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We can compare them because we are still Human Beings, really the only thing that has changed since my Grandfather was young is the technology and way of communicating, we have the internet (endless source of info and entertainment), they had radio's. My Grandfather had desires, I have desires, I make money, they made money, its not really that different, this whole thing about diversity and such is only because more ppl from differing cultures are living today than before, but that was there too in more mild forms... As well this generation is most comfortable and convenient generation ever, our survival process is more guaranteed today than ever, if not for the ideology of profit, then no one would be starving or lacking in the basics of life in the world...but there is more emotional suffering going on than ever, the generations before were too concerned with surviving to have the same sort of suffering we have today, at least in the west.. Ideologies have changed yes, but there has always been ideologies around, ppl telling you about life and so called truth, the only cool thing is the real stuff is out there too to balance things off a bit, but its a losing battle I think...

Yes, same on Youtube but the empowering stuff is not getting the hits like the disempowering stuff, massive brain/mind conditioning to keeps us in survival mode is working!!

Yes, that is why Sadhguru hangs around with these types, he said if he had the most powerful politicians and businessmen for focused time over 4 days he could change the world, but that hasn't happened yet, but he gets critized for it, go figure lol.. I hope that we are still here by 2100, I don't know for sure, even if we are would the society be worth living in the way this wokeness has gotten into the world like it has, at work in the mens washroom there is a despinser for tampons lol, what is the world coming too:)

Wasting Your time on social media, scrolling pics and short vids, turning 30 and still not experiencing for real what is what, that is low brain functionality in my book...by the time I was 30 I had already bought my own car, or two of them, taught Martial Arts for many years, travelled a bit, had a few relationships, broken heart and so forth, today the young ones are reading about it and watching it..

Yes for sure, its a natural survival level instinct coming out intellectually. In the span of time overall we humans and earth are just a spec, flash of light coming and then gone.. but for now, being here we care about where we are in life and the quality of it, so time is always about perspective and is subjective in nature, as it what we care for and the interests we have...

I think this depends on the person, I look at young ppl today and I don't see too many smart ones, they are all addicted to their phones, and think data input from social media or other sources is the key aspect of life, but none of those sources are telling You any truth, just repeating stories with hype to create drama for the dopamine hit and that they come back for more to make $$. I'm older than most here, but I've always been curious and a researcher as well as someone that does the work when super interested in something, so it depends... It must be somewhere in the food or air or something that many older folks get dementia and other such things, my parent both lived over 80 and had no such problems, they had active lives, kids, businesses, volunteering, social events, etc,, but others get it and are fucked afterwards, must be genetics and combination of things..

Kids, Grandkids, exposing it, talking about it maybe due to chance of changing it and preventing it...

The word Soul is very misconstrued word in today's culture, like everything nowadays everyone is making up their own definitions of words and meanings and creating individualistic ideologies that only separate them from others and everything, a sign that the intellect (dissecting tool that separates things for us to understand) is in charge. Better to use a word like Life, Source, Grand Intelligence, Brahman, Divine..Basically Soul is the Life you have capatured within You, we are embodied beings, living in a dual material world, but have the ability to be One with everything as an Experience and everyday foundational one. Wrapped around the Soul/Life, are Shealths, the Food, Mental, Energy, Etheric and Bliss shealths, what keeps it all together is Your Karmic Substance, its like Glue, when You die Physically, what travels to the next body is the Energy, Etheric and Bliss body which encapsulate the soul/life, which is why You are born with certain karmas/tendencies to work out in this life time, but we are born with Free Will or the possibility/potential of it and much more, we can be Conscious beings and not be bound by our physicality, or karmic substance, if You get this far (Enlightenment) then You may lose Your individuality and go back to Oneness realm and Brahman or Shiva nature (Shiva means "that which is not")

Try creating a space btwn your thinking Mind and what is You, I find this too be a great way to look at it. It took millions of Years for our Brains/Minds to be this way, but we are suffering it not making good use of it, so rather than completely shutting it down and becoming numb, just turn down the volume a bit on it, by creating space, observe it, then focus on what is doing the observing.. Our Culture is super conditioned and they want You to be over thinking, over stressed, too busy to realize what is happening in our human world, its horrible, but there are solutions to it..try this Kryia practice, its only a 12 min practice, help a lot!!

@MellowEd In the West anyways, we are brought via the Christian tradition, my generation was, and all the ones before it, so we have a general idea and conditioning about Hell, Heaven, God and such things, so this conditioning is very much a part of the culture, and ingrained in ppl's minds and subconcious, so when they have this sort of experience it comes out sounding the same, but Hell, Heaven its all within YOU, the experience itself happened within You, take some dmt and You trip into Heaven and Loving experience, trip on something else and it brings you to Hell experiences, its all about what is possible, and Free Will, decide what You want to Live in...

