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You cannot imagine, symbolize, or qualify the Absolute in any way whatsoever. So you might as well stop trying. It will never work and you will waste years of your life trying. At some point you have to ditch all metaphor, maps, and symbols because none of them are the Absolute. You must to the meditative practices.

It takes some practice before your videos will be release worthy. Make like 50 videos just for yourself. Just for practice and experimentation. So there is no pressure to publish them. Then you'll be much better. A writter doesn't release his first 50 pieces of writting, nor does an artist. It takes a lot of practice in any field to reach the point where your work is ready for public release. With making videos it's actually easier than with music, writting, or painting. Those all requires many years of practice to release anything decent.

That's definitely more challenging. At your age I would spend more time on awakening and spiritual practice. Of course you can work on some books and so forth, or start a community, but also your priorities should be different at your age. It's less about impacting the world and more about deepening your spiritual connection with yourself. Awakening is more satisfying than meeting any career objectives anyhow. You don't want to be filling the last quarter of your life with a busy work schedule at the cost of your spirituality.

@Gili Trawangan You've only seen the tip of the iceberg so far. What you're missing is that this field of consciousness which everything is, is infinitely intelligent. Everything you see is materialized by this pure intelligence via Will into being. "Physical reality" is actually occuring inside a giant Mind which "thinks" it into being. Like a dream. Start to deeply notice the intelligence of every little thing around you. Every particle of dust is filled with infinite intelligence. Once you start to notice it, it will take your breath away. You've just gotten to used to overlooking the intelligence of everything. Also, there is no how. The very mechanism of reality is before you on full display. Reality does not work via any mechanism. It is impossibly direct. The how is the what. What a thing is is exactly how it is coming into being. In nonduality there are no mechanisms because those are all dualistic. It's hard for people to appreciate how radical this is. It means, for example, that your sense organs are not actually causing your perceptions. Nonduality denies sense organs basically because all of that is mechanical, dualistic, and indirect. Nonduality breaks all scientific chains of causation. From a certain level of consciousness you will see that there is no causation at all. Everything is instant manifestion. As if the whole universe exists in suspended animation. It is Eternal and Absolute. Keep tripping and you will discover more of these facets of God. Awareness is nothing. Even to call it a witness is too much and incorrect. There is no witness. The witness is nothing. If you turn your gaze back in on itself and ask what it is, you can feel there's nothing there. That's your so-called "witness". Just zero.

@Pernani Don't follow instructions blindly like a robot. You must intuit the purpose and reason behind the technique. Then you will not need so much instruction as you will know what is the goal.

Was this not explained in the Turquoise video?? You won't really understand Turquoise unless you hang out with some Turquoise level people and have some mystical experiences while you are at Yellow. It's not enough to just have mystical experiences, as you could have them at Purple, Blue, Orange, Green. Your cognitive development must already be at Yellow and then the mystical experiences will push you past Yellow in Turquoise.

The Bible is NOT the word of God.

@hariseldon74 You got it backwards, you picked that career because you are that kind of thinker.

@ivankiss Sounds like you just need to be patient with it and let it play out. It should all stablize in some weeks or months. Sounds very cool.

Firstly, there is shaktipat which is how some gurus awaken their students. But more importantly the guru cannot wake you up because you do not want to awaken. So they will never force any teaching on you. You are the obstacle here! No one can wash you of yourself but yourself. The only people who will awaken are those who seriously want it and are willing to pay any price to get it. You are God making yourself unenlightened. If you wish to awaken, stop doing that.

@Jamesc None of your ideas of it are it. Whatever you imagine it to be, it isn't that for sure.

No, that clearly won't happen since 99% are unenlightened. Most people don't awaken in one lifetime. What you actually want is to awaken and lead a loving, inspired spiritual life. Don't get all nihilistic on me. Nihilism is its own delusion.

@mandyjw Intelligence is a dangerous thing when co-opted by ego. Intelligence without consciousness could destroy the world. It's useful to distinguish between two kinds of intelligence: Linear, rational, analytic, little picture, materialistic, technical, divisive Holistic, synthetic, heart-centered, soul-centered, big picture, spiritual, wise, unitive

