RickyFitts

Sounds like you need to slow down and focus your mind.

Great idea

'There's a difference between knowing the path and walking it.' - Morpheus, 'The Matrix'

I think the longing is your wounded inner child reaching out for comfort in those moments when you feel low - I experience this myself from time to time in relation to an ex I had a very strong emotional connection with (happened just the other day, funnily enough), I think it's something that's especially common in people who didn't receive the emotional support they needed when they were children (not saying this is necessarily true of you, melody, though I know it was true of me). So learning to self-parent is very important in dissolving these emotional attachments, I think, being present with yourself in those moments when you do feel low, as Waken said, allowing yourself to release any upset you may be feeling. If you have someone in your life who can be a shoulder to cry on or who can just give you a kiss and a cuddle, that can also be hugely healing.

Here's an interesting discussion between Harris and Adyashanti that came up in my Youtube recommendations (edit: apologies for the imperfect sound quality), very interesting that he's interacting with the likes of Adya and Rupert Spira - regardless of what you think of his perspective, it's great that he's helping to bring this into the mainstream:

Yes! This is what I've come to realise in my own experience just recently - I've been going through a kundalini awakening, and I can feel all that energy bumping up against all the accumulated resistance that's been stored in my body; in light of that, I've come to think of it in terms of allowing my physical form to be penetrated by spirit, very much like feminine sexual surrender as you say. It's given me a new appreciation for the feminine qualities of receptivity and vulnerability, and it's helped me to see what strength there is in those qualities.

@Gianna You're welcome, hope it helps

You're very welcome

@WelcometoReality Great advice

Here's a video that just came up in my Youtube recommendations that I figured you might find useful:

Likewise, thank you for your thoughtful contributions and for starting the conversation in the first place

Okay, thanks.

I get that, but I'm still confused - is he basically saying that Harris is making the assumption that there's such a thing as separative, individuated consciousness, and that this is ultimately an illusion?

I'm struggling to make sense of a line from that Bernarndo Kastrup quote forestfog mentioned: Admittedly I'm a bit of a noob, but could someone elaborate please?

@Gianna Good stuff, hopefully that helps then

Do you do any body-centred practices such as yoga, qi gong, or breath meditation? I found those sorts of practices extremely helpful when I was suffering with anxiety a few years back, they can really help you to physically relax and release trapped emotions, tensions, and whatnot.

Oh yeah I figured it out! Must admit I've never heard of July Talk (I really must crawl out from under my rock every once in a while), but it's a really lovely song, I can well imagine how it could make you feel wistful - link here, for anyone else for whom it's showing up as unavailable: It's making me think of an ex I had the hardest time getting over, which puts me in mind of this song from Coldplay's break-up album, 'Ghost Stories':

@Roy Video's unavailable. I'm curious now though, what was the song?

Excellent point, that's an important distinction to make.

Quite!

@Consilience Nicely said

Not in a month of Sundays Mind you, Trump had about as much to do with 'The Art of The Deal' as I had to do with the Bible by all accounts, it's basically his ghostwriter Tony Schwartz's book.

@melodydanielluna You're welcome, glad it was helpful

@acidgoofy Beautiful Here's one I always find devastating: This one gets my vote for most painful heartbreak song: