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If that were true, which it's not, this "new earth" would've come a long time ago when people began awakening in the first place. The Truth transcends positive and negative. Yeah, and he's full of shit on this. Stop believing in what people say. He also says stupid things like... "Maybe you are being taken advantage of, maybe the activity you are engaged in is tedious, maybe someone close to you is dishonest, irritating, or unconscious, but all this is irrelevant. Whether your thoughts and emotions about this situation are justified or not makes no difference. The fact is that you are resisting what is. You are making the present moment into an enemy. You are creating unhappiness, conflict between the inner and the outer. Your unhappiness is polluting not only your own inner being and those around you but also the collective human psyche of which you are an inseparable part. The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space." Which is just completely wrong an incorrect. Enlightenment transcends positive and negative. He condemns negative emotions as though anything negative (as if some thing in and of itself negative by nature) come from ego and shit. This is completely false. Negative states and negative emotions hold valuable truths, perspectives, and energy. Certain actions warrant legitimate states of mind such as guilt and shame. Tolle says a lot of bullshit and it makes him a lot of money. Even though he does seem to be legitimately enlightened as far as I can tell. It doesn't work like that. You're not going to run statistical odds like that. Stop expecting your mind and logic to grasp awakening. It will not and cannot. Ever. Period. I've talked with teachers regarding the possibility of awakening (which depends on what EXACTLY we mean when we speak of that) being a developmental realization. This at the end of the day is all speculation that will always lead to the inevitable truth - don't know. If you REALLY believe the world is waking up and all this nonsense (which I've yet to meet a teacher that hasn't laughed at that assertion), go to your local Walmart or your local bar and tell me that you still believe that with a straight face. At the end of the day these are all beliefs. They're made up. It's shit people told you and you just buy it. Waking up, by and large, tends to require A LOT of work. The idea that there will be some cosmic energetic shift or something that leads people to wake up or something completely misses the fact that any energetic stuff is precisely that, namely STUFF. The Absolute transcends all states, time, space, mind, etc. In other words, all stuff. Awakening as a concept is just a concept. What awakening or enlightenment or realization refers to is beyond concept, mind, understanding, etc. Whatever understanding you form is something your mind forms. It's not true. I just told you why. Groups are just a systems of rules, values, and so forth. Groups are not intelligent. They don't have a dominant mode of intelligence. As far as every individual awakening... yeah good look with that lol. Even if something like that happened, which I promise you, it won't, that won't create the idealized peace some of the new agers believe because first off, that whole fantasy is confined to what those people imagine. Which is to say that whole image and fantasy is completely self biased in terms of how they imagine that world will work, how people should be, ought to behave, and so forth. It's a self absorbed fantasy. Groups don't awaken. Show me a teacher that's ACTUALLY seen that. When someone actually awakens (which is already a false statement but just to go with it) that individual alone awakens. It's not like there's some chain reaction or some shit. It doesn't work that way and has not. If that were true, why don't all the people that sat in from of say Ramana Maharshi awaken in his presence? There were those that served him as a devoted disciple for decades and it still took tremendous work. I suggest you throw this nonsense out. It's bullshit. You want to know what awakening is? Meditate your ass off. Go on lots of retreats. Find a teacher and have the humility to shut up and do what they tell you and listen. Inquire and surrender. Stop playing things safe by theorizing.

No. Democracy isn't an existential reality. It doesn't exist. Stop conflating inventions and relative distinctions with the Absolute. Democracy isn't an existential reality. It's a social construction, a mental construction that human beings participate in. It has no reality in the same way a game like basketball isn't a reality. Basketball is a made up game with certain rules and so forth and people participate within the confines and context of the sport. Is basketball real? No. In yet, you could say (as imperfect and incomplete as it is) that there are actual bodies you can point to that are doing things like bouncing a ball, shooting a ball, and so forth. Is it real? As Nagarjuna put it best... yes, no, both, neither. The Truth regarding the nature of what we can refer to (despite the common differences in what we mean regarding any of these words that we often miss and overlook) as self, life, and reality is beyond words and ideas. At the end of the day they're all delusional bullshit. In the end, no there is no collective enlightenment as that just doesn't make any sense and is loaded with false presumptions, fantasies, and just delusion and ignorance. Human beings are notorious for projecting an idealized future of which to work towards that never comes into fruition. We see this in organized religion, cults, and so forth. That one day the promise land will come! Nope. Reconcile with the reality in front of you. Enlightenment at the end of the day is beyond words, ideas, beliefs, and yes, precious states.

Straight up miracle. Because it's a delusion and a fantasy riddled with false assumptions. Groups don't exist. Only individuals awaken. Groups don't have a dominant monad of intelligence. Groups are nothing more than a shared set of rules, values, and so forth. There is no utopia coming. Throw this belief out. There is no grand future on the horizon where everyone will meet the imagined ideal that you and people whom share this fantasy project. It's horseshit. Toss it out. Good.

@somegirl fucking walk. This ain’t the father of your kids. Move on. Don’t waste your time. Life is too short to waste your time on this.

