I just read that sixty girls died in a US or Israeli airstrike on a girls’ elementary school in southern Iran today, not counting those still buried under the rubble.
This is profound - Even if the US can prevent violent retaliation through an impregnable missile defense system; even if it can quell terroristic blowback forever through an ironclad AI-powered regime of global surveillance, even if it can keep gas cheap by taking over the oil fields, the consequences will penetrate the fortress walls. Civil violence and domestic violence will mirror foreign violence. Suicide will mirror murder. Depression will mirror oppression. The deadening of inner life will mirror the extinguishing of life outside. Those who live safe behind walls are still living behind walls, slowly suffocating. Those who go numb in order to commit the evil deeds of war must live numb. They cannot escape the suffering they inflict on their victims. - thank you, Charles. It means a lot to feel there are these wise words circulating and shining light at the same time as the bombs are falling. May love prevail.
My daughter takes lessons in Tai Kwon Do from an Iranian expat who is going from his home in the U.S. back to Iran to fight against the government. Many if not most Iranian people appear to hate their government especially after the recent massacre. My daughter said it could be good thing for us to wipe out such a bad government. I told her that many are making this argument, but that in war both sides always lose. One side may lose more than the other, but both sides inevitably are losers. This is one among many arguments for not starting wars. The only people who win wars are the bankers, if Smedley Butler was correct, and he should know. And they amorally reap their profits from both sides, in most cases. WWII is widely viewed as a "moral" war insofar as we stopped an evil megalomaniac, Hitler and other fascist dictators such as Mussolini and Hirohito from their imperial ambitions. Was it wrong to fight that war too? Who decides when a war is worth fighting and when it is not? How can we make that determination? The libertarians would say Never except in cases of self-defense. But what is self-defense? How broadly are we allowed to define it? The moral universe we live in is not black and white. Its many shades of gray are not easily reduced to absolutes through our horror of war. In this war, I have thus far decided to remain confused, because I do not know what to believe, and I KNOW I do not have all the information. Even if I did, I'm not sure I'd be less confused. As people around me publish their views for or against Trump's actions, I hear all their points and see the good sense behind them. But both sides can't be right. As they say, the first casualty of war is the truth. The truth is now hiding behind a billow of Iranian death and destruction.
Both sides CAN be true. Depends on perspective, as in the tale about blind men and the elephant. Who among us has the whole view? Up and down the passages of time, the unfolding of events not considered, even the dimensions of reality, defining what, and in what ways, it is "good," "evil" for/against Life, and "What is Truth?" According to which religion, which philosophy, and what goal? Legal? Moral? By what measure? Just for starters...You get the idea. Of course we are confused!
Morality has nothing to do with parts of an elephant. Morality is not relative: some things JUST ARE wrong. The murder of young girls is wrong, period. Murder is wrong, period. There aren't two sides to it. Morality is not a belief: it's not dependent on the particular ideology/religion we follow. It's something we know intuitively, without being taught, because the perception of intrinsic VALUE is a basic human capacity ie something we are born with. We may deny it, we may be conditioned to suppress it, but we still know it.
yes, both sides can be, and ARE right - but only partially. As Ken Wilber said: "nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time."
This is why I love Charles's essays- looking carefully at the arguments of both sides and pointing to a third option, the way out of "us versus them", the way of love and peace, that we have been dreaming of since the Sixties, and that is now truly possible as the way forward for humanity.
When I said both sides can't be right, I wasn't sufficiently clear. I meant that the war on Iran can't be right and wrong, although some would have us believe that either is the case. As Michael said, above, there are times when things clearly are wrong. In my opinion, much of the grief the world has come to is because people "know" something is wrong without having the facts. Once understanding improves, right and wrong often seem different. For example, "murder of young girls is wrong, period." Obviously true, but what if this "young" girls is actually 21? Is that young? What if this 21 years young girl is firing an AK47 into a crowd of protestors she deems to be a threat? What if, in a psychotic or drug-induced frenzy, she is holding a pistol at a baby's head? You will say, "that could never happen". In fact, morally complex situations occur every day. Some things really are wrong, as Michael said, but it pays to wait and get all the facts before deciding.
I have been learning the basics of Quantum physics-heres what the new way will look like once people fully comprehend this
in my very basic understanding
Quantum physics tells us we live in a field of energy - this field is not fixed its flowing like a river - everything is in superposition - the field is full of potential full of probabilities that form only when triggered - what triggers them is when energy builds enough to resonate enough this causes either a coherent energy potential probability or an incoherent one
we are energy beings our emotions which are thoughts and feeling in motion - have a frequency
as an example - a coherent energy is like standing at the edge of a river and throwing in a pebble the ripples that come from the pebble on the face of the water are nice smooth coherent
if you have a bunch of people throwing pebbles in all at once the water becomes rough the ripples all clash - this is incoherence
with the US of Israel bombing Iran - millions if not billions of people around the world are emitting angry emotions - this is akin to lots of pebbles being thrown into the river - its incoherent energy and because of the amplitude = the strength of those emotions they resonate within the field and gravitate to a particular potential probability - more INCOHERENCE....war itself is incoherent energy
however around the world there are also people gathering to send heart felt coherent emotions into the field - these are mostly small groups around the world - and their energy resonates with the field with the potential and probability of peace - their amplitude however may not be as strong as the incoherence energy of anger - but the intensity of their emotions can be enough to shift to a less incoherent resonance and prevent further escalation
this is silent unstoppable 'protest' and one that has more power than people realise
I think we saw signs of it with the Ukraine event where it didn't escalate into nuclear war and it just might be the case here
mediating in coherency vs protesting incoherently may be the new way forward
its my way of learning Quantum physics and how it applies to. human interaction with the field
I think its powerful knowing this because it can be done at home as an individual and that energy will find its resonance with everyone else who is doing it no matter what the difference
the same can be said for anything - our choice is learning how we use our energy - understanding the QP field etc and coming into heart coherence in every day life but more so in these situations -because the truth is that reality - what we call reality is a feed back loop - the manifestation of the likely probable reality potential our energy in the field manifests as in physical form
science in a sense QP is aligning with metaphysics in this sense, and in my very simple understanding, it paints a picture that feels deeply relevant right now.
why I feel a quiet hope: Around the world, small groups (and individuals) are gathering to send heartfelt, coherent emotions love, compassion, peace, care into the same field. Their ripples are gentler, maybe smaller in number, but when they're focused and from the heart, the intensity can be profound. Coherent energy aligns, reinforces, and can shift the resonance toward less chaos, toward de-escalation.
