Assemblage Artist , Wisdom Keeper, Conspiracy Researcher, Bibliophile, Herbivore, Big Pharma Anarchist, Child of the 60's, Pronoia Advocate, Comedic Reliefian, Twin Peaks and Dirk Gently fan, Zen is my default daily reset, Jedi wannabe, American born with Irish and Blackfoot roots, anti-woke, More CO2 please (the trees asked me to add this), doer of useful old school stuff
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Last Notes npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/d58539c50d41bbc980b22c97eb9ff74260cbb708daf75ac99f6c8b7d9db6db2a.jpg #sameasiteverwas npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/4e3853bcd8700edfade23de909d90f622239f734e8a20219f6ea3f76fb4721c8.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: The Cosmic Dancer (Facebook) “Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?” ~ Tao Te Ching [Art: Tracy Porter] https://blossom.primal.net/261d18bb1dc1dc8fc80701860b5732bd3402b647edc544c95233a97ce05d2e28.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: The Garden Almanac "Everyone calls it dew. The lawn has been running its own plumbing all night. Dew is sky water. It condenses out of humid air onto anything cool, blades and webs and the wheelbarrow you meant to put away. But on calm nights, roots keep pushing water up while the leaves have stopped using it, and the pressure needs somewhere to go. So the plant opens tiny relief valves at its leaf tips and edges and lets the extra out, one bead at a time. Botanists call it guttation. Tomorrow at sunrise, get low and check. A film all over the blade is dew. One round drop balanced exactly on the tip is the plant's own well water. Strawberry leaves hang theirs along the edge like a hem of glass beads. 🌿" #nature #guttation #dew https://blossom.primal.net/c4bd68462128dfbbcb76439655891fab22f6976e4f30f1381044636e9da358fd.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/058b366dfc5e8f669eff1514350085c9bf70e50ae72bc89e903eac780f775996.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/6a98a9ccbf7737513bf392051bf7d6b755f578d63c358246b7c3f9b6726c5154.jpg #selfmastery npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/9fa9e3d052e277e5cc38f9a0d2525746a79aac5bedce920e972bb6707fbb13ea.jpg #LOL npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/01da4c4ccce3d9a6cbd0ea0f1bee4667fbd67b295578daa86f4c7a18bee74f94.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/7e8869f4108a5af0650440244016ed5d2877fe4b65d92266c5516e19058b6d2b.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 credit: Whispers From The Heart (Facebook) "In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond -- his response is magnificent: “Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta: I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana. What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula. Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK? Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash receptacals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow. God bless you all!" Kurt Vonnegut Photo credit: Transgressive fiction. https://blossom.primal.net/3f857f339c1c2f23133ffd4aab05bcfa67f6a5bedb7db5d4e99aaf2c5f3355ca.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: Pyramid Consciousness "What blocks you isn’t separate from the path. It’s the raw material the path is currently made of. Most people treat obstacles as interruptions to the real work, delays standing between them and whatever they’re actually trying to do. That framing keeps the obstacle and the goal in permanent opposition, one thing fighting the other for the same space. Marcus Aurelius is proposing something stranger and more useful. The obstacle isn’t blocking the action. It’s supplying the action’s next form. What stands in the way doesn’t get removed so the way can continue. It becomes the way. This only makes sense once you notice how much progress actually happens through friction rather than despite it. A muscle doesn’t grow around resistance. It grows because of it, using the exact force trying to stop it as the mechanism of its own development. A river doesn’t detour around every boulder out of defeat. Contact with the boulder is what carves the particular path the water eventually takes. The obstruction and the eventual shape aren’t opponents. One produces the other. This reframes frustration itself. The instinct when blocked is to see the block as proof that things have gone wrong, that the plan has failed. Stoic practice asks for a harder, more useful read: the obstacle is data about what actually needs to happen next, often more accurate data than the original plan provided. What stood in the way becomes, quite literally, the next correct move. Nothing is actually blocking you. Everything blocking you is only material you haven’t used yet." #PyramidConsciousness #MarcusAurelius #Stoicism https://blossom.primal.net/5560de25985c44d5d59dada6d172e97e5f2b71c8853b1d4af29113a778e4da3e.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/4999346ac3e06238f3363d46fcbdb6ff347d54a9d8a3ca06280d8031b9d1cf01.jpg #LOL npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: Spiritual Titans "Sometimes what you call “just the way I am” is actually a survival response that became familiar. Maybe you became distant because closeness once hurt. Maybe you became controlling because uncertainty once made you feel unsafe. Maybe you became overly independent because depending on others repeatedly disappointed you. Maybe anger became your armor because vulnerability once felt dangerous. Triggers have a way of revealing these hidden places. A certain tone, a delayed reply, rejection, criticism, being ignored, or feeling misunderstood can suddenly bring out a version of you that feels much younger than the moment you are actually in. That does not make you broken. It gives you information. Instead of only asking, “Why did this person upset me so much?” begin asking, “What did this situation touch inside me?” That question can change your healing. Because awareness helps you separate your true personality from the defenses you built to survive. You may not actually be cold. You may be guarded. You may not actually be difficult. You may be afraid of being hurt again. You may not actually need control. You may need safety. Healing is not becoming someone completely different. It is slowly removing the armor until you can recognize who you were underneath it. Your triggers are not your identity. They are often invitations to meet the parts of you that still need understanding, compassion, and healing." #triggers #ShadowWork https://blossom.primal.net/f8ef378a841cf85bd77d8e3d889e5282d2416c6447b2a4caad24f49f5a6f2784.