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Whatever side of whatever political divide you are on, these times will pass. The question is what will emerge on the other side. Do we want a world of hatred and division where people are divided and ruled by psychopaths and warmongers, or a world where love brings us together to create the world we want to live in? It’s not the Powers-That-Shouldn’t-Be’s choice to make; it’s ours. So what world do you want to live in?
James,
Dynamic anecdote! … with the message that we as individuals can lead in shaping a more benign world.
(BENIGN – kindly, kind, warmhearted, good-natured, friendly, warm, affectionate, agreeable, genial, congenial, cordial, approachable, tenderhearted, gentle, sympathetic, compassionate, caring, well disposed, benevolent)
— REDIRECTING people’s frustration — (Jujutsu style)
One method we can use is “redirection”.
Wrong target
The little girl who was frustrated chose the wrong target towards acting out her frustration. Angry/frustrated people often dramatize towards hitting at wrong targets.
EXAMPLE: The hypercritical person who strains at fault-finding even towards his ‘friends’ is like the frustrated little girl who strikes out at wrong targets by demeaning others.
We can redirect people’s attention towards proper targets.
(Trying to solve anger or frustration or hypercriticalness during brief encounters doesn’t work so well.)
😉
This will make you grin…
EXAMPLE (of redirection regarding election)
Look at this photo image of the 11/9 headline by USA TODAY “How did pollsters get Trump, Clinton election so wrong?”
-PHOTO- http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/9/0/d/2/highres_455917074.jpeg
In other words, we can redirect people’s attention towards something that they will have some agreement with, something that is real to them, but which also offers a chance towards greater insight.
“The Powers That Shouldn’t Be” direct people’s attention all the time. We can gracefully redirect people’s attention towards a more fruitful area.
“Grace” and “humor” can be excellent tools in “redirection”.
EXAMPLEs –
Humor – Corbett’s 5 minute video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuC_4mGTs98
Grace – Corbett’s “How Big Oil Conquered the World” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySnk-f2ThpE
(It is “graceful” redirection because most everyone agrees that Big Oil are bad guys; i.e. The title does not challenge a person’s belief system.)
We have many tools (methods) with which to create a better world.
“Redirection” with benign grace and humor are some methods we can use.
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Well said. 🙂
Great video, James.
As you refer to Trump as just another oligarch, I’ll be ever so curious to see if he makes good on his campaign promises. While campaigning in South Carolina during the primary, he vowed to expose who was behind 9/11. I’ll believe it when I see it. At the same time, we have hope.
Of course The Donald has also revised history, speaking of “Dancing Muslims” on 9/11 who we all know were actually dancing and celebrating Israelis. The Donald has also pledged total support to Israel, a more than likely key perpetrator of 9/11 and even recorded a personal endorsement for Netanyahu, who is also high on the 9/11 suspect list and has said that 9/11 has been very good for Israel. That is only scratching the surface of Trump’s ties to the perpetrators of 9/11. Any promises or proof he offers uncovering the truth about 9/11 are smoke and mirrors.
I get that people are celebrating the blow to the oligarchy that Clinton’s defeat was, but Trump should be treated with the exact same amount of scrutiny as anyone in the Clinton/Bush dynasty when it comes to 9/11. His ties with them run deep.
Our only hope now is that a Trump presidency provides enough chaos that Putin can gain a stronger foothold against the NWO in the coming years. Putin, China and their allies represent the latest “axis” that is fighting to stop the NWO. America has long been the stronghold for NWO globalists and any leader it elects is beholden to the power of the shadow government, Trump is no exception.
L.
Pretty sure Putin is in on the whole scheme, he’s no savior.
What makes you say that? He’s specifically called out the New World Order and has moved into Syria to slow the US/UK/Israeli conquering of the Middle East by preventing Syria from falling to the “moderate rebels” (aka ISIS, CIA, Mossad, SAS). Putin is the lead voice in establishing BRICS, an economic bloc that threatens the banking oligarchy, hence the enormous amount of propaganda against him personally. He’s clamping down on the Soros funded NGOs that threaten Russian soverignty. He’s moved Russia to a market-based economy and dramatically lowered taxes and improved the quality of life for the Russian people, who adore him, and hate the west. He’s constantly moving the chess pieces against the UN and EU who are trying to undermine the former Soviet nations that want to rejoin Russia. NATO is trying to surround and dominate Russia because it is a threat to the NWO.
