⚡️ Enlightening Bolts

🪞End Of The Year Reflection: Now that we're past the hype of New Year's Resolutions consider looking in the rearview mirror of 2022 using this article as your guide.  Read it here. 

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🛌 Delphi Dreams: Let AI Interpret and Visualize Your Dreams.  Try It Here. 

🎈Inner Child Dialogue: She trained AI on her journal entries to converse with her younger self.  Read it here. 

🎇 Image of The Week

"This Japanese Newspaper With Seeds Embedded Sprouts Flowers When Planted. The publisher encourages people to tear the newspaper into small pieces once it has been read, plant the shreds in soil, and then water the container. Within a few weeks, plants and flowers will present themselves as sprouts!"

🦾 AI Enhancement

I've been fascinated with AI for some time. I even featured the original Dall-E generative image release from OpenAI more than 2 years ago in the 16th edition of Down The Rabbit Hole.

I've been heavily exploring the emerging landscape of AI tools. As you can see, I've included a bunch of them in our enlightening bolts this week.

I think there is tremendous potential for personal and professional growth using these tools. They can enhance individual creativity and productivity while also making it easier to grow a business (especially in small fast-moving teams).

I'm writing a new free newsletter on AI for business owners called  AI Playbooks . It's a different flavor from what I usually write about here but I want to invite you to sign up. In the coming weeks, I'll even share how AI is revolutionizing the way I curate content for Down The Rabbit Hole.

If you want to receive that newsletter as well,  click here to sign up. 

👁 Wond'rous Mystic Art

Ponder these words from the mind of Marshall McLuhan:

"Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. The goose quill put an end to talk. It abolished mystery; it gave architecture and towns; it brought roads and armies, bureaucracy. It was the basic metaphor with which the cycle of civilization began, the step from the dark into the light of the mind. The hand that filled the parchment page built a city. Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? That we by tracing magic lines are taught, How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?"

🤓 Learn This Word

Fernweh: A German word meaning to have a yearning to see distant places

⏳ From The Archives

A hand-picked classic HighExistence article.

 28 Carl Sagan Quotes to Propel Your Mind Into the Infinite Cosmos 

“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” — Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan was the space sage. The comic cosmonaut. He may have never gone to space, but it sure seemed like he lived there most days.

He was an astrophysicist, astronomer, cosmologist, and renowned author. However, he is likely most known as being a science communicator and science popularizer. He got us excited about space, about life, about humanity, and about the infinite potential we have ahead of us.

He wrote thrilling books, starred in feature TV series, and produced scientific papers with ease. He was a down-to-earth, head-in-the-sky, big-picture thinker, and humanity owes him a collective debt.

He was also part of the team who sent the Aricebo message, a radio communication blasted out into space with information about Earth and its inhabitants.

An active cannabis and space activist, the man had a lot to say, and he said it well. In his honor, we’ve pulled together some of his best thoughts. These Carl Sagan quotes cover everything from the smallest atoms to the further stars.

Buckle in, and blast off.

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