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Hell yeah , I've been researching the orgies in my area .

https://kriyabreath.com/about-us/ if you want a kriya guru this seems promising if you want to learn kriya on your own leo's booklist is what you're looking for.

It would be nice to have someone around to give me tips on kriya practice as there's a lot of subtlety to it. however srf is a little too religious for me. they also don't give you the actual kriya pranayama technique until you've been a member for a year (at least), by the way.

Not a literal cult more like the charisma of a cult leader, I want to be one of the good ones. Charisma has two meanings. The conventional meaning has to do with confidence, extroversion and charm. But the other meaning of the word, which is actually the older original meaning, is a spiritual meaning. " Meaning of Charisma in Scripture Root Word: Derives from charis, the Greek word for grace. Spiritual Gifts: Refers to supernatural capabilities like healing, prophecy, teaching, or leadership granted by the Holy Spirit. Purpose: Designed for the common good, service, and love, rather than ordinary social magnetism. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] " This is, I think, what Leo meant by his blog post "the highest form of game is God", by the way. I want to have both types of charisma of course. I'll look into bdsm events. And ecstatic dance, which is a more conscious version of a standard rave. I've mostly been working on the production side of music but I'll probably also get into djing, it would be fun to throw some conscious parties.

Same man . I don't really see myself doing exactly what you laid out but I see myself taking my music to an audience, and throwing conscious parties . Ecstatic dance parties. I feel this passion that wants to come out.

That sounds like standard nonduality 👀.

not the super locked down part but the middle of the road iop type part .

Back to the original topic . I fucked in a psych ward.

I got no shame in admitting part of my motivation to meditate and trip is from zen masters saying they had charisma they could've used to start a cult after their awakening and also Leo's similar comments.

Do you feel like a crab in a bucket now 🦀

Any guys here get their personal training certificate? I want to get that along with a yoga teacher training. I am the captain now.

But just for the fuck of it, here's my argument for idealism . This is head and shoulders above what someone like Bernardo Kastrup is saying. And far simpler. Frankly I should be getting paid for this, but you gotta give some to get some: "I take it as unborn means without form . Form is limited , formless is unlimited, reality is unlimited , therefore the reality is ultimately formless. What is formless, is mind, because mind can take any form, any object on mind. Is there anything else that can take any form?" It was in response to this snippet from Bankei ;

People get a great deal of meaning talking about how life is meaningless

I think the feeling "life is meaningless" stems from an intellectual rather than experiential understanding. My life is far more meaningful than it's ever been.

Make some cool art. Or if that's not your thing start a business.

I read and watched many things. Leo, other spiritual teachers, idealist philosophers, people trying to argue against the people teaching spirituality. I spent many hours thinking about these things for many, many years. I had some enlightenments on psychedelics. But I had no peace. It wasn't until I started a daily meditation practice that I found peace. Truth is good, but what good is it without peace? And through peace I'm finding some Truth, but I can't tell you what it is. I could say it's pure being, or God, or consciousness, but unless you know you don't know what those words mean, they don't mean what philosophers think they mean.

I do think it's interesting how many people I've heard say that when misfortune strikes, many misfortunes strike at once . Maybe that's manifestation. The person I know with the worst attitude also has the worst luck.

@Davino When I had that dream with Ramana I had many insights the following days . He handed me a piece of paper, it caught fire and disintegrated , then he jumped into the ocean and also disintegrated. I also have a strong connection with Christ, reading the books Miracles and Wonder by Elain Pagels and The Resurrection by Dale Allison led to many awakenings for me.

I'll be honest, it's still hard for me to understand how God realization is different from traditional nonduality, maybe I haven't tripped enough (then again Leo also says to not trip much in your 20s sooo....). By traditional nonduality I mean Advaita Vedanta , not Buddhism, although plenty of Buddhists said Advaita things , like Huang Po and Bankei who said all was mind. But what I will say is, Leo excels in the realms of developmental psychology and conscious politics, that's something the traditions don't have.

World peace achieved, tell all the marines to go home.

Wish we could all just hold hands.

@Carl-Richard https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2014/07/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614 "The striking difference was that while many of the African and Indian subjects registered predominantly positive experiences with their voices, not one American did. Rather, the U.S. subjects were more likely to report experiences as violent and hateful – and evidence of a sick condition." I am a bit paranoid, lol.

I don't want to derail too much since this is primarily a metaphysics conversation but I sincerely wish her the best . Also that thing I said about schizophrenia being less paranoid in the east I also found with a Google search . So the schizophrenics on Reddit were right. Maybe if we find out why it's that way we can find out how to help people with it. @Joseph Maynor mystical powers , life after death . That's why I try to be extra rigorous, because I want it to be true .

yes of course. I've always been an idealist even before I knew what the word meant.