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@Seraphim some say the body follows beliefs about it. It would probably seem less magical if we could really measure how the body responds to subconscious thoughts. Nah maybe would still seem magical.

Excuse me if I've gone off on an inspired tangent,,,, Seems relevant No I enjoy your contribution! I may not always have something to respond with, but it's a nice new perspective. If I just kept talking to myself on here it would just be a closed feedback loop... Again I do wish readers would post their own results for the exercises if they have the book...

There will always be the sour pusses

Value can be found in everything, just have to create some. What do you want most?

I like the title but I think the first three images belong at the end as well

I think it's hilarious that we completely ignore the fact that we get our cells and atoms from Earth, so there's an instant connection there, and the earth got all its atoms and molecules from our sun and many more out there. The information is there, it's just a matter of the mind being open or closed to what that means (yes all meaning is relative and imaginary, but so is separation)

@Logan well I'm sure someone on here has some ideas... I was thinking something like Jed mckenna's farm

Is there a shooting range nearby? Maybe archery out in the woods would be less destructive and dangerous, but I'm just nitpicking. OK but to your question : yes I think that it is very wise and emotionally adept to choose where to live, especially in a place that will allow you to pursue your interests. Just be wary that your interests can drastically change as you actualize and you may grow weary in what was once paradise. Or you might want to die there. Please consider marriage very highly into these huge life choices. If I wasn't married I would enjoy a nomadic lifestyle, or I would join a high conscious self sufficient community. I really crave that now, but alas it is not the family agenda.

Is law of attraction a sort of cunning back-door to focusing on creation?

It's definitely a feedback loop, just as depression pairs well with: loneliness, failure, hopelessness, unfulfilled desires, etc. I get angry at work when things don't get done a certain way, my way. ( Although fortunately I've been much better lately!) then I get depressed and worried that it will always be this way and none of my hard work or input will ever make the situation better or easier. (although I ignore the truth that things have steadily gotten better over the years) then I get angry AND depressed that I'm feeling miserable and have no way out of this current job situation. (although I ignore that things aren't really that bad and I live very comfortably.) And that's just a typical Tuesday....

@Matt23 Speaking as someone who still tangos with anger: Breathe through it. Maybe only avoid if you do not see yourself exiting the situation with no physical or societal harm. Otherwise, avoidance is futile ? the only way out is through. Learn calming techniques or remove yourself momentarily until you can speak clearly. Then proceed. Figure out why these things make you angry and then laugh in their faces (figuratively speaking, of course). It's all an imaginative story. You can be king of your own story. Forget what anger is. When that emotion rises, greet it with love and ask it if it would like to stay for tea. Or to promptly leave and you'll give it its space later. The options are infinite. Stop associating the feeling of anger as something bad or to fear or to avoid. Discover if it's perhaps useful and then when it arises, rest in the fact that things are happening naturally and beyond control. Anger is not yours to control. The desire to control it will never let it be transcended.

It was practiced when this thread was created ?

@electroBeam ? I feel like someone just gave me a new puppy, lol. I have been really beating myself up for lack of discipline in certain areas but what you and leo said is like a light bulb clicking... Not that I will use it as an escuse but I really should focus more on flow state

It's called amateur ? most sites have that section

@Leo Gura oohhhhh.............

Following. Especially looking for easy and fun videos to show my employees. @Matt23 I didn't watch this one yet, but I suggest videos on proactive not reactive

Maybe a good start would be to sit in meditation and ask 'is there a limit to (un) consciousness?' But other wise I highly recommend reading all of Jung's books

You reflected, and yes a conclusion was drawn. I would say this is a very natural thing to do. To resist this reflection would be toxic, imo. Also it was also healthy to try and see both sides. Obviously this takes a bit of imagination but the entire fight exists in imagination, so fight fire with fire, right? (human animals do not hate each other, thoughts do.) Perhaps some would say the rationalising part of your reflection may have been too much or 'too egoic' , but I bet you'll reflect on this for days or weeks to come. That first conclusion may not be the last. An evolutionary process happens, and the lesson learned may present itself. You don't have to be at fault to take away something. And yes, any take away or meaning is imaginary, but again, fight fire with fire, right? I wouldn't be so gung ho on detaching from difficult situations because you may miss these (not so) subtle lessons. All goes toward experience, though no one's really counting.

Concepts Dominate Our Perceptions Chapter Six: 20-27 ---- There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.-- William Shakespeare 6:20 Perception should be glimpsed prior to concept. The author is not suggesting that we live without concepts, but we should understand the difference, and therefore the relationship between the two. 6:21 Pure perception should be incomprehensible… that's the point. Without concept, we don't "know" what we are perceiving. "Fundamentally, a perception is simply a sensory encounter" with the occurrence, and is void of association or emotional charge. 6:22 The two major conceptual filters are "interpretation" and "meaning". Perception itself has no meaning, but our concepts adopt meaning to anything we perceive. All perceptions are then related back to how it relates to ourselves. 6:23-24 The concepts are associations to past experiences and beliefs about the object. As a child, we saw things for the first time, and then adopted beliefs about them. Now we are to see them again, without the beliefs. It is a practical and many times necessary means for survival, but it also hinders pure perception and our connection to what is. 6:25 This same conceptual labeling process works the same way in relation to our thoughts, emotions, and sensations. They are associated with past experiences and beliefs, and reinforces though a feedback loop. 6:26 These conceptual labels become synonymous with our experience. We see that the tree is spooky, or the lamp is too bright, etc. These are of course labels and beliefs, but they happen so seamless and undetectable, that it is way too easy to take those as reality, instead of ideas or concepts. 6:27 Same with concepts of life and who we are. We are not simply experiencing life, but also simultaneously imagining it (things about it). It doesn't seem like imagination, so we don't know the difference between what's being added and what's really there.

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Y'all be careful, that's online bullying toward zero, and even if there's no one there left to be offended, it could catch on and the wrong user will get bullied...

I call it the man behind the curtain

wow.. this one was pretty interesting as well... especially the last bit of wisdom.

@Dodo@Dodo. (phone bug ?) I think being such a good channeler would be so much fun! I feel like I randomly channel 'higher info' but to do it so proficiently and with a distinct personality would be pretty cool. @Godhead yeah I almost missed it, but he will appeal to wider audience this way This interview is awesome! Such a in-depth look at the experience of a channeler.

((Reading music, or you can listen to it before reading to settle the mind)) What Is a Concept? Chapter Six:14-19 6:14-15 A concept is anything fabricated in the mind. It is unreal, objectively, which means there is nothing substantial existing. It has no mass, location, and occupies no space. "It exists solely within our mental perceptions or imagination. That's not to say it makes it any less powerful, just less objective. I only refers to something; and is never the thing itself. 6:16-17 Concepts permeate nearly all of experience. They can be found in--"memory, beliefs, ideas, notions, dreams, imagination, thoughts, fantasies, visualizations, assumptions", and etc. Anything we perceive is also stored as a concept for later reflection, or in other words: memory. Memory is simply reperceiving events. However, concepts can be so deceiving that they not only mimic reality, but helps to create reality as well. 6:18 When we look at something, for example a tree, we imagine that we are perceiving the tree when we are actually interpreting or "knowing" it is a tree. There's an object there, but as soon as we interpret it as a tree, it has become lost in conceptualization. The concepts form a mental overlay on top of the actual image of the object. 6:19 Likewise, much of what we experience of ourselves is merely conceptual rather than actual experience. (I assume this happens with growing self-awareness as a child to adult)