Saarah

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    @GroovyGuru Once you start to feel the ways you're attached to ego, it's a case of purifying your desires until you genuinely want to shift focus onto relaxing into truth rather than running to survival. Maybe focus on that journey before the actual journey, once the genuine desire is there the hard part is sorted and you can lift-off into what needs to be done, discipline effortlessly flows from what one's biggest curiosities and wants are.

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    3 hours ago, Paul92 said:

     If we aren't individuals, then it makes everything redundant, surely?

    That is a projection from your mind which will just complicate things. We're already dead but everything still continues to happen, all the thoughts, personalities, emotions etc. they continue and the experience is alive. Maybe just the egoic perspective becomes redundant, things like seeing separation but not everything will become redundant, it's just that ego is usually all of our perspective, that's perhaps why you feel everything will be redundant, but of course the ego isn't everything.

    Just keep diving into the contrast of life and it will continue to push you in the right direction in your own time, you can't force the wanting for spiritual growth but you can always continue observing life until the natural desire arises. You're lucky though that you know about this stuff to put things in context or through comparison, that will help you a lot.

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    @Eric Tarpall Teal Swan talks about boundaries and conflicts of interest. She advises something along the lines of taking others interests as part of your own and vice versa but not necessarily at the expense or above your own so as to allow anything, which seems to be your difficulty.

    Probably don't stay around anyone who is completely incapable of also taking your interests at heart. It won't work out perfectly but at least be sure that another does demonstrate this enough.

    If you have a tendency to not care about yourself and always be compromising, try watching for thoughts and emotions like guilt which could stem from shadow/self-image attachments, get to the bottom of them

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    Quote

    identity (n.)

    c. 1600, "sameness, oneness, state of being the same," from Middle French identité (14c.), from Medieval Latin identitatem (nominative identitas) "sameness," ultimately from Latin idem (neuter) "the same" (see idem). 

    Origin of identity

    1560–70; < Late Latin identitās, equivalent to Latin ident(idem ) repeatedly, again and again, earlier *idem et idem ( idemneuter of īdem the same + et and) + -itās -ity

    I thought these definitions of identity were interesting, in our everyday processes of seeking identity, we want to maintain a stability or sameness. Since we are trying to find the sameness and stability in the things that always change, we'll never maintain an identity.

    All the struggles in our life are about this inability to maintain the sameness (identity) through the changing.

    We need to notice what is the same again and again!

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    Hey everyone, I recently heard someone read this excerpt out from an ancient astrology book on fear which I transcribed, it's quite an enjoyable read on fear and it helps you to understand why in religious texts you are told that the religious one fears God:

