Anton Rogachevski

Ta-Da!

You shouldn't take things as literally. It's a thought experiment that's meant to show you the true implications of open mindedness, that doesn't mean to go at it blindly. Use some intuition, some common sense, some belief.

@dyslexicFcuk What a pleasant read! Thank you for sharing. I totally respect that endeavor and I find it much needed to bring these ideas forward, and taken seriously. Here's my attempt from a slightly different angle: https://antonsjournal.home.blog/2019/01/01/the-mysterious-nature-of-awareness/ Cheers.

Doesn't that imply both duality, and time?

If there are in fact no brains, how can different people have minds?

How can you not see the that you are connecting dots that aren't there. The fact that your dear grandmother did that, and the fact that she also happened to have some twisted ideas about religion are two separate matters. The ideas aren't the problem, it's the way that they are taken by and twisted by the ego mind. The damage of you perusing that logic is an eventual tying of spirituality to mental illness, which would cause people to avoid it in fear of becoming a lunatic. Why would you do that?

@Ingit By what you write it seems like you have a great progress, but you just haven't researched or understood meditation deep enough to see it. Go deeper, and keep at it. Try different techniques until one clicks with you. Keep reading spiritual texts and contemplate them, you need a conceptual framework before you can get into the deeper stages.

Go for it, but be sure it's gonna take a while. My previous teacher said it took him about 10 years, but he did it. (Hard-core yogi master like you can only dream of)

No answer ever is going to satisfy you, when you get it you get it. (Through deep contemplation, and spiritual practice.)

@jimwell Paranoid schizophrenia, with bi-polar episodes, messiah complex. The man is ill, it would be silly to connect spiritual practice as a cause to this, as this is only one case. What if he liked vanilla ice cream, would that make vanilla ice cream dangerous? He clearly didn't understand spirituality conceptually, but only filled his head with a bunch of ideas, which is a sure way to get confused. I guess it takes some sort of spiritual intelligence, and proper mindfulness and contemplation to be able to do it right, which he clearly lacks. Awakening is not psychosis, but the opposite. Psychosis is a result of low-consciousness and compulsive thinking. It is however not far from going crazy, if you looked at it from a psychiatric, mental health close minded and biased paradigm. Just look at the definition of "going crazy". It's losing ones grip on reality, but what if there was no such thing in the first place. The fear of going crazy is close to the fear of death, which is a loss of oneself and ones' existence. As a matter of fact, there's not any other way to be sane, but through deep spiritual practice.

@Andrewww If you become conscious of the fact that all the kids and people are already you, what use is there to make more? There's quite enough as it is if you'd asked the planet. Besides if you dedicate your life to a goal you are passionate about and could contribute to society, it's better not to waste that talent on raising children. Although it's my current, view, I'm open to the fact that I might be wrong, and there's something I'm missing. For example if you raised a kid in a high conscious manner you might create a new and powerful leader that would transform man kind.

@ElvisN That's about as far as you can get using thought. He pretty much didn't say anything at all, which comes pretty close.

@Septicaema Thank you dearly for your incredible reply, and for sharing. It seems your journey took you very deep, and it's beautiful. Cheers.

Hello dear Actualizers, I have yet more intriguing questions for you, Contemplating the role of Self-Destructive behavior, it really doesn't make sense for such a phenomenon to exist, given that evolution is plucking behaviors which aren't favorable to the survival of a certain species. 1. Does self-destruction appear anywhere else in nature? 2. What's its role in the great scheme of things? There is of course the chance that evolution hasn't yet completed it's work in eliminating it. My guess is that it's thus saying: "You're no longer needed, destroy thyself." It's also apparent that when there's toxic matter in a body it's limited in its ability to awaken, so another possibility is that it's the devil's work in trying to prevent us from awakening. (Which is pretty fucking clever.) Please let us hear your insights : )

How to destroy that which doesn't exist?

Which raises an even better question: Is awakening self-destruction? It certainly isn't in the same way as smoking is.

@Recursoinominado You are describing neti neti. (not this not that) The point is detaching from all to get to a point of total detachment - shunyata, which in turn will go full circle into everything, at which point you realize you are indeed all that you see, but to get it you must first see that you are also not it. You are also both and many more facets, It's a strange loop. You are doing some fine introspection here. Keep at it, and godspeed.

Hello dear forum dwellers, How are you these days? I have an interesting subject for contemplation for you: Did you ever realize a facet before reading about it or hearing about it? Leo did talk in the second part of the video about the fact that dogmatic students only get a partial awakening because they are only shown one or two facets by that specific teaching. That leaves me wondering about the correlation between having an idea about a certain facet, and then experiencing it, or could it not be related? That opens the door to a phenomenon of belief manifesting as a facet while actually being "just" a belief. (Obviously belief has a powerful role, or perhaps the sole role in creation.)

@MAYA EL It's not necessarily bad, on the contrary, it could say something important about the role of belief and studying concepts as a way to awakening, which many times gets shunned by smart-ass "gurus".

@Leo Gura Truth is a beautiful no-thing indeed. Very good point which resolves basically all questions there could be. Although contemplating god has had some brilliant results for me - I've reached a conscious connection with it. It has became obvious and intuitive to speak and pray to god, which was far from viable before entertaining such notions.

You have been mentioning lately that I'd imagined the sun into existence. Isn't that so?

@Leo Gura So you're basically saying there isn't a correlation?

While this is true, some extreme versions of Green create a strong resistance and repulsion to below stages. So it's best to subtly integrate and talk about green from a perspective that's still viable and acceptable to orange.

@brugluiz @Leo Gura First of all dear Leo, let me quote you: "Unless you slept with 30 or more women you will be a pussy." (How to be Man Part 1) Yes Toxic Masculinity is a real problem, and it's a result of a collective Blue Pilled mind. Only if you don't understand the true nature of women, can you be angry and hold grudges at them, only then will you be filled with hatred and act with violence. (Which is extremely silly, since both are two parts of the same species and they depend on each other, which is hard to admit.) Look for ways to bring peace love and consciousness to every domain of life, that's Positive Masculinity. Seek unity and not division. Please don't pile all groups into one narrow judgmental category without a deep objective look into them.

@Spiral Good arguments. Since the human will cause more harm to the environment, it's better to save the ant. (As crazy as that may sound.)