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Change your relationship to Attachment and Connection; and you change your relationship to society.
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For the last 3 or 4 weeks or so, my body has been waking up between 5 and 7 am without an alarm.
Today was no exception.
I woke at 5 am. Stayed up for about an hour and then I made myself go back to bed and lie down until after 8. I didn’t want to get too exhausted during the day time.
It’s afternoon now and I’m still feeling tired. So, I’m glad for the extra time that I took.
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Right now:
Very busy at work. Little time for very much else.
Low money. But staying afloat.
Percolating and growing ideas and plans.
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These days I keep having perceptual flashes about the memetic nature of human beings: from DNA and morphology to ideas and beliefs to social and cultural forms.
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Dragon Reborn dissolves trauma-based rigidities of perception and habit. I don’t know how it works exactly; but it liberates potential that has been frozen in stasis.
I suddenly find myself playing piano again; practicing taijiquan again.
Ironically, one subtle form of dysfunctional fixation can itself be the determination to heal and fix things. The desperate rigidity of how we define the problem(s), the solution(s), and the acceptable means and avenues for bringing about solutions can paradoxically cut us off from our potential.
It’s that age-old tension between the roads and paths to fulfillment that society has emphasized, and the roads and paths that are present and optimal for you.
Recognizing and drawing on your potential is a high art form—not mere common-sense. We are often not taught or trained in how to best do this.
Dragon Reborn seems to do that teaching and that training.
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I am also noticing how shadowy and foggy, how vague and blurry, so much of my memory of my past is.
Of course, this is a sign of progress.
You only notice your limitations when you have learned enough to put your abilities into a new perspective.
So, I’ll be grateful for it.
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From this perspective, the perspective of human beings as complex memetic structures–structures of memetic conveyance and propagation–a human being is, essentially, a tunnel, a passageway.
Knowing very little of passageways and their functional natures, we then treat them as beautiful (or terrible) structures, complete unto themselves; never realizing that the fundamental significance of a tunnel is about what it allows to pass through; what it brings through.
When you meet a person, when you interact with a person, you are encountering a doorway into a world that is beyond that person.
Spending all of your time responding to the door and not to the world on the other side of the door, you will be continually shocked and confused about where all of these things and these issues, that you never requested, came from.
The first question to ask when evaluating and deciding whether to engage with a tunnel is not “How beautiful and attractive and ornate is this tunnel?”, but rather “To where does this tunnel lead?“
And this simple point trips us up all the time and will continue to do so.
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By evolutionary logic, I guess that, to some extent, each and everything that is here j(ust about) is a remnant of something that, at some point in the past, worked.
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Am finding a significant bit of internal shadow work happening in the last week or two.
Definitely has its not-fun moments.
But I am deeply appreciating the Dragon Reborn Gold journey and the Ecstasy of Gold journey.
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How doses it feel running both the Golds, Malkuth?
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Man, @Lion, I love it.
Confused as anything. But that tends to be how I do things.
Like I said above, I’ve had some real Shadow-Work going on. Things that are unusual for me. I had some psychic sensitivity events. I woke up from a dream that was a journey to a very odd and Shadow-energy place. I’ve engaged with different aspects of “spiritual” practice, and felt great about it. I’ve been facing some of my feelings of failure and loss.
All of this.
At the same time, true to the spirit of Dragon Reborn Gold, I have been having deep and profound experiences of connection and leadership. Facilitating others.
And glimpses of what I hope is my path.
A lot of stuff.
I’ve also had some beneficial health and healing transitions.
As far as my real-world life circumstances, that’s a bit more muddled. I’m not at a point of resolution, in work, relationships, etc.
We shall see!
And thank you, as always, for asking!
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This is something that I am constantly coming back to and working on.
It’s like:
a) I want to be impressive, because
b) then people will treat me better, and then
c) then I’ll feel less at risk, and then
d) maybe I’ll actually be able to feel a little better moving through the world.
That’s a simple ‘chain’.
But think about it.
