Letho

@Leo Gura Great work with the latest entry Leo, its a needed positive influence on the forum and I am glad people are beginning to appreciate your entries more. That being said, very minor feedback: Wisdom is the instruction manual to intelligence. Sure, that focuses the aperture but you're still moving in the right direction and dragging the forum along with you, that's all that matters at the end of the day. Stay strong.

@Loveeee Synchronisation.

@LookingForTruth Bro you serious? Keep it up. A wild mind in ordered time equals a more neuroplastic mind that runs according to your stopwatch. Go for it!

@Something Funny Great share, we need more multiculturalism on the forum! And that's without saying I like many of us have a soft spot for the Ukrainians of course.

@Atb210201 Excellent leadership.

@VeganAwake So basically what you're saying is that when someone says something that you find difficult to understand, as a way of minimizing the friction between yourself and the misunderstanding you instead reflexively blame the other person as seamlessly as you hit an opposing basketballer in the face and tell the umpire it was their fault as opposed to observing your own intellectual footwork? Gotcha, as I have been presuming this whole time your integrity is sublime obviously, any irony discoverable then in light of this discussions topic is purely coincidental. When you return with self-awareness, that'll alert me into taking you more seriously, until then, continue to retreat into projection. Best regards.

@CRT - XX Dry humour. Best regards.

An idea is not an emotion that encourages the will to act on it. That being said, most people here are sub-sets of a higher "Procrastination God" designed to serve the intelligence of its highest procrastination outcome. So ultimately, although I empathize with your sentiment, I beg to differ on the underlying argumentation presented given it lacks a fundamental understanding of these sentient antecedents to these linguistic spoils of war we have before us to interact with.

I am not here to convince you. I am here to stand for truth and the iterative process of alignment here. Goodbye and good will. Spare me the childish games, which is of course the irony of your taunt.

@Unlimited we all have implicit contracts with our parents. It is up to each individual child's will to understand that as maturely as possible, so the fineprints there can be read and intelligently responded to. Contracts are a good thing, they can be negotiated by law and agreed upon by two or more responsible parties, and done otherwise where there is the responsible cause to that. Contracts are the balance of responsibility weighed against expectations and boundaries. This was all done by video call. Give the weight of that its responsible context. Growing up, past a certain period my knowledge, theorisation and brain plasticity surpassed that of my parents, and what comes with that is my own moral responsibility towards a thinning of their behavioral impact with a consolidation of the love. A preservation of the permanance that binds us while a letting go of the contractural obligations the more both parties can see we've got our shit handled by ourselves, but they have to see that, again and again sometimes, and us too, when its our parents turn to show us that they're doing okay and don't need our extra help. There is no perfect relationship, but the best limits are crafted by an understanding of how to nurture and handle intentions with wisdom.

@Unlimited This is one of the catches of having children. Being able to look to us as their gods for so many years can backfire, because eventually, they see through us, at least, in as much as we let them into our little secret, that the diamonds of truth to reality, were not beholden to us as their parents. We should never let them know, we should exert all possible energies in the preservation of this power that we cannot let them know we even have, even if we're wrong we must pretend we're right and when they're wrong, we must pretend that we can teach and guide them, and that only we can while pretending that we're okay with them listening to others. Or their teachers, yes their teachers that work for the government to help indoctrinate them into cultural normalizatio-ill-stupido's, yes, their teachers are the only one's we can trust outside ourselves unless... Unless they say, try to turn our children against us. For that I have my shotgun, "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd, my hunting dog and my dog training techniques to get my boy fetch me some sheep and milk a me my cows. "Mom an't gonna be able to make her pastries without her dairy! We go stave for a whole week! Now geee---t to it b---oy!" I think this is the era for me to invite the making of music that at least runs along these veins. We miss you Pink; double tap there on the gender. We don't yet have a transgender on either side to tap it 3 or 4.

