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Basia's Thoughts

Basia's Thoughts

Basia

Looking for Aha-moments? Surprisingly useful connections? Interested in learning more about You, how your personality was formed, who you truly are? I know I am. And so, as an INFJ type I enjoy finding underlying patterns and share them in this forum. I also talk about Non-Duality (Advaita Vedanta). Take this journey with me and with your questions and comments we will tread forth together, attempting to make sense of it all. :)
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Basia's Thoughts - EP 43 The Pervasiveness of the Holographic Order
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04/18/21 • 36 min

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 David Bohm looked for the Generative Order, that would also bring a direction into the dynamics and be capable of a sort of creativity. We mention how the quantum theory originally moved us away from ontology, and took physics to be algorithms with predictive power.
We ask if we can base our search for the underlying order on something more certain than the dubious supposition of materialism. And so, instead with build the most real ontology we can think of and by logically following three realisations we end up in the Holographic Order.
The assertions are that: 1. There is Being. 2. Being is unique. 3. A consequence of Being being unique we get the Holographic Order.
Then we look at how reflecting the holographic order in our societal structures may be of benefit. Finally, we look at how we personally may start using the naturally holographic structure in our lives.
You can read more about the Holographic Order and also find links to mathematical descriptions of it at https://basiapiechocinska.com/wholeness-preserving-movement/.
Also, recently a friend of mine gave me a nerdy first bitcoin block mug that I really enjoyed and so I decided to also create a nerdy Holographic Order derivation mug for myself. And if this is something that would make you smile as you have your tea or coffee you can find it here https://www.zazzle.co.uk/classic_physics_nerd_mug_325_ml_coffee_mug-168904102968991668.
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts. And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation.

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Basia's Thoughts - EP 65 How Faith Creates Miracles
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07/24/22 • 23 min

Is it possible to keep our faith in spite of all the dark moments we experience? What is faith? What can we base it on an how can we use it to have a beautiful life?
We start off by listening to a part of the tango “Tormenta” (Storm, in English), arranged by Carlos di Sarli featuring Mario Pomar, as a poetic expression for the lack of faith in life.
"...Yo siento que mi fe se tambalea,
que la gente mala, vive
¡Dios! mejor que yo...
"
In English:
"...I feel that my faith falters,
that bad people live,
God! better than me...
"
We note that, as we spoke in the previous episode, the systems of our world are set up in a way that favours people who are not ethical actors.
However, we also note that we are actually not set up in that way. We actually prefer love over what we call negative emotions. In wishing to live in a way that enables these expansive emotions we actually use faith.
Such a way is similar to what we discussed in episode 47, where we do not focus on the details and the reductionistic step-by-step process in the beginning. Instead we need to be able to open up to a wider field of possibilities, potentialities.
The basis of faith is uncertainty and our knowledge of how profoundly limited we are in our minds.
We mention Michael A. Singer and his book "The Surrender Experiment", as an example of a person who manages to let go of his attachments to the details and roles and is thus able to live a life filled with miracles.
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts. And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation.

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Basia's Thoughts - EP16 A New Form of Organisation
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08/23/20 • 23 min

I posed the question:
"If you could ask one or two questions about life or the world in general, what would you ask? What would you really like to know?"
And in this episode I tell you what people said. And we end up going into two topics. One has to do with ageing, if it is necessary, and what it may be good for...yes "good for". We discuss creatures who live among us that do not age.
And then we talk about why there are so many apparently destructive structures in our societies. Why are most people suffering? Why does "the Devil" seem to reign our physical world?
This is a particularly interesting topic because, for the first time in known history, we seem to actually have an option! And hopefully, more and more of us will engage in it and thereby create a completely different world.
This is related to a new way or organising - organisation through autonomy, instead of organisation through the hierarchy of power or trust.
I also talk about the wisdom of crowds and about the prediction engine, Augur.
And if you want to learn more about these ideas or alternative organisation, I have written more extensively about them in my book "The Devil is in the Structure" which you can also get on paper or on kindle.
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts. And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation.

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Basia's Thoughts - EP 60 The Crossroads Where We Are
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12/31/21 • 24 min

In this final episode of 2021 I discuss the following picture: http://basiapiechocinska.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/EP60Crossroads-scaled.jpg
It represents a crossroads that we currently find ourselves at as humans on Earth. We see the hand of technology pushing us into a place of choice and two main roads being presented to us.
One road is represented by a caterpillar and invites us to continue living as we have, with a tribe-like identity and attitude. It leads to slavery or destruction.
The other is one represented by the chrysalis and invites us to morph internally into a butterfly-like being, leaving behind a limited identity that comes with ideas of threats and fears.
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts. And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation.

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Basia's Thoughts - EP 54 Are We In a Totalitarian Movement Now?
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10/03/21 • 34 min

In this episode we primarily look at Hannah Arendt's 1951 book "The Origins of Totalitarianism" and try to see if we can recognise some of the dynamics she writes about, in our current covid-world.
The prerequisites for the beginnings of a totalitarian dynamics, of rootlessness, unattached anxiety, and meaninglessness have been escalated by covid-lockdowns. A central narrative is being presented to the masses.
Should we worry about the next step? What did the next steps look like in past totalitarian regimes? How can we make sure we avoid the atrocities?
By finding a bigger threat than the current one we can snap out of a totalitarian hypnosis like state, but such an exit is only likely to lead us to latch onto a new narrative. A constructive way out is one where we find meaning and rootedness in a natural way, thus making it more difficult to fall prey to totalitarian dynamics, as well as addictions in general.
By learning who we truly are, and thus no longer identifying with ideologies or roles, we might find the satisfaction we are looking for.
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts. And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation.

