#you are the observer of reality

[alchemyofmaya]

Through the power of your mind, you can transform your life

We are in a constant state of trance. When you are able to detach and understand that you are the observer of reality, of your life, of your thoughts, emotions & reactions. You watch and watch your thoughts like watching a movie.. and you fall asleep.

Your thoughts hypnotize you, you believe them to be real. Emotions arise and you react in accordance — and this cycle creates your reality (unconsciously)

Through hypnosis you are able to allow your conscious thinking mind (ego) to rest, to go deeper into a state of trance.

When you recognize that you are not your thoughts, not your feelings, not your body. You are not your mind, you are the one observing all these things — you are even beyond the soul. You are the soul of the soul. The creator of creation.

When you feel this detachment, from the self, from the story of your experiences — you create space, for the streams of divine grace, of pure consciousness, of awareness, to fill that space. This is where the dissolving of limitations, of illnesses, of habits and attachments occurs — this is how healing happens.

[mollysunder]

My favorite song for Act 1 may just be "Sucker". Obviously the lyrics, the melody, the tone all fit right to capture Jinx's perspective as things fell apart. But what puts "Sucker" above the rest for me is the loop.

As Jinx walks away from the remaining chembarons fighting for Silco's seat we immediately cut back to Silco, alive and stressed. In that moment it's like Silco's watching Jinx walk away. Suddenly the sequence isn't just a brief overview of the state of Zaun. It isn't just Jinx stewing in self-hatred and grief, it's Silco SEEING her like this.

For that split second, it's like Silco's ghost is stuck in place and he can see Jinx in her misery. Silco can see Jinx, but she's pointedly walking away, unwilling to look back, to be seen by him. If Jinx looked back maybe she'd see the mix of concern and frustration on his face for her, but she doesn't want to see it, she doesn't want to feel it.

Jinx would rather leave it all behind, but she can't because the entire chorus is punctuated by the sound of chains. No matter how much the lyrics say she wants to escape her life and the one she lost (Silco), it's impossible because the bond of love she shared with Silco is still holding them together, even in death. And Silco can see how she's let it weigh her down into a spiral of self-loathing and suicidal ideation, rather than carry it forward and live.

[blistering-typhoons]

kind of a random thought, but i really appreciate that it takes holmes a while to figure things out. if he's untangling a problem he's sitting on it for a while, there's no instantaneous bolt of lightning- and it's usually one small, but obvious detail he's missing, not some grand drawn out plot. he just needs to give himself a moment, which is something (not to project, but also yes to project) i'm having to learn being something currently unmedicated for adhd.

sometimes you just need to let it sit, or come back to it later, or whatever needs to happen. it's not going to happen in an instant, and that's okay, because it will eventually~

[acksolotel618]

aw man i just love that one character nicknamed pinkie who has piercing blue eyes, loves to cook, is a horrible detective, has specific episodes about their emotions (and how they're terrible at dealing with them), gets made fun of but also not and is incredibly respected at the same time, is incredibly audhd coded, is commonly headcanoned as pansexual, is drawn in fanart with curlier hair than they visually have in canon, has the most outfits of the main group, has an animal that they're really close with, has multiple siblings that they barely interact with in the show due to them being far away from the main setting, has multiple versions of themself, who remembers everything but also nothing at the same time, etc, etc, etc, etc there's more but I'm lazy.,

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[incesthemes]

i can't stop thinking about the first episode of season 6, when sam tries to convince dean to come with him, to come back to hunting. he says "it's just better with you around, that's all." it's an interesting line because sam is soulless, obviously. and even though he doesn't understand the details yet, he knows something's wrong with him.

