Sex and the Spiritual Path

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Feb 9, 2022

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Is it good or bad to have sex? Is sex love or physical activity? What is sexual energy? Flirting, sex, power: is it the dictatorship of images? What is chastity? What is celibacy? How does the system impose false feelings on a person? Is sex a hindrance on the spiritual path? 

Mysterious female nature. A woman as a source of power that begets life. Why was a woman forced to forget that she is a mother? Why was it said in ancient times that a woman is forty steps closer to heaven than a man? The internal fire of Love: how are the powers of Allat generated? 

What does a man not know about his own nature and the nature of a woman? Why do men strive for immeasurable wealth and power? What is the basis of sudden changes in mood, desires and passions? Why do men need power over women? 

FEMALE GROUPS IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY. 

ALLAT SISTERS: the heavenly birds, the spiritual heritage, and the true wealth of humanity. Why were the Allat Sisters called “heavenly birds” and deeply worshipped in ancient times? Why were there no wars and violence during a certain period of humanity’s history? Allat’hiara as assistants to the Allat Sisters. What was the cause of a decline in humanity’s spiritual development? 

Sophia’s group of the Knights Templar. What did the invincible might and secret force of the Knights Templar consist of? What was the Templars’ historical mistake? 

A sensational letter by a famous God-fighter. What happens to those who oppose spiritual forces, and what is this fraught with for society? What is hidden behind sodomy? 

Why can we recently observe a worldwide trend of decreasing sexual activity among people? Why are children with a development delay born? Why is the “celibacy syndrome” observed? The end times. Warnings of the ancients regarding the advent of the Angel of Apocalypse. The time of choice and decision-making. Whom do you serve? 

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The Psychology of Stress, Orgasm, and Creativity

“To understand the vagina properly is to realize that it is not only coextensive with the female brain, but is also, essentially, part of the female soul.”
By Maria Popova

“The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’” philosopher Alain de Botton argued in his meditation on sex, “the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.” But in his attempt to counter the reductionism that frames human sexuality as a mere physiological phenomenon driven solely by our evolutionary biology, de Botton overcompensates by reducing in the opposite direction, negating the complex interplay of brain and biology, psychology and physiology, that propels the human sexual experience. That’s precisely what Naomi Wolf, author of the 1991 cultural classic The Beauty Myth, examines in Vagina: A New Biography (public library) — a fascinating exploration of the science behind the vastly misunderstood mind-body connection between brain and genitalia, consciousness and sexuality, the poetic and the scientific. What emerges is a revelation of how profoundly a woman’s bodily experience influences nearly every aspect of life, from stress to creativity, through the intricate machinery that links biology and beingness.

Wolf writes:

Female sexual pleasure, rightly understood, is not just about sexuality, or just about pleasure. It serves, also, as a medium of female self-knowledge and hopefulness; female creativity and courage; female focus and initiative; female bliss and transcendence; and as medium of a sensibility that feels very much like freedom. To understand the vagina properly is to realize that it is not only coextensive with the female brain, but is also, essentially, part of the female soul.

Once one understands what scientists at the most advanced laboratories and clinics around the world are confirming — that the vagina and the brain are essentially one network, or “one whole system,” as they tend to put it, and that the vagina mediates female confidence, creativity, and sense of transcendence — the answers to many of these seeming mysteries fall into place.


Handcrafted vagina embroidery by artist Kira Scarlet

A pivotal player in this mediation is the female pelvic nerve — a sort of information superhighway that branches out from the base of the spinal cord to the cervix, connecting the latter to the brain and thus controlling much of sexual response. But this information superhighway is really more like a superlabyrinth, the architecture of which differs enormously from one woman to another, and is completely unique for each one. This diversity of wiring in the highly complex female pelvic neural network helps explain why women have wildly different triggers for orgasm. (By contrast, the male pelvic neural network is significantly simpler, consisting of comparatively regular neural pathways arranged neatly in a grid that surrounds the penis in a circle of pleasure.) This biological reality, Wolf points out, clashes jarringly with the dominant culturally constructed fantasy of how sexual intercourse is supposed to proceed:

The pornographic model of intercourse — even our culture’s conventional model of intercourse, which is quick, goal-oriented, linear, and focused on stimulation of perhaps one or two areas of a woman’s body — is just not going to do it for many women, or at least not in a very profound way, because it involves such a superficial part of the potential of women’s neurological sexual response systems.

Another key component of sexual experience is the autonomic nervous system (ANS) — the puppeteer of arousal, controlling all smooth muscle contractions and affecting the body’s response beyond conscious control. It encompasses both the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions, and ensures they work in unison. Because arousal precedes orgasm, the ANS first needs to do its own work before the complex pelvic neural network can work its own magic. Wolf writes:

For women, sexual response involves entering an altered state of consciousness. … In women, the biology of arousal is more delicate than most of us understand, and it depends significantly on this sensitive, magical, slowly calmed, and easily inhibited system.

To be sure, Wolf reminds us that it’s not at all uncommon for women to have a physiological response during rape, despite the enormous psychological pain and stress of the assault, but this response is not the same as the transcendent, dimensional orgasm that takes place when brain and body work in harmonious bliss. This also holds true in sexual situations that aren’t as violent as rape but still assault the ANS in one way or another:

If a woman’s ANS response is ignored, she can have intercourse and even climax; but she won’t necessarily feel released, transported, fulfilled, or in love, because only a superficial part of her capacity to respond has been made love to, or engaged.

In fact, the most fascinating aspect of the ANS, absolutely critical yet poorly understood, is that it is profoundly impacted by the mental landscape, steering the immutable interdependence between brain and vagina. The ANS, which serves as the translator between the psychological and the physiological, is thus particularly vulnerable to what psychologists call “bad stress.” (By contrast, the “good stress” many women experience in exciting or mock-dangerous sexual scenarios which they still control can be compelling and pleasurable.) “Bad stress” stems from the perceived lack of safety, and the presence of safety is absolutely essential to catapulting the female brain into the kind of “high” orgasm that is only possible in this disinhibited trance state. Wolf explains:

This biological, evolutionary connection for women of possible ecstasy to emotional security has implications that cannot be overstressed. Relaxing allows for female arousal.

