BlueOak

I miss the style of spirituality that Nahm embodies. Its why I didn't connect with spirituality communities in the same way anymore. Sort of like a missing aspect of it, chopping off the non duality aspect. I felt it levelled me out somewhat. Of course its all your preferences, your house, your style, your rules. But if @Nahm reads this and tells us where he heads next, please drop me a mention as to where that is. I feel I benefit from both styles and could use less of a heavy handed, serious and/or material approach at times - within myself I should say.

You are projecting.

An egoic reaction to an egoic reaction is normality. Such as this one. Much easier to mock a reaction or belitte the person for having it, than to ask why such a disparity exists between deleting one video and the emotional reaction attached to it. This post is another example of the trait.

Yes. Its the magnifier for all issues, thank you for starting this thread I will keep it book marked and go back to it time to time. Its a sensitive issue and one nobody wants to talk about. Economic impact and civil rights being the two biggest roadblocks. The shrinking distance between populations allows things like viruses to spread easier, and their impact to magnify from urban density through mutation and strain on a particular area because of the ease of infecting many people in a short perioid. People can adapt to most things but the quality of life you get living in a small room shaped box is much worse a feeling than you get in a wide open room, or a building with a garden to sit in. Fuel costs, resources being used, pollution, crime rate, environmental damage and decline, war over land etc everything is increased in dense urban centers and rising population levels. Health issues and the strain on health services is also magnified, traffic, queues, heat, and stress levels are up for example. There is no easy answers I can see. Welcoming gay communities more and more openly in life, is a step in the right direction as that directly impacts population, and something some species do in nature to curb the biological drive if food is low. So a large gay population is ultimately good for our species right now. Encouarging people to stick with one or two kids in a gentle way, like having these kinds of discussions openly and more frequently is another for example. Again naturally species have less kids if there is less food or space. The biggest change will come when people, their governments, their businesses, and you all reading this take responsibility for our world. For all the species we no longer have, and all the medicine, insights, companionship, or life we can no longer gain or share with them, All the impacts we have and all the decisions we make. I have hated responsibility, it was a harsh word growing up, used in the same sentence as punishment in school, at home, on the TV or at jobs. I resisted when I saw people trying to redefine the word to not be completely linked to things like punishment at first. We need to educate and raise people that want to take responsibility, not are burdened with or worse hit over the head with it as a punishment. This is slowly changing and that is good. We need to reinforce that actions are more important than immediate results, and that has been another mountain for us to climb, avoiding the instant gratification that the 80s really pushed hard, and still lingers today. People need to know and act like what they leave when they die, is just as important as when they were living here. If you can work that last one out and how to do it, great, you've help solve the problem.

They, them, the other. The ones who want something different than we do. Behave differently. Look different. Act different. Not us. No me. Not whole. Separated from us. Judged and having that separation reinforced in their own identity.

By the way with the level of censorship we are increasingly under, I would say almost everyone, everywhere is not getting a completely clear channel of communication. Search engines list what 10% of the internet now? I hate it too but blame the platform, or the voices complaining to it, or the reasons they have, or what was done to them to give them those reasons, or the parents of people who traumatized them two generations ago. Its always the loudest voice, the most money, or the most traumatized that dictate the extremes of what can be watched or is allowed in society, separating out the rest and thus causing or accentuating the divisions we see.

Just take what is there and use if it works. Don't do the personality, manners or decorum dance. You are doing what you hate from others but in reverse. A few questions: Why do you think taking down a video is false. Why do you think leaving up a video is true. Why can we not correct something, or remove something. Why can we not watch what we say when speaking to thousands or tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.

Stop separating them from you, and you won't have the problem of them fighting you for or with their separate identity as much. Yes I realise this is difficult when someone is doing it to you. The other alternative is you split your party and include their identity, concerns and wishes in the political process. This isn't ever going away using your current approach, so hating it is like repeatly kicking a wall.