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 James Baldwin for Life Magazine, 1963 https://blossom.primal.net/9e4671a88abce75ae65d738dc41ebf92064779d48a0c9d153415d737d29fad16.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: Colective Evolution (Facebook) "Sweden spent years replacing books with screens in schools, only to reverse course after student reading performance began to decline. The country first embraced digital learning in 2009, but by 2023 it had committed 685 million kronor (about $104 million USD) to bring printed textbooks back into classrooms, with another 500 million kronor allocated annually going forward. The shift was driven largely by concerns over literacy. As reading scores fell, Swedish educators and policymakers concluded that traditional tools like printed books and handwriting still play an important role in learning. As a result, physical books, paper, and pen-and-pencil work have been making a comeback in classrooms across the country." #parenting #literacy https://blossom.primal.net/de293d20df4cdae789fdc2d2f192748ebec3837bd5bb166e097a3f4716f652d2.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: The Daily Sprout "The newspaper was already rolled up before anyone asked what she was actually doing up there. What she was doing was hunting black widows. The mud dauber is the long, thin wasp building clay pipes under your porch roof, and she is nobody's problem. She has no hive to guard, no swarm to call, and no interest in your lemonade. The males cannot sting at all. The females almost never do, and you nearly have to press one against your skin to manage it. You can stand a foot away and watch her work all afternoon. The work is the part worth watching. She packs each mud pipe with spiders, paralyzed and stacked like cordwood, one egg laid on the pile. Black widows are a documented favorite. The spider you will not reach into the woodpile for, she carries home before lunch. So those clay pipes on the shed wall are not damage. They are a nursery, and a running record of every spider that never made it into your house. The wasp costume is a bluff. The tenant is a spider trap. 🕷️" "MudDauber #Wasp #Nature https://blossom.primal.net/49f96da1b390d478e35445c3844a02983879e094037d9a58efa11d0e28c7634f.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/8deaf080a0b8ab45a9b3891f5809c7cfe14d557e8a5dc3424d9d8965f88740ce.jpg #funny npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit : Andy Goldsmith (Facebook) "A SIMPLE NERVOUS SYSTEM RESET. Sit upright and look straight ahead. Slowly turn your head as far as comfortable to the right. Notice any stiffness or restriction. Return to centre. Repeat to the left. Now keep your head facing forward. Place both hands behind your head, elbows out. Without moving your head, slowly look as far right as you comfortably can using your eyes only. Hold until you naturally yawn, sigh, swallow or feel a change in your breathing. Return to centre and repeat to the left. Lower your arms, then slowly turn your head right again. Notice the difference. Then repeat to the left." (I have used this mwthod for many years. It works for me!) #NervousSystemHack npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/95e368d4afe336bbac3d9799dea95c9bfefdedd26c44ed255851951e82ea320b.jpg #SameAsItEverWas npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/abd39219c92c31b66bc789106a2f644483088a95b201f03497366be76dfe9f14.jpg #Funny npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: Ravenous Butterflies (Facebook) “When you wake up asking ‘What’s wrong?’ you’ll find plenty that’s wrong. But, when you wake up asking ‘What’s possible?’ you’ll discover opportunities you never noticed before.” Christine Caine Lauritis Tuxen - Morning Atmosphere: From My House in Skagen, 1916. https://blossom.primal.net/d6a1a17e2d841fe27e44a9e641032d461776e5764edbe4b40904ddca6b18538d.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: The Daily Sprout (Facebook) "It isn't venomous. It has no venom glands at all. It isn't dangerous — no fangs to speak of. And it isn't even a spider: one body section instead of two, no silk, no web. It's a harvestman, an entirely different creature that's been minding its own business for 400 million years. And its business is good for you. That wobbly-legged fellow patrolling your mulch at night eats aphids, mites, insect eggs and whatever's rotting under the leaves — a one-bug cleanup crew that asks for nothing and bites no one. So when one high-steps across the porch tonight, let him pass. He's working." #gardening #Harvestman #DaddyLongLegs https://blossom.primal.net/7ea5e79ce7ec8608e7bbe31aef0c7ddfe6fef6aebf77a0546bffc9ebdf3ccccc.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 "Who are you?' said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I — I hardly know, sir, just at present — at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'" Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865. John Tenniel - Alice the Blue Caterpillar. https://blossom.primal.net/7d1cebc381cc1a9121b4427d7185884f68e3134a0245486f60890bb0bd65a5d6.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 mob rule npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/5c2f9a667a80e1f9f22cec90b0fd61612def8e8344add6341485c14ccffb87ef.jpg #Spinoza #(1632–1677) #SameAsItEverWas npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Not everyone is meant to have the same diet. I have been vegetarian for about 20 years and I'm healthier than everyone around me. npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 has to --yes. npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/f0ce5945c9cbf3ebef749ea1b437523e1d03a75032fcc0f952ebb9036bf785f4.jpg #detox npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/e0ba280932a83fc526d8becfe50e98288ad5c1cf92acec7280f030c599f05291.jpg #LOL npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/25814f06773bdae6fbe6e368674f3cca6810f6895a714293828a47e1d0362921.