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  2. It’s interesting that Vivekananda’s writings emphasis rational thought. He sounds like a dry Western philosopher. I have been to the Vedanta Society and it has the feel of a protestant church service. But Vivekanda himself was an off the charts mystic at the same level as Yogananda. But he understood Western culture and only gave them what they could handle. When you see how Yogananda is ridiculed, it is easy to see the wisdom of his strategy.
  3. Good luck to him but I get a bad vibe with him and I always have. Probably the same reason i get bad vibes about Sadghuru. Businessmen and philosophers don't mix in my opinion.
  4. @Inliytened1 hey brotha. I’ve been lurking on this forum here and there since 2023, and your wisdom/words resonate with me the most. yours, along with @Leo Gura, @Breakingthewall , and some guy with a black persons profile pic (with sunglasses, i think he calls himself morpheus or something) posts catch my attention. I always wanted to reach out to ask questions to help me clear up my understanding of things but i’d get busy with life, and other times i couldnt find your old posts. i’ll preface by saying that i have consumed LSD once (as my first psychedelic), in 2012, at coachella, and experienced ego death and it was true hell because i remembered that im alone forever, always have been and always will be. Prior to this, i tempted god when i lost faith in god to show me himself if he truly exists; and during my trip, god telepathically told me “you wanted me to show myself right, well here i am” and i pleaded with regret to just go back to the illusory world i was used to, as i thought at this point i opened a can of worms that couldnt be undone anymore. It was so haunting and sad knowing that the actual truth of this life is horrific and i’ll always be stuck with it infinitely, and only by pretending/lying to myself forever i can cope with it. I went in not knowing anything about spirituality or philosophy; just wanted to take a “drug” to party, but it was nothing of the sort. What began as euophoric and noticing how similar my friends and i were, feeling a close bond to them, evolved into realizing that they literally are me (their voices were coming from within my mind, and not outside of me/thru their mouths as we perceive).. the soul that i always thought was inside them (as “other”), and of course everyone else in this world, was no longer a “separate” entity… rather it was just me this entire time like a ventriloquist pretending his puppet is a separate being, but its actually just the ventriloquist himself pretending to be the puppet by changing his voice, though in the dream/maya the ventriloquist is under a trance that blurs the knowledge of the fact that everyone is actually him. Another example is toy story, when Andy enters the room and all the toys lose “life” and lay on the ground… on LSD, thats what i experienced- that everyone i ever knew was always just a puppet, and all their personalities and voices and appearances just came internally from my (or the one and only’s) mind. It’s the same thing as when we go to sleep, in our dream those other characters are just our own mind… or in virtual reality, same thing. I did shrooms once after this, and experienced the same thing but to a shorter duration and less extreme, but it caused a panic attack. Is this considered enlightenment- those moments when I dissolved into that oneness? The main question I’ve been wanting to ask you is- why do you (and many others) say that enlightenment is “total bliss” or it’s something to desire and yearn for, and the most amazing love or euphoria or whatever.. when at the same time you have said you wouldnt wish it upon your worst enemy? And many also describe it as realizing that you are the one and only lonely kind trapped here for eternity and thats just the way it is. This is contradictory. I’ve seen comments on posts in the past from you, with takes from both sides. And by the way, as a result of the very few psychedelic trips, I became obsessed with learning more and read up so much philosophy… that i now believe in solipsism, as only it makes sense. The best way to explain/describe existence, is that its literally magick! Theres no other explanation.
  5. Bernardo Kastrup, contemporary idealist philosopher, and about to blow the shit out of the AI market and spreading idealism on top of billion dollar budgets: "Europe's last hope in the AI race - Europe must gain AI sovereignty; here's how they can do it": https://iai.tv/articles/europes-last-hope-in-the-ai-race-auid-3453?_auid=2020

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  8. I did stumble into such a psychic 15 years ago. But I haven't met another one like that. So perhaps it is very rare. I don't know.
