Taboos of Religion and Politics

Church and State, Religion and Politics - Keep them separate and keep them out of discussions if civil discourse is to be maintained, right? But why?

Anyone who has had Thanksgiving dinner with a self-righteous uncle or an ultra-liberal sibling knows exactly why. Movies have been written on this very topic. We laugh, but we have all experienced landing in the middle of such conversations. There’s more squirming in these situations than in a bucket of fish bait.

Everyone wants rights and wants to be right. It’s human nature. So how do we reconcile the taboos of these two topics. Margo does an excellent job in this episode of explaining their inter-connectedness. She and I had talked about it and knew immediately this topic had to go on our list of programs. Take a listen and share your thoughts!

Originally broadcast 2/10/2021

Censorship: Protection or Diversion?

I would imagine that censorship has been around since communication between humans began. Our frail egos can’t stand the thought of being wrong, so we often cut off information that would allow us to see a different perspective, and in doing so, we stunt our own growth.

While writing this, I wondered if ancient Egyptians argued over hieroglyphic carvings. It’s one thing to bust a stone tablet and re-carve a new stone, but there had to be consensus when carvings were on walls. Were the elite the only ones educated because of their status? Or was it because they could control the messages being recorded?

For those like me, who honestly thought Rosetta Stone was a person that created a learning system for languages, Rosetta is actually a location in Egypt. The stone from there helped scholars translate hieroglyphs in the 1800s. The language had been lost for centuries when those that knew it died out. The stone had similar text in three languages, so the comparisons helped in translations.

Written language becomes important in documenting history, and using the correct symbols is vital to the reader’s understanding. It’s also important in education and communication among those in the modern world. Ideas, thoughts, knowledge, and information are shared through papers, books, articles, news outlets, and, in more recent years, social media. People have been punished, ridiculed, exiled, and even killed, for sharing thoughts that did not conform to social norms. Governments have created propaganda to incite and justify genocide. Even more remarkable is, in spite of history showing how atrocities happen and are rooted in foundations of deception, government manipulation, and censorship, we are still faced with such crises today.

People want their information quickly and concisely, yet the lack of critical thinking, analysis, and open-mindedness, is literally propagating social unrest and even wars. We are allowing social media moguls to censor people because we are told those people are wrong. Who says these people are wrong? Why? Some say voices have to be shut down because they incite riots. Why isn’t anyone condemning those that would resort to violence without researching and thinking for themselves?

The issues are complicated, the layers are numerous, and yet communication is the foundation for learning, understanding, and growing. If we fail to seek truth through multiple sources, and if we react with violence and rage before educating ourselves, we fail each other. If information sources are blocked, banned, and eliminated before we have the opportunity to evaluate for ourselves, we are being manipulated.

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Originally aired Feb. 3, 2021

Everything isn't always Rainbows and Crystals

Though Courtney Leigh Hudson was unable to join us for the podcast, she did provide us with a great deal of insights and resources along with discussion prior to the meeting. Combined with what we already knew, this episode offered an abundance of resources for those who want to understand what it means to be an adult or child that is Indigo, Crystal, Rainbow or in transition.

We didn’t get to talk much about the aspect of how many of the symptoms described for crystal children align with the same symptoms autistic children have. Some people would say that the souls coming in are adjusting to being in their bodies and don’t always sync up in the 3-D world. I’ve interviewed parents of special needs teens who are non-verbal, and they express how perceptive their children are, often seeing things the parents can’t see, laughing or looking across the room, responding to things that don’t seem to be there. Even when they are unable to communicate with the world at large, these souls are providing insights and spiritual growth opportunities to those around them. Sometimes, all that is needed to make a change is to be.

Original air date 1/13/2021