Much of this is not wrong or bad. It merely can be used in this way. No need for anyone to defend their own hobbies or lifestyle if its healthy or works for them. 1) Intellectual rebellion, debate or activism on limited or single sources with no physical or communal attachment. Re: Science, Politics, Fashion, Lifestyles, Finance etc. Limited sourcing or sourcing just to support your own argument singularly without any focus on what has already been established to balance or integrate it. Especially if you are considered separate, alone, not taken seriously. 2) Overeating Alone, rather that sitting with others and sharing the meal. Feeling alone, separated, isolated and eating to fill that. Look at the rise in videos of people eating to eat with someone else and fill that void. 3) It used to be the same with writing, roleplaying, LARP'ing, geeky or nerdy behavior in general. It was seen as isolating and apart from the group. These days being Geeky is cool, accepted, integrated into society, intelligence is no longer shunned for example. This used to feed into people doing their own thing, starting their own theories, research or lifestyles to support their identity of being separated. 4) Psychedelics without sensible structure, support and health concerns being addressed. Its used to rebel, its used to escape, because its being placed outside of society, criminalized. 5) Singleplayer Computer Games. Again like geeky behavior, this is considered considerbly more accepted now than it was 20 or 30 years ago. 6) Reflect on anytime you've ever called someone's life or behavior weird, singular, apart or separate from the community. 7) Drinking Alone. People were and are still disassociated or separated from the collective for doing it. Often looked down on by those selling it to them. Encouraging escapism, separation, rebellion against your situation. 8) For many years musical genre's that were not mainstream, to extent this is still true. 9) Self diagnosing Health Issues with no communal support. Doctors and others consider you separate, wrong for doing your own research, laugh or mock people. 10) Any trend, sport, or fashion which is new, different and not accepted by society at large. Think rollerblading or skateboarding decades ago. 11) Sexual Activity, people still struggle to be adult and speak about it. People are still trying to limit others exposure to it on the internet and still separating it not fully part of the community. Its better but its still not talked about or treated in an adult, sensible manner. 12) Any theory, ideology or belief that people shun or laugh at, mock or disassociate from the collective. I knew this but it didn't click like this until i was typing out a Psychedelics post. Anything society separates encourage rebellion and escapism into it. Its very simple but I didn't realise how powerful that was.

When something isn't seen as part of the community or a group activity, it encourages it to be seen and used as a way to escape life, or to be used to channel rebellion. When something isn't accepted by society, built into it in a sensible and adult way, it attracts the same thinking and behavior. I feel this is universal.

If you have a small amount of money. You can certainly back conscious people when they need it most so they can maintain channels of communication, small fledgling groups, ideas or organizations. When they are starting up or struggling, if you are the second person to help out you are incredibly important in their development. Its an old saying that the second person to support something is the most important, because without them the person(s) doing it are just an individual alone in a void. When that second person arrives it encourages others to listen or help out and begins to form a group or community. You can provide moral support, encouragement and something for them to build off of. Now the hard part. The entire internet is against you finding these new or interesting channels, groups, causes or fledgling start up businesses. Its entirely biased towards large multinationals which are already well financed, successful and established. If I could do one thing to help, i'd make a search engine, index or organization dedicated to finding those who don't have the exposure they would benefit from and giving it to them. But for now you'll have to hunt around on the fringes and maybe on the deep web (not the dark web) to find anything. Reference: https://www.upguard.com/blog/dark-web-vs-deep-web

How much have you invested, how much is left to invest? How are your career prospects with or without the degree where you live? - If you don't know find out. If you do leave. What is your plan if you leave? Make a couple of plans so you have something to fall back on. Not just i'll do this, but i'll do this for this to get there, to map out 10 years at least. The people who look down on you for quitting a course you can't stand are likely people who have never expericenced failure. Which means they've never tried anything worth a damn, perhaps they've lived a sheltered life and never had to live. That or they are people who think enduring to get to the end of it has value, for its own sake. For example if its family pressure only keeping you there that's a sucky reason to live your own life for someone else. Are you depressed and making decisions from a rational place or an emotional place? Is something else going on that's bugging you? If you can't think of any value from this degree have you looked into it? I mean really searched out there? Philosophy is one of the things that can cause ego death, or at least strip away some of the baggage that you were carrying. Which can cause you to feel like you have no direction, purpose or feel hollow. Its a process. It's up to you to build it back up, nobody else does it for you, life doesn't bring it to you and spoon feed it. Living life for other people for example or by their own beliefs or values often ends in tragedy. Before you make any choice, make sure you are calm, rational and crystal clear with your reasoning and with a plan in place. Else you'll be exactly where you are now.

