Keryo Koffa

I don't follow the news enough to have a large enough picture of his parenting beyond the few public sensationalist media posts you can expect any popular person to get slandered by. Oh well Not sure why we care so much, is it because he's a high-tech visionary, that we expect him to be more spiritually evolved? Like I get we are in the age of public figure slander normalization. But how exactly is focusing the light through a magnifying glass to burn an ant exactly gonna raise our consciousness or uncover something meaningful?

Our history has been quite a struggle. The evolution through spiral dynamics stage red, blue, and orange, all expressed in hypermasculinity: war, ideology, and materialism. Stage green was so heavily demonized when it finally opened the door to integrate the feminine. Despite all the ego games and distractions, we are making progress. It takes much to override our programming and the endlessly expanding house of cards that is academia with its take on determinism, logic, and objectivity, prescribing how to live and how to be. As my past self noted: "You seek what you lack". And in this context, feminine traits are looked down upon, creating a split in the psyche. The way many seek to reconcile it is by externally "conquering" the other gender, being naturally attracted to these characteristics they aren't allowed to express themselves. Envying such freedom and rationalizing anger and one's circumstances by believing them to be objectively necessary and a "selfless" sacrifice. All of this manifests itself in confused attraction since what you desire is to be free and whole, meanwhile feeling attracted to the other gender.

At some point we start wondering "what isn't ego" and so there's the path of full-integration or annihilation Depending on if we define ego as a limitation of conscious experience or resistance towards authentic desire Good post!

More like a toroidal field that keeps replenishing itself over and over again But don't you worry, the ego doesn't last Not forever Probably! Eh, you'll get over it!

If there is no self, then we don't exist and so there's nothing that doesn't have free will, so we all have free will

I had a nested dream once, where I looked into the mirror and moved around seeing it reflected, but then I could hardly keep up and I felt more weighty, I was scared of the reflection becoming autonomous and so tried to continue and mirrored it until I couldn't, then I looked at it as it moved when I stopped, its eyes having turned into a black void, until one of us shrieked and so I woke up, twice!

This definitely has potential, that's for sure! Princess Arabia bambi I just discovered ❄ (˵¯͒〰¯͒˵) ❄ another Infinity Infinite Schemas in cool formats, because why not, I want ego credit

@bambi It's fine now, after all this time, how could I still be angry? Been growing lots in the past few months and learning how to react and interact was part of it. It's really fun and "enlightening" being here. Treat it as a squabble among siblings

@Princess Arabia As they tend to say: Now was that filmmakers or non-dualists saying that I don't even know anymore Hey, look at the cool formatting I just discovered, ain't that cool? Only visible on desktop (mode) though

With Yimpa and Leo I was refering to yesterday's/today's thread, nuwu somewhere at some point, PA here And as for me, it's right here, I got way too heated, though you did ignore everything I would say

In essence, overlaying images and also this:

@bambi I used to get triggered, now I'm really enjoying this! Both for the genuine discussion and deep dive into biases as much as the comedy of interaction and internet history! I think doing an AI narrated and meme music infused comedy sketch on comment exchanges in a youtube video or bog style format would overdo it though, so I'll leave it at that for now! lol

@Princess Arabia Click on your profile picture, profile opens, click picture, drag to desktop, open photoshop (in my case krita), add text, choose color white, bold italic, write text, get a picture of a book on google images, drag to desktop, have all three open as layers, use transform tool to stretch your pic and the text over the book, use ward tool to select and delete the background, export as png, drag to reply, click, post, wait for your reaction

@Princess Arabia Are you kidding? Bambi is way too serious about this work! There's no way he's gonna stalk one person only, each of us is getting dozens of dedicated rants that holistically add up at least a book each, not accounting for sequels and crossovers! Chapter 2: The Downfall of Yimpa's cheekiness Chapter 3: Not even Leo is Safe from his Wrath Chapter 4: Keryo, the Nonsense Singularity Chapter 5: nuwu, the eccentric know-it-all

@Andrea Bianca As above, so below. Just like building habits, changing patterns and moving places, it takes awareness, will and dedication to transcend all that causes homeostatic push back. Imagine you have your favorite playlist and you browse the site for new songs, many you don't really like, you look for similar ones to your favorites, but changed up, remixed. Now imagine enjoying every random song to full intensity just as much as your favorites. On one hand, it's great, on the other, you feel a bit uneasy, since now you feel the next step is to delete your old playlist, because it keeps you from listening to new songs and doesn't matter anymore, yet you have so many meaningful memories synchronized with it. That's identity and meditation is raising awareness and finding contentment, unravelling the ego and being fine with whatever comes your way. In a way, meditation is a prerequisite, in another, you can choose any yogic practice or create your own sadhana because again: As Above, So Below. Lessons learned on one plane, will be shared on others to varying degrees and a lifelong dedicated master to one practice is as if not more far more formidable than a jack of all traits. And so finally, everything spiritual is meditation. Now, if refer to meditation as the calm sitting quiet activity only, then some will, others will find it difficult, depends on your temperament/style. Permanence though is very tricky, apparently nothing is permanent, but does that apply to God, I wouldn't even know.

I think lots of positions here are well encapsulated in this old post, including @Salvijus' intentional "start end repeat":

@stephenkettley and because you're everything and everyone and god can do whatever feels like, there is no problem with that!

@James123 I did actually notice that before, just fail to "embody" it. Had whole posts dedicated to that. *self-contradictory* lol

@OBEler Hmmm! I guess that puts some of my puzzle pieces together! So there are layers of reality, above us the NDE/spirit/soul realm that transcends out 3d-space-time universe and then there is the "somewhat" locked in and homeostatic experience that we are currently living that has certain boundaries that are hard to breath and that we form our lives in. And lucid dreaming would not be "real" infinity, but more so an expanded ego experience based on our current karma, desires and imagination that we collected over our lives, connected creatively in imagination. But the difference would be that imagination would be limited to this "manas as sadhguru would call it" and there are "hyperreal" dimensions of actuality beyond this one that aren't just imaginary self-created dream scenarios. Even if all is made from the same substrate...

But isn't zero also a portal to infinity? You know, inflection points and all... also, I thought non-existence doesn't exist to even be included, yet what is 0? Nothingness, but a substrate nothingness instead of a non-existence nothingness? Is there nothing behind 0 that makes it so? Trippy!

I've heard much and am experientially (though placebo self-bias might limit me here) inclined to think that LSD has the longest tolerance, with 2 weeks+, while 4-HO tryptamines seem to be closer to 5-10 days of tolerance, relatively speaking, sometimes less, not sure about 5-mipt. DMT and 5-Meo/Malt are reported to have really short tolerance, likely due to their [short duration]? Though I wonder if that's also the case with Ayahuasca and how its tolerance compares. @Asia P Anyway, if it's non-lsd psychedelics and you have a window open, a week is enough and 10+ is plenty to recover, unless you need to psychologically integrate the experience, but you'd know if that was the case

@Breakingthewall @James123 I did notice a while ago that it's easier to understand without thinking: like it's literally more taxing to be confused than to get it, humorously enough, though it is anti-climactic to the *non-existent (apparently anyway)* ego.

It's not a competition, it's a mystery novel where the author forgot the plot. Now we're a reality TV show with zero prize money and we're all juggling egos. Tomorrow, it'll be a scavenger hunt for common sense and every day a quiz show where the answers keep changing. Sorry, I'm turning into Yimpa, I'll stop, I promise

@OBEler What about lucid dreaming?