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Credit: Mind Rise (Facebook) "Sometimes walking away does not mean you are weak. Sometimes it means you are wise enough to protect your peace. Ego wants to prove. Ego wants to argue. Ego wants the last word. Ego wants to be seen as right, even when the heart is tired and the relationship is breaking. But wisdom understands that winning an argument can still make you lose your peace, your dignity, and sometimes even the people who matter. The person who chooses to “lose” the ego battle often wins something greater. He wins self-control. He wins inner peace. He wins freedom from unnecessary drama. He shows strength by not reacting to every insult or challenge. Real power is not in defeating others. Real power is in mastering yourself. A calm mind does not need to prove its worth to everyone. So let the ego lose if it must. Let pride stay silent. Sometimes the greatest victory is choosing peace over being right." #selfmastery

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" The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." Friedrich Nietzsche Onur Hastürk, Odalsique with Red Caftan, 2019.

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Credit: Cherokee Community (Facebook) "575 federally recognized Tribal Nations are now listed by the United States, according to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Federal recognition is a legal and political status that acknowledges a Tribal Nation’s government-to-government relationship with the United States. It also confirms eligibility for certain federal programs and services, while recognizing the inherent authority of Tribal Nations to govern their own affairs. According to the updated Federal Register list, the Bureau of Indian Affairs added the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina following congressional recognition, bringing the total number of federally recognized Tribal entities to 575. Alaska is home to 229 federally recognized Tribes, the largest number of any state. California has 109 federally recognized Tribes, the highest number in the contiguous United States. Across the country, these Nations represent hundreds of distinct governments, cultures, languages, homelands, and histories that long predate the formation of the United States. It is also important to understand what federal recognition does and does not mean. Recognition is a federal legal designation. It does not determine whether a people are Indigenous, nor does it define cultural identity, ancestry, community belonging, or historical continuity. Many Indigenous communities continue to maintain their traditions, leadership, and relationships to their homelands without federal recognition. Source: U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs." #TribalSovereignty #IndigenousHistory #NativeAmerican #FederalRecognition

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How European Elites Arrive During a Heat Wave to Explain Why Your A/C is Killing the Planet #cartoon #funny

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” Guillaume Apollinaire Artist: Romany Soup

Credit: Students For Liberty (Facebook) "Robert Owen paid around $150,000 for the town of Harmonie, Indiana. He got 20,000 acres, more than 160 buildings, working mills, and farms already producing food. He renamed it New Harmony. Close to a thousand people arrived in the first year. Owen already ran successful textile mills in New Lanark, Scotland, where he was famous for treating workers well and running a profitable business at the same time. He believed that if you removed private property and paid everyone equally, cooperation would naturally replace competition. In January 1826, William Maclure sailed a riverboat full of scientists, teachers, and geologists down the Ohio River to New Harmony. Historians call it the "Boatload of Knowledge." Thomas Say, the father of American entomology, was on it. So was Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, one of the most respected naturalists of the era. This was the most educated, best-funded, best-equipped socialist community ever attempted on American soil. If cooperation could beat markets anywhere, it should have worked here. It collapsed almost immediately. The hardest workers were feeding, housing, and clothing neighbors who did nothing while receiving the same food, the same shelter, and the same rewards. So they stopped working too. Why wouldn't they? Production dropped and food ran short. Buildings decayed because no one owned them and no one was responsible for maintaining them. Endless meetings replaced actual work. Owen wrote seven different constitutions in two years trying to fix it. None of them worked. American inventor Josiah Warren, one of the country's earliest libertarian thinkers, was there. He watched the community fail from the inside and later wrote about why. His conclusion: "The difference of opinion, tastes and purposes increased just in proportion to the demand for conformity." The more the community demanded unity, the more it fractured. Warren identified the deeper problem almost a century before Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek made it famous in academic economics. When everyone owns everything, no one owns anything. When labor earns the same reward regardless of effort, effort disappears. When prices vanish, no one knows what anything is worth. Owen finally admitted defeat in 1827. In his farewell address, he blamed the settlers themselves, saying they were "unprepared to be members of the community of common property and equality." Translation: the system would have worked if only people had been different. Every socialist regime since has offered some version of that excuse. His own son, Robert Dale Owen, put it plainly years later: "All cooperative schemes which provide equal remuneration to the skilled and industrious and the ignorant and idle must work their own downfall." He had lived through the collapse. He knew what killed it. Every socialist experiment since New Harmony has ended the same way, and for the same reasons. Prices communicate what things are worth. Ownership creates responsibility for maintaining them. When both are abolished, production collapses because no one can calculate what to make or repair." #socialism

