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Yes. At the level of form there will always be distinctions, becouse that's just what form is. The same substance appearing different. For example, colours don't look all the same even if you are in non-dual consciousness, or you wouldn't be able to see, becouse the visual field would just be an homogeneous mass. That's great, thanks for the feedback! I'm glad it's been helpful. Good luck and feel free to PM if you feel I can help you with something.

Agree. I'm not the one to judge wether the banning was appropiate or not. His perspective contained kernels of truth (microbes impacting hosts differently according to many factors, some which are modifiable), but implying that an individual is 100% capable and responsible of avoiding desease just by looking over these factors, and saying "microbes are our friends" and "tests are a hoax" is definetly crossing the line.

@UKPete Glad it's been helpful!

Love is existential and it manifests at all levels of reality. At the human emotional level yes, it's equivalent to Feminine Energy. Step 1 will prove this for you. Notice that whether you feel: tenderness towards an animal, appreciation towards nature, compassion towards a suffering being, affection towards your parents/partner/friends/yourself... it's all pervaded by this Feminine/Love Energy. Labels may be different, psychological aspects may be different (attachament, identification, relationship structure, etc), but energetically it's the same. That's why I insist on learning how to isolate these Energies and percieving them clearly and distinctly. About other techniques... once you learn how to identify the Energies in yourself and others, and become mindful of how their levels vary througout the day (in realtion to the situation, your thoughts, and your self-image), the process of cultivating them becomes very natural and intuitive. I don't like forceful techniques either. I recommeng approaching this subject in a very practical way, that's why this guide is so simple. No book can tell you what the Energies actually are because it's so intangible, it requires direct consciousness. Mindfulness and Contemplation will provide all the insights you need. Anyways, Mind OS by Paul Dobransky is an excellent book by a Stage Yellow Psychiatrist. He covers this topic and Emotional Mastery in general, among others, in a very simple and pragmatic way.

I've had an insight about this, but it's extremely difficult to provide a comprehensible explaination. From my POV, yours doesn't exist and visceversa. Who's right? Both. To God there's no contradiction. From your POV, I don't exist exist as some other bubble of perception like yours that's happening out there beyond your perception "at the same moment", but as an ummanifested (fomeless potential) figment of your imaginatiom. And from my POV, the same with you. The ilusion of time is what tricks you to think these two are incompatible. From the human linear POV, what's most close to it, is to think of others as future/past incarnations. From God's POV, it's all beyond time. The Now is both one and infinite, the "particular moment" that you are experiencing, is simultaneously the only one that exists, and at the same time one of infinites possibilities that exits, and at the same time non of them exist at all.

Beautiful. Conscious intake of food is very important. It makes a tremendous difference to how the food impacts on your whole system.

"After you die, you can choose to "enjoy" formlessness for infinity. BUT that infinity is so infinite, that is finite. Basically, that INFINITY will feel like blink of the eye, and you will get "bored" and will reborn "instantly", after you get bored being formless." I'm not 100% sure, but also feel this is case. How can you escape the fundamental nature of reality, which is Infinite Imagination? How are you even here if reality could exhaust itself to extintion, instead of being an Infinite Loop? How can you experience only the formless "forever", when it is timeless? If Enlightenment has a begging, doesn't it also have an end? Mahasamadhi may dissolve your "individual soul / particular thread of incarnations", but what will remain then? Only God, and Imagination is it's very nature. You cannot escape yourself. Are you not all the Liberated Sages (Jesus, Ramana, Buddah) deluding yourself again? That's non-duality.

Imagination has no limitations, you can develop it to perfection and completely replace reality, as in a psychedelic trip, under conscious control. You can imagine you are a completely different person/animal/being in a whole other scene with visuals, sounds, textures, bodily sensations, temperature, etc. You don't need that level for this particular excercise. In order to imagine anything, first get the thing in your direct experience, and meditate (concentrate) on its qualities. If it's an object concentrate on its shape, colour, texture, etc. Then close your eyes and recall it in your mind's eye. In order to imagine you are other people, also first concentrate on their qualities, both gross like physical appearence and subtle like emotion, energy, body language, voice. Get a good impression of how it feels to be them. Then replace the usual ego-character you take yourself to be (which is also imaginary BTW ) by this one, using the power of your Imagination. Don't expect to feel like your everyday ego-character is a strong Warrior the whole time by doing this. This excersise is step 2, you are just learining how to charge yourself. Incorporating to daily life is Step 3.

