Sources That Resonated With Me

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Videos, graphics, books, quotes and other stuff.

Things that resonated with me and inspired greater wisdom and understanding.

[UnbornTao]

We're waiting.

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Bashar on permission slips and other things. Some deep stuff here.

I'm processing all this through my lens of energetic understanding (for reference, see my thread about that). I appreciate Bashar's perspective a lot. What he says resonates greatly, and inspires in me a deeper understanding of this energetic dimension.

13:47 "The higher self is like a guiding principle, a governing principle" --> Interesting. A while ago I introduced a concept in my understanding called meta-energies. A "guiding principle" is an excellent description of that concept. Other words I used were philosophy or tactic, but guiding principle hits the bullseye. That term really resonated. Though I'm still not sure if we're talking about the same thing, perhaps he means something else.

Also, the concept of permissions slips is just so fucking good. So true.

I must listen to this again and try to square it with my understanding, and translate this stuff into "my language".

Edited November 1, 2025 by Sincerity

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Just now, UnbornTao said:

We're waiting.

First post is here.

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Another recording of Bashar which I listened to this week, twice.

"When you are acting on your passion, you must also be passionate about being passionate!" --> Great pointer. To me, this is about embracing the ENERGY of acting on a particular thing. Being passionate about coming back to that ENERGY, and not just about actualizing the OUTCOME of that energy.

When you're embracing an energy itself (instead of its outcomes), you are hitting the nail on the head. That's a recipe to let energy flow freely. And thus energetic development ensues.

This is somewhat related to my post here.

Edited November 1, 2025 by Sincerity

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Great video from Leo's blog. Really resonated with me.

The 20 brutal truths:

1. Psychiatric diagnoses are labels, NOT explanations
2. Most people with psychiatric diagnoses don't have a brain disorder
3. Psychiatric medications aren't cures
4. Psychiatric drugs cause tolerance
5. Psychiatric drugs can worsen some people over the long term
6. Long-term users of psychiatric medications are essentially guinea pigs
7. Coming off psychiatric medications is hard
8. Withdrawing from antidepressants and benzodiazepines can cause severe neurological damage known as protracted withdrawal
9. Cannabis is a major gateway drug for triggering bipolar and schizophrenia
10. Cafeine, nicotine, and inactivity are the biggest gateways to anxiety disorders
11. Psychiatric research can be corrupted by pharmaceutical industry
12. Pharmaceutical companies have co-opted academics
13. ^ These academics train the next generation of psychiatrists
14. Most doctors don't have the time to address root causes
15. (US-specific) Good psychiatric care is nearly impossible to get with insurance
16. (US-specific) American psychiatry isn't designed to help people
17. (US-specific) The NIMH has betrayed the public
18. (US-specific) There's a massive over prescription problem in the US (assuming in EU as well)
19. In rare cases, psychiatric drugs can trigger mania, psychosis, or aggression
20. In even rarer cases, psychiatric medications and can precipitate violent, unpredictable behaviour, sometimes involved in mass shootings

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I loved the War of Art by Steven Pressfield. It's on my mind often.

CREATION.

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Take with a grain of salt. 🧂

Also, the "you're not thinking" thumbnail is making me laugh. "Dumb motherfucker."

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Two of my best sources I'm subscribed to for (mostly) Ukraine war news.

I appreciate their analyses.

Edited December 21, 2025 by Sincerity

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Six Functions of Character Strengths for Thriving at Times of Adversity and Opportunity: a Theoretical Perspective

https://www.viacharacter.org/pdf/CS_thriving_6_functions_-_theory_article_(Niemiec_2019).pdf

Good article.

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The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer has had a great impact on me. I'm still thinking about it often.

The path of embracing life and actualizing energy is one I resonate with the most. It's neither about understanding for me (per se), nor calming the mind or transcending suffering. I wanna live my energy to the fullest. I feel this is an approach Michael Singer is aligned with.

