Joseph Maynor

It's good to spend a good chunk of your day away from theory because it just gets pounded in otherwise. I'm exactly the kind of person who could benefit from this myself, and I realize that I gotta do it. I gotta let go of my beliefs and be ok without not having to constantly have Thought in my life. It's ok to dip into Thought mindfully, but this gluttony that we have with Thought just causes so much suffering because we start to see the world in the image of our Thought. Thought becomes a lens on reality; a false lens.

Yep. And you'll have more than one awakening if you're anything like me. And you'll have shifts after every one.

It depends on how you want to conceptualize it I guess.

Exactly. But there's Awareness though. There's keen Awareness. There's Awareness that's lost in Thought and Experience and then there's Awareness that knows who it is.

Think about how much time people spend staring at pages and screens.

I just watched the video again. I do get a whiny kind of Stage Green vibe in the video too (the first half of the video specifically). A 'poor me' vibe. Not trying to be rude, just being honest. That's the problem with trading in all these beliefs, you start to believe them. That seems to be the subtext of the video. It seems very Stage Green to me. Here's my opinion: Dude, it's all bad! Working for money is all bad -- sinner or saint, I don't care who you are. It's not us versus them -- it's the whole thing. It's all of it -- every bit. You can't carve yourself out as an exception in a sh*t-eating contest. At the end of the day, we're all in it. Be careful with how strongly you cling to how you interpret things. That's all Thought, and you're gonna turn it into a self-fulfilling prophesy. For every rule, there's an exception. Be the exception. Don't let your Thought do you. I used to think like this too when I was in my early 30's. It was my ultra-Liberal stage. Maya a.k.a. Thought and Experience is all a distraction away from keen Awareness. This is why it's important to stop pounding your Thoughts in so hard, you start to mistake them for reality! That's a trap that I see very keenly now. You define your own reality through clinging to Thought. That's called Maya, Ego, and all it does is cause your own suffering. Good or bad, it doesn't matter, if you're clinging to Thought at all you're causing your own suffering. It doesn't matter if you think you're God's servant helping to evolve the world, that's a fantasy, a Thought -- it's Ego. All clinging to Thought will do is keep you in Hell, in Samsara -- even if you think you're the good guy, the savior of humanity! The best your life can be is when (1) you know who you are as the true Self, and (2) you're not entangled in Maya a.k.a. Thought and Experience. That has nothing to do with achievement at all, see. The happiest you're gonna be in life is when you're God Awareness looking down on and through Maya a.k.a. Thought and Experience. That's called Liberation or Moksha or Heaven. 'Awareness = Freedom' as Faceless said. Our Faceless lol. I quoted him! The reality is you don't need sh*t as God Awareness.

Don’t worry about being 100% morally pure through what you do to earn money. The only way to be morally pure is to not work for money at all — to not do anything inauthentic at all. All of us are part of the system that you laid out in your new video almost by necessity. I appreciate your lay of the land in your new video, but it applies to ALL working for money. I think what we gotta watch out for is how we cling to our whoring ourselves out for money — and all of us are doing it, make no mistake about it. Even the Preacher, the go-gooder is whoring himself out for money. Even the artist is whoring himself out as well. It’s sick man. I think you’re right Leo in the sense that we wanna be moving in more healthy ways to make money — to me that’s where the beneficial teaching lies in Life Purpose teaching. But really, the healthiest thing is not to have to work for money at all, see. That takes you out of the whole system that you described in your new video quite well. All money-making has an Egoic aspect to it. It’s all a distraction, as necessary as it is. Striving to be morally pure by working for money is kind of an oxymoron. I’m not saying you said that by the way. I’m saying it.

I don’t know about that language, I’m not familiar with it. You gotta go through Turquoise before you can enter Coral. Coral transcends a lot of Turquoise though. Coral sees that Turquoise is still very distracted by Thought and Experience.

