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Hello, Is there a mega-thread already that collects visionary art, or impressive artwork? Artwork similar to the below example of Apeture by Michael Divine. I used the search function but couldn't find anything, can a moderator point me in the right direction if a collection like this exists already? With Love.

More examples here... who are the artists?

Refencing good ol' MJ's UNSCRIPTED? Great book. As for manufacturers, if you submit an RFQ (request for quotation) they'll price it up and do their best to make it for you. If they can't, they can't but they'll go far to try and win your business! I've not seen your other posts, but good luck with the process.

Both Unscripted and The Millionaire Fastlane are incredible books. Highly recommend.

@Yellow_Girl Hello, thanks for sharing your view. I feel like I am in a very similar world view to you. I see all these interactions going on and I feel like I understand "why" they are taking place, using the models I have learnt (projecting onto the world - albeit useful). Although I've read significantly less than you haha! I think I understand that I am projecting these models onto the world - yet I still feel the need to explain to someone my viewpoint, the way I see the world. I get what you mean that there is no right or wrong, just more and less effective - that's literally how I see the world right now too! I often feel like I'm drowning in people who are so bought into their views. I often feel like an island. @ajasatya Why do I want to feel understood? ...but how do I not suffer?!

Hi all, I plan on doing a 24 hour water fast starting tomorrow morning. This is my first time fasting and I'm interested to see what happens. Perhaps this will be a baby step towards longer fasts. I'm hopefully going to integrate this as a 2 times a month thing (depending on how it goes) and wondered if anyone does anything similar. To those that fast, what were your first experiences when you started? Does anyone else regularly fast for 24 hours? Peace and love, Ollie.

@F A B This sounds mildly interesting to me, how does having income create more income? I'm not entirely sure I understand the question either, can you clarify more? If I had a lot of money to spend, I would spend it on a personal vegan chef lol.

@Gerhard Just my opinion with a couple of points: I found the drop down bar text sizing a bit too large for my liking, I didn't like scrolling down to see the whole list. The blue background of the drop down bar didn't really line up with anything and looked out of place in my opinion. Are the icons that shrink and grow meant to take you somewhere? It was said before but to reinforce, the all of the scrollbars scroll waaaayy too fast. If it were me, I would prefer the quote by Margaret Mead above the introductions to the charities; almost like a title for them. Instead of scrolling, you could have the introductions as circular info bubbles? When you click on the link for the charity, it could take you to the information about the charity ON YOUR SITE. Then have a "find out more" (or similar) link at the bottom of the charity's information to redirect you to an alternative webpage. I didn't like being migrated so quickly. The "Where does my money go" page is great and informative. I like that layout/how it works. Although I did think the divider before "And how do we divide the money we receive" section was the bottom of the page. The first question I asked myself though when I got to the site was: How does it work? Couldn't seem to find anywhere saying how you generate the money for these charities. Could perhaps have another link next to the "Where does my money go?" button on the homepage saying: "How does this work?"? Really like the layout of the list of websites you can use to donate at the bottom although the click here to copy link didn't work... And where is the Amazon link?! The only site I really use for online shopping... It would also be nice to have a personal touch seeing as it's to do with charity. Why not an About page? It's always nice to see faces and know how it started! Spent about 10 minutes on the site and I was using Chrome on Windows. Hope this is helpful and it's a great idea!! Keep going and keep us updated!!

I feel I'm misunderstanding. When it is said: Don't judge people (e.g. where they are in the spi-dy model) or do not judge yourself (common to say to people when first learning to meditate)... what does this mean? If I want to improve as a person, surely I must judge my actions in order to make a decision. If I don't judge, can I still make this decision? I must weigh up all the sides of the story to investigate the most healthy outcome right? How would I be able to reach a decision in what to do if I didn't judge my way of thinking? If someone were to cold blood murder someone, I would say that this is incorrect behavior. I have judged between someone committing murder and not committing murder and concluded that it would be best for no murder at all. In another situation, perhaps the best way is for the murder to happen. I have judged the situation depending on the person and the environment... how can I not judge this? When we say judgement, do we really mean criticizing or finding fault that has negative emotion attached to it? I'm also feeling right now that I shouldn't be judging anyone or anything, as this is "bad". Perhaps I'm stuck in some form moralizing? Can someone help clarify?

Thank you all for your contributions! <3

Which of Leo's lectures is this from?

@ExodiaGearCEO Did this group skype session happen already?? I'm just starting out on my Amazon journey too, @sgn I plan to give it my all! We could do some sort of accountability thing? To keep us on track? @Consept Thanks for sharing your experience on your podcasts, I'll give them a listen. How was it like for you in the beginning, where did you learn from?

