Danioover9000

I understand what you mean. I also have fear of spiders, and insects in general, especially if I'm jumped out of the blue, like a bee whizzing past my face lol. The bigger it is, the bigger the fear. However, if I have a glass and cup holder, no problem with removing spiders if they happen to be in the house, also young spiders and jumping spiders I have no problems with. It might be more related to how the fast crawling on my skin, plus a potential sting or bit might be were the fear is. Well, fear not, because in a strange loopy way, those creatures are far more fearful of us or anything bigger than them. I don't think while meditating you would pose a threat to them. Try learning some NLP, hypnotherapy and phobia management class. They really have good techniques for most common phobias, and when you get to do self hypnosis and NLP techniques it's ridiculous how you can diminish that fear down to manageable levels.

The main issue isn't that meats are carcinogenic, the deeper issue is what camp you are self identified with, a vegan or meat lover? Who you are as a self construct determines what values you prefer, qualities about you and resources you have along that self image and meta modal. If you are vegan, you have a self identity that over values plant consumption, animal welfare and environmental protection and nature, and narratives that support these values. Typically, the minds of Vegans have a distorted perspective about themselves as lesser than another person's perspective and non-human perspectives, which is why these have a greater empathy and compassion for animals and plants, even other people, but often have a self worth issue and sometimes suffer from group think, people pleasing and being a doormat. Sometimes this type over values their own perspective and could be more combative. The same problem exists with those that identify as meat lovers. They have a different distortion of the mind's perspective, sometimes their own perspective is greater than another, and non-human perspectives, and have a different narrative compared to a vegan's. They sometimes are more combative as well overall, as on average they do value themselves more than others and non-humans. The more important skill is noticing when you start feeling defensive, in whichever camp you are, and learning to see the other's perspective, and learn from that.

Well, you did, as a self concept, with enormous help from environment and society, for sure, on the relative domain. Then poof, the significance of this is deleted, distorted and generalized by the mind, with many of it's mental representations of reality, like sight, sound, body-senses, smell, taste, and the voice that self talks and has other human voices it stores so far, until it's normal felt, not magical.

@Danioover9000 Also, I may have mentioned this before, but there is also a location that she comes and goes to, and sometimes, either in my meditation or while I'm dreaming, I could follow her there. The experience is comparable to vividness, between a series of dreams that happens while in deep sleep, and a lucid dream that occurs at the peak of REM sleep cycle, so my recollection is not on point, and also due to my subconscious parts of that location resembles parts of living spaces I had lived in. Crystal like, and green, is the consistent characteristic, as the location and landscape does change every time. Lately, I have seen plant like objects in that location I had recently visited.

@Endangered-EGO Well, I fit somewhere in that spectrum myself potentially, but it's not as severe as catatonic schizophrenia. However, I did experience a haunting many decades ago, and currently have a paranormal situation in my life where I see a non physical friendly entity that comes and goes with me. The recent one isn't intense that it interferes with daily life, but the haunting in my childhood did, but I'm lucky to be alive. I could likely be mild schizophrenia also, as another trait of people with that is they struggle with metaphors but do well with literal meanings. All this considered, if I do psychedelics, I am definitely micro dosing first, integrating that experience for a while, and slowly build up, taking notes about any insights and give myself weeks to months to process the experiences. I also get what you mean with de-personalizaton/de-realization disorder. I did self inquiry, the neti neti method many years ago, and while I did get a glimpse of nothingness, it depersonalized me, and I had depression for about a month which I recovered for the most part. It seems to me that there are always risks doing psychedelics rashly, and also spiritual techniques rashly. You could keep going and list risks of different types and degrees in each part of life, but the common denominator of those risks is the ego, other egoes and ignorance, so it's always a good idea to research beforehand.

@Parththakkar12 3D material paradigm. Now we're talking.

Posts like this, and Leo's recent video on the dangers of psychedelics, gave me some respect for the folks who discovered these substances for the first time and had no clue what would happen to them. I can't imagine what it's like, taking a psychedelic or delirient with zero knowledge beforehand. That's like discovering detura for the first time, GG and GL, haunted houses here I come.

@Endangered-EGO Could you list me some signs of schizotypal personality disorder? Is it like mild schizophrenia?

@tashadwoodfall Are you sure that was the Covid virus? Did you test positive for it?

