mandyjw

I believe so, in moderation. I like the Lindsay naturals brand, I wouldn't buy the traditional canned black olives, there's some chemical processing that goes into producing that color and flavor.

"You are running around this planet as cooperative components to one another. Not to do bad things to each other and not to teach each other lessons, but to sift through the data to put things in your vortex to which you inner being is already aligned so that you can experience the joy of alignment." Abraham Hicks

You can't know what love is. You can become it though.

No one is saying that this is your imagination or choice of perception. Before you can treat a wound you must acknowledge that it's there. Then you treat it in whatever way is necessary based on the severity of it, but the actual healing happens on its own. Keep in mind the analogy that Leo used in his most recent video. Enlightenment is not a single mountain that you can climb, it's a whole fucking mountain range. You've been going around comparing your progress with your wife's and others here based on the high mountain you're sitting on the peak of, not realizing that others have explored different parts of the mountain range that you were ignoring as unimportant the whole time. This is not the time to throw nonduality out the window, but it is time to scan the horizon and finally come down from the peak of that single mountain you've mastered and explore the rest of the range.

I as the absence of me have had the privilege to see you for the perfect brilliant being that you are. I as Mandy have seen the other as well. I chose to see one version and not the other, because I am able to do so. You can chose to do the same. Your inner being never looks back. Focus on who it is that you are, who you are seemingly becoming, focus on the light that is revealed when what was clouding it is removed. You are brilliant after all Tsuki.

No, I haven't experienced either aliens or angels directly. I have directly experienced how crazy things can get when you try to explain a mystical experience after the fact though. What do aliens and angels in stories always represent, what is the purpose of their appearance? Communication. They are a form that the pysche/greater intelligence creates to communicate with or to explain the communication. Aliens and angels are interpretations of a shared phenomenon or experiences. Keep in mind that stories and symbols get more and more bizarre the deeper the experience was that is trying to be communicated. I have a theory that greater intelligence takes the path of least resistance to communicate with you, so it will communicate as Alan Watts or Leo, or someone else on this message board. However if you have a no self experience and are in a state of little to no resistance, then you may experience that communication as something that would normally not be capable of imagining. Of course it is all part of your psyche and therefore will be personalized to you and your desires and intentions in some way, if as a child you believed in or wondered about aliens, it will communicate as aliens. If you truly believed in a religion in the past, you may have a mystical experience with a certain deity. You are creating and imagining your reality. The implications of that can be crazy. If your entire past and your separate "self" is realized as complete and utter fiction, then aliens and angels are fiction too. But our current reality is that we are here imagining typing/reading and communicating with each other on an internet forum, so if we go on imagining this seemingly impossible reality, why close your mind to everything else?

When a sign or deity like that comes to you, study it. What is it leading you to embody in yourself?

In Christianity angels=aliens. The Gospel of Judas is a really interesting read, I'd say if you believe it's Jesus authentic words, then it definitely addresses the subject of aliens.

You in your limited state will have a personality, likes and dislikes and resonate with certain things and people. If you are open spiritually you may resonate with certain energies, and certain energies may lead you to have experiences and those experiences can have profound effects on the course of your life. Nonduality, is the reason why this can occur, and it happens where nonduality and duality merges. Remember that because of the nature of nonduality you cannot separate it from duality. That can be a tricky thing to "understand". That's why you can appear to have had past lives or to be contacted by certain nonphysical personalities. However you could say that oneness is the background through which everything is occurring.

Unconscious patterns hurt those we are closest to and love the most the worst. Your wife is you.

@tsuki

@Nahm I can't know the grave ity of the situation.

No, but he asked questions and received insights. Can anyone explain God? Does that make God a fiction? Yes and no.

Everyone gets attached to their own methods, no matter what they are. It's fine to love the methods you use, but pure love is non-attachment. Just like you appear to have come here as a person, you'll have to discover your own path, teachers and methods, but all those things are fiction and part of a story. Do you want to write in a too-good-to-be-true solution to the "problem" in your story? Or would you rather make it into a more complicated quest and scavenger hunt?

Sit under an apple tree, it will answer your questions like it answered Newton's. This is because your actual mind encompasses physical reality. Even though you took away the distinction in your own mind the effects of gravity are still a greatly desired physical state. Question and contemplate whose desire is this?

So happy that you came back!

I notice that having strange insights are good for finding food. It's evolutionary helpful, you see. I noticed that my balance of embrace life and refrain is very tied to the seasons. I'm sure that to many I appear to be all about the tantric/embrace everything path of desire type. I am, but I am not. I appear that way in reaction to most of the other's imbalances here. It has nothing to do with me whatsoever. I woke up with nature around me this spring and the current time of year will have its own affect.

