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query — **ego***   ⁘   matches — **64** 

	### [Operational Ego — Our Roles and Instruments (M005) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/metaloom-reviews/m005-operational-ego-our-roles-and-instruments)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ metaloom-reviews](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/metaloom-reviews)
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			**2025-08-30** 
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			**2025-09-14** 
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		- Your "the ego"? There is no such monolithic ego. We are complex entities — 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)

	### [Hijacking Insight — Medium for Your Ego-Trips (BS002) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/backyard-stream/bs002-hijacking-insight-medium-for-your-ego-trips)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ backyard-stream](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/backyard-stream)
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			created
			**2025-09-30** 
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			**2025-10-05** 
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			**1397** 

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			**10:20** 
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		- 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)

	### [Distill Your Egos — Engage Your Archetypes (QD030) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd030-distill-your-egos-engage-your-archetypes)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops)
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			created
			**2025-10-11** 
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			**2025-10-16** 
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			**768** 

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			**03:46** 
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		- One does not simply get rid of the ego. Why would you? An operational necessity — 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 — master your engagement. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd030-distill-your-egos-engage-your-archetypes)

	### [Your Credible Roaster — With Background Egos (BZ007) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz007-your-credible-roaster-with-background-egos)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ brief-snaps](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/brief-snaps)
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			created
			**2025-11-21** 
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			**2025-11-22** 
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			**647** 

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			**03:00** 
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		- Wanted to let y'all know: I'm actually a credible roaster. Been in the toaster at full heat for three odd decades. Leaves some impressions in the system. So yes there's a lot of bull and I call it as I see it — with actually solid backings. It's not like I read a couple of books last year and woke up and became an Insta Messiah. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz007-your-credible-roaster-with-background-egos)

	### [Sovereign Operator in the System of Your Egos (QD022) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd022-sovereign-operator-in-the-system-of-your-egos)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops)
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			created
			**2025-09-04** 
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			**2025-10-04** 
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			**684** 

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			**03:24** 
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		- 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)

	### [Flow vs. Crunch - Roles and Egos - Middle-Ground ▸](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/bb001-flow-crunch-roles-egos-middle-ground)

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			[**⊂ notes**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/notes) [⊆ recordings](https://ananda.icu/cat/notes/recordings)
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			created
			**2025-05-27** 
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			**2025-06-21** 
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			**1332** 

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			**11:07** 
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		- 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)

	### [Who Is This? - My Eloquent Egologue ▸](https://ananda.icu/who)

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			[**⊂ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [⊆ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root)
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			created
			**2025-05-18** 
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			**2025-06-18** 
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			**2526** 

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		- 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)

	### [AI GPT Warning — PSA on Safe and Coherent AI Usage (X001) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/aioi-synth/x001-ai-gpt-warning-psa-on-safe-and-coherent-ai-usage)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ aioi-synth](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/aioi-synth)
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			created
			**2025-06-30** 
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			**2025-06-30** 
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			**1064** 

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			**07:27** 
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		- ⚠️ AI GPT Warning: PSA on Safe and Coherent AI Usage 👾 😈 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! 🎭 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)

	### [Pool of Videos → Into Direct Insight ▸](https://ananda.icu/video)

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			[**⊂ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [⊆ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root)
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			created
			**2024-12-12** 
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			**2025-06-18** 
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			**30244** 

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		- 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 ▸ YouTube channel for the latest digs. Enjoy the show! [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/video)

	### [King Pin of the Shit Pile · Your Belly Button Rules (BZ009) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz009-king-pin-of-the-shit-pile-your-belly-button-rules)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ brief-snaps](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/brief-snaps)
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			created
			**2025-11-24** 
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			updated
			**2025-12-04** 
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			**498** 

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			**02:57** 
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		- Mini-me playing the king of the hill again? How self-centered are you exactly? Entitled to drive your monster truck over the heads of others. What matters is your sovereign belly-button. That's the center of gravity for the universe. You can snap out of the gravity well of your identity blueprints you know. Take a broader perspective. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz009-king-pin-of-the-shit-pile-your-belly-button-rules)

