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Liked on YouTube: The Ultimate Wisdom Of The Perfect Practice; a talk by Adi Da with slideshow and film of Adi Da https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZdINv5151w

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Liked on YouTube: A-Fest Livecast: Biohacking, Body & Brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yBbf5W2g7k

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Liked on YouTube: Darshan of Adi Da and Him Chanting the Mahamantra `Om Ma Da` as soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7j77M9XV_c

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Liked on YouTube: Beethoven - Symphony No.9 (10000 Japanese) - Freude schöner Götterfunken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6s6YKlTpfw

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The Presidential Debate, Dignity, and Cheating | 2020-9-29

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” 

~~ Shakespeare

There exists a kind of behavior that "sees it", "hears it" and "feels it" -- and insists on talking and acting as if something else were the case. It's more than, "denial"; it's a kind of deliberate stupidity-in-action, stupidity in service to oneself based upon a kind of mental insistence, a self-imposed, forced belief in the idea of, "good for me", enforced against what one sees, against what one hears, against what one feels. It's deliberate self-delusion that also seeks to delude others. It's exactly faulty integrity. We saw that behavior, last night, in the presidential debate. We first saw it in the behavior of Melania Trump as she strutted proudly to her seat, showing her, "See, everybody? I got mine!" attitude -- an attitude that seeks and depends upon the opinions of others for its fulfillment -- the attitude of female childishness fully evident in a woman -- the immature dependency upon the approval of others that motivates many women to become fashion models. Then, we saw it full-blown in the behavior of Donald Trump at the podium, as he cheated his way through the debate by repeatedly interrupting, and attempting to interrupt, Joe Biden during his allocated two-minute periods of what was supposed to be uninterrupted speaking time. Trump's intrusive, interrupting behavior was exactly, cheating -- a deliberate and knowing violation of mutually agreed-upon rules. People who saw those behaviors and excused or condoned it -- or who considered it to be to Donald Trump's credit -- are themselves cheaters -- and they want to control our country. Cheaters want to control our country. Of course, we must not (not, "cannot") let them do it. We must extract them from their positions of power -- and exact from them everything their positions entail:  wealth, influence, and a voice in the public discourse, now that we have heard their voices.  We must nullify them with greater relentlessness than the relentlessness with which they seek to control our country. When people persist in behaving without regard for the situation, it's called, idiocy. That's exactly what idiocy is: persisting in a behavior without regard for the situation. It's a form of arrested development -- and that's the operative word: arrested. This isn't about the dignity of "freedom of speech". It's about integrity and decency.  There is no dignity in cheating, no decency -- only feigned dignity, feigned decency, the pretense of dignity and decency that fools no one but those who want to be fooled. Mark Twain said, "There is no amount of evidence sufficient to convince an idiot." So, if you are inclined to ignore what you have seen, what you have heard, what you have felt, inclined to persist in supporting Trump, I say, "Go ahead! Continue to act like an idiot! -- and know that that's exactly what you're doing", even as you do it. http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png via Blogger http://lawrencegoldsomatics.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-presidential-debate-dignity-and.html

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On Thinking Beyond Words

Those whose center of understanding is the conceptual mind (words) are plodding thinkers and plodding speakers. They make no leaps of understanding and they communicate no leaps of understanding, but just understand, superficially, and communicate word-to-word. Such thinkers are predominantly memory-based. (Such people are political "Conservatives" (not conservative) -- and consumer-drones). Thinking beyond words requires the center of understanding to be feeling-intuition -- the "grounding" of meaning by which words get meaning. Leaps of understanding are bridged by feeling-intuition.

APPEAL TO FEELING-INTUITION NON-VERBAL

Such thinkers are integrated memory-imagination based. (Such people are political "Progressives" (yes) -- and creative people like Einstein, Tesla, and Feynman, Jefferson and Madison, Charlemagne, Mozart, Dali, Adi Da, (and others) -- "cultural creatives" (and disruptor/iconoclasts) who contribute the basis of civilization -- and correct its course). (When people are predominantly imagination-based -- or their imagination is biased by species- or tribal-memory -- they are lunatics -- e.g., "Q-anon" types and authoritarian dictators of all kinds, "conspiracy theorists" -- ungrounded and flaky.) 12,000 years of human history ... 12,000 years of accumulated feeling-tones stored in memory 12,000 years of remembered "knowledge" (world-views) ... 12,000 years of conglomeration and consolidation 12,000 years of ego-formation, dense and self-perpetuating... 12,000 years of conflict, confusion, self-assertion, and power-seeking and that doesn't take into account what preceded human history ... millions of years of primitive survival adaptation All forms of information both reinforce -- and ultimately contradict -- one another. That's why and how stupidity has become confused with intelligence and why anxiety and stress are so prevalent. Humans have learned how to accumulate, but few have learned how to selectively eliminate. It all piles up into the islands of intelligence within the mass of stupidity we see and hear about, today. If humans don't learn why and how to eliminate, but only seek to accumulate and protect, then "the slate" must be wiped clean. If humans don't learn why and how to eliminate, then the species must be culled. Welcome to Earth.

