How easily the Brother & Sisterhood can become co-opted by The Party. This fascinates me to no end. I have seen it particularly with the educated left-wing progressive Democratic wing these past years complying with whatever the experts deem is the party line. But then the counterpoint of radical conspiracy theorists who have no love for the "sheep." I have seen it personally with friends who compromise morals and friendships in order to get into a certain show or crowd. I have seen it when…
The Famous Story of One Eye
by Martin Prechtel, in The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic, lightly edited
One Eye, a famous old Kiowa fighting man, was a U.S. prisoner of war incarcerated in the famous old Castillo of Fort Marion, Florida. He was held there for years…along with members of many other southern plains bands. W/no trials and no reprieve in sight, many of these native prisoners aged and ended up serving as recalcitrant informants for journalists, ethnographers, and social workers, or as li…
Will, I think what you say here is very important. I also think that Orwell (and Charles, if I may presume) are quite aware of this more true, truer than true dimension that, as you say, has in fact not gone away. BUT, big but here, obscuring and eclipsing access to this is right at the core of the adversarial agenda. Some wisdom traditions might call it the seed of this obscuration various things like the mind, the ego, the astral plane, small self -- the 2 dimensional thought/emotion parasi…
Karla, reading you story is amazing. So many of my friends have children who did the Quacks - mainly to participate in social activities. One of my best friends is boosted and vaxxed - even though he was all his life on a natural healing path. It is as if has been overtaken by this "cult" as you say... for me this is an important learning curve to love them - no matter what - and that this decision shall not be allowed to create division in my heart. It was not easy at first but I work on it al…
Hi Steve, My husband is 87 and I am soon to be 77. We have not had covid, we did not take a vaccine. We rarely if ever get sick with a cold, flu or anything else. We take prescription drugs but also take D3, zinc, magnesium, B12 and Vitamin C. We never take a flu shot, we try to avoid over medicating with prescriptions. We eat healthy, I still cook and our focus is on good nutrition. We both have knees that are severely impaired but are not choosing knee replacements. We live in our own home. W…
Thank you for this survey. I read some of the survey results and was just amazed how conscious, intelligent, common sense and down to earth the answers were. This only happens when people are aware and take charge of their health - and not outsource it to "MDs". Nearly all of them understood the importance of diet, a balanced exercise regime and had therefore understood that there is "nothing to fear". This is what society at large has now to learn. Every animal knows how to be healthy. It is high time that humans reclaim that knowledge again. Thank you.