LastThursday

You're living in a hall of mirrors and the synchronicities are reflections. What is the purpose of a reflection?

Sorry for the essay I'm in the mood to write. I totally agree with you. As soon as you open your mouth and speak, it's no longer truth, it's just a possibility. Even "consciousness" is just a word, it's not a truth. The map is not the territory. The only truth is the territory. Most people around here call it "direct experience", and unfortunately direct experience can't be shared (although see Leo's latest video!). I think the delusion is happening not to Leo, but to the people interpreting Leo's words and body language with reference to their own experiences. It's your classic projection 101. You are giving the character of Leo life by creating a story around him, just like a character in a book. Yes, I am saying that we're both deluded - we both love a good story. We in fact know hardly anything about Leo. Telepathy (I don't know about healing) is in the realm of communication. Communication is a very strange beast. But at its core is: Correlation. Say you set up an experiment, where you stand on a hill with a torch in the dark. You have a friend on another hill in the distance looking out for the light from your torch. You can send a message say in morse code by switching the torch on and off and your friend can make notes of what s/he receives. The first strangeness is that you have no way of knowing if your message was received. Your friend may have fallen asleep for example or there was fog in the valley between you blocking the light. The simplest solution to this is for your friend to also have a torch and replay the message they received from you - that way you will know if they received your message. How strange! All communication is a two way protocol. Unless you have confirmation of what you sent, you will never know if your message was received. Ok, so what if the confirmation message from your friend is different from the message you sent out? Maybe your friend misread your flashes or got distracted. Then you can say, well most of the message is the same, so they must have received it ok. Notice how strange this is. Now we are less sure about whether our message was received. It's gone from a certainty to something less. It's gone from causation to correlation. No communication is perfect. The best you can do in any communication is to say that what is received is correlated to what is sent out. The correlation can go from 0% to 100% and everything inbetween. So back to the experiment. You decide to try out telepathy to communicate. You throw your torch away and sit there in silence. Instead you just think about the message you want to send. Your friend is now receiving your thoughts, but still sends confirmation back using her/his torch and morse code. Now you find that most of the time the confirmation message does not match your thought message, it's completely different; the correlation has gone down to 0%. But maybe, just occasionally your friend sends back one or two correct words! So the correlation is now above 0%. Did some of your message get through? Some will say it was just coincidence, some will say telepathy is real. And maybe there is a way to increase the correlation towards 100%?

@Spinoza you have to follow the train of thought and the implications. Materialism: the world is "out there" and made up of tiny bits of stuff (atoms, elementary particles, forces) that obey consistent laws. The world works like a machine that just runs by itself, and it all started with a "big bang" and has been going on ever since. It's possible to invisibly transmit messages, but this is just electromagnetism which obeys its own set of laws. It's not really possible to explain consciousness with materialism, because consciousness is not made of anything and doesn't obey laws - instead it's bodged so that "somehow" the matter machine produces the "conscious experience" via the brain. Telepathy is not explainable, because conscious experience would have to be transferred directly from one person to another - but there is no explanation for the conscious experience in the first place. Non-materialism: the world is exactly what you are experiencing - it is the conscious experience and nothing else. There is nothing beyond the conscious experience, everything is encompassed by it. The brain and atoms and electromagnetism are just experiences within consciousness. More importantly they are just inferences based on analogy and memory, in other words: stories and beliefs. The natural question is then to ask where the conscious experience arises from - and if it's separate from other people's conscious experiences - and even if other people are having a conscious experience. The "simple" answer is that there is no separation at all. Consciousness cannot arise from anything because there is nothing beyond consciousness to produce it. Your consciousness is not separate from mine, because then your consciousness would be beyond my consciousness. Hopefully you see where I'm going. If there is no separation at all then it is possible for one part of the conscious experience to affect another part without any force or particles or transmission of any sort (because they're not needed). That is telepathy. The final question is one of ownership. The conscious experience is exactly that, an experience. Who is experiencing it? That's where much confusion arises. The "who" is just an experience inside consciousness, it is a side effect of consciousness not the source of it. Consciousness is therefore not owned by you - and it is not really an "experience". Technically, you don't need to exist for consciousness to exist. So, you cannot "do" or "learn" telepathy, because "you" are too limited. But consciousness (a.k.a. reality) itself is not limited, it can do what it likes. Telepathy is perfectly possible, but you have have to remove "yourself" for it to happen.

