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Experimenting with surrendering to a chosen larger Whole

6 tweets · July 2023 · 36 likes · 0 retweets · read on Twitter

new experiment I'm playing with:   surrender to some We/Whole that I'm part of   & do whatever it tells me to this is a mental shift, to be clear—no *individual* gets to tell me what to do (tho i cud ask). & my own desires are part of what that We is for, & need to be included!

possible Wholes include: - a team: how do I serve the wholeness that is this company/project? - a couple - a household - all of humanity - myself across time?? - my future family, including kids not-yet-born

ali @alitaylor ·

i can’t tell how deranged it is for me to ask myself “what kind of mother do my hypothetical future children deserve” as a motivating tactic for my current self-improvement

but it's important to pick one specific one at a given time, otherwise I get conflicting instructions! and this is possible in part because I'm not letting a bunch of other superegos / social-expectations constantly tell me what to do in the background

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean ·

don't ever let memes tell you: - that more suffering is better than less (for you or others) - things that contradict your own senses - that you aren't free to relax FULLY for even a single moment if you accidentally let memes do this, flush superego with cold water immediately

still early with this experiment but so far it has yielded some very smooth flow-states, taking care of what needs taking care of!

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean ·

there's a mode I can get in that is very beautiful and I want it in more of my life where I'm present and taking care of something, such as cleaning a space, and in each moment I'm just doing whatever cares for it best, with full couldness at several scales

surrender, of course, to the sanest version of the larger Whole that you can imagine!

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean ·

it feels amazing to surrender to something larger problem is, most somethings-larger available atm are batshit insane solution there, it seems to me, is to surrender to your own sense of the something-larger you would like to surrender to if it existed, & thereby create it

very relevant tweet from a somewhat relevant thread

Richard D. Bartlett @RichDecibels ·

seeing like a super-organism is mega useful, it's the best way to answer "what should I do?" well, what are you a part of? what role are you suited for? listen for subtle signals from higher beings, they're present as surely as your muscles receive electrical impulses all day