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On January 1st, 2025, a man drove a Ford pickup truck into a crowd of people, killing 15 and injuring 30. An ISIS (Islamic State) flag as was found in his truck, as well as several IEDs (improvised explosive device). This is a very peculiar thing to note, as Leo has a video about Islam, as well as Islamic books in his book list. If this is the case, then how are there some people who use Islamic teachings to justify ramming a pickup truck into a crowd of people. What does this say about Islam? Why are these attacks exclusively coming from Muslims and not Buddhists or Hindus? Why is there such a contrast between what ISIS believes and Leo’s video above, and why do so many people subscribe to ISIS’s interpretation of Islam? Does this have anything to do with the life of the Prophet Muhammad, and his various military campaigns? Why did Muhammad engage is such military campaigns, conquest, and warfare? Was the Prophet Muhammad even an awakened being? If so, then why doesn’t he talk in a fluffy way like Ekhart Tolle? If Islam turned out this way because of the harsh physical environment and culture of sixth century Arabia, then why did so many men from Western Europe go to join ISIS? Why is it that other teachings that were created around his time, or even earlier, such as Hinduism, Tantra, Zen, Vendetta, etc… appear to be so much more peaceful and don’t inspire military conquest and terror.

I have awakened into God a lot of times in the last 1 and half year, sometimes it's been a complete mindfuck, I was sure to completely lose my identity into madness forever. Yet I can feel how much deeper the ocean goes. I can see now how humankind is being exposed for their evil ways. I was corrupted by that evil too, and I am still purging out a lot. YOU CANNOT AWAKEN through the evil path, because God is everything, and you need to become a being of light to truly awaken and APPRECIATE with your perceptions of the present moment the beauty and completeness of God, or our true nature. Trump is getting another round, in my country, Italy, the far right is plaguing politics, warfare in Europe and midde east. Now it's the time to shift. "No bro, it's all a story, an illusion bla bla". Yes, but HOW do you like to live your incarnation? Become conscious of being the director of your incarnation. You are God incarnated in a human perception, there is no body here. It's just a web of perceptions floating in empty space. BUT!!! How do you like your life and planet to be? Let's move this story around, let's create more light into this darkness, let's unite and shift this Earth in a positive storyline. "No, I can't , it's God deciding. Not me." YOU are deciding where we are going. The biggest problem of humankind is violence and aggression, which are core elements of the Ego. But the ego can still exist without violence and aggression, and useless elements like guilt and punishment. These are all low level devices, humanity can rise wayyy above this crap. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE to eradicate violence and abuse and corruption from this dream, from this planet. And you will never awaken by promoting violence, punishment, discipline and all that USELESS CRAP that only works for lower beings. Stop being a lower creature, start rising. We don't need the military, that's fear based living, it's not something an awakened creature would ever do. I have zero problem and zero shame (for it is useless for conscious beings) in admitting that humans are STILL primitive and ego-ridden creatures, and their suffering is a huge red alert that they are not recognizing. There is NOTHING wise in violence and aggression, only disconnection from the divine allows such disruptive storylines. It's natural for God to manifest violence and aggression if the creatures are low consciousness, so there is no error, no ontological mistake on the existence of violence and terror and aggression etc. But it is a sign of disconnection from God, because only asleep creatures can realte to each other in such a fractured manner. Also, if you like violence, there is no exception to thsi rule, if there are violent images in your incarnation, movies, books, words etc, you are corrupted and still low consciousness, I am talking about the quality of your Ego, which is the key to bringing Mu home, bringing home God in everyday life. I have not gone as deep as Leo, but I know I will reach that level I know I will for sure. I have decided to live my life so many times while I was in God mode, that I am now really really living as a GOd-given choice. I am grateful to have almost killed myself to be redirected here by the God Self. STOP THIS USELESS VIOLENCE, it's not in the ukrainian war, it's in YOU!!!! The person who goes to the supermarket, lives a normal life, and is just bored or stressed out and watches Squid Game is corrupted by evil and aggression. Yes, and the fact that you refuse to see it is exactly the evil inside you. Don't feel guilty about possessing evil inside of you, it's just God's design, but it has been designed to be surpassed, evolved. You are already a perfect luminous and radiant being, just because you are God incarnated, but you must become aware, deeply aware, of violence and aggression inside you, and choose to release them and evolve into a lighter, softer and THEN more powerful being. The people who hold the most material and war-related power in this planet are the most powerless, especially if they use their will against the others and against Nature, which is a higher form of collective consciousness where we came from, of course it's just a movie, a story,but those are the rules of the story Remember that God has the softest and most loving touch, God does not need to be Sgt Hartman, because Sgt Hartman is a scaredy scared kitten God is an eternal Child who fears no one and nothing, so they are always pure and smiling, content, accepting :):):):) Be free in what you choose to do, but God suggests you to become more conscious and reject from your awareness the evil that you continue to absorb from the world around you. REJECT it, and show compassion and divinity towards others, I don't give a flying cock in an asshole about seeming the stereotypical hindu master. There is a big reason why that imagery is so powerful, it's because it represents divine nature in a symbolic manner. Open your heart, stop masturbating to useless metaphysical research, God is NOT about knowing more, is about connecting more. CONNECTING IS AWAKENING :):):):):):):)

