Déjà Vu ~ Times II: A Thousand Points of Enlightenment ?

Thursday, February 2, 2017

A Thousand Points of Enlightenment ?

Recently I have been pondering perspective and asking myself how we mortals with such wide-ranging experiences, thoughts, hopes, dreams, and beliefs can find the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth as we navigate this world. If the circle to the right represents the whole truth as seen from the perspective of an omniscient God and we mortals are free(?¹) agents poking at the circumference as we try to understand the “wholistic” truths of X (X being some event, circumstance, person, theory, philosophy, etc.), how do we reconcile our partial truths with the partial truths seen by others?²

Let's take transgender as an example of X. How do we understand the explosion of birth-gender rejection? Could there be hidden causes? ones we will never discover if we don't ask the right questions? ones that could be hidden in the subconscious because of the nature and ubiquity of trauma-based amnesia? possible causes buried in the frauds and continuing propaganda of the deceased Alfred Kinsey?³

Even as of this year—2017—we, as a society, seem unable to acknowledge what increasing numbers of therapists, humanitarian workers, and investigators are witnessing.⁴ Our minds cannot seem to process:

▪ the astonishing number of victims per “average” pedophile;
▪ the lifelong mental anguish of most victims;
▪ the unconscionable numbers of trauma-based psychic injuries inflicted in the name of “religion,” ritual, superiority, “science,” curiosity, and the like;
▪ the abuses many authorities have become involved in while pursuing or protecting power and gain;
▪ the millions of sex- and human-trafficked victims world-wide, estimated to now be in the tens (perhaps hundreds) of millions;
▪ the extent, addictions, and horrors of child pornography and sex tourism;
▪ how easy it is to manipulate feelings, perceptions, conscience, fears, etc. of children;
▪ how malleable the child-mind is to suggestion and trauma in forming self-identity;
▪ how so much horrific abuse has been allowed and covered-up for decades;
▪ how DID manifestation may involve (sometimes programmed) male and female personalities in the same body;
▪ how far our world (like every prior fallen empire) has descended into violence and sex- and human-trafficking.

If we do not know the consequences and outcomes in our day of the following, how will we ever understand our world or how to help victims and survivors heal?

» Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)
» Brownstone Ops
» bullying, abuse, and trafficking
» compartmentalization
» Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
» Food, Inc
» GMOs
» many medicines and psychotropic drugs
» MKUltra
» modus operandi
» obsessions of power, gain, & fame
» Project Monarch
» psychopathy
» Ritual Abuse (RA)
» Trauma-based mind control
» & on and on
(Most of these topics have been dealt with in varying degrees in previous Déjà Vu posts which can be accessed through the labels.)

Truly, there are a thousand thousand points of enlightenment needed to understand what is happening in our world. None of us has the time to grasp it all, but if Nadine Burke Harris (a TED presenter⁵) and many others⁶ can recognize the physical consequences of ACE, can we be open to exploring in greater depth the mental, emotional, spiritual, and self-identity consequences? Do we prefer to think that ACE only has consequences for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, depression, addictions, life expectancy, and so forth? Or can we be open to asking whether trauma also needs to be explored as a possible dynamic in self-identity?—in LGBTQ? Or do we think it has been sufficiently discounted as a factor?

Are we still believing in Alfred Kinsey? Are we offended if someone suggests gender dysphoria may have a cause? Can we explore why physical realities have been severed from feeling realities for increasing numbers? Are we allowed to ask: Why the explosion of gender dysphoria?

Whenever we deal with feelings, we are on sensitive ground, but should feelings preclude us from asking questions? from seeking answers?

Perhaps much of what we are seeing in gender dysphoria is but the tragic face of ACE—a face that is only now being recognized, but which is millennia old. Even when we imagine that no trauma could have possibly happened to an individual, how can we possibly know when our culture and headlines are full of “fragmented, isolated” exposés—exposés that give the impression of being uncommon offenses, when the collective reality is anything but.

So what is the approach while we try to understand this world? Perhaps it is the Golden Rule (in its cosmic sense⁷) while at the same time holding those accountable who have been the causal agents of the pain, suffering, dysphoria, and choices of survivors of ACE?

