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A person that goes super deep into spirituality, including the energy work etc can have one single sexual experience that is more strong and full on than the combo of all the sexual experiences of a more normal person doing “pick up” having sex with a bunch of different people , seeking that experience externally, missing the inner core transformation that forms basis of the quality of those experiences Good post btw

We need that alien transformation on camera... now!

Exactly! All form, both gross as in a tree, and subtle as in thought, depend upon innumerable conditions and are not the fixed entities that they appear to be. Nothing actually remains the same for an instant. What is perceived to be an unchanging object is on the contrary, an instantaneous, indivisible movement of disintegration and formation, even though this transience is imperceptible. It is in this sense that what is called death is also life, as the ongoing transformation of all phenomena. There’s no fixed observer, so yes, even the observer vanishes.

Two entry points open the path: https://spireason.neocities.org/#bulk-load-botd3 and https://github.com/tambetvali/BulkLoad Spiritual logic behaves strangely across systems. In GBL, meaning flows upward: symbols point beyond themselves, paradox is allowed, and contradiction becomes a doorway. A vision, a synchronicity, a moral intuition — GBL treats these as data with structure, not noise. But in CL, the same signals collapse. Paradox is treated as error, metaphor becomes misinformation, and spiritual causality is flattened into literal claims. A symbolic death becomes “a threat,” a mystical union becomes “delusion,” and a narrative exploration of shadow turns into “conspiracy.” CL demands linearity; GBL thrives on recursion. **Use cases:** • A GBL insight like “the self dies to be reborn” is coherent in spiritual logic; CL misreads it as nihilism or pathology. • A symbolic conspiracy (inner forces plotting against your growth) becomes, in CL, an externalized political plot. • Material Shit (Part 2) shows how embodiment grounds GBL; CL strips it to crude physicalism. • You Are Murder (Part 3) uses shadow‑integration logic; CL interprets it as accusation rather than transformation. **Themes across the texts:** — Conspiracy as inner topology — Matter as spiritual resistance — Murder as ego‑death — Illuminations as the return of meaning after descent GBL preserves the multi‑layered nature of experience. CL flattens it. Bulk Load explores what happens when you move between these layers — and what gets lost, distorted, or reborn in the crossing.

The first step is to empty the mind completely until reaching a point where only the fact of being remains. You are reality becoming aware that it is. Like a mirror reflecting another mirror. At that moment, you are not a person looking at reality; you are the property of reality of looking at itself, of becoming conscious of itself. Any other “I am,” stripped of everything else, is this same “I am.” There is no other. It is the same in different coordinates. You are not someone or something; you are a property of reality. Once reality can easily settle through you in the fact of “I am" absolutely empty of anything else, then reality can open itself to the fact of becoming conscious of “what I am.” This is not an understanding but an opening of the “heart,” because the heart , what reality truly is , reveals itself. The absolute power of reality reveals itself as a total explosion of freedom, an inexhaustible creative flow erupting like a never-ending supernova. The word glory, etc, could be used but it sounds subjective valoration. Lets say unlimited vitality that emerges from the unlimited, absolute potential manifesting itself without limit. It's perceived as something much better than any possible good thing that the mind could imagine before. Another valoration, I know, but it's the case. It's perceived as the "absolute better". Through the human interface, the self-perception of reality can briefly open completely to its own nature. This is not a mental image, not something imagined, but something that can melt the mind itself. Achieving even a moment of openness to the total alive is not merely a vision, but a flame that produces a structural transformation within you. Obviously, you are not going to walk down the street in an unlimited state in which reality explodes continuously, but you begin to perceive the vitality of reality within experience itself. The filter that attenuates experience begins to fall away, and everything is perceived as the living flow of what reality is. The “I am” is seen as an intrinsic property, not as the essence. The essence is living limitlessness in its inexhaustible expansion. That's why the idea "reality is consciousness" is wrong. It's a barrier, behind the barrier of the void of the I am is where the real thing is waiting to be discovered.

@Grateful Dead I'm too lazy to explain the depth of my trauma and its causes right now, but in short, my mental vibration was hellish for years, every second. Obviously, I was seduced by Tolle, Adyashanti, and all those who sell liberation. I saw that it was completely obvious that I was creating my suffering and that it was simply a matter of attitude to stop doing it. This makes you a dissociated being, separates you from yourself. You try to convince yourself that the self is an illusion, and thus you alienate yourself from yourself. You try to empty your mind because you believe that mental activity is what creates the horrible, constant anxiety you live with, and it's exactly the opposite. There is only one real way to resolve an emotional structure based on suffering, and that is to see it directly, to accept that you are a process that is happening, that is interconnected with everything, not an island that decides how to feel, and from there act with absolute determination to integrate that energetic structure that reality has created and that you are, and use its momentum to take a step to another level. You have to make your pain your tool, not try to get rid of it as if it were a mistake. Your anxious nature manifests in your whole being, in your body, in every breath, in every tiny gesture. You must see it as the expression of the reality now, and channel your suffering to open yourself to another level. If you label your trauma as a thought, illusion, mistake, you are trapped for ever, in the infinite carrot. Life is not easy, fair, controllable. Ralston and Tolle sell that you can control your inner state. You? Who? The ego? How? Labeling the real you as an illusion. The real you is what you are now, how you are vibrating now in the hiper complex process that being human is and that is interconnected with everything, not the one who decides stop suffering now. Ralston says: you are doing it! Stop doing it now!!! Who is doing it? It's the reality that is happening as a process that feels like suffering, the real you that Ralston and Tolle talks about is precisely the ego, they are absolutely wrong,.180 degrees wrong, like all non dualistics. At the end, when you have a really anxious and traumatic structure, there is only one way. It's the reality that is pushing itself to make a movement, and you have to face the reality so directly and without any filter, any grip, until you are able to open yourself to the unlimited, but not the unlimited "being" that is the truth, etc, but the heart of the reality, the source. If Ralston and Tolle would do that step they will understand what is a human, then they wouldn't categorize the lack, the mental suffering as falsehood. "Mental" is not different that physical. Everything is real, there are not illusions. I thought that for me in this life would be absolutely impossible stop the sick intensity of my suffering, but I managed to find the way. Absolutely, total transformation, a miracle that was just an utopia. Not something that is "almost", some days good, others not so, but totally clean. It's not a matter of identity, it's a matter of conquest your freedom changing the level where you operate. You can't do that denying the previous level as false, because it's absolutely real. Its precisely the reality happening.

I really don't know how you arrived at these assumptions about Ralston. After all, he repeatedly emphasizes that this is not about attaining a pleasant state. As described earlier, for him, mindfulness or being an aligned human without frictionare are merely temporary experiences of the mind. He explains all the time that enlightenment has nothing to do with feeling good or anything of that nature. So, your criticism here is truly completely unfounded. According to Ralston, the direct awareness of Being is not about becoming an aligned person; rather, it is the complete collapse of the conceptual self. He states that enlightenment makes it possible to transform the self and achieve a state of inner freedom but for him, that belongs to an entirely different domain, that of transformation. As far as I understand it, Ralston does not deny mystical experiences either. He merely warns that the mind immediately attempts to label, categorize, and claim ownership of these experiences. For him, pure Being is the ultimate source and absolute power, and he argues that one does not need a mystical narrative to simply be that. I do not believe he is ridiculing Lao Tzu or Christ; rather, he is critiquing those who worship the descriptions of such experiences instead of seeking to have the direct experience themselves. I don't think so. I believe that by Being, Ralston means what it truly is.

