Leo Gura

@Barry J What is up with these false dichotomies? Both!

@Barry J I don't need to lose it. Enlightenment is naturally coming. The nondual awareness is creeping into me every day, bit by bit. Won't take too long now.

@Barry J Yes, which is why I take the time to write out thoughtful and clever analogies.

@Barry J Nope, I sleep just fine. It's JP who has sleeping problems: My fave JP quote: "...an overwhelming sense of impending doom." "You lay in bed frozen in something approximating terror for eight hours and then you get up." LOL! That about sums up his reactionary political philosophy.

@Serotoninluv What is sane? What is insane? What is the difference? Up to you. I would try to stay out of jail. But if got there, then I would meditate and do yoga. It is what it is. Who's to say what is "weird"? It is what it is. Truth does not care how helpful you feel it is. After all, what you call helpful is nothing more than that which saves your imaginary hide.

@kieranperez No, it was near Pine, Arizona. Flagstaff is too cold.

That's quite tricky. You're basically talking about camping skills. Go camping a few times without any retreat or meditation and just learn how to camp. You'll need to stock up in quite a bit of supplies. Dealing with the heat, rain, and cold will be tricky. Snakes, bugs, cougars, and bears can be tricky too. Many places in CA will require camping permits and camp ground reservations. But it could be a really great growing experience if you manage to figure out all those logistics. You'll want a first-aid kit, GPS, and some kind of weapon against creatures. Suvivorman: Yogi Edition

@CreamCat Wear your socialist badge proudly, comrade. Don't let JP shame you into a closet socialist

These are socialist SJW values.

@CreamCat So you're a communist SJW then

You say that cause you're in a position of superiority. A bit of inequality will help educate you

So slavery it is then? Careful what you wish for.

@Adam M Where's that enlightenment?!

@zunnyman She did not have any proper theoretical foundation so she misinterpreted her awakening as something wrong. Seems to me that she did this for so long and so severely that she ended up causing her own brain cancer. If she had access to some of the videos on Actualized.org, she would have been fine I think. It took her many years to find some realized teachers to help straighten her out. Consider yourselves lucky that you're alive in the age of Youtube and a flood of free nonduality videos. Where you can literally go to Google and find the answer to any question or problem you might ever have in life. People take this ability so for granted. In a world full of insane people, when you become sane, but have no one to talk to about it, you might find yourself thinking you've gone insane.

@d0ornokey It's very challenging. Western philosophers are masters at weaving together genius and bullshit. Best to stick to modern nonduality teachers for the most of you. So you don't waste your time. The books on my book list are what you should be focused on reading and mastering. You'll notice, I don't put a lot of philosophy books on there.

Bears shit a lot more than you'd think. They're just good at hiding it

@CreamCat You will care about equality more when you realize that you will reincarnate as every living being who ever lived or will live. That will sober the smugness out of ya.

Great, but this is a bit of a dangerous idea: This idea will easily get abused by right-wing egos in the political sphere to enslave others and maintain a grotesquely unequal status quo. You can see people making this kind of argument in defense of slavery: "Oh, they don't need equality. That's impossible anyway. Let's just love them more while they pick our cotton for us."

Does a bear shit in the woods?

@Elton You assume too much about me and put me on a pedestal. I have plenty of weaknesses. In fact, I'm really not so developed at all. I'm just a guy who makes videos, really. The rest is your fantasy.

@Pernani You're not likely to avoid wage slavery entirely. You'll probably have to do some amount of it in the beginning. That's not too big of a problem if it's part of your escape strategy. The issue is, most people never even had an escape strategy. Then it's really hard to escape. Most people are like that squirrel who didn't stock up on acorns for winter. Winter is not the problem. The problem is you didn't prepare, and now you're cornered. Now you gotta work twice as hard to find a solution.

So in other words, she'll be starting a Green hippie channel now? Someone send her the Spiral Dynamics Stage Green video.

@Outer Super common. Happens all the time. Read the story of Suzanne Segal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Segal You just take it for granted that people have a crystal clear conceptual understanding of spirituality and enlightenment. That's cause I've spoiled you guys with videos explaining everything. No ordinary person knows this shit. Not even close. Not even conceptually. The typical spiritual practitioner could not describe what enlightenment is in one sentence if his life depended on it. Never mind knowledge of all the complications and traps that come with it.

@Oeaohoo Trying to make sense of the particular delusions of old dead Western philosophers is largely a waste of time. That is the game of academic philosophy, which might win a battle here or there on technical points, but always loses the war. Every major Western philosopher basically made a few good points along with a bunch of nonsense. And now we have to waste thousands of hours sorting the few tidbits of wisdom from the overall pile of delusion. The fact is Neitzche did not have a good understanding the origins of religion. He was reacting against corruption within religion. Which is like shooting fish in a barrel. Is Neitzche a paragon of integral thinking? Is reading him going to teach you how to be a integral thinker? Your time would be better spent reading some Ken Wilber. That's what real Yellow looks like. After I realized God, my understanding of and compassion for Christianity shot through the roof. Even though there's so much corruption and stupidity within it. It's like watching a little child giving his best but just failing over and over again. The harder he tries, the harder he fails. It's sad really. The Christians know not what they preach. The devil sunk his fangs into them real good.

That's ego talking. It should be precisely how it is.