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Regain Our Hearts
Shame is an inherited system, but who does it serve? Those who want to control another. Are the keepers better than the kept? Are the shepards actually wiser than their flock? Have they ever been? What they have been is cunning, and perceptive, and more than willing to exploit aspects of human nature, and in…
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Shame is a Lie
The topic is shame. It’s a shameful topic. Full of shame and parts of shame. You can assemble your own shame by the time I’m done, I’m sure. Shame is a lie, to get directly to the point. It’s a social system designed to make people willing to be pliable, and it has been very,…
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Scapegoats
Is shame basically instilling guilt? Shame is the belief in guilt and “justified” treatment of the guilty party. There is no justification. What can I get from punishing anyone? Have you gotten anything from punishing anyone? Actually, it just feeds my negativity. Usually makes me feel worse. Yes, and them too, and makes them associate…
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Experience of Shame
Anyone care to share an experience they have had with shame? Giving the wrong answer in school. Teacher made a big deal of the answer rather than just move on. And obviously believed that was necessary, but was it? Would you have learned without the histrionics? Probably participated more. So yes, but learning is a…
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Useless Shame
Is there a good kind of shame to have? No. Shame is useless. Shame is also not conscience, though they are often equated. Who are encouraged to have shame more, men or women? Women, to be kept in their place. Women have powerful intuitive insights and strong instincts, more so than even men. Men’s instincts…
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Outside of Shame
Shame on you. Why do we wish shame on others? Shame is not a feeling. It’s a rule, and we try to enforce the rule. It’s not necessarily an official rule, but some cultures border on it being official. Honour is a rule also, but what is seen as honourable differs widely. To continue on…
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Magick Answers
What do you know about feng shui or divination? Only that it means some lady comes to your house and says you must put your bed in such a place, and you must never open a door while you close a window, blah blah blah. Well, it’s more than that. It’s about energy flow. Even…
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Power of Geography
How to ready “geography” according to geomancy? They were primarily concerned with two things: mountains and rivers. The arrangement of mountain to river was the basic way of determining the healthiness of the energy there, and mountains and rivers have been the most important places in every other tradition too, even if they have slightly…
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This also seems descriptive for a type 3 indigo. I do have many of these traits that alternate but know…