In this week’s edition of Planet Waves, I look at the assassination of Osama bin Laden and the astrology of Sept. 11, 2001, and bin Laden as a projection of shadow by the United States, offering ideas from Jungian psychology about shadow material and the nature of warfare. To purchase this issue individually, click here. For a three-month subscription, delivered via email every week, please click here.
please tell Eric that his piece today was thought provoking, honest, courageous, deeply spiritual to me, and as always, connected all the dots with his usual eloquence and style. (Me: Taurus Sun, Gemini Rising, Capricorn Moon,(Ayurvedic Sun in Aries -If given the chance, I’d be Trinity from the Matrix, lol.) He may want to read Marianne Williams posts (she’s on my Facebook page and Eric has access to that) as she gives a very solemn, spiritual look at our governments recent international escapades. There are many who are pondering the recent events, and are saddened to say the least, and Eric’s forecasts/insights bring it continually into the Light. I am so very grateful for this, words just cannot convey my gratitude. It is the best $10 I’ve spent monthly on anything for a long time and only God knew how much I was going to need it in the last year/months. I’m 57 and going through a PUSH that feels much like labor on a daily basis, and that’s without all the present, collective emotions — simply my own.
I’m honored to be part of those blessed to be recipients, for a small fee, of the writings and spiritual insights of Eric –truly for a time such as this — who takes us always to another level and the depths of truth behind the veil. I pray for you all daily now as a woman of faith whose eyes/spirit are wide OPEN (remember, there is an organization called the Church and an organism called the Church and the latter are definite Light Workers with a host of other faiths/beliefs/spirits), and as a woman who is deeply set free each Friday morning when Planet Waves gives me something more to ponder / release, allowing for yet another shift. May Divine Intelligence continue to protect your entire group as you reveal more truth and share your very gifted insights and love with us. My birthday was on April 25th, and I wrote in my Gratitude Journal that Planet Waves was the best gift of all because it guides me as I currently traverse a very slippery slope, and thanks to Eric, I can see the end in sight!
Much love and peace to you all always,
Lynne
Very nicely done. The comments from your therapist friend about the need to rise up to meet the world with passion….and OBL’s death creating the opportunity for that — very excellent insight.
I wonder if ordinary Germans in the late 30s also lacked a way to rise up to meet the world with passion, and then a political juggernaut came along that gave them just that…..
I am so fascinated by the psychology of the mass blood thirst and am happy to find some attention paid to this aspect here @ planet waves. Please, Eric, if you’re into it, I’d love to hear more from your “shrink” friend.
I am not so attached to the notion that there is “a” story here … while that might feel safe and snuggly to think that there is one truth, I’m not of that religion. There’s all kinds of stuff floating around and I’m not a fan.
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One thing that I am going to do “about it” is to know that this whole “story” is another lie in the global political mechanism – whether or not the “man we know as bin Laden” is dead.
True, I do not think Osama bin Laden, former CIA, brother to Bush investors, was murdered at all; and whether he was “murdered” in effigy is clearly calling out our collective in-human spirit in this country. Certainly the timing of this incident during the festivities of the royal wedding placed people in the ‘appropriate’ festive mood. how sad for us.
Come dear children; we are dancing in the streets but the tiger is still out of its cage.
And can I tell how many thumbs up and grins of achievement I’ve witness from friends and acquaintances in the past hours? I cannot imagine this response in a previous era of US history.
And will we turn against again when/if it is revealed that oops! The real bin Laden was NOT murdered? Or whatever spin may come? Let us hope we get our wits about us before we’re flung around for another wild ride.
This does not mean I bow my head to those who would destroy; au contraire – as Eric points out, knowledge is power (of a different sort).
Eric, All I can say is that I am proud of you. Excellent job on this piece.
Paul, the question is not what are we going to do about it. The questions are, what is it, and what are you going to do about it? This is a personal choice. And that choice must be based on something.
