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@Esoteric Well, obviously humans cannot have total power because that would just create a cosmic war of competing agendas. But still it seems people can get some powers like the various siddhis, so it is just a question of degree. The question is how much power can on gain? I don't see why there would be some hard boundary. It just seems to get harder and harder to change more fundamental aspects of reality, like the gravitational constant of the whole universe. It's obvious why mystics aren't allowed to change that willy-nilly. Also, from my experiences, at high enough levels of consciousness you become so hyper conscious that you literally stop being human and become God itself. In that state you seem to have access to many of its powers because you become it. It is no longer your human will that is at work at that point.

Every spiritual school has rules you must play by. Welcome to society. If anything my rules are too lax and too accommodating of diverse perspectives. This tolerance gets abused by devils. But I have some limits. Undercutting the highest truth I know cannot fly here. If someone wants to teach that there is no God, that love is just an emotion, that psychedelics are delusion... well... they will have to start their own school. Not in my school. I hold WinterKnight to a higher standard because he is here in a teaching capacity and representing enlightenment. I would have less problem with it if he was just making random comments as a non-teacher. In the future I will be screening people on this forum harder when they claim to be enlightened in order to maintain the integrity of these teachings. A lot of people come here, claim to be enlightened, and then they're off to the races with their twisted and half-baked views. 1) Your awakenings were not nearly deep enough, requiring much more embodiment work. 2) Your desire to feel good is never going to work. You cannot use spirituality to feel good. Rather, what spirituality teaches you is that no matter how bad you feel, that is good. This is very counter-intuitive. The ego wants to lock in a happy state. This is not only impossible but it is the very cause of your unhappiness. Happiness is total acceptance of whatever is happening in the present moment. That means if you're getting tortured, you accept it without trying to escape it. The desire to escape suffering is the very thing which creates suffering. Because this is not as slight a difference as you think, and because this problem, while small now, will only grow larger and larger with my newer teachings until it comes to a head. I have a very specific teaching I want to offer the world. I created this platform to offer this teaching because I knew that no other platform would allow me to teach what I need to teach. This is precisely backwards. You are God. Period. The mistake you're making here is you're still maintaining a subtle distinction between self & other. You're "otherizing" God. You're missing the most important point of all: THAT YOU ARE GOD! This is no metaphor. You created the whole fucking universe. But you forgot. Now you must remember. Thousands upon thousands of people have awakened to Love. Many even on this forum. But awakening to Love has nothing to do with walking around all loving all the time. Do not confuse Love with some sentimental positivity. You can find Love in a warzone. Here's one example: No. What I'm talking about is not emotion. It's existential insight & raw Truth. How you feel about it is irrelevant. I understand that more than you can imagine. No, it does not matter. Consciousness cannot really cease. It can just be empty. Empty or full doesn't matter, it's all the same Truth. Nirodha Samapatti is identical to NOW. Existential Love is not a state. Love is all states.

Oh God, not another pyramid scheme. I have created a monster.

@Girzo You ain't lived until you've shot a grenade launcher I had an old high school buddy who is ex-military and he and his friends would go out into the desert and throw live hand grenades into old washing machines. This was some years ago.

@possibilities Biology and physics is purely imagination.

Both of them did a lot of manipulating, which is the only reason we speak of them today. If what you say was true they would have just gone off to die in the wildness and no one would have known their name. Jesus' and Buddha's manipulations are still rippling through consciousness to this day!

Absolutely There are things consciousness can do on drugs that you cannot even being to imagine. Imagine becoming a rock and existing for 1 billion years, then returning back to human form. Stuff like that is possible and no meditation will ever get you there. You won't even know you missed it even if you become highly enlightened through meditation. That's because most people do drugs recreationally to escape. They have no serious spiritual ambitions or understanding of nonduality or spirituality or psychology or anything. It's kids fooling around. It's as if you've seen kids playing with finger paints and then you say that it's not possible to paint the Mona Lisa with paints. It matters very much the skill of the person handling the paint. Right now you are hallucinating that you're a human. There is no human here really. Only a story of one.

Yes but then how do you handle a situation where an atheist comes into the temple and starts teaching atheism and nihilism? It is tricky to handle that because you're damned if you kick him out and damned if you don't. And that's precisely the problem of how do you handle ignorance? It's not easy. You cannot escape fragmention in the relative world. You can be super enlightened but fragmentation will still happen to you. It will be thrust upon you. As God you are doomed to forever keep dividing yourself. People will attack you just for speaking the truth. After enough trips you realize that your whole life is one long trip, so the distinction disappears. There is no difference really between being high and sober other than that you are much more conscious of your full capacities when high. God and Love are always present. It's just a question of how disconnected one is from it.

Someone link him the ego backlash video.

It is being in the same way all concepts are being. Just be careful not to confuse the thought of a chair for a chair.

