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“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum, even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.” ~ Noam Chomsky
So true
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A self-protrait of Jóska Soós, Hungarian táltos (~shaman) and painter, and a photograph of him during one of his shaman sessions.
Jóska Soós was born in 1921 in a little village in Hungary, where he became an apprentice of a local practitioner.
Due to the outbreak of World War II, he had to leave Hungary and eventually moved to Marcinelle (near Charleroi, Belgium). There, he worked in the coal-mines of Marcinelle for about five years. The darkness in the mines turned out to be the perfect location for experiencing altered states of consciousness and quite soon, he started to reflect upon his shamanic journeys by drawing and painting.
In the course of the seventies he started to lead shamanic séances for whoever asked him for help. He gradually incorporated many ritual objects like his painted drum, sound bowls, bells, wind instruments and rattles. His personal motto was: ‘I do not heal, I restore harmony’. This was a central idea in his practice as a shaman in an urban context.
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Thousands take part in annual water war in Rabin Square – Tel Aviv,Israel – July 5, 2013
I was filling my blog up with some badass Cochabamba posts when I found this on the ‘water war’ tag.
Here is a picture of thousands of Israelis in Tel Aviv splashing around in water, as though it just falls out of the sky…
In occupied Palestine 87% of water obtained from generated from the mountain aquifer in the West bank and 82% of water obtained in the coastal aquifer in Gaza is denied to Palestinians and used directly by Israelis
In occupied Palestine only 5.3% of inhabitants of the Gaza strip consider their water quality to be ‘good’.
In occupied Palestine half of the water delivered to Palestinians homes and farms is lost or does not reach them
In occupied Palestine insufficient infrastructure means that waste water cannot be properly treated and causes severe water pollution.
In occupied Palestine, Palestinians have been denied access to the Lower Jordan River since 1967, which only occupying Israeli settler farmers are permitted to use
In occupied Palestine, Israeli settlers are permitted to extract water from holes deep enough to fill swimming pools, water their gardens and irrigate miles of crops, lowering the water tables so that Palestinians have even more difficulty accessing their own water.
In occupied Palestine, Palestinians are prevented from digging deep holes to extract water, and are forced to rely on dirty and superficial water sources. When they run out of water, they are forced to buy their own stolen water back from Israeli companies.
In occupied Palestine Operation Cast Lead successfully prevented all sewage and water pumps from functioning properly, leading to severe water shortages and serious sewage overflows
In occupied Palestine, the blockade on the Gaza strip prevented any building goods from coming into the area to rebuild the damage that Cast Lead caused to the Gaza strip’s infrastructure, and exacerbated the problem so much that various aid agencies and the UN demanded the immediate opening of crossings due to a serious public health threat
In occupied Palestine over 60% of the Gaza Strip does not have access to clean running water.
In occupied Palestine, Zionists gather in public squares to shower themselves in water stolen from Palestinian land, while sewage pipes burst in the Gaza strip, flooding urban areas with human waste, and small holding farmers in the West Bank attempt to grow food to feed their families with water from useless shallow wells.
This is the only democracy with a clean human rights record in the Middle East…
From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!
Free Free Palestine!
Free Free Palestine!
Anyway, what I was going to type before so rudely interrupted, was, for those of you interested in flying ointments:
it’s not all Anglo-Saxon or Scots stuff! There’s sources for such things in various cultures! Even in ancient Greece. Really! Apuleius gives us this passage about Pamphile:
When…
To channel, translate energies, one must be grounded or there is no transference. This is also a lesson of the Blasted Oak, also known as the Tower. Sometimes we’re blasted because we didn’t ground, nature needs a stable base to keep the energy flowing without frying the wires. As one who acts as a medium in almost all things I do from art, channeling, and healing I have learned and revisited this lesson. I’m drawing a strange connection to Uranus here I think partially because if the electric transformative power of the higher will when we’re linking the flesh and spirit.
This is lightening and oak and the little man is burning because he has no choice to flee from what he perceived, burned him… yet would he have been burned if he had been centered, rooted, earthed and open? If the three paths were in alignment? If the system was conductive?
The tower, or the oak, does not always represent destructive forces. I think that force however it manifests has only become destructive when we are unprepared, out of balance or where we find deficits and excess in the energy system. And all things are energy, part of this big natural system, part of the universal system so consider an eastern approach, find harmony, stay focused, be earthed, yielding or strong, as needed.
Question: What comes of these excesses?
“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”
― Anaïs NinDaily Tarot / Year of the Lovers / August 4, 2013 / Sunday / Card: 16 – The Blasted Oak / Deck: #WildwoodTarot / Number: 9 – To channel, translate energies, one must be grounded or there is no transference.
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