EVERY VERSION OF YOURSELF YOU ARE PROTECTING IS ALSO A CEILING
The self you currently are is not who you actually are. It is who you have become, through experience, through adaptation, through the accumulated strategies of a person learning to survive in a particular world.
These patterns were useful once. They may have been necessary. But they solidify over time into something that feels like identity, and the person who mistakes their current configuration for their essential nature will spend the rest of their life defending it rather than transcending it.
Every genuine tradition of inner transformation has placed sacrifice at the center of its teaching. Not the sacrifice of suffering for its own sake, but the precise sacrifice of what the self is attached to at the expense of what it could become.
The alchemical process begins with the dissolution of the prima materia, the existing form must be broken down before the new form can emerge. You cannot distill gold while insisting the lead remain intact.
Jung called this the death of the old ego, the necessary collapse of the identity structure that individuation requires. The hero’s journey, as Campbell mapped it, follows the same arc: departure, initiation, return. The departure is always a leaving behind. What the hero returns with is never what the hero carried out. The transformation is the point.
The Sufi tradition describes this as fana, the annihilation of the self in the fires of the divine. Not nihilism, but precision. The parts of you that are not truly you must be released before what is truly you can emerge.
The figure spiraling through the geometry of this image is not falling. It is dissolving into something larger than the shape it had before.
You cannot become who you are capable of becoming while holding on to who you currently are. One of them has to go.
What version of yourself are you most afraid to let die , and what might be waiting on the other side of it?
~ Pyramid Consciousness
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In 2022 the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for proving something that ancient mystics described thousands of years ago.
That two particles once connected remain connected instantaneously across any distance in the universe.
No signal. No delay. No physical explanation for how it works.
When I first studied this alongside the ancient texts I had been researching for decades something clicked that I have not been able to stop thinking about since.
Here is what quantum entanglement is really telling us about the nature of reality and why the ancients already knew:
On average, high quality dividend stocks yield a meager 2.5%.
Remember, taxes on dividend income in the US can reach 37% at the federal level alone for high-income taxpayers subject to the top ordinary income tax rate, before factoring in any state or local taxes.
Suppose you wanted to earn $100,000 annually in after-tax dividend income from the average Dividend Aristocrat.
Assuming a 37% federal tax rate and ignoring potential state and local taxes, you would need to generate roughly $158,730 in pre-tax dividend income.
At the current average 2.5% yield, that would require an investment of roughly $6.4 million.
$6.4 million is an enormous amount of money that most people will never see in their lifetimes, let alone be able to allocate solely to dividend income.
In other words, the nosebleed valuations of most stocks—including dividend stocks—have compressed dividend yields, and combined with the corrosive effects of inflation, have pushed the key financial goal of earning enough investment income to cover monthly expenses out of reach for the vast majority of people.
What about bonds?
It’s important to understand that bonds are merely contracts denominated in fiat currency—essentially, they are long-dated fiat currency.
The issuer promises to repay the bondholder the principal amount at maturity, usually with periodic interest payments along the way.
The fatal flaw with bonds is their denomination in fiat currency, which we expect will be debased to a staggering degree.
Debasement is likely the only way the US government can manage its unsustainable debt burden.
We expect the rate of currency debasement to far outpace the meager nominal yields offered by Treasuries and most other bonds.
Remember, the average annual growth in the money supply—a good benchmark for inflation—is 6.8%. But that is just the average. In early 2021, during the Covid mass psychosis, the money supply was growing at over 26%. We expect something like that to happen again in the not so distant future.
All of this makes most bonds little more than worthless promises.
Most bondholders are almost certain to suffer negative real returns over the long term.
For this reason, we do not believe bonds have any place in a sound financial plan.
What about real estate?
Real estate is illiquid and depreciates. It comes with significant carrying costs and is vulnerable to natural disasters. And it is often financed with debt.
Even a single broken pipe can wipe out months of rental income.
So if not bonds…
If not dividend-paying stocks…
And if not real estate…
So what can investors starved for yield do?
To assume the feeling of satisfaction is to call conditions into being which will mirror satisfaction.
“Signs follow, they do not precede”.
Proof that you are will follow the consciousness that you are; it will not precede it.
Following up on an earlier post about $HGRAF, I invite folks to read up on hydrograph, starting at its own site https://t.co/bf4DOv5rsk, at the GEIC https://t.co/5YiDqeaO4U site, and at the Advanced Carbon Council https://t.co/xbtOGTqwFY site. The latter two are independent organizations that research graphene and its practical applications, verify graphene, and educate about what actual graphene can do.
