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Destined Union
Destined Union
Coming out later in life is not uncommon. Many come out in their 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and even later. People in their 40’s and older were raised in an era when heterosexuality and monogamy were the only openly accepted options for living life. People who come out later in life realise that they have always been what they thought they weren’t but now finally have had the honour of getting to know. Some are shocked at their discovery but most are comfortable becoming who they really are, who they have always been, but now have a new understanding for. Destined Union is a story of coming out later in life and also a becoming who you really are story. #Polyamory #Bisexual #Pansexual #LimitlessLove #ComingOut
Coming out later in life is not uncommon. Many come out in their 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and even later. People in their 40’s and older were raised in an era when heterosexuality and monogamy were the only openly accepted options for living life. People who come out later in life realise that they have always been what they thought they weren’t but now finally have had the honour of getting to know. Some are shocked at their discovery but most are comfortable becoming who they really are, who they have always been, but now have a new understanding for. Destined Union is a story of coming out later in life and also a becoming who you really are story. #Polyamory #Bisexual #Pansexual #LimitlessLove #ComingOut
Were You Sent(enced) to School?
When Tina was 7 she ran home the first day of school as she was told to start competing against her classmates, for life.
When Swedish, Irish based author Tina Brescanu was 7 she ran home the first day of school as she was told to start competing against her classmates, for life. No nurturing of the human spirit just plain competition.
So the question to ask ourselves may be, 'Is school an anti-child institution, a control centre where forced teaching and competition is part of keeping students docile, passive and non-questioning?'
For many sensitive children like Tina this was the beginning of a very long roller coaster ride.
She used laughter as a life-saving mechanism and always investigated what she had been told was a fact.
Two teachers ventured further than the education plan; her Swedish teacher and her English teacher.
They nurtured her passion for storytelling, for words, for language and despite leaving school early, going on to learn more from life, she still gives thanks to these two extraordinary teachers.
Succumbing to the deep sleep of adulthood, she was awoken many years later by her two children. They reminded her of her love of writing. This was her first story; it’s a story for unconventional children and young people with deep hearts.
When Swedish, Irish based author Tina Brescanu was 7 she ran home the first day of school as she was told to start competing against her classmates, for life. No nurturing of the human spirit just plain competition.
So the question to ask ourselves may be, 'Is school an anti-child institution, a control centre where forced teaching and competition is part of keeping students docile, passive and non-questioning?'
For many sensitive children like Tina this was the beginning of a very long roller coaster ride.
She used laughter as a life-saving mechanism and always investigated what she had been told was a fact.
Two teachers ventured further than the education plan; her Swedish teacher and her English teacher.
They nurtured her passion for storytelling, for words, for language and despite leaving school early, going on to learn more from life, she still gives thanks to these two extraordinary teachers.
Succumbing to the deep sleep of adulthood, she was awoken many years later by her two children. They reminded her of her love of writing. This was her first story; it’s a story for unconventional children and young people with deep hearts.
Review of The Power of Death
There is a saying that the coward dies several times but the brave only once, I disagree and say it’s the other way around, in fact, the brave die every day.
Your story starts with the birth of your idea about yourself. You have to learn to separate yourself from your idea about yourself. The religious personality is the strongest personality. When you believe you don’t really know, most information comes from someone else and if you believe something you won’t be motivated to know. Belief is faking knowing.
This is a powerful read. Gabriel dares to crush our belief systems, even the hero system (a source of human aggression) strip away everything we think we are and then also take away hope. Brave. Your personality is not real, it’s artificial, but it’s the only idea you have about yourself. Sports is the optimal hero system, watching sports is the lazy person's way of becoming a hero, you become a hero by association. What hero system do you adhere to?
I’ve been suicidal three times in my life and the last time I saved my own life I realised that for me to want to live I also had to make peace with wanting to die because if I didn’t want to die, did I really want to live?
I wasn’t as challenged as many readers probably will be reading this book as I was already thinking along the same lines, but this book took me deeper. Life is a journey through grief; I’m learning to grieve creatively, by dying each night and being reborn each day, just like Gabriel prescribes in the book. I recognise myself in passage after passage in this book and I feel fortunate to have read it and I’ve signed up to immortology to deepen my connection to death and, therefore life.
The Power of Death: A Radical Path to Personal Transformation and Spiritual Enlightenment
Your story starts with the birth of your idea about yourself. You have to learn to separate yourself from your idea about yourself. The religious personality is the strongest personality. When you believe you don’t really know, most information comes from someone else and if you believe something you won’t be motivated to know. Belief is faking knowing.
This is a powerful read. Gabriel dares to crush our belief systems, even the hero system (a source of human aggression) strip away everything we think we are and then also take away hope. Brave. Your personality is not real, it’s artificial, but it’s the only idea you have about yourself. Sports is the optimal hero system, watching sports is the lazy person's way of becoming a hero, you become a hero by association. What hero system do you adhere to?
I’ve been suicidal three times in my life and the last time I saved my own life I realised that for me to want to live I also had to make peace with wanting to die because if I didn’t want to die, did I really want to live?
I wasn’t as challenged as many readers probably will be reading this book as I was already thinking along the same lines, but this book took me deeper. Life is a journey through grief; I’m learning to grieve creatively, by dying each night and being reborn each day, just like Gabriel prescribes in the book. I recognise myself in passage after passage in this book and I feel fortunate to have read it and I’ve signed up to immortology to deepen my connection to death and, therefore life.
The Power of Death: A Radical Path to Personal Transformation and Spiritual Enlightenment