Yes the ultimate reality is that of Oneness, no individuality present there, no duality...

Many Yogis have studied Jesus and Christianity, from what I gather the holy spirit is Kundalini, Life Force that all of Us have but is not being utilized very much in our everyday lives, its "coiled" like a spring waiting to open up in the area of our perineum (Muladhara Chakra). If Food and Sleep are the base quality of Your life then that is where the Kundalini is, as You experience more intensity in Life the Kundaline rises to the other chakras, until is reaches the top of the head Sahasrara or Crown Chakra, now You have full Realization/Enlightenment, One with Everything in Your Experience... I've never experienced Spirits/Ghost per say, but as with everything there are levels to Reality and Existence, from Gross to Subtle, so the inbetween part is where Ghosts/Spirits reside, after physical death something remains they say...

I'm not fighter, they are born, killer instinct is something everyone is born with but Fighters have it more intensely and its always on in a way. I've studied Martial Arts for long time now (Wing Chun) concentrating mostly on one system and the variations that exist within it, but I'm a researcher so have watched and read about all sorts of fighters. You have Your Bruce Lee's, he just loved it, he fought allot of street fights and challenge matches, maybe it was an adrenline rush for him, but he loved it plain and simple, but he rather be a movie star than prize fighter..Ali, not sure he loved to fight, but was a natural, unbelieveable skills both defensively and offensively, but in the end he did if for Money I think...Royce Grace had some 400+ fights, I think he did it for family honor and to prove his fathers methods (GJJ) worked against all comers..Tyson for sure did it for fame and money, but he had great natural talent, he looked like a mean ahole, but he was scared as hell walking into the ring on all the occassions.. So fighting is on many levels, Survival like ppl have said, for Glory (think Rocky 3), for self respect (think Rocky 1), for redemption (think Rocky 2), in a small way its a spiritual challenge, it brings you too physical exhaustion, and mental fatigue and limits taking pain and dealing with losing and pride issues, for sure not the weak of mind or body...

Ditto...

@numbersinarow For explaination, there are two ways to explain Consciousness, there is Consciousness on a cosmic scale, that is anothe name for God, Brahman, Source, Grand Intelligence and so forth, this is what was there before the big bang.. Then there is individual consciouness, this is how intense Your Awareness and Perception of Life is. We have individual Bodies and Minds, we live in a Dual Physical world and universe but we have the capability to feel Oneness and Completeness and connect with the Universal Consciousness that I explained before. Spiritual Practices and Sadhana get You there, find a method do it everyday consistently, allow a Guru to come into Your life so it happens within this lifetime and Your set! Every experience You have only happens in one place, within You, so everything is subjective in a way, you are the center of Your Universe, when you go into deep sleep nothing exists for You, but we know there are other bodies/minds and physical world out there, so we have to deal with it. Even physially we are very connected to everything else, the trees and plant life provide 02, the earth provides food, the stuff we buy is put together by other humans, so we are connected on that level in millions of ways, we are not independent of it even on the physical level..

This is one of the first videos that really got me on to Sadhguru, he just explains it like no other. Here someone asks if Mediation/Yoga is like a Brain Exercise or something, Sadhguru explains that when You get something or achieve a goal what happens next? You want more, this is desire in action, Desire is Life, without it there is no Doing, but in the end You what You want out of everything, Love, Success, Money, Fame, posting a response, is Bliss, Bliss is not an Emotion, but a State of Being where Your Intensely Pleasant on the levels of Body, Mind, Emotion and Energetically which is the most important, when Your energies are highly intense, active and alive, then Your in Bliss. Its been proven that when in Bliss states vs Depressed states, everything about You works better, more creativity, more clarity, more intelligence, more of everything that makes Life worth living, it opens up Possibility and Potential. Good Video, he basically explains that whole reason why You want to do Yoga and follow a Sprititual Life Path.. https://dai.ly/xij335

Your Muladhara or Root chakra located at the perineum is always open at birth, the quality here is food and sleep, if that is the quality of Your Life, then that is where the Kundalini is rooted in, to raise it up first You need a constant state of Peace within Yourself, to do this some mental steps are 1) Accept all that is as it is (this lowers the stress response so that it does not happen in your life), 2) Live Now, get wise from the past, plan for the future but don't live in these places in your mind b/c they don't exist, so focus on Now experiences and presence, 3) Respond vs React, Responding corresponds with being Conscious in Your Awareness.. After getting those down, try Isha Kriya, its a simple sadhana or spiritual practice, takes around 12 min to do, do it twice a day for at least 40 days straight then as much as You want afterwards, this will get You to place of Peace for sure, after that try Isha's Inner Engineering program that will finish the job...

