Anyone else starting to become allergic to computers?

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emotions are mind constructions that limit your ability to feel. what i mean by this is that what we really mean by emotion is a somatic sensation happening in your body - a "feeling". the feeling is a reaction to something happening externally or internally. if you look a baby, they don't know whether they're angry or sad, they're literally just feeling things. they haven't yet labelled feelings as concepts. the trouble with labelling a feeling as a particular emotion as you get older is that emotions are ultimately intellectual concepts a collection of humans have decided more or less symbolize a particular pattern of feelings. so what happens is that your mind starts to condition each feeling with the label, and eventually, the feeling-label-emotion dynamic becomes so intertwined that any time a feeling comes along that is vaguely in the pattern of "anger", for example, your mind just makes you feel the general sensation of "angry" because you've built it into your system as a habitual reaction. it simplifies and generalizes and you miss the detail and novelty because you went to the label as apposed to the experience, and then the label hijacked the experience. here you are short-circuiting your experience of reality with your conditioned mind. because in reality every feeling is totally unique and full of creative information. however if you let the labels take over, basically that information becomes compressed, lo-fidelity, and you just feel a more general sensation you already understand. your mind is on a kind of energetic budget, it’s only got so much juice for you in this lifetime, and though it is highly programmable it will take short cuts wherever it can and labels are one of those mechanisms it employs so that it does not need to sort through new information. the skill to develop is to "listen" to sensations without getting emotional. just listen to the body and whatever is happening in the mind without habitually reacting. people might think that is suppressing or repressing but it is the opposite. if your emotional mind concepts take over as soon as you feel something, it will then project the general feeling associated with the new novel feeling onto the nervous system and you won't feel what actually wanted to come through. so by taking away emotions you actually feel your feelings as fresh information everytime if that makes any sense. this also doesn’t mean not to express your feelings. it’s saying to stop analyzing and trying to understand every little feeling and simply feel it, the understanding will come later spotaneously and the meaning will be much more colorful because you didn’t generalize it as an emotion.

The deeper I go into the esoteric side of life the clearer it becomes that I know so very little about the nature of reality or what life is. It is really the ultimate mystery. I do however see more clearly my delusions, that has been helpful. Perhaps the accumulation of knowledge in this matter is more a matter of recognizing delusions, subtracting, as apposed to “adding” or espousing grand explanatory theories and models. My experience has been that there is a threshold you pass where the truth of reality really cannot be expressed in words or symbol, only experienced. I think it is possible to store this experience in energy, and that it is possible to pass along this energy, but that is quite far away from where I am in terms of skill. “The Dao that can be named is not the eternal Dao” is starting to make a lot clearer sense to me now. You really must remain humble, don’t be so sure you “get it” or it is “just this” or that. Just when you think you get it some deeper structure becomes available to you and you must drop what you thought before almost entirely.

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embrace the boring

The presidential debate was the perfect representation of the two dominant political consciousnesses on the planet right now. On the left you have a politics that has become utterly non-sensical, lacking any internal logical coherency, weak, soft, knee-jerk emotionality fueled by resentment; basically, people living in an internal fantasy world shaped by their own mental delusions. On the right you have self-righteous childlike reactionaries, boastful ideologues lacking all humility, fighting to save a past version of the world whose ship has sailed so that they can feel emotionally safe within their own narrowminded politcal nostalgia. All the spiritual traditions understood the microcosm and the macrocosm were reflections of one another. Here it is in full resolution display!

the alchemical child at the end of time

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There is a space your awareness can absorb into beyond mind, beyond body, beyond your emotions, beyond imagination, beyond perceptions, beyond psychedelics, beyond energy and that is the spirit.

This is a stop-frame animation of a common exercise across most eastern internal systems

Do people who have no concerns about the health of the planet just never go outside? Are they not observant to reality around them? In Canada the rivers used to be overflowing with life. When I used to drive up north my windshield would be splatted with all sorts of insects, but no more. Remember when water from lakes and rivers used to be drinkable? Hundreds of years ago the fish populations were so thick with life that they slowed ships down. Now they’re grown in isolated pockets of chemically laden water bucket cages. And that misery gets transferred into the essence of the tissues that we consume. I want to live on a planet flourishing with life, not some techno-utopia dystopia with neon signs and AI robots everywhere. I hope Bitcoin enables us to support life again. I feel the spirit of the planet crying out for life-support. I go to the park and see trees lined up in single-file lines, devoid of place, ancestry, connection to lineage. What the hell is that about? Only a civilization who does not understand life would take such an approach. Have you ever seen a forest organize trees like that? Trees are beings, plants are beings, insects are beings that all ground in the consciousness of aliveness into the planet. Indigenous people understood this. The fall of our current western civilization will be in part because we made the fundamental metaphysical error of seeing the world as a set of discrete soulless objects rather than an interconnected web of beings all having subjective experiences while hosting different shades of spirit. Perhaps we should care about the “the environment” because we are part of the environment lol. “The environment”—what a massive psyop of an idea. There is no such thing as the environment or “nature”, there is just life and we are it. Spiritually confused humans invented the idea of “nature”. It does not exist, it is an abstract concept which enables the projection of a reductionist worldview onto a reality that is fundamentally interconnected. We are part of that web of organic life that are transducers of spirit, grounding it into physical form. People wonder why the world feels soulless—maybe because we are destroying life? Forests, oceans, swamps, jungles, rivers, these are all organs of the earth supporting the cosmology of human purpose and thus we should meet them as equals. Unfortunately it’s not just fiat money, it’s the consciousness that gives birth to fiat money as well. I think we’re in a bit bigger of a mess than people think. Humans aren’t the only consciousness on this planet. Thanks Descartes for starting this mind virus. This is not me being an advocate for any “solution” proposed by fiat politicians which are totally insane on a whole other level of human delusion, it’s me putting forth a different view of reality. If embodied it can shift how you interact with the world. You care for the river because it is a being, it is your friend and brother, not because it a “resource”.

The yin and yang in daoism aren’t just metaphors for some abstract philosophical concept, but are literal energy states that you can train your nervous system to feel within your own body and outside your body. Yin is magnetic, feels like the “shape” or “container” of an energy structure, Yang is electrical, feels like a shock, like fast flowing electricity zappin’ around

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if you eat in silent reverence, without distractions, and follow every bite as it drips down into your stomach, your system will extract a lot more energy from the food

in old school yoga asana the physical postures were the result, the effect of the students energy centers being manipulated by the teacher using various energetic skills. in modern times they’ve got it backwards, mistaking the effect for the cause.