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cramulus · 4 years ago

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Trance Dancing - The Rave

by Jason Keehn

(this essay was formerly posted at https://duversity.org/archives/rave.html, but it’s gone, so I’m saving it by copying it here)

Can trance-dancing save the planet

Can you imagine a crazier notion?

Thousands of bored youth pumping themselves up with drugs, going out to huge underground parties and dancing maniacally to electronic rhythms and psychedelic light-shows till dawn.

And this is supposed to help the world?

Shouldn't we be putting our time instead into ecological or political activism, or at least doing some kind of charity work? What about the serious spiritual disciplines that claim to offer the only true path to personal--and thereby social--transformation? What good does all our drug-taking and revelry do for the hundreds of millions of dispossessed, fucked over and starving around the world--not to mention all the untold species and eco-systems being destroyed?

Hard to answer. And yet some of us still have this inescapable feeling, maybe even faith, that what we are doing, confused, silly and commercialised as it often is, is at its core absolutely necessary. . . not just to us, but in the bigger picture, somehow. . .

Why is it that at the peak moments (admittedly rare) of the very best underground house/techno/rave parties, we get this miraculous sense of hope, of possibility, of transformation . . . a feeling that we're actually heading somewhere. . . together. . . towards a brighter future, one worth living in, one where we've returned to some kind of harmony with ourselves, with each other and with our planet as a whole?

Is it "just the drugs," a kind of consensus delusion, or might there be some basis in reality for these feelings, hard to justify as they may seem once we're back out in the normal world?

More dimly sensed than clearly expressed, the feeling for such a possibility permeates the entire global underground dance scene. Thousands of promoters exploit it to inflate their party invites with cheesy techno-spiritual imagery. It inspires and guides much of the music, and some small but key fraction of the hard-core partiers. The rest of the crowds who fill the floors at parties get off on it as a second or third-hand charge that sets the party apart from being just another club, without ever thinking about taking it seriously.

At moments, some hundreds, and maybe even thousands or tens of thousands, of "ravers" have probably found themselves sensing/feeling/wondering that what they were doing might be something really big, something that could really change things at a larger scale.

But of course only people who turn themselves inside out with large amounts of drugs would even conceive the question: Can trance-dancing save the planet?

A few of us, myself included, have made public fools of ourselves already by answering in the affirmative, and even giving some tentative reasons why. Here I want to try to introduce a new way of thinking that complements and deepens what already been proposed by people like Fraser Clarke and Terence McKenna. They see psychedelicized mass trance dances as the only quick, viable antidote to the egotism at the base of the western, techno-industrial mega-machine maniacally chomping away at the life-fabric of the planet.

This different line of thought is based on a simple but profound idea first expressed by the philosopher and teacher of temple dances G. I. Gurdjieff, who died in 1949. His idea is almost completely unknown, outside of his hard to read book All and Everything.

If true, it has staggering implications for ourselves, for our planet, even for our entire solar system. I don't expect anybody to automatically take it as Goddess's given truth, but its worthy of some serious attention.

Energies

As all "ravers" know, there is a mysterious something that makes a rave different from just another club or party-scene. We call this "the vibe"--a mixture of intangibles impossible to find anywhere else, except maybe at a dead show or a rainbow gathering. Roughly put, the vibe consists of: an attitude of openness, sharing, empathy and playfulness; intense, unselfconscious dancing; a collective altered state of consciousness, thanks to the combined effects of specific rhythms, lights and psychedelic drugs; and, at its height, a melding of group feeling and energy into an ecstatic, orgasmic release that feels nothing less than spiritual or religious--albeit in a form that has little resemblance to any type of spirituality or religion we are familiar with.

We all know that "energy" is somehow key to all of this. We know we raise and release energy through our dancing, our feelings, and our interaction on the dance-floor. Energy was one of the main buzzwords of the early English rave scene. The vibe is all about energy--vibration, after all.

But what is this energy? What does it consist of, where does it come from, where does it go? Are there different kinds of energies? Do they have different purposes?

Back around the turn of the century, Gurdjieff and a group of friends travelled back and forth across the Middle East and Central Asia investigating humanity's true history, the nature of the cosmos, and the possibilities for humans to evolve consciously, from their own efforts. In the process, "the seekers of truth," as the group called themselves, also encountered the Masters of Wisdom still alive in that part of the world (the Khwajagan). The Khwajagan were considered to be the bearers of some of the highest spiritual knowledge on the planet, handed down continuously for thousands of years.

One of the focuses of Gurdjieff's research was the transformation of substances and energies--both chemical and subtle--in the human organism. He also learned a large number of temple dances, which he understood as databases in movement intended to preserve ancient knowledge.

Eventually, Gurdjieff returned to the West and presented his synthesis of these searches as a "system of ideas" and a practical method for self-transformation.

Feeding the Moon

Gurdjieff's quest was guided by the basic question, "what is the sense and significance of human life on earth?"

His conclusion, expressed in writing only towards the end of his life, was that humanity does not exist for itself, but to supply the planet, the moon, and the solar system with a particular gradation of energy which they need to thrive and grow. At times he called this principle, "feeding the Moon," though it is not clear whether he meant this literally or merely as a handy symbol.

He believed that the entire universe is in some sense alive and in a process of continuously evolving (and if not evolving, actively devolving). In what could be compared to a cosmic fractal, the universe is in a process of unfolding and giving birth to itself, each birth at a new level mirroring in its unique way that of other levels (known nowadays as the principle of self-similarity). In what Gurdjieff called "the ray of creation," "God" or the Absolute gives birth to universes; universes give birth to stars, which give birth to planets, which give birth to organic life (viruses, bacteria, plants and animals) and to moons. Eventually a planet may become a star, its moon may become a planet in its turn, and "give birth" to its own moon, and so on, ad infinitum.

Just as all plants and animals need a variety of nutrients to exist, grow and reproduce, so our world and its siblings need a very specialised type of substance to fuel their processes--their planetary metabolisms, if you will. Supposedly, this special energetic substance can be produced only by human beings.

Reciprocal Maintenance

Gurdjieff's answer fits into what he called "the doctrine of reciprocal maintenance", the idea that every thing exists only insofar as it supports or "feeds" something else. Everything is part of a vast, interconnected and mutually reinforcing web of life. Or, "everything is something else's lunch," as ecologists like to say. This idea anticipated the science of ecology by at least half a century.

Examples: Bees don't just exist for themselves, they live to pollinate flowers. Algae exists to turn sunlight into more complex molecules, and feed other small creatures, such as plankton and krill. Krill feeds other slightly larger creatures, and even whales. Plants exist to turn sunlight and raw matter into organic compounds, and to feed animals. Worms exist to loosen soil for plants. Bacteria recycle waste into useable raw matter. Predators help to increase the strength and fitness of the herds they prey on by eliminating the weak and sick. Etc. etc.

In the scheme of things, humanity's essential role is that of a transformer of energy.

Human beings, according to this view, exist to serve the cosmic evolutionary process--and not the opposite, as the Bible would have it: that all of creation is merely a resource for us to use and abuse as we see fit.

Our possibilities as human beings are dependent on the degree to which we fulfil this function, a kind of "obligation" which nature imposes on us.

By Gurdjieff's view, this special energy could be produced two different ways: either involuntarily, at the moment of death, when a small "packet" is released into the atmosphere, or voluntarily, in greater or lesser amounts, through spiritual work.

