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a pure heart

Request: I feel like Enlightenment might be an overwhelming goal for someone who's not sufficiently evolved spiritually, and maybe aiming for purity of heart (which is suspect is around LoC 540) is a more realistic and practical goal for this lifetime.

realm of "clockwork elves" entities on DMT

When people consume enough DMT... to have a “breakthrough” experience, they often encounter beings, commonly referred to as “elves,” who seem to be autonomous. Some people are convinced these beings exist in a reality that is separate or invisible from our own -- bigthink.com.

Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell

repeatedly mentions the "10,000-Hour Rule", claiming that the key to achieving world-class expertise in any skill, is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing the correct way, for a total of around 10,000 hours -- wikipedia.

duality

"the quality or state of having two different or opposite parts or elements" -- merriam-webster.

surrendering something we want in the hopes of then being able to receive it

Hope suggests an incomplete surrender, yet the result is still positive.

"If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be suffering"

Priority request: An excerpt from "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl.

extinction

request: seems a bit more severe than death... but maybe they're the same?

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).

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.

a negative field indicates karmic unreadiness for the flow of blessings (article)

With energy truly surrendered to God, we aren't exposed to pressure in local conditions, because God's blessings don't occur under forced conditions. We can't be simultaneously surrendered to God and inequitable to ourselves, "giving" energy that is actually being taken under false pretenses.

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.

The Perennial Philosophy, by Aldous Huxley

"drawing on a diverse array of faiths, including Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christian mysticism, and Islam—Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains how they are united by a common human yearning to experience the divine" -- amazon.

The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners

Request: excellent reading that I looked fwd to do every day. Then I started reading Bhagavad Gita As Is, a book calibrated very high... and I'm struggling to continue after reading 1/3 of it. I was wondering how the two would differ in calibration.

making a mountain out of a molehill

over-reactive, histrionic behaviour where a person makes too much of a minor issue -- wikipedia.