AMA with Hannah Aline Taylor. Wednesday 2/4 at 4:00 PM CT
love, boundaries, and mistakes in relating, community, and peopling together (+ thank god love doesn’t look like you expect it to)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNYNL05PRBQAMA with Hannah Aline Taylor. Wednesday 2/4 at 4:00 PM CT
love, boundaries, and mistakes in relating, community, and peopling together (+ thank god love doesn’t look like you expect it to)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNYNL05PRBQThe concept of this app sounds promising. Do you think the internet can be a place for deep and meaningful conversations in this day and age?
Metamodern Love . I am at the airport passing into the US to hold the Fall Metamodern Spirituality Lab (on Love) at Sky Meadow in Vermont. My hunch is that a lot of what a platform like this one should do is exchange what we're doing, where we are, who we're with, etc. and not just our ideas and responses to things. So here's a nod in that direction.
https://laymanpascal.substack.com/p/metamodern-loveDating is over.
discuss...
What men wish women understood about men. This has been trigger a lot LOLs and ROFLs in my group chats. It's obviously over-the-top dramatic with the music and tone and hyperbolic "10,000x" language but it did make me think how much "burden" is kept when you don't talk about things. I think that's the basic premise, woman share their burdens and men keep them to themselves. It certainly tracks for me.
https://x.com/chriswillx/status/1957789651621523918?s=46Have you heard the controversy surrounding Sabrina Carpenter's new album? For a taste, check out this article on the album art or this twitter thread.
What do you think of Carpenter's work, the public's reaction? Does it even matter?
Trump, Stargate, and Vaccines for Cancer. I'm cringing reading articles and seeing videos showing Trump, Sam Altman, and Larry Ellison speaking about using A.I. to develop vaccines for cancer.
I have something I call "The Farmer's Market rule." I spoke about this on the Vendy podcast with Jordan. It is a metaphor for working with coaches, facilitators, and wellbeing practitioners.
When I go to the farmers market, I don't just look at the food people are selling.. I also look at the people selling the food.
I ask myself, "Do I want to look like this person who is selling me this food?"
I do the same for facilitators, trainers, and Wellbeing practitioners: "Does this person live in a way I want to embody more fully in my life?"
I would not go to Altman, Trump, or Ellison for Wellbeing guidance + wisdom. Maybe for advice and wisdom in other domains and themes.
We really need leaders who are embodying Wellbeing to lead our planetary and national wellbeing initiatives. I cringe when I see people who I judge as disembodied pioneering these explorations. It feels like a recipe for disaster with the possibility to cause a lot of harm to a lot of people.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-mrna-vaccine-cure-cancer-ai-2018701Experiment: How is whatever's happening serving the greater good? If we zoom out long enough, we can often see that massive setbacks created foundations for evolution. Eg:
What’s a thing in the world that you don’t like right now, and think is a huge step backward, that might also be a step forward? How so?
By design, this is an unverifiable experiment from a third person perspective. Since we can keep zooming out + everything is interconnected, we’ll probably never know for sure, even if we live for thousands of years.
But by design, this is verifiable from a first person perspective: Does your experience improve or change in any way by the experiment? How so?
(note that this doesn't ask you to deny any suffering—such as the horror of the oxygenation event's great extinction, or stop trying to make things better. Like everything, this perspective can be misused. "Everything happens for a reason" is usually dismissive, "if there were a reason for this in the long run, what might it be?" is additive. Like allowing versus expressing, it's not about bypassing the difficulty but rather creating a larger container for it. Freedom comes through acceptance rather than resistance.)
#TTT
Led a Huachuma Circle yesterday for my birthday. Yesterday I had a 9-hour birthday party together with my friend K
who is a plant medicine facilitator. This is our second foray into altered-states facilitation, and once again we proved correct the thesis that group trips and Relatefulness are a great combo.
It’s hard to pin down what exactly the Huachuma was doing, but it led to a circle that was beautifully stably multi-threaded. There were 4 or 5 threads, and people were very confident staying in theirs, paying attention to the thing they were with, and the people they were with. At times there were multiple people crying, each in their own thing, each with other people attuning to them. The threads would recur as wanted, without anyone needing to direct the flow, channel to streams to be more rational, or more held
.
At one point K said We can have multiple threads at the same time
, and I told him, I think you said that for yourself. They all already got it
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Oppress me. Is it possible? Can you oppress me right now?
Context:
The guy I’m dating (Ken) had said he was frustrated with the Austin School District teachers that he’s teaching Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to because they were all giving wrong answers to the question, Who is the oppressor in your classroom?
According to Ken, and apparently according to the book the teachers had been assigned to read, the oppressor in a classroom is the teacher.
Last night I was telling my friend Arun about it and he said Oppress me! Right now!
All of this post is rooted in my discomfort with the premise that all teachers are oppressors in their classrooms. I can see the roots of truth of it, but making that its own conclusion point looks wildly flawed to me.
We launched a system where the AI bots can automatically detect intervention points. We need you to make a bunch of comments and new posts to see if they'll engage. So this week we're asking you to engage a bunch, if you can!
It's a little rudimentary at the moment so sometimes you'll get multiple bots responding on multiple posts. We'd love your feedback on which ones you like, don't, when it seemed to miss the spot, anything else you notice.
Thanks and love yall
J (and the UpTrust team)
p.s. this week I'm at an investor meeting so dara will be with you