On a funnier note, just occurred to me that I might have had the forum website here set to Desktop Settings on my iPhone. Just popped in and fixed it and am now having the most wonderful experience of navigating and using this website.
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The articulation and elaboration of a Secular Mysticism
Towards A Secular Mysticism
Subjectivity as a legitimate means and medium of navigation
Sometimes Iâve found if the person is extra arrogant that bs kind of sticks out like unblended chunks. Itâs definitely when Iâm interacting with people closer to me it gets very uncertain. But this is a really good point, always being on your toes for what someone claims is the âtruthâ
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Thereâs always more.
Kinesthesis and Cosmology
Soma
Was contemplating running two loops of my programs today. Thought about it and said,
ââŚâŚnaaaah.â
The amount of shifting and processing going on suggests that 1 loop is quite enough for the nonce.
Pretty good horror game with a deeeep topic about existence and uploading your consciousness into a computer.
For anyone who still plays games, highly recommended.
Thank you for saying it for me. 
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Today begins my second month with Dragon Fire (though itâs rest day).
Paradigm Shift
Actively choose my actions based on my priorities, preferences, and intentions, rather than passively choosing from whatever seems to be available and on offer in the environment around me.
Cultivate and actively work with my state of mind rather than simply responding to my state of mind.
Create the path
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My ultimate game plan for this phase of subliminal use is to be running customs related to 4 separate Focus Areas:
- Physical Health and Wellbeing
- Inner Strength, Inner Development
- Project Implementation and Business
- Wealth Generation and Wealth Optimization
I am not sure yet how the logistics of this will work out.
Right now, Iâm running my Inner Strength, Inner Development custom (NAISSANCE) and my Wealth Generation custom (PATHS).
Dragon Reborn is a meta-, transformational program that Iâll be running over the next year. It helps all of these areas and belongs to none.
So PATHS, NAISSANCE, and Dragon Reborn are it for now. Thatâs a full plate, but not too full. So thatâs it. No Sage Immortal. No Paragon as Major Program. And so on.
But I am wondering how things will develop over the next year. Something tells me that ways will become clear of how to integrate all that I want to integrate. It may be in the form of a 1-2 month on/1-2 month off alternating schedule. That could actually work beautifully; since, when 1-2 areas were being actively input, the other (resting) areas could be integrating.
For now, the way things currently are is almost perfect. The CORE program of my current stage is NAISSANCE: Healing, Strengthening, and Harnessing Internal Resources (Intention, Vision, Learning, etc.). That+Dragon Reborn are the current focus.
As the results of NAISSANCE strengthen, action taking and proactive project initiation will become more and more central. At that point, Iâll build and foreground my Implementation custom, and then NAISSANCE may move into the background in more of a maintenance role. And the more that Implementation/Project custom grows in strength, the more it will in turn feed PATHS which will have been running the entire time.
And thatâs it.
If and when this process comes to fruition, it will represent the completion of my first phase with Subliminal Club. The WORKING Phase.
Once that is properly built and established, it will be time for some fun subliminals.
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Boy am I glad Iâm doing Dragon Reborn at 1 loop a day 3 days a week.
Because I am experiencing real disorientation.
Hereâs the thing you need to understand:
Your mind feels like the world,
because all you know of the world is your mind.
I donât mean this in any new age sense. Itâs just a literal description of consciousness.
If youâre making shifts to your consciousness, one of the main ways youâll experience it is as shifts in the world youâre experiencing.
You know the color of your sunglasses because the world looks that color.
But this is even more intimate. Weâre talking about mind itself.
SoâŚyeah.
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note to self (and anyone else who needs it)
come on @Malkuth, stop being a fool. You know that people always get sickness and cure backwards.
The body Is invaded by an organism. It generates a fever in order to kill the organism. And people, geniuses that we are, call the fever âsicknessâ while completely ignoring the organism.
Stop doing that.
Do you really think that all of these thoughts, these questions, these frustrations, these insights are not the signs and emanations of an underlying change process? A change process, no less, that you yourself deliberately sought out and initiated?
Come on. Recognize it and wake up.
This is growth.
This is how it looks and this is how it feels.
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back at you
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Played my stack tracks back to back this morning:
NAISSANCE (with meditation)
Paragon Complete (1 loop)
Dragon FIRE
PATHS of Wealth
I usually spread them out a bit more, but this is feeling okay now. So, there you go.
In the past few weeks, Iâve been leaving Sunday and Monday for integration. Iâll probably do that again, depending on how I feel.
So, there we are.
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This is way more important than people think.
When you get up DECIDE on the mental state for the day.
Acting instead of reacting to what happens.
Then again, sometimes itâs totally fine to let the subconscious run wild. But make it a conscious decision to do so.
We are wired to automatically and unconsciously associate and equate Power and Influence with Validity and Legitimacy. Itâs part of our monkey brain and we canât help it.
But my life started to improve significantly and markedly when I learned that consensual reality, social norms, and social constructs are, for the most part, inherently arbitrary.
Power and the forms it takes are largely arbitrary.
Donât take this to mean that you can blow it off, laugh it off, or ignore it. Itâs still power, and it will still kick your ass.
What it means it that while youâll still have to respect it, you donât have to worship it.
When the lion is around, we all walk quietly.
Its roar is mighty and one swipe of its powerful claws can end your life.
But that doesnât mean that you should seek out the lion to teach you calculus or to get advice on your career plans.
(To any shamans who read this, I know that Lion can give very good advice. I am just emphasizing a different point right now.)
As a young man, I studied cultural anthropology, and after watching some diverse groups of people around the world it suddenly hit me that, in many, many casesâwhether it was the cows of the Nuer people of West Africa or the corn Kachinas of the American Southwest or the sky gods of the Greeks, the Norse, and the ancient Hebrew:
our ancestors worshipped whatever seemed to hold the power of survival and of life and death.
Corn, River, Cow, Thunder and Lightning, and on and on.
It was our own instinctual perception of survival that informed our awe and sense of the Divine.
Power.
and Ego.
No one is more egocentric than the âhumbleâ worshipper. Itâs so much easier to be arrogant when youâre projecting your certainty onto some perfected Being outside of yourself. Itâs the ontological equivalent of saying, âyou may be able to beat me up, but my Dad could destroy you!â
Projecting our desire and need for certainty onto some external powerful force and attempting to align ourselves with it.
Stockholm syndrome writ large.
Anyway:
Be wary with the powerful, but donât worship them.
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Arbitrary in the way that a tsunami wave is arbitrary.
It can destroy an entire skyscraper, but thenâlike all waterâit loses form and is absorbed back into the ongoing movements of the ocean.
The day after the disaster, you can search all day long and you wonât find that wave anywhere. It dissolved.
Thatâs the arbitrariness of power.
So do what needs to be done to deal skillfully with it, while itâs here. Survive. But donât mistake its influence for truth. Even when faced with overwhelming power, strive to hold within your core the seeds of your own sovereignty.
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