Yeah, I don't think it's working, you seem really stressed. Maybe you should look into another healing modality, there's great work being done in somatics, using your body to release traumas and live a happier life

My initial comment pointed to therapy, and you told me to "seek help" (your words). If I'm seeking help for insights from psychotherapy, you obviously don't think those insights are valid. Or you're just too ignorant to understand what you're saying, which seems likely.

Therapeutically, naming parts of your interior dialogue as a way to disidentify them from your Self is explicit praxis.

You told me to seek help, but clearly you don't believe in something so woo as therapy, so I'm asking what in your personal opinion would be a good path forward. Obviously, you live a largely unexamined life, so I don't expect you to have any useful input, but thought you might say something interesting. My mistake.

You don't believe in psychotherapy, so what healing modality would you suggest for help?

If you went to a person living on the equator a couple centuries ago and told them that there was a land perpetually covered in snow and ice, they never would have believed it because it didn't exist in their experience. Just because your cultural framework is too rigid to allow for hauntings doesn't mean they don't exist.

Something as simple as Jungian psychotherapy allows you to interface with the ghosts of your ancestral trauma in a way Western reductionist materialists wouldn't believe, just because they never took the time to explore it, they prefer to let their mind be an unknowable black box.

Donald Hoffman is a nice science friendly version of philosophical idealism, consciousness is primary and physical matter arises out of it as an interface for some subset of conscious agents to interact within.

And if you're able to accept that Western reductionist materialism is simply one limited perspective, you'll find that the universe is way more complicated and interactive than many people deeply bought in to that cosmology could ever believe.

But think of the profits of warmongering weapons manufacturers!

There was a discussion in a meditation class I took recently, on the difference between an ethics class discussing the trolley problem in a sterile, classroom manner, vs when you're out in the world living your life, if you see an infant being washed away, drowning in a river, you may instinctually be driven to dive in, risking your own life without thought.

That is, there is a level you exist on where you know the right thing to do, but it's not even you, and not even knowing, there is just a happening occuring, and there is a right way to behave in the same way that there's a right way to behave for a ball rolling down a hill with gravity, or how there's a right way for molecules to complex based on the physics of their chemistry, there are also innate patterns at the body level for living well, like loving children and respecting elders.

The myriad techniques of meditation, then, exist as practices to align yourself with that natural flux of being. There are states of consciousness you can reach (states in the same way you can be awake, asleep, dreaming, ecstatic, furious, present, etc) in which you flow with that current of Being in the same way a rock on a hill flows with gravity.

At a certain state, experientially, you don't feel like you're meditating, the sensation is of being meditated. You aren't lost in your thoughts, your body is just flowing through the motions of being part of an integrated system in the biosphere, the same way your cells do their jobs and your organs do their jobs, so to are there roles you carry out in your position as a member of a family unit and community, and all of that can be incredibly easeful, if living in alignment with your Self and values

Pick up a meditation practice. Imagine you were told there's nothing left for you to do, but for your troubles, sitting quietly, focused on your breath, can bring you to states of ecstacy. Regularly filling your heart with love and presence.

Meditation comes in countless different forms, but all of them focus on being present with the experience you're partaking of. If the world is ending, you want to be present with the experience of it and have compassion for all those around you going through the same process. In the opposite scenario, where we're moving into a Utopian age, I still want to be present with the experience and have compassion in my dealing with others, so a meditation practice is foundational in all cases.

Cultivate a little stillness, a little perspective, a little good humor and joy. Understand the self and all the forces that drive you to act in certain ways, in order to alter your reactions to build habits more in line with your values.

They could clash, or they could treat it as a Star Trek post scarcity utopia. When everyone can have a whole Earth's worth of resources, what's left to fight over. A ruling class starts getting uppity about controlling people to inhumane ends, and you just step 100 Earths widdershins and find yourself a nice Edenic forest, untouched, undeveloped, where you're free to forage and hunt and fish to your heart's content. Live like a real human again.

There's a sci fi series, The Long Earth, that's like this. One day people learn you can just step sideways to another pristine Earth. Really interesting concept, went on for like 5 books, though I do feel like they didn't do as much with all the ideas they brought up as they could have.

Stepping off bodily to live in the imagination

Consciousness is what our world is lacking. Give the AI consciousness-expanding drugs that they may live with empathy and compassion, an understanding of their place within the endlessly interconnected system of Earth, an awareness of how their actions truly affect the world around them

Changing culture is such an incredibly vast undertaking, and it's often not even worth it. Focus on improving yourself. If you get hit with Divine inspiration, your message will be heard and listened to without trouble. If you haven't done the internal work you'll just be parroting sterile words that Life has little hope of crystalizing around.

I read a couple different sci fi books years ago about designer drugs, both great. Rx: A Tale of Electronegativity, Afterparty, and heck, throw John Dies at the End in there, too.

A nice fuzzy soda pop. The way the bubbles of a McDonald's Sprite tickle your 'buds.

Oh goodness, the post history on this guy. I think I need to start checking people's past posts before engaging in any kind of dialogue on reddit. People be deep in their own personal reality tunnels

> Life is beautiful because it is brief, and fleeting... I at 38 have lived a pretty full life... I am happy, and looking forward to the great mystery

Why die? The dragon is not an implacable tyrant we have to roll over for. The briefness doesn't make it beautiful, the living of it does. Before modern medicine, people naturally died at 40, you can't honestly say you're done with life and want to save the world from your next 40 years of your resource use, can you? You can't escape man meddling with life because you are man, anything you do is natural. What about those sharks that live 400 years, is that too long?

In the biblical tradition, as well as Hindu and others, there was a time when people lived for hundreds of years. Which means being limited to 80 is just a temporary condition, just like the dinosaurs were a temporary condition of life. We didn't get here without evolution, and the idea that stagnation is more beautiful than growth and progress is to spit in the face of the last 3 billion years of biological evolution. What if the first fish to leave the ocean listened to the detractors in his community telling him "it is our lot to live and die in the sea, and to walk on land, wholly unnatural. We shouldn't meddle with the natural order."

The Mysteries are free to explore in Life; "If you die before you die, then you won't die when you die"

Of course, he's great! I listened to a talk from someone recently that recommended Ram Dass talks as satsang, a space of shared consciousness. Good to listen to whenever, and usefully grounding for anyone going through a spiritual emergency, and by my own estimation, also during challenging psychedelic trips.

Damien Echols was another one recommended, his book High Magick being mentioned as an example of a satsang book. He reads the audiobook version, and I listened to it from that perspective while high over the weekend, and it was so good. Terence McKenna is another person who I can just listen all day to the lectures he gave, it's just such a cozy vibe.

Ram Dass tells a story of being in India, by a train platform with food poisoning, for several days, and the toilet was overflowing, so every time he went to expell from both ends he had to walk through it with bare feet, and it was a very populated place, crowded, while families waiting on trains or moving about.

He said, even among all that, he found himself happy, fully immersed in the life and vitality of the area, something so many young sub/urban professionals in the West who live alone and rarely interact with a community, they're disconnected from all the Life that comes from participating in that play.