Love & Conscious Relationships

The Art of the(ir) Seduction

The Art of the(ir) Seduction

THE ART OF SEDUCTION

In order to avoid being oppressed or dominated by others in relationships or power dynamics, and in order to seduce what we want, it’s important that we understand the human psychology of power and seduction. Robert Greene has, next to his ‘48 Laws of Power’, also written ‘The Art of Seduction’ which goes all about the seduction process. In this blog post I’ll share the audio version of the book.

Which sort of seducer could you be? Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? Or Saint?
This audio book of ‘The Art of Seduction’ will show you which one. Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once.

When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer. Immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target.

Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over.
The Art of Seduction by Robert Green is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip.

De Madré

De Mams

Waar zou ik beginnen?

Goh mams, ik heb het gevoel dat ik een boek over u zou kunnen schrijven.

Een boek vol met prachtige verhalen, avonturen en gedichten. Een boek vol prachtige feiten. Een boek vol lof.

Een boek waarin ik schrijf hoe je me opbracht, alles toonde, me de vrijheid gaf en me uiteindelijk ook achterliet. Vol met jou. Vol met kracht, wijsheid, en positieve macht. Vol licht, tijd en liefde.

Veel dingen weet ik nog niet, maar wat ik wel weet is dat er een wonderbaarlijke ecstatische droom van leven op me staat te wachten, en dit is allemaal dankzij jou. 

mijn Schepper, mijn Godin. 

& Mams, dit voel ik al zo lang, maar door jou heb ik zo’n ontzettend rijk leven. Rijk op alle facetten. Ze zeggen soms dat ik creatief ben, maar wat jij hebt gecreëerd, inclusief mij, daar zijn geen woorden voor.

Jij bent een wonder. Als ik je zie, zie ik geen obstakel maar een mirakel, een orakel. Mij altijd overspoelend met de diepste waarheid en raad, in woord, pracht en daad.

Je noemde onze laatste avond samen het mooiste moment in 4 jaar. We lachten, ik speelde gitaar en we zongen zelf samen. We spendeerden die laatste avond samen met een glimlach, passie en verbondenheid.

Je vroeg me ook of ik je ooit zal kunnen vergeven voor al die imperfecties van ons, en natuurlijk is het antwoord daarop vanzelfsprekend.

En toen, ineens, de dag erna. Een shockmoment. Gestikt op een stukje steak. Plotseling. Volledig verdwenen in mijn armen.

Paniek, deanimaties, te veel ambulances, een diepe slaap en weinig kans.

Het was uiteindelijk een lange slaap. Eentje van twee zenuwslopende, moeilijke en hartverscheurende weken.

Ik vertelde je veel tijdens die slaap, en zei ik je ook dat, of je nu koos om te strijd in vrede te verlaten, of om simpelweg terug tot ons te ontwaken, ik wat dan ook, ik onvoorwaardelijk van je zou houden. Voor altijd. En dat doe ik ook mams, en geloof mij, dat is oh zo eenvoudig.

Ik maak niet vaak beloftes, maar de belofte die ik je maakte op onze laatste dag samen, de belofte dat uw warmte, opvoeding en extremen de mensen oneindig lang zouden blijven raken, inspireren en verlichten, bij die belofte blijf ik.

Want nu ben je op een plek vol tijdloze rust; omringd door ziel en liefde, dat zag ik in onze laatste adembenemende momenten samen.

Mams, ik hou van u, wij zijn fantastisch, wij zijn echt, wij zijn éen, voor altijd, want de schoonheid van jouw kern leeft voort in mij en dat voelt onsterfelijk aan als thuis.

Ik ben zo trots op hoe oneindig sterk je altijd was, bent en zal zijn, voor jezelf, voor mij, rond mij en nu in mij. In ons allemaal. Sterk voor onszelf en voor elkaar. 

Sabine, mams, wat een vrouw. Ze heeft mij gemaakt, en ze heeft voor mij gevochten, onvoorwaardelijk, tot het einde. Als een ware overwinnares. 
Dit is niet enkel de reden dat ik hier vandaag vol leven, trots en jeugdigheid sta maar ook de reden dat ik iedereen van jullie de vraag wil stellen: 

Waar willen wij, nu nog écht, samen voor vechten?

THE MOM

Where shall I start?

Gosh mom, I feel like I could write a book about you.

A book full of wonderful stories, adventures and poems. A book full of wonderful facts. A book full of praise.

