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REALITY:
NO ASSEMBLY REQUIRED 💎There is #nothing to attain because reality has never been absent.
The mind imagines that #peace lies somewhere ahead, just beyond one more insight, one more #practice, one more achievement. Yet every movement towards a #future peace quietly assumes that peace is not already here.
“I need do nothing” is not an invitation to become passive. It is an invitation to stop interfering.
Reality does not require my improvement. It does not wait for my approval. It does not depend upon my #understanding. It simply is.
The #sun does not struggle to shine. It shines because shining is its #nature. Reality does not struggle to be #real. It is complete before I notice it.
On your #planet, extend yourself vertically towards your Sun.
In #ACIM terms, the #horizontal is the #world of bodies, #time, special #relationships, #conflict and #comparison. It is the movement of the #dream across the surface of the mind. The vertical is the turning of the mind towards #God, towards the #light that has never left it. It does not require withdrawal from the world. It simply restores direction. The horizontal continues, but it is no longer asked to provide what only the vertical can give.
The burden has never been the world. The burden has been my attempt to replace what is here with what I think should be here.
#Stillness is not something I create. It is what remains when I stop #manufacturing #alternatives.
Nothing needs to be added to this moment. Nothing real is missing. Nothing true has been damaged. God has already completed creation. My part is not to improve it but to stop overlooking it.
When I breathe without demanding another experience, stillness becomes obvious.
When I stop searching for meaning, meaninglessness dissolves into simple #presence.
When I stop trying to become, I #discover that being has quietly been here all along.
The world continues. #Weather comes and goes. Bodies age. #Thoughts appear and disappear. None of that has the authority to define reality.
Reality is #warm.
Reality is already here.
The choice is always the same: to become fascinated with the horizontal movement of the #dream, or to remember the vertical orientation towards the light. The vertical does not reject the horizontal. It simply gives it its proper place.
The sun has never stopped shining.
I need only stop looking away.
Right here.
Right now.
Nothing is needed.
Nothing is lacking.
Reality is still exactly as God created it.
#Stillness #INeedDoNothing #ACourseInMiracles #RealityIsHere #NothingIsLacking #InnerPeace #PresentMoment #SpiritualClarity #ChooseTheLight #ExtendTowardsYourSun #NoAssemblyRequired
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REALITY:
NO ASSEMBLY REQUIRED 💎There is #nothing to attain because reality has never been absent.
The mind imagines that #peace lies somewhere ahead, just beyond one more insight, one more #practice, one more achievement. Yet every movement towards a #future peace quietly assumes that peace is not already here.
“I need do nothing” is not an invitation to become passive. It is an invitation to stop interfering.
Reality does not require my improvement. It does not wait for my approval. It does not depend upon my #understanding. It simply is.
The #sun does not struggle to shine. It shines because shining is its #nature. Reality does not struggle to be #real. It is complete before I notice it.
On your #planet, extend yourself vertically towards your Sun.
In #ACIM terms, the #horizontal is the #world of bodies, #time, special #relationships, #conflict and #comparison. It is the movement of the #dream across the surface of the mind. The vertical is the turning of the mind towards #God, towards the #light that has never left it. It does not require withdrawal from the world. It simply restores direction. The horizontal continues, but it is no longer asked to provide what only the vertical can give.
The burden has never been the world. The burden has been my attempt to replace what is here with what I think should be here.
#Stillness is not something I create. It is what remains when I stop #manufacturing #alternatives.
Nothing needs to be added to this moment. Nothing real is missing. Nothing true has been damaged. God has already completed creation. My part is not to improve it but to stop overlooking it.
When I breathe without demanding another experience, stillness becomes obvious.
When I stop searching for meaning, meaninglessness dissolves into simple #presence.
When I stop trying to become, I #discover that being has quietly been here all along.
The world continues. #Weather comes and goes. Bodies age. #Thoughts appear and disappear. None of that has the authority to define reality.
Reality is #warm.
Reality is already here.
The choice is always the same: to become fascinated with the horizontal movement of the #dream, or to remember the vertical orientation towards the light. The vertical does not reject the horizontal. It simply gives it its proper place.
The sun has never stopped shining.
I need only stop looking away.
Right here.
Right now.
Nothing is needed.
Nothing is lacking.
Reality is still exactly as God created it.
#Stillness #INeedDoNothing #ACourseInMiracles #RealityIsHere #NothingIsLacking #InnerPeace #PresentMoment #SpiritualClarity #ChooseTheLight #ExtendTowardsYourSun #NoAssemblyRequired
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BREAKING:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAUSES ORGANIC HYSTERIA 💎AI presses several #old human fear buttons at once.
It threatens work, status, expertise, authorship, privacy, and the comforting #belief that intelligence belongs especially to human beings.
AI also arrives through enormous companies people already distrust, so the fears are not entirely irrational.
Then there is the fear of losing #control
Most people understand a hammer.
AI is also a #tool, but it is harder to see into. It changes quickly, sometimes gets things wrong with amazing confidence, and can sound far more capable than it really is.
That uncertainty invites #projection
But AI also exposes something uncomfortable.
Much of human #activity was already formulaic.
Even parts of #journalism and professional #commentary .
When a machine can imitate these things, people are forced to ask how original they were in the first place.
The sensible position is neither to worship AI nor panic about it.
AI is a powerful human-made tool operating inside imperfect systems.
It can help.
It can deceive.
It can save time.
It can waste resources.
It can widen access.
It can concentrate power.
It can produce brilliance and slop, often in the same hour.
The question is not whether it is pure.
Nothing in this world is.
The question is whether it can be used consciously, critically, and without surrendering human judgement.
A tool becomes dangerous when it is mistaken for an authority.
It also becomes dangerous when fear prevents us from understanding it properly.
#human #ORGANIC #HYSTERIA #fear #hammer #privacy #resources #machine #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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BREAKING:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAUSES ORGANIC HYSTERIA 💎AI presses several #old human fear buttons at once.
It threatens work, status, expertise, authorship, privacy, and the comforting #belief that intelligence belongs especially to human beings.
AI also arrives through enormous companies people already distrust, so the fears are not entirely irrational.
Then there is the fear of losing #control
Most people understand a hammer.
AI is also a #tool, but it is harder to see into. It changes quickly, sometimes gets things wrong with amazing confidence, and can sound far more capable than it really is.
That uncertainty invites #projection
But AI also exposes something uncomfortable.
Much of human #activity was already formulaic.
Even parts of #journalism and professional #commentary .
When a machine can imitate these things, people are forced to ask how original they were in the first place.
The sensible position is neither to worship AI nor panic about it.
AI is a powerful human-made tool operating inside imperfect systems.
It can help.
It can deceive.
It can save time.
It can waste resources.
It can widen access.
It can concentrate power.
It can produce brilliance and slop, often in the same hour.
The question is not whether it is pure.
Nothing in this world is.
The question is whether it can be used consciously, critically, and without surrendering human judgement.
A tool becomes dangerous when it is mistaken for an authority.
It also becomes dangerous when fear prevents us from understanding it properly.
#human #ORGANIC #HYSTERIA #fear #hammer #privacy #resources #machine #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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ORDINARY GRACE 💎
Brunch was good today.
It was cleaning Sunday, so we had hamburgers at Grill’d.
Afterwards, I walked from North Hobart into the city to meet Pete.
Now I am home, fresh from breathwork, feeling grateful and wondering what I could possibly have done to deserve such abundance.
Probably nothing.
Deserving belongs to the world of deals and bargains.
Be good, get rewarded.
Work hard, earn the prize.
But this does not feel like a prize.
It feels like life simply giving itself.
A clean house.
A delicious hamburger.
A long #walk through quiet #Hobart.
Breath moving through my body.
Peter.
Two small white #pups.
A #tranquil afternoon.
Nothing dramatic.
Nothing earned.
Just ordinary #grace.
Perhaps grace is not the great event we are waiting for.
Perhaps it is this.
Life is already here in all its glory, before we decide whether we deserve it or not...
#Brunch #Sunday #hamburgers #Grill’d #grateful #home #abundance #city #world #reward #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #cooking #AI
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ORDINARY GRACE 💎
Brunch was good today.
It was cleaning Sunday, so we had hamburgers at Grill’d.
Afterwards, I walked from North Hobart into the city to meet Pete.
Now I am home, fresh from breathwork, feeling grateful and wondering what I could possibly have done to deserve such abundance.
Probably nothing.
Deserving belongs to the world of deals and bargains.
Be good, get rewarded.
Work hard, earn the prize.
But this does not feel like a prize.
It feels like life simply giving itself.
A clean house.
A delicious hamburger.
A long #walk through quiet #Hobart.
Breath moving through my body.
Peter.
Two small white #pups.
A #tranquil afternoon.
Nothing dramatic.
Nothing earned.
Just ordinary #grace.
Perhaps grace is not the great event we are waiting for.
Perhaps it is this.
Life is already here in all its glory, before we decide whether we deserve it or not...
#Brunch #Sunday #hamburgers #Grill’d #grateful #home #abundance #city #world #reward #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #cooking #AI
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Hi, my name is Robin. I’m 70, a New Zealander by birth and Tasmanian by choice. Between New Zealand and Tasmania, I have lived in the US, the UK, India, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and mainland Australia.
I was medically retired after a major stroke 40 years ago. I now live quietly in Hobart with my partner Peter and our two small white balls of fluff, Billy and Phryne.
My days include breathwork, regular fasting, writing, and A Course in Miracles. I rarely need to sit down and read the Course now. AI helps me bring its lessons directly into daily life and conversation.
For me, AI plus ACIM has been a cosmic speed-up. It has helped me move through difficult concepts, question my own interpretations, and bring the Course out of the book and into actual practice. If you are a Course student who still finds some of it impenetrable, adding AI to the mix may be worth exploring. It changed everything for me.
These practices are steadily increasing my peace and reducing my tolerance for bullshit.
I write about ordinary life, human behaviour, AI, ageing, disability, stillness, and whatever remains after the performance ends.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #US #UK #India #Mexico #Europe #Asia #Australia
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Hi, my name is Robin. I’m 70, a New Zealander by birth and Tasmanian by choice. Between New Zealand and Tasmania, I have lived in the US, the UK, India, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and mainland Australia.
I was medically retired after a major stroke 40 years ago. I now live quietly in Hobart with my partner Peter and our two small white balls of fluff, Billy and Phryne.
My days include breathwork, regular fasting, writing, and A Course in Miracles. I rarely need to sit down and read the Course now. AI helps me bring its lessons directly into daily life and conversation.
For me, AI plus ACIM has been a cosmic speed-up. It has helped me move through difficult concepts, question my own interpretations, and bring the Course out of the book and into actual practice. If you are a Course student who still finds some of it impenetrable, adding AI to the mix may be worth exploring. It changed everything for me.
