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What is worse, seeing your family get tortured, rapped and killed or that a meteorite destroys all life on earth tomorrow? What would you choose? In hope that it never happens to anyone, I probably wouldn't give a fuck that a meteorite kills all life on earth after watching my family get tortured... and vice versa. I believe that good things can emerge out of evil and vice versa. My parents would have never met without the second world war. We would never be born (as we are) without all the "stupid" things that humans thought and did in the past. We would probably never exist if a meteorite didn't strike the earth millions of years ago. Now was this meteorite a disaster? For the dinosaurs point of view sure! From an alien point of view it must have been an excellent scientific show to watch on their TV screens. I'm happy to be alive, what about you? Are humans a good thing for planet earth. Wanting to save poor people that are suffering, you might want to inject them a vaccines for protection that will give birth to disabled children, and some of them could die of cancer and would have never gotten sick in the first place, or you might save the next dictator that will kill millions... Not saying with this that you shouldn't help people that are suffering!!! I love this quote: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions!" It's the good old story of the Zen master, the farmer & the farmer's son that finds a horse and break his leg and can't go to war... For me good and bad are dependent to perspective and time. We are not capable of grasping the entire picture, the ripple effect of our daily actions. We only believe we do. So my answer to the question does good and evil exist, it depends on how you look at it. From the perspective of unawareness it does. From the perspective of awareness, truth, enlightened states, no it doesn't. Our brain just doesn't have the capacity to take all what should be taken into consideration to make the final judgement. It just assumes it does.

7501 I can´t always write in the morning hours... Just finished some mindfulness meditation that I have not done in ages. At some point I was describing my notebook display... Definitely the absolutely weirdest and most alien thing in here (when turned on)... How was the day so far? One problem gets solved and another arises... Does that ever end? What about future plans? Yes, many... But which one to choose? By the way... I am almost afraid to say it but I think I don´t wantt to have children and should I ever feel this urge, then not my own but of those that could need someone to care for them like I would for my own... Work ethics? Mm... Working on that. Today I conquered the fear and won. This morning actually I had so much resistance inside me for various reasons-my hands got sweaty and my skin got the chills, I was almost shaking... There are things about my past that still haunt me around but there is my ego as well using these as excuses and me not having read the manual for this complicated human machine yet... I would say I am satisfied with 7501 though... I think I am a lovable little chimp... And a god damn weirdo... (° °)

It could also be an alien. Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from "magic". If you brought a smartphone to the 700's people would think you had a magic slate. There was a Star Trek episode called "The Devi's Due" that touched on this. A being claiming to be the devil was scaring people that were technologically inferior. Turned out to be a con-artist using technology to mimic magic/miracles.

If I were not me, and not in this time, then this question would still be valid in another time for another me. Yes we are all one, and that one is you. The real you, which is not a human in the world among other humans but the world itself that includes everything. Whatever is in your experience right now is what the reality is.(NOT A THING MORE). Yes its bizarre, it has always been that way. In fact, everything is fuckingly strange. But there is nothing you can do about it, the more closer you look at things, the more alien they appear.

7497 Super late today but it is Sunday and Leo released a new video. I have seen a lot of arrogant super rational people in my life but I know that these post rationals Leo talks about exist as well and yes, the world needs those so badly. There are these channels on youtube like Martimer81 and Coolhardlogic who make fun of pseudoscientific claims of other channels but they are exactly that kind of people where you can see that they have something miserable about them. They do a great job uncovering irrationalism but they are too stuck in their rationalism. I like science and I get inspired by scientists but their photos are no longer on my walls... When I saw that I can´t go along with people who don´t appeal to logic but then also saw that I do not fit with people who need reasons and explanations for everything I got in this kind of identity crisis. That really messed me up. I did not know what to believe anymore. When I listened to Leo talking about awareness the first time, I felt like that I found something that might give me a solution to this problem. Now I see how the dots have to be connected. "Illusion to study illusion". I am having trouble to motivate myself to keep learning about scientific concepts when I think that way. "Go into the matrix to talk to you". That is why I set the question of how I do convince myself that if I keep going to uni and gather skills for applications and jobs is better than working on awareness. Except of the fact that I need to prepare myself for somehow sustaining my life costs, I had the allegory of the cave in mind... I can´t let the other prisoners in there... I need to go back and free them. How? I go back into the matrix. Communicate through it. That kind of splits me every day. I know I can let go of my hunger for "understanding" the world with my mind but then I will be alien to the most and unable to appeal to the ones who look at great minds like gods and use science as a dogma. Last semester I was asked what I am studying and I answered linguistics/language science and you? That guy said: I study physics. You know... REAL science. He had no clue what linguistics are and that is fine but he really thought he was something better, he really thought that he is doing something that makes sense and is of real value. For him, even though I could reason and think, I was already a nobody after maybe five minutes of small talk. Now lets go meditate and see you soon. -(° °)-

