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I would say this, I've been on the Spiriutal Path for over a decade now, and it has changed me tremendously, and I've gone thru periods where I did the practices and sadhana for years at a time everyday consistently, and times where I did not practice. I'm curious about psychedelics but I would not have used them first off, since I have allot of experience with practices, have a solid foundation, then I think it is safe to just try it and get the grand experience it can give, learn from that for sure and build on it, but to start with it would not be recommended since there is no foundation built up as to what life is, having naturally high consciousness experiences, your own intellectual researching and find of reality and so forth..

For me this is crap, I've been in depressed state over period of time, not just one day but for a few months at a time, would never want that for myself or other, been blissed out too for mths at a time, which much rather have that. The ones that say all experiences are necessary are kidding themselves imo, yes if Bliss is possible, Depression is possible, but it doesn't mean I have to experience depression, just because its available. that is like driving off a cliff because it is there and beside the road lol...

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Guns do not kill ppl, People are the ones killing other people, and life forms like the amazon. Its choice.. What Your talking about is value, we put nukes and other things in safe places because of their value, and we haven't used them much because someone knows or is conscious enough to know their potential to end life, its enormous. So in the end its all about consciousness, if Your unconscious to a high degree then Your a slave to everything, if consciusness raise up the less of a slave You are, if Your totally conscious, then Your destiny is Yours, your internal experience is complete, from that everything you do is a giving, no extraction needed, other than sustaining Your body with nurishment...

The problem is never the Technology, or Invention we create, its You being Unconscious, reacting to it compulsively, and not responding to it Concsiously, everything is a tool, you use it then drop it when not needed, same with Ego complex, you can do this when Your Conscious, when Your complusive it all rules You...

@Mesopotamian Objectively You are correct, this world needs healing, it needs Transformation. We produce enough food for more than 8 billion ppl, but lots of ppl are still starving today. Lots of Homeless ppl around, but there is more than enough resources to get them places to live, many wars going on about who own what land and what resources, but there's plenty of that too, but we still have tons of conflict, no different from cave man days imo and observation. But we live in Subjectivity too, Your world is Yours, everything happens within You, when You go into Deep Sleep, the world does not exist for You, it comes alive when You Wake Up. So all You can do is be the best You, Live to Your highest potential and possibility, Enlightenment is that, so get there anyway you can, then see what You can do for the rest of Us.. Never Suffer anothers suffering, that just adds to the suffering, being Happy in a depressed world is essential, be that..Whatever this world is lacking in, be that and supply more of that, the only way to do that is too not be a part of the problem, being Depressed, Sad, Anxious, Angry, Bitter is part of the problem, be the solution, be Blissed Out, Intensely Alive, Creative, Compassionate, Loving, Devotional, Inspiring, those are the solutions we need..

AI should revolutionize the way society is, it should take the jobs, make it so ppl do not have to do mundane jobs over and over again on a daily basis, or labor jobs, what we need is for AI to manage our resources, make better choices that are not polictically or emotionally motivated which is the human disease of not being Conscious and not see others as Yourself, Yourself as Others. Check out Jacque Fresco, he's passed now, but he was an Inventor and had been around for Years promoting his idea of Resource Based Economy, where tech/AI would manage the worlds resources in a better way so all could be provided for, everything would be essentially free, but this is not socialism or communism, its a different set up, tech/AI would design better cities, better transportation systems, medical and educational systems, so that we could explore our creativity and true purposes in Life rather than being slaves to the dollar and other things...

Don't Love Life, that indicates You and Life, that's Two Entities, You are LIfe, One entity, so Just be Bliss, as a foundation, many ppl have a fondation of Depression, Sadness, Anxiety and they are just barely making it, many are here on this forum its obvious, so make Your Foundation that of Bliss, this will appear to others that You are Loving, as well for You being in Bliss is closer to Life Source, but when You Love Life, it is about two things, don't divde it and make it more complex that it has to be, just find Your Bliss, get closer to Life intensity and completeness, and things open up:) Good Blog, enjoying reading it:)

This is just intellect dividing things up more and more, making things more complex and such. We are not talking about Spirituality here on this forum, we are talking around it, because language and communication comes from intellect, logic of which is a foundation of intellect, so intellect divides and separates, dark side this, light side that, sub concsious, unconscious, that lables and divides are just there for us to explain, which is intellectual, so that one listening and reading/watching can get curious, on the intellectual level. Most all of Humanity nowadays are highly intellectual, very much into their thoughts, emotions, internal philosophies about themselves and life, none of it is reality, reality is Your Alive, the sun has risen, the atmosphere is provided 02, your able to access the librarys of the world, and your still anxious, depressed, but if those things can happen within You at levels of intensity, so can Happiness, and Bliss, at the same levels of experience and intensity, so make the choice, that is Human Nature, Free Will, make the choice as to how You want to be, don't go searching for Dark Side, Light Side Ego or Super Ego complexes it just gets you further away...

