I was looking through my high school journals, and I found some philosophical texts. Here's one that I found most worth sharing, which I wrote at 16:

Sometimes, when I ponder life, I feel like life as it unfolds is just a "sensory distorted hallucination". I'm not truly experiencing reality, I'm experiencing my own thought patterns, emotions and knowledge, spread over a canvas. The canvas had a painting on it before, but I can't simply see the painting, I am blind until my own mind paints over that canvas and gives me something similar, but not quite what it truly is. This is probably how most people experience things as well, if not all people, but many do not consciously understand this distortion caused by one's perception of self, they simply think of it as reality being perceived and nothing else. As one learns, grows their mind and soul, one can more clearly control their emotions and thought habits, which changes the projection on the canvas. If truth is your goal that you are aligning towards, you will work to make the projected painting as close as possible to the original one.
- Commentary on Kant

This one I still pretty much consider true, and spirituality has grown my understanding of this conclusion. However, there are a lot that I disagree with nowadays, specifically a lot of commentary on Hegel or Kafka.

Always fun to see how my thinking and habits have grown. Journal, guys, it's useful.

Sección del Templo de Zeus: Nuestro Dios Principal Zeus​

Abril 1, 2025

1. Nuestro Dios Principal y Verdad Eterna: Satya
2. Los Nombres de Zeus en los Eones
3. Nombres de Zeus: Dyeus Pater
4. Zeus

MEDITATION PATH UPDATE - Wim Hof and Pranayama progress

I've hit a decent stride in my meditation routine. I essentially am running all of the essentials, have a better understanding of energy work, cleaning is going well, protection is consistent, Yoga is great (although I'm still working on doing more of it), I've finally introduced some Chakra empowerment/feeding through the Full Chakra Meditation (haven't spent enough time with it to bring a report on it, but I will soon), I've been able to enter trance during meditations without a huge amount of prep time, and I'm doing a couple workings at all times.
That's great for me, as I essentially don't need to actively worry about changing my routine for a while, as I'm doing all that is needed and making consistent improvements.

This allows me to spend some more time studying our work, pondering various things, journaling, planning, and setting goals.

One thing I did want to delve deeper into is pranayama, as I don't really do that much of it. Obviously, the Yogic Breath is part of my routine due to Foundation Meditation, and I'm also doing alternate nostril breaths whenever I feel the need to.
However, other than a little grounding from the ANB, and the Yogic Breath being a fundamental thing to practice for general meditation, I haven't really experienced direct benefits from pranayama, direct feelings that I can attribute to be beneficial, or experiences through which I can really understand the fact that it is essential.

I asked for some advice from my GD, and I was directed towards the Wim Hof method. Skeptical ass that I am, I do some research on whether this practice has any merit as far as ancient wisdom.
It sort of does. It's basically just a Bhastrika or a Fire breath (with a weaker exhale) followed by a Kumbhaka hold. 30 isn't some magic number mentioned within ancient texts, so I'm going based on feel instead.

The energy buzz was great, whereas with the regular Sun breath I don't seem to get similar effects. I also entered a light trance with it, which was surprising.

One of the reasons why I'm focusing on pranayama right now is to raise my general capacity for energy and condition myself for higher bioelectricity in a safe and steady way. So, this seems like a great exercise to introduce into my routine.

I'll come back with another post once I've had some time with it, to see how it improves over time and how my body reacts to higher levels of energy.