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The idea is to control the transmission especially during the peak of the curve. Every epidemic follows a curve where it has a peak and then a plateau followed by a significant downfall. However considering the daily count of deaths, it's not the best time to go out because it will rapidly increase the transmission rate of the virus. When the epidemic is at the end stages of the curve, the transmission rate will fall drastically and then going out won't be a problem because the number of infected people will be really low so rapid transmission will be less likely. The curve shows the daily count of new cases, during a peak, this count is really high, and once past the peak point, the curve begins to drop, plateau and eventually flattens out.. Now there are three things that need to slow down on the curve. The rate of virus transmission and the rate of dying or death count and the number of active cases. Usually when the curve begins to flatten away from the peak, both the transmission rate as well as the death count tend to be on the decline. There are less deaths and less new people infected. But the number of active cases can still be high which can mean that the number of patients who either die or recover is still lower than the number of new infections. The curve truly flattens only when all three parameters decrease. In order for the number of active cases to decline, the number of patients who either die or recover should be higher than the number of new infections. The lockdown can be lifted once the peak point has passed and the flattening is achieved, unless there is secondary wave of the virus transmission in which case social distancing will need to be enforced again.

Hofstadter's strange loop. From meaninglessness to isomorphism

Consciousness and reality Consciousness permeates reality. Rather than being just a unique feature of human subjective experience, it's the foundation of the universe, present in every particle and all physical matter. ... Physics is just structure. It can explain biology, but there's a gap: Consciousness

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Going down a rabbit hole must feel like being in a backroom.. When you are on your spiritual journey, there are things that open and sometimes you realize you were always in that rabbit hole. It's time to come out.

So once again nightmares!! I don't remember a lot of details of this one. But it goes like this. I have a friend that I'm flirting with. We both get along really well. I am trying to be this creative artist and I have some good stuff, however my family is critical of me. They consider it a waste of my time. Weirdly my paintings are being stored in a mobile or portable fridge and all my works of art are being stuffed there with no more space to add more. I've some anxiety and fear about sling those paintings. Dream abruptly cuts.

You will never be a part of me and I'll never be a part of you.

@Anna1 that was so funny.

Slim pickings.. Koyosta.

I have realized one big thing today during my morning meditation. And this is the realization. Trust is a wonderful beautiful space of emotion. You can always forgive a person. You can always forget the scars. You can forget what they did to you. But you can't get back that trust again. You can never trust that person again like you did before. Trust once broken is broken forever. Trust is like a mirror. Broken then you can't mend it. Like a flower that wilted. You can't get it back. Like the milk that went sour. You can't undo it. I think this applies to all relationships.. Romantic or not. This brings me to another realization. That trustworthiness is the greatest aspect or trait in the universe. Because we can undo grudge and forgive and forget and love again and do good again but we can't trust again. What is your opinion?

