Basia's Thoughts

Can we bring more magic and miracles into our life?

What are some essential aspects of a magical life?  Can we do anything to encourage the expression of miracles?

We find that awe, an open and expansive sense of surprise, appears to be an aspect of magic.  For it to be deeply satisfying we would like it to also have meaning that ties all thing together, making it almost inevitable.

Such is the nature of art that is able to reach and touch us.  To experience it we need to be open.  Thus we talk about how to become more open.

That also brings us to fear and ways in which fear closes down creativity.  We can easily identify the moments in our days that reinforce fear and then choose if we wish to continue such practices.

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A friend recommended I listen to a podcast on stupidity, where the question was posed:  "Why are we acting in ways that hurt ourselves and others?  Are we stupid?"

(The podcast was from Dystopia and it is in Swedish.  You can download it from here https://sverigesradio.se/topsy/ljudfil/srse/7878377.mp3)

I find that when we act in myopic ways that are counterproductive to ourselves and possibly others it is often related to an addiction.  And it can be argued that our current systems, such as capitalism, lead us in this direction.   

Also, to be able to make a living we will often be asked to follow the rules of a system that is in the end detrimental to the planet at large and to humanity in particular.   Thus we may end up doing the opposite of what we actually intend.  Perhaps we wish to heal people and so we become a physician, but end up having to follow absurd policies that end up creating more suffering.

We ask how we ended up with such systems and go even beyond capitalism and to the need of organisational capacity, which in the past has been tied to structures of power.   We look at how inefficient these structures are at utilising the human creative and problem solving potential and mention alternative ways.

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Today we talk about two thieves of joy that are interweaved.   They are expectations and judgements.

In societies where things work well and our expectations are met we are often accompanied by these joy thieves.  They rob us of the present moment.

In societies where things rarely go the way we would expect them to we eventually have to learn to let go of our expectations.  And when we do that, we embark on a more present, joyous and liberating journey in life.

We may still have inspired intentions as to what we would like, but we let the universe surprise and delight us with their execution as we participate fully.

Expectations are types of judgements about how things should be.  When they are not met we are often left feeling powerless.   And reactions such as judgments may temporarily feel more empowering and energising than connecting to the feeling of powerlessness.

Finding ways of letting go of external and internal expectations, we can reclaim the joy that is there for us in the present moment.
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We talk about the importance of learning to look for what is positive. 

We mention that perhaps as a survival mechanism we have developed certain biases that are helpful when we are young but make thriving more difficult over time.  In particular, we mention senescence and the negativity bias.

Then, we ask how one may go about solving problems and see that we often tend to use optimisation for that purpose.  Indeed, much of our society uses it calling it rhetoric, public relations, advertisement, etc.

We discuss how optimisation leads us away from what is "true" and ultimately brings about damage through a perverse type of system, if insisted upon.  We also talk about how our ontological essence is beyond the finite and can therefore never hope to be captured, represented by, or fully satisfied by any optimised system.

Then, I talk about my favourite alternative problem solving method, which goes through inspiration. 

Finally, I share the practice of emotional surfing.

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Stress in complex systems leads to an adaptive response, if it does not terminate the system. 

In this episode we look at hermetic stress for our body and how it may provide health hacks.

Then we look at how stress to our "adversaries" may lead to, for us, unpleasant reactions.  We look at the current pandemic situation and at the types of immune stresses being put on the virus.  I mention my article on this http://basiapiechocinska.com/the-dark-side-of-vaccines/.

Then we talk about how our thought patterns are complex systems as well, adapting to their surroundings and how parasitic processes can get a hold of us and lead us into addictions.

Finally we talk about society in general and how we have recently been experiencing a stress on our freedom and how this may bring about a reaction.  Thus the more totalitarian direction may usher in an age of never before seen freedom.

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How can we have a more deeply satisfying life?  Perhaps if we gain clarity around why we are here we will be able to see our purpose and then possibly move in a direction of fulfilling it, and that might be satisfying.

We all seem to want to move in the direction that makes us feel better.   If we follow this we might end up with greater satisfaction but the more limitations we identify with, the more limited our satisfaction will be.   This is because we will attempt to defend those limitations to make sure we can satisfy the needs related to them.  We will tend to become more selfish.  This will reduce our satisfaction as greed, defensiveness, isolation, etc become more prominent.

If we instead take the path of service to others, then we will notice that a problem may arise if we move far enough, as we neglect our personal needs.  This may be draining and not as deeply satisfying.

What is the path?  Some might say that the most satisfying solution is to find balance.   But is it?
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Or is there another path that is even more satisfying?  The path I propose is that of transcendence.  We discussed it in the episode 39, on the Unifying and Transcending Dynamics.  It means to find what it perpendicular to it and moving into that dimension.   It means to move up the pendulum of duality.

