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It's an intuitive high-level hunch based on subtle cues. Then again, often these people display their egotism in very obvious ways. For example, no serious teacher would make the core of his teaching the bashing of other teachers. That's an obvious red flag. That's ego reaction, not genuine teaching. People who spend a lot of their time and energy criticizing other teachers or teachings automatically reveal their own lack of consciousness, as all criticism is ultimately untenable and absurd. Reality cannot be otherwise, so there is nothing wrong and no one to blame. When you become deeply conscious, the desire to criticize anything falls away entirely, because it is an ego-game. The more conscious you become of the devil within you, the easier it becomes to spot Zen devils and their tactics. After years of doing this work you will smell ego from miles away because you've studied it so deeply within yourself. Watch out for people who make a lot of noise and stir up controversy needlessly, over and over again. This is a very popular online marketing tactic of late. People like Trump, JP, Mike Cernovich, Steven Crowder, Alex Jones, Sam Harris, etc. are master manipulators in this regard. Any cult leader wannabe is going to be a master manipulator & bullshit artist.

You have to understand the trickeries of running such a community. I crack down on stuff like this immediately because egos will not hesitate to exploit this community to build their own cults and brands. People like Rali and TJ turn criticism into a marketing strategy. The strategy is to stir up a fake controversy to gain views and free advertizing. In my book, this is unacceptable. What they are looking for is attention, which is why they are denied any air whatsoever. If you want to criticize me or Actualized.org, go for it. I don't care. But I am not going to let you turn it into a marketing strategy, nor will I allow you to poach members to start your own movement or brand because I do not trust your devilish ego to create a non-cult community. The mistake people make is they get a little taste of self-actualization or spirituality and then they think they got what it takes to teach or run a spiritual community. But they are so ignorant of the dangers involved. I take great care to make sure Actualized.org never becomes a harmful ideological organization. People who I judge to be building harmful ideological organizations are not allowed here. There's nothing new here. This has happened before and it will happen again. Every year a new Zen devil comes here to start his cult. I spot such devils immediately. I smell them a mile away. I spotted Rali very early on. The trouble is, they cleverly exploit this because a healthy community must allow criticism. So it becomes a PR problem banning such people because it makes me look like an insecure tyrannt. So it's a tricky balance to strike because they will abuse this to craft their marketing strategy. The bottom line is, if you guys wish to criticize myself or Actualized.org in a serious way, go for it. I will not close such a thread, but if you do it as a marketing strategy or you are doing it from a place of ego as a distraction, then it will be shut down. The trick with criticism is that the ego loves to use it to muddy up the waters so much that people get lost and confused. It easily becomes a distraction from doing the work. It's so easy to create fake controversy and milk that cow. But even so, criticism and receptivity to feedback is necessary in any healthy community / organization. So I welcome constructive criticism and feedback which has no ulterior business motive.

Of course All religion is nondual teaching in some sense. The only question is, How much has the teaching been corrupted? And, How well is its original intention understood?

@Aaron p Point to one thing which isn't the Truth. It is impossible because Truth has no opposite and non-truth doesn't exist. Truth is all around you. You're just failing to recognize it as such because you're holding Truth as a concept. Truth is not a concept, Truth is being.

@Eric Tarpall Enough of this Red Pill BS.

@Taavi That kind of detailed how-to information is gonna be found in courses and seminars, not books. Serious business training is never done through books. Books are too cheap for that. Try taking a $1000 course or $3000 seminar. That's where you'll learn practical stuff. No one is going to put that information into a $20 book. Serious business advice is very costly. Because if it's any good, it's worth tens of thousands of dollars. At $10,000 business seminar is not unreasonable.

@inFlow God / Nirvana / The Absolute / Awakening, etc.

Yes, but EVERYTHING is also identical to Truth. So here we are

No, you are misunderstanding what judgment is.

@Leo Kaminski Your biggest trap is going to be mistaking the map for the territory. See the episode: What Is Actuality?

This entire conversation is devolving into masturbation and confusion. There is no difference between enlightenment in Buddhism and Hinduism or any other major religion. @Emanyalpsid Stop spreading misinformation. Stop talking about nonduality on this forum and do the work.

Not in the slightest. But I did have a powerful vision for my life, I was very ambitious, and I was following my heart. Which is really all that matters. You are young. You've got many years to put all of those things in place. Obviously don't waste time sitting around on your ass, but don't panic either. Right now what you're missing is hope and faith in your vision. Vision is useless if you don't have rock-solid faith in it. You need to train yourself to believe in it. Visualize it every day with a hopeful vibe. Do not visualize it pessimistically, negatively, full of fear. That is terrible. That is counter-productive. Holding a big vision is not easy. It is scary. Your mind will not believe it is possible. I used all sorts of mind programming techniques to reinforce my vision and overcome various doubts. But the most important thing is HEART! You must have HEART! That is what carries you through everything. Your life purpose must be non-negotiable. You are doing it no matter what. There should be no option for failure because you already know there is nothing else you'd rather do. There will hundreds of doubts in this journey. You have to really cultivate hope. Not in luck, but in your hard work. Your vision will get actualized through honest labor. And remember, a big vision requires lots of patience. You don't need to be Buddha by next month. Recalibrate your exceptions and split your vision up into smaller chunks, so you are not evaluating your progress based on whether you are like Ralston or Buddha. That may not happen for 40 years. And that's okay, you don't need that to enjoy your life.