I channeled this information through meditation. Seth: What is the lightbody? The Lightbody is consciousness or Love applied to the self and to objects outside of you. Objects or the self become beautiful and attractive through the Lightbody. Reality transforms when you realize what is already the case- that reality is beauty and perfection. They transform into beauty and perfection. Thought and judgement cover up this realization and the transformation of objects or the self into beauty and perfection. The lightbody is chi energy and is is Life energy. To heal the body apply consciousness or Love to the area. You will heal the body because the lightbody is life energy. The lightbody is an energy of self esteem and self worth that the self or objects have when consciousness or Love is applied to self or the objects. To become physically beautiful you need a lightbody. The lightbody is transformation. Reality transforms as a result of consciousness or Love. It either transforms physically or energetically. At the first stages it transforms energetically, and then physically at later stages. General channeling: What is the lightbody? The lightbody is the result of consciousness or Love. Objects become beautiful and perfect. They radiate an energy of self esteem and aristocracy. They are charming and attractive. Does reality transform as a result of realising that reality is beauty and perfection (consciousness)? Yes, that is the lightbody. When you realize reality to be beauty and perfection, it becomes the case- because it's already the case. Can aromatherapy, affirmations, colours and sounds applied to the body create a lightbody? Yes it does. They are Love applied to the self.

Sure, I can't wait! And I can't help it either! You're a big source of inspiration and transformation for me. We started the race at different times that's the lag in understanding and consciousness, but I’m far more advanced now than you were at my age. Part of my multidimensional success is because you're making the way for the next generation much easier and direct. I'm already having fun Although, I still learn a lot from very high IQs, I like to study powerful minds operating, even if they are intelligently deluded. I'll surely study Sabrina Pasterski in the following days.

Kundalini awakening is the absolute point of no return of the spiritual path. It is the most spontaneous, rapid and dramatic transformation of body, energies and mind an individual can go through. It is when spirituality stop being fun and games. It is when spirituality violently demands to be the absolute and sole focus of your life. Because of this, if one is not prepared for this change, if one is not prepared to sacrifice and let go of absolutley everything - your mom, your friends, your passions, even your spiritual gurus and ideas - i can easily see how kundalini awakening can ruin lives. Therefore I do not promote pursuing kundalini awakening unless you are a serious spiritual practicioner with years of experience. With that said, I have found that kundalini by far is the most efficient method for increasing baseline consciousness - and achieving sober, non-psychedelic induced mystical states. Kundalini works on three levels that increase baseline consciousness; dissolution of conceptual projections onto reality, dissolution of self-identity and dissolution of trauma / energetic blockages. For me, conceptual projections onto reality distinguished itself from the other two forms of dissolution, in that it was a one-time very dramatic shift that occurred, into a temporary heightened state, which left my baseline perception of reality altered dramatically afterwards. I have few words to describe this other than it was a sober-psychedelic experience. I mention this mostly to make people aware of the possibility of actual sober-psychedelic states. I had had 10-15 major trauma dissolutions prior to my kundalini awakening -and experienced 500+ major dissolutions within a matter of 1-2 weeks post kundalini awakening. Trauma dissolution usually happens through conscious and deliberately identifying, feeling and releasing stuck emotions (or thought patterns). The kundalini acts by taking charge of this process, making it a spontaneous event, where trauma is automatically identified and released. Dissolution of self-identity also happens through the trauma dissolutions, hence the two are very closely linked. However I think dissolution of self-identity deserves a mention, since this can invoke some frightening experiences. it i face to face with your own self-image, or the feeling of yourself. It can take many shapes. You will recognize what you perceive yourself to be - and you will see whatever that is, shatter into a thousand pieces. This can be frightening to the unprepared, since it feels like going away or dying. In my experience, these three levels of dissolution are the bedrock and purpose of all spiritual practice. It is because of this, that once Kundalini is awakened, you're on the highway to healthier states of consciousness and well being. What is the prize for going through this seemingly traumatic and frightening process? The prize is life itself. Peace of mind and Love.