Since Mother Nature, or Gaia, needs a definite quota of this energy from us, she will do whatever is necessary to make sure she gets it. If we don't provide the required intensities while alive, the total number of deaths will have to be increased in such a proportion as to yield the needed amount.

Devolution

Gurdjieff further believed that rather than progressing, the overall quality of human being (as opposed to externalizations like technology, culture, institutions, etc.) has actually been deteriorating over the last umpteen thousands of years, especially in "civilised" societies such as our own. He believed that in the very distant past, before the earliest recorded history, human beings had a much greater presence and power; in a sense, they were bigger, spiritually and existentially, than the vast majority of us today. He also believed that people once had a much greater life-span.

They were energy-pumps.

Gurdjieff had his speculations about what caused this decline in the quality of human being in the very remote past, perhaps even before the destruction of Atlantis (his theory of the "kundabuffer," explored at length in All and Everything). The upshot, though, is that humanity as a whole has "forgotten" how to perform its ecological function in the world--or simply no longer has the necessary juice to do it, which pretty much amounts to the same thing.

So if this is in fact the case--that we human beings generally no longer have the knowledge or ability to "pump" this energy intentionally--Gaia will be forced to increase the total quantity of human death to meet her needs.

This can be accomplished, of course, by 1) increasing the number of human births, and eventually deaths, and 2) by shortening the life-span of existing individuals, or 3) a combination of the two. The net results: Population increase. . . disease, and war.

Following this line of thinking, our increasing inability to properly transform and pump energy means that we have to be treated (by the Gaian mind, if you like) the same way we treat plants and animals, as something to be farmed, bred and harvested. Not a very dignified state of affairs!

So as the qualitative level of human being goes down, the number of human beings, and thereby of human deaths, goes up to account for the difference in energy. And of course, since organisms grow at different rates, with different energy requirements depending on their activities, we can imagine that there might be major fluctuations in the needs for our energies.

The Terror of the Situation

This suggests a radical, and terrifying, view of contemporary history: that the population explosion, famines, plagues, wars and massacres might not be due just to accidental or sociological and political causes but may be induced by the needs of the solar "eco-system" as a whole, with human beings acting for the most part unwittingly to effectuate these needs.

Think about all the horror and insanity that has gone done in the twentieth century, even just in terms of cold numbers: millions killed in World War One, hundreds of thousands wiped out in seconds at Hiroshima and Nagasake alone, millions massacred one way or another in the Nazi concentration camps; supposedly as many as twenty million Russians dying in combat in World War Two, not to mention another twenty million who died in the same period as a result of Stalinist persecution and forced famine. Millions died in the Chinese civil war, six or seven million in Cambodia under Pol Pot. Don't even bother counting all the famines in Africa and South East Asia over the last few decades.

Why the incredible surge of violent death all over the world, paralleled by an equally incredible population explosion? What is up with those peculiar humanoid beings living on the surface of Sol-III?

I'm not going to try to argue the merits of this scheme against other theories. Just chew on it for a while and see how it fits.

And so the picture painted is one of a race of hapless, deluded slaves to some kind of a cosmic food-chain the existence of which we don't even recognise. This is definitely insulting to all our best images of ourselves. But then how do we reconcile all our great assets, our supposed free will, intelligence, and creativity with the dismal facts of what we've done to each other for all of recorded history?

Are we really anything more than automatons most of the time?

Gurdjieff had what might seem to many a horribly bleak, cynical view:

that our ideas of free-will and individuality are a delusion, an image of our potential mistaken for a general fact of our existence. Bluntly put, we are blind products of genetics, conditioning and external influence; on an energetic level, we are next to nothing. We are less, in that sense, than most mammals even.

We have become experts at consuming energy and resources, parasites.

As a civilisation, we no longer transform energy into higher gradients and radiate it back out to the world, we just circulate like little ants in our vast urban hives and manufacture stuff, endless quantities of stuff. We know how to suck energy, make objects, and how to kill. Even if we're not killing each other off at a given moment, we're decimating untold numbers of living beings without even being grateful for their existence.

Sure, for the most part we don't feel ourselves that way, but anybody who's tripped a few times in public places probably had disturbing glimpses--at least--along these lines. We don't see other people--or ourselves--that way, because it's just too hard a vision to live with.

The path of return

This perspective provides a definite way of understanding the connection between our amazingly fucked up global situation and "spirituality"--or the lack thereof. Seen this way, spirituality has less to do with living according to some moral doctrine, or accumulating "spiritual" experiences and states, than with being able to transform and radiate energy of a particular quality.

If it is true that we have been suffering a generalised decline over millennia, all our human institutions must participate in and reflect that decline. So everything we associate with religion, in all its multifarious forms, would generally be a product and mirror of a messed up situation; in other words, just another part of the problem.

At its best, the spiritual component of religious traditions points to a return to what should be our natural base-line of being, something so distant we can barely remember or taste it except at moments of "peak experience," or with the help of psychedelic drugs, or as a result of long, intensive discipline.

Our so-called "salvation" is really more a matter of somehow pulling ourselves back up out of a dysfunctional, disenabled, alienated state to something like a natural way of being--not transcendence or cosmic consciousness or union with God or whatever. We need to re-learn "how to be and to do."

According to Gurdjieff, the two key principles to following this "path of return," were intentional suffering and conscious labour. Through engaging in intentional sufferings and conscious labours we begin again to release the kinds of energies we were intended to give off.

Of course by today's standards, this sounds like a bummer of a philosophy. Isn't life just supposed to be full of fun and games? On the other hand, if we're realistic we know that there's always going to be pain, struggle, suffering in life. If there weren't where would the joy and pleasure and flow be? So maybe rather than seek to escape suffering, or just submit to it blindly, it might make sense to choose your form of suffering and make something out of it.

Intentional suffering. Again, if it's true that we exist in a chronic low-energy state, one of inertia and stasis, it makes sense that in order to get back to a point of being able to consciously transform energy we would need to somehow exercise an enormous effort just to break out of our passivity. "Only super-efforts count." If you're physically weak from illness, it usually takes an extra effort to get to the point of being able to exercise on a regular basis, to return to your previous level of strength. Or as they say, no pain no gain.

This can apply on a lot of levels other than just the physical. Pain can take the form of a kind of moral or spiritual suffering deriving from, say, breaking habits, or confronting bad traits in one's character, or doing exactly that which you least like to do. Suffering in the form of sacrifice is necessary to be there for others, to truly love.

Conscious labour assumes that most of the "work" we do, of whatever nature, is not really conscious to begin with. We are driven by culturally programmed priorities, survival, automatic emotional needs, obsession, neurosis, ego. To work consciously assumes that one must first have become aware of how unconscious one is most of the time, of how automatic most of how our thoughts, feelings, perceptions and actions really are.

To even get to this point itself requires a lot of intentional suffering, because what could make us suffer more than waking up to how we really don't "own" ourselves?

Forms of work

This general process is what people who study Gurdjieff's ideas and methods generally call "work-on-oneself," or just "self-work."

No doubt for many orthodox "Gurdjieffians," this path of return can only occur in the framework of decades of commitment to the "work," in the manner it has been passed down to them.

Much of Gurdjieff's practical teaching consisted of dancing and physical exercises used in combination with meditation and concentration techniques. Some of the dances Gurdjieff himself invented, many were direct copies of the ancient temple dances he found during his travels. (These dances are a closely held secret of existing Gurdjieff groups, and rarely if ever performed in public.)

Other important components of his method were the techniques of "self-observation" and "self-remembering," designed to bring "essence" back into balance with "personality."

