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24/11/2025

GIVE THANKS: A GUIDED REFLECTION
Sit comfortably. Breathe once to quiet the mind.
Then consider:
1. To whom do you owe gratitude?
Not institutions, not abstractions—
but people whose actions shaped your path:
elders, teachers, friends, protectors, healers,
those who fed you, guided you, or stood by you.
2. Who are the ancestors—of blood, spirit, land, or tradition—whose courage made your life possible?
Name them silently.
See them standing behind you.
3. Who have you harmed, knowingly or unknowingly?
To them, silently offer:
"I acknowledge you. May I walk more carefully."
4. And who has harmed you?
To them, say—not to absolve, but to release:
"Your shadow shall not own my future."
5. Finally: What do you vow to protect?
Children, land, community, justice, memory, truth—
or something small but sacred in your own heart.
Carry that vow into the feast and into the year.
*Based on Uncivil History (2018), YouTube
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24/11/2025

THE FIRST THANKSGIVING: A BRIEF PEACE IN A BROKEN WORLD
by Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)

To learn more about Thanksgiving long before Lincoln made it an American holiday, click https://wp.me/p1TVCy-8Cu
At the opening of the seventeenth century, southern New England thrived with Native towns, councils, and regional confederations. These were the People of the First Light, living in the homeland they called Dawn Land. Their societies were complex, agricultural, diplomatic, and centuries deep.

For generations, they traded with European visitors, but deceitful sailors had also kidnapped Native men and boys to sell as slaves. Permanent European settlement was impossible—not because Natives were primitive, but because the land was already full of people.
European traders introduced a devastating EPIDEMIC starting in 1616. Entire villages collapsed. Confederations fell silent. Up to ninety percent of the New England Algonquians died across several nations.
The Wampanoag Confederation, a coalition of over 30 Algonquian-speaking Native American tribes who lived what's now New England, suffered terribly.
MASSASOIT was the grand sachem (intertribal chief) of all the decimated Wampanoag Indians, who inhabited parts of present Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
He worried that the epidemic had left him with too few living warriors to hold off his rivals, the Narraganset People, whom the White diseases had not reached and who had plenty of warriors, to the Northeast of the Wampanoags. He told his sub-chiefs, "The White people or the Wampanoag will subdue us if we do not recover our population.
White settlers had traded peacefully with the Pokanoket for over 100 years, but slavers, posing as friendly whites, kidnapped a Pokanoket man named Squanto. The slavers took Squanto to Spain, then smuggled him to England, where he learned to speak English well. An English ship had returned Squanto to Patuxet, where he found his people had all died of the epidemic.
ENGLISH SEPARATISTS SHELTERING IN HOLLAND CROSSED THE ATLANTIC & LANDED AT PLYMOUTH
The people later called Pilgrims were actually Separatists, a radical Puritan faction hunted by King James. They fled to Holland and settled in the Dutch city of Leiden. In Leiden, however, the English Separatists were distressed that they were becoming "too Dutch" there.
One of the Leiden Separatists, John Carver, who had been a prosperous businessman back in England, sought investors and petitioned King James of England for a patent in America. Carter negotiated with King James to allow the Separatists to emigrate, and the Separatists elected him as their leader for the journey to America to establish a colony there. He promised investors in the herepayment through fishing.
The Mayflower crossed the Atlantic under punishing conditions, reached Plymouth (in what is now Massachusetts), and agreed to the Mayflower Compact of governance that Carter wrote.
When the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth (in what would become Massachusetts), Samset distrusted Squanto but needed a translator. Samset assigned another Indian, Hobamok, to observe Squanto.
THE FEAST THAT BECAME A LEGEND
The Pilgrims were starving and unprepared to survive the winter. They robbed Indigenous graves and storage pits to survive, and by winter's end, 44 settlers were dead. One man murmured, "If God does not show mercy, we shall join them soon."
In March 1621, SAMOSET--a subordinate chief of an Eastern Abenaki tribe of Maine, who learned some English from fishermen who came to fish off Monhegan Island--greeted the starving Pilgrims in broken English, Welcome, Englishmen. Your settlement stands on the ruins of Patuxet, a Wampanoag town destroyed by the epidemics.