I am a journalist. My job is to tell the story; that’s what I do. I am working from an idea, which is that the more we know, the better. Knowledge is not action, but acquiring knowledge is a form of taking action. Where ignorance is a weapon used on us and against us, then awareness antidotes that weapon. The form of action I take is designed to help others inform themselves and making decisions from a different framework; with a different basis.
For those who feel a desire to participate in that process — of gathering facts and creating an analysis that involves people on a human level, and strengthens rather than alienates — the way is open here at Planet Waves.
Eric
Something is wrong….something is …and has…. gone very badly wrong!!
I am going to work through your analysis line by line…offering feedback…not to project…or criticise you…or indeed Christine…but to find that single thread that may lead us to the gateway of enlightened truth!!
OK “Shooting the Mirror…” I can dig that…….
“Friday morning we witnessed something a little more in the spirit of the season — the royal wedding. It is interesting that the future king of England was married within mere days of the purported slaying of our worst enemy. Are we being told that the royal house is in order, and that empire is on the rise again?”
You are conflating events that happened the other way round…….(if there was a Welshman called Tydyr who died on Angelesy on Sunday night, does that mean that the Welsh are finally giving up their rightful claim to the throne of Henry Tudor V111th. ?) It is about as sensible as your item last year that U.S Health Care Reform is akin to Aneurin Bevan’s National Health plan of 1948. On the surface it seems plausible, but Nye Bevan built his working class caucus around the 23 safe labour seats of the mining communities of South Wales. The English middle class never saw it coming. The Welsh race hate of the English carried them to a brave new mining confrontation with successive Conservative Governments, culminating in MI6 telling Arthur Scargill that he either took the miners back to work during the Thatcher years, or he would be dead by morning!!
Prince William is no Billy the Kidd. There is a thread that runs through the American psyche that Dubya articulates perfectly “wanted dead or alive”…
“For the sake of this article, I will set aside any possible questions about whether it was actually him; I can tell you that I don’t personally know, and the U.S. government generally does not win awards for its impeccability with truth. Either way, this is an important moment. Bin Laden’s purported death turns a chapter in the history of the Sept. 11 incident and the history of the seemingly endless War on Terror. That phrase has always irritated me. It’s possible to address terrorism with a war (though not particularly effective), but one cannot wage war on an emotion. Presumably we are supposed to be less afraid now that this has happened, though many people feel we’ve kicked a hornet’s nest.”
He is dead….. why are you getting involved in an emotive brouhaha based on rhetoric and invective?
If what we both believe to be the truth…is the truth….of course they were destined to wheel Osama out on occasions such as the 10th anniversary. What is this strange initiation that Obama is being put through by the Skull and Bones gang? Both Bushes killed both Kennedys…father and son…tell it like it is!! Why involve your extraordinary talents in an argument that is by definition… fallacious?
“The peace dividend wasn’t the only thing that went up in the smoke. Raising Osama bin Laden to the level of a religious icon, the citizens of the United States bowed down to fear, allowed their privacy to be taken from them, and tacitly consented to global war, presumably without end”
That was the pitch….you can’t blame Rachel Maddow for not sticking her dick in the air….
“Yet even Rachel Maddow, who I consider the best mainstream broadcaster in the business, possibly in the history of commercial television, never questions the orthodoxy of Osama bin Laden being the guy behind Sept. 11”
I say again…that was the point of all of this….. to raise the watery spirit level….. to create an arbitary religious icon…just this very day…Lady Gaga is singing..(if you want to call it that)…that she loves Judas… Madonna ..Like a Prayer…it is Pop trivia…at best!!! It is war propaganda….as a free download!! No longer can an intellectual or philosopher pose questions that could in theory bring about a political maelstrom. Rovian techniques simply rewrite the rules.
“There is a silent presumption; it is accepted, unquestioned, as religious orthodoxy. In what seems to be a perpetual, unshakable consensus of the working media, nobody is allowed to so much as inquire what is wrong with the official story.”
Welcome to the world…next question…what are we jolly well going to do about it?
Now let us get down…..!!
“Yet there is something else going on, something deeper than politics. On the most superficial level, everyone seems to be buying into the old story of good and evil. There is a game of victim consciousness — and I don’t mean the actual victims of whatever happened on Sept. 11; I mean how victimization became a cultural event.”
