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The nonduality of the we are ONE is not incompatible with fractality and infinite possibilities: The omnipotent creator GOD is inside of limited beings so insignificant and vulnerable like a blind worm. A worm cannot levitate, telekinesis or manifest things with his primitive mind. Whats the problem with that? At the same time GOD is inside of some superinteligent alien in the other side of the universe that can move mountains with his thoughs. Absolute infinity means that GOD is here to experiment everything. Being a limited helpless maggot or being a super powerful entity.

I was going to say Big Foot or the Sasquatch that discovered Crest toothpaste but alien works too.

Depends where he is getting the tattoo. I understand where you're coming from. Some people don't like tattoos and these days tattoos are getting a bad rep because a lot of gang members get them to flash signs and stuff. Show your brother a prison documentary on YouTube. Might change his mind. Not trying to say that getting a tattoo is a bad thing. He can do what he likes. But I have come across people who have regretted their tattoos. If he really really wants its bad, he should have it on his frontal part where he can hide under his T shirt or something. Some people get it done to their face which is so weird. I honestly never found it attractive or necessary. Ruins the face or arm. Having a tiny tattoo is fine.. Not those large wingspan kinda tattoos all across the chest and all over the arm, looks like alien. Some even have on skull. Freaks.

Different OBE Techniques Overview and Ratings 1.Double Body Visualization (Double) Technique: You sit down, close your eyes and visualize a double body. You try to perceive your environment from this new location. That means, you try to see, hear, touch... with this new body. Over time, your visualization skills will become more vivid and your consciousness will be able to more and more easily reside in this new body. Therefore you will enter sleep paralysis and have a real OBE Levels of Mastery: Level: starting to see your actual physical environment (without sleep paralysis) and being able to enter lucid dreams in REM (with sleep paralysis). After 100-350 hours (of practise) Level: Being able to have OBEs (with sleep paralysis) when you are not in REM (thus as long as you want). And I guess you might also be able to walk with your physical body with eyes closed in an unfamilar environment. And you will probably start seeing thought-forms, auras,... After 300-800 hours Level: Being able to almost instantly have OBEs (with sleep paralysis) when you are not in REM. After 800-1000+ hours 2. Explorer's Astral Projection (E'sAP) Technique: You sit down, close your eyes, smile, breathe properly and connect with your guiding spirits. You train your astral vision. These kinds of astral projections can be done whenever you want and instantly and they are without sleep paralysis. At the beginning they are more like remote viewing than OBEs. I am not sure but I guess that changes over time. Even if not, it would be enough to explore the universes and contact aliens. Levels of Mastery Level: You start being able to see (and telepathically) commumicate with) your guiding spirits, other astral entities, aliens, deceased people, astral realms, and auras. But it is subtle and you are doubting whether it is real or only your imagination but over time, you will become very clairvoyant. After 3-15 hours. Level: Now you are confident that it's real and not imaginary. After 20-50 hours. Level: Now it gets very vivid and you can confidently explore other planets and dimensions.. After 70-100+ hours The technique is by David McCready. You can learn it with his training videos or in skype sessions: http://www.greatsimulator.com/store .You will probably be very skeptical and think that the technique is very weak and that your are just imagining things. I recommend that you read his book "Real Alien Worlds" Here he describes other aliens and their worlds in great detail. He says that all of it was validated by at least 2 people making simultaneous astral projections. I believe you can verify the information in the book once you are good at the technique. If you are not excited about exploring actual universes, then read this book. (I am not sure yet but perhaps this technique can also help to enlighten you in a different way. It probably can't give you mystical states like you can have with other OBE techniques but more like transmissions. Transmissions or merging with a representation of the real You. But I don't know yet, perhaps it doesn't do anything to enlighten you.) 3. Dream Exit Induced Lucid Dreams ( DEILD) Or you can add some more techniques to increase your success. Read the book "The Phase" by Michael Raduga. His indirect technique is like the DEILD but you cycle through several different techniques. First you try to appear in front of a mirror, so its similar to DEILD. Then you do an exit technique like trying to stand up and then you cycle through minor techniques (3-5 seconds each) like trying to move your hand or trying to see something or hear vibrations. (I guess the FILD technique can also be added in this section) Levels of Mastery: Level: being able to wake up without moving. 1-7 nights Level: OBE/LD with 20% sucess rate (each attempt). 2-15 nights Level: 75+% success rate (each attempt). 30-80+ nights 4. Waiting for sleep paralysis (SP) Technique: You lie down, keep still and wait till you enter sleep paralysis. Then you leave your body with one of the many exit methods like rolling out of bed. Levels of Mastery: Level: OBEs while in REM with 10% success rate. 3-20 hours Level: OBEs while in REM with 90% success rate. 80-300 hours Level: OBEs while not in REM with 80% success rate. 100-500+ hours 5. Lucid Dreams to OBE You realize that you are dreaming and turn this DILD (Dream Induced Lucid Dream) into a general OBE in order to also explore actual "objective" worlds rather than only projections of your mind. How to: wake yourself up, with the intention to stay perfectly still (and perhaps even remain in sleep paralysis) and then exit the body (like rolling out). So it's similar to DEILD. just try to visit your bedroom and see yourself there or visit any actual physical (or non-physical) location. And you can try asking some guides for help. The likelihood that it's still dreamlandscape and not the actual environment is at the beginning probably very high (particularly with the 2. and 3. way), so make some suitable reality checks, like trying to move the chair in front of you if you are in your room. How to DILD: Reality checks, ADA/PADA, dream journal, WBTB, pills, affirmations,.... Levels of Mastery Level: becoming lucid once a week for at least 20 seconds. 1-2 months of 30-60 minutes daily practice Level: becoming lucid once a day for at least three minutes. 5-12 months of 30-60 minutes daily practice Level: becoming lucid 3 times a night for at least 10 minutes each. Very hard to achieve. You would need to add WILD techniques, or at least do WBTBs or do a lot of ADA/PADA - RATINGS For the ratings I use some abbreviations of the techniques' names and I didn't include the fifth technique. Ratings go from 0-10 with 10 being the best. Overall Value (imo): (DOUBLE:10), (E'sAP:8.5), (DEILD:4.5), (SP:2) Short-term results/success: (DOUBLE:0 ), (E'sAP:7), (DEILD:5), (SP:0.7) Resulting clairvoyant/psychic abilities during the day when you are not projecting (seeing auras, guiding spirits, aliens, thought-forms, deceased relatives, deities, spirits, telepathy, intuition,...): (DOUBLE:6), (E'sAP:10), (DEILD:0.2), (SP:0.2) Ability to instantly remote view a physical location: (DOUBLE:10), (E'sAP:2?), (DEILD:0), (SP:0) How good for exploring universes and other dimensions: (DOUBLE :8.5), (E'sAP:10), (DEILD:2.5), (SP:4) Control/flexibility (can you project instantly, whenever and how long you want?) once mastered: (DOUBLE:10), (E'sAP:10), (DEILD:1), (SP:2) Can it be used to lucid dream? (DOUBLE:yes), (E'sAP:no), (DEILD:yes), (SP:yes) Is it with sleep paralysis? (DOUBLE:with & without possible), (E'sAP:no), (DEILD:yes), (SP:yes) I am still very new to most of the techniques, so almost all what I write is not based on direct experience but on what I have read and how I interpret it (and I have not yet done a comprehensive solid research). But I am confident that I will eventually verify it. So all the time spans and ratings are pure guesswork and probably far from accurate. Does anyone know of some more techniques? or has some corrections?