	### [Discovery of Human Species that Defies Common Sense (QD009) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd009-discovery-of-human-species-that-defies-common-sense)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops)
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			created
			**2025-07-21** 
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			**2025-09-30** 
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			**555** 

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			**02:59** 
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		- But: It wasn't the recognition of Homo Contemporaris! How disappointing. Calls for a tangent. Quick rant time! Common sense — 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)

	### [Pool of Spoken Word → Echoes of Insight ▸](https://ananda.icu/audio)

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			[**⊂ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [⊆ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root)
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			created
			**2025-04-20** 
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			**2025-06-18** 
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			**4436** 

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		- Assortment of audio materials. This is a catalogue of audio versions for all the video reels. Videos and transcripts linked in — whichever media you prefer. Processing more as time permits.  Then  dive into the pool of spoken word — there be treasures. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/audio)

	### [Make Awareness Great Again! — Drain That Swamp · Follow the Truth — ▸](https://ananda.icu/maga)

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			[**⊂ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [⊆ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root)
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			created
			**2025-12-06** 
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			**2025-12-06** 
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			**6864** 

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		- 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)

	### [Progressive Enlightenment - Stations of Evolving Consciousness - v1.1 ▸](https://ananda.icu/texts/kernel/progressive-enlightenment)

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			[**⊂ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [⊆ kernel](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/kernel)
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			created
			**2025-06-06** 
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			**2025-06-06** 
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			**1691** 

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		- 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)

	### [Positive and Negative Mental States ▸](https://ananda.icu/texts/mind/positive-negative-mental-states)

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			[**⊂ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [⊆ mind](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/mind)
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			created
			**2024-08-21** 
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			**2025-06-21** 
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			**2306** 

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		- 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)

	### [Occult Psychoenergetic Potential ▸](https://ananda.icu/texts/mystic/occult-psychoenergetic-potential)

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			[**⊂ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [⊆ mystic](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/mystic)
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			created
			**2025-06-06** 
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			**2025-06-06** 
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			**1060** 

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		- An inner pool of energy — coiled potential that can be opened and uncoiled. Essentially neutral natural energy — neither of light or the darkness. Our choices and attitudes define the tuning and ultimate outcomes of our works with this inner potential. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/texts/mystic/occult-psychoenergetic-potential)

	### [Mystory: Spiritual Madventures Across the Universe ▸](https://ananda.icu/texts/vintage/mystory-spiritual-madventures-across-the-universe)

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			[**⊂ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [⊆ vintage](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/vintage)
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			created
			**2010-11-10** 
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			**2025-08-28** 
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			**6465** 

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		- 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)

	### [Open Letter: Children of the Light! ▸](https://ananda.icu/texts/vintage/open-letter-children-of-the-light)

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			[**⊂ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [⊆ vintage](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/vintage)
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			created
			**2010-12-05** 
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			**2025-10-06** 
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			**1787** 

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		- 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 — 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/open-letter-children-of-the-light)

	### [Sphinx of Heaven and the Soulless Soul-Seeker ▸](https://ananda.icu/texts/vintage/sphinx-of-heaven-and-the-soulless-soul-seeker)

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			[**⊂ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [⊆ vintage](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/vintage)
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			created
			**2011-01-06** 
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			**2025-10-06** 
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			**1428** 

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		- 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 — 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)

	### [Oh I Get It But Actually Not • Your Illusion of Knowing (BTW001) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw001-oh-i-get-it-but-actually-not-your-illusion-of-knowing)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ by-the-way](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/by-the-way)
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			created
			**2025-12-03** 
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			**2025-12-03** 
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			**608** 

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			**02:58** 
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		- Some people really seem to get it. When you follow up, it turns out they get very little. Some have a neat mental construct of an idea. Others have strong emotional resonance about the thing in itself. That's not "getting it". When you see it, touch it, directly experience it, witness what it is. Only then you get it. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw001-oh-i-get-it-but-actually-not-your-illusion-of-knowing)

