BlackMaze

I believe the same thing but Leo seems very sure that this is the case. I don't know. To be impossible to awaken without psychedelics being a normal healthy human unless very lucky sounds crazy. It could be true though and it would be something very hard to prove.

I read somewhere that this existed in the past but was removed. I think it's better without this feature.

Do you work out? If you start running i'm sure things will improve.

When you decide to live only in the now you die. To actually do this feels like dying.

Good stuff! I enjoyed all of them. I wish i heard this advice as a kid rather than learning through pain.

@Inliytened1 Yes i was talking about the discovery of why selflessness or honesty are important and to come across the right teachings at the right time. I learned only recently about radical honesty and it really helped me to unroot all the bs i created and believed the last 10 years while creating a new worse ego than before. It really is extremely important. Maybe they didn't suffer enough to do the extra step or weren't lucky enough to come across the right teaching at the right time. You see my environment was unbearable there was no way i could tolerate any more of this. I even had suicidal thoughts but wasn't so stupid to actually act on them. I honestly don't believe that i am more spiritually gifted than any other person. I was 18 at the time and i was self actualizing since i was 14 by reading and applying countless self help books or other books from the library or bought or downloaded with torrents. I was meditating maybe 5 times/month and other than that i was an athlete. Nothing else was special about me. After the month ended my ego came back so strong that i really suffered for years and didn't bother again with self help or spirituality or whatever else until recently because of course my life went downhill once again and i started becoming interested again. I really believe it has more to do with life experiences and synchronicities than special talents but the way remains the same. On the other hand i can see why my patents could never awaken though.. But this is just because they are middle-aged and extremely closed minded.. I don't know maybe i am just lucky and i found it out by being unlucky. I do have to put my theory to the test though and see if it works again or not.

@Inliytened1@ i can't remove the tag i just write my thoughts on the topic. Well yes there is no free will. There is suffering that happens to people and some people are able to wake up while some are not. I would say that brains don't play a role (unless a genetic freak) but rather the experiences someone has, the suffering that is experienced, the discovery of the right spiritual teaching at the right time, a willingness to stop the suffering and the basic intelligence to understand a simple teaching. Maybe it has more to do with luck after all that generates the desire and gives the right tools. I'm not an Eckhart Tolle funboy i just know that applying his books someone can awaken. Let's leave the deeper stages out, still awakening is powerful. It has to do with returning in the now and eventually living only in the now while deconstructing the ego bit by bit. It's basically meditating and self inquiring always or another way to put it only now from now on. How can someone not awaken when this is understood and there is the desire to awaken. It's just developing the ability to go meta on every emotion, thought, belief or ego games returning to the now. The i don't belong to the spiritually gifted people is an identity and a limiting belief that can be let go off by self inquiring. It's just the art of letting go everything and living in the now. This is what i experienced. This can become a way of living. I can't talk about psychedelics because my experience is small but glimpses didn't stay in the now after the high unless they do but this wasn't my experience. If i could trip i would. Maybe in the future. I feel the need to write this. I am not awakened. I was 10 years ago for 1 month and it was something unforgettable. My life was complicated that's why it was harder to sustain it. However trying to practice this only for one day recently was extremely effective. I do feel that i have a choice in the matter even if that means me finding out again that i am not real. In a sense i know this and just pretend that i don't.

Of course. My only disagreement is with the statement that for an awakening to happen fast without 10 years of spiritual practices someone must be an extremely rare genetic freak. @Mason Riggle i agree. Maybe 'we' have no choice in the matter.

@Inliytened1 i'm not really satisfied with this answer. You can't really compare the two. Mostly because it's not about the skills you develop to be an nba spiritual master in the future but to just be now. Everyone is being now but this being is lost in distractions. You don't need the perfect brain to be. Maybe a gifted brain will reach the deepest levels possible easier i can agree with that but to just awake is possible for everyone in 2 weeks if what they do moment to moment is meditation self inquiry and beingness. If they really have a strong intention and reason to do it that is, which is the reason that so few people experience an awakening. To just be interested in this spiritual stuff is not a strong enough reason. Your life being hell is a better one.

But why do we speak within the context of the dream if needing the right brain is not ultimately true? This seems to me like a belief that if someone believes stops a possible awakening from occurring. Maybe i am wrong that's why i want to understand why i am wrong but this is something that i don't believe.

Are you sure this is not a belief? If yes could you share a book or some resources to learn more about this? Does it really depend on a brain if someone wakes up without psychedelics or not? Is there something to back up this theory?

