<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yes, I look forward to seeing this movie! Thank you all for your input and eloquence!<div class="">Love and blessings,</div><div class="">Lee<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 2, 2020, at 8:58 AM, Lydia Rand via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Right on Viktoria!<div class="">Blessings</div><div class="">Riantee<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 1, 2020, at 20:38, Viktoria Zaita via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="">Thank you Toni for recapping the essence of it so eloquently! <img src="https://s.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/resources/core/images/emoji/pray.png" alt="Pray" title="Pray" height="25" width="25" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: text-bottom;" class=""></div>
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<div class="">Yes, for the media our attention is the highest commodity. The news and fake news are sculpted and spoon fed to us in a way , that we keep on being engaged. And they do that even for the price of dividing the country. It does not matter. Harmony does not sell, does not keep people passionately engaged every night in front of the screen. </div>
<div class="">It reminded me of what Carlos Castaneda wrote. He said , that the "flyers", this is how he called certain energetic entities are feeding on our fear, and anger, and outrage, and yes, on seemingly justified righteousness! He meant, that these entities keep us from acquiring enough spiritual energy for freedom of perception. They keep us enslaved. It seems, as if the media would be taken over by these flyers ... <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Anyway that was his strange shamanistic way of expressing it. </span></div>
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<div class="">Eckhart Tolle calls it the pain body, this often dormant monster in most of us , but it wakes up from time to time to be fed by pain, and it takes over the organism, and consciousness. Until we can starve it to death with extreme awareness and observance of its tricks.</div>
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<div class="">This became a bit longer, then planned. <img src="https://s.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/resources/core/images/emoji/facewithrollingeyes.png" alt="Face with rolling eyes" title="Face with rolling eyes" height="25" width="25" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: text-bottom;" class=""><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;" class="">... thank you </span></div>
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<div class="">Can you get this from Netflix?</div>
<div class="">I'm not in any social media groups</div>
<div class="">but I'd still like to see the film.</div>
<div class="">Thanks for telling us all this.</div>
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<div class="yiv5613121409gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 12:57 PM Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none" class=""></div>
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> Dear Ones….and Happy Equinox, <br clear="none" class="">
> A fitting day of equal dark and light to comment on this amazing film, which Ron and I watched a few days ago. <br clear="none" class="">
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> The Social Dilemma, ,for me, was ultimately, about being BRAINWASHED by our ADDICTION to social media as well as all random information as we look constantly outward and less and less heed this season’s advice to “look within:. The film depicts our lack of ability to exercise discernment, boundaries, and the power to “question (media’s) authority”. (one of my favorite bumper stickers.) Hence, the real danger of social media and particularly its effect on the youth, already in the swim of trying to figure out who they are and what’s going on here, in this vast ocean of samsara.<br clear="none" class="">
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> In these days of false news, blatant manipulation of facts, differing and grossly opposing positions, it is incumbant upon each individual to be informed from both sides and then, make up our own minds about where we stand and from what point do we stand still or take action. <br clear="none" class="">
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> Martin Prectel first introduced to me, the native idea, “Know your enemy. Learn the language of your opponent.”<br clear="none" class="">
> To me this is about diversity and knowing all points of view on the medicine wheel in order to know the center. What is dangerous, in my opinion, <br clear="none" class="">
> is that we are slowly loosing our capacity to examine situations and listen deeply to perspectives that differ from our own…..no matter what those<br clear="none" class="">
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> Out of respect and curiosity and value for the truth, and admitting we don’t REAllY know, we can gain from others research, experience and opinions but it is in the BALANCE with the deeper knowing of our own present experience of SELF knowledge and access to the open channel of our intuitive guidance that all perceptions need be filtered through. “Don’t believe everything you think” ……another bumper sticker fav, and certainly don’t believe everything you read, or see. This is what is in question to consider here. What does it really mean to be open minded? To respect anothers opinion? To NOT take opposition personally?<br clear="none" class="">
> To honor the worthy opponent? And to have the courage to look within, find our own truth and let go of any need to be right, or be liked, or be popular….yes, there is work of the west here, in facing our fears……and particularly our fear of the unknown which is the fabric of our current crisis. How do we stay in the balance and endure the tension of “not knowing.” in this precarious time of transition? How do know what is true? How can we protect ourselves from fear mongering, manipulation and being part of the matrix?<br clear="none" class="">
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> David Hawkin said something to the affect that the biggest problem for humanity and its evolution is that it does not know the truth. <br clear="none" class="">
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> Social media is not, in and of itself, dangerous……it is however, lethal in the hands of the unconscious and fearful reactivity to false information. That is the problem. <br clear="none" class="">
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> And this to me, is only a time of greater motivation and imperative to pursue the Truth……to ask ourselves the true questions…..Who am I? What is my purpose?<br clear="none" class="">
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