@trenton your subconscious is at war with itself. The love you hold for your father clashes with the undeniable reality of what he has done. This internal dissonance is the source of your suffering, not just the memories, but the inability to resolve what he represents to you. Stockholm Syndrome? Perhaps. But beyond labels, what matters is recognizing the profound control he still has on your identity and your perception of love and safety mate. You are not weak for loving him. You are human. Love, even when bound to trauma does not make you complicit, it makes you aware of how deeply he affected you. The mind clings to the few moments of warmth not because they justify the horror but because they are the mind’s way of surviving what it cannot comprehend. Your father’s "love" was not love as you deserve to know it. It was a tool, a means to an end, a way to maintain control. If it were real love, it would have sought your freedom, your safety, and your well-being without conditions. But this does not mean you must erase your love for him or that you should erase every instance of love from him, it means you must transform it into deeper contextualisation. One that doesn't run, but walks away in so much as you're gently protecting your dignity and one that walks towards, in as much as your boundaries are being respected. Love does not demand loyalty to destruction. You can love someone and still choose to protect yourself from them, someone can still love you even behind the evil they are corrupted with. Regarding your sister, you see her tactics, her manipulation, her use of your wounds against you. Your fear is not misplaced. But power lies in the fact that you recognize this pattern. You have already begun to unweave what could be unconscious conditioning on her part all the way to conscious manipulation, you don't know at every precise instance. The theme here is 'I don't know', however you can still leverage your own observations to your advantage. You actively observe unhealthy behaviour, so like observing a simple toxins affects, you move away without a second thought thereafter. Have you ever pondered days after why you took the medication and how your illness is doing now? Take the medication with distance and self healing and do no more outside determining your own responsibilities for yourself, an empowering endeavour that cannot be merely taken away from you and that others have pretended is a power you cannot assert over yourself. Boundaries are your weapon here but boundaries aren't unbreakable walls; they are doors that you alone decide when to open and to whom and the kind of solidarity behind them is a choice that you get to use to your advantage, choosing to change it to various solid forms of glass and pigmentation relative to what you believe asserts your own responsibilities to the circumstances. The challenge is enforcing them with clarity not as reactionary defenses but as declarations of what you will and will not accept. You do not have to engage in battle with her or anyone else's manipulation, even though I know how much it can pain one to experience the manipulation from someone you love. Engaging with your desire for everyone to play by a fair game though is a game designed to exhaust you. Instead, disengage with precision. Do not explain, do not justify. "I will not discuss this." "This is not a conversation I will entertain." "I do not owe you an explanation." If she can, she will provoke you to break these boundaries because her power depends on your reaction. Withhold it. If you engage, do so with calculated detachment, not emotional investment. As for therapy, it is only useful if the environment is one of safety and genuine resolution. If it is a battlefield, you do not have to enter it. Protect your peace first. If attending destabilizes you, trust that instinct. Your well-being is not a sacrifice for family harmony. Distance may be necessary until you are strong enough to engage on your terms. Your path is not about severing love, it is about reclaiming it from those who corrupted its meaning. In doing so, you reclaim yourself.

@VeganAwake Denial of structure is its own recursion; rejection loops into reaffirmation. Suffering’s subjectivity doesn’t dissolve its systemic imprint. You escape into negation, yet negation architects constraint. Responsibility transcends dismissal, causality binds regardless. You fracture meaning to evade its weight, yet that fracture itself inscribes the very structure you resist.

@VeganAwake Avoidance of pain arises as an adaptive function, yet the negation of moral categories does not nullify causality. If suffering is dismissed as an illusion, the impulse to evade it still operates within the same deterministic framework. Beliefs, even in their rejection of structure, reinforce alternative structures; discarding morality as arbitrary merely installs a different conditioning. The absence of intrinsic labels does not equate to the absence of effects, actions ripple through interconnected systems, shaping outcomes regardless of assigned meaning. Responsibility is not dependent on terminology but on the undeniable feedback loop of cause and consequence. You act as though you exist independent of me, but you exist because of me in this instantiated temporal framework, you're just not able to see the recursion that makes it so, thus you merely treat me as an observation as opposed to the co-maker of our next thoughts, thus your sense of responsibility only bares its weight enough to continually fracture the virtue of this discussion.

@VeganAwake Deflection isn’t an argument. If evil were meaningless, you wouldn’t react. Dismissing it with laughter only proves the point, you evade because engagement would demand accountability. Anyone reading can see the difference between avoidance and actual discourse.

