Forgiveness is a powerful way to realize a sense of gratitude for who we are. When we carry around extra reasons for retribution, we lose sight in the true nature of the roles we are playing. "Action cleaves not to a man." In this life, there's a divine play; in this "Lila" everyone is performing a role, which draws us each ever closer to seeing all is One.
The true role of the Enemy is to be an ultimate Arch Mason, or unwitting teacher. Hitler was and has been exactly that for the 20th century. The important requirement on us is paying attention to the details, filtering out all the narrative nonsense. I have found that relearning history automatically makes the dots connect for what is going on today. I came across a photo of him meeting with the Order of the Garter members sometime in the mid 30's. Hitler was a secret British asset. So, in that sense you could make a case to give all the prior angst to the puppet masters in London, including Churchill. WW1 and WW2 was planned and even choreographed.
See the Enemy as an Arch Mason; a teacher, it changes how you see the role you have.
"I have found that relearning history automatically makes the dots connect for what is going on today."
Bingo! And that's one reason it's critically important that we must learn to question everything and seek the truth, as you obviously know. I also applaud you for the insight about the true role of the enemy. The way I put it is that we need them to teach us to get a grip and their constant presence helps encourage us to keep a sharp edge.
I've learned not only to thank the "enemy," but to applaud and laugh at them.
Having read much recently in light of your remarks...my whole understanding of history has been turned upside down. The work of Ron Unz is fantastic. I've ordered Victor Thorn's book re the Holocaust and am currently reading a most excellent analysis - The Chemistry of Auschwitz - by Germar Rudolf. Really is a head spinner...I'm relieved yet incredibly angered by the atrocious lies. And this is all in the space of a week or so...never previously even considered this gruesome and highly protected/defended narrative to be anything other than historical fact. It's utterly gobsmacking!
Gobsmacking! What an excellent word. I share that feeling entirely.
Yes, isn't Ron Unz a fantastic writer? He's so succinct and pithy, never making broad inferences that I've seen. I'll be really curious about your responses to the Thorn and Rudolf books. I haven't delved into that part of it at all. Thank you for being such an astute partner in this head-spinning journey!
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Hola, Tereza.
Thank you for this short and snappy look at 'managing' our demons through an ownership processf that as our 'true' power, a power that is expressed when we 'honestly' forgive. The haughty forgiveness you refer to is coming from a place of powerlessness, of course, and so has no positive value.
In some ways this comes back to that old saw 'I have met the enemy and the enemy is me', married to 'The only thing to fear is fear itself' in its various formulations.
As soon as we take back from others the power to instil fear, then we are able to forgive. And as soon as that happens, the oligarchs have no power. This is a bit extemporaneous, so thank you for the way your discussion has inspired me in a new way. The oligarchs are, of course, afraid. Perhaps amongst the most afraid of all people on the planet. And they know, consciously or 'intuitively' from their unconscious, that their position relies on fear. Both from their own psychological structure(s), and in creation of the obedience of the 'undeserving' that allows them to keep their 'authority' and power as a member of the 'deserving' class.
Fear is the key. First remove from ourselves, one bodily cell, one misfiring synapse, one blocked nadi, at a time, fear. And then forgiveness can happen with a purity of intention that will completely depotentiate the oligarchs.
Thank you for restacking, Guy! I'll copy my Note here:
I LOVE your reply, Guy. Wow! Where to start? You go straight to the third of the unholy (unwhole) trinity: shame, blame and fear. Always traveling in a pack.
And yes, imagine the fear of death for someone who knows they’ve done horrible things. And that others would hate them if they knew. There’s no amount of hatred we could heap on that would be more.
My Course reading this morning included one of my favorite phrases, “Perception is a mirror, not a fact.”
And what a word, ‘depotentiate’! I’ve been looking for that word all my life. Thank you!
Thank you, Tereza. When Hitler mentioned resettlement in the East for the Jews, do you know where he had in mind? Madagascar is more south than east. Could it have been Ukraine/Khazaria?
As for the oligarchs, I don't think they're interested in understanding or forgiveness. I think they are only interested in power, control and money; and beings like that tend to do things because they can. I'm really not even sure we can ascribe to them a human mindset/emotions.
Right about East and Madagascar being two different plans. That's an interesting observation that Ukraine/Khazaria would be directly east, yes? I don't know but think that's an interesting hypothesis. Do you know the Jewish genealogy of Hitler? Was he related to the Rothschilds?
The reason to forgive isn't for their sake but yours. How many generations do you want this turmoil and conflict to last?
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The only piece I recall reading about Hitler's genealogy is the one by Mathis cited by Goeff: http://mileswmathis.com/hiller.pdf. Mathis claims Hitler was Jewish on both his parents' sides; but he doesn't make a connection with Rothschild.
