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An important thing about FU money, it could be $0 or $1 billion. It depends on the individual. The issue is that the wise person will at some point realize that the amount of money needed to give one FU status does not need to be high. A monk does not necessarily have integrity if they feel forced to act “as a monk” to get their food and shelter even if they don’t need money, the symbol of value, itself. It’s similar to me who has to act in a certain way to keep my professional image in order to keep my job. Until I have what I deem to be my basic needs met, I will have to play by other’s rules in the economic game and act in ways that are not fully authentic. Of course, the average move when living in decadence is to become attached to that experience. It takes some sort of intuition that the situation is limiting for there to be the chance they could change. Most wealthy people are even more entrenched in stage orange than the average person as they are getting to experience the peak states or highest status supported by that stage.

I’m not quite at that level of difficulty possibly, but with severe bipolar disorder type 1 and a few other diagnoses, I’ve made some amazing growth personally. You can certainly go further than you currently believe is possible. Only your future self can see what that really looks like in the end.

You can accept all of those things, but you’ll be lying to yourself in doing so. You are not limited in all of these ways to some unchangeable degree. Accept the emotions. Drop the bullshit stories you’re feeding yourself that make you feel okay for feeling those emotions. It’s okay to feel them already. You don’t need any self-defeating beliefs to accept the situation.

It’s possible because you aren’t just the ego. That’s pretty much all there is to it.

And he proceeds to discuss how he was born a prince. And then he went on to be truly authentic as he was not inhibited by money and saw the lack of contentment in material opulence. If he was born poor, we likely wouldn’t have a clue who he was. What would Leo Gura born in the Sudan look like ? Yes, it’s the wisdom from stage orange. It’s of course not perfect, but if you don’t integrate this, it will be a problem. But what was a major precursor to this Maitreya Buddha event occurring? Humans became more successful at manipulating the world in ways that cover their basic needs so a consciousness of abundance can arise within us all. Before you can throw money to the wayside, you need money. Before you can fast, you need to stop starving.

You’re right. It’s not about seeking a state. It’s about being in the state ? Good luck being in the state without ever seeking

They either love what they are doing, or they feel forced by something either outside or within themselves to keep doing it.

@Preety_India I knew exactly what you were asking when I made my first post. It just seemed so alien to me that someone might not already be doing it exactly how I do lol. It just feels so natural. Let your desire guide you. Ultimately your question was how can I tailor something for myself. Using the tailoring/clothing example, think about some styles you like, try on what looks good, get rid of what doesn’t fit right, and keep what didn’t fit and what did fit in mind when looking for future outfits. Once you know your size (preferences), it gets really easy. The thing is that your preferences come so natural that all you need to do is try some different things out to keep honing in on the next best thing to focus on. Your emotional responses will give you really all the guidance you need. Are you lifted up, passionate, and energized by what you’re currently studying? If not, the goal you think the content is helping with might be too far off of your personal values to even be worth pursuing. An interested student will always perform closer to their potential than a disinterested student. The only question that remains is are you interested and drawn to the classroom you’ve put yourself in? If not, it’s time to try a new classroom!

I guess my advice given simply would be to plan future learning less and to allow it to be more spontaneous. Once something seems off, as in it does not hold my interest and seem highly relevant to my situation and goals, I move on quickly. Keep the answers to the questions I asked in the forefront of your mind while looking for useful content. Where am I at in my process? What are my primary goals? Use where you’re at to look forward for the next steps. Use your primary goals (the end state) to look backward for what final steps would look like. Consume content all along this spectrum with a main focus on the next few steps in front of you. Keywords in Google and YouTube would be the most obvious way to investigate for specific sources. I’d say it could be helpful to keep to a few goals at once at the most. Too many categorically different topics will likely stagnate your progress unless you are more of a generalist and that’s where your energy (interest/motivation) is naturally led. It sounds like you’re trying to create some sort of a curriculum for yourself ahead of time. That may work for you, but I’ve never gone about self help in that way. If you try to compile a list of resources for the next few months, certain topics and things might really resonate at the time you compile the list, but once you’re a couple months in, some shifts in you could likely have occurred which would change what resonates and what is of most importance and interest. If you’re making any significant progress, I would think that shifts in focus or what is most important to learn at that time would come quite often. I have a natural and intuitive flow when I’m trying to find this stuff I guess. As soon as something doesn’t resonate or I lose interest, I typically move on quickly. Now this has downsides of course. There are certainly things to be learned in a source I abandon, but I only abandon it because it’s not what I’m in alignment with any longer. I could force myself to finish every source I start to explore, but this would have me wasting time on things which aren’t most important to my situation. If something starts to stink, stop smelling it.

