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Your radical spiritual Truths will likely have a small effect on helping people to awaken on your Facebook. Bottom line — it’s your social media. You want to express yourself. I say just fucking do it. You can hide your true self from your social media if you want, but this only adds to the esotericism, stigma, etc. If you’re doing covert-ops nonduality practice and no one knows that it’s one of your main passions, it just seems like a double loss. They don’t see the true you, you don’t express yourself, and they have less of a chance of being exposed to Truth which their soul is certainly searching for at some level. You might plant the seed in someone’s mind which leads them to dig deeper and discover themselves as Infinity, Love, etc. I used to post to Facebook 40 times a day during manic episodes in straight up Connor Murphy fashion. You know what that did? The people who didn’t matter much in my life are gone (and that includes some old close friends who weren’t right for me and I was no longer right for them), and now I have people who truly support me as who I spend my time talking to. You can dance perfectly for fake people who could give a rat’s ass about yourself by hiding what you want to post and who you are, or you could just express yourself as you wish. I know what I prefer.

There’s nothing wrong with it, but it probably will do nothing but repulse 90% of people and bring the 10% of spiritual people on your Facebook closer to you. If you’re in it for popularity, stop. If you’re in it to increase the chance you get to meet like-minded people in your area, it’s not bad, but remember even the most spiritual people will likely disagree with much of what you believe as it’s far too radical. Such posting is likely not dangerous to anyone’s health as no one probably takes your word seriously enough (no offense, same goes for me) to harm themselves off of some nondual Facebook posts you put up.

Emotions are at their core information. They are sending a message. When you feel worthless, depressed, or otherwise “bad,” this is not because you ARE those things necessarily. This is like saying you are pain or you are the taste of chocolate ice cream. You are something which is related to these sensations and experiences, but there’s also an aspect of you which is untouched. One might call this awareness, the witness, Self, etc. Any discomfort, depression, or anything else experienced right now is guaranteed to change. You will find yourself experiencing the greatness of life many times as things go on. Try to think back to these depressed or otherwise undesirable moments when you find yourself doing well again. It’s at that vantage point in which you can truly taste the irony and beauty created by these emotional lows. The bitter exists in order to sweeten the batch. Every ounce of suffering was strategically placed for maximum meaning, beauty, Love, etc. It makes awakening that much more powerful and meaningful.

Yeah the pissing contests will likely go on here as long as the forum exists. This thread and my posts are just all about trying to help us be a little more aware of when we’re pissing and to try to piss less in the forum ? I know you’re not targeting that. I was just adding some more distinction between the two.

You seem to get what I’m saying. Some people seem to misunderstand me. I’m saying that, when someone says “I ate a sandwich” in the context of a post where someone is clearly using understanding which would indicate they know the difference between ego self and Self, it is usually of almost no value to say “hehe, but who is this I who made a sandwich?” That is an example of an abuse of clarification in my opinion. Not all cases where people here point to the “I” are like this. Many are actually useful, but many of them are also condescending, unnecessary, and look to me like some type of philosophical jiu jitsu move to outwit the other person which is way overused and stinks of unhealthy ego. But as I said there are many cases where words are not used as they are commonly understood. These cases would see an overall improvement if the people using a personalized definition would take the time to at least give a brief idea as to how their individual definition which is being used differs from how it might commonly be read. Semantics are very important in this work. We all could communicate more effectively in this domain. The ability to have someone understand what you mean when talking about complex or deep topics is a type of spiritual skill on its own.

Yeah... I don’t think we’re talking about schizophrenia here with this case. Drug induced psychosis or bipolar 1 with psychotic features are probably much closer. Regardless, schizophrenia can respond in a very similar way to psychedelics as bipolar disorder. The guy in the video is right. The potential risks that psychedelics bring are serious and if people understood them properly they might not think it is worthwhile to take them. It depends of your goals and many other things if it is worth it. How Psychedelics Trigger Manic Episodes (Bipolar Disorder) Bipolar Disorder & Spiritual Enlightenment - The Accidental Buddha How Spirituality Helps Bipolar Healing ? Bipolar Disorder & Psychedelics - Should You Do Them? ? It’s as divine as Kalo says. I can share this aligns quite closely with my personal experience. I could say that for me it felt as if I was given up to Love. This Love was so all encompassing that it easily makes almost any neurotypical person uncomfortable unless they are in a complete Love awakening themselves.

