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@Matt23 I can recommend you some of the Tantra books I've found valuable. Slow Sex by Diana Richardson, The Multi-Orgasmic Male by Mantak Chia and The Tao of Love and Sex by Jolan Chang all present a healthy view of sex. Unfortunately, they are almost exclusively focused on Male/Female relationships. I don't know anything specifically for Male/Male relationships. That being said, probably many of the lessons from heterosexual couples still apply. Learn to be present and let go of any outcome when making love. Hold space for each other. Create sacred spaces and rituals. Know that your trauma and your partner's trauma will surface and to allow for it. Master your energy. Practice spontaneous acts of love to each other. This to me seems universal good advice. I've still got a long way to go in this area but this is what I've found useful so far.

Total shit show, they can't stop talking over each other. Opportunity for all us watching to practice radical acceptance. Love this as it is.

@SS10 Interestingly enough, if you study accounts of Near Death Experiences (NDEs), there is almost always a reference to the fact that being dead felt more real than life. A sense that whatever comes once the soul withdraws from the body is actually reality. So maybe things aren't as real as they seem.

There absolutely is a correlation. But it does not come from the ego's attempt to make itself a "better person" or a more moral person. It comes from letting go of all that. When you do, your true nature as Love shines through. And you'll know yourself as God.

Thank you man! Couldn’t resist

Yeah it's possible the leaders are higher up than the community they are attracting or attempting to attract. That's awesome man. If you do go through with the documentary send me a DM, I'd love to see it.

That’s excellent, yes it definitely seems like we’ve been having similar thoughts. I haven’t been to any of these communities yet but it’s on my list. Planning on finishing my PhD doing research in this area. They’re definitely seem to be mostly Green but hey, Green is what we need now. Walk before you run and all that. Future Thinkers seems interesting, I’ve never heard of them. Seems a bit more Orange but still on the right track for sure. In what way will you be collaborating with them?

Thanks brother! Happy to be back.

What do you consider increasing your capacity to love then? This Tony Robbins video might help:

I have no idea if it's related to this guy, but everything does happen for a reason. There is intelligence and connection in all things.

Well that's your first problem. Leo is right, unless this girl is already into you I would not be swinging for the fences like that over text. At least call her over the phone. I consider texting only as a last resort if you cannot call / meet in person. Also, I would contemplate why you feel the need to convince her that you're a worthy catch. I know you didn't mean it but it likely to come off to her as qualifying and unattractive. Of course. It probably feels very abrupt and out of nowhere to her. More qualifying yourself. Digging your own hole. I would shake it off and search online for some basics on attraction and talking to girls. I can't say if it would have worked out with her but you did not do yourself any favors here. Keep ya head up, it's just a skill you need to practice.

Yes it has to continue gaining momentum. The more people awaken the more these communities will become realistic. Yes it's already starting to happen. I do believe money is going to play and increasingly smaller role in our lives, but realistically I do not see us as ready to collectively abandon it just yet. These transitions take time. Instead, money needs to evolve to it's next stage.

In my experience, your soul / higher self is relentless. It is not going to play small and give into our conditioning. It will keep calling you to merge with ever greater intensity. Not "wrong" in a moral or judgemental sense. But we could say "wrong" in the sense that you're not being who you really are. That's what the signal of "unhappiness" is. You can almost think of it like a giant neon sign saying "YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY" from God. Unless of course, you want to be miserable and unaligned. Perhaps there's lessons for you to learn by doing that. But by the sound of it, you've pretty much have had enough and are looking to realign with your authentic self.

I appreciate your openness and curiosity. Yes I think about this all the time. It's challenging to do because I feel we are so enmeshed in modern society that we don't have any real examples or models. We are going to have to create it together one step at a time. However, I have found SOME examples that I feel strongly represent the new world. These places to me are like previews of what is to come, shining the light for the rest of us. The first is the intentional community Tamera out in Portugal: https://www.tamera.org/ Next is a community in Italy named Damanhur: http://www.damanhur.org/ I would do your research on either https://ecovillage.org/ or https://www.ic.org/ What a lot of these places have in common is a reestablishment of community and gift economy. Many of them are also spiritually grounded, like Tamera. Bio-mimicry technology and Over-Unity devices come to mind. Check out the work of Viktor Schauberger.

It’s seems still in the paradigm of viewing the earth as a collection of resources to manage. What the earth wasn’t a “resource” at all? What if it was alive, a spiritual being in of itself? This is how indigenous cultures traditionally saw the world. Everything was spirit. That being said, I recognize this is a large paradigm shift for most people. So perhaps we are not ready for that just yet. I don’t believe it has to be either or when it comes to technology. There absolutely is tech that is aligned with a higher consciousness way of life. The problem is that much of our technology today is built from lower consciousness and attempts at control. If we think technology is going to save us and we don’t need to turn inward, nothing will fundamentally change. We will keep manifesting the same problems in different forms. I’m still a fan of RBE. They understand the artificial scarcity of modern society and that we need to make a shift. I’m only questioning if the shift they are suggesting is deep enough.

Through all the work Leo and other spiritual teachers talk about. The "feeling loose" is a letting go of control, which is the main tool of the separate ego. When you believe you are separate, life becomes anxious and about survival, thus the need to control.

No we are not. What you're observing is unconsciousness. And certainly unconsciousness can happen (genocide, war) but that does not mean it's the truth about who we are.

@ROOBIO Tommy is one of the greatest, inspired so many other acoustic guitarists. Humbled by his passion and creativity.

Thank you! Happy to be back.

@ColeMC01 It's becoming more and more normal for people to date online. In fact, someone who is more conscious may not have the most thriving social life and may feel more comfortable online. So I wouldn't make any rigid judgements about it. You are the ceiling of your own success when it comes to dating, not your circumstances.

@Conscious life From an absolute perspective I would say God is on a never ending journey of self-awareness. From a more relative perspective, I would say to evolve, master love and realize your true divine nature. We may have different soul missions but in the end it's all the same.

@capriciousduck I don't know any books but I'm sure you can find plenty of blog posts just by googling around a little bit. Study up, but most importantly, breathe and relax.

I'd argue Ghandi was pointing to a profound spiritual truth. The separate ego-self cannot trust. It is in a war against "the others" for survival and wants to protect itself. It does not recognize the divine essence and intelligence in all things. But the sage knows who or what they are really looking at. The sage knows they are looking at themselves as love manifested. That is our essential nature. So really what Ghandi is saying is that he knows. He knows who that person really is. And when we can just truly see each other through those eyes, often that is enough to bring about healing.

I don't know much about RBE but it seems like they have correctly identified a lot of the collective challenges we are facing. My concern so far is that it is too tech-utopian, not acknowledging the reality of spirit.