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2026-09-09 14:29:42 CEST

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2026-09-08 13:14:52 CEST

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https://creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/finland-replaced-artificial-playground-surfaces-with-natural-materials-like-forest-soil-and-mud--and-the-results-stunned-even-researchers-

2026-09-07 13:37:58 CEST

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"5 days ago
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You have an emergency reset button built into the skin of your face and hardly anyone knows how to use it.
This mechanism is one of the fastest ways to lower your heart rate and reduce anxiety.
Seals, whales, and dolphins use a pronounced version of this. The moment their face touches water, their heart rate slows, allowing them to dive for longer periods of time.
The trigeminal nerve drives this function. It’s one of the largest nerves in your head, covering the entire surface of your face. Cold water touching your face, especially your forehead, eyes, nose, and upper cheeks, fires the nerve. The vagus nerve activates and flips on your parasympathetic nervous system, also known as rest and digest.
Parasympathetic response is where you want to be to feel calm, slow your heart, and reduce panic symptoms. Modern life does the opposite, keeping you stuck in fight or flight.
This action is called the mammalian dive reflex. Babies instinctively use this to hold their breath and slow their heart rate when submerged in water. We took my son for swimming lessons when he was 5-6 months old and at the end, we dunked our babies. Every one of them knew to hold their breath and not one of them cried.
The mammalian dive reflex is considered to be one of the most powerful autonomic reflexes in the human body.
I have my clients activate this as a first step for cold adaptation. Many report that it's more effective than coffee to start their day. I concur.
Other side effects include increased focus, less puffiness, tighter skin, and a healthy glow to your face, though temporary.
To get started:
1️⃣ Fill a bowl with ice water. You want the temp to be 59F/15C or colder. Colder water creates a stronger response. If you tend to be sensitive, start warmer and work your way down.
2️⃣ Hold your breath and submerge your face to your hairline. Do a total of 5 dunks. 30-60 second rest between. Work towards 30 seconds or more for the extra adventurous. Longer breath holds create a stronger response.
Have a towel on hand to dab your face in between dunks.
CAUTION: If you have heart issues or other health conditions, get medical clearance.
When used in the morning it increases alertness. Used at night it improves sleep. Add slow nasal breathing like Buteyko to extend the calm.
Experiment to see what works best for you." #ReduceAnxiety #IceWaterHack
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2026-09-06 13:30:03 CEST

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"In 2019, researchers in Utah tried something unusual to help restore degraded desert rivers.
They brought in beavers.
Master’s student Emma Doden and her team captured 47 “nuisance” beavers that were being removed from farms and other properties and relocated them to the Price and San Rafael Rivers.
The idea was simple.
Beavers are ecosystem engineers.
Their dams slow water down, create ponds and wetlands, and can make desert streams more complex and useful for fish and other wildlife.
But moving a beaver into the desert isn’t easy.
Many of the relocated animals moved far from where they were released, while others were killed by predators. Researchers found that survival and staying in the release areas were much lower for translocated beavers than for resident adults.
Still, the beavers that stayed began building and maintaining dams.
Researchers recorded more river reaches with beaver dams after the translocations than before, suggesting the animals could contribute to restoration even when the experiment didn’t go exactly as planned.
The project is still a work in progress. Later research found that artificial beaver-dam structures did not significantly improve the survival or settlement of relocated beavers, showing just how difficult restoration can be in unpredictable desert rivers.
But the experiment demonstrated something important.
Sometimes restoring a damaged ecosystem doesn’t mean building everything yourself.
Sometimes you can bring back an animal that has been doing the work for thousands of years and let nature take it from there." #Beavers #Ecosystem
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2026-09-05 13:49:15 CEST

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2026-09-05 13:46:51 CEST

"One of the simplest ways to reset your vagus nerve and calm your nervous system is with your tongue. Stick it into your left cheek and hold for 10 seconds, then the right cheek for 10 seconds. I like to roll it around gently, this often triggers a deep sigh, signalling a vagus reset. You may also yawn or notice other subtle releases. Do 4–5 sets. This moves both the vagus and hypoglossal nerves, which are tightly connected in autonomic communication." -Anthony Goldsmith (Facebook) #VagusNerve #Tongue #NervousSystemHack

2026-09-05 13:43:37 CEST

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2026-09-05 13:38:20 CEST

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“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
John Muir - John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938.
Wang Long Sheng - Path to Home, 2004.
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2026-09-04 13:16:51 CEST

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2026-09-03 13:43:55 CEST

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2026-09-02 16:59:22 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/64e22ae11b29d4a1f874f5ef705fe598ec68d0a528acf4e3527e1fa52ad375bf.jpg On the receiving end--this is true for me.

2026-09-01 13:22:38 CEST

"The medical cartel
In 1860, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dean of Harvard Medical School, wrote
that if the whole of modern medicine, as then practised, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
He was not a fringe voice. He was the most senior medical academic in America.
And he was a visionary.
Because what he saw taking shape in his era the drift of medicine away from nature, away from the patient, away from genuine healing and toward the
management of symptoms for profit has since been industrialised beyond anything he could have imagined.
What we call modern medicine was not built organically from the pursuit of human health. It was deliberately constructed.
The Rockefeller family, whose fortune was built on petrochemicals, funded the Flexner Report in 1910 a document that systematically dismantled natural, holistic, and nutritional approaches to medicine and replaced them with a pharmaceutical-centric model that happened to be built on coal tar derivatives.
The medical schools that refused to comply lost their funding and closed. The ones that survived restructured their curricula around the new model.
That was not science. That was a cartel.
And it has operated as one ever since.
The suppression of knowledge about light and human health is one of the most consequential and least discussed casualties of that cartel. The relationship between sunlight, mitochondrial function, circadian biology, vitamin D synthesis, biophotonic communication within cells, and the prevention of virtually every chronic disease that now defines the modern health crisis, this knowledge exists. It is documented. It is reproducible.
And it generates no pharmaceutical revenue.
You cannot patent the sun. You cannot bill for grounding. You cannot build a subscription model around circadian alignment and organic food and the kind of deep, restorative contact with the natural world that human biology was designed for.
So it was sidelined. Quietly, systematically, and profitably replaced with interventions that treat the downstream consequences of a population deliberately disconnected from the conditions required for genuine health.
Big Pharma is not a science business.
It is a dependency business.
And the centralised medical system built around it.. the hospitals, the insurance architecture, the regulatory agencies captured by the industry they were created to “oversee” exists not to produce healthy people but to produce compliant patients." #BIGPharma #FlexnerReport #Rockereller #OliverWendellHolmes
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-----Kenny Carmody

2026-09-01 13:15:02 CEST

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2026-08-31 13:35:02 CEST

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2026-08-28 14:51:12 CEST

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"In 1849, Dostoevsky stood blindfolded before a firing squad, having already made peace with dying, when a rider arrived with news that the execution was called off. It had all been staged, a piece of psychological cruelty ordered by the Tsar himself. Hours later, still shaking from it, he sat down and wrote to his brother Mikhail.
The letter survives, and it's strange to read now, because you can feel a man trying to process something no framework he had was built to hold. He tells Mikhail not to grieve for him, that he isn't dejected, that he hasn't lost heart. Life, he writes, is a gift, life is happiness, every minute could have been an age of happiness. He says he understood this only now, at the edge of losing it entirely.
What gets me about the letter isn't the relief in it, though there's plenty of that. It's the specific thing he fixates on afterward: not vengeance against the state that staged his death, not despair at the four years of Siberian labor waiting for him instead, but a kind of frantic gratitude that reads almost like a man trying to convince himself as much as his brother. He asks Mikhail to send him books. He worries about missing his family. He talks about the future like a person suddenly aware that he'd been sleepwalking through the concept of having one.
He carried this moment for the rest of his life, wrote condemned men into his fiction again and again, characters facing the exact wall he'd faced, because you don't really get to set an experience like that down once you've had it. The letter is the first draft of everything he'd spend the next three decades writing about: guilt, mercy, the specific vertigo of a mind confronting its own ending and then, without warning, being handed its life back." #Dostoevsky
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2026-08-28 14:43:01 CEST

