Bobby

If it’s celestial kriya yoga or some other practice from occult Taoism you’re about to get f’d up big time. Immortality in exchange for sanity my friend

Miracles happen in consciousness. So does Islam. how could something that only occurs within something else be the truth, exactly?

@xbcc “will” is a concept. No concept isn’t Truth.

Jed McKenna is a fictional character that an anonymous author used to express his ideas/ experiences.

I just wanna briefly point out an article by Bernardo Kastrup which goes into further detail on brain scans similar to those which Leo posted in his blog, showcasing the power of LSD. It turns out, those scans showed heightened brain communications, but LSD and other psychedelics actually lower brain activity. The fact that psychedelics produce the effects they do by lowering brain activity is a bit concerning if you're a materialist science journalist. https://www.bernardokastrup.com/2016/04/the-lsd-study-youre-being-subtly.html

after turquoise you drop spiral dynamics because it's just a bunch of concepts. lol

one soul

any sangha which grows around an enlightened person

“Real quick bitch, before I pimp u out to this homeless dude lemme check actualized.org for the new video on infinite intelligence.”

@Stretch you haven’t understood what emptiness actually is.

@kieranperez it’s still possible post no-self, which is just one enlightenment. Greater enlightenments will show you more about the nature of consciousness.

I rewatched Why Brains Do Not Exist recently, and was wondering if you're saying reality is a subjective or objective form of idealism? anyone else who wants to put in their 2 cents would be cool. in other words, is there always God in the quad? God in the Quad There was a young man who said "God Must find it exceedingly odd To think that the tree Should continue to be When there's no one about in the quad." Reply: "Dear Sir: Your astonishment's odd; I am always about in the quad. And that's why the tree Will continue to be Since observed by, Yours faithfully, God." Or are you saying the shared world is more of a true illusion?

@MM1988 just doing it is its own reward. you gotta have fun with this stuff, man. take a couple weeks off work and live alone in a cabin. connect with nature., hang out with cool enlightened teachers and take in their energy, go on an ayahuasca retreat, go get crazy energy healing that you're not even sure if it'll work or if you're wasting your money, do kundalini yoga, do kriya yoga, go crazy writing down everything you think about your "self," it's honestly so much fun if you do it with all your heart.

@fireworld you pop up out of your physical body and get sucked through a portal to your next life. that's a metaphorical way of saying it ^^^ duality doesn't go away because of death; there's more than one body trapping your consciousness unfortunately, what your "soul" is like a river; it's not a permenant self but it does have a certain continuity, even if over the course of eons it can completely change

@Lucas Lousada difficult is a relative term. if you're seriously committed it isn't "difficult." it takes effort ofc, but it's a labor of love.

@Chriztian it generally begins with a strong desire to escape your present situation, your suffering, surrender doesn't tend to happen until later

If you see perfection, perfection will manifest itself. basic law of attraction. Not easy by any stretch. But accomplishable. Realize that there aren’t good guys and bad guys; there’s just ignorance of which everyone’s a victim, and seek to be an energetic siphon which can absorb and dissolve that ignorance.

Sadhguru is most definitely past turquoise. I’d peg him as highly developed coral, same as other yogis like auro kriya does a heck of a lot more than enlighten you

@Shakazulu I’ll hit your question with another question. do you know what direct experience is? is it the same as your regular, day to day perception of life? Or is it deeper than that? is the “direct experience” of Truth in any way able to be represented in the visual, mental, auditory, or other sensory fields?

London Real-- highly highly reccomend

amazing interview of Bernardo Kastrup: highly reccomend showcases yellow & late yellow/ early turquoise

@Leo Gura have you watched any of Patterson in Pursuit? It's a goldmine. ^ VERY VERY COOL

This is something I anticipated while watching the yellow video, and I would just like to point out that, yes, even an enlightened person has a partial perspective, but that enlightenment itself is not partial. Enlightenment itself is direct consciousness, and is more obvious than the redness of red, but in observing different teachers, you find that each one of them either uses different language or teaches different methods-- thus the partial perspective of enlightened people.

I’d just genuinely like to know why much of the focus of this forum has drifted from getting enlightened to mental masturbation over whether certain phenomena exist or not. from my perspective, solving the issue of wether such things exist or not is as simple as finding a psychic and seeing if they’re accurate. No mental masturbation required. And after you’ve done so, get to work pursing real spiritual wisdom.