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@Anirban657 You just need more practice and experience with them, that is all. As with all things, practice makes perfect. At 19 you basically have zero experience. So of course you feel that way.

Try not to make a big spectacle of it. Then it won't be so dramatic and scary. With spiritual death you discover that you've jumped off a cliff only to land on the fluffiest feather mattress, so you're not really losing anything. Don't let the ego create a big story about how it's losing so much. You're mostly losing bullshit delusions and gaining peace and authenticity. So it's a good trade. I've made the mistake in the past of over-dramatizing the ego-death part. Yes it happens but facing death is also not as hard or bad as it sounds. After a couple dozen ego-deaths it becomes natural and not a big deal.

@andyjohnsonman There is an Absolute Truth. In fact, Absolute Truth is all there ever is. That's what truth is: that which is the case. It's actually very simple: whatever is must be true. And that which is untrue does not exist at all. The being of this very moment is none other than Absolute Truth, but you are not yet conscious enough to see it as such. Concepts are getting in the way of direct consciousness of being. Once you find the Absolute Truth you will discover that it is so grand, astounding, epic, and good that it will kill you. "Death by Truth" I call this And you will realize that no one can know it but you. It cannot be shared with anyone else, since in truth, there is only YOU! It's ALL you! It will break your heart that something this good cannot be shared with anyone but yourself, so learn to enjoy your own magnificence in solitude. Ta-da! But this will take you some years of hard work to fully realize. So get to work. It's worth it. Or maybe everything I said above is false? You don't know. This requires exploration.

@andyjohnsonman That is one way out of dozens. You could eat some magic mushrooms and know things which would otherwise be impossible for a human to know. That would be another way. You don't even know if Kriya yoga will work. Maybe it's a scam as far as you know. See how tricky knowledge is? What do you trust? What is true? Truth is a highly non-trivial matter. How do you even know what criterion you'll use to determine if a thing is true? What if your criterion is false? And yet at the same time you also cannot say that all knowledge is false or impossible since that itself would be true knowledge, and you don't actually know that for sure. Such a claim would require that you test every piece of knowledge in the universe to make sure they are all false. You are nowhere close to doing that. So the bottom line is: keep a very open mind, don't dismiss anything, and run some experiments. Kriya yoga is one such experiment out of hundreds that you will have to run in order to come to know what knowledge is and is not.

@FoxFoxFox Sorta. Although violence and disturbance is also an aspect of consciousness. There is no "best" really. It depends on your goals. Some people love their suffering and fantasies. Very few people are really ready and willing to awaken from Maya. Harmony is a tricky thing. Being a total pacificist for example when all your neighbors are wolves will not lead to harmony but your extinction or enslavement. Violence and peace are both necessary, which is why they co-exist. Violence begets peace, and peace begets violence. It's dialectical.

@Pouya Again, don't be so blunt. This kind of thinking is itself delusion. Be nuanced. Not all beliefs and teachings are wrong or false. You must evaluate them within a certain limited relative context. Stop trying to make everything be absolute. Teachings have certain pragmatic purposes and also limits. Teachings are partial relative truths. How else could it be?

It is not cut in actually, it is cut as an illusion. If an actor on stage got so wrapped up in playing his character that he forgot for a moment that he was just acting, that's how ignorance comes about. It is the nature of consciousness to be very hypnotic. It hypnotizes itself into dreamlike states which it then cannot resist. Ever play a video game and get so immersed in the world that you forget about the "real" world? Well, that's precisely how consciousness works. Appearance becomes reality. For a while. Always only for a while. Ever jerk off to porn? What is that? You are literally jerking off to an LCD screen! There's your illusion.

@andyjohnsonman The question of how we know anything and what can and cannot be known is a very deep one. I have been studying this question for over 15 years. I have literally poured thousands of hours contemplating this one question because it is so important. On it hinges everything else. If you get this question wrong, you're basically fucked in life. From your current POV the truth is you don't know what can or cannot be known. You do not even know what knowing is! This is a great place to start. From this place you can do some serious inquiry. This question is not to be guessed or answered by looking up an answer in a book. You must really go on a journey and explore what knowledge is and how it works. Also keep in mind that there are different kinds of knowing. Verbal or rational knowing is only one kind. The most advanced things I speak of are knowable, but not from your current state of consciousness. For example, it is possible to know what God is or why existence exists or what consciousness is. But not through coventional logical verbal knowledge. There is knowing and understanding beyond the human mind. The deepest insights I share are not just stories or beliefs -- they are transrational understandings. Consider that there is a very profound connection between knowing and being. Some things can only be known by being them. This is the domain of mysticism and samadhi.

@Joseph Maynor Think of ethics/morality as a matter of balance/harmony. Being too much out of balance becomes pathological relative to one's own well-being. In short, extreme selfishness or devilry backfires.

@KP_Spirituality27 Excellent!

