Omnicaritas
Tim

Hope you found something suitable.
F-i-l visit was cancelled - which I was secretly pleased about. Ended up editing an audio narration for #librivox .
Tried out an old Audio Technica small condenser mic which worked well.

2024-07-27 11:18:24

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Only on my heart ❤️

2024-07-27 10:37:45

The so-called thinking of the ego-mind was so tyrannical that its use throughout your lifetime deadened many of your feelings. It led you so far from the truth that you no longer trust in it. It confused the smallest issues to such a degree that it left you unable to respond purely to anything. The Your only recourse to this situation in the past was focus. You thus applied your thoughts to learning subjects of a specific nature. Through this focus you believed you accomplished much. You congratulated yourself on having the discipline required to train your mind to focus and to learn, or shamed yourself when you were unable to do so. To those most skilled in this training of the ego-mind worldly rewards have long been given. These people attain degrees and skills and then further apply the discipline that they have learned by using their skills and knowledge in the world for even greater rewards. These rewards have further emphasized the importance of such focused thoughts and thus further entrenched the ego-mind. To think that you could learn the truth of who you are through these same means was the fallacy that the early teaching of A Course of Love sought to dispel.
A Course of Love. "The Art of Thought"
#thinking #ego #awareness #heart #reset

2024-07-27 10:27:47

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That was cool. I had a message alert from iris.to appear on my monitor.
Today? Visiting father-in-law . Have already been singing and playing some blues on the semi-employed P45. :)
How about you?

2024-07-27 10:22:03

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May the road rise to meet you, Matt, /\

2024-07-21 14:45:36

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That's great. Enjoy!

2024-07-21 08:25:19

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Morning Matt. How did it go?

2024-07-20 13:51:07

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Cool (no pun intended) Is it local?

2024-07-20 11:04:55

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Good thanks, Matt. On a bus. Livin' the dream. 😉 how's you?

2024-07-20 10:39:19

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Bonjour. No moaning. 😉

2024-07-19 18:20:18

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2024-07-18 18:14:01

Did you know Abe Lincoln was a mystic?
Apparently so.
I recently solo recorded an audiobook for #Librivox :
Abraham Lincoln: The Practical Mystic
Francis Grierson (1848 - 1927)
A knowledge of the influences which ruled the life of Lincoln, the greatest of practical mystics, is essential now that a new form of paganism and slavery threatens humanity.
In Lincoln's time the black slaves of America had to be freed; in our time the white slaves of Europe have to be freed. We have returned to the conquest. History is being repeated, but on a far vaster scale. The whole world is groaning under the threats and deeds of tyranny that seeks to become absolute. What Abraham Lincoln stood for in the middle of the nineteenth century the English-speaking peoples must stand for at the beginning of the twentieth. Materialism produced Prussian autocracy. A spiritual power brought America safely through the ordeals of the Civil War. But the material and the spiritual cannot both rule at the same time. One must yield authority to the other. And we cannot succeed by denying the very thing which caused Lincoln to triumph over all enemies and obstacles. - Summary from the book
Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Language: English
https://librivox.org/abraham-lincoln-the-practical-mystic-by-francis-grierson/
#audiobook #audiobooks #publicdomain

2024-07-18 14:37:21

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2024-07-16 07:30:53

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I adopted a similar strategy recently and it works. No FOMO at all!

2024-07-15 13:34:12

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I don't think Bitcoin per se can give any really deep value - maybe fleetingly. Anything external to ourselves is simply remedial. For example - music has been a constant "medicine" in my life - particularly during a period when I was going cold turkey, withdrawing from Valium. I still find it therapeutic to sing and play the piano on particular. But, without wishing to sound like an old hippy, love, understanding, and forgiveness are the real answer - not Bitcoin.

2024-07-05 13:12:06

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Crucial :)

2024-07-03 18:25:10

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Sorry to have missed it.

2024-07-03 13:43:13

I'm rebuilding my website using Wordpress and am trying to get used to using "blocks" - which shows how long ago I actually used WP!
#wordpress

2024-07-02 18:27:21

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Thanks, Vinney!

2024-07-02 12:06:58

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Apple only at present - will hang about a bit. :)

2024-07-02 10:47:48

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Thanks Matt. Do you mean "stuff "in general?