I'll drop the go to guide in as well: http://www.biologyofkundalini.com/ I was going to say Kundalini is a Psychedelic experience already but its been phrased better above. From what I remember a highly energetic and fiery one.

It would be like trying to live in someone elses story or pulling open a page of a book and pointing at it. Without everything that made that point in time what it was. Its just an image on a screen flashing by. There is no emotion, no reason, no path to that point.

Its a blight and a blessing. Going through the teenager years over and over is horrendous to put it mildly. Even if I had a perfect childhood and upbringing those years are not great for anyone i've ever talked to. So that's at least one decade every lifetime to endure and probably more because its doubtful your earlier childhood years did not leave you with trauma to go through either. On the other side. Would you want to live with the trauma of loss or events and accidents. The memory of dying or the pain of it, and how it effected others. Perhaps the regret, guilt or knowledge of some of the mistakes you've made or things you've done in this life. Even if you've reached acceptance or more from them, they won't help the next life to experience the memory of them most of the time. Because that life is for that life, not this one. You lack context, emotion and detail of the memory. Sometimes it helps to know and past life regression can give you insights, but i've found other lives blocked off and accepted there was a reason for that.

Defined by you, imagined by you and observed by you. That's half of it The other half is all (those others) experiencing it with you. The ground under your feet, the (other) observer you just helped up, the woman holding you, and the car you are driving. Definitely pay attention to the last couple .

Matters, for me means does it become material. So it depends if its helping or hindering something be done. Intellect can offer a potential breadth to act, it gives you options and reveals connections. It can give you insights, and allow you to learn things faster than others. Intellect can be over analysis. It can be used for disconnection, and arrogance. It can be used for anxiety and worry, or procastination. It can be used for self hatred. It can help reinforce a harmful emotion state by overloading you with reasons why you are in that state. Its all about focus, like everything, and where you put it. As has been mentioned there are many types of IQ, three that are missed almost entirely in education are emotional IQ, social IQ and financial IQ. Which is where you see the holes in society and the problems it experiences.

String because the mind is full of connections and relationships between things, events, people, feelings. You live your life in these connections and relationships because they define what life means as you experience it. How you relate and experience your life, forming your perspective. If they are tangled up in knots or the string is all over the place, then the connections are either blocked, else worse you are relating something harmful, exaggerated, hindering, or false to something else in your life and its hurting you. To example. Your relationship to food, your relationship to money, to work, to anger, to your family, to socialisation, to responsibility, to yourself, to this forum, to this comment and my words. How they effect you, what you make of them. What influence they have. Everything. Getting to the truth of life gives you strength, certainty, clarity, honesty, relief, bravery, healthy relationships, and hopefully eventually some self love for what/who you are. *Also because many of these strings get in the way of spiritual truth You are welcome all the best.

Often thoughts in an overworked or chaotic mind are random and observations intermittant. In its final state perhaps yes it reaches that but its starts off much more disorganized. I always looked at it like a ball of string being untangled.

Succicntly spiral dynamics itself is a map. If all the stages are represented in any endeavor and your goal is a shift from red to green, offer red through to green. In either governance, charity or business for example.