Thus, in this case you are not here for your particular self, nor are you here for others, instead you are here as an expression of divinity.   And when you can live from that you will be able to find an even deeper level of satisfaction.

We end this episode by talking about how you can use intention in order to start applying the idea of being an expression of the infinite.

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In this explorative episode we ask the material universe might be created as a type of Fourier Transform and how that could relate to more "New Age" types of ideas.

We also ask about the atemporal types of experiences that people who experience near death circumstances go through and how they might be connected to the ideas of a frequency space.

If the material universe is based on something like a Fourier Transformation, then all that is is created from a sort of primordial "sound".

It would be interesting to know what the primordial frequencies are.  And so, physics explorations may be fruitful.  If we choose to explore a more spiritual path, then quieting the mind may provide us greater access to the frequency space, from which timelines originate.

If you are interested in more physics oriented types of explorations of the Holographic Order, based on as few suppositions as possible, then you may enjoy "Physics from Wholeness: Dynamical Totality as a Conceptual Foundation for Physical Theories".

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We talk about the pervasiveness of the Holographic Order and how by aligning with it we may be served.  This is equally important and useful for what is perhaps seen as most fundamental science, such as physics, as for social constructions, and what may seem to be spiritual or religious.

We start by talking about how physicists look for un underlying order, beyond space-time, and how the physicist David Bohm looked for the Generative Order, that would also bring a direction into the dynamics and be capable of a sort of creativity.   We mention how the quantum theory originally moved us away from ontology, and took physics to be algorithms with predictive power.

We ask if we can base our search for the underlying order on something more certain than the dubious supposition of materialism.  And so, instead with build the most real ontology we can think of and by logically following three realisations we end up in the Holographic Order.

The assertions are that:  1.  There is Being. 2.  Being is unique. 3. A consequence of Being being unique we get the Holographic Order.

Then we look at how reflecting the holographic order in our societal structures may be of benefit.   Finally, we look at how we personally may start using the naturally holographic structure in our lives.

You can read more about the Holographic Order and also find links to mathematical descriptions of it at https://basiapiechocinska.com/wholeness-preserving-movement/.

Also, recently a friend of mine gave me a nerdy first bitcoin block mug that I really enjoyed and so I decided to also create a nerdy Holographic Order derivation mug for myself.   And if this is something that would make you smile as you have your tea or coffee you can find it here https://www.zazzle.co.uk/classic_physics_nerd_mug_325_ml_coffee_mug-168904102968991668.

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As some of you may know, 42 is the answer to the ultimate question on Life, the Universe, and Everything.  :)

We honour Douglas Adams' idea from his book, "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", and explore its depth by noting that meaning, connection, and transcendence are found by focusing in on the questions, rather than the answers.

We look at how this applies to practical human interactions, and how by asking questions around values we are brought into a more open space of potentialities, allowing us to find a common path of expression.

Then we move onto our actual experience, seeing how our perceptions display what already has been created.  By moving into the space where we hang out with ourselves (see episode 41) we are moved into the open space of potential, where the that result in our experiences questions are asked. 
By being more keenly aware of these questions our life experience takes on a beautifully satisfying hue of meaning.

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This is an invitation to spend more time with yourself, your purest version of you.

By doing that you can actually impact your life profoundly.  This is because it will start changing who you see yourself as.

A de-identification with any and all of the roles you play will make you less prone to fight, to want to win over others, to be defensive, to focus on appearance, to act from who you think that others think you are, to move into a growth mindset, to loosen your grip on knowledge and to not take things as seriously.

Truly, spending quality time with yourself, meaning in pure being, love, awareness will affect your entire perspective on life and life experience.

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I have started creating a website, BasiaPiechocinska.com, where I will eventually be putting my "Make Sense" - game.

The purpose is to learn to focus on what really matters to us, so that we may connect on a deeper, more satisfying and meaningful level.  The game is based on unifying and transcending dynamics.  There are three parts, each related to a mode of experiencing:  Make Sense - Mind, Make Sense - Heart, and Make Sense- Senses.

The process in all of the modes is that of first opening up, or unifying,  and then of expanding, or transcending.

The idea of transcending may be seen as finding a perpendicular dimension and moving into it, like finding the y-axis in a Cartesian x-y-coordinate system.  The dynamics of transcendence requires first the dynamics of unification or opening up so that we can see the full "x-axis" and realise what "perpendicular to it" means.  Transcendence is a bit at odds with the dynamics of war or fighting, which is a separating dynamics that tends to keep us within the same dimension, and fixated only on a part of it.

Do give me some feed-back if you end up playing the game (once it is up).

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In this episode I talk about where the ideas pertaining to Unifying and Transcending Dynamics originate.

