2023 Goals

1.  delaying of gratification 
2. acceptance of responsibility
3. dedication to truth
4. balancing

No love for Russia

That could be the new James Bond movie?

but this is the current mood, the World is appalled by this unstopped madness.

The World focus should really have been about fighting the global warming, about putting as much effort into reducing the carbon footprint of first World countries ; and then a megalomaniac despot decided to invade Ukraine, and the conflict is getting closer and closer to reach its first anniversary (the conflict started on February 2022).

The repercussion are going to be tragic for Russia, and since they will most definitely fight desperately because the megalomaniac despot cannot be wrong, cannot be defeated, cannot lose otherwise all other countries are going to condemn it so harshly, the coming International trial for War crimes on civilians, the compensation for destroying most of a sovereign country. Russia is already pretty badly impacted by restrictions, its economy is weaken, its workforce is sent to the slaughter unwillingly...

No Love for Russia

The future is grim for Russia, and we are going to see and endless movies (or series) where the villains are Russian. 

War in Ukraine as a bar fight (part 2)

Previously War in Ukraine as a bar fight

Since that last blog entry, the whole event has taken an even darker turn...

Poland has received an accidental punch as collateral damage, Russia is collapsing economically, and Ukraine while being supported by other countries is struggling to get electricity (and winter is coming).

As a Western spectator, I really hope Ukraine is going to prevail, and Russia is going to be sorry and will be punished for their War crimes.

Why talking with bullies won't work

Bullies will make promises, but they will never deliver everything they agreed to, 

because they have to get a "win" above and beyond whatever they actually negotiated. 

They do not want fair deals, and deals that look fair are probably traps.

Assuming you delivered your side of the deal first? 

Big mistake, now the bully will drag their feet and ask for more consideration and use what they owe you as leverage. 

A famous example of that is Donald Trump 

He always had some sort of "reserve" leverage he'd use to put the screws to people and alter deals later, or suddenly have some complaint and he'd withhold his payment.

Everything with these toxic people is excruciating and exhausting because they have to mess with you at every step.

Explaining the war in Ukraine as if it was a bar fight

Everybody in the bar was chilling after a confinement period, lots of talks about global warming and general inflation.

Then out of nowhere Russia nudged one of his Slavic brother and told him he will bang the nice Ukraine as she is one of his ex girlfriend.

Meanwhile Ukraine is calmly talking with her European friends, planning to be invited to a party.

Russia with a smile says ‘Watch this, it will be quick, she will be mine tonight!’ ; then approach Ukraine with a determined look on his face. 

Ukraine sees Russia approach and defends herself, the European friends she was talking to are appaled by Russia aggression and walk back a little ; then Ukraine got punched severely, but defends herself over and over bravely ; Russia starts to lose his cool, and ask for reinforcement, feels like he is not able to control the fight.

While Ukraine is recovering against the pub's wall Great Britain, Germany, France are providing some Brass knuckles, some pepper spray, stun guns and baton, tasers ; Russia starts to lose face, and get a bloody nose.

Europe shouts to Russia that they are not going to buy anything from him, won't accept his currency, and won’t talk to him either. Following that statement, a few rich gang leaders are suddenly committing suicide, and Russia is picking in there pockets filled with gold.

Russia then starts to really fight dirty, but Ukraine still stands her ground, and the fight is getting nowhere, and then Russia has to ask for reinforcement, arguing that it was Ukraine that started the fight, that she was an extremist, and all sorts of blatant lies, while stealing all the drinks on the table, and putting all he can in his bag. 

The whole bar now is getting embarrassed as there’s blood everywhere, and everybody knows that the pub has a thermostat issue and the air-conditioning is in need for urgent repair.

Russia looks at himself, and realize he is just a loser, with old clothes, he is weak, and a coward getting old. A bully with no class, and self control.

Russia is getting desperate and is threatening everyone ; saying that he has a concealed gun in his coat and he will use, if he had to ; a little while ago he farted loudly and said that it was Ukraine that did it.

Hearing about a possible concealed weapon, the USA watching the scene and is then calmly saying that if a gun is brought to that fight, he will intervene.

