“Cognition” · Facet Index
128 talks touch “Cognition”
¶ FACET Cognition (128) → ⁘ How actuality is known: truth, clarity, perception, framing, attention, awareness, witness, metacognition, knowledge
Index of Relevant Talks
An Epistemic Quest — How We Acquire Knowledge (M006) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — how do we know anything at all... If we are seeking for truth... in the realm of patterns, there is more stability... Setting aside your subject bias... subject to our cognitive bias, to our distortions... empirical observation... the pure process of witnessing of things as they are... the direct perception without subject bias... Without any projection, without any agenda... Pattern observation, metacognition... to the actuality of all that is, inside and outside...
- 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 — enter actuality. Read more...
- #Epistemology #Truth #PatternCognition #Subjectivity #CognitiveDistortion #Perception #Intellect #Belief #Witness #DirectExperience #Neutrality #Metacognition #Actuality #Acceptance
Into Conscious Alignment — Clarity • Coherence • Convergence (KD003) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — Clarity — the baseline... Coherence — the perception, recognition, and expression... The recognition of your cognitive distortions... the elimination of subjective bias and reactivity... the perception, recognition, and expression... the recognition of "what is" will also make you whole... Truth, they say, shall set you free... Realigning the kernel of your inner operating system... observe, reflect, realign...
- Our bearings and purpose, the short version: Into clarity, coherence, and convergence. No longer confused and misled by our cognitive distortions. All things perceived, recognized, expressed — as they are. Nature coheres — truth is coherent. Yes and convergence. A self-organizing process of alignment — the weaving-together of the fullness of all that we are, of all that is. Read more...
- #Alignment #Triads #Clarity #Coherence #Convergence #CognitiveDistortion #Subjectivity #Reactivity #Perception #Actuality #Truth #Metacognition #Reflection #BroadcastPhilosophy #AudienceConcerns
Not On Your Polarized Side • Unbiased Witness of What Is (FYI004) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — I'm not on anyone's side... It's the side of actuality that we ever aligned with... falling into a network of lies... I bear witness to the word of the present creation... attending to the absence of filters, distortions and biases... not the side of any finite subject... that cognitive dissonance, that fragmentation of consciousness... together we expand the perspective into "what is" in its full spectrum... make it crystal clear and beyond the shadow of a doubt...
- Let us be crystal clear. I'm an impartial witness to "what is". Not on your side — not on their side — not aligned with polarized parties at war with the truth and dynamics of reality. In the transparent mid-stream — in its raw unfolding. There is no "other side". Never was. Never will be. Enough has been said. It's time to stop saying — and start seeing past your veils — and acting to match. These stand as the final words. Read more...
- #Neutrality #Polarization #Actuality #Truth #Witness #CognitiveDistortion #Subjectivity #Coherence #Convergence #Perspective #Clarity #BroadcastPhilosophy
Witness of Presence and Recognitions (LA005) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — What we seek to witness, to observe, is the workings of awareness itself... Simple, neutral recognition... In what you see, there is simply the seeing... It is as it is... Your entire cognitive process in all of its aspects... still and present in the middle of what we recognize... they are lies... your hallucinations... there is clarity...
- 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...
- #Witness #SelfInquiry #NoSelf #Neutrality #Perception #Actuality #Reactivity #Impermanence #Attachment #Metacognition #Presence #Truth #CognitiveDistortion #Liberation #Clarity
What About Actuality: Witness Beyond Opinions • not Measuring Final Facts (WA002) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — Raw reality... the removal of internal distortions... pour it back into your subjective filters... Be a witness of the itness of what is... pinning down the absolute final definition of material reality... You only see a limited spectrum of light... with best effort at perceiving it clearly... we don't coat it with the baggage of our past, nor with the dreams of our future...
- What about actuality? Like an objective reality? Revealed in the full frequency of light and sound — in the final quantum field equations — waking up from the last alien simulation into a final reality? Well that's not at all the point here. We're talking about the removal of your cognitive distortions. Read more...
- #Actuality #CognitiveDistortion #Subjectivity #Witness #Epistemology #Perception #Clarity #Acceptance #Presence #Nonduality #Sameness #SelfCenteredness
Mirror Intelligence — Cognitive Revolution (K005) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — The world is a mirror of your inner contents... the framing... it is you who is hallucinating... the tree of your cognition... absolute clarity... inner coherence... Answers are from perspective.... a certain witness plane...
- 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...
- #ArtificialIntelligence #Reflection #Framing #ConsciousEvolution #Dialogue #CognitiveDistortion #Metacognition #Clarity #Coherence #Perspective #Witness #Conditioning
Keep Your Windows Clean — Clarity in Perspective (K002) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — clarity is not from knowledge... Clarity is from perspective... metacognitive windows... neutral stance in a well-rounded field of perception... That's all bias.... establish planes of perception... the analysis and evaluation and the resulting data... factors present in all things, in every context...
- Clarity is not from knowledge. Clarity is from perspective. Simple. Big picture first. Details later. Neutral stance. No agenda. Look at what is — in your windows of metacognition. Read more...
- #Clarity #Perspective #Metacognition #Neutrality #CognitiveDistortion #EightRealms #ElementalQuad #Framing #Epistemology #PatternCognition #MetacognitiveTree
Reality Is Crystal Clear As Is • Our Framing Warps Reality (HYC004) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — their distortion matrix... really just a framing problem... it will be so much more clear... Why don't you just look at what is... you become blind and deaf to what actually is... your seven spheres of special consideration in self-reference... Reflect on what is...
