Who am i?
Who or what am I (not)? (True Self)
I am not the body. I am not the thoughts. I am not the brain. I am not the mind.
Who am i? (the persona or the little i)
i am a Solipsist Mystic. The little i, i think is more like a dream character in this dream of life. Writing now as this dream character (who now calls himself Atma):
i am an English guy who's been living abroad for 14 years, now settling down in Bulgaria. Since just before leaving England, having stumbled across some "spiritual" ideas which blew my mind and led me to choose to put my faith in the above concepts, and do my best to live as if it is truth.
Before that, i lived a "normal" life, working, saving, wife and children. I started a trucking business with two partners, quitting my job eight years later, moved to Turkey and sold my shares in the business about a year later.
Continuing the story but keeping it short, here are some highlights:
i began to learn to meditate, immersed myself in spiritual teachings, books and movies while in Turkey for 18 months, took a trip to Thailand to learn about yoga and do a teacher training. Moved on to Mexico, bought an RV, met a Huichol Shamana, got arrested in the desert for harvesting Peyote, lived at a yoga school for a couple of years, fasted for 41 days in the jungle in Yucatan, began researching holistic healing when a friend was diagnosed with cancer, opened a healing retreat centre in Mexico which i ran for 5 years, volunteered at a yoga school in France for 5 months, moved to India and stayed at an ashram for 10 months. And much more in-between. A journey of healing, emotional integration and so much more.
i seem to be a "big thinker', with "world changing" ideas flowing through me, and a "connector of people". About 8 years ago i registered the domain a-plan-for-peace (no longer online) as ideas came to me which included a network of small circles of 12 people, family / friends / like minded people who made plans, came to decisions, elected a representative to join with 11 other representatives from 11 other circles, and so on upwards until all of humanity were able to communicate with each other through elected reps (and directly), to make local and worldwide decisions, to share resources - and much more. I found myself unable to solidify the ideas or present them to others in a way that could be understood.
Not long after that i came across Larry K Mason's Nopom system which blew me away. Last week i revisted this and found Perry Gruber's Copiosis system which has been birthed from Nopom. I won't share links here as this is supposed to be my introduction post, but will do later in other posts. Please follow me @atma.love to find out more.
About 2 weeks ago, i felt inspired to revisit these ideas so began researching for a platform that could host such a system. Just over a week ago i found Steemit and then a post by a guy named John (@matrix-8) describing a similar system (and so much more) and his plans to build it on Steem. My heart lept with joy.
Over the last week i have been reading all of John's website in which he describes eloquently and in great detail all the ins and outs of the Matrix-8 platform. I've also read probably fifty or more posts from other amazing people writing some exceptional articles (for example @sorin.cristescu, @edicted, @acidyo, @pstaiano and many more) following them (and many more), made a few comments and resteemed many of these exceptional posts (check out my feed https://steemit.com/@atma.love/feed to read).
It feels like i've come home! (feeling emotional now as i type :-).
I've run out of RC many times (SP delegation invited). Fortunately i've finally found a way to buy some Crypto (neither of my banks would let me - one ever threatening to close my account if i tried again) so soon i should have plenty of Steem Power so i can post more :-) and continue with my research and learning and connecting with fellow would be peace-realisers and we'll see what comes out of the melting pot.
I look forward to connecting with more and more of my new family here in Steemland and doing my best to help the network and the members to thrive.
I encourage all to read and share (internally and eternally) @matrix-8's aforementioned post: A Newbie's Combination Introduction and White Paper. I invite those who read it and are inspired, to join me in an 8-PAC. Comment below, or message me on steem.chat or on Discord (Atma#0710) so we can begin to move this world changing plan forward to help realise peace and abundance for all beings in this play of life.
Namaste
Your dream character, Atma Love
My website on which i share about holistic health is http://healing-haven.com
PS. i would really appreciate you if you upvote this post (only if you like it) and comment below to share your thoughts/ask questions or just to say hi. This will help me increase my RC so i can vote, follow and post more. Thank you kindly in anticipation of you doing so.
PPS. i offer holisctic health coaching (locally or online) by donation, i receive volunteers and retreat guests at Atmanna http://atmanna.com my home and retreat. i accept STEEM, SBD & LOTUS
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I am very pleased to make your acquaintance, and will follow those links you've suggested when time allows. Welcome! I see you have found a way to survive here. Thanks for your recent support of my work. You sound like a guy I will come to again and again.
I'm very happy to make your aquaintance too @owasco. I look forward to continued interaction with you, and your thoughts after you have followed those links.
Paz y amor
Atma
Hi and congratulations, you have been announced as a winner for the month's delegation in this round of “For the Love of Comments.”
Great. Thank you so much. Thanks too @riverflows for recommending.
One Love
River's a star! Shout out of you have any questions.
My best tip is to use your upvotes and you'll make good use of the delegation.
Thanks. I assume using my upvotes reduces RC and not SP. Am I correct? And if so as long as I am not low on RC is there any reason not to vote 100% all the time, or is this supposed to be an indication of how much I like the post?
One love
Upvoting doesn't touch your SP. That is just a measure of how valuable your upvotes are. Your RCs and VP (vote power) reduce, but they build back up over time. At 100% upvote, you should be able to make 10-11 per day and it will be fully recharged by the following day. The lower your VP gets, the lower the value of your vote is and both you and the person you're voting on will benefit less, so it's recommended to keep your VP above 80%. https://steemworld.org/@atma.love is a good resource to monitor your a account statistics.
Welcome to the community! ~ from the HoboDAO
Thank you.
oh that “journey of healing, emotional integration”! People ask me what I was doing from 2012-2018, this is how I should answer!