What I meant is that Mods are more intouch with Leo, or they should be than someone like myself, non mod. Anyway it doesn't matter, he can do as he pleases, I'm not hear to get intouch with Leo or find out more about him or anything to do with him...

The Brain doesn't know the difference btwn something vividly imagined (Like Your dream) and something real, so there is a fine line or maybe not even a line btwn what we call Real and Dreamland. Everything is experienced internally, that is where Your/Our world is located, we individaully are the centers of our own universes, the key is to know with Clarity there are other Universes (8 Billion on this planet) and we are connected to them all. Humans are more the same that different, but the differences are popularized and promoted it causes more friction and division, which is good for business..

Like Sam Harris, Peterson is too intellectual, he's more emotonal than Harris, and Peterson has his own physical and mental health issues, I don't take advice or trust sources that claim to know but can't prove via their own lives situations, but I do listen to him once inawhile and watch some of his podcast reviews...always see how the person lives and do they have something you want, then listen to them..

This is wise, and seeing/experience Life this way is more empowering than Using Emotion all the time, which is sparadic in nature, but when You realize that Life itself, God if You will is Intelligence, and that You are a part of that Intelligence, which is everywhere, and very much a part of Your system, then You will come to more and more Realizations quicker imo. By Intelligence I am not meaning calculating and figuring out things, its more of a creation sort of intelligence, for intelligence to be present organization, deep levels of layers of it, has to be present, and that is present in nature and everything that is alive and not alive, the Universe, Us, plants, everything has deep layers of Intelligence, just see how everything is set up for Us to Thrive, its just a matter of Realizing it that makes the difference! Good sharing:)

The Samahdi series and Inner World/Outer World series. made by the same person are good docu's, here is the link to his Youtube page, he also has a retreat center in Ontario, seems like a legit guy with allot of knowledge, as well he has a forums page to.. Daniel Schmidt is his name.. https://www.youtube.com/@AwakenTheWorldFilm/featured

Him (Leo) not answering says allot, especially the question coming from a Mod, just sayin...

The essence of being Human, and why we are called "Human Beings" is the we can just BE, First establish Your Being, then go out, have relationships, share with other, don't extract from others, Life is partially about Giving, give all You can to others, when You establish Your Being, then everything is a giving... Good Video on this from Sadhguru....

The Insights are not new, they will naturally come to someone when their Awareness is raised and more intense as time goes on, how we express it may differ but in the end we are all saying the samethings in a general sense, little details maybe not the same but mostly insights are similar to others in the past... Life Insights: 1) Pain is real, Suffering is a choice, it happens mostly mentally, we over think, become too Intellectual and everything starts to offend You because of highly addicted population to ideologies, concepts and teachings that are outside of themselves, learned from data input via the 5 senes... 2) Successful ppl suffering just as much as Poor or Deprived ppl, maybe more, because once You have all the Money, Power, Fame, Admiration, Success, etc, and You still feel empty, then what else is there too do but get addicted to drugs/booze, gambling, sex, or some sort of death wish that requires you to do dangerous things to feel alive (think Tom Cruise)... 3) Technology or anything that we have invented for ourselves is mostly there as a convenience, not as a source or reason for Life to go on..nothing really new has been invented just things that are extensions of what we already have available to us naturally... 4) Reincarnation is True, many examples of kids knowing areas of geography, or have skills within them that would be impossible to learn at their age, Karma or result of residual actions travel from embodied life to emboded life, until one has reached a level of Awareness to move on to another plane..