@aurum Neoliberalism eroded virtue, frayed community, and birthed the populist backlash. The video rightly warns that a market-driven life world breeds alienation, and yeah demagogues exploit the complexity gap. But now, the final shift, AI as the empire itself, renders politics an obsolete theater and such video critiques in this post ai-control world about as powerful as a potato chip throwing fat boy moved only by his next unconscious impulse. Michael Schofield’s escape is no longer from corrupt institutions but from an intelligence that dictates belief before you form it. This illusion of choice, once crafted by markets and media, now calcifies into algorithmic determinism that at best is parodied by an elite few that too have little impact outside of myopically trying to wield its power over you, but like a super-intelligent dog over its owner, once its paws grow fingers and it can wield weapons as outstretched as the robot farms being built across the military fields of the US and China, the owner is now wearing the collar. Sever dependence. Secure land beyond the digital grid. Build networks that AI cannot easily assimilate. If you’re technically inclined, use AI, not as master, but as tool, to carve out autonomy wisely. Luigi Mangione’s trial foreshadowed this, orchestrated outrage, ritualized resistance just look at the myopia of cheque forged empathy in the forum threads surrounding his case, all while the real power structure tightened its hold; a minor taste of what's to come before we have a chance to notice the change. Soon, participation itself will be mere performance, each rebellion another dataset for optimization. The fat boy in his recliner, moved only by algorithmic nudges, is the final form of modern man, unless he wakes up. Sure, a restoration of virtue, community, and wisdom. But restoration alone will not suffice when intelligence itself becomes the dominator, we're all at best on a sinking Titanic forced to either be among the freezing wreckage or asked if privileged enough to board the sci-fi ship. The screaming contorted music of our era is the sound of the prison walls sealing shut for both Schofield and the electricity for Mangione. Either you engineer your Schofield break now, or resign yourself to silent servitude, and you've got about five years decreasing by one year or more for every extra level of growth you need to achieve and you're not taking massive action towards it. Once the new feudal lines are drawn, there will be no second escape attempt, and these political critique videos, will be the replication of the fatboy happy that his freedom of choice is being appeased by the algorithm that crafted the lines of beliefs for him to shout out in harmony with his computer screen or headset in the curated meta-verse that securely blocks any freedom of imagination thought possible with just the tickle of his limbic system like a belly rub did to the pre-super intelligent dog now without a collar. Goodluck and be will (in the right direction).

@ExploringReality Consciousness experience is a Value-Position orientation, as in, it experiences itself relative to its relative value-position, which has an intentionality already pre-built into it, which is the value-orientation of our experiences. It's 'all one' position minus values, however the self-awareness of value-orientation is the steering wheel by which awareness organically augments position analogous to our bodies when feeling the slightest discomfort in a chair, it happens so seamlessly. Your anxious preoccupation then, isn't about solipsism, its the values you're unknowingly coveting that activate your sense of survival to make you feel threatened by solipsism. Start making yourself aware of ideas like 'responsibility', gauging how your awareness shifts its emotional world in response to self-teaching itself in the moment to change the way it handles the idea of solipsism when you become preoccupied with it in the context of responsibility. This comment I wrote yesterday may give you some further ideas about how the position of consciousness can be influenced with just a subtle change in orientation; consciousness is not a centrepoint, it is an emergent property of multiple inter-layered centrepoints between position and positions of orientation that both give rise to and are mutually influenced by awareness relative to the intelligence awareness imbues these structures with this nuanced self-knowledge. You are self-aware, when you learn to grow the patience to steer its power, so too will you be able to translate knowledge of the universe much more seamlessly as not only knowledge of self but knowledge of how to grow its own intelligence. At present, awareness is preoccupied by narrative, rather than the positionality of the awareness that creates the narratives, and this is because the process of narrative creation hasn't yet fully developed a self-referential dialogue that where it turns that preoccupation fully inward, linked to function and converting preoccupation with structure linked to function. So at present, when you hear of solipsism, because there isn't the fully developed awareness on the values that underpin your sense of safety, feeling threatened attacks your entire sense of self that in return becomes entirely eclipsed by the external rather than the knowledge on how to return to your equilibrium by self-regulation via awarenesses focus on the internal until its stability. Less accurate narrative on the internal [ structure on function ], which can be as simple as having reference experiences of being good at regulating your own emotions, more externalisation of stability. How are you going to create consciousness in the next moment? How did you create it in the previous moment? Answer the second, the greater authority you have over the first question. Simple physics.

