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Well, hearty laughter was one of the byproducts of the drugs but it wasn't the only one. For myself I would tap into a great deal of valuable insight. I can't with any honesty say that there wasn't value in it. I don't expect you to understand that but then again there's nothing you can do or say to invalidate what was for me good experiences.

I agree with everything you wrote, Sunmaster. Except the part about "just for fun." The only time I did psychedelics was at parties. Never by my lonesome. And it was fun. Getting off whilst sitting across from someone else and we'd look at each and just bust out and laugh and laugh and laugh. I can picture it, and feel it, still to this day. I can't say that wasn't good for my soul. It was. But as you said in an earlier post, it's a big topic.

"I see alot of conflicting statements in your post, and might need to re read it later with another perspective." So I take it you'll never point out what you see as conflicting? I expected as much. But I'm sure you'd tell me that it's for me to figure out and not for you to tell me. You're much more slippery than an eel, Hummin. And, in my opinion, not very honest, either. There's just a few comments I'll make to some of the things you wrote before I leave you to yourself. "New ideas is good but Im not so fan of new ideologies . . . " Learning how reality works is not an ideology, Hummin. I say thoughts produce feelings and you say that's an ideology. That's why I say you're not very honest, Hummin. You twist so much up like a pretzel and it never ceases to mystify me how someone can come to so many erroneous and irrational conclusions. ". . . your posts . . . are so absolute in terms of conviction from your side." If I were to tell you how to form a piece of metal, and I had great experience and success with that, and you didn't know much about forming metal, and to boot you had some erroneous ideas about the process by which metal is formed, and you gave me your idea, and your idea had no basis in the laws which govern metal forming, and thus without any basis had no chance of working, and I'd correct you, and you'd continue with your idea, and I then became insistent as to how to do it, you would take exception with the absolute conviction I expressed as I told you, with utter confident insistence, what works and even thoroughly explained to you, every which way from Sunday, why it works as it does in minute detail. Not only would you take exception to my confidence and conviction but you would also, by implication, deny that I know what I'm talking about. And to add insult to injury you would also say that I believed myself to be superior - better than you - simply because I knew what you did not. Do you see how you twist it all up? Don't bother answering. And I know you never would give a direct and honest answer anyway. The question is actually rhetorical. Because I already know your answer. You'd avoid the question and start in with your go to response to everything: "Nature have given us everything we need to know to exist on this planet, etc., etc., etc." Sorry, Hummin, but that's your problem, not mine. You can believe all you like whatever it is you like to believe and that's fine by me. You're the one who ultimately has to deal with the reality of your own creations. Anyway, thanks for the reply because it tells me that I won't have to carve out any time to discuss this or anything else with you. I know you're an idealist. I know you have a good heart. I know you're a good man. I know you're a worthy man. A deserving man. And you deserve all that is good and wonderful in life. I tell you that with just as much conviction as I tell you anything else. But goddamn, I ain't traveling in endless circles with you any longer. Peace, brother. And rotsa ruck. Edit: Just one other device that you love to use. If someone doesn't agree with you and pushes back on you then you claim they're not listening. Only when someone agrees are they listening. But you always manage to turn what is your problem into someone else having the problem.

Just as alcohol is ignored by those screaming about recreational drugs so too are pharmaceuticals ignored. Isn't that curious? Beliefs, folks, beliefs. No one is considering the role beliefs play, especially in the medical complex. The number of psychological maladies which are now getting official medical recognition with their own special names assigned to them is truly scary to behold. And for each one there is a pill that's been developed which one can pop to mitigate it. Not cure it but only mitigate it. So very, very few ever think to ask themselves whether there's a connection to their thoughts and beliefs. Some, sorry for mentioning you specifically Hummin, absolutely refuse to consider that a connection exists and without any research of their own call the idea poppycock and dismiss it. What a damn foolish shame. "If modern medicine truly was the miracle it is claimed to be, then Americans ought to be among the healthiest people in the world."

