The BioFi Project的动态

5 years of sitting at the death bed of strangers expanded my vision???? For more than 5 years I’ve been volunteering to be accompanying dying people to ensure they don’t die alone. The Danish word is V?getjeneste, translated meaning; The Watch Service. I sit besides dying people through the night. Because no one should die alone, unless they choose to. Through out the years I’ve met many souls in their final moments before passing, and in their moment of passing, but that’s a story for another time. Conversations held on the actual death bed are one of a kind. They are honestly some of my favorite ones. There’s no fvcks left, there’s no one to impress, no ones feeling to be scared of hurting. Only truth that want to come out. Be said out loud. These conversations changed something fundamental in me. They have awakened a knowing in me. One thing is the common denominator in all these conversations. The biggest regret from the actual death bed is; “I regret living my life as I was “supposed to”, according to what other people wanted.” This isn’t news for me, I’ve read it in research papers for years (my background is in health research in the humanities). But meeting this regret in real life. Hearing an actual dying person saying this… it heart breaking. ?? I couldn’t imagine a more horrible way to leave this earth, being in deep regret. It is one of my deepest fears. And it was a driving factor for me to take the leap into my entrepreneurial journey. Living your truth can be scary. Living outside the “supposed to” receipt for a ‘good life’ can be scary. But honestly — Isn’t it more scary to be flooded with regret on your death bed? Wishing you could have done the things YOU wanted to do? My big vision for my work is to eliminate this regret. To free the brave men and women who desire to live their lives THEIR way. Turn your fear into your power, define who you WANT to be, create powerful relationships and live a life where you are empowered, honest & free to be all of you. If you are done living as “you are supposed to” my 1:1 is for you. DM the word “power” to inquire ??

We belong to each other Tuesday’s result was a gut punch. For many reasons, but mainly because so many of us desperately want something better, something beautiful and just. Because so many of us and our ancestors have worked tirelessly to dream it, to build it. We know our opponent, we know what they want to do to us. We can never underestimate this administration and the Project 2025 agenda. We know there will be detrimental consequences for ourselves, family, neighbors, and friends. Like many of y’all I am tired, but I know there will be opportunities to resist and grow stronger together. What I know for sure is that how we treat each other and the decisions we make at this moment matters. Caring for our essential needs so we are able to show up for ourselves and each other is not optional, it is non-negotiable. Learning why people we thought were with us weren’t is a postmortem we must undertake if we want to rebuild trust across lines of solidarity. It would be easy to only focus on the needs of our immediate communities. Easy to turn our backs on each other in this moment of great fear and dread. We must not. That is what they want. They will not make me care less about other people because I am worried about myself. They do not get to have me lead from a place of individualism and fear. How we choose to lead in this moment is crucial for our long-term survival. We must only and always lead from a place of great love and care. Caring for ourselves and each other is what makes us human, we must embrace it. That is how we win. The intense emotions or numbness y’all are experiencing right now is our collective pulse, a pulse that tells me just how much we still want to create and live in a more compassionate and loving world. And, the well is infinite on how much I can love. How much WE can love and care for each other. That is something that they have never and will never take from us. They might have laws to try to control my body but my spirit belongs to me. We belong to each other. This is a time for us to get clear on what we mean when we say, “we are in community with each other,” not just in theory but in praxis. What does that look like day to day? What does that look like when you are safe and I am not? What does that look like when I have needs being met and you do not? Just sitting in rooms together is not enough. Politics is practice. Now it is time for praxis. Now is the time for us to lean into our values. Now is the time for us to come closer together than ever before. What we do, what we seed, what we invest in, and how we lead in this moment matters.

In Choosing Seclusion… Choice is a cause Choosing brings effects. Effects bring potential closure Into perceived final ending. Heart thoughts mitigate all Rummaging memories In choosing seclusion… Quiet time, all looking for a fuller Self. Please, no grief in this Just joy, and understood tenderness. ___*___ Still, in understanding… Tears of sadness and pain Joy, and tenderness All are Nature’s way Of embracing Its Self With me as the welcome party. All the while Sun’s a’shining… “In which ‘isness’, I wonder?” ___*___ For in this, one sees... This me in I, again… expanding… Towards enclosing effects Again within the whole of I… Though larger. Hugging into a state of fully, balanced love Or not… Tears coming home to Earth-side For reflection… As was always intended Tears, acknowledged, heralded as such… worthy. Joy or sorrow The same… harsh water. ___*___ Turned to softer waters Warming through the inviting, settled fires of skin Into, around, absorbed into the more Outside airs and spirits… Streaming, steaming lightly Drawn forth Ah, to enter Earth’s softly sailing, misty airs For more select flying in this world Meeting more away-from-home-bound parts. ___*___ Home-bound parts… Looking for their own spirit-partners. Oh see, they too are wily, absorbing Their needed life stream… As spirit-to-spirit merges into higher natures Providing their own heavenly comforts. Truly all learning in this… The Whole acknowledging… The community knowing this eternal truth… One is never truly alone. ___*___ Anywhere in the Cosmos finds this truth Even into the Beyond Understanding. Worth countless repeats… ‘One is never truly alone.’ I settle in, at peace knowing this… Even drawing tears, welcome or not Now understood… as my own truth… One, truly alone… That, I find smiling, is… an impossibility. bdrusch@05/24/2024