Love this movie. Can’t wait for #3

The idea of guests reading something does support the need for such behavior a bit more. But as I said, I’m all for people clarifying their definitions.

I know much of what the OP is talking about. People getting into petty corrections such as “but there is no I. Who is this I?” far too often when both parties already fully well understand this aspect of Nonduality. It’s a fruitless nondual pissing contest which usually goes nowhere or is simply a waste of time compared to the rest of the discussion. My criticism is that people need to be clear when they are using common words in specified ways. The example of Leo with the word omniscience comes to mind. If you have a very nuanced meaning for a word which is quite different from accepted definitions and connotations, it’s only counterproductive to write without clarifying your personal meaning for the word at least a little bit.

Yes, I have no doubt of this. I started with a lot of chakra-focused meditation as my foundation. My point is that you don’t have to know what a gun really is or how it works to pull the trigger and hear the boom. I’ve had chakras activated in profound ways simply by speaking to a Mormon bishop. He was the leader of the church I grew up in. How many people here would really believe the leader of a small Mormon church was able to work with this stuff (chakras, energy, God) more effectively than many eastern masters without using meditation, psychedelics, yoga, consciousness work, etc? I don’t think many here are ready to accept such things. The fact is that this is an INFINITE field of study. The topic of how spiritual energies impact the journey is not understood by any single spiritual school.

Yeah chakras or something very similar as how they are described certainly exist. The issue is that some systems have 7, some have 114, some call it an overarching energy that might not fit these specific locations and traits as they are discussed. They are a much more rough map in my direct experience than something to be taken as precise and well understood.

I really don’t buy the idea that chakras and kundalini are as rigid and figured out as the typically Hindu-based systems of explaining these phenomena go. Different energies felt in the body can certainly help produce profound awakenings, but they hardly follow any overly-rigid structure or explanatory framework in my experience.

I didn’t trust my own experience enough and gave my power over to gurus, gods, and holy guidebooks. Now I’ve realized I alone am something much greater. When you live a life that fits within no simple mold, be ready to only make sense to a select few.

Here’s part of my relationship to this The Grays - My Story of ET Contact

Good idea.

Yeah it’s sounding pretty good so far.

Is this a must watch for people who aren’t nihilistic?

I made this a year or two ago. It still holds up pretty well. This is just another angle to view suicide from which might be helpful. Suicide- Should We Do It? (Explaining the Existential Danger of Suicide to Society)

“Enlightenment is a feeling of just being okay with everything.” ??? Julian couldn’t hit a decent map of enlightenment if it were the broad side of a barn. This is as shallow of an understanding as you could have except for thinking “Oh! It’s that period after the Middle Ages!” Lmao... I don’t know about the way he describes things in this video because I don’t care to listen to it all again, but I followed him for years in the past. I can guarantee that at the time he had no clue what true enlightenment was and probably still doesn’t realistically. Even if there is wisdom in what he says just keep in mind that his understanding is limited. The RSD PUAs have a good ability to change natural state compared to the average person. I’ve actually used their techniques as some of my first ever “consciousness work,” and it was surprisingly effective at changing the baseline state. These guys are the type of results-oriented people who will have some techniques but no deep understanding whatsoever.

