what is the solutiom to violence?

Do we kill people that kill people or do we go to NON-vioñence?

What is the solution to this age old problem?

Essai on the current war

War on this scale does not introduce anything new into the world. It only amplifies what has always been here, like a loudspeaker pressed against the hidden chambers of the human heart. The missiles and sirens, the speeches and the statistics, are the visible choreography of an older, more intimate battle: the one between fear and love inside consciousness itself.

How the Brain Really Works with Change

• Short explanation: cortex as a prediction machine, wired for survival and the familiar

• Difference between insight (aha moment) and habit (automatic program)

• Normalising resistance: “Nothing is wrong with you; your brain is doing its job.”

From Insight to Habit: The Missing Bridge

• Why insights fade without structure and repetition

We all have moments of clarity where everything makes sense for a second: we see exactly how we want to live, love, work, eat, speak. And then… a few days later, the old patterns quietly take back control.

This is not a moral failure. It is simply the way the brain is built.

Our cortex is a prediction machine: it stores every experience we’ve had and uses that data to decide, automatically, how we will react in the present. For thousands of years it has been optimised for survival, not for fulfilment, so it constantly pushes us back toward the familiar, even when the familiar hurts.

Translating insights into reality means learning how to work with this brain instead of against it. It means understanding how habits are formed, how survival mode hijacks our best intentions, and how awareness can “re‑train” our cortex from automatic defence to conscious choice.

See…

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Introduction: The Nature of Experience

We begin with what may sound like a startling proposition: the body cannot experience itself. While most of us identify strongly with our physical form—thinking "I am the body"—closer examination reveals a different truth.

My arm cannot experience its own "armness." What we actually experience are sensations arising from the body. Yet these sensations themselves cannot experience themselves. The sensations from the arm must be experienced somewhere, and that somewhere is mind.

This becomes clinically evident in cases of brain injury or stroke, where damage to neural pathways results in the inability to experience portions of the body in consciousness. Without the mind, there is no experience of the body.

Consciousness as the Field of Experience

Fear doesn’t disappear because we push harder against it.It changes when we see it differently.

Today, In this 60‑minute live online conversation ( inspired by Dr. David R. Hawkins’ teaching on Worry, Fear and Anxiety,) we’ll explore the key distinctions that transform how you relate to fear—without any exercises or meditations to “get right.” Just clarity, insight and conversation.

We’ll unpack:

• Fear vs real danger – why your nervous system reacts the same way to a thought as to a tiger.

• Worry and anxiety as imagined future loss rather than present reality.

• “Fear of fear” – the hidden layer that makes panic, avoidance and control feel inevitable.

There will be no call today. I apologize and look forward to our call next Wednesday

The topic is: Fear: how to reach freedom ….

Does anyone remember what we said we will talk about on today's call? I apologize: I did not write it down...🤫

As promise, author on Tantra

Barry Long (Australian spiritual teacher, 1926-2003) and David Deida (American spiritual teacher/author, b. 1958) are both influential figures in modern spirituality, focusing on love, consciousness, and sexuality, though with distinct styles: Long emphasized "living love" and mastering the mind, while Deida focuses on masculine/feminine polarity and spiritual intimacy, with Deida often seen as continuing themes Long explored, particularly regarding sacred sexuality and conscious relationships. 

Barry Long (1926-2003)

• Focus: Bringing love into existence, mastering the "robot mind," divine love, truth.

• Style: Direct, challenging, emphasizing practical spiritual discipline and inner work.

• Key Ideas: Living love, awareness, overcoming fear, spiritual mastery. 

Hi, All! Sophie, you asked that I put together some info on the use of language in NLP since we were having a talk about language. Here is what I put together! I hope it is interesting to you all. I have always been fascinated by the power of language.

NeuroLinguistic Programming: NLP

NLP asserts a connection between neurological processes, language and acquired behavioral patterns, and these can be changed to achieve specific goals in life.  By changing the language one uses to describe their experience, they can change the “programming” (internal maps) of their mind resulting in increased behavioral flexibility.

We experience the world thru our senses (neuro).  We then add language to that experience (linguistic) which sets up behavioral patterns (programming).  NLP attempts to understand how people experience the world and change unwanted habits or states for personal growth.