Carl-Richard

Damaging the ego does not benefit spiritual growth. Transcending the ego does.

"To awaken, just must guzzle buckets of my cum. What — are you attached to the idea of right and wrong?"

Spirituality is not special. It doesn't need special treatment.

Yes it is.

In fact, what is society? Safety. You can decide to not participate, but don't pretend it's not dangerous.

Is truth being outlawed if somebody tells me I probably shouldn't fuck my students? Stop being so dramatic lol. It's ethics, not law.

Tell me, in what other facet of life is seeking guidance looked upon with suspicion? Especially when it comes to something dangerous like spirituality, where you're deconstructing your sense of reality. It's quite ridiculous.

The lack of up to date institutions is causing a lot of unnecessary suffering. The idea that spirituality has to be this hyper-individualistic "every man for himself" is a New Age fantasy and reminds me of libertarian brain rot.

There is no me. It's manipulation to state otherwise.

Yep. It's the most serious students who get taken advantage of. They're willing to sacrifice their wordly integrity for that spiritual juice. "It's just my body, it's just my money, it's just my family, it's just my friends".

@roopepa You're posting cringe right now.

"Direct experience" as in perception (sights, sounds, feelings) I think requires a biological organism, and perception lays the basis for conceptualizations. "Direct experience" as in formless consciousness does not require anything, but it doesn't have anything to do with insights.

There are people who talk and people who listen. Do you agree?

I think an insight is a perceptual and conceptual thing, which I think requires a biological organism. The knowing of oneness is not an insight. When it "occurs" from the perspective of a human, it's a divertion of attention away from perceptual and conceptual experiences and towards that which is pre-human.

I think these are human things.

Aren't you known to be critical of the conduct of some spiritual teachers? Are you not aware of the history of the conduct of some spiritual teachers? "Hehe just be a real spiritual teacher, then you won't need a code". That would be a naive understanding about the reality of spiritual teaching.

What do you think an insight is?

Actually, add the solipsism video to that list. To ever even mention that term while trying to teach spirituality is a huge blunder.

That video is probably the only one of Leo that I don't recommend watching. I might rewatch it to see if I've missed something.

Firstly, no. Secondly, what does that have to do with anything? ?

Self-transforming elves, backflipping mice — potayto potahto.

The question is just do you want to stay in the world of imagination and fantasy like Peter Pan or do you want to grow up and be in the world? Adolescent self-indulgence vs. adult responsibility. Tell me if you see the connection:

What do atheists know about reality? ?

Your true nature is "self-transforming elf machines from hyperspace, kicking down your front door and rotating all four tires on your after-death vehicle and also checking the radiator"? Does that mean do 100 butt trips of 5-MeO-DMT?

Now that this thread was revived for some reason, just before this happened, I ran across this video by Terrence McKenna (one the aforementioned representatives of the psychonaut approach — arguably the main figurehead, or at least one of the pioneers), and he basically nails the distinction I've been trying to make here in the first 2 minutes of this video. If you understand what he is saying, it's virtually certain that you also understand my point: