{"id":5953,"date":"2022-01-15T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2026-08-07T16:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:36:27","slug":"puppies-polarities-melding-consciousness-and-the-need-for-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/puppies-polarities-melding-consciousness-and-the-need-for-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppies, Polarities, Melding Consciousness And The Need For Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" data-en-clipboard=\"true\">Halfway through January already! Time is flying, and Nala is growing like a weed. She is wearing us out and I now distinctly remember how exhausting it is to raise a puppy. It is a beautiful blend of exhausting and joyous. I am thinking a lot about the dichotomies and polarities of life: freedom and constriction, lavishness and deprivation, creation and destruction, etc. These polarities are leading me to ways to meld or integrate the human consciousness with the subconscious and the god consciousness. What would it be to unify all three? More to come on that!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Meanwhile, check out this neat article&#8230; <b>Connection Is a Core Human Need, But We Are Terrible at It<\/b><\/div>\n<div>(<a href=\"https:\/\/forge.medium.com\/if-connection-is-our-core-human-need-then-why-are-we-so-bad-at-it-a904ae486a48\" rev=\"en_rl_none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/forge.medium.com\/if-connection-is-our-core-human-need-then-why-are-we-so-bad-at-it-a904ae486a48<\/a>)<\/div>\n<div>This awesome article goes in depth on the role of our connection with others, how we may have inadvertently deprioritized it, and how to make it top of mind again. (Supports Stage 4)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A diary about raising a new puppy that opens into reflection on life&#8217;s polarities, freedom and constriction, creation and destruction, and an emerging interest in melding human, subconscious, and god consciousness into one unified awareness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[44,1419,864,540,1625,1926,1781,357,1005,1003,1481,944,934,1454,1460,1002,43,1929,1927,865,371,879,354,1006,355,1004,372,358,1589,1928],"class_list":["post-5953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diary","tag-art","tag-business","tag-complete-connection","tag-connection","tag-consciousness","tag-consciousness-mastery","tag-couples","tag-cycle","tag-cycle-of-human-development","tag-finding-peace","tag-global-peace","tag-human-development","tag-kathryn-colleen","tag-lasting-peace","tag-lastingpeace-org","tag-life-optimization","tag-music","tag-personal","tag-podcasts","tag-purna-asatti","tag-religion","tag-roadmap","tag-seeing-yourself","tag-self-mastery","tag-self-development","tag-self-improvement","tag-spirituality","tag-stages","tag-understanding-people","tag-writing"],"acf":{"recommend_blurb":"For readers drawn to the paradoxes of life and the idea of integrating human, subconscious, and divine awareness, wrapped in a warm, everyday diary about puppy-raising.","citation_snippet":"Dr. Kathryn Messegee (Kathryn Colleen), \"Puppies, Polarities, Melding Consciousness And The Need For Connection,\" https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/puppies-polarities-melding-consciousness-and-the-need-for-connection\/","topics":["spirit","growth","mind"],"related_book":"","buy_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7412,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions\/7412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}