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Dozt's avatar

These next months: summer into autumn into winter will most certainly test our resolve to stand our ground. The predicted changes in now accepted "belief" systems all across the board will herald in a

time of much assessment and need to remain steady on course. Collateral damage is part of that mix. So it is thus wise to prepare physically and spiritually. Our dear sister Yolanda points the way. Thank you, dear sister. Hay wannaih!

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Yolanda Pritam Hari's avatar

It's such a relief to find sane voices in other countries who have been watching for a long time. i love India, and could not bear to imagine it was completely coopted by biotech and wokeness. i've heard Indian moms and dads rail against how universities morphed their offsprings into woke idiots and family deniers.

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Ned B.'s avatar

True, it's not over yet. The sacred has been defiled by the profane.

I was as surprised as you to see my Sebastopol spiritual community (which I sometimes jokingly called my "yoga granola organic new age starchild spirits") to be fractured by the Covid craziness into vax/no-vax camps. Heartbreaking, truth be told.

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Yolanda Pritam Hari's avatar

Let's tell the truth Ned. It's exploding out of me now and enough is enough. Problem is, I DON'T TRUST THEM ANY MORE!!! which makes it tricky to interact out there. i can't just go to spiritual events and PRETEND it never happened. We know what they would do next time too...

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Ned B.'s avatar

Once trust has been broken, then hearts are broken as well.

https://nedb.substack.com/p/betrayed-trust-breaks-hearts

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

I so agree…though I live down in SoCA in San Diego, I saw the same thing down here in that same “yoga granola organic new age beach going/surfing star child spirits” crowd.

I was up in Sebastopol in 2020 & 2021 (visiting long time friends who fall in the above category). They didn’t buy the ‘jab messaging’ and didn’t get them, but they dutifully complied with wearing masks out and about in Sonoma and Marin counties (where they work).

And the health food store in Sebastopol, Community Market, was the worst place to shop. I went in without a mask on and was confronted by two different employees to put one on. I had to inform them that they could not lawfully discriminate against me, nor deny me ‘public entry’ , as they were a public place of business (by the mere fact that their doors were open to the public), for not wearing a ‘medical device’ on my face, while shopping. They quickly backed down. The mere fact that I had to do that with the ‘namaste health food crowd’, I found appalling and tragic.

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Ned B.'s avatar

Mad props to you for standing your ground, Lupita. How ironic that Sebastopol calls itself "Peacetown."

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

Really I did not know that, that’s how the town refers to itself now?

I actually love the town of Sebastopol and the area. But I must say it’s filled with a lot of perpetual ‘bleeding heart, organic/health food, yoga, new age spiritual, progressive’ types of seekers. I have become now quite leery as well as weary of that messaging…especially when these same ‘types’ caved in big time to the Fear Porn Propaganda Messaging of the Scamdemic. And that they even believed a so called virus could kill them, and that masks could protect them (in any way from anything), and a so called ‘vaxxine’ could prevent them from getting sick!

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Ned B.'s avatar

If you'd like to indulge your leeriness/weariness, here's the peacetown origin story: https://www.peacetown.org/the-peacetown-origin-story

They do present a fantastic summer concert series for free at Ives Park.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

That is quite the ‘origin story’ on the Peacetown USA story of Sebastopol! 😉😀

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Yolanda Pritam Hari's avatar

Frontera Lupita, i feel the hot simmer of a rising conversation - it's time to blow the top and blow their cover. i really need to address the imposed spiritual divide that resulted from the lie, and how TRAUMATIC that was and STILL IS for so many of us. What posers so-called hippee-dippees are today. HOW did everyone just go back to all those centers that closed, banned people, and demanded the shottyshot, and now act as if nothing ever happened??!!! i'm being as cool as i can waiting for the next move, the next article, that can expose, challenge, and reveal. Sigh, still not time yet. i hope/sense you and Ned are helping push me to the edge - or maybe we're all shoving each other softly. i don't want to accuse or shame, BUT i/we do need to point out the obvious...and see what comes...

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Sabrina Page's avatar

I think the issue with the spiritual crowd is that they were not living in their bodies enough, so didn't have access to their gut instinct telling them it wasn't safe and/or 'followed the leader'.

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Yolanda Pritam Hari's avatar

i also think eastern-oriented practices with their emphasis on humility, servitude, and submission to authority + weak-willed less-deep-than-they-think-they-are crowds = disaster and the death of the sovereign mind

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Sabrina Page's avatar

great point

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