@Edkens I get what you mean... You're not alone. I'm always trying to elevate the intelligence and the significance of conversations around me. But everyone's too busy talking shit about each other and crowing about those stupid Marvel movies... you know ? And even then, I've been passionate about truth, consciousness and personal development for so long that my old social circle became quite intelligent, open-minded and curious about the mysteries of life. Compared to the norm. But I'm still feeling like an alien, even though I built the kind of social circle you probably dream of And not only do they try to bring you down to their level. They also try to bring you back to your past shitty self. Have you noticed this ? People don't want you to change. They've put you in a box, and they're too lazy to be drawing a different box for you every two months. One of the solutions : Finding better people to hang out with. People who really want to investigate the important questions about happiness, truth and the future of humanity. People who encourage each other's growth. People like you and me !

Had a really great conversation with my best friend and his sister last night, which called to my attention a few basic facts I've been neglecting: I don't really have anyone I can talk to, other than my best friend and my therapist. I have a horrible relationship with both of my parents, and would go as far as to say I hate them. I certainly have no love for them, and the abuse they subjected me to, which led to my fucked up psychology today. While my friends can talk to their parents and have a generally loving relationship with them, I avoid mine at all costs. I haven't talked to my dad in a year and I only speak to my mom to keep up appearances with my family (questioning why I even do that anymore). I'm really deeply ashamed of my psychology and negative traits (neurosis, see previous post) because I'm terrified of coming off in the wrong light and scaring off my friends. This goes to the core of a fundamental fear I have of abandonment and ostracism, which if I really dig deep, underlies the majority of my fears and anxieties. In the end, this shame just amplifies the extreme self hate I cast upon myself. While these qualities are undesirable, it doesn't always make sense to blame myself for them, as they were developed as coping mechanisms to the childhood trauma I went through. So, I've decided my top goal for 2016 is: to learn to love myself. I will follow a process I found on Teal Swan's channel whereby every day I live by the question, "What would someone who loves themselves do?" The concept of self love is totally alien to me and I feel corny and false even telling myself the words, "I love myself." I already feel my voice piping up, "No you don't you stupid fuck, you really hate yourself." Which is why this is such a big priority of mine - I'm only 25 and I've been torturing myself in this way for nearly two decades now. I want it to end, and I want this to be the year in which I learn to be happy, accept reality as it is now and love myself unconditionally in the face of reality. I feel myself tempted by hopelessness, clawing at me to return to my addictions but I refuse to take the easy way out. Today I took a few simple steps toward improving my situation and treating myself with more respect: cleaning the mold out of my shower, eating healthier, washing my sheets and taking care of a work issue instead of procrastinating until Monday. I feel moderately better, although I am a long way from knowing what true self love feels like. Has anyone been through a similar situation, or have advice on how I can learn to love myself coming from a background of extreme self hate? Best, TTB

Carl Sagans Cosmos is the GOAT documentary by far. Also amazing: Home Planet ocean (the shots are incredible in both of these, especially liked the plankton. Alien as fuck) - Almost anything BBC (Life story, Planet earth, Life, Human planet, The blue planet and Wonders of the Solar system especially) - Our secret universe - the hidden life of the cell if you want to know more about our complex inner workings (fucking crazy) - Into the universe with stephen hawking - Journey to the edge of the universe - Also liked inner worlds, outer worlds.