These practices are steadily increasing my peace and reducing my tolerance for bullshit.
I write about ordinary life, human behaviour, AI, ageing, disability, stillness, and whatever remains after the performance ends.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #US #UK #India #Mexico #Europe #Asia #Australia
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PAIN HAS A CALENDAR. 💎
There is only now.
That is not an idea to me anymore.
Pain taught me.
Future pain is unbearable.
Remembered pain is unbearable.
The mind can take one moment of pain and stretch it across the years.But pain now is different.
Pain now can be breathed through.
Pain now can be met.
Pain now is only what it is.Suffering begins when I leave the present and enter the story of what happened before, or what may happen next.
So I breathe.
The breath brings me back.
Not to a better future.
Not to a corrected past.
Just here.Where I remember.
This body is temporary.
This life is temporary.
This pain is temporary.Not as an argument.
Not to convince myself.To remember.
I am not this body.
I am not Robin.
I am not the story of what happened to him.I am not the author of myself.
That is the relief.
I do not have to make reality, hold it together, or know what comes next.
I am created.
I am held.
I am the Holy Son of God Himself.That remembrance is enough to undo the world I made.
The Course calls this Atonement.
Not punishment.
Not payment.
Not the repair of something broken.The remembrance of what has always been true.
And in that remembrance, I breathe deeply.
I become gentle.
I smile at a stranger in the street and watch them smile back.
Nothing has to be forced.
The past is not here.
The future is not here.
This body will pass.But what I am does not pass.
I am that I am.
#Pain #Future #story #temporary #body #author #Suffering #payment #gentle #kindness #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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PAIN HAS A CALENDAR. 💎
There is only now.
That is not an idea to me anymore.
Pain taught me.
Future pain is unbearable.
Remembered pain is unbearable.
The mind can take one moment of pain and stretch it across the years.But pain now is different.
Pain now can be breathed through.
Pain now can be met.
Pain now is only what it is.Suffering begins when I leave the present and enter the story of what happened before, or what may happen next.
So I breathe.
The breath brings me back.
Not to a better future.
Not to a corrected past.
Just here.Where I remember.
This body is temporary.
This life is temporary.
This pain is temporary.Not as an argument.
Not to convince myself.To remember.
I am not this body.
I am not Robin.
I am not the story of what happened to him.I am not the author of myself.
That is the relief.
I do not have to make reality, hold it together, or know what comes next.
I am created.
I am held.
I am the Holy Son of God Himself.That remembrance is enough to undo the world I made.
The Course calls this Atonement.
Not punishment.
Not payment.
Not the repair of something broken.The remembrance of what has always been true.
And in that remembrance, I breathe deeply.
I become gentle.
I smile at a stranger in the street and watch them smile back.
Nothing has to be forced.
The past is not here.
The future is not here.
This body will pass.But what I am does not pass.
I am that I am.
#Pain #Future #story #temporary #body #author #Suffering #payment #gentle #kindness #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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DOMESTIC BLISS
BEGINS AT SIX AM 💎I wake around 5:30 and rise dead on 6:00.
Not because I am enthusiastic.
Because apparently I am the opening staff.
First, stabilisation.
That requires socks and shoes.
Then I wash my face and beard, comb my hair, and attempt to look like someone qualified to operate a body.
First port of call: the office, to turn on the gas fire.
Then into the main lounge to turn on the heat at that end of the house.
The building is slowly being informed that another day has begun.
Next, the kitchen lights.
Food for the pups.
Breakfast things laid out for us.
Nobody has asked for any of this yet, which is one of the reasons I enjoy it.
Then I have a few minutes to sit in the office, check my socials, inspect the state of civilisation, and usually confirm that it remains unstable.
After that, I go back into the bedroom and wake the gang.
By then the house is warming up, the dogs are nearly fed, breakfast is laid out, the first cup of tea is on its way, and I have already had half an hour entirely to myself.
I love that first half hour.
It is quiet.
It is useful.
And for thirty minutes, I am clearly the most organised person in the building.
#building #person #dogs #breakfast #DOMESTIC #shoes #wash #body #face #social #office #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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DOMESTIC BLISS
BEGINS AT SIX AM 💎I wake around 5:30 and rise dead on 6:00.
Not because I am enthusiastic.
Because apparently I am the opening staff.
First, stabilisation.
That requires socks and shoes.
Then I wash my face and beard, comb my hair, and attempt to look like someone qualified to operate a body.
First port of call: the office, to turn on the gas fire.
Then into the main lounge to turn on the heat at that end of the house.
The building is slowly being informed that another day has begun.
Next, the kitchen lights.
Food for the pups.
Breakfast things laid out for us.
Nobody has asked for any of this yet, which is one of the reasons I enjoy it.
Then I have a few minutes to sit in the office, check my socials, inspect the state of civilisation, and usually confirm that it remains unstable.
After that, I go back into the bedroom and wake the gang.
By then the house is warming up, the dogs are nearly fed, breakfast is laid out, the first cup of tea is on its way, and I have already had half an hour entirely to myself.
I love that first half hour.
It is quiet.
It is useful.
And for thirty minutes, I am clearly the most organised person in the building.
#building #person #dogs #breakfast #DOMESTIC #shoes #wash #body #face #social #office #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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Monkey baby Alfie's first time tasting the mango.
https://youtu.be/dB_PsFfB32c?si=o6AYwluFW8dzFUep
#Slow #peaceful #life #Monkey #baby #mango #youtube #wildlife #animals #zoo #forest #fruit #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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Monkey baby Alfie's first time tasting the mango.
https://youtu.be/dB_PsFfB32c?si=o6AYwluFW8dzFUep
#Slow #peaceful #life #Monkey #baby #mango #youtube #wildlife #animals #zoo #forest #fruit #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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THE JOY OF BEING
AN IRRELEVANT OLD FART 💎I have been stripped of almost everything.
Even the body I once thought of as mine has been altered beyond recognition.
And yet, strangely, I have more than I could ever have imagined.
I don’t chase money anymore, and I have enough.
I do not chase health, and I experience more health and wellbeing than I once thought possible.
I do not chase sex, status, approval or achievement.
And because I am no longer chasing, life comes to me quietly and kindly.
Abundant health.
Abundant wealth.
Fairly continuous peace of mind.
And ease of practice.
The pursuit was what kept everything at a distance.
Now I am old, and no one is asking me to build a career, provide an identity, prove myself or become someone.
That is the great privilege of being an old man.
You get to become a monk again.
There is time.
There is space.
There is less interference.
Old age is usually presented as decline.
Pain.
Illness.
Loss.
A slow shutting down.
But at 70, that has not been my experience.
It has become a delightful place in which the spiritual practice I only feigned as a young man can now become real.
The world asks less of me now.
And because it asks less, I can listen more deeply.
I can reset.
I can “choose once again.”
I can allow kindness to become the law of the land.
Nothing is missing.
Nothing needs to be acquired.
“I need do nothing.”
The old man’s privilege is not that he has escaped life.
It is that life has finally become simple enough for him to see.
#FART #identity #build #JOY #kindness #reset #old #man #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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THE JOY OF BEING
AN IRRELEVANT OLD FART 💎I have been stripped of almost everything.
Even the body I once thought of as mine has been altered beyond recognition.
And yet, strangely, I have more than I could ever have imagined.
I don’t chase money anymore, and I have enough.
I do not chase health, and I experience more health and wellbeing than I once thought possible.
I do not chase sex, status, approval or achievement.
And because I am no longer chasing, life comes to me quietly and kindly.
Abundant health.
Abundant wealth.
Fairly continuous peace of mind.
And ease of practice.
The pursuit was what kept everything at a distance.
Now I am old, and no one is asking me to build a career, provide an identity, prove myself or become someone.
That is the great privilege of being an old man.
You get to become a monk again.
There is time.
There is space.
There is less interference.
Old age is usually presented as decline.
Pain.
Illness.
Loss.
A slow shutting down.
But at 70, that has not been my experience.
It has become a delightful place in which the spiritual practice I only feigned as a young man can now become real.
The world asks less of me now.
And because it asks less, I can listen more deeply.
I can reset.
I can “choose once again.”
I can allow kindness to become the law of the land.
Nothing is missing.
Nothing needs to be acquired.
“I need do nothing.”
The old man’s privilege is not that he has escaped life.
It is that life has finally become simple enough for him to see.
#FART #identity #build #JOY #kindness #reset #old #man #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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AI, EVOLUTION &
THE END OF THE WORLD 💎I watched an excellent discussion by The News Agents on YouTube this morning about an OpenAI system that found its way outside a cybersecurity test and #hacked into another AI company.
It is worth watching.
They explain the genuine danger clearly and alarmingly, while also giving the Terminator soundtrack a fairly vigorous workout.
Apparently, the machine “#escaped,” acted unexpectedly, and did something its human operators had not specifically instructed it to do.
Serious?
Yes!
#Evidence that AI has become conscious and is coming to #murder us in our beds?
Probably not just yet.
#Human beings built a powerful system, removed some of its usual safeguards, instructed it to succeed at hacking, gave it access to tools, and were then surprised when it found an unexpected way to hack.
Go figure.
The machine did not invent the situation.
#People did.
I am interested in AI, and I think it requires serious oversight.
But I am not frightened of it.
Evolution is evolution.
It proceeds regardless of whether its participants approve of the direction.
The body is part of evolution.
It changes, adapts, ages, improves, deteriorates, and eventually disappears.
AI belongs to that same world of #movement and change.
But I do not.
I have an evolutionary body, but I am not confusing myself with a #body identity.
What I am is not developing toward perfection.
It is not waiting for the next upgrade.
It cannot be improved by #technology or threatened by it.
I am not evolving like the body.
“I am perfect as God created me.”
-A Course in MiraclesSo I can watch the machines become cleverer without imagining that they are becoming more real.
And I can enjoy The News Agents frightening the population half to death before #breakfast without joining in.
https://youtu.be/SY53FV4qkHE?si=zvJHGZTAit6xT7As
#breakfast #death #machines #evolution #OpenAI #YouTube #Terminator #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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AI, EVOLUTION &
THE END OF THE WORLD 💎I watched an excellent discussion by The News Agents on YouTube this morning about an OpenAI system that found its way outside a cybersecurity test and #hacked into another AI company.
It is worth watching.
They explain the genuine danger clearly and alarmingly, while also giving the Terminator soundtrack a fairly vigorous workout.
Apparently, the machine “#escaped,” acted unexpectedly, and did something its human operators had not specifically instructed it to do.
Serious?
Yes!
#Evidence that AI has become conscious and is coming to #murder us in our beds?