2024-07-02 10:27:37

Oh, and music of course :)

2024-07-02 09:30:32

What's new? Well, I haven't posted here much at all, so:
- I've managed to get my old domain back and have found some incredibly cheap hosting via a Mastodon user for 2.5 ukp per month.
- I intend to offer my services from now on employing a V4V / donation model. I'm getting old now, and it's time to "pay it forward".
- What are my services? Well apart from occasion audiobook narration, I'm mainly focussing on something I've done for the last 30 years or so, which is helping people to dissolve the affects of: failed goals, outmoded beliefs, phobias mainly using a process of inquiry.
More details to follow.

2024-05-08 10:11:36

Just finished narrating my first solo audiobook for #librivox
You can listen or download it here:
https://archive.org/details/lincolnpracticalmystic_2405_librivox

2023-11-10 11:34:01

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... and bright. :) Have a good one, Matt.

2023-10-23 08:08:23

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Morning again Matt(⁠θ⁠‿⁠θ⁠)

2023-10-21 09:00:16

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'ello, 'ello.

2023-10-19 08:05:39

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Sorry for delayed reply. Was distracted by charity shop work yesterday. Actual graft! Steaming clothes and looking for swag that I could get cheap. 😉

2023-10-17 09:22:55

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Word!

2023-10-17 09:22:10

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Morning Matt. Good thx. How are you, and whats the TLDR for the Andreessen Thing?

2023-10-17 09:10:57

Hello World.
Here's an hour-long ambient track that slowly builds, then gently declines.
https://timrowe.bandcamp.com/track/vreemd
I created it from a stem from a musician on #mastodon which he wrote for another track which we had previously collaborated on.
It's available on a pay-if-you-want basis from #Bandcamp.
It's sad what's happening to Bandcamp, but everything must change - and when one door closes, another will open.
That door might already be ajar - a seed idea in someone's mind...
#Bandcamp
#Ambient

2023-10-16 08:28:30

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I don't think Bitcoin is going to save the world. Only people having a shift in consciousness can save the world. If BC can nudge them in that direction (or rather the philosophy behind BC) fair enough. But the internal shift will be "senior" to BC itself.

2023-10-16 08:25:55

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Morning Matt. Have a good one.

2023-10-16 07:10:10

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Yes. I like to think I question everything, but now I need to really question absolutely everything. :)

2023-10-16 07:08:49

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I listened to someone who has different ideas about the relative importance of Covid in the scheme of things, and eventually felt as sense of ease because I understood where they were coming from. Normally I would have a previously formed reply ready to fire back.

2023-10-14 08:58:04

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The Sun is out,
The sky is blue,
It's beautiful,
And so are you.

2023-10-13 13:28:59

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Super! I'll bet you're glad to back back in Blighty. :)

2023-10-13 07:10:38

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Have you tried Primal?

2023-09-10 11:39:51

RESOURCING YOURSELF
With so many planets retrograde in a narrow section of the zodiac, how is your personal focus, re-evaluation, reckoning and self-auditing going?
This week, as Mercury turns forward in Virgo and Pluto squares Ceres, ask yourself:
in what and whom am I currently investing my skills, money, possessions, time and love?
Is all this effort congruent with my values and priorities?
do I need a rethink about how I use my precious resources?
Change is written all over September 14th’s New Moon at 22° Virgo. It forms a Kite pattern with Pluto, Neptune and Uranus while Mercury - ruler of Virgo - is stationing ready to turn direct on September 15th.
All New Moons are an opportunity for a new beginning, but this New Moon in Virgo is an especially helpful time to start new habits or to stop harmful ones.
The New Moon’s trine to Uranus in fellow Earth sign Taurus means becoming even more flexible, responsive and innovative in the face of unexpected change. The Sky God operates by delivering unpredictable shocks, reversals or insights that electrify you out of your comfort zone, teaching you to collaborate with the inevitable.
It's also a time to become much more innovative in your work, your craft, your service and your routines, experimenting with new methods and modalities that take you out of your comfort zone.
This will mean shedding and moving on from outdated New Age modalities and techniques that attempt to change others from the outside in - so many of the old ways of working, processes and procedures that you have relied on, which always got results in the past, are no longer working….
https://www.hareinthemoonastrology.co.uk
#astrology

2023-09-09 18:09:13

True Freedom is a characteristic of Consciousness, which is available and accessible 24/7.
#freedom #consciousness

2023-09-02 10:14:24

SPIRITUAL TRAPS
Question: What are the biggest traps in spirituality?
Answer: Relatively speaking, there are several major traps in spirituality. By far the biggest one and the first and foremost because if you fall into this trap all else follows:
Is taking the illusion to be real.
Believing this is real.
Once you fall for that trap
The second trap follows:
And that is, working and trying to make yourself into a better mirage,
more embodied
purified
more connected
more integrated into your life
transforming bad into good
trying to have a permanent state
changing vices into virtues
in order to enhance the experience of
"You" In THIS WORLD
Nisargadata Maharaj: "Give up the tendency to improve yourself."
The Buddha: "There is no world." The Diamond Sutra
-- Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph.D.
#nonduality

2023-09-02 07:21:47

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The Ultimate Medicine.