I just watched a great movie about the capture of Adolf Eichmann in the theater that I recommend. It’s called Operation Finale, released in 2018. It should still be in the theaters now. I saw it like a week ago. Definitely worth watching if you have the time. I thought it was worth it, and it made me do some research on Eichmann and do some reflecting. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Finale https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem

Definitely. I think everybody is wrapped up in this. Ego just is all these distractions — it’s distractions where you lose sense of your true Self. And we allow ourselves to be lured by the Devil Distractions a.k.a. Thought and Experience. That’s what Ego is: distractions of Awareness within Thought and Experience so you forget who you really are. And you think you’re doing a good thing by embracing Thought and Experience, but you just cause yourself a lot of unnecessary suffering at the end of the day by doing so. We do it to ourselves because we don’t want to accept who we really are. Egoic distractions allow us to forget the Truth temporarily; but that inauthenticity has a price to be paid in suffering over the short and long term. When you dance with the Devil don’t complain that you get burned — and you will get burned a lot — that’s what Hell a.k.a. Samsara is.

Stage Coral transcends Thought and Experience and fully realizes the true Self, which is all alone.

That’s a stretch Leo. Forget about logic for a moment. Jordan Peterson is no Hitler. That’s a bizarre comparison you’re making, not me. I think Jordan Peterson means well and I don’t think he’s a bad person at all. Hey — there’s two knobs on the radio right, on and off. Nobody is forcing anybody to listen to Jordan Peterson. Jordan Peterson is not waging war and killing people — maybe metaphorically you could argue that, but not literally. But, yeah, to compare those two is a bit off and I never intended to make such a comparison logic or no logic. Jordan Peterson is a personal development teacher like you are right? Is that such an evil thing? If that’s evil, I think we need to coin a new word for the real thing.

There’s no ‘relative truth’. There’s your opinions (Thoughts) which are not relative truths. Nothing wrong with opinions per se, but I wouldn’t try to clothe your Thought as ‘relative truths’. That’s a sneaky Egoic rationalization to remain attached to your Thought and Experience. There’s only one Truth, and it has nothing to do with Thought or Experience. I think this is an important issue, and I’ve actually thought a lot about this recently. I’ve realized that ‘relative truth’ doesn’t exist at worst and is a misnomer at best. It’s sneaky for the Ego to think that what it’s doing is dealing in truths, see. That gets it off the hook. It’s a very subtle Egoic rationalization. It’s creating a phantom ‘truth’ in order to make the Ego feel justified and safe within its Thought and Experience. The most deceptive thing the Ego can do is redefine ‘truth’ in its own favor! — or at least to try to make room within the notion of ‘truth’ to include itself.

Say what you want about Jordan Peterson, he’s done a fine job of executing his Life Purpose Work, you gotta admit. Now whether that brings him an end to his suffering or not is a different issue. Enlightenment Work and Life Purpose Work can be at odds and it’s tricky to find the right balance to resolve them. But Peterson has created his own dream career. From a Life Purpose standpoint he gets an ‘A’, no? Think about it. Give him that one. He had the balls to successfully do what he wanted to do with his work, and he’s achieved massive success at least on paper. I don’t think he’s happy though, quite the contrary. Neurotically trying to change the world is not an avenue to happiness, which is something I now understand that I didn’t quite understand before. Don’t hate the player, hate the game — and actually you don’t wanna hate the game either. Think about all the time you’re wasting and all the suffering you’re causing yourself criticizing Jordan Peterson. At the end of the day, I wish Jordan Peterson well, I think he means well. But I wouldn’t want his life or his job. But he probably wouldn’t want mine either.

Ego is best understood as forgetting yourself as God Awareness by getting lured into becoming embedded in Maya a.k.a Thought and Experience. ‘Ego’ is more synonymous with ‘distraction’ than most people realize. Distraction is the Devil that lures God to forget Himself and enter Hell a.k.a. Samsara a.k.a. Maya a.k.a. Thought and Experience.

