Basia's Thoughts

As some of you may know, 42 is the answer to the ultimate question on Life, the Universe, and Everything.  :)

We honour Douglas Adams' idea from his book, "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", and explore its depth by noting that meaning, connection, and transcendence are found by focusing in on the questions, rather than the answers.

We look at how this applies to practical human interactions, and how by asking questions around values we are brought into a more open space of potentialities, allowing us to find a common path of expression.

Then we move onto our actual experience, seeing how our perceptions display what already has been created.  By moving into the space where we hang out with ourselves (see episode 41) we are moved into the open space of potential, where the that result in our experiences questions are asked. 
By being more keenly aware of these questions our life experience takes on a beautifully satisfying hue of meaning.

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This is an invitation to spend more time with yourself, your purest version of you.

By doing that you can actually impact your life profoundly.  This is because it will start changing who you see yourself as.

A de-identification with any and all of the roles you play will make you less prone to fight, to want to win over others, to be defensive, to focus on appearance, to act from who you think that others think you are, to move into a growth mindset, to loosen your grip on knowledge and to not take things as seriously.

Truly, spending quality time with yourself, meaning in pure being, love, awareness will affect your entire perspective on life and life experience.

If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts.  And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation. 

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I have started creating a website, BasiaPiechocinska.com, where I will eventually be putting my "Make Sense" - game.

The purpose is to learn to focus on what really matters to us, so that we may connect on a deeper, more satisfying and meaningful level.  The game is based on unifying and transcending dynamics.  There are three parts, each related to a mode of experiencing:  Make Sense - Mind, Make Sense - Heart, and Make Sense- Senses.

The process in all of the modes is that of first opening up, or unifying,  and then of expanding, or transcending.

The idea of transcending may be seen as finding a perpendicular dimension and moving into it, like finding the y-axis in a Cartesian x-y-coordinate system.  The dynamics of transcendence requires first the dynamics of unification or opening up so that we can see the full "x-axis" and realise what "perpendicular to it" means.  Transcendence is a bit at odds with the dynamics of war or fighting, which is a separating dynamics that tends to keep us within the same dimension, and fixated only on a part of it.

Do give me some feed-back if you end up playing the game (once it is up).

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In this episode I talk about where the ideas pertaining to Unifying and Transcending Dynamics originate.

We can see the pattern that when an empire reaches its phase of affluence is when moral decline starts to set in.  Our current empire is in its final phase of chaos and lack of morals and ethics.

This makes it reasonable to want to go back to focusing on morals and ethics, and because we quickly need to change things, use will power to put us "back on track".   But have we ever been "on track"?  We have done iterations of this pattern, over and over, and we have not seen it culminate in a peaceful world.  We even have countries, like the United States of America, that were initially built on this model.  And yet, it has not worked out.

Is there an alternative?  What would it be interesting to stress in the alternative?  Here we talk about the Unifying and Transcending Dynamics as a way of relating to ourselves internally as well as with the world and in particular with other beings.  It is unifying in all three aspects of the human experience, meaning in thought, emotion, and perceptions.  It is transcending as it creatively takes us beyond what was previously realised.

By recognising its impact and therefore choosing to move more and more towards this way of relating and interacting, we can start to build a solid base for a butterfly version of existence.

If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts.  And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation. 

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Because we are in a meaning crisis, as nicely presented in the Youtube series of John Vervaeke "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis", we examine the concept of meaning.

To find out how we can make life experience more meaningful we start by examining what experience is, and then what "making more meaningful" means.

By experience we mean thoughts, feelings/emotions, and perceptions.  By making more meaningful we settle on the idea of unification within the three arenas as well as between them.

Then we see that the deeper we go into either one, the greater meaning we find, and the more "real" things become.  We notice that the three arenas converge in Awareness, Bliss, and Being, the trinity of who we really are.  Therefore, a path towards self-knowledge is one that brings more meaning into our life.

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How much of our thinking is conditioned by the historical setting?

We have already mentioned how our way of thinking is conditioned by our personal developmental traumas.  In episode 6 we talked about the sadness in the schizoid structure.  But how much of our intuition and our insights are just reiterations of what has already happened in similar historical settings and not really particular to us?

In this episode I take a look at two intuitions that are strong in me.  One is that of knowing who we are.  The other is to move towards unity and thereby especially love and a heart-centered way of being, instead of separation such as fear.

Then we go back to Vedas, stop in ancient Athens at the beginning of democracy, look at what Socrates was trying to achieve and his connection to uncertainty, Plato and his egoically highjacked prisoners in the cave, how Hellenistic turmoil led the philosophers to become therapists, like the Stoics, only to finish with Augustinus and the turmoil of the fall of Rome.

If you find this historical digression interesting you will enjoy John Vervaeke´s youtube series on "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis", where he discusses many of these and many, many other fascinating issues.

