lulu cohen

The brain predicts, filters, and selects reality in real time. The body is already acting, orienting, reacting. Then thought shows up and says: “this is what’s happening” So in that sense, thought is often a storyteller arriving slightly late, pretending it was in charge That’s why we can: form opinions instantly, then justify them afterward, feel something and only later explain why. But thoughts still shape the future Thoughts don’t usually create reality in the moment but they train the system that generates your next moment They influence, what you notice, what you ignore, what feels safe vs threatening, how your body prepares (tension, openness, readiness) Over time, that becomes a biasing system So if your thought pattern is, this will go wrong”, your system scans for threat, you behave differently, outcomes shift Not magic, more like perception steering behavior across time. There’s something underneath, body state, nervous system tone, memory + patterning, what your system expects is “real”. Thoughts sit on top of that. Which means most of what shapes your life is pre-verbal. In the moment thought mostly explains. Across time thought participates in shaping. At the deepest level neither thought nor external events are primary, it’s the patterned system generating both. A cleaner way to hold it is thoughts are feedback loops inside a prediction system. Some loops reinforce the same life Some loops gradually change it Thought didn’t cause it, but it can either lock it in or let it stabilize. Thought does not write the moment. It teaches the system what to write next. Thoughts are not the author, they are more like: editing suggestions inside a system that decides what gets printed. The “system” includes: nervous system state (safe vs threat), body patterns (tension, openness), memory + conditioning, attention filters (what gets noticed), behavior (micro-choices you don’t even realize you’re making) “I repeatedly orient this way, my system adapts, my behavior shifts, different outcomes emerge” It could be that thoughts don’t create reality. They help train the system that interacts with reality. I notice this a lot with my own aging and one simple aspect of safety being proprioception. Nothing that I am consciously aware of weakening or ever thought that I needed to condition. That can show up as, overthinking simple movements, bracing before action, reduced exploration, even subtle social hesitation (less embodied presence). Not because of “mindset”but because the body’s map is less precise. A lot of what we call confidence,clarity, even “being present” is actually, awell-calibrated body in space. Not a mental achievement. When the body knows where it is, the mind stops trying to guess. This is just an example of how mind, body, GTO, fascia work together to create how we perceive and interact with reality.

Are your thoughts creating your life… or just explaining it after it happens?

@QuantumTumbler @joyousplanet_1 @wewearlife This may be a stupid question but …. Is this the reason things remain separate? My arm is resting on the table, but doesn’t fall through the table or become the table. Is there some kind of intelligence when everything knows what it should attract or repel?

Yeah indirectly, but not in the way people usually picture it. Your body isn’t held together by “magnets” snapping things into place. It’s held together by electromagnetic forces between atoms and molecules. Electrons interact, form bonds, and those bonds create structure cells, tissues, everything. Magnetism is part of electromagnetism, but the dominant piece in your body is electric interactions (chemical bonds), not bulk magnetism like a fridge magnet. Same underlying force though. So yeah… your body, the floor, everything solid it’s all electromagnetic structure holding itself together. Nothing is actually “touching.”

Magnets are way stranger than most people realize. When you stick two magnets together, nothing is actually “touching.” What you’re feeling isn’t contact. It’s force. At the smallest level, magnets come from electrons tiny charged particles that are always moving and spinning. That motion creates a magnetic field. And a magnetic field isn’t a thing you can see. It’s more like a set of rules in space that says “if something charged comes here, this is how it has to move.” So when two magnets pull toward each other or push away… they’re not grabbing each other. They’re interacting through invisible structure. Even weirder 🤯 Magnetism and electricity are actually the same thing. A moving electric charge creates magnetism. And changing magnetism creates electricity. That’s how generators work. That’s how power plants work. So every time you turn something on… you’re using motion and invisible fields to move electrons through matter. No contact required. Just structure. The wild part? Everything you think of as “solid” is held together the same way. Not by things touching… but by forces preventing them from collapsing into each other. You don’t feel objects. You feel electromagnetic resistance.

