why energy/self-esteem lowers on the spiritual journey
Your level of consciousness is the payoff of your predominant way of being.
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Freud's theory of "penis envy"
Freud theorized "young girls experience anxiety upon realization that they do not have a penis. Freud considered this realization a defining moment in a series of transitions toward a mature female sexuality". --Wikipedia. Freud's work is at 499 in TvF.
Article: COVID Cries out for Common Sense
People quickly invested in the official COVID narrative, trusting Anthony Fauci’s assertions that only through mindless submission to the rituals of obsessive cleanliness, masking, and lockdowns would people be saved from illness and death --article
Spiritual students are often too hard on themselves
The spiritual ego is an interlocutor that attempts to stand between you and your realization of the Self.
perpetual student
a college or university attendee who re-enrolls for several years more than is necessary to obtain a given degree, or who pursues multiple terminal degrees —Wikipedia
The Chronicles of Narnia
The literary works of C. S. Lewis, including nonfiction, are calibrated at 455 in Truth vs. Falsehood.
Roald Dahl
Author of James and the Giant Peach,
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
Fantastic Mr Fox
Immersive Van Gogh exhibit
Request: A very popular and commercial "expressive art experience" featuring projected images of the works of Van Gogh.
Desiderata
Request: A popular [public domain] prose/poem in spiritual communities.
A Primer on Individuation
Anonymously-submitted essay that I decided to calibrate, because individuation is a critical part of the spiritual journey.
Shattering the Screen of Unreality
"We have to reject the form of life that has been thrust upon us by the media and the digital world." This article is free at AmGreatness.com (see link)
self-esteem lets the love in: affirmations to get rid of conditions
How to allow the energy of love to comfort your body and mind.
How do I know I'm alive?
An ontological contemplation with examples from the era of Covid hysteria.
David Lynch
filmmaker, painter, visual artist, musician, and writer. He directed The Elephant Man, Dune, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet and created Twin Peaks.
postmodernism
defined by an attitude of skepticism toward what it describes as the grand narratives and ideologies of modernism, as well as opposition to epistemic certainty and the stability of meaning --wikipedia