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I've pondered this and it seems to be the case for me as well. It gives me motivation, something to look forward to do.

If they are mature enough, yes why not.

Not Adidas Ultra Boost's, like walking on clouds from day one.

Sorry for your loss ❤️

I feel like as soon as this sentence was written into reality, Leo awoke from his 6th sense tickling him funny. ?

My spiritual ass needs some orange action taking, so here is a little improved version of the old one. Even though I'd probably never buy that car or mansion; the ego loves chasing fancy things.

There would be a shortage of astronauts once they realize you can travel the multiverse on your couch. So shhh! ?

I LOVE YOU!!

@Ananta So sorry for your loss. She looked wise. I myself own two cats (one of them is called Leo Gura), really love their zen-like nature. But you know where she has returned to, hope that comforts you. ???

@Slifon Totally normal, just surrender and all will be fine.

Log off the internet and go into silent darkness you silly goose.

I hear you! Being your own authority has wast rewards, especially if you have nothing but love and compassion as intention.

Its as if the room I'm in is totally groundless and floating about in empty space. This room is the only reality perceivable to me, being imagined right now, every moment totally imagined. My awareness witnesses this very creation shaped of consciousness. I've never moved anywhere. Literally. Only shapeshifting occurs as I change location in my reality, it's totally relative. As if my awareness was sitting watching a movie and my life was the illusion or the movie played on the tv. So no matter how far into the universe I travel, I actually don't move at all. Only shapeshifting occurs. This present moment is eternal. It looks as if there's time and things are here. But I've been bamboozled, leaned too much towards the side of this all being a something when its neither something nor nothing, it's both. When my mind gains traction of this, its as if gravity vanishes, and it feels like I'm floating in empty space. BUT there is a fine line between realizing this in the moment from listening to Leo's video. I've realized this on trips, but trying to regain traction of it is a fine dance between what I believe reality is from past realizations and bringing it into this moment. Leo spoke of the line between something and nothing which is a great contemplative subject. There is this deep wonder I've come to find, and it's one of the best tools for contemplating these things. A state of not knowing, but there's always a sense of knowing imprinted into my being from realizing many of these things on trips. Maybe I need to totally drop that, or maybe it's okay to keep it on the side. So how does love fit into this nothingness? Is love present outside the duality of illusion? Well if duality=non duality and there is no separation to anything because of oneness which makes love everpresent. And perhaps makes it the potential of which duality gets shaped. Why does my ego cling to this idea of having a past? Is it because I don't totally realize how I'm imagining this present moment from ground up? The magnitude of the imagination is hefty, to say the least. So If I got a scar 5 years ago on my arm, why is it here if it didn't happen? Because I'm imagining the scar right now, but who or what caused it to "have happened". how can it know where to be imagined on the arm? Perhaps its the memory this human body is blessed to possess in order to survive. The intelligence of this human system. Why do teachers such as Ralston don't recognize the intelligence of reality? Maybe because it doesn't help to know it on the journey of realization? Is it irrelevant to me knowing myself?

This has been in my recommended forever, lol. Very wise man. Apparently he passed away on July 10th. RIP

@Into The Void

When I was journaling here daily couple of months ago, I felt as I were more on top of what I wanted out of life, and it kept my motivation going. I'm in somewhat of a rut I've come to find. When I write daily I'm more able to express my thoughts and my vision is a lot more clear. This is the yellow I'm missing out on. Although I've been very contemplative and meditative, I'm leaning too heavily in that direction. Problem is. I don't really have a direction to move towards. I've not found my life purpose as of yet other than the purpose of existing and living life. I'd love to have something to work towards and get better at. I've got somewhat of a passion for pure mastery. Creating something and pouring all your love into that project, whether it be to service others, improve others, or something else. I've got many miniature hobbies, but none of which I could see myself working on full time. One of my interests is to observe how humans function and the intelligence of a human's system. I'm interested in how the ego operates and how its created through the false belief of it having been accumulated over a period of time which is totally imaginary and illusory. Yet I'm not enlightened nor do is really wish to teach these things to others, other than showing it through action in life. My passion really is about what reality is. So how does one create work out of that? Maybe I'll start a blog, who knows. I feel like my ani social characteristic is somewhat holding me back in life from taking action on what I want and need to do. I'm always most comfortable on my own and have a hard time playing this false game of "let's pretend we don't know what's going on here", small talk and such. I don't take myself seriously or anything like that, nor do I only wish to speak of spiritual topics. But this avoidance of truthful conversation really pulls me out of being truthful and compassionate towards myself. One tends to feed off other's energy and can be dragged down if not carefully observed. I have this idea that I'll somehow stumble upon my life purpose through more tripping and purification of my ego. This could be nonsensical thinking, but with every trip I take, I feel more connected with what I want to do in life. I'm good at marketing and an orange aspect of me really loves this game of setting up a business and playing the "money game" of accumulating wealth. I can manage to do so without rotting away on the inside, and It had been going great until COVID dawned upon us all. I really want to start that process again and play this game of chasing money, but in the healthiest way I can. It always comes back to money in this modern society, doesn't it?