2023-09-02 07:21:05

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Meditation, singing, music-making.

2023-09-01 13:32:53

"Love is the most healing force in the world, nothing goes deeper than love. It heals not only the body, not only the mind, but also the soul. If one can love then all one's wounds disappear. Then one becomes whole -- and to be whole is to be holy."
This is from an ePub book I opened at random just now.
It doesn't really matter who wrote it because, in my own experience, it is an eternal verity.

2023-08-31 09:12:35

Over breakfast, I explained the idea of #value4value and #defi to my wife who is *highly* sceptical.
When I'd finished, she simply said, "Yep, sounds like a great idea".

2023-08-28 11:00:49

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Some reasonable points, but IMHO the "rehab list" is a bit *too* Zen (no nuances). Life just isn't that binary.
My son is Gen Z, and he, his mates, and their girlfrends are nothing like you describe.

2023-08-27 20:15:49

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My #1 son is a barber, so I get my haircuts for free - but he doesn't need a website. Told him about Nostr though - and he's interested. :)

2023-08-26 20:35:22

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Holding you all in The Light /\

2023-08-26 20:35:09

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Holding you all in The Light /\

2023-08-26 20:35:03

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Holding you all in The Light /\

2023-08-24 22:28:24

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No, daddy-o.

2023-08-24 18:23:10

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I actually was a student of Dr. John Diamond for 2 years. Hawkins went to one of Diamond's workshops and claimed he (Hawkins) "got it".
The testing is *fraught* with difficulties - the least of which is having a high enough calibration to use it (that's a myth, BTW).
It takes a lot of practice and skill to test and it's *very* easy to influence the outcome.
I only use the testing occasionally - but for *local* things only (a supplement, remedy, or food for example.)

2023-08-24 08:39:39

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Yes, I have.

2023-08-22 07:54:38

Good morning. ☕
Although not much of a TV viewer, a friend recommended "Russian Doll" on Netflix.
I'm enjoying both the concept and the acting.
In other news, narrating stories that are written in antiquated English for #librivox is fun, but hard on the tongue.
I'm currently narrating a #SciFi story from the Victorian era. A lot of the speech is quite stilted.
Lots of editing required. 😀
Overall though, my main focus is living life from my Centre.
I hope you have a day with as little conflict as possible. 🎶

2023-08-22 07:32:58

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Good morning. Namaste 🙏

2023-08-21 10:23:06

Note to self: Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

2023-08-21 08:33:30

Happy Monday.
Don't for forget - Projection makes Perception.
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2023-08-21 07:01:51

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I used to practice rebirthing (conscious connected breathing) back in the day. Yes, what a trip. :)

2023-08-19 09:59:15

No matter. Never mind.
"Realism: Reality exists outside and independent of mind;
Idealism: Reality consists exclusively of mind and its contents.
Notice that materialism entails realism but goes beyond it: it postulates not only that matter exists outside mind, but that mind itself is generated by matter. For the remainder of this section I will, thus, discuss materialism, for it is the more specific term."
-- Why Materialsim is Balony - Bernardo Kastrup
#idealism #realism #materialism #metaphysics #philosophy

2023-08-17 19:23:32

I first became aware of #nostr about 3 months ago.
Someone on #mastodon alerted me to it and were not particularly complementary about it.
But I liked that idea that it was / is truly decentralised. I didn't know a massive amount about Bitcoin - and am still a novice - but I was pleasantly surprised to find that there were more like-minded people here on Nostr, than I'd found on the #fediverse (which, TBH, I was beginning to tire of a bit) or any other social media network I've been a part of.
It's early days, but I'm liking the overall vibe. :)

2023-08-17 19:16:27

I've had an usually busy couple of days (atypical).
Yesterday I spent most of the day looking into errors I'd suspected were present in the methodology involved in the compiling of one of the more recent 'Calibration of Consciousness' scales where the various levels of emotion and 'spirituality' are laid out in a hierarchical fashion.
It was quite a deep dive but rewarding - and confirmed my suspicions.
#consciousness #spirituality #duediligance

