(04-21-2020, 10:31 AM)hounsic Wrote: My first step was sobriety, once I removed alcohol (not easy) and daily made effort things slowly but surely started improving. Every day trying to meditate in whatever form that takes. Glad your back!

(04-21-2020, 12:01 PM)Jeremy Wrote: ...I've attempted rereads of the material but lose the motivation that I had when I first read the material but I'm going to try again. I know in the past, I've noticed I either forgot aspects of it or info that didn't resonate at the time. 

Quote:18.5 Questioner: Thank you. I have a question here from Jim that I will read verbatim: “Much of the mystic tradition of seeking on Earth holds that belief that the individual self must be erased or obliterated and the material world ignored for an entity to reach ‘nirvana,’ as it’s called, or enlightenment. What is the proper role of the individual self and its worldly activities in aiding an entity to grow more into the Law of One?”

Ra: I am Ra. The proper role of the entity is in this density to experience all things desired, to then analyze, understand, and accept these experiences, distilling from them the love/light within them. Nothing shall be overcome. That which is not needed falls away.

(04-21-2020, 01:36 PM)Dtris Wrote: Sometimes you just have to say f-the depression and the funk and get out and do what you want or need to do. I think this is more true for men. Our nature is active and we have an innate need to act on our surroundings and world. So do something active, gardening, walking, wood working, etc. Anything you enjoy that is active and not passive. Passive includes browsing online forums, reading, or in any way absorbing energy. There needs to be a balance between creativity and projecting energy and absorbing energy.

(04-21-2020, 02:22 PM)Jeremy Wrote:

(04-21-2020, 01:36 PM)Dtris Wrote: Sometimes you just have to say f-the depression and the funk and get out and do what you want or need to do. I think this is more true for men. Our nature is active and we have an innate need to act on our surroundings and world. So do something active, gardening, walking, wood working, etc. Anything you enjoy that is active and not passive. Passive includes browsing online forums, reading, or in any way absorbing energy. There needs to be a balance between creativity and projecting energy and absorbing energy.

Yea social media has also become quite the distraction. I can go down the Twitter rabbit hole for hours and I've noticed that I'd read useless info that does nothing but frustrate and annoy me so that's going by the wayside as well. I try to keep my main feed restricted to soccer but transient subjects always get retweeted which I invariably see

(04-21-2020, 07:52 AM)Jeremy Wrote: So the time has hopefully finally come where I've said enough is enough when it comes to existing in this dark night of the soul as its come to be known. Though it hasn't exactly been a night and more like years, it started with contemplation while attempting to fall asleep the night before last. Accepting that life has become dreary and mundane. Full of negativity and disgust at every turn. My life has become nothing but work, drink, sleep. I may go a couple days without alcohol but that's about it. I've lost the motivation to workout and be healthy. I smoke much more than I used to. I still enjoy most of my normal activities so it's not clinical depression. I've just forgotten what it feels like to be happy about life. 

Upon my eventual drive to work the next morning, I started probing my mind. How do I find joy again? How do I rediscover myself and actually live the philosophy that I had come to love? How do I stop the incessant annoyances of every day life? It came to me that I just have to do it but how? I know that it's all simply a perception. A switch that goes from seeing what I don't have and realizing what I do have and be happy for that yet the consistent dribble of negativity still resides.

I get that this will take time. Time to undo all of the negative biases that I had once undone only to be required through the lack of meditation and discipline. I understand that it won't be an epiphany like moment akin to when I first discovered this material. That was a once in a lifetime event and though I wholeheartedly wish I could experience that again, I realize that that honeymoon period has expired and that the responsibility that I had taken on is what I must adhere to.

So with all of that said, has anyone gone through this and found their way back? Back to the joy and happiness of that Rocky path that we all walk? 

Quote: So, I am seeing alternative futures, because the past and the future are similar. All of them exist, but in potential form only. It's by connecting the dots that the optimal future, the pathway to healing, becomes the only possible pathway. The free will choice involves only one of an infinite number of possible futures. It's the connection with the higher soul that is all openness around eternity , infinite dimensions, all existence visualizing the pathway. The higher perspective is from the direction of the oneness, and only by originating in the oneness can one begin to perceive how actuality functions. It's all done from pure unconditional and infinitely all-inspiring Loveland connection. A love of creator, creation, it's made of pure gratitude, love, bliss, joy and the original actuality.