Creating Reality
Hard Cares
Guaranteeing a Certain Kind of Year
One thing I love about interesting commitments is that they can guarantee that I’ll have a certain kind of year. This requires that I pick a commitment that’s close to 100% under my direct control, so there are no significant risky external points of failure. This year I guaranteed that I’d do a lot of…
Thriving Without a God
Listening to Your Energy
I often begin my days by asking: What wants to come through? What energy wants to be expressed? Then I listen. Sometimes I listen with my mind or body. Sometimes I listen with my heart. And sometimes it feels like I’m listening with my spirit. I feel like there’s a collective idea space where thoughts…
What Is a Spiritual Perspective?
A spiritual perspective on some area of life asks questions like these: What is my current relationship with this part of life? How would I like my relationship with this part of life to be? If you remove the physicality from life, what remains is energy. But energy alone is meaningless. What brings meaning to…
Is Manifesting a Physical Skill, a Mental Skill, or a Spiritual Skill?
People often frame their manifesting skills as something spiritual, mental, or a combination of the two. Manifesting is often treated as something akin to prayer. Ask the universe for what you desire, and hopefully you’ll receive it. But what if manifesting is actually a physical skill in disguise? Other mental skills, including reading, writing, speaking,…
Expansion Through Constriction
Some people assume that when constraints are imposed upon their lives, they have fewer possibilities, and therefore life becomes more limiting. This isn’t actually true though. In each case you probably still have a ridiculously high number of possible choices, way more than you could seriously consider, let alone act upon. So for all practical…
Set an Incompatible Goal
One way to shift your character – and your life – in a new direction is to set a goal that’s incompatible with the limitations of your current character. In other words, set a goal that you would never set. Then work diligently to pursue and achieve that goal. Thinking you can’t do something because…
Will AI Make You an Addict?
The novel I’m writing is set in the future, tentatively in the year 2047, so it’s roughly one human generation ahead of us. For technology, however, that’s many generations ahead. Consider that the first iPhone shipped in 2007 (13 years ago). If you got an iPhone 4S when it first came out, that was 9…