Leo Gura

The universe is not indifferent. But also the universe has much bigger plans than merely keeping every being physically safe. The universe prioritzes freedom above physical safety. The reason you're not understanding it is because you're trying to understand the selfless mind of God using your selfish mind. That cannot work. Your view of death and suffering is biased by the ego's hatred and fear of both. God doesn't hate, so this is not part of God's ultimate design. To understand God you must stop hating and fearing things.

@Captain black1 Cetainly Marx made some important intellectual contributions.

@Synchronicity You need to study developmental psychology and politics deeper. There are stages to moral, cognitive, and spiritual development. These stages are consistent across people around the world. Absolutistic worldviews are lower than relativistic ones. With development, an absolutistic person will evolve into a relativistic one, but not vice versa. No amount to growth will turn a relativistic person into an absolutist, or a systems thinker into a black and white thinker. These are not just my opinions. This is scientific research from within developmental psychology. Study it, if you care to understand.

@Synchronicity But they are not equal. The conservative value set is lower consciousness. A conservative's sense of self is denser and fear greater. A conservative's cognitive and moral development are objectively lower and less truthful. Be careful with false equivalencies and splitting all issues down the middle. The mid point between slavery and anti-slavery is still backwards. None of this makes liberals immune to ignorance or self-deception. But relative to conservatives they are 1 stage higher. Note: remember, these are relative evaluations, not absolute. Spiral Dynamics is a relative model. But politics is a relative matter so it fits.

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All deep awakening is rude awakening. The devil does not take kindly to being roused from his slumber Of course psychedelics will stir up shadow material. That is the whole point! That's how they cataylize growth: by sticking your face in your own shit. This is not a maybe, this is gauranteed. Which is why we advise low to moderate doses and a careful approach.

I notice you guys still have not penetrated (excuse the pun) the issue of survival as talked about in my 2 part survival series. Stuff like using sex for pleasure is still survival! Survival is not just about making babies. Survival is about maintaining your self. The desire for intimacy, romance, and companionship is all survival. If a thing in life has any importance to you, you can be sure it's tied to your survival in some elaborate way. If a thing was irrelevant to your survival, you would not be talking about it, much less having a strong opinion about it. Opinions and emotions are survival.

Realize this: one vs many it itself a duality. Reality is one. Reality is many. It's both. There is no difference between the two. And there is a difference between the two. Depending on your POV. Is a dozen eggs one, or many? Notice the role of relativity in these kinds of questions.

I am not stating my views. I am explaining how the culture holds sexuality. Of course my explanation is stage Blue/Orange because that's what our culture mostly is. If you wish to transcend this Blue/Orange stage we first need to be honest about it and understand it. Many people want to jump to stage Green love without fully understanding that sex & "love" are survival strategies. And then of course these same Green people end up having terrible relationships and much sex which ends in misery. That's because they fooled themselves into calling their selfish survival strategies "love". "love" is very tricky. The devil co-opts love so easily.

It's not a matter of degrading or not. This is just how the sexual marketplace works for most humans. This is culture and survival. It does not have to be this way in the future. But today this is the cultural reality. When we talk about culture we are talking about averages and trends, so individual exceptions are expected. Just because you might not care about the cultural norms and values does not mean they don't exist. Most women want to settle down with a man who will be loyal to her. To deny this is silly. This desire to settle down with a man is a survival strategy.

Thanks for sharing. Psychedelics should definitely not be done competitively. That runs counter to the whole spirit of spirituality. Moderate doses are ideal.

@Socrates Good work! Finally some progress with you The shadow is simply all those aspects of the universe (self) which you have denied in order to maintain a limited human ego self. Yes, to fully embrace yourself as the whole universe you must now re-own those denied aspects of yourself. So that you may finally be complete. You must unify all the divisions your mind has created since your birth. For most people this is a difficult process because there is so much of the universe they have hated and demonized for so long. Now it must be admitted that all that hatred and demonetization was self-hatred and falsehood.

See video: Understanding Absolute Infinity - Part 2 wherein is discussed Georg Cantor's set theory, which explains how multiple infinities work. There is an infinite number of different sizes of infinity. Which all adds up to one Absolute Infinity.

LOL, I can't believe you dug up that song!

Sure. Devilry tends to have many reasons, all of which boil down to survival and fear.

@Captain black1 Yes, I saw it earlier this week. I'm glad he's exploring Wilber's work, but Michael Brooks still doesn't understand the significance of Wilber's work and what Spiral Dynamics / developmental psychology means for politics. Michael is in high stage Green, but he's a bit too attached to Marxism, socialism, and the progressive movement to move into Tier 2. He's still operating at Tier 1 thinking. It's fine, but there's a higher level. Of course Michael makes valid critiques of the IDW and conservatives. But there are also important critiques of Marxism which he is missing. For example, one of the biggest critiques of Marx is his materialism. Materialism is false. Marx actually bastardized Hegel. Marx took Hegel's masterpiece philosophy -- which was idealist and quasi-nondual -- and lowered it by turning it materialistic and atheistic. A political philosophy based on materialism and atheism cannot possibly work in the long term. It will be fundamentally limited by misunderstanding the true metaphysics of reality. The whole trick with going to the highest levels of politics is being extremely careful not to get hung up on any pet ideology, whether Marxist, capitalist, or whatever. All ideology is limited and partial. Tier 2 politics is going beyond ideology. For Michael to move into Tier 2, he'd have to go through a painful process of dropping stage Green. This won't serve his immediate survival agenda as a political analyst. He's still a bit too intellectually arrogant to move into Tier 2. He'll need some mystical experiences to open him up and humble him.

What's to explain? Everyone knows that women who have lots of casual sex are shamed and looked down upon as sluts. Why does this happen? Because the woman's value within society is directly related to her locking down a loyal man. If a woman is unable to do this, society thinks there's something wrong with her, like she's broken. Of course all of this is silly in the absolute sense. But in the relative world of survival it's a big deal. A woman cannot be seen as a slut because then no man will want to lock her down. Which hurts her survival ability. A woman's survival is significantly increased by locking down a responsible man. A woman who sleeps around a lot cannot be trusted by her man because he can't be sure if their kid is actually his. Women need to reassure men that their children are the man's children and no one else's. This is why men tend to be controlling of women. The man needs to be sure his wife isn't sleeping around behind his back because it can cost him enormously if she does so. In the past, such transgressions were punishable by death in many parts of the world. When a child is born, women go out of their way to say, "Oh look, he looks just like Daddy!" as as a subtle way of reassuring her man that "Look, this is really your kid, not someone else's." Sex and relationships are all a sneaky game of survival and manipulation. Automatically so. You're not at all conscious of how or why you're doing it. Rather, it's doing you. You are a marionette to sex.

@Elisabeth Stay tuned, the advanced stuff is coming.

@Bryanbrax Careful not to get seduced by pretty pixels on a screen.

Good. You got a tiny taste of spirituality. A tiny, tiny taste. But now you understand what this path is about.

Don't be so negative. Society is the most evolved right now than it's ever been in the last 5000 years. The 21st century is a great time to be alive. Stop worrying, awakening yourself, and go about joyfully awakening society even further. The world needs your love, hope, vision, and passion.

I've found psychedelics to be the best way. What he's bumping up against in his trips is the root of all fear. With dozens more trips the psychedelics should help him see through the illusory nature of all fear and break through to the other side of fear, which is Infinite Self-Love and Self-Acceptance -- Paradise!

Great work. That's some quality tripping. Eventually, as you trip more, you should conquer that sense of going mad and after that it won't be a big deal. You will be able to go even deeper into the mind of God. You are not pure enough yet and your self-understanding is not deep enough yet. You have too much fear which needs to be faced, processed, and put to rest. Facing madness and facing death are two of the biggest obstacles. But once you conquer those, that's when the tripping gets really profound and life-changing. You need to get as much of your personal crap out of the way as possible.

Locked for low quality.

Don't fool yourself.