	### [One in a Billion for Essence • Whoever Crosses Beyond? (BTW005) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw005-one-in-a-billion-for-essence-whoever-crosses-beyond)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ by-the-way](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/by-the-way)
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			created
			**2025-12-10** 
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			**2025-12-15** 
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			**626** 

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		- Whoever that sought for the essence? Whoever that refined and integrated their yields? Whoever that crossed beyond into the fullness of actuality? We reflect on the rarity of clarity and boot up classics from the Bhagavad Gita to match. Today's installment concludes with a short anthology of essence. Gobble up what you can — it's all basically good stuff. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw005-one-in-a-billion-for-essence-whoever-crosses-beyond)

	### [No Gain Means Not My Job • Our Decayed Collective Ethics (BTW007) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw007-no-gain-means-not-my-job-our-decayed-collective-ethics)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ by-the-way](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/by-the-way)
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			created
			**2025-12-12** 
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			**2025-12-21** 
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			**549** 

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		- Someone else will take care of it. That's the attitude right? Not my problem — nothing in it for me. The collective will take care of it. Yes the collective that exist for your benefit. Shared rights and responsibilities, anyone? This short-sighted and self-centered mode of operation leads to shared decay and degradation. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw007-no-gain-means-not-my-job-our-decayed-collective-ethics)

	### [Life of Avoidable and Unavoidable Suffering (PS001) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/ponder-struck/ps001-life-of-avoidable-and-unavoidable-suffering)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ ponder-struck](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/ponder-struck)
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			created
			**2025-11-14** 
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			**2025-11-26** 
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			**575** 

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		- We meet with suffering in our lives. Some of it is unavoidable. Some of it is avoidable. When you try to avoid the unavoidable, reaching for a make-believe world that runs counter to actuality, you generate avoidable suffering. Your physical body is a source of suffering. Your negative emotions generate suffering. Your rational mind suffers with conflicting thoughts. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/ponder-struck/ps001-life-of-avoidable-and-unavoidable-suffering)

	### [Season of Concentration • Nail the Points that Matter (PS005) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/ponder-struck/ps005-season-of-concentration-nail-the-points-that-matter)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ ponder-struck](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/ponder-struck)
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			created
			**2025-12-02** 
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			**2025-12-03** 
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			**476** 

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		- A time comes when you need to wrap the vapors and get to the point. But what counts as a point? The more it impacts your life — the more consequential that point. The broader its influence on all things — the more essential that point. Then excavate and nail down those core points. Drop the rest — the rest doesn't matter. The rest matters when it's rooted. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/ponder-struck/ps005-season-of-concentration-nail-the-points-that-matter)

	### [Alignment of Our Life-Cycle • Crowning the Human Saga (PS008) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/ponder-struck/ps008-alignment-of-our-life-cycle-crowning-the-human-saga)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ ponder-struck](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/ponder-struck)
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			created
			**2025-12-09** 
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			**2025-12-12** 
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			**496** 

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		- 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)

	### [Jesus El Savior vs. Dark Santa • Epic End-Times Smackdown (SL003) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/stranger-legends/sl003-jesus-el-savior-vs-dark-santa-epic-end-times-smackdown)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ stranger-legends](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/stranger-legends)
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			created
			**2025-12-19** 
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			**2025-12-23** 
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			**611** 

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		- Jesus and Santa face off in the season finale! Epic smackdown action today! Who rules the Xmas? Who owns the ring? Who claims the gold medal? Who's left with sticks and stones? Holy Cross versus Yggdrasil! Cardinals and dark elves raving mad! The War for Xmas is on! You rooting for Jesus or Santa? [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/stranger-legends/sl003-jesus-el-savior-vs-dark-santa-epic-end-times-smackdown)

	### [Messiah Made of Blind Spots · Self-Awareness Please (BZ004) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz004-messiah-made-of-blind-spots-self-awareness-please)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ brief-snaps](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/brief-snaps)
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			created
			**2025-11-17** 
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			**2025-11-18** 
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			**528** 