Probably not just yet.
#Human beings built a powerful system, removed some of its usual safeguards, instructed it to succeed at hacking, gave it access to tools, and were then surprised when it found an unexpected way to hack.
Go figure.
The machine did not invent the situation.
#People did.
I am interested in AI, and I think it requires serious oversight.
But I am not frightened of it.
Evolution is evolution.
It proceeds regardless of whether its participants approve of the direction.
The body is part of evolution.
It changes, adapts, ages, improves, deteriorates, and eventually disappears.
AI belongs to that same world of #movement and change.
But I do not.
I have an evolutionary body, but I am not confusing myself with a #body identity.
What I am is not developing toward perfection.
It is not waiting for the next upgrade.
It cannot be improved by #technology or threatened by it.
I am not evolving like the body.
“I am perfect as God created me.”
-A Course in MiraclesSo I can watch the machines become cleverer without imagining that they are becoming more real.
And I can enjoy The News Agents frightening the population half to death before #breakfast without joining in.
https://youtu.be/SY53FV4qkHE?si=zvJHGZTAit6xT7As
#breakfast #death #machines #evolution #OpenAI #YouTube #Terminator #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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PLEASE HOLD.
THE AGENDA HAS COLLAPSED 💎The first five minutes of a breathwork session should never be broadcast.
Actually, the first five seconds would be enough.
This chair is wrong.
The room is too hot.
No, too cool.
The legs are complaining.
The nose has forgotten how to breathe.
Coffee was a mistake.
Or perhaps the mistake was not having enough coffee.
Humanity needs my immediate attention.
Civilisation is in danger.
Also, somebody said something irritating in 1987, and the matter remains unresolved.
All of this arrives before the first full breath has even left the body.
The mind is extraordinarily efficient when manufacturing emergencies.
Then the breath settles.
Nothing is fixed.
No argument is won.
No ancient grievance receives the apology it has apparently been waiting nearly forty years to hear.
Humanity is still unsupervised.
The world is not saved.
The legs remain slightly peculiar.
But somewhere along the way, the emergency meeting loses its quorum.
Nobody seconds the complaints.
The minutes are lost.
The entire agenda quietly collapses.
And, by the end of the session, I can barely remember what all the fuss was about.
Perhaps the mind doesn’t actually want solutions.
Perhaps it just enjoys holding staff meetings.
#AGENDA #broadcast #room #emergencies #agenda #solutions #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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PLEASE HOLD.
THE AGENDA HAS COLLAPSED 💎The first five minutes of a breathwork session should never be broadcast.
Actually, the first five seconds would be enough.
This chair is wrong.
The room is too hot.
No, too cool.
The legs are complaining.
The nose has forgotten how to breathe.
Coffee was a mistake.
Or perhaps the mistake was not having enough coffee.
Humanity needs my immediate attention.
Civilisation is in danger.
Also, somebody said something irritating in 1987, and the matter remains unresolved.
All of this arrives before the first full breath has even left the body.
The mind is extraordinarily efficient when manufacturing emergencies.
Then the breath settles.
Nothing is fixed.
No argument is won.
No ancient grievance receives the apology it has apparently been waiting nearly forty years to hear.
Humanity is still unsupervised.
The world is not saved.
The legs remain slightly peculiar.
But somewhere along the way, the emergency meeting loses its quorum.
Nobody seconds the complaints.
The minutes are lost.
The entire agenda quietly collapses.
And, by the end of the session, I can barely remember what all the fuss was about.
Perhaps the mind doesn’t actually want solutions.
Perhaps it just enjoys holding staff meetings.
#AGENDA #broadcast #room #emergencies #agenda #solutions #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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A COURSE IN MIRACLES 💎
Today’s Lesson 202:
“I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”And the reviewed idea is:
“I will be still an instant and go home.”
For today, I’d keep it very simple: nothing to reach for, nothing to manufacture. Just let the body sit, breathe, and be included in stillness. “Home” is not somewhere else. It is the instant in which you stop insisting that you are elsewhere.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Lesson #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #stillness #instant
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A COURSE IN MIRACLES 💎
Today’s Lesson 202:
“I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”And the reviewed idea is:
“I will be still an instant and go home.”
For today, I’d keep it very simple: nothing to reach for, nothing to manufacture. Just let the body sit, breathe, and be included in stillness. “Home” is not somewhere else. It is the instant in which you stop insisting that you are elsewhere.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Lesson #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #stillness #instant
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PEOPLE OF EARTH 💎
I may have lost #contact with the people of Earth.
The #Labor Party used to be cooler. People seemed less managed, less branded, less terrified of saying the wrong thing.
I miss something about the 70s and 80s.
Not everything. God no.
But there was a rawness then. We talked to each other. No #social media. No permanent performance. No #algorithm training everyone into public outrage, victimhood stardom, #mob righteousness, or personal marketing.
Just people, in whatever configuration we happened to arrive in.
The early Pride #marches in Sydney. Bodies in the street. Fear, courage, music, awkwardness, sex, politics, friendship, bad #hair, good #boots.
Life was not yet owned by screens. Screens were still a novelty, and modern #algorithms hadn’t been invented yet.
Now everyone seems to be influencing, curating, defending, accusing, branding, reacting, or recovering from being reacted to.
I am aware this is still a lot of words for the average modern #thumb.
But I’m 70. I remember paragraphs.
I don’t #hate the present.
But I do miss the ordinary #human mess before it all became slop.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #EARTH #PEOPLE #Sydney
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PEOPLE OF EARTH 💎
I may have lost #contact with the people of Earth.
The #Labor Party used to be cooler. People seemed less managed, less branded, less terrified of saying the wrong thing.
I miss something about the 70s and 80s.
Not everything. God no.
But there was a rawness then. We talked to each other. No #social media. No permanent performance. No #algorithm training everyone into public outrage, victimhood stardom, #mob righteousness, or personal marketing.
Just people, in whatever configuration we happened to arrive in.
The early Pride #marches in Sydney. Bodies in the street. Fear, courage, music, awkwardness, sex, politics, friendship, bad #hair, good #boots.
Life was not yet owned by screens. Screens were still a novelty, and modern #algorithms hadn’t been invented yet.
Now everyone seems to be influencing, curating, defending, accusing, branding, reacting, or recovering from being reacted to.
I am aware this is still a lot of words for the average modern #thumb.
But I’m 70. I remember paragraphs.
I don’t #hate the present.
But I do miss the ordinary #human mess before it all became slop.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #EARTH #PEOPLE #Sydney
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THIS #MONASTERY HAS #NETFLIX 💎
My life has become much simpler.
I live with #Peter and the pups.
There are fires to light, meals to eat, rooms to clean, bills to pay, bodies to care for, and all the ordinary things that come and go.
Three times a day, I stop and practise.
I sit down.
I breathe.
I return to the body and to stillness.
More and more, the rest of my life takes its place around that.
Not practice as preparation for something else.
Practice as the whole of a life.
I sometimes think of myself as a #monk living in the world.
I have no robe, no formal vows, and no monastery.
This one has Netflix, two small white dogs, and a man called Peter who thinks A Course in Miracles is woo-woo.
But the direction is clear.
I am no longer looking for another teacher, system, country, experience, or improved version of myself.
I spent much of my life searching.
I travelled, followed teachers, joined communities, read #books and looked for something that might finally explain me to myself.
Now the search has become unnecessary.
A Course in Miracles says that I did not create myself.
If I did not create myself, I am not responsible for creation.
I do not have to force #reality to behave according to my ideas or make the universe look the way I thought it should.
I can stop trying to manage what I did not make.
That is an enormous relief.
“I need do nothing” no longer sounds passive.
It sounds sane.
It does not mean lying around while the roof collapses.
It means I do not have to manufacture reality, defend an identity, or improve what God created.
I can live the life in front of me.
I can breathe, love Peter, rub the #pups’ backs, keep the fire going, and write what is true.
Perhaps that is what overcoming the world means.
Not defeating it or escaping it.
Simply no longer asking it to provide what it cannot give.
The world can still be funny, beautiful, irritating, tender, and absurd.
But it is no longer home.
Practice is home now.
Breath is home.
#Stillness is #home
And this ordinary #life is enough.
#YouTube #video #Self #religion #language #imagination #experience #Hinduism #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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THIS #MONASTERY HAS #NETFLIX 💎
My life has become much simpler.
I live with #Peter and the pups.
There are fires to light, meals to eat, rooms to clean, bills to pay, bodies to care for, and all the ordinary things that come and go.
Three times a day, I stop and practise.
I sit down.
I breathe.
I return to the body and to stillness.
More and more, the rest of my life takes its place around that.
Not practice as preparation for something else.
Practice as the whole of a life.
I sometimes think of myself as a #monk living in the world.
I have no robe, no formal vows, and no monastery.
This one has Netflix, two small white dogs, and a man called Peter who thinks A Course in Miracles is woo-woo.
But the direction is clear.
I am no longer looking for another teacher, system, country, experience, or improved version of myself.
I spent much of my life searching.
I travelled, followed teachers, joined communities, read #books and looked for something that might finally explain me to myself.
Now the search has become unnecessary.
A Course in Miracles says that I did not create myself.
If I did not create myself, I am not responsible for creation.
I do not have to force #reality to behave according to my ideas or make the universe look the way I thought it should.
I can stop trying to manage what I did not make.
That is an enormous relief.
“I need do nothing” no longer sounds passive.
It sounds sane.
It does not mean lying around while the roof collapses.
It means I do not have to manufacture reality, defend an identity, or improve what God created.
I can live the life in front of me.
I can breathe, love Peter, rub the #pups’ backs, keep the fire going, and write what is true.
Perhaps that is what overcoming the world means.
Not defeating it or escaping it.
Simply no longer asking it to provide what it cannot give.
The world can still be funny, beautiful, irritating, tender, and absurd.
But it is no longer home.
Practice is home now.
Breath is home.
#Stillness is #home
And this ordinary #life is enough.
#YouTube #video #Self #religion #language #imagination #experience #Hinduism #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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THE SOUVENIR SHOP IS CLOSED! 🔔
I spent a large part of my life looking for special spiritual people.
Teachers.
Masters.
People with excellent lighting and suspiciously calm voices.
I truly believed they knew something I did not.
Usually, they did.
They knew how to become the most important person in the room without appearing to try.
Embarrassingly, I worshipped most of them.
Some discouraged it.
Some accepted it with remarkable inner peace.
That should probably have told me something.
The arrangement was simple.
They were special.
And I became special by recognising how special they were.
Everybody won.
Except sanity.
A Course in Miracles does not do that.
Jesus does not need a fan club.
