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It's okay. The more rejection you learn to tolerate, the more successful in life you will be. You just made a step towards that progress. Try your girl again after exams, and if she says no again, then move on. There are many beautiful dream girls that are waiting to reject you, just as many as there are waiting to accept you. Don't think of it as good or bad, it's all part of the same path.

Thanks to @Barna I have been introduced to Matt Kahn's work, and something he said really makes sense. Here is a quote from his video, and the link to watch the whole thing is down below: "The human body is part of an energy field. An individuated expression of the divinity. Every single thing that you feel in this field, mentally, and emotionally, is what is unresolved in the collective unconsciousness of the world. Please know this: every thought that you have is not yours individually. It is a part of what is unresolved in the collective unconsciousness, and what you feel and think, is what you are transmuting out of all fields. You can be in an ego blaming yourself for what you think and feel, or if you're spiritually awake, you can feel and think the same things and say to yourself, "Of course I am feeling and thinking this. This is because this is what the world is still thinking and feeling. And I am conscious enough to realize that I am transmuting this experience out of the world." In other words, what Matt is saying is that Adolf Hitler was a spiritual worker. Lol, I know that sounds crazy, but if you look at the world in this radical way, everything starts to make more sense. This is because all the bad things that Hitler did, and any mass murderer in history did, is that they transmuted (aka altered) energy fields that involved mass murdering and genocide, and took it out of the equation for future generations. Hitler did this unconsciously, of course. I still think he is an asshole. And this is just a really extreme example of what Matt is saying. But the point Matt is driving home is that slowly but surely, we're taking out all the things we deem bad out of the human energy field. Here is an easy to follow example: you go to work and tell your boss he is a dick. The reason for this is that this is still part of the human unconsciousness, this huge field that we are all part of, and even though you told your boss he is a dick, you just contributed to this energy field by taking out a little fraction of the anger and hate the world still encompasses. This is if you're an unconscious person, which the majority are. If you are conscious enough to see this field, if someone flips you off and cuts you off on the road, you will be able to say to yourself, "Ahhh, this person just took out a little fraction of hate and anger that the world has still to work with. Good for them!" You see, this means that everyone is a spiritual worker, and everyone is contributing one way or another to the field. And maybe one day, the field will be free from hate and anger. Look, I am not giving his idea justice, please watch this video. It will help you so much with your realizations!!

Love your parents no matter who they are. The last people that we will accept on our journey will always be our parents. Why? Because they know us like no one else does, and because they represent the ultimate form of forgiveness. Have you ever met a person who is unhappy but has a good relationship with their parents? Perhaps! However, the tendency is that happy people are happy because they have no unresolved feelings with their folks.

Not enough evidence that it causes cancer. By the way, we have been using cell phones since the 90s. You'd think there would be clear evidence like the ones seen with the smoking population, but, alas, nothing yet. I remember a time when laser eye surgery came out and everyone was scared that you will gradually lose eye sight. Well, we have had this technology for 30 to 40 years, and everyone who has had laser eye surgery, including myself, seems to go on living just fine. Here is a good quote from a reliable source, and the link is below: "Exposure to ionizing radiation, such as from x-rays, is known to increase the risk of cancer. However, although many studies have examined the potential health effects of non-ionizing radiation from radar, microwave ovens, cell phones, and other sources, there is currently no consistent evidence that non-ionizing radiation increases cancer risk." https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/radiation/cell-phones-fact-sheet

Enjoy being young, being drunk, having sex with girls. Enjoy your 20s for God's sake. Just have a meditation habit, that's all you need.