Anyway I know the answer: the one who hears the sounds is reality, the universe, God. Through life God becomes concious of itself, awakens from it's sleep. Consciousness is the awakening of reality, sleeping reality is as real as awakened reality, but unconscious of itself. Consciousness is the light that illuminates reality, sound is perception, perception is consciousness, the process of awakening goes deeper into itself infinitely, and that sound is part of it. We are the reality awakening, then we could totally awake to it, open our conciousness to the total depth of what it is, that's enlightenment.

I speak about what works for me. I'm not saying I am awakened. Yet I am doing the work that needs doing. Writing is helpful for both the writer and the reader. I don't engage with philosophy only the day to day reality. What I know is, there is nothing to know in this universe. This is a good first step in rolling back the mind.

In The Religion of Tomorrow, which is very repetitive, like all his books, he talks about states vs. stages vs. structures. You can have an enlightenment or awakening state at any stage. At the higher stages the state becomes integrated as a structure. It repeats, with the same repetitious pattern as his other works: states, stages, structures. An enlightenment state is, for specific example, a zen master at SDi Stage Blue who supports Japanese imperialism and World War Two but who is awakened to some fundamental grounding or attention or groundless detachment from the sensations in his experience, while still having the Blue cognitive framework. At a higher stage of SDi, say, Indigo, the awakening becomes perfectly and ineluctably wholly integrated with the higher cognitive structures, it is an awakened structure rather than simply an awakened state.

