Natasha Tori Maru

I found this very insightful regarding shame, false emotional based beliefs and how spiritual methods can apply to cold approach & confidence in general:

By shared context?

My brain is exploding 🤯

How do you know you are actually see the same cow? You sense light reflecting off a cow, but both sets of eyes see different light. Is that the same cow?

@Sugarcoat yes totally - I do lots of hypnagogic, OBE & dream state work. Many logs of experiences 😀 I am intrigued by the concept of an impossibility in the dream and fear arising. Almost like the brain perceiving its own eyes. The dream self probably wouldn't understand the impossibility - my dream self is dumb as shit in my experience lol

It would be a paradoxical nightmare I suppose - the fear within generated from the self and not the conception of 'self being within nothing' Because as soon as you have a 'self' contained within 'nothing' there is a 'thing' suddenly ! No longer no-thing 🙃

Some self with a lower case s right here 😜 Attempting to control and direct conversation (by demanding) in an attempt to alleviate possible humiliation - attachment. Just sayin'

I lean more this way - Jesus may have been real and true - Christianity is another thing entirely. Can you imagine what Jesus would say about the religion created around him? I cannot believe it would be something he would endorse .....

Realizing he is Truth I guess? The question was almost rhetorical and a prompt to contemplate. Still not sure how one can have direct experience of Jesus. Honestly it's all stories and hearsay, and the bible/Christianity is, to me, forfeiting ones sovereignty. I view this as a tragedy. Mothers side of my family are all born again Christians. I see it, and have it mentioned to me, almost every time I see them...

Can you awaken to Jesus and not be a Christian?

Your realization that Jesus has shown you the way - I take it to mean this is your truth now? I could be misinterpreting/misunderstanding !

Moon over the Riverina - oil on canvas, linseed oil medium

@Flowerfaeiry Just out of pure benign curiosity - if it turned out Jesus was fake and all made up - would you still remain within your current understandings of truth?

We ARE the entity 😈

I do think it requires genuine openness, an unsatiable curiosity & discernment/critical analysis. Not a common combination Most people are terrified to have their identity pulled apart - it provokes the fear of death. And I suppose it is a death isn't it? Its the death of their understanding of reality and themselves. The death of how they existed up to that point.

My post wasn't to express any knowledge held by me, more to encourage contemplation.

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@Joshe Agree I just know that no one actually knows what they are doing. And most are so self conscious and worried / attempting to control how they are perceived. Busy spending A LOT of energy crafting avatars. The energy devoted to controlling how they are perceived is a monumental waste of mind & body. Knowing this frees me to express myself and do whatever I like really. Even when it flies in the face of what is 'customary' to society. I bank on no one really paying attention @Davino Thanks for the share !

@Jannes I'll keep having a crack at it and report back I am a horribly curious person so I dip into esoteric stuff like this a lot. Interested to see how you go !

I used a website with targets! When I have had success I have actually rendered the event/activity/thing somewhat well - but I more often than not fail to interpret it. So my thinking mind is using object associations and labels incorrectly An example of a fail - the target was 2 people on a hang glider - I thought it was a 2 ball pendulum. What I thought were the balls attached at the bottom were the 2 heads of the people in the glider triangle - and what I thought was the anchor for the pendulum to swing was their bodies/lines attached. It was a shitty stick drawing - the image was pretty on par for a basic render. I just couldn't interpret the image.. The only colour noted was blue for the sky - but I thought that was a metallic blue for a ball pendulum. The thinking mind is the enemy

Agree. I went through some severe trauma - no need to go into it - but in the realm of systematic (years) long psychological abuse and physical abuse. I ended up with a TBI. All my siblings went through similar (although I ended up with the worst physical issues). I now work as a construction manager and co-manage the business with my Dad. My sister works an accounts job, has severe anxiety, depression, addiction issues and eating disorders. She can not function without outside assistance. My brother has struggled with weed and other substances his entire life as a result. He cannot commit to anything and has job hopped living in squalor for years. Been evicted and kicked out etc. My youngest brother is head carpenter and set to take over the business (with me) when my Dad retires. He owns his own apartment and is with a woman who has a child to another man. But he takes the little one on as his own. We endured under similar circumstances. I think personality/genetic variants must come into it. I am the oldest.

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If you have some issues with moderation please raise it with Leo

@meta_male Speaking for myself, as moderating is an individual thing - I didn't perceive the ending of the story as concluding as being sexual. It may have started that way, but by the conclusion of the narrative I read it as a genuine shared experience of fun and connection. As a new experience to people this can be profound. It also appeared to me that @Husseinisdoingfine found more value in the shared experience without sex being involved. The images I glanced over did not seem objectifying or sexual at all. Just my perception. Due to perception bias we have many moderators who are active for this reason. So, I think your example is more extreme and would be clear cut to moderate. There also would have been reports from other users. Easier to take decisive action in your example. Any of the other moderators are free to express their view and how they would have dealt with it. Hussein was very quick to realize and sensor without any action taken by the mods. So I think perhaps it was a good learning experience.

It is an unknown if @Husseinisdoingfine had prior permission to post the images.