<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:27:16 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@araksa-dragonkey/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[What controls us - a little reminder for myself]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are controlled by what we fear so much that it changes the course of our life-path and our action what we "can't live without" or get heavy withdrawal symptoms from what gives us pleasure]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@araksa-dragonkey/what-controls-us-a-little-reminder-for-myself</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@araksa-dragonkey/what-controls-us-a-little-reminder-for-myself</guid><category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2020 06:06:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emotional numbness in the midst of it all]]></title><description><![CDATA[There was a funny thing that I saw today on some social media. Apparently, Russia has finally opened its borders, and now regular people can fly to Turkey, business people and VIP can fly to England, and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@araksa-dragonkey/emotional-numbness-in-the-midst-of-it-all</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@araksa-dragonkey/emotional-numbness-in-the-midst-of-it-all</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2020 20:37:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life moving on]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ha-ha! Every time I try to become a constant writer on here, something happens, and I just disappear for an extended period of time. My time perception has been fluctuating a lot - I jump from feeling]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@araksa-dragonkey/my-life-moving-on</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@araksa-dragonkey/my-life-moving-on</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:07:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Zskj9C56UonZ32EJw6nMctrTQ6kTQ3swaDmbMFtTMPGYZKT4nkJEUCmDtihrRn646XMp68YDyzGtsDb3RPCNRXtzFux3gbGwdgx2cwHoKDs2KwrFhsqY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is in fire once more]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was getting ready for an evening walk yesterday when everyone's phones rang an alert which said that the City of Los Angeles must remain indoors from 8 PM to 5:30 AM tonight. It's a curfew because apparently]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/protest/@araksa-dragonkey/america-is-in-fire-once-more</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/protest/@araksa-dragonkey/america-is-in-fire-once-more</guid><category><![CDATA[protest]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2020 16:34:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you say “social distancing”, eh?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was in the park with my daughter today. We built a fence made of small sticks, twigs, and dry branches of a huge two-hundred year old tree that stands next to the stream. We played tag, sat on the grass,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/coronavirus/@araksa-dragonkey/so-you-say-social-distancing-eh</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/coronavirus/@araksa-dragonkey/so-you-say-social-distancing-eh</guid><category><![CDATA[coronavirus]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2020 07:25:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Different platforms, different worlds, and a bit on what’s ahead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sooo... I’ve just got to this other writing platform called Uptrennd, registered there, and, naturally, started reading what people write about and what the general atmosphere of the platform is. It’s]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@araksa-dragonkey/different-platforms-different-worlds-and-a-bit-on-what-s-ahead</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@araksa-dragonkey/different-platforms-different-worlds-and-a-bit-on-what-s-ahead</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2020 01:42:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being truly alive]]></title><description><![CDATA[You see, I thought I knew a lot. But it turned out that I was just a sponge saturated with Information. Our brain — a brilliant machine — tends to take stories that we never lived through and make them]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/matrix/@araksa-dragonkey/being-truly-alive</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/matrix/@araksa-dragonkey/being-truly-alive</guid><category><![CDATA[matrix]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2020 00:25:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting disconnected without missing out]]></title><description><![CDATA[One possible solution to the smartphone tracking problem for those of us who are paranoid about it seems to be a rather drastic measure of abandoning the smartphone use completely while we're on the move.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@araksa-dragonkey/getting-disconnected-without-missing-out</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@araksa-dragonkey/getting-disconnected-without-missing-out</guid><category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2020 03:19:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why worry, we are screwed up anyway]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today one person I was talking to made an obvious point about the fear of biometric horrors of the new world and possible implementation of chips into our bodies. She said what many of us already know:]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/brainwashing/@araksa-dragonkey/why-worry-we-are-screwed-up-anyway</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/brainwashing/@araksa-dragonkey/why-worry-we-are-screwed-up-anyway</guid><category><![CDATA[brainwashing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2020 16:04:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Becoming and Staying alive]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's OK for me to dive deep into the polluted depths of our world. After all, I was raised in it, modified and nurtured by it, shaped by its programming, fed by its products. It's not like I'm forcing]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/system/@araksa-dragonkey/becoming-and-staying-alive</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/system/@araksa-dragonkey/becoming-and-staying-alive</guid><category><![CDATA[system]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2020 22:48:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caught in the web of comfortable, pleasant normalcy]]></title><description><![CDATA[I don’t know of anyone who have learned anything worthy or became anything close to Human from constant, lazy, relaxed, carefree pleasure. No, not a temporary spark of pleasure that happens once in a while]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/matrix/@araksa-dragonkey/caught-in-the-web-of-comfortable-pleasant-normalcy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/matrix/@araksa-dragonkey/caught-in-the-web-of-comfortable-pleasant-normalcy</guid><category><![CDATA[matrix]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2020 01:08:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A shaky matter of faith]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you think that the faith required from you is beyond human capabilities, you still lack awareness and understanding of what it means to be human. ~ from practice One of the greatest challenges is to]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/faith/@araksa-dragonkey/a-shaky-matter-of-faith</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/faith/@araksa-dragonkey/a-shaky-matter-of-faith</guid><category><![CDATA[faith]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2020 04:45:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7b4bio5hobgtGQKeTeQ5JNjSU3Frvf7Drq4NwrGhbVfFdUK13HSUvXgxVRhXpua2CrJkQfd1uFZMYJBt3qXrM32WEzYWaWF1BRAb1bLyqoh9ujjY9YcrPtiBSH13BCXuQdLJH47iQrc5x6BGRiu2F9oguawx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will call it a dream for the sake of sanity, but...]]