RendHeaven

lol alrighty prince canute.

I am not "thinking" Infinity. That's a game that you alone have decided to play.

Only insofar as you decree that understanding and infinity are unidentical

You are describing a limit. That ain't Infinity.

Does "being Earth" come with connotations of a geometric sphere (a formed, shaped, object) with diametrically opposed rounded surfaces, or does this experience have no regard to comprehensible corporeal form? How does one know itself with certainty to be the totality of Earth in the absence of mathematical (or even physical) concept-anchors, and can you describe the accompanying sensations?

can confirm

:')

No way. That's my favorite book. In fact it's the only book I carry around with me everywhere.

psychedelics heal, period

One of my best friends asked me for my help this morning, because his sister raised concerns that her lack of emotional expressiveness might stem from trauma. This was my response. It seems that my communication was received well, and so I hope to send it out into the larger world as well: To me, being emotionally expressive is not merely a matter of feeling good, or even being a healthy human. It's more fundamental, on the level of being an entity of metaphysical integrity/oneness. In truth we are WHOLE and UNITED (as the universe), so rejecting or suppressing any aspect of experience results in a split, divided, false self. I am no expert on trauma healing - I am just a young guy with inordinate self awareness and the ability to confront myself head-on. Just from her texts, I suspect that your sister is suppressing or repressing, just from the tone of her words. And she knows this, but is seeking some sort of external validation/confirmation for what she already knows because we fear the consequences of our gut instinct being correct. This is such a tangled topic that I don't know if it's right to diagnose/suggest action steps as though the path forward is linear: but here is what I would personally do in her situation. 1) feel into the hurt of your current gray/neutral/apathetic existence. We adopt this "passive" stance in life relative to our strong inner emotions in hopes of escaping pain, but notice that this strategy never actually even worked. The pain is still there. In fact, new pain might have arisen (such as inability to open up to and communicate with [current significant other]) 2) notice that there is a lack of congruence between what is inside and what is shown outside. If you honor or value the prospect of being a COMPLETE, thriving, wise entity - the fact that you are 2 different people on the surface and below the surface should sound alarm bells. Notice that the emotions we withhold are still actually there, buried under layers of armor!! Don't think for a second that they've ever disappeared entirely. 3) spend more time alone, without distractions, reflecting on the past (not just to [recent instances of hurt], but even back to growing up as a 10 year old). I suspect we will find numerous occasions where emotional expressiveness has been invalidated or discouraged. And notice how our young, frail, impressionable, validation-seeking egos have bent over backwards to fit into the tribe. Historically, whenever our emotions were invalidated, we simply learned "don't emote." But could this have been the wrong move? Maybe there is a way to emote without negative consequences: a third option which we never explored. 4) in my experience, there has to be a certain fire or passion that underlies your trauma healing journey. This is not something you haphazardly decide to do. You are sick of being a divided person inside and out. You wish so desperately to know yourself and to shine your authentic light onto the world instead of a dimmed, fake, projection/caricature. 5) attempt to be more open, first in solitude, and lastly, around people. This means, when a feeling arises, you allow it to bubble up to the surface without micromanaging it. No image control. Just let it be. Notice that this hurts (at first). Don't let this discourage you. This is the precise hurt that you've been avoiding all along. Either you battle it now, or it haunts you to your grave. 6) you will likely fear the consequences of being more open. People taking advantage of you, people rejecting you, etc. These concerns feel real and they will crush your healing progress. More than anything it is important to remember that you are now stronger than you were in your past. You have learned from your pain, you have clearer boundaries now. So given all of this, allow yourself to open up and emote - and if someone tries to take advantage of that or belittle you - trust in yourself that you can firmly say NO, walk away, and laugh it off. 7) lastly and most importantly, notice the shocking beauty of the world and life that opens up to YOU. although emotional openness entails high-highs and low-lows (and those lows look scary at first), the highs are actually so astronomically high that it's not even a comparison. For some reason, when you are an integrous individual with true self knowledge and true self expressiveness; reality skews SIGNIFICANTLY towards bliss, happiness, joy, beauty, excellence, and love. Never forget that

Beautiful & inspiring

1) don't conflate intimate human relationships with professional jobs. 2) if she is single and you are attractive and respectful, she would love nothing more than for you to introduce yourself to her, face to face, like a normal person. 3) realize that the majority of people are lonely and are internally begging for real human connection. your posts are full of inexperience and projection

The glaring con: you're filtering YOU through a PIECE OF PAPER (lmfao). Just be normal and talk to them.

Completely unrelated. That is irresponsible. Recommendations completely depend on the person. Likely you handle stimulants differently than most people.

No, actually, when all of my friends get ice cream and I don't, I feel amazing, empowered, and full of joy and laughter. I am grateful for my principles. People are different ?