He’s playing a subtle hand I’ve overlooked if his actions are somehow aiding the NWO.
@L.
I tend to agree with Riley Waggaman’s assessment of the role Putin plays in the bigger scheme of things.
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/yes-russia-is-complicit-in-the-great
I have some friends that live in Russia and they confirm what Riley has been saying for over a year now.
Here is an interesting panel debate relating to this you may find informative.
Panel: “Russia & the Great Reset – Resistance or Complicity?”
https://www.rokfin.com/post/80978/Panel-Russia–the-Great-Reset–Resistance-or-Complicity?
@peace.froggs
Recent developments seem to indicate you were correct in that suspicion.
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/russia-deploys-secret-weapon-in-war
Right, you echo my sentiments exactly. I thought he was controlled opposition, but must only theorize now that things got out of hand and they couldn’t convince the American public that they actually elected Clinton. Or maybe they are going to use him as a whip against Iran/China. Who knows? I just know that him being allowed to win is proof alone that he is owned.
Also, I am new, so my comment was awaiting moderation, which is why you didn’t see it. 😀
Loved this video, James. Very insightful that TPTB are using human nature to try to puppeteer humanity (and are doing so as a result of their own human nature!)
Thank you again for all the work you do!
What I have found particularly strange about this election cycle is the number of minds in the Independent Media for whom I have great respect that have sneered and scorned and dismissed the powerful lift-off of energy this election by the American PEOPLE have provided the world. Americans took a risk in this 2nd PEACEFUL Revolution as big as it took in the 1st war ravaged Revolution. Americans voted for the UNKNOWN Trump over the KNOWN, very much bought-and-paid for TRAITOR Hillary Rodham Clinton.
I am an Independent – never belonged to either the Demons or the Repugs. However, I sensed the opportunity that was being offered the WORLD through this INDEPENDENT candidate Donald Trump running on the Repug ticket. I saw a human being, huge warts ‘n all, take on 16 traditional Repug candidates to win a nomination and then turn his attention – with ZERO SUPPORT from his Repug party leadership – to defeat the Globalist Communist Socialist Sell Out of the American Dream Hillary Clinton – and WIN!
I marveled at his courage and strength to speak TRUTH to POWER. I watched his transformation through his speeches from a molotov cocktail designed to explode reality as we know it into someone who GENUINELY CARED for the people he met while campaigning.
I saw a statesman emerge last night, one with the ability to govern – thanks to AMERICANS carrying the entire Repug ticket so that there would be no division to thwart:
1) the end of Obamacare
2)rapid de-escalation in the Middle East so as to stop the FLOOD of illegal Jihadists into America
3) the turning away from GLOBALISM toward NATIONALISM – not the most ideal solution except that by turning within to fund America it will deprive the Military Industrial Complex of its unending, unceasing funding of WAR. As Trump says, it’s time to rebuild the Inner Cities and the American infrastructure. In truth, it’s PAST time.
This vote by America is bigger than BREXIT. It will propel the dismantlement of the European Union through DIRECT trade with Britain, Russia, Mexico (taxed to build our wall) and Canada.
So sad that this incredible victory of the American people for the entire planet is so sneered at and scorned.
And yes – LOVE is the answer. Love is the cure.
The children and their drawings make a great analogy. We never truly grow up, do we? It reminds me of your words yesterday about voting, that the demoralized voter simply wants everyone around him to be just as enslaved as he is. Politicians/elites feed off of the pain and anger of the have-nots and the greedy and corrupt.
This is a powerful message. We need only look inward to bring about real change in the world. Every single action is either a step closer to freedom or slavery. There hardly needs to be any coordination of the masses if everyone looks at their actions, and does what is right and not just what is expedient.
I also want to say, since this is one of my first comments on the site, that the work done here is so important, and I am so proud to support it. James, thanks for the words of encouragement, and I hope they reach far and wide. I have read and seen much of your work over the last several years, and it is the most impactful and insightful I have seen in the truth movement. I voted hard in 2008 and 2012 for Ron Paul and in 2016 for Rand Paul, and became very disillusioned and disconnected as a result. I have discovered that I have pretty much always been an anarchist and always will be. I did not vote yesterday and won’t likely vote again. I regret not becoming a supporter sooner!
