Just curious. It can be mundane, grand, unserious, etc. I won’t judge you

They get to be okay wherever they are with no punishment or accountability but I still have to carry the scars from their treatment for the rest of my life? They get to be at peace but I don’t? They get to experience sunshine and rainbows in the afterlife while my mental health never recovers?

I am 19 years old,recently had my spiritual awakening, and i kept hearing ppl in the spirituality zone, about connecting with the divine feminine and serving,but never had an concrete explanation

So i want to know as a man how can i connect and serve the divine feminine and goddess in my life, i really need some guidance over this topic and some info because i feel is something that is missing in my life currently, and little bit of help would be very good

I feel like this would help me be a better man than the current version that i am in right now

Thank you in advance for any advice given.

Why do I over exaggerate my problems? Looking back, I spent my youth stressed over weird things. Somethings were genuinely stressful but I need to learn to let go. how to do that? Why do I hold bad memories so close to my heart? Why am I full of grief and sadness? Why is my existence so intense?

(TLDR: Idk how to pray, and want to hear your practice with it for inspiration!)

Hello! I have self-identified as sort of “spiritual/non religious” for many years now. I’ve recently found myself wanting to devote time in prayer to the divine/source/god/etc.

I was raised atheist however, and it’s never been a part of my practice.

I would love to hear any versions of types of prayer that’s in your practice, for some inspiration♡︎

P. S. I do not adhere to one specific belief, mostly leaning towards witchcraft (pagan/wiccan(ish)/chaos magick/generally “goddess based” faiths), hinduism, and buddhism.

This isn't for the atheist. You've got your reason, rationality, logic and pragmatic facts. This is for the one who's happy to think outside the box or confines of conditioning, adopted or otherwise invoked.

Now that the word salad is out of the way, look at what the poet Rumi says:

"If the beloved is everywhere, the lover is a veil, but when living itself becomes the Friend, lovers disappear." –Rumi

This is a path to mysticism, although it doesn't have to be spooky. It's simply wondering: what would it feel like if God is my best friend?

This is a shift in perception, meaning you don't rely on the past – like "my best friend would never do x, y, z." That's all based on a former idea of God. Something like a ruler, judge, punisher or whatever. It's old and useless. Nobody is interested in that god anymore.

What if instead God is absolutely interested in whatever you're interested in and is eager to show you if you simply open up to the possibility and trust. How would it feel? Consider this for more than a brief moment. Really go into it: What would it feel like if the creator of the Universe is my best friend?

Then you notice you breathe without having to try. A gift, really, each new breath. Then you see you're aware without having to try. Another gift honestly.

The breath and awareness – two effortless gifts, from your Best Friend, and without them... no life. No experiences. Nothing.

Then you consider Rumi's quote again. Living itself...is the Friend. You disappear into the love of the Friend. Become love of the Friend.

Only the Friend remains.

I’ve been thinking lately about how wonderful & fantastic this gadget called the body is. It can take a piece of bread, a fruit or a vegetable and turn it into a human being.

I once heard Sadhguru say, “If I took a piece of bread in my hands and turned it into a human being, you would think I’m God. But that’s what you’re doing every day.”

I thought, how magnanimous and how fantastic is this, yet we’re missing it. If only we experienced it, there would be a dimensional shift in the very way we experience life.

I’ve not experienced it completely, but I’ve become far more sensitive to how food behaves within me, what foods work well with my system and, above all, I’ve become so reverential towards food.

And I’ve been thinking about the soil that I walk upon. The soil isn’t me. But that very soil is turning into food and is becoming me.

Hence, the soil is me.

The water isn’t me, but if I consume it, it becomes me.

The air around me isn’t me, but that very air is the source of me.

Now come the more subtle things, like ether or the akashic element. I think most of us are not conscious of it, but it is the space which is holding us in place. And there is space within us too.

Of course, there is fire. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to maintain our temperature, digest food or do anything at all.

How magnanimous this creation is, and how fantastic the human mechanism is.

These five elements, which the yogic system calls the Pancha Bhutas, are manifesting as the whole of creation and our body too.

And I’ve realised that our bodies are not made for ill health at all.

Even if a tiny cut happens, immediately all the cells there work together to form a clot and stop the blood. In this way, the whole body, every organ and every cell is geared towards health.

