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@mandyjw ❣️ he's so poetic ❣️ thanks for sharing @Shin I'm glad God likes Rumi ?‍♂️ ? I hadn't really ever read anything by him before, what do you suggest?

@inFlow Marijuana is extremely freeing to the heart. But what's strange is that as the high wares off, there's slow and subtle resettling of that tension once again, in a manner that isn't immediately noticeable. Perhaps its doesn't resettle completely but I haven't noticed any permanent opening.. very happy for you though

@SoonHei awesome, hope it brought some joy

This sounds more likely

I don't think in his videos he ever says Josh is alone as everything.. ?‍♂️ Sounds like a huge misunderstanding...

Yay for open mindedness. It's a rare gift. We just need to remember (me included) not to take our fan theories for what's real.

Just collecting fan theories ?

I quite like that one ?

Awareness

Once one is in step four, and are loving what is, instead of clinging to false hopes of what could or should be, it is not uncommon for one to find themselves in a constant Flux between steps 1-4, at least for a while at first. This is due to all the kicking and screaming which will arise in steps 1 and 3. Like a sine wave, the kicking and screaming (resistance to what is) creates peaks and valleys, sometimes in orbital patterns. Lots of growth to be had here. Self - propelled growth, actually, in the echo chamber of Life.

(( some listening music for this post) ) There seems to be a four step process in the pursuit of happyness. (and yes, I know how to spell it ?) 1 : Just go for it. Just do anything that makes you happy. Get that experience. Live. Love. Spoil yourself. Sow some oats. Get a little messy. The secret is, the more you do this, the more step two naturally happens. 2 : Begin to become aware of what happiness is, and what makes you happy. At this stage, you will naturally strip away all the illusionary BS which you've lied to yourself your whole life, about what will make you happy. The more you are in this stage, the more you will... 3: ...Realize that you don't know what will 'make' you happy, and you can't seem to 'find' it. The elusive friend. You understand that happiness is a chemical reaction, and that you've only been feeding it garbage this whole time, fueling it's elusiveness. This step is largely about letting go the idea of pursuing happiness, and moving towards a position of heart centered love. The more you are in this stage, the more you will 'find'... 4. .... Is that happyness will find you. You realize that just because happiness is an illusionary chemical reaction, it doesn't make it bad, or something to reject. By this stage you probably love your body pretty well, and therefore can also love the chemical reactions which arise within- 'happy' or not.

What happened? Why is it whenever I start asking curious questions everyone shuts down like I broke the Zoltar machine?

Haha well in that case... I only pretended to know your meaning of pretending, without actually reading the post. You're welcome for the living example ???

@Nahm haha only read every post? ??? That's a huge task. Although I can finally understand all the movement of thought and time speak that turned me off before. (well not really understand, but it's received, if that makes sense) He seemed pretty put together from the start, must have been some aha moment...

One of the most important things to raise awareness for. There should be warning labels on all 12 pack cans of soda, and on cases of water, imo. Of course, if we didn't buy a 12 pack of coke every few days, and applied that mindset to everything else we consume, recycling wouldn't even be a big deal. But we do, so it is.

Pretending is half the fun

Moral of the story : awaken and become conscious so that when we artificially induce intelligence, it is met with love and guidance.

@VeganAwake haha nice post time

These recent commercials are really special. The idea is that if you talk about foster care, it helps foster care. It's that simple. Implanting seeds into the human dream (consciousness). ((By the way... this thread could be a lot more fun with discussion... just saying... feeling like I'm just talking to myself here... ))

I have nightmares where I'm really scared, or suffering... and for all intents and purposes, yes its REAL. But.... then I wake up and poof, nothing but a bitter memory. The dream self who was suffering was not me, and no longer exists (although of course when we recall dreams we consider that to be ourselves.) All of the things which that dream self endured was self inflicted and I should probably feel a little bad about that but... well, the nightmare is already over.

(some listening music) When I talk about a dream, really I am referring to the use of imagination over a period of time. And since the concept of time was born in imagination, it can be said that all of Life is but a dream... Short dreams, long dreams, dreams within dreams. Pockets of time, and experience, both of which are constructs of imagination. What if all of humanity considered a total of three days as one day? And it was normal for the sun to set twice, getting dark, and light, dark and light... All in the span of one day? In fact, they plan their meals and nap times around it. How would we perceive time differently? Would it seem slower, or faster? More to lose, or more precious? Would we still count seconds, or would there be a whole different metric of time which people in our own reality would consider very slow? If we stepped in to this hypothetical world, would things feel slower? If we considered three days as one, what would that do to our lifespans?