What is little known to the world at large, and almost completely suppressed within existing Gurdjieff groups, is that Gurdjieff was interested in and worked with drugs. The references to "active substances" other than alcohol, opium and cocaine in his writings are rare, and even then oblique (he tried to set up a "chemical laboratory" in Russia at one point--for synthesising what?); it is known, but little discussed, that Gurdjieff administered certain substances to some of his students.

The monks of the legendary Sarmoun Brotherhood, whom Gurdjieff spent time with, themselves cultivated and used a psychoactive plant they referred to as the "Herb of Enlightenment." Curiously, Oscar Ichazo, founder of Arica, a 70s psycho-spiritual organisation that also incorporated psychedelics and movement-work, claimed to have accessed the Sarmounis as well.*

Furthermore, we know from Gurdjieff himself that he considered his students "guinea pigs," his groups a laboratory in which he was conducting certain undefined experiments.

According to J. G. Bennett, one of his major students and better interpreters, Gurdjieff experimented continuously with his ideas, techniques and overall approach. While Gurdjieff always talked about his system, it was never fixed in a way that most of his followers seem to believe and dogmatically transmit it to others.

If everything Gurdjieff did was a kind of living laboratory, how does anybody know what were really the goals and working hypotheses and what was just part of the experiment? What if he kept certain pieces of his puzzle secret, knowing perhaps they were too explosive to make public at the time?

The new trance dance

Here is a radically new take on Gurdjieff's philosophy and mission, one that has a direct bearing on our neo-psychedelic-rave subculture:

Is it possible that trance-dancing is one of the most basic forms of intentional suffering and conscious labour?

Is it possible that such dancing, performed by the right people in the right way with the right intentions, is capable of producing exactly that same energy Gurdjieff believed Mother Nature needs from us? Could it be that the use of psychedelics in conjunction with intensive dancing to certain specific rhythms, by a new breed of individuals, may be a way to fill our cosmic obligation without the life-long spiritual training otherwise required?

My intuition is that this is indeed the case--unlikely as it may seem to all the "old school" esotericists and spiritualists.

Perhaps, in fact, we are not really now at the point of being able to do this--being "youthful" as we are, and prone to all the naiveté and follies of youth. But this may be what a certain number of us are instinctively moving toward. Maybe this is just that mysterious something we cross over into as we're peaking and pulsing together on the dance-floor.

Think about tribal trance dances. What better description could you think of for endurance dancing to the point of fainting in the service of the gods than intentional suffering and conscious labour?

Under different names, tribal peoples seem to commonly believe that their dances are essential to the gods, a form of offering, sacrifice, or service. Something necessary to keep the balance, to keep the rain falling, to keep the sun coming up, to keep things moving. That's why they're sacred dances. And so maybe it's not just the form of the dance that's sacred, or even what the dancers experience, it's in what they do: the energy they collectively release.

Isn't it odd that just when most of the cultures that still do this are either being destroyed or forgetting their own traditions, just at that same moment a whole tribalistic, "neo-shamanic" dance craze develops among western youth?

Consider: How does someone behave who has a deep instinct, but in whom that instinct has been muffled by hundreds or thousands of years of habitual suppression and invalidation? Perhaps every now and then the instinct manifests itself in a crude, awkward outburst, only to be quickly silenced by the embarrassed ego and the lack of any proper name or place for it in surrounding society.

In some of Bennett's writings on this whole theme, there is a tendency to paint the "feeding the Moon" scenario in extremes: either one is energetically inert and useless; or else one sacrifices one's life to spiritual work and helps to make up for everyone else's lack.

But must it be such a dichotomy? Maybe that's how it tends to be nowadays, but maybe it wasn't always if people used to "be more" than they are today. Maybe once upon a time (and still in some remaining aboriginal cultures), you didn't have to be a spiritual athlete, a specialist (monk, shaman, priest/priestess, etc.), to return your two or three "cents" to Nature.

Maybe even now, everyone can return some energy, given the right circumstances and maybe the right "assisting factors" too.

And what about the effect of psycho-active substances? If there is anything we know about psychedelics for sure, it is that they act as catalysts. They temporarily shift our system's mode of functioning, our rate of vibration, and enable transformations that are otherwise difficult to achieve--again passing. But what if that transformation, in tandem with the right kind of dancing and mindset, is just enough to enable the release of some special energy?

Does it matter that much whether we're in that state all the time, or just that we have regular access to it and can use it to do what we need to do?

Sure, we have no tradition of sacred dance, and few ravers dance till they drop, few dance with conscious devotional feeling or intent. What we do have, or at least aspire to, is a basic attitude that sets the tone when we come together for our celebrations: Peace-Love-Unity-Respect. Not bad for a point of departure.

And yet, just how conscious do you have to be of your intent if your instinct IS your intent? Maybe as we get high and move together our intent resurfaces into consciousness, and for those few sweet timeless moments we actually DO it, . . . and then we drift back down into consensus reality where there is no name for it, and the veils gradually cover it all up and soon we once again think we were there for nothing more than a good time and some cool music.

But the taste and scent of that ineffable "juice" still lingers, and it keeps us going in the days ahead, going back to more parties, wearing the clothes we associate with it, compulsively getting high and listening to mix tapes round the clock, searching for that rare synchronicity of time, place, people and music where it might magically happen again.

In some of his late writings, Bennett speculated that recent decades are seeing the birth of a new kind of person, maybe even a new race of sorts, with spiritual capacities different from the rest of society.

Could that be us?

And just what is that "juice," that energy, that special nutrient so needed for all things to live and grow in harmony? That erotic radiant mix of thankfulness, joy, and compassion that just wants to fuck the entire cosmos? Could it be . . . L-O-V-E?

OK, admittedly there are a lot of big ifs here. To try to prove that

a) human beings do give off energy when they die;

b) that some can give off an equivalent kind of energy intentionally while still alive;

c) that most of us don't or can't do this anymore;

d) that people could once upon a time do it better;

e) that the planet or the moon or the solar system requires this energy;

f) that if they don't get it human birth and death will automatically be increased with no say on our side;

g) that this energy can be produced through trance dancing among tribal peoples; and

h) that this energy can also be produced by teenagers dancing at parties with the help of drugs. . .

To try to prove, or even argue, all of that would be at least another article in itself. . . or more realistically, the basis for a life-time of research.

#gurdjieff #rave #dance #sacred movements

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freehawaii · 5 years ago

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TEACHING TOURISTS THE REAL HAWAI`I

New York Times - February 4, 2020

Demonstrators waving Hawaiian flags march outside Iolani Palace, marking the anniversary of the overthrow of Hawaii by the government of the United States.Credit...Marco Garcia for The New York Times

Locals in O`ahu know that the best way to get from Waikiki’s crowded beaches to the cool North Shore is to drive along the island’s eastern coast. The road is framed by mountains, ocean and greenery so lush and beautiful, it’s hard to focus the eye on one place for too long, for fear of missing the next scenic attraction.

On a recent trip along the route, something else stood out: the upside down Hawaiian flags flying at almost every stop.

The flag, which has the union jack in the bottom left corner, instead of the usual top left, hung in storefronts in Waikiki and was printed on T-shirts in Waimanalo, it was stuck on the bumpers of passing cars in Kailua and flying from the backs of trucks in Kahuku and other towns on the North Shore.