1. yes yes yes. 2. yikes. extremely powerful but wouldn't recommend LOL

I don't have plans to be in Japan anytime soon, but as a Japanese person who speaks fluent Japanese and has been to Japan multiple times I'd love to keep in touch

boohoo woe is me LOL

Yes, but neither are you. Or for that matter, myself. Why is this even a comment?

Beautifully said. We can't expect the cleansing fires of spirituality to actually burn away our impurities unless we have the adequate firewood necessary to keep that fire strong. Firewood in this case would be something like mastering survival, being grounded, etc. Otherwise we just char ourselves with a flimsy fire and we just end up more hurt.

No, that is exactly what I meant. You're funny lol. Thanks for sharing We are not in disagreement. Seeing outside of the previous paradigm/perspective is my precise precondition for climbing stages. Leo is talking about you lol.

Yes there is. True, if you lack construct-awareness. The question "what more am I missing?" is asked in relation to my self-made construct-prison(s). I've been typed INFJ. I wonder if that shines more light on my biases? No, some realizations and insights are simply incommunicable in their totality as they literally transcend language. When we are sincerely struck by such transcendent insights (as opposed to delusionally misinterpreting mundane mind-activity), it dawns on us that any attempt to capture, control, or disseminate is futile and almost irreverent/missing the point. Hahaha I agree. When I say "concern" and "values" this is not a forceful mind-activity wherein one adopts a rigid stance on how they ought to conduct themselves in the world. To me, one's "concerns" and "values" = their subconscious inclinations or affinities in the absence of belief. A true green doesn't have to fight mental battles over greed and wealth because their soul has genuinely exhausted such concerns. A true yellow doesn't have to rally for community or connection because it's obvious to them that everything is already interconnected. A true turquoise doesn't have to map out interconnections or explicate relationships because the preordained, divine order of the cosmos always outshines their finite human endeavors. (to be clear, that is not to say that green can't do business, or yellow can't invest in communal endeavors, or turquoise can't draw maps. It's simply a matter of their subconscious inclinations or affinities in the absence of belief!) The rigidity of that assertion is not a very tier-2 take If this were the case, how would you suppose that someone in tier-1 would become tier-2? Do they wallclip to a wider paradigm of spiral wizardry in a thunderclap and flash? It seems pretty obvious to me that progression is slow, and one must snake their way into the next stage, limb-by-limb, before they're fully immersed in it. To me this would explain how someone has a tier-2 center of gravity but they lack total integration and/or elements of them are still trailing behind. I think the difference in our conception is purely semantic. I'm happy to call someone the stage that they are climbing into since the very fact that they are making that transition says something about the orientation of their heart & their recognition of prior limitation - whereas you seem to hold off on the label until the transition is fully complete and actualized ?

If you've ever experienced "God's Will," or some faint variant of that which you can recall in memory as some sort of directed unfolding of structure/specificity, you will intuitively understand that all of reality is aimed or oriented towards the highest Good. Any human's will or desire that manifests similarly is thereby a mimicry/reflection/offshoot of universal will. Thus the more influence and mountain-moving capabilities a mere human seems to posses, the more godly they appear.

Still true Same can be said for you! Let's make peace on that, yea? You're right, I only have 1 year of MBTI study under my belt. I am nowhere close to mastery. However, what I do have is a vastly augmented capacity for perspective that supersedes all modelling. The same way that Leo is able to see beyond science without having been a physicist for 20 years, I am able to see beyond all systems and models (not just MBTI, but all such constructions, like the works of Einstein which I devoted 6 straight months to). Again, NOT TO SAY THAT SCIENCE OR MBTI OR EINSTEIN IS WRONG. I am not even in the business of rightness or wrongness. My only business is - "what more am I missing?" I risk hijacking the thread at this point so I won't say much more, but I hope you take this communication as a proper discussion of mind rather than an ego attack. This is why I commented in the first place - to pay homage to the mind-breaking vastness of life which I see seldom discussed. The bold is true. Nevertheless, what you're seeing is a budding turquoise trying to appeal to green. He is still young and navigating embodiment & presentation style. His greatest realizations he keeps to himself - as he should - and as do I I find it funny that you refuse to acknowledge the tier-2 in people. I've seen this from you on multiple occasions now. Systems thinking & mapping structure out of complex disorder and paradox is no joke. I do not lightly suggest that people have integrated & transcended this. When I suggest that someone is at a certain stage, I mean that their concerns and values largely centralize around the concerns and values of that stage due to a sincere exploration of the previous stage being too limiting/suffocating. As such, someone I recognize as turquoise may not scream turquoise to you since they are by no means a spiral wizard - but nonetheless their concerns, values, and journey through the previous stages speaks for itself.

I agree. But intuition tells me that not a single one of the MBTI advocates here have embodied this realization. While they pay lip service to "MBTI is a lens!" it surprises me how defensive people are over this finite, limited, partial, biased, subjective, and ultimately arbitrary (yes, it's true) lens. You know what's crazy? I literally support MBTI lmao. Don't mistake me for bypassing for a second. I suppose I'm just poking the bear to test its reaction.