There is a difference between telling a lie and being A Liar.
Telling a lie means being untruthful - there may be various reasons for it; but being A Liar means that a person does not even try to be truthful. It means that they are habitually dishonest. It means that the truth of their statements and behaviours is subordinated to other strategic priorities - greed, lust, power-craving...
Modern public life is full of Liars and essentially nothing but Liars. It is not that the people sometimes lie it is that truthfulness is simply not a factor in what they say or do - their orientation does not include truth. It is not that they are aiming to be truthful but are weak and set this aside too readily - it is that they are indifferent to truth as a value.
When a wise child knows that somebody is A Liar, they realise that there is no way of sifting truth from them; what A Liar says must be ignored and decisions made on what they have done, not what they say.
Politicians are Liars. It is not that they tell lies - they Are Liars - that is their identity. There is no point in listening to what they say, no point in discussing it - a statement may be true, completely false, or any combination of the two. A statement may be technically accurate, yet creating the opposite impression - everything they say is misleading.
Public Officials are Liars: the mass media are Liars. The leadership of Education, Science, Law, the Military and Police, and major religions are Liars.
Institutions are Liars - all modern institutions that have power, wealth and official authority are now Liars - whether in government, NGOs, charities, colleges, corporations.
The whole modern Establishment are Liars: solidly, systematically, habitually - lying is enforced and rewarded and institutionalised - it is deep, it is solid, it is a positive value.
We should not listen to what Liars say - especially not to what they say they Will Do. We cannot make any sense out of it - it may mean anything or nothing but we have no way of knowing.
We need to make up our own minds about things on the basis of our own criteria - but for Heaven's sake we should not pay attention to debating or analysing their statements.
Liars have no right to expect to be believed about anything. It is outrageous that they do! When (as often) A Liar asks 'Are you calling me A Liar' there can be only two acceptable responses: Say Yes or Say Nothing.
But we should never reassure A Liar that he is believed about anything.
The fact is, if we are wise we will not believe Liars, and nothing they can do or say will make us believe them. The harder they try to make us believe them, the more we should resist believing them - or indeed disbelieving them. What they say means nothing.
Only experience can change our views - if A Liar repents and change his behaviours over a long time despite inexpedient outcomes - then and only then will they cease to be A Liar and earn the right to be believed.
Tuesday, 13 September 2016
Monday, 12 September 2016
The point of inflexion and awakening? Now that Hillary Clinton will never be POTUS, are the scales about to fall from tens of millions of US eyes?
My interest in this matter is spiritual, not political; this is not
about an election, it is about the potential for mass spiritual awakening
triggered by a recognition of the scale and scope of falsehood being
perpetrated in official public discourse; and the potential for many,
many people very suddenly (and unexpectedly) to make a decision either
to stay inside or to move outside The Matrix of dishonesty and delusion.
But this is a critical time in the history of The West. Either we will decide to continue in the present direction to extinction and self-damnation; or to step off the down-escalator and start climbing back upwards.
Whatever happens in the next few hours or days, and whether or not she gets elected in name; it is now clear that Hillary Clinton will never be President of the United States in any functional sense.
My probable inference is, and has been for a while:
1. HRC has moderately-advanced and swiftly-progressing Parkinson's disease - this is a degenerative neurological disorder with many potential effects including inability to initiate movements (Akinesia or freezing), tremor and rigidity/ stiffness; including a high prevalence of dementia of the Lewy Body type (including episodes of delirium with hallucinations and delusions - although the baseline Parkinsonian state is blunted emotions and a mask-like inexpressive face).
An Akinesia/ freezing episode looks like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzZl9j580tM
Note how the freeze episode is triggered by the need to step-off a kerb - a classic Parkinsonian symptom of Akinesia - and the subject does not 'stumble' or trip on the kerb, nor did she 'fall' (that is the mass media telling you what you are supposed to see) - but is standing frozen, unable to initiate the movements needed to step-off the kerb, and stiffly resisting moving forwards, having to be dragged bodily and off-balance.
2. She is being treated with L-dopa - but this drug many significant side effects, including dystonic movement disorders; 'manic' types of hyper-emotionality; alternating ('On-Off') with episodes of freezing - i.e. being unable to step forward (see the later parts of the movie 'Awakenings' for these problems.)
3. She is being kept-going (kept moving, essentially) for brief public appearances, probably with Apomorphine injections. The injection is an temporary emergency 'rescue' treatment - to be used when someone freezes (or used in advance to prevent a freeze). The injection of Apomorphine works in about ten minutes but lasts less than an hour - and there are other significant side effects including psychotic features (hallucinations and delusions).
(Note: One of HBC's aides apparently carries an injector pen of the type used for these injections.
4. Pneumonia? Whether or not HBC currently has 'pneumonia' is of little relative importance. It may be just today's lie; but if true, pneumonia is probably due to Parkinsonian (or treatment-triggered) problems swallowing, coughing, choking - and inhaling something which has caused an infection.
Personally, I suspect that pneumonia if real is trivial; since HRC was up and about and smiling for a photo-opportunity within a 1.5 hours of being frozen and helplessly carried away from the 9/11 ceremony. Pneumonia severe enough to cause collapse would take days to improve - but bouncing back in a few hours is consistent with On-Off syndrome of freezing alternating with active Parkinsonism treated with L-dopa; or a temporary boost (just long enough for photos) from an Apomorphine shot.
*
The election result is the least of the factors at work now.
What is now known (cannot, indeed, be avoided) is that the US public and the world have been lied-to on an epic scale and for a very long time by the US Establishment in collusion with the Mass Media who have attempted to get-elected someone with a serious, advanced and degenerative neurological disease who is grossly incapable of doing any kind of job.
(At the rate the disease is apparently progressing; within days, weeks or at most months HRC is quite likely to be in a high intensity care facility - and her life expectancy is likely to be less than the first term of office.)
How did this happen? In a world so completely dominated by the secular Left; this was a self-inflected blow. There has been some extraordinary combination of self-deception and probably coercion at work to get to this point: lies piled upon lies; threats piled upon threats...
Whatever - now the Democrats find themselves holding the wolf by the ears: they surely cannot hold on to the lies for two months, but they are terrified of what will happen if they let-go and start to tell the truth...
