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@Serotoninluv Yup, that's Mu. It cannot be explained because explanation requires distinction/duality. Sounds like you still haven't experienced infinity though. Infinity is the other side of the Mu coin. Also, it's important that you have the insight that Mu is not other than everything you see around you right now. Mu is not limited to that null void state. It also includes the entire domain of form and perception. This insight is paramount, otherwise your realization is half-baked.

@Elisabeth No-self is a relatively weak version of enlightenment. There are deeper stages of which few people are aware. Martin's work is good (for an academic), but it's certainly not fathoming the full depth of nonduality. I posted about Martin on my blog some years ago. Martin's problem is that he's still not really understanding what science is and its limitations. He's still trying to demystify and rationalize everything -- as scientists are trained to do.

You guys are being sloppy with your Spiral assessments. All you have to do is read Goop.com's About page to clearly see they are promoting Green values: https://goop.com/whats-goop/ An Orange person would never write that. The name of the company alone screams out Green. No Orange person is gonna name their company Goop. The reason Goop is ridiculed in mainstream media is precisely because it is too Green relative to the Orange center of gravity of mainstream culture.

@Outer That's right, consciousness creates the brain. Changing the brain is changing consciousness.

No! That's the kicker! Nonduality is not a paradigm. If it were, it would be duality, not nonduality. You are making the mistake of confusing the map for the territory. Just consider: for there to be a paradigm at all, there must exist something prior to the paradigm -- the substrate so to speak -- which itself is not a paradigm. That substrate must be inaccessible via thoughts because thoughts themselves are a 2nd order phenomena of the substrate. Paradigms only occur at the level of thought. A paradigm IS a collection of thoughts. No thought, no paradigms. You can stop thinking an reality will still continue. But all paradigms will be destroyed.

@Finland3286 God is not a belief or a probability. Truth is not a matter of probability. Nor is the issue of evidence relevant because God is prior to the epistemic possibility of evidence or even human perception. I understand your skepticism. It feels justified and "scientific", but when it comes to consciousness of the ultimate origin of existence, it just won't cut it. Skepticism is a fear-based reaction of the ego-mind. The irony is that atheists hold the belief that atheism is not a belief. But if you introspect, you can become conscious that it is a belief.

@Capital Don't worry, 99% of people who watch valuable videos never put them to use

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This is Green Don't forget that Green can still be a business. You don't have to be a communist to be Green. Green can be very commercial.

@Finland3286 Technically it is an ideology or belief. Both are misguided beliefs. Both are closedminded beyond help in most cases. Both are egotistical. Atheism NOT a lack of belief. It is just a negative belief. The belief is obviously there if the atheist just bothers to introspect self-honestly. Atheists believe that God is absurd, irrational, impossible, imaginary, and unscientific. An opiate of the masses.

I didn't say JP is Hitler. I used those extreme examples to illustrate that merely having a life purpose is not automatically a good thing. The details matter. Passion and intelligence are a double-edged sword. You can be smart, passionate, and wrong or pathological. When intelligent or passionate people are wrong, they tend to get really stuck in it. JP has some good teachings, just be mindful that they are a Trojan horse for stage Blue/Orange conservative political ideology. Which is what made him so popular. Without the Trojan horse you would not know who he is.

@General 2 I struggle with that myself.

@Haumea2018 Celebrity & success are like ego crack. Sam Harris is too famous to really seek deeply. Same with JP. If Sam Harris ever came back from a retreat and told his cult-like rationalist followers that God is actually real, they would turn on him like a pack of hyenas. Sam's whole market base is stage Orange atheists who want validation of their atheism and rationalism.

https://www.actualized.org/articles/how-to-harness-your-intuition

@General 2 That's tricky. I'm not sure what the causes of that were for you. It could of have been egoic resistance to living up to your full potential, or it could have just been that it wasn't your true passion. There are various solutions. Personal development and spiritual inner work is usually the answer for dissolving egoic resistances. I still have resistance to following my life purpose after 5 years. It's not easy to be at the cutting edge of your potential. Sometimes you just gotta act despite the fear and excuses. Obviously you shouldn't physically overwork yourself. Try not to work more than 40-60 hours per week, otherwise it becomes unsustainable.

