India's caste system. It's instructive. India's caste system that had existed previously was strengthened and refined into a very western regimented system under British rule. The caste system integrates nicely into a royal monarchical system like found in the UK. Which also integrates nicely into the "science" of eugenics. None of these commonalities are coincidental.
Note: Nimrata Kaur (NK) Randhawa (Haley) is from the top Indian castes, Brahmins and Kshatriyas. The priests and rulers. By way of immigration first to Canada (a crown colony), then to the US. Most definitely not from the huddled masses of India yearning to be free. An elitist. "Do as I say, not as I do, Sudras. Don't even talk to me, Dalits (useless eaters), I don't even recognize your existence."
These people truly believe they are made of finer clay than the rest of us. Laws unto themselves.
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”
Largely agree with your post. Wanted to add that hierarchy is the natural/instinctual modus operandi of humans, on both the individual and group/cultural level. It’s our collective (de)fault.
The attempts to flatline and eliminate hierarchy throughout history, especially when dealing with a mix of peoples from different cultural backgrounds, is inevitably instituted by oligarchs, who attempt to render inert the ways we can move up the hierarchy.
Two metaphors come to mind:
1. Climbing the ladder to the top, and then destroying the ladder
2. Playing musical chairs when you know when the music stops and have control over the remaining chairs
Eliminating movement up and down the hierarchy is invariably violent and completely self-serving to those at the top, whether it’s protectionist capitalism or communism.
I don’t have answers, yet I sense that if the masses do not grasp this basic concept, we are doomed to repeat this tragic trend that causes so much misery throughout our collective history
Hierarchy. Yes, it is instinctual, an evolutionary survival design for social animals, including man. In the animal kingdom displays of strength and aggression that can result in deadly competition are frequent. The survival of the social pack is benefited by having the strongest atop the hierarchy. Were the pack to be led by a weak leader the entire pack would be at risk from predation by predators or displacement by other packs wanting the resources available for themselves. Attempts to elevate weak leaders, or allow weak leaders to retain control of the pack even past their prime risks predation by more predators or loss of resources available to the pack to other packs that want them.
The current hierarchy is desperately trying to convince the pack to elevate weak leaders and allow the old leaders past their prime to retain control. It is a suicidal strategy. Or intentional, to "cull the herd" that has grown too big for weak leaders to control and provide for. And/or these leaders want more of the available resources for themselves, identifying the pack it leads as their greatest competition threat.
This is a Stack I wrote about the psychological priming of our "pack" to accept weak leadership, to desire weak leadership, to esteem weak leadership as virtuous. It doesn't develop the hierarchical discussion we're having here, but it easily accommodates it, just a matter of extrapolating to the natural conclusion:
I've also shared a piece about snakes and faces to address what masking does, why it was chosen by behaviorists as the Nonpharmaceutical Intevervention of "fear amplification" Rx to "treat and cure" us of our "optimism bias" that would have made us less compliant. It addresses the evolution of our brains, our prefrontal-amygdala got bigger as we became more social, living in larger and larger tribes. Hierarchical signalling that deescalated and prevented conflicts, knowing rank:
Of snakes and faces: An evolutionary perspective on the psychology of fear
Scandanavian Journal of Psychology, November 19, 2009
"It is a fascinating fact that the forebrain structures that have expanded most in size during primate evolution not only include – as we all know – the prefrontal cortex, but also the amygdala. Furthermore, it appears that the enlargement of these two structures was linked, both of them driven by group size"
...
"However, reflecting their neural underpinning in prefrontal-amygdala interactions, social fears within an established group are complicated by the conflict between escaping an aggressive group member and remaining within the protective realm of the group. Social comparison processes related to finding one’s place in a dominance hierarchy are inevitable parts of social life, which often are staged as more or less aggressive social encounters. For people of mass societies there is an abundance of hierarchies in which one has to fit, involving more or less continuous evaluation of one’s social status. Fearing such evaluations, and automatically interpreting them as proof of one’s status as a loser, therefore, has widespread consequences by resulting in extensive avoidance of the social contexts that also provide primary sources of reinforcement for members of social species.
Rather than actual flight, as in an encounter with a predator, using the prefrontal brake on the amygdala to promote yielding and ritualized submissiveness in social conflicts provides means of handling fear within the realms of the group. Social fears, therefore, have a more cognitive, strategic character than animal fears."
