Introduce Yourself

Hi, we are Annette and Jim! Poets at large! We are new to Steemit and find ourselves here, attracted by the community of out-of-the box thinkers and artists looking to evolve. Thank you for being here!

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We started a conversation about Tantra late last year and it just kept going so we started a Google document and gave it a name: Tantra Banter! Since then, it’s snowballed into our creative monster-baby and we’ve both quit our jobs and are dedicated to making our pastime our full-time! We connect with others tired of the monotony, boredom, underwhelm, and addiction to sensation, saying to themselves, "There's gotta be more...".

Since this conversation has held our attention, we thought you would want to know more too!

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We are on a journey, an adventure, a mission, a pilgrimage to explore consciousness and an unbounded life of mindfulness, presence, simplicity/minimalism, dreaming, creativity, imagination, and conscious creation.

We are Millenial Pilgrims exploring Inner Space!

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We meditate daily, while practicing mindfulness throughout the day.
We confront our egos, getting to know the many archetypes that exist within ourselves.
We work to dissolve false constructs in order to find Truth.
We document our lives/experience through all media: written, visual, and audio!
We travel and meet folks, starting conversations about dreams, imagination, and creativity.
We are creating a vision of a DECENTRALIZED LIFE that we create from our imagination, raw and real and to the root!

We take all this reading, learning, and practice and distill it into a digestible format to share with others on the good journey.

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Our vision for TantraBanter is a Shift in Consciousness. Not only for us but for the World. To be in touch with consciousness in reality, manifesting a new future for the whole of the planet: a future that encourages expansive new growth and leveling up our consciousness.

Our mission is to encourage people to think far, far, FAR outside of the box.

Join the conversation. What do you dream about?

check out our website for more: www.tantrabanter.com

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Hey welcome both of you. Looking forward to your posts!

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Hi and welcome here! When I started on steemit, my biggest problem was to find interesting people to interact with. So, to help newcomers getting started I created a directory with other interesting and or talented steemians to follow or interact with. Feel free to check it out at https://www.steemiandir.com I am sure it will help you find like-minded people. Enjoy your stay here and do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions!

Welcome to steemit you two! Sounds like a very interesting mission and very interested to see what you'll post.

Heh. After you poke around a bit you might come to the conclusion that this whole community could use a paradigm shift of its own. But I'm hopeful, and hope everyone sees the underlying potential of this platform. See you around!

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Thanks for the tip @eonwarped!

Welcome on board👍 lovely to know you a bit. Looking at your interest, I would suggest you to check out on @naturalmedicine for mindfulness live and getting some meditative session may be we will be blessed too to have your insight too. ...always good to see you around...Steem on!

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I'm super jealous of this Tantra Banter because minimalism is fundamental to joy, progress, adventure, creativity, and everything. Love it. Welcome, guys. Love the photos. Exciting. I taught English in Vietnam, I'm from America. Welcome to Steemit. Upvoted. Resteemed.

@joeyarnoldvn thank you! ANy advice for us? We actually met in Asia, in Chiang MAi Thailand. She from Connecticut and I from Massavhusetts! Where are you from?

I was born in Oregon. Now near Seattle. I advise you to eat rice. I love rice.

PS: It seems you guys are using a wordpress site. Check out the Steempress plugin, post your word press blogs to steem on auto.

Great thank you @dmilliz!

Welcome to the world of steemit. A big community of its own. It's nice to know that you guys are poem. Hoping to see more of your poetic works.

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Thx @maxwellmarcusart any tips for newbs?

The only tips I have for yoy are to keep engaging and dropping legit contents.

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Sounds like you have big and interesting plans.

I’ll be honest; I’m not sure if what kind of conversations to expect yet but I look forward to them all the same :)

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Great @ashtv, any advice for us new to steemit?

Be consistent, comment and reply, and most of all; be excellent to each other

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Oh and don’t be afraid to use other STEEM based apps to access your blog. steempeak.com for example is a great different experience of STEEM content 👍🏻

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What a great introduction! You two are definitely living a great and envious life. Awesome! I'm looking forward to reading more of your journeys and adventures and maybe learning a thing or two along the way!

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world wide weeb! Thank you we were inspired by your post! @wwwiebe

Welcome, Annette and Jim!!

Wish you came to stay and hope you have great success.

Welcome to Steemit!

I'm pretty sure you're going to have a huge success around here. Hope you can inspire many people and really achieve your goal of a meaningful revolution.

I'll be waiting for your next posts. Greetings from Mexico.

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Welcome. I hope you find what you are looking for and will be able to travel till?
No jobs, no responsibilities?

No dreams for me, never had them.

Hiya @wakeupkitty! Never?!?! Wow, I thought I was bad at 1 or 2 per year. Since I've started this practice I am dreaming nearly everynight and back to using my imagination during my waking hours and creating!

Oh I thought you meant by dreams... Future plans/goals.

Everybody dreams (about 8 a night they say) but most do not remember them.
I had a period I wrote them down, woke up, wrote it down slept, etc... In the morning I read what I wrote and took the message out of it.

Now I remember most, there are once back in bed I continue the dream.