I quitted trying. It's like they are deaf. Maybe you could encourage them to have a hobby or something. If they are like mine their head is too full of sh*t to see the value of an advice.

@Mosess i don't say that it's impossible just very hard. Yes for someone to be labeled insane for sure doesn’t help or is even true in many cases. How i understand it the point that mental illness starts is where someone stops being functional in some way or lives everyday with constant fear. I've seen many people taking pills for depression or whatever else when in reality just working out or making other positive changes would help a lot more. However people can experience traumas so strong that to completely recover from seems impossible. Taking pills doesn’t cure the root issue. As i understand it mental issues are closely dependent on survival. Unless you go beyond your own survival, or something changes for the better or you find the root cause of the problem it is unlikely that you will heal. Maybe chemistry has something to do with it but i have no idea about that and i am no expert in any way. I felt mentally ill in my life, didn't take any medicine and by changing country it healed that's all i know. Another example is when i had extreme anxiety because a family member had cancer and had to do 2 risky operations. Meditation just helped me to get by and when this person healed i was well again. If this didn't happen i would lose my shit for life (i know this much) and i would be mentally ill and damaged for life unless i had a crazy awakening. It's really a tricky topic to talk about. Mental illness does exist and cripples people. Having 500 egos is considered insane. Having mild depression is easier to cure than that. People that are not really insane and can also be or become functional with proper treatment or lifestyle/environment changes shouldn't be stigmatized as insane i agree on that.

I think that treatments in form of pills are not doing anything other than numb people and maybe offer some relief. Maybe better treatments will exist in the future. Usually as i understand it, people with mental illnesses suffered traumas that they are unable to recover from. Maybe their environment sucks. I don't really believe that people are born this way but of course i could be wrong. I also don't think that it is something easy to escape from. I know that it's possible though because i experienced it. Once i completely changed my environment everything started to heal. My opinion from what i learned so far is that something in the life of the mentally ill person must change for healing to occur. Living healthier could also help. I don't believe that a seriously mental ill person can 'wake up' before his illness is somehow in check. Even if a schizophrenic understands what you are saying he'll still have strong emotional or even physical reactions to the voices or visions making it almost impossible to detach from them.

Yes it is an onion. You are better off peeling those layers though. As i understand it to deal with it all at the same time just means to be able to constantly peel now. It's not a one time thing but a way of being thing.

Which they do

Junk food gets a bad rep because of mcdonalds. It doesn't even TASTE good. What is the point of eating junk food that doesn't even taste good and is also overpriced? How can people still like McDonald's when literally everything else is tastier?

@Marinus it's true i didn't watch the video but i did now, sorry for responding without watching it. However nothing really changed. I don't say that i disagree with him about the quality of sleep being more important. By all means exercise and build up your sleep presure. What he proposes doesn't work for me. Sleep deprivation will come and bite you in the ass. I had for many years all the sleep presure in the world sleeping only 5-6 hours. If i sleep 6 hours now i'm not able not to nap until the night. I shut off. This has nothing to do about my beliefs i always try to talk from my experience. Experiences between people differ and not everybody has the same body. There is not always a solution right for everybody. What is right for everybody from what i found is to let your body decide how much sleep it needs. Waking up with an alarm is not healthy. Another factor that is very important is when you go to bed. I've found that when i go to sleep before midnight i am able to sleep more deeply and usually need less sleep. By all means sleep only 5 hours, but to do that change your body somehow to crave only 5 hours of sleep without forcing it with an alarm clock. I don't believe that sadhguru sets an alarm after 3 hours. If he really needs only that much sleep he just wakes up refreshed after 3 hours without an alarm clock.

Exactly. The best you can do is to go to sleep early enough to have enough time to wake up without an alarm. This way you let your body decide how much sleep is necessary.

Not true don't believe it. Maybe true for very few people. I did it for years because of work and i was functioning only because of stress hormones. It's the worst thing you can do to your health.

@Average Investor thank you very much! This saves me a big chunk of time of not knowing where to start and a lot of confusion. I will start using your advice and recommendations. I should have started years ago but if i don't start now i'm sure that i'll regret it later.

@Average Investor much appreciated man thank you. I do have the booklist but i still didn't read the books about money. I do not have any idea what everything means to be honest i am a complete begginer. I don't even know how to invest by myself. Is just a mobile app enough? I really plan to invest as much money as i can the next years instead of just leaving the money in the bank.

Could you maybe recommend a good book to start learning?