Hi Celia, This sentiment from Pasternak has significant resonance for me in looking at what we’ve been subjected to in recent years, even well before the emergence of the faux pandemic. A couple of years ago, in penning my first observations about Covid specifically and our response to the draconian measures enforced by our politicians and the medical establishment, this was the key theme I embraced in the resultant narrative. Had I been aware of this quote, I could well have name-checked Pasternak in the same context. The following provides the gist, or summary.
👉 🗣 ‘[Doubt] is the only human activity capable of controlling power in a positive way’. — John Ralston Saul, Canadian philosopher.
👉 🗣 ‘There’s no adequate protection against psychic epidemics, which are infinitely more devastating than the worst of natural catastrophes. The supreme danger which threatens individuals [and] whole nations is a psychic danger.’ — Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist.
👉 🗣 ‘When belief systems are contradicted by facts, beliefs are rarely renounced…More often they’re reinterpreted and thereby reinforced. Humans are more interested in preserving an internally coherent worldview than in testing their view of things against events. Nearly always, faith trumps facts.’ — John Gray, British philosopher.
*EXTRACT: ‘…Such diverse musings by Ralston Saul, Jung and John Gray (see above) are crucial to our fuller understanding of what’s taking place at present. They’re further, critical to providing an insight into the implications of ignoring the portents therein. In the Age of Covid — with doubt amongst the populace an increasingly rare commodity — it seems clear we’re not only ‘over’ doubt as an instinctive response to the machinations of our political, economic, technocratic, financial, media, and intellectual power elites.
To the extent we do embrace doubt, we’re doing so inwardly, not outwardly. In the wrong direction as it were! Which is to say, it is our own judgment — our innate common sense — we more readily apply such doubts to than [to] those who govern us and who we all too readily presume are acting in our best interests. In its place, we’re substituting a misplaced trust in authority. It is to them we accord by default the benefits of such doubts.
These wielders of great power known and unknown, elected and unelected, public and not so, for whom the quaint old chestnut ‘with great power comes great responsibility’ is both anathema and risible, are aware of this. As such, they knowingly and with malice aforethought, leverage — politicise, weaponise and/or monetise — our (self) doubts, our fears, insecurities, anxieties, even our primal instincts against us in the direct and indirect service of their own nefarious agendas and their own individual and collective self-interest….‘
One more thing. Appreciated your contribution to the recent Fauci documentary. 👍🙏 Best, GM
*With a Lie this Large (The Psychic Dangers of our Infected Minds)
After reading a few of Solzhenitsyn works...by far my favorite is "Do not Live the Lie." Do not cooperate with America's regime of psychopaths and the ignorant sheeple. Solzhenitsyn talks about spiritual independence...a lack of soul and the destruction of the soul is on the menu for these "hungry ghost." Our time for nourishment is upon us all, Thanks for the entree Celia!
Is it trauma? What is it that makes us afraid to follow our own instincts? Parenting has made me very familiar with the "what if I'm wrong?" feeling. Refusing vaccines 20 years ago, when it was just my husband and my gut was so much self doubt. These days, manufacturing that self doubt is lucrative medical science... it makes all of their other products profitable.
What a life affirming statement! I too have no respect for people who have never fallen or stumbled or who have fallen and stumbled but pretend they haven't or who go around announcing how they have fallen and stumbled because their salt water swimming pool in their 10 million dollar mansion has another crack in it Trials and tribulations are there for a reason. They can break us or shape us. They can turn us into a sour puss or sweeten our faces with the living light of our own humanity. Thanks to the Convid Cult machinations, I know who my people are. I no longer doubt the warm light of humanity when I see it. I no longer doubt the buzzing coldness in my bones when I'm in the presence of artificial virtue, when I'm in the presence of a fallen one who thinks they have risen, when I'm in the presence of quantum witchery coursing through the dehumanized blood of one who stumbled onto the lifeless virtue tracks of a one way train to hell. When we meet our trials and tribulations with our hearts open, when we rise up to our full throttle humanity, when we look into the eye of the monster storm, we can't help but see the beauty, the magic, the mystery of the love soup we are in, the love soup we are a crucial ingredient of, the love soup of our dance with God.