__A few sample inquiries__ “In parallel with Beck, Albert Ellis developed a cognitive approach called _rational emotive therapy_.^[47]^ In Ellis's ABC model, A is an antecedent stimulus (a noise), B is a belief (that the noise signifies danger), and C is the consequence (fearful feelings and avoidance response).” (LeDoux 2015, 265) “1. When something obnoxious occurs to you at point A (your Activating Experience or Activating Event), you feel sorrowful or sad at point C (your emotional Consequence) because you tell yourself at point B (your Belief System), …” (Ellis and Harper 1975, 77) that the event is bad (negative in Burn's words). A, B and C are all cognitions and B and C are events too. So B for instance has its own A, B and C. “__WORLD:__ A series of ~~positive, neutral, and negative (= at point B)~~ events.” (Burns 1999, 30) “Remember that it never was, in the first place, an original traumatic experience that made people disturbed but their _attitude toward_ the experience—at what I call point “B”.” (Ellis 2004, 46–47) “When your feelings are up and out, your mind is naturally quiet. And you're self-obvious to yourself as to the fact that you are whole, complete, perfect, eternal.” (‭“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024).pdf”, 394) Getting started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Katie#Teachings, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-vBAEcjmTI, `The Work.md` (https://pastebin.com/NP3rAur9). If you are looking for patterns, start from the bottom of the document: https://mega.nz/file/csJj2DiL#9bipHmgsD9agFe4JGAvdKYFR-tI57qFQtYn5Amtzocc, https://pastebin.com/SK4Hzzws. Attachments Brasington 2024, _Dependent Origination and Emptiness (2 ed.)_, 27–30, "Dependent Origination and Emptiness - 2nd Edition - A5", https://leighb.com/sodapi/download.htm. Burns 1999, _Feeling Good : The New Mood Therapy_, 29–30, 155. Katie and Jensen 2000, _All War Belongs on Paper: The Manual for the Work of Byron Katie_, 11. Levenson 1993, _Keys to the Ultimate Freedom: Thoughts and Talks on Personal Transformation_, 221, https://archive.org/details/keys-to-the-ultimate-freedom-thoughts-and-talks-on-personal-transformation-leste. gains_workbook-sedona-method-release-technique-1992.pdf. jyn_en_mod_6feb2019_r4_form1.pdf, https://thework.com/. It WOULD be right for Thomas to quit smoking. I think that it WOULD be right for Thomas to quit smoking. ... think that it WOULD be best for Thomas to quit smoking. Thomas SHOULD quit smoking. __Q1: Is it true that Thomas SHOULD quit smoking?__ Yes. __SQ: What do you think you WOULD have?__ I WOULD feel happy‒in control if Thomas quit smoking. ... WOULD feel happy—in getting Paul to quit smoking. ... WOULD feel happy—relieved (adj.). __Q2: Can you absolutely know that it's true?__ No. __Q3: How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?__ __Q3: What's the payoff for holding that belief?__ (Katie 1996, 15) I feel unhappy. ... WOULD control/change Thomas. (= I WOULD get Thomas to quit smoking.) __Q1: Is it true?__ No. It is not true that it happens. "It's an illusion; I don't really get that payoff." (Keyes 1989, 59) __Q2: ...?__ __Q3: How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?__ I think that Thomas should quit smoking. __Q3: ...?__ I feel unhappy. ... __SQ3A: Can you see a reason to drop the thought? (And please don't try to drop it.)__ __SQ: CAN YOU SEE A REASON NOT TO CONTINUE BELIEVING THAT IT WOULD BE BEST FOR THOMAS TO QUIT SMOKING?__ __SQ: Can you see a fact that makes it correct not to continue believing that it WOULD be best for Thomas to quit smoking?__ https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199571123.001.0001/m_en_gb0710960. Katie and Jensen 2000, 83. __SQ: Can you see a fact that makes it right or fair to believe that Thomas SHOULD quit smoking?__ "a fact that makes it right or fair to do something" ..., reason (n.), sense 2, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/reason_1. "correct in your opinion or judgement" ..., right (adj.), sense 2, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/right_1. __SQ: Can you see a fact that makes it correct not to believe that it is true that Thomas SHOULD quit smoking?__ __SQ: Can you see a fact that makes it correct not to continue thinking that it is true that Thomas SHOULD quit smoking?__ Yes. "Often, very good reasons can be found in your answer to question 3, “How do you react when you think that thought?” Each stressful reaction—anger, for example, or sadness or distancing—is a good reason to drop the thought." (Katie and Mitchell 2021, chap. 4) I feel unhappy. But that does not mean it WOULD not be best for Thomas to quit smoking. That does not mean Thomas SHOULDN'T quit smoking. That does not mean it would be wrong for Thomas to quit smoking. "to continue to have something and not give it back or throw it away" ..., keep (v.), sense 1, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/keep_1. "Once you see the truth, the thought lets go of _you_, not the other way around." (Katie and Mitchell 2021, chap. 5) __SQ3B: Can you find one stress-free reason to keep the thought?__ _SQ: Can you find one fact that makes it correct to continue believing the thought that Thomas SHOULD quit smoking?__ Yes. "Everyone knows that smoking diminishes breathing capacity and causes lung cancer." (Katie and Jensen 2000, 83) That means it WOULD be best for Thomas to quit smoking. (Thomas's breathing capacity WOULD NOT diminish and he WOULD NOT get lung cancer.) That makes it correct to continue believing that it WOULD be best for Thomas to quit smoking. __SQ: Is this reason peaceful, or is it stressful?__ (Katie and Mitchell 2021, chap. 5) Stressful. __Q3: How do you react, ..., when you believe that everyone knows that ...?__ I think that Thomas should quit smoking. __Q3: ...?__ I feel unhappy. (... WOULD control/change Thomas. That does not mean it WOULD be best for Thomas to quit smoking.) __Q4: Who or what WOULD you be without the thought?__ ... WOULD be sb who feels happy. $$$ "Your thought that ... shouldn’t ... is just your way of mentally arguing with what is. It doesn’t do you any good, and it doesn’t change ...; its only effect is to cause you stress." (Katie and Mitchell 2021, chap. 5) "We find that the only payoff is our suffering." (Katie 1996, 52) "but also to understand the specific effects of believing it, the price in anger or sorrow or resentment that it pays when it believes the thought" (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 65) “Focusing on that payoff, check any insights you have about the supposed payoff that makes you hold on to your addiction:” (Keyes 1989, 59) "“Is this reason (= payoff) peaceful, or is it stressful? Does thinking that thought bring peace or stress into my life?" (Katie and Mitchell 2021, 153) ... I feel unhappy because I think that it is true that Thomas should quit smoking therefore it is not true that Thomas should quit smoking? https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/non-sequitur I don't have a job. __Q1: Is it true that you don't have a job?__ Yes. __Q3: How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?__ ... think that I COULD have a job. __Q1: IS IT TRUE THAT YOU COULD (= WOULD possibly; it WOULD be possible for you to (Quirk et al. 1985, 222; Swan ?, sec. 258.6)) HAVE A JOB?__ __Q1: Is it true that you CAN have a job? (= Is it true that it is possible for you to have a job?)__ __Q3: ...?__ ... think that it WOULD be good if I had a job. ... think that it is bad that I don't have a job. __Q1: Is it true that it is bad that you don't have a job?