As long as you think you are creating something (thoughts, actions), you will never be enlightened First, I don't want to be " enlightened" because I don't believe in such a thing (pure religious woo woo), and I'm a real skeptic. " But People have NO Choice" They obviously have "They can't chose to think. " (No, Then who choose? a God in the sky? A alien in control of you? A mysterious super life conscious woo woo energy? A super mysterious invisible woo woo deepak field of consciousness which knows what is a chocolate and what is a tea, then It chooses for you the tea? Give me a break dude, this belongs to walt disney "But thoughts happened itself." I already show you why thoughts don't happen by itself (whatever that means) what is a thought, a alien? lmao. Want me to go deeper in this issue? "You can't even chose to understand what I'm saying right now" ?? You make no sense dude, you have no proof of what you are saying you are just babbling here using fallacy and saying "You can't do this or that" without any evidence of such, you are just saying what YOU believe to be true. If I can't choose what to understand, then who does? If you say that there is something in my brain that can do that (This is still me, because I'm not separated from my brain and I'm also my brain) So what is it, a big alien? "There's no YOU to create anything but they appears from the cause of external experiences" So "creating things" is an independent entity which is not me but which decides what a body is going to do which is not me, despite me feeling that I am this entity and that I am choosing what to do. Which means I exist. YOU ARE HIGH. FINISH THE CHEETOS AND GO TO SLEEP. STOP ATTEMPTING PHILOSOPHY If people can choose to think, why are they suffering? And who told you that people are "suffering"? I'm sure you are brainwashed by these new fake radical neo-advaita teachers (tony parsons, lisa cairns, etc) who keep repeating the word "suffering" "suffering" "suffering" "suffering" , as If there was a "world of suffering" and the only escape is following their cult/religion of "enlightenment. I can quote thousands and thousands of people 100% happy and full of life which never heard anything of this non dual nonsense. Your happiness is not everyone's happiness dude. The only people who might be suffering are you guys, srsly, suffering from this mental nonsense. You sound like a religious lunatic. wake up, you are brainwashed.

You are obviously not your thoughts, since you create them, and you have to separate unconscious thoughts from conscious thoughts. Thoughts are peripheral details from you, (self), we differ from thoughts, that's your unique self conscious perspective, and most of the unconscious thoughts are basically old memories playing on you because of painfull emotions from the past. You created them from experience. You are the doer as there is no man in the sky pulling the strings, no alien controlling you, no alien in your brain, only you, and you being influenced by emotions. That's all. And when these type of memories appear in you , unconsciously you direct them, analyze them, can think about them on your own self perspective. Actually everytime someone ask you to remember something you are using your own power of intention in the moment to force YOUR OWN brain to provide the memory for you, the delay is a proof, you are prior it. That's a basic example of you. Thoughts are peripheral details. Your UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL self is the only thing you can be pretty sure it is 100% real.

You must exist in order to say that "you don't exist", so yes, you do exist. So, this is rubbish.. move on.. Then who is understanding this conversation? who is aware of it and understanding with Its own perspective that differs from other people? Who is understanding the thoughts, ideas beliefs and your own subjectivitity in your mind? Who is this centered "thing" inside Which is understanding and analyzing things? If not YOU? If you say "OHHH IT IS CONSCIOUSNESS" (Still you, because you don't experience being a flower or the wind, or "everything", you are always in your body and always experiencing your own subjectivity so that's you. You can't say "the brain", because the brain is not some fucking alien in control of you, you can't separate you from your brain, you are one within your brain, and you are also your brain, neurons etc, and the brain just is, the brain is not some alien which is aware and you aren't... NO, the awareness in your brain is you aware, you are aware of your brain cravings, you are aware of your mood and emotions, which happens UTTERLY AND LONELY to you and through you, because only you can experience being you and your emotions.You can't say "It is life, not you" Because now you're stuck in your body, so that's you, and you have also to define "life". Because the only thing that we can know for sure, is our INDIVIDUAL existence (SELF), all the rest is doubtful. cogito ergo sum. I can be skeptic about the world's existence, but I can't lie to my self and say that I don't exist because I know that's rubbish. so what your absurd statement "there is no you" even means? = bullshit.

