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Thoughts from Stephen
Read the views and ideas from and about Stephen Cocconi – Citizen of Earth.
2014 Overleaves Forecast and Overview
Greetings!
Here is a Recap: of the 2014 Overleaves
- Year About Energy – Having it, clearing it, acquiring the appropriate type, or being drained of it by the variance between Desire and Lack
- ROLE: Priest
- CASTING: Sage
- SCOPE: Ordinal
- CENTER: Higher Moving in the Intellectual part
- GOAL: Relaxation slide to Growth (slide happens in late Spring)
- MODE: Perseverance (Very unglamorous forms of achievement – no miraculous vaulting)
- ATTITUDE: Pragmatist (Slide anywhere that gives you options or freeing perspectives)
- CHIEF FEATURES: Greed (through June affecting Relaxation. Then Impatience (second part of the year – makes Perseverance run like crazy.)
- BODY TYPES FAVORED: Solar and Jupiter (Warmth and Grandeur)
- MASCULINE-FEMININE ENERGY RATIO: 75% – 25%
- PACE OR FREQUENCY: 66 (relatively fast and constant)
Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism, and Mislabeling Key Ideas
Guns Don’t Prevent Authoritarians, They Facilitate them!
For those of my friends who continue to throw around the word Fascist or Fascism, I find my anger growing since my father fought REAL Fascists during WWII, and paid a price with physical injury and depression that took his life early. I consider his sacrifice the reason that I was spared having to go to war. Thank you, Dad.
In an effort to utilize the LIBERAL education that my father fought so hard to preserve, let me give you a brief set of definitions and clarification about what Fascism is and is not.
Overleaves and Forecast for 2013
Theme- A Year of Synthesis and Symbiosis
Key Concepts – Teaching, Media, Collaboration, Concentration, Speculation, Discernment, Sorting, Sacraifice, Elimination, Clutter, and Rationalization
Role: Sage
Casting: Server
Goal: Discrimination>Acceptance (7 months) Growth (4 months)
Attitude: Realist (6 months) – Idealist (next 5 months)
Mode: Observation >Power (6 months) – Aggression (next 5 months)
Chief Feature: Self Destruction
Centering: Intellectual (5 months), Moving (middle 4 months), Emotional (last 3 months)
Frequency: (Pace) 44
Dominant Quality: Expression
Direction: Outward (into life and living)
Realm: Corporeal (Earther) – (Supported in addressing issues material and physical well being)
Note: The greater than symbol “>” infers sliding from one Overleaf to another.
The Election of 2012 and Beyond
The day before the election, I got this input from Michael.
The new rendition of the Michael Motivation Cards
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About Backlash – Soul Ages and Change:
Mitt, Mohammed, Teachers, and Tension
Hasn’t it been a tumultuous 2 weeks? Anyone reading this article and keeping an even a sideways glance on world events, presented in mainstream and alternative media alike, knows that the Arab Spring has become the Arab storm. And, in the US, the controversy about a home made film depicting Mohammed, the founder of Islam, as a lecher and pedophile, which ignited tensions and religious intolerances ready for such a spark, has also brought the discussion of America’s First Amendment guarantees of freedom of religion and freedom of speech into poignant debate. While teachers in Chicago assert their rights of workers to bargain collectively for fairness, members of the powerful seek to stifle their rights to free speech denigrating the strike as a blow to children. What a shaming? Then, Presidential candidate Mitt Romney employs a New Age-ism as a slur about half the population of the US, calling them victims who feel entitled to government support. Unfortunately for the rest of us, Mr. Romney apparently has never heard of the historic concept of the social contract. Apparently, the only contracts he concerns himself with are the ones he breaks with employees of the companies he gutted at Bain (bane?), or those oaths of allegiance to his has pledged to his ultra-wealthy constituents. Continue reading »
Aurora: What would you want if it were your last supper?
If it were my last supper, I’d want…company!
My heart sank when I read of the news about the shootings in Aurora. Hauntingly, the word aurora refers to a natural light that is noticed most in the presence of darkness. As a metaphysicist, I take the liberty to infer meaning, let alone ascribe significance to such coincidences as part of the territory of my occupation. Yet, it seems apparent to me (and commented upon by Michael) that even if the name marking the location of this tragedy has no other bearing, it will forever be singed into my consciousness. Let us hope that from darkness we can see the light. Continue reading »
Grateful to be a Liberal American!
More than any other tangible freedom, I value the right to be “secure in my person.” But this phrase from the Bill of Rights’ 4th Amendment, for me, extends further than protection from government. It harkens back to the 1st Amendment guaranteeing my freedom of expression. And by expression, I mean the right to speak my mind and disagree without someone else, who might interpret disagreement as their right to “take offense” and then act upon me in a reactive, punitive, or even violent manner. As a Liberal, I use my ability to think as a way of liberating myself from the fear which comes from ignorance. Not enshrining it as some sacrosanct order to be conformed to and enforced upon others.
So what’s the link for me as I celebrate our Independence Day? It is not government tyranny I most worry about, though on the horizon I see extremism undermining the halls of our democratic republic, instead it is my celebration of the rights of thinking people of conscience to advance our society through the dialogues of constructive disagreement.