Natasha Tori Maru

Rate Succession. The score is brilliant also. It initially intrigued me as I work with all my family running our business (it is hell, hell) - so I went for it to witness that dynamic. Surprisingly, it delivered heaps more - which you touched on.

@TimStr I am familiar with that 'Getting in your own way' all the time. The shift happened to me around one of my meditation sessions. It was literally as if, during the meditation, a torch light was shone on the phrase 'YOU are the obstacle'. I then tried to remove all attachment to my feelings towards activities of my existence. I tried to remove all judgement. 'This is just a task, no different to any other. Just something I need to make my hands and mind do' The very next day I changed, and it was easy to do, and easy to create the habit, because the realisation during meditation was just SO STRONG. I wanted more of that feeling, in this material plain. So I just.. changed. As I repeated the mantra and the process, resistance gave way to clarity, peace. And with it, came this ability to execute that has remained with me today. I rarely experience anxiety or negativity now. Negative stuff just rolls off me, like water on Teflon. A big sense of resolution has stayed with me. I hope others can experience the same

@ROOBIO I am vicariously happy the words were helpful It took me many years (and many heartbreaks) before I learned I had this resilience. Through experience you learn your capabilities. You have a growth mindset, so you will bounce back - and without any jaded feelings toward love

Yes indeed, it was quite accurate with him. It went as in depth as correctly predicting his MBTI personality type! You are definitely onto something

No - I am talking bigger picture. I am talking about the massive dataset it was trained on as a base, with none of your input. You have no idea of the info it is trained on. It could be your credentials sold by companies that sell your data. It could have independent profiles on us all. We just don't know. If it's free, you are the product. I am just pointing out it is not so cut and dry.

Yes I think you are correct with that assessment. Although, I never knew this. It was revealed to me through the spiritual process. Which is the reason I continue to persue it, as the process reveals hidden parts of us we aren't aware of. This is why I think there is hope for those such as @gengar His challenges are almost insurmountable. But I believe in you all 😊 Much love ❤️❤️❤️

It can also be the process that produces this strong character. Extreme levels of transformation will require an extreme dislodgement of ego and all belief. The process, for myself, has required constant destruction and then restitching myself back together again. Resilience was discovered there. But it is sink or swim, as they say.

What I am getting at, is that you just do not know what sort of data-pool chatGPT has. So while it is likely, 'certainty' is up for debate. It is a reasonable conclusion, not a certain one.

How can you be certain of this?

@OBEler Successful with my brother. Do you think your prompt history with chatGPT gives it a pattern to work with and reverse engineer a link to your face as a read? I uploaded with no history, my brother has extensive chat history.

Rolling back to Aubrey - he is facing widespread ostrasization from his community for the first time. That feeling of rejection is going to trigger all sorts of ego/survival fears. Humanity evolved through power in numbers, community. So being ejected from a community looking back evolutionarily would have meant death.

To compoud the spiritual vs material persuit dichotomy further; there are tangible, real rewards dangling like carrots in front of you with material pursuit/pleasure. This can falsely give you the impression there is value in the endeavour. And there definitely is, maybe in the experience, but the meaning isn't there. Pursuing spiritual matters and God - you are diving into the unknown. There is no clear path. No clear outcome. Makes it harder for the average Joe to find any value in it at all. But there is meaning there, which makes the discipline and work the pleasure.

This is the way. Speaking from practice to echo the statement above. You really have to have clear boundaries and excellent communication. If you don't have the qualities of the above, it can work if each individual is quite empathic; you will naturally see when someone is not feeling right and open up channels for honest communication. But they have to be confident to call it 'Hey, you said this is okay. But your body/tone/expression runs counter to it'. This can be exhausting though, so good boundaries and honesty are better. Spirituality doesn't have much to do with successful polyamoury. Maybe the crossover lies in the quality of openness being the commonality.

Yeah, it was a bog standard image. No makeup or fancy hair. I was wearing my normal spectacles. Not sure why it didn't work - my brother is trying it now, I will let you know how accurate it is

This caught me. Real. I know this is possible. I did this to myself. I had such a huge realization that every thought to take action that I didn't act on, caused anxiety. If a thought to take action arises, I just do it. Or I take action to progress toward it. I simply stopped attaching any judgement to the act. I don't have so many personal feelings toward actions now - I don't dislike vacuuming. I don't dislike early starts. I don't dislike caring for my plants. I'm cool with folding laundry, paying bills. It's just stuff to do that I don't have any feeling towards. Sure, I have activities I take pleasure in, but I simply stopped labelling anything with my personal judgement. Now I just do stuff. All the time. And if I have my shit in order, no thoughts pollute my mind. I get to be serene and focused. In the moment.

