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Sloww Sunday Newsletter 196 (Aug 18, 2024) — Deeper Sleep, Escaping Mind Jail, Highest States of Consciousness, & More
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📚 Lifelong Learning & Deeper Development
Synthesizer Course Round 2
It’s hard to believe the Synthesizer course launched 3 months ago, and 80+ students are already future-proofing their minds and becoming world-class thinkers! Now, it’s time to open it up to a second round of students.
A few updates:
- New Look: Circle (the software that runs the course + community + calls) just released a nice visual redesign on desktop and mobile. Everything is now even easier on the eyes and more intuitive to navigate.
- Free Live Calls: I’ve decided to give all students (existing and new) complimentary access to live group calls for life! Many other courses start in the $thousands without delivering this much value (just look where Synthesizer is on this spreadsheet comparing 50+ courses).
- Synthesizer Summit Q3 2024: The next live group call (aka ‘Synthesizer Summit’) has been scheduled on Sept 19th. That means if you join now, you’ll have a full month to knock out a bunch of the course before the call.
And, don’t forget:
- Free Lessons: Synthesizer Manifesto (5 mins), The Challenge (4 mins), & The Vision (6 mins).
- Student Feedback: 20+ testimonials (unsolicited) from the early adopters of the course.
- Flexible Pricing: Pricing options including payment plans, student discounts/scholarships, and global purchasing power parity for those outside the US. I want everyone who wants to take the course to take the course! Just email me if you’re interested in any of these options, and I’ll help you out.
Learn more or 🧠 Join Synthesizer Course
🌎 Lighter Living
How do I get deeper sleep?
Calling all deep sleepers! It’s been 40+ days since I’ve had a full night of sleep. I expected the sleep deprivation with a newborn to be bad (it’s the #1 thing that scared me the most about having a baby), but it’s actually 100x worse than my expectation. I now understand why it’s a form of torture!
Prior to baby, I’d say I got good but not great sleep. I use an Oura ring to track my sleep, and I’d apparently rarely get enough REM or deep sleep even in a full night. Now, sleep has quickly become of absolutely critical importance (I’m sleeping in 1-4 hour shifts broken up throughout the day because our daughter only currently sleeps when held).
I’m wondering if anyone has tips, tricks, products, resources, etc on how to get more REM and deep sleep. Please comment and let me know what actually works for you! Thank you from a very tired new dad typing this with one hand while my daughter is sleeping on me. 😴
Explore more: 100+ posts on Intentional Living (Sloww Stage 1)
🧭 Higher Purpose
New Podcast Episode is Live!
A couple months ago, I joined Scott Britton on his podcast EvolutionFM, and the episode just went live: EvolutionFM, YouTube, Spotify, Apple.
I’ve outlined detailed show notes and time stamps. It’s a wide-ranging conversation covering: my existential crisis, truth of ikigai, psychological development, the synthesizing mind, the lifelong learning flywheel of questioning to learning to developing, ever-deeper self-inquiry, all learning is in service of living, life itself as the spiritual practice, and much more.
“Kyle is a great human. If you haven’t checked out Sloww, it’s an incredibly robust resource for exploring consciousness and human development that synthesizes a ton of different viewpoints in one place.” — Scott Britton
Explore more: 50+ posts on Life Purpose (Sloww Stage 2)
🧠 Mental Mastery
Escaping the Jail of the Mind
Here’s the key: 50+ Deep Quotes to Free Your Mind from Psychological Prison
- “If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can’t escape.” — George Gurdjieff
- “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” — Rosa Luxemburg
🔒 Sloww Premium Deep Dive:
Explore more: 75+ posts on Mental Mastery (Sloww Stage 3)
☯️ Spiritual Seeing
Two Highest States of Consciousness
This new Premium post + infographic summarizes the explanations and experiences of the two highest states of consciousness—The Witness & One Taste—from the new book Finding Radical Wholeness by Ken Wilber (Book Summary). If you’re interested in what Wilber calls “waking up,” this is a must-read!
“The practice is quite literally to move from something (the ego), to nothing (the Witness), to everything (One Taste).” — Ken Wilber
🔒 Sloww Premium Deep Dive:
- How to Wake Up with The Witness & One Taste from Ken Wilber (+ Infographic)
- Integral Psychology & Spirituality Synthesis: How to Develop Holistically with Ken Wilber (10+ Visuals)
Explore more: 75+ posts on Spiritual Seeing (Sloww Stage 4)
💬 Wise Words
On trying to force humans to develop:
“You cannot pull plants to make them grow faster.” — Francis Lucille
Pair with: 10 Thoughtful Quotes on Accepting & Appreciating People for Who they Are
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All the best,
Kyle Kowalski
Founder, Sloww
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