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@Preety_India It will keep trolls from sticking around for a long, long time like they often get the chance to do, and for regs - it takes like 20 points before you're kicked. Basically, you would just have to keep causing problems time and time again before you are, and they give warnings first. It is pretty easy not to get banned on this forum. I think it will be okay; I would just suggest for Leo to focus on obvious trolls and for regs to check and see if they are here seriously or not. I'm a "serious" spiritual seeker, so this is the right environment for me, and I am growing so I don't suspect there will be problems in the future at least from my end.

@Preety_India I don't have too much to worry about, I keep to myself and I don't have a whole lot of warning points.

I guess I am fine with it, I'll have to see how it plays out... I guess, I'm a bit confused as to what brought all this on, it seemed like the forum was doing fine - but maybe I just wasn't paying attention; I've been actively working on myself, and it felt to me like the forum was doing this as well.

Meditation.

Cool visuals and sound, good to use if you're tripping. I've listened to this a few times and it hasn't gotten old yet. "Cura" I believe means "cure".

No, don't, so much of my work is here!

I am interested in religion, so I ask questions about their religion, and listen.

I don't believe in solipsism as my NDE direct experience had other bubbles in it. I became aware of them, there were so many. Like ingredients in a soup. I trust my direct experience.

I love everyone's answers here and agree with them. Fear of death, I don't want to harm my family or anyone I know by doing that, I don't know what happens afterwards and I'm a predictable creature and prefer to know things beforehand, I feel like it is my mission in life to learn as much about death as I can before I die and that there is great wisdom in being open minded enough to let consciousness guide me to the answers - I want to have a peaceful death where I feel like it is 'meant to be' and that I did what I came here to do. I think coming here involves finishing some sort of process.

I think that there are two types and that they are hard to distinguish between. One is caused by the universe giving you messages and the other is caused by seeing things that confirm what you already believe to be true even if they are not - and this does happen a lot because they both come in through the same way - but one way you can tell the difference is by how high of a vibe you were in - another is to journal because if you are having syncs, they will show up in patterns that you are 'not' looking for - that seemingly happen out of nowhere - and you can pick up on them later, like you might have recorded some syncronicities in your writing during a high vibe state that you find at a later date that isn't part of a confirmation bias story. I have also had confirmation bias, and the difference is that cb leads to psychosis or is accompanied by it and the person's life doesn't get better, but worse - and they are acting like, kind of crazy. A synchronicity will lead a person towards an awakening experience while cb leads - often - towards psychosis or at the very least a collection of falsely held beliefs that go nowhere.

Do what feels the most comfortable socially, if you are an introvert and need more time alone then that is who you are. You're not running from your problems, imo, you just have a need for a different kind of lifestyle. I am very introverted, too, and prefer to spend large times alone to contemplate and integrate. I like to have time to enjoy creative thought processes and having a bunch of people around interrupts my time. If you're worried about getting too unsocial, that can be a problem and I have not found a solution for it for myself, but for you, if you have a social circle, try to maintain that as much as you can - just set aside a small portion of your day for the people in your life. Just my perspective as an introvert. Maybe write a list of all the positives and negatives and add them up, and whichever has more positives that resonate with you - go with that?

I wish I knew what happened, I feel like life is a journey to find out if we can stay open minded enough. It's almost like the memory and Knowing is right there, but also... not, you know? Idk.

@something_else That people are spending hours on this thread when they could be focused on other things? This was forum directed, not at anyone specific, either? So who's belt exactly?

Girl, indeed they would. Fair. I like that you can have a different opinion than me but not hit below the belt, that's cool, thanks. On top of that, this might not be the place to learn that "men are decent people".

@K Ghoul That's even worse, she sounds like she didn't know what she was doing. I'm so so sorry all that happened to you! No grandparents?

Damn, I am so sorry to hear that your poor mum and you, did she manage to get away from him?

@Preety_India He's too stupid and selfish to make anything for anyone other than himself, he wouldn't know how and if he did he wouldn't do it anyway.

@Etherial Cat This dating section is super below the belt when it comes to opinions it doesn't like, I ended up bowing out because I have other things to focus on than argue here. I literally don't have the time, tell me people, where are you finding the extra time for that?

@Preety_India We moved to the suburbs, but there are trees everywhere, I could do like a mini-retreat in the backyard during the summer months. Still, it would be nice to be able to afford one of these things - I have a lot of questions that perhaps a group would have answers to, and if it were a psychedelic retreat then maybe the psychs would have the answers. Maybe someday, it's something I might save up for at some point in the future.