The flag has become a symbol of solidarity among Hawaiians who oppose the construction of a large new telescope on Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawai`i. Mauna Kea, at 32,000 feet from seafloor to summit, and with 13,796 feet above sea level, is one of the best places in the northern hemisphere, if not the world, to observe the cosmos, experts say. The telescope’s proponents say that it will bring hundreds of jobs to the island and advance humanity’s study of space.

But it has faced fierce resistance from some native Hawaiians for whom Mauna Kea is sacred ground and a place of roots, and their allies. Opponents of the telescope say they are tired of having their land taken for purposes that benefit others and for the often elusive promise of jobs that fail to deliver in terms of numbers or a living wage.

Kyle Kajihiro, left, and Terrilee Keko'olani, who offer alternative, educational tours of Oahu, outside Iolani Palace.Credit...Marco Garcia for The New York Times

“The struggle at Mauna Kea right now is one of the biggest issues that has realigned many cultural political relationships in Hawai`i,” said Kyle Kajihiro, an activist and lecturer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. “It’s really quite an amazing emergence of Hawaiian activism of cultural awareness.”

The battle over the telescope has revealed fissures that have long existed in Hawai`i, a place that is all but synonymous with tourism — the most-popular destination for honeymoons in the United States and a bucket-list perennial. The fight has inspired actions around the islands, all relating to how land is used and who benefits from it.

The spirit of protest is most visible in O`ahu, where in Kahuku demonstrators have spent the last several months fighting the construction of eight wind turbines, each standing at 568 feet — taller than the tallest skyscraper in Honolulu. Protesters say the turbines will have adverse long term health effects on the population. The company building them says there is no evidence to support those claims and promises to bring jobs to the area. More than 160 people have been arrested there.

In southeast O`ahu, in September, 28 people were arrested trying to block the building of a park and recreation center in Waimanalo, a largely agricultural town. The developers behind the center say it will bring jobs and create a new community space, but opponents fear it will be a magnet for tourists and will destroy the forest and beach used by locals.

In Honolulu, in May, Hilton employees protested, demanding a better contract and job protections. In July, hotel employees went on strike to protest what they said were low wages and the firing of 45 workers by Diamond Resorts, an operator of multiple properties in the United States and Europe. The company said it would turn one of its hotels into a timeshare resort, which requires fewer workers than a traditional hotel.

“We value our dedicated team members at The Modern Honolulu and we were pleased to reach a contract agreement that includes a significant pay increase,” a spokesman for Diamond said. “We are continuing our planned efforts to convert the property into a world-class vacation ownership resort.”

Most people in Hawai`i, especially in the tourism industry work more than one job to barely get by, said Bryant de Venecia, communications organizer for the workers’ union, Unite Here Local 5, which represents resort workers.

“Mauna Kea has lit a fire for Hawaiians who are tired of watching their land, resources and work be used at the expense of their well-being,” he said.

Hawai`i is the most expensive state to live in, according to the 2018 Annual Average Cost of Living Index by the Council for Community and Economic Research. Groceries, for example, cost more than 60 percent the national average.

“People are tired of being decorative — Hawaiians as well as people who live in Hawai`i,” said Maile Meyer, who owns Nā Mea Hawai’i, a bookstore in Honolulu that sells products from smaller local makers. “You’re seeing a phenomenon of natives gathering again and completely finding our way back to each other as part of the solution.

Demonstrators gather to block a road at the base of Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawa`ii, to protest the construction of a giant telescope.Credit...Caleb Jones/Associated Press

Jobs Aren’t Enough

A common thread between these protests is that they are being led by locals. They say that since Europeans first arrived in the 18th century, Hawaiian land has been taken and misused by non-Hawaiians, and often to the detriment of Hawaiians and their traditions. The endeavors that have sparked these recent protests all promise jobs, just as tourism and defense have in the past.

But perhaps for the first time in recent Hawaiian history, natives and locals are saying the quality of these jobs is not good enough.

“We’re having to move away from quantity to quality,” said Laurien Baird Hokuli`i Helfrich-Nuss, the founder of Conscious Concepts, a company that works with local organizations on sustainable tourism initiatives. “Now that local people are getting more agency, they are learning more, going into a more curious space of saying ‘It’s great that this company is providing jobs, but what kind of jobs are they? Are they good jobs? Are they paying a livable wage?”

Tourism is the biggest driver of Hawai`i’s economy, accounting for 21 percent of jobs. Nearly 10 million people visited the state in 2018 and in 2019, guest arrivals were expected to surpass that number, hitting a record high. And although more people are visiting Hawai`i, they are spending less there.

Locals say that resorts are often owned and run by non-Hawaiians, with Hawaiian people employed in the lower-paying service jobs, and that development often benefits outsiders at the expense of native and local well-being.

“There historically hasn’t been enough consideration for how tourism and tourists can contribute to making life sustainable and really livable for the locals who serve them here,” Mr. de Venecia said.

More Than A “Play Land”

The feeling of escape — of fleeing to a nearby paradise with stunning beaches and luxurious resorts — has long been Hawai`i’s appeal to the traveling public. While the hottest trends in travel now are the search for authenticity and ways to experience local life, many people who visit Hawaii are looking to get away from daily life. They come to sit on the beach and drink a matai without thinking about much else. Their interaction with local culture is often limited to watching a hula show at the hotel luau.

“We realized a lot of folks who would visit us who would normally have more consciousness about history and social justice concerns seem to turn off that part of their brain when they think about Hawai`i,” Mr. Kajihiro, the activist and lecturer, said, adding that people treat the islands as a “play land.”

But this decision to turn off their brains is hurting Hawai`i and Hawaiians, he said. While working for the American Friends Service Committee, the Quaker peace and justice organization, Mr. Kajihiro and his colleague Terrilee Keko`olani studied the environmental and social effects of colonization, militarization and overdevelopment of Hawai`i. They learned that tourism was one of the industries with some of the most damaging effects on O`ahu, he said, citing overcrowding, a higher cost of living and higher prices for goods.

The pair began offering alternative tours of the island, which they call DeTours, in 2004 and have seen increased interest in recent years. Their work was included in the recently published Duke University Press book “DeTours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai`i,” a collection of essays, interviews and family histories about ethical and contextualized tourism in the islands.

The tours are given to groups of people who want to learn about Hawai`i from the perspective of local Hawaiians. They include a deep history on the ways military life is hidden across the island. During a typical tour, guests go to `Iolani Palace, the Hawaiian royal residence, then to Chinatown and some of the old neighborhoods where new immigrants to Hawai`i traditionally settled. The next stop is usually Fort Shafter, the headquarters of the United States Army Pacific; then Camp Smith, but the main part of the tour is Ke Awalau o Pu`uloa — Pearl Harbor.Continue reading the main sto

During a DeTours of Pearl Harbor, Mr. Kajihiro pauses in the “Oa`hu court” between the Pearl Harbor galleries and the museum and asks guests to look at the placards in the hallway. At the placard that says, “The Hawaiian Kingdom was overthrown in 1893,” he explains that this one sentence has been controversial with the United States government because it acknowledges the government-backed overthrow of Queen Lili`uokolani, which unsettles American claims to Hawai`i. In the museum’s Attack Gallery, Mr. Kajihiro points to a small image of the Hono`uli`uli internment camp where Japanese people were held during World War II and uses it as a jumping-off point for a conversation about immigration and civil rights.

“People already come here with so many images and ideas about what Hawai`i is that it’s really hard for them to see something different, so that’s why we started calling our work ‘DeTours,” Mr. Kajihiro said. “To swerve off the path that most people are going to see or understand and consume and shake it up by raising some more critical perspectives and introducing a lot of historical facts that are not so pleasant.”

