tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62985119876616346402024-03-06T12:02:39.752-08:00Morten TolbollMorten Tolboll - BlogMorten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.comBlogger586125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-33998240425502639422023-08-08T01:22:00.003-07:002023-08-19T08:24:43.522-07:00The Success of Putin´s Operation Mindfuck<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW7XPQxdCsmam-dxwU3F7bm8gcMXZXARSt-gXFsK_Xs167N5EOTJt_B-MgbuKqEcszm8jN99tsQ6EE1snknsVO-zF59PXuam0LPerCU-rhczv76wC8N7A9vNmQs7_GtM5DxlW5_TEuc3xnqjzohGenrpIodJXd_51Lf7h3iWOh1kBNFFDee7g96ptlf3eC/s768/OM_MEMO-768x426.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="768" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW7XPQxdCsmam-dxwU3F7bm8gcMXZXARSt-gXFsK_Xs167N5EOTJt_B-MgbuKqEcszm8jN99tsQ6EE1snknsVO-zF59PXuam0LPerCU-rhczv76wC8N7A9vNmQs7_GtM5DxlW5_TEuc3xnqjzohGenrpIodJXd_51Lf7h3iWOh1kBNFFDee7g96ptlf3eC/w400-h223/OM_MEMO-768x426.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the same way as I was surprised over how suddenly we saw the
potential violent aspects of New Age coming into expression with the storm of
Capitol Hill (see my article: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/how-the-corona-crisis-has-exposed-new-age-as-a-potential-violent-movement.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How the Corona Crisis Has Exposed
New Age as a Potential Violent Movement</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">), we also now see how the
aspects of, what I in past texts has called "Putin´s Destabilization
Programs", suddenly now have exploded in concrete war and progaganda.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">In my article, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/yuval-noah-harari-a-neoliberal-marionette-puppet-in-the-dance-between-surveillance-capitalism-and-chinese-communism.html"><span lang="EN-US">Yuval Noah Harari: A Neoliberal
Marionette Puppet in the Dance Between Surveillance Capitalism and Chinese
Communism</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">, I wrote about Russia as an active player in the systematic
destabilization of the Western World (a destabilization project you can trace
back to </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/the-godgame.html"><span lang="EN-US">The Godgame</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">). I wrote about how Russia
also uses new technologies such as cyberattacks and fake news. And that they
even have a special action group called 29155. It is a topsecret unity of
agents specialized in “destabilization” in foreign countries. In the Spanish
newspaper, El País, there was an article called </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/11/22/inenglish/1574408509_081088.html"><span lang="EN-US">Western intelligence services
tracked Russian spy in Catalonia</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">. The subtitle is:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><i>Spain’s High Court is investigating whether a GRU official named Denis
Sergeev, who carried out subversive actions across Europe and Asia, also tried
to destabilize the region during its 2017 independence drive.<br />
</i> <br />
In October 2019, New York Times brought an article called, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/world/europe/unit-29155-russia-gru.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to
Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. It begins:<br />
<br />
<i>First came a destabilization campaign in Moldova, followed by the poisoning
of an arms dealer in Bulgaria and then a thwarted coup in Montenegro. Last
year, there was an </i></span><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/world/europe/sergei-skripal-russian-spy-poisoning.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">attempt to assassinate a former
Russian spy</span></a></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> in Britain using a nerve agent. Though the
operations bore the fingerprints of Russia’s intelligence services, the
authorities initially saw them as isolated, unconnected attacks.<br />
<br />
Western security officials have now concluded that these operations, and
potentially many others, are part of a coordinated and ongoing campaign to
destabilize Europe, executed by an elite unit inside the Russian intelligence
system skilled in subversion, sabotage and assassination.<br />
</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <br />
If you believe that most people now understand the above, I dare to claim that
you are wrong. <i>The Godgame </i>is far more sinister. Read more below
the image.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzGsHpaU3W0bJ3QgfT-B3J7C3gnyj3eNSYPBoG_CEW-xHPqoVjRlXA0RA6d_3lT59H-iVN4a-YtIc2FuRAl_f4eZkuU_z51JRVg-NgfpHYGvR7dpNe3ZBxnEQ24cJKXUev6gk5ih2kp4crAVvhMbGf3q6HPu7H3mphd2ht80RCwcHzPZdu1coZm4qwYhF/s750/SJ_ILLUMINATI-493x750.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="493" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzGsHpaU3W0bJ3QgfT-B3J7C3gnyj3eNSYPBoG_CEW-xHPqoVjRlXA0RA6d_3lT59H-iVN4a-YtIc2FuRAl_f4eZkuU_z51JRVg-NgfpHYGvR7dpNe3ZBxnEQ24cJKXUev6gk5ih2kp4crAVvhMbGf3q6HPu7H3mphd2ht80RCwcHzPZdu1coZm4qwYhF/w263-h400/SJ_ILLUMINATI-493x750.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The concept of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putinversteher"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Putinversteher </span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(a complete new
Wikipedia post), is about Western people - originating in Germany - who
"understands Putin". It is a phenomena which is closely related to
what I above called the destabilization of the Western countries. The concept
of Putinversteher can also be called the most eye-catching manifestation of
what </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Fukuyama#Views_following_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Francis Fukuyama</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> calls
the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth_politics"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">post-factual society</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, created by
postmodernism, completely with post-truths, disinformation, fake news,
conspiracy theories, manufactured controversy, etc., etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Examples of Putinverstehers: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrike_Gu%C3%A9rot"><span lang="EN-US">Ulrike Guérot</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">, who
pseudoscientifically claims that it is "documented" and
"scientifically verified" that it was Ukraine that provoked Russia -
see her book </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endspiel_Europa"><span lang="EN-US">Endspiel Europa</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">. Not surprisingly,
her inspiration is an American political "scientist", </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mearsheimer#Ukraine"><span lang="EN-US">John Mearsheimer</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">. He has written
the article: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-the-Ukraine-Crisis-Is.pdf"><span lang="EN-US">Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West´s
Fault</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">In my article, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/donald-trump-the-matrix-dictionary.html"><span lang="EN-US">A Critique of Donald Trump</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (which, with
the criminal case against him, has become highly relevant again), I wrote about
the post-factual situation in America, that has influenced the concept of
Putinverstehers. So, this is a direct counter-view of how America, according to
Putinverstehers, is influencing the world. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">As usual, what I want people to investigate is the philosophies lying
behind concrete worldviews, in this case: postmodernism. With an expression
lend from Lenin, Putinverstehers could be called: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot"><span lang="EN-US">Useful Idiots</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Related articles:</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putinism"><span lang="EN-US">Putinism</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (Wikipedia)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Ilyin"><span lang="EN-US">Ivan Ilyin</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (Ilyin is called Putin´s
war philosopher)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2018/03/16/ivan-ilyin-putins-philosopher-of-russian-fascism/"><span lang="EN-US">Ivan Ilyin, Putin´s Philosopher of
Russian Fascism</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">, by Timothy Snyder</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://duclarion.com/2022/04/how-understanding-philosopher-ivan-ilyin-can-give-insight-into-vladimir-putin/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How Understanding Philosopher Ivan
Ilyin can Give Insight into Vladimir Putin</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, by Hampton Terrell </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://weirdoverse.com/living-in-a-raw-world" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Living in a RAW World - a Brief
History of the Discordian Revolution</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> - by Bobby Campbell.</span></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-2303143204979679242023-07-31T04:13:00.003-07:002023-08-11T15:22:03.930-07:00Playing the Tarot Game with Lucifer in Venice<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9SlHLk2qy134g5JqyeyRIPF0Up9rSvmpEibcSsETvv-hH9YgQTEaYVy_-01Cu9TR8_D3Eb0M4ccfKMo1-0rm2f3DCBTRCIBvyuzSMTwtOzAv9yXGoxhPCrgJvyS9kHPkrQtfE6XaNZ0q2Xn8vNRigASmHAVWTessx_RfPm208DFXqSHxSXubifzn-vKyI/s4080/%C3%A5tarot10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3060" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9SlHLk2qy134g5JqyeyRIPF0Up9rSvmpEibcSsETvv-hH9YgQTEaYVy_-01Cu9TR8_D3Eb0M4ccfKMo1-0rm2f3DCBTRCIBvyuzSMTwtOzAv9yXGoxhPCrgJvyS9kHPkrQtfE6XaNZ0q2Xn8vNRigASmHAVWTessx_RfPm208DFXqSHxSXubifzn-vKyI/w300-h400/%C3%A5tarot10.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the end of my satirical ebook, <a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/the-godgame.html">The Godgame</a>, I
wrote that I made a pact with Lucifer that if I played the Tarot game with his
guidelines, I would be rewarded with the ability of vagabonding the world. The
game was about self-transformation.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Since I was in Venice when my first game with Lucifer occurred, I chose <i>The
Venetian Tarot</i>. Also because of a remembrance of Robert Anton Wilson´s book:
<i>Masks of the Illuminati</i>.</span></p><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsIsfh7C4__SMttLBUuS0AtN9CpKXWZBeP-5UzNyh04PATgM94OqHOafBUZke6M4W2sF8DX_NWdaIO5zN078fliKFhADlFesdQEUsAQ8WQkZ9RgSBH61JTtOLitA4-lPLBMXPbSNY-XKOG_d1ivqx47v8qrowUDbqXDGTvxtJS6R9mB6PsWxGzioKIHSeq/s4080/%C3%A5tarot9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3060" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsIsfh7C4__SMttLBUuS0AtN9CpKXWZBeP-5UzNyh04PATgM94OqHOafBUZke6M4W2sF8DX_NWdaIO5zN078fliKFhADlFesdQEUsAQ8WQkZ9RgSBH61JTtOLitA4-lPLBMXPbSNY-XKOG_d1ivqx47v8qrowUDbqXDGTvxtJS6R9mB6PsWxGzioKIHSeq/w300-h400/%C3%A5tarot9.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Lucifer said that we in the game would work with my whole self, and see
The Major Arcana as archetypes of the soul and their influence upon me; the
Court Cards as aspects of my personality, and the Numbered/Pip cards of the
Minor Arcana as the ground for interaction between my soul and my personality –
where and how I express myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lucifer asked: “Who are you?” – and then he gave me four statements: “Which
of them fits you the most closely?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I chose this: “I feel young and innocent most of the time. Sometimes
this makes me feel uncomfortable or embarrassed when I´m in the company of
other adults who seem so ‘grown-up’. I feel as if I have so much potential that
I´m only beginning to explore”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Well”, Lucifer said, “then your personality will be best described by
the Page card, or Knave, as he is called in this Tarot deck”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And then he smiled: “or the Princess card”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Here Lucifer clearly referred to Aleister Crowley. Crowley was regarded
as a Black Magician by many and as the Magus of the New Aeon by some, and had a
contradictory reputation as heroic mountain climber, poet, bisexual pioneer
Hippy, alchemist, sadistic prankster, worker of wonders and charlatan who
titulated himself: <i>The Great Beast 666</i>.</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheGhWb_Ev9YCFNRbUKPELbSZc96UzPShG6P2fD1PnZJye23TThii_ACCv3Fx1eVOSM_GqFplivk6Qw_sVkjMa1sue2ENLZjLNwNFyI3UB-0LXPLk_5fHwOdXM562Sq4FmkEHgu21PcDUZ_EG1AIaA8tVdbO_UizhL3o-SsgGkzU6a-m1kFzIpL7XR1K1XU/s4080/%C3%A5tarot8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3060" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheGhWb_Ev9YCFNRbUKPELbSZc96UzPShG6P2fD1PnZJye23TThii_ACCv3Fx1eVOSM_GqFplivk6Qw_sVkjMa1sue2ENLZjLNwNFyI3UB-0LXPLk_5fHwOdXM562Sq4FmkEHgu21PcDUZ_EG1AIaA8tVdbO_UizhL3o-SsgGkzU6a-m1kFzIpL7XR1K1XU/w300-h400/%C3%A5tarot8.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I remember what Timothy Leary said about the Tarot in </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">The Game of
Life</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> (following Crowley):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">"The current version of the the European-Hive 52-card deck contains
a Jack but no Jill. This elimination of the nubile, sexually alive female from
the Western deck reflects the sexual asymmetry of the hive-culture." (page
52).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Leary continued:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">"This gay Tarot currently in vogue is sexually chauvinistic and
magnetically imbalanced. King, Queen, Knight and Page. The Knight is paired
with a young boy! The Tarot court cards of the heterosexual out-cast Aleister
Crowley reflect sexual balance. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Knight,
Queen, Prince, Princess!"</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lucifer continued:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">”And now you have to determine your suit. Once you know which suit you
belong to, you will know your court card. So, now ask yourself which of the
following four descriptions best fits you.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I chose: “I´m a sensitive, emotional person. I feel very deeply, and can
cry easily. My heart goes out to people and animals who are suffering, and I
feel drawn to the arts and the healing professions”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Well”, Lucifer said, “then your suit is cups”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p>"</o:p></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Understood”, I said, “my Court Card is Knave of…, or… Princess of Cups”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuJ0H7a-mY0W-9biQtRsz4q8rDivB7GbvUpnZuGdo-ulokgpLOeePOexMgMhGPywqmWRloII4BgoA0AYq1FSdGYQ8cNUpxCn6tO0BlJ5fEymwB21zulpYR5wtIe3qesr_jEXokllf9OeZlq0fIVLc0WHaIQiJEvhVwba6ukWAbhdp3pG-hnfhgIBcjMRgQ/s4080/%C3%A5tarot4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3060" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuJ0H7a-mY0W-9biQtRsz4q8rDivB7GbvUpnZuGdo-ulokgpLOeePOexMgMhGPywqmWRloII4BgoA0AYq1FSdGYQ8cNUpxCn6tO0BlJ5fEymwB21zulpYR5wtIe3qesr_jEXokllf9OeZlq0fIVLc0WHaIQiJEvhVwba6ukWAbhdp3pG-hnfhgIBcjMRgQ/w300-h400/%C3%A5tarot4.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjwNQ1gIsc8wfM_HAI2DYU8uGAase3XX7qltbCZeYyE9cw4wUDptBqJDqZqQDF9R0SUaeidh2bf8Zy1swQuw8OHgyY9UOUEaVamy5gfPEMT1EoFubCyA_jDLEZdbDCk8Qw5_6pMZJBJtoTj2JRKrd3Pi1dcsxQ6mhPrvbtHyWsJPVTbIucQErBHyaknLyH/s4080/%C3%A5tarot1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3060" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjwNQ1gIsc8wfM_HAI2DYU8uGAase3XX7qltbCZeYyE9cw4wUDptBqJDqZqQDF9R0SUaeidh2bf8Zy1swQuw8OHgyY9UOUEaVamy5gfPEMT1EoFubCyA_jDLEZdbDCk8Qw5_6pMZJBJtoTj2JRKrd3Pi1dcsxQ6mhPrvbtHyWsJPVTbIucQErBHyaknLyH/w300-h400/%C3%A5tarot1.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But now Lucifer tricked me: “Now we will explore aspects of you which
may be as yet unexpressed or unknown to you. By becoming aware of these ‘hidden’
or ‘shadow’ aspects of your personality you greatly assist the process of your
self-transformation”.</span></p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“So”, he said, “we need to determine your Shadow Card. And remember, in
this game we consider the Knave as a Princess. So, since your Court Card is
female, your Shadow Card is male. Since your Court Card is young, your Shadow Card
is old (ie King). And, since your Court Card is Cups, your Shadow Card is
Swords”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Ok”, I said, as the final remark in this round of the game, “my Shadow
Card is <i><b>King of Swords</b></i>”.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Location: Hotel Carlton on the Grand Canal, Venice, Italy.</span></i></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-81773805595449114692023-07-28T00:16:00.002-07:002023-08-10T07:59:26.525-07:00Reflections on Patrick Valenza´s book: The Deviant Moon Tarot<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaRNG3ZPUgAhJM7qGI3fFDZn7EoacqsNNnasGprP0I7dZh5kI110zxILpnxx1EPM0BWTuRwF-_mu41H5wuQTdCT0TnFNB3XORfMOgkqbUT_MINGDrs57vbzSoAhxtfBghoK3PlARtfzEAcGaLVAKOIW5st12YUXzrHn2hTwyt_DJOTNbJvUUcQpEH8ILOx/s1000/%C3%A5valenza2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="808" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaRNG3ZPUgAhJM7qGI3fFDZn7EoacqsNNnasGprP0I7dZh5kI110zxILpnxx1EPM0BWTuRwF-_mu41H5wuQTdCT0TnFNB3XORfMOgkqbUT_MINGDrs57vbzSoAhxtfBghoK3PlARtfzEAcGaLVAKOIW5st12YUXzrHn2hTwyt_DJOTNbJvUUcQpEH8ILOx/w324-h400/%C3%A5valenza2.jpg" width="324" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The below images are from the beautiful book on “The Deviant Moon Tarot”, by
artist Patrick Valenza.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This tarot deck has become quite fascinating to me. In the book Valenza
tells that the creation of the deck has been a lifelong journey. It began in
the mid-1970s when he was nine years old. He was in a shopping mall with his
parents and discovered his first tarot deck in an obscure corridor of the mall.
