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"What do you Mean You Can’t Ship Our Stuff From Whitehorse?"

That reminds me of the northern New England joke about old-timers saying, "You can't there from here", where "there" and "here" are pronounced with the "r" nearly gone so that they're more like "theah" and "heah".

Anyway, what a story! Congratulations on escaping from Trudeau-land (almost spelled that as "Turdeau", which maybe would have been better).

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lol!

hola mark y bienvenido, welcome.

hola, yes, that's it exactly. and that old joke is here in gringo america too. (likely latino americo also. i'll check that out, gracias.)

are you a fan of laurie anderson? she plays with that idea from a slightly different persepective in 'big science' https://youtu.be/vTHiN6Qwdgs

it was so funny, when the shipping 'expert' first emailed me and then in our conversation convinced me of his inexpertise. life really does have a funny sense of humour! i remained calm an equanimous at the time. and that 'failure' turned out to be a very important 'success!' when i get to chapter 12 i'll explore what happened with that.

yes, how to name trudeau? recently i've taken some enjoyment in castdo and from that i can humously, in my mind, extend that to castrado with reference to emasculation as his state of being and so acting the tough, and/or his impotent desire to create (or actually sees the rest of as being), emasculated. ah, the play of language as restrictive magic — spelling — and our true expression of our infinite power to play and dance meaning. amazing things.

thank you for reading and commenting.

all the best with what is changing. everything is change and so that is what creates continuity.

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I love "Castrado"! That made me laugh. I think I'll start using that.

Coincidentally, I just read "The Alteration", an alternate-history novel by Kingsley Amis, about a boy singer who's facing castration to preserve his God-given talent. Great book.

I'm more of a classical piano nut and don't know Laurie Anderson except indirectly through the last track on Peter Gabriel's "So". But this "Big Science" is a pretty strange and funny song.

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What an incredible ordeal, Guy. I'm feeling the trauma of these events hit me like waves. I'm glad to have known in advance that you would land well, safe and happy, among good people.

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hola, tereza. it is actually incredible, isn't it?

and at the same time, there are similar incredible stories for others that don't turn out so well. life is completely diverse. (funny, now it seems uncomfortable to use yet another word whose beauty has been slagged mercilessly by virtue signalling tyrants!)

and there is a lot more before we get to oaxaca the 2nd time! with so many incredible synchronicities.

'trust your self', gautama said to his companion ananda. 'ignore what i've said for 50 years about trusting the dharma and trusting the sangha. trust your *self*!'. as the experiences continue on this spiritual journey of awareness being guided by the non-mind part of me, i know now that gautama didn't mean, by self, some airy-fairy imaginary thing that somehow floats around in our bodies that is to be grounded to life well and yet is extended elsewhere in space-time ideologies. gautama meant trust your body as the expression of life, as soul.

as our path into spiritual refugees continued our bodies guided us and our minds were puzzled or confused by whatever before seeing how the unplanned breaking of those wonderful and fixed great plans were time and again able to by-pass expectations by broadening, deepening and expanding the experiences primarily as opportunity to remove constricting of habits, especially mind-thought-ego habits, samskaras. unlearning, as it has been put well.

when i was doing the final edits early this morning, it was only then that i actually saw in the bellingham leg the beauty of our body as soul expressing life: our arrival into bellingham and out of the spiritual tyranny that is hiding as the medical health protection racket was to be chauffeured in a rich cadillac to a luxurious suit. at the time i saw only my money disappearing, not the magic of what was happening! yes! that is what life is, a beautiful luxuriousness that we don't see even as it is happening because our minds are focused on scarcity.

thank you for reading and commenting. next step mexico city and then the synchronicities really start kicking in.

all the best with what is changing, with peace, respect, love and gratitude.

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Incredible journey and insights into charter propaganda. 🙏

I was reminded of our USA constitution. We have God-given rights. Whatever rights we have are still not our own, they must be given to us and they were indeed taken away when religious leaders reversed course and pushed their followers to take the jabs.

When I learned about "religious exemptions" for vaccines many years ago I thought -how ridiculous, to infer I don't have a right to just say NO to something being put into my or my child's body; as if I cannot make this decision without someone else directing me.

It seems like words can almost be their own downfall depending on how someone perceives and defines them?

Take the word humane. What does it mean to one person versus another. Might it mean different things to different people depending on their personal values, how they were raised, what culture they live in? Something taken for granted may suddenly be flipped on its end if someone comes along and redefines it according to their own personal belief system which denounces others.

