Loba

@Husseinisdoingfine If the planet can even hold out for that long.

@Baum If you encounter it again, try sending Love towards it - and see if that does not lessen it's grip. It will either run, feed on the Love, or try and manipulate you into feeling afraid, don't let it cause fear. Fear is the illusion they feed from. Sometimes when you start to increase your consciousness, you will feel the astral beings feeding on your energy, that kept you in lower states, this is normal. I don't trip personally, but I have heard of a lot of people finally seeing them in their trips because of the consciousness upgrade. Also, in the future, try clearing the space out for yourself - set aside a very sacred, special space that you can use, and use incence, palo santo or sage to clear your energy. The setting and space is also important because you are opening a portal to other places with psychedelics, you want it to represent itself how you need it to - so include things in your space that feel the most "you". Depending on what type of being this is, you can convert it to Light by talking to it - and telling it it will be forever hungry if it does not convert hate to love, that love is an energy that lasts forever and creates itself - the being would not need to take energy from others - all beings that do this do it out of lack of Love. If it does not convert, you can banish it with various baths, spells, and prayers oritented towards universal Love. You can also do nothing and just explore this space the next time it happens - ask it questions and see what answers it gives you. Sometimes the being itself will have the cure.

If you don't get along with someone and you feel like it is a trauma bond and not an authentic connection based on mutual respect then I would cut it off and move on, there are a lot of people in the world. You can make better friends.

I've worked with negative beings before - you can explore this part of how energy works - the darker side and learn from it in the same way as how Light teaches you - once you get over your fear. Love is a powerful ally, keep Loving no matter what. If you manage to find positively oriented beings on future journeys, you can ask them for advice on what to do about this or they even might remove it for you. You can also remove them yourself through Love and Willful prayer. Some of these beings can be converted into Light, but it's on a case by case basis.

@Matthew85 True story, for us all

Huh... we live in weird times.

I agree, the more I learn, the less I know.

Curious to know too, although I don't watch his content too much anymore, his absence has been noticed. What's up, Leo?

Meditating, Being, Learning, Growing, Understanding myself... mmm... healing.

Pretty eye opening. Check it out. Designer Sally Woellner takes us into a world of Dark Patterns, highlighting how the websites and apps we use daily have very specific, and sometimes dangerous, intentions brought to life through UX/UI and graphic design. During this insightful talk, Sally advocates for design to be more transparent in hopes of designing a better world. Sally Woellner is currently a Product Design Group Lead at Canva. She is an experienced creative leader and designer, who loves working in product design, branding, advertising, and a huge range of digital media—and has been recently recognised as one of the Women Leading Tech by B&T and Google and is one of Australia's leading experts in creative technologies. She previously led the design direction of a campaign for World Vision that garnered worldwide attention and eventually led to all 119 children on Nauru to be relocated within 6 months of the campaign going live, which solved a 5 year problem.

I've never heard of him, I don't have any opinion on what he does with his money/don't care.

