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Acting Truths

by Oliver James Damian

It is the craft of meaningful action within imagined realities that moves us.

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Episodes

  1. Burn bright

    What does it mean to get what I want?

  2. Understanding Trauma

    These are my notes and reflections on "Understanding Trauma", session 1 of Returning to Wholeness: A Guide to Understanding and Integrating Trauma, a 12-Lesson online course with Gabor Mate.

  3. Desire Inventory 20 June 2021

    Desire inventory is a practice where one starts a timer for a certain amount of time (10 minutes for example). Once the timer is started one writes one's desires one at a time. I prefer to write it in this format "I desire [INSERT] because I want to feel [INSERT]. One keeps on going until the…

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  4. Part 5 - my reading of An Immanent Metaphysics by Forrest Landry

    Part 5 of a series where I read the book "An Immanent Metaphysics" written by Forrest Landry and share with you my thoughts and reflections as I read and link it to whatever else I'm reading, thinking, or experiencing in my life at that moment. In a way, I'm taking you along on with me on my...

  5. Part 4 Reading "An Immanent Metaphysics"

    Part 4 of a series where I read the book "An Immanent Metaphysics" written by Forrest Landry and share with you my thoughts and reflections as I read and link it to whatever else I'm reading, thinking, or experiencing in my life at that moment. In a way, I'm taking you along on with me on my...

  6. Desires Journal #1

    Reading an entry from my desires journal dated 2 January 2016.

  7. Gratitudes ♡ The Immanent

    ľm grateful for the immanent perceiver perceiving the perceived as is ungarnished by story, meaning, purpose innate & cognate precedes cognitive & conative pain is not suffering when the steak makes me salivate not the sizzle of hot media's bling bling native beauty of the felt sense fuzzy rich...

  8. Gratitudes ♡ The Unfolding

    I'm grateful for the unfolding realities happen in the rightness of their times layers of becoming slowly exposed at each revealing striptease of being truth is to uncover recover what's beneath surfaces bubbling of what lies underneath surfacing of hidden skeletal details patterns of forms she...

  9. Gratitudes ♡ Touch

    I'm grateful for touch a felt sense of human warmth palms, forearms, elbows glide through my aromatic oiled body letting go with each out-breath opening inviting in the other to come in feel their way through the body electric push through soften dissipate accretions of past hurt intense…

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  10. Gratitudes ♡ Double Binds

    I'm grateful for double binds intractable, unsolvable, irreducible the poverty of context deprecates slip knot of Athens' pesky gnat nibbles at the adjacent possible dialogue is prologue to knowing who am I who you are us two us them, the bigger we no one's special each one ordinary yet all take...

  11. Gratitudes ♡ The Liminal

    I'm grateful for the liminal not quite there yet but on the way terse interstices undisciplined discipline crayons crossing lines Iitany of fear feel to steer stir the pot spot stripes in savannah keep walking though I don't wanna in nook of crevasse rebirths man child ego dissolves in the vast...

  12. Gratitudes ♡ Focus

    I'm grateful for focus to notice one's noticing watch the watcher spritz the spritzer one zeroed in binary thinking where's the linking? scratch the inkling catch the winking metanoia of metamoderna derivé of the derivative tournament of detournement how far is the fetched? pester the spectacle...

  13. Gratitudes ♡ Discernment

    I'm grateful for discernment to pick one from the many the magpie who sings knows which to peck on from multitudes hiding in the rich soil grass, pebbles, sticks, dried leaves petals, cap, gills, annulus, stalk the rooster knows when to crow leaves when to grow, wither, and fall panther eats…

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  14. Gratitudes ♡ Silent Soliloquy

    I'm grateful for silent soliloquy mind traverse used, disowned, alternative futures that which aligns with survival change that is social, glacial, at times inimical what uses have we for these cosmos honours not our tenure to be in flow with what changes that is what endures step into the river...

  15. Gratitudes ♡ The Rational

    I'm grateful for the rational that which enhances survival neocortex makes their case, grovels to basal ganglia who colanders overwhelmed by immediacy can blind to orders up from secondary to bind with practice allows one to see, know, be, beyond train to be with the strain use pain for…

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  16. Gratitudes ♡ The Irreducible

    I'm grateful for the irreducible crucible of parts congenially congealed there is much more in the concatenated whole information, the entropy of communication Maxwell's demon cannot know it all where in a flower can beauty be? dissected spiracle, thorax, mandible excised uncompounded five eyes...

