Joseph Maynor

Good question to flag and to think about more. I don't agree that there's 'relative Truth'. There's only one Truth.

This is too Thought-laden. Seeing is seeing. Seeing doesn't require Thought. The Egoic mind loves this kind of analysis, but this doesn't prove anything in true Metaphysics. The Truth is a seeing not a Thinking.

Don't allow yourself to become dependent on Youtube. You're gonna have to have irons in more than one fire if you wanna be sustainable selling and marketing your personal development products and services.

All Free will is Egoic. Awareness, which is the true self, has a freedom to be aware though, which is a certain kind of free will. And keen-awareness can affect the illusion but in a non-linear way that is not easily correlated with models that we can construct. Awareness has the free will to be aware. But the Egoic-self lacks free will because Thought and Experience are a literal illusion.

You have to be smarter than the gurus so as not be confused by them. And this is not intellectual smartness. This is you knowing who you are and trusting your own self-observation. Then you can take it or leave it with the gurus. Gurus get you wrapped up in their own 'ritual of terms' or talk. You need to develop your own ritual of terms that comes from focusing inward.

The best way to teach someone is to help them do self-observation for themselves. And then talk to them about it, but don't push any theory on them. Let them tell you what they see.

Are you speaking from your own experience?

Mooji gives off a certain spiritual vibe too which kind of encourages it.

Hehe

The best charisma is just to never lie and be light about it. Charisma is having the balls to be real. The reason why fakers have charisma is because they don't give a sh*t which gives them the illusion of genuineness. The key to charisma is to give a shit and also be real -- but also be light about it, which shows that you're internally grounded. You can not care and also be nice. That's where you want to be. Your niceness isn't based on Ego, it's based on compassion. It's based on realizing that you're all alone in existence.

What are the 'qualifications' for seeing through the illusion of Maya (Thought and Experience) and discovering the true Self?

For me, Enlightenment is seeing through the illusion of Thought and Experience (Maya) and becoming aware of the true Self.

Self-realization has a few different stages to it. You see these stages looking back on your own Path, it's not some kind of external map of stages that some people think Enlightenment has. The external map is only meant to remind you that you went through stages yourself. Focusing inward on your Enlightenment journey should show you that you in fact went through several different stages of self-realization. They don't need to be labeled, but you went through them.

I appreciate this comment too. It's important that we have Enlightenment teachers that understand the full responsibility of being an Enlightenment teacher -- where it comes from a very pure, honest place. This is because, at the end of the day, you should be helping others the same way you yourself needed help on the Path. If you want to play the teaching game, that is.

Correct.

This is one of the things that I don’t like about Enlightenment teachers, and I think it confuses people — this whole idea that Enlightenment can be explained in Egoic terms. This is why making money off Enlightenment causes a lot of problems.

If you’ve made a stage transition you should be able to tell me. The only knowledge you can have in this work has to be grounded in your own experience. Can you tell me based off your own experience something that confirms what I said in my post? See, that gets you thinking and looking inward instead of waiting for me to deliver the answer to you. Only your answers matter in this work.

Yes. The higher you go up the spiral the more adaptive you become as a problem solver and the wiser you become.

All it can be is a tool to help your own growth. The theory can only serve the practice of your life. Everything else is a distraction if it’s tangential to you living your life better.

Seeing trumps thinking. You can see that there’s nothing behind Thought and Experience. It’s not that Thought and Experience don’t exist, it’s that there’s nothing behind the scenes with it. So, the only thing that properly exists is Awareness that understands that it exists alone — and this is called God Awareness. Thinking about non-duality as not carving up Experience is trumped by seeing that Maya a.k.a. Thought and Experience are an illusion.

Coral comes after Turquoise. I’ve written extensively about my entering Stage Coral in my Journal Vol. 8.

Good points. Personal Development is corrupted like every other industry is by Egoic distractions.

Animals are part of the illusion as is the Egoic Self. Yes, the illusion is real but there’s nothing behind the scenes. There’s only one Awareness/Consciousness in reality.

You lose credibility with the above-stated hyperbole. I live in San Francisco. People love to hate on San Francisco, but few of those people could even afford to live here. That’s the reality. San Francisco makes most other cities and places to live seem like second-tier cities at best. That’s why people hate on San Francisco. Same reason people hate on New York City and other first-tier cities. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco

I’m so glad I don’t have to play the game of arguing about Jordan Peterson. I wish him well. There are worse ways to make a living than he is. And if you don’t like him — it’s a simple solution: ignore him. I’m sure he probably doesn’t like you either. But he’s getting paid and we’re not, so there you have it. We don’t wanna be a bunch of whiners lost in ‘poor me’ narratives. If you wanna say something about the dude, say it once and then let go. It’s not worth going into over and over. It just causes you suffering. Ditto for talking about Trump. It’s not worth your own peace of mind to even mention Trump. You gotta start to realize that you keep these demons alive by feeding them. I never watch the news, talk about Trump etc., and because of that I honestly wish Trump well because there’s no love lost. I couldn’t care less frankly! And that detachment is what allows me to have compassion for people like that.