Yimpa

@OldManCorcoran Scott free?

Don’t sell yourself short. I’ve noticed that you are taking this work seriously.

You’ve confused some high mystical state for what Reality fundamentally is. That is the problem.

I guarantee that whatever pain you are going through right now is not the end of the story. Life gets worse as a way show you what you are able to overcome. Also, I’m not talking to the “you” you think yourself to be.

Don’t make this a limited belief for why you can’t take psychedelics, though (assuming that you want to take them). I’ve taken both ketamine and cannabis legally in Texas of all places. If there is a will, there is a way.

Take some good ass ketamine

@Arthogaan boredom isn’t just something that comes and goes. You literally embody boredom and become bored!

What do you mean you can choose to go into this one or this one? And how do you do that?

Reading your comment as I’m sat on the toilet

You can still experience boredom, no problem.

Yet it also is.

Not true. Some spiritual insights come from beyond human consciousness. You need to experience beyond human consciousness to understand this. Spiritual insight > spiritual idea

Sweet. I live literally next to vast farmland that I can walk around. I also happen to live near a major highway that’s located close to the largest shopping outlet in Texas. Creation is amazing.

@M A J I Thanks for the reminder. I actually just went outside and took a short walk after reading your comment… it’s a beautiful night out there!

Benzos are actually not recommended for people with OCD doing ERP therapy. Exposure response prevention therapy is about facing your obsession/fear while also not performing a compulsion/ritual (which can come in the form of behaviors or thoughts). These compulsion/rituals are performed as a way to neutralize the obsession and anxiety, but it only works in the short-term. The OCD cycle not only continues, but gets worse the longer they go without getting proper treatment. Using benzos while doing ERP is inadvisable because it essentially tricks your brain into thinking that the solution to overcoming OCD is to just take a benzo before facing any of your debilitating fears. This then becomes a dependency on benzos. Here’s a great summary from NOCD: “Some providers will prescribe benzodiazepines such as Xanax, Klonopin, Ativan or Valium. These medications are often popular because they quickly decrease anxiety when taken. However, it is this exact effect that makes them problematic for anyone doing ERP. In ERP, one needs to experience the natural highs and lows of their anxiety in order to properly habituate. Benzos prevent that process and also interfere in important brain processes like memory formation and memory consolidation, which are important to support the new learning taking place during ERP.”

You CANNOT have mystery without Mind!

Reality can be infinitely shallow and infinitely deep. Think of it like an infinite spectrum of possibilities. If you’re reading “A New Earth”, consider the possibility of “A New Multiverse”

Mind is all that exists. It can experience both no boredom and boredom without being limited to either of them.

Of course. You’ve got to look even beyond Leo and the forum and the community

Pure Understanding even goes beyond that

Furthermore, the career options you have access to at a given time hinges greatly upon your openness to try new things. This requires being adamantly clear and honest about what your values and vision are for yourself. [I’ve heard there’s a great course one can take to figure that out ]

The attitude I recommend is: - desire to embrace the unknown, even if there’s a ton of resistance in you. - radical open-mindedness - willingness to drop ideas you hold onto for dear life, even if they appear to be 100% correct to you and everyone else you surround yourself with. When you truly understand what’s going on, you won’t need the right mindset. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

From a certain point of view and understanding, dream is an appropriate term. What I mean by dream is that you can become directly conscious that *literally* each and every experience is so beautiful and unique, that you’re no longer primarily interested in maintaining a specific experience or state to satisfy an idea of being complete. Ironic how you can simultaneously be in a dream while still being conscious/awake, huh? Dream can imply fluidity, lucidity, and an openness to experience without bias dictating which experience is right or wrong. After all, how can you access higher states of consciousness if you’re holding on to a specific state as the ultimate reality?