<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Vikid on The VikiD Truth</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/tags/vikid/</link><description>Recent content in Vikid on The VikiD Truth</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:55:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://thevikidtruth.com/tags/vikid/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Vikid Truth and The Holy Grail</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/vikid-truth-and-the-holy-grail/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:55:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/vikid-truth-and-the-holy-grail/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://thevikidtruth.com/assets/vikid-truth-and-the-holy-grail/35a944e7947e.jpeg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Truth is an elusive concept.&lt;/strong&gt; There had been many times in Vikid’s life when he thought he had found it — such is the confidence of young men. Like Indiana, he went on many adventures, only to find that the Holy Grail he sought served him sand, not everlasting life.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;There are primarily three ways men have sought the &lt;em&gt;Truth&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;ul&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Religion (The way of the Heart)&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Science (The way of the Mind)&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Hedonism (The way of the Body)&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Auguries of Vikidness</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/auguries-of-vikidness/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 04:27:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/auguries-of-vikidness/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;He had spent such a long time searching for answers that at some point he figured out he’d forgotten the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://thevikidtruth.com/assets/auguries-of-vikidness/5bd910391657.jpeg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;The questions made no sense to him anymore. Each question presupposed what it was asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where did we come from?&lt;/strong&gt; Presupposes a bunch of things, &lt;em&gt;an origin point,&lt;/em&gt; for one. And if we pointed to some location on the globe, or in a distant star cluster, what would it actually mean?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Experience</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-experience/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 04:12:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-experience/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://thevikidtruth.com/assets/the-vikid-experience/424ee34b27a4.jpeg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes Vikid found it hard to write. Words are a medium and all mediums have their limitation. For example he could talk about &lt;em&gt;redness&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;but there was no red in the words.&lt;/em&gt; For the reader to understand what he was saying, they would have had to have the experience at least once before.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;And what of Love?&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;God?&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;What of Multidimensionality?&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Universes out side of this one?&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;And yet within it?&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;What of pure consciousness?&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Uncluttered by thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Those things were hard to write about.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Sermon of The Vikid Truth</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-sermon-of-the-vikid-truth/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:19:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-sermon-of-the-vikid-truth/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://thevikidtruth.com/assets/the-sermon-of-the-vikid-truth/baef7e34f91d.jpeg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Being rebellious came naturally to &lt;strong&gt;The Vikid Truth.&lt;/strong&gt; It started when he was young, if anyone told him to do something that didn’t make sense, he had a tendency to either not do it or do the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;And so it went for many years. And many mistakes were made, for Vikid hadn’t yet realized that he doesn’t know everything and on balance and by nature we, humans, usually believe in things that don’t make any sense at all.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Many Faces of Vikid</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-many-faces-of-vikid/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 09:30:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-many-faces-of-vikid/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://thevikidtruth.com/assets/the-many-faces-of-vikid/d4f03ba3b8a3.webp" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Vikid had been writing profusely, weeks upon weeks, the words just flowed but finally was he running out of material?&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;He had spent a considerable amount of time learning about Near Death Experiences (NDE’s). It was a topic worth expressing and exploring but first he wanted to have a few words on God.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;The night before was glorious 3-0 for his team at the World Cup. The beer tasted good and the mood was better. Everyone was laughing and having a blast.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Trickster of Truth</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-trickster-of-truth/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2022 03:47:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-trickster-of-truth/</guid><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Or so said Jean-Jacques Rousseau.