...................................a saudade

A saudade não está na distância das coisas, mas numa súbita fractura de nós, num quebrar de alma em que todas as coisas se afundam.  

Vergílio Ferreira
in, Conta-Corrente 3

Tarde Longa

Se eu for à casa do amor

Hei-de encontrar-te sentado

À espera que eu me dispa

Conforme foi combinado

E se a tarde for inteira

Nessa pátria a que pertenço

Ficaremos abraçados

Estendidos como num lenço

Ah, quem me dera que os céus

Fossem mais largos, mais fundos,

Despidos somos de deus,

Vestidos somos do mundo

Mas de nós mesmos seremos

Se a tarde for tão comprida

Que o mesmo lenço se estenda

Ao longo de toda a vida

Lídia Jorge

................................a inconsciência mil vezes

Perante a encomenda de uma certeza registada de garantias, apresenta a inconsciência mil vezes.
Depois, há milésima primeira vez, quando esperarem que lhes apresentes uma canção ou um lápis, apresenta-lhes mesmo uma certeza registada de garantias porque tu sabes que só estarás errado se concordares com eles quando te acusam de erro, porque tu sabes e sais da tua comfort zone, assim mesmo, em inglês imperialista, para dares a tua pele à vida, às cicatrizes e às cócegas feitas com penas de pavão.
Não tentas preservar o que tens porque sabes que não tens nada e podes sempre ter mais nada ainda.
Quando deixas de fazer sentido, é porque foste capaz de encontrar um novo sentido e há muito boas possibilidades que esse sentido esteja enfeitado por canteiros de plantas necessariamente selvagens, onde a seiva corre desgovernada, feita de sol liquefeito, claridade liquefeita, incandescência tão limpa que cega.


José Luís Peixoto

Yin Yang... the dual Torus

The ancient symbol Yin Yang is actually expressing 3D information that describes the dynamics of all black holes in the universe - the dual Torus...

A Astrofísica e o Taoismo (Filosofia)... as Leis do Universo!!!!

Para quê procurar respostas nas religiões???

Está tudo aqui!!!!!

As religiões são como uma droga pesada...uma dependência doentia!

..........................................Eça

Nunca houve numa "vida única” uma “afeição única” e se nos parece que há casos em que houve é que essa vida não durou o bastante para que a desilusão e a mudança se produzisse, ou quando se produziu ficou orgulhosamente guardado no segredo do coração que a sentiu.  

Eça de Queiroz

A ILUSÃO DO VAZIO INTERIOR

Todo o ser humano aspira à felicidade e bem-estar interior.
Há sem duvida infinitas versões diferentes de felicidade e bem-estar interior, e todo o esforço do ser humano, esconde a vontade de atingir esse estado.
Uns acreditam que será através do poder financeiro.
Outros na realização de uma família,
Outros na superação física de um qualquer desporto,
Outros a escrever livros,
Ou seja, cada um de nós irá procurar esse tão ansiado estado, nas mais variadas experiências, conforme os seus valores, cultura e crenças.

• Mas como pode o ser humano desejar algo que a maior parte nunca viveu? 
• Como podemos ansiar por um estado de plenitude que a condição humana torna praticamente impossível de atingir? 
• Como podemos desejar tanto algo que não conhecemos nas nossas vidas nem nas vidas à nossa volta?
• Não nos faz sentido por exemplo, sentirmos anseio por comer um fruto que nunca provámos pois só ansiamos pelo que conhecemos, verdade? 
• Então como explicar essa tão forte crença em todos nós de que “um dia” vou ser feliz e atingir esse estado de paz interior...?

Porque nós já somos a Unidade. 
Todos carregamos essa essência no nosso espírito do nosso estado original de equilíbrio e plenitude. Tal como a Unidade se vem experienciar nas partes, nós já somos a luz na experiência das suas cores. Na proposta de experiência terrena, onde somos convidados a experienciar a dualidade separadamente, esse estado de harmonia divide-se temporariamente tal como a luz se divida nas cores.

As 3 dimensões servem para experimentar as partes e através delas reconstruir o Todo. 
Ou seja, somos o arco-íris a perceber que afinal a sua essência é a luz branca. 
Porque acabamos por perder a consciência do Todo e passamos a identificarmo-nos tanto com a forma, passamos a acreditar nela e a senti-la como a nossa realidade.

Até reconhecermos que já somos a luz, o tão doloroso e desconfortável vazio leva-nos a uma busca constante pelo preenchimento do mesmo precisamente porque “sabemos” que é possível preenchê-lo. 
Se não tivéssemos essa memória da plenitude, não sofreríamos e aceitaríamos a nossa condição tal como o animal vive conformado com a sua.
Mas é precisamente porque nos dói, que o vamos TENTAR preencher de todas as maneiras. 
Comida, drogas, álcool, tralhas, dinheiro, poder, ilusão, enfim, tudo serve para mascarar aquele tão desconfortável vazio.

Levamos muito tempo na nossa evolução até percebermos que toda a tentativa de preenchimento exterior vem armadilhada.
Só através da constante desilusão de procurarmos o preenchimento da alma no mundo material é que despertamos para o mundo interior.
Só quando o ter é substituído pelo SER começa na realidade a nossa viagem de volta à Unidade.

A partir do momento em que damos o mergulho interior e nos rendemos às dinâmicas invisíveis e energéticas da vida, podemos começar a entender as leis cósmicas, aprender a ler sinais, a perceber sincronias e a juntar os pontos do que é afinal o propósito da nossa alma.

