Joseph Maynor

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  1. Music is the Universal language. Even non-human animals appreciate music. Birds love music. Birds are natural musicians.
  2. Yeah. The Course is specifically set up to guide you to crafting your life purpose. It’s very good. Trying to find your life purpose without doing the Course is no good. I tried to do that too. The Course has many exercises that have you come at life purpose from many different angles. Leo did a good job on that course. I’m surprised schools don’t buy it.
  3. I worked through all the sentence stems myself. This is quality personal development work you’re doing. This gets you digging into your self-image so you can find out what’s in there. You can’t address a problem until you can identify it. What you’re doing is helping yourself identify problems now and later on down the road. So, doing this work is a good investment for you.
  4. I find no need for the concept.
  5. Everybody thinks they’re the expert. It’s not just you either.
  6. It is amazing to me how much people misunderstand theory. It carves out a whole niche for me to try to help remedy, so I really shouldn’t be complaining.
  7. I’m so glad you’re on the Forum. I too am interested in Egyptology.
  8. I love the Pimsleur Conversational CDs to start. They are inexpensive too. https://www.pimsleur.com/learn-dutch/pimsleur-dutch-conversational-course-level-1-lessons-1-16-cd/9780743552523?coupon_code=pla&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6bTJjqrI2wIVisJkCh2tggnaEAYYAiABEgLUsvD_BwE
  9. Step one would be to find your life purpose. I would do Leo’s Course to get started in that.
  10. What is full Enlightenment? Is it a thought-story or Existential Truth? People create a lot of their own hurdles. Enlightenment work for me was challenging for a couple years, but once I became Existential Truth — all the seeking stopped. Be careful you’re not trying to seek some concept of Enlightenment. Don’t turn Enlightenment into something that it’s not. Some people seem to really get trapped that way. And there’s no way to reason with these people either. It’s like trying to convince a dog to stop tracking a scent that has captured its imagination. It’s just gotta keep following that scent until the issue resolves itself, right. You just gotta let the dog do that.
  11. Haha. What? Too much drama?
  12. You gotta create it. You create a vision first and then embody it. That’s how the process works.
  13. Always feel free to come back. The journey is a long and windy road.
  14. Stick around man. I like the fact you are honest about your beliefs. Each Perspective has a different lens of reality. This idea that everyone should have my lens is just untenable. Even Enlightened people differ widely on their views of reality. That’s to be appreciated, not ignored. No two Persectives have the same stories about reality. Once you have Existential Truth, the stories become much less important. If you find your conceptual systems about reality useful and they work for you — I’m not gonna try to impose my views on you. I might try to provoke you, but that’s because I wanna see if you might grow past your current frameworks. But see, I do that to everybody because I do that to myself. I’m always trying to grow. And I have grown, a lot.
  15. I agree. Existential Truth is not a state. People have so much trouble groking that.
  16. I get it. I felt that way a couple of years ago myself. And a lot of that stuff is still with me. It’s not like spirituality makes a clean shift, it’s just that how you conceive of it can change. It’s like your paradigms shift, but that doesn’t mean I feel any less spiritual than I did when I was religious. I still feel guided and blessed. It’s just that the beliefs of religion have been transcended. But the reality of spirituality is the same as it ever was for me.
  17. I see religion as a possible phase in the growth process. I went through that. The Forum should be tolerant of those with religious beliefs. This is a necessary part of growth for many people.
  18. Have you always been religious, or is this new? I went through a religious stage myself that lasted a couple of years.
  19. There’s no levels for Existential Truth, but for the Conceptual Understanding there are a number of levels. A dummy and a genius are not on the same level. A baby and a college professor are not on the same level. In one way, yes, but in another way, no. People don’t know how to separate Existential Truth from the Conceptual Understanding!