China is looking at the scene, and is not moving ; while Iran is sending some gadgets to Russia.

to be continued

Paul Amadeus Dienach story

Could be an hoax (the photo is kind of an evidence of that)

Could be some kind of time accident (!?) 

I find it quite intriguing and sort of confirming my famous quote "It's just a ride!"

Otherwise, what we can take from this story is that Mars colonization is not going to be a viable move (Hello Elon Musk!)

And then the human evolution will lead to a one world government

and then the actual biological evolution will reach the spiritual awakening that will lead to real harmony.

But actually currently with the situation we are in ... we would be very lucky if we pass 2026~2030.

A longer video on this extraordinary story

https://youtu.be/BCV0E8GAX54

Another even longer video

https://youtu.be/HP9CLEOnBb8

Knowledge of other minds, and other intelligence

Chitta - the cosmic intelligence

beyond memory

beyond identity

Fun ballad

How I Finally Broke ALL My Bad Habits

This is why you should question everything

New Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence is making the World a better place, but here in this particular usage ; this means the public has to be trained to question everything 

The media, the interview, the pictures all that can be monitored, can be altered, can be used for propaganda.

There is a particular sense that will need to be developed in the future of mankind and that is 'intuition'.

Currently all these 'deep fake' video are imperfect, something is not right, the light is a little different, the angles are weird, some details are either too many or too few. But the next version will probably make these almost believable. 

The one thing that cannot be fooled, is the careful questioning of the content, is there an agenda?

Does the content feels right? What is the context? Would anybody benefits of this message?

And then the careful attention to the details, the skin tone, the haircut, the lighting, the texture, is there a glitch, does the person talking intermittently looks like a video-game character?

From 2017 to 2021 the World has been under the constant shower of 'fake news' ; there were so many lies, so many deceptions that it was like a speed training. The tools are there, the technologies are accessible, our duty as citizen is to be informed, to be careful, to be slow to react, and to have a solid knowledge of history, and philosophy.

Is this True?

Are we absolutely sure that this is true?

Of course not, let's study this with a scientific approach

 

"Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility"

Do not be fooled by your own expectation, most of the time we get tricked because we want to believe something in the first place, and we try to find confirmation instead of using a skeptical approach.

Let's be smart.

100 Hours In Total Darkness

A darkness retreat traditionally is an ancient spiritual practice reserved for very advanced meditation practitioners.

Because people seem to be having profound experiences in the dark.

Very similar to a sensory deprivation tank, for the first time since you were born there is nothing but your own ability to just watch and observe your own mind in that darkness.

In the dark you will find that to reduce stress and anxiety is paramount, improve sleep as well.

Sense of time is gone, and only epiphanies and new ideas, new sensations are popping up

Realizing for example how we put so much importance on time, and distractions...

In our modern culture, we believe that we are worthy only if we are productive, but being in the dark, and having no distractions, no possible activities, only thoughts, is really a game changer.

Later the whole lot of negative emotions, and fears are slowly creeping in, and the only possible response to acknowledge them, one by one, and accept them.

The end of an Era

Following concerns from doctors, Buckingham Palace declared on September 8, 2022, Queen Elizabeth was receiving medical attention at Balmoral Castle. 

The Queen remains at Balmoral, according to the statement that said, "Following further evaluation this morning, the Queen's doctors are concerned for Her Majesty's health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision."

Elizabeth's four children, as well as her daughters-in-law and grandchildren Prince William and Prince Harry, traveled to Balmoral.

Elizabeth's passing was confirmed that evening at 18:30 BST

Somehow it is 2022, but we can all witness the end of the 20th century

This news is currently all over the place Worldwide. 

The response to a "black pill" argument

The general understanding given by despairing people, or so called 'black pill' is always around the idea that there is no hope, nothing matters, nothing makes sense, this could be funny (and Rick Sanchez is often quoted for this tirade) ... but thinking in this way, can be harmful, especially if you already are in bad shape, recently hit by life changing events, grieving, or recently unemployed, divorced, etc ...

And I will quote here a paragraph from the book by Viktor Frankl:

What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. 