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Exercise to undo tech neck https://www.facebook.com/reel/1579350850494938 npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: Gardening Chores (Facebook) "That white fuzz isn't mold. It's a fungus eating poison. For decades, Maine farmers spread sludge on their fields because the state told them it was safe. The sludge — treated municipal waste — was licensed, regulated, and marketed as free fertilizer. What nobody mentioned was that the wastewater treatment plants were processing effluent from paper mills, tanneries, and textile factories that used PFAS, the "forever chemicals" that don't break down in soil, water, or human blood. The farmers didn't know. The state didn't test for it. The chemicals just accumulated, year after year, in the hay, the milk, the beef, the groundwater. By 2025, over 100 Maine farms and 500 residential properties tested positive. Five farms closed. Three scaled back. The rest were watching their livelihoods dissolve into the dirt. Then Maine did something no other state had tried. The Department of Environmental Protection funded a project using wood-rot fungi mycelium to biologically break down PFAS chemicals. The mechanism is enzymatic degradation — specific species of white-rot fungi, including Phanerochaete chrysosporium and Trametes versicolor, produce extracellular enzymes called laccases and peroxidases that attack the carbon-fluorine bonds in PFAS molecules. Those bonds are among the strongest in organic chemistry, which is why PFAS are called "forever chemicals." The fungi don't care. They evolved to break down lignin in rotting wood, and their enzymes are indiscriminate enough to shred fluorinated compounds that industrial chemistry couldn't touch. Here's why this is mechanically brilliant. Traditional PFAS remediation involves excavation, incineration, or deep-well injection — all expensive, energy-intensive, and destructive to soil structure. Mycoremediation works in place. The mycelium is mixed into contaminated soil as a spore-infused substrate — usually sawdust, straw, or wood chips — and left to colonize. Over 12 to 18 months, the fungal network spreads through the soil profile, secreting enzymes that degrade PFAS into shorter-chain compounds, then into harmless fluoride ions and carbon dioxide. The process doesn't sterilize the soil. It rewilds it. The second-order effect is scalable and democratic. Wood-rot fungi are not exotic lab creations. They grow on dead trees in every forest in Maine. The spores can be cultivated in simple incubators, mixed with local agricultural waste, and applied by farmers themselves. A dairy farm in Fairfield that lost its organic certification due to PFAS contamination is now running a pilot mycoremediation plot, measuring degradation rates and documenting soil microbiome recovery. If the data holds, Maine will have a remediation tool that costs a fraction of industrial alternatives and can be deployed by the people who need it most. Forever chemicals broken. Soil renewed. Fungi fed." #gardening #soilrenewal https://blossom.primal.net/c0f13d4c5fff1aa88077d418a638c95f924a45e2e4595111527cc3a7a4ef399c.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Crdie : Classical Literature (Facebook) "In The Brothers Karamazov, the elder Zosima makes one of the most remarkable statements in all of literature: "Each of us is guilty before everyone, for everyone and everything, and I more than the others." Our lives are woven together much more closely than we tend to think. Every little interaction or conversation shapes another person's life, who in turn shapes someone else's. Dostoevsky understood well that families, friendships, and even entire societies are built this way. They grow through countless ordinary encounters that seem insignificant in the moment but continue echoing long afterwards. Thus, even the smallest act of love or simply encouragement can make a vast difference. A person’s life can take a completely different course because, even if only for a brief moment, someone chose to care about them. Zosima encouraged his followers to remember that every life touches countless others. Every action you make can leave the world a little richer (or poorer) than it was before." #Dostoevsky https://blossom.primal.net/ba3e4cdd541c626350ee41faddcea37a2d1fea61c9c264ee37ef15f0dfa62dc4.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/3010d463040b5d928084e25f54903d03a0f735f0c033f05fdc500e599a774d92.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 "Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (Art: 'Return from Fishing' [detail], 1894 by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida) https://blossom.primal.net/a04c2786c1e8dbf1c7849e1474b41b4879e746c9b3e93504211ef6adbbd8ff11.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/649e19aaa232f257f60fa2e4b5d6a22b45dac09587f8a2c645772ef5f9796a94.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: Native People's Network (Facebook) "The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) has officially regained ownership of the sacred Nikwasi (Noquisiyi) Mound in Franklin, North Carolina, marking one of the most significant Indigenous land restoration milestones in the southeastern United States. The transfer was completed on February 26, 2026, following a deed-signing ceremony between EBCI Principal Chief Michell Hicks and Franklin Mayor Stacey Guffey. The return came after the Franklin Town Council unanimously voted to remove the remaining legal barriers to transferring the site directly to the Tribe. Built around 1000 CE, Nikwasi Mound served as the ceremonial, political, and spiritual center of an important Cherokee mother town. In Cherokee tradition, Noquisiyi means “Star Place” and is associated with the Nunne’hi, spiritual protectors described in Cherokee oral history. After Cherokee communities lost control of the site during the early 1800s, the mound remained under non-Tribal ownership for more than two centuries. In 1946, local residents helped protect it from industrial development, and it was later added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Tribe plans to preserve the mound for future generations and has also acquired nearby property to develop an educational center where visitors can learn about Cherokee history, culture, and the significance of the site. Returning sacred places helps protect Indigenous history, culture, and future generations—what are your thoughts? 