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This channel has interesting spiritual/esoteric perspectives on reality. The visuals are also often trippy and enhance the videos
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I got some Hawaiian Baby Woodrose Seeds sitting in my drawer for over 10 years now, never really came around to trying them, anyone had them before? I rarely get the free time or space to explore deeper medicines, mum and sisters, always home, I need the whole house to myself, dislike being confined to my room during a powerful trip, i enjoy making a fire out the back, turning the house speakers on soothing music, waltzing around and creating magic undisturbed. Hopefully they go on holidays soon I can maybe try them one day.
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Ramasta9 replied to Nick_98's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Rupert Spira once said, you are not the seer or the seen, but the "seeing" itself. -
Laughter heals!
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The second video has to be a troll, there is no way, no way.
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Mellowmarsh replied to Nick_98's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
That which sees has never been seen, or known. The ‘you’s’ reality, exists only within the seen identified images of the imageless. -
It’s the whole forum in general. With the exception of the Mental Health, Serious Emotional Issues section. But you can use that as an analogy actually. As humans, most of us are emotionally driven even if we say otherwise that by and large defines the culture, as that’s what this is, it’s not a research community, it’s not on a community centered around the search for truth. It’s just a bunch of everyday people like myself coming together to centre around a feeling for where it’s search can begin, not end, but at least begin, irrespective of the level someone is on. For those that protest they’re not emotionally driven especially on this site, I would love to know what their long term exponential analysis was on their choice for posting and every post thereafter. Naturally, we will find no such analyses. Humans are crappy thinkers, humility is just as difficult for us. Even though we will find no perfect reasoning on the site, many people have positive intentions but all of us are caught in our own consciousness feedback loop the same way people are stuck in the noted section of the forum dealing in issues in personal well-being. To improve the forum, I would make slight incremental adjustments to the system that improves empathy, that is usually far more effective at improving reasoning rather than focusing directly on reasoning itself which is usually too tiresome for most of us 😅, including empathy, meaning blunt changes in rules or adding more warnings is usually far less effective than an environment that naturally fosters prosocial and more self-reflective behaviour. For anyone that is more interested in more direct training concerning any area here I will be going in depth on the science I’ve pretty comprehensively put together on each of the areas here concerning what focus one may like to explore March-April 1st. It’s fine to feel a bit of anger, it’s healthy, and this is the right area of the forum to express it then follow it up with wherever else you believe you can make a difference on your own appraisals. Being caught in any ideological vacuum is tiresome for any balanced person, including protests against the people stuck in the ideological vacuum itself. So make sure you measure your own body lengths before taking to skinny dipping. All in all, this is a “vibe centric” forum and not much more, there simply isn’t the infrastructure for it, and although that can be a recipe for many positive outcomes, like Facebook, many negative outcomes can result as well. Thankfully, and this is sincerely a good thing, this site is much more bland than Facebook with the absence of features like the like/dislike button genuinely adding to the authenticity of commentary, even if that absence also contributes in part to the lack of putting in any effort towards adequate systematising of knowledge. The latter should never be expected however at the broader level outside of say more socially centric value based relationships where the inherent value of the information being shared itself is the catalyst for the relationship, this is where the forum may be more well-rounded towards and where how people behave on the forum becomes its own filter and funnel for determining who is right to share those kinds of discussions with, which a solid group always caters for. The problem however is when the ratio between credible and less credible information being shared becomes skewed towards the wrong end, especially where criticality and longer range thinking lacks towards the end of reaching into becoming the very ideological vacuum that reflects far too much congestion in the collective not just individual consciousness feedback loop of a give human system and the ideologies it’s unconscious mind moves the rest of the system with. The forum is quaint, and almost cute, that to imagine it much more would be to bestow on it the responsibility it was never meant to handle, while on the other end, it does just enough, to maintain its image. That’s stability, not the inevitable vacuum it will need pulling from, the cost of its present equilibrium though is that it both enables all kinds of people to join and influence the forum and disables people too far on extremes including less people that are more devoted towards truth without the ideological pressure hose. “Vibe centricity” isn’t just fluff though, as much as it is therefore more likely to be catering towards people from all walks of life along with taking the good and the bad with that, because it is a personal development forum, and because of Leo’s own value adherence, it autocorrects by maintaining that described stability, otherwise the forum simply wouldn’t have lasted as long as it has. Yes “vibe centric” also equals “vibe equilibrium” and therefore makes the system itself individualistically self absorbed in this regard, the very lack of seeking to design the system better forces the intelligence within it to only improve via autocorrections where collaborative efforts either fail or are otherwise non- existent; this very grooming however is it’s own double edged sword, where the dismissive avoidant kind of ‘individualism’ and hands off approach defines its own inevitable future exit sign when it’s action as any one kind of funnel, of whatever kind, has reached its conclusion. Any slogan of ‘teaching’ the forum provides is hardly emphasised through any meaningful action and it’s very dismissiveness acts as its own protection from critique or dialogue that genuinely leads to meaningful progress. Irrespectively, this described autocorrection makes the forum at least one tier higher then compared to any extremist religion and given where humanity is, and the many difficulties inherent in avoiding all the kinds of corruptions within any given system of humans, combined with the age of the forum itself, thats a history lesson that shouldn’t be trifled with, the forum has so far stood the test of time. There are many ways in which the forum could be made incredibly worse, but relative to its developmental level, the very dismissive and shallow relationship it has with subjects on many areas, combined with its individualism, becomes its own self protection from steeping into auto-regression, or at the very least especially from any auto-regressive tendencies that last for too long that it becomes a systemic problem. Irrespectively, this pattern becomes its own collective ego that the environment becomes groomed on, by and complicit to, and whether or not the pattern continues to positively autocorrect indefinitely versus reach a final dissolving end to the forum itself becsuse of the ego becoming its own systemic issue thats become too big of a problem, is an open question at this stage, and possibly, many stages thereafter. But yeah, it’s why I don’t presently see any long term future wherein I start posting in the regular section of the forum, even though I genuinely would like to help more people in the Mental Health, Serious Emotional Issues section. For any environment we choose to place ourselves in however, the choice implies we’ve accepted its design flaws or have at least thought about them and have taken responsibility to the point where future actions equal future sovereignty not just for ourselves but also respect for the environment we decide to be a part of. Best wishes @Optimized Life.
