Gerry

YouTube video by Scheherazade Foundation The Essential Rumi Readings – Limited Edition for Supporters of The Sufi Trust

A very worthwhile endeavor!

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I turn 41 this year, and for my entire life, I have had high blood pressure.

They said it was congenital.

But in the past two years, I've gotten a massive handle on my mental health and default stress levels.

And now I have almost *low* blood pressure. No medication required.

Source: Liz Greene, “The Eternal Triangle”.

Image: Prism-rainbow-black-2 / Suidroot / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.

When I take my inner life seriously, it begins to resemble the architecture of a fairy tale.

Arthur Rackham - The Water of Life

Thank you for generous reposting!

The expectation fulfilment theory of dreaming by Joe Griffin | Human Givens YouTube video by Human Givens

An area that needs more exposure in the US in my opinion. How do dreams work? Please watch this video from the Human Givens Institute.

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Illustration of a secret agent, dressed in a black coat with the collar turned up and a black wide-brimmed hat. Instead of legs, the figure has a single red-rimmed wheel with a black tyre, and is shown descending an incline.

On a Need to Know Basis
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“Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.”

~ Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

Image: Secret Agent, illustration / Ben Crowder / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0.

Project 2025: The Shadow Presidency of the Heritage Foundation From climate rollbacks to baby deportations—how Trump is enacting the Heritage Foundation’s extremist vision

You’ve heard of Donald Trump. But have you heard of Russell Vought?

He’s the man behind Project 2025—a 900-page roadmap for dismantling democracy and rebuilding it in the image of the far-right. Six months in, Trump is executing this plan step-for-step.

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Image: Toshogu Three Monkeys Restored 2024 Crop / Jpatokal / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo of the three wise monkeys: hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil.

Seeing is Believing
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“We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.”

~ Don Miguel Ruiz, quoted in Dean Radin, Real Magic.

Seeing with the Right Eyes: Review of Idries Shah Remembered ★★★★★ Tahir Shah (Ed), Idries Shah Remembered . An Afterword to my own Reading Like the Sufi mystical tradition that Idries Shah represents,...

Seeing with the Right Eyes: Review of “Idries Shah Remembered”, edited by Tahir Shah for Idries Shah Media (Extended review) ...

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#IdriesShah #Sufis #SufiWay #SufiPath #Sufism #Mysticism #Philosophy

These folks are awesome!

Image: Polluted stream J1 [Cropped] / Jamain / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0. A close-up of a polluted stream, showing many glass and plastic bottles and other debris in the shallow water.

“We are caught in turbulent and traumatic times as we transition between the death of the old world order and the uncharted territory of rebirth into something new. Something unknown, uncertain, frightening or even threatening to many of us.”

~ H.M. Forester, Preface, Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt.

I see why he bankrupted casinos.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

oh look, it’s Diddler on the Roof just another perfectly normal day in the life of Donny Demento

Jeff Tiedrich: could any of you math whizzes out there explain to me, if you have a drug that costs $75 dollars, and you lower that price by fifteen hundred percent, and then you slap a 250% tariff on it, what does it now cost?

www.jefftiedrich.com/p/oh-look-it...

YouTube video by The Psyche Why Critical Thinking Is Disappearing – The Rise of Collective Stupidity

Why Critical Thinking Is Disappearing
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The Rise of Collective Stupidity

Video (24 min 28 sec).

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'Will not be counted!' Trump makes major announcement about new Census President Donald Trump announced Thursday his intentions to exclude undocumented immigrants from the U.S. Census, who have been counted in the nationwide count that occurs once every ten years since a...

'Will not be counted!' Trump makes major announcement about new Census

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Please take a look at this frightening development. And he is our VP?

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"Cancellation of an entire issue of an academic journal... is a remarkable new development in a mounting list of examples of censorship of pro-Palestinian speech"

Harvard Educational Review special edition “education and Palestine” abruptly cancels the release citing “a number of complex issues”

Going Underground: Building a Caring Alternative Parallel Society As the poet, dissident, and member of the Czech underground resistance movement during the communist regime, Ivan Martin Jirous wrote, perha...

[Blog post] Going Underground: Building a Caring Alternative Parallel Society ...

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An image containing a text quotation, with two black bats flying in the upper right-hand corner. The text, from William Carl Eichman, “Meeting the Dark Side in Spiritual Practice” in Connie Zweig and Jeremiah Abrams (eds), Meeting the Shadow: Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature, reads: The Dark Side of Life: “Today the dark side is everywhere. We are completely saturated in it. It declares itself in every news broadcast, television show, and tabloid. No one growing up in a society like ours escapes being conditioned by this violence. Every one of us, from the most perfectly civilized to the imprisoned criminal, harbors an inner, festering, neurotic sore, a private shadow of anger, terror, lust, and pain. This shadow, this “dark side,” is a miniature copy of the greater darkness of society which manifests in war, oppression, and starvation. We are surrounded, inside and out, by evil and suffering of all description.”

“Today the dark side is everywhere. We are completely saturated in it. It declares itself in every news broadcast, television show, and tabloid. No one growing up in a society like ours escapes being conditioned by this violence. Every one of us ...”

~ William Carl Eichman.

"Now there’s a constitutional showdown pitting religious freedoms against the duty to protect children"

Etienne v. Ferguson claims new law forces priests to choose between obeying the state or violating a core religious duty

Reports @rollingstone.com

Where are we going and how did we get here Or, the way forward

Please take a look at my new SubStack post!

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Nice one!

Gerry Threatt | Substack Mental health counselor using stories to help people with PTSD, anxiety, and depression

Please check out my Substack!
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Beyond East and West: Human Nature and World Politics Extreme political positions are on the rise. These fixations are fed by resentment of past defeats or suffering, or unachievable ideals.

“Today, extreme political positions and polarization are on the rise… Yet, as much as we can see others being manipulated or blindly caught up in the herd, we are often oblivious when it happens to us.” bit.ly/3vdDxES

Veterans recoil at Trump plan to end Afghans’ deportation protection The Trump administration claims conditions in Afghanistan have markedly improved under Taliban rule. Those who fought in the war say that’s ‘laughable.’

Trump's ending deportation protections for wartime allies who fled to the U.S. after the fall of Afghanistan is infuriating veterans who say this betrays a sacred promise made to America’s most vulnerable partners who will likely be killed by the Taliban if they return

Reports @washingtonpost.com

Yes, indeed, my friend!

IDRIES SHAH’S CONTRIBUTION TO PSYCHOLOGY IN THE WEST - The Idries Shah Foundation Idries Shah claimed that, for a Western audience, Sufi ideas are better presented within psychology than religion. In a series of articles, his daughter, Saira Shah will take a look at his work in thi...

It is hard to state just how great an influence Idries Shah’s works had on anyone that read them.

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