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@ivankiss Yup Good work. You speak from Truth.

He wasn't talking about awake people. He was talking about inwardly-oriented people. Research shows that about half of heroin addicts and alcoholics are people in search of awakening, but not knowing that what they seek is God, they find a pseudo-God in the heroin or alcohol. So what Tolle is saying is that.

@John West You need more practice. Observation leads to new insights. These insights can be both verbal and non-verbal. It's okay to start with verbal ones. That is valuable still. As you deeply examine and question fear, new distinctions will form. For example, you could notice that fear has a significant mental/conceptual component, as all emotions do. Emotions are NOT just perceptions or sensations. Emotions are conceptual constructions. For example, fear is only possible when your mind is thinking of the future. No future, no fear. No mental imagery, no fear. If you observed fear closely, you'd notice that, and much more. The mistake you're making is that you assume that you already know what fear is. You assume that what you see after 5 mins of observation is in fact what is there. That is NOT the case! Your mind is not allowing you to see what's really there because of all the conceptual filtering and cultural knowledge which is clouding your perceptions. As a rule of thumb: nothing you see with your eyes or feel with your body is to be trusted as a raw given. It's all heavily interpreted and conceptually distorted. For example, look at your hand. It is not a hand, as you assume. When examining fear it is useful to ask additional questions like: What is the purpose of fear? What are the components of fear? What is mecessary for fear to exist? How and why do I create fear? Be careful not to anticipate what the answers to these questions will be. You must actually do the observation and see what happens. The answers will often surprise you. Maybe one day you'll discover that fear is an illusion Notice that you are not even conscious most of the time that you are afraid. And you experience fear MANY times per day.

Yeah, take that pineal gland talk with a grain of salt. We need a lot more research, and ultimately the brain explanations of consciousness are deeply misguided.

@Arhattobe Let's just say I've developed a nose for the distinct smell of devils on this forum

Running 3 businesses is not good. Seek to consolidate all of it into one life purpose. What work would you do if you had $100 million? You should check out my Life Purpose Course, which guides you through the whole process. You are wasting a lot of your potential with your current approach.

That's waking up. Don't confuse waking up with Earthly activities.

@Arhattobe Hate to burst your bubble, but you ain't awake. You ain't fooling no one here. As for not frying your brain, sure, I agree. Psychedelics must be done responsibly. And as for Martin not being as awake as some others masters you're comparing him to, no one said he was. There are many degrees of wokeness and mastery.

That's totally true from the ego's POV.

@Jordan94 Clearing your nose is vital, if you can. I use breathe strips to help widen the nasal passages. You could also experiment with various decongestants like FloNase or Xclear. Or at least blow out your nose before you start. Just practice sucking in air slower. As slow as possible. I just timed myself. One in-breath takes me 22 seconds.

That's not extreme for a person who's awakening. All of the above are typical and to be expected if you're getting serious about spirituality. In fact, that's sort of the point of doing spirituality. That kind of stuff is not unique to psychedelics. You can get that from yoga, meditation retreats, self-inquiry, etc. Do you want results or not? Awakening is a radical process.

Kriya is not for dabblers. It needs to be taught in a proper way, not one video. Yes, it is a lazy thing. You've been way too spoiled by my videos. I might teach a Kriya course in the future, but not for a while, as it needs to be done in the proper way.

No, I wouldn't say that. You're generalizing way too much here. There is enormous diversity between different teens. You can't speak of teens as one object. Generally speaking teens are less developed than adults in all categories. Teens are quite stupid, reckless, and immature. There are some rare exceptions, but even they are still very under-developed. That's just the nature of being human. A human being does not become mature until basically age 25-30. Which is why rental car companies do not rent cars to people under 25. I would not trust anyone under 30 years of age to be mature. It's really that bad. And these days kids are getting stupider. They are being indoctrinated by digital media from age 5. So don't think you're safe.

So what's your question? Stage Blue charity is not very inclusive and often just a trick of the ego-mind to make itself feel righteous and moral. Stage Green empathy is more powerful, although still not completely selfless. What you're really talking about is Love. Your capacity to love will increase the higher you go up the Spiral, the more developed and conscious you are. True Love is not really possible without awakening, which is beyond the Spiral entirely. The obstacle to Love is self.

@JayG84 Both of those are ego (the devil). The True Self wants nothing. That's the paradox. By wanting nothing you get everything, and by wanting stuff you are forever trapped in a cycle of fragmentation and self-created hell. But also, within every devil there is a tiny 1% part which wants to return to God. That is what allows for the devil's salvation. If you weren't a fragment, you couldn't exist. See? In order to stay alive you MUST fragment yourself. If you stopped fragmentation you'd be dead! The way you've set up life is, you've defined fragmentation as "life" and unity as "death". So you're busy all the time avoiding unity. You are terrified of unity because it would mean the loss of the fragment you call you. The devil is just a fragment of God!

Absolute Infinity! You will not understand until you understand.

@Tetcher Nothing involves ultimate well-being. Ramana Maharshi got cancer and died. So what? He was still enlightened as fuck. Stop conflating enlightenment or consciousness with invincibility. If you think you're not gonna have health problems in life, you're in for a rude awakening.

@Paul92 What do you expect? To have sex with Einstein? Lol Close that deal.

Teens are hardly emotionally developed. The only thing they've got going for them is that they haven't yet been full brainwashed by culture. But that happens very rapidly by the end of the teenage years. As a teenager most of your concerns have to do with fitting into culture and being a good little conformist sheep. So your brainwashing is almost complete. You basically brainwash yourself to avoid feeling like a weird outsider.

You are wrong. Not-Knowing is the Truth. Not-Knowing is an Absolute. Knowing is possible, but it is never the Truth. Truth cannot be known, it must be not-known or Be-ed. It is the in fact the case that you do not know what anything is. You've only managed to convince yourself that you know. For example, you do not know what a chair actually is. The situation is so bad that you don't even know what you are. What you have a false identifications and images, none of which is what those things actually are. A chair is not your image of a chair, and you are not your image of yourself. All of your so-called knowledge is just images, not the actual thing itself. Take a look. All knowledge is relative, never Absolute.

When you realize that self/other is a duality, and it collapses, then what remains is unity. So yes, you are all alone at that point. You are the only being in the entire universe. Being God can be lonely Hence you invent "others". Ego cannot wrap its head around this. Ego must go -- then things will become clear.

Be careful speculating about people's health issues, especially when you do not know them. It's very easy to judge someone's health condition without being in their shoes.

Nope, that's a devilish lie. The devil IS your entire mind.

Don't assume what I have seen.

@JayG84 He is you. Lol You are like the groundhog who saw his own shadow and ran away.