"Hear My Prayer", Valjean, Les Mis

Been watching Les Miserable and listening to the songs over and over.

The lead role of Jean Valjean, played by Alfie Boe, is amazing!
 The expressions on his face are so real, he is feeling it!

It dawned on me that it times of hardship it is comforting to know that there is a heaven, a safe, secure and peaceful place to rest. It's a Utopia. Bacon
A reward for virtue and acting with guidance from a moral compass. Hume

I got this in this clip 1:19:00, 4:05:00, 5:05:00
Jean Valjean Death Scene, Les Miserable

Negative behaviour (The Demon within, Faust?) may always have a reason; a reason that could be a justification or excuse. Medea

The "good hearts", as my five year old niece call them, get redemtion/ salvation.
It may be the only thing to look forward to; to live for.

Blind Faith (Montaigne?)

Perhaps in times of affluence and peace, Faith in God, is needed less.

Been reading in a book by Starhawk, about power over versus power within

From Starhawks's book;

Life is moved by a power deeper than the power of the gun and the bomb; a power that might still prevail if we knew how to call it forth.

The root word of power in Latin is podere, "to be able", the power that comes from within.

The God, of patriarchal  religions has been used to power over and
separated spirit from matter. Descartes

People who 'hold power', The Prince
versus
People who have 'power within' to do somethng, to act.  A Will. Antigone

In contrast; the spirit embodied in nature
Rousseau, Wollstonecraft

Removing value and content of nature or people allows for dominance over.
The objectification of the primitive, poor, woman, working class; whoever will be oppressed etc...
Destruction of The Indies, Wollstonecraft

The oppressed may doubt their worth (Phedre) and comply or recognize their worth and take a stand, exert their will (Lysistrata)

The machine image of the world,
Modern day; Value is in economic performance and profits

Estrangement

Must reshape principle of 'power over', shake up all the old divisions. (De Las Casas)
Is it possible? HOW?

violently or peacefully

Clip from Les Mis
8:41:00

Scene from Les Mis
Javert finds that because Valjean saved his life, Valjean spares Javert's life
he can't bring himself to turn him in. Torn between his own morality (Mencius?) and his duty (Krishna) to the law, Javert commits suicide by throwing himself into the Seine

Back on the streets, several women mourn the deaths of the young students ("Turning"). Marius also mourns for his friends ("Empty Chairs at Empty Tables").
Starhawk
Engels, " Religion is essentially the emptying of man and nature of all content, the transferring of this conent to the phantom of a distant God who then in his turn graciously allows something from his abundance to come to human beings and to nature."

Immanence; spirit and transformative power embodied in the natural world. (Lucretius?)

Consciouness shapes reality
Reality shapes consciousness

recognize
interconnectedness
inherent value in all living things
necessity for a  shift in values