THE ”GREAT” 5 years ago I started my personal development journey. The first two years were amazing. I meditated and journaled daily. I started a company that went pretty well. I was in peak physical shape. Elite level strength and my diet was flawless. I started making music during my spare time and loved it. I quit porn and practiced sexual discipline with women and never failed. Women were obsessed with me. My friends used to say I was a machine. I did whatever I set my mind to without fail. They looked up to me and always went to me for advice and support. One thing tho, I wasn’t really in contact with my emotions. Maybe this is why I was able to act like a machine. I had never really consciously experienced anxiety for example. Back then I barely understood the emotion when people talked about it. Everything was going great but then… THE DESCENT INTO CHAOS One day I made the stupid decision of going on a date with my ex from before I started doing this my personal development work. We got back together and I slowly fell apart. I’m not blaming her. I was not good either. But it really broke me in some sense. We stayed together for one and a half years and during that time I slowly descended into chaos. She introduced me to some new friends and we started partying all the time. I started abusing drugs. Mostly LSD and MDMA which were drugs that had previously helped me immensely but now I was using them to party, not heal. Had some really bad trips that awakened a lot of negative emotions in me. During one DMT trip I encountered a really mean entity that just bombarded me with hate. Since that experience I haven’t been able to get the voice out of my head. Goes in periods tho. Also, the police arrested me once and it was really traumatising. They forced me to get naked in the middle of a parking lot and then put me in a cell for 12 hours. More to it but long story. THE (ATTEMPTED) CLIMB BACK I finally broke it off with her. It was bad. And after the break up I was lost and stupid. I have empathy and understanding towards myself but I hate looking back at how I was acting. I was a mess. This was one and half years ago. Since then I’ve tried to get back into my old ways. I try every day but never seem to be able to. Can’t get into good habits, can’t get rid of bad habits. I don’t understand what the blockage is. I’ve been going to therapy but it doesn’t really help. I try and try and try but nothing I do seems to work out. It’s gotten to the point where I’m burnt out because of it (diagnosed by doctor). MY QUESTION Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong? What I might be missing? I’m worried that I’ve broken myself.. Any help would be really appreciated. Thank you for reading

A certain role model of mine often says that "you have to be mildly psychopathic to be totally stoked about going to heaven while everyone else remains in hell." Being distraught, and even depressed about the state of affairs of this world is a sign of your awakened humanity. Anybody with a heart is rightfully shattered upon witnessing the destruction of the sacred. It's actually quite concerning that the majority of us are blindly chasing happiness without further consideration. Self-centered self-improvement and spirituality is a cruel joke. There is no improvement of me at the exclusion of you. There is no awakening of me at the exclusion of you. This growth fixation is not inherently harmful or bad - it just gets hijacked by myopic actors, fueling a cultural narcissism loop. I laugh whenever people blame their ex for being a "narcissist." What an outrageously ironic moment of narcissism! Almost nobody is exempt from extreme rampant selfishness. Manifestation is real but it doesn't work in the way that 99% of people think. And especially internet gurus in that space are the most deluded and clueless. Such spaces get hijacked by self-centered marketing incentives as well. I mean hell 99% of manifestation content online is about somehow "shifting" to your "dream reality" ... a framing which perfectly reinforces self-fixation. Nobody is buying a manifestation course or coaching call package or retreat in order to accelerate global conflict resolution initiatives. You buy the course to indulge your personal fantasies about getting your dream husband or being showered with financial "abundance." Hilarious. People have lost their openness. This is a cultural cancer. Thanks for your reflections. It's good to see someone else thinking about these things.

lol. Yeah, it's a fucking circle. Going round and round and round and not actually getting anywhere because it's not really going round in a circle. Lol Enlightened/Awakened yet?

Hmmm as I am reading through the forum this is probably the most common topic, how to get to the awakening. Have you ever thought that you are already awakened but having an earth experience right now where you just don't remember you have no limits? Following this idea there would be very little point in becoming awakened , since we are already there , to phrase this differently we are trying to remember what it is like being awakened while having an earth experience, this would be more accurate. Gosh, most people chase the idea of awakening , we are already there , we just don't remember it. My goal was not to become awakened in this earth life , but to experience this particular type of existence , somehow I know i've already had that experience of awakening , now I'm experiencing something different, all of those techniques, programs, systems, just to try and remember something we have already experienced I prefer to use those systems to enjoy this current experience I get to have, and so I enjoy the life itself and this beautiful earth

