Joseph Maynor

Do you feel like your finite presentation as a human is also being imagined, and how is this sectioned off from what you take God to be?

In your view, Is the One Consciousness which is imagining everything also imagining all the finite perspectives including the small you (the finite you or me) that appear to exist?

Is rationality a sense of bringing order to experience?

Because of Truth.

It's ok to make a profit from your business. Be careful of becoming so puritanical that you work for free. This is a trap.

Is there a way to Love both conservatives and liberals?

The Internet has made it harder to communicate about spiritual enlightenment.

I had durian one and only one time! Anyone who eats this a second time I give props to.

I would say it's way more nuanced than this.

I'm not saying judgment is wrong, but it can be overstated in a way that is not conducive to relation.

I'm sensing an undertone of judging people and trying to hierarchize people from a certain perspective. I tend not to do this. I think when you make people feel judged, they tend to want to prove you right -- how you see them to you. It's a mirror effect. It's good for pitting people against each other to create drama, but not so good for relation IMO. This is a judgment call and is hard to teach anyone. You have to choose, is your role to create drama or to create relation, these are sometimes at odds, maybe. If you're surviving by creating drama, then you have to look at that. That has pros and cons.

One thing to consider in this project is who is deriving truth from scratch? It all presupposes a story of the self.

A lot of my work has been closing that gap and being ok with being a human. It's like I went really hard in the spiritual direction and then came back to being a normal human. And most spiritual people disagree with me about this I find. But inside I still have all the fruits of my spiritual work that factor in. So nothing has been lost.

Is the assumption here that letting go is ideal because the self (or ego) is an illusion and takes no action anyway?

Like a regular person but I tend to go into life coach mode when I see people suffering. Usually this comes off well. I almost never talk about spirituality with people in real life. I like to laugh with people and enjoy their company. I like to work on my self-help goals. I have no need to try to be seen a certain way in real life. My goal is to enjoy the company of others but also not interfere too much with people's time who are trying to work.

One issue I see is are you listening to music to contemplate or are you listening to music to listen to music?

You don't forget hey I'm not who I thought I was so easily. That's not an experience that is forgotten, so yes it can be recalled. I'm not in the cool guys awakening club by design.

Most of the time it is not. But if I think back to the trip I can recall what it was like.

If I were to describe that in a 5-Meo sense it would be realizing what I really am is Awareness.

I'm not sure what would qualify one to declare that they are awake or not.

The idea of dream is actually key here and it comes up in theory. But is direct experience the same as or analogous to a dream? That seems to imply an intervening thought.

Psychedelics are interesting because although they're thought, commonly, to be fantasy, they're actually direct experience. It depends on how we want to define direct experience.