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This video explains it nicely ... https://youtu.be/yjejZWUByL4

It would be harder to go to bed an hour earlier and wake up an hour earlier. Start slow and stick with the plan so your body can adjust to the change. Go to bed 15 to 30 mins earlier for a week, ensuring you’re not stimulated prior to bedtime... wake up 15/30 earlier. Work your way up to an hour or more if you need to slowly. it also helps if you’re tired before you go to bed. This means getting a lot of sun time during the day walking / running outside for 15/30 mins / exercising. Essentially getting close to 10,000 steps or more everyday

? I’m not laughing cause it’s not true. I’m laughing cause you included Leo

There is nothing wrong with looking and investing in these avenues to meet your survival needs (for now and in the future) I’m very much into spirituality and self actualization, but none of these would’ve been my interests if I was constantly worrying about money and surviving. So if securing your future will give you some peace of mind then by all means do it. Then go back to abiding in your Awareness. As long as you’re living on this planet you need to plan for your future, your retirement and your survival. Don’t make it your only focus and attention to the point that you forget about what really matters. But it’s ok to stroke your ego here and there

I’m in the process of reading “The Book of Not Knowing” by Peter Ralston. Oh man it’s not an easy book to read or swallow. But I’m slowly reading it anyways. So here’s my dilemma: I get what he is saying about letting go of your beliefs and being more welcoming of direct experience. So now what does that mean for me going forward? Do I unsubscribe from Science? Do I start believing that the earth is flat because that is my direct experience? Does it matter now to even bother reading an interesting article in a science journal about quantum teleportation? I realize that if I am fascinated by any of these subjects then I am surely believing what is being told to me without actually experiencing it directly. Does that mean I should now go out of my way to directly experience all of this? Gotta start saving up for that trip to outer space.

Only your limited idea and version of God/Love/Truth exists. When you have to label it, you automatically limit it. When you question why is needs to exist then you don’t understand it’s unlimitedness. Fact is God/Love/Truth does not exist. A table exists, This world exists. God/Love/Truth just IS. Existing implies non-existing. God/Love/Truth are forever and infinite.

Sure both you and your friend will see a tree because you call it a “tree” then you go further in your judgement of that tree by saying it’s either beautiful or ugly. The reality is that independent of your mind and your thoughts there is actually no such thing as a “tree”, but of course that does not discount the fact there there is this huge gigantic green leafy thing sticking out of the ground that we humans have called a “tree”.. So what are you looking at when you look at a tree? The fact of the matter is you’re looking at your own self. That can be said no matter where you look, and with whatever sense apparatus is doing the perceiving. The tree along with everything perceived cannot exist without consciousness to understand and make sense of this reality configuration. Also notice that when you scan your environment you do not scan individual objects. You scan a multitude of objects, all at once, all the while your ears are picking up various sounds and your nose is picking up various smells. This is your consciousness unfolding before you like a living, dynamic painting. As this painting unfolds, the minds jumps in and begins a process of segregating and labeling and identifying and giving meaning. In reality everything is made of Consciousness. This Consciousness is not your Consciousness that is independent of your friends Consciousness. This Consciousness is You and it is also your friend. There is just the one Consciousness that is shared. You can say it’s “one” thing. But once you get there and understand it’s just one thing. Drop the “one” and drop the “thing” and it just IS, it’s You, it’s the Uni-verse. ... It’s pure Silence.