É a partir de dentro, com os olhos da alma que percebemos a lenta e invisível escada rolante que vai cumprindo a sua pré-programada e inteligente rota, que quer queiramos quer não, nos irá levar de volta à Unidade. A partir de dentro, aprendemos a aceitar o nosso vazio sabendo que ele é apenas uma ilusão e que irá ser preenchido quando voltarmos a casa.

A partir desta visão interior, deixa de haver ansiedade, luta ou controle pois sabemos que nenhuma dessas batalhas nos trará a felicidade ou plenitude. 

Nasce então a consciência de que nós JÁ SOMOS A UNIDADE.
Nós JÁ SOMOS PLENOS, nós JÁ SOMOS LUZ e que é na dualidade que nos propusemos lembrar e experienciar isso mesmo.


Vera Luz

America's Shadow: The Real Secret of Donald J. Trump

There's a powerful way to explain the rise of Donald Trump that most commentators have missed entirely or undervalued. The standard line describes Trump as a bizarre anomaly. Beginning as an improbable celebrity candidate, he has defied all the conventional rules of politics, which should have been fatal. Instead Trump has swept all before him on the Republican side. Possessing a "genius" for grabbing the limelight, he continues to dominate the scene in ways no previous politician ever has in modern times--so the conventional view goes.

But in reality Trump isn't bizarre or anomalous.
He stands for something universal, something right before our eyes. It's an aspect of the human psyche that we feel embarrassed and ashamed of, which makes it our collective secret.  Going back a century in the field of depth psychology, the secret side of human nature acquired a special name: the shadow.

The shadow compounds all the dark impulses--hatred, aggression, sadism, selfishness, jealousy, resentment, sexual transgression--that are hidden out of sight.
The name originated with Carl Jung, but its basic origin came from Freud's insight that our psyches are dualistic, sharply divided between the conscious and unconscious. The rise of civilization is a tribute to how well we obey our conscious mind and suppress our unconscious side. But what hides in the shadows will out.

When it does, societies that look well-ordered and rational, fair and just, cultured and refined, suddenly erupt in horrible displays of everything they are not about: violence, prejudice, chaos, and ungovernable irrationality.
In fact, the tragic irony is that the worst eruptions of the shadow occur in societies that on the surface have the least to worry about. This explains why all of Europe, at the height of settled, civilized behavior, threw itself into the inferno of World War I.

If Trump is the latest expression of the shadow, he isn't a bizarre anomaly, which would be true if normal, rational values are your only standard of measure. Turn the coin over, making the unconscious your standard of measure, and he is absolutely typical. When the shadow breaks out, what's wrong is right. Being transgressive feels like a relief, because suddenly the collective psyche can gambol in forbidden fields.
When Trump indulges in rampant bad behavior and at the same time says to his riotous audiences, "This is fun, isn't it?" he's expressing in public our ashamed impulse to stop obeying the rules.

But the fun of world War I, which almost gleefully sent young men off to fight, quickly turned to horror, and the shadow closed an insidious trap. Once released, it is very hard to force the shadow back into its underground bunker.
The Republican party has kept the shadow on a slow simmer for decades, ever since Nixon discovered how to make hay form Southern racism, law-and-order aggression against minorities, and us-versus-them attitudes to the Vietnam anti-war movement.
In order to make themselves feel unashamed, the good people on the right found figureheads after Nixon who exuded respectability. The irony is that as with civilized societies that seem the least likely to allow the shadow to run free, the more benign a Reagan or Bush acted, the stronger the shadow became behind the facade.

Trump has stripped away the facade, intoxicated by the "fun" of letting his demons run and discovering to his surprise (much as Nixon did) that millions of people roared with approval. Yet by comparison, Nixon retained relative control over the forces he unleashed, while Trump may be riding a tiger-that part of the story has yet to play itself out.


If the shadow refuses to go back underground, which is always the case, what outcomes can we anticipate over the next six months? 
The present situation finds us trapped between denial and disaster.
Denial is when you ignore the shadow; disaster is when you totally surrender to it.
Without being at either extreme, right now many Americans feel the unsettling symptom of being out of control. Trump glorifies being out of control, and until this outbreak runs its course-which no one can predict-he will remain immune to all the normal constraints.


What to do in the meantime? 
A few things come to mind:

1. See Trumpism for what it is, a confrontation with the shadow.

2. Instead of demonizing him, acknowledge that the shadow is in everyone and always has been.

3. At the same time, realize that the shadow never wins in the end.

4. Find every opening to reinforce the value of returning to right and reason in your own life.

5. Don't fight the shadow with the shadow, which means not stooping to play by Trump's nihilistic rules--he will always be willing to go lower than you are willing to go.


America has been fortunate in our ability to let off steam and recognize that we have demons.
In the Great Depression bank robbers became folk heroes, but nobody suggested electing Bonnie and Clyde president. The rational constraints that allow for human evolution have been successful for millennia, as the higher brain became dominant over the lower brain. That dominance still holds good, no matter how close we flirt with the primitive areas of the mind.
Trump represents something authentic in human nature, and in troubled times he's the bad boy who becomes a folk hero. No one can predict if his Wrong=Right stance will carry him to the White House. The contest with our own shadow isn't over yet.


