Alessa, did you report my reply of 30 minutes ago for inappropriate content?

Seems like you’re quite upset. Anything I can do to help?

🤍 Anita

Dear Thomas:

It’s nothing new, me sending inquiries (“a furry of contacys”, your words 😁) to members who haven’t posted for a while. I’ve done it dozens of times over the years, particularly when it’s slow 🐌 in the forums.

I genuinely enjoy communicating with people in real-life and online.

Thank you for your support, Thomas, and I value your recent responses to members (I read each and every one). I appreciate your unique style and humor 😀.

“If there is no I, what is it that becomes enlightened?”-

Hmm.. Well, my answer: There is an I, of course there’s an I. I suppose to be enlightened means to see that the “I” (this person, me) is not the only person that exists or matters.

Maybe Enlightenment is the opposite of Narcissism..?

I thought about you when zI heard today that there’s a “parking emergency” where you live, meaning if you don’t move your car, you’re fined a 100p dollars?

🤍 ❄️ Anita

Continuing my thoughts, Thomas: I very much relate to what you said recently, “I am a practical man”. That was the last sentence you submitted in a post six days ago, I think.

I am a practical person too, and seems to me that a portion of the Non-Duality crowd has taken things to.. impractical extremes, unreal, unrealistic, using literal language where figurative would be appropriate.

I mean, saying language is of the ego.. while using language to say just that. Well, if language is of the ego, and ego is a sort of.. the devil, why are you talking (using language)?.

I understand that underneath and beyond our transient human life, there is something more, something bigger, deeper.. but as long as we are humans, we are.. not abstracts. We can’t be none I’s. We can’t die while we’re still alive.

The extreme language and/ or the abstract language of non- duality is .. well, extreme, touching on Crazy 🤪

❄️ 🐌 🤔 🌙 Anita

Dear Alessa:

I hear how much you’re seeing and dealing with in your community. It sounds incredibly stressful for many people around you (as it is indeed for so many people around the world). I appreciate you sharing your perspective — it helps me understand what things feel like on the ground where you are.

Also, seeing how strongly you distrust AI, how negatively you feel about it, I will respectfully not mention it in posts I address to you in the future.

🤍 Anita

Dear Alessa:

You mentioned concluding your IT studies in two years. I am impressed by how persistent you’ve been in your studies while so much of your time and energy has gone into being a dedicated parent and dealing with health issues.

Truly, you are an inspiration 🤞👏👍

I am no stranger to financial worries, by the way. I just try to distract myself best I can. I’m avoidance, I guess 😔.

Also, my tendency is to be distrustful. I am working on it.

🤍 Anita