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Collective Presencing w/ Ria Baeck. Every Friday @ 8:00 AM ET. RSVP here. 90 mins.
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The Long Night: Navigating the Near Future w/ John Robb. February 8th, 15th, and 22nd @ 10:00 AM ET. Patreon event (The Stoa or The Global Guerrillas Report). 60 mins.
A Systems Approach To Resilient Lifestyle Design w/ Jacob Lund Fisker. February 9th @ 5:00 PM ET. RSVP here.
Scenes: Load-Bearing and Ephemeral w/ Sarah Perry. March 3rd @ 7:00 PM ET. RSVP here.
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February 4th, 2021
Since this project started last March, there were three periods that were emotionally intense.
The first one was back in April when all of that spiritual craziness was happening to me: tons of synchronicities, hyper-empathic abilities, penetrative archetypal patterns, Kundalini Awakening, visited by demons, hearing the music, etc.
It was first expressed in the entry Spiritual Awakening, it climaxed when I wrote the Hearing the Music entry, and the sadness hit the hardest when I wrote the Existentially Lonely entry. I still cannot explain half the stuff that was happening to me during that period, but in retrospect it was kind of fun. What a fucking adventure.
The second period that was emotionally intense was during the summer, and it was most intense in July, which was expressed in entries such as Drinking Beer in the Rain and Do Not Let Your Hands Drop Down. There were relationship issues, and my marriage felt like it was on the line. We made it through though, which eventually led me to write another love letter.
The last period was in November-December. There was a “too weird” feeling around that time, which I eventually located towards needy expectations coming from the “community,” the one that was forming around the old Discord server. In retrospect the cohort was small, and only a few bad apples spoiled the bunch. The entries that best expressed the intense emotions of this period were Keeping a Little Bit to Myself and Boundaries.
All of these three periods served as great learning opportunities, and I did feel “upgraded” after each one. I feel more intrapersonally integrated and interpersonally sophisticated compared to when this whole thing started. It was like the daemon was leading me to challenges so I could get a character upgrade.
I am not claiming each period was handled with perfect wisdom; I do not think that was the case at all. I do think each period was handled as best as I could though. This project has been somewhat of an emotional rollercoaster ride for me, but I do not want to go anywhere near a “woe is me” signalling.
I am fully back in the thumos saddle and the daemon is here whispering to me again. I am buzzing with eros, and a sense of readiness. I am happy to be in this state, but there is also a sense of fragility associated with this state. I do not want to get too cocky here or expect that this will last. I am already bracing myself for whatever the next emotionally intense thing is going to be. I am here now though, ready for what is next.
What is next? Stealing the culture obviously.
How? My favorite Indiana Jones line is coming to mind again:
I don't know, I'm making this up as I go.
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