Hi James and all fellow Corbett supporters and followers.
I have to say it, I am absolutely gobsmacked and flabbergasted by the outcome of this presidential election.
I was absolutely convinced that the neocon (the powers that shouldn’t be) establishment would secure a victory one way or another. Reports of rigged polls and voting machines were of no surprise to me, and the agenda of house Clinton to occupy the white house (again!) seemed to have its way well paved. It seems to me that they really tried. Yet it hasn’t happened. How come the neocon planned scenario derailed so unexpectedly…
Have I missed something?
Which leads me to think something went wrong? What could lead to this anti- establishment outcome?
Could it be, that it would have been too blatant to mess with the voter outcome at this time? Could it be that something influenced the behind doors decision making?
I could not agree more when Julian Assange stated that they would not permit Trump to be in the white house, and frankly, I couldn’t agree more when Trump said to not accept the outcome and start an investigation if he would lose.
Not in my dreams I would have thought Trump would even attract enough votes to begin with, funny enough, he did! And as happy as I am to see “Illary” lose, I have to wonder if they have another plan, a plan B in the making. And why?
Has the establishment become careful of its actions this time? And Did Assange have an influence by stating what was planned to happen? Could it be that they could not risk an investigation by someone who has the actual means to do so??
As I have followed non MSM as well as MSM like a hawk after my awakening about five years ago (many thanks to a.o. Corbett Report), I know that there’s often more to it than meets the eye…
And as I have said before, If Trump wins the elections, they might pull a ‘Kennedy’ on him. (I couldn’t help keeping an eye on the crowd there for a moment…)
For all who haven’t seen I would like to point out this video; Jesse Ventura: Trump risks assassination if establishment likes Pence more than him at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG0Kqk35tjw
What do you think?
Thanks to Corbett Report and all who make this media outlet possible!
As always, thank you for the great work that you do.
Greetings and peace to all,
!!!Truth In Motion!!!
On this point I strongly dissent. With all of the sources that this site brings us it was obvious that the oligarchy wants a big conflict and Trump, having been caricatured as Putin loving by the MSM, is not of that opionion. The sources are plentiful on this account.
I choose LOVE
Your editor will tell you that this is a well known phenomena in Australia, known as “Tall Poppy Syndrome”.
James, this is an important message you’ve given. One suggestion: What you are describing as “human nature” is actually “sub-human nature”. Most people in this world are living within the first three stages of life that were described by Adi Da Samraj in many places, including in the book, The First Three stages of Life. Very few human beings have made the “leap to hyperspace” into true human adulthood. We are still trying to stand upright, so to speak. Most have not successfully completed their infancy, childhood, and adolescence.
So, this is a mistake we commonly make, considering how we seem to have these characteristics that have us making war on each other (sub-human nature). Some of us have moved beyond that stage and understand the insanity of such activity. Thank you for your excellent work.
Every human, every animal that walks this planet is born with an innate knowledge of right and wrong. How that knowledge plays out in a human is up to the individual. Yes, I include ALL levels of knowledge. A backwater Appalachian knows the difference. The rubber meets the road in its execution. That is called free will. Free will can overcome jealousy, envy, sloth, greed, lust, pride, gluttony and destruction of your neighbor’s flag.
Our world does not need more or better leaders. That idea is an ancient paradigm built by TPTSB to control the masses for their advantage. It assumes that humanity must be told what to do. It’s been so ingrained that you believe it. No leader is necessary among responsible people. Responsibility is exactly what James is talking about here.
Hi NES and VoiceofArabi
Listen again to James. This is a very simple and important message.
Both of you are right.
Love is not easy and it is not always gentle.
We ARE like children, our instinct is to be selfish. To want to “scribble” over someone who paints a different picture to our own.
VoiceofArabi, Love DOES want to shout and shake awake those who cannot see what is happening. Love threw over tables of the money makers an act not of anger but for the love of those who’s freedom to have a space of peace and spirituality had been taken from them. (Perhaps an allegory, but a good one)
NES, Right and wrong are subjective, we ‘know’ what is right yet, if we are honest with ourselves, we all do wrong at times. Love understands we are all very different and have very different perspectives, experiences and skills. We never stop learning if we speak our truth as we see it and we listen with respect to each other.