FF - The problem with the current hierarchical system constructs aren't necessarily that they exist, we're hard-wired to them. The problem is the weakness of those currently atop the hierarchy. They are weak. And stupid. Holding onto their positions with hired muscle, the gorillas, since they are so weak. And the hired mind sorcerers, those trained in deceptive psychological manipulation.
Making the current hierarchical system that's been built to be constructed on an inherently weak foundation of lies. Like concrete without aggregate or rebar inside. It crumbles under weight and pressure. Structurally unsound. And the pack can sense and feel it. Those atop invariably driven to violence to retain their status.
The natural world will not be denied, no matter the murderous machinations of the weak leaders mankind suffers. They inevitably fall as the unreinforced concrete can no longer bear the weight. Their system will crumble into dust. The only possible ending to it, a matter of when, not if. The unknowns are how many people will die as it collapses. And who is left to build the next hiearchical system? More weak leaders? Or truly strong leaders? Nature hates weak leaders. Only man would suffer them for even a moment.
I would explicitly add a moral vector to the strong/weak axis. In fact, the whole thing makes more sense to me when I replace "strong" with "righteous".
Still, I quite like what decentralization might have to offer on many fronts, especially informatica.
Yes. The West has ever been outstanding in surreptitiously enslaving its own vassals first. The subsequent army of the masses is used as a machine against the others
Aravind Malhotra is a fool. His answer to his imagined "breaking India" as an immigrant to America, is breaking America. In his paranoid mind filled with hatred for Christians and conservative white Americans, he blames them for breaking India - it does not matter that most of whom in America have no clue about India besides Vindaloo curry, yoga and funny accented tech support and online scams. His main gripe is the limited success of the sundry Christian missionaries from the US (a handful of them may be CIA, to be fair) in converting socially oppressed and dirt-poor low castes, out castes and invisible remote mountain and jungle tribes people to Christianity. It does not occur to him that this number is dwarfed even by a single year’s explosion in the rest of the Indian population - mostly Hindu and Muslim.
yes its aimed at the poor since they are most likely to side with outsiders to try to improve their lot... as we saw with early christianity... came from the poor... organized by that group you can;t mention to conquer the roman empire by chaos just as they created the NAACP as a way also to destabilise the USAand continue now with all sorts of things including open borders... using the poor as a tool while they themselves are the richest subgroup in the West.
as I recall the program was three pronged use of Christian missionaries ( having created the gospel of thomas as supposed first missionary to india and then alleging some of the indian religions were degenerate forms of early christianity), islam and maoist.. seeming to be working together. Seems like the same approach used by Christianity in its conquest by mind control and military force to conquer Europe two thousand years ago.
St. Thomas was 2000 years ago and the events are shrouded in myths and legends and their effects confined to a small corner of India. So, it is absurd to whine about it now. As for much more adverse events in the more recent and relevant part of Indian history, could have been avoided if the ancestors of the likes of Aravind Malhotra had not collaborated with the invading Muslims for 800 years and then with the British who took their place.
The likes of Aravind Malhotra can skedaddle out of here back to the shithole he came from and build that into a superpower and avenge his paranoia and imagined grievances.
don't know who thisguy is or what he says.... my point only was that the conquest of India is ongoing and its interesting how its done by altering the history and culture of the people and changing the basic truths that people would otherwise rely on so be more subject to coming over to a western mindset and moving towards westenr economic and political models giving more influence and power to the west... a slow breakdwon by chaniging meanings of words and introducing new myths or new interpretations of myths.... yes send them back to their own countries... let them rise or fall on their own merits
I’m glad to see you back. I was getting a bit worried (though I’m not really a worrier). I haven’t had time to watch the interview with Courtenay yet, but it looks most fascinating.
In 1877, Cecil Rhodes, of the Rhodes scholarship, wrote in his first will as an ambitious 24-year-old as a student of Oxford, "The extension of British rule throughout the world..., the recovery of the United States... the consolidation of the whole empire...and promote the best interests of humanity." With Lord Milner's assistance the contrived a complex system to do just that at the end of the 19th century with the eager cooperation of influential and powerful Brits. They networked and influenced academia, business and controlled publications to achieve their goals in their secret but powerful secret society. This and much more can be gleaned in the excellent book The Anglo-American Establishment by Carroll Quigley.
