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@kieranperez and this is why leo says you only become fully awakened after you understand truth= love after enlightenment, it flips back on itself. and relative beliefs become completely true. Still you need to be critical and think about what you should trust and what you should not. However, you are no longer asking yourself "what is the truth" because EVERYTHING IS TRUTH AND NOTHING IS TRUTH. they collapse and true non-duality is formed

I wanted to share this quote I heard the other day. I can't even remember where I heard it to be honest, but think it was Ramaji. He was talking about when you are truly awakened, there is no need to continue to seek anything. I loved it. This isn't verbatim, but close enough to get it across. "When one truly awakens and materialism dissipates, so does spirituality. Spirituality is the antidote to materialism. Once we are cured of the disease, there is no longer a need to continue to take the medicine"

Yeah he got awakened a few years ago and has been not so subtly vocal about it. His speech at Maharishi University is really a beautiful thing to watch/listen. Love this man.

Crystals associated with the higher chakras such as crown and third eye makes you spiritually awakened or enlightened. I tend to believe third eye crystals open my spiritual eye. My favorite third eye crystals are moonstone, selenite and clear quartz. Crown chakra on the other hand tones my intuitions. I like to use amethyst, selenite and howlite for crown chakra therapy. Have you seen an apophylite? Do you have one?

@swedishmystic Some of the most powerful ways siddhis show themselves is subjective and hard to describe. Regardless, I have experienced telepathy and have projected myself outside of my body. I have also been shown things about certain people's past that they never told anyone and what I needed to tell them to release themselves of those burdens. Of course, they are completely shocked anyone knew. I am saying this as a former hard-core skeptic. I projected myself into my fiances room 30 miles away and whispered something in her ear. I didnt say anything about it and she told me the next day that she felt me in her room and told me exactly what I whispered in her ear. Dissolve your ego and purify yourself of attachments and aversions and they will show up. The occult will show you how to refine them further and develop others. I wouldnt suggest studying the occult until you have made a lot of progress on purification however because the power can lead to a reinforced ego. Once the ego has been dissolved, refining these abilities is taking spiritual evolution to a new level that has eternal impact imo. You become more of a spiritual being that can operate on the astral realm. This is where one can do things that manipulate physical reality if they choose. Many spiritual seekers have an aversion towards developing power as if impotence and weakness are somehow inherently spiritual and awakened. I think this is an unbalanced approach. Love + weakness cant do much. Love + power can do a lot. In every energy tradition I mentioned, the abilities always involve combining a highly concentrated mind, visualization and breathwork. If you want a single resource that breaks down all the techniques to develop these abilities, i would recommend the Magnus Opus by John Kreiter. I have spent literally hundreds of hours reading books and resources from countless sources and that is the only book that has it all in one place. If you get it and ask yourself if those techniques are really what people use for those powers, I can assure you they are (including people like Sadhguru). The book looks like its cheaply made but I wouldnt underestimate the content.

Well, I understand that he has gradually migrated from personal development to consciousness work and he continued with his instructional behavior into an area of experience that is a challenge to communicate in. I don't wish to criticize him for it because there is value in the encouragement that his work has. Although if he is trying to tell others what is "the truth" and suggest that what isn't in line with that is "false" then he might be a hindrance to some who have a differing experience and aren't awakened enough to recognize it's being an obstacle to liberation for them.

@Autumn Which book would you rather read, the book written by the post awakened Buddha, most of which is not reachable, or understandable, yet points to what can be discovered, reached and understood. Or, the book Siddhartha started writing about self discovery when he was around 26, and ends post awakened Buddha? The whole story, so to speak.

