Common Futures: Social Transformation and Political Ecology “Man is by nature a political animal.” -Aristotle, Politics, Book i, 2 “If Liberty and Equality, as is thought, by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will best be attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.” -Aristotle, Politics, Book iv,…
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5 actions we need to continue to take – How to fight totalitarianism
5 actions we need to continue to take – How to fight totalitarianism: 1) Model freedom from groupthinkLive in a way that provides inspiration for others to follow:“The one who can emancipate himself from the grip of collective psychosis and save at least his own soul, who lights a beacon of hope for others, proclaiming…
The Integration of the Individual into Nature’s Single System
WHAT SHOULD WE DO? We need to start thinking about the benefits of reaching equilibrium with Nature’s force, recognizing that a positive future depends on that. We must focus our thoughts on being parts of a single, integrated system that contains all people wherever they are, and begin to relate to others accordingly. A correct,…
The Covid-19 Vaccination – The Abomination of Desolation?
Please, if you will, try to connect the dots between all of these prophetic scriptures in the Holy Bible….. do it for the life of you. GOSPEL OF ST. MATTHEW ch. 24 {1611 KJV Bible} 15 When yee therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, stand in the holy…
Social Equity and a New Public Administration
The initial conceptualization of social equity in public administration has so far been rather simple and speculative. However, social equity seldom stands still long enough to allow for conclusions. Ideas such as social equity move and evolve, influenced by events, policy, politics, and social change. [Equity] denotes the spirit and the habit of fairness and…
Wealth and Poverty: On the Social Creation of Scarcity
Economics has often been called the science of wealth, with the alleviation of poverty as one of the justifications for both the pursuit of wealth and the study of that pursuit (economic theory). In the language of politicians, if we want to feed more people we need to make the economic pie bigger. This process of making the economic pie bigger…
Leadership Speech by Selassie I
His Majesty Speaks on Leadership-Haile Selassie IJuly 17, 1959 🇮🇧 “We all know that the need for good leadership in every walk of life is much greater today than ever before. Every aspect of living demands guiding hands, business, the professions, fine arts, the mechanical arts. And all of you young people who have been given…
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMONS
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMONS-Scott Barrett (1999) I. INTRODUCTIONEfforts to sustain international cooperation invariably culminate in the signing of an international treaty, the success of which depends on the acumen of the individuals that negotiate it and the nature of the problem being addressed. But, while diplomats can make a difference, even the cleverest…
Writ of Disconnection from Commercial Agency
It is written, “Ye adulterers, and adulteresses, know yee not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoeuer, therefore, will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God.” -James 4:4 {1611 KJV Bible} It is also written, “And bee not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by…
One time a thing occurred to me: The Homeless
Key Findings of HUD’s 2020 Annual Homeless Assessment Report Part 1: On a single night in January 2020, 580,466 people – about 18 of every 10,000 people in the United States – experienced homelessness across the United States. This represents 2.2 percent increase from 2019. After steady reductions from 2010 to 2016, homelessness has increased…
Become a River of Living Waters
BECOME A RIVER OF LIVING WATERS The Creator created a desire to delight, meaning a desire to feel pleasure. Real pleasure lasts as long as the desire lasts–it is insatiable. But when the desire to enjoy receives – it feels shame. That is why one cannot attain eternal delight by receiving, because receiving restricts the…
NOTICE: Common Law Jurisdiction Only!
Pandemic propaganda has risen and it’s got the world acting like it is in a heap of confusion. It is. Those who peddle the schemes of fear-mongering meant for commercial agents are each guilty accomplices to a crime against humanity……. …….so, govern yourselves accordingly. RELEVANT FACT You who do wear masks – no judgement. You are…
Conditions for Free Choice – Kabbalah and New Life Wisdom
CONDITIONS FOR FREE CHOICE Ironically, true freedom of choice is possible only if the Creator is concealed. This is because if one option seems preferable, our egoism leaves us no choice but to go for it. In that case, even if we choose to give, it will be giving in order to receive, or egoistic…
The New Dawn of Consciousness – Come One World Community
BREAKING THE NOOSE: A HERALD FOR THE DAWN OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION ON PLANET EARTH – AN OUTCRY TO ENACT CONSCIOUS EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT The dream is to create one world community, which lives through one empty consciousness contentless, adjectiveless, labelless, one consciousness for all forms of life and universe. How this universe has been unfolding for…
Time to Evacuate the Planet?