Good point about forgiveness not being for their sake; but I don't understand how my forgiving them will stop the turmoil and conflict. I'm not familiar with the Course.
Hi, Tirion. To flip the question, can condemnation and judgment end the cycle of blame and retribution? Victims are taught to identify with the perpetrators, particularly if they're male. They're taught to justify the violence done to further victims as something they 'deserve.'
What Anneke Lucas talks about is how these perpetrators were never, from birth, seen as innocent and lovable. Their only value was as an extension of their father's power. To see them as having free will and having chosen to do evil is a way of saying 'that could never be me.' But you don't know that. You weren't raised in that sick and twisted power system.
What Nefahotep talks about above and Philip below is that we're all enabling this power paradigm. At this point, I'd assume that every person with political or monetary power at the top is a part of this pedo-sadism network. But we're all going along with it, maybe doing little things like boycotting Amazon (sorry Goeff) or being vegan to feel like we're innocent.
We're all innocent! Let's stop worrying about these individual degrees of guilt and innocence and instead change the power structure. As Guy says, "Depotentiate" the perpetrators, take their power away. That means we stop enabling them. And that we enact the consequences for their actions, out of love not revenge. My 2 cents.
There will never be an end to turmoil and conflict as long as Homo sappyens roams the planet and we would do ourselves a favor to make peace with that verity. To me it's just the way things are. One of Nature's laws, apparently. From what I've observed, that's also true for the animal kingdom in general. I've also observed that
that animals seem to accept it and just move on; they seem to have no need for forgiveness since they harbor no resentment or personal insult that I can detect. (Though I have to admit that as a rule I can be pretty dense about such things.)
I snuck out my garden for a little refreshement so I'm back.
"Do you know the Jewish genealogy of Hitler? Was he related to the Rothschilds?"
While I myself have no way of really knowing, it's clear that more than one person claims that. Mile Mathis, sometimes may be a bit over the top, claims he is.: http://mileswmathis.com/hiller.pdf
Here's a very short comment on Mathis' work, and I tend to take Makow seriously.:
Inter alia, like a lot of modern "leaders," Hitler came out of obscurity to become the head of a nation. Many times that sort of thing seems to happen only if big money is behind the person, I think.
[The book] "Before Hitler Came" lays bare the biggest secret behind antisemitic movements, namely that it was started by Jews themselves. As Austrian writer Rudolf Kommoss warned the world: "Should there arise a party led by anti-Semite Jews or half-Jews, we will have to watch out!" 450 pages.
The book has been removed from archive.org, but is availble via an English transaltion (via machine and probably somewhat inadequate) here: as of this morning.
It is courageous to publicly take on the “Hitler, Jeffery Dalmer, ex-husband question” which EVERY course student asks.
You and your readers who are thinking about forgiveness may find the movie, “Forgiving Dr Mengele.” It was made by Eva Moses who, along with her twin sister, were experimented on by Dr Mengele.
Elizabeth! You're still reading me! I was just thinking about you the other day and wondering if you were still in my sphere ;-)
Haha! That's a funny triage of Hitler, Dalmer, ex-husband. I'll be doing a VERY hopeful episode on the latter (not mine but the one in those pedo-sadist episodes). So that just leaves Dalmer. My definition is that someone is doing the best they can, and passing on trauma that was inflicted on them. I watched another one on Anneke Lucas that I'll be talking about, and that is her conviction about the 'Satanic rituals,' that they're just a very elaborate justification. I haven't researched it but I'd 'bet my bottom dollar' as they say that neither Dalmer or Mengele was raised in a healthy, loving family where their intrinsic self-worth was established from birth. And I know that wasn't true for the latter example I'll be talking about soon.
I bought a new iPhone and had to reestablish the account. Substack wasn’t among the highest priorities, but I’m back!
My friend, Carol Koch, who coined the “H,JD,ex” question frequently said, if you had the same body, life experience, hormones, etc as the other person, you would react exactly the same way.
Robert Sapolsky makes the same point in discussing free will.
Oh wow! That's perfect that they're making the same point. It is logical, of course, but that often means little ;-) I'm happy to have a couple people to cite next time I make the argument.
You wrote: "I suspect the oligarchs believe themselves to be fully evil. They’ve sold their souls to the devil and are now beyond redemption so they might as well keep going. Calling them evil perpetuates that. But what if you could change it through forgiveness?"
I disagree - I think no-one EVER believes they are evil. I think people generally always think they're good and right because whatever their actions, they have justified them. For whatever end they have made important, that justifies the means.
