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Is it just an excuse for a spiritual arrogance and label for difficult children who are non-conformists because of the way their parents didn't attend to them when they needed? Or is it legit? What do you guys think?

@Beyond Words Have you thought about education? It seems you have a very broad interest in many fields and at the same time you are very creative. Creating a new educational system where there is more conscious effort put into "what you're teaching" would fit your statement and abilities imo.

Today I had a deep realization of timelessness. I heard Allan Watts talking about time being rather a social institution and I my logical mind agree with it. But today I realized that reality doesn't care about time. There is just the present moment that is infinitely deep, in which everything takes place. Freaky experience kinda. haha

@meditach Don't worry. The path of meditation is often unclear, often it seems like you are going backwards. But chill. Trust the process.

@meditach The trick is not getting lost in the ideas, but rather observing them. That's mindfulness. Concentration is a whole different thing. Check out Leo's videos on meditation (especially the guided one), that should give you a gist of what the goal of meditation should be! :-)

@Natura Sonoris Have you seen his rant against PUAs?

@meditach Concentration meditation is a good start, but the effects aren't too great. It is easier for building the habit, but once you've established it, I don't see a point in it. See it as two levels - concentration would be the newbie entrance point, mindfulness meditation would be the higher level. Once you are comfortable with doing 30minutes + with just mindfulness meditation, go for just that and ditch the old concentration meditation, it would only make matters go longer. It would basically become a form of resistance to the process of emotional catharsis.

@Azrael Indeed. I have never considered myself to be a truth-seeker, I tend to have fun on the middle grounds of spirituality with emotions, subconsciousness, relationships and metaphysics. Indigo is in this area, and I feel like I fall into that category. But I tend to shy away from it in fear of falling into an arrogant standpoint "I am different than everyone else, I am THE NONCONFORMIST, YOU ALL LOSERS CANT SEE THE WORD LIKE MHEEEE OH YOU PEASANTS! BOW!" =D. ... like the video on indigos from JP sears! =D.

Sup dudes. Do you think our western system is approaching an inevitable fail, and there will be an opportunity to create a new system from the ashes of the old one? Trump, Terrorism, Media, mainstream food, animal torture, nuclear energy booming, Putin, the passive hippies "spreading love all around" , individual suffering, underdeveloped educational system, oppression of children and other groups, suppressive culture and we could go for days... All of this just seems to create a lot of chaos and conflict. Do you think there is a huge fail ahead?

@WaveInTheOcean Oh. My vision includes loads of people dying, just because there are some lost cases who I cannot imagine rising to higher consciousness. (But of course there would be casualties, I could be among those). But in the end, as there will be a conflict that will create a lot of pain and death, a sort of chance for a utopian post apocalyptic world could happen.

@Pramit Oh ok, so your view is the "we are doomed". I disagree, but heck it's totally legit =D. I just choose to be optimistic.

@Epiphany_Inspired Oh there totally can be a catalyst from the outside. Look at what leo's doing. He's a catalyst for many.

@aurum The thing that won't go off my mind is Eckhart Tolle's views on it. He always talks about dissolving the ego fully, not coming back to it. When I think about it though, it would be hella difficult to live in a western world without being able to play a "game of ego".

ENFP, it is freakishly accurate.

Illuminati thumbnails confirmed, Robot world domination, humanity ending through the evil of mindfulness.

Any suggestions? It is a field I am now probably gonna dive into for a decade or so. I will start with The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology. You guys have any other ideas? :-)

@Bob84 The mere existence of this thread came from ego. As well as the comment you just quoted. As well as my answer to it. but its ok, I am nowhere near enlightened! :-)

I was just about to type "this is what happens when the ego wins". But then I realized that I am putting my ego on a pedestal over his ego. So... even though he gave me good laughs, he is still a great hooman, only on a different path.

So like... was Gandhi trying to escape his childhood as well?

tbh I feel like the "law of attraction" side of personal development just stinks with greed and the need to rely on external circumstances for happiness. Funny enough is though that you will grow out of this phase if you keep growing. Then be one of the wiser ones and rush through this phase, see beyond its flaws! :-)

Like I understand that you can be religiously dogmatic and all that. But how do you just go about "only Jesus can save us". I mean... cut him some slack! He gotta be busy with savin us all, and he has gotta do it by himself. Poor Jesus.

@DimmedBulb MIndfulness meditation seems like a must. Just build a habbit and persist until it sticks (spoiler alert, after your purification begins, it gets crazy, after the crazy stops, meditation starts being a bliss.)

@DimmedBulb Just do mindfulness. Train it. Practice it. It is a skill that can can by itself dig you out of your situation, step by step, slowly, day by day.

@DimmedBulb Pain body reaction? Well, pain body is screaming "hey, I need to save her, if I don't save her I am worthless."

@DimmedBulb Thats great, brilliant timing, now lets get found. (Just to paint a picture for you, this can take perhaps 2 years of purifying your ego, but let me tell you, once you get to higher stages of this game of life, damnit is that a whole new fun stuff,