*
But that may not be the whole story. We are always living (know it or not) in a state of supernatural spiritual warfare - God and the angels versus Satan and his demons - and to some extent, it seems likely that this moment has been prepared by the powers of Good - so that there will be a time of choice...
A time when people will be brought to the point of acknowledging - albeit for a moment - the gulf between public discourse and reality; acknowledging that the Establishment is not just incompetent and selfish and short-termist; but has an actively-malign strategic agenda to attack, subvert, corrupt and invert The Good.
Lying on this scale, involving so many leaders, institutions and their minions, and about such a crucial matter is of world-historical significance. The question is whether this significance hits home and gets acknowledged; and having been acknowledged leads to restorative action and the blood, sweat, toil and tears which must ensue; or whether the whole thing is cynically and despairingly swept-away in the torrent of distractions from the propaganda, news and entertainment cycle.
*
To step outside 'The Matrix' of Media-reality into the clarity of Real-reality is itself merely a first step - beyond that lie further choices of an essentially religious nature.
The ultimate decision is to recognise (or falsely deny) the absolute necessity of religion; and eventually to choose between religions.
But a first step is needed.
**
Note: This moment is not primarily about those who already opposed Hillary Clinton, but those sincere and serious Democrats who had her candidacy dishonestly foisted-upon them. They will now be brought to recognise that they have been systematically lied-to by a united front of people and institutions whom they trusted and regarded as well-intentioned; treated with extreme disdain, manipulated to serve some covert agenda, exploited cynically for malign ends. These are the kind of people - some at a very high level of status, responsibility, wealth and power - who will now face a crux.
But this is a critical time in the history of The West. Either we will decide to continue in the present direction to extinction and self-damnation; or to step off the down-escalator and start climbing back upwards.
Whatever happens in the next few hours or days, and whether or not she gets elected in name; it is now clear that Hillary Clinton will never be President of the United States in any functional sense.
My probable inference is, and has been for a while:
1. HRC has moderately-advanced and swiftly-progressing Parkinson's disease - this is a degenerative neurological disorder with many potential effects including inability to initiate movements (Akinesia or freezing), tremor and rigidity/ stiffness; including a high prevalence of dementia of the Lewy Body type (including episodes of delirium with hallucinations and delusions - although the baseline Parkinsonian state is blunted emotions and a mask-like inexpressive face).
An Akinesia/ freezing episode looks like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzZl9j580tM
Note how the freeze episode is triggered by the need to step-off a kerb - a classic Parkinsonian symptom of Akinesia - and the subject does not 'stumble' or trip on the kerb, nor did she 'fall' (that is the mass media telling you what you are supposed to see) - but is standing frozen, unable to initiate the movements needed to step-off the kerb, and stiffly resisting moving forwards, having to be dragged bodily and off-balance.
2. She is being treated with L-dopa - but this drug many significant side effects, including dystonic movement disorders; 'manic' types of hyper-emotionality; alternating ('On-Off') with episodes of freezing - i.e. being unable to step forward (see the later parts of the movie 'Awakenings' for these problems.)
3. She is being kept-going (kept moving, essentially) for brief public appearances, probably with Apomorphine injections. The injection is an temporary emergency 'rescue' treatment - to be used when someone freezes (or used in advance to prevent a freeze). The injection of Apomorphine works in about ten minutes but lasts less than an hour - and there are other significant side effects including psychotic features (hallucinations and delusions).
(Note: One of HBC's aides apparently carries an injector pen of the type used for these injections.
4. Pneumonia? Whether or not HBC currently has 'pneumonia' is of little relative importance. It may be just today's lie; but if true, pneumonia is probably due to Parkinsonian (or treatment-triggered) problems swallowing, coughing, choking - and inhaling something which has caused an infection.
Personally, I suspect that pneumonia if real is trivial; since HRC was up and about and smiling for a photo-opportunity within a 1.5 hours of being frozen and helplessly carried away from the 9/11 ceremony. Pneumonia severe enough to cause collapse would take days to improve - but bouncing back in a few hours is consistent with On-Off syndrome of freezing alternating with active Parkinsonism treated with L-dopa; or a temporary boost (just long enough for photos) from an Apomorphine shot.
*
The election result is the least of the factors at work now.
What is now known (cannot, indeed, be avoided) is that the US public and the world have been lied-to on an epic scale and for a very long time by the US Establishment in collusion with the Mass Media who have attempted to get-elected someone with a serious, advanced and degenerative neurological disease who is grossly incapable of doing any kind of job.
(At the rate the disease is apparently progressing; within days, weeks or at most months HRC is quite likely to be in a high intensity care facility - and her life expectancy is likely to be less than the first term of office.)
How did this happen? In a world so completely dominated by the secular Left; this was a self-inflected blow. There has been some extraordinary combination of self-deception and probably coercion at work to get to this point: lies piled upon lies; threats piled upon threats...
Whatever - now the Democrats find themselves holding the wolf by the ears: they surely cannot hold on to the lies for two months, but they are terrified of what will happen if they let-go and start to tell the truth...
*
But that may not be the whole story. We are always living (know it or not) in a state of supernatural spiritual warfare - God and the angels versus Satan and his demons - and to some extent, it seems likely that this moment has been prepared by the powers of Good - so that there will be a time of choice...
A time when people will be brought to the point of acknowledging - albeit for a moment - the gulf between public discourse and reality; acknowledging that the Establishment is not just incompetent and selfish and short-termist; but has an actively-malign strategic agenda to attack, subvert, corrupt and invert The Good.
Lying on this scale, involving so many leaders, institutions and their minions, and about such a crucial matter is of world-historical significance. The question is whether this significance hits home and gets acknowledged; and having been acknowledged leads to restorative action and the blood, sweat, toil and tears which must ensue; or whether the whole thing is cynically and despairingly swept-away in the torrent of distractions from the propaganda, news and entertainment cycle.
*
To step outside 'The Matrix' of Media-reality into the clarity of Real-reality is itself merely a first step - beyond that lie further choices of an essentially religious nature.
The ultimate decision is to recognise (or falsely deny) the absolute necessity of religion; and eventually to choose between religions.
But a first step is needed.
