I find Substack increasingly toxic, nothing like the platform it was when I joined back in August 22 after reading my first post of yours. The nasties get everywhere, like crabs in the pubic region (to use an appropriate analogy). I do not trust even those allegedly on 'freedom's' side if they are increasingly warning you of dangers to come and by extension instilling fear and therefore keeping one in a low vibratory state. All those 'nice' people we thought were on freedom's dime. Can't tell others what to do but I do not trust a single one of them, however 'nice' they seem to be when they have not an optimistic word amongst them. You most. certainly do create your own reality. Nevertheless it is a sign of their desperation. I don't know if others can feel it in the air or whether it depends on individual 'psychic' perception but we're getting there, by golly we are. July's apparently a bit of an exciting month astrologically so let's wait and see. In the meantime, no call to wind down our vigilance.
Well said! Fortunately artists dance to the best of their own drum mostly, even to their own detriment, and low vibrations and the people spreading them can go pound sand.
Thanks for this post, Tonika. It's just what I needed to read. Been struggling for a few days now and haven't gotten any true inspiration. At least now I know I'm not alone. Best of luck in MX.
"Happy Trails to you, until we meet again. Happy trails to you, keep smiling until then...It's the way you ride the trail that counts." And you're clip- clopping along real 'good.' Be thinking of you.
You probably don't even know who Roy Rogers was. LOL
I've heard of Roy Rogers! Wasn't he on The Muppets? LOL. If that is wildly incorrect, please forgive me. I think I imagine a white guy with a beard, sang country.
Whatever it was you wanted to get out, I think you did and somehow it felt like something I needed to get out too (struggling writer myself) and it's all weird and fluid and nothing is clear except for sure run-on sentences are inevitable and appropriate...
Good vibes to you - may the healing deepen and expand. 🙏 Thanks, Tonika. xox
Always happy to read you, Tonika and Kathleen, tapping into the undercurrents. It does seem to me there's been a sea change in the ol' stack, maybe the internet entirely, dunno. For better or worse, people are re-immersed in their lives.
And you're right about the infiltration. I've come to suspect my new 'dream reader' is an AI bot who lured me in with common ground and esoteric links on topics I'm passionate about, and then ensnared me in convoluted arguments on hypotheticals to catch me in ethical inconsistencies. Just too many parallels to be real, but who knows?
I mentioned the decline in comments (other than no-virus, of course) to Cassandra who said, maybe it's time to try something different. Which reminded me that I'd rebought Scrivener. And then my alchemy cards (from the person Barbara Sinclair likes) have been coming up with pearls that take time to form underwater, winter as time to be a hermit, silver that needs polishing, the ouroboros eating its own tail ...
So I did the tutorial again and started my OMGdess project yesterday. Now, when there are no comments, I think 'Good, no distractions.'
Thinking of you, Tonika, and knowing you're suffused with goddess energy there in Aunt Jane (not to be confused with Mary Jane although many often do!) Although another etymology says Tiwan means "by the sea" in the language of the Kumeyaay—the original aboriginal inhabitants of the San Diego-Tijuana region. But I'm thinking of you as visiting our crazy Aunt Jane.
Well damn, I just wrote a whole big comment on my phone and then my phone died before I hit send.
I had never heard of TJ being referred to as Aunt Jane - but I like it! It does seem that lots of Californians make the trek out here. And I do love it. Really, really love it here. talking about re-immersion! I have certainly had a lot less time for SS with working and homeschooling and parenting and the clown show... but it wasn't until getting here that I'm aware how much more IRL people are here. Whole families walking around on the boardwalk, people interfacing without screens... there's more aliveness here. I was already having a hard time with feeling guilty not being able to consume all the things I want to read, watch, and listen to. And somehow, being here reassures me it'll be ok. Things will find me as they need to.
Alchemy cards?!? What are those? Like Tarot?
As far as the bot... they're getting pretty good, aren't they? Hard to tell them apart. In a way, I feel lucky that my platform is small enough that they don't deem me worthy of distraction all that much.
Etymology junkie that I am, I thought I'd look up where Tijuana came from, which I thought was pronounced Tia, which I knew meant aunt and Juan of course being John or the female version Jane. I was the name of a ranch that became the city.
