As I wrote to your YT comment, Kathleen, thanks for being such a deep and perceptive commenter on my Substack. I always look forward to your thoughts. Blessings to you!
And which version of Hallelujah is your favorite? I'm partial to the Shrek version with Rufus Wainwright myself. Much love!
So happy to hear from you, Frances. I've felt unqualified to comment on your personal tribulations, Fran, but my heart goes out to you. I hope that 2024 is a peaceful year where all the love you give to the world comes back to you by making your road smooth and easy. Much love to you!
No need to worry about me, Tereza! I am a very tough cookie. I can handle this weird turn of events. I have recently understood better the root cause of my son's major personality change and we are convinced that 5G bleeding into our home from satellites is exacerbating this mercury retrograde and sudden assault by CMEs from the sun.
I got a heartfelt apology and "I will make it up to you, Mum!" from him a few weeks ago. I wouldn't say that we have figured out how to better protect ourselves from the electro-magnetic craziness but we are thinking of moving home..... again.
I will let everyone know if that is the solution but somehow I don't think there is anywhere in UK which escapes attention from the kill-grid.
Have plenty of Holy Daze in which to rest and recuperate, Tereza!
Thanks for all the fantastic posts you create. Your style is so original, so mind blowing that I am your undying fan! xx
Your last line, particularly coming from YOU, my Christ-friend, touched me so deeply I had to close my eyes and bask in it a moment.
And an apology! That's big. My youngest admitted the other day I had been right about something, and we were gasping, "It's a Christmas miracle!" Smiles and appreciation for your deep teachings!
How very nice to receive that in my inbox. Merry Christmas and may all of us have a happy, peaceful New Year on our way to overthrowing our slavemasters and becoming all that humankind can be.
Thank you, Tereza, for your heartfelt Season’s Greeting and A Course in Miracles poem.
As your opposite wearing my Atheist and Humanist Hat, I consider we share a Voluntaryist Halo and so in the New Year will be inviting you and others here on Substack to join our new Forum on Substack or some other interactive forum platform, tentatively titled:
“Free Friends Forum: Abandoned To Ourselves—a Voluntary Humanism, Naturalism, Individualism”
Looking forward to having your “Voluntary Transcendental, Supernatural, (mostly?) Individualism” (close?) thoughts/feelings.
“The serious study of Man, of his natural faculties and their successive developments . . . . research into political and moral life. . . . considers what we would have become, abandoned to ourselves.” Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“It [the final, complete, breakdown of the bicameral mind] said in a word that there is no authorization from outside. Behold! there is nothing there. What we must do must come from ourselves. The king at Eynan can stop staring at Mount Hermon; the dead king can die at last. We, we fragile human species at the end of the second millennium A.D., we must become our own authorization.” The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
“Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty--by ceasing to exist. A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.” God and the State by Michael Bakunin
Haha, I think that would be a false dichotomy, Jack, to put us as opposites ;-)
We share a belief in the goodness of other people and the courage to face the truth. That's my dogma and all the rest is just speculation, open to new experiences. Looking forward to continuing the conversation in the New Year. I love that! HAPPY NEW YOU YEAR back atcha!
Dec 25, 2023·edited Dec 25, 2023Liked by Tereza Coraggio
Only opposites in those two beliefs, god and homo sapiens sapiens--which are not important compared to Everything Voluntary where I believe we share the same belief? My Dog is a Ma and I have her on my leash lest we transpose our ends and she becomes my God and leads me. Happy, Hippy, New You Year of Upstream Peaceful Parenting! See you soon, I hope, in our new Forum: Free Friends (btw, earliest etymology of free and friend both are "love").
I don't believe in God, Jack. I don't believe there's no God. I don't believe in believing, which is making up your mind ahead of your experience or new facts. God, purpose, meaning are all synonyms. So the real question is whether purpose and meaning exist, other than what we make up. My experience of synchronicities and happy coincidence leads me to suspect they do. But that's not something I'd see if I wasn't leaving open the possibility of a God worth having around and being willing to question the existence of the world and myself.
Lovely phrases, New You Year of Upstream Peaceful Parenting! Great time for starting this new forum!
A favorite, must read of mine for many years has been a book few seem to know exists, unfortunately for us all:
“The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power” by Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad.
For me, it has always been about “Power-Control-Authority”--and the only Homo sapiens sapiens who live up to their double wise names that I want to live with are those who have claimed themselves as their sole and ultimate Authority (no gods, gurus or governments, thanks).
