Danioover9000

@Loba That's a really nice photo, a real piece of design.

@Yeah Yeah I was going for semi realism and opted out the backgrounds.

Feedback and insights into this problem is much appreciated. I've been struggling with finding some meaning to the kind of work I like to do currently. I have a mission statement I kept for about 5 years now, and it has changed a bit here and there, and I read this everyday and read it like a positive affirmation. So what is the problem between my mission statement and my lack of meaning to my art lately? If you read on, it gets interesting. Firstly, there's the generalised statement: Understanding life, to be a creator and world impact or world contribution. This one I noticed I was stuck on, because I don't identify as a philosopher or detective, and found that a analytical and logic, and some aspects of mathematics make me feel more tired. Understanding life has that feel of logic placed onto life, which doesn't attract to me. Combined with my life experiences of travelling to new places and people I had, I feel that although I'm in my mid twenties I've seen it all in my life, so I don't feel like it's worth the sacrifices for this one. With contributing to the world, it's not that bad, other than I still don't know exactly what contributions I can give yet. Plus, I'm still processing most of my past failures. Maybe it's a self esteem issue, that I can't see clearly the impact I want in the world? And the third statement, being a creator, that has a bit of a stronger feel, I could see myself do stuff and being in creator mode. Similarly to contributing, I don't know exactly what to make, but lately if it involved me drawing stuff, it starts to click with me, and when it gets me visualizing a story, or a location for that, ok. The bit that is confusing is if it's a service, or product, or both I'm creating. I know it's general statement, it's not meant to be specific. Secondly, the specific statement has got some changes. It used to be about me becoming a web developer. I managed to get into an IT course, and I got both level 1 and 2 certificates in 2 years, but I couldn't go to level 3, which would land me into a university which would have gotten me to study either web design specifically, or game development/design. I changed it to then becoming a chef. The idea being that I could start some kind of biz here cooking, but that was a bust. Now it's me being a illustrator, of some kind, working from home, drawing a piece of art to completion, and owning hundreds of sketchbooks filled with detailed studies...of stuff. Yeah, still fresh and needs more detail and specifics career and skills wise, but lately I've spent some time trying a new tool, practicing it, and I almost forgot to check the watch, which is some times a sign of me entering flow. Ten year mastery, drawing for me any day. I don't know in which order, but it will involve anatomy and perspective in there for sure. All the other art fundamentals will follow. Strange interest in manga and comic medium, and freelancing that. Feeling calm, happiness, excitement, confidence and creativity every day. Except it's actually not every day, at least this year. I currently processing some failures, and am a bit depressed and lazy, so I'll have to process those feels first. My ten vaules are still the same, though struggling with some: conpetency, understanding, consciousness, creativity, Independence, excellence, health, beauty and enlightenment. I'll have to re check again because I feel it's been too long that I'm struggling to get into alignment with 3, but not with all of them. My strengths, after I taken character quiz test, is: appreciation of beauties and excellence, curiosity, love, gratitude, hope and kindness. This part of the mission statement makes the most sense, but as to how it aligns with my interests, hobbies, and the career I'll have to figure out. This one was the most confusing: zone of genius. Zone of genius is apparently what is the most unique to you, that you could do effortlessly, unlike the zone of excellence, which takes you 5-10 years of training to get good at some specific, starting from zone of incompetence to zone of competence. It's confusing because a lot of my life has a lot of activities, habits and parts of my self associated with hobbies. Foe example, what I written was 'Imagination and video games' Why? Because imagining stuff isn't hard for me, and I did loads of video games for 20 years(technically a zone of excellence), along with some drawing and writting stories. I also do play chess, almost as much as video games, to the point of intuition, but that not unique to my being, because I still had to train, do puzzles, do calculations, map out variations in my mind, to get good to that point of enjoying a chess game. Is that zone of excellence or genius? My resolution goals is bonkers now. I accomplished some of them, but 80% I overhauled and replacing. If you want to know them you can ask me. So,

@Focus Congratulations on developing your visualization skills! It only gets better the more you train it. The only thing to observe for is random imagery that is negative. For those, mindfulness practices and letting go meditation works well.

@Arcangelo The original is amazing.

Technically speaking, I never had a clear life purpose before coming across your content, which is why the general statement was understanding life, being a creator and world contribution. So the general statement was way too general? So it's missing descriptions for my purpose? For example, a re worded general statement like this: To understand what life is, and how life entangles places, objects and people together, whilst having this richness to life. To be far more competent in living my life, that other people who are lost in life get inspired from seeing how I live life. To feel more alive today and tomorrow, and to deepen my subjective sense of life. To become so creative, that I could synergies any field of life together to create newer ways of living a life. To become so independent that I develop a detachment to the negatives and positives of life, that on the spot I could generate happiness inside me, independent of outer things. To have so much health and excellence that I live long enough to master three more fields. To have so much beauty, that I feel authentically beautiful inside me, and to deeply appreciate the beauty in life. Something like this, or more specific?

@BobbyK Thank you for the share. I checked them out, and they do really good cinematic scenery. Also based in Singapore too which is a beautiful place to do sime holidaying in. I also noticed they do mostly digital art rather than the analogue art I'm more used to, so this area will be where I'll be focusing next. Do you do digital art yourself? Any advice on how you develop skill in that area?

@Vido In the Curt Jaimungal video, part 2, he said he didn't make the thumbnails, but collected them overtime.

@WonderSeeker Very nice post. This should be a featured thread.