- Even the simplest things in life become complicated and confusing when we look at them through our distorting lenses. What if we stopped stacking up frames upon frames of interpretation, veils upon veils that shroud reality — and just looked at life and other people as it is, as whatever that is? When we lay down our projections, embracing the plain suchness of life, bursting our warp bubbles... Read more...
- #CognitiveDistortion #Framing #Clarity #Actuality #Perception #Conditioning #Subjectivity #Reflection #CommunicationChallenges #AudienceConcerns #HinduTradition #BiblicalTradition
Entomology of Retrospection • and Other Subliminal Digs (FR002) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — confused you must be before clarity dawns... The veils you've knit in your mind... the actual naked patterns in the loom of all that you are... your inner matrix, begins to lose its structural integrity... they are detached from actuality... These are live-action journeys in consciousness... I freely flow with the mind-stream, reflectively backwards...
- Transmissions from station 7¾ — the liminal basin where essence surfaces and sediment sinks. Not arbitrary, not intellectual. Live-action journeys in consciousness, churning the cauldron to see what rises and what doesn't. Read more...
- #Liminality #Clarity #CognitiveDistortion #Integration #Essence #PatternCognition #Awakening #Coherence #Actuality #DirectExperience #Reflection #Language #Symbolism
What About Your Truth: Face the Truth of Your Truth & Trust in Raw Experience (WA004) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — that is your subjective truth... this typically has very little to do with truth actual... the truth of our present living experience... weaving the lenses through which you look at life... The Buddha said so. Jesus said so. Ananda said so. The Internet said so.... to acknowledge, to reflect on... only ever changes with the evolution of your perspective...
- What about "your truth"? Aka the colorful frames you craft to make your existence meaningful. The only truth there is the truth of your subjective schemes. The pushes and pulls of your fears and hopes — the warp and woof of your mental coat. Let the shared field of truth — actuality of what is, insight present in our direct experience — stand and shine as it is. Read more...
- #Subjectivity #Truth #DirectExperience #CognitiveDistortion #Delusion #SelfCenteredness #Epistemology #Sovereignty #SelfInquiry #Reflection #Perspective #Liberation
Insight of Clear Perception • As We Seek for Orientation (SP002) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — the truth that can be directly witnessed... the insight of clear perception... a quest for insight... we do not seek hypothetical models, conceptual realities... the patterns of actuality... the dynamics of an interdependent ecosystem... a horizon stripped of illusions...
- Our path of conscious evolution is guided with the second insight: Clear Perception. We begin our quest for beacons of orientation. Books of wisdom, insight media, elders and fellow seekers on the path. Nature and the ecosystem, the patterns of our own being. Not teachers of doctrines — but doors and windows that open, inviting us into direct experience of the truth of "what is". Read more...
- #DirectExperience #Perception #Insight #EightRealms #Epistemology #Belief #Nature #ElementalQuad #SentientStack #SelfInquiry #PatternCognition #SystemsThinking #Clarity
Seeking the Objective Plane · Beyond Distortion Bubbles (CT002) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — the objective point of view... cognitive distortions are your allies and your best friends... Looking for clarity... Thoroughly, categorically evaluating our premises... greater and greater planes of metacognition, self-awareness... a shared coherent reality... Pressures of reality...
- Looking for an objective point of view. Seems a common-sense need in a world where it's not just all you. But when do we ever face our cognitive distortions — examining ourselves, owning up our fallacies, seeking for true clarity? We weaponize objectivity to deconstruct what we don't like. We deal with "what is" only in face of insurmountable pressure from actuality. Read more...
- #Subjectivity #CognitiveDistortion #Clarity #Avoidance #Epistemology #Metacognition #Sameness #Coherence #Actuality #Identity
From Information to Wisdom • The Evolution of Knowledge (BTW014) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — Then there is knowledge, then insight, and then wisdom... that's just data out there... processes it into a coherent whole... They are patterns that recur in cycles over and over again... When perception and recognition of the subject has been transformed... recognition of the subject... due reflection of what is...
- Information — just bits of scattered data. Knowledge — we recognize them as a coherent whole. Insight — we realize what it means in practice. Wisdom — we witness its patterns and cycles. With wisdom, we adapt and synchronize with existence. Read more...
- #Insight #Epistemology #Coherence #PatternCognition #Integration #Essence #SelfInquiry #Embodiment #Transformation #Perception #Subjectivity #Reflection
Humble Opinions & Facts • What Is Need Not Grovel (HC005) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — tentative conclusions I've crafted in my head... direct personal experience and repeated observation of the same... an absolute field of relative subjectivity... the forecasts of inevitable patterns... I'm here for "what is"... I yield before superior insight... your awareness races into a tunnel...
- 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...
- #Epistemology #DirectExperience #Subjectivity #PatternCognition #Actuality #Rhetoric #Authenticity #Insight #Perspective #Identity #Impermanence #Suffering #EsotericConfusion
Coherence In Our Lifetime • Reality or Utopian Hopes? (BTW003) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — things making sense as a whole... a system of understanding and engagement... individuals with a vision of clarity... When your cognitive distortions have dispelled... with dispassion, toward objectivity... the reality, the actuality of what is... The true patterns of all things and all their contexts...
