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We assume consciousness requires a human or animal brain—an assumption that author and philosopher of science Natalie Lawrence argues is the biggest obstacle to understanding what the mind actually is. Our tools for investigating cognition were built in our own image, leading us to over-attribute "life" to AI while dismissing complex organisms like slime moulds. Drawing on her research into the philosophy of biology, Lawrence explores how Spain's MINT Lab is moving beyond these biases. By designing experiments that don't use human cognition as the template, they aim to build a framework rigorous enough to finally distinguish a system that merely reacts to its past from one that genuinely experiences its present. How does a physical system such as the brain produce the ineffable phenomenon of conscious experience? Philosopher David Chalmers famously named this the “<a href="https://consc.net/papers/facing.pdf">Hard Problem of Consciousness</a>” in 1995. Proponents argue that, while cognitive functions such as categorisation or information integration might be explained mechanistically in the central nervous system, the origins of subjective experience resist such explanation. Detractors suggest that the Hard Problem is merely a collection of lesser puzzles that have yet to be solved through greater material understanding of the brain.The heart of this controversy may lie in its core premise: that consciousness arises from a neuronal system organized around a brain. The deep entrenchment of this preconception isn’t surprising, given that our <a href="https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf">own consciousness</a> is the only one we have access to. But this “brain-centrism” pervades the cognitive sciences, shaping our understanding of other beings and approaches to research. It’s one of several kinds of scientific chauvinism that currently limit the field of enquiry and hamper our scientific approach to <a href="video/the-extended-mind">other kinds of minds</a>. The expanding view of mindAcross the philosophy of mind, it is becoming increasingly clear that there are fruitful avenues for exploring the origins and nature of consciousness <a href="articles/consciousness-may-not-require-a-brain-auid-2330">well beyond neuronal systems</a>. If anything, assuming the necessity of brains is beginning to look like a fragile position.At the radical frontiers of cognitive science, the concept of what a mind can be and the diverse systems from which it might originate are broadening. By studying organisms very different from us and our vertebrate relatives—such as plants or slime molds— researchers are revealing capacities that hint at <a href="articles/where-is-my-mind-an-interview-with-andy-clark-auid-1162">minds beyond traditional confines</a>, from <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article/374/1774/20180368/42300/Memory-inception-and-preservation-in-slime-moulds">maze solving</a> to responsivity to <a href="https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/122/5/747/4722571">anesthetics</a>. ___To be properly open-minded about the possible extent of consciousness, we have to remove ourselves from the picture entirely.___František Baluška and Arthur Reber are amongst a growing contingent of researchers who argue that to be alive might be to possess some level of <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30714631/">sentience</a>. Like intelligence, individual subjective experience probably <a href="https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol1/iss11/1/">exists across the tree of life</a>. Not as an incidental phenomenon, but because any organism—whether a bacterium or a blue whale—can only succeed at living if it has a dynamic internal experience. Each organism inhabits a unique and complex world with which it must contend to survive, for which a highly adapted mind is an enormous advantage, if not a necessity. We should expect different organisms to have <a href="https://www.noemamag.com/a-radical-new-proposal-for-how-mind-emerges-from-matter/">different kinds of minds</a>, because of the different kinds of substrates from which these minds emerge and because they have evolved in different ecologies. Our biological assumptionsEven this broader view of sentience has been critiqued for its exclusivity: the assumption that mind is confined to the kind of carbon-based life with which we are familiar. This familiarity, however, does not entail that other forms of life do not exist and could not be sentient. Or, even, that only biologically organized systems can be sentient.Across the history of the life sciences, our assumptions have been repeatedly defied by new discoveries. Until the mid-twentieth century, for example, scientists assumed that oxygen was essential for life. <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5921831/">Geological evidence</a> then revealed that Earth’s early atmosphere contained almost no oxygen—which suited the anaerobic microorganisms that dominated. For these single-celled inhabitants, the Great Oxidation Event around 2.4 billion years ago was a mass-extinction catastrophe. Likewise, the discoveries of <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/35059215">extremophiles</a> in habitats such as deep-sea hydrothermal vents have repeatedly overturned longstanding ideas about the moderate conditions necessary for life to flourish.It seems that preconceptions are difficult to escape. Just as scientific frameworks have repeatedly had to expand to incorporate new forms of life, so too will our current, rigid ideas about consciousness likely fail. We need to continually re-examine the limitations that our implicit assumptions create if we’re to have any hope of approaching these questions fruitfully. The trap of complex systemsNot without caution, however. There is a present danger in expanding the criteria for sentience too broadly beyond carbon-based organisms. It risks centering the possibility that almost any complex system, including large language models, could be sentient. Indeed, many people currently find it far easier to imagine that an LLM might be sentient than a beetle. This plunges us straight back into <a href="https://www.noemamag.com/what-counts-as-a-mind/">anthropocentric</a> analyses of whether our machines relate to us sufficiently to be considered conscious. Do they understand us? Do they have motivations? As the philosopher Daniel Dennett pointed out, we very easily slip into an “<a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262040938/the-intentional-stance/">intentional stance</a>” when interacting with other agents, assuming they have beliefs and desires. The bar for mistaking these features as indicators of sentience is shockingly low, especially when <a