🪶 #LandBack #Cherokee #heritage #nativeamerican #nativehistory Sources: • Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians – Official announcement. • Town of Franklin, North Carolina – Official meeting records and deed transfer information. • Noquisi Initiative – Project information. • National Register of Historic Places – Nikwasi Mound listing." https://blossom.primal.net/ca3bca37d9ce7f92de6bcf368ff7f82299e58df99941db2c5d04446555108ae2.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/df6a5a90d7970d49755f8bccd38b8a430789f41ce31d399efd56c2bad7f06916.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/ad690f44f5bad91925529368f537d2b2789a9d54270ce17da404cf5bc9798b32.jpg #AlexandreDumas npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/572e8709138b529906b534cbf8044478515b7c6273fb976d0741090e3ae0cada.jpg #MementoMori npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/5e302686bc57e3995767617acc06245e641ccc675b3819bb6346e20a2ad9716a.jpg #ShadowWork #MarieLouiseVon Franz npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/c1f646de05d52300d495ef2bb8ed8aab308f44a6260d33b10a2662450aac324f.jpg #JosephCampbell npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/f24a47873e43d9bad054cc9b40308207e651c04c7e1b57779a0b8567774687af.jpg #RobertHeinlein npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gft_kG9cfJg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/ed33988b5fef7c34b400235c928fab24cf3d0e89fc98edaa968c89cbf8ecdefa.jpg I've noticed this npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/07615258389b62fc1e48c4f6aa41f338b38b87ca2e334d01093c597228afd230.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: Poetic Outlaws (Facebook) “The aim of life is to live it intensely, to be fully born, to be fully awake. To emerge from the ideas of infantile grandiosity into the conviction of one’s real though limited strength; to be able to accept the paradox that every one of us is the most important thing there is in the universe – and at the same time not more important than a fly or a blade of grass." ~ Erich Fromm https://blossom.primal.net/823e37689572ff676864a4f35c6e24a934622cc112b77325b3e1974dd4c2abe5.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/5beb5f78e7232d490f0ba02c200ae07eb7d6d5f60249d28e2e93732ffc04dc78.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 On days when my neighbors do laundry, the air is so full of that horrible synthetic detergent smell, I have to go inside. It didn't used to be this way. https://blossom.primal.net/5a6becc764451d135fd991277fbb3b014abe09f44fb206499c6b07138e4075aa.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: Seer and Sage (Facebook) “Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul’s beauty.” ~ Augustine of Hippo Do you seek beauty in the fleeting reflections of the mirror, or in the boundless capacity of your heart to encompass others? True beauty is not a superficial trait found in physical perfection or temporary aesthetics. It is an expansive, vital force that flourishes only when we open ourselves to the profound needs of another. When we cultivate charity, we are not merely performing good deeds: we are expanding our very essence. As love takes root within us, it illuminates the hidden corners of our being, transforming our internal landscape into something radiant. The soul becomes a garden that blossoms through the constant nourishment of selfless compassion. Every act of true charity strengthens this inner bloom, making the spirit more resilient and luminous to all who encounter it. To love is to invite beauty to reside permanently within your core. Therefore, the ultimate measure of your personal splendor is found not in what you possess, but in how much room you have made for the well-being and joy of all living things." #Beauty #Charity Art by Alphonse Mucha https://blossom.primal.net/6c9282efa7343bdd1c1ec9232b5c460c024a9cdfc3ce198a3afa4b24152ac837.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 There are all kinds of slavery all over the world as we speak. https://www.citinewsroom.com/2026/06/slave-trade-not-over-still-active-across-africa-prof-wole-soyinka/ npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: The Cosmic Dancer (Facebook) “To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvellous victory.” #AccenuateThePositive ~ Howard Zinn [Art: Era Leisner] https://blossom.primal.net/1a214db2aed0ad6ef690946b35727fe6be0956d498358f6bd8cb4961b60c0a8f.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/2c53dfae6eab417abe944750304ff8b569b8d54afda3aa2784ff332aa68b8542.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 So much fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qInkj9m4uio&list=PLdIvbAB2JOr-yRiHyVE4kQH15UsHhNG2T&index=8 npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/c8f94938f2c8a6b77de8c6175dd8c9d16b65159543db7557b02a616ed15c24df.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: Mind Rise (Facebook) "Sometimes walking away does not mean you are weak. Sometimes it means you are wise enough to protect your peace. Ego wants to prove. Ego wants to argue. Ego wants the last word. Ego wants to be seen as right, even when the heart is tired and the relationship is breaking. But wisdom understands that winning an argument can still make you lose your peace, your dignity, and sometimes even the people who matter. The person who chooses to “lose” the ego battle often wins something greater. He wins self-control. He wins inner peace. He wins freedom from unnecessary drama. He shows strength by not reacting to every insult or challenge. Real power is not in defeating others. Real power is in mastering yourself. A calm mind does not need to prove its worth to everyone. So let the ego lose if it must. Let pride stay silent. Sometimes the greatest victory is choosing peace over being right." #selfmastery https://blossom.primal.net/38a9974c5679d95d038d16d6d729c1516c165b2689e8200a6c3e9620b6d88306.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/fc28ecc2bbe47a6090ab47758ecbcf320118292c906d64a58a9a683b49840d82.jpg #Jung #GoldenShadow npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/b5ffe91e5e8ca07d8e83400de9ccb8d96ff546c7bf90967b80216bc1f656515d.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/0894c28582b8b122a473adf21c150de207c123e0703f7df18d34f2355bf12a73.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 " The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." Friedrich Nietzsche Onur Hastürk, Odalsique with Red Caftan, 2019. https://blossom.primal.net/c91f7fbd322060b0952eaf57d05413c74969c590b89203a789e9856d033c01e6.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/d3047c094d126a41f0ab6298e034ac5cd8d2b7d162f9595f15cabc234886a054.jpg #Sundayfunnies npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/60ea3ce167f8369a9b60e5d308c5b8a5a31734d1565d437111308dd98696bb7f.jpg #BigPharma npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: Cherokee Community (Facebook) "575 federally recognized Tribal Nations are now listed by the United States, according to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Federal recognition is a legal and political status that acknowledges a Tribal Nation’s government-to-government relationship with the United States. It also confirms eligibility for certain federal programs and services, while recognizing the inherent authority of Tribal Nations to govern their own affairs. According to the updated Federal Register list, the Bureau of Indian Affairs added the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina following congressional recognition, bringing the total number of federally recognized Tribal entities to 575. Alaska is home to 229 federally recognized Tribes, the largest number of any state. California has 109 federally recognized Tribes, the highest number in the contiguous United States. Across the country, these Nations represent hundreds of distinct governments, cultures, languages, homelands, and histories that long predate the formation of the United States. It is also important to understand what federal recognition does and does not mean. Recognition is a federal legal designation. It does not determine whether a people are Indigenous, nor does it define cultural identity, ancestry, community belonging, or historical continuity. Many Indigenous communities continue to maintain their traditions, leadership, and relationships to their homelands without federal recognition. Source: U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs." #TribalSovereignty #IndigenousHistory #NativeAmerican #FederalRecognition https://blossom.primal.net/c6993cde58c50db37f2ec64245257a9c772460c0a7abdd41dcc1b1681bc81496.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/dba3039752e7d5a9a9f2396157043dde996e925326cce75f361afe3d0717bde9.jpg We just get lots of bones LOL npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/81d4db651b32eb3fba195346d6fd24bc01878bcf6ce6fa7f2e0eb908e1f8a3d3.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1561046702241777 How European Elites Arrive During a Heat Wave to Explain Why Your A/C is Killing the Planet #cartoon #funny npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” Guillaume Apollinaire Artist: Romany Soup https://blossom.primal.net/7945e01622bf9e0fa31dc0f32003067d91ac694b7052d18ce892c1e5b736fadf.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: Students For Liberty (Facebook) "Robert Owen paid around $150,000 for the town of Harmonie, Indiana. He got 20,000 acres, more than 160 buildings, working mills, and farms already producing food. He renamed it New Harmony. Close to a thousand people arrived in the first year. Owen already ran successful textile mills in New Lanark, Scotland, where he was famous for treating workers well and running a profitable business at the same time. He believed that if you removed private property and paid everyone equally, cooperation would naturally replace competition. In January 1826, William Maclure sailed a riverboat full of scientists, teachers, and geologists down the Ohio River to New Harmony. Historians call it the "Boatload of Knowledge." Thomas Say, the father of American entomology, was on it. So was Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, one of the most respected naturalists of the era. This was the most educated, best-funded, best-equipped socialist community ever attempted on American soil. If cooperation could beat markets anywhere, it should have worked here. It collapsed almost immediately. The hardest workers were feeding, housing, and clothing neighbors who did nothing while receiving the same food, the same shelter, and the same rewards. So they stopped working too. Why wouldn't they? Production dropped and food ran short. Buildings decayed because no one owned them and no one was responsible for maintaining them. Endless meetings replaced actual work. Owen wrote seven different constitutions in two years trying to fix it. None of them worked. American inventor Josiah Warren, one of the country's earliest libertarian thinkers, was there. He watched the community fail from the inside and later wrote about why. His conclusion: "The difference of opinion, tastes and purposes increased just in proportion to the demand for conformity." The more the community demanded unity, the more it fractured. Warren identified the deeper problem almost a century before Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek made it famous in academic economics. When everyone owns everything, no one owns anything. When labor earns the same reward regardless of effort, effort disappears. When prices vanish, no one knows what anything is worth. Owen finally admitted defeat in 1827. In his farewell address, he blamed the settlers themselves, saying they were "unprepared to be members of the community of common property and equality." Translation: the system would have worked if only people had been different. Every socialist regime since has offered some version of that excuse. His own son, Robert Dale Owen, put it plainly years later: "All cooperative schemes which provide equal remuneration to the skilled and industrious and the ignorant and idle must work their own downfall." He had lived through the collapse. He knew what killed it. Every socialist experiment since New Harmony has ended the same way, and for the same reasons. Prices communicate what things are worth. Ownership creates responsibility for maintaining them. When both are abolished, production collapses because no one can calculate what to make or repair." #socialism https://blossom.primal.net/911aefd38b1bd4705ceba4329cef9dcb4455da192835f0fb997d182ab6dd0e5f.