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Hotdog from Space
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What is holding people back from realizing ones potential
#26539046 - 03/16/20 04:48 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I recently did 4g mushrooms again, and this time had a very artistic expeirence that showed me channels in the mind where the great works of art originate from. And that got my wondering: Why dont I have access to this realm in my ordinary state of mind, ordinary perceptions are dullened.
I've been working on "expanding" my ordinary day conciousness, and I defintly has come some way. I have been doing this by psychdedelics and art, using art to try and hone into what is important in the psychedelic experience. Cause it is clear that ordinary and psychedelic experience go togehter, they are not different really. And for me "integration" is all about expression, learning to express yourself, but to be able to do that, you gotta know who the hell you are. The psycedelic experience makes it clear that you are the whole universe, pretending to be this little human.
But then, how to really integrate all of this and recapture ones godly genius? I am not saying this in a egoistic way, this is of course the ground of being, both divine and genius.
Why does it play this slave-master game, it is a fact that most people are slaves, and they dont even know it. Was the game rigged from the start? i.e. you grow up with programmed parents, then they unknowingly program you, and so on. Then, maybe this all goes back to some time in history when some bastard, decided he wanted to controll the world, and laid plans for the game.
Well, thats enough messy posts for now.
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Re: What is holding people back from realizing ones potential [Re: Hotdog from Space]
#26539081 - 03/16/20 05:26 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I think it may tie into the factor of since we have the pinpoint precision focus we do, it means we have to tune out a great deal of things. Art etc doesn’t necessarily lead to preservation so it gets pushed to the back. Like lifting weights the parts of our minds that led to success in the survival area got strong.
The reason it’s so hard to hold on to is because high thoughts are actually high thoughts. Memories are sort of bound by the same boxing in restrictions that language are.
Also, normal is what’s common. If we lived inside of some other variation of consciousness and took a drug that landed us in our normal mode of thinking, we would probably consider it more special than we do now where we get pretty much all we want (and then some).
As far as the parent to kid teachings, look at what society values and expects you to be... that’s why that’s shit. Get good grades, get a good job, get high on the ladder... there’s a good speech by alan watts about how you’re given these ‘goals’ by society like carrots in front of a donkey to keep you moving but it’s really just nonsense and you never really ‘get there’. You just keep running for something that never comes and then when you’re 80 years old looking back you realize you spent your whole life running for something that never comes. Moral of the story, the ‘goal’ is here and now... don’t blow being, chasing some figment of your imagination.
There’s these moments I have where the frantic feelings disappear and I figure that since time is no object, then we’re right where we’re supposed to be. Of course if you’re harming yourself in some way stop that but, enjoy what you’ve got. It’s all full of lessons if you keep the mind of learning from it.
I probably derailed from the original question.
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Re: What is holding people back from realizing ones potential [Re: Hotdog from Space]
#26539109 - 03/16/20 05:49 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Could be that "fear" is the culprit that destroys ones potential in its tracks...Some say you must dominate whatever you are afraid of to get to the next level.
Fear is a very strange emotion, it seems to exist in every fiber of our being. It must be an important emotion to comprehend in order to decipher its true intentions - whether to enhance our potential or crush its desire to smithereens.
Maybe if it's the latter - is when that fear must be faced head on - and whether we take prisoners or not will determine the fate of potentials survival. Love or hate fear...it is always shadowing our next move?
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Re: What is holding people back from realizing ones potential [Re: Hotdog from Space]
#26539129 - 03/16/20 06:02 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Slave-master game? Nobody's really forced to do anything against their will. The problem is that most people can't (or choose not to) think for themselves. Which isn't surprising, it's not an easy thing to do, especially considering how little we truly know, and how subjective everything is.
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Re: What is holding people back from realizing ones potential [Re: dk-1]
#26540051 - 03/17/20 06:32 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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dk-1 said: Slave-master game? Nobody's really forced to do anything against their will. The problem is that most people can't (or choose not to) think for themselves. Which isn't surprising, it's not an easy thing to do, especially considering how little we truly know, and how subjective everything is.
Not if you have been unknowingly "programmed" to play and fit the social game since you were a kid.
When I was a kid I was highly creative, then it was time to "learn", go to school and learn about the world. Well, now that I am a adult, i realize that what I've learnt is totally a scam, that put me off the souls path, so that I would become a slave to to capitalist.
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Re: What is holding people back from realizing ones potential [Re: Hotdog from Space]
#26540996 - 03/17/20 03:06 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Mushrooms free you from all that baggage.
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Re: What is holding people back from realizing ones potential [Re: Amanita86]
#26541153 - 03/17/20 04:41 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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As far as the parent to kid teachings, look at what society values and expects you to be... that’s why that’s shit. Get good grades, get a good job, get high on the ladder... there’s a good speech by alan watts about how you’re given these ‘goals’ by society like carrots in front of a donkey to keep you moving but it’s really just nonsense and you never really ‘get there’. You just keep running for something that never comes and then when you’re 80 years old looking back you realize you spent your whole life running for something that never comes. Moral of the story, the ‘goal’ is here and now... don’t blow being, chasing some figment of your imagination.
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That’s so profound, dude. I realised it by secondary school; that it’s all geared to condition you to fit our society. But it’s only really since I approached my 50s (am 53 now...) that I actually feel it,,and know it is wrong. But then what can you do about an establishment that is fully geared to control us, and keep us productive members of society, propping up the very few at the top of the pyramid. From my wages last week, I was taxed half of it. Just think about that a moment. Right from infant school, where all the teachers are left wing, the mantra is drummed into you. Your parents (don’t blame them anymore, as you’ll see) drums it into you. The TV drums it into you; anyone from the UK will understand me when I mention the “BBC bias”! Then at work, it’s still continually drummed into you.
When I latte home at 18, I swore I would never become my father. 4 children later, guess what? ive turned into a much worse person, and even worse parent than my father ever was. Though you can see my father in my mannerisms.
So I’m considered very intelligent, much more so than my dad. So I certainly can’t blame my dad for not seeing the brainwashing for what it is. But where’s my excuse?
Hence mushrooms over the last few years have sorted me right out 👍🏻
You could even say that mybe I’m “nice” these days......
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