Joseph Maynor

@Source_Mystic Do you see that this belief is false: "I understand the nature of thought as an approximation and not a perfect facsimile of reality." What is the nature of thought? What is an approximation of reality? What is a facsimile of reality? What is I understand? What is I? There's a lot of stuff to contemplate here. Can you see how the Mind is hiding behind this linguistic facade, propping it up with a house of cards? But it seems so true huh -- so real! Until you look a little deeper -- a little more carefully. All meaning is false.

The Mind often has different expectations than reality delivers. This is the source of all resistance. When the Mind doesn’t get from reality what it wanted or was expecting, it delivers a rebuke in the form of a negative feeling and/or a negative visualization. Everything that is happening is outside the control of the Mind, but the Mind affirms otherwise. This is what causes all suffering in life. The Mind has a false belief of control over reality. When it gets its way it’s happy, when it doesn’t it's not. The Mind needs to become aware of this trap. That’s a big piece of Enlightenment work right there. The Mind is a phenomenon within reality, not the controller of reality. But, see, it thinks it is, until its awareness is sufficiently raised to see all the unnecessary suffering this false-belief causes. Then the Mind will release this limiting-belief and all that suffering drops out of your life.

Meditate for 1 hour per day for 30 days. Just be the watcher, don’t try to manipulate anything when you meditate. Just be aware of what is happening. Note what things are inner and outer sounds, thoughts, inner visualizations, outer touch, inner touch (aka feelings/emotions). Just watch all of it happen. Watch that Monkey-Mind do what it does.

https://www.amazon.com/Websters-Bolander-Madeline-Semmelmeyer-1987-06-23/dp/B01NH07WJG/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512079864&sr=1-3&keywords=grammar+guide+bolander This book will give you great awareness regarding language. You’ll never read the same again. This is the only grammar book that resonates with me. People don’t really know how to write grammar books well, but this one is written well. It is readable, yet has all the details you want too.

Lately I’ve been realizing more and more how deep and extensive culture is. Even things that we think are immune to culture like Science or Knowledge or the True/false Paradigm are really just extensions of culture. Is it necessary for us to purify ourselves of this culture? If so, how do we go about doing so? Thought Experiment: Imagine you got to live out the rest of your days on an isolated island with no human contact, where you were trained to provide for yourself with the resources thereon. How important to you would Science, Knowledge, or the True/ false Paradigm be? This is in service of raising awareness, obviously even awakened people are gonna value the useful cultural achievements from a pragmatic point of view. But I don’t think people realize how extensively culture is trapping them from becoming more awake. How can you raise this kind of awareness? Psychedelics, world travel, contemplation, studying the history of world ideas are useful in raising this kind of awareness, but are they enough, and what more can we do?

Take as many of the tests as you can and compare the results. That’s all you can do. This is still better than not doing this. You’re bound to learn something of value about yourself that you were not fully conscious of. Do every free online credible diagnostic test. Why not? This is an excellent use of your personal development time. Do all the free tests on Authentichappiness.com too. You gotta register first, but it’s easy. This is real work that will get you real awareness, not just empty talk about vague concepts. This is some of the highest-quality work you can be doing in personal development: increasing awareness of your authentic-self. I’m a big fan of credible diagnostic tests. I wanna take as many as I can, including career assessment tests.

There is no you that uses the Ego. That’s a thought-story, and all thought-stories are false. What is the Ego? Does the Ego exist? If it doesn’t exist, what are we talking about when we use the language “the Ego”? All nice stuff to contemplate. Don’t take anything for granted in this work. You think you found the right answer — but you’re gonna find out sooner or later that you don’t have it because there is no conceptual right-answer. It’s all technically wrong.

Great book to give you some awareness about the US Economic System. Great for aspiring entrepreneurs to get a little primer on how US Capitalism works and where it comes from. Get to know the jungle before you jump into it. This little book is truly a well-written intro that also has all the relevant detail that you want too. Truly a gem of a book. Not political either. Just Economics.

It’s not a matter of choosing belief A or B, it’s realizing that this choice is just a low-consciousness cultural game. People don’t grok this fully while stuck in the Rationalist Paradigm. They keep looking for beliefs and paradigms to be true. They don’t realize what the concept of truth is. They’ve never contemplated that fully.

We live in the Information Age, we should understand the History of the Internet. This book doesn’t play around. It’s got all the details. Maybe too many details. This is a hard-nosed book, not some fluff-piece. So, be prepared to sift through a lot of fine details. But it’s worth it!

Yeah. My monkey chatter is pretty low now too. Great insight. I don’t even have bad dreams anymore. I used to have bad dreams on occasion. The only time I get bad monkey chatter is when I’m stressed by something acute happening in my life.

But all of this is seen through the lens of your awareness. So, only your awareness is really there. These two perspectives are identified by the Mind in your awareness. This is tricky. Do you see it! There are no objects, things, perceivers. There is only the One, and you are it. And the One is not two. This is what non-duality means. All language is entirely metaphorical and dualistic.

What is a fact? Contemplate that one. You’ll see that you’re not as solid about this as the Mind likes to think.

The idea that words are pointing to things is just another false belief, false paradigm. All beliefs are false. Don’t look for a rational proof of this either. It can only be confirmed by keen-awareness.

Yes. The Devil is the Ego. Hell is living within the Egoic Paradigm. Religion is just Spirituality expressed within the Egoic Paradigm. God is high-consciousness or keen-awareness. Heaven is the happiness and peace caused by being God.

I’m so glad I have a place to express these ideas. This is all shit that I see and I am so happy to be able to share these ideas with somebody else. I would be killed just a few hundred years ago for saying these things publically. When I visited Rome, I saw the spot where Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake. It’s like right in the city too not some remote spot. They built a statue there and it’s in a public square. The thoughts that float through your head and the emotions you feel are surreal when you see the spot where he was burned in person. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno

It’s only perfect when you reach the zenith. You gotta get to the zenith before you reach the zenith though. Raising awareness is the best strategy for reaching the zenith. But you gotta go all the way, you can’t let glass ceilings hinder you. To reach the zenith you gotta go where you've never gone before, you can’t sent up camp and habituate at one higher level and then coast like that’s it. But don’t turn this into a limiting-belief. Think of this like a goose as in someone giving you a good goose! As in — Take it up another notch dood! Don’t be complacent and comfortably assume you’ve arrived anywhere. That’s a trap in this work. We’ll call that the camper’s trap. We gottaa be climbers not campers.

Consciousness means awareness. High-consciousness mean high-awareness. Low-consciousness means low-awareness.

Meditation is training to do the mindfulness required to raise your awareness. Enlightenment is a word that refers to the process of raising awareness, especially in the higher-stages of awareness.

Are all three of these traditional paths to Enlightenment valid in your opinion?

How has this changed my life? I feel free, mobile, aware of the status of my possessions at all times. I spend very little time bogged down in junk and don’t waste a lot of my time shopping. I don’t get lost in books because I try not to have them around me, except for one or two that I am actively currently reading,

It doesn’t work like that. Awareness stays the same, but the content of awareness changes. I learned this from my ego death experience.

Or how about this belief: “Non-duality is true” You’re gonna see some surprises if you look under the hoods of both of these beliefs.

Every question is a desire for increased awareness or understanding.