Don't Miss It 🌀🐇 #93 dream yoga, many selves, flower in space

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[Read it here.]()​ 🎧 HighExistence Podcast: A grounded guide to channelling, psychedelic facilitation and figuring out what you are here to do w/ Cris Beasley. [Listen here.](​ 🤖 Creation of Adam Expanded: Check out this mind-blowing AI-generated art that starts with Michelangelo's masterpiece and sprawls out into otherworldly, eye-popping patterns. [See it here.]()​ 🎇 Image of The Week ​ You're looking at one of the first flowers ever grown in space. It's a blossoming orange zinnia flower grown in NASA's veggie chamber aboard the International Space Station. 🌟 A Starring Role “Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.” — Roy T. Bennett It can feel like there are people the universe had in its crosshairs for us since the moment we were born. Shot out of a cannon into a lifestream that gained enough momentum until bang — we hit the target. A collision course that feels like it was agreed upon with a handshake in some astral realm beyond this world. You don’t need to believe that story to know the kind of significant encounters I’m talking about. Sometimes people show up in our lives and the things that we say or do make a huge difference for them. None of the impact needs to emerge from a place of willfully intending to make a difference in a person’s life. Our choices can reflect who and how they are being in the world in a clearer mirror than has ever been presented to them before. Sometimes we do that by leaving behind treatment we no longer feel we deserve. We pack up our bags and claw through the dirt until we find fertile ground for a new harvest. Other times we do it through staying put as we weather hurricane-force winds. We can be the person holding the candlelight at the end of the cave, the first face they see on the other side of their dark night of the soul. Both have their place and both are significant gifts. Remember that simply as a byproduct of being on this earth you serve a starring role in the stories of others. You're a main character meaningfully advancing the plot. Your contribution matters. 📖 Story and Artistry Enjoy these eye-opening words from John Yorke: "The shape of all stories: the enduring pattern of how someone is found by being lost. All tales, then, are at some level a journey into the woods to find the missing part of us, to retrieve it and make ourselves whole." "There’s no doubt that for many those rules help. Friedrich Engels put it pithily: “Freedom is the recognition of necessity.” A piano played without knowledge of time and key soon becomes wearisome to listen to; following the conventions of form didn’t inhibit Beethoven, Mozart, and Shostakovich. Even if you’re going to break rules (and why shouldn’t you?) you have to have a solid grounding in them first. The modernist pioneers—Abstract Impressionists, Cubists, Surrealists, and Futurists—all were masters of figurative painting before they shattered the form. They had to know their restrictions before they could transcend them." 🤓 Learn This Word Domovoi: "A domovoi, which can be spelled domovoj or domovoy, is a house spirit in pre-Christian Slavic mythology, a being who lives in the hearth or behind the stove of a Slavic home and protects the inhabitants from harm. Attested from the sixth century CE, the domovoi sometimes appears as an old man or woman, and sometimes as a pig, bird, calf, or cat. In Slavic mythology, all peasant houses have a domovoi, who is the soul of one (or all) of the deceased members of the family, making the domovoi part of ancestor worship traditions. The domovoi lives in the hearth or behind the stove and householders took care to not disturb the smoldering remains of a fire to keep their ancestors from falling through the grate. When a family built a new house, the eldest would enter first, because the first to enter a new house was soon to die and become the domovoi. When the family moved from one house to another, they would rake out the fire and put the ashes into a jar and bring it with them, saying "Welcome, grandfather, to the new!" But if a house was abandoned, even if it was burned to the ground, the domovoi remained behind, to reject or accept the next occupants." [Read more here.](=)​ ⏳ From The Archives A hand-picked classic HighExistence article. ​[Dream Yoga: The Ancient Practice of Using Lucid Dreaming to Gain Enlightenment]()​ Tibetan Buddhists have been meditating in their dreams for more than a thousand years. Let’s step into the mind-bending world of dream yoga. According to legend, when Siddhartha Gautama was glowing right after his enlightenment, people asked him if he was a god, a prophet, a rishi, or a saint, and to each he replied, “No.” What he simply said is “I am awake,” and his answer became his title. The word “Buddha” comes from the Sanskrit root budh, which means “to awaken” and denotes one who has awakened from the deep sleep of ignorance. Thus from the outset, Buddhism has been intimately connected to literal and figurative sleep. One way to understand the Buddha’s teachings is that we’re actually the most spiritually awake in deep dreamless sleep and the most asleep in so-called waking reality. Unfortunately, most of us have got it completely backward. Spiritual practice, and the nocturnal meditations, can lead us to this realization. ​[Continue Reading]()​ 📈 Real Life Success Skills On Friday we'll release the latest issue of [Stairway To Wisdom](=) including a breakdown of The Education of Millionaires by Michael Ellsberg. Here's a taste of what's inside: “The driving theme of the stories in this book is that, even though you may learn many wonderful things in college, your success and happiness in life will have little to do with what you study there or the letters after your name once you graduate. It has to do with your drive, your initiative, your persistence, your ability to make a contribution to other people’s lives, your ability to come up with good ideas and pitch them to others effectively, your charisma, your ability to navigate gracefully through social and business networks (what some researchers call ‘practical intelligence’), and a total, unwavering belief in your own eventual triumph, throughout all the ups and downs, no matter what the naysayers tell you. While you may learn many valuable things in college, you won’t learn these things there – yet they are crucial for your success in business and in life. Whether you’re a high school dropout or a graduate of Harvard Law School, you must learn and develop these skills, attitudes, and habits if you want to excel at what you do. In this new economy, the biggest factor in your success will not be abstract, academic learning but whether you develop the real-life success skills evinced by the people on these pages, and how early you do.” Stairway To Wisdom A library of insights & actions steps from brilliant books sent in a growth-inducing weekly newsletter. ​ [Sign Up Now](=) 🎬 Endnote We hope you enjoyed this issue of Down The Rabbit Hole. Feel free to reply and tell us what you think. Want to help us spread the word? We love sharing these gems of wisdom and wonder with you each week. If you love receiving them and want to help us spread the word, here is one quick way you can do that: Forward this email to one friend. That's it. It will take 5 seconds and will help us spread the good vibes and reach more people. We appreciate you. 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