Yes I am aware duality doesn’t exist when looking at it from the absolute perspective. However, duality does exist and it is there for a reason. I am awakened. I am aware of consciousness. The merger of duality and non duality has happened. But it’s not the way it happened for you. My awakening is different you are permanently lost in a contracted state of consciousness. I am 100% aware of this at the moment. Except my mind is able to filter duality through my mind. When I say “I” or “my” I am talking about god. I am not talking about Aakash

We are currently co-existing in the 4th dimension. 3 dimensions of space and 1 of time. Now dimensions are more like realms(so to speak) where densities are more like rates of vibration or states within a realm. We are currently, as we speak transitioning from 3rd density into 4th density in which we become what one would call more "quasi-physical" where the majority of humans will vibrate at over 200 thousand hertz and will all be able to use more of our natural abilities far more effortlessly. This is also known as the "Golden Age" we are entering when we will unlock dormant DNA and live with superior immune systems and exceptionally long lives as described in the ancient texts when the previous golden age was several hundred thousand years ago, give or take. Time becomes more malleable, more flexible and we will be able to see things we could no longer see. This is why many so called "extinct" species are showing up everywhere on earth and so much change is happening on earth right now(chaos to order) and the consciousness of the collective is higher than it has ever been, we are simply co-collectively shifting to a reality where life is more harmonious and intelligent and or globally awakened(shall we say). Now the 5th dimension is completely non-physical and what we call the "spirit realm" where thought/matter is instantaneous and that is when we transition from 4th density to 5th density and this occurs at 333 thousand hertz and this is what one would call Total Enlightenment/Ascension where you simply vibrate into a higher dimension completely without the need of leaving your physical body behind, the whole being transitions. Some beings will transition from 4th to 5th but the majority of earth humans are transitioning from 3rd to 4th density, these are amazing times to be alive and this is one of the main reasons many of us chose to incarnate here at this time, to experience this universal shift in consciousness. Its not just this planet, but the whole universe which is shifting in its own ways far beyond our comprehension. To sum up the rate of how much we evolved in the last decade or so, in 2010 the majority of humans vibrated at 40 - 60 thousand hertz, in the next 5 years the expectancy is quadruple that on a collective scale. Now don't get me wrong, the majority of the unconscious masses are still quite low but are rapidly accelerating at speeds not even higher dimensional entities and collectives predicted. Many of the conscious collectives are already around 150 - 200 thousand hertz and above and to compare with our Buddha and Jesus other enlightened masters of similar frequency, they were around 300 thousand + This why they were depicted with glowing auras around their bodies and heads because they vibrated so high they were almost not there and the collective people at the time could see this because there was no toxic chemicals or disharmonious technology back then to disrupt their natural abilities to see auras and energies. Nikola Tesla was right all along. Hope this helps clear up this whole 5D thing many have been talking about the last several years.

@Aakash I've watched you this whole week - you have resentment towards the Awakened and you desperately seek your own awakening. You understand it in concept but you long to become it. And you are lashing out at everyone (yourself) because of it. It's a sad story.

@Shaun Yikes, I'm sorry to hear that you are having a tough time of it. At least we accomplished something here, though. We got to the heart of the issue. The most urgent issue for you is not that you can't seem to find the right woman The most urgent issue is not that you have sexual desires and that they cause you suffering The most urgent issue is that this nonduality stuff is depressing you! You took too much, too fast in your enthusiasm to be on the 'right' path. I would say keep a meditation habit and stop all the other stuff that's making you feel bad. There's no need for it. As Leo says, the nondual explanations he offers in his advanced video are not meant to be taken as gospel. They are all false, untrue, by definition, because they're putting the inexpressible into words. So all that 'reality is an illusion' bullshit is of no value to you until you have awakening experiences for yourself. And then you will see how false the words are, and how actually not depressing the truth is. I'm not speaking from experience. I've never awakened. That's why, however interesting, I don't look for meaning in this nondual stuff. It's not relevant to me (yet). My two cents: take a step back from the theories about reality that you read here. Almost no one knows what they're talking about, because if they did, they would know that it's inexpressible with words. You can ask actual enlightened people if you need answers. Maybe @winterknight wants to weigh in here? Be nice to your ego. You're stuck with it forever, it never goes away and you need it. Feed it wholesome things. Give it what it needs. Practice self love. Look at Maslow's hierarchy of needs, honestly, and assess what parts you need to work on before you arrive at the level where this nondual stuff starts to even matter. Most importantly, re-learn to listen to your intuition! All this overthinking is probably clouding it. But you do have that soft, but determined voice somewhere inside you, that tells you what you really want, what your purpose is from moment to moment. It's a great way to live spiritually, because when you master the skill of hearing your intuition, you can start to gracefully play out the role that God intended for your particular ego, and it will feel great! Getting therapy is also a valid step in self-actualization, so do consider that, too, if you need something to ground you. I wish you strength on your path.

