INTIMATE JOURNEY: Recent Episodes
Antonio Longangi
Exploring the field beyond through intimate discussions and an unorthodox approach to self-empowerment.
The chapter briefly explores the notion of "Growing Pains" arguing that it's the doorway to evolution and one's development. Find out why and how.
Chapter Code: IJC17 | Official title: Through Growing Pains | Engineering: LxneWxlf | Intro & Outro Soundtrack: HIBIKI produced by Tonnio c/o @longangii
The chapter revisits the essence of memories and their effect on our present. It also extrapolates on the mitigation of the negative effects of our past experiences.
Chapter Code: IJC16 | Official title: Reconciling Your Past | Engineering: LxneWxlf | Intro & Outro Soundtrack: HIBIKI produced by Tonnio c/o @longangii
The present Chapter discusses the concept of generational memories and their effects, illustrated by the recent experience of Antonio Longangi.
Chapter Code: IJC15 | Official title: Generational Memories | Engineering: LxneWxlf | Intro & Outro Soundtrack: HIBIKI produced by Tonnio c/o @longangii
Relationships (with ourselves and others) are key to our identity formation, maintenance and evolution. The present chapter discusses the theory of two gardens in which these relationships occur.
Chapter Code: IJC14 | Official title: You & the Two Gardens | Engineering: LxneWxlf | Intro & Outro Soundtrack: HIBIKI produced by Tonnio c/o @longangii
The quality of our experience of reality is based on our intelligence, but what happens when our intelligence is compromised? The Chapter explores the correlation between ego inflation and the evil genius.
Chapter Code: IJC13 | Official title: Your Ego & the Evil Genius | Engineering: LxneWxlf | Intro & Outro Soundtrack: HIBIKI produced by Tonnio c/o @longangii
The present Chapter explores our relation with good and evil. Sourcing from Abrahamic traditions, it provides a basic understanding of our will to create and our will to destroy, and how both open possibilities for our relation with good and evil.
Cultivate and guard the garden, you are not an evil or a good person; just a person capable of good and evil.
- Chapter Code: IJC12
- Official title: Good, Evil and You
- Engineering: LxneWxlf
- Intro & Outro Soundtrack: HIBIKI produced by Tonnio c/o @longangii
"I am a wolf to you, but a dove to someone else"
Chapter Code: IJC11
Official title: Heroes and Villains
Engineering: LxneWxlf
Intro & Outro Soundtrack: OROCHI produced by Soulker c/o @longangii
"Imagine a tree bragging for giving shade, or a pot thinking it is doing us a favor by holding water. Just imagine." Explore one side of the field Beyond Self-Sacrifice in this discussion.
Chapter Code: IJC10
Official title: Beyond Self-Sacrifice
Engineering: LxneWxlf
Intro & Outro Soundtrack: OROCHI produced by Soulker c/o @longangii
Intimately opening up to his psyche, Antonio Longangi shares twelve insights about life after his 27 years of life on the planet. These insights are not exhaustive but they constitute what he would like to share at this stage of his life. From existential to every day things, this is definitely the intimacy that led us here.
Chapter Code: IJC09 | Title: Radical Insights – After 27 spins around the sun | Intro & Outro Soundtrack: OROCHI produced by Soulker | Rainsound: “Mbula” recorded by Antonio Longangi all c/o @longangii
Inspired by several sources, the Chapter discusses the battle of perception and the danger of conviction. Antonio Longangi argues that delusion is an integral part of the human operating protocol. But it has to be kept in check by doubt which is a remedy and an essential element of our experiencing of reality. Doubt is a prerequisite to faith, and faith is essential in leaving beyond what we can imagine possible.
Chapter Code: IJC08 | Title: Anchored or Delusional? | Intro & Outro Soundtrack: OROCHI produced by Soulker | c/o @longangii
On this Chapter, Antonio Longangi discusses FEAR as a result of a broken communion with everything there is. Inspired by wisdom from the book of “The Origin” (attributed to the great prophet Moses), discussion from Karl Marx, a dissection by Dr. Gabor Maté, Sadhguru, Ophra Winfrey, the Chapter takes you on a brief substantial journey through the world of fear as an underlining theme of our human condition.
- Chapter Code: IJC07
- Opener: Fear or Broken Communion?
- Intro & Outro Soundtrack: OROCHI produced by Soulker
- c/o @dstrct_xi & @longangii
As a continuation of Chapter 6, the discussion attempts to link various concepts relating to how we (humans) relate with everything that is. Antonio Longangi uses various examples to demonstrate in simple ways that we indeed act from the middle of things, of reality, of the universe.
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- Chapter Code: IJC06
- Official title: From the Middle of It all
- Featuring: “I Be So Glad… When the Sun goes down” by Ed Lewis, as recorded by Alan Lomax. A Black History Month tribute.
- Engineering: Lxne Wxlf
- Intro & Outro Soundtrack: OROCHI produced by Soulker
- c/o @dstrct_xi & @longangii
The discussion covers what empowerment looks like in a more or less radical approach. Antonio argues that it all begins with understanding that life is simply a series of experiences that start with the awareness of the thing you call I, ME or Myself. And this “I” is placed in the middle of it all being a light that shines onto existence to provide meaning to all there is.
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- Chapter Code: IJC05
- Official title: Placed in the Middle of It all
- Engineering: Lxne Wxlf
- Additional characters: The Traveler and Rasco
- Intro & Outro Soundtrack: OROCHI produced by Soulker
- c/o @dstrct_xi & @longangii
In the middle of the Congolese Paradox, Antonio Longangi goes on a quest toward a factual understanding the soul of the Congolese, starting with his own. He realizes that every young Congolese in touch with the paradox of the DRC either decide to fight for egoistic survival or choses to take on a bigger responsibility.
Chapter Code: IJC01
Official title: On Being Young and Congolese
Engineering: Lxne Wxlf
Intro & Outro Soundtrack: OROCHI produced by Soulker
c/o @dstrct_xi & @longangii
Reflecting on worthwhile life processes and adventures, Antonio Longangi breaks down his experience with obstructing ideas as he set out to write his debut work of literature. He names Doubt, Vulnerability and External Dismissiveness to be giants he had to deal with along the process.
- Chapter Code: IJC03
- Official title: A Story About Giants
- SFX and Engineering: Lxne Wxlf
- Opener: Reading of Isaiah 53: 1-3
- Intro & Outro Soundtrack: OROCHI produced by Soulker
- c/o @dstrct_xi & @longangii
Chapter II explores the story of a guy who dared to revisit his past in search of meaning for his life after he found himself in a situation, a questionable situation that needed resolving. He dared to ask the right questions and those questions led him to a self-evaluation that took him into his past. This is a story of human maturation through self-awareness, and we hope you learn something from it.
- Chapter Code: IJC02
- Official title: The Vedette and Nintendo Story
- Engineering: Lxne Wxlf
- Intro & Outro Soundtrack: OROCHI produced by Soulker
- c/o @dstrct_xi & @longangii
Welcome to a world of everyday people and their stories. Join Antonio Longangi on this Intimate Journey as he explores self-empowerment through a unorthodox method.
- Chapter Code: IJC01
- Official title: Welcome to an Intimate Journey
- Engineering: Lxne Wxlf
- Intro & Outro Soundtrack: OROCHI produced by Soulker
- c/o @dstrct_xi & @longangii