Publishers Clearing House claiming Ed McMahon was never affiliated with them. I clearly remember the commercials with him showing up at people's doors with the oversized checks. Not only that, but I've been rewatching old sit coms where at least two joked about Ed showing up at their door with a big check. Roseanne was one, but I can't recall the 2nd show specifically.
I just got done reading The Power of Now and A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle recently, and this is basically exactly how he describes the ego and enlightenment.
They're really great books I'd highly recommend to anyone interested in dropping ego and becoming less reactive to thoughts and emotions.
Just hearing about them is powerful, especially when so many basically say the same things.
The more fear based NDEs can be disconcerting, but a NDE researcher whose name escapes me noticed that most, if not all, people with fear based experiences were not fully clinically dead, experienced no life review, and that their experiences were based largely on fears associated with their personal belief systems.
'Seth Speaks' and other channeled and esoteric sources point out that we create experiences after death as well, especially when we have strong beliefs about what happens when we die.
In other words, we are the creators of our own experience, but it is more immediate when we transition into spirit.
I remember my atheist phase after leaving religion and using science to dismiss and debate every wild claim religion seemed to make. In reality, I traded one box of limiting beliefs for another. But I quickly learned that science has it's gaps and flaws, many of which you pointed out here, but also the idea that scientific consensus in itself is flawed. There's a layer of suppression involved when new findings emerge that challenge the consensus. They're dismissed and often mocked, especially if they require the most popular theories to be re-examined and rewritten entirely. The consensus doesn't like to be wrong, and the consensus right now leans towards a dead, mindless universe where consciousness is the byproduct of meat suits we call animals.
Then you have the issue of funding itself. Remember when smoking was good for you in the 1950s? Yeah, big tobacco funded those studies. Same with many food studies funded by companies that wanted to "prove" their foods and/or additives were good for you, or at least not harmful short term. You'll find studies funded by companies that simply want to find straws to grasp at for a competitive edge.
It's like a company or organization that ivestigates itself and finds no wrongdoing. Anything that makes them look bad often doesn't see the light of day.
I won't get in to controlling power structures that have a vested interest in suppression, like the ones threatened by free energy for example.
So yes, science is valuable in countless ways, but it does not account for all of reality. It also serves as a business model that can be gamed, weaponized, and used for profit instead of progress.
@FreqRevolution 66 hours before I started to slowly reintroduce food and avoid possible refeeding syndrome. It was way easier than I expected, and I kinda wish I had just finished the rest of that full 3rd day plus sleep that night.
Next time I wanna go for at least 5 full days.
@joyousplanet_1 One of these days I wanna make a day of hunting for some. I'm just barely close enough to a couple hot spots to make the drive back and forth with a few hours of hunting to spare
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I always drop a like when I read something I can grasp, agree with, or apply to my current understandings in some way. It also lets me know I already read something. I'm still seeing your posts as normal, but haven't been dropping as many likes on posts where I get kinda lost in translation. It lets me know what to revisit when I have the time.
I'm kind of in the same boat now, and that's perfectly okay. I started out understanding most of what you put out, but kinda struggle with some of the recent stuff. My made for TV science and physics documentaries I used to eat up are failing me π€£
It's all good, though. I've actually shifted gears recently and have started devouring a ton of books, a few of which you recommended in a post long ago.
That being said, I'm still here lurking, reading and picking up on what I can.
@TheProjectUnity@MBeallX For my fast I used Shilajit in warm water in the morning and baja gold sea salt mixed in water along with the drops under the tongue once a day
I almost never eat breakfast and don't start getting hungry until around 2pm, myself. Usually I'll eat dinner with some light snacking before and/or after, keeping my feeding time within a 4-8 hour window.
I did a 66 hour fast once, and a couple days of dinner to dinner and 20:4 beforehand really helped make it easier.
Grats on quitting smoking! It's my last big bad habit I want to quit. I'm thinking I'll do it the next (2nd) time I fast, which I hear is a great time to break habits.
Smoking, not hunger, was actually the most uncomfortable part of my first fast after the first 24-36 hours. Each one made me feel kinda nauseous for about 15 minutes, so I wound up not inhaling most of them after that.
@ElenaRae644820 So sorry to hear this! I thought I might lose my 1.5 year old after he stopped eating for a few days last weekend, and the thought alone was heartbreaking. Thankfully I got him to the vet and he's recovering. 20 more years with him would be a blessing!