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I just finished his book Kriya yoga exposed I thought it was pretty good and gives a fair assessment of Kriyabans. I'm surpised as to his rating of J. C Stevens however only giving him 6/10

So I was just reading the daily news where I am looking at Piers Morgan who looks to be clearly stage blue having a go at Will Young who seems to be stage green due to Will Young having a go at The Grand Tour hosts for homophobic behaviour branding gay people with certain stereotypes who i would also put at stage blue. It appears that wanting equality and not being branded as gay for doing certain actions would be a green move right. If so would you see Piers Morgan as sticking up for Jeremery Clarskon et al because the are in the same stage of spiral dynamics? Here are the links to the article https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/piers-morgan-slams-will-young-for-repulsive-overreaction-to-grand-tour-a4053391.html https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jan/30/will-young-accuses-the-grand-tour-of-homophobic-stereotyping

Is there anywhere anyone knows of where you can do a Kriya Yoga retreat similar to a Goenka style vipassana retreat? I'd love to do one as I feel a retreat really kick starts my practice.

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I find this incredible how conscious Russell Brand is with these bigoted low conscious individuals. He sends out nothing but love even though they attack him numerous times. I know he practices Kundalini Yoga and meditates daily. I feel he is a great example of someone who has worked up the spiral from orange to dare I say stage yellow?

So after watching Leo's what is actuality video, It became clear that grounding yourself in what you are experiencing in this moment is what is actual. So as thoughts are a sense just like sight or touch, if I am having a thought in this very moment and experiencing it then why is this not actuality? Just in the same way that dreaming is actuality as I am thinking of experiences, or taking magic mushrooms is also actuality as I am going into my mind and experiencing new states.

very good points

Lately I have been lazy with meditation. My mind tells me I can do it lying down so I have been doing it just before sleeping which has always led to just falling asleep and usually don't know how much meditation I have done but tell myself it's a full meditation mechanism. Is this a self deception? This is just a recent trend. I'm concerned that as your mind is like a muscle that needs to be trained whether or not it has the same principles of training a muscle - the reversibility principle. In weight training once you stop training your muscles after 2 weeks the muscle strength goes down dramatically and will take longer to get back to what you once had. I would like to compare this analogy of muscle strength with the awareness gained in meditation and wonder if this reversibility principle would still apply?

Has anyone used any websites/ games for brain training and do you feel they have improved memory, concentration cognition in anyway? I want to invest in a couple of games if anyone can share some. So far I've learnt about lumosity, nitendo ds games game challenger for PS3, suduko and a few websites that are in this link. https://www.verywellmind.com/top-websites-and-games-for-brain-exercise-2224140

Yes I do Vipassana and Kriya already but from my understanding that's for training the subconscious mind. These games would be more about training the conscious mind? Or do the other practices do this too and it's better just to focus on these as they have more overall positive benefits?

Tonight i smoked weed for the first time in a year. After taking magic mushrooms i felt smoking would be fine. Today also coincided with me refreshing my kriya yoga practice which i feel gave me more mindfulness throughout the day. I know I am more present when i can feel my breathing in every day to day activities. I got very stoned and became aware of my thoughts and began to ask what I am. It became completely clear to me that I am not my thoughts and that I am the awareness. I became aware of that thought too which led to my ego panicking and my heart pounding extremely fast like it was under existential threat. My ego told me to get a grip on reality and that this investigation is too dangerous. It felt like there were deeper levels to self enquiry and every layer has an ego trap which can be transcended and the deeper you go the more dangerous it becomes for survival. Is this just more fairytale? Has this ever happened to anyone before and what exactly does it mean? Was I close to transcending the self, was i deluded?, did i just freak out from smoking too much? Was it ego backlash from restarting kriya yoga?

Yea thanks. I got the feeling that I was going to die if pursued further. I didn't have the courage to continue the pursuit as my ego hit me hard with raising my heart. It gave me the sense that I would lose everything and dying is not something you want and therefore gained control back. I don't think i could ever gain enlightenment because if this is the final hurdle which i'm not sure it is it could just be a layer to further understanding the ego cracks down on my truth seeking in a massive way. It could just be the weed tho cos i don't seem to have this problem with mushrooms.

Im in west yorkshire, England give me a shout if you wanna do some mushrooms my batch is just about complete

I'm watching Joe Rogan podcast Live now with Mike Tyson. He is talking about how when he took 5MEO DMT that was his catalyst to look at life differently and he felt reborn.

It's so fascinating to see how he saw it as dying and being reborn. How he sees his life as new chapters in a book and doesn't even want to exercise because of it reminds him of the old person. From shadow perspective wouldn't that mean he's not integrated his shadow (his old ego) as he looks at it with shame and disgust?

Can someone post a link of TJ's video or tell me who he is as every time I search on youtube to find this person a video comes up with 233 views I'm guessing that cant be the person who is causing such a stir?

who is TJ?

I am not enlightened and am at a stage where I am questioning both realism and idealism. I meditate daily and can have spells of no thought but the sense of a self behind the head remains. At my current stage how important is it to have "faith in "absolute truth"? I think this can easily be taken as a religion/dogma and I include enlightenment with this where you are looking for a solution to make all your problems go away and that maybe there is no transcendent reality. I am however open to it but still think it's important not to take it on as a dogma until it is experienced (if it can be). I am however aware that faith can be important but at the same time isn't it possible that faith and belief can be mutually exclusive and therefore when you do something like psychedelics the belief in absolute truth shapes your trip to believing in this?

I am not enlightened and am at a stage where I am questioning both realism and idealism. I meditate daily and can have spells of no thought but the sense of a self behind the head remains. At my current stage how important is it to have "faith in "absolute truth"? I think this can easily be taken as a religion/dogma and I include enlightenment with this where you are looking for a solution to make all your problems go away and that maybe there is no transcendent reality. I am however open to it but still think it's important not to take it on as a dogma until it is experienced (if it can be). I am however aware that faith can be important but at the same time isn't it possible that faith and belief can be mutually exclusive and therefore when you do something like psychedelics the belief in absolute truth shapes your trip to believing in this?

When you feel yourself close to falling asleep breath really deeply and heavily in and out, also you can try tensing your muscles for a few seconds and releasing this helps. Another method is when you feel like your are starting to go, go to the bathroom and throw water over your face.

I found this very useful with lots of insights, worth checking out.

What would you say this womens issues are? A lack of self reflection? A lack of different perspectives? Massive ego? Or all of the above. I feel this is the opposite of self actualisation. If i feel triggered by this video does that mean i still have work to do? If so what?

I Origins a movie about science vs spirituality

What stage of spiral dynamics do you think yuval noah harari is at? I just finished his book 21 lessons from the 21st century and i would put him at stage yellow. Would you agree?