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VW CEO in prison now for his devilry. It takes an exceptional amount of corporate devilry for a CEO to end up in prison.

If only Volkswagen cars emitted nothing

Generally speaking, if mood goes up, it must come down. And since its all relative, you will perceive any drop in mood from its peak as a terrible thing. Your mind cannot evaluate absolute values of mood, only relative changes. So to jump from 50 to 100 and then back down to 50 is perceived the same as dropping from 50 to 0.

@Extreme Z7 The ultimate irony is that Trump inherited $400 million from daddy and lost it all in terribly mismanaged business deals. Trump's wealth is a total con. But stage Orange doesn't care. To stage Orange, the appearance of wealth is as valid as actual wealth and it doesn't matter to stage Orange that his wealth was acquired through white collar crime and various kinds of exploitative schemes. Stage Orange just wants that golden toilet, damn the costs. To stage Orange, success = truth.

That's totally predictable. Stage Orange is attracted to Trump's phony materialistic success, his phony business acumen, his phony masculinity, his vulgarity, and his giving an F.U. to stage Green. Libertarian types are attracted to that like flies to shit. I had a stage Orange coaching client about 3 years ago and he looked up to Trump as his role-model. When I asked him why, he said because Trump has a beautiful wife, the kind of trophy wife he'd like to have. This reveals the level of depth of stage Orange minds. Stage Orange does not understand the shallowness and self-defeating nature of materialism and capitalism. Stage Orange has made materialism its God. Sports cars, luxury condos, hot women, and millions of dollars are their vision of heaven.

Yes, I have, but all of that takes precious time and energy that I could put towards shooting more videos, creating more courses, and writing books. I might do some of those things in the future, but it's not a high priority. The problem with meeting people in person is that it's a lot of hassle and my reach becomes very small.

Not quite. Enlightenment is the recontextualization of "experience" into Being/Absolute Truth. The raw data of perception doesn't change, it just gets recontextualized, reinterpreted. So your coffee table still looks like a coffee table but it is no longer a coffee table, it is recognized to be the mind of God.

Of course. That's classic stage Blue patriarchy. Woman's role is to make babies and run the kitchen.

Sounds good. Keep experimenting with it.

God:

@cetus56 You mean a banana hammock?

Awesome! Those are some deep insights. Proud of ya You are finally starting to understand the depth of it.

No, every experience is also a state of consciousness.

Sit and contemplate God for 6 hours.

@cetus56 The desire for Truth and understanding is independent of suffering or the quality of one's life. You can desire to know a thing simply for the sake of knowing it, not because it will benefit your survival. For example, you can have a desire to look inside a kangaroo's pouch even if doesn't benefit you in any material way. And who knows? Maybe you'll find a diamond in there

Name one thing which isn't in your direct experience. I dare you. Realize this: there is nothing but direct experience. Nor can there be.

Haha Let me rephrase your question back to you in a way that you can relate to: Aren't scientific experiments based on what we're interested in? So if a serious scientist makes a discovery in the lab, and some kid is just dicking around in the lab and simply gets a fun, erroneous result, isn't that proof that science happens BECAUSE of us, and not TO US?

You just have to be careful with how terms can have different meanings. "Self-consciousness" is a mainstream cultural term, not a technical term from spirituality. Mainstream culture does not understand what the self or what consciousness is. So understanding that, when ordinary folks say "self-conscious" they are not talking about spirituality or awakening or Truth. They simply mean: a neurotic sense of social anxiety and self-judgment. Don't be fooled by the surface similarity of terms. Just because two words look the same or sound the same does not mean they have the same meaning. Of course the problem is not self-consciousness per se, the problem is an obsessive anxiety over one's self-image in social situations. In a sense, the awakened person is not self-conscious when he acts. He's not thinking of his self-image, he acts spontaneously. The self-conscious person self-obsesses and is stuck in monkey mind.

Same as how Trumpists defend Trump. Rather than admitting Trump's ignorance they explain it away as actually a higher level of intelligence and strategy. A stage Blue mind will rationalize away any evidence contradicting its worldview. Stage Blue is prone to mythological thinking. They tend to take myths literally. For example, Noah actually put 2 of every animal on his Ark and got them to fuck successfully.

Because I'd have a hard time finding anyone who would understand or appreciate the depth of the things I want to say, so I just focus on buliding my body of work. The stuff I want to say will only be understood by one in a million people. Who is gonna interview me? Who knows which questions to ask? How many hours would the interview need to be to convey the things I want conveyed? It would largely be a waste of my time. Rather than waiting for the right person to ask me things, I just say the right things straight to your face and cut out the middle man.

That's his defense mechanism for surviving as the self that he's attached to. That is the function of such emotional reactions. It's like a baby crying when you take away his favorite blanket. To your friend, losing his national identity is scary and painful so he's in denial about it because it would seriously threaten his entire worldview. He might have to admit that Islam is not the one true faith. This would lead to a profound existential crisis as he loses his grip on reality. The mind cannot admit that reality is self-constructed. It needs reality to be objectively real!

@FoxFoxFox Don't come a crying when your camel runs away.

Understanding and insight goes way deeper than ego or langauge. Eliminating internal dialogue is not necessary for awakening or insight. You can be going through an awakening and still have access to some internal dialogue which comments on and makes sense of what is happening. An ego self is not required for this. After an awakening it can be a good practice to sit down and write out what happened to you. This is not ego. This is a good way to clarify things in your mind. It's not enough to just have awakening experience, you also have to then purify the mind. The mind needs to upgrade its logical understanding of itself so it can communicate about these things better. All of this is part of the awakening process. It is certainly possible to have an awakening but then return to a muddled and confused mind which misunderstands what just happened to it. You have to grow your mind along with your consciousness.

Some great questions here. I had many of them myself when I was starting out. Yeah, consciousness is tricky, tricky stuff.

One day Mohammed saw a Bedouin leaving his camel without tethering it, questioned him as to why he was doing this. The Bedouin replied that he was placing his trust in Allah and had no need to tie the camel. The prophet Mohammed then replied, “Tie your camel and place your trust in Allah.” So don't forget to tie your fucking camel.