Is a Backlash Against Technology Brewin

I have been a luddite, an anti-tech person, all of my life. This blog is filled with posts about the problems technology creates, as well as, the dangers it poses. Hit the label 'technology kills' below to read some of them.

Today, the Guardian ran an opinion piece 'The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms' on how a backlash against technology running over everyday life is beginning to bubble up. Saying it is not a turn to atheism but rather,

it’s what can be loosely termed “spirituality” – a devotion to astrology, witchcraft, magic and manifestation – that has emerged, particularly among the young. Online life, paradoxically enough, has only catalyzed this spirituality more, with teenage TikTok occultists and “manifesting” influencers racking up ever more followers.

Noting that the influencers against the Industrial Revolution were the poets and painters of the Romantic Age. People like Mary Shelly who wrote Frankenstein to highlight the fright of technology.

No doubt the onslaught of technology has been ferocious  these past past few decades--Internet, cell phones, social media....and we are in need of a respite. But will it be more?

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The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms

 

Majority of Americans Seek Spirituality in Nature

Earlier this month Pew Research did its first analysis of the incidence of people considering themselves as being spiritual.Previously Pew looked at the growth of people considering themselves to be spiritual versus being religious. It found that 7 out 10 Americans consider themselves to be spiritual.

What was particularly interesting about the report was that the majority of those people who sought to experience  spirituality went to Nature to do so. Fully 77% of Americans spent in Nature a few times a month. Versus 64% that looked inward and 38% that meditated.

Some of the other findings in the report were;

-83% of all U.S. adults believe people have a soul or spirit in addition to their physical body.

-81% say there is something spiritual beyond the natural world, even if we cannot see it.

-74% say there are some things that science cannot possibly explain.

-45% say they have had a sudden feeling of connection with something from beyond this world.

-38% say they have had a strong feeling that someone who has passed away was communicating with them from beyond this world.

-30% say they have personally encountered a spirit or unseen spiritual force.

Land Memories Lead to Repeat Behavior--Sadly Murdere this time

 A few days ago a 15 year old boy was shot and killed in southern Onondaga Park. in the city of Syracuse, NY. The local papers noted that another young man had been killed at almost the same location back in 2012.

A 15-year-old was killed near the same area in 2021 by a then-20-year-old man. City and community leaders react to 15-year-old's murder in Syracuse.

Each thought we have, each action we undertake leaves a memory of that thought/action at the location where it transpired. These land memories  encourage repeat behavior, or thinking at the same location; the  more repeats, or the greater the intensity of the repeat, the stronger the land memory becomes. 

Basically, a karmic memory is left behind. I also call land memories "Imprints."

I have written about murders occurring in the city of Syracuse on several occasions,  both locations were in my, generally peaceful, Eastwood neighborhood.

Place Matters—Murder returns to the same place in my hood (Eastwood)

Murder Returns to the Same Location in my Eastwood Neighborhood in Syracuse

Reclaiming and Uplifting Space

As you can see unless a space is cleaned up of dangerous land memories the same behavior, aka Karma, will keep transpiring there. This means, setting up a memorial--candles, cards, flowers and the like.

Or having a vigil--preferably both. For years I would periodically join in with a group called "Mother's Against Gun Violence", many of its members had lost a son to gun violence, for a vigil. These were powerful and emotional events--something desperately needed to heal a space desecrated by violence.

If you are on the path and wish to make a better world--visiting a memorial, or attending a vigil at a murder site is a powerful witness to love.

Be Well,

madis

New Study Confirms WE Merge With Our Surroundings Both People and Places

 In my book Everything has Karma I introduced the concept of circles to describe how we unite with everything and everyone we come in contact with. The stronger the bond (relationship, focus, etc.) the stronger the merger. Some recent research substantiates that claim.

It was reported  that couples that have been married for some time share high blood pressure. The implication being that the one with the high blood pressure influenced the other.

To read the article

Spousal Concordance of Hypertension Among Middle‐Aged and Older Heterosexual Couples Around the World: Evidence From Studies of Aging in the United States, England, China, and India

Climate Change COP28 Conference

The one good recomndation coming United Nation's Climate Change Conference in Dubai, UAE is reducing methane gas. AT more than thirty times more polluting than CO2 it s a good decision. I am not a fan of renewables another recommendation, because I see them more as a problem than a benefit.

There are too many people (8 billion) consuming too much.There is no discussion regarding limiting, and even reducing, the number of people in the world coming out of COP28..

To me, our Mother, is much more magical than we realize. Energy Vortices, a topic I have written a book about and done numerous YouTube videos about. Energy Vortices are intention, and morality driven. Something that is an anathema to our modern scientific world.  Imagine if we recognized and decided work with the magic and make a better world. Until we recognize the magic and wonder in our relationship with Mother Earth we will continue to be in a downward spiral no matter what COP28 decides to do.

Sad that we will continue to slip.

If you don't know about Energies Vortexes click on the link below.