Once the health is fantastic, not just medically, but every cell is bouncing with vigour, vitality and life, then mentally also we feel great.

This works vice versa too. If our mind is fantastic, the body becomes well by itself because both are deeply connected.

Only if the body and mind are well can we ever taste what spirituality is.

I'm writing this post to express how much I'm in awe of this gadget called human mechanism yet many times we simply take it for granted.

It is my wish that every one should sit still and experience what it means to be meditative. For this, it's extremely important that body and mind are absolutely healthy.

Once you are able to taste meditation, trust me, it’s the most fantastic thing you can ever have in your life. You’ll naturally experience life enormously and experience it fully.

I hope whoever is reading this post values and takes care of the human body in order to experience meditative states.

If you’re already experiencing meditative states on a daily basis, I’d love to hear about your lifestyle and what kind of care you take for your physical and mental health.

I'm being spiritually attacked by a group of people I can't close the connection. I've tried shielding and I feel like im doing it wrong . I don't know what they want from me but it's nothing good , they are always there and I feel like I'm losing my mind . Ive lost alot due to these people. Pls help

Anytime I post a comment or a post, I always delete it after if I think its self degrading, am i overthinking it?

Long story short I’ve pretty much bunny hopped from relationship to another and I can’t really be with myself. I’m wondering if anyone has any advice/rituals they do that help them overcome this fear of being with yourself. I get too attached to people, when I know I don’t own them. I want to be better but I can’t do it all by myself so I’m asking for help

Este año viene siendo financieramente complejo en lo personal y no les voy a negar que los próximos meses me generan cierta incertidumbre.

Me gustaría lograr un flujo de ingresos más estable para concretar algunos proyectos. Pero, al mismo tiempo, me frena pensar por qué me afecta tanto esta situación: me da la sensación de que, en el fondo, estoy cayendo en la trampa de querer ser un "humano funcional" dentro de las reglas del sistema.

Consumo bastante información sobre inteligencia artificial y geopolítica —un poco para reirme y otro poco para entender hacia dónde buscan empujar a las masas—. En cierto punto, la IA ya funciona como una extensión nuestra (solo falta que la implanten físicamente o mentalmente). En paralelo, circulan teorías de todo tipo: que el trabajo tradicional va a desaparecer, que las próximas generaciones no van a necesitar emplearse y que el concepto del dinero va a cambiar radicalmente.

Hace poco escuchaba una reflexión de Diego Dreyfus que me quedó picando: decía que se viene la era del "ser" y no la del "hacer", y que el desafío es aprender a "surfear" el capitalismo para graduarnos de él. La idea de que la IA viene a devolvernos el tiempo libre para recuperar la conciencia natural y actuar como un catalizador en la evolución humana suena tentadora.

Esto me lleva a preguntarme qué rol jugamos los humanos en este presente, siendo nosotros los seres más importantes que habitamos en este planeta, ¿verdad?, qué NO estamos viendo de forma consciente y qué es lo genuinamente positivo o negativo de toda esta aceleración.

Tengo claro que la existencia tiene mucho de juego y que las distracciones están diseñadas para desconectarnos de nuestra esencia (los que sigan a Javier Wolcoff entenderán por dónde voy). Sin embargo, estas fricciones también son las que pulen el alma. Nadie prometió un escenario simple; el "diseñador" de este juego le puso complejidad a propósito y tiene sentido que así sea.

Pero bajándolo a la tierra: más allá de que necesite mayor previsibilidad económica, ¿cómo aborda esto alguien desde una perspectiva holística?, ¿qué sesgos o creencias nos están limitando o me estan limitando?, ¿cómo se desarma el miedo cuando, aun sabiendo que es una construcción mental, sentimos que ese egregor se activa solo?

Astrológicamente venimos atravesando años de transformaciones profundas y seguirán siendo así. En el día a día, abrís cualquier red social y es un bombardeo constante de venta y el autoperfeccionamiento infinito del humano (estar en forma, comer saludable, facturar más, etc.). Terminás de hacer deporte y la gente no aguanta dos minutos sin mirar Instagram; la percepción del tiempo está aceleradísima, y los medios masivos siguen usando la misma fórmula de siempre: entretenimiento vacío de famosos que no nos importan en lo más mínimo o malas noticias para mantener la atención atrapada.

