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Colloidal silver gets a lot of positive reviews for these purposes. That plus NAC, vitamin C, anti-oxidants, and beta-glucan. You must take all this as soon as you feel the cold coming on even a little bit. It doesn't work as well if the cold is already raging. But you'd have to experiment to see what works for you. People have different genetics and immune systems and it can be hard to sort out the placebo effect.

I've experimented with it. You can certainly glean valuable health insights from Dave, but as far as his coffee goes and all that butter, I don't think it's too healthy long-term. I measured my cholesterol numbers before and after months of butter coffee and they got worse. So did my brother. Those results may hinge on genetic factors so you might be different. But make sure you get your cholesterol tested before and after your experiments with all that butter. In my experience, even the good cholesterol got worse. A lot of the Bulletproof brand stuff is overpriced and of questionable value. You'd have to carefully experiment with each product to see if it works for you. You can research more on his Bulletproof forum. Lots of people there talk about their experiences. Many of them are mixed. You would probably be better off not drinking coffee at all. It tends to become a crutch.

It is studied in universities. Don Beck, the developer of Spiral Dynamics, was a professors at the University Of North Texas in Denton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Edward_Beck And there are hundreds of developmental psychologists around the world researching various developmental models. It's just not mainstream knowledge. Don't expect this stuff advertised to you on Facebook. Bachelors of psychology hardly know anything about how the human mind really works. Universities also have an aversion to anything mystical, which Spiral Dynamics points at with stage Turquoise. Your key mistake is assuming that society spreads amazing things. Society mostly spreads the most dumbed-down, idiotic things. See my video: The Deep Problem Of Marketing It's precisely because Spiral Dynamics is so good that it is not spread.

"In the Lotus sutra it is written that, 'Daily duties and attending to work is nothing other than true reality.' When we do business, or farm, or do temple work, or engage in politics and economics, all of this is Buddha-Dharma." -- Zen master Yamada Mumon That Zen monk was also an astrophysics major, a masseur, and a competitive swordsman. He lived out of his van and traveled around the country training his swordsman skills and giving massages. We had some great conversations. This was a few months before the 2016 election. He told me, "Donald Trump is a terrible human being." Lol

What's even more frightening is when you realize that once an AI gets as complex and sophisticated as a human mind, this AI mind will be susceptible to many of the same pathologies that human minds are susceptible to. Imagine a Donald Trump AI that's pathologically hung up on its penis size (or lack there of). Imagine a white supremacist AI that's pathologically hung up on AI's being superior to all humans. Imagine a greedy corporatist AI that's pathologically hung up on never-ending Wallstreet growth. Imagine a Sam Harris AI that's pathologically hung up on turning everyone in the world into a rational atheist. Imagine a Green Peace AI that's pathologically hung up on saving the polar bears by killing all humans. If an AI becomes as sophisticated as a human, you can expect it to have all sorts of irrational personality quirks.

I once met a Zen monk who spent his leisure time reading US and world politics journals online. He was very well informed.

Worldwide percentages are not as important as local percentages. For example, the average per capita worldwide salary is extremely low because certain underdeveloped countries are extremely underdeveloped yet have large populations. So a number like average per capita worldwide salary isn't a useful statistic. A much more useful statistic is the average salary in your neighborhood. That actually tells you something. In 1st world countries the percentage of stage Green is significantly more than 10%. Also keep in mind that the higher the stage the more impact it has culturally, the less of it is needed. Even 1% Yellow or 0.1% Turquoise has a massive disproportional impact on the world. Because these people tend to be leaders and closer to positions of influence and power. Think of the impact of someone like Jesus, The Buddha, MLK, Gandhi, etc. You don't need 100 million Jesuses (Jesii?) to change the world.

Tribes are usually Purple. Culture wars are a real thing. It is arrogant to go converting people. Better to mind one's own business or you might get an arrow in the ass.

The satori of no-self happens at stage 4, catching the ox. That's what most people mean by enlightenment or awakening. Then it's a question of how deeply you've penetrated it, how many facets you've seen of it, and how well you're able to embody it.

Yes it has. This is actually a positive sign. It means you're getting closer to Truth. Keep the faith. And remember to be gentle and loving with yourself. Watch my newest Ox video. It was made for people like you.

As with all religions, it depends on how you hold it. Are you gonna use it to opress minorities? To create a Bahai government? To sell seminars and earn millions of dollars?

Imagine life just as it is but you were hit in the head with a baseball bat such that you can no longer form the thought "me". You are gone, but life goes on. You are an idea. This idea will stop arising. But that is only the realization of no-self. There is still more to realize. Like what God is. So it's not as bleak as the ego makes it seem. Don't buy into the ego's negative opinions about enlightenment. They are all delusion. This work requires a leap of faith in the end. You cannot know what will be discovered after ego-death. It is not imaginable.

