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Old 19-11-2018, 09:54 PM
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I swear, it's getting worse, every day. If we don't change for the better, any sooner, then we might end up like the dinosaurs or worse, in an "H.G. Wells Time Machine" type future where mankind is divided into two races; the Eloi and the Morlocks. I'm not making this up, either. I am being dead serious! There is so much hate in our world and vile people who do cruel things and it's not improving for the better. First of all, it seems that mass shootings are now an everyday thing. Then you have people on the internet refusing to be nice and they ALWAYS get away with it and that's just wrong! Nothing is being a addressed with bullying and the congress seems to careless. I really hate to see where mankind will be, in the next 100 years. I don't even want to imagine. Be optimistic all you like, but I bring up a good point.

"Why does mankind refuse to change for the better?"

It seems as if there is too much corruption in place in the world, too much to overcome. Life in many societies' has so many needs', demands', & distractions': family, work, education, rest, socialising, media, entertainment, etc. etc.
I tend to find that many people are too hopeless, or dis-empowered to do anything about the problems' we face. Others don't seem to care.
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Old 21-11-2018, 08:25 AM
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I just thought about a saying... "Don't worry about what others are doing, worry about what you are NOT doing".

I like to think about it this way, that the world I see is not "my reality". I have heard there are wars, hatred, hostility etc in other dimensions...but they are no more as real to me than a movie on the TV set is...The gamut of human existence is pure fantasy for me.

Some may say that I live in delusion or have created a fantasy world all by and for myself, but if ignorance is bliss, then give me the bliss at all costs...even my own sanity, because it is much preferable to any alternate reality.
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Old 21-11-2018, 09:16 PM
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I just thought about a saying... "Don't worry about what others are doing, worry about what you are NOT doing".

I like to think about it this way, that the world I see is not "my reality". I have heard there are wars, hatred, hostility etc in other dimensions...but they are no more as real to me than a movie on the TV set is...The gamut of human existence is pure fantasy for me.

Some may say that I live in delusion or have created a fantasy world all by and for myself, but if ignorance is bliss, then give me the bliss at all costs...even my own sanity, because it is much preferable to any alternate reality.

I like where you began with that lol and think it is of profundity, but the latter part I think is probably a lot what is wrong with the world. now first you are absolutely right, especially when we seem to have a personal issues, it is up to us to change our own selves and world rather than looking at what is wrong with others or whatever else besides us. this is a lesson I am learning slowly but surely. and afterall we can only control ourselves.

I just saw a post of yours about the book you're writing and it sounds spectacular! and I wonder how much farther you've gotten into it since you last posted in your thread over a year ago.. I'm sure others would be interested in an update if you feel like posting in it, but anyways I am bringing it up because something that has helped me a lot is a tapping/acupressure/affirmation/cbt type therapy called EFT, which there is surprisingly a section on this forum for, albeit not a very active one. so you mentioned a chapter on cbt and I wanted to inform you about EFT because it is that and thensome. I do think that cbt can have its own value and sometimes it's just nice to talk to someone freely, but EFT has been studied vs it and comes up more effective in a shorter amount of time.

It has helped me a lot along with a friend who practices it and has done it with me online or through the phone, though it is something you can do yourself too or follow along with youtube videos. it helps us become more conscious and aware of our situations and deal with deep-rooted issues that may be responsible for repeating them. the main focus for me with them, besides the personal issues I address, is to remind myself that I can control how I deal with what happens to me and I should remain graceful and grateful and only then can I best deal with unwelcome situations, which I can find further meaning from. which is similar to your philosophy except that at the end you tout ignorance as bliss which might be the main problem with the world.. If more people care about more people's issues and situations, then we can stop turning blind eyes and come together better, or have the guts to face our own issues if others spotlight them instead of allowing us to obscure them in shadows where they can stagnate and cripple us.

So I believe too we must take responsibility for ourselves and be accepting of what is past and present, but from there we have a clear canvas to create what we want. it is too easy in my opinion to get stuck and dwell on darkness that threatens to take over us, and we have to overcome this, but sometimes the input or interest of others is just what we need, and besides we are not here alone so we should be able to come together to help each other, even if just a little bit with a token of honesty. I think that if more people were willing to stand up for and stand up to others we would have a brighter world with more positive activity as a result. that being said, I do hold dear the philosophy of realizing what I can do in any given situation to make it better for myself (and hopefully others though usually in my case they are fighting me trying to make things better for them lol) and I love the way your quote puts it so succinctly

one last thing, while I do think we should at least in some ways be more involved with each other's worlds to cast more light, I do agree that we should not obsess about wars and tragedies and all these terrible things because then they get more power they don't need
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Old 22-11-2018, 12:43 AM
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I like where you began with that lol and think it is of profundity, but the latter part I think is probably a lot what is wrong with the world. now first you are absolutely right, especially when we seem to have a personal issues, it is up to us to change our own selves and world rather than looking at what is wrong with others or whatever else besides us. this is a lesson I am learning slowly but surely. and afterall we can only control ourselves.