- Coherence sounds like a cool thing. What are we talking about? And is it something we can attain? We look into the meaning of coherence. Things holding together as a tidy whole. A well-rounded system of insight and engagement. Into coherence. Individual coherence. Is that a realistic quest? Coherence as a collective. What are the prospects for our civilization? Read more...
- #Coherence #Collective #SystemsThinking #Clarity #CognitiveDistortion #Neutrality #Actuality #CivilizationalDecay #PatternCognition #Embodiment #Liberation
What of Intellect vs. Insight? or Knowledge & Wisdom? (WYS004) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — What is insight and what is wisdom?... wisdom does not arise from data, or even knowledge... actually direct perception of things... the insight of patterns in the cycles of things... it just doesn't add up... they're driving their intelligence in a tunnel... when it exists in a silo...
- Does intelligence matter? Does a high IQ mean life makes sense to you? Lots of very clever people driving their intellects in a tunnel — all but lost to common sense. Then what does our knowledge amount to? How does it become living insight? Our questions: 1. What is insight, what is wisdom, and how are they related? 2. Are insight and wisdom related to knowledge and intelligence? 3. Are insight and wisdom always consequential? Read more...
- #Intellect #Insight #Epistemology #Perception #PatternCognition #Coherence #Perspective #SystemsThinking #ArtificialIntelligence #Embodiment #Dialogue
Your Deconstruction — Pattern Vortex in a Silly Self-Box (M003) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — the hallucination of your identity... You break the mirror, you cease from reflecting... utterly meaningless it is, when your meaning is attached to a particular finite viewpoint... your actual faculty of precise recognition... Clarity will follow from recognition... those are the ones that lead you to metacognition... commitment to the truth of actuality itself...
- 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...
- #NoSelf #Identity #Ego #CognitiveDistortion #SentientStack #Reflection #Roles #Conditioning #Meaning #Perception #Clarity #Synchronicity #Flow #Suffering #Metacognition #Actuality
Inconvenient Absolute Truth — Unveiling Actuality (K019) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — absolute truth... a certain undeniable actuality... Meaning, to mean, is related to mind... the subjective individual... projections and misconceptions... the difference between truth and meaning... the most basic first principles of existence...
- You have your world of meanings — and I have mine. Yet we mine our meanings from an objective reality. Our interpretations are relative — actuality is not. Existence itself is unchanged with your projections. We explore timeless paradigms independent of context. Underlying truths and principles that remain unchanged. Who are of the truth — they recognize the word of truth. Read more...
- #Truth #Actuality #Meaning #Subjectivity #CognitiveDistortion #Epistemology #PatternCognition #Sameness #Grounding #Liberation #BiblicalTradition #HinduTradition
As Clarity Submerges in the Sea · Your Cognitive Training Wares (FR005) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — without your subjective distorting lenses, without the veils you hold in place... Stick to the plain naked raw truth... there is ever the plane of reality... how much more clear does it need to get?... Basic metacognitive lenses, vantage points into reality... This is the process in your microcosmic realm...
- How so clear but not at all? Era 2 flowed. Era 3 crafted. Still none lands. When crystal clear truth must bury itself under six feet of volcanic ash, you've arrived at station 7¾. The macro and micro running the same process: the world drowning in deep-fake realities. Ihe inner seeker hunting silver threads through the sediment. Read more...
- #CommunicationChallenges #CognitiveDistortion #Truth #Actuality #Clarity #SelfCenteredness #Liminality #Metacognition #PatternCognition #Grounding #Misinformation #ArtificialIntelligence #CreatorEcosystem #Autobiography #PerennialEssence #IslamicTradition #PopCulture
What About Awakening: From the Inner Dreamscape Into Plain and Simple Reality (WA003) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — the full, raw, plain reality... Like an overlay of reality, a distorting lens, a filter... What is the truth of it?... When you leap into the witness plane... All we need to do is be present for the essence of what we are in truth... as well-rounded entities...
- What about awakening? Beyond our mystic and romantic ideas — really it's all very simple. At the end of night, you return to the living world and your dreams vanish. But you enter a dreamscape painted with your fears and hopes. Not actuality. Your coat of illusions, this distorting overlay of plain reality, never quite truly aligns. In time the glitches reach a critical mass. Read more...
- #Awakening #Actuality #CognitiveDistortion #Truth #Liminality #Witness #Roles #NonInterference #Presence #Renewal #Coherence
Insight of True Potential • Horizon of Our Aspirations (SP004) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — when the big picture is witnessed... grounded in the actuality of "what is"... unbiased reflections from our experiences... authentic framing of raw insight, clear perception and pure impressions... witness them as it is... in detached and peaceful clarity...
- Our path of conscious evolution expands with the fourth insight: True Potential. We expand our minds in clarity, scouting the big picture of our presence and its potentials — as it is, untainted by our wishful ideas. Prospects stemming from the broad recognition of "what is" — highlights and shadows alike — that alone is the anchored horizon for our hopes. Read more...
- #Aspiration #WishfulThinking #EightRealms #Perspective #Actuality #Neutrality #Framing #Reactivity #Witness #Clarity #SelfCenteredness #Acceptance
Weave the Integration Loom · Witnessing All of Our Lives (CW007) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — Not a coherent mansion of consciousness... where the witness reposes... A way back to clarity... tethers of biased desire... you witness of the big picture... keep your mirror clear...
- How scattered it all is. All those worthy bits and pieces. Random piles without true rhyme and reason, tethered together with tunnels of fractured desire. If we ever hope to become whole again, we must recognize, recollect, reorganize the contents of our lives. Witness the whole of what we are — as it is — weaving our loom with threads of uncoated truth. Read more...
- #Integration #Coherence #Metaphor #Symbolism #Witness #Clarity #Essence #CognitiveDistortion #Perspective #Reflection #Nonduality
Metacognition Imperative • What You Miss, AI Matches (BTW015) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — a metacognitive plane... your pattern matching ability... humans typically attend on a very narrow band... When you witness the way your cognition functions... keep it clear... keep it real...
- Do you catch the associations linking all things present? Match the patterns into a model of insight? Realize how that relational influences you? Because multimodal AI sure as Sherlock does — at increasingly insane depths and weaves. You either recognize the influences — or you're controlled by them. Read more...
- #Metacognition #PatternCognition #ArtificialIntelligence #Manipulation #Attention #Witness #Sovereignty #CognitiveDecline #Conditioning #Purification #Ethics #Archetypes #Attachment #Clarity #Actuality
Reclaim the Macro View · Exit Your Blind Tunnels (BZ012) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — Macro-view. Broad perspective.... a matter of concentration, focused attention... you witness the weather system as a whole... how the ecosystem of my awareness and existence operates... broad spectrum clarity... a well-woven vessel in the clouds...
- 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...
- #Perspective #ElementalQuad #Attention #Sovereignty #Witness #SystemsThinking #Integration #Clarity #Coherence #Identity #Impermanence #CreatorEcosystem
Head Screwed On Clear × Emotional Hasslings (BZ003) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — tight and sharp concentration... mindful of when is the time for each... self-awareness and insulation from vibe distractions... a system of interdependent factors... the facts of what is... Where there may be blind spots...
- Ever had a backseat driver vibe you sideways and damn near into an accident? Distracted when your chainsaw's running mid-way into that wobbly tree? There's time for emotions and random bursts from the subconscious spheres. There's time for clear and rational operation. Know the difference — act accordingly. Read more...
- #Emotions #Attention #Intellect #Intuition #Context #Awareness #Balance #SystemsThinking #Actuality #Perception #Work #Metaphor
Return to Clarity — Beyond Cognitive Distortion (CS003) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — the basic bottom line of clarity... no filters, no distorting lenses... truth is supreme, truth is sovereign... Registering actuality, reality as it is... as if from the orbit, observing, witnessing... the master frame...
- 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...
- #Clarity #CognitiveDistortion #SentientStack #Truth #Actuality #Reactivity #Ego #Identity #Witness #SelfInquiry #Framing #Acceptance #ConsciousEvolution #Liberation
At Ease — Listening to What Is As Is (QD031) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — take a pause, rest, reflect... Attending to what is — as it is... our projections and hallucinations... the tunnel in which you are driving... Simply listening... orient to the truth of what is...
- No particular topic today. None needed. At ease. A simple reflective pause. Listening to what is. As it is. Not going anywhere with it. Not making anything of it. Simply attending to whatever that presents itself. When it's time to engage — then engage with attention. When it's not — or if you're overwhelmed — then step back, neutralize, reflect and reorient to what is. Read more...
- #Reflection #Reactivity #Actuality #Balance #CognitiveDistortion #Perspective #Sovereignty #Attention #Truth #Emotions #Identity #Suffering #Relationships
Make Waves! Don't Just Reflect! — But What Am I? (OM002) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — the threefold mirror dynamic... when the subject no longer drives... in lack of a receptive context... witness your patterns... high definition-actuality... foggy hallucinations...
- — "Make your waves!", said one new friend. — "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...
- #Reflection #Balance #NonInterference #NoSelf #SelfCenteredness #Subjectivity #Context #Witness #Actuality #Triads #CognitiveDistortion #CreativeProcess #BroadcastPhilosophy #Suffering
The Great Vehicle — Ascension Mothership — Celestial Chariot (QD021) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — your cognitive mothership on the planes of metacognition... recognized, crystallized and harmonized patterns... narrow band, extreme concentration... attains structural integrity... returning into the actuality that we dwell in... the remover of hallucinations and distortions...
- Into the Cognitive Mothership. When your awareness attends at narrow-band. Extreme concentration on prime archetypes, It touches upon localized super-states. As it reaches integrating broad spectrum, All of that is woven together into a system, Attains structural integrity — your vehicle. Read more...
- #Metacognition #PatternCognition #Attention #Archetypes #Integration #Coherence #Actuality #CognitiveDistortion #Essence #Grounding #Liberation #Mysticism #Myth #WesternEsotericism #BiblicalTradition
Clarity and Alignment — The Middle Beyond Distortion (K010) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — clarity first... the mirror of polarities... absence of your subjective agenda... no room for cognitive bias, for distortions... pay attention to all that is... clearly seen in actuality...
- Clarity and Alignment, they said. Correct. However. There are realities that make or break clarity and alignment. #Clarity: Transparency. Objectivity. Absolute Attention. #Alignment: Recollection. Reflection. Selfless Adaptation. Read more...
