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Let me put it this way: possibly as one becomes more awakened there are less thoughts, but it's not a necessary condition. Frankly, an enlightened person just doesn't give a shit about whatever arises. It's all natural, including thoughts, including negative emotions, and there's no "hook" to attach to any of it. So it doesn't matter what comes up. There's no need for it to be any different than what it is. That's the major difference.

There's a good question in the OP. Remember that a lot of these people got enlightened before the Internet. These days it's trivial to get this information online. So the whole process is (at least in some aspects) accelerated. Also, it takes time to integrate enlightenment. You can reach Unity Consciousness but Sahaja takes at least half a year to a year, and in the past it's taken many years. When you reach Sahaja, it's unmistakeable, but Unity Consciousness is a stage of a lot of processing and hazy.

Of course they would change it if they could. Everything that's happening including them trying to stop a meteor is the natural process of the universe. How is passivity a requirement of enlightenment? Enlightenment is not to be confused with detachment or resignation or non-action. Enlightenment is action without identification. It's like asking, what if a fist of some guy was travelling towards an enlightened person's face: would he stop it? I'd say if his reflexes were fast enough he certainly would. (Having said that, some enlightened people are genuine recluses, but only a small minority perhaps.)

That's a passing phase. In fact, on the road to full awakening, there may be a few phases like that. Ramaji's 900s are actually the last stage like that: a near Self-realization with a rejection of the world as flawed. So don't worry about it. Take care of the body and keep on trucking. That's my best advice: get enough sleep, get exercise and relieve stress as much as possible (in a healthy way.) (And I would add, don't worry about structures of consciousness. No offense to Ken Wilber and others, but that can be a subtle ego derailment from full awakening, a seeking "fork". If you fully awaken, the structure stuff will take care of itself as it needs to.)

Think of it this way: thoughts arise independently of the ego; the ego identifies with them AFTER they arise. Also, by identifying, it shuts down complementary thoughts, creating an ego-shadow polarity. So thoughts are not the issue, identification with them is.

He has been at 1000 for ten years, I think, and has been psychic for decades. And as Leo said, even if the number is off by 1, does it make any difference? It's still in a certain stage with certain observable characteristics. It's funny how people on the forum are reacting to the map, like it's some kind of an ego trip or something. I assure you nobody fully awakened is going around thinking "yeah, I'm at 1000, I'm better than you at 580." It's more like "when are you going to reach 1000 already?" Wake up, damn you! 'Cause at 1000 it's painfully obvious what the other person is doing to prevent themselves from awakening and if anything it's frustrating.

If everyone like you, with any kind of social media presence, would denounce any kind of racism (including that against perceived "oppressor" groups), WN would lose steam in a heartbeat. But you won't, because you likely believe that racism against those groups is justified. If you don't, then come out and say so. Make a video about it. So you will likely continue fueling that which you say you fear. The progressive form of "nuance" is that some racism is ok because reasons. Well, sorry, it isn't. Collective punishment is specifically outlawed in the Geneva Convention. Have we fallen so far that a 1940s document is more advanced than we are today? This is regression to tribalism. I'm afraid things will get a lot worse before they get better. Growing pains and all. Too bad, because it doesn't have to be a zero-sum game. But too many think it's the only game in town.

You're technically correct that it's not so much two sides but rather there's an ideology that's sometimes referred to as a "progressive stack" or "hierarchy of victimhood" or "intersectionality," although one can hardly be blamed for reducing it to two sides from a certain perspective. Certainly there's "one side" that is the universal oppressor, even if the rest represent gradations of victimhood. The point is, that ideology is pure poison, and refusal to see it and even engaging in it is tantamount to fighting fire with gasoline. [And obviously, so is any form of fanatical tribalism, including fascism and WN.] It has no endgame that is in any way positive, but is a means to divide and antagonize as a means of maintaining power and control. So if you do not want something negative to come this way, consider that there may be better, more evolved (win-win) alternatives to this ideology and that supporting or condoning win-lose scenarios is ultimately a lose-lose proposition. Even if you understand the theory behind the shadow, theory is not enough. We must live out the propositions we espouse in the most convincing way possible.

See, unfortunately that's what I was talking about. A refusal to see oneself as anything other than righteous and good is the recipe for producing the opposite of one's intended results. There's an old Ram Dass diagram in "Be Here Now." Cops create Hippies create Cops create Hippies....in a circle. Just substitute "SJWs" and "WNs" and it still fits, almost half a century later. Sorry, Emerald, we're all part "good" and part "bad", and you're no exception.

I've never done it outside of a Bwiti context, so I've never fucked up set and setting, but I imagine such a thing is possible. It has always given me some lesson, even the microdoses.