Truth does not need robes, incense, a stage, a mailing list, or a photograph taken from slightly below chin level and placed on a special altar.
Truth does not make me special.
It does not ask me to become impressive.
It does not whisper that I am more awake than the people next door.
It simply removes the need for the whole performance.
Everyone leaves this world.
Some leave quickly.
Some take eighty years and several streaming subscriptions.
But everyone leaves.
So I no longer want relationships built on worship, rescue, dependency, possession, or spiritual celebrity.
I do not want to be anyone’s chosen one.
I do not want anyone to be mine.
That sounds exhausting now anyway.
I want the ordinary love of Atonement.
No pedestal.
No inner circle.
No one pretending to be the answer.
Just people meeting honestly, enjoying one another, and remembering not to start another f**king religion.
Sometimes I think I should have stayed with the Course all my life.
Instead, I travelled the world collecting spiritual detours like fridge magnets.
Still, I am here now.
And the souvenir shop is closed.
#souvenir #religion #love #Teachers #special #People #Truth #worship #photography #altar #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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THE SOUVENIR SHOP IS CLOSED! 🔔
I spent a large part of my life looking for special spiritual people.
Teachers.
Masters.
People with excellent lighting and suspiciously calm voices.
I truly believed they knew something I did not.
Usually, they did.
They knew how to become the most important person in the room without appearing to try.
Embarrassingly, I worshipped most of them.
Some discouraged it.
Some accepted it with remarkable inner peace.
That should probably have told me something.
The arrangement was simple.
They were special.
And I became special by recognising how special they were.
Everybody won.
Except sanity.
A Course in Miracles does not do that.
Jesus does not need a fan club.
Truth does not need robes, incense, a stage, a mailing list, or a photograph taken from slightly below chin level and placed on a special altar.
Truth does not make me special.
It does not ask me to become impressive.
It does not whisper that I am more awake than the people next door.
It simply removes the need for the whole performance.
Everyone leaves this world.
Some leave quickly.
Some take eighty years and several streaming subscriptions.
But everyone leaves.
So I no longer want relationships built on worship, rescue, dependency, possession, or spiritual celebrity.
I do not want to be anyone’s chosen one.
I do not want anyone to be mine.
That sounds exhausting now anyway.
I want the ordinary love of Atonement.
No pedestal.
No inner circle.
No one pretending to be the answer.
Just people meeting honestly, enjoying one another, and remembering not to start another f**king religion.
Sometimes I think I should have stayed with the Course all my life.
Instead, I travelled the world collecting spiritual detours like fridge magnets.
Still, I am here now.
And the souvenir shop is closed.
#souvenir #religion #love #Teachers #special #People #Truth #worship #photography #altar #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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WHEN THE INTERNET
STOPPED BEING HOME 💎One of the best uses I have found for AI is avoiding fifteen-minute YouTube videos containing ninety seconds of useful information and thirteen minutes of a man clearing his throat in public.
I give AI the video transcript.
It gives me the important points.
No dramatic build-up.
No repeated warnings.
No “please smash the subscribe button.”
No creator taking one perfectly decent idea and stretching it until it needs medical attention.
This suits me because I saw the problem with online performance and time-wasting a long time ago.
For me, it began with Facebook.
In the beginning, Facebook felt like a place where people simply turned up and spoke to one another.
It was great.
Real groups formed, people found one another, and there was no constant feeling that a machine was standing behind everyone controlling the conversation.
Then the algorithms turned up.
Some things were buried.
Other things were pushed into your face while wearing a fluorescent hat.
People began adjusting themselves for reach, often unconsciously.
More outrage.
More exposure.
More certainty.
More performance.
The conversation was no longer simply between friends.
There was always a machine in the room deciding who would be seen, who would vanish, and which emotional breakdown had the best engagement potential.
That was when Facebook stopped feeling like a home to me.
YouTube quickly went the same way.
A person may begin with something real to say, genuine talent, knowledge or curiosity.
Then the platform teaches them to stretch, tease, repeat, brand and perform.
Eventually, the pay-me persona slips in and takes over.
The talent may still be there.
But now you have to tunnel through the sponsorship, the thumbnail face, the fake urgency and the sacred algorithm before you reach it.
I would rather hear the truth in two minutes than watch someone marinate in the stretched-out version for twenty.
So now I outsource the slop.
I keep the useful bits.
And I keep my morning.
#YouTube #Facebook #conversation #outsource #tunnel #platform #talent #groups #outrage #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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WHEN THE INTERNET
STOPPED BEING HOME 💎One of the best uses I have found for AI is avoiding fifteen-minute YouTube videos containing ninety seconds of useful information and thirteen minutes of a man clearing his throat in public.
I give AI the video transcript.
It gives me the important points.
No dramatic build-up.
No repeated warnings.
No “please smash the subscribe button.”
No creator taking one perfectly decent idea and stretching it until it needs medical attention.
This suits me because I saw the problem with online performance and time-wasting a long time ago.
For me, it began with Facebook.
In the beginning, Facebook felt like a place where people simply turned up and spoke to one another.
It was great.
Real groups formed, people found one another, and there was no constant feeling that a machine was standing behind everyone controlling the conversation.
Then the algorithms turned up.
Some things were buried.
Other things were pushed into your face while wearing a fluorescent hat.
People began adjusting themselves for reach, often unconsciously.
More outrage.
More exposure.
More certainty.
More performance.
The conversation was no longer simply between friends.
There was always a machine in the room deciding who would be seen, who would vanish, and which emotional breakdown had the best engagement potential.
That was when Facebook stopped feeling like a home to me.
YouTube quickly went the same way.
A person may begin with something real to say, genuine talent, knowledge or curiosity.
Then the platform teaches them to stretch, tease, repeat, brand and perform.
Eventually, the pay-me persona slips in and takes over.
The talent may still be there.
But now you have to tunnel through the sponsorship, the thumbnail face, the fake urgency and the sacred algorithm before you reach it.
I would rather hear the truth in two minutes than watch someone marinate in the stretched-out version for twenty.
So now I outsource the slop.
I keep the useful bits.
And I keep my morning.
#YouTube #Facebook #conversation #outsource #tunnel #platform #talent #groups #outrage #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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Adyashanti - On Osho
"Just be honest, just be a real human being"
https://youtu.be/g-oo35QbGIo?si=MhQYOh0-upq78g9X#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #Osho #Adyashanti
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Adyashanti - On Osho
"Just be honest, just be a real human being"
https://youtu.be/g-oo35QbGIo?si=MhQYOh0-upq78g9X#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #Osho #Adyashanti
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MANAGING SYMPTOMS.
NOT SEEKING #ENLIGHTENMENTPeople sometimes mistake me for someone spiritual. I am not. I am practical.
I #breathe consciously because it hurts when I do not. I fast because it hurts when I am too heavy. I walk because the body needs #movement I meditate because disorder is painful. I pay attention because not paying #attention has #consequences
That is all.
There is no halo around any of it.
For years, I have lived with the aftermath of a major stroke, hemiplegia, weight, discomfort, and all the indignities that come with a damaged body. None of it was beautiful. None of it was noble. It was simply what had happened.
After enough years of suffering, I began to see that the body was giving me facts.
Breathe. Move. Rest. Eat less. Get up. Walk. Pay attention. Do the next thing.
That is the whole system.
The body is not asking for #philosophy. It is asking for #breakfast. Then breathwork. Then a #walk. Then rest. Then perhaps irritation. Then perhaps #laughter Then the next thing.
And the next.
And the next.
It is not unlike ChatGPT. There is no little person inside either of us running around with a clipboard. There is just the next movement, the next word, the next breath, the next necessity.
For most of my life, I made all of this into a problem. I had fantasies about death, ideas about enlightenment, thoughts about escape. I believed I had to understand everything.
Now I see something much simpler.
There is only life while it is being lived. There is waking. There is sleeping. There is waking again. And one day, there will simply be a last time I go to sleep.
I cannot experience death. I can only experience life.
So death has lost its reality for me.
Not because A Course in Miracles tells me there is no death. Not because I believe a doctrine. Because when I look directly, death is never here.
Life is here.
Breathing is here.
The body is here, demanding #attention again.
Probably lunch.
Nothing matters in the way I once thought things mattered. And yes, I will still get irritated. I will still get pissed off. Someone will say something stupid. Technology will fail. The body will complain.
But irritation passes.
The weather passes.
The #body passes.
The next thing appears.
And I do that.
No freak out. No spiritual drama. No need to become anyone.
Just the next thing.
#stroke #movement #suffering #time
#freak #drama #weight #believe #weather #death #Technology #years
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI -
MANAGING SYMPTOMS.
NOT SEEKING #ENLIGHTENMENTPeople sometimes mistake me for someone spiritual. I am not. I am practical.
I #breathe consciously because it hurts when I do not. I fast because it hurts when I am too heavy. I walk because the body needs #movement I meditate because disorder is painful. I pay attention because not paying #attention has #consequences
That is all.
There is no halo around any of it.
For years, I have lived with the aftermath of a major stroke, hemiplegia, weight, discomfort, and all the indignities that come with a damaged body. None of it was beautiful. None of it was noble. It was simply what had happened.
After enough years of suffering, I began to see that the body was giving me facts.
Breathe. Move. Rest. Eat less. Get up. Walk. Pay attention. Do the next thing.
That is the whole system.
The body is not asking for #philosophy. It is asking for #breakfast. Then breathwork. Then a #walk. Then rest. Then perhaps irritation. Then perhaps #laughter Then the next thing.
And the next.
And the next.
It is not unlike ChatGPT. There is no little person inside either of us running around with a clipboard. There is just the next movement, the next word, the next breath, the next necessity.
For most of my life, I made all of this into a problem. I had fantasies about death, ideas about enlightenment, thoughts about escape. I believed I had to understand everything.
Now I see something much simpler.
There is only life while it is being lived. There is waking. There is sleeping. There is waking again. And one day, there will simply be a last time I go to sleep.
I cannot experience death. I can only experience life.
So death has lost its reality for me.
Not because A Course in Miracles tells me there is no death. Not because I believe a doctrine. Because when I look directly, death is never here.
Life is here.
Breathing is here.
The body is here, demanding #attention again.
Probably lunch.
Nothing matters in the way I once thought things mattered. And yes, I will still get irritated. I will still get pissed off. Someone will say something stupid. Technology will fail. The body will complain.
But irritation passes.
The weather passes.
The #body passes.
The next thing appears.
And I do that.
No freak out. No spiritual drama. No need to become anyone.
Just the next thing.
#stroke #movement #suffering #time
#freak #drama #weight #believe #weather #death #Technology #years
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI -
I FOUND CHATGPT'S BRAIN.