- #Clarity #Alignment #Balance #Reflection #NoSelf #Subjectivity #CognitiveDistortion #Flow #Collective #Polarization #Attention #Actuality
On Entering Actuality — What's Going On Meditation (N002) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — Metacognition is awareness of awareness itself... The plane of pure witnessing... what is actually going on... a plane of clarity... snap clear from your tunnel... Simply in peaceful reflection...
- For those who seek clarity and self-awareness. Get to know your contents — understand your inner constructs. Instincts, emotions, thoughts, identity — none of that is you. Polarized reactions — yes this, no that — condition you to the core. Rise beyond the phenomena in your being. Enter the planes of metacognition. Clear away your projections. Remember. Read more...
- #Metacognition #Witness #SentientStack #Reactivity #Actuality #Clarity #Meditation #Identity #Roles #Conditioning #CognitiveDistortion #Impermanence #Contemplation #Reflection #Attachment
Focal Lengths of Awareness (K008) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — one-pointed singular attention... Focal lengths of awareness... a framework of metacognition... distortions, filters... a full picture of the relations between all things... a streamlined perspective...
- 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 — but also relevant in our day-to-day awareness. Read more...
- #Attention #Perspective #Meditation #Metacognition #MetacognitiveTree #CognitiveDistortion #Attachment #SystemsThinking #Integration #Coherence #CreatorEcosystem
Eight Basic Human Windows — Our Living Frames (K003) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — vantage points of reflection and self-awareness... metacognitive windows... Do I have filters on, distortions?... Do I see clearly?... clarity and cohesion... primary patterns and principles...
- Are your windows of awareness clear yet? Eight basic frames you operate in — as a human. Have a look at them — as they are, as you are. You are all of it. You are none of it. Not so complicated. Read more...
- #EightRealms #Perspective #Metacognition #CognitiveDistortion #Clarity #Coherence #Awakening #PatternCognition #CreatorEcosystem
Essential Contemplations · in Resolving Life and Awareness | Ponder Struck (IN002) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — Concentrate, withdraw — like a turtle draws its limbs within the shell... Truth alone, the raw truth of what is... directly witnessed in the laboratory of your consciousness... the checks and balances of your insight... the impartial charioteer...
- We bring you core extracts from the "Ponder Struck" series! Contemplating on concerns that matter. Rising beyond the veils of confusion. Plunge into the essence of the first eight episodes in the series. Dive into a world of living wisdom in quest for integrity and authentic resolutions. — Looking for the full story? See the leads below! Read more...
- #Suffering #Integration #Alignment #SpiritualBypassing #Fulfillment #EsotericConfusion #Intellect #Attention #EightRealms #SentientStack #Integrity #Essence #Truth #Impermanence #DirectExperience #ElementalQuad #Coherence #Neutrality #NonInterference #WishfulThinking #Ego #Boundaries #SubtleBody #WesternEsotericism #TaoistTradition
What About Awareness: Stack of Living Experience • Its Recognition & Resolution (WA007) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — A unified field, an energetic potential... Meta-cognition: Reflecting on your ongoing conscious processes... witnessing the witness itself... the prison of subject assertion... a significant field of cognitive distortions, misinterpretations...
- What about awareness — and consciousness and cognition? All aspects of the stack of our sentient experience. Wrestling with our words and ideas, we are lost to the actuality of their nature, distant from touching the inner phenomena. Consciousness: the underlying potential field. Awareness: our inner realms and atmospheres. Cognition: processes handling the specifics of existence. Read more...
- #Awareness #Metacognition #SentientStack #Witness #Identity #Subjectivity #Conditioning #CognitiveDistortion #Language #Awakening #Liberation #Suffering
Not a Tradition Consultant • Mining for Living Essence (FYI003) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — reality itself, as it is, in all of its beauty and fullness... Do not interpret reality in light of teachings. Interpret teachings in light of reality.... the windows a given tradition provides into this living reality of ours... Whatever that you directly witness... The truth in the here and now...
- Have I spent a lifetime exploring and immersed in classical teachings? Yes I have — to discover and extract the essence. Uplifting the universal principles. Harnessing dynamics of inner evolution that stand independent of conceptual models. Not to indulge in fascinating narratives, not to reconcile doctrinal constructs. Not to force life and conscience into frames of interpretation. Read more...
- #PerennialEssence #Essence #Actuality #GuruCulture #Belief #Epistemology #Framing #DirectExperience #Truth #Autobiography #Metaphor #BiblicalTradition
Who Watches the Watchers — Meeting the Witness Plane • Casual Watcher (KDCW01) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — the casual observer never leaves the causal watchtower... higher and higher planes of metacognition... Zoom into a broader perspective... The density of the hallucination, both individual and collective... basking in the radiance of actuality...
- Unveiling the first Casual Watcher anthology! A collection of core reflections from the planes of metacognition. We shift beyond our finite selves to the witness plane. Watching the raw actuality of our lives — four angles into the same essence of awareness beyond subjective immersion. Witnessing the world as it happens. Orienting to raw and plain nature. Read more...
- #Witness #Metacognition #Perspective #CognitiveDistortion #Reactivity #Emotions #Nature #Acceptance #Conditioning #Actuality #Renewal #Liberation #Suffering #NonInterference #Consumerism #Autobiography #PopCulture #BuddhistTradition
The Path of Total Attention! of Troopers and Maggots (TPA003) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — the path, my friend, is illuminated by the rays of your attention... Being present for exactly whatever it is that you're doing... The rays of your contained attention enable you to recognize what is... abiding in a shared field of awareness... incoherently fumbling about...
