Exploring Self
  The shift is not a thing. It is the action of increasing your self-awareness.

Bennett posts:

Hello everyone. Sumafi aligned sumari intermediate here.(i love being able to type that and having people understand what i mean )

Ive been into elias and the other spooks for about half a year now. its really changed my life and im having an awesome time discovering myself and the world "seperate" from me

Anyway i think interacting with some like-minded eliasheads would be great fun. Heres looking forward to shifting with you all!

Ben

Marina posts:

Bennett wrote:

Hello everyone. Sumafi aligned sumari intermediate here.(i love being able to type that and having people understand what i mean )

Hi Bennett, a hug from another intermediate (Sumafi belonging) .

Maybe we can share some thoughts about the way we see things through our intermediate glasses. So far I've mostly been interacting with commons and a few softies .

Marina

Bennett posts:

Hey marina

Gosh life as an intermediate is pretty interesting isnt it

I, as you, have interacted mostly with commons and softies. Im still learning about the other orientations and how to differentiate between the commons and the softs. Im pretty good at spotting the other rare intermediates that i come across, and my focus on self often leaves me lumping people into either "intermediate" or "the other ones" haha

of course im used to the whole "your sorta quiet" and "why dont you go out more" from people i interact with but now that i know what being intermediate really is all about im embracing myself rather than shunning or trying to fix myself. Its extremely liberating!

sylvii posts:

Welcome, Bennett!

Etheric Dreamer posts:

Welcome, from a fellow newbie! I thought I might be intermediate, but I'm not sure I undertand the concept well enough to judge. If it's all right to ask in this thread (I'd rather not derail it), what criteria do you usualy use in figuring out if someone is intermediate?

Bennett posts:

A strong focus on self. You percieve everything around you in relation to self. Your energy flows inward. You are generally quiet and might find small talk unnecessary and/or boring. You feel drained after hanging out with large groups of people. You attach yourself to one or two other people in a group and generally ignore the rest. some may call you self-absorbed.

those are just some of the attributes i can come up with right now. some apply to some intermediates, some dont. theres alot more to a persons personality than just orientation

Rob_Niven posts:

hey,


i do that and i,m common… that intermediate thing you said, i do.

i do that and im sumari thought focused belonging sumafi and common… not in that order.


yea, common, thats the name of the street i live on, but damned be like viel i pierce: aint nothing says: " i dont perceive intermediate." (even a common)


Some prominence may be in order but for no reason I be denied myself the other two reasons for manifestation..hehe


just saying….

Bennett posts:

maybe i am your intermediate manfiestation

Rob_Niven posts:

perhaps you are common and I am intermediate?

Marina posts:

I can relate to this - though I wouldn't term myself quiet and sometimes I do enjoy small talks very much but it depends - as you said - on the people. Mostly people and events (in general) slip my radar and I may appear quite uncaring .

Markus posts:

Hi Bennett,

welcome on board

Bennett wrote:

A strong focus on self. You percieve everything around you in relation to self. Your energy flows inward. You are generally quiet and might find small talk unnecessary and/or boring. You feel drained after hanging out with large groups of people. You attach yourself to one or two other people in a group and generally ignore the rest. some may call you self-absorbed. those are just some of the attributes i can come up with right now. some apply to some intermediates, some dont. theres alot more to a persons personality than just orientation

Well, the way you describe it I could be intermediate … it's just that (according to Elias) I'm common as common can be


Markus

sylvii posts:

Personally, I believe that any individual can be anything he/she chooses to be.

Example: is an individual expresses belief that he/she is all of the orientations….all of the labels……then, voila! If he/she perceives it and expresses belief, then guess what? that is what he/she creates in their reality.

….don'tcha' think?


Pay me no mind this a.m. my 'talk button' is stuck in 'on' position and I'm just posting everyplace, it seems.

Markus posts:

Yeah, it's one of the reasons why I'm not paying any attentions to those labels anymore. Not that I think they're not true, it's just that I think I don't nearly understand what they really refer to.


Markus

sylvii posts:

"Not that I think they're not true, it's just that I think I don't nearly understand what they really refer to."

Markus, we are on the same page with that one!

Marina posts:

sylvii wrote:

Markus, we are on the same page with that one!

Yep, let's start a club. I also don't know how my orientation influences my perception. And when I remember the two or three other intermediates I've met on BF I didn't feel familiar with them though according to Elias people of like orientation communicate very easily with one another.