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Nondual Process Allows Energy to Flow Efficiently Through the Body

We feel happier and more intrinsically satisfied in nondual process because we are able to more fluidly and without identification move energy where it needs to go in the body-system. Parts of our body-mind are starved of energy, some are stuffed, and we experience these sensations as painful, with a vague sense that something isn't right and a desire to fix it. Parts we have identified with have their idea of how to fix the system, but often in ways that reinforce the uneven distribution of energy. We are able to recognize in full awareness the process of these parts and therefore let in the influence of what naturally arises. This is the influence of the Self which knows how to move towards equilibrium non-linearly, and it is allowed to do so when liberated from limiting rules and the logic of meaning.

The movement of the Self, as an intuition towards progressive equilibrium, not dissociated from the immediate organization of energy in phenomenological experience, is leading us towards greater organized complexity; i.e. the energy system leads towards its own optimization, wherein the Self is more free to move, the parts less fixated, the relationships more secure, presence more transparent. This is the overall goal of the soul, using the vessel that is the content of our mind and body. While every part has their own energy-reinforcing logic, the soul follows its own Logic transcendent to any one part alone, progressively liberating us from the pain of egoic leadership.

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u/AnIsolatedMind — 22 hours ago

r/LowStakesConspiricies posts are from over-ambitious sociopaths who have great ideas for world domination but don't follow through

Re-read the posts here as if OP was really hyped on their vision to increase human suffering but they didn't have the power or the resources to make it happen, so they posted it here instead for a cheap laugh. They would have done it if they had the connections. When you give them upvotes they feel more confident in themselves and start taking action toward their misanthropic goals. Don't enable them.

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u/AnIsolatedMind — 3 days ago

AncestryDNA is a Mormon company that slips in false Mormon heritage results so that you're more interested in Mormonism

Why go door to door when you can go gene to gene? We are all God's children, after all. (Don't mind me I'm ignorant)

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u/AnIsolatedMind — 3 days ago
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A Jungian Perspective on the Body as Animal

We are born into this world as animal, raised to be human. In the process, the animal in us is devalued and dissociated from, built on an unquestioned assumption in the superiority of the human. But "the human" is the construct which justifies the subjugation of the animal; we do not have to give the animal freedom, consideration, or full subjectivity. We allow ourselves to neglect the animal, to use it for our purpose, to eat it.

But the animal is our very own body, extending out into the distant past prior to this lifetime. We retain the unquestioned superiority of the human and direct it towards the animal in ourselves and in others; the body is subjugated unquestionably by the mind, to its own detriment. We are consciously farmer but unconsciously farmed, self-devouring in our nature.

The compassion we can give toward the human is that without this master/slave dialectic between the mind and its own body, there is no emergence of the human to begin with. However, left at this stage without confronting the subjugated animal, we retain a fracture that runs throughout the individual and society. We have to retain our superiority through a lie, and that lie keeps the individual as body-mind fragile and untethered. The question of whether or not to eat meat or participate in the use of animal products isn't surface-level political opinion or even a matter of disembodied ethics, it is a core psychological complex which began at the very beginning of our lives, when we had to navigate the contradiction of becoming-human in an animal body. We had to choose the fragmentation of mind and body in order to become the farmer and not the farmed --but we experienced fully the trauma of being subjugated, devalued, and unseen in that process.

Beyond this recognition, we might recognize further that we are animal, and that it is in our animal nature to discriminate, to be violent, to devour one another. But only first through examining the dissociation can we sit in the full tension of the human-animal paradox without bypassing it, and to have freedom of choice over a compulsive instinct. I believe a good place to start with this is with the question of whether or not to eat meat; not just as a cognitive exercise to re-enforce a position, but with the possibility of actually examining the unconscious process that arises around this question. What arises somatically and symbolically; where does that line of inquiry take us?

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u/AnIsolatedMind — 5 days ago