Spot on, Celia. I refer to this as "People have lost their instincts". (If your instincts are in-tact, you recognize/sense when a candy-wielding pedophile is just A LITTLE TOO sweaty, fast-talking and desperate to get you into his van. Why didn't many people during OPERATION COVID-19 not instantly sense that the coercion campaign was waaay too disproportionately suspiciously too desperately sweatily agitatedly DESPERATE, coming on too strong-- like if they didnt get us into their van, they would get THEIR OWN heads cut off-- like THEY were under duress to have to get us into their van by a dictated timeline.) Many people have had their instincts removed, somehow. Some kind of social engineering, entraining, sorcerous alchemy thru the decades culminating to now. Humans are such a co-state dichotomy of amazing survival ability hardiness on the one hand, and such fragileness and susceptibility to manipulation on the other hand, like little children. Celia, appreciate you, and the lifelong investigative reporting and truth activism you've been on top of for so many decades, exposing the belly of the beast. Hope you can go on some kind of R+R vacation soon.
Long ago and far away, I took a self-defense class for women. One of the few exhortations they had us repeat to memorize for conflict was DO NOT GET IN THE CAR. They had studies showing that the outcome was always worse for those who got in the car than for those who fought back like their lives depended on it outside of the car. The exhortation was meant to counteract a woman's instinct to comply in hopes of appeasing her attacker.
As individuals, however our instinct to comply is formed by nature or nurture or both, by use of our reason we can learn there are cars we should not get into... Do not try to appease your attacker... I honestly say that to myself ("don't get in the car!") once in a blue moon when I find myself in very much lighter conflicts with other people.
Great. My don't get in the car moment here in Australia was discovering that coincident with the first vaccines becoming available, Australian doctors were banned from prescribing and even talking about alternate early treatments such as ivermectin, no matter what their seniority and reputation may have been in the medical community. I knew hydroxychloroquine was not a deadly dangerous drug as my 88-year old aunt takes it for rheumatoid arthritis and is doing fine. Whoa, Bessie, stop, turn back, something here stinks. My entire family was utterly horrified at my refusal. I am still unvaccinated and finding out all the reasons why subsequently after that first moment of intuition.
I believe the most godly attribute mankind can struggle to obtain, is the ability to recognize and own up to our failures. Like what Pasternak says here:
“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.”
I am not a Trump hater. But I have tried to honestly critique his faults, which he has a life-long pattern of trying to dismiss. Even at this point, Trump can't admit he was fooled and misled about his "warp speed vaccine." There were countless people like Celia, Dave Rasnick, Peter Duesberg, and even Scott Atlas who was there in the oval office trying to flag Trump down before this ultimate disaster. (as Fauci and Birx took over the meeting---to execute the final capstone of the Trump Administration's failure)
In contrast, I refer to the model of what happened to king David, who made the same foolish error you can see in 1st. Chronicles chapter 21. Satan provoked David, who was WARNED not to number Israel but he foolishly did it anyway. The result was a MASSIVE plague!
The difference between David and Trump is that king David admitted his error almost immediately! David was even willing to take the capital punishment for his sins. As a result, God was able to remedy the situation. That is NOT happening here--and this is getting worse!
Trump won't admit to his faults. He has a serious personality issue.
As Revelation states four times about these acts of "sorcery" (from the Greek word Pharmakeus used only in the book of Rev. 9:21,18:23, 21:8 and 22:15 ), Trump will not even get into the kingdom of heaven. That is NOT my call. We can't change this, only Trump can.
What marvelous, encouraging quotes!! Brava for selecting and sharing them, Celia. Reminds me of Proverbs 29:25 - "The fear of man brings a snare, but he who trusts in the LORD will be exalted."
That is, the distrust of one's own moral instincts results from locating them socially--or in self.
Sure Teresa, everyone of us is a failure behind the mask if we really take stock of what we believe and what we would have liked to have done. None of it matters. We are born, we live, we die and all the way through we do exactly what we were meant to do and write our own score cards. So many people would love your life, give it a little love yourself.
Hi Celia, This sentiment from Pasternak has significant resonance for me in looking at what we’ve been subjected to in recent years, even well before the emergence of the faux pandemic. A couple of years ago, in penning my first observations about Covid specifically and our response to the draconian measures enforced by our politicians and the medical establishment, this was the key theme I embraced in the resultant narrative. Had I been aware of this quote, I could well have name-checked Pasternak in the same context. The following provides the gist, or summary.
