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Signs of spiritual development in process

The following are some signs that someone is approaching or experiencing a period of steep spiritual development:

Anxiety: Anxiety is a kind of “spinning your wheels” fear, as opposed to nerves or nervousness, which tend to feel more specifically grounded and situational, or real fear, which is in reaction to a significant threat. An uptick in day-to-day anxiety can sometimes indicate that someone is approaching an impending personal breakthrough, especially if it is social anxiety that does not accompany any personal knowledge of having committed wrongdoing. Sometimes the anxious fear is literally that we’ll be judged for growing, whether that fear is conscious or not. If we don’t push through in good faith and work toward the impending breakthrough, the anxiety issues tend to continue, even if we get off track from our spiritual development path.

A drive to search for meaning: The search for meaning is a natural drive in humans, and at certain points in our lives it is at the forefront. When we look for meaning, it is a spiritual process, and it is usually successful to a certain degree, if our intentions and conduct remain good.

Hardship: Hardship itself can spark accelerated spiritual development. If someone is going through extraordinary hardship, they may also be in the process of attaining a certain type of maturity that is very desirable. If they do not de-emphasize sincere spirituality during that time, they are quite possibly becoming wiser, whatever else is going on at that time. On the subject of intentionally initiating a period of hardship for this purpose, it is usually most appropriate and effective to work respectfully and alone in nature, as opposed to voluntarily subjecting oneself to reckless situations, toxic individuals or groups, or terrible ideas, for instance: things that do not promote clarity. The former is sometimes referred to as austerities. The latter is foolish.

Certain content in media may start to seem more toxic than it used to: Watching media is an experience that holds up a mirror to the viewer, and you can notice shifts in yourself as you watch or rewatch things. For instance, characters lying in a movie or show might start to stand out more, and might bother you more than it used to. This is sometimes a sign that you are integrating or have recently integrated the fourth dimension.

A new or renewed interest in spirituality or comparative religion: As a person develops spiritually, they may want to explore spiritual themes, and will usually do so in a way that broadens rather than narrows their respect for humanity’s spiritual traditions.

Withdrawing from toxic relationships and/or toxic activities: The more a person grows into their spirituality, it can sometimes become harder to accept toxic behaviors as normal. They tend to stand out more, and do not seem compatible with favorable growth as a person. Toxic patterns can seem less dramatic and more repetitive. Be careful of how toxic personalities sometimes come on very strong and pursue very toxic patterns when they sense that someone else has something exciting going on, like a spiritual breakthrough or a special purpose they’re pursuing in their life. Also, watch for how you feel while you’re spending time with someone, but also how you feel afterward. If there is a quick and confusing crash in your mood or well-being after you leave someone’s presence, that’s sometimes a bad sign, especially if it happens every time.

An interest in becoming a better person: When a person is growing in their best direction, they naturally feel a pull toward becoming the best version of themselves, a person who is increasingly trustworthy and upright. This is an exciting upward spiral to experience, and can generate a lot of euphoria.

Different sense of humor: Not everything is funny forever. The more a person grows, for instance, the less likely they are to experience a sense of comedy in what’s sometimes known as schadenfreude (enjoying someone’s else’s misfortune).

A drive to spend time in nature: As a person develops spiritually, they often start to value nature and time in nature more.

Spontaneous spiritual experience: Strange and sometimes sublime things can happen when you’re growing. Spiritual development and spiritual ascension can carry some very unique experiences. There can be moments of rapture, physical phenomena, psychic phenomena, flashes of certainty, and more. Discernment in key in understanding these, as it can be counterproductive to assume that all unexplained experiences are of a spiritual nature, obviously.

Crimps in the skull above the ears: Certain people approaching a certain point in their spiritual ascension may develop crimps or vertical ridges in the skull above their ears.

Changes in skull shape: As the result of spiritual ascension, a person’s cerebellum can become reduced in size, resulting in a flatter profile near the base of the skull. This and other skull changes are some of the physical changes that can occur with spiritual ascension. This and the skull crimping happened to me in the late 2010s, around when I was integrating the fifth dimension.

It is good for a person to develop spiritually, especially if that person’s philosophies are keeping pace. A healthy spiritual outlook tends to be the kind of outlook that is beneficial and sustainable through life’s difficulties and lavish successes. And there is no substitute for personal development, which often goes hand-in-hand with spiritual development, and really should.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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Is nihilism a philosophy?

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Lync Dalton ~WEPWAWET~ health 2

(From the Easter egg page associated with: ᓚᘏᗢ“)…

me, on nihilism: Nihilism isn’t a philosophy. It’s what philosophy always seeks to defeat.
astral visitor (on receiving band): But didn’t Nietzsche love nihilism?
me: No. He just talked about it. Saying he loved nihilism would be like talking about Star Trek characters trying to avoid a massive astronomical phenomenon that kills people out in space. And then saying, Gene Roddenberry loved deep space vacuum anomalies, or whatever. He didn’t. But those were a threat in the (hypothetical) text.
(note: That the word nihilism is sometimes seen routinely capitalized in English is perhaps easiest to explain as a mistake arising from the fact that it is a German noun, and in German nouns are capitalized.)

