BlueOak

Everything starts and ends in your own mind. Any source outside of it would be something imaginary in your own mind.

Oh and that other thing anyone wants to tell me about I haven't seen, well its represented in my mind the second it's spoken about.

Nothing has or ever will exist in your mind, that isn't in your mind. Everything you see, taste, touch etc must be in your mind for you to know about it. The mind is everything that you will ever experience. You can be larger, smaller, blissed out, or depressed as hell, and all of that is in your own mind, represented to you by you and observed by you.

Yes 100% I did too. The backlash I felt it too, I blew my crown chakra. The trauma manifested in one of the people most responsible for it literally bursting through my door. I seemed to like dramatic rather than subtle back then in my reality, now I much prefer subtle. I had warning of it about to happen. Its unresolved traumas and conflicts. Split parts of ourselves that manifest and it's quite painful. Things did gradually get easier with that person, and life in general. There is still conflict but I don't initiate and I choose to be fierce when that part of me is trampled on. Its a way to heal, the same as being sympathetic to someone else suffering and feeling that in myself. Once I accepted the identity of being an outsider, and that was okay, there was no more anxiety or pain related to that. Everyone here is an outsider, (some will also tell you they are insiders too :D) but they are all outsiders as well. Being an outsider allows an expanded perspective over anything, it allows you to step outside of an immediate event or routine to get a view of the whole process. So its very useful too. I hope you can accept the parts of you that you don't love, that you fear and you can help them integrate into you. I found teal swans, the completion process book, invaluable in that regard. Its about visualizing the damaged aspects of your being as you feel them, or just sitting with the emotions that come up. In essence, it helps mentally and emotionally for those emotions/traumas to get the attention, protection, time, healing or whatever else benefits them. Go into it with no preconceptions, and a faith you'll know what you need. For the mental aspects of myself, I also found self-inquiry very liberating.

Infinity Yes. As is the process for doing so. On duality. I observe a lag delay. Say for example me taking the concept of your division and then creating an opposite position to it. Which would be a duality in itself. From what i've observed all reality is created ahead of us seeing/hearing/experiencing it. Which explains things like people seeing the future or metaphors of it in a dream, they are observing a reality which is already created or ready to be. Duality seems to happen in the moment but it's still after reality.

One day every single observer here will realise they are cutting off their toe and wonder why we are still not walking right. Every ism is needed in balance. Including the dreaded demon of them all socialism. The one everyone has made out to be the villain so they can maintain a separation of their ideology, and structure their own version of what is right or wrong.

Dividing yourself? Human and Not Human.

Why can't god be a humble person in a chair, tending his plants, paying his bills and wishing everyone a happy day? Why does he/she have to be an all knowing spiritual guru that peaks behind the curtain to see reality before it happens? If you really want to you can put yourself back to your old states easy enough Though perhaps retain some looser distinctions or divisions, and for all us a want to keep the plant/tree parts of you from turning into a dry wasteland. That'd be great to sustain our dream. Cheers.

What I usually say to myself is, all there is, is observation. All I am is observation and I am everything I see, taste, touch, hear. I am also everything I don't. Everything that could be, that is, that was and will be. The realization of being nothing would be as powerful as being everything at once. Because we are both and both are the same. We split reality into pieces to observe it, not knowing the process of doing so is us, that understanding things are both the same and different. So we argue over the process, the separation, the distinctions. Seeing the differences is us. Experiencing the difference is us. Seeing the whole is us. Experiencing the difference is us. Seeing/experiencing the reflection of others doing this process is us. Reality shapes itself to us/them, for us/them, by us/them, through us/them. Us/them being everyone, the collective, all pieces of you in your mind.

No better or worse. No hierarchy. No Greater or Lesser. No Higher or Lower. Higher and Lower. Hierarchy. Better and Worse. Greater and Lesser. Nothing to penetrate. Everything to Penetrate. Form and Formless. All and None. Have a go*d. Day. All the best.

If there is nothing to observe. (Then I realise nothing would still be a state) If you are having an experience where you enlarge big enough there is no time and space for example, that distance is meaningless. Then you are still observing something. *If you have the experience where you become an emotion, so reality reflects that completely. Let's pick what I call divine love, and a cloudy white reality experience. Then you are still observing something. I should add I was considering this answer this morning, and this was what came up. That all my experiences have still been an observation.