He knew that he had to possess whatever lay hidden inside that mystical
cardboard box.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then the rise of the Deviant Moon began, and Valenza started painting
the first illustrations at a very young age. Hereafter he began using digital
photo manipulations of photos from cemeteries, a nearby abandoned insane asylum
and places across Long Island, New York. The tombstone photos began to become
the capes, boots, hats and robes worn by the Deviant Moon citizens. Photos from
the insane asylum, and long island, created the background buildings pictured
in the cards. Rotted doors, windows and walls became castles, factories and
cities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Valenza tells that he, as a child, felt he was born with past-life
memories. Visions of an insane harlequin dancing through a Venetian canal had
always been a part of his childhood imagination:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4yM77TaToyIhelvrBPmCY54KFFIPFGlnq0X6f2SVuPd2sH5YujKj0lpZNKPVU_KiPvFCkDsxcJsaMhLCfXOsJyCBLFiSOS1LGweuxfYMB9hdlTYS4oaDEXkCpj09gJtxLjHaxgd062qkGit_P_aldmp3wSsCd313TZSA4_DPxFmeF5yQBktfSJyozowfa/s4080/%C3%A5deviant4b%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4yM77TaToyIhelvrBPmCY54KFFIPFGlnq0X6f2SVuPd2sH5YujKj0lpZNKPVU_KiPvFCkDsxcJsaMhLCfXOsJyCBLFiSOS1LGweuxfYMB9hdlTYS4oaDEXkCpj09gJtxLjHaxgd062qkGit_P_aldmp3wSsCd313TZSA4_DPxFmeF5yQBktfSJyozowfa/w400-h300/%C3%A5deviant4b%20(2).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc49zeAdosuCBBDfYPwrqe0G7lJjkrTTN87rphQ57UIKErgL4QB3pRvUC6Iv81y3PbwfVe4IfvOhvFv0TONno0Awn83exuwiYoAtuYZzbkYDzq-mwgRu8-yKBmSAGnPyz6LhhvmtNBUfwVw2gca0pv9AGJPbZh0GdENpCD-RYL-_fDqaAijOfjj14ma70i/s4080/%C3%A5deviant4b%20(3).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc49zeAdosuCBBDfYPwrqe0G7lJjkrTTN87rphQ57UIKErgL4QB3pRvUC6Iv81y3PbwfVe4IfvOhvFv0TONno0Awn83exuwiYoAtuYZzbkYDzq-mwgRu8-yKBmSAGnPyz6LhhvmtNBUfwVw2gca0pv9AGJPbZh0GdENpCD-RYL-_fDqaAijOfjj14ma70i/w400-h300/%C3%A5deviant4b%20(3).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When Valenza tells about the chess game found in the Ten of Pentacles,
and that his inspiration for the machine found in the Eight of Pentacles came
from one of his favorite teenage drawings, I myself come to think of my free ebook: <a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/the-godgame.html">The Godgame</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The Chess Game:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibQgeb82jJ8Fl_qBu5RrWal8dD9b4BXMFk5cb-1gPzLND-L1RbDfNs5zdOVP6SAAd5fvXXLD2PJVdclIC3JZL7930M3uPWczBwQAkh5k2jV79VxEn_S9OxnwXMb9waZaDMrVxQB1fnDRVhmbBdmP-oYmQrjybp-SkcTzivrnMzuef4UMw_ZYXNxsGwn2BU/s4080/%C3%A5deviant4ba%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibQgeb82jJ8Fl_qBu5RrWal8dD9b4BXMFk5cb-1gPzLND-L1RbDfNs5zdOVP6SAAd5fvXXLD2PJVdclIC3JZL7930M3uPWczBwQAkh5k2jV79VxEn_S9OxnwXMb9waZaDMrVxQB1fnDRVhmbBdmP-oYmQrjybp-SkcTzivrnMzuef4UMw_ZYXNxsGwn2BU/w400-h300/%C3%A5deviant4ba%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqdbOSTknK_yoojD6VIP2kaeNsIOPtf5xzBWIOkPECzhCD8oLE0QGZ6RpPYLaWoU5eEVoocdCxbrm09AOXM-KwDbyXdhz1wn6McvH9UfhFBcHFUaD6fUsjwEnmHxg2FDuFetSplebxYbOGftH6Ok3j0ogbR5dXaMRS_aW1Ap32F9SCpkJMhuDsFl2Sa_UX/s4080/%C3%A5deviant4c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqdbOSTknK_yoojD6VIP2kaeNsIOPtf5xzBWIOkPECzhCD8oLE0QGZ6RpPYLaWoU5eEVoocdCxbrm09AOXM-KwDbyXdhz1wn6McvH9UfhFBcHFUaD6fUsjwEnmHxg2FDuFetSplebxYbOGftH6Ok3j0ogbR5dXaMRS_aW1Ap32F9SCpkJMhuDsFl2Sa_UX/w400-h300/%C3%A5deviant4c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The Machine:</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsVV-S6q4kke6D89txgl2ppZZKszw1IuUJ4AC6jmyEeZd-YCt_Wmw5oy6JrcTt3IWTcHUS5ZY1YzilfH3WKsjgOsfXDeUwU_mKPTQWWDrBiRrrm8vr85LMEgsg5wUL73sgSOOZwq-j2V3d8UbKNvFjwhBcDz_9Z2FrgbpM86pwMd6_lSPzEwN5ZnE8us4Q/s4080/%C3%A5deviant4b%20(4).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsVV-S6q4kke6D89txgl2ppZZKszw1IuUJ4AC6jmyEeZd-YCt_Wmw5oy6JrcTt3IWTcHUS5ZY1YzilfH3WKsjgOsfXDeUwU_mKPTQWWDrBiRrrm8vr85LMEgsg5wUL73sgSOOZwq-j2V3d8UbKNvFjwhBcDz_9Z2FrgbpM86pwMd6_lSPzEwN5ZnE8us4Q/w400-h300/%C3%A5deviant4b%20(4).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsiTgAe4S8EhWiJAmkfpbPPlDyoPANvMMdZbDXhpBvgdQBExFdXBQ8oTf4UXUmpPrMI-Pz7L-Li3XXhbrXsrQBgDOakLOHuvfLBzVrB9PPzBqNgPLVI4VhOiu8LWetKSrO5LvP5GASt3x-jtKv5mp938wPvNl8NW3rI10HyVA0WakRskat1wJCfbTHRc5x/s4080/%C3%A5deviant4b%20(5).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsiTgAe4S8EhWiJAmkfpbPPlDyoPANvMMdZbDXhpBvgdQBExFdXBQ8oTf4UXUmpPrMI-Pz7L-Li3XXhbrXsrQBgDOakLOHuvfLBzVrB9PPzBqNgPLVI4VhOiu8LWetKSrO5LvP5GASt3x-jtKv5mp938wPvNl8NW3rI10HyVA0WakRskat1wJCfbTHRc5x/w400-h300/%C3%A5deviant4b%20(5).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When you see Valenza´s satirical “newspaper adds” I myself come to think
about “the signs from the rebels”: wall paintings, graffiti, weird adds, etc.,
that inspire you to drop out of the Machine, or the Hamster Wheel, and find
your way to an unmapped Pirate Utopia:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB9zniOJdA6UyddZnRVeGwOhDDoQrfeFNpr4qrrJmytRrbYszI196KXhvhwv0bhbqF3Jv6jQYxQA1SWe_IoGUYx9FITmm86nAKFb3w9q_qe46c1pwKxQocR_n3sTuA9kEdmZ8zuiggRHTtaBheGEFz-ni0fJBIMwof0fKSBVcepGzGAuDcFn9MwDZKgvzX/s4080/%C3%A5deviant5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB9zniOJdA6UyddZnRVeGwOhDDoQrfeFNpr4qrrJmytRrbYszI196KXhvhwv0bhbqF3Jv6jQYxQA1SWe_IoGUYx9FITmm86nAKFb3w9q_qe46c1pwKxQocR_n3sTuA9kEdmZ8zuiggRHTtaBheGEFz-ni0fJBIMwof0fKSBVcepGzGAuDcFn9MwDZKgvzX/w400-h300/%C3%A5deviant5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmME2M8PGnsntaYkqWbkv3QEYUrP5cgl3htlT3IXOtlzRIOAeSC31wXnyutJlCuknESNS-RRNsAudKL9aY-PX6i4W93q6JA7AbojLiiPB9NIt97EaMfkCsQIPruVOi5QYfv90SKpDlCHhNQFSicAvPqKIi-k7B_FhpGaJIpK4Og7Nnc1WzW3Knay97Pd2j/s4080/%C3%A5deviant6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmME2M8PGnsntaYkqWbkv3QEYUrP5cgl3htlT3IXOtlzRIOAeSC31wXnyutJlCuknESNS-RRNsAudKL9aY-PX6i4W93q6JA7AbojLiiPB9NIt97EaMfkCsQIPruVOi5QYfv90SKpDlCHhNQFSicAvPqKIi-k7B_FhpGaJIpK4Og7Nnc1WzW3Knay97Pd2j/w400-h300/%C3%A5deviant6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-56865664760212290222023-07-27T23:42:00.007-07:002023-08-10T07:59:29.532-07:00Look at nature! All nature loafs, while Man alone works for a living!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMnXox6hwDU0xWFxZm4I1khoqoHpW-K_H1sNRX7hJg5JWMk07tzkvU_tYveIj4cWPhPPkKrWRMzJS5KoZhVrFj4uUtb9QO8cQiHyjyZwjWGS01OJkOgA-4lbPJVrws3sNl35o7cb3fwnY1KjYB2WwKucbDBvXMyUAdjD5Vx1kh9VmIG5py-LhMZ4PVtVqj/s1026/zdruid.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="627" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMnXox6hwDU0xWFxZm4I1khoqoHpW-K_H1sNRX7hJg5JWMk07tzkvU_tYveIj4cWPhPPkKrWRMzJS5KoZhVrFj4uUtb9QO8cQiHyjyZwjWGS01OJkOgA-4lbPJVrws3sNl35o7cb3fwnY1KjYB2WwKucbDBvXMyUAdjD5Vx1kh9VmIG5py-LhMZ4PVtVqj/w245-h400/zdruid.webp" width="245" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">From: <a href="https://druidry.org/druid-way/other-paths/wicca-druidcraft/druidcraft-tarot">The DruidCraft Tarot</a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">The Fool in the Tarot game is a return to
childhood. My concept of </span><i style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/the-peter-pan-project.html">The Peter Pan Project</a></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> builds on
this. And this is again connected to philosophy. Poetry, storytelling and
philosophy melt together. If we take Wordsworth´s poem, </span><i style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">"Ode:
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"</i><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">, we
can see how deeply imbued it is with a kind of natural Platonism. The poem
begins with the famous lines:<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><i style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">
The earth, and every common sight,<br />
To me did seem<br />
Apparelled in celestial light,<br />
The glory and the freshness of a dream.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Shortly
thereafter, we read:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><i style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,<br />
Hath had elsewhere its setting,<br />
And cometh from afar:<br />
Not in entire forgetfulness,<br />
And not in utter nakedness,<br />
But trailing clouds of glory do we come</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<o:p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The primary ideas
here, so beautifully evoked, come from Plato, and although the speaker is
chagrined about the loss of the “visionary gleam” available in childhood and in
nature, where he is naturally “Nature´s Priest,” he also recognizes that
nonetheless these riches remain accessible. The child is a “best
philosopher…Haunted for ever by the eternal mind – “ And, Wordsworth writes,
even though the weight of years bears down on us, to each of us is given
“primal sympathy” and the consolation of “the philosophical mind.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The above piece is from the end of my article: <a href="https://mortentolboll.blogspot.com/2019/08/my-life-as-vagabond.html">My Life as a Vagabond</a>.</span></p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-43343797427042834732022-02-18T00:58:00.010-08:002023-08-09T03:46:27.738-07:00The Cartographer Who Stole Lucifer´s Dreams<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJw15W0MCson7M19fV1PkGXsGEM34Miah_GwL-oVgT8wBNNfcldHRAgv3jZgOOwok3prKbO79gXZ67cFVyUED1L6eDWpYLQOWJ9Q-EAlEIWT12cfRHOkiYIcE0dJpqwDW8UlW7HBmvhvrME7c5YFUOHBtdoW5rbGzm4AW3WF0eLPN95F_ozq3CQIq5IFM-/s2480/venice5%20(1%20of%201).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1653" data-original-width="2480" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJw15W0MCson7M19fV1PkGXsGEM34Miah_GwL-oVgT8wBNNfcldHRAgv3jZgOOwok3prKbO79gXZ67cFVyUED1L6eDWpYLQOWJ9Q-EAlEIWT12cfRHOkiYIcE0dJpqwDW8UlW7HBmvhvrME7c5YFUOHBtdoW5rbGzm4AW3WF0eLPN95F_ozq3CQIq5IFM-/w400-h266/venice5%20(1%20of%201).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Smoke from the Monastery of Light and Darkness". </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo by Morten Tolboll. Location: Cannaregio, Venice, Italy</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">In
his novel, "<i>A Mapmakers Dream - The Meditations of Fra Mauro,
Cartographer to the Court of Venice</i>", James Cowan writes the story
that in sixteenth-century Venice, in an island monastery, a cloistered monk
experiences the adventure of a lifetime - all within the confines of his cell,
the book tells the story of fra Mauro and his struggle to realise his life´s
work: to make a perfect map - one that represents the full breadth of creation.