@Key Elements Thanks for sharing

@Azote @jjer94 @Elisabeth @Rajat Bhatia This is incredible to read. I resonate so much with what you all say. I'm a 4th and final year nuclear material science at uni... I have an offer for a PhD for next yeah but... I'm so disillusioned. I'm so frustrated with the system - there is no soul where I work. I want to be free and work on my consciousness. I thought I was going to cause a revolution with the "Hydrogen Economy"... academia has sucked the life out of me. For me personally, I'm probably going to decline my PhD offer. I want freedom from the rat race so I can work on consciousness and be in my community. I've been thinking about starting eCommerce over the summer as my next step. This advice is golden: Thank you for opening this thread! I'd like to give/hear updates with you all. Love and Kindness. Ollie.

Likewise, I would love to express my gratitude. Leo, there is a flame in me you continually fuel. A fearless flame of hope, inspiration and all manners of positive things. I just finished watching the collective ego video posted just recently. The final 10 or so minutes rang so true with me. A standing ovation. Thank you.

Thank you for the advice all It's appreciated.

Hi all, I need some help relating to tripping... There is an opportunity on Thursday where I have the whole house to myself as my family go away on holiday (without me, yes). I live 5 min walk from the sea in the middle of no-where and we have a woods right next door. There would be no trip sitter although a trusted friend of mine may visit in the afternoon. So I'm planning my next (3rd) trip for then. However, I feel a bit touch and go if to trip again or not... I'm not sure if my last trip ("You" Quite Literally Have No Fucking Clue.) has slightly micro-traumatized me (is that a thing?). Either way it has made me apprehensive about tripping again. From my last trip, I felt like I was REALLY dying and that I wouldn't come back and I don't really want to go through that terror again. Especially when I read reports of other people experiencing infinite bliss. However, last time, I came to this wall... I had a choice a that moment... to let go, or run away... and I chose to run away... I felt my body would physically die and I would never go back to my loved ones. Has this happened to you guys? What happens if you go past that wall? Would this be classed as feeling overwhelmed at the peak? Does this mean I couldn't handle that dose? So for this trip, What dose would be best? A low (100ug) dose as a confidence booster? Or should I just go to the wall again with 200ug (or more)? Perhaps 150ug would be more responsible? I'm not sure. I'm hoping someone can shed some light. Looking for some guidance. Thanks.

Well over a year ago now and two tabs so 200ug.

I'm not sure how related this is, but I vaguely remember hearing that when some British reporters were released from solitary confinement for well over a year when they were captured by ISIS in the middle east they reported serious loss of sense of self. This is interesting to me. And yes, it does explain some things.

@RossE That was an awesome read, thank you for sharing. Was this on half a tab (75ug) or a whole tab (150ug)? And what was the set/setting/circumstance/context to this trip? Asking because I want to create something similar like this for myself.

My life purpose is to do with engineering (Renewable and Hydrogen Energy - it's really cool!) if that helps your survey.

@ajasatya Thanks for the time and effort put into your response. I feel this stuff is so easy to say... so much harder to live and put into practice. For me at least. "Let the old you die"... quite hard to do. @jimrich Wow. I didn't expect this much of a breakdown of my post. What you say seems to make sense to me and it all fits together. And congrats on your recovery. Both responses are really appreciated! Thank you so much! I have a couple of follow up questions... with more background... So I've been practicing meditation daily for two years now. This involves mindfulness of breathing and loving-kindness meditations sprinkled with Leo's self-inquiry and do nothing techniques. I'm also friends with many people of the Buddhist Sangha in the city of my university and I have a good social circle. I also consider myself as a strong character, mentally (most of the time) and physically (in my sport). I've worked hard on myself, becoming more confident and practicing more extroversion in my life. My point is... I feel strong as a person but I have these moments to days where I relapse into dark pits of despair. Why do I relapse? Also, @jimrich has pointed out how this could've happened, how can I use this information for healing? More of a problem is that I can't envision myself being any different way. I can't see what a life of mine would look like without this. How would I think and how would I act. How can I overcome this problem?