If Trumpism Is the Disease, What's the Cure?
The machinery of politics is geared up to defeat Donald Trump on the Democratic side, and there’s hope, after Trump revealed his propensity for self-destruction, that the Republicans will either abandon him or keep a safe distance. Enough condemnation has been directed at him to sink a dozen candidates, and his extended Teflon period may quickly draw to a close.

But the larger issue isn't Trump's viability as a candidate, troubling as that is, but the rise of the movement he represents. Every term of condemnation applied to him-bigoted, racist, sexist, xenophobic, authoritarian, mentally unbalanced-fuels the approval of his supporters.
A hopelessly divided, hostile electorate has become a diseased electorate.
That's the thing that should disturb us the most, because disease conditions need a cure or else they continue to fester.

To clarify the point, I think back to my early days in Boston as an underpaid medical resident with a young family to support. Like many in my situation, I moonlighted to make ends meet, working at a famous private clinic in the Boston area. My status was on the bottom rung, so I found myself doing workups on the entering patients. One day I did the physical for the leader of a huge labor union, a nationally known figure. To my alarm, he was overweight, a heavy drinker and smoker, and suffering from various symptoms, the most serious being his high blood pressure and bad heart.

I finished the exam and immediately rushed to my supervisor with the bad news.
He blanched, saying, "You didn't tell him any of these things, did you?"
I said no, and the supervising physician looked relieved.
"We don't want to let him know that anything is wrong," he said. "He's doing okay the way he is, and if he really knew what was wrong, it would probably kill him."
Those were the days, in the early Seventies, when medical ethics still considered it discretionary to tell a patient any grim news, but the net effect was that denial by the doctor led to ignorance by the patient. 

The same, and worse, applies to a diseased electorate. 
On both sides the racism, bigotry, greedy elitism, reactionary attitudes, and sheer malice that has been a feature of the far right for decades somehow became normalized.
A very sick patient was being coddled as if he was healthy.
In the case of the union leader, keeping him in the dark was done supposedly in his best interest. 
The far right has been treated with denial out of fear and repugnance.
After "nice" Presidents like Reagan and George H. W. Bush deliberately fueled the festering malignancy of the far right, Southern racists, and religious fundamentalists, moral lines became hopelessly blurred for the vast majority of politicians running for office.

The fact that the most respectable Republicans in leadership positions endorsed Trump in the blink of an eye, despite his outrageous public statements, indicates how deeply dependent a dysfunctional party has become. Without their worst members, the party would sink, and the leadership knows it. If Trump performs in November so dismally that he takes down senators, congressmen, and governors, the fever may die down for a bit. But the underlying disease will continue to spread in all likelihood. The dark side of Reaganism and the two Bushes roared to the surface in reaction to our first Afro-American President, and Trump took the bit in his teeth in acts of fraud, trumpeting a birther cause there is almost no chance he believed in.


So we must keep our eyes on one goal, curing the American electorate. 
This involves a series of steps that need to enter into political activity no matter how discouraging the situation looks:

• Stop normalizing extremism. Continue to speak truth to power and also to the public. In this regard, Bernie Sanders has shown the way.

• Find better candidates. At the local level all the way up to the Senate, the bad has driven out the good. Faced with the malice and scorched-earth tactics of the far right, good centrist and left-leaning candidates have abandoned the field, refusing to subject themselves to such extreme attacks. More good people need to follow the lead of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, holding their noses if they must but entering the fray anyway.

• Reeducate the voting public, especially among young people, about what civic virtue and rational political thinking actually are.

• Honestly confront the failings on the Democratic side, which Bernie Sanders has effectively exposed.

• Reach across the aisle in Congress. It looks impossible, but there is no other way.

• Appoint Supreme Court justices who will repudiate and reverse the judicial extremism of Justices Scalia, Roberts, Alito, and Thomas. This can be done with centrist or even slightly right-leaning nominees.

• Clear out the Justice Department of right-wing Bush appointees, many with fundamentalist religious leanings above the rule of law. They have no place in the civil service.

• Vigorously litigate voter suppression laws and gerrymandering.

As we all know, Trumpism is an acute condition that can create panic and alarm, but it's the underlying chronic condition that must be treated, even though curing it may take decades. One isn't aiming for a perfect, altruistic, virtuous electorate.
American politics has always been heated and divisive. 
A diverse society is successful when no voices are suppressed, even the loud and angry voices.
The repugnancy of Trumpism may have opened the way for change, but the responsibility for making sure it is positive change lies with us.


Can Trumpism Lead to a Better American Story?
We are living at a time when the story of America is changing, with nothing but more change on the horizon.
Therefore, we face a critical decision. 
Should the new American story be born out of fear or hope? 
The stark contrasts in the 2016 election make this choice inevitable.
One indelible human trait is the craving to turn our experiences into stories. These stories gather tags (now often called memes) that keep the story straight and allow people to agree about them.
"The greatest generation" is such a tag, supporting the story of the Allied victory in World War II, which is referred to as a "good war," another tag. Politics is many things, but one of the most important is a war between competing stories, and if your side comes up with the winning story, your victory can last far beyond one election cycle.

Donald Trump has been wildly erratic when it comes to actual ideas, policies, and positions, but he rode the crest of an immensely successful Republican story. So-called conservative "principles" are largely a collection of mythical storylines, and the tags that define them go back to the Nixon era.
We are all familiar with law and order, the silent majority, morning in America, "Government isn't the solution-it's the problem," "Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev," clash of civilizations, "Guns don't kill people--people do,” and many other conservative memes.