New Type Of Tourism

The DeTours team is part of a movement looking to change what tourism means in Hawai`i. Ms. Nuss, of Conscious Concepts, is originally from O`ahu and returned in 2009 after working in hospitality in the Caribbean, New York, Miami and other places on the United States mainland.

“I came home seeing something happening in Hawai`i that I didn’t see when I left,” she said. “My generation was stepping into their leadership roles and doing it differently, reconnecting for a movement back to the land.”

But she quickly realized that what many companies were doing didn’t align with her vision for supporting tourism while ensuring the well-being of overworked Hawaiians.

In 2015, Ms. Nuss created her company to find ways to support Hawaiian businesses function sustainably while also remaining a key part of the most important sector in O`ahu — tourism. Ms. Nuss has worked with farms, artists and nonprofit organizations to change their offerings so they can appeal to tourists, while still benefiting Hawaiians. A farm hoping to attract tourists to volunteer might turn to her to figure out the best ways to reach them. She described her work with as “consciously creating experiences for travelers and opportunities for locals.”

“I had a realization about how our tourism industry is presently run, which is coming from the commodification of culture,” she said. “I realized what was happening in my communities and the value systems that were driving it were contradictory to the form of tourism that I was being a part of.

”Continue reading the main stTo give tourists a more authentic experience of “the real Hawai`i,” the artists Roxy and Matt Ortiz, invite them into their studio in the Kaka`ako district of Honolulu. The couple is known for their elaborate murals of fanciful tree houses, which they create under the name Wooden Wave.

“When people come see us work, it gives them a totally different way to experience Hawai`i,” Ms. Ortiz said. “And it’s a fun way for us to give tourists a different experience than they usually see in those brochures.”

In these studio visits, guests can see the couple’s work in progress, but also learn about ahupua`a, the ancient system of land division, in which the island was separated into slices, each slice running from the top of the local mountain to the shore. During the visit, Mr. Ortiz explains that each ahupua’a included forest area up high and a cultivated area below, and depending on the politics and economy of each ahupua`a, its size was different from another.

Mr. Ortiz said that even the slightest opportunity for tourists to think about how water and land have always worked together and why they hold importance to Hawaiians can encourage them to be more thoughtful when interacting with locals and the land and sea while visiting.

“When people have some of the history and context they can appreciate the art more and they can experience the island in a more meaningful way,” he said.

Visitors can stay at Kahumana Organic Farm to get outside the luxury resort experience.Credit...Marco Garcia for The New York Times

Another way tourists can learn about the land and engage with locals is by visiting a local farm like Kahumana Farm in Waianae on the west side of O`ahu.Continue reading the main stor

In November, Chloe Anderson, a therapist and teacher in California, visited the farm and stayed for four of her six days on O`ahu. There she shared a room with others, did yoga, learned about the produce grown and cooked on the farm and generally felt like she got a more meaningful experience than she would have at a luxury resort, removed from daily Hawaiian life.

“We had like three or four different activities we would do every day,” she said. “But so many things were based off the farm and at the farm. We still had the experience of being a tourist in Hawai`i and going on hikes and beach excursions, but also of experiencing something more.”

Some business owners are committed to staying in the tourism sector, and are trying to be as environmentally friendly as possible.

Shane Hiroshi Gibler pilots the Royal Hawaiian Catamaran, for a sunset cruise off Honolulu. Credit...Marco Garcia for The New York Times

“I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect that people just won’t work in the main industry there is and I don’t think Hawaiians want to stop tourism altogether, but we are all working to find ways of doing it responsibly and thoughtfully,” said Shane Hiroshi Gibler, who co-owns Royal Hawaiian Catamaran, which is based in Honolulu and offers snorkel tours, sunset cruises and private charters.

On Mr. Gibler’s boat, guests are asked not to bring any plastic and recycling is available aboard. Mr. Gibler educates guests an education about fishing, food and the importance of the ocean and the land to Hawaiians. The Royal Catamaran team regularly gathers people to clean up the shoreline and has been working with the Surfrider Foundation to remove ghost nets — fishing nets that have been lost or left behind by fishing boats — from reefs or the ocean.

The idea, one echoed by Mr. Kajihiro, is to encourage tourists to think about how they can leave their resort, even for one day of their trip, and contribute to the place they are visiting.ontinue reading the main stor

“The point is to make folks more responsible when they come here and to interrogate this notion that Hawai`i is somehow a place for them,” Mr. Kajihiro said. “If you are thinking about coming here, ask yourself: Who are you in relation to this place? Are you bringing something that will be of value to the host, the people who live here? What will be your impact and your legacy be?”

