Basia's Thoughts

Finding out what actually moves you can be profoundly insightful, healing, and even provide you with a meaning and direction in life.

As you recall a few situations from your life that moved you and ask what it is about those particular situations that moved you, you will be able to glean a pattern.  This is a pattern that is pointing to an often hidden belief that is so terrible that it is guarded by defence mechanisms. 
The situation that moved you, actually got you to consider the possibility that this deep-seated belief might not be true.  And it actually made you a little more whole.
And by providing these types of experiences to others, you will be deeply satisfied and feel that your life has meaning, as you are progressing towards the identification with who you truly are.
You are not your beliefs.  You are not your defence mechanisms.  You are the worthy, abundant, fully loved and loving being that experiences this life.

In this episode I give you three examples of stories that moved me and show you how they relate to a particular part of my character structure beliefs, related to the schizoid structure (from Bioenergetics).

If you want to find out more about Bioenergetics you can take my course at Udemy, "Bioenergetics - How and Why You Became the Way You Are".

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In the 1970's we had Raymond Moody who wrote very interesting books about near-death experiences.  Then, we got accounts from people working with persons who were dying, and hospice workers.  Now, we also have the material from Peter Fenwick, who started studying the different processes of dying.

Based on this, as well as looking at accounts by hypnotherapists that take their subjects beyond their death or birth,  we can start paining a picture of what death may be like.

There seem to be distinct phases, and we can often know ahead of time that we are about to die.  But we have to be open to the signals. 

Interestingly enough, it seems that there are things we can prepare, so that our death experience will be a pleasant one.  These things also happen to bring us peace and joy in our life.

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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The method for achieving something may sometimes be quite different from our understanding of the concept one is trying to achieve. 

Moving towards fearlessness is not necessarily best achieved by going through ones fears.  There is actually another way that can sometimes be more efficient and very helpful.

By expanding our perspective we may automatically remove layers of fear.  And we can use fear and other triggers to show us where there is room for expansion, so that we can become more free.

We also talk about how censorship is a perspective founded on fear.  Then we talk about Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and how to achieve happiness by inverting it.  We finish up tying this in with episode 19 and the idea that being good is good but doing to become good is problematic in the same manner.

By expanding our perspective, expanding what we identify with, we will move away from fear and towards greater freedom.

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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Since we recently asked if it is good to be good, and found that it is, we now continue and find that being instructed to be good is a trap.

It leads us to the belief that our worth is related to our performance in this world.  It also leads us to a life with guilt.  We quickly take a closer look at guilt is and how it serves us.

Then we ask if it indeed is true that our worth is related to our performance.  To answer this we must first know who we are.  And so, we review who we truly are.

To see how the trap of tying our worth to our performance plays out we look at the example of sharing information, knowledge, experiences with others.

Finally we discuss how knowing who we are, we can avoid the trap of wanting to be good, and actually automatically be good.

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Is it possible that society is currently moving in the "right" direction?  Despite all the problems that we are facing - ranging from financial, health, to political - we just might be on the right track.

In this episode we tie together the two previous episodes, on freedom and a new type of organisation. 

We look at how what individuals in society consider to be freedom is changing.  We look at how ideals are changing.  And we ask if maybe the reason new generations may look like they are not well adjusted is due to the fact that they are starting to adjust to what our future society will be like, and are not optimised for our current type of transitional society.

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Since we are currently in a time when our freedoms are seemingly being taken away it may be interesting to talk about freedom.

What is freedom?  Are we free?  Can we become free? 

We start by talking about the common association of freedom with the freedom to do what we want.  We talk about what seems to be involved when the have freedoms "taken away" from us.  We look at how freedoms are taken through overt violence, in non overt ways, and in different manipulative ways.

We briefly talk about how government tend to use fear to manipulate us.  Then we talk about how our character structure is restrictive when based on developmental trauma.