👉 🗣 ‘[Doubt] is the only human activity capable of controlling power in a positive way’. — John Ralston Saul, Canadian philosopher.
👉 🗣 ‘There’s no adequate protection against psychic epidemics, which are infinitely more devastating than the worst of natural catastrophes. The supreme danger which threatens individuals [and] whole nations is a psychic danger.’ — Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist.
👉 🗣 ‘When belief systems are contradicted by facts, beliefs are rarely renounced…More often they’re reinterpreted and thereby reinforced. Humans are more interested in preserving an internally coherent worldview than in testing their view of things against events. Nearly always, faith trumps facts.’ — John Gray, British philosopher.
*EXTRACT: ‘…Such diverse musings by Ralston Saul, Jung and John Gray (see above) are crucial to our fuller understanding of what’s taking place at present. They’re further, critical to providing an insight into the implications of ignoring the portents therein. In the Age of Covid — with doubt amongst the populace an increasingly rare commodity — it seems clear we’re not only ‘over’ doubt as an instinctive response to the machinations of our political, economic, technocratic, financial, media, and intellectual power elites.
To the extent we do embrace doubt, we’re doing so inwardly, not outwardly. In the wrong direction as it were! Which is to say, it is our own judgment — our innate common sense — we more readily apply such doubts to than [to] those who govern us and who we all too readily presume are acting in our best interests. In its place, we’re substituting a misplaced trust in authority. It is to them we accord by default the benefits of such doubts.
These wielders of great power known and unknown, elected and unelected, public and not so, for whom the quaint old chestnut ‘with great power comes great responsibility’ is both anathema and risible, are aware of this. As such, they knowingly and with malice aforethought, leverage — politicise, weaponise and/or monetise — our (self) doubts, our fears, insecurities, anxieties, even our primal instincts against us in the direct and indirect service of their own nefarious agendas and their own individual and collective self-interest….‘
One more thing. Appreciated your contribution to the recent Fauci documentary. 👍🙏 Best, GM
*With a Lie this Large (The Psychic Dangers of our Infected Minds)
https://gregmaybury.substack.com/p/with-a-lie-this-large
G Maybury-- You nailed it. Amen.
Exactly, yes, and ditto.
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After reading a few of Solzhenitsyn works...by far my favorite is "Do not Live the Lie." Do not cooperate with America's regime of psychopaths and the ignorant sheeple. Solzhenitsyn talks about spiritual independence...a lack of soul and the destruction of the soul is on the menu for these "hungry ghost." Our time for nourishment is upon us all, Thanks for the entree Celia!
Is it trauma? What is it that makes us afraid to follow our own instincts? Parenting has made me very familiar with the "what if I'm wrong?" feeling. Refusing vaccines 20 years ago, when it was just my husband and my gut was so much self doubt. These days, manufacturing that self doubt is lucrative medical science... it makes all of their other products profitable.
What a life affirming statement! I too have no respect for people who have never fallen or stumbled or who have fallen and stumbled but pretend they haven't or who go around announcing how they have fallen and stumbled because their salt water swimming pool in their 10 million dollar mansion has another crack in it Trials and tribulations are there for a reason. They can break us or shape us. They can turn us into a sour puss or sweeten our faces with the living light of our own humanity. Thanks to the Convid Cult machinations, I know who my people are. I no longer doubt the warm light of humanity when I see it. I no longer doubt the buzzing coldness in my bones when I'm in the presence of artificial virtue, when I'm in the presence of a fallen one who thinks they have risen, when I'm in the presence of quantum witchery coursing through the dehumanized blood of one who stumbled onto the lifeless virtue tracks of a one way train to hell. When we meet our trials and tribulations with our hearts open, when we rise up to our full throttle humanity, when we look into the eye of the monster storm, we can't help but see the beauty, the magic, the mystery of the love soup we are in, the love soup we are a crucial ingredient of, the love soup of our dance with God.
Beautiful--period.