Charlie Munger was worth $2.6 billion at the time of his death. A few years ago he answered a question about envy at the Daily Journal annual meeting. What he said everyone needs to hear: Now, the trouble with that is, is that the basic?needs?are pretty well filled… And what happens is, it’s really interesting, is with all this enormous increase in living standards and freedom and diminishment of racial inequities and all the huge progress that has come, people are less happy about the state of affairs than they were when things were way tougher. And that has a very simple explanation. The world is not driven by greed. It’s driven by envy. And so the fact that everybody’s five times better off than they used to be, they take it for granted. All they think about is somebody else has more now, and it’s not fair that he should have it and they don’t. That’s the reason that God came down and told Moses that you couldn’t envy your neighbor’s wife or even his donkey… And so it’s built into the nature of things. It’s weird for somebody my age, because I was in the middle of the Great Depression and the hardship was unbelievable… I have no way of doing anything about it. I can’t change the fact that a lot of people are very unhappy and feel very abused, after everything’s improved by about 600%, because there’s still somebody else who has more. I have conquered envy in my own life. I don’t envy anybody. I don’t give a damn what somebody else has. But other people are driven crazy by it. And other people play to the envy, in order to advance their own political careers. And we have whole networks now that they want to pour gasoline on the flames of envy…?I liked the people who were against envy, not the people who were trying to profit from it. Think of the pretentious expenditures of the rich. Who in the hell needs a real Rolex watch so you can get mugged for it, you know. Yet everybody wants to have a pretentious expenditure and that helps drive demand in our modern capitalist society. My advice to young people is don’t go there. The hell with the pretentious expenditure.?I don’t think there’s much happiness in it. But it does drive the civilization we actually have?and drives the dissatisfaction.

23 days till the end. We are offered an ANTIDOTE that will allow us to become a SAVIOR. How would we spend our final days with such power? The clock is ticking. What will we do? While humanity discovered the ultimate power to recreate the world, the Ark, they also UNLEASHED an entity that was once sealed. This entity goes by many names, but it is best described as a mental parasite. It is a rot that has infected the entire world. It has brought the world to its knees.? Blinding us to the BEAUTY of the world around us. Made us forget the amazing people or things we have at our side.? Destroyed love and peace. It has us focused on arbitrary goals. ?? Thus the world is ending in 23 days and the Ark will once again be ACTIVATED. WE are offered an antidote that will cure us of the corruption that infected us. It will allow us mental freedom. Ability to have hope. To BELIEVE. Shine bright and defy the eternal cycle of despair. Would we drink it?? We’d gain awareness, and a LIGHT that cannot be dimmed, allowing us to help our loved ones or even the world. Some might call such a person a savior. What would we do with such POWER? Help improve the world as much as possible? Maintain the status quo? Or make it more beneficial for our own selfish needs? ?? So now we are FREE. How will we spend our last days? Do we DECIDE to explore what the world has to offer and how each society chose to handle this event? One decides to create a festival to celebrate life. Another retreats into the wilderness. Becoming one with nature and minimalism. One a modern Utopia with technological conveniences to help us forget. Another chooses to pursue religion, faith, and spirituality. REGARDLESS of their differences, each society had their own problems that needed solving. We begin talking to the people. Hearing their stories. Walking in their footsteps. We SEE the solution, but they simply can’t due to the rot inside them. Do we help? ?? Now we begin to CARE. They matter to us. We want them to enjoy their final days. Not for any other reason but for them to experience love and hope. As we solve their problems they ask us how they can repay us? “Live, and spread it forward”. The reward matters not. We are SHAPING the future. As we continue to help people on our journey we begin to notice that the “vibe” is changing. Negativity and fear used to reign supreme. Yet after helping a few individuals in each SOCIETY, everything now seems more lively. ?? Are things changing?? Did a small shining light make people REALIZE there is always hope? IF time can change behavior why not act now? Why not treat it as always on a TIME limit? What are we doing? Why are we not enjoying life, uplifting and spreading hope? Why wait to make this paradise? We can’t change that it took this moment to spur action, but we can START NOW and make it better. ?? Was the antidote a placebo? We shall never know. But the ACTIONS that happened were real. Will we be saviors?