If you believed that this is impossible and then you achieved it yourself, wouldn't that deeply change your perception of reality? Of what use is it go get an electron through a Double-Slit? Expermients are not about the material results, but about the insights. Maybe aftewards, you could use those insights for more useful things like Healing.

Very true. That's an important meta-insight that goes beyond this topic.

Nice If you feel you are blocking it, pay some attention to the Physchological aspects as well. I'm focusing on the Energetic side here. These are not two separate things thoug, just by doing the Energy work, the unconscious Psychological resistances will start coming to the surface and you'll have the opportunity to recognize them and let them go. Just be mindful of that process.

Hell yeah! Another thread about LOA

That's cool. Gonna watch it latter!

@integral Again, I never said vegan diets are the best for every person and propouse, sure there are benefits to many kinds of diets. But this conversation is just going in circles...

That's nice I'm not a vegan either, but I'm progressively reducing my consumption of animal products.

We're not talking about methapysics or spirituality here. The fact that science is very limited and biased regarding those subjects, doesn't mean it isn't useful for judging a freaking diet. That's a distinction you have to draw. You can't just indiscriminately throw all of science out the window, that's nonsense.

Yes that's why processed meats are classified Group 1 carcinogen LOL

I'm not judging. We can eat all the animals we want. Nothing objectively wrong. Just don't deny the fact that we do have alternatives. People use "nature" as a justification for unnecesarily condeming animals to a hellish life without feeling responisble. We are not lions, we're just doing it for pleasure.

Ok, then show me a resonable study interpretation which claims that a well planned vegan diet is harmful. You think you are being multiperspectival and meta, but you are just denying the validity of the evidence and making unjustified claims.

Except us humans do have a choice.

Goog good good, not fucking around, I like it. I would only add: - Constantly noticing and disindentifying from the I-though. - Some kind of Energy Work.

@Yog Sounds like the Energy is acumulating in your Root Chakra and not moving up. There are lots of ways of moving Energy, Visualizations are what I am most familiar with. You can try this: Feel the Sexual Energy in the Root Chakra and around your genitals. Identify it clearly, and Visualize it in color Red. Then Breath In and use your Imagination and Willpower to move it up into the next two Chakras (first the Sacral, then the Solar Plexus, once at a time) while you concentrate on the fact that the Sexual Energy is being transmuted into the qualities and colors of those Chakras (if you are not familiar, do reaserch). This will be more or less effective according to your experience with Energetic Work. Do it often, don't wait for the Energy to build up too much or it will be harder.

LOL You didn't get the metaphor. The ass has two complementary cheeks, just like the energies.

Yes I agree, the forum could definetly use some more Feminine energy. Like I said in the post, in most situations you'll be better off gravitating towards the center, but there are situations in which is better to polarize. For example, if you are standing up to a bully, polarize towards Masculine. If you are comforting a sad person, polarize towards the Feminine. The important thing is being able to move easily and quickly across the whole spectrum. You will intuitively know what kind of balance is more appropiate for each situation. Back at ya!

I've been working on mastering the energies for about 5 years now. This guide is a little sum up, I'm obviously leaving a lot out becouse it's a giant subject and I wanted to make it very practical and simple. But even though it's simple, if you work with this for some time, it will be suprisingly effective. It's not so much about having intellectual insights but about mastering the energies and emotions in general. I'm very practical about it. There were also lots of insights tough, some I already mentioned. Some others that come to mind are: - When you feel anxiety, you lack Masculine energy at that moment. When you feel sadness/anger, you lack Feminine energy. - In the past, due to survival reasons, men were socially programmed to be very polarized towards the Masculine and the opposite with women. That's where gender stereotypes come from. But all humans have both and it's healthier to integrate them. Society has made a lot of progress towards this. - They have lots of degrees, like a comment above says. One must be able to charge oneself with high levels of both. - You tend to attract people which lean towards the opposite pole as you. - The Feminine and the Masculine are not just emotions but existential aspects of reality which express themselves at many levels. For example, at the highest level of reality, the Masculine is God's Omnipotence and the Feminine is God's Love, togheter they make creation possible.