I love this list. 6 years of self-actualization was a waste of time Started by Stretch, 3 hours ago Reply to this topic 16 posts in this topic Stretch Topic Starter Member 108 posts Posted 3 hours ago · About 6 years ago I discovered Actualized.org and became inspired by the concepts of enlightenment and self-actualisation. Gradually pursuit of these took over my life, as I focused ever more narrowly on consciousness work as a way to improve my life. Eventually, I let go of friends, relationships, careers, possessions, hobbies and interests. Did a lot of meditation, yoga, etc. Built a spiritual ego and did some spiritual bypassing, too. Had one awakening experience. 6 years down the line and I am depressed, lost, alone, purposeless and empty. Trying and failing to find a sustainable life purpose I’ve ended up in a much worse practical position than if I’d settled for something less ambitious, and now I've run out of the luxury to keep looking due to personal circumstances. Although my meditation at one point felt like it was significantly clearer, at this point I have to doubt if my concentration is really much better than when I started. I don’t feel any closer to truth, and have completely lost my playfulness, sense of humour and experience of fun along the way. You have to take a LOT on faith with this work. The guidance isn’t presented as a dogma so much as a ‘try it and see for yourself’ thing. How long an experiment is reasonable to run, however, before lack of willingness to accept ‘it isn’t working’ betrays treating the guidance as dogma nevertheless? I’ve wasted 6 years of my life on a totally pointless quest, I’m absolutely sick of it, and I’m leaving now to attempt to stitch my life back together again. One more thing… I have to ask… Leo’s been doing this thing hard for a while now too, right. Let’s detach ourselves from our beliefs about enlightenment and self-actualisation for a mo and look at this objectively. Anyone else think his life looks a bit sad? Waken Member 143 posts Posted 2 hours ago (edited) · Stretch, what is it that you want from life? Feeling love, joy, peace, transcendence, career, fame, beauty, profoundness, finding a lover.. what? And did you enjoy some of the practises you did? Also, was your business with the spiritual work a lot of mind stuff? A point on following your life purpose. For myself I find something that Bashar mentioned much more natural when talking about life purpose. See: https://bashar.org/handouts/TheFormula.pdf . This approach doesn't involve working on a purpose, but in short just doing what attracts you most in the moment. Apart from these questions, please consider the possibility that you've actually progressed a lot and now come into a struggle into your life, which could be seen as an important transformation point. I don't know if this is the case for you, but I suppose it's very common for people who transform into living from spirit/soul (or whatever word you like) will come into one or more points in their journey which involve a period of struggle. The way you interpreted your period of struggle makes a lot of difference in how you'll experience it. For example, relabeling depression as a natural process for turning inwards, as you've come to feel that the answers won't be found outside of you (not from Leo or other actualized.org people), will make you experience it with much more appreciation, instead of thinking you've ended up in a mess. Maybe your depression is a point of transformation for you, where you stop looking for answers and suggestions outside of you, and learn to live from inward out, instead from outward in. Throw away all you've ever heard, everyone's tips on how to live and what to do, throw away everything doesn't make you feel good (from actualized.org too), and start feeling what it is you want now ------------------------------------- Ya know Member 82 posts Posted 38 minutes ago · It's an ego backlash. Is it really a problem? Aren't all problems imaginary? Did you truly have a terrible 6 years of your life? Or are you only a bit pissed off and thinking it's the end of the world ? I do the exact same thing - most human beings do, so it's nothing to be ashamed of. If you've been meditating consistently for 6 years I can guarantee your life is better. Sure there are low points, and with more awareness can come some resentment of others if you don't keep letting go of stupid thoughts like that. Remember the most basic personal development mantras - '' YOU ARE 100% RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ENTIRE LIFE'' Leo showed you the path, you decided to walk it. You can get off any time and enjoy life. There's a lot to do here. As for losing humor and joy, I've done the exact same thing. Realize spirituality is meant to enhance your life. You aren't supposed to become the grim reaper, condemning humanities lack of consciousness and living in a gloomy world. The work liberates you from feeling compelled to live a certain way, to conform to society. You can choose to be detached. Doing what YOU want. To cure your depression - eat healthy for the next 2 days (focus on only two, it's achievable. Plan 6 meals, 3 per day) Do 30 mins exercise per day Drink a bunch of water - Go out in nature (if possible) Continue your spiritual practices. Don't disregard them because of a foul mood. Then chill out and make intuitive decisions about what will be the most appealing thing to do. Talk to a friend as well. If your pissed off, be pissed off! Feel it fully and let go of it. -----__---_-------_--------_----- Leo Gura Administrator 17,799 posts Posted 16 minutes ago · Firstly, it wasn't a waste of time. The lessons you learned will serve you for the rest of your life. It will keep paying dividends. Secondly, it's important to do this work without making it a chore. It has to align with your passions. Don't do it if you aren't passionate about. It sounds like this work is too advanced for you. You probably have lower stages of the Spiral to work on, which means Tier 1 teachings like basic self-help, biz, relationships, etc. You won't be able to go for advanced spiritual work unless you take care of your more basic desires and burn through some karma. The stuff I teach nowadays is extremely advanced and not suitable for many people who struggle with meeting basic needs. Thirdly, there are much worse ways you could have used your time. Fourthly, don't underestimate how much you grew in those 6 years. It's easy to forget how ignorant, selfish, and fooling you were back them. Growth happens and is then taken for granted. Fifthly, you are allowed to have friends and relationships.

I've seen that video before. It motivates me. Imagine sitting next to that cat at home!

I forget that there's always a different world out there. This is my motivation video for today

