Loreena

Could you have said it better ? Just how many people fail to grasp this and keep demonizing the law of attraction, attaching it to greed. They just miss the whole point. Glad you brought it up. If anyone says law of attraction doesn't work, I would say add " for me."

@Truth I am coming with - stumbling growth - progressive battle - never ending process of coming back on track - conceptual metamorphosis - positive regression - constructive pitfalls - backward learning curve - contemplative see-saw - wobbling growth

I think your friend wants to live in an acceptance based paradigm. He wants to accept life the way it is with its suffering and problems. But his unconscious or low conscious habits like junk food, drugs will not help him on the way. Maybe he doesn't wish to sacrifice all of this for Self actualization. He wants to be content with it. But that's an unhealthy self destructive attitude, it's like they're okay with whatever consequences, generally bad, then a sign of covert self destructive attitude. Almost like an obese man would say he is completely fine with whatever he eats, he likes it, knowing fully well the consequences of it, is like a symptom of giving into addiction and not wanting to acknowledge it because it hurts and creates conflict, so just accept reality and reduce conflict because that is so easy to do. That is making it too simplistic but everyone knows that ultimately cannot be the justification, if all of humanity just survived by saying everything is fine as it is, there wouldn't be any progress, no discoveries, nothing done to improve conditions, everyone just being too content for their own good. But reality as we know is very paradoxical. So when we know we can do something to improve ourselves and our conditions, we must. However when it looks impossible to change a situation, that's where a acceptance is needed because too much resistance would create frustration and conflict. It's like a dance between resistance and acceptance.

@John Iverson Be careful about binaural beats. Personally I experienced lot of side effects. I did it for a year, 3 years back. In the beginning I had no problem. But after some months, sleep disturbances, confusion, disorientation. Apathy and restlessness. Some of my friends experienced the same symptoms. After that I stopped listening to them. I was using theta and gamma. Now I do meditation without music.

A lot of guys into nofap. You too nofap ?

How come you're always right ? I think you got some 6th sense. It's all chimpery.

Good question. I would say stay away from all of that

@Peace and Love wow this was great. Thank You so much. I will refer to these. God bless you.

I get heavy periods. Suffer from iron deficiency. I also get sour taste in mouth frequently. Is the acidic taste linked to iron deficiency. My symptoms Dark yellow urine Sour taste in mouth Iron deficiency Any info would be appreciated.

The signature is not meant for others to follow my path. Sorry but that's a huge misunderstanding here. There's a misunderstanding of words and language. The signature is meant as a reminder to myself to follow the right path through my struggle in life, not others to follow my path and I never make such claims in the forum anywhere. Please do not misinterpret without asking.Thanks. I made it clear

@Joseph Maynor @SOUL can anyone explain to me this scaffolding.

These days almost everyone gets diagnosed as bipolar, depressed. Mental health experts are not even ready to delve deeper into the causes of it. For example, someone might be going through a financial crisis and is unhappy for some time, they need a resolution for their problems but when they go to the psychiatrist, they're instead handed a clinical prescription.

You're right that philosophizing doesn't achieve anything.

In my opinion, the concept that one gets ultimate freedom from suffering by practicing spirituality is just another illusion of the many illusions. Just like chasing money doesn't make you happy. A person can be intrinsically spiritual, he doesn't need to do special exercises. It's a quality of the soul or the spirit and not of the body, so just no correlation with swimming.

I don't think spirituality has got anything to do with being miserable. Those are conditions. A person can still be spiritual. To say someone is not spiritual is a huge statement. A person can be happy yet not spiritual. Suffering still exists whether one is spiritual or not. The only difference is that by practicing spirituality one gets some reprieve from suffering

@Joseph Maynor for me it's not like 3 levels but 2 modes One survival mode or lower self mode and the other is spiritual mode or higher self mode. Both are necessary so both combine. None is dispensable.

@Shanmugam do you have more. This is amazing. Keep them coming.

@Outer Thank you

@Joseph Maynor So true. Some people find it hard to accept other's perspectives. In their own minds, their perceptives are the absolute like a holy grail that everyone must follow.

@Joseph Maynor In my opinion just a simple biological sensory operation at work..

Then what would you call the absence of illusion ?

Who is John Snow ?

Real magic. Nice video. Clearly explained. I love how the distinction is made between the two. It's so easy to fool ourselves

@Peace and Love I knew it that's why I sent you. You sesee its the law of attraction working real time for you. I knew it will be something you might be looking for so I sent, I'm glad to be of help.

My self inquiry tells me that the egoic self should not exist. And the true self exist but remains buried inside layers of onion that need to be peeled off to get to that self.