Just admit it, save the frogs. You're already a permanent fixture here. The only way you'll ever disappear is if they sell the place.

Not as lengthy as some of the videos you post. Everyone has time for what they want to make time for, true? People understand what all of the acceptable excuses are. And while they know their excuses are oftentimes BS they understand that others readily accept them unquestioningly at face value. Education isn't free, ya know. Maybe it doesn't cost you any greenbacks but any education requires time. Some might reason, "I don't like learning because it just takes too much damn time." You get out what you put in. No more, no less. Education always produces valuable benefits.

A hearty laugh from the boy who cried wolf how many times now?

BTW, save the frogs. You see dangers in drugs and there most certainly are. Overall I tend to agree with you on this issue. Overall, drug use is not a good idea. I do have time for some quick one-liners as well.

Ditto. I believe that it may appear that some minds work better with drugs but that is nothing more than an appearance. The statement is quite false. Consciousness is more than well equipped to deal with it's reality. Manufactured drugs do more damage, which goes largely unnoticed, than most everyone is aware of. I would seriously rethink that idea, Hummin.

Again, I'm back to the grindstone and for how long I can't say. To say I have no time to reply could not be true as I do not work from the moment my eyes open in the morning until they close again at night. To be sure, though, I do have limited time. I can certainly eek out time to continue this one conversation. But I obviously cannot post like a maniac any longer, replying to every post to which I may have much to say. And so, Hummin, if you would like to continue this conversation I would like for you to expound on all of the contradictions which you perceived in that post of mine. For that would be an excellent starting point in which we can clear up some of the confusion which exists between us. Are you agreeable to that idea?

Well, certainly do point out the conflicting statements. That would be interesting. "Humans are fragile" is a belief about reality and not a condition of reality. Humans are quite resilient. "We have feelings, and creating patterns based on feelings, not common sense." I have said many time, Hummin, that feelings are produced by thoughts. I have told folks many times as well that to prove this to one's self is one of the easiest things to prove. All one has to do is think a thought and see what corresponding emotion is produced. But it is not the other way around. What you say is in truth completely backwards. Seth has discussed this over and over again. Emotion is always a consequence of thought. Full stop. So far you have refused to consider this critically important point and have refused to try this simplest of exercises which I suggest. For if you had tried the exercise you wouldn't be now expressing the opposite. Now it is true that people can allow their emotions to dictate their actions yet that is only an appearance. They are still acting in accordance with their thoughts. And no doubt the confusion on this issue is due to the inability of people to make the connection between their thoughts and feelings. Emotions can be overwhelming to the point where the thoughts may not be so clearly recognised as the individual is so intensely focused on the emotion and not the thoughts. Take fear, for instance. Fear can and often does produce intense emotions. The intensity of the emotions then inhibits any rational thoughts that would counteract the thoughts which produce the fear. Rationality goes out the window, as does common sense. Irrational fear is, in essence, nonsensical. For anyone experiencing intense fear do not expect common sense or intelligence to save you. The fear makes them largely inoperative and useless. Have you ever heard the advice to never make a decision when you are fearful? The advice is due to the recognition that fear clouds judgment which many people have come to understand clearly. Depression is no different. Common sense gets quickly tossed out the window as well when a person succumbs to dark thoughts. Depression is very much a mental process which involves a great deal of associative thinking. One dark thought leads to another which leads to another. There is no time sequence involved. Depression is irrational and nonsensical, too. "What about our dna memory and instincts? How do Seth see our primal instincts? He aknownledge our prehistoric memory?" That's not light subject matter. It's too late in the evening for me to even attempt some type of rudimentary explanation and, as I said, tomorrow I'm back to the grindstone for the foreseeable future.

Not the same as "lead, follow, or get out of the way" as Iacocca meant it. I lead myself and no other, therefore I can have no followers. I follow no one as I have no need of leaders.

