Jamie Universe

Do you mind telling us the problem? It doesn't have to be specific details, but a more general broad explanation. I know that's sort of intrusive but I can give advice based off specifics. Otherwise, to put it simply. Understand what the problems are, how they work, and make/find solutions for it.

Ikr, I heard somewhere that Oprah knew about enlightenment, I wouldn't be surprised if the entertainment industry had a sub-culture of crazy artist's who knew about enlightenment.

Kewl, Yea I mean I can't exactly call myself commited. I meditate 25 minutes a day and have been doing that for around 150 days, but it was super easy to just meditate after I contemplated why it was so important, and why it was so hard. I mean its definetly not a cure-all, but your not going to be meditating that much by sheer willpower most likely.

Well first get your life working, I've been trying to understand what makes someone happy for a while. And fyi this isn't confirmed or 100% true advice just as a warning. Basically how I see it its context. There's you, and there's the stuff about you, the stuff that happens to you. As I see it apart of your context right now is Those sound like problems, and problems are bound to cause you to feel bad or like.. And I can't exactly tell you what your problems are specifically, if I had to guess, it sounds like you don't feel so committed on this path and that you feel like your failing your purpose or goal. If your cup is empty, recognize that nothing is filling it up, or maybe something is feeling it up but there's a hole in the bottom. (if that made any sense). But my advice would be to start an investigation in your own mind and your life about why your cup is empty, then once you know your problem, report back here for more advice on that problem.

Hope you feel better soon @zoey101

I came here because I thought it was a good idea if I was going to pursue this path. I stayed mostly because It fills in some need for me. I help people (especially the more traumatic ones) because it makes me feel good, and fills in the boredom. And then there's also interesting topics that I stay for. I also think it gives my life more meaning. Also I stay for the same reasons as you people mostly.

If your going to blame yourself for what you didn't do. Meanwhile just shovel in all the money you kept and didn't spend on charity, all the time you could've spent doing volunteer work, or just blame yourself for living the life you wanted instead of saving the world. If blame isn't useful, don't use it. Also I'm really sorry I was really shocked reading this..

1) do an affirmation, watch some videos on those 2) figure out root of fear 3) deal with fear by facing it

There's a mega thread on this, you can use that as evidence for yourself

@Artimus Good luck!

@Robert No I agree with you, I tried to make it noticeable, that I knew I was dumb lol.

After 30 days of being god, he comes back and is probably thinking "Ok how much did you good off you assholes"

insane is a term judgmental people use to compensate for them not fitting into their paradigm, which is totally normal and don't worry about that. Caring for him is totally normal, it just sort of sounds like your parents are mad and lashing out or something... I agree with @zoey101 Just removing him from your life and trying not to think about him, will eventually remove the emotional feelings you have about them. You can research and deal with the emotional consequences (if there are any) later when the heat dies down.

lmao @Robert @blazed @Nahm, I leave this forum for one day and a multi-paged post is formed because of an argument >.< lol but for all I know you all learned something by arguing/replying to each other, so plz don't start any arguments with me...

If your going to go about solving the worlds problems, here's some shit you have to consider. First of all before anything else, you need to put yourself under the label as 'uneducated/dumb' because if you've watched Leo's video's about self-deception (parts 1-3) you'll realize the sheer amount of ways your deceiving yourself. So many people have tried not to mention osho's cult that failed, and there's so much to consider when thinking about successfully pulling this off. However I totally understand where your coming from, and I actually wanted to do something similar and started coming up with plans a while ago, right now? I've committed to raising awareness + enlightenment and etc. because I don't trust myself and I'm still very uneducated. Plus also the plan I had was sort of immoral, and I'm still considering if it helps at all. So a bit about my plan - A couple of years ago, I think I was hiking with some friends, and somehow my mind started thinking about how humanity is going completely downhill (and though that's not the full truth.) I kept thinking about global warming and how basically its getting worse, also the sheer amount of pollution and like everything else with the natural balance of our ecosystem is just being destroyed, and people aren't adapting because they can't react to stuff that far in the future. But anyway, I guess I just had a stroke of genius and remembered a quote from one of my favorite movies Kung Fu Panda "A true warrior uses his enemies strength against them" and the enemy right then was the sheer amount of destruction going on, and I knew that with me and my limitations I couldn't move such a beast. However you don't really need to, and so the plan was, if humanity was going downhill and it was seemingly impossible to do anything about it, then I would make some sort of enclosure, that could prevent the effects of the earth, sort of like if we lived on mars in domes with air and shit. And then remake the world but under supervision... Anyways I don't want to get to in-depth, but I bet you can imagine the sheer amount of problems with that. If your serious here's what your going to need to do. - Get enough power (persuasion/economically) )initially to even make it to the point where you can be closed off from the effects of the world - have some sort of strategy to be a step ahead of our current society, in a bunch of different aspects - science - society - (a ton more but I'm to lazy to think of them) - strategic and creative as fuck, the majority of your time will probably be spent working on this - not to mention all the shit that can go wrong, and how you will need to prepare for those - understand all the necessary system's to work around / with them - all that you don't currently know, that you will need to know. Not to mention the immorality of it - you'd basically be ditching humanity to die in the dust, and using that as your opportunity - with your limited resources, who can you save? - (probably more I haven't even thought of yet) - is it even fair to call this helping? I mean yea, you'd be helping people in the future, but what about the people of now? And then there's you... - how will you take the death of humanity? - the stuff you'll need to develop about yourself to accomplish this - Definetly a lot more stuff to be said And that's just an idea I had a while ago, if you want to do the seemingly impossible. You've got to juice that creative lemon like hell, you've got to juice that lemon like it matters more than breathing. But honestly, I'm a hard believer in the impossible, considering the fact that before I knew about enlightenment to now, I've come to realize that it could be possible for all of reality to collapse, for the floor to disappear underneath my feet. And that's seemingly impossible, actually enlightenment and all of this that stands here is way more impossible than what we're saying here. I mean seriously... Sitting and thinking about nothing will show me the secrets of the universe? So even I probably dissuaded you by giving the logistics of it. I honestly bet if you searched deep enough, you could find a way to fix all of this without the sheer amount of work. (also you can steal my plan if you want). But seriously, if you do this. Don't fuck around. P.S. call me up in 20 years if you still want to do this lol, also sorry for the extremely long post. Here we call that ego, and believe it or not, saving humanity is an egoic desire. Don't think that means we label it as 'bad' though.