From Ian Bremmer, looks like we are f'd no matter what we do. Our systems of everything have to change, education, political, economical, cultural, everything has to transform or every year will look worse than the prior...slightly different outlook than Zehan who basically says we will be alright here in the west compared to most everywhere else in the world!

Who's the Youtube guru? Do some research!!! Now the person that started this forum more fits that description:)

The Spiritual path is all about this but its not about a Conversation, its about the Realization of what we are, so Realization is the important part. Once You touch Your Bliss Body, as a part of the 5 shealth (Earth, Mental, Energetic, Etheric, Bliss Bodies), then Your intouch with a part of that aspect, they call it Bliss body because it is non physical aspect, and You as an embodied individual living on a dual material planet, and being a Human Being, You can make this the fondation of Your Experience by identifying with, because that is You...So conversation is limited and low level, Experiencially Bliss is the language of God or Creation/Creator...

Agreed, dream, reality, imagination, on some levels its all the same, when You realize all experience happens only within You, nothing happens outside of You, then what is Real? Is the vivid dream You had last night real? Yes it is in your subjective experience which is really all You have, another does not have this specific dream like You but they have their own with the same intensity hopefully:) So the basic problem is ppl begin to intellectualize everything, intellect is a cutting and descernment tool good for Survival but not go to go beyond Survival level of Perception and Awareness, and they go on a dmt trip feel oneness, come back intellectualize it and feel they are God, but which God are you, India alone has 33 million lol..., So this is Karma in play, your filters are on all the time, you filter what is going on within You because You are identified with things You are not, once You deal with that, Identify with the cosmos per say, then all of this goes away, a simple Sadhana, then the Chakras open up by themselves in a healthy way..

Good video and basically in line with the ideas I mentioned in my posts before about Resource Based Economy, its not a uptopian concept but just a way of living that is radically different from the way we are living now and have been since the industrial revolution. Ppl will not have to work like they have worked for thousands of years, today we are just cogs in wheels of the corporate power structure, are born to be that? No imo... Here Sadhguru talks about AI, basically what the fella said in the video, and how to deal with it and live a magical life:) Note this video was made over 5yrs ago...

@Davino To put it simply, the shadow, the unconscious mind, the unknown and making it come into knowing, you do this by not going into it, but by going beyond it. Any sort of recollection or review of past, which all that stuff is based off of is unnecessary, unless You are not at the point where Spiritual Sadhana has an impact on you. Peace is 0 on the scale of empowering emotions or states of Being, Ecstasy is 10, for anything below Peace one is not in a stable enough place for spiritual sadhana, if someone is not at a point where during their days there is no sense of Peace, it is akin to someone in a deep intense search for food, there's no point in talking about Spirituality to ppl in this condition, first they have to find food, or Peace in this context. When someone is so messed up in their mind stuff then spirituality is not yet for them, first get that right, get to a stable platform of Peace. In Sadhguru's Inner Engineering course, there are many tools for one to get to a point of Peace, via Acceptence and Response Ability and other tools learned in the first 6 lesson, and when that is gained then one can begin a spiritual path per say, until then, its all mind work, ego discovery and things of this nature which imo are not real or true spiritual work, just as we are not talking about Spirituality here, we are talking around it. Think what You want about Sadhguru and what he is or is not, at least he admits all the talking, interviews and events are circus, as well at least he shares methods and technologies for one to get to a point of gradual Realization, whereas Leo, Watts, Tolle, Spira and many others just talk, their whole game is talking, if your into talking and think this is the be all end all then good luck:)

This forum is sort of schizophrenic, first You have ppl proclaiming to be God and God/Love is everything, nothing else exists lol, then the exactly opposite, God is not Involved and we are all in a hell scape of sorts... Too much over thinking, not enough real experience and deep understanding, not saying I am there totally and completely, but once You have a true understanding and experience of Oneness You can't go back, yeah things in this world suck big time, on so many levels of chaos and suffering, but there are miracles happening everyday too. I hope the ppl of the world see and realize the miracles more. first start with the miracle within Yourself, then that is a starting place to make change, but its hard at times I know, been there and done that...

I thnk if Your looking for any sort of psycoanalysis then on that level you may be correct, but Spirituality, or Higher Consciousness which is what this section of the Forum is about, is not psycoanalysis, its not about trying to fix Your Mind/Thinking/Thought process and become a good citizen that goes to work regularly, doesn't cause societal problems, pays taxes on time and lower stress and simple feeling of wellbeing, Spirituality is about none of that, because Mind is not You, these thoughts we are expressing here are not us, are basically meaningless, its just a sharing platform and a simple starting point for those interested to go further in their lives than where they are now. Spirituality is about Your Potential, Living beyond Mind and Body, experiencing the Miracle that happens every moment within You and everything alive, Free Will and so forth. I have no need to argue or debate, we each have an Understanding and Path to follow so too each their own...