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

This is about looking at any situation, with the attitude of a space marine in Starcraft, and shouting:

• Commander?
• Standin' by.
•  Jacked up and good to go.
•  Gimme something to shoot!
•  Go go go!
•  Let's move!
•  Outstanding!
•  Rock and roll!

That will make the 'black pill' laughs, and then he will leave ...

While the World is waiting

For the next civil war, the next tanking of market, the next mass shooting, the next suicide bombing, the next tsunami, the next earthquake, the next leakage of toxic material, the next defective nuclear plant, the next crisis ...

Well, enjoy your ride little man

What a circus!

Charles Bukowski said it best:

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! 
That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. 
We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

Is this the prequel for the Mad Max Universe

Summer  2022 

In Europe 

Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, France:

Lots of wild fire, then some more news about heat waves

then lots of discussion about helping the Ukrainians, and how the conflict with Russia was badly handled.

Germany is going to realize its economy is going to tank, because of energy shortage, and because nobody is buying their cars anymore.

Because of the restrictions applied to Russia, all of Europe is going to back stab each other (Hungary, and Turkey leading the ball)

Ukraine is going to be helped until France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Spain are going to be impacted by too much economical pressure, then their help is going to be slightly reduced, and Europe will then show its true color, ... 

September is going to be (depending on the overall atmosphere) either a 8th wave of covid to put everybody back in their home for a while ...

Or more restrictions, taxes, too see how much the government can ask for, before the population start taking the streets. Retirement age will be set to 65, and many will die before reaching this age, while having paid all their life for the benefit of retirement. 

Inflation is going to impact Europe, and the lowest tier of the population is going to suffer even more.

Riots and demonstration will follow. Then extremists will blame the migrants, and a rise of the nationalism will plant more violence everywhere, and isolate people. Hate crimes, then probably a resurgence of a new covid variant, then medical crisis, the power shortage, then unemployment...

When the army will be in the street, you know a new low would have been reached.

In the US

Another mass shooting, followed by another debate on the right to bear arms

followed by another debate on abortion, then on the gay rights, 

while inflation is going to run wild, and energy shortage are going to appear.

Before the 2024 Election, the democrats are going to push as many evidence of the wrong doing of the previous president, but will miserably fail at this.

Trump will make a mess, somehow by entering the Presidential race, or not entering, or just by being there...

China and Russia

Watching, observing, monitoring the mess and trying to add to the chaos in other countries, 

while using propaganda to show the benefits of dictatorship over democratic government.

Human rights are going to be once again completely ignored in the process.

From time to time, they will remind everyone, that they have nuclear weapons.

Africa

After the arrival of the Russian (to 'help' them), 

will most probably start to realize it is worse than ever.

just relax, and watch this entire planet enter  the 'Mad Max' Universe

It's just a ride ...

The Deep End Full movie

Well, not the full movie (watch it on hulu)

but at least a review

This 'Deep End' docu-serie is artificially sensational, using all the best tricks of the trade (sound effects, video filters, video edition on crack)

The point of this fabrication? I'm not too sure at this point

The review though is really helpful, and the conclusion is that in a nutshell

Teal is not a cult leader, but somehow she has the seeds to become one

In the way she treats people of the inner circle.

Blake Dyer has left the building.

Another story

The Genesis, in a nutshell was the symbolic tale of the all mighty god casting out Adam & Eve from the garden of Eden

From there the misery of the human life began ...

But there could have been so many other Genesis 

Where instead God would have decided to leave the Garden of Eden, and leave Adam & Eve there ; while God would explore (or create) a different realm, that would have been the start of a completely different story-Arc.

From there, probably Eden would have started to be corrupted by inexperienced Adam & Eve, and a parallel realm would have been the new start for another Eden, probably even more beautiful.

Instead we have a corrupted World, with miserable human beings, always in conflict, always in pain, and looking up in the sky for a glimpse of a lost paradise, a place that is now out of reach...

Every efforts made since the dawn of human history has been in vain, for each new technology appearing there are terrible consequences, and a running cycle of birth, growth, collapse and ruins.