And what is Evil? What makes something evil? I would say that anytime someone does not regard the importance of each and every individual on any scale, we could call that evil. Whether it's one person we disregard or a million. Does the scale matter? We act like it does, but does it?
And in that, would that not make each and every one of us evil? Has any of us actually always regarded the importance of each and every individual?
Now we're getting closer to the real question. Does evil really exist or is it simply a convenient term and ideology when someone does something we don't agree with?
Because in greater terms, we are here in these focuses to explore. Explore what? Explore everything. And if one believes that these focuses spring from Essence, or Soul, and that we are inexorably connected and part of the Universal Creating One and Whole, then how can we ever be evil? We would have to be completely disconnected from Essence/Source in order for that to be true, and that is not possible.
So where does that leave us? There must be another answer than good and evil.
Beautifully put, Philip. I agree completely. Well, except I guess where you say we disagree about how people view themselves. I was watching another Anneke Lucas interview, which I'll talk about sometime soon, I really love her perspective. She was saying that in these so-called Satanic rituals, everything's inverted--good is bad and bad is good. So 'evil' may be something that's bragged about even though it's justified. But does that justification go deep enough that these people raping and killing children wouldn't fear death? I suspect they can't fool themselves at that level, and it drives their mad behavior.
The interviewer, who was a woman this time, said that 95% of the people in these networks want a way out, but they believe themselves to be trapped. What Anneke says, similar to you, is that they feel they are cut off from that divine essence/ light, that they have none of that in them, they're dead inside. So we agree that these people, exhibiting the most awful of behaviors (which we enable, as you rightly point out) are not evil, they're broken children who've never lost their inherent innocence, imo, no matter what they've done. Taking away their power to do harm is an essential part of forgiving them and forgiving ourselves.
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And forgiveness, in general, is another issue in which we must consider our true nature.
If we are all interconnected and again, part of the UCOAW, then our separation that we explore in this physical dimension is a staged illusion for those purposes - a part of our amnesia.
Therefore, when we forgive, who are we really forgiving? We don't forgive for others, we forgive for ourselves. No-one requires nor desires our forgiveness.
So who are we letting off the hook and why?
If a word's importance was indicated by its length, acceptance would be the longest word in our dictionary. We don't have to "like" anyone. But can we accept everyone? Because what we're really asking is, "Can we accept all the aspects of ourself?"
For the absolute worst offenses that we can imagine, we ourselves have done that and worse. Victim and perpetrator go hand in hand. And we, all of us, have been both, whether in this focus or another.
So again, the question begs, when we forgive, who are we actually forgiving?
Forgive me, Tereza! I read your piece on Hitler and I can see that I wuz preechin to da choir... I should've known that you'd have that base covered too.
As punishment, I'm going to banish myself to my garden for the rest of the day! ; )
Haha! You were one of the people who sent me on that journey, Geoff, with your great sources. You can thank me for your punishment, since this is a busy time for gardens and their keepers!
Isn’t it weird that forgiveness is seen as naive and we fear being labeled as such? But naïveté has a strange power, doesn’t it? The way a child and its innocence can wrap a grown tattooed leather wearing tough man around its little finger. Naïveté is powerful. Vulnerability is powerful. Forgiveness is powerful. Nice to wake up to these thoughts, Tereza. Empowering.
Oh what a great image! And yes on vulnerability and naïveté (thanks for letting me copy and paste those special characters ;-) I think it is how I see socio-spirituality, it needs the hard, unflinching look at the reality IN the world so that questioning the reality OF the world isn't seen as la-de-da New Agey escapism. That's why I think the Anneke Lucas story is so powerful and empowering. She found God in hell, not the sappy version, but the real thing.
“A year ago I decided to do this spiritual exercise of forgiveness with the face of evil himself—Hitler."
Oh no, not you, too! That statement is nothing more than a parroting of cringeworthy, worn out, old war propaganda and it should not need to be explained that our "elites" lie to us constantly while doing the same or worse while covering it up. The COVID scam should have made that plain and crystal clear to everyone.
What's with the constant Hitler bashing, and when will it end? Even a minimally dispassionate examination of Churchill, FDR, and maybe Stalin clearly indicates that they were far, far more evil than Hitler and for a far longer time. It's not only inaccurate, but tiresome and inane. Anyway, you're forgiven, which I think means, something like, let's move on already. Don't beat yourself or anyone else by ruminating and dwelling on the unchangeable past. That's what it means to me, anyway, and that approach has the added benefit that it seems to work well much of the time.
Bonus views:
“… this entire myth, so prevalent then and even now about Hitler, and about the Japanese, is a tissue of fallacies from beginning to end. Every plank in this nightmare evidence is either completely untrue or not entirely the truth.