I just saw a post of yours about the book you're writing and it sounds spectacular! and I wonder how much farther you've gotten into it since you last posted in your thread over a year ago.. I'm sure others would be interested in an update if you feel like posting in it, but anyways I am bringing it up because something that has helped me a lot is a tapping/acupressure/affirmation/cbt type therapy called EFT, which there is surprisingly a section on this forum for, albeit not a very active one. so you mentioned a chapter on cbt and I wanted to inform you about EFT because it is that and thensome. I do think that cbt can have its own value and sometimes it's just nice to talk to someone freely, but EFT has been studied vs it and comes up more effective in a shorter amount of time.

It has helped me a lot along with a friend who practices it and has done it with me online or through the phone, though it is something you can do yourself too or follow along with youtube videos. it helps us become more conscious and aware of our situations and deal with deep-rooted issues that may be responsible for repeating them. the main focus for me with them, besides the personal issues I address, is to remind myself that I can control how I deal with what happens to me and I should remain graceful and grateful and only then can I best deal with unwelcome situations, which I can find further meaning from. which is similar to your philosophy except that at the end you tout ignorance as bliss which might be the main problem with the world.. If more people care about more people's issues and situations, then we can stop turning blind eyes and come together better, or have the guts to face our own issues if others spotlight them instead of allowing us to obscure them in shadows where they can stagnate and cripple us.

So I believe too we must take responsibility for ourselves and be accepting of what is past and present, but from there we have a clear canvas to create what we want. it is too easy in my opinion to get stuck and dwell on darkness that threatens to take over us, and we have to overcome this, but sometimes the input or interest of others is just what we need, and besides we are not here alone so we should be able to come together to help each other, even if just a little bit with a token of honesty. I think that if more people were willing to stand up for and stand up to others we would have a brighter world with more positive activity as a result. that being said, I do hold dear the philosophy of realizing what I can do in any given situation to make it better for myself (and hopefully others though usually in my case they are fighting me trying to make things better for them lol) and I love the way your quote puts it so succinctly

one last thing, while I do think we should at least in some ways be more involved with each other's worlds to cast more light, I do agree that we should not obsess about wars and tragedies and all these terrible things because then they get more power they don't need
Very profoundly stated.

I started writing a book once...finished three chapters of it, then lost interest. I realised I had said everything I wanted to say in about 30 pages, and came to the awareness that a book wasn't meant to be written in an abridged form at the outset and I could not come up with so much "filler rubbish" in order to extend it out into any kind of readable tome...clearly, I have neither the patience nor aptitude for book writing and I had to discover that the hard way.

I have also moved on from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) which deals more with Radical Acceptance of things we have no power to change.

I have looked into EFT and Rapid Eye Movement Desensitisation, but realised that these procedures were "not for me", even though I seek to address my concerns at a subconscious level, so I am going back into doing Yoga Nidra on a more intense and involved level...not leaving it just for those times when insomnia bites.
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Old 11-12-2018, 01:21 AM
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Very profoundly stated.

I started writing a book once...finished three chapters of it, then lost interest. I realised I had said everything I wanted to say in about 30 pages, and came to the awareness that a book wasn't meant to be written in an abridged form at the outset and I could not come up with so much "filler rubbish" in order to extend it out into any kind of readable tome...clearly, I have neither the patience nor aptitude for book writing and I had to discover that the hard way.

I have also moved on from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) which deals more with Radical Acceptance of things we have no power to change.

I have looked into EFT and Rapid Eye Movement Desensitisation, but realised that these procedures were "not for me", even though I seek to address my concerns at a subconscious level, so I am going back into doing Yoga Nidra on a more intense and involved level...not leaving it just for those times when insomnia bites.

I tried several attempts at writing books. Most of them are incomplete. However, I did complete a short story about a teenage boy having a past life as a little girl, during the Great Depression, who is that struck and killed by an oncoming train. I also made it halfway through writing a full novel about a guy who finds out he exists as a female, in a parallel universe.
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Old 20-12-2018, 01:12 PM
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A little simple math says people on earth will double in size in 50 or so years.
So magnify the problems accordingly.
Of course interruptions to population growth can happen.( Flu epidemic, Nuke war. major species die off. etc.)
I prefer the old glass half empty or half full saying. I am half full at this present time. In my opinion it usually comes down to Love vs fear the ultimate test on planet testing grounds.
See you on the other side.
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Old 26-12-2018, 05:20 PM
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BlakeGood88; Your words make me terribly sad. I feel strongly for all who have to bear a weight through life.