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"Farmers in Japan are using specially colored insect nets as another way to control agricultural pests without relying entirely on insecticides.
The technology is based on how insects see and respond to color. Researchers have developed red-colored nets that can interfere with the visual cues used by certain small pests, including onion thrips, making it more difficult for them to enter crops. Unlike conventional insect nets, the effect is not based only on the size of the mesh. It also relies on the insects’ visual responses to the colored material.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo tested red nets on Welsh onions and found that they reduced the invasion and damage caused by onion thrips. Field experiments showed that the use of red nets could reduce the number of insecticide applications by approximately 25 to 50 percent while maintaining commercially acceptable crops.
The approach does not work equally well against every pest. Earlier Japanese field research, for example, found that red nets were effective against some thrips but provided little additional benefit against certain whiteflies beyond the physical protection provided by the mesh itself.
Other Japanese agricultural researchers have also experimented with using color and visual patterns to influence pest behavior. Yellow trapping sheets with specific edge patterns have been developed to attract and capture whiteflies and other small agricultural pests.
These methods are part of a broader approach to integrated pest management, where physical barriers, biological controls and targeted pesticide use can be combined rather than relying exclusively on chemical sprays." #GardeningHacks
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2026-08-24 13:55:30 CEST

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“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]
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2026-08-22 13:45:33 CEST

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2026-08-22 13:43:31 CEST

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"The hardest person to question is often ourselves. We can demand evidence from everyone else while quietly making exceptions for the beliefs, fears, ambitions, and assumptions we desperately want to be true. Self-deception rarely feels like lying; it feels like rationalizing. We select the evidence that comforts us, explain away what threatens us, and call the result “what I believe.” Feynman's warning is therefore less about intelligence than intellectual honesty. The real test of a thinking person is not how confidently they defend their conclusions, but whether they are willing to discover that they might be wrong." #questioneveryting
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2026-08-19 00:59:57 CEST

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2026-08-12 13:47:36 CEST

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2026-07-29 15:58:04 CEST

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2026-07-27 13:58:58 CEST

"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)
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2026-07-25 13:45:23 CEST

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2026-07-23 13:53:16 CEST

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2026-07-21 15:07:56 CEST

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2026-07-21 14:38:22 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/ed33988b5fef7c34b400235c928fab24cf3d0e89fc98edaa968c89cbf8ecdefa.jpg I've noticed this

2026-07-21 13:46:40 CEST

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2026-07-21 13:45:35 CEST

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“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
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2026-07-19 13:46:39 CEST

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2026-07-18 14:02:55 CEST

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.
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2026-07-18 13:42:56 CEST

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“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
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2026-07-16 15:39:37 CEST

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"Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognise him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second-grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations." #nature #Entomology
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2026-07-16 15:06:17 CEST

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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/

2026-07-16 14:09:09 CEST

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“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
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2026-07-16 13:56:46 CEST

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2026-07-07 16:06:28 CEST

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"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."
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Art: Lena Macka
#PyramidConsciousness #Stoicism #BhagavadGita #Alchemy #Consciousness
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2026-07-07 15:57:44 CEST

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"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?"
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Artist: Micah Ulrich
#PyramidConsciousness #SriAurobindo
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2026-07-06 14:15:37 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/f935451d5de1b603ff5fe5441a1133fed048218d35ae036ed5af6fb3af622cb5.jpg This applies to adults also. #parenting #selftaught

2026-07-05 16:01:07 CEST

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
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2026-07-05 15:04:28 CEST

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2026-07-04 19:23:56 CEST

Happy Fourth of July to those who understand the price of Freedom in all it's layered and complex meanings.
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2026-07-04 15:54:06 CEST

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."
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Art: Bryan Proteau
#PyramidConsciousness #CarlJung #ShadowWork
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2026-07-04 15:04:04 CEST

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of course--plants- yes!