If people should learn this intellectual fraud about Hitler's Germany, then they will begin to ask questions, and searching questions…”
Murray Rothbard, Revisionism for Our Time
Mr. Rothbard was an American historian of the very highest caliber.
I suppose it began with a sense… that what the average child is taught about major historical events is a pack of lies.
-Gerard Menuchin, Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil p12 (2016)
Falsehood is a recognized and extremely useful weapon in warfare, and every country uses it quite deliberately to deceive its own people, to attract neutrals, and to mislead the enemy. The ignorant and innocent masses in each country are unaware at the time that they are being misled, and when it is all over only here and there are the falsehoods discovered and exposed. As it is all past history and the desired effect has been produced by the stories and statements, no one troubles to investigate the facts and establish the truth. Lying, as we all know, does not take place only in war-time. Man, it has been said, is not "a veridical animal," but his habit of lying is not nearly so extraordinary as his amazing readiness to believe. It is, indeed, because of human credulity that lies flourish.
- Arthur Ponsonby, MP, Falsehood in War Time (1929)
History is of two kinds—there is the official history taught in schools, a lying compilation ad usum delphini; and there is the secret history which deals with the real causes of events—a scandalous chronicle.
-Honore de Balzac, Lost Illusions, Part III, p364. (1803)
Lost illusions: The two poets; Eve and David (archive.org)
Wow, that comment is going in my scrap book! Thank you.
I suppose the lies and deceptions become more intense during war; but it seems to me that they are in fact integral to the control-manipulate-harvest business model which the predators use to run this planet. Doesn't it all go back at least as far as Biblical times, if not further?
Some say that those sorts of insights are depressing, but I'm too old to get depressed and knowing that it's always been slight variations on recurring themes fortifies me against it. Besides, I keep thinking about how my grandparents plowed on despite how little they had and what they lived through and that fills me with peace, so there's that.
Thank you. I understand what you mean about depressing; but I refuse to live in fear and choose instead to find the truth empowering, as you seem to do also. As someone else commented, it is our predators and their minions who should - and do - live in fear. As for us, the less we have, the more we have, don't you think?
Refusing to live in fear seems a better way of expressing it, so thanks!
I agree that posessions can be a burden and I'm lucky my wife feels the same. I was just talking with a sister of mine who works in a jewelry store and I was astonished to find that they do a steady business in watch repair. A lot of the repairs amount to three to four thousand dollars! I cannot wrap my mind around that since I have never even owned a watch and to this day feel no need for one. If someone gave me one, I wouldn't even want the silly thing.
Well, I suppose there is much to admire in the skill and workmanship that goes into making a mechanical watch. For a lot of men especially, I think a watch is the only bling/jewelry that they feel comfortable wearing and so like to indulge in a fine watch; but a cheap quartz watch keeps better time than any mechanical movement. I stopped wearing watches in the noughties, when smartphones were introduced.
" . . . I decided to do this spiritual exercise of forgiveness with the face of evil himself—Hitler. I put out an episode called Forgiving Hitler . . . ".
Very good.
Ensure to forgive American and British capital interest who significantly helped to reconstruct the German Nazi Government's industrial and military power and capability, without which the Government could not have gone to war in Europe and arguably because of it, had to.
Hi, Les. The first step in forgiveness is taking away the power to do harm by exposing the truth and enforcing consequences. So yes, had I been born a Rothschild, I would have set nations at war with each other for my own profit and funded / armed both sides so I'd win no matter what. And if I was born Tereza Coraggio, I'd do everything I can to take away that power--not out of vindictiveness but out of kindness for everyone including the rotten Rothschilds.
Forgiveness is a powerful way to realize a sense of gratitude for who we are. When we carry around extra reasons for retribution, we lose sight in the true nature of the roles we are playing. "Action cleaves not to a man." In this life, there's a divine play; in this "Lila" everyone is performing a role, which draws us each ever closer to seeing all is One.
The true role of the Enemy is to be an ultimate Arch Mason, or unwitting teacher. Hitler was and has been exactly that for the 20th century. The important requirement on us is paying attention to the details, filtering out all the narrative nonsense. I have found that relearning history automatically makes the dots connect for what is going on today. I came across a photo of him meeting with the Order of the Garter members sometime in the mid 30's. Hitler was a secret British asset. So, in that sense you could make a case to give all the prior angst to the puppet masters in London, including Churchill. WW1 and WW2 was planned and even choreographed.
See the Enemy as an Arch Mason; a teacher, it changes how you see the role you have.
"I have found that relearning history automatically makes the dots connect for what is going on today."