This is a silent, unstoppable kind of protest one you can do from home, alone or with a few others. No signs, no marches, just tuning your own energy to coherence and letting it resonate with everyone else doing the same. No matter differences in belief or location, that energy finds its match in the field
I think we've seen hints of this power before like how the Ukraine situation didn't spiral into nuclear nightmare despite the fear. It might just be happening again here.
Meditating into coherency heart-focused peace, appreciation, unity instead of protesting incoherently rage-fueled division could be the new way forward. It's my way of making sense of quantum physics as it applies to human interaction with the field and honestly, it feels powerful knowing we each have this choice every day.
Our emotions aren't just personal; they're participatory. Reality is a feedback loop: the probable potentials our collective energy resonates with manifest into form. Science quantum field insights and metaphysics are meeting here aligning in ways that remind us we're not powerless.
like you say - Breathe into your heart, feel genuine care or peace for a minute or two, and send it out. It adds up.
Thank you Jay for putting into words what I too know to be true. Our love is extremely potent especially when we continuously focus into LOVE and do not get pulled off of that by what we are witnessing which, in itself, is the result of non-love thoughts/feelings expressed through humanity since forever. Pray we all attune to LOVE as I know it is the only way forward to peace and the beautiful world we are capable of causing to be manifested.
yes - we don't all have to - thats the beauty of critical mass as such - be nice if everyone did though - but I think there is enough of us to counter the worst of this - but lets see - a new system can arise from all this one that is more a in coherent partnership than an incoherent dominant control system focusing on fear and war to force compliance - many have had enough of it and it never brings peace
The wars will end when enough of us have had enough of war.
As the veils of secrecy fall away, as we see the naked truth of how horribly we treat each other, it feels there might be a simple collective shift and consensus that says - enough. Who knows how it will come to be? Of course we look to the past and think of protests and revolutions and past catalysts for change, and yet somehow, this feels different.
Rather than pushing against what we don’t want, it feels like the softening of our hearts, allowing ourselves to feel the grief that we cause each other, maybe it will be a collective shift all at once. I feel it, the natural evolution of an evolving species, growing in awareness and compassion, the inevitable choice to end the abuse of self and other. ❤️🌎😍🤙🏽
According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word "apocalypse" comes originally from ancient Greek, and means, "to uncover, disclose, reveal". An example of the modern apocalypse, or revealing, is captured in the phrase, "American power was draped in idealism ... Now the drapes have fallen completely to reveal the naked truth of power." Although I have deep concern regarding the transition, I remain optimistic that the current apocalypse is a necessary stage to get humanity to a better place. My heart goes out to all affected, present and future. Thanks Charles.
Thanks so much Charles. I heard this first from a Youtube short. And that same Youtuber featured a short about FIFA and the Board of Peace gearing up to build 5 football stadiums in Gaza!!!!!!!!! Surely that's a joke?
Anyway, I wanted to share this too (because maybe poetry will spread world peace, and I am inspired by Dominique's share here)...this is not my work, the writer's name is John Roedel:
The school bombing that Iran has now admitted was accidentally done by them. Jumping on these false leads - Déjà vu - more MSM nonsense and propaganda.
Good stuff, Charles! As a K24 team member, much of what you write here rings true. The path to peace is looking difficult with the Trump Administration behaving this way. I hope we see a movement rooted in human flourishing based on sound policy, a wide moral compass, and plenty of systems thinking to appreciate a very interconnected world.
It is tragic that the girls school was hit by a missile but I find it unexplainable that you don't seem to care about the 15-40 000 innocent Iranian citizens that were murdered for fighting for their freedom in the streets . The thousands of women are raped and tortured . You seem have no care for them? Does the fact that thousands upon thousands of Iranians are celebrating the death of the Ayatollah after 47 years of oppression not tell you anything???
Charles writes reams and reams about non-separation, peace and love. Only to be accused of not caring about innocent people being killed. Have you read any of his work Monika? Your comment seems a little ungenerous, to say the least.
And yet in his message, the only compassion he offers is for the verity girls that were killed by an accidental missile.. And then insinuating that it was not accidental?? What does that say about his Preconceived opinions on Israel?. Nothing about the tens of thousands of Iranians that were murdered and millions that were begging for help from the United States while their people were being slaughtered by the regime. Nothing about the tens of thousands of Israeli civilians murdered over the years by Iran and it's proxies Hezbollah and Hamas. I subscribed to Charle’s blog and used to follow him religiously until his blatant anti-Israel and antisemitic views became more and more apparent.
If you think his ideas are wrong, you have every right to challenge those ideas. But to claim he doesn’t care is ungenerous and contrary to all evidence.
He talks about non-separation, peace and love on one hand, yet he has clearly demarcated the US and especially Israel as Bad Guys. He has not embodied the non-duality of which he preaches.
Yes he presents himself as coming from a perspective of non-duality and not choosing a side, yet he has clearly chosen a side, the one where the US and Israel are the bad guys.
While the US ain't perfect I support denying Iran ICBM's and Nuclear Weapons. Better we take care of that now than after they turn NY into dust.
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Because we have allowed our national leaders to push this Mass Muslim Immigration, into First World nations, we have now reached a critical point. Cities like London and Paris have become Muslim ghettos where the indigenous populations are feeling unsafe to enter. Muslim enclaves, like Epic City in Texas, are fast becoming parallel segregated Muslim societies unto themselves. Thankfully the world is waking up to the existential threat of Political Islam.
The Urgent Need for Global De-Islamification Part 7
Muslims want a Global Muslim Caliphate Antithetical to our Constitutional Republic
I first heard "bombing for peace..." several years ago. You sharing it here reminds me of that moment. It changed me then and reminds me now of that change. <3
This is pure speculation, I don't know if it's true - do you suppose if we welcomed Muslims into our communities and our culture, they wouldn't feel the need to huddle up in ethnic enclaves where there's no incentive to adopt our ways? If they moved freely and safely among us, maybe they would be better assimilated and become more enculturated with our values?
