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@Pouya Psychedelics are the solution to this problem. You are demoralized because you have not seen any tangible results. Because a tangible shift in consciousness usually takes several years of dedicated practice which you lack the vision to complete.

With the opening of the 6th chakra (3rd eye) paranormal abilities can be unlocked. But this varies greatly from person to person. Some people will not unlock any paranormal abilities while others may unlock some significant ones. Personally I think it depends a lot on your brain chemistry, genetics, etc. This is all normal and can be part of process. Don't try to go chasing for paranormal abilities, but if they come to you naturally don't reject them either. You'll have to learn how to handle them responsibly. That in itself can be a long journey. You might want to read some books specifically about that. There are many different kinds of paranormal abilities and not everyone will access all of them. Most people will access none at all.

@Arthur Yes, of course it does. Which is why you gotta make yourself as independent of society as possible. It is harder in 3rd world countries but not impossible. You have to play the cards you've been dealt. Of course if you can move to a 1st world country then it's probably smart to do so. The internet makes 3rd world countries a lot more livable. You can run a $10 million dollar business from an apartment in India if you are clever. The biggest thing holding you back from success is simply your lack of vision and experience.

@Jed Vassallo Be careful with naive views of human nature. Selfishness runs rampant even among highly woke people. People still need to survive because resources are limited. No one likes cleaning toilets, not even woke people. So survival issues and politics will always be a factor. When you only have 10 loafs of bread left, who's gonna get it? The greatest problem with Soviet style communism was that it did not properly account for human greed and selfishness. A stage Yellow or even Turquoise society would not eliminate these problems. They would only be lessened. A lot of infrastructure would have to be built up to support it.

@Baotrader None of that is gonna happen extra-societially. The entire existing society must be evolved up to that level, which would take 100s of years at least, if not 1000s. No one guru can do it. Sheela was just one example of the problems that rise when trying to create such a society. There are thousands of others to take her place, and much worse. With ego, corruption is rampant and inevitable. And Osho himself set a bad example. He was an elitist, seduced by luxury.

You can develop yourself anywhere. Development is largely an internal activity. Relocate if you want, but don't make it an excuse for not developing. Some of the most advanced human beings are sitting right now in caves somewhere in India without a pot to piss in.

@Jed Vassallo Not so easy in practice. Those types of communes always devolve and fall apart. They are not scalable to hundreds of thousands of people. They only work as sub-societies within the larger society. They don't have to deal with government functions like building roads, feeding the hungry, taking care of the elderly, policing white collar crime, protecting against polluted drinking water, a judicial system, printing money, and defending against hostile outside nations and dictators. Most people utterly take for granted how many functions the federal government does, without which you and family would be raped and enslaved. You can see just how easily a commune become corrupt by watching the Netflix Osho documentary, Wild Wild Country. And that's just the tip of the iceberg of how bad things would get if the government didn't shut them down. Green people are incapable of running a functional society without outside support from lower stages.

Of course every perspective has some kernel of truth to it. But if you can't see the limitations of JP's philosophy that's because you're at his level of development/consciousness. He is teaching you exactly what your ego wants to hear. To those of us who have outgrown that, the limitations are all too obvious. But for you, at your level, JP may be appropriate. Until you butt heads with the limitations for yourself. JP's teachingd are very primitive after all the stuff that I have seen and studied. But primitive is a relative notion. What's primitive to one person is advanced to another. Understand that the logic being used to defend JP's philosophy is the same logic that is used to defend fundamentalist Christianity or Islam. That desire you have to help me with JP is actually an egoic projection of your desire to help yourself with JP. You are trying to convince me because you need to convince yourself. And the reason you feel a need to convince yourself is because fundamentally you are disconnected from truth and JP's dualistic judging paradigm is going to make that worse, not better.

@Sukhpaal Phase #4 & #5 would be roughly August-October 2019.

Not sure yet. These talks would not be as formal as my main videos. They would be more like my blog videos. More casual and off-the-cuff. The workshops, however, would be more formal and well-planned.