  9. I think Descartes has to be there somewhere but I dont wanna list him too high because he got a lot of shit wrong.
  10. @Carl-Richard who are you favorite philosophers?
  11. I know you are a fan of Spinoza as am I. Marcus Aurelius is among my favorites.
  12. I was not referring to you specifically but the problem of projecting in general. If you want direct: the fact of the matter is anything can exist, and denying that anything can exist has nothing to do with non-duality. Even more direct: there is no "this" in my direct experience. That's a projection. Show me "this". You can't. Here is a 3-minute "overly conceptualized" deconstruction of solipsism having anything to do with non-duality, if my words (and Ramana lineage student Michael James') are too complicated:
  13. I recently visited a dear friend who is dying of a terminal disease. Way too young- not even to 45 years yet. I recall sitting by their bed as they struggled to breathe then turned to look outside the window- birds were flying and landing on the lawn right outside eating seeds and whatever else. Further down cars drove by in both directions- people going home from work, maybe a person driving home super happy after finally asking the woman he likes out on a date for the first time, maybe a guy driving home bored and questioning the career he’s in burned out from another long day. The moment really made me pause and shook me to the core in some way. One life fading away, moving into the everlasting mystery beyond the last breath. Outside birds doing their thing and humans driving back home none the wiser to the sadness behind the windows of the room. Why does it happen? I know the universe and all that is is far beyond our comprehension and understanding. Maybe it all happens in some small way for some big reason, maybe we’re all in an infinite holon type universe and each life is just a small brain wave in a much larger being and they have no idea what we even are- similar to how we have no idea what our cells or the bacteria in us are doing. Can immortal beings exist in some dimension? I imagine there are infinite dimensions- can there be one where a form exists outside of time and forever is in some way? Maybe even a way we can’t even fathom. I think back to that moment where my friend was struggling to hang on and at one moment they briefly woke up and we locked eyes. In some way I can’t describe we communicated to each other everything is going to be alright. As they fell back asleep I looked back outside and I felt confused- in an infinite beautiful universe why did we have forms come into being that had to die? And if they had to die why did we evolve to be so crushed by them passing away? I know deep down there is no real answer and this moment looking outside made me feel sad and alone. Deep down I know it was a profound moment and something important was there to be embraced- even as the tears started flowing.
  14. I feel like every Creator in a certain artform has good stuff. There's some doozies in there too, of course!
  15. Anyways Ralson has good stuff but for me I didn't really need it because you have Leo's stuff which he drew from Ralston and many other teachers. What I love about Leo was how his unending thirst for truth allowed him to gather from all of the greatest teachers and then put it all together in a simple way where anyone could understand.
  16. I wouldn't say that, necessarily, but if I met you in person my intuition would be stronger (in the sense of accuracy). Intuition runs on what information we have access to.
  17. Its like you can see through me. Your intuition is very strong. Thats one of the most essential aspects of intelligence
  18. I have a respect for feeling. It's a complex subject though. Intuition may be a form of feeling. But yeah! It's a kind of seeing.
  19. I get the same vibe from his work you do.. I can tell something about you. Your intuition is off the charts
  20. Today
  21. The vibe.
  22. What did you not like about his work? Curious.
  23. This form will be no more but life within you will go on. The beauty of life is in its transience.
  24. Participation trophies. People intellectualize and philosophize non-dual teachings without directly being conscious or at least shifting their state of consciousness, and they learn the password of "there is no self" lol
  25. Keep in mind that everything you see in Western media is propaganda designed to sell a particular narrative furthering the aims of the state. "Both America & Israel Have Officially Announced Direct Involvement in Iranian Disturbances’ – FM Araghchi ‘They are trying to turn these peaceful protests and demonstrations into violence and chaos,’ he noted. Araghchi cited a tweet from former CIA director Mike Pompeo which said that ‘Mossad agents were walking alongside Iranians in the streets.’" https://x.com/i/status/2009663959125856386
  26. Enlightenment karaoke, singing all the greatest hits "you're already it!" without writing any original music
  27. Totally. It's one of the best ever.
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