Currently listening to another book from him: The Untethered Soul.

I'm at chapter 7 and I was surprised to hear him talk about the workings of energy! Interested in further listening to his perspective on this.

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I watched Interstate 60 with my gf a while ago.

Cute little movie about synchronicity. Just something fun to enjoy - some themes really resonated, and some were plain silly. Nevertheless, I really like movies about fate, synchronicity, symbolic journeys, and things like that.

There's truth to them.

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Amazing essay by Paul Graham: How to Do Great Work.

An absolute goldmine - if you had insights from this essay integrated, you'd be a genuine PROFESSIONAL in life.

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Don't worry if you find you're interested in different things than other people. The stranger your tastes in interestingness, the better. Strange tastes are often strong ones, and a strong taste for work means you'll be productive. And you're more likely to find new things if you're looking where few have looked before.

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Don't try to work in a distinctive style. Just try to do the best job you can; you won't be able to help doing it in a distinctive way.

Style is doing things in a distinctive way without trying to. Trying to is affectation.

Affectation is in effect to pretend that someone other than you is doing the work. You adopt an impressive but fake persona, and while you're pleased with the impressiveness, the fakeness is what shows in the work.

The temptation to be someone else is greatest for the young. They often feel like nobodies. But you never need to worry about that problem, because it's self-solving if you work on sufficiently ambitious projects. If you succeed at an ambitious project, you're not a nobody; you're the person who did it. So just do the work and your identity will take care of itself.

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Work doesn't just happen when you're trying to. There's a kind of undirected thinking you do when walking or taking a shower or lying in bed that can be very powerful. By letting your mind wander a little, you'll often solve problems you were unable to solve by frontal attack.

You have to be working hard in the normal way to benefit from this phenomenon, though. You can't just walk around daydreaming. The daydreaming has to be interleaved with deliberate work that feeds it questions.

If you set your life up right, it will deliver the focus-relax cycle automatically. The perfect setup is an office you work in and that you walk to and from.

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An overlooked idea often doesn't lose till the semifinals. You do see it, subconsciously, but then another part of your subconscious shoots it down because it would be too weird, too risky, too much work, too controversial. This suggests an exciting possibility: if you could turn off such filters, you could see more new ideas. [...]

You could also discover overlooked ideas by working in the other direction: by starting from what's obscuring them. Every cherished but mistaken principle is surrounded by a dead zone of valuable ideas that are unexplored because they contradict it. [...]

What are people in your field religious about, in the sense of being too attached to some principle that might not be as self-evident as they think? What becomes possible if you discard it?

There's an AI text-to-speech for the lazy ones:

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I've read some great short articles from Andrew Bosworth. I like his simplicity in writing.

• Honesty is the Best Policy

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Dishonesty often looks efficient in the short term. You can close someone on a false pretense. You can persuade with selective truths. You can defer hard conversations that might otherwise slow things down. It works, for a while.

But every lie creates a debt. When people’s expectations don’t match reality, trust erodes. For them, it feels like betrayal. For the liar, it’s exhausting. You have to remember what you said, manage around the contradictions, and live in the gap between what’s real and what you’ve claimed. Over time that gap becomes resentment — toward the people you misled and the situation that forced the dishonesty in the first place.

Honesty isn’t just virtuous; it’s scalable.

A culture that defaults to truth avoids the compounding drag of suspicion, double-checking, and post-hoc justification. It creates alignment not because everyone agrees, but because everyone is operating from the same reality.

That’s what makes honesty a true policy. It isn’t the best because it always feels good in the moment. It’s the best because it performs best over time.

“Every falsehood creates a future obligation to the truth that will eventually be revealed, often with high consequences” - Chernobyl

• Two Things Can Be True
• The Gift of Naïveté

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Hooooly shit, the channel posting Bashar videos that I've been watching was terminated. 😂

Well, it was fun while it lasted!