AllanGR

Ego backlash, excellent term. My method is indulging in everything I consider evil; bad; rude, offensive (but obviously within the law) and sometimes it's instant clarity, other times it takes while. Ego wrangling, what fun it is -not.

I used to blush. I recall myself in a chemist's shop which had a big mirror behind the counter and my face was between women servers looking at me. My face was the prettiest scarlet you ever did see. I still blush now from time to time and yeah, there's obviously a reason. You're a conscientious person, I presume, with an empathy for people. Not always a useful quality in the way you express it. We're surrounded by laws and armies, so thanks to weapons, brute force and spies, our world in the west to a fault - at least where I am, is civilized. What I'm getting at is that your type of empathy is deceiving you regarding the nature of people around you. You're giving people credit for something they mostly aren't. If we starved 99% of them for years and then you walked among them as you are, they'd rip the clothes off your back and even kill you for what you had. Some may feel a little bad, but hey, survival trumps all, and sorry you died but they had kids to feed. A hypothetical extreme, extreme sure but I'm saying the world is far from perfect so don't give it credit until it earns it from you. Also distractions are useful, like what are doing with your life... Having an aim is a useful distraction. For example, if you're running for a bus with a couple of rabid dogs chasing you, blushing won't happen. But if it does at that moment, who give a rats...

Hello grrmz, I hope at least you're trying Leo's approach which is to become self aware, succeeding you'll understand. It's easy for me to state, emotional problems are illusions. That if you stop thinking about them, they'll go away. I mean, if I thought like you I'd have the same problems as you, wouldn't I? I would, but I don't, so I don't have your problems. The apparent difference between you and I is, I have a purpose, and my energies are focused on that. The purpose of a vehicle is to keep on the road to achieve a destination. There are video clips of vehicles without purpose falling off roads and crashing into other vehicles. A purpose is useful. Not having one is a problem. So what do you want? Decide and get on with it.

Try gab.ai I strongly agree with you, politics is a problem. Is that a good summary of the entirety of politics? I think it is

I don't know the purposes of those who write here. Perhaps to make some money in training schemes to which I have no objection. But my reply may cause you to feel you have lost face because I will disagree with you. That's my intention but only to share. If you delete my account, that's fine, I get it. Besides that I am very old. And nobody cares I get that too. The astral travelling experience is as unmistakable as the death experience. What you all appear to fail to comprehend is such experiences take you into a world that is not human. I mean for example, ghost stories where the ghost is still him/herself from the world but it is not so -- leaving the body is leaving the human. To be sure there are ghosts but they are only the remains of the personality, not the former human who soon goes elsewhere. All this is subjective knowledge to you, even if I've gained the knowledge through experience, its current worth to you is only entertainment. Astral travelling is accompanied by specific and unmistakable events, as I've said, which none of you has mentioned. The after-effects of astral travelling are also unmistakable. The time difference (even if time is illusory) is stark. I won't say more about the astral travelling experience as I don't like fakes or fakers. @Shin Enlightenment. I notice on the forums stipulations about what enlightenment involves; about what the enlightened should be, even how they think or don't think. Imho Buddha, among other things, was a bit slow. Took him 7 years to realize fasting was pointless. But no one's perfect. Enlightenment is a brutal thing, although if you really want it you can have it. The downside is it's like being at the centre of a wheel and if you detract from the state for any reason you will be thrown swiftly into states that could make you worse than you were when you began. At the same time denial and complete destruction of yourself so that being thrown from the centre are important to your growth and continuity. Becoming a lawyer, doctor, president or soldier in battle are difficult but attaining enlightenment and keeping it is difficult even beyond your worst nightmares. Enlightenment is a huge career move. You, your world and all that you believe and hold dear will never be the same. Even if you're surrounded by people, even friends and family you will be forever alone. Doesn't mean you can't have a beloved, you can but there is alone and 'alone.' People know that already, but there's another alone even beyond that. ^^ More seriously, do you get the enormity? Sure, you can have enlightenment but for you it will be like living on a distant planet surrounded by aliens. Aliens who communicate in specific ways. Any deviation from their ways will be uncomfortable and sometimes dangerous. You will have knowledge and solutions beyond the average person but there won't be a single thing you can do, and for many reasons. Become charming, rich even alter your features, no problemo, but from the standpoint of enlightenment mostly you won't, although charm is useful. Helping the world? Someone helped Pol Pot in Cambodia and he began Year Zero and genocidal insanity. You don't know their ultimate aims, you are not a God, you're only enlightened. Certainly enlightenment is all the lovely things you dream about, but it's not cheap. Are you ready to fast march up Mount Everest 9000 times with a heavy pack on your back hoping you don't lose your footing at 8999 while the world guesses you're a little strange? Then enlightenment is for you! Otherwise remember ignorance is bliss.