There was a time when the Irish in America were considered unwelcome immigrants. Stores posted signs - "No Irish." Cartoons in the newspapers showed them with animal faces. Now everyone loves the Irish and wears green on St. Patty's day. People can be Irish by descent and also fully American.
Assimilation is far better than civil warfare, but it has to start with us welcoming.
You should read me essays. I love my Muslim neighbors living in Dearborn for 72 years. But there is no doubt that a radicalization has happened since 2023. The is also no doubt that Qatar and other Muslim countries are spending billions a year to overthrow the US in favor of a Islamic Caliphate.
In the Irish language, Patrick is Padraic (prounced paw-ric) - so a lot of people called Patrick, get called Paddy and we refer to St Patricks Day as Paddys Day :)
(When I said pure speculation, I meant my comment, not yours. I too am against any ethnic group enforcing its own laws - like "honor killings" of women and other such unamerican values.)
Sorry, you are completely wrong. No one fears Muslims in London. It is those who do not live or work a long side muslims that fear them. I.e people not from london. But they love to go to dubai. Where there really is an islam dictatorship. There political leaders like Tice of Reform live there for months of the year. There favourite papers have offices there. You go to any place of work in London. You will see people of every colour and faith working and lunching alongside each other.
You will see an older english man sitting with a younger turkish woman in her hijab chatting about life.
People of other nationalities/religions, races either leave their countries because they are forced out due to colonial wars, poverty, the hope for a better life. Not because they really want too. Going and killing them in their own countries and encouraging resentment in their new country is not going to help. What is the U.S. Population except a huge mix of many nationalities and who was there before the white american?
I agree with Bruce in one respect - if you come to a western country for "a better life," then you accept the life of that country. Don't expect to live as you did where you fled from. Wear a headscarf, sure. Practice your religion. But respect the government and don't break laws. If an American went to an Islamic country and walked around in public in shorts and a halter top, that would be terribly disrespectful. One is expected to follow their laws and customs, and that's reasonable. It goes both ways.
Let us just focus on Islamic Immigration which has been pushed by the UN for decades. Have you noticed that no Muslim country allowed any migrants from Syria, Gaza etc. No, only the EU, Canada, Australia, the United States ended up with all these Muslim Refugees. As I discussed in my last essay this is the strategy of Hijra: migrating into First World Nations with the intent on replacing their governments with Sharia Law.
If you've read my series of essays (see links above) the issue is between a Constitutional Republic and those Muslims that seek an Islamic Caliphate under Sharia Law. These two constructs are antithetical to one another as Sharia Law does not treat Muslim women and Non-Muslims as equal to a Muslim man. That cannot be allowed and yet we are already seeing what I call "Soft Sharia" laws in cities like Dearborn: Call to prayer 5 times a day, prayer rooms and religiously bless foods in the public schools: both of which violate the Separation between Church and State laid out in the First Amendment. Because I have live in Dearborn, for 72 years, I have watched this unfold. "Soft Sharia" Laws are being pushed by members of the Muslim Brotherhood: CAIR, MSA and other like minded Jihadist groups. These groups are being financed by Qatar, Turkey, Iran and even Saudi Arabia.
Part of the problem is reciprocity. We allow Mosques to be built in the US, funded by foreign governments. Why should we even allow Mosques in the US when there are many Muslim Theocracies that won't allow the building of a Christian Church. Compounding the problem is our Federal Representatives are being "paid to play" for the interests of pushing Sharia Law. Qatar spends over a billion per year to influence Ivy League Universities resulting in Antisemitism on their campuses.
Now I happen to like my Muslim neighbors. But for us to coexist we must now deny our Muslim Populations of any further special privileges. And that is why Global De-Islamification is so urgently required.
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Because we have allowed our national leaders to push this Mass Muslim Immigration, into First World nations, we have now reached a critical point. Cities like London and Paris have become Muslim ghettos where the indigenous populations are feeling unsafe to enter. Muslim enclaves, like Epic City in Texas, are fast becoming parallel segregated Muslim societies unto themselves. Thankfully the world is waking up to the existential threat of Political Islam.
The Urgent Need for Global De-Islamification Part 7
Muslims want a Global Muslim Caliphate Antithetical to our Constitutional Republic
How would you feel if muslims said there needs to be the irradication of Christianity??? They neither call for that or end of judaism. Because they are people of the book and abrahamic religions.
De-Islamification is happening throughout the EU nations and is only eradicating Political Islam that wants to dominate. I've seen plenty of videos of violent Muslims in Paris, London and other cities. Save your bullshit for someone more gullible.
Why do you come on peaceful groups with such anger.Why do you specfically search them out. I dont mind if you think a londoner of 53 years is speaking bullshit and your observation is from videos selected for your viewpoint. I m happy to be guillble to want peace and understanding with my fellow travellers.🙏🏽
It reminds me of Trump telling the story of the snake. A women brings in this injured snake and brings it back to health. Then one day the snake gives her a fatal bite. "Why did you do that asks the women." And the snake replies "Because that is what snakes do." Political Islam is the snake and must be eradicated. This does not mean Muslim cannot continue their religious practices. But it does mean all their "special privileges" -- prayer rooms in school, Halal food in school, the wearing of the Hijab in school -- must be rescinded. Why? Because we must nudge them toward assimilation. We are a melting pot and not a bowl full of nuts.
The irony of a european descent man in america making that statement. The native americans obviously let the snakes in too. Did the europeans assimilate to a 15,000 year way of life after the native showed them initally to at least survive the winter
The irony of a european descent man in america making that statement. The native americans obviously let the snakes in too. Did the europeans assimilate to a 15,000 year way of life after the native showed them initally to at least survive the winter
You do realize that Ayatollah Khamenei issues a fatwa against Iran ever developing nuclear weapons, stating that nuclear weapons are categorically against the teachings of Islam? Congrats, the US just martyred literally the one guy in the way of Iran developing nuclear weapons. Murrica!!
I don't know what planet you're on but Iran has been seeking nuclear weapons for decades. And these Muslim leaders lie all the time. They even have a word for it Taquia.