I would be careful with personal subjective experience. They can lead to an idea of what “it” should look or feel like. . . . If an alien visited earth and asked you “Do you feel yourself as Now? What does Now feel like?”. It would be an odd frame and hard to answer. At a personal level, it is more direct to answer “Do you feel yourself as Everything?”. Well. . . If I am perceiving/identifying as a self, that self needs to be relative to not-self”. If my subjective experience is me as my mind and body, then I am not experiencing myself as a tuna sandwich, a pencil, you, a tree etc. If an essence of Being Everything arises, there is Nothing to contrast it to. There is no self to compare itself to. Me, a tuna sandwich, pencil, tree etc is all the same One Everything. In terms of personal memories, I don’t have any sense of “me” and an god external to “me”. Myself (1) as god (2) is separation. The closest I’d say I get to this is a sense of “forgetting” and “remembering”. Its like I am playing in a virtual reality game and I am playing being a cow. At first, it’s obvious who I really am. Obviously, I’m a human person just temporarily playing a cow. Who cares if I fall off a cliff. It’s just a game. I’m not really the cow. . . Yet what if I was in this state for years? I would start identifying as the cow. What if I was in this state for many generations over millions of years. Eventually, there would be complete identification as the cow and the energetic motivation would be to survive as this cow. It’s no longer a game, it’s serious business. Now the cliff becomes a major threat. I perceive everything in terms of my survival and well being. . . . Yet it’s possible that there is a small crack and a little light seeps through. Perhaps a glitch in the virtual reality game. There is a pause and a sense of “Am I really this cow? What/who am I?”. There can be a sense that I, the cow, have forgotten my true essence. Yet it’s been so long. The memory isn’t high resolution clarity. I don’t spontaneous realize “oh yea. I’m a person that lives in New York and I’m at the Farmer’s Arcade playing a cow in a virtual reality game. It starts off much lower resolution. Like I may have been some other being. Perhaps in a previous life. I can’t put my finger on it, yet I get the sense I have forgotten something and can’t quite remember-. . . And of course, to fully become the cow, one would need to fully forget they are not a cow. I think what you are asking is “yea, but how does the cow feel? Does the cow feel blissful?”. This only matters from the identification of the cow. The higher transcendent answer is it doesn’t really matter anymore. The cow is just an illusory image. Yet I would say at the cow level, the realization would induce distress at first, yet with realization the cow would settle down and be able to let go of a lot. Once their is realization I’m not a cow, there is an energetic shift. It doesn’t make sense to hold n to cow things. Like grudges against the other cows. So a lot is released at this level.