I've been looking into the education system in UK and learned that centralization of schools started in the 1830's with the East India company wanting to educate peoples of both India and UK as it saw fit. A complication in the UK over the course of the 19th century as the Education Department changed names and improved their focus was that the schools were run by the Church of England and by the Catholic Church. This was a problem for consolidating nationally lower and upper schooling under a national banner but also an opportunity. They must have understood the power to hold young minds as they were educated, and Christianity would not do, so they replaced it with atheism, Darwinism, and socialistic ideas to fill the spiritual void. Many of these individuals were theosophists and spiritualists, not to mention Fabians. Generations were thus captured to this day, as the system was imitated around the world in centralizing the formation of minds and hearts.
Universities, under the sponsorship of the uber wealthy, have transformed religious programs into watered down world religion centers of learning where ethics replaces morals and the bible, and where racism is at the forefront as well as the elimination of ideas such as nationalism with a wish for a borderless world. Thus is the idea of world dominion brought about, money, influence, and education.
I hope your neck is feeling better! 💕 I enjoyed the interview and have been listening to all Courtenay's videos on theosophy, Eselen and Barbara Marx Hubbard. Spiritual practice and psychological - spiritual development has been, and is, a cornerstone of my life. I want to parse these things out- how the whole range of spirituality has been and will be used to advance a one world agenda, and encouraging spiritual experience separate from rationality and basic reasoning.
Whitney Webb did a great series on Barbara Marx Hubbard that I'm currently reading.
My wife's father is 90 years old. He was a highly regarded French Chef in Manhattan throughout the 70-s and 80's and was co-owner of Le Chantilly. He and his wife frequently share stories about how they would have to "work" with the mob back then to ensure that the business could operate smoothly. They have such fond memories of how good things were back then and how "safe" they felt. Probably helped that all the top bosses loved his cooking and regularly frequented the restaurant. He retired very comfortably financially, but still regrets that, "he could have had so much more." So strange this life still revolves around which club/family you are associated with. I totally get the motivation to bring all of humanity under only one "I/WE" concept, but like so many other examples, the experimental governance models just end up sucking for most of us. So sad that we here in the USA can't get our Congress to simply enforce the anti-trust laws.
Regarding the topics discussed starting at about 2:12:00
My vision goes blurry and I lose all focus when I think about the tactic of convincing a person that it is part of their "karma" that they lower themselves or be made a "sacrifice" in some way; that the person somehow "chose" it or that they brought it upon themselves.
Convincing someone that their "salvation" is somehow tied to any form of abuse deserves the worst kinds of punishments.
The really shitty thing is that this horribly warped mental framework is the bedrock of the co-dependent abuser/abused relationship.
My heart goes out to anyone who has ever been subject to this, whether consciously or unconsciously and may all find peace and healing.
Sorry to hear about the neck injury. It seems that it's always one thing or another. Here's to full health and fitness! And lots more great substack articles.
My mother would take me to Theosophical Society lectures when I was between ten and twelve. She stopped going after that and insisted I become confirmed in the Anglican church, (which defeats the whole purpose of confirmation),
I'll never know whether she 'saw through' Theosophy.
I was however, ready for the sixties as a result. When Beach Boys Good Vibrations came out I remember thinking, Brian's mom probably got him into Theosophy or Rosicrucianism.
India's caste system. It's instructive. India's caste system that had existed previously was strengthened and refined into a very western regimented system under British rule. The caste system integrates nicely into a royal monarchical system like found in the UK. Which also integrates nicely into the "science" of eugenics. None of these commonalities are coincidental.
https://www.asiahighlights.com/india/caste-system
Note: Nimrata Kaur (NK) Randhawa (Haley) is from the top Indian castes, Brahmins and Kshatriyas. The priests and rulers. By way of immigration first to Canada (a crown colony), then to the US. Most definitely not from the huddled masses of India yearning to be free. An elitist. "Do as I say, not as I do, Sudras. Don't even talk to me, Dalits (useless eaters), I don't even recognize your existence."
These people truly believe they are made of finer clay than the rest of us. Laws unto themselves.
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”
― Frederic Bastiat, The Law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Law_(Bastiat_book)
Largely agree with your post. Wanted to add that hierarchy is the natural/instinctual modus operandi of humans, on both the individual and group/cultural level. It’s our collective (de)fault.
