Life progress

Spiritual insight and practice

Realisations (teachings, reading, enquiry, awakening, revelation, Wisdom Trove)

• Realisation of Oneness & Sacredness.  It's all God, Godding.
• Realisation that God (Awareness) I am.  Not the character. Not the mind.
• Life is a movie experience. Life is God's experience (dream). The movie is in the can. Sit back in Being and watch the show.
• Life is God's work of art. Polarity adds beauty.
• God is dreaming or imagining Godself to be this character called Graeme.
• Realisation of mind made nature of reality (Marion, synchronicity)
• Expanded sense of self to include everyone and everything.
• Sense of purpose behind my life: Being a space for consciousness to flow, evolving in love

Mystical & awakening experiences

• Awakening experiences: Balcony, Kirribili
• Mystical experiences of limitless love (priceless, transformative)
• Mystical experiences of wonder and beauty (nature)
• Ability to cry and open to Love.
• My purpose under tree.

Practices

• Presence, Surrender, Spaciousness
• Awareness (with fingers touching)
• Daily Being (sit, lie, park)
• Gratitude practice
• Mindful walking
• Growing ability to let go of psychic tension (hurry, striving)
• Mantra (starting with Psion)

My state of being

• Love for everyone and everything
• Wonder and love for The Infinite Mind
• Wonder, astonishment, amazement, awe
• More patient and calm, less judgemental
• Less trapped in mind

Self-love & acceptance

• Love of myself as a "character".  Greater acceptance of my shadow.
• The form is perfect and dialled to where meant to be.

Awareness

• Awareness & its freedom from the mind
• Aware of being aware as my mantra, then allow all to be

Teachers (reading & listening)

• Eckhart Tolle, Rupert Spira, , Bernardo Kastrup, Tim Freke, Deepak Chopra
• Nic, Geraldine

Connection

• Meditation friends: Jilly, Sharon, Aimee, Shushann, Lydia, Xenia, Des, Tina
• Aimee sessions

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Connection

• Family
• Russell
• Eckhart friends: Jilly, Christina, Xenia, Chris, Yogi, Aimee, Sharon, Shushan, Lydia, Des
• Hiking friends: Srini, Gavin, Elna, Liz, Zante, Michelle, Lauren
• Love and gratitude expressed: Gramps, mum, Mike, Jo, Sue, Matt, Sam
• Blog tributes and gratitude letters
• Aimee relationship and help with book

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Wisdom Trove

Start

• Personal development beginning at UCT
• Vision of it all in Knysna
• Quotes on PSION
• Life vision with quotes in Mindmanager

Its effect

• A treasure hunt for truth and the chance to make a dent in the universe.
• It's effect on my self-realisation and understanding of what is true and real.
• Freedom from corporate world.
• Sense of meaning, purpose, aliveness for 10 years.
• Curation process and format.
• Wisdom in my life: Guiding wisdom, Guiding quotes, Profound truths, Principles.
• Wisdom is what I take with me.

Output

• 1250 topics, 100 authors, book quotes
• Wordpress site launched: Search, content views
• Author pages linked
• Other wisdom types: Visual, poetry, question, exercises, summaries
• Topic lists
• Strategy slide deck
• Life is God's experience
• Life is God's Movie

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Compass

• Purpose & Vision, Strategy, Task management, Review
• Thinking, planning, reviewing, deciding, enquiring, problem solving, reflecting
• Tools: Mindmanager → Excel → Evernote, Google docs, sheets & slides
• Dashboards
• Guiding principles, wisdom, quotes (from Wisdom Trove)
• Gratitude, progress, proud, affirmation
• Challenges, worry management, Assurance
• Regular wisdom reminder
• Integrated with Life Trove
• Humour & conversation
• Well-being tracking & graphs
• 1996 mantra in PSION, quotes in PSION, Mindmanager life vision with quotes, Kruger notes

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Life Trove

• Massive motivating effect on my life: Sense of meaning & purpose (coherence), sense of life in order.
• 3000 posts
• Year highlights (Life overview)
• Life overview, spiritual journey overview
• Spiritual journal: Priceless moments, Spiritual moments, Grateful, Progress, Affirmation, Challenges
• Labels
• Random memory
• Passion projects
• Excel & Mindmanager memories  (Volvo)
• Photos: Getting into photography
• Keep mum connected to my life

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Photography

• Photo collection
• Lightroom Universe
• Life Trove, Wonder Tove, screensaver, wall photos
• Photo presentation to camera club, now online
• Canon R5, 100 - 500 lens
• iPhone photography
• Skills
• Bird photography

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Birding

• 1100 birds in wild
• Bird photography
• My first ever sense of aliveness, real passion & purpose

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Home

• DIY skills
• Beautiful home
• Pictures on walls
• Balcony and courtyard plants
• Bathroom
• Furniture
• Removal of old items
• Floors
• Photos
• 2nd housemate & partition

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Travel experiences

• South Africa travel: Bas bus, Kruger & others
• 1997 travels: London, UK, Ireland, Holland, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Greece, Turkey, India, Thailand
• Africa overland
• Nepal
• Tour leading job: Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Egypt
• South America
• Australia
• Cambodia
• The Arctic & Antarctica

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Full life

• Wisdom Trove, Life is God's movie
• Photography: Growing skills, beautiful portfolio, editing, collages
• Hiking & Meet Up
• Beautiful connection with friends

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Health

• Diet: Veggies, smoothies, berries with yoghurt, oven roasted veg
• Walking and hiking
• Catnaps
• Stress management (being)
• Dex back to proper amounts
• Vegetarianism
• Being

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Big moments

• Psion Quotes
• Going to London
• Tourleading job
• Volvo interview
• Cambridge apartment
• Mindmanager
• Excel memories
• Starting my blog
• Getting my Ixus i camera
• Move money into Australia index funds
• Dex
• Going to Eckhart group
• Wisdom Trove
• Join Meet Up: Gavin, Srini, hiking gang
• iPhone
• Home rennovations, leading to 2nd housemate

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Renaissance periods

• 2nd year UCT (1990)
• 1997 travels
• Volvo (2003 - 2005) especially Cambridge life
• 2006 travels
• Sydney (mid 2013 - current)

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Purchases

• PSION
• Ixus i camera
• Canon Powershot Camera
• 40d Camera
• 300 mm lens
• GPS,
• Kindle, iPhone
• Macbook Pro computer (x2)
• ipad pro
• Headphones
• 32 inch 4k monitor
• Canon R5 with 100 - 500 lens

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Finances

• Ally bank account in South Africa
• Buy house
• Index funds in Australia
• Mum's loan, RA
• Financial review sheet, track large purchases

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