href="https://www.apa.org/monitor/2026/01-02/trends-digital-ai-relationships-emotional-connection">interfacing</a> with systems shaped by our needs. We tend towards what we might call “AI-anthropocentrism” all too easily as a result.We have no reason to assume that sentience will allow other systems to interact with us in a way that makes their subjective sense of awareness evident to us, however. For the same reason that minds might be as diverse as the tree of life, other forms of sentience are likely to be <a href="https://www.noemamag.com/what-counts-as-a-mind/">opaque</a> to us. An alien life intuition pump Though it seems counterintuitive, if we can do away with biocentrism, we are freed from the need to explain why Claude or ChatGPT are not sentient. We don’t need to treat every non-biological system as a candidate mind. There could be many kinds of organisation capable of mind, most of which might have nothing to do with our technologies or the function of our own sentience. We ask instead: What kinds of organisation generate sentience?Imagine, for example, that we live on another planet, in another solar system, orbiting a sun at “Goldilocks distance—perfect for life to flourish. The life on this planet, including ourselves, is built from <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7345352/#:~:text=Although%20water%20is%20a%20good,is%20stable%20in%20that%20solvent.">silicon</a>, rather than carbon. To the scientists of that world, silicon would not seem like one possible basis of life among others; it would seem like the obvious basis of life. They might infer from their local biology that only silicon can support the organisation that living systems require and perhaps dismiss carbon-based life as mere fantasy. In that case, they would likely make the same error that we risk making: mistaking the material basis of the life that we know for the material basis of life and sentience. <a href="video/the-mind-body-problem-and-animal-consciousness-with-peter-godfrey-smith" target="_blank" class="iai-related-in-article click_on_suggestion_link--gtm-track"> <img src="/assets/Uploads/mind-body-problem.webp" class="iai-related--primary-image" alt="related-video-image"> SUGGESTED VIEWING The mind-body problem and animal consciousness, with Peter Godfrey-Smith With Peter Godfrey-Smith </a> This “<a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9SduAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false">intuition pump</a>”—another of Dennett’s terms—is not so different from our own Earth-bound position. It shows how easily such assumptions can limit the scope of our imaginations. Placing biological or structural conditions on the existence of sentience is not only tempting; it is counterproductive. What we treat as necessary conditions for sentience may simply reflect our own local evolutionary history. Brain-centrism, bio-centrism and AI anthropocentrism are forms of scientific chauvinism. They all reveal our tendency to assume the features that we experience are foundational to a phenomenon of interest, rather than ancillary or incidental qualities. Moving to diffused cognitionTo be properly open-minded about the possible extent of consciousness, we have to remove ourselves from the picture entirely. We must peel back the layers of assumptions derived from our own experience to begin studying the experiences produced by other <a href="https://www.noemamag.com/ai-could-be-a-bridge-toward-diverse-intelligence/">systems</a>. Assuming that a centralized neuronal system is the gold standard for consciousness will leave us blind when it comes to the potential worlds of decentralized organisms such as slime moulds or plants. <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/12/9/1799">Decision-making</a> in these systems is emergent and distributed, not centrally controlled, offering fascinating possibilities when it comes to the kinds of minds they might produce.To move forward, we need experimental strategies that do not begin with human cognition as the template for mind. There’s a growing network of researchers across science and philosophy who are doing just that. For example, the <a href="https://www.um.es/mintlab/">Minimal Intelligence Laboratory</a> (MINT Lab) in Spain is working with plant models to break new ground in the study of diffused intelligence systems. Plant experience is not directly accessible to scientific investigation, so it must be approached indirectly through behaviour and experimentally tractable proxies. Led by Professor Paco Calvo, the team is exploring how to apply experimental tools from the cognitive sciences to study plant behaviours and distributed cognition.In the current project, <a href="https://www.um.es/mintlab/index.php/mint-lab-projects/behavioral-evidence-for-plant-consciousness/">Behavioural Evidence for Plant Consciousness</a>, for example, Calvo and his team are developing frameworks for testing whether plants can perform advanced forms of learning. Trace conditioning, for example, involves two stimuli presented with a period of time between them. For an organism to connect the two, there must be some kind of trace of the first stimulus that persists across the time gap. Bees have been found to be <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21593307/">very capable</a> of doing this, likewise <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35173333/">fruit flies</a>. But even working out what stimulus presentations are relevant to plants and how such learning might manifest behaviourally is a new kind of challenge.Such experimental research is the first step to unlearning the limiting assumptions that have hampered the field so far and laying the groundwork for new approaches to consciousness studies. Their aim is not to prove that plants are conscious, but rather to use the scientifically grounded study of plant behaviours as a gateway to removing our prejudices when studying all kinds of minds, including our own.Our brain-focused neuronal system is likely just one evolutionary strategy among many. In fact, our awareness is far less centralized than we assume. Decision-making in humans, for example, is not confined to a <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn.2017.7">single brain </a><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn.2017.7">region</a>, but distributed across interacting regions and systems. Plants, microbes, and other life forms show that cognition can emerge in <a href="articles/biology-not-physics-holds-the-key-to-reality-auid-3163">radically different organizational forms</a>, and it’s possible that sentience does also. If we can relinquish our assumptions of centralized, neuronal consciousness that must resonate with our own, we might find ways to understand other kinds of mind. This will be the only way we might eventually understand what consciousness is and how it emerges.