So fervent is the craving for stories that the right wing clings to storylines that are totally false if your standard of truth is historical fact, accurate data, and pluralism. But rigidly clinging to our story is something we all do. By the same token, we become nervous and disturbed when our story starts to fray. The right plays upon fear very successfully at times of national anxiety, from Nixon's "pitiful helpless giant" to Bush’s "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud” to Trump's "make America great again,” which plays upon the anxiety of national decline. Fear is a powerful motivator in the short term, even when it proves to be disastrously bad as a guide to action, as witness the Vietnam war and the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.

It seems likely that Donald Trump has finally reached the end of his string and will self-destruct thanks to his total inability to control himself.
But the crisis surrounding the American story won't go away.
The benign revolt led by Bernie Sanders isn't comparable to the toxic revolt led by Trump. 
Yet they share a refusal to go along with the American story we've been living with, and the fact that such a huge proportion of Americans think the country is moving in the wrong direction indicates how deep our confusion, frustration, and discontent have progressed.

It's a positive sign that right-wing coherence is falling apart, because the conservative storyline is freighted with too many malignant tendencies. That it serves to condone religious fundamentalism, Southern racism, the Tea Party, birthers, and Trump himself is reason enough to provoke a complete shakeup. The problems are less dire on the progressive side. Even though the right-wing smear machine dominates talk radio and has successfully turned the tags "liberal" and "progressive" into terms of disdain, the social reality-and historical truth-lies on the liberal side. 
We owe democracy, liberty, the Constitution, Social Security, Medicare, civil rights, cultural pluralism, immigration, and the impartial rule of law to a liberal storyline going back more than two centuries.

The problem for Hillary Clinton isn't as alarming as it looked in our worst nightmares, which saw Trumpism seizing the country, riding a tidal wave of discontent, and resulting in a chaotic, toxic political revolution.
But assuming that she is elected, Hillary must address the fact that the old liberal story is loosely sutured and coming apart.
Trump instigates fear about illegal immigrants, globalism, radical Islam, slow economic recovery, the rise of China, and home-grown terrorists, yet even without him, these are new memes that challenge the American story.

Presidents are in a unique position to guide a new narrative. 
President Obama recognized this in Ronald Reagan, even though Obama himself has largely been stymied by the right wing to bring about many of the changes he wanted. Beyond electing an Afro-American to the Presidency, which was a huge change in our story, other shifts on the liberal side, such as supporting democracy in the Middle East, establishing national health care, and normalizing relations with Russia are successes that still haven’t found full national acceptance.

So the question remains: 
Will the new American story be written out of fear or hope? 
The times are never settled; the unknown is always upon us.
What matters isn't how rich a country is or how dominant its armies are, but whether the national spirit is discouraged or confident, forward or backward looking, progressive or reactionary.
Stories are the underpinning of psychology, and what the American psyche needs more than ever is self-awareness. If nothing else positive comes from with his run for the Presidency except wake people up so that we can re-examine ourselves, Trump will have done one good thing.


If Trumpism Is Here to Stay, What Does That Tell Us?
As Donald Trump's campaigning becomes more unruly-some might say unhinged-the likelihood of him reaching the White House diminishes by the day. But Trumpism is a different story. The ingredients that go into Trumpism fall into the category Freud dubbed the psychopathology of everyday life. To use a broad brush, Freud saw human nature as a war of suppression that is never won, while the possibility of becoming a free, rational, productive person was never achieved. In other words, the psychopathology of everyday life must be considered a constant despite our aspirations and ideals.

It's a gloomy view of human nature but one that Trump's ascension underscored.
He has no impulse control. He follows the dictates of appetite and ego without regard for others. In the face of problems that require patience and reason, he gets restless and impatient at best and reckless at worst. If we look in the mirror, we can see ourselves in this pattern of behavior, but it belonged, in normal people, to childhood. 
As adults we take sides in the war of suppression, choosing either to become mature, which means being in control of our Trump side, or letting our demons run, which is pure Trumpism.

The real problem is that even the best societies will never extirpate Trumpism, because our divided selves contain anger, resentment, selfishness, anxiety, and aggression.
To the extent that we let these feelings get the better of us, we participate in the psychopathology of everyday life. Trumpism considers this a desirable way to live, but that's a rich man's folly. He can bankrupt a casino after running it into the ground and walk away whistling. The workers he laid off can't do the same.

We find ourselves witnessing a revolt of the resentful led by the very type of person they have every right to resent, but that's how unreason works-it is detached from reasonableness. 
In social psychology, it's well known that if you give someone all the proof needed to show that their viewpoint is factually incorrect, such as showing a supporter of the Iraq War the pattern of mistakes, bad decisions, and untruth surrounding that conflict, they come away more stubborn in their original support. Trump doubles down on his most toxic behavior-attacking the judge, retweeting an anti-Semitic posting, praising Saddam Hussein-for the same reason. The more he is rationally shown the error of his ways, the more vehemently he will cling to his irrationality.

The worst news, if we look to the future, is that the right wing has endorsed and encouraged the psychopathology of everyday life. Society’s dead weight of bigots, racists, sexists, xenophobes, and religious fundamentalists forms the so-called base on the right, when to any rational, normal person they reflect the negative aspects of human nature that should never be encouraged. As a result, there has been a through-the-looking-glass morality on the right for decades, which praised those who adhere to conservative "values" when they were actually signs of psychological abnormality. 

