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@Aeris I wasn't talking about weed. I was talking specifically about sexual neediness in men.

By your logic, all presidents would have to be populists because otherwise they couldn't get elected. Yet most presidents have not been populists. So clearly non-populist candidates win often and populist candidates lose often.

In practice this is solved simply by over-satisfying your needs. So if you're needy with girls, go sleep with 10-20 girls and your neediness will drop significantly. You cannot just wish your neediness away. The process you go through to successfully sleep with 10-20 females will cure you of much neediness. But it will be challenging process. Don't expect it to be easy. You will fail a lot. And that's exactly what will beat the neediness out of you. Every girl you lose will teach you a valuable lesson. You will come face-to-face with the ugliness of your own neediness.

@Nak Khid Stop speculating about God. This is a total waste of time. Do the practices or do not. But do not speculate about metaphysical issues. All understanding about God must come from direct personal experience. All guesswork and speculation is wrong.

Hehehe... The whole point of spirituality is to face what is true and face all of one's fears. Your father will never awaken so long as he fears seeing sinister astral beings. All fear is fear of one's own consciousness. And until this is full realized, one will never awaken. He should take psychedelics precisely because he fears them. What he really fears is himself.

@Strangeloop You are misinterpreting things I said and confusing yourself. Stop twisting things into pretzels. Sometimes a thing means exactly what it says.

If you ever realize what God is, the first words you will think are OH MY GOD! Until such time you have no idea what that phrase means or why it is used around the world.

Sigh... You have no idea what I said.

Exactly

How on Earth can you reach such a conclusion from that set of facts? When you hear a phone call, you hear a phone call. That is it. It has no more meaning than that. The rest is your interpretation, imagination, and projection. "A phone call about a pizza means there must be a pizza somewhere and therefore an external reality" << This is your projection. What's real is PRECISELY what appears. If you don't see a pizza, it isn't. If you imagine there is a pizza, that's exactly what's true: you imagining a pizza. If you think there's an external reality, that's exactly what's true: you are thinking there's an external reality. But notice, thinking there is an external reality does not mean there is an external reality. Everything is exactly what it is. Nothing more, nothing less.

A better analogy would be that every psychedelic is like a different musical instrument. You can hit the same notes using a trumpet, a piano, or a clarinet, but they will sound different. It's too challenging to describe differences in psychedelics using words. You must directly experience their differences to understand.

I have not noticed any difference in memory after 70+ trips.

Psychotic states are no different really than "normal" states. Consciousness can take on an infinite number of states. All states are part of the Absolute. The only way to access the Absolute is through direct self-realization. It is not even a process. There is no method. Either you are conscious of yourself as God or you are not. The Absolute is not a belief. It's happening right now. The point is not to enter some one true state. The point is to go meta and instantly realize the nature of all possible states, penetrating through them all. The mistake you're making is thinking of awakening as some kind of special state or position, when it is the transcendence of all states and positions. Once you transcend everything, there can no longer be a question about delusion or psychosis or "Is this real?" or "But how can I be sure?" or "But what if I'm wrong?" No! All of that junk is transcended. Not in theory but actually. It is in fact insane to believe there is a difference between reality and psychosis.

Locked for low quality.

How does it not? Would you make love to a female who never washed her underwear?

Reality is structured to maximize love.

@Nak Khid I agree we need some kind of carbon tax which might make such businesses like cruise ships unprofitable.

@Beginner Mind Who are you communicating with right now? You are conflating absolute and relative matters. No-self is a facet of the Absolute. "Other" is a relative construction.

@Lento The contemplation of questions like What is desire? is an important aspect of this work. Don't poo-poo it, is the point.

You lack nuance, conflating absolute and relative domains. Just because there is an Ultimate Mystery doesn't mean we can't explain why there's shit in the toilet, and fix it. Your absolutist logic can be used to say, "Well, who really knows how the shit got there? It's all a grand mystery." Or maybe you just forgot to flush and are making up colorful spiritual stories to cover your ass.

You have to take into account, though, that if all those 1000s of people didn't go on that cruise, they would be polluting individually back at home. Don't forget to take into account how much 1000 people shit, piss, eat, buy, throw away, etc. in one week back at home. Don't forget to factor in the cost of gas, oil, sewage, and water back at home. Just to stay alive requires pollution. How much do 1000 birds shit in one week? I'm not saying cruise ships aren't wasteful, but context is important. Of course 1000s of people gathered in a small space will create lots of pollution.

Unity is your True Nature. You get to it by stopping dividing the world.

You don't need to have a child to understand how love feels and works. There is no fundamental difference between loving a child, loving a dog, and loving a car. Obviously a mother's love is self-biased because the mother chooses to love "my child" rather than a million other children on the planet. That why I call it selfish. But it's still love. Love is love. We're just talking about degrees of limitation. Of course you could also say that a mother's love is selfless in that she would be willing to sacrifice herself for her child. But the same was true of Hitler. Hitler's love was also selfless in this sense because he was willing to sacrifice himself for his love of his country and his race. But as you can see, that was a very limited form of love. The point is, much higher levels of love are possible.

Now you're getting into word games.

Yes, that's life. That's a tricky balancing act. You are God in human form, so you both seek the infinite and the finite and you're torn between the two. You are divided. You seek unity but you don't know how to get there so you grasp around in the dark and you are addicted to division, so every time you grasp you make another division, thinking it will bring you to unity.