Dimensionally Barrett

  Recently, I attended a four-day online retreat (more technically, a drubchen/ sgrub-chen / གྲུབ་ཆེན། / ”great accomplishment”, but bear in mind that drubchens as I’ve come to know them, last considerably longer; ten days or more) dedicated to the goddess/bodhisattva Tārā/Drolma ( sgrol-ma / སྒྲོལ་མ། ), a deity close to my heart for a variety of reasons that are not necessarily reasonable (for instance, why or how does such a figure arise anyway and why or how would one come to hold such a figure “closely”?) but will become clear shortly. The drubchen was carried out under the auspices of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and his Nalandabodhi organization in Seattle, but in coordination with Nalandabodhi International, the Karmapa Center and associated groups. While in general, the focus on Tara is to reflect on her being as representative as the vanquisher of “the eight great fears” as the embodiment of the Buddha’s enlightened activity, the impetus behind accomplishing such practices ...

As I mentioned in a Facebook post, a whistleblower supplied a report of forced hysterectomies at an ICE detention center in Georgia. This points to greater systemic and systematic abuse throughout the agency.  If you are unfamiliar with the story, here are some articles to get started:  "“The allegations Ms. Wooten made in her whistleblower complaint are shocking, but unfortunately not surprising, given everything that we know about healthcare in ICE detention facilities specifically at Irwin, and nationwide,” says Eunice Cho, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU, who wrote about Irwin in 2016 report for the Southern Poverty Law Center, and investigated other LaSalle facilities for an ACLU report this year. " https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/hysterectomies-ice-allegations-whistleblower-georgia-1062429/ Historical resonances beyond WWII (the U.S. has its own history of forced sterilization): https://www.macon.com/news/state/georgia/article245747515.html F...