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There is awareness in India about the unsafe situation of women to the point that I have also turned off my social media to Indian men. I have faced ton of sexual harassment on buses, on the streets and even at my office. It is sick. But only awareness is not enough. India is a deeply male dominated patriarchal society. I don't want to demonize Indian men because there are lots of Indian men who are good. But it's a fact that women suffer horribly in terms of sexual assault and rape almost on a daily basis and the world doesn't recognize it since the political parties in India try to hide it. Indian men cry victim whereas the real victim is the women. I know I will get down arrowed for this statement. It takes an enormous courage for an Indian woman to even open up about the situation. I had decided to open a thread about rape in India but there are lot of Indian guys on the forum so I decided not to out of fear of being objected and demonized. The demonization of women in India is intense almost to the point of Dehumanization. Any woman who wants to speak up is easily called and branded a feminist and put away. I cannot even talk about it in public because if I did I will face serious consequences like physical violence. Here is a link that describes the situation that happened to an Indian woman who decided to fight against rape by starting a campaign called "Shame the rapist" and the moment she did it, her car was vandalized and she received death threats. It's that serious. https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN0LA2FA20150206 The fact that I'm responding to this thread is in itself a courageous move. Most Indian girls wouldn't talk about it out of shame and fear instilled in them by the patriarchal society. You will also observe a remarkable phenomenon online. You see a lot of Indian men but you see very few Indian women. That's because Indian men are notorious at chasing off Indian women out of the online space. Most Indian women are scared to upload personal details about their location as a result. I never tell people online the city I live in. Because there is the ever present threat of being stalking by Indian men online. Indian women are just told to disappear by their family in order to have some basic protection because the law doesn't protect women enough. So if I complained about a stalker to the police, they will tell me that it's my fault that I allowed it or just tell me to suck it up. I'm kinda glad you brought it up. The most common question that most Indian men ask me regularly is "where do you live?" "which city do you come from?" and I always remember to avoid that question and never answer it. For security reasons. But like I said awareness is not a solution because Indian women are well aware of the problem. And so are men. It's the law that needs to be strict towards bad behavior of men. There needs to be proper punishment and enforcement of laws and rules and make sure that victims of assault, rape and harassment get justice.

3 new words to be used in the De La Luna tarot deck. One is fleridysus And the other is erysterium And the other one is Iggleshius Both represent the artistic aesthetic appeal of spirituality and mysticism. Fleridysus represents the floral and beauty related aesthetic appeal. Erysterium represents still objects and food related aesthetic appeal. Iggleshius - the therapeutic artistic aesthetic appeal associated with images of nature and such that promote relaxation and calm and beauty and love, joy, healing, pleasantness, peace, restoration, positivity.

The De La Luna or De Luna tarot deck will be an evolving deck with numerous guidance pointers continuously added to the deck as the deck evolves over time. How to do match the column with the deck Column 1 - situation You are tempted to spend money on something Column 2 - a card picked out of the heap A card that says "save money now for a free tomorrow" That's how you match the column and get a resolution for your situation. Over time and insightful work, these resolutions will be more accurate and streamlined to be a perfect fit to any situation. It's best if the Luna guidance cards come with messages related to them like a reference chart or with messages on the card itself along with the card name.

Concept for the De La Luna.... This is going to be a daily permanent deck It will contain many cards. Each card will be a guidance point throughout the day and throughout the year. Since you see the moon everyday this is an everyday deck. It will be about intuition, general guidance, prediction, guidance pointers, analysis of the past and the current, prediction for future, connecting the dots, daily guidance, Synchronicity, matching an element of the card to any given situation and thus resolving the situation. Like match the column. Very accurate matching of situations.

New tarot deck De La Luna tarot deck or De Luna The modern English poetic usage when personifying the sun and moon has taken up the French or Romance gender for sol (masculine) and luna (feminine), instead of retaining the Germanic grammatical genders where the sun is feminine and the moon masculine. Recorded in the spellings of De Luna, Luna, and Luno, this is an Italian and Spanish surname, but of Roman (Latin) origins. It derives from the ancient word 'lumina' meaning 'light', and describes either a person who came from a place called 'Luna' or one who lived in a house with an open courtyard. First card The Luna The deck is still in its infant stage and in the making. So can't decide its ground theme and concept just yet

I'm planning to write a book in the future called spirituality and mysticism and going to include all of my beliefs and concepts in it.

Copied from forum I've read this version mate... I can't say I really enjoyed this. My path has been Self Inquiry, and Prabhupada focuses on bhakti (devotion to Krishna) which I can't really resonate much with. If you resonate more with non-duality, get the Bhagavad Gita but from a writer who has a non-dual commentary. I'm afraid that I don't know precisely what authors do have non-dual commentaries of the Bhagavad Gita, but I'm sure someone on this forum can help I've heard that the translation by Eknath Easwaran is better for us nondualists. I've also read The concise yoga vasistha translated by Swami Venkatesananda, and I liked it more than Bhagavad Gita. It was amazing. I've yet to read Ribhu Gita and Ashtavakra Gita, but I think The concise yoga vasistha (Swami Venkatesananda) probably beats them all. Edit: well, I didn't see that it must be in your native language. My excuse is that I just woke up. You will have to buy the version which exists in your language. I guess any version is better than no version.

I feel like I need an energy bottle of love, joy, peace and hope.

I'm so fed up with life. It's so tiring Discouraging. No matter how much I try to get back up, something happens again and I go down. This regular struggle is tearing me apart. It's too much sometimes.

