🌿 The Wonder Land — Episode 134: This Little Thing

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What does it mean to “close the book” on the little encapsulated self-idea?

In this episode, Alex and Amanda explore what lies beyond the identity we habitually defend—the “little thing” we mistake for who we are. Together, they unpack the subtle tension between liberation and the mind’s resistance, the Yes, but… that keeps us circling back into old frameworks.

This isn’t about denying the self. It’s about seeing through its edges into something vaster—an awareness unconfined by story or definition.

They explore:

🌿 What it means to close the book on the self-story without rejecting it

🔥 The familiar “Yes, but…” defenses that arise when freedom feels too spacious

🌊 How identity contracts around safety and control

💫 The felt sense of dissolving beyond This Little Thing into wholeness

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🌕 This Conversation Is for You If

You feel ready to stop rehearsing the same self-narratives.

You sense there’s more of you than the roles, fears, and names you’ve worn.

You’re curious about what remains when the little self grows quiet.

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🌀 Playful Invitation

When you notice the mind narrating your experience—“I’m this,” “I always,” “I never”—pause.

Close the book for a moment.

What’s here when the story stops mid-sentence?

Can you sense the vastness that holds even this little thing with tenderness?

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🌙 Closing Reflection

Liberation is not the destruction of the self—it’s the freedom to no longer confuse it for all that you are.

The book of you can rest, its pages complete, even as new chapters arise and fade.

Because the vastness you are has never been contained within its cover.

Close the book gently.

You are already written in everything.

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🌿 The Wonder Land — Episode 133: The Opposite of Peace

“The ego is a kind of flip, a knowing of knowing, a fearing of fearing. It’s a curlicue, an extra jazz to experience, a sort of double-take or reverberation, a dithering of consciousness which is the same as anxiety.”

— The Joyous Cosmology

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Alex and Amanda explore the subtle texture of doubt—not as conflict, but as the quiet opposite of peace.

It isn’t war or resistance that fractures our inner stillness, but the mind’s habit of doubling—of layering story upon story until presence becomes noise.

This conversation unfolds through:

🌿 The etymology of doubt—from the Latin dubitāre, “to be in two.”

🌊 The difference between uncertainty and doubt, and why one is creative while the other is restless.

🪄 The Magus archetype in tarot as a symbol of weaving multiplicity into coherence.

💫 How peace emerges when we stop multiplying stories and allow uncertainty to simply be.

Doubt, they suggest, is not a failure of faith but an invitation—to return to the stillness that holds all possibilities at once.

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🌕 This Conversation Is for You If

You find yourself caught in mental loops of what-ifs and maybes.

You long for peace that doesn’t depend on answers.

You’re ready to see uncertainty as creative energy instead of threat.

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🌀 Playful Invitation

When you notice doubt arising, pause and name the stories that are multiplying.

Can you feel the moment when uncertainty turns into agitation?

Then try standing in that space—as The Magus does—

not to choose, but to weave.

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🌙 Closing Reflection

Uncertainty is not the opposite of peace; it’s the ground of it.

Peace is not the absence of movement—it’s the stillness wide enough to hold every possible direction.

Doubt is only the echo of our resistance to that stillness.

When we stop trying to choose one story to be final, we find ourselves resting again in the creative hum of the unknown.

Doubt, even here, is not an ending.

It’s an invitation back to peace.

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🌿 The Wonder Land — Episode 132: Control Collapse

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Alex and Amanda explore the strange beauty that unfolds when control begins to dissolve.

What if realizing that control is an illusion isn’t a loss—but an initiation?

This conversation travels through the tender, disorienting space that opens when the structures we’ve built to feel safe begin to collapse. In the absence of control, something else appears: presence, participation, and a deeper form of belonging to what is.

They explore:

🌊 What happens to the self when control dissolves

🔥 Why the mind clings to control as a survival language

🌿 How surrender is not passivity, but intimacy with life

💫 The wonder-filled terrain that reveals itself when nothing needs to be managed

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🌕 This Conversation Is for You If

You’re exhausted from trying to hold everything together.

You feel the quiet ache of wanting life to soften around you.

You sense that freedom might live on the other side of control.

Come with us—

to the edge where collapse becomes creation,

and where what falls apart reveals what’s always been whole.

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🌀 Playful Invitation

Notice one small thing you usually try to control—your schedule, your words, your emotions—and experiment with letting it unfold differently.

Watch what happens when you stop steering and start witnessing.

Where does the current carry you?

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🌙 Closing Reflection

Control promises safety, but what it really offers is tension.

When it collapses, what’s left is not chaos—it’s coherence without command.

To release control is to remember you were never separate from the movement of life.

You were the wave mistaking itself for the ocean’s edge.

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