A book in which I write how you lifted me up, showed me everything, gave me freedom and ultimately left me behind. Full of you. Full of strength, wisdom, and positive power. Full of light, time and love.

A lot of things I don't know yet, but what I do know is that a wonderful ecstatic dream life is waiting for me, and it's all thanks to you.

my Creator, my Goddess.

& Mom, I've been feeling this for so long, but because of you I have such an incredibly rich life. Rich in regards to all facets. They sometimes say that I am creative, but what you have created, including me, there are no words.

You are a miracle. When I see you, I see no obstacle, but a miracle, an oracle. Always flooding me with the deepest truth and counsel, in word, splendor and deed.

You called our last night together the most beautiful moment in 4 years. We laughed, I played guitar and we sang together ourselves. We spent that last evening together with a smile, passion and connection.

You also asked me if I will ever be able to forgive you for all our imperfections, and of course the answer is obvious.

And then, suddenly, the day after. A shock moment. Choked on a piece of steak. Suddenly. Completely disappeared in my arms.

Panic, de-animations, too many ambulances, a deep sleep and little chance.

It was a long sleep after all. One of two nerve-racking, difficult and heartbreaking weeks.

I told you a lot during that sleep, and I also told you that whether you chose to leave the struggle in peace, or to simply awaken back to us, whatever, I would love you unconditionally. Forever. And so do I mom, and believe me, it's oh so simple.

I don't often make promises, but the promise I made to you on our last day together, the promise that your warmth, upbringing and extremes would continue to touch, inspire and enlighten people indefinitely, I stand by that promise.

For now you are in a place of timeless tranquility; surrounded by soul and love, that's what I saw in our last breathtaking moments together.

Mom, I love you, we are fantastic, we are real, we are one, forever, because the beauty of your core lives on in me and that feels immortally like home.

I am so proud of how infinitely strong you have always been, are and will be, for yourself, for me, around me and now in me. In all of us. Strong for ourselves and for each other.

Sabine, mom, what a woman. She made me, and she fought for me, unconditionally, to the end. Like a true victor. This is not only the reason that I stand here today full of life, pride and youthfulness but also the reason that I want to ask each of you the question:

What do we really want to fight for?

Matriarchy and/or Patiarchy

Matriarchy and/or Patiarchy

A few days ago, Peter had an article up on deprogramming yourself from Madonna/whore complex, a form of black and white thinking in which there are good girls - Madonnas - who aren't all that interested in sex, and there are bad girls - whores - who love nothing more than a good pounding by just about anyone.

As his focus was more on the deprogramming side of things - so that you might optimize your sex life and dealings with women in a Western, post Madonna/whore type world - Peter only scraped the surface on where this mental model of female sexuality originates in his article, and I'd like to expand greatly upon both the background of Madonna/whore and the purpose that it serves here.

This is going to be a ride through some of the stranger and less-discussed aspects of human sexual history and civilization, so... I hope you're prepared for a lengthier piece.

Gathering of the Tribe

In todays’ post, I’d love to share a highly inspiring, grounding and beautiful short movie on our interdimensional connection to spirit, life and our metaphysical tribe. Not only is it highly aesthetic, but it also contains a lot of foundational truth of who I believe we are. Enjoy :)

From Aubrey:

My tears always come from a revelation of hidden truth. As if the frames of perception themselves liquidate out of my eyes so I can see clearly again. This story made me cry the first time I read it in Charles Eisenstein’s book, “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible” and every time I have watched it since. Because to me, it is a true story. Whether actually true or metaphorically true, it doesn’t matter.

It is time for us to come together. To gather, to rise, to love, to LIVE! You are not alone. I promise you, you are not alone.

Thank you to @aldousmassie for the animations and @mrjonhopkins for the incredible score of the film, featuring @vylanamarcus. Check their profiles on Instagram for more of their work :)

Please save, share, and tag your tribe

21 Things We Started Calling Love

Existential Love

After having many extreme experiences in the presence and absence of love, I’ve started to intuitively believe that there is simply one love. The one stream of unconditional universal love that flows through all of us; to all of us. What i want to contemplate in these words is what we’ve collectively started to call ‘loving another person”. This is a highly important topic as others can show us things that enhance the feeling of love, but the love we feel is unitary, meaning we feel it for ourselves and for life itself. Others mirroring us a deeper sense of inner truth, wholeness and understanding can be one of the most beautiful aspects of life, but can we really say ‘I’m in love with that person’? Because if we do so then we place the responsibility of this sense of inner wholeness outsides of us, i.e. the other. We become subconscious victimized and drained by seeking this love outside of ourselves instead of taking passionate, bold and authentic steps towards our highest potential, wildest fantasies and deepest fulfillment. This does not imply that we do not need the other, or that a relationship can be tremendously awe-inspiring, but it does mean that we cannot rely on the other for our wholeness, sense of love and sovereignty in life. But on the other hand, I do believe that reality reaches a next level or realness when it is shared.