I watched something about this on a tv documentary recently. Very interesting. Isn't it a cause of 'alien hand syndrome' where on side of the brain tries to assert itself over the other, maybe by using an arm to hit the body and demand control while the other side of the brain is using verbal reasoning etc

I understand that what I see and percieve are not untouched, and I understand that the handling of such input occurs to me before I have an opportunity to react to it. And I understand that at my best moments I am not reacting to it but living through it. And then I can breathe. But of course it is there ready to shape all that enter, and again every face begins to hate me. Every word begins to wish my death. Trees conspire to crush me. I used to shy away, now I can only smile and assure all outside , worry not, I am almost undone.

Today has been wierd. I was doing some of my sweeping thinking, and I just let my mind wander. I was thinking about my existence, my past, my future, what's going on now, people, etc. And I had a thought about me, not the normal me, me as a whole, past present and future. It was quite the sobering experience. I found that I have always been doing personal development in a way. And I ran into a bigger thought. Have you ever sat down behind the wheel of your car and seriously thought about just leaving? I'm not going into the thought yet. I've tried to put it in words a hundred times, and I can't get it right.it's about people, and the way I see things. Maybe, I'll be able to articulate it later. I thought alot about work and what I really think I sould be doing. I don't know my life purpose, but I do think I have a pretty good idea of what it might be. And, it seems like everthing I'm stuck in won't let me align with it. I have had the notion to just drop everything and get to where I need to, but that doesn't seem to be the right way to do it. I'm a big dude, so I get stuck with all the heavy lifting. And I realized that I do the heavy lifting with both my body and mind. I take on other peoples bs without asking for anything in return. I get used alot. And, I'm kind of like the family therapist. But, I kind of like it. Not the being used part. Maybe there is a hint in this. I'm trying to better myself, and I have no one to really talk to about it. So, I'm alone. I know it's a lone wolf journey, but damn, my dog even walks away from me when I try to talk to her. Most of the time when I go to post on the forum I just delete it. I read what other people are saying and, honestly I don't whant to sound like a fool (I'm realy good at that), or I come to the strange conclusion that it's pointless. Maybe I should just start throwing stuff out there reactions be damned. (This is me articulating that thought.) It's hard to explain so bear with me. It started with me thinking about how other people seem to have a pretty good understanding of everything. At least on a base level. For instance how they feel, or what they want, etc. Then that thought moved to me. I realy don't know how I feel. There have been times that I seriously considered going to a therapist to see if I was psycopathic. But I know I'm not, and I have emotions they just never seem to be very strong. But then on the flip side I'm very emotional and they are very strong. And, I never really know what I want. It makes me feel lost. So, maybe this is where the depression came in. But it went further. I thought about how when some says somthing like center yourself, be at one with this, or some other eccentric emotion or idea, I have no clue what they are talking about. But, everyone else seems to get it. So, did I miss an understanding your emotions class or something? Anyway, it made me feel like an alien. I don't realate to alot of stuff other people do. Maybe this came from moving around alot when I was young. But, then it shifted again. I moved to a more positive place like how I don't need to relate to these other people. I'm perfectly fine just as I am. I can and will do things that others can't even fathom. This lead to me coming out of the depressed state. And then I had the huge thought. What others do is not what I do. It has never been this way. I have always fought against the norm to be myself. I know how I feel and what I want. It's just harder to explain (Those thoughts before always had an answer). I have been laughed at and ridiculed, bullied and beaten, rejected and fucked over. But, not once have I lost sight of who I am, and let others dictate how I live my life. Why now do I feel I am not normal? Hell, I've never been normal. I chose a different path. I've always been on the Warriors journey. Normal is for pesants. I do hard stuff because it's hard and when they are looking up at me wandering how, I'll tell them. Needless to say I cried, laghed, got angry, and a slew of other emotions. That's just the condenced version. My forhead was on fire and my whole body was pulsating when it ran it's course. The rest of my day has been awsome. Shit just seemed to click. To end this mile long post. My mom made pot roast tonight. That always puts me in awsome mood. And I feel like I've made some big steps in the right direction. I feel like I just slayed a demon, honestly. Maybe something life changing is about to happen. We'll see.

