Beautifully said "Leadership is how we carry ourselves..how we add to the chaos or steady the room." Let us be more into steadying rooms with generous love and authentic peace
It is with pride that I thank you for today's reflection ...I am Canadian, King Charles is not only our King he is our elder...and a long time of preparation brought him to his elder-wisdom. It takes time to become an elder. I am an elder myself of 85 years.... and I fear for the children also...and the children of mother nature who crawl, fly ,swim, and inhabit Mother Earth. Mother Earth is the womb of Eldership Wisdom.
Your comments are wise with regard to leadership and eldership. Thank you.
For me, the prayer you shared today sums it all up so well. We know what we long for. We want and need so much to hear the lullaby and to feel safe and secure even as we live into a time of great disruption.
Thank you for expressing this so profoundly.
But my take on this is one of great caution. There is an old pattern at work here that is well-recorded and worth noting.
We can slip so very easily from “No kings!” to a longing for and worship of a king.
“Give us a King! A true King!” And so we see in King Charles the king we long for.
Beware.
The British royals— like all monarchies — trades in illegal drugs, armaments, and human slaves. This has been true for a very long time, and continues now.
Look at the early Scriptures related to monarchy — Deuteronomy 17: 14 and following, for example.
Look at how the kings of Old Testament Judaism embodied the current Bronze Age ecocide and genocide.
Deuteronomy: a king must not have many horses (relates, in part, to war).
A king oughtnot to have many wives (relates to dehumanization, commodification, weaponization of relationship).
A king must not have much silver and gold (relates to concentrated wealth).
We still have Stone Age emotions, Bronze Age (read War God) institutions, and now we also have god-like technologies that we do not comprehend or control.
And we still long for a king.
I say this to put the visit of King Charles into some context.
The British Royal family is every bit a part of the Epstein class, and is indeed far more powerful than Donald Trump.
They are also as corrupt.
They are better at it in part because — as King Charles pointed out so humorously — they have been doing this for a lot longer.
Canada and the United States are part of the same eugenicist, racist settler-colonial, Wetiko empire that roared out of Europe like a demon.
We are part of one long slow project of violence.
We do not bring salvation or liberation so much as death, enclosure, and enslavement.
Luke Kemp points out that the word civilization is largely a propaganda term meaning “organized crime.”
Those with a monopoly on the best weapons organize economics for their own benefit and power, grow corrupt, and immiserate and erase the species around them as well as most of the human beings that they touch.
Today’s best weapons are focused on control of our hearts and imaginations.
That is King Charles’ job.
Having said this, it is true that every civilization embodies both the flaws and the noble aspirations and dreams of humans.
Our leaders certainly do the same.
And so even flawed, corrupt and powerful people can find some transformation and can help to reduce death and immiseration as a result.
I encourage caution: hearts and imaginations are the frontier of ecocidal empire now.
Empire comes along with trinkets and smooth speeches — this is needful and often more effective than open brutality. But this is always a cover for dealing in death and misery — and our churches are the “arm candy to empire” that provides the most effective moral and spiritual camouflage for abuse.
Seduction always masquerades as love.
King Charles is a breath of fresh air. To some degree he is acting as a true elder.
But he still presides over a decaying but very powerful royal family that is deeply intertwined with organized crime and the gross immorality of global elites who know nothing of love or reverence.
To ignore this is a terrible mistake.
Can miracles happen? Can a King or Queen of Ecocide transform? I think so. But I also suspect that such transformed people — like King Charles now — are mostly constrained by their position to only bring a false hope of transformation in place of the real change that we need.
This is an old and well-documented pattern.
Perhaps King Charles opens a crack in the wall that will let in a flood of light. If so, this is a good thing, and we can celebrate.
However, I feel a noticeable contrast in the energy around King Charles and the energy around Donald Trump. This is a good thing.
So — a big “yes!” to eldering and to real nobility in statecraft. And a great deal of caution with regard to representatives of a civilization that is still bound by the necropolitics of organized crime masquerading as civil society, true religion, and governance.
Reflecting on your 'Elderhood' discussion, brings up Bill Plotkin's commitment on what and how true Elders are cultivated. It will take a long time but if we can begin living towards a vision of true Elderhood, maybe in a few generations we will have moved the needle.
Why were the Republicans jumping to their feet applauding so many things that they now do NOT support - for instance the three equal branches of government? Who ARE these people?
Beautifully said "Leadership is how we carry ourselves..how we add to the chaos or steady the room." Let us be more into steadying rooms with generous love and authentic peace
It is with pride that I thank you for today's reflection ...I am Canadian, King Charles is not only our King he is our elder...and a long time of preparation brought him to his elder-wisdom. It takes time to become an elder. I am an elder myself of 85 years.... and I fear for the children also...and the children of mother nature who crawl, fly ,swim, and inhabit Mother Earth. Mother Earth is the womb of Eldership Wisdom.