@Anton_Pierre u awakened? so how did u do it?

Haha Did you know that during orgasm our self awareness gets suspended? In other words, our sense of self collapses and we are in the zone of no-self/no-mind for that few seconds. Wonder if one can get awakened from staying consciously present during the Big O

That happened to me when I awakened. @tsuki Is it correct to say that Christianity was my path, even if that's half the truth? And that Jesus is the tantric approach?

@Juan Cruz Giusto I've never used psychedelics myself, but do believe they can help one get awakened. They help deactivate the sense of self, and that's what's necessary when one wants to access the no-mind/God perspective, whether done with or without them.

It is! Religion is not a dogma, but some people need dogma to cope with life! That is an authentic, spiritual, way of using the Bible - to patch your world and forget your pain, even if for just a bit. They come to priests for consolation and receive a spectacle that raises their spirits. To practice mysticism one first needs to establish a firm ground on this Earth and not need consolation. Some people won't make it, but if they focus on their material well-being, maybe their children will? They are their parents, after all. You do not appreciate just how spiritually advanced you are @mandyjw. How many things had to come together perfectly so that you could enjoy your death. That is not stupidity - that is genuine humility and it is precisely what makes you so awakened.

@Freakyboo @Leo Gura Wow that really is a great interview! Just listened all the way through. Very very interesting to hear about people going all the way with the psychedelic path and showing that it is a serious possibility if done properly. Like he said, it has to be done with just as much focus and intent as a traditional meditative path. It's not easy. But do you think he's permanently awakened then?

@mandyjw Thank you Mandy ?❤️ .. People who have not suffered enough of slavery will not have enough desire to break free. There's no point in trying to wake people up. When they're ready, they will. Suffering is a requirement for awakening only for the enslaved of us. People who were not enslaved too much are close to realise God without suffering at all. People who are in the middle of slavery will remain asleep forever, and they may not mind it a single bit. It starts being annoying when you're on one end of the spectrum. Mediocrity is the best way to deal with the majority of people, since they love being slaves. Some awakened people love to bring others with them. There are many awakened people that are living very mundane lives without bringing much attention to themselves. They just don't advertise it. Self-Actualization is way beyond just awakening. It's about revealing your fullest potential.

Hahaha.... No I will not be joining your delusions. Don't expect awakened people to play your mind games.

