mandyjw

That's why we still need Jesus. I had a natural awakening at the start of April, I was sleeping generally about two hours or two two hour stretches. At the time I had no way of knowing if or when it would stop, it went on for well over a week and calmed down slowly. In a way it was terrifying because it was beyond my control but now I see the wisdom for living my life now is completely letting go of the experience. I still haven't fully let go, not at all. If I had a magic button to push, I would turn it on again. It makes me think that psychedelics have some powerful advantages and also some powerful drawbacks.

Hey Shin, Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind? NOTHING we say EVER passes those requirements. Are we really supposed to shut up all the time? Or is Leo right, this is a mastrabatorium? I'm going down with the ship. Hopefully it's not actually sinking, because, that hasn't be confirmed yet.

@Joseph Maynor Pretty much. It's funny how I started out my spiritual journey as a fundamentalist Christian and now I'm here discussing God's mastrabatorium.

@Natasha There's one quote from one of his early videos that stuck in my head, it was something about masculinity and wanting to fuck the world. I guess he found through his journey starting with pick up that his desire to fuck the world was really a desire for enlightenment all along. But the metaphors stuck.

I'm enlightened, admittedly it's a low level of enlightenment but it happened on its own without the use of psychedelics. It really felt like I wasn't in control of it and didn't do it. I felt like I was on drugs for days, and I said things I would never normally say. I barely slept or ate while it was happening. The most important thing is to go about life, have an open mind, honestly love life and other people and be interested in growing and purifying that love. If that is your guiding star you will awaken. You can truly experience enlightenment now. There is a state of samadhi you reach when you awaken and it changes you and the world forever. But in the end, it's just a perspective and a story and those things are made for letting go of. And then, it's back to work we go.

The part you forgot is that she had left her first husband for another man, the man who later left her. So she had no choice to be the victim, she could only see herself in her own pain. It was a coming full circle of life events for her. I love Pema.

You are an author who is writing a story about an author who is writing a story about an author who is writing a story....

If the entire truth was that we are creating everything, and that was it period, then why do you get surprised so often? Even clairvoyant people are wrong, they only know things vaguely and can be wrong. No one would ever want to be right about everything. Everyone wants a surprise. It's much deeper and mysterious than you or me alone, creating everything. We are writing a story together, maybe but I don't know how it's going to end do you? What is 1 X 1? I'm one, you're one, together we amount to one.

@Shaun Don't talk about our Mom like that, you disrespectful brat.

I took my daughter to the pediatricians and followed a truck with the license plane onexone. 1 x 1 is one. That made me laugh. I also saw a white picket fence section painted as the American flag. I thought that was also funny.

I liked original Jesus' metaphors better.

Why do you use the word stuck?

WHOA, hold on. Do you think your past self was wrong? You only had half the story, now you've rejected half for the other half. Bring the two halves together and you'll have the whole story. In the meantime here's a hug.

To a very young child, the empty boxes and wrapping paper ARE the fun.

What things do you really appreciate about your Mom? Contemplate those to stop the momentum of the negative thought patterns you have about her and the situation. If it's too heavy of a subject, think of an area of your life that is going well and direct more of your thought energy to that.

@Preetom Sorry, I'm protestant.

Most people see what they want to see, they don't doubt it, they don't question it. We are the ones who can't help but try to dissect it all into parts because we so desperately want to understand the truth of them. The more we try to understand the individual parts the more we understand that there aren't any parts and there isn't any understanding, and yet this realization can be called great understanding. Thanks for holding it all together.

@electroBeam

Is the Devil leaving, fully integrating or being fully seen for what it is?

That's a really important point for all of us even if psychedelics and very specific practices aren't a part of your journey.

As soon as I think I got it, I don't. I don't got it at all.

First understand that there is no right answer. Which solution feels right? If there isn't one, why do you feel that you need a sense of direction?

There's no need to be right unless there exists in oneself a belief that it is possible to be wrong. Out of that belief insecurity is born, then the need to be right arises from that insecurity.