Throughout all we see the repetition of these themes, expressed in terms that were pertinent to the particular times.  And so, the two intuitions that happen to arise inside of me, are just an expression of our times.   There is nothing particularly original  or personal to them. 

We can use this realisation and thus loosen our grip on our insights and realisations and our instinct to identify with them.  We are truly beyond them.  And perhaps in these times more of us will ultimately be able to realise this and bring about a substantial transformation.

If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts.  And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation. 

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As discussed in the previous episode, holding onto knowledge can lead us to identify with it and stop our search for and openness to new information.  It can become a self-imposed limit, where we put ourselves in a box that we end up defending and fighting for.

Uncertainty provides us with the gift of presence and opens us up to further development.  In our current societies we often learn most through challenging and painful experiences.  The cycles of life and death assist us in our development by stripping us of our identification with certain roles and forcing surrender into the present.

But there is another way to grow, where suffering is not required,  By learning to become comfortable with uncertainty we can start moving into it.  By relinquishing our need to know and our need to feel particular feelings, such as hopefulness or hopelessness, we liberate our potential.

A first step may be just to start noticing when we cling to certainty and welcoming the moments when we notices distress due to lack of certainty as opportunities for practice.

Movement in our Universe is possible due to uncertainty and infinity.  When we identify with the infinite potential we are, we open the door to a spectacular life.    It is a life where no knowledge is a threat to our identity.   It is a heart-centered life of active creation through inspiration and deep connection with all.

If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts.  And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation. 

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I was inspired to talk about knowledge because I remembered an old saying that tells children that knowledge is the key to power.  This has, indeed, been the model of our society.

We know that power can be problematic but is there any danger associated with knowledge?  We look at how a knowledge focused life removes significance from it.

We start by talking about how knowledge is about limits and boundaries, and how when focusing on it we easily identify with our specific roles and the content of our knowledge.  We look at how knowledge is the point at which we stop our development and any further thinking.  We look at how our purpose and survival easily become tangled up with it and how we thus tend to defend our limitations, our pause in development.

We also mention that, as spoken about in episode 34, we might already have an intuition that will point us to move toward a more meaning oriented and all-win system.  In particular we look at how affirming another person's fixed role changes the dynamics of interaction and closes people off.

Thus, if instead of focusing on knowledge and identifying with it and our roles we can identify with our infinite nature, as infinite potential, as learners, we may open up to a fascinating dynamics that leads to a life of connection, significance, and exhilaration.

If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts.  And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation. 

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In this episode we ask if we do not already have a "Butterfly Intuition".  By "Butterfly Intuition" I refer to the metaphorical butterfly that we have a chance of turning into personally and as a society and civilisation.   It is an intuition that guides us to make all-win choices.

We talk about the idea of diversity and based on it we look at how it appears in our current win-lose, competitive dynamics and its role in the all-win system. 

We talk about how appearance and image is important in our current dynamics and how this is related to competitive information processing where judgement is a first key element and we see how polarisation and fighting for positions of power come in.

We contrast this to information processing in the all-win system and we see that appearance no longer plays the same role and in fact mostly distorts desirable information.  The dynamics is that of starting by searching for a point of connections, seeing what we resonate with, what makes sense to us in the communication of the other person.  From there we expand the basis adding experience from other perspectives and creativity in a joint exploration, where learning is the focus.

Here we stop to talk about how diversity becomes a natural point of interest as it broadens the reach of perspectives and is capable of providing greater insight.

Then we point out that we now have technology that could work with this type of human interactions.  Indeed systems such as "the wisdom of crowds" work best when the input is from autonomous, diverse, and independent sources.  Such systems could be used as systems of organisation, as opposed to the current hierarchical systems of power, whose shortcomings we are aware of and have explored for thousands of years.

Finally, we end by returning to the idea that because this is a heart centered system it actually feels better to interact in than our current system.  And so, by paying attention to how we feel and then employing out logical powers of discernment we may have an internal guide to assist in out collaborative transition into a metaphorical butterfly (as discussed in a previous episode).

If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts.  And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation.

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Three Ways of Focusing - Three Different Lives

For pedagogical purposes we imagine three different persons.  The first lives their lives by focusing on achieving goals.  The second has their focus on purpose.  And the third one on meaning.

We discuss what types of differences arise as a result of this in their world views, in how they connect and interact with others, in how they view science, in their narrations of what is, and in who they believe they are.  We also look at where win-lose and win-win dynamics fit in.

The three persons are fictitious but it is easy for us to tend to lean more towards one of them.  By choosing to allow the view and focus of the third person we automatically gain a number of advantages as to our mode of operation in the world and how we feel about it.  We are also given greater access to clarity, creativity, and imagination.

By spending more time in the realm of pure Awareness, uncluttered by mind concepts, the door for identifying with it opens wider, and thus also our passage into a different way of functioning.

If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts.  And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation.

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