Spot on, Celia. I refer to this as "People have lost their instincts". (If your instincts are in-tact, you recognize/sense when a candy-wielding pedophile is just A LITTLE TOO sweaty, fast-talking and desperate to get you into his van. Why didn't many people during OPERATION COVID-19 not instantly sense that the coercion campaign was waaay too disproportionately suspiciously too desperately sweatily agitatedly DESPERATE, coming on too strong-- like if they didnt get us into their van, they would get THEIR OWN heads cut off-- like THEY were under duress to have to get us into their van by a dictated timeline.) Many people have had their instincts removed, somehow. Some kind of social engineering, entraining, sorcerous alchemy thru the decades culminating to now. Humans are such a co-state dichotomy of amazing survival ability hardiness on the one hand, and such fragileness and susceptibility to manipulation on the other hand, like little children. Celia, appreciate you, and the lifelong investigative reporting and truth activism you've been on top of for so many decades, exposing the belly of the beast. Hope you can go on some kind of R+R vacation soon.
Long ago and far away, I took a self-defense class for women. One of the few exhortations they had us repeat to memorize for conflict was DO NOT GET IN THE CAR. They had studies showing that the outcome was always worse for those who got in the car than for those who fought back like their lives depended on it outside of the car. The exhortation was meant to counteract a woman's instinct to comply in hopes of appeasing her attacker.
As individuals, however our instinct to comply is formed by nature or nurture or both, by use of our reason we can learn there are cars we should not get into... Do not try to appease your attacker... I honestly say that to myself ("don't get in the car!") once in a blue moon when I find myself in very much lighter conflicts with other people.
Beautifully put, YES. Have you read "The Gift of Fear" by Gavin DeBecker. A book that has done more for women than...any book I am aware of.
(Tamsin-- giving you a fist bump)
Great. My don't get in the car moment here in Australia was discovering that coincident with the first vaccines becoming available, Australian doctors were banned from prescribing and even talking about alternate early treatments such as ivermectin, no matter what their seniority and reputation may have been in the medical community. I knew hydroxychloroquine was not a deadly dangerous drug as my 88-year old aunt takes it for rheumatoid arthritis and is doing fine. Whoa, Bessie, stop, turn back, something here stinks. My entire family was utterly horrified at my refusal. I am still unvaccinated and finding out all the reasons why subsequently after that first moment of intuition.
Thank you, that's a gorgeous Pasternak quote.
I believe the most godly attribute mankind can struggle to obtain, is the ability to recognize and own up to our failures. Like what Pasternak says here:
“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.”
I am not a Trump hater. But I have tried to honestly critique his faults, which he has a life-long pattern of trying to dismiss. Even at this point, Trump can't admit he was fooled and misled about his "warp speed vaccine." There were countless people like Celia, Dave Rasnick, Peter Duesberg, and even Scott Atlas who was there in the oval office trying to flag Trump down before this ultimate disaster. (as Fauci and Birx took over the meeting---to execute the final capstone of the Trump Administration's failure)
In contrast, I refer to the model of what happened to king David, who made the same foolish error you can see in 1st. Chronicles chapter 21. Satan provoked David, who was WARNED not to number Israel but he foolishly did it anyway. The result was a MASSIVE plague!
The difference between David and Trump is that king David admitted his error almost immediately! David was even willing to take the capital punishment for his sins. As a result, God was able to remedy the situation. That is NOT happening here--and this is getting worse!
Trump won't admit to his faults. He has a serious personality issue.
As Revelation states four times about these acts of "sorcery" (from the Greek word Pharmakeus used only in the book of Rev. 9:21,18:23, 21:8 and 22:15 ), Trump will not even get into the kingdom of heaven. That is NOT my call. We can't change this, only Trump can.
Quick correction: typo in the quote above, out of date [to] follow.
Thank you. Just fixed it!
What marvelous, encouraging quotes!! Brava for selecting and sharing them, Celia. Reminds me of Proverbs 29:25 - "The fear of man brings a snare, but he who trusts in the LORD will be exalted."
That is, the distrust of one's own moral instincts results from locating them socially--or in self.
" out of date <b>to<-b> follow their own moral sense"?
Thank you Christian. Fixed!
Well, that formatting didn't work, and nor did Ctrl-B. Still, you'll know what I'm getting at. :)
what??? you don't have any unlikeable lifeless virtues. Tell me what you mean Teresa. You have me saddened.
Oh now I see, you took BP's quote as a direct judgement. I am so sorry it came across that way.
I admire you and am in awe of you and I wish you would see what I see.
Sure Teresa, everyone of us is a failure behind the mask if we really take stock of what we believe and what we would have liked to have done. None of it matters. We are born, we live, we die and all the way through we do exactly what we were meant to do and write our own score cards. So many people would love your life, give it a little love yourself.