Yes, you should drop that guilt. I promise to never make you feel guilty about not reading me (although Logos & the Borg will tickle you, if you haven't read that one) and I won't feel guilty about writing too much!
The alchemy cards are interesting, they combine planets, metals, tools and seasons. I gave my daughter the archetype cards of hers.
So sorry you lost your first post. I hate when that happens! I'll hit reply before I do the same. Hope everything is going well in that IRL immersion you're in.
YES - to all of this, especially the Substack beauty pagents and clown shows. The vast majority of the world doesn't even know that we exist.
As an aside, I have had subscribers DM me and say "EDAU you do not put out enough content. I am unsubscribing."
If only they knew the 'time' I was having IRL, but also the fact that I completely use all my senses to do deep work that is highly complex and emotional plus curating and saving massive troves of information and visual art which I feature on my articles.
People want slopulism and outrage. I feel like I am paddling up a mountain of garbage most days.
When I read your posts I can tell how much work goes into it- both in research and in emotional toll. Aussies are lucky to have you. I’m surprised that people, at least, tell you the reasons of their departure. I get about 5-10 unsubscriptions every post. I figure my writing is too eclectic and if people are here for one type of topic, I imagine the rest of my writing is a WTF moment. 😆
Ultimately, I see it as a good thing. Good on people for knowing what they want. The thing about writing here for me isn’t about ego. It’s for the shared human experience expressed through writing - if what I write resonates with even one human, then job well done.
Thanks for the love, EDAU. Always love seeing you in the comments.
I still cannot believe that anyone wants to read what I write. When I read my work I feel like a crazy person. I certainly feel insane when I am writing and in daily life in general I guess.
I like your theatre reviews. Whatever it is, I am here for it.
Between the lines you said something important, and well. It reached me anyway! It resonates much with me, and expresses much that I think about a lot as a ‘stacker’.
One thing i realized when i was in juniorhigh. There is not a thought generator inside of a person. We receive thoughts from a seemingly external source. Witness Tesla or Einstein or countless others that realized a connection to YHWH or the cosmos.
I am seeing this really come to the surface now, more and more people are embracing the ultimate truth. To say that your thoughts are any less important than Tesla is not correct in my opinion.
You even postulate in this post that you are channeling information. You are!!!
These are the times. Embrace the mind-stream. You are doing divinely.
Love received and reciprocated, amigo. Agape! Hoping to be of service to the universe. I’m which case, my antenna is up, Cosmos! I’d be happy to be a useful tool. Hit me up whenever! ❤️
OK, good to hear. If you're still on a carefully simplified or low-spice diet but are traveling with someone (or have a companion when you get there), I highly recommend asking them to find a place that serves chile en nogada...and tell you about it...even if you can't enjoy it yourself in the foreseeable future (or ever), you'll probably enjoy them telling you about it. I looked into it a year or more ago, and there are quite a few restaurants in the Chicago area that serve it. In case you didn't catch the Mary Poppins reference, it just occured to me that back in the Swinging Sixties, Julie Andrews might have been at a Cream concert and heard Spoonful almost sixty years ago. Buen viaje!
this was great - I totally relate. and fun to read, I like the giving-yourself-a-time-limit thing, it creates it own unique composition.
Sometimes we work better under pressure. 😆
I find Substack increasingly toxic, nothing like the platform it was when I joined back in August 22 after reading my first post of yours. The nasties get everywhere, like crabs in the pubic region (to use an appropriate analogy). I do not trust even those allegedly on 'freedom's' side if they are increasingly warning you of dangers to come and by extension instilling fear and therefore keeping one in a low vibratory state. All those 'nice' people we thought were on freedom's dime. Can't tell others what to do but I do not trust a single one of them, however 'nice' they seem to be when they have not an optimistic word amongst them. You most. certainly do create your own reality. Nevertheless it is a sign of their desperation. I don't know if others can feel it in the air or whether it depends on individual 'psychic' perception but we're getting there, by golly we are. July's apparently a bit of an exciting month astrologically so let's wait and see. In the meantime, no call to wind down our vigilance.