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Humming

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QVoGbaq8xos&si=NtCDBgXq32LGycj9

What Happens to YOUR BRAIN When You Hum for 60 Seconds?

The Feynman Way

YouTube

by Astrid Kent

• 3 weeks ago

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So important

I agree

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Living consciously

A world wide effort

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Man and women

Mothers

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U can heal

Childhood trauma

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Coming together

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Living celebration

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Social conditioning

The demand for aloneness

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Cheering on 🙌

Simirthi Day

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Find the support. Ask to be cheered

Them one can stand alone. Build a group world wide for this the one can survive the sadhana

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Find this sprit

Victory march

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Interesting

Conscious living

by Master

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My neighbor's son

This boy is such a delight

by Mamad Hormatipour

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Thank u

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My blessings

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Living consciously

Consider

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Empathy is weakness

The success of the reptile

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Body as mind

Source IG@neurosciencetalk

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What are they learning

Childhood

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Madam came to visit

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We going to spoil her. 🥰

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Yes yes yes

I knew it I knew it 😜🙏🥰🤣

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Living

🫶🧡and sharing moments

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Go Debbie 🎉🎉🎉

by Wei Wei

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🙏🙏🙏

by Wei Wei

• 4 weeks, 1 day ago

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handsome

by Wei Wei

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Just a beautiful snippet of Robin Williams

by Mamad Hormatipour

• 1 month ago

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New learning

Recording for the science of creation for organizations. 🙏

by Dasyati

• 1 month ago

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Celebrating 🎉

Celebrating the creations, wishes and the creators in us

by Dasyati

• 1 month ago

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Happy Father’s Day gift

From my girls. Appa love u 7 sky

by Master

• 1 month ago

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Wish

Holding wishes, for all and oneself. 🙏

by Dasyati

• 1 month ago

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In the lights

The boys

by Master

• 1 month ago

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Month of celebration

Living the wish

by Master

• 1 month ago

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Lori 🙌

🧡💃🏻
Miss you!

by Dasyati

• 1 month ago

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Studying celebrating and meditating

It’s happening

by Master

• 1 month ago

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My boys are back

Fun time

by Master

• 1 month ago

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U talking to me

I guess not hahah

by Master

• 1 month ago

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Masters love lives

🙏

by Dasyati

• 1 month ago

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Celebrating 🎉🐾

Bobbie included! 🧡

by Dasyati

• 1 month ago

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Boss talking

Amen

by Master

• 1 month ago

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Happy birthday avinesh

Our blessings

by Master

• 1 month ago

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Study and celebration time

The speech for awakening

by Master

• 1 month ago

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This is beautiful

Remember avinish and Mrs avinesh we love u. And u are such a gift to us and the work. And happy birthday too

by Master

• 1 month ago

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Look at what is my daughter up to

She is like her mother 👩

by Master

• 1 month ago

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🙏🙌

A victory march 🎉

by Dasyati

• 1 month ago

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❤️🐾

by Dasyati

• 1 month ago

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Check out Apshy

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Instagram

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by Master

• 1 month ago

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Master 🙏

by Wei Wei

• 1 month ago

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The grandness 🙏

by Wei Wei

• 1 month ago

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Study time

by Dasyati

• 1 month ago

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Birthing one self

Conscious living

by Master

• 1 month ago

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Rocking it

Coming to a climax

by Master

• 1 month ago

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Avina and her kitten

Meow

by Master

• 1 month ago

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“To be with me, to be with each other”

“…
the wish for all to be as it can be
must be lived
for the force for what can be
must be strongest then the force that
forces to keeps us limited…”
- From a song written by Master
🙏🧡

by Dasyati

• 1 month ago

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Celebration 🎉🙏

by Wei Wei

• 1 month ago

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🙏🙏🙏

by Wei Wei

• 1 month ago

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Boss talking

Truth

by Master

• 1 month ago

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Contemplating

Abuse is someone quits love and accuses others not loving, by that he/she can make love a lie without feeling remorse.

by Wei Wei

• 1 month ago

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Until the next Hello

With a million kisses. ❤️

by Dasyati

• 1 month ago

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Guru 🙏

by Wei Wei

• 1 month ago

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In class

by Wei Wei

• 1 month ago

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A-B-C

by Wei Wei

• 1 month ago

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Love in celebration

🧡

by Dasyati

• 1 month ago

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Hello there

by Dasyati

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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In celebration 🧡

by Dasyati

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Celebration 🔥

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Celebration 🎊

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Celebration 🎉

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Celebration 🥳

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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I like to move it, move it 🎶

by Dasyati

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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It’s happening

14 days to go

by Master

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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The discipline to learn

The essence of a disciple

by Master

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Today’s contemplation

To be free from the collective, I have to identify the oppressors in my life and cut off all the ties with them, otherwise I cannot find a way out.

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Meeting 🧡

by Dasyati

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Celebrating 🙌

by Dasyati

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Celebration 🎉

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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We are

I am, you are. Lynn & Bob 🧡

by Dasyati

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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The month of celebration

It’s happening

by Master

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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In class

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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🧡🧡🧡

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Some research studies from psychology, psychotherapy, psychiatry, and philosophy regarding "our collapsed state."

