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Sounds like Alfred Korzybski. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski Manhood of Humanity

Sure sounds like it the inexperienced.

@Jcent Keep in mind that not everyone is like you. Just because something works for you doesn't mean it will work for everyone. So stay humble with your advice. Health issues can be very complex, multi-factorial, and personal. Your fantasies about my right knee are purely your own projections. Do not stick your nose in other people's health issues as if you know them. The point of the money is to afford the medical treatments (which tend to be expensive). If @Fountainbleu didn't have a money shortage, then this situation would be much easier to handle. Not everyone can just take months off from work to heal. That is a luxury which assumes you've got money to burn through. Generally-speaking I am very against anti-depressants. But if there is no other way, then you must do what you must do to survive.

It has. The most amazing thing about reality is that it is intelligible. Nothing is arbitrary. Human logic is a tiny splinter off God's logic. It's not just patterns and survival. I'm talking about understanding the metaphysical structure of reality and why it is the way it is. There is no accident or randomness to it. It has a Logos.

Anyone try the oxalate version? How does it compare? Same potency as HCl?

@Fountainbleu It's hard to say. Are you saying that all of these social anxiety issues started after your car crash?? You didn't have them before? Brain trauma is a serious thing and requires serious treatment, not merely spiritual techniques. There are supplements and various EEG brain training methods which might help you a lot. Research neurofeedback brain training. You can also contact the Dr Amen brain clinic in California. I know they do great work when it comes to assessing and healing brain injury. Or find another similar provider. I would focus on doing whatever it takes to heal your brain injury because you are gonna have to live with it for life and it will seriously affect your earning potential. If you need to take some meds to start a biz to earn the money to heal your brain, that is a good plan if you cannot afford to heal yourself immediately. Here's a link to Dr Amen's clinic: https://www.amenclinics.com You should also do research into brain injury recovery. Many books have been written on the subject. Educate yourself on the best ways to heal.

Things are not just as they are. They are a very specific way, a very deliberate and intelligent way. Everything is intelligible. It is possible to become conscious of why every hair on your arm exists exactly as it does and not otherwise. It is possible to understand why the whole universe exists. Profound awakening required of course. This is no ordinary reason. You must penetrate the very structure of God. It has a logic to it.

@Adam M Motel room works just as well. On LSD, even a dirty bathroom will be so interesting and profound you will never be bored. You can easily spend 5 hours tripping in a bathroom and have the time of your life. The kingdom of heaven is within

@Nahm Little devils they are.

@SQAAD You (ego) cannot. Egolessness is required. Surrender is required. Deep, profound surrender. Consciousness is required. Profound consciousness. A blinding radiance that bleaches out all shadows.

There is nothing wrong with Zen teachings per se, I was just saying that they are minimalist. Minimalism does not make people aware of what they are missing. How many Zen students really understand the depth of Zen? Virtually none. It requires super-human levels of consciousness. The Buddha said: no one will understand. And so it is. It's too much.

The point is EVERYTHING.

@tsuki The Zen approach suffers from the problem that it undersells God. It plays coy. Virtually no one who practices Zen understands how deep consciousness goes or what God is. Only a few of the highest Zen masters do. For example, Shinzen Young does not understand why reality exists. He's not fully woke and he does not know it. That's with 40 years of professional Zen practice. BTW, nothing at all against his teachings. I'm just saying there are levels which virtually no one has accessed. I am just using this example to point out how tricky this work is. No one is safe. Proceed with extreme care.

No they aren't. They are just less corrupted by beliefs and less rigid. Kids are very selfish and nowhere close to woke. They are like animals. They have no clue they are God.

Well, there's no cure for ignorance. Try, try again until awakening is undeniable.

@Key Elements The Absolute Truth is totally self-evident and self-validating. It is prior to doubt or question. Infinity answers all whys. But not logically or verbally. It's just Infinity. The end. What else could anything be? You ARE the Absolute Truth. Look at your body -- there it is. You're BEING it.

@Wisebaxter You should distinguish God in its pure form vs God as the devil. In it's disguise as the devil God does all sorts of evils. In its pure undisguised from God is pure love and goodness. For God to hate it must incarnate itself as an ego and delude itself into believing it is not God. So when God forgets who it is, it does evil. When God is forced to play the game of survival, it does evil in order to survive.

