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Bro's philosophy is either be all in or all out, peak black and white thinking

There's no witness either that's only a stage in between. I don't think this is a hot take on this forum but a lot of self proclaimed awakened folk get mad when I say this.

I will write a post on this soon but essentially you need to understand you are an animal who acts based on stimuli. Right now there are many causes and influences around you and inside you that cause you to doomscroll and be indisciplined. Find those influences and eliminate them, while creating causes in your life to make you more diligent.

I was reading the Hatha Yoga Pradipika with commentary by Swami Muktibodhananda and found this interesting passage I want to share.

@Oppositionless Just any Guru in general. If somebody were to teach how to awaken your kundalini, how would they know you actually got it and are not deceiving yourself? Is there some sort of energetic shift that they can feel which the kundalini projects outside? I apologize if my questions are shallow.

Title - Beyond the Sky One's mind is just like the sky sunshine when happy rain when you cry Cloudy is sad Stormy is mad A gentle breeze when you're a tad bit glad. The clouds are your thoughts they're never fixed taking shapes of all sorts everything's mixed. Now look beyond your mind You will find a space that is one of a kind where exists no haste There are no clouds, nor is any air Only a shroud of the one who's aware From there look below there is your mind oh so small, oh so small

will be posting poems here which I write this post is open to replies

This is my intuition

I see. What about a guru? How do they know?

There's gotta be a diamond among all the coal. You have to get your hands dirty sometimes. It seems people here cannot confirm nor refute my post.

I have been studying Vedic Astrology for more than a year. I started out a believer to give it a fair shot and it worked wonders. It was giving me so many answers to my problems and explaining why I am the way I am through my birth chart. But somewhere along the lines I realized that since every placement has so many different predictions it'd be almost impossible for your chart to not relate to your life in some way no matter what. I have a debilitated SUN which explained a lot of my personality as I grew up. But I realized that I also had many moments of confidence and personal strength which would oppose the Sun being debilitated; but because that's what I saw in the chart, I started associating only those experiences and recalling only those memories. If it was exalted I would still relate to it. If it was in any of the other 10 signs I would still relate to it somehow. At some point I realized that the Chart has trapped me into being a particular type of person. Vedic Astrology didn't help me break free of my shortcomings but trap me further. It just seems like a very elaborate system to justify circumstances. But here's the thing, I see the value in it as being a deep categorization of the different archetypes and energy templates of human societal reality. It's a great way to think about and create new characters in a fictional setting by plopping down planets in various houses and interpreting how they would interact with each other if this were the birth chart of the character. It's also great in understand how archetypes interact with each other and also in different aspect of lives. Such as the Sun and Saturn axis and how that same archetype plays into so many different levels of our world. However at the end of the day, I come out thinking that Vedic Astrology as a means to analyze the life of a person is meaningless and counterproductive. Not only that, birth charts probably don't even tell you anything about the life of the native. I can understand planets affecting the world currently but how does that translate over to: "The planets were in an unlucky position when you were born so you're gonna be unfortunate most of your life". Moreover, no matter what I say, it has a counter for it. "Your sun is debilitated but you're still confident in yourself? Well it must be in a good placement in D9 or it must be neechbhanga". "Your Mars is strong but your body is weak? Well the mars must have given you a strong character!" Yeah, and if my body was strong you'd have attributed it to the strong mars, but not when my body is weak. There's always a counter because there are always multiple predictions for any given placement. Now, Having said all that, there's an astrologer called Abhigya Anand who used this very same practice to predict the pandemic in 2020 and also the Bangladesh stuff before it happened. You can find his videos on youtube. Stuff like this really makes me wonder whats true and whats not. Maybe I am missing something. If somebody here is highly experienced in this field it'd be a huge favor if your could clear my doubts. I am open to astrology being real, I have been for many years, but I need proper logic behind why and how it works. I would also like thoughts from the rest of you too as to what you think about this stuff.

Does anyone at least know a good forum where people practice astrology

Check out Dr. K on Puer Aeternus

This series actually helped me realize that being able to hold different factors in your mind to evaluate a problem is really just thinking in multiple dimensions

A brilliant series that helped me imagine the 4th spatial dimension. 3 videos so far.

How do you verify that your kundalini has awakened?

I think a cool movie for anyone interested in the horror aspect of these catacombs is 'As Above So Below (2014)'

Exactly. It feels more like a way to trap yourself in.

Title - Possessed Looking at me with it's terrifying leer creating in me sheer fear oh how terrifying it is calling to me with it's comforting hiss only to snatch all my hopes it makes me cry, it makes me mope I feel it taking away my heart taking all the love away, leaving it dark and cold My chest is an abyss, the abyss is it's abode It makes me do deeds that make me die inside It wants to feed, and kill me inside I want to hide, I want to leave it all There's no one to talk to, no one to call I am going to fall, I am going to fall

Title - It makes you wonder Orange hue with the deep blue Fluffy whites at great heights The giant begins to sink Patient you in a long queue with sight towards the oncoming night calmly begin to think Sharp eyes it flies Swoops down on the ocean's crown catches fish in a blink So keen is the gannet Even then does it know we're part of the sunset?

Steel drops feather dances

The prince imitates the sun what is glow to sunshine?

holy shit it's happening

Shift your expertise from code work to AI prompt making and other such technologies. Set time aside to brush up on the skills you want to keep. Don't let your mind become lazy just change what it engages with. It would be irrational to run on foot when you have a car, but since you won't be getting any exercise that way, you gotta start hitting the gym to keep your muscle. In Phaedrus, Socrates recounts a myth where the egyption God Theuth invents writing claiming it will improve memory. King Thamus rejects this by saying it will weaken memory because people will rely on external marks instead of their own minds. He says it's only an 'appearance of wisdom'. This problem is really old. Time and time again people face it and time and time again those who survive prove the existence of only one solution, the adoption of the new technology. The only difference seems to me is that writing wasn't something that was owned by another person, unlike AI. If they take away your AI you would suddenly be helpless. So instead of rejecting AI, spending time figuring out how to host your own seems worth it.

Mesomal because we need something in between optimal and pessimal