If a society is lucky, the eruptions of everyday psychopathology are containable; when societies run off the rails, full-blown chaos is set loose. If current trends hold, America will have dodged the bullet this time. Reasonable people are rejecting Trump en masse. But it would be even better if Trumpism could be healed rather than rejected and suppressed. This is where the aspirational side of human nature enters the picture, for we aren't steam boilers running on a pressure gauge. We are creatures capable of continuous evolution to a higher level of consciousness.

That's what Trumpism challenges in the long run, a state of consciousness that can adapt to changing conditions and evolve.
The changing conditions are no mystery: 
ISIS, globalism, hacking, cyberterror, lone wolves, climate change. 
These tags ae shorthand for an emerging new world.
Can we adapt ourselves to it, solve the biggest problems, contain what must be contained, remain free in our own country, and promote a better life around the world?
Or do we surrender to Trumpism, even though our rational nature knows that to do so means disaster?

A great deal depends on our decision as a country, but even more on our decision as individuals, because it's the individual who sides with the psychopathology of everyday life or doesn't. If enough of us stop engaging Trumpism with a recoil of revulsion and turn our attention instead to restoring normality-which President Obama has dedicated eight years to-America has a chance of returning to its best aspirational identity.


How to Make Sure That Trumpism Never Returns
The problem isn't Donald Trump but Trumpism - many commentators feel safe enough to utter these words. What made them feel unsafe over the past year, despite the toxic extremism that Trump the man represented, was timidity. Someone posing as a strong man, capable of viciously demolishing his political enemies, posed a potential threat to anyone who spoke out against him. But now more people have found a way, even a growing handful of Republican politicians, to denounce him.

There's a collective sigh of relief that Trump has become his own worst enemy, but relief isn't the same as feeling safe, much less immune. America hasn't seen the last of Trumpism until remedies against its return are undertaken seriously. As a physician sees it, we are past the prevention stage, past the first signs of disorder, and well into rampant symptoms that threaten a full-blown outbreak. In a word, Trumpism has become a persistent virus, and although it fuels a sense of self-righteousness to blame the long line of Republican presidents going back to Nixon who planted the seeds of Trumpism, we can't afford that luxury.


To compress Trumpism into its essential ingredients, they are actually a batch of stubborn illusions that have been turned into a belief system, as follows:

— The illusion that anyone "not like us" is inferior, bad, lazy, and dangerous. From this illusion springs a belief in us-versus-them thinking.
— The illusion of racial superiority. From this illusion springs overt and covert racism.
— The illusion of absolute patriotism, or "my country right or wrong." From this illusion springs xenophobia.
— The illusion that violence works. From this illusion springs a belief that war accomplishes more good things than bad.
— The illusion of egotism. From this illusion springs the belief that only "I, me, and mine" actually count.


The list could go on, and there are commentators who focus on such things as sexism, income inequality, immigration, and fear of globalism. Trumpism has many arms, no doubt. But I think it is best viewed as a psychological state that permits the welling up of our darkest impulses. Until the country's collective psychology stops being tainted by fear, anger, and resentment, Trumpism will continue on the metastasized negativity that the far right cannot survive without.

President Obama followed the course of being the adult in the room, which Hillary Clinton is continuing. But if we consider the 16 other Republican candidates for President that didn't get nominated, each exhibits some form of Trumpism-lite. In private, even a gentlemanly Mitt Romney, assuming he wasn't being taped, expressed an appalling disdain for the average American. The current crop of right-wing candidates fester in a party where the majority of Republicans believe that Obama is a practicing Muslim.

This implies that being the adult in the room is too passive. 
Hatred must be countered with activism, and activism begins with each of us examining our own attitudes and beliefs:

— We must respond to toxic emotions with rational solutions.
— We must be brave about standing up and speaking our truth.
— We must stop secretly agreeing in the blandishments of us-versus-them thinking.
— We must do our civic duty to put the country back on a sound moral basis.
— We must renounce violence not just in others, but in our own hearts as well.


I know that these sound like moralistic steps, but as David Brooks has been pointing out in the New York Times, the basic objection to Trump is a moral one, and our society has become timid, self-conscious, embarrassed, or indifferent to public morality. As a result, so-called "conservative values" have taken us through the looking glass into a landscape where the worst among us cloak themselves as the best and most moral.

It seems set in stone that elected officials on the local, state, and Congressional level will refuse to budge from toxic positions that get voters to turn out.  But this is largely because the bad have driven out the good. Moderate and progressive candidates shun the opportunity to run for office because of their distaste for an opposition that, as Trump demonstrates, uses scorched-earth tactics as a normal way of conducting politics. But there is no other remedy other than good people stepping up once more.

What's needed in the end isn't a moral crusade, which only inflames the opposition to more intense levels of abuse, as witness Trump's completely unpunished habit of doubling down on his vitriolic rhetoric. Morality returns naturally when people have expanded awareness. We are living in an era where outside threats, real or imaginary, have caused our collective consciousness to contract. If this wasn't so, there would be no secret Trump admirers falling for the illusion that all we need is a strong male to fix this mess. 
Expanded consciousness begins at home. Each of us must find the core in ourselves where being truthful, strong, tolerant, compassionate, and at peace comes naturally. This level exists in everyone, and when we arrive there, the toxic illusions of Trumpism have no more power over us.


