Ability to transmute victimhood is the ultimate skill to have these days. It's truly remarkable how much victimhood is projected toward us through media. From witnessing the intense destruction and demoralizations of physical wars, to the trite social engineering continually enforcing personal disempowerment. Dang, it sure can be easy to get mired down into victimhood resonance.
Appreciate your thoughts about self-mastery and alchemy, Mike. And yes, the realm of gratitude magnetizes us. It's an elixir that gets us through it!
LOL "mini tyrant" ~ Yes when I feel like a 'loser' I say bad things about myself BUT almost daily I also say "You're such a good body" (same as I speak to dogs b/c I love dogs). Occasionally I say "I love you".
A couple of tips on a practical level from a long time landscaper. Your lopers probably aren't dull. More than likely the coating on the blade has worn off, increasing the friction on the blade. Lopers and other cutting blade tools are only separating the fibers of the branch leaving the sides of the cut to press on the blade. Use an assistant, gravity, or body pressure to open the cut, decreasing friction. You've also over stressed the metal, stretching it and turning your lopers into knuckle busters. You're a strong guy with big shoulders it's easy to just power on through when the lopers don't want to finish the cut. Close your lopers and look at the angle between the handles I'm guessing you'll notice that it's much less than when they were new. Respect the limits of the materials. When they stop wanting to cut, change the angle you're cutting from or work from the other side. Use a part of your body to anchor one of the handles and pull the cut open with the free hand. Or find lopers that are as tough as you are. Get a folding hand saw that you can put in your back pocket for the branches that are just a little too much.
Second tip. When you're wanting to be in flow and just tune in to work you're doing but the rumination won't stop, assign a submind to address the rumination. Single minded focus is an elusive and relatively rare state. Creating subminds that that share life's complexity load allows you to focus more on what's in front of you while the "co-processors" handle the tasks that aren't immediate priorities. The mind is complexified in this way naturally, creating other subminds that you have direct access to is just furthering the mental evolution process. I'm working on a very simple series of short meditations that facilitate the creation of new subminds but don't expect it any time soon, time to sit still is a factor for me.
We cannot attribute suffering to God, only our erroneous conception of God, Creation, and ourselves. “And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, a poet’s pen turns them into shapes and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name”. - Shakespeare
"Under the guise of an enlightened new perspective, atomism has subverted scientific thought over the last few centuries, normalising the belief that ‘everything is made from atoms’. By the 19th century it incorporated with Darwinism into the belief that ‘everything is made by atoms’. In this worldview, the Atom has replaced the Adam as the origin of man, and has replaced God as the creator of all things. As such, it became the focal point of all physical, metaphysical, and political power in the 20th century. It changed how we view the universe and even how we view our selves. In this brave new world of the atomic age, we’re all just a bunch of atoms bumbling around in space. Nobody has ever really seen an atom though, as they’re way way beyond the range of senses, and there is this deep philosophical problem about the impossibility of effective observation at the quantum level (‘the observation paradox’). Nevertheless we’re told that atoms hold massive amounts of ‘nuclear energy’ concentrated in their centre, as well as the ability to self-organise into molecules and complex lifeforms, giving rise to all known life, the human race, and the entire universe as we know it without any need of an intelligent creator. The atomists have endowed the atom with the attributes of the divine, like a pagan idol, a humanist icon, an abstract mental concept to replace God, allowing the believer to discard any fears about judgement or morality. The sculptor turns from the marble to his model in order to perfect his conception.” – A Fools Wisdom, Steven Young
“We are all sculptors, working at various forms, moulding and chiseling thought. What is the model before mortal mind? Is it imperfection, joy, sorrow, sin, suffering? Have you accepted the mortal model? Are you reproducing it? Then you are haunted in your work by vicious sculptors and hideous forms. Do you not hear from all mankind of the imperfect model? The world is holding it before your gaze continually. The result is that you are liable to follow those lower patterns, limit your life-work, and adopt into your experience the angular outline and deformity of matter models.”
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy
The 'world' is really a sick one. In that movie, it's interesting that the 'plot' couldn't have been twisted a little, whereby, the couple takes a stand against their 'mainstream' doctor and say something like, "we don't belive in your cancer. We think it's fake and you're apart of the problem".
what if all the pain we have experienced was to make us sensitive enough to feel god within us.
Ability to transmute victimhood is the ultimate skill to have these days. It's truly remarkable how much victimhood is projected toward us through media. From witnessing the intense destruction and demoralizations of physical wars, to the trite social engineering continually enforcing personal disempowerment. Dang, it sure can be easy to get mired down into victimhood resonance.
Appreciate your thoughts about self-mastery and alchemy, Mike. And yes, the realm of gratitude magnetizes us. It's an elixir that gets us through it!