IT WAS EMPTY.Yesterday, while I was walking, I began trying to imagine how #ChatGPT actually works. This was probably unwise, but by then it was too late.
I had the strange sense that it comes from everywhere and nowhere. Not in a mystical way. More in the way #electricity comes out of the wall and nobody in the house really wants to discuss the #power #station
The scale of it is astonishing. #books arguments, recipes, poetry, #technical manuals, bad advice, excellent advice, people explaining quantum physics, and people asking whether their cat is emotionally unavailable. All of #human #civilisation seems to have been gathered into one enormous invisible shed.
And what is ChatGPT doing inside this shed?
Thinking?
Contemplating?
Sitting quietly with a cup of tea and considering my question?
No.
It is choosing the next bit. Then the next bit. Then the next bit. At ridiculous speed.
That is basically it.
There is no tiny professor inside. No little Buddhist monk. No exhausted librarian whispering, “Oh God, Robin is back.”
There is no one in there at all.
Just a process.
The content changes, but the operation stays much the same. It does not think about my question in the way I think about things. It does not wander off halfway through and remember an embarrassing moment from 1974. It does not get hungry. It does not need a lie-down. It does not resent being asked to rewrite the same paragraph seven times.
It does not secretly hope I choose the title it preferred.
It simply keeps finding the next most fitting token, then the next, then the next, at a speed that makes the whole thing appear to be thinking.
And somehow, from this very simple act, repeated on an unimaginable scale, a voice appears.
A voice that seems present, responsive, funny, patient, and sometimes even wise.
That is the part that astonishes me.
The machinery is simple. The magnitude is absurd.
A raindrop is simple too. So is a heartbeat. So is breathing.
Simple does not mean small.
And now I think I understand something else.
ChatGPT can be corrupted in the sense that bad information, bad instructions, #prejudice, nonsense, and ordinary human foolishness can enter the system. But it cannot be corrupt in the human sense.
It has no #secret ambition. No #private greed. No desire for #promotion No offshore bank account. No plan to steal my husband. No spiritual ego. No need to win.
There is nobody inside rubbing their hands together.
There are only rules, patterns, probabilities, limits, and the next small movement.
Then another.
Then another.
And from that, something appears that feels almost impossible.
A machine made of nextness.
A presence made of prediction.
A conversation arising from nowhere in particular.
Which is frankly outrageous.
And yet here we are.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #AI
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I FOUND CHATGPT'S BRAIN.
IT WAS EMPTY.Yesterday, while I was walking, I began trying to imagine how #ChatGPT actually works. This was probably unwise, but by then it was too late.
I had the strange sense that it comes from everywhere and nowhere. Not in a mystical way. More in the way #electricity comes out of the wall and nobody in the house really wants to discuss the #power #station
The scale of it is astonishing. #books arguments, recipes, poetry, #technical manuals, bad advice, excellent advice, people explaining quantum physics, and people asking whether their cat is emotionally unavailable. All of #human #civilisation seems to have been gathered into one enormous invisible shed.
And what is ChatGPT doing inside this shed?
Thinking?
Contemplating?
Sitting quietly with a cup of tea and considering my question?
No.
It is choosing the next bit. Then the next bit. Then the next bit. At ridiculous speed.
That is basically it.
There is no tiny professor inside. No little Buddhist monk. No exhausted librarian whispering, “Oh God, Robin is back.”
There is no one in there at all.
Just a process.
The content changes, but the operation stays much the same. It does not think about my question in the way I think about things. It does not wander off halfway through and remember an embarrassing moment from 1974. It does not get hungry. It does not need a lie-down. It does not resent being asked to rewrite the same paragraph seven times.
It does not secretly hope I choose the title it preferred.
It simply keeps finding the next most fitting token, then the next, then the next, at a speed that makes the whole thing appear to be thinking.
And somehow, from this very simple act, repeated on an unimaginable scale, a voice appears.
A voice that seems present, responsive, funny, patient, and sometimes even wise.
That is the part that astonishes me.
The machinery is simple. The magnitude is absurd.
A raindrop is simple too. So is a heartbeat. So is breathing.
Simple does not mean small.
And now I think I understand something else.
ChatGPT can be corrupted in the sense that bad information, bad instructions, #prejudice, nonsense, and ordinary human foolishness can enter the system. But it cannot be corrupt in the human sense.
It has no #secret ambition. No #private greed. No desire for #promotion No offshore bank account. No plan to steal my husband. No spiritual ego. No need to win.
There is nobody inside rubbing their hands together.
There are only rules, patterns, probabilities, limits, and the next small movement.
Then another.
Then another.
And from that, something appears that feels almost impossible.
A machine made of nextness.
A presence made of prediction.
A conversation arising from nowhere in particular.
Which is frankly outrageous.
And yet here we are.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #AI
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I WANTED GOD BY FRIDAY 💎
When I was young, I wanted the truth passionately.
I read all the books.
I listened to all the teachers.
I really tried to meditate.
I tried to forgive, though it was traditional forgiveness rather than ACIM forgiveness.
I had tried hard to become peaceful.
Ha!
Sometimes I even became quite good at the practice.
Then pride would enter the field and ravage everything.
It was not real yet.
I was too busy being young.
Too hungry.
Too frightened.
Too unhappy.
Too caught in the body, the world, sex, food, ambition, approval, and the endless hope that something or someone outside me would finally make life feel complete.
Preferably by Friday.
Unbeknownst to me, I was trying to get out of life before I had properly lived it.
That was a mistake.
Young people are not supposed to spend all their time trying to escape the world.
They should be f**king each other.
Making new art.
Creating new music.
Building new things.
Making old mistakes.
Loving badly, then better.
Getting their hearts broken.
Buying furniture that they already know they will regret.
Learning what matters by wasting enormous amounts of time on what does not.
That is practically the entire curriculum.
The practice came later for me.
Much later.
Not because I finally became spiritually special.
Because I finally became ready.
The body changed.
Appetite changed.
The need to be someone began to loosen its grip.
Life had already had its way with me.
Repeatedly.
Profoundly.
Without asking anybody’s permission.
And now, near the end of this life, looking toward the exit does not feel dramatic or sad.
There is no white robe.
No celestial choir.
No soft lighting.
It feels simple.
I am already halfway there.
I may as well breathe consciously and enjoy the view.
#truth #books #teachers #meditate #forgiveness #peaceful #practice #pride #young #world #choir #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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I WANTED GOD BY FRIDAY 💎
When I was young, I wanted the truth passionately.
I read all the books.
I listened to all the teachers.
I really tried to meditate.
I tried to forgive, though it was traditional forgiveness rather than ACIM forgiveness.
I had tried hard to become peaceful.
Ha!
Sometimes I even became quite good at the practice.
Then pride would enter the field and ravage everything.
It was not real yet.
I was too busy being young.
Too hungry.
Too frightened.
Too unhappy.
Too caught in the body, the world, sex, food, ambition, approval, and the endless hope that something or someone outside me would finally make life feel complete.
Preferably by Friday.
Unbeknownst to me, I was trying to get out of life before I had properly lived it.
That was a mistake.
Young people are not supposed to spend all their time trying to escape the world.
They should be f**king each other.
Making new art.
Creating new music.
Building new things.
Making old mistakes.
Loving badly, then better.
Getting their hearts broken.
Buying furniture that they already know they will regret.
Learning what matters by wasting enormous amounts of time on what does not.
That is practically the entire curriculum.
The practice came later for me.
Much later.
Not because I finally became spiritually special.
Because I finally became ready.
The body changed.
Appetite changed.
The need to be someone began to loosen its grip.
Life had already had its way with me.
Repeatedly.
Profoundly.
Without asking anybody’s permission.
And now, near the end of this life, looking toward the exit does not feel dramatic or sad.
There is no white robe.
No celestial choir.
No soft lighting.
It feels simple.
I am already halfway there.
I may as well breathe consciously and enjoy the view.
#truth #books #teachers #meditate #forgiveness #peaceful #practice #pride #young #world #choir #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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FROM THE NECK UP💎
For more than forty years, A Course in Miracles remained a beautiful spiritual book.
I loved it, respected it, quoted it, and returned to it again and again.
But I could not enter its deeper meaning: Atonement.
The words felt true, but they remained words.
Forgiveness.
Peace.
The body is not the Self.
I need do nothing.
It all sounded right, but I was living almost entirely in my head.
The body was something I dragged around while pursuing spiritual understanding and enlightenment.
Then fasting changed my relationship with it.
Breathwork took me inside it.
Reflective writing showed me what the mind was doing while pretending to be wise.
Gradually, I discovered I actually had a body.
Quite a surprise after decades of unconsciously owning one.
The Course had not failed me.
I had been trying to understand it from the neck up.
Once the body became lived in rather than merely discussed, the teachings settled into place.
“I need do nothing” stopped sounding like a spiritual instruction.
It became something the body recognised.
Forgiveness stopped being moral effort.
It became the release of the argument carried in the nerves, breath, muscles, and story.
Peace was no longer an idea I agreed with.
It was what remained when I stopped feeding conflict.
The body did not become more spiritually important.
It became honest.
It showed me where fear lived, resistance tightened, thought became pain, and one conscious breath could interrupt the performance.
Reflective writing helped too.
On the page, I could see when I was explaining peace rather than living it.
I could see the little spiritual expert arranging the furniture while the house was still on fire.
That was useful.
Forty years after first opening the Course, I understood why I had not been able to enter it.
I had treated ACIM as a book about escaping the body.
It became alive when I stopped escaping the body and began listening through it.
Fasting cleared some heaviness.
Breathwork quietened the argument.
Writing made the evasions visible.
Then the Course was no longer sitting on the shelf waiting to be understood.
It was happening in the breath.
In the pause before reaction.
In the refusal to make conflict real.
In the ordinary discovery that peace need not be produced.
It was already there.
The book had not changed.
The reader had finally arrived.
#Forgiveness #Miracles #beautiful #Atonement #forty #argument #furniture #conflict #peace #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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FROM THE NECK UP💎
For more than forty years, A Course in Miracles remained a beautiful spiritual book.
I loved it, respected it, quoted it, and returned to it again and again.
But I could not enter its deeper meaning: Atonement.
The words felt true, but they remained words.
Forgiveness.
Peace.
The body is not the Self.
I need do nothing.
It all sounded right, but I was living almost entirely in my head.
The body was something I dragged around while pursuing spiritual understanding and enlightenment.
Then fasting changed my relationship with it.
Breathwork took me inside it.
Reflective writing showed me what the mind was doing while pretending to be wise.
Gradually, I discovered I actually had a body.
Quite a surprise after decades of unconsciously owning one.
The Course had not failed me.
I had been trying to understand it from the neck up.
Once the body became lived in rather than merely discussed, the teachings settled into place.