This sums it up https://imgur.com/gallery/yPzSCqW

I consider myself a fairly intelligent person, with the exception of these life incidents that throw me off and make me feel like an idiot. STORY TIME: Last week when I was driving home, I had to brake hard to avoid hitting another vehicle that abruptly stopped in front me. The reason the vehicle in front of me came to a halt was due to a silly goose crossing the street. Fortunately I was able to brake in time and avoided a collision with the vehicle. However the person behind me was not able to brake in time and collided with my vehicle. Now I'm fairly level headed and I'm not someone who gets annoyed easily, and I was able to keep my cool and even felt some sympathy for the individual who hit me, understanding that if I was in her situation, I would have probably collided as well. So when this lady collided with me; I had some feelings of annoyance creep up alongside some feelings of remorse and decided on the spot that I would stay positive about this experience and deal with it calmly. even through I was feeling some stress because I hate getting into these situations. Who does? So we both pulled over to inspect the damage, It wasn't anything major, just a cracked rear bumper on my vehicle with very little damage to the vehicle that hit me. I figured the cost of the damage would be negligible on my vehicle - and this is where I went wrong !! Now on situations like this, the proper procedure would be to exchange information such as Insurance, contact, take photos etc, but as all this was happening I wasn't thinking straight. The lady who hit me suggested that we exchange numbers and I should then let her know the cost of damage etc and we would deal with it that way. Like an idiot I agreed and went along with it, I completely trusted her with no ounce of mistrust on my part. We parted ways and then a few minutes after getting back inside my vehicle it hit me like a ton of bricks, that I was too quick to simply trust her. WHAT THE HELL !! I know the process !! I'm familiar with it, but yet when it happened, it completely threw me off and now i feel like an idiot. I realize she got away with this and is probably grinning all over because she played well and i easily trusted her. The end result of all this: After taking it to the bodyshop to get it inspected it is going to cost me close to $1500 (Canadian) to get it fixed up - Replacing the cracked bumper, labour, sensors, and Rental for 3 days of work. I texted her the estimate and now she is gone all silent, ignoring my calls and text, and not cooperating in the matter to try and resolve this. I am blaming myself for not doing due diligence, for letting her play me, and for my failure to think through the situation as it was happening. I can understand that when these things happen it can be really stressful and it is during these times that I fail to think clearly and do what is necessary and end up getting myself into more of a jam. I also know that if the roles were reversed, and I ended up hitting her, I would fully cooperate with her to get the matter resolved. So it bothers me that people still feel no empathy and fail to take any responsibility in doing the right thing. Fuckin sucks !!

I can go to the dollar store and buy close to 50 things with $50 - considering the tax as well. Maybe groceries for a few days to a week. But if I handed the same $50 to a beggar, their face would light up, and they probably thank me profusely and then go out and buy their next meal, perhaps save some for rainy day. So yes that $50 bill would mean a lot relatively speaking to who is holding it. I have 3 $50 bills in my wallet right now. So together they add up to something better. I may consider buying something extra this thanksgiving and giving it to someone in need

@Roy I swerve to avoid hitting squirrels and cats that cross my path here in Toronto. Thankfully haven't hit any of them or else I'd be devastated. Hope I never do. @Pretty As much as I want to be vigilant of everyone, I want to believe that people can be good and decent and do the right thing. Going back to those moments when I had to deal with her, I really not sure why I just believed that she would do the right thing. I usually am more vigilant than this. So the fact that I didn't take the necessary steps to protect my ass in this case, is still eating me up inside. @Average Investor This is a brand new 2019 Mazda 3 I purchased in Feb this year, Not sure I will find a used bumper I can replace with. But good point. I can have a look. That would surely save me a ton. I am also considering connecting with a lawyer and letting her know that I will be filing a police report and will see her in court. Just to scare her a bit. Not sure how much that would help. I appreciate the responses. Even though I realize this is not the best place to post something like this. I hope it can still give people some perspective that as much as you might think you're evolved intellectually, and you want to trust the human race, and believe we are all in this together, that we can help each other out, trust each other, and do the right thing when the times comes. You still gotta be vigilant !! And protect your own ass first and foremost. I've learned a lesson, so in a sense its not all that bad. Things could've been worse. Cheers -Anthony

Torontonian here. I support Trudeau and voted for him. His handling of the pandemic definitely garnered him some more backing and support. However the recent scandal and his involvement with WE Charity, where he okayed a 900 million volunteer program with the organization raised a conflict of interest situation and got him into some hot water with the opposition. He is still a fairly young political candidate and is by no means the Perfect politician, he is making mistakes, and I'm sure he learning his lessons whist leading the Nation. He can learn a lot from Bernie and Canada (more than the US) might be in a better position with someone like Bernie. I agree with Roy (previous post) Not sure how the Conservatives and Andrew Scheer would have handled the situation. Scheer seems too selfish and old-school.