That’s why I’ve dived into 21 aspects that others can give us that make us feel the most sensual, eternal and wondrous vibration in existence; love.


The List: 21 Needs


Inspiration 


The other can snap us out of our conditioning and inspire us to behave, see and create life in a certain way.


Insight 


The other can take away our doubt, ignorance and confusion by sharing conceptual understanding into the nature of ourself. 

Direction

The other can inspire us with an example of self-love, identity and direction in life when we’re lost and looking.

Attention

The other can praise us by telling us how interesting, beautiful, gifted or important we are.

Romance

The other can sensually induce us with a mysterious, vocal and exciting sense of romance.

Recognition

The other can deeply validate how important, worthy and lovable we are.

Patience

The other can set time into perspective.

Hope & Expectation

The other can give us hope by making (and sometimes keeping) promises.

Belonging

The other and the people they know can give us the experience of deep companionship.

Security

The other can add to our feeling of security in terms of existential survival.

Caring

The other can care for our needs, desires and fantasies.

Financial Resources

The other can help us cover certain monetary needs and expenses.

Support

The other can spiritually, emotionally and mentally lift us up by their presence.

Sexual Experience

The sexual experience in every form and the bliss, wonder and unity it can arouse.

Trust & ‘Self’ Belief

The other can sincerely and firmly believe in our reliability, truth, and power.

Food

The other can enrichen us by giving or cooking us nutritious & delicious food.

Emotional Stimulation

The other can make us experience all sorts of mystery, fascination and pleasure.

Wonder

The other can reminds us of the miracle of life of being alive as a human being.

Levity

The other can gently remind us not to take life and ourselves overly seriously.

Human Touch

The feeling of belonging and intimacy derived from a simple human touch.

The ability to Share

The other allows us to share what is real within us, to share the beauty.

The Chance to Lose Yourself

The other allows us a chance to transcend into full unity.


Sum Total = Truth, Love & Wholeness/Unity.

The question is, can we give these existential needs to ourselves, or do we need the other? The experience of this emotional shifting in our needs; the polarization process and its continual, vibrant and vast spectrum of energies, frequencies and emotional intelligence, is what we experience as our energetic being, our aura, our self and our energetic balance. What we are and what we are able to attract. At times we feel a deeper sense of balance, wholeness and unity, resulting in a sense of self-realization, truth and love. But when these needs are fulfilled from outside of us, does that mean we love the other, or that the other makes us realize the dormant depth of love already within us with greater intensity? What is really important is to understand is that the constant shifting of needs and energies is a confronting and constant emotional mixture of polar dualities that requires our conscious awareness, as it can be balanced by choice, e.g.:

  • Fear/Love

  • Shame/Pride

  • Guilt/Innocence

  • Certainty/Vulnerability

  • Frustration/Satisfaction

  • Avoidance/Confrontation

  • Victimhood/Responsibility

  • Clinginess/Non-Attachment

Whenever life presents us with a new impulse or a new incoming catalyst; a new trigger that can slightly pull us out of balance so to speak; we can either do one of both things:

  1. react passively, unaware, reactively and be thrown out of balance, or

  2. we can use our conscious awareness, intuitive response and our discernment to feel how we got thrown out of balance and bring ourselves back into it.

For example, a parent may blame us for something out of their rigid certainty. We can then either get lost in a guilty victim role, or we can perceive and forgive ourselves and our inner child for being imperfect and move on with personal power and innocence. Or when a friend may load their pressure, impatience and stress onto us, we can either carry on their stress and take it into our own life or we can take a moment to reconnect, ground and rebalance ourselves to our own natural rhytm. Or if a certain habit keeps us stuck in shameful patterns over and over again bring us shame over and over again, we may ask ourselves if it’s actually harmonious to us or if we’re acting out of a need of validation or certainty. We will keep feeling this imbalance until we change set a more harmonious boundary, change our perspective and ultimately change our behavior, or else the pattern will keep repeating itself until we learn the lesson.