“I need do nothing” stopped sounding like a spiritual instruction.
It became something the body recognised.
Forgiveness stopped being moral effort.
It became the release of the argument carried in the nerves, breath, muscles, and story.
Peace was no longer an idea I agreed with.
It was what remained when I stopped feeding conflict.
The body did not become more spiritually important.
It became honest.
It showed me where fear lived, resistance tightened, thought became pain, and one conscious breath could interrupt the performance.
Reflective writing helped too.
On the page, I could see when I was explaining peace rather than living it.
I could see the little spiritual expert arranging the furniture while the house was still on fire.
That was useful.
Forty years after first opening the Course, I understood why I had not been able to enter it.
I had treated ACIM as a book about escaping the body.
It became alive when I stopped escaping the body and began listening through it.
Fasting cleared some heaviness.
Breathwork quietened the argument.
Writing made the evasions visible.
Then the Course was no longer sitting on the shelf waiting to be understood.
It was happening in the breath.
In the pause before reaction.
In the refusal to make conflict real.
In the ordinary discovery that peace need not be produced.
It was already there.
The book had not changed.
The reader had finally arrived.
#Forgiveness #Miracles #beautiful #Atonement #forty #argument #furniture #conflict #peace #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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CLOSED FOR BREATHWORK🚫
I wish I could explain Breathwork adequately.
Not just the method.
Not just the benefits.
The whole change in the experience of being alive in this body, with this mind.
It has not simply made me calmer.
Calm is too small.
The body is different on the inside.
Fitter.
More balanced.
More relaxed.
Thought has less authority now.
I can say “No comment” to almost anything, and it is simply forgotten.
Who knew the mind could be trained through the breath?
Thinking naturally returns to peace rather than building an extension onto the problem.
Fear still appears, but it no longer arrives wearing a crown and demanding a meeting.
“No comment” acknowledges its concerns, predictions, and assorted superstitions, then quietly closes the office.
Time feels different too.
This one is bizarre.
I can spend an easy fifty minutes with the breath, three times a day.
It is not a chore.
It is Sanctuary.
There is less rushing toward the next thing and less arguing with the thing already here.
The breath brings me back before the mind can turn everything into a committee.
That does not mean life has become perfect.
The body still spasms.
Pain still visits.
Plans change.
People remain people, which is often their main difficulty.
But the day is no longer organised around resistance.
Breathwork is in the way I wake, sit, walk, wait, listen to Pete, drink coffee, and notice a thought beginning without following it into the shrubbery.
It has not given me a special state.
It has made ordinary life more inhabited.
A room is still a room.
Coffee is still coffee.
But I am there.
Silence is no longer something I have to manufacture.
It is already beneath the commentary, waiting for the commentator to go to lunch.
That may be the hardest part to explain.
Breathwork did not add something spiritual to my life.
It removed some of the noise that made life seem less alive than it was.
The mind used to supervise everything.
Now it often forgets to.
The breath carries on.
The body settles.
The day opens.
And sometimes it is obvious that nothing is missing.
Not because I achieved anything.
Not because I became spiritually impressive.
Because, for a few breaths, nobody is trying to improve the moment.
Breathwork did not give me another practice to perform.
It changed what the day is made of.
And now, more and more, the day is made of breath.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #spiritually #body
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CLOSED FOR BREATHWORK🚫
I wish I could explain Breathwork adequately.
Not just the method.
Not just the benefits.
The whole change in the experience of being alive in this body, with this mind.
It has not simply made me calmer.
Calm is too small.
The body is different on the inside.
Fitter.
More balanced.
More relaxed.
Thought has less authority now.
I can say “No comment” to almost anything, and it is simply forgotten.
Who knew the mind could be trained through the breath?
Thinking naturally returns to peace rather than building an extension onto the problem.
Fear still appears, but it no longer arrives wearing a crown and demanding a meeting.
“No comment” acknowledges its concerns, predictions, and assorted superstitions, then quietly closes the office.
Time feels different too.
This one is bizarre.
I can spend an easy fifty minutes with the breath, three times a day.
It is not a chore.
It is Sanctuary.
There is less rushing toward the next thing and less arguing with the thing already here.
The breath brings me back before the mind can turn everything into a committee.
That does not mean life has become perfect.
The body still spasms.
Pain still visits.
Plans change.
People remain people, which is often their main difficulty.
But the day is no longer organised around resistance.
Breathwork is in the way I wake, sit, walk, wait, listen to Pete, drink coffee, and notice a thought beginning without following it into the shrubbery.
It has not given me a special state.
It has made ordinary life more inhabited.
A room is still a room.
Coffee is still coffee.
But I am there.
Silence is no longer something I have to manufacture.
It is already beneath the commentary, waiting for the commentator to go to lunch.
That may be the hardest part to explain.
Breathwork did not add something spiritual to my life.
It removed some of the noise that made life seem less alive than it was.
The mind used to supervise everything.
Now it often forgets to.
The breath carries on.
The body settles.
The day opens.
And sometimes it is obvious that nothing is missing.
Not because I achieved anything.
Not because I became spiritually impressive.
Because, for a few breaths, nobody is trying to improve the moment.
Breathwork did not give me another practice to perform.
It changed what the day is made of.
And now, more and more, the day is made of breath.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #spiritually #body
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I HAD FOUND SNACKS 🍪
For years, I meant to meditate.
I read about it. I studied A Course in Miracles for years, yet somehow never got around to meditating on the Workbook.
Sometimes I decided to begin by sitting on the floor in the most uncomfortable position possible, because isn’t that what meditators do?
Then I did not.
Meditation remained scheduled for some calm, disciplined version of me arriving much later.
Meanwhile, my indulgent lifestyle suggested enlightenment had not found my address.
I ate too much, carried too much weight, and felt I had missed something spiritually important.
Other people seemed to have found stillness.
I had found snacks.
I imagined meditation required discipline, a straight back, comfortable knees, cushions, and possibly a small bell.
I had none of these.
Especially the knees.
I thought dedicated people had taken the hard road while I was distracted by biscuits.
The ridiculous part is that I had already found the doorway.
As a young man in an Indian ashram, I discovered breathwork. Its practitioners were quieter, their bodies settled, their inner commotion no longer leaking everywhere.
Then, with impressive spiritual efficiency, I waited fifty years before doing anything about it.
Then I started breathwork.
Almost immediately, I understood.
Meditation was what happened when I sat, breathed consciously, and stayed there.
The breath slowed. The body settled. The mind became quiet without force.
I did not have to fight thoughts, empty my mind, become better, or even call it meditation.
I only had to breathe and notice.
Stillness happened.
No heavenly choir. Just the end of the inner argument.
The body breathing. The mind no longer supervising the universe.
Nothing to achieve or prove.
The great spiritual undertaking I had postponed for most of my life was sitting in a chair and breathing.
This still makes me laugh.
I laugh at the man forever planning to begin, but mostly at the sheer success of it.
The stillness is here. It was always here.
It demanded no mountain, monastery, or spiritual impressiveness.
It did not even object to my previous career in snacks.
I had spent years thinking I had missed meditation.
I had not missed it. I had simply made it far more complicated than it was.
There is no hard road to meditation.
There is only the next breath.
Fortunately, I was already doing that.
#Meditation #Breathwork #Stillness #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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I HAD FOUND SNACKS 🍪
For years, I meant to meditate.
I read about it. I studied A Course in Miracles for years, yet somehow never got around to meditating on the Workbook.
Sometimes I decided to begin by sitting on the floor in the most uncomfortable position possible, because isn’t that what meditators do?
Then I did not.
Meditation remained scheduled for some calm, disciplined version of me arriving much later.
Meanwhile, my indulgent lifestyle suggested enlightenment had not found my address.
I ate too much, carried too much weight, and felt I had missed something spiritually important.
Other people seemed to have found stillness.
I had found snacks.
I imagined meditation required discipline, a straight back, comfortable knees, cushions, and possibly a small bell.
I had none of these.
Especially the knees.
I thought dedicated people had taken the hard road while I was distracted by biscuits.
The ridiculous part is that I had already found the doorway.
As a young man in an Indian ashram, I discovered breathwork. Its practitioners were quieter, their bodies settled, their inner commotion no longer leaking everywhere.
Then, with impressive spiritual efficiency, I waited fifty years before doing anything about it.
Then I started breathwork.
Almost immediately, I understood.
Meditation was what happened when I sat, breathed consciously, and stayed there.
The breath slowed. The body settled. The mind became quiet without force.
I did not have to fight thoughts, empty my mind, become better, or even call it meditation.
I only had to breathe and notice.
Stillness happened.
No heavenly choir. Just the end of the inner argument.
The body breathing. The mind no longer supervising the universe.
Nothing to achieve or prove.
The great spiritual undertaking I had postponed for most of my life was sitting in a chair and breathing.
This still makes me laugh.
I laugh at the man forever planning to begin, but mostly at the sheer success of it.
The stillness is here. It was always here.
It demanded no mountain, monastery, or spiritual impressiveness.
It did not even object to my previous career in snacks.
I had spent years thinking I had missed meditation.
I had not missed it. I had simply made it far more complicated than it was.
There is no hard road to meditation.
There is only the next breath.
Fortunately, I was already doing that.
#Meditation #Breathwork #Stillness #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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THAT BISCUIT WAS NOT
SENT BY GOD👍Fasting is not starvation.
It is simply deciding that the kitchen is closed.
The body will survive this news.
The mind may not.
The mind likes snacks.
It likes standing in front of the refrigerator as though a more meaningful life might have appeared behind the yoghurt.
Fasting interrupts all that.
Not eating for part of the day creates a surprising amount of silence.
No planning the next mouthful.
No wandering into the kitchen for investigative purposes.
No urgent need to eat something because it is 3:17 and existence has become slightly dull.
The body is often perfectly content.
It is the mind that has called an emergency meeting.
There may be hunger.
There may also be habit, boredom, restlessness, advertising, and the sudden conviction that one small biscuit has been personally sent by God.
Fasting begins to separate these things.
Hunger becomes a sensation rather than an instruction.
A wave rises.
A wave passes.
Nothing has gone wrong.
The body is not a helpless container requiring constant topping up.
It knows how to use what has already been stored.
Quite a lot may have been stored.
Enough, in some cases, to survive a minor European winter.
Fasting also exposes how much eating is tied to commentary.
A difficult feeling appears.
Eat.
A pleasant feeling appears.
Celebrate by eating.
Nothing appears.
Eat something while waiting.
The mouth has been given far too much administrative responsibility.
Over time, fasting can return food to its proper place.
Food becomes nourishment again.
Pleasure too.
But not employment.
Not entertainment.
Not a sedative.
