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@CreamCat So you're a communist SJW then

You say that cause you're in a position of superiority. A bit of inequality will help educate you

So slavery it is then? Careful what you wish for.

@Adam M Where's that enlightenment?!

@zunnyman She did not have any proper theoretical foundation so she misinterpreted her awakening as something wrong. Seems to me that she did this for so long and so severely that she ended up causing her own brain cancer. If she had access to some of the videos on Actualized.org, she would have been fine I think. It took her many years to find some realized teachers to help straighten her out. Consider yourselves lucky that you're alive in the age of Youtube and a flood of free nonduality videos. Where you can literally go to Google and find the answer to any question or problem you might ever have in life. People take this ability so for granted. In a world full of insane people, when you become sane, but have no one to talk to about it, you might find yourself thinking you've gone insane.

@d0ornokey It's very challenging. Western philosophers are masters at weaving together genius and bullshit. Best to stick to modern nonduality teachers for the most of you. So you don't waste your time. The books on my book list are what you should be focused on reading and mastering. You'll notice, I don't put a lot of philosophy books on there.

Bears shit a lot more than you'd think. They're just good at hiding it

@CreamCat You will care about equality more when you realize that you will reincarnate as every living being who ever lived or will live. That will sober the smugness out of ya.

Great, but this is a bit of a dangerous idea: This idea will easily get abused by right-wing egos in the political sphere to enslave others and maintain a grotesquely unequal status quo. You can see people making this kind of argument in defense of slavery: "Oh, they don't need equality. That's impossible anyway. Let's just love them more while they pick our cotton for us."

Does a bear shit in the woods?

@Elton You assume too much about me and put me on a pedestal. I have plenty of weaknesses. In fact, I'm really not so developed at all. I'm just a guy who makes videos, really. The rest is your fantasy.

@Pernani You're not likely to avoid wage slavery entirely. You'll probably have to do some amount of it in the beginning. That's not too big of a problem if it's part of your escape strategy. The issue is, most people never even had an escape strategy. Then it's really hard to escape. Most people are like that squirrel who didn't stock up on acorns for winter. Winter is not the problem. The problem is you didn't prepare, and now you're cornered. Now you gotta work twice as hard to find a solution.

So in other words, she'll be starting a Green hippie channel now? Someone send her the Spiral Dynamics Stage Green video.

@Outer Super common. Happens all the time. Read the story of Suzanne Segal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Segal You just take it for granted that people have a crystal clear conceptual understanding of spirituality and enlightenment. That's cause I've spoiled you guys with videos explaining everything. No ordinary person knows this shit. Not even close. Not even conceptually. The typical spiritual practitioner could not describe what enlightenment is in one sentence if his life depended on it. Never mind knowledge of all the complications and traps that come with it.

@Oeaohoo Trying to make sense of the particular delusions of old dead Western philosophers is largely a waste of time. That is the game of academic philosophy, which might win a battle here or there on technical points, but always loses the war. Every major Western philosopher basically made a few good points along with a bunch of nonsense. And now we have to waste thousands of hours sorting the few tidbits of wisdom from the overall pile of delusion. The fact is Neitzche did not have a good understanding the origins of religion. He was reacting against corruption within religion. Which is like shooting fish in a barrel. Is Neitzche a paragon of integral thinking? Is reading him going to teach you how to be a integral thinker? Your time would be better spent reading some Ken Wilber. That's what real Yellow looks like. After I realized God, my understanding of and compassion for Christianity shot through the roof. Even though there's so much corruption and stupidity within it. It's like watching a little child giving his best but just failing over and over again. The harder he tries, the harder he fails. It's sad really. The Christians know not what they preach. The devil sunk his fangs into them real good.

That's ego talking. It should be precisely how it is.

There is a very big difference between thinking you're a thought, and being aware that you are a thought. You've gotten to the point where you understand no-self conceptually (which is good), but now the real work begins: grasping it ACTUALLY! Knowing is NOT enough. Knowing must end and Being must replace it. It is not enough to know that Sam isn't real, Sam must actually cease to exist. ACTUALLY! Thinking and imagining stuff is NOT actual. You must deeply realize that you were never born! Your birth is a conceptual story. What is ACTUAL if you stop assuming you were born as a human being? If we erase all your memories and all your thoughts, what is left? This room? This body? This universe? -- NO! Those are all thoughts! What is ACTUAL??? Press your awareness on what is ACTUAL, like sizzling bacon to a frying pan, and hold it there, wondering what actuality is. P.S. Psychedelics help. A lot.

@Tistepiste When you're playing a video game and your character, let's say Mario, dies or gets raped, is it a problem for you? Do you cry over it? Do you get angry? Do you seek revenge on the Koopas? No, because you're aware it's just a game. If you take the game too seriously, you may get so mesmerized by it that you actually get angry at the Koopas. Likewise with life. The only problem is, you don't think life is a game. You think it is very real. The operative word there is "think". Just because you think something is real does not make it so. The logic of all this is very simple. The problem is, you're not being logical about life, you're highly biased by your fear of death. So your thinking is highly irrational and distorted by your preoccupation with living. You actually have to be insane to believe that life matters. The trouble with insane people is, they don't know they're insane. If they did, they'd be sane! Here's lookin' at you, kid

You can't take away being. Where are you gonna put it? Being already IS nowhere and nothing! Existence is nothing. It never really happened. There is no difference between existence happening and not happening. Imagine that existence never happened. Well, that's what this is!!! You are inside of Nothing right now! You've just mistaken it for something. Nothing and Everything are identical because reality cannot tell the difference between something and nothing, existence and nonexistence. That's right. The mind cannot comprehend Nothing. Comprehension is something. If you had the set of all possible things, that set -- to truly be the set of all possible things -- must include its own negation. Therefore EVERYTHING = NOTHING. Everything and Nothing go full-circle. If Nothing was excluded from Everything, then Everything would not be Everything. Everything must be all-inclusive, including every possible exclusion! Paradox is not a bug here, it's the key feature!

@shermano667 I can confirm from deep trips I've had that the universe is holographic and scale-invariant. Every part contains every part, to infinity. Quite the mind fuck.

Depends on who's doing the considering. Materialist Western doctors do just this, harming and misleading many people who turn to them, out of ignorance. Blind leading the blind.

Integral! Integral! Integral! You guys are not being integral.

@seeking_brilliance The devil has crossed your wires. What the devil calls winter is actually spring. Spring is coming!

By transcending knowing, into being. You don't know that. We're not demonizing ego. Ego is not bad. It's just an obstacle to seeing that God is Nothingness.

@Uchira There's only one way to find out