Showing posts with label Doppelgänger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doppelgänger. Show all posts

Monday 2 October 2023

Spock’s Beard

Why Conspiracy Theorists are 
Taking Over the World - Naomi Klein
Intelligence Squared

 #doppelganger #intelligencesquared #deepfakes

Bestselling author and activist Naomi Klein goes down the rabbit hole in pursuit of her doppelganger – another well known writer with a name similar to hers but whose views couldn’t be more different from her own. 

She finds herself returning again and again to a place she calls Mirror World, where conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers and wellness influencers make common cause with far-right propagandists and demagogues. 


In conversation with journalist Ruchira Sharma, Klein sheds light on our own culture as we turn ourselves into polished virtual brands, publicly shame our enemies, watch as DeepFakes proliferate and whole nations flip from Democracy to something far more sinister. 





CBS-News Anchor
One of The World's leading physicians 
describes Donald Trump as, "America's Shadow". 

In a recent article, 
Dr. Deepak Chopra writes about how 
The Shadow includes all Dark Impulses 
like Hatred, Aggression, Sadism, 
Selfishness, Jealousy and more --

This comes as Dr. Chopra unveils
a new Health and Wellness app. 
Earlier, Josh Elliott talked to Dr. Chopra 
about his new push for Wellness 
as well as The 2016 Presidential election 


Dr. Deepak Chopra :
We have to Thank Donald Trump for 
Giving Permission to the entire American Public 
to expose The Shadow -- 

He represents The Collective Shadow right now.

The Shadow is that part of ourselves 
that We're embarrassed by --
You know, There's a Racist, There's a Bigot, 
There's a Hater, There's a Prejudiced Person, 
in ALL Human Beings, You know? 

We can't accuse just ONE person of being Racist
or Bigoted, or Prejudiced, or Ethnocentric 
or full of Hate, that part comes out 
when There's Crisis, when 
There are Dehumanizing 
conditions, such as War, when 
There's poor Leadership, when 
There's just Confusion in Society --

So, He represents that, and in a way, 
to Become AWARE of that is to start 
The Healing Process.

So I Think the fact that 
He has become abusive, 
He's displayed The Abuser 
in ALL of Us. 

We have that Shadow, and 
The Shadow is primitive and yet, 
millions have expressed Their Support 
for him with Their Votesthrough 
The Primary Season, to this point. 


Q.) Is it Fair, then, to Say that, perhaps, 
You Do not Line-up Donald Trump in 
The Crosshairs, so much as The Electorate 
that has supported him to this point? 

He's an exaggerated expression 
of something primitive in All of Us
so just to be aware of that, is - 

It's to bring Light to The Shadow.
You can't fight The Shadow
with The Shadow, okay? 
You can't fight Darkness 
with Darknessbut 
You CAN Shine The Light

So, He's Helping Us 
to Shine The Light -- 

Q.) What are Your Thoughts, then, 
on the presumptive Democratic 
nominee, now, Hillary Clinton

Dr. Deepak Chopra :
I Think right now, that's 
The Choice we have: 

If You have to make a Conscious Choice, 
We have to ask ourselves, 
WHO Our Leader will BE --

For the rest of The World, you know, 
Leadership comes at several levels; 

So, He represents 
Survival and Safety -- 
You might say, you know, 
The First Level of Need
but We have OTHER Needs... 

We have Needs for Success, for Jobs
for Love, for Compassion, for Higher Consciousness
for Creating a more Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, 
Healthier and Happier World, so We have to Decide

Who Do We want to represent Us 
and I know in fact you will be petting a follow-up piece to it --

It's certainly.... It's another.... 
It's an Interesting Way of Looking, 
as a Way of Looking at Ourselves, right now --

What is it in Him, that has 
brought-out this amazing 
Vulgarity of Dialogue, and 
Given Permission to everyone to be 
Politically Incorrect as well -- In fact, 
if You're Politically Correct, right now, 
You are -- You're not even cool

It's not cool to be Polite, Courteous, 
Deferential, Have Good Manners anymore.





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Tuesday 21 June 2016

Doppelgänger


"Ere Babylon was dust, 
The Magus Zoroaster, my dear child, 
Met his own image walking in the garden. 
That apparition, sole of men, he saw. 
For know there are two worlds of life and death: 
One that which thou beholdest; but the other 
Is underneath the grave, where do inhabit 
The shadows of all forms that think and live 
Till death unite them and they part no more...."

Act I
Prometheus Unbound 
1820






…he told me that he had had many visions lately 
— he had seen the figure of himself which met him as he walked on the terrace and said to him 

— “How long do you mean to be content” 

— No very terrific words & certainly not prophetic of what has occurred. But Shelley had often seen these figures when ill; but the strangest thing is that Mrs Williams saw him. 

Now Jane, though a woman of sensibility, has not much imagination & is not in the slightest degree nervous — neither in dreams or otherwise. 

She was standing one day, the day before I was taken ill, [June 15] at a window that looked on the Terrace with Trelawny — it was day — she saw as she thought Shelley pass by the window, as he often was then, without a coat or jacket — he passed again — now as he passed both times the same way — and as from the side towards which he went each time there was no way to get back except past the window again (except over a wall twenty feet from the ground) she was struck at seeing him pass twice thus & looked out & seeing him no more she cried — 

“Good God can Shelley have leapt from the wall?…. Where can he be gone?” 

Shelley, said Trelawny — “No Shelley has past — What do you mean?” 

Trelawny says that she trembled exceedingly when she heard this & it proved indeed that Shelley had never been on the terrace & was far off at the time she saw him. [emphasis added]


A map of the 1814 and 1816 journeys taken by Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and Claire Clairmont. 

Based on the map found in The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley. Vol. 8. 
Ed. Jeanne Moskal. London: William Pickering, 1996, pg. 10. 

The 1814 trip is represented by a dotted line and the 1816 trip is represented by a solid line. Green dots indicate towns visited or stayed at during the 1816 trip, which ended in a three-month stay at Lake Geneva. 

Red dots indicate towns visited or stayed at during the 1814 trip. 
Black dots indicate towns not visited but perhaps helpful to the reader. 

The source map does not indicate what route the Shelleys used on the return trip to England for the 1816 trip.