**
Note: This moment is not primarily about those who already opposed Hillary Clinton, but those sincere and serious Democrats who had her candidacy dishonestly foisted-upon them. They will now be brought to recognise that they have been systematically lied-to by a united front of people and institutions whom they trusted and regarded as well-intentioned; treated with extreme disdain, manipulated to serve some covert agenda, exploited cynically for malign ends. These are the kind of people - some at a very high level of status, responsibility, wealth and power - who will now face a crux.
1978 revelation/ prophecy on the future of Britain
An extraordinary - inspiring - statement from about forty years ago, blogged and interpreted by William Wildblood at Albion Awakening:
http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/the-revelation-of-ramala-and-destiny-of.html
http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/the-revelation-of-ramala-and-destiny-of.html
Useful meditation - clarity and brooding
I suspect meditation is not a thing which is supposed to have a 'standard technique' (therefore exactly the kind of thing which is typical of alienated modern consciousness which we are aiming to heal).
Furthermore, the language used to discuss such matters seems to be extremely difficult to understand.
However, two things I have found useful are clarity and brooding - meditation as a state characterised by clarity and brooding.
Clarity is tricky to explain. I find that most of the time I exist in a cloudy kind of state, which is partly sleepy, often headachey, mostly automatic, mostly passive - dictated by either sensations or memories. But by thinking in terms of clarity, I can sometimes dissolve the clouds and come-to-awareness of myself and my actual situation, moment-by-moment.
It doesn't last very long (seconds or minutes) but everything seems more real - and it seems to be a positive state.
Brooding is a concept that I contrast with 'concentration'. With meditation we need to take control pursue purpose (as contrasted with passively drifting through life being acted-upon) - but any kind of 'concentration' seems to revert to normal modern reductionist, positivist, scientistic thinking - like doing an exam.
By brooding, I aim to stay on the same theme (perhaps by note-taking, or reading short passages), but in a slower and looser way than 'concentrating' on it; I am circling round-and-round the topic, examining the theme from many angles - somewhat like the moon orbiting earth; rather than concentrating attention like a concave mirror focusing sunlight on a tiny aspect of reality.
If I can get myself into a state characterised by a clarity of brooding, and hold it for a while, then I seem to get my best insights and understandings - although nothing is guaranteed, and more often than not there aren't any specially remarkable consequences.
But since clarity of brooding is a pleasant concious state to be-in; it is rewarding in and of itself.
Furthermore, the language used to discuss such matters seems to be extremely difficult to understand.
However, two things I have found useful are clarity and brooding - meditation as a state characterised by clarity and brooding.
Clarity is tricky to explain. I find that most of the time I exist in a cloudy kind of state, which is partly sleepy, often headachey, mostly automatic, mostly passive - dictated by either sensations or memories. But by thinking in terms of clarity, I can sometimes dissolve the clouds and come-to-awareness of myself and my actual situation, moment-by-moment.
It doesn't last very long (seconds or minutes) but everything seems more real - and it seems to be a positive state.
Brooding is a concept that I contrast with 'concentration'. With meditation we need to take control pursue purpose (as contrasted with passively drifting through life being acted-upon) - but any kind of 'concentration' seems to revert to normal modern reductionist, positivist, scientistic thinking - like doing an exam.
By brooding, I aim to stay on the same theme (perhaps by note-taking, or reading short passages), but in a slower and looser way than 'concentrating' on it; I am circling round-and-round the topic, examining the theme from many angles - somewhat like the moon orbiting earth; rather than concentrating attention like a concave mirror focusing sunlight on a tiny aspect of reality.
If I can get myself into a state characterised by a clarity of brooding, and hold it for a while, then I seem to get my best insights and understandings - although nothing is guaranteed, and more often than not there aren't any specially remarkable consequences.
But since clarity of brooding is a pleasant concious state to be-in; it is rewarding in and of itself.
Sunday, 11 September 2016
How to evaluate remote abstractions (like the European Union)
Or the United Nations, or your national government, or official agencies, or multimationals etc...
http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/life-draining-soul-destroying-things.html
http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/life-draining-soul-destroying-things.html
Sky-watching and 'UFOs'
Earlier this year I saw the most remarkable skies of my life:
http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/rainbow-clouds-today.html
But very few other local people noticed this gorgeous display - they were walking with heads down (on their mobile phones, mostly) - trudging or rushing to work.
Most evenings (weather permitting) I spend some time outside looking at the sky. Despite the appalling viewing conditions of light pollution from living in the middle of a big city, and the horizons obscured by buildings, I have seen some remarkable things - and sometimes these are inexplicable and I could find no other reports of them.
A couple of years ago I saw what may have been a 'fireball' (a type of meteorite) - a red, apparently burning, red ball going parallel to the horizon from right to left, making a roaring noise, and lasting several seconds - maybe ten? This was extremely obvious and amazing, but apparently nobody else noticed of found it worth commenting about.
A couple of days ago I took my wife outside to see the 'summer triangle' made by the stars Deneb, Altair and Vega - but we were distracted by 'searchlight' patterns crossing the sky - which we could make no sense of, since they had multiple origins. The effect was very strange, but again I could not identify it and heard nothing more.
My sense is that modern people do not look at the skies, perhaps even avoid looking at the skies, and are incurious about what they may see there. All kinds of remarkable things may be happening - including the 'normal' beauties such as the moon, Venus, the constellations - on display up there - of which modern people are utterly unaware.
And for someone who believes in an animated universe, it all means something - even if we aren't able to summarise or articulate that meaning...
Saturday, 10 September 2016
Alert for early signs of spiritual awakening
Some suggestions of what to look out for, maybe:
http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/some-suggested-early-signs-of-spiritual.html
http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/some-suggested-early-signs-of-spiritual.html
We absolutely need to withdraw from society and distraction - God is inside And outside us
Responding to a blog post at William Wildblood's Meeting the Masters I wrote:
"Remember that when Jesus wanted to commune with God more fully he withdrew from the crowds and towns and went into the deserts and mountains, and this remains true today, if not always literally, then certainly symbolically and psychologically."
The point is well made - if even Jesus needed to withdraw from the distractions of other people, noise, busyness... then how much more do we?
And yet how few people do this? (maybe a couple of weeks a year of holiday... but then the holiday often involves two or three days of miserable travelling, and may itself be filled with frantic activity and excessive intoxication!)
