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yes I would like to join you on your pirating adventures! and I too would like to spiral into control once in a while

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This morning a few times the thought has come up for me about how to design a new life. It started with the channelled messages and was present for me while I was looking at some other things too. So it feels like a thing to mention here.

One of the spiritual guides who helped me many years ago pointed out that if you look at how your life is and magnify the things you like and reduce the things you don't like, then your new life will be more or less the same. Instead, she suggested, start with a blank slate. Or if you prefer to upgrade to multi-colour pens and marker boards, a blank white board.

Design things the way you would have them be if you could have anything you want. Don't worry about how you get to what you want, how it progresses from where you are. Maybe it doesn't do that. Maybe the life you want manifests when you declare what you actually want. Maybe there doesn't look like there is any path to that way of living because the life you have been living has been designed by someone else, or by "programming" or by the incantations and repetitions of others. If you aren't sure why you are afraid of something, maybe it isn't your fear. If how you've been told to live and feel are things that don't make sense, maybe they aren't from within you.

I think this set of ideas about design is powerful. Might get cute and write a whole "long form post" here on Substackistan about it later.

Gotta say, "long form post" seems a bit odd. You know what happens in Anno Domini 2080? Among many other things (hey, it's gonna be a whole year, right?) we get to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Montaigne publishing the first book of his Essays. Dozens of them. Took years to write. Takes some people hours to read. It is strange to me that Substackistan feels like it has to have "long form post" when I hit the plus button on the app, and then when I am on my dashboard it has "text post" in contrast to other sorts of posts. Like, can't you just say "essay"? It has been nearly 500 years. idgi

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