#NEIOH

1. Friends Of The Great Planet Earth!

Everything You Seek Is Already Within You!  Each Waking Dream Has False Teachings That  Say There Is A Special Place 'Out There' In The Skies Where People Go That Follow A Certain Doctrine.

#AYA

1. Precious Ones Of My Heart!

In These Moments Of Now, All Beings Have The Fundamental Ability To Perceive Past And Project Future.  Would You Believe Me If I Told You That The Future Exist NOW?

#PLEIADIAN COLLECTIVE

1. Friends Of Earth!

Indeed, Your Soul Has Recorded This Waking Dream In The Akashic Of Your Heart Chakra!  Like Other Dreams It Is Sacred And Nothing Is Random Or Wasted! This Dream However Will Propel You To The Beginning Of Your Existence!

2. The Joy Set Before You Is Exponential And Magnificent In The Nature Of Being! All Lives In All Densities Will Never Be Lost! The Gift Will Be That You Remember Them All. You Will At Last Understand As Your Being Glows In The Sacred Essence Of The ONE.

3. In These Moments Shared Now, You Should Be Able To Share Your Own Experiences And Feelings Without Being Told What Is True For You!  The Freedom Of The Soul Is Of Great Significance!

4. When You Find There Are Many Telling You What You Are Allowed To Speak Or Feel, You Are Dealing With Evil. 'Overcome Evil With Good.' How Will You Overcome This? Do You Understand It Is Upon You Now?

5. Those Of You, Who Felt Inhibited By What Was Once The Consensus Overview, Will Begin To Emerge With A Sense That It Is Safe To Talk About How You Really Feel And What Is Really Happening On Your Part Of The Planet!

#LAKA

1. Beloved Friends!

The Planet Is In The Midst Of A Great Transformation Of Being!  You, Beloved Ones, Are Also Transforming Moment By Moment!

#LAKA

1. Beloved Friends!

Perhaps All Reading This Deserve A Little Cheering Up!  We Send Love In High Vibrations To You As You Celebrate New Beginnings!  It Would Not Be Accurate To Extend A 'Happy New Year',

#AKATU

1. Friends Of Earth!

Allow The Clowns And Puppets To Play Together Across The Stage!  Who Will Trip First?  Indeed You Are Watching From The Sidelines And The Narrative Changes Moment By Moment!

Convo between @tferriss & @naval on modern loneliness:

Naval: In India there's this concept of the extended family where you basically live with your tribe at all times, so when we were young, at our grandmother's place with my aunts, my uncles, my cousins, my grandparents,

everyone was there, and it was a warm night so we went out to the backyard and put all these comforters and these little cots out and everyone would sleep in this giant pile with fifteen people underneath the stars...

it was amazing...so there's two things that were great about it: the noise level didn't bother you, if someone's foot was in your face it didn't bother you. When it's family and you're young it all just works and you feel very safe and very happy.

Another thing is that it reinforces how important the tribe is. Modern society gives us incredible flexibility in that we can get away from our crazy family members, we're not destined to die where we are born or to do what our parents did. So we have incredible freedom.

But coming with it is this tremendous loneliness that we try to cover up either through drugs, alcohol, partying, even trying to find a mission like putting people on mars. But the reality is that a lot of that loneliness comes from being disconnected from growing up in your

1/ A different way to think about life.

Our lives are all too often governed by living up to other people's opinion of us. We have this fear of appearing foolish, fear of being seen as unsophisticated, fear of missing out on things, fear of losing face.

Prestige is a trap.

2/ Prestige is a trap we set for ourselves. Those are the worst kind of traps.

Liberation is getting out of those traps.

We get a sense of security from those traps. It is a false security.

After all, who amongst us is 100% certain of surviving the pandemic?

3/ In reality this very life itself is uncertain and could be snatched from us at any moment.

Deeply understanding that is liberation.

Once we achieve that liberation, we quit seeking that false security that mental traps provide.

Our actions are now untainted by fear or ego.

4/ That liberation is itself the biggest gift life can bestow us.

We don't seek the liberation to be able to achieve wealth or prestige or status. They may come to us and they may not. In a true sense, we are not slaves to those. We become masters of ourselves.

5/ we can make it easier on ourselves to achieve that liberation.

One time honored way, as religious saints have shown us, is to physically move ourselves out of the grasp of those traps.

Cities are full of prestige and ego traps. Moving ourselves *may* help with liberation.

How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):

Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.

Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.

Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom.

thread of NPCs / side characters

blanket permission to use these as prompts for art or fiction, to snaffle them for #ttrpg campaigns, etc, go right ahead! i might use them myself too, in future works!

ship captain who's bound to their ship and can't step a foot off it onto land or another boat - they can swim a little in the surrounding waters, but that's it

mermaid who makes a magical trade for legs on the exact same day their human lover makes a magical trade for gills

faerie divorce lawyer who gets called onto assist with a human friend's legal troubles

the opposition vastly underestimates the lawyer's ability to run rings around contractual obligation

group of brownies who recently have taken up residence in the warmest place in a human's house - the cabinet their games console is in

Whenever people call me an elitist, I am flummoxed. I am from a working class background, I am a product of public education my entire life, and I spend my free time creating a podcast that aims to make great books accessible to all for FREE.

I am called an elitist because I believe there's a difference between literary art and plain fiction. I believe some books are more worthy of your attention than others. Lots of books are like junk food: pleasurable but not nourishing.

My podcast is dedicated to the idea that great books are for everyone and everyone deserves a chance to learn to enjoy them. This is not an elitist enterprise. It does, however, suppose that some books are truly worthy of your attention and that I have some capacity to judge.

My podcast doesn't pretend to be exhaustive. I have limited resources and time and perspective. But the conceit of the podcast is that in listening to it you will deepen your literary and philosophical education. These aren't just books I happen to like and hope you do too.

My podcast highlights books I think you will benefit from reading. Many of them are challenging; one might have to struggle with them before one can enjoy them at all. The podcast aims to help get you to the enjoyment/appreciation stage, to show that the struggle pays off.