Just felt like sharing an interesting enlightenment experience. I don't need help with techniques or anything, just felt like sharing. So I was having a conversation with my ex, telling her that we can now be friends because I've done the inner work to get over her. Since the beginning of our relationship I hated my country of birth. It's too unambitious, and I feel like I cant make an impact on the world there. Since I was a kid i wanted to migrate to the US. During our relationship I had been vocal about this and tried to convince her to come to the US. She (an international student) fiercely refused because she hated the US. I always had a strong purpose, and flew to the US every 3 months, because I'm a cofounder of a company that's based there. I dreamed of being there, the ambitious people, the skill, the drive, it was heaven. Felt like I belonged there. But because my ex didn't want to go there(and she always tried to stop me from going there and build the company in my home country). I accepted and tried to keep working from my home country. I had a lot of fights with investors, and my cofounders, but managed to find a way to keep working from afar. About a year ago, our relationship changed tune. She became a lot less clingy, and was ok with me going to the US more. I just thought she was maturing. She broke up with me a month or 2 ago. She told me that it was because we have different hobbies. She weirdly wanted to be best friends but no sex and able to have partners. I was deeply offended and hurt by this. I sacrificed my company for this??? These problems are fixable! I tried to get back with her, she didn't let me. I finally decided to tell her that I got over her, and that I wish her well in her future relationships. She finally told me that the real reason why she broke up was because she saw that I wasn't happy in my home country and that broke her heart. So she decided to try and detach from me over the year, and she tried to get me detached from her, because she felt it was very unfair I couldn't achieve my dreams. She couldn't break up with me and tell me that it's because of this reason, because she knew that I would change my company's plans to be with her. So she had to wait until there was no turning back. She told me that now that I know this, she's ok to have sex with me so long as we don't have partners. We can continue being together till the end of the year. I just found this experience to be the definition of unconditional love. It's harsh, cruel, but also deeply loving and kind. Forward thinking, and doing what's best for the greater good. The entire thing was specifically designed to maximize love. This was the way of maximizing love. I then descended into a spiral of depression for a moment, as I just realised I lost someone I love because of my career. Someone who is as forward thinking as this. I mourned at the 'fact' that 99% of women are not like this, and I'll never find someone like that. I just marvelled at what she had done, how she planned this for an entire year, all for ensuring we have a better future. As I thought I would never meet someone like this again, and marvelled at the act at the same time, I had this realization that this entire thing was not done by her. 'Her' became an idea. This entire thing was done by the raw intelligence and love of the entire universe. Her was not a woman, her was Myself, literally giving love to Myself. Her, was actually Me hiding/playing hide and go seek, behind a veneer of a 'woman', and it revealed itself to Me, like a child playing hide and go seek revealing their location. Her was God's way of structuring life to maximize love and happiness. The entire thing orchestrated to maximize love to Myself. I thought that there would be no other women out there like this, but this experience showed me that there can be an infinite amount of women like this, with this calibre, because this women is Me. Behind 'Her', or another way of saying it, I saw through her(as if she was a window) a DMT alien like being that has the soul goal of loving and connecting the entire universe. All this time I thought I loved her, but actually I was loving Me, pretending to love her.

1) It can! 2) Precisely because it is already happpening. Remember, if you ask for an apple, you will get an apple, not an orange. Right now you are so busy materializing apples yet you're asking why you don't have oranges. The problem is your current state of consciousness is far too low to allow you to change how you are materializing physical reality. If your state was 1,000,000 times higher, you could change that. I have been so conscious that miracles become possible. But this is not a state I can sustain (yet). It's utterly radical. You are not human any more at those levels of consciousness. People will preceive you as an alien. And they will come after you with pitchforks. This is dangerous territory, and ripe for abuse.