“Awakening” is a term often associated with enlightenment and ascension. A spiritual experience or rite of passage into higher consciousness and awareness. An initiation into Love and Light. My “Awakening” happened as a result of a significant mental injury, causing amnesia and complete identity loss. A dark night of the soul since 2019. I felt terrified. I've lived with CPTSD. I’ve experienced terror, loss, and grief. I've woken up each day not recognising myself or the people I’ve known for years. And with all this, I first experienced it while living in a different country, in a new city, without friends and family (barring one incredible ally), with piling expenses and professional responsibilities. I felt hopeless. Yet among the myriad of issues and challenges it incited, the gifts have been plentiful and profound. Things get real simple. You find out quickly what you believe in and what you’d live for. You realise what’s kept you prisoner. Disillusionment becomes a welcome friend in the darkness, as painful as it is, because it sheds light on the truth. You forget who you were, so that you can remember who you are. It’s a tragedy how many bright lights are lost due to mental illness and the consequences of others, unintended and otherwise. So as the new year draws closer, I’d like to express that you’re not alone. There IS life after awakening. There IS life after loss and pain. And while it may indeed by a long, dark tunnel to journey through, there are glimmers of light along the way. Sprint into the light, and never give up. Here’s to you, and whatever the new year brings. You can do it.

On a day like today it is easy to get paralysed by the belief that nothing makes sense anymore, or that we have no power or no longer a reason to act. These are no doubt worrying and disturbing times, and we must tend to our pain eagerly, like medicine women would to injured warriors. Let’s collectively & simultaneously, also stay mindful of our bodies' impulses to freeze or flee. Last night I received a message from Roshi Joan Halifax at LionsRoar, an organisation that weaves with Buddhist teachings for our times. It was about something she called Wise Hope, a concept that I sense is aligned with Joanna Macy’s Active Hope. Unlike the kind of hope that we might call Relentless Hope, that is often present in dysfunctional family systems where we keep trying harder to change someone who is unwilling or even incapable of changing, Wise Hope is about facing the truth of our situation without flinching. It is also an invitation to step into the liminal space of not knowing. “Wise Hope is not seeing things unrealistically but rather seeing things as they are, including the truth of suffering—both its existence & our capacity to transform it", says Roshi Joan Halifax. "It’s when we realise we don’t know what will happen, that this kind of hope comes alive; in that spaciousness of uncertainty is the very space we need to act.” Wise Hope, as I understand it, is therefore about seeking out our own agency, moment to moment, in the knowing that change is about taking action on something that makes sense today, here & now, regardless of its outcome, rather than from a conviction that something will turn out well. In this way, Wise Hope is very different to optimism. So today, tending to our emotions & reaching out to community, might be the most necessary important steps for us to take action on, instead of immediately rushing to the anxious question, 'what now'? Personally, I am feeling the kind of energy I often feel in times of crisis: a deep connection to my values & how I want to show up in the world. A feeling of being soberly brought into the present moment: if all might be lost anyway, what have we to lose by bringing our most authentic & real selves to the world? "We have nothing to lose but our chains" Assata Shakour ???What if the election news could activate us into shedding any last remnants of playing into the old paradigm: letting go of our last masks, shackles & shields? ??? Who can we be in team humanity when we let go of any final drops of pretending? ??? Who can we be in our human family, if we allow this moment to be one where we finally choose to see & accept ourselves fully & wholly as we are? Only when we liberate ourselves, have we the power to support the liberation of others & the collective whole. And the more free we are, the more liberating our actions will be, as we choose to move forward with Wise Hope, today, tomorrow and for the rest of our days. ???

?? Believe in Yourself: The Key to Recovery Success ?? In the journey of recovery, self-belief is your guiding star, illuminating the path towards healing and transformation. ?? When you believe in yourself, you ignite a powerful force within that propels you forward, even in the face of adversity. ?? But here's the secret sauce: while self-belief is essential, it doesn't exist in isolation. It's nurtured and strengthened by the supportive community around you. The people who stand beside you, cheering you on, and showing you why you're worth believing in are invaluable treasures on your recovery journey. ?? At our center, we understand the profound impact of community support on individual recovery. That's why we foster a culture of encouragement, acceptance, and empowerment. Our community is here to remind you of your strength, resilience, and inherent worth, even when you may struggle to see it yourself. ?? Together, we celebrate your victories, lift you up during challenges, and remind you of the incredible potential within you. With the unwavering support of your community, you'll discover newfound depths of self-belief and confidence to overcome any obstacle that comes your way. ?? Believe in yourself, dear friend, for you are capable of achieving remarkable things. And remember, you're never alone on this journey. Together, we'll continue to inspire, uplift, and empower each other towards a brighter, healthier future. ?? #BelieveInYourself #CommunitySupport #RecoveryJourney #YouAreStrong

