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amdrag
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Video essays on dreams, esotericism, magic, spirituality, religion, anxiety and fear. Always loving, always inclusive and always strange.
Yin Yang and the Nature of Opposites
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On the principle of polarity, as described in The Kybalion. Opposites are different only by degree and not nature. This allows for transmutation along an aspect's given pole. Chaos may become peace, hot may become cold, love may become hatred, etc. Mastery of this principle allows the practitioner to better understand and navigate a world of emotional manipulation and constant tumult.
"Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled."
- The Kybalion
Shout out to the band Soft Play and their song "All Things"
#kybalion #tao #spiritualawakening
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On the principle of polarity, as described in The Kybalion. Opposites are different only by degree and not nature. This allows for transmutation along an aspect's given pole. Chaos may become peace, hot may become cold, love may become hatred, etc. Mastery of this principle allows the practitioner to better understand and navigate a world of emotional manipulation and constant tumult.
"Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled."
- The Kybalion
Shout out to the band Soft Play and their song "All Things"
#kybalion #tao #spiritualawakening
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Rest easy, friends. We are most certainly NOT alone. Just because you have mastered softness doesn't mean you shouldn't also master hardness. The ego is yours to do with as you see fit, and we must nurture it too, and sustain these vessels as prerequisite to having those transcendental experiences. You can't divorce yourself from the meat without death. You don't have to be a priest for having met God. It is good enough to be a traveler on Earth, and now that you have this new mastery, you may frolic through the dream of this place newly lucid and unencumbered by the expectations, rituals, and machinations of a purely physicalist existence. You are the alpha and omega, and are now the only one with the power to author your reality. You are the only thing now which possesses the power to define your new paths and your happiness. Magic requires matter, so do not think that mind alone will suffice in your manifestations. Use all of the universe in your pursuits, and love the process as much as the outcome. Do so, or the new tools you've earned will be little more than souvenirs for a lonely soul.
@@Azalraku beautifully said my friend! I love this, inspiring ♥️
@@amdrag Couldn't have done it without you :)
Great video as always :)
@@BeyondBrainWavesYT thank you my friend! ♥️♥️♥️
That which amdrag has said of the operation of the Sun is accomplished and ended.
@@SKITZ_MONEY ♥️♥️♥️
Thank you, your words are inspiring and woven wonderfully. Blessed be :]
@@soulitis to you as well my friend, thank you ♥️
Thanks for this video. Spending time with animals, that's what I was thinking
@@PabloPerroPerro thanks for watching my friend! And for real, animals are the best, they're just "here" and we can learn a lot from that ♥️
Beautiful words. Much love and blessings to you.
Too you as well my friend, thank you for spending your time with me ♥️
When i was done dying is such a good music video to take b-roll from... such an amazing song and animation!
@@savag3salad813 haha! Yes! I slip it into almost every video I make, it just hits the transcendental so perfectly.
May wisdom and reason lead us into the future. Thank you for this video, really resonates 💓
@@connormcclennen5696 thank you for watching my friend ♥️
This is what poetry is for :) thanks for another thoughtful video
Thank you for the kind words!! ♥️
You make beautiful videos, ty for uploading
Thank you so much! I deeply appreciate your words! ♥️
That’s pretty scary how accurate it is, i relate on almost anything, I feel like we are all little children in a massive scary playground with no direction except our rationality, it make me feel good to know we are not alone in the quest to see the truth, thanks for your video
For sure, I get the feeling. I remember looking around wondering if everyone else felt like adults yet, because I'm three decades, two kids and a dozen jobs deep and still I get imposter syndrome any time I'm filling up my gas tank 🤣 Thank you for spending your time with me, let love be your guide right? It's all we got!
Our dreams can sometimes feel real, sometimes feel fake, but in hindsight its always clear that it was a dream, because when we compare it to waking reality, there are some glaring differences, one of which is that the "you" in the dream lacked memories of the events leading up to that "you" in the dream, where as in waking reality, we remember our path to where we are now. Perhaps that's a hardware limitation of our relatively primitive brains. Relative to what? A mind that could dream a whole universe and all the consciousnesses within it with perfect continuity.
