Brittany

The love that we have for our family, in general, is often filled with corruption. Because they are an extension of our ego. And we often sacrifice the OTHER, to protect our ego. We are often loving and corrupt at the same time, when it comes to our family. haha Anything we place next to MY ______________ becomes attached to our ego. My friends My family My car My body My kids My spouse My house And whatever people/things we view as OTHER......... we are willing to hurt, devalue, exploit......in order to protect whatever we place after MY_________________ And we often view ourselves as a good person while doing so. Jealousy and Envy is wanting something that isn't yours. Not necessarily Greed. You can be greedy towards things that belong to you. For example, eating the entire box of cookies in your cabinet. They are your cookies, but you are still being greedy. Greed, Envy and Jealousy may all lead to theft and stealing. This all gets very confusing.......... because Stealing, Envy, Jealousy, and Greed are all based on an assumption of Human Ownership. When we use the words "Stealing, Envy, Jealousy, and Greed", there is a built in assumption that Human Ownership is a real thing. But we first have to start with "What is ownership?" Can a human being even own anything? And "who deserves to have what?" or "how should resources be distributed amongst people?" Human Ownership is a rabbit hole, in and of itself. But regardless of if/how Human Ownership exists or not, Greed can be very harmful. For example, regardless of if you own the 3 boxes of Pizza on the table, if you consume the 3 boxes of Pizza in one sitting, it will harm your body. I agree.

I am glad that this resonated! You are right. Using a phrase like the "stop spiritual bypassing community" is not helpful. And maybe I should stop framing it that way. Because this community does not actually exist. It's not a real identity/group. It's a pattern of thought that I was trying to capture. I agree with this. But I also think that, there needs to be a division between: Group#1 - "People who are interested in spirituality/philosophy/enlightenment to heal trauma, suffering, emotional dysregulation, depression etc." and Group#2 - "People who are interested in spirituality/philosophy/enlightenment for the mere joy of exploring the human mind" Trying to mesh both groups together is confusing, as they have different missions. When I hear things like "To lean into humanity is powerful and ultimately as a human being is what we are here to do": You are addressing Group#1 and not Group#2. For Group#2, "Leaning into their humanity" is to play around with philosophy/transcendence/enlightenment/non-human states of consciousness. Because philosophy is their hobby. It's what they do for fun. It's their passion. And for some, it's their life purpose and part of their calling to play around with philosophy. And so, if philosophy is your passion and life calling, then doing philosophy is " embracing your humanness". I agree. Even creating a list of external books or an external referral list could help sometimes, if the teacher doesn't have the capacity themselves.

My question, to the "stop spiritual bypassing" community is, how can you even avoid the human experience? Is that even possible? Isn't the default state, for most people in the modern world, the human experience? Isn't it the default state to get pulled into hedonism, watching TV, playing video games, socializing, getting lost in your suffering, getting lost in thoughts, getting lost in stories, getting lost in romantic fantasies, human life, family, work, doom scrolling on social media, etc.? Isn't the entire society/world pushing us into the human experience, anyways? Isn't that why monks needed to leave society, to begin with? Because staying in society meant that the human experience would punch you in the face all the time? Usually by your own friends and family pushing you into the maya/duality? This is why I don't fully understand the "stop spiritual bypassing" community sometimes. I mean, I get what they are saying, everything needs to be integrated. Yes. Ego integration is important. We need to accept the bad/the ugly/our suffering/what is unwanted/what is rejected. Absolutely. The high-vibe-only stuff is a big problem in spirituality. The things we usually reject need to be pulled in too. But it's not like most people are getting THAT far removed from their ego/human experience/suffering/relationships................to begin with. Most people are not THAT successful at transcending the ego, anyways. Most people are not THAT successful at avoiding society by being lost in states of nirvana/the void/samadhi/satori, anyways Most people are not THAT successful at avoiding socializing with friends, family and coworkers. "Realizing enlightenment or god" is not a common endeavor. This is a small tiny niche. Very few people are actually focusing on this. Most people offline are focused on their "current and past beliefs, feelings, thoughts, actions, pain, love, relationships", etc. Enlightenment/God realization is not popular. I don't get the recent recruitment of people back into the "human experience" or "vulnerable humanity" as if this is not already the default state for most people in modern society. Most people are not blissed out zombies walking around in states of satori/samadhi, avoiding the problems of the world. Most people are engrossed in their humanity, suffering, relationships and their problems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Though, I do need to add that there are issues when the Non Duality communities says things like "Rape didn't happen. Everything is God. Everything is love" And there is also a major issue with Law of Attraction communities saying "Rape was because of your negative thoughts" They refuse to get down to a human level and deal with trauma properly. This all needs to be addressed. So, it is very multilayered. Some people do become Non-Duality zombies, satori/samadhi/nirvana zombies, Law of Attraction zombies, etc. and they all need to snap out of it. I am not sure if the problem is focusing on transcendence/enlightenment....or the misuse of the teachings. The other concern is "What if some teachers are meant to teach transcendence/enlightenment? And some other teachers are meant to teach Ego Integration?" What if some teachers are best at deconstruction, cutting through illusion and ego transcendence? And some teachers are better at ego integration, human vulnerability and relationships? Maybe both teachers are needed. Maybe we just need different classrooms, instead of just having 1 subject. Maybe part of this is allowing spiritual teachers to have different areas of expertise. Because otherwise, it's like going up to a Math teacher and asking them "Why aren't you also teaching History? Don't you realize how important History is?"

