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Because you said you don’t like him to his friend and he doesn’t want to appear like a loser who is chasing someone who doesn’t like him

I had a very strong DejaVu today. I had a conversation with a coworker today, which I remember already having with this same coworker about this same topic, word by word, in a dream or elsewhere. The only difference is that I replied to him differently as I couldn’t remember what my initial response was. I usually get more DejaVu’s if I am tired/haven’t had much sleep. Is there any explanation of DejaVus in spirituality?

Share some of your most exciting/craziest events/adventure stories. How did they change your life? What was the riskiest thing you’ve done? What was the most fun thing you did?

What exactly are the benefits when you realize you are God? Also if I am God and creating my own reality, why is it so sh*tty?

@Vincent S if I create every situation for myself to experience, why am I creating all these negative situations? Also, why does this happen more when I am tired/under a lot of stress?

How do I know whether my obsession of what people think about me is too much? I just accidentally added someone on Facebook whom I don’t like very much, and had some drama with in the past, and cancelled the request right away. Then I ended up obsessing and worrying about it for 2-3 hours, crying and thinking about how my life sucks, how stupid and worthless I am to have been stalking their fb, etc. Anyone here who absolutely doesn’t care about what people think about them? Who purely lives life for themselves and their own enjoyment? How did you get to this point?

Since you have been to a lot of ceremonies, would you recommend it to a newbie? Also, have you been to any ceremonies in North America? Are they safe? Is it possible to ask them for a micro dose?

@SgtPepper I am a woman, and I think church is an extreme name, but basically that was the only way to make it legal in a first world country. I do feel it’s a normal establishment though and not just someone’s living room.

I have been studying cognitive functions, first discovered by Carl Jung, and I am blown by them. I wanted to ask if anyone else here has had any experience with this? Which sources would you recommend for studying this further? How was it useful to you on your self improved journey? I would also like to hear any criticisms of these concepts? (Not mbti thought, I am interested in the functions themselves and not the tests) Discovering this has been as mind blowing, if not more, as SD. I am surprised that no one is talking about this and the concepts are still rather unpopular.

@SgtPepper there seems to be lots of instances of sexual abuse during ayahuasca ceremonies Aren’t there religious churches in US that perform those ceremonies though legally? Do you think it would be safer to do it there?

@OBEler I am not exactly afraid, I am curious to try it. But there is a problem of not knowing where to find them - I don’t want to do it in a group setting and I rather do it privately in my own home. We are also not allowed to ask these kind of questions here so it seems there’s a dead end.

Is it because they make you realize that these are all thoughts? Take life a bit lighter and easier? That on a grand scheme of things your “problems” don’t matter? Do they help you to let to go of anger/pain/make you more at ease and give you inner peace?

But this state and realization can be achieved in other ways. Like meditation + visualization. I think meditation is a lot safer too. DMT can be addictive, and I don’t think it’s good to depend on something external like this, like a crutch. Plus I wouldn’t even know where to find DMT in my city. Do people who are truly enlightened/at peace use regular psychedelics to achieve this state? Like Sadghuru?

@Carl-Richard I feel that if it only lasts a few hours at most, I will easily forget this. I’ve had some profound moments in life where I thought “this is it, life is changed forever”, but nope, a few days if not hours after I would forget this and go back to my usual self. Unless a trip lasts a month or more I don’t think it will have profound effects.

What if you concentrate on the mind while relaxing your body? Focusing on breathing or doing yoga?

@Vincent S won’t all these realizations be temporary though? The moment the trip ends, wouldn’t you come back to your normal self? The reason why negative thinking occurs is because that is what you are used to, so they say in order to stop the negative thinking, you have to replace it with positive thinking and do it until you become used to that and reprogram yourself. So technically, if you are consistently are trying to actively visualize love, being fearless, reasoning out with yourself how problems are imaginary, shouldn’t that achieve the same result, and also, long lasting?

Wondering what are some good books on parenting a child? Always wanted to read some of those, but am struggling to find anything good.

It is very easy for some people to get along with everybody. Some people can have a conversation even with a banana if they wanted to and they would find it interesting and exciting. I tend to find most people, like 95%, quite uninteresting. The 5% that I do find interesting though, I could talk to them for hours and I tend to cling to them. Same thing with intimate relationships. I remember my INTP friend telling me he could date even girls that bag groceries if they are cute and he likes them. I feel that most men are like this, they don’t really care about deep connections or how smart the girl is, as long as she is pretty, that is why they have so much more options and choices. Vs I need a deep connection, also a person that has an interesting job and is passionate about it, is an intellectual, very smart, and best at what he does. The problem is that there aren’t too many guys like this. Same thing with friendships, I don’t get along well with people at work, for example, because they are “too orange” or some of them are “too blue” coming from other cultures, and I don’t find it interesting. Some of them are “too green”, but I think they are just faking it because it’s “trendy” in a corporate culture. I’ve been reading that a lot of INFJs have this problem with connecting with people. How do I start seeing people as more interesting? How do I become more easy going? As for dating, I don’t think this quality of mine is very attractive. I think guys like extroverted, confident girls who are more bubbly. Not as emotional and sensitive, not so touchy feely, and not with so much depth. Honestly, sometimes I feel guys just want someone dumb next to them, to always agree with them, not cause too much problems, and be easy.

The alternative to boycotting Russia is to bomb Russia. Boycotting Russian business is a peaceful way to try and stop Russia from bombing and destroying Ukrainian cities.

@Leo Gura would be curious to hear your opinion on this? What do you think about cognitive functions? Would you be interested in making a video about them?

Jesus, scared to imagine what disagreeing with you looks like

Hm, probably something to do with Russia invading another country and murdering innocent people ?

I will address it on top. You are misusing terms again. Correlation measures relation between two variables. I am talking about proportions. I think the problem is that there are not enough statisticians and data scientists involved in the field of psychology. Running these kind of experiments is a piece of cake for a data scientists, but psychology researches lack knowledge in these areas, so it requires more effort. Data scientists would also need the input of psychologists to understand the terminologies and to be able to design the experiment properly. There should be more inter-weaving of the two fields. Also, no offence, but talking to you feels a bit like this right now: You: This wouldn’t work because the grass is purple, the experiments show that the grass is purple. Me: The grass is green, it’s just that when you add certain chemical to the fertilizer the grass turns purple. You: Yea, the grass is purple and it’s the best what we’ve got so far, I see all this purple grass so I can verify that the grass is purple. Me: Again, the grass is not purple, the reason why you are seeing samples of purple grass is because it’s been modified, original grass is green. You: Psychologists need to work with what they see, right now we see empirical evidence of purple grass that we can reproduce, so grass is purple ? Me:

@A_v_E OP is saying don’t work. He says he doesn’t want to work and there is no work in the world that he would be willing to do. Like I said, a more fair structure is needed and hopefully we will get there one day.

You have much more choices nowadays than just dying of malnutrition, it’s hard to imagine a psychologically healthy person consciously deciding to become a bum. Also, given how you yourself said that you don’t want to work and you don’t have any interests, what is the point of your living? What would you be doing with your time if you weren’t working? You’re just a vegetable at that point. How are you different from a bum on the street?