* If Earth is the bottom of the ladder, it could be that we who are ready to climb will require some assistance in ascending reality * BEAM ME UP!
Fusion – Middle Path on the Tree of Life
“Fusion, inner unity, is obtained by means of ‘friction,’ by the struggle between ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in man. If a man lives without an inner struggle, if everything happens in him without opposition, if he goes wherever he is drawn or wherever the wind blows, he will remain such as he is. But if a…
Rav Ashlag – On World Peace
“THE CONDITION OF LIFE IN THE LAST GENERATION“|-Rav Yehuda Ashlag (1933) – “On World Peace“ First, everyone must thoroughly understand and explain to his surroundings that the well-being of society, which is the well-being of the state and the well-being of the world, are completely interdependent. As long as the laws of society are not…
Eliminate All Weaponry & Never Should Anyone Train for War Anymore
Societies within peace systems avoid war and build positive intergroup relationships (Abstract) A comparative anthropological perspective reveals not only that some human societies do not engage in war, but also that peaceful social systems exist. Peace systems are defined as clusters of neighboring societies that do not make war with each other. The mere existence…
What is the matter with our minds?
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH OUR MINDS? by Billy Phillips (2014) @ www.kabbalahstudent.com Mind over matter is here now. It’s always been here. We have always had this power. We were born with it. The ability to achieve mind over matter is as natural as our breathing. And it’s happening every second of our lives. So…
The Wisdom of Kabbalah and Reaching Our Highest Possible Good
Kabbalah presents a reality in which the highest [possible] good transcends human needs and is measured by diversity, abundance, and wholeness in the cosmos itself. It calls for the expansion of divinity into the physical world, and the work of the kabbalist has always been to draw the higher worlds into the lower and to…
The Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS)
The Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS) There is growing consensus that individuals in the Western world need to change their behavior and consumption patterns in profound ways to create an environmentally sustainable society. And while interventions aimed at specific environmental issues have been shown to be effective, increasingly it is also becoming apparent that the…
Time Travel, Reverse Entropy, and the Final Correction
Of our lives’ development, the Kabbalists have revealed that, eventually, we will all get to the Gemar HaTikun. We will all come to the Final Correction. The question is – how long it will take? Will we be expanding the time or contracting the time? It is the choice that we make every single moment. And…
A Fresh Start
A FRESH START ¬Karen Berg @ kabbalah.com/ – September 13, 2012 Now, more than ever, people are striving for a spiritual purpose: to be better human beings. But for those of us who are already on a spiritual path where we are connecting, praying, and doing things for others, it is more difficult to find…
2020’s Pandemic Related Prophecy – What should we do?
“And except those dayes should be shortned, there should no flesh be saued: but for the elects sake, those dayes shall be shortned.”|-Gospel of Matthew 24:22 {1611 KJV Bible} The coronavirus was not deliberately created by humans. It is the result of the imbalance that we have provoked in nature, where only man lives solely…
The Thought of the Creator – Kabbalah and New Life Wisdom
THE THOUGHT OF THE CREATOR Remember, the environment that the human lives in is not the environment of physical acts, which is already perfectly in balance with the laws of nature. The environment of the human is the Thought of the Creator. And this is what a person can connect with. We can connect with…
Experiencing the Light of the Creator – Kabbalah and New Life Wisdom
EXPERIENCING THE LIGHT OF THE CREATOR-Michael Berg (2019) Throughout our study of the Zohar, we often hear that the Light of the Creator is drawn down from the Upper Worlds. In ‘Ten Luminous Emanations’, Rav Ashlag explains that the Light of the Creator is not the same as physical Light, and therefore, it is not descending…
Select excerpts from “The Freedom” by Rav Yehuda Ashlag
Full text of “The Freedom” is available inside the library @ kabbalah.info/ FOR SOCIAL LIFE, THE LAW, “TAKE AFTER THE COLLECTIVE” Now we have come to a clear understanding of the sentence concerning the freedom of the individual. Indeed, there is a question: “Where did the collective take the right to expropriate the freedom of…
What Does Nature Want from the Human Level?