Indeed most situations involving freedoms taken away also involve fear.  And so we ask if it is possible to become more free by working on the fear.  We talk about how true fearlessness is total freedom and also illumination.
We then talk about different ways of working with our own fears.

Finally we end by realising that, actually, we are always free, and our freedom can never really be taken away, we just need to find a way of seeing this.

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 posed the question:

"If you could ask one or two questions about life or the world in general, what would you ask?  What would you really like to know?"

And in this episode I tell you what people said.  And we end up going into two topics.  One has to do with ageing, if it is necessary, and what it may be good for...yes "good for".  We discuss creatures who live among us that do not age.

And then we talk about why there are so many apparently destructive structures in our societies.  Why are most people suffering?  Why does "the Devil" seem to reign our physical world?

This is a particularly interesting topic because, for the first time in known history, we seem to actually have an option!  And hopefully, more and more of us will engage in it and thereby create a completely different world. 

This is related to a new way or organising - organisation through autonomy, instead of organisation through the hierarchy of power or trust.

I also talk about the wisdom of crowds and about the prediction engine, Augur.

And if you want to learn more about these ideas or alternative organisation, I have written more extensively about them in my book "The Devil is in the Structure" which you can also get on paper or on kindle.

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 I reveal to you a secret question I had when I was growing up.  I never dared to ask anyone, but I secretly wondered if leading a moral life is a good thing.

And so, in this episode we discuss just that.  Exactly why is it good for you to lead a moral life?  We also talk about the major pitfall, that most of us fall into at some point at least, where we lead a moral life by creating internal violence...which sort of goes against the idea of leading a non-violent life.

We also talk a little about Yoga and Yama, one of Yoga's eight limbs, which has to do with a moral life.

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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Today we discuss questions like:

What is the underlying dynamics of our Universe?
How does multiplicity spring forth from an Indivisible Ultimate reality?
Why is there something rather than nothing?
Does it make sense to talk about the Ultimate if it is not describable?


We talk about how Niels Bohr, a physicist, got the physics community onboard to abandon ontology because he intuited an underlying "unanalyzable" wholeness.

Then we look at how David Bohm decided to look at the idea of wholeness in physics and try to describe aspects of it.  He talked about the Implicate and the Explicate orders and a dynamical process. 

This leads us to the idea of trinity.  Oddly enough many religions seem to have it as its basis for how the world works.  In Taoism we have the Tao that gives rise to the One which gives rise to the Two, which gives rise to the Three, and from there multiplicity springs forth.
In Christianity we have the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, etc.  We also look at the symbolic representation of this in the Eneagram where the circle represents the ultimate nameless and the triangle the expression of it, and from there all forms arise.

We look at Advaita Vedanta and  Sat, Chit, Ananda (Being, Awareness, Bliss) as our innermost nature. 

Even though we are unable to describe the Ultimate Reality, we can describe aspects of what is described as the Trinity.  And doing so would open up a new dimension for physics, but that would have to move beyond materialism (the idea that there is a material world out there independent of the Ultimate Reality).

And finally we ask if based on all these insights we can say that the Ultimate Reality caused our manifest world to become into being.  Interestingly enough we find that it did not. 

Thus we finish by posing the question:  "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
And find an interesting answer.

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Searching for something is different from finding it.  This is true for logical problems, math problems, relationships, the search for happiness, or even the search for God.

Here we talk about what may be tripping you up when you are looking for something, desiring something, but not getting it. 

This technique also works for interactions with others.  In fact, we mention Chris Voss, a hostage negotiator, who teaches this technique to negotiators.  And we see how it is also part of Marshall Rosenberg´s Non-violent Communication.

We discuss how to use it on yourself and know if you are on the right path.

We talk about one of the happiest persons sharing their insights into what made her enjoy every second of life, Claire Wineland.  You can see a short and very inspirational documentary on Claire here:
https://youtu.be/kD_Fr3VAsYM

And we end by talking about the search for God and how it is different, and yet similar to other searches and how it, as if magically, brings solutions to many other problems.

If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions 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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