  17. Gratitudes ♡ Human Alchemy

    I'm grateful for human alchemy enraptured epistemologies stochastic, probabilistic, ontic young & wild reasoned child now through a looking glass recursive reflections knowing in part the fullness of perfection pulls forked at each branching of being drink the witches' brew rich, bitter, melodic,...

  18. Gratitudes ♡ Boundaries

    I'm grateful for boundaries walking the tightrope of satisfaction & wanting more mastery & frustration dynamic demarcations of yes's and no's a perennial perhaps curious tongue savouring umami of unknowns bittersweet defeats salty surrender souring sympathies spicy speculations to feel what's…

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  19. Gratitudes ♡ Dissolution

    I'm grateful for dissolution disillusion deconstruction to fray tapestry at the edges unravel untangle rip to shreds a pretext, a context for a reweaving, a rebirth willful warp & woof find in the rubble of sacked temples cornerstones, key pieces, salutary structures rebuild brick by brick…

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  20. Gratitudes ♡ The Gestalt

    I'm grateful for the gestalt total from particulars knowing at once instinctual photons array beams of light impressive images emerge from pointillist marks some Higgs Bosons, a few quarks to keep you off track what do you see? an old hag or a fancy young lady? a glass from Chablis or faces about...

  21. Gratitudes ♡ Post-traumatic Growth

    I'm grateful for post-traumatic growth a tree grows around its wounds shattered teacups mended in fullness of zen attended bound back together with gold, it comes gilded angels released from rock only with Hephaestic hammering violent chiselling pearls born of sandy inside attacks oppressive pile...

  22. Gratitudes ♡ Co-dependence

    I'm grateful for co-dependence betwixt organisms & with one another gestalt baroque of filigreed functions that further more is different roses grow thorns frustrate ruminants gagging a chew on their bush bodies that they may grow & blossom release fragrance & hues to colour hearts of impassioned...

  23. Gratitudes ♡ The Distributed

    I'm grateful for the distributed weight, counterweight punto, contra punto impact hits it ripples through widely in space/time's fabric no, not simply equal a miserly measure of man rather congruent nature's embarrassment of riches symmetry of asymmetries asymmetry of symmetries functions link...

  24. Gratitudes ♡ The Human Body

    I'm grateful for the human body sinewy sinusoidal waveform of immanent incarnation upright, always on point losing balance vulnerable ventral exposed clothed by ingenuity habiting harnessed habitats Anthropos conquers scene corrupted by cunning ravage reservoirs of million years the sin of...

  25. Gratitudes ♡ Silence

    l am grateful for the silence in meditation a ceasing of persistent me allows the avatar to come down, interpenetrate at a point where doing meets being a crossroad where the finite comingles with the infinite ripening of fruit in complete surrender so it may become full & heavy drop effortlessly...

  26. Gratitudes ♡ The Ancestral

    I'm grateful for the ancestral knowing for survival whispered from one human to another only to those who can keep it pure untainted by hubris with the big picture recognise poison from cure cultivated attention not to miss forest for trees attenuation of greed grandmother to grandmother...

  27. Gratitudes ♡ Duality

    I'm grateful for duality primordial split cascade further splintering, contrasting, differentiating hydrogen fuels expansion helium, lithium, beryllium elements cohere, combine ad infinitum carbon, nitrogen, oxygen life born of promiscuous attraction semipermeable separation sodium, magnesium,...

  28. Gratitudes ♡ The Wound

    I'm grateful for this wound of separation a constant felt sense this drop was once in oneness with the ocean deep longing for return a turning once more pining to remember again to be a member this pain of wake up from the deep slumber ensconced within a pre-personal cocoon of comfort bestowed a...

  29. Gratitudes ∞ Rigour

    l am grateful for the rigour of the super astral a verticality that cuts through the Gordian Knot of wishy-washy custard horizontality a sword of light disinfecting the bullshit of pretence cutting down the flexing of egos falsifying the smokescreens of Narcissus infatuated con artists swiftly...

  30. Gratitudes ♡ The Heart

    l am grateful for the envelope of the heart where desires are born from deep within which shapes what the self values in the world it moves in, a process of unfolding, refolding, folding the other way always in medias res as values transform, undulate, reform, the self is remade not by outside...

  31. Orgasmic Meditation: a path to life in the erotic

    I answer questions about my experience of orgasmic meditation and describe a breakdown of the steps and techniques involved in the practice.