@Highest You exist, as God, which is nothing. Non-existence is not a thing. Non-existence does not exist. But there is more. Have you become conscious that God is infinity? And what infinity means? Have you become conscious of Infinite Intelligence? Infinite Love? Infinite Goodness? Eternity?

If you mean Absolute Truth then your contemplations should eventually converge. But even so, there are many facets to Absolute Truth such that even the same person will not reach the same point twice in a row, never mind other people. The trick is that the Absolute is singular, but it can be seen in various light, so to speak, and it will be interpreted very differently by different minds. It's sort of like looking at an object with very little light in the room. The object itself is always the same, but the lighting conditions plus your perspective on that object plus your distance from that object determine what you will see. Someone from 100ft away at night will see something very different than someone 2 inches away in full daylight. And then there's your reactions, opinions, feelings, and judgments about the object. All of that makes it very unlikely that two people understand/see anything the same way, even the Absolute. But even so, there should be some rough broad consensus. As far as relative truths are concerned, the situation there is even worse. The mind will color everything in such a way that your understanding of relative truths will tend to be very different from other people. Because how you see the world is a direct reflection of how you must see it in order to survive. Survival distorts perception enormously. What you see, what you know, and how you understand things is almost totally dominated by your survival needs. Truth is hardly anything your mind cares about. Your mind is 99.9% preoccupied with survival. Which is why there is so much disagreement between people.

@Pouya Well, that is true, but it's much misunderstood by common folk who merely believe it but have no direct experience of what those words mean.

That's how growin is done!

@Seththomas What is consciousness? is the most profound question in the universe. To fully grasp what consciousness is so astounding that it ends you entire old way of life. When you ask What is consciousness? you are really asking What is the substance of all of existence? That's a monster of a question. It may take you 10-20 years of work to get the answer. I have a video: What Is Consciousness? Maybe check that out. In short: consciousness is nothing, consciousness is everything, consciousness is God. But just hearing that as words does very little for you. You must undertake a journey to personally realize what consciousness is. This requires multiple deep enlightenment experiences. Very simply, to ground your inquiry, pull out your hand right now and hold it close to your face. Look at it closely. Your hand is consciousness. Realize that. And then begin to wonder: What is consciousness? What is it's very essence? Here it is, but WHAT is it? HINT: Any object you look at is consciousness. There is nothing but consciousness. Consciousness is not a thing, it is a sort of ever-present, self-aware, space. VERY IMPORTANT: Stop thinking of consciousness is a secretion of the brain or somehow arising out of matter. The brain and matter are both made out of consciousness. Consciousness is prior to physics or physical reality. It is impossible to understand consciousness from within the materialist paradigm.

Yes, that's basically right. Higher truths/wisdom requires a certain wisdom to understand and interpret properly. Ignorant devils will misinterpret the hell out of all the highest teachings because that's what devils do. Devils turn truth into falsehood. That's the entire function of a devil. We are sort of damned if we do, and damned if we don't. If we don't talk about God, we are not being honest and people are being mislead. If we do talk about God, we are creating representations of God, all of which are not the actual thing, and people will be mislead. That's the tragedy of our collective situation. When I speak of God's will, I speak from direct experience. Of course most people have no experience of what God or God's will mean. And any ideas you have about it are wrong. So what are we to do? Direct experience is required to understand the highest teachings. One of the reasons I'm big on psychedelics is that they give ordinary people such direct experiences very quickly, without decades of grueling practice. So then they can understand me a lot better. You can take a psychedelic and ask it the question, "What is God's will?" or "What is God?" and it will show you the answer very clearly, as long as you are truly open to it and willing to surrender yourself and your beliefs. It might take you a few trips, but you'll get it. But yes, talking about God to uninformed people is very misleading to them. Because their ideas of God are so confused and backwards. You can really only talk about God to people who have experienced that they are God. Which sort of defeats the point of talking at all. And yet without talking about God how are people gonna find God? Only by accident. Which is not a good solution.

@AlwaysBeNice Don't you dare question God's will! The irony is that if it actually happened, it was God's will. Lol. Things only happen by God's will.

@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.