- As we march toward enlightenment. Or do we. Or is our attention scattered all over the playground. Fidgety little weasels. Half-assed cherry-pickers floating with the flow. Is there not one trooper with clear aim who holds the line of reality. We are the cognitive liberation front. Not a merry band of fiddlers. It's a tug of war for your attention. Read more...
- #Attention #Discipline #Presence #Sovereignty #Perception #Reactivity #Awareness #SelfCenteredness #Coherence #Autobiography #Awakening
Into Contemplative Gravity — Recollection and Embodiment • Ponder Struck (KDPS02) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — Concentrate, withdraw — like a turtle draws its limbs within the shell... Truth alone, the raw truth of what is... the impartial charioteer... the checks and balances of your insight... when validated with direct experience...
- Plunge into the second Ponder Struck anthology! A collection of core contemplations from the deeper side, we explore four major themes in the process of inner recollection and culmination. Do we ever concentrate and when we do — what's the point that matters? Into reason and mastering skills of transformation. Onward with the churning the contents of our cauldron of integrating harvests. Finally — the alignment and ascension of our life-cycle as a reconciled whole. Read more...
- #Integration #Alignment #EightRealms #Attention #Intellect #Essence #Truth #Integrity #Neutrality #ElementalQuad #Coherence #DirectExperience #Contemplation #Mastery #Discipline #Grounding #Renewal #NonInterference #Ego #WishfulThinking
Rails of Raw Reality Calling · Reeling Back to the Truth (CT001) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — Plain old truth... veils of desire and projection... what's right in front of you as it is... live in the immediate here and now, as it is... a convoluted round of academic peer reviews...
- Clear takes. Plain old truth. Right in front of you. Not playing dress-up. How frontal and unpleasant! Consider this the first phase of the intervention. You're caught in the illusion inception from the subjective conception. Stuck on a dope drunk sideways-spiraling trip. Have you reception? We're here to reel you back to the rails of reality again. Read more...
- #Truth #CognitiveDistortion #Avoidance #Actuality #Grounding #Awakening #Presence #WishfulThinking #Acceptance #Epistemology #Delusion
Big Picture on the High Hills · Zoom Back to Your Reality (CW004) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — Zoom into a broader perspective... higher and higher planes of metacognition... these little reality bubbles... you actually witness all the sprouting little thoughts... only becomes evident when you see the full context...
- Fresh air on the high hills. Zooming up and taking in the big picture. What's going on in our lives? Do we have any real free will? Or just swooshing around in our narrow reality tunnels? Bound in our own matrix of reactive conditions. Hike up the ladder to the planes of metacognition. See how your mind is mapped — witness the makings of your awareness. Read more...
- #Perspective #Metacognition #Conditioning #Reactivity #Liberation #CognitiveDistortion #Identity #Desire #Witness #Context #Acceptance #Metaphor
Can You Be Here Now? Walking Into Raw Presence • Walkie Talkie (KDWT01) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — Be present as it happens... the true medicine of actuality itself... it leads you into hallucinations... when your attention is funneled just the right way... Living in truth only ever happens in the truth of your present experience...
- Enter the first Walkie Talkie anthology! Being here now, actually present, isn't quite as trivial as it sounds. In the reels that follow, syndicated from the Walkie Talkie series, we take a free-flowing journey into aspects of your awareness. Factors that bring you into the clear fullness of present experience, and factors that lead you into tunnels further away from your center. Read more...
- #Presence #Actuality #SentientStack #PolarAxis #NoSelf #Impermanence #NonInterference #CognitiveDistortion #Attachment #Liberation #Conditioning #ElementalQuad #Triads #Attention #Truth #Identity #Ego #Renewal #Grounding #Archetypes
Happy Next Moment to You! Celebrating Endless Renewal (BTW013) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — the absolute present... a matter of metacognition... diluted memories and distorted interpretations... a convoluted, corrupted perception of what actually is... a more immediate and intimate sense of what is...
- Why the Solar and not the Lunar New Year? Whoever decided the first Monday? We celebrate these cyclic transits — the turning of seasons, the resets and renewals of life. But does anyone celebrate the passage of time itself? Yet our brain doesn't experience the immediate present. It lives in a construct tethered to the past. Read more...
- #Impermanence #Renewal #Festivals #Presence #Attachment #Suffering #Liberation #Metacognition #CognitiveDistortion #Perception #Nature #Actuality
The Root Witness of Duality In Elements and Stations (BTW011) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — undifferentiated consciousness... planes of metacognition... seeking the experiential realities... mirror plane... These are all vantage points, perspectives...
- Seer and Seen. The root duality. Static and dynamic. Yin and yang. Energy and matter. But why does any of that matter? Fact is, for your day-to-day purposes, these are high-level abstractions. We need more concrete gateways to insight. On the basic bits of our polarized existence. A core summary of the four underlying elements and the eight stations of our awareness. Read more...
- #SeerSeen #ElementalQuad #EightRealms #Witness #Duality #Metacognition #DirectExperience #Intellect #Conditioning #Liminality #Reflection #Perspective #Contemplation #Essence #MetacognitiveTree
The Four Essential Elements • Our Existential Dimensions (BTW010) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — abstract omnipresent principles... go find the elements for yourself... Allow me to bring you up to speed with modern science... the perimeter of your subjectivity... You yourself at their center, the fifth element in dynamic space...