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Basia's Thoughts - EP 51 The Violence of Positive Judgement
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07/18/21 • 24 min

Sometimes it may be difficult to see how steeped in judgement we are and what it leads to. So, we start out by looking at the violence inherent in common compliments.
We talk about how not only compliments but all sorts of rewards and payments rob us of our joy and creativity.
We mention how our global, interconnected civilisation has interdependent and exponentially growing risks that increase our probability of extinction and how their interconnectedness requires an approach beyond that of one side winning, while another takes a hit.
We note that it seems that our inner nature is more aligned with a possible solution. That inner nature is adapted through our current societies to learn to live in judgement.
We also look at how negative judgment, through manipulation, etc, can lead to traumas. (If you enjoyed this part I have a whole course on how we are shaped on Udemy.com. Just search for my course on Bioenergetics there.)
Finally we point to our inner guidance system, which actually tells us when we are going against our inner nature. By spending more time just being, relaxing all physical, mental, and emotional tensions we can become more sensitive to it and will have an easier time to find a non-violent, heart-centred way of being that takes us beyond judgement and into the possibility of creating a beautiful world.
(Also, if you are looking for ways to learn to communicate in this different way, try my Make-Sense game on my website www.basiapiechocinska.com)
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts. And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation.

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Basia's Thoughts - EP15 Is it good to be good?
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08/07/20 • 31 min

In this episode I reveal to you a secret question I had when I was growing up. I never dared to ask anyone, but I secretly wondered if leading a moral life is a good thing.
And so, in this episode we discuss just that. Exactly why is it good for you to lead a moral life? We also talk about the major pitfall, that most of us fall into at some point at least, where we lead a moral life by creating internal violence...which sort of goes against the idea of leading a non-violent life.
We also talk a little about Yoga and Yama, one of Yoga's eight limbs, which has to do with a moral life.
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts. And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation.

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Basia's Thoughts - EP14 The Appearance of Multiplicity
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07/27/20 • 32 min

Today we discuss questions like:
What is the underlying dynamics of our Universe?
How does multiplicity spring forth from an Indivisible Ultimate reality?
Why is there something rather than nothing?
Does it make sense to talk about the Ultimate if it is not describable?
We talk about how Niels Bohr, a physicist, got the physics community onboard to abandon ontology because he intuited an underlying "unanalyzable" wholeness.
Then we look at how David Bohm decided to look at the idea of wholeness in physics and try to describe aspects of it. He talked about the Implicate and the Explicate orders and a dynamical process.
This leads us to the idea of trinity. Oddly enough many religions seem to have it as its basis for how the world works. In Taoism we have the Tao that gives rise to the One which gives rise to the Two, which gives rise to the Three, and from there multiplicity springs forth.
In Christianity we have the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, etc. We also look at the symbolic representation of this in the Eneagram where the circle represents the ultimate nameless and the triangle the expression of it, and from there all forms arise.
We look at Advaita Vedanta and Sat, Chit, Ananda (Being, Awareness, Bliss) as our innermost nature.
Even though we are unable to describe the Ultimate Reality, we can describe aspects of what is described as the Trinity. And doing so would open up a new dimension for physics, but that would have to move beyond materialism (the idea that there is a material world out there independent of the Ultimate Reality).
And finally we ask if based on all these insights we can say that the Ultimate Reality caused our manifest world to become into being. Interestingly enough we find that it did not.
Thus we finish by posing the question: "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
And find an interesting answer.
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts. And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation.

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Basia's Thoughts - EP10 Being Comes from Wholeness
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06/25/20 • 25 min

This is a somewhat more ontological type of episode. We go into why and how being comes from the infinite (Limitless, Wholeness, Consciousness, etc).
Basically we talk about the ontology of things being washed out if we take a materialistic view, and the only way of gaining an ontology is to assume the limitless.
(Maya has no real existence on its own. Brahman lend it Being.)
The limitless is unique. That uniqueness results in a holographic type of order.
The holographic type of order is the basis of the dynamics of physics and is the basis for describing real, actual, movement that includes entropy increase.
This chain of reason is one of the ways in which we see the relevance of the ontological types of discussions. They are not purely for philosophical enjoyment, but can be quite practical in terms of physics as well as in terms of personal realisation.
You can read about the philosophical ideas discussed this episode in more detail in chapter 2 of "Physics from Wholeness - Dynamical Totality as a Foundation for Physics".
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts. And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation.

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Basia's Thoughts - EP26 Perpetual Abundance Society
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11/09/20 • 25 min

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 forth, like organisation through autonomy, emergent order system, and wisdom of crowds. We also talk about some big changes that are taking place where forward looking nations expand into renewable energy, greater interconnectivity infrastructure, 3D printing, etc. And we mention some of the ideas we discussed in episode 18, around conceptual changes taking place in how we view certain basic ideas like freedom.
Subsequently, we move into the main idea, referring to having a society where the most individuals feel abundant. We ask if a Universal Basic Income would solve this. We ask if the types of religions we find in our society would be helpful in the abundant society. We look at the problems they present.
Finally we propose a descriptive solution. If the individuals in such a society were made aware of who they are, it would automatically take them to a place of starting out from a feeling of abundance. This could be a sustainable cornerstone of such a society.
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts. And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation.

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Basia's Thoughts currently has 70 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Society & Culture, Personal Journals and Podcasts.

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The episode title 'EP 64 Why is Abundance Rare?' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Basia's Thoughts is 25 minutes.

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Episodes of Basia's Thoughts are typically released every 10 days, 3 hours.

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The first episode of Basia's Thoughts was released on Apr 19, 2020.

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