People are only relativistic on matters that don't concern themselves. Then they can safely be relativistic. But the moment something concerns them watch their relativism fly out the window. It's easy to play the role of the relativist when you don't have any skin in the game. Then you can deny responsibility and play the relativist card easily, right. But nobody is truly a relativist when they themselves are implicated in something. I've never seen it, and I think it's total B.S. It's easy to be a relativist when it comes to other people because you have no skin in the game. And don't pretend that Enlightened people are relativists either, that's not true. Relativism is a sneaky, apathetic, Ego move to deny taking responsibility for something that you don't have direct skin in the game on. It's a cop-out basically, a rationalization.

Great example. But would Jesus allow what happened if he could stop it? Or would he tell himself to stop whining already and just go chill out. Jesus is kind of a tricky example because it's not clear what the Ontological status of Jesus is. Jesus could just very well be almost completely fiction. And you could do anything with fiction. In fiction, I could have a guy chop off his own member and fry it up and eat it with fava beans with a smile on his face.

It is if you willingly stay in Hell after you know the way out. (1) God is the true Self, which is God Awareness, the only 'thing' that actually exists. (2) Heaven is God Awareness fully groking that it's the only thing that actually exists, and that it exists outside Maya a.k.a. outside Thought and Experience. Heaven is also grokking that Maya can't hurt God Awareness because it's an illusion, in other words, Thought and Experience are an illusion that can't hurt God Awareness in any way. (3) The Devil is the seductor that tries to lure God Awareness into forgetting that He's God and losing Himself by enmeshment into Maya a.k.a. Thought and Experience. Another way to think of the Devil is as Triggers into Maya a.k.a. Triggers into Thought and Experience. (4) Hell is when your Awareness loses sight of the fact (or never knew the fact in the first place) that it's the only thing that actually exists and becomes enmeshed within the illusion of Maya a.k.a. Thought and Experience. This is what causes all suffering; namely, when Awareness gets enmeshed in illusory Maya a.k.a. illusory Thought and Experience. This is not simply analogous to being caught in a bad dream and waking up with your heart pounding out of your chest. This is being caught in any dream at all, even positive ones, and not just when you're sleeping. All enmeshment in Maya a.k.a. Thought and Experience just is Samsara, which leads to Dukkha (suffering).

Yes. Samsara is what I call being in Hell. (1) God is the true Self, which is God Awareness, the only 'thing' that actually exists. (2) Heaven is God Awareness fully groking that it's the only thing that actually exists, and that it exists outside Maya a.k.a. outside Thought and Experience. Heaven is also grokking that Maya can't hurt God Awareness because it's an illusion, in other words, Thought and Experience are an illusion that can't hurt God Awareness in any way. (3) The Devil is the seductor that tries to lure God Awareness into forgetting that He's God and losing Himself by enmeshment into Maya a.k.a. Thought and Experience. Another way to think of the Devil is as Triggers into Maya a.k.a. Triggers into Thought and Experience. (4) Hell is when your Awareness loses sight of the fact (or never knew the fact in the first place) that it's the only thing that actually exists and becomes enmeshed within the illusion of Maya a.k.a. Thought and Experience. This is what causes all suffering; namely, when Awareness gets enmeshed in illusory Maya a.k.a. illusory Thought and Experience. This is not simply analogous to being caught in a bad dream and waking up with your heart pounding out of your chest. This is being caught in any dream at all, even positive ones, and not just when you're sleeping. All enmeshment in Maya a.k.a. Thought and Experience just is Samsara, which leads to Dukkha (suffering).