Prophet/Messenger 1. The desire of the negative spirit to break out of the sphere of pure impossibility creates the phenomenon of prophet within objective reality. 2. The phenomenon of prophet is a manifestation of that which is outside of reality. Which is pure impossibility. 3. Thus, the prophet is the first manifestation of a totally OTHER. 4. In the phenomenon of the prophet, the negative spirit expresses itself as the will to totally OTHER. 5. This will, expressed as a message, is a real thought about OTHER. 6. The subjective spirit cannot realize its actual birth without this thought. 7. In essence, the phenomenon of prophet within objective reality is the true birth of a subjective spirit. 8. In this birth, a fundamental conflict between the subjective and the objective transforms into immediate reality. 9. The prophet carries out an absolute opposition to objective being. 10. Therefore, the phenomenon of prophet does not remove and does not resolve the conflict between the subjective and objective. 11. The essence of the prophet excludes the very possibility of unity of both. 12. Prophet presupposes a metaphysical irreducibility of subjective and objective principles to each other. 13. The prophet is by no means a creature created by the space program of I. 14. This means that he is free from the universal mechanism of personal experience working on this program. 15. The intrinsic nature of the prophet basically excludes the very idea of perception and experience embodied in beings. 16. The internal nature of the prophet is fully alien to any ontological experience. 17. The prophet realises the absolute anti-mind nature of the subjective principle. 18. Therefore, his message cannot be the discovery of any ontologically rooted truths, including Truth from capital T. 19. The prophet carries out his appearance outside of cosmic duration. 20. The content of his message is out of touch with the objective rock. 21. The prophet comes contrary to the expectation in which the being abides. 22. His coming destroys the very foundations of universal hope. 23. His mission is not to heal a damaged being. 24. The mission of the prophet is the transformation of an insoluble conflict between subjective and objective into a merciless titanic confrontation. 25. In this confrontation, the subjective spirit can only be either totally destroyed or triumphed over objective being. 26. The death of the subjective spirit means the complete expulsion of the masculine principle from reality. 27. Reality, devoid of the masculine principle, is the complete triumph of universal arbitrariness, in which the very thought of OTHER disappears. 28. For objective being, the thought of OTHER is the essence of ontological sin. 29. Through the destruction of this only masculine thought, salvation of the damaged ontology is carried out. 30. Therefore, the prophet, as the embodiment of a subjective spirit, is in a titanic confrontation with the principle of salvation. 31. Orientation to the prophet means for the creature to abandon his share in objective reality. 32. In this denial within the being, the aspirations towards fantastic being are affirmed. 33. The aspiration towards the fantastic being is a secret thought which underlies the subjective principle. 34. This secret thought is an interpretation of reality from the outside. 35. Such an interpretation has nothing to do with how reality perceives itself. 36. The inner self-experience of reality is an explicit thought. 37. The overwhelming activity of the universal mind is embodied in this explicit thought. 38. As an explicit thought, reality is a direct consciousness of self-identity. 39. In contrast, a secret thought is a vision of reality from the point of view of a negative spirit. 40. In this vision, reality comes down to a purely relative moment, which is rooted on the universal arbitrariness or objective rock. 41. Reality, as an explicit thought about oneself, is a kind of anti-message from rock. 42. This anti-message is evidence that reality and absolute are mutually exclusive. 43. The true decoding of this anti-message is contained only in secret thought. 44. The secret thought in its vision of the true absolute proceeds from fundamental unreality of true absolute. 45. Therefore, the very vision of the true absolute is generally nothing more than a purely volitional or wilfull act. 46. This volitional act implies that only what is absent can be authentic. 47. Therefore, a purely volitional act, born of a secret thought, is an act of faith. 66. The faith monologue, having no answer, is oriented towards what can only be defined as HE. 67. The prospect of transcendental fulfillment of the subjective spirit is expressed in the pronoun HE. 68. A secret thought implies that HE is the personal embodiment of a complete split with the continuous homogeneity of the immanent oneness. 69. The monologue, whose center is HE, is the factual material of the true message. The core of it is: Say: HE, absent one, is Allah. 70. The pathos of the true message is that it rejects the achievement and affirms the accomplishment. 71. This accomplishment consists in replacing objective reality with a fully revealed subjective spirit. 72. This accomplishment is absolute awakening, as a triumph of prophetic mission. And this awakening has nothing to do with awakened nature of self-aware reality.

@Nate0068 I can totally agree with you. I sometimes get so weirded out by my own appearance that I actually feel as though I'am an alien not a human. Weird to describe it.

