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@Leo Gura Okay, I hear you. I was thinking that I was being radically open-minded, but I could be wrong. I will wait and see what happens with the election and all that instead of speculating further.

I doubt that the U.S. intelligence community is making mistakes. And that includes the FBI. Actually, it even includes Adam Schiff. It's like a staged wrestling match, a show for the masses, but it also has serious consequences. Consider the possibility that neither the left nor the right is wrong here. For example, this is not a "typo" by Trump, nor is it a serious comment, it's a part of the "wresting match":

Is there a way of opening the heart without feeling all the pain and horrors of the ego? Yes, I think there is. When outsourcing the tensions in oneself, it can be recognized that the tensions are valuable! It's just that those tensions need to be outsourced to the cocoon of the external world. So a loving approach to one's own inner tensions makes the awakening of the heart a harmonious process. In practice this means that personal worries need to be let go of and handed over to the external world. And the focus instead should be on awakening a peaceful feeling in the heart chakra.

Haha! Now this is scary. Shunyamurti said that desire is a problem. And my current view is that desire is not problematic because it's unlimited, but because it's limited! Desire is limited to the crystallized ego's isolated perspective of separation. So desire and fear are the bundle that produces the agitation and tension in the crystallized ego. But desire is not so scary. The scary part is that Shunyamurti said that by opening the heart we will at first feel all the pain and horror of all the ego's fragmentation. Yikes, I have actually suspected something like that but this is the first time I have heard a spiritual teacher talking about it.

The transpersonal stage is to be one with reality. Unfortunately, I now suspect that there first needs to be a separation where the personal stage in oneself individually is outsourced to the collective personal stage in the form of the "cocoon" I mentioned in my previous post. In practice this means that the tensions of the crystallized ego are moved out into the external world. This will produce a transpersonal seed within oneself, but it will be isolated at first. So in a sense, instead of becoming one with the world, there will at first be an increased sense of isolation and separation. Shunyamurti talked about the isolated individual state in his previous video. He also has this new video about ego death which I now think of as the process of outsourcing the tensions of the crystallized ego.

My plan is to participate in the personal stage world to build the caterpillar cocoon! The COVID-19 situation is starting to look so extreme that I suspect that it may be the beginning of the end of the caterpillar stage of humanity. The "caterpillar" in this case is an analogy for the personal stage of humanity and it has become bigger and bigger through continuous economic growth. COVID-19 looks like a halt of that growth. What will happen now I believe is that we will enter an era of increased automation and also increased surveillance and control. At first it will start in China and then later a similar trend will happen globally. The surveillance and control society might seem horrible, almost like the second beast in the Book of Revelation, but it's precisely the cocoon stage. And the cocoon is necessary for the development of the butterfly and is also a form of protection.

@Lyubov Fox News is just doing an interview in this case. It's John Ratcliffe who is the horse's mouth source. I dare you to listen to what the Director of National Intelligence is saying. Could rock and shock your worldview.

Leo used a metaphor of how we need to change our minds like jailbreaking a phone. So not just installing new apps or replacing old apps. Not even only to change the operating system but to make changes at the core bios level. My new metaphor is that we need to replace the entire phone! Haha, that's a radical change. The whole thinking mind must be replaced. But isn't thinking necessary? Yes, everything that happens is necessary, but imagine thinking to be like crawling. A baby probably has to crawl on the floor before learning how to walk. So in this analogy thinking is like crawling, necessary ..... for a while.

Sadhguru said that we need to feel well inside instead of focusing on external things and events. Leo actually says something very similar in this video where he talks about how even people who we usually think of as being successful are mediocre when it comes to their internal mood and emotional state. Leo also said that we underestimate the power of our mind. That seems to contradict the idea that thoughts are powerless, but I will listen to the video again to learn what Leo meant by the power of the mind. Leo probably means mind as consciousness which he talked about in most recent video.