No. I think the biggest threat is women's rights. That's why so many women are freaking out right now. There is an increase in Childfree Women, Abortion, Gender Wars, Divorce, Financially Independent Women etc....which is decreasing birth rates. And decreasing birth rates, makes the wealthy elites lose power over the working class. The wealthy elites are mostly angry with White Women, right now. As, the white population is dropping drastically. The wealthy elites really want more White babies, but in the end......they just need more babies in general. And so, even Asian, Black and Hispanic women will be in trouble, if the birth rates keep dropping. I see a "Single people without Kids" tax/fine............way before I see a "Black/Brown people" tax/fine. Russia recently started to fine "child-free propaganda" in the amount 400,000 roubles ($4,100). Basically, people without children, who speak positively about their decision in public. Racial Segregation in the South and rural areas of the country Think about racial segregation in the age of Tiktok, Instagram and Zoom. Are they going to hack into Zoom calls and make sure everyone is the same race? And this would also cause a lot of companies to lose out on money. If Disney World, Orlando Studios, vacation resorts, Nashville, etc. and all major companies in the South, decided not to allow minorities in, they will lose millions of dollars in revenue. There will be major pushback, because of loss of revenue. Black and brown people being subjected to cruel and unusual punishments such as lynching, extreme violence, arrests without cause, extreme fines, etc. especially in the South and rural areas of the country It depends on if Black people decide to follow Martin Luther King (way of peace) or Malcolm X (way of justice). And I think many African American men, especially, will follow Malcolm X instead. This will be declaring a Civil War, again. “Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.” - ― Malcolm X “Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.” - Malcolm X “I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.” - Malcolm X Signs: "Whites Only" and "Colored" signs used to enforce the racial order. especially in the South and rural areas of the country Gen Z and Millennials do too much therapy for this to be effective. No one will care about the signs and will ignore them, just like they did with the Social Distancing COVID19 signs. haha There is going to be graffiti all over the signs and Meme's posted online about them. It's such a different world. Forbidding interracial marriage, especially in the South and rural areas of the country. Trump chose JD Vance to be his Vice President. JD Vance's wife is a brown Indian. Wouldn't JD Vance need to get divorced? How about slavery? Could that return as well? The world is too technologically advanced for slavery. (in the old way it used to be) Our biggest concern lately is running out of work. The biggest threat we are dealing with is "Will robots take over our jobs?" and "Is AI going to take our jobs?" Americans don't even want illegal immigrants to take our unsatisfying jobs. And are claiming "The illegal immigrants are stealing jobs from hard working Americans".