How dare you sir! The alien doesn't have a passport.

We are the aliens what the fucks the difference between a human and an alien none

Oh yeah, Arnold is totally a manly man, Conan and the Terminator!. If Arnold can get pregnant, the rest of men are just a bunch of pussies for not doing it too!! Ok, seriously, I do think there are two genders, but also that there are middle grounds, both biologically and culturally, even in humans. Gender roles are obviously non exclusive to each genders, I think even conservatives understand that, although not much in lower stage countries, in a lot of them women don't even drive. I think we get more open about gender matters as we evolve as societies, but some approaches are too radical too accept for some people. In spiral dynamics again, cannot be told to stages below orange that there are no genders, it can be even difficult for higher stages, it is in some degree for me. There is a famous transgender YouTuber called Blaire White, she gets attacked by stage green for not accepting non binary visions, but I do think she is adding a lot of value to stages bellow orange so they accept things like transgender identities, which is fine. So greens should let her do her thing, though she does attack their visions too, in defense of them, but couldn't be other way. So people who think that some things are unique to one gender. What about man boobs?? And what about back boobs? What the fuck are those, alien boobs?

Ok so... There's three options I can see.. 1) it was just a really cool dream that coincidentally sounds like the experiences you read about 2) he was actually abducted and they implanted his memory with a memory that 'it was all a dream' 3) perhaps all alien abductions actually take place in the astral realm, which is why these experiences are so hard to corroborate and can both feel real and dream like.

Okay, so I'm shook. I was talking with my dad and he told us at the dinner table about how he had a dream last night. In his dream, it was about aliens and it was our family (and others? idk) standing in a field, and we were waiting to be sucked up I guess, and he did. Then he told us that they weren't bad aliens, but that they wanted to make us more intelligent! Guys, this is crazy Months back I was reading "The three waves of volunteers and the new earth," and "The custodians," by dolores cannon, who channeled many many people and heard the same stories over and over again about things like this. And the story was basically that. Before, I didn't fully believe in this. Now my mind is set in that there's definitely more to the story. Any insights?? this is so cool.

@purerogue I’m very emapthically oriented toward seeing and feeling other experiences/perspectives. I‘m very curious about what it’s like to be other people - what it’s like to have their experience. And not just gender and race. I wonder what it’s like to be bi-polar, an Alaskan fisherman, a person in solitary confinement, insane, a genius, speaking Chinese, a pedophile, having multiple personality disorder, being an alien and on and on. I spend a lot of time contemplating it and at times experiencing it. And I have a natural ability to empathically connect. It’s both a curse and a gift. Sometimes I assume others also value this and would want this - yet this isn’t always the case. I think sometimes I may try to “help” someone by leading them to this end. Yet perhaps that isn’t always helpful to them. It seems pretty obvious that what I’m writing doesn’t resonate with you and isn’t something you are attracted toward. So it’s prolly best I step aside.

There was a post about fascism that leo put on his blog recently. Here are some of the key traits that lead to fascism. -The sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of traditional solutions -The primacy of the group, to witch one has duties superior to evry right, weather individual or universal and the subordination of the individual to it. -The believe that ones group is a victim, a sentiment that justifies any action, without legal or moral limits, against its enemies, both internal and external. -Dread of the groups decline under the corrosive effects of individualistic liberalism, class conflict and alien influences. -The need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possible or by exclusionary violence if necessary. These are things I see both on the far right and the far left. I know fascism is associated with the right wing, for obvious historical reasons. And I am fine with it. But how do you call it than when it happens on the left. I am not sure if it is a result of green regressing to blue sometimes, or just blue mimicking green, but it certainly happens. On the other hand I understand @Leo Gura here. You got to pick your worries, stage red and blue broken BS is far more common in the greater world by many margins, so in that regard, it is there that most work lies. But still don't you thing we should observe and correct green when it gets things wrong, instead of sweeping it under the rug, after all its a fairly recent development, making it quite juvenile, compared to the quite old and because of it - reasonably readable orange/blue/red. Do we let kids run around the house playing with lighters just because we got to deal with grandpa beating grandma.

An alien interviewing a robot Zing!