Donald Trump and the Looking-Glass War
More than one observer has remarked that the tactics of the Trump campaign, which misses no opportunity to turn the truth upside down, have taken us to a crossroads. The tightening race indicates that millions of Americans are willing to overlook Trump's insults, misinformation, evasions, outright lies, exaggerations, and character assassination. What is referred to as the "normalizing" of Trump, the steady assimilation of new outrages day by day, is a strange phenomenon. It partly goes back to some positive characteristics that American democracy is known for, such as toleration of extreme views and a willingness to redeem outliers from "normal" society.

There are also some questionable American qualities at work, such as our history of ornery politics and a fascination with celebrity that permits bad characters to be given a pass simply because they are famous in the tabloids. Into this mix, however, must be added a troubling American trait, the passive willingness to let wrong turn into right. This trait has been steadily cultivated by the right wing going back at least as far as Nixon's Southern strategy, which told racists that they were acceptable to the GOP, a fact that still pertains.  Ronald Reagan normalized the fringe values that Republican respectability had once rejected. In an effort to expand their white male base, successive Republican candidates welcomed in the religious right, gun nuts, conspiracy theorists, birthers, and the ultra-patriotic fringe with their xenophobic belief in "my country, right or wrong" and "love it or leave it."

It took Trump, however, to plunge us into a looking-glass war, where we are forced to see ourselves starkly and to take a stand.

W. B. Yeats's warning from the early 20th century applies to our own times when he wrote: 

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
the blood-dimmed tide is loosed,
and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction,
while the worst are full of passionate intensity." 

Yeats faced the horrors of world war and rising totalitarianism, and we live in a different era.
But Trumpism touts wrong as right with passionate intensity, while countless people who should see him for what he is lack all conviction to counter him.

The looking-glass war is a contest taking place in collective consciousness. 
According to a fact-based view of reality, the U.S. is not in imminent danger from terrorism on a mass scale; we are a prosperous, growing economy; our military strength far surpasses any other nation; immigrants are a positive force in our pluralistic society, not a gang of criminals and freeloaders. But facts aren't the same as consciousness, and the wrong-is-right strategy that the Republicans have fostered for decades is rising to claim what is due to it. Because they owe their political survival to the very values that Trumpism expresses in exaggerated form, few Republicans are safe enough, or courageous enough, to speak out against him, and the prospect that this grotesque caricature of a candidate may actually win the Presidency has actually had the opposite effect. It has made estranged Republicans "come home," as they say, which means the embrace of shameless, shameful values as if they are acceptable. Sadly, 95% of Trump supporters are eager to vote for him, as opposed to 80% of Hillary supporters.

Nothing I'm saying is news to anyone who has been paying attention to the campaign so far, and now we are in the hands of an electorate where convinced supporters of Trump and Clinton are not going to budge, leaving the final decision to "low information voters," as they are politely known. They are actually the politically indifferent, and if they cast a middle-finger vote in the same spirit as Brexit, the worst of American values will prevail. 

I'm not writing this to spread gloom, alarm, or fear.
Collective consciousness holds up a mirror to the truth, and in the end there is no arguing against reality, wherever it takes us. My only point is to underline that all of us are reflected in the mirror as individuals. If anyone fails to stand up, stops speaking the truth, stays at home on Election Day, or votes out of spite and resentment against Clinton, the reflection that results from such feeble lack of conviction will be very dark. It will show each of us things about ourselves we don't have to see.

Deepak Chopra

A Mulher-Esqueleto

Elena de Petra

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, no seu livro Mulheres que Correm com os Lobos e especificamente na história intitulada: A Mulher-Esqueleto, fala que o ser humano para viver em harmonia com os outros, nas suas relações de afecto, precisa de enfrentar o que ele mais teme, foge e que não tem como escapar – A natureza de vida-morte-vida do amor.
Esta história é verdadeiramente a história de caça a respeito do amor.

Gostaria de ressaltar que nas histórias de Clarissa, existem materiais que podem ser
compreendidos como um espelho refletindo tanto a doença quanto a saúde da nossa própria vida interior – da nossa psique.

Segundo a autora, para cada relação de amor duradoura, um terceiro parceiro se faz presente nessa união, quer queiramos ou não. Esse terceiro parceiro é justamente a mulher-esqueleto ou como ela é chamada: A Morte.
Contudo, a morte não é um mal como é conhecida no Ocidente – nessa apresentação ela é uma divindade.

Esta mulher-esqueleto precisa ser acolhida pelos dois amantes para criar um amor duradouro.
Nessa relação ela sabe exactamente quando algo precisa morrer, ou quando um ciclo precisa se fechar para que outro surja. 

Quando olhamos e abraçamos a mulher esqueleto, vemos que o amor não é algo que vamos “obter”, mas sim algo gerado em ciclos de morte e de vida com seus fluxos e refluxos.

Nos dias actuais, observamos nas relações de amor justamente esse medo da natureza da vida-morte-vida, especificamente do aspecto morte. Qualquer que seja o final, o ser humano teme e esquece que num único relacionamento amoroso existem muitos finais.

Outro aspecto importante é que numa relação amorosa passamos boa parte do tempo a fingir que podemos amar sem que morram as nossas ilusões, expectativas, a voracidade de querer tudo, de querer que nada mude e de querer que tudo permaneça lindo no amor.
A tentativa de querer forçar o amor somente no seu aspecto positivo é o que faz com que o amor acabe por morrer para sempre.

Para Clarissa, amar significa emergir de um mundo de fantasias para um mundo real, onde o amor duradouro é possível. Amar significa ficar com, mesmo quando cada célula manda fugir.