Not too long ago I interjected my opinion/answer into a discussion on another journal. It was kinda rude of me to that.,,,, Just blurt out my unsolicited opinion. The uncomfortableness I felt afterwards helped me to 'see' myself. Or as is said in fourth way jargon,, Observe one of my "I's" making itself known. There was a form of inflation or self importance that needed to display its cleverness or knowledge. This is a very common occurrence here in the forum. Often there is someone needing to one-up the others in a discussion. I see this in myself at times. It could be related to spiritual materialism. You could also say it's a zen devil characteristic that comes about quite often from egoistic tendencies that are not recognized in oneself. Seeing these types of communication can be a good way to work on Oneself. It's not a comfortable thing to see in oneself. But if you turn a blind eye and let self deception cover it up, you're just bullshiting yourself. Not everyone has this tendency in their expressions. Some have it more than others and sometimes it manifests rather innocently but in hindsight or from others reaction to your lack of 'skillfull means'. It can be observed. Take heart from the insightful saying, "awareness is cureative" over time,,, or in the long run. There is no one -time across the finish line of enlightenment or realization. Many people have this stance in their views of self or Self or no-self in their self deceptive view of themselves as a realized or awakened. It is being blinded by one's own clarity and I'll go out on a limb and say it's every damn one of you and me as well. It is what fairly new people in the work of actualization use to prop themselves up. So if this hits you in the gut,,, hooray for you! In this truth that won't let you bullshit yourself. Sit with this and gain a greater awareness and understanding over time. You'll be a more forgiving person for having seen actions like this in yourself. It is advised in the work literature to not criticize yourself. Don't beat yourself up. That's often very difficult for many people. Myself included. This work will humble you. Have a good day and try to be lighthearted.

Exactly. His people were attempting bio terrorism too. I don't see how an awakened man can allow such things to happen.

Tolle's book New Earth, which is all about Ego, he goes indepth on it, really awakened my to my Ego and how it functions, when that happens its an awakening and You cannot go back to normal after that.. Its the Identification with Ego, a false self, mask of sorts used for social situations and communication, its Survival level stuff, not Consciousness level stuff... that is the problem, thinking/believing You are the Ego or Mask, then it is a problem, if You know You are not this mask and its a real experience then no problem with Ego...its needed in a society with many different sorts of ppl living within it..

@Thought Art how long does qigong take for a kundalini-awakened individual to feel the effects? Where should I start as a beginner? Can you send me a link to your YouTube channel?

I don't want to pretend as if I don't know what's happening here anymore. Everybody is keeping this me thing alive because it wants to stay alive. It pretends to want to be awakened and enlightened, but that is also just a show. All the gurus and masters are there for the same show. They serve as me enhancers. The me is fighting for it's life. It tries to find a purpose and tries to find meaning. That's its purpose. To keep a world going. To make it seem as if something is actually happening when it's not. The me will have an existential crisis if it dies before it dies. The body doesn't really die because it's not really alive. Not separately alive anyway, apart from any other aliveness. It's not separate from the whole. Nothing dies. Nothing is ever born and nothing lives. It's just what is and what's appearing. It's all alive. It's one big poof of aliveness. It's not living because living implies dying. It just is. It appears as time, space, things, people, the earth, the sun, the stars, the moon, trees, animals, and whatever else but these things are really only appearing as separate from us because of the me. No me, everything just is. No relation, no cause and effect, no rhyme or reason. Me or no me, doesn't matter. Self or no self, doesn't matter, awakened or no enlightened, or no awakened or enlightened, doesn't matter; it's all the same thing. I don't have a life and i never had. It's just body walking and tongue moving and hands clapping but that's all just movement within the non-movement appearing to happen. It's already done. Jesus, it's so fucking obvious.

You will have to accomplish your own work yourself because you have the power and capacity to act. In this world of humans it is the play of action that predominates. He who is bound is the jiva(individual) and that which is subject to continuous motion is the world. If you are after sense objects it lies in their nature to enslave you. But the nature of the Lord's Name is to burn whatever has to be burnt and to melt what has to be melted. You are Atmarama, a Rishi. The practice that will bring to light your rishihood is potentially present within you. Tread the spiritual path, the path to God; by treading it Rishihood will gradually be attained. God resides within each person - in this there is no differentiation between man or women, no caste distinction. Everything is already contained within you but you have to perform some spiritual practice. The inherent power that lies dormant within you must be awakened.

