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@Ishanga Unfortunately i see misunderstandings of terms are a constant when discussing these topics, i'm glad you got my point.

@Ishanga Let's say You have a dream where someone drop a heavy brick on your foot and You felt pain, then You wake up... The You, the foot, the brick and the pain are imagined, Yet real. How can someone deny the sensation of pain? What we're pointing to is the nature of that sensation. Now, it's the same with the waking state. Easy. Imagined doesn't mean not real - this is a great misunderstanding. Imagined means produced, created though the imagination process. So everything is dependent on nothing and interlinked with everything else. objects don't have indipendent existence, as mush as characters in a movie or in a dream don't. You can imagine that they do, but see, that's the imagination process at work!

@TruthFreedom Free will exist and doesn't exist doepending on the POV. It exist in day-to-day life as an attribute of poeple, as a concept. On a further investigation though, it is simple to realize that the Ego is not free in any of its "choises" because there is just too much unconscious content possibly dictating them. So the "choosing" does happen but is not truly free. In other words, rather that onto individuals i would say that Free-will can get attributed to a sort of law of Coherence, or Logos that coordinate every aspect of the reality process in a seemingly logical way.

@strangelooper They can exist as imagination endlessly uraveling through an ever-singular POV. That's what reality tells us. There is no way of proving Other poeple and objects have indipendent life outside of this Imagination process. @Ishanga infact, not only object/other is afigment of imagiantion, but even the center/self that think it is real and the center of attention. Everything is part of this imagination process.

@Davino I Heard someone say that religious Icons were non-human souls that incarnated on the Earth plane to provide Humans the most basic connection to spirituality. Just to instill the idea that there is "a next" int the mind of poeple is a big developement in consciousness and some souls are so developed that can change the course of billions of lifes. Think of it as a Spiritual Basic Universal Income. I like this theory. The most gifted of course ones can always go deeper. Jung said that Jesus, Buddha etc. are sensual expression of the Self archetype, the deepest archetype. Its true that everything is an expession of God, but some things, in a sense, are "truer" that others So, even just feeling a connection to just the image of Jesus uncosciously link You to a transcendant ideal. A bridge is formed. It's the first contact. Then, as You know, You must kill the Buddha to go deeper.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-105 This is the best observation on reality you can make discussing to a materialist to turn them to spirituality. It's so undeniable, so easy, yet so easily overlooked.

@Will1125 Karma is illusory in the absolute sense, Yes, but notice that if you asking this type of question you are the first one that is searching for a mechanical-cause&effect type of answer. What kind of asnwer you expect to recieve exacly? Karma is imaginary but we still have to deal with it's laws, and there are karmic reasons why you are You and not somebody else.

From your description I get the feeling that He would enjoy The Book of Not Knowing. As a companion, a perfect lighter read with a different focus can be The Power of Now. And Get Him to watch some of Leo's with You, so You can discuss about it and pause and guide him if you see He doesn't get something.

@Juns Because You are able to imagine different levels of "actuality". With "You" i don't mean your little identity. But You as God. To the Ego these processes are so automatic they get overlooked. That's why poeple fall in the materialistic paradigm.

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@Leo Gura speaking in concrete terms, i see Ukraine sadly ending up being split like Korea. Why is that: - Support from the EU to Ukraine can't be forever so at some point the conflict will officially end or get to very low-intensity to the border and an agreement has to be found. - The Ukrainian governement can consider the the eastern regions and Crimea lost to Russia already, no way of getting them back. - Russia is not able to conquer Kiev, atleast that's what the war has showed to this day. - It's true that a significant part of Ukranians would like to stop the conflict tomorrow, but i think most of them would not accept to live under a puppet governement controlled by Putin, not after this invasion. - I expect social chaos in Russia. At some point Putin might fall from a window and a new Russian leader will come up saying "Actually, we got what we wanted". After all the things He said I don't see who Putin could remain in power without conquering Kiev, which seems unlikely. - Something similiar might happen in Ukraine with more and more poeple asking to end the conflict, so some political coalition might get the ball bouncing and push harder for an agreement, opposing Zelensky. - The US GOP and Trump pushing for an Agreement and being less hostile to Russia. Aftermaths: - West Ukraine won't formally join NATO or the EU but will enter solid bilateral agreements with western countries - Annexed at first, Eest Ukraine will be declaired a Russia frendly "Indipendent Republic" and function as a bearing (including in its territory a line of land in the north, separating Russia and West Ukraine - A civil might bust in East Ukraine, with UE friendly citizens not accepting the deal, which will be sedated by the pro Russian forces, with the help of Russia - with will resault in a mass- migration, expecially by UE friendly Ukranians, from East to West Ukraine. - The border between East and West Ukraine will become a demilitarized zone. ------------- I feel the only way this is ending differently is if Russia fully commit to get Kiev, in that way Putin might remain in power and install a friedly governement in Ukraine - but this will get Russia to lose hold over the Caucasus and the middle East, as we're already seeing with the dethonement of Assad. Any thoughts guys? Holes in my prediction?