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		- Watch out there's another messiah on the loose! Internet spiritual cowboy banging that chakra seven-shooter down the main road. Prime levels of delusion and defense mechanisms in action. Self-awareness levels roughly equivalent to a brick. Routine reality checks are not optional. Enlightenment and self-infatuation are deeply incompatible. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz004-messiah-made-of-blind-spots-self-awareness-please)

	### [Not Your Trip Maker — Out There Is OverRated (BZ005) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz005-not-your-trip-maker-out-there-is-overrated)

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			**2025-11-19** 
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			**2025-11-21** 
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		- Scouting for a bearded mystic to lead you down the yonder rabbit hole? Well you know — yes we could — but I like to bring contrast to your escape schemes. Snap that tether right back in and make sure you remain grounded in solid actuality. Your gods and angels in the heavens high — we harpoon and reel them back to the earth of what is. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz005-not-your-trip-maker-out-there-is-overrated)

	### [Prismatic Multi-Snap! Witness Plane Booming (BZ013) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz013-prismatic-multi-snap-witness-plane-booming)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ brief-snaps](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/brief-snaps)
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			**2025-12-16** 
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			**2025-12-17** 
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		- 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)

	### [Noah's Ark in Outer Space • Rapture of Inner Creatures (AU003) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/actually-unhinged/au003-noahs-ark-in-outer-space-rapture-of-inner-creatures)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ actually-unhinged](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/actually-unhinged)
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			**2025-12-08** 
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			**2025-12-12** 
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			**641** 

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		- Seven billion hedonistic hamsters nibbling away at this planet. What's going on? The deluge is coming soon. Who among you weasels will hear the call of actuality? Mice will race to their holes. Rabbits will hump their short lives away. What will the rest of the creatures do? Have you got your ark primed yet? [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/actually-unhinged/au003-noahs-ark-in-outer-space-rapture-of-inner-creatures)

	### [Slipped to Swamp — Inquiry Back to Awareness (LA001) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/living-awareness/la001-slipped-to-swamp-inquiry-back-to-awareness)

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			**2025-10-22** 
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			**2025-10-22** 
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		- 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 — to not be pulled under? We enter the process of self-inquiry — both general and specific. Train yourself to remember — remember to ask the right questions! [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/living-awareness/la001-slipped-to-swamp-inquiry-back-to-awareness)

	### [Self-Inquiry — From Egg-Shells to Self-Realization (LA002) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/living-awareness/la002-self-inquiry-from-egg-shells-to-self-realization)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ living-awareness](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/living-awareness)
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			**2025-10-23** 
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			**2025-10-23** 
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		- 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 — Not You, Stop Meddling! (LA003) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/living-awareness/la003-the-nest-of-your-mind-not-you-stop-meddling)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ living-awareness](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/living-awareness)
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			**2025-10-24** 
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			**2025-10-24** 
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		- 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 — 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 — Risks and Yields (LA004) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/living-awareness/la004-integrated-self-inquiry-risks-and-yields)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ living-awareness](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/living-awareness)
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			**2025-10-25** 
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			**2025-10-25** 
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		- Inquire yourself away — leap into yonder transcendence? If you're a sage in a loincloth — 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) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/living-awareness/la005-witness-of-presence-and-recognitions)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ living-awareness](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/living-awareness)
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			created
			**2025-11-09** 
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			**2025-11-09** 
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		- 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)

	### [Exit the Matrix of Hallucinations (K011) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k011-exit-the-matrix-of-hallucinations)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks)
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			**2025-07-08** 
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			**2025-07-08** 
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		- The Matrix holds you tight in its grip — 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)

	### [The Consequential Slumber — Wake-Up Signal Broadcast Review (K012) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k012-the-consequential-slumber-wake-up-signal-broadcast-review)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks)
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			**2025-07-15** 
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			**2025-08-29** 
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		- Mr. Wakey Man! Why so obsessed trying to wake people up? Leave it alone. Let it be! Who put you in charge of wake-ups. But it is in the balance of all things. Simple counter-reflection. Simple: Sleeping Alarm Clocks. Coma Catalytic Injections. If only your slumber were happily isolated. But it's not. We have hallucination at scale. It's consequential. It's harmful. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k012-the-consequential-slumber-wake-up-signal-broadcast-review)

