Unveiling the Gloominati

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[Francis]

We respond to words with more intensity and feeling than we do to the sight of blood.

We’re taught to make emotional associations to abstract ideas and concepts (“models”). In a way it makes sense. We have an experience that we associate with joy or pain and we make mental associations to guide us in the future. These mental associations help us make sense of the world and act to avoid pain and pursue joy, for example. This process supposedly brings us up above the other apes. But does it bring us up above the sheep?

What are these mental associations? Stuff like “free enterprise is good”, “big business is bad”, “evolution is good”, etc. Good things trigger emotions like joy and elation, whereas bad things trigger emotions like fear, resentment and jealousy. But look what happens when we substitute the word for the experience.

Let’s break it down a little: For example “hate is bad” The word “hate” and the experience of hate are two different things. However the mental association now allows a person to elicit negative emotions in other people just by using the word. People can now be “played”, i.e. manipulated by using these emotionally charged words. This is commonly known as “pushing someone’s buttons” Advertisers and other “gloominati” use this technique ad nauseum. These mental associations can now be used to automatically control you. Someone just has to rouse your emotions by hitting the right notes and you’ll be driven to act.

[Jana]

all our threads are f*king, ie: intermating at present....yikes

MIDLIFE OR POST-AWAKENING GLOOM

"And do you think that it is possible that the door man is still holding my door prize. He's just waiting for me to come pick it up?"

The feeling that the ship has sailed without us is probably one of the most common emotional qualities of mid-life. I am going through it big time at the moment. However this is simply the dropping of youthful delusions, and we have to pull it together using much deeper resources than the easy ride we were given in our younger years. We are having to fight an uphill battle with gravity. But the rewards and the journey are so much deeper in a Jungian sense; so rich, multi-layered and humored with spontaneous inevitable consequence.

There is much you can do to revamp your nervous system, the book I am writing on regeneration will help...doing something like growing wheatgrass with compost that includes rockdust and kelp and taking around 2-3oz of wheatgrass juice a day, along with spirulina and the Omega 3 food sources: Seeds of flax, chia, hemp; krill oil and moringa leaf. Upgrading your water with magnetic, crystal, sun, moon, vortex treatments etc...
B Complex and Lecithin. Plus plenty of greens etc... for magnesium and as many biological forms of silicon as you can get such as horsetail, oatstraw, hemp leaf, nettles and alfalfa powder. These are the basics of self-reclaimation...and with a strong physical base, the rest of our magical life unfolds if we are open to it. Life is a dream.

[Francis]

Too soon old and too late smart. Story of my life. I really get worried when I go thru disillusionment because I'm always concerned that some more pervasive and insidious illusion is about to move in to take the place of my recently evicted youthful naivete. I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

[Jana]

Wowee I tell ya, I do hope you put out a book of saying JVB cause you sure have some good ones, I love what you just said, I will think on it, lets unpack it, it is so familiar.

Allowing Advances to "Stick"
Building the spiritual muscle that turns our attention toward the light, the Muse and universal care is a lifelong process. I am not one of those who calls for absolute discipline in this, for there is something to be said for honoring ones resistance also. In fact, since the resistance tends to go on automatically underneath our "world savior" efforts, I feel there is a time for crumbling into those feelings of "whats the use," "why do I have to do all the work," "poor me," "my boat already sailed and I am all alone." If you give up the "hardness" and protection around NOT feeling these things, and give into the softness and tears, then you come out the other side both more human and realistic, and with renewed energies for your cause. The drive to be "more" than we are, without cherishing "all" that we are just leads to bitterness, coldness and disappointment.

• Click and Drag—The easiest way to recall cut off parts back into the whole is to energetically get the sense that you are moving the ego blockage, painful organ or emotional miasma into the heart, and the heart will then spread its waves out into the blocked cut off area. Where the awareness goes—energy goes—where energy goes blood goes—where blood goes life flows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWO5Oj4yG-Q  —Suffering is pain plus resistance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTb2kp9Y4Is&feature=related  —Ego Is a Closed Loop

[Francis]

Suffering is pain plus resistance. Accept the pain and respond to it. Act but do it consciously, don't just react out of automatic unconscious emotional associations. Psychic self healing in 4 minutes, thank you Anne Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LFOzexbT_0


8 of Swords - pain plus resistance:



The woman on the Eight of Swords is lost and alone. She can't see because she is blindfolded. She can't reach out because she is bound. She can't move freely because she is caught in a prison of swords. It seems she has wandered far from home - her place of security far away on the hill. How can she get back? She doesn't even know which way to go. The Eight of Swords stands for those times when we feel lost, confused and powerless. Help and relief seems very far away.
Sometimes we feel restricted by circumstances. We wake up one day in an impossible situation. A dead end job. A troubled relationship. Mountains of debt. How did this happen? We have no idea. Even little problems can make us feel trapped. There just doesn't seem to be a way out. Sometimes life seems fine - on the surface. "I have everything I want. I should be happy, so what's the problem?" We just don't know. We're confused and unsure.
In readings, the Eight of Swords is often a sign that you are heading toward (or already in) a situation in which you will feel a lack of freedom and choice. Such situations are tricky because the more you get into them, the more restricted you feel. At each step, your options seem to narrow until you feel completely stuck.
When you see this card, remember that you do have choices, and you do have power. No matter how trapped you feel, you can find a way out if you believe it is possible. The young girl in the picture could free herself. She could wriggle free, tear off the blindfold, and kick down those swords. Solutions are not always easy, but they exist. Find your clarity of thought and purpose (the Swords ideal) and use them to take that first step toward home.