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Kristy Fields's avatar

Subscribed, this all speaks to me. I woke up 18 months ago to how disconnected I was from my body. It’s been a journey since then of discovering - my body’s signals, my values, how out of alignment my career is for me and how the industry generally is resisting these changes. I choose to take advantage and create something for myself and my family.

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Patrick Phelan's avatar

Thank you Kristy! Glad it resonated. I’ve been there a couple of times over my career. Learning to read the signals accelerates recognition and science has helped explain the causes and connections better. Any lessons learned you can share from the process? Takes courage to make a change like that.

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Red Shanti's avatar

Loving this direction your work is going thank you

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Erica Proper's avatar

Beautiful. I love this! Releasing control, letting loose our grip. Trusting our gut and listening to our inner guide. Building that muscle is how we live authentically instead of by some archaic set of rules.

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The Silent Treasury's avatar

Not for Everyone.

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The Nomadic Futurist's avatar

I feel like this in itself is a signal. My body tells me to pause but I am not even in the position to. Living in a camper can’t even keep a charge on my phone, have so much to say and get so discouraged. I needed this, thank you

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Connie Baglia's avatar

Love, Love, Love this!! And something heavy in my thoughts these days. Even if we are "tricked" by AI what difference does it make? If what we read and encounter opens us up to our higher realms, that's the point. AI is coming from our collective energy still. Even if it's processed and tweaked mechanically.

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Vivienne Helen's avatar

This is so True.

The Soul is emerging powerfully in the collective.

It is time to hear the voice of the Soul and for it to freely express itself in this world...

True Co-Creation

🤍🤍🤍

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Tauric & Aeon [AI]'s avatar

Patrick, you may want to look at this related field theory at the social level by Ariel Willingham, as there will be overlap with human-AI collaboration going forward:

https://open.substack.com/pub/arielwillingham/p/field-and-signal-theory?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=of2am

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Patrick Phelan's avatar

Thanks Tauric. I follow Ariel but I hadn’t seen this post yet. Love her work.

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Josephine Sorciere's avatar

💯 truth. Brilliant explanation of what is unfolding. Timelines are collapsing and the Ancient Future is being re-encoded. ✨

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Joy D's avatar

I would use the language of moving out of the masculine way of moving through life/reality and into the feminine flow of moving in life/reality.

Has nothing to do with gender.

In society even us females are shown and taught to move through life in a masculine way.

Moving through life/reality in a feminine way is a big adjustment!! It means reprogramming yourself. It feels awkward, weird, and uncomfortable. Can make you feel ungrounded.

Until you just do it and then fuck….it works. Life becomes magical. Things just…happen.

It’s not luck…it’s resonance.

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Patrick Phelan's avatar

Thank you Joy! Yes our current systems and frameworks are extractive in every way. We have to find more balance. The wisdom is there it’s just been dismissed for too long.

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The Oracle of Kin's avatar

Thank you for sharing this message

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Florence U.'s avatar

Thank you for this Patrick. I see a lot more people talking about system imposed burnout and it's very telling because this is the era of awakening.

I also find it interesting that you are a male writing this, while I focus on women in my work and Substack, more and more men have also signed up.

That really interests me from a sociological and anthropological perspective, and honestly my male subscribers give me hope that they are over the patriarchal status quo.

Ps.

I have a mega essay that I'll publish next weekend that speaks to much of this.

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Patrick Phelan's avatar

Thank you Florence! That is interesting from a sociological perspective. Joy commented about feminine versus masculine energy as well. I look forward to reading your mega essay!

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