@Alex bAlex Contemplate: What is judgment? Locate judgment and observe it in your direct experience. You guys need to start locating all of terminology in your direct experience.

Locking this because Red Pill is toxic garbage.

@bazera You've been told exactly what to do. You're just not doing it. And there's no solution to that other than to do it. Being desperate for a glimpse is only going to get in the way. Discipline yourself to do the work. Or don't and suffer.

@CreamCat Study some political history. You have no idea what you are talking about and you take government completely for granted. Without government you'd be a slave right now feeding some dictator grapes after he cut off your balls.

Tripping alone is my fave. 125ug of LSD is about as powerful as 2-3g of dried mushrooms. Of course potencies can vary. A lot of LSD dosages are exaggerated. So if your source isn't good, a 125ug dose could actually be 70ug, which would be a weak trip. 125ug is a nice solid trip for me, but still very managable, still possible to walk around. At 300ug you probably wouldn't be able to walk.

@ShugendoRa The issue is: What daily practices are you doing? For how long? How seriously are you doing them? Nothing else really matters. That is the key. Without serious practices you will never get enlightened. Which teacher you listen to doesn't really matter if you don't have your practices down. And once you have your practices down you hardly need a teacher at all. That is the paradox of spiritual work. No one can do it for you.

"Truth" is a pointer to actuality or Being, which is not a concept. If you hold truth as a concept, then yes, for you it is a concept, but that is not was pointed to by the word "Truth".

@isabel Both! First you will realize you are the whole room. Then you will realize you stretch out in all directions and dimensions forever. You are every room that has ever been or will ever be.

@Moreira Yes, there are many hippies and bums in Hawaii. But I did not say living on the beach like a bum. I said buying your own land and building a small shack. That is very doable if you save up some money. In Hawaii you can even live off the grid using solar panels and a rainwater catchment tank. Heating and A/C are virtually unnecessary there. See my Hawaii solo retreat blog videos. Also, you don't need to slave. Learning how to make money is not hard. There many ways to earn six figures per year and enjoy the process. You just need a vision to do it. You can't be doing it out of a desire to become a bum. Cultivate a desire to genuinely contribute to humanity. It is so much more fulfilling and pays well when properly designed. Learn some business, sales, and marketing skills. This is easily acheieved online through courses, workshops, audios, and books. You also need a plan for getting old. Your health will worsen and so will your ability to work. Healthcare ain't cheap. Don't take stuff like healthcare for granted. Without government you'd probably die in your 50's or 60's due to lack of healthcare, disablity, etc.

@MM1988 Like I said before, the problem is you have not had your first serious mystical experience, so you are doubtful. The solution is to have it. This can be done easily with 1 hour using psychedelics. Which is precisely why they are such an important tool. Advanced practitions do not need psychedelics because they are aleady had many mystical experiences and are fully bought in. Newbies need psychedelics to show them what they are missing, what it would take them 10 years of harcore practice to glimpse. Psychedelics are the scientific way of finding God. They are totally empircal and easily replicatable. Clinically proven beyond any placebo or doubt. That's what makes them such useful tool. Never before in human history has there such an easy route to spirituality for newbies as with today's modern psychedelics. This issue of doubting mysticism is utterly unneccessary in today's age. You might as well be doubting kangroos. If you doubt so much, why not just go to the zoo and pet a kangroo? It costs $30 and takes 1 hr.

No, you are just misunderstanding their teachings. THIS is the kingdom of God! Heaven is EVERYWHERE! Just lose that ego. There is no salvation elsewhere unless you find it right here, right now. Nirvana is ego-death.

This is extremely ignorant thinking. Without government you would not even be able to live in a house in the forest because some gang would come slit your throat in the middle of the night or enslave you and seize your house. Without goverment you would not even have enough education to know what a country is! You would not have the internet, or property rights, you would not even know how to read or write, and many other things that you take for granted. Hawaii has very low property tax and the land there can be very cheap on the Big Island. You can buy plots of land for $30,000 and Hawaii weather is so nice you can basically live in a tent or a yurt and grow your own fruits and have chickens for eggs. Although food and construction in Hawaii costs about 1.5x more than mainland USA. But don't expect survival to be free. That is just ignorance. Rather than planning to be a leech, think of ways you can contribute to society. You will be much happier that way. It is not that hard for example to set up your own farm and meditation retreat center.

@Ninie You can't think you way out of this problem. You must make a distinction between thinking this stuff and observation of actuality. Less thinking, more observation is necessary. Learn to sit and observe without emotionally reacting to anything at all. Stop judging things, stop fantasizing about the future or the past. Stop thinking about yourself. Stop thinking about your life. Just sit and observe the present moment. In the present moment there is nothing sad or bad. Start to notice when you are conscious vs when you are reacting emotionally to anything at all.