Woke up feeling really shitty Had a nightmare. Wasn't a good feeling at all. This time I remember it fresh and vivid. I'm invited to an academy of arts and sciences When I enter the Academy Building, it's quite prestigious, I feel honored. But as soon as I enter, I see a lot of white people. Most of them are blonde haired. I approach them, they are very friendly and nice, they tell them they are foreign language students from different countries. I'm very impressed. As I walk further, I see huge trees and a long road with trees flanking the road on both sides. It's very pleasant, very spring like.. It's a long road, I'm sprinting and as I reach at the end of it, I see like a wooden bridge with huge wooden bars making the floor of the bridge. So I step on it.its kinda wet and damp. I'm bit surprised because the weather is warm. How can it be so wet here. So I keep walking. I see a lot of people standing along a railing along the bridge. At first I don't notice the water under the bridge. So I lean against the railing and I see the huge stream of water almost looks like a sea under the bridge. It's really deep deep blue water, lot of waves and foam on the surface, the water is constantly splashing against the railing of the bridge. The railing is quite tall so you won't fall. I keep walking and I suddenly see my school friends, all grown up now. I see Anushree, a friend from school. She greets me warmly at first and then ignores me. I see Nikita next to her and they are both busy talking ignoring me. So I'm like... Huh!! Nevermind. I keep walking.. I come across some really young girls, they must be 6 years old. They look really tiny even for that age. They look like the size of... Like double the size of a cat.. I don't know but they are really tiny looking.. I say hi to them and they are kinda pleasant. A lot of them smile at me. I then turn my attention to the opposite side of the railing. The railing is on both sides of the bridge. I look down and the splashing gushing water is almost creating a lather. I see a woman and a boy, the woman is wearing a bright orange colored life jacket and signaling everyone above to not jump into the water.. I'm watching everyone. A lot of people on all sides. I am standing next to a girl and we are chit chatting and laughing. Then a man approaches me from behind and casually introduces himself and shows me a small carriage vehicle. I've never seen something like that before. It's like a cup shaped seat and behind is the driver's seat. He tells me to sit in it and that he will take me for a ride. I sit in it and he gives me a ride along the whole bridge and we come back to the same spot. I awkwardly step out of the vehicle. But I forget to say thank you to him. I continue my conversation with that girl and that man is standing right behind me. I have a bag full of treats with me, candies and stuff. I grab some and give it to the girl im chatting with. Then I turn around and feel slightly awkward seeing that guy but I realize that I need to thank him in some way so I pull out more treats and give him some as well. Then I walk further down the bridge. I see a girl, one of those tiny girls sitting on the bridge. The bridge has a slightly elevated plank on the railing attached to it (like an outward window sill) and she is huddled in that small space Continued later. So the tiny girl is sitting in a bowl, roughly 1 feet wide, just a small bowl. And she is sliding along the plank and hits an obstacle and takes the bowl back to the top of the plank. I'm scared looking at her. I tell her that she can easily fall into the water and she doesn't care to listen. She tells me that the Bowl will protect her and she will keep sliding on the plank but never fall. I try telling other girls that this is dangerous and that she could fall into the water and I'm concerned for her but they don't pay heed to what I say.. I keep walking down the bridge and then come across a wooden obstruction. This obstruction looks like a machine with a huge aperture like the one you see on the bagging checking at the airport, like the airport luggage x ray scanners. I see a lot of my friends entering it by falling on their front and crawling and wiggling through it. I look at them and feel uncomfortable. How am I going to slide and crawl through this. So I give it a try. And I keep struggling because it's really small so I keep gliding and slithering a little by little and finally I make it and come out of it really gasping for air.. And I see in front of me a room. I see Anushree sitting there in a corner and all my friends sitting in a row very tightly squeezed against each other. This looks like the inside of a boat or a cruise ship. I'm surprised. I didn't expect this. I feel a bit of a dread coming on. Because I am not sure what this is all about. So I ask Anushree and she says this is a part of the Academy's course and that we need to be on the ship for the next 40 days. I am very scared now. 40 days!!!!!!!!! What!!!!!!!! I can barely manage in that place for 40 days. Suddenly the ship starts to tilt really bad and we are all thrown off our balance The ship keeps tilting side to side. Suddenly there is a huge gust of wind and the ship is rocking dangerously and we are all falling off, I'm thinking how am I going to survive on this ship for 40 days!!! I woke up in fear and sweat. Dream abruptly ends.

This is funny.

On the positive side, those who choose to stay quarantined are heroes. Cheers to Quarantinians ??? Enjoy the beer oops bear ???

RIP. I don't know this person at all. First time I came across this name. Sad to know that his contributions have been cut short. Condolences to his friends and family.

@Nahm your help and guidance is needed here. Please talk to @Nahm

@Anna1 very sad to hear about this. My condolences and prayers to these families who lost their mothers. May they find closure and peace during such hard times

It's raining here. I'm feeling so upset right now watching the rains. I wish I never had that relationship. I wish I never trusted someone so much. I feel like a complete fool. I feel such enormous betrayal. I wish I never met that person. I feel so used. I broke up with him but the scars are really like deep wounds. He used me. I allowed it because of my low self esteem. Now it comes back to haunt me every day. How could I be this stupid How could I be this vulnerable... There are tears in my eyes just thinking how I let myself get hunted and manipulated by this fucking evil man. I feel so depressed. I just wish so bad I never had that relationship. It hurts so much. You are evil. You can keep denying that. But what you did to me was evil. Goodbye