Just as being valued and relaxed can heighten female sexual response, “bad stress” can dramatically interfere with all of women’s sexual processes.

“Bad stress,” researchers have now abundantly confirmed, has exactly the same kind of negative effect on female arousal and on the vagina itself. When a woman feels threatened or unsafe, the sympathetic nervous system — the parasympathetic nervous system’s partner in the ANS — kicks in. This system regulates the “fight or flight” response: as adrenaline and catecholamines are released in the brain, nonessential systems such as digestion and, yes, sexual response, close down; circulation constricts, because the heart needs all the blood available to help the body run or fight; and the message to the body is “get me out of here.” Based on [research insights], we now know that threatening environment — which can include even vague verbal threats centered on the vagina or dismissive language about the vagina — can close down female sexual response.

This notion that biology conditions consciousness and vice versa, of course, isn’t new. But the research Wolf cites presents compelling evidence that “bad stress,” especially rape and early sexual trauma, can have profound biological effects:

There is growing, if still preliminary, evidence that rape and early sexual trauma can indeed “stay in the body” — even stay in the vagina — and change the body on the most intimate, systemic level. Recovery is possible, but treatment should be specialized. Rape and early sex abuse can indeed permanently change the working of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) — so crucial for female arousal; and, if she is not supported by the right treatment, it can permanently alter the way a woman breathes, the rate of her heart, her blood pressure, and her startle reaction, in a manner that is not under any conscious control.

Even more strikingly, some studies have found that elevated SNS activation is linked to a variety of health hazards seemingly unrelated to sexual trauma, including vertigo, motor control and balance issues, visual processing problems, and elevated startle response. In other words, sexual abuse alters the brain in a way that sabotages multiple body systems and damages healthy stress response. Wolf recapitulates the implications poignantly:

Understood in this way, and with this significant evidence, rape and sexual assault, with their attendant trauma, should be understood not just as a form of forced sex; they should also be understood as a form of injury to the brain and body, and even as a variant of castration.

Demonstrating just how strong the connection between mind and body is, Korean researchers discovered that stress and sexual trauma actually affect, on a biological level, the very functioning of the vagina. Studying female rats, they found that “chronic physical stress modifies [sexual behavior] through a mechanism believed to involve complex changes in sex hormones, endocrine factors, and neurotransmitters.” What’s more, they were able to identify the precise biological mechanism responsible for this deep-seated interplay:

Evidently nitric oxide (NO) and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) play important roles in vaginal and clitoral engorgement — helping the smooth muscle of the vagina relax and the vaginal tissues swell in preparation for arousal and orgasm — and these chemicals and their actions are inhibited when females are negatively stressed.

The researchers found that the stressed-out female rats were less receptive and more hostile to their male partners, displaying measurable aggression and irritability, and ultimately refusing to copulate. Stress, it turns out, diminished the female rats’ ability to reach arousal by greatly impairing their genital blood flow. The scientists concluded:

In animal model studies, mental or physical stress increases the level of serum catecholamines, thereby causing vascular contraction, which in turn reduces blood flow and leads to sexual dysfunction. . . . Since stress is concomitant with an increased output of catecholamines in blood . . . it is reasonable to assume that blood flow to the genital organs reduces during periods of stress. . . . [W]e measured norepinephrine as an indirect index of catecholamine level and found that it increased in the stress group and decreased in the recovery group. This result indirectly supports the suggestion that stress affects female genital blood flow.

Most ominous of all was the projection that if such stress levels were sustained over time, the physiological changes they cause would eventually affect the vaginal tissue itself. Indeed, researchers tested those tissues after the female rats were dead and found “biologically measurable changes.”

Women, of course, are not rats, but this only means that the effects of such stress are even more profound. Wolf argues that besides impairing women’s ability to reach orgasm, “bad stress” also affects the overall capacity for joy, hopefulness, and creativity. Unlike rats, humans are also susceptible to forms of abuse beyond the physical — Wolf cites the tragically prevalent cultural tendency to deride the vagina and its owner, embedded even in the slang we have for female genitalia. She writes:

The role of manipulating female stress in targeting the vagina should not be ignored. This behavior—ridiculing the vagina—makes perfect instinctive sense. These acts are often impersonal and tactical—strategies for directing a kind of pressure at women that is not consciously understood but may be widely intuited, and even survive in folk memory, as eliciting a wider neuropsychological “bad stress” response that actually debilitates women.

She cites one particularly unsettling example:

In 2010, male Yale students gathered at a “Take Back the Night” event, where their female classmates were marching in a group, protesting against sexual assault. The young men chanted at the protesters, “No means yes and yes means anal.” Some of the young women brought a lawsuit against the university, arguing that tolerating such behavior created an unequal educational environment. Ethically they are in the right, and neurobiologically they are right as well. Almost all young women who face a group of their male peers chanting such slogans are likely to feel instinctively slightly panicked. On some level they are getting the message that they may be in the presence of would-be rapists — making it impossible to shrug off immature comments, as women are often asked to do. They sense there is a wider risk to them that is being threatened, and indeed there is, but it is not just the risk of sexual assault. If they are stressed regularly in this way, they will indeed depress the whole subtle and delicate network of neurobiological triggers and reactions that make them feel good, happy, competent, and as if they know themselves.

One study termed the complex and lasting effects of such stress, an increasingly recognizable medical pattern, “multisystem dysfunction” — and it can effect such a wide array of physical health issues as higher risk of diabetes and heart disease, hormonal imbalances, and fertility problems. But the most damaging consequences of these physical changes, Wolf argues, are cognitive and psychoemotional:

The female body reacts in the same way to “bad stress” whether the context is the birthing room or the university or the workplace. If the female brain senses that an environment is not safe, its stress response inhibits all the same organs and systems, regardless of setting. Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain’s question: Is it safe for her?

So if a woman goes to work or to study in a sexually dangerous or threatening atmosphere day after day, she risks — because of the cumulative, long-term effect of that “bad stress” — having the letting-go, creative “relaxation response” inhibited even outside her work or school environment.

