Tim R

Faith means "leting go". To have faith in God doesn't mean that you should believe in God, it means the exact opposite. It means to let God go, let your images and beliefs about God go. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Faith is also the attitude of Love. And to love is to let go.

How does God require faith?

When you started to talk about your cat taking a shit in your house I knew where this would be going haha?? Bro when you started to inhale, Chester was probably like "eyo wtf you doing man", I heard him meow it in the back

@Tyler Durden Meditate! And you will find out for yourself, much better and much more direct than I or anyone could ever explain it to you. What you think "you are doing" and what you think "is happening to you" is a completely arbitrary distinction. As I said, you can find this out in meditation. Watch your breath. Because it will allow you to see through this silly distinction of doing and happening. What you're doing is all that is happening, and all that is happening is what you're doing.

"The results from surveys of the UK nursing and midwifery workforce taken at three time points during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020 have found concerning levels of psychological distress, including experiences consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), stress, and anxiety in respondents." Findings from across all three surveys include: A significant proportion of participants were identified as having probable PTSD. While this declined over the three surveys, almost 29.3% continued to report experiences indicative of a probable post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis three-months after the first pandemic peak. Severe or extreme stress was reported by almost 17.5% respondents three-months after the first pandemic peak. 2% of redeployed respondents reported that training to prepare for redeployment either did not occur or was inadequate. 40% reported that they lacked confidence in infection prevention and control training that they had received, or that training had not been received. 6% felt that the correct personal protective equipment was not always available. Prevalence of some psychological issues decreased following the first pandemic peak, but a significant proportion of participants continued to experience negative psychological effects during the pandemic recovery phase. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/research-shows-psychological-impact-of-pandemic-on-uk-nursing-and-midwifery-workforce

Creation doesn't have a script, as this script would be part of creation. And by the way: you also don't know what you're going to do or say next. What "other people" are going to do or say next isn't any different in that regard. It seems like you're controlling ("scripting") what you're doing and saying, but you don't.

You don't know what "is going to happen next" because a) there is no such thing (by that I mean "the future") b) reality unfolds spontaneously

I doubt it, but who knows. DMT is weird ??

Not really. The concentration is too low. But it's possible to detect it and determine the concentration. Unlike for example with some plants like Mimosa hostilis or Acacia confusa, where one can easily extract N,N-DMT from the powedered root bark, because they contain up to ca. 1,5% DMT.

Thinking used to be an unconscious habit, now it's more of a conscious process, slower, more solid, less reactive and clearer. Still tend to overthink sometimes tho

Good and evil don't exist in the first place. They're like up and down or left and right.

@Someone here Yes, you implied it in your question: what, if not "nonexistence", is supposed to be the context of existence? You say you don't feel comfortable unraveling this, but actually, you can find the greatest comfort in infinity, in groundlessness. "He who sleeps on the floor, doesn't fall out of bed" - Turkish proverb ...now take away the floor... "Above, not a tile to cover his head, below, not an inch of earth to stand on." - from the Zenrin kushū He who knows infinity...

@Someone here That your question isn't well thought out (remember I commented under your recent post about you still having so many questions?, where I said that some questions are meaningless) "Location/position" or "context" are a) ideas / dualities b) occuring within existence (there's no such thing as nonexistence)

Yes, I did. What's your point?

I sometimes feel like you're asking questions just for the sake of asking questions... "Location" is an idea.

Of course.

@machiavelli It's probably a good idea to stop thinking of your friend as "enlightened". That is pure projection and distorts your perception of everything he says or does. Perhaps he has, but that doesn't give you permission to believe in what he tells you. Nor does it make everything he says true. By the way, this also applies to "what Leo has taught you". If you believe in what Leo tells you, you are deluding yourself just as much, maybe even more than your friend who has devoted his life to spirituality.

@Incognito Depends on the animal. First of all, humans are also animals. So there's that. Secondly, higher mammals, like feline or canine predators or the higher apes, or some of the cephalopodes, or birds, are incredibly sentient and intelligent They can make consicous decisions. Consciousness is not what you think it is.

I see you're confusing awareness/sentience with consciousness. They aren't the same thing. @RMQualtrough I think what Incognito meant was that the default state of consciousness of animals is different from that of humans. The range of perceptual capabilities and mental processing power are obviously different, depending on the organism. A human being has a much richer awareness of its environment than for example an amoeba.

Sounds about right

Good! Don't believe. Become aware for yourself. You can use what others say as pointers, but you need to look for yourself and not get fascinated with the pointers. It's not a matter of "proving" that you are the coffee table. It's more like verifying or falsifying a claim for yourself. The whole game here is to find out who you are.

But you are experiencing the coffee table. You are your experience. The coffee table is as much your body as the biological body that you think you are limited to.

If I don't know what is?

Consciousness, the illumination of the world. The sun is born at the winter solstice. Christ knew himself to be Consciousness and Love. The Sun of God When the Julian calendar was introduced, the winter solstice was on December 25th. And the Christians kept it that way, as did most of the so-called high religions: in their effort to include people, they incorporated many festivals once founded by pagans and combined them with their own cults. And so Christ's birth was placed on the winter solstice.