"The Great Reset" ... you may be hearing this phrase a lot these days, and its being thrown around like it a bad thing and its going to disrupt our lives, and create social chaos and Authoritarianism, which of-course no body wants. How do you guys think this is going to play out? Are you going to let it play out? OR resist this change? As stated on the WE forum website: "“The Great Reset” will be the theme of a unique twin summit in January 2021, convened by the World Economic Forum" You can read more about The Great Reset here: https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/ PLEASE NOTE: I did not create this Post to dive into a rabbit hole of Conspiracy Theories - I do not subscribe to any of those theories. This post is to get opinions from those more well-versed in this area, and in Politics in general and how this so called "Great Reset" will bring about new changes perhaps for the betterment of Humanity.

“The Prime Directive” (PD) is just a fancy term that is mostly never adhered to in the Star Trek Universe. While Picard was more stringent on following the PD- other Star Trek Captains like Captain Janeway from the Voyager series always interfered - Interference produced more interesting episodes IMO However there is one episode I recall from ST Enterprise series *** SPOILER ALERT *** where all married couples on a certain planet use a especially fertile Being to procreate. This Being is not treated quite as fairly as other normal Beings. They do not receive any education or freedoms enjoyed by the Elite, who are allowed to Procreate using these fertile Beings as a surrogate. In this episode this one couple brings along their potential surrogate with them aboard the Starship and it’s clear that the couple simply treats this surrogate like a fly on the wall. One of the crew members notices this and decides to interfere (breaking the PD rules) and converse with and educate the surrogate in private resulting in some interesting dialogue and implications for the couple. Without giving too much away, let’s just say the ending of the episode does not end well of either the couple, the surrogate and the crew member that interferes. In my opinion when walking the PD bridge, you have to thread carefully. You cannot dive in with radical new ideas and opinions that are completely alien to a given individual, culture, society, nation or planet, this will usually always be disastrous. Perhaps your guidance / interference needs to be a small step up from the level on which they stand. In other words don’t introduce Yellow spiral values to a predominantly Blue or Orange culture. And who’s to say that perhaps another extra-terrestrial species is not currently interfering in our own affairs? Screwing up sometimes and sometimes offering some valuable guidance. Time will tell.

Do you see any Orange in them? Nurture some Orange values and slowly introduce some green over time. I would start by making a healthy dish of Organic Vegetable Soup using Leo's Recipe ... That should purge the blue right out of them.

I’m not someone who is easily triggered. But after seeing this post from “I fucking Love Science” on my Facebook feed... I was pretty annoyed at how these folks think it’s a simple matter of publicizing this stunt and without thinking about the consequences (attached image of post in concern), while the post itself promotes the benefits of 5 MeO, it makes no mention of being cautious and respecting this psychedelic... Article: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/just-one-puff-of-psychedelic-toad-slime-could-have-sustained-benefits-for-wellbeing/

Hey Folks, I'd like to share some of the Spiral Dynamic series of videos and podcasts with a friend who uses an Android device. I can link up the YouTube videos and iphone podcasts, since I use an iPhone. But is there a way to obtain links to specific podcasts available on the Android Podcasts App?

Saturn from Sleeping At Last - The artist has other songs just as good, but this one is my favorite by far:

In the past I’ve thought a lot about “Empty Space” that exists all around us, inside us, and between planets and galaxies. Having read and watched numerous astronomy programs, I’m familiar with gravitational waves, the space time curvature of gravity, time dilation, the mystery of dark matter and dark energy and such topics. My inquiry relates very much to the nature of emptiness, the void, the space that surrounds us into which everything is contained. There are times when I feel that this space or emptiness has some viscosity, very much like a medium of sorts that fills up the entirety of existence. And as we move through this space we disturb it in a very silent, non-reactive sort of way. For example if I’m driving on the highway, I can almost feel the emptiness has this impalpable, but fluid like quality that surrounds my vehicle and flows around it, and the emptiness inside my vehicle moves along with me. In the past scientists referred to this as the “Aether” as they needed an explanation for how light could travel through the void of space, but as we know, no evidence was found of such an aether. However I strongly feel that this emptiness has to have a substance of sorts, albeit a substance of extremely low viscosity, but I’m sure many physicists would disagree with that thought. But then how would they explain how gravitational waves (through the merger of black holes) travel through the emptiness of space, if space is truly substance-less. How is this space being disturbed, how does a black hole or even a planet like ours curve the space around it to simulate gravity? Due to the very nature that space was “created” after the Big Bang, and just saying that it was created, postulates that it is very real - very physical - and it exists, but in an imperceptible way. Now having said that. May we also wonder if this space is actual? Does it actually exist or is it just something we have created in our heads to make sense of reality, to distinguish and to segregate physical objects, which would otherwise be extremely difficult to separate with our five senses? Perhaps space is an illusion, or perhaps I’m just deluding myself and space has always been here, even before the Big Bang, and it is a feature of Reality. What about the space in 3D virtual environments, such as video games and CGI. Do software designers use code to generate this space? What does that code look like? Apologies if this topic belongs in a more scientific forum, or is perhaps in the wrong section of this forum, but I just feel, there is something metaphysical in nature about this emptiness, like we’re definitely missing something. If you will, this could be considered a “meditation on the nature of spacetime”

Many years ago I used to practice Transcendental Meditation - TM (which uses a mantra), twice a day for 20 mins each (Eyes Closed). Eventually I got lazy and got caught up in other life issues and stopped meditating completely. Once a while I would start it up again and then lose focus and give up. Well guess what? I’ve started meditation again. This time around I want to stick to it. Recently however I came across the Do NothIng - DN meditation technique and decided to give it a try. The first time I tried it was while sitting on a subway train, with all that noise, people coming and going, the ringing and chiming of the subway doors opening and closing. All the while I sat staring (eyes open) at the floor of the subway car my eyes kinda out of focus and dazed, and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I now meditate twice a day or more; So in the morning after I wake up, I use the TM technique that I’m familiar with, and then later in the afternoon or in the evening I try the DN technique. Both 20/25 mins each. I’d just like to know if there are any upside or downsides to using two different meditation techniques? Or should I just be focused on one technique? Personally I don’t feel it’s something I need to be concerned about, and using both techniques in the day is fine. Thoughts?

Thanks for Sharing. I believe its a good practice to learn to focus and concentrate, i do get distracted by thoughts many times.

I very much doubt that can be experienced. Because if it is experienced, its purity becomes tarnished. But while it cannot be experienced, its after-effects can be felt. This is why you meditate. You try to reach that level of pure no-thought, no perception, no nothing. When you're in this state, you will never know it, you will only feel its effects after you come back to sensory experience. I do not know if it is alive and aware. "Alive" and "Aware" is a human experience. But it may be the closest description or words we can use to try to understand if pure and absolute silence is aware of itself. It may be Alive and Aware, but not how You and I understand the meaning of those words. Its awareness of purity, of silence, of absolute infinity may transcend our understanding of what it means to really be Alive and Aware, without breath, without perception, without experience, or maybe all of it.

Here is one way of looking at it: The reality of everything is "Nothing" unless observed, unless perceived (with the senses) then labeled and defined. Nothing becomes something when it "Observed". The act of observation, or the act of perception, creates something out of Nothing. The only way you know an Apple, is because you perceive it, you inquire about it, you inspect it, then call it an Apple. Take away your five senses one by one and the knowledge of the apple slowly disappears until eventually it becomes non-existent to you. Much like everything else in the universe. The only reason you "See" the apple is because photons of Light are reflecting of the skin of the apple, which is absorbing some of the colors of white light and reflecting the rest. What you see with your eye is reflected light. Without the eye, light and dark becomes meaningless aka non-existent. So try and see the world, not with the senses, but in the absence of all senses, all perception and all knowledge. Once you do that, everything becomes absolutely and purely Nothing. In the absence of perception there is no 0 either. In fact there is no Nothing either. Just Pure and Absolute Silence.

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