--- title: "Matches for Witness | Search" heading: "Site Search" subheading: "Seeking » Witness « ..." updated: "2026-01-08T22:48:23+00:00" words: url: https://ananda.icu/q description: "" ... ๐Ÿ”Ž๏ธŽ query โ€” **witness***   โ˜   matches โ€” **88** ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [Oh I Get It But Actually Not โ€ข Your Illusion of Knowing (BTW001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/by-the-way/btw001-oh-i-get-it-but-actually-not-your-illusion-of-knowing) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ by-the-way](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/by-the-way) โ˜ created **2025-12-03** โ˜ **2025-12-03** โ˜ words **608** โ˜ **02:58** min - 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) ### [On Entering Actuality โ€” What's Going On Meditation (N002) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/introspectrum/n002-on-entering-actuality-whats-going-on-meditation) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ introspectrum](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/introspectrum) โ˜ created **2025-07-01** โ˜ **2025-07-01** โ˜ words **533** โ˜ **03:56** min - For those who seek clarity and self-awareness. Get to know your contents โ€” understand your inner constructs. Instincts, emotions, thoughts, identity โ€” none of that is you. Polarized reactions โ€” yes this, no that โ€” condition you to the core. Rise beyond the phenomena in your being. Enter the planes of metacognition. Clear away your projections. Remember. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/introspectrum/n002-on-entering-actuality-whats-going-on-meditation) ### [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) ### [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) ### [If You Seek Clarity โ€” Leave Your Battlefields (K001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k001-if-you-seek-clarity-leave-your-battlefields) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-05-31** โ˜ updated **2025-10-24** โ˜ words **450** โ˜ **02:46** min - If you seek clarity, then get off the battlefield. You will not find clarity in wrestling with the push and pull of your reactions. Solutions are found on a plane beyond the problems. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k001-if-you-seek-clarity-leave-your-battlefields) ### [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) ### [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) ### [The Consequential Slumber โ€” Wake-Up Signal Broadcast Review (K012) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k012-the-consequential-slumber-wake-up-signal-broadcast-review) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks) โ˜ created **2025-07-15** โ˜ updated **2025-08-29** โ˜ words **747** โ˜ **06:09** min - 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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [New Age Messiah Revealed! Into Dark Unification (MO003) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/tempora-mors/mo003-new-age-messiah-revealed-into-dark-unification) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ tempora-mors](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/tempora-mors) โ˜ created **2025-08-10** โ˜ updated **2025-09-27** โ˜ words **1216** โ˜ **07:05** min - You trying to save the world or something? Fact is: Our civilization is FUBAR. Locked in tunnel vision. Zooming for the epic finale. Beyond salvaging. Beyond salvation. Beyond interest. Mesmerized crowds still cheering behind the leadership. Time of rift will come. False Messiah will rise. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/tempora-mors/mo003-new-age-messiah-revealed-into-dark-unification) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [What Might One Find โ†’ In a Strange Pool of Collected Essences โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/intro) - [**โŠ‚ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [โІ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root) โ˜ created **2025-06-01** โ˜ **2025-06-01** โ˜ words **595** min - Here we are. Looking for something. Lots of things here. What a strange pool of collected essences. Offered in service of the perpetual evolution of our consciousness. May we integrate and unify our existence. May we unbind from our conditions. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/intro) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [Son of Man and Seven Inner Churches of Asia โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/texts/vintage/son-of-man-and-seven-inner-churches-of-asia) - [**โŠ‚ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [โІ vintage](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/vintage) โ˜ created **2011-05-24** โ˜ updated **2025-10-06** โ˜ words **1380** min - The theme of ancient systems of inner cultivation and ascension continues deeper look into the Book of Revelation. Book of Revelation is the final book of the New Testament, an apocalyptic parable written by John of Patmos, revealing the luminous path of the Son of Man and the Kingdom of Heaven within. (2011) [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/texts/vintage/son-of-man-and-seven-inner-churches-of-asia) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [Humble Opinions & Facts โ€ข What Is Need Not Grovel (HC005) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/hearty-chatter/hc005-humble-opinions-facts-what-is-need-not-grovel) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ hearty-chatter](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/hearty-chatter) โ˜ created **2025-12-30** โ˜ updated **2026-01-02** โ˜ words **617** โ˜ **03:00** min - Matters of personal taste. Estimates from insufficient data. These are opinions. Direct experience. Undeniable patterns. Laws of nature. These are not opinions. They are facts of life. Rooted in reality. Need to deal with them. Why should I preface everything with "In my humble opinion"? Real experience need not grovel. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/hearty-chatter/hc005-humble-opinions-facts-what-is-need-not-grovel) ### [Your Mythic Mental Interface ร— The Return Call of Actuality (HC006) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/hearty-chatter/hc006-your-mythic-mental-interface-the-return-call-of-actuality) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ hearty-chatter](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/hearty-chatter) โ˜ created **2025-01-02** โ˜ updated **2026-01-04** โ˜ words **555** โ˜ **03:00** min - Why of course you can have your mystic trips across the yonder space. Live in the legends and soar in the realms of the angels. But at some point the myth reaches the end of its tail โ€” time to reel it all back home, back to actuality. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/hearty-chatter/hc006-your-mythic-mental-interface-the-return-call-of-actuality) ### [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) ### [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) ### [Downtown Human World & The Causal Watchtower (CW001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/casual-watcher/cw001-downtown-human-world-the-causal-watchtower) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ casual-watcher](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/casual-watcher) โ˜ created **2025-12-18** โ˜ updated **2025-12-19** โ˜ words **476** โ˜ **03:00** min - Down from the high hills once in a blue moon. Grazing around in downtown Yogyakarta โ€” duty calls! Watching the ways of the world. Wonderings from the hermit watchtower โ€” casual watcher is the causal watcher, observing the minds in the matrix. #CasualWatcher #WatchTower #HumanWorld #Unreal #Bubbles #CityMatrix #HermitLife #Solitude... [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/casual-watcher/cw001-downtown-human-world-the-causal-watchtower) ### [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) ### [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) ### [Word of Truth Died for You ยท Reborn in Purity & Clarity (BD001) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/bible-drops/bd001-word-of-truth-died-for-you-reborn-in-purity-clarity) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ bible-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/bible-drops) โ˜ created **2025-11-30** โ˜ updated **2025-12-01** โ˜ words **549** โ˜ **03:00** min - The Word in the beginning is the Truth that reigns forever. Truth is ever-present in the fabric of the creation. We are veiled by our agendas. We are lost in our doctrines. This is an essentialist dispensation. Return to the living essence. What is the death and resurrection of the body of Christ? How do we die in Christ? How are the sermons to the churches? [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/bible-drops/bd001-word-of-truth-died-for-you-reborn-in-purity-clarity) ### [Truth Knocks On Your Door ยท We Testify to Actuality (BD003) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/bible-drops/bd003-truth-knocks-on-your-door-we-testify-to-actuality) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ bible-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/bible-drops) โ˜ created **2025-12-02** โ˜ updated **2025-12-05** โ˜ words **550** โ˜ **02:53** min - Truth is knocking on your door. Will you open? Or hide from the call of actuality in your little box of desires? If you open, we shall dine together from the buffet of creation as it is. If you evade, you inherit the darkness you design. We testify to the truth and encounter the voice of what is in the court of Pontius Pilate. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/bible-drops/bd003-truth-knocks-on-your-door-we-testify-to-actuality) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [The Wired Tail of the World โ€” Run to Mt. What-Everest (QD013) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd013-the-wired-tail-of-the-world-run-to-mt-what-everest) - [**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 **582** โ˜ **03:00** min - Ancient processes. Iterating to their necessary conclusions. Cognitive time-travelers and deep pattern-weavers were there โ€” Tuning at confluences of time, tweaking at conflict junctions. Today's fixers, many veils apart from the root causal stream. What you may or may not do โ€” support problems and solutions โ€” Of those be your feel-goods. Acts of very limited consequence. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd013-the-wired-tail-of-the-world-run-to-mt-what-everest) ### [Point Overload Quantum Saturation Iteration Carnival (QD019) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd019-point-overload-quantum-saturation-iteration-carnival) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-08-12** โ˜ updated **2025-10-05** โ˜ words **601** โ˜ **03:00** min - We compensate for yesterday's Zero Point lounge. Fasten your seatbelts. From the Unified Era through 3D into Absolute Rewind: - Big Bang Funnel - Wavefunction Collapse - Interaction Vertices - Geodesic Intersections - Black Hole Singularity - Techno-Cognitive Singularity - Your Tip of Nose and Navel. Not mere cosmic curiosities โ€” these are States of Cognition. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd019-point-overload-quantum-saturation-iteration-carnival) ### [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) ### [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) ### [Walking That High Talk โ€” The Inward Warrior (QD039) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd039-walking-that-high-talk-the-inward-warrior) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops) โ˜ created **2025-11-04** โ˜ updated **2025-11-05** โ˜ words **471** โ˜ **02:59** min - Talking is cheap. Walking your high talk burns your impurities. Then be not a bypassing hypocrite on the path. What is this spiritual warrior that they speak of? Someone who lashes out at others to validate themselves? Or someone who turns inward and slashes their own weeds? Don't be a bullshit warrior making a show of your spirits. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd039-walking-that-high-talk-the-inward-warrior) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [Emotions in the Spectrum of Living Experience (R007) โ–ธ](https://ananda.icu/talks/reflection-series/r007-emotions-in-the-spectrum-of-living-experience) - [**โŠ‚ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [โІ reflection-series](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/reflection-series) โ˜ created **2025-03-14** โ˜ updated **2025-07-08** โ˜ words **1377** โ˜ **12:38** min - 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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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) ### [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)