Hey, I’m Kieran, a certified coach, artist, and software developer. The Captain’s Log is about the journey of awakening to our true nature so we can live a life of purpose and adventure. It’s also a journal I created.
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- “Me And My Friend AL” – an AI story.
The robots are coming… Better make fun of them now before they take all our jobs and enslave us. If you enjoyed that, feel free to share it with a friend. If you’re new, sign up here to get more stories like this one. P.S. Here is the art generated by MidJourney AI in about … - 001 – Keeping Up With The Humans
- 001 – The Adventures Of Bullsh*tman
- Mission Statement: BE Your Self“BE Your Self because the world is going to sh*t anyway, so what have You got to lose!” This is my new mission statement for The Captain’s Log because I think it neatly represents its values — Authenticity, Courage, Understanding and Humour. “Be yourself” is a bumper sticker that’s become a meaningless cliche. That’s why …
- Do What You Love“But we can’t all do what we love. Who would do ‘XYZ’, then? Someone has to clean up the shit.” But nothing. This is not about ‘someone’. Besides, maybe someone LOVES cleaning shit up! Let me share why you MUST do what you love! (IMO) —— Love is energy. If you want more energy, do …
- Focus On What You LoveAre you clinging to what you fear OR being carried away by what you love? The challenge is that the gravitational pull of the external world is geared toward us living a fear-based life. This is why “we suffer more in imagination than in reality.” But no matter the circumstance, it ultimately boils down to …
- Be Led By HeartThey say, “follow your heart”, but how easy is it to hear, let alone follow? The monkey in our heads doesn’t help matters, let me tell you 🙉😬 What does it even mean, anyway, to follow your heart? This is what I’ve learned…. There is something in all of us that knows the way. Maybe …
- The Chemical Soup
- Iron Out The Kinks In Your PsycheWe all get a little “wrinkly” from time to time 😉 Who cares how or why, it’s our job to get straight again. Ironing out the kinks, aka “healing the wounded parts of ourselves so we can be ourselves”, doesn’t have to hurt. Sometimes it might hurt a little, and that’s ok too. What’s the …
- The Double-edged Sword Of TechnologyHow’s your relationship with your ‘extra limb’? Usually, I’m the guy in the back 🙂 I’m not exactly tearing myself to shreds but I find myself compulsively reaching for it a lot, so I set some highly elaborate rules which have helped quite a bit. Things like:– Leaving it outside of the bedroom– Not using …
- The Power Of ReframingThe most underestimated superpower we have is the ability to see things from many different perspectives. Such a tragedy, then, that we carve out perspectives of ourselves, others and the world that often don’t serve us or anyone else. This isn’t about following ourselves into using positive thinking for everything even when we don’t really …
- Triggered? Time to look in the mirrorThe moments we get triggered are really a gift. I don’t know about you, but my default when triggered is to react; get defensive, angry or run away and ruminate for days. If only I had known that these moments were a gift sooner… They are a gift because they USUALLY shine a light on …
- Dare To Be Divine🙈🙉🙊 When the monkey mind has done enough monkeying around It begins to seek Monkeys who dare to seek shall find That the divine is within Ever present Just waiting for the monkey to be.
- The Power Of StoriesLife can be hard. I guess that’s why we like stories so much. Stories to lift our spirits and keep us moving. Stories to keep things light when the darkness creeps in. Stories that shake us awake to the beauty and magic right in front of us, whisk us away from the meanness our minds …
- When Yin Met Yang
- The Mental PlaneThe Gist You receive thoughts and make them yours. If they arise out of fear, they are untrue If they arise out of love, they are true. Even when they are true, you may feel fear as a consequence.