The attempts to flatline and eliminate hierarchy throughout history, especially when dealing with a mix of peoples from different cultural backgrounds, is inevitably instituted by oligarchs, who attempt to render inert the ways we can move up the hierarchy.
Two metaphors come to mind:
1. Climbing the ladder to the top, and then destroying the ladder
2. Playing musical chairs when you know when the music stops and have control over the remaining chairs
Eliminating movement up and down the hierarchy is invariably violent and completely self-serving to those at the top, whether it’s protectionist capitalism or communism.
I don’t have answers, yet I sense that if the masses do not grasp this basic concept, we are doomed to repeat this tragic trend that causes so much misery throughout our collective history
Hierarchy. Yes, it is instinctual, an evolutionary survival design for social animals, including man. In the animal kingdom displays of strength and aggression that can result in deadly competition are frequent. The survival of the social pack is benefited by having the strongest atop the hierarchy. Were the pack to be led by a weak leader the entire pack would be at risk from predation by predators or displacement by other packs wanting the resources available for themselves. Attempts to elevate weak leaders, or allow weak leaders to retain control of the pack even past their prime risks predation by more predators or loss of resources available to the pack to other packs that want them.
The current hierarchy is desperately trying to convince the pack to elevate weak leaders and allow the old leaders past their prime to retain control. It is a suicidal strategy. Or intentional, to "cull the herd" that has grown too big for weak leaders to control and provide for. And/or these leaders want more of the available resources for themselves, identifying the pack it leads as their greatest competition threat.
This is a Stack I wrote about the psychological priming of our "pack" to accept weak leadership, to desire weak leadership, to esteem weak leadership as virtuous. It doesn't develop the hierarchical discussion we're having here, but it easily accommodates it, just a matter of extrapolating to the natural conclusion:
https://freedomfox.substack.com/p/foxes-know-wolves
I've also shared a piece about snakes and faces to address what masking does, why it was chosen by behaviorists as the Nonpharmaceutical Intevervention of "fear amplification" Rx to "treat and cure" us of our "optimism bias" that would have made us less compliant. It addresses the evolution of our brains, our prefrontal-amygdala got bigger as we became more social, living in larger and larger tribes. Hierarchical signalling that deescalated and prevented conflicts, knowing rank:
Of snakes and faces: An evolutionary perspective on the psychology of fear
Scandanavian Journal of Psychology, November 19, 2009
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00784.x
"It is a fascinating fact that the forebrain structures that have expanded most in size during primate evolution not only include – as we all know – the prefrontal cortex, but also the amygdala. Furthermore, it appears that the enlargement of these two structures was linked, both of them driven by group size"
...
"However, reflecting their neural underpinning in prefrontal-amygdala interactions, social fears within an established group are complicated by the conflict between escaping an aggressive group member and remaining within the protective realm of the group. Social comparison processes related to finding one’s place in a dominance hierarchy are inevitable parts of social life, which often are staged as more or less aggressive social encounters. For people of mass societies there is an abundance of hierarchies in which one has to fit, involving more or less continuous evaluation of one’s social status. Fearing such evaluations, and automatically interpreting them as proof of one’s status as a loser, therefore, has widespread consequences by resulting in extensive avoidance of the social contexts that also provide primary sources of reinforcement for members of social species.
Rather than actual flight, as in an encounter with a predator, using the prefrontal brake on the amygdala to promote yielding and ritualized submissiveness in social conflicts provides means of handling fear within the realms of the group. Social fears, therefore, have a more cognitive, strategic character than animal fears."
FF - The problem with the current hierarchical system constructs aren't necessarily that they exist, we're hard-wired to them. The problem is the weakness of those currently atop the hierarchy. They are weak. And stupid. Holding onto their positions with hired muscle, the gorillas, since they are so weak. And the hired mind sorcerers, those trained in deceptive psychological manipulation.
Making the current hierarchical system that's been built to be constructed on an inherently weak foundation of lies. Like concrete without aggregate or rebar inside. It crumbles under weight and pressure. Structurally unsound. And the pack can sense and feel it. Those atop invariably driven to violence to retain their status.
