Jalextheopenminded

Occasionally... it can sometimes come across... like you might... be using... these dots a little too... often??!!

This became quite an obstacle while having to write a 20 page long text for university. I had so much resistance to sit down and kerp writing, because I knew that if I read through what I had wrotten the day before, there would be a good chance that it wouldn't make ANY sense and that I would cringe in confusion haha. Once during this phase I smoked a joint and thought that I had a massive breakthrough, so I wrote everything down on sticky postit notes, sticking them onto my wall and drawing all sort of intercomnections à la Sherlock Holmes mindmap. Wasnt the best feeling reading through that the next day after coming back down haha

Okay haha i have a lot of work to do... considering all pros and cons you think a kundalini awakening is something worth directly striving towards? Kinda has a bad stigma to it in some circles...

Do you think that the throat chakra must be "opened" first, whatever that means or do you just start feeling into the throat region?

Who says that sleeping is the best thing we got?! Thats just group think! Yes, transitioning from nighttime dreamworld to daytime dreamworld is sometimes tough, because that is the nature of survival: not wanting to constantly change worlds, getting invested in a plot. But that doesnt mean one is better than the other. I routinly mess my sleeping rythm up, because I am so clingy to a specific day and don't want to let go when bedtime rolls around?? why are we all pretending that we are not totally ADDICTED to life hahah???

I wrote down the question "what makes a human complete" in my notebook yesterday, today I see this. Communication is everywhere and all i need to do is be a sponge and let it be sucked in

Its hilarious how you keep joyfully calling out holykaels patterns, and inspiring so to not get dragged into negative perspectives and instead just laugh it off. God i love this forum

@BipolarGrowth back to the painting board… that sounds nice!

@AtheisticNonduality i just give the imagination a nice place to latch onto

I agree with Terence McKenna that language based on a visual, on an actual basis, is more powerful, like the octopi do with their color changes or their fluorescent flashy dots. So here is my poetic description of a mushroom trip. Hope you enjoy

https://we.tl/t-DSheqOrUUX here is the full quality if someone wants to download and pixel peep

@Leo Gura hmu if you need any very specific thumbnail visualisations

I guess we truly cant multitask

It definitly helped me so you fulfilled your value for atleast one ego appearance I have recently been led to what I eould like to coin as: the insight into the absolute nature of back to the drawing board. So e your explanation was a nice flowong excursion "away from the drawing board" of what the drawing board has to say of itself. Now that the video is over the drawing board is empty, but im thinking back to the video and redrawing the drawing about the drawing.

Dude no question about it, don‘t even think about whether people give you positive feedback, since it will be more than enough joy to self express. Also enjoy the little steps like picking out the pictures for the different topics. I like the slight lsd touch that they have to them, where did they come from? Keep grinding, and dont let any haters get to you my man

Can a human grasp a physical object without using a symbol of the object to take a step back and observe? Can I observe a cup completely unmediated by any labeling or categorizing and really grasp its being, or will it desolve if there is no symbol infront of it? Ive never tried psychedelics otherwise I might be able to find out from direct experience...

@Breakingthewall thanks for your respnse!

Im basically just doubting how direct my direct experience is. Even if i am in a deeply meditative state and hear no inner words, and then deeply stare a a cup, musnt there still be some hidden concept being used to tell myself that the "real cup" is a cup, thereby distancing myself from it, going meta on it, enough to observe it? If my observation of reality were truly without any concept being juxtrapositioned onto it, wouldnt it unravel? Meaning you can only grasp reality by using a symbol of its content? How stable is this dream, how truly conceptless can your observation become?

I have been contemplating tourism lately and have become seriously confused by our human behaIvour, so im gonna ask for some assistance on here. Im trying to melt the duality between tourist attraction vs the symbolic complex around the tourist attraction, as well as touristy attraction vs non touristy attraction, and also tourist vs traveller. This has led to me the conclusion that a tourist attraction can only exist because of the symbolic complex made around it, and the tourist is the one who keeps it alive by reproducing the markers and symbols saying its an attraction. We basically all do this to some degree but live in total denial that culture is fabricated. So for me the biggest paradox is that we strive for authentic cultural tourism and are oposed to MASS tourism, but the mass is what creates culture, and all that authetic means is that it alligns with the consensus that the mass has fabricated! What the hell do we want exactly?! For some reason we are looking for culture that has been externally created instead of made by ourselfs, even though we are all the same. So we are trying to integrate the whole globe by creating so many distinctions between self and other, to the level that every tourist thinks that he or she isnt a tourist. Is this some global survival stradegy? Does it imply that human kind doesnt want to self reflect? What does all this mean from a metaphysical perspective? I would be greatful for any kind of insight from you system thinkers regarding this paradoxical search for authenticity.