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Vikid was on his favorite armchair, contemplating these words when &lt;strong&gt;The Trickster of Truth&lt;/strong&gt;, also know as &lt;strong&gt;Tot&lt;/strong&gt; appeared. He was a slippery creature, ever changing in shape. Sometimes animal, sometimes machine, at others just a voice from the dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for reading The Vikid Truth! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Hero, Repitle, Savior, Grifter</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/hero-repitle-savior-grifter/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2022 03:22:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/hero-repitle-savior-grifter/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“It is a well established fact that Art is subjective”&lt;/em&gt;, these were the thoughts running through Vikid’s mind when a friend online posted a photo with the caption:&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Genuinely think he is UKs only chance to recover&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://thevikidtruth.com/assets/hero-repitle-savior-grifter/2766c7018a17.jpeg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Which made Vikid think about several events that had taken place in the last few years. It felt like a movie. British politics devolving to Comedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;h3 id="were-facts-just-as-subjective"&gt;Were Facts just as Subjective?&lt;/h3&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Vikid had heard from several people, they had told him that Rishi is disliked by Conservatives because of his race. The facts being&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Truth</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-truth/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2022 10:26:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-truth/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So I spotted this earlier today:&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;“TURKEY - Anything other than official State approved information, is now illegal.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;People who spread &amp;ldquo;disinformation&amp;rdquo; will face a prison sentence 3 years. That sentence can be increased by half for owners of anonymous social media accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Coming to the U.K. soon.” @BernieSpofforth&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://thevikidtruth.com/assets/the-truth/66cfa1431f32.jpeg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;So this looks like something that might be coming to a jurisdiction near you.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Truth is getting wicked.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy your “freedom” while it lasts.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Vikid-Energy</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/vikid-energy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2020 07:21:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/vikid-energy/</guid><description>&lt;h6 id="please-remember-to-load-images-in-your-email-app"&gt;(Please remember to ‘Load Images’ in your email app!)&lt;/h6&gt;&#10;&lt;h2 id="chameleons"&gt;Chameleons&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;I have been everything from a card carrying &lt;strong&gt;Communist&lt;/strong&gt; (without the card) to an &lt;strong&gt;Anarcocapitalist&lt;/strong&gt; (cards not included) and almost all the nuances in between. I have held such beliefs both strongly and weakly, sometimes with great enthusiasm and at others with out much care in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;I have lived as a pauper student, without money for food (I spent it on other pleasures!) and I have lived in the world of business, operating in economies ranging from advanced-structured to ones a little more &lt;em&gt;laissez-faire&lt;/em&gt;, where rules &amp;amp; ethics are looked at more like &lt;em&gt;nice-to-have accessories&lt;/em&gt;, than anything that needs to be followed. What’s more I have read a fair amount of history and academic analysis from a number of different points of view and motivations.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Principles</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-principles/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2020 08:29:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-principles/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Vikid Principles&lt;/strong&gt; is a book I wanted to write for several years but for one reason or the other the idea wouldn’t solidify over something substantial. That is until now. The mind is a machine that likes to over complicate everything and my mind has been on hyper-drive for several years now.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;What I realized is that &lt;strong&gt;The Vikid Principles doesn’t need to be a book…&lt;/strong&gt; but &lt;em&gt;I’ve wanted to be ‘author’&lt;/em&gt; for my entire adult life and that meant &lt;em&gt;“writing a book”&lt;/em&gt;. I was forcing myself into an unnecessary position.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 20 of 20 and After</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-20-of-20-and-after/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2020 08:57:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-20-of-20-and-after/</guid><description>&lt;hr&gt;&#10;&lt;h2 id="break-fast"&gt;Break Fast&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;h5 id="remember-to-turn-your-photos-on-in-the-email-if-you-havent-it-important-for-this-post"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Remember to turn your photos on in the email if you haven’t, it important for this post…)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;It’s been a few days since I broke the fast and I’m back home from the South of France and there were some &lt;em&gt;very interesting developments&lt;/em&gt; that I want to tell you all about…&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;The morning of break fast we took a lovely trek through the countryside to walk up to the village near by and that proved to be a perfect choice.