Living with Joy, by Sonaya Roman
"You will see immediate results in your life when you use the processes to learn how to radiate love, increase your feelings of self-esteem, and live in harmony with your higher purpose" -- goodreads.
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confidence
1. the state of feeling certain about the truth of something. 2. a feeling of self-assurance arising from one's appreciation of one's own abilities or qualities. --Oxford languages.
eugenics
"Historically, eugenicists have altered various human gene frequencies by inhibiting the fertility of people and groups purported to be inferior or promoting that of those purported to be superior" -- wikipedia. The TvF calibration of Eugenics is 105 (awareness).
Sathya Sai Baba
proclaimed himself to be the reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi (cal. 485, TvF). He established free hospitals for the poor. An estimated 500,000 people attended his funeral -- wikipedia.
song: Day is Done by Nana Mouskouri
Do you ask why I'm sighing my son / You must inherit what mankind has done / In this world full of sorrow and woe / If you ask me why this is so I really don't know.
statement: unhappiness makes no sense
Priority request: There are social behavior norms, for example one does not laugh at a funeral out of respect for others, but in an internal way it seems to make no logical sense to close off your joy or happiness for any reason ever. It benefits no one.
auditing (Scientology)
"involves repeated questioning forming an extended series. It may take several questions to complete a 'process', several processes together are a 'rundown', several rundowns completed and the Scientologist is deemed to have advanced another level on the Bridge to Total Freedom" -- wikipedia.
deciding something is yours
"You can just decide something is yours, without desire or any other negative position. Then it's a highest-good decision, meaning good for everyone. In this scenario, attachment doesn't come into play. Attachment doesn't occur in the context of the highest good" -- Brian's comment.
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"
Priority request: A quote attributed to Nietzche, of all people. It has become sort of a mantra for resilience in the face of adversity.
Medjugorje, as a spiritual center
"Since the [Marian] apparitions began in 1981, over 40 million people of all faiths, from all over the world, have visited Medjugorje and have left spiritually strengthened and renewed. Countless unbelievers and physically or mentally afflicted, have been converted and healed."
Christopher Langan
Langan's IQ was estimated on ABC's 20/20 to be between 195 and 210, and in 1999 he was described by some journalists as "the smartest man in America" or "in the world" -- wikipedia.
a scientific study showing Applied Kinesiology is unreliable as a diagnostic tool
"Of the 151 sets of trials, the toxic vial was identified correctly in 80 of them (53%)." The study concluded, "Applied Kinesiology has not demonstrated that it is a useful or reliable diagnostic tool upon which health decisions can be based."
"The best predictor of someone's future behavior is their past behavior"
Request: I just heard this in an interview of Jordan Peterson by Piers Morgan.
Om Namaha Shivaya
by Robert Gass and On Wings of Song. Video embedded.
clown (occupation)
"a performer in a circus who wears funny clothes and bright make-up, and does silly things in order to make people laugh" -- collinsdictionary.