Your idea is very much how I’ve seen certain friends in social movements function, some in those communities are also on similar journeys of healing. I can tell you about it if we ever meet in the chat rooms :-)
Feel free to share about it here if you like. I'm rarely in the chat rooms as I prefer to read and write compsed posts.
Thanks for your comment.
Peace be with you
Atma
Welcome to Steem! You have taken the first step in achieving many goals here at the crossroads of cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and social media. Consistent engagement is needed to progress and grow your following and influence. I am currently working on a weekly post to curate new users and providing them an introduction to the ecosystem. I have selected your post as one I will feature in an upcoming post! In addition, I have published a post that provides great references to assist you in your journey. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or feedback!
Thank you kind Sir.
I will take a look at your post. I've already had a quick look at your blog and see some interesting post headers. I look forwarding to reading more.
Namaste
Atma
Good to meet this dream character @atma.love!
Wow you really have done much and seems like a very fulfilling life!
so glad you found Steem and feel like you have arrived home!
I'll be checking out some of the posts you mentioned. they are all new to me.
Have you heard of the ecoVillages being started - check @eco-alex posts out or www.ecovillages.io
Glad to have you aboard! Followed and looking forward to your future posts!
Hello porters. Good to meet you too.
Yes, it has certainly become more fullfilling since i began to wake up 14 years ago and left the UK, began to travel and explore the inner self, that freaky stuff as an ex gf used to call it :-)
I will check out the ecovillages. A though passed my mind a couple of days back to open up my place for a #SteemEcoRetreat in the summer perhaps. I'll mull that over and see what comes.
If you catch the inspiration from the posts and would like to help develop and implement a #RealisePeace revolution, let me know and i can share more.
Namaste
Best wishes in your spiritual journey. i am also slowly, finding my way around this existence, trying to understand what this thing call life is all about. 😊
Thanks Vincent. Me too. It's a never ending journey, well until we realise the self. Then we and the world is no longer here. So say the wise ones who came before us.
You might like to check out The Presence Process by Michael Brown. Its a self facilitaded emotional integration procedure. A phemomenal peice of work. I recommend it to virtually everyone. I can share it with you if you like.
Peace and Love to you
Atma
ps. website is healing-haven, so we must be brothers :-)
Hi Atma. Yes, a never ending journey indeed.
Thank you for the shout out to The Presence Process. I have bookmarked the site and will have a closer look when I have a moment.
Bliss to you,
Vincent
Hello there. Welcome to steemit. Currently I am using esteem application for steemit, and it felt easier to read other post and replies. You can give it a try if you like to.
Seems like you've been living your life into the fullest. A lot of adventures in your journey.
Hope that you will have a wonderful journey in this platform too.
Hi heartbeat. Thanks for the welcome. I use esteem too on my phone, and mostly now Steempeak on laptop. My life sure is an adventure.
How is yours?
Namste
Atma
Not as adventurous as yours but just nice. Still struggling to make daily basis need enough, paying debts and everything but I'm happy as I am. I believe it will get better within 5 to 10 years.
By then, just living everyday until the fullest. Thanks for asking.
Stay longer here in steemit and you'll see that there is a lot of good writers that share a lot of wonderful things inside that some of them make my everyday stronger in my struggle.
Here is some of my favourites writers, tarazkp, giantbear, wakeupkitty, kenny-crane. Maybe you would like to take a peek on what they write.
Thanks. I'm here for the duration. I can see already that Steem is the best of the best and so much more to come.
If you have some time and passion to join up for the matrix-8 platform, and can put some energy into it, you could well see rewards much sooner than your 5-10 year outlook. Did you read the link within my post above? I in-courage you to do so if not. Let me know your thoughts.
Re. your finger surgery. Good luck with that (assuming you choose to go ahead with it). But you should know that the doctor knows *hit about it. I can advise if you're open to holistic treatment which will deal with the root cause. You can do it yourself for little or no cost. If you check out my latest post Holistic Healing for any Dis-Ease you'll get an idea. Again, let me know if you're inerested.
Peace and Love
Atma
#peaceolution
#thegreatliberation
Thank you. Yes, I'm going with the surgery, I once did it myself before with success but this time I failed. So, I decided to let the doctor take over and it will be a great experience for me. Something tht I can share with my patients later in the future.
I haven't read about matrix but I'm wondering about it. I'm also still getting to know team ccc but I'll get there eventually. Thank you for sharing.
You have one great start in this platform.
Hey @heartbeat1515
Please take a look at this post i made today: https://steempeak.com/hive-110490/@atma.love/crypto-mass-adoption-how-will-ecoin-affect-steem-and-other-crypto-s
It may well help with debts in the not too distant future if you sign up now.
May peace be with you
Atma
Hey mate, welcome!
Looking forward to reading more of your work on Natural Medicine
Welcome...I will drop you a 50sp delegation when I get back to my PC later to keep you going!
Don't tell me the bank that threatened to close your account was Monesse?
Best wishes and look forward to further reading :-)
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Hey Nathen. Thanks muchly. I appreciate you.
Bank. How did you guess? Yes indeed it was Monese. I was surprised. Apart from this i have found them to be an excellent bank. I've sinced looked at their terms and conditions more closely and it does say that they cannot currently make crypto currency transactions but are actively working to make it possible (paraphrased).
I was in Thailand for about 6 months back in 2008. Nearly 3 months on Koh Phangan (or however its spelt) doing a yoga teacher training.
I look forward to reading some of your posts too.
Peace and love brother