Introduction :
Day 1 : The Knowing That Is Within You…
Day 2 : Where Is This All Going…
- There are two paths…
Day 3 : What Next…
Day 4 : Letting the confusion be as it will…
Day 5. : This is not to be misunderstood, but you will…
Day 6. : Now you know what most don’t and yet…
Day 7. : The truth that you now know and what next…

There’s a lot of noise in the world, a lot of extra ‘stuff’ that is made to confuse the user. This site is the antithesis of that. You will see that the theme of simplification used well, will be one of the best pragmatic values you could use in your own life. We will speak more about this soon.

Introduction

Day 1 : The Knowing That Is Within You…

Everyday you have the most glorious conversation with your mind.

Thoughts come, thoughts go.

Someone within you is talking to you all of the time.

They may be a friend at times, a foe any other day, and yet they are always there with you.

All of these voices…

Who are they and what do they want?

It sounds like we are talking crazy doesn’t it?

Almost as if we are truly mentally ill, suffering a kind of schizophrenia.

It’s true that the mind goes running like this, telling you stories about the world around you.

It models the external reality and then runs it all in circles within your head, telling stories based on your beliefs, based on your memories, stories flying freely from the imagination.

But somehow in all of this there is knowing that is within you.

You may believe to be the voice of reason or the voice of your inner knowing.

Some people call it the field.

Other’s say it is the universe.

Perhaps you call it by your own name.

We are not talking about Gods and Goddesses or external entities.

I am talking about what you know to be true to you when you are allowing yourself to be quiet and without the noise of others, without the noise of distraction, without the craziness of external opinions, even those of your own.

You deep into your knowing are free.

The perfection of what you are is so perfect that it can be terrifying.

And yet…

Those of us willing to take the time to cultivate a relationship with ourselves come to understand that our best friend is actually our own self.

The wisdom that you are…

It’s impossible to know the depths that wisdom travels.

Yet it is in you.

The choice to be in a relationship with that reality is what we will pick up in tomorrow’s email.

Day 2 : Where Is This All Going…

Today we are going to take a dive into the contemplation about the two selves.

If you are familiar with my work you may have already come across this idea but if you have not and this idea is new to you, then I ask that you take a moment to allow for it to be possible that what I am sharing is true.

You may actually find it obvious.

But before we go into the two selves, let’s take a journey into the unknown, to see what might be possible for you once you take to the curiosity that we are indeed trapped in a kind of game, or nightmare for some.

I simply want to get you to see if what I am saying holds any truth for you.

The Truth…

We live within a rule set; we live in a world of rules.

There are physical constraints such as gravity and the force of impact, like falling from a tree and breaking your arm on the way down.

There are emotional rules, one of which I learned very young.

When someone or something dies that people care about you cry, but you don’t laugh or smile, even if that smile is a five year old who doesn’t understand what has happened.

That’s another story I will tell you about sometime in the future.

There are rules you obey that we all agree to, like, not running red lights or throwing fits in the middle of a restaurant during dinner.

I find that the rule of red lights doesn’t always hold true, and fits at lunch time seem much more likely to take place then while dining out in the evening.

Then there are all the rules you live by that you’ve unconsciously agreed to. These are the rules of ‘How Things In Life Are Supposed To Be’.

These rules are pernicious.

These are the rules that we explore in greater depth in (Get’Em)

Rules are not your friend, particularly because they are used to force you into behaving in ways that are completely unnatural to you.

Let me give you an example and it may seem silly but I promise you it is not and it caused me and I imagine ten if not hundreds of thousands of others immense suffering.

The rule : You have to be at school before, 8:00 a.m. or else you are considered tardy, late, and will be given an if you are late 3 or more times in a semester. You will then be suspended and forced to go to summer school. So you should prepare to miss your summer, or else show up on time.

Now, this supposedly simple demand that children have forced upon them is an utmost disgrace to the human being.

But it’s a rule that everyone follows unitl they realize they don’t have to. We’ll get there.

But first let’s explore the consequences and you tell me if it’s not a tragedy that people, children in this case are forced to fight against exhaustion day in and day out of basically 12 years and if you go to university, well it continues, and then if you want are the type of person who is inclined to find a ‘normal’ job, well it continues.

As adults, it’s our own fault, but for the child. Let’s look at that for a moment but not as a child of your own, but as you the child that you once were.

