Enigma, Enya, Your Ancestors Should Be Your First Influencers, Bryan Johnson, Dolphin Facts, The Importance of a Good Mirror, The Many Mirrors, 2006 TIME Person of the Year Being a Mirror, Paul Virilio, Active Throats, Ice Cubes, Fear, Honesty, Experimentation, Visualizing Your Energy as an Object or Animal to PsychoAnalyze Easier, God Through Gospel Music in an Uber, Sigh Swoon Sigh

Notes on posting vs. documenting, the natural loss of core memories, proper documentation as release-of-the-past ritual, observing how social media language and formatting alters our true archiving desire. A return to home videos and prioritizing the personal.


This episode is the second half of this episode from patreon.com/sighswoon

Themes and potent quotes about the unknown, the importance of solitude, muses, transcending critique, embracing your unconventional nature, the artist’s heart, day-to-day pleasures, and much more in Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke. This book came into my life right before I wrote Notes on Shapeshifting and was a steady guide for the writing process and moving to a place that was opposite of what I was used to.

This episode was recorded and posted on patreon.com/sighswoon in June of 2023. On patreon, a new book is chosen at the opening of every month for an episode of this style that is posted at the close of every month. Book club episodes are made to be enjoyed whether you read the book or not, aiming to be leisurely walk-throughs in communion with the work. 

how to be free: never put your value in the hands of anyone or anything else

Using the above statement as a thesis anchor, I share how a felt sense of freedom comes from not allowing yourself to buy into the many ways we are sold our own worth or value. A spiritual being cannot possibly be appraised the way a car or piece of art can, and even the calculated value placed on those material objects isn't reliable, as its often based in arbitrary, profit-focused decisions. Using personal stories from my experience growing up in a deeply material-focused city (Los Angeles) in a low income household unable to participate in those accolades - to the scam of simulated micro-trends and more.... this episode serves as a reminder to transcend the material and societal, hold love for your unique path and cycles, and as always, keep going in flow.

This episode is a condensed edited version of this episode from patreon.com/sighswoon

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Taking your simple likes seriously ,  focusing on lifestyle goals ,  societal values vs. personal values , Continue/Correct Method,  I Want to See/I Want to Feel Method, the essence of a dream.

This is a 30 min excerpt of a long Q&A episode entitled "The Aware Outcast" on Patreon that discusses the following topics as well: 

- shadows of social media activism
- entering the casual dating scene for the first time. Dating apps, awareness, date ideas, realities.
- finding abundance outside of material and financial realms.
- trusting yourself as a creative collaborator and friend when you have trouble with discipline and completing tasks.
- the outcast archetype and uplifting the confident, social hermit. The greater benefits of lone wolf one-on-ones, and having awareness in social groups.
- how to approach confrontation
- heartbreak: Different mechanisms of healing the heart vs. healing the ego. Feeling your feelings vs. not becoming a victim to the active ego mind when healing, changing the mind.



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