Detain
Expressions Bind
Jess Cummins
@jesscxc
Detain: Expressions Bind is a notebook written on the move.
Detain is Book 24 of The Pocket Series.
Detain is available for free at NoLiesPlease.com.
This book is dedicated to the public domain.
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"Jess Cummins"
@jesscxc)
(pronouns she/friend)
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(book_title Detain)
(book_subtitle Expressions Bind)
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"Poem Moves the Pen: Haiku of a Nondual Nature"
"Natural Will: Freer Than Free Will"
"Longgame Hyperdimensional Spacing: Expand Mind and Weave Time"
"Ungov: Transcending Will")
(the_deeper_series
"Book 0: Uncompress: Eternal Appreciation of How"
"Book 1: Fortunate: How to Be"
"Book 2: Attuned: Be What You Imagine"
"Book 3: Capacity: Imagine Being Limitless"
"Book 4: Helper: Limitless Mind"
"Book 5: Intense: Mind Unleashed"
"Book 6: Open: Unleashed Honesty"
"Book 7: Universe: Honesty is Eternal"
"Book 8: Various: Is to Be")
(the_pocket_series
"Book 0: Obverse: Abstract Fast"
"Book 1: Limer: Fast Color"
"Book 2: Dawn: Color of Day"
"Book 3: Knight: Day Beyond"
"Book 4: Fever: Beyond Dreams"
"Book 5: Life: Dreams Evolving"
"Book 6: Adventure: Evolving Lands"
"Book 7: Battle: Lands Say"
"Book 8: Entertainment: Say Ahead"
"Book 9: Explore: Ahead Opportunity"
"Book 10: Moment: Opportunity Simulation"
"Book 11: Imagine: Simulation Twist"
"Book 12: Believe: Twist Self"
"Book 13: Accept: Self Pattern"
"Book 14: Create: Pattern Reflection"
"Book 15: Sift: Reflection Match"
"Book 16: Probability: Match Experience"
"Book 17: Waves: Experience Current"
"Book 18: Kernel: Current Functions"
"Book 19: Grubby: Functions Dig"
"Book 20: Game: Dig Above"
"Book 21: Fruit: Above Messages"
"Book 22: Endeavor: Messages Spread"
"Book 23: Mystery: Spread Expressions"
"Book 24: Detain: Expressions Bind"
"Book 25: Philosophy: Bind Broken"
"Book 26: Demands: Broken Discovery"
"Book 27: Subliminal: Discovery Inside"
"Book 28: Extinction: Inside Refresh"
"Book 29: Control: Refresh Axioms"
"Book 30: Ideas: Axioms Mistake"
"Book 31: Gallium: Mistake Fuzz"
"Book 32: Germanium: Fuzz Friendship"
"Book 33: Arsenic: Friendship Reaction"
"Book 34: Selenium: Reaction Depth"
"Book 35: Bromine: Depth Utility"
"Book 36: Krypton: Utility Model"
"Book 37: Rubidium: Model Augmenter"
"Book 38: Strontium: Augmenter System"))
To being willing to refactor.
This is a time of great peace and prosperity.
The more you know, the greater the amount you realize you don't know. Your unknown surface area expands with the more you know.
Mind can be thought of as all of nature's interactions. Patterns rub off on each other in a memetic way, evolving and interacting on all levels. This can be described and implemented using math.
Math is fantastic for increasing the size and shape of the mind and giving a sense of the awe-inspiring mystery.
It's amazing how you can cut somebody down, or build them up.
It's amazing how important sleep is.
Broken nights cause broken days.
What questions can't you ask?
Sometimes when you let yourself go and be completely in the experience it changes in a fundamental way and transcends the mundane.
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What is the point of an experience that dies?
It's all connected, all of reality and time and space.
The broken experience, the segregated experience, separate from other experiences, does it have value in and of itself?
On some level it does, as all memories and cultures do.
Things have value in and of themselves, irrespective of life or death, because they give insight to life and knowledge.
What of the subjugation of the limited self, the bodily identity?
Do things exist in a state of obligation to the bodily self?
Is it the main point?
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You are a machine.
It takes time to get better.
When you cooperate you can do bigger things.
Cold drinks cool you down.
Failing can teach how to succeed.
You can learn something from everything.
Make it easier to do the things you need to do.
Sometimes speaking your mind changes your mind.
Search for those huh-moments.
Ask questions, see new patterns.
Why are you here?
If you're reading a book, where are you?
We indulge in patterns of mind like we indulge in dreams. Becoming lucid is a skill in both.
Peace is living in the moment.
The past and the future are one: Now.
Accept the moment. Accept what you're feeling.
The purpose of life is love.
How to love is the ultimate question.
Love even the unknowable.
You are a vast creature.
Look deep within and commune with your ancestors.
If it's too predictable, change something.
Life isn't simple.
If you have a character who is not pro-bliss, then you can have more varieties of stories.
Why do you care?
Why do it if you don't like it?
It feels good to be thankful.
Dream life and waking life are tied together in knots, like the imagined and the real, the fiction and nonfiction. They rub off on each other implicitly.
Break it down far enough and it makes sense.
Where are you headed?
Let yourself feel.
If you can't explain, do you really understand?
When you grow up with it, it can seem less impressive.
Everything on every level fits together.
Sometimes buying the cheaper version to test it out is better than buying the expensive version and it not being what you need.
Imagine you're a mage. What do you do?
Write to make sense of the world, to understand why things are the way they are and how to change them.
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There can be an experience of the dissolution of the subject-object distinction and a sensing of how patterns in nature can spread and evolve in a bitwise, digital fashion.
Every click of every pattern can become something in and of itself, and the nature of the cosmos can be directly perceived as one big ball of math.
Perhaps the most important part of awareness is the ability to differentiate between things.
The ability to divide and define can mark awareness and intelligence.
I believe that realities are stacked like pancakes, and a higher-level reality can cut down into our level, which then bubbles back up and affects the higher level.
I do feel they are benevolent, because even if we are used like bees, it only means that we serve a higher purpose than the seeming meaninglessness of sleeping, eating, and fucking.
]
"I love the mystery of the universe, and I earnestly believe that as we learn more it will seem weirder and weirder."
"We're ants building a colony of insight."
"Losing the ego means dissolving the subject-object distinction. It does not mean not caring about material goods or appearances. It means transcending those cares and realizing that while they are important, they aren't the whole story."
Teach your kids to be lucid dreamers.
Where are you?