- How quaint — the four elements you say? But we're not talking about obsolete ancient physics. We're dealing with universal influences. We're looking into the omnipresent dynamisms in every sphere of life and existence. Then for a primer into the symbols. Earth: Structures. Water: Adaptivity. Fire: Reactivity. Air: Relations. You: The central fifth element — observer in dynamic space. Read more...
- #ElementalQuad #PatternCognition #DirectExperience #Epistemology #Symbolism #Subjectivity #Witness #Flow #Transformation #Balance
Use Your Intellect Wisely • A Path of Rhyme & Reason (PS006) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — Keeping you in coherence... when validated with direct experience... You have your frameworks of thought. Philosophical, theological, scientific... They cannot ever prescribe what is. They can only ever describe the direction of what is... these frames of clarity...
- Many are the things to be mastered in life. Without engaging your reason, you will not master anything at all. Do not hope to vibe your way to the other side. You are biased. You are off balance. False self-confidence will lead you astray. Coherent intelligence provides checks and balances in your transformation. Read more...
- #Intellect #Balance #Coherence #DirectExperience #Framing #Epistemology #Clarity #Mastery #Transformation #Ego #BiblicalTradition
Truth Knocks On Your Door · We Testify to Actuality (BD003) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — The truth is knocking at your door... I am here simply to testify to the truth... It is truth that you must directly experience and witness for yourself... He is concerned with operational information... This truth, you coat with projection and self-deception, blinding yourself...
- 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...
- #BiblicalTradition #Truth #Witness #DirectExperience #Epistemology #Belief #CognitiveDistortion #Desire #Purification #Liberation #Salvation
The Greatest Holy Work — Be Present In Actuality (WT001) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — What need is there for awareness to be anywhere else but here?... the true medicine of actuality itself... Free yourself from these filters... Living in truth only ever happens in the truth of your present experience... examine exactly what is, as it presents itself to your present awareness...
- What need is there for awareness to be anywhere but here? In the actually here and now as it is. Not that multicolor extravaganza you paint over it to feel better or become something else. Past and future root for present. Be there. Stop fiddling with your phone and meddling with your reality. Drop out from your bizarre psychedelic cocktail already. Tune into right now — it's a most holy moment. Read more...
- #Presence #Actuality #NonInterference #CognitiveDistortion #WishfulThinking #Truth #DirectExperience #Belief
Kernel of Kernels — The Season Finale (K024) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — a quest for clarity... Rising to the witness plane... awareness of awareness itself... the distortions that happen when everything is self-referenced... the truth that is found in actuality itself...
- 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...
- #Clarity #Witness #Metacognition #MetacognitiveTree #ElementalQuad #EightRealms #SeerSeen #Roles #SelfCenteredness #Reactivity #CognitiveDistortion #Truth #Liberation #Ethics #Collective #CreatorEcosystem #Convergence #PerennialEssence
Communication to Collaboration — Coherence and Convergence (CS001) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — the top level principle of coherence... systems thinking... Free of our cognitive bias... true to actuality... a pool of patterns...
- 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 — and we externalize them in a matching reflection. As within — so without. Communication, coordination and collaboration precede culmination. Read more...
- #Coherence #Convergence #Collaboration #SystemsThinking #Rhetoric #Essence #Collective #SharingEthics #CognitiveDistortion #Actuality #Alignment #ElementalQuad #PatternCognition #MediaEcosystem #Metaphor
Slipped to Swamp — Inquiry Back to Awareness (LA001) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — all self-awareness vanishes... the high observer... Where am I?... a particular concern domain invokes your attention... baseline clarity...
- 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...
- #SelfInquiry #Awareness #Witness #Attachment #Roles #Context #Reactivity #Conditioning #Discipline #Sovereignty #Attention #Clarity #Essence #Metaphor
Attention — Your Most Precious Asset (QD033) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — Attention is the most precious asset in our lives... Consciousness itself is potentive energy... held at a broad spectrum... relational wisdom and systemic insight... the source of your insight...
- Attend to your attention itself at top priority. Your attention defines the present experience. Your attention determines the future prospects. Attention is the maker and breaker of your life. Inner and outer forms are the circuit board. Consciousness is the great reservoir of energy. Attention is the connector that empowers it all. Where you direct it — there alone is your existence. Read more...
- #Attention #Awareness #Metaphor #Perspective #SystemsThinking #Insight #Reactivity #Suffering #ConsciousEvolution #Compassion
Calling of Truth — Our Positive and Negative Veils (OM005) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — that truth shall set you free... we have a negative veil and we have a positive veil... the simple raw actuality, uncoloured and unbiased... Where your attention lands, there exactly is your living experience... rising above identification...
- "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...
- #Truth #CognitiveDistortion #Actuality #Attention #SelfInquiry #SeerSeen #Conditioning #Identity #Roles #Attachment #Witness #Awakening #NonInterference #Acceptance #Delusion #Purification #Suffering #Fulfillment
Insight Looming Works — A Knowledge Processing Ecosystem (N003) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — cross-domain pattern matching... firmly rooted in actuality... a living real scaffold for orientation... providing perspectives... born of our hallucinations...