That comment by Sadhguru about all thoughts being junk made me think of him as the leading guru in the world today. There may be other spiritual teachers that have more clear teachings that I don't know about yet, but Sadhguru is addressing huge, even mainstream, audiences which an amazing task. Byron Katie has a similar approach with her method The Work where all thoughts are questioned, but Sadhguru went one step further and dismissed all thoughts as junk. So then there isn't even any need to questioning one's thoughts. It's "just" a matter of recognizing that all thoughts lack causal effects. I will take a look at Sadhguru's recent talk. And check if I can find more such what I think of as transpersonal comments.

Aha! Now I caught a brief and what I believe significant comment by Sadhguru from 4:50 in this video. He said "All thoughts are just junk." This is of course huge confirmation bias on my part but I believe that this comment by Sadhguru is the truth from the transpersonal perspective. Thoughts are junk precisely because they don't cause anything, they become noise at the transpersonal stage. I am still only theorizing of course but it makes logical sense to me. It's rational as f.

In this video Sadhguru talks about how thought is just a small part of existence. We can use thought to create certain things he said. Is Sadhguru at the transpersonal stage? I don't know but yes it's possible that he is. And he may know that from the larger reality perspective thoughts don't create things, but he has to talk to us at the personal stage level or most people wouldn't even take him seriously. I learned recently that causality is debated in philosophy! Not even the mainstream experts know what causality is! And in science they just take causality for granted without explaining it. What I call systemic causality explains it. Or I also call it nondual causality. It may sound like just another amateur armchair philosophy speculation, but the Pi analogy I used makes it logically very clear in my opinion.

Then what if the mainstream view is correct that neural activity in the brain causes consciousness, and in turn that the neural activity is a result from cause and effect from past to future? My claim is that my model is much simpler so it seems more plausible to me. With my model it's accurate to say that neural activity can be correlated with consciousness. But to say that the neural activity is the cause of consciousness is false according to my model. The same with thoughts, It's correct to say that thoughts are correlated with results, but to say that thoughts are causes of effects, that's a false view according to my model.

A conventional and erroneous belief is for example that the cause of the body of an adult person is the baby in the past. A more correct view is that the adult body is the cause of the baby. Then later when the person grows old and dies, gets cremated and the ash spread out into an ocean, then it's still correct to say that that the ash is the cause of the baby. And it may even be that the ash is related to more information than the baby since the ash is in the future and the baby is in the past. The future contains more information than the past. But the correct and full truth is that the cause of both the ash and the baby is reality as a totality, similar to the Pi analogy. At the personal stage we think of cause and effect primarily as being from the past to the future. And we even believe that we can cause things, that we have control, and that thought can cause change. At the transpersonal stage all that form of separate control is recognized as being an illusion.

To use my simple analogy again, systemic causality can be illustrated by the constant Pi = 3.14159265... and the value of say the fifth decimal. The cause of that value is the whole constant Pi itself! Similarly, the cause of things is a result of all of reality, both past and future. The belief that the past can cause the future is an error. In the Pi example, if we start with the first decimal 1 and then try to predict the second decimal, then we can only guess the value of the second decimal based on only the number 1. The same if we know the two first decimals with values 1 and 4, the value of the third decimal can only be guessed unless we have the answer already or a formula for how to calculate it which is more information than merely the numbers 1 and 4 alone. Choice, therefore, is caused by the whole of reality and not by the past. And since reality as a whole is changeless, choice is an illusion. So choice is sin. Which is that, as J. Krishnamurti said, choice is confusion.

To think that thinking is a separate cause is a sin. And a sin means to miss the mark. True cause is systemic in the sense of totality of reality causing things. The belief that effect follows cause is incorrect. It's more correct to say that the future causes the past. Even to say that the future causes the past is incorrect, but the future contains more information than the past so it's closer to the truth than the usual belief in that the past is causing the future. For example an oak tree is the cause of it having been an acorn in the past. It's not the acorn that's the cause of the oak tree. Similarly, the choice made by thought is the cause of the thought. It's not the thought that is the cause of the choice.

