Joseph Maynor

Do Leo's Life Purpose Course if you haven't done it. What you think is your life purpose is probably not very well thought out. You need to dig deep and chart your authentic-self very accurately. I thought I had a life purpose too, but it was way off. I'm doing the course myself now.

Everybody here is just as scared as you are. Just put yourself out there. That’s how you’ll grow fastest. If you hold it in, you can’t grow. So, just develop an I don’t give a fuck kind of an attitude. Everyone here is embarrassed to some extent, but we’re all doing it, so the shame is minimized. Openness will make you grow so much so fast. You’ll catch some shit too — but just ignore those posts. Your mission is to grow. To grow, you gotta break yourself open so people can have a look inside. Then you’ll get some great feedback and you’ll develop more and more awareness. If you hold it in, you are here but not here, if that makes sense. You wanna get the most outta your participation on here. We’re all in the same Personal Development boat.

Enlightenment is a tricky beast of a thing to try to teach someone, because it’s easy to give the Mind more limiting-beliefs to avoid doing this work. I am trying my best to explain Enlightenment in a way that resonates with me that is least harmful to those trying to unhook themselves from culture. Even Enlightenment theory is a part of culture. What you want to do is free yourself from the shackles of culture, while still being in it. Then the authentic-self has a chance to get to know itself and to get out from under the mama-bear of the Mind. No quick answers in the form of beliefs are gonna help you. You gotta find the authentic-self and then convince the Mind that culture is causing you suffering. Then the Mind will release the Ego on its own through raising awareness. So, only raising awareness correlates with Enlightenment, and it takes about 6 months of consistent work to start to see real results. You are changing habits by building awareness. Some things can’t be unseen. That’s what you are shooting for. Those the Mind can’t sweep up under the rug or conveniently forget about. You know how a wet dog swivels its body back and forth to try to dry itself off? That’s kind of what Enlightenment is. You gotta shake all that culture, all that conditioning off. And no-one can do your swivel for you, you gotta do it yourself. They can tell you about their swivels, but that doesn’t really do much to help you with yours. It might mislead you to what your swivel will actually be like — because now the Mind has a bunch of notions in the air telling it what to expect from the swivel. That’s why Enlightenment teachers are very careful about what they say and how they say it.

Leo — can you help her, I feel bad.

See, that sounds too speculative to me. Why can’t we admit we don’t know what happens fully? The Mind is addicted to knowing, and that’s why we neurotically cling to all these silly beliefs. All we can do is be. Whatever the Mind thinks is true is most probably false. Thinking everything is cyclical is just a belief. Don’t cling too hard to that. That’s a trap. Reincarnation is a piece of culture, an article of clothing, laid-up on top of awareness. It’s like putting tennis shoes on and then thinking the shoes are part of the feet. No — tennis shoes are a part of culture. Beliefs like reincarnation are like that too. Ideas are in the air, they have a history.

I don’t believe in reincarnation as of now. Not in the sense that it is commonly believed. When I had my Ego-death experience, I was taken out of here and then came back, but that wasn’t really a reincarnation. When I was in hyperspace I was just Being. Whatever carnation there was dissipating like a breaking television set flickering in and out, although it didn’t happen fully. It happened like 90% — enough for me to see the being behind the purported carnation. But to believe in some cyclical kind of reincarnation is probably just the Mind trying to impress itself or to calm itself down. We don’t know! All we know is what we have experienced. You gotta watch out for the insecure Mind which has a powerful need to know. You gotta release that. Awareness in the Now is all you have. What doesn’t change is being. All the content is in flux. That’s what that experience taught me. Believing in reincarnation is clinging too hard to the experience. Being/awareness never ceases! Reincarnation sounds like a trap to me. Nothing ever dies! It’s only when you cling to experience that the Mind conceives of death. Death is being too beholden to the content of awareness rather than awareness itself. Awareness itself never dies, although the content is always changing. The Mind pretends that the content is what is real. No, awareness/Being is what is real. That’s a sneaky trap that the Mind plays on us. But it seems so real! Yeah? — that’s where psychedelics can really help you see this trap fully.

My bad. I shouldn’t laugh because you did get a painful result. Did Leo get back to you AK?

Sometimes it’s hard for me to write because I have to express things in a roundabout manner because all beliefs are false. The Mind wants a direct answer, so this is not easy to do. I have to just let the subconscious mind write and then clean that up with the conscious mind. If it resonates with me, I publish it. Everything I say must be taken as an insight not a truth. It’s just writing versus non-writing. When we mess with words, we’re just playing with our toys in the sand. The test of genuine resonance with me is my test for writing. If I like what I write, then I’m ok publishing it. But I am sensitive to overstating things that will mislead people. The Mind likes to cling hard to beliefs, which causes a lot of problems, including the Ego.

This is funny. Not you, just the way you asked it.

I sense a fear lurking in you. Examine that. Are you scared that people are going to judge you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_Planet_Dust

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The truth about enlightenment is that culture is not the truth. Grok it.

This one’s for you Leo!

Get Leo's Life Purpose Course if you can.

When you become fully aware of your authentic choices in the moment and how those differ from cultural terms, then all your problems will melt away.

Get through school. You'll regret it if you don't! Just bite the bullet and grind through it.

You need to do some Life Purpose work. It's that simple.

Well then out the picture. We need to be exposed to this belief fully.

It’s the first time it’s had the reincarnation flavor that I can recall.