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Brisket | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 There is so much in the spiritual scene that does not vibe with me.

It just reminds me how pervasive the fiat incentives are, corrupting everything it touches.

It's not just the charging of access to content & tools, there's an element that doesn't respect the sovereign soul in all of us. Some communities seem to be advocating for waiting for a higher force to come save us from the mess we're in. Med beds & ships to take us to higher dimensions. It's like they're just wanting better masters than accepting that we're the creators of our own universes.

The obsession with ascending to higher frequencies feels like an effort to escape the heaviness of this realm. Why are we here if not to experience these lower frequencies? Why are they so desperate to return home, they just got here?
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DirectorHodl | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Yeah man I agree. Having spent some time in and around those ideas and communities I feel I got whatever I needed from them but it’s really not for me at all at this point. If that stuff helps people and it works for them, more power to them but personally, not for me. I honestly don’t even understand what they are talking about at this point lol. I have no idea what talking to aliens has to do with spirituality. I have no idea what becoming totally obsessed with healing all your traumas as if you have some big ole’ bucket of traumas you gotta heal has to do with meditation. I don’t think it works like that at all actually. People are still doing the exact same thing 5, 10 years down the line. Still hunting that final trauma down in the next ayahuasca ceremony. The next ice bath or Joe dispensa visualization imagination technique. Hunting sensations, hunting big experiences, wanting everything to happen immediately. It’s like, I don’t think people are actually reflecting on what effect these things are having on them. You have people all over YouTube saying “omg I awakened my kundalini because I had crazy dreams, Jesus visited me, I astral projected to Lumeria and my dead grandma healed my abandonment wounds and man I’m just so spiritual cause I am just so sensitive to people and I can feel everyone’s energy and this YouTube channeller activated my multidimensionality and omg I’m just so spiritual and I’m about to have an ice bath, microdose, sauna, wim hof technique, sauna, ice bath, and now I’m just working on healing my relationship with my mom and it’s connected to my past lives and I’m also working on my frequency trying to manifest the life of my dreams” It’s like man—you sure you didn’t just fry your nervous system? Lol. You sure you haven’t just become a chronic overthinker? Like, you sure you aren’t just pumping a bunch of energy to your head and you are literally making yourself verge on what normal people call mental illness? You sure all those wim hof sessions you’re doing aren’t just literally making you hyperventilate and causing your body to become so over stimulated your conciousness literally cannot stay anchored in it? You sure you aren’t just constantly overstimulating yourself and becoming more and more neurotic and ungrounded everyday? 🤔.  Honestly, that’s what it feels like to me. You bring this up and people get all squirmy and defensive because they’ve built this entire identity around being “spiritual” as if it means you’re supposed to be having all these crazy experiences, talk real slow like Rupert Spira, and be becoming more and more highly emotional and over intellectual about everything happening in their lives where everything means something esoteric. If you actually look soberly at the mechanics of what they’re doing, a lot of it is just building more and more layers of identity and self obsession, masquerading as spiritual lingo all while damaging their body. Just my current opinion and again if people are into it whatever I really don’t care at all it’s just that I literally see everyone doing the exact same thing thinking it is their higher self or whatever and it’s like hmm, you sure it isn’t actually just the YouTube algorithm churning an entire generation of people who probably genuinely started out seeking something deep being sucked into this ready-made whirlpool of insanity and disembodiment? 🤷🏼‍♂️
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Brisket | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 This is my second trip into this spiritual world & it feels a whole heap different exploring it as a Bitcoiner.

I think there's some truth to every model but that they often make it so much more complex than it needs to be.

I think that there are elements to this journey that are so personal they just can't be shared without causing people to become more confused. What you perceive is largely based on the beliefs that you carry with you.

The ego is a tricky character & I don't think it can be destroyed while your physical heart is beating. It pretends to die & then resprouts again while you're not paying attention.

I think that we each are able to connect to our higher selves & receive guidance. I now trust that inner guidance more than any extremal guidance I receive. I suspect that many express this guidance as spirit guides & ET communications. I used to feel inadequate for not being able to tap into those frequencies.

It's funny, as someone who has been mind dominant for most of their life, intellectually understanding all this stuff doesn't seem that important to me.

I still think that the book, The 4 Agreements offers the best words for living a fulfilling life in this realm. It's so simple to understand but so difficult & rewarding to put into practice.

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