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/7269b2692de16989506c0fe56977dd1afebb13428b30080eda925228fcda7276.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 I know but some people like to read about scientific correlations. npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: Sharnael Wolverton Sehon (Facebook) "When you lose someone you love, your brain does not accept it. It starts searching for them. Scientists scanned the grieving brain and found something nobody expected. Grief does not feel like sadness to your brain. It feels like hunger. Ancient traditions understood this completely. The research came from Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor at University of Arizona. Published in Neurolmage. She spent over two decades studying what happens inside the brain during grief. What the brain scans revealed changed how scientists understand loss - and why it hurts the way it does. Think about the last time you lost someone. The waves that kept coming. A song. A smell. A moment that reminded you. You were not choosing to remember. Something was pulling you back. That pull had a biological source. Dr. O'Connor found exactly where it was coming from. What the research documented. When grieving people saw photographs of the person they lost, the nucleus accumbens activated. The brain's reward and craving center. The same region that activates during hunger. During longing. During searching for something, the brain expects to find. Your brain was not grieving. It was looking. Then she found something that explained everything. Your brain builds a map of the people you love. Where they are. When will they return? What their presence feels like. When someone dies, the map does not update immediately. Your brain keeps sending the search signal. Looking for someone the world says is gone. Think of grief like a GPS that lost its signal. It knows where you were going. It keeps recalculating. Searching for the route. Trying to find what it was navigating toward. Grief comes in waves because that is when the GPS recalculates. Not because you are broken. Because your brain loved someone deeply enough to keep looking. What ancient traditions understood. Every major ancient tradition built specific mourning rituals around grief — not to rush it but to honor the search. Jewish Shiva - seven days of communal mourning prescribed to give the brain time to witness. Islamic mourning practices - prescribed periods of grief with the community present. Sufi tradition - lamentation poetry prescribed as the language of the searching heart. Indigenous mourning ceremonies - prescribed to help the soul complete what the mind could not accept alone. All working with what Dr. O'Connor measured. Then she found something that reframed everything. The intensity of grief directly correlated with the depth of the bond. The stronger the love, the stronger the search signal. The more the brain was activated during grief, the more it had loved. Grief is not a malfunction. It is love with nowhere to go. And a brain still trying to deliver it. Your practical guide. Do not rush the search - your brain needs time to update its map. Grief has a biological timeline. Forcing it to end early leaves the search signal running without resolution. Let the waves come - each wave is the brain recalculating. Fighting the waves prolongs them. Moving through them completes the search cycle. Seek witness - research shows grief processed in the presence of others resolves more completely than grief carried alone. Ancient traditions never grieved alone. There was always a community. Dr. O'Connor's research on the reward system and grief focused primarily on complicated grief and prolonged unresolved bereavement. Normal grief activates different patterns. What is consistent across all grief research - grief is a genuine neurobiological process. Not weakness. Not something to overcome quickly. A process that the brain must be allowed to complete. So ask yourself honestly. Is there a grief you were told to get over — a loss you buried instead of mourned - a search signal still running quietly underneath everything? Because your brain does not forget what it loves. It keeps the map. And somewhere beneath the surface - it may still be looking. Dr. O'Connor concluded. Grief is the price we pay for love. But it is also a neurological process - the brain learning to update its model of the world after someone central to it is gone. That learning takes time. And it cannot be rushed without cost. Your brain did not break when you lost them. It started searching. Because that is what love trained it to do. Science confirmed it was never a weakness. It was your brain refusing to stop loving. Give it the time it needs.🙏🏻❤️🩹 Watch my video on this 🙏🏻❤️🩹 Grief and Neuroscience...How does Grief or Loss affect Your Brain? Dr. Sharnael" #Grief https://youtu.be/4OzfbFFsfRQ https://blossom.primal.net/0169349f6e90a04d40181398ff9cf2e593a0205b9ec788c08146bffeb3d46e3a.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: Pyramid Consciousness (Facebook) "Nobody discovers their true strength in comfort. Comfort has never asked anyone to become anything. Every line in this verse names a paradox that only makes sense from the inside of suffering. Will is not found by wanting things to be easy. It is forged in the exact moment you have every reason to quit and choose not to. The Stoics called this the discipline of the will, Marcus Aurelius did not develop his philosophy during peace. He wrote it from the battlefield, governing an empire while burying his own children, using every hardship as raw material for the only thing truly his to control: his inner state. Stillness is the same paradox in reverse. You cannot manufacture stillness in a calm room. It is meaningless there, untested, theoretical. Real stillness is only proven inside chaos, the same way a compass only proves its worth in a storm. The Bhagavad Gita opens with Arjuna frozen on a battlefield, paralyzed by chaos, and Krishna’s entire teaching is how to find an unshaken center precisely there, in the middle of it, not after it ends. Fear reveals might for the same reason gold is revealed by fire. The alchemists were exact about this: nothing is purified without heat. A person who has never been afraid has never had the opportunity to discover what lives beneath the fear, the part of them that remained standing anyway. And the final line is the oldest teaching in every mystery tradition: the light was never absent. It was only unseen until the darkness became total enough to force you to look for it. You do not find these things by avoiding what’s difficult. You find them exactly where this poem says to look." - Art: Lena Macka #PyramidConsciousness #Stoicism #BhagavadGita #Alchemy #Consciousness https://blossom.primal.net/431e0c5de0a324fda2a17fc47875577482788c99cb7d65893ca5ae6b7c1b734e.