Thread: My Journey of Transcendence and how it has changed me

as do i

and i will certainly keep this thread updated as much as possible!
Also i believe there is always something to learn from the views and opinions of another

Here's a Lucid Dreaming logo i made for the DV Academy...

MementoMori's thought's on arguments and the act of arguing:

Being divorced i have been in many arguments, being from an authoritarian family with such an open mind and tough spirit i have had many many arguments. I am very skilled at intelligent debating and arguing. But I find it very detrimental to ones health to actually fight and scream and yell in an argument. For one it takes the argument to an entirely new level that is extremely stressful. That stress can impact, and does impact many parts of your life. This for me includes dreaming. I find that the more I'm stressed the less i dream and if i do dream i never gain lucidity in them if the stress is still there when i fall asleep.

I also find that arguing for the sake of trying to hurt the other only ends up making yourself feel like an ass afterward if you care for that person at all because you eventually will find that the reason you were arguing never overshadows how you care for that person (in most cases). So one should Always breathe deep and slow in an argument and keep a level head. One should go into any argument with a set goal created before they enter the argument but most importantly before they give any thought to the emotions that arise at the beginning of the argument. Keep this goal in mind the entire time, and always remember who you are arguing with. Sometimes we argue with all the assholes we've been faced with that day or, even worse, that week.

When arguing, no matter what never carry that argument with you, nor any emotions or ideas or visualizations that arise during it. These will embed themselves into your subconscious and over time become who you are, and most of the time they are angry ideas and mad thoughts. This is especially detrimental to your relationship with loved ones if this occurs in an argument with one of them.

No matter what never - never, ever let yourself become so upset that you lower to the point where you start cursing and calling the other person names. The first reason this is harmful to oneself is that you may be expressing your current anger at that person and not your true impression of them, yet they will take it for your impression of themselves on you. Most of the time after the argument you will find that that persons opinions do not change your relationship with them or how you feel for that loved one, or at least it should not. Because to want someone to share your exact same beliefs and opinions is to ignore what it is to be human living amongst other humans. Two minds thinking alike sharing the same interests, same beliefs, and the same opinions never can think "outside" the box to better their enlightenment in life and their life in general. This can be proven simply by the renaissance. Two dissimilar minds that can debate in a professional and enlightened way can compare and contrast thoughts and ideas, and build on each others perceptions of those ideas and thoughts, but when one disagrees with the other, to ruin such a beneficial debate by allowing foolish anger to cloud ones mind can hinder that persons progression in business, love, and life.

~MementoMori

Very nice. I could not agree more. Being an overly sensitive and very emotional person, I have had to train myself to truly take a step back and collect myself whenever I am in an argument and I allow the things said to be taken personally. It has taken years of practice, but I think I'm finally getting the knack of it. I no longer lash out in anger, and am able to keep a level head even in the most heated arguments. I cannot give full credit to this dramatic change all to myself however, as I have had some amazing "teachers" along the way which have shown me the beauty of quiet, critical thinking, rational thought, and the true meaning of existence. Such teachers anywhere from friends and family, to authors, artists, and even psychedelics and other substances.

One thing I noticed in particular that still bothers me somewhat...is that I know people who are extremely intelligent and highly developed as a person. For example: my godmother is a Reiki Master and extremely spiritually developed ...yet I witness these people become extremely angry and lash out in arguments. Particularly at family get togethers. My family is really really close, but sometimes there are very heated political arguments. I come downstairs and everyone is yelling and trying to talk over one another in order to get their point across.

But to me all I register is this: walking into a brick wall of negative energy. I understand the need for argument and debate...and shit they could all actually be agreeing with one another, but they're still yelling for some reason! But all that negative energy that it manifests is not healthy. I tend to hide whenever the issue of politics is brought up. I'm of the mindset that it is extremely important to surround yourself with only positive influences and positive energy.

Also, great logo! Have you posted that in the DV Academy badges thread yet?

MementoMori-- this is a great concept!!!!