If you sexually stress a woman enough, over time, other parts of her life are likely to go awry; she will have difficulty relaxing in bed eventually, as well as in the classroom or in the office. This in turn will inhibit the dopamine boost she might otherwise receive, which would in turn prevent the release of the chemicals in her brain that otherwise would make her confident, creative, hopeful, focused — and effective, especially relevant if she is competing academically or professionally with you. With this dynamic in mind, the phrase “fuck her up” takes on new meaning.

The vagina responds to the sense of female safety, in that circulation expands, including to the vagina, when a woman feels she is safe; but the blood vessels to the vagina constrict when she feels threatened. This may happen before the woman consciously interprets her setting as threatening. So if you continually verbally threaten or demean the vagina in the university or in the workplace, you continually signal to the woman’s brain and body that she is not safe. “Bad” stress is daily raising her heart rate, pumping adrenaline through her system, circulating catecholamines, and so on. This verbal abuse actually makes it more difficult for her to attend to the professional or academic tasks before her.

Yet despite the compelling scientific evidence, the most moving and encompassing point Wolf makes is an anthropological one:

The way in which any given culture treats the vagina — whether with respect or disrespect, caringly or disparagingly — is a metaphor for how women in general in that place and time are treated.



Vagina: A New Biography is absolutely fascinating in its entirety. For a less scientific but no less pause-giving take, complement it with The Big Feminist BUT: Comics about Women, Men and the Ifs, Ands & Buts of Feminism, then revisit Susan Sontag on sex.

 

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THE REAL REASON WHY WOMEN HAVE BEEN OPPRESSED

By Noel Huntley, Ph.D.

Strictly, it is not women who have been suppressed, but the feminine energy--they are not exactly synonymous. This negative action might be considered to be one of the most closely guarded, certainly concealed, secrets on planet Earth for many thousands of years.

This suppression applies to both males and females. 'Male' does not mean masculine. Physics will eventually be sufficiently advanced in the humanities to understand the ratio of masculine and feminine energies. The balanced male contains a proportion of the feminine energy component; which ideally would be 50%; that is 50/50 masculine/feminine. 

With this ratio the masculine energy cannot distort. The feminine energy, however, in women might be considered ideal even if 100% feminine; though a small component of masculine energy might be practical but could, however, be provided by the male. This large difference would seem to be expected since we only have to observe the huge difference on this planet between males and females---they are almost alien relative to one another (this is not easily observed because of what is taken for granted; programmed).

If we consider the theoretical balanced male and program him to be more masculine, precisely what society encourages today with great ignorance of the big picture, he becomes aberrated; behaviour deviates from the norm (as in the condition today). And a civilisation will head towards destruction. The inspiration for even an Einstein when making a discovery, will originate within the feminine energy component within the individual, and the masculine energy will bring it to fruition. Thus the feminine initiates and creates, and the masculine energy puts it into practice. Note that similarly the female has been programmed to be more masculine.

In terms of physics, the magnetic energy is associated with the feminine polarity, and the masculine with the electric energy. Extraterrestrial and spiritual material has been hinting at this for a while but Dr. Larry Boren even wrote a book on this in 1965, which will be reprinted and appreciated much more today. He makes it clear that the magnetic force comes first and then the electric; and appropriately adds that the electromagnetic wave should be renamed the magnetic-electric wave.

This feminine/masculine principle is present in all universal phenomena. One of the tools of control and suppression used by the negative aliens, in particular, the Draconian reptilians, essentially operating through humans (the Illuminati, etc.), is to bias the species' energy towards the masculine. If one wants a science-fiction example of an 'advanced' civilisation which is unbalanced in this way, consider the Klingons in Star Trek.

We must not, however, lose sight of the larger viewpoint and that any set-up even in our unbalanced civilisation would apparently have an agreed-upon purpose. This is where the Luciferic energy enters our civilisation. We all know that the idea of the Temptation has both a positive and negative implication. Its purpose was positive but it could lead into negativity. This is the principle and whether one believes in the notion of a Lucifer or not it does not change the fact that the physics of the energies unbalancing our race was of this kind.

Interesting ET information tells us in fact that Lucifer had an imbalance towards the masculine energy. The Explorer Race books relates that his father was from Orion--a masculine source---and his mother from Sirius (feminine). The masculine energy was given dominance in Lucifer and this was the condition being presented to Earth. Our race at the mass consciousness level had agreed to this so-called experiment which had the purpose of exploring individuality, and data-processing the nature of problems, negativity, fragmented energies, to bring them into integration.

Note that Lucifer was apparently a projection from a higher, enlightened being who would volunteer to play 'mischief maker' for this experiment. The Lucifer then operating on Earth would be programmed to forget his source and play a genuine role. The intentions were not bad, at least initially. As per this ET information, Lucifer came to Earth (with other Sirians) and didn't like what he saw: Atlanteans functioning in harmony, with perfect teamwork, support for all, an organisation giving preference to the whole, an excess of feminine energy from his viewpoint; even a benevolent technology (which we won't explain here). Lucifer encouraged the natives to act for themselves more, create tools, etc. not in accordance with harmonious principles. This appeared attractive to the peoples at that time.

Continuing with the Explorer Race material, after a few thousand years the civilisation was at war; conflict had been introduced. Lucifer in fact began to realise he had become a Satan and wished to remove himself from this duty. Briefly, he wasn't able to and then became bitter and more deliberately satanic.

This state of affairs exists today. Our species has achieved the goal of exploring and developing individuality and independence, but as one can see it has gone too far into separation beyond the optimum. This increased separation has resulted in massive ego-development on this planet, resulting in deficient ability in experiencing compassion, perceiving another's viewpoint and, in particular, another's suffering.

