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Well, this was my point, it wasn't respectful.

Giving is receiving and receiving is giving. It's both. Not one or the other.

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. I think that's exactly what happened. I heard my mom say, after her mom (my grandmother) passed, she wished God would take her because she felt it so bad. She loved her mother so much, plus she had eye and hearing problems. She passed around a year later. People die sometimes because that's what they wished for. Our wishes are being granted ever hour, ever minute, every second, it's just a delay because of the gift of time to change our minds. We don't realize it because we think by asking with words alone, the Universe hears us. No, it's our beliefs, feelings, focus and attention. They are magnetic and are read within the quantum field of infinite possibilities. The universe is alive and reads our vibration and what frequency we're tuned into. It's all a matter of focus and attention. Energy flows where attention goes. Focus on health and health comes your way, focus on sickness and sickness comes your way. I've healed my body many times with this method, nothing drastic, but because I identify as a healthy person the body quickly recovers. That's why addictions are so hard to beat because that's what one is focused on, it keeps coming their way. Ever heard of one that has an addiction to something and they have a hard time sourcing that addiction? The Universe will always find a way to get it to them. Even the homeless alcoholic with no job will always get his liquor; and why alcoholic anonymous "students" will always consider themselves alcoholics and have to be careful of backsliding because in their meetings they are told to introduce themselves as, "Hi, my name is John, and I'm an alcoholic". Scarred for life because that's their identity. Bad move.

I know he's a celeb, but how do you know it's staged. Even if it is, the purpose was just to show a cool approach and response without it needing to be extra, sexually explicit and just naturally down to earth and flowing.

I could tell you were speaking from some other place than teachings, parroting, what one digests from videos or books. I could tell and I'm not saying I agree or believe in everything you said, but I could tell it was from within you. Personal to you. Not from some outside influence. NDE's have some of the most profound stories I've ever heard and a few highly rated spiritual teachers have become such because of their nde's and have helped numerous people in their lives. Mas Sajady is one and Anita Moorjani is another.

You know me on this forum and you know I speak it as it is. How I really feel and I don't butter shit up. It's not about being a caring mother playing a role for the baby. It's about respecting other's opinions, beliefs, insights, perspectives, truths or whatever without demeaning and having the need to tell them to go somewhere else with it. We all have different perspectives on life and if we don't agree we can say it without being condescending and putting others down; and if I was to ever do that and it was brought to my attention, I would oblige and correct it. THAT'S HOW WE GROW in this domain. Growth isn't found in beliefs, ideologies, concepts, attacking, spiritual truths, etcetc, it's in the way we relate to each other and ourselves. Tough love is one thing; what you portrayed wasn't tough love, it was condescending and demeaning. You are trying to mimic Leo, imo, and it's just not in you. You are trying to play the tough character but it's not who you are. What you displayed, and this is just my opinion, was fear; fear of your little bubble being demolished because it is not what you have set up for yourself. The fact that you mentioned practices meditation, psychedelics, retreats, etcetc, to me indicates that you have a certain way you look at spirituality and if it's not done that way, youre doing it wrong and will not listen to anyone who don't do these things. If that's not a seekers trap, then I don't know what is.

No need to call anyone a loser. We are all in this together. Disagreement is one thing and I know I called his ego out, but it didn't really turn personal; and I was trying to show how we can be so judgemental of others thinking our way is better and if others' don't think how we do, they're wrong.

I'm secure within myself and there's a knowing deep down that can never be stirred within me. This is because I have not relied on anything outside myself to show me the way. Whatever outside forces came it was sent and I developed within me powerful discernment of what to absorb and what not to. To flush out the bullshit. I live this stuff. My whole life is a practice. Nothing anyone says or does can stray me away. I don't get annoyed with others' beliefs, perceptions, relative truths and the likes, I don't need anything other than what was provided to me within. I am the way, the practices and processes and when you recognize this you have truly made the connection. Now my practices are me. Whatever I do comes from me.

What OP has written is very profound. I don't know about what happens after we die and all the stuff about looking over the body and talking to loved ones through thought and being pulled to another location all those things talked about in those realms in the beginning of the post. Not denying it either, I don't know. The other stuff, thought about thoughts, beliefs, positivity vs negativity, how it affects our lives, the conscious and the subconscious. Starting from "Our human lives happen in the apparently material dimension", and except for the loved one parts, simply because it's a bit too radical for me and to relate to, all that was said seems to be the case especially about thoughts. It just all seems to tie in with my 5yrs of doing this stuff and all that I've heard from top spiritualists and even in my own experience. We don't realize how the unseen is more powerful than the seen and that it's all about thoughts and beliefs and what's in between. I enjoyed reading this post and it's obviously not pulled out from the ass whether it is so or not so. We have to remember this is infinite and anything goes. It's all made up and we all have our own unique experiences. We cannot all say for sure what is by speculating and not even at all times can we trust our own direct experiences because they are being filtered through sense perceptions that are also unique to our own consciousness. You can only know what happened but the interpretation could be faulty, which is all we're doing in life is interpreting and responding. Energy responding to energy. Very few people see life as it really is; actually I don't think as a human that's even possible only some can see it closer to what is than some and there's degrees to it.

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You should make that your profile pic, if even for a little bit when you're done. Or send me a private dm. Would really love to see it. Of course, you don't have to; only if you choose.