Shared on a Facebook group. Some guy killed himself as he was unable to awaken... STAYING ALIVE I’m going to try and lay this down as simply as I can: That spiritual “enlightenment” you’re searching for? Not gonna happen. No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, no matter what you are willing to endure, no matter how much you sacrifice yourself in the hopes of one day “waking up” – every ounce of that effort is literally what is preventing you from seeing what is right in front of your eyes. This ideal of the “awakened being”, the enlightened one, is an ideological poison that has infected so many brains and completely hijacked their functioning. Now, I get why it’s so appealing. Society has done us no favors. Its excessive focus on wealth over wisdom, on progress over presence, on consumption over compassion, on “success” over self-knowledge has led to a horrid state of affairs in which we are all alienated from one another and especially from ourselves. We find ourselves in a dull, grey haze of meaninglessness that immediately wilts every form of life it comes upon. Then, in the midst of such desolation, along comes a spiritual teaching that promises the exact opposite. It promises ecstatic bliss, boundless love for one another and ourselves, a feeling of oneness with all that exists, no more fear of the narrow self-interested ego. We begin to greet others with heartfelt hugs and namastes rather than rough handshakes. We begin to lose ourselves in songs of devotion and rhythmic drum circles under starlit skies and to the sounds of the waves lapping on the shore. We feel effusive love for everyone we meet and see the same reflected back in their eyes. And it seems we have finally found our home and our kin. We have left that grey miserable world behind and emerged into a parallel universe bursting with color, love and truth. For a time. Yet, unexpectedly, the old feelings of greyness begin seeping back in. At first we try and rationalize them away as just “having a bad day”. But then it happens more often. Our interactions begin to lack the luster they had before. We continue participating in the devotional songs, the drum circles yet it feels a bit contrived. We continue to greet one another with hugs and namastes but we also see how these shows of affection are somewhat superficial. We begin to see through others and the facades they are projecting because it is similar to the one we are projecting. We begin to see the greyness lurking behind their eyes, the fear behind their smiles, the quiet desperation with which they sing their songs of devotion, the anxiety concealed in every beat of the drum. Spirituality is the art of pretending things are okay when they are not. The more tormented a person is, the more complex the cover up. We will do everything in our power to surround ourselves with the things, the people, the teachings and the rituals that allow us to maintain that active state of denial in the most comprehensive manner possible. And when we ourselves ARE the problem then we will seek to deny our SELVES altogether. THAT’S what the appeal of non-duality is. Escape from the self. TOTAL ESCAPE. Spiritual seekers are some of the most emotionally damaged and psychologically wounded people one will ever meet. And there is a reason why such an incredibly lofty goal such as “enlightenment” appeals to such a person. The solution is in proportion to the problem perceived. And nothing short of a complete overhaul of who we are will suffice to solve it. This was the rationale feeding the mind of one of the readers of this page before he shot himself a couple of days ago. I had never had the opportunity to interact with him directly but I noticed he liked a few of my posts. I was informed of his death by his best friend who is also an active reader and with whom I have had a fair amount of interaction. He messaged me with the news because this is exactly the sort of thinking I have been criticizing through my writings on this page. What I felt last night when I heard what had happened was a mixture of deep sadness and rage. I barely slept because the image of this boy, who felt compelled to throw his life away because he couldn’t “awaken”, kept haunting my thoughts. Believing himself to be a failure in life, that sense of failure was further compounded by his “spiritual failure” to awaken. He had been an avid follower of a certain fraudster in Portugal as well as a few others in the non-duality scene. As a result of all the “enlightenment” propaganda he’d come to believe in, he became convinced that if he could only become awakened, like all his teachers seemed to be, his life would become radically different. That all his problems would go away. He suffered long with depression, headaches, insomnia and ringing in his ears. But when his friend counselled him to seek help he refused. He chose instead to believe what the brainwashed neophytes of the New Age were echoing around him: that all these were signs of “awakening”… What a fucking tragedy. … Spiritual propaganda is just another ideological poison, just another narcotic which may help you wean off the drug of materialism that most other people are hooked on to, but in the end will consume you from the inside and leave you a specter of your former self. “Waking up” has nothing to do with any of this non-dual garbage about transcending the self that people are being fed, these idiotic songs of devotion people are singing to some invisible entity who doesn’t give a fuck about them. It is simply taking a look at what’s around right now and choosing to take responsibility of THAT over anything else the mind can envision as a “better” reality. And “what’s around” INCLUDES the soaring debt, the relationship woes, the conflict with family, the crippling self-doubt, the uncertainty about the future – all those things that we are attempting to escape using our convoluted spiritual practices. It also means that we are not seeking to define ourselves in either material or spiritual terms. There is no “success” and “failure”, no “loser” or “winner” in anything we choose to do in our lives. Some things we choose will hurt more than others. But that is all part of the learning process by which we calibrate our own responses. Nature has programmed us with one job: STAYING ALIVE. Even the lowly amoeba understands this. The only failure is the premature ending of that process. I’m fed up of this fucking bullshittery. This spiritual circus act with these larger-than-life troupes of performers led by greedy, disingenuous ring masters fleecing their audiences for every ounce of material and spiritual wealth they possess. And the gullible sheep who will willingly swallow whatever shit they are being fed because they are so used to being led out to pasture. So, I’m going to lay down some truths right now that I am willing defend until the grave so that anyone who is thinking of walking down that road may have a moment to pause. 1. There is no such thing as an “awakened” or “enlightened” person. No such permanent state of consciousness exists. Everyone who has ever existed including the Buddha, Ramana, Nisargadatta and all the other “enlightened” peeps inhabit the same everyday ordinary kind of consciousness as you and I and all the other “average joes” do. 2. Some people have “awakening” or satori experiences which are TEMPORARY spiritual epiphanies. Sudden moments of clarity in which things appear to come together in a way that they previously hadn’t. NOBODY lives in a state of constant epiphany. Every epiphany, every insight, every heightened state of consciousness must eventually subside and give way to ordinary consciousness. 3. There is absolutely NO WAY to intentionally and accurately orchestrate such an awakening experience. Trying to do so is an effort in futility and a surefire recipe for great suffering. 4. Rarely, an awakening experience MAY follow a catastrophic nervous breakdown or a period of intense depression. But depression is NOT a symptom of awakening. It is a symptom that you need to seek professional help! (Just because some people emerge from car crashes with a new zest for life doesn’t mean car crashes are events one must glorify or aspire to experience). 5. Ordinary consciousness IS where the marrow of life exists. 6. No matter how many epiphanies one has had, one’s problems CANNOT simply vanish. They must be FACED. They must be taken RESPONSIBILITY for. They must be SOLVED by oneself and no one else. Otherwise, they simply remain and magnify over time. 7. Whatever you resist, persists. Whatever you suppress, festers. Whatever you deny, grows in the darkness of your ignorance. 8. If you truly are willing to take full responsibility for life AS IT IS, rather than as you wish it to be, you will find that all the tools you need to fulfill that responsibility are at your disposal. 9. NOTHING is worth ending one’s own life over. No suffering is too great. No hardship too difficult to endure. The human spirit is equipped with a power and an endurance that is truly supernatural. There is only ONE thing that can subvert it: IDEOLOGY. That is our kryptonite. 10. A single ordinary moment of being ALIVE is the highest spiritual achievement anyone can aspire to. Allow all of this to really sink in. Forget what you’ve been taught by society. Forget all the dreams and promises you’ve been fed by your gurus. Watch the twin towers of materialism and spirituality crumble before your eyes. Plant your feet firmly on GROUND ZERO. Take your stand there. And say: NEVER AGAIN. If you find yourself overwhelmed by life, by feelings of depression, by thoughts of suicidal ideation don’t glorify it as a sign of your spiritual transcendence. Speak to someone. A friend, a family member, a therapist, a counsellor, a physician.