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 19 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-19-of-20/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:01:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-19-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="cannes"&gt;Cannes&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;We went to Cannes this afternoon. Yeah, Cannes of the Film Festival! I was totally excited and the city didn’t disappoint. Sitting on the French Riviera, watching the chic whilst sipping sparkling water, sure beats having it in my office.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://thevikidtruth.com/assets/the-vikid-fast-day-19-of-20/af1acace6753.jpeg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;h2 id="aviation"&gt;Aviation&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;And then I hung out in Cannes Airport behind the scenes in an airplane hanger with a bunch of French aviation geeks. It’s a different world I had a very little idea about.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 18 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-18-of-20/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:54:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-18-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="jexi"&gt;Jexi&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;The adventure began at 3 am, by 6.30 I was in the airport. Immigration was a breeze, we were through everything and in the lounge no more than 25 mins later.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://thevikidtruth.com/assets/the-vikid-fast-day-18-of-20/e28be5a5eafd.jpeg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;The plane was practically empty and as we took off, I took a chance with a goofy sounding movie called &lt;a href="https://www.lionsgate.com/movies/jexi" rel="noopener"&gt;Jexi&lt;/a&gt;. It’s about a nerdy phone addicted dude who is a total loser. One day his phone breaks and he has to get a new one. Unbeknownst to him, it has a very advanced form of AI. &lt;em&gt;From that point on it’s pure comedy!&lt;/em&gt; I laughed so loud, on so many occasions, I had people in the plane giving me that look. You know that look!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 17 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-17-of-20/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2020 04:51:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-17-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="doubts"&gt;Doubts&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;It’s day 17 and doubts again start to circle my mind. **I was up at 3 am this morning.**It’s getting earlier and earlier. I tried to deal with the ant infestation that seems to be attacking my room and then meditated for about 30 mins. I felt distracted and couldn’t go on.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Then doubts kept rising in my mind. 4 days more, can I do it? Going on an adventure to a place world famous for its food and I can’t have any? I kept dreaming about different foods and how they taste, how they would be so scrumptious etc… needless to say this was all just going on in my mind.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 16 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-16-of-20/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2020 12:44:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-16-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="adventure"&gt;Adventure&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;I am going on an adventure soon, a surprise location to be revealed later, and as with the times, I had to get a covid test this morning.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://thevikidtruth.com/assets/the-vikid-fast-day-16-of-20/5c2c3487e9a9.jpeg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Like true superheroes, we were wearing masks. Turns out I have passed with flying colors and with any luck I should be on my way in the next 48 hrs.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;h2 id="the-bramamuhutra"&gt;The Bramamuhutra&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Also known as the &lt;strong&gt;Ambrosial hour&lt;/strong&gt; starts about an hour and a half before sunrise. As it happens, I woke up at 3.30 am this morning. (It helps that I slept around 8.30 pm.)&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 15 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-15-of-20/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2020 12:54:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-15-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="introduction"&gt;Introduction&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;For those of you new here, I have been on a &lt;strong&gt;water fast&lt;/strong&gt;, supplemented by &lt;strong&gt;coconut water&lt;/strong&gt; for the last 15 days. I consume about a &lt;em&gt;litre of fresh or raw coconut water&lt;/em&gt; between the late afternoon to evening. I do light cardio &amp;amp; weights on most days. In addition to this, I meditate 2 or 3 times a day. This is &lt;strong&gt;The Vikid Fast Protocol&lt;/strong&gt; so far, and once I am done. I will publish the details in a comprehensive organized manner that anyone could choose to follow or adapt for their own needs.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Truth - Day 14 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-truth-day-14-of-20/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2020 08:16:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-truth-day-14-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="energy--emanations"&gt;Energy &amp;amp; Emanations&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;14 days have past without food and I feel better for it. Who would have thought?