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It goes Poof! As the brain was always just a concept.

This is like asking how long it takes to become a millionaire. It all depends on how bad you want it and how hard you're willing to work for it, and how effectitive your chosen methods are. Most people will not become a millionaire ever. Because it isn't simply a function of time. To think of it as a function of time is very mistaken and will in itself ensure you waste years in fruitless practices. Your practice must be serious, genuine, and powerful. Otherwise you will easily waste 20 years meditating without ego death.

They are not different enlightenments but one and the same. "Soul" refers to a subtle aspect of the individualized self. That too is eventually transcended into pure nonduality regardless of which path you take. "Soul" is a technical term. It refers to subtle states of consciousness. Nondual is beyond even that. Transcendence goes: Gross >> Subtle >> Causal >> Nondual

Sounds groovey. You can (and should) be working toward a permanent nondual awareness. That is the point of enlightenment. Kriya yoga can help with developing that.

Being is more meaningful than meaning.

A lot of time by your self contemplating and journaling is necessary. And not just once. You must do it over and over again throughout your life. The LP Course covers this topic a lot. The problem is the social conditioning and childhood survival habits run extremely deep. It is hard to seperate them out from your genuine higher self motives and values. I am still discovering more authentic motives in myself after years of self-reflection and years of satisfying various needs. As you grow your motives will get purified more and more until they run clear like a bitter cold high mountain stream.

We humans are too selfish to die

@CreamCat Even so I think the blueprints and scientific knowledge would survive.

What if God -- that humble bastard -- came to your store, bought some shoes, and left without even saying hello?

@Serotoninluv It's not so hard understand it logically: Everything must include nothing otherwise it would be less than everything, since nothing would be excluded. Another way to phrase it: Without including nothing, everything is incomplete.

In the end, I can't see technological advancement as anything but part of God's plan. You can never put technology back in the bottle. Reality is always evolving into higher and higher levels of complexity and integration. Communication technology -- for all of its evils -- is helping integrate the world. Evil and division win in the short term, integration and love win in the long term. The internet makes it easier than ever to learn about self-help, consciousness, and enlightenment. As we become more integrated, war becomes less and less a viable solution to our problems. But of course new kinds of problems always arise. Maybe now it will be information warfare more than physical warfare.

Sounds sane to me

@SriBhagwanYogi We have a giant thread om this forum about how to teach yourself Kriya yoga. It takes some effort. It is not for lazy people who expect everything to be served up to them on a silver platter on YT.

There are many degrees of glimpsing and many facets to glimpse.

That's a lot of stuff. It's gonna be too hard to do all of that a once. Start with 1 thing. Counter-intuitively, by trying to go fast you end up going slow.

@MrBabar For some people it can take many trips before the Absolute is revealed because you're not yet ready to see it. You might want to try some easier psychedelics first like mushrooms or LSD and work your way up. Plugging toad venom is not gonna work. Toad venom must be smoked. Plugging is preferable to smoking for newbies. But you'd need to find a synthetic version of 5-MeO for that.

@lmfao I am not talking about models or theories. I am talking about direct consciousness of things you cannot imagine or understand in your present state of consciousness. Discover for yourself what is true.

@Vipassana Try Kirya pranayama spinal breathing. Then maybe you won't need to suck on Sadhguru's tit

Living in this dreamscape is all about striking a healthy balance. Being an Elon Musk workaholic is to be out of balance in a pathological way. Allowing unfettered carbon emissions is to be out of balance in a pathological way. Pragmatically you are being given guidance on how to maximize your consciousness, whether as an individual or collectively. It's hard to enlighten people when their houses are flooded and their children's brains are polluted with toxins.

@CreamCat You have mental resistance to waking up.

@CreamCat Do whatever you gotta do to set up a situation where you can sit comfortably for 60 minutes without distractions.

There's no magic pill. You must slowly build one good habit at a time. By trying to solve everything at once you end up not solving anything. Significant change takes months and years of work. You must build healthy, sustainable infrastructure in your life. Maybe start by moving to a healthier environment. Then build up from there. If you try to change too much too fast you'll just experience a terrible ego backlash. It takes time and patience to rewire the brain in a sustainable way.

No You do not need to think to understand language. The mind handles that automatically already. In fact, you could be in a conversation with someone, speaking to them, while simultaneously meditating. Even speaking does not usually require thought. Thinking is far less necessary than most people think.

@SriBhagwanYogi No, it is not the same. The techniques are quite different, although they both lead to the same place. I find Isha Kriya to be less potent. I assume this is by design. Sadhguru's teachings are very mainstream and he probably does not want to freak noobs out and get himself into hot water. I assume Sadhguru reserves his most powerful techniques for advanced students. He doesn't give it to noobs to reduce complications.

It isn't. Consciousness is everywhere. But for the sense of you to exist, you've tricked yourself into thinking it is planted in that body. Without an ego consciousness would not feel planted in that body. Look around the room. The entire room is made of consciousness. Consciousness is not located inside your body or head. There is no you who is aware, and vision is not yours. That's the illusion ego creates. You ARE everyone and everything. But you believe you are not, so it feels to you like you are separate. What you think affects your reality. By thinking your exist, you come into existence. Stop thinking you exist and you will cease to exist. Because you believe you're alive. Stop thinking you exist and you will disappear. The body will continue as though it was never yours. You will cease to be "stuck to it" because you will cease to be at all! No, all objects arise within one unified field of consciousness. Imagine a hard drive with many virtual partitions. It is always one hard drive but the virtual partitions help to create temporary sub-domains within the drive, which can be useful. The key is to always remember that the partitions are not real but imaginary. Consciousness subdivides itself through imagination, because in truth there is only unity. Division can only happen through imagination. Kind of like how a hard drive cannot physically cut itself into separate parts, but it can partition itself virtually.