Every action and reaction and choice we make; if we take a conscious moment to question the motivation … boil it right down … it will come from either a place of LOVE or FEAR.
We are being being divided by the differences advertised to us. I may disagree with some of you but I will stand together with you and look out for the real dangers.
If we have any hope of change, choose love … and act on it.
W.
@NES
Well said, I concur.
In a discussion I was having with another subscriber recently (in this thread: https://www.corbettreport.com/technocracy-is-insane-anti-human-and-it-will-fail/#comment-137967 ) he spoke about how people arrive here on Earth with a “blank slate” and then they are quickly programmed with garbage belief systems, lies and degenerative worldviews that result in people making ‘garbage choices’. I agree with his assessment but I also feel that it is important to also acknowledge that each individual ‘slate’ has within it, innate characteristics that remain accessible given the right stimulus and use of one’s free will. These intrinsic characteristics within can guide one to choose actions based in integrity and compassion (even if one has had a lot of garbage put on their ‘blank slate’ due to the conditioning they have received in their life)
I explained my perspective on this innate permanent essence that exists within each human being by saying; there is indeed a Tabula rasa (“blank slate”) that can be imprinted upon when we are born onto this Earth, but it is also worth considering what the composition of the “slate” is to begin with. No two pieces of slate stone are identical but they do carry certain innate characteristics. This is also true of the soul.
Thus, while much programming and “garbage” may be able to make a mess of the surface of the ‘slate’, what the ‘slate’ is composed of remains the same. Underneath all the garbage always remains the true essence waiting to be uncovered. This is true of the slate stone and it is true of the soul.
James,
Absolutely. A little while ago I read an article that described two basic human emotions – love and fear.
Other emotions boil down to these two – we have a choice!
It took me a little while not to dismiss it as “hippyish” but it makes total sense.
Thank you for this video 🙂
W.
This was a very insightful segment, thank you James.
Your anecdote about the kids drawing flags made me think of a children’s book my wife liked to read to kids in her classes (before she had to quite over the injection mandates).
https://www.afterskool.net/book
From the website describing the book:
“There are 196 countries on earth and none of them use purple on their national flag! What’s wrong with purple? It’s such a popular color today. Why would no country want it on their flag?
Sometimes the simplest questions have the most extraordinary answers. This is the incredible true story of purple! Take a journey back to a time when purple was worth more than gold, diamonds or castles.”
Here is a little video clip that talks about the book’s contents with some animations from the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYB-pmNs4VQ
I stumbled across an essay that has some parts I feel are pertinent to the subject matter covered in the segment above. I feel compelled to share this here to hopefully spark discussion about the innate truth embodied in the title of the video above and how we can synthesize that truth into actions each of us can chose in our day to day lives.
(disclaimer: I do not necessarily agree with all of the things said in the essay but I feel there are parts that offer some compelling and practical insights).
“Before I proceed, let me make it clear that compassion does not equal capitulation. Communication does not equal compromise. Pacifism does not equal passivity. Seeing another person’s divinity does not equal letting them have their way. Listening to other views does not equal keeping silent about one’s own.
Contrary to what the partisan fears, humanizing the opponent makes us more effective, not less, in serving goals that must ultimately unite us all: healing, justice, and peace. Even if it comes to a fight, one will fight better free of delusions about the enemy.
To take a totally random example, ahem, let’s say I want to stop the technocratic plan, spearheaded by Bill Gates, to monitor, inject, track, and control every human on earth and feed their biometric data, movement data, and real time physiological data into a centralized database that can then issue privileges and restrictions that keep everyone safe. To stop this from happening, I’d better understand why it is happening. If I tell myself it is because Bill Gates & Co. are gibbering fiends bent on making others suffer, there is a lot I will not see. I will be blind to the reasons why such people are so enamored of technology to begin with. I won’t look at the implicit mythology that equates progress with control. I won’t look at cultural patterns of domination. All the while, I will be fighting a caricature and not the enemy himself..
..Now is not the time to demur and keep our heads down. It is time to stand up and speak out, and our words will be more powerful if we speak to the real human beings underneath our assumptions about them..
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..Interbeing says that outside and inside reflect and contain each other. A country that visits violence on the world will suffer domestic violence. A nation that locks up millions of its citizens cannot be free. No person can be fully healthy on a sick world. And the things we condemn the most in others live in some form within ourselves. The revered teacher Thich Nhat Hanh conveys this principle eloquently in his poem, “Call Me by My True Names.” Here are a few stanzas:
I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks,
and I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda.