I´m glad there are people who want to be cogs in the system so I don´t have to. Somebody has to flip those burgers and do other basic operations, until AI take those jobs and then people will be forced to awaken their consciousness or die trying. I think it is useless to judge people on not awakening their consciousness since it is not a choice anyway. People who have awakened their consciousness where forced by cause-effect within the grand scheme of things. Personally I don´t like to judge God´s creation and just accept people as they are because I know every consciousness has their own natural progression. Some people are not ready to sprout and they are not meant to be because it is part of the social ecosystem. If everybody awakened today, it would cause a ripple effect, but not in a good way.

What I take from this is who the heck cares what anyone else thinks. If you've awakened you already know they are fictions of your mind but even if you're not, STOP fucking comparing your life to everyone else's and measuring it against that which is "other" your life is Absolute and it is amazing just the way it is. However you make it!

Because you are everything, there is no hierarchy. Why? Because everything is completely identical that it cancels everything out making all competition results neutral. You are so ONE there is no taller, no smaller, no beginning, no end, and no progress. As a result whatever life you create, is equally the best life possible. Once you realize this, you have TRULY AWAKENED. There really only is YOU, when your God Self appears to you, you discover its just a more expanded version of you, which is just a Mind with no bias, no hierarchy. As such you actually have to Co-Create Enlightenment which means all Enlightenment lived experiences are unique to the Co-Creator and the ONE GOD that unites us all. God is a love of intelligence first, and a Creator of Intelligence first, and all experience you ever go through is always in service to the expansion of collective's knowledge of how to create in a more good and loving/unity way. God is an infinite Co-Creation process with itself.

All of experience can be seen as One Object, every something that is currently existing. As such The Self is purely objective, it is its own purpose in the making and sustaining of it. Then there is the smaller self, the self that experiences the big Self and its purpose is to expertly align its meaning, its subjectivity with the object, thus becoming pure subjectivity. This means you have achieved perfect communication with and within the Field of Consciousness around you because your hierarchal mental judgments no longer obscure your view. Once this is achieved God is awakened that all it is doing is Sharing its big Self with its little self, with the toughest lesson of all being, the definition of true strength which is vulnerability, which is the ability to be weak, to have limits and accept them as they are. Understand that all of life are equal gladiators in this arena of survival called life and as a result are all equally deserving of respect. True Adulthood is recognizing that all life is noble, because it must ultimately equally navigate a world of survival. This is where the sovereignty of all life is birthed from. This can only be achieved by recognizing that all of life is its own celebrity worthy of celebration and if its not being recognized it just means that greatness is hidden in one of the greatest disguises.

Sadhuru to me...he may be awakened but he has too much Orange. He's too much the entertainer which will diminish the quality of his work. Hence he is OK with a bunch of newbies believing in his words. Leo is far superior as a teacher because he didn't give in to the temptations of Orange.

So I had a strange one today. I was in the space, having the ultimate experience. And somehow, my ego came online midtrip (this has never happend before) It started kicking some fear and panic into me. Internally this experience is very loud, and on the comedown Im always worried if I have been vocally/physically loud. Recorded myself several times and always been quiet with some minor movements. My ego reminded me that I'm actually in my house/bed. That I'm a person. Reminded me of my life and the world. "the real reality". I was fighting it. That's not real! That reality has seized. I have awakened! I'm never going back. A part of me was fighting it. And the other part was trying hard to ground myself and kill the trip. I remember looking at my hands but couldnt see them as my vision was still entirely in the other dimension. I found/felt my hands. When I felt my skin it hit me. Damnn, I AM still a person I am here in my bed just tripping balls. I held on to my hands trying to ground me back to "reality". But there was no ground. Caught a glimpse of the moment I loaded up the emesh and was like damnn, took too big of a dose. I have really done it this time. I was torn between bliss and panic. I was convinced I would likely wake up in the psych ward. Could swear I heard all the paramedics bumrushing my bedroom and taking me away. I lost it all. I lost my house. lost everything. I made a complete fool of myself. I ruined my entire life, with just a few crumbs of 5meo. I could see myself from the third person. Stuck in the 5meo space. I looked completely insane. This is how they see me. Somehow things calmed down and I opened my eyes and was surprised to find myself sitting upward in the most elegant symmetrical position legs crossed hands together. I expected to be in the psych ward or at least in some pathetic fetal position on the floor somewhere. But that wasn't the case. My sheets weren't even a bit messed up or anything. I cracked a smile and admired the position I was sitting in. So calm. So peaceful. So elegant. Wtf.

