Episode 19: Dear Australia: The Confluence of Faith and Science in Practical Action

 TIMELINE INDEX
1:42.  “Condom Economics”

2:58.  A clueless Catholic hierarchy

8:58.  Tyranny, false order.  

13:32.  Reproduction, more than numbers: teleology needed.

15:12.  Kingdom-building attitude.
16:53.  Family wage.

24:04.  Generosity.

26:17.  “One more child that can be ‘reasonably’ expected,”

27:26.  “Culture of Death.”

36:04.  No despair: things receding toward the rear

41:42. The elders and preparing an economy for nfamilies.

42:10.  Waystation for souls bound for Heaven. 

43:22.  Transmitter-channel-receiver: preparing receivers. 

43:31.  Houses of study.

45:28.  Starting earlier: homeschooling. 

47:56.  Emergent properties.

49:50.  Banking and the culture of enterprise.  Brian McCall, The Church and the Usurers: Unprofitable Lending for the Modern Economy (2013), and E. Michael Jones, Barren Metal: A History of Capitalism as the Conflict between Labor and
 Usury (2014), both treated the topic of banking in scholarly fashion.

54:50.  A crisis of priestly formation.

55:29.  Malignant obedience.

56:11.  No Church, no check.

57:33.  Wresting power from the oligarchs.

1:00.  Saving ourselves from “having to crawl to Potter.”

1:01.  Strategic non-compliance.

1:04.  An enviable position witnessing the end of abject prosperity.  

1:05.  Kevin MacDonald’s work, Individualism and the Western Liberal Traditio: why is organizing Europeans like herding cats?

1:06.  Nucleating a new integrative relationship between individualism and interdependence.

1:06.  A  boisterous devil: the Regime is losing legitimacy.  

1:09.  What part of voluntary does Mayor de Blasio not understand?

1:12.  The “cunning of reason.”

1:13. One’s fit to a culture of origin: a neurocultural continuum.  (D. Schmitt, Medieval Philosophy to the Rescue: A Thomistic Neuroscience & the Mind-Brain Opportunity– Sam Houston State University’s First International Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Thought, 2013, April 4-6, Huntsville, Texas, USA. and discussed frequently by the same in comments at Arktos Journal.)  

1:14.  All peoples flourish in a relatively homogeneous culture.

1:15.  Borders briefly mentioned.

1:17  Emergent properties,again!

1:24.  Not accepting defeat:renarrating for success.

 1:26.  Pushing the envelope: Dear Australia: The Confluence of Faith and Science in Practical Action (podomatic.com) and Catholic Activism Against the COVID Tyranny (podomatic.com).

 1:27.  The statue of St. Louis: “Perhaps a lesson to be learned.” Also, E. Michael Jones on the Invisible Man (podomatic.com).)  

1:28.  Contemplation.

1:33.  Phronesis: the integration of theory and action.

LEARNING MORE

Dr. E. Michael Jones is a prolific and courageous author.  See: Culture Wars.

Professor Brian McCall is a faculty member in the School of Law at The University of Oklahoma.  He is also the editor of Catholic Family News, linked here: Home - Catholic Family News

Mr. Tim Kelly is the producer of “Our Interesting Times” with a variety of interesting guests, as well as “Powers and Principalities” where he carries on discussions with his dedicated co-host, Joe Atwill.  See: Our Interesting Times (podomatic.com).

For other podcasts by David Schmitt:  www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deschmitt.  Many episodes from a biologist's perspective on the nucleic-acid, protein-factories that have been foisted upon the world’s populations.  Dr. Schmitt’s doctoral work involved magnetobiology, behavior and the nervous system.  Dr. Schmitt spent three years as a guest researcher at the Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology studying the spinal control of locomotion. 

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This Episode was recorded July 10, 2021 and posted July 11, 2021.

The disproportionate and draconian action by policy makers must be addressed.

Poor journalism and poor public policy: A mere 27 new "cases" Wednesday (severity unknown---or even whether symptomatic) out of a population of 5.4 million in Sydney.