Whether or not you choose to invest at this time, bookmark this conversation. By year's end, see whether $HGRAF is up, flat, or down. I've invested heavily on it being up a lot. It's not a bet; bets are gambles. And I'm irritated at people who, gently put, misinform--deliberately, perhaps?--resulting in fundamental misunderstandings about what a company does, and what it's likely to deliver to its shareholders.
This is an investment in world-changing technology, and getting in ahead of the curve. Please make your own investment decisions, based on your own analysis.
Seen some questions about HydroGraph as an investment this morning, with some responding, (and misplaced IMO) criticism from some quarters. So answered one critic and thought the wider twitterverse might appreciate the analysis.
Bottom line is HydroGraph has been testing it's graphene ever since it got patented 9 years ago. Over the past 2-3 years, 85+ companies have undertaken real world pilot studies of $HGRAF Fractal Graphene and other $HGRAF graphene products to investigate how that graphene might meaningfully improve their products.
A few examples:
Strengthening of PET by 25-30%, allowing a corresponding reduction of 20%+ in plastic beverage bottles and other plastics. Also reduces permeability to near zero.
Strengthening cement and concrete by 25%, with a corresponding reduction in the amount of concrete required for a given load. Also means much faster drying times, faster cures speeds, and a corresponding improvement in printability. All reduce time and labor costs. And *every use studied* requires a miniscule amount of graphene added per total product weight; generally from 1% down to .001% in the studies I've read.
In addition, the research has developed answers to once-difficult problems. For example, just yesterday another major masterbatch producer qualified as a HydroGraph certified masterbatch developer, the 4th provider on 3 continents to do so. And a 5th provider on a 4th continent is rumored to be coming soon.
The list goes on and on. Earlier detection of a range of cancers, with the lung cancer detection already FDA-approved. Patents for silent, tiny and extremely efficient capacitors perfect for robotics and aeronautical. Patents for near-perfect and reusable water filtration systems. Military applications that have the USDoD asking $HGRAF to be its graphene partner in a planned 2027 Graphene Innovation Center in the Austin, TX or Jackson, MS area, analogous to the University of Manchester's Graphene Engineering Innovation Center, the place where graphene was1st discovered and which led to a Nobel Prize in 2009. And where $HGRAF is also a partner.
HydroGraph is the only verified producer of graphene in North America. It's redomiciling within the next 2-3 months to Austin. It'll be uplisted to the NASDAQ in about the same timeframe. Management reports that 7-8 of the firms testing $HGRAF graphene are expected to place commercial orders for at least a ton each between now and year-end--at a price of $250k/ton, and a profit margin of ~80%!
Those claiming this is just hype are likely ignorant, or among the folks sweating as they sit holding ~23 million shares short, and seriously underwater. I've been buying as I've had funds available since last July, and the story gets better and more derisked every month. We're still near the bottom of the hockey stick curve of price appreciation. Major, major price moving news coming out at any time. Truly a life-changing opportunity.
My opinion; not financial advice. ,do your own due diligence.
In order to rid your mind of negative thoughts, you must be open to new connections. These connections will create a chain of positivity for you to spread to even more people.
HydroGraph ($HG | $HGRAF) will be presenting an Advanced Carbons Council webinar on June 17.
The session will introduce Fractal Graphene Paste, a new pre-dispersed graphene platform designed for easier integration into water-based formulations.
Register: https://t.co/w1bqxOR5Ow
New $HGRAF Compounding Partner just certified – and this one is a big deal.
Modern Dispersions (MDI): 18 extrusion lines, 300 MILLION lbs of annual production capacity, 5 decades of carbon black expertise. 🇺🇸
Fractal Graphene just got a serious manufacturing runway. 🧵👇 $HG
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A whole lot of people know a lot about "this new promising graphene startup? That's why it has risen from $0.16 when I first began covering Hydrograph Clean power in my news letter on Jan 3, 2025. Actually, I'm not sure characterizing HG as a "start up" is accurate. You can learn more about this "promising graphene sartup" by watching interviews I have had with CEO Kjirstin Breure, Board member Kerry Landis and major investor Kevin Bamborough. There are a lot of interviews with gold and silver mining CEOs there that may not be of interest to you but if you do a search for the three names I just noted there is quite a lot basic information you need to know if you want to profit from the ability of the only company in the world that can produce a perfect graphene on scale at a very low cost. My YouTube channel is JayTaylorMedia.