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The woman in the video is obsessed with calling out what she sees as racism. In the video it can be seen that she enjoys it. She even calls her husband a racist. She is making a very good living at this. It is interesting that stage orange low consciousness corporations are willing to embrace this bullying counter productive approach. Here is an example of how someone at a high spiritual level would handle this. Thomas Hueble has led workshops where half the people are children of holocaust survivors and the other half are children of Nazis. He has them heal each others trauma by talking to each other. He says that group trauma can only be healed by the people involved communicating in an environment of compassion. https://thomashuebl.com/ Healing Collective Trauma

If you observe closely enough you will notice that there isn’t just one ego but most people have more than one ego or personality. They protect us from anxiety and strong emotions and are triggered by different situations and contexts. For example, you may have a Mr. Careful that obsessively plans to avoid errors and mistakes, but when that fails and the moment of crisis arises, Mr. Panic is activated and screams and breaks things. If you can get them to talk to each other, they can work out a more balanced strategy. The behavior is highly automatic, so is mostly unconscious. The thoughts are automatically generated and repetitive with no new insights. We are numbed out by our ego defense mechanisms. They protect us but at the cost of not feeling alive. It is like walking through life in a hazmat suit. While under the toad, my defense mechanisms deactivated and I felt all the repressed emotions of years all come up at once resulting in a cathartic experience. I felt an aliveness I have never experienced before and a strong conviction that the reality I was experiencing was more real than my waking life. I felt what is was like to not be numb.

The American media really started going south with the advent of cable news. At that point news became mixed with entertainment. Now news is pure entertainment and is presented in a way to triggers the prejudices of a particular population to create fear and anger, because this captures the attention of eyeballs to be monetized with advertisement. The world is divided into left/right a simple model that maximizes profits. Stage orange ultimately corrupts everything it touches. If you have any doubts, study the Iraq war where the government lies of “weapons of mass destruction” was completely adopted by the mainstream media. Also, can anyone find even one picture of the aftermath of an American bomb and the dead bodies? How can this be possible in an age where everyone has a smartphone with one or more cameras attached? Can you imagine the level of control the system has to censor information?

The argument against free will is determinism based on the notion that everything has a cause and thus every event is caused by preceding events, so the present is completely determined by the past. If this is true, there can be no free will. But that would mean that creativity is not possible. So, Leonardo da Vinci didn´t create the Mona Lisa. It was something that just had to happen due to a history of molecules bumping into each other. Most people can intuitively see this as wrong. But the philosopher David Hume proved that there is no way to prove that a cause produces an effect. And Kant put causality, space, and time in the mind. So, is it causality or free will that is the illusion? The creativity of God is infinite.

Some shamen use Rapé to send you off on an Ayahuasca journey.

America manages death like orange juice. Hospice is a profit-making stage orange industry. I recommend just avoiding it. A Tibetan Buddhist considers his daily meditation as a practice for his death.

When people are dying they beg for the drugs to alleviate their pain. It is the pain drugs that actually kill them. But the most distressing part is that they aren’t allowed to die consciously. The relatives can’t talk to their drugged out loved one because they aren't there. The dying person gets no support and the relatives get no resolution. What could be a meaningful experience is turned into a mechanical, inhuman, managed affair. Death is denied to the very last moment. I went through this with my father. Fuck this inhuman culture. Oh yes, they push for the DNR order. It is all part of “pain management” and "palliative care".

Kaczynski's claim is that technology is going to spin out of control and that the rulers, who think they can control it, in fact cannot. I tend to agree. Technology increases exponentially. Look how quickly the Internet took over the world. And nanotechnology is going to be more powerful than the laser, computers, and the Internet combined. It’s effect hasn’t even begun. Despite all the hype, there has been no breakthrough in AI, but when it happens it will be another seismic event. It’s interest that the Bible begins with man being kicked out of the Garden of Eden for eating the fruit of knowledge. In the Tower of Babel story, men unite to build a tower to heaven which God foils with multiple languages. Our technology is increasing exponentially while our consciousness to use it responsibly is not. Will higher consciousness step in and sabotage the entire project before we destroy ourselves?

There are a lot of fakes posing as Shaman out there but "porn star" should be a big red flag.

I find it interesting that Americans who identify themselves as nationalist, like Trump supporters, are generally friendly to Russia and Putin. The vitriol tends to come from the liberals and the left. I understand why the American ruling class hates Putin, since he stopped them from looting Russian assets and for strategic reasons they oppose any strong leader of another country. Does this mean that the liberals are the biggest supporters of Western imperialism? Like Putin said, Russia is here to stay and we know how to defend our own interests.

If you look at the water in your hands long enough, you will notice the volume decrease and it starts to disappear until there is nothing left. Then you ask, where did the water go? If you divide a rock, and then divide the divisions, and divide the divisions of the divisions, is there a point where you can’t divide anymore because there are indivisible units? Democritus used common sense reasoning applied to simple observations like this to postulate the existence of atoms. When we ask “why?” we go down the rabbit hole to the unseen and the unknown.

Learn to grow mushrooms. You will not only clean your room but learn to sanitize it removing every bacteria and mold. Then you will have proved yourself worthy to receive knowledge.