Life is all about projection. You are a projection machine. We do nothing but project. More funny life here? Funny has an opposite. I wonder where you're projecting that opposite.

Go to a club if you're looking to get entertained. We're not here to brighten up your already existing boring life.

It's not stupid. Remember, nothing makes sense. It is what it is. Nothing to worry about and lose sleep over.

This is the exact epitome of what a Spiritual ego looks like. It cannot stand anything that opposes it's current beliefs, views and ideas of what it's own spiritual construction looks like. You, imo, are the one that embarrassed yourself. You, imo, are the one who thinks you know better. The way you came across wasn't necessary and was a bit aggressive and is not what pure love stands for. If you were doing your spiritual practices right, you would have shown a bit more compassion and empathy for one who took the time and energy to write something that was obviously from the heart. True or not. We have a right to express our own thoughts and perspectives and to share what we believe is worth sharing. Unless it's being communicated in a disrespectful manner, is obviously very harmful to others or what goes against forum guidelines, and with the discretion of the administrators, will be handled accordingly whether fair or not as it is their right and duty. You along with many others on here believe that if you're not meditating a certain way, going on retreats, doing psychedelics, yoga or whatever other taught processes, that one isn't capable of expressing themselves spiritually, know nothing, are self deceived, deluded, etcetc. That is just utterly egotistical, self-righteous and in of itself of low-calibre spirituality. Spirituality, is not about doing processes and practices to try to get somewhere. It's about unity. Love. Compassion. Understanding. Life. Sharing. Caring. Embodying oneness and respect of where other's are at in their journey. Not about bullying and telling some one to go fuck off and to go elsewhere to a, what you believe to be a lesser platform, where "the others" are less developed than you. We are all in this together, and we all have something to contribute to each other. Not saying we should just accept other people's bullshit or just listen to and adhere to what everyone tries to share or communicate; but, for something like this where all that was shown was love and a sincere attempt to share what they believe to be the case, your response was very belittling and only shows how attached you are to your own belief system. That, my dear, is what the limited mind does because it cannot see beyond it's own limitations and feels threatened by anything outside it's own bubble of consciousness. Everything, everyone and everywhere we go can be an opportunity for us to expand, not contract some more of our already seemingly contracted energy where we believe we are separate from it all and that we have to defend the truth. A truth that we have concocted for ourselves to fit into our own fragile, house-of-cards agenda. Truth needs no defense.

No, it's a forum rule to not use all caps in the headline of your thread. I did it once way back, and I was told the same. A little bit in your responses is ok to highlight a point, but even responses shouldn't be in all caps. I've known people who've got suspended for this. It's not personal

Youre right.

I see you get it. They think I'm being nihilistic or whatever when I speak how I speak; but I see it as them being nihilistic. Having all sorts of problems with the world, not liking themselves and what's going on in the world. Trying to change shit all the time, hating their lives and always trying to get something as if something is wrong with the way things are. That's nihilism to me.

How is "and then you die" a nothing really matters attitude. You guys have totally misunderstood me. By the questions you've asked me it's obvious I'm being totally misunderstood. You die right? How is that a nothing matters attitude. Why do anything at all? Why not. Let me tell you what my way of looking at the world has done. Now, I stress less, I'm not uptight. I'm more forgiving. More understandable and worry less. More compassionate and worry free. I enjoy nature more. I get less angry and confrontational. I don't see as much problems, I focus on solutions. I suffer less. (different from physical pain), even then I make light of physical pain because I know it's not forever. I'm less judgemental and more empathetic even though I was always empathetic. I'm more curious about life and existence. I'm in awe of the beauty of existence and I'm in love with nature. I mean I could go on. You don't see me up here posting problems and how this and that isn't working out and how I need help with this and that because I trust life. I know it's got my back. I'm not all up in my own world and trying to manipulate life to fit into my own agenda because I know it ain't about me. I'm being lived. I don't worship false idols like money, cars, jewelry etc. and I'm not materialistic. I go about life as if it's not who I am because things are forever changing and I'm not any of that. Yes, things happen, yes, bad situations occur, yes I may get angry, yes I may become sad and whatever else negative but I don't stay there, it's short lived. I TRUST, I TRUST, I TRUST. Not faith, but trust, there's a difference. I do things now with ease and not with friction because I understand that life is living me. Whatever misfortune come my way, I don't look at it as my misfortune and something happened to me, I see it as energetic and where I place my attention is where I place my energy so I focus on how I'd like it to turn out and it always does. So, even though I may seem nihilistic to all you all, none of you really know how to live, how powerful you are and that there is no one there that's doing anything. It's all energy and you can manipulate that energy how you want it to go because life is magical and it's all you. When I say it's all you, I don't mean in a solipsic sense, but nothing on the outside matters because there's no outside world. Your world is inside of you. THIS IS WHAT IT DOESN'T MATTER means when I say it.

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Loved Badlands. Young Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen, right? That same movie? Edit: Yeah, I looked it up, same director and movie. Seen it like 3'xs.

Wouldn't there also be water on the camera lens. All splashed.

Yes, that is thought. As I said before, it's just thought.

Life is neutral. The mind sees it as a curse or a blessing. The mind makes the distinction.

Perfect example of how you are imagining that dog. It's everywhere.