CLICK THE IMAGE.

a few words... (See?) How to eliminate, selectively, to free intelligence of the "ballast" of accumulated human experience:

The Gold Key Release

https://lawrencegoldsomatics.blogspot.com/2013/03/somatology-gold-key-release-for.html

#TetraSeedAwakening

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Liked on YouTube: "Michelle Obama's full speech at Democratic National Convention 2020 | ABC7" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX9CONduxJs

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Liked on YouTube: "‘Trump Whisperer’ Explains How She Gets Inside Trump’s Head For Videos | The Last Word | MSNBC" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gPrRYNYgdQ

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Divide and Conquer, Anger, and The Pandemic of Stupidity

The Buddha is quoted as saying, "Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die."

This is the situation of many in the face of the ongoing transgressions (misbehavior) of Donald Trump and the Republican Party, the stupidity and the cheap and mediocre tactics of the Democratic Party establishment, of unfair "neo-liberalism" in service to abusive Capitalism, and these days, of the governors of some states and the police departments of some cities.

Anger.

Well-deserved, well-warranted. But also, serving a devilish, diabolical agenda. You don't think they knew that their actions would provoke anger? So, now, consider: What happens when you get angry about something you can do nothing about? It's the "do nothing about" part that really gets you, isn't it?

It's about, "the uncontrollable 'other'".

Eats you up, inside?

Makes you more adamant? More self-protective? More irritable? Less able to cooperate smoothly? Less intelligent?

"Divide and conquer".

Some people have recognized the "divide and conquer" strategy of the neo-"Conservatives" and neo-"Liberals". But they have misunderstood it.

They think it's about pitting people or groups or social movements against each other.

That's the weak form of, "divide and conquer".

The strong version is, pitting people against themselves.

Let me frame the situation a new way:

The Pandemic of Stupidity

There is a pandemic of a virus -- not the coronavirus, but of another virus, a kind of virus that infests people's intelligence.

This virus is contagious. This virus contaminates all thinking, feeling, and action. It impairs people's judgment. It makes people more emotionally reactive. It makes people more likely to act ineffectively, even foolishly, regrettably, even stupidly -- in areas of life entirely other than, "politics"; it adds to people's stress level, affecting ALL areas of life. It makes us more likely to "lose it" and less likely make "connections".

It's a contributor to the pandemic of stupidity we are reading about and seeing, in the news.

Trump, the political parties both here in the U.S.A. and elsewhere in the world, global corporations operating within a system of abusive Capitalism -- and everyone affected by the stupidities of these groups -- are contagious carriers.

That's the strong form of "divide and conquer". Very clever. Now, seen.

What to Do? What to Do?

I'm definitely not saying to let them get away with it. I'm not saying to suppress, deny, squelch, or control the anger. It can't be dealt with, that way.

It has to be done in a way that frees your intelligence, that does not use up more of it by attempting to oppose what is really justified anger. It has to be done in a way that actually heightens your intelligence, your freedom, your energy.

It has to be done in a way that results in your being wiser -- more savvy.

sav·vy

/ˈsavē/

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INFORMAL

noun

shrewdness and practical knowledge; the ability to make good judgments.

"the political parties lacked the necessary political savvy"

Similar:

shrewdness

astuteness

sharp-wittedness

sharpness

acuteness

acumen

acuity

intelligence

wit

canniness

common sense

discernment

insight

understanding

penetration

perception

perceptiveness

perspicacity

perspicaciousness

knowledge

sagacity

sageness

nous

horse sense

sapience

arguteness

Opposite:

inexperience

ignorance

adjective

shrewd and knowledgeable; having common sense and good judgment.

How can that be done?

It has to be done through, "release".

ON RELEASE

People commonly confuse release with catharsis -- acting out.

That's not release. It's mere fulfillment of the pattern.

It doesn't change the pattern. It doesn't even lead to lasting relief or improve our way of operating.

Release is, "dissolution".

To dissolve is to go into solution, to lose solidity, to be dispersed.

When anger (and stupid impulses) dissolve, they leave clarity in a more resourceful state.

Release clears your mind. It makes room for intelligence.

HOW TO RELEASE

How do you do that with an emotion? -- especially a justified emotion?

That seems like forgiving an unforgivable act, doesn't it? It isn't. It's about reclaiming your faculties so that you can handle the unforgivable act in a way that rectifies (as in causing restitution of) the situation.

