Elysian

Here he touches on what he calls two paths. Embodying Absolute Truth, Buddha. Turning towards the suffering of others and embracing it, Jesus. Where Ken Wilber made the mistake is by calling them two different paths, when in reality it's the same path at different stages. Buddha recognized Absolute Truth, and embodied it for his entire life. Jesus recognized Absolute Truth, but decided if he was going to continue being a part of this existence regardless of where it comes from, he was going to continue to grow through spreading unity. You can stop where Buddha did, or you can continue on to become a part of the leading edge of evolution, the leading edge of love.

I disagree with pretty much everything said so far except @NoSelfSelf. When you are dating someone, the key difference between them and anyone else is that they are a person you have sexual interactions with (as long as we're talking about monogamy). Sex isn't related to love, not true, unconditional love. You can unconditionally love someone and have sex with them, or unconditionally love someone and not have sex with them. Sex is a healthy aspect of life, and even healthier when expressed with someone you love unconditionally. But if you aren't sexually attracted to someone, why would you try to continue a sexual relationship with them? It makes absolutely no sense. Just because you don't want to have sex with someone doesn't mean you love them any less. If you truly love each other, and want to be in each other's lives, then you can still do so in a nonsexual way. You can both satisfy your sexual needs with other people. To be authentic and true to yourself you must. If she can't handle you being in her life without having sex with her, that's emotional blockages she needs to deal with, and it's not your responsibility.

Meditating for 30 to 60 minutes a day at a certain point will only maintain your current state of awareness. Like a sort of maintenance to keep you operating at the same level. What you need to do is set a couple weekends aside and meditate for several hours a day. That's how you'll actually make real progress, or nonprogress. This is the sort of intensity you will need to move into the different stages of Samadhi, and eventually into enlightenment. If you do this for 2 days straight, several hours a day, absolutely determined to find out the Truth of reality, there's a good chance you will enter Samadhi. The first goal should be to reach Nirvikalpa Samadhi, which is just resting in the space before any thought arises. If you reach this state on the weekend, just meditate for 30 to 60 minutes a day on the weekday to maintain your degree of awareness. Then when the next weekend comes around you will easily enter Nirvikalpa Samadhi again. When the next weekend comes, spend the time to get back to Nirvikalpa Samadhi. If you spend several hours a day for a couple days in Nirvikalpa, then it will be much more likely you'll enter Sahaja Samadhi. All that is, is maintaining Nirvikalpa Samadhi all day. This will become effortless the more weekends you devote several hours a day to Nirvikalpa Samadhi. If you reach this point and still need advice, just message me. But trust me, if you're thinking it won't be worth giving up a few weekends to attain Sahaja Samadhi, you'd be terribly mistaken. You've never experienced that level of peace in your entire life.

Everything is perfect on the Absolute level. But as far as the whole reason this existence was created in the first place, a perfect human being is one who perfectly radiates unconditional love. That's how unity occurs.

Do what you can in the moment, don't worry about what is out of your control.

Hemi-Sync has the most effective binaural technology, worth looking into. There are also crystals that specifically aid in Astral projection, crystalvaults.com has a relatively accurate encyclopedia of crystals and their uses.

This is only part of the story. Realizing Absolute Truth, that all is one, is just the first step. Individuality has purpose, and that purpose becomes more clear the farther you move beyond Absolute Truth. Individuality is important all the way up to the highest level. It wouldn't exist otherwise, because God deals in perfection. It would also be more helpful for unenlightened beings to note that enlightenment is the act of waking up to one's Divine nature. People who still haven't experienced this shouldn't be referred to as enlightened, it only breeds confusion.

When you realize the sound of a song coming through the speakers is being experienced at the speakers and in between the speakers. Mind = blown

This is all that really needed to be said. The rest of the topic has been nondual masturbation. It takes individuals decades to achieve these higher states of being/consciousness because the ego of teachers complicates the path to resting in one's true nature. The desire to grow, the desire to heal, the desire to know Truth, all of that is love. Surrender to love, give up your egoic desires. When you completely surrender to love, you'll find that place that lies before every thought, and be able to rest there. Rest in your true nature. If you do that, you will effortlessly soar into the elevated consciousness that's alluded to in these traditions. Energetic blockages will fall away to let the Light shine perfectly through you. Stop complicating this, it's so simple. Recognize as an individual aspect of God, you don't know anything. It's ok, just let go. You're loved, and love has been waiting to catch you your entire life. Ken Wilber and Andrew Cohen eloquently explain love here. This song encapsulates Truth, it tells you everything you need to know.

I've been in seclusion for some time now, working on myself spiritually and emotionally. After some reflection and contemplation I've decided I want to dedicate my life to helping others heal through sound: music, Tibetan singing bowls, tuning forks, etc. I currently have no interest in dating. I haven't the time or energy at this point in my life, nor am I ready emotionally. I've started reaching back out to friends to rekindle relationships, with the intention of helping them heal through my presence and through different techniques when they're ready. But even with just starting to reach out, I'm already noticing sexual desire starting to flare up. I could be talking to a friend with very clear intentions of loving them through action, residing in a place of selflessness, when all of a sudden sexual desire rears it's head and begins mixing with my intentions. I notice it, tried to remain objective about it, but it's there. And at that point I feel like I have three choices: Suppress it. Act on it. Be extremely mindful of it and take great care to not let it cloud my intention. I'm just wondering, what if anything is to be done about this? I don't want to suppress emotion, and I don't want to act on it to then pollute the possibilities of our relationship, and remaining hypervigilant to keep my intentions clear is honestly exhausting. Do any of you have methods of managing lust that doesn't move to suppress it? In the Yogic Sutras they give a method of cultivating an attitude of disgust towards human flesh, so as to make one completely disinterested in sexuality completely; but this doesn't resonate with me at all and sounds unhealthy. I removed porn and masturbation from my life, but even that remains difficult to maintain especially with this new influx of lust not being satiated. And this isn't all to say I'll remain celebit for life, that is highly unlikely. Maybe I will find a person I connect deeply enough with that I want to initiate that kind of relationship. I just want to make sure my heart is in the right place when I'm interacting with other.