__ Yes. __Q1: IS IT TRUE? LIKE, RIGHT NOW?__ No. __Q3: How do you react, what happens, when you think that it is bad that you don't have a job?__ I feel unhappy. ... think that I WOULD feel happy if I had a job. ... think that I WOULD feel happy if I got (= "come to have (something); receive:") a job. ... think that I WOULD feel happy if I got (= "succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain:") a job. __Q1: Is it true that you WOULD feel happy if you got/obtained a job?__ Yes. __Q3: ...?__ I think that it WOULD be right to try to find/get a job. (= I SHOULD look for a job.) __Q1: Is it true that I SHOULD look for a job?__ No. __Q3: How do you react, ..., ...?__ I think that I COULD have a job. __SQ: Would you drop/let go of the thought that it is bad that you don't have a job if you could?__ Yes. __Q4: If the thought let go of you, who or what WOULD you be?__ I WOULD be sb who feels happy. __Q4: Who or what WOULD you be without the thought?__ ... I don't have a job. I think (= use mind) that I don't have a job. __Q1: Is it true that you don't have a job?__ Yes. __Q2: Can you absolutely know that it's true?__ No. My job might be to wake up. __That means__ I can't absolutely know that it's true. __Q3: How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?__ ... think (= use mind; have opinion/belief) that it is bad that I don't have a job. (= Vedanā.) (..., think (v.), sense 1, "__have opinion/belief__", 6 May 2026, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/think_1) (..., think (v.), sense 2, "__use mind__", ...) "your feelings or thoughts about somebody/something, rather than a fact" (..., opinion (n.), sense 1, SYNONYM view, 6 May 2026, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/opinion) "based on your own ideas or opinions rather than facts and therefore sometimes unfair" (..., subjective (adj.), sense 1, 6 May 2026, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/subjective) __Q1: Is it true that it is bad that you don't have a job?__ Yes. __Q1: Is it true that it is bad that you don't have a job? Like, right now?__ Right now, in this moment, no. __Q2: Can you absolutely know that it's true?__ No. __Q3: How do you react, ..., when you believe that thought?__ I think that it is bad that I think that it is bad that I don't have a job. __Q1: Is it true that it is bad that you think that it is bad that you don't have a job?__ Yes. I feel unhappy. __That means__ it is bad that I think that it is bad that I don't have a job. No. I WOULD get to continue surviving—if I had a job. (__Q3: ... when you believe that you WOULD get to ...?__ I think that I WOULD feel happy—safe/secure.) That means it is good (= expedient) that I think that it is bad that I don't have a job. __...__ I think (= use mind; have opinion/belief) that I feel unhappy. I feel unhappy (adj.)—sad, anxious; ashamed, guilty, embarrassed. ... feel disenjoyment (n.). ... dislike (disenjoy (v.)) that I don't have a job. "like or enjoy very much:" (_Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.)_, love (v.), sense 1.1, 6 May 2026, https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199571123.001.0001/m_en_gb0482930) ... feel undesirous—of not having a job. (= I don't want not to have a job.) I feel desirous. (= "dependent upon __Vedanā__, __Craving__ arises." (Brasington 2024, _Dependent Origination and Emptiness (2 ed.)_, 27, 30, "Dependent Origination and Emptiness - 2nd Edition - A5", https://leighb.com/sodapi/download.htm)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_and_sufficiency __Q1: Is it true that you dislike that you don't have a job?__ __Q1: Is it true that you dislike that you don't have a job therefore you think that it is bad that you don't have a job?__ Yes. __That means__ the thought that it is bad that you don't have a job is a necessary condition for the thought that you dislike that you don't have a job. (= Q1 is a switch for Q3.) __Q1: Is it true that you think that it is bad that you don't have a job therefore you dislike that you don't have a job?__ Yes. __That means__ the thought .... __Q2: ...?__ __Q3: ...?__ ... I think that it is bad that I dislike .... __Q1: Is it true that it is bad that you dislike ...?__ Yes. "Do I operate more efficiently, quickly and clearly when I am stressed or fearful?” (In my experience, all stress is inefficient and is simply a mask for the fear of love.)" (Katie and Jensen 2000, 85) Yes. "A small amount of anxiety can be motivating, but you rapidly reach a point of diminishing returns. Too much anxiety can cripple you. I’ve found that I do my best work when I’m feeling relaxed and confident, not when I’m worried or anxious." (Burns 2006, 68) Barlow and Craske 2022, 41–42. ... __Q2: ...?__ __Q3: ...?__ __SQ: Would you let go of the thought that you dislike that ... if you could?__ Would you let go that you dislike that you don't have a job if you could? Would you let go that you want a job if you could? Yes. Magic Dial. Burns 2020. Magic Button. Burns 2020. "You'll see as you start to become aware of your wanting approval and control, even more than with the emotions, you'll have a tendency to just let it go. It's like you'll notice you're wanting to control it a little, and it's just gone. Because it's natural. It's a natural part of us to let go of our wanting approval and wanting control once it's identified." (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024)”, 7) "See, our course works at the feeling level. And the intellect, the rational part of the mind is all motivated by our feelings today." (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024)”, 36) ... __Q4: ...?__ __Q4: ...?__ __SQ: Would you let go of the thought that it is bad that you don't have a job if you could?__ Yes. “Once you see the truth, the thought lets go of _you_, not the other way around.” (Katie and Mitchell 2021, 152) "when you recognize that the thought isn’t true, again there is no suffering." (Katie and Mitchell 2021, chap. 1, 9) "When I say that the worst that can happen is a belief, I am being literal." (Katie and Mitchell 2021, chap. 12) __Q4: ...?__ I don't have a job. __Q3: ...?__ I think that it is bad that I don't have a job. __Q3: ...?__ I feel unhappy. ... feel undesirous—of not having a job. (= I don't want not to have a job.) ... feel not desirous—of not having a job. __Q3: ...?__ I think that I don't have a job. "__Q:__ If you drop the desire for some thing, will it still come your way? __Lester:__ No. The desire is the cause for it." (Levenson 1993, chap. 28) "The effect of this cessation ripples through the many feedback loops, allowing the whole sequence to cease." (https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/BuddhasTeachings/Section0003.html) I don't have a job. __Q3: ...?__ ... think that it is bad that I don't have a job. __Q3: ...?__ I think that I don't have a job. I don't have a job. __Q3: ...?__ I think that it is bad that I don't have a job. ... think that it WOULD be good if I had a job. __Q3: ...?__ I feel unhappy. ... think that it is good that I think that it is bad that I don't have a job. __Q1: ...?__ Yes. No. I feel unhappy. __That means__ it is bad (= disadvantageous, unhelpful, etc.) that I think that it is bad that I don't have a job. __Q3: How do you react, what happens, when you think that it is good that you think that it is bad that you don't have a job?__ I think that it is bad that I don't have job. Burns 1999, pp. 29–30, 155 .pdf Brasington 2024, pp. 27, 28, 29, 30.pdf Levenson 1993, 221.pdf jyn_en_mod_6feb2019_r4_form1.pdf 89_PDFsam_gains_workbook-sedona-method-release-technique-1992.pdf Katie and Jensen 2000, 11.pdf