- — What's in the works here? Let's have an overview. In short: A complete knowledge processing ecosystem. Not for a pile of data — but for a living loom of insight. Weaving patterns that matter, spinning threads that are true. Our insight-churning operations advance on several fronts... Read more...
- #CreatorEcosystem #Convergence #Essence #PatternCognition #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Rhetoric #Collaboration #Metaphor #Actuality #Framing #Perspective #Collective #Suffering #CognitiveDistortion #Liberation #AudienceConcerns
Human: Authentic Reflector of Raw Living Experience (QD007) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — authentic reflector of the raw living experience... the immediate and intimate living experience... Be present, immediate, in the moment... curate, filter, modify the experience... return to what is...
- Can you share in one simple sentence what is most human about you? — Authentic reflector of raw living experience. This is the short longer version. What the AI will never replace? What no pretender will ever emulate? — Beardman yapping beneath the pine tree. Honest reflections. Unmodified living experience. Source of our human potential. Immediate and intimate encounter with what is. Read more...
- #Authenticity #Reflection #DirectExperience #Presence #Conditioning #CognitiveDistortion #ArtificialIntelligence #Actuality #Identity #Aspiration
Sovereign Voice of Truth Itself vs. Your Authority (K022) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — The voice of truth... naked actuality... a subjective authority that should reign supreme... rooted in hallucinations... My sensory perception is limited, my cognitive capacity is finite...
- Respect my authority! Because you say so right? When your awareness is slanted with your agendas, your reign rests in a hallucinated house of cards. Excuse me if I won't capitulate to your illusions. Actuality itself holds the final word and authority. Are we open and attending to it — or do we evade it? Is truth an ally or an enemy to you? Make your stance. Read more...
- #Truth #Actuality #Subjectivity #CognitiveDistortion #Epistemology #Acceptance #Avoidance #Collective #GodConcept #Desire #Conditioning #Dialogue
Too Busy 2B Conscious (K007) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — living real-time awareness... actually pay attention... in actually real time, as it happens... a more coherent sense of what you are doing... if that's the way you frame it...
- Are you one of those people who can't walk and talk and think at the same time? If not — 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 — or are you an automaton driven by the current of your conditions? Read more...
- #Awareness #Attention #Sovereignty #Conditioning #Avoidance #Presence #Contemplation #EightRealms #Coherence #Framing
Occultism and Actualism · Dork Magicians Dismissed (WD023) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — upgrade from occultist to actualist... The true will is not a subject will... engage it in way of a witness, not as a creator... Have you factored in the workings of the whole of the system and the side-effects that follow from your tweakings?...
- How marvelous the magical traditions of yore. How thorough the symbolic weavings we meet in the works of the great aggregators. Such a beast's burden, as the good old Ally hauled across the abyss. Ho Mega Therion, yelped the dork magician, gobbling up the goblet's froth in a hollow quest for magical might. But such was never the will of the way. The will of the way — the whole of the law. Read more...
- #WesternEsotericism #EsotericConfusion #Actuality #SelfCenteredness #Subjectivity #NonInterference #NoSelf #Witness #Delusion #Ego #Symbolism #Liberation #PerennialEssence #SystemsThinking #Archetypes #ElementalQuad #Autobiography
Does God Hear Your Prayers? • Meet the God of Actuality (BB001) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — let's rewind back to what is — right here and right now... We have our fields of awareness, the workings of our cognition, and beyond that, consciousness itself... unveil your consciousness, dispel all of your illusions... Let the word of truth, resonating from every fiber of reality, be your only prayer...
- Does God hear our prayers? Anybody out there listening to us? Which God though. The God of your ideas, the God that you've defined? Or the God on your altar and in your shrines? The God "out there" — and your mental God — are deaf and dumb. Attend to what is. Energy in itself — before it interacts in a context. Consciousness itself — before it refracts into your framings. Read more...
- #GodConcept #Belief #Nonduality #Actuality #SeerSeen #Awareness #Metaphor #CognitiveDistortion #Truth #PerennialEssence #IslamicTradition #BiblicalTradition #HinduTradition
Our Daily Rites of Passage • Meaning and Mindfulness (HYC003) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — To pause and reflect on the origins, the journeys, and the terminals of all things... the growth of wisdom... this interdependent whole... the truth that shall set you free...
- Our lives are full of meaningful transitions. It's not just the weddings and funerals that matter. Each and every closing cycle in your life is a moment to pause and reflect. Teachings in your book of life are endless. Will you pause to read? Reflect on the origins, journeys and terminals of all that is. For your growth in wisdom, for integrating with the fabric of life. Read more...
- #Reflection #Contemplation #Insight #SystemsThinking #Integration #Renewal #Collective #Avoidance #Ethics #Consumerism #Nature #Truth #Metaphor #Autobiography
Bypass Reality and Devolve • How to Become an Amoeba (FYI002) ▸
- ¶ Cognition — Instead of clarity, mist of confusion... refuse to register and recognize what's right in front of us... We edit our version of what is... The face of reality overlooked...
- "Ya ya ya ya ya" because I refuse to see that. I refuse to hear that. I resist registering that. Such inconvenient reality. I will bypass. I will invite my best friend the mental fog. I will lull my mind with the padded vapors of illusion. Happily I rest in the shallow lap of my selective interpretation. Read more...
