Heart of Space

Do you think that this is a latent ability that is hindered and "covered up" by our modern cultural paradigm? That's what I feel. I feel that modern cultural conditioning has a negative effect on the mind. A good metaphor would be "lily foot," which is the binding of feet in Chinese culture. In a sense the cultural conditioning is the binding of the mind, which has a warping effect, a deformity of the mind.

I think you're right. It's hard not to let a doom and gloom narrative to color how I'm perceiving the current state of the world. I guess it's important to understand the larger picture and not get lost in that.

No problem. Never lose hope for your situation. As a fellow person who has been in situations that feel dire I feel compassion for you and I know that you can gather to strength to move forward. Good luck, and if you need someone to talk to you can message me if you like.

We are going to very volatile times, yes. If it's weighing on you I'd recommend taking a break from all the media and news to clear your mind, it helps. It's also important to have perspective. I saw an interesting post somewhere pointing out that if you were born in the year 1900 and lived a full life you went through two world wars, a pandemic that decimated the global population, and an effectively a complete collapse of the economic system in the great depression.

I didn't know Leo added a comedy section to the forum. I got a hearty laugh from this thread, thank you OP. The thread title is stunningly appropriate for your post.

I can't tell you that. Honestly, if you're uncertain, just keep your wealth in cash right now, that's fine too. Save a lot and spend little. That's probably the best and most simple advice for normal people right now.

Take a few breaths. The feeling you are having is temporary even if it seems like it is not. It's best that you yourself take the steps to find the proper medical treatment. No one but you knows all the minute details of your personal situation. Do you have insurance which includes treatment like this? Find the best Doctor in your network and make an appointment. One step at a time. Take the necessary measures to improve your situation.

That's good that you have those things in order. The concerning thing is not that you have questions about your existence, it's that you seem to actually have physical symptoms as a result of this issue. It maybe an issue with your health in some way. You understand your issue the best, so honestly you should maybe try to consider a course of action to correct the problem rather than ask people who don't know you on an internet forum. You are capable of understand what you need far better than we do.

If you bought gold 5 years ago you'd be pretty happy. If you bought gold now, I'd say you'd be looking at some solid profit over the next year to 18 months, but I wouldn't hold on to it forever. Physical gold is unnecessary, personally I'd just put my money in an ETF that tracks the value of gold. Avoid any financial advice from people who tell you to hold actual physical gold, they're usually cooks. Another thing to look at as industry picks up is silver. Silver tends to go on pretty big rallies after recessions or periods of slow economic growth. And there's a lot of good reasons to believe that silver will go up in value significantly in the long term. Lastly, do not make any decisions with your money based on what I'm saying. Do your own research and own your own decisions if you decide to buy into anything.

I agree, my perspective is somewhat pessimistic. The future is uncertain, I can't predict it. The reason why I'm so pessimistic is that we have some severe issues mostly relating to the long standing problem of income inequality, which is has been badly exacerbated and quickly in a short period of time. It actually blows my mind that in an honest analysis of our economic situation Trump couldn't have gone in a more incorrect direction. He took off some of the post 2008 regulation, which allowed the banking system to over leverage itself. He increased the deficit in the worst possible way, corporate tax cuts, which the corporations then used the money to enrich themselves and institutions through stock buy backs. And he used the market as is own personal ponzi pump and dump scheme. And much much more. Best case scenario you get a status quo, marginal move in the correct direction in Biden. This won't be enough in my opinion. The way to solve those problems would have took a Bernie Sanders type president. He won't run in the next election and you won't get another popular politician like him for potentially another few decades. The optimistic perspective is that no matter what happens I do believe there will eventually be some sort of revival. I just think there will be a lot of pain first.

I wasn't trying to get into an academic debate or write a masters thesis on the use of benzos. Just to give quick advice to someone suffering form anxiety on a forum based on my experience and knowledge nothing else. You falsely assumed that I was saying that out of some sort of anti-drug prejudice, which wasn't the case. I dispelled that, the interaction is over as far as I'm concerned.

