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@Key Elements The Absolute Truth is totally self-evident and self-validating. It is prior to doubt or question. Infinity answers all whys. But not logically or verbally. It's just Infinity. The end. What else could anything be? You ARE the Absolute Truth. Look at your body -- there it is. You're BEING it.

@Wisebaxter You should distinguish God in its pure form vs God as the devil. In it's disguise as the devil God does all sorts of evils. In its pure undisguised from God is pure love and goodness. For God to hate it must incarnate itself as an ego and delude itself into believing it is not God. So when God forgets who it is, it does evil. When God is forced to play the game of survival, it does evil in order to survive.

@Highest You exist, as God, which is nothing. Non-existence is not a thing. Non-existence does not exist. But there is more. Have you become conscious that God is infinity? And what infinity means? Have you become conscious of Infinite Intelligence? Infinite Love? Infinite Goodness? Eternity?

If you mean Absolute Truth then your contemplations should eventually converge. But even so, there are many facets to Absolute Truth such that even the same person will not reach the same point twice in a row, never mind other people. The trick is that the Absolute is singular, but it can be seen in various light, so to speak, and it will be interpreted very differently by different minds. It's sort of like looking at an object with very little light in the room. The object itself is always the same, but the lighting conditions plus your perspective on that object plus your distance from that object determine what you will see. Someone from 100ft away at night will see something very different than someone 2 inches away in full daylight. And then there's your reactions, opinions, feelings, and judgments about the object. All of that makes it very unlikely that two people understand/see anything the same way, even the Absolute. But even so, there should be some rough broad consensus. As far as relative truths are concerned, the situation there is even worse. The mind will color everything in such a way that your understanding of relative truths will tend to be very different from other people. Because how you see the world is a direct reflection of how you must see it in order to survive. Survival distorts perception enormously. What you see, what you know, and how you understand things is almost totally dominated by your survival needs. Truth is hardly anything your mind cares about. Your mind is 99.9% preoccupied with survival. Which is why there is so much disagreement between people.

@Pouya Well, that is true, but it's much misunderstood by common folk who merely believe it but have no direct experience of what those words mean.

That's how growin is done!

@Seththomas What is consciousness? is the most profound question in the universe. To fully grasp what consciousness is so astounding that it ends you entire old way of life. When you ask What is consciousness? you are really asking What is the substance of all of existence? That's a monster of a question. It may take you 10-20 years of work to get the answer. I have a video: What Is Consciousness? Maybe check that out. In short: consciousness is nothing, consciousness is everything, consciousness is God. But just hearing that as words does very little for you. You must undertake a journey to personally realize what consciousness is. This requires multiple deep enlightenment experiences. Very simply, to ground your inquiry, pull out your hand right now and hold it close to your face. Look at it closely. Your hand is consciousness. Realize that. And then begin to wonder: What is consciousness? What is it's very essence? Here it is, but WHAT is it? HINT: Any object you look at is consciousness. There is nothing but consciousness. Consciousness is not a thing, it is a sort of ever-present, self-aware, space. VERY IMPORTANT: Stop thinking of consciousness is a secretion of the brain or somehow arising out of matter. The brain and matter are both made out of consciousness. Consciousness is prior to physics or physical reality. It is impossible to understand consciousness from within the materialist paradigm.

Yes, that's basically right. Higher truths/wisdom requires a certain wisdom to understand and interpret properly. Ignorant devils will misinterpret the hell out of all the highest teachings because that's what devils do. Devils turn truth into falsehood. That's the entire function of a devil. We are sort of damned if we do, and damned if we don't. If we don't talk about God, we are not being honest and people are being mislead. If we do talk about God, we are creating representations of God, all of which are not the actual thing, and people will be mislead. That's the tragedy of our collective situation. When I speak of God's will, I speak from direct experience. Of course most people have no experience of what God or God's will mean. And any ideas you have about it are wrong. So what are we to do? Direct experience is required to understand the highest teachings. One of the reasons I'm big on psychedelics is that they give ordinary people such direct experiences very quickly, without decades of grueling practice. So then they can understand me a lot better. You can take a psychedelic and ask it the question, "What is God's will?" or "What is God?" and it will show you the answer very clearly, as long as you are truly open to it and willing to surrender yourself and your beliefs. It might take you a few trips, but you'll get it. But yes, talking about God to uninformed people is very misleading to them. Because their ideas of God are so confused and backwards. You can really only talk about God to people who have experienced that they are God. Which sort of defeats the point of talking at all. And yet without talking about God how are people gonna find God? Only by accident. Which is not a good solution.

