There's been a helluva response to Openhand leaving social media - ON social media!!

People have been highly supportive and understanding. It's received lots of ticks and likes!! And meaningful commentary too - deep thanks from the heart. ❤️

Some people are sad, and intuitively I can feel other, content creators, thinking: What should I do?
If you feel to continue, and that it supports what you do, then go right ahead and continue.

But allow me to let you into a little secret, that I've been carrying in this tech world for many years since the very beginnings of the internet, and existed countless centuries even before that. The internet was based on the model of the bazaar, like the town of Petra that Openhand recently visited on pilgrimage.

People came together to exchange goods and services, but much more than that - they had meaningful exchanges of energy and ideas.

And here's the secret that made it all work, and continues to do so, right up until this day:

"Content is King"
(and Queen!).

What do I mean?

People value meaningful and high-quality content - creativity that clearly has a high degree of commitment, relevance, energy, and consciousness in it. Such content will always find a way. Whether it's your sacred geometrical art, your cooking class, your meditation group, your conscious music, painting or anything else for that matter.

Day after day, I see in Glastonbury, amongst the homeless people begging for money, a guy that gets down on his knees and draws sacred geometry in chalk. It's astounding! Every night, either the rain or the council washes it away. Yet still he is there the next day drawing his art. He's so engaged, that when I drop money in his hat, he hardly even notices or acknowledges.

What fuels your passion?

Whatever it is that fuels your passion, give 110% commitment to it. Because then you will feed your soul. And others will see that and feel it from you. And they'll want to connect with your offering, your work. And the natural Torus Flower of life will find a way. How? Because that's what it does!

The Flower of life is the fabric upon which all is predicated and woven. It is the natural kundalini of life. Connect into that and express from it 100%. Let it be the best of you. Always.

And that's what social media seems to me has been purposefully designed to degrade, to diminish and dehumamnise; to replace natural kundalini with the 3-second dopamine hit.

But I hear you say: "It's alright for you Openhand, you now have a huge following".

It didn't begin that way! And most imporantly, that was NEVER its aim.

I came into this world immediately seeing the dichotomy of the Matrix, and how it was already (back then) limiting consciousness - at the Supermarket, for example, with the toxins and poisons that masquerade as 'food'.

So I created the early Openhandweb and wrote about that: What it does to consciousness, and how to apply meditation with connection into nature, and purifying the diet to emerge from the Matrix. The first articles never got more than a dozen views. But I didn't care a jot. Why not?

Allow me to share another 'secret' that's a real game-changer in life:

I wasn't doing it for anyone else.
I was doing it for me!

It's an expression of who I am. It unleashes soul. It actualises my consciousness here and now. And that feels totally awesome - beyond words!

I'm glad now that others tune in. That's fantastic - I welcome it. But I can tell you my main reason, the "Why?" that gets me up early every day before sunrise, before the birds start calling, is that it feeds my soul. And I feel it's providing a service too.

This was never about 'marketing'!!!!
That's anathema to the soul.

What the early internet adopters realised is that there was a tech way to harness the Flower of Life - to connect into it by creating online eco-systems - that mutually uplift and support groups that most resonate on your vibration. The Flower of Life still works in that way. It's about building mutually supportive ecosystems.

It's the ecosystem approach I now share with Openhand Facilitators...

The problem with social media these days (as I see it) is that it devolves consciousness through the 3-second dopamine hit. Information and titillation is FED to you. It breeds the consciousness of 'sitting back comfortably on the sofa' of life. Instead of actively getting out there and committing to life - making your every moment of being and expression a masterpiece.

Strip out the nonsense.
Strip out the distraction.
Find what fuels your passion and commit to it.
Give your all to it. This will unleash soul.
And that's what life is really all about.

Content is King (and Queen)!!
Don't let your life be dulled into dank submission. Rage, against the dying of the light:

Bright blessings
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