@Nivsch It's hopeless trying to convince such people (strong right-wing Blue) because they will always project their own biases onto you or the model you're presenting. Because they are not aware of how their mind is working backwards from their conclusions. Their dogmatic position is that right-wing is superior to left-wing. This is held as an absolute. And they have no interest in questioning that. So their mind will do all sorts of mental gymnastics to have that look true for them. They will cherry-pick evidence and use whatever rationalizations are available in order to generate their conclusion. Of course left-wingers also do this to some extent because this is not a left vs right thing, but a fundamental mechanic of the ego-mind. But right-wingers do it a lot more precisely because they are less cognitively developed on average. Of course you are never going to be able to convince them of this, precisely because they are not open to it. There is no cure for closedmindness. "The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract." — Oliver Wendell Holms If everyone could be convinced of their bigotry and closedmindedness, half the world's problems would be solved overnight. The whole trick is that people are in denial about it. And what's worse they are in denial that they are in denial. That's just the nature of ignorance. It cannot help being ignorant. It is also almost always the case that such right-wingers have a very poor understanding of history. Right-wingers do not have an accurate historical understanding of Hitler, Stalin, nationalism, white supremacy, Marxism, capitalism, racism, civil rights, slavery, feminism, The Constitution, etc, and government in general. They are not interested in deeply exploring these issues other than as a way of justifying their pre-existing dogmas. Because the whole point of being a right-winger is that you have some position which you wish to defend out of a sense of fear of losing it. You have some position which you hold as absolute which is actually merely relative. This makes genuine inquiry virtually impossible. Such reactive egoic motives corrupt all inquiry towards truth. But good luck convincing a Blue/Orange right-winger of any of this. Of course the left-wing in also not immune. But still better.

@SQAAD Ultimately you are all things at all times happening NOW. One of those is your present human experience. Try not to think of Nirvana as somewhere or somewhen else. It is precisely THIS and NOW! But you ain't conscious of it.

@nowimhere Yeah, been there. Plugging can last as long as 1-2 hrs. Usually closer to 1 hr. You struggle to remember it because it is not a memory but the very present moment. So any memory of it will not be it. You can't capture Nothingness in any way. It must be located NOW, NOW, NOW. No symbols can be used.

It's a figure of speech. Don't take it too literally.

@Billy Shears I use that concept loosely. It's a tricky notion.

@ivankiss That's outside of stuff I've experienced. My experiences of God/Absolute are not like that at all. Maybe lay off the weed? It might be adding to your paranoia. Sounds like you might be having a kundalini awakening/activation. That would explain the body shaking and so forth. It might help you do some kind of body work to ground yourself or shake out the energy. Maybe Osho's dynamic meditation or just shaking your whole body like a madman. Chanting can also be helpful. When overwhelming energy comes up for you, try chanting AUM very long and deep from your belly, over and over again while also pounding your chest like a drum. Get a nice rythym going. I think you are doing okay. You just want to listen more to your body and let natural feelings show you the way. Trust your feelings. Let this process unfold and massage you. Sounds to me like God is taking over your mind and body. This is great. Let it take you over and rewire you. Surrender to it in high faith. Surrender to the highest love and truth. Set that intention every day. The ultimate goal is to let God take over your body. This requires a collapse of the old ego-mind. So that you become like a superconductor for God. This is exciting stuff! You've broken through to some deep awakening. Looks like you hooked a whale. Now slowly reel it in. Be patient with it. Really listen to your intution and highest feelings, not your rational mind. Allow your body to do whatever it wants to do (without hurting yourself). Prayer can be very helpful here. Prayer here would be you setting your intention to let God take over you for the highest good. Visualize what you want! This should help you cut through negative thinking and fear. Use your heart too! It's a powerful tool you can activate at any moment with feelings of love. Use that to cut through fear and doubt. Get clear about what you want in all of this. What is your intention? Do you want to be God? Do you want to surrender? Do you want the highest awakening? Intention is paramount here. Otherwise you are like a leaf blowing in the wind. Take control of the process, not from your mind but from your heart and soul. What does your soul want here?

No, but I'm fairly sure it's possible.

There may be very radical posibilities of incarnation. For example, imagine incarnating as a demi-god being who can architect his entire own universe of lesser beings and look after them like an ant farm. Imagine if you could split your consciousness into a million lesser beings and play through all of them at once. Just a crazy idea It stops when you reach total oneness in all possible ways. Total God. And then you being again from the bottom. Don't take any of this on faith. It could be wrong as far as you know. I'm just throwing out some ideas to open your mind. Direct experience is king.

Trolls love being trolls. It's like their daily dose of drug. They love to be right, they love to be smartasses, they love to "own" others. It's their way of power tripping.

His teachings are top notch.

No I'm saying those people who agree with my teachings the most are devils. It's like with the most zealous Christians. They are not true Christians, they are Christians in name only, not in action.

@ivankiss Good! Sounds like you've firmly seized the Ox by the horns. Namaste.