mandyjw

Long term solution, use personal development and spirituality to learn to open up with yourself and others, then the relationship will flow as it should or end if it should.

It is, there's ultimately no difference between enlightenment and love. So you weren't wrong in the past and your aren't wrong now. It's just much, much, MUCH bigger than you thought of, than we all thought, because it can't be thought of!

Fear of potential.

@ValiantSalvatore Thank you! Today is 8-8, Lion's Gate.

@Nahm Synchronicity is through the roof today, must have been the lightning storm last night.

It's magic.

@Zigzag Idiot I ordered it, the sample on Amazon seemed quite readable. For what I can glean, there's a difference in paths, kundalini energy being different from the path of "light". It also seems very tied with feminine and masculine energies and what paths are needed to integrate them, what's the missing piece of the puzzle so to speak? The first time I sat down to meditate I was pregnant with my daughter and I closed my eyes and almost immediately had a strong insight, "I am light." I didn't meditate much at all after until recently.

But Leo!!! Please tell us how your experiences on psychedelics connected you to your inner child. Wasn't there a glimpse of wisdom that you had as a child and had forgotten about, just that open-hearted knowing of one's timeless essence, connection with source and in love with the wonder of the world? @nistake Practice seeing the world with the eyes of a child, see the wonder and magic in everything again. Have an open heart and a willingness to play and open your heart to other people. My best tip of all, go run around barefoot in nature.

Last night I had an experience of being immersed in golden light, everything was yellow. I can't remember which happened first but I woke up and the skies opened up and poured for just a minute. I got up and had my eyes closed and the lightning lit up the room and seemed intensely bright for having my eyes closed and spooked me for a second. Later I went back to sleep and one of our smoke alarms malfunctioned, but only for a second, and then again for another few beeps. I got up and checked the house but everything was fine. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062501933/ref=rdr_ext_tmb Translator, Thomas Cleary. I couldn't have imagined a better name.

https://www.quora.com/Which-hero-stories-from-around-the-world-do-not-fit-into-Joseph-Campbells-theory-of-the-archetypal-hero Mischa Alyea, Author of "The Basics of Mysticism" Answered Oct 7, 2018 "The pregnant Goddess figurines from the Neolithic come to mind. They emerged at the time agriculture was being perfected. The pregnancy was not a physical event that resulted in the birth of a live child. It was a divine event that resulted in giving birth to the masculine qualities (Jung called this the animus) within the female psyche. Women leaders were required to experience the emergence of the animus, since it gave them the ability to use the logical capacities within left-brain. Rain was considered the semen of Father Sky. Ancient peoples related the downward movement of the rain with the process of pollination. The pollination from Father Sky caused the Virgin Birth. It is the individuation process for women. It brings peace and opens the logical areas of the brain. The Nativity in Christianity and The Secret of the Golden Flower in the Buddhist/Taoist traditions are prime examples of stories that do not fit the Joseph Campbell monomyth model. The Hero's Journey is the individuation process for men. It involves the killing of the ego. This path brings compassion and opens the creative areas of the brain."

Mary has been coming up in my life a lot too. I have an antique portrait of her right next to me because I bought it for the frame years ago and then after a recent awakening realized that she's a perfect and beautiful depiction of open heart and crown chakras. I was taught Christianity through a Baptist lens, and to us, Mary was mostly just a random woman who gave birth to Jesus. But she represents something, she is a pointer. The virgin birth, the birth of a male to a female represents the balance of masculine/feminine energies resulting in awakening.

https://www.quora.com/Can-women-achieve-enlightenment https://www.quora.com/Is-there-such-thing-as-a-Heroines-Journey

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Jesus-turn-the-water-into-wine-If-Jesus-was-known-longer-under-Mary-authority-which-I-understand-but-she-was-his-mother-did-he-do-it-out-of-respect-and-obedience-of-her-being-his-mother “We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.” ― Robert Frost

The process of enlightenment could be described as opening your mind and heart to include the entire world until the mind sinks into the heart and there is no world, no inner, no outer. This is an attempt at explaining anyway. You cannot open your mind without opening you heart and vice versa. I'm confused about the difference between the mind and the heart. Ramana Maharshi says that the ego, the "I" thought originates in the heart and the thought travels up to the mind where words, language and story are applied. I always tended to demonize the mind and think that the heart was pure in comparison.

You are creating your reality, the law of attraction explains how to make reality work in your favor through your own awareness. By practicing the law of attraction and observing how it works you learn that you are creating your reality (enlightenment). Abraham Hicks, (Esther Hicks) is secretly one of the best teachers out there. You might not think so because so much of her work seems like it's appealing to people's low consciousness desires, and often we can moralize and think that we are way above her teachings. She teaches on a level that almost everyone can understand. If you've spent a long time studying Buddhism or other spiritual teachings, she will likely give you a lot of epiphanies if you can keep an open mind. If she is talking to someone about how to manifest a successful business just use the same wisdom she gives and apply it to enlightenment.

You're a beggar sitting on a box of gold and you don't realize it. I don't mean that you should meditate and find your true nature, though yes, you should do that too. I mean this forum and everyone on it is worth more than gold. Do you know what an amazing opportunity it is to communicate with people who have an understanding of non duality? This place is truly magic. Do you realize the potential of connection between people who realize themselves as ONE with everything? It's powerful, it's more powerful than any psychedelic you could take. Love is the only technique beyond techniques. All that it requires is that you step outside of yourself and see others as your mirror, that you love them as your very self. Did something someone said trigger you? Why? Where do you psychically feel it? Was it a literal stab to your heart? Did the mind hijack that feeling and try to defend itself, to make another wrong? Did you just strengthen that which you so deeply desire to dissolve? You aren't here to prove yourself, you aren't here to prove anyone wrong. You're here to connect and in that connection grow in understanding and love. Do you really think you'd get enlightened on your own? Why did you come here? I am you. You wrote these words so that you could read them. I=you=we= Infinite Love The illusion is that I wrote this. The illusion is that we are fragmented as separate souls. Jesus said to his disciples "Love one another, as I have loved you." Yes, it's true that love doesn't always seem like love, sometimes love is a reprimand. But you, in your heart know from what place your words come from. Try your best to speak to others from love, because they are you, love one another as yourself and duality disappears. The self disappears. The mind sinks into the heart. Don't miss the opportunity, all it costs is your very life.

The end of this made me cry and laugh at the same time. She's brilliant.

@FoxFoxFox

You're a runner right? Try go for a short running meditation first, stretch, a little bit of yoga, then sit to meditate. Practice on fully feeling the energy throughout the body flowing while you are still. It helps to think of the energy as aliveness, life force, or something positive or neutral rather than framing it in your mind as a challenge or a distraction.

Please tell me, does it work?

You don't get to choose between Truth or feeling good. Who is the you that chooses? The truth feels good. When someone asks what kind of food you want and they are equally healthy, would you pick the one you hate over the one that you love? If a part of you, the true, deeper part didn't inherently know that the truth feels good, you wouldn't seek it.

Just like in the story, there is no wise master and no student. Both are characters in the story. There is only you the reader, who is also the author at the same time as the you are the reader. So why communicate it? You tell me.

@playdoh Check out Vermont, parts of it are very green. Southern Maine too. There are lots of green pocket areas all over the country if you're willing to live in a smaller city.

Having a credit card will help build your credit history and will make it a lot easier to get a mortgage or another type of necessary loan if you need one. Having no credit history isn't much better if it's better at all, than having bad credit. Pay it off every single month in full, no excuses. If you can't/won't get rid of it or don't get one.