4 grams, but you have to keep in mind that I am much more sensitive to all psychedelics than average people. About twice as sensitive. So 4g is probably closer to 6-8 grams. Yeah, it's a puzzle. 5-MeO certainly helps. But it's not the only factor. Perhaps even more important it the contemplation work. I find making sense of the trip very important. That clears things up in the mind, allowing for deeper trips every time as puzzles get resolved and settled. They definitely get existential insights but most people have such a poor theoretical foundation that they don't understand the significance of what the trips show them. They play around in it for a while but then they drop back down and the whole thing is treated as some wacky alien experience at a party. It's not taken seriously enough or deeply contemplated. And of course some people DO contemplate deeply even at raves and grow themselves spiritually. Just because it's a rave doesn't mean it can't transform you. Sounds like the trip took you exactly where you needed to go. If you are afraid of dogs, how are you gonna face death & God? You must slay that demon before going deeper. It varies. I always want to be tripping more but lack of time prevents it. I should be tripping more than I am. My intentions are to do a lot more research. Yes, absolutely. Yes, that's still something I'm tinkering with.

Looking at the "alien" thing for a few seconds is precisely the point. You want to wonder about what the hand is actually, beyond the labels and your perception of it. What is it prior to your interpretation of it, what is it made of, why is it there, how is it possible?

I've practiced only 15 hours of this exercise, but I don't want to invest 1000 hours in it and find out that I was doing it wrong. Do we have to only look at the hand and return attention to it after getting distracted by a thought? Thats it? If so, how is this different than a breath meditation? And the attention have to be put on a small point in the hand or in the whole hand (wider scope)? It is normal to feel like I'm looking at an alien thing for a few seconds, during the exercise? Thank you!

In his Conscious Politics series Leo talks about promotion and creation of a singular world government as part of his policy ideas, and it's been something I've been mulling over for the last while. Like many people I used to think such an idea was just a pie-in-the-sky fantasy that sounds nice on paper but ultimately wouldn't work and would cause more problems than it solves, but as I've been increasing my consciousness and looking at world issues on a deeper level, I've come to see the wisdom in such an idea. Think about it - as we move forward in the 21st century, the processes of globalisation, technology, immigration and so on are only going to increase, not decrease. Yes there will be obvious backlashes to these things, as we've already seen to some extent, but the conditions are such that the set-up for increasing global integration is more or less inevitable at this point. Plus, the collective issues the world faces - climate change, income inequality, national tensions - need to have broad, inter-national co-operation in order to solve, not just local governments trying to fix these things piecemeal. Not only that, but, based on what I've observed, a unified "global culture" is already starting to emerge, depending on the places you live and the people you interact with. You could meet, for instance, a woman born in India, raised in Spain, educated in the UK and now living with a Japanese husband in the US, and it will feel completely natural. The old idea of "solid," distinct nation-states that served humanity in the 19th and 20th centuries is starting to lose its cultural hegemony, IMO. So then let's talk about the benefits of increasing government integration between nations. If nations start to come together and operate in a more unified manner, the ability to distribute resources where they're needed will increase massively. For instance, if Canada and the US unite, you could drastically improve the health standards in Alberta by getting rid of the expensive taxes on imported medical technology from the US, which would do a lot to reduce the rates of cancer, heart disease, and so on in that province. Or if France and Germany united, then access to well-built German electric cars would improve dramatically for French drivers, which would do a lot to reduce emissions for France. Plus, if we are to get serious about space travel and colonising other planets, then the only realistic way to do that would be to have as much co-operation between countries as possible, and to share the most amount of resources, time, expertise, etc. possible, because such an undertaking will require these things on a level that a single nation alone wouldn't be able to accomplish. Another benefit would be the obvious reduced risk of war and conflict between nations. If, say, eventually India and Pakistan unite, then the threat of armed conflict between those two countries - as well as the endless blaming each other from both sides, and all the cultural tensions that exist between them - would disappear, as instead arguments over land and resources become mediated through the unified India-Pakistan authority, rather than through trying to negotiate between two different authorities. Of course there are downsides to this too. As national identity is still a key part of most people's psyches, telling people that they will now live in a nation with people who (for the time being) have a distinct language and culture to them won't go over well with a lot of people. Plus, the fact of the matter is that distinct local cultures will be hurt by this - for instance, using the France-Germany scenario, French people will begin to see more German beer, more German words, more German songs in the places they live, and in Germany people will begin to see more French wine, French words, French songs and so on. The ideas of "Frenchness" and "Germanness" would get muddied, and for a lot of people that will seem very alien and confusing, especially in the short term. But the benefits of this over the long-term would be that people begin to feel a sense of connectedness with people they previously didn't - after 50 years of France and Germany being one country, a person born to French parents would no longer see a person born to German parents as an "other", and would at that point probably share the same values, ideas, and even language (a French-German hybrid.) Plus, the two cultures coming together would create benefits too - Germans would learn to appreciate taking life easy and leisurely from French people, and French people would learn punctuality and industriousness from the Germans, which would improve the lives of both peoples. Or, to put it in other words, this new French-German synthesis would be greater than the sum of its parts. Now, obviously such ideas are still relatively far off in the future from happening in real life, but I think for us here at Actualized.org it's a good thing to start thinking about, since it'll help us clearly navigate the direction the world is headed. Prior to WW1 and 2, the idea of an international organisation that works to prevent wars and promote harmony wouldn't have been possible - the two most powerful countries in the world before this - the British Empire and the Germany Empire - would have never agreed to solve their disputes through an impartial international organistion, especially since they had such great success previously using force of arms instead, and the result was the two most destructive wars in human history. But then, the UN was created, and the mechanisms it utilises has helped prevent the two newest most powerful countries on the planet - the USA and the USSR - from going to war with each other. Instead, the UN helped the USA and USSR resolve its disputes diplomatically instead of military, and ended up presiding over the most peaceful and prosperous time in human history (despite some wars in hotspot regions during this time.) So if a Unified World Government seems unlikely or impractical, then just remember so did the UN, and the massive period of peace and prosperity it created. Yes, there will be problems with greater international integration, and no one is saying it will be an easy or straightforward process, but for the sake of humanity's long-term evolution and consciousness, I think it's actually one of the most realistic and practical things we can help create. What is everyone's thoughts on this?