…

No, nihilism is not its own philosophy. It is more like a bleak or harmful attitude and pathological phenomenon. Compare with neurosis.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

Confronting overpopulation

Posted on January 26, 2022 by Lync Dalton ~WEPWAWET~ futurism health history life in progress news predictions right human relations 2

I was taught young that it isn’t the best idea to have too many billions of people on Earth. Elementary school, if I’m remembering correctly: there was some math, and at least one graph. They said food production couldn’t keep up. I think that factory farming methods and workhorse cultivars may have proven by now that technically, it can keep up. All my adult life I’ve thought about that gratefully.

Now the conversation about overpopulation is more about climate change, and has been since the early 2000s. The Georgia Guidestones, a mysterious monument erected anonymously in 1980 in the United States, are sometimes quoted as the potential key to a sustainable world.

Their inscription states the following suggestions (note: I will add my impressions in italics below each point):

Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
(note: I mean, why? We would need at least three billion people on Earth to maintain our current diversity of industries, though [according to Earth Logos]. If we want professional sports, comprehensive travel, and exotic pets, a half a billion just isn’t enough people.)
Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
(note: But, really? Tell me this isn’t about eugenics. Disregard this one, maybe.)
Unite humanity with a living new language.
(note: People really like their current languages. There’s the hitch. A universal second language might emerge at some point in the future, and that seems rather exciting.)
Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
(note: Sure thing. I’m doing that now. Good stuff.)
Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
(note: Yes, this is very good.)
Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
(note: This is a nice idea about ending wars eventually, right? Most everyone always likes this sort of thing in theory and most generations going forward are going to be the ones that try it, I think.)
(note: If we had only 500,000,000 people in perpetual balance with nature we’d probably be extremely worried about losing any to wars.)
Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
(note: Probably good. Avoid pettiness in exercising power. Avoid corruption.)
Balance personal rights with social duties.
(note: Yeah, let us not forget the social contract. It’s the stuff of civilization.)
Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
(note: Prize decency too, and wisdom, and kindness, understanding, and productive vision for the future. Prize goodness.)
Be not a cancer on the Earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.
(note: Leave room for civilization in thought, word, and deed. And civilization must leave room for nature. That’s our ecosystem.)

Terence McKenna famously said that education was the way to approach overpopulation and reduce carbon emissions. In his lectures, he’d often point out that women with more formal education tend to have fewer children. The truth is, the education about overpopulation has begun. I think a lot of people worry about it already; but we still like people, right?

Population loss has something to do with what’s been called the Great Reset. Presumably, the Great Reset is about how certain parties have planned for (or perhaps even wanted?) a smaller population, possibly looking forward and foreseeing massive fatalities from climate change, pandemics, and other causes. One crucial point in this matter is to avoid anyone engineering population losses through violent means, or forcibly, which would never be justifiable. It strikes me that on some level it made sense to do economic and civic planning for a population drop, as many countries developed much of their modern infrastructure and systems after a post-1940s “baby boom”, and they were perhaps a little too close to perpetual growth models. Note that I have no idea if the set of plans described as the Great Reset are the right ones, nor even if they are cogent. Many have speculated that those plans may involve new taxes on the megawealthy or on certain industries, especially in light of how skewed wealth distribution has become since the mid 20th Century.

If we’re anxious at all for the population to go down here on Earth, it can be done with birth rates (which are already dropping in most places, they say, perhaps especially since the COVID-19 precautions began). The first-pass solution is probably to make oral contraceptives available over-the-counter (OTC) in as many places as possible. They are safe and effective, and I think their wider availability would help many people in my country, where they are currently sold by prescription only. The population initiative will be further helped by making sure birth control pills are affordable (possibly through insurance, the way some medical supplies are covered by most insurance plans). Hard to say how much we’d see the population go down organically and peacefully in a hundred years, but it is very likely we’d see sustainable population numbers by then.

Are we panicked about population? I don’t think we have to be.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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Body mysteries

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Lync Dalton ~WEPWAWET~ health life in progress news shamanry 0

In late 2020 I noticed the beginning of what seemed to be swelling or possibly weight gain (weirdly less likely, which I’ll cover). I was definitely thin until December of that year. I’d gained some muscle during that time, and was overall eating rather sparsely (sensitive stomach). At around that time, I’d been having strange medical episodes that had a lot of features in common with dying. My organs would go cold, for instance, or an organ would feel especially light inside my body somehow.

In late 2020 and early 2021 I realize that there were signs that I had extra air accumulating in my body, under the skin. My thyroid numbers appeared normal when this started happening. By March of 2021 I was looking quite large, up from being a noticeably small-bodied person two or three months before.

When my neck started looking larger than it ever had before (very strange for me, as I generally do not gain much weight in my neck) with my body seemingly bloated but not very much bigger yet, I started thinking it was very unlikely I was dealing with normal weight gain. It was very rapid, and each enlargement coincided with the episodes that seemed to have strange things in common with dying. I’d been quite lean when the episodes started happening, and I was having trouble off and on keeping up with eating.

