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@Joshe Triggered? 🤪

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I could be wrong - but I believe in a previous post Leo intimated he believes no one has reached the levels of consciousness he has reached because 'no one has spoken about it'. Not verbatim.

@cistanche_enjoyer I do think it goes back to my original post - you just don't get a set of experiences (ie body death)

It comes down to the fact that Leo cannot know another's experience. And the rational that 'I hear no one talk about it' is not actually a proper reason to believe this is the case.

@Ishanga Thanks for the response Nice to read the viewpoint! Was definitely a rhetorical sort of question as it is one of the fundamental philosophical questions with no single agreed-upon answer

Here we go with the non-dual bypassing again. It just makes communication so difficult

Some of these crop circles that have been researched suggest that certain effects seen in crop formations, like bent or "blown-out" stalks, are consistent with those caused by microwave radiation. I believe there is some discourse around this floating about. I know many have also questioned the studies that went into them. Essentially, some of the crops that create the patterns were not shown to be cut, but rather blown out and bent over at a uniform height. Almost like they were created with a huge magnetron like that found in a microwave. Initially, these effects were thought to have been caused by radiation, but the process was replicated with a magnetron. I have no links to any of this, its out there if you are curious. Just some stuff I have come across.

Why is there something, rather than nothing? 💀

Questions befall me, and terrorize me! Oh, UnbornTao, will you not let me be!

@Basman I feel the same regarding audiobooks. I use them as well as normal reading. But I have found when I read, I naturally pause and stare blankly off or at the page when images or networks of ideas are forming. So when reading, I can take it at my own pace. I do not get this reprieve to 'digest' the information when an audiobook just rolls through. And I find this ability to pause essential to integration and understanding. Pausing and rewinding an audiobook interrupts the process when my eyes can simply return and continue. This is especially prevelant with things like fiction. Fictional work invokes images and emotion as I read. I enjoy audiobooks also, but I have a deeper connection to my emotional and visual process by reading. In other words: the experience from a book is richer to me. The ability to read long format is trained. I do think a lot of the younger generations are losing this ability for short format information. There are no short cuts without compromise.

An instrument of sense faculties to enable experience?

Very much this - you need to HAPPEN to life, not just have life happen to you 👊

You just don't have that. You don't experience the body dying. That's all. The awareness of the body dying and aging is never had. From God's POV? I don't think the question applies because in the absolute there is no-thing. No body. Empty, but not even empty. No words

You would loose the possibility of an experience. Do you mean maintaining the body, and thereby the ego self?

Love it, thanks for the post I've always naturally shifted perspectives and seen multiple all at once. It is an asset used wisely. And people are terrified of their own power. Big unconscious issue, that 🌱

Argh I hate when this happens - bloating causes me low mood, brain fog as well as general discomfort. My only cure is to drink water and walk. I don't pound the water down, but I sip all day above what I normally consume. I tend to also reduce my meals down in size / go for liquid energy during that time. I find letting my digestive system totally clear out to be beneficial, as putting more in taxes it while it is clearing. Might not work for everyone.

Books are not useful? I sort of cannot understand the lack of thought there. Very hard to accurately retain and transmit complex knowledge through generations without them. A human dies and we loose their intellect, books can assist in retaining and distributing knowledge. Obviously we have systems, ai, videos etc now. But they are inherently harder to maintain as they do not exist in isolation. One good solar flare will shut down power etc. books were a record keeping method in a way. Just one of many benefits.

@Rishabh R This is great advice Sometimes I find re-reading as Rishabh said a few times, as well as taking notes after one or two paragraphs, helps to cement it in memory. Another trick I use is forcing myself to nap for 30 minutes, or meditate - then reading again. Like a reset button.

@Miguel1 Your story - beautiful I especially love the image - it truly does represent a new beginning. New phase of life exploration. Dive into you. How you express yourself shows you live life like an artist Slightly jealous of that view, ya bastard

@Inliytened1 @Emerald These LLM responses are really eye opening regarding its informational consistency.

@ExploringReality Preach

@Inliytened1 Haha I don't make generalizations, but I have seen just as many men get emotional and fold on construction sites as I do women get emotional. Society doesn't seem to label anger, rage and violence as emotional. Violence is an emotional expression just as crying is an emotional expression. Both sexes express emotion, just on different axis'. When we do not understand something, we typically call it 'irrational' or 'crazy'.

I'm just waiting for Solipsism to come into it.... Why would Leo be holding a retreat to facilitate when its all just him?

This hit - I remember a similar HUGE reframe of things like songs etc. Relistening it suddenly has a whole different meaning when you realize the falsehood of what is being sold to you... It also made me very cautious of any meaning making we do. False meanings can really hinder us. And meaning is something we naturally look for as a way to obtain certainty (and certainty is a way to gain safety - goes back to survival mechanisms). To understand the meaning so we can predict outcomes and survive. And don't get me wrong - meaning can be important - but it can be another way we blind ourselves to truth. Damn, this is vulnerable - thanks for sharing. My brother experienced this also during a phase he was smashing ONS. Multiple girls home at a time. He also went to the doctor. But soon worked out it was a total mechanical loss of connection with the act that was causing ED. He has always been good with the social thing (he has close relationships with sisters and an excellent understanding of femininity), but he realized he was sort of shelving his feminine side and suppressing to 'run through' women (as he termed it). He wasn't into pickup, but he was socializing with a lot of men who were in a bit of a ONS phase. I think it rubbed off on him. Glad you are recovered