Discernment

Second Quarter Goals

Apr 12, 2023

This is a casual note as we wrap up the first three months on Substack. The plan is to post two more essays on oral health to complete that part of health management for 2023. These goals were actually explained in the posts in early January, but they have not had many readers. There were to be three months devoted to each of four general areas: Detoxification, Immunity, Regeneration, and Removal of Obstacles to Spiritual Awareness. This latter covers such tricky topics as cutting through disinformation and developing confidence in one’s own powers of observation. It should end with understanding and trusting inspiration and guidance. These are ambitious goals so I have sprinkled in some music and lighter topics here and there.

It took a while to make the decision to go with Substack, and there are still only a handful of subscribers compared to the list that evolved over a period of around 25 years. The problem was censorship, and we ought to look at this subject very carefully because what passes for information is often biased or out and out disinformation. The world is in a very precarious situation, and there really are only narrow margins for error lest disaster becomes the norm rather than the exception.

Whether we are talking about financial shenanigans, contamination of our food supply and food shortages, health, crime, or war, our leadership has been failing us and cannot be trusted to exercise foresight and the type of responsibility needed so as to guarantee a secure future. People are very polarized which means that divide and conquer are serving the interests of enclaves of individuals who seek to control rather than to build for posterity.

My goal is to avoid contributing to divisiveness, and the best way I know to achieve this is to encourage people to trust their own perceptions. There is probably no better way to accomplish this than to spend quiet time in Nature. Watch how plants grow, how bees pollinate, how rain nourishes, how birds nest. Watch the sun rise and set, how the clouds move, how the night sky reminds us of the vastness of the Universe . . . and minimize exposure to strident talking heads who are paid to propagate what their puppet masters dictate.

There is instability in every corner now so there are opportunities for change as well as risks to navigate. We can only make a difference if we start with ourselves, but every action has a ripple effect, and we do not know exactly how this works. Sticking to my own niche, the post on Dental Restorations had a 50% open rate but 2.5 times more readers than subscribers so the people who read the post generated ripples five times greater than a single click would make. This gives poignancy to the word “share”.

Now, if we take every issue of consequence and each person generates ripples, we will eventually have the world we want: one that is first of all safe, secondly healthy, and then rich with opportunity to develop lives of meaning. We are sometimes derailed by challenges that are not of our own making. People are losing valuable time and energy dealing with health challenges that never should have occurred, like autism, Alzheimer’s disease, Lyme disease, various forms of respiratory illnesses, and low vitality in general. Many of these problems are rooted in environmental degradation and/or failures in the health care system. If we dig deeper, we may find that collusion between corporations and the regulatory agencies has resulted in a crisis, but as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said in his talk at Hillsdale College, there are solutions, and he has been on the frontline of the environmental issues for forty years.

When I was twelve, I heard a voice explain to me the choice between justice and compassion. Having Pisces rising, I chose compassion. What was interesting was that in my thirties, my mother asked me what happened. I asked her to be more specific. She said, “You didn’t have any green in your aura when you were born, but green appeared at age 12.” We were on a ship, returning to the U.S. from Sweden, and we both remembered exactly when this happened, but we hadn’t ever talked about it.

Musical Green Garden in Perth, Australia¹

The choice is whether to go after the perpetrators or help the victims. There is no right or wrong, perhaps merely a calling. I am very committed to sharing and can promise to concentrate on the cure by maintaining as high a level of harmony and balance as possible.

Music teaches us a lot about emotions, memories, dissonance and consonance, and rhythm because to manifest, we must be able to take an idea and bring it into reality. The idea may come in a flash and take one or more lifetimes to complete, but the manifestation involves timing which we learn when listening deeply to music.

Though I am myself an opera buff, I have not posted too much of an operatic nature. For me, opera is like taking all the proverbial muses and building one work out of a story, sets, costumes, and sound. I have been flirting with a post on Verdi tuning, A=432 Hz. Verdi is my favorite composer, perhaps because he truly understood the voice as well as the need for the music to convey the drama. I would go so far as to say that if there had not been a Verdi, there never would have been challenges to social prejudices nor the evolution of various forms of psychology. So, I weave my threads in and out of understanding of food and herbs, healing, astrology, and music.

The reason I see it this way is that we are building the Divine Idea on Earth, but this begins with the Idea and a flash of inspiration in which fragments of the Idea spark a response in an individual. That individual develops the Idea, brings it into manifestation, and gradually the ripples occur.

Verdi also lived in a time of censorship. For example, in Rigoletto, the censors insisted that a king cannot be depraved. The libretto was based on a play by Victor Hugo, Le roi s'amuse. So, the licentious king became a duke in the opera. In La Traviata, he managed, against the pressure of critics, to make a courtesan the heroine. Think about it. Soldiers could be heroes, return from battle victorious, like in Aida, but a courtesan could not be a heroine, unless Verdi insisted . . . which he did.

This is how creativity works. We awaken to Divine Impression and then unfold our gifts and refashion the world to make it more like heaven!

Now that Substack is grounded, we are thinking of adding podcasts and chat. Your suggestions are welcome.

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¹ Ken Ng | Dreamstime

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