Shadowraix

Probably a week now. WY before anyone has posted. I can only be on for a minute or two. Tried on my PC laptop phone at different people's houses.

@Paul92 I hope you can heal, friend. Your post yells anger. The most important part of this journey is validating and finding answers for yourself. This is a journey you'll have your entire life. Are you posting here because you actually think it is bullshit or because you are trying to convince yourself it is bullshit? This is all free information and nobody is forcing you to follow it. I understand your emotions must be strong right now, but take responsibility for how you are. Leave the forums, if it is not benefiting you.

@SoonHei Essentially what I was thinking. A concept to describe an overarching duality in the same way we use the masculine/feminine duality.

Remember the map is not the territory. Reality doesn't follow mathematics. Mathematics follows reality. But no model could ever fully encompass reality. Laws are descriptions of consistent experiences. But it also runs on an assumption it will stay consistent. Models are projections we create to understand. But you gotta understand the difference between the model and actuality. A sphere is not a sphere. The concept of a sphere is meant to point to a specific experience. There are an infinite amount of models you can create to describe reality. But the models themselves are not reality.

Stay detached from the ideas. The ego likes to latch onto everything. Be mindful. Do criticisms make you feel attacked? That's one example on how people can start to identify with the ideas being held. Leo's video on ideology provides a lot of good insights on these mechanisms.

@VioletFlame Bingo. Leo has a video on culture if you haven't seen it already.

Culture in general is very cult like. Traditions and shunning for not living or behaving the way they expect you to. It's all about expectations and people flip out when things don't match.

I skimmed his video on nonduality and Leo and it seems like he is criticizing Leo for the followers Leo constantly is trying to turn around. Those that mentally masturbate. Concept without practice. Denying the ego experience for oneness (funny enough not holistic) Using all is illusion as escapeism when real and illusion are one in the same. This is zen-devilry is it not? That's what he seems to be pointing out. But his followers seem to attribute the ideological dogmatic followers of Leo as "Leo's cult" and then shame Leo for it.

Wouldn't it be more of xenophobia than racism? Seems like racism adopted xenophobia under it's name these day

Westboro Baptist Church is good research into cults. Ex members have talked about it.

See the problem arises when you adopted a belief. You don't need to adopt shit if you find it yourself. New age Ascension seems like a weird abstraction about on the same abstraction level of Satan or demons.

Depends on the cheater not the act of cheating itself

Seems to be more about immersing yourself in the perspective of the people you are going after. When you learn what techniques get you laid you also have to embody the mindset in which the behavior stems from. It's like acting to get what you want it seems.

This guy has come up on the forums many times. I get the impression he has some axe to grind. Perhaps he started opening up and got scared shitless. Definitely seems like he's running away and justifies by claiming he used to be spiritual. As if he had a major realization and it wasn't just that he didn't want to let go of his ideas.

@Emerald Thanks for your reply. Also the kids needing simple answers resonates with me. Reminds me in math class where to teach me a general concept they'll give a simple incorrect form of it and in later education it gets corrected. Helps you not feel overwhelmed.

This is hard because just about everything has a connection if you go broad enough.

It's easy to see other people's bullshit but it is hard to see your own. She can't see hers

I do appreciate the dissolving of categorizations it does offer a good perspective in seeing unity but the problem is this does seem to be an attempt to run away from separation instead of embracing both separation and unity. Two sides of the same coin. But I think this kind of thing will continue. Going to both sides of the extreme before you find balance between the two. Going too far I see as a very beneficial thing because by doing so the country will learn. No better way to learn than direct experience. And once it passes they'll see past the mistakes. In the same way going up the spiral and evolve you see the mistakes of the stages before it. @Emerald Do you think a lot of this stems from trying to dissolve generalizations? In the US projecting how men and women should be is still pretty prevalent. They think getting rid of the category will dissolve the ideology of expecting behavior. Seems more like tackling the symptom of a disease than the disease itself.

@Enizeo You talked about pros and cons of poly relationships but not cons of monogamous relationships. When you realize your capability to create love in the same way you can have multiple friends it can definitely feel inauthentic to love someone but have to moderate your love for other people. I think especially teenagers get early glimpses of liking multiple people but it gets suppressed in a one or the other way of looking at it

Bravo on the first bit. I definitely never caught that. But the blending of that line becomes tricky. Ensure the ego self isn't selectively applying this when it is most beneficial. Embodying such nondual truths will become trickier when the ego is faced with more threat I didn't ask that in a matter of fearing but rather to bring awareness to how you commit. To not make a commitment you can't keep. To hold someone as your married partner and commit for life is a gamble, to commit for as long as possible or similar would be more accurate. It is about not claiming to know something you don't know. You can't claim you'll be married or want to be a year for now but you can claim in the now that you are still striving for the best of the marriage.

What is an entity? Entity just seems like assigning some kind of identity and assigning responsibility to it. It almost personifies what is happening to you. Seems like others just don't do this but are pointing to same thing.

You know in the majority of cases it seems only those somewhat receptive to the idea of spirits actually claim such a mystical experience. Perhaps the mind is what is manifesting these experiences.

Could you leave the marriage if your intuition suggested for you to? I find assuming staticness and getting attached to that can be a major problem. And unless you've figured out how to access parts of the future, definitely be careful on the terms of your commitment so they don't get the wrong idea. This is all the more reason to base the relationship on the now. Also be wary of getting rid of selfish tendencies and thinking you got rid of them. Selfishness can be very deceptive. For example on the surface level sacrificing your own well being for others will be considered selfless but you do it because it makes you feel good to do it so it ends up fulfilling selfish desires at it's core. Same could be said about desiring spiritual purification and truth.

Info is in the thread.

Why not do what you want to do in your free-time and juggle both until your preferred one becomes viable to profit off of? A lot of people who do YouTube for example start it as a hobby and only quit their job when they can live off it.