Hi all, I hope this is the right place to put this post. I figured since this is a lighthouse for me, maybe it will be for you, too.
There are visible cracks that have been forming in the maga movement. One that I did not anticipate but am very happy to see is from within the evangelical community since the CK memorial.
I've been watching a channel called Cult College on Youtube where she talks about this. Please watch (and share!) if you're interested: SCREENSHOTS FROM A BREAKING CULT
I appreciate that she also addresses the need to be gracious with people as they wake up. I 100% agree (though it isn't always easy).
I've got more beautiful news to share: Today it was announced that Huntington's disease was successfully treated for the first time ever in the history of humanity. Patients with early-stage Huntington's underwent neurosurgery 3 years ago as part of a Phase II clinical trial in the UK and the progression of the disease was slowed by 75%. This is incredible and life-changing because there are currently no treatments whatsoever for the disease.
The surgery is only available for people in the early stages of the disease, so my family member with HD won't be eligible. And it will likely be very, very expensive. But researchers will continue to refine the delivery method and maybe in future there will be something much less invasive and costly that anyone diagnosed with HD can take.
This BBC article has more details: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro
I thank the Universe that I have lived to see this day.
@kateinpdx I watch Cult College quite a bit. She seems to be really keyed-in to the right wing movement. I also watch Parkrose Permaculuture. Both woman are very intuitive. I get the feeling on their videos that they're half-speaking, half-channeling.
@gbs This is such an incredibly huge step forward, and it makes me so happy to learn that we now have a way to effectively combat this cruel disease. Hopefully, costs will decrease over time, as is the case with many very effective new therapies, which are mostly initially highly expensive.
Btw, did you get to see the beautiful swarms of butterflies in your region this month? Isn't it wonderful to think of the way they can symbolise all the relief that can come with such a life-enhancing therapy? I just remembered that you were waiting for monarch butterflies.
I appreciate that she also addresses the need to be gracious with people as they wake up. I 100% agree (though it isn't always easy).
This also aligns with my impression that a gentle but steady wave of healing has begun, even in the MAGA world, and that people are waking up again, as if emerging from a trance. They then need definetely help and social acceptance. I believe it is a painful process that requires courage to find one's way back to authenticity. Courage is commendable, and social support is important to ensure that people have the courage to continue waking up out of trance.
This also aligns with my impression that a gentle but steady wave of healing has begun, even in the MAGA world, and that people are waking up again, as if emerging from a trance. They then need definetely help and social acceptance. I believe it is a painful process that requires courage to find one's way back to authenticity. Courage is commendable, and social support is important to ensure that people have the courage to continue waking up out of trance.
Absolutely!
I think this is hard to do when so many of us have seen this for YEARS!! However, I remind myself that my dream and vision for us all waking up and working together to create a better world is worth disciplining myself to be gracious.
dream and vision for us all waking up and working together to create a better world
Spiritually speaking, this dream is still the best and most important dream shared of all humanity in the light, and this is something to be celebrated! Its roots go way, way, way back, and it's still here, still strong. At present, it's being realised by a lot quieter and more subtle means, but it is not less strong. I know this dream is immortal as long as humanity exists because it is part of humanity.
We all will be blessed when your vision becomes true!
Today it was announced that Huntington's disease was successfully treated for the first time ever in the history of humanity.
WOW!!!
I'd also be curious to know what the astrology was when this happened, for any of you skilled astrologers in the forum.
I'm curious too. The scientific paper with all of the details of the clinical trial is supposed to be presented next month at a medical conference, so hopefully it will mention when the surgeries took place. We know from the topline results released yesterday that they happened three years ago. But they may have taken place over the course of several months.
I hope that the extraordinary outer planet harmony in the heavens now will move this trial forward to a successful conclusion and will ensure regulatory approval of the surgery throughout the world. I also hope that under this influence researchers will find cheaper and easier ways of delivering the gene therapy to the brain.
I continue to believe that the assault on medical research in the US right now will give way to a renewed commitment to science in the US after we come out the other side of the current turmoil.
@gbs This is such an incredibly huge step forward, and it makes me so happy to learn that we now have a way to effectively combat this cruel disease. Hopefully, costs will decrease over time, as is the case with many very effective new therapies, which are mostly initially highly expensive.
Btw, did you get to see the beautiful swarms of butterflies in your region this month? Isn't it wonderful to think of the way they can symbolise all the relief that can come with such a life-enhancing therapy? I just remembered that you were waiting for monarch butterflies.
Thank you so much for your kind thoughts! The monarchs haven't arrived yet in my area, but they should be getting here in the next few weeks. It's always magical to catch a glimpse of them on their way to Mexico.
