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It's worth watching all 31 episodes, each episode reflecting on what we can do about the meaning crisis - defined as a disconnect from the world, ourselves and the future. The problems being deeply historical, cultural and cognitive problems. Looking at past figures who have spoken in ways that provide the resources we need to tackle this problem.

This is an absolute gold mine

I just got back into Kriya seriously after a bit of a break. During navi kriya i felt my base chakra more than normal and felt like it was opening up. During Kriya Pranyama i managed to feel deep levels of relaxation and calm. After that i started concentration and i felt sicky feeling in my gut. I stayed unreactive to this and started to feel worse to the point where my body was shaking and had a gag reflex followed by my back tensing up immensely. This meditation is ridiculously powerful and wonder if anyone else has experienced anything similar and can breakdown what is going on.

Sorry for the clickbait title. So what would I say to Trump if I met him? It would be very hard not to moralise telling him what he's doing wrong and what he should do. However it seems clear people have to figure things out themselves. I don’t think telling people like Trump what they should do would help. They are so stuck in their paradigms, I would give them my perspective, let them think about it. If I tell him his pitfalls and force the change on to him this will most likely have the reverse effect, making him more defensive, and more stuck to their way of thinking. I think ppl have to figure things out themselves through trial and error and the problem when they have constant errors and no change then what do we do? They need outside help. After watching Leo’s “A rant against Morality” video and then his conscious politics video it seems to me there is a slight contradiction. Moralizing has an aire of superiority (i'm right and you're wrong). Morality is a human invention, we are making up the rules as we go along, what is right and wrong, its do as you like in the animal kingdom, whats right now might be completely wrong in 100 years. However even though it is a human invention it’s a necessary one. Animals don't have the power to destroy the whole planet, they don't have the degree of variety in their behaviour that we have. In Leo’s politics video he talks about freedom and true freedom being rules - if you want freedom like the animal kingdom then it wouldn’t be free (well it would but not in the way you would like it to be). So I therefore feel a sense of what is right and wrong is necessary in order to create a system that can be governed and have an equal chance for all. To do this societies and govenments must then surely moralise as to what is and isn’t right?

What are some good sources of conscious independent news? I currently read the guardian and feel this is a good source but i would like some more options.

What questions could you ask a person you have never met to quickly assess their level of consciousness? I am in the process of looking for a new girlfriend. My last girlfriend had a lot of devilry and would like someone who has worked through a lot of their devilry or is at least aware of it. I would like a set of questions that i could ask to separate the wheat from the chaff. I know it is possible to get a general idea based on how a person talks without asking these questions but i would like a more effective and efficient method. Much appreciated

How judgemental I am, how loving i am to all, how much responsibility i can take, how much i can see other perspectives, how enthusiastic and passionate i am to the joy of life and living, how much i can let go, can i live in the moment, whats my level of mindfulness and state of content from moment to moment. However on a first date there generally are a lot of games being played and people can put on a false facade and therefore it would be nice to have some questions that could really penetrate the real person (pardon the pun) ?。

What if her answer is family and friends. This is coming out of love but as you have said before is a narrow version of love which can cause a lot of devilry based on in group out group. But it would take a highly developed person to answer love for everything i cant expect this. This type of person isn't prevalent.

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I know the obvious answer is go on their website and email them. But i feel authors get thousands of emails and are likely to be too busy to mentor/be interviewed/come on a podcast.

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Heres a nice podcast relating to conscious politics, where Russell Brand interviews Marianne Williamson: https://www.russellbrand.com/podcast/054-can-spirituality-save-world-godless-politics-marianne-williamson/

I have been doing this style of meditation over the last week with my friend. You set a meditation bell to go off every 5 minutes, close your eyes, start meditating together for 5 or 10 minutes and then ask your partner contemplation style questions which can be found below. Your partner answers these questions from a calm meditative state and you don't interrupt just listening without judgement, when the bell goes after 5 minutes you change and your partner asks you. I find this practice very beneficial for feeling present as well as combining meditation with contemplation. I feel there isn't enough of this style of communication as many conversations tend to be soundbites with lots of interruption with people just focussing on what they have to say next. This practice reminds me times being around a fire with friends, or those times when you have a sleepover as a child and you get to talk about intimate things with another person. Here is a link to the site: http://dyad.org/d04inst.htm Has anyone else tried this style of meditation? I would be curious to know how you find it.

What is the difference between lobbying and bribery? It seems the same to me.

I would like to get some advice about my brothers most recent phone call. He is a very positive person and very actualized without every doing any of the theory. His wife recently came back from 2 months in Peru where she went there to have some space from my brother and they didnt talk for the whole time. She had a tough upbringing with lots of trauma and has always been searching through spirituality for answers. Before leaving for Peru she went through depression and the relationship got quite toxic with her getting angry at my brother but he saw past this as he is blinded by love. He has done everything to try to keep the relationship together and tried to help her with her inner demons by going with her to get counselling and giving her constant support. They have different paths - my brother is very goal driven and she is more of a free spirit. He moved to Australia to marry her (he is originally from UK) and has everything there for the last 8 years (Mortgage, car, job). The divorce takes along time to settle and will be difficult financially when he has put all the money into the mortgage but thanks to divorce rights it will be halved. When she came back from Peru she told my brother that she wants to split up. He just called me to say all this and started crying down the phone. I found it hard to advise him especially when he lives so far away. Any advice for him and on how i can deal with this? Much appreciated

In Leo’s most recent video he talks about how consciousness is just differences, he then says its possible to “raise” your consciousness by 1 million times more than normal human consciousness in order to see facets of reality that can’t normally be seen and get a clearer understanding of what reality actually is. In meditation or taking psychedelics you can “raise” your consciousness to have a deeper understanding of reality. But if consciousness is just differences how can we be sure that these “higher” levels of consciousness have a deeper understanding than normal everyday survival consciousness where you think reality is material? Surely you have to come from a certain paradigm to believe that what you are at these “higher” states is more real than your base state. How about it’s just a difference, non of these states being more real or closer to the truth than the other and therefore we truly don’t know what reality is. Great video as always by the way.

thanks i need some time to think about this

Ok i get what you are saying. So i will reword my question then. If consciousness is prior to the material world and therefore consciousness gets expanded (rather than my own individual consciousness), how can i trust that these "higher consciousness" states give me a clearer understanding of what reality actually is. If consciousness is just differences that are just happening then surely whatever is, is? Wouldn't this mean then that my normal state is just as true as the "higher conscious" states? I am trying to be as open minded as possible and remain neutral to all possibilities. I feel like without direct experience of the absolute (if that is a thing) this is the least dogmatic way to think.

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During the last few minutes of concentration today i started to focus on my stomach and I felt some very pleasurable sensations in my stomach which quickly followed with feeling extremely sick from nerves like i was in front of a massive crowd of people talking. Has anyone experienced this or know what is going on?