· “Philosophy & Psychology
· Cognitive-Emotional Collapse: The Collapse of Judgement (Kim, 2025): Defines depression as a collapse of resonance in the psyche's meaning-making structure, suggesting a structural breakdown where one's own thoughts and actions feel hollow and disconnected.
· Socio-Psychological Collapse: On the Threshold of Social Erosion (Academia.edu, 2025): Analyzes how widespread anxiety, social alienation, and burnout are not just individual problems but structural and cultural symptoms of a quiet, progressive societal collapse.
· Psychoanalysis
· Collective Psychic Rupture: Lilian Strobl's Work (2025): Uses the Turkish earthquake as a case study to explore the destruction of shared …

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Celebration 🎉

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Moments

by Dasyati

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Cheering our future on

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Madam in action

Love this girl

by Master

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Check it out

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Instagram

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by Master

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Celebrated and held 🎉❤️

“My Dada’s cookie 🍪”
🧡Madiya

by Dasyati

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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In the spirit of celebration 🎉

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Some recent studies in psychotherapy about our absent state

“A 2026 qualitative study titled "Beyond the Boundaries of the Psyche" examined psychologically traumatized individuals and found that recovery involved four key stages: existential alienation, interrogation of meaning, mental exploration, and post-traumatic growth—where trauma was ultimately transformed into an opportunity for growth. The study suggests that meaning-focused therapeutic approaches are essential for this transformation.

A 2025 article on logotherapy (developed by Viktor Frankl) explores how searching for meaning is a fundamental resource for trauma survivors. It highlights mechanisms like developing personal responsibility and changing one's attitude toward unalterable circumstances to overcome the "existential vacuum".

A 2026 systematic review found that …

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Celebration 🥳

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Celebration 🎊

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Kathryn & Sue 🫶

by Dasyati

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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27 lessons of transformation ended

Not for this little one

by Master

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Happening

Celebrating what can be

by Master

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Madiya

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Moments of wishing, sharing and celebrating

From today 🌺

by Dasyati

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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In class

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Celebration🎉 like a painting

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Sailing

One week to Rolex World Championship.
Shared by Anders

by Dasyati

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Interesting

He become a monk

by Master

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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At dv home

Up coming album

by Master

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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27 lessons of transformation

Celebrating coming to be

by Master

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Anba and Visu

Parent time. Our blessings

by Master

• 1 month, 1 week ago

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Love, overflows

🙏❤️

by Dasyati

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Showing us the moves

Month of celebration 🎉

by Master

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Celebration 🎉

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Celebration in flow

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Rested in being

by Dasyati

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Study meditate celebrate

Unfolding

by Master

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Celebration Retreat

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Celebration🎉

by Wei Wei

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Supermodel

She is the best

by Master

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Month of celebration moments

Studying. Meditating and celebrating

by Master

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Best advice

He is coming out now looking like a great president

by Master

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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The essence of the work

The month of celebration

by Master

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Happening now

Living possibilities

by Master

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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From todays meditation. Happening every Wednesday in DV Center Stockholm

by Mamad Hormatipour

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Month of creation and celebration

She got this

by Master

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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New guru in the house

Living what can be

by Master

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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The month of creation and celebration

Meditate. Contemplate and celebrate

by Master

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Aham Brahmasmi

🙏
Source IG @harshnachandolia

by Dasyati

• 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Madia

I needed this for the work that is about to unfold

by Master

• 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Inquiry on the nervous system and unknown

Module 1 of Living in Transformation certification course has been asking us to look at how we relate to the unknown.

What I keep running into is this: Can my “resistance to change” mostly be my nervous system reacting to unfamiliarity itself?

Which made me curious — if the brain is already rehearsing futures every day through worry and anticipated failure… could it also learn to rehearse possibility?

And could repeated exposure to unfamiliarity — even imagined or through learning something new — gradually help the nervous system become less defended against the unknown?

Original post IG @soulmindhub
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by Dasyati

• 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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A song written by Master - To be with me

Lyrics by Master:

To be with me
to be with each other
the wish for all to be as it can be
must be lived
for the force for what can be
must be strongest then the force that
forces to keeps us limited

one must embody it
one must embrace it
one must celebrate it
one must give ones life to it

for only then one will survive
and thrive to be what is that can be

a life lived

for the dark force is that which prevents the light
to come to be
for when the light comes …

by Mamad Hormatipour

• 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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5

Alfred Adler’s 5 Lessons to Challenge Our Deepest Illusions

Sharing this series by IG @theancient.dog — five short reels, a bit over 1min each, if you have the time.

———
Step into a quiet, early 20th-century lecture hall and meet Alfred Adler — the pioneer of Individual Psychology.

Warm yet uncompromisingly sharp, Adler breaks down his most liberating philosophical concepts, reframing how we understand our past, our relationships, and our freedom.

Five lessons from Individual Psychology:

• Your past does not dictate your future (Teleology)

• The danger of seeking approval (Denial of Recognition)

• Untying the knots of interpersonal conflict (Separation of Tasks)

• Redefining what it means …

by Dasyati

• 1 month, 3 weeks ago

3

0

What Freddie Mercury rarely watched

Freddie Mercury reportedly avoided watching footage of himself perform.

He said it would make him self-conscious the next time on stage.

Modern psychology suggests there was something deeply intelligent in that instinct.

When attention shifts from the experience toward monitoring ourselves inside it, flow begins to break.

