IPOC

An acronym I started using to cut down on the profanity in my autobiography (it was either the acronym or this). It stands for:

insert pejorative of choice

(incidentally, see also lalochezia - here, here, and here)

Spoons of courage

See https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2020/05/post-no-1552-spoons-of-courage.html 

FBU - flummoxed by (the) unfamiliar

PS - see also here, on fear of complexity, which is also a major driver in problem thinking/reactions.

PPS - I have recently 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.

PPPS - see also: 

• http://www.victorzammit.com/book/4thedition/chapter27.html; 
• "The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena", by Dean  I.  Radin.

PPPPS - another example of this is the anger some people show when they discover that some people can drink coffee and then go to sleep straight away. A friend with a degree in genetics told me there is a specific gene which means some people are not affected by caffeine, but are at an elevated risk of cancer if they are carnist and eat overcooked meat. Another possible explanation is the dopamine hit on ADHD brains that enables sleep - as jokingly portrayed at https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cXqCdWoiYk0. The "explanation" of the ridiculous over-reaction is discussed below.

There’s a phrase which sums up a lot of the problem behaviour (especially uncomprehending bewilderment) I’ve experienced from others: flummoxed by the unfamiliar, or FBU for short.

When people have found, for instance, a set of values, a religion, or a worldview that is different to theirs, rather than saying “Oh that’s interesting”, or “that’s different to mine”, and then looking at the matter, they react blindly, bitterly and with vitriol - more along the lines of “how dare you differ”, or “your difference threatens and undermines me, my existence and the fabric of my reality”.

Especially if its about supporting a different footy team.

(Just kidding, on that last one, in case anyone needs it pointed out.)

People who get set on what is comfortable for them - especially preconceived notions about sexuality, gender, religion, how to achieve something, notions that families (or companies) are always good and one should give them unquestioning loyalty, etc - find anything that is different to the concept that they have enshrined in their heart (it is an emotional reaction - thinking has nothing to do with it) a threat to their personal reality: when that happens, how they react is like any stress situation - fight, flight, or network and nurture.

• Fight - an angry, unthinking, emotional attack on the source of their discomfort. If they are particularly disconnected from their emotions they may make accusations of the person they blame for their discomfort being emotional or irrational - so yes, this reaction plagues a lot of reactions in patriarchal professions (like engineering) and societies (which is many cultures in this world);

• Flight - denial, and attempts to warn other from having anything to do with the view they find uncomfortable. The small or weak minded often want others to support or reinforce their views - which is why organisations (cults, religions, particular political/economic ways of thinking, etc) with group minds (also called egregores) aren’t only fed by the egregore, which leads us to  . . .  

• Network - where the discomforted person seeks to build a group or network (such as old boys clubs, private schools, irrelevant admission criteria in any organisation, groups against LGBTIQ+ people [or some thereof], etc) against the idea they find discomforting; and

• Nurture - where the discomforted person seeks solace from others who also cling to the idea that is threatened (such as friends, families [especially if the family has a powerful group mind [“egregore”], priests of that religion, etc).

Now, the thing about this, is that sometimes the concept that is threatening is genuinely bad - for example, someone may advocate for pederasty, violence or violent overthrow, militarism, neoliberalism, etc.

In those cases, being FBU is actually a good thing, as can be the types of reactions I outlined above. 

A little more from my forthcoming autobiography:

Basically, this refers to someone who is so out-of-sorts by something that they’re not used to, that they are incapable of thinking about anything other than the fact that “this” is outside their experience - not their comfort zone, their life experience / world view. The mind completely freezes up in the light of the car coming from out of the brick wall they have built around their concept of reality.

Maybe a better analogy is that they have  brain freeze as the rest of the iceberg that is reality emerges from below the surface.

No - here’s a better example yet: in the film “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl”, Captain Jack Sparrow is utterly FBU when Elizabeth Swann burns the rum to make a smoke signal after they’ve been marooned.

If his mind wasn’t experiencing a brain freeze from experiencing something completely outside his conception of reality (Captain Jack would probably accept walking on water more easily than destroying rum), he could have talked rationally about the pros and cons of creating smoke signals and so forth - all of which the film deals with shortly thereafter.

 

 

 

Clear light

When “New Agers” and others talk about “white light”, what they really mean is “clear light”, which is a term that also exists, albeit in a slightly different sense, in Buddhism (see, for instance, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luminous_mind&oldid=904238121).

In essence, the term is a reference to BPM energy – energy that has a constructive spiritual (not religious – religious refers to dogma which may or may not be spiritually beneficial) effect.

Ironically, those who are disparaged as “white light-ers” often refer to the importance of the clarity or tone of colours, and some even point out - correctly – that there are as many shades of black which fit the definition of BPM as there are for any other colour.

I prefer to use the more accurate term (and less racist) “clear light” (until something better is developed and comes into widespread use).

I also respect the goodwill of white light-ers (although I will try to edge them towards clear, rather than white, light), and question the motivation and methods of those who disparage them. 

Centre Oneself

PS - I quite liked this, from "Magic for the Resistance: Rituals and Spells for Change" by Michael M. Hughes (Amazon), and consider it an excellent example of the sort of ways to centre oneself that are available - and I also recommend the book for activist witchcraft: 

"1. Facing ahead, prayer position. Spirit before me. 2. Sensing behind. Spirit behind me. 3. Sensing right. Spirit on my right. 4. Sensing left. Spirit on my left. 5. Sensing above. Spirit above me. 6. Sensing below. Spirit below me. 7. Sensing all around. Spirit outside me. 8. Sensing within. Spirit within me. Arms in orans position. 9. Between the future … Feel the future, full of possibility, waiting ahead. 10. And the past … Feel the past streaming behind you. 11. Turn head to right. Between the sun … Visualize the sun. 12. Turn head to left. And the moon … Visualize the moon. 13. Look to heavens. Between the heavens … Visualize the starry canopy. 14. Look to earth. And the earth … Visualize the depths of the earth. 15. Face forward. As outside me … Visualize a sphere around you extending into infinity. 16. Return hands to prayer position. So within me. Visualize infinite center of your heart. 17. Intone, Amen, So mote it be, or Om."

 

In a strictly technical psychic sense, to “centre oneself” means making sure all one’s nonphysical bodies are aligned, and are also in alignment with one’s physical body. 

I can, perhaps, best illustrate this by describing someone who is not centred – perhaps someone who is walking, and distracted by thinking of a troubling matter (or, these days, focused on their mobile phone or some other “device”). If you looked at them psychically, it is quite possible that you would see one or more of their nonphysical bodies drifting around outside the physical body (and the aura), looking around and not paying attention to where the physical body was going (or, to be factious, these days the nonphysical could be hovering over the shoulder of the physical looking at the mobile phone / device).

In this situation, the person is distracted and thus may do something dangerous (for instance, walk on to a road, or step into a hole).

In addition, the nonphysical body(ies) outside the aura are vulnerable to the influence of incompatible / disharmonious energies / units, and to psychic attack.

Grounding is a cure to not being centred, but taking a deep breath and making the effort to focus, concentrate, and be alert also help, and may be sufficient in many cases. 

 

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Lord of the Rings

John Beckett has done a brilliant exposition on "lessons to remember, lessons to forget" in "Lord of the Rings", which is worth considering - especially in the context of peace.

(channelled energy) healing

See here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.