&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;My energy is still great.&lt;/em&gt; I was up at 3 am this morning. After trying to force myself to sleep unsuccessfully, I finally got out of bed at 4am. I broke another rule (what are rules for?) and watched two fabulous interviews on &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/conscioustv" rel="noopener"&gt;ConsciousTV&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/Batgap" rel="noopener"&gt;Buddha at the Gas Pump&lt;/a&gt;. Both are wonderful channels that explore spirituality with authenticity. Try them out!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 13 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-13-of-20/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2020 04:59:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-13-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="trinity"&gt;Trinity&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The mind is a genuine trickster.&lt;/em&gt; It can make things which are real unreal and unreal real. Over the last two weeks I have found that I am separating from it. It’s a separation between the &lt;strong&gt;Thinking Mind, Body and Intuition.&lt;/strong&gt; And I am beginning to see that these aspects a very much different things and at the same time they are part of the same unity, a &lt;strong&gt;Trinity&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 12 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-12-of-20/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2020 10:16:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-12-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="bowels"&gt;Bowels&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;What can I say, the fasting has become so normal now that it doesn’t require or consume much thought and though as a reader you may not want to hear this, I have to talk a little about &lt;em&gt;bowel movements.&lt;/em&gt; One day, you may actually attempt a similar feat and it would be prudent for me to give you an accurate picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, at the beginning stages, if you’ve followed so far &lt;a href="https://thevikidtruth.substack.com/p/the-vikid-fast-day-1?r=73toq&amp;amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;amp;utm_medium=web&amp;amp;utm_source=copy" rel="noopener"&gt;(see day 1)&lt;/a&gt;, you will know that I took some Magnesium Citrate and spent the night in the bathroom, &lt;em&gt;not hilarious,&lt;/em&gt; that helped clear most of the junk at the outset.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 11 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-11-of-20/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2020 09:07:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-11-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="novelty"&gt;Novelty&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;So, there were some interesting developments yesterday in another wise mundane day. Firstly, I have noticed that the fact that I have eaten anything in 11 days, aside from water and a little coconut water, has become something of a total &lt;em&gt;ordinary affair&lt;/em&gt;. Neither my mind, my body or my heart have any complaint and even the novelty of it has worn away. I wonder how long this state of affairs is going to last? Will I just coast the rest of the way or is there something in store for me, a secret surprise!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 10 of 20!</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-10-of-20/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2020 05:02:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-10-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="on-curves"&gt;On Curves&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Well we’ve reached the half way point, an inflection and now the real question is whether my progress will be &lt;em&gt;parabolic or exponential,&lt;/em&gt; as I think anything &lt;em&gt;linear&lt;/em&gt; is out of the question. Am I a Tom, Billy or Sean?&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://thevikidtruth.com/assets/the-vikid-fast-day-10-of-20/a5b76b38bf2c.jpeg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;h2 id="feeling-chinese"&gt;Feeling Chinese&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;In terms of developments there is not much to report. I’m losing weight steadily, for the most part, hunger doesn’t play a big role, though I do miss the &lt;em&gt;rituals of food&lt;/em&gt;. These days when I am upset or out of sorts, I can’t go to my usual bag of insanely spicy corn crisps, so yum, or sneak down to the local Chinese and gorge on the savory delights.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 9 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-9-of-20/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2020 04:59:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-9-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;hr&gt;&#10;&lt;h2 id="breaking-rules"&gt;Breaking Rules&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;So I’ve broken a rule. Why not? This is my fast and I do as I please, as circumstances warrant…&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I was clearing out an old todo list buried in the recesses of my phone. This has been part of my routine the last few days, to get old cruft either done or deleted and I came across a single name “Jim Dreaver”.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;I couldn’t remember it meaning anything and I was about to dismiss the task, permanently wiping it from my memories when I decide to do a quick lookup.