MetaSage

Sometimes bloopers are funnier than the actual episodes!

I once had an "experience" of no-self while taking a walk with my dog. I just held the question of my nature in no particular form and wondered about it. A radically open state preceded the realization. It was superficial and the effects lasted for 2 hours or so. Currently ignorant, though. I was referring to the "alien kangaroo consciousness".

I knew it! Without shrooms, then Harry wouldn't have made it past the third book/movie 😛

Ok. Doing it sounds harder than thinking about it. I haven't yet!

What is that about? How do you do it?

Thinking about a deeply happy memory, right? Right now I prefer not to given the circumstances. It's a possibility in the mid-term though.

"living with". That's my point and why I used the dementor metaphor. Have you watched Harry Potter? It's overbearing and controlling even in subtle things, I focus mostly on my things but they "absorb" your energy.

How would you deal with people whose presence, energy or "space" around them is generally disempowering, stiff, overbearing, infantile? Besides getting away from them. Appreciate it.

Some psychedelic state I guess.

I used to before getting addicted to coffee. Now, most days is almost impossible. Naps are a joy, especially when you're exhausted.

Haha 😄

Not really. What's your point?

Are you suggesting to feel the depression? Or what? Care to elaborate please?

hmm... okay. That's fair. Like your brevity, but could you specify a bit more?

@Phil Ok, thanks, but I don't really get it. It feels as though someone asked how to make an omelette and she was told that eggs are illusory.

@Cupcake I may sound judgmental and you sound pretty resentful and reactionary. Nothing wrong with that, but overall extreme judgments -- whether positive or negative -- are rarely honest and shouldn't be trusted. Adios.

What is the experience commonly called depression about? It's best if the answer is grounded on something that another can relate to. You can't tell a deaf person to hear. I mean you can, but it won't make a difference. Depression is felt when you start holding an image of the future that is negative. I could have asked something akin to: Where's the "I" that is experiencing the emotion? However, I don't see that being very useful considering where the person's question is coming from. Hopefully something of what I tried to express will come across. 🙂

no.

So the original query isn't being addressed, instead airy-fairy "non dual" games are being played which isn't useful to others.

I wouldn't correlate weakness with less testosterone but nevertheless I've seen somewhere a graph which shows how testosterone levels has been steadily decreasing for the last decades. so yes in a very real sense.

What kind of nonsense is this? Exchanging one cult for another. Groupthink at its best! Pretending like one's shit doesn't smell, using spiritual-sounding words to look knowledgeable and carefully concealing the limits of one's understanding. You'd appreciate some sincerity first.

You had the courage to do what you wanted and isn't usually considered a possibility. Bravo.

Nevermind. I was simply considering some existential stuff. This belongs to another thread, I just realized it wouldn't be that useful given the nature of this particular discussion.

Pretty good! Body's charged up, until it isn't lol Again, applying negative connotations to "objects" and cultural arrogance denying the fact that bodies are held as objects. might as well contemplate what body and objects are. Consider a dead body. It's inanimate yet it's still an object. The distinction of "life" isn't there. When life is though, the body stops being an object? A body seems to be precisely a tool and a vehicle to experience life... anyway it's best to open up and contemplate for oneself before judging and taking the matter personally.