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New Release: Growing Light Vol. 4!

"Cultivating Contentment: Intentional Living In The Garden of Life"

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“‘Till I’m Dome” by Joseph Kelly ⭐️❤️🌈🦋“Aphrodite’s Arrival As The Morning Star of Eternal Longing” by Joseph Kelly Musical inspiration: The specific cover version of “I Love You Always Forever”, as performed by Jukebox The Ghost; It never fails to jumpstart my heart every time I hear it, Regardless of how I was feeling or where I am hearing it, experientially In that space of time. I consider this cover, pure genuine emotional magic, presented as an ever-loving dream touching the ground of conscious reality… in pale amber rose, no less. Shower the world in pink and glitter, indeed, Ma. Amos, Pink & Glitter Indeed! 🩷I once tried to explain to a friend why a particularly intense creative stretch left me feeling like I'd been plugged into something larger than myself, and also completely wrung out. She asked, reasonably, whether I was okay. I didn't have a good answer. The truth was somewhere between yes and I'm not sure that's the right question. The Greeks had names for this. Not one word for the fire that makes an idea feel electric, but several, depending on whether it warmed you or consumed you. We've largely lost that vocabulary. What we have instead are clinical categories that flatten the experience into pathology, or wellness language that flattens it into inspiration. Neither quite holds what it's actually like to be inside it. I wrote this piece because I think we need better language for intensity itself, not just for when it goes well or when it goes wrong. Language for the fire while it's still burning. Link in bio: The 1,000 Mile Journey articles, "When Insight Burns Bright: Mania, Ecstasy, and Creative Fire" #PersonalDevelopment #Psychology #ConsciousLiving #IntentionalLiving #The1000MileJourney #JosephKelly #CreativeProcess #MentalHealthAwareness #GreekMythology #Neuroscience #FlowState #InnerLife“Apples & Oranges” by Joseph KellyYou said yes to something, and only later, walking away from the conversation, did you remember the three other times you'd said yes to the same kind of request and regretted it. The information was there. It just didn't show up when you needed it. That gap between what we know and what we actually draw on in the moment is stranger than it looks. We tend to think of poor decisions as failures of reasoning, but a lot of the time the reasoning was fine. What was missing was the memory that should have fed it: the past conversation, the pattern, the earlier version of this exact choice. My new article looks at what research says about memory's role in consideration, what happens when that role goes neglected, and what it might mean to weigh a decision with the fuller record actually in view. Link in bio: "Consideration and Memory: What Happens When We Forget to Ask" #PersonalDevelopment #Psychology #ConsciousLiving #IntentionalLiving #The1000MileJourney #JosephKelly #Memory #Decisionmaking #SelfAwareness #Mindfulness #Reflection #EmotionalIntelligence“Birth of Love” by Joseph Kelly A crystal heart, cut ruby-red and bound in a silver infinity loop, floats where an ordinary ocean suddenly stops being ordinary. From that heart, a column of white light rises straight up through a churning double helix of rainbow color, red, gold, green, violet, all of it braiding together and widening as it climbs until it blooms into a mandala lotus hanging against a field of stars. The eye has nowhere else to go. Everything in this piece, water, light, color, geometry, is organized around one small object no bigger than a fist, and that’s the whole point. The infinity symbol crossed with a heart is old shorthand for a love that doesn’t run out, but the lotus at the top is doing older work still. In Vedic and Buddhist traditions, the thousand-petaled lotus is the crown chakra, sahasrara, the point where individual consciousness stops being individual and opens into something vastly larger. The rainbow spiral connecting heart to crown isn’t decoration. It’s the nadi, the subtle channel, the same idea Jacob’s ladder and the axis mundi are reaching for in other traditions: a living connection between the ground you stand on and whatever you understand god or the cosmos to be. There’s no figure in this image, no face registering emotion, and that absence is doing real work. This isn’t about one person’s private ecstasy. It’s what devotion looks like stripped down to structure alone, energy moving from a wounded, faceted heart straight up into something infinitely larger than the self that held it. If you’ve ever loved something so completely that it stopped feeling like it belonged only to you, you already know this feeling. The love that starts small and specific and turns out to be a channel for something much bigger moving through you. The ocean keeps rolling. The light keeps climbing. The heart just keeps opening.