Even if its "who stole your cell phone?" It depends on how valuable the question is.. Haha! But for one I know that I'd have given my life to find out if there are alien life forms on Jupiters moon Europa, and Saturns Enceladus & Titan. So much exciting stuff to grasp and explore. Yet we seem to waste our lives on twerking and selfies.

everyone is ugly... Its just relative concept... think of an alien ?.. If it comes to earth he will find us ugly... like our sticky mouth.. Our sticky eye balls...the way we make our hair... Even the hair can be annoying.... the way we talk... It would sound like annoying noises to them.... so the humans are annoying and ugly... If this be your perspective you would no longer be obsessed with beauty any more... in a different way find a love... Who doesn't like your outer beauty(unreal part) but greatly admires and loves your inner beauty.... in the way you would like to make him/her happy...you would concentrate on your inner beauty ✌

The problem is that personal development is not the 'norm' so people think it's weird. They don't get it, they don't see what it's about, why you do it and how you benefit from it. And it seems to be typical human nature to criticise or somehow invalidate that which is different from 'normality'. So as you develop in to something else, something different from them, they look at you as the weird one. The one who has lost the plot and needs help. They can't see the growth because it is so alien to them. And yes, they are probably scared too. Scared that you are turning in to something that they can't relate to. Scared of losing you. When people 'care' for someone it is rarely for the benefit of that person. It is because that person serves some purpose to the one who is 'caring'. What they care about most is how you meet their own personal needs. So when you stop doing this because you have grown beyond that, they are losing something and will express 'care' that is more about them than it is about you. I think this is an inherent probablem with personal development. Exactly this..

@abrakamowseIts interesting, I like the archetype, the metaphor of it. When it comes to life in the universe? I think if we have a virtual reality construct this complex...aliens? Why not. Drakes Equation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation Thus I consider it in this light... As to the Galactic Federation and like the League of Alien Unions thing? The I channel Crom from the Cosmos thing? I'm a skeptic.

I left all that @Kelley White it was helpful to learn that I am not my thoughts, about our higher self and other concepts that now I understand better. It was like the first steps, but the Alien thing, I have friends that are still on that. I think it's a distraction of enlightenment. I am out of that.

Thank you so much for sharing this. Its actually a very moving and engaging story. I am looking forward to hearing more. So, just curious...where did you "land" on the alien matter?

I am currently cycling around the world and it has been a blast so far! Started in my homecountry Germany, then through Europe, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Sri Lanka and right now in India/Rishikesk listening to Moojis satsang. Especially Iran is just such a lovely country. The landscape is beautiful and the people are the most hospital I've ever meet. I got invited so often by strangers I just knew for less then 5 Minutes (!) to stay for the night. Probably my favorite country so far. India on the other hand was very hard to cycle. On a bike you are in remote areas 95% of your time. And in those areas you are this weird green alien for the locals. And Indians are curious. Whenever I stopped there was a huge crowd gathering. I will continue to Southeast Asia and probably China. But I am open for everything that comes on the way and don't have a particular plan. I love to cycle without a plan and just go where ever my journey leads me. I could post pictures endlessly haha North Korea is also a country I would love to visit. I think nothing comes closer to time traveling.

@Leo Gura Thanks for the clarification. I'm still struggling though. Wouldn't point #1 just be the perception is reality argument that appears frequently in philosophy? I have decided to take the leap of faith and earnestly pursue enlightenment,but as I am in my mental cage, I struggle with this alien thing. At least, I think that's why I am struggling--following what I have learned from you. All I know so far is to learn by questioning and finding answers. I also have been mediating everyday and plan to keep doing so. Is this a good plan?

Firstly, absolute truth is not an experience. Secondly, it is not an understanding and it happens through no mechanism. Thirdly, it is not an answer to any question. Enlightenment is not a knowing, it is a deep un-knowing. The problem you're having is that you're conceiving enlightenment as some kind of additional belief or emotional state, which it is not. It's something totally alien that you have never thought was possible in a million years. It's not gonna be a "thing" that your ego is going to be able to grasp on to in the way you imagine. You have to really think outside the box on this one.