I note you are a follower/fan/believer? in “A Course in Miracles”? Joel and Diana (I knew them by email a bit, he is now dead, she still living) have a chapter on it I hope you will read. Here is a quote from it:
“It [Course] calls the world we live in an illusion to be transcended and is specific about calling all separation an illusion. It likewise denigrates the self and self-centeredness with such statements as “Either God or ego is insane.” Its central message is that through surrendering to God’s will, which is pure love, illusions will evaporate and one will be eternally at one with God. The essential methodology used to achieve this is forgiveness.
“Of more interest to us is its claim of not being authoritarian. It is overtly stated that it is not necessary to believe any of the Course’s assertions to experience the promised transformations.
“This claim is worth examining because under the guise of presenting objective truth that any seeker can find, what is actually going on is the age-old ploy of authoritarian indoctrination: A worldview is presented by an unchallengeable authority as the truth to be found. Then practices are given that reprogram and condition the mind to that viewpoint.”
We will discuss such perspectives in our new Free Friends Forum.
These quotes to leave you with:
“Contra Buddha, it is not attachment that causes suffering, rather it is lack of mature attachment that causes it.” Anonymous
“How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization. The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic. There is no hope for the frustrated in the actual and the possible. Salvation can come to them only from the miraculous, which seeps through a crack in the iron wall of inexorable reality. They asked to be deceived. The substitute for self-confidence is faith; the substitute for self-esteem is pride; and the substitute for individual balance is fusion with others into a compact group. The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of irrevocable extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter. Thus the renunciation of the self is felt as a liberation and salvation.” Eric Hoffer
If you do not have the Guru Papers book digitally, email me (responsiblyfree@protonmail.com) and I will send you a free and freeing copy.
With your deep dives into Lahaina and deep stack of open windows piled with Stacks, I'm so honored each time my posts float to the surface! I hope you get in a casual beer with friendly people this season, whether or not you can have a real convo with them. I told Tirion I hope someday the two of you have a chat over a beer or a deep cup of coffee. Glad to have you in my orbit, Steve!
The feeling is likewise Tereza. I just wish I had more time to read and listen. But playing within the limits of time for one life is a zero sum game, and in my remaining years, I've got to pick up my writing game. That, and small things ... like crows remembering a hand-out now and then, will soon enough will be all that's left of my brief flash.
Have a prosperous year Tereza, and may our orbits grow and occasionally intertwine.
Isaac, it's such a warm feeling knowing that you're watching from Down Under. When I brag about my worldly audience to my daughters, I always include you and it's given all of us a fondness for wombats (but then, who wouldn't?) Glad to have you in my life. Merry Xmas!
That's great that I have my early risers from Australia and Japan replying in order. I can track the sun by my comment thread. I hope someday you and Steve get to have a beer together. It sounds like his community of fellow conspiracy theorists is thin! Happy Christmas to you, Tirion!
What a delight to get your heartfelt message, Greg! Of course or of Course, as we say, it could be no other way. Love the idea of a future requiring shades!
So happy to have found you here on Substack, Tereza. I agree wholeheartedly with what you said in this video and look forward to witnessing what the coming year brings. 💚
As I wrote on YT, I'm so happy to have you watching and commenting, Barbara. And sharing that excitement. It feels scary to admit that in the face of everything but deep down it feels true. Much love!
A truly lovely message. Thank you, Tereza.
I wish you a wonderful Christmas with your daughters.
Here's to a charmed year! I look forward to what you will be sharing!
PS - "Hallelujah" is one of my my favorite songs too.♥️
As I wrote to your YT comment, Kathleen, thanks for being such a deep and perceptive commenter on my Substack. I always look forward to your thoughts. Blessings to you!
And which version of Hallelujah is your favorite? I'm partial to the Shrek version with Rufus Wainwright myself. Much love!
Thank. you Tereza. Love backatcha!
And, yes, Rufus for sure.
Happy Holy Daze to you too, Tereza! A lovely message from you, well received! Much love, from Fran xx
So happy to hear from you, Frances. I've felt unqualified to comment on your personal tribulations, Fran, but my heart goes out to you. I hope that 2024 is a peaceful year where all the love you give to the world comes back to you by making your road smooth and easy. Much love to you!
No need to worry about me, Tereza! I am a very tough cookie. I can handle this weird turn of events. I have recently understood better the root cause of my son's major personality change and we are convinced that 5G bleeding into our home from satellites is exacerbating this mercury retrograde and sudden assault by CMEs from the sun.
