Leo Gura

Lol Because you are conscious! Consciousness is all there is. There is no such thing as unconsciousness. Unconsciousness is an illusion. Anything you imagine, including non-existence or unconsciousness is happening within consciousness! So non-existence is actually impossible. You have to be vary careful here not to conflate objects within consciousness with consciousness itself. Pure empty consciousness cannot be destroyed. Objects within consciousness arise and pass away all the time, like images on a TV screen. If you're coming from the materialist paradigm, you hold consciousness is a biological product of a material reality. This is completely incorrect. Consciousness is not a biological or even a physical thing. It has nothing to do with your body or brain, or even life.

This is a terrible false equivalency. Government is not fundamentally divisive. Do not equate government with nationalist political movements. Also do not conflate quality government with authoritarianism.

Everything is consciousness interacting with itself. LSD doesn't give vision, it just expands and changes what consciousness is doing. It changes the rules by which consciousness operates. Everything you call material is actually immaterial. A rock is happening in your consciousness.

@ImHooper Your thinking about this whole thing is precisely backwards. It would not be love if it was coerced or mandated. The whole point of love is that's totally free and optional. No one forces God to love, love is chosen freely. Love is its own point and reward. If you expect a reward for loving, or a punishment for not-loving, then you're not actually loving a thing, you're being coerced. God does not coerce anyone. You are totally free to be monster and kill everyone on the planet. The point is, if you were conscious and intelligent you would never do that, you would choose love instead. Not because there is some external reason, but simply because a conscious person chooses to be Good, chooses to be Love, because that's what he wants to be. If you learn that life is a dream and this makes you eager to go on a killing spree, that shows us your true colors. That shows us your level of consciousness. A highly conscious person would choose to love even in a dream, because love is true colors. You choose to be love because you want to be love not because you have to be love.

Yes

You see shit every night in your dreams. Take enough LSD and you will be able to see through closed eyelids. Your eyes do not actually "see" anything.

@CreamCat It's all far more twisted than you can imagine. The fact is, you haven't ever seen "a human" or "yourself". Those are conceptual constructions. You are not a human. Humans are something you made up! It's rather like Super Mario World. Mario thinks that eating a mushrooms causes him to grow in size, but actually the mushroom has no actual causal effect. It's the computer which is causing the entire world of Mario to act as it does, of which Mario is totally unaware.

From what I've seen most of them are Orange. They think they've figured out the world but really they're just evolved out of Blue traditional thinking. Maybe some Green.

It's okay to have weaknesses. We all have them. They are only a problem if you let them get out of hand. I wouldn't try to turn your weaknesses into strengths but rather patch them up enough till they aren't wrecking your life. Then focus on your strengths. Belly of the Whale or Threshold Guardians. That's pretty vague. It could be various things. But just speaking in gross generalities here: the hero's ultimate obstacle is the ego. So in the Belly of The Whale is where he faces his greatest enemy: himself. The ego is broken down through intense suffering, the old hero dies, a new hero is reborn, and then it is this new hero who slays the dragon. Facing your own death is another way to put it.

Nationalism isn't bad because good and bad do not exist. But nationalism is problematic because it is divisive. It fails to recongize and honor the fundamental unity of all human beings by pitting one tribe of humans against another. It inevitably leads to hatred, violence, and war. Nationalism is the prime example of collective ego in action. So nationalism suffers from all the same problems at excessive ego suffers from. And ultimately it ends up destroying itself. Being passionate about ego, judgment, hatred, division, and violence is very problematic. Passion alone isn't enough, it must be channeled towards love rather than fear and hate. All nationalist movements are fundamentally fear-based. They come from a position of scarcity and falsehood. They are anti-spiritual. A high consciousness being will have a loving, inclusive, global perspective. Not a narrow, divisive, tribal one. If you were totally conscious you would have absolutely nothing to defend or fear, and you would not judge or hate anyone or anything.

No, I was instantly good

@Samantha If you really feel called to serve the world, by all means go for it. The point is simply a very practical one: the older you get the less time you have to build a foundation from scratch and the less energy you will have to work with. This is not meant to be a limiting belief, but a factual statement. If this statement wasn't factual the question of age wouldn't even arise at all. It's not that you can't do it, it's just that maybe there's an even bigger game you could play! Which is spirituality. One of the best benefits of being older and retired is that you can really focus on spiritual work in a way that people who are building careers cannot. Starting a new business or career takes a lot of time and energy which could be used for spiritual work. But it all depends on your priorities. The best you can do is follow your heart. You know in Hinduism they have a pretty nice model for how to structure one's life: Phase 1 of life: Growing up to adulthood, education Phase 2 of life: Getting a job, having a family, taking care of them Phase 3 of life: After the kids are grown and out of the house, and your finances are stabilized, you retire and pursue enlightenment full time. This is really supposed to be the pinnacle of life. Not a downer. Then you after your enlightenment you can become a guru and contribute wisdom back to the young. It's a pretty good model. Of course you can break all the rules and do whatever you want.

@Ar_Senses Very good self-analysis there.

It's far too dangerous to use. Don't do it. You can seriously injure yourself and undermine your growth. Stick to safe and well-proven psychedelics.

That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is that there is one Universal Mind which is simultaneously dreaming an infinite number of individual dreams, all of them interconnected with each other. I have used the analogy before of an infinite sponge, where each bubble represents one dream.

