Leo Gura

This thread is not the best place for that discussion. In brief, I agree that Yang and Sanders should not be fighting each other. Nor are they. Their ideas largely dovetail. Sanders is too advanced even for the 21st century. We are nowhere near "passed that". We are just warming up. Yang is part of the warm up. Yang is not going after corporate corruption as directly as Sanders is. Yang's over-focused on UBI as a cure-all at the expense of a solid welfare system. Again, I am not opposed to Yang per se. If he were president that would be a huge step forward for America. But I see Bernie Sanders as an MLK or FDR type figure who can lead a true social movement unlike anyone else. He has the balls to do it. The status quo is most threatened by Sanders. Because they intuit that he will call out their selfishness and greed unlike anyone else. The polar opposite of Trump is not an Asian guy who knows math. It's Bernie Sanders -- who will attack the very heart of late-stage capitalism. This attack is badly needed to shift the center of gravity of our culture. If you want to discuss this further, start a dedicated thread.

There is value in learning about masculine and feminine ways of life. But also, that is just one way to partitioning reality. So be careful not to get hung up on that daulity. It is a duality in the end. Consciousness itself is not masculine or feminine. But from a human perspective it is useful to experiment with masculine vs feminine approaches to life and spirituality. A heart-centered, love-based path can be very powerful. But it also needs to grounded in direct realization of Truth.

God has allowed you be a devil. You took that allowance and ran with it

@Revolutionary Think Neither Musk nor Yang are pure Orange. They have healthy doses of Green and even some bits of Yellow. Yang is a nice healthy example of a conscious responsible capitalist.

@Yog Hahaha

Again, the problem is with how you're defining "I". The I of which you speak is the illusory ego. The true I, God, has an infinite number of lives because it is all things. Your life is imaginary. It isn't really yours. You've mistaken the universe for yourself. It's sort of like when you say, "This is my cat." But in truth, that cat does not belong to you. You can't really own a cat. Only in your imagination.

I've said before that different people need different paths, so respect their differences because not everyone is like you. There are not just two paths, there are more.

LOL If it didn't do that it would spirituality, not therapy! "A flute with no holes is not a flute." -- Basho

The Force is strong with this one. Basho would be proud.

More damaging than thinking he could reason with Trump on climate change?

It has been said by an ancient enlightenment master that if you can say Hooponopono! three times fast without tripping, you'll become fully liberated.

@Andrewww How about you start by realizing that Christ and water are something you're imagining? Learn the alphabet before you go trying to write poetry.

How cliche. A Silicon Valley guy supports a Silicon Valley guy. See, like I said, people simply vote for whoever most closely matches their level of consciousness and worldview. Birds of a feather vote together.

@Aimblack Science has no theoretical understanding of what intelligence, consciousness, or creativity are. So we are a very long way away. You are basically asking them to design a nuclear weapon without any knowledge of nuclear physics.

Psychedelics

@zeroISinfinity You talk a big game, but do you really understand?

With him, don't hold your breath

@AlldayLoop All cognition is dualistic. That's just the nature of the beast. Any concept you that think must divide reality into two.

That's called enlightenment.

@ROOBIO Study the example of the late great Steve Irwin. He gave his life to promoting animal welfare.

It is a special kind of twisted devilry to promote animal welfare while calling for the extermination of Jews because they are varmints and cockroaches. Hitler also shot his dog.

Your question has a subtle duality as its premise. The "you" you're assuming in that question is the ego self. The ego is not the only one. That is the wrong you. The right you is God. God is the only thinker because it is all thinkers. Moreover, there is no difference between actuality and your imagination. So if you imagine there are others out there, that's what God creates. Since you are God. You are imagining the very world you interact with. You are like a paranoid madman. If you believe people are chasing after you, they are!

Again, causation is a dualistic notion. To have causation requires you divide the world into causes and effects (duality). To say there is no causation is the same as to say there is infinite causation, because zero and infinity are identical. Every object has an infinite chain of causes and an infnite chain of effects. Reality is an infnite fractal of cause and effect. Every point in the web is both the beginning, the center, and the end. Or you could say that everything is uncaused. It's the same thing.

Because people are selfish and helping animals is outside their circle of concern. It does not serve a human's survival to help animals. So they mostly don't. It's hard to care about animals when your belly is empty. We change this by raising collective consciousness. People only start caring about animals as beings at stage Green and above. Lower stages treat animals as walking resources.

You are all things at all times. You are incarnated as all living being simultaneously. There is nowhere to go because you already are everywhere and nowhere. THIS. IS. ETERNITY!