Bingo! And that's one reason it's critically important that we must learn to question everything and seek the truth, as you obviously know. I also applaud you for the insight about the true role of the enemy. The way I put it is that we need them to teach us to get a grip and their constant presence helps encourage us to keep a sharp edge.
I've learned not only to thank the "enemy," but to applaud and laugh at them.
Thank you!
Very good Tereza.
Having read much recently in light of your remarks...my whole understanding of history has been turned upside down. The work of Ron Unz is fantastic. I've ordered Victor Thorn's book re the Holocaust and am currently reading a most excellent analysis - The Chemistry of Auschwitz - by Germar Rudolf. Really is a head spinner...I'm relieved yet incredibly angered by the atrocious lies. And this is all in the space of a week or so...never previously even considered this gruesome and highly protected/defended narrative to be anything other than historical fact. It's utterly gobsmacking!
Gobsmacking! What an excellent word. I share that feeling entirely.
Yes, isn't Ron Unz a fantastic writer? He's so succinct and pithy, never making broad inferences that I've seen. I'll be really curious about your responses to the Thorn and Rudolf books. I haven't delved into that part of it at all. Thank you for being such an astute partner in this head-spinning journey!
Hola, Tereza.
Thank you for this short and snappy look at 'managing' our demons through an ownership processf that as our 'true' power, a power that is expressed when we 'honestly' forgive. The haughty forgiveness you refer to is coming from a place of powerlessness, of course, and so has no positive value.
In some ways this comes back to that old saw 'I have met the enemy and the enemy is me', married to 'The only thing to fear is fear itself' in its various formulations.
As soon as we take back from others the power to instil fear, then we are able to forgive. And as soon as that happens, the oligarchs have no power. This is a bit extemporaneous, so thank you for the way your discussion has inspired me in a new way. The oligarchs are, of course, afraid. Perhaps amongst the most afraid of all people on the planet. And they know, consciously or 'intuitively' from their unconscious, that their position relies on fear. Both from their own psychological structure(s), and in creation of the obedience of the 'undeserving' that allows them to keep their 'authority' and power as a member of the 'deserving' class.
Fear is the key. First remove from ourselves, one bodily cell, one misfiring synapse, one blocked nadi, at a time, fear. And then forgiveness can happen with a purity of intention that will completely depotentiate the oligarchs.
Thank you for restacking, Guy! I'll copy my Note here:
I LOVE your reply, Guy. Wow! Where to start? You go straight to the third of the unholy (unwhole) trinity: shame, blame and fear. Always traveling in a pack.
And yes, imagine the fear of death for someone who knows they’ve done horrible things. And that others would hate them if they knew. There’s no amount of hatred we could heap on that would be more.
My Course reading this morning included one of my favorite phrases, “Perception is a mirror, not a fact.”
And what a word, ‘depotentiate’! I’ve been looking for that word all my life. Thank you!
Thank you, Tereza. When Hitler mentioned resettlement in the East for the Jews, do you know where he had in mind? Madagascar is more south than east. Could it have been Ukraine/Khazaria?
As for the oligarchs, I don't think they're interested in understanding or forgiveness. I think they are only interested in power, control and money; and beings like that tend to do things because they can. I'm really not even sure we can ascribe to them a human mindset/emotions.
Right about East and Madagascar being two different plans. That's an interesting observation that Ukraine/Khazaria would be directly east, yes? I don't know but think that's an interesting hypothesis. Do you know the Jewish genealogy of Hitler? Was he related to the Rothschilds?
The reason to forgive isn't for their sake but yours. How many generations do you want this turmoil and conflict to last?
The only piece I recall reading about Hitler's genealogy is the one by Mathis cited by Goeff: http://mileswmathis.com/hiller.pdf. Mathis claims Hitler was Jewish on both his parents' sides; but he doesn't make a connection with Rothschild.
Good point about forgiveness not being for their sake; but I don't understand how my forgiving them will stop the turmoil and conflict. I'm not familiar with the Course.
Hi, Tirion. To flip the question, can condemnation and judgment end the cycle of blame and retribution? Victims are taught to identify with the perpetrators, particularly if they're male. They're taught to justify the violence done to further victims as something they 'deserve.'
What Anneke Lucas talks about is how these perpetrators were never, from birth, seen as innocent and lovable. Their only value was as an extension of their father's power. To see them as having free will and having chosen to do evil is a way of saying 'that could never be me.' But you don't know that. You weren't raised in that sick and twisted power system.
What Nefahotep talks about above and Philip below is that we're all enabling this power paradigm. At this point, I'd assume that every person with political or monetary power at the top is a part of this pedo-sadism network. But we're all going along with it, maybe doing little things like boycotting Amazon (sorry Goeff) or being vegan to feel like we're innocent.