@Applejuice That's good. You must exhaust the mind's answers. Purge them. It would be very helpful for you to write down all your theories about what you are, no matter how ridiculous, just to purge them. Write them out, then cross them out and throw them in the trash. Not knowing is exactly the place you want to get to. The problem is that you still have many ideas and theories about what you are. You haven't purged enough yet to truly not know. The mind will never grasp it. It must be silenced through this purging method. Then just sit and bask in the silence, and that will be your best chance of enlightenment. It will not happen via your mind. The mind is the only obstacle to enlightenment. A LOT of purging must happen. Way more than you'll be comfortable with. You must even purge things like your childhood memories of yourself, since they are not the True Self.

Very amazing. Thanks!

Since God is Absolute Truth, even a hint of lying, dishonesty, falsehood, or inathenticity automatically severes your connection to God. That is okay. It is not "bad" to be seperated from God, but it painful since you become lost in your own falsehood. That is the definition of devilry. Lying is only "bad" relative to if you want to be happy. If you are okay with being unhappy, then lie a lot. If you want to be happy, lie as little as possible. If you want to realize God, lie as little as possible. There is only one reason you lie: fear. If you were immortal, untouchable, and fearless you would never lie. In other words if you were God, you'd never lie. Really think about that. That's deep. Absolute ethics is Truth/Love. It is Goodness without an opposite. It is God.

@TKP If you have 5-MeO-DMT, you don't need MDMA. Let go of the MDMA and go for a 5-MeO breakthrough. That is the Full Monty. It should occur in the 25-30 mg range.

@Waves There is no way to formulate that balance. It will be unique for each person, and it will even change for the same person over time. You must experiment and see what works best for you. You can certainly maintain a 1hr daily meditation practice or Kriya yoga practice while you do pickup or dating. That's the minimum I'd recommend. Generally speaking you should set an overarching goal/plan for your year. What is the biggest thing you'll be focusing on this year? Attraction? Enlightenment? Business? Improving self esteem? Better nutrition? etc. Don't try to do it all at once. Space things out. You'll be amazed how much stuff you can do in 5-10 years if you focus.

That's a belief you should question. It seems nothing will change, but the whole point of this work is that appearances are very deceptive. Basically, just take a psychedelic. Otherwise you will waste 10 years and still not realize what you're missing. I am not kidding about psychedelics. They will change your life forever. There is no more powerful tool for understanding reality. You absolutely need to hit entirely new states of consciousness to understand the power and depth of this work.

Right. So now sit down and actually do the work of directly experiencing what you are. Let go of what you've been told and sit with an empty mind. You must enter a deep state of not-knowing. The simple truth is, you do not know what you are. Make a clear distinction between talking about, reading about, listening to, or thinking about what you are, versus actually sitting and silently observing what you are. These are totally different activities. See my video: What Is Actuality? to help ground yourself in the actual work. Or, just take a psychedelic.

One of my most important videos.

I don't know where you found that nonsense. That is not what I consider proper pickup. Why are you even looking at that when there is so much good material out there? You don't have to be an abusive juvenile jerk to attract women. Pickup theory does not apply to women trying to find men. Women need a whole different set of advice and techniques. You can find tons of material specifically tailored to women. Dating advice for women. It is not going to involve cold approaching men on the street asking for phone numbers.

@Amadeusz You young people who follow me have to understand that I talk about extremely advanced stuff (nowadays). Really, really, really advanced stuff! It took me tens of years of earthly development before I got to the lofty topics I'm now covering. There are many earthly materialistic development topics which I hardly cover at all even though they are very important for the average viewer. It's sort of like I'm teaching a college calculus class but you walk in by accident as a 5th grader. You need to handle the basics first. What most of you guys need is some basic Tony Robbins shit. Do some of that before you try to get all spiritual. Be mindful of getting ahead of your skiis.

I'm not sure what this means. The finite can know the infinite. And the infinite can know the finite. The infinite is not other than the finite. You have to understand spiritual phrasing in their proper contexts. What Spria might be talking about is the the Absolute formless Godhead which you can think of as sort of disconnected from the formed realm. You could say that it does not know the finite formed realm. But at the same it is also identical with the finite formed realm. In this context, you have to understand that the word "know" is virtually identical with "be". We are not talking about linguistic knowledge. We are talking about being. But all of this talk will only confuse you more. You must let all this go and just do the practices. Take a psychedelic to easily see what Spira is pointing to.

It's not the weed, it's one's existential questioning that does the work. The weed is just a lubricant. A lubricant does not do the work by itself, it needs a running engine. Which explains why most people who smoke weed never realize God. Because their engine isn't running to begin with. They are not existentially questioning reality.

@KMB4222 Does not sound like you know what you are. The whole point of enlightenment is to reach your Absolute Nature and to be sure about it. If you feel like you can die, you're not there yet. Keep going until you're 100% sure you're immortal.

Low self esteem people tend to be very insecure, helpless, and needy. They love to play victim. When you are incapable of meeting your basic needs your entire life becomes dysfunctional and backwards. You are forced to resort to outrageous degrees of selfishness just to maintain your basic existence.

You misunderstood what I asked you. I was not talking about learning more stuff for the hippocampus. I was talking about being conscious of things which you're still not conscious of. A little bit of enlightenment is a dangerous thing indeed. Makes for a flippant smartass.