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I have disabled both my Facebook and my WhatsApp accounts. Instagram is also gone, but I rarely used it anyway.
Goodbye, Zuckerberg, and thanks for all the fish.

Federica said:
Excuse my absence, and my asking... How are things?

Well… I have detailed my stepfathers last days here:

https://newbuddhist.com/discussion/27287/difficult-moments

And I have talked about my mothers health difficulties the following year here:

https://newbuddhist.com/discussion/27603/more-difficult-moments

It’s been quite a tough year. Lots of to’ing and fro’ing to hospitals, but at least my mother is stable and can eat and drink again, even if she still suffers from reduced hearing, eyesight, balance and the lack of one vocal cord. She is managing, and with the two of us we are ok in cooking and cleaning and caring for each other.

One of the things I felt while watching the film, is that close family ties, of mothers and sons, and man and woman in particular, are important to our spiritual selves. In Buddhist life, not much attention is paid to this, and in Osho’s teaching, he holds that family ties are unimportant, except that he said about himself that he had spent various past lives with different people.

But I think the people we spend our lives with definitely leave traces in our spiritual selves. In a way the film slightly reminded me of Michael Newton’s book Journey of Souls, which was less bound to ideas of the psychic body, but had some similar thoughts about families of souls.