Leo Gura

Many yogis and monks in the East are no higher than stage Blue. Many are even Purple. Such people are commonly ethnocentric, racist, homophobic, misogynist, dogmatic, nationalistic, superstitious, and anti-ecological. Even though they may be God-realized.

So what? As a human, we have a higher calling.

I have never claimed to be above survival. We are studying dynamics in this work which are very challenging to transcend. It is as if we are planning a mission to Mars. Almost no one has done it before and there are a million ways it can go wrong. No one on the mission is safe or immune to screwing it up.

They are also not aware that they are God.

No! You guys are totally underestimating how deep survival goes! Stop thinking of survival as the physical preservation of your body. It is not that. Survival is about maintaining WHO YOU ARE. You are not a survival failure. You are maintaining WHO YOU ARE perfectly. Such that you even refuse to admit that what you're doing is survival. If WHO YOU ARE is an idiot, for example, then you spend a lot of time and energy preserving that way of life. You are playing an idiot perfectly in that case. You structure your entire way of life such that you can keep being an idiot. And any attempt to stop that will be perceived by you as death. It does not matter that being an idiot might be harmful to your physical survival. You might even walk off a cliff. But you'll still be an idiot at your moment of death, which is precisely what you wanted. Everything you do is about maintaining WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE. If you think you're a bird, you might jump off a cliff and flap your arms. It does not matter that you fall to your death. As long as you keep thinking you're a bird. Right before you hit the ground your mind will rationalize it all away as, "Well, I must be one of those non-flying birds, like a ostrich."

The problem with the "leaving a note" approach is that if you die and you have a choice to reincarnate as whatever you want, your perspective will be so much broader at that point after death that you will not care about honoring any note you left behind. You might reincarnate on some other planet in some other universe as some non-human being. Reincarnating just for the sake of demonstrating reincarnation to other humans is a really silly game. That is not the purpose of reincarnation.

There are valuable lessons to be learned from Spiral Dynamics stage Purple. That's where many indigenous shamans are at. But also don't confuse stage Purple shamans with Turquoise sages. That would be a big mistake. Shamans are still missing a lot of development even though they can be quite high in spiritual development. But spiritual development is not the only important line of development. Which is why we hear about a lot of shamans who abuse their followers. A shaman will be ethnocentric and unable to see outside of his culture & traditions. A shaman will also have a rather superstitious worldview which does not accord with science or reason. This is okay, but also limited and partial.

Listening to music is very much a survival strategy for most people. The types of music you select and why you listen to in the first place is about who you identify yourself to be, and maintaining that. Music is like a drug that puts the ego in a good mood. How many times have you used music to boost your state and make yourself feel better when you're down? How many times have you used music to get laid? How many times have you used music to drown out annoying noise or relieve boredom? How many times have you used music to facilitate bonding with other people? None of your enjoyments are innocent. They're all part of a larger survival strategy.

@rnd Study rather than smear and speculate. If you really care to understand Gandhi you should be eager to read 5 books about his life from various perspectives. What Gandhi did was amazing.

@UDT Be careful with such grandiose statements. Rather focus on observing your survival without jumping to conclusions. This is careful work which must be done. Not just talked about or some conclusions reached. Your conclusions do not matter much. What matters is your ability to be conscious of this stuff on a minute-by-minute basis.

A lot of shamans have a low level of cognitive developmemt: pre-rational magical. They can still be very wise, but it is not the highest levels of spiritual attainment and they will be dysfunctional in many ways. They don't have a global holisitic perspective.

There is Absolute Truth. Which you can become conscious of. This is reality as it looks from God's POV.

His versions of yoga. He has a bunch of programs.

@lostmedstudent There are hells but they are all temporary. All action has consequence. But God will not punish you directly for your behavior. All your suffering will be self-inflicted or at the hands of others like you.

You can find dirt on any person. The point is to look at the totality of a person's life. Instead of listening to others critiques. Go read Gandhi's biography. Overall what Gandhi accomplished was amazing, regardless of whatever flaws you might dig up. You can find a lot of dirt on Osho especially. He has no business judging Gandhi.

