I Interviewed Natasha Mod. Enjoy

[Natasha Tori Maru]

@integration journey Thank YOU for being part of my journey - I learn so much in relation to each member here 

[Cubbage]

Enjoyed watching this a lot!

[OBEler]

Wow...thats good! Thank you both!

[Jirh]

Unacceptable. I was promised a kangaroo 🦘

Instead I got two lovely souls and beautiful reflections.

Good to see you @Natasha Tori Maru

And @Vido, please keep interviewing whomever you can of the staff and members here. Much appreciated 👍🏻

[Vido]

47 minutes ago, Jirh said:

Unacceptable. I was promised a kangaroo 🦘

Instead I got two lovely souls and beautiful reflections.

Good to see you @Natasha Tori Maru

And @Vido, please keep interviewing whomever you can of the staff and members here. Much appreciated 👍🏻

Haha thanks. Everyone one is a cosmic kangaroo here <3

[LordFall]

Very cool @Vido and @Natasha Tori Maru! I find it's always valuable to elevate the conversation beyond forum text into face to face videos that let us experience exchanges of ideas in a more vivid format.

On my way to work now, I'll give it a watch in the coming days and give you my thoughts. 

[MuadDib]

Oo la la

[bazera]

Just finished watching, it was awesome! Thanks for the initiative @Vido I'll also watch the other one with Davino, and looking forward to the next episodes with others. I was also mostly lurker like you for like 8 years, and this year I've become more active, it's fun, you should join conversations more 

As for @Natasha Tori Maru, you were great, as Leo said the other day, we're lucky to have you here 🫶.

Couple things I noted during the interview:

I've also been intuitively good at drawing (so is my sister, so it might be a genetic thing), and I haven't had a formal artistic education, but I remember in childhood and teenage years when I was drawing something, I made a distinction between what I was actually looking at and what I thought I was looking at, and most of the times when I didn't like the drawing, it was because I was adding my own interpretations to the perception. And when I was switching that off, and was perceiving what was there directly, literally, the art was coming out much better. It was a small insight that I now realize has some ontological significance. You also mentioned the same thing.

I also found out about Ralston through Leo's videos and the book list, and it gave me (still continues to) a crucial epistemological foundation. Kudos to Leo for introducing him to us.

One question, you mentioned that after your walking experience the suffering never came back to the same degree. Did you do some formal practices before that experience, did contemplating, or it just spontaneously occured because suffering was so intense that something in you surrendered? That story reminds me of the story Eckhart Tolle tells when he speaks of his first enlightenment experience.

Also, did you attribute your success in construction management mostly to the perceptive and consciousness change (plus discipline and work-ethic)? Would you still be able to accomplish things the same way if it wasn't for those couple experiences? 

You're nice to listen to, looking forward for the second part with a better mic  Tell us more about your Kanguru sandwiches next time 😂