Some kids wake up early and are excited to get the day going. Some kids, god help them, can not seem to wake up on their own, and then when they finally start getting up, it takes them an hour to get moving. Now…

This later group, generally is under slept, tired because they stayed up too late, possibly because their cycle is one that exists naturally for them and they’re too young to realize you can drink a whisky or a glass of wine or pop a pill to create a false tiredness.

This later group, the tardies, well, think about how much suffering they had been forced to endure.

They show up to school finally waking up a little bit, then they sit down in a class room and are now forced to go back to sleep by the sheer boredom of sitting in a classroom.

After spending three periods of school nodding in and out, they are finally awake.

Now imagine that I am exaggerating, and they are only feeling that way, say 2 days out of the week, that’s still 2/5ths of the week or 8 days per month of school stuck in a daze of underslept states of mind.

It may seem silly at first, but when you begin to realize the extent of being tired does to cognitive ability and when you start to add up the compounding effect of getting further and further behind, of having to work harder to keep up, only to further exhaust yourself, you start to understand the madness of this one rule, that everyone has to start their morning at school at the same time.

I can not tell you how wonderful it was to get kicked out of my first hour class where I was a teacher’s assistant for a racist p.e. teacher, who 5 years after I graduated was busted for sleeping with his students. That’s another unfortunate story.

The next semester I had enough credits to skip the first two hours of the day.

My energy was amazing and my life, well I was still a confused teenager, but the freedom was unforgettable.

You may think I am being a little bit absurd here, but take what is being stated here, that we are all living by a set of rules that have apparent rewards and punishments for being followed.

In my case, the punishment became a reward, and the reward, well I still didn’t realize what I had going for myself.

Because I carried the ‘normal’ way of going to school into university.

However…

The year I finally had enough of trying to do what you are supposed to do, namely, “take the classes you are supposed to, at the given times, and the given days they are available,” and instead threw it all away and started doing university on my own rules, such as, “I will only take classes that start after 12:00. And I will only take classes that look interesting to me, even if they don’t fulfill a requirement for graduation. And…

I will take as many classes as I want to.”

Everything changed, my GPA went the highest it’s every gone, my interest in learning unfolded exponentially, and strangely enough, it became easier to wake up earlier because I knew if I was tired I could sleep, and I was no longer trying to play a game of catching up with my exhaustion.

The rules changed because I was now dictating the game.

I was no longer playing for a degree as most everyone else I knew was.

I was playing a game of life long learning, of following my curiosity, of becoming a student of experience.

This was no longer an exercise preparing myself for the ‘real world’, this was the real world.

These examples I shared should startle you.

They may seem silly on the surface or tragic when understood how much pain we are causing ourselves and others by forcing ourselves to follow along without questioning why we simply follow along.

There are a gazillion examples of this, of people just doing what they do because they think that’s what you are supposed to do. It’s gross…

Now, I know I shared two examples that may have not been super obvious. You could draw out conclusions in a thousand different ways, but it’s not a game worth playing, the what might have been game.

The point is that we are all playing by someone else’s rules and most of us don’t realize it and even worse, we don’t see how detrimental it is to our well being and our quality of life.

Okay…

I’ve gone on too long.

My timer has gone off and it’s time to stretch my legs.

I will be back with you tomorrow.
Emeric Damian

p.s. There’s so many stories to share. I would love to share them with you but now is not the time. Perhaps someday sitting under the sun, while in the shade, the stories will flow forth and we will both be freer because of it.

Day 3 : What’s in the wind doesn’t want you to know…

They don’t want you to be free.

OMG…

LOL…

Did he say, “THEY”…

Lol, omg, he did…

“I did what?”

I did not understand these things when they came onto the scene.

I thought LOL meant lots of love and I still do.

OMG, always felt like someone having an orgasim; I still think it does.

Whips and chains would be so nice considering that I am not talking about the naughty pleasures, but the terrifying mind sucking, immensely horrific terror that we place ourselves in.

The world that doesn’t want you to be free.

So with LOL and OMG, we go into this next topic about your bondage and the THEY monster.

Now, I am going to skip all the political, social, religious, cultural explorations and diatribes, because they honestly never add to the conversation when it comes to freedom.

There are too many nuances, too many variables, for those topics to do anything but confuse the conversation.

That is not to say they aren’t interesting topics and worthy of a lifetime of study for those who are turned on by them, but for the lands we are walking they only stand in the way.

They are constructs and constructs by their very nature are restrictive if not used well.

But the crazy thing is, for them to be used well you have to play along with them.

To play along, you may feel as if you have to forfeit some part of yourself to the machine, to their ways.

