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This channel here is legit: There's also a book on my book list that gives you EVERY SINGLE secret Kriya Yoga technique and tells you exactly how to practice them. But it's HIGHLY technical and demands serious commitment to get anywhere. Most schools of Yoga are secretive and don't share their techniques with laymen. Which is why I love that book. It spills all the beans.

Vipassana can definitely be used to attain enlightenment. That's it's entire purpose. The problem occurs when people just sit and blindly meditate for decades without questioning the self, or get lost in Buddhist dogma. As you do Vipassana, toss all the dogma out the window, and you should also inquire into What am I? The two methods work great together. My first direct consciousness experience occurred during Vipassana. But that's probably because I did over one year of self-inquiry and was doing it during Vipassana practice that day. And of course ignore all those fools who think enlightenment takes 30 years. Or who don't even know what enlightenment means. I have been to Vipassana retreats where half the people there don't even know what enlightenment is! WTF? Ignore those kinds of folk.

@LifeLife It will not make you enlightened. But it can help with meditation, especially if you're a newbie.

@Key Elements It was for having an experience of psychedelics.

"I truly attained nothing from complete enlightenment." -- Buddha

@Key Elements There's no you now. There's just an ever-changing flux of phenomena. Doesn't matter what the phenomena is from the point of view of absolute truth. Whether you're sipping a cup of coffee, floating through astral realms, visiting aliens via a DMT trip, meditating your ass off, or whatever, it's all just phenomena and none of it has any permanence. After the body dies, who the hell knows what might happen? But I would conservatively bet my money that it's the same thing as before you were born. Whatever stuff you cling to now, including your "soul" or any aspect of personality, identity, or being, will be gone. But Absolute Nothingness will remain. So it's a good idea to switch your identity to it, otherwise you're screwed.

There will be more enlightenment stuff in the future. I don't want to talk about it too much because in the end it all depends on you doing the work. Just talking enlightenment theory isn't very helpful. Make sure you have a very solid practice. Make sure you go to retreats where you can spend hundreds of hours contemplating. That's about it. Deconstruct yourself. No body else can do it for you. It's long and boring work, and there's no way around that. Except maybe with psychedelics, which I will be talking a lot more about soon in mind-blowing ways!

@Key Elements I just don't see what spiral dynamics has to do with afterlife. Spiral dynamics is about THIS life. So is nonduality. It's about the NOW. Speculating about the afterlife isn't very practical or wise. You are still speaking from a position of duality. "There was blackness... I was pulled through a black hole... etc". That's all duality. That's all phenomena. This is the trap of spiritualism and powerful mystical experiences, they tend to create some sort of Cosmic Other, and then fantasies about it. What I would say it that if you delved deeper into exploring the NOW, deconstructing the ego and all phenomenal experience, you would stop talking about afterlives and all questions would be answered in a way that you cannot presently imagine. And this would seem far superior to you than all the speculations and illusions you subscribed to before.

@Key Elements Once you become conscious that everything is nondual, you can have all the phenomena and lives and deaths you want, and it doesn't matter because it's all you. You don't think of yourself as a body or soul or mind at that point. All of that is seen as illusion. Every single phenomena is seen through. You have to first experience that consciousness is Absolutely Infinite. Then you'll understand. Until then, you will not, and you will get attached to various phenomena, whether it be this life or a past life or some idea you have of a future life. These kinds of considerations only make sense in a dualistic model, which is utterly false. If Coral stage means anything, it should resemble something like the realization and embodiment of complete nonduality. Which means the end of all questioning and speculating about past or future lives. Nonduality is the ultimate end of the road. EVERYTHING BECOMES YOU! The completeness is TOTAL! ABSOLUTELY INFINITE! The significance of this realization cannot be overstated. Not only did you have past lives, and future lives, you LITERALLY ARE absolutely EVERYTHING that ever existed or could possibly exist, all of it SIMULTANEOUSLY. From every bacteria and virus to all the dinosaurs in history, to every creature and non-creature that will ever be born or imagined in all the fiction novels written by all the humans and non-humans until the heat-death of this universe, and all the universes that could ever exist. EVERYTHING IS YOU! And nothing is you. What else is there to know? It's everything you could have possibly wanted. It's infinity!

@Key Elements There are no stages. It's all concepts. Do not forget that a model is just a model, and not reality. Sounds like you're trying to conceptualize enlightenment too much and getting lost in the fallout of such a silly endeavor.

I find do-nothing to actually still be manipulative, because you're sorta trying to do nothing. Whereas if you phrase it as: stop manipulating, just experience what is -- then your mind will get it: "Oh! They really mean: do nothing and just be aware." Of course the actual practice pointed to is the same. But it's a matter of your mind actually grasping what that practice feels like in practice. Which isn't easy to communicate no matter which language or technique is given, because the mind doesn't want to understand it.

1) Do retreats where you have nothing else to do but contemplate/meditate 2) Psychedelics are extremely helpful 3) Eliminate distractions in your daily life so you have time to focus 4) Have a daily concentration practice that trains up your focus and patience 5) Be more persistent. You will fall off the path hundreds of times. The trick is to get back on.

@Epiphany_Inspired Doing psychedelics with a trained professional, as part of therapy, is a sound strategy. Although hard to find that since it's mostly illegal. MAPS does good work.