Five days later, Samoset returned with furs, companions, and SQUANTO, the last remaining member of the Patuxet tribe. Samset distrusted Squanto, but needed a translator. He assigned another Indian, Hobamok, to observe Squanto.
THE FEAST THAT BECAME A LEGEND
Samoset, with Squanto translating, and the Pilgrims negotiated a treaty of peace and mutual protection with the Pilgrims' leader, Carter.

THE FEAST THAT BECAME A LEGEND
By autumn, the settlers had a successful harvest. Grand Sachem Massasoit arrived with ninety warriors and five deer. For three days, Wampanoag and English shared food, contests, and wary friendship. This moment was later mythologized as the "First Thanksgiving," though the English would never have called it that. Their days of Thanksgiving meant fasting and solemn prayer, not feasting.

A Wampanoag woman thinks softly, "Perhaps peace can live here."
But it would not last.
Carver died of sunstroke in April 1621.
The Pilgrims elected William Bradford to succeed Carter. Bradford held that position for most of the remaining 36 years of his life.

SQUANTO'S GAMBIT AND THE CRACKING OF TRUST
Squanto soon leveraged his unique position as the only fluent English-speaking Native. He told neighboring villages he could command English favor or wrath.
Hobamok warned Bradford. When Massasoit learned of the deception, he demanded that Squanto be executed. Bradford resisted—Squanto was too valuable.
An unknown ship suddenly appeared, delaying the handover. Squanto lived another day.
THE SPARK OF VIOLENCE AND THE FLOOD OF SETTLERS
Puritans arrived in increasing numbers. A shipload of sixty new English settlers soon arrived near Boston and abused the Massachusetts people, provoking a plot to eliminate them. Warned, Plymouth launched a preemptive strike, temporarily preventing bloodshed.
Soon, Puritans arrived by the hundreds, then thousands, their theology calling Indigenous peoples "other," "savage," "godless."

Peace dissolved under sheer numbers and rigid ideology.
THE LEGACY
The iconic Thanksgiving feast was not the start of harmony but a pause in a much larger tragedy.
But it was real—a brief moment when two worlds met, fed one another, and hoped for something better.
Remember the truth, not the fairy tale."
The attempted genocide of Native Americans continued for centuries.
The United States, IMHO, owes them apologies and reparations.
GIVE THANKS: A GUIDED REFLECTION
Sit comfortably. Breathe once to quiet the mind.
Then consider:
1. To whom do you owe gratitude?
Not institutions, not abstractions—
but people whose actions shaped your path:
elders, teachers, friends, protectors, healers,
those who fed you, guided you, or stood by you.
2. Who are the ancestors—of blood, spirit, land, or tradition—whose courage made your life possible?
Name them silently.
See them standing behind you.
3. Who have you harmed, knowingly or unknowingly?
To them, silently offer:
"I acknowledge you. May I walk more carefully."
4. And who has harmed you?
To them, say—not to absolve, but to release:
"Your shadow shall not own my future."
5. Finally: What do you vow to protect?
Children, land, community, justice, memory, truth—
or something small but sacred in your own heart.
Carry that vow into the feast and into the year.
*Based on Uncivil History (2018), YouTube
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24/11/2025

THE FIRST THANKSGIVING: A BRIEF PEACE IN A BROKEN WORLD.
https://youtu.be/ociHVDWxDaY

This is a VIDEO; click the words "WHAT REALLY HAPPENED" to open it.

An educational animation that tells the in-depth story surrounding the first "thanksgiving". Hope you enjoy!Bibliography at bottom of descriptionInstagram: ...

