The Mystical Man

I admire her integrity, intelligence, and wit. She never made inflammatory statements towards transgender people. Being integrous has to do with being truthful, and truth has nothing to do with one's opinions.

Many people have been waiting for this game for a long time, and it seems like many are disappointed. Unfortunately, an interesting art direction isn't enough to entertain an audience. What is entertainment? "Entertainment is the ritual of sitting in the dark, staring at a screen, investing tremendous concentration and energy into what one hopes will be a satisfying, meaningful emotional experience." - Robert McKee Atmosphere, art, and vibe aren't enough to create a meaningful emotional experience. And that's the reason why I can't play most games anymore, because most games focus solely on art direction. Great art direction is impressive only if it serves a larger vision. There is nothing visionary or unique about Scorn. They simply made a game based on Giger's art style.

I've never heard of that show before. Might watch. I watched a few episodes, and it hasn't hooked me yet.

A poem from Adyashanti's first book: You Are… beyond the body, mind and personality beyond all experience and the experiencer thereof— beyond the world and its perceiver beyond existence and its absence beyond all assertions and denials. Be still and awaken to the realization of who you Are. In this realization of no separate self the Supreme Reality which you Are shines unobscured in all things, as all things, and beyond all things. Having returned to the formless Source and transcended all separateness do not stop or cling even to this Source but go beyond to the Supreme Realization which transcends all dualities yet does not deny even a speck of dust. The enlightened sage abides as the eternal witness wholly unconcerned, yet intimately engaged. Resting beyond all definitions he neither clings to transcendent freedom nor is he entangled by the dualistic world; therefore, he is at one with all of life. Living in the perfect trust of Supreme Realization he has nothing to gain or lose and naturally manifests love, wisdom and compassion— without any personal sense of being the doer of deeds. Having abandoned all concepts and ideas the enlightened sage lives as ever-present consciousness manifested and manifesting in the world of time and space That which is eternal, ever new, and whole. In this unobscured realization Supreme Reality shines consciously in all things, as all things, and beyond all things. Shining unobscured, it penetrates the entire universe. Penetrating the entire universe it knows itself as Self.

https://youtu.be/2lK0x4DeYDc "The deepest form of prayer is the art of listening to the silence of God." - Adyashanti "It's amazing what happens if we sit down in our quiet for long enough." "We all learn the most from who the people in our lives are. We can't fake who we actually are."

Why?

"When we really don't know, then we know exactly what we need to know at every second we need to know it." "As unspiritual as this sounds, it comes from the outside, not from the inside. I don't have a vision. Someone says, 'Do you want to go here?' 'Okay.'"

Very insightful interview. Adya at his best: "We're not doing a good job of an inner journey, if we're excluding exterior life. What it means to exist in the world today is an important part of the inner journey. It's where the rubber hits the road. It's the world that keeps holding up a mirror in front of us, saying: 'How are you interacting with this?'" "Even if we haven't come upon the unified vision, there are lower and higher aspects of our egoic nature. Our egos have the capacity for compassion, empathy, openness, and understanding. Life is always calling us to act from the best within us." "Transformation is a bloody, messy process. When you're living out spiritual transformation, it doesn't look spiritual at times." "Change is chaotic. It's chaotic until we reach a certain level of consciousness, and then it no longer has to be chaotic anymore, because we're willing to see truths." "Part of the process is seeing things that we don't want to see. There's a love affair with whatever consciousness reveals to us." "Spirituality is about accelerating a process that's natural, but the spiritually inclined person is doing things to accelerate a process dramatically. When we accelerate a developmental process dramatically, the road is bumpy." "We abdicate our lives, when we abdicate our true higher nature. We get lost in trivial things. Or we abdicate it by hiding in spiritual viewpoints." "Autonomy, on any level, is hard-won. It requires a lot of standing up in your own two shoes and taking responsibility for whatever your vision is. Go out there and engage it, whatever that happens to be." "What do you know that you really don't want to know? That's what you're being asked to pay attention to now. That's what you're being asked to respond to. That's what you're being asked to come out of hiding behind." "The models don't hold the answers. It's the people, it's the quality of interaction, how we're being with ourselves, how we're being with each other. That's something that each of us brings to the table." "What are you going to do when you go to the grocery store, and there are no short lines? When you find out what your authentic response on that level is, then you let that level mirror back to you what's really going on inside. The big stuff has a way of solving itself. The clarity on the big stuff comes." "Everyone and everything around you are experiencing your state of consciousness, where you're coming from, what you feel, what you think. It's being registered. You're a radio broadcaster for who you are." "After a transforming insight, ego comes back, and people experience the equal and opposite. As open and expanded you become, you become equally contracted and dark for a while. We have our own unique conditioning that arises in the wake of that." "It's not about heaven. It's not about hell. It's about what's true. Don't grasp at the light. Don't push away the dark. There is something that's neither of those; includes them both but is not identifiable as either one of them." "What we do to ourselves, we tend to do to others. If we're stuck in a place where we're always judging and condemning ourselves, if that's the state of mind we're always in about ourselves, we're putting that energy out to the people around us, too." "You see God in everything, from the best to the worst. At a little deeper level, it's not just seeing the divine in everything, it's seeing the divine as everything, as everything, and everything includes everything. When it becomes really deep in you, nothing can occur that changes that knowing, that view. You can experience something that's really difficult, it's still not going to alter that view." "The emotional byproducts have nothing to do with the truth that's seen. The emotions will fade as the truth becomes normalized." "Women will often see the divinity of existence, whereas men will see the non-existence of existence. Women will often see that God is immanent, whereas men will see that God is transcended. As our vision fills out, it fills out beyond our genders. We see the other side, and it becomes a whole view."

Interesting website: The Truths of Life - Know The Absolute - Guide to Enlightenment

No problem. I enjoyed her Tweet.

Listen to the other interview with Adya:

"Ego as function has something to do with self-awareness. Ego evolves out of becoming self-aware. Part of that function is our ability to differentiate; that's part of wisdom. We're using the differentiating aspect of ego to see through ego, not just in our minds, we feel all this stuff, too." "Meditation as an orientation of being that sometimes I practice in a seated way." "What would it be like for me to have the next conversation I have if I was having the next conversation from that quiet place? Being the quiet place and letting it talk." "Spirituality is just another word for life." "Spirituality when it's honest, when it's connected with you and your life, it's to live in a state of discovery all the time." "Acknowledgement and appreciation of awareness." "Intuitively connect with the presence that they are."

Listen to the other interview with Adya:

I'm watching both the show and the documentary at the moment:

Force and Counterforce. The reason why people like Gandhi and MLK made a difference is because they embodied true Power.

This trial...

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/13/us/parkland-trial-verdict

It's never that simple. There are always aggravating and mitigating factors. The jury recommended life in prison because of Cruz's upbringing and his mental illness.

What problem?