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ramnath@nerdpol.ch
ramnath

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WdELSsHIRWc

"The #divine #name, or ‘I’ refers to the most intimate, obvious aspect of our experience.

In this #guided #meditation #RupertSpira takes us directly to that #essential, #unchanging #aspect #of #ourselves.

Rupert says notice that whatever experience we are having, it is I who am having it. All our experience revolves around ‘I’. ‘I’ is as such the ever-present aspect in our always-changing experience and being the common factor in all experience, ‘I’ cannot be limited to or defined by any particular experience. In its purest form, ‘I’ is as such unqualified and unconditioned and having no qualities or conditions, it cannot be said to be limited.

For us to experience our Self as we essentially are we do not have to go anywhere or do anything — we simply need to sink deeply into our Self, allowing ourselves to be divested of all the temporary finite qualities that we derive from the content of experience. What remains is just the fact of being or being aware. We are essentially infinite being temporarily clothed in human experience and seeming to become a finite being, without ever, in fact, ceasing to be #infinite being."

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rhoutman@pod.orkz.net
rhoutman

i think western #capitalism made a mistake introducing #stocktrading
They call it ‘trading’ and ‘investing’ while the objective only ever is to ‘extract more money’ from the company,
and also, there’s no engaging with the actual people working at the company. i.e. there’s no soul in trading

But in contrast to #socialism & #communism,
with #capitalism you have a production-consumption feedback loop which is #essential to ensuring production leveling out with the demand(essential for food availability!).

Learn from this NorthKorean defecter about the #horror when that feedback loop is missing:
https://odysee.com/@TimcastIRL:8/north-korean-defector-shares-horrifying:0

Contrast trading with

Luke 6:34-35 ESV
And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

#bible #spirituality #freedom #education #bribery

North Korean Defector Shares Horrifying Story Of Life In North Korea And Her Great Escape To America

Tim & Lydia host North Korean defector Yeonmi Park jointly with China Uncensored hosts Chris Chapelle & Shelley Zhang to recount Yeonmi's story of horror and triumph. Sign Up For Exclusive Episodes A...

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escheche@diasp.org
Sylvia J

Ending Primacy to End U.S. Wars

https://quincyinst.org/report/ending-primacy-to-end-u-s-wars/

The United States must reconceive its fundamental commitment to primacy and recognize that, in the emergent multipolar world, it can no longer dictate terms in its relations with others as it has in the past.

This insight provides guidance for how to navigate current U.S.–China tensions. The United States and China will be on a collision course if U.S. policy is driven by a desire to sustain primacy in East Asia. U.S. and Chinese leaders must accept that neither country can dominate the other and that #mutual #recognition is #essential if we are to avoid a disastrous, potentially nuclear war.

#quincy-brief #danielbessner #primacy #us #wars #intervention #gulf-war #hegemony #asia #china

Ending Primacy to End U.S. Wars - Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

If America’s decision-makers are to learn from the Iraq War (2003–11), they must recognize it not as an aberration or an isolated mistake, but as a direct consequence of the U.S. search for primacy in the Middle East. The Iraq War was...

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kamenridercaoimhe@diasp.org
Caoiṁe

[…]

Celebrities posing #naked while #pregnant began as a fiercely defiant and provocative stunt. #Demi_Moore’s 1991 Vanity Fair cover—an undeniably confident woman fully #nude, cradling her pregnant belly—was #progressive in its mere existence: the overt #sexualization and #celebration of a #bodyImage that the #American public had, generally, been taught not to think of as #sexy.

It was a transgressive moment in its #controversy (in 1991, many more #conservative people were none-too-pleased to see a nude pregnant #woman staring at them from the shelves of the grocery store cashier aisle), but also in how it paved the way for the image to eventually become #uncontroversial almost entirely; to be #normalized.

(Go figure something as #natural as a pregnant woman’s body needs to be normalized. #Humans are awful.)

In the decades since Moore’s cover, the nude pregnant #photo has almost become a rudimentary rite of passage for celebrities, especially those whose careers were built on—and at times #exploited—their sexuality. #Christina_Aguilera, #Jessica_Simpson, #Britney_Spears, #Nia_Long, #Cindy_Crawford, #Claudia_Schiffer, #Mariah_Carey, #Monica_Bellucci: the nude photo shoot evolved from #progressive act of #rebellion to an #essential part of the Pregnant Celebrity Publicity Tour. As essential, even, as the “Check Out My Post-Baby Bod!” photo shoot that would typically follow.

It’s easy—and at this point #lazy and #unoriginal—to #attack any news Kardashian makes as a #shameless ploy for more press. The fact of the matter is that Kardashian has built a #career as an expert #manipulator of a #realityTV genre that’s mandated that #media take its stars #seriously, because the many #fans of these shows already do.

She’s an aficionado of #branding, a polarizing #fashion maven, and, after years in the public eye, a bona fide #cultural #influencer.

As such, Kardashian’s treatment of her #celebrity spotlight has #matured along with our #perception of her #influence. She’s no longer the #girl made famous by the #sexTape, but a #person with a #platform who is given a megaphone to speak about #feminism, #sexism, #sexualizing, and, god help us, real things.

There’s something sort of #admirable about this #evolution.

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Kim Kardashian Posts Bold, Beautiful Naked Pregnant Selfie to Combat Body Shaming

#Kim_Kardashian #socialMedia #bodyShaming #bodyPositivity #iPutTheHeadlineAtTheBottomBecauseRegardlessOfHowEnlightenedWeConsiderOurselvesItGoesWithoutSayingThatIfSomeOfYouSawHerNameAtTheTopYouWouldHaveCompletelyIgnoredThisPost

Flashback: Demi Moore

Esquire legend George Lois recalls Annie Leibovitz’s culture-jolting 1991 V.F. cover of a pregnant Demi Moore.