Simple acts can connect us with profound realities
The simple act of opening your eyes (at the right time and place) can connect you to the awesome rising of the Sun or setting.
When we connect to such realities, it is not an achievement; but it is an attainment.
Well, here we are at the processing week. (Really the processing 9 days.)
Iāll pick up my two programs again next Tuesday 8 October.
3 weeks on, 1 week off.
Iām liking how my music is coming out. Iām not playing any music-composition subs, but my core custom does have Revelation of Spirit and Revelation of Mind. So, thereās that.
I already really love and enjoy my composition process. I wonder what would happen if I introduced Renaissance Man: Vibes.
I have been noticing shifts and openings. Theyāre subtle but numerous.
I feel that The Revelation of Spirit is a perfect title for me. So is The Revelation of Mind. They are so compatible with the way that I approach life. I am very grateful to be able to work with resources like these. Iām glad that Saint and Fire found some way to fit programs like these into the stable of offerings.
Beware of heuristics, shortcuts, and assumptions; these are the spit and scotch tape that are holding together many of your problems in life.
Contemplate the difference between sensation and knowledge
Observe how often you take sensation to be knowledge
My meditation practice is about an embrace of consciousness and a communion with consciousness, wherever it happens to be right now. This is why there can be no failure and there can be no distractions. Whatever is happening is consciousness; and thatās the practice.
I am having an amazing time working with AI for various useful collaborative tasks. The latest is that Iām combining Ericksonian-style imagery scripts with phonemic/narrative mnemonic elements to help me to study and meditate on the powers of the 72 Shemhamphorash angels.
Each script will be for a ~3 to 5 minute experience and is intended to be listened to before sleep using the Microsft Word Read Aloud function.
Pretty awesome.
More musical creativity tonight.
One more day of rest, and then Tuesday Iāll resume with my two programs.
The Genius of Eugene Gendlin
and his special focus on the āfelt senseā
So integral to the mode of thinking in meditation
Alright, another monthly 9-day processing phase in the can. Tomorrow, we re-engage. Letās see what happens in these next 3 weeks.
Am contemplating this
Facing challenges.
Donāt give up.
Apply mental and emotional discipline.
9:30 am appointment today. Fortunately, woke up at 6:30 am, and meditated from 6:55 to 7:55. Had plenty of time and even napped more before the meeting.
This was the second of nine planned subliminal playdays in this 3-week play period.
PHENOMENAUT Genesis and BUILD integrated into my meditation hour (at minute 15, and then at minute 45)
Grateful for meditation today.
Interestingly, I heard the chime at the beginning, but then none afterwards. (I usually set it to chime at 15 minute intervals.) Somehow the volume got turned all the way down. So I got to have an entire session in silence. Might do that more.
Also, sat for 8 or 9 extra minutes since there was no chime at the end. Actually, started expecting the chime right about at the 60 minute mark, but chose to sit longer just in case.
2024 in general has brought a lot of challenges.
Some of them have actually begun to diminish.
I noticed some states of mind, thoughts, etc., (for example, discouragement, frustration, powerlessness; not all day everyday, but recurrent) that I gradually began to think might be reconciliation-related. Just because they did seem to intensify after Tuesday when I returned to active listening.
Iām still not completely sure.
I have been with my current stack for 6 to 13 months. I think itās very cool that the modules annd programs are continuing (as promised) to provide a powerful impetus to growth, transformation, and integration. In many ways, it feels like Iām still just getting started with this stack.
My two programs have 3 program cores each. This was an experiment, because itās a bit denser than the recommended 2 program cores. I chose to do it because these two programs really do represent a thorough and comprehensive expression of my life aspirations. Itās easy to stay with the stack because the stack is an expression of Me.
At the same time, sometimes change feels so gradual. Iām trying to move mountains.
My mind is processing some challenging stuff these days. I just want to write it down because this moment like all will pass and I want to remember it.
I woke up from a dream in which I was sitting on a bench under a tree, and a group of people were gathering about me. The people themselves just looked like a group who were about to do some kind of community activity, like clean-up or something. Then I noticed that the leader was giving them the kind of rhetoric-focused talk about āissuesā that you give to people when youāre trying to get them to not think about the horrific act theyāre about to perform. I realized that these people were preparing to try to attack me and lynch me. Never had that dream before. Whoa.
Meanwhile, in real life, Iām processing feelings of stuckness, discouragement, doubt.
Wild.
Not my top-request, to be sure. But youāve got to deal with whatās in the mind. And this is what is coming up.
Seems like my mind is gradually processing what it needs to process.
Just now, for example, I remembered an affirming attitude that allowed more self-compassion and self-support into awareness. I am grateful.
Anyway. Want to make a note of this because time often goes by so freaking fast in retrospect that sometimes these moments disappear into the rear view and you donāt even remember them properly.
Reality originates in the mind/consciousness, and is expressed through (and must navigate) material substance.