Let us summarise some of the true attributes of the masculine (electric) and feminine (magnetic) energies. The masculine energy, from a higher spiritual perspective, as already stated, has been 'allowed' to dominate, to push the race towards greater independence and individuality. This energy thus gives rise to a quantitative reality (fragmented and requiring 3D logic). The feminine energy is connected to Source (magnetic stillness and attractive force). It is a totally benevolent force, holistic and qualitative; providing the sustaining, nurturing energies, the intuition, and inspiration, but also motivating thought and action. The masculine energy, besides action, yields the intellect and logic, which we should note is only 3D, at our human level, that is, a property of our external world and does not handle inner space and higher dimensions. The masculine energy is restless and forever seeks (even if subconsciously) the Source. It is particularly adaptable to abilities in the material plane. One of its main strengths, however, is that it produces change, even though by introducing discomfort. This can be very valuable to higher consciousness (such as the Source), which desires exploration and discovery, new probabilities to be taken.

Starting with our excessively masculine society, the more advanced the civilisation the more feminine energy it will take on. What happens when we have excessive feminine energy in a species or race, say, 90% feminine energy. According to channelling such civilisations are apparently very common in the galaxy, living in a state of bliss for millions of years; but stagnant---no expansion of consciousness (see the Explorer Race books). This, however, is not desirable to higher consciousness, as mentioned, and the human species, now having researched negativity to the full, has enabled some of these races to recognise that they will have to introduce some masculine energy and discomfort to evolve their consciousness further.

It would appear that there are other workable ratios between masculine and feminine. For example, the Essassani race (which is equivalent to a hybrid of human and Zeta) are more balanced; something like 55% male, 45% female for the male, and vice-versa for the female. Humans could seemingly evolve to this ratio also.

The deviations of the masculine/feminine balance in each gender today towards excessive masculinity is clearly apparent in the egotistical, 'macho', tough image, selfish, insensitive behaviour and the lack of compassion and lack of ability to know anyone else's suffering.

Most aspects of society's influence on people reflect the masculine imbalance; from the education of the left brain to entertainment heroes with images of materialistic success, obsessiveness in competition, cool emotionless unfeeling behaviour, one-upmanship, etc. These are all characteristics of polarity and the absence of the benign feminine energies resonating with magnetic unity consciousness. However, many women are today developing this imbalanced masculine behaviour, demonstrating ego, insensitivity, bad language, selfishness, etc.

Nevertheless we see the trend towards a more feminine society, in the balanced sense, though not in the form of the women's liberation movement, which is still reflecting the masculine energy in the manner the movement approaches the problem. Woman are being enticed to become more masculine with the illusion that this is what equal rights is all about. We are not talking about women doing men's jobs or possibly even developing muscular bodies, such as in body building, but about the personality, the psychology of the female---as per the characteristics we have described. The female has been on the losing side for so long that it is a natural subconscious reaction to copy the other side---but this is another aspect of the trap. It is sad to see the educated woman attaining, say, professorship and finally able to think logically like a man, and having eliminated that 'irrational intuition'.

Intuition, inspiration and holistic perception relate to the right brain; it contains the feminine principle, whereas the left brain handles logic, intellect, language, analysis and fragmentation.

The intuition is always correct. There are no limits to its power, even ultimately surpassing the intellect via the right brain plus the heart centre. Thus education is designed (contrived by underlying negative influences) to suppress the right brain and develop the left, using the latter to define intelligence and intellect by creating a reality based on and rewarding these left-brain traits. All realities are valid. It is entirely up to man to choose a reality which is most desired overall.

If one is still questioning the causes of negativity amongst humans on this planet, then we are in effect stating that if we began with the theoretical state of total magnetic unity there would be no negative build up since the unity would prevent any harm done to anything. Society would remain totally benevolent. But if we introduce a little negativity, or the potential for rapid change, and development of individuality through the masculine energy, then this change could eventually result in a build up of negativity---which is what has happened.

This masculine/feminine imbalance may eventually be recognised as one of the key items and causes of our species' degeneration. And vice versa, proper acknowledgment of the role of the feminine principle and its restoration in society, giving balance and harmony, will bring inevitable peace, sanity, and higher evolution to the planet. It is vital that we recognise the unprecedented importance of this massive distortion in our civilisation, which could be the most determinant factor in the survival of our species.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~noelh/MasculineFeminineEd.htm

The Agenda Behind Gender Bending

December 3, 2012

(Lord Carey, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, is smeared for opposing gay marriage.)

Homosexuality, transgenderism and the attack on m/f are steps in a long-term satanic plan to make human reproduction a function of the State, like education. They want to breed us like cattle (i.e goyim).

"We are entering a realm of gender chaos where people can decide what gender they are independent of their genital organs. This is a not-so-subtle attack at heterosexuals, as in cases where, for example, the transgendered male demands to use female washrooms."

by GB
(henrymakow.com)

We are now familiar with pro-homosexual bias both in the western media, and in the Anglo-American political elite. In the UK, increasingly media personalities and politicians openly promote the homosexual agenda.

The stated aim is for society to accept that the homosexual lifestyle is on a par with the traditional family paradigm. Anyone daring to question this assumption is attacked and branded as being "outdated, hateful, and offensive".

The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey is the latest victim of such homosexual swarming. Even his former college (Kings College, London) is being pressured to remove his photograph from their famous alumni display. (Sounds like Stalin's Russia doesn't it?)

Thomas Clayton, the Student Union President, said in The London Evening Standard:

"The implication that homosexual relationships are in any way inferior to heterosexual ones is one we believe to be deeply offensive, archaic and something the College should seek to distance itself from immediately."

Treating defenders of society as pariahs who have breached fundamental standard of decency is a long time tactic of Communists, Masons and Satanist (Cabalist) Jews. They resort to smears because they cannot justify their policies.

Forcing humanity to accept sodomy has little to do with homosexual rights. Rather, it is part of a wider campaign to undermine the very fabric of society itself.

Let's be clear, without the traditional family paradigm, none of us would be here, and without a family upbringing, few of us would be well adjusted, responsible, functioning members of what remains of society.

The male-female and extended family model has been the blueprint from the beginning, and both society and the newborn child rely on it to be strong, secure, and stable.

The homosexual lifestyle is portrayed as being cool, fun, and contemporary, as opposed to the traditional family paradigm which is seen as being prosaic and boring.

In particular homosexual sex (sodomy) is being portrayed as a somehow "purer", as in a more distilled, rarefied version of sex. It is only a matter of time before these ideas work their way into the mainstream.