During the 1970s, the psychology departments were dominated by behaviorism – the notion that we are stimulus-response machines, and the mind is a myth. This triteness was finally debunked by Chomsky – a linguist. The most popular therapy is now cognitive therapy, which its founders admit comes from stoicism, which is over a thousand years old. They had to go that far back to find something that works. What was the value of anything done in the 20th century? Now they have claimed mindfulness as a therapy, which goes back thousands of years. Again, why do they have to reach back to ancient methods. What have they done? Their one claim to discovery is the unconscious – but Hinduism knew about this thousands of years ago.

Tibetan Buddhism has a tradition of debating Buddhist logic. It would be interesting to get the answer of a Tibetan Buddhist monk. A Zen Master will just hit you over the head with a stick. That works too.

Buddhism is concerned with liberation. It’s not something you play with conceptually. It is something to be verified (or not) by direct observation. Observe the moment by moment changes in your images, thoughts, and feelings. Notice that everything you sense arises and then falls away. Deepen your awareness. Follow the impermanence all the way to liberation.

The interesting thing to note is that Peterson has mastered his subject of psychology and it does him absolutely no good in finding happiness or living life. I can sympathize because I have read hundreds of psychology books and have found very little wisdom in them. But then he writes another useless psychology book giving people advise. Most therapists are equally as lost. Western psychology is almost entirely useless.

What the Democrats will never admit is that Trump was the “trunk monkey”. This comes from a commercial several years ago. A man is stuck in traffic and this dangerous looking thug comes up to his window and starts threatening him. The man in the car calmly pushes a button on his dash with the label “trunk monkey”. The trunk opens and this large monkey jumps out carrying a tire iron and quickly takes care of the thug. In other words, when you are dealing with someone you consider dangerous and unreasonable, you vote for the trunk monkey, not Eckhart Tolle. Leftist politics use to be about the issues of worker rights and wealth inequality. Somehow the postmodernist academics hijacked the democratic party, and are focusing on “words” because postmodernists believe words are reality. In my opinion, this isn’t progressive but serves the interests of the financial oligarchs by diverting attention from the current trend towards extreme wealth inequality. Here is an example of academic obsession with words – the flip-chart is racist. http://joyfulpublicspeaking.blogspot.com/2019/02/is-flip-chart-racist-term.html

This is a good website that summarizes the spiritual psychology developed by the desert fathers around the third century AD. https://www.unseenwarfare.net/

Does anybody else find Teal’s selection of the word “containment” to be somewhat odd? Here is one definition: Containment: 1) the act or condition of containing. 2) an act or policy of restricting the territorial growth or ideological influence of another, especially a hostile nation. 3) an act or policy of limiting the expansion or spread of a natural disaster, contagious disease, or other dangerous thing. 4) (in a nuclear power plant) an enclosure completely surrounding a nuclear reactor, designed to prevent the release of radioactive material in the event of an accident. Could someone using this term as something she needs actually be expressing her fear of being dangerous to herself and others? I think the useful lesson for a man here is to ask a woman the question: “what do you need from a man?” and then listen to what she is telling you about herself, and then decide if she is someone healthy that you would want to be with. I would prefer someone who says something like “I am looking for a partner with whom I can grow and enjoy life”. If she says she needs containment, I will give her a geiger counter.

They are in the subconscious which lies between consciousness and source. They might arise as part of the process of purification. It is the realm of power and blockage. The important thing is to use it for growth and not get trapped by the entertainment.

Sex relations have deteriorated since the 1960s. It use to be common for people to have 50 year wedding anniversaries. The rigid sex roles gave guidance on what to expect and how to act. Also, women in former times were psychologically stronger than they are today. It also doesn’t help that postmodernists insist on inventing new genders by playing word games to confuse things even further.

Here is one example of illusion. Look at the space in your room right now. Do you experience it as being still and the same space? Well we know it isn’t because the earth is rotating at 1000 miles per hour. If you could measure the space you are at by cartesian coordinates centered on some point in the galaxy you would see that what you are looking at as an unmoving space is actually continually changing. The human nervous system was evolved to survive and thus is not necessarily accurate. Accuracy is not necessary for survival. It would not improve survival to be able to detect the constant motion of the earth. Our nervous system filters out this unnecessary information.

Kant placed space as one of the categories of mind that we only experience as phenomena and not the noumena which we never can know. “Space is not an empirical concept which has been derived from outer experiences. For in order that certain sensations be referred to something outside me (that is, to something in another region of space from that in which I find myself), and similarly in order that I may be able to represent them as outside and alongside one another, and accordingly as not only different but as in different places, the representation of space must already underlie them [dazu muß die Vorstellung des Raumes schon zum Grunde liegen]. Therefore, the representation of space cannot be obtained through experience from the relations of outer appearance; this outer experience is itself possible at all only through that representation.” https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-spacetime/#OrigOurReprSpac

Years ago, I would attend meditation retreats with Shinzen Young at a meditation place in the center of Los Angeles. There was always noise and sometimes even gun shots. He would tell us that the noise is an equally valid source of meditation. You hear the noise and note “noise”. You can also meditate on the reverberations in your mind, like the irritation, anger, etc. It is all good as an object of meditation. People talking may be a problem because it engages the intellectual mind. But we were doing Vipassana meditation, which uses sensations and feelings as the object of meditation.

Putin isn´t afraid to explain and talk about significant things. He is so interesting. In contrast, American politicians are completely scripted and everything that comes out of their mouths is insignificant and boring. This is part of living in a postmodern prison.