News of his project attracts explorers, pilgrims, travellers, and merchants,
all eager to contribute their accounts of faraway people and places; and as
Mauro listens to their strange tales, his map begins to grow and take shape. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">In the process,
the boundaries of his world are pushed to the extreme, raising questions about
the relationship between representation, imagination and the nature of reality
itself.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is a known fact that Fra
Mauro, who died in 1459 at a very old age, worked in a sort of map-making
laboratory with his assistants in the convent of San Michele; in addition to
the fabulous map of the world, it produced a cosmographic map commissioned
directly by King Alfonso V of Portugal, and another magnificent work now
conserved in the Apostolic Library of the Vatican.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">How this monk could draw his
maps without ever having travelled is history shrouded in mystery. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2EIdX9ul7UbSmUo4lb4ivrjUaWz0rTg_fiddHrQlLzCS3oZ9xl603JE0lkxdAUMLmNOJl4tGDkqwiR2LvqIdu5H_z3WhFh5z6kQu6NRNpHqH3Y6CKkoA6i9IGPH_BNsVcWJFpR8frrXyYmTktWYzvQQQOlgA11yLR5uIHHQFzmb9CtNoyUKQ8V0bhoQ=s4128" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4128" data-original-width="3096" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2EIdX9ul7UbSmUo4lb4ivrjUaWz0rTg_fiddHrQlLzCS3oZ9xl603JE0lkxdAUMLmNOJl4tGDkqwiR2LvqIdu5H_z3WhFh5z6kQu6NRNpHqH3Y6CKkoA6i9IGPH_BNsVcWJFpR8frrXyYmTktWYzvQQQOlgA11yLR5uIHHQFzmb9CtNoyUKQ8V0bhoQ=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvttkbB0GY3n6XPg4quuwpVqYQzpw2E-SvkEynG7OAnFYLDuCgfw3PZsMB3JatbBGnG3SDoWPc8C-Tfev7xIDOWvkvMR_qzIrAXq-If3stppo7YIGL9cyoafFS4s8KUqtcOBATjyPihRoCclCDTEMJDt05cATqh9IP0XqWgnhGYeokTLXU9mPaljHZsg=s4128" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4128" data-original-width="3096" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvttkbB0GY3n6XPg4quuwpVqYQzpw2E-SvkEynG7OAnFYLDuCgfw3PZsMB3JatbBGnG3SDoWPc8C-Tfev7xIDOWvkvMR_qzIrAXq-If3stppo7YIGL9cyoafFS4s8KUqtcOBATjyPihRoCclCDTEMJDt05cATqh9IP0XqWgnhGYeokTLXU9mPaljHZsg=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p>The chronicles say, as Cowan writes, that he used
information brought to him by Venetian navigators, but popular legend says that
he captured his information from dreams, not his own, but the devil´s dreams. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">The monk in fact
had the extraordinary ability to concentrate Lucifer´s dreams over the island
by projecting them onto the clouds when the sky was particular overcast.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjydYQ-gp29hxsNlpA9UXAi7q2Yo76EWhByRDEP59ejpAsgcu2CfebcBMiMRF18q5PF7MKEtUtPOjEmbFbQtjSefykbTHp9TNagugtbGXFqWmoWa9VgraI0A361yJbqGSQEuJvWnG5Ff2k5RwTOGqkF9GGxrhMurKEDY4z2UIYTTHC_AYpqMk1lysLL4g=s4128" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4128" data-original-width="3096" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjydYQ-gp29hxsNlpA9UXAi7q2Yo76EWhByRDEP59ejpAsgcu2CfebcBMiMRF18q5PF7MKEtUtPOjEmbFbQtjSefykbTHp9TNagugtbGXFqWmoWa9VgraI0A361yJbqGSQEuJvWnG5Ff2k5RwTOGqkF9GGxrhMurKEDY4z2UIYTTHC_AYpqMk1lysLL4g=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p>It is well known that
throughout time the Devil´s creations have often slipped out of their creator´s
control. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This was true of his dreams too:
they often raged through the skies on medieval nights, terryfying mortals and
pointing the way to the sabbath to flocks of witches, larvae and evil spirits.
Fra Mauro had discovered how to capture them and use them to learn about the
far reaches of the world, which were still mostly uncharted. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">They represent the
turmoil of the vision of the world held in that era, which Lucifer - in his
dreams - had unchained.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNO3gH9H4EjlTbVwSaA9Ru31Wl7O9_HYDHN8wt3gDVJAd5M-a4bLIgFQA0vZy8pP5ovzVM857DoNJ7fD-85vhCIUDRaMV0vlCZKFM4NA9Oxyp5MNPPt5vwP0gtb72sUJJ-7R6LAffiCzQs8vGljnA9bDz61qmX24wYkEkPtdCo4j4Dqb2v6ou7Dl4f7w=s4128" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4128" data-original-width="3096" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNO3gH9H4EjlTbVwSaA9Ru31Wl7O9_HYDHN8wt3gDVJAd5M-a4bLIgFQA0vZy8pP5ovzVM857DoNJ7fD-85vhCIUDRaMV0vlCZKFM4NA9Oxyp5MNPPt5vwP0gtb72sUJJ-7R6LAffiCzQs8vGljnA9bDz61qmX24wYkEkPtdCo4j4Dqb2v6ou7Dl4f7w=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXbsU2qa-rBccbjDnHsy_4QNCY_fuxWmJjf5D1udGVUFuSVav4DWaL5OsmP02hVSnPPfpAFjxvRbKw4E-kUobptYn3n24sI32zYSBxedq3JT2xkT3r5NgAdWB1mxkbsFAB2tQO3X4mmZh1ELM89DGI5u2CF3sUjDLNn0S6s2nSHXbTiOg43sUIKHCLgQ=s4128" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4128" data-original-width="3096" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXbsU2qa-rBccbjDnHsy_4QNCY_fuxWmJjf5D1udGVUFuSVav4DWaL5OsmP02hVSnPPfpAFjxvRbKw4E-kUobptYn3n24sI32zYSBxedq3JT2xkT3r5NgAdWB1mxkbsFAB2tQO3X4mmZh1ELM89DGI5u2CF3sUjDLNn0S6s2nSHXbTiOg43sUIKHCLgQ=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Captured to paper by the
cartographer monk who read their profiles and bright colors on the clouds, in
the moments of fury which preceed every thunderstorm, they may still be seen
floating in the distance over the cemetery during the fiercest thunderstorms on
summer nights.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And beware of the waters surrounding
this sinister island, watch for the lights which flicker before your eyes on
the days and nights shrouded by November fog. They might belong to the candles
which burn on the floating casket of <i>The Girl Who Was Never Buried</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyTTnMOwSYhwRv68rvJSXMgeLlSIPEj0LdKE4-3V1MlX5HVfluVYxiZHRwu_eZ-zE4fBE0ys-A10l1mYCVRjPQ8hcQVsbFm1xeQazWObzzxoTA-wlQMlLw9R_uSHS01Tkw3zx_hcXxu8T7xVvvN3n8TkOAH2MRVycM8RSPyocm-n0-aGGT906mnf107g=s4128" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4128" data-original-width="3096" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyTTnMOwSYhwRv68rvJSXMgeLlSIPEj0LdKE4-3V1MlX5HVfluVYxiZHRwu_eZ-zE4fBE0ys-A10l1mYCVRjPQ8hcQVsbFm1xeQazWObzzxoTA-wlQMlLw9R_uSHS01Tkw3zx_hcXxu8T7xVvvN3n8TkOAH2MRVycM8RSPyocm-n0-aGGT906mnf107g=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sources:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A Mapmakers Dream - The
Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">, by James Cowan</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Venetian Legends and Ghost
Stories</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">, by Alberto Toso Fei</span></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-7980698482356183222021-06-23T02:27:00.003-07:002021-06-23T03:08:48.322-07:00United States of America: Homeland of the New Gurus<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3XU_eBPehdasSvyalhsTg3SLDqsaE_VaKhu08wykEZY1cs2KV4Akr9tsi8Ag3XUdiReAGqhi0Lf5-LKHaLmSpRewZUvtXEEiawUafZTp6qQTTHoPk3ZyR4BNDV6_h53i1UqL9Q0qB6m3R/s300/znewgurus.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3XU_eBPehdasSvyalhsTg3SLDqsaE_VaKhu08wykEZY1cs2KV4Akr9tsi8Ag3XUdiReAGqhi0Lf5-LKHaLmSpRewZUvtXEEiawUafZTp6qQTTHoPk3ZyR4BNDV6_h53i1UqL9Q0qB6m3R/w400-h224/znewgurus.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This post is based on a French
documentary, I´ve just seen. It is called “The New American Gurus”. View
trailer:<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a></span><o:p></o:p><p></p><p></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UQApBIAslfw" width="320" youtube-src-id="UQApBIAslfw"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So, the following is inspired
by this documentary. It is a short follow-up commentary to my article:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/united-states-of-america-homeland-of-the-matrix-conspiracy.html" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">United States of America: Homeland
of the Matrix Conspiracy</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">According to the US
Constitution, anyone can found a religion and spread its message. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Many Americans are doing just that. The range of
religious communities is diverse and stretches from sea to shining sea. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Religions are given
tax exemption and governmental neutrality, so-called “benevolent neutrality”
that allows religious organizations to exist without sponsorship and without
interference.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As the French narrator, in the
documentary, says, then this would never be allowed in France. And there are
some good reasons for why you shouldn´t allow anyone to found a religion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">As I myself have experienced
through 36 years of working with spiritual crises, I´m amazed over how many
psychic ill people who, in New Age, and the implied subjectivism and
relativism, have found a way of explaining their psychic illness away as a
“spiritual awakening”, whereafter they often start a career as guru, shaman or
spiritual teacher. As I write in my article, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/nordic-shamanism-and-forest-therapy.html"><span lang="EN-US">Nordic Shamanism and Forest Therapy</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I don´t want to call myself a
shaman. There are some specific reasons for this. One of the reasons I
stopped calling myself a shaman, was due to the many psychic ill people in this
environment who, due to New Age subjectivism and relativism, confuse their
psychic illness with spiritual constructs, as for example kundalini and
shamanic awakening. </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This is often
the case with people who would be diagnosed as skizophrenic, delusional,
bipolar, or simply disconnected and untethered from collective reality. </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Often they even
work as shamans, therapists or spiritual healers (see my article: </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://mortentolboll.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-faust-syndrome-and-end-of-time-of.html"><span lang="EN-US">The Faust Syndrome and the End of
the Time of Enlightened Masters</span></a></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">).</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For some years now, the US has
in that way been in the midst of a second "New Age" wave. Shamans,
life coaches and spiritualists are doing good business thanks to people’s
search for meaning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">In the documentary, we learn
that one current trend is self-healing using kambo, a highly toxic secretion of
the American giant macaque frog, which is administered in group ceremonies. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It leads to vomiting, palpitations and dizziness,
which adherents regard as a cleansing of the body. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">If used incorrectly, the
substance can lead to cardiac arrest.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">One guru’s career is
continuing, despite the deaths of his followers. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Life-coach James Arthur Ray was sentenced to two years in prison in
2011, after three participants in one of his workshops died in a home-made
sauna. In 2019, he celebrated his comeback in Las Vegas, and now sells
self-realization seminars for thousands of dollars. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">For his followers, it’s proof
that Ray's strategy works.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">The US has given birth to huge
sects that survive thanks to the utter financial dedication of their members. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In 2019, cult-founder Keith Raniere was convicted in a
sensational trial, having exploited and at times abused 15,000 women. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">One former member
shares the barbaric methods that were used to keep women in the cult.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This documentary takes a
journey through America’s quest for spiritual fulfillment, shedding light on
the questionable practices of self-appointed gurus.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How America became the land of
the new gurus (the following passage also appears in my blog post on Oprah Winfrey´s
interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry – I apologize for repeating
myself, but I find the repetition necessary (</span><a href="https://mortentolboll.blogspot.com/2021/06/is-it-coincidence-that-sensationalistic.html" style="font-size: 14pt;">click
here</a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> for Oprah´s interview). The passage goes:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Alfred North Whitehead was a
widely influential twentieth century philosopher and mathematician. He is
responsible for coining the following celebrated quote about Plato's enduring
influence:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The safest general
characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of
a series of footnotes to Plato</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (Process and Reality, p. 39).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In connection with Platonism,
it ought to be mentioned that there is a distinctively American form of
Platonism, fostered by the Concord School of Philosophy. The Concord
School of Philosophy was a lyceum-like series of summer lectures and
discussions of philosophy in Concord, Massachusetts from
1879 to 1888.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Starting the Concord School of
Philosophy had long been a goal of founder Amos Bronson Alcott and others
in the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism"><span lang="EN-US">Transcendental</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> movement. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The school was based partly
on Plato's Academy. Many of the school's lectures and readings
focused on reminiscences of the Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo
Emerson attended some of the school's meetings before his death, and was commemorated
after; readings from Henry David Thoreau's then-unpublished journals were
among the most popular events. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This school is fascinating in
the way that it, precisely like Plato´s academy, was spoiled by sophists (today
evolutionists), and eventually was closed as a result. In his brilliant
book American Gurus – From Transcendentalism to New Age Religion, Arthur
Versluis writes:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Broadly speaking, there were
two primary streams of thought that emerged from American Transcendentalism
and, in particular, from Emerson and Alcott. </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One was the development of distinctively American
forms of Platonism, fostered by the Concord School and its consistent inclusion
of Platonic subjects. The other was what became known as “New Thought,” later
becoming New Age, which Catherine Albanese termed “American metaphysical
religion.” </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The New Age will be part of the context for our final
chapters in this book, whereas we must turn now to consider a very different
creature, American Platonism as it engaged in battle with materialism and
evolutionism</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (page 55).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What is interesting is that
the documentary features two American gurus, which I already have examined:
James Arthur Ray and Shaman Durek:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">1) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/james-arthur-ray-and-the-sweat-lodge-tragedy.html"><span lang="EN-US">James Arthur Ray and the Sweat Lodge
Tragedy</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the end of this article I
wrote:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I am not a prophet, but I
would guess, that when Ray comes out of prison, he will continue the same
teachings, and he will rise to more success than ever. This is namely the
typical reaction in religious movements – due to the thought distortion
called Cognitive dissonance – see my book </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/a-dictionary-of-thought-distortions.html"><span lang="EN-US">A Dictionary of Though Distortions</span></a></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">This is precisely what we see
in the documentary. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">James Arthur Ray is
back with extremely expensive courses, and his old followers are also back (his
courses are very similar to Tony Robbins. The main message is how to become a
superhuman, get success and earn a lot of money, all mixed with spirituality.