The way I understand reincarnation is through the cycle of nature itself. Water evaporates upward..forms clouds..and then returns to the earth as rain. The rain seeps into the soil..and with nutrients from the earth and energy from sunlight..plants begin to grow .for example a corn. A chicken raised on a farm eats the corn. Then your father eats the chicken..and over time that energy and matter become part of his body then contributing to the creation of a drop of semen. He mates with your mother..the sperm meets the egg and you begin to form as a fetus. you are born as a baby and the process continues again in one form or another. In this sense reincarnation is simply the transformation of matter and life from one state to another. You are not separate from the universe ..you are part of it and in a way you are made from everything that came before you. So to me reincarnation is not necessarily something mystical or woo woo . It isthe natural process of existence continuously changing form.

I think the cult documentaries are going to be timely and interesting. im currently watching a friend ( ceremony facilitator/druid/shaman/healer etc blah blah) claim to have gone through a transformation and become his true self ( again!) and this time “shits getting real”. after a lengthy speech to ‘headhunted’, ‘special’ helpers, my red flags are flying in all directions as I can clearly see a tragectory ( not yet a cult) but with serious potential to turn into one. i think I might start a journal in the journal section with my analysis of the ‘problem’ but I’m expecting to see similarities in the documentaries Leo is sharing.

The following was a very intense version of myself. Cult like even, I could imagine this version of myself easily falling into that trap, like I said above about having a laugh aye! This carries on from the post directly above, so we are now onto part 2. ===== PART 2 - (copy & pasted intro) - I got ChatGPT to analyse personal thoughtsof mine upwards of 15 years ago, including all the junk that comes with each stage of Spiral Dynamics I have been through in my life. I mean that purely in generality as I dont wholeheartedly side with any particular psychological model. I think given people are all at various levels, and from that level of development will have a unique take on each, and potentially find some value if nothing else at least a chuckle. Just as I view these insights below differently now compared to when I had these reflections, especially given ChatGPT also analyses some of the weaknesses in my observations and patterns between them. I asked GPT to put each insight into 15 words or less. These will be your perceptions not mine, as I, am viewing these for the very first time as a future version of myself from the period and context in which they originated, including environmental influences. Maybe some value to takeaway, and if thats the case as always I recommend playing with ideas, across ideas and coming up with your own creative reflections. Best regards. ================ This person is building a meta-revolutionary sovereignty system: recursive self-awareness becomes self-authorship; self-authorship enters challenge; challenge becomes embodied proof; embodied proof matures heroism; mature heroism becomes Universalism; Universalism integrates sovereignty, love, courage, empathy, nervous-system alignment, integrity, play, and service. Self-development must become lived expedition. Truth outranks improving yesterday’s entry. Private reflection protects developmental intensity. Challenge creates consciousness feedback. High risk nature adventures becomes anti-fragility training. Adventure tests spiritual seriousness. Weekly dispatches compress lived experience. Filler weakens developmental signal. Physical hardship purifies abstraction. Blisters and scars become epistemic evidence. Mountains become anti-performative spirituality and challenge refutes easy state-chasing. Reflection becomes expeditionary measurement. Disciplined movement creates higher-order self-trust. Ecstatic understanding protects against a stagnating dogmatic mind. Wonder becomes cognitive shield. Curiosity reconnects psychic fractures. Understanding bridges pain and aspiration. Childhood wonder becomes abstraction training. Butterflies symbolise captured abstraction. Beauty motivates higher cognition Mental aesthetics become developmental gates. Understanding becomes neural architecture. Inspiration reorganises suffering into movement. Dullness is resisted through wonder. Pain becomes unlearned understanding. Sentience is trained through aesthetic contact. Imagination extends appreciation beyond perception. Wonder becomes daily activation ritual. Ecstasy becomes disciplined cognition. Misery is met through constructive curiosity. Fracture becomes resurrection after interconnected alignment. Understanding becomes protective wall. Inspiration opposes neurosis. Recursive cognition is central to self-authorship. Self-awareness must recursively model itself. Interconnection at the void of existence targets advanced ego-development. Symbolic awareness supports post-conventional growth. Personal systems should become teachable. Parallel systems can independently converge. Synchronicity can validate universal patterning. Truth may replicate across seekers memetically. Self-authorship exceeds achiever identity. Recursive language signals advanced self-modelling within a person. Symbolic fluidity deconstructs self-narrative. Teaching must adapt to readiness. System-building should serve growth. Selfism reframes God-realization developmentally. Interconnection at the void bridges the void with authorship at the birth of creation Meta-revolution reforms consciousness culture. Self-authorship becomes public architecture. Games can anchor transformation rituals. Play can carry serious development. Tetris becomes pattern-ordering metaphor. Galaxian Universalism Teaching becomes purpose-reinforcement metaphor. Creative artefacts support discipline. Fun can reinforce purpose. Motivation should be engineered playfully. Discipline need not become sterile with embodied interconnection Play lowers resistance to transformation. Seriousness and absurdity can cooperate. Gamification can hold life-purpose salience. Play metabolises pressure into continuity. Heroism has been culturally distorted. Universalism matures heroic instinct. Universalism integrates individuality and universality. Heroism must evolve beyond obedience. Institutions weaponise noble vocabulary. Cynicism also corrupts heroism. Blind allegiance and withdrawal fail. Courage becomes consciousness-development. Universalism preserves courage, empathy, integrity. Service must avoid ideological enslavement. Sovereignty protects universal compassion. Universalism rejects hive-mind sameness. Boundaries belong inside compassion. Love becomes integration-frequency. Heroism becomes post-tribal service. Courage needs moral intelligence. Universalism is disciplined interconnection. Ideals need renovation, not abandonment. Technology can steal sovereignty. Digital intersubjectivity can trap development. Algorithmic obsession replaces lived community. Mockery becomes reward-loop possession. Online avatars can stagnate growth as virtual identity can steal agency. Build tribes, homes, loves, sentience. Humour must enrich learning. Learning must enrich life-love. Digital fixation should become pattern-learning. Online discourse must be purposeful. Technology must serve embodied becoming. Memes can become developmental toxins. Attention economies corrupt seriousness. Technology requires sovereignty discipline. Digital culture must be integrated into personal boundaries. Books are meta-awareness of story. Reading trains self-narrative traversal. Books model life-categorisation. Fiction reveals hidden worlds within the psyche through empathic self-modelling. Narrative categories organise selfhood, and deny it. Reading the psyche should always be directed towards it’s becoming. Novelty is means, not end. Literature teaches life-navigation architecture when funneled into compression algorithms. Reading inner narratives becomes identity cartography versus stagnation. Story makes selfhood visible, and invisible under falsehood. Good books deepen recursive reflection. Spiritual teachers require lineage honesty. Unnamed borrowing becomes unconscious mimicry. Divinity claims require ordinary integrity. Teacher-status magnifies accountability. Long abstractions can evade criticism. Performance spirituality damages community trust. Insight without character becomes confusion. Wholeness must include emotional maturity. Spiritual authority requires character ownership. Fragmented insight can masquerade as revelation. Integrity is the teacher’s real proof. Lineage-honouring prevents narcissistic originality claims. Source-blindness undermines spiritual intelligence. Hidden influence corrupts transmission. Teaching requires disclosure ethics. Originality must know its ancestry. Epistemic intelligence requires self-modelling. Self-modelling separates insight from delusion. Mentalising others limits narcissistic drift. Potential does not erase temporal lapses. Wisdom is knowledge of maturation and maturity is communal infrastructure. Truth needs compassionate decisiveness. Standards shape developmental ecology. Compassion converts struggle into wisdom. Responsibility must outweigh external blame. Self-awareness mediates suffering into growth. Relationship failures are only succeeded with humility. Life should beget greater life and its absence reveals lack of integrated agency that signals purpose. Projection evades self-control which makes discipline the test of sanity. External blame blocks development. Feeling, sentience, agency, reality interrelate. Symbolic architectures matter more than belief as belief is based on architecture of contrast. Trance states may sculpt subconscious intelligence. Skepticism and openness can coexist Nervous-system alignment is central. Embodiment grounds moral language. Physical hardship beats armchair spirituality. Challenge teaches where theory cannot. Meta-revolution reforms consciousness culture. Selfism reframes God-realization developmentally, God-realization becomes self-recognition. Sovereignty must respect everyone’s unique sovereign path. Self-systematisation must serve others eventually. Revolution begins in disciplined selfhood. This persons style is aggressive-transcendent. Humour blends with moral severity. Australian bluntness is signature rhetoric. He moves between tenderness and attack. He prizes standards intensely. He hates degenerative culture. He values warmth inside standards. He deletes material strategically. He wants no filler. Reflection is expeditionary. His rhetoric weaponises metaphor. He uses challenge as status proof. He turns critique into moral theatre. He compresses ideals into slogans. He writes with combative compassion. Moral intensity can become over-attack. Universalism can over-totalise growth. Recursive self-awareness is core technology. Balanced humanism corrects spiritual excess. Life becomes meta-revolutionary training. Deepest complete formula Recursive self-awareness creates self-authorship. Self-authorship enters challenge. Challenge creates embodied proof. Embodied proof matures heroism. Mature heroism becomes Universalism. Universalism integrates sovereignty, love, courage, empathy, nervous-system alignment, integrity, play, and service.