@Recursoinominado Love what you wrote on it as well, awesome work. Maybe its time to update mine.

@Average Investor Organic peanut butter comes to mind, but you already eat peanuts by themselves. Maybe, Oatmeal, chickpeas, beans, seitan, edamame, pumpkin seeds.

Learning to tailor your diet specifically to what your body feels it needs each and every day would be one of the best ways to improve an already healthy diet. Learning to listen to the body's needs is what I'm personally working on now. I'd maybe add some protein as you mentioned; it tends to be one of the most important nutrients for me.

Like a big cosmic joke, but also as the most intelligent construct ever made, to help evolve this universe to its highest love.

hahaha, why do you think you don't like him? It could be shadow elements of the feminine and being raised as a male, being told that men don't act this way. This has been the case for me, since here in Iceland there's still a lot of blue male mentality, especially in the past. After I opened up to Matt's teachings everything feels more full, more enjoyable. When majority of the spiritual teachers out there are masculine and exert that type of teaching more so than the feminine, you risk this work becoming too dry, autistic, and nihilistic. Yea, the balance between both is really important. Because eventually, one will likely give up psychedelics whether that's in 5 years or 50 years.

@Zigzag Idiot I hope everything works out for you and your family brother. ? We dealt with the same situation in May. My grandmother was nearing her death and only two people were allowed to see her before she passed away, my dad and my sister made sure she had some nice last moments.

@zeroISinfinity You should try and watch some Matt Khan if you haven't already. I find him so refreshing and different than other teachers. You'll slowly open up the more you watch his stuff. I find as a male it's very important to open up more to feminine teaching styles, so you balance it out with the masculine; Shiva, and Shakti. I also find many of us on this same journey are young and don't realize how much of life is left to live before you can even entertain the possibility of awakening. It's a long process, not something you just do in 5 years. And also, of course, putting too much emphasis on substances and not doing proper work, I'm guilty of that myself from time to time.

Been going through some deep orange purging since my last trip. I grew up orange most of my childhood, or after the age of 8ish. I then transcended into stage green around my teenage years, or 17-20 yeas old. After that, I've been trying to figure out my Yellow and Turquoise now in my early twenties. I believe its a long and drawn-out process to purify each stage. So after this mega heart awakening from my last trip, I've been faced with extreme orange reaction and orange style dreams. It has been a true test of wisdom to navigate this, and I believe I'm managing it to the best of my abilities. Orange I find to be the most tricky to keep healthy aspects of and discard the negatives since almost all 1st world country's life revolves around orange/green. So one gets easily drawn into the world of orange when it tends to be all around you. I found stage green to be one of the easiest to go through, but I'm still aware of my judgments towards pure green. Lately, I've really been noticing when a judgemental thought arises in my mind. I then proceed to figure out why this judgment came up in the first place. Usually followed up by a feeling of a shadow resentment towards the stage being judged. I really love catching myself in these moments. It's important to be aware enough of your own judgments and catch the ego's mind trickery and devilry. I find green to be one of the easiest to judge and being caught off guard while at it because they tend to be so open. But I've far surpassed judgment of most green, although I do catch myself sometimes. I was deep into Yellow style of mind last year, a kind of Leo oriented systematic thinking. It doesn't really align with my personality type though so I really have to work at it and it can get tiring after a while. But I liked the mastery aspect of Yellow, and I enjoy the systematic thinking too. Yellow was definitely my shortest stop of all the spiral stages. I found it easy to understand that stage due to my openminded nature. I continue to grow my Yellow and will for the rest of my life, as with the other stages. Open-mindedness seems to be a part of my family since most of my siblings and parents are really openminded. I'd consider my father for example to exhibit a high stage Yellow level thinking. And so there here we are at Turquoise. I do not really consider any stages beyond this one, even though Ken Wilbers model and others like to claim there are ones beyond this one. I wouldn't call those stages rather than just states which Turquoise experiences through mystical experiences. This one I've been exploring for the past two years as well. This one is by far the hardest to stay in and integrate as there are so many other stages work out. I find the level of my living situation to prevent this mostly. Living alone would be almost essential to integrate this level fully, at least at a fluid rate. It's possible to do it no matter what situation you're in, but it definitely hinders the speed and momentum of it. I've got many existential challenges to face at this level such as fear of death, attachment, the magnitude of infinite love, fear of suffering, etc. These are problems I'll encounter and have been encountering for some time now and they have to be handled. And so there are the lower stages such as purple, red, and blue. These might be the hardest ones to get in touch with for how repressed they are and set in stone from the earliest age of development. They also hold the most minor problems personally, yet have to be dealt with as well. Sexual cravings hold a lot of power for most people I assume, and so do they for me. I'm in no rush either so I feel I've got those at a fine control for now. I haven't focused on this spiral concept for some time now. I feel it's time to maybe get in touch with myself by using this map to re-engineer myself. Neither to judge others, rather than to show compassion and understanding to every being out there. I've kinda been lacking my Yellow for some months now and need to get back on that.