Lipi Gandhi
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Lipi Gandhi
Chasing proof vs exploring yourself
Your brain doesn't work in straight lines — it's more like a spider spinning a web while on psychedelics, making connections through intuitive leaps and seemingly random associations.
The tension between wanting to pursue your creative instincts and making money out of i,t and being scared that it would kill the creativity
reinventing yourself? What does it mean?
The “Divine Download”: What is Called Channeling?
thetwelfthhouse.substack.com
Houston Methodist
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At the core of this practice is something deeply physiological. Presence activates the insula, a part of the brain responsible for bodily awareness and sensory perception. When we are fully engaged - when we slow down enough to actually be where we are - this part of the brain lights up.
The two stages of mastery for those with many passions
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The important thing is that there’s a commitment to some concept of truth and accuracy; there’s also a recognition of how partial and circumscribed truth and accuracy can be
As a result, research as leisure activity is exuberantly undisciplined or antidisciplinary. In academia, you receive specific training in a narrow field of specialization, which creates certain opportunities for your work and forecloses others. Most notably, it discourages a certain form of dilettantism—peering into an adjacent field that you don’t have the “right” background for, using techniques you aren’t “qualified” to be doing, introducing references and sources that are nontraditional and even looked down upon in your primary field