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Also the power of friendship. Very powerful.

I can shoot lazer beams from my hotdog.

Those are all good points but reason doesn't work on those who are stuck into those nonduality traps. They aren't intellectually honest enough to listen to any of your reasoning, nor do they have good reasoning to begin with often. That's why they are stuck there to begin with. They need an exorcism, if you ask me, lol. You have to bypass their mind and go straight into their hearts with your energy. That's the language of love. And love is the ultimate authority. They will either won't be able to be in love's presence and will run away, or they will convert. Both are fine.

I agree with this but only because I already had the same conclusion. The way you tried to explain your point was incomprehensible, haha.

A discussion could be had which one is a more accurate representation of true love and true wisdom, christ or lucifer. That would be a valid debate, yes.

@Ramasta9 as long as you agree with my above comment, I'm okay.

🤨 Okay

Christ is supposed to be a simbol for love and wisdom. To praise the opposite of that would be to praise stupidity and ignorance. That by definition would be a stupid and ignorant thing to do imo.

@Ramasta9 ok

I don't think that would settle the debate. But I appreciate you trying to help me, if that's what your intention was.

I'm not taking sides but Ralston is more intellectually honest when it comes to this debate imo. The other side has no real counter arguments apart of calling him wrong blatantly over and over. The single counter argument I can see is that he didn't try 5meo. But I think he would simply put 5meo in a "conciousness rising basket of psychedelics" and would reply: yes, I have done those. Ralston is winning this imo.

Again you're trying to impose and validate for yourself a perception of reality that is unique to you. Fine, have fun.

You feel beauty when you recognize an expression of God's presence. That would make beauty is synonymous with Truth.

Indeed.

Enlightenment is when you've realized that you're an utter fool. But then you won't go bragging about it

It seems like he has no problem admitting that under certain altered states it is easier to have an insight into your true nature. He just has a problem of calling it "a rise in conciousness". Because it's not the conciousness that has risen, it is the circumstances that changed that enabled the insight to be more accessible. But when the state goes back to normal, "you're still the same smuck" as he calls it, because your actual penetrative power of awareness hasn't deepened one inch. Therefor, psychedelics are useless. And by definition it doesn't rise awareness then. Which kinda makes sense I guess. That's me trying to interpret what Ralston is saying.

"Beauty is your angelic sense" Interesting sentence I once heard.

Lesson 78 Let miracles replace all grievances. Perhaps it is not yet quite clear to you that each decision that you make is one between a grievance and a miracle. ²Each grievance stands like a dark shield of hate before the miracle it would conceal. ³And as you raise it up before your eyes, you will not see the miracle beyond. ⁴Yet all the while it waits for you in light, but you behold your grievances instead. Today we go beyond the grievances, to look upon the miracle instead. ²We will reverse the way you see by not allowing sight to stop before it sees. ³We will not wait before the shield of hate, but lay it down and gently lift our eyes in silence to behold the Son of God. He waits for you behind your grievances, and as you lay them down he will appear in shining light where each one stood before. ²For every grievance is a block to sight, and as it lifts you see the Son of God where he has always been. ³He stands in light, but you were in the dark. ⁴Each grievance made the darkness deeper, and you could not see. Today we will attempt to see God’s Son. ²We will not let ourselves be blind to him; we will not look upon our grievances. ³So is the seeing of the world reversed, as we look out toward truth, away from fear. ⁴We will select one person you have used as target for your grievances, and lay the grievances aside and look at him. ⁵Someone, perhaps, you fear and even hate; someone you think you love who angered you; someone you call a friend, but whom you see as difficult at times or hard to please, demanding, irritating or untrue to the ideal he should accept as his, according to the role you set for him. You know the one to choose; his name has crossed your mind already. ²He will be the one of whom we ask God’s Son be shown to you. ³Through seeing him behind the grievances that you have held against him, you will learn that what lay hidden while you saw him not is there in everyone, and can be seen. ⁴He who was enemy is more than friend when he is freed to take the holy role the Holy Spirit has assigned to him. ⁵Let him be savior unto you today. ⁶Such is his role in God your Father’s plan. Our longer practice periods today will see him in this role. ²You will attempt to hold him in your mind, first as you now consider him. ³You will review his faults, the difficulties you have had with him, the pain he caused you, his neglect, and all the little and the larger hurts he gave. ⁴You will regard his body with its flaws and better points as well, and you will think of his mistakes and even of his “sins.” Then let us ask of Him Who knows this Son of God in his reality and truth, that we may look on him a different way, and see our savior shining in the light of true forgiveness, given unto us. ²We ask Him in the holy Name of God and of His Son, as holy as Himself: ³Let me behold my savior in this one You have appointed as the one for me to ask to lead me to the holy light in which he stands, that I may join with him. ⁴The body’s eyes are closed, and as you think of him who grieved you, let your mind be shown the light in him beyond your grievances. What you have asked for cannot be denied. ²Your savior has been waiting long for this. ³He would be free, and make his freedom yours. ⁴The Holy Spirit leans from him to you, seeing no separation in God’s Son. ⁵And what you see through Him will free you both. ⁶Be very quiet now, and look upon your shining savior. ⁷No dark grievances obscure the sight of him. ⁸You have allowed the Holy Spirit to express through him the role God gave Him that you might be saved. God thanks you for these quiet times today in which you laid your images aside, and looked upon the miracle of love the Holy Spirit showed you in their place. ²The world and Heaven join in thanking you, for not one Thought of God but must rejoice as you are saved, and all the world with you. We will remember this throughout the day, and take the role assigned to us as part of God’s salvation plan, and not our own. ²Temptation falls away when we allow each one we meet to save us, and refuse to hide his light behind our grievances. ³To everyone you meet, and to the ones you think of or remember from the past, allow the role of savior to be given, that you may share it with him. ⁴For you both, and all the sightless ones as well, we pray: ⁵Let miracles replace all grievances.

It's the art of turning the other cheek. See first what it is that you're defending with attachment and then chose to do otherwise. Feelings will arise, give space and concious attention to them with the attitude of being defenseless about it, breathe into it, when you allow all feelings, they will begin to transform into something wholesome. I have massive amounts of experience in this regard thanks to this forum, lol. Forgiveness truly is an art form. And it's not the art of being a detached witness. That doesn't work (based on my experience). It's an art of alchemy, it's an art of transforming one energy into another. And only the heart can do this. Only love can transform one energy into another. So yea, have fun

I saw that video long ago. It's interesting but it's not the location of Atlantis. Don't ask me how I know this but the real location of Atlantis is between North America and Asia, in the Pacific ocean. There's a small island that still remains there.

Everyone has their own perception of the world and the people in it. But thank you for sharing yours.

Lol

If you can find a way to be of service to something bigger than yourself, then job becomes a joy.

It's all just a story.