I mostly just fought my way to the surface, and would force myself to make noises with my mouth in order to be able to hear something that would be a lifeline to awakened reality, and use that to come out of it. I feel like we probably experienced different sensations, I don't want to be a red herring for you. Mine was more like a suffocating, enclosing, fearful, suppressive force, and wasn't related to psychedelics. It was happening to me in my sleep, as I was falling asleep, or waking up. After it would happen, as a young adult, I would sort of kick myself for missing the chance to dive headfirst into it and not flinch, but it was always too terrifying in the moment to go through with it entirely.

@Shaun I would aim for at least someone Green, who loves nature, healthy eater, cares for their body, simple lifestyle/not too materialistic, and who also keeps their mind open and is curious to learn. None of us were born highly developed and awakened, we too had to start somewhere. You can introduce them to spirituality and see where it goes. It's cool to be with someone who shares similar values. Those people are few but out there, you just have to look.

The unconscious is the limbic system and internal organs etc. On the mainstream college they teach only the mind. The awakened human being is able to use it. And in the process be able to use more than 10% of the human capacity. To tap into the whole, we use breath as main focus. Then everything unfolds into a dramatic entrance.

No such thing once one has awakened the limbic system. Only the ideas in the head craves ultimatum and fabulous flashy feelings or being.

After the initial awakening of 560s the work is about purification from the position of no-self. In order to purify, you need to bring it out and scrutinize it. The self-centeredness is not attributable to the awakened one when the realization of the no-self is genuine. It's a form of accumulated psychological and physiological trauma that needs to be released. That is what was happening in your journals. You needed an ear that would listen and the amount of synchronicities confirm just how much. It is not possible to go any further by 'accepting' the self-centeredness. Self-centeredness is the root of suffering and you need to be willing to stop. The only way forward is by letting go of things you hold dear and fight for. That includes both things you fight for your own benefit, as well as things you do for the world. There is a small self and the big self and they both need to go. That is the only thing that makes the pendulum stop.