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Lucid & Rooted Emotions · Due Context for Our Feelings

Lucid & Rooted Emotions · Due Context for Our Feelings ▹

Don't suppress your emotions. See and take them in their due contexts. Don't just dive into the push and drive there. You're default off-center, out of balance, at risk of veering off the road of reality. Notice the momentum in your emotions, reflect on their origins, recognize their purposes, and make them count — do justice to your feelings.

The Core Themes We Explore · Into Windows of Awareness

The Core Themes We Explore · Into Windows of Awareness ▹

What's the talk here? Common themes: metacognitive windows, operating systems for consciousness, primary patterns and principles of what is. Leads to clarity and cohesion — from confusion and muddled landscapes. Nothing super-complicated here. Perspectives — these are vantage points of reflection and self-awareness.

The “Why”of Our Works · for Goals vs. Nurturing Our Nature

The “Why”of Our Works · for Goals vs. Nurturing Our Nature ▹

People at work. Informal works, daily chores, busy with our hobbies. But engaged in works all the same. Some of it to sustain our lives. Some of it to fulfill our potentials. The real question is, why do you work and how do you work? To achieve those goals — or to nurture your awareness and evolution in life?

Karma Chameleon for President · Empty Glass for Unseen Ruler

Karma Chameleon for President · Empty Glass for Unseen Ruler ▹

Curious parables. Says the chameleon, "I'll just have a big empty glass. Whatever the people pour into it, that is what it'll be." The worst ruler is the one who rules by fear. The mediocre is the one who rules being dear to the citizens. And the best ruler is the one who is never seen, who is never heard of, but everything flows exactly as it should.

How We Defend Our Illusions · Why Not Seek Raw Clarity?

How We Defend Our Illusions · Why Not Seek Raw Clarity? ▹

Clarity and objective point of view — a common sense baseline, a self-evident given? But no not really. We are highly defensive of our illusions. Our precious reality bubbles. We could seek for the reality beyond your projections — the raw truth of what is. Into a ground of being where our sameness is self-evident.

Clarity Is Not from Complexity · Broad Detached Perspective

Clarity Is Not from Complexity · Broad Detached Perspective ▹

Clarity is not from knowledge. Clarity is from perspective. Neutral stance in a well-rounded field of perception. Not the study and application of complex models. Not your angle and your opinions. That's all bias. Clarity is simple. Clarity is born from the broad and detached perception and recognition of what is — as it is.

Loonies on the High Path · or Faces Held to the Floor

Loonies on the High Path · or Faces Held to the Floor ▹

Vintage from July '25. Faces still holding tight to the floor. Every loonie sheep hypnotized by the feed. I thought it was wired a decade back when I last did some publishing. That was but a foreplay. And you keep on keeping your faces to the floor — of the echo chambers crafted by the algorithm? Why would you do that? Stay folded to this crafted finity? See you on the dark side of the moon.

This Truth of Yours, Mine, Ours · Back on the Wagon of Reality

This Truth of Yours, Mine, Ours · Back on the Wagon of Reality ▹

Plain old truth. Then what is this truth? Not the truth of mine. Yours and everyone's too – all that we refuse to see. Blinded by our veils of desire and projection. Hard denial of reality. Don't threaten our ideas! But it's all a mesh of lies. Don't fall off the rails of reality, my friend.

Solutions from Plane Beyond · No Clarity on Battlefields!

Solutions from Plane Beyond · No Clarity on Battlefields! ▹

You will not find clarity in wrestling with the push and pull of your reactions. Solutions are found on a plane beyond the problems. Understand your battlefields. Biological. Emotional flux. Thought formations. Mental atmospheres. As they may be. See them from beyond the plane of their manifestation. You will gain more clarity.

But Whispers in the Void ◌ The Backyard Is Empty Again

But Whispers in the Void ◌ The Backyard Is Empty Again ▹

Back in the backyard. Nobody home. Nobody knows. Nobody cares. Castings have all returned to their abodes. No creator or witness to testify. No metacognitive deconstructionist. No cultivator of good hearts. No speaker of clear truths. No seeker for a better world. The ever-present walker, the contemplative sage, with nowhere to walk or sit on. Even the I and I is not. Roots have since decomposed. Never was there ever anybody home. These are but whispers from the void. Silence follows.