I got a heartfelt apology and "I will make it up to you, Mum!" from him a few weeks ago. I wouldn't say that we have figured out how to better protect ourselves from the electro-magnetic craziness but we are thinking of moving home..... again.
I will let everyone know if that is the solution but somehow I don't think there is anywhere in UK which escapes attention from the kill-grid.
Have plenty of Holy Daze in which to rest and recuperate, Tereza!
Thanks for all the fantastic posts you create. Your style is so original, so mind blowing that I am your undying fan! xx
Your last line, particularly coming from YOU, my Christ-friend, touched me so deeply I had to close my eyes and bask in it a moment.
And an apology! That's big. My youngest admitted the other day I had been right about something, and we were gasping, "It's a Christmas miracle!" Smiles and appreciation for your deep teachings!
How very nice to receive that in my inbox. Merry Christmas and may all of us have a happy, peaceful New Year on our way to overthrowing our slavemasters and becoming all that humankind can be.
Great way to put it, Specie!
Thank you, Tereza, for your heartfelt Season’s Greeting and A Course in Miracles poem.
As your opposite wearing my Atheist and Humanist Hat, I consider we share a Voluntaryist Halo and so in the New Year will be inviting you and others here on Substack to join our new Forum on Substack or some other interactive forum platform, tentatively titled:
“Free Friends Forum: Abandoned To Ourselves—a Voluntary Humanism, Naturalism, Individualism”
Looking forward to having your “Voluntary Transcendental, Supernatural, (mostly?) Individualism” (close?) thoughts/feelings.
“The serious study of Man, of his natural faculties and their successive developments . . . . research into political and moral life. . . . considers what we would have become, abandoned to ourselves.” Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“It [the final, complete, breakdown of the bicameral mind] said in a word that there is no authorization from outside. Behold! there is nothing there. What we must do must come from ourselves. The king at Eynan can stop staring at Mount Hermon; the dead king can die at last. We, we fragile human species at the end of the second millennium A.D., we must become our own authorization.” The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
“Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty--by ceasing to exist. A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.” God and the State by Michael Bakunin
HAPPY NEW YOU YEAR
With interest and care, Jack
Haha, I think that would be a false dichotomy, Jack, to put us as opposites ;-)
We share a belief in the goodness of other people and the courage to face the truth. That's my dogma and all the rest is just speculation, open to new experiences. Looking forward to continuing the conversation in the New Year. I love that! HAPPY NEW YOU YEAR back atcha!
Only opposites in those two beliefs, god and homo sapiens sapiens--which are not important compared to Everything Voluntary where I believe we share the same belief? My Dog is a Ma and I have her on my leash lest we transpose our ends and she becomes my God and leads me. Happy, Hippy, New You Year of Upstream Peaceful Parenting! See you soon, I hope, in our new Forum: Free Friends (btw, earliest etymology of free and friend both are "love").
I don't believe in God, Jack. I don't believe there's no God. I don't believe in believing, which is making up your mind ahead of your experience or new facts. God, purpose, meaning are all synonyms. So the real question is whether purpose and meaning exist, other than what we make up. My experience of synchronicities and happy coincidence leads me to suspect they do. But that's not something I'd see if I wasn't leaving open the possibility of a God worth having around and being willing to question the existence of the world and myself.
Lovely phrases, New You Year of Upstream Peaceful Parenting! Great time for starting this new forum!
Looking forward to conversing with you and others on these topics in the Free Friends Forum.
For me, we need to begin with definitions and I side with Voltaire
“Define your terms, you will permit me again to say, or we shall never understand one another.”
And agree with Szasz
“In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined."
One man’s dog is another woman’s god (smiling).
Get free and stay free. HAPPY HIPPY NEW YOU YEAR!
Oh! I've been saying that defining terms is the first step for years but never had those excellent quotes from Voltaire and Szasz to back it up!
A favorite, must read of mine for many years has been a book few seem to know exists, unfortunately for us all:
“The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power” by Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad.
For me, it has always been about “Power-Control-Authority”--and the only Homo sapiens sapiens who live up to their double wise names that I want to live with are those who have claimed themselves as their sole and ultimate Authority (no gods, gurus or governments, thanks).
I note you are a follower/fan/believer? in “A Course in Miracles”? Joel and Diana (I knew them by email a bit, he is now dead, she still living) have a chapter on it I hope you will read. Here is a quote from it:
“It [Course] calls the world we live in an illusion to be transcended and is specific about calling all separation an illusion. It likewise denigrates the self and self-centeredness with such statements as “Either God or ego is insane.” Its central message is that through surrendering to God’s will, which is pure love, illusions will evaporate and one will be eternally at one with God. The essential methodology used to achieve this is forgiveness.
“Of more interest to us is its claim of not being authoritarian. It is overtly stated that it is not necessary to believe any of the Course’s assertions to experience the promised transformations.
“This claim is worth examining because under the guise of presenting objective truth that any seeker can find, what is actually going on is the age-old ploy of authoritarian indoctrination: A worldview is presented by an unchallengeable authority as the truth to be found. Then practices are given that reprogram and condition the mind to that viewpoint.”
We will discuss such perspectives in our new Free Friends Forum.
These quotes to leave you with:
“Contra Buddha, it is not attachment that causes suffering, rather it is lack of mature attachment that causes it.” Anonymous
“How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization. The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic. There is no hope for the frustrated in the actual and the possible. Salvation can come to them only from the miraculous, which seeps through a crack in the iron wall of inexorable reality. They asked to be deceived. The substitute for self-confidence is faith; the substitute for self-esteem is pride; and the substitute for individual balance is fusion with others into a compact group. The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of irrevocable extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter. Thus the renunciation of the self is felt as a liberation and salvation.” Eric Hoffer
If you do not have the Guru Papers book digitally, email me (responsiblyfree@protonmail.com) and I will send you a free and freeing copy.
With interest and care, Jack
Merry Christmas, Holidays, Hanukkah, Kwanza (and typical working day here in Japan for corivds and tin-foil crazies alike) to ya Tereza! 😘
With your deep dives into Lahaina and deep stack of open windows piled with Stacks, I'm so honored each time my posts float to the surface! I hope you get in a casual beer with friendly people this season, whether or not you can have a real convo with them. I told Tirion I hope someday the two of you have a chat over a beer or a deep cup of coffee. Glad to have you in my orbit, Steve!
The feeling is likewise Tereza. I just wish I had more time to read and listen. But playing within the limits of time for one life is a zero sum game, and in my remaining years, I've got to pick up my writing game. That, and small things ... like crows remembering a hand-out now and then, will soon enough will be all that's left of my brief flash.
Have a prosperous year Tereza, and may our orbits grow and occasionally intertwine.
steve
Merry Xmas et al. Tereza
Isaac, it's such a warm feeling knowing that you're watching from Down Under. When I brag about my worldly audience to my daughters, I always include you and it's given all of us a fondness for wombats (but then, who wouldn't?) Glad to have you in my life. Merry Xmas!
Thank you very much, Tereza. Happy Christmas to you and yours!
That's great that I have my early risers from Australia and Japan replying in order. I can track the sun by my comment thread. I hope someday you and Steve get to have a beer together. It sounds like his community of fellow conspiracy theorists is thin! Happy Christmas to you, Tirion!
Tears. Of Joy. So happy. I found you. When I did. But, of course, it could be no other way.
To quote another song writer. "The future is so bight, I gotta wear shades". Blessings to you.
What a delight to get your heartfelt message, Greg! Of course or of Course, as we say, it could be no other way. Love the idea of a future requiring shades!
Thanks. For your listening pleasure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY
So happy to have found you here on Substack, Tereza. I agree wholeheartedly with what you said in this video and look forward to witnessing what the coming year brings. 💚
As I wrote on YT, I'm so happy to have you watching and commenting, Barbara. And sharing that excitement. It feels scary to admit that in the face of everything but deep down it feels true. Much love!
Beautiful poetry, thank you for sharing!
A revolution IS needed now.
I am grateful to be here.
I am planning on taking excellent care of myself and others moving forward.
A time of engagement, indeed!
Funny you should mention a Course in Miracles, it came across my awareness several times in the last couple of months.
"How will world end?"
"It will end in joy because it is a place of sorrow"
Fitting. That's what I always thought.
"It will end in peace because it is a place of war"
"……….end in laughter because it is a place of tears…….."
The Holy Dark:
“Coincidence is Gods way of keeping her anonymity” – love that.
I am grateful for the community like you are.
You are a really engaging reader. I enjoy your videos. Althea later!
Heck yeah. It was awesome Tereza. Hope to see more if you feel so inclined.
Beautiful message and poem! Thanks so much for sharing it and for the Holiday Blessings. Merry Christmas to your and yours!
Oh you inspired me to include that poem. It seemed a bit risky but I thought, if you can do it, I can dare. Merry Christmas to you, VP!
❤️💞❤️