Ima Freeman

Interesting. A swinging pendulum it seems. There is a reason though that conservatives are taking over European parliaments. Mass migration from the Middle East made some damage.

I don't know what kind of week long debate is going on in this thread right know, don't bother to read that much. But I want to share some thoughts I had recently about the Israel-Palestine conflict. This whole conflict is the navel of human conflict. The conflict between East and West. The conflict between Global North and the Global South. The conflict between wealthy (post-)Europeans and poor dark skinned people.

My orgasms are weak and unfulfilling. For years I feel somehow unfulfilled, EVERY time I'm cumming. I thought that real sex, instead of masturbation, will change that. But since having a girlfriend for a year, sex gives me no significantly better orgasms. Maybe more pleasure in between, while having sex, but orgasms are not great.

Thank y'all for your different perspectives and strategies. Gonna study how to study now.

Since starting to seriously study again for college, I thought about how to do it very smart and dustainably instead of just pushing a lot of information into my mind for a short period of time. Especially now with the advent of AI there are many more intelligent ways to study. Apart from basics like finding interest and passion in the subject that you learn or finding connections between different fields, do you have practical strategies for how to aquire a lot of knowledge and expertise?

I recently had the experience of letting go of an attachment, in the form of clinging to savings, and can see what you wrote. How would you say, should one go about building a great life and not getting attached to goals? Of course this is different than pure awakening.

Should illness be accepted as Life's will? I' mean I still will fight for my health, but what comes out of it is what God or Life wants.

Making it out alive? How that?

In this case fasting should lead to higher vitality.

How do you know?

One could say so. God must by definition encompass everything. But you know what I mean. There are prerequisites for awakening. There are good states and bad states, the way nature laid it out, the way Life wants it.

I just thought about how the degree of consciousness is closely related to health. As I experience cognitive issues, low clarity and peace of mind, an racing mind with constant daydreaming, it makes it clear to me, that good health is the prerequisite for achieving awakening. Further, health can be seen as the degree of awakening itself. If there is lack of energy, lack of stability in the body-mind system, if there is pain and other more subtle forms of discomfort, awakening can become impossible. It's not about having a individual healthy body. It's about shifting the state of Being itself to be God-like. The more energy, the more harmony, the more well-being, the more concentration, the more clarity, the more peace of mind there is, the deeper life can be grasped. While fatigue, sleepiness, dissonance, discomfort, scattering of attention, confusion, conflict are symptoms of illness and hinder awakening, truthfulness and insight. In this sense the quest for spiritual awakening and Oneness seems to be mostly the quest for the ultimate health of the universe. Of course there is more, like epistemology, open-mindedness, discipline, austerity, genetics, karma,... So, maybe this notion is incomplete. But still, I think the importance of Health with an capital H, as an overarching component of development is overlooked.

@Sugarcoat Someone in a healthy state of consciousness cannot get suicidal, except people trying to do something like Mahasamadhi or radical people like jihadist who are sure to enter into a glorious afterlife. If you get suicidal thoughts, you either have some persistent physical ailment (heavy metals, chronic infections, hormonal imbalances ..) or psychological stress (bullying, poverty, loneliness, nihilism, ...) that you deem to be extremely hard to overcome or don't even see a way to overcome. If you have a healthy body and your needs are sufficiently met, you have radiant wellbeing in your body and happy emotions leading to constructive thoughts. There is no way for suicidal thoughts. Only when you experience persistent suffering and have little to no hope for relsolve than suicidal thoughts creep in as a self destruction mechanism, because the human system is geared towards wellbeing.

Oh, yeah, I was thinking about that too. Deep sleep = nothingness It is not an assumption, because I can witness newness right now. It is amazing, but terrifying too and not fully accepted by the world, far from it

True, there is no future I just have a hard time grasping the implications of infinity