Tim R

This is incredible... How this father forgives his son's murderer and even shows love. It's so genuine. Moved me to tears. I can't imagine what Leo must've experienced when he talked about his experiences with God loving and forgiving him for everything. Beautiful.

"Not very conscious" "He's lacking consciousness" "Is this a conscious thing to do?" "High consciousness" "Low consciousness" Sounds familiar? More consciousness, more, more, more! It's so funny. "Consciousness" has become the holy word, the teaching, the dogma. The ultimate goal. The standard by which all can be judged. Always seeking for more. "Deeper insights", "more insights", "more consciousness", "higher levels of consciousness" than everybody else. Such a silly game. Keep playing it, it will lead precisely nowhere

@Vibroverse Look, all I wanted to share with you is this example of forgiveness. To most of us, this would be a very difficult thing to do and I think this father is a remarkable human being. He is also a deeply religious man, which makes all of it even more impressive. My thread has nothing to do with the ontology of death or consciousness or imagination or any of it, it's just about forgiveness. Which is why I criticized your reply, because I thought it didn't really relate to my thread but was just generic talk about how none of it is real. It doesn't matter that death ain't real. Because to this father, death is real. And to him, his son is gone forever, and none of this: would or could ever solace him. He couldn't care less. It's utterly meaningless to him. You see my point?

Here's something you can try: if the video has subtitles, you can access the transcript and use the search function (of your computer, F3 or whatever it is) to find specific words. I sometimes do it, helps enormously

Yes, death ain't real, neither is birth. Still has nothing to do with forgiveness.

@electroBeam Nice! Thanks for sharing Not sure if I understand what you mean, could you elaborate? Do you mean oneness in general or something else?

That's the gist of it. That is the insight which must begin to infiltrate and reform science within our lifetime, or science will be stuck. @Charlotte Great article, thanks for sharing

@Vibroverse Sorry dude, not to offend you or anything but the things you say are just way too predictable. They seem like empty, ideological talk. What you said is not even related to the content of my original post, you know?.. You could say to everything "it's not real" or "it's a dream" but what's the point of doing that? (rhetorical question)

@GreenWoods Silly games are the best games!

Perceptions can be changed (content of consciousness), not consciousness itself Time doesn't exist, which makes the notion of "continuity" obsolete. That's why Spira said there's no influence on continuity. There are no conscious agents. There's just the dream and that dream is a groundless appearance of consciousness as whatever it happens to appear. The same Buddha-Nature that I realize myself to be, I can also see when I look at you. Solipsism is a shell game, a fraud, it's not real. No "solus" and no "ipse" because there's nobody home

@Javfly33 All you have to understand is that time isn't real. The moment you realize that, "you" vanish. That's why small children are so puzzled when they walk though snow for the first time and suddenly see their footprints. They don't know at first that those are their footprints because the child knows neither of a past nor of a self that is going along through the course of time. Your memories are like these footprints. The child looks at the footprints and starts to think that there is a past. There, the footprints are the evidence! And exactly like that you are looking at your memories and start to think that there is a past. There, the memories are the evidence! Hold up your finger in front of your face. Move it from left to right. Now tell me, where is its trail?

@Vida Lives Now Hello and welcome to the forum The way we deal with mental health in our society is a catastrophe in my estimation. Not only are we doing a terrible job at maintaining a reasonable level of mental hygiene and health, but we're also screwing up concerning the way we deal with mental health problems once we're confronted with them. It's like an invisible epidemic of some sort. Common mental health issues like depression or anxiety are often being stigmatized, misunderstood and discounted by a vast portion of our societies. People are ignorant about these problems; sometimes and to a certain degree even deliberately. This leads to a belittlement of the issue at hand - and belittlement leads to more ignorance and a deepening of the hole that we've dug ourselves. It's no surprise to me that the rates of depression and anxiety are growing, most shocking of which are the rates among young adults and teenagers. These five rules are alright for raising public awareness, but I think when it really comes down to a serious talk about mental health, it's a bit more complicated and there's more than five rules. The pandemic makes all of this even worse, depending on where you live. I live in Germany and we're currently in our second Lockdown, almost 3 months in as for today. People are lonely, many lost their job or family business, they are suffocating under a mountain of debt they can't lift anymore, while sitting at home all day doing nothing cause there's nothing left to do. Our politicians seem to actively deny us every spark of hope, always prolonging the Lockdown for two or three more weeks. This takes a toll on mental health. I think we're going to have to deal with the consequences of this in the future. Not quite sure what it's gonna look like a couple of months down the road, but probably not very peachy. Here's some statistical resources for you to dig your way through. https://ourworldindata.org/mental-health

Yes, but intention isn't necessarily the same as a question.

Existence/Reality is one. There might be multiple space-time-continua but it's all part of one reality.

I wouldn't go into my first trip with any question or expectation in mind. Just let the substance introduce itself and find out how you react to it.

@Someone here What is the objection?

@Husseinisdoingfine What about people like Bernie? Isn't he somewhat socialistic?

@Husseinisdoingfine Haha that's cool, did you create it?

Oh my god if the SPD were to rule Germany we'd be so damn lost they're not socialistic at all, they used to be a true people's party, but that was waaay back in the beginning... and unfortunately that's like 150 years ago lol. Nowadays they're just like every other lobbyist party with no interest in flattening social inequalities.

@Yali Grab some object nearby. Look at it. Let's say you took a cup. Realize, that you only call this thing "cup". Actually, it isn't a cup, you only call it "cup". What is it? Is it a "thing"? No. because "thing" is also just an idea. You just call it "thing". Whatever "it" is - it's neither a "cup" nor a "thing". Can you realize that whatever "it" is, it is not an idea? "Cup" is an idea. "Thing" is an idea. Whatever you're holding in your hand right now is not an idea. Same goes for male and female. It's just an idea.

@Yali No, male or female are even less than a social construct. They are ideas. Ideas are of the same "degree" of reality as for example the constellations of the stars. The constellation of the stars doesn't actually exist in the night sky, it's only a construct of the mind which we then project onto reality. Equally, male and female are just ideas. They are symbols, abstractions that we have created just like every other idea/symbol in order to help us navigate the world.

The dynamite is 5-MeO for sure

@StarStruck I don't understand the question. What sort of "components" are you talking about?