Question: So what does nature want from the human level? If everything works automatically and instinctively at all levels, what is required of the “human” level? Answer: Nature requires a person to realize that he is above its inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels, that he does not belong to animate nature, and that he cannot…
2020’s Pandemic and Beyond – A Lesson on Structural Violence
Structural violence is an anthropological term that refers to the often-hidden ways that structures of inequality, such as poverty, racism, and discrimination, negatively impact the lives and well-being of affected populations. It is perpetuated by institutions and social structures that prevent individuals or populations from meeting their basic needs. There may not be any person…
Benefits of the Mutual Guarantee for Society
THE BENEFITS OF MUTUAL GUARANTEE The new world dictates that we adopt the approach of mutual guarantee. At first glance, mutual guarantee may seem like a naïve notion, impractical in real life. However, implementing the mutual guarantee approach has very real implications in society and in the economy. We will note here three of the…
On the Year of Jubilee Soundtrack: Luminaries – ‘Peace’
Having a Consciousness of Transformation
It is clear that human consciousness can be transformed through spiritual experiences and practices. Little is known, however, about what the predictors, mediators, and outcomes are of such transformations in consciousness. Compassion and altruism were almost universally identified as important outcomes of positive consciousness transformation. Results from peer-reviewed, consciousness research suggest that altruism and compassion…
Come Unity in a Worldwide Social Change Movement
Social movements by nature need people. Social movements also need people who will take on roles in spreading the message and sharing the issue’s purpose so others can also participate. As people engage their own close ties, we must recognize that for a movement to truly build and gain the attention of the public, we…
Every Child is Born a Genius by Buckminster Fuller
‘EVERY CHILD IS BORN A GENIUS‘by Buckminster Fuller I observe that every child demonstrates a comprehensive curiosity. Children are interested in everything and are forever embarrassing their specialized parents by the wholeness of their interests. Children demonstrate right from the beginning that their genes are organized to help them to apprehend, comprehend, coordinate, and employ—in…
The Real Meaning of Egregore
The Real Meaning of Egregore from humanityhealing.net The word “Egregore” derives from the Greek word egrégoroi, meaning “watchers,” which also transliterates as “Grigori.” The word appears in the Septuagint translation of the Book of Lamentations, as well as the Book of Jubilees and the Book of Enoch. Even being derived from the word Grigori, which acquired a…
Entity Creation: The Best Answer to Resolve the Issues of Commercial Agency
I will attempt to explain for you why one should optimally at least have a desire to create their own entity or entities with their unique, creative capacity and free will efforts. This would be an agency that a people could control aside of or instead of meagerly carrying the heavy weight of the LEGAL…
Principles of Electromagnetism Applied to Transform Social Systems
(+) With the discovery and application of the principles of electromagnetism, mankind has tapped a fundamental dimension of the universe and opened up a new power. With all moves from a lower to a higher platform, society takes on a more multiply-connected nature, in terms of the number of interdependent connections that make up an individual’s…
Occupational Reconstructions: Resources for Social Transformation in Challenging Times
“Occupational Reconstructions: Resources for Social Transformation in Challenging Times“-Frank, G., & Santos, V. (2020) We are living in challenging times. Whether in the Global South or Global North, an alarming sweep of nationalism, populism, authoritarianism and racism threatens the health, well being, rights and freedom of millions. The report Democracy in Retreat: Freedom in the…
Illusioned and Alienated: Can Gig Workers Organise Collectively?