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Glimpses from Nithya Satsang with HDH Nithyananda Paramashivam 18 July 2020 18 JULY 2020 - 7.39 PM, GIST OF PARAMASHIVA GANA / PARAMASHIVOHAM SEASON 8 AND INITIATED DISCIPLES’ SESSION 1. *PARAMASHIVA’S MESSAGE DIRECTLY FROM KAILASA *TODAY WE ARE OFFICIALLY LAUNCHING THE SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES OF THE ORGANISATIONS: SAFFRON OM, RED OM, BLUE OM, GREEN OM, WHITE OM, YELLOW OM. *WE ARE OFFICIALLY FORMING THE ORGANISATIONS ONLY NOW BUT FOR MANY YEARS, FROM THE BEGINNING, WE WERE DOING THESE: *AT THE AGE OF THREE, I WAS RECOGNISED BY THE TEAM OF ENLIGHTENED BEINGS AS AN INCARNATION AND TRAINED IN VARIOUS YOGIC SCIENCES OF HINDUISM AND YOGA AND HINDU SCRIPTURES. *AT THE AGE OF 10, PARAMASHIVA HIMSELF CAME AS ARUNAGIRI YOGISHWARA AND GUIDE, INITIATED, BLESSED, STARTED MANIFESTING HIS ENERGY THROUGH THIS BEING. *AFTER THAT THE ACHARYA ABHISHEKAM WAS PERFORMED BY THE 230TH GURU MAHASANNIDANAM OF THONDAIMANDALA AADHEENAM. *THEN THE ENLIGHTENED BEINGS OF TIRUVANNAMALAI PERFORMED THE YOGA PATTABHISHEKAM IN 1994 AND DECLARED ME AS THE 1008TH SUCCESSOR. TI SI A FORTUNATE COINCIDENCE FROM PARAMASHIVA HIMSELF - THE LINEAGE OF LIVING STREAM OF ENLIGHTENED MASTERS. *YOGA PATTABHISHEKAM WAS DONE FORMALLY AND THEY HANDED OVER THE TRADITION FOR ME TO CARRY ON FROM THEN ON STARTED THE REVIVAL OF KAILASA. IT IS ALMOST 26 YEARS. *THE DAY I STARTED CARVING THE DEITY AFTER HAVING VISION OF DEVI DARSHAN, BIRTHING OF DEVI IN THE FORM OF DEITY WHEN I STARTED, THAT DAY THE SACRED UNIVERSITY STARTED. FORTUNATELY THAT WAS THE TIME I USED TO BE SEEN AT PHYSICALLY . LITERALLY HE TAUGHT ME HOW TO BIRTH THE DEITY AND FROM THAT DAY THE NITHYANANDA SACRED ARTS UNIVERCITY STARTED. BUT WE HAVE STARTED ORGANISING OURSELVES IN MAYBE 2002. I STILL REMEMBER, TIRUCHI SWAMIGAL ONE OF THE GREATEST INFLUENCE IN MY LIFE, IN BENGALURU HE HAS AN ASHRAM KAILASA ASHRAM. HE BUILT A HUGE RAJARAJESHWARI TEMPLE AND MANY TEMPLE LAL OVER. *WHEN I HAD THE GREAT FORTUNE OF SITTING AT HIS FEET AND HAVING THE TRAINING..I HAVE SEEN HIM VADAM KAAYAVIKKIRATHU - DRAWING WITH CHARCOAL ON FLOOR SITTING WITH STHAPATIS OR WITH PEN. *USUALLY WHEN HE SITS ON THE FLOOR, HE WILL SIT WITH THE STHAPATIS ON THE FLOOR WHICH IS VERY RARE. USUALLY DISCIPLES WILL BE SENT OUT. WE WERE ALL SITTING. THE MOMENT HE SAID GET THE CHARCOAL ALL WALKED OUT AND I ALSO WALKED OUT. BUT HE PERSONALLY CALLED ME AND ASKED ME TO SIT. HE USED TO TREAT THE STHAPATI LIKE HIS OWN SON BECAUSE HE KNOWS HIM FROM WHEN HE WAS A KID. *HE STARTED DRAWING TO TELL HOW DEITIES EYES EARS ALL SHOULD COME. I WAS WONDERING WHY HE ASKED ME TO SIT. HE SAID IN SINGULAR, ‘AYE SEE!YOU HAVE TO BUILD A LOT!” OF COURSE I WILL TAKE A BLESSING. HIS VAK SIDDHI. THE WORD HE UTTERED IS MANIFESTING THROUGH ME. ARUNAGIRI YOGISHWARA INITIAED ME INTO THE SCIENCE OF BIRTHING DEITIES AND KAILASA ASHRAM INSPIRES ME, EDUCATED ME, EVOLVED ME WITH MORE AND MORE OF PRESENTING THE CULTURE. *HE IS AN EXPERT, ADEPT IN TEMPLE SCIENCE AND TEMPLE BASED LIFESTYLE *IN TAMILNADU, THERE IS A SMALL COMMUNITY NATTUKOTTAI NAGARATHAR. THEIR WHOLE LIFE IS TEMPLE BASED LIFESTYLE. *WHOLE ASHRAM OF TIRUCHI SWAMI IS FROM THAT NATTUKOTTAI NAGARATHAR CULTURE. SO BEAUTIFULLY HE WILL RUN EVERYTHING. I USED TO WONDER ABOUT THE METICULOUSNESS WHICH IS AM STILL STRUGGLING TO BRING IN KAILASA. EACH OBJECT WILL BE KEPT ONLY IN ITS PLACE *AND THE WAY THE TEMPLE IS RUN - EXTREME SINCERITY! ARUNAGIRI YOGISHWARA INITIATED, INSPIRED AND IN 2002, IT STARTED EVOLVING AS A UNIV. I USED TO PERSONALLY GO TO MAHABALIPURAM AND FIRST STARTED WITH LOS ANGELES VENKATESHWARA. I WANTED TO START WITH GANAPATI. SO SMALL GANAPATI AND THEN LOS ANGELES VENKATESHWARA THEN NITHYANANDESHWARA PARAMASHIVA IN OHIO AND THEN THE UNIVERCITY EVOLVED. EACH OF THE WORK, WE ARE NOW MAKING IT AS AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION WHEN I STARTED GOING HOUSE TO HOUSE AND COLLECTED DONATION AND CONDUCTED VARIOUS PROGRAM AND DISTRIBUTED PRASAD TO EVERY HOUSE AND READ THE ACCOUNTS TO ALL MY TEAM -THE FIRST TEAMILY I FORMED, KAILASA IS BORN. NOW WE ARE ORGANISING OURSELVES AS INTERNATIONAL BODY AND NOW WE ARE EVOLVING INTO WORLD LARGEST HINDU UNIVERCITY AND WE ARE GOING TO EVOLVE MORE AND MORE SO THIS SAFFRON OM, DEDICATED TO WORLD PEACE CONFLICT RESOLUTION, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. I AM OFFICIALLY LAUNCHING THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR THE SAFFRON OM NOW. IT IS ALREADY AVAILABLE. RED OM FOR ALL KINDS OF RELIEF WORK *GREEN OM FOR ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION *FUNDAMENTALLY WHATEVER WE WERE DOING EARLIER WE WILL EVOLVE IT MORE IN AN INTERNATIONALLY ORGANISED WAY BLUE OM - FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS WHITE OM - FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING SPIRITUAL COUNSELING, HELPING HUMAN BEINGS MENTALLY, EMOTIONALLY, PSYCHOLOGICALLY YELLOW OM - REVIVING ALL THE SAT VIDYA YOGI AYURVEDIC SCIENCES ARTS CULTURE EVERYTHING RELATED TO HINDUISM SO FORMALLY, I AM INAUGURATING THESE ORGANISATIONS. AND WE ARE ALSO FORMING MORE THAN 100 NEW ORGANISATIONS THIS NEW ORGANIZATION ARE NOT BOUND BY ANY INDIVIDUAL COUNTRY'S LAW. IT IS INTERNATIONAL STANDARD. IT WILL BE JUST AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY. THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION! THERE IS A CLAUSE CALLED INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION WHICH IS BEYOND ANY COUNTRY’S LAW. IT IS A SEPARATE STANDALONE BODY LIKE INDEPENDENT NATION. SO THESE