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The clip about Spinoza reminded me of this Book Chapter I found online:

Mortality in Chinese Thought Peng Neo_Confucians.pdf (1009.7 KB)

(apologies some of the words are rather faded)

from the conclusion: “the emergence and termination of a physical life is only a product
of a mind attached to a narrow conception of life and death. There is only
the transformation of different types of existence and the conservation of
vital energy in the cosmos. From this point of view, there is virtually no
life or death”

doubly appropriate to post this today as I just got this:

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Though it’ll be a while before I get around to reading this. I’m Currently working on other things.

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Love this, thank you, stealing this book for the Library

:green_heart:
:pray:

Have not read before but looks good.

Depending on pronunciation, the authors name is kind of punny…

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The history of this one is well worth nothing, thank you.

Sometimes the old ways are the best…

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The last dream of the night on tuesday was of her and her mom.

I vaguely remember the details, but the vine was peaceful and very meaningful.

At the end of this dream I was standing near an intersection by their old home.

I kind of looked like the album art of this song:

Sia - Angel By The Wings (from the movie “The Eagle Huntress”)

I was standing in the same position with an Eagle/Hawk in my hand just like the pic.

Lyrics:

“Old Soul, your wounds they show
I know you have never felt so alone
But hold on, head up, be strong
Oh hold on, hold on until you hear them come
Here they come, oh
Take an angel by the wings
Beg her now for anything
Beg her now for one more day
Take an angel by the wings
Time to tell her everything
Ask her for the strength to stay
You can, you can do anything, anything
You can do anything
You can, you can do anything, anything
You can do anything
You can, you can do anything, anything
You can do anything
You can, you can do anything, anything
You can do anything
Look up, call to the sky
Oh, look up and don’t ask why, oh
Just take an angel by the wings
Beg her now for anything
Beg her now for one more day
Take an angel by the wings
Time to tell her anything
Ask her for the strength to stay
You can, you can do anything, anything
You can do anything
You can, you can do anything, anything
You can do anything”

Before going to bed that night I was thinking about how after her mom died, I many, many times had the thought:
“I really wish I had the opportunity for an opportunity to talk to her about Buddhism and meditation and dreaming.”

Communication with her was like pulling teeth, as was trying to schedule times to meet up.

A few months later I ran into her at the grocery store, and was able to talk with her about dreaming. I asked her to meet up and talk more in the future, but didn’t hear from her. Then I reached out a few months after and about 2 months before she died, we went to a Center for Healing arts (yoga, meditation, drumming, extra) to introduce her to it, and a Buddhist temple (where they offer free meditation classes 2x a week).

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amazing!

incredible! thank you for sharing Beloved :deer:
such a great example of how a strong intention always finds its way towards manifestation :pray:

thank you for sharing from your heart, this inspires me to share mine:

Today (29th January) is 33 years since my brother died…
He killed himself with a gun!
I was watching a horror movie in my room (rare thing, but my antenna was already catching up onto something).
Recently I had a deep healing also thanks to Scott Stabile (BIG LOVE author) The arriving of the book had SO MANY delays… they weren’t delays after all! It came near this date… LOVE when this happens. He also had a brother who consumed drugs, and the way he honestly shared about his transformation, inspired me to acknowledge that still sometimes I had prejudice towards people who take drugs. This healing started on the day I saw the rainbow and the eagle with my friends in the beginning of January… (I decided to visit these friends after that time with other friends and their child because they live near by)… these friends take medicine regularly and there was a moment when she was taking a pinch of snuff off his nose… that was touching me and I was aware. Processed that the days after… also unaware that it could be related to my brother. Then, on the same day I was reading the BIG LOVE part where Scott writes about his brother, I saw pictures from the son of a friend who died from an overdose, and I was again deeply touched… could feel how deeply sensitive and beautiful he was… with so much difficulty in accepting this real world…

I also know that medicine is different from drugs… but when it becomes regular, moves something inside of me.

A beautiful GIFT in all this:
A couple of days ago, unexpectedly, my brother entered my Circle of Protectors! So wonderful to have Him by my side :sunny:
So magnificent how life works.