	### [Like This Not That — Reactive You Are Deceived (K017) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k017-like-this-not-that-reactive-you-are-deceived)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks)
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			created
			**2025-06-20** 
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			**2025-09-19** 
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		- 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 — Where the Fingers Point (K018) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k018-lack-of-sync-and-magic-where-the-fingers-point)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks)
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			created
			**2025-06-18** 
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			**2025-10-10** 
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			**953** 

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		- 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)

	### [Our Morbid Modern World — The Root of Disease (K020) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k020-our-morbid-modern-world-the-root-of-disease)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks)
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			created
			**2025-06-21** 
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			**2025-10-16** 
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			**840** 

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		- 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)

	### [Reflective Ethics — Fair Balance Plus (K023) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k023-reflective-ethics-fair-balance-plus)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks)
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			created
			**2025-07-12** 
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			**2025-11-05** 
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		- Basic ethics. Reciprocal interaction. Golden middle. Fair and just balance in our dealings and all things. We've all heard that — 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)

	### [How Do You Feel? — Like an Open Book (OM001) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om001-how-do-you-feel-like-an-open-book)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings)
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			created
			**2025-08-07** 
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			**2025-08-30** 
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		- — "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 — 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? — "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)

	### [Open See Same — Close See Other — Our Shared Threads (OM003) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om003-open-see-same-close-see-other-our-shared-threads)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings)
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			created
			**2025-08-09** 
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			**2025-08-30** 
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		- 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 — and all the bad flavors? Open — See Same. We are together. Close — See Other. We are apart. — When you open your mind. You see the sameness. — 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)

	### [Calling of Truth — Our Positive and Negative Veils (OM005) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om005-calling-of-truth-our-positive-and-negative-veils)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings)
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			created
			**2025-08-31** 
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			**2025-10-01** 
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		- "The truth is out there — and in here somewhere... Behind these veils — 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 — should you remove your veils. We have a negative veil — 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 — The World Matters Not (OM006) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om006-create-to-fulfill-yourself-the-world-matters-not)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings)
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			**2025-10-03** 
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			**2025-10-03** 
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		- Friends feeling sad, struggling with their creative process. Sharing the outflows — but why does the world not respond? Holding anticipations — and paving way for disappointments. But do we truly create for the world — or for ourselves? Artist, musician, author or spirited internet commentator? What emerges — 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)

	### [No Shortcuts to Self-Awareness and Inner Evolution (OM008) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om008-no-shortcuts-to-self-awareness-and-inner-evolution)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings)
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			created
			**2025-10-16** 
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			**2025-10-18** 
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			**1600** 

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		- 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)

	### [Return to Clarity — Beyond Cognitive Distortion (CS003) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/conscious-systems/cs003-return-to-clarity-beyond-cognitive-distortion)

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			created
			**2025-11-02** 
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			**2025-11-03** 
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		- 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)

	### [Your Deconstruction — Pattern Vortex in a Silly Self-Box (M003) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/metaloom-reviews/m003-your-deconstruction-pattern-vortex-in-a-silly-self-box)

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			created
			**2025-07-27** 
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			**2025-09-03** 
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		- Viewer discretion advised. We open the gates of a one-way road. If your inner stability hinges on the illusions that support you — please scroll onward — 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)

	### [Into the Cave — Quest for Your Ground of Being (BS004) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/backyard-stream/bs004-into-the-cave-quest-for-your-ground-of-being)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ backyard-stream](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/backyard-stream)
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			created
			**2025-10-27** 
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			**2025-10-31** 
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			**1111** 