I am both a scientist and a man of faith.  I speak to my brothers and sisters in Australia, especially Sydney, tonight as both scientist and believer.  I cannot believe that someone such as myself should be giving this exhortation to faith and action.

I am a student of behavior and the bodily systems that enable meaningful behavior to be exhibited.  I study topics that are grouped under the titles of neuroethology and neurophysiology.  Religious behavior continues with the progression of human history through the present and will continue to its end.  People in all cultures have displayed religiosity---it is a universal across cultures.

In our time as in all times, being truly religious is what requires courage.

Religion, L., re-ligare, means to "tie together."  Think of a ligature where a surgeon used a piece of suture to ligate a wound.  This is what religion does, it "ties all things together," even if there has been a cutting asunder.

It is indeed true that only in the language of religion and faith can some very complex patterns, having been recognized pre-verbally, be expressed in words leading to understanding.  Only in this way can certain ideas, perceptions, intuitions, emotional experiences, analyses, justified suspicions and fortifying hopes be turned over in one's own mind as well as communicated to others.

In Australia, today as this is being written, there is a crisis at the confluence of science and religion, at the confluence of rationality and faith.  Both a proper science and a proper religion--not at all that which has been commandeered to camouflage over ill-designed agendas---must be brought to bear on the misery which mankind is currently suffering, particularly beginning in 2019 with the so-called "Great Reset" and the attendant COVID phenomenon with its real and unreal components.

Religion and science are not opposed, but fit easily together for one who has come--usually through earnest labors and sacrifices--to achieve an integration.  Many have profited from the making of enemies between scientific and religious thinking.

Australia, you have--without discounting physical suffering--what is primarily a spiritual crisis.  You, and the whole world, need a spiritual power to address what is a corruption of our personal and shared spiritual life.

Australia, you gave up you guns many years ago.  This was, as many of us view it, foolhardy.  Let the consequences of this acquiescence be known to all as a warning regarding the evils and the abuse that predictably followed.  But so be it that God might manifest His authority and might, no matter how weakened a people may be---as long as they turn to Him.

I address primarily Catholics and Protestants.  You will need to be armed.  But, now, you will need to be armed with the weapons of Faith.  These are more effective than swords and guns!  For Protestants, I recommend your Bibles.  For Catholics, a Bible is certainly the first resort.  To this you can add the Rosary, Crucifixes, Holy water and many sacramentals associated with your devotion to the Angels and the Saints.

I do not to mean in anyway to discourage others from acting accordingly.  For instance, Jewish peoples might don their yarmulkes and prayer shawls.

If you are vigorously secular, I leave you to find your objects of, at least, a natural symbolism.  Coming to mind is an image from the Vietnam war era in the United States when there appeared an iconic photograph of a young woman inserting a flower stem into the barrel of the gun of a national guardsman during a protest of some sort.  I am sure this scenario was repeated more than once.

Now, returning to the Christian audience with whom I am familiar and with whom I competently share substantial understanding---I would suggest that we need a multiplication many fold of our attention to prayer.

Prayer has, of course, spiritual--that is, immaterial and inexplicably surprising--effects as well as having its natural physically lawful manifestations.

One can certainly pray for those who are suffering medically and mentally from all of the effects of the COVID phenomenon and the actions of leaders and crafters of events, policies and propaganda.  We certainly pray for those suffering in any direct way from the reputed pathogen, SARS-CoV-2, such as it is.  We pray to for even our tormentors.

Very importantly, however, we want to pray for, and with, clarity and sufficient knowledge of the true nature of these events so that in practice we may act with efficacy and justice.  It cannot be denied, and the evidence accumulates weekly, that the COVID event has dimensions that were controlled via the Media, government, corporations, churches and a variety of institutions to created distortions in explanation and to induce fear leading to greater manipulability.

In an early episode of the Second Society Podcast, on January 2, 2021, in a conversation with Joe Atwill and during an episode entitled, "Coronavirus and the Vigilant Bird Concept," I described the reality of predation as a threat to humans.  This threat exists on the natural as well as the supernatural, spiritual planes.  What is needed for a population, in this case the world-wide population of human beings, is the protective role what we will call the vigilant birds.  Learn form the Robins feeding on your lawn in the early morning.  While many birds are absorbed with single sight looking for morsels to eat, at least one bird forgoes immediate benefits in order to keep it's head high in search of predators.

