January 2024

January 29, 2024

All Faith; No Fear

Faith and fear are the contrasting forces that shape our journeys. They are the yin and yang of our existence. If we choose fear over faith, we stagnate and fall short of our potential. But if we choose to live by the mantra of “All Faith, No Fear,” we embrace...

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January 25, 2024

Am I SIM?

Am I just a sim, and some cosmic entity is using my mind and body as its own personal recreational vehicle, ready to discard me when I get old and broken down?

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January 24, 2024

Career Drivers Cards

Several years ago, at a learning conference, I acquired these cards. They serve as an excellent tool for initiating discussions about career motivation and discovering what brings fulfilment to one’s professional life.

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January 23, 2024

Between chaos and harmony

In today’s episode, I explore the intricate dance between logic and emotion in my own mind. I discuss how these seeming opposites actually work in tandem: logic provides structure, while emotion adds meaning. I share my personal journey of embracing this internal complexity rather than viewing it as a flaw....

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January 17, 2024

I think I’ll rename my cat Lord Fluffington the Fourth

When hyper-surreal madness takes hold, you just have to surrender to the loopy vibes. You never know when hyper-surrealism will strike. One minute you’re just living your usual routine in good old consensual reality, and the next—bam!—your world is suddenly swarming with bizarre absurdities. The fabric of normalcy rips like...

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January 15, 2024

as thin as a spider’s silk in a morning breeze

meeting eris In my dream, I stumbled into a wild discotheque in the clouds, where the DJ was none other than Eris, the goddess of chaos herself. She was spinning records that sounded like thunder and lightning mixed with laughter. Her hair was a wild mane of snakes, each hissing...

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January 13, 2024

slipping through the in-between

“Belief is the death of intelligence,” as Robert Anton Wilson would tell you. The moment you believe a doctrine of any sort or assume certitude, you stop thinking about that aspect of existence. And the more certain you are of something, the less there is to think about. The person...

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January 10, 2024

Embrace the chaos and absurdity

in the spirit of mythic imagination, my new goddess is Eris, the Greek goddess of chaos and discord. she reigns supreme. in her domain, contradictions aren’t just accepted; they’re celebrated. to her, the world is a cosmic joke, but the punchline is that we’re all in on it. Discordianism Ah,...

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January 9, 2024

Return of the King

For some time now, I’ve been a wanderer, a seeker, chasing mirages in the vast, unforgiving desert of the real, a landscape that often blurs the lines between illusion and truth. I had as my guides The Fool and The Magician. The fool, with his fearless embrace of the unknown...

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January 8, 2024

nothing is as it seems

Charles T. Tart’s book, Waking Up, has been on my bookshelf for a while now. It caught my attention this morning because I’ve been thinking about which habits of being, thinking, perceiving, and feeling I want to break or change. cultivating personal well-being and compassion makes our efforts to create...

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January 4, 2024

Waking up from dreams to true choice

Jacking back into the Sprawl I call home, I was gonna do some soul-searching in the ‘trix, but my neural apps are blazing with too much input to reflect right now. I’m parsing data from some ancient text called Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential, by a graybeard...

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January 2, 2024

fragmentation

I jack into the metaverse, escaping the grime and drizzle of Neo-Southam for brighter worlds. But even here among the endless virtual cityscapes, I feel the isolation creep in. Millions of people logged in from around the globe, yet we slip past each other, not even making eye contact. Anonymous...

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