Evil is energy that flows through the cracks in a system ….the good….and the strength of your system can ultimately prevail!! Check your cracks!!! Your invocation brings you what you ask for…handle it!
“It’s just when the whole society gets into the act, it’s sometimes really hard to tell”
It is the only time that you really need to know how to tell.
Chomsky, Jung, Levy, Coppolino and Farber are right……. optimistic in truth, and in vision…and worthy of our attention……but I pose the simple question one last time……
What exactly are we going to do about it?
“Our view of the U S of A as being this great nation that does only good deeds and always spreads democracy is not compatible with the nation that bombs villages with napalm — jellied gasoline dropped burning from airplanes that sticks to human skin, which was used widely in Vietnam. That is not acceptable behavior for our freedom-loving country, so we have to project it onto an evil-doer.
This is largely about relief, but it’s also about protecting our self-image and our pride. The dark or cruel side of our existence — all the people we have killed, starting with the American natives our young nation exterminated, the tens of millions of African slaves we imported — exists as shadow material that we put onto others.”
I thought that the study of Jazz, and a modicum of Astrological research would do me…but they have led me here…The Slave Trade…and the Illusional 40 years that has seen Neptune outside Pluto….. and so unrestrained by transformation….. and never so deceptive……. Ultimately to a place that is built on hundreds of years of genocide.
You personally…as I well know….. have a totally different take on 9/11. We both know that there is Rovesque inspired reprogramming of humanity at work. You are effectively trying to swim up a waterfall….. you quoted the wily little shaker just a few weeks ago… “while you argue…we move the floor!!” Why not just print the truth. Why demonise your mother country for doing what is obviously fallacious. Why not just print the truth?
The projections will only cease….when we are sufficiently streetwise enough to play with a straight bat…. and let the curve ball fly right on out…!! Feed the healthy cells….and let the cancerous ones die all by themselves!!!
I am no better or worse than any other human being….in judgement, in vision… or in action…..yet I have to observe that there is a whole lot of karma heading your way. The aforementioned Slave trade, the native Indians, the Shotgun rider nation who can take out the rogue state or blood lusting dictator at a few hours notice. The celebrations…which were acutely insensitive…and embarrassing….and yet there is no blame….4 hours in a deprivation tank and we are all capable of all things. The media glamour of victimhood puts Rove at once both a genius and a demonic threat to civilisation! This role was perhaps not self chosen……. but if you can somehow comprehend your national psyche…. its recently chosen path……..(the last 100 years… “overpaid…oversexed…and over here”)… and perhaps understand that the greed of the African Gold Rush and the road to perdition simply transferred itself to the Americas 200 years ago….. then the road to redemption may well appear….. as the greed and it’s rush is transferred to the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations over the next fifty years!! This has, according to the Goldman Sachs gurus, already started!! The ruling financial neo-liberals are simply keeping the natives occupied…with an ever decreasing intellectual quotient of data!! Perhaps it is in this moment that we can see the cracks in that strategy!
If I thought for one moment that there was any other way…I would say so! You have to redeem yourself… from all of this bollocks. It wasn’t your fault…or mine!! That in itself will free you up…and even “Lively Up Yourself” You can lead by example…rather than as the Buddhist apprentice trying to pull himself up by his boot straps. I always go back to the “dread” of the Jamaican Caribbean culture!! May their example show you a glimpse of daylight……
Like a beacon around the Oceans….…….!!
Paul Hill
Sin Eater.
When I first heard of this concept I was appalled.
this film romanticized yet helped explain:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810928/
That custom was surely a form of castration as well as it’s other fine points.
How many forms of Sin Eaters do we have? How many excuses to turn away from our own issues? To experience ejaculation at the cost of someone else’s pain? Stoning a woman for being raped comes to mind. As do hundreds of other examples.
And don’t forget that the king or his rep gets the bride first.
Oh what have we torn that lies in such dire disrepair?
Eric. You speak truth. Thank you.