We must be humble enough to recognize that there are predators and that predators in lofty places possess intelligences far beyond our own.  As the Christian  teacher, Saint Paul, instructs, it is not against flesh and blood that we contend---but rather we battle against powers and principalities in high places.

What is encouraging for the Christian follower, is that our Lord assures us that, though there is a prince of this world, he has been judges and will--in the end--be cast out.  However long the road, then, we can labor and struggle for the Good, the Kingdom.

Now is one such time that we need to protect the future of practical affairs so that we and our posterity will be best provided for the salvation of their souls.  Thus, this is a time when the spiritual must take on the appearances of the things of this world.  Like Jesus' followers, we need to eat, we need to be rescued from turbulent seas and we need to heal the sick. ride donkeys and dine in upper rooms.

We are going to need to take ahold of our physical world and make for our physical needs.  We must reclaim our towns and farms, our economies and institutions, our freedoms and our opportunities to work.

In places like Sydney, Australia as well as places around the globe where evil masquerades illegitimately as authority, we must reassert our role as adults, as Citizens and as the rightful superiors of the governments which are always only meant to serve the people of the nation where the government was formed.

Therefore, grab your Bibles and other tools of spiritual warfare.  Take hold of your Rosaries and prayer books, crucifixes, Holy water and sacramentals.  It is time to reclaim the necessary freedoms for health, movement, assembly, political organization, free speech and---most of all: worship.

We must do this intent upon peace and truth.  We do not fight lies and propaganda with lies and propaganda, but rather with the reliability of spiritual and scientifically-discoverable truth.   

The Gospel of Saint John begins with a sublime and mystical worship of the Logos--the Word who is God and who is meaning itself and who imbued all of the Universe that He spoke into existence with its semantic foundation and being.  It is in the Logos that we trust to reward our total commitment to the truth.

Again, referring to St. Paul, we remember that is in Him that we live and move and have our being.  We do not live as subjects to fear. Man was not created for fear, confinement, solitude, inefficacy, separation and unwarranted distrust of neighbors.  Out immune systems have always been reliable--even during epidemics--and are indeed only truly meaningful as part of some degree of confluency of populations.

Here are, then, my suggestions for our brothers and sisters in Sydney and all of Australia.

On day one, open your doors and take one step out side armed only with your tools of spiritual warfare.  Do this--everyone--at a designated time, perhaps 5:00 p.m.  Stay outside on your claimed ground for fifteen minutes.  Pray.  Read Scripture, pray your Rosary or recite from sermons or saintly reflections.

On day two, take two steps out.  Employ your means of spiritual war.  Stay outside for fifteen at five.

Then on day three do the same.  I suppose that they will arrest some---and will try to arrest more.  Disordered authoritarians will always progress toward unhinged, incoherent actions---so know what you are getting into if you decide to get into it.

Let the Holy Spirit guide you in peace, but always remember to adhere to your habit of "fifteen at five!"

Processions in the streets will work very effectively as your numbers grow and the illegitimate lose legitimacy.

On Sundays, you might kneel outside and read and pray the order of the Mass when you normally would be attending Mass.

Communicate with each other, encourage each other.  Call each other, share telephone numbers, email addresses and video conferencing contacts.  Form email chains and trees.  Listen and communicate with us out side of Australia.  Help us to join our prayers with yours.

And for Catholics, remember the prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel as I recited it near the end of this podcast.

Self-Protective Intellectual Skills: How to Listen to a Podcast

37 minutes, 58 seconds in duration.  Your host: David Schmitt, Ph.D.

I want to help you become better informed, active and safe post-COVID.  I am trying to improve my podcasting.  Here are some tips on getting more from podcasts.

Chronological Notes & Amplifications

0:55     Talk radio to podcasts.

             Toward conversation,  equal-to-equal.

             Overcoming the mind-control practices of Main Stream Media

             CIA Memo 1035-360

2:30     Pattern recognition.

            The COVID revelation.

            Freedom to hear things that you do not like.

