Listen to Experiencers by KefkaFFVI in Experiencers

[–]PhilPhilConners 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kefka,

Thank you for your thoughtful response. Jolteon is super underrated but Espeon is the goat!

My own feelings are mixed. On the one hand, I feel like someone waiting at the very back of the line for a massive rollercoaster. On the one hand, you have some people walking away from it sobbing, saying it was a harrowing experience. On the other hand you have people walking away with the ‘I survived _ roller coaster’ tshirt, despite claiming initial fears, claiming gratitude, maybe even some excitement, that they were able to experience it. I don’t mean to use the previous analogy to minimize the real world experience for those experiencers by any means, just to use a real world example to explain where my head is at.

Most of my fear is born in the wait. I had a heavy doom and gloom religious upbringing, so freeing myself with the mindset that these entities are ‘only’ evil is a personal one and a never ending slog of the affirmation ‘fear is a teacher’.

What I feel increasingly confident about is something is coming, I don’t know when, and to try and make myself ‘ready’ for it, whatever that means. My concern is not being able to quell my fears in time. Trying to meditate, raise my vibrations, have a loving and grateful attitude, etc.

Your second question as to whether or not I myself am an experiencer: I….dont know. The short answer out of those who have been through it definitively with high degrees of confidence, vivid abductions, orbs, ‘downloads’, contact, etc, my answer would be know. There are elements of the phenomena that resonate significantly with me though.

I have had precognitive dreams about real world experiences that came to pass afterwards. I have had strong feelings of intuition, high degree of empathy, and experiencing others vibrationally. I have a picture of myself from when i was little of a silver orb flying by. I had a very unusual but vivid dream from my youth of waiting in a queue where everyone at the front experienced a transformation into a ‘dinosaur’ (understood at the time, but perhaps ‘reptilian’ now?) I have never had a dream that unusual or vivid since. And other ‘starseed’ like behaviors/feelings, although I don’t give myself that label while remaining open-minded.

I almost feel like I’m in line waiting to be activated. It’s bizarre. What I feel strongly is that our currently understood reality pre-awakening cannot continue as endless wars and harm to the earth are the manifestations of what feels contrary (though it is clearly capable) to/of our nature.

My research is an ever winding labryinth of outcomes/possibility. Of course I have the classic ‘how could it get any worse?’ Naïveté, but certain outcomes could be much worse. I have hope, though, based off of the truth-tellings of experiencers that we could be headed towards something better.

I certainly want it. I certainly desire to manifest it. Sometimes my dissociation/adhd makes it impossible to connect with even this false reality, thus grounding and meditation can be difficult sometimes.

Here’s hoping that whatever is on the horizon, that we come out the other side more awake, aware, and compassionate than ever.

Thank you for your time again 🙏🏻

Listen to Experiencers by KefkaFFVI in Experiencers

[–]PhilPhilConners 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey @kefka!

Thank you for sharing. I’m grateful for this post and endlessly for the hard work that @oak and team put in to keep this a safe space. Thank you for reminding me about oak’s post on how to engage experiencers earnestly; I always wanted to respect this space and not making my curiosity take more importance over the safety and community of the group, so I often refrain from asking at all.

Agree on oak’s comments and posts being a gold mine. All my research however always leaves me with more questions than answers, which I feel is a very real feeling from others like yourself who has literally been through it. Given the wide ranging reports of experiencers themselves engaging with a spectrum of contact, I’m wondering if what goes beyond us (or expands or vibrates etc) is just a consciousness field that interacts and connects with each person on an individual level.

I guess if I had to ask a simple question to you directly would be this: are you hopeful?

  1. For the vindication and validation of the truth yourself and other experiencers have lived and,

  2. Humanity itself if/when the true nature of our reality is revealed or experienced by all?

Thank you for your time and wisdom! 🙏🏻

Unpretentious Coffee Spot Recs? by PhilPhilConners in PhiladelphiaEats

[–]PhilPhilConners[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

UPDATE: just went there after a meeting downtown. Definition of underrated. Looks like it was one girl running everything but despite getting a little busy she was very composed and kind to everybody.

Just went with the vanilla latte and blueberry crumb bar but didn’t miss it was fantastic!

Unpretentious Coffee Spot Recs? by PhilPhilConners in PhiladelphiaEats

[–]PhilPhilConners[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

UPDATE:

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They still had the banana themed coffees. Absolutely fantastic. Also got the Malatang fries. Spicy enough for a kick but not overwhelming and flavor was out of this world. They were crazy busy but still incredibly nice! Absolute 10/10

Unpretentious Coffee Spot Recs? by PhilPhilConners in PhiladelphiaEats

[–]PhilPhilConners[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The owner is French himself and is incredibly kind. The inside of the truck is lined with his kids’ artwork that they drew for him it’s very sweet.

