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The (Vaccine) Desperation of the Super-Rich

September 20, 2020 Ron Gordon 0
Here I was, sailing through my week, until someone sent me this video below about the ‘vaccine’. I can take most things in stride in a spiritual sense, keeping the first principle of miracles in mind (‘there is no order of difficulty in miracles’) and forgiving (overlooking), but this was different. This did break my personal order of difficulty. It’s things like this that deeply offend me, that are obviously gross violations of the most basic elements of human dignity, that are practiced not by the poor and suffering, but often by the richest people in the world. In this case Bill Gates of Microsoft, Ray Kurlweil of google, and Elon Musk of Tesla. This is hard to understand unless you watch this. But be warned, it’s scary stuff. Really scary, if it’s all accurate, and I have no reason to believe it’s not. NOTE 2020.12.09: THE VIDEO BELOW IS NOT THE ONE THIS ARTICLE REFERS TO, BUT IS SIMILAR. The original video has been censored by youtube and other sources. We no longer live in a society that permits free speech. You should see a ‘Brighteon Conversations’ video below, unless it too is removed. Why would billionaires like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Ray Kurzweil lower themselves to this level? It’s clearly obvious that money has not made them happy. In fact, the more money and control they have, the more they want. The reality is that we all share one mind, we are not inherently different from these […]
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The Difference Between Simple and Easy

August 21, 2020 Ron Gordon 0
August 17, 2020 by ACIM teacher Doug Sparks The terms ‘simple’ and ‘easy’ are so often found together to describe the same thing that it is not surprising that the two terms are often unconsciously conflated. This is of little or no consequence most of the time since what is simple is often also easy. Not so, however, when the term ‘simple’ is applied to ACIM, as Jesus does throughout his course. Ironically, it is the Course’s simplicity that is hard for us to grasp. In describing his course, Jesus says … For here we have an answer, clear and plain beyond deceit in its simplicity. All the complexities the world has spun of fragile cobwebs disappear before the power and the majesty of this extremely simple statement of the truth (W-pI.122.6:6-7). Understandably, when one begins reading and perhaps, studying ACIM, it can take some time to adjust one’s thinking to align with its thought system. While the writing style is unfamiliar to most readers in the beginning, it is what the Course says that is so challenging. The most basic metaphysical premise of ACIM … that there is no world (W-pI.132.6:2) … confronts our belief in the reality of our perceptions. Thus begins the process of realizing that our self/ego generated experience is not the truth. We must develop the humility to question the assumption that our perceptions are correct, and the honesty to recognize that we are wrong about all of our perceptions when they are generated from the ego. This course is simple, […]
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Translating Anger into Needs

July 6, 2020 Ron Gordon 0
Here’s a central technique in Marshall Rosenberg’s ‘Non Violent Communication’. Underneath our anger, judgements, strategies, opinions, evaluations, and blame of others is our needs. All people have the same basic needs, for security, safety, happiness, protection, fulfillment, autonomy, peace, meaning, connection, etc. If we can recognize and connect with these universal needs that are consistent in all of us, we have a better chance of connecting and getting what each person wants. If we can see beyond the anger, blame, and judgements to the needs, new and often unexpected strategies of dealing with the situation may appear. Even if they don’t, being more conscious of the needs of ourselves and others can bring out more compassion in both. When we are being attacked by others the natural inclination is to be defensive and attack in return. This quickly escalates. Consider an alternative approach. Instead of seeing the attack coming from the other, look beyond it to the feelings and needs behind it. Don’t allow yourself to become hooked into the storyline…look beyond it to what is empowering it. When we or others use judgmental language we are more likely to disconnect, and to fail to identify and be able to resolve our underlying needs which we may not be conscious of (“I’m just damn angry! I don’t know why…”). Needs might be obvious… but often they are not. If you don’t know what the underlying issue is, you can help the other person to identify it in themselves and better […]
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3 Systems of Thought

July 4, 2020 Ron Gordon 0
The PDF embedded in this page presents my interpretation of the three modes of thought available to us. The first is the standard mode of thought in this world. Our separation from God created such unimaginable guilt that this world literally had to be projected outside of us. The one mind of God that we all share then became split into billions of ‘minds’ and bodies, all of which appear to be separate from us. When we observe any person, object, idea, or thing outside of us our brain immediately ‘recognizes’ it, names it, recovers past memories or stored thoughts about it, which colors our interpretation of it. The idea at this point becomes more important than the thing we observing, which we no longer see rightly. A favorite plan of the ego is to hold grievances, which we tell ourselves will be healed when the other person ‘changes’, which they never will. The vast majority of the world is trapped in this circular thinking system. Under A Course in Miracles thought system, recognition, naming, and ideation (recovery of good or bad memories) still occurs, however at this point we are watching these patterns unfold in our minds and make a conscious decision to turn this entire encounter over to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit sees all things as either Love, or a call for Love. Thus the Holy Spirit interprets the other persons ‘sins’ as illusory dreams that represent a call for Love, and that require not punishment […]
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Why BLM Won’t Work

June 25, 2020 Ron Gordon 0
It won’t work because the problem is in each one of us, not where we conveniently see the problems…. in everyone else. Few of us want to accept responsibility for that. After all, that’s what keeps the world going round and round. Until we decide to get off the boat.
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Cherish Your Morning Anguish

December 27, 2019 Ron Gordon 0
Usually a good sleeper, at 64 and after several years of a declining business which is now in a financial death spiral, I’ve developed a depressing habit of waking up at either 1:30 AM or 3:30 AM and beginning the long solitary trek through ‘morning anguish’. Morning anguish is my term for the early hour’s crashing waves of negativity that befalls those whose internal guidance system chooses the self-defeating rituals of worry to sleep, anguish to rest, and suffering to slumber. Why this occurs at random intervals is a partial mystery. The other part of the mystery is not really such a mystery. Maslow, bless his tedious scientific soul, wisely asserted that our needs are organized as a hierarchy, with the physiological needs (food, water, shelter, warmth) at the bottom. As a baby boomer product of the 1950’s, physiological needs were always relatively easy to meet. Jobs were plentiful and confidence blew like the wind. Life was challenging but there was always the unspoken assumption that the physiological material goods (like food) would flow to us by divine right and sanctity of our country of origin. If anything really went seriously bad your Dad would fix it, and if not he could still beat up anyone else’s Dad. Realistically, most of us probably won’t get to Maslow’s ‘self-actualization’ level, esteem happens intermittently on a rare good day, love and belonging is never all that sure, and we’ve all broken the safety rules with impunity in the name of fun. But […]