SeaMonster

It's a legitimate question that can't easily be brushed off with a "turn on, tune in, drop out" type philosophy or bringing Spiral Dynamics into it. Because a lot of that stuff is simply fear that you have nothing to contribute to the world, or are not attractive, or any bunch of other neuroses. Besides, even if the mainstream culture is so bad, there are alternative cultures to participate in. We're talking about spiritual bypassing on the other thread, and these attitudes very easily play into that issue.

Certain psychedelics are really good for that type of work, but you have to focus your intention on finding them.

Dude, kindly stay in your lane, you have no idea what someone is or isn't experiencing or has experienced. If you're in love with your special language for describing these phenomena, realize that it's not the only way to do so.

That's the point -- to remove all crutches and let go.

Set up by whom and consisting of whom? And why would any owner of Twitter agree to some kind of WWII type board on a permanent basis? There has to be federal legislation passed that creates such a board for it to have any legitimacy, and such legislation would not be passed or would not withstand legal scrutiny if it did. The issue of fairness arises no matter who is in charge of being fair. At the very least one can have clear and simple rules, less room for arbitrary decisions and a decision process open to the public. This will go a long way towards solving it.

From your description you're very close to a nondual awakening for sure. It sounds pretty solid, and you also have a pretty good attitude about the whole situation. So I wouldn't worry about trying to understand higher states, because whatever you're doing seems to be working. It's all about surrendering this idea of "I" as just another thought that you can discard. Edit: Let me rephrase that better - whatever your current conception of "I" is, treat it as another idea to be discarded, and you do this until there is no conception of "I." This may go through different states, from the separate self I through the infinite cosmic "I" etc. That's the basic journey.

I think this is called "claiming the moral high ground." If you simply claim you're on the side of The Good, then of course any collateral damage becomes justifiable (i.e. "you can't break an omelet without making eggs.") This is a common motif in witchhunts and moral panics throughout history.

This isn't really anything new and this suggestion that Zoomers are somehow unique in this regard is either journalistic ignorance or deliberate narrative humping. Gen Xers were said to have similar attitudes -- you can watch movies like Reality Bites with Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder from 1994. They were the "slackers." And some of them went to found start-ups or got involved in web 1.0 in the 1990s, to escape the corporate world. And before that you had hippies/Boomers. (Oh, and I forgot about punks in between/late Boomers.)

It depends how granular you want to make it and where you begin. But starting at stable "non-doer" let's say 5 stages with the 5th being the complete dissolution of the thought "I" or unity consciousness. Non-doer is like suddenly there is no separate self center -- but it's a bubble of localized consciousness where the center used to be. Then the localized bubble expands indefinitely, i.e. cosmic consciousness, e.g.

You have to simultaneously do psychotherapeutic work and spiritual work and not treat spiritual work as somehow superior (because it isn't.) Spiritual seeking is fundamentally spiritual bypassing. You can't be like "oh, getting enlightened will automatically solve all my problems." At best, it will make it easier to work on them.

There is no doer but it's sporadic? If that's the case, you're close to a nondual awakening. "No doer" has to become permanent to be in the "first stage."

Aren't you directing judgment towards those people? "Let's judge the judgmental, and that's perfectly ok and I'm not being judgmental" is not a logic I can get behind -- too much spiritual ego. Which is why I don't claim not to judge.

Polls don't necessarily have a lot of meaning because the people being polled aren't necessarily told all the implications stemming from a certain policy. E.g. "Do you think there should be universal free college?" vs. "Do you think there should be universal free college and we pass a 20% value added tax to pay for it?" People like free shit in a fantasy world where such a thing is possible, they don't like paying out the ass for free shit in taxes. So the point is mostly to attempt to bluff at there being more support for a policy than there actually is. The only thing that matters in politics is how the actual vote goes. Polls and news stories are mostly noise.

Green is fine in small doses. You need some environmental regulations and accommodations for the disabled, e.g. At a certain point Green becomes a monster that destroys everything in its path, making a society unlivable. It is notoriously bad at large scale social engineering, like attempting to mandate equality of outcomes (which exists virtually nowhere in nature.)

If you're saying you've reached the stage where there is no subject-object duality (unity consciousness) then the feeling of being out of control will pass after some months. You have to give it some time. There is a period of clean-up that happens and it's not always pleasant. Really, you need to give it a good three years to let all the crap drain out.

Seeing through the separate self is only stage one of the awakening process. And yes, your experience of feeling out of control is typical of reaching this stage. Now you have to see through the localized bubble "no-self" consciousness to go further.

I don't think Twitter is really entitled to the trust of the public after errors of this magnitude (after all the sanctimonious lectures we received for 4 years about "election interference".) What we need is what Musk is apparently offering -- algorithmic transparency, evenhandedness in moderation, and an end to creepy shenanigans such as shadow-banning -- as well as erring on the side of more free speech rather than more moderation.

Think of self realization as uncharted territory, an entirely different framework. So you don't even know if any of your questions make sense in the context of this new framework. Don't put the cart before the horse.

There are some traditions like Bwiti where after several supervised journeys, you can do iboga by yourself. But this is after proper initiations. First and second time experiences can be very frightening.

The most problematic case is the interference in the 2020 election by censoring the NY Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop which was recently confirmed. This is worse than anything "Russia" has supposedly done to interfere with US elections. In essence, a cover up of potential -- even likely -- corruption by a presidential candidate by political partisans. Then, there are cases of simply holding accounts in suspension until they delete "problematic" tweets (such as the Babylon Bee "Man of The Year" joke about the HHS secretary.) So jokes which do not toe the woke orthodoxy line are now an issue? Then there is the more subtle problem of shadow-banning accounts.

As was mentioned above, psychic inflation (i.e. "spiritual ego") is a very common problem and the more you take psychedelics without fully integrating the insights you have received, the worse it gets. At some point you may have serious difficulty functioning in the real world. Also, most young people are just too immature to fully handle the effects. Psychedelics DO NOT automatically make you more mature. This is something that has to happen where you accept feedback from reality, not merely escape into some kind of false sense of expanded consciousness. You still have to live in the real world after your trip, and the temptation for young or immature people is this "I know better than you because I've had cosmic insights on psychedelics" attitude (which is utter self-delusion.)

He is right, though. Taking psychedelics in the right set and setting (i.e. with a shaman) is much safer. LOL. Most people are not morons, they check reviews of others who have been to a psychedelic retreat. It's impossible to get away with that in this day and age. Nothing is a one-size-fits-all deal. Nevertheless smart people pick situations with much better odds of success. If you have a bad trip, you need someone to reassure you and make sure you know how to handle any extreme experience.

Yes, this is why I hate the use of the word "omniscient" on this forum. Like, wtf? You can't be using that word and then say there is more to explore. It's contradictory. (I'm not even saying "don't say omniscient unless you can tell me Monday's Powerball numbers" )

Sports? Relationships? Work? Learning useful skills? Not everything has to be intellectual.

I don't understand why people complain about censorship on the forum. Leo is the owner of the forum and is going to censor based upon his preferences and opinions of how things oughta be. This is not a free speech forum. Leo has particular political and philosophical beliefs and he wants to promote these beliefs. So people who think that's a bunch of crap should stop whining and either find another forum or start their own. Leo follows the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.