Exactly. When I dream I feel more like I'm along for someone else's ride. Sometimes I have recall within the dream of past events from the dream continuity, other times someone asks me a question and I have no clue what they're talking about haha. But just like you said at the end, we're an echo of the thing dreaming us. It's all very beautiful and fun to dance with ♥️
Comment for the algorithm 😁
Thank you my friend! ♥️
Comment for the algorithm, this channel needs to blow up! 💥
You're too kind! ♥️
@amdrag I just binged all your videos last night and this morning... so glad I came across your channel!
@@savag3salad813 that's so cool, thank you! 🙏
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damn. i wish you were my friend. but would a clone perfect or eliminate what's left of me?
I'm happy to be here with you friend! I plan to start a discord server soon so we can seek community together. Stick around and I'll post to the community page, then we can chat more if you like!
My shower thoughts playing over beautiful editing?! 1000/10
@@LoveK4ts haha I'm glad we have the same shower thoughts! Thank you ♥️
Wow, this was beautiful. Nothing I've seen in media has so perfectly captured what I want to do in my life, how I see my spirituality, and how fortunate I am to have lived that experience of becoming aware of my spirituality, ego, and that I can do something deep and meaningful with my life. Your example of shining your light so bright is exactly how I describe my mission in life. Thank you for creating this.
@@smoothashummus140 that's humbles me greatly friend, thank you for spending your time with me ♥️
Let the test of time remove you from the void of lacking.
It is important to remember that while we are all alone on the journey, we are all on the path. Easier said, than done. If you find someone behind you gently try to guide them to the next step. And harder still, if you meet someone ahead of you, listen.
@@daymon9111 very well said ♥️
This touched something deeply inside of me that I have never been able to put into words. It's rare to feel understood for 7 minutes straight :')
@@jamaal9912 that's beautiful my friend! Thank you so much for spending some time with me ♥️
This not only resonated but is the exact truth of my life and I wanna think so many others too
You are certainly not alone ♥️ Wishing you the best my friend
I’ve never felt my life since childhood so perfectly described by a video online before. I’m so glad there are others that feel the same way I have since before I can remember - it’s a big relief from loneliness
@@BugsHaveProtein you are absolutely not alone my friend! Thank you for being here with me ♥️
Another great video. Transmuting rage into creation sounds good to me. The world managed to turn my great joy into anger but I dont want to choose malevolence so I always find my way back.
@@6AxisSage hell yes, we choose the path again and again. Thank you for the comment my friend!
I have had the same issue since I was a teenager. I realized anxiety, stress, family trauma, having ADHD, among other things have been fueling this fire. It’s so easy to get stuck in these thought loops. I’ve been to the hospital many times just to hear them tell me it’s probably just anxiety. Meditation (especially body scan) have helped me tremendously. Thanks you for making these videos, I resonate deeply with your content and they offer me relief I can’t fully put into words.
@@chrisescobar6241 I'm so glad to hear that my friend! I'm stoked to hear meditation has helped you out of that hole, it's such a dark and scary place when it gets really bad. Wishing you well and good health!
You have a way with words . beautiful
@@chrisescobar6241 and thank you for your kind words my friend!
The algorithm has blessed me once again. This was beautiful man, brought a few tears to my eyes. You write, speak and edit with poise, keep it up :)
@@karlotomas8724 thank you so much! I deeply appreciate you ♥️
I feel ya. I solved consciousness, cognition and how everything works and everyone turned thier back when I reached out to people who have been taking from me my whole life.
@@6AxisSage it's hard my friend, for real. Good things ahead though. Keep searching and stay open, we're in it together ♥️
@@amdrag Thanks, you definitely inspired me, good start to the day is one that gets me thinking creatively and positively.