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 8 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-8-of-20/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2020 06:26:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-8-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;hr&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;So a &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://thevikidtruth.substack.com/p/the-colonized-mind?r=73toq&amp;amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;amp;utm_medium=web&amp;amp;utm_source=copy" rel="noopener"&gt;Coconut met a coconut&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="https://thevikidtruth.substack.com/p/the-colonized-mind?r=73toq&amp;amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;amp;utm_medium=web&amp;amp;utm_source=copy" rel="noopener"&gt;…&lt;/a&gt; and it was good!&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Pure nectar, in fact nothing tastes so good. For the last few months I have been buying this amazing raw coconut water from Thailand. &lt;em&gt;Raw as in, unpasteurized, without heat treatment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://thevikidtruth.com/assets/the-vikid-fast-day-8-of-20/885cad15163a.jpeg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Then it occurred to me, why not just buy the real thing? I mean it’s not that expensive here.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://thevikidtruth.com/assets/the-vikid-fast-day-8-of-20/d7141bf198ba.jpeg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Now let’s do the calculations:&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;ul&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;1 bottle of Raw Coconut Water costs $5.7 at 500ml = $11.4 / ltr&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1 Real Coconut&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;costs $1.08 at approximately 250ml = $4.4 / ltr&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 7 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-7-of-20/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2020 02:36:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-7-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="celebrate"&gt;Celebrate&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Time to sing!&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://lyricsondemand.com/c/coolandtheganglyrics/celebrategoodtimeslyrics.html" rel="noopener"&gt;Celebrate good times&lt;/a&gt;, come on!&lt;br&gt;&#10;It&amp;rsquo;s a celebration&lt;br&gt;&#10;Celebrate good times, come on!&lt;br&gt;&#10;Let&amp;rsquo;s celebrate&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;rsquo;s a party goin&amp;rsquo; on right here&lt;br&gt;&#10;A celebration to last throughout the years&lt;br&gt;&#10;So bring your good times, and your laughter too&lt;br&gt;&#10;We gonna celebrate your party with you…&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;It’s a seven day party here and I know you can feel that boogie too!&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;To tell you the truth I never thought I’d get here. It feels wonderful and I feel great. There’s something about the body that switches gears when you stop eating. Firstly, I would like to dissuade you of the myth of “Starvation Mode” and pictures of people in concentration camps or kids with distended bellies. Not that it doesn’t happen, but that it doesn’t happen in the first 7 days. I am living proof.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 6 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-6-of-20/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:01:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-6-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This fasting is a funny thing.&lt;/em&gt; You can feel like your cruising one minute and feel like your crashing the next. The main thing is to learn how to ride the waves.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;For example, this morning I went for another Vikid Freestyle Walk. 45-50 mins. I did everything, handstands, duck walk, near walk, monkey jumps, pseudo-sprints, press ups, dips, yadi yada…&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;I felt pretty good when I got home, I’d say like 60% but before I got in the shower I crashed to about 15%. I guessed I just needed a quick rest so I lay down on the floor &lt;a href="https://www.yogajournal.com/poses/corpse-pose" rel="noopener"&gt;Shavasana&lt;/a&gt; style and focused on my heart beat (high) and breathing (normal). Within 3 minutes I was fine and have been fine ever since.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 5 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-5-of-20/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2020 05:16:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-5-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It’s day 5 and I feel like I’m cruising . Last night I went for a short cycle maybe 8 km and this morning I discovered a new way of walking. It’s called &lt;strong&gt;The Vikid Freestyle.&lt;/strong&gt; It really is surprising that &lt;em&gt;I feel like going out and working out.&lt;/em&gt; I am putting no pressure on myself to do this and I’m not over exerting myself either. My energy is better while fasting, go figure 🧐.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 4 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-4-of-20/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2020 05:03:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-4-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, coming close to the evening, I had my first thoughts of giving up. I have been expecting this and I am sure there are going to be other challenging days. The desire to give up was less to do with hunger. It was more to do with boredom, of being deprived of the demonic lust, the need to gorge and to consume.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;I am not at a retreat being pampered and massaged. I have have no guru looking after me and no group to commiserate with. Not that I want it. Nor do I have any need to whine but I do have to work normal days, I have real world problems and we are in a grueling year, all the more reason to quit. I was ogling potato chips still lying on the bedroom table, the chilly sauce in my fridge, I was planning on sneaking in a little sweet or perhaps a sugar free gum. How could that do any harm? No one would know right?