Conventional war is almost as irrelevant to talk about as nuclear war. The nature of war has changed and is fought in economics, geopolitics, information, and culture. China's waging an intelligent long term 3D chess strategy, meanwhile the US is stuck playing tick tack toe trying to wave the billions spent on defense as if that means anything anymore. The US is destroying itself from the inside by sucking the financial stability out of the majority of it's lower socioeconomic classes. We are seeing the beginning of the end of the american empire right now and corporate oligarchy is mainly to blame.

I've read some of what Roubini has to say and he's the typical doomer economist. There's a handful of them out there, most of them will try to get you to buy gold to hedge against the system and are always predicting the collapse of the current economic paradigm. These sorts of views make headlines. You'll usually see these sorts of economists predict collapse for 20 years straight and then as soon as recession strikes they'll scream "See I was right the whole time!" That being said, any honest analysis of what's happening right now says that our economic future is not very bright. Speaking from the perspective of the US, economically we are drastically overdue for a correction of our horrific income inequality. Greed in the form of over leveraging due to lack of regulation thanks to our political process which is corrupted by money may very well topple our society. We needed a Bernie Sanders type president 20 years ago. Biden will marginally move things in the right direction, but economically this won't be enough. A lot of people are going to go through tough times.

If you still want someone to talk to, send me a message.

I've done a massive amount of research. And I have personal experience and seen others destroy their lives and families with them. I've worked in the drug industry and with pharmacists. I have family members who are in medicine. I've come into contact with hundreds probably thousands of people who take them. I know every commonly prescribed benzo by heart generic and brand names, what strengths they come in, what the pills looks like, how they're generally prescribed, and so on. I'm about as close to what you could call an expert outside of having a PhD in a related subject. I gain nothing personally by telling people to not take benzo's. It is my advice from a vast amount of personal experience and knowledge that I have of them. Take it for what you will and make your own decision.

Benzos destroy countless lives and often cause permanent irreversible damage which lead to increased anxiety over a lifetime. The risk is absolutely not worth the reward. The only valid time I'd see prescribing them is in life threatening situations like seizure, or someone who is dying and experiencing anxiety.

It is ok to not feel ok. All feelings are temporary, and so is this. Firstly, I'd fundamentally make sure you're trying to make the healthiest decisions for yourself in all the facets of your life. Are your fundamental needs met? Do you have healthy relationships? Are you eating ok? Are you exercising? How's your meditation practice? If you have exhausted all your options I second the suggestion of seeing a doctor, there's no shame in that. Just make sure to do your research before taking any medication. Always say no to benzodiazepines.

We all embody it to varying degrees. In regards to seeing suffering in others, you don't lose sleep at night per say, but you have a deep compassion for their human experience and that can often drive you to help them if even in a subtle way.

That is correct. There is no reason to be moral. There is no reason to be immoral. Being in this state is essentially being in a state of full love and acceptance for oneself. Do you harm or treat unfairly the ones you love?

You don't need to presuppose the existence of other minds to play the role of an individual reacting to other individuals in the dream. It's not necessary.

Because there are still structure that this dream adhere's by. It's the same reason why people in that state don't try to walk through walls

I'll follow your path as long as you leave a trail of gram rocks of coke and naked hookers like Hansel and Gretel. I'll be short on your tail to enlightenment.

I second this. May we all be moist in thy mighty presence.

I'm not projecting at all. This post is in the right direction, you're at least explaining yourself a little better. All I'm trying to say is, man, that I don't even really understand what the point of your post is even if it's genuinely trying to actually help the guy you quoted. I'm just giving my perspective on the helpfulness of your posts. Ultimately it's just my perspective, take it or leave it. It's cool either way.

Don't make me come tongue tickle your phalanges and give you a moist and wet thorough squishing of your many squish sacks. ALL your squish sacks.