Crushed between Boomers and Gen Z

The Baby Boomer Generation was born in between 1946–1964, and they are now (most of them retired) being children of Boomer's parent, was like being raised by people who grew up just after World War 2 ; their own parents having fought, or were heavily impacted by the war.

The Boomers childhood was then quite tough, not much show of affection, drastic punishments, discipline was no joke, the value of work, the value of goods were really the focus of this generation.

Later, the boomers benefited a kick from the post war economy, and the increasing technological advances, they were courageous, hard working, and life seemed easy. Having children was encouraged, and purchasing a home, a car, some land, etc ... was an accessible dream. Many boomers were sent to Vietnam. Some of them discovered the sexual liberation, some of them tried hallucinogenic substances, this generation was already aware of an ecological crisis in the distant future. Finding a job was not too difficult, and the Boomers usually had a career for life.

The Boomers gave birth to Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980) ; these kids had parents that were quite busy, mothers started to work as well, Television had a really important part in this kids childhood experience, but still they played outside, and were quite tough, it is the generation that was watching Rambo, Rocky, and military movies. This generation idealized being a soldier, a veteran.

Cold War was the phantom menace of Generation X ; great movies were made that are still around, and still plays a role in the collective subconscious ; Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc ... the movie industry was blossoming, Gen X were a bunch of dreamers, visionary, well educated, and moving away from traditional religion, since Science was taking more and more importance in their daily life.

This Gen X created the next revolution - the computer industry took over, with the first PC in the 80s, after that the Internet took off, and while the ecological topic was starting to get noticed, the fossil industries were starting to realize the constant economic growth would not be sustainable... lots of divorce as well

There were open conflicts in Irak, Afghanistan, and many other places...

The Gen X gave birth to Gen Z born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s, already having kids was not much encouraged anymore, it was tough, sacrifice were to be made. We purchased in brick and mortar shops, and started to buy books on Amazon (as it was their initial niche) usually we would stay 5 to 10 years at our job, because of merging, lay off, or other reasons (burn out). 

Gen X were impacted by unemployment, AIDS, various mental health issue, depression, drugs, etc ... and Gen Z went deeper into these civilization illnesses, most of these became 'doomers', most of them are addicted to social media, instagram, porn, ... they always relies on their iPhone, or Android mobile phone to check information, find the best deal, relies on Uber for travelling, Tinder to find a partner, Amazon to purchase anything,

And now Generation Alpha born between 2010 and 2025 starts to discover an increase in the non addressed civilization curses, with COVID, overall depression, and War in Europe (Russia attacking Ukraine)

I am Gen X and my parents were tough, absent, divorced, and now my millennial kids (Gen Z) are also from a broken home and are heavily addicted to their mobile phone, internet, social media and are impacted with several mental health issues. It is quite a challenge to be crushed between Boomers parents, with their traditional values, and sometime narrow minded views on education, and Gen Z kids who are very demanding, not communicative (always on their phone), suffering from allergies, or various mental health issue (ADHD, bi-polar, ...) they seems so vulnerable, so fragile ....

Ah, well 

I think I am going to get a good cup of 

The Deep End

The four-part series is directed by Jon Kasbe, produced by Bits Sola, and executive produced by The Documentary Group’s Tom Yellin and Gabrielle Tenenbaum.

The show is obviously biased, it feels like purposefully Teal is portrayed as a dangerous megalomaniac cult leader with delusions of grandeur

I think Fallon (Jared) is part of this documentaries.

In the end, there is no such thing as bad publicity' is the notion that all mentions in the media aid Teal's cause

The "Deep End" and Teal Swan #releasethefootage

Coming from under my rock, after the Covid crazy time, the Ukrainian war, the recent murder of the Japan former Prime Minister, the resignation of Boris Johnson, ...

Here comes a new (mini) scandal, a "Emmy Award-winning Team" has befriended the Teal tribe community (or maybe we are not allowed to use these words anymore?) and introduced themselves as good, benevolent, helpful people wanting to share Teal's work to a mainstream audience, and started in 2020-2021 a series for Hulu called 'the Deep end' 

A look inside the world of one of today's most controversial spiritual teachers and her dedicated followers.