Welcome to the Liminality · Guide Star in Yo High Head

Welcome to the Liminality · Guide Star in Yo High Head ▹

Liminality. The night is falling, the day is fading. Confusion. A day passes, another rises. Cycle of clarity, of emptiness, of liminality. You have this little light of awareness. Somewhere at the back of your head. Metamorphosis. Then gaze upon the star. Follow the three wise men. Figure that out – but follow the star.

Face the Conjurer of Veils · as Dark Mist Shrouds the Sky

Face the Conjurer of Veils · as Dark Mist Shrouds the Sky ▹

In the mists of Babalon we wander. The veil of the night is thick. Is there a path? Is there a map? Who be this whore of the ages, shrouding the world of men? Who the conjurer of veils, the beast of many heads? You alone, the lifter of your veils, the sinker of your boats, the hero and villain of your tales.

Heaven on Earth Canceled! · Sorry Folks No Can Silo It

Heaven on Earth Canceled! · Sorry Folks No Can Silo It ▹

A harmonic convergence of the essence of all that we are? Well, let's have a see. 1. Born as we are... 2. Of all that we've seen... 3. These impressions in our hearts... 4. Aspirations of ours... 5. Our intentions and imperatives... 6. Our skills and technologies... 7. Best of you would become the best us... Aspects to our alignment. So on a realistic note — how many boxes did you tick in the list prior? [ Look up the uncut reel hey. ]

Tribal Jewels Under Pressure! · Ūrīm & Tummīm Go Ásgarðr!

Tribal Jewels Under Pressure! · Ūrīm & Tummīm Go Ásgarðr! ▹

Winepress of God's fury churneth out juice generation after generation. When the 12 tribes are compressed, they turn into jewels and are placed on the priestly breastplate of judgment. Secret pockets for Urim and Thummim – Light and Truth. From these we shall rebuild the new Asgard, the celestial Jerusalem! Arise to the rapture. We are running out of time!

Wine Press of Human Essence · Seven Stations for Collective

Wine Press of Human Essence · Seven Stations for Collective ▹

Now what is this harvest of human essence? Our resources, our physical bodies even. Our clearest insights, our orientation. Momentum of pure emotions, the empathic essence. Our noble aspirations, quests beyond the horizon. Concentration, relentless determination. All your skills and tools, the crafts you've mastered. Finally yes, your integrated models and systems, the loom that holds us all together. Faithful to "what is" — without bias. Release it back into pure nature.

No Nego Deals w/ Actuality · “What Is” Holds Every Card

No Nego Deals w/ Actuality · “What Is” Holds Every Card ▹

Where does true authority rest? Who has the leverage? Who holds the most consequential cards? Actuality itself sets the bottom line and the ultimatum for all of us. Raw truth itself is the supreme authority. Attend to the voice of truth. Kind to those who listen and adapt to what is, and harsh with those who seek to overthrow reality itself.

World Gone FUBAR · Flushing · It's Exactly As You Crafted It

World Gone FUBAR · Flushing · It's Exactly As You Crafted It ▹

"You trying to save the world or something?" So actually, really, no. The world is technically speaking "FUBAR". It doth not seem like it's looking to be saved on any level. Heavyweight battle parties rolling onward into the future, gazing at the world through myopic periscopes. I witness & watch the world pass by. What I've said is said — and I'm done.

Tales of Floods and Creatures · Hedonist Hamsters → Seafood

Tales of Floods and Creatures · Hedonist Hamsters → Seafood ▹

Reality reasserting its directives and imperatives. Directly challenging your field of illusions. Scary little mice will run back into their holes to nibble on rotting cheese. What about the rest of them creatures? Bull stands firm with the earth. Dolphin streamlines with the waters. Lion roars with the fires. Eagle masters the skies above. The flood is coming! Ark is being built for those who hold true to their innate natures. We reach and we reach beyond.

Reactive You Deceive Yourself · Witness Your Inner Triggers

Reactive You Deceive Yourself · Witness Your Inner Triggers ▹

I like this – not that. I embrace this — I avoid that. How easily you are controlled and deceived with this reactionary motion. How you deceive yourself. Your ego directs, conditions, manipulates all of your actions and internal processes. Rise beyond it. See the forces that make you react. See them from a plane beyond. Witness them.