I vehemently disagree with you on this one, let's just say the US undertakes nothing and leave the Iranian people to their own fate, how does that reflect on them after that? The idea that Islamism and Islamic theocratic regimes will ever become sensible one day is just very wrong, those people hate you whatever you might do, heck I am a Copt I live among them and I am hated just because I am different, so frankly no, I pretty much support Trump's war on the theocratic regime in Iran, which is known for using schools as storage for weapons for its revolutionary guard and Pasij forces, you should take some time studying Islam, and not through the bullshit decolonization lenses of Edward Said's, just talk to people who fled countries like Egypt, Syria etc. specially from the minorities, they were already living as second class citizens in places where they are indigenous to, and yet that wasn't enough. So how do you fix that, using cultural relativism doesn't help here at all, it just hurts the victims even more.
And how do you do that as an Iranian whose army has decided to declare war on him? So you just want to accept death and martyrdom without a fight, good for you, I don't want to die on the hands of the Islamic mobs and their Islamic cultural hegemony forced down my throat every day of the week
I'm sorry you have to experience such hardships, and wish you the best of strength to overcome them.
Living in "I support peace" does not mean you do not defend yourself or act when attacked; and it does not mean you stay silent and accept evildoing.
It does mean you do not support self-proclaimed "world-defenders" when they wage countless wars on other countries, mostly for their actual own self-interest.
It does mean you do not support the eternal perpetuation of vengeance.
And it does mean and need the courage to truly forgive; the vision to understand the source of war, while taking action to make sure its conditions are healed.
Epstein, Trump, US wars, extractive capitalism destroying our ecological niche on the planet, AI evolution and so on … we’re witnessing the collapse of Western (Skygod) civilization, of the (Harari) myth that this kind of organisation was/is the only evolutionary path for humanity. We have to explore from scratch what is means to be human, what shapes reality, how to organise our co-living with other beings, how to relate to „ourselves“, which is a wider, complex inter-being system in which the „l“ or what we feel to be „me“ (the conscious part) is virtually or mostly „living“ in the unknown, in uncharted territory.
Gio, Yes, well and clearly stated. Our "wider, complex inter-being system" begs - demands our examination of greater dimensions than ever before. Gratefully, that is happening in some places.
Appreciate your perspective. The attack is part of a peace strategy. Vance and Trump don’t want war. Iran is the last threat. What about the 30,000 people that Iran killed in the last protest? War sucks war sucks. Peace peace peace. We inherited this from London and their banking of offshore money smuggling. Obama billions and CIA destabilization for many years. We will see how this plays out, wont we. I am against war and I am for this strike for the people of Iran. Now is their chance! Let’s see what they do! Let MAGA, MAHA and MIGA live! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BvCpMfLAmic
and you, dear Glen, are sadly deluded that the shift towards love and compassion is not possible. As far as I understand, Charles is not saying "this" (not sure what you are referring to?) WILL achieve something positive. Instead he is pointing to various possible outcomes. And it is up to each individual to respond with anger, blame and denial, numbness and victimhood or curious, careful and creative optimism. I hope, dear Glen, since you have taken the trouble to read this whole article and even comment using you own name and not some bizarre code name, that you will join the movement.
Before you get all judgy and thought policey please follow the threads, and notice my response is not to Charles but to the writer above me. I have no qualms with Charles, I’ve followed him for many years, including buying his books
Charles, I hope you will formally retract or at least edit your post now that it’s clear the school bombing was done by Iran itself - they have admitted this. My recommendation is to stay away from the “hot takes” - give time for more information. Jumping on these false leads only reminds me of the Gaza coverage - more MSM nonsense and propaganda. Your essay, released within hours of the strikes, reflects more on you than what’s happening in Iran - and I say this as someone who greatly appreciates your writing.
Just finished reading Hoodie Economics.. it ends with this.. seems pertinent right now:
When there is light in the soul,
There is beauty in the person.
When there is beauty in the person, There is harmony in the home.
When there is harmony in the home,
There is honour in the nation.
When there is honour in the nation,
There is peace in the world.
So simple, so true, but why does it seem so difficult to achieve?
Ohh, that is so good! Thanks for sharing it.
This is profound - Even if the US can prevent violent retaliation through an impregnable missile defense system; even if it can quell terroristic blowback forever through an ironclad AI-powered regime of global surveillance, even if it can keep gas cheap by taking over the oil fields, the consequences will penetrate the fortress walls. Civil violence and domestic violence will mirror foreign violence. Suicide will mirror murder. Depression will mirror oppression. The deadening of inner life will mirror the extinguishing of life outside. Those who live safe behind walls are still living behind walls, slowly suffocating. Those who go numb in order to commit the evil deeds of war must live numb. They cannot escape the suffering they inflict on their victims. - thank you, Charles. It means a lot to feel there are these wise words circulating and shining light at the same time as the bombs are falling. May love prevail.
My daughter takes lessons in Tai Kwon Do from an Iranian expat who is going from his home in the U.S. back to Iran to fight against the government. Many if not most Iranian people appear to hate their government especially after the recent massacre. My daughter said it could be good thing for us to wipe out such a bad government. I told her that many are making this argument, but that in war both sides always lose. One side may lose more than the other, but both sides inevitably are losers. This is one among many arguments for not starting wars. The only people who win wars are the bankers, if Smedley Butler was correct, and he should know. And they amorally reap their profits from both sides, in most cases. WWII is widely viewed as a "moral" war insofar as we stopped an evil megalomaniac, Hitler and other fascist dictators such as Mussolini and Hirohito from their imperial ambitions. Was it wrong to fight that war too? Who decides when a war is worth fighting and when it is not? How can we make that determination? The libertarians would say Never except in cases of self-defense. But what is self-defense? How broadly are we allowed to define it? The moral universe we live in is not black and white. Its many shades of gray are not easily reduced to absolutes through our horror of war. In this war, I have thus far decided to remain confused, because I do not know what to believe, and I KNOW I do not have all the information. Even if I did, I'm not sure I'd be less confused. As people around me publish their views for or against Trump's actions, I hear all their points and see the good sense behind them. But both sides can't be right. As they say, the first casualty of war is the truth. The truth is now hiding behind a billow of Iranian death and destruction.