Steps of Release

The first step is to recognize that, by holding on to anger, you are poisoning yourself -- and hoping to make the other person(s) die.

You can't release anger, directly. Release occurs when you perceive both the situation and your own responses, comprehensively. Release is the product of direct self-perception of the whole sense of quandary in which you find yourself. 

Release is not the product of an intellectual, moral, rationalizing process or mental reasoning. It's not the result of ethical injunctions, psychological knowledge, or problem-solving of any kind.

Instead, it's the result of the second step:  recognizing the felt "structure" of the bind in which you find yourself. That recognition immediately prompts a spontaneous release and relief.

I'll explain the second step, briefly, and that's the last thing I'll say before I put before you a process that actually accomplishes that recognition and release.

Every experience consists of four component aspects:

ATTENTION:MEMORY:INTENTION: IMAGINATION  DISTINCTNESS:RELATEDNESS:DIFFERENCE:OTHERNESS

I think you can tell, immediately, that each of these four is a "rabbit hole" with great depth. They add up to your feeling of any experience being "substantial" (or having a certain persistence, solidity, and effect upon you that makes you feel like you have to get involved with something you don't quite understand or perhaps can't affect).

Fortunately, you don't have to make mental sense of these component aspects to have this work. In fact, you have to let go of mental analysis or mere mental understanding -- to secure a direct perception of the feelings beneath the words. 

This is not something many people are equipped to do. People have been "educated" to do the opposite -- to think, to analyze, or else just to act on their impulses based upon what they think they know. That all works about as well as the news portrays.

The contamination by that virus continues unabated and -- worse than uncontrolled -- abetted by its carriers. That means spread by everyone carrying that virus of anger and stupidity.

So, this is the missing part.

Here's where I put before you a "self-reconditioning" procedure that makes it all plain.

Once you have this procedure, you can apply it to anything that makes you angry.

Waste no time hesitating. Spend the time doing this procedure until you start getting intuitive insight into your part in this, "divide and conquer" scheme.

Wouldn't you like to "win" over "the stupids", to get yourself out from under their thumbs, and instead of experiencing being pitted against yourself, experience the recovery of your faculties of intelligence at a higher level?

I knew you would.

The Four Diamonds (the preparatory, quick preview)

Note the link to the full-length procedure

in the upper right-hand corner "( i )".

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The Pyramids of Ga, Introduction

FOREWORD When we look back through the continuum of space-time memory, we may observe the transition of awakening undergone by humanity, at large. It was an awakening from domination by memory out-of-control to an opening to -- and a bringing into tangible forms -- the emergent developments of heightened and heightening intelligence. We may look back to the time when commerce was the ruling paradigm shaping life. Strict rules governed exchange of goods -- an intermediary currency, the current value of products and services in terms of the unit of currency -- a currency, in a healthy economy, that circulated through all aspects of human society, but which did not always circulate sufficiently through some parts of society enough to keep it healthy and flourishing. This circulation very much resembled the stop-and-go traffic seen in cities that developed in a gridwork of roadways, with traffic speeding up and slowing down in different ways in different places, with some accessways clogged and stagnant. Such was the culture, at large: clogged and stagnant in some ways, and flowing more-or-less well, in some others, the whole being brought down by the problems of stagnation. On Earth, those who had more than others sought to keep it and to enlarge their fortune, for themselves. It was the way, on Earth. Not so much the off-worlds, the landing places at the other sides of Zones of Incomprehensibility, where humanity grew colonies. For them the vulnerabilities of their situations, as colonists, brought a kind of sobriety, empathy and a kind of pragmatic helpfulness. But Earth was commercial, and commercial meant, "looks good enough to sell". It's not that the system of commerce was bad, in itself, but that it was so badly carried out and misused. Persons transgressed in so many ways that the laws and bureaucratic red tape and regulations that ensued put a tax on everyone: a tax of energy and attention in the name of, "accountability and compliance". A whole section of the population rankled against it, but it was necessary. It was necessary because people weren't "firing on all cylinders", ordinary business people sometimes didn't anticipate the adverse effects that would develop from their enterprises, and some who did anticipate them ignored that anticipation and did business in an antisocial or even criminal way that produced an onslaught of adverse conditions for the affected populace, about which they did little or nothing. A few exceptions existed, who sought to mitigate the adverse effects of their enterprises by means of counterbalancing, beneficial actions. "Not firing on all cylinders" also meant that they were slow to recognize opportunity, when confronted with one. "Not firing on all cylinders" and loss of trust had caused the Earthly economy to stagnate, Earth, the mother-world.

