Dude.

Slow down.
Pay attention.
Be present.

Or, as this guy aptly put it…

Now is now, are you going to be here or not?

Ram Dass

Side note, and way off the path here… I’m not a huge fan of Ram Dass… actually, I don’t know his work well enough to know whether I am or not; regardless, some of his one-liners hit the nail on the head.

Just, you know, in case you noticed, I had quoted him a half dozen times thus far… or, maybe that wasn’t the path you took to get here, in that case, carry on.

You may have also noticed (if you’ve read through more than a couple of pages thus far) that there seem to be several themes at play here within the design and the content, and the way it’s being displayed.

Contrary to popular belief, and partly because I tend to do what I’m told I shouldn’t, this site and its pieces won’t be neatly themed one very simplistic way “cause that’s the way it needs to be!” Pass. Fuck that. I do what I want. I’ve taken “creative license” with all of it. Spellin too…

For example, you may have noticed that certain types of pages are themed differently, with different backgrounds and layouts; sometimes, the writing is in the first person; other times, it’s in the second or third, and that one time in the seventeenth person…

There’s a lot going on here, and it may take you a trip or two to get your bearings before it’s an easy stroll through the garden, as Shawn would say… anywho…

Some pages have no navigation and are literally “linear paths” that only lead you to one eventual outcome, while other pages not only have navigation but are filled with links that’ll transport your ass all over the place.

What follows may feel like “being dropped into someone’s dream” for a minute… stay close; it’ll make sense shortly.

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Now’s probably as good a time as any… (this (DIG, and its pieces), is, in the deeply insightful and extraordinarily self-aware words of Tommy Shelby…)

I know what this is… it’s just myself talkin to myself about myself...

Thomas

…this is me…

…figuring it out so I can explain it to myself in ways that demonstrate not only that I know it, but that I understand it… well enough that I can apply “It” at will.

As that is the difference between knowing and know-how… knowing how and doing it while being aware that you are doing it… ya know, having an actual understanding.

So I can deal with it (myself, the world, myself be-ing in the world)…

And bend it to my own will and make it as I would have it if only it were up to me to choose.

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What we want is a feeling.

On the surface, and in the present moment when we are experiencing our life or after the fact/event, when we are experiencing ourselves while recounting that experience.

Duh, we want to feel good… great… amazing… mostly… many of us also secretly like the pain, the torment, the anger, and sadness…

It all serves a purpose in our game. Actually, they all serve several, if not many, purposes.

Suffice it to say it all serves a purpose.

Everything you want is because you think you will feel better in the having of it

A. Hicks

She/He/Them/Whatever also said, “Never mind what is. Imagine it the way you want it to be so that your vibration is a match to your desire” – which is a good one, and pay no mind to the implication or the woo-ness of the language above if it doesn’t sit well, or quite right with you…

We dive into the languaging of it all in a few pages, which ought to provide the appropriate context…

We’re all mad here (and fuckin’ weird too.)