A reflection weighing the one-dominant-blockchain theory against a decentralized Internet of Chains, arguing that mass adoption will demand many interconnected, specialized chains for capacity, lower fees, and resilience against failure.
A personal essay on precognition and intuitive skill in Stage Eleven — arguing that while knowing your potential future can keep you safe and validate your purpose, it also breeds expectation and attachment that stall the very growth it foretells.
A Stage Nine teaching from the Purna Asatti journey on gathering the skills and knowledge your purpose requires, breaking large goals into small daily steps, and quieting the inner negative voice that resists any effort to grow.
A Stage Eight teaching from the Purna Asatti journey on designing your ideal life once your ideology is principle-based and ego has quieted — being specific and honest across every area, researching what each element requires, and manifesting from positive emotion.
A Stage Six exercise for seeing every person — liked or disliked — as a reflection of some past, present, or future aspect of yourself, and for consciously connecting to the divine light within each one to deepen compassion.
A Stage Six teaching on taking full responsibility and authority for one’s own life — recognizing that one’s own choices, not other people, cause and can solve most problems — as the foundation for lasting change.
A teaching on releasing the need to know the future or every answer, trusting that answers arrive when needed as you flow with life, and staying comfortable in not-knowing while still working toward understanding.
An essay questioning whether people should be defined by their past mistakes or their contributions, arguing for remembering both, restoring dignity to the forgotten, and judging others only as we ourselves would wish to be judged.
An abstract painting in shades of blue depicting a tiny self floating in the ocean as a great wave approaches, evoking the ambiguity of major, identity-altering change that is neither clearly good nor bad.
A gospel-blues original song, with full chords and lyrics, about the certain feeling that wonderful things are coming — written the morning of the author’s 2016 birthday — and about openly welcoming that unknown good as a return to one’s true self.