But it was a deceptive attempt at gaining fame for themselves, 

by portraying Teal Swan as an arrogant, all powerful cult guru.

A Series by Jon Kasbe, and producer Bits Sola (she makes great slam poetry)

How does Teal being clairvoyant, could not have foreseen this betrayal? and comes to regret over and over that she did not recorded everything, to provide evidence of the whole masquerade.

Honestly watching the latest development of this sad affair in Teal latest video, is quite sad, hear breaking honestly, the editing work Kasbe team has done is grotesque, the light is all weird, the music is purposefully creepy, ...

This whole situation really reminded me of something from the Simpsons

But more seriously, 

Isn't this whole fiasco a legal case of defamation?

None of this really matters

Once the realization that none of this really matters, and none of it's for us, 

Then it downs on us that it is all we have and we don't know why.

I mean the universe is vast. Not infinite, but incomprehensibly vast. 

We are not equipped to perceive the vastness of it all. 

In turn, nature did not equipped us to understand how small we are. 

Not just as individuals, but as a species. As a world.

And we don't really have any idea why any of it is. 

We have ideas on where it came from typically, we vaguely get variations of "first nothing, then something" (itself an unsettling concept when you try to really wrap your head around it, and because we cannot really perceive "nothing" either, let alone "something from nothing"). But we don't know why, and some belief systems actively discourage even trying to understand why.

The result is that here we are: Each of us a collection of cells given some sort of hive-mind programming that creates consciousness,  but still driven towards nothing more than our immediate needs, desires and, if we're lucky, maybe frivolous interests. 

And all of it with no real goal greater than maintaining our collection of cells long enough to spawn new collections of cells. 

Any goals we find beyond that are our own: Invented and imposed.

And the universe does not care. 

A lot of us can't really see that, either, but in the end? None of this is for us. 

Even adhering to some divine authority or purpose doesn't help, because that path is literally built to be more questions than answers - and to discourage either - in service to a goal we are told we cannot understand.

We are not as important as we like to think we are. 

Problem is, we're not really equipped to perceive that, either. 

So we just make up reasons for it all, fight tooth and nail to hold on to whatever we have and whatever we believe in.

We just keep going. And we don't know why.

That has to be a funny thing for higher beings...

My audience

How do you end up here on my blog? 

probably via a google search, right? 

I'm not fooled, I know quite well, that once you (dear visitor reader) will have found the content you were looking for, you leave and never come back 

Which is why I post daily here, to engage with my audience while of course trying to keep my very attached girlfriend at bay (her name is 'depression' by the way).

The reason things are not going to get better

For every problem we meet, we find a solution that is generating newer problems.

It is like a curse

Everything Humanity touch, seems to go extinct, corrupt, collapse or die.

Once the idea of making a profit starts to be introduced, the situation goes awry

Once the government starts to be involved, it is also another level of crazy that is added to an already difficult situation.

The improvement is rarely a simplification, the goal is rarely to simplify.

More regulations, more legislation, more control, more documents to fill, and the government is ready for the next step which usually is more taxes.

Nature will produce a tree, freely, as a joke ask a public servant to do the same thing, and the budget to build tree will be astronomical.

The problem is that on one hand, the governments all over the World are concerned only about one thing,  and it is their survival.

And on the other hand, starting anew, means there is going to be a lot of disasters, and we are more or less at this point in history, where the states are being insufferable, and the population disagree more and more on the new restrictions.

The next step for the government to protect itself, is to become dictatorship, like in Russia, China, North Korea, etc ... and what used to be the democratic advances, Human rights, basic decency starts to slowly disappear.

Retirement, right to bear arms, birth control, Abortion, Savings, decent salary, free circulation of goods, are going to be heavily regulated.

A wise man once said 'people should not be afraid of their government, governments should be afraid of their people'

The idea of God

Following Part 1 and part 2 discussion on the idea of God

Here comes more materials, and hopefully interesting starting points 

the revolutionary paradigm I want to introduce, is that

God is not separate from us, and we are only separated from God, because of our ego

Let's explore the Genesis text story line

First Adam and Eve were totally and all the time in the presence of God

but then after eating the forbidden fruit, there perception of reality was altered

was this an hallucinogenic substance, was it the development of a brain faculty, was it the introduction of the ego? that does not really matter ...

but from that moment, Adam and Eve discovered fear, and felt like they were separated from God.

