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Sometimes it can. But meditation is usually more focused on hitting higher states of consciousness rather than addressing buried psychological baggage. There are many layers to your mind which root many of your personal problems which meditation is largely unconcerned with. A lot of Zen masters and enlightened masters can still have significant shadow.

@leintdav000 You have to set your own challenges in school or anywhere else if you wanna be great. Ain't nothing more challenging than a 30 day solo retreat, balls to the wall towards awakening.

I mostly keep to myself. I'm not a very social person. I am happy rolling solo most of the time. A few intimate friends and lovers are no problem. Discussing with them is no problem usually.

Because society makes it easy, herding you into it like a sheep. Now you are on your own. You can actually learn much faster and deeper as an adult. But no one will motivate you. It's all on you. In fact, since you are now trying to move beyond the center of gravity of your culture, they will actively drag you down and discourage you from trying. So it's all on you twice over. Plus you gotta pay your bills, so it's all on you thrice over.

@Lynnel It's tricky for sure. It's not merely a matter of belief. Belief is not what creates your body, for example, but your body IS a hallucination. So this process of creation is not as easy a beleiving whatever the hell you want and it appears. But if you are tripping on psychedelics they open your mind up so much that you can literally imagine a devil and see it materialize before your eyes. But this is not just belief. It's the machinery of Universal Mind which spawns physical reality. You cannot access this machinery easily in ordinary states of human conscious. Because your sense of reality must be maintained to maintain your human life. Your mind works very hard to create a solid sense of "reality" otherwise the game of human life would be up. Fear is pervasive due to the ego's survival function and your belief in death. Growing up is all about learning to master your fear and negative thinking.

Yes and no. Since God is all God ultimately creates all. Since you are God, you create all, including your own suffering. That's the trickery of nonduality. All formulations of it never quite capture both sides of it.

@Shadowraix Yes, my first deepest 5-MeO breakthrough to God took over a year to integrate. It was traumatically profound. No words can do it justice.

Since you are God, you are the only authority that exists. So whatever you hold as the case becomes your reality. If you think you deserve punishment, you will get. If you think some adult is your authority figure, that becomes your reality. If you think you are crazy, you become so. What the psychedelic ultimately shows you is that all of reality is your own projection. So be careful what you think or you just might get it. If you think scary thoughts you will get scary experiences. That's how people create their own living hells. Such "bad" trips as yours are all part of the journey. It was exactly what you needed at this time in your life. The next trip will be different if you've learn your lessons. Such "bad" trips are necessary to teach you the importance of respecting these powerful substances. The lesson is: these are not toys. So next time you will be much more careful with your protocol, attitude, and setting.

Ennegram is also a type, like male/female.

@Aakash Truth is radical. It must be, since is has to account for EVERYTHING! Of course Truth and Love are identical.

Ironically practice can get in the way of spirituality in the same way that religious church rituals do. Yet at the same time, without serious practice you will not get very far. That's what makes this work so tricky. It's a catch-22.

Love is a very radical thing. God-like you might say

Yup!

Except since you are God, you get to say what happens. You have God's Will running right through you. If you say you don't want to utilize God's Will, or that you can't utlize God's Will, you've just utilized God's Will to limit yourself. God's Will is so powerful that it will let you deny yourself as God. It will let you seperate yourself from God to become a devil. And so here you are, human! Ta-da!

@mandyjw Exactly Creation does not have to be done out of lack. In fact, God created the whole universe not out lack but out of love. The highest creation is selfless and an end in itself. That is literally what the universe is! Ta-da!

This was explained in my last Spiral Dynamics video. No, you cannot map types to stages. Types are an independent axis. Just like how male/female cuts across all stages equally. Do not try to map males to Red or females to Green. Likewise with personality types. And stages and types are not the only axes. There is more. See my vid about that.

If you are God, the question then becomes, what do you want to create? Because creation is the only game in town and there is no one but you to tell you what you should create, so whatever you decide is worthwhile to do, is what you as God will create. If you decide that nothing is worthwhile to create, that will be what you created. If you decide to be an angle, that's how God created angels. If you decide to be a devil, that's how God created devils. If you don't decide anything and just follow the path of least resistance, that's how God created devils. Being a devil is the default condition. Being an angle takes deliberate intention. And so the world is exactly as it is. A perfect inevitability.

