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Love = Selflessness
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What do you think developing your own metaphysics will give you besides just the fun of building one?
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Mystical flower pixie girl? 🥺👉👈
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lmao
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The equine therapy was quite remarkable. I have a history of extreme trauma - a larger load and narrative than one would consider usual (I require no compassion or sympathy, we all have our tale of woe. I add this because it is relevant to the therapy experience). For many years I felt I got through the early childhood difficulty relatively well. There were some lingering strange oddities about me; I had a lot of flat affect. Emotional numbing. Blunted internal interpersonal value system. I decided to drive into this, as I could recall a time when as a child when I was much more expressive, headstrong and emotive. I did talk therapy (which wasn't so effective). My therapist suggested equine therapy as I had all the cognitive tools and knowledge to address my own issues (and striking intellectual interoception and analysis ability), but wasn't showing a lot of improvement. It isn't like I was broken or non-functioning - more I was aware I was somehow blocked internally. You basically interact with horses as part of a structured therapeutic and psychological process. Approaching them, standing near them. Noticing your own reactions. Grooming and caring for the horse for trust and connection. Leading them and observing my own body language/attention and how I affected the horses response. Some groundworking also - verbal commands asking the horse the move around obstacles, stop, follow - the therapist used these exercises to explore/observe boundaries, communication and emotional regulation. After you reflect on what happened verbally. It isn't some magical healing sort of juju that horses do - but they are remarkable creatures. I did 8 sessions (I wish I could do more, but it was not cheap). I started off scanning myself (my internal state) each session, thinking I was calm, relaxed and neutral - but the horse I worked with, initially, wouldn't come near me. Like, almost RAN away skittishly. It turns out horses are remarkable at detecting fear. Their proposed therapeutic value comes partly from horses being large, sensitive and social animals. They respond strongly to human behaviour and body language. They pick up on things even another human is cannot detect in your voice, tone, body language etc. If you are fearing - they won't come near you. They are social animals - if they sense fear in you they read it as "this animal senses danger" and won't come close in case there is danger near. You ride the horses in the sessions also (backwards too!). By the end I could enter the field and have the horses come running to me! Following. Taking lead from me so easily. It was remarkable because intellectually and analytically I couldn't get through the 'block'. I needed feedback from the horse to see how I had improved and worked through my internal resistances. The more emotion I allowed, the quicker the states passed. So even if something did come up (talking to the therapist at the same time occasionally) and the horse resisted my attempts to connect, I could let the emotion go quicker and the horse would respond. My therapist observed a lot of tension in my legs and pelvis a lot. How I moved. I got a lot better at bodyscanning for emotions and identifying them. Naming them and learning the nuanced distinctions in my emotions was essential also. The horses gradually responded more positively to me. I still remember the 5th session so well - I entered the main gate to see the mares and one came straight up to me, almost demanding affection! That was a big breakthrough. I discovered I was, essentially, for around 15 years - blocking out emotions, suppressing or resisting. Creating elaborate coping mechanisms to avoid feelings and emotions. I was excellent at intellectualising and explaining everything away mechanistically - which actually caused some secondary issues with over-attachment to frames, ideas, thoughts. This lead to a lot of defensiveness of my own intellect!). The horse therapy helped me get through it. Haha! Traditional therapy didn't work so much Dogs also (and other animals) approach me a lot more now. Animals have higher sensitivity to tone, eye movement, body language, tension, sound etc due to a lack of language to verbally communicate. If they do not have any pathologies of their own (and yes, I have seen animals that have pathological coping mechanisms due to mistreatment, just like humans), they can act as a great feedback mechanism. I am also now way more drawn to animals as a result. I wouldn't say I am healed - oh no! - but I am able to find the source of the problem quicker now. And most times, the feeling, emotion or state itself, isn't even a problem. But I needed to let myself feel the hot pan properly, so I could drop it. It is that zen saying isn't it? How do you drop a hot pan? Let go. But to let go I had to identify and feel the heat. Not fight it. Pretend it wasn't hot. Thanks for asking!