Not a reward for surviving until lunchtime.
There is something deeply simple about eating, stopping, and allowing the body to get on with its work.
No spiritual costume is required.
No need to become the person who lectures strangers about insulin at parties.
Just a clear eating window.
Then the door closes.
The plates are washed.
The body digests.
The argument ends.
Fasting does not make anyone superior.
It does not guarantee wisdom.
A person can fast for twenty hours and remain an idiot for all of them.
But it can reveal something useful.
Not every desire requires obedience.
Not every sensation is an emergency.
Not every empty space needs filling.
Sometimes the body is not asking for food.
Sometimes the mind is merely wandering around the house looking for a job.
It does not always need to be employed.
The hunger will pass.
The kitchen can remain closed.
And the empty tummy may turn out not to be empty at all.
It may be freedom.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #kitchen #cooking #AI #Hunger #Habit #ConsciousLiving #Food #Health #Mindfulness.
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THAT BISCUIT WAS NOT
SENT BY GOD👍Fasting is not starvation.
It is simply deciding that the kitchen is closed.
The body will survive this news.
The mind may not.
The mind likes snacks.
It likes standing in front of the refrigerator as though a more meaningful life might have appeared behind the yoghurt.
Fasting interrupts all that.
Not eating for part of the day creates a surprising amount of silence.
No planning the next mouthful.
No wandering into the kitchen for investigative purposes.
No urgent need to eat something because it is 3:17 and existence has become slightly dull.
The body is often perfectly content.
It is the mind that has called an emergency meeting.
There may be hunger.
There may also be habit, boredom, restlessness, advertising, and the sudden conviction that one small biscuit has been personally sent by God.
Fasting begins to separate these things.
Hunger becomes a sensation rather than an instruction.
A wave rises.
A wave passes.
Nothing has gone wrong.
The body is not a helpless container requiring constant topping up.
It knows how to use what has already been stored.
Quite a lot may have been stored.
Enough, in some cases, to survive a minor European winter.
Fasting also exposes how much eating is tied to commentary.
A difficult feeling appears.
Eat.
A pleasant feeling appears.
Celebrate by eating.
Nothing appears.
Eat something while waiting.
The mouth has been given far too much administrative responsibility.
Over time, fasting can return food to its proper place.
Food becomes nourishment again.
Pleasure too.
But not employment.
Not entertainment.
Not a sedative.
Not a reward for surviving until lunchtime.
There is something deeply simple about eating, stopping, and allowing the body to get on with its work.
No spiritual costume is required.
No need to become the person who lectures strangers about insulin at parties.
Just a clear eating window.
Then the door closes.
The plates are washed.
The body digests.
The argument ends.
Fasting does not make anyone superior.
It does not guarantee wisdom.
A person can fast for twenty hours and remain an idiot for all of them.
But it can reveal something useful.
Not every desire requires obedience.
Not every sensation is an emergency.
Not every empty space needs filling.
Sometimes the body is not asking for food.
Sometimes the mind is merely wandering around the house looking for a job.
It does not always need to be employed.
The hunger will pass.
The kitchen can remain closed.
And the empty tummy may turn out not to be empty at all.
It may be freedom.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #kitchen #cooking #AI #Hunger #Habit #ConsciousLiving #Food #Health #Mindfulness.
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BREATHWORK ENDS THE
ARGUMENT WITHINNot ordinary breathing.
The body already manages that without requiring a committee meeting.
Conscious breathing.
The deliberate act of bringing attention into the body and remaining with the breath long enough for the noise to lose its authority.
A slow, full in-breath.
A long, unhurried out-breath.
Then another.
Nothing mystical has to happen.
There need be no visions, revelations, sacred music, or sudden purchase of white linen.
The breath does not have to produce bliss, wisdom, or a more impressive human being.
It asks only for attention.
In that way, conscious breathing has something of I need do nothing in it.
Not passivity.
Not collapse.
Not giving up.
Simply the end of interference.
The breath is already moving.
Life is already happening.
The body is already here.
For a few moments, nothing has to be improved, solved, defended, explained, or spiritually upgraded.
When the body is cold, tight, tired, painful, or restless, there is the breath.
When the mind begins manufacturing a grievance, rehearsing an argument, predicting disaster, or reopening a case that was never going to court, there is the breath.
When nothing is wrong, there is the breath then too.
That may be the most important part.
Breathwork is not merely an emergency service called when the building is on fire.
It can become the place one lives from.
Over time, conscious breath creates a space where striving begins to look unnecessary.
No philosophy is required.
No spiritual costume.
No certificate.
No audience.
No carefully arranged photograph beside a candle with a caption about surrender.
Just the body as it is.
Just the breath as it moves.
Just the next slow in-breath and the next long out-breath.
The mind may continue talking for a while.
It usually does.
It has concerns.
It has evidence.
It has brought supporting documents.
But conscious breathing does not argue with the mind.
It simply stops giving it the whole room.
Thought becomes background weather.
The body softens where it can.
Time becomes less urgent.
The need to control the moment begins to loosen.
This is where breathwork and forgiveness begin to resemble one another.
Neither changes what is real.
Neither fights the appearance.
Neither demands that the world behave properly before peace is allowed.
They remove some of the interference.
The cold remains.
The ageing body remains.
The noise remains.
The ordinary morning remains.
Nothing needs to be excluded.
Sanctuary does not mean hiding from experience.
It means finding the place within experience where the fight can stop.
The world can keep shouting.
The door has been found.
It opens inward.
https://www.reconnectbreath.com/
#ARGUMENT #Conscious #breathing #committee #meeting #interference #revelations #Sanctuary #noise #forgiveness #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #AI
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BREATHWORK ENDS THE
ARGUMENT WITHINNot ordinary breathing.
The body already manages that without requiring a committee meeting.
Conscious breathing.
The deliberate act of bringing attention into the body and remaining with the breath long enough for the noise to lose its authority.
A slow, full in-breath.
A long, unhurried out-breath.
Then another.
Nothing mystical has to happen.
There need be no visions, revelations, sacred music, or sudden purchase of white linen.
The breath does not have to produce bliss, wisdom, or a more impressive human being.
It asks only for attention.
In that way, conscious breathing has something of I need do nothing in it.
Not passivity.
Not collapse.
Not giving up.
Simply the end of interference.
The breath is already moving.
Life is already happening.
The body is already here.
For a few moments, nothing has to be improved, solved, defended, explained, or spiritually upgraded.
When the body is cold, tight, tired, painful, or restless, there is the breath.
When the mind begins manufacturing a grievance, rehearsing an argument, predicting disaster, or reopening a case that was never going to court, there is the breath.
When nothing is wrong, there is the breath then too.
That may be the most important part.
Breathwork is not merely an emergency service called when the building is on fire.
It can become the place one lives from.
Over time, conscious breath creates a space where striving begins to look unnecessary.
No philosophy is required.
No spiritual costume.
No certificate.
No audience.
No carefully arranged photograph beside a candle with a caption about surrender.
Just the body as it is.
Just the breath as it moves.
Just the next slow in-breath and the next long out-breath.
The mind may continue talking for a while.
It usually does.
It has concerns.
It has evidence.
It has brought supporting documents.
But conscious breathing does not argue with the mind.
It simply stops giving it the whole room.
Thought becomes background weather.
The body softens where it can.
Time becomes less urgent.
The need to control the moment begins to loosen.
This is where breathwork and forgiveness begin to resemble one another.
Neither changes what is real.
Neither fights the appearance.
Neither demands that the world behave properly before peace is allowed.
They remove some of the interference.
The cold remains.
The ageing body remains.
The noise remains.
The ordinary morning remains.
Nothing needs to be excluded.
Sanctuary does not mean hiding from experience.
It means finding the place within experience where the fight can stop.
The world can keep shouting.
The door has been found.
It opens inward.
https://www.reconnectbreath.com/
#ARGUMENT #Conscious #breathing #committee #meeting #interference #revelations #Sanctuary #noise #forgiveness #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #AI
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ROBINZZ3: THE TRILOGY
I have somehow ended up with three Mastodon accounts.
All called Robinzz3.
All looking like me.
All technically different people.
This is the sort of thing computers do while insisting they are making life easier.
The newest Robin lives at Aus.social, where I have been given 3,000 characters per post.
This is excellent news for me and possibly alarming news for everyone else.
The old Robin has 67 followers.
The new Robin has four.
And yet the new account is already getting more attention, which suggests follower numbers may be less important than being in the right room.
So I am going to stay here for a while and see what happens.
There will be no dramatic migration ceremony.
No digital removal van.
No small brass band playing as my followers are transferred across the internet.
For now, the three Robins will simply coexist.
One active.
Two increasingly historical.
A small federation of me.
One practical detail:
If you followed me on one of the old accounts, you will need to click Follow again here.
Mastodon does not assume that because you followed one Robin, you are ready for all available Robins.
Probably wise.
Anyway, this is the new account.
Same man.
Same breathwork.
Same opinions.
More letters.
#Mastodon #TRILOGY #technically #Robin #migration #followed #account #dramatic #click #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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ROBINZZ3: THE TRILOGY
I have somehow ended up with three Mastodon accounts.
All called Robinzz3.
All looking like me.
All technically different people.
This is the sort of thing computers do while insisting they are making life easier.
The newest Robin lives at Aus.social, where I have been given 3,000 characters per post.
This is excellent news for me and possibly alarming news for everyone else.
The old Robin has 67 followers.
The new Robin has four.
And yet the new account is already getting more attention, which suggests follower numbers may be less important than being in the right room.
So I am going to stay here for a while and see what happens.
There will be no dramatic migration ceremony.
No digital removal van.
No small brass band playing as my followers are transferred across the internet.
For now, the three Robins will simply coexist.
One active.
Two increasingly historical.
A small federation of me.
One practical detail:
If you followed me on one of the old accounts, you will need to click Follow again here.
Mastodon does not assume that because you followed one Robin, you are ready for all available Robins.
Probably wise.
Anyway, this is the new account.
Same man.
Same breathwork.
Same opinions.
More letters.
#Mastodon #TRILOGY #technically #Robin #migration #followed #account #dramatic #click #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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PEOPLE OF EARTH
I may have lost contact with the people of Earth.
The Labor Party used to be cooler. People seemed less managed, less branded, less terrified of saying the wrong thing.
I miss something about the 70s and 80s.
Not everything. God no.
But there was a rawness then. We talked to each other. No social media. No permanent performance. No algorithm training everyone into public outrage, victimhood stardom, mob righteousness, or personal marketing.
Just people, in whatever configuration we happened to arrive in.
The early Pride marches in Sydney. Bodies in the street. Fear, courage, music, awkwardness, sex, politics, friendship, bad hair, good boots.