TRANSGENDERISM

Another aspect of the homosexual agenda is the promotion of transgenderism. TV shows such as My Transsexual Summer and Transsexual Beauty Queen are aired by mainstream channels and given media fanfare. Such programs are carefully edited to portray the protagonists as courageous and deserving of our sympathy and support in their sex-change quest.

My Transsexual Summer is touted as "A series that follows seven people who are undertaking a range of gender affirmation procedures as they make the journey to realize their true identities"

The protagonists are seen as being on a kind of quest from being unhappy in one gender, to being happy in another. Also, interestingly enough, gender realignment is usually male to female.

People struggling with gender issues are deserving of our sympathy. However this is entirely different from actively promoting gender realignment as part of a wider attack on gender itself which is already wreaking havoc among western youth.

A friend recently told me about a twenty-something girl she knows who is in a relationship with a twenty-something man. The girl has decided to reclassify herself as a homosexual man while not having any gender realignment surgery. The reasons for her doing this are unclear, other than the fact that she sees being a homosexual man as being 'cooler' than a straight woman?

We are entering a realm of gender chaos where people can decide what gender they are independent of their genital organs. This is a not so subtle attack at heterosexuals, as in cases where, for example, the transgendered male demands to use female washrooms.

There is a "bathroom bill" that will allow any man who dresses like a woman to spy on them being introduced in Canada right now.

Another aspect of this heterophobic attack has been unisex bathrooms in university residences and at other public institutions. 

PITFALLS OF GENDER CHANGE
The website www.sexchangeregret.com is an interesting resource . Walt Heyer changed his sex from male to female and then back to male after experiencing regret. He set out to discover if he was just an isolated case of misdiagnosis, which of course he wasn't! Far from it.

After writing two books on the subject Walt concluded that sex-change surgery "will not fix the underlying delusional psychological behaviour that caused the request for surgery."

A 2003 long term study of sex reassigned persons by the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Division of Psychiatry, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden concluded:

"Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity [diseased state] than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism."

A 2004 article The Guardian article states: "Sex changes are not effective say researchers."

"There is no conclusive evidence that sex change operations improve the lives of transexuals, with many people remaining severley depressed and even suicidal after the operation."

We wonder if such an article would be published today.

The promotion of gender confusion should not come as any surprise. Our personal identity and purpose is bound up in our gender. The attack on gender is a big part of the Illuminati's psychological war.

The promotion of homosexuality and transgenderism was never intended to help anyone. Instead, it is designed to undermine marriage and family and to create as much chaos as possible.

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From Real Women of Canada:

December is a busy time as we prepare to celebrate the Christmas season. However, it is urgent that we all take a few minutes to express our opposition to Bill C-279, the transgender bill.

A third reading of the bill and a final vote is expected any day.

Bill C-279 proposes to add gender identity and gender expression as prohibited grounds of discrimination in both the Human Rights Act and the hate crime provisions in the Criminal Code.

The bill is confusing and dangerous since it does not define the meaning of the words, "gender identity" and "gender expression." The meaning and implications of such legislation is unknown.

Often referred to as the 'bathroom bill', the passage of Bill C-279 would allow all individuals to enter washrooms, change rooms, locker rooms, etc of the opposite sex. Furthermore, the bill has far reaching ramifications for law and public policy.

NDP MP Randall Garrison, who introduced the bill, has indicated he would accept an amendment to remove "gender expression" from the bill as it is covered by the term "gender identity". This was confirmed by NDP MP Philip Toone who defined "gender expression" as how a person's gender identity is communicated to others through emphasizing, de-emphasizing or changing behaviour, dress, speech and/or mannerisms." Consequently, removing "gender expression" from the bill would not change the impact of this legislation.

The major effect of this bill is that transgendered, transsexual and sexually confused individuals will be given full protection in employment, services, housing in public institutions under federal jurisdiction. These behaviours will be "normalized", accepted and protected.

Attitude, behaviour, dress, speech or mannerisms are subjective personal characteristics unlike race and sex which are objective categories that everyone has. Bill C-279 is not necessary. All Canadians are already equal before and under the law.

Please ASAP fax, email or phone your MP, the Justice Minister and the Prime Minister to politely request they oppose Bill C-279, with or without amendments.

The Hon Prime Minister Stephen Harper: pm@pm.gc.ca Tel 613-992-4211 Fax 613-941-6900
The Hon Justice Minister Rob Nicholson: rob.nicholson@parl.gc.ca Tel 613-995-1547, Fax 613- 992-7910
Your MP: Contact information at: http://www.parl.gc.ca

Pleasure is the structure of society

Pleasure is the structure of society. From childhood until death we are secretly, cunningly, or obviously pursuing pleasure. So, whatever our form of pleasure is, I think we should be very clear about it because it is going to guide and shape our lives. It is, therefore, important for each one of us to investigate closely, hesitantly, and delicately this question of pleasure, for to find pleasure and then nourish and sustain it is a basic demand of life and, without it, existence becomes dull, stupid, lonely, and meaningless.

You must ask, why then should life not be guided by pleasure? For the very simple reason that pleasure must bring pain, frustration, sorrow, and fear and, out of fear, violence. If you want to live that way, live that way most of the world does anyway, but if you want to be free from sorrow you must understand the whole structure of pleasure.

To understand pleasure is not to deny it. We are not condemning it or saying it is right or wrong; but, if we pursue it, let us do so with our eyes open, knowing that a mind that is all the time seeking pleasure must inevitably find its shadow, pain.
Now, why is the mind always demanding pleasure? Why is it that we do noble and ignoble things with the undercurrent of pleasure? Why is it we sacrifice and suffer on the thin thread of pleasure? What is pleasure, and how does it come into being? (JKrishnamurti, Freedom from the Known,34)

Real Women Want Dominant Men

REAL MEN ARE DOMINANT

Last month, in response to my "Hidden Knowledge of Heterosexuality," Jacqueline, 61, from Holland wrote: I have a partner almost 16 years younger than I am, of North African descent, who totally is the "Boss" and I love it. He really makes me feel like a woman and treats me very well. Most European men are not real men."

