Breakingthewall

At the end the center is the last frontier of the ego. The center means the receiver of the experience. In a given moment the reality is reduced to the absolute basic structure: I am. Perception of being. The fact of knowing that you are. You, me , any conscious being is this structure with added characteristics. The naked ego is the I am. This can be dissolved, that's the real point, breaking the I am then the ocean manifest. The I am is closed, openess requires zero structure. I am is structure

What B. Roberts describes is realizing that reality is God. There isn't a "you" seeing reality; "a you seeing reality" is the reality. Reality is God; there is only one God, the reality, and reality is this now. This is absolutely obvious; it's nothing mystical or special. But then she speaks about good, bad,.God, etc and that's a mess imo

Because just meditating you wont reach total openess unless you are Ramakrishna I have done 5meo like 70 times before i can manage it and understand what is the idea, what i want with 5meo. I also was meditating 2 or 3 h by day, that were basically a hell until thanks to 5 meo started to be meditation Now for me 5meo is useless, I don't like anymore, I have done hundreds of times.now feels like It's just dissolution, and? And it has like false taste. But in some point was necessary

Because he resisted and breakthrough didn't happen. He wanted to impress the other guy, be the boss, not a surrender to the unlimited

All Roberts did was reach a meditative state of dissolution of the subject-object, nothing exceptional, and then issue assessments filtered through her Christian bias, as if they were absolute truths

I don't understand. I just wrote some remembers and feelings just because I felt inspired, not just answering. Same time I tried to answer or follow the thread of the conversation

In what sense? I'm quite transparent, at least it's what I try About metaphysical stuff I try to be precise. It's a topic extremely interesting to me.

For me the point would be exposure and let's see what arises. Going out of the comfort zone to know yourself.

If someone writes this, it's the proof of an understanding proper of a superstitious teenager. Why reading more?

Ram Dass achieved a quite open state and for him psychedelic were essential, over all LSD in very high doses. He was paralized many years and he never lose his humour and happiness. I think that ram Dass without LSD never would achieve such detached state. He was a very serious in spirituality, not only a psychedelic user, but psychedelic were essential in his path Anyway for me ram Dass was too focused in stop suffering, observing the feelings etc. Imo that's a mistake, because creates a frontier disguised of non duality, but just my opinion

People don't fear death because they can't really contemplate it. If you really contemplate it, you realize that life is an horrible trap, then you get seriously in spirituality.

Fear to death is the impossibility for the ego to contemplate it's disappearance. Really the ego should really fear, for example, going to prison for 30 years, much more than death, since death is the absence of suffering for the ego. As a Greek philosopher once said, when I am, death is not; when death is, I am not, so why fear it? But the reality is that the ego will yell as a rat, death is hell for the ego, it's the supreme horror. The ego will see better hell than disappearance

Maybe you should watch the documentary grizzly man and tell to the grizzly: I love you, I love you,

More than Maya, it's about breaking the limits of your mind. It's not that reality is false or illusory; it's that our mind creates a closed framework, limited on all sides, with a subject-object structure as the fundamental reality. It's as if your perception is blocked, and your mind creates a bubble of constant mental flow that defines reality and gives you a sense of balance or security. The point is to break that bubble. To do this, you must stop needing it; it's not as easy as wanting to. And then you can dissolve the subject-object duality at will and access fully expanded states at will in meditation. Then with time your natural state is without limits , and this implies joy as basic state. The constant feeling of lack disappear, but that doesn't mean that you are Buddha and everything is great, you want true relationship, a good life and you fear having cancer in the brain if the doctor finds a weird dot there, but under that is the joy as basic state

No, there is no maya, there is only the reality. When the body dies you as human die, the reality remains. What you are is the reality expressed as a human, this expression disappear. You can't live in a peak state because you would die, but you can live open to your true nature all time.

Sadhus have lived in India since ancient times, where poverty is immense, without working, being fed simply by virtue of being sadhus. Therefore, a sadhu will always tell you that only he possesses wisdom; others do not. toad no, sadhu yes. Simple, I think.

It's as if he thinks that God is an entity that does things like imagine, and does so for reasons like love or a desire to experience. People says that enlightenment is knowing that you are god dreaming, or that self is illusion, or that reality is a dream. All that are valorations. Structures that the conceptual mind creates. Enlightenment is being open to the nature of reality, that's not knowing the structure of reality Openess could be described as an state, name than being neurotic could be another state

I don't understand what are you saying.

@Wilhelm44 I wrote this in the psychedelics forum. Imo is a good description In my opinion, the goal of a psychedelic trip is the opening of your energetic structure, the breaking of the blockage in which every human lives. The goal is total openness, and when it happens, there are no intellectual deductions like knowing that you are God, that you create reality, that you do it for certain reasons, but rather, at a given moment, you are total. Contraction within you is zero, nothing limits you, not the idea of God, not love, nothing. Total. In that state, your body vibrates and the hair on your head seems to be receiving an electric shock, the eyes of your mind are open 360 degrees, and there is only one thing you can know: you are. And what does being imply: Everything. There is nothing more to know; you are absolutely omniscient, since you know absolutely everything: you are. There is nothing more to know, since that is everything. The joy that floods you is absolutely perfect; all the twisted filaments of your psyche are absolutely straight, like lines of escape to infinity. Your brain is functioning at full capacity, shinning , but its content is completely unstructured. You are, period. And nothing, absolutely nothing, can be added to this. This is everything, and it is paradise, nirvana, the holy grail, the jack pot. Not even your wildest dreams or most unrestrained imagination can come close. It is total.

The appearance of things are possibilities that are possible happening. Don't you see the mistake in calling them "nothingness" or "appearances" when those concepts are ideas that appears in the comparative mind? Adjectives, valorations. You can open yourself to your total nature, but describing the reality as unreal and saying that this is enlightenment is absolute nonsense.

Then if someone locks you in a 1m3 box for 5 years, the only problem is your mind, that's is tricking you?

The absolute is logical and understandable. It is an opening emitting absolute potentiality. The equation that is absolutely coherent with itself unfolds; the one that is not cannot

Then if someone locks you in a box of 1 cubic meter for 5 years, you could be absolutely happy? Humans are not islands, are interconnected beings. Spirituality denies it and affirm that you (this you that they affirm is illusory) is the only responsible of your happiness. All genetic structures built in the deep time are illusion, you could decide being happy in any circumstance. Because you are an island and the other are imaginary. Just utter narcissism. Modern spirituality is narcissism. It's closer from truth Donald trump than a non dualistic guru

Listening to the video again, I appreciate that Martin Ball is an intelligent and down-to-earth guy. After his thousands of psychedelic trips, his international reputation as a mystical guru, and his very serious insomnia, you hear a simple guy, without mystical delusions, who sees himself without grandiosity, who gets straight to the point, who never, ever, mentions anything about how elevated he is, about levels. In short, Martin Ball is not delusional , which in the spiritual world is a rarity.

Absolute reality is not mysterious at all; it's obvious. It's total openness, the absence of absolute limits or restrictions that gives rise to possibility and it's your nature , you could be totally open to it. The problem when people talk about God is that it implies an entity with intention, and that's false. The absolute is inevitable, not intentional. The problem on non duality is that they call it nothingness and they affirm that there is not you, everything is a dream etc, and this is just negation of this dimension from this dimension