You either face your demons, or they raise your children. -The Stoics Meditations
the greatest gift you can give your children (and the world) is throwing a wrench into the intergenerational trauma machine that spat you out
forgiveness is a defabrication that fabricates a more beautiful world
I renounce the life that could have been, should have been, for what is here and unfolding
Explaining the pronunciation of "colonel" to my son in this dumb ass language
Absolutely in love with this set by Sasha. Everything I love about electronic dance music.
It's from just after the pandemic restrictions lifted, there's such a joy to everyone, being back together again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbU9...
Being afraid is fine
Being afraid of being afraid is what gets you
9yo: “I don’t think I’ll lose my hair when I grow up. I don’t have much stress.”
No matter how hard it seems, keep pushing forward. When you get to the other side of the challenge, you will be proud of yourself for working thru the challenge.
Hey Taylor. It’s tricky, because the best of your work is a kind of as-if that dumb and bad war doesn’t exist: empowering people with knowledge and “you don’t need permission.”
But that stance doesn’t easily translate into a career, as I’m sure you’re discovering.
Reminder: love what you’re trying to change
The new fuel only requires you to surrender the need to change anything about yourself whatsoever. To love the hated part of yourself that drove you to practice in the first place.
The new fuel doesn't burn, it simply catches the warmth from a heart set completely afire.
The trick to spirituality is learning how to convert the fuel it runs on mid-flight.
Everybody comes to practice broken, suffering, filled with shame and self-hatred. This fuel burns hot, and dirty, with frequent crashes.
On the spiritual path, it's easy to get sniped by generalized platitudes.
"Love everyone" - NO. Love a specific person.
"Heal the world" - NO. Heal a very specific relationship, or help a loved one to do it.
"Follow your bliss" - NO. Follow service to real people.
And so on.
It occurred to me that media coverage of Lykos this year is interesting historically and hard for any one person to compile as it spans newspapers, substacks, and expensive pharma industry sites. So I have started a project to pull together as much of it as possible.
Nothing becoming something: what the fuck, this again
"Psychedelics, the lay term for substances classified
as hallucinogens..." claimed @floriannaudet.bsky.social , @eikofried.bsky.social, and @ioanaacristea.bsky.social et al...
Is this really so?
Let's take a historic tour and make an etymology assessment to reveal something👇🧵
Yeah yeah I like to live dangerously (leaving my phone outside the bathroom)
How you do anything is how you do everything
Most people think that psychedelics are hallucinatory and normal waking consciousness is reliable.
lol, lmao
In his fascinating presentation about 5-MeO-DMT and Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE, aka cessation/nirodha/ego dissolution), @christimmermann.bsky.social offers a hypothesis that blocking the 5-HT2A receptor would prevent advanced meditators from entering a MPE. youtu.be/iY7hXwr8UyU?...
"I spent the whole first recess catching snowflakes on my tongue" 🥹🥹🥹
When your 9yo son is late getting home from school on the first snowy day of the year and you KNOW there are shenanigans ❤️🔥
I'm not sure if we're really after inner satisfaction and peace either, but it's much closer than objects :)
Writing tip: say "here's a weird idea" and then write the idea.
Then go back and delete "here's a weird idea."
...ordinary desire is binding for it reinforces the false view that you are not already complete as you are, that you are something separate from the object of your desire. Desire becomes a vehicle to your liberation when you trace it back to its source and realize that your desire for some external situation (whether a car, a spouse, whatever) is really a desire for the feeling, the flavor of consciousness, that having that thing will bring you; or, to be more accurate, the feeling that you believe having that thing will bring you. All desire boils down to the fundamental desire for the fullness of being; in other words, all longing is longing for God. - Christopher Wallis, Tantra Illuminated
All longing is longing for God 🙏🏻
Everyone is already high agency. Everyone is already doing what they think they have to do.
Much of it is ineffective, self-sabotaging, stagnating. Not because they're low agency, but because this is what their agency is bent towards.
guten morgen
It's probably more that we've forgotten how. Nirodha Samapatti practitioners can enter something much like hibernation!
x.com/RubenLaukkon...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Had a dream where my wife showed me a secret staircase to a secret area and tried to get me to crawl into a secret tunnel to a secret place but the tunnel gave me claustrophobia and I wouldn't go
Probably nothing
