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I usually can't cry easily, but recently during meditation, I struggle NOT to cry. It's like I found what was missing in my spiritual practice. Love! try this in your meditation, it comes really naturally to me when I do it ( @electroBeam showed me this one ) 1. Sit down and relax. Take very deep breaths, at every exhalation, feel your entire body expand, as if it floats away and dissolves. 2. Once you feel like you've sunk into the ground you're sitting in. Imagine a close family member suffering. Imagine that they are trying their best but failing. 3. Visualise a beloved deity or a symbol of God that you resonate with, or just remember a trip of Love you had, or a time you felt deep love. Wrap that suffering family member in deep love. 4. Do this for strangers. Try and see them suffering and trying their best. 5. Now do it for dictators and tyrants. See how their decisions caused them lots of suffering and they did it due to mental illness or because they were hurt from childhood For me, it works especially well when you focus on someone who you once hated, or had caused you suffering. Surround that person in love during this meditation just as you would for someone that you care about deeply. Unconditionally. The emotional release can be amazing.

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@Leo Gura To integrate it into homeostasis is a true increase of consciousness, is what I believe he meant

@DivineSoda That is more like mushrooms

@IJB063 LOL

I've had my share hahaha

For those of you looking for a straightforward explanation of the Quantum Eraser experiment that IS NOT presented like a science-class animation :

I have been trying to find a decent yoga practice to supplement my self development recently, but it is proving to be more difficult than I imagined. After looking around and downloading 3gb worth of "instructions" files for Kriya yoga, which turned out to be full of dogma and barely legible, I decided I would just ask you guys. Can someone please give me a good source ( a link, PDF, whatever ) that contains a Yoga technique that will help develop me spiritually and supplement my meditation. It doesn't even have to be Kriya yoga specifically. Just something I can do alone in my house.

I can relate to most of them. Nice list

@Dutch guy Much appreciated

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@Pacific Sage Just imagine

Absolutely. Forgetfulness is the egos favourite defence mechanism. https://www.actualized.org/articles/understanding-ego-backlash

@Inliytened1 I thought so. Thanks

Throughout his meditations, Marcus references life and death as if they are indifferent from each other. He explains how when one reaches their death, they are returned ''into that which gave you birth: or rather, you will be changed, taken up into the generative principle of the universe''. There are countless other references to awareness / consciousness he leaves. The more I read of him, the more I get the idea that he isn't referring to the well known Roman Gods, but the god that dwells within. For someone who lived 2000 years ago in Rome, he had a pretty good idea about the nature of the universe. I find this particularly odd... Have any of you noticed this while reading Meditations? Any further info would be appreciated!

Bumping this with yet another intriguing quote by Marcus: "Think always of the universe as one living creature, compromising one substance and one soul: how all is absorbed into this one consciousness; how a single impulse governs all its actions; how all things collaborate in all that happens; the very web and mesh of it all." - Meditations, 4.40

@Villager Albert Much appreciated, thanks

Sure doesn't! I'll try it out tonight

I didnt even realise there was a mega-thread, thanks! Did the Yoga benefit you? Also is it " Kriya Yoga Exposed"?

O shit i just realised how old this is

Hence, the term I stole adopted: E-OCD ( Enlightenment OCD )

I assume it would be blasphemy to ask for the name of the book... @electroBeam That's an interesting one. Definitely would help with shadow work. @Javfly33 I probably won't bother since it isn't in english, thanks for the offer though

See a therapist. There is always an underlying issue.

You will get there too