Thanks Chris and Anngwyn,
It would be wonderful if we could demobilize the arms race here in the States.
We need a profound shift in consciousness first before any kind of buy back
would
be remotely possible. It does highlight that the work we do individually and
collectively
to reduce intergenerational fear and restore clarity and connection is
essential.
Ironically, the current election is making more visible the social paranoia and
blame that was
simmering in the collective unconsciousness. Just maybe, like what happened
with Joe MaCarthy
who led the red scare, witch hunt in the 50’s, enough people will suddenly
agree this is nuts and restore
the public sanity. Something similar happened with civil rights. Few would have
believed even 15 years
ago a black person could be elected president. Who would have thought gay
marriage would be legal
here even 5 years ago? All these movements of the collective soul are slow on
the surface then
suddenly surprise us with the speed of how things shift. So we’ll keep doing
our systemic work behind the
scenes yet with our eye on the bigger prize and a sense of what is possible
even though it looks improbable.
Happy new year
Harrison Snow
Team Building Associates
Washington DC metro area
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From: Chris Walsh chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [ConstellationTalk]
Sent: Monday, January 4, 2016 11:05 AM
To: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ConstellationTalk] Peace ?
Hi all,
While I agree with the problems with "fear porn" we should recognise that the
media generated fear pron has been exported around the world but America's
ridiculous gun laws fortunately have not. As a result countries like Australia
that have plenty of fear porn without the ridiculous gun laws have far fewer
deaths by shooting (I'm not just talking about mass killings here either!) than
the USA. Also the amount of shootings dropped dramatically in the late nineties
when the gun laws were significantly tightened followed by a massive government
buyback of automatic weapons from citizens. i wish good luck with al systemic
forces behind you to anyone trying to improve the gun laws in the USA
Cheers
Chris Walsh
Melbourne, Australia
ph +61 (0)3 9487 4647
www.cwalsh.com.au
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:49 AM, anngwyn@xxxxxxx [ConstellationTalk]
<ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
While I am all for peace and not so fond of guns, from a systemic perspective,
guns are not the problem...only the symptom of the problem...We have always had
guns in this country....and as a social traumatologist, more problematic is
the trans-national epidemic of state-sponsored, media generated "fear porn "
designed to promote and accelerate " fear of the other "....and this inevitably
leads to all manner of violence as history as proven over and again. Confusing
the symptom with the problem is likely to lead only to more confusion. We might
ask: Who or what benefits from this current fear mongering epidemic that seeks
to exploit the darker aspects of tribal consciousness ?
I addressed this "fear porn " in my blog " Trauma and the Human Condition "
http://anngwyn.wisrville.org as "Our Year of Fear ". which may be of ;
interest....
Warm regards
Anngwyn St. Just Ph.D.
http://anngwyn.wisrville.org
www.acst-international.com