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share with us when you read it, if you feel the impulse.

this is a precious GEM :gem:
thank you for sharing :sunny:

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Appreciate you picking up on this, this was the same conclusion I came to too. How even with deep prayer, just thinking things with the Right View and strong intentions or desires can have profound power in manifesting them.

He was so young. I am very sorry for this loss. Will say a prayer for him tonight.

Amen Dear Sister

Love to hear the story of him entering the Circle of Protectors!

I believe this may be in part, a spiritual reward, for you doing the spirtual work here (and elseware):

One of the things I have learned is that in some cases, the drugs are one of the only things, if not, the only thing keeping the addict alive.

Have you heard the term:
DRY DRUNK?

The Wisely Compassionate solution is to not remove the poisons from the persons life, if you are not willing to help with the bigger elephant in the room (what drove them to the poisons in the first place)

Me as well. I think habitual use of any ‘medicine’ will often throw up big red flags in my head. Especially for young people, where many drugs these days have been glorified as medicine, without talking about the potential serious dangers.

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Thank you Beloved :sunny:

:deer:

yes.

yes.

:pray:

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Scientist: “It’s Not A Dream” #NDE #PimvanLommel #consciousness

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Reading this book at the moment:

and… LOVING it :heart_eyes:

saw a common line with a recent sharing:

Common factor in Rupert Sheldrake’s comment that to understand three-dimensional, we collapse it into two or one dimension – in a graph, image, video call, or video. And with Bernardo Kastrup who mentions that “it’s not true but it works”, referring to the way we can do computational programming and understand somehow how some things can work.

The author of this book (Life after Life) captured a person who had a near-death experience saying, “I have a huge problem trying to tell you this, because all the words I know are three-dimensional. (…) our world – the one we live in now – is three-dimensional, but the next one is certainly not. That’s why it’s so hard to tell. (…) I can’t really give you the full picture.”

Another very interesting passage:
“The facts reported by thAse who came close to death are outside our common experience, and therefore it is to be expected that they will have some linguistic difficulties in expressing what happened to them. These people uniformly characterize their experiences as ineffable, that is, “inexpressible.”

Makes me question:
What if we lucid dream, experience astral projections, or take psychedelics?
And understand better why these practices are such a great preparation for death.

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Kane Brown, Jelly Roll - Haunted

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Thank you for this

:green_heart:
:pray:

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Chris Langan - The Interview THEY Didn’t Want You To See

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reading this book…
40 years of investigation…
recommend it.
a highlight:
“(…) the Dalai Lama wrote in his autobiography about an incident that occurred in his family. The youngest brother died at the age of two. A small mark was made on the child’s body with some butter after he died, and the mother later gave birth to another child who revealed a pale mark in the same place where the first baby had been marked. (…) Dr. Stevenson describes twenty such cases in Reincarnation and Biology, and Jurgen Keil and I discovered eighteen more during our travels to Thailand and Myanmar. In these cases, the mark is made with the expectation that the reincarnated individual bearing the mark will be born into the same family as the individual who died, and fifteen of our eighteen cases occurred in the same family.”

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AMAZING!
Thank you for this

Jon Kabat-Zinn Quote: “He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.”

" “He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

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@_Barry …
A few weeks ago a dear uncle, who is a practicing Catholic (his name is José), came to visit my parents and they shared with him that I had been in the mountain for three weeks. For this period I was living at another uncle’s house who died in 2008.
José was so grateful for this generosity from the family of my uncle that he had the impulse of consecrating a Mass to him.
I was present there this morning.
It was one of the most beautiful Masses I’ve ever been to.
I wrote a little resume:
“Faith is the deep conviction in God. In Love. In its fullness, in Jesus Christ. He did what God told him and the promises came true - eternal life and fullness in God, in the vision of God Himself. Faith in invisible realities. Christ came into the world and manifested the Love and Power of God. His word and the challenges he leaves us are paths for us. Parameters that we can follow. They themselves gave their lives. The church maintains the faith of the apostles as qualified witnesses. Feeling Jesus present in our lives. To overcome difficulties that seemed insurmountable. He keeps his promises and never stops accompanying us in our lives.”