></title><description><![CDATA[this is the reality as it can sometimes be. I am literally reliving the scenes (no, reality) as it was shown in Revolver. I am in the midst of it, my mind knows it is happening, but I can neither get out]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/matrix/@araksa-dragonkey/i-will-call-it-a-dream-for-the-sake-of-sanity-but</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/matrix/@araksa-dragonkey/i-will-call-it-a-dream-for-the-sake-of-sanity-but</guid><category><![CDATA[matrix]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2020 19:23:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7b4bio5hobgtGQKeTeQ5JNjSU3Frvf7Drq4NwrH36azsHmSkAWzdsEFvBzKnimFBKhcChewHTeqRdMDsMNnA9hJzao9qSaFe7YaHo1Uvwa73hU1D7xmHvhe9n5DswnehyUEF4g6M3FcFUVKrsURCs4q7ZLGv?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Openly and honestly about some aspects of being a DISCIPLE]]></title><description><![CDATA[~ For those of you who are looking for a Teacher - think twice! ~ Difficult and scary is the moment when you realize that your Teacher, the one who guides, suddenly becomes your most dangerous opponent.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/spiritual/@araksa-dragonkey/openly-and-honestly-about-some-aspects-of-being-a-disciple</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/spiritual/@araksa-dragonkey/openly-and-honestly-about-some-aspects-of-being-a-disciple</guid><category><![CDATA[spiritual]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2020 00:59:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjW4PvRk9nXC1RsHWxNoWjhqsdMpcQie9kCNGMTHcL1gV7wZwXSWrQdizvwjiZoLCQPHVuixn1a6uPDWXEvYz2PAfFcsUBNr4DbQESwbYJjMY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time to move in the sun.. and rescue animals along the way]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today's workout. This tree has become my stretching/yoga partner. Most of the parks are empty, and the weather is magnificent. I practice meditation and various martial arts movements outside. Oh, and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/workout/@araksa-dragonkey/time-to-move-in-the-sun-and-rescue-animals-along-the-way</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/workout/@araksa-dragonkey/time-to-move-in-the-sun-and-rescue-animals-along-the-way</guid><category><![CDATA[workout]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2020 21:55:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/qjrE4yyfw5pJD9LKQ1BG3NbSyKTowh8wnMyt99aePrD3UzbdAuV7eJHqM5XhNMHNvtTshtTaXz3WQKmrwgiF1zszciktEXQTgTe21FCuLy5jDfxbsouLdJn2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every great man there is a great woman... or what?]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is an old saying, «Behind every great man there is a great woman.» I will neither argue to destroy it nor try to prove it right. I'd like to look at something else first - at how women use this idea]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@araksa-dragonkey/behind-every-great-man-there-is-a-great-woman-or-what</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@araksa-dragonkey/behind-every-great-man-there-is-a-great-woman-or-what</guid><category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2020 05:53:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3jpR3paJ37V8XPrHkfZdMtiM68fywBJwYt7Euhvn2RVhHE3n5FnY82bG3cRVej7LTqvitQsqo9zMf9nxf1K34wpUyDSLvZbUkKrGAsPjq3xQYmGJtCE8H8vHwhDrPUCtcTwo4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[On school closures - personal notes]]></title><description><![CDATA[After what seems an eternity out of school in this so-called “lockdown”, we finally received information that today our kids are supposed to get iPads for distance learning. We did receive paper packages]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/lockdown/@araksa-dragonkey/on-school-closures-personal-notes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/lockdown/@araksa-dragonkey/on-school-closures-personal-notes</guid><category><![CDATA[lockdown]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:59:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A question of survival - "What is essential to me?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[How do we become more independent - work-wise, life-wise, financially - in the times when everything becomes more and more controlled? How do we ensure our survival in the world that can turn from]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@araksa-dragonkey/a-question-of-survival-what-is-essential-to-me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@araksa-dragonkey/a-question-of-survival-what-is-essential-to-me</guid><category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2020 18:49:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[And who needs the truth anyway?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I cross-posted the previous post on my other blog, and one person commented this: So, what is the solution? We either believe that there is a pandemic taking far more lives than it should, and were going]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@araksa-dragonkey/and-who-needs-the-truth-anyway</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@araksa-dragonkey/and-who-needs-the-truth-anyway</guid><category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2020 07:39:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covid death statistics are manipulated]]></title><description><![CDATA[For many if you this is not news anymore, but I decided to write a separate post about this anyway. I wonder how many people here, in America, and out there in the world actually believe the statistics]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/covid19/@araksa-dragonkey/covid-death-statistics-are-manipulated</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/covid19/@araksa-dragonkey/covid-death-statistics-are-manipulated</guid><category><![CDATA[covid19]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[araksa-dragonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:58:12 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>