Family and friends. Where to begin. It has been a pretty eventful few weeks. I’m still deciding what to write about as well as general directions for the blog. I’ve posted more side pages you may find of interest. Gratitude to Luciana Thum for her generous and kind donation to now give us our own domain name! Next steps include revamping the site and adding more audio and video capabilities. Let’s now explore some topics.
I had the recent joy of watching ‘Mr. Nobody’, a quite underrated film, on Netflix. Firstly film is such a wonderful art form, having the ability to get you thinking, inspire, and even produce a psychical experience (see Waking Life). ‘Mr. Nobody’ was reflective personally because it was a film discussing life paths and how decisions we make at certain points in life determine future events, and how choices can manifest into other universes at other points and conceptions of time, as the film also delves into brief discourses on quantum reality and alternate universes.
Personally this was reflective in that any moment or path in my life could be different with a different choice or decision. Even a thought can produce a certain action or chemical reaction in the body. The ‘chaos theory’, using the term loosely, posits that everything affects everything, and there are quite a few themes in the film touching on seemingly inconsequential moments creating large-scale reactions.
And if you think about what makes ‘you’ you, it is even more bizarre. Think about yourself and every life experience that has led you to believe who yourself to be. Every action, even seemingly the smallest, influences your perspective of life and conception of self. So who are we really? Yes we are a collection of past experiences, but what if we were programmed in any different way or any past experience was different? Would we be able to be more ‘new’ each day? Imagine if you had no programming into who you are, and rather let you program your own reality and psyche. This is what I try to do often, and part of me does feel like a new visitor on a strange planet, wondering what if we saw everything with fresh eyes, alternate eyes..
So with me, going on this trip, I’m thinking of every life experience and decision that can alter life courses and directions. The choices and seemingly every action can alter life perspectives and experiences. It’s bizarre enough to think we’re one world of many, and in Chile I’ll be entering another world of just Earth. I won’t be the youngest in the family, I won’t know where everything in town is, and I won’t be bound by any past karma and be able to make new karma as a newly always refined program and hologram of a person.
If the ego and ‘I’ is an illusion, personality and programming is whatever you want it to be, with mindful thought in each moment. What if we lived life in constant states of retooling, inner engineering, and becoming the best versions of ourselves? With this, we can break the programming of the status quo, breaking the challenges of these times by having change start with the individual. Seeing everything with fresh eyes, un-brainwashed eyes, allows us to create the future and reality we’d like on Earth to survive and even prosper.
So naturally, live life with spontaneity, but calculate your thoughts, decisions, and actions in the moment. One action can create ripples of any kind of reactions, and you never know the magic that the universe can unfold when living life with authenticity.
On another note, I wanted to talk more about enlightenment, ascension, the differences between the two, and other topics in future posts. Also, hallucinogens, and the comparisons between hallucinogens and a natural sadhana (spiritual practice). I had a bizarre encounter recently, post-worthy, but decided to roll with a different topic on this one. I’d be very curious to ask, Raymond Sanchez, what brain scan comparisons of hallucinogens could look like compared to a natural sadhana, and with neuroscience continuing to become more targeted; developments on these fronts.
Likely I’ll be adjusting to a new language, culture, and new universe this next week. Definitely, I’ll be churning out another blog post toward the end of March. Thank you so much for reading all the way, and please share with family and friends if you’d like. What would you like to read about? I hope to hear from you!
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