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“I have become aware of a study that was done a few years ago in which the researcher found that when a person is at the point of taking their life, if they were to just get up and start to walk around that within fifteen or twenty minutes the endorphins in their brain would suppress the impulse to take their life. It doesn’t mean they won’t try again, but it does buy them a bit more time to reach out if they choose to. Often when I connect with someone who has taken their life I am shown or made to feel woozy or out of balance. This has become a sign to me that the person was either on drugs or had consumed alcohol. This leads me to believe that some people in the throes of taking their lives may not have the “nerve” to do the act, so they inhibit their coping mechanisms by getting drunk or taking drugs. Autopsies are not always done for suicides, though sometimes they are. An autopsy is the only way to know if a loved one altered their state to have a better”
Jake Samoyedny, Gatekeeper of the Invisible Door: True Stories of Children In Spirit

“If we do nothing but enjoy a day, no matter how small and petty it may seem, we’ve accomplished something valuable. Everything we do, everything we imagine has value and purpose. Every existence has meaning.”
Natalie Sudman, Application of Impossible Things - My Near Death Experience in Iraq

P.M.H. Atwater
“Imagination Versus Imaginal The difference between these two is important for us to know. Imagination is intentional fabrication, where we make it up from our own minds, feelings, and preferences. Imaginal is what is presented to us, intact, from and within a world that is as real as what we see, touch, hear, feel, smell, and know intellectually. Imaginal realms exist beyond the three-dimensional world, where things are real in the sense that they are not being imagined for our own liking or benefit. Imaginal imagery has integrity yet exists apart from what we create or control. Let”
P.M.H. Atwater, A Manual for Developing Humans

“Basically stated, your bullshit is when you look out upon the world and think [whatever it is] should be different.”
Sean Webb, Mind Hacking Happiness Volume I: The Quickest Way to Happiness and Controlling Your Mind

Ibram X. Kendi
“Black men raised in the top 1 percent by millionaires are as likely to be incarcerated as White men raised in households earning $36,000.”
Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

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