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Rehearsing possible lives
Tina He • Rehearsing possible lives
Method acting your options as a means to decision making
Magic, Money and the Main Quest
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• Due to my own exhausting skepticism, I am still not entirely sure what my relationship to God and prayer is. But my nightly reviews have increasingly been accompanied with the wish that “Thy will be done.” I have zero confidence that I have sufficient self-knowledge to manifest exactly the right path for myself, and the more I’ve leaned into surrendering control the better my life has gotten. But this surrender always seems to come with a fear of my family falling into material insecurity. The good news is that specific fear’s also a path back to the main quest.
• Because money tends to be one of the biggest barriers on our path to a life we truly love, our money triggers are critical indicators of precisely where we need to integrate our consciousness. Put another way: money often makes us do things that are out of integrity.
• As we move further from fear, he shows us how to create from an increasingly loving and authentic place. It’s one of the most interesting and useful conversations I’ve had. He concluded his masterclass with fifteen steps on the path to making the transition from fear to integrity. This helps shift you from the black magic of “my will be done,” to the more subtle miracles of “Thy will be done.” If love is one of the most powerful forces in the Universe, coming into ever greater integrity with it will enhance the creative potential of your thoughts.
• Your job is to find the place you're out of integrity and align so that you can continue to be like a larger and larger conduit of this wildly loving, fantastically intelligent consciousness that ultimately we all are.
• Martha Beck
The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, crow voice, frog voice; now, he said, and now, and never once mentioned forever,
Mary Oliver • Dream Work
Wisdom does not arise from clinging to one side or rejecting the other but from transcending their apparent opposition to uncover harmony. It
Troy Valencia • Living Beyond the Mind: The End of Personal Suffering
The “insights” takeaways are very good at summing this up:
“Takeaways:
Prediction is the new central paradigm for how society allocates attention, resources, and meaning.
Modernism focused on unified identities and progress; postmodernism decomposed meaning into combinatorial renderings; prediction retools meaning as forward-looking bets.
Technology, especially AI and prediction markets, amplifies our ability to forecast and materially commit to outcomes, reshaping culture and economics.
Public prediction and forecasting art (as in memes, NFTs, and viral moments) becomes a new form of cultural production and ownership.
Prediction contracts could function like patents did for earlier eras, providing a shared scaffold for progress in the predictive age”
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things.