Hello, I need some help and I'm looking for support. I'm quite sad right now but I feel like I have no right to be sad. We've just moved house out of town into the countryside. We have land and a relatively large house with sea views. My dad is "successful" if you base success off his salary. My mum stays at home and occasionally works as a supply teacher if asked. This is how I feel: I feel that I have no excuses to do well. I've had one of the best starts to life materialistically than the majority of people I know. I go to university and do average at my Engineering degree. I feel like I have a lot to give back to life but here is the problem. I don't see myself doing anything productive or useful. I feel useless and I feel like I'm not living up to my own (and Dad's) expectations. My worth is being challenged. I feel worthless. I do my best yet it is not good enough considering the head start I've had. So yes, there is that. Now more to the crux of the problem. This is what I really want to solve (get rid of). My girlfriend and I are coming up to 10 months together. I feel the honey moon period is ending. Throughout the whole time we've been together we had seen each other every day without fail. We were at university and there were two week periods in holiday time where we didn't see each other but we were talking frequently. Now university ends. She has graduated. I have another year left. When university finished I went on a two week retreat. I didn't use my phone and she didn't come with me. There were maybe three times in that two weeks where we exchanged a few messages but much less than normal. I come home and she comes to visit me in the new family house. I remember feeling at the time very emotionally attached. We talked of grand things of our future together. She then goes home and starts her job. She's working at a boarding school and is very busy. This is where it starts. She barely messages me now. Our conversations are broken and uninteresting. They are the same every day. I ask her how her day goes then she responds how it was but there are never questions from her asking me how I am. It is always me initiating the conversations. This is a point even greater in my life. I hate it how I always have to tell people and reach out when I'm sad. I have to ask them to ask me how I'm doing. I always have to tell someone. No one asks me how I'm doing. They ask me how I'm DO-ing not what I'm BE-ing. I'm sad right now. I feel there is no support for me. I think I'm getting caught up in my head but I don't know how to get out. There is absolutely nothing to suggest (rationally) that anything about the relationship is going wrong yet why do I feel this way. There must be some underlying insecurity in me that I'm not seeing. I feel sour because I don't want to be needy yet I am exhibiting that behavior right now. I feel like I'm pestering her and I feel like a burden to her. I just sit here... waiting for her messages that never come... I think I know what I need to do, I need to tell her how I feel. I need to be brutally honest and receive what ever I hear with kindness. It's hard to contact her at the moment though. I feel typing this out has actually beneficial but I still feel the same way. So dear Actualized psychoanalysists. What is going on with my mind?

Hey guys, This evening, I attended a lecture by Pete Hulme OBE this evening, a former consultant psychologist and head lecturer at my university. The talk was titled Consciousness: Spirit, Mind or Brain? It was incredibly interesting and inspiring, mentioning things from philosophy to LSD. He left a reading list as a handout that I thought might be interesting/useful to some people.. so here you go! Mario Beauregard and Denyse O'Leary: The Spiritual Brain - a Neuroscience's Case for the Existence of the Soul. A rigorous examination of the work done up to that point in the field of parapsychology. Stephen E. Braude: Immortal Remains - the evidence for life after death. An in-depth consideration of a small number of the strongest cases in favour of medium-ship and reincarnation, testing them against such alternative explanations as dissociated or psi. Peter and Elizabeth Fenwick: Past Lines - an investigation into reincarnation memories. One of the more readily accessible treatments of this issue, again considering other explanations as well as reincarnation. David Fontana: Is There an Afterlife? - a comprehensive overview of the evidence. One of the rare books, written by a practicing psychologist, that is not dismissing the evidence out of hand. H. J, Irwin: An Introduction to Parapsychology. A basic introduction. Edward F. and Emily Williams Kelly: Irreducible Mind - toward a technology for the 21st Century. A comprehensive attempt by two academic editors to gather together a detailed overview of the evidence for mind-brain independence. David C. Lamberth: William James and the Metaphysics of Experience. A fairly demanding exploration of Jame's approach. Pim van Lommel: Consciousness Beyond Life - the science of the near death experience. A presentation of one of the few prospective studies done in this area to date. Alexander Moreira-Almedia and Franklin Sanrana Santos: Exploring Frontiers of the Mind-Brain Relationship. A bit of a curate's egg but there are some excellent chapters triggered by the proceedings at a symposium in Brazil. Dean Radin: The Conscious Universe - the scientific truth of psychic phenomena. It deals in depth with the supportive research that had been undertaken until that point on the vexed issue of psi. t has been criticized for failing to take hoaxes into account and for misinterpreting the file-drawer effect. Worth a look none the less. Jeffery M. Schwartz: The Mind and the Brain - Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force. This book principally addresses the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and concludes: "The clinical and physiological results achieved with OCD support the notion that the conscious and willful mind cannot be explained solely and completely by matter, by the material substance of the brain." Evan Thompson: Waking, Dreaming, Being. Just to show that I don't only read books that confirm my biases, this one is worth a look. Thompson perhaps comes closer than most to the ideal of complete agnosticism in his exploration of consciousness. I don't think he quite manages to shake off a bias towards a skepticism that reads more like dismissal sometimes. So yeah, hope you enjoy It's also worth noting that he considers himself of the Baha'i faith. Good vibes to you all.