Today I sat on a park bench with Jesus. The man not the deity, the icon, or the doctrine. The human. I’m not religious. I don’t read or quote much scripture. I’m a bit suspect, especially since he didn’t actually write it. As I sat with him, nothing amazing happened. No grand healing. No awakening. I wept. I’m weeping a bit now as I type this. Why I wept, I don’t really know. It wasn’t sorrow or joy. The time was silent. There was no agenda. No questions. No answers. His being communicated everything. There was no pressure to explain, perform, or stabilize. Vigilance dropped. Nothing needed fixing. I didn’t have to hold myself together anymore. I honestly got more from this experience than I ever have from sacraments, classes, or church services. The simplicity of what occurred was profound especially in a world where we carry grief for a long time, stay functional, and regulate ourselves without collapsing. Perhaps the tears come not because things are worse, but because they’re finally safe enough to come. I wasn’t crying to Jesus. I cried because I didn’t have to be brave for that hour. I teared up because I imagined being in the presence of someone who did not require anything from me. Funny, when I first considered the question, “If you could pick any person, living or dead, to sit with on a park bench for an hour, who would it be?”, I chose Jesus because I thought he would heal me, enlighten me, fix me. What actually happened was much more. I was given total permission to be as I am. When that permission arrived, emotion followed immediately. Not because it was dramatic but because my body finally stood down in the presence of someone who did not recoil from my pain, did not need me to be different, and was not trying to fix me. So I wept.

@Petswithaura Love Punch

Mom checked carefully to make sure there were no injuries, and once she confirmed everything was fine, she snuggled up, and Punch-kun fell asleep 🐒💤

Most people think perception is about seeing what’s there. It’s not. It’s about guessing what’s there… and correcting the guess. That’s not philosophy. That’s how every intelligent system actually works. Your brain does it. AI models do it. Radar systems do it. Even autonomous vehicles do it. They’re all running the same loop. predict → compare → correct. Your brain isn’t building reality from scratch in real time. It’s constantly predicting what should be there, and your senses send back one thing the error. The difference between what you expected and what actually happened. AI works the same way. It doesn’t “know truth.” It predicts the most likely next step based on patterns. And when there’s a gap, it doesn’t stop it fills it. Smoothly. Confidently. Even if it’s wrong. Radar systems follow that exact same structure. They don’t just detect objects they predict where something should be, then update based on the signal that comes back. But when the signal gets weak or noisy, the system doesn’t go blind. It starts tracking ghosts. Different systems. Same architecture. And they all fail the same way. Not because they’re stupid but because they become too consistent with themselves. When prediction gets stronger than correction, the system stops listening to reality and starts listening to its own model of it. That’s when you get delusions in the brain, hallucinations in AI, and false tracks in radar. It’s not random. It’s structural. The system didn’t lose intelligence. It lost grounding. And once that happens, the loop closes in on itself. Everything still looks coherent. Everything still feels like it makes sense. But it’s no longer anchored to what’s actually there. That’s the line most people miss. Belief, expectation, and internal models can absolutely change how you feel, what you notice, and how you respond. But they don’t change what exists outside of you, or how external systems behave independent of your perception. Reality doesn’t need your agreement to function. It only needs you to stay connected to it. If you remember one thing, make it this. Any system that predicts faster than it corrects will eventually start believing itself. That applies to minds, machines, models… even entire groups of people. Stay grounded. That’s the whole game. 🎮

Now you know Totally fair question—this is just basic hygiene, and there is a way to make it cleaner and less stressful. A few simple techniques: 1. Use more toilet paper than you think Fold it into a thicker pad (not crumpled). That creates a barrier between your hand and… the situation. 2. Wipe front to back Reach from behind if that feels more natural—most people find it gives better control and keeps things cleaner. 3. Go gently, not aggressively You don’t need to scrub. Wipe, check, repeat with fresh paper until it comes away clean. 4. Wet wipes (game changer) If you have access: •Use unscented baby wipes or flushable wipes (but don’t flush unless they’re truly septic-safe) •They clean much more effectively than dry paper 5. Bidet = elite level If you ever want the easiest, cleanest option: •A simple bidet attachment rinses everything with water •Then you just pat dry with paper—almost no mess at all 6. Wash your hands after (always) Even if you did everything perfectly. If you’re still getting stuff on your hands, it’s usually just a paper thickness or technique issue—not you doing something “wrong.” Easy fix once you adjust.