I invited her to expand.

I love being the partner of a dominant man. That to me is a real "turn-on".

by Jacqueline
(henrymakow.com)

What is a real woman and what does it mean to be a real woman?

Let me begin by saying that I'm a woman with a strong character, who knows what she wants; and what I want is a real man.

A real woman intuitively knows/feels what her man wants/needs. A real woman is never a slave. She takes care he is comfortable and feels relaxed. She never denies him sex or uses sex as a bribe to get what she wants. She loves to be loved and wanted. She also knows when to " shut up."

A real woman is confident about herself and has no need to pretend to be someone she is not. She knows WHO she is.

What is a real man and what does it mean to be a real man?

Many men pretend to be real men while in fact they are not. They're the kind of men I would definitely not like to share my life with. I'd rather be alone than having to live with a "wannabe" real man.

A real man has this natural dominance which is very attractive and even sexy to a real woman.

Non-real women do not like this at all in a man. They want a "Wuss" they can boss about.

A real man never bullies or bosses his partner about. He has a natural and gentle way of letting a woman know what he wants and expect from her. In return he will take good care of her and keep her safe and satisfied. Above all, he loves her.

Together a real man and a real woman are a strong couple.

Everyone encounters problems in life but the way one solves them shows who you are. Does one run away from problems or does one face and solve them? Facing and solving is always the best solution, at least to me it is.

Dutch "Men"

To me Dutch men are totally unattractive, most of them are wannabe "real men" . I prefer men of Arab descent.

Of course, there are nice Dutch men but they do not possess that natural masculinity North African and the Near Eastern men have, nor do they have this natural dominance which is so attractive and sexy to a woman like me. It's a very exciting and thrilling sensation which makes you want him all over you!

I've never met a Dutch man who was an authentic man. They are dull; in bed they are a disaster, oops! They believe or rather pretend to be real man because they beat up their wives or girlfriends. When you give a type like that some lip, you'll be having a thick lip literally.

Dutch men are so totally unattractive: they drink too much. Yuck, sorry but I'm very picky when it comes to a relationship.

I thank God for having found such a wonderful young man on my path. I have never been happier in my life. I wish that every real woman would/could find such a wonderful and gentle man as he.

My "Wimp" of the year is our Prime Minister Mark Rutte. He's not married; you never see him with a woman; nor with a man. He has dinner with his mother weekly. Many people wonder whether he is gay or not. Some people even wonder (joke) whether he even has a d*ck. Oh yeah, he laughs everything away. He's a flip-flopper. He speaks with two tongues; in Dutch Parliament he says this and with regard to the European Parliament he says that. And in the meantime our economy is going down the drain.

How am I able to attract a much younger man?

First of all, I look younger than I am. People call me attractive and sexy. As a spiritual human being, my inside shows on the outside. The fact I'm 1.59 m and curvy seems to add to the attraction. My age (61) is and never has been an issue. My man is 44 years old.

Most important to me however is, a man is attracted to WHO I am and not WHAT I am.

Besides physical attraction, there also is mental attraction. We both love discussions about a variety of subjects, life in general, politics, history, music, the "Crisis" (who doesn't these days!) and more. We have the same taste with regard to music and movies. We both love reading. He reads French literature; I read Japanese literature.

When it comes to sex, it's the best ever. There are no taboos in the bedroom. When having sex we are like one body, a unity of two souls. To me it's one of the most beautiful and emotional experiences I have. I've never had and felt that before.

So actually, the attraction is physical, emotional, spiritual and mental and that is something one doesn't find very often in life.

Furthermore, I'm an excellent cook, that adds to the attraction too! Chinese, Japanese, Moroccan, Indonesian, Italian, French, I love it.

Holland Today

On my mother's side, I am part French; dad was full blood Dutch. Some people think I'm Moroccan; others think I'm from the Caribbean, France or Eastern Europe. I was born in Holland. From age 7 up till 17 I lived in Africa, Nigeria and Liberia. I lived in the US for a while.

I did not know much about Holland untill the end of 1967 when I returned to Holland at age 17.

Women's Liberation was a big issue in those days. They were allowed to work while being married. That wasn't allowed in the 50's. When a woman got married, she had to give up her work and be a stay at home wife/mother. My mother was one of them. In the 70's, it was normal for a married woman to have a job too. Plenty of day care centers for the children in those days.

Since the end of the 80's, society has changed completely. Men are no longer the sole bread-winner. Often these days, a woman makes more money than her husband. Very often the woman works and dad takes care of the kid(s).

Society has also become more aggressive. The "crisis" is not helping either.

Politically everything sucks too. We have this extreme right politician Geert Wilders who is trying to divide people instead of bringing them together.

Too many political parties to really make a fist to solve the crisis. We the people deserve better politicians.

Cultural Warfare: Judaism Against Humanity?

Illuminati Jewish Bankers and Freemasons have undermined Christian civilization and are replacing it with a world police state dedicated to Satan. Humanity is being inducted into their satanic cult under the guise of being "sexual liberated" and "progressive."

Jonas Alexis documents this process in his book, Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism: Surprising Differences, Conflicting Visions, and Worldview Implications--From the Early Church to our Modern Time. This is an excerpt from Chapter Two, "Prostitution, Sexual Liberation & Cultural Warfare."

The real cause of anti-Semitism is that Cabalist Jews are at the forefront of advancing the Luciferian principle - the denial of mankind's highest aspirations (the soul and spiritual ideals) and instead defining man as an animal. Culture now celebrates man's lowest instincts and satanic behavior. Culture used to uplift and inspire; now it degrades and destroys. Like their god Lucifer, the Illuminati are in rebellion against God, and are leading humanity to destruction. 

"The first prerequisite for healthier human and sexual relationships is the elimination of those moral concepts which base their demands on allegedly supernatural commands, on arbitrary human regulations, or simply on tradition...We do not want to see natural sexual attraction stamped as 'sin,' 'sensuality' fought as something low and beastly, and the 'conquering of the flesh' made the guiding principle of morality!" Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957, Austrian Jewish psychiatrist) 1.