We can see the pattern that when an empire reaches its phase of affluence is when moral decline starts to set in.  Our current empire is in its final phase of chaos and lack of morals and ethics.

This makes it reasonable to want to go back to focusing on morals and ethics, and because we quickly need to change things, use will power to put us "back on track".   But have we ever been "on track"?  We have done iterations of this pattern, over and over, and we have not seen it culminate in a peaceful world.  We even have countries, like the United States of America, that were initially built on this model.  And yet, it has not worked out.

Is there an alternative?  What would it be interesting to stress in the alternative?  Here we talk about the Unifying and Transcending Dynamics as a way of relating to ourselves internally as well as with the world and in particular with other beings.  It is unifying in all three aspects of the human experience, meaning in thought, emotion, and perceptions.  It is transcending as it creatively takes us beyond what was previously realised.

By recognising its impact and therefore choosing to move more and more towards this way of relating and interacting, we can start to build a solid base for a butterfly version of existence.

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Because we are in a meaning crisis, as nicely presented in the Youtube series of John Vervaeke "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis", we examine the concept of meaning.

To find out how we can make life experience more meaningful we start by examining what experience is, and then what "making more meaningful" means.

By experience we mean thoughts, feelings/emotions, and perceptions.  By making more meaningful we settle on the idea of unification within the three arenas as well as between them.

Then we see that the deeper we go into either one, the greater meaning we find, and the more "real" things become.  We notice that the three arenas converge in Awareness, Bliss, and Being, the trinity of who we really are.  Therefore, a path towards self-knowledge is one that brings more meaning into our life.

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How much of our thinking is conditioned by the historical setting?

We have already mentioned how our way of thinking is conditioned by our personal developmental traumas.  In episode 6 we talked about the sadness in the schizoid structure.  But how much of our intuition and our insights are just reiterations of what has already happened in similar historical settings and not really particular to us?

In this episode I take a look at two intuitions that are strong in me.  One is that of knowing who we are.  The other is to move towards unity and thereby especially love and a heart-centered way of being, instead of separation such as fear.

Then we go back to Vedas, stop in ancient Athens at the beginning of democracy, look at what Socrates was trying to achieve and his connection to uncertainty, Plato and his egoically highjacked prisoners in the cave, how Hellenistic turmoil led the philosophers to become therapists, like the Stoics, only to finish with Augustinus and the turmoil of the fall of Rome.

If you find this historical digression interesting you will enjoy John Vervaeke´s youtube series on "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis", where he discusses many of these and many, many other fascinating issues.

Throughout all we see the repetition of these themes, expressed in terms that were pertinent to the particular times.  And so, the two intuitions that happen to arise inside of me, are just an expression of our times.   There is nothing particularly original  or personal to them. 

We can use this realisation and thus loosen our grip on our insights and realisations and our instinct to identify with them.  We are truly beyond them.  And perhaps in these times more of us will ultimately be able to realise this and bring about a substantial transformation.

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As discussed in the previous episode, holding onto knowledge can lead us to identify with it and stop our search for and openness to new information.  It can become a self-imposed limit, where we put ourselves in a box that we end up defending and fighting for.

Uncertainty provides us with the gift of presence and opens us up to further development.  In our current societies we often learn most through challenging and painful experiences.  The cycles of life and death assist us in our development by stripping us of our identification with certain roles and forcing surrender into the present.

But there is another way to grow, where suffering is not required,  By learning to become comfortable with uncertainty we can start moving into it.  By relinquishing our need to know and our need to feel particular feelings, such as hopefulness or hopelessness, we liberate our potential.

A first step may be just to start noticing when we cling to certainty and welcoming the moments when we notices distress due to lack of certainty as opportunities for practice.

Movement in our Universe is possible due to uncertainty and infinity.  When we identify with the infinite potential we are, we open the door to a spectacular life.    It is a life where no knowledge is a threat to our identity.   It is a heart-centered life of active creation through inspiration and deep connection with all.

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I was inspired to talk about knowledge because I remembered an old saying that tells children that knowledge is the key to power.  This has, indeed, been the model of our society.

We know that power can be problematic but is there any danger associated with knowledge?  We look at how a knowledge focused life removes significance from it.

We start by talking about how knowledge is about limits and boundaries, and how when focusing on it we easily identify with our specific roles and the content of our knowledge.  We look at how knowledge is the point at which we stop our development and any further thinking.  We look at how our purpose and survival easily become tangled up with it and how we thus tend to defend our limitations, our pause in development.

We also mention that, as spoken about in episode 34, we might already have an intuition that will point us to move toward a more meaning oriented and all-win system.  In particular we look at how affirming another person's fixed role changes the dynamics of interaction and closes people off.