The natural world will not be denied, no matter the murderous machinations of the weak leaders mankind suffers. They inevitably fall as the unreinforced concrete can no longer bear the weight. Their system will crumble into dust. The only possible ending to it, a matter of when, not if. The unknowns are how many people will die as it collapses. And who is left to build the next hiearchical system? More weak leaders? Or truly strong leaders? Nature hates weak leaders. Only man would suffer them for even a moment.
I would explicitly add a moral vector to the strong/weak axis. In fact, the whole thing makes more sense to me when I replace "strong" with "righteous".
Still, I quite like what decentralization might have to offer on many fronts, especially informatica.
Fascinating. You have elucidated a few things for me with this one post. Wish there was a way to restack it.
David Livingstone has also written an article about Gandhi's connection to Theosophy: https://ordoabchao.ca/articles/untold-story-of-gandhi-and-theosophy.
Nice. Thanks.
That interview was pure 🔥. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Already recovered, thankfully.
I wonder if Canada,New Zealand ,Australia and the USA ever had full independence from the Crown🇬🇧🍻
In those cases, the power of the Crown is simply downplayed. The Empire psyops its own people differently than it does "those little Asian people".
👍It constantly surprises me how little coverage the city state of Londonium gets on it's influence on global affairs.
Ultimately were all being played and they fine tune to suit the audience and rewrite history as they go.
The Roman empire rebranded.
Safe£Effective☠️
Yes. The West has ever been outstanding in surreptitiously enslaving its own vassals first. The subsequent army of the masses is used as a machine against the others
Missed you and glad to hear you’re back. This was a very interesting article about India and makes me look entirely different at this country.
BREAKING INDIA.... a lot of support in it for idea British Empire never set India free but at continuous cultural war to break it apart
https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-India-Malhotra-Aravindan-Neelakandan/dp/8191067374/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&sr=1-1
Aravind Malhotra is a fool. His answer to his imagined "breaking India" as an immigrant to America, is breaking America. In his paranoid mind filled with hatred for Christians and conservative white Americans, he blames them for breaking India - it does not matter that most of whom in America have no clue about India besides Vindaloo curry, yoga and funny accented tech support and online scams. His main gripe is the limited success of the sundry Christian missionaries from the US (a handful of them may be CIA, to be fair) in converting socially oppressed and dirt-poor low castes, out castes and invisible remote mountain and jungle tribes people to Christianity. It does not occur to him that this number is dwarfed even by a single year’s explosion in the rest of the Indian population - mostly Hindu and Muslim.
yes its aimed at the poor since they are most likely to side with outsiders to try to improve their lot... as we saw with early christianity... came from the poor... organized by that group you can;t mention to conquer the roman empire by chaos just as they created the NAACP as a way also to destabilise the USAand continue now with all sorts of things including open borders... using the poor as a tool while they themselves are the richest subgroup in the West.
as I recall the program was three pronged use of Christian missionaries ( having created the gospel of thomas as supposed first missionary to india and then alleging some of the indian religions were degenerate forms of early christianity), islam and maoist.. seeming to be working together. Seems like the same approach used by Christianity in its conquest by mind control and military force to conquer Europe two thousand years ago.
St. Thomas was 2000 years ago and the events are shrouded in myths and legends and their effects confined to a small corner of India. So, it is absurd to whine about it now. As for much more adverse events in the more recent and relevant part of Indian history, could have been avoided if the ancestors of the likes of Aravind Malhotra had not collaborated with the invading Muslims for 800 years and then with the British who took their place.
The likes of Aravind Malhotra can skedaddle out of here back to the shithole he came from and build that into a superpower and avenge his paranoia and imagined grievances.
don't know who thisguy is or what he says.... my point only was that the conquest of India is ongoing and its interesting how its done by altering the history and culture of the people and changing the basic truths that people would otherwise rely on so be more subject to coming over to a western mindset and moving towards westenr economic and political models giving more influence and power to the west... a slow breakdwon by chaniging meanings of words and introducing new myths or new interpretations of myths.... yes send them back to their own countries... let them rise or fall on their own merits
Can’t wait to watch, Mathew. We’ve been surviving on Hrvoje’s interview with you for weeks now :)
I greatly enjoy Hrvoje and plan to publish his interview here in the next few days.
https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com/p/matthew-crawford-the-military-occult?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1743692&post_id=144955642&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=qz3le&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
You are most welcome!
