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You need to adjust your Spi-radar. This guy has always rubbed me the wrong way.

@Davino Have you read Peter Ralston? I think you might like Peter Ralston. Books like "Zen-Body Being" or "The Art of Mastery."

He literally is. He did a crypto scam and kept the money. You know, performers give you money back if they use it as a prop in a performance. Scammers and thieves keep it in their pockets.

One can call it a Zeitgeist.

@Spiritual Warfare has no idea that women get horny.

Expect a 'once in 1000 years' flood every 10 years. That's climate change.

@Butters that's more of a retro category. I am doubtful the new Leo would put the law of attraction category on the list if he was planning it from the ground up. Too much human bullshit in that category in my opinion. Yet, the Esther Hicks' book is some of the finest bullshit I have ever seen, I've enjoyed reading this book from this category and even found it to be practical.

Discussion of torrenting, profanity directed at a covid denier amidst the peak of covid, calling Joseph Maynor stupid. The last one, I have no regrets about, the guy was total pain in the ass most of the time. The only one worse than him that I can remeber right now was the "stage coral" bodybuilder guy who boasted "I have more upvotes per post than Leo, listen to me."

You are absolutely correct. The tendency is real, but racism is a construct. It needed to be invented and is reproduced through social mechanisms. Yet, to get rid of racism is not to get rid of underlying condition that led to creation of racism in the first place.

You = God Are = God "What is" is God. When you say "I am God" you don't add any new meaning to the "I am, you just underline that God is the isness of anything. You could have said as well "God God God", because everything is God, but that doesn't make for a coherent sentence, "I am God" sounds better.

That's not direct access and neither consciousness work. I doubt Sadhguru would be talking about some new age ideas when talking about multiple lifetimes. You don't even know in what sense he has used that phrase. He could have as well mean the whole evolution of humankind up to this point in a poetic manner. Anything really. And if multiplicity of lifetimes is somehow a thing one can get really conscious of, I doubt that reality matches the map new agers like Newton sell.

yes, and I just wanted to add my point in case someone else reads it and goes, "oh, a shiny concept, must be closer to truth," as it's quite a common trap.

@jakee This is not an explanation, just repeating the same statement in different words. So yeah, if you just want to talk about it and like the terminology of Kastrup, then why not. But to understand such things you need a direct insight. Just don't confuse more sophisticated thoughts for understanding or consciousness and you are good.

You don't really know what Sadhguru is saying when he talks about multiple lifetimes. I for sure don't. He could have meant anything. Who here has a direct insight into such matters?

@Buck Edwards Sadhguru picked up yoga and practiced obssisively with a master since 14, right after finishing education he bootstrapped a construction business and an egg farm business with a friend, then he achieved Enlightenment and went on to become one of the top rockstar spiritual gurus in the world. He doesn't sound like an particularly average person.

It is often way more important and genuine than psychology. The Sociology Book from the Big Ideas Explained by DK is a good intro to what's going on in this field.

Sociology in some sense is even more difficult than physics. The methodology, man. Try to prove a cause of some social fact or event. People are unreliable material to work with for a scientist.

But, are you really conscious of that or just talk about something you have heard? I think your answer to the guy is not helpful, as the only thing they can do with it is adopt as some belief after repetition, but this is not right. After he does that he will be further from truth than he is now, questioning.

It's funny how this is like something straight out of Mooji's mouth, yet you are the first person to rant against how neo-advaita guys "don't get it."

Earth itself is a belief. THIS is not the Earth.

It's not common, because some of us have life.

I mean, guys, Telegram is an app where you type in some random emoticons like 🍀🍄💎🥦❄️💊 and find local drug dealers. It's no wonder he has problems, when having no moderation. It's all public chats. No defense for the guy on that front.

@Terell Kirby I think you have put the fake and true labels in the wrong order. There's no dreamer, no self. Self is a creation, not an absolute. With a self comes the other, so no solipsism. To have a self you have to create something that is not that self. The mindfuck is all your distinctions you make are real, even though illusory. So your perspective that there is some Only one dreamer IS true, but not really, because the base reality is made out of nothing, so ultimately all your distinctions add up to nothing, it means nothing. It's a true as saying cats exist, and that there's some ideal form of a cat, distinction of a cat with infinite amount of color, shapes falvors, the same distinction for a dog, a the distction of your One dreamer. But they are ultimately empty ideals. So like, a cat is real, but it's empty, it's really nothing. What is, is. The Absolute. Only "it."

What mind, Leo? Brains don't exist. Minds don't exist. If I were to cut out a distinction, I would say there's thinking, which is a process which appears from nowhere and disappears nowhere. This nowhere is the Absolute. If someone wants to call it Mind, then okay, but it's absolute, no reason to. It's just God thinking. or Nothing thinking, or Infinity thinking. Any name works as well (that means not so well) for the Absolute. You can totally leave the concept of "your mind" at the table, never use it again, and still be an effective thinker. I would call it no-mind, it's not anti-mind, it's just that you don't create a concept of a mind. Thoughts still arise, and there's even more consciousness and scepticism about them, as they are no longer "me".

I always sit on a zafu with my back towards sofa or at the edge of the sofa.