Leo Gura

Nothing in self-evident! And I mean that in two ways

Biden knocking it out of the park so far. Let's see how long it holds. I think many progressive naysayers will be shown wrong by Biden. He will be better than Obama I think. But of course they will still whine that he's not doing enough. Progressive have been way too harsh on Biden.

@zeroISinfinity Need I bring up Ramaji and Ananda as MAGAs? It baffles the mind, but it is the case that even enlightened people can be fools. Enlightenment does not guarantee that you will use your mind properly. In fact, if your path toward enlightenment places a strong emphases on shutting off the mind, then it's very likely you will use your mind improperly post-enlightenment because you didn't bother to clean it up and develop it. Development of the mind is important -- despite what the Buddhists would have you believe. Merely shutting off the mind is not going to solve mankind's problems and it is not scalable to society at large. You must learn to shut off your mind, AND you must learn to use your mind well when it's called for. And you must learn when to do which. This is the way.

Hate to rain on your parade bro, but the awkwardness is all you Strong polarity does not require awkwardness. Yes, us INTPs tend to be socially awkward. Requires a lot of work to compensate for it.

It is a shame the RSD forum was shut down. That place had some golden gems amidst a sea of toxic things too. One of the coolest things about it was that you could use it to find wings in any city in the world. You could just be like, "Hey, I'm going to Vegas for the weekend. Who will wing me?" and you'd find at least a few guys. I found some good wings that way.

Yes, it's still good to think things through. It's a way of organizing and spotting problems in your worldview. Awakening alone will not get rid of the worldview problem. You will still have a mind with a worldview and that worldview could be really bad. Like you could be some kind of MAGA supporter. Awakening is one thing. Cleaning up the mind is a separate thing and it is important. There's a bunch of shit in your mind and it lacks coherence. It's also hard to awaken unless you're deeply questioning all aspects of reality.

If you are so hot on field-testing everything. You can start by field-testing a dog turd. The rest of us will contemplate

Your time and energy is limited. You can only field test a tiny percentage of everything. You can figure many things out through contemplation and save yourself time and painful mistakes. To act without contemplation is to be an animal.

All you gotta do is ask Sam, "What is God?" or "What is Truth?" or "What is love?" and watch him flail like a drowning child.

To create a false equivalency between Harris and Spira. They live in two different ballparks. Spira understands Harris' position. Harris does not understand Spira's. The key is to be in a position that understands all positions. Of course debating nonduality is pointless. But an unawakened person can't help debate this stuff endlessly. Spira isn't there to debate Harris. Spira is just using Harris' audience to spread nonduality. Meanwhile Harris thinks he is out-logicking Spira. Lord of Logick

Lolz

Be patient. You need time to integrate this experience. And then there will be a lot more realization.

My book will certainly never be as popular.

I've been contacted periodically over the last several years by folks who've been wanting to translate Actualized.org videos in other languages. Unfortunately this has been impossible... Until now! Youtube now has a community subtitling and translation system. You can now contribute subtitles & translations for any Actualized.org video! Watch how:

If someone serious wants to do the work to create chapters for the videos, we can do a Mega-Thread where you will post the chapter titles and timestamps here on the forum and I will then add them to the videos. But I will only add them if they are consistently good and accurate. Creating good chapter titles takes some brains. And my time is limited so I would be adding them slowly. I won't be titling dozens of videos per week. It mostly makes sense for the newer videos.

We are not going down this road. If you want a healthy and safe version of NDE, take psychedelics.

I was being humble. The Bible is a shitty book

YT killed the feature. No more translations.

None of those terms do the truth justice. The best way to put it is: It's God! Stop using those philosophy terms and just say GOD. Reality is God. The end. Now all that's left is for you to awaken to what is God?

To awaken! Can't awaken unless you're asleep. And you can easily doubt it. Philosophers have been doubting reality since the beginning. It's just that people are too preoccupied with survival to want to question and discover the Truth. So God leaves such people alone. God won't force itself on you. You have to want it. How can God force itself on you when you are God?! There are no extra layers when you are in Absolute God Consciousness. Evolution is a relative thing within the dream. There is no evolution if you wake up deep enough. We were speaking about within the dream. The things we are talking about are too multidimensional to put into words. All wording of it is highly oversimplified, which is why you find gaps in the words and they never satisfy or fully make sense. Because they can't fully make sense of an infinite thing.

@emptiness dancing Haha, no way am I letting another human touch my book other than to read it. You might as well ask Satan to be my editor.

You are imagining us. Go deeper

Yeah.... That ain't how a straight male's mind works. When I look at porn, I don't even see the guy. You definitely got some queerness going on. Time for you to get honest with yourself and figure out what the hell you want sexually/romantically.

Same thing

@AtheisticNonduality Whatever helps you sleep at night.