Both sides CAN be true. Depends on perspective, as in the tale about blind men and the elephant. Who among us has the whole view? Up and down the passages of time, the unfolding of events not considered, even the dimensions of reality, defining what, and in what ways, it is "good," "evil" for/against Life, and "What is Truth?" According to which religion, which philosophy, and what goal? Legal? Moral? By what measure? Just for starters...You get the idea. Of course we are confused!
Morality has nothing to do with parts of an elephant. Morality is not relative: some things JUST ARE wrong. The murder of young girls is wrong, period. Murder is wrong, period. There aren't two sides to it. Morality is not a belief: it's not dependent on the particular ideology/religion we follow. It's something we know intuitively, without being taught, because the perception of intrinsic VALUE is a basic human capacity ie something we are born with. We may deny it, we may be conditioned to suppress it, but we still know it.
Agree. Have you come across Mark Passio’s talks on natural law? He covers exactly your point, concisely and convincingly.
yes, both sides can be, and ARE right - but only partially. As Ken Wilber said: "nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time."
This is why I love Charles's essays- looking carefully at the arguments of both sides and pointing to a third option, the way out of "us versus them", the way of love and peace, that we have been dreaming of since the Sixties, and that is now truly possible as the way forward for humanity.
When I said both sides can't be right, I wasn't sufficiently clear. I meant that the war on Iran can't be right and wrong, although some would have us believe that either is the case. As Michael said, above, there are times when things clearly are wrong. In my opinion, much of the grief the world has come to is because people "know" something is wrong without having the facts. Once understanding improves, right and wrong often seem different. For example, "murder of young girls is wrong, period." Obviously true, but what if this "young" girls is actually 21? Is that young? What if this 21 years young girl is firing an AK47 into a crowd of protestors she deems to be a threat? What if, in a psychotic or drug-induced frenzy, she is holding a pistol at a baby's head? You will say, "that could never happen". In fact, morally complex situations occur every day. Some things really are wrong, as Michael said, but it pays to wait and get all the facts before deciding.
Well stated.
thank you Charles
I have been learning the basics of Quantum physics-heres what the new way will look like once people fully comprehend this
in my very basic understanding
Quantum physics tells us we live in a field of energy - this field is not fixed its flowing like a river - everything is in superposition - the field is full of potential full of probabilities that form only when triggered - what triggers them is when energy builds enough to resonate enough this causes either a coherent energy potential probability or an incoherent one
we are energy beings our emotions which are thoughts and feeling in motion - have a frequency
as an example - a coherent energy is like standing at the edge of a river and throwing in a pebble the ripples that come from the pebble on the face of the water are nice smooth coherent
if you have a bunch of people throwing pebbles in all at once the water becomes rough the ripples all clash - this is incoherence
with the US of Israel bombing Iran - millions if not billions of people around the world are emitting angry emotions - this is akin to lots of pebbles being thrown into the river - its incoherent energy and because of the amplitude = the strength of those emotions they resonate within the field and gravitate to a particular potential probability - more INCOHERENCE....war itself is incoherent energy
however around the world there are also people gathering to send heart felt coherent emotions into the field - these are mostly small groups around the world - and their energy resonates with the field with the potential and probability of peace - their amplitude however may not be as strong as the incoherence energy of anger - but the intensity of their emotions can be enough to shift to a less incoherent resonance and prevent further escalation
this is silent unstoppable 'protest' and one that has more power than people realise
I think we saw signs of it with the Ukraine event where it didn't escalate into nuclear war and it just might be the case here
mediating in coherency vs protesting incoherently may be the new way forward
its my way of learning Quantum physics and how it applies to. human interaction with the field
I think its powerful knowing this because it can be done at home as an individual and that energy will find its resonance with everyone else who is doing it no matter what the difference
the same can be said for anything - our choice is learning how we use our energy - understanding the QP field etc and coming into heart coherence in every day life but more so in these situations -because the truth is that reality - what we call reality is a feed back loop - the manifestation of the likely probable reality potential our energy in the field manifests as in physical form
science in a sense QP is aligning with metaphysics in this sense, and in my very simple understanding, it paints a picture that feels deeply relevant right now.
why I feel a quiet hope: Around the world, small groups (and individuals) are gathering to send heartfelt, coherent emotions love, compassion, peace, care into the same field. Their ripples are gentler, maybe smaller in number, but when they're focused and from the heart, the intensity can be profound. Coherent energy aligns, reinforces, and can shift the resonance toward less chaos, toward de-escalation.
This is a silent, unstoppable kind of protest one you can do from home, alone or with a few others. No signs, no marches, just tuning your own energy to coherence and letting it resonate with everyone else doing the same. No matter differences in belief or location, that energy finds its match in the field
I think we've seen hints of this power before like how the Ukraine situation didn't spiral into nuclear nightmare despite the fear. It might just be happening again here.
Meditating into coherency heart-focused peace, appreciation, unity instead of protesting incoherently rage-fueled division could be the new way forward. It's my way of making sense of quantum physics as it applies to human interaction with the field and honestly, it feels powerful knowing we each have this choice every day.
Our emotions aren't just personal; they're participatory. Reality is a feedback loop: the probable potentials our collective energy resonates with manifest into form. Science quantum field insights and metaphysics are meeting here aligning in ways that remind us we're not powerless.
like you say - Breathe into your heart, feel genuine care or peace for a minute or two, and send it out. It adds up.
Thank you for this hope today, Jay.
you are so very welcome <3
Thank you Jay for putting into words what I too know to be true. Our love is extremely potent especially when we continuously focus into LOVE and do not get pulled off of that by what we are witnessing which, in itself, is the result of non-love thoughts/feelings expressed through humanity since forever. Pray we all attune to LOVE as I know it is the only way forward to peace and the beautiful world we are capable of causing to be manifested.
yes - we don't all have to - thats the beauty of critical mass as such - be nice if everyone did though - but I think there is enough of us to counter the worst of this - but lets see - a new system can arise from all this one that is more a in coherent partnership than an incoherent dominant control system focusing on fear and war to force compliance - many have had enough of it and it never brings peace
The wars will end when enough of us have had enough of war.
As the veils of secrecy fall away, as we see the naked truth of how horribly we treat each other, it feels there might be a simple collective shift and consensus that says - enough. Who knows how it will come to be? Of course we look to the past and think of protests and revolutions and past catalysts for change, and yet somehow, this feels different.
