Breakingthewall

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

Stupidity is choosing what fits with your emotional need instead the reality.

So, what is no sensorial is false? That idea of enlightenment comes from Ralston or Tolle. It's full of mistakes. "Smell" is something that happens in the mind. "future" also. Awareness of future is a human reality, they deny it as illusion, but still it exist

Interesting topic. The answer is that it is absolutely essential to be open to your absolute nature. Then you know that no matter what happens, you will be what you are, and you see death as the complete opening to what is. If you are closed off to this reality, life is a trap. As Buddha said, human life is suffering because we are aware of impermanence and death and cannot cope with them. Traditionally, people have clung to religion. Now that's gone, and what remains is imbalance. The only solution is true openness.

Old and stupid. Being old is hard, old and stupid is a drama.

Then shut up, why are you talking with voices that doesn't exist?

On the savanna, if there's a piece of meat lying around, the lion owns it. If hyenas appear, the lion might explain that fact by killing one of them; that's how they understand. Humans do it through documents, but the idea is exactly the same.

Try to steal it's food, maybe it makes sense for the cat. The thing is that cats and humans are different. Same than cats and pants. If you steal the water to a plant if wont attack you, but a cat maybe yes, and a human if you steal his money. Just different dynamics, no one is false, just different

You don't understand that people. It's not that they don't understand and if I made them understand everything would be ok. It's that they need to be above the other because their inner dynamic is that. It's not that we could get an agreement, it's that if they know that the other have a devastating cancer they would feel happiness. Of course in any case, never, they would admit. When you open your eyes to the real human dynamic, you understand why humans and war are always together. Look this: I played a trick on my sister. I asked her to go to therapy with her psychologist to cure my possible mental illness. The truth is, I talked to him and explained the situation. He was pretty slow, the kind of guy who doesn't analyze things and only focuses on the vibe, but he still understood (with difficulty). Then he told my sister that I wasn't psychotic and that I wanted to go to therapy with all three of us. I knew this was absolutely impossible, but the trick was to make her deny it. Not only that, but she quit the psychologist after eight years of therapy. Ohhhh, so sad. I'm kryptonite to those liars😅 Btw was interesting to talk with him, was amazing observing his procceses. He is there just for validate narcissist and show compassion, and at the end of the session he hugs you . Ufff it was like hugging chancellor palpatine. Come with me, to the compassive side. You are sick, you are suffering, you need my compassive hugs . In the past they were many people and very professional and was very dangerous, nowadays you use a gps, but anyway getting in an oceanic trip alone in winter is an act of surrender and faith, over all with old boats. You have to be absolutely aligned with the situation, maybe you can't sleep in many days, or you have to put the awaker every 30 min for a week, day and night wet and frozen. You have to feel the boat, the sea, the wind, check everything 1000 times. There is no place to complain, you are a cog not a person. Imo it's very meditative. I'm absolutely, totally, completely, horribly lazy to start it again but life is one, and the beauty of this is sharing. I almost always sailed with company but girl who didn't share responsibility. I sailed totally alone 5 times, trips 9 days max with old boats I founded in islands to sell them, I don't like at all, I won't do never again. Sharing those trips make your soul close each other, its like being in another dimension. When it's like an hurricane (not real hurricane but 100km/h wind) with lighting around and waves like mountain back to you and the boat running perfect in the middle of the ocean you feel the power. Also the uncertainly.

I don't perceive them as hostile to me, just like they need to maintain a position that is objectively wrong by self image and I enjoy pocking them forcing them to lie to maintain their position, and seeing how they must showing equanimity to maintain their character, but it's easy to see that they are aggressive (passively). It's like a game. Anyway Vegan is not so bad eh, he has nobility and sometimes says something with any sense, deeply I like him but he's unbearably defensive😂 (defending his enlightenment no self that is an absolute must for his psyche). James is just pure defense

The purpose of 5-Meo is forcing. You could think that's not the right way, it's your choice. Imo it's essential in many cases.

Unbearable

Why do you say such things? For trolling I guess. Passive aggressive trolling What kind of personality could need such interaction? A narcissist.

@Ziran thanks for the feedback

Martin Ball explains very clearly what the experience of total openness with 5meo is. It's the absence of resistance in which you open yourself to the total. Regarding symmetry, I don't know, but he has guided thousands of trips so what he says is probably well-founded. Furthermore, something clear to me emerges from his explanation: if there's a perception that reality is imaginary, that you're God, that you're dreaming, or whatever, it's because deep layers of the ego's structures haven't been dissolved. This is perfectly obvious; total openness is just that, total openness. There's no structural content in it, just the total, period. Anything else is the absence of total dissolution. There are many people who did a lot trips of 5meo in high doses and never have dissolved their ego, just because they don't want it, they want to be God. You have to want to let go everything, if not it's impossible.

Tell him the key is understanding his illness. Don't give him spiritual nonsense; instead, have him read documented stories like that of John Nash, Nobel Prize winner in mathematics, and others who have managed to live with schizophrenia.