- The road to “Nowhere”-NOW…HERE
- Pure AwarenessHey, guess what! underneath it all, you are pure awareness. Granted, it is still a sh*tstorm when you’re in it so stay strong ⛈ ✊
- Presence Vs LogicThere are parts inside us that don’t want to be more present. Namely, the monkey in our heads, the “monkey mind”. He just wants to think all day, so naturally, being fully present feels like death to him. Being present has been a big big challenge for me. I’m much better than I was. I …
- I AM… therefore…
- Healing – Unravelling the knotHealing energetic knots (aka trauma) starts with a choice
- The Karmic Washing Machine
- Pick a sidePick a side. Pick a country. Pick a team. Pick a politician.Pick anything to “other” yourself from another. Pick anything to split the outside world in two so you don’t have to look at the fragmented parts within yourself. Take a look; it’s working well… the world is cracking up, but sadly not in laughter. …
- Sacred Spaces and Spiritual PracticesI don’t usually do posts like this but I am today… It is mainly a statement to myself. Specifically, the part that lived in fear, afraid to be judged, rejected or labelled “weird”. I’m finally beginning to outgrow that now, so it all sounds a bit ridiculous… if this is “weird”, I’m more than happy …
- Find The One And Rest In ItIt’s one thing I’ve not been doing much of lately. I guess that’s why it was such an important reminder for me. “Find the One and rest in it” was the answer to my question about how to slow down… find more peace, contentment, and gratitude for the way things are. Some respite from a …
- Let A Fire Burn WithinLet a fire burn within Until all that is left is Understanding Love and Light. The fire is the desire to know, The desire to be free. It needs to burn all you are not So all that is left is you.The fire is a misunderstanding too… Let it burn on until It burns out.Then …
- The Ego Game – A poemThis is a poem about the game the ego plays. It inevitably turns into a travesty. That’s the wake-up call. The ‘call to adventure’.
- There Is A TimeA poem about time. There is certain divine timing to life. To do certain things and flow in harmony with life we must learn to flow with the different phases and cycles present. From the 24hours in a day to the 28 days of the lunar cycle, to the 365 days of the year and …
- Being Vs Doing – What’s The Big Deal?Maybe I’m beating a dead horse here. Being too obtuse. Too vague. Contradictory even. Sure, it’s paradoxical and it sure as shit ain’t logical. This is why we have such a difficult time really understanding the draw of mindfulness-based practices that propound the importance of BEING over DOING. Make no mistake about it, these two …
- ‘Breaking News: There Is Nothing To Fear’This work of art was inspired by a recent dream I had & @lovenotfearmankind with their #lovenotfear campaign for mental health awareness. The Dream I was flying above a pitch-black wasteland that stretched as far as the eye could see. It was full of what seemed like old shipping containers. It began to click that …
- Words Are Vibrations: Enter The MantraWords are vibrations and we’re all a bunch of atoms floating around in bags of skin. I’m no expert but apparently, it’s science. I do know words can have a huge impact on how we feel. Here, I’m referring more to sound in general than I am to everyday language. The effect of the latter …
- Wake Up Turn On Tune InThere is a radio in our heads, intention turns the dial. Through life experience we have programmed this radio to easily dial into certain ‘stations’ aka the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and how life is. These stories or habitual thought patterns result in how we feel. These feelings result in more …
- The Ego GameA poem about the game the ego plays.
- You Are Not The PersonA poem on the personal from a transpersonal perspective. “You are not the person alone but the person is your friend….”
- WokeA poem to the one who thought he might be ‘woke’. In a way, from the perspective of spiritual awakening, being ‘woke’ is a a bit of a joke. Maybe it was slightly harsh but it was what I needed to hear at the time.
- The Journey WithinA poem about the journey within. It’s a journey of paradox. What is unreal needs to be dropped to discover what is real. Identity is the key.
- Life On TapIt’s a poem about life. A poem that describes an experience of connecting with pure presence through meditation.
- A Poem To PresenceA poem to presence. A conversation between with divine presence. “Every chance I get I’ll sit with you, not to do just to be.”
- The DreamA poem about the voice in our heads. Awareness is always there regardless of what the voice says and we are that.
- The Unseen HandA poem about an unseen force – life itself. It’s mysterious and all pervading and it’s been called by many names.
- MoonA poem about the moon. The moon represents the divine feminine. Moon, you are the mother of a night that comes and goes…
- Cremate Yourself (not literally)(not literally) A poem about ego dissolution. The ‘self’ I’m referring to is the ego identity we have formed to play the game of life.
- Mind Vs HeartA short poem on the mind vs the heart. The mind races, the heart beats. The mind doubts, The heart knows. The mind shouts, the heart sings.
- A Walk In The WoodsA poem about nature and the beautiful world we live in. It came to be one day after being cooped up and on the computer for way too long.
- A Question For Your HeartA poem that poses a question for your heart. When you came hereDid you come to experience the full gamut? The pain and joy…
- The Video Game Of Spiritual AwakeningSpiritual awakening is a game. The mission is to go beyond the personal identity we have formed in order to awaken to our full potential.
- Knee DeepA poem for when you are feeling stuck.
- Seeker’s DilemmaA poem on the nature of spiritual seeking.
- DissolveA poem about the dissolution of all we are not, so we may be what we are.