21/11/2025

Mass murderer ASHOKA, ruler of almost all India from 265–238 BCE, used Buddhism like Trump uses Christianity, to silence critics*
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By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)
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To read more on Ashoka and the MAURIAN EMPIRE in India, type https://wp.me/p1TVCy-8C2 or, if Facebook deletes the internet address, as it sometimes does, copy the internet address in the picture below into your browser, then click enter.
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ASHOKA'S BIRTH AND THE MANIPULATION OF HIS ORIGINS
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Ashoka was born in 304 BCE, in a Mauryan palace already thick with palace intrigue and class anxiety. Later chroniclers said his mother, Subhadrangi, was the daughter of a Brahmin family. But the earlier stories—before Buddhist apologists edited the facts for political respectability—said she was Ashoka's low-caste hairdresser.
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Ashoka, in this retelling, tightened his jaw, telling himself: "I rise because destiny bends toward me."
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He always felt he had something to prove. He was not the heir; his half-brother Susima held that place. And Ashoka bore the stigma of an "ugly" child—short, pudgy, rough-skinned, with a disfigured face. The chronicles say Emperor Bindusara dismissed him as unfit to represent the dynasty.
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But Ashoka was brilliant, decisive, and fearless—traits his father exploited.
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ASHOKA THE ENFORCER: VIOLENCE AS CREDENTIAL
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TAKSHILA, a frontier city bristling with both wealth and unrest, revolted. Bindusara sent the "ugly prince" to tame it, perhaps expecting failure.
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Ashoka entered the rebellious city with soldiers who muttered prayers to Enlil-like war gods. He himself thought: "Let them see what this face can do."
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We do not know whether Ashoka negotiated, coerced, or massacred the rebels—but Takshila submitted. The victory put him on the political map. Reward followed: he became viceroy of Ujjain, ruling decisively, attracting ministers who whispered, "He is stronger than Susima, Bindusara's heir."
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When Bindusara fell ill in 272 BCE, both princes raced home. Ashoka arrived first. Susima tried to siege the city, but someone killed him—some sources say mercenaries in Ashoka's service threw Susima into a pit of burning charcoal.
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Over the next four years, Ashoka eliminated almost all brothers with competing claims. Only his younger brother, Tissa, survived. When the bloodshed ended, he crowned himself with the regnal name Priyadarshi—"He who is pleasant to behold."
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Even the courtiers flinched at the irony.
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THE POPULAR TALE—AND THE HISTORICAL LIE
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The sanitized legend says Ashoka was vicious until the Kalinga War, when he saw bodies heaped across the battlefield and repented, converting to Buddhism in horror. This spin was propaganda; Ashoka had been practicing Buddhism for years before the Kalinga war, and his actual records show no repentance for the region he devastated.
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Ashoka narrated his own propaganda. His edicts admit that contradictions in wording were intentional political manipulations. In Kalinga, he said nothing about regret—only in faraway regions where the people were easier to impress.
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Even worse, one "repentance edict" includes this chilling line: "To tribal peoples and troublesome groups, I can do again what I did in Kalinga." That is not remorse. That is a threat.
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Ashoka traveled incognito—like a paranoid emperor straight out of Enlil's dominator playbook—to sample the public mood. The people had begun calling him Chandashoka—Ashoka the Terrible.
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ASHOKA THE BUREAUCRATIC AUTOCRAT
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Ashoka ruled for 38 years, keeping the empire stable—but at extreme cost. Stability came through a bloated, suffocating bureaucracy enforced by the Dhamma-Mahamātras, 81,000 officials whose reach extended everywhere: soldiers' barracks, village courts, households, women's quarters, prisons, and temples.
