Brian Gibbs

Brian Gibbs

free will is God's will

The correlation between an individual's free will and God's will.

Hindu Goddess Kali

Request: Kali inspires the highest and lowest consciousness energies in a wide range of devotees.

Real ID Act of 2005

By request. "Establishes requirements that driver licenses and identification cards issued by U.S. states and territories must satisfy to be accepted for accessing federal government facilities, nuclear power plants, and for boarding airline flights in the United States" -- wikipedia.

I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"I Am That preserves Maharaj's dialogues with the followers who came from around the world seeking his guidance in destroying false identities" -- goodreads.

adopting pets from animal shelters or rescues

By request.

Woody Allen

Writer, actor, director. Personal LoC.

“Every day is judgement day”

An intellectual understanding of karma and its immediacy, though not an equivalent expression for absolute cosmic justice, which is not subject to time periods, i.e. days.

free will is [not] an illusion

Calibrations to note the levels in which free will is an illusion and the levels in which it is not an illusion. Subjectivity, man.

request: talking to trees as a spiritual practice

Affirming their beauty, stability, contribution to life, etc. an extension of “goodwill towards all of life in all its expressions” -- request.

"God loves me"

Calibration of statement.

free association (psychology)

The expression (as by speaking or writing) of the content of consciousness without censorship as an aid in gaining access to unconscious processes -- wikipedia.

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Flea, Sam Elliott.

mantra: Jesus, I trust in You

“The graces of My mercy are drawn by means of one vessel only, and that is — trust. The more a soul trusts, the more it will receive.” — Diary of St. Faustina, 1578.

overtalking

To talk too much or too long about (something) --merriam-webster.

polyvagal theory

"A collection of proposed evolutionary, neuroscientific, and psychological constructs pertaining to the role of the vagus nerve in emotion regulation, social connection and fear response... [It] is not endorsed by current social neuroscience" -- wikipedia.