THE EMERGENCE OF GA

The difference in how we operate now, with comparative intelligence, ingenuity, and grace, may easily be traced to a single man who served as a focal point for a convergence of forces and influences upon a life that had to change or be virtually intolerable. He was known by name by those who lived in the township of Thurstbursh, of the metrozone, Capiziano, of the interzone, Capria, of the suntimeparse Ecumenis, of the planet, Eumectis. He was known, simply, as Ga. The inhabitants of Thurstbursh were a friendly lot who went about their business in a calm, if not cheerful way. Life was on an even keel, in Thurstbursh, despite the economic inequities in places that surrounded . Ga was the township furbish. Lucky town. In the interzone, Capria, townships had their own furbishes, "wise consultants" -- and Ga was a furbish of furbishes. Let me describe him, to you. He was a portly man, darker-skin of appearance with a darker beard around his mouth and chin. He wore vests, but often, no shirt, with loose trousers and occasionally a round cap secured to his head by an elastic band around the perimeter. He often went barefoot. He sat quietly at the open door of his dwelling as it faced the street, and took everything in, quietly. His eyes were alive, and his demeanor was peaceful and indifferent -- most of the time. Ga had suffered greatly in his life. He had been born a cripple, with one leg bowed and an un-descended testicle, nearsighted and nearly blind. His parents rejected him, emotionally, even if they accepted him, in principle, and gave him food, shelter, brief attention, and more rarely, intellectual stimulation. For the most part, though, he was on his own. He took to the streets. He had no friends, having been rejected there, also, so he hung out in public places and he watched as people met with each other and passed each other without recognition. He listened. At last, he arrived before a library, and being curious, he went in. There, in a few days, he would be seen sitting with book at table bowed far forward for his eyes to be near the book, reading, poring over it. He educated himself by following a pull of attraction he felt within the library. He would wander from section to section, gazing casually at the shelves, with their round books with titles set vertically along their upright edges, and occasionally a title would capture his attention. He knew the feeling, by now. He would take the book and begin to read, pivoting the pages. By this means of navigation and book-selection, he discovered books of ancient practices developed by sages for mental discipline and physical healing, books with many large pictures. He would study, and imagine remembering, and then go home or wander to the park or wander the streets for some more watching and listening. At home, he began to practice. His first project was to straighten his bowed leg. Using and developing in the mental:physical integrated practices of the sages, he uncovered the hidden, underlying condition keeping his leg bowed. It wasn't anything wrong with his leg or his bones; it was something wrong in his brain, brain conditioning that kept his leg taut, in a certain way. The practices taught new brain conditioning and he learned and he practiced and became more and more proficient. In months, the tautness decreased. His leg straightened and he walked differently, straighter. His parents never noticed. Next, he went after his vision. Using the principles of the sages, he realized that his "nose-in-book" reading habit revealed a brain-held habit of being cross-eyed, and so, nearsighted. In some months, he had recovered enough control of his eye movements that his vision began to improve. His mother couldn't account for it, but had no comment when she and the ten-year-old emerged from the eye-seer with a prescription for new, lower power lenses. His undescended testicle was his final task. Breathing practices did the trick. As a young man, he underwent many sorrows -- the sorrow of loneliness because he was so isolated, the sorrow of the loss of a promising love, the sorrows and frustrations of unfulfilled dreams, for the realization of which he felt fully capable and ready. Mostly it was the loneliness because he had grown up isolated and now, because few would understand him and could commune with his deeper sensibilities. It was "superficiality meets depth." The practices of the sages had failed to heal his loneliness. Something more was needed. He wondered what it might be. He studied. He didn't study for a cure for his loneliness. He studied by navigation, as before. He had noticed certain similarities among the foundations of the many disciplines and traditions he had studied. Some cultivated memory. Some cultivated imagination. Some cultivated attention, and some cultivated will-power, or intention. But very often they cultivated only one or two of these powers of mind, and most rarely, all four. He applied this observation to the practices of the sages and found a similar lack of balance. So he began to modify the mental practices to include all four -- and lo! -- he underwent his first Wisdom-Transformation. First, he discovered features of his character and moods of his intelligence that were familiar, when "surfaced", but the existence of which, he had not suspected, beforehand. They would dissolve, leaving him with a feeling like scratching his head and wondering how he ever got that way. In the process, he uncovered the formless ground of being, his own origin and ground of being. Each area of his character thus dissolved would undergo transformation of his behavior, in life. Without special effort, and with less effort than that with which he had lived his life, before, his responses were different, spontaneously more imbued with intelligence. The more he cleaned up, in himself, the wiser he seemed to become. What he became was the township furbish. Now, he lived in a dwelling out of town in an area of wild fields and dirt roads. Ga. What did he do for a living? Furbishes are sustained by their townships for benefit received from the their attentions. I'll give you an example. Krodinger owed Sapsinger money. Sapsinger felt that the loan had lived on for too long and wanted his money. Krodinger said he was glad to pay, but he didn't have enough money. They came to Ga. Ga listened to one and Ga listened to the other. He felt their moods within himself. They felt like places of heated intensity, one tainted with sorrow and fear and the other with frustration and indignation. He felt into them, both. He felt their shapes and their forces of truth, their locations both in space-time and in mind-space, their existence. He bore the full experience. He felt into the root of all that and felt an intertwined fixation in memory and two entangled locations in space-time. He felt into That-Which-Has-Always-Been and then, after he had taken that resort, ceased his effort to do so. That dissolved the fixation, in himself, as it fell away into the formless field. Then, he flashed his attention, with a movement like a whip, into their mind-fields, which were continuous with his own, and dissolved the vestiges of the trouble, in them. The room felt peaceful. Sapsinger said, "Good fortune, next time." Krodinger said, "Much about little." Krodinger ultimately did pay back the money. Ga was furbish. He was a precursor of what we have become. I say this, to you, because you haven't become so, yet. Ga was discoverer, integrator, tangifier and teacher. Ga was furbish of furbishes. 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Existence as a "Separate Individual" is a Fallacy based on Fixation of Attention