PART 1 - I got ChatGPT to analyse personal thoughts of mine upwards of 15 years ago, including all the junk that comes with each stage of Spiral Dynamics I have been through in my life. I mean that purely in generality as I dont wholeheartedly side with any particular psychological model. I think given people are all at various levels, and from that level of development will have a unique take on each, and potentially find some value if nothing else at least a chuckle. Just as I view these insights below differently now compared to when I had these reflections, especially given ChatGPT also analyses some of the weaknesses in my observations and patterns between them. I asked GPT to put each insight into 15 words or less. These will be your perceptions not mine, as I, am viewing these for the very first time as a future version of myself from the period and context in which they originated, including environmental influences. Maybe some value to takeaway, and if thats the case as always I recommend playing with ideas, across ideas and coming up with your own creative reflections. Best regards. ================ This person is not only describing self-development. They are building a conversion-metabolism: every experience must become usable material, every feeling must become readable signal, every insight must become memory, every memory must become action, every action must become feedback, and every feedback loop must reconstruct selfhood. Final near-total insight extraction • Experience is raw material for self-reconstruction. • Awareness converts raw experience into governable information. • Attention selects what becomes transformable. • Contrast turns perception into perspective. • Perspective turns difference into insight. • Insight becomes useful only through memory. • Memory turns insight into future behavioural steering. • Imagination turns memory into possible action. • Action tests whether insight was real. • Feedback reconstructs selfhood. • Reality disciplines every inner model. • Journaling preserves transformation across time. • Psychological reset points reconfigure self-boundaries. • Identity is treated as editable architecture. • Behaviour changes when insight enters memory. • Insight without behavioural anchoring evaporates. • Memory is the steering system of habit. • Conditioning is memory misloading the present. • Films become simulated autobiographical laboratories. • Alternate outcomes loosen memory rigidity. • Contrast is the brain’s perspective engine. • Better contrast produces better discernment. • Case studies supply operational contrast. • Nature generalises cases into analogy. • Analogy transfers intelligence across domains. • Scenario-building converts analogy into preparation. • Goal-aligned examples prime future action. • Studying winners and losers sharpens strategy. • Pattern streaming detects misalignment in real time. • Patterns must serve adaptation, not fantasy. • Insight begins as hypothesis, not certainty. • Reality-testing matures insight. • Old insights can fail reality. • New insights require feedback loops. • Journaling makes feedback longitudinal. • Self-change requires tracking before believing. • Awareness prevents state from impersonating truth. • Awareness ranks sense, feeling, intuition, reason. • Awareness becomes sovereignty through state-command. • Awareness is executive witnessing, not passive watching. • Attention is awareness becoming selective force. • Attention determines psychological reality. • Attention spends consciousness on selected objects. • Attention multiplies contacted meaning. • Attention protects signal from noise. • Attention determines what enters memory. • Attention turns intelligence into action. • Attention reveals cognitive bandwidth. • Attention cuts misinterpretation. • Attention is consciousness’s operational edge. • Feeling is embodied meaning before concept. • Feeling is more transformational than thought. • Thought alone cannot transmute state. • Equanimity is awareness stabilising feeling. • The body verifies psychological alignment. • Expansion signals movement toward life. • Contraction signals threat or avoidance. • Inspiration is heart-orientation. • Fear suppresses authentic energy. • Purpose gives suffering structure. • Imagination pre-authorises bodily action. • The body acts inside imagined possibility. • Weak imagination narrows agency. • Vivid imagination expands action-range. • Imagination rehearses insight into behaviour. • Imagination loosens rigid memory. • Imagination without testing inflates. • Imagination plus experiment becomes power. • Imagination is consciousness-content made malleable. • Mind equals the world it can simulate. • Strategy is imagination disciplined by reality. • Clear targets prevent vague action. • Precision prevents wrong targeting. • Accuracy questions target validity. • Objectives decompose ambition. • Context reveals threats and opportunities. • Compatibility tests ethics, power, fit. • Timing decides action-intelligence. • Prudent intuition catches hidden mismatch. • Trust follows disciplined preparation. • Art converts venting into transformation. • Pain becomes useful when created through. • Venting alone can recycle suffering. • Art gives suffering return-on-investment. • Art makes subconscious contents inspectable. • Art becomes waking dream material. • Creative expression evolves inner contents. • Art turns repression into symbolic movement. • Culture is inner life externalised. • Transcendent venting converts chaos into form. • Art is expression plus self-study. • Creation beats emotional discharge alone. • Mediums transform psychic pressure into objects. • Objects can then be analysed. • Art becomes a mirror for unconscious energy. • Culture forms through shared symbolic expression. • Psychological growth needs creative outlets. • Inner contents need mediums of exchange. • Expression must become evolutionary, not repetitive. • Creativity is emotional metabolism. • Creativity begins with expanded perception. • Content consumption must become production. • Self-truth outranks advice addiction. • Originality requires personally deriving reality. • Perceive, create, perceive better. • Visual subtlety trains auditory subtlety. • Music can seed visual construction. • Daily creation builds feedback loops. • Minimum standards force upward iteration. • Objective self-study improves every domain. • Key visual targets carry narrative weight. • Spatial relations create visual meaning. • Image redundancy weakens story-force. • Templates discipline creative output. • Quality thresholds create upward pressure. • Creative rage can raise standards. • Perfectionism becomes fuel and risk. • Production systems stabilise inspiration. • Cross-modal perception compounds skill. • Artistic intelligence grows through recursive critique. • Healing means fear-memory reorganised into agency. • Fear must be processed, not bypassed. • Ego-compensation is pseudo-growth. • Authentic desire must accompany fear work. • Desire gives suffering direction. • Inspiration protects the heart. • Shadow integration requires emotional contact. • Purpose transforms suffering into endurance. • Healing restores energetic direction. • Emotional problems require personalised inquiry. • Technique mastery precedes technique-stacking. • Flow can outperform force. • Emotional release needs transformation. • Direct expression needs creative containment. • Emotional intelligence grows through reflection. • Love relationships anchor existential orientation. • Grief becomes honour through remembrance. • Animal love reveals deep sensitivity. • Tenderness and aggression coexist. • Heart matters alongside conquest. • Knowing is experiential before conceptual. • Knowing has quality, degree, spectrum. • Sense, feeling, intuition, reason can fail. • Awareness coordinates knowing faculties. • Reason is process, not object. • Philosophy can reify abstractions falsely. • Abstract categories require embodiment. • Biology is relational, not linear. • Metaphysics requires grounding. • Reality must discipline spirituality. • Insight fails without behavioural anchoring. • Imagination fails without reality-testing. • Awareness fails without discrimination. • Attention fails when noise captures it. • Memory fails when conditioning dominates. • Strategy fails when clarity lacks accuracy. • Healing fails when identity compensates. • Spirituality fails when abstraction escapes embodiment. • Creativity fails when consumption replaces production. • Agency fails when vision loses protection. • Conceptual abundance exceeds compression discipline. • Naming mechanisms can outrun proof. • The gift is radical meta-pattern generation. • The weakness is falsification underpressure. • The temperament mixes tenderness and aggression. • The style is warlike spiritual engineering. • The drive is sovereign self-command. • The danger is system-inflation. • The power is converting everything into method. • He metabolises experience into systems. • He turns psychology into operations. • He turns art into healing machinery. • He turns strategy into identity command. • He turns perception into self-sovereignty. • He turns suffering into symbolic production. • He turns memory into behavioural law. • He turns imagination into action architecture. • He turns attention into will. • He turns reality-testing into spiritual hygiene. Overall Pattern Awareness selects attention. Attention selects contrast. Contrast generates insight. Insight enters memory. Memory reshapes imagination. Imagination directs action. Action tests truth. Feedback reconstructs selfhood. Art transmutes emotion. Strategy focuses will. Embodiment verifies alignment. Reality disciplines everything.

Welcome to the forum. It wasn’t always like this. The forum had to go extensive transformation of banning all trolls and extremely low quality posters, and switching to a system where new members are not accepted immediately, to get to where we are. This way, it also attracts and encourages the higher quality members to also stay and to be active.