It's really not so. We are in a visible mess but this is only because we live in a world where information is now instant, everywhere and not secreted. The world is a better place than it ever was, that we have leaders and politicians who look upon their careers as more important that the people they represent is our own fault. We are the ones who vote them in and invite them to represent us publicly, leaving the real problems unsolved.
There is today less poverty in the world, less hunger, less disease, less exploitation and less ignorance. India and China are good examples of countries taking the first steps out of hopelessness. Most of these improvements are due to individuals in all walks of life, people who have not forgotten compassion.

So there really is hope.

Don't give up.


I absolutely agree......things are not worse...they are better in every way compared to even the recent past....by recent I mean the last few hundred years.....

Compared to what the human species endured over the eons since we came out of Africa .....the troubles we face today are nothing.

As said before....because of the instantaneous of the modern news cycle....things look far worse than they really are.

Just 700 years ago......the sun experienced a solar minimum (The Maunder Minimum)....global temperatures dropped like a rock....there were world wide crop failures and 10's of millions starved to death.

600 years ago....the "black Plague" (bubonic plague) circles the globe in a pandemic that killed an estimated 25 million people.

1915......the Spanish Flu circles the globe in a pandemic that killed up to 500 million people depending on who you talk to.....

That too recent for you???

How about this......the DNA record shows that somewhere around 75,000 years ago before the great diaspora that saw humans finally come out of east central Africa.....some great cataclysm nearly wiped us out! As in extinct!

At that time the human population died off and was wiped out to the point that there was exactly 41 woman of child bearing age.....that's it!

41 woman that could have babies........those 41 woman were ALL that stood between us and oblivion.

This is why today there are exactly 41 different genetic strains of human being accounting for all the diversity you see in us world wide.

The fact is that we are the toughest, smartest and most adaptable species to ever crawl from the primordial ooze......we have faced extinction an untold number of times over the eons and have always managed to make it.

Right now I personally think we are living in a golden age......on average we live far longer then we ever have....even the poorest among us has food, housing ,access to health care and an education....why? Because we take care of our poor to an extent we never have in history.

There is a part of me that believes that no matter what gets thrown at us we will always figure out a way to survive because at our core we are survivors!

Frankly.....You folks who are whining about the end being near need to toughen up and grow a pair and celebrate your proud genetic heritage as the "Thinking Hunter" who always finds a way!
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Very profoundly stated.

I started writing a book once...finished three chapters of it, then lost interest. I realised I had said everything I wanted to say in about 30 pages, and came to the awareness that a book wasn't meant to be written in an abridged form at the outset and I could not come up with so much "filler rubbish" in order to extend it out into any kind of readable tome...clearly, I have neither the patience nor aptitude for book writing and I had to discover that the hard way.

I have also moved on from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) which deals more with Radical Acceptance of things we have no power to change.

I have looked into EFT and Rapid Eye Movement Desensitisation, but realised that these procedures were "not for me", even though I seek to address my concerns at a subconscious level, so I am going back into doing Yoga Nidra on a more intense and involved level...not leaving it just for those times when insomnia bites.

thank you, sorry I'm seeing this so late I just hop and skip around the forum and so I've wound back here. I can definitely relate to your sentiment of being unable to write a book with a bunch of filler, even though my posts seem to be chock-full of filler lol. but I'd like to write books some day myself, however the more I learn and understand, the fewer words are needed to relay the concepts. but I guess that the filler is for people who aren't able to arrive at the same conclusions or see the sense of whatever situation or phenomenon..

Granted there are a lot of details I've found along the way, but for instance a book about how to eat properly could be summed up in a sentence or paragraph easily.. yet there is a lot more information to punctuate and define what's stated, and maybe part of writing involves acting as if you're trying to reach multiple different audience member types.

I guess the other thing is, informative or enlightening books have to waste a lot of their pages on debating against the b s that those misled and the mainstream have polluted the airways with. For instance I would write about how humans are best to eat fruit (which you've now seen me talk about so sorry if the topic is exhausted) and mind food combining. I could say that really simply in a sentence with a bit more detail, but nobody will likely buy it right away because they've been programmed and brought up to believe all sorts of contradictory "information" So I would have to illustrate why eating fruit makes the most sense, and why other options make less sense or are senseless. However since my original post had to do with the idea of how counterproductive talking about negative or dwelling on the unwanted is, I'd have to figure out a reasonable way to go about that other than just talking smack about what isn't gonna work or be worthy of human consumption.