In almost everybody's life, there is ample possibility of withdrawal, every day; If it is made a priority. Which it should be, because withdrawal is a necessity, not a luxury.
A great strength of the Christian way is that it understands God as both outside of us and within us (because we are God's actual children, hence divine - albeit embryonically).
According to our current challenges and circumstances, we can therefore seek and find God both within and without; as a feeling and as a relationship.
And our assurance is that the necessary help will always be given if asked-for, listened-to and accepted (remembering that sometimes it is better for us not to get help but to do our own best to overcome our own difficulties - indeed this is the normal and usual thing); and that true help is ultimately directed at our eternal well-being, not necessarily or often what makes us happiest in this mortal life).
Read the whole thing...
http://meetingthemasters.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/what-is-one-thing-needful.html
"Remember that when Jesus wanted to commune with God more fully he withdrew from the crowds and towns and went into the deserts and mountains, and this remains true today, if not always literally, then certainly symbolically and psychologically."
The point is well made - if even Jesus needed to withdraw from the distractions of other people, noise, busyness... then how much more do we?
And yet how few people do this? (maybe a couple of weeks a year of holiday... but then the holiday often involves two or three days of miserable travelling, and may itself be filled with frantic activity and excessive intoxication!)
In almost everybody's life, there is ample possibility of withdrawal, every day; If it is made a priority. Which it should be, because withdrawal is a necessity, not a luxury.
A great strength of the Christian way is that it understands God as both outside of us and within us (because we are God's actual children, hence divine - albeit embryonically).
According to our current challenges and circumstances, we can therefore seek and find God both within and without; as a feeling and as a relationship.
And our assurance is that the necessary help will always be given if asked-for, listened-to and accepted (remembering that sometimes it is better for us not to get help but to do our own best to overcome our own difficulties - indeed this is the normal and usual thing); and that true help is ultimately directed at our eternal well-being, not necessarily or often what makes us happiest in this mortal life).
Read the whole thing...
http://meetingthemasters.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/what-is-one-thing-needful.html
Friday, 9 September 2016
Review of Boneland by Alan Garner (2012)
Overall rating Two Stars (from a maximum score of five stars) - Note: This review contains multiple 'spoilers', because I do not recommend reading the book.
Alan Garner wrote two of my favourite ever books - The Moon of Gomrath (1963 - which I will be re-reviewing soon) and The Owl Service (1967) - ostensibly written for children.
http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/review-of-alan-garners-weirdstone-of.html
But, I have considerable reservations - varying in strength - about the bulk of Garner's work. This reaches the maximum for the book under review - a novel called Boneland of 2012 (pp 149 - which retailed for £17, which runs at more than a pound for ten pages - steep!).
This seems to be Garner's final book - in the sense that he was in his seventies when he wrote it, and in the sense that the book tries to include references (some explicit and others coded) to all of his previous fiction, and to aspects of his autobiography (which can be found in the worth-reading, albeit very irritating, essay collection The voice that Thunders, 1997).
Boneland is supposed to be, in some sense, the final part of a projected trilogy which began with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath - albeit in my view Gomrath ends superbly, perfectly, with - indeed - one of the best endings of any novel ever!
In one sense, Boneland is indeed a third part of the series, because it (sort of) contains the child characters of Colin and Susan at a later stage in their lives. In another - more realistic - sense this is not the end of a trilogy - because this is hardly a novel at all and written for adults not children.
Indeed, at 149 pages and not much written on each page; Boneland is actually a novella not a novel; and despite its terse-to-the-point-of-incomprehensibility form, Boneland is actually not a tightly written novella, but rather a padded-out short story - since it is full of linguistic repetitions, sprawling doggerel and song lyrics, and a feeling of dramatic redundancy and slackness of plotting.
On the positive side, I did read the whole book (in about three or four hours, not hurrying - and I am a slow reader) - so it had enough to keep me going to the end. But having struggled throughout to understand what was going on...
(Since he wrote Red Shift in 1973, ostensibly for teens, Garner has been deliberately telegrammic; and the novels and stories consist mainly of short sentences of unattributed and unamplified dialogue - often with untranslated dialect words - so it is very hard to know who is speaking, what is happening, and what they mean. Garner - just about - gets away with it in Red Shift, given a reader's willingness to put in extra research and multiple re-readings it has raw power; but not since. In other words, post Owl Service, Garner is deliberately hard work - presumably on the basis that he believes it makes the writing deeper and more poetic if you cut out all 'inessential' words, and then a few more... This places later Garner as a very late example of the Imagist and experimental tradition of Ezra Pound and Basil Bunting.)
And having spent the whole novel setting up the final encounter...
When the end actually comes: it is lame.
In a nutshell, Boneland amounts to one of those 'clever' kid's stories which end "And then he woke up and it had all been a dream!"
As the final line of Boneland puts it: "It is a true story, said the other. It is a true Dream. Sleep now."
This means the book is not fantasy; and not only not-fantasy but actually anti-fantasy because it retrospectively re-frames and falsifies both the Weirdstone and Gomrath as happening only in Colin's 'dreams' And then claiming this makes them 'true' stories - presumably on the basis that these dreams effect his healing and individuation, or personal growth.
What Boneland actually is then - is a novel of psychotherapy, of Jungian analysis. The book accounts the inner story of a self-cure achieved via the ultimate self confronting autonomous archetypes of the collective unconscious - which present themselves as a full-blown psychosis of hallucinations and delusions (these psychotic phenomena including the previous two novels).
Thus: Colin finally, climactically (i.e. on page 147) meets his twin sister Susan and they embrace - she appears as a blank shadow; and he asks "Who are you?" to which she replies "You." And when 'Meg' (the psychiatrist who also, apparently, does not really exist - despite taking-up most of the middle half of the novella) afterwards asks where Susan was; Colin replies "Here".
In case we don't know our Jung; Meg explains that Susan "is the shadow that Shapes your light". Susan is merely Colin's shadow-self, his unacknowledged, suppressed, disapproved-of, private and shameful Self. And then Meg gives the typically psychotherapeutic advice to "Forgive yourself. Accept." to which Colin agrees: "Yes".
I call that a shallow, clichéd and nihilistic cop-out of an ending.
Therefore, my advice to those who value Weirdstone and Gomrath is not to read, but instead to avoid, Boneland.
