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@jivvie You did not fully embrace Red or Blue. Does that make you incomplete?

@lmfao Thanks for the response. Just to clarify my view: recently I've been getting a holistic clarity on spirituality. Consider all the thousands upon thousands of pages written about nonduality, all the systems and models of spiritual transcendence, and all the flowery metaphors. We have access to all of it now in this age of information, and you can utterly start drowning in it. But what I've come to realize is that it's all "fluff"! It's all pointing to the same exact thing! It's job (definitely an important one, not saying it isn't valid) is to help align your rational mind to a point where you can accept the Truth. And once you start "getting it," as I feel like I have over the past few weeks, you have to drop it all. It no longer makes any sense, and it becomes so trivial. I feel like all wisdom also points to the same thing; consciousness. I read new inspiring quotes all the time, and I'm starting to get the sense that that wisdom is already within me, that I've almost heard it before. It's all connected. Does anyone else resonate with what I'm saying here?

@Shaun You're fine, it'll settle down. Yes, that is God. We're all avid moviegoers here Your negative reactions are completely normal and temporary, it'll pass

@nahtanoj Great article, thanks for sharing. It's so obvious how silly this notion of an IP brain is when you take a step back. The scientist of the future will think holistically and in systems.

You think you have a point here, but there's actually none at all. Leo has talked about this extensively in many of his videos. The self-deception occurs when you evaluate a people from your own, wildly different perspective. For instance, the same argument can be made against Muhammad. The culture was vastly different back then. Not only that, the vast majority of Aztec people were not enlightened or knew about this high level of non dualism. Thousands of Aztec people were sacrificed for the inauguration of the Templo Mayor under a tyrannical emperor. Like any spiritual tradition, it can easily be corrupted to do the Devil's work.

Yeah, what a tragic story, if you actually look up his life. Not really sure why you'd consider the highest-scoring IQ man an "authority" on anything, but of course you're welcome to.

@IVONNE well it sounds like I don't know the whole story... serotonin is a moderator and I don't think he reports people for nothing, nor would he actually need to. Not that I want to know, of course, that's not my issue. What do you mean by this? Are you saying your whole class knows they don't have free will? I don't buy that, this isn't common knowledge. And what's with the 1% having money and 99% struggling? This isn't related to the issue of free will at all, so was there more context that I'm missing behind that question to the class?

What's the difference between artificial and not artificial? You only see the baseline sober state of consciousness as "natural" because you take it for granted. This distinction you drew is itself artificial, and it falls at the slightest bit of questioning. I just said you'll turn into a "schizo" if you stop sleeping, what's artificial about that? So you're AT LEAST open to the possibility that your very own sleeping state has validity and is not "artificial." Well, that's a starting point.

Wait, did I miss the part where people were mean? I don't see it.

LSD, mushrooms. That's all you need for your first couple handfuls of trips.

@Alexop Whatever "genes" or "metabolic disorders" people believe they have, guess what? It's caused by their diet and lifestyle! Ta-da!

What changes? One way to put it is that you zoom out and start looking at things holistically. You start taking other perspectives seriously. A lot of changes can be summed up to this one principle.

You're doing the right practices, keep going.

I highly recommend the show Avatar: the Last Airbender. I know what you're going to say, yes it's a "kid's show," but it's so much more than that! It's an animated fantasy epic that was inspired by and steeped in Eastern spiritual teachings. Here's a more in-depth review I made, I think it could be just what you're looking for: As for actual movies: Blade Runner 2049, The Fountain, Interstellar, Cloud Atlas, Ex Machina, 2001 a space odyssey, the Holy Mountain, Jodorowski's Dune (Definitely watch this in anticipation for Dune in 2020!), and the Tree of Life. Edit: oh, The Truman Show, and Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind.

Therein lies the root of the issue, and your paradigm block in understanding this. You take the sober state as the baseline, objective state of reality, and consider any deviation from that to be inconsequential or "unreal." Did you forget that you have spent 1/3 of your life in a radically different state of consciousness called sleep? And if you didn't, your body would literally start breaking down to the point of you hallucinating in your waking, sober state? You see, this state we call "sober" is quite a fragile concept. All of these CHEMICALS and all these FACTORS have to be just right for us to experience this, and in general our bodies do this so well that we take it for granted. Your sober state is nothing more than a highly regulated soup of chemicals, and to think that's somehow "objective" or the only way it could be is preposterous! It's nothing more than "consensus" reality. This sober state is very functional, serves its purpose, but there are other states of consciousness that open the doors to mystical experiences. It would be wise for your own personal growth not to immediately discount them.

@UDT Yeah, wonderful book! Some deep wisdom in there (Marcus was stage yellow for sure), but it's not a guide for enlightenment lol. That's an entirely different thing.

@How to be wise Yes, it's interesting. Don't believe the math in that numberphile video though, it's incorrect (just look at the wiki link and other debunking videos on youtube). The answer is correct, but not in the simplistic way they showed, and not like you think. The y intercept on the graph on the wiki page is -1/12, and the area under the curve is also -1/12. Apparently these aren't by accident... It's definitely pointing to something. It looks like this infinite set is involved in computing the Casimir Effect in quantum field theory, which has applications in nanotechnology and potentially traversing wormholes.

@Belay kelemework Satan IS real, and non duality tells us he's not separate from you!

Nothing about this is True. Remember that mathematics is a man-made concept.

@F A B Yes, you create your reality. One that took me by surprise (this is from a Leo video), is to visualize yourself in the bedroom as the opposite sex. Surrender to getting fucked if you're a man, and do the fucking if you're a woman. Visualize it clearly. A lot of feelings and emotions can come up, but realize that neither modes are "bad" and that's there's beauty to both.

@Rigel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqr98O8QT3M

@Rilles he thought your play was serious. To be fair, it's sometimes difficult to pick up those signals over the internet I know I'm often misunderstood

You are literally the devil. So am I. It is a capacity of everyone, related to separation, caused the ego. Recognize that you have the very same mechanics in your ego that caused people like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc, to do what they did. I suggest you watch Leo's 3-part self-deception series for more clarity on the specific mechanics.

Leo trolling us ???

@dimitri have you ever watched Inception? You can use certain "tells" like trying to read text or look at a clock. Yes, when you realize you are the God of your personal dreamworld, your dream turns lucid.