Siddhis are definitely a thing. When it comes to skeptics here, they are the deluded ones.

Yes, it is very hard. Yes, it does point to deeper systemic economic problems which need to be reformed. But, it can still be done. Success requires a lot of trial and error and persistence. Remember, you only need one thing to pan out. All those courses have laid some foundation. Now you're ready to pounce on some new opportunity. Success in business requires being opportunistic and creative. You can't just copy what everyone else is doing. You must always be on the lookout for your niche. Always be thinking about how you can provide massive value to the world. 3D printing sounds like an exciting new field with enormous future potential.

Love is simply what is. If you are a serious student of spiritual texts and teachings, you know that the best of them talk about love. It has nothing to do with fireworks or psychedelics. Psychedelics simply show you your deepest nature -- if you have the courage to look at yourself in your rawest form. The reason some of guys have a hard time buying this whole love business it because you're still thinking of reality from the materialist paradigm. This paradigm can extremely subtle, such that even people who have an awakening or two -- such as Sam Harris -- still have not transcended it. According to materialism, the universe must be neutral, impersonal, and devoid of any sentimentality. This is a hyper-logical, hyper-masculine, reductionistic way of understanding reality. And it is untrue. Consciousness is Love. It is not dumb matter or energy or even "simply what is". What is, is LOVE! And why it is, is LOVE! Be careful not to underestimate God's goodness. That is the key mistake here. God is not neutral as you might assume.

Yes, but also be careful not to develop a blaming victim complex on this issue. If you want a passionate job, you can work to create one based around your LP. It's challenging but worthwhile. Become a massive value provider, a powerful creator.

The point of such abilities, besides the pure understanding of them, is to move mankind to greater self-realization. Altering the illusion is totally unnecessary. And yet if you could move more people to realize love, that would be the highest motivation, and you would do whatever is in your power towards that end.

@Gili Trawangan That was a different era. That era of Hollywood is long dead. Now it's mostly money grabs. Looking at you, Terminator 8, or whatever number you are.

Sounds like a money grab. The last 2 were so terrible. #NeverTrustSequels

@winterknight I would like to say that I appreciate the help you gave people here in explaining self-inquiry. And you are welcome back on this forum once you rediscover that you are God and you are Love.

@Swagala Good, those are some legit mystical insights. Just be careful not to get hooked on weed. If you liked that, you will love mushrooms & LSD. And those you can't get hooked on.

@herghly Yes, the more pranayamas the faster the results should come. It's said by some yogis that you need like 10,000 pranayamas to enter a deep samadhi effortlessly. I don't recall the exact number. It's mentioned in one of the books. Of course this number should not be taken too literally. It will differ for each person. But it gives you a rough idea of how many pranayamas you're aiming for. So do a shitload of them.

But also be open to the possibility of there being an end. The truth is you just don't know if there is an end or not -- until you do. I am open to it being endless. I am open to it having an end. Either way is fine with me. My aim is just to explore it and see how deep it goes.

No, you're misquoting me. I said: Being = perception - ego Being = experience - ego Truth = perception - ego Truth = experience - ego Truth = Being Perception = experience These distinctions are subtle but important. Remember, I am not saying that colors and sounds will disappear. They will still be around. But they will get recontextualized. You can look at an apple and see it as an apple. Or you can look at an apple and see it as not an apple. In both cases there is a round, red shape visible. But how you interpret that shape is very significant. Try looking at an apple while letting go of your idea that it is an apple. Just stare at it in silence.

So what? Big deal. If you can register a car, you can register a gun. How come I have to register my business with the IRS but not an arsenal of 20 assault rifles? It's absurd. Do not confuse registration with a ban on guns. Illegal guns will always exist, but requiring registration of all new firearm purchases would help eliminate young teens from buying up guns for their sprees. Many of these mass shooters purchased a firearm within weeks or months of their spree. Currently you can go to a gun show and buy a gun from a private party without any background check or waiting period whatsoever. It's absurd. These gun shows a very problematic. Back in the 90's I was once at a gun show where they were selling flamethrowers, grenades, body armor, and all sorts of other shady stuff. That particular gun show had to be closed because of how much illegal stuff was sold there. I'm sure that kind of stuff still goes on around the country. It's not hard to go to a gun show and purchase a firing pin which will turn your semi-auto AR-15 into a fully-auto. I have family members who were able to purchase grenade launchers at gun shows.

No, just do it as long as humanly possible. It's very important that when you do your whole routine, that it be natural and organic. Don't waste too much mental energy criticizing yourself, timing things, analyzing yourself, etc. You must enter a flow state. The whole thing must become silky smooth and effortless. Let go of any self-conscious thoughts and just follow your heart. Turn off your targeting computer and use The Force

I'm quite sure I have not reached the end. But at the same time, there are things I have realized which cannot be forgotten or denied. God & Love are two such things.