Leo Gura

To be fair, most people in the US disapprove of Trump and he did not even win the popular vote. He is the most unpopular President of all time. Don't forget that. His base is no more than 40%. Trump is below the center of gravity of most Americans. Which is why he should lose in a landslide unless the Democrats manage to do something really stupid.

Nobody fucks with the Jesus

Nature is Infinite Consciousness! It can feel all emotions and think all thoughts! It imagines all things, from cars, to planets, to dogs, to humans, to money, to new gadgets, to new scientific theories. It is imagining and animating every cell in your body, and all humans occupying this planets across all of history. It imagines all histories. It is even reading this sentence and wondering about itself

It's not so simple. Reality is about way more than the pleasures of people. You have to take into account the entire well-being and harmony of the universe. Even your human notion of happiness is woefully inadequet. Maximizing that is not God's goal. Basically yes. More profoundly: anything which happens is good by defintion because God knows no opposite. Absolute Goodness is simply the absence of all distinction and judgment.

@Freakrik Suffering cannot be forever because suffering is a limited thing. Suffering is finite. Only Love and Bliss and Truth are forever. Only they are Infinite. Do not confuse God for a devil. All devils are finite. Only God is infinite. God is wholeness. There can only be one wholeness. The devil cannot be whole because the devil is divided. When a devil becomes whole, it becomes God.

Of course. But that assumes you're lucid. How lucid are you right now?

@zeroISinfinity How can love be missing when love is all there is?

Most people who do hatha yoga in the West are Orange transitioning to Green. But they still have a lot of work to do before they become solid Green. And their politics could easily be one stage lower simply out of political ignorance.

My point was, the effectiveness of your training will depend a lot on your pre-existing spiritual attunement and how your brain/mind functions. Imagine doing the same amount of practice but your progress is 100x less. That is more like the reality for many peeps. The average person cannot climb 10 stages in 1 year. That's pipedreams. But of course you'll never know until you try, so don't prematurely limit yourself.

The key difference is that the awake person is conscious that he is God. The depersonalized person is not. The depersonalized person also is not conscious enough to see how he is assigning negative meaning to no-self and no-meaning. No-self is not what people think it is. No-self is only half the story. The other half is Cosmic Self. The depresonalized person is missing consciousness of the Love of God.

What have you been doing your whole life?

Good God! Toxic masculinity.

Yeah, at higher doses mushrooms really demonstrate the power of imagination. It's like being in a dream.

It's really hard to put an image on it. To me DPT feels like a mix of 5-MeO-DMT & Mushrooms.

Depends on how you go about it.

@Goodpeace That looks super suspect. Test it with a test kit. Make sure it's an indole substance at the very least. I doubt that is 5-MeO-DMT. It should be dry and white-ish. Like this: https://www.dissidentreality.com/articles/books-about-5-meo-dmt/

@Dan502 Survival is a relentless mechanism responsible for keeping you alive every day. So it's really a wondrous thing to observe. Notice that theories are also survival. And of course hurt is all about survival

Obviously Culadasa is supernaturally gifted. That's the trick these masters never tell their students about. They act as though it's pure practice and skill. No, they largely coast off their supernatural concentration abilities.

You're not yet understanding what I meant by survival. You are thinking of survival as some biological evolutionary theory. That is not what we're talking about here. I mean something much more direct and viceral. To understand you must turn to your direct experience of life and observe how every micro thing you do is a function of survival. Don't speculate about it, observe it happening in you. It's happening every second.

Great! The trick is understanding what it is.

We already had too many of these debates. They lead nowhere because people all have their own opinions and personal definitions. You must do the practices to discover what such spiritual words mean.

@Hardkill Inside the book list

@Hardkill It's got "charisma" in the title. Do a ctrl+F search.

@Identity Just notice what you're really asking for. If you become all of it, then you will no longer be a human having a life.

I recently added a book to my book list about how to develop charisma. It explains what charisma is.