ARE EVOLVING UNDER THAT CLAUSE. LIKE HOW UNITED NATIONS IS INDEPENDENT OF ALL COUNTRY LAW , IN THAT WAY THESE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ARE GETTING FORMED. *THERE ARE CERTAIN COUNTRIES THAT ALLOW THESE REGISTRATIONS AND PRE CONDITIONS TO BE FULFILLED. ALL THESE ARE PRACTICALLY DONE AND THAT'S THE WAY THESE ORGANIZATION ARE EVOLVING. ALL THE DETAILED GOOD NEWS WILL BE ANNOUNCED AFTER DECEMBER 14TH. *SO LET US ALL START ORGANISING OURSELVES UNDER THIS NAMES AND BODIES. *REVIVAL OF HINDUISM HAPPENING NOW. IT IS HAS BEEN THERE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. MEANING OF REVIVING. I AM NOT REFORMING I AM ONLY REVIVING. WHATEVER IS THERE IS IN SCRIPTURE, TRADITION I AM JUST REVIVING. AND MAKING IT USER FRIENDLY FOR EVERYONE IN THE MODERN WAY. *DEFINITION OF REVIVOR: REVIVOR IS THE PERSON WHO STANDS WITH RESPONSIBILITY, BOLDY, IF YOU WANT TO BE PART COME ALONG WITH ME . IF NOT I WILL DO IT ALONE. IF YOU OPPOSE, IN SPITE OF YOU, I WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN. THIS COURAGE. RESPONSIBLE HARD WORK HAS NO REPLACEMENT. STILL NO REPLACEMENT IS FOUND ON PLANET FOR THIS HARD WORK. SINCERELY I WILL GO ON REVIEWING WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS…….LIKE AN AUTOMATIC REVIEWING MACHINE. THERE IS AUTOMATIC GOOGLE ALARM IN MY HEAD.EVERYDAY IT WILL JUST START. *SINCERE, INTENSE HARD WORK. THAT'S ALL IS THE DEFINITION OF REVIVOR! *THE MOMENT I GET UP AND SIT FROM SAMADHI,....WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN TEMPLE..HAVE THEY STARTED GROWING FLOWERS LIKE PARAMASHIVA TOLD IN AGAMAS. TEN YEARS BACK I HAVE BEEN TALKING WE NEED TO START GROWING FLOWERS INSIDE THE TEMPLE..SOMETIMES WE TRY, IT DID NOT HAPPEN, BUT I WILL NOT REST TILL IT BECOMES REGULAR SUPPLY CONTINUOUS INTENSE SINCERE HARD WORK. ALL OF YOU HAVE TO BECOME REVIVIORS POST CORONA. THIS IS GOING TO TAKE AWAY EVERYTHING YOU KNOW. THE CASCADING CRISIS IS STILL NOT STARTED. IT WILL START AFTER DECEMBER 14TH. LOTS OF ENERGY AND WILL PERSISTENCE IS REQUIRED. NO TIME TO ALLOW PANDEMIC FATIGUE. CONSCIOUS. BEFORE EVEN THEY ANNOUNCED CURFEW IN INDIA ON MARCH 22ND, THAT DAY ITSELF I CALLED THE AADHEENAVASIS, AND KAILAYAVASIS AND TOLD THEM,”THERE IS GOING TO BE 6 MONTH LOCKDOWN. THEY WERE SHOCKED. USUALLY PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE WHEN I SAY. I AM HABITUATED TO TALK WHATEVER I WANT EVEN THOUGH PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE. I DON'T EXPECT BELIEF OR YOU UNDERSTOOD WHAT I SAID IN YOUR EYES. I JUST GO ON TELLING WHAT I WANTED TO TELL. ONLY AFTER A FEW DAYS THEY UNDERSTAND. I TOLD THEM PLAN TO STORE FOOD. I TOLD THEM WHOLE NATION WILL BE SEALED. NOT ONLY IN INDIA, WORLDOVER. SO START STORING FOOD. I AM NOT SAYING WE WILL NOT GET FOOD. THE COST WILL INCREASE, QUALITY WILL REDUCE. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FEED ANNADHAAN. AFTER THAT ALSO THEY ANNOUNCED ONLY 21 DAY CURFEW. I SAID “LISTEN ….THEY WILL LIFT BUT AGAIN IT WILL BE BACK. 6 MONTHS CURFEW.” OF COURSE, MANY OTHER THINGS I TOLD VERY ELABORATE IN DETAILED WAY . I SAID WHOLE ECONOMY WILL COLLAPSE. PEOPLE WILL EAT DEAD BODIES, EXTREME FAMINE AND I TOLD ALL OUR ADHEENAM, DEEPEN THE TANK WE HAVE STARTED STORING RAIN WATER DO RAINWATER HARVESTING. START AGRICULTURE, GO FOR SOLAR SYSTEM GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SUPPLY ELECTRICITY, MONEY WILL NOT GET YOU FOOD. I CAN SEE ALL THAT HAPPENING. *POST PRALAYA, I DON'T EVEN WANT TO USE THE WORD POST COVID OR POST PANDEMIC. BECAUSE THE CASCADING CRISIS OF THE CORONA IS GOING TO BE TEN TIMES OF CORONA - SO AFTER DEC 14TH YOU WILL NOT REMEMBER THIS AS COVID BUT YOU WILL REMEMBER THIS A PRALAYA. *THE POST PRALAYA YOU NEED A STRONG WILL PERSISTENCE OF REVIVOR *ONLY THAT IS GOING TO BE THE WEALTH. NOTHING ELSE. MANY PEOPLE YOU USED TO SEE AROUND WILL NOT BE THERE. THING WHICH YOU USED TO VALUE BASED ON THE SOCIETY VALUING IT WILL NOT HAVE VALUE ANYMORE LIKE REAL ESTATE ANYMORE. MANY THINGS YOU NEVER VALUED WILL BECOME SO VALUABLE. YOUR ABILITY TO TAKE NEEM AND HARITAKI WITHOUT POSTPONING. *YOU POSTPONE SAYING, IT IS NOT THERE IS NOT THERE IN THE RACK, NOT THERE IN SHOP, NOT ORGANIC….ABILITY TO UNCLUTCHING FROM TONGUE AND TAKE ALL THIS AS SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTION WILL BECOME GREAT WEALTH. VEGETARIAN FOOD, ABILITY TO SIT IN PADMASANA, CONTINUOUS HEARING NEGATIVE NEWS - YOUR BODY WILL BUILD MUSCLE PAIN.THE QUALITY OF YOUR MUSCLES WILL COME DOWN. LEARN TO SIT IN PADMASANA TO NULLIFY THE EFFECT OF COVID 19 PANDEMIC NEGATIVE NEWS. *DECIDE EVERYDAY IN SATSANG YOU WILL SIT ONLY IN PADMASANA. *IT RECOVERS YOUR MUSCLES. IF YOU SIT IN PADMASANA YOU WILL STRENGTH AND INTEGRITY INSIDE. THE WILL PERSISTENCE INSIDE. *YOU NEED LITERALLY MY STAMINA - PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY, CONSCIOUSLY FOR POST PRALAYA - THAT IS WHY I AM REPRODUCING MYSELF, MY DNA IN ALL OF YOU. *YOU GUYS ARE LITERALLY BECOMING KAILASHIANS. YOUR SOUL IS TAKEN TO KAILASH REBOOTING DONE AND BROUGHT BACK AND INSERTED INTO THE SYSTEM, WITH THE WHOLE KAILASA SOFTWARES *TO AVOID MENTAL BREAKDOWN PANDEMIC FATIGUE PLEASE JOIN PARAMASHIVA GANA PROGRAM. IF YOU ARE NEW TO SANGHA PLEASE JOIN PARAMASHIVOHAM PROGRAM. *SO COME JOIN BE PART OF THIS DIGITAL NATION BUILDING TO SERVE HUMANITY, TO GIVE A SUPERCONSCIOUS BREAKTHROUGH TO HUMANITY LINK TO PARAMASHIVOHAM PROGRAM: paramashivoham.org LINK TO PARAMASHIVA GANA PROGRAM: https://kailaasa.org/paramashivaganas Read the full post here: https://www.facebook.com/138595819561610/posts/4112263565528129/

