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@Martin123 Salrightbro. Thanks. Your intuition is spot on. I am a hippie vibe guy, no doubt. When I was younger, I thought little of the hippy type. After learning about quantum mechanics, metaphysics, mental homeostasis, meditating for 20 years, etc, and maybe a few psychedelic travels, now I'm thinking the hippies were right all along. -God damn hippies! -Eric Cartmen

I think you've reached capacity on "Who am I?". As in, it doesn't seem like you're getting anything out of it anymore, and maybe just kind of going in circles thinking about who you are. I suggest you transition to "What am I?". As time passes on the path of What am I?, you will gain insights, and one of the many benefits is that you will look at those people at a party very differently. You will see the majority are lost in Who am I? Go far enough on the path of What am I?, and you will see that you are them, and they are you, and all the comparisons will not even be observable for you anymore.

@kuwaynej solid.

@Martin123 My kids couldn't tie their own shoes if I did not show them how. Alwaysbenice.......And nature made mind-medicine, they are called psychedelics.......That is just a damn good quote right there.

@Martin123 I appreciate your input and I also think you are putting your own color on what I said and commenting to me as if I said what you perceived. I can certainly appreciate the need for professionals and time in cases of deeper issues. Absolutely. Twenty years ago I experienced Zoloft, Paxil, Wellbutrin, etc. One day, a nurse said to me "I'm tired of seeing you here. Start eating better, stop consuming caffeine and sugar. You're not even giving yourself a chance." I was more coming from this perspective......My dad did nothing for his PD. I don't think he ever exposed himself to the idea or category of it at all. So he was pissed all the time. He lived to work without even knowing it. I love consuming self help and PD. I eat healthy, meditate & exercise. My kids see that instead of what I grew up in. The difference this will make in their life is profound, but only by comparison to the shit they would have had to undo, like I did. Maybe people could just try the healthy PD path before or in conjunction with any other plan that benefits them.

@clytaemnestra You just made the biggest step. Congrats. Try to realize it is this low that you are in that brings the desires for what you want. You, like I did when I was 21, are having a lower low than most people. I know it's impossible to see this now, but it is a gift. The gift is to realize that you are not just going to "live to work" or accept what is. You are not going to just "get in line" and work your life away. You are not depressed, you are an expander of the universe. Hang in there. You will bounce in perfect measure to soar to heights you can not even imagine right now. Some would ask for faith from you. I would suggest you realize that the universe is always expanding and then balancing. Use your ability to reason to know that there will be a ting to your current yang. And most importantly ....focus! Whatever you focus on becomes your experience and your experiences become your life. This IS what 21 is like. See that we stand to benefit most from what we realize we having been holding farthest away. When you say don't suggest meditation, you can realize that's because you stand to gain from it. think about it, if this were not true, you would not have typed it. It is not your fault. You are just thinking in terms of fault. Think in terms of adding to your experience and then expanding into the desirable things that the undesirable emotions bring to you. These emotions are there to guide you. Listen to them when they whisper from now on. There are 7 billion jobs. You get to pick one. You. get. To. Pick.

Intelligence is the fabric of the cosmos. It is revealed through all of us. It is quantum computing, random number generator experiments. It is the bond between body and mind. It is all things. Through the door of separation and observation of intelligence itself, lies intelligence itself.

You get what you focus on. Just try to google something you have absolutely no knowledge on. Start a thread on something you have yet to think about. You can't. Everything that you talk about, think about, or say - you are only able to do so because at some point you put your focus on it. Your perception right now in this moment is a collection of every perception you ever experienced. It is perfectly so. So I suggest what you are looking to discover is the power of your own focus. If you see someone in need, realize it is a gift. If you were in need, you could not see their need. You can see their need, or you can see your ability to help, and you get to choose. Stop choosing self doubt and start choosing organic curiousity that is the expansion of the universe and the curiosity should help you to realize you are a part of the expansion of everything. Appreciate the variety for a second. In our world there is Trump, the Middle East, religion, spirituality, the quest for unity, NASA, botany, golf, music, etc etc etc. If one was using their focus, they could make a life of tennis. Just tennis, if they wanted to, without ever giving any focus to the fore mentioned topics.

@BeginnerActualizer I'm so with you on this topic. The diagnosis should be a description of what the person should do for themselves to feel better. Not an increased focus on the dissonance. The tough part is the variance of psych issues. I think there's a majority chunk that should not be labelled and can be ratified with simple eating habits, meditation and or exercise. Big Pharma is a major thing in this era. Then there are some more serious cases of course where scripts seem to be necessary - because in hind sight they made a huge positive impact. Just where the heck does the mind end and the legitimate psych diagnosis and script start? I don't know but you raise a great question. Society wise, if we could all just get on the well being - healthy plan, maybe we would shake a lot of these problems out over a generation or so. I know this will get me some ridicule here, but I think all roads lead to "fixing" these things vibrationally, or with sound frequencies. My heart really goes out to anyone experiencing any psych trauma, depression and anxiety. It's just the worst thing. A symptom is the lacking in positive perspective, and that makes everything else one is perceiving in their life look a way that makes it so hard to push through. Love is the most powerful healer, but what do you do when someone can't receive the love?