            The deliberate, genocidal poisons.

5:00     Television did a lot of damage to the minds of the public. 

            A possible antidote to TV.

            Become an active and curious learner.  

            Conversations with masters, professors in the cafeteria.

            Do not be resistive.  Exposure need not lead mechanically to assent.

            Distinguish between learning from indoctrination.

9:03     Get over the “I hate teachers" neurosis.

            Yes—beware--most professors, today, are co-opted, compromised and corrupted.  

            Anger and pride can inhibit one from learning.

9:40     Analogy: ideas are like a package of meat brought home from the butcher.

            On one’s own chapping block, inspect the contents, cut it up, discard the undesirables.

            Keep what you want and throw away the rest.  You can even learn from enemies.

            You are in control of what you get out of a podcast.

            To analyze: literally, in Latin, means to cut away.

11:06   It is the mark of an intelligent and educated person to be able to entertain ideas without    
            succumbing by force into believing them.

13:55   Employ one’s angry reaction to ideas as mere cockpit warning alarms.
            From flashing lights and buzzers to the collecting of info, problem-solving and cool judgement.

15:46   Podcasts are great listening:

            Listen while traveling, working in the shop, puttering in the garage, cooking in the kitchen or
                relaxing in the leather recliner.

16:34   How to examine ideas.

            Objects & events surrounded by contexts: the analogy of the image of a bear. 

19:34   Reality is the flow of inextricably connected events.

            Reject the lie of “perception is reality.”

            Commit to truth.

            Vigilance workers.

22:49   Abandon the general notion of accidental events and fundamental randomness.

             The Logos applied to politics, science, the mind-brain problem and as seen in the Gospel of John.

26:12   Practical things about listening to podcasts, and conversation.

            Terminology becoming complex.

            For the love of dictionaries.  

            (Pssst: try the American Heritage Dictionary, the older the better.)

            The Encyclopedia Britannica, $20 for a set at an old books store.

            Wikipedia, when I trust and when I do not.

29:57   Words are power.  And I want you to be powerful.  

31:51   Take notes.

33:58   The hypnotism of sports and the return of curiosity (and political motivation).

            Engage in the comment box.  

            Be smart about comments.

            Young people attempting to build businesses, careers or to retain employment should seriously                        consider commenting anonymously.

           Discuss, judiciously, interesting ideas.
           Circulate podcasts you deem worthwhile.

36:47   Use listening to podcasting, or podcasting on your own, as one means of deepening and making                   more effective your role as a citizen: reflective, active, noble, heroic, courageous and saintly.

37:57   End.  

In this 'Adventures in Civic Renewal Series', your host, David Schmitt, discusses a psychological device for initiating your grand project for building a home or office library. This is especially beneficial for families with children to educate, but it is important for individuals as well. Supporting, or beginning anew, your habit of reading is a work that will bring you great pleasure, will enrich your interior life beyond description, and will empower you as an active and engaged Citizen, an enterpriser and as a conversationalist. For your children, you will be opening for them a universe of wonder and a life of immense, new capabilities. You will be helping them to be resilient in navigating the rough waters of life. Also, very importantly, you can contribute to the archiving of the record of our times--and that of former times--as an intellectual fund for future generations. In short, we need to store up instructive history as well as how-to information so that we can resist the tyrannical forces that desire to centralize knowledge and information, to deprive the general public of easy access to accurate information, and to--were it possible--to squelch the wisdom of the ages. Like the monks of the Middle Ages, we need to protect and preserve in many, duplicated, distributed, de-centralized instances of our intellectual and artistic treasures. It is these treasures that assists us in our quest to become more fully human, more virtuous, more heroic and more saintly. These treasures enables the continued emergence of our great, European Civilization---building on what was, and bringing into being that which is still come. 

For an interesting presentation by James Corbett, see, 'The Library of Alexandria is on Fire', here:

https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-384-the-library-of-alexandria-is-on-fire/

If you would like to contact me, you may do so via email at:

david.schmitt@fidei.email

As an after-thought, regarding the monolithic bookcase image, see:
https://youtu.be/cHWs3c3YNs4