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I think humor isn't really something that you can learn from a book. You can learn about humor, but a book won't teach you the quality of humor itself. Humor must come naturally.

That's the point haha it's just a nice little visualization to dissolve the idea of there being a boundary which one could see

Yes, that's definitely the largest part of it. True, but unlike Green they understand it and don't condemn it.

Lol nowhere. Space can't be anywhere. Just like time can't be any-when. @Vibroverse You're not in space, "space" is in you, or more precisely; what you call "space" is actually you. When you look at a tree, you think "i am here and over there is the tree, and we both are in space." But that's simply not true. You are not looking at a tree within space, what you call "tree" and "space" are both you and you are "the looking" itself. And so there's nobody who's looking at anything anywhere, only awareness, happening nowhere and to nobody. How much space is there between yourself and yourself?

@Gesundheit You can watch Leo's videos, read the Spiral Dynamics book, make research on the internet, etc. Green's values don't resonate at all with religion. That should be pretty obvious. Imagine the archetypal stage green person meeting an archetypal religious person. You think they'd get along very well? I doubt it... And the extent to which green is a backlash against science: you know for example that funny thing Ben Shapiro said "facts don't care about your feelings"? Well what do you think that is? It's of course blue's/orange's aversive reaction against green. It's not that green has any aversion against science per se, it's only that green tries to overcome the cold, hard, rationalistic and "factual" worldview of scientism (more appropriate and inclusive word than science in this case) that, taken to an extreme, produces suffering and other problems. And so, green tends to have some values that might often be considered as "unscientific" and/or "too subjective" to be incorporated in science, that's no accident.

Stage Green is a Backlash against religion and to some extent also against science, so it's not nearly holistic enough to merge science with religion, that starts at stage Yellow, at least on a level of theoretical understanding. @Focus Shift Since religion sprung from mysticism, stage Turquoise is your best bet. Because stage Turquoise actually understands what people like Jesus or Lao Tsu were talking about. And there you can really combine science with mysticism. I say mysticism and not religion because religion is mostly dogma, so we have to separate the wheat from the chaff. And by doing that with religion, we're left with mysticism. Combining science with religion gets you mostly into trouble.

@Gesundheit What exactly are you even disputing? Is this actually about words to you? @Gesundheit @Gesundheit

@Gesundheit You know, the funny thing is, when you see it, you don't go like "hmm ok, how to label this insight? Oh, I know, let's just call it Love because...because.. idk, it sounds nice". Nope. You immediately go "holy crap, it's Love!" Like when you first recognize that the world is fundamentally One, you don't label it as "One" because it's a nice word game. It's self-explanatory. And so the first exclamation is "holy crap it's One!" It is what it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@Gesundheit All notions are dualistic. But since you asked for a new explanation, that's all I can give to you. Beyond all these words there's Love. I'm not talking about this dualistic form of acceptance/love of any "you" or "me". When I said "forget the self", I meant that. The only one who's hung up on dualisitc notions is you, since you think there's an explanation that could reveal the actual secret. I can only point towards the nondualistic nature of what I'm talking about, I can never, never ever show it with words. To explain nonduality with words is a completely meaningless issue and therefore impossible. Stop thinking that there's somebody who "does" the accepting or that there's somehow the possibility of there being a separate self who can "reject" anything. It's not like that at all. It simply turns out that "acceptance" is the best word I have. Of course I'm going in circles, what did you expect?? That's the whole problem about trying to explain something like that and I'm very aware of it. Love is indiscriminate! That's the whole point! This existential non-discrimination is Love! Let go of the notion that Love is an emotion, it's more than that. It's much, much, much more existentially fundamental than having extreme affection for something/-one (love) or accepting / rejecting something. If you see it for yourself, it becomes glaringly obvious. Too obvious. And then you'll be in the same situation as me, trying to use a broom to sweep the darkness out of a room. Idk, maybe someone else here is better with words than me and wants to give it another shot.

Because Yes to everything! @docs20 UNO reverse card: why not?

@Gesundheit Acceptance is not something that existence does. Existence is unconditional acceptance because it is selfless(ness), and selflessness is unconditional, absolute Acceptance. No boundaries, no separation aka rejection, it's in-finite. That's what infinity is, it literally is 100% selfless Acceptance/ Love and there is nothing that is being loved and nobody who does the loving/accepting, because everything is infinite Love. It's Acceptance, not acceptance. There is literally nothing but acceptance, forget the self. Ask yourself, what is there beyond the self? What is there without boundaries? imagine there were no boundaries in the universe, what do you get then? You get ultimate, absolute non-rejection aka Acceptance aka Love aka Infinity. Nothing left outside, nothing rejected, everything included and accepted, without any self!! Goddammit!! f*ck words haha

@Gesundheit Of course you are existence, there's nothing but absolute Love and you are that. No external God, no selflessness apart from you, only Maya suggesting that there's something outside you Or how do you mean it? Any specific sentence in my explanation that's bothering you?

