Happy Tuesday! Today is the 7th of March. If you’ve looked to the heavens recently, you may have seen a rare phenomenon glowing in the sky: the worm moon.

This rare full moon in Virgo only happens once a year. The Native Americans coined it a “worm moon” since it’s when the worms begin to come out of the ground due to the start of Spring.

However, there is another peculiar thing about today’s full moon: it reaches its peak fullness not tonight, but rather this morning. That’s why it appears to be full both last night and tonight.

If you haven’t already, this is your sign to do a new moon reset. After all, we are about to welcome springtime and enter a brand new season. So I invite you to ask yourself, what seeds have you been planting this winter that you are looking forward to blossoming this Spring?

Three Lessons from a Master of the Power of Imagination

Abdullah, a Black Ethiopian guru who lived in the early 20th century, was a firm believer in how the power of imagination creates reality. He taught this lesson to many of his students and mentees, some of whom became the greatest personal development teachers of all time.

A very important teaching from Abdullah is the importance of firm faith in the imagination of oneself. Human beings are limitless possibilities and opportunities to do and be anything they want to imagine.

Here are three lessons from Abdullah, a master of the power of imagination:

1. Who we are is beyond the physical

When we know who we are, our physical circumstance doesn’t matter. This is because we know that our physical circumstance will change based on our mental state. The physical state responds to our conviction, to our knowing. Abdulla lived it. For example, he used to attend an Opera Theater in a seat where black people were not allowed to at the time in New York. Nevill Goddard offered him to buy ticket, but he refused and did it himself.

Neville stated that Abdullah was proud to be a negro and didn’t want anything about him to change one bit. The time Abdullah lived in the 1920s and 1930s was a time in America when blacks were heavily discriminated. Knowing himself, Abdullah, “never allowed anyone to refer to him as a colored man.”

2. Don’t settle for Partial

Don’t settle for less of what you truly want. Abdullah taught that we can create our own reality regardless of any circumstances. He taught not to be mediocre. Human beings are the potential for the best, full and most self-expressed versions of themselves.

3. Close the Reasoning Mind

Abdullah used to slam the door for things which requires logical answer. He repeatedly showed the power of slamming the door. It represents shutting down the logical reasoning mind. Abdullah taught to not worry about the how. Time is just an illusion. Abdullah taught the importance of firm faith without any compromise.

- Rukya Hassen Shibeshi

Dive Deeper:

1. Quantum Gravity: The Quest for the Pixelation of Space

   Scientists think the space we live in may not be perfectly smooth but rather made of incredibly small discrete units. “A spacetime pixel is so small that if you were to enlarge things so that it becomes the size of a grain of sand, then atoms would be as large as galaxies,” he says. (CalTech Magazine)

2. Snapchat is Releasing it’s Own AI Powered by ChatGPT

   “The big idea is that in addition to talking to our friends and family every day, we’re going to talk to AI every day,” he says. “And this is something we’re well positioned to do as a messaging service.”(The Verge)

3. Can ChatGPT Detect AI-Written Text?

   Educators in particular are scrambling to adjust to the availability of software that can produce a moderately competent essay on any topic at a moment’s notice. Should we go back to pen-and-paper assessments? Increasing exam supervision? Ban the use of AI entirely?(The Conversation)

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