mandyjw

Ah. Isn't that always the way though with nonduality? Together but separate. Fulfilled but wanting. You have no idea how bad my heart breaks for certain countries and communities around the world. I know that I can only focus on the here and now and doing good, the law of attraction. You said that a girl in a bar that you felt obligated to talk to gave you the idea of becoming a life coach. Maybe I'm your random girl in a bar/forum. I've seen the signs.

@Leo Gura This kind of thinking combines your desire of wanting to change things up and have events in person and your passion for politics. You already have a worldwide reach and huge influence over people. Are you perfectly fulfilled? Or are you missing a connection with nature and a sense of community and connection with people in person?

Nazi Germany!!! If everyone did a lot of the exact same things I do, the world would be in big trouble. We all have our different jobs and purposes. I do have a global worldview but I think disconnected communities are a huge part of why our challenges are so great right now. People are looking for fulfillment through material gains, food and entertainment rather than where it's actually present, through rich relationships, connection with nature and being. I truly value the friendships I've made with people across the globe on this board, thanks to you and this community. I've learned so much more about the world from them and feel more connected to it than ever. You're blessed to have created such a community. But I know the life that I want to build for myself and I know that building it will extend to help the world too. That's the beauty of the internet and of enlightenment and knowing yourself as One. I tried to get enlightened without doing shadow work and then I had an awakening and shadow work snuck up on me and ate me alive. Since going through it, I know that the Christian patriotic child I was wanted to be accepted and my shaming it for my entire adulthood built a really big shadow. I mean, Jesus was enlightened after all, and America was the pioneer of religious freedom. That pleased God immensely, you know it's true. It's part of God's will. I don't know if America is the promised land or Babylon or The Great Satan. But... we're going to find out. Honestly, we're God, so it's up to us. I say, it's the promised land, the lost Garden of Eden. And I'm going to make it just that.

I'm one of 7.53 billion but I'm also God. So anything that I do is too small to address serious world problems, but God wanted to be small, God wanted to experience herself through me. So it starts with my community. It's a small enough of a community that I can make a HUGE impact on it. It think my time is better spent on my local community than spending my time working for a deluded political party, even if it is slightly less deluded than its rival.

But what about a community without walls or it's own rules, within an existing country like the US? For example if you got a bunch of enlightened people together to live in one area. They would transform that area by changing the local politics, building and running conscious businesses together and the influence would spread. I've seen this work on a small scale. For example there is one very stage green artsy community in among a wide area of stage blue territory here. It's law of attraction at work even if they aren't aware of it themselves. I'm just imagining how powerful it could be with stage yellow and turquoise people.

@Leo Gura But you could put the genie back in the bottle in a small area couldn't you? Assuming that you had the right amount of land for the population, you could create a community that lived like a tribe off the land with help from technology. I look at the Indian (Native American) reservations here, and how we shoved all the people together on small amounts of land. There is no possible way that they could have kept their traditions of seasonal migration and continue to hunt and gather over the wide areas that were cleared. They became dependent on our agriculture and they didn't even have time to adjust genetically to that diet. Wheat was never a great idea as a food staple anyway. We've nearly hopelessly fucked things up, the earth and people are sick as a result. As we combat climate change we need to learn to unobtrusively farm the land, and a lot of that means going back to gathering and farming efficiently. I see the world very differently because I live where people are a rarity. I see food growing wild going to waste and running wild in the woods while I burn fossil fuels to drive to the grocery store and buy food that was shipped hundreds of miles to me, grown on depleted soils with chemicals. It's insane. Reconnecting with nature is a necessity. The wisdom we need to get out of this mess is there.

We could go back to something like what America was when the Native Americans lived here with no concepts of land ownership. The fictions of wealth, expensive properties and buildings are what make that impossible. An enlightened society would resemble what America was before Columbus, but without the disconnection and warfare caused by tribalism.

I thought it was a unicorn. I was fooled.

@now is forever My new vulnerable avatar. I was missing FOOD! Problem is I'm on a diet where I can't eat apples and the apple tempted me too much so now I'm gonna have a stomach ache.

Oh shit. I'm missing something, aren't I?

I'm hungry now.

American cheese too, it's not even real cheese. You can't make a cheeseburger without American cheese. Merica. Fuck yeah.

@jbram2002 SHHHHHHHHH.

My husband would divorce me if I left the cheese out of his sandwiches. Are you trying to break us up Shin?

You either have the need to be seen or the need to hide. Because God can never look at himself if it was only him all along.

@Shin No shit Sherlock. I'm the only one with balls enough to show my face and share my name. Except for Joseph and now he is gone.

Is your safe word tibia?

@Shin A MAN DUH Worst fucking name ever.

CAPTAIN OBVIOUS TO THE RESCUE. YOU'RE WELCOME. Tea parties in the forest have no chairs. Ya gonna have to get your nice clothes dirty.

@Shin OH MY GOD. I can't leave you for a minute!!! @tsuki Same thing you didn't realize with now is forever. Hello full circle. Hello snake eating it's own tail. You beautiful little buddy, I guess I'm ok with you after all. Please don't bite this time. I took the apple, thank you, you were right, it's delicious.

Amanda CANNOT be her name, Amanda is my safe word. And by using it you're seriously fucking with me, I hope you know that. I didn't know you wanted THAT kind of relationship.

All of the beautiful things. THEY ARE SO BEAUTIFUL. Hey Tsuki, what did you think of Joseph's last post, talking about pissing in his sacred space?

@now is forever It's ok. When you're ready.

@now is forever yes please, the whole theme of today is vulnerability.

@now is forever What's your first name?