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: Pyramid Consciousness (Facebook) "Everything you are afraid to lose is not actually you. This is the hardest teaching to accept and the only one that actually sets you free. The identity you cling to, your reputation, your plans, your image of who you’re supposed to be, none of it is the self Aurobindo is talking about. It is armor. And armor, no matter how carefully built, was never the body underneath it. Aurobindo did not arrive at this teaching through comfort. He wrote it from within a life that had already been stripped down by imprisonment, exile, and total reinvention. What he found on the other side of losing everything external was not devastation. It was the discovery of something that had been there the entire time, waiting beneath the wreckage, untouched by any of it. Every tradition that has gone deep enough says the same thing in different language. The Bhagavad Gita opens with Arjuna paralyzed, refusing to fight, terrified of losing everything he identifies with. Krishna’s answer is not comfort. It is a direct confrontation: the soul is never born and never dies, what you fear losing was never the eternal part of you to begin with. The Stoics called this the discipline of desire, learning, in advance, to hold everything external loosely, because none of it was ever truly yours to keep. You do not find what is indestructible in you by protecting yourself. You find it by discovering what remains after protection fails. What are you most afraid of losing, and have you ever asked whether that thing was truly you?" - Artist: Micah Ulrich #PyramidConsciousness #SriAurobindo https://blossom.primal.net/2df813a08b4b88e4af323c168eeb47abb4e083898b31d6a15e3b664f5805c81a.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/f935451d5de1b603ff5fe5441a1133fed048218d35ae036ed5af6fb3af622cb5.jpg This applies to adults also. #parenting #selftaught npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: Curiously Unusual Facts (Facebook) This really moved me. We need to respect all stages of life. I wish I had been much more attentive to some of my elders. "At 96, Clint Eastwood shattered our comfortable illusions about growing old, refusing to sugarcoat the harsh truth. In a recent speech, he explained how the body changes over time. Bones become less flexible, movements slow down, and bright light can bother the eyes. Even breathing can take more effort. And that was just the beginning. He brought his trademark grit to a topic most people prefer to avoid. He didn't offer comforting platitudes about senior years being full of endless serenity. Instead, he painted a stark, unflinching picture of what happens when a human being approaches a century of existence. "The light hurts your eyes, and even breathing can feel like hard work," Eastwood shared, describing the constant friction of a fading physical frame. "Your body just doesn't cooperate the way it used to, and every step requires a strategy." But as he pointed out, the structural decline of the skeleton and muscles is merely the surface of the issue. The real weight of extreme old age is emotional and psychological. Once you cross into your nineties, your social landscape undergoes a profound and often painful transformation. You look around and realize that the majority of the people who knew you when you were young, who shared your history, your inside jokes, and your life struggles, have vanished. The circle of familiar faces shrinks down to almost nothing, the phone stops ringing, and the pace of the days slows down to a crawl. The bitterest pill to swallow isn't the physical pain; it is the sudden absence of someone who genuinely wants to listen to you. When the present moment becomes quiet and isolated, the human mind naturally seeks refuge in the past. Eastwood explained that navigating through old memories isn't a sign of mental weakness, but a vital search for continuity. This is why older people frequently repeat the same anecdotes, adding minor details and revisiting old grounds over and over again. They aren't trying to boast or dominate the conversation. They do it to anchor themselves to a reality where they were active, loved, and relevant. "You find yourself repeating stories, adding details, not to convince anyone, but just to feel like you’re still connected to something," Eastwood admitted. "You try to pass things down to the younger generation, even when you can see the boredom in their eyes." We live in a culture that treats longevity like a trophy, congratulating people simply for surviving, while totally ignoring the crushing loneliness that accompanies that survival. We praise the shiny, the fast, and the hyper-connected, leaving absolutely no space for the slow, repetitive rhythm of the very old. Clint Eastwood may be a cinematic giant, but his words speak for every anonymous 90-year-old living down the street or sitting at our family dinner tables. They are the living libraries of our history, carrying stories that shaped the world we walk in today. When we choose to slow down, put away our distractions, and truly listen to them, something magical happens. We bridge the gap between generations. Ultimately, the wrinkles on their faces aren't just signs of aging—they are a beautiful roadmap of a life fully lived, and it is a privilege to sit by their side and listen to the journey. " #ClintEastwood #generationgap https://blossom.primal.net/2b90c77f7e51e385f48325fd458fbc538c33a419146223c671186ec1ea652eac.