Dreams Die in Your Dark Silos · We Have Shared Concerns!

Dreams Die in Your Dark Silos · We Have Shared Concerns! ▹

When someone shares with you their aspirations and works set in motion — you could look into it? Appreciate the merits, look for the parallels, highlight what you share. Of that, something greater than any of us alone may be born. Separation, fragmentation, contrast, contradiction. That's the dark habitat of your ego. The root poison, the arch-nemesis of any utopia that could be — if we all worked selflessly and sincerely together toward it.

Multimodal Pattern Casters · More than Moon Food Reels

Multimodal Pattern Casters · More than Moon Food Reels ▹

This is an exercise in the fulfilling of all things. It transcends language. We can triangulate the actual, beyond language, by engaging with many languages. Versatile verbalization but a subset of the broader process of iterating abstract patterns into multiple contexts. Mind your Towers of Babel. Set the median axis well. Don't be mere moon food.

Reset Time: Winter Is Coming! · Make Your Choice: Link or Fall

Reset Time: Winter Is Coming! · Make Your Choice: Link or Fall ▹

Winter is coming. The final entropy of awareness. Caused by broad-spectrum systemic entropy. Degradation of the interconnected system. Most will not make it through the purge that is coming. Natural systems will realign. Make your choice. Integrate or prepare to be recycled and upcycled.

As the Ancient Ones Return! · Take That Yonder Journey

As the Ancient Ones Return! · Take That Yonder Journey ▹

The great ancient ones gazing down at you from dimensional altitudes, governing your latitudes unseen. Meet the Christ-like immortal yogi in a lotus above your head. Plunge into the disembodied elemental stream. Through the valley of the shadow of death — gazing into that final chamber. Like the essence of life in a prism. Or like whatever.

Metacognitive Architecture · Into Windows of Witnessing

Metacognitive Architecture · Into Windows of Witnessing ▹

Cognitive architecture. Planes of metacognition. Windows into observation and witnessing. We look at the basic 12-stack: The octagon of life-cycle framings. The quad of influences — elemental movers and shapers. Do watch the uncut version.

Lukewarm Bypassers Canceled · No Stance → Does Not Exist

Lukewarm Bypassers Canceled · No Stance → Does Not Exist ▹

It's all in your hand. Do not bypass. Bypassing makes you cease to exist. You wish to be left alone, into your muddy pool of vague holograms. Your absence is your lack of existence. Be clear and transparent of your inner contents. Yes is a "yes". No is a "no". Maybe is a "maybe". Unsure is an "unsure". You're actually standing for something.

Four Horsemen in Horizon! Your Terminal Riders Staged

Four Horsemen in Horizon! Your Terminal Riders Staged ▹

Civilization collapse. Terminal looming. Classic Four Horsemen of Apocalypse. The White Rider of Global Dominion. Come the Rider of Warfare for resources. Come the Bartering Rider of inequality. And the Pale Morbid Rider at the end when all is taken. Entropy. All of it powered by our twisted belly-buttons — false centers of the collective world.

Santa Dumps In Ya Chimney! · Got Bad Report from 12 Elves

Santa Dumps In Ya Chimney! · Got Bad Report from 12 Elves ▹

"This dude sounds raving mad. He must be certifiable." So I do have a number of certificates in the secret closet. But I want to talk about your chimney. Been keeping it neat and clean? Little elves been telling me that maybe you haven't. What then, when prophecies are fulfilled, when Santa Claus descends from the clouds with the hosts of heaven in a glorious blazer? How do you think that's gonna go? You've been a naughty child. Lamentation and gnashing of teeth.

Roots of Human Hydra Slashed · The Prismatic Mirror of Reality

Roots of Human Hydra Slashed · The Prismatic Mirror of Reality ▹

Multi-snap from the in-your-face conscious prism like a rabid rainbow slashing heads off the Hydra in a single slash of multispectral extravaganza. Stop being a finite entity racing blind in the tunnels of your conditioning. Stop being an automaton going through the motions of your unseen habitual programming. Allow for the prismatic mirror of reality to be and become without conditions. Stop being conditioned. It's not good for you. Be liberated instead.