@Preetom Even if everyone in the world was fully enlightened, survival, selfish manipulation, and power games would still have to take place. Finite resources still must be distributed in some way. You cannot escape the game of survival unless you are physically dead. Enlightenment alone does not resolve the finite resource distribution problem. Better systems must be invented for that and they will never be perfect enough to give everyone the resources they need to survive. So fighting will always take place if you care about living. If you don't care about living, then you have the option to physically die without putting up a fight.

@EternalForest God is not something to be debated with those kinds of people. Therein lies the whole trick of God. You cannot communicate it. Absolute Truth is outside the realm of proof, reason, thought, or speech. So talking about it is pointless. The problem is that someone like Matt Dillahunty does not understand why Truth must be incommunicable. Absolute Truth is non-symbolic. Atheism is like a religion. You cannot reason with it because its premises are not grounded in reason but in faith. Of course the irony is that all atheists will vehemently deny it. Which is why they cannot be reasoned with. The only way Matt will realize he is wrong is by going through the radical existential crisis called enlightenment. But of course his whole game is to avoid enlightenment. Which is why he's an atheist to begin with. See how sneaky the mind is? The Truth cannot penetrate a recalcitrant mind.

@Good-boy I could remove the video ads. My business isn't really reliant on ads. They are just there for kicks.

To an almost total extent. Nearly 100% As psychedelics clearly demonstrate. The problem with neurofeedback is that it's too expensive and complex for most people. I've done lots of neurofeedback on myself and it's pretty powerful. Psychedelics are the better option money-wise. And they are also more powerful.

That's what relative means. You are judging the relative from the Absolute. Which isn't relative, but Absolute. Which is actually relative because the Absolute doesn't judge anything or limit anything, including the relative. To not make room for the relative truth will lead to all sorts of foolishness, so watch out. When the cop stops you for speeding, you will not be able to get away by saying, "But in the Absolute sense there is no right and wrong." In the relative domain, might makes right. Survival rules the day. You can choose to disregard the relative domain, but you will not survive long, so before you make that choice, make sure you're okay with death.

@kev014 I have little interest in doing any kind of public debates with people. That's all just a game. Mostly I just care about putting forth my ideas. I've got enough ideas to share for years to come. Doing collabs just tends to dilute my work because I find few popular figures thinking at the integral level I like thinking at. The problem is that the most popular public intellectuals are rather crude, un-integral, closedminded, and ideological in their approach. Which is precisely why they became popular. And precisely why I don't want to have much to do with them. A discussion with Joe Rogan would be one exception. He and I could have a deep discussion. The kind of stuff I like to talk about is never ever going to go mainstream.

@Joseph Maynor By your logic, Hitler, Alex Jones, and Bin Laden deserve an A+ There are tons of lunatics in society with a firm sense of life purpose. Doesn't make it a conscious or good thing. There can be healthy life purpose and pathological life purpose. JP can believe whatever he wants, but the problem is that his ideology is radicalizing people and misinforming them about post-modernism and stage Green. This is actually a big problem, as you can see just by reading the YT comments that JP fans make. Their understanding of these issues is extremely polarized, unsophisticated, egocentric, and naive. Part of the problem is that these are young directionless males, age 18-26 who are still very immature, naive, and lacking in compassion. You realize, right, that in the Middle East, terrorist groups recruit members using the exact same techniques JP is using? They target exactly the same age-range of males, and they radicalize them using cultural and identity issues, by demonizing stage Orange American decadence and liberalism. "How dare those liberal Americans let women drive, get a divorce, and walk around with their tits hanging out! What chaos! They are destroying the hierarchy of Allah! Letting gays have sex without killing them is ridiculous!" If JP was born in the Middle East, he would be railing against stage Orange Western secular capitalism and trying to build a theocracy. This has nothing to do with JP per se. It's just a Spiral mind virus. Minds work in predictable ways (to those who make a careful study of the workings of the mind).

@Brittany Actually that would be worse because he would just deny all the important points being made. He is not interested in reforming himself. He's out to promote his ideology. So a discussion is useless.

That is true. And it is also false. Depends on your POV. You guys are falling into the trap of not being multi-perspectival. You will not understand reality using a one-perspective-only approach. Every stage up the Spiral requires a +1 increase in the number of perspectives you can hold at once.