Higher Dimensional Thinking, Cultural Architecture & Healthy Shame
Some of my favorite articles of all time
Thanks for being a subscriber to Becoming Conscious. Here’s a few of the articles that have had profound impacts on how I understand myself and view the world. Enjoy :)
Higher Dimensional Thinking, the End of Paradox, and a More Adequate Understanding of Reality
On increasing the complexity of thought and what it really means to find higher-order solutions to equally true and partial dialectics
Healthy Shame
Shame as a signpost towards integrity
What Loving You Means to Me
I know I don’t need anything from you…so I am free to want for you congruently. I appreciate you as fully I can…appreciate all that you freely give.
I don’t want to let my insecurities be the reason you missed experiencing something beautiful.
And I want to see you as you are now, in this moment as you change and grow. I have never seen you before – the you of this moment. So I will not pretend that I have and risk missing reality.
I want to know you, in your depth and fullness and realness… Not a fantasy that I make up and project on you, then punish you for not being. If I want to play with a fantasy, I can do that on my own. I will not punish you for being honest.
the absolute innocence that you truly are.
The Case Against Naive Technocapitalist Optimism
More technology ain’t always the solution.
5 Myths We Tell Ourselves When We’re Dating
Common misconceptions around dating 💋
Feeling Touch-Starved? How Our Sense of Touch Keeps Us Radically Connected to Ourselves
We can live without sex, but we can't live without touch.
touch itself is a language
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE ILLUSORY
You can directly grasp that everything you know is conceptual.
It is not easy to let the world dissolve.
Boundaries in themselves do not limit your freedom, it is your attachment to them as real that does.
Advancing Human Sovereignty
Unpacking the three pillars of sovereignty: sentience, intelligence, and agency.
Living with Meaning: “Yes to Life” by Viktor Frankl (Book Summary)
“Fate is part of our lives and so is suffering; therefore, if life has meaning, suffering also has meaning. Consequently, suffering, as long as it is necessary and unavoidable, also holds the possibility of being meaningful.”
The Reign of Hackers, Hipsters & Hippies
These people are not just annoying, they are also about to take over the world. They are the ones with the highest amount of cultural capital
What, then, unites the triple-H population? One thing is that all three groups share an alternative relationship to work and the market: they are all driven by what psychologists of work call intrinsic motivation and self-realization, rather than extrinsic motivation, such as monetary rewards, consumption and security.
The triple-H folks are usually more artsy, creative, well connected, socially intelligent, emotionally developed, idealistic, digitalized, diversified and educated
The dance of the Tao and the ten thousand things
Labeling, categorization, separating reality into parts versus the unknowable, nameless, infinite, one.
Metamodern View of Science
We are taking a turn in which we base our science upon a deepening philosophical inquiry into the nature of reality.
Our work, as scientists, is to rewrite the very fabric of what is real, as our participatory perspectives express higher truths, as they mirror more profound insights about physics and complexity – and land us in a vast landscape of reflections, gazing deeper into the abyss.
So even if science reigns supreme, it is always created in social, economic, cultural and philosophical settings that determine what scientific questions are asked, what methods are used, what problems are seen as worthwhile, which questions are kosher and which ones are taboo.
Edge of Being Newsletter
A masterful newsletter that’s being put together by a friend of mine. Deeply influential in my approach to developing systems of psych-tech towards a holistic development.
Some favs:
The Yoga of Becoming: The Art & Science of Personal Evolution
Hedonic Engineering: Building a Psycho-Spiritual Growth Stack
Cultural Architecture: Infinite Games, Ontological Design, & Sacred Duty
The DAO Moment
Why DAOs are more effective tools for cultural architecture and to generate solutions to the meta-crisis.
The Wellbeing Economy
The vision for tech in support of wellbeing and human flourishing. How do we begin to think about taking back our agency in relationship to technology.