From the moment, they entered this psychosis of 'us versus the entire Universe'

From that moment, everything around them was a potential threat, and death also appeared.

That really looks like Adam & Eve had tasted some powerful stuff, and were tripping bad, that the nice and loving Eden turned into Hell. 

God represents nature, the garden, the trees, the animals, the Universe, the logic of evolution, the benevolent power that guides everything slowly to transcend and evolve ... but Humanity started to question the whole thing, and started to think they could do better...

And look where we are now?

  

The concept of God

Following my previous article 

Some more thoughts about the 'concept of God'

To summarize my previous post, God concept from the Church was:

- God was separate from humanity

- God is all mighty and judge his creation

- There is Heaven and Hell, and therefor an 'afterlife'

The result of this philosophy was a very black and white ideology, where there is Good vs Evil

and this was the root cause of so many wars, another concept was that believing in God would turn the people into righteous fanatics, ready to go into crusade, and convert the unbelievers into believers or basically get rid of them.

Big big big paradox here, as the God worshiped by these crusaders was a God of Love and compassion, and yet bloodbaths would ensue everywhere the Christian evangelical explorer would colonize outside Europe.

Then there was another bloodbath in Europe while Christian were split into true Catholics, and Protestants. At this point Religion was really an excuse to kill and slaughter in the name of some imaginary God.

Once I discovered this side of Religion, I started to see the Ego in action, not the teaching of Jesus in action, and I started to doubt that any Church was anything but a cult, a successful one, a bigger one, but it has all the evidence of being a cult.

Because not only the killing, torturing and brain washing were there, but there was a lot of financial operations to keep the whole system afloat.

Perception of God

My understanding of the concept of a God has changed over the years

When I was a child, the concept of God was introduced by the Catholic Church, my parents and family,

we all adhere to the idea of a God almighty that we had to fear, while he was really benevolent and kind to us, but from the reading of the Bible was also able to call upon us lots of calamities.

And God had a Son (Jesus) and Jesus was the bridge  between this all patriarchal God and us, the sinners, then there was the Holy Spirit, but the concept was difficult to visualize, ... 

There were chants, prayers, rituals and all that, and since I was a kid, and my parents seemed happy with the whole thing, I followed blindly. 

Later, I started to find the whole story quite challenging to accept, and I was also discovering other religions or Philosophies, like Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Paganism, and older mythology including Greek, and Roman Gods, and the idea of a unique God just made no sense anymore.

From that point, God was a separate Judge somewhere up in the sky, that was the ultimate arbiter of the human activities, and would decide which one was worthy to go to Heaven, or would be sent to Hell.

This ideology was probably acceptable during Medieval time, and the concept of the all mighty God was more or less embodied by the Kings, and Queens, and the Bible was pretty much a brain washing device to have all the good workers being obedient and keep working while the noble blood was having a good time (or would kill each other).

The big problem was that in the early Christian time, there were miracles, there were people who would experience God action, and would be later able to perform miracles as well, cure illnesses, etc ... And from that I could understand that converting to Christianity made sense.

But nowadays, Science is performing miracles, cure illnesses, provides to the masses devices that enable us to communicate over continent, ... and the Holiness, the Gods, the cultural rites, are all there to offer an excuse for War in the middle East, pretty much.

We're doomed

 Here is what happened earlier, I am in a shared office and my duty is more or less to take care of the lunch facility ; which lately has become a little challenging because I do not know for sure how many we are going to be around the table.

There are the 2 regular (a couple) but lately their eldest son is also joining, he has just turned 18, and he may or may not join, won't call before, it is always a surprise.

Today, the regular left the office a little early and I assumed they would come back around noon, table was set, I had prepared one meal for 3 and extra rice, a salad, and there was a couple of leftovers from the day before. 

