I try Monroe's HemiSync Gateway

• Get The Expand App (The Monroe Institute)
• Samantha Lancaster (HemiSync Gateway Meditation); Monroe Institute (monroeinstitute.org; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Let go. It's better. But HOW?

Punk Gwen: You're letting go of our clingy relationship? But what will you ever do without me?

Our life is easier when we let go and let the Universe take control

(Solace Fox) Ever notice that when we stop trying to control every detail, life actually becomes easier? Most people resist letting go, but surrendering to the Universe can unlock surprising peace, clarity, synchronicity, and effortless living.

In this video, discover the power of trusting the Universe, releasing control, and letting life naturally unfold [in accordance with the results of our past deeds, our karma]. Letting go isn't weakness — it's wisdom. Watch until the end to understand exactly how to allow the Universe to work for us.

🕒 TIMESTAMPS

• 0:00 - The secret of effortless living
• 2:14 - Why letting go is powerful (not passive)
• 4:35 - How resistance blocks our happiness
• 7:20 - Trusting the Universe (real-life examples)
• 10:10 - Signs the Universe is guiding us
• 12:45 - Breaking the [illusion of] control habit
• 15:30 - Our new way of living begins here
• 17:20 - Final thoughts and the next step

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Letting go is all well and good but HOW?

Mindfulness means dispassionate observation for clarity rather than involvement, bias, fear.

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It is good to let go, and we may all know it on some level. But how to do it, that is the question. The Buddha advocated the supreme importance of renunciation (nekkhamma), internal letting go. We do not all need to become monastics, hermits, or recluses, but we all need to unclutch, get a little distance and perspective, and stop being so clingy. Easier said than done. How to do?

Vipassana involves systematic mindfulness

There is a way: mindfulness. What is mindfulness? It is bare awareness, vigilance, watchfulness of what is really there, without evaluation, without embellishment, without distortion, without making stories or relating to what we are seeing.

Real mindfulness is only possible with calm and serenity, as happens as the natural result of the meditative absorptions. When we can pay that much mindful attention, things reveal themselves. They are nothing to cling to, nothing to be attached to. We can "let go" all we want with our brains/minds, but that will never do. The heart has to let go. When we see things as they really are, there is no need to make an effort to let go. The letting go happens naturally. "Clear seeing" is called vipassana in Buddhism, usually translated as "insight meditation" (satipatthana). It is a systematic practice of emerging from the absorption, temporarily purified, and attending to four things one after the other: body, feelings, mind, and mind-objects. They++ are all explained in the Maha Satipatthana Sutta or the "Fourfold Setting Up of Mindfulness Discourse."

1st step: mindfulness of body: in-and-out breathing

So letting go is possible, but it will never happen by itself. The mind/heart in its present condition distorts and perverts everything until things seem permanent, capable of fulfilling/satisfying us, and personal. When we see them for what they really are (impermanent, disappointing, and impersonal), the heart lets go as when a feather fall into a fire and curls bac. The Truth will set us free...if we ever bother to clean the lens of the mind to see things, even for a moment, as they truly are. Otherwise, we're just believing and disbelieving and never really making any progress.

• Discourse on in-and-out breathing: Ānāpānasati Sutta
• Solace Fox, March 9, 2025; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

Decoding Principles of Hermetic Wisdom (video)

Decoding the Principles of Hermetic Wisdom with Robert Edward Grant

(Aubrey Marcus) Sept. 14, 2022. Aubrey Marcus Podcast Who was Hermes Trismegistus [Egypt's Thoth], and what are his teachings?

What can we learn today from this esoteric wisdom that has withstood the passage of time, kept alive for thousands of years? Polymath Robert Edward Grant is a wealth of wisdom in a great many fields, and today he comes on the podcast to explore these questions.

We dive into the seven hermetic principles as described by the Kybalion, one of the great foundational esoteric teachings, the source quotes such as "As above, so below."

As well as this deep dive into the Kybalion, Grant decodes other profound esoteric teachings rooted in ancient sources such as The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Book of Enoch, The Emerald Tablets, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and related works.