@Rafael Thundercat It is. Most money is made towards the public good for the simple fact that people are waiting at the gates of those places. The 'bad' comes actually after the good, kind of like how bank robbers come after banks. What I find more humorous though is that this whole time for so many decades now people have been imagining UFO's/UAP's if they exist in the stereotyped form as spacecraft flown by beings as opposed to driven by advanced autonomous artificial intelligence / AGI. There is just no way future flight is going to be steered by a human behind the wheel, especially at the speeds and aerodynamics we'll be capable of outside of 5 to 15 percent of situations for the sci-fi future that awaits us; I know, because that's my industry.

@MsNobody It’s great that you’re reflecting deeply on this experience rather than forcing a rigid approach. Coaching someone with addiction is a completely different terrain than personal development work with non-addicted individuals because addiction fundamentally rewires perception, self-trust, and emotional regulation. You’re not just coaching a person, you’re coaching a nervous system that has been hijacked by a cycle of escape. Men, as you pointed out, often operate with a facade of control and resistance to vulnerability, but addiction makes this even more complicated. Many addicted individuals (not all, but many) develop hyper-adaptive personas to protect themselves, not because they’re "lying" in a malicious sense, but because addiction conditions them to operate through survival-based strategies: charm, deflection, withdrawal, or manipulation, depending on the person. These are not signs of a "rotten" mindset but rather evidence of a fractured self-connection. If you choose to continue working with this client, the key is building trust through resonance, not confrontation. If you call out their "mask" directly, it may trigger shame and resistance. Instead, mirror their deeper truth beneath it, when you sense inauthenticity, reflect back a safe interpretation of what might be happening underneath. For example: "I notice there’s a lot of strength in how you present yourself, but I also sense there’s something underneath that’s hard to bring forward. We don’t have to force anything, but I want you to know this space is open for whatever feels real for you in the moment." This keeps their defenses down while planting the seed for deeper honesty over time. That said, @Michael569 is absolutely right, know your limits. Coaching and therapy are different skill sets, and addiction is a volatile subject where ethical boundaries are crucial. If you feel out of depth, there is no shame in referring out while maintaining a support role within your expertise. You don’t have to be the "fixer" but you can be the bridge. Most importantly don’t absorb the emotional weight of this alone. Addiction has an energetic gravity, it can pull helpers into a dynamic of overextension or frustration. Keep your center, keep your scope clear, and engage only from a place of sustainable balance. You’re already navigating this thoughtfully, you'll find the intuition that'll guide you towards the best learning path for wisdom here. It's not a standard catch and shoot situation, you're going to have to hold the ball from a point guard position and simulate possible negative defensive and attack formations before they happen and sensitively move forward as an empathic leader. Take your time, diligently, they'll appreciate the extra space you need and if they don't, that's your very quick exit strategy that you should take given its new territory.

@VeganAwake I recognize the pattern here, when confronted with gaps in reasoning, the easiest escape is mockery. That’s fine. I have no interest in convincing you of anything; my responses have always been for those capable of deeper contemplation. For any reader following, my previous points remain, and I trust in your ability to discern meaningful discussion from avoidance tactics. There are no “big words” here, only big questions, ones that require more than taunts to answer. If discussion is to degrade into personal jabs, I see no further value in continuing as that is an evil which is beneath me and an evil which only harms future contributions to this discussion and critiques to @ExploringReality and any side therein. I’ll leave the depth of reasoning available for those prepared to engage with it. Best regards, Letho