Then I heard someone entering the shared office, and it was their 18 years old son, let's call him 'Gil' he grabbed a few potato chips and started to check what was cooking, I left my seat, and greeted him. He barely acknowledge me, then went into the toilet with his phone, I checked the table, crumbs everywhere.

That already started to piss me off, but I said nothing, I knew the meal would be a bit too small of the 4 of us, after about 5 or 10 minutes he left the toilet, and started to serve himself a plate, I sit next to him, and served myself some salads, he made no comments, grabbed some more potato chips, I stand up to open the casserole, and noticed, that he took about half already, I took my share, and then he served himself another portion, and at this point I told him that the remaining would not be enough, and he just grunted  'they will manage' 

I was really embarrassed, this young dude, was depriving food from his own parents, and while he left the table leaving his dirty plate, and crumbs everywhere, he lied on the couch with his mobile phone watching funny videos, with his greasy hair and dirty socks, ...

We are screwed, if this is the new generation, it made me uncomfortable.

In case of emergency

Lately I have noticed, how the mood can be influenced by TV Show, books, gossip, general conversation or interaction with people, music, etc ...

The weird thing is that for example depending on the moment, the same song, or movie will have an emotional impact, meaning tears will goosebumps, or great joy ; and later nothing ... because we moved on, or the overall mood is different, or we are not open to the same extent.

Reading is a great example of an activity that will impact completely differently our mood, if our mind is already filled with a lot of stress, or unsettled thoughts.

Meditation has its place in this process, because it is like coming back to the center of our being.

If we were a computer, deep sleep, meditation, having a good workout session would be like pressing the reset button.

Having a nice voice in our head, also a benevolent general atmosphere of supportive advice, like a very confident coach having our back at all time.

The internal dialog;

- You are doing good, you are fine, look at all the past events, and all the good things you've done so far.

- Remember that difficult time, you thought you would not be able to survive, you did it!

- Enjoy life, relax a little, look around you, realize how life is always surprising and accept it like a fish accept to swim in the never ending flow of water.

- There is nothing to do, in the end ; but to enjoy this good time, to breath and be grateful

- If you have a good job, a nice home, a quiet place to sleep, most of our worry are imaginary.

Calming the mind

There are thinkers, and there are undisciplined thinkers

thoughts will pop up in our mind, like rain drops during a storm,  passing like clouds on an October evening in Ireland, this is a fact of life.

Now sometime thoughts are nice and comforting, sometimes they are filled with regrets, guilt, anger, hatred, sadness, melancholy, and these are not fun.

I could suggest to observe these passing thoughts, not to act on them, not to pursue them even, just to  acknowledge them, and let them go.

By chance, I was introduced to the Work of Eckhart Tolle, Byron Katie and  Anthony Metivier they all have found a way to 'filter' the flow of constant mind chatter.

- Are these thoughts true? Am I absolutely sure that they are true?

- Are these thoughts about the possible future? then focus on the present moment

- Are these thoughts about the past? then focus on the present moment

- Are these thoughts useful? and how do they behave?

Add this new tools into your mental health first aid kit

Smoking and global warming

 At the personal level smoking is an addictive habit, but it has benefits

- the smoker feels in charge

- the smoker feels relaxed (temporarily)

- smoking provides a break 

- smoking facilitates social networking (a sense of belonging)

but of course there is a high price for this toxic activity

and this is health 

- smoking cause serious illnesses, and this has been proven

At the collective level, we can also see the same pattern

- the excessive production is facilitating consumption

- owning new product feels great and empowering

- economic growth requires excessive production

- the whole concept of constant economic growth is unnatural

but here also there is a high price for this 

- the high demands for new products is causing artificial obsolescence

- and the general economical activities aggravates pollution and global warming impact

Louise Attaque - J't'emmène au vent

Good music from France

Gabor Szabo - Dreams (1968)

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Fear and phobia

 Attempting to list many fears (and phobias)

- Death (Thanatophobia)

- Dark (as in fear of the darkness - Nyctophobia)

- Insects (entomophobia)

- being judged (Social anxiety disorder)

- being excluded (monophobia, isolophobia, or eremophobia)

- Loneliness (autophobia)

- Heights (acrophobia)

...

