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Alan Watts said something along the lines of Karma=Doing

So my GF has never been big on perusing enlightenment or spirituality in general, but she's always had a keen sense for it. She's been going to school and working and her time has been so preoccupied that one day she experienced nothingness. True absolute nothingness. It was a beautiful experience at first but then the next day she said she saw all of time; past present and future in a sort of "donut" shape that infinitely collapsed in on itself like a strange loop. She knows I understand what she means but she feels like she's going crazy and can't turn off seeing infinity. I've helped her a bit by explaining some of what this means, but also telling her how to ground and be present. She wants to get into meditation but it's never been a big thing for her. I have a feeling that will change soon. Leo's video on The Many Facets of Awakening has been exceptionally relevant for this. I'm very proud of her, but I also understand that this is very scary for her as well as exciting. She's been crying a lot and losing sleep because she keeps slipping into the infinite. I haven't seen her in a week and tomorrow I finally get to be with her again, but if anyone has advice or words of wisdom to help her through this rude and involuntary awakening that would be great. <3

Thank you all for the responses. She's doing much better now that we've had a chance to sit together and discuss this. We went on a date and she commented how weird it was that she is literally everybody and wanted to hug all of them and tell them everything is going to be okay. She had a few scary moments later that night; sudden realizations of being nothing. I've been working with her on grounding and giving her resources to help herself. @samijiben Yes, I'm consciously making an effort not to sully or corrupt her experience in any way. @Leo Gura Thanks, it's in the mail now @JayySur She has 1 free day a week; she's mentally exhausted. No time for psychedelics. @RickyFitts I am thrilled for her, and when she's not reeling she is too. @Nahm Thank you, she's not on the forum but maybe an email, can you post or PM the address to me?

It's really bad on social media like IG and FB. I've noticed two types of anti-vaxxers. There's your (probably) libertarian, "I don't trust the government" people, and then there's the people who say, "I'm not anti-vaccine but..." and I'm surprised at many of the people around me who fall into the ladder. The biggest one I see is that it's not FDA approved and it's a "human trial" and frankly this all sounds like fake news and conspiracy to me. The irony is that these people say they are "woke" about this stuff

His videos are lost on 99% of people or dismissed as some new age/ hippy bs.

So much fear in a short video. Boy's and girl's sports! Nothing about them, just the mention is all you need.

Either way I'm putting my life savings in Dogecoin.

As funny as it is scary ._.

reuters is alright

You don't see what you prevent. As insurance companies put it: one instance puts you at risk for another.

LOL Thank you for all you do, Leo. I hope your holidays were good

they do, and they blame Obama >_<

The power is knowing that you do not know. God help you if you don't know that you don't know.

There is power in knowing that you do not know

@juvoci Do you have any recommendation on blog sites?

Martial arts as a PE class would be cool. They are all about discipline and something like Tai Chi could have a lot of benefit for kids in school. I remember my elementary school had a karate class in the evening, but it was lame and not very helpful.

@Village "cocktail of disease" shows lack of understanding on what a vaccine actually is... Can you explain what specific things in a vaccine concern you? If you're worried about things like mercury you should know there is more in a can of tuna than a vaccine.

I think part of the fear of the vaccines comes from the way the media framed it. They made it seem like the vaccine was completely untested and the first person who got it was a test, at least that's the impression I got from a quick skim of the comments. Here's the problem though: I've been seeing that it would be a two part vaccine 3 weeks apart. That's going to require a commitment from people getting the vaccine, otherwise the virus could mutate and become resistant to it. Add that to the people who are actively refusing to take it and there is a lot of potential for this to go poorly. If people getting the vaccine make a commitment to following up and take it seriously then this could go quite well. However, since we like to politicize everything from masks to vaccines, I can see a new vaccine coming after this one for the follow up, or maybe an improved version that doesn't require such low temperature storage. For that reason I can see both sides on the waiting argument. All that said though, I massage for a living and haven't been able/comfortable doing my practice since March. I want to get past this and go back to my work, so I will take whatever vaccine they have ready.

JP is one of those people you have to take with a grain of salt. He has very helpful and pragmatic things to say but a lot of ideology too that people can get lost in.

You can start with analyzing where Germany was after WWI on the spiral dynamics scale, where Hitler was, and where he brought Germany on the scale.

People have their own reasons, but he's stage red/orange which is dangerous to have as the leader of the US... Plus he's a compulsive liar that brings out the worst in people.

I'm so down. I'll have my Ska band relocate to Oregon.

@Opo We lost seats in the house and senate from what I understand

This is huge! Didn't they also decriminalize drug use in Oregon?

@erik8lrl boy did he ever call that