Tim R

Some good meditations here. Focus on something that is not thought (like sound or breath) and don't try to push your thoughts away. Be patient and they'll leave you on their own.

Make sure you have some kind of anker, something that you can return to. People, young people especially, get into spirituality and psychedelics with a mind and world view that isn't yet even fully developed / constructed and they become so fascinated by all this that they go balls to the wall - not wise enough yet to know when to stop or hen to slow down. And BAM! they crash. And that crash looks different for everybody. You can (and here I would even add: should) slowly and methodically go about deconstructing reality. Otherwise you will lose your orientation way to quickly. I know people who did this and who are now simply deluded. Our minds always seek equilibrium, so once you start to deconstruct, the mind will immediately reconstruct something to fill the gap. And one has to learn how to reconstruct. Epistemology is a crucial skill to develop, I can't stress this enough. You have to learn how to think, i.e. how to use your mind. That is of course not only limited to linear, discursive thought.

There are multiple posts about JBP and psychedelics, use the search function and you'll find plenty of posts where also Leo commented.

The thinking is the problem.

@WokeBloke When people say that "I don't exist" they mean a specific kind of "I", namely the ego, as a separated, individual self. Realizing that the ego is not real usually comes with the realization of the true Self, which is the only and only real "I" there is, and that is existence itself.

One day you'll have to move out anyway. And yes, it's definitely worth it, but you have to do it right. Living independently is a crucial step in your development. If 3,5 hours is too far away for you, try finding something closer. I live 3,5 hours away from my family, but I visit them every like every 3 weeks or so and call them regularly.

Thinking will only get you so far. You really gotta stop deluding yourself and start doing some real work my man. You are ruminating about fantasies and don't even seem to realize that you are doing so, instead you are taking these thoughts quite seriously. I mean, do whatever you want. But at least please stop making thread after thread after thread about these philosophical ruminations. People have told you multiple times the same thing, you seem to ignore all of it. This is a verbal warning. Chances are that Leo is gonna kick you out of this forum one day if you don't get serious.

Daryl Davis is an absolute fucking boss. I repsect that man so much.

I asked the boy beneath the pines. He said, “The Master’s gone alone Herb-picking somewhere on the mount, Cloud-hidden, whereabouts unknown.”

What's 13/50?

People are not interested in reaching 'God Realization' if that simply means 'the highest state of consciousness' without the alleviation of suffering - and if they do, you can be damn sure that it's nothing but an egoic pursuit of 'being the best / highest'. Because hey, one gets to run around and bask in egoic god-realization whilst calling 99% of spiritual teachers, students, traditions and religions 'inferior' or even 'dumb' for their attainment / understanding. 'Suffering is irrelevant'. Well guess what, it's not. Not to those who truly and deeply suffer. And oh my f*ckin lord, in this community there are so many people of this kind. Who are only in it for the spiritual ego it gives them. People want to escape suffering, people want peace and harmony in their lives. They don't give a hoot about this attainment or that attainment if it means that they'll return to suffering. And if they do, they simply haven't suffered enough yet. After all, who said that the condition-driven rat race can't include god-realization?

What if you were also Love?

@PurpleTree It's because right-wing extremism is everywhere, and Nazi Germany is the only country which has pushed that far. Of course they celebrate it.

@peanutspathtotruth Even though I don't think Buddhism would frame it that way, they too are after understanding reality - albeit not as the final "goal". That's what the recognition of Truth is and if your goal is liberation from suffering (which according to Buddhist doctrine is based on not seeing the Truth (ignorance="Avidya") / "undestanding reality"), then "understanding reality" is on your goal list. The difference between Buddhism and Actualized.org's teachings is that Buddhism realizes "understanding reality" as a means to an end (liberation from suffering), whereas Actualized.org regards the understanding itself as the objective. See? perfect timing? Oh come off it...

@Leo Gura What's the difference between contemplation and conceptual thinking? Or is contemplation just a fancy word for thinking?

@Someone here Sir, you are lost in thought. Pointless rumination about what can't be thought. Psychedelics would crack open that world view rather effectively... not recommending anything here, just sayin'.

@Someone here Neuroscience, energy, emergent phenomena, physicality, the brain, evidence, the body, biology, etc... All these occur within consciousness, I think we can agree on that? None of these things I just listed ever occured independently of consciousness, yes? They always and only occured as an experience, i.e. as a content/form of consciousness. We first must acknowledge that before we can go any further. Don't you think this might be a clue to the nature of consciousness? If all these things depend on consicousness, then perhaps consciousness is not something that arises from all these, but exactly the other way round: they depend on consciousness. A "computer" is also something that occurs within consicousness. It cannot produce consciousness. And I think I told you before, in order to come to and understanding of the nature of consciousness, it is utterly insufficient to think about it, you have to access direct experience, because that's what consciousness is, that's all you have.

Is that obvious?

@Preety_India Modern nazis.The term 'Nazi' was used for national socialists in NS Germany, that obviously doesn't exist anymore, so today you have 'Neo Nazis'. Same hatred, different times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism

"He just needs love." ... this dude is woke af

What do you guys think about Hasan Piker aka HasanAbi? He just bought a Porsche Taycan (~$150K) and a year or so ago a $2.7M mansion, yet he claims to be a socialist and always rants about capitalism... Not sure if I can take him seriously anymore.. Not that I ever did but that just kinda takes the cake for me

There is only one way of knowing what happens after death and that is by actually dying. Clarify, not repeat. I told you because your post got reported earlier this day.

I see. So it's like a mantra?

I don't ask myself anything. And to be honest, I never really understood why people would sit there and repetitively ask themselves things like "who am I?" or "who is observing?" I try to feel into whatever it is I'm inquiring. Feel into existence, feel into awareness, feel into perception, feel into the body, feel into thought, feel into emotions. But without labelling them as such and without a questioning mind. By feeling I don't mean "emotion". I mean the absolutely raw, unmediated, unprocessed quality of experience, completely merging into the "that-ness" of reality.

@Leo Gura The poorest people on earth, i.e. those who still have a great hunger for material wealth are those who live in regions where climate change will make their home uninhabitable, they don't care about material goods if they have a water shortage. That's just Africa and south east Asia. Not to mention India, they too will get hit pretty hard by climate change. People will be forced to abandon (their desire for) material wealth if they want to survive.