The mind starts asking:
“How do I look?”
“Am I doing this right?”
“How am I being perceived?”

And just like that — we’re no longer inside the moment. We’re evaluating ourselves.

Awareness is different:
“What does this moment need?”
“I’m excited.”
“I see them dancing.”

That keeps us in.

Freddie performed with …

by Dasyati

• 1 month, 3 weeks ago

5

3

Conscious living community

The effort we undertake and the creation we uphold,
is to create a community of creators around the world,
to come together to support and to create a togetherness that supports the waking of one an another.

This community will work together and support each other and uphold the creation to be the best one can be and the best for all…

.now its time for all the step up and be leaders and trustee of this mission. This mission falls under the vision of the friends to mankind….

the time is now.

by Master

• 1 month, 3 weeks ago

12

0

Rewiring Attention, 12 Seconds at a Time

What the brain repeatedly absorbs
shapes what it notices, expects, and believes is possible.

The nervous system can learn survival.
It can also gradually learn safety.

12 seconds at a time.

Inspired by the work of psychologist Rick Hanson, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley.
Original post IG@soulmindhub
Updated carousels for the Pivot Point

by Dasyati

• 1 month, 4 weeks ago

10

2

A song for Master

by Mamad Hormatipour

• 1 month, 4 weeks ago

25

4

Dv center Sweden

Love this mamad

by Master

• 1 month, 4 weeks ago

15

2

The Borrowed Self

Neuroscience suggests the self we experience arrives roughly 80 milliseconds late — the realities we perceive are constructed, not live feed.*

Osho points somewhere deeper: perhaps the material used to build that self was borrowed from others who were themselves borrowed.

So what’s actually underneath?

The dissolution of that constructed self can feel terrifying. Like freefall with no floor.

Maybe this is why the presence of Masters who have crossed that threshold matters — not as a crutch, but as evidence for the nervous system that the other side is not annihilation.

It’s actually where something else seems possible — …

by Dasyati

• 2 months ago

10

2

A space where everyone cheers

Source IG@jimkwik

Our environment shapes us — not just our habits, but our nervous systems.

Social neuroscience researcher Elaine Hatfield found that we literally sync with the people around us — heart rate, mood, even cortisol levels. We’re wired to resonate.

So the space we’re in matters. People creating, cheering each other on. Just making things together. 🧡

by Dasyati

• 2 months ago

2

Project for the month of celebration

We will make this video.

by Master

• 2 months ago

15

3

Dv message

To go beyond the system that keeps one drunk in the state of self that is created by others, to wake up to the true state of you , which is beyond the mind and the definition of the mind. To live as a creator not just the creation of the mind to the world.

by Master

• 2 months ago

18

1

Osho

Right to wish

by Master

• 2 months ago

15

0

The man on the cross

London street scene

by Master

• 2 months ago

17

0

On guard

London scene

by Master

• 2 months ago

15

1

Good News

🫶

by Dasyati

• 2 months ago

9

2

New Update

Hi hello everybody,

Our latest updated, has improved the chat, you can now add banners to audios & documents, check out your saved posts and keep on the look out for new announcements!

Click on the link if you haven't already updated https://thepivotpoint.world/app

Thank youuu :)

Download The Pivot Point app

Get The Pivot Point on the App Store or Google Play.

thepivotpoint.world

by Kughan Ravindran

• 2 months ago

7

1

Rumi

🥰🙏

by Master

• 2 months ago

16

0

Dos toy haveatea

Sin

by Master

• 2 months ago

12

0

The truth of the creator

The evolving being

by Master

• 2 months ago

15

1

When fire loves water

IG Source: @Rumiverses

by Dasyati

• 2 months, 1 week ago

10

0

6am London time

The impact of this nation on the world is contemplated

by Master

• 2 months, 1 week ago

20

0

Came on

Too much truth hahha🤪

by Master

• 2 months, 1 week ago

5

0

This one is for Hamid and gangs

😆 laughter is the best medicine

by Master

• 2 months, 1 week ago

9

1

My view

London

by Master

• 2 months, 1 week ago

23

0

From the Masters 🙏

by Dasyati

• 2 months, 1 week ago

7

0

Paul send me this

It’s the truth

by Master

• 2 months, 1 week ago

8

0

I think geetha adopted this boy

The future of humanity looks good
Now bording to London

by Master

• 2 months, 1 week ago

20

0

Flow is the key

Brain and it’s working

by Master

• 2 months, 1 week ago

11

0

What do you see?

*Insta Source @dlcwellness
*From the post:
Our brains lie to us thousands of times a day.

This image proves it.

The lines are perfectly straight… but most of us swear they’re bent or wavy.

Even more interesting: if you tilt your phone sideways or look at the image from an angle, the straight lines suddenly become easier to see.

Our perception changes with perspective.
That’s because our brains are constantly trying to interpret patterns, fill in gaps and “correct” what they think they see — instead of simply observing what’s actually there.