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 3 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-3-of-20/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:04:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-3-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;h5 id="summary-first"&gt;Summary First…&lt;/h5&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;I am going strong but it’s getting deep. Let’s start in the middle and go reverse to the beginning and end up at the end or wherever&amp;hellip; Invert and twist the circle, if you know what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;This morning I woke up at 6 am without an alarm and it’s been months and months since I have naturally felt like meditating but today I did.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;I sat down cross legged on a comfortable sofa, adjusted my posture and just allowed things to be. No special attention on breathing, not trying to remove thoughts, only allowing things to be… and again awesomeness happened. I went very deep for about 40 mins. No alarms, bells or whistles. No agenda when to come out. Thoughts and images 30 years old appeared. I just let them be, I contemplated how they made me feel and where necessary forgave myself for what I did.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 2 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-2-of-20/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2020 07:47:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-2-of-20/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So last night I went out to a really cute Mexican restaurant with the hosts, a couple with two kids the same age as ours. They have had a rotten time with the lockdown. It’s hard to fathom how bad the lockdowns have destroyed people’s lives. It does really make me question what we are doing as a society and what we can do better.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;They were kind enough to offer not eating but the restaurant wouldn’t have it. New Covid rules, got to order food if you want a drink, makes sense right? So we got a bowl of Guacamole that smelt insanely fresh and I watched them nibble at it while sipping cocktails all night long. No issues, I felt rock solid and it was great to be out with friends. So, its only been two days but you don’t need to lose your social life while fasting. This may change 😂.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Vikid Fast - Day 1 of 20</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-1/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2020 09:52:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/the-vikid-fast-day-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hello Dear Friends!&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;So the fast began just over 24 hrs ago and yesterday, in the evening, I took this tangerine potion just to help things along.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://thevikidtruth.com/assets/the-vikid-fast-day-1/5f7bf8dae577.jpeg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;That’s Magnesium Citrate and works well for relaxing your bowels. The only problem being that I miscalculated my timings (taking it at 6pm) and ended up on the shitter all night. Lord help me. So first things first, I had practically no sleep as I was out of bed every half hour for a bathroom run. If any of you want to try this technique out then please write to me personally and I can give you some tips, first one being, take it early!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>On Becoming a Hero</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/on-becoming-a-hero/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 18:34:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/on-becoming-a-hero/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I’ve read two amazing books this year (&lt;a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cant-Hurt-Me-Master-Your/dp/1544512279/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&amp;amp;keywords=goggins&amp;#43;cant&amp;#43;hurt&amp;#43;me&amp;amp;qid=1596809833&amp;amp;sprefix=goggins&amp;amp;sr=8-1" rel="noopener"&gt;Can’t Hurt Me&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Resilience-Ross-Edgley/dp/000835698X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&amp;amp;keywords=ross&amp;#43;edgley&amp;#43;art&amp;#43;of&amp;#43;resilience&amp;amp;qid=1596809893&amp;amp;sprefix=ross&amp;amp;sr=8-1" rel="noopener"&gt;The Art of Resilience&lt;/a&gt; ) that have convinced me to attempt something heroic. Ah the dreams to become a hero, every child to have ever lived has had these dreams.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;My first dreams were of Lord Krishna. A character you should explore no matter what your religion or belief system. He is a God like no other and The Bhagvat Gita a book like no other. The Mahabharata, so complex and deep, a vision of immense clarity. But by the age of 4 or 5 I had moved on to Superman. I donned on the famous red and blue leotard and zoomed all around my neighborhood. Delightful!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Opposite Thinking</title><link>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/opposite-thinking/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2020 05:21:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thevikidtruth.com/writing/opposite-thinking/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I want you to consider a practice. A practice that can be done at any time and at any place, a practice that can actually be made so automatic that it is done subconsciously at the speed of thought itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;It is the practice of Opposite Thinking. It will open new dimensions in your mind, it will literally make you feel godly amongst mortal humans, who go around forward thinking only. For if you think yourself a normal human, opposite thinking can make you a god and vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>