E a nossa tendência é fugir dos relacionamentos no momento em que verdadeiramente conhecemos o outro, quando vemos seus limites e suas fragilidades ou mesmo quando o prazer sexual diminui. Mas é nessa hora em que algo precisa morrer – nossas ilusões – para que o novo possa nascer: o verdadeiro amor. E é nesse momento também que perdemos a oportunidade de demonstrar coragem e de conhecer o amor.

Quando num relacionamento amoroso, por ventura, chega o momento onde as coisas ficam complicadas, embaraçadas, receamos que o fim esteja próximo. Isso é um equivoco. Esse é só um ciclo que precisa morrer e é preciso encarar de frente a mulher-esqueleto, pois ela está presente na relação, o vinculo já está formado – Ainda bem!

O amor em sua plenitude é uma série de mortes e de renascimentos. 
Deixamos uma fase, um aspecto do amor e entramos em outra.
A paixão morre e volta, a dor é espantada para longe e vem à tona mais adiante.
Amar significa abraçar e ao mesmo tempo suportar inúmeros finais e inúmeros recomeços – todos no mesmo relacionamento.

Palavras de Clarissa:
“Para amar é preciso não só ser forte, mas também sábio. A força vem do espírito. A sabedoria, da Mulher-esqueleto” 

E com um poema da mística mexicana Rosario Castellanos:

…dadme La muerte que me falta…
…dá-me a morte que preciso…

Gianini Ferrari 
Psicóloga Clínica

The Laughing Heart

your life is your life

don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.

be on the watch.

there are ways out.

there is a light somewhere.

it may not be much light but

it beats the darkness.

be on the watch.

the gods will offer you chances.

know them.

take them.

you can’t beat death but

you can beat death in life, sometimes.

and the more often you learn to do it,

the more light there will be.

your life is your life.

know it while you have it.

you are marvelous

the gods wait to delight

in you.

Charles Bukowski

...................there is never a time when the presence is not there

You say, ‘Even if the person comes strongly,
there is never a time when the presence is not there.’
You are saying perhaps the most profound thing,
but you are not aware how profound it is.
You say the presence is never not here.
What notices this?
Even presence is perceived.
Whatever you can say, whatever you can perceive,
whatever you can conceive—that stands in front of presence,
but there is something beyond presence itself.
That you are.
It has no duties.
It has never changed.
It is not an evolutionary process or state.
It does not come or go.
It does not grow up.
It never gets old.
It has no age.
It is ever perfect.
This is the greatness of the human expression of consciousness;
that in this human mode you can awaken to this pure understanding.
The highest discovery in the human kingdom
is to wake up into consciousness of the infinite Self.
And what have you done to find this?
I am met with silence, why?
Because it all happened by Grace, you may admit.
Grace is the mirror in which the Infinite perceives,
recognizes or experiences its formless reflection.


~ Mooji

..................................how singularity occurs

In an infinite fractal of rotation, how do you define the center?
Every point is the center.
You are the center of the universe observing the universe from your very own center.
Wherever you pick a point of observation in the fractal, that point becomes the center from which you're observing the universe.
That point becomes stillness.
Why stillness?
Because in that point now, all the spins of the universe cancel out.…
You need stillness to have a frame of reference for rotation…
And that's how singularity occurs.
Singularity is the point at the center of your experience of the universe, that is the point of stillness from which you're observing the universe.


 – Nassim Haramein

Trabalho e trabalho

Trabalho e trabalho
para dar à luz um pai
na minha solidão de depauperado
arado que nada sulca
porque como um comboio a que faltaram carris
prévios ao meu arado são seus sulcos.


Sou um filho circular. Como um signo
zodiacal sou um filho circular, requer o que faço
aquilo em que me movo
que é aquilo em que me movo
o que faço e como fazê-lo
se não tenho já em que me mova? O que faço
é o que me fez.


Sou comboio e arado e um rodado
sem discos. Sem paralelo em círculos
rotunda tristeza propago
de vertiginosa incubação de vórtices
que ajudo a solidificar: outra vez a sólida
solidão: é fácil a primeira imagem do comboio:


insta à compaixão. E são pesados os bois
circulares que o meu arado
entontece, em vão o rodado
sem discos. Quanto pesarão
bois entontecidos? Como ser pai
quando se é filho?



in, Os Fantasmas Inquilinos
Daniel Jonas

Katie Noonan - Crazy cover (Gnarls Barkley)

História Universal: História do Mal

Uma nação que já não estupra está em plena decadência; é pelo número de estupros que revela seus instintos, seu porvir. Investigue a partir de que guerra deixou de praticar, em grande escala, esse tipo de crime: encontrará o primeiro símbolo de seu declínio; a partir de que momento o amor tornou-se para ela um cerimonial e a cama, uma condição do espasmo, e identificará o começo de suas deficiências e o fim de sua herança bárbara.

História universal: história do Mal.
Suprimir os desastres do devir humano é o mesmo que conceber a natureza sem estações.
Se você não contribuiu para uma catástrofe, desaparecerá sem deixar vestígio. Interessamos aos outros pela desgraça que semeamos à nossa volta.
'Nunca fiz ninguém sofrer!' - exclamação para sempre estranha a uma criatura de carne e osso. Quando nos entusiasmamos por um personagem do presente ou do passado, fazemos inconscientemente a pergunta:
"Para quantos seres foi causa de infortúnio?"
Quem sabe se cada um de nós não aspira ao privilégio de matar todos os nossos semelhantes?
Mas este privilégio é concedido a um pequeno grupo de pessoas e nunca por inteiro: só esta restrição explica por que a Terra ainda está povoada. Assassinos indirectos, constituímos uma massa inerte, uma multidão de objectos frente aos verdadeiros sujeitos do Tempo, frente aos grandes criminosos que tiveram êxito.