Now it’s early 2022. I am still very bloated and swollen to a much larger size than I’m used to. I weigh less than I look. There is strange distortion in some of the lines my body makes. It’s been going down slowly, but there’s a weird pattern where I bloat up and then go down noticeably while staying about the same size. It’s easiest to see the change in my face, perhaps. It is fair to wonder whether I’ve gained extra fat, yes, but I don’t think I ate so much in the span of six months or so (I was probably at my biggest point six months in) that I’d end up twice my size in such a short time (which is what I looked like at my most swollen).

There are telltale signs that I might have actually lost both muscle and some of what fat I had on me in the last year, and am much, much leaner than I appear: I can easily feel the sharp edge of my radius bone in my arm through the swelling, and my shoulder feels delicate inside a swollen shell. My fingers have those bony bumps that very thin people sometimes get above their knuckles; they look a little like mosquito bites, and they indicate low overall body fat. So do the tendons visible just under a thin layer of skin on both my thumb knuckles.

Extreme amounts of air sometimes issue from my pores, and I can feel the air rushing out in a stream. At many times it’s whooshed out my eyes and ears, poured from my palms, etc. I do look strange and uncanny this way. I persist in thinking this is temporary.

It’s okay if I think I’m pretty either way, right?

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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Mind games

Posted on January 10, 2022 by Lync Dalton ~WEPWAWET~ channelled health life in progress right human relations shamanry true crimes 0

As World Shaman, I had an astral meeting/ceremony with over 800 people today. The oversoul of cheetah was present. The oversoul of bat was present. The oversoul of flowers was present. The oversoul of rain was present. The oversoul of apple tree was present.

It was a meeting about mind games, and how they need to stop. We also discussed in-production mind games in entertainment in particular, and how they don’t seem to help anyone with the artistic process, and how they’re hurting people and hurting people’s habits. There was some spiritual healing and the Earth expects spiritual progress.

We all agreed unanimously that the mind games have to stop.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

Temperaments

Posted on January 7, 2022 by Lync Dalton ~WEPWAWET~ health Hermetic Astrology life in progress right human relations 1

The four temperaments are based on theories connected with an old medical system of theoretics called humorism. Observations about the four temperaments ended up having more credibility than medical humorism, was the general consensus after a certain point. They developed over time as a personality system based on symbolic elemental correspondences more than on medical theory, with melancholic being associated with earth, choleric being associated with fire, phlegmatic being associated with water, and sanguine being associated with air.

Theoretically, temperaments are most analogous to the Ascendant point (cusp of the first house) in astrology. They are seldom of the same element as the Ascendant sign.

In observing a person, there are many things you can notice about them. Character is very important. That’s whether they are honorable and decent enough. Conduct is very important. That’s what they do and cause to be done. Disposition is important. That’s how pleasant or unpleasant they generally are to encounter. Temperament is more innate, indicating certain tendencies toward certain moods and patterns, which in turn can feed into a person’s disposition.

Then there are looks, of course. Looks are important for some of the jobs. They might help a person with mate selection, but that might actually be more of an unsubstantiated rumor in most of the population. Then, like four hundred other things one might notice.

The four temperaments are a relatively safe and useful way to talk about human diversity. All four temperaments have their tendencies and can complement a person’s natural and developed strengths and interests in ways that end up making them themselves, in a sense.

Melancholic is the most sentimental temperament. They have a tendency to sensationalize things and complicate other things. They want to have high ideals, and enjoy living by them. This is not necessarily such a melancholy personality, and they don’t necessarily experience extra sadness. Rather, melancholic temperaments often think how much they want people to know that they have feelings. They should avoid getting emotionally grabby with other people and losing track of admirable ideals of conduct.

Choleric temperament is at their happiest if they can become a highly effective tour de force, with the chops to back that up. They must learn to handle frustration graciously. Graciousness is foundational to their concept as an effective personality. Bullying people tends to confuse them because deep down they understand that they should very much be doing something more worthwhile and worthy.

Phlegmatic temperament carries a noticeable sense of calm, and if they cannot muster calm at times, then of balance. They want things to work well. They can leave things behind in life, but tend not to like to if those things work well and seem like they’re likely to keep working well. Everyone enjoys the feeling of being really reasonable, but phlegmatic temperaments are more likely to notice that they are enjoying it.

Sanguine temperament is almost assured of being more cheerful than people generally are on average if they can manage to be dynamic in positive ways. They tend toward having a keen interest in things going forward in beneficial ways, so much so that they are often highly skilled at refusing to sweat the small stuff. Every group is better off if it contains at least one sanguine personality.

Now, this next part comes from fairy legends. It’s said that many fairies are highly educated and practiced in reducing human beings to their temperament categories. Goodness knows why. They have a fifth temperament that they recognize. It’s called fang.

Fang indicates the temperament of a bad person, as in an evil person. If someone is disposed toward being too mean and destructive, they are said to be fang. Those who are fang are none of the other temperaments so long as they remain fang.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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