Leo Gura

Teens are hardly emotionally developed. The only thing they've got going for them is that they haven't yet been full brainwashed by culture. But that happens very rapidly by the end of the teenage years. As a teenager most of your concerns have to do with fitting into culture and being a good little conformist sheep. So your brainwashing is almost complete. You basically brainwash yourself to avoid feeling like a weird outsider.

You are wrong. Not-Knowing is the Truth. Not-Knowing is an Absolute. Knowing is possible, but it is never the Truth. Truth cannot be known, it must be not-known or Be-ed. It is the in fact the case that you do not know what anything is. You've only managed to convince yourself that you know. For example, you do not know what a chair actually is. The situation is so bad that you don't even know what you are. What you have a false identifications and images, none of which is what those things actually are. A chair is not your image of a chair, and you are not your image of yourself. All of your so-called knowledge is just images, not the actual thing itself. Take a look. All knowledge is relative, never Absolute.

When you realize that self/other is a duality, and it collapses, then what remains is unity. So yes, you are all alone at that point. You are the only being in the entire universe. Being God can be lonely Hence you invent "others". Ego cannot wrap its head around this. Ego must go -- then things will become clear.

Be careful speculating about people's health issues, especially when you do not know them. It's very easy to judge someone's health condition without being in their shoes.

Nope, that's a devilish lie. The devil IS your entire mind.

Don't assume what I have seen.

@JayG84 He is you. Lol You are like the groundhog who saw his own shadow and ran away.

@TheAvatarState You speak of things you have not experienced. Mu

Don't confuse ordinary notions of "perfect" with transcendental Perfection. Reality isn't perfect, it's Perfect. Perfect with a capital P is an Absolute. It does not depend on any metrics, values, or standards. It's Infinite Perfection -- perfection without a standard. In the Absolute sense, reality is not evolving towards anything. It is and always has been an eternal infinite singularity. Evolution is only a illusion of the ego-mind's linear, temporal, causal way of looking at the world. Evolution is relative.

The problem I have with starting a big spiritual community is that if we started it today, myself and everyone here would get all excited and spend the next 5 years pouring all of our time and energy into building its external infrastructure without doing the internal work that we really need to do. It becomes the lesser Jihad, a convenient way of not doing the lonely work. And I am not interested in that. I am interested in pouring my time into deep awakening and self-mastery. After that is complete, maybe then there could be talk of a community. I was very hesitant to even launch this forum and I have since considered just closing the whole thing down. Distraction is one of our greatest enemies in this work. Do not underestimate distraction and devilry. I recommend you focus on doing the internal work until you are so awake you have no need of anyone or anything. Be wise in how you allocate your time and where you put your efforts. No external achievement will solve your fundamental problem.

Better and worse is a dualistic illusion. Everything is always Good. From the ego's perspective, society is getting less oppressive overall. But the paradox is that Pinker's ideology creates a justification for endless capitalism and materialism, which keeps society from becoming even less oppressive and more equal. It's not that what Pinker says is wrong per se, it's that it's only half of the picture. Like if I told you, "Today I saved a little puppy from getting run over by a bus. I took it home with me." But what I don't tell you is: "When we got home, I threw the puppy into a pot and made myself a delicious stew." The ego-mind loves to tell half-truths to make itself look good.

Right. Because that is the True Self! The point of Neti Neti is to negate everything but the one thing which cannot be negated: existence/consciousness itself. That emptiness is your true nature. It's what you were before your body/personality was born. So now just sit and quietly observe that existence/consciousness. But make sure you aren't getting attached to any kind of forms or images of it. Images of it are not it. You must be it directly, without thought or image. Watch my newer video: How To Do Self-Inquiry

@TheAvatarState You will know when you awaken and not until then. The ego is what's creating that sense that there are others. Without ego, other would literally be you!

@andyjohnsonman That is not how yoga is taught. Yoga is taught through initiation. Sadhguru does yoga trainings but they are not the kind of Kriya yoga I talk about. It's quite different.

@Mrkvn8 Do a 10 day solo retreat and you will see.

Via Negativa is not minimalism. It is the path to God through total self-negation, AKA Neti Neti method. This should not be confused with material minimalism.

Sounds like you simply lack experience. So go get experience.

@Hugo Oliveira Sounds like you lack basic development, emotional maturity, and proper theoretical foundation. I would look more into how to heal whatever emotional trauma you had in your childhood or early adulthood. Seems like your ego is resisting the profound metaphysical truths the psychedelic is trying to share with you. You have to be comfortable surrendering yourself.

There's a very predictable course of action many people here will take: 1) At first you are skeptical of Actualized.org 2) Then you fall in love with Actualized.org 3) Then you start to hate Actualized.org so you can distance yourself from it. 4) And finally you come to understand that everything is inevitable and it could not have been otherwise.

"God hates fags." Lol

Get ready for a hairy trip.

They don't understand what patriarchy or feminism even are. You may as well be talking about unicorns to such people. A stage Blue person thinks that feminism is an attempt to oppress men. Like this nonsense here:

Not subliminals but binaural beats, which are very different. I generally don't believe in subliminals, until proven otherwise.

Both. You should feel subtle weekly gradual effects and eventually some bigger breakthroughs. The gradual effects can really add up. Which is the whole point. I am more interested in Kriya for the gradual effects than the breakthroughs. I can easily create breakthroughs via psychedelics, but they don't stick so well. Which is why Kriya is important. To me those are optional. Talabya is probably quite good, but takes a lot of training to achieve. I recommend you don't bother with it until your core routine is solid. Gamana I combine everything into one routine. Ideally you'd do this routine twice per day but right now I'm only managing once per day. Not now. Build your core routine and do it for a few years. Then you can revisit that question. You're not supposed to do those routines until you have 3-5 years of solid practice.

Not even close. Practice more not-knowing. The greater the model, the bigger the problem.