What do you mean by "bad"? If you're looking for a pleasant experience, iboga isn't for you. If you're looking for something powerfully transformative, then it is. There is no dose that is pleasant, even microdoses. It gives you what you need, not what you want. If you try to do iboga for a "good trip", it will kick your nads right into your stomach.

I agree with that wholeheartedly. We should temper that effect -- but in an honest way that doesn't oversimplify the issues involved, because our attempts at tempering will backfire on us, since we will be seen as, at best, naïve or oblivious, or at worst, dishonest, unfair or agenda-driven. You can substitute "social justice" for "non-duality" and the statement would be equally accurate and no less problematic. If you refuse to see that, then I would suggest that such a blindspot may be operating.

People also don't like to imagine they could ever have contributed to the problem they're complaining about. They are always innocent, well-intentioned and on the side of the angels. The evil is always "out there." This is why spirituality trumps "practicality." Shadow work isn't just some abstract concept; it's a personal necessity.

http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/23/how-anti-white-rhetoric-is-fueling-white-nationalism/

That's a great narrative that requires complete denial of a spate of attacks not on the side that "others," but basically on majority identities en masse.

Yes, there is, but do you only notice it on one side of the conflict, or on both sides? Is all that stuff about "practicality" just your way of saying "I'm right, listen to me"? I hope not, because that would be easily exposed.

Yeah, I can't really reject anything she says, even if I've never thought about certain aspects of it (around 9 min, like whether the person being projected onto is a "vibrational match." It's difficult to say who wouldn't be a vibrational match, since all human beings have all the archetypes, so it may be an insignificant distinction.)

Yes, you will desire as long as you have a body and a modicum of health, enlightenment or not. Desire in the context of an integrated psyche is quite different than desire in the context of a fragmented psyche, to put it in psychological terms.

That's actually good. You have to let stuff out before you are freer. "Dark Night Of The Soul" and all that. Remember also that radical honesty begins with yourself. Being honest with yourself. Once that is the new habit, the other stuff takes care of itself.

It's roughly the difference between what Buddhism calls "desire" vs. "craving", or "skillful desire" vs. "unskillful desire." Authentic desires are "natural." Ego desires' purpose is to defend/prop up the ego.

Good luck with that. Seriously, it's a worthy task but a difficult one. They are by now figures shrouded in myth. You could read the Bible and the Koran, but unless you are already enlightened it's hard to interpret them correctly as it's not a trivial, straightforward, literal task. There is just so much context left out that it's really difficult.

It's great for consciousness work. Probably as good if not better than anything else because of how deep it goes. If you are generally healthy (no heart, lung or liver problems, there may be some other you'd need to consult a provider about) it is safe. Reputable places do medical screenings these days. The reason people have bad trips is that iboga really works. It flushes all your mental crap out. One may have a bad trip, but it has beneficial after-effects (i.e. short-term pain for long-term gain.) Just go to a reputable place, don't try it at home. Do it with a shamanic provider. (Frankly, I think doing it on your own is nuts, but different strokes etc.)

What about anything I haven't mentioned?

OK, let me be less abstract here. Different people have different basic fears. Since I don't know you, I don't know what your fears are. Some people are afraid of dependence. Some are afraid of independence. Some people are afraid of being selfish. Some people are afraid of being taken advantage of. Some people are afraid of expressing anger. Some people are afraid of seeming weak and vulnerable. Do you get where I'm coming from? Etc. etc. etc. Knowing yourself matters. The "secret" of enlightenment is that you are going to be who "you are." But that means ALL OF WHO YOU ARE. Not a part. Not half, like you are right now. That means the parts of you that are "yucky" to you right now. When Jesus said "resist not evil" he meant it. That's what he was talking about.

The only thing practice is necessary for is to see that practice is neither necessary nor sufficient. Practice doesn't "get you to enlightenment." Practice gets you to end of seeking. End of seeking is when the ego gives up trying to control this process of awakening. What "gets you to enlightenment" is everything the ego is afraid of doing (and is most likely not even aware it's afraid/rationalizes it.) You are already The Self which is seeking its full expression, but right now the ego is in the way of it. So when you consciously go looking for full expression, the ego says "aha! This should be easy to derail. I'll just send it on a wild goose chase! Anything but to face what I fear. I'll have him/her practicing for 50 years." That's what a lot of people don't get. Spiritual seeking isn't like learning to play the violin: put in your 10-20 years of correct technique and you're there. That's goal-oriented thinking. Spiritual seeking is avoidance of admitting you can already play the violin, but you're afraid to. Because fear is so deeply ingrained you don't know it's fear. It's just "who you are." All defenses and crutches and projections have to be examined.