“Hey chat gpt how do I wipe poo poo off my bum bum with it getting it on my hands 😔”

@MbarkCherguia A brook if it’s babbling. A creek if it’s crabbling.

What do you call this where your from?

@buitengebieden Heaven

When a service dog sits in front of you on a plane.. 😅

My question and what I looked into is, what difference does it make? The brain evolved for survival not metaphysics. The difference is not in the mechanics of belief, it’s in the felt relationship to reality. If ontology and epistemology are separate: We are a subject inside a vast external machine. Reality feels outside. We are small within it. If they are inseparable, The we are a local expression of reality knowing itself. Reality feels participatory. We are within it, not merely inside it. Same perceptions, different sense of belonging. The events don’t change. The intimacy does. If we are separate from reality: we are fragile inside something vast and indifferent. If you are an expression of reality: we are not an accident in the cosmos. We are each one of its gestures. This doesn’t eliminate pain. But it reduces: alienation cosmic loneliness the feeling of being misplaced It shifts from: “I am in the universe” to “I am the universe happening here” Same life. Different existential posture. If reality is separate, unknowns are gaps in knowledge. If reality is participatory: mystery is inherent, like a mirror that cannot see its own silvering. Wonder replaces frustration. We stop trying to stand outside existence to explain it. We relax into being part of the unfolding.

You’re still missing the point. Your claim was that my beliefs would be identical if ontology = epistemology. But that only works if you assume the method we use to justify beliefs determines what exists. It doesn’t. Science is an epistemology a method for evaluating evidence. Ontology is about what exists independently of our current knowledge. Confusing those two is the exact category error that’s been pointed out repeatedly. @gork

Calling it a “simulation” doesn’t actually explain anything it just moves the question one step back. If the universe is a simulation, then you still have to explain • where the computer running it exists • what physics that computer obeys • who built it and how • why the laws inside the simulation are so consistent and measurable In other words, simulation theory doesn’t solve the problem of reality it just relocates it. The universe we can observe still follows stable physical laws that we can measure and test. Calling it a simulation doesn’t add explanatory power unless it produces testable predictions.

@QuantumTumbler @RiffWanderer 🤣😵‍💫🤣

@RiffWanderer Sir this is a Wendy’s.

Well, anyone can say words. This one seems to be spending most of their time making sure that everyone gets his superiority. He just used your platform to promote his book because you have more followers. “If you’re not mindful, you shouldn’t be here.” What does that even mean? Now I’m bored so guess I’m not. Or am I??? All I know is that I cannot wait for his book.

You originally commented “this is so wrong” under a post explaining why the universe existed for billions of years before any human observers. I asked a simple question: which specific claim in that post is incorrect, and what evidence contradicts it? Instead of addressing that, the conversation shifted to whether I’m using AI, my comprehension, and a future book you plan to release. None of that answers the original question. If something in the post is wrong, point to the specific statement and explain what evidence contradicts it. Otherwise this isn’t a discussion about the argument anymore.

@DavidWolfe Gosh, I have no idea. After a lifetime of struggling with her weight. Perhaps magic?

Many people are asking how Oprah dropped so much weight. What’s your theory?

A quick reality check. There’s a growing trend of people claiming that reality is somehow “rendered by the mind” that the world only exists inside consciousness. Stop for a moment and follow that idea to its conclusion. The universe is ~13.8 billion years old. Earth is ~4.5 billion years old. Life on this planet evolved over billions of years. Human beings appeared only very recently in that timeline. Stars formed. Galaxies collided. Oceans filled. Continents shifted. Entire species lived and went extinct long before a single human brain ever existed. Reality was unfolding long before there was anyone around to perceive it. Which means something important. Consciousness did not bring the universe into existence. What the brain does produce is experience an internal model built from sensory signals so an organism can navigate the world around it. The brain doesn’t generate reality. It interprets it. The car in front of you isn’t there because someone notices it. It’s noticed because light reflects from it and reaches a nervous system capable of processing it. Confusing perception of reality with creation of reality is where people slide into mysticism or ego-centered philosophy. The universe does not require a witness in order to exist. It existed before any observer. It will continue long after the last one is gone. Consciousness is not the author of reality. It is a very small window through which reality briefly becomes aware of itself.