By Jonas Alexis (jonasealexis7@yahoo.com)
(henrymakow.com)

The bottom line is that sexual liberation is viewed as one of the most effective ways to counteract the Christian principles that still remain at the heart of American culture.

Let's look at Wilhelm Reich ... When he set out to attack Christianity--and Jesus Christ in particular, as his blasphemous book The Murder of Christ demonstrates--he envisioned a complete sexual revolution. Reich not only placed his sexual energy (which he called "orgone") and Christianity on equal footing, but, based on what he called a "self-repressive side of Christianity" that was in total opposition to his sexual revolution, decided that Christianity had to go.

"For Reich," biographer Myron Sharaf said, "Saint Paul, the organizer, was to Christ what Stalin was to Marx--the distorter of the truth."

Reich's principles of sexual liberation have had a widespread impact on the Jewish community in Hollywood. Many of today's rising stars see no problem with promiscuity and homosexuality. Jake Gyllenhaal, after the re- lease of Brokeback Mountain, declared, "You know it's flattering when there's a rumor that says I'm bisexual. It means I can play more kinds of roles. I'm open to whatever people want to call me. I've never really been attracted to men sexually, but I don't think I would be afraid of it if it happened...As an actor, I think we need to embrace the times we feel most uncomfortable."

Scarlett Johansson, who has worked with Woody Allen on three films, appeared in Vicky Christina Barcelona (2008), which is another of Allen's psycho-analytic explorations of sexuality, marriage, infidelity, and existentialism. The core theme Allen presents here is that life has no meaning, so you should enjoy it while you can, particularly through sex.

When Johansson was asked to defend her real-life promiscuity, she responded, "I do think on some level we are all animals, and by instinct we kind of breed accordingly."

It seems that being Jewish, to many, is a form of liberation from moral and ethical restraint. So when we watch films like Dirty Dancing, the product of Jewish writer Eleanor Bergstein, or those produced by the Coen brothers, we are reaping a Jewish worldview that has more to do with anti-Christian ideology than art.

Although the Coen brothers say that they aren't pushing a moral (or amoral) worldview in their work, their movies tell a different story.

William Rodney Allen writes in his book The Coen Brothers: Interviews, "The bedrock of the Coens' intellectual world is really good old-fashioned existentialism. Princeton philosophy major Ethan Coen, in addition to writing his senior paper on Wittgenstein, certainly seems to have absorbed his Sartre and Camus. Both of those philosophers argued that man finds himself in an absurd world, where he must act despite having incomplete knowledge, with no moral absolutes to guide him...This bleak metaphysic underlies the film noir of Blood Simple (1984), the gangster milieu of Miller's Crossing (1990), the theater-of-the-absurd cosmos of Barton Fink (1991), the mechanical though superficially comic landscape of The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), the morose, end- less midwestern snowscapes of Fargo (1996), and, most purely, in the black- and-white existential gloom of The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)."

If they truly don't intend to weave messages about morality into their movies, why then do the Coen brothers so frequently make derogatory references to Jesus Christ (The Big Lebowski) and even openly mock Christianity (O, Brother, Where are Thou?) in their movies? Why does the main character in The Big Lebowski keep referring to Nazi Germany as nihilist, but then commits nihilistic acts himself?

Logic dictates that this is an obvious contradiction that the Coen brothers must explain; Talmudic reasoning says they don't have to.

In general, art has become a weapon aimed at the heart of Western Civilization--its Christian principles. This generation's Cronenberg appears to be Eli Roth.

In reviewing Roth's film Hostel, Jewish writer David Edelstein of New York Magazine opines, "Certainly television has become a place for forensic fetishism...Some of these movies are so viciously nihilistic that the only point seems to be to force you to suspend moral judgment altogether."

Precisely--when moral judgment is deconstructed, everything is possible: rape, sadistic sex, pornography, and even sexual torture.

The age of Bar Kochba is over; the age of manipulation through the arts is here. The subtle difference is that Bar Kochba used weapons that could only destroy the body. Roth and others use weapons that can destroy the mind--a much more dangerous battlefield, since mind control is the highest form of manipulation. The battle has become spiritual and mental, rather than physical.
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1. Wilhelm Reich, The Sexual Revolution: Toward a Self-Governing Character Structure. New York: Doubleday, 1971, page 53.

Jonas E. Alexis studied mathematics and philosophy as an undergraduate and has a Master's degree in education. His research interests at present include history, most particularly the history of Christianity, the history of science, and the conflict between Christianity and other religions (in particular Islam and Rabbinic Judaism).

Book available here:
http://www.amazon.com/Christianity-Rabbinic-Judaism-Volume-One/dp/1449734863/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336535633&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Christianity-Rabbinic-Judaism-Implications--From-ebook/dp/B007Y15Z1C/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1336535713&sr=1-1
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/christianity-and-rabbinic-judaism-jonas-e-alexis/1108105212?ean=9781449734862 

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Acts of Love

By Chris Hedges

February 20, 2012 "TruthDig" --- Love, the deepest human commitment, the force that defies empirical examination and yet is the defining and most glorious element in human life, the love between two people, between children and parents, between friends, between partners, reminds us of why we have been created for our brief sojourns on the planet. Those who cannot love—and I have seen these deformed human beings in the wars and conflicts I covered—are spiritually and emotionally dead. They affirm themselves through destruction, first of others and then, finally, of themselves. Those incapable of love never live.

“Hell,” Dostoevsky wrote, “is the inability to love.”

And yet, so much is written and said about love that at once diminishes its grandeur and trivializes its meaning. Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity School, cautioned all of us about preaching on love, reminding us that any examination of love had to include, as Erich Fromm pointed out in “Selfishness and Self-Love,” the unmasking of pseudo-love.

God is a verb rather than a noun. God is a process rather than an entity. There is some biblical justification for this. God, after all, answered Moses’ request for revelation with the words, “I AM WHO I AM.” This phrase is probably more accurately translated “I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE.” God seems to be saying to Moses that the reality of the divine is an experience. God comes to us in the profound flashes of insight that cut through the darkness, in the hope that permits human beings to cope with inevitable despair and suffering, in the healing solidarity of kindness, compassion and self-sacrifice, especially when this compassion allows us to reach out to others, and not only others like us, but those defined by our communities as strangers, as outcasts. “I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE.” This reality, the reality of the eternal, must be grounded in that which we cannot touch, see or define, in mystery, in a kind of faith in the ultimate worth of compassion, even when the reality of the world around us seems to belittle compassion as futile.