2023-08-17 14:20:15

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I was going to write a post today expressing the exact same sentiments. Thanks for the reminder. :)

2023-08-16 11:26:45

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Thank you for noticing! /\

2023-08-15 13:50:17

"Do not believe in what you have heard; do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations; do not believe anything because it is rumoured and spoken of by many; do not believe merely because the written statement of some old sage is produced; do not believe in conjectures; do not believe merely in the authority of your teachers and elders. After observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and it is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
– Kalama Sutta
#verify #verification

2023-08-15 09:31:27

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Typo. Should be 'detached' :)

2023-08-15 09:29:22

Good morning 🌞
My daily ponder:
The difference between 'detatched', 'unattached', and 'non-attachment'.
Any comments welcomed. 🙏

2023-08-15 07:03:33

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It's been decades since I read it. A classic. The films don't do it justice.

2023-08-14 07:43:36

#consciousness #beherenow #acim #spirituality
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2023-08-13 10:30:27

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I've been wondering the same.

2023-08-12 19:29:40

Street Art SE London
#London
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/8aaa9320b7f777aaf706aa82ce162bec060f3b65ee24fcc8fe2536233e81dc39.jpg

2023-08-12 15:18:48

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
C. G. Jung
#jung #mind #nondual #nonduality

2023-08-11 23:13:31

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Oh thanks for the heads-up.
Relays?

2023-08-11 17:50:33

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete”
— Buckminster Fuller

2023-08-10 13:38:08

*Lots* of synchronicities occuring over the last 48 hours.

2023-08-09 18:30:14

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This for me was a very timely and synchronistic podcast. I resonated with the level at which the topics were addressed, and the community (yours, and the newly discovered BC one via Nostr) have answered a "what next?" question for me.
Like your guest Carri Cee, I've been actively involved with spirituality for 30 years or more.
Thank you.

2023-08-09 12:46:38

Something weird going on. When I checked my profile this morning, all followers disappeared.

2023-08-09 09:37:29

Attraction and Detraction
Today there is a great deal of buzz about the Law of Attraction. Unfortunately, few people understand this law at depth and a superficial understanding of this law often causes more harm than good. Instead of helping people manifest their dreams, an incomplete understanding of how this law works results in our repeated self-betrayal and failure. This reinforces our shame and powerlessness.
Why do we try to manifest our dreams and fail? Because we are creating from our wound, not from our Core Self. Until we heal our wounds, we cannot manifest our gift or give it to others. Until we heal our pain, all we will do is recreate it over and over again. Needless to say this can be very frustrating.
Until we heal our wounds and find out who we are and what we really want, we are going to create suffering. It’s that simple. The False Self can manifest only its own illusions.
Embracing Our True Self - Paul Ferrini.
#lawofattraction #manifestation #consciousness

2023-08-08 21:17:47

Emmanuel Swedenborg was a man of many talents as the cover and back cover of this comic book which was friend recently gave me attest to.
#comic #comics #comicstrip #mystic #mysticism
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https://cdn.nostr.build/i/99647d6cdf869f02c791c2a338c19821272d9fa977fee041efe7eb92b81ca346.jpg

2023-08-08 10:23:26

I've heard a few spiritual teachers point out that they could be reading out of a kid's book, or even entries in Yellow Pages and if the #consciousness of the teacher or group was high enough, it wouldn't matter - the content would be irrelevant as The Silence beyond words and thought would comprise the Transmission.
https://void.cat/d/QhNFbu18PYAH14zzY8YP9H.webp

2023-08-08 09:46:26

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Imagined separation form Source makes us shitty via false self-preservation drives.
Organised religion just adds another layer to the hypnotism of separation.

2023-08-06 16:14:15

A totem discovered in local woods today.
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/4f53a14b8d412ddb0c30d715fb57e3e9266fbe2fe2f921e361d0cc0235eea547.jpg

2023-08-05 21:16:22

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That's it!

2023-08-05 19:01:51

Abundance is not BC. BC is an aspect of Abundance.

2023-08-05 19:01:17

The crazy sage Alan Watts was born a few miles from here.

2023-08-05 18:15:19

Testing

2023-05-03 10:16:45

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2023-05-03 10:06:51

Where is the heart in coin?