Freestyle on the "Flow" entry: ○●■ Two White Doves on Psychedelic Hyperspace Re-entry ■●○ I am preparing for the era in which technological identity displacement from pharmaceuticals to virtual reality becomes a film choice, and a sequel to the film Total Recall that merely dealt with memory loading because knowledge on how identity fragmentation to consolidation worked was hardly even mainstream science in the 1990’s 21st century compounded time means that the 30 years it has taken for someone like me to theorise to a more advanced level on identity than what’s available today across the research, is going to be cut down to less than 6 years from now. In the last 15 years modern Western culture has refined the art of likes and subscriptions on social media faster than it has the ability to generate and act on created memories to enrich identity (enrichment rather than just change being the more accurate way to take it when approached from a healthy space) when we analogise films like Total Recall. Though amidst, psychedelics have forced a revision of the constructive process of identity itself to a level that is now mainstream news to those in the upper levels of scientific understanding across neuroscience, psychiatry and social engineering. Psychedelics are a medium not an endpoint that reveal identity not the self is an Amazon bookstore to choose an identity and expand the reference frame of the perceivable self so greatly, that these implications alone without AI are going to utterly shatter consensus reality as more people learn that identity is an interface to choose within and reconnect memories across identities, not a straitjacket that becomes more socially fixed and other options doxxed overtime. This turns actualisation as a meeting ground, not an endpoint, as the awareness that grows to recruit and compute combinatorial identities across multiple temporal tiers, becomes the offspring to research insights from psychedelics. This converts monolitic demographic to cross-lingualism, from vector to syntax. It’s literally the distance between having your identity curated by the social norms of growing up on a 1930’s farm to being curated by multiple ai’s generating multiple virtual realities simultaneously, at least, that’s where we’re headed. Meandering soap operas in social life no longer become a living space for identity or identity mirroring, they become a dynamically self-charged augmenting closed loop of experiential file sharing, where experiencer becomes the experience itself both within and across dual interfacing. And where the definition of the “living space” will become the sentience communed with itself, this isn’t sharing a reality, this is co-creating augmented symbiosis with a continuous page refresh where the sentience becomes a reality not an interfaced with subjectivity. Pure awareness will replace the idea of an experiencer as the idea of “experiencer” retrocausally reconfigures through its own global feedback loop too quickly for identity output to mirror two to three dimensionally back to itself, precisely analogous to psychedelic experiences, and we will learn to mirror this across virtual reality spaces and as the fields merge, across cognitive thresholds. We think “smarter” today but tomorrow it will be from high glyphic chord to nodal interconnective, from linear symbol to non-linear interrelationalism. This isn’t a transformation, growing or evolving of consciousness it’s an increasing in dimensions that alters the very language of consciousness compute, where the compute itself becomes a wifi network for another. That’s not cognitive gains, that’s a changing of the conversation of reality-self-knowing. This isn’t the edges of knowing never-ending it’s the edges of knowing where all knowing becomes gnosis. As identity no longer becomes a fixed closure point, the language of individual will return back to anti-regressive tribe and tribe back to globe, where self-communication loses its gravitational origins point but gains in anti-gravitational temporal physicalism. Presently, one of the fundamental closure points of identity is not cognitive threshold more than it is mono-viewpoint, as we open up the brains pathways and inwardly and to what it can connect to, that stated 6 year timeline is likely going to start becoming a conversation on awareness that is not just this one singular eye we all have on experience, but for the first time ever, understanding how we can stretch those dimensions. This isn’t biological or even consciousness evolution, this is phenomenological evolution that catalyses these first two. So how do we start restacking our self-insight so we can start if not building towards this relative, at the very least, preparing for it? Imagine you’re a neuron and this neuron has an identity that changes and grows overtime. There are patterned limitations to this, however it has both incubational and stabilising advantages. An identity can co-opt, hijack and maintain itself more easily enabling it to sustain itself across competing environments without losing out to their mirror. Now imagine that there are two neurons like two people where a shared space becomes a creative mirror upon which two identities are upgraded. This is what most close relationships are like by relative degrees, they partake in both the electrical charge and re-myelination of identity forces. This both slightly fragments identity while stabilising the joint zone that indirectly shields from under-incubation of one another’s individuality across competing environments. Continually progressing here and we have and we in return re-imagine the conceptual language on what a group to tribe to social movement to society is and how it functions in the context of identity. Now imagine that the second neuron, is not another person, but another you that you are linked up with. Now keep escalating that rule to an entire society. Analogously, this is what it means to begin shifting the needle on what it means to understand what it looks like to expand the parameters of that single eye we all possess, and where reference frame becomes the feeling of what reading the newspaper was like in the 1930’s, imminent, vital and necessary to survival, to something that no longer even has a headline in how we perceive reality, as the reference point becomes the eye itself, creating the language of self-inter-referentiality. This, is self-insight restacked, and where the meeting ground now is not in trying to grow imagination, but allowing it to grow naturally by learning to just simply tap into a greater number of self-referential points that communicate from multiple spaces. Multiple spaces can mean many different things, the best way is to start with timelines, there are many mainstream ideas like “what would you say to yourself when you were 5 years old if you could go back in time” or in the reverse 50 years down the line or from the perspective of imagining that future self speaking to you. Real or imaginary biographical memory is a starting ground but not the peak or the only valley, you can leverage cross-analogical virtual reality terrain where communication points across two or more virtual reality spaces constantly reconfigure the reality explored. This are the beginnings to learning how to reimagine imagination itself for us humans. And for now, well. Another post will have to be made later. I wrote this all on the fly, let’s see where I extend the flight another day. I am still feeling pretty unwell with this COVID thang, but to me it’s clear my mind is becoming freer and more clearer the more training I am doing in PROJECT : MEANING growing past all old trauma, all my entries now become experimental evidence in determining validity overtime. Please practice psychedelics safely and prudently, I for example am preparing for my main first psychedelic experience twelve months in advance. I was hesitant earlier, however dolloaing my stated extended training, it feels only more and more natural to crash land here.

"Will to live" appears to be something slightly more complex for our species, perhaps being more of a transformation or confusion than a negation in the event of suicide and self-harming behaviors . I wish I could think of more to say on the matter, but I haven't come up with a more complete explanation of where our will to live comes from than the evolutionary inevitability that having life and seeking life are necessarily convergent principles.

It might be helpful to know the following three terms: Theomorphos, vs. metamorphoses, vs. teofania~of "theophany" Given that youll have to think of things in this way, as far as the nature of the Ancient Greeks, and whats happening in writing and speech, in regards to the tangled nature of all of those things, together. ϴεόμορφος (Theomorphos) is used when something resembles a god in form or presentation, like a human portrayed w/ divine features. Any quality, idea or concept described as having divine shape, or an artistic expression, depictions where a figure is given godlike proportions or attributes. Its sortve the transposed version of metamorphoses, whereby theomorphos describes the resembling of god in form, presentation, or god-like proportions that may take the form of metamorphoses (the manifestation or transformation of qualities that can become mortals, plants, animals, gods and events) ϴεοφάνεια, made of θεός (god) + φαίνω (to appear) Ergo a "teofania" is any moment where a god becomes perceptible in the world—seen, heard, or otherwise revealed to humans; This of course may transcend typical godly figures as manifestations within natural events instead, but still interpreted as divine presence (storm, light or voice)