You may be thinking, “Yeah, but it’s inevitable that I will have to.”

Yes it appears inevitable, but like spending a week in a shopping mall when you only need to be in and out in five minutes, you have options and choices to leave as soon as you get what you came for.

Of course if you are shopping for a bra, then a week may be needed. 😉

I haven’t worn a bra since…

Well, my sisters used to dress me when I was a wee bit of a child.

Time for a coffee and another walk.

In the next email we will discuss the grand “confusion”, if I can remember what the grand confusion actually is.

Ciao for now,
~ Emeric

Day 8 The Time Machine That Is Your Brain…

Subject : When the mind goes on holiday but forgets to tell you…

What was it we were speaking of last time we spoke?

Ah yes, life and how strange and wonderful it is.

When your mind and thoughts go on adventures that you didn’t agree to…

And you find yourself standing still looking in the mirror, asking the question, “where is all of this going?”.

Ah…

The questions we have about our existence.

The questions we have about what it means to live a beautiful, fulfilling life.

These questions…

Time to go on holiday.

Don’t you find it curious how much time we actually have and at the same time…

How often does it feel like the greatest challenge in life is to actually use our time ‘well’?

The challenge…

Here you are in the world, floating in the universe, with two gifts, the gift of your attention and the gift of time.

Both of which are not static, both of which are pliable and strangely enough, neither are real..

Ok…

I know you are probably thinking I am talking crazy now, time is definitely real, “I am a year older, yesterday is now today, and it’s 10:27 p.m. here on planet earth.”

“Speaking of planet earth, don’t you think it’s time you come back down to it?”

Nah…

There are benefits to living in the clouds, which I will share with you at another time, soon in fact.

But time is not real.

Do things change, yes.

But time, much of what we call time is more accurately, “perceived time”.

This is important and though it may seem a little far out, it will transform your life with wonder and mystery if you let it.

Perceived time basically means, we don’t see time as it actually is, but as we perceive it to be.

This is why time seems to go faster or slower in certain situations.

Por exemplo, (that’s Portuguese 😉 for example, when we are busy all day, the day is suddenly over and everyone asks, “Jeez, where did the day go Bobby?”

Famously, everyone knows, when they’re given a menial task that is boring and not so fulfilling that “This is taking forever…”

But there’s a another rare state, one that is missed by the talking heads of time, missed by most everyone who speaks on this topic.

And sense I am an expert on time, in my own mind, it is worth listening up to these next few words, as they very well might save your life.

Professor Thorpe says, “There is a quality to existence, that comes alive in each and every individual and it is available to you each and every moment of your life, including this moment within which you exist.

This quality of attention, called awareness to which I speak, must be cultivated if you are to **break free of false time**.

You see my little darlings, time collapses and expands upon the quality of your awareness and the level of your attention. Thus, you could spend an entire day in peace and tranquility, doing nothing much at all; yet, you are fully present with the day, and you will find that your day was long and gorgeous and you we’re in a state of joy, full of pleasure and ease, neither busy with busy nor bored with being.

Of course, most people are busy, busy, busy and then suddenly the day is gone, the week is gone, the month is gone, the year is gone, and then poof…

They are gone.

In truth most people live on one side of the spectrum of attention, mostly busy and distracted with unimportant trivial activities.

Some people are all over the place.

And some people have found that it really doesn’t matter, yet it actually does, but they aren’t interested in trying to convince people otherwise.

What this last group has discovered, is that there are things that matter in life and there are things people think matters in life that actually don’t.

Knowing the difference between the two, must mean something to you. Otherwise, you will never know what it means to you.”

Thank you Professor Thorpe.

Now…

Why is this important?

I don’t know why it would be important to you, or matter, for that matter.

That is something you have to discover for yourself.

But I will tell you this…

No, I am going to stop here, this has gone on for too long…

And you know we could converse all day, if we were to have a coffee in hand, while sitting on sunny terrace near the beach watching the tide come up, a breeze kissing the air as the songs of birds and beach breaks smooth away any despair…

Speaking of coffee, my timer has just gone off and that means my writing in this moment has come to an end for now.

And yes, I use a timer instead of a watch, instead of a clock. It’s one way to use time to create your own reality.

Your time or their time, which time do you prefer 😉

I tell you more tomorrow…

Coffee time,
Emeric Damian

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Introduction

Day 1 : The Knowing That Is Within You…

Day 2 : Where Is This All Going…

Day 3 : What’s in the wind doesn’t want you to know…

Day 8 The Time Machine That Is Your Brain…