Alan Garner wrote two of my favourite ever books - The Moon of Gomrath (1963 - which I will be re-reviewing soon) and The Owl Service (1967) - ostensibly written for children.
http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/review-of-alan-garners-weirdstone-of.html
But, I have considerable reservations - varying in strength - about the bulk of Garner's work. This reaches the maximum for the book under review - a novel called Boneland of 2012 (pp 149 - which retailed for £17, which runs at more than a pound for ten pages - steep!).
This seems to be Garner's final book - in the sense that he was in his seventies when he wrote it, and in the sense that the book tries to include references (some explicit and others coded) to all of his previous fiction, and to aspects of his autobiography (which can be found in the worth-reading, albeit very irritating, essay collection The voice that Thunders, 1997).
Boneland is supposed to be, in some sense, the final part of a projected trilogy which began with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath - albeit in my view Gomrath ends superbly, perfectly, with - indeed - one of the best endings of any novel ever!
In one sense, Boneland is indeed a third part of the series, because it (sort of) contains the child characters of Colin and Susan at a later stage in their lives. In another - more realistic - sense this is not the end of a trilogy - because this is hardly a novel at all and written for adults not children.
Indeed, at 149 pages and not much written on each page; Boneland is actually a novella not a novel; and despite its terse-to-the-point-of-incomprehensibility form, Boneland is actually not a tightly written novella, but rather a padded-out short story - since it is full of linguistic repetitions, sprawling doggerel and song lyrics, and a feeling of dramatic redundancy and slackness of plotting.
On the positive side, I did read the whole book (in about three or four hours, not hurrying - and I am a slow reader) - so it had enough to keep me going to the end. But having struggled throughout to understand what was going on...
(Since he wrote Red Shift in 1973, ostensibly for teens, Garner has been deliberately telegrammic; and the novels and stories consist mainly of short sentences of unattributed and unamplified dialogue - often with untranslated dialect words - so it is very hard to know who is speaking, what is happening, and what they mean. Garner - just about - gets away with it in Red Shift, given a reader's willingness to put in extra research and multiple re-readings it has raw power; but not since. In other words, post Owl Service, Garner is deliberately hard work - presumably on the basis that he believes it makes the writing deeper and more poetic if you cut out all 'inessential' words, and then a few more... This places later Garner as a very late example of the Imagist and experimental tradition of Ezra Pound and Basil Bunting.)
And having spent the whole novel setting up the final encounter...
When the end actually comes: it is lame.
In a nutshell, Boneland amounts to one of those 'clever' kid's stories which end "And then he woke up and it had all been a dream!"
As the final line of Boneland puts it: "It is a true story, said the other. It is a true Dream. Sleep now."
This means the book is not fantasy; and not only not-fantasy but actually anti-fantasy because it retrospectively re-frames and falsifies both the Weirdstone and Gomrath as happening only in Colin's 'dreams' And then claiming this makes them 'true' stories - presumably on the basis that these dreams effect his healing and individuation, or personal growth.
What Boneland actually is then - is a novel of psychotherapy, of Jungian analysis. The book accounts the inner story of a self-cure achieved via the ultimate self confronting autonomous archetypes of the collective unconscious - which present themselves as a full-blown psychosis of hallucinations and delusions (these psychotic phenomena including the previous two novels).
Thus: Colin finally, climactically (i.e. on page 147) meets his twin sister Susan and they embrace - she appears as a blank shadow; and he asks "Who are you?" to which she replies "You." And when 'Meg' (the psychiatrist who also, apparently, does not really exist - despite taking-up most of the middle half of the novella) afterwards asks where Susan was; Colin replies "Here".
In case we don't know our Jung; Meg explains that Susan "is the shadow that Shapes your light". Susan is merely Colin's shadow-self, his unacknowledged, suppressed, disapproved-of, private and shameful Self. And then Meg gives the typically psychotherapeutic advice to "Forgive yourself. Accept." to which Colin agrees: "Yes".
I call that a shallow, clichéd and nihilistic cop-out of an ending.
Therefore, my advice to those who value Weirdstone and Gomrath is not to read, but instead to avoid, Boneland.
Why doesn't Life make us better people - even when we are trying hard to get better? (Because we have often misunderstood the purpose of Life.)
This is a question that nearly all Christians are confronted-with over the years (unless they are capable of deceiving themselves abut their own cumulative goodness!): if they are living as Cristians, then why aren't they becoming better and better people?
The answer (which I mostly got from reading William Arkle) is that Life is not designed to make us better people, but instead life should be seen as a kind of ideal School or College that aims to provide us with experiences from which we can learn.
Life is at root about experience, and learning from experience.
The benefits of this learning are primarily intended for our lives after death in the immortal resurrected Life to come; the benefits of Life are not (in essence) required for this temporary mortal incarnated life.
I'm certainly not saying that this mortal life is un-important, but trying to say in what ways this life is mainly important: the idea is that it is important in terms of learning knowledge by experience - not in terms of improving us in this life.
Life very obviously seems to be set up in this way. Life provides experiences which are challenges, sometimes repeated experiences of the same kind of challenges; and our job it to learn from these experiences (given that learning is very difficult, which is why that repetition is so often needed in order that genuine learning can occur.
(All good colleges know this: to build a skill (which is a practical form of knowledge) requires drill, multiple repetitions, frequent practice.)
If life is like an ideal form of college, then we should expect the same kind of results; and not expect what a college cannot provide.
For example, studying theology at college does not make someone a better Christian; but it can and should make them more knowledgeable about what a Christian actually is, what a Christian ought to do, the history of Christianity and so forth.
Conversely - some (many?) of the best Christians, the most advanced in Christianity; are 'naturally' so - naturally good, virtuous people; yet their understanding of Christianity may be defective and partial. Indeed the best Christians - qua Christian - are sometimes children, simple-minded and ignorant people.
It seems that the Christian life is not very effective at making better Christians! But that seems to be part of the plan. The Christian life may be very effective at doing what it is meant to do; and even more so when we recognise that our specific personal needs differ - so that Life may be bringing us to confront (and overcome) challenges of the kind we need most - and these challenges may be repeated, because that is the way (often the only way) we will learn fully to overcome that type of challenge.
By such an understanding, combined with our knowledge that this world was created by our loving Father for his children's benefit; we can infer the purpose of our mortal world and can also make a reasonable guess at our own needs, hence our weaknesses.
