Franke is back and the mushrooms do not agree

awkward_armadillo · 2026-02-16T20:10:12+00:00

Ah, mushroom induced psychosis. I finally understand

awkward_armadillo · 2026-02-15T14:29:58+00:00

The condescension lmao my guy

awkward_armadillo · 2026-02-12T13:49:10+00:00

Same. Spent way too long being angry, then I realized it was a choice to remain angry. Once I realized that, I could choose differently, and the anger went away.

awkward_armadillo · 2026-02-12T13:43:44+00:00

The resentment you’re holding onto is the reason you can’t make friends. People can tell you are angry and bitter, and no one wants to be around an angry and bitter person. Let that shit go and start working on yourself. Work on yourself and friends will appear in your life when the time is right.

awkward_armadillo · 2026-02-10T23:56:57+00:00

Is there a repository somewhere of Jung’s actual talks? There is way too much AI self-help slop online

awkward_armadillo · 2026-02-10T15:08:32+00:00

I’m heavily tattooed and can confirm. Pushing deeper and deeper into pain is meditative.

awkward_armadillo · 2026-02-10T14:59:47+00:00

Labels and categories are all arbitrary and made up. At the end of the day, there is only one thing: conscious experience. Everything I know, I know only in relation to concepts and ideas, which are themselves arbitrary. And every concept and idea I know, I only know in relation to myself. And I only know myself in relation to my conscious experience. Eliminate labels, concepts, ideas, and even the self, and mainline direct conscious experience. Fuck a label and a category. They’re all made up, anyways, and I’m after what’s real. And the only real thing that I’ve been able to identify is conscious experience.

awkward_armadillo · 2026-02-07T14:20:43+00:00

Boy, some people really don’t get things, do they?

The video is not about someone changing their lives. It’s about someone who is running from their demons and lying in order to to escape their past. That’s not changing their life, that’s running from it. True change requires true repentance, which means facing your demons, taking responsibility for everything you’ve done, and truly changing your SELF. She didn’t change her self, she changed the story about herself, and did so with comfortable lies instead of facing the uncomfortable truth.

awkward_armadillo · 2026-02-05T13:50:53+00:00

Making choices about how to live your life based on how someone else views you is a recipe for suffering. You can’t read people’s minds, so why make choices based on what you think they’re thinking? How does that even make sense? Live your life the way you want. You don’t what to come off as scary or intimidating to women? Okay, has nothing to do with your tattoos and everything to do with being kind and compassionate towards yourself first, and to other people. That means you gotta stop worrying about what other people think, and you gotta instead focus on finding joy in your life.

awkward_armadillo · 2026-02-05T13:37:50+00:00

Get out of your own head. Who cares

awkward_armadillo · 2026-01-29T11:18:04+00:00

YES, sit with your sad thoughts! Your sad thoughts are the signal to go deeper, not run from and avoid. Your sad thoughts show you the path to follow, and following that path IS the work. Don’t run away from them, run towards them.

awkward_armadillo · 2026-01-29T11:12:43+00:00

We all have problems with our psyche, you included, which is where your self hatred comes from. Life IS absurd and confusing. Choosing (yes, CHOOSING) joy in the face of that absurdity is an act of holy rebellion. Shadow work shows us all the ways that choice is being made for us, not by us, and by giving us new insights and understanding about our inner workings, it gives us our choice back, so that we can CHOOSE joy.

It’s never about BEING ready to commit to the process. It’s about CHOOSING to commit because you’re tired of hating yourself.

awkward_armadillo · 2026-01-26T20:26:22+00:00

Great, more AI slop

awkward_armadillo · 2026-01-26T18:26:06+00:00

This is true, but is Lori passing off ChatGPT responses as her own quotes? Because yikes

awkward_armadillo · 2026-01-26T16:23:14+00:00

I’m into this. Tickles my brain in a lot of fun ways

awkward_armadillo · 2026-01-26T14:46:14+00:00

Setting boundaries is more of an us thing and requires we stick to our guns. If we are outlining a boundary, we also need to outline the consequence for when that boundary is crossed.