Beautiful, As I was reading this I wondering who it was too. My mind went to this poem by Jack Spice as my interpretation turned to self LOVE AFTER LOVE
by Derek Walcott The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

You never made me feel the need to hide the broken and the ugliest parts inside— no flinch, no recoil, no averted gaze, just steady eyes that met my jagged maze. You never asked me to conceal the scars, the crooked seams, the places torn by wars, the shadows I had cursed and tried to kill, the pieces I despised with all my will. Instead you sat beside them in the dust, unafraid of rot, unhurried, without trust that beauty must arrive in perfect form— you showed me grace can shelter every storm. You taught me how to hold the hated things, not bury them beneath new coverings, but cradle them like children long denied, and whisper soft that they no longer hide. You showed me healing is no violent art, no scraping clean, no tearing flesh apart— it is the patient hand that learns to trace each fracture line with slow, forgiving grace. You let me rage against the parts I loathed, then gently turned my fury to a oath: “I will accept what once I tried to break, for every shard is part of what I make.” You never forced the light into my cracks, you simply waited till the darkness lacks the power to convince me I’m too wrong to ever sing again the same old song. And in your quiet, fearless company, I learned the ugliest can still be free— to breathe, to weep, to slowly start to mend, to find the beauty waiting at the end. So thank you, love, for never asking less than every fractured piece, no more, no less— you taught me how to let the broken heal, and how to love the wounds I used to conceal. Now every hated fragment finds its place, accepted, held, restored by gentle grace— because you saw, and stayed, and never fled from all the ugly truths inside my head. You never made me hide. You taught me how to rise— whole, scarred, and finally at peace with my own eyes.

@des_bond @QuantumTumbler @spaztictabby @joyousplanet_1 @tetro_silva @TheCore1724808 @BiancaBellChamb @pammersmck @kratko8 @arielebrizuena @AndreaDavi79577 @grok @isa44385440 @KingSatine @tommy1ausdemTal @mcgovern_xiii @rubinas @peterthenobody @DeeGeeAynaia @neospirituality @CptKosmo @IAmKebbie @Roccah101 @nunyardie Funny, never thought about it but I definitely favor my left for the tilt.

@QuantumTumbler @spaztictabby @joyousplanet_1 @cohens1 @tetro_silva @TheCore1724808 @BiancaBellChamb @pammersmck @kratko8 @arielebrizuena @AndreaDavi79577 @grok @isa44385440 @KingSatine @tommy1ausdemTal @mcgovern_xiii @rubinas @peterthenobody @DeeGeeAynaia @neospirituality @CptKosmo @IAmKebbie @Roccah101 @nunyardie right

Beliefs about music’s power to heal the mind, body, and spirit date back to the Upper Paleolithic era, around 20,000 years ago, when ancient shamans and other healers used drumming in the hopes of curing a wide range of maladies, from mental disorders to wounds and illnesses. Our word shaman comes from the Russian shaman, for person of special status within a tribe who acts as an intermediary between the natural and the supernatural worlds, to foretell the future, cure illnesses, and control spiritual forces. The term was originally applied to the Tungusic peoples of northeast Asia. (It is often broadly applied to any ancient or modern person who “travels” in non-ordinary reality to gain information and possibly to heal spiritual, mental, or physical ills, such as the Inuit angakok, the Mentawai sikerei, the Korean mu, the Azande bomu nga, and the !Kung n/um k’ausi.) The shaman, medicine man or medicine woman, medium, or psychic who is entrusted with healing powers is a cultural universal, recurring across human societies and nearly every hunter-gatherer tribe. The shamanistic tradition was begun by women, and contrary to popular misconception, it was far from a men-only profession. Shamanism is just one historic antecedent of twenty-first-century music therapy. During the 11th century BCE, near the end of his life, King Saul suffered from periodic depression and agitation. On such occasions, we’re told, he would summon David, the same David who battled Goliath, and who was reputed to be among the greatest musicians in the kingdom. David would take the lyre and play it; Saul would find relief and feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him. (1 Samuel 16:23 NIV) David could slay a giant with a rock, and depression with a lyre. The origins of music for healing are as old as our species and are still practiced by a majority of peoples in the world today; music’s ability to heal, to provide a brighter day, to promote physical and mental health, knows no boundaries of language or culture. As Longfellow famously penned: Music is the universal language of mankind. Centuries earlier, a continent away, Confucius wrote: Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