This would be great

Being conscious of the Truth is not the same as being the Truth. Everyone and everything is Absolute Truth, but not everyone and everything is conscious of what Absolute Truth is and how the process works. If you’re white, you’re who’re whether you’ve seen someone of other races or not, but you also aren’t white. The physical support for that understanding is designed into your DNA, but only with becoming conscious of greater context and understanding of what is the case already, there are other races, can allow for the subjective experience of being conscious of what being white is because you’re conscious that race now can exist. There’s a difference between Pi being 3.14 and being conscious of it. Yes, everything is the same level of Truth. But there are far different levels of accuracy in understanding the meta mechanics of Truth.

This is why consciousness work can be so crucial. You can become better at being present and dropping the judgmental thinking that’s framing the present moment in a negative way. Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now was a great foundation for me to do this in my life.

@Leo Gura Is right. You need to have a local support system for your mental health at this point. Check in with professionals, but I can tell you some things that have helped me through similar stuff. Also, don’t forget that there are hotlines for this stuff. Just talking to another person can shift the emotions and thoughts to a better place to give some relief and clarity in thought. This works kind of the same as someone who wins big at a casino then loses it all thinking they were gonna become an instant millionaire. In that, the person become hyper optimistic due to a good outcome which clouded their judgment through their emotional state. This is the reverse. You’re having quite a difficult time it sounds, and this has pushed more and more hyper pessimism onto you. This is just a natural way this works. My point with all this is that finding some temporary relief will allow you to break out of those thought patterns and frame of mind to gain a clearer view of things. Try some things out which you typically enjoy. Buy yourself a fancy meal. Wear your favorite shirt. Whatever small thing you try to feel even a little better can end up being the thing that helps pull you up for a while. Of course if you can go for a walk in the sun on a nice day, this is going to have a chemical effect on reducing the pain you’re in. Spend more time with people you care about if you can. Getting a haircut or other self care stuff can give a mood boost too. Life is change. It looks like everything is horrible and will continue that way, but you can snap into a period of luck and happiness potentially at any time. It happens to the vast majority of people who go through such things. Some treatment is found or some negative factor is removed from the situation, and suddenly everything starts to heal. That’s what I happened for me. I’ve been deeper into it than I ever thought was possible, but I was prescribed one new medication out of dozens and dozens I had gone through which had varying effectiveness. This new medication turned everything around or at least was what gave me the ability to gain traction again in order to pull myself together of my own volition which happens quite naturally and effortlessly once you return to your old self or at least a more pleasant emotional experience than what was going on. I hope this has helped.

Interesting. This was kind of like getting sucked in. It was more like I was just... fuck I can’t even describe what it was like to go into it and come out. It’s just so different than anything before. Like you get pulled out of a complete awakening to enter deep sleep for .1 seconds, but time doesn’t exist in this consciousness/realm. This makes it seem to be an instant event in the real world, but there’s like this infinite gap in between the seamless moments before and after if you look at the material world perspective for clues. It subjectively was beyond time, but objectively lasted .1 seconds.

Things really turned up a notch like 2 days ago. I had a complete No-Self awakening from contemplation on a low dose of THC which produced a state of consciousness and psychedelic effects beyond any prior psychedelic, meditative, manic, or mixture of these three experiences than I have ever done before. The next day I had my first two experiences ever of cessation as well as many other incredible things I’ve not really heard any spiritual or psychedelic person talk about. Now today, I was in the middle of getting a haircut, and all the sudden my consciousness just turned up in intensity by some crazy amount. All aspects of existence were buzzing. I started to hear a static almost. My vision began to go fuzzy and it’s like there was a layer of tiny circular rotating patterns laid on top of my normal vision. The intensity started to become nauseating. I tried to act like nothing was going on externally. My body was struggling to handle and contain the intensity of subjective experience I was having. I got up from the hair cut chair and laid on a couch. My forehead was sweaty. Once I stopped resisting and was laying down, it became a serene experience. Now I’ve ordered DoorDash and have just been chilling on their couch. The manager of the salon is chill, so it’s all good. The levels of intensity I’ve experienced in the past few days are almost becoming concerning. At the same time, I’m enamored by the experience and discovery process. I’ve had a quantum leap in consciousness. Many of them for months actually.