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We have all met those who are trying very hard to be real persons, to give their lives Reality (or meaning) and to live as distinct from existing. These seekers are of many kinds, highbrow and lowbrow, ranging from students of arcane wisdom to the audiences of popular speakers on pep and personality, selling yourself and making your life a success.... See more
Alan Watts on What Reality Is and How to Become What You Are
Here’s their unspoken secret: the last human job isn’t being human—it’s pretending we still know what that means. And maybe, just maybe, that desperate pretense is the most human thing left in us.
The Last Human Job
Interesting point, but when I was outside my body, I felt more like myself—freer and so much safer than I could ever feel in this reality. Our true reality is out there; this is just a very strange and intense game designed for self-development. :) Death is simply another door—a doorway back to where we all came from. This reality isn’t real at all... See more
Xavier Dagba on Substack
and counter point :)
If you think ascension is cool, try fully descending into your body.
If you think an out of body experience is cool, try making your body and your psyche such safe places that you don't need to be anywhere else.
If you think an out of body experience is cool, try making your body and your psyche such safe places that you don't need to be anywhere else.
Xavier Dagba on Substack
You wake up to a stream of consciousness, which is your perception of the world and its content, with you at the subjective center of the experience. Throughout the day this stream is the reason for everything you do. You get water because you’re thirsty, take turns while driving because you have a destination in mind, talk because you’re feeling g... See more
Neuroscience is pre-paradigmatic. Consciousness is why
Gurwinder
4h
“Social media makes more sense when you view it as a place people go to perform rather than a place to communicate.”
— Morgan Housel
4h
“Social media makes more sense when you view it as a place people go to perform rather than a place to communicate.”
— Morgan Housel
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Humor can be an amazing tool for delivering an honest message in a good-natured way. A recent study even found that “sense of humor” was the phrase most frequently used to describe the most effective leaders.2