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Together with a Steemian friend, I’ve been looking at the Heart of Steemit. Does it exist? Or so I took our investigation into that direction, rather than debate the non-issue of what makes heartfelt blogging/vlogging. Even a puerile text can convey the heart (although it is usually belly-thinking) and every half decent blog must be mind-made.
For me, the project has always been to observe whether Heart can be found, sustained and grown between a group of souls gathered here virtually.

I don’t think there is a style for it or a “trick of the trade*. Who writes from the heart here is not the right question, I don’t think, but who can carry Heart into our midst is more interesting to me. I know one or two who can do it with little more than a photo. But most photographers bring us their personality and trade wares. Also nice, but I am like an explorer looking for the source of the River Heart and can only pass through all the charming villages on its banks.

It may sound needlessly provocative and difficult to suggest that the answer is not so obvious to know; but like we can all spot a robot we can sense perfectly that Heart is carried by certain presences. It comes with individuals. This is not to say that the others do not live from the heart or create heart spaces AFK but to bring it into the cyber world is a different thing.

Examples?

It doesn’t matter what material they post or who they are behind the name, face and voice they adopt here. These may be individuals you have something in common with (superficially) or not. They may speak in a language very foreign to your own (catering to different social sections) or even be antagonistic to you personally as they manoeuver the undertow on their way out to the open sea. Also the Heart must, at times be shielded and can come weaponed to the high teeth.

The new and truer democratic element possible on a platform like Steemit (the good news at last!) is that it brings together people regardless of their lives and their life-styles. Vegans could happily coexist with paleo-men and marines can talk to doulas.

There are many tributaries of the Heart Stream running through the posting current. The fact that nothing can pool here is precisely conducive to this flow! (More positive news, can you believe it!) May it show us that the Heart flows where it CAN. There is only one thing that can dam it up or dillute it and that is ego, with its gloopy fear or it’s prideful gushing.

Ego can hyjack the mind but it cannot live IN your writing; it can merely make your writing really boring or dead.

Most people here use Steemit as a school to practice clearer streams of consciousness - but that is not innovative or artful or community building or creating a new-virtual-archictectural mystery centre of the Heart. It is just social media in general providing a community service. Not somethig to make Steemit a market leader in Heart Consciousness. Still, if we don't "market" the Heart somehow, it will fall into disuse.

Freeing the Heart

How can the Heart best be conveyed electronically, if at all?
I suppose by being who you are, eventhough it takes a specific make-up. It takes a kind of intelligence that is cyber resistant. It has very little to do with being a good-person doing good things. This medium loses a lot in translation; so, larger cosmic powers are required at the input end for there to be anything of that Heart Intelligence to have survived at the other end. If there is a formula it is pointless to hand out: those how are the most Heartfully intelligent wouldn’t recognise it if they pulled it out of their own heart.

↓ The digest-sized "picture novel" It Rhymes with Lust (1950), one precursor of the graphic novel. Cover art by Matt Baker and Ray Osrin.

If vlogs capture the real person in one “complete expression” , i.e. the undisguised personality interacting with real time as opposed to the timeless dressed-up impression of print, does the “freewrite” format aim to strip some of the cloak and dagger while simultaneously sharpen the “intent of presence”? There must be something worth exploring there because the inimitable Heart Presence #malloryblythe is considering entering the 50 day challenge. It means she’ll be forcing herself (not unlike I did) to make Steemit her “point of presence”.

Since this lady is a lot more coin savvy than I ever care to become (because I can’t!) I am very much keeping my fingers crossed that she is the one to get it through to the mighty fish brains that this is the type of Steemian that should be “hired” for the sake of irrigation from the Heart Intelligence. There is no point expecting subgroups to organise themselves to support "good writing" for this is precisely to encourage ego and debilitate the Flow.

A larger editorial decision should be made. Maybe some kind of "subscription vote"after all! What!? me and automated voting? Possibly, but I can see it working only if it is done on a large scale, and thereby imposed upon all users. Maybe for this to be possible, in turn, Steemit would need, at least, to triple its number of active users in a very short period of time. Predictions are to the contrary, decline in development, at this moment.

To be honest, if humbly so, the slow road to China, where gradually you are discovered until you are trending is impossible for the Heart Stream, its integrity cannot take the churning that eventually it must undergo to becomes the Hukou waterfall.

by Leruswing, Yellow River.

Furthermore, there has to be a rehabilitation programme in place to get all the millions of views and likes and votes away from the numbing druggy stuff and onto the Heart-building nutritious stuff. The cramped minds need to be lead to the ancient well again.

Mallory may hope that the social rewards are sufficient to egg her on, but even if they come with fans and their votes attached, I worry that it will compromise the Heart-Stream sooner or later. To write from the Heart is not the same as being convivial or kind. Moses threw snakes and faced burning bushes. Jesus wasn't stewing flowers like a hippie. Zen masters carry sticks! There will be pressures to give the audience what they want (or have become used to) which a) curbs your own free Heart and b) does them no service whatsoever. But what can you do? I suppose we all can only do what we feel compelled to do. Then it's wait and see how much Heart it conveys.

By the way

I do know it's not Monday. And not because, one day it will be Monday again in this blockchain that might not be eternal in a closed circuit of finite electricity, but otherwise pretty indellible, but because in the Heart Conscious Monday coexists with Tuesday, I waited to post the final post in the series of Weekday-gemstones till today.

Moonstone

is a member of the feldspar family, a tectosiliicate. This is a monoclinic crystal form, most clearly represented by gypsum. Others in this group include epidot, malachite, kunzite, lepidolite, jade, azurite.
With the parallellogram for its geometric patterning, you get a sense of topplyness instead of straight, firm, grounding verticles. The monoclinical affinity is not a very stable one. If you have a monoclinical lifestyle (often aspected by the zodiac sign of the Crab) you will be changeable and not particularly reliable. You love to live for tomorrow, in search of that perfect home, but it means that you are moody today and overflowing tomorrow. The here and now is all good and well but things are always different to what you expected: you are not very trusting in the way it seems to be. Is not everything illusion? Like the light of the moon? Best to shield yourself then in a hard crusty shell....

Although this fundamental lack of healthy (sane) rhthm in the life of a typical monclinical person is a massive issue to well-being, it does leave room for intuition. If you introduce plenty of discipline and routine you might even hit upon a perfect flow of Heart.

The gemstones in the tectosilicate group work as filters, absorbing or reflecting things. As such they hand you intuitive findings. You are able to hear the pauses inbetween the soundings. Others with this property, aside moonstone, is lapis-lazuli, amozonite, soalite. These are all very calming, as their blue colour suggests. The more translucent varieties lend clarity of vision and broaden our horizons as such: labradorite and sunstone. (triclinic), and also the moonstone (in a pendant in above phote with block of amazonite).