Just a hair from 1k!! Congrats ahead of time Drag, you're really loved. In any case, after seeing your first video, I knew it was inevitable... We just keep waking up. At first, like in the 60s, it was onesies and twosies, but then the internet came online, and now more eyes are being opened than LSD could have ever done alone 🤣
@@ADPax10 haha I love that comment, the Internet is really quite the mixed blessing lmao And thank you so much, rest assured I am both gobsmacked and humbled ♥️♥️♥️
@@amdrag Btw, if you don't mind, what's that anime with Siddhartha and Jesus you included?
@ADPax10 Saint Young Men! It's pretty great
@@amdrag Thanks so much man 🙏. Soon as I find some additional work, you're the first one I'm Patron-ing. Can't wait for the next video!
You're too kind! You won't have to wait long!
No time is wasted; all of it is spent.
Very true. You can't graduate without taking the tests.
Stay curious and wonder, make life an adventure. Kindness is free to give to others, and yourself.
Absolutely. Beautifully put my friend! ♥️
I'm gonna write down all of this and learn it sentence by sentence. Thank you so much for your extraordinary beautiful content.💫
@@Riverio you are incredibly kind my friend, thank you so much for spending your time with me ♥️
@amdrag ❤🌊
You can not understand the gratitude that I have for you putting this out into the world we find ourselves in. You have somehow managed to find the words that have been swimming deep in what some may call "my soul". So far out of reach that my mind and words could never dig deep enough to put together into a coherent thought or sentence. Something that I have been searching for a definition for in my mind for my entire current lifetime. Even if this is, of your own making, or someone else's. You have found a way to make it sprawl out into words that make sense, in an incomprehensible reality that I find myself in. Even if some parts, I believe at time and other that I don't, fluidly changing like a confusing contradiction of information, you have somehow found a way to make sense of it. Thank you is nowhere near enough to describe the feeling you gave me. Not in my emotions, but my mind. Not just in mine, but others who couldn't find what this is that's inside of them. This thing that you can't unsee and the people around you don't seem to understand. Or at least not have the same dialect or subset of language to understand in shared communication.
@@CaptainSS04 thank you for that very kind and well written comment my friend. I appreciate you deeply and am so happy my work resonated with you ♥️ I am wishing you the best ✨
i havent had such a expierience, but i agree with quite a bit of what was said in the video. idk what to do with this information lol, but seems interesting
@@TheMerryOne haha I'm glad it resonated with you! I think if you're interested in this path, the next thing to look into would be a meditation practice, or read relevant books. You may find The Kybalion interesting, it's a great place to start. Otherwise I hope you stick around and maybe just enjoy some more videos about weird stuff! ♥️
just a chill guy understanding his own isolation
@@AESTUDIO-v7 that's the vibe ♥️ Good things ahead my friend
I do not think losing real friends over becoming spiritual is worth it. However, if people distance themselves from you after you found your truth, then they weren't friends to begin with.
@@justyouraveragehumanbeing7411 I don't know if it's so black and white as that, but for sure I've had different "real friends" at different stages of development. I think we should all be growing and trying to be better, but the reality appears to be that most folks stop somewhere on the path and grow very uncomfortable around those who proceed. To put it in a nutshell!
😭crying🫂
@@onyx.801 love to you friend, thank you for being here with me ♥️
This is why the Buddha taught wisdom and compassion. Honestly this sounds like a really bad life that will only lead you to chase those same desires you see through. It’s easy to see through everything’s, it’s hard to see through it and still see it as pure. All body, speech, mind, and activities, of all individuals is that of a Buddha. Our kleshas or afflictions block us from seeing that light that pure view. Even when we know it’s all karma how does that help us? Where does just understanding leave you? Alone.
Yeah, you still have to be a person right? Why else would you be one? I'm working on a video about this, but my friend and I refer to it as "one foot in one foot out". Your human self has to do human things but your higher self can remember this is all nature, this is all perfect, this is what it's all meant to be. I don't blame anyone for not taking the spiritual path, but definitely want to be here for those whom it is foisted upon ♥️
@@amdragthat’s great, as the lamas say “there is no good or bad in the spiritual path” and offering a non-institutionalized path is always a good idea in these times of institutional crises. Just trusting the guru, lamas, monks, laypeople (the sangha) was the hardest part of becoming a Buddhist for me.
