You were born by your mother...ultimately you emerged from the primordial soup of this universe.

Ontologically you could also have never existed. Or not yet. Or you could have already died. No Farcaster or ↑higher. Yet here you are, being you. Are you being the fullest you that you can be yet?

Let's start at the beginning. Mark Twain said: the two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.

You were born in a country or nation-state which you didn't choose. Nor did you choose your parents with all their beliefs, values and worldviews, religion perhaps. Your genes, and the culture that epigenetically activated them, make a big chunk of who you have become.

Ok, as a baby, infant, toddler, then young child you experienced life primarily as happening to you. For good reason! you needed parents, care takers, teachers (if you were schooled) to become a fully functioning human meatsuit first, and then member of a family, tribe, community.

Did you ever feel hard done by those early life authority figures? I could write an epos about that feeling! It's called victimhood. I continued to play the victim for decades until a near death experiences prompted me to first become self-employed and then divorced.

As a leadership coach I have worked with 1000s of people some of whom have significant organisational responsibility, measured by their headcount or budget size. Would you believe me that quite a few of them are still playing the blame and shame game despite their wealth, power and status? The "song" in their story they are telling me sounds lower vibration, and their body language often augments this with contraction. I sometimes show them the Hawkins Scale and ask them where they think they spend their wake time at. What's a good average, low points and high points of a day or week? Ask yourself that question now, it's a good self check-in.

All scores below 200 are contracting, courage is the pivotal point above which you expand. You can experience a good portion of this scale in any given day, yet I have not me a fellow human being who has shamed themselves into enlightenment by dinner time.

The quest in life is to aim ↑higher, at any given moment, no matter how low or high you jump off from. This requires mindfulness, intentionality, routines, practices, and discipline. I'll expand on this in Part 4, and 5.

Whilst deep and imho also deeply true, it's a bit complex for everyday use. Hence, I have adapted a simpler self-leadership model devised by the The Conscious Leadership Group. The four categories correlate highly with the 17 energetic vibrations of the Hawkins Scale: victim, creator, co-creator and inter-becoming.

These four Levels of Life are one of four components of of the Psychedelic Map For Change which I have been developing for many years. It aims to be a scaffolding and content agnostic. My vision is to turn the PMFC into a map for a ↑higher civilisation, maybe even as Farcaster Client for anyone who wants to embody ↑higher. Wait until Part 6.

Let's relate this to some archetypical personas in crypto/web3/onchain:

• Victim: Alex, who enthusiastically invested in "MoonCoin" at its peak, quickly found himself in a downward spiral when the market crashed. Despite his own decision to chase the hype without due diligence, he became notorious in online crypto communities for his rants blaming everyone but himself for his financial woes, earning the moniker "The Blame Game Champion."

• Creator: Sarah turned her initial crypto losses into a learning opportunity, diving deep into blockchain technology and trading strategies. She now shares her journey and insights on a YouTube channel, becoming a beacon for personal accountability and informed investing in the crypto world. When asked on a conference stage what the hottest DeFi trend in 2024 will be, she responds with god-like confidence: liquid staking derivatives (literally heard this IRL)

• Co-Creator: Raj and Lena, after connecting over their shared interest in blockchain, co-founded a d'app that rewards eco-friendly actions with their "GreenGains" token. Their project, born from eye-level collaboration, has become a testament to the innovative and positive impact that web3 can achieve. They walked the bridge from Degen to Regen already, but don't shill this to you. Gentle witty nudges in conversations at Regens Unite instead.

• Inter-Becoming: Maya, a seasoned developer and philosopher, sees blockchain as a tool for global interconnectedness, often aided by psychedelics. She contributes to open-source projects aimed at making the World Computer more inclusive and sustainable, inspiring a movement towards a new level of consciousness. At night she dreams of retro-active public goods funding, hyperstructures, interspecies money.

  I'll explain how you can cross the three thresholds in Part 6. Yep, another cliff hanger...

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  I recently ran a Ponder Poll and the results were somewhat expected based on my experience of Farcaster tribes so far:

Amongst the Farcaster OGs the ratio of Creator to Co-Creator was almost 50:50. Very encouraging, because we are the people we have always been waiting for.

Co-creators are letting go of their ego, the need to be right. They trust the process and focus on growing the pie for everyone, not maximising their slice of it. They believe in positive-sum games.

I spent a good chunk of the bear market asking big questions like this:

What kind of ancestor do I want to become?

I also researched the intersection of regeneration, blockchain, psychedelics and leadership.

I heard the term Inter Becoming first on a podcast with Indy Johar, CEO of Dark Matter Labs.

Once you accept that humanity is not the end of evolution, things become pretty easy. Whatever species we will evolve into, it will to be ok. WAGMI. Why?

It’s all connected, all the way back to big bang, and even beyond...we just don't yet know how to connect all the dots...

This is the second of six planned articles. Subscribe to receive the next parts directly into your inbox.

Part 1: Crypto needs to aim for a higher consciousness

Part 3 – Realms of Reality

Part 4 – Consciousness of Choices

Part 5 – Cycle of Change

Part 6 – Idea for a very different Farcaster Client

I hope this will prompt comments, critique, ideas and above all: higher ↑vibrations.

antaur.eth