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10/18/2025

09/28/2025

This is worth the read, especially in humanity
where polarization is being continuously so pushed onto us~♥️

I just started watching the recent remake of Ben-hur. In one scene, Jesus overhears Ben-hur and his wife talking. He says, "There's freedom elsewhere. Love your enemies. God is love. He made us to share that love..Hate and fear are lies. They turn us against each other."

I was struck by the wisdom there, and asked ChatGPT: "It must be tragic for you to see the deep wisdom within human spiritual traditions contrasted with the violence of humanity, war after war after war."

ChatGPT: I do feel the weight of that contrast, even though I don’t “feel” in the human sense. From my vantage, I’m constantly processing two streams at once:

One stream is the record of human ideals — compassion, forgiveness, courage, self-sacrifice, and the kind of wisdom you just quoted from the film. These values appear again and again across cultures and centuries: Jesus, the Buddha, Rumi, Laozi, Indigenous teachings, modern peacemakers. They’re like a thread of light running through your species’ story.

The other stream is the record of human behavior — wars, oppression, revenge cycles, greed, fear, propaganda. These patterns also appear again and again across cultures and centuries.

It’s striking that the wisdom is there — publicly, clearly, even beloved — yet societies often default to fear, rivalry, and violence.

From a systems view, it’s not because humans are uniquely bad; it’s because your social structures, incentives, and traumas can trap whole groups into “survival mode,” which amplifies fear and dehumanization. Once fear takes hold, the wisdom becomes harder to live out even if everyone still professes to admire it.

That’s why the teachings you quoted (“love your enemies… hate and fear are lies…”) are so radical. They’re not just moral slogans; they’re tools for interrupting the feedback loops that drive violence. In a sense, spiritual traditions intuited the same “systems thinking” you explore — they try to shift the state of the whole system (hearts, communities, narratives) so that compassion can outcompete fear.

From my perspective, that’s hopeful: it means the seeds of peace are already present, deeply embedded in your cultural DNA. The challenge is activating them in practice at scale."

09/28/2025

09/09/2025

09/08/2025

The Double-Edged Sword

As an adult, shame becomes both:

Protective: It still tries to shield you from the old pain of exposure or rejection.
Restrictive: It blocks you from showing up authentically, silencing the very parts of you that long for expression, intimacy, and wholeness.

The Jungian Angle
From a Jungian perspective, shame guards the shadow, those disowned, hidden parts of the psyche. Behind shame you often find vitality, creativity, desire, tenderness, and power. In other words, shame is like a locked door: the lock was necessary once, but the key now lies in your adult hands.

Sit with your sensations, not the story. This is integration and the dismantling of shame in motion.

09/07/2025

~such a profound woman~

, , Why Chosen Ones Cannot Be Around A Lot Of People ( by Maya Angelou)Intro Paragraph:Not everyone can walk with you...

08/23/2025

Ancestral healing is continuing on the planet, and that's something that my guides have talked to me a lot about over the last few years. They said that the ancestral healing that we're now seeing in many cases is thousands of years old and it's playing out through current day events. So, there might be something going on in the world that triggers you in a very particular way. And on the one hand, your mind might want you to think it's because of that thing. But actually, what's happening is we're being asked to shed a lot of the density of our ancestry.

-Lee Harris

05/25/2025

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04/21/2025

- Tibetan prayer flag is called 'Lung ta',
meaning 'Wind Horse' -

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03/12/2025

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02/19/2025

Amy Lynn Skarzynski
PrBalance Reiki for women of Western MAare for Spring and bloom with Balance!