These Common Sense Drops · Mere Howls in the Wilderness

These Common Sense Drops · Mere Howls in the Wilderness ▹

Systemic dysfunction, corrupt premises, fatal errors at a scale. I'm very aware this here is mere fringe signal. Vibing it out on the event horizon of things to come. No turning the boat back at this point. The patterns that be ... iterated to their due conclusions. We are watchers — witnesses of the unfolding of our civilization.

Unhinged from Roots Down · Nobody Never Gone Nuts

Unhinged from Roots Down · Nobody Never Gone Nuts ▹

Fact is, what you see here is the tip of the iceberg. No idea of where the roots lie. Take that and model what's actually going on? What you don't get or can't relate to — yes unhinged. For you, yes. For me? Find the roots and know.

A Vision of Shared Essence · Across Bridges of Sameness

A Vision of Shared Essence · Across Bridges of Sameness ▹

To share a unified vision. A world brought together by recognizing our underlying essence. Not like a colony of clones — surface distinctions are the beauty of life. Into the fundamental sameness — in our minds, in our bodies, in our core.

Embody the Trinity of Avatars · Your Brahma · Vishnu · Shiva

Embody the Trinity of Avatars · Your Brahma · Vishnu · Shiva ▹

We contemplate on high divinities, blissful and equanimous in our meditation. But how disconnected it remains from our lives! Then embrace the full stack of your being. Avatars. Say, of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Creation, sustenance, and conclusion. We embody, pure and selfless — for pristine generations, harmonics, and conclusions. Become it all.

Reborn Into Your New World · Beyond the Inner Tensions

Reborn Into Your New World · Beyond the Inner Tensions ▹

Maybe it's not the feeling you prefer. You so prefer, battle with the feels. Tension and suffering. Sometimes it's the end of the little inner world you created. Reborn into a new frame. Be mindful of how you weave that new world of yours.

12 Core Command Snaps — Drifter Halts — Clearing Raves

12 Core Command Snaps — Drifter Halts — Clearing Raves ▹

Acknowledge your baseline. Orient to actuality. Embrace raw emotions. Explore real prospects. Plant your will. Master your transformation. Integrate your harvests. Align your consummation. Snap out of your inner blueprints. Snap out of the mud flow. Snap out of your reactive bursts. Snap out of your tunnels and silos. Snap back to the witness plane.

My Biggest Fan & Windy Reels · Trips Across the Inner Space

My Biggest Fan & Windy Reels · Trips Across the Inner Space ▹

So here we are with dozens of series and tunings rolling out. What's happening? Anyway the wind blows – or is there more to it? Yup. We're rolling out archetypal journeys episode per episode. Share the cognitive evolutionary trails. Join the adventure — see where the wind blows, where the heart-mind flows. You know, just tune in, see where it goes. All right?

Lost In Your Little Universe · Enslaved by Your Conditions

Lost In Your Little Universe · Enslaved by Your Conditions ▹

Then the sum total of those reality tunnels driven by our intentions, the zigzag, the mishmash, idiosyncratic compilations, that is actually the matrix and lay of the land in your awareness. When you're in your reality tunnels, immersed in your little universe, you don't really see it for what it is. You don't see your finity when you're engrossed in it. You don't realize the conditions that bind you. Zoom out. Get a context.

Adapt – As the River Flows · The Wisdom of Confluence

Adapt – As the River Flows · The Wisdom of Confluence ▹

Too rigid — full of sharp corners and thorns? Expect collisions and conflicts. You have your flow and cohesion — and I have mine — and we need to adapt into our confluences. Reflective adjustment. Flexible cohesion. As the river flows.

Meta-Tales of What Life Is · & How We Missed the Point

Meta-Tales of What Life Is · & How We Missed the Point ▹

Symbolic tales. Realms of awareness. Universal elements. What's the point? These archetypes help us all relate to the underlying fabric of our lives. The point was never a face value report. It was to lead you deeper into what we all are.

Four Elements of Awareness · Your Existential Dimensions

Four Elements of Awareness · Your Existential Dimensions ▹

Earth, water, fire, air. These are abstract omnipresent principles. In the domain of awareness: Earth is your constructed blueprint. Water the flow of your evolutionary adaptation. Fire, your reactive impacts. Air, the cohesive expanse. You yourself at their center, the fifth element in dynamic space. This is existential science.