Mine - Ours. How can I get something for myself - How can we do something for ourselves. Then: My Responsibilty - Our Responsibilty. | Red to Green it'd be, I can do what I want, to Our responsibility, which is a big jump. Finally: My Community - Our Community. | Red to Green it'd be. My House, to Our Community, again a big jump. Everything your group designs in life should be done with the word our in mind, and try to meet as many as you can where they are. I say your group, because forming a group is going to be the first step in changing anything to be communal rather than personal. It might carry on after you are long dead, and you have to be willing to make that sacrifice that the work you start won't be finished in your lifetime. Because its never finished Hopefully designing the project, foundation or team to carry on through the generations. Design it with meeting people in a red state of mind and helping them out in a communal sense by showing them what they get out of being part of a community. Forming a sense of community, attachment to the people in it not just its history and traditions which are very important as they help that community hold their identity. Whether its a business or cleaning up a residential estates trash, helping kids/homeless who need it or anything in between. In fact if I had to highlight something, i'd say focusing on those in most distress and helping them to help themselves is the fastest and most direct way to change the area. Getting people out of their survival state and toward something better, like helping them look after the area they live in and taking care of the land that provides for them. That is a very green way of life. As an example that I hope doesn't derail this topic. If I could go to every area that had homeless and turn that tide, i'd put homeless people in charge of the land they live on, maintaining it and looking after it. It wouldn't work everywhere for many reasons I know, but it'd be a start. Telling them its theirs as long as its clean, and people work together to look after it and themselves. Offering the organizational and structural help they need to make that happen and maintain it (Blue), which is usually missing in any such endeavor, and the chance for personal advancement in a career related to the maintenance (Orange). Then offering the support we need, because they are part of the community and need to be made to feel it. Which is missing in every single homeless shelter. I'd do away with the term homeless entirely because of all the stigma associated with it, while they are on the communal land they have a home and its with us. To get to green you need people who see you and me, who may be very different, as part of their community and want to help all of us at the same time. Best of luck with whatever you choose or your journey.

Putting aside the benefits of the practice. Methodologically its a bit like why you would focus on the breath or do any repetition/ritual. Its a way of silencing, calming, getting in state or focusing. For the same reason your method probably works well for people who spend a lot of time in their heart, its especially useful if you are a logical person, spend a lot of time in your head or have thoughts naturally during meditation.

It peels back layers of the ego and strips beliefs down to their truth or fiction. Its like taking something dusty and polishing it. I haven't done it for ten years but it was powerful when I did practice it. I think these were the questions I asked. Individual Why's: Is that real. Why? Is my explanation of that real. Why? Is my explanation of that real? Why? etc. You keep going even if the answer is yes, until you break things down to the core truth of it. Where did that thought/belief come from, is another way to do it. Then when you answer, you ask where did that answer come from? Repeat. Its an interesting line of enquiry until you reach the very bottom of the pile of half truths or other people's beliefs that got you there. You might eventually get a very simple and clear emotion toward a very simple and clear event or you might see the ego dissolve slowly. Consciousness Observations: Who is observing is a meditative question to try to focus on. It can help focus pull back and back and back :D. Focus on the sensation and whatever comes up, then ask who is observing that and keep asking. If a thought pops up ask who is observing that, if a sensation comes up ask who is observing that, if you feel consciousness expanding or contracting ask who is observing that. It will be unique to you so whatever comes up comes up, no wrong answer or wrong experience. These help get the proverbial monkey off your back or monkey mind as they call it. I'm going to have a run of it now and see what happens again, could be fun.

Because feelings are a chemical process interpreted by the brain.

Well the obvious thing that came to mind is, why not combine all three. Music set to art you've made, on philosophical concepts you find interesting. All the fields you have spoken about are not going to feel rock solid. They are art, music and philosophy and by their nature they will always be fluid. You are speaking like someone who has the capacity to do well in any or all of these disciplines. The way you reason and put yourself into your decisions, do the same with your work. If you are anxious for example be anxious in your art and music. If you have a 100 different things floating around in your head, put that into your art or music, let it breathe and be alive with those emotions, reasons etc. What you have now is muse, you might not realise it, you have a dilemma this makes for a great muse! These are the things I used to love to fuel my creative side for example and when I was at my best. You've got to commit and put the work in, which is the only way you'll know which direction you end up going. I also want to say good luck.