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These administrators could punish "improper conduct" but also reward "righteous behavior," a moral surveillance state reminiscent of imperial China—and modern authoritarianism in.
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Ashoka expanded bureaucracy so much that it consumed a quarter of all tax revenue. Corruption festered.
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The moment Ashoka died, half the empire rebelled—Kalinga, the South, and more.
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ASHOKA'S RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE—BEHIND THE FAÇADE
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Ashoka patronized Buddhism and sent missionaries as far as Egypt and Greece. Sri Lanka's conversion traces to him, and that changed all of Southeast Asia.
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But evidence makes the darker truth unavoidable:
• He ordered 18,000 Ajivikas massacred for an offensive drawing of the Buddha.
• A Jain artist and his family were burned alive.
• Ashoka put a bounty on every Jain head, paying one silver coin per kill—until his brother Tissa died in the blowback.
• Hindu rituals such as animal sacrifice were banned under threat of punishment.
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He preached tolerance in edicts—but practiced domination on the ground. Domination consciousness weaponized dharma to secure absolute obedience to him.
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WHY INDIA ELEVATED ASHOKA
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Modern India, a vast union of cultures and languages, needed a unifying emblem after independence. Ashoka fit the political needs of his era; he was Northern, he was fulfilling his destiny (karma). He ruled the largest pre-modern Indian empire. He preached [though he didn't practice] tolerance.
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The "sanitized" Ashoka—the peaceful Buddhist emperor—became a national symbol, even though the historical Ashoka was a violent, self-glorifying autocrat who used Buddhism the way modern demagogues like Trump, Putin, Erogin, Orban, Mohammed bin Salman, and Ali Khamenei use Christianity and Islam for power disguised as spiritual piety.
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Ashoka's real legacy is mixed—but his religious impact was enormous, and his propaganda astonishingly successful.
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ASHOKA AS REFORMER, BUILDER, AND SELF-PROMOTER
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He did accomplish things:
• Legal reforms allowing appeals before ex*****on
• Wildlife preserves and animal protection
• Educational opportunities for women
• Roads, hospitals, universities, irrigation works
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But any Indian emperor ruling for 38 years (300+ years before our times) would probably have done the same. There is no evidence that Ashoka killed and tortured people beyond what a typical ruler would do.
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Archaeology shows that prosperity rose after Ashoka's death, when subsequent development lifted the burden of his oppressive rule.
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Karavela of Kalinga reclaimed stolen Jain idols Ashoka had confiscated and carved his victory into rock above Ashoka's own edicts—as symbolic revenge from a people who did not believe Ashoka's repentance myth.
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Modern India, a vast union of cultures and languages, needed a unifying emblem after independence. Ashoka fit the political need: He was Northern, Dharmic (spiritual duty), Ruler of the largest pre-modern Indian empire, and he preached tolerance (even if he didn't practice it)
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The sanitized Ashoka—the peaceful Buddhist emperor—became a national symbol, even though the historical Ashoka was a violent, self-glorifying autocrat who used Buddhism the way modern demagogues use religion for power.
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Ashoka's real legacy is mixed—but his religious impact was enormous, and his propaganda astonishingly successful.
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PREVIEW: THE BUDDHIST WAVE
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In our next installment, we follow the Buddhist wave Ashoka generated—how he weaponized monks much like Trump weaponizes ICE, the Pentagon, and politicized Christianity.
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*Based on data from Decoding Ashoka's Legacy by Odd Compass.
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21/11/2025