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    What is the importance of fear? And why is it lodged in the human soul to begin with? What is its soul status, it’s cosmic significance, it’s ultimate legitimation? My maxim now comes from a contemporary poet and novelist, Mermer Blakeslee who has studied fear concretely, very closely as a senior ski instructor of national and Olympic ski teams. Those individuals who hurdle themselves downhill to victory or devastating injury. She writes in conclusion to her study of fear at the brink, that fear presses from our limitations the aged wine of humility as we face the implacable givens of the world. Fear is implanted in our hearts and sinews, today we must say ‘information in our genes’, as a kind of knowledge, the knowledge of humility. In face of the implacable givens of the world, the aged wine of humility was the essential wisdom taught by both the Hebrew and Hellenic traditions. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” says Proverbs, demonstrated as well as a principle message of Classical Greek epics and tragedies. Fear urges human humility that saves from human hubris. The relation with the implacable givens, the Gods, was not love but humility. Staying within mortal bounds, drawing back, that primordial physical motion which initiates reflection, reflectere; to bend back. Let us say fear is primordial prudence, the wisdom of animal foresight at a cellular level. Shrinking of the perimeter equals staying within limits, and this primordial prudence is given with life as are its implacable facts. The instinctive, wordless counsel of fear acts like a guardian angel. Jewish legend says, as there are angels of grace and angels of love, so too there are angels of fear and dread. Fear as an instructive angel has been elaborated by Kemp Smith in a sort of summation by this modern philosopher soon before his death. This angel seems to offer understanding of life in the world, or what I am calling fear’s cosmic legitimacy. This understanding presents itself most clearly perhaps in Buddhism and its disciples of ritual, gesture of the hands or Mudra, one of which most widely recognised is called ‘Fear Not’, enacted because as a Japanese practitioner explains, fear is innate. Not only in man but in everything which exists; the birds, animals of every sort, men, the sun, the moon, the worlds are continually in dread. It is this that one the Buddhist calls ‘world filled with fear and dread’. If fear is a potential given with the facts of the cosmos, then it is latently present anywhere, everywhere, worlds are continually in dread. When you, or I or any creature suddenly feels the presence of fear, we are placed in unmediated connection with the cosmos, engaged by the truth of reality. The truth that all things change, all things pass away, and the reliability of nothing can be assured. The keys to security lie less in calculated predictability than in small omens of fear, for we are consumers of and consumed by the great conflagration of existence, Heraclitus’s fire, riding the slow imperceptible tremors of a quaking Earth. Consequently, platforms of security appeals to moral courage, repressive combativeness to hold fear at bay, sheer our wits away from the actual protective angel who keep us, in Kierkegaard’s phrase ‘in fear and trembling and in freedom’. Freedom, how curious. We each know all too well that fear imprisons, paralyzes even the simplest movements as when we vainly call for help in a nightmare. Yet that frozen instant presents the first freedom: awareness of that complete negation humans have named death. That we are bound to nothing whatsoever except death, the unknowable unknown. This negation death is the only necessity, there is no ontological obligation whatsoever but to die. The awareness, the recognition that one’s ultimate obligation is negation by this universal implacable given is exemplified by the death-defying hero and the suicide bomber, figures of radical extremity. In other words, we meet the fear of terrorism or catastrophe by understanding the psychology of freedom, the freedom tied to negation, bestowed by negation and paradoxically freed from fear of negation. As Spinoza famously wrote, “A free man thinks of death least of all things” and Kierkegaard proposed that one should live as if one were already dead. Angels are fantasies, winged voices, messages, they are more powerful and intelligent than a human being. We may conceive angels as the configurations of imagination that accompany emotions. The images that fly into the mind during moments of fear. When Kierkegaard connects dread with revelation of human freedom we may revision this connection as the freedom given by dread’s angel, the winged messages of imagination.

    Fear is an angel because without its guidance we’re likely to forget the limitedness of form and engage continually in more delusion thinking that we are limitless. Human hubris is the person constantly trying to accumulate and expand themselves with and as form, and human humility is being reflective of limits. Religious people are told to fear God and be humble before him so they can recognise God more than they recognise themselves as all there is. The person who is constantly trying to combat fear through false security for example, is like someone combating an angel who is there to guide them towards freedom.

    I like how angels having wings, being flighty and made of light is likened to the nature of the imagination, foresight and built in intelligence/instincts, the wordless guidance we have.

    It seems like when you see the typical cartoon of an angel and a devil on the shoulders of a person, that it's obvious which one they should pay attention to even though usually the person gets seduced by the devil and the audience thinks they're stupid.
    But actually, angels can sometimes look like fear and dread, so no wonder no one likes the angel's messages!
    In real life angels will often look like devilish fear :ph34r::ph34r: and devils look like shiny light beings :x:x Lol!! 

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    @Pernani I think intention comes before vision, vision is a tool to flesh out or make an intention tangible to the mind, but intention itself can be general and as long as you take actions in alignment with an intention you'll find your way to bringing the intention into concrete form. One general intention helps to keep things open where if one concrete result didn't work there's many other ways to manifest the same intention, and sometimes life throws in surprises and new crossroads while still going along to the same intention. It's like a life purpose statement which is general but can be expressed in many different ways. 

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    @Omario It's all energy that manifests as symbolic representations, then the symbol helps you to understand how and what the energy is doing/playing out as i believe

    Uranus is all about changing the status quo, moving forward, being different, rebellion and this planet sits on its side and it's rings are moving in a different direction from all the other planets.
    Neptune is the planet represented by dissolving of boundaries, psychedelic states, oneness, dreams and is largely made up of gaseous matter so it's less solid in its physical boundaries, more elusive 
    The sun is all about ego, motivation, drive and it is the greatest attention grabber, tons of fire and lights up the day
    The moon is receptivity and intuition, subconscious, emotions and it comes out at night and receives the sun's light

    Carl Jung was very interested in astrology and noticed all his archetypes were represented by the planets and the signs

    You can think of energy on a micro level for example how all the food you eat affects you, thoughts, emotions, music and talk affecting the 'vibe' in a place or event
    Then on a macro level you have these huge planetary bodies that have absorbed and emit their own collection of energy

    Another thing to look at is history. Astrology developed by people observing the planets and then noticing what was happening in their lives on the day to day and in their larger communities. If you type any planetary aspects you're interested in it will tell you all the major events happening at the time in response to that. People make an entire study of it and witness their lives, they notice the connections, you can do it for yourself too.