@AlwaysBeNice Don't you dare question God's will! The irony is that if it actually happened, it was God's will. Lol. Things only happen by God's will.

@Anirban657 You just need more practice and experience with them, that is all. As with all things, practice makes perfect. At 19 you basically have zero experience. So of course you feel that way.

Try not to make a big spectacle of it. Then it won't be so dramatic and scary. With spiritual death you discover that you've jumped off a cliff only to land on the fluffiest feather mattress, so you're not really losing anything. Don't let the ego create a big story about how it's losing so much. You're mostly losing bullshit delusions and gaining peace and authenticity. So it's a good trade. I've made the mistake in the past of over-dramatizing the ego-death part. Yes it happens but facing death is also not as hard or bad as it sounds. After a couple dozen ego-deaths it becomes natural and not a big deal.

@andyjohnsonman There is an Absolute Truth. In fact, Absolute Truth is all there ever is. That's what truth is: that which is the case. It's actually very simple: whatever is must be true. And that which is untrue does not exist at all. The being of this very moment is none other than Absolute Truth, but you are not yet conscious enough to see it as such. Concepts are getting in the way of direct consciousness of being. Once you find the Absolute Truth you will discover that it is so grand, astounding, epic, and good that it will kill you. "Death by Truth" I call this And you will realize that no one can know it but you. It cannot be shared with anyone else, since in truth, there is only YOU! It's ALL you! It will break your heart that something this good cannot be shared with anyone but yourself, so learn to enjoy your own magnificence in solitude. Ta-da! But this will take you some years of hard work to fully realize. So get to work. It's worth it. Or maybe everything I said above is false? You don't know. This requires exploration.

@andyjohnsonman That is one way out of dozens. You could eat some magic mushrooms and know things which would otherwise be impossible for a human to know. That would be another way. You don't even know if Kriya yoga will work. Maybe it's a scam as far as you know. See how tricky knowledge is? What do you trust? What is true? Truth is a highly non-trivial matter. How do you even know what criterion you'll use to determine if a thing is true? What if your criterion is false? And yet at the same time you also cannot say that all knowledge is false or impossible since that itself would be true knowledge, and you don't actually know that for sure. Such a claim would require that you test every piece of knowledge in the universe to make sure they are all false. You are nowhere close to doing that. So the bottom line is: keep a very open mind, don't dismiss anything, and run some experiments. Kriya yoga is one such experiment out of hundreds that you will have to run in order to come to know what knowledge is and is not.

@FoxFoxFox Sorta. Although violence and disturbance is also an aspect of consciousness. There is no "best" really. It depends on your goals. Some people love their suffering and fantasies. Very few people are really ready and willing to awaken from Maya. Harmony is a tricky thing. Being a total pacificist for example when all your neighbors are wolves will not lead to harmony but your extinction or enslavement. Violence and peace are both necessary, which is why they co-exist. Violence begets peace, and peace begets violence. It's dialectical.

@Pouya Again, don't be so blunt. This kind of thinking is itself delusion. Be nuanced. Not all beliefs and teachings are wrong or false. You must evaluate them within a certain limited relative context. Stop trying to make everything be absolute. Teachings have certain pragmatic purposes and also limits. Teachings are partial relative truths. How else could it be?

