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Yes. Anyone who registered in last 36 hours has been lost and must register anew.
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Yeah, well, the problem is that she's using them as pawns for her life purpose in a monomaniacal way. Her dedication to her LP will backfire on her. Having such a desire to become spiritually influential is a big red flag for spiritual teachers. Spirituality is not supposed to be mainstream. To make it mainstream will cause all sorts of evil.
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That's one of the core problems I see with her teachings. Her teachings are all about human connection, but you cannot ever satisfy yourself with human connection because the love humans give you will always be finite and selfish, creating suffering. Teal's whole approach will create enormous attachments to humans and to community which will prevent and pervert the deepest levels of spirituality. The real question is: Why does Teal need a new close group? What is she lacking that she feels she needs those attachments? There is good reason why the most awakened people are ascetics and hermits with very loose social bonds. Social attachments create suffering and deepen Maya. Community is not about Truth, it's about survival. And you see how her community is struggling with survival in the documentary. That survival will corrupt any spiritual pursuit. On a practical level Teal can cultivate a group of friends who she doesn't live with and who aren't her employees, but are her peers. This would be the healthy way to do it. This is what most humans do. You don't need to crawl up inside the asses of your friends. Keep a healthy distance. The problem is that Teal seems to want friends who are more like servants and emotional tampons rather than equals. At least that's what I get from the documentary footage. How accurate the footage is I cannot say.
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Leo Gura replied to wayneleekw's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
You're drawing some distinction between humans and animals or nature, when in fact humans ARE animal and ARE nature. There's really little difference. Nature is all about survival and so is society and most humans. Selfishness runs through the whole thing. All human interactions are basically built on selfishness. So it does work. It just has certain consequences and suffering that comes with it. But that's true of all of life and nature. If selfishness didn't work, it wouldn't exist. The problem is that it works too well. -
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Yes, it was an unusual issue which we hadn't encountered in 8 years of running this thing. The internets are a tricky thing.
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So... I watched the whole documentary now, all 4 episodes. It looks pretty bad by the end. But then I listened to Teal's responses to the documentary and it's hard to know who to believe. She claims the documentary was very deceptively edited. How truthfully edited was the documentary? Who the fuck knows. There are definitely plenty of red flags in there if the documentary is to be believed at all. The biggest problem is that she seems to live way too close with what should be her employees. There needs to be a boundary between employer and employee, such that employees are not your personal servants, pawns, and emotional support system. Employees must be allowed to live their own lives and have their own agenda. It seems that Teal is way too emotionally needy with them, using them as a surrogate family, the family she never had. Bottom line: don't live in the same house with your employees. And don't get too emotionally close to your employees. The boundaries between personal life and work life exist for good reason. It shouldn't matter who your employees are fucking. The fact that this matters to Teal is a problem. Teal's whole inner circle setup is very incestuous and will obviously breed problems and endless drama. It comes off as authoritarian, with her expecting everyone around her to bend to her agenda and have none of their own. This isn't sustainable, healthy, or in line with conscious relationships. Overall, I enjoyed the documentary. It felt raw and real. Even if it isn't true, it has good lessons there for how to not run a spirituality community.
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Yeah, it's a pain in the butt. We were lucky not to lose more data. At this point all the functionality of the site and forum have been restored. Let me know if you experience errors or problems anywhere across the site. I checked most features and they seem to work but I might have overlooked something.
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Leo Gura replied to Holygrail's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Leo Gura replied to Holygrail's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Green is not so great at this kind of empathy. Green has more empathy than lower stages but Green is still judgey towards criminals, racists, and especially greed. Just take a look at how the TYT channel reacts to and demonizes those things. Yellow would be much more understanding and less judgey. Green SJWs tend to heavily demonize racism and greed. -
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Physical game. Grab her, pull her in, stare in her eyes, start getting intimate. You have to stop playing games and get serious. Treat her like you want her sexually. She will either push you off or it will hook. Be prepared for rapid escalation and lead it towards a close. Don't just stand there and wait around. LEAD!
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Osho was negligent and irresponsible.
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Leo Gura replied to Prana_y4na's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Every moment is eternal, outside of time and space. You cannot conceptualize eternity nor infinity. -
The most conscious ones don't.
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You will like my report then
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Healing is difficult is not some absolute statement. It's a relative, pragmatic statement. You don't turn it into some ideology, it's just a recognition that some things are harder than others. Climbing Mt Everest is hard. It's useful to know that before attempting to climb it, so you have the right expectations. When I say something is hard or takes a long time I'm not making some absolute claim or a limiting belief, it's more of a motivation tactic. When I say things like that, think of it like this:
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Serious. Probably soon.
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Leo Gura replied to Ima Freeman's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I don't experience dissociation so I don't know. -
Leo Gura replied to Ima Freeman's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Another point: If you think that you are the watcher or witness, as some Neo-Advaita teachers like to teach, then yeah, you will start to feel dissociated because you've created a subtle duality between you and world. There is a deeper, truly nondual realization in which you realize that you are both the witness and the objects being witnessed. You are both emptiness and form. Be ware of these subtle dualities. They are quite common because most spiritual people have not awoken deeply enough. If someone is telling you that you are the watcher of the dream, but not the dream content itself, they are not fully awake. -
See video: Cult Psychology - Part 1 Obviously don't take ego projections too seriously, but sometimes people can give you valid feedback on your own blindspots which you don't easily see. Even very conscious and woke people have blindspots and bad behavioral habits that require correcting.
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Leo Gura replied to Ima Freeman's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
This is a dangerous trap. You are creating conceptual stories about not having free will, but your experience of life is not that. Be careful about taking on such spiritual narratives. Ground yourself in direct experience rather than what some guru says. Has anything in your direct experience changed? If spirituality is making you less functional then that's your clue that you're probably doing it wrong. Your body and mind aren't just something you watch. They are you. -
Guess I'll have to watch this thing. To be fair, once you have access to God consciousness, that becomes your guru. But it is still important to be open to human feedback about your behavior. Does she even realize that she's God? I dunno. If not, she's not so advanced.
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Leo Gura replied to Theperciever's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
You are a mind imagining a brain. -
Part of my brand and style is to underscore the difficulty of this work. Because most people way underestimate it and because culture and marketers try to sell you on quick easy fixes. I deliberately do the opposite. Does it always have to be difficult? No. But I don't want you to count on that. If it turns out to be easier than I said then you'll be in for a nice surprise.