Natasha Tori Maru

Ohhh, a fellow aussie I have lived, and made sure I live, on the banks of the Yarra River, Melbourne (in some fashion) my whole life. That is my every day hike/mediation area. Not a day passes where I do not wonder down there to refresh/reflect and touch the water. I suppose it is my one and only ritualistic activity - although I have to watch for snakes and giant orb weavers at this time of year....

Unfortunately no formal recording or release for this one - Jeff drowned prior to recording:

@Ramasta9 Lovely images of my home country! I can see you have some aesthetic/artistic inclinations. Framing, balance, rule of thirds and content very nicely arranged compositionally Have you been to Uluru?

@UnbornTao @LoneWonderer Yep and yep - I prefer reading on kindle in the outdoors for subjects such as these. I wonder if @AION can assist - he is excellent at this.

I like to think I have zero control. All I can do is have the wisdom to take action when it is needed to possibly increase the likelihood of an an outcome. There is a lot less suffering involved in engaging with reality in this way. There is still ego present - but less attachment to outcome in that I avoid excess emotional distress when things to do not proceed how I wish. But the driving force behind all of the above is entangled with ego, even if for me, my work appears to be for others/society (construction in medical and science fields). My work standards are very high. And I have achieved a lot and very successfully, to assist society. I look at the medical buildings and fitouts as part of MY own creative process I engaged in to make the set of plans a concrete reality. But at the base of all of this I also acknowledge I did not do any one thing that created the building; it is simply a sum of the work of me, contractors, carpenters, suppliers, architects, services consultants, clients, building surveyors, industry compliance standards and federal/state governement funds. Not to mention the people that run power plants, supply water, food, mine coal and gas for power. I could go on... Did I really do anything at all, given all the components I rely on that need to come together to construct a building?

@Judy2 Do you think you have any sort of approval seeking with your mother? Or perhaps, you may still look up to her. Mother is the word for God on the lips and in the hearts of children. And it can be quite a huge thing to see our parents as the broken children they are who didn't (and still don't) know what they are/where doing when raising us.

I've watched all of Deconstructing Rationality I and 2/3 through II - but I haven't had anything to add because I just continually nod along going 'yes, yes, yes - okay that context/clarification offers good insight into how Leo is fitting that into his worldview - yep. Agree. Totally. Yup.' I normally comment more if I have an additional view to add, or I find a pattern/mirror that matches in real life that was not included. I tend to only comment when I have an insight in how the video crosses domains in a unique way. The last 2 have been very wholistic and covering many, many nuances and ins/outs. And has hit the mark domain wise in a very cross dimensional way that earns it that 'wholism' feeling. I sort of feel like these last 2 videos have been almost 10-15 years in the making - gradually being built in the background of Leo's work. Jostling in the back of the intuitive mind continually as a framework to build lots of your other works off. And all other work has been bouncing off this continually forming scaffolding. Just my impression/interpretation

MC Ride (Stefan Corbin Burnett) is so fucken intense on stage. Man puts out this furious type of self expression I have never seen in any other performers of that type. I like a massive variety of music and while I do not always have the brutal energy to match Death Grips - they were a trip live!

I am with you here - I am not about the old mate Aubrey. I can easily acknowledge when podcasters are correct, but he just don't jive with me

I am starting to suspect you aren't familiar with all her work. But I am not trying to convince you of anything - more to make out your opinion and what it is founded on 😁

@NewKidOnTheBlock misandrist*** Fixed for ya! Hugs and pop outside some

Cheers for the share 🪐

@NewKidOnTheBlock @Hojo you guys so silly 😊

Yo, same shit all over reddit! Especially scientific papers... Articles posted and people replying to the title. Endemic on that bot infested cesspool

Look em up

There's a latter day saints church real near to my work. Such lovely boys always saying hello with their books and suits. I've had chats with them due to being fascinated with people who get sucked into belief systems. But there aren't many in Australia - only 150,000 or so. Not like you in the US! I think you have like...millions... If I am not wrong!

You guys are confused. Conflating feminism and misandry. They can look alike but not the same. Look into it 😊

Hey, I could be one, who really knows?! 🫠 Rofl! Theres something about Mormons when they leave the church. It's such a huge belief system in the next eternal life, so many ex-mormons need to supplant it with another belief system. I think this could be where Bryan Johnson's weird Don't Die transhumanism comes from (he is also an ex-mormon).

She was on our old friend Aubrey Marcus's podcast https://youtu.be/qQ0Vca8TrF4?si=-9MI3INAErhKp5F6

@LoneWonderer shamelessly poaching from your top favs 😈🔥

@Wilhelm44 hahaha - she claims she is an alien from Arcturus 🤣🤣🤣

That's cool if you feel that way. But it's a limiting belief at its core. And a fundamental misunderstanding.

I raised this earlier - no one here is really paying attention to her spiritual stuff or woo claims. I think are rather familiar with beliefs 🙃 It's all a bunch of concepts

I hate it. What it does to the younger generations & how it totally accelerates brain rot in the boomer generation. I find the older generation become really stuck in thinking certain ways with very little plasticity, and when they fall into social media its game over...

I will retract that as outside of social media it probably isn't so common (for men to be misandrist). I do see it a lot in online platforms and in a lot of 'wokey' circles. I cannot really say - as it is really a comment on people's internal values - and many aren't so transparent about it. But it manifests as a lot of shame around totally normal masculinity. IE being ashamed of desiring women for sex, default assumptions of guilt, emotional invalidation - 'men are dangerous' narratives. Chronic self doubt, identity confusion, emotional shut-down, distrust in relationships & hyper independence. And just the general dialogue around disposable expectations. There's some rather fucked up shit around women being allowed to air frustrations around men, but men, when they do this - get slapped with misogyny. Men are conditioned to 'cop it sweet' - and internalised misandry causes male shame which totally eats away at everything men stand for With this sort of anger, shame has no where to go, and you end up with depression. Which is behind a lot of the issues men face. Shame leads to anger, anger is an emotion to motivate you. But when you cannot 'do' anything with it, it becomes depression and anhedonia. And men are simply NOT allowed to be angry these days - and it is so wrong to be shamed for this emotion. Men are allowed all emotions - but anger? heaven forbid! Sorry to digress - I am quite passionate about men's issues, as well as women's