Someone Else Will Fix That! · The Way of Systemic Decay

Someone Else Will Fix That! · The Way of Systemic Decay ▹

This attitude of "someone else will take care of it". Someone else of someone else — absolutely no one. It'll all decay. As the systemic imbalance reaches your doorstep — don't go crying for elephants, donkeys, or heavens high. Munch it up.

Convergence of Our Essence · Seeking the Common Threads

Convergence of Our Essence · Seeking the Common Threads ▹

What even is convergence? It's things turning and operating together. Beyond our specifics, entering our shared essence, convergence becomes a possibility. Beyond difference and divergence. Into the underlying concerns. We can turn together.

Wisdom Free Aura Addicts Blindly Chasing the Holy Other

Wisdom Free Aura Addicts Blindly Chasing the Holy Other ▹

All this wisdom wiring — how boring! — is there for good reason. For harmonic containment and reflectivity. Power turns not into chaos. Does not appeal to aura addicts chasing for the next spiritual high. Never opening those inner gates.

A Shared World of Coherence · Awakening of Common Sense

A Shared World of Coherence · Awakening of Common Sense ▹

Coherence? Simply things making sense as a whole. Is that possible at scale — in the world, in our societies? If yes, it will be planted and rooted by those who become coherent unto themselves to begin with. Common sense for common benefit.

Meet Your Needs In Reality As Your Undistorted Being

Meet Your Needs In Reality As Your Undistorted Being ▹

If you don't clearly recognize your needs and yourself as it is, you pursue a life of distortions. Excessive emotions. Overthinking without all the facts lined up. Designing ungrounded dream identities. Do return to actuality.

Foundations Not Fairy Dreams · Pin Down Your Core Quad

Foundations Not Fairy Dreams · Pin Down Your Core Quad ▹

What matters? The constraints of your ego. Your flux in the environment. Your reactivity in interaction. The umbrella of meanings in your life. These are fundamental concerns — poles supporting the foundation of your life. Get to the point!

Random Hippie Hummingbird or Real Human Child of Roots

Random Hippie Hummingbird or Real Human Child of Roots ▹

Why be a random hippie hummingbird? Be an authentic human child — born for integration and consummation. A pioneer of insight. A miner of the bedrock. A pinner down of the building blocks of actuality. Condense it all into solid essence.

Your Living Core in a Nutshell · Eight Stations of Awareness

Your Living Core in a Nutshell · Eight Stations of Awareness ▹

Eight stations of your becoming. Infants born as is. Opening your eyes. Imprinted by environment. Dreaming into horizons. Setting the will of the way. Diligently into your field of works. At harvest time, reconcile your yields. Synchronized and harmonized... ascending the tree of your life.

The Undepressed Witness · Engage and Expect Nothing

The Undepressed Witness · Engage and Expect Nothing ▹

We have our dreams and hopes. Few are the dreams we reach. Expect disappointment in a twisted system. Human response is the unknown. From the witness plane, watching operations rise and fall. Fulfilling our slice of the conscious universe.

I Don't Care · Not My Problem · Then Reap What You Sow

I Don't Care · Not My Problem · Then Reap What You Sow ▹

Someone else will take care of that. Not a problem. We just can't be bothered. If there's no reward, then never mind — not our problem. Then watch the feedback loop bite your tail. Reap your rotten fruits. Or — learn to do the right thing?

Reflect on Your Contents · Aware of the Wares You Share

Reflect on Your Contents · Aware of the Wares You Share ▹

Share the good stuff we discover. Tempered with self-awareness please. Is it random scatter, or hypothetical ideas, or rooted in true living experience? Aware of the grade of your wares and ego investment into it all. Keeping it real please.

The Four Essential Elements · Your Existential Compass

The Four Essential Elements · Your Existential Compass ▹

The four elements? We're talking about underlying influences, the dynamic properties of existence. Earth, Water, Fire, Air – Structure, Adaptation, Reaction, Relation. In your awareness — in all of existence. Seek the direct experience.

Creatures of the Inner Ark · Face the Zoo that You Are

Creatures of the Inner Ark · Face the Zoo that You Are ▹

Oracle prophet dropping in with a quick inventory of the inner zoo. Have you met your creatures yet? Have you got a fine ark ready yet no? Make haste friends — don't wait for the flood! No animals were harmed in the filming of this creation.