What a fantastic way to share your journey with us and inspire us to progress in our own journeys of waking up. I'm in this process as well. I think you should start a collaborative group effort like this, where people can post their thoughts and ideas regarding these concepts of the journey to becoming awake, or enlightened or however you'd like to call it. Truly, a beautiful concept. Spreading light into the world.

@ Aquanina:
Yes, i tend to stay far and clear of political debates and arguments, mostly because this is usually something many people are very passionate about and most not knowing how to have a positive productive argument will let the argument ruin a relationship in a heartbeat.

Also, i posted it in a thread Shift had, it asked for some icons and logos. I'm gonna post it on the badges/icons thread as well. I only made it so large so that the quality would be very nice when shrunk, and so that it could really be examined closely.

@Abra:
It's more like 65% but mostly i'm downloading things for digital art and reading articles and doing research for my book i'm writing. Also, I mentioned those feelings because so far that's where i'm at in my journey, and most of the disconnectedness really applies to everyone's idea of what life is supposed to be. The everything is either work and taxes or religion and family but ideas of spiritual evolution and enlightenment, and phenomenons are childish games to be left behind in your childhood way of thinking is an old, foolish, molded mindset that puts a halt and dresses ones mind and spirit (when i say spirit i mean the love, and desire to do what you love and learn to love more in your mind, the consciousness's wants and inner most desire)with the reigns of societal ' have to's ' and ' can only '. Also i am still on my journey so there will always be growth and alters to my views, but at this stage this is where i'm at.

@Rainman:
I have thoughts of what you've posted, all in good time my friend all in good time. I also plan on writing a book alot like C. S. Lewis did where he wrote down his thoughts and opinions. I actually was given an F in a class early in my 9th year of school because i wrote a paper that had these ideas in their youth still being shaped in my mind, and when i asked why i received an F the teacher told me that i was living in a fantasy world and needed to come back down to earth and be writing about what profession i'll be seeking in life and things such as that. My response to the teacher was that i already knew my "profession" and that i supposed he wouldn't be one of those readers that would buy my books, he laughed and waved me off to my next class. He has a place as a snobby character with preconceived stereotypes for everything in one of my books. He wrote himself right into literature that day. But truly a group of others like minded and also with widely opened minds sharing their growth in their journey of enlightenment would and can be a very beneficial thing. Many of my steps in my own journey were guided by my friends own path to awakening. Simply because one mind does not have all the answers yet can ask questions that others may have found their own answers to on their travels. Also the journey is largely of ones self and Although we might be headed to the same place, we each will take a different path there and will learn different ways of looking for each step on our way there, and even if two reach the same place at the end of the path, the two will look at the arrival differently even though they may share the same wisdom gained threw the journey. One may see the cherry blossoms floating threw the air and think that is what his end to the path is and another may look down and see the lotus flower in the pond alone but filling the entire pond with it's beauty and wisdom and that person may find it to be his end to the path, even though they both are standing at the end of the same path.

sorry i rambled there momentarily.

Originally Posted by MementoMori

and the universe there is not that witch a hand full of huffs and puffs could ignite a dream drought of freedom and fronds to be fraught or fought for but to be bought by the endless worlds compressed into a . for it should be known that the hourglass speaks the sand threw the wormhole at the end of the third smile. Let your mind remind mine that there is a mind in the ________ that gazes out of the truth of four stars and a ham sandwhich. But alas in the end the Dolphins will cry that the whales stole all the fish and the shrimp will have their day as the moon rises into the sea.

and so my good ear i bid the a three and maybe even a fourth of an presume that you will too find the shoe fits on most others face.
- The clothes pin and the breadtie

This has all the wisdom of a tree that lets it's leaves in the winter...

~MementoMori

"As the light is filtered threw the trees leaves;
So should knowledge be filtered through wisdom."

"...goodbye beautiful Blue"
these are my planned last words. (Blue is earth)

"The field fills with mist as the warrior draws his blade.
The blood runs down into the ground as the final cut is made.
A nation is crushed and a people freed
with only one swing,
but the warrior still sheds a tear, because it
had to come to blood for a change to be made."