Practical Advice for the Modern Psychonaut
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AI and the Monist Revolution: Small Steps, Big Change
Artificial Intelligence in the form of Large Language Models, or LLMs has already become an important part of our society. This change happened fast, too fast for humanity to really react and so now we’re all kind of looking at each other and trying to figure out whether this was a good thing or not.…
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The Illusion of Control
There is a lot going on in the world right now, so much that it is a bit tough to keep up. We’ve been meditating on how the concept of Control is subtly threaded through all of this. Specifically the illusion of control that attracts so many people and destroys so much. Change The world…
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Permission to Change: Constant Reincarnation
Do you feel like you’ve lost control of your own life? That labels dominate everything you are? You are not alone, and we can help.
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Love Everybody, and Tell the Truth
“Love Everybody, and Tell the Truth” You’ve heard this right? What does it mean though, like what does it REALLY mean? Read on friend, read on.
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Esalen: A Review
What is Esalen? From their website, Esalen describes itself as “a holistic retreat and educational institute”. We would describe it as a summer camp for adults. There’s rustic cabins for lodging, a buffet and communal seating area for meals, sometimes campfires at night, and your days are filled with a schedule of activities, mostly involving…
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“The Good Place” Might Be The Best Television Show Ever
When we first heard of the show “The Good Place” around 2016-2017, we didn’t think it was for us. A show about heaven and hell, angels and demons? Not being Christian, we thought the whole idea of an “afterlife” for an individual soul to be silly. Since we’re all the universe, and the life after…
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You Do Not Need To Experience Enlightenment To Live An Enlightened Life
There are many definitions of enlightenment you can find all over the internet, but for the purposes of this blog, we will use a definition associated with monistic religions and philosophy. Enlightenment, quite basically, is the experience that “you” are more than simply your body and mind, and that we are all actually part of…
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The Universe is Not Locally Real, a Monist Perspective
The Universe is not locally real. Everybody is writing about this finding, but what does it mean to a Monist? Read on to find out.
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You have Already Arrived, Alan Watt’s Third Great Teaching
You have already arrived is the most important great teaching that Alan had for us, but also the most difficult to really understand. Read on to learn more.
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Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: A Psychedelic Lesson of Personal Growth
This movie took us all by storm, it seems everyone who saw it wanted to see it again. Why is this so magical, what lesson on personal growth is hiding in this film?
