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Ask him if he has an uncle who is a rich prince in Nigeria. This probably will solve the situation.

"The greatest obstacle to Enlightenment" is - imo - an awakening that the mind turns into enlightenment and thinks "that's it".

Papaji about siddhis...

These kind of generalizations are not helpful. There are tons of "psychiatrists" and "psychologists" that at least meditate, know what the spiritual path is about and some even are spiritual teachers. And even if they are not, there might be some usefulness for some people for some time.

Adyashanti makes a clear distinction between "no ego" (= beingness) and "no self" (=awareness) though. For him these are completely different things.

totally agree. They should all join our Advaita-SD-Zen-Kriya-Yoga group instead. because there is 0% fundamentalism / belief-system in this forum.

they are probably listening and reading Abraham Hicks.

So I signed up by accident with integrallife.com ($1 for first 30 days) and there is a guy who applied Spiral Dynamics / Integral Model to stages of relationships: Tom Habib. It is quite amazing and eye-opening. It also more or less shows that Pickup-Lifestyle might be at red / purple and is actually caught in pre/trans-fallacy. On integrallife.com: https://integrallife.com/the-predictable-stages-of-growth-in-couples/ https://integrallife.com/the-higher-stages-of-couple-love/ On youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKcEYJUv348

come on. admit it. it's just attention seeking trolling of you, isn't it?

also, maybe you could try niacin (vitamine b3) or cbd oil.

what makes you think so?

says stage blue

@bejapuskas every development goes through the stages. so if you learn an instrument you first have to practice in blueish systematic kind of way. there is no way around it. at least how I understand it.

how would you learn an instrument without going through / accessing stage blue?

@Emerald I vaguely remember that you were a school teacher. You know, education system is very important... do you also see kindergarten and elementary school as "patriarchical" or is it rather "matriarchical"? (My impression was it is more like the female energy is supported and masculine suppressed during that stages of development.)

What you write is classic "Dark Night" stuff imo. You intuitively know that nothing outside is gonna make you happy but a rest of egoic pattern still cling to this idea. Your situation is actually ideal to go deeper. This is the "limbo zone"...

@Nahm In my experience with kundalini symptoms and reiki (2008) is, that reiki is not that great for that. It can even make things worse because the main objective - imo - is to get energy flowing. I'd rather do something that grounds and calms. Yin based yoga, trauma sensitive yoga, maybe even some trauma work like se, narm, tre. And I would go to an Ayurveda dude who could give some hints to help balance the system.

Doesn't Reiki increase energy and the flow? Wouldn't be that the exact thing that worsens the symptoms?

I don't really know... I only read / watched very little on "red pill". But my impression was not that "higher values" are not "online" for the people but somehow because of hurt they closed their heart (or at least tried) and now rationalize that "love" or "commitment" are not important and money, sex, power is what really counts. They probably really don't believe it themselves and secretly yearn for real connection with people and the world. But yeah, was only my first impression.

Red pill is really great because it already shows where on Spiral Dynamics the worldview is. Predominently red (or very unhealthy blue / orange). Preconventional. Concerned with animalistic drives like money, sex, power. No higher values found in the books like "love" or concern for the wellbeing of everyone.

yeah, happens all the time. and is almost impossible to spot without feedback from any legit teacher.

That is not necessarily true. There are different teaching strategies. For example, if someone has an approach like UG Krishnamurti or Karl Renz the "bashing" (or making fun of) includes almost everything and everyone. "Unconditional hate" as Karl likes to say.

If one has Vata as a type this is not a very wise thing to do.