The dates are still being decided, but they would be starting in January 2019 and through most of 2019, with each date roughly 2 weeks apart. Tentatively the locations would happen like this: Phase #1: San Diego, Phoenix, Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Los Angeles January-March Phase #2: Houston, Dallas, Detroit, Chicago, New York March-May Phase #3: Miami, Tampa, Washington DC, Atlanta, Toronto May-July Phase #4: Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati, St Louis, Montreal August-October Phase #5: Vancouver, Denver, Portland October-November ------ The first two phases are fairly solid, the latter three phases are more iffy and uncertain. There will be an official announcement with a sign-up page once things are finalized. This would be the maximum number of cities I would do in 2019. Any other locations would be 2020 and beyond.

@TheAvatarState Denver is planned for one of the later phases.

You don't know! You will be left with everything. Whatever you think enlightenment is, it surely is not. So the ego's opinions about it cannot be trusted at all. At all!

The only issue is tolerance can build up, so use it in a targeted way.

@ZZZZ If you are still saying "So what?", then you don't actually know. You have tricked yourself with a concept of awakening. Actual awakening is still waiting to be found.

It is necessary if you want to be here talking about it. Death is not a problem, but then there is no form and no world and nothing to say. Surviving is utterly necessary from the POV of being a thing. We could not be here talking without it. The entire design is pure genius. Everything has its place, even all the "evil" stuff. It is the PERFECT design to maximize diversity of form.

Sorry, but republicans are reptiles.

@Vladimir That's very simple. Without intense physical pain you would have accidentally killed yourself long ago. People who cannot feel pain usually die very young. But that is very different from being so conscious that you can transcend pain. Suffering is one of the best tools for spiritual growth. If you never suffered you would a lazy fat slug living in your mother's basement like Jabba the Hut. Suffering is what makes life feel so REAL. Otherwise it would just be a cartoon.

Europe is too far for now. Traveling to all these places would be a grueling full-time job.

@Andreas I think it's necessary unless the human brain changes.

The only way to get rid of growing through Tier 1 would be to genetically re-engineer the human brain so that it is automatically born with pre-programmed developmental structures. But at this point you would hesitate to call such people human. This kind of stuff will definitely happen in the future. But not in our lifetime. With genetic engineering all the rules of the game will get rewritten in shocking and unimaginable ways. Humans as we know them will cease to exist like old model-T Fords.

There are no "basic facts". That assumes an objective external reality, which is a concept, not a fact. All forms and facts are relative. At the very least logical positivism is relative to you being human. A mule knows nothing of logical positivism and it is not true for him. Logical positivism was disproven long ago. Logical positivism is self-contradictory because it itself is not an emprical fact but a metaphysical belief. You can create models, but all of them will end in paradox and contradiction. None of them will explain reality as a whole because it is impossible for a model to do so. The linear mind cannot unfurl all of reality in a linear way. Because the linear mind is finite but reality is infinite. Reality is not collection of causes and effects, as science likes to assume. You are confused because the mind is trying to do the impossible: linearly rationalize reality. The ultimate solution is to realize that this is impossible, and to instead transcend the mind through spiritual practices like Kriya yoga.

Actually even "physical pain" is conceptual. It is possible to learn to stop doing it.

Have all the thoughts you want. But take good care of your physical body. The ego mind will play all sorts of tricks when it gets cornered. Suicidal thoughts are just one trick up its sleeve. There is a long tradition of Dark Night of the Soul for mystics. A classic stage. I think the key to overcoming it is just to make a commitment to carry on with the work, suffer mindfully, and commit to not harming your physical body. No thoughts are to be taken seriously. That's also another trick. Do not buy into your own stories. All of that is ultimately delusion. And also always remember that reality is infinitely Good, Beautiful, Perfect, and Complete. Suffering is there because of the ego. You can learn to let go of suffering.

Of course, that's what makes you a devil.