And our minds often do the same thing …

by Dasyati

• 2 months, 1 week ago

4

1

Socrates

A life examined

by Master

• 2 months, 1 week ago

11

0

My teaching and your learning

All that which can
Come to be
Comes to be
When I come to be

The truth of the upward flow

creation is the demand to be in the upward flow

by Master

• 2 months, 1 week ago

18

0

Quotes

Moments of contemplation

by Master

• 2 months, 1 week ago

9

0

A reality beyond the mind

A reflection and inquiry from Master’s Meditation

by Andrew Fayad

• 2 months, 1 week ago

8

0

Author the map of life

I haven’t consciously authored my life stories yet. This post helps me to see the importance of doing so. And the difficult part for me seems to be letting go of ‘I am right’ about any of the past stories I’ve been telling.

———

“The stories we tell about our lives are not descriptions. They are instructions. Instructions to the self about what is possible.”

“You are not the story that happened to you. You are the author of what it means. And authors can rewrite.”

by Dasyati

• 2 months, 1 week ago

5

0

Study Companions

A week ago, the Living in Transformation Certification Course by DV Institute began.

The teaching is rich. And I noticed that with the mind I have — still caught in its own blindness and buffers — reading and listening alone sometimes is still difficult for me to receive the words.

So I went looking for something that might help me go beyond my own buffer and receive the teaching more fully.

One of the tools I found helpful is Google’s NotebookLM.

By importing the lectures which remains private like in a private Google Drive, I can ask questions and bring …

Sign in - Google Accounts

accounts.google.com

by Dasyati

• 2 months, 1 week ago

5

2

Osho

by Master

• 2 months, 1 week ago

9

0

Answer 7 Questions to Reflect: How to Build a Conscious Life

Master’s designed these 7 questions as a tool to reflect and move in the direction of building our lives consciously.

Take 7 minutes to answer the questions for a reflection in the app:

https://consciousliving.lovable.app/live-your-possibility

Lovable App

Inner Compass AI offers personalized AI-driven growth journeys, guiding users through self-discovery and development.

consciousliving.lovable.app

by Andrew Fayad

• 2 months, 1 week ago

3

2

Test

Less then 1% can do this

by Master

• 2 months, 1 week ago

6

0

Girls and boys

Girls are more

by Master

• 2 months, 1 week ago

6

0

My insight

The ultimate truth, the ultimate attainment is when I learn to be loyal to myself… I live beyond the persuasion of self-abuse, and I truly embody actualizing me, which is to live a life in celebration and love.

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

12

0

My insight

The certainty of going wrong is absolute for from birth what has been conditioned, supported, rewarded has been what will go against ourselves. Slavery is celebrated, mastery is made a suffering.

Until this is undone, one will fall back to what one has been conditioned and programmed. In the ancient times, the truth of Satsang is the effort to be unconditioned.

For this one simply sits quietly observing oneself in the presence of someone who is free, in that the conditioning disappears, one is restored to the original impulse, and by that moves to what will actualize them. So the …

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

12

0

Dostoyhaveatea

Tragedy of living

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

9

0

Kafka

Contemplation

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

11

1

Truth

All that is and will be

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

14

0

Happy birthday Hamid

May all your wish be birth as your living reality

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

39

10

Realit

Is a construct

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

13

0

Life is beautiful

When I choose to be beautiful

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

20

0

Direction

This meteohor helps me to see how often I actually give directions to my brain.

Curious when i don’t, why not — is it because of a bad habit, lack of faith or fear of failure?

Insta source: @manifestingtribes

by Dasyati

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

7

0

A new creation to try and share!

As part of the conscious living effort, Master’s designed these 7 questions for us to reflect on and share out to the world.

Try it for yourself here and feel free to share your reflection on social media too:
https://innerdoorways.lovable.app/where-am-i

Let me know if you have any questions or ideas, would love to hear about your experience with this new experiment.

by Andrew Fayad

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

5

0

3 daily questions to hold me right

1. What am I creating?
To offer DV Nirvan Method to everyone interested, sitting as one of them - for my Guru said that’s the only way I can offer it to myself.
2. What is my meditation?
Me staying Nirvan with me, being a part of the More.
3. What am I doing for me?
Allowing me me - giving me some extra time (and some chocolate 🍫, sun ☀️ and work out).

by Erik Soham

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

5

0

Daily quotes

Dv

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

12

0

The trigger

The creation I need to wake up and live out

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

14

0

For the study group

See if u agree and what is your view on it. Our subject , beyond the known

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

10

0

Sashi sharing his journey

Zazen health solutions

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

19

0

Beyond the sin of unconsciousness

To reach the depth one must face the darkness

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

11

0

Boss

Living truth. My gurus love lives

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

15

0

So true

One must get out

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

12

0

It’s happening

A need break to come to action. Living your meditation

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

11

0

Stockholm syndrome

https://www.instagram.com/p/DXrGXMkAOH8/?igsh=MW80OWh3Mm9yNDB0NQ==

Instagram

instagram.com

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

5

0

Beyond mind

Silence is the key

by Master

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

17

0

IG post from Rosie in Squamish

https://www.instagram.com/p/DXzH6SYlPKc/?igsh=Y2JzNzl4dnZnMzh2

Instagram

instagram.com

by Astrid Kent

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago

3

0

Happening next week 6th may - DV Center Stockholm

My wish is that we have a DV Center in Stockholm we we as a community will support each others growth 🙏

Link to register:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-belief-an-evening-of-exploration-tickets-1988565849988?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Beyond Belief - An evening of exploration

Beyond Belief - Unlearn, Return, Create. We will explore by listening to a talk by Dhyan Vimal, do exercises, silent sitting & celebration.