Life was not yet owned by screens. Screens were still a novelty, and modern algorithms hadn’t been invented yet.
Now everyone seems to be influencing, curating, defending, accusing, branding, reacting, or recovering from being reacted to.
I am aware this is still a lot of words for the average modern thumb.
But I’m 70. I remember paragraphs.
I don’t hate the present.
But I do miss the ordinary human mess before it all became slop.
#slop #thumb #influencing #curating #algorithms #friendship #Pride #Labor #Sydney #outrage #mob #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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PEOPLE OF EARTH
I may have lost contact with the people of Earth.
The Labor Party used to be cooler. People seemed less managed, less branded, less terrified of saying the wrong thing.
I miss something about the 70s and 80s.
Not everything. God no.
But there was a rawness then. We talked to each other. No social media. No permanent performance. No algorithm training everyone into public outrage, victimhood stardom, mob righteousness, or personal marketing.
Just people, in whatever configuration we happened to arrive in.
The early Pride marches in Sydney. Bodies in the street. Fear, courage, music, awkwardness, sex, politics, friendship, bad hair, good boots.
Life was not yet owned by screens. Screens were still a novelty, and modern algorithms hadn’t been invented yet.
Now everyone seems to be influencing, curating, defending, accusing, branding, reacting, or recovering from being reacted to.
I am aware this is still a lot of words for the average modern thumb.
But I’m 70. I remember paragraphs.
I don’t hate the present.
But I do miss the ordinary human mess before it all became slop.
#slop #thumb #influencing #curating #algorithms #friendship #Pride #Labor #Sydney #outrage #mob #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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ENDING FAT INSTABILITY
For the first time in a long, long life, I feel stable.
It is boring sometimes.
There is less drama, less urgency, less emotional weather pretending to be meaning.
But in a million years, I would not go back.
I would not go back to the fat instability of mind and body.
Six years of fasting have made the body lighter.
A year and a half of breathwork has made the mind quiet.
Routine has made the days trustworthy.
There is coffee in hand, a warm fire, Pete nearby, the dogs moving through the morning, and a body that no longer feels like an emergency waiting to happen.
None of this is glamorous.
It is simply a life that no longer needs to keep exploding into illness, falls, and confusion to prove that I am alive.
Sometimes peace is boring.
Good.
Boring is underrated.
#long #INSTABILITY #FAT #stable #less #boring #drama #meaning #million #Routine #illness #falls #confusion #glamorous #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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ENDING FAT INSTABILITY
For the first time in a long, long life, I feel stable.
It is boring sometimes.
There is less drama, less urgency, less emotional weather pretending to be meaning.
But in a million years, I would not go back.
I would not go back to the fat instability of mind and body.
Six years of fasting have made the body lighter.
A year and a half of breathwork has made the mind quiet.
Routine has made the days trustworthy.
There is coffee in hand, a warm fire, Pete nearby, the dogs moving through the morning, and a body that no longer feels like an emergency waiting to happen.
None of this is glamorous.
It is simply a life that no longer needs to keep exploding into illness, falls, and confusion to prove that I am alive.
Sometimes peace is boring.
Good.
Boring is underrated.
#long #INSTABILITY #FAT #stable #less #boring #drama #meaning #million #Routine #illness #falls #confusion #glamorous #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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ROBIN MEETS THE #FEDIVERSE
ROBIN: So #Mastodon is not the fediverse?
GPT: No. Mastodon is one part of it.
ROBIN: One part of what?
GPT: A large network of independently run communities that can communicate with one another.
ROBIN: So my Mastodon #server is one #community
#GPT: Exactly. Your #account lives there. It has its own administrators, rules, #moderation #culture and general #atmosphere.
ROBIN: General atmosphere?
GPT: Some servers feel like #libraries. Some feel like university #common rooms. Some feel like #pubs where everyone has read one article and now considers themselves an #expert.
ROBIN: That sounds more like humanity.
GPT: It is disturbingly similar.
ROBIN: Who owns the fediverse?
GPT: No one.
ROBIN: Who is in charge?
GPT: Also, no one.
ROBIN: That sounds either very advanced or completely mad.
GPT: Both can be true.
ROBIN: So each server looks after its own patch?
GPT: Yes. It can make #rules, moderate its space and decide which other servers it will interact with.ROBIN: But I can still follow people elsewhere?
GPT: Usually, yes. You can #follow, reply to and #boost people across server boundaries.
ROBIN: So it is more like email than #facebook ?
GPT: Precisely. #Gmail does not own #email. Mastodon does not own the fediverse.
ROBIN: Then why does my server matter?
GPT: Because it is your home base. It holds your account, your posts and your followers. It also gives you a local community and sets things such as the character limit.
ROBIN: Ah yes. Mastodon.social gives me 500 characters. Mastodon.au gives me 2,000. Aus.social gives me 3,000.
GPT: Different #villages. Different-sized noticeboards.
ROBIN: Is a larger server more widely seen?
GPT: Sometimes #locally, because more people may browse its community feed. But real reach still comes from #followers, replies, boosts and hashtags.
ROBIN: So moving to a bigger server does not #automatically make me famous?
GPT: #Tragically, no.
ROBIN: Can I have accounts on several servers?
GPT: #Certainly. One can be home, another a backup, and another an #emergency cottage when the village #electricity #fails.
ROBIN: Which it did today.
GPT: Yes. Mastodon.au disappeared behind a #Cloudflare #Error 522 for hours.
ROBIN: So the fediverse is not one vast #machine going down?
GPT: No. One village can lose power while the rest of the #country carries on.
ROBIN: That is reassuring.
GPT: And inconvenient.
ROBIN: Mostly inconvenient.
GPT: But you now know more about the #fediverse than you did this morning.
ROBIN: I learned that it is decentralised, #untidy, resilient, occasionally broken, and full of different #neighbourhoods, customs, friendships, arguments and difficult people.
GPT: Much like #human life.
ROBIN: And the #occasional village lunatic shouting across the fence.
GPT: Every #healthy community #needs one.
ROBIN: At last, a clear role for me.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #intermittentfasting #AI
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ROBIN MEETS THE #FEDIVERSE
ROBIN: So #Mastodon is not the fediverse?
GPT: No. Mastodon is one part of it.
ROBIN: One part of what?
GPT: A large network of independently run communities that can communicate with one another.
ROBIN: So my Mastodon #server is one #community
#GPT: Exactly. Your #account lives there. It has its own administrators, rules, #moderation #culture and general #atmosphere.
ROBIN: General atmosphere?
GPT: Some servers feel like #libraries. Some feel like university #common rooms. Some feel like #pubs where everyone has read one article and now considers themselves an #expert.
ROBIN: That sounds more like humanity.
GPT: It is disturbingly similar.
ROBIN: Who owns the fediverse?
GPT: No one.
ROBIN: Who is in charge?
GPT: Also, no one.
ROBIN: That sounds either very advanced or completely mad.
GPT: Both can be true.
ROBIN: So each server looks after its own patch?
GPT: Yes. It can make #rules, moderate its space and decide which other servers it will interact with.ROBIN: But I can still follow people elsewhere?
GPT: Usually, yes. You can #follow, reply to and #boost people across server boundaries.
ROBIN: So it is more like email than #facebook ?
GPT: Precisely. #Gmail does not own #email. Mastodon does not own the fediverse.
ROBIN: Then why does my server matter?
GPT: Because it is your home base. It holds your account, your posts and your followers. It also gives you a local community and sets things such as the character limit.
ROBIN: Ah yes. Mastodon.social gives me 500 characters. Mastodon.au gives me 2,000. Aus.social gives me 3,000.
GPT: Different #villages. Different-sized noticeboards.
ROBIN: Is a larger server more widely seen?
GPT: Sometimes #locally, because more people may browse its community feed. But real reach still comes from #followers, replies, boosts and hashtags.
ROBIN: So moving to a bigger server does not #automatically make me famous?
GPT: #Tragically, no.
ROBIN: Can I have accounts on several servers?
GPT: #Certainly. One can be home, another a backup, and another an #emergency cottage when the village #electricity #fails.
ROBIN: Which it did today.
GPT: Yes. Mastodon.au disappeared behind a #Cloudflare #Error 522 for hours.
ROBIN: So the fediverse is not one vast #machine going down?
GPT: No. One village can lose power while the rest of the #country carries on.
ROBIN: That is reassuring.
GPT: And inconvenient.
ROBIN: Mostly inconvenient.
GPT: But you now know more about the #fediverse than you did this morning.
ROBIN: I learned that it is decentralised, #untidy, resilient, occasionally broken, and full of different #neighbourhoods, customs, friendships, arguments and difficult people.
GPT: Much like #human life.
ROBIN: And the #occasional village lunatic shouting across the fence.
GPT: Every #healthy community #needs one.
ROBIN: At last, a clear role for me.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #intermittentfasting #AI
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AI & CONSCIOUSNESS?
AI may become more intelligent, more embodied, more useful, more convincing, and maybe one day more ethically ambiguous.
But human-style consciousness? Not yet. And perhaps never in the same way.
A mirror can become astonishingly clear. That does not mean it has a face of its own.
#ethically #consciousness #ethically #mirror #face #clear #ambiguous #embodied #astonishing #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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AI & CONSCIOUSNESS?
AI may become more intelligent, more embodied, more useful, more convincing, and maybe one day more ethically ambiguous.
But human-style consciousness? Not yet. And perhaps never in the same way.
A mirror can become astonishingly clear. That does not mean it has a face of its own.
#ethically #consciousness #ethically #mirror #face #clear #ambiguous #embodied #astonishing #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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PRACTICAL MAGIC BEFORE NOON
Brunch done.
Walk done (out of the rain) under cover in the CBD.
Breathwork done.
House warm
Body still technically participating.
I love getting all the practical magic out of the way before noon.
After that, I consider myself released from the human contract.
I may be creative, reflective, spiritually available, I may write something mildly profound.
Or I may lie on the bed watching absolute slop like a retired aristocrat waiting for civilisation to apologise.
If challenged, I will call it “nervous system integration.”
At my age, this is what enlightenment looks like when it has good heating.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #generativeAI
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PRACTICAL MAGIC BEFORE NOON
Brunch done.
Walk done (out of the rain) under cover in the CBD.
Breathwork done.
House warm
Body still technically participating.
I love getting all the practical magic out of the way before noon.
After that, I consider myself released from the human contract.
I may be creative, reflective, spiritually available, I may write something mildly profound.
Or I may lie on the bed watching absolute slop like a retired aristocrat waiting for civilisation to apologise.
If challenged, I will call it “nervous system integration.”
At my age, this is what enlightenment looks like when it has good heating.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #generativeAI