Gnwmythr's Glossary: October 2024

Thursday, 31 October 2024

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

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Hope, Peace, Love and Prosperity Ritual

See:

https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2011/09/hope-peace-love-and-prosperity-ritual.html

https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/search/label/Hope%20Peace%20Love%20and%20Prosperity%20Spell

Sunday, 27 October 2024

meridians

This post is a collection of links about the concept of nonphysical pathways on/in the human body, mapped in East Asia thousands of years ago, I understand, through which the life-energy known as qi flows, and which are connected to health and wellbeing by the wellbeing and balance of those flows - with techniques having been developed to promote good health and wellbeing via the energy flows along those pathways, which have a loop inside the body that passes through the organ/unit (some have no physical organ) the meridian is named after/associated with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meridian_(Chinese_medicine)&oldid=1244793696

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_acupuncture_points&oldid=1251124233

https://www.britannica.com/science/acupressure

https://www.britannica.com/science/acupuncture

https://acupuncturetoday.com/article/33259-what-are-the-meridians

https://www.sitcm.edu.au/blog/understanding-meridians-and-how-theyre-used-in-traditional-chinese-medicine/

https://guidedbyelements.com/about-the-five-elements/symbolism-characteristics-and-associations/what-are-the-5-elements-meridians/

https://www.traditionalbodywork.com/tcm-meridians-qi-life-energy-channels/

https://www.aiam.edu/acupuncture/acupuncture-meridians/

https://acupuncturetherapeutics.com/the-12-meridians-of-the-body-explained/

https://www.natural-health-zone.com/body-meridians.html

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2095496421001060

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7859592_Electrical_impedance_along_connective_tissue_planes_associated_with_acupuncture_meridians

I may add more links over time.

I learned about these through my studies of shiatsu (also referred to as acupressure) and Touch for Health (this was particularly useful on the elemental associations) , although I only learned about two (central and governing) of the eight extraordinary meridians (which may also have energy storage functions), in the 1980s.

For my original writing ONLY on this blog:

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remote viewing

For convenience, I will copy here a collection of reference links on this topic:

Remote viewing is, more or less, accurate nonphysical (ESP/psychic) perception at a distance - often at a defined point or of a defined unit. For more on this, see

https://crviewer.com/whatwedo.php

https://www.irva.org/

https://www.gaia.com/article/what-is-remote-viewing

https://www.gaia.com/article/how-to-remote-view

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Remote_viewing&oldid=1251928070

and the books

“Remote Viewing Secrets”, by Joseph McMoneagle (pub. Hampton Roads, 2000, ISBN 978-1-57174-159-2, Kobo, Apple Books, Amazon)

“The Men Who Stare At Goats”, by Jon Ronson (pub. Picador, 2004, ISBN 978-0-330-51298-5, Pan Macmillan, Simon and Schuster, Kobo, Apple Books, Amazon)

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.

Friday, 25 October 2024

[Content Warning - violence] “no notoriety” campaign

This is a campaign to not give serial killers the satisfaction of publicity - i.e., notoriety, which I also extend (as a secondary news source) to violent extremists (nor give the latter the satisfaction of being referred to as t_r_rr_sts).

For information on this and related perspectives, see:

“Experts Call for Mass Killers' Names to Be Kept Quiet” https://www.livescience.com/60595-stop-naming-mass-shooters-say-scientists.html

“NPR Standards Need More Clarity Around When To Name A Mass Shooter” https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2021/03/25/981170871/npr-standards-need-more-clarity-around-when-to-name-a-mass-shooter

“‘No Notoriety’ campaign to not name mass murderers sees progress” https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/02/media/media-decisions-naming-showing-killers/index.html

“Access and attention: why serial killers like L___ L____ often work in healthcare” https://theconversation.com/access-and-attention-why-serial-killers-like-lucy-letby-often-work-in-healthcare-212105

“Glamorising violent offenders with ‘true crime’ shows and podcasts needs to stop” https://theconversation.com/glamorising-violent-offenders-with-true-crime-shows-and-podcasts-needs-to-stop-121806

“[streaming service]’s [series] is ‘murder porn’ at its worst. It comes at a cost to real victims – and the truth” https://theconversation.com/netflixs-monsters-is-murder-porn-at-its-worst-it-comes-at-a-cost-to-real-victims-and-the-truth-239596

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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.