I wish in the future, we can just call this, "Yin energy" haha

It's because you are using the forum to "get" something. You are treating it like food. You are trying to consume something. At a certain point, you can't use the forum as a source of intellectual food anymore. The more awakened you get, the less places will be a source of intellectual/emotional food. You will just start BEING wherever you go. For example, when I am socializing with my friends, I rarely feel fed from our conversations anymore. I used to, but not as much anymore. But I still am curious about them and socialize with them, even though I don't feel more "spiritual evolved" through interacting with them. Sometimes I am more focused on what I can give to them. But sometimes, it is just playful banter and a non serious conversation. But I rarely "get" anything from my friends anymore. It is something similar with the forum and everything else in life. The more awakened you become, the less places will feed you in the same way. You might end up being in a place of "giving" knowledge to others, instead of "getting". And sharing what you know with others, instead. Sometimes, you won't feel like even giving/sharing, and instead, you will just BE. Though, if you don't feel very peaceful with where you are at, and are starving to death for more knowledge, then maybe as others mentioned, it might be time to seek out other teachers or books or resources in other places. Or focus more on Leo's videos instead.

I agree. We need to be looking at people on an individual basis. For example, if you watch True Crime, you will see many videos of Women who kill their own children, spouses, friends, parents etc. Maybe the "All women are nurturing" statement shouldn't be applied towards them. And some women will perform the stereotype and pretend to be nurturing but you can see the fakeness in their smiles and the fakeness as they try to comfort others. There is no warmth under the nurturing actions. Underneath the act is an ego playing the role it thinks it needs to play to be accepted and loved. A lot of gender roles and stereotypes become very performative. We often perform gender roles and imitate gender stereotypes in order to be safe, loved, chosen, wanted, desired and protected. Sometimes we force ourselves into the "ideal woman" and "ideal man" boxes, even when our entire spirit is rejecting the box, because our ego can't handle not being seen as ideal. And the more the government/politicians get involved in enforcing gender roles, the more pretending and faking of gender roles/stereotypes people will have to do in order to survive. Which only pushes people's authenticity of who they truly are deeper down into the shadow.

You can read 2 books at the same time, if they are both calling to you. It is helpful to set small goals, like: "I am going to read 10 pages of Book 1 every day" "I am going to read 20 pages of Book 2 every day"

I agree with Princess Arabia about the link. @Ishanga Do you want to edit your post and delete the link? I think people will get the gist of the topic without it. I found out about Krystal Aranyani because she used to date Vishuddha Das (Koi Fresco) too. And then I was following her on instagram with her New Age-y Sisterhood Goddess content. It was very alarming to a lot of her female followers when she made the switch. I am not sure about this path she is taking and if it can be integrated with spirituality, like she is claiming. But with a push for "ego integration", people are going to try to mix a lot of different stuff with spirituality.