    It doesn't have to enable victim mentality if used appropriately. It just adds to the idea that we have a story we're playing out. You were born in a certain family, at a certain time, place with certain genes etc. You can see astrology as representing all these psychological conditions and the themes that are likely to crop up for you to be working with.

    This is just how i see it, hope that got you thinking a little xD

     

     

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    I did it for 53 minutes after which my will was low plus i needed to pee really bad lol (don't drink hours before)

    So, basically i've only ever tried weed once but it was like that, not any noticeable dissociation from the body experienced but, i had a load of buzzing/tingling and noises (some ringing, some static) in the ears, which varied in location and intensity throughout, and continued for a while once i finished.

    I definitely got a lot quieter and slower with the breathing over time, i don't know if that's ok or if you should maintain the same level of energy into the breathing throughout the whole thing? I think at one point i kind of dipped into sleep and then out again, i had to remind myself what i was doing, but i don't know if i necessarily stopped, it was a bit of a blank moment.

    I listened to this music on a really low volume. I've heard that with OBEs you shouldn't listen to anything and should reduce the amount of stimuli you're exposed to because apparently you can experience them more potently as you leave. With sounds, especially if you left from your head, they'd become super loud. So i thought if this breathing technique has the potential to lead to an OBE it might be best to keep the sound volume very low.

     

  17. Posted

    @hinawashi I guess it depends on the level of consciousness. Both are ways of going about serving the ego, but the sustainable one is likely a more conscious program, or a more developed paradigm, like going through spiral dynamics stages. I’d imagine having a sustainable way would mean needing to consider all the other egos too, whereas the other is all about my immediate ego. Even though addictions seem like an obvious non-serving exercise, it does give immediate gratification and that’s the only concern there. To get to the concern for a sustainable approach it’d probably need to face up to and realise the limits of immediate ego gratification. The rich getting richer for example, might need to see how that’s not doing anything for them, their awareness might raise to wider concern. Do you think that’s the case?  

  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, PretentiousHuman said:

    @dorg Im applying what you have commented and it really works for me. It Kinda separate me from my thought with the use of awareness. 

    Yeah just say to yourself “It happened. Fact.” 

    Then notice the uselessness of your thoughts trying to take it further and trying to put it in your own hands, what a waste of time

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    @Hardkill If you're in a situation you hate, you have to first find your emotional balance and peace within. That means accepting where you are, letting go of certain patterns of thought that make the situation unbearable and just feeling as much flow and ease as possible. Don't try to move on from a place of panic and despair, you'll end up remaining very ineffective in your attempts to move on.

    Once you've truly become more easy about yourself and situation, which will create symptoms of being able to wake when you need to and do better in your daily life and tasks, then start to move towards solutions. You just have to notice opportunities suited to your preferences, get creative, be realistic. Remember you have this amazing resource called the internet where you can learn all sorts of skills etc. Start taking actions but from that place of balance. You need to sort all those imbalances that are making it difficult for you to do anything properly first.  

     

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    @George Fil Will you be fine to survive and live during those 3 years of failure? If it's what you really want and you don't rely on your job for survival you should focus on it, and learn more about business so you can be sure of making progress 

    If you need the money you could save up and quit later, meanwhile take small steps given your time resitriction to learn more of what you want, how to do it, where you're going etc. Then put it into proper action when you're ready to quit 

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    @Ariel It reflects how we must develop to be able to function more effectively as a self

    You can do what you want, and that will either have disastrous consequences or ones conducive to living a good life, this kind of acts as a guide to help you recognise what needs you're being motivated by and what are the helpful rather than damaging ways to fulfill those needs 

    In your pickup example, maybe someone uses pickup to manipulate and that reduces their feelings of self-honesty, integrity and authenticity, all of which reduce self-esteem, one of the needs. You can do what you want but it will have consequences. Maybe pickup gives someone the façade of self-esteem on the outside but they will end up unfulfilled in their needs.