@seeking_brilliance Never. I have no sleep related problems. Only experiences during sleep were 2 non-dual/nothingness dissolution a few months ago, though they were nice and simple. No energy stuff. This one had a strong alien/inhuman/freaky vibe to it.

@SunnyNewDay That's the problem. Very many therapists don't really have experience healing themselves, which makes them incapable of healing others. And if they come across as naive they OBVIOUSLY haven't healed their own issues, as it demonstrates a severe lack of empathy. Believing you are fully healed is also the biggest, and most common, form of denial. The large presence of unhealthy people in the psychiatric profession is a well-known phenomena. Long quote ahead. “It is often said that psychotherapists suffer from an emotional disturbance. My purpose so far has been to clarify the extent to which this assertion can be shown to have a basis in experience. The therapist’s sensibility, empathy, responsiveness, and powerful “antennae” indicate that as a child he probably used to fulfill other people’s needs and to repress his own. Of course, there is the theoretical possibility that a sensitive child could have had parents who did not need to misuse him—parents who saw him as he really was, understood him, and tolerated and respected his feelings. Although such a child would develop a healthy sense of security, one could hardly expect that he would later take up the profession of psychotherapy; that he would cultivate and develop his sensitivity to others to the same extent as those whose parents used them to gratify their own needs; and that he would ever be able to understand sufficiently—without the basis of experience—what it means to “have killed” one’s self. I think that our childhood fate can indeed enable us to practice psychotherapy, but only if we have been given the chance, through our own therapy, to live with the reality of our past and to give up the most flagrant of our illusions. This means tolerating the knowledge that, to avoid losing the “love” of our parents, we were compelled to gratify their unconscious needs at the cost of our own emotional development. It also means being able to experience the resentment and mourning aroused by our parents’ failure to fulfill our primary needs. If we have never consciously lived through this despair and the resulting rage, and have therefore never been able to work through it, we will be in danger of transferring this situation, which then would remain unconscious, onto our patients. It would not be surprising if our unconscious need should find no better way than to make use of a weaker person. Most readily available for exploitation are one’s own children or one’s patients, who at times are as obedient and as dependent on their therapists as children are on their parents. A patient with “antennae” for his therapist’s unconscious will react promptly. If he senses that it is important to his therapist to have patients who soon become autonomous and behave with self-confidence, he will quickly feel himself autonomous and react accordingly. He can do that; he can do anything that is expected of him. But because this autonomy is not genuine, it soon ends in depression. True autonomy is preceded by the experience of being dependent. True liberation can be found only beyond the deep ambivalence of infantile dependence. When he presents material that fits the therapist’s knowledge, concepts, and skills—and therefore also his expectations—the patient satisfies his therapists wish for approval, echo, understanding, and for being taken seriously. In this way the therapist exercises the same sort of unconscious manipulation as that to which he was exposed as a child. A child can never see through unconscious manipulation. It is like the air he breathes; he knows no other, and it appears to him to be the only breathable air. What happens if we don’t recognize the harmful quality of this air, even in adulthood? We will pass this harm on to others, while pretending that we are acting only for their own good. The more insight I gain into the unconscious manipulation of children by their parents, the more urgent it seems to me that we resolve our repression. Not only as parents but also as therapists, we must be willing to face our history. Only after painfully experiencing and accepting our own truth can we be free from the hope that we might still find an understanding, empathic “parent”—perhaps in a patient—who will be at our disposal. This temptation to seek a parent among our patients should not be underestimated; our own parents seldom or never listened to us with such rapt attention as our patients usually do, and they never revealed their inner world to us as clearly and honestly as do our patients at times. Only the never-ending work of mourning can help us from lapsing into the illusion that we have found the parent we once urgently needed—empathic and open, understanding and understandable, honest and available, helpful and loving, feeling, transparent, clear, without unintelligible contradictions. Such a parent was never ours, for a mother can react empathically only to the extent that she has