Ramasta9

Focusing on the "puppet" will not solve the issue.

Its pointless, don't waste your energy. Do your best to be 'your example' and if it doesn't align with you anymore just take a break or leave, or create your own forums like Nahm did, although Nahm's forum is not much different, just in a more 'non-dual' way, although it is lighter and more chill. Focus on yourself, how can you contribute to yourself and the world in the best way possible? Often our silence speaks louder.

I hear ya, but I can see now how that could also be a "belief" the supplement companies and entire pharmaceutical and modern medical system have put into our minds, possibly to keep their profits going and no one really getting healthy. Cause in all honesty... you still get vitamin D even in a cold and clouded environments, I never noticed a difference, and i feel most of the time its enough, the body is very intelligent, nature is very intelligent, its been taking care of these things all on its own long before the modern medical system and modern nutrition came around. I did blood tests with and without supplements, animal and plant-based, and results were often similar, in fact, my D, Iron, Creatine, B12 levels were even higher as a vegan, this made me start connecting the dots and thinking this whole thing and everything we are taught is a scam, and I am not the only one who sees this, there are many others who align or realized the same things. For me Its all pattern-recognition. I see patterns, i connect the dots, i grow and i feel better, more whole, more free, more myself, with less... Just think about it, there are millions and millions of people out there, way more who don't supplement than do, and are just as alive and as healthy as everyone else. I also feel supplements change the way our bodies work to then become a reliant of them, kinda like using coffee for energy. I feel (placebo / nocebo) is the bigger player here. Many of these things like vitamin D, B12, Iron, all are scams if you ask me, some even made some lengthy youtube videos exposing the whole supplement industry but I don't like to get my head mixed into it too much. I just think hey look at these poor villagers, look at these indigenous people, these natives, they live simply, they don't eat nowhere near as much shit as we do, they don't supplement, they rarely have any deficiencies, and they are perfectly happy and healthy... Dr Weston Price actually done some amazing experiments showing that when indigenous people around the world were exposed to western foods and lifestyle, only then deficiencies and disease started to occur. Maybe you can check him out

How much the world would be a better place if we all tripped with our parents

They can help brighten things up, feel things more deeply, see things more clearly, help facilitate change, but you must change and get out of the hole you created to actually make a long lasting difference. As Leo said, it also depends on a case by case basis, but maybe Cactus, Shrooms or Iboga...

Didgeridoo, Djembe, Tibetan Bowl, Chanting Om...

I feel you should smoke less DMT.

What you "think" can never be what truly is.

I can do it better: God is.......

Spiritualists say fear, bashar says guilt, mentalists say confusion, I feel love has no opposites whatsoever. Fear, guilt, confusion, they aren’t true 'opposites'. They’re distortions or veils of the same love, temporarily misperceived. Love is all inclusive, there is only love, fundamentally.

Do you smoke cannabis or take any medications? Whats your diet and lifestyle like?

As real as you want to make them, ultimately its all mind.

Have you ever wondered how a tiny little seed can grow into a gigantic tree? Really think about it as deeply as you can, no human in existence has ever been able to replicate this, and possibility never will, and go to even beyond that, consciousness is creating all of this, and none of the 'appearing material' is actually there to begin with, but a geometrically-coded, vibrational frequencies ingeniously creating the illusion of the experience we call life, that's intelligence.

That's cause it doesn't, no drug can, they can only activate whats already there. Like wiping your dirty windows, ahh its clear again, the window was always the window, just a little dirty, so you couldn't see as clearly. Take care of your body, mind and spirit, everything else takes its natural course.

You must be willing to die for the truth, you must be willing to surrender your mind/ego/identity totally for the truth, even to glimpse it. Are you willing to do that? Some of us were less fortunate, we had no other option. The reintegration is when the real stuff beings.

Return to presence / awareness / being in a nutshell. When the mind settles, there you are / always were.

