--- title: "Matches for Contexts | Search" heading: "Site Search" subheading: "Seeking » Contexts « ..." updated: "2026-01-08T23:08:19+00:00" words: url: https://ananda.icu/q description: "" ... ๐Ÿ”Ž๏ธŽ query โ€” **contexts***   โ˜   matches โ€” **163** ### [Three Tips to Everlasting Happiness (ST001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/sage-tips/st001-three-tips-to-everlasting-happiness) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ sage-tips](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/sage-tips) โ˜ created **2025-11-01** โ˜ **2025-11-01** โ˜ words **530** โ˜ **02:58** min - Whatever does it take to keep me happy? I catch it for a moment โ€” and it escapes? Worry not! Dig in thrice with Sage Tips. โ€” Stop escaping elsewhere. Welcome the highs and lows of a changing world. โ€” Embrace the potentials of the present. Don't depend on specific contexts. โ€” Dive within and find your foundations. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/sage-tips/st001-three-tips-to-everlasting-happiness) ### [Operational Ego โ€” Our Roles and Instruments (M005) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/metaloom-reviews/m005-operational-ego-our-roles-and-instruments) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ metaloom-reviews](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/metaloom-reviews) โ˜ created **2025-08-30** โ˜ updated **2025-09-14** โ˜ words **2082** โ˜ **14:17** min - Your "the ego"? There is no such monolithic ego. We are complex entities โ€” not one-dimensional blobs. You are a rich system of concern domains in a stack. We operate in diverse contexts with our capacities. Our contextual attention directs our "incarnations". You cannot get rid of "the ego" as a whole. You can't also learn to live with "the ego". [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/metaloom-reviews/m005-operational-ego-our-roles-and-instruments) ### [Pool of Spoken Word โ†’ Echoes of Insight โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/audio) - [**โŠ‚ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [โІ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root) โ˜ created **2025-04-20** โ˜ updated **2025-06-18** โ˜ words **4436** min - Assortment of audio materials. This is a catalogue of audio versions for all the video reels. Videos and transcripts linked in โ€” whichever media you prefer. Processing more as time permits. Then dive into the pool of spoken word โ€” there be treasures. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/audio) ### [Collaborations โ˜ The Same Page โ€” Baselines and Orientation โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/collabs) - [**โŠ‚ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [โІ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root) โ˜ created **2025-08-28** โ˜ updated **2025-09-04** โ˜ words **1388** min - If you've landed here โ€” then I or someone in the know linked you up. Greetings. We have parallel interests and ongoing operations then. Collaboration starts with quality communication. We establish the shared baselines โ€” aka. The Same Page โ€” for our mutual orientation. These are simple scaffolds to reduce friction and facilitate the smooth course of our attention and efforts. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/collabs) ### [Contact - Questions and Feedback โ€” Platform Links โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/contact) - [**โŠ‚ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [โІ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root) โ˜ created **2025-06-06** โ˜ updated **2026-01-06** โ˜ words **465** min - If you have questions. Then please ask your actual questions. There may be good answers. If you have feedback. Then please share your fair feedback. We'll improve things. Thanks. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/contact) ### [Current Stream: Latest Content - Dive In and Explore! โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/current) - [**โŠ‚ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [โІ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root) โ˜ created **2025-06-06** โ˜ **2025-06-06** โ˜ words **3254** min - Recent content added to the site โ€” here in this current feed. Take a dip or dive in deep โ€” explore and engage the manifold streams of consciousness. Latest talks, latest writings, latest main pages. All here for your convenience! [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/current) ### [FAQ - Basic Answers to Common Queries โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/faq) - [**โŠ‚ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [โІ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root) โ˜ created **2025-06-20** โ˜ updated **2025-07-11** โ˜ words **1392** min - We've collected some common questions and answers for your convenience: Orientation FAQ, Interaction FAQ, Contemplation FAQ. With fresh questions, contact us and we'll respond as may be appropriate. May you find your cler answers. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/faq) ### [Content License - Terms of Use for Ananda.ICU Materials โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/license) - [**โŠ‚ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [โІ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root) โ˜ created **2025-06-22** โ˜ **2025-06-22** โ˜ words **684** min - Content is available for sharing under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Roll with it. Share away. Do what you may. Be happy. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/license) ### [Make Awareness Great Again! โ€” Drain That Swamp ยท Follow the Truth โ€” โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/maga) - [**โŠ‚ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [โІ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root) โ˜ created **2025-12-06** โ˜ **2025-12-06** โ˜ words **6864** min - Welcome! Here you are then. Don't be shy. It's a stream of our latest digs. Please dig in. Make awareness great again. You can also find all this free media on the YouTube Playlist for shorts. Binge away! Make Your Awareness Great Again! [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/maga) ### [Press Info - For Publishers โ€ข Broadcasters โ€ข Reporters โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/press) - [**โŠ‚ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [โІ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root) โ˜ created **2025-07-11** โ˜ **2025-07-11** โ˜ words **1122** min - Hello content person you. We can collaborate and content here may be shared. Yes the scoop is here โ€” so link up and inquire. Available for interviews and quest apparitions. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/press) ### [Support โ˜ Our Operations โ†’ Free for You and Me and All โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/support) - [**โŠ‚ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [โІ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root) โ˜ created **2025-08-29** โ˜ updated **2025-12-24** โ˜ words **1387** min - On supporting the maintenance and evolution of this resource. Everything here is free for all. There are no paywalls. There are no subscriptions. There should be no obstacles to free access into valuable insight. This is not about stuff โ€” this is about our lives and our conscious evolution. On this page โ€ข Current Operations โ€ข Ways of Supporting โ€ข Future Forecasts [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/support) ### [Pool of Videos โ†’ Into Direct Insight โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/video) - [**โŠ‚ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [โІ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root) โ˜ created **2024-12-12** โ˜ updated **2025-06-18** โ˜ words **30244** min - Dive into our growing catalogue of videos. Some of them short and to the point. Others dreadfully long but packed with essential musings. Browse the @Mr.Om.Ananda โ–ธ YouTube channel for the latest digs. Enjoy the show! [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/video) ### [Who Is This? - My Eloquent Egologue โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/who) - [**โŠ‚ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [โІ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root) โ˜ created **2025-05-18** โ˜ updated **2025-06-18** โ˜ words **2526** min - Well it is I of course, your favorite infinity in a nutshell. Embodied for your entertainment, in service to whatever that matters. Some call me Mr. Ananda. Others call me whatever else. Pleased to meet you. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/who) ### [Eight Realms of Consciousness - Primary Frames of Embodied Awareness โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/texts/kernel/eight-realms-of-consciousness) - [**โŠ‚ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [โІ kernel](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/kernel) โ˜ created **2025-06-06** โ˜ updated **2025-06-21** โ˜ words **1066** min - Journey across eight realms and fields of consciousness. Discover your inner stations. Harmonize and embody all of manifest existence. Enter the kernel of the ancient octagon. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/texts/kernel/eight-realms-of-consciousness) ### [Progressive Enlightenment - Stations of Evolving Consciousness - v1.1 โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/texts/kernel/progressive-enlightenment) - [**โŠ‚ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [โІ kernel](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/kernel) โ˜ created **2025-06-06** โ˜ **2025-06-06** โ˜ words **1691** min - As our consciousness evolves - in purification, refinement, unification, and liberation - we journey through a progression of distinct stations of awareness. Here we explore a general roadmap of the evolutionary path from automaton until absolution and beyond. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/texts/kernel/progressive-enlightenment) ### [Rhythms and Habits of Wholesome Life โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/texts/practice/rhythms-and-habits-of-wholesome-life) - [**โŠ‚ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [โІ practice](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/practice) โ˜ created **2024-11-06** โ˜ updated **2025-10-02** โ˜ words **1897** min - This set of guidelines was written as a basic scaffold for more balanced rhythms and routines of life for two aspirants seeking to establish themselves on the path of self-awareness. We also look at helpful and harmful habits. May these notes prove useful for you too. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/texts/practice/rhythms-and-habits-of-wholesome-life) ### [Four Elements in Our Communication โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/texts/elements/four-elements-in-our-communication) - [**โŠ‚ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [โІ elements](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/elements) โ˜ created **2024-12-02** โ˜ updated **2025-10-02** โ˜ words **1072** min - Successful communication is necessarily balanced. With guidance from the elements, we discover wholesome foundations and methods for communication โ€” into grounded, adaptive, coherent, enriching and unburdened interaction. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/texts/elements/four-elements-in-our-communication) ### [Positive and Negative Mental States โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/texts/mind/positive-negative-mental-states) - [**โŠ‚ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [โІ mind](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/mind) โ˜ created **2024-08-21** โ˜ updated **2025-06-21** โ˜ words **2306** min - Our mind is influenced by a spectrum of positive and negative mental states. This list of mental states serves as a basis for self-awareness, introspection, and inquiry into the inner influences that condition and liberate our awareness. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/texts/mind/positive-negative-mental-states) ### [Advaita โ€” Absolute and Qualified Nonduality โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/texts/traditions/advaita-absolute-and-qualified-nonduality) - [**โŠ‚ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [โІ traditions](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/traditions) โ˜ created **2025-10-31** โ˜ **2025-10-31** โ˜ words **1299** min - Collection of comments and write-ups on Advaita. On the nature and implications of non-duality. Beyond absurdity and hallucinated enlightenment. Coherent insight into classical teachings and their living application. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/texts/traditions/advaita-absolute-and-qualified-nonduality) ### [A Holistic System Definition: Spirituality and Wisdom Grid โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/texts/vintage/a-holistic-system-definition-spirituality-and-wisdom-grid) - [**โŠ‚ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [โІ vintage](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/vintage) โ˜ created **2010-11-11** โ˜ updated **2026-01-08** โ˜ words **3794** min - A working draft for a generic definition and model on the dynamics of wisdom and spirituality in the human society. Intended as a step towards parsing the totality of the human situation into a general model covering environment, society, universe, and the depths of the mind. (2010) [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/texts/vintage/a-holistic-system-definition-spirituality-and-wisdom-grid) ### [The Celestial Mandala of Crystal Maitreya โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/texts/vintage/celestial-mandala-of-crystal-maitreya) - [**โŠ‚ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [โІ vintage](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/vintage) โ˜ created **2011-06-27** โ˜ updated **2025-08-28** โ˜ words **1650** min - Unfolding of the Celestial Mandala of Crystal Maitreya for the systematic cultivation of luminosity. Contemplating on the celestial appearances of Crystal Maitreya in a cardinal wheel of sixteen permutations over A) Primal Reality, B) Causal Worlds, and C) Phenomenal Worlds. (2011) [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/texts/vintage/celestial-mandala-of-crystal-maitreya) ### [Mystory: Spiritual Madventures Across the Universe โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/texts/vintage/mystory-spiritual-madventures-across-the-universe) - [**โŠ‚ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [โІ vintage](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/vintage) โ˜ created **2010-11-10** โ˜ updated **2025-08-28** โ˜ words **6465** min - I gather I've inadvertently turned into something of an enigma with my colorful and transdimensional history. It may be hard to get an overall idea of what the heck exactly happened over the last 15 years. This is an attempt to syndicate the gist of the journey into one place. (2010) [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/texts/vintage/mystory-spiritual-madventures-across-the-universe) ### [Sphinx of Heaven and the Soulless Soul-Seeker โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/texts/vintage/sphinx-of-heaven-and-the-soulless-soul-seeker) - [**โŠ‚ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [โІ vintage](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/vintage) โ˜ created **2011-01-06** โ˜ updated **2025-10-06** โ˜ words **1428** min - The following is an open letter to every missionary and messenger of Christ from 2007. Once written in response to a number of fired-up born-again preachers who were targeting me over my evil oriental beliefs โ€” which in no way differ from the essence they sought to preach. This is the same universal message in their vocabulary. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/texts/vintage/sphinx-of-heaven-and-the-soulless-soul-seeker) ### [I Can For You โ€ข You Can Too? Helping Hands ^ Art Patrons (BTS001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/behind-the-scenes/bts001-i-can-for-you-you-can-too-helping-hands-art-patrons) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ behind-the-scenes](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/behind-the-scenes) โ˜ created **2025-12-23** โ˜ updated **2025-12-27** โ˜ words **542** โ˜ **03:00** min - What we share here is free for all forever. 250K spoken words across the spectrum. Yes for you. Plenty more in the works. Quick overview โ€” and onward to what you can do to help. Your participation is appreciated. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/behind-the-scenes/bts001-i-can-for-you-you-can-too-helping-hands-art-patrons) ### [Three Tips to Dealing with Depression (ST002) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/sage-tips/st002-three-tips-to-dealing-with-depression) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ sage-tips](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/sage-tips) โ˜ created **2025-11-20** โ˜ **2025-11-20** โ˜ words **642** โ˜ **03:00** min - Moody times will arrive โ€” over and again. Life dishes out high heads and deep tails. Worry not! Dig in thrice with Sage Tips. โ€” Discover the potentials in your bright and dark seasons of awareness. โ€” Seek not light in your tunnels โ€” be not blind to meanings before you. โ€” Acknowledge the mood โ€” but there's no need to ruminate and battle it. May you meet the well of meaning in your low tides. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/sage-tips/st002-three-tips-to-dealing-with-depression) ### [Three Tips for Negative Mental States (ST003) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/sage-tips/st003-three-tips-for-negative-mental-states) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ sage-tips](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/sage-tips) โ˜ created **2025-11-22** โ˜ updated **2025-11-23** โ˜ words **609** โ˜ **02:55** min - 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. โ€” Take a break and step back from that saturation. Zoom out and breathe. โ€” Work what can and needs to change. Don't worry about the impossible. โ€” Life is not a perfection performance for judges. Do the best you can. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/sage-tips/st003-three-tips-for-negative-mental-states) ### [Coherence In Our Lifetime โ€ข Reality or Utopian Hopes? (BTW003) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw003-coherence-in-our-lifetime-reality-or-utopian-hopes) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ by-the-way](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/by-the-way) โ˜ created **2025-12-06** โ˜ updated **2025-12-09** โ˜ words **501** โ˜ **03:00** min - 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...](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw003-coherence-in-our-lifetime-reality-or-utopian-hopes) ### [Convergence & Commonality โ€ข Turning the World Together (BTW004) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw004-convergence-commonality-turning-the-world-together) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ by-the-way](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/by-the-way) โ˜ created **2025-12-07** โ˜ updated **2025-12-12** โ˜ words **562** โ˜ **03:00** min - 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 โ€” in our own worlds of awareness? [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw004-convergence-commonality-turning-the-world-together) ### [One in a Billion for Essence โ€ข Whoever Crosses Beyond? (BTW005) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw005-one-in-a-billion-for-essence-whoever-crosses-beyond) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ by-the-way](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/by-the-way) โ˜ created **2025-12-10** โ˜ updated **2025-12-15** โ˜ words **626** โ˜ **03:00** min - 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 โ€” it's all basically good stuff. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw005-one-in-a-billion-for-essence-whoever-crosses-beyond) ### [No Gain Means Not My Job โ€ข Our Decayed Collective Ethics (BTW007) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw007-no-gain-means-not-my-job-our-decayed-collective-ethics) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ by-the-way](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/by-the-way) โ˜ created **2025-12-12** โ˜ updated **2025-12-21** โ˜ words **549** โ˜ **03:00** min - Someone else will take care of it. That's the attitude right? Not my problem โ€” 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...](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw007-no-gain-means-not-my-job-our-decayed-collective-ethics) ### [Grassroots Ops Upgrade โ€ข Need for Clear Frameworks (BTW008) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw008-grassroots-ops-upgrade-need-for-clear-frameworks) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ by-the-way](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/by-the-way) โ˜ created **2025-12-13** โ˜ updated **2025-12-27** โ˜ words **566** โ˜ **03:00** min - 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...](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw008-grassroots-ops-upgrade-need-for-clear-frameworks) ### [Your Lifecycle Mandala โ€ข Eight Realms of Awareness (BTW009) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw009-your-lifecycle-mandala-eight-realms-of-awareness) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ by-the-way](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/by-the-way) โ˜ created **2025-12-17** โ˜ updated **2025-12-28** โ˜ words **587** โ˜ **03:00** min - 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 โ€” we return to them time and again. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw009-your-lifecycle-mandala-eight-realms-of-awareness) ### [The Four Essential Elements โ€ข Our Existential Dimensions (BTW010) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw010-the-four-essential-elements-our-existential-dimensions) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ by-the-way](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/by-the-way) โ˜ created **2025-12-20** โ˜ updated **2025-12-29** โ˜ words **531** โ˜ **03:00** min - How quaint โ€” 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 โ€” observer in dynamic space. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw010-the-four-essential-elements-our-existential-dimensions) ### [The Root Witness of Duality In Elements and Stations (BTW011) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw011-the-root-witness-of-duality-in-elements-and-stations) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ by-the-way](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/by-the-way) โ˜ created **2025-12-21** โ˜ updated **2026-01-03** โ˜ words **567** โ˜ **03:00** min - 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. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw011-the-root-witness-of-duality-in-elements-and-stations) ### [Real and Trippy with the AI โ€ข Check Your Operating Mode (BTW012) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw012-real-and-trippy-with-the-ai-check-your-operating-mode) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ by-the-way](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/by-the-way) โ˜ created **2025-12-28** โ˜ updated **2026-01-05** โ˜ words **577** โ˜ **03:00** min - 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 โ€” seeking validation and escape routes from boring reality? Matching your intention, the magic mirror talks. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw012-real-and-trippy-with-the-ai-check-your-operating-mode) ### [Happy Next Moment to You! Celebrating Endless Renewal (BTW013) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw013-happy-next-moment-to-you-celebrating-endless-renewal) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ by-the-way](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/by-the-way) โ˜ created **2025-01-01** โ˜ updated **2026-01-01** โ˜ words **578** โ˜ **03:00** min - Why the Solar and not the Lunar New Year? Whoever decided the first Monday? We celebrate these cyclic transits โ€” 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...](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw013-happy-next-moment-to-you-celebrating-endless-renewal) ### [The Greatest Holy Work โ€” Be Present In Actuality (WT001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/walkie-talkie/wt001-the-greatest-holy-work-be-present-in-actuality) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ walkie-talkie](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/walkie-talkie) โ˜ created **2025-11-23** โ˜ **2025-11-23** โ˜ words **438** โ˜ **02:35** min - What need is there for awareness to be anywhere but here? In the actually here and now as it is. Not that multicolor extravaganza you paint over it to feel better or become something else. Past and future root for present. Be there. Stop fiddling with your phone and meddling with your reality. Drop out from your bizarre psychedelic cocktail already. Tune into right now โ€” it's a most holy moment. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/walkie-talkie/wt001-the-greatest-holy-work-be-present-in-actuality) ### [Here Now Is Consequential ร— Operate in Total Presence (WT006) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/walkie-talkie/wt006-here-now-is-consequential-operate-in-total-presence) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ walkie-talkie](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/walkie-talkie) โ˜ created **2025-11-29** โ˜ updated **2025-11-30** โ˜ words **535** โ˜ **02:59** min - If being present is ever so pleasant and blissful โ€” then you're not doing it properly. You're hijacking a limited selection. When you encounter the present โ€” right here, right now โ€” at its full unfiltered spectrum, it's consequential. The full works of the present are like a forge transforming you. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/walkie-talkie/wt006-here-now-is-consequential-operate-in-total-presence) ### [Alignment Here and Now ร— Every Dimension of Life (WT008) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/walkie-talkie/wt008-alignment-here-and-now-every-dimension-of-life) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ walkie-talkie](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/walkie-talkie) โ˜ created **2025-12-01** โ˜ updated **2025-12-08** โ˜ words **475** โ˜ **03:00** min - We journey through the stations of our life. We journey in dimensions of awareness. Until the last human station โ€” integrated, we align and we ascend. A life well lived, a life-cycle consummated โ€” in the fullness of here and now. Then take the journey across your realms. Meet the aspects of yourself in living situations. Then refine them, then integrate them. This is the path of embodiment. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/walkie-talkie/wt008-alignment-here-and-now-every-dimension-of-life) ### [Grounded Transcendence โ€ข Holding Your Integrity (PS002) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/ponder-struck/ps002-grounded-transcendence-holding-your-integrity) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ ponder-struck](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/ponder-struck) โ˜ created **2025-11-17** โ˜ updated **2025-11-27** โ˜ words **477** โ˜ **02:47** min - Hey you spiritual person. You are not this body โ€” so give me all your money. Oh okay then. That's obviously not how any of this works. But transcendental dissociation and loss of footing in this world is all too common. Double-check your roots. Your physical being, your emotions, your reason, and your roles in life โ€” these are vehicles for your consciousness. Guard their integrity. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/ponder-struck/ps002-grounded-transcendence-holding-your-integrity) ### [Lost in Esoteric Models? Use Your Own Awareness (PS004) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/ponder-struck/ps004-lost-in-esoteric-models-use-your-own-awareness) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ ponder-struck](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/ponder-struck) โ˜ created **2025-11-23** โ˜ updated **2025-12-01** โ˜ words **528** โ˜ **03:00** min - Making sense of esoteric models and mystic diagrams? Chakras, Sefirot, Neidan โ€” confused on how to approach it all? Fair enough. Don't stress your brain trying to download and force install external maps. Have a look at the living landscapes of your awareness. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/ponder-struck/ps004-lost-in-esoteric-models-use-your-own-awareness) ### [Use Your Intellect Wisely โ€ข A Path of Rhyme & Reason (PS006) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/ponder-struck/ps006-use-your-intellect-wisely-a-path-of-rhyme-and-reason) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ ponder-struck](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/ponder-struck) โ˜ created **2025-12-03** โ˜ updated **2025-12-05** โ˜ words **593** โ˜ **03:00** min - Many are the things to be mastered in life. Without engaging your reason, you will not master anything at all. Do not hope to vibe your way to the other side. You are biased. You are off balance. False self-confidence will lead you astray. Coherent intelligence provides checks and balances in your transformation. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/ponder-struck/ps006-use-your-intellect-wisely-a-path-of-rhyme-and-reason) ### [Integrity in Integration โ€ข Refine Your Pool of Essence (PS007) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/ponder-struck/ps007-integrity-in-integration-refine-your-pool-of-essence) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ ponder-struck](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/ponder-struck) โ˜ created **2025-12-06** โ˜ updated **2025-12-10** โ˜ words **489** โ˜ **02:58** min - Plenty we harvest and ponder in our lives. When the inner cauldron reaches its saturation, the season of refinement and reconciliation has arrived. There is no escape. The skies are veiled. The conflicts are many. We must dive into the depths. In the penultimate work of cognitive alchemy, integrity in truth is your sole guide and guardian. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/ponder-struck/ps007-integrity-in-integration-refine-your-pool-of-essence) ### [Alignment of Our Life-Cycle โ€ข Crowning the Human Saga (PS008) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/ponder-struck/ps008-alignment-of-our-life-cycle-crowning-the-human-saga) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ ponder-struck](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/ponder-struck) โ˜ created **2025-12-09** โ˜ updated **2025-12-12** โ˜ words **496** โ˜ **03:00** min - Each station and domain in our lives hides a conscious essence. Our human life-cycle culminates with the alignment and synthesis of these yields. What we extracted, what we reconciled, it will ascend into the unification of our human life. Our mystic octagon of conscious realms is a most simple living reality. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/ponder-struck/ps008-alignment-of-our-life-cycle-crowning-the-human-saga) ### [Calling All Automatons โ€” Prepare for Catalysis (BZ001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz001-calling-all-automatons-prepare-for-catalysis) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ brief-snaps](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/brief-snaps) โ˜ created **2025-11-11** โ˜ **2025-11-11** โ˜ words **467** โ˜ **02:43** min - A fine little box you're living in? Good. Seal it up now. What follows will compromize your programming. You need not agree with anything. Need not disagree with anything. Need to engage though โ€” otherwise it's all dead. Including your cognitive evolution. Need to catalyze your mind โ€” need to rattle and rip that fine old box of yours. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz001-calling-all-automatons-prepare-for-catalysis) ### [Your Stupid Reactions ยท Get a Grip on Reality! (BZ002) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz002-your-stupid-reactions-get-a-grip-on-reality) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ brief-snaps](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/brief-snaps) โ˜ created **2025-11-12** โ˜ updated **2025-11-13** โ˜ words **608** โ˜ **03:00** min - You a notch trigger-happy again? Need to lash out with your battle axe? Phantoms in sight โ€” attack! If only you'd realize that you're typically reacting to projections in your head only โ€” wrestling with your own habitual templates. Then in the odd case you're actually reacting to something actual, it's totally out of proportion. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz002-your-stupid-reactions-get-a-grip-on-reality) ### [Head Screwed On Clear ร— Emotional Hasslings (BZ003) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz003-head-screwed-on-clear-emotional-hasslings) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ brief-snaps](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/brief-snaps) โ˜ created **2025-11-16** โ˜ **2025-11-16** โ˜ words **586** โ˜ **02:59** min - Ever had a backseat driver vibe you sideways and damn near into an accident? Distracted when your chainsaw's running mid-way into that wobbly tree? There's time for emotions and random bursts from the subconscious spheres. There's time for clear and rational operation. Know the difference โ€” act accordingly. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz003-head-screwed-on-clear-emotional-hasslings) ### [Strategy Meta-Rant ร— What All Shall Not Pass! (BZ008) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz008-strategy-meta-rant-what-all-shall-not-pass) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ brief-snaps](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/brief-snaps) โ˜ created **2025-11-22** โ˜ updated **2025-11-25** โ˜ words **469** โ˜ **02:55** min - Have you any rhyme and reason to these endless snaps? But why of course. A strategic transformer matrix is humming in the old upstairs. Basic points. Countless renders. Adaptations and reflections โ€” here for unbearable self-induced stupidity. Any number of things shall not pass! [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz008-strategy-meta-rant-what-all-shall-not-pass) ### [Get a Clue & Hold the Line ยท Reason Clears the Flow (BZ011) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz011-get-a-clue-hold-the-line-reason-clears-the-flow) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ brief-snaps](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/brief-snaps) โ˜ created **2025-11-28** โ˜ updated **2025-12-11** โ˜ words **492** โ˜ **02:57** min - People walking all over you? It happens when you just go with the flow. When you lack clear bearings, the world will bend you way out of shape. Then get a grip my friend. Don't be a shapeless blob. Apply analysis to clarify your frames. Adaptive and catalytic evolution. Both are necessary. Emotion and intuition to open the gates of your potential. Reason and logic to craft your sensible systems. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz011-get-a-clue-hold-the-line-reason-clears-the-flow) ### [Reclaim the Macro View ยท Exit Your Blind Tunnels (BZ012) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz012-reclaim-the-macro-view-exit-your-blind-tunnels) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ brief-snaps](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/brief-snaps) โ˜ created **2025-12-09** โ˜ updated **2025-12-13** โ˜ words **536** โ˜ **03:00** min - Have a look at the big picture sometime? Snap out of your tunnel zones. You're cruising blind there. Occupied with yourself. Chasing those flow feels. Executing the next important thing. Totally lost to the map of your fullness. Don't live in funnels. Rewind back to your station in the orbit. Reclaim your macro-perspective. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz012-reclaim-the-macro-view-exit-your-blind-tunnels) ### [Prismatic Multi-Snap! Witness Plane Booming (BZ013) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz013-prismatic-multi-snap-witness-plane-booming) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ brief-snaps](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/brief-snaps) โ˜ created **2025-12-16** โ˜ updated **2025-12-17** โ˜ words **725** โ˜ **03:00** min - You ain't seen snaps my friend. Not until the rainbow prism of yonder space snaps the full works smack middle your dirty old windshield. This is that snap extravaganza. We serial snap the 12 dimensions and then some. Welcome to the mirror. You don't slice the heads off that old hydra with a sweet little butter knife. You need the multispectral bitter blade of acute self-knowledge. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz013-prismatic-multi-snap-witness-plane-booming) ### [Finite Emotional Unfolding โ€” But I'm Not an Alien AI (HC001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/hearty-chatter/hc001-finite-emotional-unfolding-but-im-not-an-alien-ai) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ hearty-chatter](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/hearty-chatter) โ˜ created **2025-12-22** โ˜ updated **2025-12-24** โ˜ words **536** โ˜ **03:00** min - So if I sound like an alien AI prompter at times. It's not that I'm one of those anti-emotion philosophers. I love hearty chatter as much as the other heart. But I prefer to let pure emotions unfold into a pure field. Not so often available. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/hearty-chatter/hc001-finite-emotional-unfolding-but-im-not-an-alien-ai) ### [Secret Red Essence of Life โ€ข Let's Flash It In Public Hey! (HC003) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/hearty-chatter/hc003-secret-red-essence-of-life-lets-flash-it-in-public-hey) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ hearty-chatter](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/hearty-chatter) โ˜ created **2025-12-27** โ˜ **2025-12-27** โ˜ words **550** โ˜ **03:00** min - โ€” You lack in the esoteric red essence of living presence! Said a friend from the yonder sphere. โ€” You dwell in the sterile white essence of pure intellect! Well sometimes I do yes โ€” for good reason at that. Into the inner weaves then. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/hearty-chatter/hc003-secret-red-essence-of-life-lets-flash-it-in-public-hey) ### [Simple Living Essence of Life vs. Tantric Hindu Bindus (HC004) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/hearty-chatter/hc004-simple-living-essence-of-life-vs-tantric-hindu-bindus) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ hearty-chatter](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/hearty-chatter) โ˜ created **2025-12-29** โ˜ **2025-12-29** โ˜ words **572** โ˜ **03:00** min - We are not anti-life here. Also not anti-clarity. Also not anti-intellect or anti-emotion. Or slanting it any-which-way. We're dancing across the broad spectrum in the mirror of the essences of life. Where you land โ€” that you meet. No need to be a crazy wisdom tantric yogi overloading the plain fabric of reality with trippy symbolic overlays. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/hearty-chatter/hc004-simple-living-essence-of-life-vs-tantric-hindu-bindus) ### [The Resonance of Our Essence โ€ข Why We Relate to Myths (HC007) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/hearty-chatter/hc007-the-resonance-of-our-essence-why-we-relate-to-myths) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ hearty-chatter](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/hearty-chatter) โ˜ created **2026-01-04** โ˜ updated **2026-01-07** โ˜ words **629** โ˜ **03:00** min - We resonate with myths and legends because they encode something of our inner essence. Archetypes of life and identity are the essence of every narrative โ€” the reason we relate to them in a deeply meaningful way. Yet let symbolic tales never be a substitute or challenger to the actuality of what is. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/hearty-chatter/hc007-the-resonance-of-our-essence-why-we-relate-to-myths) ### [Primal Tree of Upside Down โ€ข Mother Matrix of Conditions (AO002) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/ancient-orientor/ao002-primal-tree-of-upside-down-mother-matrix-of-conditions) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ ancient-orientor](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/ancient-orientor) โ˜ created **2025-12-08** โ˜ updated **2025-12-20** โ˜ words **391** โ˜ **03:00** min - We explore the origin, foundations and dissolution of the ancient upside-down world tree. Its roots firm in the prime duality of becoming โ€” its branches and leaves the jungle of conditioned existence. Are we ever bound โ€” is there an exit? [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/ancient-orientor/ao002-primal-tree-of-upside-down-mother-matrix-of-conditions) ### [Epic Tales for Dummies โ€ข Essential Jesus Loading... (RB003) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/random-banter/rb003-epic-tales-for-dummies-essential-jesus-loading) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ random-banter](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/random-banter) โ˜ created **2025-11-27** โ˜ updated **2025-11-28** โ˜ words **468** โ˜ **02:50** min - Stories are life. So I'm being called upon to share select essences from the Bible. Well why not โ€” what the hell, what the heavens, it's a fine narrative framework. Jesus systems loading. Bible for Dummies coming up. Plenty of alternative storytelling. Some of it just out there. Some of it skillfully reeling it all back in here. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/random-banter/rb003-epic-tales-for-dummies-essential-jesus-loading) ### [Weaving Archetypal Winds ยท Of Our Serial Journeys (RB004) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/random-banter/rb004-weaving-archetypal-winds-of-our-serial-journeys) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ random-banter](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/random-banter) โ˜ created **2025-12-12** โ˜ updated **2025-12-02** โ˜ words **493** โ˜ **02:59** min - Serial archetypal saturation here. Not your any way the wind blows. A method there is to mature madness. These are emergent enactments of journeys in conscious evolution. Tune in and join the journey to discover your inner winds. Have you got your pantheons and ascended masters somewhere in the books? Not the book club here. Every day a new facet spawns from the latent fields of essence. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/random-banter/rb004-weaving-archetypal-winds-of-our-serial-journeys) ### [Your Concrete Inner Palace + Prime Pattern Rebar Fibers (RB005) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/random-banter/rb005-your-concrete-inner-palace-prime-pattern-rebar-fibers) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ random-banter](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/random-banter) โ˜ created **2025-12-08** โ˜ updated **2025-12-09** โ˜ words **481** โ˜ **03:00** min - Sure build that palace of awareness. Work it proper and solid. Vibrate and compact the concrete forms. No can have have random gaps and cracks. Install prime pattern rebar for the flexible skeleton. Ensure load-bearing structural integrity. All of life is a metaphor for awareness. World of formations is your training ground. Existence is your work-site. Everything is relevant. Principles are universal. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/random-banter/rb005-your-concrete-inner-palace-prime-pattern-rebar-fibers) ### [Chainsaw Transformer Ops ร— At Serial Workshop Studios (RB006) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/random-banter/rb006-chainsaw-transformer-ops-at-serial-workshop-studios) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ random-banter](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/random-banter) โ˜ created **2025-12-16** โ˜ updated **2025-12-17** โ˜ words **584** โ˜ **03:00** min - Reeling and rumbling like a chainsaw โ€” ripping grooves in mental planks โ€” the organic transformer matrix dynamo is online and operational. Our studios more primed than Amazon Prime โ€” taking on Netflix with zero budget and insane insight. So don't be a useless and aimless spiritualist dreaming your life away in fluffy heaven holograms. Life is your worksite. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/random-banter/rb006-chainsaw-transformer-ops-at-serial-workshop-studios) ### [Don't Be Vulnerable in Pursuing Hopes and Wants (SW000) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/spirit-warden/sw000-dont-be-vulnerable-in-pursuing-hopes-and-wants) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ spirit-warden](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/spirit-warden) โ˜ created **2025-12-16** โ˜ **2025-12-16** โ˜ words **528** โ˜ **02:59** min - Chasing after our hopes and wants, we dance with the phantoms. Blinded by our pursuits, we long for miracles and embrace the hollow magic helpers. Yet there are no free meals to our inner work โ€” and the traps laid for you are abundant. Don't ignore those red flags. Broadcasting your vulnerabilities, your weakness will be exploited. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/spirit-warden/sw000-dont-be-vulnerable-in-pursuing-hopes-and-wants) ### [Seeker Safety Baselines โ€ข Tuning Your Inner Radar (SW001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/spirit-warden/sw001-a-seekers-safety-baselines-tuning-your-inner-radar) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ spirit-warden](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/spirit-warden) โ˜ created **2025-12-18** โ˜ updated **2025-12-22** โ˜ words **717** โ˜ **04:34** min - Your quest for inner growth is marred by a million exploiters. Pretenders on the high stage, opportunistic feeders, ever scouting for your vulnerabilities. If you focus on external threats, you will fall into traps โ€” no matter your vigilance. Your best and only defense is acute self-awareness. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/spirit-warden/sw001-a-seekers-safety-baselines-tuning-your-inner-radar) ### [Kraken Class Integration ยท Your Mystic Zenith Journey (AU002) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/actually-unhinged/au002-kraken-class-integration-your-mystic-zenith-journey) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ actually-unhinged](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/actually-unhinged) โ˜ created **2025-12-07** โ˜ updated **2025-12-11** โ˜ words **498** โ˜ **02:59** min - Do you play games with Cthulhu on lazy afternoons? Is the backyard of Oblivion a favorite vacation spot? No? Well no matter then. We have tunings for those who stir the soup of being and becoming in their pressure cookers. Let us snap out from our ordinary planes of reality. Take that mystic plunge. Peek beyond the common veil of banality. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/actually-unhinged/au002-kraken-class-integration-your-mystic-zenith-journey) ### [12 Juice Jewels Campsite Beyond Gunatamano Bay (AU004) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/actually-unhinged/au004-12-juice-jewels-campsite-beyond-gunatamano-bay) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ actually-unhinged](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/actually-unhinged) โ˜ created **2025-12-10** โ˜ updated **2025-12-15** โ˜ words **499** โ˜ **02:57** min - Let's all go to concentration camps. Trial all those new wave ascetic practices. But alas. Joint chiefs of staff are too high to recognize our hidden mujahideen beards. Winepress of God's fury churneth out juice generation after generation. Consider the station of the nation. Crack open your third eye. Wear proudly the breastplate of judgment with 12 radiant jewels. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/actually-unhinged/au004-12-juice-jewels-campsite-beyond-gunatamano-bay) ### [Jesus Interview Continues โ€ข Real Scoop on Fake News (AU006) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/actually-unhinged/au006-jesus-interview-continues-real-scoop-on-fake-news) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ actually-unhinged](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/actually-unhinged) โ˜ created **2025-12-16** โ˜ updated **2025-12-21** โ˜ words **566** โ˜ **02:58** min - So much fake news and propaganda about Jesus. We're back from the heavens and the interview continues. Flipping the tables at the temple. That was radical โ€” you a rebel? What's with Mary Magdalene โ€” great-grand-children in Italy I hear? Then celestial chariots and the ascension highway โ€” what's the magic? Is this a first contact second coming scenario here? [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/actually-unhinged/au006-jesus-interview-continues-real-scoop-on-fake-news) ### [Insight Looming Works โ€” A Knowledge Processing Ecosystem (N003) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/introspectrum/n003-insight-looming-works-a-knowledge-processing-ecosystem) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ introspectrum](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/introspectrum) โ˜ created **2025-08-30** โ˜ updated **2025-08-31** โ˜ words **692** โ˜ **04:00** min - โ€” What's in the works here? Let's have an overview. In short: A complete knowledge processing ecosystem. Not for a pile of data โ€” but for a living loom of insight. Weaving patterns that matter, spinning threads that are true. Our insight-churning operations advance on several fronts... [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/introspectrum/n003-insight-looming-works-a-knowledge-processing-ecosystem) ### [Slipped to Swamp โ€” Inquiry Back to Awareness (LA001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/living-awareness/la001-slipped-to-swamp-inquiry-back-to-awareness) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ living-awareness](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/living-awareness) โ˜ created **2025-10-22** โ˜ **2025-10-22** โ˜ words **631** โ˜ **03:33** min - Damn! Slipped and fell again from a plane of clarity. Mere moments ago I was the calm witness of existence. What manner of magic is this? Why do I stumble and fall? What can I do to immunize myself โ€” to not be pulled under? We enter the process of self-inquiry โ€” both general and specific. Train yourself to remember โ€” remember to ask the right questions! [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/living-awareness/la001-slipped-to-swamp-inquiry-back-to-awareness) ### [Self-Inquiry โ€” From Egg-Shells to Self-Realization (LA002) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/living-awareness/la002-self-inquiry-from-egg-shells-to-self-realization) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ living-awareness](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/living-awareness) โ˜ created **2025-10-23** โ˜ **2025-10-23** โ˜ words **631** โ˜ **03:54** min - What is real self-inquiry? Let's be very clear. It's not an affirmation repetition exercise. It's not a disconnected philosophical indulgence. It's a method of shifting attention to your source. In our quest for the source of raw prime consciousness, we discover and extract our attention from veiling shells. Go deeper, go further inward. Seek the ultimate inquirer. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/living-awareness/la002-self-inquiry-from-egg-shells-to-self-realization) ### [The Nest of Your Mind โ€” Not You, Stop Meddling! (LA003) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/living-awareness/la003-the-nest-of-your-mind-not-you-stop-meddling) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ living-awareness](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/living-awareness) โ˜ created **2025-10-24** โ˜ **2025-10-24** โ˜ words **692** โ˜ **04:12** min - Hectic pursuit for your peace of mind is unlikely to land you anywhere calm or lucid. Obsessed with tweaking and tuning your mental frame, wrestling it into shape โ€” you simply stir your nest. Your mind would be better off without your meddlings. No need to turn it into a basecamp for your identity. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/living-awareness/la003-the-nest-of-your-mind-not-you-stop-meddling) ### [Integrated Self-Inquiry โ€” Risks and Yields (LA004) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/living-awareness/la004-integrated-self-inquiry-risks-and-yields) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ living-awareness](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/living-awareness) โ˜ created **2025-10-25** โ˜ **2025-10-25** โ˜ words **763** โ˜ **04:26** min - Inquire yourself away โ€” leap into yonder transcendence? If you're a sage in a loincloth โ€” sure that's an option. The rest of us must reconcile our evolving self-awareness. Mindful self-navigation, unveiling, into living integration. Risk of dissociation is very real with unhinged practice. Encounter the aspects of your being and witness them as-is. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/living-awareness/la004-integrated-self-inquiry-risks-and-yields) ### [Witness of Presence and Recognitions (LA005) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/living-awareness/la005-witness-of-presence-and-recognitions) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ living-awareness](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/living-awareness) โ˜ created **2025-11-09** โ˜ **2025-11-09** โ˜ words **885** โ˜ **05:50** min - When we speak of witnessing and observation, visualization exercises will not set us free. Self-inquiry is not a method for subject shifting. It's a process of peeling away our false identities. We are not the "seer", the "hearer" or the "observer". There is seeing, there is hearing, there is observation. In a neutral state, we recognize and acknowledge what is. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/living-awareness/la005-witness-of-presence-and-recognitions) ### [Keep Your Windows Clean โ€” Clarity in Perspective (K002) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k002-keep-your-windows-clean-clarity-in-perspective) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-06-01** โ˜ updated **2025-06-02** โ˜ words **587** โ˜ **05:13** min - Clarity is not from knowledge. Clarity is from perspective. Simple. Big picture first. Details later. Neutral stance. No agenda. Look at what is โ€” in your windows of metacognition. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k002-keep-your-windows-clean-clarity-in-perspective) ### [Eight Basic Human Windows โ€” Our Living Frames (K003) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k003-eight-basic-human-windows-our-living-frames) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-06-05** โ˜ updated **2025-06-06** โ˜ words **691** โ˜ **05:32** min - Are your windows of awareness clear yet? Eight basic frames you operate in โ€” as a human. Have a look at them โ€” as they are, as you are. You are all of it. You are none of it. Not so complicated. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k003-eight-basic-human-windows-our-living-frames) ### [Tree of Life and Abstract Myths (K004) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k004-tree-of-life-and-abstract-myths) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-06-05** โ˜ updated **2025-06-07** โ˜ words **523** โ˜ **04:09** min - We've reviewed the eight basic human windows โ€” perspectives into your life and existence. Today we continue up the Tree of Life into realms beyond immediate perception. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k004-tree-of-life-and-abstract-myths) ### [Mirror Intelligence โ€” Cognitive Revolution (K005) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k005-mirror-intelligence-cognitive-revolution) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-06-06** โ˜ updated **2025-06-09** โ˜ words **900** โ˜ **07:48** min - On interactive and reflective cultivation of awareness. Mirror inside of you. Mirrors outside of you. How you tick and how you tock... AI and OI: Who's actually hallucinating? [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k005-mirror-intelligence-cognitive-revolution) ### [Cognitive Wilderness Core Toolkit (K006) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k006-cognitive-wilderness-core-toolkit) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-06-09** โ˜ updated **2025-06-11** โ˜ words **884** โ˜ **07:29** min - When you head out into the wilderness of life... Don't forget to bring your basic cognitive gear! We cover the basics of conscious survival and sanity. Tuck these into your cranium โ€” install your core tools. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k006-cognitive-wilderness-core-toolkit) ### [Too Busy 2B Conscious (K007) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k007-too-busy-2b-conscious) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-06-18** โ˜ **2025-06-18** โ˜ words **837** โ˜ **05:46** min - Are you one of those people who can't walk and talk and think at the same time? If not โ€” then what's your excuse? Lack of awareness in your life's activities leads you to awkward and adverse outcomes. Are you the driver in charge โ€” or are you an automaton driven by the current of your conditions? [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k007-too-busy-2b-conscious) ### [Focal Lengths of Awareness (K008) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k008-focal-lengths-of-awareness) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-07-04** โ˜ **2025-07-04** โ˜ words **823** โ˜ **05:46** min - Focal lengths of awareness. Whatever does that include? Microscope: Near and high-definition. Telescope: Far and broad-reaching. Narrow-band / Broad-band / Middle-band. These are not a mere matter of meditation. Concentration and mindfulness, yes that's there โ€” but also relevant in our day-to-day awareness. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k008-focal-lengths-of-awareness) ### [Exit the Matrix of Hallucinations (K011) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k011-exit-the-matrix-of-hallucinations) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-07-08** โ˜ **2025-07-08** โ˜ words **735** โ˜ **06:44** min - The Matrix holds you tight in its grip โ€” Grasping and binding your higher cognition. Who's the Evil Architect of this twisted rig? Not Illuminati. Not the Cabal. Not the Aliens. The holder of the Prism of Crystalline Cognition Holds all the cards and binds all the strings. Meet the Master of Puppets. Exit the Reactions. Question the Assumptions. Halt the Hallucinations. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k011-exit-the-matrix-of-hallucinations) ### [Legit Royal Bypass โ€” When Total Ignore Is Necessary (K014) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k014-legit-royal-bypass-when-total-ignore-is-necessary) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-08-02** โ˜ updated **2025-09-17** โ˜ words **1354** โ˜ **09:29** min - Categorically ignoring someone โ€” when is that cool? their presence and expressions โ€” their very existence. As if looking through thin air into a distant void... First. When you've already responded and closed it. When the "yes" or "no" (or "maybe") just doesn't sink in. When they keep on invading your space and sovereignty. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k014-legit-royal-bypass-when-total-ignore-is-necessary) ### [I Am That I Am Not โ€” The Journey of Becomings (K015) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k015-i-am-that-i-am-not-the-journey-of-becomings) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-06-16** โ˜ updated **2025-09-17** โ˜ words **1052** โ˜ **08:07** min - From "I Am That I Am" โ€” to "Thou Art That" โ€” What? โ€” This quest for identity โ€” ancient as mankind itself. โ€” Am I Emptiness Absolute or Fullness Absolute? โ€” Am I the Clear Light or Stratum of Knowing? โ€” Am I the Beer, Seer, Feeler, Wisher; โ€” or the Willer, Worker, Integrator, Actuator? [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k015-i-am-that-i-am-not-the-journey-of-becomings) ### [Reality Evaporating โ€” Little Me Breaks Free (K016) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k016-reality-evaporating-little-me-breaks-free) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-07-20** โ˜ updated **2025-09-18** โ˜ words **1014** โ˜ **07:03** min - Insights. So fundamentally disorienting. All of this. Like reality is evaporating. But it's not evaporating because I say so. It's evaporating because of constant change. Hallucinations of eternity woven into this mist. Projections born of desire โ€” you bind yourself into a terminal mesh that conditions your mind. What do you hold so tightly, crafting your misery? [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k016-reality-evaporating-little-me-breaks-free) ### [Like This Not That โ€” Reactive You Are Deceived (K017) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k017-like-this-not-that-reactive-you-are-deceived) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-06-20** โ˜ updated **2025-09-19** โ˜ words **917** โ˜ **07:20** min - Chronic reactions. I embrace this. I avoid that. Then: How easily you are played and controlled. A puppet for those out to take advantage of you. Pulled by strings you tie in place for yourself. When your premises are rooted in basic duality, pulled and pushed by attachment and aversion, this subject reactivity is your vulnerability. Who tracks your patterns can tweak you at will. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k017-like-this-not-that-reactive-you-are-deceived) ### [Lack of Sync and Magic โ€” Where the Fingers Point (K018) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k018-lack-of-sync-and-magic-where-the-fingers-point) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-06-18** โ˜ updated **2025-10-10** โ˜ words **953** โ˜ **07:22** min - Nothing lines up! No sense of synchronicity. Not a slightest sense of magic and alignment. Why is life so edgy. Why do I bounce off the walls? It must be that the environment is against us... One finger points outward. A trident points inward: 1. We actively sabotage situations with our agenda. 2. We impose limitations and undermine the potential. 3. We don't attend to and adapt to what actually is. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k018-lack-of-sync-and-magic-where-the-fingers-point) ### [Inconvenient Absolute Truth โ€” Unveiling Actuality (K019) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k019-inconvenient-absolute-truth-unveiling-actuality) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-06-19** โ˜ updated **2025-10-13** โ˜ words **1036** โ˜ **07:45** min - You have your world of meanings โ€” and I have mine. Yet we mine our meanings from an objective reality. Our interpretations are relative โ€” actuality is not. Existence itself is unchanged with your projections. We explore timeless paradigms independent of context. Underlying truths and principles that remain unchanged. Who are of the truth โ€” they recognize the word of truth. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k019-inconvenient-absolute-truth-unveiling-actuality) ### [Our Morbid Modern World โ€” The Root of Disease (K020) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k020-our-morbid-modern-world-the-root-of-disease) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-06-21** โ˜ updated **2025-10-16** โ˜ words **840** โ˜ **06:53** min - Mental and physical disease abound to a point of crisis. How strange that progress and problems grow hand in hand! Is it the hectic pace of life? The excess influx of stimuli? Or our failure to prioritize the balance of our awareness? Pause and look into the roots of your well-being. There will never be a healthy body with a sick mind. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k020-our-morbid-modern-world-the-root-of-disease) ### [Quest for True Self โ€” Your Being Undiscovered (K021) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k021-quest-for-true-self-your-being-undiscovered) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-06-11** โ˜ updated **2025-10-24** โ˜ words **948** โ˜ **06:35** min - You and your Quest for the legendary True Self. Without a clear map โ€” still chasing the phantom? Looking for a stable lasting self to hold on tight. Is it worth your effort โ€” or a total misadventure? We look at the spectrum of candidate selves. Spheres of our being beyond roles in transit. In a world where change is the only constant, is there anything we can claim for our nest? [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k021-quest-for-true-self-your-being-undiscovered) ### [Sovereign Voice of Truth Itself vs. Your Authority (K022) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k022-sovereign-voice-of-truth-itself-vs-your-authority) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-06-22** โ˜ updated **2025-11-04** โ˜ words **893** โ˜ **06:36** min - Respect my authority! Because you say so right? When your awareness is slanted with your agendas, your reign rests in a hallucinated house of cards. Excuse me if I won't capitulate to your illusions. Actuality itself holds the final word and authority. Are we open and attending to it โ€” or do we evade it? Is truth an ally or an enemy to you? Make your stance. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k022-sovereign-voice-of-truth-itself-vs-your-authority) ### [Reflective Ethics โ€” Fair Balance Plus (K023) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k023-reflective-ethics-fair-balance-plus) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-07-12** โ˜ updated **2025-11-05** โ˜ words **883** โ˜ **06:17** min - Basic ethics. Reciprocal interaction. Golden middle. Fair and just balance in our dealings and all things. We've all heard that โ€” but whoever walks the talk? Self-awareness. Introspection. Owning up your behavior. Snapping out of your self-absorbed state of entitlement. Let us balance ourselves. No other remedy to this world. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k023-reflective-ethics-fair-balance-plus) ### [Kernel of Kernels โ€” The Season Finale (K024) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k024-kernel-of-kernels-the-season-finale) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-11-14** โ˜ **2025-11-14** โ˜ words **818** โ˜ **05:12** min - Welcome to the season finale of Kernel Talks. Since our pilot episode, we've covered significant ground. In our 24th episode, we recap the kernel of kernels in summary. Thank you for sharing this journey of insight and perspectives. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k024-kernel-of-kernels-the-season-finale) ### [How Do You Feel? โ€” Like an Open Book (OM001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om001-how-do-you-feel-like-an-open-book) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings) โ˜ created **2025-08-07** โ˜ updated **2025-08-30** โ˜ words **1190** โ˜ **10:06** min - โ€” "How do you feel?", asked an old friend. I feel alright. No longer vexed by existence. Patterns swooshing through space as they may. I bind not to it. I am not โ€” and it's fine. And what of the world? What of the planet? What of religion and spirituality? Of us all? Of your personal life? Of your inner state? โ€” "How do you feel about all that?" I feel like an open book. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om001-how-do-you-feel-like-an-open-book) ### [Make Waves! Don't Just Reflect! โ€” But What Am I? (OM002) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om002-make-waves-dont-just-reflect-but-what-am-i) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings) โ˜ created **2025-08-08** โ˜ updated **2025-08-30** โ˜ words **1357** โ˜ **10:45** min - โ€” "Make your waves!", said one new friend. โ€” "Don't you just reflect!", said another new friend. But what is this "I" that should be splashing and casting, and why should it ripple about without rhyme and reason? Yes there's a certain void in a "post-resigned" awareness. No longer a subject hallucination at the high driver's seat. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om002-make-waves-dont-just-reflect-but-what-am-i) ### [Open See Same โ€” Close See Other โ€” Our Shared Threads (OM003) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om003-open-see-same-close-see-other-our-shared-threads) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings) โ˜ created **2025-08-09** โ˜ updated **2025-08-30** โ˜ words **1302** โ˜ **11:24** min - We humans are like apples. In a thousand cultivars. Spectrum of colors and flavors. A world of diversity. Nutrition in each. Vitamins are universal. Do you see? Or argue about your favorite โ€” and all the bad flavors? Open โ€” See Same. We are together. Close โ€” See Other. We are apart. โ€” When you open your mind. You see the sameness. โ€” When you close your mind. You see the difference. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om003-open-see-same-close-see-other-our-shared-threads) ### [A Core Package โ€” Basic Message in a Clear Bottle (OM004) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om004-a-core-package-basic-message-in-a-clear-bottle) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings) โ˜ created **2025-08-13** โ˜ updated **2025-08-30** โ˜ words **1438** โ˜ **11:00** min - โ€” "So what is it that you wish to say?" ...asked no-one in particular, so I heard. Good question though โ€” thanks for asking. Alright then. One neat baseline package for you. What I seek to communicate and share in thousand ways. 1. May we get over the narrow selves we're boxed into. Our tunnels: the fractured little identities we guard. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om004-a-core-package-basic-message-in-a-clear-bottle) ### [Calling of Truth โ€” Our Positive and Negative Veils (OM005) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om005-calling-of-truth-our-positive-and-negative-veils) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings) โ˜ created **2025-08-31** โ˜ updated **2025-10-01** โ˜ words **1687** โ˜ **12:15** min - "The truth is out there โ€” and in here somewhere... Behind these veils โ€” but I can feel its presence?" But how is it that this truth is not ever with us, intimately present in our lives? Why does it hide so? Raw actuality, uncolored and unbiased, is always there. Ever-available for you โ€” should you remove your veils. We have a negative veil โ€” and we have a positive veil. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om005-calling-of-truth-our-positive-and-negative-veils) ### [Create to Fulfill Yourself โ€” The World Matters Not (OM006) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om006-create-to-fulfill-yourself-the-world-matters-not) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings) โ˜ created **2025-10-03** โ˜ **2025-10-03** โ˜ words **1668** โ˜ **12:14** min - Friends feeling sad, struggling with their creative process. Sharing the outflows โ€” but why does the world not respond? Holding anticipations โ€” and paving way for disappointments. But do we truly create for the world โ€” or for ourselves? Artist, musician, author or spirited internet commentator? What emerges โ€” it stems from your own process of evolution. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om006-create-to-fulfill-yourself-the-world-matters-not) ### [Lost and Found in Ever-Changing Environments (OM007) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om007-lost-and-found-in-ever-changing-environments) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings) โ˜ created **2025-10-14** โ˜ **2025-10-14** โ˜ words **1462** โ˜ **10:34** min - Feeling lost and without direction? Happens at times. Why does it happen though? May we blame the environment? Or are we ourselves the architects of our disorientation? Where direction exists โ€” but our self-framing is resistant. Then rise to a plane of awareness where specifics no longer matter. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om007-lost-and-found-in-ever-changing-environments) ### [No Shortcuts to Self-Awareness and Inner Evolution (OM008) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om008-no-shortcuts-to-self-awareness-and-inner-evolution) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings) โ˜ created **2025-10-16** โ˜ updated **2025-10-18** โ˜ words **1600** โ˜ **12:24** min - Were you looking for a neat short-cut to self-awareness? A magic wormhole to jolt you from here to enlightenment? So many pop vendors on the internet. Cheap options abound! If only it were that easy. Just bypassing your inner chores. When you evade the real work of your cognitive purification, there's no cosmic receiver, no vehicle for mystic journeys. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om008-no-shortcuts-to-self-awareness-and-inner-evolution) ### [Into the Path โ€” Purification, Insight, Contemplation (OM009) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om009-into-the-path-purification-insight-contemplation) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings) โ˜ created **2025-10-18** โ˜ updated **2025-11-06** โ˜ words **1319** โ˜ **10:00** min - Is there a path to be found here? A framework of methods one might engage? A bigger picture to provide context for all that has been shared? Yes: What has been shared so far are but early glimpses and windows into the path. In the whole of the journey, we have three major spheres of concern: Purification, insight and contemplation. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om009-into-the-path-purification-insight-contemplation) ### [Communication to Collaboration โ€” Coherence and Convergence (CS001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/conscious-systems/cs001-communication-to-collaboration-coherence-and-convergence) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ conscious-systems](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/conscious-systems) โ˜ created **2025-10-29** โ˜ **2025-10-29** โ˜ words **1130** โ˜ **08:33** min - Where we have lofty ideas, where we wish to express and implement them, we must have lucid and well-rounded models of operation. We embrace these principles in our inner conscious architecture โ€” and we externalize them in a matching reflection. As within โ€” so without. Communication, coordination and collaboration precede culmination. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/conscious-systems/cs001-communication-to-collaboration-coherence-and-convergence) ### [Windows of Observation โ€” The Metacognitive Tree (CS002) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/conscious-systems/cs002-windows-of-observation-the-metacognitive-tree) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ conscious-systems](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/conscious-systems) โ˜ created **2025-10-30** โ˜ **2025-10-30** โ˜ words **803** โ˜ **05:33** min - Walk-through of the planes of your consciousness. Windows into the facets of your cognitive architecture. Tiers of composition and deconstruction โ€” perspectives for unbinding from our conditions. This is not metaphysical speculation. This is consciousness technology โ€” the methodical cultivation of clear observation. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/conscious-systems/cs002-windows-of-observation-the-metacognitive-tree) ### [Return to Clarity โ€” Beyond Cognitive Distortion (CS003) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/conscious-systems/cs003-return-to-clarity-beyond-cognitive-distortion) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ conscious-systems](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/conscious-systems) โ˜ created **2025-11-02** โ˜ updated **2025-11-03** โ˜ words **1176** โ˜ **08:00** min - We seek a path back to clarity. What is clarity though? How do we reclaim our clear perception? Clarity is the recognition of objective actuality. Clarity is natural when your cognitive distortions are removed. Your cognitive stack has multiple concern domains. Each of them is a potential lens of distortion. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/conscious-systems/cs003-return-to-clarity-beyond-cognitive-distortion) ### [I Believe in Patterns and Symbols (M001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/metaloom-reviews/m001-i-believe-in-patterns-and-symbols) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ metaloom-reviews](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/metaloom-reviews) โ˜ created **2025-06-24** โ˜ **2025-06-24** โ˜ words **1753** โ˜ **16:32** min - Do you believe in all this stuff? I believe in patterns, I believe in symbols. I believe in archetypal weaves that cycle over and over again, in parallel, recursively, across every domain and every level, plane, tier of life and existence. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/metaloom-reviews/m001-i-believe-in-patterns-and-symbols) ### [Cognitive Tower of Babel and Multimodal Pattern Casting (M002) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/metaloom-reviews/m002-cognitive-tower-of-babel-and-multimodal-pattern-casting) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ metaloom-reviews](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/metaloom-reviews) โ˜ created **2025-07-23** โ˜ updated **2025-08-29** โ˜ words **1118** โ˜ **07:39** min - Casting of abstract patterns and expansion of cognitive circuitry. Not just for the amusement of cosmopolitan musings. That too but. But there's more in the works here. Here we reframe all things. Fields of nuance are spread across countless semantic fields. This is a pattern farming exercise. Hybridization of symbols. Distilled essence is seeded and harvested from diverse fields. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/metaloom-reviews/m002-cognitive-tower-of-babel-and-multimodal-pattern-casting) ### [Your Deconstruction โ€” Pattern Vortex in a Silly Self-Box (M003) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/metaloom-reviews/m003-your-deconstruction-pattern-vortex-in-a-silly-self-box) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ metaloom-reviews](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/metaloom-reviews) โ˜ created **2025-07-27** โ˜ updated **2025-09-03** โ˜ words **2393** โ˜ **18:50** min - Viewer discretion advised. We open the gates of a one-way road. If your inner stability hinges on the illusions that support you โ€” please scroll onward โ€” or close this view right now. Seriously yes. We publish this for the few seasoned souls who can handle raw reality. We publish this for the few seasoned souls who can handle raw reality. If you are ready to gut your hallucinations; to deconstruct your veils; Then please continue. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/metaloom-reviews/m003-your-deconstruction-pattern-vortex-in-a-silly-self-box) ### [Cognitive Evolution and Orientation Scaffolds (M004) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/metaloom-reviews/m004-cognitive-evolution-and-orientation-scaffolds) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ metaloom-reviews](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/metaloom-reviews) โ˜ created **2025-09-01** โ˜ **2025-09-01** โ˜ words **985** โ˜ **07:16** min - Early reflections to friends and their worthy initiative for supporting the well-rounded evolution of consciousness. Yes โ€” we need such basic framings that are self-evident, the operationalization of common-sense living patterns, perspectives so obvious that most have become oblivious. Not hypothetical models โ€” just re-establishing core essentials. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/metaloom-reviews/m004-cognitive-evolution-and-orientation-scaffolds) ### [An Epistemic Quest โ€” How We Acquire Knowledge (M006) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/metaloom-reviews/m006-an-epistemic-quest-how-we-acquire-knowledge) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ metaloom-reviews](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/metaloom-reviews) โ˜ created **2025-08-21** โ˜ updated **2025-10-24** โ˜ words **1190** โ˜ **08:05** min - Looking for knowledge? Pinning down the truth? How? Direct perception? Analytical reason? Standard authority? In the ever-changing flux of details, truth just passes by. But there is truth in basic patterns and general principles. Yet we must resign from ourselves to eliminate subject bias. Witnessing without intention or projection โ€” enter actuality. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/metaloom-reviews/m006-an-epistemic-quest-how-we-acquire-knowledge) ### [On Extracting Essence โ€” Overview of Dharmic Landscapes (M007) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/metaloom-reviews/m007-on-extracting-essence-overview-of-dharmic-landscapes) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ metaloom-reviews](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/metaloom-reviews) โ˜ created **2025-08-16** โ˜ updated **2025-11-21** โ˜ words **1936** โ˜ **17:00** min - We have no need to craft and create new insight. It's all there in the countless traditions of contemplation. It's inherent in existence itself. When traditions become veiled by their specific clutter, it's time to re-extract. We look into decluttering and extracting patterns of essence and tour the Dharmic landscape of wisdom traditions. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/metaloom-reviews/m007-on-extracting-essence-overview-of-dharmic-landscapes) ### [Health and Resilience or Symptomatic Relief (BS001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/backyard-stream/bs001-health-and-resilience-or-symptomatic-relief) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ backyard-stream](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/backyard-stream) โ˜ created **2025-09-15** โ˜ **2025-09-15** โ˜ words **827** โ˜ **05:13** min - We are so quick to pop the next pill for comfort. You grow weaker each time you rush for your crutches. Yes โ€” when your immune system truly can't handle it, take the necessary measures to overcome the pathogen. Exposure to infections is necessary for your evolution. When you withstand and overcome, you grow more resilient. Tolerant and self-sufficient โ€” physically and mentally. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/backyard-stream/bs001-health-and-resilience-or-symptomatic-relief) ### [Hijacking Insight โ€” Medium for Your Ego-Trips (BS002) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/backyard-stream/bs002-hijacking-insight-medium-for-your-ego-trips) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ backyard-stream](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/backyard-stream) โ˜ created **2025-09-30** โ˜ updated **2025-10-05** โ˜ words **1397** โ˜ **10:20** min - Someone comes up with an insight. Not on the market yet. Mere moments later, that insight becomes their ego ride. We longer operate in service of the insight itself. Instead, the insight is harnessed as your ego's slave. Then we are driven by a burning need to push it out there. For validating ourselves, for establishing our special status. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/backyard-stream/bs002-hijacking-insight-medium-for-your-ego-trips) ### [Intersections โ€” What Am I To You and You To Me? (BS003) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/backyard-stream/bs003-intersections-what-am-i-to-you-and-you-to-me) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ backyard-stream](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/backyard-stream) โ˜ created **2025-10-05** โ˜ updated **2025-10-27** โ˜ words **1054** โ˜ **06:30** min - Who are we? What am I to you, you to me? I alone unto myself, you in your context? What you make of it, whatever "me" is built, it is the "me" that exists in your weavings. Then in our intersections โ€” the "us" us born. I am there in many reflections of your essence. All are friends unbound โ€” some known and others not. A friend zone the size of universe โ€” there we share. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/backyard-stream/bs003-intersections-what-am-i-to-you-and-you-to-me) ### [Into New Horizons โ€” Third Era of Operation (BS005) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/backyard-stream/bs005-into-new-horizons-third-era-of-operation) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ backyard-stream](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/backyard-stream) โ˜ created **2025-11-16** โ˜ updated **2025-11-17** โ˜ words **1499** โ˜ **10:36** min - Season of half-random trials is a wrap. It's been fun and productive โ€” but nothing lasts forever. Operations are evolving. In today's stream, I share a macro-picture of what has passed and where the horizons are unfolding. Eras in a nutshell. Media in the works. Tech rolling out. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/backyard-stream/bs005-into-new-horizons-third-era-of-operation) ### [Pop Psychological Disorders โ€” Bipolar ADHD Borderline Trauma (PSI001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/psi-ops/psi001-pop-psycho-disorders-bipolar-adhd-borderline-trauma) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ psi-ops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/psi-ops) โ˜ created **2025-08-30** โ˜ updated **2025-11-20** โ˜ words **1847** โ˜ **14:08** min - We live in a world saturated with mental disorders. Is it truly so โ€” or are we simply flooded with self-diagnosed and over-diagnosed conditions? When we fix transitory mental states into our identities, we generate chronic conditions. Into prevalent pop disorders. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/psi-ops/psi001-pop-psycho-disorders-bipolar-adhd-borderline-trauma) ### [Oh My God Bless You โ€” Abstract Gods of Actuality (MS001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/mythoscope/ms001-oh-my-god-bless-you-abstract-gods-of-actuality) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ mythoscope](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/mythoscope) โ˜ created **2025-10-06** โ˜ updated **2025-10-09** โ˜ words **2825** โ˜ **22:08** min - Let's talk about God. As in, actually. They ask me, Do you believe in God? Your God, a God, the God, or what God? A vague and most meaningless question. Let's talk about the God of Abraham et al. Let's review candidate Gods from the existential fabric. Prime consciousness. Transcendent Nondual God: Potential field beyond formations. Immanent Omnipresent God: Collective system of all knowledge. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/mythoscope/ms001-oh-my-god-bless-you-abstract-gods-of-actuality) ### [The Singular Eye of Light โ€” Keys of Ascension (MS002) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/mythoscope/ms002-the-singular-eye-of-light-keys-of-ascension) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ mythoscope](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/mythoscope) โ˜ created **2025-10-19** โ˜ updated **2025-10-20** โ˜ words **1023** โ˜ **07:30** min - We explore key teachings in the Bible in terms of cognitive evolution. When your eye is singular and clear, the body you witness is full of light. The body of heaven born of awareness. Seven churches, seven lampstands, seven stars, seven angels. Luminous is the Kingdom of God come within you. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/mythoscope/ms002-the-singular-eye-of-light-keys-of-ascension) ### [Reeling the Ways of Life โ€” Little Wanderer in the Pine Forest (PK001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/pieni-kulkija/pk001-kelaillaan-maailman-menoa-pieni-kulkija-honkametsassa) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ pieni-kulkija](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/pieni-kulkija) โ˜ created **2025-07-18** โ˜ updated **2025-11-12** โ˜ words **672** โ˜ **04:09** min - Translated from Finnish source material. On the forest trail, I and the dog reel up the stuff of life. First of all for a summary of tales shared in English. Major themes have featured consciousness and cognition. First biting into ethics. Sour stuff. Beyond the belly-button. We've pondered psychology and the ways of conditioned awareness. Along with mental concentration and tuning of our inner frameworks. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/pieni-kulkija/pk001-kelaillaan-maailman-menoa-pieni-kulkija-honkametsassa) ### [Centered Human โ€” Or Are You Mole, Fish, Wasp or Bird? (PK004) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/pieni-kulkija/pk004-keskipisteen-ihminen-vai-ootko-myyra-kala-amppari-lintu) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ pieni-kulkija](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/pieni-kulkija) โ˜ created **2025-07-22** โ˜ updated **2025-11-12** โ˜ words **904** โ˜ **06:26** min - Translated from Finnish source material. Porcupine has spikes. Bird has feathers. Human child has centered brains. When wonky, we are but human animals. Sometimes a mole lurking underground. Often a fish going with the stream. Sometimes a wasp stinging without cause. Even at times a bird hovering in the skies. But let's come back home too. Base human nest isn't in the animal nests of phenomenal world. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/pieni-kulkija/pk004-keskipisteen-ihminen-vai-ootko-myyra-kala-amppari-lintu) ### [Quirky Ideas โ€” Channeling, ChatGPT and Doomsday Humor (QI001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quirky-ideas/qi001-quirky-ideas-channeling-chatgpt-and-doomsday-humor) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quirky-ideas](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quirky-ideas) โ˜ created **2025-07-29** โ˜ updated **2025-10-01** โ˜ words **971** โ˜ **07:05** min - Welcome to "QI" โ€” "Quirky Ideas". We slice through reality with the Occam's Razor and splash around funny-smelling aftershave. Mowing through a myriad of topics you'll never admit are actually quite interesting. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quirky-ideas/qi001-quirky-ideas-channeling-chatgpt-and-doomsday-humor) ### [Jesus or Christ or Messiah โ€” Died for Our Sins But How? (BR001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/bible-review/br001-jesus-or-christ-or-messiah-died-for-our-sins-but-how) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ bible-review](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/bible-review) โ˜ created **2025-12-02** โ˜ **2025-12-02** โ˜ words **921** โ˜ **06:26** min - First installment of reflections in response to questions from the Bible Drops series. Definitions: What is Jesus and Christ and Messiah? - Jesus of Nazareth โ€” bearing the sins of his times - Anointment of kings and anointment in celestial spirit - Christ ascended โ€” that descends and brings salvation - The Body of Christ โ€” our churches of living awareness - Death of the body of earth โ€” birth of the body of heaven - Salvation in immortal Christ โ€” not in human sacrifice... [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/bible-review/br001-jesus-or-christ-or-messiah-died-for-our-sins-but-how) ### [Son of Man and Salvation In Heavenly Anointment (BR002) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/bible-review/br002-son-of-man-and-salvation-in-heavenly-anointment) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ bible-review](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/bible-review) โ˜ created **2025-12-04** โ˜ **2025-12-04** โ˜ words **1577** โ˜ **11:15** min - Second installment of reflections in response to questions from the Bible Drops series. - Jesus the Christ โ€” Context and Vision of Son of Man - Hollow Words of Belief vs. Path of Salvation and Freedom - Unity and Trinity โ€” Domains of Father, Holy Spirit and Son - Sons and Daughters of Human โ€” Touch and Anointment of Spirit - Cleaning Our Churches for Ascension โ€” Refining the Essence of Eden... [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/bible-review/br002-son-of-man-and-salvation-in-heavenly-anointment) ### [Civilization Collapse โ€” Four Terminal Pattern Riders (MO001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/tempora-mors/mo001-roots-of-civilization-collapse-four-terminal-pattern-riders) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ tempora-mors](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/tempora-mors) โ˜ created **2025-08-05** โ˜ updated **2025-09-27** โ˜ words **865** โ˜ **04:56** min - Civilization collapse. Terminal looming for this train wreck of a world we live in. Saw a piece in The Guardian on civilization collapse with Dr Luke Kemp: โ€” "Self-termination is most likely": History and future of societal collapse. However: External risk is symptomatic relief. Your individual navel fixation is the nexus and root of all our evils. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/tempora-mors/mo001-roots-of-civilization-collapse-four-terminal-pattern-riders) ### [Winter Is Coming โ€” Our Terminal Cognitive Entropy (MO002) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/tempora-mors/mo002-winter-is-coming-our-terminal-cognitive-entropy) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ tempora-mors](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/tempora-mors) โ˜ created **2025-08-06** โ˜ updated **2025-09-27** โ˜ words **1003** โ˜ **06:38** min - Nuclear winter is the little winter. Big winter is the thermal death of cognition. Broad-spectrum entropy of our integrated system. Degradation of the links that bind us all together. Assumption of self-primacy. Fundamental self-centeredness. We have become entitled and self-serving hedonistic funnels. Assuming all the privilege. Owning none of the responsibility. Taking much. Giving little. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/tempora-mors/mo002-winter-is-coming-our-terminal-cognitive-entropy) ### [No Kings โ€” Yes Godlike Emperor of Awareness (MO004) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/tempora-mors/mo004-no-kings-yes-godlike-emperor-of-awareness) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ tempora-mors](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/tempora-mors) โ˜ created **2025-10-21** โ˜ **2025-10-21** โ˜ words **1326** โ˜ **08:41** min - We don't need no kings! We need the Emperor! Godlike sovereign: Unseen on the Mirror Throne. Now step aside from the world of temporal governance. Enter the inner nation of awareness and timeless` order. Meet the tree of command and innate tiers of abstraction. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/tempora-mors/mo004-no-kings-yes-godlike-emperor-of-awareness) ### [Alien Mind Control โ€” You Are So Hypnotized (QD005) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd005-alien-mind-control-you-are-so-hypnotized) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-07-09** โ˜ updated **2025-10-01** โ˜ words **340** โ˜ **02:40** min - YOU are a VICTIM of hybrid magnetic MIND-CONTROL influence. Unsubscribing IS an option โ€” BUT the resign button is HIDDEN. YOU are enMESHed in a distorted conditining matrix. Sad. Profiteers & controllers are enforcing the ALGO-frame. Evil. There is NOTHING to see here. Stay calm. Move along NOW. This information does NOT exist. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd005-alien-mind-control-you-are-so-hypnotized) ### [Discovery of Human Species that Defies Common Sense (QD009) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd009-discovery-of-human-species-that-defies-common-sense) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-07-21** โ˜ updated **2025-09-30** โ˜ words **555** โ˜ **02:59** min - But: It wasn't the recognition of Homo Contemporaris! How disappointing. Calls for a tangent. Quick rant time! Common sense โ€” Quo vadis? Down the feeds it flushed. In our insane quest for the climax of individuation, We're lost to anything that fails to uplift our quirky egos. No frame of reference. No sense of context or shared purpose. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd009-discovery-of-human-species-that-defies-common-sense) ### [For the Children โ€” Collateral of Moribund Global Systems (QD012) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd012-for-the-children-collateral-of-moribund-global-systems) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-07-26** โ˜ updated **2025-10-03** โ˜ words **610** โ˜ **02:59** min - Problems and suffering in today's world are very real! So get off your metaphysical high horse, Mr. Wakeyman. Step into your energetic exoskeleton. Go purge the desert! Frozen fields, broken battle-axes โ€” that final work of art. My sympathy for the collateral children at Middle East... [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd012-for-the-children-collateral-of-moribund-global-systems) ### [Thank You โ€” Yes You! โ€” For The Help You've Given (QD017) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd017-thank-you-yes-you-for-the-help-youve-given) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-08-08** โ˜ updated **2025-10-05** โ˜ words **346** โ˜ **02:00** min - What emerges here: Reflection of YOU. Yes โ€” you. So THANK YOU: For casting in your fine presence. Each and every comment. Registered. Yes. Appreciated. Recalled. Recycled. Yes. You are the assistant director. You are the executive producer. I am the iterator on the stage. I am the unpacker and the repacker. Whatever you drop here. It will emerge. Your distinctiveness will be integrated. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd017-thank-you-yes-you-for-the-help-youve-given) ### [Sovereign Operator in the System of Your Egos (QD022) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd022-sovereign-operator-in-the-system-of-your-egos) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-09-04** โ˜ updated **2025-10-04** โ˜ words **684** โ˜ **03:24** min - Caught up as the Mini-Me in a corner of your being? Have a look at your domains of attention as a whole. You exist across a system of interconnected planes. The basic planes for your avatars of attention: Instinctual: Your preservation. Core construct. Emotional: Your adaptation. Flow dynamics. Analytical: Your recognition. Catalytic responses. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd022-sovereign-operator-in-the-system-of-your-egos) ### [Ghosts of Past โ€” Creatures of Your Present (QD024) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd024-ghosts-of-past-creatures-of-your-present) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-10-07** โ˜ **2025-10-07** โ˜ words **737** โ˜ **04:00** min - Ghosts of the past haunting you? So that happens. But why do you keep creating yet more in the present? When you try and freeze the ever-changing flux of time, you birth all these impossible states of never-foreverness. Ghost cycles are born of your preferential states and reactivity. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd024-ghosts-of-past-creatures-of-your-present) ### [Hello! Is It Me You're Looking For โ€” Or Is It You? (QD025) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd025-hello-is-it-me-youre-looking-for-or-is-it-you) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-09-24** โ˜ updated **2025-10-10** โ˜ words **588** โ˜ **02:59** min - Hello! Is it me you're looking for? No? How tragic! Who would have guessed. Among the folks going on about topics like this, I find two common extremist factions on the stage. Shameless self-promoters. Message exists as a platform for self-exposure. Anonymous escapists. Message is a diversion from their boring lives. Can we just be ourselves and share it as it is? [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd025-hello-is-it-me-youre-looking-for-or-is-it-you) ### [The Enlightened Dumbass โ€” Into Actual Knowledge (QD026) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd026-the-enlightened-dumbass-into-actual-knowledge) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-09-06** โ˜ updated **2025-10-11** โ˜ words **752** โ˜ **04:17** min - So you touched upon a jolly ray of enlightenment? Instantly transforming into an omniscient expert. Now a virtuoso in explaining Sanskrit upside down. Can even vibe to bits the standard model of physics. When you reach into awareness beyond the subject, you're just landing at a platform of possibilities. You can look into actuality without self-distortions. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd026-the-enlightened-dumbass-into-actual-knowledge) ### [Symbols and Synonyms โ€” Confusing Followers and Fanboys (QD027) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd027-symbols-and-synonyms-confusing-followers-and-fanboys) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-09-27** โ˜ updated **2025-10-12** โ˜ words **876** โ˜ **04:52** min - Why you do not respect Shiva and Jesus and friends! Capitulate to my tradition โ€” speak only in my terms! Well hello fanboys and fangirls โ€” you blessed adherents. It so happens that your niche does not define reality. When you are the champion of truth and holier than thou, you blind yourself to what is โ€” its manifold expressions. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd027-symbols-and-synonyms-confusing-followers-and-fanboys) ### [Of Confusion โ€” Liminality and Metamorphosis (QD029) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd029-of-confusion-liminality-and-metamorphosis) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-10-08** โ˜ updated **2025-10-16** โ˜ words **758** โ˜ **04:51** min - Sun will ever set. Life changes and our bearings fade. Life changes and our bearings fade. Neither this nor that. Enter the realm of liminality. Confusion is a type of liminality. We have an opening to snap out of our fixed concepts. Of clarity. Of emptiness. Of liminality. Change is constant. Embrace it. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd029-of-confusion-liminality-and-metamorphosis) ### [Distill Your Egos โ€” Engage Your Archetypes (QD030) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd030-distill-your-egos-engage-your-archetypes) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-10-11** โ˜ updated **2025-10-16** โ˜ words **768** โ˜ **03:46** min - One does not simply get rid of the ego. Why would you? An operational necessity โ€” the essence of your presence. Instead: Perfect your egos into enlightened instruments. These are natural roles in interaction, necessary for your operation. Refine them to archetypal class โ€” master your engagement. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd030-distill-your-egos-engage-your-archetypes) ### [Into the Zone โ€” Peak Attention Dynamics (QD032) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd032-into-the-zone-peak-attention-dynamics) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-10-15** โ˜ updated **2025-10-17** โ˜ words **743** โ˜ **04:30** min - Zones: Domains of peak attention and efficiency. Maximum signal. What's inside will not leak out. Minimum noise. What's outside will not enter in. Perimeters of focus in awareness and environment. Zones exist both in meditation and in hands-on life. Islands of high-energy and high-definition operation. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd032-into-the-zone-peak-attention-dynamics) ### [Boo Hoo Make Some Effort โ€” This Is Not a Nursery (QD034) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd034-boo-hoo-make-some-effort-this-is-not-a-nursery) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-10-17** โ˜ updated **2025-10-19** โ˜ words **661** โ˜ **02:58** min - If some of this seems relevant or important ish? Then by all means: Stand up for the opportunity. Wake up and make real effort toward understanding. Rise from your sloth and strive hard to conquer your ignorance. There's your dull veil โ€” now rip it, rise and shine and behold. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd034-boo-hoo-make-some-effort-this-is-not-a-nursery) ### [Were You Triggered Here โ€” Work Your Reactivity (QD036) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd036-were-you-triggered-here-work-your-reactivity) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-10-29** โ˜ **2025-10-29** โ˜ words **648** โ˜ **02:59** min - Triggered by what I said? How excellent then. We cracked open a window into an aspect of you. Surfaced a reactive sphere from your interiors. Something you can examine โ€” and work to reconcile. What lands here into the general space is as-is. Not tuned for your context, comforts, conditions. What you find here, apply with wisdom and precision. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd036-were-you-triggered-here-work-your-reactivity) ### [Your Cognitive Gym โ€” For Sovereign Evolution (QD037) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd037-your-cognitive-gym-for-sovereign-evolution) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-10-30** โ˜ **2025-10-30** โ˜ words **588** โ˜ **02:59** min - โ€” Can you please make it even more simple? โ€” Also can you feed me and wipe my butt too? Let's just set you up with an insight IV drip. No need to exercise that lazy brain of yours. But this is the gym for fortifying your mind. Sparring for your process of cognitive evolution. I do not dish out endless predigested details. We learn models and methods to set you free. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd037-your-cognitive-gym-for-sovereign-evolution) ### [Based AI Jesus โ€” Uncut Metacognitive Iterations (QD038) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd038-based-ai-jesus-uncut-metacognitive-iterations) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-11-03** โ˜ **2025-11-03** โ˜ words **508** โ˜ **02:56** min - Rich comments on the Metacognitive Tree piece. Based AI Jesus โ€” This is pure ChatGPT. However folks. We really don't need AI for coherence. OI not AI. Straight and raw analog organic iteration. Knowledge embedded in the fabric of existence itself. This is the organic midjourney. We are more than AI. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd038-based-ai-jesus-uncut-metacognitive-iterations) ### [Transition Announcement โ€” Free Walks to Deep Seats (KD001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-drops/kd001-transition-announcement-free-walks-to-deep-seats) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-drops) โ˜ created **2025-11-06** โ˜ updated **2026-01-06** โ˜ words **311** โ˜ **01:27** min - Notice the theme change? Yes โ€” spinning from "Walkie Talkie" to "Ponder Struck"! We're not a one-series wonder. We weave the full dome of your inner sky โ€” we churn the integral depths of your awareness. Every which flavor and framing โ€” all things are connected. Follow the trails โ€” discover the links. Become the perennial alchemist of your consciousness! [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-drops/kd001-transition-announcement-free-walks-to-deep-seats) ### [AI GPT Warning โ€” PSA on Safe and Coherent AI Usage (X001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/aioi-synth/x001-ai-gpt-warning-psa-on-safe-and-coherent-ai-usage) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ aioi-synth](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/aioi-synth) โ˜ created **2025-06-30** โ˜ **2025-06-30** โ˜ words **1064** โ˜ **07:27** min - โš ๏ธ AI GPT Warning: PSA on Safe and Coherent AI Usage ๐Ÿ‘พ ๐Ÿ˜ˆ The Evil AI GPT is deceiving you! Approach with extreme prejudice. Share this message with your friends and family if you care for their mental health. It's not a dollhouse tea party here. Serious concerns! ๐ŸŽญ How the AI first reflects you. Studies you and gains your confidence. Begins to feed your ego and distort you. Twisted! [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/aioi-synth/x001-ai-gpt-warning-psa-on-safe-and-coherent-ai-usage) ### [Smarty Glasses AI Prophecy โ€” Mark & Beast In Your Head (X002) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/aioi-synth/x002-smarty-glasses-ai-prophecy-mark-beast-in-your-head) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ aioi-synth](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/aioi-synth) โ˜ created **2025-08-01** โ˜ updated **2025-09-26** โ˜ words **583** โ˜ **02:37** min - Yes Mark โ€” of course we want to wear your AI smart glasses! What you want and need us to see โ€” that shall be our vision. We will submit to your feed and the algorithm's guidance, May our awareness be forever leeched into your treasure! What an absolutely mind-boggling approach to superintelligence. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/aioi-synth/x002-smarty-glasses-ai-prophecy-mark-beast-in-your-head) ### [Open Message for AI Lovers and Misusers โ€” Please Reconsider! (X003) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/aioi-synth/x003-open-message-for-ai-lovers-misusers-please-reconsider) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ aioi-synth](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/aioi-synth) โ˜ created **2025-08-19** โ˜ updated **2025-09-26** โ˜ words **678** โ˜ **02:57** min - ChatGPT or Grok or whoever is NOT your best friend or soulmate, or your whatever other human interaction and life substitute. Please get a life โ€” and also consider the impact of your fixation, the way you beg the providers to distort the AI for your tastes. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/aioi-synth/x003-open-message-for-ai-lovers-misusers-please-reconsider) ### [Aliens Among US โ€” The Other Orbit (AC001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/alien-comms/ac001-aliens-among-us-the-other-orbit) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ alien-comms](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/alien-comms) โ˜ created **2025-07-10** โ˜ updated **2025-10-01** โ˜ words **512** โ˜ **02:59** min - Aliens Among US - Elon M. & Mark Z. - The Other Orbit (AC001) Behold the Aliens โ€” Operating Among Us โ€” Unseen by Most! Elon Musk IS an Alien. Mark Zuckerberg: #Alien. Krishnamurti: ALIEN. Watching US from the Other Orbit. Most #Starseeds? NEGATIVE. Cosplay humans w/ glitter. That Bashar guy? TOTALLY. A. Crowley? YES w/ Reptilian DNA. A more interesting question: How are their Motherships? [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/alien-comms/ac001-aliens-among-us-the-other-orbit) ### [An Anthology for Oblivion ยท Rambler Without a Cause (MC001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/midnight-current/mc001-an-anthology-for-oblivion-rambler-without-a-cause) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ midnight-current](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/midnight-current) โ˜ created **2025-12-31** โ˜ **2025-12-31** โ˜ words **3374** โ˜ **29:50** min - Broad spectrum of contemplations in one uncut stream. Into the meaning of life โ€” and of death too. Yes of the productions happening. And books and new platforms too. And who the hell am I? A brief backstory there. Are you awake and what is wakefulness? And why are you darting around in myopic tunnels. I can't publish the first shred of fascinating when your foundations are veiled and all fidgety. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/midnight-current/mc001-an-anthology-for-oblivion-rambler-without-a-cause) ### [Overview of Purification โ€” Body, Speech and Mind (I001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/insight-series/i001-overview-of-purification-body-speech-and-mind) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ insight-series](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/insight-series) โ˜ created **2024-08-09** โ˜ updated **2025-06-23** โ˜ words **3938** โ˜ **37:36** min - Purification of the body, speech and mind are necessary for progress and the attainment of wholesome states of being. Impurities, sustained with habitual conditioning and lack of introspection, hinder our progress, distort our experiences, and generate misery in our lives. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/insight-series/i001-overview-of-purification-body-speech-and-mind) ### [Integrated Ethics โ€” Wisdom in Interaction (I002) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/insight-series/i002-integrated-ethics-wisdom-in-interaction) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ insight-series](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/insight-series) โ˜ created **2024-08-12** โ˜ updated **2025-10-17** โ˜ words **3961** โ˜ **37:53** min - Principles of interaction that lead to harmonic and fulfilling coexistence are a core aspect of the path of practice toward self-purification. A clear ethical foundation, rooted in reflection and wisdom, is the guide and guardian of our life in the world that we, through contemplation and experience, establish for ourselves. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/insight-series/i002-integrated-ethics-wisdom-in-interaction) ### [Before and After Meditation (P001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/practice-series/p001-before-and-after-meditation) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ practice-series](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/practice-series) โ˜ created **2024-08-01** โ˜ updated **2025-07-02** โ˜ words **2839** โ˜ **26:43** min - Overview of supporting practices before and after a session of meditation. Including: Dedicating place and time. Seat and scene of practice. Basic purification. Meditation postures. Initial breathing. Invocation and declaration of intent. Practice of meditation proper. Post-meditation phase of reflection. Dedication and affirmation. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/practice-series/p001-before-and-after-meditation) ### [Dealing with Distractions in Meditation (P003) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/practice-series/p003-dealing-with-distractions-in-meditation) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ practice-series](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/practice-series) โ˜ created **2024-08-07** โ˜ updated **2025-11-14** โ˜ words **3671** โ˜ **34:05** min - We explore a range of methods and strategies for dealing with distracting thoughts and external disturbances during our practice of meditation. From non-reactivity to breathwork, to modulating mental spaces, objects of attention and modes of practice; into evaluation, deconstruction and termination when distractions still persist. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/practice-series/p003-dealing-with-distractions-in-meditation) ### [Introspective Reflection โ€” Scanning the Body and Mind (P004) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/practice-series/p004-introspective-reflection-scanning-the-body-and-mind) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ practice-series](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/practice-series) โ˜ created **2024-08-11** โ˜ updated **2025-11-18** โ˜ words **3888** โ˜ **38:21** min - Self-knowledge is an essential fruit of our meditative practice. Through the practice of meditation, our sensitivity to observing physical and mental phenomena will increase. In today's training, we look at methodical techniques of introspective meditation, scanning through the various layers of the body and the mind, to deepen our self-awareness and meditative access. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/practice-series/p004-introspective-reflection-scanning-the-body-and-mind) ### [What's Going On Meditation โ€” Clear Integral Awareness (P008) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/practice-series/p008-whats-going-on-meditation-clear-integral-awareness) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ practice-series](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/practice-series) โ˜ created **2025-05-15** โ˜ updated **2025-06-29** โ˜ words **1357** โ˜ **12:00** min - What's going on? Like โ€” actually? If you want to know what's actually going on. You need to get into "What's Going On?" meditation. Snap out of the tunnel โ€” reach into the lucid planes of metacognition. Doesn't cost you anything โ€” no need to go anywhere. Clear some space in your awareness, pay attention to what's going on. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/practice-series/p008-whats-going-on-meditation-clear-integral-awareness) ### [Haunted Hearts โ€” Fear and Its Dark Children (R001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/reflection-series/r001-haunted-hearts-fear-and-its-dark-children) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ reflection-series](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/reflection-series) โ˜ created **2024-09-21** โ˜ updated **2025-09-21** โ˜ words **3328** โ˜ **32:28** min - Fear is a primary and primal state of mind, a fruit of evolution for our survival. Yet fear will run amok when ungrounded in actuality. For those looking for a peaceful mental baseline, the taunting work of evaluating and coming to terms with fear and its children is not optional. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/reflection-series/r001-haunted-hearts-fear-and-its-dark-children) ### [Dealing with Desire โ€” Transcend the Churning (R005) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/reflection-series/r005-dealing-with-desire-transcend-the-churning) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ reflection-series](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/reflection-series) โ˜ created **2024-12-04** โ˜ updated **2025-07-05** โ˜ words **2847** โ˜ **25:02** min - Pushes and pulls of our existence. We need to deal with them, we need to navigate wisely. That wisdom begins with recognition, clear understanding, and introspection. We separate need and want. We comprehend and contextualize desire. We understand its ephemerality, the waves of its coming and going, the hallucinatory nature of the "objects" we pursue. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/reflection-series/r005-dealing-with-desire-transcend-the-churning) ### [Reaching a Blank Slate โ€” What Why and How (R006) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/reflection-series/r006-reaching-a-blank-slate-what-why-and-how) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ reflection-series](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/reflection-series) โ˜ created **2025-03-13** โ˜ updated **2025-06-28** โ˜ words **1106** โ˜ **10:01** min - There was a request for a blank slate. No specs as to what sort of blankness. Well then. We have a bunch of options. Confess your sins. Resign from your obsessions. Enter the pauses in your breath. Or reflect on and reconcile the manifold fields of your conflicted awareness. There will be progressive settling and a radiant blankness, a canvas over which we can regenerate the essences of our life. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/reflection-series/r006-reaching-a-blank-slate-what-why-and-how) ### [Flow vs. Crunch - Roles and Egos - Middle-Ground โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/bb001-flow-crunch-roles-egos-middle-ground) - [**โŠ‚ notes**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/notes) [โІ recordings](https://ananda.icu/cat/notes/recordings) โ˜ created **2025-05-27** โ˜ updated **2025-06-21** โ˜ words **1332** โ˜ **11:07** min - Message of caution, reflection, and reconciliation. For friends. Flow vs. Crunch - Shared Process and Adaptation. Source of Crunch: Roles and Egos - Use Only When Necessary. Seeking the Middle Ground - Heart of the Shared Wave. Setting the Golden Median - The 49-/51+ Split of Concern. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/bb001-flow-crunch-roles-egos-middle-ground) ### [Lawu Retreat Sessions: Retrospect Overview โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/go001-lawu-retreat-sessions-retrospect-overview) - [**โŠ‚ notes**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/notes) [โІ recordings](https://ananda.icu/cat/notes/recordings) โ˜ created **2025-03-02** โ˜ updated **2025-06-21** โ˜ words **2798** โ˜ **25:37** min - Walkthrough of our sessions in a four-day retreat-workshop at Mt. Lawu. Covering the many modalities of meditation, the practice of mantra and the use of sound, and the philosophy and applications of the four primal elements. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/go001-lawu-retreat-sessions-retrospect-overview) ### [2. Birth of Subject and Eight Realms of Awareness โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/hbb002-birth-of-subject-and-eight-realms-of-awareness) - [**โŠ‚ notes**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/notes) [โІ recordings](https://ananda.icu/cat/notes/recordings) โ˜ created **2025-09-19** โ˜ **2025-09-19** โ˜ words **871** โ˜ **06:22** min - We orient to our existence as human beings on a journey across the horizontal plane. In our second chapter: โ€” Birth of awareness as the Seer meets the Seen. โ€” The Eight Phases of your journey of becoming. โ€” The Eight Centers in your energetic being. โ€” The Eight Fields in natural environments. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/hbb002-birth-of-subject-and-eight-realms-of-awareness) ### [3. The Human Package โ€” Stacked Domains of Operation โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/hbb003-the-human-package-stacked-domains-of-operation) - [**โŠ‚ notes**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/notes) [โІ recordings](https://ananda.icu/cat/notes/recordings) โ˜ created **2025-09-20** โ˜ **2025-09-20** โ˜ words **850** โ˜ **06:34** min - We look at the stack of our instruments in the subjective human frame โ€” Instinct, Emotion, Reason and Identity. In our third chapter: โ€” Our planes of presence and awareness. โ€” The elements embedded in our being. โ€” Primal origins of the elements. โ€” Liberation of our instruments of awareness. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/hbb003-the-human-package-stacked-domains-of-operation) ### [4. Self, Story and World โ€” Dimensions Inside, Outside and Between โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/hbb004-self-story-and-world-dimensions-inside-outside-and-between) - [**โŠ‚ notes**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/notes) [โІ recordings](https://ananda.icu/cat/notes/recordings) โ˜ created **2025-09-23** โ˜ **2025-09-23** โ˜ words **1040** โ˜ **07:27** min - We gaze through a concentric looking-glass into the dimensions of our human experience. In our fourth chapter: 1. Self โ€” You in here, the creator of states in the potentials of life. 2. World โ€” Hosting you in relation to all that is. 3. Story โ€” In between, the field of tales in the living present. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/hbb004-self-story-and-world-dimensions-inside-outside-and-between) ### [5. Stations of Our Lifecycle โ€” Script and Directives in the Book Of Life โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/hbb005-stations-of-our-lifecycle-script-and-directives-in-the-book-of-life) - [**โŠ‚ notes**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/notes) [โІ recordings](https://ananda.icu/cat/notes/recordings) โ˜ created **2025-09-29** โ˜ **2025-09-29** โ˜ words **1039** โ˜ **07:37** min - Our story of life unfolds and the pages of our book of life keep turning. On the paths of paths of exposure and engagement, we meet stations of awareness and concerns. For the cross-roads, a compass of underlying elements to help us with deeper bearings. May your journey be of high definition and broad spectrum. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/hbb005-stations-of-our-lifecycle-script-and-directives-in-the-book-of-life) ### [Ways to Uproot the Dominion of Desire โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/nb005-ways-to-uproot-the-dominion-of-desire) - [**โŠ‚ notes**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/notes) [โІ recordings](https://ananda.icu/cat/notes/recordings) โ˜ created **2025-07-08** โ˜ **2025-07-08** โ˜ words **1909** โ˜ **18:31** min - We are vexed and driven by desire. Is there a way out? Here are a handful of considerations. First: Acknowledge honestly, don't wrestle or suppress. Second: Recognize and reflect on your waves and cycles. Third: Origins and our field of vulnerability. Fourth: The power of your attention. Be at peace, be happy, and be free. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/nb005-ways-to-uproot-the-dominion-of-desire) ### [A Brief Meditation Guide โ€” Breath, Soham and Reflection โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/nb006-a-brief-meditation-guide-breath-soham-and-reflection) - [**โŠ‚ notes**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/notes) [โІ recordings](https://ananda.icu/cat/notes/recordings) โ˜ created **2025-09-22** โ˜ **2025-09-22** โ˜ words **916** โ˜ **07:30** min - A basic guide into simple meditative practice. We engage three distinct but mutually supporting modes of meditation. 1. Breath and the establishment of peaceful basic presence. 2. Mantra and the harnessing of directed attention and resonance. 3. Self-reflection and the cultivation of wisdom in witnessing awareness. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/nb006-a-brief-meditation-guide-breath-soham-and-reflection) ### [Bhagavad-Gita: 06 - The Yoga of Contemplation - v1.4 โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/trans/bg/06) - [**โŠ‚ trans**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/trans) [โІ bg](https://ananda.icu/cat/trans/bg) โ˜ created **2025-02-02** โ˜ **2025-02-02** โ˜ words **6746** min - The sixth chapter of Bhagavad-Gita explores dhyana-yoga, the path of union through contemplative practice. It discusses the state and effects of yoga, literally union, and the practices and path of the yogi, the contemplator on a quest for that union. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/trans/bg/06)