Loving Radiance

I plan to plug rapé as Leo explained it here https://www.actualized.org/insights/how-to-plug-psychedelics. I read up on rapé and water would suffice to dissolve the active compounds like nicotine. What are your thoughts?

Another silly question, is everything in your experience you? If not, how do you differentiate between that which is you and that which is not you? Have you ever considered to walk away or - in other words - let them pass by?

@peanutspathtotruth I never thought of the steps (->) themselves, but now I see how you can deconstruct that. Danke dir.

I can sense that I want to claim something coming in the near future. I also sense the tendency to put myself on a pedestal, imagining to be better & more advanced than other people. I know that we are on our own unique paths and nobody is more ahead than others, however there is still a huge pile of arrogance. So, do you know anything else to "do" than being aware of the dynamics at play?

Do you know how you can let thoughts pass by?

@Preety_India I see you and I thank you for your perspective. In case it sparked your answer, no, my questions in that case didn't come from a place of not-knowing but rather a curiosity of Hulia's perspective on that. My comment was rather an invite to self-reflect. I understand that you don't want to have more thoughts on this than necessary. ?

@peanutspathtotruth Perfect.

Can you please explain how you came to that conclusion? Does being born with certain genetic variation equal an inherent incapability of understanding racism regardless of experience? Does being born with certain genetic variation equal having less rights than another person?

@Daniela Good one! Maybe tag him @

I recognize these kind of thoughts as possible ego boosters. I can attach to them and believe they tell something about myself and feel to better than others by putting them down in my mind, or I can just let them pass like in meditation. They usually don't feel good to me, so sometimes I don't indulge in them. I am not joking, how do you know they are part of you? On point!

@Axiomatic What in the video do you see as sucking energy out of the content creator? Or in another way, how do you differentiate between content that sucks out energy and content that doesn't?

I agree, there is a fine line between judging all black guys to look the same and confusing two similar looking guys. I haven't experienced overt racism in my upbringing and in this scene I saw Terry mistaking Joe for another guy. Switching the skin colour, confusing one white man with another one would feel to me to be just another mistake. That begs the question: am I blind to racism or am I just as blind as Forestluv (before his inter-racial relationship) in seeing the extent of racist behavior? I agree with @Consept. By focusing on racist aspects of the movie the core message gets easily dismissed. It is connected to "If you believe it is this way, then it's your reality" aka "You create your reality". This case is a good example how the mind can construct & maintain the identity's worldview as everything is used as a steppingstone to fit into the narrative. I wonder how one could jailbrake that. Questioning & recognition of the constructed lens is good. Awareness is good. Seeing oneself playing the character is good. However, I feel there is more. Even that can be repurposed to uphold a pov.

I too get the lobster claws, but never got close to pain. Here is an explanation. Here is another one. Listen to your body. Slow down the breath, if you feel pain, or be breathless for some time, if it feels right for you. There is no need to rush, there is so much wisdom in listening to yourself.

Thanks for the link.

@SirVladimir

@soos_mite_ah Look at the contempt microexpression at 0:51

@Forestluv I only attended those morning sessions (11am here in Germany). Was the session with Emily recorded? Rebecca was one of few facilitators I had a good feeling with. I don't know if it's an ego-backlash of feeling disconnected to some facilitators (thought masked as feeling) or if it's truly a dissonance on an energetic-intuitive level.

I love hiking. This was last year's summer.

@Forestluv Today's morning breathwork by Rebecca Coales wasn't really shamanic breathing but still mind blowing nonetheless - mind blowing in another dimension. I think I will try out freediving in the future. What an experience. On the 3rd dive I fell into the darkness beyond the end of the line. Just beautiful.

I am in the movie. So, all I gotta do now is to find the freshly wiped hard drive... haven't I seen a spare one lying around here or have I just seen myself?

@Nahm You throw that 'round are you?

@Nahm Brother, you just got me inspired to really write more than I ever could imagine achieving in one lifetime. Just for inspiration's sake. ?

@levani I found that meditation as well as psilocybin brought me closer to my feeling state. Less layers to feel emotions. You love to laugh, cry, be grounded, feel anger, feel disappointment, feel sadness, feel gratitude, feel stillness, feel awe, feel ecstasy. It's like you honor and bless yourself to feel that right now. To feel the depth of feeling. Edit 1: It doesn't matter how often you cry but why you cry or don't cry. Edit 2: What I might add is that in my case I transformed anger into sadness due to trauma. Repressed to feel anger for more than a decade. I did not allow myself to feel anger. Maybe that is also the case for you with crying. In your family or close persons in general, who cried openly and how did you related to that person, or who didn't cry and how did you relate to that person?

@StateOfMind My center of gravity is definitely green. However here it is: Recognizing content. Compassion towards everything on the right spectrum of politics. Being aware of the character I play. Starting to feel what stages need integration - feeling hollow and not loving in these aspects. Loving it to be be revealed, to be proved "wrong" especially when it hurts. Deep appreciation for functioning systems of any kind. Right now there is a bias towards systems of the mind. Loving it to play with ideas, to build sandcastles and deconstruct them. Perspectives are taken on and off and get swapped to explore facets of... anything. Introspection & contemplation through journaling reveal all that above.