I consider it rather sad that we talk about "consuming" media It implies that we just take in what we are given, making it a part of us as is I much prefer to say that I "study", "engage with", or "absorb myself in" information and stories I come across

In the end all things are just recursive metaphors of unity

There are two kinds of magicians The masters who seek to bend reality to their will And the fools who see magic in every twist and turn of life but never seek control I am a fool

Do not seek finality Awareness transcends time And our happily ever after is right here All we have to do is realize that our awareness is eternal and exists in unity with all

When we are fully absorbed In a story, a task, a game, anything at all that thing becomes our entire world and all else around us, even our memories and worries, fade The suffering of living in a world of separation disappears for a while as we experience unity

Observe your thoughts and emotions Notice how they rise and fall in waves Realize that you are not the thoughts, not the emotions You are the waves

All we do is grasp out for love and connection Even our most destructive acts arise from a desire to eliminate what stands between us and connection And what we want to eliminate is often parts of ourselves But connection is never found in destruction only in realizing that separation is confusion

If we reflect on our desires and our goals in life we inevitably find that most of them were adopted from others We saw what our role models wanted and grew to want the same But we can look deeper and find the root of our desires within

Our ever-unfulfilled search for home is a deep spiritual longing We can continuously chase this home in places, people, and teachings Or find it in the realization that all is a connected unified whole. And in the truth that I am always home while my separate self will never be #Spirituality

The scientific method is an amazingly powerful way to effectively predict how the world will behave - and how to efficiently control it It does not help us find truth Truth, if we can understand it at all, is found within #Spirituality

If all the universe, all consciousness is in truth an undivided whole then suffering explains itself To have a world filled with disparate things and beings we have to see false separation And that false separation is confusion Unity imaging itself ripped apart The root of suffering

Psychedelics generally reduce brain activity and yet lead us into complex, hyper-real experiences Near-death experiences occur as the brain ends and yet they are reported as epic, wonderful, hyper-real journeys What does that say about the connection of brain and consciousness?

I suspect that AI will lead to a move away from technical perfection and slick presentation in all modes of art Authentic connection with the inner world of another and meaningful spiritual essence may come to eclipse technical criteria I believe this would be a very good thing

Terminal lucidity Just before dying, dementia patients sometime regain their memories and clarity of thinking for a little while. This allows them to say goodbye to their loved ones Medically a miracle, terminal lucidity is surprisingly common 1/2

Freedom is a fail-safe not a paramount principle Even in the most charitable understanding, freedom merely gives us the opportunity to do what is meaningful and fulfilling However, that would require us to know what is meaningful and fulfilling. And we obviously do not 1/2

There is no way the world can be to make us feel whole, no way our situation can change, nothing we can think or belief that will save us Peace and meaning are only found in transcending the self and this world And realizing that in truth all is undivided

Generative AI has been a dud in almost all industries But it can generate songs that are virtually indistinguishable from human made pop music This is surprising, but shows clearly just how formulaic and polished to meaninglessness popular entertainment has become

Beauty hints at transcendence Beauty is universal Flower mean to attract and are beautiful to us So are the feathers of many male birds Beauty is in the whole Parts of a flower or animal are unremarkable at best But seen as a whole Beings, scenery, even galaxies reveal beauty

There is a reason why most mystic traditions warn against seeking the pleasures of this world Pursuing pleasure will inevitably lead to us harming ourselves and others But so will repressing desire The solution is transcending desire But for that we first need to understand why we seek pleasure

Our true essence is connection and love Our thoughts and emotions may confuse us and so can the words and actions of others - born from their confused thoughts and emotions But in the end we are love and loved by all

We are told to strive for status, wealth, and power That success will give our life meaning Yet, most find only emptiness after finding success But those that love unconditionally That take responsibility for others Find contentment and meaning even in poverty and hardship

There is the strange belief that a lack of mental or physical capabilities justifies mistreatment I have never understood how that works outside of an incredibly crude embrace of "might makes right" 1/2

Fortunately, most people accept nothing essentially separates us from one another and that we are equal in dignity and worth However, this has lead some to conclude that we all must have essentially the same thought-processes, emotional landscape, as well as physical and intellectual abilities 1/2

Never seek finality Existence transcends time and our happily ever after is always right here just waiting for us to realize #spirituality

Observe your thoughts and emotions Notice how they rise and fall in waves Realize that you are not the thoughts, not the emotions You are the waves #spirituality

"Belief", regardless of its source, describes our model of the world and existence in general. There is the temptation to classify "belief" along lines of truth, but such classifications are inherently circular as our human mind and senses prevents us from directly apprehending the truth. 1/3

It is no wonder that this world is and will always be a place of confusion and suffering Everything physical exists only because it is distinct, because it is separated But the true nature of all is unity

Lucid dreaming is great but have you tried being lucid while awake?

