🌀🐇 #22: lucid dreaming breakthrough, 360 view of Mars, productive conver sations

​ ​ ​ ⚡️ Enlightening Bolts Can't miss gems of the weird and wonderful 😴Lucid Dreaming Breakthrough: Scientists break through the wall of sleep to the untapped world of dreams by establishing 2-way communication with dreamers. [Read more here.](=)​ 🐲Same Energy: A visual search engine that harnesses AI to show you a library of images that have, you guessed it, the same energy. [Try it here.]()​ 📻Radio Garden: Explore the world by listening to radio stations organized as points on a globe. [Listen here.]()​ ☄️360 View From Mars: Move around a panoramic video sent to us from the Mars Perseverance Lander. [Watch it here.](=)​ 🗣Guidelines For Quality Dialogue: Principles for productive conversation in a world fueled by outrage. [Read them here.]()​ 🎇 Image of The Week ​ "This image shows Jupiter’s south pole, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers). The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) in diameter." 🔗 The Social Fabric Many people say they want to "make the world a better place." This is a beautiful desire. But so often people pursue this future in a way that's disconnected from their now. They have a grand, almost utopian, vision of how the world could be. People will start businesses, write books, and build movements to bring about the change they wish to see. All the while being disconnected from how they could live from their vision. People focus on fixing society in an abstract sense while completely neglecting the social fabric around them. If you want to make the world a better place, it's okay to have a vision of a possible future. But don't let its beauty blind you from all the ways you could begin seeding that world in the lives of those around you today. Notice the people who flow in and out of your experience. Who could use some extra kindness? Who needs a call or text? What's something you could do that would be extraordinarily helpful that could restore someone's faith in humanity? Strands of the future we wish to inhabit can be woven today if we properly attend to the social fabric around us. 🤔 A Certain Number of Times Enjoy this timeless reminder from Paul Bowles: “Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.” 🤓 Learn This Words Metacosm: 1. A system that encompasses cosmos systems (macrocosm, mesocosm, microcosm). 2. A transcendent field of higher forces beyond the macrocosm (created world). 3. A manifestation of God. ⏳ From The Archives A hand-picked classic HighExistence article ​[Embrace Your Personal Apocalypse if You Want to Evolve as an Artist and Human Being](​ Western society tends to offer recognition based on results rather than efforts. We frequently overlook the toils undertaken on the way to greatness, as we stare up at some Iconic Successful Artist with a mixture of admiration, aspiration, and despair. It’s easy to ignore the investigation into Iconic Successful Artist’s journey, when what they’re presenting us with now is just so goddamn impressive. The thing is, almost all artists, creators, and pioneers will proffer the same fundamental message regarding sacrifice for success: the value is entrenched in the process, and oftentimes coming undone is a vital part of the story. We’re all too familiar with the tortured artist archetype, and many claim that breakdown and beauty go hand in hand. In spite of this, we quite often exercise resistance towards actually experiencing the breakdown for ourselves. Netflix, beer, self-help books, ayahuasca – the abyss of band-aids for our perpetual bullet wounds runs deep, helping us at any time of day or night to find the answers, avoid the answers, or just. feel. better. But in the midst of all this ‘doing,’ are we missing out on a potentially crucial aspect of our development? ​[Keep Reading](​ 🎬 Endnote and Invitation We hope you enjoyed this issue of Down The Rabbit Hole. Feel free to reply and tell us what you think. Share this with a friend and brighten up their day. Simply click forward and send it their way. We'll love you for it too. :) With Wonder, Mike Slavin & The HighExistence Team P.S. Did a friend forward you this email? Read previous issues and sign-up to receive future issues here: [(​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​[Unsubscribe]( | [Update your profile]( | 40 E. Main St. #1137, Newark, DE 19711 [Built with ConvertKit]()