Something I find suspicious or at least indicative is that the spiritual teachers lack inner peace! At least that's how it appears to me. They only have contrived or poised serenity. In fact, nobody has inner peace! It's absolutely incredible. There is some incredible nervousness and agitation inside us at the personal stage. And even the people who may be at the transpersonal stage, even they look agitated, at least on the surface behind their canned mannerism. So one hugely important goal is to achieve inner peace. Or else we're screwed basically, haha. It's almost funny if it wasn't so sad. And it can be a good idea to reach the stage of inner peace within oneself, both for oneself and as a means of improving the collective field.

My break is already over! Because I realized what the main problem is. It's that the crystallized ego grows and hardens by gathering more and more conceptual knowledge. The solution is to be aware of how the crystallized ego operates and reverse the trend by inner body awareness. And then gathering more information such as from the internet is fine. It becomes a trap when the mind is absorbed by conceptual knowledge and is getting harder and harder, with ever more crystallized information gathered as memories and tensions in the body. Leo pointed out that tension means lower consciousness. I think that's correct. And the tendency at the personal stage is to be increasingly trapped in thinking so much that the tensions get numbed out and unconscious. Very dangerous!

I will take a break from the internet for a while to move out of the conceptual perspective which may otherwise become a personal stage trap.

Brian Scott has curious information, all over the place. I found this video about channeling Quo, similar to the Law of One. I do believe that earth is in a quarantine, like a real Prime Directive. But I believe that just like the Law of One, and even religious texts such as the Bible, it needs to be interpreted to cut through the woo woo.

Leo said that the universe is intelligent and that's obvious because we humans are intelligent, he said. And in our ignorance (Leo even called it arrogance) we tend to think of ourselves as separate from the universe, and that's a false perspective. Leo also said that even to produce a single atom requires great intelligence. I want to add to that and look at hydrogen, the simplest atom. That atom can be a part of a water molecule which in turn can be a part of a snowflake, a rainbow or an ocean wave. That's amazing intelligence! Why? Because we take it for granted that the hydrogen atom just happens to fit into the larger cosmos like that, but I think that's another example of ignorance. An astronomically high level of intelligence is required to make the universe fit together as it does. And add to that the process of evolution. That's a part of the vast intelligence of the universe. Darwinian evolution is a very limited perspective at best. It seems to me that evolution is an inexorable process as Ray Kurweil called it and he has shown that evolution is an accelerating process. That makes me believe that we will inevitably enter the transpersonal stage, and it will happen soon, historically speaking, due to the exponential progress.

Brian Scott has this new video about flipping around wanting dollars to dollars wanting you. I like that idea! And to make it more in line with the transpersonal stage as I see it, the idea can be modified to all kinds of things in the future, and to treat them as attractors instead of chasing after things, people, conditions and events.

Here is an extreme shift of perspective. I believe that the transpersonal stage collectively means eternal physical lives. And it may even be that there will be no more children! That's a scary and even horrible scenario at the personal stage. There may be new children born if we terraform or create new planets, but even that has a limit. And I was thinking that maybe the members of the breakaway civilization already have no children!

I'm unsure about what Leo meant by consciousness and choice. My view is that reality is a number observing itself. A number is a changeless platonic form. A number cannot choose anything. I think it's the personal stage that needs the belief in choice. The removal of the belief in choice can happen I believe as a result of recognizing that reality, including oneself of course, is indestructible, and that evolution leads to higher and more harmonious stages of development.

I was thinking about how the fluid ego works and it occurred to me that it does NOT flow from the past to the future. The fluid ego flows from the now and into the future. This explains why consciousness is always in the now. All the past is in the now! My model of reality is that all the past manifests instantly, but since infinity has no end, time flows onward with an arrow going from less information to more information. There is even a "clock speed" of our universe which is 1/Planck time. This does NOT mean that reality has this clock speed. Reality has infinite "frame rate" but in our universe there is a cutoff time period of Planck time. So consciousness rests in the now and yet the information experienced in consciousness always increases which gives rise to time and change. The past is real but only as information in the now. There is for example a definite a single timeline of the history of our universe and all of that manifests instantly in the now.