Moksha

Religion is dogma, corrupted by the conceptual mind, often originally based on direct wisdom, but inevitably corroded by the human condition, and ultimately devoid of integrity. Spirituality is direct realization of the divine, born of the Self, independent of others, and abundant with integrity. Trust your inner Self, rather than external authorities. You already are the answer to all of your questions.

INFJ/INFP...figures.

Ultimately, there are no brothers or sisters to keep, since we are all One. Relatively, according to both eastern and western spiritualism, it is your dharma to love yourself, and to love others.

Wagner is one of my favorite composers, thank you for sharing

This probably won't make sense, but gotta say it. "You" were born, in relative reality. I don't for a second doubt the moment of "my" birth. My mom is not just a cartoon character. She bled for me, and gave me life. She deserves to be honored. Let's get over the histrionic, "ultimate" reality crap. It is all God. It all has meaning. "You" have meaning, because you are an incarnation of God.

You got it, bro. Self-realization is critical, but it is only the first step. Ultimately, it's about Self-liberation, and that requires courage, integrity, and full on engagement with the unpleasantness of relative reality. People are a pain in the ass, but they are a great litmus test for your spiritual development. Conditioning is compulsive, and it takes sincere commitment to break free from it.

My point is that spiritual development isn't about sitting in a cave and meditating your entire life. Engaging with the world doesn't imply slowing down your spiritual development. Just the opposite, in fact. If you want to continue growing spiritually, apply your realizations to the world. It's easy to fool ourselves that we are spiritual gurus, in the absence of challenges. If you want to test your current level of development, and build spiritual muscle, engage with and learn to love other people.

Amen. Any conceptual insights are inherently flawed. The only insights worth considering are direct. Don't listen to what I have to say, realize Yourself.

You're asking how does God know to come back to "your life", following a psychedelic experience. Psychedelic experiences aren't permanent. They don't magically dissolve your ego. You eventually come back to relative reality. You still have to do the work of integrating your insights, for that to happen. It's not about God coming back to "your life", but about "your life" coming back to God.

You are describing ultimate reality, which infinitely creates and destroys forms in relative reality. Once "your" life is gone, you are reabsorbed into the God that created you, which is ultimately who you are. One of my favorite quotes from the Bhagavad Ghita: Lord of the gods, you are the abode of the universe. Changeless, you are what is and what is not, and beyond the duality of existence and nonexistence. You are the first among the gods, the timeless spirit, the resting place of all beings. You are the knower and the thing which is known. You are the final home; with your infinite form you pervade the cosmos.

How could there be space if there is infinity? The Mystery is the intersection of ultimate and relative reality. Don't try to understand it, because you can't. Spacetime is only relative reality. Ultimate reality is timeless, spaceless, changeless, and formless. It isn't one or the other, Tat is all.

Each life is absolutely significant. It is a unique incarnation of God. I'm not sure what you mean about God coming back to a single life once that life is gone? Why would God come back to a single life, when infinite lives are being created, infinitely?

Psychedelics are not mandatory to wake up. For some people, it can be a catalyst, but necessary? Not even close. When in a precarious situation, like preparing to have a child, why take unnecessary risks? As a new father, stable love and security is the best you can offer your child. Just my opinion, as a father of two ?

Infinite forms, infinitely incarnated, infinitely experienced, infinitely reabsorbed. In that context, what is the relative significance of a "single life"? Even if it is Elon Musk?

On your deathbed, what is the one sentence you would send to the world?

You already are 100% God, in a dream state because you enjoy the experience of the dream. Changeless, timeless, ultimate reality isn't all it's cracked up to be

Spiritual development is far more than Self-realization; it is the painful, purifying process of deconditioning your conditioned mind. Waking up doesn't dissolve the ego; it only makes you aware of it. It is the first step in lifelong journey(s) of learning to love unconditionally, without attachments. Only then does the ego die; nirvana is attained through reunifying with your ultimate nature as God.

The PC is the avatar of the player. There are infinite PCs, all being played by the One player. There are no NPCs. Consciousness imbues everything. We are all PCs, all avatars of God, and strange-loopy, we are capable of realizing our ultimate nature as the player. I don't think any of my MMORPGs really captured that concept

I get you bro, just pointing to the "finite experience of a self" as being created by God/Consciousness/Tat, and therefore ultimately incapable of autonomous "free will"

@Chance Cunningham Whether we are a soul on a journey through many lives, or we only get one shot in this life, is hard to say. Many of the near death experiences I've read about, as well as ancient wisdom, point to some form of bundled continuity across multiple lives, with lessons to be learned along the way, but regardless, as you have realized, every soul journey must eventually end. It is the inevitable fate of every form. Realizing the transience of form is the beginning of wisdom. The Buddha chose to leave his life of luxury, and even his wife and son, with the determination to learn the lesson of transience. Like you, I am getting older, and I no longer cling to the illusion, or even the desire, for immortality. As I see it, the secret of life is love. Dream lucidly, realizing yourself as God within the nowhere, and celebrate every step of the journey.

@bensenbiz ?

I wouldn't call it leapfrogging, so much as recognizing that phenomenal reality arises from, and returns to, ultimate reality. God creates and destroys, and is the cause of everything in the cosmos. Would you agree that anything created cannot have free will of its own accord? It must act according to the parameters of its creation.

There is no "proven method" that works for everyone. Each person's path is unique. Don't dismiss meditation; it is an ancient path that has worked for a lot of people. Some find it through selfless service. Others through renunciation. In my case, it was a simple formula: Suffering (realizing its source) + Bhakti (direct spiritual realization, primarily through the Bhagavad Gita)

Given this limitation, why look for a conceptual answer? Maybe the answer is in the question. How can there be free will, or determinism, if there is no I? See the shell game Consciousness plays?

Dude seems pretty impressed with himself, and is not shy about promoting his special "powers". If he was actually enlightened, why would he care what people think? Since it says "no chemicals" right there in the video, it must be true! I used to do magic as a kid. There are illusionists doing far more impressive things than causing a piece of paper to burst into flame. But they don't claim to be mystics and spiritual masters. I'm open to siddhis as an energy form of Consciousness, I just don't believe most of what I see. I have my own direct experiences, and that is all I trust.