I consider smooth physical escalation a cornerstone of good dating technique. You can get ridiculously good at it and girls love it. Entire manuals have been written on it. Search for "kino escalation". This is one part of the Mystery Method which was actually quite good and practical. The rule of thumb is, you start to physically touch her within seconds of meeting her. During the day time physical escalation needs to be very mild. But during night time, like at bars and clubs, it can be very heavy. It needs to be very natural, which means you need to feel that it's natural for her to feel that it's natural. Start with non-erotic areas like hand, arm, shoulder. Then move to hug. Then holding hands. Then playing with and rubbing various parts of her body. Make it as casual and playful as possible. So typically you shake her hand as soon as you meet her. Then you might pat her on the shoulder. Then you might take her hand in your hand and immediately throw it away. Then you might get real close to her body and immediately step back. Then you might take her hand and examine her bracelet, ring, or watch. Then you might tell her to give you a hug. Then you might hold her hand as she walks with you. Then you might put your hands around her waist as you square up to her. Then you might gently run your finger along her jaw line. Then a very short kiss, no tongue. Then you might rub her hips. Then you might pull her into your chest. Then you might squeeze or spank her butt in a playful way. Then you might fondle her tits over her clothes. Then you might breathe on her neck. Then you might gently bite her neck. Then you might run your hands through her hair, gently grabbing and pulling it. And by this point you need to isolate her to a private location for heavy makeout, foreplay, and sex. The best way to get comfortable doing all this is to go out to rowdy nightclubs and open every girl with physical openers and practice escalating as quickly as possible until she pushes you way. You'll be amazing how far you can get how quickly. Try even going for an instant makeout. All of this builds your comfort level and confidence such that later you can escalate smoothly on any girl in any situation and it will feel natural to her. She does not have to be drunk for any of this. But obviously if alcohol is involved you can get away with a lot more a lot faster. Mostly she doesn't even need to drink the alcohol. All that's required is that you're in a social space where such things are seen as normal. Whatever you do needs to fit the social situation you're in. At bars and clubs this kind of heavy physicality is totally normal. Obviously not at the mall during day time. There you play it more chill. Although I've met a guy who would hit on women at the mall and have sex with them in that very same mall! LOL! You'll be amazed at what you can get away with when you're smooth and confident. Obviously for any of this to work she has to show some attraction to you. Although the initial few steps of physical escalation require no attraction. Touching any erotic areas requires a degree of attraction. The best way to tell if a girl is attracted to you is by looking in her eyes. Does she look into your eyes and hold contact? Does she follow your lead and listen to your words? Then she's attracted. If she's looking away from you a lot, she's not attracted. You need to capture her attention with charm, humor, and confidence.

I dunno. Haven't been in touch. Let's just say it was a long-term goal

This is a very tricky and complex topic. For now, the best thing you can do is carefully study your own survival in action. Don't worry to much about how to stop it or what it will ulitmately be like. Study it first. Awareness alone is curative. So long as you are a human you cannot ignore survival. Even enlightened masters must worry about food and water. To be alive is to survive. But you can make your survival much more conscious.

Yes, it can certainly be traumatic. Not the coming back part but the exploding into infinity part. If all of God was revealed to you in one minute, you would be so horrified you would curl up into a little ball in the corner of the room. That's how BIG and awesome God is. So gradual exposure is required. It's like looking at the sun. It's radiance is too great for mere mortals. You take short little peaks at it.

@mandyjw If you are inspired by the teachings and example of Jesus, that's fine. Nothing wrong with that. Just remember that once you meet the Buddha you must kill him. The trick with all religious teachings is that the imagery of the teaching itself becomes the final cord which must be cut for final liberation. For a Christian, the final obstacle will be to throw away her notion of God and Christ -- to finally realize the actual God. Only after this final step will you become a true Christian in the way Jesus wanted.

I would bet you already many kinds of identity. So you don't need to create it. But what you could do is self-esteem work, shadow work, and various forms of therapy or basic self-help to make your identity less neurotic and more wholesome. Many books exists on these topics. Go to a book store and explore their self-help section.

God's paradise is a trillion times greater than the hell that you imagined above as paradise. God's paradise is so infinitely good that it allows you to create your own hell inside it. Which you have just done unwittingly. Since you are God, you are doing it to yourself. You could stop doing it. But that means you'd have to surrender your false paradise.

You like being a devil and rationalizing your devilry as a boon to the world. Notice this.

Next week. Focus on observing your survival this week.

@CreamCat It only suffers through your judgments of it. The godhead is too loving to know suffering.