So the question is, do you have an audience that you can sell yourself as a human force to?

I think the artist as a person will start to be considered the marketed product, not just his or her creations. Everyone has some fear of this unknown ai force, and in a world that is being more and more influenced by machine, people are goung to latch onto personas that they see as "authentically" human. And like mentioned, if you see art as the maximisation of beauty,, then there is no problem letting the machines work for you. But I get where you are coming from, for the longest time I had a bias against photoshop because I felt like it was too inauthentic and manipulative... which was just self limitation

And why does authenticity even have such a strong pull on us?

@mr_engineer is there a tourist role? Isn't the american standing infront of the coloseum taking a picture of it with his phone and sharing it just as mutually involved in keeping it alive as the person writing a book about its history or the tour guide talking about why the building is important? Isnt it irresponsible to blaim capitalism for the creation of mass tourism, when we are all equally involved in maintaining the linguistic symbolic world, in which tourism lays? (Im purposfully trying to look at this from the materialistic paradigm, as an excersise, because i dont want to spiritually bypass the worlds story)

If you can actually lustfully enjoy a cheat indulgement in any area that you usually stay clear of, i would say yeah go for it every once and a while. I meqn were here to play human to some degree, arent we? The most frustrating thing possible for me however is to take the wind out of my sails to indulge in something where I then notice that I don't really enjoy it. Its like that with cigarettes for me - they pull me in like a magnet but as soon as I light that motherfucker it is dissatisfying from then on. So if its like that I try to stay away completely.

Hi guys I have been a silent follower of this forum for a while but never saw enough meaning in contributing to start writing posts. The reason being that I still saw myself as a mental masturbator that didn't have enough to show for himself so that he could add value to a blog. Leo changed my mind with his last video containing his poetic description of god consciousness. His trajectory of sharing beauty through more artistic means deeply resonated with me, and I now officially qualify myself as being beautiful enough to stop hoarding it all to myself, as well as finally seeing beauty as valuable enough to be a sharable resource. So here is my story of an integration challenge. Before watching leos video last evening, I had gone through a small experiment of my own. With a enjoyably mellow buzz of a trip amping up my lust for adventure, I found myself to be standing at the border of forest and field, in which I desided to lay down and take my Tshirt off. Something I had noticed before is that a benign little bug crawling over your calf can induce unholy amounts of not accepting the tiny lite toe steps on your skin. So I let the occasional ant critter explore my body scape, at first tensing up in irritation, trying to laugh at the fact that their mighty little jaws couldn't even pierce through my protective skin armour if they tried. From the depths arose a memory of a film scene in an indiana jones movie, in which giant rain forest ants drag some dude into their colony. Silly mainstream media instilling fear into the general populace... but what if my mind was powerful enough to make it real? Facing these thoughts, I felt mostly minor skin discomfort, little peaks and pokes and stings, myself reminding me of the possible sadistic nature of ants towards human beings. Some part of me found it silly to worry about insects, so I found peace with them just wandering around like traveling merchants in a desert. It was a relatively easy challenge, since I was just facing thoughts and didn't have to embody into some actual crazy 4d world like leo did with the raptors and the alien queen, but my intimate relationships with ants on my body has slightly improved. I think the deep underlaying fear at work here is the idea of accelerated decomposion of ones body. But the ant world is beautiful, so let the little worker ants do their metabolism of rearranging your bodily elements and fuse you with the megaorganism of the jungle, i guess. I would be interested in hearing about your experiences in which, with or without drug aidance, you were brave enough to face some actual threat in a "safe" and conscious way, therby being able deconstruct the fear and coming out the deep end with more trust towards the universe? Lets help eachother to show that there is nothing to be afraid of! Thank you leo for the radiant beauty of the story you posted and for being a role model of actually interacting with life face first. Much love to all❤️