Carl-Richard

Grace is a religious term which has different interpretations. In non-duality, grace is often defined as when awakening happens without any preparation. When a teacher is said to "have grace", it's often thought of as them being able to awaken the longing for God within a person by simply being in their presence.

Be ready to invest a couple of lifetimes

This is why most people never get there. If you truly want it, you'll do whatever it takes.

Martin Ball has a couple.

Reductionism vs. holism.

Anesthesia impacts wakefulness, not awareness.

Sure, that could also work, particularily when we're dealing with activity within the brain. I was just borrowing terms from perceptual systems where the different "leveledness" is more apparent. After all, the majority of the body's external sensory receptors are situated at a lower elevation compared to the brain. Part-whole/receptor-brain/one-many are also valid descriptions.

@Husseinisdoingfine Damn he was so close!

Purple and blue are also collectivist stages.

We're talking about selling a view of how the world works on the most fundamental level. In that context, Stage Orange people won't listen to anyone who talks about God, questions the existence of matter, criticizes science etc.. It doesn't matter if you're wearing a suit or monk robes. Even so, if the robes are enough to scare you away, then there is no chance you'll be open to the idea that you might be imagining your entire existence. Sadhguru is actually very direct in his speech imo.

I don't use TikTok enough to care about what pops up

There has never been a tighter band in history:

My for you page is just assss (and I never click like on anything ).

TikTok is the Snapchatification of YouTube.

That is how drama youtubers survive. They're not incentivized to properly investigate what they're covering, because the majority of their audience is completely ignorant, and any person who tries to call them out gets drowned in the noise. Survival and ignorance is two sides of the same coin.

We already know everything but somehow we don't

He who does not acknowledge his blindspots is doomed to eternal darkness (could be a quote).

Bro I love that

Ice is actually a rock. I had to go see for myself, so I looked up the definition of a rock, then the definition of a mineral, and then the properties of H2O, and it's correct Really good example of the relativity of language and how accustomed we are to certain everyday words and labels.

He is still working on embodiment. Teachers have varying degrees of embodiment and different types of energy. Jan Esmann is known to have an especially strong shakti that is very contagious: Though you also want to be aware of various self-bias mechanisms and the power of suggestion and expectation.