The concept of the superhuman, which also Tony Robbins uses, and which are
getting more and more mainstream in New Age, reveals how much Nietzsche is
influencing the American educational system – see for example Allan Bloom´s
book: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Closing_of_the_American_Mind">The
Closing of the American Mind – How Education Has Failed Democracy and
Impoverished the Souls of Today´s Students</a>. On Nietzsche´s influence on the self-help industry: see my article, <a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/self-help-and-the-mythology-of-authenticity.html">A Critique of the Self-help Industry and the Mythology of Authenticity</a>, especially part 1: <i>The Two World-images of the Mythology of Authenticity</i>).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">2) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/ldquoshaman-durekrdquo-yet-another-american-new-thought-missionary-a-critique.html"><span lang="EN-US">“Shaman Durek”: Yet Another American
New Thought Missionary (a Critique)</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Related article, which also is
based on a documentary on American guru worship:</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/spiritual-placebo-the-matrix-dictionary.html" style="font-size: 14pt;">What
is Spiritual Placebo?</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This article is inspired by
the 2011 documentary film Kūmāré, directed by and starring American filmmaker
Vikram Gandhi, who poses as an Indian guru to satirize the New Age
movement. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjztycwqajkXc5DEQ-6s_vk4Fh5V6mOstWxvO21cVUCYTORZfZ_gcWUb0tT1TwnYpUy8pvzI3-kKL06ftKBDj6sLjasUEhlTN6PFrb7ATZi5NAFjrPF-NXQmCujt2GVHSMwcHYt-j2fZlN9/s458/zkumar%25C3%25A9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="458" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjztycwqajkXc5DEQ-6s_vk4Fh5V6mOstWxvO21cVUCYTORZfZ_gcWUb0tT1TwnYpUy8pvzI3-kKL06ftKBDj6sLjasUEhlTN6PFrb7ATZi5NAFjrPF-NXQmCujt2GVHSMwcHYt-j2fZlN9/w400-h210/zkumar%25C3%25A9.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Gandhi came up with the idea of a fictional guru while recording
another documentary film about yogis and their followers. Gandhi
transformed himself into "Sri Kumaré", an enlightened guru from
a fictional village in India. He adopted a false Indian accent and
grew out his hair and beard. In the documentary, Kumaré travels to Arizona to
spread his made-up philosophy and gain sincere followers. In the article I show,
that the consequences of adopting subjectivism and relativism, and eliminating
critical thinking, can make you a victim for any charlatan. And that´s
precisely what we see in the United States of America, and how it spreads to
the rest of the world.</span></p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Here is the trailer:</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OXUzG6YKuvo" width="320" youtube-src-id="OXUzG6YKuvo"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Here is full movie:</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8xu2z2CGVxQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="8xu2z2CGVxQ"></iframe></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Related Ebooks:</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">1) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/evolutionism---the-red-thread-in-the-matrix-conspiracy.html"><span lang="EN-US">Evolutionism - The Red Thread in The
Matrix Conspiracy</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (this ebook explains why New Age is extremely
political and activistic in its approach. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It
also explains why sophism (con artistry) is more important that philosophy
(truth-seeking). </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Finally it shows the central role of transhumanism in the Matrix
Conspiracy; the idea that humans ought to melt together with machines).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">2) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/the-tragic-new-age-confusion-of-eastern-enlightenment-and-western-idealism.html"><span lang="EN-US">The Tragic New Age Confusion of
Eastern Enlightenment and Western Subjective Idealism</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (explains how
New Age is placing enlightenment in the ordinary psychological mind, instead of
in a metaphysical/transcendent consciousness, and thereby is creating endless
examples of ego-inflation. The documentary explains that New Age is a typical
American phenomenon).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">3) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/david-jay-brown-the-matrix-dictionary.html"><span lang="EN-US">The Psychedelic Renaissance and
David Jay Brown</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (the documentary also shows the American
cultural appropriation of shamanism in connection with the use of psychedelics.
In this booklet we see how David Jay Brown claims that California is above all
other countries in evolution and spirituality).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">4) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/plastic-shamanism-the-matrix-dictionary.html"><span lang="EN-US">Plastic Shamanism versus the
Traditional Shamanic Awakening </span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">(more about the American
cultural appropriation of shamanism. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Both
James Arthur Ray´s original concept of the “spiritual warrior retreat” which
led to the Sweat Lodge Tragedy, and the newer “Shaman Durek” are examples of plastic
shamans).</span></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-9257006285636706832021-06-16T02:22:00.005-07:002022-11-25T03:23:30.966-08:00A Critique of Tony Robbins and His Mishmash of Management Theory, Psychotherapy and Spirituality<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeD8X7pe5fcAEKP9NntHP8vgXS2KV4-E1PMcnlmCbbzjRQjEuRMRju4ZnTuFo6oeeim2Ar5AZ2lb20GFmX0BXHs7EPiKUIi2ftUX5nmuKt7W2FSWH5Z_KORS7uJ_fkV8OSwomCF_cc4gE5/s1200/ztony+robbins.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeD8X7pe5fcAEKP9NntHP8vgXS2KV4-E1PMcnlmCbbzjRQjEuRMRju4ZnTuFo6oeeim2Ar5AZ2lb20GFmX0BXHs7EPiKUIi2ftUX5nmuKt7W2FSWH5Z_KORS7uJ_fkV8OSwomCF_cc4gE5/w400-h210/ztony+robbins.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TONY ROBBINS: I AM NOT YOUR
GURU, a feature documentary film about internationally renowned life and
business strategist Tony Robbins, is a revelatory cinéma vérité film that goes
behind the scenes of his mammoth seminar "Date With Destiny,"
attended by over 2,500 people in Boca Raton, Florida, each year, to give an
insider look at how one man can affect millions. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Granted never before seen access to the behind the scenes modus
operandi of this enormous event, this film captures both the immense effort of
producing this live seminar, as well as the life-changing transformations of
the participants in real time. Embedding with Tony Robbins and his team over
the course of six days, Academy Award nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger turns
an unflinching eye on Tony Robbins' powerful and uncompromising approach to
achieving success, ensuring the attendees leave "Date With Destiny"
with new perspective on the forces, thoughts, and feelings that motivate their
behavior and help them take control of their lives. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Pulling back the curtain on
Tony Robbins, a man that traverses the globe and counsels over 200,000 people
annually, including world leaders, pundits, entrepreneurs, CEOs, athletes and
celebrities, through interviews and unprecedented access, TONY ROBBINS: I AM
NOT YOUR GURU is an emotional tour de force that unveils the inner-workings of
this mega event, the zealous participants and the man himself.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Watch trailer:</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HUHMZf3qwsQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="HUHMZf3qwsQ"></iframe></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There is especially one scene
where I had enough. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Sometimes this turbo-powered
version of “Dear Abby” can seem misguided, as when he bullies a woman uncertain
about a relationship into breaking up with her boyfriend by phone at that very
moment, and where a full audience listen to it </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(understandably, he hangs up on
her, but a postscript reveals that they worked out staying together after all). In other words: an intensive use of the thought distortion called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink">Groupthink</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Quote from New York times:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUHMZf3qwsQ" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">“Tony Robbins:
I Am Not Your Guru,”</span></a></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> an immersive look at his 2014 seminar in
Boca Raton, Fla., so much is lobbed that this almost fawning documentary plays
at times like a horror movie. </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There
is something almost vampiric about this public siphoning of hurt, from the
self-loathing of a suicidal young man to the devastating anguish of a woman who
survived a childhood of sex slavery. Is she on the road to being healed, we
wonder, or has she just exchanged one possible cult for another?</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“I’m gonna show you what to do
to reshape yourself,” Mr. Robbins tells the young man, and more than 2,000
pairs of ears prick up. This is what they have come from all over the world,
and paid almost $5,000, to learn; and like a carefully honed combination of Elmer
Gantry, Dr. Phil and David Copperfield (when Mr. Robbins yanks back the
curtain, it’s your deepest psychological wound that’s revealed), their host
will not disappoint.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I have written a longer text about Tony
Robbins before, in my article:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/neuro-linguistic-programming-nlp-and-large-group-awareness-training-lgat.html" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">A Critique of Neuro-linguistic
Programming (NLP) and Large Group Awareness Training (LGAT)</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Reviews of the documentary:</b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/movies/tony-robbins-i-am-not-your-guru-review.html"><span lang="EN-US">Review: ‘Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your
Guru’ Depicts a Self-Help Prophet</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (New York Times)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/tony-robbins-i-am-not-your-guru-review-sxsw-1201731207/"><span lang="EN-US">Film Review: ‘Tony Robbins: I Am Not
Your Guru’</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">, by Dennis Harvey, Variety, March 16, 2016</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Related texts:</b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/neuro-linguistic-programming-nlp-and-large-group-awareness-training-lgat.html"><span lang="EN-US">A Critique of Neuro-linguistic
Programming (NLP) and Large Group Awareness Training (LGAT)</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (Features a longer critique of Tony Robbins)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://weebly-link/305832953551380033" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Management Theory and the Self-help Industry</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/self-help-and-the-mythology-of-authenticity.html"><span lang="EN-US">A Critique of Self-help and The
Mythology of Authenticity</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (describes how religion and philosophy
have been reduced to psychology, and how the traditional cyclic being has
been changed into a linear “becoming” – inspired by, for example, Nietzsche).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/coaching-the-matrix-dictionary.html"><span lang="EN-US">A Critique of Coaching</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (in the end
of this article, I mention the Danish psychologist Nina Østby Sæther, who, in
an article in the book Sevrealisering (page 89ff), writes, that the ideal about
the Ego-unfolding human being shows ifself, in a remarkable way, to remind
about the actual behaviour of the so-called psychopath. The resemblance steps
forward by comparing the characteristic psychopathic traits with the typical
attitude to life, which is introduced by the management theorists and the
coaching industry)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://weebly-link/263076640444974194"><span lang="EN-US">The Devastating New Age Turn Within Psychotherapy</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (general
introduction to New Age psychotherapies)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://weebly-link/659192530474573234"><span lang="EN-US">A Critique of Cathartic Psychotherapies</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (gives an
insight in the background for Tony Robbins´s "philosophy": Attack
therapy, or Confrontational therapy).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://weebly-link/663708327377322025"><span lang="EN-US">Lucifer Morningstar - a Philosophical Love Story</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (free ebook.
in the chapter called "Spiritual Vampires" - which the above quote
from New York Times also mentions - I give a further description of the attack
therapies, which grew out of American centers such as Esalen, and other
"human potential" centers, as for example EST).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://weebly-link/235950668644417805"><span lang="EN-US">A Critique of the Indian Oneness Movement and Its Use of Western Success
Coaching</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (in the documentary we see how Tony Robbins sits in a classical
meditation position. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">According to the
Oneness Movement, which he totally transformed into his own Western Self-help
theme, he is a fully enlightened master - a good story and a use of the thought
distortion "Truth by Authority" - see my ebook: <a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/a-dictionary-of-thought-distortions.html">A
Dictionary of Thought Distortions</a>).</span></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-3557633885387204362021-06-16T01:49:00.001-07:002021-06-16T01:50:43.944-07:00Is it a Coincidence That the Sensationalistic Interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry was Performed by New Age Guru Oprah Winfrey?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXeG9AzVRAcX8yHRdkqyz0HiA7fiCF3dXPOz_BvN7ZQMnId_U1RfZM37wZphPcYpD6KJ2ho0MIY6tYvKpzvNJiQwuTjls6iIvbiw-WlNHWISr1xHFYOO1UpZnX1qLaCQmay9QP-f5uQOSS/s650/zmeghanmarkle.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="650" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXeG9AzVRAcX8yHRdkqyz0HiA7fiCF3dXPOz_BvN7ZQMnId_U1RfZM37wZphPcYpD6KJ2ho0MIY6tYvKpzvNJiQwuTjls6iIvbiw-WlNHWISr1xHFYOO1UpZnX1qLaCQmay9QP-f5uQOSS/w400-h225/zmeghanmarkle.webp" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Piers Morgan has said Meghan Markle told ‘17 lies’ in her
Oprah interview.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Since I already have written a
critical article on the New Age promoter, Oprah Winfrey (</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/oprah-winfrey-the-matrix-dictionary.html"><span lang="EN-US">A Critique of Oprah Winfrey</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">), it caught my
attention when I heard about an interview called “Oprah with Meghan and Harry”.
I thought: “Why is it Oprah Winfrey, who are doing this interview?”<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Oprah with Meghan and Harry” is
a 2021 television special that was hosted by American media
personality Oprah Winfrey. The special, which featured an interview
between Winfrey and the Duchess and Duke of Sussex. The special
premiered March 7, 2021 on CBS in the United States, and premiered in
the United Kingdom the next day on ITV.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Filmed in Santa Barbara
County, California, the interview came after Prince Harry and Meghan announced
their decision to step down as working members of the British
royal family in January 2020. The interview included discussion of their
courtship, wedding, their second child's sex (female), mental health
struggles including Meghan's suicidal thoughts, and a shared sense of
abandonment in terms of emotional and financial support. Moreover, Meghan
critiqued the British monarchy as an institution, while they both
said one or more comments had been made privately to Harry by an unidentified
individual within the royal family in relation to the skin color of their then
unborn son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor. Also discussed was a royal
title for Archie, the personal security of the couple, and Harry's estrangement from
his father, Prince Charles, and brother, Prince William. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Meghan's own relationship with her estranged family
was also briefly touched upon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The interview received high
viewing figures, generated extensive media attention and mixed reaction from
political figures.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">On the March 8, 2021 edition
of ITV's morning show Good Morning Britain after the interview's U.S.
airing, anchor </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Morgan" title="Piers Morgan"><span lang="EN-US">Piers Morgan</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">—who was briefly a
friend of Meghan before she became the Duchess of Sussex, but claims she cut
him off early in her relationship with Prince Harry - disputed the veracity of
Meghan's contemplation of suicide, stating "I don't believe a word she
says. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">[...] I wouldn't believe her if she
read me a weather report."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Morgan's
remarks were met with immediate backlash from viewers and other critics. In
response to the backlash, Morgan issued a statement on Twitter on March 10,
saying, "On Monday, I said I didn't believe Meghan Markle in her Oprah
interview. I've had time to reflect on this opinion, and I still don't. Freedom
of speech is a hill I'm happy to die on." He later stated, "I think
the damage she's done to the British monarchy and to the Queen at a time when
Prince Philip is lying in hospital is enormous and frankly contemptible."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Piers Morgan has hereafter blasted
Meghan Markle for 17 “untrue, exaggerated or unprovable” slurs against the
Royal Family (see links in the end of this post).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All this made me interested in
the philosophies running beneath the thoughts of Meghan Markle (not that I
believe she is fully conscious about it). Let me explain.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I have in previous newsletters
announced a series of upcoming critical articles. They are still in progress. As
usual I describe, and criticize, the philosophies behind concrete appearances,
and not so much the appearances in themselves.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">In connection with the Meghan´s
and Harry´s interview with Oprah Winfrey I, in my newsletter, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://us3.campaign-archive.com/?u=f7d21821b93ece373f5334391&id=f1c1cf4c7f"><span lang="EN-US">September-October 2020</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">, announced an
article called:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Gender, Race and Identity
Studies (GRI) are Governmentally Approved Centers of Discrimination and Racism</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This article will investigate
the postmodern intellectualism behind, for example, this pop culture file:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/letacutes-celebrate-jk-rowling-for-having-the-courage-to-speak-up-against-the-trans-police.html" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Let´s Celebrate J.K. Rowling for
Having the Courage to Speak Up Against the Trans Police</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I also claim that
postmodernism is the intellectualism behind New Age. See my article:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/constructivism-the-postmodern-intellectualism-behind-new-age-and-the-self-help-industry.html" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Constructivism, the Postmodern
Intellectualism behind New Age and the Self-help Industry</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">These articles describe the abstract
philosophies running beneath the sensationalistic interview with Meghan Markle
and Prince Harry, performed by their neighbor in LA, New Age guru Oprah
Winfrey; LA, this straight line desert town without any great ancient culture,
without circles and without any circular center (in the end of this post I will
post links to further articles, which I will supply with comments).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">The whole interview is
followed by an enormous American press coverage, where the lies
and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensationalism"><span lang="EN-US">sensationalism </span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">in the interview
not is being questioned. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Instead Meghan´s
allegations is being taken at face value. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">However, this
will not happen in my article, despite that I know the power of
the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture"><span lang="EN-US">Cancel Culture</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (which the
above-mentioned article on Gender, Race and Identy studies will be about).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">What I write here is just a
satiric comment seen in connection with my concept of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/the-godgame.html"><span lang="EN-US">the Godgame</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You could say that The Godgame is <a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/evolutionism---the-red-thread-in-the-matrix-conspiracy.html">The
Evolutionistic School</a> against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditionalist_School">The Traditionalist
School</a> (where I belong), or, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-realism">Anti-realism School</a> against
the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_realism">Philosophical
realism Shool</a> (where I belong). </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Or, in a more ancient context:
the Sophists against the Philosophers (for example Socrates, or Plato).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Let me explain the above in a
specific American context.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Alfred North Whitehead was a
widely influential twentieth century philosopher and mathematician. He is
responsible for coining the following celebrated quote about Plato's enduring
influence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The safest general
characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of
a series of footnotes to Plato</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (Process and Reality, p. 39).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In connection with Platonism,
it ought to be mentioned, in connection with the sensationalist interview, that
there is a distinctively American form of Platonism, fostered by the Concord
School of Philosophy. The Concord School of Philosophy was
a lyceum-like series of summer lectures and discussions
of philosophy in Concord, Massachusetts from 1879 to 1888.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Starting the Concord School of
Philosophy had long been a goal of founder Amos Bronson Alcott and
others in the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism"><span lang="EN-US">Transcendental</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> movement. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The school was based partly
on Plato's Academy. Many of the school's lectures and readings
focused on reminiscences of the Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo
Emerson attended some of the school's meetings before his death, and was
commemorated after; readings from Henry David Thoreau's then-unpublished
journals were among the most popular events. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This school is fascinating in
the way that it, precisely like Plato´s academy, was spoiled by sophists
(evolutionists), and eventually was closed as a result. In his brilliant
book </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">American Gurus – From Transcendentalism to New Age Religion</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">,
Arthur Versluis writes:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Broadly speaking, there were
two primary streams of thought that emerged from American Transcendentalism
and, in particular, from Emerson and Alcott. </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One was the development of distinctively American
forms of Platonism, fostered by the Concord School and its consistent inclusion
of Platonic subjects. The other was what became known as “New Thought,” later
becoming New Age, which Catherine Albanese termed “American metaphysical
religion.” </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The New Age will be part of the context for our final
chapters in this book, whereas we must turn now to consider a very different
creature, American Platonism as it engaged in battle with materialism and evolutionism</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (page 55).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">I seriously think that
evolutionism is a sign of the decline of wisdom and therefore philosophy (a
sign of the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga"><span lang="EN-US">Kali Yuga</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">In connection with the British
Royal House it is important to know that Prince Charles is a reader, and practitioner,
of the spiritual, and deeply philosophical, magazine </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.sacredweb.com/"><span lang="EN-US">Sacred Web</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This magazine belongs to the traditionalist school.
Prince Charles is namely more of a thinker than most people know, or wants to
know. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">This
in itself devalues a lot of the caricatures being created of him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">New Age belongs to the
sophistic Evolutionistic School.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So, now I have given some
clues to why I find the interview interesting in relation to the Godgame. In
comments to the below links I will explain further.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Related articles:</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/oprah-winfrey-the-matrix-dictionary.html" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">A Critique of Oprah Winfrey</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/the-17-lies-piers-morgan-claims-meghan-markle-told-in-oprah-interview/news-story/9882f8f96cad47ad5b9587081245a6b4"><span lang="EN-US">The 17 lies Piers Morgan claims Meghan
Markle told in Oprah interview</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (this article is what
you call the “concrete appearances” of the interview. Piers Morgan has blasted
Meghan Markle for 17 “untrue, exaggerated or unprovable” slurs against the
Royal Family. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The TV firebrand hit out at
the “delusional duchess”, weeks after he walked away from hosting Good Morning
Britain over his refusal to apologise for disbelieving her. In an explosive
chat on US TV, Piers defended the royals – and said a total of 17 of the claims
made in the interview are either untrue, inflated or impossible to prove. These
include Meghan wrongly claiming she and Harry were married in secret by the
Archbishop of Canterbury and alleging that Archie was not allowed to be a
Prince because of his skin colour. In his own tell-all chat, Piers
told Fox News host Tucker Carlson a “woke cancel culture mob” drove
him out of his morning job with ITV. Piers, 56, said: “She’s a delusional
actress who wants to make millions off the royals while trashing the family.” </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Also see: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke"><span lang="EN-US">Woke</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (Wikipedia),
and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture"><span lang="EN-US">Cancel Culture</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (Wikipedia)).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/celebrity-news/meghan-markle-meditation-618700"><span lang="EN-US">Meghan Markle said this spiritual
hack made her much ‘happier’</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">, by Marie Claire (This
article is about Meghan Markle’s old lifestyle blog The Tig. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It was one of the most wholesome places on the
internet before it shut down: a little peaceful place she used to share
interviews with inspiring women, her favourite recipes and – as we’ve recently
discovered – one of her secrets to happiness. An old post of hers was uncovered
in which she revealed she had met a ‘mystical man’ called "Light". He
introduced her to something called Vedic Meditation and it changed her life.
Also known as transcendental meditation, there’s a number of other celebs who
are big fans as well including Katy Perry, Hugh Jackman and Oprah
Winfrey! You can still read the 2015 post <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150316171519/http:/thetig.com/introduction-meditation/">here</a>). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.lightwatkins.com/"><span lang="EN-US">Light Watkins</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (the website of the mystical man Meghan Markle
talks about. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It says that he “is
recognized as one of the World’s Top Meditation Teachers and one of
the most relatable thought leaders in the wellness space”. Thought Leader!
Notice that expression. Suddenly a picture begins to form. Thought leaders
comes from the New Thought movement where the mantra “Fake it Till You Make It”
is central. He claims he is “re-thinking mindfulness”, and the word “success”
is central in his teaching. In other words: he combines mindfulness with <a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/coaching-the-matrix-dictionary.html">Western
Coaching</a>. In that connection, see my article: <a href="http://mortentolboll.blogspot.com/2018/12/mindfulness-and-loss-of-philosophy.html">Mindfulness
and the Loss of Philosophy</a>. And, as a bit deeper introduction to the
American cultural appropriation of Vedic meditation: see my ebook: <a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/the-tragic-new-age-confusion-of-eastern-enlightenment-and-western-idealism.html">The
Tragic New Age Confusion of Eastern Enlightenment and Western Subjective
Idealism</a>. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">If you look at Light Watkins`s </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/lightwatkins/"><span lang="EN-US">Instagram profile</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">, you can see he
has an enormous amount of followers, among them Shaman Durek):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/ldquoshaman-durekrdquo-yet-another-american-new-thought-missionary-a-critique.html"><span lang="EN-US">“Shaman Durek”: Yet Another American
New Thought Missionary (a Critique)</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> – (Shaman Durek is also
an LA based “thought leader” concentrating on the rich and famous. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Like Meghan Markle, Shaman Durek is also involved in
the European Royal Houses. His girlfriend is Princess Märtha Louise, the
daughter of Norway’s current monarch, Harald V., This article gives a good idea
of New Thought, and especially the concept of “Fake It Till You Make It”.
Shaman Durek is by the way known for calling his workshops, “<a href="https://shamandurek.com/classes-wokeshops/">Wokeshops</a>”. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">The New Thought
movement and the "Fake It Till You Make It" concept is also the
"philosophy" Donald Trump follows, however, on the other end of the
political scale - read more here: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/donald-trump-a-master-practitioner-of-the-new-trend-in-psychology-positive-thinking.html"><span lang="EN-US">Donald Trump: a Master Practitioner
of the New Trend in Psychology: Positive Thinking</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">).</span></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-7468420848247507282021-06-12T05:51:00.004-07:002021-06-12T07:01:18.331-07:00Meditation as an Art of Life is not a momentary process but a continual living, a continual sharpening of the mind. <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4_VJ3RJ7S3JmueFrpcMHU4wNJ63EM2SeLMC3Y409jYp-LH4cHLJpU_bsigQeDDFYST7v63LmNcuXARvrkh_6lei3Houbg7zLdKVjaI8Y2kkZitxIPiHzyJvSQTvskfjN1q7LSDYr7iCdp/s640/zjune.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="640" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4_VJ3RJ7S3JmueFrpcMHU4wNJ63EM2SeLMC3Y409jYp-LH4cHLJpU_bsigQeDDFYST7v63LmNcuXARvrkh_6lei3Houbg7zLdKVjaI8Y2kkZitxIPiHzyJvSQTvskfjN1q7LSDYr7iCdp/w400-h279/zjune.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Pages
from The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Holden"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Edith Holden</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (1871-1920)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Meditation
as an Art of Life is not a momentary process but a continual living, a
continual sharpening of the mind.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And
in the very process of sharpening, the mind spontaneously ceases to be as it
is.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then
the mind is no longer creating images, visions, fallacies, illusions; and only
then, when the mind is completely still, silent, is there a possibility of experiencing
something which is not of the mind itself.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But
this requires not just one day of effort, or a casual observation, or attending
one talk, but a slow maturity, a deepening search, a greater, wider, totally
integrated outlook, so that the mind which is now driven by many influences and
demands, inhibited by so many fears is free to inquire, to experience.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Only
such a mind is truly religious—not the mind that believes or disbelieves in
God, that has innumerable beliefs, that joins, agrees, follows, or denies; such
a mind can never find out what is truth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That
is why it is very important for those who are serious, for those who are
concerned with the welfare of mankind, to put aside all their vain beliefs and
theories, all their associations with particular religious organizations, and inquire
very deeply within themselves.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To
ask philosophical questions in a meditative-existential way.</span></p><p></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-60317367912658072402021-03-20T03:11:00.003-07:002021-03-25T01:32:50.219-07:00Hedgespoken – A Travelling off-grid Storytelling Theatre<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1BCXYqDvYEhoLvgRfMYXzxVULCT72GQDogR4KI3GZelJoqJKZck1RsU8KDHw1zDIxviSy8iRvnLb20PnUoSfavFunusbw0kzFu0fumxDhiZhTdITcNmeqfDpchq-KRS2gtzCBXbdoxRPq/s1000/hedgespoken1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="1000" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1BCXYqDvYEhoLvgRfMYXzxVULCT72GQDogR4KI3GZelJoqJKZck1RsU8KDHw1zDIxviSy8iRvnLb20PnUoSfavFunusbw0kzFu0fumxDhiZhTdITcNmeqfDpchq-KRS2gtzCBXbdoxRPq/w400-h114/hedgespoken1.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">HEDGESPOKEN is a travelling
off-grid storytelling theatre run from a 1966 Bedford RL lorry, converted to be
a home and a go-anywhere stage. Storyteller, mask-maker and writer <a href="https://tomhirons.com/">Tom Hirons</a> and internationally-respected
artist, puppeteer and musician <a href="http://www.rimastaines.com/">Rima
Staines</a> tell tales and spark imaginations from the Hedgespoken truck
wherever they can, from busy festivals and family camps to quiet laybys and
secluded forests.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Hedgespoken specialise in
retelling East European and British folktales and also stories from the wide
world of the Traveller and Gypsy communities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHKo80NfZqM-t7hnQ2omR8fTqCq0Y1v04Ety9nkv6gvY9HgfZNSAXdUSkTxN3b1ekhGtSgRjD7qOx17PWSxK6FbR_UB2kIxvv6z9HbomZKmtPj-t_u_lP22x6TxIUy4tswhpSU35MCtX3_/s900/hedgespoken2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="900" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHKo80NfZqM-t7hnQ2omR8fTqCq0Y1v04Ety9nkv6gvY9HgfZNSAXdUSkTxN3b1ekhGtSgRjD7qOx17PWSxK6FbR_UB2kIxvv6z9HbomZKmtPj-t_u_lP22x6TxIUy4tswhpSU35MCtX3_/w400-h294/hedgespoken2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">As mentioned in my
article, <a href="https://mortentolboll.blogspot.com/2019/08/my-life-as-vagabond.html">My
Life as a Vagabond</a>, I have lived more or less as a bum for 36 years. This
of course shows in my dreams, where I still experience life on the streets.