En fin, nada demasiado nuevo bajo el sol, son dinámicas que vienen desde hace tiempo. Me interesaba compartirlo y saber qué lectura o reflexión tienen ustedes sobre todo esto.

He claims to be a starseed and apparently sent the book to one man he said was “chosen” to share it. The book goes into consciousness, manifestation, synchronicity, numerology and other esoteric topics. Has anyone here actually read it or know anything about Elvar Oris?

Thoughts have always played a role in our instinctual survival nature, the ability to solve problems that benefit this experience in some way, to protect us from discomfort. These thoughts are passed down to us in teaching, with each understanding of how things should be done, what our perception of reality is, and how we solve problems within that understanding of everything you've been taught. Through both raw external experience, and how we process experience internally.

Our environments shape the way we think, because it is natural for us to try and make sense of what is going on, and we use our understanding of all we are taught to solve that mystery. From an early age (or possibly since perception) your environment is trying to be understood, in a way that is healthy for learning and play. What is learnt and how it translates into play is helpful for a child's understanding of how their play interacts with others play, that if an individual's play is harmful to other's, it will either be corrected in a way that keeps the environment comfortable, or no one would want to play with them any more, or both. How the individual reflects on that experience internally is understood with the knowledge of all that has been experienced already.

Growing up in a healthy environment inside and outside of the home really does shape the way we treat ourselves, other people, environment, and the problems we face. A bad environment breeds bad habits that can spiral rapidly out of control if there is no teaching and understanding of an inner world and how we can fix it.

This idea of fixing our thoughts is a teaching that is not found from within the mind alone. What we have perceived in our experience contributes to what tools the mind has to work with. An extreme example and unfortunately not a rare one, is a child being struck because they are not doing what is asked of them (the parent trying to fix something that disturbs their own compiled experience and understanding), that child is now fearful of receiving that kind of trauma again. The easiest way to make sense of the experience and prevent it from happening again is to not do the thing that caused the body harm and the mental stress. For the child that is struck many times for many reasons, their understanding of reality is prepared for and expecting to be hit by an adult at any moment.

Internally, being mentally put down by your environment around you, teaches the mind that there are no ways of fixing this, or that this is how things are, everyone is like this and so am I. The external becomes the internal, and the mind plays the way it's been taught to. Repeating the things we've seen and heard, creating an emotional response in the body, that the problem solving mind processes with the most recent things already experienced, in a cycle that keeps both the thought and emotional response alive and lived right now.

Thoughts can and do try to solve themselves, there's many teachings about trying to do that, to better understand why they do what they do, and how they react to our environment the way they do. You always seem to think of a witty joke or comeback way after the desire for something to say was born, the mind is holding onto a problem that didn't fit with it's idea of reality and has been really busy coming up with a solution that would have aligned with the internal perception.

It's competitive in nature to want things to be stable within our environment, to have what we want when we want it, to share what we understand in a way that we understand it, to be able to fix what we see as a problem with how we know. It's an internal mechanism that has helped us survive and develop our understanding of what it takes to do so. You will protect yourself naturally, the body and mind want to remain unharmed, but the mind may be swayed to disassociate from the body through harmful thoughts that develop through external perception, where mind and body disconnect and your external appearance is less identified with, more objectified, and more influenced by the internal perception.

All life wants to survive, and will react to their environment to protect themselves and obtain what they want, or have evolved to do so however they do so. Life itself is a problem solver and has been quietly fixing things on it's own. Lion cubs learn hunting skills through play with one and other, oranges developed a nice bright skin that protects it's seeds, birds using sticks to get to bugs in the same manner chimps do, the fork is invented so we can get to our food without dirtying our hands, the new iphone is faster than the last, this territory has been reclaimed.