There are many more, and this seems already to show some patterns

At the very core of these fears is a fear of the unknown

And maybe the real cause of this fear, is to lose control

and to have to face the responsibility of losing control, and be liable for the consequences

What about the fear of taking responsibilities

The fear of having to tell the truth to someone you care about

The fear of hurting someone you love

The next step is to take notes of the 'strategies' that are created to get around these fears and as the lizard brain is only able to flee, attack, or freeze 

A standard strategy is to blame someone else

Another one is to ignore the problem

Another tactic is to fall into addictive patterns

Fear not being correctly addressed will become a source of interference 

There is a very important work that has to be done, to identify and work on our fears.

As we are not equal in our response to fear.

Advices to fight depression

Struggling with depression ... it is a journey. And unless miracles, it’s going to take awhile. 

Everyone is going to take some steps forward and some steps back. It is completely normal so try to not beat yourself up about it. It’s going to happen, it’s going to be okay, and it does get better.

Having a structure like a solid daily/weekly/monthly program is a huge help.  It gives you something to grasp onto and you slide into and out of depression.

Compassion is one of the most important parts of discipline. Everyone slips. 

Another very important step is to protect your sleep. 

Going to bed at the same time every night.

Waking up at the same time every day. 

Getting up when your alarm starts, there is no other option, just do it, get up

Discipline is not determined by how many times you slip, but by how many times you get back up and keep going. That's how you build discipline.

Lastly, you need to build up your self-esteem. It will naturally improve by persevering and succeeding. 

Recognize small victories

Finding Purposes

 

1. First aspect of your soul's contract is  to find joy in spite of challenges, pain and  karma
2. Second aspect is to find more ways to love and appreciate yourself every single day  
3. Third aspect which is to find ways to spread  your self-love and self-appreciation to others because you and others are one.

... and don't forget to have fun

Don't miss the forest  for the trees

The bigger plan

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The ancient wisdom of the Tao stated that changes is inevitable 

The reason is that we are living biological humanoid creature, the Earth is a living planet, the universe is an organism. 

It’s changing, it’s evolving, it has an internal dynamic.

But the final causes are not fixed.

And it is not for us to know about it, the same way a cell in the stomach does not know what are the common modalities of Wall Street, and the functioning of an Computer Operating System, or the impact of Global Warming, etc ... 

We as human are the accelerator of times, we are moving fast into making sense of things, 

hopefully we are not too toxic yet, not destroying our home Planet, yet.

Nature is experimenting with us, we are the experiments, we are a bet

A bet that Nature made for long term survival

if we are too stupid for the task, because we are obsessed with economical growth, Wars, conflicts, and our actions are detrimental to the whole system (because of pollution, because of our ego, ...)

then Nature will act accordingly... and we will go extinct. 

I'm not worried about Nature, 

Nature will be fine without humans, without us.

Happy Easter

Let's hope we get better 

Underrated habit with great benefit

Walking every day for 30 minutes. 

It's such an easy habit, but such an underrated one!

Walking will clear the mind, and will help with problem-solving and contemplating. 

A secondary side effect is that it will put the body in action,  calming the mind

If the weather is good, you get lots of Vitamin D from the sun.

It is good cardio training.

Other benefits:

• Reduces stress and tension
• Helps you be more productive
• Helps you think better
• Helps you be more creative
• Maintains a healthy weight and loses body fat
• Prevents or manages heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, cancer, and type 2 diabetes
• Improves cardiovascular fitness
• Strengthens your bones and muscles
• Improves muscle endurance
• Increases energy levels
• Improves your mood, cognition, memory, and sleep
• Improves your balance and coordination
• Strengthens the immune system
• Avoid using your car, and reduce carbon print

Follow the lead of past creative geniuses like Steve Jobs, Einstein, Asimov, Beethoven, Freud, Faulkner, Kafka, Hobbes, Descartes, Tolstoy, Hawthorne, Tchaikovsky, Darwin, and Dickens, 

They all loved to walk and it was in their daily ritual!

Also swimming, cycling, same type of good habits

and laughing absolutely essential