avatarMidway (Jean Carfantan)

Summary

The article reflects on the impact of a hiatus at ILLUMINATION, emphasizing the importance of community, consciousness beyond the senses, and resilience in the face of power abuses.

Abstract

The author of the article "The Comma Was not a Coma" shares insights following a break from writing regularly for ILLUMINATION. The piece suggests that consciousness extends beyond our sensory perception and that intuition can guide us, especially in uncomfortable situations. The author posits that ILLUMINATION's success and ethos of love and interaction may provoke negative reactions from those who feel threatened by such unity. The article also touches on the dangers of ego, the potential for censorship, and the importance of staying centered and empowered. It praises Dr. Mehmet Yildiz for fostering a community that empowers its members, which the author believes is a threat to abusive powers. The resilience of the ILLUMINATION community is highlighted, particularly in the face of challenges, as members cooperate to maintain the platform's presence on Medium. The author calls for unity, transparency, and the embrace of vulnerabilities as strengths, suggesting that these are the foundations for a new world order.

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  • The author believes that our senses limit our perception of consciousness and that there is more to life outside this spectrum

The Comma Was not a Coma

Reflections on the last shortage

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When the break came, I just read the ripples of it. I came late and wrote not regularly for ILLUMINATION. As I came back after the comma I saw the effects of the explosion. I draw from it two or more reflections.

To be honest, I believe that consciousness exists outside our senses spectrum. Our senses cover a very narrow spectrum and we have difficulties to perceive life outside this spectrum. We have a strong feeling inside, allowing us to feel what is outside our spectrum. We are at the least ill at ease in some circumstances. You experiment this feeling about some persons you meet, above all if you had an experience of abuse. This is real, this feeling or sometimes intuition, protects us, shields our integrity and our freedom.

So I think that ILLUMINATION bothers, not just because of its success, but because it is a community of love and interaction. We breathe an other air here, like some other communities. For my part, I need this. If a community is just a race for ego, then heart is not nourished and you are hungry, you feel just a void and besides this won't alleviate ego. Ego is necessary to protect us and sometimes to be a sting. Ego is a servant, not a master. Some persons give too much power and place to their ego, for a majority, it is just temporary, but for some, a NO has the power to trigger intense anger (not good for human health) and push them to harm. Anger is a feeling of powerlessness.

This kind of explanation is not enough to talk to intelligence about what happened, from my point of view. People united for a project hinders certain divisive forces and their valets. They use the doors opened by negative manifestations of the ego to instrumentalize it.

My second reflection is about our reaction. This break can be the opportunity to just work on our notebook and have a real break, far from the screen. Writing censorship, or Medium purchased by Fakebook, Googol or Krosoft… There is never any status quo, it is an illusion because of our short timeframe. Never forget to be centered and to know what is you personal power and your freedom, to breathe and stay grounded, to empower yourself with the Earth and the Sun energy.

We need to trust in our power as a community of trust. This is powerful because this community distributes its power to its members. It's so great to live in a world without abuse, take a breath. This is how a Society should be to encourage creativity and change. This is a mirror that our fake Society does not like. Dr Mehmet Yildiz has distributed his power as the founder to editors and writers giving them a tribune that touches more and more readers. Indeed this is very dangerous for any abusing power. We have to support him because he is courageous, he is courageous for us all and we are his shield. This is more subversive that any political view.

At last, I want to finish on our power of resilience and our strength. We assisted to strong cooperation to get ILLUMINATION back in Medium. I invite you, and I will do it too, to use the Slack group, the Facebook page… Dr Mehmet Yildiz was smart enough to have this network of social and communication media. We are not fooled, we know these media are looting our data without shame. But now we are fed up of the status quo, now it is time to live in full light, united and to walk our talk. We express our vulnerabilities in a community of trust, this is our strength, nobody can destroy it. We are fed up with the ego games and this patriarchal order in which we are suffocating, men like women, animals, plants and Earth. Taking confidence in our strength together, is what we are learning.

Friends, we are building the template of the new world that is being born before our eyes. This is a privilege. Being attacked is the sure sign that we're on the right track. YES we are building together a new illumiNATION!

A big hug to us all. Thank you Doc!

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