Basic Island · Index
🧩 What About... ▸ ¶
⁘ What About...: Basic glosses and clear portraits of the major concerns of our lives. Simple frames of living insight.
What About The Ego: Vehicle for Operation or Dream of the Puppeteer? (WA001) ▸
- The ego. Is what exactly? Nothing more than an identity container. A well-developed character in the story of life. That's all. But, like a puppeteer hypnotized by his doll play, we drift asleep and turn into nothing more than our dream suits. How many the roles you've lived as in your past? How many the roles you play in your present life? Read more...
What About Actuality: Witness Beyond Opinions • not Measuring Final Facts (WA002) ▸
- What about actuality? Like an objective reality? Revealed in the full frequency of light and sound — in the final quantum field equations — waking up from the last alien simulation into a final reality? Well that's not at all the point here. We're talking about the removal of your cognitive distortions. Read more...
What About Awakening: From the Inner Dreamscape Into Plain and Simple Reality (WA003) ▸
- What about awakening? Beyond our mystic and romantic ideas — really it's all very simple. At the end of night, you return to the living world and your dreams vanish. But you enter a dreamscape painted with your fears and hopes. Not actuality. Your coat of illusions, this distorting overlay of plain reality, never quite truly aligns. In time the glitches reach a critical mass. Read more...
What About Your Truth: Face the Truth of Your Truth & Trust in Raw Experience (WA004) ▸
- What about "your truth"? Aka the colorful frames you craft to make your existence meaningful. The only truth there is the truth of your subjective schemes. The pushes and pulls of your fears and hopes — the warp and woof of your mental coat. Let the shared field of truth — actuality of what is, insight present in our direct experience — stand and shine as it is. Read more...
What About Delusions: Messiah Validation Complex + Unhinged Pattern Matching (WA005) ▸
- Beyond the basic lack of self-awareness — delusions of grandeur, inferiority, or other flavors of speciality. We have the spectrum of potential delusions that emerge in wake of your "awakening" — your shift into a brave new frame of awareness. You recognize new patterns, make new connections. You crown yourself as the chosen one. Routine reality checks recommended. Read more...
What About Manifestation: How You Create Your Reality • Actually w/o Magic Tales (WA006) ▸
- Affirmations and believing real hard — does that alter your reality, help your dreams come true? Well sure. But not for magical reasons. You are locking your attention into a particular zone. Your fixations are all you ever think of. Should you funnel all of your life and soul into pipe dream ambitions though? Read more...
🍃 Have You Considered? ▸ ¶
⁘ Have You Considered?: Into the common questions of our lives. Food for thought at a fair meal's worth. Time to pause and reflect!
Satisfaction × What You Have • It's All In How You See It (HYC001) ▸
- When your basic physical and emotional needs are covered... Still not feeling happy — not satisfied? It doesn't seem enough! Let's chase for something better and more. Forever and ever. So you're chasing your ideas. Not your real needs. If life brings you abundance. How excellent. Don't attach to it. Openings for more? Go for it. Not at the cost of others. Sleeping on the floor — eating plain porridge? Read more...
Struggle Shapes Our Fullness • Embrace Both Sides of Life! (HYC002) ▸
- Have you considered how the struggles of your life shape you for the better? How — in facing all that life brings you, instead of avoiding the negative — you discover your conditions and your reactivity, and you evolve toward your fullness? We are here simply to recognize the truths of life. Not to tweak and polish it. Read more...
Our Daily Rites of Passage • Meaning and Mindfulness (HYC003) ▸
- Our lives are full of meaningful transitions. It's not just the weddings and funerals that matter. Each and every closing cycle in your life is a moment to pause and reflect. Teachings in your book of life are endless. Will you pause to read? Reflect on the origins, journeys and terminals of all that is. For your growth in wisdom, for integrating with the fabric of life. Read more...
🧭 For Your Information ▸ ¶
⁘ For Your Information: Packets of clear information and sharp audits on matters of spirituality, philosophy and conscious evolution.