But the topic of diet is far different than the more esoteric spiritual matters and practices, which also have less of an established following or factual basis in the mainstream, so yeah it's not the same but I would want to write a book about what to eat first so that is the example I used. I would want to tell peD
ople other stuff too though and that would probably take less paper space. like about Eden energy exercises and EFT and what purity to follow for non-edible product usage etc.. and how important art and other such hobbies are. I guess I just want to clear and clean the slate of people and free and inspire them to create the divine magic they were put here to uniquely contribute.


Dialectical Behavioral Therapy sounds pretty stellar. I wonder how does it work though? Not that EFT is the only way to achieve resolution, and it is just a rebranding of an older concept or combination of concepts, so I am not necessarily personally attached to it, but still I found it to be the closest non-consumable thing to a panacea I've come across so I'm inclined to inquire what it is about EFT that seemed unsuitable for you, and if you would volunteer, what resources you checked out to find yourself uninterested in pursuing it? I'd love to know more about DBT and your experience with it if you'd like to share.


Yoga Nidra also sounds awesome! from my quick google search anyway (well actually I ditched Google and am using a DuckDuckGo search page instead lol). I'm interested to hear more about that from you too if you don't mind. According to one link it just involves being in corpse pose and becoming more aware of the body, thoughts, sensations, etc.. I know obviously it goes deeper than that, but are those the basic requirements? I might start by trying that when I can't get to sleep.. and so it's also a form of somewhat easy meditation? Yoga and meditation are two things I've got books on and wanted to get into regular practice of for a long time. hehe one of the reasons I haven't tried meditation too much is because of sitting in poses, and since you can just lay there with the Yoga Nidra that'd probably be much better for me to get my toes wet with it seems



BlakeGood88 wow that seems painful writing half of a book or even a fraction of it and then not being able to finish! lol the closest I've done is writing a handful of pages of a sequel to Gone With the Wind in my 20s.. I don't know how many pages I wrote, on loose leaf paper.. perhaps a dozen to twenty.. and I guess my mom threw it away because I left it in a box in the remainder of my mildly trashed bedroom I couldn't take everything from at the time moving to a different state. such a shame, but I will never know if it was laughable or actually any good.


Lucky1 apparently back then people survived such things as the black plague by using herbs and natural remedies like that. same with more recent epidemics such as that of 1912.. around the time modern mainstream medicine was taking over and turning out medications made with petrochemicals gratis the likes of Rockefeller and JP Morgan type characters.. and homeopathy was a reasonably accepted and established form of 'medicine' before the oil takeover and those who were treated with it vs even aspirin ended up faring much better. Anyways, now it is insane how many people are on prescriptions and how awful over-the-counters are too. So if they continue in this manner it won't be long before people fall to a landslide of genocide.. which hints at the important matter of how ignorance and nescience are the main achilles heels of humans.. and the misinformation they've been misled with is the primary reason they suck (lol sorry but yeah every person is amazing in their own way but overall currently humankind basically 'sucks')
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The human race is not and never has been a lost cause - as has been mentioned. Planet Earth and all its inhabitants are evolving. There is no doubt on that issue. No matter what we do to it and our selves {our bodies) all is happening in and on this world is in accordance with God's plan - along with all life forms we are all being Spiritually Guided. Yes we have Free Will - but it is a 3rd Dimensional Free Will, because, in the bigger picture of things, we are part of entire universe that is also evolving. We must all learn to understand that, despite how we view ourselves and everything around us, no matter how horrible it may look, it is, and we, are all evolving within God's Love for us. All is how it should be and we cannot escape because, as I said God Loves us. This world of ours has a few more million years to go and within the designated time span we, and all life forms on it, will all evolve with it. Trust in the plan and trust in God.
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GREETINGS,
The human race is not and never has been a lost cause - as has been mentioned. Planet Earth and all its inhabitants are evolving. There is no doubt on that issue. No matter what we do to it and our selves {our bodies) all is happening in and on this world is in accordance with God's plan - along with all life forms we are all being Spiritually Guided. Yes we have Free Will - but it is a 3rd Dimensional Free Will, because, in the bigger picture of things, we are part of entire universe that is also evolving. We must all learn to understand that, despite how we view ourselves and everything around us, no matter how horrible it may look, it is, and we, are all evolving within God's Love for us. All is how it should be and we cannot escape because, as I said God Loves us. This world of ours has a few more million years to go and within the designated time span we, and all life forms on it, will all evolve with it. Trust in the plan and trust in God.
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