Illusioned and Alienated: Can Gig Workers OrganiseCollectively?Dragana Mrvos (2021)University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, USA, dmrvos@usf.edu,https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/school-of-interdisciplinaryglobal-studies/people/dmrvos.aspx Abstract: By studying the fraudulent benefits of flexibility in the ride-hailing gig economy, this article explains alienation as a condition in which workers are excluded from the product, estranged, and disadvantaged. Material estrangement, an objective aspect of alienation exemplified…
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: AN URGENT CALL TO COLLECTIVE ACTION
MAKING COMMUNITY_LEVEL INTERVENTIONS The 2020’s perfect vision – unity in heralding the year of Jubilee A community-level intervention is an intervention organized to modify the entire community through community organization and activation, as distinct from interventions that are simply community-based, which may attempt to modify individual health behaviors such as smoking, diet, physical activity, or…
The Infinite Reaching To Know The Finite – Kabbalah and New Life Wisdom
“The law of unity is all-embracing. Everything in the universe is One, the difference is only of scale; in the infinitely small we shall find the same laws as in the infinitely great. As above, so below.” | -G.I. Gurdjieff The human mind is made to desire the ending of every started action. In certain…
Heavenly Economics: The Freedom Society
Isaiah 55:1-2 Listen! Whoever is thirsty, come to the water! Whoever has no money can come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk. You don’t have to pay; it’s free! Why do you spend money on what cannot nourish you and your wages on what does not satisfy you? Listen carefully to me: “Eat…
CONCLUSION: There will not be any Money System in the very Heaven
GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, ch. 6 {1611 KJV Bible} 24 ¶ No man can serue two masters: for either he will hate the one and loue the other, or else hee will holde to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serue God and Mammon (money).25 Therfore I say vnto you, Take no thought for…
Inclusion of the ‘Other’ in Political Theory
The 2020’s perfect vision – unity in heralding the year of Jubilee “I speak of a ‘world society’ because communication systems and markets have created a global network; at the same time, one must speak of a ‘stratified’ world society because the mechanism of the world market couples increasing productivity impoverishment and, more generally, processes…
The Egalitarian Dimension of Human Rights – Equality
‘A remarkable feature of the robust and nuanced contemporary philosophical literature on egalitarianism is its lack of engagement with the theory and practice of human rights. This disconnect is puzzling because the modern human rights movement is arguably the most salient and powerful manifestation of a commitment to equality in our time. Perhaps philosophers writing…
The Purpose of Creation
THE PURPOSE OF CREATION-Rav Michael Laitman Q: Are we seeing an incorrect world? A: The Creator started creation. To be more precise, He created a world of “evil,” or corruption. But man finishes creation, meaning man corrects it. Because man has the ability to lead the world, the Creator passes on to him the leadership…
Rothschild’s Phony Zionism Engineered Social Discord
WHY ARE WARS BIG $ BUSINESS? “I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.” -Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1815) The reason why the world…
The Quantum Jump for Humanity
MESSIANIC ENERGY QUANTUM JUMPS TO A NEW LEVEL Very, very powerful. Karen Berg had told her student, Billy Phillips, about a month before she left this world, that the alignment which happened on December 21, 2020 signified either Heaven or Hell on earth because of the power of this Messianic energy. The Zohar says, that…
Natural Law – Nature is an Economic System
NATURAL LAW Within Nature’s vast economic system . . . mutual dependence is an immutably established law. The arrangement is, from top to bottom, a continuous sequence of reciprocal actions. Kingdom coordinates with kingdom, organic world with inorganic. Indeed, everything comes into being thanks to something else. The earth’s substance is formed from the interaction…
The 72 Names of God #36. FEAR (LESS) – Kabbalah and New Life Wisdom
AYIN-BET (The 72 Names of God) ~Reflections #36. MEM NUN DALED – Guardian angel, Menadel – “Loveable God” FEAR (LESS) Life is not about coping with fears, it is not about surviving bouts of anxiety or just working our way through panic attacks. Life is about achieving absolute happiness, complete freedom, and true fulfillment. Don’t…