1. Life/God/Source/Brahman/Grand Intelligence is all about Possibility and Potential, everything that can be exists and does not exist somwhere and nowhere. 2. In Onness no duality, no individuality exists, therefore no expression, no experience can exist, only Oneness, Completeness, Absoluteness. Possibility/Potential.. 3. Since Within Onness all Possibility and Potential does exist, so within that, Duality, Expression, Experience has to exist somewhere as another form of possibility. 4. This Earth, This plane of existence, this Universe is just one form of this Duality, Expression and Experience. 5. You, I, all of Us, as Human Beings, on this planet have the most potential to Experience this Duality and Oneness at the sametime within the same space. compared to other life forms which live between two points, a low point and high point, their potential is limited, Humans have no points by which they can live between, they can live/experience below Animal/Plant Level of Experience/Awareness, or be God/Saint Level of Love, Compassion, Blissfulness, Completeness, Enlightenment.. 6. Striving is what makes it possible for all to live to their Highest Potential, you had to Strive to learn A,B,C, 1,2,3 then how to make words, questions and paragraphs, and add, subtrack, multiply and divide, this did not come naturally for You, someone invented and developed the ability and skill, then it was passed on thru the generations,...Someone discovered the experience of Enlightenment (highest potential for Human Being), then it was developed and refined more (Yoga) and shared/spread to others interested and willing to Experience it... 7. Most Ppl are still living at the Cave Man stage of Existence Mentally, Emotonally and Spiritually, and rather than just collecting Food, Fire and Shelter to live another day, they collect Experiences, Money, Fame, Success, Recognition, Admiration, Pain for the most part with small experiences of Pleasure as a side dish and are capable of Suffering all of it, all the success, money, fame, everything that happens to them...but we live in the most informative time ever, so there's no excuse for anyone to be Ignorant of the Theory of Enlightenment, Spirituality and how it can bring one out of the dungeon of Suffering.

Yes, Truth is the Authority, Authority is never the Truth, they can only guide us, all of the practices available today are just guides, they allow us to see/experience for ourselves what is Truth, the Guru''s primary role is just that, it is not about them in a personal way, just someone that is already there, making it easier for anyone willing to strive to find it too..

Not yet in an absolute state, have had glimpses for sure..I've researched many masters, consider myself a disciple of Sadhguru, have sat in his presence many times, gone thru a few of his courses with him present, they don't all say life is an illusion or hallucination, they say the way You are understanding it may be. I don't think in an ultimate way we can Understand what Life is, its too complex, too layered and organized, too much intelligence is present in Life, but we can experience it, our limited minds will never be able to understand it all...

The world You and I perceive is not an Illusion, or Hallucination, but what You think about what You have Perceived is heavily filtered and influenced by your Karma (residual actions & effects that you have done thru the Physical, Mental, Emotional and Energetic systems), Cultural atmosphere, Teachings exposed to, personal experiences in past and judgements about it, etc. In basic terms the Color Red is the same for You and I, they've proven this, but how You think about the color Red may be different btwn the two of Us, its the same with simple perceptions and complex ones. As well there's a bit of a paradox with this one, All Your experiences Happen within You, no where else, so in one sense you are the center of the Universe, when your in deep sleep the world does not exist in your perception, when you awake then it does, so most everything is Subjective, but we know that there is an Objective world, other ppl, places and things out there whether we exist here or not, the tree does make sound when know one is around to hear it. So the paradox is everything is Subjective but the Objective exists as well, the key to Life is getting to a point where You have absolute Clarity of Reality, this is done via the Yogic practices, you then realize You are not the Body or Mind, and then another form of Perception opens up (3rd eye per say), and reality is now perceived with absolute Clarity.

I'm not sure if he has actually said it, or maybe he doesn't know, but Shiva or Adi Yogi may have been an Alien..One thing for sure, he's the perfect person to have contact with them, have You seen the video where he allows a unique being of sort near Kailash Mansarovar (in the Himmilayas) to possess on of the participants and he was actually surprised by what happened, I wasn't sure it was possible for Sadhguru to get surprised by anything:)

Ramana is a bit overrated, he was born basically already in an Enlightened state, he just had to sit a bit and realize it, and he did at a very young age, now ppl today think they can do the samething lol, no work needed, this is the biggest falsehood, as those that think that need the most work,,Just sayin:)

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@Squeekytoy I disagree, at the level of survival yes there is competition, but at the most fundamental level of existence there is balance, harmony, intelligence working for life not pitting it against itself. For some forms of life, like I said earlier, survival of the fittest is the best way for quality life to evolve further on, that is competition, but we are the highest level of evolution on this planet (if we are not then what is?) so for us competition just keeps us in survival mode, but we have much more potential than just sleeping, eating, working, procreating then dying like most every other life form on this planet...