@Preety_India it looks like you're confusing two different things in what you want. You say it yourself: What is a talent? Isn't that just mastery in a certain subject? I may have talent in maths, which just means I have a certain mastery of maths. Naturally, mastery doesn't just "happen", I wasn't born knowing maths, it took work. Some people may find the work easier, some harder - but the end result is the same. What is creativity? Isn't that the ability to come up with something new and original? I would say that everyone has that ability from the moment you are born. The question of talent or mastery is simply one of time. Do you want to dedicate twenty years to improving your talent with a guitar for example? Talent can be measured by taking a test or by the appreciation of your peers. But the more mastery you have the less you need vindication from others - you can be self sustaining after you reach a certain level. Creativity is a natural state for everyone, but it needs to be channelled and shaped. That just means focus. Whatever you focus on, your creativity will eventually flourish in that area. But creativity needs to be nutured, it needs to feed on excitement and passion and calmness and love and support and self belief. So you are looking for reassurance that you're not wasting precious time on something that you might never master. But whatever you decide to focus on, you can guarantee that your skills and talent will improve over time and if you have a good environment creativity will be there. Nothing in life is wasted, what you create and learn in one area will transfer over to another area later in life. After all, you can always change your mind and take a different path.

Nothing is hidden. Nothing is finite. You're staring into the infinity of God right now. Here it is! God loves to hide from God only to discover God again. What a good story.

@Preety_India you can learn to appreciate the immensely creative talents you already have. Just to utter a word takes great creative skill and dexterity; just to walk takes immensely precise control and creativity. It's taken me 47 years of creativity and mastery to create that last sentence

Is a river just a stream of water? It's easy to drown in words.

If somebody pushes you and you lose your balance and fall, do you feel upset? Your normal life and routine has been pushed off balance (we all have). Give yourself space to feel upset - as long as it takes. Then when you're ready get back up, dust yourself off and stand up again.

Leo! Happy Birthday man, keep on spinning that love vortex, the world needs it.

Ceci n'est pas une pipe?

Splendid. Not sure I've ever activated anyone before. Was it the beard? The soft focus? The esoteric triangle? Thanks! Fortress is a doubly apt word at the moment. My roof is conical and somewhat fortress like!

The following interview might be of interest: Also you could take the quiz here to get an idea of your chronotype: https://thepowerofwhenquiz.com/

Because many of us are addicted to drama and a good story of struggling against adversity. How else do we get noticed by other people? How else do we make our ourselves interesting? How else do we become heroes? Intelligent is boring.

@abrakamowse you're right. (Sarcasm warning, for those culturally lacking it) 1. It represents Maslow's hierarchy of needs. 2. It's the pyramid of Egypt and I'm the pharoah (God's divine incarnation on this Earth). 3. It's the hierarchy of society. 4. It point up towards God (up being the opposite direction to gravity on a spherical Earth, but I digress). 5. It's a roof therefore representing shelter and protection. 6. It's a multidimensional surface floating in infinite space. 7. It's the symbol of the Illuminati. 8. Erm....

"If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides." -- Montesquieu And a gender.

There isn't one. That's like a child explaining what it's like being an adult. Or for some, like an adult explaining to a child what it's like to be an adult.

Think of it more like a system with a temperature control. The more numbers of people you have, the greater the (economic) activity and the higher the temperature. Lower the temperature by having less people and the activity drops. Capitalism is predicated on always getting a return on your capital, i.e. constant growth. If the growth goes permanently negative, it's no longer capitalism - and a different system is needed. So what? But also, realise that the world is very interconnected as Covid-19 has shown us. Any "deficiency" in economic ouput in one set of countries will be made up by other countries who have an increasing population. The global temperature is still going up.