Rather than pushing against what we don’t want, it feels like the softening of our hearts, allowing ourselves to feel the grief that we cause each other, maybe it will be a collective shift all at once. I feel it, the natural evolution of an evolving species, growing in awareness and compassion, the inevitable choice to end the abuse of self and other. ❤️🌎😍🤙🏽
According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word "apocalypse" comes originally from ancient Greek, and means, "to uncover, disclose, reveal". An example of the modern apocalypse, or revealing, is captured in the phrase, "American power was draped in idealism ... Now the drapes have fallen completely to reveal the naked truth of power." Although I have deep concern regarding the transition, I remain optimistic that the current apocalypse is a necessary stage to get humanity to a better place. My heart goes out to all affected, present and future. Thanks Charles.
I think a lot of us both welcome and fear what may need to occur to change from this into something more beautiful
Thanks so much Charles. I heard this first from a Youtube short. And that same Youtuber featured a short about FIFA and the Board of Peace gearing up to build 5 football stadiums in Gaza!!!!!!!!! Surely that's a joke?
Anyway, I wanted to share this too (because maybe poetry will spread world peace, and I am inspired by Dominique's share here)...this is not my work, the writer's name is John Roedel:
my brain and
heart divorced
a decade ago
over who was
to blame about
how big of a mess
I have become
eventually,
they couldn't be
in the same room
with each other
now my head and heart
share custody of me
I stay with my brain
during the week
and my heart
gets me on weekends
they never speak to one another
- instead, they give me
- the same note to pass
- to each other every week
and their notes they
send to one another always
says the same thing:
"This is all your fault"
on Sundays
my heart complains
about how my
head has let me down
in the past
and on Wednesday
my head lists all
of the times my
heart has screwed
things up for me
in the future
they blame each
other for the
state of my life
there's been a lot
of yelling - and crying
so,
lately, I've been
spending a lot of
time with my gut
who serves as my
unofficial therapist
most nights, I sneak out of the
window in my ribcage
and slide down my spine
and collapse on my
gut's plush leather chair
that's always open for me
~ and I just sit sit sit sit
until the sun comes up
last evening,
my gut asked me
if I was having a hard
time being caught
between my heart
and my head
I nodded
I said I didn't know
if I could live with
either of them anymore
"my heart is always sad about
something that happened yesterday
while my head is always worried
about something that may happen tomorrow,"
I lamented
my gut squeezed my hand
"I just can't live with
my mistakes of the past
or my anxiety about the future,"
I sighed
my gut smiled and said:
"in that case,
you should
go stay with your
lungs for a while,"
I was confused
- the look on my face gave it away
"if you are exhausted about
your heart's obsession with
the fixed past and your mind's focus
on the uncertain future
your lungs are the perfect place for you
there is no yesterday in your lungs
there is no tomorrow there either
there is only now
there is only inhale
there is only exhale
there is only this moment
there is only breath
and in that breath
you can rest while your
heart and head work
their relationship out."
this morning,
while my brain
was busy reading
tea leaves
and while my
heart was staring
at old photographs
I packed a little
bag and walked
to the door of
my lungs
before I could even knock
she opened the door
with a smile and as
a gust of air embraced me
she said
"what took you so long?"
~ John Roedel
Oh I love this Heather!
Thank you Heather ❤️
Yes, the death of children was in the NYT headlines this morning. I'm pretty sure that's where it was. Will anyone pay attention? I really wonder.
The school bombing that Iran has now admitted was accidentally done by them. Jumping on these false leads - Déjà vu - more MSM nonsense and propaganda.
Good stuff, Charles! As a K24 team member, much of what you write here rings true. The path to peace is looking difficult with the Trump Administration behaving this way. I hope we see a movement rooted in human flourishing based on sound policy, a wide moral compass, and plenty of systems thinking to appreciate a very interconnected world.
It is tragic that the girls school was hit by a missile but I find it unexplainable that you don't seem to care about the 15-40 000 innocent Iranian citizens that were murdered for fighting for their freedom in the streets . The thousands of women are raped and tortured . You seem have no care for them? Does the fact that thousands upon thousands of Iranians are celebrating the death of the Ayatollah after 47 years of oppression not tell you anything???
Charles writes reams and reams about non-separation, peace and love. Only to be accused of not caring about innocent people being killed. Have you read any of his work Monika? Your comment seems a little ungenerous, to say the least.
And yet in his message, the only compassion he offers is for the verity girls that were killed by an accidental missile.. And then insinuating that it was not accidental?? What does that say about his Preconceived opinions on Israel?. Nothing about the tens of thousands of Iranians that were murdered and millions that were begging for help from the United States while their people were being slaughtered by the regime. Nothing about the tens of thousands of Israeli civilians murdered over the years by Iran and it's proxies Hezbollah and Hamas. I subscribed to Charle’s blog and used to follow him religiously until his blatant anti-Israel and antisemitic views became more and more apparent.
If you think his ideas are wrong, you have every right to challenge those ideas. But to claim he doesn’t care is ungenerous and contrary to all evidence.
He talks about non-separation, peace and love on one hand, yet he has clearly demarcated the US and especially Israel as Bad Guys. He has not embodied the non-duality of which he preaches.
So in your opinion, Charles has fallen short of his own standards.
Ok.
But this is a separate issue and has nothing to do with the point I made.
So easy to point the finger outward. More difficult is to sit with the question "why am I compelled to chastise the 'other'?"
Yes he presents himself as coming from a perspective of non-duality and not choosing a side, yet he has clearly chosen a side, the one where the US and Israel are the bad guys.
While the US ain't perfect I support denying Iran ICBM's and Nuclear Weapons. Better we take care of that now than after they turn NY into dust.
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Because we have allowed our national leaders to push this Mass Muslim Immigration, into First World nations, we have now reached a critical point. Cities like London and Paris have become Muslim ghettos where the indigenous populations are feeling unsafe to enter. Muslim enclaves, like Epic City in Texas, are fast becoming parallel segregated Muslim societies unto themselves. Thankfully the world is waking up to the existential threat of Political Islam.