Yes, it’s an un-happening of course, but it still happens ? Freedom isn’t just the end of concepts necessarily. That still points to there being something wrong with concepts. After awakening, you can use a hammer (ego) without believing you’re the hammer. You need to be free from concepts to see what that experience is trying to show you before you can have full realization.

If you’re not sure if something will sell, you might have found yourself a good niche

You can’t be authentic without FU money. You can’t have integrity without FU money. Otherwise you’ll always be bullied around by survival. This is some of the highest wisdom of stage orange.

Is this narcissism? Or is this true devotion? God is not the relative human good incarnate, so why would you look like relative good if you were truly holding hands with the Absolute in every step? People still fail to realize that a true expression of the Absolute is always right in front of you, and for essentially everyone, this includes many things you don’t like or see as bad in some way. Act as your nature and environment compels you. You are not here to be some inauthentic expression of the relative human good. Christ already has that base covered. Be original. It’s all God wants.

I’m not sure how we’re supposed to help much if we know nothing about where you’re at in your development and what your primary goals are. Provide some at least rough idea of this, and I’ll be happy to think about some content I’ve encountered which might resonate for you

I am the present moment, so it’s kind of hard not to... Do you find yourself in the future moment or something? I’ve never ran into such an experience before.

It’s not really high-level content. It is foundational content though. Nothing helped me to separate my experience from the constant conceptual mess as much as that book. Of course being present is only a small yet necessary first step on the journey.

And what is your point? You were the one asking. If you think God being capable of relative evil is a bad thing, you’ve got a long way to go with awakening and contemplation. The absolute loving acceptance which is God supports everything your ego is too selfish to love. You think murder is bad. Well of course it is! But only from a limited agenda. You kill animals, plants, insects, bacteria, fungi, and all orders of life through your personal existence. You murder all the time or just let others do most of the obvious murder for you such as through livestock or plant farming so you don’t have to feel like a murderer. So much suffering is perpetuated by your human existence alone, whether you’re a Christ or a Buddha or a vegan or a pacifist. To survive as a limited form is to compete against other limited forms. This is inescapable to the design. Are you going to tell me God had no hand in this process? You’re missing the point that God’s Love is so absolutely infinite and beautiful that the notion of evil is a true cosmic joke. Of course evil seems possible when you identify as a limited entity. And evil is real for us. We shouldn’t be evil just because human morality is helplessly relative even in our most shining examples. We should be good and relatively loving to other humans and beings. It’s the wise choice. But we will ultimately be selfish in this. God's Goodness contains the relative good and bad and anything else in existence.

Russell Brand would be great.

Experiencing reality as an octopus goddess is a good way to see how the character you think matters is nothing reliable and consistent. It’s just part of imagination how you want to be having it right now. Sure, you can change the beliefs of the character to experience a different feeling of reality.

A lot of the more severe episodes of mental illness are like intense growing pains. Consciousness is taken to extremes which may be unpleasant or literally the cause of an awakening event completely sober. Anyone with strong mental illness is exposed to different states of consciousness through this. The illness can work synergistically with consciousness work, making various practices far more potent or effective. The route of substances for awakening becomes especially potent in some cases as the brain’s chemistry is drastically shifted due to psychotic episodes fused with awakenings which stretch the capabilities of the brain into new frontiers for the individual. There are times I have taken one or two hits off of a THC vape pen and had experiences more or as potent as trips such as on 6 grams of shrooms or 10 tabs of LSD. My manic brain has way more ability to generate hallucinations than many psychedelics for me. It has given me some of my highest consciousness states fully naturally even without any techniques to trigger such states. It’s really quite amazing what the brain can already do on its own and how much chemical training can amplify its innate abilities to be able to perform even when any external chemicals are not added to the system. All of this has lead to permanent spiritual abilities which most people would not be able to believe.

The Power of Now

Higher chakra activity usually means something is going right to get you there. This could mean the contemplation is effective.

Experience states of consciousness which would’ve previously been unimaginable on a regular basis. The mind is eventually seen to be so temporary and flimsy in Existence that you can’t help but realize it is just a little slice of one possible way of making up the story of where you think you find yourself.

Does feeling my own halo count?

His question wasn’t about living in the highest average consciousness society. It was specifically about enlightened ones. The yogic tradition in place there is likely to produce more actually awake people than everything except potentially Buddhism, but there are more in the yogic traditions than in Buddhism. The yogic tradition is more concentrated in one area than Buddhism is as well.