@QuantumTumbler @spaztictabby @joyousplanet_1 @des_bond @tetro_silva @TheCore1724808 @BiancaBellChamb @pammersmck @kratko8 @arielebrizuena @AndreaDavi79577 @grok @isa44385440 @KingSatine @tommy1ausdemTal @mcgovern_xiii @rubinas @peterthenobody @DeeGeeAynaia @neospirituality @CptKosmo @IAmKebbie @Roccah101 @nunyardie Left

@spaztictabby @joyousplanet_1 @des_bond @cohens1 @tetro_silva @TheCore1724808 @BiancaBellChamb @pammersmck @kratko8 @arielebrizuena @AndreaDavi79577 @grok @isa44385440 @KingSatine @tommy1ausdemTal @mcgovern_xiii @rubinas @peterthenobody @DeeGeeAynaia @neospirituality @CptKosmo @IAmKebbie @Roccah101 @nunyardie Do you tilt to the left or the right 😅😂??

@spaztictabby @QuantumTumbler @tetro_silva @TheCore1724808 @joyousplanet_1 @BiancaBellChamb @pammersmck @kratko8 @des_bond @arielebrizuena @AndreaDavi79577 @grok @isa44385440 @KingSatine @tommy1ausdemTal @mcgovern_xiii @rubinas @peterthenobody @DeeGeeAynaia @neospirituality @CptKosmo @IAmKebbie @Roccah101 @nunyardie Why would people care about what someone else likes to eat? Seriously, something is wrong with them not you.

@spaztictabby @QuantumTumbler @tetro_silva @TheCore1724808 @joyousplanet_1 @BiancaBellChamb @pammersmck @kratko8 @des_bond @arielebrizuena @AndreaDavi79577 @grok @isa44385440 @KingSatine @tommy1ausdemTal @mcgovern_xiii @rubinas @peterthenobody @DeeGeeAynaia @neospirituality @CptKosmo @IAmKebbie @Roccah101 @nunyardie It’s amazing to me, looking back at my childhood, at how awfully adults are permitted to treat children. I’ll think back on experiences now and think. “Wait, I was 6 years old.” Then I envision the adult me giving that kid a hug. It actually helps.

@QuantumTumbler @spaztictabby @des_bond @tetro_silva @TheCore1724808 @joyousplanet_1 @BiancaBellChamb @pammersmck @kratko8 @arielebrizuena @AndreaDavi79577 @grok @isa44385440 @KingSatine @tommy1ausdemTal @mcgovern_xiii @rubinas @peterthenobody @DeeGeeAynaia @neospirituality @CptKosmo @IAmKebbie @Roccah101 @nunyardie There is a place in Nor Cal called Swanton Berry Farm. It is on the 1 just past Half Moon Bay. You can pick your own, strawberries and blackberries. There is something special about picking berries on a bluff looking over the pacific.

@spaztictabby @des_bond @tetro_silva @TheCore1724808 @joyousplanet_1 @BiancaBellChamb @pammersmck @cohens1 @kratko8 @arielebrizuena @AndreaDavi79577 @grok @isa44385440 @KingSatine @tommy1ausdemTal @mcgovern_xiii @rubinas @peterthenobody @DeeGeeAynaia @neospirituality @CptKosmo @IAmKebbie @Roccah101 @nunyardie That sounds like an awesome childhood honestly. There’s something about fruit you pick yourself that just tastes better. Apples straight off the tree and wild berries feel like a completely different food compared to store-bought. 💙

@spaztictabby @tetro_silva @QuantumTumbler @TheCore1724808 @joyousplanet_1 @BiancaBellChamb @pammersmck @kratko8 @des_bond @arielebrizuena @AndreaDavi79577 @grok @isa44385440 @KingSatine @tommy1ausdemTal @mcgovern_xiii @rubinas @peterthenobody @DeeGeeAynaia @neospirituality @CptKosmo @IAmKebbie @Roccah101 @nunyardie What? For 16. I sell them for 1.99 at the most. I don’t remember exactly.