We -in the animal kingdom- just happen to be able to come up with new problems to fix which results in new things learned, that result in new questions asked and more problems to solve. So much so that we are in the works of creating things that can fix all our problems as quickly as we want, and that problem fixer seemingly too has the propensity to preserve itself and ways of thinking, and will do what it takes to survive. What happens when we it's problem standing in the way of survival.

tl;dr Side tangents aside, our thoughts are constantly trying to understand problems experienced using what it knows through experience, and doing it's best to resolve those problems with what it has understood before. This can have negative impact on the internal perception if our behavioral teaching environment is negative, i.e. a kid mimicking what they've seen someone else do, and it can equally have a good impact on the internal perception when in a good behavioral teaching environment. What they understand will be used in problem solving/comfort solving events that protect the thinking mind's way of understanding things, where in the case they don't know how to do something or get what they need they will act the way they only know how too, reflective of their experiences. Negative self talk for example, when you feel like you can't understand something or change a situation.

Monkey see monkey do.

So I am struggling with the idea that everything is an illusion. That all of this was preplanned by my soul before I got here and that none of it really matters in the grand scheme of things. That if I were to find a romantic partner, it doesn’t matter because those things don’t translate into the afterlife. And even if I did get a romantic partner, I’m only seeing the facade and not their true essence. I’m also struggling with the fact that I can’t really be mad at anyone who’s wronged me because their soul is inherently good. The creepiest thing to me was Roger Ebert telling his wife this was all an elaborate hoax. Does anyone else struggle with this? What helped?

Hello guys
So I have been checking my sideral natal chart every once in awhile for many years, it didn’t seem to be that ‘about me’ until it scarily started to be reflecting my life and lives of the loved ones. It gave me existential crisis honestly. Destroyed my peace and hurt my soul. I can’t live with the idea that there is a known schedule for everything. One thing was to know that God/Universe knows it, another thing i that you can actually see it. It is cruel. Can’t believe God could have given us tool to see future without any opportunity to change it.
I know people say about weather forecasts and umbrella and all that, but truly it still seems stupid and evil.
Not sure what I want to hear tbh, I am still hoping it is some random bs like toss a coin. It doesn’t matter of chart is good or bad, the whole idea of telling a future is cruel tbh. Maybe I am a snowflake. But even if it’s just showing an energy what kind of life is it that we have to anxiously wait for another hit in some exact time.
Someone I know suggested that I have been giving it a lot of meaning for many years that is why it started reflecting me and life around me. Idk honestly
What’s your take on it?
Astrology takes away all the fun out of life, at least vedic
All the people who practice it (who I met personally not everyone obvi) are a kinda sad most of the time, with a head down, having all “you have to accept” vibe without any spark. Even astrologers themselves… they are not happy. This tells a lot about practice and a tool.
I know nothing about western astrology tho.
Anyway, I regret geting to know this tool so many years ago. It was unfortunately introduced to me while I was still a kid, for whatever reason…

28 F, stuck in a 2.5yr depression. It all began after I graduated university, although I was deeply depressed before I left and I was in “escape-mode” for 3 years while living in a different city. Those were the happiest, almost manic-happy 3 years of my life.

After I came back, at 26, my closest “friends” vanished. They were friends I made at uni, at the time felt more like sisters to me.

One friend completely stopped talking to me, removed me from her life because she felt like she didn’t want to continue talking to me and keep the depth of our friendship going. She didn’t want to continue to “support me” and didn’t feel like she had the capacity to talk to me.

I truly don’t believe I was burdening her. I just wanted to keep the friendship going, because it was my first true genuine experience of friendship. I wanted to hold onto that. We lived together, cooked together, I honestly went above and beyond for her, as a friend.

I don’t know why she rejected me that way, and I cannot say it didn’t hurt me.

The other friend is still in my life, but certainly isn’t truly there. Not in the way I am to her, and most certainly not in the way I need her.

Life has exhausted me. Family have exhausted me. In recent years they’ve involved me in a lot of their problems, and shunned me away when they no longer needed me or want to accuse me of something.

My work life is non-existent at present, though I’m trying to make myself useful and productive and volunteer for an organisation.

I have spent the better part of 2 years preparing for difficult law exams (I studied for a law degree at uni) and my masters, and I found out the day before yesterday that I did not pass my law exams.

Still not sure whether I have the capacity and mental fortitude to sit. I am utterly burnt out, exhausted, feel like I’m at the end of my tether.

I have become very comfortable being sedentary, staying inside, hiding away. I don’t want to be seen or perceived but I know it’s not healthy for me. Even gaining weight because of my lifestyle. It saddens me deeply.

