Leo Gura

That's the key: short lived. You could not function from that state. You can have glimpses of insanity but then return to sanity. That is a great queation!

Fox News has been that for 30 years now.

The problem is you frame it as "my version of Awakening". But I didn't invent Awakening. Awakening is way too wild for me to have invented it. I wish I invented it. I would love to put my name on it. A baby can experience anything an adult can experience, in theory. But a baby has no clue what God is. Even if a baby has an Awakeming it would just be confused and scared. Most adults would be confused and scared. I think the issue here is that you haven't become seriously conscious of God yet, so you are assuming it is something a baby can grok. I am not talking about concepts. God is not a concept. Degrees of consciousness and comprehension of God is not a concept. Frankly, I do not think you have a reference experience for what I mean when I say "God-Realization". You might think you know what I am pointing to, but I might be pointing to something else. Your version of Buddha-nature, a baby could have. But that it not God-Realization in my view. Awakening requires no confusion about what God is. If there is a bunch of confusion, God has not been grokked. Yes, Awakening requires Intellect. That is not a problem. Awakening is the highest state of Intellect. If a baby became conscious of what I became conscious of, it would be traumatized. I think you are stuck on the idea that Awakening has to be formless, so you dismiss any forms if they get involved. This is a limited notion of Awakening. Can a baby have an experience of no-self? Yes. But that should not count as God-Realization.

If you were in insanity you could not function. You would be hospitalized. They would feel that way at times, but just cause it feels insane doesn't mean it is insane. The ego is scared of insanity even more than death. So the ego loves to fear-monger to itself about insanity. It is like when you have a flu and you think you are dying. You are not really dying, but the ego fears it so much that it believes it. Of course a few people could literally go insane, but this is very rare. There is a way to do this without becoming dysfunctional and delusional.

Hard to say. It depends on whether I want to release smaller volumes or one big book. If one big book then far. If smaller volumes, then closer. Audiobook for sure, but I don't know if it's a good idea for me to voice it since my voice won't sound as professional and polished. Voice acting is its own profession.

I am planning to change the font that's currently used for all my future black and white Actualized Quotes on the blog. I am planning to switch to a more classical serif font. The old font is sans. I'd like to hear your feedback. Which of the following fonts do you think looks and reads best? Select one. https://www.actualized.org/downloads/font-test-01.png

By thinking. You have to actually think, not just consume.

A venue has to give a platform to a Nazi? I think not.

Only if the other person is crazy and refuses to leave you alone.

No one has the obligation to do business with you if they dislike your political opinions. That is not a violation of the Constitution. The violation happens when government officials punish you for speech. In fact, businesses make celebrities sign morality clauses, which punish the celebrity for being immoral in public.

Most places on the internet become echochambers unless proactive measures are in place.

Reddit has some very useful and great content, but it all depends on the topic and subReddit. Some subReddits are toxic echochambers, other subReddits are great. SubReddits on health problems and psychedelics are really good and useful.

China invading other countries would be as disastrous for China as Ukraine is for Putin. You cannot invade countries successfully in our current era. That time is over. Invading a country is like rape. Today, the social cost of everyone knowing you're a rapist is too high to be worth the rape.

There are already strict laws on how much fish is allowed to be fished. Those laws just need to be enforced. America has been regulating fisheries for over 100 years, with good success. Many fish populations have recovered thanks to regulations.

You cannot take understanding out of Awakening/God-Realization. God IS self-understanding. That's all it ultimately is. When you understand yourself totally enough, you will know you are God. That's all there is to it.

If you think human progress is a myth, go live in the Congo. This guy pontificates about progress being a myth while sitting atop the mountain of progress. Progress is indeed normal and will continue to happen regardless of what anyone says or does. If you wanted to, you could not stop human progress.

Lol. This is such a nothing-burger. Ed Sheeran's opinion on Gaza makes zero difference. Such performative moralism.

Lol NO ONE! ONLY YOU! That's why I keep harping on Sovereignty and Autonomy of Mind. You truly have to accept that your Mind alone defines truth. Your Mind needs to accept that, "I alone define truth". NO! There is zero room for self-deception in being AWAKE. Self-deception is everything that humans do until Awakening. Self-deception does not apply to TRUTH.

I would disagree here. A baby cannot Awaken. Awakening requires realizing that you are God. If "you are God" is not realized, Awakening has not occurred at all. A baby can experience higher consciousness, but the baby will not be able to understand what it is. There is no Awakening without understanding. It is not enough to experience God, because everyone is experiencing God at all times. The issue is, Do you understand what God is? So experience of God is not technically enough for Awakening.

Just don't overlook that this applies to science and all forms of knowledge. Is the Earth really round, or are you just agreeing with science? Is 1+1=2 really true, or are you just agreeing with the dogmas of math? For any truth, you are going to have the question of: Is this really true, or am I just convinced its true by social forces? That's why truth cannot be a social thing.

Don't be too available via text. Keep texting short.

Unity flattens all ontology, yeah. Ultimately everything is the same. Everything is Being/Consciousness/God. Idealists aren't conscious of God. They have no idea what is really going on. It's just conceptual for them. Consciousness and Maya are not two separate things. Maya is made out of Truth. I am not talking about concepts when I talk about Awakening. I am talking about different kinds and degrees of higher Consciousness. There is way more higher Consciousness than your two categories. Categories are themselves hallucinations. You like to interpret that I am talking about concepts because that doesn't threaten your view of this domain. You are still holding onto that Buddhist view of all this. Also, concept is not anti-Awakening. You can have Awaked Consciousness and understand it deeper with concepts. Concepts are not an enemy per se. You are using concepts regardless to do sense-making. Buddhism is also concepts. Ralston is also concepts. Any teaching uses concepts.

I mean, not on your first experiences of God.

That's not really insanity, that's trans-human-sanity. You are going beyond human sanity, which is just an island in the Ocean of Consciousness.

That problem exists for any worldview. I don't know what you are saying.