hahaha yes its been doing that since I was at least in middle school. But I was very unpopular so that's probably why. Even to this day I have dreams that I was a child tv star. Although I haven't imagined being famous in waking life in a long time.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-risky-is-it-really/201312/why-we-really-celebrate-new-years-day ((listen to this song to put you in that new year mood ????)) ((some listening music for the post : From psychologytoday.com: "Why We Really Celebrate New Year's Day At one second past midnight on January 1, the day will change from Tuesday to Wednesday, usually a transition of no special significance. But somehow we've decided that this change, which will end one year and begin the next, is different. This unique tick of the clock has always prompted us both to celebrate and to step outside the day-to-day activity we’re always busy with to reflect, look back, take stock, assess how we did, and resolve to do better. Save perhaps for our birthdays, no other moment in our year gets this sort of attention. Why does the start of the new year carry such special symbolism? And why is its celebration so common around the world, as it has been for at least as long as there have been calendars? Behavior this ubiquitous must surely be tied to something intrinsic in the human animal, something profoundly meaningful and important, given all the energy and resources we invest not just in the celebration but also in our efforts to make good on a fresh set of resolutions, even though we mostly fail to keep them.... (( granted, no one's new year fell on the same day or even month, throughout independent history (before the world was united by advances in travel). But the desire to measure LIFE seemed to have included a measurement of 'year' across the ancient world. )) ... It may be that the symbolism we attach to this moment is rooted in one of the most powerful motivations of all: our motivation to survive. The celebration part is obvious. As our birthdays do, New Year’s Day provides us the chance to celebrate having made it through another 365 days, the unit of time by which we keep chronological score of our lives. Phew! Another year over, and here we still are! Time to raise our glasses and toast our survival. (The flip side of this is represented by the year-end obituary summaries of those who didn’t make it, reassuring those of us who did.) ((I like this writer's sense of humor ?.)) ... New Year’s resolutions are examples of the universal human desire to have some control over what lies ahead, because the future is unsettlingly unknowable. Not knowing what’s to come means we don’t know what we need to know to keep ourselves safe. To counter that worrisome powerlessness, we do things to take control. We resolve to diet and exercise, to quit smoking, and to start saving. It doesn’t even matter whether we hold our resolve and make good on these promises. Committing to them, at least for a moment, gives us a feeling of more control over the uncertain days to come.... (( I agree with this. Hope of a desired outcome is so ingrained into the human dream... Who really keeps those resolutions though ??.)) ... Interestingly, New Years resolutions also commonly include things like treating people better, making new friends, and paying off debts. It's been so throughout history. The Babylonians would return borrowed objects. Jews seek, and offer, forgiveness. The Scots go "first footing," visiting neighbors to wish them well. How does all this social "resolving" connect to survival? Simple: We are social animals. We have evolved to depend on others, literally, for our health and safety. Treating people well is a good way to be treated well. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," it turns out, is a great survival strategy. And many people resolve to pray more. That makes sense in terms of survival, too: Pray more and an omnipotent force is more likely to keep you safe. Jews pray at the start of their new year to be inscribed in "the Book of Life" for one more year. And though death is inescapable, throughout history humans have dealt with the fear of mortality by affiliating with religions that promise happy endings. Pray more, and death is less scary... (( dear God, please teach me to be still this year. You have your work cut out for you. Your ADD monkey mind friend, Amen.)) ... There are hundreds of good-luck rituals woven among New Year celebrations, also practiced in the name of exercising a little control over fate. The Dutch, for whom the circle is a symbol of success, eat donuts. Greeks bake special Vassilopitta cake with a coin inside, bestowing good luck in the coming year on whoever finds it in his or her slice. Fireworks on New Year's Eve started in China millennia ago as a way to chase off evil spirits. The Japanese hold New Year’s Bonenkai, or "forget-the-year parties," to bid farewell to the problems and concerns of the past year and prepare for a better new one. Disagreements and misunderstandings between people are supposed to be resolved, and grudges set aside. In a New Year’s ritual for many cultures, houses are scrubbed to sweep out the bad vibes and make room for better ones. (( I can spot the human dream at work a mile away...)) Happy new years fellow human! Can't wait to see what 2020 will bring!

((All posts in this thread should be taken with a grain of salt and as a curious exploration of DREAM)) Meet your ancestors ? : (( did you enjoy the family reunion? If it is to be reasonably believed, we lost the tail earlier than I assumed... Who knew ?‍♂️ Plus you have to wonder why we came down from the trees... And 10 million 'years' later, were standing... (ironically, the concepts of 'time' and 'years' were probably several more million years away as well, and yet evolution progressed... Hmmm?) This video goes more in depth on the early humanoid species: Happy new years!

@Raptorsin7 yeah so just curls until your arms ache sufficiently... This will get you used to feeling body awareness by having something very concrete to focus on and then you can begin working on feeling more subtle things like emotional feelings. (unless you are in an emotional state and of course it's not so subtle ?)