However, my life as a vagabond was caused by my kundalini awakening. The second
phase of the kundalini process therefore also began to show in my dreams. Lately
they have attained a rather strange character. They have attained the
color of icons. Something otherworldly is mixing in. I´m still experiencing
life on the streets, and my engagement with other bums. But there is an
extraordinary feeling of sacredness. Strange people are mixing in, people from
traveling caravans, street entertainers, bohemians, gypsies, vagabonds, and
some more strange creatures, half animal and half human creatures, so-called
shapeshifters.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"></span><o:p> I was
therefore quite fascinated when I discovered Hedgespoken.</o:p></p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">I have told about
Hedgespoken in my article, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.blogspot.com/2019/09/seir-shamanism-and-art-of-song-healing.html">Seiðr
Shamanism and the Art of Song Healing</a>. This article is part two of the above-mentioned
article, <i>My Life as a Vagabond</i>. In the latter article I told about that
I, as a Grail Seeker, is on a quest for so-called “Pirate Utopias”, or “Autonomous
Zones”. Hedgespoken is clearly such an autonomous zone.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiraHmxJwXCuiREaJ9no7258zoGHBOJIpA0i41TU4lJYTsb8CVDMJu7TgESy2Bs4ozEpAGk80m53s_XCBzhA4DFnihGzfBpwhDeh2285uN1w9qc17fO6ltq2SKLN6yXC8nBuMbK0NxZgsiR/s980/hedgespoken3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="980" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiraHmxJwXCuiREaJ9no7258zoGHBOJIpA0i41TU4lJYTsb8CVDMJu7TgESy2Bs4ozEpAGk80m53s_XCBzhA4DFnihGzfBpwhDeh2285uN1w9qc17fO6ltq2SKLN6yXC8nBuMbK0NxZgsiR/w400-h235/hedgespoken3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Also see my Vagabond Photography
of autonomous zones: </span><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/photography-copenhagen-2020-freetown-christiania.html" style="font-size: 14pt;">Copenhagen
2020: Freetown Christiania</a><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, and, </span><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/photography-aalborg-2019-limfjordsvaeligrftet-and-fjordbyen.html" style="font-size: 14pt;">Aalborg
2019: Limfjordsværftet and Fjordbyen</a><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Hedgespoken is also related to
my booklet, </span><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/paranormal-phenomena-seen-in-connection-with-mystical-experiences.html" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
Runes of Rold Forest</a><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. I see my divination with </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">The Runes of Rold Forest</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">,
as attempts of creating a map which shows the Grail Seeker pathfinders and
trail markers, as well as dangers and pitfalls, on his or her quest for such pirate
utopias. For example, </span><a href="https://tolboll.blogspot.com/2020/02/primordial-meditation-and-spirit-of.html" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
Spirit of Nature Oracle</a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> (which I use as a part of </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">The Runes of Rold Forest</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">),
has the substitle: </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">“Ancient Wisdom from the Green Man and the Celtic Ogam
Tree Alphabet”</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Green Man is a spirit,
perhaps the spirit of all green and growing things. He is nature in manifest
form. He has been present, in one form or another, since human beings lived in
caves and walked among the trees of the great primeval forests of the ancient
world. It is in places which still retain something of their original primitive
aspect that we may encounter him still – in tracts of ancient woodland or in
the few remaining places in the world that have not been overrun by humankind
in our restless search for somewhere new to conquer and colonize.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FeOewIi1R1OH9Whw3zo9F1YYvxkMxaRzn94bk6P9PCb2QCbd1qfTe7FKNMY1aBARR68h0zQM_lIkmBw_-ntLc7NWa_wRllAWrAmuC3dSmFpyrDbbbPs9B2urzWUkDqaEtsu-p3eOmG3S/s994/wildwood-green-man.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="994" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FeOewIi1R1OH9Whw3zo9F1YYvxkMxaRzn94bk6P9PCb2QCbd1qfTe7FKNMY1aBARR68h0zQM_lIkmBw_-ntLc7NWa_wRllAWrAmuC3dSmFpyrDbbbPs9B2urzWUkDqaEtsu-p3eOmG3S/w309-h400/wildwood-green-man.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">The Green Man, from <a href="https://tolboll.blogspot.com/2020/02/primordial-meditation-and-wildwood-tarot.html">The
Wildwood Tarot</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You can find his “signs” in
art and in storytelling all over the world. You can find his face carved in
stone on Cathedrals. In Tolkien´s Middle-earth he is Tom Bombadil. He is Robin
Hood showing you the way to his pirate utopia in the Sherwood Forests. He is </span><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/the-peter-pan-project.html" style="font-size: 14pt;">Peter Pan</a><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
leading the Darling children to Neverland.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ri4vC3FjUp0" width="320" youtube-src-id="Ri4vC3FjUp0"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span><p></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-61345198816127679922021-03-11T08:21:00.001-08:002021-03-11T08:21:57.002-08:00The general goal of life for man is embedded in you, because you are part of the whole<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYD-8TXDdOqJuxJ4Fy6QdvAnXR9UihIGCLyAfuq5eCvzhDRd1vXCF-QG4qJJhTKjNQ8z968nNtfp2-IiFslZeZk9JSstGnzFVeFCLEBohK3gDif5eIalINS3nZMf6oX4-kOZH6xX-4tK61/s851/wargonauts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYD-8TXDdOqJuxJ4Fy6QdvAnXR9UihIGCLyAfuq5eCvzhDRd1vXCF-QG4qJJhTKjNQ8z968nNtfp2-IiFslZeZk9JSstGnzFVeFCLEBohK3gDif5eIalINS3nZMf6oX4-kOZH6xX-4tK61/w353-h400/wargonauts.jpg" width="353" /></a></div><span style="text-align: justify;"><p style="text-align: center;">The Argonauts, by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Dulac">Edmund Dulac</a></p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The general goal of life for
man is some kind of hope, some kind of safety, some kind of permanency.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Don’t say, ‘Is that all?’ That
is the immediate fact, and you must first be fully acquainted with that.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You must question all
that—which means, you must question yourself.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The general goal of life for
man is embedded in you, because you are part of the whole. You yourself want
safety, permanency, happiness; you want something to which to cling.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Now to find out if there is
something else beyond, some truth that is not of the mind, all the illusions of
the mind must be finished with; that is, you must understand them and put them aside.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Only then can you discover the
real thing, whether there is a goal or not.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To stipulate that there must
be a goal, or to believe that there is a goal, is merely another illusion. But
if you can question all your conflicts, struggles, pains, vanities, ambitions,
hopes, fears, and go through them, go beyond and above them, then you will find
out.</span></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-19604278034153135542021-02-26T01:45:00.002-08:002021-02-26T01:47:45.652-08:00If the brain suddenly realizes its own limitations – can it then change?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiNTMzlfQdovVkgEbaVo2Uy4s8mzK8gZDO0OQxTowZ1aVfuPOWr-PvP2JMGak30RpKEomW4hnMN1bFfMz5FYZJ3NLG_ej302Z-LAf22ZzBDQRD-bfTCuoVLt_7rGPWlp98q1T_DW3nlk85/s800/w1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="800" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiNTMzlfQdovVkgEbaVo2Uy4s8mzK8gZDO0OQxTowZ1aVfuPOWr-PvP2JMGak30RpKEomW4hnMN1bFfMz5FYZJ3NLG_ej302Z-LAf22ZzBDQRD-bfTCuoVLt_7rGPWlp98q1T_DW3nlk85/w400-h355/w1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A Beech Shaded Hollow, Cranborne Chase, By <a href="http://howardphipps.co.uk/wood-engravings/">Howard Phipps</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our brain is not merely a certain brain, but
the brain that has evolved through millenniums.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The brain has not merely been born;
it is very, very old in the sense that it is a product of evolution. The
evolution is contained in the brain.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">John Locke´s empirical
assertion about, that the consciousness, or the brain, from birth of, is to
compare with an empty blackboard, a tabula rasa - is consequently wrong.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But if the brain through
centuries has become accustomed to, trained to, the one or the other, and it
suddenly realizes this – can it then change? Can the quality of the brain itself
change?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This the heredity advocates
would deny. And the environment advocates would deny it unless it is a result
of an outer influence. However, both of these are reductionist points of view.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What if you looked at it from
the point of the Wholeness?</span></p><p></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-15818657291150249712021-02-22T07:10:00.014-08:002023-08-15T01:31:27.393-07:00The Galileo Commission has written an Anti-scientism Report, but is itself a worst-case Scenario of Scientism<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAscONLL_3KAfJXeK2OVKkw59zgKYrWTnftyaBqBGTkVJOmnzm-d9fTr7MgoO63H9hpRkUD7TaLA42eUGij4Swf9qdSzJiZ53AfBr4-V8uSUeHWCTjJ4fWwXn-LQK2encBMj8nqjaRHGLj/s707/wallach+new.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAscONLL_3KAfJXeK2OVKkw59zgKYrWTnftyaBqBGTkVJOmnzm-d9fTr7MgoO63H9hpRkUD7TaLA42eUGij4Swf9qdSzJiZ53AfBr4-V8uSUeHWCTjJ4fWwXn-LQK2encBMj8nqjaRHGLj/w283-h400/wallach+new.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I have just discovered, in the
Danish new age magazine Nyt Aspekt (January 2021), something called </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://galileocommission.org/report/"><span lang="EN-US">The Galileo Commission</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. In a report, we
see a psychologist (</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Walach"><span lang="EN-US">Harald Walach</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">) teaching
philosophy of science, supported by 90 "advisor researchers".<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On the universities today, it
is no longer philosophers who are teaching philosophy of science. I consider
myself one of the last persons who have experienced that it is philosophers who
are teaching philosophy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Walach is introducing a new
“philosophy of science”, where only "scientific materialism" is
designated as "scientism". Among the “research advisors” are </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/deepak-chopra-the-matrix-dictionary.html"><span lang="EN-US">Deepak Chopra</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/a-critique-of-stanislav-grof-and-holotropic-breathwork.html"><span lang="EN-US">Stanislav Grof</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/rupert-sheldrake-the-matrix-dictionary.html"><span lang="EN-US">Rupert Sheldrake </span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">. This latter, now
elderly guy, Rupert Sheldrake, is really busy spreading his neo-lysenkoist
propaganda. On page 5, in the summary of the report, the psychiatrist Dr Iain
McGilchrist, writes (after having taught the usual Thomas Kuhn postmodernism):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What we want, in the words of
the better US title of Rupert Sheldrake´s “The Science Delusion”, is “Science
Set Free”. Science needs to be liberated, not besieged.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">As shown in my text series
on </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/richard-dawkins-the-matrix-dictionary.html"><span lang="EN-US">scientism critique</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">, these new agers
are themselves promoting scientism and reductionism: New Age scientism, and
postmodern scientism (Neo-Lysenkoism). The reason why they apparently are able
to collect 90 "researchers" to be the advisors behind this report,
which itself must be characterized as scientism, is precisely the
suppression of philosophy, especially philosophy of science, and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/philosophy-of-mind.html"><span lang="EN-US">philosophy of mind</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">The report can only be
characterized as a confusion of philosophy of mind and philosophy
of science. The attempt to reduce this to "philosophy of science" – (</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/constructivism-the-postmodern-intellectualism-behind-new-age-and-the-self-help-industry.html"><span lang="EN-US">postmodernism</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">) - is
therefore a distortion of philosophy of mind.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then there is the usual
contempt for Aristotle and his logic (page 37 in the summary). Walach calls Aristotle´s
logic an “either-or” logic. He writes (in a very academical language):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>The logical binary mode of
thinking should be confined to where it belongs: analysis of scientific
theories and their corollaries along with analysis of empirical finding and
their consistency with theories. But whenever it comes to finding new models
and whenever it comes to integrating findings into a larger picture, binary logic
is often unhelpful. It is not so much that it is wrong, but more that it does
not help</i> (summary, page 37).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Oh, it does not help beyond what Walach describes in his pseudo-profound academical language? As I
have told in my article, </span><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/meditation-as-an-art-of-life.html" style="font-size: 14pt;">Meditation
as an Art of Life</a><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, Aristotle´s teaching was a spiritual practice with the
aim of enlightenment. Walach is, due to his lack of philosophical education,
ignorant about this. Aristotle´s logic, combined with Socrates´s Elenchos,
saved me from madness. And by the way, Walach confuses the thought distortion, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma">False Dichotomy</a>, with Aristotle´s logic. The philosophical ignorance is stunning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Walach believes that we
instead “need a more inclusive type of thinking that can proceed in the form of
‘both-and’” (page 38). But this is typical postmodernist and New Age preaching.
“Both-and” logic basically means relativism (sophism). Besides False Dichotomy, both-and "logic" is central in the concept of "Doublethink", a concept which George Orwell created in his dystopian novel 1984. Doublethink is a part of Newspeak (read about Doublethink <a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/doublethink-the-matrix-dictionary.html">here</a>).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As an example of the same in New Age, see for example Susun Weed´s book, <i>Healing Wise</i>. On page 5, she writes about the "Wise Woman Tradition": </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>Substance, thought, feeling, and spirit are inseparable in the Wise Woman tradition. Wholism, holographic imagery, and unified field physics are parts of the holy wisdom of the Wise Woman way: a choiceless "both/and" wisdom. Everyone wins. Each one is the best </i>[...]. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And, on page 7: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>Our universe includes all; it is "both/and, not "either/or".</i> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This is the usual example of the <i>Nondual Bias</i>, and a confusion of the levels of nondual reality (see my free ebooks: <a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/a-dictionary-of-thought-distortions.html">A Dictionary of Thought Distortions</a> (the nondual bias), and, <a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/the-tragic-new-age-confusion-of-eastern-enlightenment-and-western-idealism.html">The Tragic New Age Confusion of Eastern Enlightenment and Western Subjective Idealism</a> (the confusion of the levels of nondual reality). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On the whole: the beginning of Susun Weed´s book is one long repetition of postmodernist both/and rhetoric, which, due to the above-mentioned bias and confusion, seems to justify anything (accompanied by <a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/the-new-thought-movement-and-the-law-of-attraction.html">New Thought</a> preaching): for example "chaos, permeability and nonsense" (page 23), "contradiction" (page 32), "no rules" (page 33). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Susun Weed is, like another plastic shaman, Lynn Andrews, a member of the non-existent "Sisterhood of the Shields" (<a href="http://skepdic.com/andrews.html">read more</a>); in other words: a liar. Also read these texts on her: <a href="https://wpdh.com/police-ulster-county-woman-choked-victim-over-lettuce/">Police: Ulster County Woman Choked Victim Over Lettuce</a>, and, <a href="https://susunweedtestimonials.com/">Susun Weed Testomonials</a>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A central issue with Doublethink, or both/and logic, is that it can be used as a justification of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting">gaslightning</a>. When I´m dealing with victims of New Age, I´m often (if not always) faced with how they have been abused through gaslightning. Also read this article (where Susun Weed also is featured): <a href="http://marygood.squarespace.com/fieldnotes/2018/10/26/love-and-light">Love and Light: Spiritual Bypassing, Gaslightning, and Abuse of Power</a>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is not at all a surprise, when
Walach in the end writes:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Network is committed to no
dogma or creed. It encourages intellectual discernment and is wary of the
ill-founded and sensationalist claims of ‘pseudoscience’. In asking searching
questions about the nature of life and the role of the human being, the Network
abides by its guidelines of open-minded, rigorous thinking and care for others
at all times</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (page 49).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Herewith the doors are opened
for, that we from know on must accept that New Age theories are pure science. Why not begin with Susun Weed´s new book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Abundantly-Well-Complementary-Integrated-Revolution/dp/1888123222/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=susun+weed&qid=1614520826&sr=8-1">Abundantly Well: The Complementary Integrated Medicine Revolution</a>. This is precisely the sort of pseudoscience, which the Galileo Commision (dictated by Rupert Sheldrake) wants us to accept as the new "true" science (also read my article: <a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/the-devastating-new-age-turn-within-psychotherapy.html">The Devastating New Age Turn Within Psychotherapy</a>).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Take a look at the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://galileocommission.org/report/"><span lang="EN-US">The Galileo Commission</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> website. When
philosophy of science has been removed from all educations (something which is
going on right now), nobody will be able to see, that this is a New Age and
postmodernist website, and not a genuine science website.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Philosophy of science was
traditionally the discipline that inquire into what can count as science, and,
for example, discriminates between science and
pseudoscience/scientism/reductionism. Walach is of course not mentioning this with a word,
despite that he apparently teaches philosophy of science.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In order to get a grip of the
ideology which The Galileo Commission is forwarding, read my booklet:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/rupert-sheldrake-the-matrix-dictionary.html" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Rupert Sheldrake and the Rise of
Neo-Lysenkoism (Scientism Critique: Part 2)</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Download the report:</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M_oBaiWAWpY_CPgfizd7zgxhbZP-Fek8/view?usp=sharing" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
Galileo Report (full)</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZlpsQ7jZtNveywV2EWpcJWVx_kL9qeYd/view?usp=sharing" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
Galileo Report (summary)</a></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-48946636523570324172021-01-27T13:10:00.003-08:002021-01-27T13:14:10.760-08:00Thought has divided the world not only geographically but also psychologically, inwardly<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQltYk7iQCFgDuRSi1smqUJ7UmxUXl8KOCsIxvqlANSCs1JcKifDHQCimQy2u5T1wL2xLVBuCFe-B69O-GCQHs1yj8n8NbQdLoOnoK9EvLTPgrlI0UebnzzlcAdhoKMIsQID6Kg0SqetyX/s738/winter+tales1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQltYk7iQCFgDuRSi1smqUJ7UmxUXl8KOCsIxvqlANSCs1JcKifDHQCimQy2u5T1wL2xLVBuCFe-B69O-GCQHs1yj8n8NbQdLoOnoK9EvLTPgrlI0UebnzzlcAdhoKMIsQID6Kg0SqetyX/w346-h640/winter+tales1.jpg" width="346" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Unity, by <a href="https://www.terriwindling.com/mythic-arts/marja-lee.html">Marja Lee Kruÿt</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Many volumes have been written
about the world outside of us—the environment, the society, politics,
economics, and so on, but very few have gone to the very length of discovering