I would not recommend drug use to anyone. Especially pharmaceuticals, unless absolutely necessary. I've nothing against experimentation with recreational drugs. After all, I've done my share. And I've had nothing but excellent experiences with them. But it depends on what types of drugs. I've done both peyote and psilocybin mushrooms, both of which are natural. Drugs are a forced alteration of your consciousness. There are other ways to initiate alterations of consciousness which do not require drugs. Those types of alterations are initiated purposely and done for a specific purpose. Forced alterations are only for the purpose of having fun. Or at least that was my only reason. Which explains why I've always had excellent experiences with them. The subject is by no means as black and white as you might want it to be, save the frogs. And what about alcohol? Everybody is "cool" with that wonder drug. Are you an avid drinker, save the frogs? What's your preference? Beer, whiskey, vodka, rum, gin, tequila , cognac, wine? Do you enjoy an apéritif before your meal. Cocktails at an engagement? A nightcap before bed? Do you get wasted at the bar? Or drink a few beers after work? No one campaigns much against alcohol, though. Funny that, eh?

I fail to see how Iacocca's quote fits in with what I was talking about. But it's a wise quote in the case where one has committed to taking a particular all-in direction.

"We all like the idea of no leaders and total freedom, but we also know how that ends with tha nature of of no laws, no strings, no control?" Well of course you need laws in a society that is largely corrupt. Of all the poignant and wise quotes of America's founding fathers, and there are a lot of them, here's my favourite as it is the one most apt for our times, which I have come to call The Age Of Corruption. History is filled with ages for this, that and the other. The Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Middle Ages, the Age Of Discovery, the Protestant Reformation, the Renaissance of the 15th & 16th centuries, the Enlightenment of the 1650s to 1780s, the Scientific Revolution from 1640 to the 18th century, the Age Of Revolution from 1750 to 1917, the Romantic Era from the 1790s through 1850s, the Industrial Revolution from the 1750s to 1900, the Gilded Age from 1870 to 1900, the Information Age from 1971 to present. And currently we have the Age Of Corruption. Don't laugh. It's no joke and it isn't even hyperbole. It may well be coined as such by future historians. “Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." - Samuel Adams 1748 Adams use of "corruption" did not mean simply graft, money laundering, human trafficking, and all of the other usual and common forms which corruption takes. He was referring to the corruption of the soul. So it's plain to see that constitutions, laws, rules and regulations are useless in combating corruption when it involves the human soul. Unfortunately, so many short sighted people begin to misdiagnose the various and myriad manifestations which this type of corruption must produce. Guns become the problem and not the people who pull the trigger. Too much freedom is to blame. Not enough control is the culprit. And not a goddamned one ever considers the thoughts, ideas and beliefs in play. For there is your true and only culprit. And just as unfortunate, you can't seem to get anyone to understand what thoughts are, what ideas are, where they come from, or what the produce. Very, very few people grasp the power of ideas. Most believe ideas, thoughts and beliefs are inert. They believe have zero effect and naught to do with the reality which confronts them, slaps them hard in the face at times. "Better ideas than what Nature have set for us?" Nature sets no ideas for us. Nature can only provide a grand example which we might follow, were we astute enough to interpret nature's wisdom. Neither does God command us. God has set us free. Free to do as we please. To create heaven or hell on earth per our choosing. Nothing is denied us in this world. Both the noble and ignoble and everything which lies between. "Yes we need better executition of Natures will, terms and laws . . . " Another misdiagnosis, my dear Hummin. It assumes that we have all the answers and our only failure is in their execution. We need to dispense with false ideas. Full stop. We need to adopt true ideas. Full stop. I don't know where your resistance comes from, Hummin, to even attempt to consider the notion that ideas create. But I can guarantee that until you recognise the fact that they create in this world you will forever be in a fog trying to understand why we're here and what to do that would bring us to where we want to go. "Top of the food chain is a grey area, but you have to agree, most of us who is here, had chances no other humans had in their life before us. At least I feel it that way coming from where I come from. Not saying spiritually seen, but as a place where I could find my way without to much struggle." Human comforts isn't the goal of life. Nor is it of grand importance. Wasn't it you that had, in another post, quipped the Pink Floyd line about "comfortably numb?" This world is create, literally with ideas. That is the rule and that is the law. Every idea produces a result. Full stop. If one doesn't like the experience they are creating using their current ideas then there needs to be a change of ideas. Nothing can change unless the idea is changed first. Full stop. If your idea of better execution means using the same ideas which created the mess in the first place, just executing them better, then that advice amounts to little more than rearranging the deck chairs on the fated Titanic. The ship will still go down. "Most humans needs a dissaster to hit them to change perspective, and also be willing to learn how to live again, so you can say, every human have to at least die one time before change can start which gives Jesus death and uprise a meaning." Growth is not meant to involve pain. Growth is meant to be not only pleasant but effortless. Just as effortless as, for instance, the unfolding of events which brought me to Thailand. I lifted nary a finger and yet I achieved the manifestation of one of my dearest desires. No one has to die even once before change can start. Poppycock! No has to to suffer. The purpose of any suffering is for one reason only - to change your course. Anyway, since you were quick to reply, Hummin, I thought I'd reply before I drop back off for awhile.

