JosephKnecht

The Netherlands. Highly developed economically. Survival needs are taken care of. It is the most liberal democracy in the world. Prostitution is legal, drugs are legal, pretty much everything is legal. Liberal values are engrained in the culture so you will become more open-minded just by living here.

It seems a lot of people on this forum can relate to you. So you can find people that you can relate to, but it won't be the same people that you related to in the past. This might be problematic for your relationships. People relate to others based on the commonalities in their interests. If you have something in common with others, you understand their point of view. If you like jazz music, for example, you can easily relate to people who also like Jazz music. It is your common interest that binds you together. Lots of people on this forum are doing self-actualization work so here you will find others that you can relate to. If you are more mature than people your age, you will have more in common with people who are at your age of maturity. So don't refuse the advances of others just because of their age, but look at their level of maturity. Lastly, if you are pursuing enlightenment, realize that you will have to deconstruct you ego completely. It is your ego that seeks others to relate to, it is the ego that seeks to belong to a group, it is the ego that wishes to be accepted and understood by others. To "achieve enlightenment" you have to go through a period when you can't relate to other people because that is the way you starve the ego.

What were the results? I am curious... Did you do it for science?

Not a depression but stagflation. There will be higher inflation coupled with stagnation of total economic output.

Nobody can't help you understand anything if you don't understand it for yourself. Understand that you don't need the help of anyone. You can do it on your own. That is the highest understanding.

7 is a magical number.

https://tricycle.org/magazine/ten-oxherding-pictures/ Read the article above. Maybe it would make things more clear. It's hard to infer meaning from pictures.

You have to interact with people based on their level of awareness. If you meet a cat on the road, you shouldn't yell at the cat that love is all that exists. Simply pet the cat and give it food. That is love.

Once the shadow is gone, there is no more darkness. There is only Light.

Synchronicity is how you sync to the Source. It is the way God pulls you toward Himself. When you are out of sync, you are lost. When you start to sync, you get found.

Beauty is only beauty when it sees itself in everything. Beauty knows NOT of ugliness, for even the greatest ugliness is beautiful to beauty.

It doesn't matter what everyone is, crazy or not crazy, it matters what you are. You have to seek the Truth. Don't seek it in the minds of others for there you only find craziness. The Truth is in your own Mind. You have to find it.

You have to be slightly pragmatic in your approach. If you don't know how to make a living, try to figure that out first. If you are not alive, you can't read books. If music is your passion, you can start playing on the streets. People will chip in money if they see your passion and love for the music. There is this girl I follow on youtube. She has millions of followers and cheers up people with her music. You can try something similar to what she is doing. I have read all the books by David Hawkins. ALL OF THEM. The only thing I learned from them was to understand myself better. Nothing else. I have read hundreds of books that helped get to the so-called "enlightenment". Enlightenment won't give you anything. Absolutely Nothing. Seek your happiness and fulfillment first. Only when you are fulfilled, you can become empty again. You are more special than you think.

It is impossible. If you don't get enlightened from reading 1 500 books, reading 150 000 won't show you the light.

Everything is perfect, but also everything is infinite. The infinite, although perfect can always be infinitely more perfect.

Enjoy

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The muscle test works 'sometimes'. You can test it with different people and validate it for yourself. Even if you don't believe in the muscle test, you should read his books. David Hawkins has an uncanny way with words in describing non-dual experience and outlining the evolution of consciousness. Reading his books will help you with your own evolution.

Byron Katie - on love and self-acceptance. Tony Robbins - on Personal development Neville Goddard - on Self-awareness They have many of their books in audiobook format, so you can take a pick depending on what interests you.

You are only 22 years old. You went on the right path, but you went too far. That is ok. There is no such thing as damaged beyond repair. Everything can be repaired if you have the right tools. You have learned self-help, and that is all the help you need to cure the self. We all make mistakes, and from our mistakes, we learn what to do and what not to do. Do not despair, better days are ahead.

No, I am only lying to five years olds. The explanation was for them. The ones who are lying are economists. They obfuscate language to make their knowledge appear more sophisticated than it is.

You are the arbiter of the truth. God is the arbiter of The Truth.

If you imagine that it helps, it helps. But yes. Once you have "died", life is taken less seriously.

Here is a summary of the world economy for a five-year-old to understand. If you remove the economic jargon, its pretty simple. China makes things and ships them the states. The states buy things from China, thus American gets the goods and the Chinese get the dollars. Chinese get the dollars, and they send them to the NY Stock exchange to invest. Americans have the goods and now they also have the money. China makes more goods, America prints more money. The cycle repeats. Until it doesn't. I agree. But I will probably take a few years for everything to play out.

You have the memory of the experience and its only your memory that remembers the duration of the experience. Therefore you know it lasted longer. It teaches you that time can be fluid. Time exists within your perception of experience and could vary.