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hola, heidi.

gracias for reading.

yes, your understanding of how my experience connects to the us constitution is accurate. and yes, the permission to be given to guide... anything! even the church stuff goes back a long way with deep roots in the old testament's bloody control freakism. tereza corragio's last essay seem to take my understanding of the depth of the blood-craziness to a new level.

narcissistic gaslighting all the way, in order to break our awareness of being connected to the now in our bodies.

words! omg! they are so funny, strong, weak, dangerous! words are spelled is casting a spell is very true! the more i understand, the more i cast out my anti-spell, my spell breakers: stop using ... well, fill in the blanks. stopping those spells will break huge spells of disempowerment.

and with that thought i return to some of the strongest de-spelling words on the planet, written by chuang-tsu (with edward de vere, my favourite writer, depending on the day.)

"Besides, do you know how virtue degenerates and how learning arises? Virtue is consumed by fame. Learning is born of contention. Fame causes men to fight with one another. Learning is the weapon for both. Both can be evil instruments. They are not the means to perfection. —Chuang-Tse. Wandering on the Way. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1994. tr by Victor Mair.

thank you for mentioning the word 'humane'! yes, yes yes! exactly the same thing. it only has meaning when we know the opposite. it is another word like 'deserve'. what does it mean to 'deserver' whatever? it only means something if another doesn't deserver. surely we are all equal in this universe where humane and deserve are false idols, false words, words to remove our internal integrity by creating separation between us and all things! love it. gracias. and so you have discovered another word of 'violent communication' - humane. interesting, isn't it?!

all the best.

p.s.: and i understand you wanting to keep our dialogue private! thank you for having read so many of my words!

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I havent read tereza corragio's last essay. I will check it out.

I feel like, to me, some words are definitely on a list of negative - like should and shouldnt. I've also been adding words to my list that disempower, like "have-to". I'm also finding words other people use which silence others, thought terminating type words and phrases like "offended" which connotate that I'm not allowed to assertively stand up for myself, my beliefs or disagree without being looked down upon. I'm somehow offended if I respond to someone without agreeing with them.

Other words I'm not fully sure about putting on that list, maybe another list, for me.

I almost feel like there is one true definition of it (humane) and throwing out the word almost makes me feel like how universities are erasing words from the vocabulary they say no longer acceptable to speak of. I'm not sure if this is a fair comparison. I guess I feel like it stifles discussion about what humane looks like, represents.

Does this shut down communication, homogenize us, is that good or not so good I'm not sure

I really love the open dialogue around words even if it's just to acknowledge how they affect us and others it's such a powerful way to communicate with others when you understand how your words sound and are perceived by others

I'm getting a feeling inside of me of wanting to assertively define some words that may be, for lack of a better word, weaponized against others, depending on how people define them.

I need to really digest this and ruminate on it a while. If you have any other thoughts or perspectives you'd like to add I would love to hear them.

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digest away!

consider the yogic value i learned at my first deep 5 day retreat: opposite values are complementary. black-white, up-down, humane-inhumane, worthy-unworthy, deserving-undeserving.

why is this important: the one cannot exist with the other. thus certain 'positive words', like 'humane' are only meaningful if there is 'inhumane'. to use 'humane' is to energise 'inhumane'. this awareness is the deepest levels of equanimity, and allow for movement away from hate etc. as those complimentary values lose their power, what becomes more prominent is that the love of life (not our base understanding of love) is all there is. that is moving beyond the dualities and spell making power of words. our bodies know this already. they are our keys.

time to go!

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Thank you for describing and clarifying this.

For me the word humane helps to define what abuse looks like, even if it isnt a perfect understanding. I feel like it's not about deserving or undeserving, but I can see how it might be twisted into that by religions and gov

The vagueness and potential for vastly different interpretations makes me uncomfortable.

As a side note some animals behavior seems more humane than humans. The word itself has some interesting contradictions and hypocrisy to it.

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yes. and that is how the complimentary aspect works!

notice that with the non-injectees almost everywhere we began to see and hear things like 'those damn anti-vaxxers, they don't deserve, to travel, see family, get medicine, etc.'

yes, the complimentary nature allows us physical humans to see difference and nuance. the challenge is to what extent has our awareness become spell binding language?

now you are getting to the deepest core of meaning, words, and physical life. fascinating stuff!

thank you for being so curious and deeply questioning! you are wonderful, for me!

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