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WeCome1 replied to Vlad_'s topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Well, I hope it works out, take care. It's actually a (long) walking distance from where I live - careful with assumptions! Also, given current circumstances, I probably would rather want to get tf out, not in -
WeCome1 replied to Vlad_'s topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
THIS ^^^ /thread -
WeCome1 replied to Vlad_'s topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Well, since nobody asked, I like to think about psychedelics as rocket fuel. You can be 10 times Michael Jordan - but you simply are never going to jump into space to explore it. You need fuel to, well, fuel a rocket and launch it into space. However, fuel (and the rocket) is not the only thing needed, is it? You need a bunch of astronaut training, some insane levels of mathematics for navigation etc etc to explore space strategically. All these other things are, of course, what that "other spiritual work" provides: control during the trips, correct interpretation of your insights (exactly what your today's question was about) etc. Or you could, of course, simply launch the rocket into the void and see where that gets you. You get the idea. That is good, but not exactly what I asked about. I meant some deliberate practice of connecting with your body and this "consensus reality" in MEANINGFUL ways. I'll explain: Yes you are, and yes you will. As the Infinity. But, as Vlad, as this particular instance of the Infinity, you are going to live out the rest of your apparent life, and that's it. And you will live most of it in the states of consciousness much closer to the "ordinary" ones than to "absolute" ones, you will not take the realization of your God Nature beyond your current "life". This here is something of a "base camp", something familiar, a place to regroup and restore power. It is valuable. And the insights you get during peak experiences are really only as valuable as what you make of them HERE. I mean, the Absolute already realizes its Absoluteness Absolutely right now/always/eternally - I assume you've seen this much; however, it "forgot" - that's why you are searching, right? So, if you are not being "A Strategic Motherfucker" (TM) - you, as Vlad, are simply risking to not explore as far as you would otherwise have. And the Truth isn't going anywhere, it will explore itself through other means. I sincerely urge you to reconsider your assumptions about "other practices". You are unlikely to brute-force your way to the Absolute Truth - it will aikido the shit out of you. -
WeCome1 replied to Vlad_'s topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Vlad, you seem like a real courageous man who sincerely wants the truth - and is smart enough to acknowledge, that this truth is going to be what it is, no matter how you feel about it at this particular moment. The truth isn't going anywhere - but your capability to pursue it efficiently might, if you paint yourself in the corner with your own mental constructs. Are you serious about your integration? Grounding? Do you practice any other spiritual techniques besides tripping balls? It might be productive to chill the F out with "balls to the wall 100 confirmations or until the psyche gets fried, whichever comes first" - and ask yourself: "how did others (Leo, for example), who also appear to have realized the Absolute, overcome that solipsistic shock?" Wouldn't you agree? I mean, really. TRUTH. ISN'T. GOING. ANYWHERE. -
WeCome1 replied to Vlad_'s topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Why not, though? Anything in particular about it that you'd rather NOT be the way it is? -
WeCome1 replied to davecraw's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
God forbid! On a more serious note, though - I recommend this video, it's really one of the best verbal pointers to what you are asking about: That pseudo-solipsistic talk about "who's real and who imagined whom first" is really misleading. However: That's the thing - you don't ask, but it sure looks that way. But not in the sense that "I deny that you ARE HAVING the subjective experience of you asking". Rather, one might say, that "I deny that THERE IS A YOU who is having the subjective experience of asking". It's not about LEO imagining or not imagining you - it's about YOU imagining that there is "someone home" inside your skull having this subjective experience of asking something on the forum. And by "YOU" ("the Big You") we, of course, mean the absolute non-dual consciousness, of which both your and mine and Leo's illusory "bubbles of first-person POV perceptions" are made of. It's imagining all of us. Even more precisely, there is somewhere within its infinite potential, forms that appear to look like our subjective lives. Or something -
WeCome1 replied to davecraw's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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It's really hard to grasp the full scope of this issue if you haven't grown up in the Soviet or Post-Soviet country; even the experts of top-tier western press struggle with this - it is obvious that they simply lack the cultural/mentality context. They also lack nuance in understanding the real structure and distribution of power in Russia; and how the Soviet legacy determined what we see today; "siloviki and oligarkhs calling the shots" is a bit of a naive view. I suppose, that this holds true for any country: I'm sure you can think of many examples where some issue from your own country is naively misrepresented in foreign press/analytics due to the lack of context. That said, we do have a guy who is in the position to answer our question exhaustively (great guy btw, highly recommend him on the topics of Russian economics and politics). The answer is in Russian, and there are no English captions, but I'll translate the main talking points: Challenge #1 - Legitimacy: if someone were to to attempt to take power, they would have a very hard time convincing anybody in Russian government/power structures to obey. The main de-facto power structure that determines foreign and domestic politics presently is the Security Council of Russia - and it is barely even constitutional; and - needless to say - completely under Putin's control; the current legislation is crippled