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@Phoenixx The point of human life is become more conscious of what you are and what reality is. This requires raising awareness of oneself through self-reflection, contemplation, inquiry, meditation, disciplined practices, etc.

@OmniYoga The I you think you are is conceptual. It exists as a concept. In the same way that Santa Claus exists conceptually. Which is you say, the human self is imaginary. You are imagining that you were born. This a story you tell yourself to create a sense of self. Think of it this way: just because you have a thought about something -- like Santa Claus living on Mars -- doesn't mean that thought refers to anything in the real world. So the question is: why you assume that body is "yours"? Why isn't that body the universe's? See, you've confused the universe and yourself. Or to put it more accurately: the universe believes it is a human. In the Absolute sense, there is only the universe believing it is a human. The universe is trying to act human to convince itself that it is human. But it's just the universe. The human part is imaginary.

@abrakamowse "He" is you. Watch out for subtle ways in which "otherize" God. God is not some other, nor some external authority -- it is you.

Unfortunately this is no minor disagreement. This goes against the core of my highest teaching. My highest teaching is: 1) You are God 2) Truth = Love This is what I am guiding you guys to realize. I don't want this teaching corrupted or made shallow with neo-Advaita or Buddhism or some Jed McKenna silliness. What I teach is distinct from all that.

Just different.

Absolutely not. We talk not talking about gym class yoga here. We are talking about meditative yoga. These are totally different things. No. This is delusion. You need to access nondual states of consciousness to really grow. You have not even begun human growth until you've had your first mystical experience. This doesn't mean that all spirituality boils down to chasing mystical experiences, but you need some first hand experience of samadhi states. If you are not inclined to be spiritual then go watch some cartoons or whatever.

@Scholar I think you're nitpicking a bit. Not every Green person is some animal rights activist. Plenty of Green people eat animals and don't think much about animal rights. That's not what defines Green.

Because that is a very different trip.

@yellowschnee That is not nearly a high enough dose. You'd need double that for a chance of breakthrough via plugging.

@Arhattobe And my point is that not having any mystical peaks at all is the greater danger for most people. The biggest problem with people is that they are so lazy and complacent they have zero mystical experience. They do not even know this domain exists. So they have no will to meditate seriously. I find that spiritually adept folks do not appreciate how unspiritual average folks are. Just keep that in mind. Because you walked this path sober you have an highly unusual degree of baseline awareness, wisdom, and motivation -- which 99% of people do not have.

@yellowschnee I have not had much luck plugging N,N-DMT. You'd have to plug a BIG dose of it, and even then I'm not sure if it would yield a breakthrough. What was your dose?

You are wrong. You have simply not awoken to what God or Love are. Emptiness is, ironically, just one facet of a much deeper thing which you have yet to access. You have not accessed it because self-inquiry is not a very effective tool to get there. And these various Buddhist and Neo-advaitan approaches which are popular today are fundamentally dogmatic and shallow. The realization of Emptiness and No-self is just the beginning of this work, which you have mistaken for the end. If you are not conscious that you are God and that you are imagining all of physical reality, your awakening is skin deep. And if you are not conscious that Truth and Love are identical, again, your awakening is skin deep. Everything I say here on this matter I have personally verified and become directly conscious of. And so have others before me. I have told you guys many times, you don't understand how deep this goes. If you do not want to follow my teachings to God and Love, then this is not the right place for you. This is not something I will compromise on. There is enough ignorance around here as it is to have to deal with supposedly awake people who deny God and Love. You can fool yourself, but you ain't foolin me. God's eye is watching you. You are being guided here to something far deeper than you yet understand. If you doubt that, by all means, do your own thing or follow some other teacher.

That could happen. But the psychedelic helps to purify the mind, body, and heart. It's an incremental process of purification. Self-deception is always a danger, psychedelic or no.

1) Things are under the universe's control. But luckily you are the whole universe. 2) Death is something you're imagining right now. 3) Yes, you can break the chains of past and future by realizing that past and future are something you are imagining right now.

Advanced alien beings might not have much of a government. For example, I don't imagine DMT machine elves have giant bureaucracies and empires. LOL. Although who knows?

@Omni In my Spiral Dynamics - Important Nuances video I actually mention how regression might happen. Regression occurs when survival is severely threatened, but it should bounce back once the survival threat is handled. For an individual regression might happen if your business or marriage suddenly collapses. For a society regression might happen if there is a nuclear war or an economic depression. It also depends on how well established you are in a stage. If you're deep established regression will be much less likely than if you are just at the entry point of a stage. But generally speaking, a stage Yellow person is never going to regress to a stage Blue fundamentalist.

That is true, but irrelevant because we are stuck here now.

@zeroISinfinity Watch your blabbermouthery.

This is an independent factor from Sprial Dynamics. I would call it a type, similar to masculine/feminine or personality types. A type should theoretically exist at any stage. But some types might be too limited to rise to the highest stages in practice. I doubt you can have a stage Yellow clinically retarded person. Remember that SD is a model which tracks averages. It will not address all the weird edge-cases of the human psyche. There are some serious freaks of nature who must be considered uniquely.

@Pernani Sweet! Nice share!

Hard to say. He's definitely a very intelligent, highly developed stage Green at least. Probably some shades of Yellow, but also probably held back by the lack of knowing Spiral Dynamics and what Yellow even is. To really get into solid Yellow it's extremely important to learn Spiral Dynamics so one can explicitly see the whole Spiral at work in society.

@Matt8800 Thanks for the details responses. Do you have any sense of whether it's possible to materialize a physical object through pure Will? Like a marble or a coin? And what is it that prevents this? I'm still trying to figure out the precise connection between Will and physical manifestation. I know that God's Will manifests all of physical reality, but I'm not clear why I don't have access to change it, since I am God -- what prevents this access? Any insights on that? And have you had any experience tapping into and shifting collective consciousness? Like the consciousness of the entire human species? Healing the species as a whole, for example.

@Matt8800 I have some questions for ya: 1) Were you born with paranormal abilities? Did you have them from a very early age? If not, how did you develop them? 2) Do you believe that everyone can develop them? How do you account for the fact that most people have no paranormal experiences while paranormally gifted folks do? 3) How do you understand the relationship between awakening and the paranormal? Clearly you can have one without the other. But also, how are they related? 4) Why are some people so much more paranormally gifted than others? 5) What is your understanding of psychic healing? How does it work? What makes it work? Why is it not always 100% effective? What is required to develop this ability to an effective level? 6) List which paranormal abilities you've been able to personally validate and which ones not.

A revealing look into your psyche, eh?