When I arrived home went for a walk at the beach. Always love doing so to root myself. Because something was in the air but could not quite grasp what it was.

I had talked with my father on the way home and he mentioned: “When he came out of the war, there was a period when I had to sleep with him in bed to hold him so that he could sleep well, and not be afraid of his visions. In one of his visions he asked me: “Didn’t you see our father just now?”, and I just held him, confirming he was crazy.”
This was considered to be “post war stress”, and some months after my uncle could go on with his “normal” life. He was that kind of person that everyone loves. A BIG HEART.

After some steps with feet on the sand, I connected with both my cousins (my dead uncle’s daughters) on the phone. And suddenly I realized!..
I believe I was at his home (he helped building it) also to honor his “craziness” because the book touches these topics of death, intuition and contexts around it.

I am sharing this with you all here, not just because it’s a nice ( and also very inspiring for me and the book I’m currently writing) story, but perhaps especially with Barry because I was wondering if there is any study about these “post- war stress reports” that might have been “proved” otherwise? Do you know anything about this?
I was also wondering how many men were emotionally destroyed in wars… and if those who were very kind and sensitive like my uncle have also had visions and somehow the war experiences enhanced their abilities? Because their hearts were so touched?

If you feel like sharing how it was with you Barry, I would also love to hear how you and other men handled their sensitiveness and psychic abilities at war.

:heart:

:ocean:

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Before Birth: This Is How Your Soul Chose Your Current Life

From 6:03 on :hand_with_index_finger_and_thumb_crossed:

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I know there are a lot of studies, stories, media about PTSD, aka shell-shock that illuminate some of the edges of what veterans have gone through. A good movie, perhaps my all-time favorite, is The Best Years of Our Lives, about returning veterans from WW2. It’s as relevant today as it was some 80 years ago.

One of the reasons I like Charlie Morley so much is that he has carved out a place for treatment for veterans with PTSD, indeed anyone with PTSD including sexual and family trauma, and works actively to help them overcome their problems through lucid dreaming and assisted therapy. I took part in his seminal study with 50 veterans suffering from PTSD and saw how he was able to help these folks.

For myself, I belong to an Art program for veterans, most with some form of military-related stress that comes out of putting one’s life on the line every single day in sometimes unimaginable situations. I’ve seen folks get much better though art therapy but others who are so damaged that they will never recover. Hope this helps.

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Thank you SO much for replying. For sharing.
I do know that Art Therapy is excellent for integrating all kinds of experiences where words cannot reach.

did a brief research to find this:

“39% of the homeless in the San Francisco bay area are veterans (primarily Vietnam veterans). They’re not there out of choice. I submit they are there because they are upset. In prisons, between 15 and 20% of the veterans are Vietnam veterans, most of whom have no prior criminal record.”

also this:
“A number of studies suggest that victims of sexual trauma are just as likely, if not more likely to develop PTSD than service members who have experienced combat exposure.”
had no idea of this!..

or of this:
“PTSD is closely associated with the limbic system, a group of forebrain structures including the hippocampus and amygdala, which primary functions are to govern human emotions.20 When a person is exposed to a traumatic event they experience a “fight or flight” response, which originates in the sympathetic nervous system. The amygdala in the limbic system activates the SNS in order to produce higher levels of neurotransmitters (i.e., epinephrine, norepinephrine and dopamine). These neurotransmitters are charged with facilitating certain physical reactions, such as: constricting blood vessels, increasing heart rate, and dilating pupils. In addition to signaling the activation of neurotransmitters, the amygdala will communicate this response to the hippocampus, which will then form long-term memories associated with the event.”

also found this:

"According to the American Art Therapy Association, art therapy is the use of artwork to “explore feelings, reconcile emotional conflicts, foster self-awareness, manage behavior and addictions, develop social skills, improve reality orientation, reduce anxiety, and increase self-esteem.

(…) Art therapy is designed to help participants bridge their memories of past traumatic
events in order to understand and communicate their traumatic experience. This may be accomplished using various art activities, including: drawing, painting, and photography. Art therapy aims for participants to share their experience in a healing environment, which ultimately helps improve upon their behavioral and mental health."

Bravo!

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Friend’s Art Room

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