It’s a horrible anniversary today, October 7th. A year ago, Israel suffered a horrific massacre, and over this past year, responded with a campaign of revenge inflicted on the people of Gaza, the West Bank, and now extending to Lebanon, that has destroyed Gaza’s infrastructure and taken the lives of over 40,000 people, more than half of them women and children.
Thank you for this. I was in Gaza in 1997 and 1999, attending and presenting at the Gaza Community Mental Health Program International Conference on Health and Human Rights. I presented on the psychology of terrorirsm in 1997 and gender and violence in 1999. I was doing research on moral heroism and Dan Ellsberg introduced me to psychiatrist, Eyad Saraj, the founder of the GCMHP - a very high quality program. Even the children were traumatized and had nightmares, bedwetting, etc. And yes now Israel traumatizing children is sowing seeds of hatred and desires for revenge. According to the Talmud it is a crime to humiliate someone in public - and the Palestinians have lived in humiliation and oppression for decades. Here is my 2009 unheeded warning to Obama. My 2009 Warning to Obama about Gaza
Whatever it Takes: Open Letter to President Obama from Conflict Analysis Professionals for Enduring Security
Ah, thank you. Thank you for looking beyond and articulating with such flow and compassion.
May we find the ways, the paths to that commitment to peace. So beautiful to live and share, our resonances and differences. And I guess the fear of ¿what? gets in the way, tightens us, closes our heart. And we're so used to that, to not feeling that deep humanity underneath our coldness... I guess we've made the opening of our hearts a scary possibility.
So true. But in a Patriarchal world the only form of problem solving is done through control. And all control over others is a form of violence.
The even deeper root cause is Patriarchy itself. That, we are in the final stages of, as violent control strips the planet of habitability and sanity. The balance must be restored. Balance has always been the preserve of the female. Having become so weakened by Patriarchal control we have ceased to be able to impliment it. Thus, we are where we are. There is a way to bring it back, which is the topic of my latest book "The Infinite Compass-A Journey Into Wisdom". If anyone would like a copy for postage only, contact me. Or it's available on Amazon.com. The kindle version is still free on Prime I believe. For anover view: https://www.spiritflightnz.com/books-by-jay-sparrowhawk-ray/the-infinite-compass-a-journey-into-wisdom
Thank you for this. I was in Gaza in 1997 and 1999, attending and presenting at the Gaza Community Mental Health Program International Conference on Health and Human Rights. I presented on the psychology of terrorirsm in 1997 and gender and violence in 1999. I was doing research on moral heroism and Dan Ellsberg introduced me to psychiatrist, Eyad Saraj, the founder of the GCMHP - a very high quality program. Even the children were traumatized and had nightmares, bedwetting, etc. And yes now Israel traumatizing children is sowing seeds of hatred and desires for revenge. According to the Talmud it is a crime to humiliate someone in public - and the Palestinians have lived in humiliation and oppression for decades. Here is my 2009 unheeded warning to Obama. My 2009 Warning to Obama about Gaza
Whatever it Takes: Open Letter to President Obama from Conflict Analysis Professionals for Enduring Security
https://coronawise.substack.com/p/my-2009-warning-to-obama-about-gaza
Ah, thank you. Thank you for looking beyond and articulating with such flow and compassion.
May we find the ways, the paths to that commitment to peace. So beautiful to live and share, our resonances and differences. And I guess the fear of ¿what? gets in the way, tightens us, closes our heart. And we're so used to that, to not feeling that deep humanity underneath our coldness... I guess we've made the opening of our hearts a scary possibility.
Thank you for your words..
So true. But in a Patriarchal world the only form of problem solving is done through control. And all control over others is a form of violence.
The even deeper root cause is Patriarchy itself. That, we are in the final stages of, as violent control strips the planet of habitability and sanity. The balance must be restored. Balance has always been the preserve of the female. Having become so weakened by Patriarchal control we have ceased to be able to impliment it. Thus, we are where we are. There is a way to bring it back, which is the topic of my latest book "The Infinite Compass-A Journey Into Wisdom". If anyone would like a copy for postage only, contact me. Or it's available on Amazon.com. The kindle version is still free on Prime I believe. For anover view: https://www.spiritflightnz.com/books-by-jay-sparrowhawk-ray/the-infinite-compass-a-journey-into-wisdom
Bless you all to the return of a sane world.
Thank you Starhawk, well said.