Thus, if instead of focusing on knowledge and identifying with it and our roles we can identify with our infinite nature, as infinite potential, as learners, we may open up to a fascinating dynamics that leads to a life of connection, significance, and exhilaration.

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In this episode we ask if we do not already have a "Butterfly Intuition".  By "Butterfly Intuition" I refer to the metaphorical butterfly that we have a chance of turning into personally and as a society and civilisation.   It is an intuition that guides us to make all-win choices.

We talk about the idea of diversity and based on it we look at how it appears in our current win-lose, competitive dynamics and its role in the all-win system. 

We talk about how appearance and image is important in our current dynamics and how this is related to competitive information processing where judgement is a first key element and we see how polarisation and fighting for positions of power come in.

We contrast this to information processing in the all-win system and we see that appearance no longer plays the same role and in fact mostly distorts desirable information.  The dynamics is that of starting by searching for a point of connections, seeing what we resonate with, what makes sense to us in the communication of the other person.  From there we expand the basis adding experience from other perspectives and creativity in a joint exploration, where learning is the focus.

Here we stop to talk about how diversity becomes a natural point of interest as it broadens the reach of perspectives and is capable of providing greater insight.

Then we point out that we now have technology that could work with this type of human interactions.  Indeed systems such as "the wisdom of crowds" work best when the input is from autonomous, diverse, and independent sources.  Such systems could be used as systems of organisation, as opposed to the current hierarchical systems of power, whose shortcomings we are aware of and have explored for thousands of years.

Finally, we end by returning to the idea that because this is a heart centered system it actually feels better to interact in than our current system.  And so, by paying attention to how we feel and then employing out logical powers of discernment we may have an internal guide to assist in out collaborative transition into a metaphorical butterfly (as discussed in a previous episode).

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Three Ways of Focusing - Three Different Lives

For pedagogical purposes we imagine three different persons.  The first lives their lives by focusing on achieving goals.  The second has their focus on purpose.  And the third one on meaning.

We discuss what types of differences arise as a result of this in their world views, in how they connect and interact with others, in how they view science, in their narrations of what is, and in who they believe they are.  We also look at where win-lose and win-win dynamics fit in.

The three persons are fictitious but it is easy for us to tend to lean more towards one of them.  By choosing to allow the view and focus of the third person we automatically gain a number of advantages as to our mode of operation in the world and how we feel about it.  We are also given greater access to clarity, creativity, and imagination.

By spending more time in the realm of pure Awareness, uncluttered by mind concepts, the door for identifying with it opens wider, and thus also our passage into a different way of functioning.

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We start out this episode asking if the effects on people of social online platforms might actually end up a helpful catalyst in the transition from a suicidal society, on the brink of extinction, to something new.

We talk about how the effects of the platforms are accentuating separation, disconnection, and fuling adversarial dynamics.   Thus, they are bringing light to some underlying problems in societal dynamics. 

A past solution has been to strengthen authority and impose a top down framework within which to operate.  We know that such as solution is currently leading to our demise.  Thus we look at an alternative. 

In particular we look at decentralised nets where each person gains both power and freedom.  We discuss how the information processing in such networks differs from the top-down, hierarchical structures.   We address subjects like egoic manipulation incentives, clarity, and creativity.   We relate it to the "Yes, and..."- technique of improvisation and also talk about the relation to it being heart centered.

We briefly mention how this the all-win-decentralised-network dynamics is a fractal manifestation of the deeper dynamics of creation, due to the holographic order, and how it is constantly fed by unity.

We finalise by stressing the importance of our de-identification with any set structure so that we may continue in a growth mindset, learning as opposed to knowing.  As, by now customary, we point once more to the fact that if we were able to drop into who we truly are, this dynamics would arise as a consequence.

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We talk about how the idea of "going deeper" can be used to engage in all-win dynamics, as opposed to win-lose dynamics.

We briefly mention that many of our societies have been engaging in competitive dynamics and that this is a dynamics that tends to optimise for a win and thereby incentivise destruction of what may appear to stand in its way, such as other individuals, opponents, ecosystems, etc.

An alternative system would be an all-win system that can be likened to a spiral that with each iteration brings everyone higher.  Such a dynamics may also be connected to the male-female types of energies we talked about in the first episode.  In particular, we are currently in a more action-oriented society where the being aspect is underused. 

Thus we talk about how "going deeper" and "being" can assist us in engaging in the all-win dynamics.  For this purpose, we look at two examples of concepts that are seen in a positive light in the competitive world but are not the best option in the spiral world, namely compromise and sacrifice. 
We go into two anecdotes.   And finally we also ask what it is that is stopping us from engaging in the spiral dynamics.  There, we mention fear and misidentification.

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