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I'm kinda surprised to hear you say that meditating for two weeks straight was difficult. I consider myself less advanced than you, but I did over 80 hours in a week and it was pretty great. Better than dealing with my regular life most of the time, frankly.

Oh this is the guy who recommends people quit their jobs with no backup plan, cuz "the universe will provide."

I missed those videos but Leo is hardly alone in these things. It's like breakingthewall said, the mystical opening leads to many such direct realizations like this. Leo works in the nondual space, but there are a lot of mystical spiritual people who are more in the alien space. Honestly, the idea that you could transform into an alien, I believe you could look in a mirror on psychedelics and see yourself in your Pleadian form, easily. Just the same as you can look in the mirror and see the faces of your ancestors morph across your face. Now that, I have seen first hand. Could I replicate it on camera? I don't think so. But I have watched many many people claiming to channel aliens, and many of them actually LOOK alien like in their facial structure and hair cuts. And it's just like Leo said, these things are simultaneously accessible to the mystic, and too weird to ever translate into a sober human lifestyle that could become commonplace on this planet, so they remain in the realm of what our society labels psychosis, superstition, and myth. I have been flirting with psychosis throughout my life, but somehow never quite fall in. I must not be prone to schizophrenia, because I have most certainly spent months in the same mental space that leads people to believe that helicopters are following them, and that they're space Jesus, so they should stand on the street corner smoking crack at 3am, and yet I didn't ever experience my life falling apart like that. It just seemed like musing to me. I'd do some acid and see some cool shit, and then I'd just go to bed and head to work on Monday. But meanwhile my sense of reality was very abnormal. I'm lucky and grateful that I was able to simply muse philosophical about these things, rather than falling into psychosis or schizophrenia.

Started with nonduality, meditating on I Am. Have done a lot of heart chakra meditation. I learned Vipassana at the retreat I went to. Working my way thru the Gateway Tapes and have experimented with Carlos Casteneda’s techniques. Pranayama, energy work, a lot of chakra work, plus mantras. Starting to work with the Violet Flame and the spiritual rays now.

Again, wrong. He lives in the threatened country. And at the start of the war, everything was in doubt. He pulled off a master class in leadership, no doubt by being on call every minute of incredibly stressful 18, 20 hour days, for months on end before things stabilized. You will never know stress like Zelenskyy experienced in those days. You can just look at how the man looked before the war, compared to now. He used to be a comedian, ffs. And he’s also not like an American president who can order strikes on the other side of the world, then go to bed in the White House residence and see how it went in the morning. At the start of the Russian invasion, everything was in question for Zelenskyy and his people. His example is one of the greatest case studies in leadership of the 21st century so far. I have no interest in debating a mind so unserious that would call this shining example a bitch. I’m only here to remind the rest of the readers of this thread of the facts about Zelenskyy’s character, which he has proven admirably.

Zelenskyy is very brave, he’s brave compared to most world leaders, let alone compared to a keyboard warrior like you. If he wasn’t brave, it was expected Ukraine would fall in 3 days, and purely thru the bravery and courage of Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people have they been able to retain their independence. And that’s WITH dealing with a turncoat like Trump and unstable support from the US and the west. Seriously, you could not be more wrong about what Zelenskyy’s made of. “I need ammunition, not a ride.” He had the option to flee his country, instead he stayed and fought, and single-handedly forged an independent Ukrainian identity with his people. None of that was assured. It shows how biased and mistaken you are to characterize him as you did.

I went to a 10 day meditation retreat last summer, and it didn’t really seem to do anything but train my ability to sit. I saw a lot of dots and colors though. But as for quieting the mind, there seems to be a whole ecosystem of my personal thought forms, plus ancestors, entities, and guides all constantly dropping thoughts into my awareness. There is actually a massive amount of activity on this level going on all around me all the time, constant signs and synchronicities to the point that im kinda bored of the whole thing. They all seem to want me to live some storyline or another. My ancestors are constantly advocating for their chosen religions regardless of how long I’ve been rejecting them. I get articles on my social medias about Islam and Christianity constantly, because that’s what my extended family and ancestors practiced, even though I walked away from Islam decades ago. At this point I can silence my mind in under a minute, and can reach deep silence reliably in maybe 20 mins or so. But I thought meditation would help silence this constant cacophony and it kinda makes me laugh that so much of what I thought was a distracted or dopamine-addled mind was really just the effects of these perspectives that seem to be around me whether I want them to be or not… Anyone else?

