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@EmptyVase We have agreement. Balance there must be. Some need to demystify the magic, some need to see it to begin with.

Good thoughts. Interesting that you feel this way

@EmptyVase Everything is ‘ mystical phenomena.’ Why would it be bad to focus on it?

@Forestluv Do we have any free will over our subconscious? It makes sense to me that our subconscious is essentially causing determinism for us - but do we have any say in what it’s going to determine. I like the idea that I have choice. I also like the idea that I’m personally just ‘watching a movie of myself.’ But I haven’t experienced the truth of the question yet. Of course I wonder: If we were able to have choice in our subconscious wouldn’t that choice also just be determined by our subconscious ?? Sounds like we don’t have free will. Still I’ll wonder the point of anything then. Fuck. Just to experience. Maybe I’m answering my own questions. Here I am wondering, ‘why do anything?’ but all the while maybe ‘anything’ has been doing me. Questions still tick though. Would it be my choice to embrace that I have no control or is that determined to?

@Ingit This sounds fucked up but it has worked. Note: It will take a lot of confidence in yourself and self-reflection. Also, it will just be difficult. But it’s worked for me in a similar situation. Just take it from her. Know relentlessly in you head that you don’t deserve any of it. That’s the most important part. You have to accept it’s not about you - it’s about her. It’s hard to accept our issues and sometimes it’s even harder to accept others, especially a loved one. Nonetheless my Dad is OCPD, depression + ADHD - so I get blame all of the time. Even when I know I don’t do anything wrong I just agree with them (without coming accords as sarcastic). I get blamed for something ‘So sorry you feel that way.’ Don’t say much more, just let the take their anger out on you. The trick to this is accepting yourself and that you didn’t do anything wrong. Between just letting my Dad yell at me, taking unwarranted blame and actually trying to act in a way that helps him/let’s him know I love him and will do whatever for him - things are much better. He actually then felt comfortable admitting some guilt to me. I got lucky there. It’s hard to just be a negativity sponge, especially from a loved one. Still, it works wonders. They get their anger out, you don’t blame yourself.

I noticed that since a young age I’ve said things like ‘numbers are not real’ or ‘that’s just made up’ or ‘we just imagine it all.’ Non-Material stuff like that. Of course most people disagree with me. My hold up is, I can think non-materially in many instances but I still accept the world as an integration between imagination and physicality. Like I know that how I imagine the physical world changes how interact with it, but is that all there is to it? Seems like I’m missing something. Is there no physical world at all? Is a an entanglement of imagination and actual physicality? Did i maybe break out of the paradigm when I was 11 and saying numbers aren’t real but didn’t know what the material paradigm was so now that I do I feel like I haven’t done it yet even though I did long ago?

That’s a healthy self he’s building himself, however, by the judgment of his recommendations - to study more material - it’s likely he hasn’t conceptualized concepts yet and that onion he speaks of peeling hasn’t realized it was never there.

@BlackMaze I cried so many times after I quit smoking weed regularly. But in a good way. In a way I knew was coming but wouldn’t happen if I kept numbing myself with weed.

Weed fucks with me after psychedelics. After the first time a did shrooms (only 1.7 gs but I'm pretty lightweight) I just felt like I didn’t need to smoke weed as much. I was a pretty heavy toker. Also when I would smoke the effects were much better after shrooms. Then I went back to smoking full time lol. Did shrooms again (same amount). This time I kept smoking weed regularly buuuut it started hitting hard. After a couple weeks of just ‘powering through’ the intensity (I was pretty addicted to weed - got rid of all of my paraphernalia and quit a bit ago though) one night I took one baby hit and was sent into full blown God mode. Scared the hell out of me but for some reason I did it again two more nights. I knew what I experienced was not bad, I just wasn’t ready for it and it was also a wake up call to stop wasting my time smoking so much weed. honestly though as scary as it was I knew what was going on. I was infinite. I could zone into anything. But much like when I was on shrooms I could also feel how I was absolutely nothing. It felt like a non-material consciousness version of George Lopez sifting like water through experience.

This was the best thing I’ve ever read ?

As a musician, this may have been the coolest thing I’ve ever seen

@Nahm This was exceptionally helpful and insightful, much thanks. You read my mind on a lot of stuff..... And I will look into Abraham Hicks as I already have with Austin mechanics which are fascinating. I’d say most helpful though - ‘There’s ice, but ice is water.’ Fuck that gave me chills. Maybe it was the metaphor or maybe it was the ice. Thank you again.

@Inliytened1 Thank you! I did have a few minor insights into nothingness. Nothing (lol) sustainable yet though. The most obvious one I had was on a mushroom trip and I was just laying in a hammock in the middle of the woods - I was feeling my whole body along with the universe seem to just evaporate into nothing. Sort of freaked me out but I ended up just trying to embrace it and let go.

@RichnNL All of these other answers seem true but like too much to me lol. I see it as much more straight forward. Tell rationalist simply: There can only be one EVERYTHING. If you say there’s two you were not including it all.

@Name I agree that there can be a problem with using the ‘you’re not enlightened’ or ‘you’re not enlightened enough’ argument. Seems to be that even if that is true and there is some ‘level above’ our current mode of thought, this is still an argument from authority and if the cause of such an argument is true - then perhaps the reasoning should be elaborated upon, rather just putting the foot down and saying, essentially, ‘you could not possibly understand.’ Some guidance, at least, should be given granted there is such a disconnect between views and one person is ‘so above’ the other. Nonetheless, maybe the point of this video was missed. Some people believe reproduction is the meaning of life and structure their being around having kids. In suggestion, the ‘God mode perspective’ was used here to provide some dissonance and/or options from such a silly perspective. Also overpopulation could become an issue. So there’s that - but people can still do what they please. Have the kids, don’t have the kids. In the grand scheme it won’t matter; that could be all that was trying to be said (with exaggeration (or something similar) to, again, provide dissonance to those who may believe that reproduction is the meaning of life).