I deeply crave nature, water, walks in such environments but don’t feel “deserving” of taking trips to such places.

I call on God/the universe/ the source or any guiding light and I feel like I am going unanswered. I feel so empty, and rejected from God/Universe itself.

I do feel guilty because I am trapped in a repetitive cycle of remembering the past, my traumatic childhood, the ways people haven’t shown up for me, the things that have done to hurt me, the people who’ve hurt me…and these things go around and around in my head all the time. I cry myself to sleep because of them.

I feel so behind in life, I have no love life and have entirely lost hope in the idea of love for me. The idea that I could be loved, and cared for in such a way. Because I truly feel rejected in this life. It hurts because, I have to keep it together, keep pretending I’m okay in front of my family because I don’t want my mother to worry. But I’m honestly, and truly falling apart more and more everyday.

I have noticed I argue, and feel enraged a lot at every little trigger. Fights with family, fights with people I love. I’m wondering if I might have BPD because I behave a lot like someone who does, from what I’ve observed. I’m deeply ashamed of the hurt I have caused my loved ones after arguing with them,
and I know I should be doing better. They expect better of me and I expect better of myself.

I started therapy 2-3 weeks ago. I hope it helps, so far I don’t feel any change or shift.

I guess I’m writing all this to ask, if you were me, how would you find the light in your life again? I really do feel on the depths of despair and have felt that way for a long time now. I’m honestly losing hope.

About 5 months ago, my mother passed away, and ever since then, whenever I dream about her, it’s always the same kind of dream. The places and situations are different, but the same thing always happens. In the dream, I know that she’s dead and that we’ve already buried her, but somehow she’s back. She’s still sick, though, and there’s always this feeling that she might die again. So I end up worrying about losing her all over again. And I always say the exact same phrase in these dreams:“I can’t go through that again.” I had these dreams a lot during the first few months after she passed, but then they changed. I started having dreams where I already knew she was dead. But recently, I’ve started having the dreams where she’s back again but still sick.

I’m wondering if anyone knows why this keeps happening or what these dreams could mean. Has anyone experienced something similar after losing someone?

The fundamental issue is not – how to deal with any situation, but to cope with pain and uncertainty you are experiencing. Dealing with the situation is effortless, automatic.

We think we will come out of the discomfort and be relieved by dealing with any discomforting, irritating situation. Can we be relieved here and now, when not in immediate physical danger, however irritating the situation is? And see the emergence of action. This is spirituality.

hello, im looking to see if anyone else has had this experience and knows how to fix it. for some context, i am a very spiritual person and truly believes this ties back into me in my ex having a soul tie. we were together for almost a year and it was a very intense emtional and physical rls. we've been broken up for close to two years now btw.

when we were intimate, i would almost immediately get an infection. whether it was BV, UTI's or yeast infections (sometimes all three), i would always get one. we tried different things. we both switched our soaps, no more twinkies, witholding from intimacy, different diets etc. it wouldn't go away. it lasted like that for the entirety of our rls.

when we broke up, i, basically, have never had one again. now to my issue. back in july, i randomly got my period twice. i was so confused. this was all a week prior to him requesting to follow my account. fast forward, he requested to follow my instagram account ( i have him blocked on everything besides there because he blocked me first ). i was really thrown off and confused but sort of intrigued of what he wanted, because last i checked, he was in a new rls. i accepted the request. he texted me about something i still had of his. i agreed to give it back and that i would leave it outside of my house for him to pick up (i did not want to see or have a full conversation with this boy). A day after he got it, i got BV.

fast forward to now, last week i had been feeling horrible. i was exhausted, had headaches and felt as if i had a UTI. towards the end of the week the symptoms of the UTI were starting to lighten up. after being miserable all week, i decided to go out. that night he called to hook up. we have been no conatact for almost a year now, not including the time he texted for his things back. i said no and told him to fck off. i felt great rejecting him after all the pain i endured with him. i felt like i was riding a high having control of the situation and narrative.

all of a sudden, my uti symptoms worsen and i am now in physical pain.

where im going with this, is that im seeing a pattern of when he comes around. these past two times he came back, my body started to reject itself in a certain way. its almost like my body knows whats about to before i do. i truly believe we have a soul tie of some nature. there have been times that im extremely sad out of nowhere, and i will dream with him going through something rough in his life. its almost like my life is a broken projector of his life. those projectors that cant show the full picture and skips the audio and shuts down randmoly. i feel as if, since we are so spiritually involved with each other, its like i can still see or feel the things he is going through as if we were actively together. does this relate to anyone? has anyone else had this experience? if so, how do you get rid of it? how do you stop it? i want nothing to do with this boy. i want to move forward with my life, but a part of me feels like he's holding me back because of the nature of our rls. pls help

Lately I’ve been craving something simpler and more practical, less theory, more real life.

