Brittany

It is on Disney+ if you have that subscription. But the movie dances around the question "Are you sure you want to be immortal?" There is a spring in the forest, that if you drink it, it gives you eternal life.

Reading a lot of Fiction books and Autobiography books. It is the only time you will spend hours upon hours in someone else's mental chatter. Fiction and autobiographies are the neurotic mental chatter of a character, and reading that builds the muscle of empathy.

I watched the movie "Tuck Everlasting" and it really made me rethink immortality.

Mark Vicente is doing a good job with this.

I wouldn't sleep on Tiktok either. There is a lot of powerful jaw-dropping teachings on there.

I agree. A guru pretending to be perfect is a distraction. But a guru being a huge imperfect mess is also a distraction. haha Sometimes a very messy, flawed, imperfect guru who acts a fool makes us want to "cancel" them entirely and throw out the baby with the bathwater. So in the end, the message is the only thing that really matters. Anything that pulls you too much into the messenger, versus focusing on the message itself, can be a distraction.

I focus on both survival and awakening at the same time. If I didn't focus on survival, I would have to go back and live with my parents. And because I REALLY didn't want to do that, it was enough motivation for me to focus heavily on money and building a savings account. hahaha

Death is very random. A 5 year old will die one week. And another week a 60 year old will die. And then another week a 30 year old will die. And then another week a 17 year old will die. And then another week a 95 year old will die. And then another week a 9 month old baby will die. And often times, death doesn't even care about someone's "health". Death removes healthy people from the earth all of the time. Eat healthy, exercise, avoid stress, go to the doctor, etc. to do your part, but then life will randomly do the rest.

I love Neville Goddard's work. The practice of "positive assumptions" and "living in the end" should be taught in schools as a fundamental class. This would give kids a superpower and make them no longer need external validation or external rewards to feel high levels of bliss.

I love this. Though, challenging the concept of stealing opens up a can of worms: "What is ownership for?" "Do humans need boundaries/personal sovereignty/autonomy?" "Is violence (aka protection of what one claims to own) ever necessary?" "Why does consent matter?" "Can the idea of Oneness increase our greed and entitlement tendencies?" "Does Oneness hold room for a person to say NO?" or honestly, the entire TV Show "Pluribus" on Apple TV.....like how much merging is too much merging? haha

Pluribus is fantastic. It opens the door to a lot of philosophical questions.

I am struggling with your usage of the word "Improve". "Improve" to look like what or who, exactly? If you could draw an image of the perfect human, what do they look like?

If you love something, you don't need to cut it out entirely. Just use Pomodoro and set daily limits. For example, "I can use Instagram for 20 minutes a day" and then set a timer.

I was raised in a Conservative environment and had many anti-feminist views in the past. But when I took the time to study more about it, I am realizing that feminism is a lot deeper and complex than I thought. I am starting to see that New Age versions of "Femininity" and the "Divine Feminine" are way less evolved than Feminist literature. The New Age religion's approach to women is more similar to Christian conservatism and has no interest in deconstruction work but instead focuses on maintaining the already existing structure. Feminism is hardcore and honest about how women have been programmed and conditioned mentally. It is a deconstruction and stripping of that programming. And it also shows how certain roles and behaviors required of Women aren't entirely innocent and have hidden motives behind them. It also deconstructs popular sayings or phrases used on Women to make them conform. And it is brutally honest about the way women have been hurt in the past by Men. For many women, this deconstruction process results in a form of Horror and Terror. This is actually a good thing, like a form of ego death. But what Feminism doesn't do well, is give women guidance on how to handle the Horror and Terror. It just leaves women there, in their Horror, and this is what leads to Misandry and women hating Men. And in this, you are right. Leaving women in a state of Horror, is not good. The solution is not to reverse or get rid of feminism. But continue to show women how to Deconstruct their programming while also Reconstructing in a way where Men's value and inherent worth is seen.

I never understand why people on the Layman path go into Enlightenment/Transcendent/Monastic spaces and try to preach to everyone about the goodness of the Layman path. Marriage and Kids are a wonderful and beautiful thing. But people on the Layman path need to stop entering Enlightenment spaces and flooding them with: "But it is bad to let go of all attachments." "You have to participate in society though." "Humans are social creatures" "You should give up non-duality and tend to your humanity" "Having kids and getting married makes you even more evolved than ego transcendence" "You are spiritually bypassing" "In the past, they taught detachment. Now, we need to focus on being aware while remaining attached" "Well you can't meditate all day, you got to go to work and pay bills" "I feel way more fulfilled as a mother than I did when I was pursuing enlightenment" "Nonduality is dangerous and it is better to focus on shadow work instead" There is a section from Autobiography of a Yogi from Paramahansa Yogananda: Ananta took me to their home. The son, a young man of ebullient manner, greeted me in the courtyard. He engaged me in a lengthy philosophic discourse. Professing to have a clairvoyant knowledge of my future, he discountenanced my idea of being a monk. “You will meet continual misfortune, and be unable to find God, if you insist on deserting your ordinary responsibilities! You cannot work out your past karma without worldly experiences.” Immortal words from the Bhagavad Gita rose to my lips in reply: “‘Even he with the worst of karma who ceaselessly meditates on Me quickly loses the effects of his past bad actions. Becoming a high-souled being, he soon attains perennial peace. Know this for certain: the devotee who puts his trust in Me never perishes!’” But the forceful prognostications of the young man had slightly shaken my confidence. With all the fervor of my heart I prayed silently to God: “Please solve my bewilderment and answer me, right here and now, if Thou dost desire me to lead the life of a renunciant or a worldly man!” I noticed a sadhu of noble countenance standing just outside the compound of the pundit’s house. Evidently he had overheard the spirited conversation between the self-styled clairvoyant and me, for the stranger called me to his side. I felt a tremendous power flowing from his calm eyes. “Son, don’t listen to that ignoramus. In response to your prayer, the Lord tells me to assure you that your sole path in this life is that of the renunciant.” With astonishment as well as gratitude, I smiled happily at this decisive message. “Come away from that man!” The “ignoramus” was calling me from the courtyard. My saintly guide raised his hand in blessing and slowly departed. “That sadhu is just as crazy as you are.” It was the hoary-headed pundit who made this charming observation. He and his son were gazing at me lugubriously. “I have heard that he, too, has left his home in a vague search for God.” I turned away. To Ananta I remarked that I would not engage in further discussion with our hosts.