The term, "separate", means, "away from pairing" -- as if being a "single thing". Ain't no such animal. We have no perception of anything that exists singly, but perceive only things with which we are in relationship. Things seem to exist separately only because of the perception of the apparent location of things in space-time, without a simultaneous perception of ourselves (our "Point of Viewing"), in a way that I will describe, in a bit. The act of "locating" is the exact function of attention; attention ONLY locates and that's ALL that attention does. It creates an experience of position relative to our point of view. That act of locating has a feel, to it -- the feel of, "something being THERE". That feeling of "something being THERE" isn't a property of the thing being perceived, but rather a property of embodied, personal existence -- the property of subject-object perception. It occurs when attention stays on something long enough for a memory of it to begin to form and for an intention toward it to be aroused (or reminded). In other words, the feeling of "something being THERE" occurs within ourselves. It has a location, in us, a size of sensation, in us, a shape of sensation, in us, and an intensity, in us. Those sensations are all tied to movement-memory -- our memories of how we move when "triggered" by those sensations -- toward, away, or around, handling or avoiding. They are how we interact in the world -- and also how we REACT to our own subjective experience (when we introspect) -- BOTH. So, there exists, at minimum, TWO points of reference: self and other. There is NO experience of a single thing, but always the experience of the apparent thing (perception or conception) and of ourselves. Without BOTH, there is no sense of "something THERE in some position relative to ourselves". Most of the time, one or the other dominates in perception and the other remains subconscious or submerged. That's the common of experience of "self" confronted by "other". But the feeling of "self" is just that -- a feeling. It's not "self"; it's self-feeling within self, which is inherently formless Ground of Being. The self-feeling exists within Ground of Being the way fruit is suspended in jell-o. When both are perceived, simultaneously, spontaneous intuition becomes apparent of being in NEITHER location. That's the Witness (or "witnessing") disposition. It is free consciousness, not bound attention. So, the sense of separateness depends upon one of the two being overlooked. Separateness is a concept, only, resulting from the automatic operation of attention, intention, memory, and imagination -- with one or more operating "on automatic", below the threshold of recognition. Therefore, "There is only RELATIONSHIP -- mutuality, interdependence. Wherever anything is arising, there is only RELATIONSHIP. But most of the time, you do not observe that fact. Most of the time, you are involved with, "me", with your separateness -- but of all the things that arise, IT is not true -- and it is the least significant." ("Walking the Dog" -- a talk by Bubba Free John, some time in the 70s, from memory) The "cure": awaken and integrate -- master -- the four fundamental faculties of living existence -- attention, intention, memory, and imagination. Then, hidden subjectivity becomes part of the field of recognition and separateness is seen/felt to be a state of fixation, not a feature of actual existence. Relationship is restored to its unqualified (or without-quality) self-nature, self-source, and self-condition. N'est pas? http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png via Blogger http://lawrencegoldsomatics.blogspot.com/2020/05/existence-as-separate-individual-is.html

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The "Ultra-Liberal Left" is a MYTH, a FALLACY, a FABRICATION

I don't think there actually is an "Ultra-Liberal Left". I disbelieve that there actually is an "ultra Liberal freedom and rights" crowd. I think it's entirely a fabrication of the Ultra-Regressives (so-called, "conservatives") -- an imagining after their own (self-)image. I say why, next.

There is no "ultra Liberal freedom" without commensurate "ultra"-responsibility -- because freedom sets into motion effects that must then be responsibly handled, lest "the train of effects" get derailed, catastrophically -- with resultant loss of influence, credibility -- and freedom. Add to that the loss of freedom due to the necessity of handling those catastrophic effects.

That's why with all freedom must involve commensurate responsibility.

However, the Ultra-Regressives (a.k.a., "conservatives" and "right wing"), DO believe in freedom without responsibility.

As a handy example, take the "2nd Amendment 'guns'" crowd. They want the freedom to own guns (of all kinds) without having to assume commensurate responsibility for all of the effects of "gun culture" -- i.e., shootings by "crazies" who get their guns ... those guns ... from where? and how?

They irresponsibly invoke the 2nd Amendment, irresponsibly, because they misrepresent and distort the meaning of it to mean "anyone, anytime", rather than, as the written words state, "in a state militia". "In a state militia" is a statement of a necessary condition of responsibility. It doesn't imply ownership of guns in ones home or for sport. It doesn't imply ownership, at all; that's added, by unspoken pre-supposition. It just as likely could be interpreted to mean, "A gun will be issued to you while you're in the state militia," -- of a kind suitable for use by a state militia. You know. Standard issue, with standard training.

That's an example of wanting freedom without responsibility and the effects of wanting freedom without responsibility.

It is characteristic of "Ultra-Regressive Right" tactics to attribute to ones opposition, ones own faults. In this case, it's attributing the fault of being "a freedom and rights" crowd to centrist progressives, who call for, and take, responsibility commensurate with the freedoms they work for. Freedom and Responsibility. Freedom entailing responsibility.

So, it altogether seems to me that "the ultra-Liberal Left" -- as a "rights and freedom" political type and movement -- is a MYTH fabricated by the Ultra-Regressive Right. It is a fabrication "in their own image". "Liberals" and "the Ultra-Liberal Left" are an imaginary fabrication used to mischaracterize Centrist Progressives, to impede. The accusation of being "ultra-liberal freedom and rights"-oriented is false of the one and true of the other.

The demand for a free gun culture without it being a responsible gun culture is a demand for ultra-liberal freedom and rights, where guns are concerned.

SO, WHODUNNIT?

Ultra-Regressive Right persons are readily identifiable, by name.

What "Ultra-Liberal Left" persons can you identify, by name?

"Left" implies a position quite divergent from the most prevalent consensus values of society, at large. If it's in alignment with the most prevalent values, we should call it, "centrist". However, the word, "Left", is commonly used, instead.

Now, with that understanding, whom can we identify as "Ultra-Left"?? and what makes them, "Ultra"?

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The COVID-19 "Fake Emergency", the "Gates-Fauci" Inoculation Conspiracy, and Conspiracy Enthusiasts

There exists a social-cultural trend that may be called, "conspiracy enthusiasts", some of who believe that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates are in conspiracy to eradicate "excess population" by means of COVID-19 "vaccine" administered to everyone by legal mandate. Those same people tend to defend Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.A. Why? I do not know. They may consider Trump's conduct an effort to minimize and disregard what some regard as a "fake emergency". But then, he later advocated use of hydroxyfluoroquin as a measure against the "fake emergency" virus (he owns stock in a company that manufactures it). He neglected use of the military to provide large-scale epidemiological testing. But then, he said that a vaccine would be available very shortly (immediately contradicted by medical experts in the field). Consider. Trump "hired" Fauci. Prior to "hiring" Fauci, he would have had Fauci "vetted" (background checked). He then "muzzled" Fauci so he wouldn't speak out about the situation. 

So, either the vetting was so incompetently done as to miss valid reason for Fauci's disqualification, or the vetting was good, Fauci is qualified, and he should be allowed to speak freely. 

Meanwhile, a vetting would have uncovered Fauci's (alleged) conspiracy with Bill Gates to do a dark deed upon the world population. So, either Trump and his team are staggeringly stupid and brought him on, anyway, or they knew and hired him on that basis. Either way. Bring in Trump's history of handling the COVID-19 pandemic (malfeasance -- or, depending on your point of view -- completely erratic, self-contradictory, and/or nonsensical behavior during a period of "fake emergency").

Does Trump's handling of the COVID-19 epidemic make any kind of sense? People defend that? Why?

Meanwhile, Bill Gates' Foundation has spent huge sums toward eradicating malaria -- for which hydroxychloroquin is used as an "anti-malarial" drug. And he's been portrayed as a co-conspirator in a plot to kill huge numbers of people. A trifle inconsistent, isn't it?

Conspiracy Enthusiasts, does this make sense? Is your memory functioning as well as your imagination? Are you sure? A moment's hesitation is telling.

The "compact disc" playing this tune is "skipping".

Time to "clean" the "player".

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Stupidity and Intelligence -- TetraSeed Middle-Way Memory Matrix

Make no mistake -- the human species is experiencing an epidemic of stupidity -- maybe a pandemic -- and it's put human civilization at risk.