Duration: 30 mins 1-20/25 minutes: When I started off it took some experimenting/trying out to make my breath equal in-out, and also breathing in a consistent and easy amount, there was also a lot of resistance and also uncomfortable until 20-25 mark. there was slight tingling also in my hands 25-30 minutes: Breathing sort of clicked, and resistance went away, the tingling was stronger to. Also this really weird thing happened to me, where my pointer fingers started to rise, and it was a very apparent force that was making my pointer fingers rise. I could best describe as feeling energetic or something, and eventually my middle finger was starting to rise, I could put them down but it sort of sprung back upwards, my natural finger position (and probably yours too) is with the fingers curled a little. Also I feel hyper vigilant afterwards, it feels like everything is extremely clear, imagining stuff in my mind is clearer too, and I didn't try it, but I bet I could hold my breath for a lot longer than I usually can, I think I noticed I almost forgot to breath lol - because of breathing heavily. - no apparent emotional purging, I wonder why? Side notes: - mouth produces saliva for a while, and if there's to much saliva just swallow it really quick, but eventually your mouth will be dry enough to just keep it open

@Gabriel Antonio

lmao

Lmao "I'll slap your fucking cousin..."

I'd say its possible for their to be people who want to convert people to polyamorous, and also possible for polyamorous people to just be chill and not care about converting. And as far as having expectations or ideas of people who are polyamorous, just have none, they could be your rapist or your savior. No, I'm gay/bi and no one ever recruited me lol, it just happened naturally.

Talking to anyone face-to-face can be the process by which you deal with this. But I get that's a big scary step to take, you might want to consider making a journal and writing your thoughts out about it. Having the conversation is important, and could be the thing that gives you courage to take action. If concerns about your husband come up in your mind when considering to tell your husband about this, then you should realize your relationship with him, if you don't want to tell him because your afraid it will make him more angry, then that signals a dysfunctional relationship. But as I see it, if you tell your husband and he blames you for it, and your relationship deteriorates, then maybe it was for the better? Or otherwise, you appeal emotionally to him and become emotionally vulnerable with him, and that gap in your relationship heals up, and he can forgive you. The easy thing to do, and what most people probably would do, is to sweep this under the rug. But don't let that happen to you, you need to research/face this problem somehow. P.S. I'm bi-sexual guy, and the politically correct thing is that everyone is open and accepting to LGBTQ, but they forget that there's still the rapists and pedophiles out there, and also because of the strong cultural emphasis on men raping women, its a natural response if a man gropes a women for the women to be able to be defensive and go to court with them. But as you said I've had a somewhat similar experience (though less traumatic) Where my mom touched me a little to much. I've kind of gave hints that it made me feel uncomfortable and said "stop" or something similar a couple of times, and she stopped now. But I considered taking legal action about it for a while, but decided against it, because I am still living with her. So its my best guess that you didn't do anything about it, because you had some sort of inhibition, maybe you were afraid of making a scene in public, maybe your used to repressing bad experiences, and that's your go-to response. I don't know what prevented you from doing something about it, but I'm not surprised. Its pretty typical of humans not to take action against problems.

see them as a friend not a celebrity.

I find from studying my mind, a conversation typically goes like "Well I can't say this because people will disagree with me... and I can't have people disagree with me because then I won't have anyone to talk too... and if I don't have anyone to talk to I'll feel lonely" So in this example. the solution would be to not care about being lonely. We put liquid and sustenance In our mouths because we don't want to feel starvation or die. Remove the fear, such as the fear of loneliness, the fear of disappointing people, etc. And there's really no reason to follow the herd. I also think you can just will-power it though.

I would personally draw the line at physical abuse, I don't know about you. But it only sounds like your gathering pain from this, if its painful to be around him, then its a dysfunctional relationship. Its not working. The fact is you can't predict the future, you can only guess and make decisions accordingly. And if I had to guess, I would say staying in this relationship will bring untold amounts of pain in your future. But if you truly think he is worth a painstakingly large amount of work on your behalf, emotional/time consuming labor, then you can always try.

Same here, I think its suppressing your emotions that's bad when it comes to not wanting relationships (I think). Like if you want to date but because enlightenment dogma told you not to do so, you feel a need to suppress it.