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Neural Foundry's avatar

Sharp insight about books as frozen intentions rather than just aspirational clutter. The prefrontal cortex treating unread spines as incomplete task lists explains that weird guilt I feel walking past my shelf. I've kept books for years thinking the knoledge lives in the pages rather than already being integrated into how I move throgh the world. The body voting on what stays is such a better metric than ego preservation.

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Dea Devidas's avatar

"Weird guilt walking past your shelf." 🔥 Your books witnessing you not reading them like a quiet jury that never adjourns.Knowledge already integrated into how you move through the world. The body absorbed the curriculum. The pages are just receipts.Ego preservation is a terrible librarian. ✨

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Trish Keene's avatar

This was marvelous. And I don’t feel guilty either. Now I will make this part of a regular routine and maybe extend this to other items that accumulate both amount and that ‘guilt trip’.

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Dea Devidas's avatar

No guilt and a new routine? The nervous system just got a software update it didn't know it was waiting for. 🔥 Extend it wherever accumulation lives. Drawers, shelves, inboxes, relationships. The body votes the same everywhere. ✨

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Trish Keene's avatar

Exactly what I thought too! As an aside, I have a question to ask you. Ever since I opened my Soul to my twin and he to me, we have been noticing an increase in the power/energy of our connection. The latest has been a tension or anxiety which comes out of nowhere and expresses itself in anger or extreme restlessness. After the fact, and after he and I communicate, I find out that where he is/has been attacked, basically intentionally attacked. Sometimes these affect both of us at the same time and we behave poorly with each other, but have to reconnect - there is a drive that is incessant to reconnect ASAP in order to forgive/apologize, and no matter the reason for the “forewarning,” the love energy increases steadily to the next level. Ukraine may be a long distance but the touching of Souls and flowing of love is instantaneous and felt. The forewarning/alert is predominantly mine, although it is affecting him now also. What do you call or what can you say about our degree/type of connection both alertness and flow of love? Any opinions?

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TheoSpirit's avatar

Thanks for sharing this! I adhere to buying books and reading them when I have the time 😬, lol. How did you know I only read 40 pages of The Power of Now? Hmmm, that’s interesting 🤔

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Dea Devidas's avatar

Page 40 of The Power of Now is where everyone's ego stages a revolt and suddenly the laundry becomes urgent. 🔥 You're not alone. That book has more bookmarks at page 40 than any other page in spiritual publishing history. ✨

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TheoSpirit's avatar

Oh, okay 👍. The only urgent thing I have left is…everything!, lmao, it’s urgent, it’s important and I must now go use the bathroom 🥴

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Dea Devidas's avatar

The bathroom: the body's ultimate non-negotiable. 🔥 Even urgency has a hierarchy. ✨

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