This started as an introvert’s calming escape from modern day mania, but now it is a loving inquiry. After years of finessing my personal version of mediation, at this point I’ve arrived on what I call The Process Of 8s that helps me immerse into some rather deep meditative states which I suspect cultivate my mindfulness and apparently assist me with opportunity. The 8s is a practice and it’s not perfect. My reason for developing this is to better get a peek of perfection and gain some perspective, calmness, sanity, compassion, hope, gratitude and joy from that experience. It’s enjoyable and I think it indeed helps me out in general, but I sort of think it helps me make other gains. The “8s” stand for the eight steps that guide me to a new state with a degree more consistency:
1. situate
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2. settle
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3. select
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4. sit
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5. surrender
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6. sink
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7. sync
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8. standby, see & be seen
Disconnection From The Operating System & Hardware
My goal is to merely achieve the best disassociated state as possible from our everyday clutter, just to create the conditions for sightings past that. The deep meditative state seems to be crisp, timeless, peaceful, still, firm and lucid – invincibly beyond imperfect human interpretations conjured from our subjective brains, finite senses and limited languages. Something else powerful may be at play in which I may never truly know, but the practice is to venture onward into it anyway. My journey is the alert attempt at everyday disconnection.
Beyond The Machine And Into Nature
At the risk of being cliche, I do feel that space and time loses meaning, and my attention is a step less than a full thought impulse. Deep meditation feels like an experience beyond cerebral renderings that rely on our 4D framework. I enjoy how a deep meditation seemingly unveils a ping of reality absent of the meat vehicle’s filtration/projection. The higher operator beholds a vantage of nature that is free from lower human fictions derived from it’s avatar’s autopilot. Nature is simply the reality that our countless stories exist within, so the quest is to remove the stories in order to be evermore aware the true operator as it relates in the purest nature.
Freedom From The Physical And Fake
This mischievous practice relieves me from a world blasting me with allegory created by wayward egos and systems seeking to suck emotions & psyches for their own objectives. In focusing on “no-story”, I feel liberated from spiels sourced from the varieties of incomplete data and slanted agendas coming from confused bias. In turning away from stories, I feel free from my own machine’s interpretations that are simply “modeling attempts” in which I imperfectly frame my bot – ironically, like the one that you are reading now. Beyond mind, I don’t dwell in the past that is just an ever-changing narrative based on who tells it. Beyond mind, I don’t dwell in the anxiety of the future which is an unpredictable invention of loaded ego-defense mechanisms. Beyond mind, is a timeless moment infinitely in-between past and future which can make an hour feel like an instant. Beyond the autopilot of my drone software/hardware, I witness an under-served dimension of the living experience that feels like an adventure to me. Free from the weight of opinion, judgement, obligation and ego a great experience comes from my improvement of channeling attention to the tightest, most meaningless point and smaller. I’ve learned that the job isn’t to escape what I see as negative, but to continue focused onward toward something more illuminated. Connected to source, the baggage of my “I” may lose relevance in there.
A Curious Connection With Sages Of The Ages
Working with what they got, I am fascinated by the psychonauts of antiquity on their cave hermitages 5,000 years past perhaps deriving from the Middle East or South Asia who invented entire sutra systems just to better hack existence as I’m awkwardly attempting. I wonder what any esoterics or mystics of old from other places were really up to. I noticed many hid from as many stories as possible, as they immersed with nature in order to vibe with origin, away from anecdote. I am interested how modern day studies are coming full circle to find the practical value in ancient undertakings. I notice that communication, method and measurement technologies are now delivering new tools to forward such exploration quickly advancing from angles not explored before. Endeavoring to free myself from labels and the stories they represent, these won’t be ignorantly overlooked.
The 8s Bend My Reality
I think I am observing something universal because I am non-dogmatically concluding upon a scheme of hacks as well. Some tricks seem to resemble ones from the old schools, some from later findings and some independently from new friends. With cautious empiricism I am ironically theorizing a story in which I understand this practice quietly contributes a little bit to my best Self while it bends the common reality around me as well. As strange as it sounds, in bringing my being away from the common reality and poking into deeper nature I feel sighted, respect and assisted.
Pioneering Onward
I very much look forward to the times I can actively direct my faculties beyond single-pointed observation. I will try to capture insights on these ripening pages and map this realm out. Let’s see where this takes me. So over time I will add/edit/delete thoughts on each of the 8s as I contemplate upon them more. Enjoyably onward I will immerse and be keen to any gold I can discover, render or attract. Let’s get weird and explore beyond the prevailing focuses. This is my odd adventure inward and onward…
In kind respect to the placebo in you,
AU