The Urgent Need for Global De-Islamification Part 7
Muslims want a Global Muslim Caliphate Antithetical to our Constitutional Republic
https://brucecain.substack.com/p/the-urgent-need-for-global-de-islamification-7c2
The Urgent Need for Global De-Islamification Part 6
Ending Soft Sharia Laws in Dearborn Michigan and other US Cities
https://brucecain.substack.com/p/the-urgent-need-for-global-de-islamification-e06
Most muslins want to live in peace, just like any normal person. Propoganda distorts the truth. Stick to the truth.
Violence breeds violence. Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity.
I first heard "bombing for peace..." several years ago. You sharing it here reminds me of that moment. It changed me then and reminds me now of that change. <3
This is pure speculation, I don't know if it's true - do you suppose if we welcomed Muslims into our communities and our culture, they wouldn't feel the need to huddle up in ethnic enclaves where there's no incentive to adopt our ways? If they moved freely and safely among us, maybe they would be better assimilated and become more enculturated with our values?
There was a time when the Irish in America were considered unwelcome immigrants. Stores posted signs - "No Irish." Cartoons in the newspapers showed them with animal faces. Now everyone loves the Irish and wears green on St. Patty's day. People can be Irish by descent and also fully American.
Assimilation is far better than civil warfare, but it has to start with us welcoming.
You should read me essays. I love my Muslim neighbors living in Dearborn for 72 years. But there is no doubt that a radicalization has happened since 2023. The is also no doubt that Qatar and other Muslim countries are spending billions a year to overthrow the US in favor of a Islamic Caliphate.
Is there any surprise when westerners have been radicalised by propoganda against muslims?
Read my essays. There is a good reason we are sick of Political Islam.
Absolutely true - Paddy'sDay though 🌞🌞
As in St. Padrick? 😁
In the Irish language, Patrick is Padraic (prounced paw-ric) - so a lot of people called Patrick, get called Paddy and we refer to St Patricks Day as Paddys Day :)
Ah, that makes sense. Thank you!
(When I said pure speculation, I meant my comment, not yours. I too am against any ethnic group enforcing its own laws - like "honor killings" of women and other such unamerican values.)
Sorry, you are completely wrong. No one fears Muslims in London. It is those who do not live or work a long side muslims that fear them. I.e people not from london. But they love to go to dubai. Where there really is an islam dictatorship. There political leaders like Tice of Reform live there for months of the year. There favourite papers have offices there. You go to any place of work in London. You will see people of every colour and faith working and lunching alongside each other.
You will see an older english man sitting with a younger turkish woman in her hijab chatting about life.
People of other nationalities/religions, races either leave their countries because they are forced out due to colonial wars, poverty, the hope for a better life. Not because they really want too. Going and killing them in their own countries and encouraging resentment in their new country is not going to help. What is the U.S. Population except a huge mix of many nationalities and who was there before the white american?
I agree with Bruce in one respect - if you come to a western country for "a better life," then you accept the life of that country. Don't expect to live as you did where you fled from. Wear a headscarf, sure. Practice your religion. But respect the government and don't break laws. If an American went to an Islamic country and walked around in public in shorts and a halter top, that would be terribly disrespectful. One is expected to follow their laws and customs, and that's reasonable. It goes both ways.
Let us just focus on Islamic Immigration which has been pushed by the UN for decades. Have you noticed that no Muslim country allowed any migrants from Syria, Gaza etc. No, only the EU, Canada, Australia, the United States ended up with all these Muslim Refugees. As I discussed in my last essay this is the strategy of Hijra: migrating into First World Nations with the intent on replacing their governments with Sharia Law.
If you've read my series of essays (see links above) the issue is between a Constitutional Republic and those Muslims that seek an Islamic Caliphate under Sharia Law. These two constructs are antithetical to one another as Sharia Law does not treat Muslim women and Non-Muslims as equal to a Muslim man. That cannot be allowed and yet we are already seeing what I call "Soft Sharia" laws in cities like Dearborn: Call to prayer 5 times a day, prayer rooms and religiously bless foods in the public schools: both of which violate the Separation between Church and State laid out in the First Amendment. Because I have live in Dearborn, for 72 years, I have watched this unfold. "Soft Sharia" Laws are being pushed by members of the Muslim Brotherhood: CAIR, MSA and other like minded Jihadist groups. These groups are being financed by Qatar, Turkey, Iran and even Saudi Arabia.
Part of the problem is reciprocity. We allow Mosques to be built in the US, funded by foreign governments. Why should we even allow Mosques in the US when there are many Muslim Theocracies that won't allow the building of a Christian Church. Compounding the problem is our Federal Representatives are being "paid to play" for the interests of pushing Sharia Law. Qatar spends over a billion per year to influence Ivy League Universities resulting in Antisemitism on their campuses.
Now I happen to like my Muslim neighbors. But for us to coexist we must now deny our Muslim Populations of any further special privileges. And that is why Global De-Islamification is so urgently required.
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Because we have allowed our national leaders to push this Mass Muslim Immigration, into First World nations, we have now reached a critical point. Cities like London and Paris have become Muslim ghettos where the indigenous populations are feeling unsafe to enter. Muslim enclaves, like Epic City in Texas, are fast becoming parallel segregated Muslim societies unto themselves. Thankfully the world is waking up to the existential threat of Political Islam.
The Urgent Need for Global De-Islamification Part 7
Muslims want a Global Muslim Caliphate Antithetical to our Constitutional Republic
https://brucecain.substack.com/p/the-urgent-need-for-global-de-islamification-7c2
The Urgent Need for Global De-Islamification Part 6
Ending Soft Sharia Laws in Dearborn Michigan and other US Cities
https://brucecain.substack.com/p/the-urgent-need-for-global-de-islamification-e06
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How would you feel if muslims said there needs to be the irradication of Christianity??? They neither call for that or end of judaism. Because they are people of the book and abrahamic religions.
De-Islamification is happening throughout the EU nations and is only eradicating Political Islam that wants to dominate. I've seen plenty of videos of violent Muslims in Paris, London and other cities. Save your bullshit for someone more gullible.
