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@fopylo If you are concerned with comfort, how comfortable are you in your own skin? Why not do things that help you get into relaxed states? Mastering your own ability to relax is a very important skill

@fopylo You are stronger then you think No greater joy then uncovering your passions, and letting them find you.

@InterruptReQuest Loving-presence & talking to the child self until it can unite again with the present self. I remember when I first got into LSD I basically just started rapidly doing this threw all of my memories, deconstructing all of them until I could be Now, in your original face as your pure soul. I'd recommend studying different techniques that allow you to access states of healing for awhile, then using psychedelics to go for healing, facing the trauma & fear with an open heart. It is also very good to have a therapist to talk to you that you connect with. So if you are ever feeling overwhelmed by your healing process you have someone to go to who understands how to guide people to healing. Be careful wanting to rush threw your own healing, the last thing you wanna do is overwhelm yourself, trying to bit off more then you can chew at once. The more mindfull you can be and allow the healing to unfold naturally, the easier you will get threw it and thus, the faster. Slow and steady wins the race here. It can take many years, but it doesn't have to if you are wise about it, and if you are wise about it, you would allow it to take many years if it has to.

@fopylo Be kind to yourself, listen to the fears, let them know it is ok, that you are figuring it out. You have a lot of drive it is just intentagled, needs to be fleshed out threw finding your footing. Finding the way you like to dance threw life. Resistance can be strong, but your Will is always stronger. Sometimes you may not see it, but everyday it is driving you towards your highest desires. The more you learn to dance with the resistance, the more you will feel your true power.

@fopylo Like I said in the other thread you made. Start experimenting. You are overwhelming yourself, go slow and steady. Find your footing, one foot in front of the other. Your heart will begin to realize what you need to be doing through exparementing. It is a dance. Trying to go to fast too soon and you trip over your own feet.

@Thought Art Life would be boring without the challenge, life wouldn't have no pleasure without pain. Why do you play a hard video game? It feels awesome to master the game. Had an extremely bad migraine today, but now that it is going away I almost get manic with happiness because of the expirence now relative to what my expirence was a few hours ago. There is no devil, just people caught up in knots. Intagled with tension, mistaken thinking, emotional armor, toxic energies. Reality is designed perfectly, us humans just gotta realize that and stop hurting each other. Sometimes I think aliens are just waiting until we stop killing each other to come talk to us. There is only Heaven. In a state where you are untangled from all the knots you realize this was true the whole time.

@NoSelfSelf Interesting, I have expirenced sort of the opposite, a creature ripping me out of my physical body and into a dreamscape. It was very jarring, it was like it was trying to show me a hell reality I could learn to deal with it. There is a degree to which you have concious control over the expirence when lucid dreaming. Sometimes I can walk threw walls, sometimes I can't.

@NoSelfSelf How do you know what you thought was lucid dreaming was actually just you astral projecting, but as you have had expirences lucid dreaming you interpreted it as such? I have had many different types of lucid dreaming experiences, some where I was formless, had no body, others where I had a light or astral body. I have also had expirences of astral projecting on psychedelics, also some with no body, some with a light body. Been trying to induce an astral projection just by pure will, defantly have had glimpses like this, similar to what you are describing with the astral hand. Mine was very similar to what @Slifon just described with his legs. Out of body expirences are really fascinating.

@NoSelfSelf Astral projection and lucid dreaming seem to be very similar expirences to me. What do you think the relationship is between them? Sometimes I feel there isn't a difference besides how they are induced.

It is a balance, if you study too much then you can get lost in maps, but if you study too little then you might get lost in a trap that someone could have pointed out to you if you read their work. Daniel Ingrams book points out a lot of traps that meditators get stuck in. I often go back to it and re read stuff. Usually I read a book all the way threw then go back to it when I feel I am somewhere where the information could be of help. There are many traps that you could get stuck in, so it is important to know about them, & to grasp them expirencially by actually practicing. So yeah, balance. You will get a feel for how balanced you are the more you practice & the more you study.