Why Myths & Tales Resonate · We Reflect on Our Essence

Why Myths & Tales Resonate · We Reflect on Our Essence ▹

Who doesn't love a good tale, an epic legend, that deep yonder myth. It resonates with of us on a deep level — as if carrying mystic essence from beyond. A field of reflection — mirror for the essence in ourselves. How do we work with it?

The Eight Realms of Awareness · Stations of Your Life-Cycle

The Eight Realms of Awareness · Stations of Your Life-Cycle ▹

Orientation. Emotions. Intentions. All concern domains, framings of your attention. Stations on the journey of our lives — dimensions of awareness. Eight windows: Being, seeing, feeling, wishing, willing, working, pooling, and aligning. It's not that complicated.

Be Here Now as Essence! Like a Tree of Archetypal Gods

Be Here Now as Essence! Like a Tree of Archetypal Gods ▹

Now you may land in the present when your attention is funneled just the right way. Turn your head again and you're all over the place. The veils are still thick and sticky. You are yet to land in the harmonic essence of the present.

Info › Knower › Insight › Wisdom · The Pathway of Convergence

Info › Knower › Insight › Wisdom · The Pathway of Convergence ▹

What is wisdom? Now there's a question. Let's trace. Knowledge is the coherent ordering of information. Insight when it comes to life — and wisdom when it converges, transforming the system of all that we are. — A 🚋 "By the Way" preview from @Mr.Om.Ananda — coming soon to Kernel Drops!

Kundalini Fluoride Conspiracy! Despell Time · Wizard Is Live!

Kundalini Fluoride Conspiracy! Despell Time · Wizard Is Live! ▹

Bored silly are you! Yikes! Experiencing Kundalini confusion? Pineal gland calcified with toothpaste? Third eye all shut down? Worry not! Wizard will streamline your circuits and despell the great fluoride conspiracy! Streaming previews from @Mr.Om.Ananda — keep your glands tuned and clear!

Do You Bypass the Present? “Here Now” Transforms You!

Do You Bypass the Present? “Here Now” Transforms You! ▹

Being here now is consequential – if you're actually doing it properly. If you're just zoning into your little bliss point — you're just bypassing. Landing into the presence of naked raw reality is transformative. It forces you to confront all that you are.

Fall of the Cosmic Butterfly · The Presence of Steel Winds

Fall of the Cosmic Butterfly · The Presence of Steel Winds ▹

Journey across the universe... Fluttering like a spiritual butterfly. Ever present here and now, with worries of the world gracefully bypassed. But times they change — fates are spinning their tales. Season for the steel winds! So you know, we also need to be really rooted.

Being Here for Real · A Glance Walkie Talkie Anthology Trailer

Being Here for Real · A Glance Walkie Talkie Anthology Trailer ▹

Being here now, truly present, is more than abiding in a dissociated bliss bubble. The full works of the present demand your response. In our second anthology from the Walkie Talkie series, into the more embodied aspect of being present. We gazed at the Moon. Here comes the Sun!

Core Reflections · The Wrap-Up First Anthology Ponderings

Core Reflections · The Wrap-Up First Anthology Ponderings ▹

With this, our anthology from "Ponder Struck" in four parts is a wrap. We've touched on the nature of suffering, on integrated transcendence, on genuine fulfillment, and on esoteric models of awareness. Stay tuned and keep pondering. More will follow in its season.

Being Here Now · The Wrap-Up Sampling Our First Anthology

Being Here Now · The Wrap-Up Sampling Our First Anthology ▹

It's a wrap for the first rolling of Walkie Talkie. Quick samplers from our themes: — 1. The distortions that veil us from the present "what is". — 2. Can you be present and also be yourself? — 3. "Now here" and "Nowhere" — of fullness and emptiness. — 4. Breaking from the box — soaring into vast horizons! Stay tuned and be present. More will follow in its season!

Our Native Fields of Suffering · Body, Emotion, Thought, Ego

Our Native Fields of Suffering · Body, Emotion, Thought, Ego ▹

This physical body of ours is a source of suffering. In our emotional being, the joys and sorrows... Your rational being, with all the conflicts you encounter... Your sense of ego and identity, when challenged... Unavoidable. But the worst suffering is avoidable.