Why do you come on peaceful groups with such anger.Why do you specfically search them out. I dont mind if you think a londoner of 53 years is speaking bullshit and your observation is from videos selected for your viewpoint. I m happy to be guillble to want peace and understanding with my fellow travellers.🙏🏽
It reminds me of Trump telling the story of the snake. A women brings in this injured snake and brings it back to health. Then one day the snake gives her a fatal bite. "Why did you do that asks the women." And the snake replies "Because that is what snakes do." Political Islam is the snake and must be eradicated. This does not mean Muslim cannot continue their religious practices. But it does mean all their "special privileges" -- prayer rooms in school, Halal food in school, the wearing of the Hijab in school -- must be rescinded. Why? Because we must nudge them toward assimilation. We are a melting pot and not a bowl full of nuts.
The irony of a european descent man in america making that statement. The native americans obviously let the snakes in too. Did the europeans assimilate to a 15,000 year way of life after the native showed them initally to at least survive the winter
You are no more going to give your home back to an Indian that Israeli's are going to give back their homes to Muslim Theocrats. So there's that. LOL
The irony of a european descent man in america making that statement. The native americans obviously let the snakes in too. Did the europeans assimilate to a 15,000 year way of life after the native showed them initally to at least survive the winter
You do realize that Ayatollah Khamenei issues a fatwa against Iran ever developing nuclear weapons, stating that nuclear weapons are categorically against the teachings of Islam? Congrats, the US just martyred literally the one guy in the way of Iran developing nuclear weapons. Murrica!!
I don't know what planet you're on but Iran has been seeking nuclear weapons for decades. And these Muslim leaders lie all the time. They even have a word for it Taquia.
Expose
If everyone lies roughly the same lies
about the same things there is no one
to call them liars: they jointly establish
their own sanity & call themselves normal.
Ernest Becker
“Birth & Death of Meanings”
Deny tyrants
official fields of deity;
mark off open air stages
for “sacred” fa la fa la
fiddle-faddle. Cull jointly gross
from civilizing subtlety,
volatile from fixed.
EXPOSE
daemons & hovering
wannabe angels in works
of circular causality.
EXPOSE
wanton selfsame minions.
EXPOSE so no one
can disown, disavow
one’s own NORMALITY.
EXPOSE so those
who plead mass psychosis
be held to account
for damnable lies
repeated
again&again&again
to themselves
to their children
I vehemently disagree with you on this one, let's just say the US undertakes nothing and leave the Iranian people to their own fate, how does that reflect on them after that? The idea that Islamism and Islamic theocratic regimes will ever become sensible one day is just very wrong, those people hate you whatever you might do, heck I am a Copt I live among them and I am hated just because I am different, so frankly no, I pretty much support Trump's war on the theocratic regime in Iran, which is known for using schools as storage for weapons for its revolutionary guard and Pasij forces, you should take some time studying Islam, and not through the bullshit decolonization lenses of Edward Said's, just talk to people who fled countries like Egypt, Syria etc. specially from the minorities, they were already living as second class citizens in places where they are indigenous to, and yet that wasn't enough. So how do you fix that, using cultural relativism doesn't help here at all, it just hurts the victims even more.
When you say "I support [x]'s war on [y]", what you are truly saying is "I support war".
Words the energy of which may or may not fall back onto you either as someone else's "I support war", or as your own war against yourself.
What Charles is suggesting is to not support war, and support peace instead.
And how do you do that as an Iranian whose army has decided to declare war on him? So you just want to accept death and martyrdom without a fight, good for you, I don't want to die on the hands of the Islamic mobs and their Islamic cultural hegemony forced down my throat every day of the week
I'm sorry you have to experience such hardships, and wish you the best of strength to overcome them.
Living in "I support peace" does not mean you do not defend yourself or act when attacked; and it does not mean you stay silent and accept evildoing.
It does mean you do not support self-proclaimed "world-defenders" when they wage countless wars on other countries, mostly for their actual own self-interest.
It does mean you do not support the eternal perpetuation of vengeance.
And it does mean and need the courage to truly forgive; the vision to understand the source of war, while taking action to make sure its conditions are healed.
Epstein, Trump, US wars, extractive capitalism destroying our ecological niche on the planet, AI evolution and so on … we’re witnessing the collapse of Western (Skygod) civilization, of the (Harari) myth that this kind of organisation was/is the only evolutionary path for humanity. We have to explore from scratch what is means to be human, what shapes reality, how to organise our co-living with other beings, how to relate to „ourselves“, which is a wider, complex inter-being system in which the „l“ or what we feel to be „me“ (the conscious part) is virtually or mostly „living“ in the unknown, in uncharted territory.
Gio, Yes, well and clearly stated. Our "wider, complex inter-being system" begs - demands our examination of greater dimensions than ever before. Gratefully, that is happening in some places.
Appreciate your perspective. The attack is part of a peace strategy. Vance and Trump don’t want war. Iran is the last threat. What about the 30,000 people that Iran killed in the last protest? War sucks war sucks. Peace peace peace. We inherited this from London and their banking of offshore money smuggling. Obama billions and CIA destabilization for many years. We will see how this plays out, wont we. I am against war and I am for this strike for the people of Iran. Now is their chance! Let’s see what they do! Let MAGA, MAHA and MIGA live! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BvCpMfLAmic
Thank you for expressing this. It’s an important perspective.
You are sadly deluded that this will achieve anything positive
and you, dear Glen, are sadly deluded that the shift towards love and compassion is not possible. As far as I understand, Charles is not saying "this" (not sure what you are referring to?) WILL achieve something positive. Instead he is pointing to various possible outcomes. And it is up to each individual to respond with anger, blame and denial, numbness and victimhood or curious, careful and creative optimism. I hope, dear Glen, since you have taken the trouble to read this whole article and even comment using you own name and not some bizarre code name, that you will join the movement.
Before you get all judgy and thought policey please follow the threads, and notice my response is not to Charles but to the writer above me. I have no qualms with Charles, I’ve followed him for many years, including buying his books
History will be the judge…as for now I will wait and see if my conscience delusion deceives me or if my unconscious spit up a truth
Charles, I hope you will formally retract or at least edit your post now that it’s clear the school bombing was done by Iran itself - they have admitted this. My recommendation is to stay away from the “hot takes” - give time for more information. Jumping on these false leads only reminds me of the Gaza coverage - more MSM nonsense and propaganda. Your essay, released within hours of the strikes, reflects more on you than what’s happening in Iran - and I say this as someone who greatly appreciates your writing.