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@phoenix666 Happy for ya man. Keep it up! ❤️

@Victor Mgazi How’s your practices going?

Sounds like she is well grounded, but not aware of nonduality yet. Her views would change. Also sounds like you’re possibly attracted to her, you could be projecting. Hope I’m not just being cynical, but notice how these things directly secure the work that she does. How is she missing the much larger sample of people who were healed / helped? And has any one person worked with thousands of people who needed help from psychedelics? Other drugs I certainly could see. What system even funnels people with psychedelic ailments to her? Any treatment center or hospital would be receiving people with ailments from all drugs, primarily ego stimulating addictive ones, not psychedelics. I wonder what specific experience she is speaking from. People die eating French fries wrong. Someone could apply hand lotion ‘wrongly’ and fuck themself all up. I think you’re able to distinguish, as you said...”best experiences” & “beneficial”. Seems like you might be putting her on a pedestal for some reason, causing you to doubt your self, and what you have found works well for you. Also, you can only know the methods she suggests by trying them. I agree with @cirkussmile..one at a time.

@Hotaka Sweet. Great sharing. You might also like Course in Miracles. It’s similar, and offers excellent daily practices. Godspeed! Thanks in advance for sharing!

Harness your passion by zooming in & zooming out. Relish in the intensity of your artistic focus (zoomed in). But know, be aware, when that focus is becoming spent / unwinding (perfectionism creeping in) and step away. Go for a walk, meditate, do whatever, but step away from the project and zoom out - go bigger picture general & simple - just go outside and notice the beauty of nature, the sky, take some deep breaths and relax head to toe a few times. You can’t just flex a muscle and hold it flexed and expect it to develop. The relax is as important as the flex. The retreat is as important as the forward thinking. The zoom out is as important as the zoom in. You have to be conscious of doing both. Sounds like you’ve been hammering the zooming in. This cycle might be two minutes, then later 10 minutes...while you’re ‘getting your groove back’, but it will develop beyond even what you’ve experienced so far if you practice. Otherwise, you are just hoping lightening strikes. Hoping inspiration “hits”.

Seems informative & useful, understanding the values individuals & groups assign. When that awareness is redirected inward it is helpful for self inquiry. It can help us to see how we have been assigning values from conditioning / past experiences, all relative to the ego. It seems like more of a tool or aid for liberation.

@who chit Yeah..but..seriously though...what am I? ?

Yogananda was enlightened as a fetus. You don’t need to look anywhere for a good perspective. Nothing anyone will say to you can be superior to your own conscience, inner being, svabhava, etc. Spend time still & quiet and listen to it, connect by allowing & surrendering, get in touch with it. Trust it and listen. It’s that inner knowing that when you pull into a fast food drive through says -come on bro, seriously. Just have to listen to it, slow down and listen to it, and that means letting go of any “you” which refuses. Don’t be rushed. That you is a thought pattern, not awareness. The ego likes Big Macs & general self destruction, and it hates deconstruction. The hate gives it away every time.

It’s so intelligent, it can genuinly ask itself what it is, and innocently believe an answer is coming. That’s a maddening level of intelligence to pull that off, and an obvious unconditional love.

@Nagma You are what is after all that you are not. Sounds like there is a lot of negative conditioning, probably from your immediate environment. Conditioning only is, if you perpetuate it. Sitting quietly alone though, it begins to unravel and dismantle, truth begins to shine through. ♥️ Are you aware that you are perpetuating it with your thoughts and words? That probably sounds antagonistic or sarcastic, but some people are aware they are doing this, and aware they want to stop doing this but struggle with the how, and some people have no idea they are what’s behind their misery, that they are the one doing it, because they are still in a blame phase. Awareness alone is curative.

@Nagma You are this thing? This DNA? These things exist? perhaps you have outsmarted your self...?

It’s how you interpret, percieve, experience it, until it’s not an interpretation, perception or experience. Or, filter of (mental) self, until realization of no self. Chopping wood, carrying water.

@Telepresent Models serve to open your mind. Paradigms, Spiral Dynamics....all you, showing you, to you. Learning a model is not a substitute for self inquiry, it is a form of self inquiry, less direct and maya though.

In terms of my advice, your work is cut out for you for a year already.

@Ether I love it.

@Nagma How is it that you are a victim? (Trying to understand).

