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Sloww Sunday Newsletter 087 (Dec 5, 2021) — Being Myself, Propaganda Protection, Billions of Brains, & More
Happy Sunday!
Here’s the latest from Sloww along with the most interesting things I discovered last week. To respect your time and attention, every newsletter can be read in under 5 minutes. 🙏
🌀 Sloww Stuff
🆕 Nonduality in a Nutshell: “Being Myself” by Rupert Spira (Book Summary)
I loved this collection of contemplations based on Rupert Spira’s guided meditations over the last few years. If you want the direct path to question the nature of your reality, this is it. If anything, be sure to check out the “screen analogy” infographic to get the gist of nonduality.
“This book is a contemplative exploration of the essential nature of our self. Everyone has the sense of ‘being myself,’ but not everyone knows their self clearly. In most cases, our sense of self is mixed up with the content of experience and, as a result, its natural condition of peace and happiness is veiled.”
🔒 How to Be with “Being Myself” by Rupert Spira (+ Infographics)
This Premium companion post includes bonus content not included in the public summary, is distilled into a much more actionable flow with key points, and includes another infographic that walks through the process.
“At first we have a glimpse or a taste of our true nature, then we establish ourself in it, and then we lead a life, to the best of our ability, in a way that is consistent with and an expression of its intrinsic qualities.”
🧠 Modern Knowledge
Protecting Your Mind from Propaganda
Variety of Lengths | The Consilience Project
Today, The Consilience Project published the final paper in their four-part Propaganda series. The series outlines why we are in an urgent situation due to “limbic hijacking, attention capture, and profit-seeking algorithmic curation … threatening the sovereignty of individual choice and agency.” Importantly, there is a way forward for open societies in the digital age.
Pair with: The Consilience Project 101: An Introduction to the Catalyzing of a Cultural Renaissance
“When the dangers and mechanism of propaganda are made clear, it then becomes possible to reflect, ‘disengage,’ and reorient towards the informational environment in a new way.” — The Consilience Project
☯️ Timeless Wisdom
Is the World Ready for Nonduality?
12 mins | Rupert Spira on YouTube
Rupert Spira says, “This is the age of the direct path.” Nonduality doesn’t require any beliefs. Instead, you verify it for yourself in your own experience.
“Our world culture is ripe for this simple, direct understanding that needs no affiliation to any teacher or tradition, no special practices, no special language—just the clear, raw, unadorned truth … All that is necessary to understand is that happiness is the nature of being, and we share our being with everyone and everything. Now, who is not capable of understanding that?” — Rupert Spira
🤯 Mind Expanding
What is nature trying to do with all these brains?
Twitter
This is a mind-bending thought experiment. Since we are all this, take a moment to visualize yourself as this. There are almost 8,000,000,000 human brains currently on Earth! Fair Warning: You may get uncomfortable looking at yourself.
Pair with: 🔒 What is Going On?
💡 New Learning
Educational Perennialism
Wikipedia
· An educational philosophy of a universal curriculum based on the common and essential nature of all humans (everlasting principles).
· Education should focus on: the historical development of a continually developing common oriented base of human knowledge and art, the timeless value of classic thought on central human issues by landmark thinkers, and revolutionary ideas critical to historical paradigm shifts or changes in world view.
More New Learnings: Wikipedia Wednesday Twitter thread
💭 Deep Thought
“If you could see the world the way I see it, you’d understand why I behave the way I do.” — Axiom of Clinical Psychology
💬 Wise Words
“Zen pretty much comes down to three things — everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.” — Jane Hirshfield
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Have an attentive week!
Kyle Kowalski
Synthesizer & Solopreneur, Sloww
