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Nonduality has become a popular teaching in the contemporary spiritual field. Although there are varying, conflicting perspectives and practices now offered as nonduality, these teachings also have important elements in common. They all view human beings as intrinsically endowed with the means to understand or even to realize the primary nature of
... See morePh.D Judith Blackstone • The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awakening
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
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How to Be More Charismatic, but Not Too Much More
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• Leaders use their charisma to influence others in very specific ways. By analyzing speeches given by charismatic individuals, one helpful model shows a distinct, three-stage use of emotion. First, the speakers model and amplify the mood prevailing among their audience (“We are angry because those people over there are bad!”). Then they introduce a dissonant emotion that actually confuses people (“But you know what? I don’t really care about that.”). Finally, they use that confusion to reframe the emotional environment and win over the audience to their view (“Because we should be happy that we are better people than they are!”).
When anything difficult arises—any kind of conflict, any notion of unworthiness, anything that feels distasteful, embarrassing, or painful—instead of trying to get rid of it, we breathe it in. The three poisons are passion (this includes craving or addiction), aggression, and ignorance (which includes denial or the tendency to shut down and close... See more
lionsroar.com • Three Methods for Working With Chaos – Lion's Roar
As Girard once said: “There are fundamentally only two ways of looking at religion: as superfluous, added on—or as the origin of everything.” If there can be no in-between, I suspect that like Girard, Thiel sees religion as the origin of everything.
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
Barf, Funk, Tug, and Other Etymological Mysteries
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Life and Consciousness Always Move Together
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