Aubrey is an interesting case, in my opinion. He's had countless psychedelic experiences with the goal of self-betterment, and an absolute ton of 5-MeO-DMT breakthroughs in particular. He even became a facilitator for bufo as part of a tradition. So he's no stranger to profound states of consciousness bordering on literal temporary enlightenment. It'd be tough to say he wasn't a beholder of absolute truth, many times over. But I suppose, as Leo posted in a recent blog (and as I believe as well), intellectual development and awakened consciousness should not be considered a 1:1 in terms of their required parallel development.

That's definitely true. It tends to have the same narrative structure. New Agers tend to believe that, in the past, humanity was more brilliant and wiser than it is now. But then, "they" (the Reptilians/elites) came and now we're in a fallen world where we've forgotten our wisdom. And there's lots of hierarchical ideas of Indigo children and awakened people who will graduate to 5-d consciousness and we'll be wise again. And Fascists tend to believe that, the nation/race was once idyllic and great. That is until "they" (the cabal of elite Jewish people) came and brainwashed everyone into Feminism, multiculturalism, and post-modern Neo-Marxism, and now we're in a fallen world. But we, the great people, will defeat that Cabal and rise again into our former glory and become a mono-cultural patriarchal theocratic utopia once again. So, the structures of the story is very similar. And I notice that New Age people tend to get easily tricked into Fascist thinking.

Yes and... These stages being the development of the complexity of sense making that allows for holding on to increasing complexity and taking in increasing complex compositions with increasing number variables - and multiple and contradictory perspectives. Awakening etc isn't on the same axis/scale, it's rather about the point of reference from which things are being observed. You can shift that point of reference independently from the level of complexity by which you make sense of what you observe. The complexity goes into the sense making within the "illusion", while the point of reference shifts how deep into or out of the "illusion" you observe what's there. Thus, you can be an awakened "fool", no need for cognitive complexity at all. Pursuing cognitive developmental stages, as many here will have first hand experience of, likely and quite possibly will intersect with developing shifts in that point of reference as well.

@LfcCharlie4 hi . Thanks for resurrecting this thread 😁. Now that I've given it second thought you could say the point is creating whatever you want to create . No restrictions whatsoever. With baring in mind that you will reap what you sow ..so you are absolutely free to be like Hitler or Stalin but that doesn't mean there won't be consequences to your actions. These days I'm just sitting in silence doing nothing .just existing .just being .rather than doing . What are you gonna do anyways? You are eternal..there is no death that can annihilate you..so then imagine if you awakened to the fact that you are god and that you are eternal...really and this is a sincere question: what the heck are you gonna waste your eternal existence with? Joy and bliss ? That is nice but without misery and suffering there won't be any meaning to happiness. Which is exactly why this world is NOT perfect and there is a shit ton of suffering and evil and wars going on ..because God metaphorically speaking has gotten sick and tired of infinite bliss and decided to spice things up with a lil bit of drama if you will . Now That I think about it .the only point to life is life itself. Being .pure existing .basking in awareness. "Being interested In the experience of being aware " as Rupert Spira puts it .because there is literally nothing to do and nowhere to go after you've done it all . Just my thoughts Much Love brother 🙏