hello. I'm wondering if people are willing to share their backgrounds, life experience, and education?

For example,

Name:
Age:
Sex:
Marital Status:
Current education and degrees:
Current interests:
Near-term goals:
Far-term goals:
Current position:
What do you do or plan to do to expand consciousness or awareness?
Anything else:

Name: Chris
Age: 28
Sex: Male
Marital Status: Partime Parent
Current education and degrees: Highschool equivalent, working on Computer Science and Mathematics degree.
Current interests: Ancient Societies, Religious Thought, Philosophy, Science, Art
Near-term goals: Get back upto speed with degree level mathematics
Far-term goals: Learn Egyptian heiroglyphs, understand more of the worlds creation stories and religious myths.
Current position: 12 years working experience in software development.

What do you do or plan to do to expand consciousness or awareness?

I want to find peace within myself to enable me to focus my energy into a single purpose, rather than the scattering of energies that I am currently undergoing. It seems my passion comes in bursts that last a few month then wane, I want to work at increasing my focus indefinately and finish more projects, artistic and academic.

I will sparingly experiment with more hallucinogens, mescaline and DMT. I will try and reduce my intake of "bad" substances to purify myself (smoking, alcohol, sugar, fat, unnatural drugs). I am considering an intensive meditation week to boost my amateurish attempts to a workable level.

Name: Casey
Age: 21
Sex: Male
Marital Status: unmarried (far too young)
Education: A few weeks from a B.S. in Psychology

Current interests:
Chemistry
Biology
Quantum Mechanics
Philosophy
Cognitive Psychology
Drugs and Medicine
Artifical Intelligence
Paintball
Skiing
Snowboarding
Martial Arts
Running
Music
Video Games

Near-term goals:
Graduation

Far-term goals:
I simply want to live a fulfilling life and contribute to society. Simple goal, eh?

Current position: Student/Computer Technician

What do you do or plan to do to expand consciousness or awareness?
Self reflection. I also browse this board to add your ideas to my own

Anything else:
I'm really not weird. You probably couldn't pick me out of a crowd.

For example,

Name: Murray
Age: 30
Sex: male
Marital Status: single
Current education and degrees:PhD / MSc

Current interests:Epistemology, Philosophy, Math- Elliptic Curve Cryptography, (organic) Chemistry, Sanskrit, Botany, Psychedelics- tribal, Singularity and psytrance

Near-term goals: one more continent then I have completed all and do another 2 years in silence in a monastery (Nepal)

Far-term goals: Professorship

Current position: Associate Professor
What do you do or plan to do to expand consciousness or awareness?

Look at all technology at hand and integrate it with the personal experiments I have already conducted

Anything else: ,,,,,

Name: Matthew
Age: 24
Sex: Male
Marital Status:Single
Current education and degrees: Bachelor of Science (Honours) majored in chemistry and pharmacology
Currently in the very early stages of completing a PhD (Pharmacology)

Current interests: Martial arts (tai chi and free form weapons), qi gong, altered states (natural and artificial), mental health, drug dependence, chemistry of sex and emotions

Near-term goals: Design projects to study
Far-term goals: Travel, travel, travel...
Current position: Student

What do you do or plan to do to expand consciousness or awareness?
Practice.
Research it, experience it, sometimes tell people about it

Anything else:
Not at the moment

Name: Emma

Age:33

Sex:Female

Marital Status:Married

Current education and degrees:

Unfortunately i didnt go school much spent the time there acting the class clown or getting bullied so skived off I soon discovered some mad people with mad lives and spent most of my school day discovering skyhighatry and being naughy driving cars and playing stock cars down country lanes and escaping blue lights , I made up for education at night school quite a few years afterwards, I found it really hard going into a college enviroment as I suffered really bad panic attacks but found explaining that to the college they really went out thier way to help me feel at ease, I went from reaching the front gates and having to go home because i panicked so much i would be sick to really getting into being around other people and really enjoying attending. Over the last couple of yrs I got my C grade in GCSE English and I learnt basic maths for a yr and shocked myself after taking my GCSE in Maths and got a C!!!!!! I have completed my GNVQ in Information and communication technology on foundation level and went on to yr 2 but unfortunately as i had to leave college earlier to get back to my town to pick my little lad up on time from nursury closing 1 particular teacher decided i wasnt forfilling the criteria by putting in the right amount of hrs needed to pass the course that there was no way i could carry on, grrrrr how frustrating is that. I would like to go back college and learn some more when the possibity is feasable around 3 kids and thier needs, unfortunately money limits me to online courses but i have discovered the internet and its many sites of information I try to keep my brain active and on a voyage of self discovery and some likeminded people, think im doing quite well.


Current interests:

My mind and everyone elses and if im the madest, lol, I am really interested in learning about science and new discoveries and about physics and also about new age stuff like crystals and healing as i can divine with crystals and can channel my energies i really would love to be able to get a qualification in Reiki and practice healing. I have also had a few experiences with ghosts and other unexplainable phenomena that I am interested in keeping an open mind on reality and possibilities and any experiences others have to share. I practice meditation and relaxation on a regular basis and like to see where it takes me and learn from it. I smoke weed quite a lot as I find it really helps me with my chrones disease which i am long term sick with and which is ' a pain in the ass' constantly. I also have long term mental illness which goes back years, but as with my Chrones I am trying to live as normal life as possible and have a good sense of humour about it all as lifes too short!

Near-term goals:

Err, pay the bills and put food on the table and get to age 20 on brain trianing, lol, My goals are making the life of my children a happy one by spending as much time playing with them and giving them opportunities to discover new things by taking them new places and explaining how stuff works etc. I dont have much material wise and dont have a goal to get anything much other than a bigger house as I have a 2 bedroom house and my bedroom a temporary put up bed in the front room, the goal of a real bed and more space would be heaven My goal is to keep a great relationship going with my husband and family.

Far-term goals:

Find out everything there is to know about everything i am interested in learning, seeing where the search takes me this week. Affording a car would be nice and open up a new freedom to explore, im working on that one. My long term goal is to get through the life i have left on this planet being positive towards other people and even though life throws some negative people and situations my way try and learn from the experiences and try to show people theres a more positive way to live thier lives even though it may fall on deaf ears. I want to watch my children grow up with respect for themselves, others and the planet we live on hopefully i can make a change in the way the world is heading, even if it is just a tiny one of being a good parent.

Current position:

Long term sick, chrones disease and mental illness, My last job was putting on rave events and as a promotor, a lot of time and not very well paid, but the events attracted some very positive individuals and the opportunity to meet each other and have a good night partying. Im an 18 yr old school raver and love what the scene promoted of togetherness and oneness, having it as a job was very forfilling especially meeting some famous djs and mcs i had followed for yrs. Dream come true.

What do you do or plan to do to expand consciousness or awareness?

Im interested in listening to what people have to say and sharing my own experiences of life the universe and everything. In life I like to meet people and share my views on life and hopefully provoke thought on being more positive to one another and other possibilities to how life is at the moment on this planet.

Anything else

Peace, love, unity and respect