Thank you for consistently leading, yourself, with steadiness, wisdom and calm.
Yesterday was/could be a game changer. Outside of the applauds, of the moment, was anyone listening???
Your comments are wise with regard to leadership and eldership. Thank you.
For me, the prayer you shared today sums it all up so well. We know what we long for. We want and need so much to hear the lullaby and to feel safe and secure even as we live into a time of great disruption.
Thank you for expressing this so profoundly.
But my take on this is one of great caution. There is an old pattern at work here that is well-recorded and worth noting.
We can slip so very easily from “No kings!” to a longing for and worship of a king.
“Give us a King! A true King!” And so we see in King Charles the king we long for.
Beware.
The British royals— like all monarchies — trades in illegal drugs, armaments, and human slaves. This has been true for a very long time, and continues now.
Look at the early Scriptures related to monarchy — Deuteronomy 17: 14 and following, for example.
Look at how the kings of Old Testament Judaism embodied the current Bronze Age ecocide and genocide.
Deuteronomy: a king must not have many horses (relates, in part, to war).
A king oughtnot to have many wives (relates to dehumanization, commodification, weaponization of relationship).
A king must not have much silver and gold (relates to concentrated wealth).
We still have Stone Age emotions, Bronze Age (read War God) institutions, and now we also have god-like technologies that we do not comprehend or control.
And we still long for a king.
I say this to put the visit of King Charles into some context.
The British Royal family is every bit a part of the Epstein class, and is indeed far more powerful than Donald Trump.
They are also as corrupt.
They are better at it in part because — as King Charles pointed out so humorously — they have been doing this for a lot longer.
Canada and the United States are part of the same eugenicist, racist settler-colonial, Wetiko empire that roared out of Europe like a demon.
We are part of one long slow project of violence.
We do not bring salvation or liberation so much as death, enclosure, and enslavement.
Luke Kemp points out that the word civilization is largely a propaganda term meaning “organized crime.”
Those with a monopoly on the best weapons organize economics for their own benefit and power, grow corrupt, and immiserate and erase the species around them as well as most of the human beings that they touch.
Today’s best weapons are focused on control of our hearts and imaginations.
That is King Charles’ job.
Having said this, it is true that every civilization embodies both the flaws and the noble aspirations and dreams of humans.
Our leaders certainly do the same.
And so even flawed, corrupt and powerful people can find some transformation and can help to reduce death and immiseration as a result.
I encourage caution: hearts and imaginations are the frontier of ecocidal empire now.
Empire comes along with trinkets and smooth speeches — this is needful and often more effective than open brutality. But this is always a cover for dealing in death and misery — and our churches are the “arm candy to empire” that provides the most effective moral and spiritual camouflage for abuse.
Seduction always masquerades as love.
King Charles is a breath of fresh air. To some degree he is acting as a true elder.
But he still presides over a decaying but very powerful royal family that is deeply intertwined with organized crime and the gross immorality of global elites who know nothing of love or reverence.
To ignore this is a terrible mistake.
Can miracles happen? Can a King or Queen of Ecocide transform? I think so. But I also suspect that such transformed people — like King Charles now — are mostly constrained by their position to only bring a false hope of transformation in place of the real change that we need.
This is an old and well-documented pattern.
Perhaps King Charles opens a crack in the wall that will let in a flood of light. If so, this is a good thing, and we can celebrate.
However, I feel a noticeable contrast in the energy around King Charles and the energy around Donald Trump. This is a good thing.
So — a big “yes!” to eldering and to real nobility in statecraft. And a great deal of caution with regard to representatives of a civilization that is still bound by the necropolitics of organized crime masquerading as civil society, true religion, and governance.
Hoping history and social studies classes across out country will dissect this speech.
Leadership worth world...
thoughtful, steady, caring, wise.
Power handled well.
Reflecting on your 'Elderhood' discussion, brings up Bill Plotkin's commitment on what and how true Elders are cultivated. It will take a long time but if we can begin living towards a vision of true Elderhood, maybe in a few generations we will have moved the needle.
Thank you—to both you and King Charles!
I was so encouraged by King Charles speech yesterday! He had given his talk so much thoughtful consideration. It was so needed.
Why were the Republicans jumping to their feet applauding so many things that they now do NOT support - for instance the three equal branches of government? Who ARE these people?
This is powerful and helpful to shape moral imagination!
There are times when I think the wrong side won the Revolutionary War: https://youtu.be/FAgwoLO0S-4?si=2p6NGWMIhlaPzQLz