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@omar30 This forum. We should all take pause and reflect, but that’s just an opinion.

It’s much more local than that. This is the only place where spirituality isn’t the inspecting & relinquishing of concepts, but rather the adhering to concepts, essentially to fit in and not be belittled or prohibited from participating. Back in the day, spirituality was about seeing through the concepts acquired from religions. ‘Your’ connection with God is ever-present & ever-felt, but unfortunately, apparently, in your experience thus far ‘spirituality has concepts’.

@Rilles There is a puppy and it is looking at you. There is no puppy and there is no you. Both of those statements are true. Both of those statements are false.

@omar30 Your best guess will do, not looking for a correct / right answer here… why do they want you to be religious?

?? Hi me.

That’s impossible. It’s ‘trying to bend the spoon’ vs ‘seeing what is’. Of course “sense” is a thought / a word / a label, but in the way it’s used here “the sense others are looking at you”… that isn’t ‘a sense’, it’s the thought, or belief… in others, looking, and you. @Tyler Durden Feels like what this symbol points to ?

Reminded me of some trip reports.

Indeed. Also not every thought needs to be a thread.

Recognize the feeling of relief & expression are inseparable, like sharing a discordant secret and thus liberating of it. That is the outcome of expressing. You can also do the reverse and entertain different interpretations, while feeling the subtly of discord and alignment for more adjacency to truth. Notice you’re doing that effortlessly right now while reading this. They are already perfectly, naturally ‘challenged’ in perfect time, and this discord is felt when the discordant beliefs are activated via relativity, or, simply in being around other people and different situations. Imo, rather than an orientation of challenging beliefs, orientate toward the easiest & most natural alignment possible - what you want. Make a dreamboard. Two birds one board. Focus upon wanted, let’s say, ‘activates the body’s natural tendency to clean out’. Limited beliefs come up & out all on ‘their’ own. Daily meditation & daily usage of the emotional scale make for a smooth ride. Get out there and experience new stuff. Get. Crazy. To the extent your budget and schedule permits…. Think up who would be most opposite culturally etc, to you, and go talk to that person in person. Go to a country you haven’t been to. Make recipes from other countries for fun. Do the practices of different religions for a week. If you’re male, ask a female what’s it’s like being female, and listen. If you young, ask the old, and listen. If you’re old, ask the young. If you’re straight, ask someone who isn’t and listen. Never ‘wait’ when waiting, do somethin new, something you haven’t done before. Learn something you would never otherwise learn. Examples for me… long line at Walmart yesterday, asked the lady in front of me what her dream is for her life. She thought I was nuts initially, and hugged me on her way out. (Separate example) learned how to use a sewing machine to make a dress for my daughter. Bonus; now it’s easy to finally make t-shirts fit. Listened to a genre I never really resonated with for a week (country music) turns out it’s all about God & love it now. You get the idea here. You won’t remember who you thought you were. Whatever comes to mind for you, try it out & enjoy.

Check the app called 3Fun, not only for finding your third wheel but to plug into a community that’ll likely share more ideas than you can get to in this lifetime. Give it your best nonetheless of course. Trip reports welcomed.

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TLDR but much love to ya and Godspeed sir!

Just say fuck it and see what happens.

@mandyjw That’s what she said.

@Zeroguy Definitely with you there. It’s as good as it gets over here. Also, sometimes ya just wanna get laid. Unfolding is so mysteriously beautiful.

Absolutely nails it.

@Gesundheit2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X5Dr-uFVGw

@Zeroguy

@Judy2 Nice!

Adorable. There’s a show on Apple TV called Shut Eye that came to mind. You might like it. ??

Day to day focus is naturally (and perfectly) zoomed in, as if looking through a magnifying glass. This ‘magnifying glass’ is, but isn’t noticed. It is, but can’t be touched or seen. When you get high on a substance, focus loosens, as if zooming out. When this occurs and you feel discord, you are feeling thoughts, beliefs and perspectives that are ‘held’ or believed while zoomed in, which you’ve adapted to and thus don’t really notice while zoomed in. But you notice them when zooming out. For the win, zoom out of, let go of, the concept ‘my mind’, and instead employ, ‘what I am right now focusing on’. If, when zooming out, discord arises, choose love. If someone pops up in thought, love that someone. If a struggle or challenge in your life pops up, appreciate & love it. If a discordant past event pops up in thought, love all who were involved. In this loving, you are letting go & healing, and allowing more zooming out. In your loving & wishing them well, you are liberating yourself. Then, when you’re back to your day to day, and not zoomed out, the two become one. (Zoomed out & zoomed in). Then so to speak you can zoom at will, from someone & somewhere, to nothing. This is nothing more than what you’re already doing so to speak, as God. Could also say this is applying nothing to everything, until there is not an everything, nor even a nothing. (The perfection).

That there are no trips. Ego, in a nutshell. Spiritual ego.

Contemplation is communion, conscious creating, and is about your life / experience, and what’s let go & what manifests. Mental masturbation is thinking & talking about this, but only regurgitating, not actually creating anything. What’s genuine is really up to you. As a specific example, talking about & sharing the Kaballa, vs not talking about it, but actually employing it in your creating / life.

@Gesundheit2 The truth is there’s no answer because it isn’t a doer doing thing, so there isn’t stuff I could suggestion one do. It’s just letting go of discordant thought, perspectives & views and feeling alignment more & more acutely, and abiding there in. Could say sensitivity experientially increases as you do. Same trial & error over here as over there so to speak. But that’s potentially a non answer, which can seem cryptic or vague. So the most practical answer I can give is get a guitar and start learning it, and learning to sing, and start writing songs. And now concepts like bias etc are likely arising to an extent that sounds like Nahm’s personal thingy and the suggestion is already missed, as in not really considered. But the suggestion, when entertained, when tried, is profound because expression & transmutation are profound. It’s not about getting famous, or even singing well, etc. And that is (I presume) very difficult to grasp. That the suggestion doesn’t have a point, or, is valueless. If I experience this (thread topic) and the emotions therein, and end up with some of the trial & error discord, for me it’s not really discord at all, it’s an emotional experince about to be had, via a new song about to be written.

Which emotion is felt? You have to find out directly. ‘Becoming more aware’ is actually a letting go of misunderstandings, assumptions, beliefs, etc. Awareness can’t really become more aware’. Which emotion is felt? Motive is focusing on whatever you are focused on to fundamentally avoid an undesirable outcome. Inspiration is focusing on what you want. Inspiration is aligned with source and creates, and you know this alignment by how it feels. But not by thinking about, by direct experience. Yes pretty much. Yes.