Mass murderer ASHOKA, ruler of almost all India from 265–238 BCE, used Buddhism like Trump uses Christianity to silence critics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvTdiKzQEKE&t=198s
This is a VIDEO; to play it, click the word "TERRIBLE."

Ashoka -- the most famous leader of the Mauryan Empire -- is a beloved historical figure, in India and beyond. His imperial successes, his role in spreading ...

19/11/2025

INANNA/SHAKTI IN INDIA & THE RISE OF CASTE
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By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)
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To read more on Caste in India, type https://wp.me/p1TVCy-8BA or, if Facebook deletes the internet address, as it sometimes does, copy the internet address on the picture below into your browser, then click enter.
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3500–1500 BCE: ANUNNAKI PRINCESS INANNA/SHAKTI BESTOWED TA***IC TEMPLES ALONG THE INDUS & GANGES RIVERS
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Enki's expedition settled the northwest wedge of ancient India long before the Vedic bards shaped their verses. Inanna arrived there as well, fierce and radiant, and generations of valley peoples remembered her as Shakti, the kinetic feminine blast of raw force, and later as Kali, the destroyer of domination and the liberator of the enslaved.
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Indus priestesses placed their emblem on seals. Shepherd clans who migrated from Baluchistan carried stories of the sky lords who taught them irrigation and trance disciplines.
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Villagers recalled her: Inanna descended here. She showed us how a woman. She channels storm-fire yet shares food with strangers. She punishes kings who enslave workers.
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Partnership currents surged across the Indus plain. Women joined councils. Clans traded with no thought of caste or hereditary pollution. Dominator patterns still appeared, but no lineage was able to freeze superiority into law.
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INDUS VALLEY'S ANUNNAKI PRINCESS INANNA/SHAKTI BESTOWED TA***IC TEMPLES ALONG THE INDUS & GANGES RIVERS
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ARYANS ARRIVED & ALIGNED WITH INANNA-SHAKTI (c. 1500 BCE)
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A***n clans crossed the passes with their herds and felt Shakti's presence in the winds. They honored her under titles that echoed her Sumerian persona: war-lover, protector of women, giver of ecstatic insight. Their poets pictured her as the fury behind lightning and the wild generosity behind harvests.
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They worshiped her beside Agni's fire and called her the womb of heroic birth. Those early centuries still held flexibility. A man could rise through valor. A woman could choose her partner. Priests advised, but did not lock status by blood.|
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But older villagers remembered the balance.
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When she flew off again for Sumer, one old man in Harrappa told his cohorts, Shakti prefers women who choose lovers without fear.
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I liked the ta**ra sessions she made me and my buddies attend in her ta**ra temple after we fought our enemies, before we could go back to life in town.
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In my sessions with the old crone who taught me how to bring women to satisfaction, I had to make love with her using all the ta**ra techniques she taught. Later, I could use what she taught for s*x with girls in town.
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However, I dislike Shakti's arrogance; women, other than Anunnaki, should obey their fathers and husbands, a sentiment.
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A***ns brought a patriarchal perspective to Inanna/Shakti's framework. The male demand for control gradually hardened: the fourfold Varna [functional classes based on occupation], which had been but a functional guide, evolved, over time, into an increasingly rigid caste system.
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VEDIC VARNAS FORMED (c. 1500–1000 BCE)
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Clans organized their populations into four main categories: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras. The ancient Purusha hymn proclaimed that creation itself divided the cosmic body. Kings loved this imagery because it naturalized hierarchy.
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Yet in those early centuries, birth still did not fix destiny. A trader's son studied with Brahmins. A Shudra child joined warriors on campaign. Women of every Varna still gathered in circles that mirrored the old Shakti rites.
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The partnership spark endured.
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But domination slowly fermented inside each group.
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VARNAS BECAME CASTES (c. 1200 BCE)
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Each Varna shaped its identity through its duties. Each also cultivated its own form of in-group solidarity—partnership within, hierarchy without.
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BRAHMIN PRIESTS
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Brahmins taught the hymns and guarded ritual precision. They advised kings. They claimed the mouth of Purusha, the place of divine speech.
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A proud Brahmin spoke to his students, We hold the knowledge and shape justice.
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We must avoid pollution from improper unions.
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He warned the students against women from lower castes—except when he himself desired them. Domination always carries hypocrisy.
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KSHATRIYA WARRIORS
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Kshatriyas governed territories and trained in war. Kshatriya women learned archery beside their brothers and held command when kings died in battle.
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A warrior sharpened his blade as he spoke: I guard our people. I owe loyalty to my guru, but I trust my sword more.
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I choose my wives from all castes, but no one decides for my sisters.
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Partnership currents lingered in warrior brotherhoods and in the equality of Kshatriya daughters, but domination surged when kings sought rivals to crush.
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VAISHYA MERCHANTS
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Vaishyas built the economy—farmers, traders, herders. They fed everyone and expected respect for their labor.
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A Vaishya merchant boasted: My cattle fatten this kingdom. My caravans bring wealth. I pay the priests only when they earn it.
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Their solidarity strengthened internal partnerships, but greed often led to the exploitation of Shudras.
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SHUDRA FARMERS