2026-07-04 14:31:06 CEST

Credit: We Arethe Medicine Circle (Facebook)
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2026-07-04 14:26:36 CEST

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2026-07-04 14:14:37 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/9ea345e0f4cc6db2f86417ddd948015f43418b8da9bfbddcc7572acee859525d.jpg #parenting #Chromebooks #apps

2026-07-04 14:02:09 CEST

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2026-07-04 13:46:00 CEST

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2026-07-03 15:00:54 CEST

“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
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2026-07-03 14:03:41 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/02a7dc389ab8cdd87a66bf38953316000c8100ddf4e4cc4cff4b64fbb2cac843.jpg #July #butterflies

2026-07-02 14:20:22 CEST

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
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2026-07-02 13:38:51 CEST

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Of course you are right about that.

2026-07-01 18:47:02 CEST

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yes indeed

2026-07-01 18:34:47 CEST

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yup

2026-07-01 18:20:43 CEST

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2026-06-29 18:46:18 CEST

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My ancestors are Irish and Blackfoot Indian

2026-06-29 18:01:40 CEST

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When and where you born?

2026-06-29 16:27:19 CEST

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No I don't smoke anything. I read all the philosophers not just Watts.

2026-06-29 16:26:08 CEST

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I do not smoke reefer. I tried and found that I was too sensative. It feels awful.--like being too drunk.

2026-06-29 15:56:03 CEST

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I was around that time but I wasn't a hippie. I was a girl scout, budding artist and nature lover- as a child of the 60s.

2026-06-29 14:52:36 CEST

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2026-06-29 14:47:40 CEST

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2026-06-29 14:34:15 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/51882a28770640514d39071d519a45140d0aea623467294a1263a735d8dc55bc.jpg https://apnews.com/article/vermont-paraquat-ban-pesticide-parkinsons-disease-f4c363e1ac7f702a5223548a1eedfd2d #paraquatban #Vermont

2026-06-28 15:57:52 CEST

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2026-06-28 15:16:21 CEST

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2026-06-28 14:40:45 CEST

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2026-06-27 15:13:23 CEST

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2026-06-27 14:35:29 CEST

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2026-06-27 14:20:21 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/297dc1b4f88700a4b0be650bc1fd8f19aa0a54b65808e435eb9027dbd5bd9ff0.jpg #Monarch #Viceroy #nature #butterflies

2026-06-26 15:03:56 CEST

Credit: J. Mike Fields
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2026-06-26 15:03:24 CEST

Credit J. Mike Fields

2026-06-26 14:55:59 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/bffa3303a783230ab9e3bdb29011403e1a75d810b12e9acb4abefcfd7a39f368.jpg #Monsanto #detox

2026-06-26 14:49:41 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/b9325cfa025e95168c713771e665a7ede17d78e446364f4dd1514ee027baef2f.jpg #nature

2026-06-26 14:12:14 CEST

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2026-06-26 00:59:24 CEST

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I've kept journals for 40 years--never stopped

2026-06-25 17:48:04 CEST

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I agree

2026-06-25 15:45:16 CEST

Van der Weel, F. R. R., & Van der Meer, A. L. H. (2024). Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: A high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1219945.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219945
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2026-06-25 15:08:15 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/ab27ad73013b4edfdf38d05694e57c04a41a33cf9d932dd06e86d9da42d6f2e0.jpg #AlanWatts

2026-06-25 12:29:30 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/a5c85dd61c6976c3e3b52f388dd3388a08eef7e5e8a17fee8619daa73079b9e6.jpg #parenting

2026-06-24 16:55:37 CEST

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=849214548043497 #motorlessrefridgerator #WOW #coolinghack #offgrid

2026-06-24 14:09:19 CEST

https://rupertsheldrake.substack.com/p/looking-at-paintings-with-one-eye#poll-633653 #art #perspective #RupertSheldrake

2026-06-23 16:38:43 CEST

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yup

2026-06-23 16:08:18 CEST

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2026-06-23 15:53:03 CEST

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good one! 😅

2026-06-23 15:51:23 CEST

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2026-06-22 13:41:47 CEST

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2026-06-22 13:30:52 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/b62541f46ecf5eac742ce577cd52945ae84bf5a441136d692b8bf57c14cf326c.jpg #trees #health #nature

2026-06-21 15:17:14 CEST

"This is the solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year’s threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath, the door
of a vanished house left ajar..."
~ Margaret Atwood
Art: Elin Manon
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2026-06-20 14:09:54 CEST

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Organic prunes! Perfect--eat them with pleasure.

