Welcome to the Shrine of Balanced Positivity

Since the 1980s, one of my key life aims has to be to live in, and promote and work for, a state of Balanced Positivity and Spiritual Maturity. 

I first came across the term Balanced Positivity in Stuart Holroyd’s magnificent book "Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth", in which he describes - amongst other matters - contact with a group known as “The Nine” (who crop up in a few other places as well). They have some interesting views on a range of matters, one of which is that we should be aiming to be “balanced positive” – i.e., not “negative”, but not “holier than thou” extreme (fanatical?) versions of spirituality.

This is consistent with my view that one of the problems of life to avoid, is toxic positivity. 

Balanced Positivity has been a key part of my life since then. 

I have created this personal, cclosed shrine so I can focus specifically on that topic, separate from and distinct to all the other actions and parts of my life that it is a part of, including exploring and formalising how it connects with, or is part of, Deity and the Divine. 

How that will play out here, I am not entirely sure yet, except that I will post short reflective pieces here from time to time focused on this topic, and explore Deity connections. 

Hopefully, the existence and content of this Shrine may lead to others exploring the topic as well. 

Blessed Be

Gnwmythr (Kayleen), ShrineKeeper 

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First posted Saturday 1^st February, 2025

Some key posts are: 

• “Resources”   https://shrineofbalancedpositivity.blogspot.com/2025/02/resources.html     
  

• “A theme: “first, do no harm””   https://shrineofbalancedpositivity.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-theme-first-do-no-harm.html      

(Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear)  

Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, and to mind our Mӕgan.

#PsychicABetterWorld   and  

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My activity has been elsewhere ...

This Shrine is one of several commitments I currently have: of late, others have been more pressing, including my main blog. So ... if nothing is happening here, it doesn’t mean I have forgotten or abandoned this project, only that I am busy elsewhere. 

The reason I am mentioning that is not only to inform anyone visiting here, it is also because I want to link to a couple of posts I did earlier today that are examples of trying to live in/have an impact this is balanced positive. 

Those posts are: 

• “Post No. 3,034 - On planting and nurturing seeds”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2025/02/post-no-3034-on-planting-and-nurturing.html      

• “Post No. 3,035 - A new (to me) word: Yutori”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2025/02/post-no-3035-new-to-me-word-yutori.html     
  

Why are those posts balanced positivity rather than just positivity? 

Because of the context of a world that is so severely unbalanced - leaning heavily towards destructiveness without any lessons ... 

Blessed Be

Gnwmythr (Kayleen), ShrineKeeper

If you appreciated this post, please consider promoting it - there are some links below, and there’s also other options. 

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here. 

(Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear)  

Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

#PsychicABetterWorld   and   

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2025     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-ShareAlike basis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/  

 

 

Balanced Positivity in the context of (differing) circumstances

One of the problems with having been blogging for so long is that I can forget about posts I did a long time ago. 

I’ve worked at trying to overcome that a number of ways to aid Readers (and labels are the current best option I have, I think, but my “best of” lists are another, as is, if I can finish them, my planned books), but there was a time I didn’t know about Blogger’s labels, and another time when - all too briefly, sigh - searching was the best way to find posts, so there are gaps in the coverage of my blog contents by labels (and, I suspect, I won’t ever finish updating those). 

Be that as it may, I recently came across a post of from a little over eleven years ago, which is: 

“Post No. 513 - I am a walker upon the Path of Balanced Positivity, seeking Spiritual Maturity”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2014/01/i-am-walker-upon-path-of-balanced.html     

In that post I basically examine how the concept of balanced positivity may vary - in terms of what is communicated, at least - with differing circumstances (or situations). 

Looking back at that now, I suspect that is perhaps as much about adapting communication so it is meaningful to those receiving it as anything else, but there are also issues such as balance across time or the level of maturity of those receiving the communication to consider. 

As an example, what constitutes balance to a group of people before and after a war/mass atrocity may be different, and, much as one doesn’t try to lecture kindergarten children about the mathematical calculations of quantum physics (although there is a possibility of some young children being advanced enough in that area to cope with that), there are some concepts that need to be discussed when those receiving the communication are mature enough (often oversimplified to age appropriate - which is a problem as the rate/extent of maturity is NOT the same for all who share the same chronological age - and that in itself also varies across human history in response to differing levels of knowledge and education over the period of our existence) to constructively manage those concepts.

I want to find some specific examples, but those I am coming up with at the moment are reflective or recent events, and I want to find something that is more reality applicable through time ... 

 ... such as, perhaps, this: 

the concept of balance for the First Peoples of this land - Bandaiyan (see here and here), also known as Australia - before the European invasion that started in 1788 would address most readily (or most apparently) address issues such as resource management, whereas following several decades of violent colonisation and dispossession the main issue for balance relates to power dynamics - political, military, social, health, and, above all else, land.

I have some further reflection and consultation to do ... 

Blessed Be

Gnwmythr (Kayleen), ShrineKeeper 

Monday 10^th February, 2025

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider: 

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

If you appreciated this post, please consider promoting it - there are some links below, and there’s also other options. 

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here. 

(Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear)  

Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

#PsychicABetterWorld   and   

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2025     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-ShareAlike basis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/