@SoonHei You have misinterpreted many things I said in that video. Don't take things so literally that: if a person teaches he has not reenterrd the marketplace because he does not "blend in". Obviously a professional nondual celebrity teacher will not blend in in the conventional sense. Picture 10 is a metaphor.

@captainamerica Search Amazon for books on ESP, clairvoyance, and so forth. Lots of New Age books been written about that. You can also search "siddhis".

@Pouya Then watch the Ten Ox Herding Pictures video and carry on with the work.

The moment of awakening IS the letting go of the self. Obviously you can't truly let go of the self until you've let go of the self. You can't awaken before you awaken. Again, this is where psychedelics are extremely useful. It's like lube for the self to surrender. Why wait 5 years when you can get it in 50 minutes? Be smart about how you go about spirituality. Don't waste time doing things that don't work.

@Pouya Psychedelics are the solution to this problem. You are demoralized because you have not seen any tangible results. Because a tangible shift in consciousness usually takes several years of dedicated practice which you lack the vision to complete.

With the opening of the 6th chakra (3rd eye) paranormal abilities can be unlocked. But this varies greatly from person to person. Some people will not unlock any paranormal abilities while others may unlock some significant ones. Personally I think it depends a lot on your brain chemistry, genetics, etc. This is all normal and can be part of process. Don't try to go chasing for paranormal abilities, but if they come to you naturally don't reject them either. You'll have to learn how to handle them responsibly. That in itself can be a long journey. You might want to read some books specifically about that. There are many different kinds of paranormal abilities and not everyone will access all of them. Most people will access none at all.

@Arthur Yes, of course it does. Which is why you gotta make yourself as independent of society as possible. It is harder in 3rd world countries but not impossible. You have to play the cards you've been dealt. Of course if you can move to a 1st world country then it's probably smart to do so. The internet makes 3rd world countries a lot more livable. You can run a $10 million dollar business from an apartment in India if you are clever. The biggest thing holding you back from success is simply your lack of vision and experience.

@Jed Vassallo Be careful with naive views of human nature. Selfishness runs rampant even among highly woke people. People still need to survive because resources are limited. No one likes cleaning toilets, not even woke people. So survival issues and politics will always be a factor. When you only have 10 loafs of bread left, who's gonna get it? The greatest problem with Soviet style communism was that it did not properly account for human greed and selfishness. A stage Yellow or even Turquoise society would not eliminate these problems. They would only be lessened. A lot of infrastructure would have to be built up to support it.

@Baotrader None of that is gonna happen extra-societially. The entire existing society must be evolved up to that level, which would take 100s of years at least, if not 1000s. No one guru can do it. Sheela was just one example of the problems that rise when trying to create such a society. There are thousands of others to take her place, and much worse. With ego, corruption is rampant and inevitable. And Osho himself set a bad example. He was an elitist, seduced by luxury.

You can develop yourself anywhere. Development is largely an internal activity. Relocate if you want, but don't make it an excuse for not developing. Some of the most advanced human beings are sitting right now in caves somewhere in India without a pot to piss in.

@Jed Vassallo Not so easy in practice. Those types of communes always devolve and fall apart. They are not scalable to hundreds of thousands of people. They only work as sub-societies within the larger society. They don't have to deal with government functions like building roads, feeding the hungry, taking care of the elderly, policing white collar crime, protecting against polluted drinking water, a judicial system, printing money, and defending against hostile outside nations and dictators. Most people utterly take for granted how many functions the federal government does, without which you and family would be raped and enslaved. You can see just how easily a commune become corrupt by watching the Netflix Osho documentary, Wild Wild Country. And that's just the tip of the iceberg of how bad things would get if the government didn't shut them down. Green people are incapable of running a functional society without outside support from lower stages.

Of course every perspective has some kernel of truth to it. But if you can't see the limitations of JP's philosophy that's because you're at his level of development/consciousness. He is teaching you exactly what your ego wants to hear. To those of us who have outgrown that, the limitations are all too obvious. But for you, at your level, JP may be appropriate. Until you butt heads with the limitations for yourself. JP's teachingd are very primitive after all the stuff that I have seen and studied. But primitive is a relative notion. What's primitive to one person is advanced to another. Understand that the logic being used to defend JP's philosophy is the same logic that is used to defend fundamentalist Christianity or Islam. That desire you have to help me with JP is actually an egoic projection of your desire to help yourself with JP. You are trying to convince me because you need to convince yourself. And the reason you feel a need to convince yourself is because fundamentally you are disconnected from truth and JP's dualistic judging paradigm is going to make that worse, not better.

@Sukhpaal Phase #4 & #5 would be roughly August-October 2019.