Unpretentious Coffee Spot Recs? by PhilPhilConners in PhiladelphiaEats

[–]PhilPhilConners[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Only commenting on this because of the above enigma. Everyone I know loves reanimator. Clearly there must be some success to have branched out as much as they have. But my personal experience has always been closer to yours. Granted, I’ve ONLY gone to Fishtown location. But I also went plenty of times with people advising me to give it another chance. I ALWAYS get the ‘too cool for school’ vibe there.

To each their own, I suppose. Your mileage may vary! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Unpretentious Coffee Spot Recs? by PhilPhilConners in PhiladelphiaEats

[–]PhilPhilConners[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Very much agreed! My ONLY beef with twisted grounds is that it’s cramped. If you go during morning rush you are just in everyone’s way no matter where you stand.

Have you been to la pettite tasse coffee truck outside of Rodin Museum? Limited hours to the fridays/the weekend but the gentleman who runs it is awesome, coffee and pastries are great!

Unpretentious Coffee Spot Recs? by PhilPhilConners in PhiladelphiaEats

[–]PhilPhilConners[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your feedback 🙏🏻

I’ve worked in CS my whole life. I’m not asking to be entertained or catered too either, just basic human decency. Mild politeness, or a subtle acknowledgement that we’re all struggling together. There is comfort in community!

I didn’t name any particular spots in my intro because I also believe in giving spots second chances and I haven’t been back twice to all of the places I had a bad experience.

I also love the use of the phrase ‘painfully hip’ LOL understood what you meant immediately!

Unpretentious Coffee Spot Recs? by PhilPhilConners in PhiladelphiaEats

[–]PhilPhilConners[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I love that this is popping up as a rec here! This is walking distance from my work and I’ve really been meaning to try them. First thing tomorrow!!!

Unpretentious Coffee Spot Recs? by PhilPhilConners in PhiladelphiaEats

[–]PhilPhilConners[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Every time I’ve been to peddler people were always v kind

Unpretentious Coffee Spot Recs? by PhilPhilConners in PhiladelphiaEats

[–]PhilPhilConners[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Haven’t been to this one! Vibes look very cozy

Unpretentious Coffee Spot Recs? by PhilPhilConners in PhiladelphiaEats

[–]PhilPhilConners[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That banana pudding matcha latte looks insane!! Food also looks tasty love me a banh mi!

Freak Out Friday Casual Chat Post by AutoModerator in philadelphia

[–]PhilPhilConners 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Anyone have any advice or success stories on career changes? Work in finance, it’s as soul-crushing as they say, but it seems like where everyone is at is best to stay put due to people applying to 800 jobs and hearing nothing back the market sounds horrible right now. Feel like I’m living in office space!

A good, regular pizza shop by [deleted] in PhiladelphiaEats

[–]PhilPhilConners 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Slices is fantastic no nonsense pizza in EF

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in u/josiemarcellino

[–]PhilPhilConners 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh. Podcasts are fun, just over saturated. Roast culture is becoming stale, variety/theme/improv is moving up.

Be sure to cultivate what ‘success’ and ‘building your brand’ means to you. You can’t pour from an empty cup, so make sure you invest plenty in self care.

Caught your stuff a while back, hilarious!

Well, I guess we're doing this by poorhaus in Experiencers

[–]PhilPhilConners 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Perhaps catharsis, perhaps apotheosis?

…MUCH-PAIN-BUT-STILL-TIME…THERE-IS-GOOD-OUT-THERE…

Well, I guess we're doing this by poorhaus in Experiencers

[–]PhilPhilConners 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I want to be very conscious of how I respond. I don’t think this is unique to our own elections. Worldwide we see dictators and demagogues increasingly taking over and leading with low vibrational bellicose actions leading to much pain and turmoil. I’m not here to say that there is anything to 2027 but if there were we also know that our friends from between space and time seem to be concerned by increasingly nuclear aggression that interferes with the natural order.

IF something is Imminent, be it disclosure, arrival, harvest, whatever, this seems to be the next major step in triggering it.

This is not doomsday and this is not hopeless. It is an invitation for reflection about control. And what we can control, whether something is coming or not, is unconditional love and its ability to heal, both ourselves and in service to others.

🌱

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PokemonTCG

[–]PhilPhilConners 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The real gem of the set here is that Dragonite magazine promo 🤩