"it's better with you around" he says, citing dean's compassion and care for others as the reason why. and how interesting is that? sam's working with plenty of other hunters who still have their souls—they're all more than capable of caring about the people they save. but sam needs dean specifically. he knows he's missing something, and he sees dean and recognizes that something in him. even cold and calculating and unrelentingly logical, sam recognizes that dean, alone, can "complete" him, give something back to him that he's supposed to have.

in episode 8 he tells dean he "needs his help." he doesn't elaborate; he never explains what he means by that. he has a whole family of hunters who'd be willing and able to help him, but still he needs dean. even without his soul, his hyperrational mind knows he needs him.

soulless sam isn't capable of caring about dean. but he doesn't need to care to know they need to be together, no matter what—to know dean is good for him, dean completes him, dean needs to be there for him.

it's like a sick reversal of season 1. sam drags dean back into this life because he can't keep going without him. because he needs him. because when you think about it logically, and sam has no other choice, there was never any other option for them.

[thirdtimed]

someone left a really good set of tags on the life series winner post but in essence i agree that while i like the watchers in theory as window dressing to the entire tragedy fueling this endless cycle of blood sports i think its a million times more intriguing and engaging for the truth of the matter to be that the lifers themselves are the reason for their own suffering. the watchers are just kind of there as an excuse for their own faults

[dominiq-e]

at this point trans people should be entirely banned from sports. trans identified males don’t want to compete against their fellow men because “it’s unfair 😢😢😢😢😢” but they have zero shame beating women to a pulp. it’s male violence.

make the choice: do you want to pretend to be a woman and don misogynistic stereotypes or compete against serious athletes? you don’t get both.

[oflgtfol]

i have like a severe interest in archaeoastronomy and firsthand observations of the night sky and the techniques that humans have been using to observe for like utter millennia. and so this had led me to a weird position where even among my fellow astronomy people i'm like, too knowledgeable about certain aspects of it such that none of them know wtf i'm talking about. like yeah my one coworker will make a metaphor and say that something is like an oscilloscope, and we all nod our heads and agree because we all know what an oscilloscope is and have done experiments using one. but if i mention like, the nebra sky disc. i'm the only one who gets it

[kukai]

it's so crazy being involved in radical spaces irl and then logging online and seeing posts still making the same points that we've already established ages ago as though they're brand new "hot takes"

[pikkish]

idk if this is a good prompt but put doomguy in myhouse.wad I think he would find it enriching

Right, so I've been mulling on this one for a little bit now, n I'm not opposed to writing something for you, I'm just not... entirely sure what to write? Because the thing is, myhouse.wad doesn't actually really have anything to do with Doom as a story. Sure, Doom is important in that it's the vessel through which the story is told and one of the connections between the narrator and his dead companion. But as far as Doom itself goes, and the story about a man who was too angry/stupid to die, fighting demons and saving earth, none of that is at all relevant to myhouse.wad and its story. For all intents and purposes, Doomguy isn't actually a character in myhouse.wad. So I'm not really sure how exactly to fit him in there.

[reginrokkr]

Thinking about 「The Road Not Taken」 and some people wishing that Lumine had a better traveling partner made me reflect on Dain's acts of kindness and how in reality, they aren't direct nor conventional, but they don't lack weight at the same time.

We're talking about a man who was deeply affected by everything that was happening in the Chasm and hid that from Halfdan in order to tell him the way he seemed to need that despite what happened in Khaenri'ah, he and the others fulfilled their duty and that he's proud of them.

We're talking about a man that would stay the whole night guarding so that his traveling partner would be able to sleep.

And we're talking about a man that as an act of kindness would rather leave and wait until someone else recomposes themselves after crying in their sleep than staying there and add to the other the shame of being seen in that state.

To some these acts of kindness might not be enough or what they need, but to deny them is the same as ignoring that Dain works with subtleties, be it verbal or otherwise.

[exalok]

reason: the seven resketchings of one smuch cannot hurt you

the rest of me: mournful wailing

[1introvertedsage]

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

~Ernest Hemingway~

[ananke-xiii]

Since I've started writing about resurrection in spn (around the time of the autumn equinox) I've also begun to notice the underlying aspect of the exchange/gift/deal and I thought it was cool but, you know, it was just something about that story and that was it.

