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Eugenio replied to Raptorsin7's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Ok guys. How much acid are we taking nowadays? I'm serious. I had my fill of it back in the mid 80's when for capitalistic reasons people began to lace it with Strychnine. I've experienced bad trips. I'd experienced good ones as well where friends and I would sit around and discuss "what is what"? Like Leo says "isness". Things we know but can't put into words, or don't have to as we often seemed to know what the other was thinking... I'll cut this short but would like to discuss it further, bad trips especially. Also the ayahuasca scene intrigues me though I'm afraid to take psychedelics right now in my current condition. You see, part of my bad trips involved my guilty conscience in regards to my health. I'd been going against the grain for so long, rebelling at every turn and my body had taken a beaten due to all the alcohol, marijuana, pharmaceuticals, crank, MDA etc... but I'm working diligently to regain my stature, stamina with Hope's of visiting Coasta Rica, Rythmia for the week and four ayahuasca sessions offered there. Anyone wanna come or maybe y'all are already doing your thing here in the States and I'm just now finding out... -
Eugenio replied to Forrest Adkins's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
This is the best video I've seen over my 33 years of seeking help for what I've called addiction. All of this reading has led me back to view it again... -
Eugenio replied to Raptorsin7's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I heard the coolest thing said regarding meditation today. The guy said that meditation is forgetting oneself. If I'm meditating for the purpose of Enlightenment, then it seems to me that happiness wouldn't be a part of it. I too seek Enlightenment yet simply because I have something inside of me that won't settle for anything less. Happiness and Enlightenment aren't synonymous... though you might find that you are happy with the results. -
Eugenio replied to Eugenio's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@VaganAwake I'm trying to navigate this site, learning as I go how things work. Very similar to life. Urah -
Eugenio replied to Forrest Adkins's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Let's not get it twisted. Eugenio never used the phrase heroin whore, but repeated what we all read. I'm very familiar with Carl Gustav Yung and his archetypes. "While Jung suggested a number of universal archetypes, the four main ones are: the Self, the Shadow, the Animus and Anima, and the Persona". And of the 12 archetypes I don't see the words whore or prostitute so nice try but no cigar... oh, and I'm also a fan of Friedrich Nietzsche. And hey Leo, I watched one of your videos today as you were speaking on truth/Truth. Nice... I too have dropped a few hits in my time. It's nice that we can connect. -
Eugenio replied to Forrest Adkins's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I'm not sure that "wrong" is productive. This sounds like an egoic term. I'd prefer that we use a more pliable phrase such as "not as Enlightened as I am". Oops! That's egoic also... yet in essence isn't that what Mikael89 seemed to mean with his statement? Some aren't as Enlightened as others. We're on the same path, just not as far along as some others. Should I feel penalized and not share because of such a superior bold attitude? You must decide... ❤??????? -
Eugenio replied to Eugenio's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Semper Fi... -
Eugenio replied to Forrest Adkins's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I don't mind saying that the spirit in which this was written seems a little suspicious... however the rest of what I read was helpful. -
Eugenio replied to Forrest Adkins's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
"Is a person in active addiction Enlightened"? That's how I'm reading this. Tolle says that in active addiction a person is unconscious. Not awake so to speak. I was addicted to crack for 18 years. Haven't had a need for it since 2013 however I continued to smoke weed, cigarettes and alcohol. I've recently overcome the pot and alcohol and am using Chantix to get over the cigarettes. These are what Leo calls hard addictions. At present my challenge is to recognize that I also have emotional addictions, thinking habits, soft addictions. Many if not most cause harm and are destructive. I'm also attempting to be free from 12-step programs... the whole addiction movement as I'm seeing that these are simply better alternatives, games, yet not the answer. Eric Berne M.D. in his book "Games People Play" suggests that addictions are games, namely the game "alcoholic" in his book... that are simply a replacement and not the solution. Self-actualization, Mindfulness, "Know Thyself" all seem to be the better way. I agree with what was said, "it really depends on the time of day as to how Enlightened a person is" because speaking for myself, life like a hurricane is always on the move. The winds beat at us but then the eye. If we move with it, staying in the eye... all is peaceful, serene. But once we get still... (I'm realizing that this doesn't jive with the stillness movement so take it with a grain of salt). Complacency isn't my friend and I divorced self-pity a long time ago. I'm rambling again... ❤?????? -
Eugenio replied to Eugenio's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I can feel my heart getting full... A story about yesterday. It's my first week on a new job. I'm in a training program with Goodwill. It's part of my Recovery. One of the employees seemed to want to tell me what to do. Every time I turned around he was giving me new instructions. We earn minimum wage and I'm not that happy to be so humble ? but I really don't want "some crackhead who hasn't run anything since the t.v. in prison..." Man what attitude. Not wanting to allow resentment to rule my life I began a positive dialogue with myself. "This guy is only trying to help". Yeah, this is realistic. "Resentment is the number one offender". Now we're getting somewhere. My emotions began to calm down. And then it dawned on me what they meant when they said, "it's not what's outside of you... life's situations that bothers you. It's what you tell yourself about these things that is causing all of this stress". Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 101 Situation-Thoughts-Emotions-Reaction. Today I am Grateful to be in this discussion with you all. ? -
Eugenio replied to Eugenio's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Is this what they mean when they talk about self love? "I love you"! Wow! I get it. ❤?????? -
Eugenio replied to Eugenio's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Another thought came to me this morning. "I am you, and you are me". I'm considering the concept of projection. eg: I know guys, struggling with hard addictions to drugs and alcohol. Right now they are falling off the wagon fast. I'm thinking, "how can I help them"? It is said, "we can only keep what we have by giving it away". And then another thought, "why do I want to help them? Why not just observe? Is helping really helping? The first requirement is that we had to stop playing God. It doesn't work..." This last one comes out of the Bigbook of AA. If I observe them, and fairly see myself in them then maybe I can find the solution to why I'm always struggling and falling off. Isn't it fair to say that the Universe is actually showing me something? Won't my reaction to what I see count as cause and effect? Now I may be rambling but rambling is what I do in the search for... "what I probably already know and am not quite ready to accept". Duh! -
Eugenio replied to Eugenio's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
"Compassion. It's of the heart". This answer came to me as the day was unfolding today. "Your question was of the mind, the ego. In your heart you will do everything possible to assist another". These are the words spoken to me today. Not through my mind but in my heart. I ask hard questions. I have to. It's just the way of getting to the answers. I read Leo's response to this post and I quote, "At the highest level, God creates selflessly for the benefit of all living beings, needing nothing for itself". I'm still learning. More like leaning but it's difficult to use the G word right now except as an acronym, "good orderly direction". Thanks for the feedback and for creating this site...