We can - to some extent and given the assumptions as premises - infer function from results.
For example, in my life I have for some decades experienced almost continuous problems and challenges related to illnesses of various types. If it is assumed that my life is, at some deep level, not a random accident but instead 'the life I need' (because if not, then God did not do a good job - which possibility is ruled-out by my assumptions); then this may mean that I am supposed to be learning how to live in the context of such experiences of illness.
Such experiences may not make me a better person in this mortal life - indeed, they do not seem to be having that effect! - but nonetheless these experiences may provide me with practical, lived knowledge ('skills') which I do need for my post-mortal existence, and which mortal life uniquely provides.
In a more general way - the basic nature of mortal life may be doing something similar. Unless God-the-creator is supposed to be incompetent or un-loving- it must be that actual human Life provides what we need (overall).
So, we should be able to infer what we need from what a 'Christian Life' actually, typically, achieves - on the basis that what is achieved will (in a world well-designed by a loving God) tend to match-up with what is required; and what is required reflects what God most wants for us to learn during mortal incarnate Life.
Note: The above scheme is made possible by the effectuality of repentance - which was made possible through the work of Christ. What this means is that we can live a life of multiple, repeated failures to attain The Good, yet so long as these failures are repented (and the ideal proper behaviour acknowledged) we will still attain salvation.
The answer (which I mostly got from reading William Arkle) is that Life is not designed to make us better people, but instead life should be seen as a kind of ideal School or College that aims to provide us with experiences from which we can learn.
Life is at root about experience, and learning from experience.
The benefits of this learning are primarily intended for our lives after death in the immortal resurrected Life to come; the benefits of Life are not (in essence) required for this temporary mortal incarnated life.
I'm certainly not saying that this mortal life is un-important, but trying to say in what ways this life is mainly important: the idea is that it is important in terms of learning knowledge by experience - not in terms of improving us in this life.
Life very obviously seems to be set up in this way. Life provides experiences which are challenges, sometimes repeated experiences of the same kind of challenges; and our job it to learn from these experiences (given that learning is very difficult, which is why that repetition is so often needed in order that genuine learning can occur.
(All good colleges know this: to build a skill (which is a practical form of knowledge) requires drill, multiple repetitions, frequent practice.)
If life is like an ideal form of college, then we should expect the same kind of results; and not expect what a college cannot provide.
For example, studying theology at college does not make someone a better Christian; but it can and should make them more knowledgeable about what a Christian actually is, what a Christian ought to do, the history of Christianity and so forth.
Conversely - some (many?) of the best Christians, the most advanced in Christianity; are 'naturally' so - naturally good, virtuous people; yet their understanding of Christianity may be defective and partial. Indeed the best Christians - qua Christian - are sometimes children, simple-minded and ignorant people.
It seems that the Christian life is not very effective at making better Christians! But that seems to be part of the plan. The Christian life may be very effective at doing what it is meant to do; and even more so when we recognise that our specific personal needs differ - so that Life may be bringing us to confront (and overcome) challenges of the kind we need most - and these challenges may be repeated, because that is the way (often the only way) we will learn fully to overcome that type of challenge.
By such an understanding, combined with our knowledge that this world was created by our loving Father for his children's benefit; we can infer the purpose of our mortal world and can also make a reasonable guess at our own needs, hence our weaknesses.
We can - to some extent and given the assumptions as premises - infer function from results.
For example, in my life I have for some decades experienced almost continuous problems and challenges related to illnesses of various types. If it is assumed that my life is, at some deep level, not a random accident but instead 'the life I need' (because if not, then God did not do a good job - which possibility is ruled-out by my assumptions); then this may mean that I am supposed to be learning how to live in the context of such experiences of illness.
Such experiences may not make me a better person in this mortal life - indeed, they do not seem to be having that effect! - but nonetheless these experiences may provide me with practical, lived knowledge ('skills') which I do need for my post-mortal existence, and which mortal life uniquely provides.
In a more general way - the basic nature of mortal life may be doing something similar. Unless God-the-creator is supposed to be incompetent or un-loving- it must be that actual human Life provides what we need (overall).
So, we should be able to infer what we need from what a 'Christian Life' actually, typically, achieves - on the basis that what is achieved will (in a world well-designed by a loving God) tend to match-up with what is required; and what is required reflects what God most wants for us to learn during mortal incarnate Life.
Note: The above scheme is made possible by the effectuality of repentance - which was made possible through the work of Christ. What this means is that we can live a life of multiple, repeated failures to attain The Good, yet so long as these failures are repented (and the ideal proper behaviour acknowledged) we will still attain salvation.
The destiny of modern man (currently delayed and distorted)
"What is needed, ever more desperately, is to move forwards into Final Participation - but this must (according to both Steiner and Barfield) be 1: Within the context of a truly Christ-centred Christianity (no matter how 'heretical' or unorthodox - Christianity must be Christ centred as its primary reality); 2: Done with full consciousness, explicitly, deliberately, from the modern Consciousness Soul - but a Consciousness Soul grown, expanded, fully communicating, aware and engaged with all the rest of reality."
More at:
http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/romanticism-comes-of-age-destiny-of-man.html
More at:
http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/romanticism-comes-of-age-destiny-of-man.html
Thursday, 8 September 2016
Worse than The Matrix - Christian understanding of the real-life covert, reality-manipulating rulers
I watched all three of the Matrix movies a few weeks ago, and enjoyed them overall (although the fights went on much too long!).
I can see why they were taken as emblematic of modern society in terms of depicting the succesful, systemic manipulation of 'reality'.
But I found the basic idea of humans being used by ruling computers as 'batteries' unconvincing, and also not as bad as reality - not least because the computer rulers are not actively evil but merely machines working to a programme.
The real life Matrix - the false, manipulative reality of modernity by The Establishment - is ultimately run by actively evil demonic powers (evil being the subversion, corruption and inversion of Good).
Their aim for humans is much worse than physical exploitation for energy; their motivations are a mixture of short-term sadistic delight at suffering; and the long-term strategy of inverting the Good in all its aspects - creating a false reality actively embraced; such that humans will eventually choose to believe virtue is sin, sin virtue; beauty is ugly and vice versa; truth is an illusion, actively rejected; and the delusions of the Matrix are the real reality.