A shade of gold and white with light blue lines. I like to cheat in life (I read Seth to get answers, too) so I uploaded the image to an online colour analyser. It confirmed what I was seeing Of course I've always been one to trust my lying eyes.

I best follow up on my promise to add some points whilst I have the time. My nose has been out on loan to me these past few days. Tomorrow I must return it back to the grindstone. For how long I cannot predict. Relating stories is actually an exercise which does have benefit. For in the retelling one can identify more clearly, with hindsight, the "oddities," "coincidences," "chance encounters," and such which played a crucial part in the unfolding of the event. For instance, in my story I had mentioned that I had contacted the managing director of the Thai facility who told me that they were moving to China, which nixed any chance of making the move via a transfer. Now one would have concluded that that avenue was permanently closed. But, as "chance" would have it we had such an influx of work that the Thai facility became the only option to do the work and thus the transfer avenue rose up from the dead. A trifle scary, yes. Another aspect which I hadn't mentioned was that the new managing director at the time did not consider me as I was a designer. He believed, erroneously as he was unfamiliar with the business, that a tool & die maker who had hands on experience would be the better candidate to run the engineering department than just an office guy. Little did he know that most every designer moved into design after time spent as a tool & die maker. Now the tool & die maker who he had chosen declined the position. Which then opened it back up to me. BTW, shortly after my arrival the new managing director called me into his office, proceeded to take a shoe off his foot and place it on his desk to signify that he had made a mistake about me and so should eat his shoe. Now these two separate events are seeming coincidences to most. Most would not pay much mind to them and simply pass them off as good luck or chance. Others, who understands how reality is created, will immediately see these two events for what they really are. In any case, I'll just reiterate that the exercise is well worth the undertaking. The second point I'd like to make is that most people, when thinking about fulfilling their desires or creating the life they want, immediately turn to the "biggest thing" they can think of. As one poster, a while ago now, had asked me, "If it were true that you create your own reality then where are your million buck-a-roos in the bank?" He had mentioned that creating my "parking lot angel" was insignificant. He wanted evidence of something "big" that I had created. Nickels and dimes didn't impress him in the least. I will say that the "bigger" some desire is the more difficult it is to achieve, generally speaking, because there's been so much negative emotional energy built up surrounding it over the span of time where it hadn't yet materialised. Though, expectation, emotion, and imagination are the 4 key ingredients to physical manifestation. All four are literally composed of energy. And all four must be going in the same direction. Else you have, say, the energy of your thoughts moving in one direction whilst the energy of your emotions are pulling you in the opposite direction. In which case nothing changes for you. The two forces cancel each other out. So my point is that creating one's life isn't solely about creating the "big" things but perhaps even more so the small things in life. Such as a parking lot angel. The beneficence in creating the small things in life is at minimum threefold: For one, most of these small things matter not to you whether or not they come into being. There is little to no emotional attachment there. So that hobgoblin needn't even be confronted let alone slain. Secondly, as you are creating consciously you are very much inclined to be aware of everything surrounding the manifestation when it occurs. You begin to train yourself to notice all of these "oddities" and "coincidences" and begin to recognise them for what they are. Thirdly, as you start to build up quite a list of all of your successful conscious creations you begin to bolster your confidence. And that is worth it's weight in gold. No longer are you doubting yourself. And little by little, as you vanquish all of your former doubts, you begin to tell yourself less and less that you're crazy. See ya'll in a while.