One problem with stupid people is that they believe they are smart just because they can remember their own opinions.

Another big problem with stupid people is that they want to require everyone else to be as stupid, or to act as stupidly, as they are and do. Excellence rankles stupid people -- and rankles even reasonably intelligent people -- when someone "does it better than they do". They envy-others who function better than they do. That's why "elite" has become an insult, when it should be a sign of accomplishment -- as in "elite athlete". Envy involves a desire to tear others down, rather than to rise to their level. In envy, people sabotage, mis-characterize, lie, and neglect.

THE SOCIAL DYNAMICS of STUPIDITY and INTELLIGENCE

Stupid people like to hang out with other stupid people because, in their shared stupidity, they are safe from being seen more deeply by each other -- more deeply than their self-presentation or more deeply than the standard acceptances of conventional values. Stupid people don't like really to be seen deeply (rather than be superficially or conventionally regarded) because they are afraid of being found out and held to account for their stupidity. They would rather people just hold favorable opinions about them than go through the work of actually deserving favorable opinions. There's a reason intelligent people trigger disturbing feelings in stupid people: Intelligent people see more completely, more accurately, and more deeply than stupid people; their mere "presence and way" are sufficient to trigger awakening of intelligence in stupid people -- and that can be irritating (can't it.....). Stupid people don't want to awaken into higher intelligence because of what they expect would be burdensome responsibilities and losses of freedom, should they actually comprehend things are they are. They don't want to face their own consciences, to earn their own self-respect. Instead, they seek the appearance of respectability, regardless of what they do. They assert that intelligent people are the stupid ones. Stupid people don't want to wake up. They want to stay as if children protected and excused by their parents and superiors -- even as they misbehave and avoid being found out -- or if found out, to stand their ground in smug insolence or defiance. Stupid people are content with "getting away with it".

TWO MAIN TACTICS of STUPIDITY

Because they don't like to face the actualities of the world around them, they employ two tactics to face the world:

denial

segregation

Denial may involve:

denying the legitimacy of scientific findings

denying the importance of certain actions

denying their own conscience

denying they will suffer the consequences of stupid behavior

Segregation may involve:

granting legitimacy only to other stupid people, like them

withholding attention from anyone whose views and concerns are not immediately like their own

granting privilege only to select groups that include themselves

excluding information that would cause their world-view to expand, to become more inclusive than it has been

Denial "shuts out". Segregation "restricts". Intelligent people do the opposite. Doing the opposite interferes with the stupidity of stupid peoples intentions. That's why stupid people don't like intelligent people.

FACT vs. OPINION: IMAGINATION as BETRAYAL of MEMORY

While intelligent people can comprehend what stupid people comprehend, stupid people can't (or won't) comprehend what intelligent people comprehend. They comprehend less -- both in terms of shortsightedness (lack of foresight) and in terms of refusal of responsibility for side-effects. Instead, they substitute imagination. They selectively select facts, assemble them into imagined scenarios (like, "COVID-19 was designed in a Chinese laboratory and let loose upon the world in an act of hostility.") and then present those scenarios as if they were fact (rather than imagined opinion). When they perform badly, they imagine "alternative facts" and present them as "everything is wonderful" or deflect responsibility (also an act of imagination). That's stupid. Stupid people don't invite people to check their "facts". They don't like to have their facts (opinions) checked. So, as diversionary tactics, they coined the term "alternative facts" and they set up their own "fact checking" authorities to confirm their consensus imaginings and deny the legitimacy of anyone else's "fact checking". They "hold to their story", regardless of facts or, like Inspector Clouseau, act as if they "knew it all along" or as if "the blunder was someone else's fault". That's denial. Stupid people, because they believe that any opinion they hold must be true (simply because they believe it or someone in authority asserted it), act aggressively to hold control of the world. They recruit other stupid people into their plans. Like cuckoos, they lay their eggs in the nests of wealth and power first developed by intelligent people. By bringing more of their own kind in, they consolidate their consensus to the point of majority dominance: denial and segregation en-masse. The Cuckoo Effect. That's how institutions entrench stupidity. Think "post-modern academia". Think political parties. Think Wall Street. Think Monsanto. The institutions of business, politics and government largely "hold the cards" -- largely control the wealth and influence needed by intelligent people to advance their work, their lives -- and our civilization. When stupidity becomes entrenched in such institutions, people don't say or do what they ought. They act stupidly -- consistently -- with occasional squeaks from "whistleblowers". They rationalize their stupidity by means of imagination-presented-as-facts and so insult the memory faculty -- and intelligence -- of their hearers. If their hearers are stupid, they just go along, with it.