In sum, the real-life Matrix conspiracy aims at micro-control of all humans for the harming of humans - not for the benefit of of The Establishment: which situation is far more horrible than the movies.
And the stakes in the real world are much more significant than they are in The Matrix - because in the real world, death is not the end and the stakes are eternal.
Wednesday, 7 September 2016
Geoffrey of Monmouth on Britain's mythic origins
http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/the-origins-of-britain-from-geoffrey-of.html
2016 - The Establishment doubling-down on self-destruction, and beginning the time of final choice
It seems there is a powerful destiny shaping events towards a time of choice in the modernised West - a benign destiny from the point of view of those who recognise that a large majority of the Western population are already in a state of despair, nihilism and spiritual death, and further 'progress' in the same direction will lead to the situation becoming irrevocable at the mass level.
According to almost all easily available evidence, the Establishment (the demonic conspiracy who are behind the global elite strategy of spiritual corruption and inversion by means of their ideology secular Leftism - spearheaded by the sexual revolution) are getting close to a situation of closure; when they have complete control over all significant perceptual inputs from the mass media, official propaganda, the educational system laws and regulations etc.
This would enable them to achieve self-chosen mass damnation by the dual strategy of the modern metaphysics that only sensory information is real, combined with control of all sensory information.
But for the evil global conspiracy - things are not going according to plan...
Brexit was the first major sign that the Establishment are in a state of conflict and chaos, and have failed to brainwash the masses to anything like the extent they (and I) had supposed had already happened. This led to several days of unguarded hysterical venting and increasingly open disagreement within the elites, which situation continues.
It seems ever clearer that the elite leadership are operating on the basis of grossly false information, according to a kind of 'wishful thinking of evil' (familiar from the gloating monologues of comic and movie villains!) - whereby they have come to believe their own spin and lies - designed to mislead the masses: and are now fighting imaginary enemies and ignoring the real sources of danger to their victory.
(Indeed, in a sense, the elites are physically incapable of knowing the real threats to their hegemony, since these threats are operating in domains which they cannot perceive or influence, and the reality of which they deny.)
How else to explain the almost incredible doubling-down on the US Presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton, when she is very clearly and obviously in moderately-advanced state of some kind of degenerative neurological disease (probably Parkinsonism, being treated with L-dopa and psychostimulants?)
The global conspirators imagine that this can be concealed from the US electorate by ramping-up the mass media filtering and control and propaganda (and medication...) - but they are objectively wrong, it is too late already; yet they cannot perceive it!
Even given the appeal that HRC would be the first purposively-evil Presidential candidate - who would be actively destructive of Good; and that Donald Trump is a perfectly reasonable Plan B candidate for the Establishment (his strategy being to carry on the same path of terminal spiritual decline, but a bit more slowly) - the Establishment are oblivious to the deeper reality of the emerging situation - and the unpredictable but potentially massive consequences of enforcing such a profound and obvious fraud.
There is certainly no guarantee that this will end well, and how it ends may be determined outwith the mainstream political domain (i.e. not necessarily by recorded votes or via official power groups) - but there is a coming window of opportunity; and a guarantee that many people will be awakening to the reality of their basic situation and the scope and depth of deception in which they are currently complicit.
What happens then, is up to them.
Note: If you recall the big 'Mayan Calendar' fuss about the winter solstice of 2012 supposedly being the start of a new spiritual era - and then to all appearances nothing at all happened - then my interpretation is that something of the kind anticipated in 2012 was and is brewing-up; but that many people were misled by 'numerology' into giving it a specific and pre-determined date and outcome, which takes no account of human agency.
According to almost all easily available evidence, the Establishment (the demonic conspiracy who are behind the global elite strategy of spiritual corruption and inversion by means of their ideology secular Leftism - spearheaded by the sexual revolution) are getting close to a situation of closure; when they have complete control over all significant perceptual inputs from the mass media, official propaganda, the educational system laws and regulations etc.
This would enable them to achieve self-chosen mass damnation by the dual strategy of the modern metaphysics that only sensory information is real, combined with control of all sensory information.
But for the evil global conspiracy - things are not going according to plan...
Brexit was the first major sign that the Establishment are in a state of conflict and chaos, and have failed to brainwash the masses to anything like the extent they (and I) had supposed had already happened. This led to several days of unguarded hysterical venting and increasingly open disagreement within the elites, which situation continues.
It seems ever clearer that the elite leadership are operating on the basis of grossly false information, according to a kind of 'wishful thinking of evil' (familiar from the gloating monologues of comic and movie villains!) - whereby they have come to believe their own spin and lies - designed to mislead the masses: and are now fighting imaginary enemies and ignoring the real sources of danger to their victory.
(Indeed, in a sense, the elites are physically incapable of knowing the real threats to their hegemony, since these threats are operating in domains which they cannot perceive or influence, and the reality of which they deny.)
How else to explain the almost incredible doubling-down on the US Presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton, when she is very clearly and obviously in moderately-advanced state of some kind of degenerative neurological disease (probably Parkinsonism, being treated with L-dopa and psychostimulants?)
The global conspirators imagine that this can be concealed from the US electorate by ramping-up the mass media filtering and control and propaganda (and medication...) - but they are objectively wrong, it is too late already; yet they cannot perceive it!
Even given the appeal that HRC would be the first purposively-evil Presidential candidate - who would be actively destructive of Good; and that Donald Trump is a perfectly reasonable Plan B candidate for the Establishment (his strategy being to carry on the same path of terminal spiritual decline, but a bit more slowly) - the Establishment are oblivious to the deeper reality of the emerging situation - and the unpredictable but potentially massive consequences of enforcing such a profound and obvious fraud.
There is certainly no guarantee that this will end well, and how it ends may be determined outwith the mainstream political domain (i.e. not necessarily by recorded votes or via official power groups) - but there is a coming window of opportunity; and a guarantee that many people will be awakening to the reality of their basic situation and the scope and depth of deception in which they are currently complicit.
What happens then, is up to them.
Note: If you recall the big 'Mayan Calendar' fuss about the winter solstice of 2012 supposedly being the start of a new spiritual era - and then to all appearances nothing at all happened - then my interpretation is that something of the kind anticipated in 2012 was and is brewing-up; but that many people were misled by 'numerology' into giving it a specific and pre-determined date and outcome, which takes no account of human agency.