We're all innocent! Let's stop worrying about these individual degrees of guilt and innocence and instead change the power structure. As Guy says, "Depotentiate" the perpetrators, take their power away. That means we stop enabling them. And that we enact the consequences for their actions, out of love not revenge. My 2 cents.
That's worth a lot more than two cents, Tereza. Thank you very much.
Thanks for catching my mistake about Hitler's lineage. Once again I've learned not to do these things on the fly...Now I cannot forgive myself. Grrrr!
Anyway, for those interested in Hitler's blood line (I'm not at all interested in that topic), try this, apparently written by David Icke.
https://bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_rothschild04.htm
They say it's from Icke's site, but I was unable to verify that. Maybe I should just admit my mistake and move on!!!
You're a star!
Yeah, I'm probably way out there, somewhere! But thanks for that; you seem like a fine character as well.
Because of this discussion, I've been reading some Makow articles and must say that he writes a lot of interesting material.
Thank you - and thank you for the introduction to Henry Makow. Hadn't heard of him!
There will never be an end to turmoil and conflict as long as Homo sappyens roams the planet and we would do ourselves a favor to make peace with that verity. To me it's just the way things are. One of Nature's laws, apparently. From what I've observed, that's also true for the animal kingdom in general. I've also observed that
that animals seem to accept it and just move on; they seem to have no need for forgiveness since they harbor no resentment or personal insult that I can detect. (Though I have to admit that as a rule I can be pretty dense about such things.)
Makes sense. Thank you, Goeff.
I snuck out my garden for a little refreshement so I'm back.
"Do you know the Jewish genealogy of Hitler? Was he related to the Rothschilds?"
While I myself have no way of really knowing, it's clear that more than one person claims that. Mile Mathis, sometimes may be a bit over the top, claims he is.: http://mileswmathis.com/hiller.pdf
Here's a very short comment on Mathis' work, and I tend to take Makow seriously.:
https://www.henrymakow.com/2020/01/were-nazis-greatest-hoax.html
Inter alia, like a lot of modern "leaders," Hitler came out of obscurity to become the head of a nation. Many times that sort of thing seems to happen only if big money is behind the person, I think.
Makow's article is a real eye opener.
From the article.:
[The book] "Before Hitler Came" lays bare the biggest secret behind antisemitic movements, namely that it was started by Jews themselves. As Austrian writer Rudolf Kommoss warned the world: "Should there arise a party led by anti-Semite Jews or half-Jews, we will have to watch out!" 450 pages.
The book has been removed from archive.org, but is availble via an English transaltion (via machine and probably somewhat inadequate) here: as of this morning.
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/5740513/before-hitler-came-a-historical-study-bronderpdf-wnlibrary
Intersting is that suppression of such things was mentioned by John Adams (2nd prez of the US) here.:
"An Edition of [a certain book] ought to be printed in America. otherwise it will be forever supressed, France will never dare to look at it. "
- John Adams to John Taylor, 17 December 1814
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-6371
Some things never change...
It is courageous to publicly take on the “Hitler, Jeffery Dalmer, ex-husband question” which EVERY course student asks.
You and your readers who are thinking about forgiveness may find the movie, “Forgiving Dr Mengele.” It was made by Eva Moses who, along with her twin sister, were experimented on by Dr Mengele.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Mozes_Kor
Elizabeth! You're still reading me! I was just thinking about you the other day and wondering if you were still in my sphere ;-)
Haha! That's a funny triage of Hitler, Dalmer, ex-husband. I'll be doing a VERY hopeful episode on the latter (not mine but the one in those pedo-sadist episodes). So that just leaves Dalmer. My definition is that someone is doing the best they can, and passing on trauma that was inflicted on them. I watched another one on Anneke Lucas that I'll be talking about, and that is her conviction about the 'Satanic rituals,' that they're just a very elaborate justification. I haven't researched it but I'd 'bet my bottom dollar' as they say that neither Dalmer or Mengele was raised in a healthy, loving family where their intrinsic self-worth was established from birth. And I know that wasn't true for the latter example I'll be talking about soon.
Thanks for this recommendation!
I am glad you are doing well.
I bought a new iPhone and had to reestablish the account. Substack wasn’t among the highest priorities, but I’m back!
My friend, Carol Koch, who coined the “H,JD,ex” question frequently said, if you had the same body, life experience, hormones, etc as the other person, you would react exactly the same way.
Robert Sapolsky makes the same point in discussing free will.