Eventbrite

by Mamad Hormatipour

• 2 months, 3 weeks ago

15

1

DV Center Stockholm coming alive! 🙌

This event is happening tomorrow so for everyone living in Stockholm, hope to see you there and share this to anyone you think might be interested ❤️

by Mamad Hormatipour

• 2 months, 3 weeks ago

17

2

This is one of the funniest clips i have seen in a long time 😂

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRbo4b9X/

TikTok - Make Your Day

tiktok.com

by Mamad Hormatipour

• 2 months, 3 weeks ago

1

2

Master recording Living In Transformation Certification Course

Listening to Master record the first year’s lessons of the new certification course. The lessons are incredible, 30+ years of Master’s work in the making.

by Andrew Fayad

• 2 months, 3 weeks ago

18

1

Work is love made visible…

I’ve always been interested in where this quote comes from, to find he’s Lebanese too! And to see there’s more to it.

by Andrew Fayad

• 2 months, 3 weeks ago

6

0

Today’s Quote is on topic from this evening discussion

by Andrew Fayad

• 2 months, 3 weeks ago

10

1

Celebrating Master Enlightenment day at Janko house

by Mamad Hormatipour

• 2 months, 3 weeks ago

29

3

Creativity

“Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked.”
- Kenya Hara

Real creativity doesn’t start with answers, it starts with seeing something everyone else has missed.

#logodecks

by Mamad Hormatipour

• 2 months, 4 weeks ago

7

0

Interesting research on our own usage algorithms

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DW_bPuEvwNQ/?igsh=ZXA2bm9zdDBjd3Nl

Instagram

instagram.com

by Astrid Kent

• 3 months ago

4

2

Gregory’s Fund Update

Hi Everyone,

We’ve raised about RM 16k, ~10% of our 160k goal. We appreciate your participation thus far.

We’re continuing to raise funds for Gregory’s medical care and placement of his Samadhi.

The door to participate remains open for another week until April 24.

Every contribution helps - let’s keep the momentum going to reach the full amount.

Thank you for your continued kindness and support.

-
Asia - Suresh
Bank/Wise Suresh Kumar Shunmugam
CIM Bank Berhad
Account 7056 886 968

Americas - Lynn
CAN e-transfer [email protected]
USA PayPal [email protected]
https://wise.com/pay/me/lynnp22

Europe - Caroline
Swish +46 705 91 …

Pay or add Caroline Hofvenstam on Wise

wise.com

Wise

Pay or add Lynn Punnett on Wise

wise.com

Wise

by Andrew Fayad

• 3 months ago

7

0

New iOS Update (Android out soon)

Hi everyone,

We have a new iOS Update out, with a new daily quote and reorganizable menu!

Check it out here https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-pivot-point/id6757419552

The Android update will be coming soon, with some fixes to the share button for iOS

Thank you!

The Pivot Point App - App Store

Download The Pivot Point by Zazen Worldwide on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like The Pivot Point.

App Store

by Kughan Ravindran

• 3 months ago

9

1

Interesting video on why we resist to do what needs to be done

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17JhP874Qe/?mibextid=wwXIfr

by Mamad Hormatipour

• 3 months, 1 week ago

7

2

Fund For Gregory

Together, in keeping Gregory’s enlightenment the highest, it’s an honor & privilege to play a part in maintaining his legacy 🙏

We’re raising RM 160,000 for Gregory’s medical care and placement of his Samadhi.

If you’re interested in making a larger donation to help match donations, let us know.

If you can play an active role in reaching out to additional friends & family, let us know.

Every contribution will go a long way - please donate any amount life allows you to at this time.

We’ll keep everyone updated on progress. Thank you for your kindness and support.

You …

Pay or add Caroline Hofvenstam on Wise

wise.com

Wise

by Andrew Fayad

• 3 months, 1 week ago

13

0

Developer Update v0.11.0

by Kughan Ravindran

• 3 months, 3 weeks ago

11

0

Today’s contemplation

As the snow from the mountains is going down ….. the spring is coming up ….

by Astrid Kent

• 3 months, 3 weeks ago

7

1

Skiing at Lake Louise last Thursday

It was fun last week skiing in Alberta

by Astrid Kent

• 3 months, 3 weeks ago

16

3

Developer Update 11/3/26

Hi everyone,
We have released a new version (v0.10.0-beta) that is available in both the stores. Key changes from this update -

- Builders can manage communities directly from the app, there is a gear icon when you enter the community screen
- Custom notification icon on Android

Bug Fixes
- Fixed external links not opening on Android 11 and above
- Improved image loading and caching
- Fixed the add content button being pushed up
- Fixed updating notification preferences

by Kughan Ravindran

• 4 months, 1 week ago

0

MONTH OF CELEBRATION!

Celebration, is a direction towards union.
This June, we're spending a full month with Master Dhyan Vimal moving in that direction. Inquiring into where we're still using ourselves as a weapon against the whole.
As Master says:
"I'm in the persuasion each wave must be individual, but it must not forget it's part of the ocean. For each wave is the ocean celebrating itself. Not using itself to separate itself from the ocean."

