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I saw the recent post regarding geographical MEs & thought I'd share my own, with a couple of unusual ones, but I'm not unique in remembering the first 2 below, I've seen other people mention them but they are few & far between as far as I'm aware.

From many years ago I have 2 district memories of this,

Japan was directly opposite the round bulge of China, it's now much further north.

The Korean peninsula was attached to the bottom of China, what in the current reality would be South East Asia area.. nowhere near Russia, which North Korea shares a border with now.

Sri Lanka has moved considerably north, it use to be below the southernmost tip of India (& smaller). Adam's Bridge is a 48-kilometer (30-mile) chain of natural limestone shoals and sandbanks connecting Pamban Island off Tamil Nadu India, to Mannar Island off the northwestern coast of Sri Lanka. This island bridge then was almost north south direction, now it's almost east to west.

Also New Zealand was further out in the Pacific & higher up than it is today.

Australia never had the huge spike at the top of the country, the spike looks completely out of place to me, it was a more rounded off coastline.

Alan says it's like a man trying to lift himself up by his boot laces, now this can seem depressing when looked at one way, but he also alluded to just be your genuine & true to yourself self.. not try endlessly to impress or seek approval from others.

Some thoughts,

The age of Kali Yuga (Hinduism, similar ideas in Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism etc ).

The last of the four great yuga cycles or epochs.

Kali Yuga then, the age of decline & deterioration of the world & of spiritual degeneration, materialism & of societal decay, kali meaning darkness.. the dark age which we are said to be in now.

The first age (Satya Yuga) was the golden age a time of great harmony, beauty & innocence, as when the world was new.

Birth, youth, old age, death ( then beyond, the afterworld where we are actually from, higher dimension beings) reincarnation if we choose it.

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter.

The Yuga's then repeat.

The ME is a signpost of a greater or higher reality.

I would say this & from my own experiences throughout my life,

What we perceive to be reality is actually a type of dream, death is simply the doorway that returns us to the infinite.

There is a greater reality behind all of this (world).

The present doesn't come from the past & It never did

We tend to think that what happened in the past determines what is going to happen.

The present isn't caused by or emerging from the past—it's the other way around, everything arises fresh right now, out of "nowhere" like sound emerging from silence

The past trails behind the present like the wake of a ship and eventually disappears.

The universe (or your life) is continually beginning in the present moment.

Its also about getting out of our normal ruts of thinking about the world.