what we actually are. Why human beings are behaving as they are doing—killing
each other, constantly in trouble, following some authority or the other, some
book, some person, some ideal, and having no right relationship with their
friends, with their wives, with their husbands and with their children; why
human beings have become, after so many millennia, so vulgar, so brutal, so
utterly lacking in care, consideration, attention to others, and denying the
whole process of what is considered love.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Look at the activities of
thought, because we live by thought. All our actions are based on thought, all
our contemplated efforts are based on thought—our meditations, our worships,
our prayer.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Thought has brought about the
division of nationalities which create wars, the division in religions as the
Jew, as the Arab, the Muslim, the Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, and so on.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Thought has divided the world
not only geographically but also psychologically, inwardly.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Until there is freedom from
the activities of thought which is creating great problems, those problems
cannot possibly be solved.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That is why both you and I
must think together, if we can.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That demands that both of us
feel, enquire, search out, question, doubt, all these things that man has put
together, all the things that we have created as barriers between each other.</span></p><p></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-91574249451022355752021-01-19T05:26:00.004-08:002021-01-19T05:56:22.996-08:00A Critical Review of Deepak Chopra´s book: The Third Jesus<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaJH5Qry0q7rYt1uItYY00YEPglewWrH2IZDOtV6o2Gjp3YLmCZ5OTHy-2kVN5x-A47U-gFgMZ6zb_GMdVrpzyMMdYyWU_ytIgBaQYkamnG6RtH2f-1y1fsOaUwTf11oUPQmvs3EDtsNO4/s400/chopra.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="259" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaJH5Qry0q7rYt1uItYY00YEPglewWrH2IZDOtV6o2Gjp3YLmCZ5OTHy-2kVN5x-A47U-gFgMZ6zb_GMdVrpzyMMdYyWU_ytIgBaQYkamnG6RtH2f-1y1fsOaUwTf11oUPQmvs3EDtsNO4/w259-h400/chopra.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In my article, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://mortentolboll.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-conspiracy-of-third-eye.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Conspiracy of the Third Eye</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, I described the
New Age attempts of reinventing Jesus Christ in the image of New Age. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In his book: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Third-Jesus-Truth-Todays-World/dp/1846041120/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+third+jesus&qid=1599287492&sr=8-1">The
Third Jesus - How to Find Truth and Love in Today´s World</a>, Chopra is
contributing to these attempts. His thesis is that there are three versions of
Jesus: 1) the guy of flesh and blood whom we basically know nothing about. 2)
The Jesus, which is the church´s interpretation. Chopra claims that this Jesus
never has existed since it is a "dogmatic" distorted interpretation (Chopra is, like other New Agers, extremely anti-Christian) 3) Then there is the third Jesus, which is
the true Jesus: meaning, the Jesus, Chopra wants us to believe in. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Chopra says that
this Jesus not is a metaphor (interpretation).<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">I say, yes of course it is. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is a New Age interpretation, and as filled with
dogmas as any other spiritual direction. Chopra claims Jesus was an enlightened
master in style with other enlightened masters. In this he uses Eastern
enlightenment concepts. But he is incapable of understanding that these also
are cultural interpretations. He puts Jesus into an Eastern interpretation,
which therefore is a misinterpretation. Generally speaking you can talk about
three Eastern enlightenment concepts (there are many others): Nirvana, Samadhi,
and Satori. The descriptions of these all sound different. There is, for
example, a huge difference between Tibetan Buddhist complex descriptions of
Nirvana, and Zen Buddhist simplistic descriptions. And Chopra has no
understanding of that enlightenment concepts also exist in a Christian context:
namely as Unia Mystica and Illumination. He doesn´t understand that these are
fully integrated in Christian mysticism. On Athos, for example, there is a
mysticism with a lineage directly back to the apostles, perhaps even to Virgin
Mary. This is very likely the best interpretations of Jesus you can find. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">On Athos there has,
as in Tibetan Buddhism, existed a line of enlightened masters since the time of
the apostles (very likely following a line of earlier enlightened Greco-Roman
philosophers).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Chopra has no understanding of
the necessity of following your roots and spiritual lineages, and how mystics and
saints have had visionary experiences of such lineages. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This is also something which is happening in Eastern
contexts. Chopra is fully convinced that he is above all interpretations and
"dogmas", but supplies us with a deeply distorting image of Jesus based
on New Age interpretations. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Finally, Chopra confuses Eastern
enlightenment with Western subjective idealism (immaterialism), and claims,
utterly naively, that Jesus followed this metaphysical theory, because he lived
in "a simple way" - see my free ebook: <a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/the-tragic-new-age-confusion-of-eastern-enlightenment-and-western-idealism.html">The
Tragic New Age Confusion of Eastern Enlightenment and Western Subjective
Idealism</a>. "Immaterialism" and "simple Living"
(non-materialistic living) haven´t anything to do with each other. That Chopra
confuses these, might either expose his lack of philosophical training, or else
it is just a rhetorical trick. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">By the way: people practising simple living are often
living in close harmony with nature, and they would hardly subscribe to a
metaphysical theory like immaterialism, which claims that nature doesn´t exist,
and is a pure illusion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is also a weird experience
hearing Deepak Chopra preaching simple living, when considering his own extreme
materialistic lifestyle.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhncK4EfJF0TLFti3lXgUg0f20pRvUyUYCTXpnLpRS648FSWE0ywYwAhdU1U6qyUhxPCZogEwc48fjRYCeJvPYqhTiwrZxjIoHfzVtSuq5K7DZVjQh5gxsAGHsgkhZ0KaREaa_G6SbSvasS/s1024/chopra1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhncK4EfJF0TLFti3lXgUg0f20pRvUyUYCTXpnLpRS648FSWE0ywYwAhdU1U6qyUhxPCZogEwc48fjRYCeJvPYqhTiwrZxjIoHfzVtSuq5K7DZVjQh5gxsAGHsgkhZ0KaREaa_G6SbSvasS/w400-h266/chopra1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Listen to this quote from the
critical thinker Robert Carroll:</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Chopra spends much of his time
writing and lecturing from his base in California. </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He charges $25,000 per lecture performance, where he
spouts out a few platitudes and give spiritual advice while warning against the
ill effects of materialism. His audiences are apparently not troubled by his
living in a $2.5 million house in La Jolla, California, where he parks his
green Jaguar, which he can easily afford since he has amassed millions of
dollars from the sales of his books, tapes, herbs, appearances, etc. </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Chopra is much
richer and certainly more famous than he ever was as an endocrinologist or as
chief of staff at New England Memorial Hospital</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://skepdic.com/chopra.html"><span lang="EN-US">read more</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Even if Chopra, in the best
New Thought style, has written a book about that spirituality in reality is
about getting rich; that is: attracting material stuff (</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seven-Spiritual-Laws-Success-Fulfillment/dp/059304083X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=8LAPQZ5T0WK2&dchild=1&keywords=the+seven+spiritual+laws+of+success+by+deepak+chopra&qid=1599655676&sprefix=the+seven+spirit%2Caps%2C168&sr=8-1"><span lang="EN-US">The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">) – then his
self-contradictions and hypocrisy are just over the top. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Related texts:</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/deepak-chopra-the-matrix-dictionary.html">A Critique of Deepak Chopra </a>(the above review is taken from the updates to this general critique of Chopra)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://mortentolboll.blogspot.com/2020/06/new-netflix-documentary-gaslights.html">New Netflix Series Gaslights People Into Becoming Drug Users</a> (with Deepak Chopra as a guide. Here Chopra again preaches immaterialism, postulating that reality is an illusion, even that reality doesn´t exist at all = metaphysical nihilism)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://mortentolboll.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-conspiracy-of-third-eye.html">The Conspiracy of the Third Eye</a></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <span lang="EN-US">(article about
how New Age is trying to reinvent Jesus Christ in the image of New Age –
basically: about the coming of the anti-Christ).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/the-tragic-new-age-confusion-of-eastern-enlightenment-and-western-idealism.html"><span lang="EN-US">The Tragic New Age Confusion of
Eastern Enlightenment and Western Subjective Idealism</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <span lang="EN-US">(free Ebook.
Deepak Chopra is trying to make us believe that Jesus supported an anti-realist
philosophy called: Subjective Idealism (Chopra doesn´t mention this because he
hasn´t got the philosophical training to know. Subjective idealism is the same
as “Immaterialism”. Subjective idealism was coined by the 18<sup>th</sup>-century
writings of George Berkeley. In philosophy, Berkeley is generally not being taken
seriously. But today, with the rise of New Age scientism, subjective idealism
is being pulled up from the magic hat again, now forwarded as if it is revolutionary
new “scientific” theory, and not as it is in reality: a spurious philosophy
idea.</span></span></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-35035228340233616752021-01-08T23:29:00.005-08:002021-01-08T23:29:42.338-08:00It is only in aloneness you can know the quality of total living<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU06Aua0DA3ak9wVJFiFDG-oDC65Cgl0oAlvN4Mql8_lIJ3Nx-A3Dz5whJgFEixUxabB4V6rRR_k6TAla-bT1d82xGjXXzISUdIebia6Qz_WgG_IOW-Mg8-jDSnwG88go8YD2MnbzJuK_3/s303/wildrose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU06Aua0DA3ak9wVJFiFDG-oDC65Cgl0oAlvN4Mql8_lIJ3Nx-A3Dz5whJgFEixUxabB4V6rRR_k6TAla-bT1d82xGjXXzISUdIebia6Qz_WgG_IOW-Mg8-jDSnwG88go8YD2MnbzJuK_3/w396-h400/wildrose.jpg" width="396" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Little Wildrose, by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Justice_Ford">H.J. Ford</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To be alone, which is not a
philosophy of loneliness, is obviously to be in a state of revolution against
the whole setup of society—not only this society, but the communist society,
the fascist, every form of society as organized brutality, organized power.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And that means an
extraordinary perception of the effects of power.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Have you noticed soldiers rehearsing?
</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They are not human beings any more, they
are machines, they are your sons and my sons, standing there in the sun. This
is happening here, in America, in Russia, and everywhere—not only at the
governmental level, but also at the monastic level, belonging to monasteries,
to orders, to groups who employ astonishing power.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is only the mind which does
not belong that can be alone. And aloneness is not something to be cultivated.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When you see all this, you are
out, and no governor or president is going to invite you to dinner.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Out of that aloneness there is
humility. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is this aloneness that knows
love—not power.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The ambitious man, religious
or ordinary, will never know what love is.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So, if one sees all this, then
one has this quality of total living and therefore total action. This comes
through self-knowledge.</span></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-81888716411621946022020-12-24T00:16:00.001-08:002020-12-24T00:16:42.477-08:00Listening to the Inner Movement of Life<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrVTbfAUJktYT2OxoW2JC4TUR-yc7UWFOjbyTWuZS8WrETFRiGjH_k7lgAEpEiURRehx-FYE5bVR63-v1Mtp1OsLkHClZfmuMjSkq89CkF6AOYmdX4GZUIIzDSvOZGEfg7T8FZmZFcDimk/s1280/thumbalina.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1085" data-original-width="1280" height="339" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrVTbfAUJktYT2OxoW2JC4TUR-yc7UWFOjbyTWuZS8WrETFRiGjH_k7lgAEpEiURRehx-FYE5bVR63-v1Mtp1OsLkHClZfmuMjSkq89CkF6AOYmdX4GZUIIzDSvOZGEfg7T8FZmZFcDimk/w400-h339/thumbalina.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Thumbelina”, by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbeth_Zwerger">Lisbeth Zwerger</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In order to be able to see
clear, you must be present in passive listening, you must listen, not only to
the outer things, but also to the inner movement of life, the inner movement,
which is desires, motives, worries, fear-conceptions, sorrows.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To listen passively without
choosing is to be aware of the colour in which someone is clothed, without
saying: ”I like it” or ”I don´t like it”, but only observing it neutral as in a
mirror.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And it is, when you are
sitting in the bus, to feel your movement of thought, deeply and incisively,
without seeking to achieve anything with it, without justifying and condemning,
without choosing.</span></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-17980971102748383702020-12-22T00:40:00.001-08:002020-12-22T00:41:19.126-08:00If you in the moment of conflict are passively aware, then there is not left any track at all<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOITslPz9ibsHVeUgN9WHycDcNISujGLtBriGCGtL4k-6j2Bc0WD1JB5Ms_yOsAx94MYuncxQGESiKJhzkvQagpNNsthxx0Tale9q7JnExrN8gs5oizeTKMksTz8Ek5x2yJaWS1O7UiRgw/s851/fool.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="851" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOITslPz9ibsHVeUgN9WHycDcNISujGLtBriGCGtL4k-6j2Bc0WD1JB5Ms_yOsAx94MYuncxQGESiKJhzkvQagpNNsthxx0Tale9q7JnExrN8gs5oizeTKMksTz8Ek5x2yJaWS1O7UiRgw/w400-h235/fool.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There is only a finger´s difference between a wise
man and a fool<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">- Diogenes</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Another human being says to
you: ”You are a fool!” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You are yourself absent in your emotional evaluations,
you don´t like it, and it leaves a track in your mind.</span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The other human being says
something else, and also that leaves a track. These tracks are the images of memory,
and in the memory exist the tracks of the evolution of million of years.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is these condensed
reactions, the tracks, which are blended with many other tracks, which form the
images in time; a mixture of history and nature. It is a wonderful picture
book, the samsarical common human weaving spirit of the fates, reaching deep
into beautiful and terrible astral worlds.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But if you are yourself
present and the other human being says to you: ”You are a fool!” if you in that
moment are passively aware and feeling, then there is not left any track at
all, because there is no displacement between challenge and reaction, but only
a being, which is in the middle of itself, and characterized by fulfilment and
naturalness.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Perhaps the other human is
right?</span></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-62431444779660419462020-12-18T01:57:00.002-08:002020-12-18T01:59:17.262-08:00As a Life Artist you must study the whole structure of the thinking<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnriYLX6wYkpg_Dujh9RjxbMpNaWiO_SszaATu17TzdLKDsq9jAJHWI1BjZ_ez_T3wx0L8gvO4fPxSeG7cWCAJDo9XW0OVnqU-sCg2idtkEwrUcte_PNTjdA19UmmNf6o6pVgTct7IZcHf/s1287/art.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1287" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnriYLX6wYkpg_Dujh9RjxbMpNaWiO_SszaATu17TzdLKDsq9jAJHWI1BjZ_ez_T3wx0L8gvO4fPxSeG7cWCAJDo9XW0OVnqU-sCg2idtkEwrUcte_PNTjdA19UmmNf6o6pVgTct7IZcHf/w400-h186/art.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Hedgehog, Deer and Salmon, by <a href="https://www.daniellebarlowart.com/">Danielle Barlow</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As
a <i>Life Artist</i> you must study the whole structure of the thinking, and see what
place the thought has; see where it isn´t a necessity, and only then you will
discover, that the mind functions in a reasonable way, both when the thought
isn´t active, and when the thought has to be active.</span></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-62129937039131670312020-12-12T02:38:00.005-08:002020-12-15T07:41:06.278-08:00The Arrival of the Frost Queen<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3IOJh25bUwzqRYF0OBtwBTdT8M0sXHYPCJ-A7vC50WLekAHnKSTYzaiYjdy0yYBTLe7Groc3NDEkk2oD0tInlydgSVxrVHepfaoShT-ww33jljJ3Srtj-Kjp_uVyKh3v3xsNxwsc86ivm/s1600/frost+queen1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3IOJh25bUwzqRYF0OBtwBTdT8M0sXHYPCJ-A7vC50WLekAHnKSTYzaiYjdy0yYBTLe7Groc3NDEkk2oD0tInlydgSVxrVHepfaoShT-ww33jljJ3Srtj-Kjp_uVyKh3v3xsNxwsc86ivm/w280-h400/frost+queen1.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: justify;">The Snow Queen, by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Nielsen" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: justify;">Kay Nielsen</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: justify;"> 1924</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;">From my Forest
Diary:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<o:p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">December 6, 2020</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 14pt;">The
Frost Queen passed through my window this night and left her breath. Look at
it! Pure art.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOqFZGdnm9P6d4V6evSfgYsgfknuSd71sE_KHQptrFeT8C2kbGODfxv9BtFx0XaEzvMv2NRGDWKbw4rghNg_Ood4pqILbXYQ6HKtlaY49TOjjSowDhCnFYEIPZCRbX4M5FVctxul4l3k4Q/s960/frost+queen2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOqFZGdnm9P6d4V6evSfgYsgfknuSd71sE_KHQptrFeT8C2kbGODfxv9BtFx0XaEzvMv2NRGDWKbw4rghNg_Ood4pqILbXYQ6HKtlaY49TOjjSowDhCnFYEIPZCRbX4M5FVctxul4l3k4Q/w320-h400/frost+queen2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 14pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Later
I went out into the forest, and saw this:</span></p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidbA2KqmOnPD6nOKS-zXj2dllZc4pnA2E7zcDFzlXX1e8g0Uv3-eOf03gBz2Ajw8f35J6LxiJ-K-Jh3x3CBcO-N62ae1vW2v2Oz0DG7yeYz_Gkf2NK-thx4D_xi166h9LgrYxiwipWh04J/s1440/frost+queen3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1072" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidbA2KqmOnPD6nOKS-zXj2dllZc4pnA2E7zcDFzlXX1e8g0Uv3-eOf03gBz2Ajw8f35J6LxiJ-K-Jh3x3CBcO-N62ae1vW2v2Oz0DG7yeYz_Gkf2NK-thx4D_xi166h9LgrYxiwipWh04J/w298-h400/frost+queen3.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;">What on Earth is it?</span></p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">During the Yule time, this sight
has met me several time in the forest. Spread around on branches. At first, I
thought of a phenomenon of Spring and Autumn. It looks like a kind of hair
gathering on the branches. But it is winter.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Now, when I tried to touch it,
I found out that it is a frost phenomenon created by the wind. As you can see,
it looks like a fur of snow feathers. It is almost too beautiful just to be a
natural phenomenon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I thought about the Frost
Queen wandering through the woods, spreading her art.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi39u3k-pSVcNzGFOJMI8Wm6uz-3k_3pwhlhTTOMU7HaEw_nH7gLmtsBm1gChCxXRwf-vIozNEDdVY5vWZRO-vyOQa5PxDBG-3v49OQAAPfY5iPjV83Y9H0A2qHQlnxocHK73X_2UYs3J9B/s1440/frost+queen4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1072" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi39u3k-pSVcNzGFOJMI8Wm6uz-3k_3pwhlhTTOMU7HaEw_nH7gLmtsBm1gChCxXRwf-vIozNEDdVY5vWZRO-vyOQa5PxDBG-3v49OQAAPfY5iPjV83Y9H0A2qHQlnxocHK73X_2UYs3J9B/w298-h400/frost+queen4.jpg" width="298" /></a></i></div><i><span lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The Frost Queen</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> from the </span><a href="http://www.hallowquest.org.uk/"><span lang="EN-US">Hallowquest</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> product: <i>Storyworld</i>,
a book with forty tell-your-own-story cards. </span></p></span></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is namely her who makes all
the ice and snow you see in wintertime. Oh, you didn´t know that? Not far from
the North Pole, you will find her home – an amazing palace of ice. She is the
queen of the Frost Sprites, who carry out her orders and often make mischief.
