Coronavirus and Thelema
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@Hermitas said
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@FiatYod said
"The lockdown that takes place in many countries today is a Restriction of countless True Wills. It may take months until the world gets back to normal.
I understand its necessity, but what should a Thelemite whose expression of True Will has been restricted do under these circumstances?"I agree with the consensus.
But I'm bored, and it's too early in the morning for wine and strange drugs.
I'm trying to imagine a Will that would actually be restricted during this "lockdown."
I can't, but I may just lack imagination. Can anybody think of anything?"
The will to conquer everyone else?
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@Takamba said
"True will has many meanings and applications. As I see it, first and foremost, true will, so-called Universal true will, is to survive and thrive. I see the human race as a future space-faring race, therefore the universal will to survive and thrive can involve technological innovations and space exploration. But it is only a fantasy, the way I see it, to imagine that it is a predetermined script into the future without potential to fail. The notion of a universal true will that is also a legacy, historical marker of some sort, or dealing with human values in general, is rather silly - so scratch that if you will.
Ask yourself this constantly: does this support my true will, does this threaten my survival or enhance it, distracted, impede it, what provide benefits?
Is it your true will or is it your habit? Is it your will? Or is it an argument? Is it your will? Or is it your resistance? Is it your intention, in line with your intention, promoting the Great Work? Or is it your addiction? These answers must be known.
In Union with your will to survive and thrive, I recommend you join ranks with the Strong."
What do you mean by "The notion of a universal true will that is also a legacy"?
@Hermitas said
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@FiatYod said
"The lockdown that takes place in many countries today is a Restriction of countless True Wills. It may take months until the world gets back to normal.
I understand its necessity, but what should a Thelemite whose expression of True Will has been restricted do under these circumstances?"I agree with the consensus.
But I'm bored, and it's too early in the morning for wine and strange drugs.
I'm trying to imagine a Will that would actually be restricted during this "lockdown."
I can't, but I may just lack imagination. Can anybody think of anything?"
Well, when you were trying to imagine such a Will, did you assume that everybody has Internet access?
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" Well, when you were trying to imagine such a Will, did you assume that everybody has Internet access?"
I’ll tell you my actual thoughts..
We’re free to learn.
True Will, freed from the lust of result... I see no reason why it could not adapt to the current, relatively temporary demands - IF it was free of the lust of result. As such, it could adapt or be patient.
But regardless, we are free. We can claim our rights as long as we are willing to accept the karma and learn from it. But I would see it as involving the lust of result - as well as probably someone who didn’t truly yet understand their will.
As I said, we are free to learn.
Those are really all of my thoughts.
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Conversation equals discourse using language between two or more people. Retarded equals slowed down, restricted, stunted, prevented from growing. Unfortunately on this forum, conversations are far from stunted and can tend to grow wildly.
So I don't get it. What are you seeing with your eyes?
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Back to the OP...
You know, all the protests to "reopen the economy" are making me rethink this a little.
It's certainly within one's will to do the necessary things to survive. Am I wrong? And it could be argued further that in our age, making money is how you do that.
The government money didn't actually go to small businesses. They let the banks decide who to give it to, and people like dentists and other truly small businesses got nothing. They don't make the banks as much money, so they didn't get anything. And in the U.S., the $1200 stimulus checks are barely anything if you've got rent and a car note. Things could get hairy.
People aren't going to have what they need to survive if things don't change before too long.
Change anybody's answer?
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The idea that it is temporary makes it nolo contendere. " the word of Sin is Restriction," does not mean that all restrictions are sins. The nature of a governor is always to produce restrictions, what's the meaning of the word to govern. We are born with restrictions; we cannot fly without mechanical aid, we cannot travel from place to place until we learn how to motivate ourselves into doing so, we don't drink orange juice through our fingers but instead through our lips and mouth, these are all restrictions. Yoga, which means Union, is filled with necessary restrictions.
These are not sins.
This too shall pass.
If this does not pass, if the restrictions resist being lifted, then Will will reform and remove the resistance. This is for a future time. We can discuss, plan, consider, Etc but it is for another time.
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On the other side of my thoughts
Do you know someone who has died of covid-19 or do you only know someone who knows someone or do you only know you've been told what you've been told? How does this jive with "believe nothing you don't also prove for yourself? "
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@Hermitas said
"People aren't going to have what they need to survive if things don't change before too long.
Change anybody's answer?"
So we have to wait and see "if things don't change before too long" in order to make up our minds (and then possibly regret not making up our minds earlier)...
@Takamba said
"" the word of Sin is Restriction," does not mean that all restrictions are sins."
Fascinating!
Sin => Restriction, but not the other way around!