@Sahi96 Just for the sake of understanding, let's differentiate between "love" and "Love". "love" is the emotion that we feel towards something or someone. Let's take a look at this "love", what precisely do we mean when we say "I love you" ? Isn't saying "I love you" basically the same as saying "I accept and embrace you exactly as you are" ? "Love" is the same. It's like saying "I accept and embrace you exactly as you are.", only in this case, it's existence saying to itself "I accept and embrace you exactly as you are." (this is a metaphor of course). Existence is 100% selfless(ness). There is no individual self within existence, which could reject anything else within existence. Love isn't something that existence "does" it's something that existence is. Existence is pure, selfless acceptance of what is, what ever it might be. Love is therefore not the opposite of suffering or evil, Love has no opposite. It can't have an opposite because that would mean that there's something "outside" of the acceptance of what is, but whatever is, is, and therefore "accepts itself" as existing. The "act" of existing is the same as the act of "accepting". You understand? But we as human being have egos. And egos have a survival agenda, which means, that there are certain thing which serve this agenda and certain other things which don't serve this agenda. Which means that we'll "love" the things that serve us and reject the things that don't. It's our selfishness that prevents us from seeing Love.

That is so cool

@Vision Do you feel like your meditation is something that you must do?

Spiritual bypassing is a real problem for me and I have to stop it. I feel like I've "brainwashed" myself with all kinds of ideas about life in order to escape reality. When I started my journey a couple of years ago, I had just moved out from home and enjoyed the freedom. But instead of creating a solid foundation for my life, I kept bumbling around, smoking weed, listening to Alan Watts talking about how reality isn't serious and life's just a game yadayadayada. You know the drill. So this of course is just perfect to reject a responsible and solid way of living. I want to... well, not "go back" to the basics, because I know that there's only moving forward, but stop the bypassing and build a proper life without giving up spirituality (because I love it). And yet, spirituality is still more ideas than actuality for me, although I've had a couple of real and deep experiences. So I know it's real and I know that it's worthwhile and I'm not gonna say "ok f*ck spirituality, it made my life worse" no, spirituality is great but I think I'll have to be honest about it and admit that maybe I'm not yet mature enough to really go deep with it. As Jung said, the first half of life is to develop the ego and the second half is to prepare for death. So... that's probably a good plan. What concrete steps should I implement? Thank you❤

Yeah but that's the way it has to be. Among the millions of followers and listeners, a few will lick blood and get to work and they'll dive deeper than the rest. Tolle's teachings are exactly perfect as they are, providing a smooth and rather easy entrance into spirituality. You can't tell people "oh ok you wanna get into spirituality? Cool, and btw; you're actually dead, reality is an illusion and your family ain't real." See how many people will get into spirituality if it wasn't for guys like Tolle... So there really is no need to be particularly biased against mainstream teachers imo.

@justfortoday You know what's also gonna be really weird? When after a while you try to recontextualize the world back into 3-D. And then you'll go like "ahh right, that's how I used to see the world, it's beautiful as well. How could I've missed this my whole life?" nice work btw!

There's a cool phenomenon called "semantic satiation" when you say a word so often that it suddenly starts to lose any meaning and becomes nothing but a funny noise Not to forget glossolalia...

@Steelheart Depends on what you yourself feel to be sufficient. And god only knows how many factors there are to that. But I think one can say fairly confidently that online interactions can't really replace face-to-face. We're social animals after all and a real person is just not the same as a display

@K Ghoul Jesus Christ man, chill. Giving Joseph shit for trying to help someone, what the hell? Not helpful. You don't have to donate or anything, but don't trash him like that when he's being kind and generous.

Wow man, what a story! Glad that you brought yourself a bit closer to yourself

I just found out about this guy named "Elliot Rodgers" (read abut him in a post by @Preety_India). Though his story is tragic, it's a good opportunity to learnt about resentment, narcissism and neglect. He ended up shooting and killing people out of this resentment. He also wrote a manifesto, in case you're interested in his very private thoughts and motivations: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1173808-elliot-rodger-manifesto.html Resentment is just so unbelievably destructive...

Currently, 1CP-LSD is legal where I live. But not for long, it's been decided to make it illegal within the next few months, so I thought about... prophylactic hoarding, essentially What are your experiences with it? (I mean with the substance, not the hoarding lol) I'm also interested in using it for microdosing, does anyone here have experience with that?

Imagine you got the opportunity for an interview with God. You are allowed to ask one question, so think carefully. What would you ask?