Christian Sawyer 

Howdy. I write about water, culture, and the mystery of life.

Elon wants the Gaza Strip as his pet project. Been expecting this. Remember his 2023 visit to Netanyahu offering to “rebuid” Gaza. axios.com/2023/11/27/el…

We never slow down these days. We don’t stare at the ceiling after we wake up, letting our mind stretch, connect with our bodies, say hello to the tug of gravity from the center of the earth, the return of sunshine after our oneiric excursions. We immediately climb back into the log flume of “what’s going on.”

This diagnosis is nothing ne…

Power, Speed and Centralisation

When has Miyazaki ever not been at his best?

And you guys don’t believe me when I say this is Miyazaki at his best 🌟

How to prepare for the oncoming societal collapse ~~~~~

  • Take 2x the recommended dose of Alpha Brain.

  • Watch lots of Mel Gibson films.

  • Write stoic fortune cookies fortunes.

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I’m feeling stuck between two attitudes. I love what

calls “high weirdness”. And I’m also concerned about the highly weird being a substitute for depth, connection, and true openness. Someone like Joe Rogan might be helping people be more open by introducing them to thinkers like Graham Hancock. But he might also be discouraging critica…

Almost all non-Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam), plus some sects and traditions of those religions, believe in reincarnation.

The strongest evidence for reincarnation seems to be children with memories of past lives, the details of which are later confirmed to be accurate.

Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children W…

Aspiring writers of Substack:

We need less

  • analysis and commentary

  • livejournal confessionals

No one wants to talk about how strange it is to be alive. It’s strange enough to watch the sun setting. Can we develop a greater capacity for appreciating pure mystery? I think it requires conditioning our nervous systems, for starters.

I feel like the mysteriousness of everything gets downplayed or ignored too much.

A bacterium can’t conceive of what humans and other animals do with our time.

It may be the same a level up—humans can't comprehend or imagine what our souls and other immaterial lifeforms do when they're home, in the spirit world.

Modern life is just a lot, and we were not born for this shit.

Really. We were not made for this shit.

I mean, don't tell us we can't do it —

because we'll definitely have to prove you wrong.

meta-cognition saves lives

Sometimes you’ll go hundreds of miles deep within to find the innocent glitch that’s fucking up your whole system.