It is not easy to do things outside of a defined structure and system. Especially when you thrive within routine and understood boundaries (never bound within them). There is no supervision and no team to discuss things with. No one whom you can ask to step in, and make the call on a hard situation. Anger and frustrations get misdirected or sometimes go unrecognized and I'm left unable to understand where those feelings originally stemmed from. My daughter has had to put up with so much as well as building & helping m2m. What we thought we were walking into was much darker than we imagined. She is both proud of the fighter and strong Mum I am and protective and sad at watching me have to battle time after time. Imagine the most painful moments from your past and any actions or situations that still haunt you - being right up against it unable to leave it as past because you are watching those early ones day after day. Knowing your past actions/decisions hurt your child and watching children at the start of that. I'm no support/key worker, i hate that stuff. No off time, no work phone they stick to, guilt if I switch off at all. Worrying that I won't be able to hand over the active network and what might happen if I haven't done this successfully by November. Both relief and heartache but knowing it is for the good of the message, the good of mothers who use drugs, to be putting together the new M2M steering group that will replace me. I'm not the right person to lead nor would I expect to be able to help and harm in the same space at the same time. I love what we built, I love that it has had so much more meaning than originally intended. I love all the mothers and I am not so proud that I can't admit I feel a bit lost at the thought of being without it. Of it going on without me. I know for it to expand and help and challenge successfully that must happen. A bit nervous about an unknown future. Time to move forward not gracefully because I made myself unemployable which was not my plan. Definitely dramatically. There was never any real plan, just respond react repeat, making sure if faced with it I would not be left with regrets. I have always been contradictions, both extremes, relentless. I am 50 this year I have been fighting for 40 of them, I want happy peace now. I think! ?? I fear nothing, I have faced my worst, she was taken, nothing else can match that. How easy never facing that punishment must be - power & privilege parading as peer is hard to watch. It's on my list to expose before the end. I do not apologise for the truth, for making Mothers central. I don't like that I have had to create so much destruction & harm to do it. I watch with disdain at puppet peers those too scared to do anything real. I'm hoping that SUI & peer can have true meaning again. Not packaged for bank or professionalized with no substance. You'll miss this me I'm good to love or hate. I'll miss this me too, she's good to love & hate.

On Wednesday, Sept 4 2024 at 6.30pm EST, we took courageous steps towards invoking and meeting our Swampy Monster. Our Swampy Monster served as proxy towards our self-worth. Everyone has a Swampy Monster and there is no shame in this, though, it is time we bring our Swampy Monster into our consciousness. To encounter the Swampy Monster is to endeavour into the shadow world but this time, not with guards up, rather with open arms. With intentions towards peacemaking and relationship building. This journey we take towards openly acknowledging not only the fact that the Swampy Monster is present and alive in us individually and collectively, but that they also plays a role in our day to day. This then opens up choices and paths that were once not available to us. There is such a stark difference between actions that are derived from lack of self worth and acknowledgement of it and self worth. And so to meet our Swampy Monster is to also meet the infinite pathways now available to us: we are presented with options as to what will inform our choices. It is much like the image the 9 of Lotuses show: there is difference in living under murky waters or to emerge out from there. Unacknowledged, Our Swampy Monster is likely to wreak havoc on ourselves and our systems. But even to acknowledge our Swampy Monster, this exercise may feel disorienting in the beginning. We may feel defensive and may resort to our often fighting ways. Yet there is another possibility, again, that opens up: mending. Reconciliation. Seeking forgiveness for the spaces and places we have done war in. Unnecessarily. Incessantly. Just because we were unable, at that time, to acknowledge our Swampy Monster. It is to develop mastery of repair. To acknowledge our Swampy Monster, we are offered choice. Possibility. There is now fertile ground for growth of something new. For new forms of information. New portals that open up to us. While we are unclear on what precisely the futures looks like, the Swampy Monster assures us through the cards that there are possibilities beyond what we can imagine when we just take time to love our Swampy Monster. To love ourselves. To love this Earth. It was such an honour to share this space with those who carved out precious time to engage in this dialogue. Here is what some participants had to say: "I really enjoyed the experience of weaving together and exploring the different threads of the concept of self-worth and the ‘swampy monster’. Zemina set the scene really beautifully with the pre-read and how she facilitated the space." "being in community felt so rich and rewarding. i didn’t speak but didn’t feel pressured to either. it was a safe and invigorating space" To learn more about self-worth and the Swampy Monster, download the read here: https://lnkd.in/eK4nNd_X I look forward to seeing you at the next Collective Wondering. #futures #spiritualfutures #tarot