I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate,
and I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving.
I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my hands,
and I am the man who has to pay his “debt of blood” to my people,
dying slowly in a forced labor camp.
My joy is like spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom in all walks of life.
My pain is like a river of tears, so full it fills the four oceans.
Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and laughs at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.
Please call me by my true names,
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart can be left open,
the door of compassion.
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If we are ever to transcend the human condition as we’ve known it, we have to start actually following the pleas of great teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh. The “true names” by which he wants to be called include my name and your name. Locating evil in others, then destroying them in hopes of destroying evil, we banish to the unconscious the parts of ourselves projected onto our enemies. There these shadows multiply, infiltrating life from within until the day when they seize command in a fit of violence.
The “door of compassion” is the dissolving of the barriers that separate. There is truth in “I am the girl. I am the pirate. I am the arms merchant.” There is truth also in “I am not any of them,” but while the latter truth is continually reinforced by modern ideology, systems, and economy, the truth of nonseparation gets lost. It is time to reclaim it. Does that mean we let pirates and arms merchants continue to ply their trade? Of course not. But we do not load onto them all the various evils we can imagine and hope to cleanse the world of evil by cleansing the world of pirates.
I would like to ask the partisans on all sides of the issues of our time to switch their allegiance. Not to the other side, but from victory to love. You may believe that your cause, for example the pro-vaccine cause or the anti-vaccine cause, is precisely love in action. And maybe it is. However, if ever you notice your side putting hate in service of the cause, you know that the primary allegiance is to winning..
..One side may indeed win the battle by arousing disgust at the villains on the other side and casting them as demons, but they will have upped the level of disgust in the world, and society will be all the more vulnerable to manipulation and violence.
Do you hold healing above victory? Are you willing to accept a resolution in which society heals, but the evildoers are never punished and you are never vindicated? Where you never get the satisfaction of having been proved right all along? Where none of your opponents are ever sorry for what they did? Where you yourself might have to countenance your own error in something you held dear? ..
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..(in) J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.. ..Boromir suggests using the power of the One Ring against the dark lord Sauron. No, counsels Gandalf. If we do that and win, whoever wields the Ring becomes the new dark lord, because it is wholly evil. Someone then suggests hiding the ring, but Gandalf says no, it will be found again, and we are seeking victory over evil not just in our own age, but for the future too.
Indulge me in this analogy. The One Ring is dehumanization. It is how dark powers rule this earth: they induce us to dehumanize each other. It is indeed a mighty weapon, and we might indeed turn it against our rulers and overthrow them. But it isn’t hard to imagine what the new rulers would be like, so sure they are in the right, so sure of the evil of those who oppose them, so practiced in the arts of ridicule and mockery, laughing at degrading caricatures of their opponents.
The wielder of the One Ring says, “Join me in the humiliation of the bad people.” She invokes the power of the mob and unleashes it on her opponents. All for a good cause, the cause of freedom, the cause of justice, only to be used until good prevails at last. Unfortunately, she has fed the very monster she seeks to overthrow. She will always fear it. She will seek not to disband the mob but to direct it, lest she become its next sacrificial victim. The ring devours its wearer.
Let us instead cast the One Ring back into the fires whence it came. How? Through billions of everyday interactions, in private and public discourse. There is another instrument we can wield that is greater than dehumanization. We might call it love. Taking many forms, it draws on the truth of each other’s divine humanness (the Christ) and our fundamental inseparability (Interbeing). It can take the form of courtesy, of humor, or of reason. It can express anger without hate, responsibility without blame, and truth without self-righteousness. It opens others up to listen: sensing they are not under attack, they feel less need to defend. By putting connecting ahead of convincing, it has the uncanny power to change minds far more effectively than any frontal assault of evidence and logic. To wield this instrument, we must be willing to be changed ourselves—that willingness is itself a powerful invitation. Without it, what reason have you to expect that anyone’s mind will change? This is the kind of humility that results from seeing others in their full humanity. Through it we can reclaim the power of the word, the power of agreement, the power of coherency. Holding each other sacred, we will make a temple of this earth.”
– Charles Eisenstein (from his essay titled “A Temple of this Earth”)