Master the First Gate: HUNGER
Hunger is not your enemy. It is your first teacher.
Before mastery of thought, before control of emotion, before influence over circumstance—there is the simple, relentless pull of desire. Hunger. Thirst. Craving. The body asking, demanding, insisting.
Most people obey without question.
But the one walking the path of Hermetics learns something different…
They observe.
To control what you eat and drink is not about restriction—it is about command. It is the realization that you are not the impulse. You are the awareness behind it.
Every time you choose discipline over indulgence, you sharpen your will.
Every time you pause instead of react, you reclaim authority over yourself.
This is the first gate.
Because if a man cannot master the small appetites of the body, how will he ever master the storms of the mind?
If he is ruled by cravings, he will be ruled by circumstance.
But if he governs himself… he begins to shape reality itself.
Self-discipline is not built in grand gestures.
It is forged in the quiet, unseen moments—when no one is watching, and the choice is yours alone.
So the question is not what you are hungry for…
The question is: Who is in control?
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12 physical tests every man should do:
1. 1.5km run in under 8–9 min.
If you break here, you need to improve your conditioning.
2. 25 well-executed push-ups
Chest touching the ground, no cheating.
3. 8–10 pull-ups
Controlled, no swinging.
4. Sit on the ground and stand up without using your hands
Humiliating, most people can't do it.
5. 90-second plank
Core holds steady, no shaking.
6. 30 deep bodyweight squats
Full range of motion, controlled.
7. Touch your toes and hold for 10 seconds
Mobility and control.
8. Hang from the bar for 45–60 seconds
Grip and shoulder strength.
9. 10,000 steps without fatigue
Minimum baseline conditioning.
10. 20 burpees without stopping
Real endurance test.
11. Carry weight (15–20kg in each hand) for 30s
True functional strength.
12. Balance on one leg for 30s with eyes closed.
Stability and control.
Quand tu vois des abeilles comme ça, n’aie pas peur ! N’appelle pas les pompiers ni la protection civile, ne les déplace pas, ne les empoisonne pas, ne les tue pas !
Ce sont des abeilles en déplacement. Elles ne vont pas te faire de mal. Elles ne s’arrêtent que pendant environ 24 heures. Ne les dérange pas et évite de t’en approcher.
Si tu veux les aider, tu peux placer une assiette plate ou un récipient peu profond avec une fine couche d’eau sucrée. Observe-les se nourrir, reprendre de l’énergie, puis repartir sur leur chemin.
Nous devons tous protéger les essaims voyageurs. Les abeilles sont notre assurance de survie.
Si les abeilles meurent, nous mourrons ensuite. Sans abeilles, aucun être humain ne restera sur la surface de la Terre.
S’il te plaît, fais attention et ne tue pas les abeilles !
Crédit : propriétaire original
#fblifestyle
you don't need a "social life".
you don't need to go out to random bars to meet up with "friends".
your fomo is lying to you. there is absolutely nothing happening, it's the same sh*t every single time
waking up early and doing something that matters is way more fulfilling
SOMETHING IS HAPPENING ACROSS THIS PLANET THAT THE NEWS WILL NEVER COVER.
PEOPLE ARE LEAVING.
NOT MOVING TO A DIFFERENT CITY. NOT CHANGING JOBS.
LEAVING THE SYSTEM ENTIRELY. AND BUILDING SOMETHING THE SYSTEM CANNOT REACH.
Right now on every continent human beings are acquiring land.
Learning to grow food. Collecting rainwater. Generating their own energy.
Finding each other deliberately and building communities around shared values instead of shared zip codes.
It is happening in Kentucky and Costa Rica and Portugal and Thailand and South Africa and New Zealand. Canada the USA and the rest of the globe.
Quietly. Simultaneously. Without coordination. As if something is calling them all at once.
This is what the new earth actually looks like.
Not a political movement. Not a protest. Not a petition.
Families waking up before dawn to tend gardens that feed them.
Children growing up knowing where food comes from and how to grow more of it.
Current living Elders passing plant medicine, food, and Spiritual knowledge that the industrial age tried to make obsolete.
Communities making decisions together around fire instead of through screens.
Within a generation the landscape of human life will look unrecognizable.
Not because of government policy or technological breakthrough.
Because enough individuals made the same quiet decision I will not participate in a system that requires my dependency to function.
History has always been changed by the ones who stopped asking permission and started building.
The children being born into these communities will never know what it means to wonder where their food comes from.
They will never know what it means to trade their hours for a number in an account controlled by people they never chose.
They will never know the specific loneliness of living surrounded by people and having no one who actually knows them.
They will grow up sovereign. And they will build a world that reflects it.
The system is not being defeated.
It is being made irrelevant.
You cannot sustain a control structure over people who do not need what you are offering.
You cannot keep a population dependent that has learned to provide for itself.
The new earth is not coming after the collapse. It is being built during it.
somewhere right now someone just bought their first seed packet.
someone just made an offer on land they will never mortgage their soul to own.
someone just said out loud for the first time I am done.
and the world quietly became a little less controllable.
Join us.
Albert Einstein said: Imagination is everything. Its the preview of life coming attractions.
So when you have something on your imagination, its a preview of a coming attraction that God has for you.