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@FiatYod said
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@Hermitas said
"People aren't going to have what they need to survive if things don't change before too long.Change anybody's answer?"
So we have to wait and see "if things don't change before too long" in order to make up our minds (and then possibly regret not making up our minds earlier)...
"You mad, bro?
Quit asking questions and speak your mind.
What’s your solution? Any tool can poke holes.
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@Hermitas said
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@FiatYod said
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@Hermitas said
"People aren't going to have what they need to survive if things don't change before too long.Change anybody's answer?"
So we have to wait and see "if things don't change before too long" in order to make up our minds (and then possibly regret not making up our minds earlier)...
"You mad, bro?
Quit asking questions and speak your mind.
What’s your solution? Any tool can poke holes."
You just called yourself.
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Ehh...
I’m no expert.
I’m good with what we’re doing, but I can work from home with a relatively stable job even in recessions. Me doing my will usually involves me writing back and forth with people over the Internet anyway.
I do realize that both recovery from illness and maintaining financial security are both survival-level needs.
I’d like to be a good “ruler,” though, as I play my part in the American system.
I look to the human body as an analogy for society. When we get sick, the body shuts down. My body healing itself is a more fundamental priority than me achieving self-actualization.
But we are individuals. So that’s the other side.
That’s my opinion, but I’m willing to change my mind. Remember, I was re-opening the conversation for other perspectives. That’s the part quoted.
The brother here seems to have a passionate opinion, but he won’t come out and state it. I’m interested in it.
So far, I can only assume that it’s going to be something like, “We just need to get on with our business and let a whole bunch of people die.” But I’m waiting to find out.
Otherwise, he’s just griping about other peoples’ opinions without having the courage to state his own - to put his own ideas out there for criticism.
Also, why are you taking up for everybody all of a sudden? These aren’t babies. They came to play. Let them.
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@Hermitas said
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I do realize that both recovery from illness and maintaining financial security are both survival-level needs.I look to the human body as an analogy for society. When we get sick, the body shuts down. My body healing itself is a more fundamental priority than me achieving self-actualization.
"I think we're in the process of collectively re-structuring, re-defining what are, globally, considered to be the Basic Needs of Human; a process of about 18 years (Pluto is transitioning from Sagittarius to Capricorn now, will enter Capricorn in 2021 and leave in end 2040), followed by the phase of about 18 years when we'll get to feel the 'taste' of the New Aeon Cognition/consciousness on a mass-scale for the first time (Pluto's pass through Aquarius).
The truth is, as species we have the survival needs covered - it's not an issue for the Human any more as it used to be; there IS enough resources, and there are known ways to utilize them, in order for everyone living to have the food & housing.
This is now perceived, on mass-level, only sub-consciously (look at the rising number of people experiencing psychological depression; look at millennials and their approach to job/work; etc - there's need for meaning and for self-actualization, and the Human is becoming awake to how very Urgent and Burning this need is); there's been a saturation-point, but it hasn't reached the global surface of awareness fully as yet; it will take us some time to "sort things out" (I see this as the specific Purification-process of the Pluto in Capricorn phase); understanding how the matter-energy operates on the Quantum Mechanics level, and understanding Heisenberg's findings, in particular, is a vital part of this large-scale cognitive transition.The Child-consciousness operates from perspective of: being rooted in the nakedness of Now, and focused-oriented to the Future (imagine the baby being born, the process of it coming out of the Womb, and the experience of exposure to Light and Air for the first time; does it turn back to look at the womb? of course not! all there is is Now and To-Be - left to its own devices, the infant follows a very specific path - up the mother's body, in a straight line, to reach the breast); it has the co-existence awareness inherent in itself. Another analogy: our Sun is the very core and center of the Solar system, and simultaneously, it's only a star among stars: both are true, and equally importantly so; this second aspect of the New Aeon cognition needs to be developed now (the first, understanding the uniqueness of the Sun, is already under way), the awakening of awareness of our mutual interconnectedness and co-existence.
For the new-born, the presence-of-everything-needed for survival is a given, it's a position the Child begins with.[Edit]
P.S. on a related note, I've just came across this quote on FB:""No life is worth living, if we cannot be true to our nature"
- Baine Bloodhoof"
I don't know the author, but the reflection of the N.A.C. perspective on the priority of needs is clear.
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So, in brief, I see this Covid-19 time as a phase, the brief intro to a larger phase (18 years of Pl in Cap), that provides the opportunity for this mass-scale transition to be incorporated - into the body of mass conscious knowledge, and into the physical and social structures as we now have them (via destroying, changing, morphing, in one way or another transforming the existing - toward the ones that are more harmoniously aligned with the New-Aeon-cognition mode of operating).