I wanted to post somewhere about the passing yesterday (Oct. 1) of Dr. Jane Goodall. I was certainly saddened to hear of her passing, but also saw such a beautiful, light-filled outpouring on social media for her and her legacy and was so inspired! It filled me with such hope and *reminded me* to focus on thath light and hope. It is now our turn to carry that light forward, for the Earth and all of its inhabitants.
@cc21 I hadn't seen your Goodall post until after I posted something about her in the Path Forward. We are so inspired by her. @lovendures sent me this video about how we can live our lives if we follow her cue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH_APf9Naxc
Wow, wow, wow. This is mind-blowing considering the source. Look at what was published recently by a Morningstar affiliate. (Morningstar is an international financial information outlet and links to their articles come up on the website for my retirement account. The essay is on their Australian site and the author lives in Switzerland,):
Opening paragraph:
This essay was born out of revulsion to an accidental summer reading that paraded progress as virtue and private equity as its high priest. Every paragraph spoke the same pious language of “sustainable improvement,” “societal benefit,” and “long-term value creation,” as though leverage, asset-stripping, and balance-sheet cosmetics had become moral acts. I found myself revolted not merely by the hypocrisy, but by the vacuousness of it. In our hyper-financialized society, we have come to mistake valuation for value, and activity for achievement. The word ‘progress’ has been exploited to justify anything that moves – no matter what it destroys. What follows is an act of refusal to bow to the idea that more money is progress. If this essay has a motive, it is contempt for the trivial slogans that pass as thought, and for the hollow theory that confuses financial engineering with human improvement.
Full essay is at:
Another lighthouse.
@Ana your wonderful article on the history of finance made me think of a remarkable climate book I’m reading by Bill McKibben, one of the most important climate writers of our time. Here Comes the Sun traces how fire once helped build civilization—and how it now threatens it—just as we finally have clean, abundant energy from the sun.
The book is full of hope. McKibben shows how simply switching to EVs, induction cooking, and heat pumps could cut household fossil-fuel use by around 40%, and how we can reach the deeper cuts we need if we move quickly. I loved it so much I donated copies to our library, and I’m happy to pass along my own when we’re done.
Renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels. EVs and hybrids are simpler, cleaner, and far more reliable than gas cars—we’ve seen it ourselves with our Prius and our RAV4. Our induction cooktop boils water in seconds, and our heat pumps heat and cool the house efficiently without polluting the air we breathe.
Once you see this shift clearly, it’s hard not to want to join it. A cleaner, healthier, more livable world is right here—if we choose it.
@bluebelle @deetoo @lovendures @dannyboy @cc21 @Caroline @earthangel @Andy @seaholly @joy @sealion @vesta @tesseract @baba
@jeanne-mayell There are a number of "quoteable quotes" in the full essay-- one that really resonates is:
The financialization of everything is not merely an economic development but a metaphysical one: it teaches us to see the world not as a trust to be tended but as a balance sheet to be managed.
The author is the manager of a private investment firm in Switzerland. If only all financial gurus had his moral compass.
@jeanne-mayell I would really prefer an induction range--maybe the prices will eventually come down.
A local meditation teacher just shared this with me. It’s from The Walk for Peace page, the Buddhist monks who are walking across the states to DC, walking for peace. I thought it was a gentle reminder during these very chaotic, stressful times.
✍️ Some people may ask: “How can I stay peaceful when difficult situations arise?”. We must begin by understanding: we are where we are. Situations happen—often without warning, often beyond our control. We cannot always prevent or change them.
But here is what we can control: the way we respond.
When difficulty arrives, our minds rush forward—overthinking, catastrophizing, creating stories about how terrible things are. We make situations heavier by adding layers of worry and fear on top of what is already challenging.
But if we pause, if we become mindful of our breath in that moment, if we notice our thoughts without getting swept away—something shifts. The situation doesn’t disappear, but we stop making it worse. We create space for clarity, and in that clarity, we can see what we should actually do to help the situation, instead of just worrying and feeling defeated.
In that mindful pause, we might also remember something we’ve forgotten: right now, countless conditions are still nourishing our life. We are alive. We can breathe. We can eat. We can walk. These are profound gifts, genuine happiness—but we rarely see them because our minds are too busy racing toward worry, too consumed by what’s wrong to notice what remains right.
This is what mindfulness offers in difficult moments: not power to control what happens, but wisdom to see clearly what helpful action we can take, to breathe consciously, to remember that even in difficulty, we are still held by life, still capable of responding wisely instead of simply reacting.
The situation is what it is. But we can change how we meet it—with presence instead of panic, with clarity instead of confusion, with wise action instead of helpless worry.
Peace in difficult times doesn’t mean nothing bothers us. It means we stop making everything worse by losing ourselves in our thoughts. It means we stay grounded enough to see what we can actually do, then do it with a calm heart.
May you and all beings be well, happy, and at peace.
#WalkforPeace #BuddhistMonks #PeaceWalk