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Infinity is not about the physical dimensions of space, time, or the universe. We are not simply saying that time and space extend forever without end. It's way bigger and more profound than that. We are saying that consciousness itself is Infinite. We are saying that Mind is Infinite. Meaning that it can dream up an infinite number of things out of thin air. Start to think of the universe not as a physical space, but one dream within an Infinite Mind.

It's a tricky matter. Ultimately everything is God's will. But you just so happen to be God

Careful! Perception is not actually happening via the brain or the eyeballs. Perception as it is commonly understood is not really happening at all. It's a conceptual scheme you're imagining. BEING is what's really happening, not perception. Perception is BEING co-opted by ego/devil. Without the ego, perception does not occur. But this doesn't mean that colors and sensations vanish, they simply get recontextualized as something other than "my perceptions". The very notion of "perception" is already infected with ego because it assumes that perceptions are things which happens to you through your nervous system. This is not actually true. Perceptions are not caused by the nervous system. You merely imagine they are. In fact, you imagine your entire nervous system. "My nervous system" is a sneaky metaphysical construct which you use to ground your sense of reality. It would be helpful to stop believing in perceptions or a nervous system. You must completely unground your sense of solid reality. Your mind must become so free that you cannot even tell what a human body or a coffee table is, because those are all conceptual things. You must even forget that you are on a planet Earth or inside a physical universe, since those are all conceptual projections which are grounding the ego. You must reach a point where your entire sensory field is free of all conceptual interpretations or groundings. At this point, you will not know what anything is. You will look at your hand and not even recognize it as a hand. You will not know what "hands" are. Because "a hand" is actually a conceptual construction. You actually have no idea what that thing called "a hand" is. Even to call it a "thing" is already incorrect. This is extremely tricky and subtle stuff. I cannot stress that enough.

And how is it you are going to achieve that when all of your fear is grounded in duality? Nondualty is not an ideology, theory, or even a worldview. It is the very nature of yourself and existence. So long as you are operating from duality, you will never be able to overcome fear, master your emotions, or move away from animal behavior. Nor will you ever be cool, calm, collected, or happy. Because all of that is the foundation of being an separate ego self. You're not appreciating yet how deep all of your emotional problems go. They are not something you can just solve with a few self-help techniques. To resolve those issues requires that you literally experience your own death because death is what you're running away from. Nor will you be able to resolves those issues within the materialist paradigm. The benefit to you of nonduality is that you will experience what it means to live for the very fist time in your life. Everything you've done up to this point was a sick joke. You have never actually lived yet. The way life works is: you only get what you give.

Goovy! It's not that the machine elves are playing your life though. They would not interfere with a human's free will. That would be improper for a highly conscious being to do, defeating the whole purpose of incarnation. Also, reincarnation is more complex than simply becoming a machine elf. Free will would also be exercised in the reincarnation process. Think of it more like this: You are deciding who you want to be based on what you need to further evolve your consciousness. Becoming a machine elf would make sense IF one has fully exhausted the lessons of being a physical entity like a human. I would guess that most humans will not become machine elves because they still have much to learn about being human.

@Joker_Theory You're not likely to understand it without psychedelics. It is nothing you can imagine or think. Yet you're inside of it right now and every word you type is it.

@Ampresus Become friendly with her social circle in a chill, casual way. Tell them a funny story or something like that. Or ask them some opinion opener like, "Hey girls, I need your opinion on something..." and then think some interesting topic to ask them about like: "Does it count as cheating if my friend has a girlfriend but he's texting other girls?" Something gossipy like that is good. Then you can focus more on chatting her up individually. "Hey girl, you look like the biggest troublemaker of this bunch. It's the quiet ones which are the biggest troublemakers. Hey, has anyone told you yet how beautiful I am? ;)" The biggest secret for attracting girls is simply to learn to be more social. Practice starting random conversations with strangers. It's hella hard to build attraction through social media. Your odds will be much higher in person where you can charm her a bit with words. And it will build better charming skills for you. In school girls most get attracted to the guys with the most social status. Being a loner is not helping your cause. It'd be better if you built a circle of your own friends. This shows you're a somebody. Then your odds will improve.

Sounds like your neediness spooked her away. Or she just wasn't that into you. Sometimes a girl will lose attraction for you after the first date because she doesn't quite resonate with your style. But if you did 3 whole dates and made out a bunch of times, clearly she was into it. A girl will not make out with you unless she is interested in sleeping with you. In fact, my rule of thumb is, if a girl is willing to go on a first date with you at all, she's already accepted that you are fuckable. She would never agree to go on a date with a guy she thought was unfuckable. So ALWAYS assume it's ON at day 1! Never doubt whether she wants to sleep with you. Always assume YES! Just maybe not on the first date. But by date 3 you should definitely close it. Of course if she tells you No! then you stop. If a girl is into you she responda to texts quickly and eagerly. Often within minutes. Days between texts is a horrible sign. 3 day+ between texts and she might as well be dead. Girls will NEVER reject a guy explicitly. They will always just delay and ignore or come up with lame excuses. You have to get good at reading between the lines and suss out when she is wasting your time with endless delay tactics.

@SriBhagwanYogi The only environment you need is a quiet room. Kriya yoga is meant to be practiced alone. It is not a group activity.