kieranperez

Rule of Thumb: If you have a belief, it's hogwash. Sure. You'll still have beliefs. However, one of the major goals and requisites in this path is tossing all beliefs because all beliefs are false. Also, after you say awaken to your true nature, you'll be much more open and have greater understanding that no belief is the truth nor is true. You'll take your beliefs much more lightly after an enlightenment experience and you'll understand that you can toss them to. See this clip with @Leo Gura & Peter Ralston:

Remember one of the principles in the course, "detachment from outcome". I'd revisit that principle in the course. You seem too tense and involved in the significance of your life purpose. Remember, it's a balance. You know what you want and it's important to you and I recommend you treat it as such but also balance it out with the understanding of how meaningless it all is. From what I'm guessing, you seem to have this tension with people in your job because you're too emotionally invested. I'd really start chilling out. You sound too wound up. People won't be able to work with you if you're this uptight, as you're discovering. Which I totally get. I have this same problem when I'm around other people that may talk and play lip service to say spirituality or my other passion of running. I tend to be that guy that's just so bold and direct and no-bullshit that it actually turns people off. ^If that resonates with you as something you do too, I recommend looking into your own defensiveness as I ultimately have learned that's pretty much what's driving that whole behavior for me. It's almost like you put on a mask of this hard nosed, serious, knowledgable, direct person that cuts the shit and is all about business but really what's going on is that you're afraid and are fearful which comes from a place of hurt, otherwise you wouldn't have that wall up that's clearly turning people off.

Depends on how hard you're running and training run a hundred miler covering 10,15,20, 25, 30,000 feet of uphill and downhill in the mountains and I don't see most people hitting that point of feeling quite meditative LOL that'll come with years of mastery. But yeah, I see them going hand in hand but also, I love them both. I miss running at the end of the day. I don't really have any races I yearn for or anything and haven't felt like racing in quite some time. I just want to run again and I want to do it well. I also want to know the Truth and understand mind, self, another, Love, what everything is and so on. I don't want to coach as I'm not really someone that likes to manage people. Not a strength nor interest I have. Because I do.

Fast forward to 23:00 Consciousness and reality is all there is. You're only 1 perspective out of infinite number of perspectives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH7i1CDGChI

A few weeks ago I took an enneagram test and my result was that I'm a Type 6 (The Loyal Skeptic) and I was so startled by how dead-on accurate it describes so plainly and clearly my biggest mental struggles. I don't mean tendencies to get pissed off, sad, etc. I mean the context behind it all. As some of you who have put up with a lot of my repeating posts know of my internal struggle to move out from home, struggling with the life purpose course and coming up with a life purpose, inability to make decisions, take more responsibility, etc. and the moment I got started reading the particular weaknesses here's what came up (see below images)... I mean it's SPOT ON (I mostly agree with the neurotic tendencies cause that's mostly what's goes on within me). I share this because I think this seems to be a great tool to understanding 'why does my character/ego behave and operate the way it does?' There seem to be a lot of resources for resolving this stuff. Thought I'd share

Yeah I'd agree with Leo. I'd also throw out something similar to the likes of Dan Harris of 10% Happier, apps like Headspace and such. Maybe throw in people like Tim Ferriss but yeah I think Sam Harris is the pinnacle of what you can take stage Orange to as far as spirituality.

https://integrallife.com/discovering-your-own-native-perspective/

I don't know if the rules for sourcing nootropics would be different than psychedelics, if they aren't I apologize. Just want to know if anyone has some good links to find modalert or modafinil online for a cheap price. I desperately need a substitute since having come off 17 years of Adderall. I can barely read, concentrate, contemplate, think at this point.

When I say enlightenment is my life purpose, I’m not saying that would be what I try to help people to do to. I’m not saying “my life purpose is just to be as enlightened as possible.” I’m saying that’s the impact I want to have in some way or another through some form of medium or domain. For example, your life purpose can be centered around enlightenment and be like Om Swami and Osho whose art form or ideal medium is writing. Or like Ken Wilber (though he’s a more advanced case I guess) and Leo who love to study this personal development and life and and all these things and study all the different nooks and crannies and details into life and your life purpose is still enlightenment centered in a sense. So what I’m saying with “enlightenment is my life purpose” is a very open thing because I don’t know what way I want that manifest at all in terms of my impact. Yeah I hear you on living cheaply and stuff. I just have a lot of fear about that because to be honest I feel like I’m just going to crack internally.

is that you?

Free Will assumes that there’s an individual separate self that has control which is false Determinism is based under the assumption of time which is ultimately false. Damn

I actual 2nd that. Don't try to make buying stuff a way out of brute force practice and discovering on your own.

THAT is why you deem him to not be enlightened? LOLOL

Holy fuck this awesome...

You're assuming there is such a thing called a "last stage". There will never be a last stage. The problem with this obsession people have with Coral is that for most people it's totally irrelevant even for their lifetime. The amount of evolution and transcendence and integration can take decades just to get to Turquoise much less than work through all the facets of Turquoise. Who do you really know and can identify as Coral on this planet? After a certain point you transcend maps. Spiral Dynamics isn't a map for non-duality. Spiral Dynamics is largely about your perspective. You can have those experiences at Blue but you'll just interpret them different than if you were at Green or Yellow and such.

Watch the latest episode and do research

Ken Wilber includes Teal and more nuanced stages. Ken Wilber's spiral is like a more nuanced "edition" to the Graves spiral. The problem I see with all these stages beyond Turquoise such as Teal, Coral, and Indigo is that I can't see any real world examples of this at all even from research. Turquoise is already soooooo rare in the world where whose your person that you can really deem Teal, Indigo, or Coral?

They’re still around today. There’s no such thing as “worst” cult. That’s all relative. Culture is itself a cult.

Met an enlightened yogi/monk yesterday on the street here in San Francisco. They're out there. It's nothing fantastical. Don't let your imagination get the best of you There's a lot of fantasy with these people. They're very ordinary, very plain. In yet that's what so extraordinary. Zen/Chan traditions really depict enlightened people very well. Very plain, very simple. Nothing mystical shmystical about it.

The reality is that no one can do this for you. The enlightenment and life purpose I suggest maybe hanging out with more developed people and associate with more conscious people. Move somewhere new, make new friends, etc. You seem to have limiting beliefs about people.

It's weird. I talked to a bhakti yogi monk from India today. I literally ran into him on Haight Ashbury today as I was walking around and he was just handing out books. We talked about his enlightenment and everything he was saying was really really grounded and humble but also we talked about all the different sages and how they're all talking about the same thing and he seemed open minded. He told me practices bhakti and told how his teacher is Radhanath Swami who frequently comes to SF which made it seem more legitimate but when I asked him if he's part of the Hare Krishna's he said yes which struck me odd because I didn't get this coverting cultish fake ingenuine vibe. I mean, he seemed really really open minded which I feel like is the antithesis of cults. He said he's part of Krishna Consciousness

Not Greek but I would also like to throw out Marcus Aurelius. Read Meditations after getting some traction in consciousness work and you see what he's saying in a whole new light

YES!

Why don’t you just come to the SF one since you live in SF?... LOL

I’m in the Haight Ashbury right now and I can only imagine the amount of posturing and elitism JP would have here “All you hippies and your relativism!”