Yes and things in reality, have definitions and meanings we assign to them to represent them to ourselves. So everything is conceptualized when its given form.

Yes. That's the point! Its stage two of a two-part process. We create ignorance. So we can then reveal what was hidden or not seen.

We are all ignorant and not ignorant. You, me, this poster, every single person you've ever met or will meet. All parts of yourself you reference or speak to. You can't see your own ignorance, that's the point, it's a blind spot yet to be revealed. So we are all ignorant. Most questions are answered before they are asked, I understand I see and interpret reality after it happens. I know this, I've experienced it. So I understand the greater I is not ignorant to everything that is knowable, because its creating it for me, through me, and as the greater mind I am also not ignorant. I understand both of these things are true.

@ChrisZoZo Knowing how you relate to anything you come across in life is a key. It is also a way to preempt or reshape consciousness directly.

Truth can be painful along with every other potential observation you can make about it. If you are fine with that, then your range of experience will be wide. No point avoiding or staying away from anyone.

@Yimpa How can anyone resolve things from any other place? You can wait for insight, see a message given in your consciousness (which is there for most questions before they are asked), work something out yourself, ask another for an answer. That's about it.

True. Words are a conceptualization.

We are in a time of consolidation. On a practical level of cost-cutting. Of removing the unnecessary. Standardization, structure, and repetition. You get the idea, this isn't a decade people on mass have lots of excess money in their pockets, excess time, energy, or a want to explore new things. This is a conservative time. Conservatives will be happier. I don't know how much longer it will last. We'll see. Probably till AI has at least been partially standardized into the modern world, the recessions are over, people are tired of repeating media, have less national fervor etc. These will be triggers to push the opposite direction. On a more general level, people who identify as liberals and conservatives have different things which make them happy. Their measure for happiness would be different. So unless you are using two different scales to measure these two ideologies on you won't get accurate results. Then there are things that all humans, regardless of how affiliated they are with an ideology, find happiness in of course.

The way to skip steps or traps is to resolve any conflicts you have in your life before they hit you in the face :D, or if you are less dramatic a person than me. Before they gently start prodding you to look at them. To clarify look at how you relate to anything you are hiding from or having difficulty with, and consider that relationship.

@SOUL Conversation requires a conceptualization of reality, to then pass that on to another person. Some of us are meant to open up that conceptualization, others to reinforce or close it. The interplay you are seeing is part of the dynamic that shapes an evolving reality.

People put themselves through suffering every day. Even knowing the result will be suffering. I envy your experience of the opposite. I grew up in a house of addiction and abuse. My brother takes opiates still (at middle age), well aware of the decades of suffering he has inflicted on himself as an example. We choose certain things that we know lead to suffering. Suffering itself can be addictive. Forming a heavy sense of self-identity. Also the pain of the trauma can be used to define a life, career, purpose, or at best raise consciousness. I am an abuse victim. This is an identity I sometimes step into to help relate to others suffering abuse, indulge an emotional state, or protect the abused part of myself. I can drop this into a conversation to remind myself of it and experience a small part of that trauma relived in conversation. Music. Film. Relationships or when advising others. I can go watch a particularly moving film that echos the suffering I experienced, feel it in the pit of my stomach. A very easy example is Good Will Hunting if you've ever seen it, its light and easy to watch. It contains a therapist and an abuse victim. Double the addiction or catharsis is watching a person reacting to the trauma, as is common currently on youtube, and feeling a small part of my own conscious experience brought to light in their own emotional reflection. Which is quite beautiful I've let much of this go over time, but I intentionally keep some of it. I intentionally hold on to the part of me that suffers as I feel incredibly protective over it. I formed the protective masculine identity that wasn't there in my childhood, inside myself. We can design our own suffering, even if the initial trauma was completely out of our control. *I'll drop this here. If any abuse victim wants to know what method I used for healing. Well life and getting honest with myself number one. As well as the completion process teal swans book. It was very good.

Thank you all for the thoughts @Ulax | @Michael569 | @Ninja_pig People's own experiences and opinions are probably the best thing to ask, when looking at careers like this. I appreciate it, and will keep an eye on the thread if anyone has any other experiences they want to share. Gratitude. Have a great day.

What careers in your experience help the most people? In any capacity that you've experienced. Thanks.

Do you have any data on this?