@assx95 Listen to some heavy metal, go do some body exercises, martial arts, and integrate your stage red shadow. Learn how a typical stage red thinks, feels, and emulate parts of that. Also learn how to set boundaries. Always good to be mindful, and correct that behaviour in the spot, asap especially if the person wasn't aware if the behaviour was bothering you, and also to clearly see where the other stands as well. And look forward to being challenged and being assertive, it's the closest thing to being in that thrill state in a civilised setting, whereas in the past sometimes it has to get violent to be resolved, and that is even more lively, charged with energy.

@GrandeOrso There you go. Go and create, and explore. Get many new experiences. Put stuff on the table, even though now you know the table is meaningless, put some meaning.

@Gesundheit2 Actually, the lower ego comes from the left brain and amigdala. The frontal one is the super ego, the judging part of it.

@Myagooshki I think this was covered in NLP, where when it comes to qualities about the self concept you are currently, and the qualities of a future role you want to be in, the person could map across a working quality and imagine it applying to the future role. This could include using techniques like calibration, anchoring, reframing, mapping across sub modalities, eliciting values, parts integration, establishing a timeline for past and future.

@Cubbage I think this is the video.

Is this the one @Leo Gura ?

@Leo Gura Please make a video on dealing with haters and trolls part 2.

This is a nice brief video, reminds you of anything?: Appreciate what moderators go through.

@LastThursday And that is why there won't be any good compromises between the EU and UK, that feeling isn't just limited to you, it exists here and over there. And it's not blind luck, it's intelligent design, for both the vaccine research and the virus itself.

@Jacob Morres I'm surprised his account isn't banned yet.

@Federico del pueblo I was active on those two days here, and used both the phone and lap top, so it could have been reception on your end, or something happened in your general area that effected connection. Hopefully it didn't happen while writing a long post. It happened to one of the users here, the site blacked out, then any posts not submitted were lost. That's good. As long as you have the intention, and willingness to improve, that's a good start. Your welcome, I wish Black Pill wasn't this toxic mess. What it really means to be Black Pill, is to take good care of your face and body, and derive empowerment from that and understanding other's faces and bodies, and not this pity mess of self loathing victimhood cuz we too ugly to mate we have currently.

@Esilda I just recently shared a piece of art that fan art in the share your art thread. I'll post the image below, and any feedback from you or anyone else reading is appreciated: This demonstrates to some degree my skills on designing a character using HB pencil and black ballpoint pen, and modified the tail to give this piece emphasis on power. However I could also do backgrounds and environment just as well with more time and energy spent, I just opted out the background to emphasis the modified Xenomorph's form. This is where I want to specialize a bit, and make some money somehow online. I also have some anime, manga and western comic style drawings as well.

@Nahm Again, thank you for your input. I do have a dream board with me, although most of the images are more than a year old, and some are pretty big goals, while some are specific. I don't know if having one big board is enough, as it has goals of various sizes and scale. I think I'll include a vision board for the small specific goals, while the dream board for the big ones. Any other advice on starting, keeping and updating a dream board is much appreciated. P.S. I drew a few of the images myself.

I'm surprised this thread has lasted this long without a lock down.

@LastThursday Actually, Brexit is not such a calamity, because as it turns out, if we had remained in the EU, we would have had a higher rate of covid infections, and the production of vaccines would have been slower as EU would take more priority over the UK. Instead, because we separated from the EU, we were more secured against further spreading of the virus, and we had more initiative in creating the vaccine that is slightly out performing the EU'S version. I would also agree with even power sharing and proportional representation, however, this is not incentivized as France, Germany, Brussels are not willing to drop their historical rivalry with the UK, and vice versa. Most cultures and countries are just not ready for higher forms of socialism, as this is threatening for the survival of the collective ego of that culture.

Adeptus still has the problem of having a career that relies heavily on reacting against Actualized.org, Leo gura, and any other psychedelic users that seem like crazies. He has formed this self identity as the one that points out those flaws, and is attached to making views and money from such tirade, which consequently puts him under the sunk cost fallacy, one for having a co-dependent career of leeching off of content creators, and the other for now earning a living from such a behavior. Well, when Actualized.org and Leo are gone, he will still have this problem plaquing him. Adeptus is a really good example of what happens when you leech, and not provide value. Don't be like this.