“The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt,” wrote Paul Tillich.

Aristotle said that only two living entities are capable of solitude and complete separateness: God and beast. The most acute form of human suffering is loneliness. The isolated human individual can never be fully human. And for those cut off from others, for those alienated from the world around them, the false covenants of race, nationalism, the glorious cause, class and gender compete, with great seduction, against the covenant of love. These sham covenants—and we see them dangled before us daily—are based on exclusion and hatred rather than universality. These sham covenants do not call us to humility and compassion, to an acknowledgement of our own imperfections, but to a form of self-exaltation disguised as love. Those most able to defy these sham covenants are those who are grounded in love, those who find their meaning and worth in intimate relationships that cut through the loneliness and isolation of the human condition.

There are few sanctuaries in war. Couples in love provide one. And it was to such couples that I consistently retreated. These couples repeatedly acted to save those branded as the enemy—Muslims trapped in Serb enclaves in Bosnia or dissidents hunted by the death squads in El Salvador. These rescuers did not act as individuals. Nechama Tec documented this peculiar reality when she studied Polish rescuers of Jews during World War II. Tec did not find any particular character traits or histories that led people to risk their lives for others, often for people they did not know, but she did find they almost always acted because their relationship explained to them the world around them. Love kept them grounded. These couples were not able to halt the destruction and violence around them. They were powerless. They could and often did themselves become victims. But it was with them, seated in a concrete hovel in a refugee camp in Gaza or around a wood stove on a winter night in the hills outside Sarajevo, that I found sanity and peace, that I was reminded of what it means to be human. It seemed it was only in such homes that I ever truly slept during war.

Love, when it is deep and sustained by two individuals, includes self-giving—often tremendous self-sacrifice—as well as desire. For the covenant of love recognizes both the fragility and sanctity of all human beings. It recognizes itself in the other. And it alone can save us, especially from ourselves.

Sigmund Freud divided the forces in human nature between the Eros instinct, the impulse within us that propels us to become close to others, to preserve and conserve, and the Thanatos, or death instinct, the impulse that works toward the annihilation of all living things, including ourselves. For Freud these forces were in eternal conflict. All human history, he argued, is a tug of war between these two instincts.

“The meaning of the evolution of civilization is no longer obscure to us,” Freud wrote in “Civilization and Its Discontents.” “It must present the struggle between Eros and Death, between the instinct of life and instinct of destruction, as it works itself out in the human species. This struggle is what all life essentially consists of.”

We are tempted, indeed in a consumer culture encouraged, to reduce life to a simple search for happiness. Happiness, however, withers if there is no meaning. The other temptation is to disavow the search for happiness in order to be faithful to that which provides meaning. But to live only for meaning—indifferent to all happiness—makes us fanatic, self-righteous and cold. It leaves us cut off from our own humanity and the humanity of others. We must hope for grace, for our lives to be sustained by moments of meaning and happiness, both equally worthy of human communion. And it is this grace, this love, which in our darkest moments allows us to endure.

Viktor Frankl in “Man’s Search for Meaning” grappled with Eros and Thanatos in the Auschwitz death camp. He recalled being on a work detail, freezing in the blast of the Polish winter, when he began to think about his wife, who had already been gassed by the Nazis although he did not know it at the time.

“A thought transfixed me,” he wrote, “for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set down by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart. The salvation of man is through love and in love.”

Love is an action, a difference we try to make in the world.
“We love our enemy when we love his or her ultimate meaning,” professor Adams told us. “We may have to struggle against what the enemy stands for; we may not feel a personal affinity or passion for him. Yet we are commanded for this person’s sake and for our own and for the sake of the destiny of creation, to love that which should unite us.”

To love that which should unite us requires us to believe there is something that connects us all, to know that at some level all of us love and want to be loved, to base all our actions on the sacred covenant of love, to know that love is an act of will, to refuse to exclude others because of personal difference or race or language or ethnicity or religion. It is easier to be indifferent. It is tempting to hate. Hate propels us to the lust for power, for control, to the Hobbesian nightmare of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Hate is what people do when they are distressed, as many Americans are now, by uncertainty and fear. If you hate others they will soon hate or fear you. They will reject you. Your behavior assures it. And through hate you become sucked into the sham covenants of the nation, the tribe, and you begin to speak in the language of violence, the language of death.

Love is not selflessness. It is the giving of one’s best self, giving one’s highest self unto the world. It is finding true selfhood. Selflessness is martyrdom, dying for a cause. Selfhood is living for a cause. It is choosing to create good in the world. To love another as one loves oneself is to love the universal self that unites us all. If our body dies, it is the love that we have lived that will remain—what the religious understand as the soul—as the irreducible essence of life. It is the small, inconspicuous things we do that reveal the pity and beauty and ultimate power and mystery of human existence.

Vasily Grossman wrote in his masterpiece “Life and Fate”:

My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the concrete of the gas chamber. I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man. The powerlessness of kindness, of senseless kindness, is the secret of its immortality. It can never be conquered. The more stupid, the more senseless, the more helpless it may seem, the vaster it is. Evil is impotent before it. The prophets, religious leaders, reformers, social and political leaders are impotent before it. This dumb, blind love is man’s meaning. Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.

To survive as a human being is possible only through love. And, when Thanatos is ascendant, the instinct must be to reach out to those we love, to see in them all the divinity, pity and pathos of the human. And to recognize love in the lives of others, even those with whom we are in conflict—love that is like our own. It does not mean we will avoid suffering or death. It does not mean that we as distinct individuals will survive. But love, in its mystery, has its own power. It alone gives us meaning that endures. It alone allows us to embrace and cherish life. Love has the power both to resist in our nature what we know we must resist and to affirm what we know we must affirm.

Chris Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years.

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