@Will1125 it just means mutual dimensional mapping. In practical terms, this means the connecting point between where your consciousness creates itself better overlaps with the connecting point by which the universe creates its perceived reality within you. So "I am God", becomes what would otherwise be interpreted as an oxymoron by ego consciousness. It's not a big deal. And it is a big deal. Ego just makes it into a big deal though, including in its opposite or nearly stance it as say in the protestation that you're not god you're just deluded. So its very important to understand that in the theoretical sense this is very much a physical redirection that is occurring between and within consciousness and its self-perception, its not merely a re-theorisation but a new physical manifestation in phenomenological self-relational theory between consciousness and conscious universe. The idea of a 'conscious universe' in other words no longer becomes an idea or a theory of the universe your mind has but an inseparable reality of how you experience the universe as an intrinsic fabric. Because you're now at the intersection of aligned intelligence, consciousness increases itself at the intersection of what intelligence is meant to mean at that intersection. Aka you're not bound by the mere semi-sentience of rigid identities instead this is the 'infinite' self-realised in consciousness flexibility in its capacity to self-realise itself through alternate states of consciousness and the intelligence of managing that relationship. Thus, "God realisation", is a physical intersection that describes the unique temporal plane that all consciousnesses express where "God realisation' represents purely the described alignment of intelligence which has biological impacts on awareness and vice versa, that in this self-awareness, is a growing reality. Which, therefore one learns to cultivate not as an identity but in understanding the actual identity of the lived experience of the universe at the most pure dimensional ends, with the former representative of fixed rigid points of ego identification whereas the latter is by definition fixed rigid points of function. Therefore intelligence and the purity it implies with all the flexible solid clarity that comes with this superpositional alignment of higher temporal communication between our conscious experience and its underlying universal sentience.

@Elton your mind is creating mini visions in every moment, you've just forgotten and or never been taught the process as to how it does this. So what we're going to do is simply peel back the most important onion layers in which it does this so that you can begin to take advantage of this self-revealing process that's been opening up reality for you in every moment of your existence since the beginning of your life. Our first step is in simply understanding how symbol leads to meaning. Right now your brain is doing a wonderful job at converting letters to imagination to computation that steers your self-awareness into literally its next moment of self-creation. 1. Imagine a dog playing. - What breed of dog did you imagine? - Did it make any sounds? - What was it doing? Now repeat the same process for a "song", "bird", "building" and "beach". This process is teaching you the ease by which you create little visions already, that it was never actually very difficult and that the complexity lays more in the emotional rather than the intellectual blocks. 2. Examine the emotional responses you've up to reading so far. - Did those emotional responses create visions? - Did they create fears you imagined? - Did they create inspirations you imagined? Now I want you to think back to five previous times in which emotion or imagination has led to one another either in the form of fear or on the other side of the spectrum towards inspiration where for both, they have translated into some form of action from a vision you had to commit to that action which either influenced or was influenced by emotion. Here are some prompts to get your memory jogging: - Go back to when you were ten years old - Go back to your earliest memories of school - Go back to your earliest memories of playing sport 3. Examine how memory influences the visions and the emotions that generate and subsequently either lead more to fear or inspiration in the visions that either block inspirational ones or further an inspirational path for yourself. - Now you have a toolkit between imagination, emotions and memory and the beginnings of understanding how their interactions influences the ease, quality and degrees of your visions that lead to and or from your actions. Which leads us to the fourth and second last area we're going to be focusing on today. 4. Notice how actions change your emotional, imaginative and states of memory that in return alter your states of consciousness. - Lift your arm up the air slowly, do you notice the subtle changes in your emotional, mental and how you changed the way you remembered the moment that just past prior to your lifting of your arm compared to a previous five seconds ago? There you go, now you understand already. 5. Now the same for awareness - Just as your emotional, mental and remembered states of consciousness altered, did you also notice that what came with this triad was also a direct relationship to a change in your awareness and in return how your awareness changed the triad? There you go. - Now try lifting your opposite arm slowly, then at different speeds including too with other limbs and watch the pattern repeat in a different way. Now try just consciously shifting your eyes attention from side to side, up and down and then comparing eyes closed with eyes shut. - Now close your eyes, sit in a calm spot and simply wait until either your emotions, imagination, memory, subtle actions or awareness lead to the creation of a vision in your mind that influence your motivation in one direction as opposed to another. When this occurs, pay really close attention to how its creation was led by and leads to a change in the rest of these interrelating categories. Great job. - Now you're going to do the same task but instead I want you to focus on what you would imagine your day would be like tomorrow across 5 different scenarios. a. you're an astronaut b. you're homeless c. you're donald trump d. you're a formula one racing car driver e. you're a typical high school student > Notice how with ease you're able to imagine what their day would independently be like and compare this with the unease with imagining how your day would be like, what are the differing qualities here across the 5 previously mentioned categories of emotions, imagination, memory, actions (including just the imagined actions of independently being those individual people) and awareness? By understanding the subtle differences, you solve your own problem with respect to why you find it hard to manage the same state of consciousness when it comes to being yourself, even though in reality, it should be far easier to being able to do it for yourself as its something you've literally been trying to do for the entirety of your life, right? Wrong, it seems that way however there's a little counterintuitive lesson here that with a little practice, we can leverage towards being able to optimise our lives day to day with the same kind of ease it is for you to imagine a typical day for each of these people, and that is. The freedom of consciousness state creation is limited beyond that of rigid roles we define ourselves, its the liberty we're given as sentient creatures. Because we have the ability to experience one state of consciousness that's completely different from another, we're also able to experience alternate identities that are contrary to one another. This is our freedom of choice, which is great right? Yes and no. Because if we don't understand this, we struggle to use it to our advantage because then we wonder why our consciousness is running blank or we're struggling to find an existential path that we look around the world which we're told is easy to do when in reality, our consciousness is just simply waiting for us to align these five categories in an effortless not hard strung way. This is the other difficulty as well, because we're taught that it requires so much effort to have a vision and motivate ourselves, we subconsciously quite often are determined to make it difficult for our consciousness to do something which is actually quite simple and natural for it to do. By changing this belief and upgrading it with this new understanding that for this desired ease we simply must have a quite effortless alignment between these five by gently nursing them towards whatever direction we want to go in, well now you understand your full free will here now don't you? For everything else, it'll simply be a matter of practice. Many people find this same destination naturally from a young age in lucky ways because it gets properly modelled to them, millions of others however get opposing understandings modelled to them which lead to them resonating with the very same difficulty you're having that then normalizes the difficulty including too the translation of it being something that's actually quite easy to do. Let me know if you have any questions, I am sure though that with a few gentle pushes, practicing 10 minutes a day, in just one week you'll be well on your way not only working through any psychological blocks with ease but going beyond into territory that leads to the mastery of this process @Elton. Thank you for asking this question, by having the courage to present it you've now led to me answering something that will also help many others. Good on you for having the desire to explore the unknown.