@Carl-Richard Thanks for your response. I have quite a different perspective now, which is due to many years of research and experimentation, but I feel it mostly has to do with my understanding of nature and how sensitive my body has become over time. I consume mostly organically-grown foods, and have done a lot of fasting and cleansing my body, so I can really notice when the food/substance feels off in my body, and these days most, if not all supplements have a subtle but distorting effect on my body and mind. I see it this way, if nature didn't create it, it may not be the wisest idea long-term, because humans are still (figuring it all out), and i don't feel they ever will, rather i trust something that's been evolving and perfecting life for billions of years long before we were around. So i generally lean more towards the herbs and purely herbal supplements, wild-sourced or organically-grown, without any additives or fillers, if I were to supplement. Otherwise I stick to (whole foods, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds ect... Don't get me wrong, supplements definitely have had a role and play in my life, and may have helped at one point, but nowadays my body has become quite clean, sensitive and efficient, so I notice everything, and maybe I was 'numb' that i didn't notice before. After all, native peoples rarely supplement and often rarely have any health issues we have in the more modern world, unless of course they are introduced to our "foods/products and lifestyle. Through all the years of fasting, cleanses, supplements, herbs and detox protocols, I have gradually come to a point where less has become more. I realized that the more I was using and trying to heal, the less healthy i became, rather keeping things simple, how natives live, health returned.

I was reading this beautiful book recently called: When the Shoe Fits and there Osho brilliantly explains that needs are natural while desires are psychological, needs come from the body and are simple to fulfill, but desires come from the mind and create endless striving. When we live by needs, life stays balanced and peaceful; when we chase desires, we postpone living and move further from contentment. A fulfilled need brings rest, while a fulfilled desire breeds new desires, keeping us trapped in dissatisfaction. The Taoist way, he says, is to live naturally and effortlessly, to act from awareness, not craving. When desire ends, freedom begins; when the shoe fits, there’s no struggle, only harmony with life as it is. So in a nutshell focusing on our immediate reality and whats around us, and not straying too far from our basic daily needs.

if i told you you wouldn't believe me so I rather not say What I will say is that the greatest super power you can ever discover is inner-peace, focus on peace, be peaceful, do your best. Namaste

Well said. I have noticed this, and its far more challenging to reach them through an online platform, but in presence, yes, they either run away or tears come, they release, they embrace, the aliveness of nature and of life itself. I seen a few transformations in person and its one of the most beautiful things to witness. While online its often an endless back and forth, cause the energy is not there to be felt. The return to earth, here and now.

Thank you @Joshe I agree, it is my pleasure and service. It is the hearts expression that plant the seeds that eventually change the world. May we all find greater union, peace and love within ourselves, and may we carry it through our examples, not only our words 🙏

All good, just being real.

I thought OPs message was completely natural and genuine. Your response on the other-hand, could of been a little more alive and helpful. I understand where you’re coming from, but it’s easy to talk about ‘no self’ and ‘no world’ from the head. For someone in pain, saying ‘it’s not really happening’ isn’t helpful, it just adds alienation. Such responses don't really help anyone, rather it seems more like the ego rebranded itself as no-one/no-thing, in the guise of enlightenment, but a little cold and dead inside, if you ask me. The typical non-dual bypass. Its very easy to get caught up in the conceptual realm of things, especially the non-duel teachings, but are we actually serving anyone by preaching them? We've all heard it before, and it often doesn't help because its ungrounded, it simply won't land cause you haven't landed back on earth. The middle way is about integrating your human and being a friend and support to all. The paradox is that awakening doesn’t mean escaping the human experience, it means being fully present within it, with tenderness, humility, and love. The dream may be empty, but it still aches beautifully. Let’s not dismiss the dreamer’s cry as illusion; that cry is the sound of awakening. Ontologically: correct (there is no separate self, the world is appearance). Existentially: distorted (ignoring the lived reality of experience). If you really wanna help someone, put your hands, feet and head on the ground first, remember the earth on which you stand. Otherwise you are a ghost preaching nonsensical whispers.

Possibly but he read all sorts of books, not only spirituality, he was known to be the genius child in university who could read multiple books a day, his mind was wired different, and from birth he was teaching his teachers and telling them they were wrong, many times proving the professors wrong. There is no superior / inferior, its all about embodied presence / awareness.