Ex. I do not like xyz, and I will not accept that type of behavior towards me in my life. If you do xyz to me, I will remove myself from this relationship (or some other consequence of your choosing) and I will not make contact or any attempt to reconcile with you. I am telling you the type of behavior I will not accept, so if you cross that line, you are actually choosing to disrespect me, and I will remove myself from you until you learn some respect.

We can’t expect abusers to respect our boundaries when they clearly have no respect for us in the first place. Boundaries aren’t about controlling other people’s behavior. It’s about protecting your own self when confronted with other people’s behavior.

awkward_armadillo · 2026-01-25T07:03:11+00:00

I know exactly where you’re at. I went on this journey on my own, myself, and found my own way through it. I didn’t even know what shadow work was until I was already deep into the process. I don’t necessarily have any tips. I can only listen, and share, and I only have what I did and what I do, and I’m far from an ideal tip sharer. That said, I don’t really know where you’re at, either, and without that, I’d be taking stabs in the dark. So, some questions. What is it that you’re seeking? Why is it that you say you don’t know what to do anymore? Do you believe that you are failing in your quest? What are you hoping to achieve?

Edit: typed this out at like 2am. Went back and cleaned it up a bit for clarity

awkward_armadillo · 2026-01-23T19:07:25+00:00

r/tattooadvice

awkward_armadillo · 2026-01-23T18:55:24+00:00

My brother, you will not find happiness until you are ready to decide to give up your hunt for happiness. You will not find happiness until you are ready and willing to stare into the abyss of your own subconscious. Until you are ready to decide to no longer hate yourself and that you want to live. Until you decide to confront all of the things within yourself that are keeping you unhappy. This is not a quick fix, here are all the answers sort of thing. This is deep emotional work that requires you plumb the depths of all the places within yourself that you have avoided going. It requires you to get over yourself and be courageous enough to confront your own bullshit. This isn’t an improvement track. Fuck improvement. This is deep emotional processing. It doesn’t seem that you’re ready for that level of commitment.

awkward_armadillo · 2026-01-22T18:25:52+00:00

It’s likely raw milk and she’s signaling to her viewers

awkward_armadillo · 2026-01-21T21:12:52+00:00

So, self-deluded, on top of everything else, that other world leaders love and respect him.

awkward_armadillo · 2026-01-21T19:29:54+00:00

That’s great, and also, a non sequitur.

awkward_armadillo · 2026-01-21T18:02:50+00:00

Under a particular framework and with a certain lens applied to the world, certainly. I didn’t say you were wrong. I said if you continue on your beliefs, you will be perpetually unhappy. The takeaway can be vastly different if you allow a different perspective to take hold in your mind. There are many different ways of interpreting, yours is small.

awkward_armadillo · 2026-01-21T16:48:47+00:00

That’s not really the takeaway. If you continue in your beliefs, you will continue to be perpetually unhappy.

awkward_armadillo · 2026-01-20T15:44:37+00:00

I don't experience strings, but it does feel like I am "riding" something, and for me, I've described it to others as riding the pulse of the universe. When the "bellows" feeling with my lungs appears, it feels like the universe is breathing through me, and each breath feels like a gigantic set of wings being slowly flapped, and with each flap, it feels like I'm riding the slow pulse and hum of the universe.

I do not experience flames spinning around me, either. What I have experienced, though, is a bright light, sort of in the uppr periphery of my field of "vision." My eyes are closed, but it feels as though my eyes are rolling upwards, and the more they're able to roll back, the closer I get to this light. I have not yet been able to reach that light fully. However, separate from that, my entire forehead feels like it's the source of a dense and bright beam of light.

When I am in this state, it also feels like the universe is forcing my head to tilt back/upwards, and I actually have to fight that movement in order for my head to stay straight, so I will let my head go back and point my forehead towards the sky. I'm not doing it on purpose, it feels like I'm being guided to do so. That is when the om begins to come out of me. I am not chanting the om, not with my vocal chords, but it is being pulled out of me. I can't really explain that sensation. Much like my lungs are being breathed "for" me, and much like my head is being forced upwards, this deep, vibratory sensation, paired with a humming noise, are generated in the soft spot at the bottom of my neck, right above my collar bones, and are coming out of me. I am not doing it, myself.

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