So I joined a local group of guys that I met thanks to @Leo Gura’s Link to find wings in San Francisco, which is where I live. I put it off for such a long time but decided to go out with a guys that have heeen doing this for awhile and it was honestly a lot of fun. I don’t really get the incredible pressure we put into this. I didn’t find I had to be manipulative at all and control perspectives to just cold approach girls and have a good time. Even the connection with other guys was fun. It just seemed like a group that wanted to better themselves (though they seemed kinda caught in their own little belief system as well as the biased perspective of the world space they liked and enjoyed - but so what?). Didn’t take anyone home but I don’t care. I just went out to have a good time and I had a much better time than I thought in would. I didn’t really go in with this expectation of taking girls home. I look forward to going out again with some of these guys again. P.S. if you’re into all this Red pill and incel garbage please throw that away. You don’t need to be some alpha male to get with or even just have fun with girls. I’m a 6’2” skinny dude with the wrists that look like they belong to a 90 year grandmother and fingers that resemble the talons of a crow. Though I will say I’m fairly good looking, I’m not some cliche alpha male guy. I’m an incredibly sensitive dude and I can promise you, it doesn’t really matter wtf you say when you go up to a girl and just shoot shit. You don’t even need to be all that manipulative or inauthentic or violate your integrity. Which, to me is a pleasant relief.

I created unnecessary and agitated people's remaining suffering and reactivity out of my own reactivity. I apologize.

1. DMT has nothing to do with enlightenment 2. Still screaming shadow.

Awakening has nothing to do with paradigms or relative distinctions. The truth is the truth. What the mind makes up is what the mind makes up. This is just screaming shadow.

Gibberish. The amount passive aggressive behavior is screaming shadows on your end is the red flag. This is complete bullshit. Ramana Maharshi died of cancer as well as many other genuinely enlightened people. In fact, some of the most realized people tend to come die from pretty brutal diseases and so forth. This idea that enlightenment heals you or something is bullshit. Enlightenment is what is already absolutely true. You. Are. Deluded.

The key takeaway is WORK WITH SOMEONE.

Contact Tara Springett. She specializes in helping and facilitating those that are dealing with very rough kundalini symptoms and syndrome. This is literally what she does and she can really help you. Go to her website and schedule a session with her. https://www.taraspringett.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/18/world/russia-ukraine-biden-putin?referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR3DoFDPScv4B_urwTlLr7fkj1yrRr97XsT6sigPuaBXBaVpL1gr4yzFBzc#biden-holds-urgent-talks-with-nato-leaders-amid-growing-signs-that-war-is-imminent-in-ukraine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/15/elon-musk-neuralink-animal-cruelty-allegations

Thanks! I'll check out those videos. I certainly hope that's the case. Who knows what's actually going on but I sure hope that would be the case. I think it would be a foolish move on Putin's end to really initiate a Third World War.

It's literally the title of the article. The important piece is reading the actual article not getting hung up on headlines.

no.

Let go and surrender + what @Leo Gura said. Let her death break your heart open. Allow whatever comes up to come up. Whether it’s a lot or only a little. My condolences to your mother by the way.

Go ask him yourself.

Absolutely inspiring. Examples like this as well as people like Darryl Davis are truly inspiring examples, at least for me.

Oh shit really? Now that’s funny lol Next time I hear Brendan and Peter rag on traditions I gotta bring that up ?

Actually, yeah, some people ARE actually better at their job than other people. Some people are actually worth the money you pay them to help you. Study with the best (that you can afford to study with).

$15k if my memory serves me correct but yeah.. not too fond of how much he charges given the depth of financial sacrifice that is for many of the people that go. That said, I don’t really mind the price of his retreats as I understand he doesn’t have nor is he under a religion. Surprised, you don’t really agree with me on this point given the nature of how you run your business. I personally don’t mind you making a profit off of what you do given how ethical you are about what you do. You run about as much of a transparent and authentic personal development business that could make SO much more money if you wanted to milk people for their money and sell diluted stuff. You put most of your stuff out completely for free and your only course isn’t some course that’s in the thousands and you run an online forum where you give people resources and advice for free. I feel like you exemplify my exact point. My issue is when people, regardless of whether or not they’ve genuinely had an enlightenment experience con people by selling them bullshit and mixing that with some quasi real shit. I’m sure you and I are no strangers when it comes to having met some enlightened people that have stupid views of the world or believe some silly nonsense (Shunyamurti comes to mind when he talks about Ancient Rome and Egypt as though they were some enlightened utopia when 40-60% population were literally slaves lol). Betinho runs a quasi of personality cult with his followers and he doesn’t stomp that out, for one. Real teachers with integrity squash that shit for real when they see it. When I pay north of $1500 for a retreat with Peter & Brendan and the other people I work with, it’s ACTUALLY engaged 100% towards the task at hand. It’s not about entertaining me with nonsense and some stupid cosmology. It’s 100% focused to become conscious NOW.

@Eternal Unity you’re welcome.