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Shudras worked as artisans, laborers, attendants, and agriculturalists. Their duties grounded society.
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A Shudra woman carrying water paused and said, "I serve because the law demands it."
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I know my strength; I see the others forget that none stands without us.
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Shakti honored Shudras. Brahmin law codes did not.
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DOMINATION HARDENED: CASTE OSSIFIED
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Over the centuries, each Varna transformed its role into an entitlement.
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Brahmins demanded more gifts.
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Ksyhatria Kings ignored their gurus and waged wars for personal ambition.
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Vaishyas cheated in trade. Shudras sometimes stole to survive.
By 700 BCE, the old Varna duties no longer guided conduct.
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Status drifted from earned to inherited.
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Caste endogamy became rigid.
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Ritual purity rules ballooned into a suffocating web.
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S*X, POWER, AND CASTE ENDOGAMY
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Men who slept with lower-caste women faced purification rites.
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Women who slept with lower-caste men faced death. Domination constantly policed female s*xuality with lethal force.
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Brahmin lawgivers wrote rules that reinforced male privilege and punished female autonomy.
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A Brahmin elder declared: Women must protect lineage purity. Men recover. Women do not.
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Kshatriya women scoffed: Shakti chooses lovers across caste. Why not us?
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Partnership currents gasped but still flickered in village women's circles.
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RETURNING WARRIORS & TA***IC CRONES
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Young men came home from battles poisoned with domination. They learned killing, rivalry, and contempt. Villages refused to accept them until the ta***ic crones—elder priestesses in Shakti's line—resocialized them.
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The teaching-crones guided the returning soldiers. The crones used trance and breath-control, and when the soldiers were entranced, they facilitated their surrender of rage, fear, and grief that had accompanied their fighting.
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The crone looked deeply into the eyes of a young Kshatriya soldier's forehead, and said, You left as a son but have returned as a killer. But I wash the blood from your mind so your wife will not fear you.
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Only when they released their emotions, learned the techniques of pleasing a woman and giving a woman ejaculatory or***ms, did the crones release them to re-enter town life, please their wives, and interact peacefully with the people of their town.
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THE CRONE AND THE RETURNING WARRIOR
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The crone looked deeply into the eyes of a young Kshatriya soldier's forehead.
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She said, You left as a son but have returned as a killer.
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But I wash the blood from your mind so your wife will not fear you.
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SUB-VARNAS MULTIPLIED
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As North India's population grew and regional cultures blossomed, Varna categories splintered into hundreds of sub-groups.
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Jains declared that only one human Varna existed.
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Migrants, converts, and mixed-heritage clans created new castes. The old fourfold system became ambiguous, claimed by everyone and no one.
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India's spiritual landscape diversified. Buddhists, Jains, Saivites, and Shaktas argued. Shakti's worship spread among the marginalized—those crushed under Brahminical domination.
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Muslim dynasties rose. Local Hindus adapted their caste norms under new rulers. Christian communities developed their own caste-like hierarchies. Partnership arose in places, but domination remained the central thread of power.
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THE BRITISH ARRIVED AND FROZE CASTE INTO ADMINISTRATION (1757–1947 CE)
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British officials studied India and filed its people into rigid categories they mistakenly called "ancient." Their census-takers turned fluid identities into fixed bureaucratic labels.
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A British officer noted: The natives insist on countless castes. We record them for ease of governance.
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Another whispered privately: Their system mirrors our class obsession, only with more theology attached.
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British rule amplified the ossification. Communities once mobile became locked by documentation that never existed before.
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ANCESTRY, MEMORY & MODERN RESISTANCE (c. 1947–Present)
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Modern India reinterprets its heritage. Some uphold caste as a sacred order.
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Others fight domination with ferocity.
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Dalit leaders invoke Kali, another facet of Inanna/Ishtar, as a revolutionary mother.
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Feminists reclaim partnership models from the Indus and early Shakti rites.
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Young people challenge endogamy. Mixed-caste couples meet violent opposition but persist anyway.
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The partnership spark—Inanna's spark—burns again.
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ASHOKA APPROACHES: THE MOMENT OF TURNING (c. 260 BCE)
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Before Ashoka embraced Buddhism, he presided over a realm soaked in conquest. He ruled as an ideal Kshatriya—disciplined, ambitious, victorious. History remembers him as delivering India from harsh, authoritarian rule. But that’s just propaganda he inflicted with his thought-police--the subject of our next article.
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For now, the story closes with the world waiting:
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The king rides home from a great victory, sees corpses along the river and whispers, Enough.
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Soon, he turns against domination itself.
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19/11/2025