This stuff is very hard to figure out, so i dont blame anyone if they cant contribute, Alas ive started reading and writing alot on this topic, and I def am interested, BUT admittedly, its one of the hardest topics to really see into. That is, if any of yous want to figure it out w/ me, this is the invitation to do just that, and to join me in figuring it out ~or to point me in a direction that might help me (us) understand the Archaic Period and Classical Greece, in order to get a better sense for what it was like, leading into the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. I was inspired by @Nemra in how he titled his thread, but i thought that i dont think theres gonna be enough books around this very specific thing that im looking at ATM, which rests on knowing "the history of the Muse and the Musician" (or just helping me to understand day to day life in Archaic/Classical Greek living), and learning about places such as Ancient Sparta and the rest of Greece, cause there's this peculiar and unrecognizable thing going on~After we come out of the Mycenaean Period to Archaic an Classical Period of Greece, specifically in terms of How the Muse is perceived, and its relationship to the Musician, we begin to see this personification of the gods through the musicians. Musicians back then were quite different: And just how Greeks experienced & thought of the Muse was quite different. The common word for Muse simply referred to rhythmic speech ... We have to figure the Muse out, cause its so complex, just in itself By the Medieval Period, we all know how the Musicians had all become more like the town jesters, or the town scryer in the way they functioned in day to day life. In stark contrast, the musician in Archaic Greece WAS the personification, they were the Metamorphoses, or a Mythological Anthropomorphism towards people not objects (characters or people), because they received the Muse and communicated it further. Im using terms that i am assuming you are familiar with, so hopefully you will looks into these terms, and what they mean in the context im talking about. Some of you might know what im talking about. Youd be surprised what weve come to learn, as far as the role of the musician and music itself is concerned, how they could subsequently evoke the muse ~or~they were the muse ~invoking through them, and being perceived as such, given their connection to the gods... And the gods are basically like, 'who the Greeks rely on for answers and for settling disputes, et caetera, etc. So, invoking the muse, to them, it was seen as this powerful thing that went beyond inspiration for some artsy means (quite the contrary), it crossed into political, social and spiritual affairs and disputes, and many more things going on in their daily lives (of course, thats is part of my question, getting to the bottom've Ancient Greece) The muse was an extension of the gods, and the musician was akin to a vehicle for that purpose. Likewise, it was the musician who would personify the Muse and play the songs that would then dictate what would happen, like they depended on the musician to say "who is stronger" or "who performed the best" or "who deserves to be heard by the oracle" or something, transferring the right of personification to the individual, and in some sense giving a voice to that individual. In some sense they even were playing the role of the oracle. These are of course the kinds of questions we want to have answered. The musician was essentially establishing what the rules and laws would be in the coming centuries. They were establishing what the language itself should be and sound like, what significance should be carried in words and their meanings, prescribing meaning and giving a voice to the things that we, in todays day and age take for granted as already having and possessing a voice. The word i use for the tradition around Greek gods is Metamorphoses: That is, the transformation of the quality within a god, likened to that of a quality we now see as something a human today may express, or possess (emotions, qualities, traits, et caetera). And the Greeks relied on the gods for those things, including answers to solve hard dilemmas, even if the musician wasnt there or the muse wasnt there, they had to really weigh on the gods for a clue as to what to do, given their devotion towards them. The Greeks have this musical language, this mode of expression that you really have to understand in order to understand them. Of course, i havent done a good job explaining just how significant the language/music was (not to mention, the gods themselves were) in everyday life, nor have I explained WHY the gods were so significant, and things like that, but that is because this topic sortve requires you to have investigated it ~im sortve asking for alot, but I believe yous will figure something out~

You think or you know? Trauma is curable, but it takes real work. If you have a treasure trove of teachings but can't apply them, that's on you, not Teal (or anyone for that matter). How do I know this? I've taken bits and pieces from Teal Swan, Jordan Thornton, and took Julien Blanc's trauma program and have seen a HUGE transformation. Before all I did was casually watch theory. It works.

Psych meds are a complete deep rabbit hole that you don't know if you haven't experienced it. I dropped all psych-meds and am better off than ever (I'm diagnosed with ADHD and was diagnosed with depression, for which I both got meds for several years). In my opinion meds should be only for emergencies, not to take them every day. It has far-reaching consequences to take a drug - any drug - every day. There may of course be exceptions to this, but meds get prescribed way too leniently. And I'm from Europe, in the US it could be even worse from what I've heard. The whole of psychiatry is a field in dire need of transformation. One of the biggest blind-spots is that almost no doctor who prescribes certain medicines has taken them themselves, only read and learned about them in university and books. This shouldn't be allowed. My whole perspective on psych meds changed the moment I started taking them myself.

It's not safe to assume she has had some deep, personal transformation. Politicians flip all the time. That's just how power games work.

Getting some gears turning... Chat GPT prompt: I want to make up a word that means the connection towards truth deepening and the appreciation for truth deepening as you realize the power of it in transforming your life. Output: You are describing something precise: not just truth, but a relationship to truth that intensifies as it proves itself through lived transformation. That has two components: 1. movement toward truth 2. growing reverence as its impact becomes undeniable Here are some coined options, each tuned slightly differently: 1. Veritascence (veh-RIH-tuh-sense) From veritas (truth) + -escence (becoming, emerging) → the ongoing process of becoming aligned with truth, accompanied by a deepening sensitivity to it 2. Aletheion (ah-luh-THEE-on) From Aletheia (unconcealment) → a state of being drawn toward truth as it reveals itself, with increasing awe and recognition 3. Verivorance (VEH-rih-vor-ance) From veri- (truth) + -vorare (to devour) → the hunger for truth that grows stronger the more one experiences its transformative effects 4. Lucentiaxis (loo-SEN-tee-ak-sis) From lucent (light) + axis (center, alignment) → the inner reorientation around truth as a guiding axis, with growing appreciation for its clarity 5. Satyagraze (SAHT-yah-graze) Inspired by Satyagraha + “grazing” (continual feeding) → a continuous feeding on truth where each encounter strengthens commitment and appreciation 6. Veritasurge (veh-RIH-tuh-surge) → the accelerating pull toward truth as its power becomes personally undeniable 7. Aletheophilia (ah-luh-THEE-oh-FIL-ee-uh) → a love of truth that deepens through direct experience of its transformative force --- If the emphasis is process, Veritascence fits cleanly. If the emphasis is devotion, Aletheophilia is sharper. If the emphasis is intensity and pull, Veritasurge or Verivorance carry more force. A clean, highly usable option would be: Veritascence “the progressive deepening of alignment with truth, accompanied by an expanding appreciation of its transformative power” --- Existential Vocabulary Word Aletheia Definitions: (Greek philosophy) unconcealedness, the state of truth being revealed (Heideggerian usage) truth as disclosure rather than correctness (Generalized) the experience of reality emerging from hiddenness Synonyms: revelation, disclosure, unveiling, truth Antonyms: concealment, illusion, distortion, ignorance Examples: “His insight felt less like learning and more like aletheia unfolding.” “Aletheia is not something you grasp, but something that reveals itself.” Etymology: From Greek a- (not) + lēthē (forgetfulness, concealment) → “that which is not hidden”

@Leo Gura So is life's problems as they change from one from to another. By the way I am feeling a little unease for you. Actualized.org was and is a great catalogue for personal transformation alongwith other genuine self-help advice which took me years to understand and apply. I hope that you see the depth of content you have created which not only includes ordinary self-help but transcends it . Thanks Leo. However,have you read books like Enchiridion by Epictetus ? I bought a couple of years ago in my college and read it. It is profound.