beyond repair in terms of checks and balances. Moreover, throughout the years, Putin meticulously weeded out anybody in the government with any semblance of free will; those that are left today are either completely loyal, or politically impotent, or, in most cases, both. The simple fact is that there is currently no person, group or structure that commands enough legitimacy to attempt a coup; and even if there were - most lower-level government and military officials would be too doubtful and afraid to take their side; that's just a cultural/mentality thing that goes waaaay back. Challenge #2 - The power structures (siloviki) are unprecedentedly divided. There is the, more or less, eternal conflict and power struggle between FSB (ФСБ - FSS - Federal Security Service) and the military; and within the military itself, there is also a conflict brewing between the Ministry of Defense and the GenShtab (Генштаб, Генеральный Штаб - General Staff of the Armed Forces); it is basically extremely unlikely that any of them will unite against Putin. Then there is the RosGvardiya (National Guard), which is separate from all of the above, has about 300,000 armed men, and is under the command of general Zolotov, who is Putin's lifelong guard/buddy, is extremely dumb and fiercely loyal. And the cherry on top is this little thing that is rarely mentioned in political commentary outside Russia called FSO (ФСО - Федеральная Служба Охраны - Federal Protective Service) a.k.a. Putin's personal 50,000-men army - extremely secret, extremely loyal, well-paid and motivated, highly influential and placed above all existing laws, commanding virtually unlimited funding and resources, and practically autonomous. It's sole purpose is precisely to protect the president: you want to get to Putin - you have to go through them; and good luck with that. Every piece of analytics on the topic of coup that does not mention the FSO commander general Kochnev can be disregarded. A small side-note: when you take power from Putin, one of the first things you want to do is to cut his communications; guess what - FSO is in charge of all Putin's communication infrastructure, not the army or FSB. Challenge #3 - Everyone fears surveillance. Mother Russia is an actual panopticon: everyone who amounts to anything in terms of power or influence is under total, constant surveillance; and everyone slightly below them in rank has to operate under the assumption that they also are. Putin is former FSB and has always been a total paranoic - so he made a point about building that system right. Two people seriously discussing a coup is extremely risky; the idea of a group of actually powerful people discussing that without Putin being informed within an hour - is absurd; and you can imagine the consequences - so nobody pushes their luck. Challenge #4 - Who would take up such responsibility? It was already mentioned that the current government is devoid of people with initiative, leadership capabilities and any decent level of competence, really. The video was recorded a year ago, and, since then, everyone who is not a parasitic opportunist is either already in jail, or left the country. On the other hand, politically and economically speaking, Russia is currently neck-deep in shit, and this crisis is already going to last at least a generation; and we can't really predict how much worse it will get, one of the important reasons for that being that Russian government is highly compartmentalized, meaning that each branch does not know much about what's going on in the others - and it was designed in this way deliberately. There is nobody in the government/power structures today who would be capable to manage this crisis. Also, anybody who overthrows Putin will have to restore diplomatic relations with the civilized world, which will, among other things, entail putting war criminals through fair trial. Putin made everyone currently in power his co-conspirators at the Security Council's meeting on February 21, 2022 when they unanimously approved the declaration of war.
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As low as you can find - salvia is the one substance you don't want to push your luck with. If you consider yourself a very experienced psychonaut - 10x; if you have any doubts whatsoever - 5x or even lower.
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WeCome1 replied to Rasheed's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Ahem... Do you mind providing ONE example of a non-duality teacher saying that ALL dualities must break? As far as I'm aware, the only duality they ever speak about is subject-object duality (the illusion of an observer perceiving the phenomena that are separate from him). -
Boy do I have a meticulously curated collection of "10/10 personal favorite live performances". It's heavily biased towards female vocals, sue me. Here are some random picks: Igorrr - Tout Petit Moineau (Live at Dour Festival 2014) - o_O Portishead - Roads (Live at Roseland NYC) - What I wouldn't give to see Portishead perform live with an orchestra. Nightwish - Ghost Love Score (Live in Buenos Aires 2012) - Saw them live in 2015. Man, the 9:28 hit me like a freight train. Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke - Sacrifice - They don't make 'em like this anymore...
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Oh god, what a genius movie! It literally put tears of joy in my eyes the first time I saw it, although no one else I discussed it with seems to think much of this "weird crap"; oh well. It's one of the best deconstructions of the anthropocentric paradigm - snaps you right out of it, if you allow it. Alien lifeform's total, brutal disregard for "host's'" life, death, bodily integrity, sanity or suffering results, nevertheless, in forms that we can't help but call beautiful and aesthetic, if a bit (or a lot) grotesque. And this, I think, is a very good illustration of what the Absolute is "up to", to the extent we can even discuss such things: it does not care about meaning, or life, or, really, any one thing in particular - IT JUST. EXPLORES. FORM. And every form it produces is, in its own way, beautiful - though some of them might be more difficult for us to appreciate from our finite perspective. Leo's Quote #006 instantly reminded me of this movie; I wonder if it was inspired by it to some extent.