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That wasn't good but it wasn't terrible either. Some small adjustments and that could have landed.
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@Oppositionless doesn’t that same conversion happen in your body when you eat the mushrooms?
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Yes there is a deal, there has been a deal since the fifties, that basically allows the US to do almost anything they want. This just feels like Trump saving face. Let's be honest, if you already got almost all the rights you could possibly want, all you have to do is ask then this whole thing just wasn't worth it.
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+1 Sums up pretty much my experience. The deeper I go into the rabbit hole, the more the conditioned self I uncover and the more freedom I am able to gain
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Mellowmarsh replied to Nick_98's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
This is still reinforcing more of the conceptual dream. That which appears to be limited, was,is, never limited. That which appears to awaken, never awoke. -
Yes steeping converts psilocybin to psilocin, the active molecule . A tea with lemon juice is perfect you get heat and acidity to convert to psilocin.
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Spoken like a true neurodivergent 😂. Embrace it bro. It's not victim mentality to own what you are. Do us a favor and hit that enter key from time to time.
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Random favorite quotes from biographies "By this time my inward mirth had reached a zenith". - Yogananda The Autobiography of a Yogi by Swami Yogananda : Chapter 04 By this time my inward mirth had reached a zenith; I unceremoniously made for the train, whistling for departure. Amar followed with the official, who was credulous and obliging enough to put us into a … Feb 13, 2017 · His fellow cowboys were openly amused when Roosevelt urged his horse forward, and instead of saying, “Giddyup,” he would command, “Hasten forward quickly there!” - Theodore Roosevelt
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I spent some time with it. The question was for you 😝 It sounds like you're saying waking up does the clean up for you?
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Generally, my instinct is spot on but the presentation of it could be refined. Sometimes a raw insight isn't ready for prime time, so that's where -- like you say -- minding the gap between feeling and presentation is a good habit and practice. It's good to develop more or less of a habit of this, I agree. It's actually hard for me to put this into practice because I place a lot of trust in my reactions actually. They're just not always as socially calibrated as they might have been if I used more detachment and reason. But my reactions are key to me finding out how I feel about something deep down.
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Didn't know that. David Bohm and Aldous Huxley were also acquaintances of Krishnamurti. Interesting.
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In terms of our emotional/feeling responses reactivity I agree with you there. That initial whip-crack feeling is usually correct, if we are grounded and relatively whole within our truth. I think the key takeaway is widening the gap between the trigger and the choice to take action, when it is an egoic/small-self responce. But there are elements of our survival and base nature that require a fast response. Fear as in example. To run from danger. This is why I think our emotional/feeling responses are more intelligent that our minds/thoughts. You see a tiger; your fear prompts you to fucken MOVE faster than a thought can do that. There is some nuance to this topic I need to think on further. Good one for contemplation!
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Sometimes I trust reactivity more than non-reactivity actually, but I'm a very intuitive person. There is insight in reactivity, but I agree with you it's good to be careful and not careless with reactivity -- because it can ruin your life if you let your impulses run wild without some degree of strategic insight into what you're doing.
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Joseph Maynor replied to funkychunkymonkey's topic in Life Purpose, Career, Entrepreneurship, Finance
What do you do now for a living if you don't mind my asking? -
This is a question for you, a good inquiry one. It isn't so intentional (not for me, anyway) - awareness just slowly and naturally cleans it up after awakening. Neurotic for me, implies overthinking. There isn't so much thinking involved in that way because you don't enter the cleanup phase with and end goal in mind. It ends up being a process of life. Something to be engaged with in the absence of 'completion'. Observation, realisation - maybe I can change this and see what happens? - exploration of experienced results. I think there isn't a goal or intention. Awareness begins the cleanup when you see through the illusion; the illusion sort of breaks its tight grip once you see through the ego self. I think this is the initial rock pulled away that can lead to little avalanches of change. You react, but you aren't taken away into the grip of it so as to feel out of control. There is peace in non-reactivity. You respond, not react. And the responding carries less attachment than the reacting. I feel it in my body differently - the responding feels deliverate, grounded, slower, cleaner, aligned. Not about winning. Like I am pausing, choosing my words and reacting on values/principal. Prior to this I would react and feel it as automatic, emotion led and fast/sloppy/defensive. It felt like it happened outside of my control. In both reaction/response there is a body grounded feeling, but the response does not carry all the weighty attachments of the ego. In no way was it about being better by not reacting. I feel that is a fantasy. Responding feels like it widens the gap between trigger and choice. The flavour of feeling, being, emotion is DEFINITELY still here. Feeling and emotion should NEVER be deleted in the spiritual process. Something is very very wrong if it is.
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Apparently yes. And Terrence McKenna.
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Yes. Thinking of others as below comes off as immature to me. It does come off as a cope because who cares. It just shows a need for comparison to others, which is something you shake off as you age.
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