1. The Devil's Advocate

Time Stamp: 12:19

* 9sense Letters - Control* My question is about control. One of the most emotionally painful things I have felt is when something terrible happened that was completely out of my control. For example, my ex-wife taking my son away from me. My urges are most destructive, but after years of work I can finally let the urges fade without acting on them ("ride the wave"), though it is still agony and takes days to let it all wash over. Do you have any advice for getting through these inevitable periods of grief?* Stages of Griefhttps://www.healthline.com/health/stages-of-grief* Grief is also very personal. It’s not very neat or linear. It doesn’t follow any timelines or schedules. You may cry, become angry, withdraw, feel empty. None of these things are unusual or wrong. Everyone grieves differently, but there are some commonalities in the stages and the order of feelings experienced during grief.* In 1969, a Swiss-American psychiatrist named Elizabeth Kübler-Ross wrote in her book “On Death and Dying” that grief could be divided into five stages. Her observations came from years of working with terminally ill individuals.* Her theory of grief became known as the Kübler-Ross model. While it was originally devised for people who were ill, these stages of grief have been adapted for other experiences with loss, too.* The five stages of grief may be the most widely known, but it’s far from the only popular stages of grief theory. Several others exist as well, including ones with seven stages and ones with just two.* The five stages of grief are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, & acceptance* Grief is different for every person, so you may begin coping with loss in the bargaining stage and find yourself in anger or denial next. You may remain for months in one of the five stages but skip others entirely.* Psychodrama* If you want to get over it, but cannot seem to get out of your own way, you may want to try Satanic Greater Magic.* Compassion Ritual for yourself to accept reality* Destruction ritual for the elements of yourself or others that caused the loss* Lesser Magic* Examine the root cause of the loss. If it is your fault examine your faults and correct them* Adapt to the new situation and exert your will to get to some form of normal

2. Infernal Informant

Time Stamp: 35:23

* The Republican Party has embraced American fascismhttps://www.businessinsider.com/republican-party-trump-pence-embraced-history-american-fascism-2020-10* The Republican Party has embraced American fascism, an anti-democratic ideology that is unique to our country, and is engrained deeper in our collective consciousness and our history than most of us have been taught.* Historians often come ever-so-close to calling American fascism what it is, before backing away and concluding that fascism is something from abroad. Robert Paxton, a preeminant historian of the political philosophy, called the Ku Klux Klan (which was founded by high-ranking former Confederate soldiers)  "the earliest phenomenon that can be functionally related to fascism." Yet somehow we do not own our American fascism.* Building on Paxton in the Washington Post in August,