Dear Actualized.org Community, Falling into Jupiter would be an amazing and weird experience. Jupiter is a giant gas planet, which means you could go straight through without ever hitting a surface (all though there is a possibility that there is a small core in the centre). Imagine being able to enter Earth's atmosphere through North Pole only to come out of South Pole shortly after - that would be the case if Earth had no surface. Back to Jupiter.... Diving in a spaceship, first you would go through the cloud layers made up of ammonia, methane, and sulphur, and you would see colourful storms everywhere. Assuming you could survive these storms which have speeds of 600 km/h. You would also smell rotten eggs everywhere because of all these compounds in the atmosphere. After a while, the spaceship will get engulfed in darkness - total darkness - because the Sun won't be able to penetrate anymore layers of atmosphere. However, you will shortly see light from one of the most amazing things about Jupiter - it has an ocean. Jupiter is made up of mostly hydrogen. Most of the gas on the planet is, in fact, gaseous form of hydrogen. But as you dive deeper, the pressure increases. Gas becomes more and more compact. Under tremendous pressure (which a spaceship wouldn't survive, it would just get crushed into a flat plate, but for the sake of the argument let's say it can withstand this pressure) the gaseous hydrogen condenses into a liquid. So as you go deeper and deeper into Jupiter, you will start to notice that the gas becomes steamier and steamier until it's indistinguishable from liquid. And here is the best part about Jupiter. As you go deeper into this ocean, you will discover there is a much more bizarre ocean lying right underneath this ocean. It's hydrogen in a special form called metallic liquid hydrogen - its much brighter than the surface of the sun, and it has a blueish colour. It would be something similar to diving into one of Earth's oceans while it's undergoing a severe lightning storm. This is because metallic liquid hydrogen conducts electricity really well. By the way, you wouldn't want to scoop up a bowl of that liquid hydrogen and bring it to Earth, because without the colossal pressure that Jupiter exerts on the hydrogen, it would go off in a hell storm of hydrogen bombs.

Actually, if you don't feel like meditating then don't do it. If you don't feel like doing something, just don't do it. If you force yourself to do something, you're not going in the right direction. Just enjoy your apathy. You're punishing yourself because you want to be somewhere else, but you just need to realize that where you are right now is where you need to be. Enjoy these days when you are not doing anything because it won't always be like that. The feeling that you're stuck is only there because you think you're stuck. Just say to yourself, "Things are a little slow right now, and it may continue for days, weeks, or even years. No problem. I will not rebel. I will enjoy." There were days, weeks when I didn't meditate. You don't need to meditate if you're not motivated. Here is something important: you can't generate motivation. In other words, you can't force yourself to do something. Do you feel satisfied after you forced yourself to go to the gym? Maybe. BUT it's not the same as if you have the motivation to go to the gym. Right now your motivation is not to be motivated. Sometime in the future, there will be a new motivation. Maybe after that you'll go back to your apathy, and maybe after that you will have a very productive project, and after that back to apathy we go. That's just life. And your only goal is to realize that none of it is bad. Everything is fine just the way it is.

Long distance relationships are pretty hard. We are meant for closeness and intimacy, and you won't get that over Skype. My view is this: if you really love this girl, then suck it up, stop feeling neurotic (by the way, you're feeling neurotic because you don't fully trust her, which makes me think you don't really know her that well), wait till August, and lastly, accept the possibility that it is not meant to be. The problem is your relationship is very fresh and not very grounded. It takes YEARS to develop a trusting relationship, unless you're a little older (adults are generally much better at generating trust and acceptance for each other). If you're young and she is young, chances are that by August, either you or she will slowly forget your good times together, and may want some new experiences, possibly with someone else. Young people suppose to have sex with many, many, many people. It'll make you a better person when you're older. So I wouldn't get attached. I think you need to hook up with some girls who live in the area. If you have a lot of love to give, give it to someone within reach. Of course, I could be very wrong about all this, as my answer is only a generalization based on life experience and observation. I know what it feels like. I know you really, really want THAT person, and you want to be happy with that person. But I am sorry to say this, life is real. If you don't know what that means, you just have to go through it to understand. Good luck, and spread love!!!

Probably sex. That's the only thing I live for nowadays. Donnie Darko had a real nice quote about this. He and his friends were talking about Smurfs (you know these blue little guys that a lot of kids watch), and here is what he had to say: "First of all, Papa Smurf didn't create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel's evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village. But the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her. And as for the whole gang-bang scenario - It just couldn't happen. Smurfs are asexual. They don't even have reproductive organs under those little white pants. That's what's so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. What's the point of living... if you don't have a dick?" What's the point of living if you don't have a dick? That really sums up my motivation.

Hi everyone! I have a specific question regarding highly conscious people. Let's say you are that person, and you have a lot of joy, gratitude, compassion, and forgiveness in your heart. Let's also suppose that in your past life you were a crazy drunkard with a partying addiction, who slept with every single person you can imagine. Now let's suppose this person was thrown right back into that environment where they were consumed by this lifestyle. Do you think the person would enjoy doing all these things, or do you think their higher consciousness wouldn't want to give in to unconscious behaviour?

@Soulbass Let me guess, the world in the Truman Show is something that we live in while the aliens watch us as some sort of reality television?

Are you implying Jim Carrey is an alien?

