteristics, personal sovereignty, politics, trauma, values, witchcraft activism,

from my now inactive political blog:

“On better (or less bad) management, and the need for better world leadership” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/10/on-better-or-less-bad-management-and.html

“A first reaction to Timothy Snyder’s new book “On Freedom”” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-first-reaction-to-timothy-snyders-new.html

“On climate change, the US Presidential election/democracy, and the legacy of human rights abuses” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/10/on-climate-change-and-us-presidential.html

“Some thoughts on Putin [Content Warning - discussion on, and links to, impacts of war related violence. Reader discretion is advised]” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/09/some-thoughts-on-putin-content-warning.html

“Concerning world events [Note: Content Warning - links to reports on oppression/bigotry/hate, violence/abuse/war. Reader discretion is advised]” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/08/concerning-world-events-note-content.html

“Follow up comments on attempted assassination of Trump [Note: Content Warning - links to reports on violence. Reader discretion is advised]” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/07/follow-up-to-attempted-assassination-of.html Note the essential wrongness of political violence!

“The far right’s undeclared global war on humanity [Note: Content Warning - links to reports on bigotry/hate, violence/abuse/war. Reader discretion is advised]” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-far-rights-undeclared-global-war.html

“Links for activism” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/07/links-for-activism.html

“The problem of giving in to evil” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-problem-of-giving-in-to-evil.html

“Giving up power and anticipatory obedience” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/06/giving-up-power-and-anticipatory.html

“Life cycles (age), the business world and the problem of “anticipatory compliance”” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/04/life-cycles-age-business-world-and.html

“On leadership” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/04/on-leadership.html

It may also be worth noting these pages on that blog : https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/p/activism-examples.html , https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html , https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/p/human-rights.html , https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/p/peace-and-international-politics.html , https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/p/learning-from-history.html

The following labels (noting posts will likely appear under multiple labels): abuse of power, authoritarianism, flawed thinking/emotions/reactions/governance, human rights abuses, leadership, psychopaths, Putin, Russia, Trump,

and from this glossary blog:

[CW] abuse of power

[CW] activism

antiwisdom

attraction to elitism

Balanced Positive

[CW] bigots / bigotry (including privilege, intersectionality, trauma, rebuttals of GFE’s nonsense, etc)

BPM

[CW] (aspects of) character (collection of links for reference)

[CW] Christian / neochristian

[CW] christo-fascism

civility trap

cynicism

democracy

dignity (human)

the end does NOT justify the means

Ethics

evil

(the evil that is known as) fascism

FBU - flummoxed by (the) unfamiliar

FoC - fear of complexity

gender flat earthers (GFEs)

[CW] neoliberalism - interim partial definition only

Newtonian (non-physical) worldview

[CW] “no notoriety” campaign

(efficacy of) nonviolent protests

[CW] PFD - Paranoid Fear of Difference

patriarchy

Hope, Peace, Love and Prosperity Ritual

[CW] psychopath including sub-clinical (collection of links for reference)

[Content Warning] stochastic t_rr_r_sm

(the five) stress responses

(the) aspiration paradox

[CW] toxic forgiveness

toxic loyalty

[CW] toxic masculinity

[CW] toxic positivity

transgenocide - which links to https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-transgenocide-is-underway.html

[CW] trauma

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) - interim partial definition only

Virtue signalling

[CW] white light

(the evil known as) white supremacism

For my original writing ONLY on this blog:

Links to others works and excerpts from others works are NOT covered by the hereinbefore, and remain subject to the conditions of the original source.