INANNA/SHAKTI IN INDIA & THE RISE OF CASTE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tftiZAbeXrY

This is a VIDEO; click the word “CASTE” to start the video.

History of the Caste System: A system used to organize society in Ancient India for hundreds of years, the Caste System would help to maintain customs and tr...

18/11/2025

OUR SELF EXPANDS TO "FAMILY" AWARENESS (Transpersonal Existentialism, Principle 4)
Explanation & Do-It-Yourself Consciousness-Expanding Exercise
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D., Dean, School of Counseling & Ta**ra
Click https://wp.me/p1TVCy-5Ef for more information on boundaries and additional Existential and Gestalt communication exercises.
Dyadic awareness, your sense of yourself as part of a pair, is, in turn, a component of larger-scale organizations of individuals. The people you regularly interact with as BODYMIND daily constitute your primary groups.
You transcend the dyadic level of consciousness when you see, hear, and feel things from the perspective of your entire family, fraternity, or running gang. You retain the dyadic, body-mind, personality, and subself awareness you have gained. You still use the capacities, understanding, and sense of self you developed at these narrower levels when you experience your oneness with a primary group.
As a conscious member of a primary group, you share your primary adult relationship's organismic and personality abilities in a broader context, involving more people.
FAMILY HEALTH
HOW HEALTHY IS YOUR FAMILY AND EACH OF ITS MEMBERS?
[Answer this in your mind or aloud to someone]
The health of each of you depends partly on how cohesive, supportive, and encouraging your family is.
Alta Kelly identified certain factors as critical to healthy families. These factors include face-to-face contact, verbal and nonverbal communication, touching, empathy, commitment, enrichment, and s*xual compatibility between husband and wife [I would modernize this to include s*xual mate(s)]. Consider how your family does on each factor and what steps you can take to improve.
The first Family health factor is one-to-one, face-to-face TIME SPENT TOGETHER BY EACH PAIR of family members. If you realize that some family members spend hardly any time together, consider improving this by creating a natural way for them to spend time together, such as sharing a household task.
The second family health factor is VERBAL COMMUNICATION. Kelly says to let each other know what you are into each day. They often talk to each other as a group and individually. Improve verbal communication by sharing your daily concerns with the family member with whom you ordinarily speak the least.
The third health factor is good NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION.
Tune in to other family members' physical cues, body language, and behavior. Tuning into them will help you and them with their health.
The fourth family health factor is TOUCHING. Infants and older folks "can die from insufficient body contact," and touching is essential to the well-being of every family member. Is there a family member you have not hugged or patted today? Make physical contact with them today.
Fifth, Kelly says, for family health, practice empathy. Develop the ability to temporarily understand things from the perspectives of others in your family.
