Basia's Thoughts

I was inspired to think about aliveness.  When do I feel most alive?  Is there anything I do that makes me feel alive?

Aliveness arises in me whenever I am able to feel present.  And presence is connected to tapping into the infinite.  We can tap into the infinite through our senses and I talk about some ways that work for me.

I also talk about the masculine and feminin energy and how they are related to creating an experience of being fully alive.

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In this episode we talk about defence narratives, how we justify things to ourselves so that we may go on doing certain things or living with certain choices.

We take a look at two examples, both related to slavery.  One is the hero narrative and the other is the victim narrative.  One is a historical narrative, the other is a current narrative.

The historical narrative is taken from Barbra Freese´s conversation with Joe Rogan about slavery.  You can listen to it here https://youtu.be/cP0D2_jhqPU .

Then, we talk about an experiment that shows how quickly we can come up with narratives. 

And finally we ask if there is a way out.  Is it possible for us to stop ourselves from creating these narratives, that may even be leading to abuse and destruction? 
In that discussion we note that since they are defence mechanisms they must involve a threat and we talk about how we can reduce the threat and increase our awareness.


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This is a somewhat more ontological type of episode.  We go into why and how being comes from the infinite (Limitless, Wholeness, Consciousness, etc). 

Basically we talk about the ontology of things being washed out if we take a materialistic view, and the only way of gaining an ontology is to assume the limitless. 
(Maya has no real existence on its own.  Brahman lend it Being.)

The limitless is unique.  That uniqueness results in a holographic type of order.

The holographic type of order is the basis of the dynamics of physics and is the basis for describing real, actual, movement that includes entropy increase.

This chain of reason is one of the ways in which we see the relevance of the ontological types of discussions.  They are not purely for philosophical enjoyment, but can be quite practical in terms of physics as well as in terms of personal realisation.

You can read about the philosophical ideas discussed this episode in more detail in chapter 2 of "Physics from Wholeness - Dynamical Totality as a Foundation for Physics".

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What is your greatest contribution to the world? 
How can you reach your highest potential, so that you can offer the very best of you?

Oddly enough, this episode was inspired by a flying squirrel, on its way to realising its highest potential as a squirrel.

In the two previous episodes we already talked about how opening ones heart, increasing ones sensitivity and ability to love is a path of freedom and is essential if we wish to find out what our highest potential is.  This is a path of love.

In this episode we talk about what the path of discovering who you are, has to offer.  This is a path of knowledge, wisdom, and coupled with meditation it brings insight. 

We also talk about the Ten Paramis (Generosity, Virtue, Renounciation, Wisdom, Energy, Patience, Truthfulness, Resolve, Loving kindness, and Equanimity), the Buddhist list of the ten Perfections, and how they can contribute to your life and the life of all who interact with you.  This path involves action, but not empty action, or action out of obligation.  Instead it is aligned action, where the action brings you a sense of expansion, freedom.  This is a path of action, or karma.

The three paths lead us in the same direction.  All ultimately culminate in spiritual liberation, freedom.  They take us through our three ways of experiencing, through feeling, thinking, and perceiving. 
The first starts with feeling and moves into love.  Love is perceived when we "feel" unity.  The second starts with thought and leads to awareness.  Awareness is when we "know" unity.  And the third starts with action and beauty.  This is when we are unity.

These are the paths that lead us to being able to provide the world with our greatest contribution.

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In this episode we talk more about increasing our sensitivity and the path of opening our heart.  This is where we left off in the last podcast, talking about how without increasing our sensitivity we have no hope for growth and will never reach our highest potential.

We discuss what the ladder of sensitivity may look like when we interact with someone who is suffering and what the most challenging part of the ladder is.

We also talk a little how all of this fits into the changes going on in our society, how the drivers of change may be scarcity of resources and the drive to stay in power, but they may still lead us to a more heart centred society.  One of the keys for that society to function is our ability to become free, independently thinking individuals with open hearts so that we can access all of us, without suppressing the challenging parts.  Then we will open up the potential for achieving our highest purpose.