I feel the same way. haha

I agree with you that if we raise human consciousness to higher levels, then people won't be gravitated to porn anymore. But Krystal seems to be thinking about this in a completely different angle. She seems to be treating this as more than "just a need to be being fulfilled". And she is taking her involvement in the sex industry very seriously. It's not a joke to her. Maybe this is her life purpose? I don't know. haha Here are some quotes from Krystal that highlight this: - "I really started feeling that it's part of my mission to shine a light on the sex industry and given my position in the spiritual community that I'm the person to do this." - Krystal Aranyani "I think that it's better for us to come into these industries and into these spaces and share our magic and share what we've learned that has really helped us along our path in these spaces rather than separating ourselves from them. We can really bring in spirituality into everything and I think that's important with where we're going at this time on our planet rather than just staying in ashrams, which I did for many years and learning all of these incredible tools it's like okay now how can I go out into the world" - Krystal Aranyani - "You know there's a dark side to it and I just think that it can be evolved into something a lot more beautiful and I am passionate about that because I do see pornography as a beautiful art as I shared. " - Krystal Aranyani - "We're infiltrating the porn industry. We're Trojan horsing it, we're calling it Trojan unicorning it. So we're really bringing it in like when people aren't aware of it, and we're bringing the sacredness, the sacred sensuality, and we're awakening it from the core, from the inside out." - Krystal Aranyani - "I teach traditional tantra which is not sexualized tantra, but the tantric perspective in my opinion around this is all sex, all that we do is tantric. Tantra is really rejecting nothing in this existence and seeing it all as divine. There's many layers to that statement but regarding pornography and the adult industry, it doesn't matter if you see me having animalistic, wild sex, it doesn't matter if you see me having connected eye gazing with a partner. to me it is divine each partner I have is divine and it's all a practice of seeing the divine seeing God within each other " - Krystal Aranyani - "A part of my purpose is to share and shine a light on the sex industry because the thing with the sex industry is it's always going to exist" - Krystal Aranyani - "Other than that, sharing the negative detrimental effects that porn has, there's not any solutions. So what I'm doing and with others that I'm teaming up with is to provide solutions because it's not going anywhere. And I believe that this global awakening of consciousness, which is what we are absolutely experiencing at a heightened pace the past few years since the pandemic, especially brought stirred, stuff was stirring and it all brought that more to surface, woke a lot of people up. And with this awakening, learning how to release shame around our sexuality and our sexual energy is I believe one of the absolute most important parts of this and it's an industry that is ignored and shunned and hidden and we're not talking about this enough so that is why I am talking about it." - Krystal Aranyani - " I will be heavily judged, heavily shamed. I've missed opportunities now when people find out that I'm in the industry. My family is being put down, attacked as well. And why is this? Why do you think that this is? because sex is the most powerful energy in existence, and yet we fear it, we shame it, we suppress it until it explodes in dangerous and even violent ways. We pretend that this energy doesn't even exist. We pretend that the human body and the feminine body does not exist. We drink from our mother's nipples, sacred nipples, that give us life, And then at a certain age we're told those nipples don't exist. We're not allowed to post about them We're not allowed to talk about them. We're not allowed to look at them They no longer exist only in these shameful places like pornography. This is all so outdated and in this process you forget where you came from and in this process of Suppressing and hiding our bodies and our sexuality You forget where you came from, you forget about the mother, the sacredness of our mother, of the feminine. You disconnect and hide from the most sacred parts of yourself. You shame your desires and keep them hiding deep within, which creates disease, disease. You end up judging and separating yourself from others if they don't do the same. You forget who you are and you forget your own power, your power to create lives within and outside of you. And I don't just mean for women. We have the seed of life within us when we heal our trauma, judgment, pain and fears around ourselves, around our bodies, around especially the feminine body, the mother, the body of the mother that brought us into existence. When we release the shame, the trauma, the judgments around us, the suppression, the fear is when the world will transform and I deeply believe that. And the sex industry is a part of this transformation. It is a major player in this transformation. " - Krystal Aranyani

I didn't click the link on the main post so I don't know what she is currently doing now. haha I get the gist from her Instagram feed. She explains what happened to her, to shift her mind so drastically, in this video from Time Stamp at 4:40 to 15:50 Video Here From the video, it sounds like if her boyfriend/baby never died, she would have been a wife and mother in Canada right now. So she was dealing with 2 deaths.

There is this entire new movement of "conscious porn" that people in the New Age community talk about sometimes. Krystal Aranyani wants to mix awakening/tantra and porn and bring consciousness into the porn industry. Hitomi Mochizuki also has ads for that stuff in her videos. I don't resonate with it, but I will try not to judge.

The spiritual path will look different for a person who views it like a scientist/explorer vs. a person who views it as therapy. For the former, you just want to understand how reality works, for everyone. For the latter, you are in personal pain and suffering and you want it to stop, for yourself. The latter often leads to spiritual bypassing. That is great you found a way of living that is working much better for you.

They sometimes overlap. Political Christians are people who want the government to get involved. They want laws to be changed that reflect Christian values. And then Cultural Christians are people who don't really believe what the Bible says, but like SOME of the values in it. Jordan Peterson is an example of a cultural Christian. There are even people in the KKK, who are cultural Christians. Alex O'Connor does an excellent job at calling out these types of Christians. Cultural Christians really frustrate Atheists because many Atheists study the Bible very thoroughly and can smell a rat from a mile away. it's kind of like "How am I supposed to debate you..........when you, yourself, don't even believe in the Bible?"