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The old republic would be so sick, it was way cooler than current storyline. @Joseph Maynor Fair enough, let us know your thoughts when you've watched some of them! @Cubbage Agreed! Have you watched the newer movies and shows that came out from Disney?
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Even if you are passionate about something, it is still a second step to turn that into a profitable business. Passion is useful, but not enough to start and run a successful business as an entrepreneur necessarily. You might need to do a career change for a career that is aligned more with your passion. That also requires a lot of planning and hard work. So there are limitations to how far passion alone can carry you when it comes to starting a business.
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enchanted replied to Monster Energy's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Lol, it's too complex of a question to put a number on it. I feel like you would have know God 100% to be 100% sure you are God. Good question though. -
Spirituality memes here:
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Yimpa replied to AtmanIsBrahman's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I Love Ice Cream. Cheers! -
@Natasha Tori Maru What was your equine therapy experience like? What about your connection to horses + dogs is unusual?
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I take down one video, and people are reacting as though I threw their grandma at a wood chipper
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Trying to curate the forum in your own image I don't think is the right objective. It is better to take reality as it is and deal with that maturely.
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Yes I was thinking along these lines also. It isn't so simple as more users. I wish there was some way to transparently signal when a post is critically viewed as higher quality.
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kavaris replied to Natasha's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I really like old things now, Like, the difference / contrast of the Ad/Ai gen., is making movies that are 90 years old look and feel amazing in comparison,Likewise w/ D.A.R.E and "Just say no", etc., This is your brain on drugs. Iuno what it is, Like its like abominations that are raising up everything that had come prior, i dont get it. -
Promoting the forum is not going to bring it quality, it brings in the masses. Look at the YouTube comments, that is what you’ll get. Also a lot of the way the forum is governed and the community here is less interested in quality than it is in people who “fit in”. There were two classically enlightened people who used to post and they both got kicked out for denying god realization / universal love or something. If quality comes from experience, that’s going to have diverging paths. I’ve consistently noticed posts that I or others make that have more effort or more to chew on get less responses, and usually the responses are nitpicking or trolling. Any post with a video longer than 10 minutes or more than two paragraphs probably gets a fraction of people actually consuming it.
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I think we need term limits on moderators on here maybe.
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Indeed. There are patterns in users though. Some show active improvement. Others habitually post controversial or crude input that serves no purpose in terms of adding to the discussion or increasing quality. I can see how we can make one or two tweaks. But the impact would not be substantial in my estimation. If the objective is higher quality posts, over simply more activity, the key here would be to separate inputs we can control from background conditions we cannot. I lean more toward positive feedback methods - rewarding high quality posts somehow. Good reasoning > strong engagement > status/reputation > more motivation to reason well. But I also understand Leo does not want hierarchical structures here too much. The old reputation system was removed, after all. Maybe we could moderate epistemic behaviour, not just interpersonal? Repeated dishonest framing, deliberate strawmanning, moving goalposts, presenting speculation as fact, argument by authority. Endless assertion with no engagement. But this in itself is difficult. There are only vague rules around this currently - it mostly all falls under 'low quality post'. And many users are very, very offended at this type of a warning. Spitballing here
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Now we're talking. If I am given such an important quest I must fulfill it and report back. Not for my sake, of course. For science.
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I've had some of my language changed when I post something, and this concerns me.
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Raze replied to Monster Energy's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Just FYI most of the claims made in this thread were already debunked. This was soon after Oct 7 when Israel was spamming extremely exaggerated or completely made up accusations. That sub in particular is infamous for banning anyone critical of Israel or their claims so any skepticism was immediately removed. A lot of it is based on a NYT piece that was full of issues and had no evidence for a ton of its claims, NYT itself published a follow up article they admit undercut some of its claims as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screams_Without_Words#Aftermath_and_criticism -
Yimpa replied to Natasha's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Just once? You need to try watching porn on it. It's sick. I remember I spent like 3 hours just watching porn on 5MeO-DM. It was insane.
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CosmicExplorer replied to thenondualtankie's topic in Intellectual Stuff: Philosophy, Science, Technology
Bernardo Kastrup about AI
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