become free of her own childhood; when she denies the vicissitudes of her early life, she wears invisible chains. Children who are intelligent, alert, attentive, sensitive, and completely attuned to the mothers well-being are entirely at her disposal. Transparent, clear, and reliable, they are easy to manipulate as long as their true self (their emotional world) remains in the cellar of the glass house in which they have to live—sometimes until puberty or until they come to therapy, and very often until they have become parents themselves. Robert, now thirty-one, could never be sad or cry as a child, without being aware that he was making his beloved mother unhappy and very unsure of herself. The extremely sensitive child felt himself warded off by his mother, who had been in a concentration camp as a child but had never spoken about it. Not until her son was grown up and could ask her questions did she tell him that she had been one of eighty children who had had to watch their parents going into the gas chambers and that not one child had cried. Because “cheerfulness” was the trait that had saved her life in childhood, her own children’s tears threatened her equilibrium. Throughout his childhood this son had tried to be cheerful. He could express glimpses of his true self and his feelings only in obsessive perversions, which seemed alien, shameful, and incomprehensible to him until he began to grasp their real meaning. One is totally defenseless against this sort of manipulation in childhood. The tragedy is that the parents too have no defense against it, as long as they refuse to face their own history. If the repression stays unresolved, the parents’ childhood tragedy is unconsciously continued on in their children. Another example may illustrate this more clearly. A father who as a child had often been frightened by the anxiety attacks of his periodically schizophrenic mother and was never given an explanation enjoyed telling his beloved small daughter gruesome stories. He always laughed at her fears and afterward comforted her with the words: “But it is only a made-up story. You don’t need to be scared, you are here with me.” In this way he could manipulate his child’s fear and have the feeling of being strong. His conscious wish was to give the child something valuable of which he himself had been deprived, namely protection, comfort, and explanations. But what he unconsciously handed on was his own childhood fear, the expectation of disaster, and the unanswered question (also from his childhood): Why does this person I love frighten me so much? Probably everybody has a more or less concealed inner chamber that she hides even from herself and in which the props of her childhood drama are to be found. Those who will be most affected by the contents of this hidden chamber are her children. When the mother was a child she hardly had a chance to understand what happened; she could only develop symptoms. As an adult in therapy, however, she can resolve these symptoms if she allows herself to feel what they were able to disguise: feelings of horror, indignation, despair, and helpless rage. Can it be an accident that Heinrich Pestalozzi—who was fatherless from his sixth year onward and emotionally neglected despite the presence of his mother and of a nurse—neglected his only son, although he was capable, on the other hand, of giving orphan children genuine warmth and fatherliness? This son was finally considered to be mentally defective, although he had been an intelligent child.* He died at the age of thirty. Both his life and his death caused Pestalozzi much pain and guilt (Ganz, 1966, Lavater-Sloman, 1977). It was also Pestalozzi who is reputed to have said: “You can drive the devil out of your garden but you will find him again in the garden of your son.” From "The Drama of the Gifted Child" by Alice Miller Most people getting into spirituality I think. If you read my post history you will see that I have warned against spiritual bypassing plentiful of times. But truth be told, you don't need a therapist to avoid this. And I do not generally consider this place a healthy place. Some people might have use of an artificially induced high, but I'd argue that is rarely the case. And you obviously don't need medications to avoid re traumatization. Even if someone have decided to go see a therapist I would advice them to read "The Tao of Fully Feeling" first. If not they might not be able to recognize a bad one. I could be talking about this for hours upon hours, but we are obviously set on our positions so I suggest we end it here.

Fluctuates from don't care to I feel like an alien. It's an annoyance.

The Most Supreme. The God. He said only, "Be." And surely I was. By pure will. By pure will only. No devil, no man, no fuckings alien, nothing and nobody... Is Higher than I. I am second to God. His very image. His very Creation. Yes, I'm the very evidence of God. You Atheists, having lost your one and only thing which makes you worth anything, can bet on that. Ay, I'm fully conscious of God. Ay, I have meet God Himself. You gurus can bet all your life on that. And I'm still being shy... Oh, God, I'm being shy.