She is not always friendly and can be terrifying when she is angered. But most
of all she loves the show and ice. When everyone is asleep, she flies across
the land and spread her blanket of white.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt;">If you love the world of winter and Christmas as much
as she does, you should go and visit her, for she can show you all kinds of
wonderful things.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But be careful, and remember Hans Christian Andersen´s
fairy tale: </span><a href="https://andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheSnowQueen_e.html" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
Snow Queen</a><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-57880358918958516552020-11-05T02:48:00.004-08:002020-11-05T02:48:45.891-08:00A Movement from Mind to Consciousness is Essential for Peace in the World<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgqH5YIetOgh6SMMS40M-salnhAW3aZyYGdtjvWawMqJDyGFVqRWkc7CjhLCbMgLQ0fzq4VOg9ndFVbilMrGm-erfSbCqEPlKAyTyNaJM3RygpMiZi7jmiSFV2E0HCCtJq-PEpA0iZa8KZ/s1050/rainbow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="752" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgqH5YIetOgh6SMMS40M-salnhAW3aZyYGdtjvWawMqJDyGFVqRWkc7CjhLCbMgLQ0fzq4VOg9ndFVbilMrGm-erfSbCqEPlKAyTyNaJM3RygpMiZi7jmiSFV2E0HCCtJq-PEpA0iZa8KZ/w286-h400/rainbow.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">Rhinemaidens
(under the rainbow bridge to Asgard), by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rackham">Arthur Rackham</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Our consciousness is not yours
or mine. It is the consciousness of all human beings.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is very difficult for most
people to see the reality of this, because we have been so conditioned.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The mind is the conditioned
consciousness, it is consciousness which has identified itself with the body
and the thoughts. The mind is the idea of the separate individual.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For Christianity, you are a
separate soul. Among the Hindus, you reincarnate over and over again till you
reach god knows what. It is still the emphasis that you are a separate
individual.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Is that so? We are
questioning. We have to find out, doubt, ask, which means you are listening
without any defence, without any resistance to this truth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We are using the word
correctly; it is the truth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You may, at the periphery, on
the outside, have certain mannerisms, certain habits, certain tendencies,
capacities, but if you move from the outer to the inner, we all share the same
common issues.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Unless we realize this, not
verbally, not intellectually, but in our hearts, in our minds, in our blood, we
are going to destroy each other.</span></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-56209785460027820062020-10-28T03:33:00.001-07:002020-10-28T03:33:19.063-07:00A Radical Change Requires Spiritual Anarchism and a Religious Revolution<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRj2sg0qSwZI9xwZzlZ9YMwDLBGAjtLnLTgi1syLswp6xCZFSbH3Sj0vsR8B2P3EwKlEhjr8dmaB78SPlUWifwi8gtJ357ipa1uTPxv3D5PDPsmPbNvodNa8u1Hsqs5fUZYkAnPTShLHQO/s1600/wind+in+the+willows.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="1600" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRj2sg0qSwZI9xwZzlZ9YMwDLBGAjtLnLTgi1syLswp6xCZFSbH3Sj0vsR8B2P3EwKlEhjr8dmaB78SPlUWifwi8gtJ357ipa1uTPxv3D5PDPsmPbNvodNa8u1Hsqs5fUZYkAnPTShLHQO/w400-h229/wind+in+the+willows.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Kenneth
Grahame´s, ”The Wind in the Willows”, illustrated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inga_Moore">Inga Moore</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In my </span><a href="https://mortentolboll.weebly.com/philosophical-counseling.html" style="font-size: 14pt;">philosophical
counseling</a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> practice, I talk about three aspects of my teaching: </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">Meditation
as an Art of Life</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. The third aspect is about going beyond all ideas an
images. This aspect is also called Spiritual Anarchism.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Spiritual Anarchism is linked
to a religious revolution.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What I´m talking about is
something of immense importance because unless there is a fundamental
revolution in each one of us, I do not see how we can bring about a vast,
radical change in the world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And surely, that radical
change is essential.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mere economic revolution,
whether communistic or socialistic, is of no importance at all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There can be only a religious
revolution, and the religious revolution cannot take place if the mind is
merely conforming to the pattern of a previous conditioning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As long as one is a Christian
or a Hindu, or a New Ager, there can be no fundamental revolution in this true
religious sense of the word. And we do need such a revolution.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This doesn´t mean that you
can´t have a religion as a frame of reference. In fact, I advice people to find
a religion as a frame of reference. This will create a direction in the mind,
some energetic links. It is a preparatory practice.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">However, when the mind is free
from all conditioning, then you will find that there comes the creativity of
reality, of God, or what you will, and it is only such a mind, a mind which is
constantly experiencing this creativity, that can bring about a different
outlook, different values, a different world.</span></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-21547465845363404082020-10-12T05:19:00.001-07:002020-10-12T05:19:19.733-07:00It is necessary that you as a Life Artist ask yourself the question about what you are interested in<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihN6DChsd5F-OPY5CujvbcJWrZDZqLGQM88xqgEV510b0yZD-A60gUsqLWPxf6LKGZWA3R4wr0G1INFz96DzcQ6kgYrdJnhrKk8hC3FsIiAIb1jywButVyikKnU3ERumOxM2fufbAtOTCK/s1600/remains+of+the+day2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="1600" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihN6DChsd5F-OPY5CujvbcJWrZDZqLGQM88xqgEV510b0yZD-A60gUsqLWPxf6LKGZWA3R4wr0G1INFz96DzcQ6kgYrdJnhrKk8hC3FsIiAIb1jywButVyikKnU3ERumOxM2fufbAtOTCK/w400-h223/remains+of+the+day2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“The problem is acceptance, which is something
we´re taught not to do. We´re taught to change uncomfortable situations, to
change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality you
have been given – that you are not in a productive creative period – you free
yourself to begin filling up again” – Anne Lamott<span></span></span></i></p><a name='more'></a><i><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We use ourselves over ability
by doing things, which basically don´t interest us. And at the same time we have
still not found out, what we seriously are interested in. We haven't discovered
what our real interest is, and we feel a fundamental disappointment, bitterness,
or perhaps rather guilt: the feeling of not having accomplished our
possibilities, the feeling of lack of life-unfolding and unlived life, and the
annoyances over this.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is necessary that you as a Life
Artist ask yourself the question about what you are interested in. Not what you
</span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">ought</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to be interested in, but what really absorbs you. More and more
people become interested in finding out. And it is really important that you,
with yourself, find out, in which direction your interest goes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So far you perhaps have tried
different things, you have devoted your energy and intelligence to these, but
they haven't given you any deep satisfaction, like in Kazuo Ishiguro´s novel </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">The Remains of The Day</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, where the ageing
butler Stevens realizes, that his loyalty to Lord Darlington has implied, that
he himself never really has lived fully. Or you have perhaps burned yourself up
by doing things, which didn´t had your profound interest, or your real interest
is still lying in torpor, and is waiting to be awakened. So which of the two
possibilities is then the true?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Many people today have a need
of discovering what the truth is concerning this question. If you have burned
yourself up, the problem requires a special attitude; but if your fire still is
sleeping, then it is important that it becomes awakened. And as a Life Artist
it is important that you </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">yourself</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> discover the truth, rather than letting
another tell you what is true. The truth about what you are, is its own action.
If you are burnt-out then it is a question of healing, about recovering, lying
fallow in creative sense. This creative state of fallow follows when you have
cultivated and reseeded, it is non-action, which leads to complete action
later.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If your real interest not yet
has become awakened, and if the prompting to find out is present, then you will
find out, not by constantly seeking after an answer, but to be inquiring, clear
and warm in your prompting. Then you will see, that when you are awake, there
is a sharpened attention in which you receive any hint from the hidden
interest, and that dreams also play a part. In other words: the prompting gets the
mechanism of discovery to function.</span></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-8645707424610025542020-09-07T01:18:00.008-07:002020-09-07T06:30:25.235-07:00The Philosophical Diary is the Art of Discovering the Difference between Presence and Absence <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoWXuUbHWTGKwTbknDoUvBwVXGqR0vpaFACSN73ut4omz4IehBFoQFzBv2uRge00S0FkPVLxv2xjAhFI2O_Q5Lwyf_QC6Dnzzm1eEG4RSNXcjQsBdxVI4aG6qZideuBtpXwubfVlWaGzSh/s990/unicorn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="990" data-original-width="686" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoWXuUbHWTGKwTbknDoUvBwVXGqR0vpaFACSN73ut4omz4IehBFoQFzBv2uRge00S0FkPVLxv2xjAhFI2O_Q5Lwyf_QC6Dnzzm1eEG4RSNXcjQsBdxVI4aG6qZideuBtpXwubfVlWaGzSh/w348-h500/unicorn.jpg" width="348" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Unicorn
Dream”, by </span><a href="https://www.terriwindling.com/blog/2020/09/marja-lee-kruyt.html"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Marja Lee Kruÿt</span></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A central tool for the </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">Life
Artist</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> is the philosophical diary.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Write all your thoughts down in
the moment they appear in your mind.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the writing down you begin
to form the mirror, which reproduces your thoughts and feelings without
distortion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And when you observe them, you
understand your actions and reactions, and therefore your self-knowledge
becomes deeper and wider.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You are not only understanding
the current immediate action and reaction, but also the past, that has created
the current.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You discover the difference
between presence and absence.</span></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298511987661634640.post-49480252400869556422020-08-24T00:49:00.000-07:002020-08-24T00:49:17.587-07:00The Silence of the Vagabond<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMUaHPlb8HzZtF6LTOBLL6rKilFLRul6QkXAoQCxa095CZG6ZBZ9YYVNXRqjtlQmmJYbnmaeUCKymLDVl7cBCQMbBSLCPMz868cN-WNlaYkAXs8U48ialeEXkd0_EDNAD86Vf2A3eJD5jv/s603/brother2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="497" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMUaHPlb8HzZtF6LTOBLL6rKilFLRul6QkXAoQCxa095CZG6ZBZ9YYVNXRqjtlQmmJYbnmaeUCKymLDVl7cBCQMbBSLCPMz868cN-WNlaYkAXs8U48ialeEXkd0_EDNAD86Vf2A3eJD5jv/w330-h400/brother2.jpg" width="330" /></a></div> <p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">The Nightingale, by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Justice_Ford" style="text-align: justify;">Henry Justice Ford</a><span style="text-align: justify;">
(1860-1940)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Out of silence look and
listen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Silence is not the ending of
noise; the incessant clamour of the mind and heart does not end in silence; it
is not a product, a result of desire, nor is it put together by will.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Out of this silence, look and touch.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The whole of consciousness is
a restless, noisy movement within the borders of its own making. Within this
border silence or stillness is but the momentary ending of the chatter; it is
the silence touched by time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Leave everything behind.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Time is memory and to it
silence is short or long; it can measure. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Give
to it space and continuity, and then it becomes another toy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">But this is not silence. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Everything put together by thought is within the area
of noise, and thought in no way can make itself still. It can build an image of
silence and conform to it, worshipping it, as it does with so many other images
it has made, but its formula of silence is the very negation of it; its symbols
are the very denial of reality.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Let
it go.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Thought itself must be still
for silence to be. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Silence is always now,
as thought is not.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Out of this silence, look and taste.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Thought, always being old,
cannot possibly enter into that silence which is always new.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The new becomes the old when
thought touches it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The true anonymity is out of
this silence and there is no other humility.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Out of this silence, look and
smell.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">The vain are always vain,
though they put on the garment of humility, which makes them harsh and brittle.
</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But out of this silence the word ‘love’
has a wholly different meaning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This silence is not out there
but it is where the noise of the total observer is not.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Out of this silence, look and
walk.</span></p>Morten Tolbollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10926755012692844636noreply@blogger.com0