  32. Solitude, Shibari, Spirituality & Serendipity with Dani Elle

    What does one feel tying or being tied by the other? How does this relate to the solitude of quarantine, spirituality and the serendipity of finding things one does no overtly seek?

  33. Experiments with no-mind

    Jerwin Parker Roberto & I continue our previous conversation on goalessness. This time we dive deeper on experiences of being in the no-mind, the watcher, the emptiness that can allow a melting into the ocean of infinite totality.

  34. Orgasmic Meditation, a practice for Master Chef Orgasm

    This is the audio of the workshop I gave the Worldwide Festival of Erotic Living 2020. You can watch the video here if you like: https://youtu.be/gBAhI3Ln3-c

  35. On the goal of goalessness with Gokubrah Jerwin Parker Roberto

    We talk about the differences and nuances of setting goals, having plans, schedules compared with feeling our way through life.

  36. Resentment to desire

    I talk about (1) what do we mean by "resentment"; (2) why when we tackle our resentments we're working on clarity and not just vision, self excavation and not just direct practice; and (3) what is spiritual by-pass. I teach you the practice of Fear Inventory to help you excavate your resentments.…

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  37. #Asian #Men and #Sexuality with Amy Wu

    Amy and I talk around the challenges and opportunities facing Asian men and men in general as they navigate the world of Eros.

  38. Unshackled from the psychological shadow of time

    My friend Moritz Kerkmann Hood & I work within the limitations of language to describe our experience of what is it that happens when we project away from the present moment into the past or the future, into our shadow separated from us and this idea of hope for a better future or afterlife in a...

  39. Fragile Awakening

    I read a poem I wrote back in July 2004 after an Inner Space Interactive Sourcing session as a client. I reflect on the joy that vulnerability brings.

  40. Minulto sa WhatsApp (Ghosted in WhatsApp)

    This is a poem I wrote in my native tongue, Tagalog, about the feeling of being ghosted in WhatsApp by someone I fancied.

  41. THAT DAY I WOKE UP

    A poem I wrote back in 9 November 1997 in Makati City, Philippines. Transcript: https://liminaversity.com/that-day-i-woke-up-1.html

  42. Part 3 Reading "An Immanent Metaphysics"

    Part 3 of a series where I read the book "An Immanent Metaphysics" written by Forrest Landry and share with you my thoughts and reflections as I read and link it to whatever else I'm reading, thinking, or experiencing in my life at that moment. In a way, I'm taking you along on with me on my...

  43. Part 2 Reading "An Immanent Metaphysics"

    Part 2 of a series where I read the book "An Immanent Metaphysics" written by Forest Landry and share with you my thoughts and reflections on each paragraph of the text. In a way, I'm taking you along on with me on my learning journey of this text.

  44. Part 1 Reading "An Immanent Metaphysics"

    This is the first part of a series where I read the book "An Immanent Metaphysics" written by Forest Landry and share with you my thoughts and reflections on each paragraph of the text. In a way, I'm taking you along on with me on my learning journey of this text.

  45. HADES

    In this episode, I recite for you a poem I wrote back in 2004. The poem was inspired by the experiences in a past life regression session I was in. Transcript & show notes: https://liminaversity.com/hades-1.html

  46. Rebuilding a temple

    Ashok Zaman, meditation teacher, fashion model, and Master's Degree Student in Philosophy talks about rebuilding an Ēmítuófó temple on the outskirts of Shanghai after the purge and how a regular practice from this temple led him to a peak experience. Transcript:...

  47. Feminine and Masculine

    Megan Lambert & I talk about exemplary feminine leadership, why is there a need to teach women to be in their Feminine? and the promise that women can have it all. Transcript at: https://liminaversity.com/feminine-masculine-1.html

  48. Limits to choice

    Scott Murden & I round out our discussion of approval by touching on the freedoms & limitations afforded to choice-making by sustainability and diversity. Transcript of this episode at: https://liminaversity.com/limits-to-choice-1.html

  49. Master's Research on Orgasmic Meditation

    Camille Bataillon talks about her research on Orgasmic Meditation towards completing her Master's Degree in Sciences of Family & Sexuality. Transcript of this episode at: https://liminaversity.com/orgasmic-meditation-research-1.html

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It is the craft of meaningful action within imagined realities that moves us.

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Oliver James Damian

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