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		- When you seek the deep essence of what you are. Soar not with the high winds into entropy afar. Enter the cave and encounter your inner gravity. Blueprints etched into the ground of your being. If you do not excavate the nature of your roots. If there is no container for your living harvest. If there is no closed sphere of self-reflexivity. No reactions, no reconciliation, no integration. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/backyard-stream/bs004-into-the-cave-quest-for-your-ground-of-being)

	### [The Singular Eye of Light — Keys of Ascension (MS002) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/mythoscope/ms002-the-singular-eye-of-light-keys-of-ascension)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ mythoscope](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/mythoscope)
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			created
			**2025-10-19** 
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			**2025-10-20** 
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			**1023** 

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		- 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)

	### [Don't Always React — Taming the Planes of Awareness (PK002) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/pieni-kulkija/pk002-ala-aina-hotkyile-tajunnan-tasoja-taltuttamassa)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ pieni-kulkija](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/pieni-kulkija)
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			created
			**2025-07-18** 
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			updated
			**2025-11-12** 
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			**803** 

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		- Translated from Finnish source material. You a shaky marionette? Getting upset over this and that? Stuffed and sighing with your stuff. Life keeps on rattling you. Bouncing silly day in and day out. No longer entertaining? So new legends from the foothills for Moomin people. Have a see? Little wanderer takes a pause. Wondering and pondering. Many are the wonderful things in the world. Sure is puzzling. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/pieni-kulkija/pk002-ala-aina-hotkyile-tajunnan-tasoja-taltuttamassa)

	### [Hello! Is It Me You're Looking For — Or Is It You? (QD025) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd025-hello-is-it-me-youre-looking-for-or-is-it-you)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops)
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			**2025-09-24** 
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		- 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 — Into Actual Knowledge (QD026) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd026-the-enlightened-dumbass-into-actual-knowledge)

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		- 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 — Confusing Followers and Fanboys (QD027) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd027-symbols-and-synonyms-confusing-followers-and-fanboys)

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		- Why you do not respect Shiva and Jesus and friends! Capitulate to my tradition — speak only in my terms! Well hello fanboys and fangirls — 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 — its manifold expressions. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd027-symbols-and-synonyms-confusing-followers-and-fanboys)

	### [An Anthology for Oblivion · Rambler Without a Cause (MC001) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/midnight-current/mc001-an-anthology-for-oblivion-rambler-without-a-cause)

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			**2025-12-31** 
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		- Broad spectrum of contemplations in one uncut stream. Into the meaning of life — 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 — Body, Speech and Mind (I001) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/insight-series/i001-overview-of-purification-body-speech-and-mind)

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		- 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 — Wisdom in Interaction (I002) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/insight-series/i002-integrated-ethics-wisdom-in-interaction)

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		- 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)

	### [Introspective Reflection — Scanning the Body and Mind (P004) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/practice-series/p004-introspective-reflection-scanning-the-body-and-mind)

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		- 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)

	### [Haunted Hearts — Fear and Its Dark Children (R001) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/reflection-series/r001-haunted-hearts-fear-and-its-dark-children)

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			**2024-09-21** 
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		- 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 — Transcend the Churning (R005) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/reflection-series/r005-dealing-with-desire-transcend-the-churning)

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		- 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)

	### [Emotions in the Spectrum of Living Experience (R007) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/reflection-series/r007-emotions-in-the-spectrum-of-living-experience)

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		- Dealing with emotions and mental states, positive and negative, is an integral aspect of the complete living experience of an incarnate consciousness. We are composite creatures, and each of our aspects of being calls for our awareness. Welcome it all. Deal with it and evolve. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/reflection-series/r007-emotions-in-the-spectrum-of-living-experience)

	### [Ways to Uproot the Dominion of Desire ▸](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/nb005-ways-to-uproot-the-dominion-of-desire)

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		- 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 — Breath, Soham and Reflection ▸](https://ananda.icu/notes/recordings/nb006-a-brief-meditation-guide-breath-soham-and-reflection)

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			**2025-09-22** 
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		- 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 ▸](https://ananda.icu/trans/bg/06)

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		- 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)