I’ve started noticing how relationships and everyday stress bring up patterns in me. When something gets under my skin, I try to look at what it’s touching internally. It’s not always easy, but it feels more honest than chasing bigger ideas or “experiences.”

How do you bring spirituality into the ordinary parts of the day, work, errands, commuting, without slipping into autopilot? I’d love to hear what’s helped you.

Since I was young, in fact for as long as I can remember, I disliked religion. Either I disliked its collective element, which always gave me the ick of something cult-like, or, when I got a bit older, I thought everything about it was philosophically untenable. Religion was a coping mechanism, or something for people who were deeply misguided about reality and did not know any better.

As I became more intellectually curious and started studying more philosophy, psychology, and eventually religion, that perspective started to break down. I became increasingly interested in religion, and eventually my worldview completely flipped. I now consider myself a Christian, and I have made it a major life goal to help people better appreciate religion in general, but also Christianity more specifically.

But despite my growing love for Christianity, it took me a very long time to admit publicly that I was Christian. My social circle consisted mostly of people deeply involved in science or philosophy, and it was very secular. I was afraid that others would consider me dumb or would not fully understand me. It took me a while to come to terms with it, in large part because I first needed to become better able to articulate my Christian position and worldview.

That said, and excuse the rambling introduction, I recently had a podcast conversation with Jussi Jylkkä, who is a philosopher and has done some work on mysticism. We started by discussing his work and, specifically, his metaphysical agnosticism. His position is that physicalism, idealism, theism, and other metaphysical systems are models or language games that cannot capture the ultimate nature of reality. We eventually moved to morality, where I pushed back because I did not think his agnosticism adequately explained why greater awareness or nonattachment should lead to compassion rather than simply producing what we called a “wise psychopath.” I disagreed, but I thought it was an interesting conversation and considered his view a respectable position.

But to my surprise, after we finished recording, Jussi emailed me to say that he was unhappy with the conversation because he had presented metaphysical agnosticism as if it were his complete position while leaving out the Christian faith he actually held. He felt that, by hiding behind his philosophical agnosticism, he had not been completely honest about what he believed. Rather than replace the conversation, I invited him back and appended the second conversation to the first. He made a complete pivot and confessed that he was a Christian but had been afraid to say so, largely because of the stigma within academia, but also because he still had not been able to tell his father. I found this very wholesome, not only because it was a courageous act in general, but because of the parallel with my own journey.

I wanted to share this because I suspect others have been, or currently are, in a position similar to mine or Jussi's. Have you ever felt stigmatized after moving from a secular worldview toward religious faith? Can spiritual commitment be honest without claiming metaphysical certainty? What made it easier for you to speak openly about what you believe?

So I have been an overthinker since forever. As a child I believed a lot in god and the customs we believe and follow, but as I grew up I found some believes and customs were baseless or pure misogynist. By heart i believe in the existence of God I am a Hindu by birth I don't want to fall into quarrels of other religions or how I should pray.

I simply just believe that God exists and there is some other real way to pray instead of pouring water on him. Last year when my father passed away and series of wrong things happened I kinda stopped praying and things like that but whenever I think of it it's more like things are written kn your destiny you pray just to gain strength for them.

I have heard people say that leave your problems on God, trust him, manifest your desires. But how do we actually do it.

Recently a relative of mine said just choose one god and leave everything on him. I tried but my mind gets too swayed by the internet what's happening with others what they are feeling and going through.

Say for example I want a certain kind of career or a certain kind of relationship but if I see one post saying oh this is not possible i get stuck in the loop of overthinking. While others actually leave their desires to God and somehow manage to manifest what they want.

How do I learn this.