2026-06-20 13:51:14 CEST

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2026-06-20 13:20:33 CEST

Credit: Pyramid Consciosness
"Dante did not write the Inferno as a horror story. He wrote it as a map.
The Divine Comedy begins in darkness, in a forest, at midpoint of life, completely lost. Before Dante can ascend through Paradise, he must first descend through every circle of hell. This was not an accident of narrative structure. It was the teaching. The journey upward is only available to the one who has first gone all the way down. There is no shortcut that bypasses the descent and arrives at the light. Virgil does not lead Dante around the underworld. He leads him through it.
Every tradition that has mapped the inner journey has placed this same requirement at its center. The alchemical process begins with the nigredo, the blackening, the stage of putrefaction in which everything the ego has constructed is dissolved. The Sufi path requires the annihilation of the self before union with the divine becomes possible. The shamanic initiation across cultures involves a symbolic death, the dismemberment of the old self, before the healer can return with the capacity to heal others. Jung called this the night sea journey, the descent into the unconscious that precedes genuine transformation.
The reason most people do not reach paradise is not that they are incapable of it. It is that they are unwilling to begin in hell. They want the ascent without the descent, the light without the darkness, the resolution without the suffering that makes resolution possible.
Hell, in Dante’s framework, is not punishment. It is the honest confrontation with what is. The souls in the Inferno are not there arbitrarily, they are experiencing the full reality of the choices they made in life. To walk through hell is to see clearly. And clarity, however painful, is the beginning of every genuine ascent.
The path does not avoid the darkness. The path goes through it.
What descent have you been refusing to make, and what might be waiting for you on the other side of it?"
#PyramidConsciousness #Dante
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2026-06-20 13:18:18 CEST

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2026-06-19 16:23:02 CEST

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So Beautiful

2026-06-19 16:07:59 CEST

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I just did a search--Wow! You live in heaven.

2026-06-19 15:55:15 CEST

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Baltimore County, Maryland USA

2026-06-19 15:54:17 CEST

Credit: Thefarmacyreal (Facebook)
"A peer-reviewed study published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science revealed that two out of three dogs diagnosed with certain types of cancer (e.g. lymphoma) had been exposed to benzene at DNA-damaging, genotoxic levels. The research proved that the volatile organic compound (VOC) Benzene is directly genotoxic to canine lymphoid cells, causing measurable DNA strand breaks and oxidative damage that often precede a formal cancer diagnosis. Because dogs live closer to the ground where heavy chemical vapors naturally settle, breathe faster than humans, and frequently lick their paws, they are uniquely vulnerable to absorbing these invisible environmental toxins.
In everyday environments, both humans and animals are exposed to benzene primary by breathing contaminated indoor air, or through accidental skin contact. In the home, benzene is continuously released by common items such as household cleaners, synthetic air fresheners, scented candles, paints, glues, and emissions from gas stoves or tobacco smoke. It also enters the household via manufactured personal care products—like contaminated aerosol dry shampoos or deodorants—and outdoor tracking of gasoline fumes, motor vehicle exhaust and industrial pollution.
Once absorbed, benzene undergoes metabolic activation in the liver and moves into the bone marrow, where it acts as a known carcinogen for both species. Chronic exposure causes severe hematological damage, including bone marrow suppression, a depleted immune system, and an increased risk of blood-related malignancies like leukemia in humans and malignant lymphoma in dogs.
Check out the comments section for the full effects of Benzene on humans and animals and a list of brands of cleaning supplies that are benzene, xylene and formaldehyde free! ❤️
SEE PMID: 42052348"
#detox #pets
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2026-06-19 15:50:08 CEST

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2026-06-19 15:42:00 CEST

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That explains it.

2026-06-19 15:20:53 CEST

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Are you of both Italian and German heritage?