Hey guys! So great to meet you all. I consider myself to be a student of life and a lover of learning. Wanted to share a link to one of my blogs in case anyone is interested around the essence of time, the interconnected web and quantum theory. Would love to chat with others around this topic or read your work too! https://open.substack.com/pub/suraiya7/p/we-experience-time-like-a-dna-strand?r=brwh9&utm_medium=ios

Chop that wood Carry water What′s the sound of one hand clapping? Enlightenment, don't know what it is Every second, every minute It keeps changing to something different Enlightenment, don′t know what it is Enlightenment, don't know what it is It says it's non attachment Non attachment, non attachment I′m in the here and now, and I′m meditating And still I'm suffering but that′s my problem Enlightenment, don't know what it is Wake up Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything′s an illusion And nothing is real Good or bad baby You can change it anyway you want You can rearrange it Enlightenment, don't know what it is Chop that wood And carry water What′s the sound of one hand clapping? Enlightenment, don't know what it is All around baby, you can see You're making your own reality, everyday because Enlightenment, don′t know what it is

Hi friends! I was reading some of the ACIM texts and it got me thinking about emotions of the ego, taoism, and a few other thoughts. It inspired me to write this blog that can hopefully help to pinpoint the higher states of being and transform the emotions of the ego. Feel free to check it out or add any practices that have helped you! For me, qi gong has been an awesome practice. The law of conservation tells us us that energy cannot be created or destroyed. I think the same lens could be applied to emotions. Fear, anger, jealousy, and craving are not final states. They are energies that signal the ego often misreads, but are opportunities to transform. The real work of consciousness is to recognize them, honor them, and raise them to their higher octave. Eastern & Western Perspectives In Taoist philosophy, the body is a landscape of energy with three main centers, or dantian. The lower dantian, just below the navel, is the seat of primal will and vitality. It receives signals of hunger, lust, and fear, which the ego interprets literally as survival commands. Taoist practice refines these impulses. Hunger can become a cue to awaken qi, sexual desire can become creative energy, fear can become spiritual vigilance and clarity. The middle Dantian, in the heart, refines emotional flow, grief into compassion, and sorrow into depth. The upper Dantian, in the forehead, refines mind and spirit, transforming doubt into wisdom and confusion into vision. The ego interprets all these centers through the lens of lack and survival, but awareness allows us to read them differently. Early Christians spoke of the “old self” or the “flesh.” They did not mean the body itself was bad but that the false self interprets reality through illusion. Passions, such as pride, wrath, envy, and greed, were seen as distortions of a deeper longing for God. The spiritual path was not repression but transfiguration. Pride could become humility, wrath could become courage, and envy could become gratitude. The ego’s emotions were illusions that could be dissolved into truth.

It’s strawberry season here in Northern California, which means more trips to the farmers market. I was walking through one recently, and each vendor had their best batch of produce lined up from the local farms out front, as usual. But what stuck out to me most was the mix of the too-ripe and the not-ripe-enough berries intermingled with the perfect ones. That simple observation sparked a thought: fruit can serve as a metaphor for being a seed of consciousness in superposition, where a quantum system exists in multiple potential states simultaneously until observed. But I think we can take it a step further—because it’s not just about being perceived, it’s about being perceived at the right moment in our journey, when perception can truly reveal us. In this sense, timing isn’t secondary; it is everything. A premature glance may miss the essence entirely. The collapse of the wave function and the realization of meaning depend not only on perception but also on preparedness. The Marketing Funnel as a Shadow of Consciousness Evolution In marketing, we intuitively understand this principle. We segment audiences according to their readiness: - Someone new to a field receives foundational content. - Someone further along is offered more specific, action-oriented material. Yet in our current information economy, this rhythm has been disrupted. Content floods in at every stage, regardless of internal readiness. We encounter insights not in tune with our soul’s timing. The fruit isn’t ripe for us—or perhaps we’re not yet ripe for it. A Hypothetical Tale of Premature Illumination Consider a man at a crossroads: - He feels confined by a strict religious upbringing. - His marriage lacks vitality. - His work offers travel but no meaning. - Surrounded by people, he still feels unseen. His inner dialogue flattens his experience: “I should’ve left years ago.”“Maybe I married the wrong person.”“I’m drawn to people my community would never accept.” One day, he stumbles upon spiritual content about manifestation. The message is seductive: “Your thoughts create your reality.”