@Faceless Sure, could be that. Paradoxically, only the “individual” (ego realized for what it is...lol isn’t) would know, or specifically un-know. I suppose some people are freed from seeking, some by realizing the seeking is itself seeking. Fear can end when Self is realized with or without seeking. Others could use non-seeking as a means of more subtly not realizing Self, as in, living in fear while genuinly believing they are realized. Anything is possible. One person could be realized and not actualized, another actualized and never realized. One could non-experience actual Self, never having experienced no self, another the reverse. Infinite dreams any combination of these “things”. I think a fun question is really which matters? Jk.

@Dodo Truth dreaming. ❤️ What could be better❣️ Dream big!

@tsuki yep. Relating. Anything is possible.

@Max_V ?? A chance sidewalk encounter led to Dr. Seuss’ first children’s book. After a 27th publisher rejected his first manuscript, Dr. Seuss walked dejectedly along the sidewalks of New York, planning to burn the book in his apartment incinerator. On Madison Avenue, however, he bumped into Dartmouth friend Mike McClintock, who that very morning had started a job as an editor in the Vanguard Press children’s section. Within hours, the men signed a contract, and in 1937 Vanguard Press published “And to Think that I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” which launched the extraordinary literary career of Dr. Seuss. “If I had been going down the other side of Madison Avenue, I’d be in the dry-cleaning business today,” he later said. https://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-dr-seuss We just never know.❤️

@Charlotte Truth, or ignorance. Self, or self.

@Ether go deeper.

@Ether I see you on the fence and I want you to go the way you deeply want to go, not this egoic bs you’ve been displaying lately. These songs are more of the same. There’s no pain, no scars. It’s entirely unearned. The lyrics are ok, but you haven’t made it personal yet, you can do much better. Vocally, there is no ‘life lived & survived’ in your voice. Reference this link below. Not the genre, or the lyrics, but the pain and triumph in the voice. You can hear the thickness of her diaphramic muscles and throat. You can her that she does not care what anyone thinks, she sings alone. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw Production wise, the overall sound is thin and hollow. I suspect this is from total electronic production. It’s ok to produce that way, but then you must run the song through a very loud quality sound system and record from the speaker (s) into a quality mic (s). This captures the sound of air being pushed. Critical unless you have a 20K studio. Then take that track and double it, pan each full left & full right. Then offset one side by a fifth of a second. Then take those two tracks and double them 3 times. Then run all tracks through the speakers and into the mic again. Now there’s robust life in the recording. If you have access to one, run the final track through a sonic maximizer. Vocally. Get auto tune. Go heavy on the harmonys and effects. Increase the volume of your vocal track until it is clipping a tiny bit (distorting), then run that track through an expander limiter, and compress it, keep the pan dead center. Stop being serious, ang get emotional with your recordings. Go deeper in your spirituality, much deeper. There are layers in songs you are not conscious of yet. Reference the links below. We need your life in your recordings or we can’t feel it, we can’t relate. I wanna hear your life and immediately say “man, this guy knows what I’ve been through, someone relates to me”. This is wymsical. Fun. No message, just music to have fun and let things go to. “Break from self” music. Do this. It requires nothing but letting go and having fun. Challenge your producer/friend to make the greatest dance track ever recorded. If you can listen to it loud af without dancin, scrap it and start over. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCkvCPvDXk This is music from the pain of life, transcended. “Self found” music. Do this. Do you hear the air from her life? The un-wordable all that is passing through her system? She dies for the performance. You’re thinkin about money, success, pussy (ego). She’s fucking dying within a performance. You startin to get it? You’re tricker treating, she’s in spirit. You’re not aware of your own self destructive tendency, she is using hers for material and giving it all away. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uz2_JPfYbjM This is an example of a full circle song. Hey Ya, is a prayer / plea to God (Yahweh) His depth of life returns to the simplicity of an upbeat song anyone can relate to, without any loss of authenticity. Notice he is everyone in the video. Sound familiar? “Can’t stand to fight the feelin cause the thought alone is killin me right now”. The main plight. The human condition. I relate, bet you do too. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw Find out for yourself “What makes love the exception”. Keep going, I love it & support you 100% - but if a song is not clearly better than the last it’s a waste of time in terms of self discovery. The wrong direction. Sit with this ego backlash. Don’t fear the pain in life, let it write your lyrics. Liberation. Confused? Deeply confused? So is 99% of the population. Embrace it. Say what they are too afraid to say Ether. Say what you are too afraid to say. Do this and your voice will change like spiritual puberty. Then you can start to develop the ear you need, then you’ll be in a position to develop your voice.

@Arkandeus Love is the way.