I thought I'd give an update: After some more experience in helping other heal, and through contemplation/intuition, I've found that this desire to help other is Pure Unconditional Love. It's selfless desire to lift them up. And because I have such a high sex drive I thought it would cloud my intentions, or push other away. What I've found is that if a person shows interest in exploring sexuality, I can express that desire without it affecting the love I have for them. I've actually found being inauthentic or not doing enough meditation has hindered my love (weakening my connection to the Divine), not lust like I assumed. For me, waiting until it is clear to me that it's something other is interested sets up a healthy barrier for lust, and keeps me from pushing other away who otherwise was open to healing. In this way, I will stay have plenty of opportunity to satiate lust while doing so in a healthy way. This I think, is the balance I was looking for.

This happens to me all day. The more sensitive you are the more you can pick up on the energy coming your way. It's similar to why you can tell someone walked in the room behind you even if you didn't hear or see anything to alert you to their presence. Except in this situation, or whenever someone is close to you, they are walking into your energetic field which extends on average 8 to 12 feet out from your body. You'll pick up on that on an energetic level, most people do. Noticing someone projecting energy at you from a distance is more subtle but alot of people do notice this. Intuition plays a part here.

This music is relaxing Turquoise music/mantras. Being Highly Sensitive it is very calming for me, so if you are too it might be the same.

When someone is being absolutely authentic, they might be kind and humble, or they might be assertive and proud, or intolerant and aloof. Being authentic doesn't mean being a saint.

I recommend getting a really small piece. My intuition says I'm not even ready for any piece of Moldavite yet, and that I need to adjust to the crystals I have first. I think you can find a small piece for 10-20 USD

I thought it was woo woo too. And the deeper I get into spirituality, the more I find that most of what I thought was woo woo was just me being overly skeptical and not open to what was right in front of me. If you're skeptical, look into getting a piece of Moldavite. If anything is likely to make you feel something, it's that. A lot of people can't even hold on to it or keep it near them for any lengthy amount of time.

Presented in an easily digestible way. Intuition pointed me towards getting more crystals, I was unsure if they would have a genuine effect but I was open to healing so I got them anyway. Well one day a couple of new crystals came in the mail. I laid down on the bed, relaxed, not really feeling much emotion. After about 2 minutes of laying down I went from completely calm to almost a full blown panic attack. I started thinking, what in the hell am I so anxious about? I look over, and the new crystals I got were about 6 inches from my chest on my bed. I thought there's no way these crystals could be affecting me this much. I moved them into my closet and laid back down. 2 minutes later, I had zero anxiety. I was blown away, as no crystals had been that strong that I had purchased before. I figured maybe there was just low vibrational energy in the crystals from previous owners. I cleansed and charged them. I put them near me, same exact thing again. Then it became clear to me, these crystals were vibrating at such a high frequency, that as soon as they entered my energy field they were finding the lower vibrations within me I wasn't even aware of and forcing them out. The energies simply couldn't be in the same space as these crystals and they were being brought into the conscious so they could be felt and released. These 2 specific crystals I can only have near me for about a hour a day currently, anything more becomes much too intense. And that's even with me clearing all my emotional trauma through shadow work. I don't even want to know what would've happened if I would have gotten them before hand. The more sensitive you are to both emotions and subtle energies, the easier it'll be to pick up on the effects of crystals.

Negative energy is coming from a place of certain emotion is bad, certain emotion is good. But all emotion serves a purpose, it's all valid. It's more correct to say can low vibrational energy stay in a room, and yes it can. Smudging and crystals both will help keep the vibrations in your home as high as they can be, that is as high as they can be with you or whoever is also living there being in the home. You carry your own energy, so if you are carrying a lot of low vibrational energy then it will emanate throughout your home. It's more effective to combine regular cleansing of your space/crystals with a practice of working through your own baggage. Feng Shui is also an interesting concept too.

Someone who was even fully enlightened can recognize what degree of awareness you have, there's nothing wrong with that. It's your egoic mind interpreting his observation as an insult because that's probably what you would've meant saying such a thing.

I agree with Tool being Yellow/Turquoise. Really everything Maynard has touched. Aurora also seems to be Yellow/Turquoise, even though her methods, sound, lyrics, and presentation are very different than Maynard. An interview with her explaining her music: One of her songs:

It is possible when people's value systems change, but for most people in the world they value either 2 things the most: Can this person provide for me and a family? Do I find them sexually attractive, can I have sex with them?

I'm sure I will, I just want to be more careful and considerate about it. I've been through the 'sex is the goal' phase, and I've been through the 'something is missing so let me try to fill that hole with pleasure' phase. I've been selfish for much of my teenage and adult life, I did that so intensely I've burned myself out doing it, and it only lead to suffering. I do want to be healthy so I want to do what it takes to make that happen, but in a way with the least suffering caused to other. There's already an overwhelming amount of suffering in the world, and it breaks my heart. I've contributed enough to that this lifetime.

I appreciate you genuinely wanting to help. I just think you were off base.