Given the snow cover I'd say "cold" and imagining a nice warm cabin built from fresh cut people with a nice cup of steaming tea whilst warming my roots in front of a crackling hearth filled with glowing peoplelogs.

Information is always coloured by the individual who possesses it. The purity of the information, as in undistorted, is what I look for primarily. Thailand, as with any other location on the planet, is anything you want it to be. Home is always what you make it. Granted, people do have preferences. I recall Seth saying once, regarding mates, that theoretically you can have a satisfying relationship with anyone on the planet. Theoretically, mind you.

Good post, Hummin. You express some good ideals. And great photos! "The question is, are we better off without control, regulations and law? Most countries I know, benefits from having a goverment, who take care of every aspect of peoples life for the majority best." As far as I know there are no social programs provided by nature for the squirrels who have not squirreled away enough nuts for winter. "In nature, every tribe or society have a leader, or a form of leadership, and without proper leadership the tribe or society brakes down. " Thank the good Lord Seth stresses the power and importance of the individual. I'm a leader who has no followers. Just as it should be. "We need structure, we need to sugar coating our lives, and we need to believe in the greater for best of all mankind, at least our own tribe, and our own tribe needs to be part of a stronger union for good and bad. "What else is it for human kind?" Noble thoughts there, Hummin. We need better ideas. Ones that actually work. "We are animals who is on top of the food chain for now. There is no holy grail, it is just a myth, so we can keep on looking, and keep us occupied." I dunno about being at the top of the food chain. There are plenty of critters who can devour us in a single gulp. I like Seth's idea that we are the thinking portion of Nature. To me the Holy Grail is representative of eternal growth. Know thyself represents, again to me, a never ending quest which is linked to eternal growth. "As quick we understand we living in It, the better, and we can start cultivating this planet in a better way, and accept this is our home for now, before we all going back to where we came from." Again, very noble thoughts there, Hummin. You show an idealism. For that idealism to manifest it would require a major shift of consciousness in which the worthless and detrimental ideas we currently enjoy <sarc> are discarded and beneficial ideas are adopted. As long as one believes they are powerless, for instance, that ideal will never come to fruition. Have you asked yourself what power you have? If your answer is little to none then your idealism will remain a dream. Do you believe that you create your own reality? If your answer is "no" then you will never understand the power that you have. Your idealism is then like the Holy Grail you believe to be a myth. An idealism which we should all work towards but, alas, we have no power to make happen. I'll forego the rest as the above gives you enough to ponder on.

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Just goes to show there aren't enough sticks in the world to shake at all of the theories that evolve regarding who and what we are and what reality is. And all of the various theories do make for a difficulty in choosing. If there's one thing I cannot blame people for it is for being highly skeptical. Whether it's of the ideas presented in this video or the ideas presented by Seth. Both are equally deserving of a high degree of skepticism. But what the old idiom "too much of a good thing" refers to is also true. Too much skepticism can act as a detrimental deterrent to squash the inquisitive mind when there's something that is actually worthwhile to investigate. What's in the video is not for me.

