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@A Fellow Lighter https://www.theosophy.world/solr-multilingual?search_api_fulltext=Occult Good understanding of what even term „occult” means is essential. For me these practices are the extreme ways of spirituality. Extreme fascinating and extreme dangerous. Like „high altitude low opening” wingsuit jump over mountains in North Korea.

@A Fellow Lighter Ronnie Pontiac is a living encyclopedia in this subject.

If anybody thinks that all this enlightement is a kind of escape from life challenges than one complete misses the point and belives in some lalaland. I don't know what sort of a neo-nondual bullshit some people listen here, with all my respect. Besides, even true nondual teachings require a lot of intellectual and emotional maturity to be able to integrate those. The line between a very deep experience of reality at its fundamental level and the possibility of going crazy due to the disintegration of the personality is very thin. This is jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge where the foundation is the integrated, at the highest level, operation of logical reasoning and highly developed intuition with simultaneous emotional super-awareness. Along with kriya yoga and a few other tantric practices, this is a path for the few who are ready for it. These are the facts and no amount of conjuring reality will change that. I am sorry.

@PurpleTree so you are forced by nothingness..., so be it. If you ok with that I am ok as well😊. Good night (it's late here)😘.

@PurpleTree erratum: Maharaj.

@PurpleTree before you reach Ramana's Maharshi and Nisargadatta's Mahataj state of non-dual parabrahman ground yourself in your normal, sober experience, in what is. That's just an advice..

@PurpleTree so are you unconscious now?

@PurpleTree and do you understand my argument for consciousness? Per analogy it's exactly the same argument. Basic quality of consciousness is free will. It means that you are aware of choices you make and choice is when you choose consciously. That doesn't mean that there are no obstacles or limitations of what you can choose but that is not the point here. I know Bernardo Kastrup's argument for free will and determinism being basically the same on meta - level - that you can do what you will but you cannot will what you will and I agree with that to some extent.

@PurpleTree I am listening

Question of free will requires free will to ask this question, like question about the origin of consciousness or whatever else, includung free will requires consciousness at first place - you who ask these questions need to be conscious. Simple as 2+2=4. That's why "before Abraham were, (or everything was/is) - I AM". The question of whether you believe in free will could just as easily be replaced by the question of whether you believe in riding a bike. No offense.

@Razard86 …and it’s not one night for sure.

@Sugarcoat quick illustration below, taken from our pop-culture: This was and is achieveable by many so-called ordinary people that never have been to any ashram, never have taken any psychedelics, never have done anything wow!-extraordinary. I have met quite a lot of them around me. Very casual, silent yet powerful beings. Most of them quite old, but there are exceptions. One is a young woman that works with my wife with many severe and very serious health disorders. Yet having a boyfriend, and against all odds trying to lead a normal life. This case is actually mind blowing... my hat off to her... Yes, mahavatars live around us, just pay attention. You may be enormously inspired and pushed forward just by observing such beings. As Neem Karoli Baba once said: it's in You🙏👊

Enlightement is a very tricky word. I prefer freedom. To be free of fear, anger and resistance to whatever is. Simple as that.

@Sugarcoat suffering, stress tests, discomfort - these are keys to your freedom. Escape or resistance will only make things worse. It’s a tough stuff, often very tough, but there’s no other way.

I’m afraid that only You know the answers to your questions… ”notas mihi fecisti vias vitae - I was shown the ways of life”. Infinite paths of existence, where everyone of them is totally unique and unrepeatable. You may listen, read or watch infinite number of stories. In the end You need to „search for a hero inside yourself”.

@ExploringReality IT IS in the eyes indeed. In animal's eyes, you can experience it very intensively when you get in close contact with one, especially with your home friend. Rarer, but still it happens to spot this spark of something indescribable in human eyes, which might be in your loved one or a stranger. Like a piece of art, a landscape that blows you far away... The question WHAT IS IT seems completely pointless as our language is too limited to comprehend THAT.

@Princess Arabia There is a high probability that what you wrote, or rather "copied" from what you heard, saw, read - is true. What's more, I think very similarly. Nevertheless, recent events in my life have made me realize that I really don't know. At this point, it may be worth quoting Marcus Aurelius: "Everything you hear is just an opinion; everything you see is just a perspective, not the truth." I am not writing this in opposition to you, in any way. I value your posts very much. This is just a general reflection on us, humans. This is our constant search for meaning, which can so easily change under the influence of circumstances. How do we know that we know - this question has been drilling a hole in my head lately. In reality, I know most strongly what I should do, and it comes from the heart, which is somehow not tormented by any questions.

The human mind is condemned to faith. The desire to know, while simultaneously limited and conditioned, is very strong. Even when we realize that we discover at most here and there, fragments of something much larger, perhaps infinite - our need to understand most often creates stories that extrapolate far beyond the discovered fragments. Just like one of the blind men touching an elephant's ear and claiming that the entire elephant must look like a large leaf. The truth is that we don't know shit. We live in the stories of our own minds. And this is something that distinguishes us from the so-called enlightened, saints (if they exist). A saint simply sees what is, not what he wants to see. And he's at peace with that. I assume, of course. I have never personally met such human being who simply is with what is but not in some zombie way:) You know something, about the vast majority you have no idea. Ask yourself about what you know: how do you know that you know? The greatest deceivers are ourselves. More and more often I have the impression of being a failure of existence as a human being. Nevertheless, a beautiful failure. A necessary failure. A perfect imperfection. Maybe when I finally accept this fully, I won't have to fix or improve anything anymore. There won't be anyone left to tell stories, literally. But, who knows? I don't.

...if not the wisest I've heard so far: "Love Everyone, serve Everyone, remember God, tell the Truth; it's All One." Quite hard to implement, but when You do - just works🙃

@Keryo Koffa thinking, especially thinking too much might be a big obstacle in every field of life. This advice is simple, and this is only an advice. Do whatever you want. By the way, everything might become a religion / obsession if you miss the point.

@Leo Gura I appreciate Your style, Mr. Gura. Truly unique😘

Only here this spiritual bubble of confusion and unresolved problems exists. Here, and wherever mind is willing to create such stuff. In reality, who cares? It is what it is.

@Husseinisdoingfine stop being dramatic, Brother. Listen to the wise advice from people here. Turning off your avatar, called suicide, will not end anything. Quite the opposite. You will experience frustration, anger, irritation on an incomparably larger scale. Here, as a human, you have the opportunity to work through it. And you have no way out. You will not escape from yourself anywhere. Get to work, Brother👊

😂😂😂 confirm. It's stubborn af.

Let's put it a bit poetically and metaphorically. Freedom, like pleasure, are difficult concepts to define. Where pleasure ends and pain begins, is freedom ending and enslavement beginning? Or maybe the other way around? In the relative dimension, we will always get relative answers, if not paradoxical ones. I myself, struggle with this, as long as I struggle 😉😊. Lately, I have been discovering the blessing of not thinking beyond the bare necessity.