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I’ve been researching so-called “medically futile care” lately, or more accurately, it’s a rabbit hole I fell down while researching nursing and what nurses have to say about witnessing and participating in medically futile care, otherwise known as medicalized torture. My own mother is a nurse and I know that she, after being a nurse for some 30 years, started to become disillusioned by Western medicine and the horrific procedures and treatments imposed on intractably and/or terminally ill and actively dying patients. Of course, she didn’t start having a problem with it until after she had reaped the social and material rewards of being a disgusting handmaiden and middle class patriarchal enforcer for her entire adult life including subjecting her own children to medicalized torture: my own brother died from it and earlier this year she brutally criticised me for abandoning Western medicine after 2 years of conventional Crohn’s treatments that were not helping and only making me worse. With a Western medical nurse as a mother who needs a firing squad (or torturer) amirite?

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I have written here before about disillusioned Western medical doctors resisting their evil profession by leaving the field, including leaving via suicide. Apparently there is currently a movement headed by Western medical doctors themselves to challenge abusive practices in their field including but not limited to hazing and domination rituals in medical school and medical residency; overwork, sleep deprivation and other conditions related to employment in the Western medical field; and cruel standards of care including those implicating medically futile care where doctors feel “forced” to literally torture sick, injured and otherwise vulnerable patients lest they lose their jobs or be sued for medical malpractice. Doctors are actually feeling sorry for themselves because their jobs as patriarchal enforcers and medical torturers makes them feel bad, and while anyone who has ever worked before knows what it’s like to be coerced for money (and survival) those who literally, physically harm and torture other people in order to maintain their own standards of living will garner no sympathy from me.

The same goes for Western medical nurses who my research indicates suffer greatly from vicarious trauma and professional burnout from “having” to witness torturous medically futile care in their professions. Examples of such care include flogging corpses which have no reasonable chance of being revived; continuing invasive so-called “life support” for those who are dead to the world and will probably never regain consciousness or if they do will be horrifically and permanently impaired; refusing to let extremely premature or terminally malformed or diseased infants die naturally, and so on. Get a real fucking job, no matter how low it pays, is my response to all medical professionals who have a problem with physically harming and torturing people…yet continue to do it anyway because some man somewhere tells them they have to lest they lose their jobs if they want to continue to fund their own middle- to upper middle-class lifestyles. Seriously fuck you a million times you poor, poor self-proclaimed victims of workplace abuse who continue to physically torture vulnerable people for money. You absolute monsters.

As a chronically ill person suffering from an incurable and progressive disease that is notoriously unresponsive to conventional care, I recognized awhile ago that for me to engage with Western medicine when it has nothing to offer me in terms of pain and symptom relief or a net increase in my quality of life (net meaning overall, or a positive rather than negative score in benefit-minus-risk) would be nothing more or less than an engagement with a patriarchal ritual, and one that as a radical feminist would give me no comfort. Because I see no objective or subjective value in participating in patriarchal rituals I have declined to use the doctors’ office as a confessional, to confess my sins of being a disabled female under capitalism and patriarchy to a patriarchal authority figure who can do absolutely nothing for me except to witness my confession and absolve me of the emotional burden of being sick in the first place, and medically noncompliant in the second. That is literally what Western medicine is to me now — a patriarchal ritual — and I reject that on its face as a female who is deliberately denigrated and harmed (not healed) by patriarchy and patriarchal rituals by design.

Well come to find out this business about Western medicine and medically futile care in particular being a patriarchal ritual has been described by other people and wasn’t just something I and other radical feminists have made up in our heads: researchers actually admit it’s true in a medical journal article entitled “Rituals, death and the moral practice of medical futility.” Of course, they frame the use of ritual in this context as a positive thing. Here is the abstract of that article:

“Medical futility is often defined as providing inappropriate treatments that will not improve disease prognosis, alleviate physiological symptoms, or prolong survival. This understanding of medical futility is problematic because it rests on the final outcomes of procedures that are narrow and medically defined. In this article, Walker’s “expressive-collaborative” model of morality is used to examine how certain critical care interventions that are considered futile actually have broader social functions surrounding death and dying. By examining cardiopulmonary resuscitation and life-sustaining intensive care measures as moral practices, we show how so-called futile interventions offer ritualistic benefit to patients, families, and health care providers, helping to facilitate the process of dying. This work offers a new perspective on the ethical debate concerning medical futility and provides a means to explore how the social value of treatments may be as important in determining futility as medical scientific criteria.”

Oh by all means, let’s remove the expectation that medical care provide positive “final outcomes” for the one being subjected to it — the patient. Because to ignore fail to extol the broader social function of torturing sick and dying people in a medicalized authoritative setting would be problematic, you see. Do you see what they did there? They are talking about social engineering and the effects on society at large of flogging corpses, equating zombification/maintaining a state of undead with “life support”, and spitting in the eye of natural law by refusing to allow congenitally unviable infants to not-survive infancy and so on. And while the abstract does not list or detail the alleged benefits, the writers believe the social engineering effects are positive. Sure, if the reader is one who benefits from collective trauma and trauma-based mind control among other things. The rest of us, I suppose, are just expected to adopt the perspective of our oppressors.

These medical researchers aren’t even hiding the fact that most if not all medically futile including end-of-life care is ritualistic and does not benefit the patient. They assert that it is not intended to and should not be intended to benefit the patient because why waste an opportunity for social engineering and propping up medical (patriarchal) authority by “facilitating the process of dying” as if natural law needs their help? This is megalomaniacal.

The shit icing on the cake may even be that these researchers used a woman feminist’s ethical framework in order to justify using patriarchal authority as social engineering in cases of intractable illness and injury, including at the end of life. They rely on Margaret Urban Walker’s Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics, published in 1998 which is described here:

The central concept of Walker’s work is the development of the expressive-collaborative model of ethical discourse. The expressive-collaborative model is a participatory model that engages people of all different kinds in a deliberative process that develops shared morality for a community. She develops this model as an alternative to the theoretical-juridical model [which model is a top-down authoritative model that assumes a universal moral code applies and does not accept input from the community it asserts moral authority over.]

Of course, assuming Walker is actually a feminist, she is proposing an alternative to patriarchy and providing an entrance for women and feminists into ethical discussions surrounding social policy and practice that disproportionately negatively affect us.

But her work is not used here to challenge patriarchy, quite the opposite. These prick researchers appear to use Walker’s alternative feminist ethical framework to support the use of medicalized patriarchal torture as ritual and beneficial social engineering…why? Because men and Western medical doctors should be included in the creation of social policy and practice and to not include them would be unfair because they are part of the communities they serve? (Have we hit peak liberal feminism yet?) Because using the bodies of sick and dying people to literally send messages to other people is perfectly fine? You’ve got to be fucking kidding me, considering that men in general and Western medicine in particular, as a fundamental patriarchal institution, already wrote the whole show including the foreword, the afterword, and the credits — and have used women and women’s bodies as useful objects the whole time. The world is their stage, the rest of us only players, yet we mustn’t disallow men and patriarchal institutions their voice literal actual physical abuse because not only ethics, but because feminist ethics. Got it.

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Did I mention that I was right about medically futile care being nothing but a patriarchal ritual that can only harm women because that’s what it’s intended to do? Yep. I absolutely did mention it and I will again. I have also discussed how sick women’s bodies are in fact used to send messages to other people, in the case of requiring women to accept harmful and misogynistic Western medical treatment in order to collect disability benefits, the message is comply or literally die. Of course, I also framed Western medical treatment of untreatable, incurable and progressive disease as medically futile care which for some people is probably controversial but hardly a stretch if you just think about it a little bit. Goddammit I hate being right all the time.

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Wearable Materials Market 2020-2027,With Breakdown Data of Capacity, Sales, Revenue, Price, Cost and Gross Profit

Market Synopsis

The Global Wearable Materials Market is projected to register 14.5% CAGR and reach around USD 3.5 Billion by 2025.

The demand for wearables materials is primarily driven by the growing popularity of the Internet of Things and digitalization worldwide. The increasing demand for fitness devices to monitor health on account of rising health consciousness among consumers is driving the global market growth. Among the various applications of wearable materials, smartwatches are the most popular wearable devices across geographies.

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Wearable medical devices are regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) center for devices and radiological health to ensure safety while using such devices.

Segmentation

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Silicone—The silicone segment accounted for the largest share of the global wearable materials market in 2018 and is expected to register significant growth during the review period. Silicone is widely preferred in medical devices owing to its selective adhesion property. Additionally, silicone possesses superior binding properties and is soft, which makes it suitable for use in smart clothing.

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