It is not cut in actually, it is cut as an illusion. If an actor on stage got so wrapped up in playing his character that he forgot for a moment that he was just acting, that's how ignorance comes about. It is the nature of consciousness to be very hypnotic. It hypnotizes itself into dreamlike states which it then cannot resist. Ever play a video game and get so immersed in the world that you forget about the "real" world? Well, that's precisely how consciousness works. Appearance becomes reality. For a while. Always only for a while. Ever jerk off to porn? What is that? You are literally jerking off to an LCD screen! There's your illusion.

@andyjohnsonman The question of how we know anything and what can and cannot be known is a very deep one. I have been studying this question for over 15 years. I have literally poured thousands of hours contemplating this one question because it is so important. On it hinges everything else. If you get this question wrong, you're basically fucked in life. From your current POV the truth is you don't know what can or cannot be known. You do not even know what knowing is! This is a great place to start. From this place you can do some serious inquiry. This question is not to be guessed or answered by looking up an answer in a book. You must really go on a journey and explore what knowledge is and how it works. Also keep in mind that there are different kinds of knowing. Verbal or rational knowing is only one kind. The most advanced things I speak of are knowable, but not from your current state of consciousness. For example, it is possible to know what God is or why existence exists or what consciousness is. But not through coventional logical verbal knowledge. There is knowing and understanding beyond the human mind. The deepest insights I share are not just stories or beliefs -- they are transrational understandings. Consider that there is a very profound connection between knowing and being. Some things can only be known by being them. This is the domain of mysticism and samadhi.

@Joseph Maynor Think of ethics/morality as a matter of balance/harmony. Being too much out of balance becomes pathological relative to one's own well-being. In short, extreme selfishness or devilry backfires.

@ivankiss Don't be so quick to trash all knowledge. Knowledge as a relative thing is good and legit. Understanding is real and not to be trashed. Without understanding you could not even understand this sentence or awakening. Be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Be more nuanced. The Absolute and understanding and knowledge can all co-exist. Each has its proper place and role to play. The mistake is to confuse them. The mistake is to not realize their limits. Knowledge simply has limits.

@KP_Spirituality27 Excellent!

@Applejuice That's good. You must exhaust the mind's answers. Purge them. It would be very helpful for you to write down all your theories about what you are, no matter how ridiculous, just to purge them. Write them out, then cross them out and throw them in the trash. Not knowing is exactly the place you want to get to. The problem is that you still have many ideas and theories about what you are. You haven't purged enough yet to truly not know. The mind will never grasp it. It must be silenced through this purging method. Then just sit and bask in the silence, and that will be your best chance of enlightenment. It will not happen via your mind. The mind is the only obstacle to enlightenment. A LOT of purging must happen. Way more than you'll be comfortable with. You must even purge things like your childhood memories of yourself, since they are not the True Self.

Very amazing. Thanks!

Since God is Absolute Truth, even a hint of lying, dishonesty, falsehood, or inathenticity automatically severes your connection to God. That is okay. It is not "bad" to be seperated from God, but it painful since you become lost in your own falsehood. That is the definition of devilry. Lying is only "bad" relative to if you want to be happy. If you are okay with being unhappy, then lie a lot. If you want to be happy, lie as little as possible. If you want to realize God, lie as little as possible. There is only one reason you lie: fear. If you were immortal, untouchable, and fearless you would never lie. In other words if you were God, you'd never lie. Really think about that. That's deep. Absolute ethics is Truth/Love. It is Goodness without an opposite. It is God.

@TKP If you have 5-MeO-DMT, you don't need MDMA. Let go of the MDMA and go for a 5-MeO breakthrough. That is the Full Monty. It should occur in the 25-30 mg range.

@Waves There is no way to formulate that balance. It will be unique for each person, and it will even change for the same person over time. You must experiment and see what works best for you. You can certainly maintain a 1hr daily meditation practice or Kriya yoga practice while you do pickup or dating. That's the minimum I'd recommend. Generally speaking you should set an overarching goal/plan for your year. What is the biggest thing you'll be focusing on this year? Attraction? Enlightenment? Business? Improving self esteem? Better nutrition? etc. Don't try to do it all at once. Space things out. You'll be amazed how much stuff you can do in 5-10 years if you focus.