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/bcc9279046c663d81bf6562b8972ef30aa5c03fd8766a88da7a1d76c73a71e85.jpg #healthyboundaries npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Happy Fourth of July to those who understand the price of Freedom in all it's layered and complex meanings. https://blossom.primal.net/63fbb2989156a2b87a58a3bd1957dd30976d613db96678f72b71c4d0babc8018.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 credit: Pyramid Consciouness (Facebook) This is what Homer's Odyssey and Dante's work was about. "The higher you rise, the deeper you must have gone first. There is no exception to this law. Jung did not mean hell as a place of punishment. He meant it as the underworld of the psyche, everything rejected, buried, and denied. Every fear you have refused to name. Every wound you have covered instead of healing. Every part of yourself you decided was too ugly, too dangerous, or too shameful to claim as your own. Most people try to grow upward while ignoring what lies beneath them. They chase enlightenment, success, or peace without ever descending into the parts of themselves they have spent a lifetime avoiding. And so they stay small, reaching toward the light with roots too shallow to hold real height. The alchemists called this the nigredo, the blackening, the necessary descent into darkness before any true transformation can occur. You cannot skip this stage. You cannot bypass it with positivity or spiritual bypassing dressed as growth. The tree that reaches heaven does so precisely because its roots have gone where it is uncomfortable to look. This is not a metaphor for the weak-hearted. It is a law of the psyche, as real as gravity. What you refuse to face controls you from below. What you finally face becomes the foundation that lets you rise. The serpent wrapped around this tree is not the enemy of ascension. It is the guardian of it , the very thing that must be integrated, not defeated, before the branches can reach the sun. Your shadow is not what is wrong with you. It is the root system waiting to hold your growth." - Art: Bryan Proteau #PyramidConsciousness #CarlJung #ShadowWork https://blossom.primal.net/173246ec14f1ba26159becb92eeb221c0f7d187082c59a1f122b78932d89d0bf.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 of course--plants- yes! npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: We Arethe Medicine Circle (Facebook) https://blossom.primal.net/5ed0dffe8aa484b288f76ea856012b0fa794ca79b1700886805908c76c968612.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/54c60178f48d6b4f0a0a9a5b820dbbe7167d069f0346865be14d9804f74270fb.jpg #dragonflies npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/9ea345e0f4cc6db2f86417ddd948015f43418b8da9bfbddcc7572acee859525d.jpg #parenting #Chromebooks #apps npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/3e6f9a6091ff3612f42864b16a6a2a90d960c997de46342b911a876385074e43.jpg #detox npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/eab05c12e25ad2712986e2c9a942ca71c9ab684f3624caa4bffd9134a4a613bd.jpg #funny npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 “Any energy that you deny becomes a demon for you. It becomes your inner tormenter. And you don't get rid of your demons. You embrace them. Not indulge them, but embrace them. And if you embrace them in a way I am talking about, they no longer feel like demons. They are just energies that are available to you. They are just part of this whole spectrum of what it is to be conscious and alive and present. And everything becomes joined together back again. A mature emotional life is when all the different parts of yourself emotionally are joined back together. Nothing is put outside, nothing is denied, nothing is hidden. Nothing is unacknowledged. All brought together so that it can all come together.” ― Adyashanti Art • “Fallen Angel” by Michael C. Hayes https://blossom.primal.net/f5390fb118ca913374b00b9ac3a9a476bd47cdb65ea05f0977126db80c77686d.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/02a7dc389ab8cdd87a66bf38953316000c8100ddf4e4cc4cff4b64fbb2cac843.jpg #July #butterflies npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Credit: Guardians of Nature (Facebook) "The yard at ten o'clock this week doesn't sound like it did a month ago. The spring singers have gone quiet. A new cast took over. Here's who you're hearing. The daytime drone — dog-day cicadas. That rising-and-falling buzz in the heat of the afternoon, like a saw. These are the annual cicadas, out every single summer. The new night sound — katydids. A rasping "ch-ch-ch" starting now and building through August. You did not hear this in June. The steady pulse — tree crickets. A soft, even trill. The warmer the night, the faster they call. Low in the grass — field crickets. The chirp you've known your whole life. From the trees — gray treefrogs give a short, bird-like trill; green treefrogs, a nasal honk near water. Farther off — the barred owl still calls on summer nights, and a coyote chorus can rise after midnight. Go stand outside tonight. Pick out three. The setlist just turned over." #July #Nature https://blossom.primal.net/439432d754b66849a9bada4e9d7ebb77de7e4edcead0defa0d919960f6569a22.jpg npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 Of course you are right about that. npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 yes indeed npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 yup npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 https://blossom.primal.net/f980f4f33b3a811d91d3a2a6a3d60dc5308f572b0764fc38a97f0aadaf056b7c.jpg #medicalmafia npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 My ancestors are Irish and Blackfoot Indian npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 When and where you born? npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 No I don't smoke anything. I read all the philosophers not just Watts. npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 I do not smoke reefer. I tried and found that I was too sensative. It feels awful.--like being too drunk. npub1fh3jlejm86pfcjnmh240chzaqt9psczg6pzj96zk7k9v3z9zpv5qkcx8fc Rebjane63 I was around that time but I wasn't a hippie. 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