I agree with this in terms of behaviour and it is a big part of good mental health. I find it impossible to
be conscious all of the time though. When you are taking a walk or cycling a bike, for example, it is
natural I find to slip into unconsciousness / mostly. Other people will have other examples but at these
two times in my life (I don't drive a car) I am often in near unconsciousness, while being aware of what
I am doing – walking or cycling.
I agree with this! I would also reflect that I didn't often feel like this when I was sharing houses for 15
years. And that it is I believe important to have a "safe" home and, for me, live in a safe area as
reasonable as can be.
I have loads of pain in the groin people in my life, and have for a long time, and I am inclined to
believe the below in that such people encourage you on through contrast on to be the person you are
meant to be.
From my Facebook tonight. I generally get my essential oils in Holland and Barrett or get Oġam Essential
Oils and I got the potpourri I have at the moment from Wexford Lavender Farm which is great too.
I think that it is a habit to get into to be inhumane/indifferent to other people's and animals humanity
and sentience.
You can break the habit. I know because I did and I still have a lot to learn.
A lot of Irish people hate the way that the island of Ireland is partitioned with six northern counties
being called Northern Ireland and officially a part of the UK (Donegal is not in NI although it is a
northern county).
A lot of Irish people resent the English invasion and plantation of Ireland centuries ago and this legacy
is still "live" for a lot of people with part of Ireland still being part of the UK.
What I have got to learn of more over the years though is that England was invaded too a few times
before they invaded Ireland.
And as well as having loads of Latin and French words the English language is actually a Germanic
language!
And the impact of Gaelic Ireland on Scotland between c. 400-1000 AD was huge.
From ChatGPT
If we start with the Romans and focus mainly on the peoples who invaded and settled in what became England, the sequence is roughly:
Angles, Saxons and Jutes — mainly 5th–6th centuries
After Roman rule ended, Germanic peoples crossed the North Sea and settled extensively in Britain:
They established a number of kingdoms. The Angles gave England its name: Engla land — "land of the Angles."
Vikings — from AD 793; major invasions from the 860s Scandinavian Vikings, particularly Danes and Norwegians, raided and then settled large areas. Danish armies conquered much of England, creating the area known as the Danelaw. England was even ruled by Danish kings, most famously Cnut, from 1016.
Normans — 1066 William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, invaded England from northern France and defeated the English king Harold II at the Battle of Hastings. The Normans were French-speaking, although their ancestors included Vikings who had settled in Normandy.
After 1066, there wasn't another successful foreign conquest of England on the same scale. There were later invasions and attempted invasions — including the Dutch landing of William of Orange in 1688, which successfully overthrew James II — but 1066 is conventionally regarded as the last successful conquest of England.
So, very simply:
Celtic/pre-Roman Britons → Romans → Angles/Saxons/Jutes → Vikings → Normans → modern England
And this history helps explain English itself: its basic structure and much of its everyday vocabulary are Germanic, inherited principally from the Angle*-Saxons, with substantial Norse influence from the Vikings and enormous French/Latin influence following the Norman Conquest.
I downloaded the audio of an Esther Abraham Hicks video today (as we are allowed to do because
Esther allows people to reupload her stuff under 15 minutes for each video/podcast) and converted
approx. 2 minutes of it to an MP4 with a photo of her (below).
What she says in this podcast builds and expands on what I have been thinking for a while but
had not found the words for. What first got me thinking about this kind of stuff was something that
Michelle Paisley Reed said to me through her spirit guides, The Power of 10, a few years ago, and it is
something I have been thinking about since. I am encouraged to hear these words below.
Update – A day after posting the below I found out that the SP have pretty much given up their
identity in recent months. I tried to look at their social media and read a thread on Reddit and
apparently 6 months or so ago they deleted the party's website and other social media. I don't know if
they still exist as a 'network' formally with Solidarity. Their name was toxic to a lot of people I believe.
And on a personal level I am glad to see them give up / give up mostly.
Sadly I think over the longer term, if they survive that long, that their decision might make Solidarity a
degree more attractive to an element of mostly young / younger people.
Any political party or wannabe movement that has a prominent Trotskyist network within it is not my
cup of tea, and I would advise anyone thinking of joining them to first evaluate if they really are
interested in and support all that Russian Revolution Communist kind of shit.
Update –
I would well believe it!
Good article by Eoin O'Malley in last Sunday's Sunday Independent which I just read today.
Often I think the problem in universities and higher education in general is not crazy "ideology" but crazy
misfitism. I see these people in question as misfits and weirdos more than anything else. There may be a
more hardcore element though.
My article this week, it is online-only and not in copy form:
Ataxia community welcomes HSE decision to fund Skyclarys — Dublin People (1.9.26)
I have recently bought Hem Jasmine incense and find it great. It took burning one or two sticks of it
for me to get used it it though. It is strong and leaves me with or in a deep spiritual state when burning
it.
I cannot say enough for the incense sticks I burn in that sense. They put me in a deep or pretty deep
sense of spirituality while burning them. They are kind of like a drug in that sense but they are not
addictive, although the smoke of them may possibly (I don't know) be carcinogenic.
Darshan are my favourite incense company and Hem are my second favourite and not very far behind.
Darshan incense is not very easy to source I find. It is made in India but not sold a lot
in Ireland or Europe.
Watch out as well – there is another Darshan incense company and I don't know what they are like.
I stick with what incense I know and that is my favourite – Darshan lavender, white rose, red rose,
patchouli – and when I can't get what I want from Darshan I try Hem.
Previous post – Incense for well-being (2023)
I mean largely in a mental health context but the word is or can be relevant for loads of things. I am just
adding this note to this jpeg in case readers think I might support the Restore Britain party which I do
not. 😊
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