Oh wow! That's perfect that they're making the same point. It is logical, of course, but that often means little ;-) I'm happy to have a couple people to cite next time I make the argument.
https://youtu.be/xhobcj2K9v4?si=ov-bsZupEzBxRiO5
You wrote: "I suspect the oligarchs believe themselves to be fully evil. They’ve sold their souls to the devil and are now beyond redemption so they might as well keep going. Calling them evil perpetuates that. But what if you could change it through forgiveness?"
I disagree - I think no-one EVER believes they are evil. I think people generally always think they're good and right because whatever their actions, they have justified them. For whatever end they have made important, that justifies the means.
And what is Evil? What makes something evil? I would say that anytime someone does not regard the importance of each and every individual on any scale, we could call that evil. Whether it's one person we disregard or a million. Does the scale matter? We act like it does, but does it?
And in that, would that not make each and every one of us evil? Has any of us actually always regarded the importance of each and every individual?
Now we're getting closer to the real question. Does evil really exist or is it simply a convenient term and ideology when someone does something we don't agree with?
Because in greater terms, we are here in these focuses to explore. Explore what? Explore everything. And if one believes that these focuses spring from Essence, or Soul, and that we are inexorably connected and part of the Universal Creating One and Whole, then how can we ever be evil? We would have to be completely disconnected from Essence/Source in order for that to be true, and that is not possible.
So where does that leave us? There must be another answer than good and evil.
Beautifully put, Philip. I agree completely. Well, except I guess where you say we disagree about how people view themselves. I was watching another Anneke Lucas interview, which I'll talk about sometime soon, I really love her perspective. She was saying that in these so-called Satanic rituals, everything's inverted--good is bad and bad is good. So 'evil' may be something that's bragged about even though it's justified. But does that justification go deep enough that these people raping and killing children wouldn't fear death? I suspect they can't fool themselves at that level, and it drives their mad behavior.
The interviewer, who was a woman this time, said that 95% of the people in these networks want a way out, but they believe themselves to be trapped. What Anneke says, similar to you, is that they feel they are cut off from that divine essence/ light, that they have none of that in them, they're dead inside. So we agree that these people, exhibiting the most awful of behaviors (which we enable, as you rightly point out) are not evil, they're broken children who've never lost their inherent innocence, imo, no matter what they've done. Taking away their power to do harm is an essential part of forgiving them and forgiving ourselves.
Thanks for your insight.
And forgiveness, in general, is another issue in which we must consider our true nature.
If we are all interconnected and again, part of the UCOAW, then our separation that we explore in this physical dimension is a staged illusion for those purposes - a part of our amnesia.
Therefore, when we forgive, who are we really forgiving? We don't forgive for others, we forgive for ourselves. No-one requires nor desires our forgiveness.
So who are we letting off the hook and why?
If a word's importance was indicated by its length, acceptance would be the longest word in our dictionary. We don't have to "like" anyone. But can we accept everyone? Because what we're really asking is, "Can we accept all the aspects of ourself?"
For the absolute worst offenses that we can imagine, we ourselves have done that and worse. Victim and perpetrator go hand in hand. And we, all of us, have been both, whether in this focus or another.
So again, the question begs, when we forgive, who are we actually forgiving?
Forgive me, Tereza! I read your piece on Hitler and I can see that I wuz preechin to da choir... I should've known that you'd have that base covered too.
As punishment, I'm going to banish myself to my garden for the rest of the day! ; )
Haha! You were one of the people who sent me on that journey, Geoff, with your great sources. You can thank me for your punishment, since this is a busy time for gardens and their keepers!
Isn’t it weird that forgiveness is seen as naive and we fear being labeled as such? But naïveté has a strange power, doesn’t it? The way a child and its innocence can wrap a grown tattooed leather wearing tough man around its little finger. Naïveté is powerful. Vulnerability is powerful. Forgiveness is powerful. Nice to wake up to these thoughts, Tereza. Empowering.
Oh what a great image! And yes on vulnerability and naïveté (thanks for letting me copy and paste those special characters ;-) I think it is how I see socio-spirituality, it needs the hard, unflinching look at the reality IN the world so that questioning the reality OF the world isn't seen as la-de-da New Agey escapism. That's why I think the Anneke Lucas story is so powerful and empowering. She found God in hell, not the sappy version, but the real thing.
“A year ago I decided to do this spiritual exercise of forgiveness with the face of evil himself—Hitler."
Oh no, not you, too! That statement is nothing more than a parroting of cringeworthy, worn out, old war propaganda and it should not need to be explained that our "elites" lie to us constantly while doing the same or worse while covering it up. The COVID scam should have made that plain and crystal clear to everyone.
