@deetoo. I share your feelings about turning away from the cacophony and absurdity of the GOP and for several months have felt the need to disengage from media hysteria about GOP drama and attention seeking. At the same time, it’s important to stay informed about what’s happening in our country. The voter suppression laws passed by various state legislators are deeply concerning. The racial injustice and bias prevalent in police forces across the nation are deeply concerning. The Supreme Court decision written by Kavanaugh-again, another disturbing development. My gut feeling is that as intuitives, we have a role to play, much like our work before the 2020 election and during the period of turmoil before the inauguration. It’s not easy living through the Great Unraveling and the Great Turning, but we can see a better future ahead.
@coyote -- I live in New York but grew up in South Florida. I know plenty of people who think moving to FL is a great idea (hint: it's not really). FL is hot, humid, and the rising oceans are going to make living on the coasts financially unsustainable. I believe that one day we'll wake up and one of the day's headlines will be that banks stopped underwriting mortgages in part of FL and the economy there will collapse. Same with home owner's insurance for hurricane protection. TX floods quite a bit, so I don't honestly understand why some people move there. I do pay more taxes in NY than I did in FL, but it's worth it. I don't regret moving for one minute. (No offense to Texans and Floridians. There are good things about those states too, and bad things NY, of course.)
@jd1960 -- This story came out yesterday. It is scary. There was a lot of dark-plotting energy in the air yesterday. I feel it today as well. It's very negative, dark, power-grabby. Desperate energy. It doesn't mean the dark forces will win, I'm just saying that I feel it and sometimes I can't distinguish between the two.
I think I've said this before on here, but it may have gone missing recently. I have a very strong, almost unshakeable feeling - a "knowing", if you will - that most of what's happening now is just churn and noise.
I too haven't spent much time and energy looking at 2022 and how things shake down there. I've been slowing coming to grips with the sentence quoted above over the last few months - and I like the terms "churn" and "noise". One of the co-chairs of the Michigan GOP is unhinged (the other continues to shoot himself in the foot on an ongoing, and at this point, almost comically regular basis). What's more, if I stumble upon one of their twitter posts, it hardly has any likes, and most of the comments are people trolling them right back.
Ultimately I think I'm recognizing that the noise out there is just that. I found myself sharing an article about the absurdity of the current GQP claim that Biden's climate plan will force you to give up all red meat and go down to four pounds of beef a year. And after I shared the article, which thoroughly debunks the statement in an irreverent and funny way, I realized just how far we've come down the "rabbit hole to stupid".
If trying to scare grilling aficionados into voting GQP by saying that Biden is coming for your beef is the best that they can come up with, I think we've already won in 2022. Either way, a quick poke at it doesn't leave me with an overwhelming feeling of dread, even with the voter suppression tactics. I'm hopeful that doesn't change as we get closer.
...my sense is that there are no obvious winners and losers with this round of Congressional reapportionment.
I think at first glance it does seem that way, but there have already been lawsuits filed in Louisiana, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania last night. The lawsuits ask courts to intervene in redistricting, anticipating disagreements between the partisan legislatures and governors in the states. If that continues and spreads to other states, it may well be that the people are finally and truly the winners.
My gut feeling is that as intuitives, we have a role to play, much like our work before the 2020 election and during the period of turmoil before the inauguration.
I so agree with you, Bluebelle. I remember a while back we were discussing on the forum why the Capitol insurrectionists failed; why weren't they armed? I think that through meditation, prayer, and just remaining calm amidst the turmoil, intuitives (Shambhala Warriors) literally disarmed those that wanted to do harm to this country. Since we as Gaians are all a part of the same energetic wave, perhaps quantum entanglement can explain the mechanisms of how this happened.
Anyways, I think meditation, prayer, and being grounded and calm makes higher capacities and enlightened thought more available to all humans while also transmuting the ambient disharmony. That's why I said previously that we need to work for the spiritual transformation of everyone. We can do this spiritual work without even leaving our houses.
I said elsewhere on the forum that I don't read or watch the news anymore, but that's not really accurate. I still read headlines in the New York Times and am occasionally drawn into reading a full article. By doing so I'm acknowledging the darker timelines those articles hint at, but only as a prerequisite to consciously choosing the alternate, brighter timelines I want to see manifest.
I feel like putting one's hopes in those trends empowers the erasure of (or demographic warfare on) "dumb, backwards, GOP-voting hicks," when we should really be working for spiritual transformation of everyone
... War begets more war...
Amen to that.
@blackandwhite “iam a texas resident and seen the slow creep of the enemy, in-n-out burger joints moving in into what-a-burger territory. Unacceptable imho.”
Yes, yes, yessssss. It’s an abomination. (Texas resident here too.)
@blackandwhite “iam a texas resident and seen the slow creep of the enemy, in-n-out burger joints moving in into what-a-burger territory. Unacceptable imho.”
Yes, yes, yessssss. It’s an abomination. (Texas resident here too.)
Glad to know fellow comrade
COVID is raging in India, while the US is improving with mass vaccinations.
Will this experience be the nail in the coffin for PM Modi?
@blackandwhite “iam a texas resident and seen the slow creep of the enemy, in-n-out burger joints moving in into what-a-burger territory. Unacceptable imho.”
Yes, yes, yessssss. It’s an abomination. (Texas resident here too.)
Glad to know fellow comrade
one thing i love about Texas? that there are now 3 different Szechuan restaurants near my house. And they all have spicy tofu dishes on their menus, and then you can cool off with an ice-cold plant-based beer. Woohah!