@@amdragI also think it’s the hedonism that can arise from this thought that makes it a “bad” life. We have to work and have a toil, an output of energy that improves our material condition, even if that is just growing crops, working at a coffee shop, or creating entertaining and relatable videos 😉
@@wyattmonk215 haha very well said! I appreciate your perspective, I'm happy to be on this path with you ♥️
@@amdragas am I, if you seek anymore understanding from the Buddhist perspective @theoryofsamsara is an amazing source. Lama Karma Choga is an authentic source and he’s a westerner too so he’s very skilled in communicating the Dharma!
Anytime I see Evangelion I fuckin leave
LMAO 🤣 Godspeed friend
As the talking heads once said... Stop making sense
@@ZombieDeathProof haha, love the heads! I appreciate you friend 🙏
Nailed it. Love you man.
Thank you my friend, I love you too ❤️
I got five seconds into this video and found out it wasn't any sort of spiritual ideas I was interested in. "wE'rE aLl fRaCtAls oF tHe SaMe ConSciOUsNeSs BrUh." Nah, we ain't. I'm out. Cya.
@@GustafUNL what are your spiritual ideas? Obviously watching more than the intro might give you more insight to my perspective, it is a piece of art after all, it wouldn't be wise to judge a painting on just a corner or a book I'm just the first page. But please feel free to share your ideas regardless. I'm here to listen and learn, not act like I know everything already.
@@amdrag If I'm successful you'll hear them someday. Even if I wrote a whole essay here UA-cam would just delete it anyway.
@@GustafUNL well I'll root for you, we're all students. If you ever decide to watch the rest of the video I would be curious to hear where your ideas differ. The ability to consider another person's perspective and beliefs without necessarily taking them on as your own is essential to personal growth. If your tolerance for my perspective only lasted five seconds, there might still be some essential growing to do.
@@amdrag I could listen to it. I just don't want to right now, it's not the kind of video i was expecting when i clicked on it. So I'm not so interested.
@@GustafUNL sure, such is life! You do you my friend, I'm wishing you well
Thank you for bringing a sense of not being alone to my life for even a fleeting moment
Thank you for being here with me friend ♥️
developing a personal relationship with god/creator/love saved me 🙏❤ dismissing a higher power is the ego. if you are in my reality, then i want the best for you. thank you for this video. we're in this together 💞
Thank you friend, wishing you the best ♥️
Hey cool vid, can you provide a list of the films and shows you used?
Proverbs 12:23
I've often heard it said that the truth is quiet and does not need defending, something I personally fall back on quite a bit in my personal life. I certainly agree with the essence of this proverb. But when I was struggling, I sought answers and guidance. While I appreciate it now, the Bible didn't "hit", I just wasnt in that place yet. Ultimately it was art which saved me. UA-cam videos, people who spoke in a way that connected with my heart. Music, poetry, essays, kindness. But it was clear right away (as demonstrated in the intro) that knowing these things and finally feeling connected wasn't going to get you anywhere with people who hadn't had the same experience. Speaking too much, sharing that which must be experienced was indeed folly. I'll always be a student. My only goal on this platform is to learn and help connect with anyone who's in a similar space. To continue to grow and share my experiences through my art. Thank you for the opportunity to reflect with such a humble comment. ♥️
I've never come across something that laid out exactly how I feel day to day. Thank you.
Thank you for the comment friend, wishing you well ♥️
Took the words from my mouth. Thank you brother. Someone once told me that this formless love is the basis of all beings, so all beings already know beyond words this formless self.
That someone sounds very wise! Love is everything ❤️ Thank you for the comment my friend!
this has big Screenslaver vibes, from The Incredibles 2, I mean it in a very positive way
Haha, I love that, thank you ♥️