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What is sanity?  Who is the crazy one?

Do you sometimes feel like you are living in a crazy world?  What makes you feel like you are sane? 
In this episode we look at the core of sanity.  What is the essence of sanity?
I talk about a few persons who I have, in some respects, found to bring some sanity into my life, like Andreas Antonopoulos, Edward Snowden, and Erik Voorhees.

I propose that sanity is related to freedom and particularly the freedom of being and expressing one's true essence. 

That brings us to a discussion on oppression and on how both the oppressor and the oppressed are stuck and unable to move toward a true expression of their highest potential.  We talk about systems of oppression.

Then we talk about the importance of increasing ones sensitivity and why opening ones heart is key to being sane and able to become free and the most accomplished version of oneself.

If you enjoy this type of thought you can find more of it in my book "The Devil is in the Structure".  Visit Uncommon Sense Books for some more of my books.

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This podcast episode is about a general and lingering type of sadness.  It is a type of sadness that does not seem to have any specific cause.

If you have it, chances are might be able to relate.  This is often related to the Schizoid character structure in Alexander Lowen's Bioenergetics.  And in this episode I will give you a real life example of how it can manifest itself and why it is there in a schizoid, me.

If you are interested in learning more about a pure schizoid and the four other fundamental Bioenergetics structures you can take my Udemy course on it.  And if you only want to get a brief overview of the structures you can watch my YouTube playlist on "How you became you".

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In this episode we continue talking about what is real.  But now we also take into consideration something that is of great importance to us, namely suffering.

Through intuitive thinking we joyfully tie together:

• Computer simulations of evolutionary perception (see Donald Hoffman),  
• The biology of perception,
• The Amygdala as the Judge of Good and Bad,
• The origin of suffering,
• How judgements move us away from reality,
• How judgements inflict violence on language (enter Marshall Rosenberg and nonviolent communication),
• How to move toward our natural, real language and connect with Reality

The view presented is that Reality is our essence, and that which is of value to us.  When we move toward it, we become more alive and tend to move away from suffering.  

 

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This episode will exclusively focus on the two quantum experiments I mentioned in the previous episode, but did not explain in detail.

These are experiments that suggest that perhaps there might not be an objective, observer-independent reality out there.

The first is Wheeler's Delayed Choice experiment, and the second Wigner's Friend Experiment.

You can find a link to last year's paper on Wigner's Friend Paradox here,  it is entitled "Experimental rejection of observer-independence in the quantum world", by M. Proietti et al.

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Science and Personal Experience and Spirituality

In this episode we start off talking about what most people automatically tend to see as real. 
We talk about what has traditionally been related to the ideas of being scientific and how this has impacted our society and our values.

Then we slip into the world of Science and look at what physics actually seems to be telling us about what is more fundamental.

Here I mention two experiments and I thought I would give you the links to them so that you can read them if you are interested.  The first is Wigner's Friend and the other is Wheeler's delayed choice.

In regards to physics I mention David Bohm, implicit and explicit orders, holistic aspects, etc.  If you would like to learn about these I recommend his and Basil Hiley's book The Undivided Universe.

I talk about science being ready for letting go of the cumbersome materialist assumption.  You can read about that here.

Then we talk about our personal experiences and a bit of spirituality.  We also discuss what drives the dynamics of of the Universe, from a spiritual perspective, and how it is manifested in our tangible world.

All in all wrapping everything up by concluding that science seems to show us that there might not be an objective physical world out there.  Instead, what is real are the potentialities that become measurable when we choose a perspective.

Personal experiences as well as spirituality also seem to indicate that the perception of real comes from our intangible aspect and is lent to what seems measurable.

Do let me know your thoughts, comments, questions and maybe we can discuss them in future episodes.  You can message me on Instagram @basiasthoughts.

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