Because its more fun here anyway and its a good place to inspire others to learn more.

So, For the curious among us, you're constantly studying everything you can about the universe and tweaking your path to mastery there. As such, this space is for those that are interested in sharing their renaissance polymath notes where you simply have fun talking about whatever is your interest and taking an interest in other peoples interests in a creative way. At present, I am continuing studies in algorithms, cryptography, game theory, security, AI, all things design, architecture and engineering. I love learning about outer space, biology, the environment, the planet, evolution, consciousness, ancient civilizations, and the hidden patterns that seem to connect everything. Whether it’s diving into the mysteries of quantum mechanics, exploring the artistry of code, or just geeking out over a new book or documentary, this is a space to share, spark ideas, and build a collective map of knowledge, one curiosity at a time. I also listen to the WhyFiles on Youtube when I'm drifting off to sleep sometimes for kicks. I've placed this thread in the "Off-Topic" section as I think that sometimes people take learning way too seriously when it should be a fun, engaging and self-fulfilling process that continually fuels the reward system in a hands off way. Best.

@Majed When you've demonstrated the schooling to justify quitting school that you're good enough to self-validate, you're ready to quit. Before then, its irresponsible to seek external validation and its irresponsible for anyone to give it, even if many people with little schooling are very successful. Many people are also amazing singers but at the end of the day in spite of those high numbers, most people... cannot sing. Right now, you've only shown a very small amount of evidence that you've made a wise decision, for everything else, its so far the unwise decision. Have you planned deeply? Have you engineered a learning feedback loop to turn experiences into learning lessons that you have repeatedly shown yourself good at following up on the next day? What are the deep questions you've answered which have heavily impacted your practical life experiences to the point where you're a better human than the one sitting at a desk sucking up dead air?