But the more I scratched the surface, the more the word "balance" kept appearing and I started having Thoughts. Then, the movie "The Substance" was released to the public and it also appears to be about "balance" (or, at least, the commandment of respecting the balance, I haven't watched the movie yet and I want to write these thoughts before watching it to then compare and check if I got it or not).

So, of course, I started thinking about the so-called "work-life balance" and how it's imperative that we respect this balance or else. But what the fuck does "balance" mean? It seems like it's used as a synonym for "equilibrium" or "harmony" but is it really true?

It turns out that "balance" just means "two plates". Interesting. So this is, as expected, about opposition. Between what? 'Cause a scale, aka balance in its object-form, is used to measure things against a weight. A weight that has a specific value that you have to meet to reach the equilibrium aka the "same libra", the same weight. Okay, but who decides what constitutes a weight and what value each weight has?

So I did a little research on the history of the scale and it soon turned into an interesting study into the power to control/dictate the value of things. What's more surprising, however, is that one of the symbols for "balance" is Justice/Dike, holding a scale and a sword (there are sooo many other symbols because this stuff is ancient but I have to limit myself here). What is surprising is that, more often than not, the scale in these symbols is NOT in equilibrium. Therefore, there's an imbalance.

So I remembered the image of Justice, the Arcana VIII of the Camoin-Jodorosky tarot deck where that card shows a woman holding a sword and a scale. But she's tipping the scale. The images in the cards are asymmetrical but the card is number 8, the perfect number. What does this mean? That Justice doesn't exist, or that it's fundamentally unfair? I can't answer that but I can say that "balance" as we like (or are conditioned) to imagine it, has the potential to be biased at best, fraudulent at worst. It's a construct of our conditioned mind. Because total balance means that either both scales are empty or they weigh exactly the same. Which means there's absolute control over them, with no possibility for movement and only eventual death (metaphorically). Which means that you must NOT respect the balance, in the sense that you have to completely question and/or rebel against the balance, reject the balance if necessary, because it might be rigged or it's just pointless to reach the equilibrium because then you have no more possibility for movement and no movement doesn't make sense in Life. Because Life's about transformation. The opposing weight and its arranged value are already and always set by someone else who wants you to enter a losing game where you can only, maybe, meet the standards to reach stasis and then stop moving aka stop living. Momentarily reaching balance, same hours of day and same hours of night, makes sense in Nature because after winter there's always spring, Nature dies and resurrects again and again. Movement doesn't really ever stop (btw, I suspect "The Substance" is about Ceres and Persephone so it all actually tracks, I'm very curious about this movie now). But in human society? You gotta be careful. After all, Hermes is both the god of merchants and thieves. After all, the scale is man-made, it's just an object that someone else is holding.

Interestingly, both my musings about resurrection and the start of the release in theatres of the movie happened around the same time, the autumn equinox, as I've said (the same period of time related to the Eleusinian Mysteries that are about Ceres and her daughter). The symbol of that specific equinox literally being the astrological sign of Libra, THEE symbol of everything I've just talked about. And it's not lost on me that Libra is ruled by Venus and the movie is, I'm sure among many other tings, about beauty standards for women. Isn't it cool? I don't know if this was a fluke but it has happened.

Basically what I want to say is this: "balance" seems like a nice, harmless word but it holds much, much power. Beware of people talking about "balance" because it's very likely that they're putting their finger on the scale. In their favor, of course.

[habitual-creatures]

I don’t know if I’ll be honest. I kinda just teleported, I didn’t walk so I don’t know- we can check google maps? I think that shows how long the walk from your house to the hospital would be

... Fucking- ugh- it'll take HOURS on foot... WHY- why is this our life???

Stopwhining...

Wecanusethatdoor,righttheretogettoit.

SolongasyoualltrustthatIwon'tleadyououtthewrongside,ofcourse.

Andgiventhatnoonestopsme... Sinceyou'llprobablyworryaboutme... Overexertingthisbodyagain...

[thirdtimed]

unfortunately if i ever developed the lifeseries orv au in my head in earnest i would in no capacity whatsoever manage to be normal about it at all and like. i mean it