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Chris
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Adventurer/Explorer 🏄‍♂️ 🧗‍♂️ 🪂 Born to Fiat Learned POW through Gold Evolving toward Bitcoin 👁️🍊💗🧬🦋

GM!

Waking to the uplifting vibe of this incredibly inspiring community reminded me of this quote….

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world. In fact, it’s the ONLY thing that ever has!” 🙏🏻💗

Thankful for you ALL.

Have a wonderful day 🥰

#GM #nostriches #bitcoin

Loving this Franny. Thanks for posting. 🧬🙏🏻

Replying to Avatar bailey

I was first introduced to bitcoin four years ago when I started dating nostr:npub18ukvmtrnk8e56g600r0vv8wvhvacgd452jajnws5gpttkglzttgqe0quqm . I found it fascinating, but, transparently, I had a lot of internal work to do before I had the capacity to dive into this thing that has the power to save the world.

My nervous system couldn’t handle learning about the truth of society and my place in it. My brain was traumatized so it couldn’t actually learn.

Anyway, I listened intently to Dylan and nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle for years as they riffed about decentralization and the power it can hold for humanity. I took it all in, mesmerized by the power of this thing, but I didn’t…. do anything? I just kept living in these systems that don’t work. Aware that the don’t work. But my mental pain was louder than any intuitive awareness I held about the topics my friends discussed.

I recently learned that 98% of our thoughts, motivations, and behaviors are subconscious. I have access to 2% of my brain as I write this post. Do you find that insane? I find that insane. Anyway, I digress.

What I’m trying to say is that I subconsciously stayed ignorant even thought this shit was right in front of my face because I was stuck in my fight or flight nervous system. My brain told me that the thought the only way to survive was so conform. It was preparing for danger at all times. Fear doesn’t breed abundance.

The Bitcoin Standard has been sitting on Dylan and I’s coffee table for the past two years. A few weeks ago, I did a Breathwork and meditation practice (I.e. regulated my nervous system to gain access to my intuition), and had a few hours to kill so I picked it up. I haven’t been able to put that book down since.

I picked it up because I’m confident that I’m prepared to be accountable for what I learn. First, I had to exit the matrix of the centralized mental health system. I had to start relying on my breath, yoga, health(ier) food, and healthy relationships to get to a place where I can engage in the solution. My personal experience speaks to Gabor’s idea of how the toxic culture we live in doesn’t allow us to get healthy enough to be willing to look for the truth. To be curious is to be courageous. We need to be safe to have access to optimal courage.

It took me four years of being so close to this community to have the courage to step into it. Idk why I’m sharing this but I think my story may have the potential to serve as a case study of what might need to happen to get people in a place to being open to truth, connection, and abundance.

Money is the foundation of safety, and safety is the foundation of health. Sound money = sound psychology = sound health. It’s all connected 🌎🫂🔄

Sharing like this, with raw, humble authenticity is part of your/our/society’s healing process.

Individually AND collectively.

This is the work. What we are all here to do. Thank you for sharing.

Keep going sister. 👁️🧘‍♀️💗 🦋

Aaaamen brother. 🙏🏻

And enjoy yourself whilst doing it! 💫

Morning Erik! Miss ya brotha! 💗

#GM my fellow #nostr travellers…. ☀️

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I was moved to tears several times at Bitcoin Atlantis in Madeira.

The quality, sincerity, generosity, kindness, respect, and encouragement which characterize the interactions I had is on a level I’ve never before witnessed or experienced.

All those people, with a shared passion and dedication for the mission, humbled by all which it represents, interacting with each other as fundamentally equal, but experientially and intellectually unique, creates the best possible foundation for friendship, for mutual understanding, for helping and supporting each other, or for just hanging out and basking in the shared experience, and whatever forces are generating it.

It’s become such a consistent occurrence (though more pronounced each time) that it’s easy to forget just how special it is.

Bitcoin (only) conferences aren’t ‘industry events’, they are little wormholes to the future that flash open for a few days so people can feel what things are like when we orient and express our actions around such a form of truth - as represented in, accessed through, and propagated by, bitcoin.

‘Number go up’ is great and necessary, and none of this would happen without it, but it’s a ‘means’, not an ‘ends’.

What is experienced between people when they are so humbled by the truth, and so lifted and liberated by its presence, is the true nexus of creative inspiration, from which all that is good and beautiful may spring. That is the true ‘ends’, which we might simply understand to be alignment with the generative force we call ‘love’, and the products thereof.

Not the phony, wishy-washy, ‘everyone can be right’ kind of ‘love’, but the one which allows for argument and debate, honest feedback and opinion, while remaining grounded in a paramount aim that is movement toward Truth, which subordinates any divisive differences to this, ultimately uniting, shared objective.

Anyways, Bitcoin Atlantis just reminded me how incredible what’s happening here really is, and how much of a pleasure and honour it is to be sharing it with you (you know who you are).

Thank you.

🧡

Wow John. So well put. An inspiring in and of itself. It was a profound pleasure to finally meet and spend some quality time together 🍕

Be well brother 🙏🏻

This whole week was such a gift.

Thank you @Gigi. 🙏🏻💗

GM 💗

Leaving Madeira this morning after an ineffable week of new friends, landscapes and inspiration.

I was humbled to my core to be in the presence of such generosity, love and connection everywhere I turned this week. Thank you Madeira. Thank you universe. 😌💫

#GM #spirituality #bitcoinatlantis