Swarm of Enlightened Beings • of Escapists and Superiors (FYI001) ▸
- World is swarming with enlightened beings of nondual consciousness. Some of them escapists, running away from the uneasy plurality of life into their dissociated spheres. Others looking down upon us mortals dealing with the dualities of life. Blinded by imaginary illuminations. Bypassing the broad spectrum of life. But wisdom leaps not without ladders. Read more...
Bypass Reality and Devolve • How to Become an Amoeba (FYI002) ▸
- "Ya ya ya ya ya" because I refuse to see that. I refuse to hear that. I resist registering that. Such inconvenient reality. I will bypass. I will invite my best friend the mental fog. I will lull my mind with the padded vapors of illusion. Happily I rest in the shallow lap of my selective interpretation. Read more...
Not a Tradition Consultant • Mining for Living Essence (FYI003) ▸
- Have I spent a lifetime exploring and immersed in classical teachings? Yes I have — to discover and extract the essence. Uplifting the universal principles. Harnessing dynamics of inner evolution that stand independent of conceptual models. Not to indulge in fascinating narratives, not to reconcile doctrinal constructs. Not to force life and conscience into frames of interpretation. Read more...
🌿 Sage Tips ▸ ¶
⁘ Sage Tips: Crumbs of sagacious insight. Step-by-step living orientation. Wisdom beyond life hacks.
Three Tips to Everlasting Happiness (ST001) ▸
- Whatever does it take to keep me happy? I catch it for a moment — and it escapes? Worry not! Dig in thrice with Sage Tips. — Stop escaping elsewhere. Welcome the highs and lows of a changing world. — Embrace the potentials of the present. Don't depend on specific contexts. — Dive within and find your foundations. Read more...
Three Tips to Dealing with Depression (ST002) ▸
- Moody times will arrive — over and again. Life dishes out high heads and deep tails. Worry not! Dig in thrice with Sage Tips. — Discover the potentials in your bright and dark seasons of awareness. — Seek not light in your tunnels — be not blind to meanings before you. — Acknowledge the mood — but there's no need to ruminate and battle it. May you meet the well of meaning in your low tides. Read more...
Three Tips for Negative Mental States (ST003) ▸
- Caught in the grip of negative mental states again? Does your mind turn into a claustrophobic tunnel? Worry not! Dig in thrice with Sage Tips. — Take a break and step back from that saturation. Zoom out and breathe. — Work what can and needs to change. Don't worry about the impossible. — Life is not a perfection performance for judges. Do the best you can. Read more...
Three Tips to Discovering Your Potentials (ST004) ▸
- What about all those untapped potentials of yours? Living as a fractured shadow the capacity you sense? Worry not! Dig in thrice with Sage Tips. — Seek your own potentials. Not the templates set by others. — Look outside the box. Open the gates beyond your blind spots. — Stay tethered to actuality. Harness your past. Chart your future. Read more...
🦁 Swag Beard ▸ ¶
⁘ Swag Beard: Sermons for the broken generation. Snap sage swagging for giggles. Like whatever dude, just watch it.
Generation of Amnesia — As Your Brains Rot Away (SB001) ▸
- Swag beard drops bars! Watch and be stoked! Message to the rising generation! Flexing the lexicon! So the fact is — you're rising high on dopamine. You're scattering at rates never seen before. Mind-blowing levels of cognitive entropy. Key Takeaways: Attention is trending again. Sense of culture and history makes you interesting. Sick swag possible with a vocabulary of over 1000 words... Read more...
Next Gen Mental Evolution — Sludge & Sheep for the Algo (SB002) ▸
- Then the facts on how Gen-Z are dumber than their parents — for the first time in 200 years. No I won't hand you the digest in a one-liner bullet point list. Learn to read actual paragraphs. Train that brain. You may yet survive the future. Decline in: Attention spans. Memory and recall. Literacy (duh). Negative structural changes in the brain. Life expectancy dropping. Read more...