Finally my tarot decks are complete... Phew

Monster Tarot Deck Card 1 Hydrazonthus Card 2 Leviathan Card 3 Megalodon Card 4 Bagathor Card 5 Hippopodus Card 6 Mastodon Card 7 Hydra Card 8 Behemoth Card 9 Hogh Hydra Card 10 Beelzebufo Card 11 Zanthazar Card 12 Zerrighalesteus

Gohan city deck It should be called Gohan tarot Or giyonuss tarot set 2cards plus 1 card for city 3rd card for the devil 4th card for the adjective Gohan Gohan adjective. Helena the brave and the founder Vanessa the softer Valjey the devil or villain. The man the hero 6 card Gohan tarot set

I had an NPD boyfriend in 2018. And it took me a year to just realize that he is NPD and in November of last year I finally broke up with him. NPD goes undetected unless you are alert and educated on it. I Googled his behavioral symptoms some months before and a chance reading on narcissistic abuse caught my attention and that's when I began to realize that all of his behavior matched the pattern of narcissistic abuse. I would personally say that rarely ever does an NPD heal. It's almost next to impossible. Maybe after a lot of therapy but I just never heard that someone recovered from it. So the best thing is to leave that person before further damage is done. That's what I did. They don't change. Even if they change its for a short while. I used to hang onto the relationship thinking that it he is my twin flame. That is such a fallacy. You can't allow yourself to be abused by a twin flame. Allow a good human being to be your partner. Some of the traits to determine if you are suffering narcissistic abuse are They gaslight you They try to control you They constantly maintain their status of being superior in the relationship They want constant praise They switch off communication as a way of punishment They do exactly what you don't want them to do They never do what you want They never give you compliments They will engage in affairs or bring up a third party as a way to isolate you They don't like being told. There is thing which I call the narcissistic trap. They use this a lot. What it means is they tell you or expect you to do something and then bash you for doing it. For example if you are driving fast, they would whine about it and tell you to go slpw. If you go slow, they would start complaining it as well. So you feel trapped. You don't know what will impress them and they like your confused state Narcissistic Projection : they do this a lot. Let's say they are lying about something. And you don't know about it. Then they are going to accuse you of lying even if you didn't. They project their own behavior on others. Hallmark of a narcissist - the litmus test of narcissism. They will treat you like a disposable. They will use you as long as they want and then drop you. They lack emotional connections and they treat people as objects, as means to get their ends. They are many more symptoms of their abusive behavior however right now I can't recall all of them. One is that they constantly manipulate a lot. I'd stay away from them. Having experienced it myself it caused a lot of damage to my self esteem and growth. You feel stripped off everything in the process of feeding them

So tired

Now my spiritual journey is going to be focused more on Living and discovering the truth Living in love Healing

@infinitelove You are welcome

I understand your perspective. You mean to say that it's a process of realization that is achieved by the person on his own and it cannot be taught and hence cannot be communicated. Yes I can see how futile it is when the person cannot experience it on their own. The best way to tell a person is to say to them "experience on your own for your own."

That sounds like self esteem issues combined with cultural influence and genetic factors as well. You'll need to break out of this as much as possible. Because not being yourself is going to be a source of great frustration in the long term. It will require a ton of patience to get there. I don't know how you can radically transform yourself because that's a great challenge but I will try to offer some tips Socialize. Get out there. Do on online. Do offline. Hang out with people just for little periods of time in the beginning and then slowly increasing your time spent with people Try setting smaller goals like baby goals in the beginning like something you thought you couldn't do. This is a huge way of increasing confidence. Even smaller achievements have a huge impact on self confidence Don't be around people who try to dismiss you or contradict you or constantly oppose because they are downers Grooming - put a lot of effort in grooming. Just pampering yourself like changing your hairstyle or wearing a deodorant or shaving your hair or wearing clean clothes and new clothes brings a huge difference to a guy's confidence levels. Be angry when you need to be.. This is important for masculinity. Healthy anger is a huge part of healthy masculinity. Keep a personal diary for expressing your thoughts and ideas. That way you are more sled assured Do a lot of physical activities like swimming, riding, biking,basketball karate and other physical sports because they really help in pumping maximum masculine energy. Be very assertive. This takes time. First learn to defend yourself in smaller ways. Learn to say No and Stop. This is essential in building masculine energy. Masculine men are easily able to ignore, delete and not give a F about what someone thinks. Participate in social activities like volunteering at a homeless shelter and animal shelters. This gives a sense of worthiness and respect and courage. Focus on leadership skills like decision making. Don't let others to pick options or choices for you. You make them and you set the rules. Follow a healthy diet to maintain lean muscle Have a girlfriend. That's a super confidence booster. Be around women who accept you not those who constantly correct you. Use visualization techniques to think that you are better than others and that you matter more and assure yourself that you can easily handle the situation. Go travel, do different jobs, meet more people, gather more life experiences. One thing I can tell you is that this problem is not going to be solved by simply reading books or living in your room. You will need to do things real time and be out and confident to get it done Initially building confidence can be a huge labor. Like an uphill battle.. But you go go go go at it and it eventually happens. Best wishes

@Eva you are very welcome

In what different ways do you express your masculinity?

People have the freedom, opportunity and the right to discuss even if the ideas can't be communicated. That's how they want to be interested. And it's not all that all of the time. Sometimes people come up with doubts and views that can be harmful to their growth or stifling their growth and these views need to be unpacked. Thats what's gets done here. It's not always discussion of concepts but also correction of wrong ideas. People can always choose if they want to just waste their time thinking about consciousness or actually try to work on it practically. This goes without saying. Some people are confused about consciousness. They get their doubts cleared about concepts. So overall I think this subforum is very useful no matter how difficult it is to communicate complex ideas.

I find these 3 statements contradictory.