"the one who cares least has all the power in a relationship"
I had a friend who was convinced of this after his divorce.
Articles
the darkest illusions
Illusion seems subjectively and experientially real but is categorically unreal, subjecting us to suffering, misinformation and spiritualized ego manipulation. When the darkest illusions are transcended, we are liberated from these vulnerabilities.
"the ego is a habitual point of observation"
With an exegesis.
the expression of consciousness as one number
While consciousness calibration itself calibrates highly, what is the validity of expressing consciousness with only one number?
T/F: there is an attempted judicial coup in progress
According to Attorney General Pam Bondi, judges issued more than 14 injunctions against Trump administration actions in February alone, with 160 “resistance” lawsuits winding their way through the system -- nypost, March 2025.
conduiting: a spiritual practice
Conduiting is distinguished from meditation by the addition of awareness of intention, which is "where" the conduit leads.
premarital sex vs. its prohibition
A multifaceted moral question.
The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle
The book's message is that enlightenment comes from being intensely present in the now, which involves leaving behind the analytical mind and its false created self, the ego -- Brave AI.
Eckhart Tolle
Updated with a calibration of Tolle as a spiritual teacher. "In 2011, the Watkins Review put him at number 1 in a list of 'The 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People'" -- wikipedia.
level: letting go of the letting go process itself
Does the letting go process eventually become a potential stumbling block on the spiritual journey?
cultural Marxism's effect in America
"under the pretense of social justice, they now seek... rewriting history; reintroducing racism; creating privileged classes; and determining what can be said in public discourse, the military, and houses of worship" -- heritage.org.
defeatism
Belief in the inevitability of defeat -- wikipedia.
Your Consciousness Can Reach Back in Time to Shape the Past (article)
"Retrocausal consciousness says that your thoughts, feelings, or decisions today might influence events in the past—not by physically changing them, but by subtly shaping how they unfolded, like ripples flowing backward in time."
The Phenomenology of Spirit, by Hegel, 1807
Had a profound effect in Western philosophy, and "has been praised and blamed for the development of existentialism, communism, fascism, death of God theology and historicist nihilism" -- wikipedia.
lower mind vs. small self
A discussion of the lower mind's takeover of the small self on an individual scale and in society as a whole.