Role for what? They rob you of the illusion of roles or goals. There is a very large variety of direct consciousness experiences possible, whether using psychedelics or concentration practices. They range in usefulness for personal development from 0 to infinity. One psychedelic session could be more life-transforming that 10 years of therapy. Although that's not guaranteed. They go way beyond mere motivation. They can produce genuine enlightenment-like insights. For example you can become conscious that life and death are not real. Or that there is no such thing as a separate ego self. Enlightenment can be defined in various ways. A single enlightenment insight or experience is usually not enough to actually become enlightened. I tend to equate enlightenment with a permanent realization that what you are is Absolute Nothingness, and not the body, mind, or personal identity you presently believe you are. And for me enlightenment means that you no longer believe that what you really are can die, because your true nature transcends time, space, and existence.

And now you know how cults and religions happen.

To have a direct consciousness beyond mere intellectual understanding often takes 100s hours of concentration. Out of the 1000s of hours I've spent meditating and inquiring, I've only only 1 or 2 true direction consciousness experiences. The rest was just intellectual. Which is good, but nothing like direct consciousness. The fastest way to experience direction consciousness is through the right psychedelics. I experienced the absolute nature of reality within about 10 minutes there, which I hadn't been able to achieve (not even close) with over 1000 hours of meditation. But just grasping something like "you create your own suffering" doesn't require direction consciousness. Just observe your daily life.

I wouldn't worry about it. Meditate more, think less. Things will automatically take care of themselves. You are just creating self-interference. When you have something important to say, practice saying it directly, clearly, concisely.

@MrPeak Actually, that article talks about Kriya yoga. I have a book in my book list which details every secret Kriya yoga technique. A complete manual, full of dozens of techniques. In that book, you can find Yogananda's exact set of practices. They're super arcane and technical. But they should work if you do them long enough.

That requires direct experience. Start doing conscious work, rather than looking for logical answers. One thing you can be sure of is that consciousness doesn't work through logic. Cause it's the answer to all of life's questions and problems. No I'm working on a resource list. It's possible. I know many highly enlightened people who have a family and kids. Not ready to reveal all my teachers. Of course it's nice to see teachers face to face, but not necessary. It's not like they will really help you much. You gotta do all the heavy lifting yourself. No, just wiser and more grounded. Galaxy s7 Toyota Matrix Ooo... good question. I will just say that it's on my book list, in the consciousness section Not my thing. Some people seem to really dig it. Fighting anybody seems silly to me. Seems like a lot of people get into it because they have neurotic desires and insecurities. See the life purpose course, this is deep topic. There's good stuff there, but also still too much dogma & tradition which is irrelevant to Truth. About the book, see answer above. No, I'm a busy guy. I don't have time to train anyone. Nor is that necessary. I give you all the answers every week for free! Stop being lazy and just do it. Not exactly the same, but there seem to be similarities. 1) Exercise is a good idea, I'll be getting back into it. 2) As all-raw vegetarian as possible. No wheat or refined grains. No dairy. Low sugar. Organic. 3) I use less supplements these days because I've gotten tired of taking so much. But I still use them sometimes in various degrees. Save it. Long distance gf. Few hobbies. Various foods, but most of them I never have because they are unhealthy. Various movies. Every day is better than the last. I think I've answered that about habits earlier in this thread. Now you're just getting lazy. I don't feel a need to come clean to anyone. Sometimes Very few friends. I value my solitude and could live on a deserted island with no problem. Mostly yes, because I changed cultures when I was young and clearly saw that culture was arbitrary. But recently I've been become aware of how unhealthy Western "non-culture" culture is. It's just as damaging and limiting as traditional cultures. Even more so because people don't recognize it as culture. You're worried about the wrong thing. Focus on creating quality content that is true to yourself. Let the little stuff go. I have a big ego so I've always loved myself. Not sure why others don't, honestly. It's a rather stupid way to live. Do the exercise in The Power Of Self-Acceptance video. Read books on self-esteem.

@Extreme Z7 Which is why we try to work on the ego itself. Cause otherwise one abuse will just be replaced another. I see a lot of nofap guys whose minds are now filled with the ideology of: YOU SHOULDN'T DO PORN EVAR! I find porn preferable to wasting years chasing sex or getting into a relationship that wastes 1000s of hours of your life, just because you want to bust some nuts. If one can authentically outgrow the need for sexual release, that's great, but it has to be done through inner work, not merely through JUST SAY NO sort of tactics. The sex drive is way too powerful for that. It's not like kicking a drug, which you have no natural drive for. My only beef with nofap is that I think a lot of people might be doing it in a way that denies their sex drive. And then it goes into neurotic Catholic guilt-trip territory, where you have to forcefully deny yourself, and beat yourself up. Of course if you're watching porn x3 a day, then you'll want to stop that. But I don't see much problem with a couple days a week of porn/fap.

Demonizing porn has become popular. One can use porn responsibly, just like anything else.

@Heart of Space The potential for delusion and misuse of these substances is very great. You guys can do whatever you want. But I had to warn you.

If you want to have trips that scare the shit out of you, go right ahead. But then don't come crying. Those mushrooms are a powerful trickster-like god. He will punish you relentlessly for misusing them.