Enlightenment is Awareness (You) slowly pulling yourself out of Maya a.k.a. Thought and Experience. Once you see Maya for what it is, that's when you reach Awareness of God a.k.a. Awareness of You. That's where you become God. That's where God Awareness emerges on the Enlightenment path. Post-Enlightenment, your life will be put into complete perspective alright hehe -- you'll realize your life and everything around you is a total illusion. Enlightenment goes way beyond self-improvement, see -- Enlightenment will cause you to jump a paradigm from self-improvement up a level that you don't even know exists yet. Get ready for the mindf*ck of all mindf*cks. Giving real Enlightenment advice is not a way to make friends and influence people haha, I can tell you that right now -- quite the contrary actually and naturally so! You're basically telling everybody that everything they value is a total illusion. A real Enlightenment teacher would probably be killed in the old days, and that's not surprising. You're turning the value of life, reality, and thought on its ear. To be an Enlightenment teacher who's palatable to the masses, you kinda have to be a Spiritual Ego or at least pretend like you're one, and you dirty your God Awareness when you do that, see. Enlightenment is the total death of everything you think exists and everything you think is worthwhile. The biggest Spiritual Ego is the one pointing out other Spiritual Egos. You still don't realize that Everything is you. There's nothing but you as Awareness getting entangled in Maya -- that's all there is. There's nothing but you as Awareness refusing to allow Maya to die. You're inflating a bunch of balloon animals and then pretending that they all have personalities and life in them and such. What you don't understand yet is that you're the only thing that exists, and you're all alone. You couldn't take that huh. See? It's You the Awareness that's entangled and distracted within Maya that's the only Ego. This is the only way it could be because it's all you. You're not ready for my insight. That's ok, nobody is. It will find you, you don't find it!

It would be a world that collapses into one Consciousness. In other words, the only world that exists is Me. It would be a world of one God Awareness looking down on and through Maya a.k.a. Thought and Experience.

The only award you get is when you finally realize you're the only thing that exists and that you're talking to yourself. And it's a bittersweet award that nobody wants (no Egoic self wants). The Ego (Lures into Maya a.k.a. Thoughts and Experience) will do everything it can to draw you away from that insight. But once you have it, you can't unsee it. It's in there now even though your Awareness will still get distracted by Thought and Experience. That's the power of an awakening experience. But there's gotta be a takeaway there. One of the things I've always been great at is implementing my insights, my takeaways, and I attribute my growth to that on the Path. A lot of people have these great insights and never takeaway anything from them. Enlightenment is about having an insight and then never being the same in some sense after it. You gotta trust your own insights and run with them, but also don't cling tightly to them because you also expect that they will change. Thinking that you've arrived in Enlightenment Work is a way to set yourself up for a real mindf*ck when you have another awakening, another profound realization or shift. And I've had so many shifts now that I just don't assume anything. But I walk my insights to death after I have them. I milk them for all the juice they have.

Becoming God means that all Experience and Thoughts must die, not just the Egoic self. They all burn into the illusion of Maya a.k.a. Thought and Experience. The only thing that actually exists is God Awareness a.k.a. the true Self right now. I think the biggest trap in Enlightenment Work is refusing to face the fact that you are all alone in existence and that everything you care deeply about in Experience and Thought is a total illusion (dead). Nobody wants to face that. And actually what happens is you don't face it, it comes after you. In other words, the awakening may occur to you sometime in the future, and then you won't be able to unsee it.

I like to use both words for different purposes. I like to use 'Consciousness' to reference the fact that everything is inside my Consciousness. Other than this use, I avoid using the word Consciousness. I like to refer to 'God Awareness' as the true Self. 'Awareness' without the 'God' modifier is an Awareness that doesn't yet realize it's the only thing that actually exists. And Awareness does not include 'Maya' which is Experience and Thought. God Awareness looks down on and through Maya a.k.a. Experience and Thought.

I like to use both words for different purposes. I like to use 'Consciousness' to reference the fact that everything is inside my Consciousness. Other than this use, I avoid using the word Consciousness. I like to refer to 'God Awareness' as the true Self. 'Awareness' without the 'God' modifier is an Awareness that doesn't yet realize it's the only thing that actually exists. And Awareness does not include 'Maya' which is Experience and Thought. God Awareness looks down on and through Maya a.k.a. Experience and Thought.