Basia's Thoughts

Stress in complex systems leads to an adaptive response, if it does not terminate the system.  In this episode we look at hermetic stress for our body and how it may provide health hacks. Then we look at how stress to our "adversaries" may lead to, for us, unpleasant reactions.  We look at the current pandemic situation and at the types of immune stresses being put on the virus.  I menti...

How can we have a more deeply satisfying life?  Perhaps if we gain clarity around why we are here we will be able to see our purpose and then possibly move in a direction of fulfilling it, and that might be satisfying. We all seem to want to move in the direction that makes us feel better.   If we follow this we might end up with greater satisfaction but the more limitations we identify with, the...

In this explorative episode we ask the material universe might be created as a type of Fourier Transform and how that could relate to more "New Age" types of ideas. We also ask about the atemporal types of experiences that people who experience near death circumstances go through and how they might be connected to the ideas of a frequency space. If the material universe is based on somet...

We talk about the pervasiveness of the Holographic Order and how by aligning with it we may be served.  This is equally important and useful for what is perhaps seen as most fundamental science, such as physics, as for social constructions, and what may seem to be spiritual or religious. We start by talking about how physicists look for un underlying order, beyond space-time, and how the physicist...

As some of you may know, 42 is the answer to the ultimate question on Life, the Universe, and Everything.  :) We honour Douglas Adams' idea from his book, "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" , and explore its depth by noting that meaning, connection, and transcendence are found by focusing in on the questions, rather than the answers. We look at how this applies to practical human...

This is an invitation to spend more time with yourself, your purest version of you. By doing that you can actually impact your life profoundly.  This is because it will start changing who you see yourself as. A de-identification with any and all of the roles you play will make you less prone to fight, to want to win over others, to be defensive, to focus on appearance, to act from who you think th...

I have started creating a website, BasiaPiechocinska.com , where I will eventually be putting my "Make Sense" - game. The purpose is to learn to focus on what really matters to us, so that we may connect on a deeper, more satisfying and meaningful level.  The game is based on unifying and transcending dynamics.  There are three parts, each related to a mode of experiencing:  Make Sense -...

In this episode I talk about where the ideas pertaining to Unifying and Transcending Dynamics originate. We can see the pattern that when an empire reaches its phase of affluence is when moral decline starts to set in.  Our current empire is in its final phase of chaos and lack of morals and ethics. This makes it reasonable to want to go back to focusing on morals and ethics, and because we quickl...

Because we are in a meaning crisis, as nicely presented in the Youtube series of John Vervaeke " Awakening from the Meaning Crisis ", we examine the concept of meaning. To find out how we can make life experience more meaningful we start by examining what experience is, and then what "making more meaningful" means. By experience we mean thoughts, feelings/emotions, and percepti...

How much of our thinking is conditioned by the historical setting? We have already mentioned how our way of thinking is conditioned by our personal developmental traumas.  In episode 6 we talked about the sadness in the schizoid structure.  But how much of our intuition and our insights are just reiterations of what has already happened in similar historical settings and not really particular to u...

As discussed in the previous episode, holding onto knowledge can lead us to identify with it and stop our search for and openness to new information.  It can become a self-imposed limit, where we put ourselves in a box that we end up defending and fighting for. Uncertainty provides us with the gift of presence and opens us up to further development.  In our current societies we often learn most th...

I was inspired to talk about knowledge because I remembered an old saying that tells children that knowledge is the key to power.  This has, indeed, been the model of our society. We know that power can be problematic but is there any danger associated with knowledge?  We look at how a knowledge focused life removes significance from it. We start by talking about how knowledge is about limits and...

In this episode we ask if we do not already have a "Butterfly Intuition".  By "Butterfly Intuition" I refer to the metaphorical butterfly that we have a chance of turning into personally and as a society and civilisation.   It is an intuition that guides us to make all-win choices. We talk about the idea of diversity and based on it we look at how it appears in our current win-...

Three Ways of Focusing - Three Different Lives For pedagogical purposes we imagine three different persons.  The first lives their lives by focusing on achieving goals.  The second has their focus on purpose.  And the third one on meaning. We discuss what types of differences arise as a result of this in their world views, in how they connect and interact with others, in how they view science, in...

We start out this episode asking if the effects on people of social online platforms might actually end up a helpful catalyst in the transition from a suicidal society, on the brink of extinction, to something new. We talk about how the effects of the platforms are accentuating separation, disconnection, and fuling adversarial dynamics.   Thus, they are bringing light to some underlying problems i...

We talk about how the idea of "going deeper" can be used to engage in all-win dynamics, as opposed to win-lose dynamics. We briefly mention that many of our societies have been engaging in competitive dynamics and that this is a dynamics that tends to optimise for a win and thereby incentivise destruction of what may appear to stand in its way, such as other individuals, opponents, ecosy...

In this episode I talk about some recent experiences I have had of letting go and how they have affected me.  I talk about the magical power of the word “if” and how it can allow us to move beyond what was possible.  We also discuss how our programs self-perpetuate and how we sometimes can decide what to run.  We look at the basics of emotional surfing. Then, we go onto finding the wisest version...

In this episode we focus on what may be required in order for us and our society to undergo a metamorphosis into an all-win society. Is it enough for all to learn that we should be acting for the wellbeing of all?  What if we all learn this and we all make personal sacrifices to make it all work?  Such societies already exist and involve a great deal of suffering.  And so, we propose that the key...

I heard Daniel Schmachtenberger talk about the idea of our currently global society going through a metamorphosis.  So, I decided to see how far I could take the metaphor. We start by looking at the stages of the maturation of a caterpillar,  and then at its metamorphosis  into a butterfly, focusing on what drives it.    Then, we quickly look at the stages of the empires, recapitulating that we ar...

How much of what we are seeing in the world today seems new to us but is something that the world has already seen over and over again? Did you know that there were women university professors, judges, lawyers 1200 years ago?  Did you know that rock-stars were a thing back then? Most of what we are going through now, even the Black Lives Matter types of movements are only to be expected due to the...

Inspired by Bret Weinstein´s idea of engineering a perpetual abundance society we talk about what it would take to create one. Starting out we set the context for where this idea of perpetual abundance comes from in terms of evolutionary biology and it is related to particularly one basic characteristic that seems to be wired into humans. Then, we mention how some technological tools are coming fo...

In this episode I present how I see Jordan Peterson´s views on some of the dynamics in society.  We talk about why the dynamics of left and right exists, what the extremes lead to, how all this could be tackled through personal responsibility, and about objective facts and metaphorical truths. Then I talk about how the above view relates to how I view some of what I consider the most relevant dyna...

There are two themes in this podcast episode.  One is to show what knowing who we are actually does for us.   The other is showing how direct focus on what we think we want can lead us astray, and what we can do fix it. We talk about four examples.  One is a physical example of what one may think diabetes type two is about and how reating it may seem counterintuitive.  I reference the documentary...

We talk about an underlying order to all that is, and look at how it is reflected in the illumination process. We go into the two parts of the illumination process and see how the first can be fairly easily understood, whereas the second requires us to move beyond our mind, and therefore also takes us beyond the logical and causal structures of the expressed Universe. By seeing looking at some int...

Finding out what actually moves you can be profoundly insightful, healing, and even provide you with a meaning and direction in life. As you recall a few situations from your life that moved you and ask what it is about those particular situations that moved you, you will be able to glean a pattern.  This is a pattern that is pointing to an often hidden belief that is so terrible that it is guarde...