Upon rereading my last post for typos and such I kinda like the descriptive term of mutilating reality. To believe in the idea that boys can be girls and vice versa is a mutilation of true reality. Is it not so coincidental, then, that to manifest that idea physically then requires a physical mutilation of the human body? Parallels everywhere.

Since you mention having a cousin in Philadelphia I conclude you're from the U.S., save the frogs. Now I don't know how old you are but there is no doubt whatsoever as to the most drastic change in culture which the U.S. has experienced over the last 70 years. So drastic that it is literally no longer the same country. Were you able to take an American from the 50's and plop him into America 2023 he'd frickin' freak out and quickly conclude communism had taken over. That the Red Devils won the Cold War. I don't think you can dispute that, save the frogs. Take guns, for instance. Back in the 50's high schools had gun clubs. Kids would bring their guns to school. There were no mass school shootings back then. Which fact totally blows a hole in the propagandised narrative that guns kill. People kill. And what's changed in the U.S. since that time? So many absurd and perverse ideas have flourished since then. And perhaps the epitome of perverse and absurd ideas, which are being rammed down everyone's throats with intense vigor and righteousness, are the ideas that boys can be girls, girls can be boys, men can become pregnant, and that sex is not biologically determined but is strictly due to a state of mind. When the true reality of the sexual nature of man has been so thoroughly mutilated, just as people now mutilate their bodies, then consider what other bizarre ideas, equal in their corruption of true reality, have taken hold. And add to the mix so many other ideas which were accepted and even cherished within polite society for eons prior but are false as well and you've created soemthing which will inevitably explode as the ideas can never work, can only produce problems, and these problems will eventually rise to a level that's unsustainable. I see no solution to this mess other than a massive shift in consciousness in which people finally wake up to understand what reality truly is - not the made up on the fly kind, and how that reality works, which is intrinsically entwined with who and what we are. In the meanwhile, I believe things will get much worse than what we see today. Much worse. The Physical Universe As Idea Construction. Anyone who scoffs at that concept is more than welcome to do so. But in the quaint U.S. vernacular I say to you, "Rotsa ruck."

"The problem with drugs is too much freedom creates too many addicts who ruin their lives." So too freedom is the culprit? 55555555555 A classic misdiagnosis. The same misdiagnosis so many liberals have about guns. Guns are the problem!!! Remove the freedom of people to own guns and problem solved, they think. 55555555555555 Another gross misdiagnosis. In both cases culture is the problem. And what is culture? Here's a formal definition: The arts, beliefs, customs, institutions, and other products of human work and thought considered as a unit, especially with regard to a particular time or social group. In other words, the ideas and beliefs which people subscribe to. The Physical Universe As Idea Construction. Ponder upon the truth of that statement and so much begins to make sense. But I doubt you will give it even a scintilla of mental consideration. Best to muddle along with bizarre ideas and use these as the presumptive bases with which to create absurd theories of why things happen. As with music, it's all a matter of preference. "Some authority is necessary. but anyway, too much authority creates a perverse opposite effect where people want to feel like they have freedom." In other words, too much authority which removes the freedoms of people which then causes the people to want more freedom. And that's perverse? 555555555555555 I'll tell you this. As long as people subscribe to so many false ideas of how the world works then most assuredly police will be needed. And there can never be enough of them. The same for rules, regulations, and laws. But if people were to understand the true nature of reality you would have a world which has no need of police, rules, regulations, or laws. For in that type of a world the results of any act of harming another, or ones self, would be as obvious and known as the results produced by jumping off a tall structure in defiance of gravity. No one would be so foolish as to attempt either act. "Drugs is the ultimate way for people to act like they're sticking it to the man. . . . " It could just as well read: "Alcohol is the ultimate way for people to act like they're sticking it to the man. . . . " People abuse drugs for the same reason people abuse alcohol. And each and every individualistic reason has it's basis in the impoverished and detrimental ideas which the individual holds. Now that's a proper diagnosis.