I thought disciplined meditation would train my mind to be quiet, but I’ve found there is no such thing as that. On this level, the brain truly is just an appearance in the dream world. What seems to determine the focus or lack thereof of my mind has more to do with which ancestor or entity I’ve had in my aura lately, and how many stressors are appearing in my 3D reality. But over the past year I’ve had experiences of meditating on nonduality for 4 hours, then getting up and seeming to fall right back into a thought form of agitation. Similarly I’ve gone without meditation and reached very calm clear states of mind after a run or an orgasm. It frustrates me that there seems to be no progressive way to train and discipline my mind, it’s just one more appearance in the dream world, of which my control over is only illusory. Anyone else have this experience, oh fellow appearances in the dream world?

What happened to all the pro-Trump bros who were on this forum last summer? I thought this all was good, because of vague vibes about masculinity or “the system” or some shit.

I remember when Leo first started going into spiritual topics, this was I think 2018 or 2019, and I was at the right place and time to go full on into that journey with him, not knowing what I would find. It was all new to me, I thought nonduality was this radical concept. I thought I'd discovered some secret of the universe. I thought that getting into spirituality would make me smarter, more in tune, closer to a supreme intelligence, possibly even able to discover new knowledge and help improve the world in some way. Instead what I've discovered is that all of the information in my reality is and has always been carefully manipulated at all times to give me certain impressions of things, based largely on my already conditioned beliefs. The world is broken on purpose, because perfection is supposedly boring. In fact, the world is just an appearance and in my human form, I may as well be a cartoon character. And God or whatever was there the entire time, watching every one of my pains. I supposedly deserved them because I didn't learn certain lessons. Because I was making decisions thinking I was a person who lived in a world. I thought I was completely alone and made no impact. I thought my decisions didn't matter and no one was paying attention. I also thought that being polite and following the rules was the best course of action, and boy is every single piece of stimulus in my reality now determined to tell me that is not the case. Has anyone else been dragged into this storyline of how the billionaires are keeping the common man down, and golly we just gotta rise up and restore the natural order of things? I liked society the way it was. I'm not looking for a crash to the system. But I guess I had finally made a life for myself in the secular world I thought I lived in, finally figured out how to stop feeling so much inexplicable emotional pain, so now God's gotta bring the hammer down. I guess every single person I ever saw in my life was also an illusion, but I have seen so many people who had no relationship with God who were healthier than me, more energetic, happier, better teeth, more friends, more laughter, more joy. I'm not sure why I have to be God's bitch boy. I followed a religion, and the people who followed it less strictly than me got rewarded more. So I stopped following it. But I never ended up fitting into secular society much, most of my life I've been a loner. I had good friends, and none of them had any kind of relationship with God, and they also were happier, healthier and enjoyed more and better relationships than I ever did. So then I got into spirituality and over the past 5 years I have seen so many people who have all, day after day, delivered to me the most banal spiritual "advice" while living lives that seem more functional than my life ever has been. No matter what my relationship to God is, it seems I'm always doing it wrong, always on the outs, can never get it together, and everyone around me is just doing so much better than I ever have, without any practice. So is that what this is? God became man so man could sit in a hologram of self-degradation? I'm surrounded by people who don't have to have a meditation practice, who didn't have to invest several years in a "spiritual journey," but have more loving families and better teeth than I ever will? I remember when I started this shit I thought I was gonna get smarter lol... instead I just learned the metaphysical parameters of a clown world. It basically just comes down to squirting love through your diaphragm, and whoever can do that the most, wins, I guess.

The CFPB is one of the best agencies for taking action to protect actual consumers and average people making ends meet. It's quite responsive to citizen activism, it's the reason overdraft fees are no longer given free reign and are limited to a small amount, and it's an impressive model of how government agencies CAN have a slim footprint while actually working for the citizen's interest.

I’ve been straddling suicidal ideation for 22 years, and things were starting to look better. I don’t need to appreciate any more realness.

So unless I meditate more, my higher self’s gonna destroy my world?

Cmon guys, gimme some spiritual buzzwords to explain why this is actually normal and expected. Light and dark, some bullshit like that

*giving a shit 248 years of operating just fine, and I finally got over my childhood trauma, like literally last summer, and then this ridiculous scenario started. So I guess it’s just not possible to chill, work a job, share some laughs, and have a good life? If it’s not decades of unexplainable emotional pain, the outside world just randomly stops functioning? Why is life like this? What was the point of all the nonduality and meditation and shit? I feel the will to live fading.