Yesterday I worked really hard to clean the house and get ready for my son's birthday party. SO much work for two hours of complete chaos in my home. I took a break to go for a run. I went on my usual route and had an impulse to go the opposite direction. I'm not sure why but many of my impulses don't really feel good when I receive them. They feel a lot like they did as an 11 year old when I had OCD. They feel like a demand coming from a teacher, and I know I have to listen. I assume this is because of my ego resistance or sense of separation. I turned around thought I would go to Pomroy's. There was a strange vehicle on the road and instead I ran by the river. There were a few crows that nagged and played with me. I stopped and a huge gorgeous heron was sitting in the middle of the river. I watched as it gracefully flew away. I knew that I was meant to go to Pomroy's anyway. I went there and didn't look for anything. Not for an apple, blackberries or mushrooms to eat, not for a sign. I just went there and felt good. On the platform/pyramid, there are three spruce trees growing, strangely as if they were planted on each corner. One on corner the roots have such wonderful character, this is the tree that you can climb. If you climb it in the wind it feels like you're one with the tree and you can feel the ever-so-subtle vibration of the tree swaying in the wind. Someone had dug a hole metal detecting on the platform and barely bothered to throw the sod back over it. Yesterday I went to the smallest spruce and touched it with both hands, closed my eyes and kissed it. When I opened my eyes I saw that where I kissed it was red paint, old graffiti art almost all worn away with time. How lovingly mother nature takes disrespect. Last night as I was falling asleep I had a lucid dream, describing and translating it perverts it but I am not above that kind of thing. I was God and I was trying to figure out how to have a good time and stop being so lonely being me. So I split myself into a group of kids running around laughing with each other and getting into fights, completely oblivious that their separation was an illusion. Then I knew that if one of the kids stopped running around and watched the others, that they would realize the illusion. Then I knew that by excluding himself from the action, he would remain separate. Only when he rejoined the others with his realization be complete. I saw the perfection of forgetting and realizing. I saw the perfection of the back and forth. Today was a blur of throwing a 7 year old's birthday party busyness. After I went for a run to shake off the stress of it. I didn't go far and was told "turn around". 11 year old me loved the number 3, thought the colors red and white were incredibly symbolic to Christ, and had a Buddhist sewing teacher who taught her that she could be an artist. 11 year old me ran and took running very seriously and when she ran she sometimes got obsessive compulsive impulses. One more lap, they'd say, then again ONE more lap. 11 year old me wanted to WIN a race so badly. That Fall 11 year old me, tiny for her age and shorter than the rest of the girls, won the first race of the season. I remember where it was, on the Indian Reservation, along the ocean. Before every single race, my mom packed me an apple and I ate an apple before every race. That tradition continued into highschool. I turned around and was lead to going up a road I never have run down. My Buddhist sewing teacher when i was 11 recently posted on facebook a huge harvest of quince. I was really curious and wanted to try some. As I went to run up the road I saw beautiful pears growing along the little park where I found the monarch butterflies, then caterpillars all through impulse to go there. This park is where a school house once stood and was turned into a little park, that no one ever goes to. When I went back I picked the pears and realized they were quince. https://www.thekitchn.com/quince-tough-fall-fruit-with-a-secret-reward-ingredient-intelligence-73041 When I got back I got another impulse, to go visit Rocky. The old apple tree I buried him under has the deepest red apples. I usually make applesauce out of them but I didn't this year. I sat over his grave and cried and lots of thoughts about not being the best pet owner and wishing I'd been more conscious throughout his life came up. I was told that the only death I was mourning was my own. Then I noticed an enormous spruce tree right there, its roots with as much character as the one on Pomroy's platform pyramid. I never noticed birds before and I never liked spruce trees. I didn't know what quince were. Nature itself is truly our own creation and it's creating us. I just completed a very odd impulse train. I was thinking about the death of a cross country runner at a race I ran, 16 years ago. He collapsed off the trail and died and they ran my race and another before they even found him. I was going to go into the odd connections there but there's no use trying to explain it. Anyway the guy who I believe awakened Pomroy is from the city where that happened and I've been thinking about going there and researching him off and on all summer. So I googled him and an article compared him with Johnny Appleseed. So in researching Johnny Appleseed I found a mention of this book. https://www.amazon.com/Red-Garden-Alice-Hoffman-ebook/dp/B004J4WL6O/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+red+garden&qid=1570407013&sr=8-1

1. I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed going into blaming/"othering" mental stories. 2. When I notice and become aware of feeling inadequate before going into stories to blame others, I stop and breath. 3. I am conscious that reinforcing my belief in other through stories and judgement makes me miss the opportunity to forgive myself. 4. This is why from now on, I am committed to seeing myself in others and stopping the conflict within myself as it arises.

Have desire. Follow the desire. Discover what desire actually is.

@The Don You can't let go of who you are. You can only let go of an idea about something. The reason I let go of it was because I started to believe that it was all bullshit, I was oh so right and oh so very wrong at the same time.

I did it by saying "fuck it" to enlightenment and going after the things I wanted. The Law of Attraction and my increasing awareness and understanding of it mysteriously made its way into my life in unique ways at the same time this was happening. What I realized was that the only way to let go of desire was to embrace it, FULLY until it became apparent that the desire didn't come from me and there was no me.

@tsuki I'm curious, did you ever read the recipe section at the back of Dr.Pomroy's book?