LOL "mini tyrant" ~ Yes when I feel like a 'loser' I say bad things about myself BUT almost daily I also say "You're such a good body" (same as I speak to dogs b/c I love dogs). Occasionally I say "I love you".
A couple of tips on a practical level from a long time landscaper. Your lopers probably aren't dull. More than likely the coating on the blade has worn off, increasing the friction on the blade. Lopers and other cutting blade tools are only separating the fibers of the branch leaving the sides of the cut to press on the blade. Use an assistant, gravity, or body pressure to open the cut, decreasing friction. You've also over stressed the metal, stretching it and turning your lopers into knuckle busters. You're a strong guy with big shoulders it's easy to just power on through when the lopers don't want to finish the cut. Close your lopers and look at the angle between the handles I'm guessing you'll notice that it's much less than when they were new. Respect the limits of the materials. When they stop wanting to cut, change the angle you're cutting from or work from the other side. Use a part of your body to anchor one of the handles and pull the cut open with the free hand. Or find lopers that are as tough as you are. Get a folding hand saw that you can put in your back pocket for the branches that are just a little too much.
Second tip. When you're wanting to be in flow and just tune in to work you're doing but the rumination won't stop, assign a submind to address the rumination. Single minded focus is an elusive and relatively rare state. Creating subminds that that share life's complexity load allows you to focus more on what's in front of you while the "co-processors" handle the tasks that aren't immediate priorities. The mind is complexified in this way naturally, creating other subminds that you have direct access to is just furthering the mental evolution process. I'm working on a very simple series of short meditations that facilitate the creation of new subminds but don't expect it any time soon, time to sit still is a factor for me.
Thanks for these great ideas and recommendations!
Peace Mike & Family!!! I sooo much appreciate your updates on your own insights!!! Thank you so much!!!
We are the apprentices of self-mastery interacting so beautifully on this platform. Let's keep it up!!! 💐🕊
Appreciate these updates and insights, look forward to meeting you in person some day! If u ever come to AK you have a bed brother
Oh man thanks! my youngest son and I fantasize about our wilderness trips there! It will def happen!
Please include a discussion about why animals and pets get sick, also, please!
Happy to do so!
Loved the excerpt from Peter Mt. Shasta! I found a couple interviews with him on different podcasts - he’d be a phenomenal person to have on Alfacast!
Mike, how can I get info for attending NC? Can you provide a link, here, please? Thank you.
for sure! you can find out more here! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustain-me-5-day-immersive-event-featuring-barbara-oneill-tickets-1084508808039
We cannot attribute suffering to God, only our erroneous conception of God, Creation, and ourselves. “And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, a poet’s pen turns them into shapes and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name”. - Shakespeare
"Under the guise of an enlightened new perspective, atomism has subverted scientific thought over the last few centuries, normalising the belief that ‘everything is made from atoms’. By the 19th century it incorporated with Darwinism into the belief that ‘everything is made by atoms’. In this worldview, the Atom has replaced the Adam as the origin of man, and has replaced God as the creator of all things. As such, it became the focal point of all physical, metaphysical, and political power in the 20th century. It changed how we view the universe and even how we view our selves. In this brave new world of the atomic age, we’re all just a bunch of atoms bumbling around in space. Nobody has ever really seen an atom though, as they’re way way beyond the range of senses, and there is this deep philosophical problem about the impossibility of effective observation at the quantum level (‘the observation paradox’). Nevertheless we’re told that atoms hold massive amounts of ‘nuclear energy’ concentrated in their centre, as well as the ability to self-organise into molecules and complex lifeforms, giving rise to all known life, the human race, and the entire universe as we know it without any need of an intelligent creator. The atomists have endowed the atom with the attributes of the divine, like a pagan idol, a humanist icon, an abstract mental concept to replace God, allowing the believer to discard any fears about judgement or morality. The sculptor turns from the marble to his model in order to perfect his conception.” – A Fools Wisdom, Steven Young
“We are all sculptors, working at various forms, moulding and chiseling thought. What is the model before mortal mind? Is it imperfection, joy, sorrow, sin, suffering? Have you accepted the mortal model? Are you reproducing it? Then you are haunted in your work by vicious sculptors and hideous forms. Do you not hear from all mankind of the imperfect model? The world is holding it before your gaze continually. The result is that you are liable to follow those lower patterns, limit your life-work, and adopt into your experience the angular outline and deformity of matter models.”
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy
Thanks Mike.
The Spiritual cinema circle has some really cool movie that have a lot of good messages in them.
The 'world' is really a sick one. In that movie, it's interesting that the 'plot' couldn't have been twisted a little, whereby, the couple takes a stand against their 'mainstream' doctor and say something like, "we don't belive in your cancer. We think it's fake and you're apart of the problem".