Credit: Sharnael Wolverton Sehon (Facebook) "When you lose someone you love, your brain does not accept it. It starts searching for them. Scientists scanned the grieving brain and found something nobody expected. Grief does not feel like sadness to your brain. It feels like hunger. Ancient traditions understood this completely. The research came from Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor at University of Arizona. Published in Neurolmage. She spent over two decades studying what happens inside the brain during grief. What the brain scans revealed changed how scientists understand loss - and why it hurts the way it does. Think about the last time you lost someone. The waves that kept coming. A song. A smell. A moment that reminded you. You were not choosing to remember. Something was pulling you back. That pull had a biological source. Dr. O'Connor found exactly where it was coming from. What the research documented. When grieving people saw photographs of the person they lost, the nucleus accumbens activated. The brain's reward and craving center. The same region that activates during hunger. During longing. During searching for something, the brain expects to find. Your brain was not grieving. It was looking. Then she found something that explained everything. Your brain builds a map of the people you love. Where they are. When will they return? What their presence feels like. When someone dies, the map does not update immediately. Your brain keeps sending the search signal. Looking for someone the world says is gone. Think of grief like a GPS that lost its signal. It knows where you were going. It keeps recalculating. Searching for the route. Trying to find what it was navigating toward. Grief comes in waves because that is when the GPS recalculates. Not because you are broken. Because your brain loved someone deeply enough to keep looking. What ancient traditions understood. Every major ancient tradition built specific mourning rituals around grief — not to rush it but to honor the search. Jewish Shiva - seven days of communal mourning prescribed to give the brain time to witness. Islamic mourning practices - prescribed periods of grief with the community present. Sufi tradition - lamentation poetry prescribed as the language of the searching heart. Indigenous mourning ceremonies - prescribed to help the soul complete what the mind could not accept alone. All working with what Dr. O'Connor measured. Then she found something that reframed everything. The intensity of grief directly correlated with the depth of the bond. The stronger the love, the stronger the search signal. The more the brain was activated during grief, the more it had loved. Grief is not a malfunction. It is love with nowhere to go. And a brain still trying to deliver it. Your practical guide. Do not rush the search - your brain needs time to update its map. Grief has a biological timeline. Forcing it to end early leaves the search signal running without resolution. Let the waves come - each wave is the brain recalculating. Fighting the waves prolongs them. Moving through them completes the search cycle. Seek witness - research shows grief processed in the presence of others resolves more completely than grief carried alone. Ancient traditions never grieved alone. There was always a community. Dr. O'Connor's research on the reward system and grief focused primarily on complicated grief and prolonged unresolved bereavement. Normal grief activates different patterns. What is consistent across all grief research - grief is a genuine neurobiological process. Not weakness. Not something to overcome quickly. A process that the brain must be allowed to complete. So ask yourself honestly. Is there a grief you were told to get over — a loss you buried instead of mourned - a search signal still running quietly underneath everything? Because your brain does not forget what it loves. It keeps the map. And somewhere beneath the surface - it may still be looking. Dr. O'Connor concluded. Grief is the price we pay for love. But it is also a neurological process - the brain learning to update its model of the world after someone central to it is gone. That learning takes time. And it cannot be rushed without cost. Your brain did not break when you lost them. It started searching. Because that is what love trained it to do. Science confirmed it was never a weakness. It was your brain refusing to stop loving. Give it the time it needs.🙏🏻❤️‍🩹 Watch my video on this 🙏🏻❤️‍🩹 Grief and Neuroscience...How does Grief or Loss affect Your Brain? Dr. Sharnael" #Grief

Credit: Pyramid Consciousness (Facebook) "Nobody discovers their true strength in comfort. Comfort has never asked anyone to become anything. Every line in this verse names a paradox that only makes sense from the inside of suffering. Will is not found by wanting things to be easy. It is forged in the exact moment you have every reason to quit and choose not to. The Stoics called this the discipline of the will, Marcus Aurelius did not develop his philosophy during peace. He wrote it from the battlefield, governing an empire while burying his own children, using every hardship as raw material for the only thing truly his to control: his inner state. Stillness is the same paradox in reverse. You cannot manufacture stillness in a calm room. It is meaningless there, untested, theoretical. Real stillness is only proven inside chaos, the same way a compass only proves its worth in a storm. The Bhagavad Gita opens with Arjuna frozen on a battlefield, paralyzed by chaos, and Krishna’s entire teaching is how to find an unshaken center precisely there, in the middle of it, not after it ends. Fear reveals might for the same reason gold is revealed by fire. The alchemists were exact about this: nothing is purified without heat. A person who has never been afraid has never had the opportunity to discover what lives beneath the fear, the part of them that remained standing anyway. And the final line is the oldest teaching in every mystery tradition: the light was never absent. It was only unseen until the darkness became total enough to force you to look for it. You do not find these things by avoiding what’s difficult. You find them exactly where this poem says to look." - Art: Lena Macka #PyramidConsciousness #Stoicism #BhagavadGita #Alchemy #Consciousness

Credit: Pyramid Consciousness (Facebook) "Everything you are afraid to lose is not actually you. This is the hardest teaching to accept and the only one that actually sets you free. The identity you cling to, your reputation, your plans, your image of who you’re supposed to be, none of it is the self Aurobindo is talking about. It is armor. And armor, no matter how carefully built, was never the body underneath it. Aurobindo did not arrive at this teaching through comfort. He wrote it from within a life that had already been stripped down by imprisonment, exile, and total reinvention. What he found on the other side of losing everything external was not devastation. It was the discovery of something that had been there the entire time, waiting beneath the wreckage, untouched by any of it. Every tradition that has gone deep enough says the same thing in different language. The Bhagavad Gita opens with Arjuna paralyzed, refusing to fight, terrified of losing everything he identifies with. Krishna’s answer is not comfort. It is a direct confrontation: the soul is never born and never dies, what you fear losing was never the eternal part of you to begin with. The Stoics called this the discipline of desire, learning, in advance, to hold everything external loosely, because none of it was ever truly yours to keep. You do not find what is indestructible in you by protecting yourself. You find it by discovering what remains after protection fails. What are you most afraid of losing, and have you ever asked whether that thing was truly you?" - Artist: Micah Ulrich #PyramidConsciousness #SriAurobindo