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There are certain social standards which are useful guidelines for determining health/dysfunction.

Of course it's easier to be more confident when you are more physically attractive. Just like it's easier to start a biz when your daddy gave you a $100 million inheritance. But that doesn't mean you can't start a successful business from zero. Be self-made. Stop looking for hand-outs from the universe. You must play the hand you've been dealt. It's all inner game.

The Tour has been delayed as I need to focus more on my own awakening. Maybe next year.

Fuel costs are pretty high for RVs. Don't forget, parking your RV in an RV park will cost $30/night at least. Living in a decent RV is actually more expensive than a one bedroom apartment in Vegas.

You are the entire Universe and the Universe cannot die, it has existed forever. You will just change forms. When you are older you can become directly conscious of this truth. For now, ponder the possibility that you are not just a human body.

Joe Rogan is wrong. Male and female is a conceptual category. Just because something is a conceptual category does not mean it isn't useful. The whole point of concepts is that they are highly useful for survival, since you yourself, and life itself, are a category! This issue goes way deeper than Rogan can fathom. Not only can man and woman be deconstructed, your very existence as a biological being can be deconstructed. But of course, no one wants to go there. Biology itself is a category. Difference itself is a category. Even Joe Rogan is a category!

@F A B What are you? What is reality? What is form? What is perception?

@Scholar If you gotta ask, then you don't.

@EternalForest Stage Green also censors stuff, but for different reasons. Hence the whole political correctness culture war. Blue censors out of Puritanical moralism. More broadly-speaking, the ego's job is to censor truth.

No, I know from experience that people react to 5-MeO-DMT very differently than me. I think difference in brain types accounts for it. I have a very metaphysically-oriented mind and personality. Most people are just not like that.

@MM1988 Enough of your Incel propaganda. Go meet girls in real life. Stop keyboard-jockeying with Reddit losers. What girls care about is your personality. They aren't as shallow as you. If you'd actually talk to some girls, you'd realize that.

Good, but not gonna fly. Politics is a dirty business.

Small to medium doses of 5-MeO-DMT can be more uncomfortable and frustrating than large doses. Because with a large dose the ego is just effortlessly wiped out. At smaller doses the ego tends to fight back. But for me, a 20mg dose is full God consciousness. I'm not sure why some of you need such high doses to get a breakthrough.

It's not so much the meditation, it's the contemplation that's more important for psychedelics I think.

@clouffy Science does not have to be reductionist. You can study science using a holistic, integral approach.

Of course reality has no categories, we create them. But at the same time some categorization schemes are more useful than others. Careful with your assumptions. Human evolution is accelerating. The world is changing a lot faster today than it was 5000 years ago for the Egyptians. And Egyptian history has been broken up into more than a few periods. There is close to 5000 years of ancient Egyptian history. We would probably break it up into a lot more periods if we had more accurate records. Modern history is a lot more dense because we have much better records of it. I would just take the Spiral Dynamics model as it is, without trying to re-invent it.

@Jkris The enlightened person realizes that morality is an illusion. There is no such thing as evil. You are making it up. Everything that happens in the Universe is Good, by definition. You can clean up your "bad habits" of course. But that doesn't make you a "good" person. You are simply free to be however you want. There is really no alternative. You will be you regardless of what you do.

That is correct. But it would not change the fact that it's an illusion. Truth and survival are two very different things.

@How to be wise You are practicing a form of consciousness work. That is great. That is helpful. What I was speaking against is orthodox religious approaches, which try to get you to be a "good and moral person". The Work has nothing to do with being a "good person". In fact, it's the opposite. It's about accepting evil and your own inadequacies. The key is that you need to become conscious of how much you judge things and reject things, and stop doing that. You must recognize that good and bad have no place in consciousness work. The truth is neither good nor bad. Good and bad are always actions of the ego-mind. Stop thinking of anything as good or bad. Become more interested in what is.

You could take a trip to Canada or Mexico where it is legal. Ayahuasca and yopo retreats are legally available in South America. Truffles are legal in parts of Europe. Ibogaine clinics are legal in Canada and south of the border. You're not the first person with children who has tripped. I totally understand your caution. But then again, you should also understand that your children are an illusion that you cling to which keeps you trapped inside The Matrix. Your fear of losing them is also an illusion. Seems very real though, so I understand. How do you logically convince a mother that her children are imaginary? Lol You have to really appreciate how strong your attachment to The Matrix is. It is a thing of awe. You are not going to surrender it easily. Yes, as I have said in my self-deception mini-series, self-deception is basically always possible so long as you are thinking. Even very enlightened masters manage to deluded themselves. That is the nature of the mind. The thing you should be concerned about though, is your own deception. Because while you are worrying about my deception you are overlooking your own. I spend a lot of time contemplating my own deceptions. It's not a question of IF, it's a question of how much. My mind certainly has deceptions in it. But my understanding of God is pretty decent at this point (of course, according me). And it will get even better with time. It is a given that anything I say always comes with the caveat: according to me! Since there is no other way it could be. In the end the only thing you get from me is MY perspective on the world. Which is never Absolute. Even though I have directly experienced the Absolute many times now. Could be. I have no idea what your experience of God entailed. There is a huge range of possible mystical experiences, and full nondual God consciousness is quite rare. Mostly what people have are minor random glimpses and visions, which is nowhere close to full nondual God consciousness. I speak to you from deep states of consciousness I had which probably very very very few human beings on Earth have ever had, including so called "enlightened ones". It is hard to explain just how powerful 5-MeO-DMT is. I would never trust any human being to naturally attain such degrees of consciousness unless they were a full-time monk with 20-40 years of non-stop industrial-grade practice. And it's not just the 5-MeO-DMT, it's how my brain/mind interfaces with it. Not everyone taking 5-MeO-DMT will have the same astounding results I have. Because my mind is specifically primed for it through years of work, and probably genetic factors. I am very leery of anyone who claims to be enlightened. Because I know how many degrees of enlightenment there can be. There are only a couple of people in the world who I'd trust to be fully enlightened, and even then, I have my doubts. What's possible is becoming Absolute Infinity.

@Metatron I'm aware of Kabbalah. Yes, it is one spiritual system out of many. I do not consider it the best system because it is overly complex, conceptual, and textual. It also has dogmas and lacks and integral view of all the other spiritual traditions. Don't let that become a limiting belief. You can spend a lifetime trying to perfect yourself and master your emotions, which is a seperate matter from consciousness of God. There is overlap between those two, but they are not the same. The classic problem of all orthodx religons is that they try to make a person "good", "loving", or selfless without actually attaining ego-death. Which is very backwards and ends up creating a lot suffering, guilt, judgment, and repression. I would seperate morality from becoming conscious of God. God does not require you to be a good person. God only requires that you are conscious of what is true. The core problem is, you are incapable of being selfless until you awaken. And even then, it will be tricky. Just don't be an asshole, and that should be good enough. And then shoot for ego-death.

I would try EEG Neurofeedback Therapy, like this:

@CreamCat A real Russian fights mountain lions with his mind

The stages of duality ARE the Absolute Truth. You keep making dualities unwittingly, thus creating all these confusing questions for yourself. Before you ask any question, first ask yourself, does my question assume a duality? If so, collapse it and see if any question remains. For example: "Is God dead or alive?" Oh, yeah... that's a duality.

That is the irony of the human condition, and the irony of awakening.