Well said! Fortunately artists dance to the best of their own drum mostly, even to their own detriment, and low vibrations and the people spreading them can go pound sand.
Thanks for this post, Tonika. It's just what I needed to read. Been struggling for a few days now and haven't gotten any true inspiration. At least now I know I'm not alone. Best of luck in MX.
"Happy Trails to you, until we meet again. Happy trails to you, keep smiling until then...It's the way you ride the trail that counts." And you're clip- clopping along real 'good.' Be thinking of you.
You probably don't even know who Roy Rogers was. LOL
I've heard of Roy Rogers! Wasn't he on The Muppets? LOL. If that is wildly incorrect, please forgive me. I think I imagine a white guy with a beard, sang country.
Thanks for all the good wishes!
Whatever it was you wanted to get out, I think you did and somehow it felt like something I needed to get out too (struggling writer myself) and it's all weird and fluid and nothing is clear except for sure run-on sentences are inevitable and appropriate...
Good vibes to you - may the healing deepen and expand. 🙏 Thanks, Tonika. xox
Always happy to read you, Tonika and Kathleen, tapping into the undercurrents. It does seem to me there's been a sea change in the ol' stack, maybe the internet entirely, dunno. For better or worse, people are re-immersed in their lives.
And you're right about the infiltration. I've come to suspect my new 'dream reader' is an AI bot who lured me in with common ground and esoteric links on topics I'm passionate about, and then ensnared me in convoluted arguments on hypotheticals to catch me in ethical inconsistencies. Just too many parallels to be real, but who knows?
I mentioned the decline in comments (other than no-virus, of course) to Cassandra who said, maybe it's time to try something different. Which reminded me that I'd rebought Scrivener. And then my alchemy cards (from the person Barbara Sinclair likes) have been coming up with pearls that take time to form underwater, winter as time to be a hermit, silver that needs polishing, the ouroboros eating its own tail ...
So I did the tutorial again and started my OMGdess project yesterday. Now, when there are no comments, I think 'Good, no distractions.'
Thinking of you, Tonika, and knowing you're suffused with goddess energy there in Aunt Jane (not to be confused with Mary Jane although many often do!) Although another etymology says Tiwan means "by the sea" in the language of the Kumeyaay—the original aboriginal inhabitants of the San Diego-Tijuana region. But I'm thinking of you as visiting our crazy Aunt Jane.
Well damn, I just wrote a whole big comment on my phone and then my phone died before I hit send.
I had never heard of TJ being referred to as Aunt Jane - but I like it! It does seem that lots of Californians make the trek out here. And I do love it. Really, really love it here. talking about re-immersion! I have certainly had a lot less time for SS with working and homeschooling and parenting and the clown show... but it wasn't until getting here that I'm aware how much more IRL people are here. Whole families walking around on the boardwalk, people interfacing without screens... there's more aliveness here. I was already having a hard time with feeling guilty not being able to consume all the things I want to read, watch, and listen to. And somehow, being here reassures me it'll be ok. Things will find me as they need to.
Alchemy cards?!? What are those? Like Tarot?
As far as the bot... they're getting pretty good, aren't they? Hard to tell them apart. In a way, I feel lucky that my platform is small enough that they don't deem me worthy of distraction all that much.
Thanks for the good wishes. Keeping the vibe!
Etymology junkie that I am, I thought I'd look up where Tijuana came from, which I thought was pronounced Tia, which I knew meant aunt and Juan of course being John or the female version Jane. I was the name of a ranch that became the city.
Yes, you should drop that guilt. I promise to never make you feel guilty about not reading me (although Logos & the Borg will tickle you, if you haven't read that one) and I won't feel guilty about writing too much!
The alchemy cards are interesting, they combine planets, metals, tools and seasons. I gave my daughter the archetype cards of hers.
So sorry you lost your first post. I hate when that happens! I'll hit reply before I do the same. Hope everything is going well in that IRL immersion you're in.
Thanks for the good vibes and the resonance. Taking it all with me as I’m about to board my flight. 🥰
TNK, I loved this truth stream mucho beaucoup. Have an excellent healing & feeling time in MX
love
Empee, x
PS This is for you to dance to, listen, watch and absorb: https://youtu.be/geojyCFYqGk?si=I7Zhix0zY5mRr2yJ
Love this, Empee!! Holy cow, is that all one shot?!?
