⚡️ Enlightening Bolts

👁 Regaining Our Sense Of The Sacred: “Know what it is to be a child… To see a world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.”  Read it here. 

🗺 Maps of Awakening: Maps and models can be invaluable in helping us get our head around awakening experiences to create deeper levels of understanding.  Explore Rosa Lewis' Maps. 

🍄 Normalize Psychedelics: A campaign to improve awareness around the healing power of psychedelic medicine by collecting life experience stories.  Watch it here. 

🎇 Image of The Week

"South Korean artist Myoung Ho Lee captured single trees against rectangular white backdrops, resulting in a series of graphic still life landscapes."  See more here. 

️‍💯 An Adventure Into Greatness

From The Mind of Eric Brown: HighExistence Steward and Edge of Being Creator:

"We’ve been cooking something up the past few weeks. A warrior training protocol. A heroic incubator, you might say.

An opportunity to elevate your discipline into devotion, and a chance to ground your devotion into daily discipline.

The answers we seek often aren’t found in spiritual fads, biohacking techniques, or the next medicine ceremony. They’re found in small deeds, done greatly, connected to presence, purpose, and play.

I came across this quote recently, “Be fit to be useful.” That’s what this experience is. Cultivating physical, emotional, and spiritual fitness so that you can show up more fully in the world, and devote yourself, in your fullness, to the causes, virtues, and values you care about.

And what a time for it, yeah? The world is ready for warriors of the heart to rise up, to take the lead, to own their boldness and chart a course for a more beautiful future. Are you ready to do the same?

It’s called the HERO100, and we’ll be talking about it more in the coming weeks, expect to see a few emails about it coming your way.

100 days. 100+ hours. $100. 6 daily disciplines. 1 rite of passage into greatness.

An unbroken chain, building evidence of your excellence. If this sounds like the flavor of weird l that’s right up your alley, if you’re one of the crazy ones who looks at challenges like this with the wide eyes of wonder, reply to this email saying “I’m ready” and we’ll tell you about the next steps.

We’re planting the seeds of something we hope will become a movement.

Spaces are limited.

More to come this week, but if you already have that deep knowing that you’re ready for a multi-month initiation, if you have a sense of who you will become on the other side of devotional discipline, you’re exactly who we want to talk to. Shoot us a reply here and you’ll be the first with access to this experience."

🌻Promise Yourself

A moving passage a friend recently showed me from Christian D. Larson:

"Promise Yourself To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile. To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you."

🤓 Learn This Word

Énouement: A french word that means the bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self

⏳ From The Archives

A hand-picked classic HighExistence article.

 13 Crazy Facts About Iceman Wim Hof That Nobody Talks About 

Iceman Wim Hof, is best known for his astounding feats of cold endurance. He currently holds 26 world records, such as remaining in ice for 1 hour and 52 minutes and running up Mount Everest in a pair of shorts.

Iceman Wim Hof breaking ice record

Recently he has shot into the limelight for his media attention and his course that teaches ordinary people how to learn his techniques.

But is there more to The Iceman than ice?

That’s what I intended to find out when I began listening to Wim’s podcasts and reading through his interview archives.

Below I will present my argument that Iceman Wim Hof really is superhuman, even without his feats of cold endurance.

Some of the things Wim claims below may sound hard to believe. But before you call him a charlatan or a liar, remember that he has a proven track record of staying true to his crazy word, even under the scrutiny of science.

Below I list 13 little-known facts about Wim, including the how Wim Hof eats and how long he can hold his breath.

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