Leo Gura

Strict self-inquiry is not about freeing your beliefs, but focusing your attention like a laser-beam on the "I AM" or "the self" until enlightenment dawns. But spending some time deconstructing your materialist web of beliefs is very helpful. That and self-inquiry synergize nicely. Maybe spend 20 minutes in the morning deconstructing your web of beliefs using a journal. And then spend 20 minutes in the evening doing self-inquiry. Something like that is a good place to start. Psychedelics are very helpful for deconstructing the materialist paradigm.

The True Self is infinite and eternal and cannot ever die. But don't confuse that with "you". "You" is ego, and that will die because it's just a figment of the mind. It can die at any moment, without even the body dying. If fact, you are already dead right now. Take a look. You were never born.

No self, no problem

Only relative to your ego. The point is, that so-called "reality" is not a reality at all, but a dream. Horrors do not really exist in the world. But the ego cannot fathom that. Hence the need for awakening. As long as you're stuck inside the dream, you will believe it is real and that the stuff happening inside of it matters.

@Joseph Maynor Like I said, I've seen the Absolute.

@CreamCat There is no you! So this notion "my consciousness" is deeply misguided. Consciousness is not yours. That's the illusion of duality. Consciousness is happening without you. Death means: no more you.

@Emerald Of course you'd say that, you're an emerald-colored Neo-Feminazi

If you can do that, then you've got something cool going beyond my understanding. But that itself is not what enlightenment is. I don't want people to get the idea that enlightenment means seeing 360 degrees. That will get them chasing something else.

Well, firstly, you have no idea what those people experience or know. And you never will. You can only know what you know. Secondly, I am not enlightened, although I have seen the Absolute. I imagine those folks are enlightened, although how deeply, we will never really know.

@Clayman Green is not yet conscious enough to be tolerant of intolerance. That comes only later. Judgment of "evil" is a very sticky thing. Very hard for the mind to let go. You're only gonna be able to let it go after some enlightenment experiences. And Green is not there yet. The reason you're confused about this is because you're expecting Green to perfectly embody its ideals of empathy, love, and peace. Which of course Green cannot do because that would require total enlightenment -- beyond anything you can imagine. If you're expecting Green to be Jesus, you'll be disappointed. And even Jesus would be a SJW in your book. Stop listening to the likes of Jordan Peterson and stop using the label "SJW". It's holding you back. Imagine if I referred to all Blue staged people as "Nazis", all Red staged people as "Rapists", and all Orange staged people as "greedy pigs". And then I kept wondering, How come I don't understand them? To understand a thing requires that you first stop judging it.

@Outer I can imagine that something like what your video is showing could be possible. That would be an insane degree of consciousness. I haven't yet experienced that on 5-MeO. That degree of consciousness would be inaccessible to all but the most hardcore practitioners. You ain't gonna get that through ordinary meditation or self-inquiry. A massive dose 5-MeO might do it. Or you would have to be a super-yogi, like Sadhguru. Change of the FOV would be something you could get on a high dose of LSD. But that's not enlightenment per se.

The problem with waiting is, you might get run over by a bus tomorrow.

You guys still aren't getting Green. Let go of your preconceptions.

I think the problem is that Ken Wilber got caught up with the stage Orange internet marketers and sales gurus who dominate the self-help field. He hangs out with people in those circles. They helped him monetize his theories, courses, and material. Which is a bad idea because they are shameless salesmen, which cheapens Wilber's message. The marketing and sales apparatus of the self-help industry is very sleazy and manipulative Orange. It's really out of integrity with the material being taught. They will take something like Spiral Dynamics and pitch it to you as a cure-all for solving all of your problems: from losing weight, to have more sex, to earning lots of money. Because otherwise no one will buy a course about Spiral Dynamics. It's too nerdy a topic. Ken Wilber is not a mainstream guy. So trying to mainstream him ruins it. The wisest teachers will never be mainstream.

Even if everything was not one, nothing would still be wrong. You don't need to be in a nondual state to see that even within duality, nothing's wrong.

@Nagma If you're asking this kind of question, then for you, no.

I think you are misunderstanding what Sadhguru meant by 360 vision. It's not literal, it's metaphorical. Your FOV does not change. The sense in which your vision becomes 360 is that you become conscious that the self is not located behind the eyes in the skull, so your consciousness becomes omnipresent. This does NOT mean you can see behind your skull. Its means that your normal field of vision becomes recontextualized in a way that cannot easily be explained in words. In a nutshell, perception becomes Being. You become the entire visual field. You become the world. The boundary between your body or sense of self and the world disappears. You are AWAKE. It's not really possible to imagine what being AWAKE means until you are AWAKE. The best description of it is, it's like waking up from a dream.

@Neptune2020 You didn't get actual Nothingness, you got an idea of nothingness. The two are unrelated. Enlightenment is life-changing, but you didn't even come close to it yet. Keep trying. But drop your idea of nothingness. That ain't it. Also drop your expectation of fireworks. Your intention should be on "what is true". What are you? Not theortically, but ACTUALLY! Find the pure raw TRUTH. Not some idea.

That quote is accurate even from a relative perspective. Obviously "wrong" is relative to one's ego.

Kriya yoga

Salads are hard to sustain. Meat is a good source of energy. But if you're going vegetarian, you'll probably need a lot of grains. Like rice or quinoa. Or potatoes. Lots of fruits is also good. You gotta experiment and find something you're comfortable with and keep evolving it over time.

Of course And so what?

@cirkussmile That would not concern a badass Egyptian priest.

@cena655 Just notice that there's really nothing "bad" about it. Your mind is just over-reacting and going into hysterics. Take a moment to calm yourself down. Trust the universe. And enjoy being self-less. Tell your body, "It's okay".