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1. But how free are we when we are tutored from childhood by traditions, expectations, biases, propaganda, etc.
2. Not unlike the Blind men and the Elephant parable.
3. ▪ Alfred Kinsey: Secret History : Kinsey's Pedophiles (Time: 51:21 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcHf0htQ5LI&list=PL37f09HgmsL9_njX_7xRp3K5vkSIbysNs
▪ Dr. Judith Reisman "Exposing The Kinsey Sex Cult" (Time: 1:01:52) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeLw_AFAoIo&list=PL37f09HgmsL-Lx_U6AMdj0QelsP5F_jbh
▪ C-SPAN2 - BookTV interviews Judith Reisman about Sexual Sabotage (Time: 10:05 min) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmKw19_uKhs
▪ Dr. Judith Reisman Exposes Dr. Alfred Kinsey (Time: 25:17) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlEsRDnY-Ws
▪ What Happened to Alfred Kinsey's "Research" Victims from the 1940s and 1950s! (Time: 10:03 min) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DeuGU6KiZc
4. Many Déjà Vu blog posts deal with these issues and additional witness links can be accessed through the relevant labels. See also http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/search/label/Psychopathy ; http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/search/label/Science ; http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/search/label/Abuse ;
5. How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime (Time ~ 16:02) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ovIJ3dsNk
Also: 2015 Summit: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Toxic Stress: A Public Health Crisis (Time: 42:48) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbn9YiSrh9U&t=629s
6. » A TRIBUTE TO DR. VINCENT FELITTI (Time 19:34 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22Zt6aGwsA ; Dr. Felitti was and is the lead researcher and developer of the ACE Study that so impressed Nadine Burke Harris.
» TEDxNewy 2011 - Liz Mullinar - Treating the core problem of childhood trauma (Time ~ 8:32) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svX3fEdVTLQ
» Trauma, Brain & Relationship: Helping Children Heal (Time ~ 25:02) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyEEMlMMb0
» How Do We Stop Childhood Adversity from Becoming a Life Sentence. | Benjamin Perks | TEDxPodgorica (Time ~ 15:53) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0kV7JtWiE
» Finding Courage to Talk About Child Sexual Abuse | Jill Tolles | TEDxUniversityofNevada (Time ~ 13:10) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGR079qsqTI
» Victim, Unashamed and Unsilenced | Dani Bostick | TEDxColoradoSprings (Time ~ 8:50) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohMve-6LAZU
» From Victim to Survivor: Find Your X…but First, Find Your (Wh)Y? | Lauren Book | TEDxOxford (Time ~ 21:02) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ4eHW9EWUk
» Healing Trauma, Healing Humanity: Rolf Carriere at TEDxGroningen (Time ~ 16:12) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcXqcQecRXo
7. http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2017/01/improving-on-god.html

Revolving Accounts

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us." (Old Testament Ecclesiastes 1:9-10)

"Dwell in the past and you'll lose an eye. Forget the past and you'll lose both eyes." (Old Russian Proverb)

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1) Time & more needful priorities;
2) Problems observed with many open-comment blogs as so bluntly expressed at http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/comment-policy/
3) People are free to post divergent or convergent views on their own blogs;
4) Learning from comments here would be preferable, but— (see 1, 2, & 3).

Brief note to the OFFENDED: Just because allowing "comments" is a blogger's option, it does not mean every blogger must conform to the "expectations" of others. Every soul can consult the Spirit and decide what is best and right in their circumstance. And if one has a blanket policy not to read another's work because there is no opportunity to comment, it seems one has closed oneself off to potential guidance of the Spirit. Besides, in this world of "overwhelm," the guidance of the Spirit is the best resource we have to lead us to things of importance in our unique life. So, if you have found your way here, perhaps there are a few things of import for you here. I try to trust the Spirit to lead me likewise to things of import within my purpose and priorities.

My World / TransWorld View

▪ Truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come; (Doctrine and Covenants Section 93:24)
▪ If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed. (J. Reuben Clark)

▪ Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (New Testament 1 Thessalonians 5:21)

▪ No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.(New Testament Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13; 3 Nephi 13:24)
▪ See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.(New Testament 1 Thessalonians 5:15)
▪ For that which ye do send out shall return unto you again, and be restored; ... (Book of Mormon Alma 41:15)
▪ Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend. (Book of Mormon Mosiah 4:9, emphasis added)
▪ ... the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. (New Testament 1 Corinthians 1:25)
▪ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Old Testament Isaiah 55:8 - 9)
▪ ... the Lord doth grant unto all nations, of their own nation and tongue, to teach his word, yea, in wisdom, all that he seeth fit that they should have; therefore we see that the Lord doth counsel in wisdom, according to that which is just and true. (Book of Mormon Alma 29:8)
▪ The Bible is true, as far as it is translated correctly. Some things are to be understood literally; others metaphorically or symbolically.
▪ God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat; a Liberal nor a Conservative, just as Christ was neither a Pharisee or Sadducee. [For God doth not walk in crooked paths, neither doth he turn to the right hand nor to the left, neither doth he vary from that which he hath said, therefore his paths are straight, and his course is one eternal round.(Doctrine and Covenants Section 3:2)]
▪ Life is an escalating series of tests.
▪ “...we will be asked again and again to release the parts of our lives that mean the most to us.” (Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts, p. 76; also preview lives of the prophets and saints.)