You should also observe your feelings of disappointment and frustration, they're also part of the illusion.

Why not focus on a project? Any project. Instead of passively consuming, actively create. And for bonus points, even better if you can put your creation back into the world for others to appreciate. Saying that, I should follow my own advice!

I suspect I've turned into my profile picture.

@actualizing25 it's quite simple really. There's only a limited amount of time to do all the activities you want in life. The more time you spend on developing yourself, the less time you'll spend on porn and instagram. It's all a matter shifting your focus and attention to upgrading your own operating system. Eventually the old things you used to do will stop being relevant or just appear to be a time draining distraction. There's no limit to how far you can develop yourself. It's not an all or nothing thing, it's a process or a journey of discovery.

Because @LastThursday is just that: a story. A story builds a character by picking certain descriptions and experiences and discarding others. @LastThursday is just a finite assortment of facts out of the infinite expanse of consciousness. So "I" am just a self perpetuating assortment of facts, and @Javfly33 is just another, a different story. Conciousness is powerful enough to create billions of individual characters and stories - and trick itself. You're right. An inferrence is just a story you tell yourself. But "you" are also a story you tell yourself. You have it exactly, you have to take a bet, you cannot be 100% sure of anything, even yourself - everything is groundless. You do not really exist - so the things you see are not "yours". Solipsism cannot be the answer. But. You cannot deny that there is something happening, that's the only thing you can be sure of.

@Peter124 you are spot on. What many fail to realise is that even other people are in your direct consciousness. Other "conscious" people are just a manisfestation of your direct conscious experience. You are them, they are you. It's not their consciousness and your consciousness, it's the consciousness. It's also easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the current experience of direct consciousness is the only one available - and fail to grasp what other states of consciousness can manifest at different times.

You always have a conscious choice whether to engage with it or not. Although you may be in a situation where it may be damn difficult to not engage - especially if the anxiety and stress comes from a loved one or society in general. If you choose to engage with the projections then do so out of a position of love and empathy. Take it a sign that the person is distressed in some way and that the decent thing to do is at least try and help. Anxiety and stress are fear responses, and as such people don't willingly choose to have them. Their projections are usually cues for others to help them - however it may appear to the contrary. They may even blame you for their stress! If you're not able to help because you yourself don't have the skills, experience or resources then the next decent thing to do is find someone who does and suggest to the stressed person that they seek outside help. If the person doesn't want to be helped and you don't have the resources to help them, then the only decent thing left to do is to disengage from the situation - otherwise you run the risk of creating stress and anxiety for yourself, or you just exacerbate their stress. Disengaging may be very difficult to do, but in my experience it's never impossible to do. And it's often the kindest act for all involved. The other side of the coin is that in order for you to "know" if someone is stressed or is anxious there has to be some sort of overt behaviour on their part and a whole load of interpretation of that behaviour on your part. It is not actually possible to "mind read", you are not that other person. That means it's completely possible to "reframe" or shift your interpretation of their behaviour to be less negative or to ignore it completely. In a way the projection of stress and anxiety inhabits your mind (through your interpretation) and is not really out there at all. The projection is a phantom.

@pluto the concern is the probality of death at 4% if you catch it (although that is skewed towards older folks). It also has an R value between 2 and 3 which makes it much more infectious than the common cold. Maybe you're fit and healthy and you don't care, but why be responsible for someone else's death? My parents are in their 70's, I would feel terrible if I had caused their deaths. The other problem is that of mutation, the greater the number of infections the more likely the chance of a mutation which could make Corona virus lethal. We're all directly responsible for that. But you are right that we all need immunity and there's only one way to achieve that. And we need to keep our immune systems strong and going out for a walk is part of that. It's a balancing act.