That is not what's being said. Liberation can reveal the emptiness of suffering but that doesn't help those who are not liberated. Which is why helping everyone awaken is a big goal of Buddhism and all spiritual traditions. The only way for the entire world to escape suffering is for the entire world to awaken together. That is exactly what evolution is moving towards: unity and love.

@Angelite Well, you'd have to become deeply conscious of what God is first to avoid that. Ego can certainly co-opt God for it own devilish purposes. That does not negate God in any way though. God is still there.

You are the one who keeps conflating those two.

The biggest problem affecting the world is that people don't meditate. If every politician meditated and woke up, world hunger and poverty would be solved overnight. All material world problems are the result of lack of consciousness and unconditional love. If people were conscious that they are God's, there would not be war, theft, rape, murder, slavery, exploitation, corruption, etc. Look at Trump. The only thing that can cure him is meditation, which he will of course never do. So the world is as ugly as it is. What you don't understand yet is that all political problems are self-created by people like you. Once you realize that you will see how all these problems can be solved. You cannot solve these problems at the level of consciousness that created them. I am not saying you should ignore poverty and war. Just the opposite, I am saying you should wake up and realize that you are contributing to them. Unconscious people are actually incapable of caring about ecology, poverty, inequality, and war. They only care about it when it serves their ego to do so. Thus nothing gets resolved because the care is not deep enough or all-inclusive enough. Egos resist equality because they are too threatened and scared by it. They are too busy hoarding resources for themsleves, thereby creating poverty, slavery, rape, genocide, and war.

Firstly, you CAN heal your body. Healing is an entire discipline. You can increase the heal rate of cancer through shear mind power. This has been proven by clinical science long ago. There exist clinics which teach how to heal cancer with mind power. And of course it works. Not 100%, but you'd be surprised how effective it can be. There also exist millions of psychic healers who can help heal you. The shit Jesus did is not merely a myth! An exceptionally conscious mystic will have psychic superpowers that you can hardly believe. Of course it's not 100% perfect. Don't try to formalize it. You can't formalize psychic abilities within a materialist paradigm because they are immaterial and superconscious. Secondly, since you are God, and you can create anything out of thin air, you created this human life where you get to experience limitation. You created limitation for yourself. You just forgot. So until you wake up you will be puzzled. After you wake up you will understand that you did this to yourself precisely because you have infinite power. Thirdly, by becoming more conscious your ability to create using your mind will increase significantly. You will not get 100% freedom because for that you'd have to stop being human. To be human is to have certain limits. But right now you are nowhere near the limits of what the human mind/body can do. Do not underestimate the power of the mind. The entire universe is mind-stuff. You just don't know how to access it. Humans are a very crude and underdeveloped species. And you are a very crude and underdeveloped human. So there's your answer.

@Peo The thing is that it totally overtakes you. So all your ideas and ideals fly out the window. You can tell yourself you're fearless but when the floor beneath your feet disappears, you'll be in for surprises you could not anticipate or prepare for. Faith and love are of course great things to bring into the trip. But you never know how twisting things will get. Sometimes a trip just goes hairy for no apparent reason beyond your ability to control it. If you trip long enough you will get some very hairy trips. The key is to go with the flow and for fucks sake never resist them. Surrender to the hairiness. That alone with grow you a lot.

Yeah, that's why self-employment is so hard and most people just cannot do it. Because it takes serious vision and self-discipline to be able to lead yourself. Most people are sheep who suck on the tit of society. They need a boss just to tell them when to wake up, otherwise they would become vegetables. The self-determined life is not the easy life. The easy life is working at Starbucks for 40 years and then retiring without a single dream or deep thought about life. You need to have a serous over-arching vision and purpose to your life if you're gonna go it alone. You need to be a fuckin boss on yourself.

Being a successful musician is not just about musical skills. You also need marketing and business skills. It may be necessary to keep your dentistry gig for now. But eventually if dentistry is not your passion but music is, you want to transition to place where your music can support you. That might take some years and some clever business scheming. You'd need to build a brand of some kind.