Yes! Amazing on so many levels.
Truly. Thanks, SF... gonna dance to it NOW
Brilliant to hear it also moved you to move, Mary... I danced to it last night too!
YES - to all of this, especially the Substack beauty pagents and clown shows. The vast majority of the world doesn't even know that we exist.
As an aside, I have had subscribers DM me and say "EDAU you do not put out enough content. I am unsubscribing."
If only they knew the 'time' I was having IRL, but also the fact that I completely use all my senses to do deep work that is highly complex and emotional plus curating and saving massive troves of information and visual art which I feature on my articles.
People want slopulism and outrage. I feel like I am paddling up a mountain of garbage most days.
Good takes here ma'am - thank you.
"paddling up a mountain of garbage" certainly resonates!
Haha - thank you.
When I read your posts I can tell how much work goes into it- both in research and in emotional toll. Aussies are lucky to have you. I’m surprised that people, at least, tell you the reasons of their departure. I get about 5-10 unsubscriptions every post. I figure my writing is too eclectic and if people are here for one type of topic, I imagine the rest of my writing is a WTF moment. 😆
Ultimately, I see it as a good thing. Good on people for knowing what they want. The thing about writing here for me isn’t about ego. It’s for the shared human experience expressed through writing - if what I write resonates with even one human, then job well done.
Thanks for the love, EDAU. Always love seeing you in the comments.
I still cannot believe that anyone wants to read what I write. When I read my work I feel like a crazy person. I certainly feel insane when I am writing and in daily life in general I guess.
I like your theatre reviews. Whatever it is, I am here for it.
War and Democide still knocks my socks off.
🙏🙏🙏
Between the lines you said something important, and well. It reached me anyway! It resonates much with me, and expresses much that I think about a lot as a ‘stacker’.
Very glad to hear that your health is good!
I’m glad something made its way out and is finding resonance. Thanks, Michael.
Came through very clear for me!
🙏
Just let the spirit of truth guide you.
Doing my best. Hard to hear the whispers when my life has been such chaos lately. MX feels like a reset is incoming.
One thing i realized when i was in juniorhigh. There is not a thought generator inside of a person. We receive thoughts from a seemingly external source. Witness Tesla or Einstein or countless others that realized a connection to YHWH or the cosmos.
I am seeing this really come to the surface now, more and more people are embracing the ultimate truth. To say that your thoughts are any less important than Tesla is not correct in my opinion.
You even postulate in this post that you are channeling information. You are!!!
These are the times. Embrace the mind-stream. You are doing divinely.
Much love my friend.
Love received and reciprocated, amigo. Agape! Hoping to be of service to the universe. I’m which case, my antenna is up, Cosmos! I’d be happy to be a useful tool. Hit me up whenever! ❤️
Good thing you included agape otherwise uninformed readers would think there was some eros going on.
Agape
Safe travels, muchacha. Sorry if that underages you, but Sugah, it dances off the fingers onto the keyboard in the most delightful way. Speaking aslant of medicines, if you run low, jus' lemme know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fD765GzWzE&list=RD0fD765GzWzE&start_radio=1
Good on the meds still, thanks! Taking a break while in MX anyway. They say every few months, a week long break is good.
And I know Cream. I might be Gen X, but I’m also European and that good ol’ fashioned rock N’ roll was (still is) pretty big over there.
Breaks are very healthy! {smile}
OK, good to hear. If you're still on a carefully simplified or low-spice diet but are traveling with someone (or have a companion when you get there), I highly recommend asking them to find a place that serves chile en nogada...and tell you about it...even if you can't enjoy it yourself in the foreseeable future (or ever), you'll probably enjoy them telling you about it. I looked into it a year or more ago, and there are quite a few restaurants in the Chicago area that serve it. In case you didn't catch the Mary Poppins reference, it just occured to me that back in the Swinging Sixties, Julie Andrews might have been at a Cream concert and heard Spoonful almost sixty years ago. Buen viaje!
"If you answer that, you’re a bot."
LOL