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So what do you think it's "based on"? Hm?

It appears you didn't understand what I said....haha.

His "teachings" aren't the only way to awaken in peace and fulfillment, in fact, they aren't even the most clear ones. In his own words....

It's not a problem for me, the universe is a controlled accident that I exist with.

The "cult", if there is it, resides within the person who empowers it to be a cult for them so yes, this can become it since anything can be a cult if one makes it so.

@Thanatos13 For my own experience any inner work is for a sense of well being, for fulfillment and to enjoy life. All emotional impulses exist in us without any dualistic mindset that someone might have so love, compassion, joy and such still can be experienced without the duality perspective.

Yup, people want to believe that they know the ultimate and absolute "truth" by dismissing people who don't agree with their personal perception of it as deluded. Try not to let them distract you with their petty egoic ideological animosity from you finding fulfillment in awakening to being at peace with presence.

The mind is habitual and we can learn how to present to our subconscious any variety of personal patterns we prefer it ti retain so yes, it is possible.

Anytime someone believes that their personal perception from their own experience is true for everyone and speaks it authoritatively by claiming it "truth" is dogmatic regardless of whether it's actually true or not.

Get a pick up truck. It's more versatile, put a cap on it and it's city stealthy with a bit more room for comfort and gear. When you get out of town it's simple to rig up a nice little tailgate camp from it and get deeper into the countryside safely. Plus it's easier to put it to work if you want to use it that way, get an extended or double cab, you'll be glad you did if you do. Planet fitness $20 a month gets you a nationwide pass to have (pretty much 24/7) access to bathroom and showers. It can be an amazing adventure but it's something that doesn't work with everyone. I love that life style.

Well, if people had any common sense in the US there would be a social market economy variant even though through the random unfolding of circumstance there seems to be a disjointed, conflicted and corrupted version of one happening. Watching people worship at the alter of the almighty dollar and capitalism using a knee jerk reaction comparison to socialism or communism in an attempt to defend it is an indication of their inability to think for themselves. Capitalism only values profit and humanity is only another commodity in that system, it's ineffective and flawed for managing society so it will eventually bankrupt it in every way possible, especially in spirit.

@egoless Who is proposing saying no to groupthink? There is nobody there because you doesn't exist but you are god and everything so have no free will though must choose to wake up in this illusion that you are dead and dreaming in..........baha. Many people really do want to be spoon fed conceptual ideas and eagerly stumble over each other in an attempt to show how they can regurgitate them more articulately than others. 'Teachers' thrive on churning out the same dogmatic stuff that has been circulating for eons and have 'seekers' lap up their ramblings as 'enlightened wisdom'.

It's not awareness that attaches other than attention can be caught up in the identifying that the mind reflexively and naturally does on its own. We can keep our awareness free from entangling with things that preoccupy the mind by abiding in awareness as an observer. Eventually the mind will begin to reflect that freely observing awareness as it's identity which can increase the subconscious aware state of being we 'rest' at. The 'who' is our subconscious mind that innately clings to create it's identity and by consciously 'letting go' we are conditioning the subconscious mind to do that.

Who is it that notices that there is no one to have it wrong or right?..... haha

Have your herd the word? So holistic it's unheralded.... one heard.

It's the same song again...again and again.... Materialists eliminate the possibility and mystics exaggerate the potential.... .....yet both are 'wrong'.

The irony is so thick... haha.

A struggle I have is ignoring people who have self important perceptions of themselves in thinking they can solve other people's issues using their own subjective experience perspective. I eventually pay them some attention and I may even interact with them in some way but they almost always assume their observations and insights are a universally recognized truth, right or good. Yet, my intention of interacting with them is in possibly bringing some awareness to humble agnosticism in perception because the value they assume they are imparting to others is the very value they fail to acknowledge in their own perspective by the process of dispensing 'wisdom' to others.

@electroBeam It is because the material world is 'observed' by 'cosmic consciousness' in a universal macroscopic perspective so has collapsed into the manifest reality we observe from our individual microscopic perspective. Much of the consciousness work we are engaged in is merely altering our subjective experience perceptions of the manifest not actually altering the objective reality properties of the manifest. What most of the participants on this forum are doing is what 'spiritualists' and religious adherents typically do, declare their personal perspective built on the belief paradigm of their experiential perceptions as "truth" that supersedes the manifest reality. If they are really as enlightened and awakened as they proclaim to be there would be an awareness that the physical and spiritual manifest realities coexist with each other not conflict with each other. In order to have an absolute faith in their subjective spiritual personal belief paradigms that allows them to transcend the conditioning of the mind they think they need to disbelieve the objective physical manifest reality. This is based on the accurate premise that to transcend the emotional mind-body we do disbelieve the conditioning the self reflexively creates and believe a different paradigm oriented in an awakened and 'free' state. Although, the fictional 'spiritual story' belief paradigm that has been built upon an actual mechanism of consciousness liberation has turned into a culty corruption filled with dogmatic ideology posturing as the 'absolute truth'.

Sshhh, don't point out the contradictions, it disturbs the meat robots!

@Ether Are you going to derail this thread? Let it go.....hehe.

Although, it seems my laughing changes things....haha

Well, splitting atoms releases energy.

You still won't let it go.... you let your ego rule you.

What do you mean by this? Can you unpack that idea and explain it some more?