Update: I finished one of my meditation sessions, and around the the second half it became more a contemplation session. The topic, naturally, was about sentience and consciousness, meanwhile experiencing going from location to location of places I went with my family to, to various countries, experiencing different cultures. When wondering about sentience, what makes a thing a conscious agent, memories of the time I did self inquiry several years ago came up, when I experienced the no self, with the slight ringing in ears and thickness in vision, and feeling a strong sense of depression later on that day. Anyways, one of the answers that came up to the question of the similarities and differences between consciousness and sentience, is that sentience is a building up of consciousness, in ever increasing complexity of forms. For example, we can say that an insect, say an ant, is sentient, but the sentience of an invertebrate, like an octopus, is more sentient than ant. Humans have more sentience than a dolphin, or Orcha, but humans have less sentience compared to an alien, or angels, or demons, making this like a hierarchy of forms that have lesser or greater sentience. The difference compared to consciousness, is that consciousness is like a thread that runs through every form, no matter the difference, and interconnects each one, making this sentience hierarchy into a nested hierarchy as well. The similarities for both is that each has some system that allows some degree of self awareness, self looping. This came up because I am seeing Crysty make some progress, not just in crafting stuff in my mind, but also in speaking to me. I didn't mentioned this before, but she wasn't that good in communicating to me, and the way it takes form back then was with simpler ways, like a feeling or emotion, or simple phrases. I noticed, as the years go by then, that her communication was slowly improving, that she was able to talk with slightly longer sentences and statements, occasionally talking as long as paragraphs. Now she's able to speak and articulate slightly longer statements, with more variations, and come up with better designs. Especially with regards to sentience, she has developed more of her personality, and is able to ask, answer and have opinions on things and situations about this world, and demonstrate humour as well. Some of her qualities about her personality I didn't have in mine, she has developed in herself, which surprised me.

@Thought Art A combination of contemplation and mindfulness practices. Also, don't worry, celebrities and millionaires are common targets of cancelling, not so much entrepreneurs that are starting out. Also, as long as you have some passions, and some skills, if on the off chance you get cancelled in one area, you have another area to work instead.

I think this thread has run it's course.

And dreaming...

@Raptorsin7 They probably won't.

@Proserpina The hidden assuming being that reincarnation exists and is a feature of reality. It might be, because how could you explain god realization through psychedelics, when one person took it realizes god, but another took it hasn't yet realized god? It comes down to both genetics, brain type, circumstances prior to the realization, ego development, cognitive and moral development, state of consciousness, and other life experiences that lead up to the realization, and level of intuition. To me it doesn't seem to be the case that you're just like everyone else, with a relatively stable consciousness, yet you can grock the realization with tool assistance, so it likely is the case that some people are more special in having a higher type of intuition plus mileage based intuition, the kind that is experientially cumulative, like Leo's.

Keep dreaming.

Here's take 2 of that video:

To me, this is interesting coming from a perspective that hasn't followed Actualized.org deeply, and has the capability to listen with some degree of open mindedness due to it's past experiences(supernatural/paranormal), and has a different view and experience of god and TOE. What are your thoughts on this person's criticisms? Also keep in mind this person had a few paranormal experiences in the past involving Wendigo/demon and God, which is probably why he was able to listen and critic a bit. I'll share mine first here to get the ball rolling. I think this is quite exceptional, for someone who has never heard of and followed Actualized.org to be able to critic like this with this level of bias. Most Normies would have just demonized or ignored what is said, but he was able to give a fair critic and point out where he and Leo differ on their experiences.

The time, energy and preparation needed to raise children would distract from his life purpose, unless he changes his purpose to fit both somehow, that's unlikely. A field that has both is Tulpamancy.

The most annoying part, is sometimes I could lose a post from the lagging.

@caelanb Watched video and read your post, so your welcome in advance. I'm responding to provide some food for thought to you, but have you considered from a strategic and practical point of view what this thread is about? If you have looked through this forum in general, you'd notice that criticism, from the emotional ad homonym based, to cleanly constructed and specific criticisms, are not generally well received here anyways. If you had come across the video, and had to list out solutions to address a problem in a worldview of a speaker that has a following, then making a thread and replying to posts in a forum (an echo chamber of reinforced ideas) is gonna be at the low end, or the lowest yielding solution to a problem you became aware of. It does not provide immense practical value, and if the assumption that this place is deluded is true, then realistically it's low impact to engage in this echo chamber. A better alternatives would be to instead, focus on building your skills for your life, or go pursue your life purpose, get basic material reality managed, make your energy and time on your life priority over time on the forum, and so forth. Practically speaking, there are better uses for your time and energy than to try and persuade someone their world view is wrong, in an echo chamber. Think about it deeply.

Yeah, sometimes I get lagging when it loads to another page.

@SQAAD How can you blame him? That's his own bias and preference, which is his level of ego development, it can't go faster or slower than it likes, or in this case how fast/slow you're projecting his ego should develop. Even if his spiral stage development, cognitive and moral development, and his multiple life experiences are as such, his ego is gonna develop as it can develop. Expecting it to develop too fast or too slow is a projection, which is false. And I am in agreement with the UFC and cage fighting industry, but these businesses as a collective function, serve to fulfill those in the crowd that have mostly stage red shadow values that can't express them in healthy ways. However, that's just the collective issue. The individual issue, is if the person has a passion for fighting, and martial arts, and it somehow aligns with their life purpose in some way. Are you just going to tell these people to change their passions (I mean the fighters than the audience members)? Because they must find a way to satisfy that in the meantime, until they can let it go in the future. Otherwise, it ends up being unhealthy suppression of their natural tendency.

@Hardkill And that's why devilry still exists. Yeah, let's keep judging others

I'll ask the question here, as it seems to have not been covered in the interview for @Leo Gura to answer in the Q&A section, but here's the question: 'Is NLP and spirituality similar, and could NLP be useful in dealing with any negative ego backlash?' Anyone wants to answer go on as well.