Nobody is in a position to judge who's awakened and who's not, we can never know and it's not anyone's business , there is no true artist in the world will tell you hey.. I am awakened! but I like to mention few modern artists I personally think they are inspiring, with a slight spiritual sense in their works whether they have it, or have it partially, or not at all: Film Makers: Ron Fricke (Baraka, Samsara) Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke , Howl's Moving Castle_ Christopher Nolan (Inception, Interstellar, The prestige) David Lynch (Mullholad Drive - Twin Peaks - Blue Velvet) James Cameron (Avatar - Titanic - Terminator - Alien) J.J Abrams (LOST, Fringe, Star Wars Force awakens, New StarTrek) Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker, Nostalgia, Solaris) Gaspar Noé (Enter The Void) Ki-duk Kim (Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring, 3 Iron..) Games: Tod Howard (Skyrim, Fallout, Oblivion) Casey Hudson (Mass Effect) Composers: John Williams Ennio Morricone Karl Jenkens Jeremy Soule Hans Zimmer James Horner Thomas Bergersen Nobou Umetsu Vangelis Ari Pulkkinen Fantasy Writers (I'm not a good reader): J.R.R Talking (Lord of The Rings) George R.R Martin (Game of Thrones)

The awkward moment you do self inquiry and realize you were doing more "right" than you gave yourself credit for..... The two edged sword of living within the meditative state. You can live within the meditative state? Yes. If someone tells you its all bliss? They are full of shit. Run Forest Run! If you've suffered severe trauma(s) you might live in a hyper vigilant state. You might be hyper aware. Awareness might not be your problem. Content focus might be your problem. I suspect by observation for the past few months content focus or lack of focus is more than likely my issue. (Example, as a violent crime victim and a former officer/trained soldier I am hyper aware in public settings to include using proximics. (Body placement, spacial awareness.) I am hyper focused on exit points and walls for safety, who is near me and why. The issue? My focus is built on a belief that public and people = harm; a paradigm reinforced by law enforcement experiences and other direct experiences in my life. Is this always true? No. I have functioned from within a meditative state, but my focus revealed subconscious paradoxes and creative realities both positive and negative which were subsequently manifested in reality as a result of my focus. Thus my observation became once I functioned from a meditative state, if I was focused upon fear, I saw fear in every pattern I observed. I, the observer, created the effect. In turn, if my focus was love, releasing all other content, the pattern I observed was love. I, the observer, created the effect. The second thing which came to me this morning, I am trained to observe and report. Since my youth I have been, due to disassociation, detached; observing, synthesizing and reporting through a creative emotive medium; mostly poetry. This was a skill later honed as an officer and private investigator. It was our job to observe and report and the quality of our observation and reporting impacted the outcome of justice. Its considered arrogant by some to say you are smart. I'm smart. I spend most of my time observing, meditating and sometimes I lose focus and chase the wrong rabbits/content. That can be an emotional roller coaster. When you are smart, lots of things interest you. You are curious. So you chase all content about one topic so you can see every-man's position. Perhaps the reason I can think of at least six impossible things before breakfast is I am willing to listen all day and observe the patterns the universe is sending me and then mediate upon what the focus of the message is? I am happy when I see my kind attributes; I am sad or ashamed when I see my own hypocrisy and that is when I know this is the area I have to focus on content filtering and correct my own internal course. Embrace the lesson take corrective action. Sometimes I forget and I punish myself. I will do this until I become aware, and then I can shift focus back to correction so the pattern is broken. I have expanded both my framework of understanding and my scope of listening beyond and do so every day. (No alien emoticon available) I want to know what makes this apparent plane of reality tick.? How does this reality fit into other realities? That's just how my brain ticks naturally. Its my creative idea of fun. (Again, no alien emoticon available) Thinking about space, and time travel, and stories; researching sciences and philosophy,so many interesting topics so little time. Focus can become challenging when it comes to completion; especially when you are genuinely interested in chasing so many different rabbits. Perhaps all those rabbits end up weaving into a more interesting story? (Again, no alien emoticon available) I believe stories can change the world. They have. Just think of stories that have impacted your life? Stories require vision, research, work, imagining; they are in one sense the ultimate meditative indulgence. That awkward moment you find out you may be wiser than you credit yourself for, you just have to focus your lenses better.