I’m glad to see you back. I was getting a bit worried (though I’m not really a worrier). I haven’t had time to watch the interview with Courtenay yet, but it looks most fascinating.
Was wondering where you were. Glad you are better. God bless and keep fighting the good fight.
In 1877, Cecil Rhodes, of the Rhodes scholarship, wrote in his first will as an ambitious 24-year-old as a student of Oxford, "The extension of British rule throughout the world..., the recovery of the United States... the consolidation of the whole empire...and promote the best interests of humanity." With Lord Milner's assistance the contrived a complex system to do just that at the end of the 19th century with the eager cooperation of influential and powerful Brits. They networked and influenced academia, business and controlled publications to achieve their goals in their secret but powerful secret society. This and much more can be gleaned in the excellent book The Anglo-American Establishment by Carroll Quigley.
I've been looking into the education system in UK and learned that centralization of schools started in the 1830's with the East India company wanting to educate peoples of both India and UK as it saw fit. A complication in the UK over the course of the 19th century as the Education Department changed names and improved their focus was that the schools were run by the Church of England and by the Catholic Church. This was a problem for consolidating nationally lower and upper schooling under a national banner but also an opportunity. They must have understood the power to hold young minds as they were educated, and Christianity would not do, so they replaced it with atheism, Darwinism, and socialistic ideas to fill the spiritual void. Many of these individuals were theosophists and spiritualists, not to mention Fabians. Generations were thus captured to this day, as the system was imitated around the world in centralizing the formation of minds and hearts.
Universities, under the sponsorship of the uber wealthy, have transformed religious programs into watered down world religion centers of learning where ethics replaces morals and the bible, and where racism is at the forefront as well as the elimination of ideas such as nationalism with a wish for a borderless world. Thus is the idea of world dominion brought about, money, influence, and education.
I hope your neck is feeling better! 💕 I enjoyed the interview and have been listening to all Courtenay's videos on theosophy, Eselen and Barbara Marx Hubbard. Spiritual practice and psychological - spiritual development has been, and is, a cornerstone of my life. I want to parse these things out- how the whole range of spirituality has been and will be used to advance a one world agenda, and encouraging spiritual experience separate from rationality and basic reasoning.
Whitney Webb did a great series on Barbara Marx Hubbard that I'm currently reading.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/05/investigative-reports/barbara-marx-hubbard-godmother-of-transhumanism-and-synthetic-spirituality/
MOBS'TERS! BINGO!
My wife's father is 90 years old. He was a highly regarded French Chef in Manhattan throughout the 70-s and 80's and was co-owner of Le Chantilly. He and his wife frequently share stories about how they would have to "work" with the mob back then to ensure that the business could operate smoothly. They have such fond memories of how good things were back then and how "safe" they felt. Probably helped that all the top bosses loved his cooking and regularly frequented the restaurant. He retired very comfortably financially, but still regrets that, "he could have had so much more." So strange this life still revolves around which club/family you are associated with. I totally get the motivation to bring all of humanity under only one "I/WE" concept, but like so many other examples, the experimental governance models just end up sucking for most of us. So sad that we here in the USA can't get our Congress to simply enforce the anti-trust laws.
Regarding the topics discussed starting at about 2:12:00
My vision goes blurry and I lose all focus when I think about the tactic of convincing a person that it is part of their "karma" that they lower themselves or be made a "sacrifice" in some way; that the person somehow "chose" it or that they brought it upon themselves.
Convincing someone that their "salvation" is somehow tied to any form of abuse deserves the worst kinds of punishments.
The really shitty thing is that this horribly warped mental framework is the bedrock of the co-dependent abuser/abused relationship.
My heart goes out to anyone who has ever been subject to this, whether consciously or unconsciously and may all find peace and healing.
Sorry to hear about the neck injury. It seems that it's always one thing or another. Here's to full health and fitness! And lots more great substack articles.
I was started to get worried that you'd been bumped off...
Not that I'm aware of.
Excellent news!
My mother would take me to Theosophical Society lectures when I was between ten and twelve. She stopped going after that and insisted I become confirmed in the Anglican church, (which defeats the whole purpose of confirmation),
I'll never know whether she 'saw through' Theosophy.
I was however, ready for the sixties as a result. When Beach Boys Good Vibrations came out I remember thinking, Brian's mom probably got him into Theosophy or Rosicrucianism.
Never was tempted by religion or a guru though