@TheAvatarState Haha thanks, I'm just a mime who likes to make things rhyme It's interesting watching time unfold, where is it going? What is it doing? Most people don't take the time to sit and just watch it go by, too busy watching the watch on their wrist that tells them they gotta be somewhere doing something. Infinite Beauty all around, everywhere you look.

Probably just you realizing Infinity from the perspective of seeing it as an Infinite Cartoon.

Essentially what I was saying before the forums data corruption was to experiment with different things, see what feels right to the heart. If you are unclear about something, experiment with it until you are clear about it. Get out of the overthinking cloud, connect to your creativity.

@BlackMaze I would say do your best to surf threw the family drama, stay in your center. That is if you have the space to work on yourself well you are living with your parents. If you don't, it might be best to find a way to live alone.

Find out what message you want to express threw your music, what do you want the listener to feel/ get out of it. The more clear you are on that the easier it is to come up with visions for songs. Contemplate about this, a lot, what does the heart want to manifest? Clarity is something that comes once you start to settle into the groove of your creative process. It could just be a feeling in your heart that you start with (feeling like you want to pursue music) and then you follow that passion, let your curiosity find flow in it. Focusing on one thing can mean focusing on many things, notice all those things bleed into each other, you have to understand how to market your music, have awareness of how sound works, understand how to use your DAW, how to play the keyboard if that is important to the kind of music you want to make. You gotta go into the mineshafts to find the gold, your passion is like a torch, brighter the more you let it grow. Clarity is found by sifting threw the foggy confusion, following your curiosity & passion.

@Raptorsin7 Oh many different things, psychedelics, contemptations, meditations, yoga, basically anything I learned about that I felt had something to help bring me to a state of peace. Anything to release knots hindering the flow.

@BlackMaze Do you have any plans for how to move out? Take responsibility for yourself first, once your life is stable it'll be much easier to help your family. I'm not sure what your situation is like, but I had to leave the family house and not talk to anyone in my family for awhile because I felt I was being crushed by them. Eventually I came back and built and even better relationship with them. I worked as a janitor for awhile well focused on healing my being in my free time. Was a very important time for me to learn about responsibility.

If there is no blaming then why are you looking for something to point to and say it is at fault? Part of taking responsibility for life to me is realizing that nobody is at fault, it is just life, people get stuck in nasty ways of thinking, really the only way out of that is taking responsibility for the development of your own way of thinking.

@sethman Everyone has their own words and language, there isn't really a precise way you can hone your language down to so that everyone will understand you. There are so many different ways of thinking that people are in, so many different terms that people use, so many different ways to point to the same thing. What is way more important then terms is just the conciousness of different paradigms, so that you can modify the way you are communicating relative to the worldview the other person is in. Miscommunication happens when there is little conciousness of this. That can be either the one trying to communicate, or the one receiving the information.

You are Infinity seeming finite, what else would you be? At your deepest being you are the Infinite Light. God is AllWays. Infinite Potential. I find it much easier to accept other people will use terms that will be best for them, to see past that, to read between the lines to get to the essence of what they are really trying to communicate. We need to be able to change terms, & even better be able to switch between different ways of using terms, otherwise society will get suck in the paradigm of the current language. Doctors have multiple names for the same drug sometimes no? Perhaps it is not that the resource is unusable, but it is that you haven't found out how to use the information.

It is to realize you are one

Death is when God decides to stop playing games and just Be

@justamirror Well there isn't a difference between destruction and creation. There is just what is, constantly in flux. This infinite play that the actor is in can be danced along with. You can choose to create harmony, and that might mean tearing something down, to make room for something better. Eventually really, untangling all the knots keeping you from the love flow that is harmony with the Whole.

You don't understand that Absolute Nihilism is the same thing as Infinite Meaning. All expirence is a manifestation of God wanting to expirence all of itself. Everything is an infinitely valuable experience of God. Everyone is pure potentiality manifested, every soul has a unique creative gift they can bring to the dance of Infinite Love that we all are. Why survive? For Love. For your vision of how you can love your Body, which is all of Reality.

Do you ever try letting the sensation move threw your body? Relax and open up your body, every part relating to every other part. Like panning the painful sensation around until it starts to release, loosening the knot.