Timestamps

• 00:00- Intro
• 2:02- Who was Hermes Trismegistus?
• 15:16- The Principle of Mentalism
• 20:04- More on Hermes and Esoteric Teachings
• 32:33- Synchronicities
• 45:22- The Principle of Correspondence | As Above, So Below
• 1:11:10- The Principle of Cause and Effect
• 1:17:14- The Principle of Rhythm
• 1:27:00- The Principle of Vibration
• 1:36:30- Integrate Your Shadow | The Hero's Journey
• 1:48:04- Applying Hermetic Wisdom and Alchemy
• 1:57:30- Epic of Gilgamesh | Numerology | Esoteric Wisdom
• 2:01:04- The Principle of Gender
• 2:26:51- From the Age of Pisces to Aquarius
• 2:35:21- 7 Hermetic Principles Recap

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For those who've had a mystical experience

The Institute for Mystical Experience Research and Education (imere.org)

“A human being…experiences himself…as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness….Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature…”

— Nobel Laureate in Physics Albert Einstein (1921)

What to call the reverse, the sudden realization that we are not separate? Mystical Experience • Cosmic Consciousness • Enlightenment Experience • God-Realization • Kensho • NDE Like Experience • Near Death Like Experience • Oneness Experience • Religious Experience • Samadhi • Self-Realization • Spiritual Awakening • Spiritual Experience • Transcendent Experience • Unitive Experience.

For at least the last 3,000 years, people from every region of the world have experienced something extraordinary and transformational – the mystical experience.

During a mystical experience, there exists a simple unity, a pure consciousness, or non-duality of observer and observed (advaita).

In addition to oneness, the defining features of mystical experience include feelings of sacredness, peace, and bliss, a sense of transcending time and space, and an intuitive conviction that the experience is a source of objective truth about reality.

1 The effects of mystical experiences are of enormous value to both experiencers and humanity. On a personal level, mystical experience leads to sudden and lasting positive changes in an experiencer’s character and values.

2 And on a global scale, mystical experiences lie at or near the foundation of religions generally and thus even of civilization itself. Indeed, the mystical roots of conscious experience reveal a deep human identity, transcending all national, racial, personal, and theological differences.

3 It is therefore vital to further our understanding of these important, transformative experiences. The Institute for Mystical Experience Research and Education (IMERE) is dedicated to empirical research on mystical experiences.

Its mission is to advance the creation, communication, and application of mystical experience knowledge to help unite people throughout the world and to assist individuals in their spiritual growth. 

At present, IMERE’s primary research project is an international survey of people who have had mystical experiences. (See the Mystical Experience Questionnaire page for more information).

By working to collect thousands of mystical experience questionnaires from people from all over the world, IMERE is furthering the human understanding of these important transcendental experiences.

IMERE invites all to thoroughly explore its website to find out more. And if anyone believes such an experience occurred or may have occurred, such persons are warmly encouraged to share such experiences using the Online Mystical Experience Questionnaire. (Submissions will be kept anonymous unless they indicate otherwise).

It is these people who drive the success of IMERE. Questions or comments? Do not hesitate to contact IMERE, who very much looks forward to hearing from mystics.

I was God. Everyone told me so.

NOTE: mystical experience is often referred to by different names, including, but not limited to, cosmic consciousness, ecstatic experience, enlightenment, enlightenment experience, experience of god, experience of oneness, god consciousness, god-realization, intellectual vision, kensho, mystic experience, mystical consciousness, NDE like experience, near death like experience, religious conversion, religious experience, sacred experience, samadhi, self-realization, spiritual awakening, spiritual experience, spiritually transformative experience (STE), transcendent experience, transcendental experience, transpersonal experience, unity experience, and unitive experience.

If anyone believes that such was his or her experience, then IMERE warmly encourages the completion of its Mystical Experience Questionnaire. More

1: W.T. Stace, Mysticism and Philosophy, Los Angeles, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1987, pp. 131–132.

2: Bruce Greyson, MD, “Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness,” # 17, December 2007–February 2008, p. 11.

3: Edward Kelly, et al., Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century, Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield, 2010, pp. 573–574.

Shift Your Paradigm, Be the Real You (audio)

Crystal Quintero, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Dhammapada

(Bob Proctor) Meditation exercise "Shift Your Paradigm" with Hemi-Sync "The Return."

The Buddha, Rubin Museum (Andy Romanoff)

The Buddha says an amazing thing in the Imprint or Path of the Dharma. Mind (heart) is the forerunner of all conditions. They are mind-made.

If, on the one hand, we think and act with a pure [free of greed, hatred/fear, delusion and instead motivated by the wide categories of nongreed, nonaversion, nondelusion] mind, happiness follows us like a shadow, which is easy to carry no matter how long or wide it grows.

But if, on the other hand, we think or act with an impure mind, sorrow drags behind us like a laden cart that is hard to bear and constantly growing heavier.

Most people will never know what mind is capable of. Find out (MonroeInstitute.org)

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1. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-made. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows behind like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

2. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows behind like a never-departing shadow. More

• Hemi-Sync/HoloSync sound meditations (Monroe Institute)

Blue Lotus: Egyptian entheogen

VIDEO Speculations surrounding the entheogenic Blue Lotus or Blue Lily of Egypt, with attempts to decode and weave together many topics using Donald Duck as a motif.