👉 Register here: https://zazen.wufoo.com/forms/s1uq1tv01svf7g5/

Month Of Creation & Celebration (June 2026)

zazen.wufoo.com

by The Pivot Point

• 4 months, 2 weeks ago

8

0

DV quote

Failure is when you take refuge in what is created. Success is when you are ready to abandon, and be birthed anew.

by Uma

• 5 months, 1 week ago

3

0

Dev Update v0.8.0 release

Hiii!

We've shipped a bunch of performance improvements in app version 0.8.0 (hit me up if you run into any issues updating). More coming soon.

Some feature highlights: post preview, full screen videos, and a refreshed carousel look.

We're still working on bringing over the last few smaller features from web (with some upgrades). There are also some performance issues and bugs we're actively tackling.

Thank youu for testing :)

P.S. anyone who wants to help test out the app, please reach out to me ^^

by Kughan Ravindran

• 5 months, 2 weeks ago

2

0

How the economy is controlled

by Uma

• 5 months, 3 weeks ago

1

0

Starting App Beta Phase 🥳

by Kughan Ravindran

• 6 months ago

4

0

Developer Log 29/12/25

by Kughan Ravindran

• 6 months, 3 weeks ago

2

Dev Log 10/12/25

Hello,

Today's updates were only primarily clean up, security patching and improvements with the chat feature, navbar and some other little touch ups here and there. We have started focusing on building the app too ^^

Thankss

by Kughan Ravindran

• 7 months, 1 week ago

0

1

Dev Log 8/12/25

Hiiiii,

We've added preview post functionality and private messaging!! So start sliding into some dms ;)

Thanks for testing :)

by Kughan Ravindran

• 7 months, 2 weeks ago

0

Developer Log 5/12/25

Hii,

Today we've just released some bug fixes with the video player auto play functionality, that caused some audio player bugs which we then fixed too, still a bit of clean up left to do here.

Big update with the private messaging feature coming soon!!

And as always,
Thanks for testing :)

by Kughan Ravindran

• 7 months, 2 weeks ago

4

Developer Log 04/12/25

by Kughan Ravindran

• 7 months, 2 weeks ago

2

0

Developer Log 03/12/25

Hellooo,

Today we've mostly just released a lot of bug fixes for carousel content, file type handling and editing posts, so mostly a clean up day. Tomorrow we'll add some support for better text styling

Thankss for testing :)

by Kughan Ravindran

• 7 months, 2 weeks ago

3

0

Developer Log Update 02/12/2025

Hi everyone!

Major updates:
• We’ve reworked the create form, should be a bit easier to use now.
• You can now create posts with multiple media, so images, videos, audio, and docs all together in a carousel (the design is still a little wonky though)
• Simplified reactions
• Post saving! - Click your name in the top right to check out your saved posts

Try it out and let us know if you find any bugs!

PS: .heic images aren’t supported yet

Thanksssss :)

by Kughan Ravindran

• 7 months, 2 weeks ago

2

0

The Purpose Trap

https://youtu.be/WC65CPKBKLk?si=Gv594uVZaj03-1vJ

Watch the latest podcast by Master on The Purpose Trap

The Pivot Point: The Purpose Trap

Dhyan Vimal

YouTube

by The Pivot Point

• 7 months, 4 weeks ago

1

0

Why Do I feel all things are only happening to me?

In this article, Dhyan Vimal answers a question on the feeling of why life is chaos, and the understanding of order.

by The Pivot Point

• 8 months ago

0

Notes by Dhyan Vimal

All false care, all false holding, all false truth, that plays a role in one escaping the truth of oneself, the truth of what is up to oneself, is not an act of care, more so it is a deliberate attempt to take the power way or the attempt to not allow one to wake up to one's power.

The notion of love which is the craving to escape what is up to oneself, is false love, for real love holds one so one can wake up to one's truth.

By this, the word detachment, or holding one to come …

A Note on Love

by The Pivot Point

• 8 months ago

0

The Pivot Point: A Call to Consciously Create

An article by Dhyan Vimal, on the Pivot Point and the invitation you to awaken to conscious creation, moving beyond reaction to intentional participation in life.

by The Pivot Point

• 8 months ago

0

Are You Ready to Embrace Your Liberation?

This contemplation invites you to see responsibility not as a burden, but as liberation. When you realise it is up to you, you are free, unruled, unrestricted, alive.

by The Pivot Point

• 8 months ago

1

0

State of Helplessness

Dhyan Vimal explores the human experience of helplessness and how it shapes our lives. Through reflection and mindful awareness, we learn to recognise our unconscious patterns, reclaim our agency, and awaken to the confidence and ability to actively shape our reality.

by The Pivot Point

• 8 months ago

0

Toxicity of Success

In understanding the toxicity that has grown around the pursuit of success, this talk by Dhyan Vimal invites us to reflect on how success has been shaped by competition and the defeat of others. It explores the possibility of purifying success, of restoring it as a force that uplifts, enriches, and serves humanity as a whole.

by The Pivot Point

• 8 months ago

0

Exploring Your Split State

A contemplation by Dhyan Vimal on the detecting of our split state - the conscious and unconscious and how it impacts one's life. It invites us to resolve this split state within us.

by The Pivot Point

• 8 months ago

0

CREATION CONTEMPLATION

The day you come to be aware how all things are being formed by all actions and reactions; when one can see how one is making this or participating with it ... one starts to see that one is a creator, and this creator is in a creation.

by The Pivot Point

• 8 months ago