Tuesday, 6 September 2016
Monday, 5 September 2016
Studying Coleridge in Coleridge's Study
Above I am being pretending to be inspired by the spirit of Coleridge, by working in the room that was his study. Pretence aside, it is an inspiring room; and I spent several hours there, tackling Coleridge's main prose work Biographia Literaria (Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions).
(This was an old Everyman edition bought cheaply a few days earlier from Bookcase in Carlisle, one of the great secondhand bookshops; an actual exemplar of Terry Pratchett's concept of 'L-Space'.)
But I have rather reluctantly concluded - after several months of intense effort - that Coleridge is 'not for me' in terms of the detail and specificity of his philosophy.
https://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/ingwaz-metaphysics-of-ing-of-polarity.html
https://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/reality-is-constituted-by-polarity-and.html
From Owen Barfield's wonderful book What Coleridge Thought, I recognised that Coleridge provided a philosophical solution to the primary problem of modernity; but I soon found the memory of this answer slipping away from me; and now - after four months, and despite continuing to struggle with Coleridge - it has altogether gone.
The problem is my inner resistance to the abstract, geometric-mathematical nature of the schema. I can grasp this when I am immersed in the work, but only in the way I grasp mathematical concepts - I don't feel it in my heart, I could not base my life on it - nor could I persuade anybody else of it.
Similarly, Coleridge's metaphysics of Christianity (focused on the mystery of the Trinity) is too abstract and paradoxical for me to find it moving, compelling, inspiring or encouraging.
In sum, Coleridge's ideas are ultimately incompatible with my primary metaphysical understanding of the nature of reality - which is why they keep slipping-away from me.
My conclusion is that Coleridge's solution to the problem of modernity is valid and works for some people such as Owen Barfield - but I will need to find my own philosophical way of understanding and articulating the way forward beyond alienation, nihilism and despair.
This will need to fit with my fundamental metaphysical beliefs; which are pluralist (in William James's sense); and based on the Mormon concept of the destined mortal human condition as a voluntary, incremental exaltation of each man or woman towards ever-fuller deity; including William Arkle's clarity that this process is an ever greater participation in a creation unified and essentially characterised by loving familial relationships.
In other words, as so often, I return to the master metaphor and concrete reality of God being our loving Father; and the human condition as one of (if we choose) developing, growing-up through experience and striving, over a vast timescale - eventually hoping to rise to the same level of being as our heavenly father, and able to know him in an adult (that is fully divine) way.
Sunday, 4 September 2016
Albion is not only for the English, nor do English people necessarily know Albion - from William Wildblood writing at Albion Awakening
Albion and England are different even if, from a higher standpoint, they are related aspects of the same overall entity.
This means that just because you are English you don't necessarily know anything about Albion. It may totally escape you or you may think you know it but are confusing your understanding of England with Albion, the White Country.
And I would add that just because you are not English does not mean that you do not know Albion. You may attune yourself to it through heredity or just through an inner resonance or fellow feeling. Indeed, the key is feeling or sympathy or even love.
If you feel yourself attracted to Albion, if you are drawn to it through a sense of mystery and enchantment, if you respond to it at all, then you are a part of it wherever you come from because Albion is a country of the imagination.
This does not mean it is not real. On the contrary, it is very real as a true spiritual archetype.
http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/albion-and-england.html
This means that just because you are English you don't necessarily know anything about Albion. It may totally escape you or you may think you know it but are confusing your understanding of England with Albion, the White Country.
And I would add that just because you are not English does not mean that you do not know Albion. You may attune yourself to it through heredity or just through an inner resonance or fellow feeling. Indeed, the key is feeling or sympathy or even love.
If you feel yourself attracted to Albion, if you are drawn to it through a sense of mystery and enchantment, if you respond to it at all, then you are a part of it wherever you come from because Albion is a country of the imagination.
This does not mean it is not real. On the contrary, it is very real as a true spiritual archetype.
http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/albion-and-england.html
Swallows and Amazons 2016 movie review
We watched the new Swallows and Amazons film in Keswick, where it was actually filmed in part (on Derwentwater); and the kind of Lake District area where Arthur Ransome's book was set. The omens seemed good, and the movie was clearly traditional in look and feel. But nonetheless, the whole family found the movie to be an unsatisfying experience.
For all its attention to detail - in terms of set, costumes and props - the structure of the script was incompetent - and in a way that affects many mainstream movies.
The problem in such a film is to create a child's world from the child's perspective; in which the business of sailing on a lake, camping and cooking, and the 'wars' between rival groups of children, are all genuine, gripping adventures.
(This is not really all that difficult because it is the truth - it is how things really are for real children. And many adults are pleased to remember the fact - only adolescents find this to be 'kid's stuff'.)
And in much of the early half of the movie this was done well.
But all this is destroyed by introducing genuine, adult perils and perspectives - international espionage, violence, assassins and guns (with even one the kid's handling a gun, and threatening to kill a baddie).
These aspects subvert and ruin the child's perspective by making their adventures look trivial/ escapist by comparison (they aren't really trivial at all, nor are they escapist - but that is how they are made to look).
Furthermore, the espionage elements in this movie are unconvincing - full of gross implausibilities, plot holes and ridiculous coincidences.
So what we have here is a potentially classic short childrens' film, ruined by the addition of an alien, lame and stupid adult (or teen) 'action movie' - rendering the whole exercise ultimately a waste of time and money and resources. Stupid, stupid, stupid!
The 1974 film version of Swallows and Amazons, by contrast, does the job properly. It is 'corny' but charming and good-hearted; and maintains the proper child's-eye-view throughout.
Note: I have never read the book of Swallows and Amazons, nor any other of Ransome's books, beyond a brief inspection - although I shall probably do so at some point, as they seem very good of their type.
Saturday, 3 September 2016
How to live without fear
An increasingly necessary skill in a world set-up to inculcate universal, permanent, free-floating angst - done in order to enable more effective mass manipulation by the global Establishment.
Some suggestions at:
http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/how-not-to-fear-courage-comes-from.html
Some suggestions at:
http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/how-not-to-fear-courage-comes-from.html
Thursday, 1 September 2016
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