Samhain honouring the Ancestors.

those who stood strong against fascists and other tyrants throughout history and

bequeathed us the powers we have today.

Larimar is wonderfully relaxing sound therapy.

https://www.youtube.com/live/yWnsm5TsT1Q?si=bxcUQDVq3D9NkGAK

public service announcement re: election scams.🆘🆘🆘

Alert Number: I-102924-PSA
October 29, 2024
Scammers Exploit 2024 US General Election to Perpetrate Multiple Fraud Schemes

https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2024/PSA241029

be a state of high excitation, with outbursts of blind destructive rage, then a
withdrawal into hellish loneliness and the torture of non-existence,
followed by a gradual reawakening of an unutterable longing for
something which would make him conscious of himself.

reading Jung's response to Job
i'm struck by its strong analogy to dealing with the billionaire in power syndrome we are now facing.

any thoughts?

Yahweh is no
friend of critical thoughts which in any way diminish the tribute of
recognition he demands. Loudly.
that is also why Yahweh needs the
acclamation of a small group of people. One can imagine what would
happen if this assembly suddenly decided to stop the applause:

there would...
continue🔽

an opossum
cooking up
some
halloween spells.

sitting outside
autumn breeze
sends a maple message
from the trees out front
over the roof

to land beside me
and mock
my try
at her colour display
in passing.

i was at the kitchen sink, looking out the window when a sparrow, non breeding male, flew up to the window, perched on the sill and looked in at me, for a long moment.

i think he's bringing me the group order for more millet, since all the birds are now gathering around the feeders, instead of feeding on the ground.

cheeky wildlife around here🤔

divinity:

the Mystery

in whose presence

we are all One.

AI tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said.

Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers.

some of the invented text — known in the industry as hallucinations — can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments.

Whisper is being used in a slew of industries worldwide.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10832303/ai-transcription-medical-errors/

Modern adoptions of mindfulness tend to view the solitary meditative aspects of practice to be the 'essential' part, whereas the ritual and animist elements are seen as expendable. The reasons for this are deeply tied in with colonial history, and with the western legacy of body-mind divide.

the animate, ritual context is profoundly important for shaping and architecting relational minds, and post-modern minds —

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why Mindfulness isn't enough.

modern iterations of mindfulness practice often live removed from their original context.

  The forest ecology from which mindfulness grew was animate and alive, and what we call mindfulness practices formed only a part of a rich tapestry that included rituals of ancestor worship, enacted connection to ecology, spirit mediumship, healing, and esoteric somatic practices.

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-emerald/id1465445746

as halloween approaches, i'm thinking about the fact that the only time the Crone has any attention is now.

the Crone has been suppressed by patriarchal culture because her power overruled even heavenly father Zeus.

The Crone is the part of the woman's psyche
not identified with
any relationship
nor confined by any bond.

before being suppressed by patriarchal religions,

she was the mother of god, the nurturer of god, and, as Crone
the slayer of god.

time for a revival.🤔