The more time you use a day to think, relax and think the less busy you are at night.

Now my dreams are more like thoughts.. Frequently I write my stories in my (half)sleep.

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Welcome Annete and Jim ,
And all tantrabanter people. Welcome
to the Steemit platform, Yes its happening you are a steemian now. This is the moment to warm welcoming you as a new user. And you receive this message because you used the #introduceyourself tag!

I was welcomed with good advice too when I started so here i am. I know that steemit may seem very overwhelming right now but don't worry. After a few blog you will be the best blogger and contributor.
If you have any questions just ask your questions on any of my blog posts and I'll be more than happy to assist you with whatever questions you may have!
I may know the answer. But very important I recommend you to never give up any off your passwords they are yours ! Please for safety tips read and visit the white paper.
To easy post use Partiko and to control your account use Steemify.
https://steemit.com/busy/@exyle/using-steemify-to-stay-up-to-date-about-the-blockchain-like-project-destiny-please-consider-blockbrothers-for-your-witness-vote The Steemify App I use is great, it is available in the Appstore and its Free.
It gives you insight on what is happening in your account.
Maybe great to join Steemterminal in Discord and visit @heyhaveyamet to See more newcomers onboard.
Here is what we do :
https://steemit.com/heyhaveyamet/@heyhaveyamet/meet-the-hhym-and-the-steem-terminal-crew-part-one-hhym
Good Luck, Have fun and I wish you loads of success on here! :)
GREETZ from Holland
Britt

Ah, what an enthusiastic, passionate and happy post! You'll love it on Steem. It's a big learning curve, but fun.

I invite you to join Discord where a lot of the behind the scenes stuff happens, and there's a community you'd like called @naturalmedicine, with its subsidiary MINDFUL LIFE. Chevk out the #mindfullife and #mindfulmonday tags for like minded folk.

I'm also delegating you 50 SP so you don't run out of RC too quickly. This will help you get ahead. Post often and engage with communities.. that's the best way to grow and connect!!

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@riverflows thank you. We will take a look at dischord

I cordially invite you to Mindful Life community, which resides in the @naturalmedicine server here. We run group meditations and support each other as we grow through conscious awareness. With much love!


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Heya @tantrabanter Welcome here dear... Glad to see you here.... Hope just like your #introduceyourself post your every post gets on top and you achieve your goal using steemit... Do view my profile and follow me to get one of the amazing valueable blogs on steemit!!!! Thanks=)

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Interesting, you both sound like new era hippies, my kind of people. All the best on your steem journey. Let me go check out your site after tweeting this.

you are welcome!

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Welcome. And can't wait to see more! Following voted and sharing!

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Welcome to Steemit!

Hello Annette and Jim, welcome to Steem! :-)

Welcome to the Steemit community @tantrabanter!
We sincerely hope you find everything you are looking for here and have found a new home.

Seven suggestions:

  1. Guard your passwords carefully, and only publish with the posting key,
  2. Use your active key only for wallet transactions,
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  4. DO NOT lose your passwords; copy and store offline,
  5. Do not publish other people's work, be it photos or written without credit,
  6. An introduceyourself tag is for one time use, and
  7. When you open your steemit.com, in the upper right corner of the page there are 3 bars. Click on those, and then on the "welcome", and you will get a lot of reading material that will help you.

I found you because @xcountytravelers and @brittandjosie from @heyhaveyamet presented and promoted your publication to get more exposure and help you grow faster.

If you find yourself overwhelmed and need some guidance, or if you have any questions, there are informed Steemians available who can help you; you can click to go to the Steem Terminal in Discord here:

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Have fun and happy Steeming!

Awesome. We need more of You in here. Welcome 👍

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Welcome to the STEEM blockchain.. I live a gypsy lifestyle so I'll be looking forward to your content.

So cool! Welcome to steem! Only tip I have, is if your posts are always this good, you will succeed! Just don’t get discouraged if you do a post and it’s a miss. You just got to keep moving. So how did you hear about steem?

Welcome on board guys.
Very well written intro post. I wish you a fun journey.

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hey Annette and Jim aka @tantrabanter !

WELCOME to Steem !!

I really liked your intro post :))

Sounds like you'll love this place !

I will look forward for more posts from you, and so I started to follow your account :-)

Stay well !!!

@anttn

you are welcome!

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Welcome to the platform.
You've started with "the right foot", as we say in Venezuela. Thus, only good things are coming your way. It's good to have fun people like you here.
Thinking out of the box seems to be underrated by this generation

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Welcome to Steemit! Sounds like quite a life.

Great stuff! inter dimensional reflective change is in your heart and mine. Last night I dreamt I was the driver of a bread truck! Today I am sharing the bread!

Welcome to Steem, Tantrabanter! Wishing you joy in your travels and conversations (both around the world and within). Lately, I dream of days where I won't have to concern myself with the time of day. Though, considering someday my journey in this world will end and time will no longer be something that binds me, I'm grateful for what I have now. LOL, I suppose this just means I'd like a vacation. X^D

Enjoy your day and please feel free to ask any questions that you may have.


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