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When I got a bit deeper into spirituality, I learned that my feelings don't need to be defined by the events that were happening around me. This was very liberating so I strated to detach my emotions more and more from the external world, while I regularly went deeper and deeper into myself with psychedelics and meditation. I got a bit lazy about progressing towards my external goals but I didn't mind because I was happier than before. What I didn't see back then is that I had started lose my enthusiasm towards life. Nothing, other than consciousness, was worthy of my enthusiasm. This gave me a focus on what's really important, but it also made me indifferent towards everything else. Though the main problem was that I've lost my energy. I lived day-by-day with no motivation towards anything, and still having to work, still having to do the chores. After a while even maintaining friendships felt like a chore. I just felt tired all the time. Now when I try to be really enthusiastic towards anything, it feels like it goes completely against my whole personality. And that's how I know that I've identified my shadow. But I want to heal it and I want to find a way back to enthusiasm. I already feel how much energy and motivation it can give me. So I will become enthusiastic again. But this time the enthusiasm is gonna be unconditional. Love you all ♥️

I can't do that when I'm single. Every day I have to develop myself through work, sports, and learning, otherwise I feel like I don't deserve a woman with high standards. But I aim to get a solid 8 hours of sleep every night, that's my relaxation time. While writing this down, I just realized that I sound like one of those "grind bros" on LinkedIn... But I do mini-breaks. Like, I just discovered the Almost Friday TV channel, this is fuckin' GOLD

This is a pretty good idea, I would like that! @Leo Gura what do you think about tagging? Replacing the whole subforum system with a tag based system would be huge work, but what about introducing tags as a feature alongside the current subforum setup? This way people could tag their topics as e.g. "experience", I would filter by this tag, and find easily what I'm interested in.

@Leo Gura Please create a spiritual experiences subforum. I'm not really interested in spiritual ideas anymore, but I'm much more interested in the experiences of others, and I think I'm not alone. That new subforum could be a meeting point for the people who have experienced the highest levels of consciousness.

Wow, I felt that by reading this! Thanks!

The current "Spirituality..." subforum supposed to dry out if more and more people are interested in special subtopics of spirituality. The case with the Psychedelic subforum proves that people are drawn out from this general subforum to more specific ones.

High quality posts are rare, but the spiritual experiences subforum would be a collection of those I assume. Don't you think it's worth separating from the rest? I think highly conscious people won't be an active member of the current "Spirituality..." subforum because there's too much bs there. The question is really: Do you want to make this forum appealing for high quality content writers or not?

That's exactly the kind of stuff I'm interested in

I'm not searching for answers, I would read the reports simply because I'm interested. Not everything is about seeking.

Some subforums are outdated and destined to die... ?

That's part of the attitude of absurdism: Passion. Freedom. Revolt.

https://youtu.be/Jv79l1b-eoI

I want to express how happiness (while it's really pleasant) is irrelevant to having a deep unconditional love for Life itself. From my perspective, happiness comes from your personal context (good career, loving relationships). But if you want to feel love, you shouldn't focus on happiness, you should focus on loving Life unconditionally. But how can I say that to anyone when I already have a happy life? I can already hear people telling me "Sure, it's easy for you to love Life when you already have happy personal life...". How can you make people interested in spiritual values (like love) when they want to focus on personal context (like happiness)?

You're are basically saying that people who have problems need personal trainers instead of spiritual masters. Is that what you wanted to express? Yeah, I did exactly that. I lived my life, mindig my own business, expecting that people will notice how I live and how I relate so that I can lead by example. Now that I have a good life, I'm not relatable anymore because people can say "Sure, it's easy for you to love Life..." So I feel like I failed miserably in the "lead by example" process.

You are referring to a deeper happiness. What I meant is the superficial happiness of the ego. Originally I had wanted to call it "worldly success" but I didn't want to be perceived like I'm flexing

A self-driving car perceives its surroundings through cameras. The car's computer reconstructs a virtual reality based on its perception. It puts itself (the car) into this virtual world. Now the car is the context and also the content of this virtual world. When this car burns to the ground, does its very primitive (insect-like) "consciousness" continue and get reborn as another self-driving car? If it doesn't, then why would the human consciousness continue?

I miss the time when spirituality was synonymous with open-mindedness. Now, if you bring up a discussion that doesn't conform to the accepted spiritual beliefs, your thread gets locked. Don't get me wrong, I'm not mad at you Leo. I just miss the time when you were still a spiritual revolutionary.

Yeah, I agree with this. The now and consciousness is the same thing because I can't find any difference between the two. I don't see it that way. The body (the brain) never really disappears, it's never dead. Sometimes consciousness is not conscious of the body, but that doesn't mean that the body completely disappears. The body disappears only from consciousness, not from the persistent level of physicality. You can easily prove it by filming yourself while sleeping. While sleeping, the body disappears from consciousness, but the camera footage proves that the body was there the whole time on the physical level. If you could show me a case where someone showed consciousness while having a dead body, that would be proof that consciousness continues after physical death.

I meant eternal in a temporal sense (if that makes any sense). I don't remember always existing, so I can't be sure that I'll always exist. The now is ever-present, but from my perspective, it started when this body was born (I don't remember the now "existing" before that), so it might end when this body dies.

Computers also know if something exists in their internal storage, but they are not generally aware of anything. For me, awareness is more like an understanding of existence. And if I could explain what understanding means, I would have already created AI

Don't get me wrong, I know that the consciousness that I am is invulnerable to any experience. Content cannot touch the context. But I cannot see any proof in the now for consciousness being eternal.

Great question, welcome to the forum! I'm not sure about the proper answer for this, but I can tell you how I approach it: When I meditate, I focus on pure consciousness by letting go of every content of consciousness. When I'm living my daily life, I practice radical acceptance by lovingly embracing every challenge of the day, knowing that nothing can touch what I really am. But to do this, I need the meditation to know the I. And to have time to meditate, I need to do my daily tasks, earn money, and so on. And to do both, I don't really have any time left for free-flow, only when others invite me to flow with them.

Sorry, I don't understand it. Can you explain it? Or it's not cool to ask for an explanation of a poem?

Every ego wants admiration, mine is not an exception. But this wasn't my main motivation. Although, you sensed it correctly, I do have an ulterior motive: I want a revolution against spiritual beliefs because I think this is the only way to face the fears that they try to cover.

This is a side effect of Leo's style. Leo doesn't really teach open mindedness or the importance of "I don't know". I think deep down he knows that he doesn't know. But not knowing is not something that the YouTube audience wants to hear about. I'm hopeful that in the future he will have another awakening that faces him with the importance of being honest about not knowing.