What's with the constant Hitler bashing, and when will it end? Even a minimally dispassionate examination of Churchill, FDR, and maybe Stalin clearly indicates that they were far, far more evil than Hitler and for a far longer time. It's not only inaccurate, but tiresome and inane. Anyway, you're forgiven, which I think means, something like, let's move on already. Don't beat yourself or anyone else by ruminating and dwelling on the unchangeable past. That's what it means to me, anyway, and that approach has the added benefit that it seems to work well much of the time.
Bonus views:
“… this entire myth, so prevalent then and even now about Hitler, and about the Japanese, is a tissue of fallacies from beginning to end. Every plank in this nightmare evidence is either completely untrue or not entirely the truth.
If people should learn this intellectual fraud about Hitler's Germany, then they will begin to ask questions, and searching questions…”
Murray Rothbard, Revisionism for Our Time
Mr. Rothbard was an American historian of the very highest caliber.
http://mises.org/daily/2592
I suppose it began with a sense… that what the average child is taught about major historical events is a pack of lies.
-Gerard Menuchin, Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil p12 (2016)
Falsehood is a recognized and extremely useful weapon in warfare, and every country uses it quite deliberately to deceive its own people, to attract neutrals, and to mislead the enemy. The ignorant and innocent masses in each country are unaware at the time that they are being misled, and when it is all over only here and there are the falsehoods discovered and exposed. As it is all past history and the desired effect has been produced by the stories and statements, no one troubles to investigate the facts and establish the truth. Lying, as we all know, does not take place only in war-time. Man, it has been said, is not "a veridical animal," but his habit of lying is not nearly so extraordinary as his amazing readiness to believe. It is, indeed, because of human credulity that lies flourish.
- Arthur Ponsonby, MP, Falsehood in War Time (1929)
http://www.vlib.us/wwi/resources/archives/texts/t050824i/ponsonby.pdf
History is of two kinds—there is the official history taught in schools, a lying compilation ad usum delphini; and there is the secret history which deals with the real causes of events—a scandalous chronicle.
-Honore de Balzac, Lost Illusions, Part III, p364. (1803)
Lost illusions: The two poets; Eve and David (archive.org)
https://ia902207.us.archive.org/6/items/lostillusionstwo00balzrich/lostillusionstwo00balzrich.pdf
The whole scene (up to about p. 368) is worth a read, if not the whole book!
Question everything, especially "authority," always.
Wow, that comment is going in my scrap book! Thank you.
I suppose the lies and deceptions become more intense during war; but it seems to me that they are in fact integral to the control-manipulate-harvest business model which the predators use to run this planet. Doesn't it all go back at least as far as Biblical times, if not further?
I agree on all points. Well done!
Some say that those sorts of insights are depressing, but I'm too old to get depressed and knowing that it's always been slight variations on recurring themes fortifies me against it. Besides, I keep thinking about how my grandparents plowed on despite how little they had and what they lived through and that fills me with peace, so there's that.
Peace, and bless you!
Thank you. I understand what you mean about depressing; but I refuse to live in fear and choose instead to find the truth empowering, as you seem to do also. As someone else commented, it is our predators and their minions who should - and do - live in fear. As for us, the less we have, the more we have, don't you think?
Refusing to live in fear seems a better way of expressing it, so thanks!
I agree that posessions can be a burden and I'm lucky my wife feels the same. I was just talking with a sister of mine who works in a jewelry store and I was astonished to find that they do a steady business in watch repair. A lot of the repairs amount to three to four thousand dollars! I cannot wrap my mind around that since I have never even owned a watch and to this day feel no need for one. If someone gave me one, I wouldn't even want the silly thing.
Well, I suppose there is much to admire in the skill and workmanship that goes into making a mechanical watch. For a lot of men especially, I think a watch is the only bling/jewelry that they feel comfortable wearing and so like to indulge in a fine watch; but a cheap quartz watch keeps better time than any mechanical movement. I stopped wearing watches in the noughties, when smartphones were introduced.
" . . . I decided to do this spiritual exercise of forgiveness with the face of evil himself—Hitler. I put out an episode called Forgiving Hitler . . . ".
Very good.
Ensure to forgive American and British capital interest who significantly helped to reconstruct the German Nazi Government's industrial and military power and capability, without which the Government could not have gone to war in Europe and arguably because of it, had to.
There were debts to repay.
https://les7eb.substack.com . . .
Hi, Les. The first step in forgiveness is taking away the power to do harm by exposing the truth and enforcing consequences. So yes, had I been born a Rothschild, I would have set nations at war with each other for my own profit and funded / armed both sides so I'd win no matter what. And if I was born Tereza Coraggio, I'd do everything I can to take away that power--not out of vindictiveness but out of kindness for everyone including the rotten Rothschilds.