Never mind, my excitement to try this pretty much died right after liftoff. If you find something too good to be true, you can always put your money on Mayo Clinic: http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/detox-diets/faq-20058040 Also, the Guardian had a good piece on the whole detox hysteria, and I have pasted out a little text from that article. The link to the full article can be found below. Collins guffaws at the notion of superfoods. “Most people think that you should restrict or pay particular attention to certain food groups, but this is totally not the case,” she says. “The ultimate lifestyle ‘detox’ is not smoking, exercising and enjoying a healthy balanced diet like the Mediterranean diet.” Close your eyes, if you will, and imagine a Mediterranean diet. A red chequered table cloth adorned with meats, fish, olive oil, cheeses, salads, wholegrain cereals, nuts and fruits. All these foods give the protein, amino acids, unsaturated fats, fibre, starches, vitamins and minerals to keep the body – and your immune system, the biggest protector from ill-health – functioning perfectly. So why, then, with such a feast available on doctor’s orders, do we feel the need to punish ourselves to be healthy? Are we hard-wired to want to detox, given that many of the oldest religions practise fasting and purification? Has the scientific awakening shunted bad spirits to the periphery and replaced them with environmental toxins that we think we have to purge ourselves of? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/05/detox-myth-health-diet-science-ignorance

Dear Actualized.org Community, I have been having awakening experiences lately, and my heart is full of joy. But I have also started to notice that I cannot fall asleep. And I love sleep. I am staying up all night. Could you give me an explanation if you can? Thank you

This is so unconscious and stupid that it made me go unconscious and post this comment. This is for little boys who need assurance, attention, and whose insecurities are bigger than their dicks. Men don't label or criticize women, and know the true value of male and female attraction.

@Lenny Oh c'mon, that's not fun. The rules of the game are you have to pick one of the above. Which one of the above options do you naturally tend to go for? For example, my intuition tells me that life is extremely rare, and by rare I don't mean 1 civilization per galaxy, I mean much, much, much more rare. Something like 1 civilization per 1 billion galaxies.

Dear Actualized.org Community, The movie "Lost In Translation" is with Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. I won't ruin it for people who haven't seen it, but it's such a great film. I've seen it many times, and it always leaves me with mixed feelings. I hate the end, so I purposefully stop watching it 10 minutes before the end. I hate how painfully it screams "Real Life" in your face. I want that happy ending, so I've convinced myself that if I don't watch the end, that means it ends on a happy note. i have only now finally realized what the movie is about. It's about moments. It's about savouring the moment you have because that's all you really have. Nothing is written in stone. Nothing is forever. Still, My heart wants to see the good ending, the one that's in my head. There is a great scene where the two main characters are just sitting in the hotel's restaurant, their faces are close, and are looking at each other, and appreciating the moment as it is. It's a beautiful scene, and for me the movie ends there. It's amazing film that I love to love and love to hate. I understand everyone has different movie tastes, but if you're doing spiritual work, you can sense what the movie's message is. I hope you will watch it!

I am glad to have found it for y'all. My whole day was pretty much monkey chatter, but as soon as I sat down and tried this game, I was already feeling its healing energy! ^.^

Dear Actualized.org Community, I found an interesting game online. I would advise you to try it. It will take you only 5 minutes. For the individuals that feel anxiety a lot, I think playing this game repeatedly and at various times that you feel anxious will help you relax. In addition, those of us who are just starting out in meditation may find it useful because we may have a difficult time sitting still, closing our eyes, focusing on the breath, etc... As you play through the game, pay attention to the following: Your brain may go off into thinking mode, at which point redirect your attention back to the game Enjoy the scenery, and the presence while playing Evaluate your level of relaxation before and after the game Thank you very much and enjoy: http://www.zovirl.com/2011/09/forest.html

Promise me you'll watch it before you go to Mars!

Have you seen The Martian with Matt Damon? I feel like it's something they will make every astronaut heading for Mars watch as an orientation video.

I don't know, I always thought it was cool how all the planets are so different. For example, I heard there are planets out there that are completely covered in diamonds. Wouldn't that be a sight? It's like Superman's home planet or something. And there are many, many examples of how weird things can get out there in space. I think it's fun to think about. I know nothing like that is ever possible, that's why my thoughts is all I have Hey, it could happen in our lifetime. First they'll send astronauts, then they'll want average Joes like us to go up there and reproduce. Unless of course you're an astronaut, then you have a very good chance to be the first one there!

Dear Actualized.org Community, I have had a lifelong fantasy that even my spiritual work can't tame. I actually found this online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_prone_personality Apparently, there is a personality disorder regarding fantasizing. I don't know if it applies to me, but I would like to ask your help! How do I stop reliving my fantasy? Please help

You're a monster