Mulky

I will say I love you but it would work better if you put a picture up because a human being is asking for love here, and all I have are words on a screen to feel love for. If we had a picture it would be more like we are loving you (the human being). Whether you are really more or less than that, not that at all, whatever, it doesn't matter right now. Show us the person you.

Natalie Merchant has a couple of good songs describing her experience.

Ah ya, Wagner is great, as is your testimonial here

SSRI's can also cause this, probably some other psych meds as well.

Thanks Seeking Brilliance

I think shin is a wonderful Puppet Kind of a moody puppet myself tonight as well lol. Sorry if my post was not that sensitive. I need to understand people need different way's of looking at things at different times. I sometimes assume what I need at my current moment in life is what everyone else does.

Things can seemingly repeat an infinite number of times but they are slightly different each time, because subtlety is also infinite.

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The one who would accept, not accept, or understand, would just be 1 segmented off part of an infinite happening. No one would really be doing it. The people who understand, don't determine whether they understand or not. One of the main reasons for identities came to be was for functioning in life, including basic conversation. I am not determining reality here by the way I am composing my basic conversation here, just trying to communicate.

Free will, it should be obvious to anyone how this works, you would have to not want to see to not understand it. Imagine explaining to an uninterested friend how their sense of being an individual isn't founded on anything true. They would be angry, and resist it, even though understanding that would lead to a happier existence. This is the same type of thing when you're on the threshold of admitting to yourself free will isn't a thing. It's like you resist it, you don't want to, even though it would lead to such relief. The fact that they have to do tests to prove this to themselves, do people not trust their own understanding of existence.

Heres 1 thing to consider. At first you were just observing everything, but possibly later you started to observe them as something. Here's how it could have gone. 1.i'm awareness watching this stuff. 2.I'm something that is awareness/aware watching this stuff. This can sneak in, because you're aware, now it's like your claiming being aware and are now whatever you think you are being aware, so you are once again conflated with everything else. I think this might be whats happening.

underpants gnomes?

thanks drew

I have been working 3 days a week, midnight till 8 in the morning. During most of that time at work, I am either full on meditating or doing a walking meditation, or just being meditative while doing things, for the most part. When I am off work, I am spending about 50 percent of my time awake meditating. When i wake up at about 8 pm at night, I might start to do something but then immediately lost interest and start meditating in my chair, off and on, until it's time to go back to sleep around noon the next day. During my meditation. i sometimes fall asleep , maybe for up to a couple of hours. Its very hard to say exactly how much time at night is spent sleeping and how much is meditating, but it can't be too much sleep, because on the nights i work all night, I rarely get sleepy overnight. I don't really feel like sleeping ever now, I feel a bit bummed when its time to sleep, but I do it because I feel like im supposed to, although lately I have been laying in bed sort of meditating instead of sleeping, and then maybe ill fall asleep eventually for about 4 hours. Some nights/days I dont sleep at all, but i don't feel bad because of it or worn out. My job is very easy and i get very little physical activity besides doing alot of walking some days/nights. Some times I get a bit worried when it comes to sleep, then I wonder, if it wasn't for the worry, would anything really be wrong. Then I don't sleep and find out everything was fine and only the worry was the problem. Not sure if I'm becoming some sort of insomniac or if meditation is fullfilling my sleep needs. Need some good well informed advice here

Sounds cool hypnofrik .

Also, this is both scary and risky, but would be really effective. Convince the hypnotee that it is about to die, guaranteed, no escape. Now guide it down into certain death, with a very obvious point where it dies. This would be the most effective but I don't think it works for every mind.

If hypnosis works to change patterns of the mind, I dont see any reason why hypnosis of the thinking mind couldn't be done to bring about new attitudes and habits conducive to enlightenment. Such as a hypnotic pattern designed to increase a persons desire for freedom, or one that breaks apart the sense of self. Theres really no reason why this couldn't work if done well. Because hypnosis can change a psyche really fast and powerfully, and because this is such a huge change for the mind, it could cause huge dramatic unpleasant experiences as the mind changes so fast, but even this can be worked with. Its just a new field that you'll have to refine as you go.

I love guardians of the galaxy 1 and 2.

I have recently gotten into a writing project I am excited about. I find I need to set some time aside to sit and imagine/daydream. I'm finding this a bit tricky, because when i sit there like that, out of habit I start meditating. I'm trying to figure out a good way to tell my mind this is now daydreaming time, and not meditating time. I don't want to 2 to get too mixed together, i want to keep both as separate practices, any tips would be appreciated.

David Goggins is the top discipline toughness guru I know about. Some of his methods for getting through tough times require an egoic paradigm, but I still feel there is a lot to be learned from this guy.

Yes knock, that is good advice, walks do help spark my creativity a lot. Just that I am also working on getting back to sitting daydreaming as well, so I can use both. The separate area is good advice to

Sports, and physical intelligence, here we go. I've been thinking about this lately and it seems to be very significant. At some point the belief formed that intelligence was in the brain and people began to view themselves from the neck up, and ironically in their viewing themselves as intellectuals, they became quite stupid. The intelligence coming from the body became something they couldn't believe in, so they were stuck. The body is huge in spiritual practice, and in certain types of sports the intelligence about reality the body can gain through movement, enhances ones wisdom. The best kinds are ones involving the entire body using subtle muscles not often used, where balance is important ,and the participant is fully immersed in the moment with no time to think of other things. There is a big difference between people I have known with physical intelligence, and those lacking it. This is also why people do yoga, dance, martial arts, etc. The intelligence of the disconnected mind is incomplete, and usually falsely confident in itself, because it is cut off from wisdom. Something about the integration with every detail of your nervous system, brings about a lot of wisdom.

@modmyth You will love it, has a lot of spiritual themes but mostly is just beautiful and brilliant.

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thats pretty cute