It's legitimate hobbyists ... I mean the Chinese ... I mean it was nothing at all, definitely ... I mean I can't tell you, but we know what it was and it's totally nothing to worry about, trust me They could not make these events look more suspicious if they tried

If ultimately all that exists is the manifestation of a unified divine consciousness then we are called not just to love our enemies, but also to love our fear, our anxiety, our confusion

A profound lesson of history is that no matter how wealthy, how powerful, how secure, how free a person becomes to do what they please they almost never find the peace and fulfillment we all seek So why struggle for riches, power, security, or freedom? Meaning is found within

True magic has no system is not predictable and defies rational study Magic arises from awareness transcending thought and laws of the material world It follows the flow of dreams

If all is unity then we are indivisible from everything and accepting all in love is the only way to avoid the confusion and pain of self-denial and self-loathing If all is unity Universal love and compassion is the only sane way

Animals communicate in many ways that closely resemble human language - and in likely many more ways we don't even know how to look for Whale songs are statistically extremely similar to human language (unlike other animal calls) Dolphins and Elephants give each other names

I have great hope for AI generated art, fiction, movies, and music Before long, the algorithms will have perfected the creation of any and all formulaic entertainment I hope that by then we will have collectively realized just how empty such entertainment is and come to appreciate true art

One of the easiest traps to fall into is to look to others to tell us what has meaning But others know no more about meaning than we do Following paths laid out by others is no short-cut, it is a road to confusion Only by realizing what is true and meaningful to us does the way become apparent

Immigration was allowed to increase just as the unraveling of middle-class was initiated (not just in the US but Europe as well) Now, those is power can point to migrants and use this (intentional) correlation to claim that migrants are what devastated the working class

One of the tragedies of the human condition is that we are most vigorous, energetic, and mentally acute at the age that we are least wise

AI investment has swallowed up $750 million dollars from private investors by 2024 Thrown at technology that has done no meaningful good for humanity - while the climate catastrophe is accelerating These resources should have gone into renewables and climate adaption

Much of the angst and confusion around so-called AI is an effect of the dogma that mind arises from matter, that we are the result of electric activity in our brains What then makes us different from an AI? But nothing but dogma to support this claim; And significant evidence to the contrary

To grasp for truth in knowledge to hope for meaning in this world to find love in another to seek bliss in pleasure to look for beauty in nature Offers hints of transcendence but in the end truth, meaning, love, bliss, and beauty are in the realization that there is only unity and that you are all

The mind can likely influence electronics Researchers like those of PEAR and Dean Radin have accrued a rather robust experimental results that show a slight, but noticeable effect If this effect exists, it raises existential questions for many fields of physical science, in particular physics 1/2

The essence of capitalism is strip mining There is the obvious physical strip mining But there is also social strip mining of loyalty, trust, and cooperation - every aspect of the social contract And like any strip mine, soon all that is left is a shattered craterscape that may never recover

It is over There is no feasible path to avoid climate catastrophe and the famines and wars it will bring At this point, my only advice is to prepare as best as possible. Relocate to the safest possible location and begin the long-term preparations for what is to come

I have seen people claim that contradictions in mainstream cosmology show that the Biblical account of creation is true That the failure of dangerously permissive teaching methods shows that we must return to old school punishments in education 1/2

There is no way the world can be, no way our situation in life can change, nothing we can think or belief that would make us feel whole Peace and meaning are only found in transcending the self and this world and realizing the truth of the undivided I that is all

Beliefs are the ways we imagine reality to be Most are complexes of emotional and intellectual impressions, as well as memories of sensory perceptions Strangely, many beliefs we in the realms of science, religion, and politics seem to be solely verbal. Memorized phrases with little depth

AI is doing measurable damage to all creatives well beyond taking away illustration work I am certainly not the only one who already avoids books published after 2023 or thereabouts unless I strongly trust the author. The risk of wading through regurgitated text is too high 1/2

If awareness is spiritual and this world has spiritual purpose, then our specific human experience is not what this reality is about By far the most common conscious experience is that of animals - so their lives and experiences almost certainly must have spiritual meaning