Women are the key.

@Live Life Liam Learning the English language is extraordinary. Your focus is collapsing the wave right now. You don't need to learn how to do it, but, knowledge inspires the determination and intent which changes the importance and understanding one gives to one's own focus.

Doesn't anyone know you get what you focus on?

@brovakhiin You've got some vision man. Nice. Only missing Farcry 5. Curious....I'm going to bet you don't use fluoride...?

@Psychonaut What?

Follow up question brutha. Have you digested quantum physics yet? Are you familiar with the scientific evidence that time is not only nonlinear but nonexistent with out a relative observer? Also, have you digested the uncertainty principle that reveals we can focus on what is or where is going and either are no more or less physical reality? HAve you read about superposition - that everything that is a thing is so because it's being collapsed by an observer from the field that is everything?

@Phil Take life as lightly as you can. You have forever. Physical things are only so because we are perceiving them. Time is not linear and does not exist. Whatever you focus on IS reality. This all requires no effort, just a letting go of the habit that keeps you from reading the factual science from about 100 years ago.

Your perspective is the thing you need to let go of. It is the freedom you seek. You classified the path as work, as if effort = results. It's the opposite. The thoughts about effort and work of are the things that when you let go of them, you can begin to experience the super awesomeness that was there all along. This will happen at the pace of your self honesty that nothing has ever " happened " to you. You have been at the helm the whole time. Also, healthy eating, daily meditation and excercise will align you with the nature of the universe and aid you in letting go. Godspeed.

Looking into the past for who you are will eventually lead to looking into the present of what you are. Some people have repeated thought patterns so many times that they don't know the difference between truth and belief. Their past may reveal when they neglected to make that distinction. Usually a traumatic event where the said, too painful, so....now I believe this.

@ashashlov Take meditation out of your generic list of things you would like to do, and reclassify it as the way you can let go of the same list. Then, you will have the clarity you desire and you will read your question posted here so differently. Godspeed.

@Live Life Liam Thanks for sharing man. Order The lIttle Prince, Have a great one!

Good for you man. That's awesome. Way to let go. Thanks for sharing.

@Live Life Liam Wow. If you are as young as your picture suggests I'm a little envious. I didn't even start PD until I was 20ish. I hope you don't mind some questions. What got you started? A parent? A certain book? What would you suggest is the best way to present the path to my kids, ages 5 and 6? Thank you in advance, I know I'm asking a lot. Also, I want to add a point worth pondering. You mentioned "feeling pleasurable sensations" as a red herring of sorts. I have experienced otherwise, and it is one of the greatest experiences of my life. Similar to how the ego exists after the death of the ego, but is not part of your perceptive experience anymore, and your focus allows it to stay benign or regrow, the sensation of the everything within can also be allowed and experienced as physiological sensation. A quick background that I think is necessary- I started working full time when I was a child. My dad was always stressed about work and he took it out on the family. What a gift. At age 13 I was determined to do whatever work would free me from work. I grew an insurance agency, got licensed for stocks, mutual funds, annuities, bought rental houses, etc. I worked around the clock for years. I built an income stream that more than sustains for the duration. So for the next 20 years I had my time free. Traveling didn't entertain me for as long as I thought it would. Neither did buying stuff. All roads quickly led to PD. I did the typical practices - meditation, excercise, healthy eating, working out, participating in charities, schools, etc, for the last 20 years, almost every single day. I have read and watched everything I can find on quantum mechanics, biology, neurology, genetics, etc. If you're still reading this, thanks. I realize it has a color of self indulgence, but I'm taking the time to explain because I want to communicate to you that there is an ocean of "pleasurable sensations" that I don't think you have tapped into. It's real. It's within all of us. Accessing it is a matter of practices and mindfulness, like all other ventures, I would wager that if you told someone that you perceive time as nonlinear, and use the uncertainty principle as a practice, they would suspect you of inflation, but you did the time so to speak, and you know those things to be true. I'm not trying to be preachy, it's just that your persona comes through in your writing. I feel a sincerity and dedication that most PD folks 3 times your age have not obtained yet. I felt a little heartbreak in a sense when you expressed a limitation on your physical sensations in your pursuit and or experience of enlightenment and transcendence. Just one rando guy making a claim on a forum, but... it is real and it is ineffably worthwhile.

Just unfollow people who you don't want to hear from. Add in countless people and sources that say things that please you. Facebook is what you make it, like all things.

Here is a way you can see it, possibly. I did not say anything about transcendence making me "special" or "superior". My experience is nothing like that. I do realize you were making a point, but, If you can realize that you perceived it that way, that you skipped over what was being said to you and made YOUR point. Then, you might be on your way. A good practice might be to spend a day or so without talking. You might be amazed by what you hear.