I agree. It is the most strategic next move. His ego is really in turmoil here. Trauma is the inability to resolve responsibility. We are watching his mind try to resolve this responsibility in real time. The brain is like this giant error-detecting machine (this is its survival mechanism), so when it cannot resolve/understand something like this it loops into this emotionally charged up state. You can see this also, he is being triggered to emotional outflow so easily. Fragile state. If he cannot fully understand the situation, he will walk away with trauma. And this combined with his ego will create a terrible friction of instability for some time. This echo chamber move is a real attempt to self soothe because he is just NOT getting it and the emotions won't recede internally for him. If he is able to correctly resolve responsibility and face truth, it will involve a large amount of ego dissolution. I just do not see this podcast as progress toward that outcome. His ego is essentially protecting him by blocking him from the truth.

It failed with me on all counts.

I'm 80% through this nothingburger podcast & so far agree with this take. I genuinely suspect he thought this little echo chamber was going to be some new revelatory perspective that would help shift the narrative. It's almost like he's speaking to AI.

@Aether Phoenix You might like this read, it touches on both points we raised: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/08/is-art-generated-by-artificial-intelligence-real-art/

As I was reading I was about to comment you sound very balanced and integrated. And then this at the end 😊 Very refreshing to see 🙏

Nice little recursive eco chamber it can be. I see my family using it as a delusion enhancer.

I agree with this also, I think it comes down to how we view and use AI. It is just, to my eyes, not always just a tool. I think I am attempting to illustrate how using AI effects ones perception of the work. How it is received. If Leo has to stipulate he used AI in his book, how do we think this will effect how it is received? Do we need to state exactly where and how it was used? Why do we need to state when AI was used when posting on this forum? How often do we dismiss replies when we know AI was used? It's the perception I am fascinated with. Food for thought. Good topic for mind meals. Appreciate your input

It sounds like you found someone beautiful ❤️ and shared yourself in an authentic way. What may have occurred is, you fell so hard you were a bit blinded to incompatibility. I've been there, and it hurts. And in hindsight I wish I would have screened harder for this initially, it would have saved me pain. But what I did have, when I had it, was glorious and I wouldn't trade that memory for the world. It's a difficult question - do you save yourself the pain, or relish in the memory of a life well lived? Back to your question. I cannot be sure, but you sound like you haven't moved through the grief process before jumping back into life. When a relationship dissolves - it is literally as if something died - what you both created together. If you need to take time and process, do so. Sometimes we need to move through grief and not avoid it. The danger becomes, it may not be processed, and come back to kick you in the face later. I don't have much advice. The stupid cliche that time heals is pretty much true here. The fear you feel is natural. It is a protection mechanism - your mind and heart don't want to be hurt again, don't want to be vulnerable again. My top advice; don't run from love, or further experience. Don't think about how you could be hurt again, just trust that if you find love again, you are strong enough to recover if it doesn't last. That you will survive it... because you will 🙏 Every time I fall for someone now, it's 'alright we are doing this again, let's go balls deep, and if it goes belly up I know what I am in for and can bounce back'

I know exactly how I can leverage AI to write a great piece. Or images etc. I use it consistently at work every day running a construction business. I haven't attempted to master it, but I've fucked with it enough to know it is only as good as it's prompts. So theres that aspect for sure. But. What I am actually talking about is Art. It's craft, the process. My mind goes to the age old statement 'Seperating the Art from the Artist. Do you think people would revere the Mona Lisa as much if it was partially AI generated? Or do we value the labour, the skill, the knowledge applied, to it's creation? Mediums, knowing theory, form, light. Mastery. Is the Mona Lisa just a panting? Or is it the culmination of a lifetime of work? Is it about the artist? When you think about art, we often don't seperate the art from the artist. There is reverence in something hard earned. Skill. Mastery. It's not just all output. In reality often we cannot seperate the art from the artist. The person behind is as fascinating as the content itself. I for one wouldn't put as much stock in an AI generated Mona Lisa. I realise I am also raising the topic of Art and creation into this debate, and it goes deep. You can have taste and vision, and this translates to your creative direction and output. If we consider AI as a medium/tool, it is not superior. Just another medium for an artist. Like watercolour, oils. Pen and paper. I just view Leo as not selecting this medium/tool.

Health is 99% genetics, 1% effort? Busted statement. Oversimplification. Mostly false for the general population.