May 22, 2023
The air is cold and the ground is rough. After a grueling day tied to the metal bird, surviving the royal guards and tasteless metal bird food, I have finally arrived in the city of Berlin. The native seem polite, but I must stay vigilant. Their tongue is different. Usually I would consult the whispering stone to help me navigate, but the stone is not able to use the energy here. I must wait till I am somewhere with energy the stone recognizes. There are traces of a troubled history here, I can smell it in the air.
Tomorrow I meet the sorcerer. He says he can ‘transform’ my mind. Only time will tell.
May –, 2023
I closed my eyes, and the world around me folded into itself. He was chanting his spell. At first it was nothing, then something, then everything. I tried to keep steady, but even a 1000 years of practice under Ares and Aphrodite couldn’t prepare me for the wave of energy that came over me. I felt it crawl on my skin, not just here or there, but everywhere. My body lit up, as if illuminated by a million suns, and I had to break focus since I could no longer bear.
I learned the power of the body and mind. It constantly feels, but only perceives when and what I want. I’ll continue to broaden myself through this practice, to feel, to focus and to flow.
Jun 4, 2023
I had visions of a distant future. It was not pretty. There was no sun, no sea, and no grass. Only subjugation by silicon. The visions did not come easy, they had to be cajoled out. The master taught me how to use why, and how why worked remains a mystery to me. The mind is like a maze, and just asking reveals answers. Sometimes they are right, other times you run out of time. Even wrong answers can lead to the right ones.
May 30, 2023
Let your lonesome lie asleep, for today we work as a guild. People are hard, apples are easy. But with patience, I learned that just as there are different kinds of apples, there are different kinds of artisans, and each can add their own to the guild’s endeavor. With a little magic of the ‘why’, we knit together our spells into one that the world awes. Small realizations add up to big internal changes.
Jun 1, 2023
The scrolls of wisdom hold knowledge immense. Art and Fear revealed the truth. “The perfect is the enemy of the good”, they said. However, it is hard to follow the truth. However, the best I can do is remember, and fail and try and remember again. I hope that one day, it becomes second nature to follow instinct and ruthlessly iterate over criticism rather than to lie listless in the war-room, paralyzed and unable to make a move.
Jun 5, 2023
The radical sylph Poon flew by and let pour a sacred rain. In the pools of water we saw a beckoning. A call to be free, to let go, to experience fully, and to not be afraid. To do all in your reach, to polarize if you can, and to be antifragile. It was a different form of dance, one that is more felt than seen. I learned today the power of symbols, and of discomfort and pure experience.
Jun 7, 2023
It’s time to leave. The lessons I learned leave with me. It has been the most uncomfortable pleasure. Did I transform? Only time will tell.