Grow a beard and paint it grey, start a sex cult, buy some rolls royces and talk super slowly with some emphasis on the "s" sound. Oh, and be exceptionally suited for spiritual work.

Hinduism and Buddhism at the very end of the path look pretty much the same, the best sages knows that and leave the discussion to scholars who are more interested in the unending doctrinal disputes then in the actual Awakening process. Because they know that any attempt to create a coherent expleation expleation of Reality is a construction, a made-up fantasy that you have to think it out like you are writing a novel. A good spiritual system shouldn't attempt to describe reality (for the reasons above) but should aim to bring its practitioners to Awakening. The doctrines of Atman and Anatman are both correct and incorrect, all depending on your POV.

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@decentralized Get to the basics, come back to earth. Create a goal for yourself, join some free free education course or get some certifications if you can (you might even apply for some low-skill job to get some cash going), do some Physical exercise (even just cardio is great) and get some therapy if you can. Having a voice in your head telling you things, is NEVER a good thing. You have to feel like you are the one the one making the decisions. In the meanwhile i would suggest you toput aside the piritual imaginary and culture for now (Reincarnation, ego death, chakras etc). Stay away from energetic practices stuff like Kundalini and Kriya Yoga. If you do that kind stuf without a mentor it can ruin you. Don't fall into the trap of spiritualizing you problems. Very few issues are purely spiritual and most can be resolved by taking action in the world. I think you should just leave the habit of doing some do-nothing meditation like 30 min everyday and let go of everything that appears in your experience, if you get kriyas, let it do their things, accept and kidly let go off of every thoughts you find intrusive or negative. Simple Hatha Yoga can be can be good aswell. Focus on getting beck on track with life in general. Once you get the boat going you can dive deep in spirituality again.

I Think the natural progression for a capitalist system would be to add socialistic reforms like it's happening in scandinavia and to some extent to other European countries. America needs/needed a assertive Leader with truly progressive economic position, Not too extreme to actually appeal to voters but different enough to be regarded as something new and different, a breaking point with a witty, aggressive rethoric, Republicans should be fuming when they watch him/her on tv. Harris is too "clean". Dems needs a Trump that's intelligent and actually cares for poeple. Bernie Sanders maybe was a good candidate, but the fact that he was put to the side means Dems thought they could win while playing it safe. Now it's evident that change was needed to defeat Trumpism.

@Buck Edwards Yes, but some some Greens fall for it aswell. To fall in rabbit holes all you need is being ignorant and lacking basic epistemic analysis abilities. Greens and Blues who didn't work their Orange properly go hand in hand in this.

@Buck Edwards It's more about talking point rather then values. Greens that haven't sufficently developed their Orange stage can easily fall into conspiracies rabbit holes ( vaccines, Climate change not being real, "fighting the deep state", Trans-humanism, Jews controlling the galaxy, "Gender Theory" etc.) and they become more prone to vote Republicans.

@How to be wise What is that supposed to mean? Are you trying to imply that American voters are educated, zealous follower of politics? Or that Trump is a wise Leader?

@How to be wise Most poeple who voted for Trump are definetely low in Consciousness and cognitive developement, exactly like him. Most poeple vote based on vibes, emotion, slogans and the charisma of the leader, nobody truly has the competence to evaluate based on policies. Most stage Green vote Dem, it's their base, and as i wrote above Trump is able to appeal to a little part of them. No individual truly established in the Yellow stage would vote for Trump, find one. He did carved an enemy out of them in his rethoric

Casting aside any judjment, Trump wins bigly in America because he appeals to: - stage Red conmen/criminals and bitter, passive-agressive, anger-repressed individuals - stage Blue style conservatives, especially religious fundamentalist - stage Orange capitalists and materialists - stage Green poeple who developed the bad features of this stage (like Abke and others)

Some (most?) women get turned on by a powerful, emotionally charged, display of domination - rape of course is the ultimate extremization of that.

@Spiritual Warfare exactly

@Spiritual Warfare This confusion stems from the fact that there different right answers, each one belonging to a specific context. From the Absolute POV, only Pure Being is present. From a mundane POV everything can be said to exist/have existed: the soul, the self, past lives, etc. Non-existence can only exist as a concept, it can never be actualized (How?). This is easy. In a sense, every object is literally infinite and eternal, because it partains carachteristics with its Creator. So Yes, you feel that way because You ARE Infinite and Eternal. About potential: it can be said to exist or not exist depending on the context, like I explained above. A seed is at the same time a potential plant, subjected to change, time and space AND just a seed, infinitely and eternally.

These are the finest equilibrists, walking the thin line between grifting and being batshit crazy. "we were tired of the lies" is pure tragicomedy, comical perversion of The Truth. But It's important to note that They just do not misinform like evil ghouls, just for the sake of it. - in order to spit the hottest bullshit, they need to have some kind of moral justification that makes the lie digestible to their souls. Some They believe, some They lie about in the name of a possible "Greater Good". It's a pattern that in general is very common with conservatives. So, even though Man is a Bullshitting Animal, it can only tollerate so much lies, and some lies end up becoming truth to their eyes.