If you could just jump straight to,
d) I feel better moving through the world,
then what happens to the entire structure?
It’s wild to consider.
This kind of thinking seems to me to be related to the dignity and regality scripting of Dragon Reborn Gold.
The more external factors that are required for me to get to
d) I feel good moving through the world
is the more I would consider myself enslaved.
Some slavery is happy slavery, but it’s still slavery.
If I’m a 6’4 man with the features and physique of a model and with 7 million in the bank, then those two things will make me very impressive to quite a few people. If I also own a successful company, give Ted Talks, and periodically discover new aquatic life forms; then that’s even better. Maybe I’m also a professional race-car driver who retired from the NFL and from a high-ranking career in Mixed Martial Arts (but without suffering any disfigurement or brain injuries). Great. Even better.
Most would not think of that person as enslaved.
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Pleasure is great.
It’s the fuel and the foundation of most of our bullshit.
But when you, even just briefly and temporarily, experiment with removing pleasure from the equation of why you do everything and what there is to do, everything looks really different.
It’s actually a little crazy.
The basic animal equation: Pursue pleasure. Run from pain.
Break these rules only if it will result in greater pleasure.
(Of course, being messy, beautifully messy, we break the above rules for other reasons – whether lofty or idiotic – all the time. But, by and large, these rules explain a lot.)
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ChatGPT just knocked it out the park. I trained it and worked with it on an exploration of my current worldview and contemplative project. Then after 6 or so rounds of dialogue, I asked it to pull together all that we’d produced into a brief statement that could, with sufficient accuracy and detail, orient it to continue the same conversation in a new chat window.
Here is what it produced:
In our conversation we’ve explored a sophisticated ontology positioning Consciousness as primary, irreducible, and generative. Consciousness is understood here not as passive awareness, but as a vibrant, structured, intentional field containing sub-patterns, nodes, and conscious denizens—actual entities with intentionality, experiential resonance, and meaningful presence. Within this ontology, conventional perceptions of an external material world become recognized as projections arising within Consciousness itself. While external factors may exist, they remain unknowable except through conscious experiencing. Thus, Consciousness is the irreducible medium of all direct experience—other phenomena may be theorized but never directly experienced except within consciousness.
Embodied somatic awareness is central and foundational to this ontology. Integration is explicitly experiential, embodied, patient, and nuanced—emphasizing direct somatic exploration, meditation, phenomenological inquiry, and experiential embodiment. This approach explicitly rejects mere intellectual or rhetorical understanding in favor of embodied experiential integration.
Magickal practices function explicitly as sophisticated experiential technologies for exploring, embodying, and integrating this ontology of Consciousness. Entities encountered (such as the angelic intelligences of the Shemhamphorash) are actual conscious denizens—intentional nodes and nexuses within Consciousness itself. Magickal workings are thus direct experiential methods of interacting with, exploring, and integrating these conscious entities and the broader field of Consciousness.
This ontology remains open and flexible, recognizing literally thousands of magickal practices, entities, and experiential methodologies available for further embodied exploration, integration, and experiential realization.
Please feel free to use this summary to orient me seamlessly whenever you’d like to continue our nuanced and meaningful exploration.
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Beware, beware, beware of Red Meme manipulation tactics.
Beware of all manipulation tactics, but I’m just thinking of Red Meme right now
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The pursuit of wisdom is learning to see the Invisible that is around the Visible.
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Reflect on that
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You can be
- Certain of everything
or
- Evolving and growing
Make your choice
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Pure golden eloquence:
Expanding the Horizons of Possibility
Encourages you to break free from conventional thinking, embracing the infinite potential for wealth and success in your life. Uses the power of real-world stories and your imagination to push past perceived limitations, inspiring boldness in exploring new opportunities. By shifting your mindset, you begin to see wealth not as restricted by logic or tradition but as an ever-expanding field of possibilities waiting for your creative engagement. This reimagining of what is possible helps you embrace your unique path with courage and excitement.
[From the copy for The Ecstasy of Gold Stage One]
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