Mas consolemo-nos: nossos descendentes próximos ou longínquos nos vingarão. 
Pois não é difícil imaginar o momento em que os homens se degolarão uns aos outros por nojo de si mesmos, em que o Tédio vencerá a resistência de seus preconceitos e de suas reticências, em que sairão à rua para saciar sua sede de sangue e em que o sonho destruidor prolongado através de tantas gerações chegará a ser património comum...


in, Breviário de Decomposição 
Emil Cioran

Fibonacci number folding...

                                                                                     

Encontros Emergentes

Quando nos cruzamos com um rosto do passado, qual é a primeira coisa em que pensamos?
No sentimento que lhe tínhamos?
Na companhia que agora temos?
De quão bem aparentados estamos?
Ou de quão bem parecido o outro está?
Pensamos em falar ou em desviar os olhos?

Não há saídas de emergência em encontros emergentes.
Não existem instruções nem regras de reacção.
Entre o olhar e desolhar, entre o embaraço e a excitação, onde fica a atitude correcta?

Creio que a história e o passado traçarão os impulsos.
Um amor mal resolvido fará evitar olhares.
Sangrará rancores dentro do peito.
Uma paixão não consumada fará os pés andarem em frente.
Procurando o que não tiveram.
Um amor que nos trouxe arrependimento far-nos-á fugir.
Fugir de nós, do passado e do reencontro.
E não é esse, precisamente, que queremos sempre reviver?
Não é esse que, nunca encontro inesperado, nos faz o peito arder?

Quando nos cruzamos com um rosto por quem nos apaixonámos no passado, será possível fugirmos de nos apaixonarmos outra vez?


Dias Cães

All Connected!!!!

Everything emerges 

from and returns to a fundamental field of information 

that connects us all.

Nassim Haramein

......................................anarco feminista

A razão que me faz ser eco e anarco feminista:

No Feminismo Tradicional o enfoque é o da "igualdade, paridade", ou seja, "nós, mulheres, queremos ser iguais" - aos homens -, quer nas funções de trabalho, quer no exercício existencial.

As novas vertentes (no caso da Women's Spirituality, a que sigo) acentuam a DIFERENÇA.
Não a diferença óbvia das relações de produção, mas a diferença corpórea, simbólica, e psíquica.

O feminismo tradicional (mais próximo dos movimentos sindicalistas) demonstra uma enorme dificuldade em lidar, por exemplo, com a menstruação, com os líquidos femininos, com a doença mental feminina (fruto da negação do próprio corpo e psique), com o desejo feminino.

Tudo isso é passado em branco, e a mulher (para o feminismo tradicional) passa a ser um simulacro de um "querer ser homem", um querer que a leva a se basear em leis estúpidas, ineficazes, que lhe dão a tosca sensação de direitos obtidos.

Starhawk, uma activista que ficou por semanas presa por sua participação na Revolta de Seatlte, sacou isso; Margot Adler, sacou isso; Barbara Walker tb sacou isso; Diane Stein tb sacou isso; Merlin Stone (autora de When God was a Woman), foi uma das primeiras a sacar.

Enfim, várias mulheres hoje estão a trilhar um caminho de volta aos seus mitos, história e reconhecimento do próprio corpo e psique.
Para mim, esse é o caminho.
Talvez um caminho mais longo, mas eficaz.
Um caminho de retorno à sacralidade feminina.


Márcia Frazão

Fazer amor

Fazer amor requer arte inconsciente
fazer amor transcende o feio e o bonito
fazer amor requer a alma despida
fazer amor transcende a sexualidade

Fazer amor é ignorar todos os conceitos formais da humanidade
e se entregar como quem se doa a si mesmo
fazer amor não tem vínculo algum
com o lado físico dos seres
fazer amor é divindade.
divindade que advém do mais nobre dom da vida: a própria vida.

Fazer amor é enlouquecer a anatomia.
não importa a forma.
o que importa é não importar com coisa nenhuma.

Fazer amor é fazer de inconcebíveis palavrões um lindo poema.
fazer amor é fazer do corpo um banquete de sonhos
e fazer da alma o berço do gozo...


José Eustáquio da Silva

....................o amor é a grande desilusão de tudo o mais

Amor é quando é concedido participar um pouco mais.
Poucos querem o amor, porque o amor é a grande desilusão de tudo o mais.
E poucos suportam perder todas as outras ilusões.
Há os que voluntariam para o amor, pensando que o amor enriquecerá a vida pessoal.
É o contrário: amor é finalmente a pobreza. Amor é não ter.
Inclusive amor é a desilusão do que se pensava que era amor.
E não é prémio, por isso não envaidece, amor não é prémio, é uma condição concedida exclusivamente para aqueles que, sem ele, corromperiam o ovo com a dor pessoal.
Isso não faz do amor uma exceção honrosa; ele é exatamente concedido aos maus agentes, àqueles que atrapalhariam tudo se não lhes fosse permitido adivinhar vagamente.


Clarice Lispector
in, A Legião Estrangeira