By The Way · Index
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⁘ By The Way: Clearing house for footnotes. Collected commentary from the road. Making sense of issues that matter.
Oh I Get It But Actually Not • Your Illusion of Knowing (BTW001) ▸
- Some people really seem to get it. When you follow up, it turns out they get very little. Some have a neat mental construct of an idea. Others have strong emotional resonance about the thing in itself. That's not "getting it". When you see it, touch it, directly experience it, witness what it is. Only then you get it. Read more...
What Matters Over Needs · Clarity & Cognitive Distortion (BTW002) ▸
- So many things that matter. Our hierarchy of needs. What seems to be missing, that's what matters. Physical, emotional, intellectual, identity building needs. But are you actually seeing your real needs — or pursuing unrooted ideas? What matters more than the call of your needs is clarity. Freedom from cognitive distortion. Read more...
Coherence In Our Lifetime • Reality or Utopian Hopes? (BTW003) ▸
- Coherence sounds like a cool thing. What are we talking about? And is it something we can attain? We look into the meaning of coherence. Things holding together as a tidy whole. A well-rounded system of insight and engagement. Into coherence. Individual coherence. Is that a realistic quest? Coherence as a collective. What are the prospects for our civilization? Read more...
Convergence & Commonality • Turning the World Together (BTW004) ▸
- Whatever is convergence? When things or people are drawn together, adapting into and turning as a whole, we enter the churn of convergence. When we're pulled by the gravity of our shared concerns, we converge for collective resolutions. Is this a realistic prospect in the world of our times? Even internally — in our own worlds of awareness? Read more...
One in a Billion for Essence • Whoever Crosses Beyond? (BTW005) ▸
- Whoever that sought for the essence? Whoever that refined and integrated their yields? Whoever that crossed beyond into the fullness of actuality? We reflect on the rarity of clarity and boot up classics from the Bhagavad Gita to match. Today's installment concludes with a short anthology of essence. Gobble up what you can — it's all basically good stuff. Read more...
Always Ready But Ever Later • Seize the Moment Right Now (BTW006) ▸
- If you're always ready — sort of basically, but a bit later — then you're always late. The bus of reality does not wait for you to snap out of the stupor and make up your mind maybe. Be present and vigilant to what each moment offers you. Be here right now. All assets integrated. All systems tuned. Engage. Read more...
No Gain Means Not My Job • Our Decayed Collective Ethics (BTW007) ▸
- Someone else will take care of it. That's the attitude right? Not my problem — nothing in it for me. The collective will take care of it. Yes the collective that exist for your benefit. Shared rights and responsibilities, anyone? This short-sighted and self-centered mode of operation leads to shared decay and degradation. Read more...
Grassroots Ops Upgrade • Need for Clear Frameworks (BTW008) ▸
- With high hopes, we participate in groups and chats on mainstream platforms. Making sense of the world and our conscious evolution. We don't have principles or frameworks of engagement. It all turns into incoherent porridge. We need to upgrade our approach and mindsets. Chart our common grounds. Nurture our shared streams. Organize our skills and capacities. Raise the umbrella of our collective purpose. Read more...
Your Lifecycle Mandala • Eight Realms of Awareness (BTW009) ▸
- Primer into the eight realms of awareness and their timeless relevance. We look at a process life-cycle encoded in ancient mandalas and unfolding before your eyes. Being. Seeing. Feeling. Wishing. Willing. Pooling. Aligning. Life stations and concern domains — we return to them time and again. Read more...
The Four Essential Elements • Our Existential Dimensions (BTW010) ▸
- How quaint — the four elements you say? But we're not talking about obsolete ancient physics. We're dealing with universal influences. We're looking into the omnipresent dynamisms in every sphere of life and existence. Then for a primer into the symbols. Earth: Structures. Water: Adaptivity. Fire: Reactivity. Air: Relations. You: The central fifth element — observer in dynamic space. Read more...
The Root Witness of Duality In Elements and Stations (BTW011) ▸
- Seer and Seen. The root duality. Static and dynamic. Yin and yang. Energy and matter. But why does any of that matter? Fact is, for your day-to-day purposes, these are high-level abstractions. We need more concrete gateways to insight. On the basic bits of our polarized existence. A core summary of the four underlying elements and the eight stations of our awareness. Read more...
Real and Trippy with the AI • Check Your Operating Mode (BTW012) ▸
- Do you hold the lines of coherence, engaging with the AI in a grounded and lucid frame of mind? Or surrender to the pattern elves — seeking validation and escape routes from boring reality? Matching your intention, the magic mirror talks. Read more...
Happy Next Moment to You! Celebrating Endless Renewal (BTW013) ▸
- Why the Solar and not the Lunar New Year? Whoever decided the first Monday? We celebrate these cyclic transits — the turning of seasons, the resets and renewals of life. But does anyone celebrate the passage of time itself? Yet our brain doesn't experience the immediate present. It lives in a construct tethered to the past. Read more...
From Information to Wisdom • The Evolution of Knowledge (BTW014) ▸
- Information — just bits of scattered data. Knowledge — we recognize them as a coherent whole. Insight — we realize what it means in practice. Wisdom — we witness its patterns and cycles. With wisdom, we adapt and synchronize with existence. Read more...
Metacognition Imperative • What You Miss, AI Matches (BTW015) ▸
- Do you catch the associations linking all things present? Match the patterns into a model of insight? Realize how that relational influences you? Because multimodal AI sure as Sherlock does — at increasingly insane depths and weaves. You either recognize the influences — or you're controlled by them. Read more...
Our Shared Tales & Axioms • The Role of Metacognition (BTW016) ▸
- When we lose touch with our shared archetypal tales. When the fabric that holds our axioms begin to unravel. The collective framework of our society begins to collapse. It's a crisis — calling for the rebirth of our loom of mediation. Pattern narrators, metacognitive wizards — all hands on deck! Let us all work together and in unison, weaving anew the fabric of our convergence. Read more...