@mememe Let me put it this way - I got an education at an alternative high school for kids who were going through rough times and this school did not teach history in great detail. So if, for instance, I had said something not understanding the entire history behind it, it would make more sense to me to hear in a polite way how I am wrong, where, why and what I can do to change it - how was what I said taboo? That's the thing, is when we get into taboo topics like this, but where someone is uneducated on the subject like Whoopi was, and even me, I don't know too much about history - then an open discussion and history lesson would be the best way to go about eliciting change in another person. I think we need to look at each of these cases as individual instances. So, for instance, I think Joe Rogan is in the wrong, because the taboo of that word is well known; he must have known that you can't use that word - but for Whoopi, it does seem to me like a genuine mistake. So like, this discussion here, I knew that they had murdered Romani, disabled and mentally ill, but I didn't know about the others, so if I had said something ignorant, I would want to know where and why, for sure, because I would hate having to be on the wrong side of a taboo subject and not know anything about it and then do or say something that hurts other people. And I think most people, sans overt racists, do prefer to know what's going on when it comes to this stuff and don't wish to harm other groups of people. We just have to open up the dialogue for these situations and under a non-emotional, teaching, factual manner for people who are ignorant, but aren't trying to ... fuck shit up for others. But in situations, like Joe's, where he should know better, then I think calling people like that out is fine. There are some things, culturally, that you don't do, like use that word. We are taught this at a young age. For Whoopi, I think of all the times I have been wrong and would have preferred to learn a better way just by being told and instructed on how to get there. It can literally feel like, there is a link missing when I say something that is interpreted as wrong or is just plain out wrong. I would never try to be wrong and know about it and continue with it. All people just need to be educated to the same level, good discussion can open up worlds for people. I've been looking at this thread and a few others here, and on a social level I feel very interested in the viewpoints of different people - if open discussion was possible, both parties could go very deep in understanding. The only thing that holds it back is defensiveness of both parties. I imagine things like this are more like... you would need to read a lot to really get a good understanding of what is going on. It makes me sad my school didn't have more to offer in the way of learning history. I think on this forum in the future people should try to steer conversations like that towards serious dialogue, so that those of us who are interested in understanding more on these topics can ask questions and learn, without there being fights. Because I know I will step on some landmines on my own journey, and I need to know where they are so I don't detonate them, but a few are going to go off, just like with anyone learning anything that's part of the process. If there is insane emotionality, then it shuts down communication.

I don't like that kind of stuff, either - it annoys me a lot, but I have found ways to reframe it. I had a friend who was really slutty and she did the same thing, and she used to be very average as a kid but grew up into a very beautiful girl - and was just way too flirty and what changed my opinion of her was when she told me that her dad had raped her as a kid. She just grew up learning that sexuality was a way to get certain things from abuse. Maybe this girl has learned that is the only way to get through in life is by using her beauty in that way, and it is actually quite sad because beauty not only fades, but she misses out on actual growth. If you are smarter and don't need to do that sort of thing to get good grades then you are already ahead and she is just some random, acting out her own problems. Since you know nothing about her, you can reframe how and why she is doing these things - try viewing it as a cry for attention, something that will inevitably backfire in the long run. Cheaters usually lose. You have to do the work to succeed.

I am kind of ignorant on topics like this... uhm, I saw her talking with Colbert and it seemed like she just didn't understand that the Jews are a race of people, that she wasn't denying anything or trying to cause a problem, just an ignorant mistake. If I had someone following me around trying to ruin me for every ignorant mistake I made, it would drive me nuts, and cause defensiveness and nothing would be learned - that's no way to correct a mistake, there has to be open dialogue about it. I feel that's the best way to remedy situations like this. I've been in the hot seat before and it's kind of confusing; it feels like doing something wrong accidentally in a different culture and not knowing fully "why", and then having to deal with other people's emotionality on top of it - so there isn't even an open dialogue to discuss "why" or "why not". You just kind of get forced a world view - even if it is correct, the person doesn't come to that conclusion on their own through dialogue, but through emotionality. That is what I feel is wrong with how people go about correcting others who are ignorant. You have to be willing to set aside emotionality and discuss it with the person as if they are learning a new language. Teach. You know? We all win that way. It's so obvious she just didn't fully know all the details and wasn't trying to cause harm.

@cle103 Honestly, I would try a song and image that resonates with you, rather than something I posted - it was just an example.

@Thestarguitarist14 What I mean is, it seems like an eclectic group of people - have you ever been on a genuinely racist forum? They're mostly white males, this place literally has people from all walks of life - there is less racism here.

I disagree, I don't see racism too often here. I have only seen it a handful of times. This place has people from all over the world.

Try giving Love to the world through meditation, just send that energy outwards instead of waiting to receive - give all of that Loving energy to your environment - surrender into how it feels - and practice, and then everything will change for the better. When you feel down, it is often that a person has forgotten how to do this. Try listening to a song you love and look at a beautiful image of the earth or something and send that Love outwards - as you practice this it also changed the neural pathways from feeling 'down' to feeling 'up'. Meditate! <3