If you or someone in your family wants to develop empathy, experiment: PRETEND YOU ARE THE OTHER PERSON AND STATE THEIR POSITION.
According to Kelly, commitment, the sixth factor, is key to family health. To optimize your family's health, you and each family member must accept that your family is a unit.
Deepen your commitment:
THINK OF EACH MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY AND SPECIFIC WAYS YOU CAN SUPPORT EACH AND THE FAMILY.
Finally, what Kelly calls the ENRICHMENT factor improves family health by encouraging the growth and vitality of each family member.
THINK OF HOW EACH PERSON IN YOUR FAMILY, AND YOUR FAMILY AS A GROUP, CAN ADVANCE TOWARD THEIR GOALS AND HIGHER PURPOSES THIS WEEK. DO SOMETHING TO ENCOURAGE THIS MOVEMENT.
Kelly suggests you
DISCUSS YOUR PROBLEMS, CONCERNS, AND JOYS WITH THE OTHERS IN YOUR FAMILY.
HAVE TIME BOTH WITH AND APART FROM YOUR FAMILY.
CREATE OUTINGS TOGETHER.
LAUGH AND CRY TOGETHER.
BE ABLE TO SAY "NO," WHEN APPROPRIATE, WITHOUT GUILT.
GIVE AND GET COMPLIMENTS.
LISTEN TO AND THINK ABOUT EACH OTHER'S CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISMS. AND FINALLY,
SHARE WELLNESS EDUCATION.
With a focus on face-to-face contact, effective communication, touch, empathy, commitment, and an emphasis on family enrichment, your family helps you stay healthy and grow.
Family Fitness
* LIST AT LEAST TEN STRENGTHS, GOOD POINTS, AND THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOUR HOUSEHOLD AND YOUR RELATIONSHIPS.
TELL A PARTNER, LOUDLY AND WITH GREAT ENTHUSIASM, "WHAT I LIKE ABOUT MY FAMILY IS..." (SHARE YOUR HOUSEHOLD'S GOOD POINTS.)
DO YOU WANT TO SHARE LOVING FEELINGS WITH YOUR HOUSEMATES?
DO YOU WANT TO FEEL GOOD WITH YOUR FAMILY?
Reread Kelly's suggestions (above), then SELECT A SMALL. DOABLE STEPS TO IMPROVE YOUR HOUSEHOLD'S ACTIVITY, FEELING, EXPRESSION, UNDERSTANDING, AND INTIMATE CONTACT.
EXPERIENCE YOURSELF AT ALL THESE LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
* TEACH TA**RA
http://amazon.com/Teach-Ta**ra-Teacher.../dp/1977642799
is a manual for you to experience advanced ta**ra and teach it to other people.
You learn to teach lovers and seekers how to:
* Master advanced ta**ra techniques
* Open all energy vortexes (chakras) to each other
* Refine relations
* Encourage female ej*******on and master male ejaculatory control
* Find meaning and purpose in relationships and life
* Reprogram parent imprints that diminish s*x and love
* Get satisfaction and sustain s*x
* Mutually make more in s*xual loving
* Delve dreams and pastlives
* Worship women and gratify guys
Also by the Lessins:
TA**RA for ALL CHAKRAS
amazon.com/Ta**ra-Chakras-Sasha-Alex-Lessin/dp/1548102830
guides you through experiences that help you:
* Love each other more and better
* Open your energy vortexes (chakras) to each other
* Share your diverse inner voices
* Learn what hurts and scares your Inner Kids
* Discern when to lower your subself shields
* Share vulnerability and connect
* Synergize your inner selves' dance within and between you
* Refine how you relate
* Heal each other's hearts
* Encourage female ej*******on
* Master male ejaculatory control
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