VOLUNTARY SELF-SUPPRESSION of INTELLIGENCE

The demand by stupid people that intelligent people stifle their own intelligence has a certain leverage. It shows up as suppression of scientific (and moral) voices, of suppression of information (redacting), withholding funding, or suppressing the results of research. These are examples. Observe for the specifics. There are plenty. So, intelligent people, in reaching for the resources to continue their survival and development -- to somehow be influential, to make money -- dumb down their own intelligence to be more acceptable to the stupid level. Witness the entertainment business. Witness advertising. Witness politics. Stupid people want intelligent people to be less intelligent -- and "supposedly intelligent" people comply. "Intelligent" people then no longer "want" to be fully intelligent, but want to be "dumber" to fit in. They become "anti-intelligent" to some degree. That's stupid. Stupid people deny it. People with enough intelligence recognize it and "take the cure", just in case.

The "Cure" for Self-Suppression of Intelligence: THE MIDDLE-WAY MEMORY MATRIX: UNDERSTANDING and OUT-DEVELOPING STUPIDITY

The kind of stupidity I have described requires active suppression of ones faculties of intelligence -- at first. Then, the suppression becomes automatic and ceases to require deliberate attention. It becomes a person's way and sense of self. This conditioning can be "self-cured" by anyone with the courage and daring to look at the matter of stupidity and intelligence, in themselves. The "instrument" we use is The Middle-Way Memory Matrix, tuned to "stupidity" and "intelligence", to sharpen the blade of discernment. The Middle-Way Memory Matrix "plucks the strings" and "strikes the bells" of our submerged sense of self, so that they are "heard". We discover the ways and degrees to which we have embraced stupidity, in ourselves. The result is not some compilation of "knowing about ourselves". That's a waste. The result is a series of intuitive self-revelations and of internal shifts of attitude and self-organization that persists long after the procedure has been done and continues to propagate its effects, in us. Repeated use of the Middle-Way Memory Matrix causes cumulative improvements of intelligence. 

Ring of Truth?

The Middle-Way Memory Matrix

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The Stages -- and the Steps -- of TetraSeed Intuitive Release

The first stage is to locate the sense of "substantiality" or "density" of some experience that you experience as persisting and binding. The second stage is to identify, intuitively, how each of the "positions" of the TetraSeed is expressing a facet of that experience. For example, you might put your attention on anything that seems "solid" or that seems to "have you".

1.  Attend to the distinctness of it.

Feel the place of its location.

2.  Feel the sense that, "It actually is that way." 

3.  Feel the tendency that exists, in you, to be activated in a certain way, about it, to depart from rest to come to a sense of readiness.

4.  Notice its sense of, "otherness", an otherness that has an aspect of mystery, or unknown-Unknown-ness, an unknown potential.

With your attention on that item, that "anything", go through the four steps, repeatedly, until you undergo an intuitive perspectival shift in which you seem to "exit" being involuntarily involved in it and now intuit it as "non-binding" and unnecessary. That was the second stage. The third stage is to cycle among the four steps, feeling the intensity or density of each as you go through them.  You go through them faster and easier, faster and easier until they come alive and are intuitively well-connected, with each other. You feel them as a unified substantiality of a certain intensity. Your attention steadies in the sense of it. At that moment, you notice that you can intuit the sense of substantiality as distinct from the uniqueness-feeling ("vibrational harmonic feeling") of it. You notice that as your attention steadies, the uniqueness-feeling ("vibrational harmonic feeling") is felt as an automatic stress pattern that you can now relax, ... and your attention changes to the feeling of "radiating outward", loses definition, and is replaced by a kind of "forceful radiance" without quality. That's the third stage.

Stage: Locate.

Stage: Intuitively Awaken and Integrate.

Stage: Awaken From: Transcend.

That's the TetraSeed Intuitive Release.

tcha-tcha-tcha

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The Power of "Now" IS the Power of -- Later!

“Consider” this: Every perception takes time. Therefore, remarkably, you are never in the present moment, with reference to conditional appearances. You are always “afterwards”—because it takes a fraction of a second for any perception to register in the brain. Therefore, none of your phenomenal “experiencing” is in present time. All phenomenal “experience” is mirrored—and you are constantly occupied with your mirrored (or reflected) existence.

~~ Adi Da Samraj, The Aletheon, 

page 998, 

Part Eleven -- The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries

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The Righteous Readjustment

I want you to use your imagination, on this one: Can you imagine if the effects of his misdeeds, his cruelties, his destructiveness, his selfishness came back upon him with inexorable force, not in steps like his actions, but all at once, beyond his ability to deflect, to misdirect, to resist, to withstand, coming at him from all directions, overcoming his immunity? Can you imagine what a difference that would make? Put some attention on it. Would you intend that kind of back-lash effect? How would that land, for you?

Surmounting Our Current Existential Crisis

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