This is why text, Whatsapp, email or social media messages can be so toxic, harmful and destructive towards our own personal power, emotional balance and feeling of self-love, because they bring many different catalysts, impulses or triggers at once, making it very hard to feel, discern and rebalance the imbalances they invoke in our emotional system. Another way in which this problem manifests is the following: a past role of ours may have been an online entrepreneur, a musician or a coach, but if we decided to move past that role, it will be extra challenging if we keep getting ‘digital entrepreneur, music or coaching emails’ in our daily mailbox, or if we seeing those examples and role models on our social media feed. This intensely robs us from our personal power, wholeness, acceleration and unified trajectory through life. Hopefully you can see this.

Creating a Polar Balance

We experience life as a duality, in the sense that we will experience, and often even need both sides of the coin to fully grasp what Love is. Although we should aim for a healthy balance, it’s also important to recognize we need both dualities. Fear allows us to develop strategies for survival, pleasure and purpose. Shame drives us towards unity and our full potential on the road of self-actualization. Guilt forces us to make more authentic and harmonious decisions. Experiencing and embracing the extremes of life to the fullest in order to realize our highest balance. The excitement of the dark and the beauty of the light. This requires us to be conscious, wise and discerning about which choice to make, as we can choose an experience that balances the experienced emotional imbalance. Use your emotional sacral response to intuitively guide you through this process. The choice that polarizes your experience into satisfaction, peace and love. It’s possible to realize, through memory, a psychedelic illumination or a future experience, that at the core of our mental, dual and polarized mental maze of emotions one does indeed find the eternal, unconditional and fully unified sensual love of Creation. This is also what is referred to as philosophical, hermetic of spiritual alchemy. Choosing gold. 


Yes, although the other can give us some of these things, we can also give lots of them to ourselves through free will and choosing experiences that match these vibratory frequencies symbolic energies. The more we create the aspects of life that our inner child needs and wants, the more we feel whole, complete and fully able to take authority, responsibility and ownership of ourselves and thus our lives. The more we feel one, cosmically connected and untouchably on top, ultimately able to be, feel, think and choose with the full scope of our consciousness, awareness and free will.

Will we make it to the other side or do we lose ourselves into to weakness, victimization and submissive reactivity? Time will tell, as it strengthens the spiritually strong and weakens the spiritually weak. Remember that you are deep within you are whole. The choice is yours. You can be the difference. You can be the voice of Love, receiving the difference you make. Writing this I realised that sharing experience with another is the most magical things, and that we truly need each other. We are each other. Reminding ourselves, as I am you and we are us. One collective generation extrasensually traveling through the adventures of space.

I am.

I am the other.

I am you.

Loving you.

The Power of the Splenic Center

The Power of the Splenic Center

The Splenic Center is associated with our lymphatic system, the spleen and T-cells. The cells of the lymphatic system act like little ears, noses, and tongues all over the body. Ever alert, they are constantly listening, tasting, and smelling to make sure everything in our environment is healthy and in balance. If something isn’t, they warn us. This is the hub of our immune system. When T-cells (splenic soldiers which make up about one fifth of our body’s cells) are called into action, they attack and destroy anything that invades the body. Their job is to protect us from disease.

The Magic of the Solar Plexus Center

The Magic of the Solar Plexus Center

The Solar Plexus provides the potent energy driving the cyclic nature of human experience, it’s desire frequency is continually moving us toward encounters with pleasure and its opposite, pain. It is the center of revolution, poetry, romance, compassion, spirituality and religion. We seek to prolong its highs to stay connected to spirit, and we do everything in our power to avoid its lows, our unfilled expectations and a sense of separation. With half of humanity acting impulsively from these emotional ups and downs, and the other half avoiding dealing with emotions altogether, we find ourselves living in an emotionally distorted world.

A Truth of Psychedelics

A Truth of Psychedelics

Luckily, psychedelic drugs, including LSD, Psilocybin Mushrooms, Marijuana, 5-Meo-DMT & AL-LAD, are gradually becoming more and more accepted and acknowledged for the transformative power they possess, the liberating insights they provide and the ocean of tranquility they gently guide us back to. Read all about it here!

3 Stages in a Maturity Continuum

3 Stages in a Maturity Continuum

We each begin life as an infant, totally dependent on others. We are directed, nurtured, and sustained by others. Then gradually, over the course of our lives, we become more and more independent - physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially. Find out the whole process of progressing through the stages of maturity in this article!