Nilsi

All of language is just a story, so what? It's still a good pointer.

Dude, this is beyond reason and logic. You can not point to any other when it comes to awakening.

It's game-over. The bitter pill to swallow here is that ultimately there is only one consciousness that can be awake unto itself.

I don't see anybody claiming awakening (if so, it's bs).

It's not "Leo's concept," it's the proper use of the word awakening and it's also not an infinite regress.They are probably talking about some kind of no-mind state or whatever, which sure you can meassure, but that's not awakening.

I am not awake right now, yet everything still exists. Being conscious of yourself as God is an important experience, but it's the kind of thing you'd rather forget about after the fact.

It tells you nothing that is relevant about the actual experience. Awakening is beyond neuroscience, that's nothing new. I love science myself, but I'd rather be honest about it's limitations.

Come on man, you know that kind of reductionism doesn't tell you jack shit about absolute reality. I understand what they are saying, but that's not what awakening (or God-realisation) actually refers to.

Lol. Awake as in you're conscious that you're God.

https://www.complexityexplorer.org/ They have great free introductory lectures about complex systems. Also just type in "systems thinking goodreads" or "complex systems goodreads" into Google and you will get enough book recommendations for the rest of your life. As far as "options" for you life purpose go, you can basically work in whatever field you want and approach it from a complex systems/holism paradigm.

As far as his original works go Chomsky's pretty good, but his commentary on contemporary politics and technology etc. sucks ass.

The point is that noone is awake, else we couldn't have this conversation. Neither Leo nor Ralston nor anyone else is awake. Awakening is not something that you can attain and keep; either you are awake or you are not - everything you see in these gurus are just extraordinary degrees of consciousness/development or whatever the fuck you wanna call it.

Calling yourself awake or enlightened, as these spiritual gurus do, is a completely arbitrary and deceptive statement. God is always beyond your finite little existence, no matter how "spiritual" you think you are.

Can you shape and animate your shapes at will though?

This is too funny

Its not wrong, but its not the highest form of competition. I recommend you read the book "Finite and Infinite Games" by James Carse, if youre interested in healthy competition.

Wut That's a plot twist if I've ever seen one. What does Ralston have to do with this all of a sudden?

Healthy competition is not to compete over something, but competing just for the sake of being a great competitor.

Thats just evolutionarily adaptive behavior (for obvious reasons), so girls are hardwired to be attracted to the kind of guy that would win these fights (because he would provide her offspring with the genes to win these fights and in turn spread her genes). So either find a conscious girl that has transcended her attraction dominant guys (if you do, please tell me where you found her) or become dominant without fucking anyone else over (i.e. have game).

Sure, he seems to lump some things together, that don't necessarily have to go together. You could call it holistic though and I think there is a strong argument for not being so anal about keeping these things separate.

I would consider the whole "you have to become a cup of tea to understand consciousness," as "psychonautics," but his emphasis on becoming more intelligent and conscious is just pushing the envelope on human evolution/development, which I personally find very intriguing and don't really see anyone doing on such a high level (maybe Schmachtenberger, but he's really covert about it). I guess good old spirituality by the likes of Eckhart Tolle or Rupert Spira transcend all this "seeking," but it's also rather boring and stale.

Thats crazy. I dont get there through meditation at all, but contemplation works quite well for me.

That line is not clear to me at all.

The first thing I thought of when I read freak of nature was Danny Carey lol. He is just built different. But yeah, those are some big hands, holy shit.

You dont understand what hes talking about, thats all.