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@Arman 5-meo is like Zeus. Mushrooms are like a trickster demigod. Like Zeus's demented little half-brother who might twist your nipple if you aren't paying attention.

Mushrooms can be brutal. It ain't always rainbows and butterflies. Mushrooms can give you a thorough mind-fucking. They can get very twisted. I'm more scared of mushrooms than 5-meo these days.

@key Chop wood, carry water. You ain't out of the delusion till you're dead. So make the best of it. Or don't. Up to you.

This is a false belief. You don't NEED to plug-in to re-energize. That's just part of the social addiction. Which is not to say that it's easy to break free. It's pretty hard if you live in a Western 1st world country. Too many juicy distractions. Once your meditation habit becomes very strong, you'll find you can use it to re-energize better than watching TV. But that might take 2-3 years of daily practice, to get to such a point. Totally unplugging is very hard. I suggest you start with baby-steps. Eliminate 1 thing at a time, not everything at once. Start with the lowest-consciousness crap like news, memes, or pointless messaging. Video games and porn aren't too bad, just reduce them a bit for now. Later you can eliminate video game entirely. Porn will be the hardest unless you find a girlfriend. And as long as you don't do it daily, it's really not a big deal. Twice a week will actually save you time & energy versus having a girlfriend. It's important to find healthier alternatives: nature walks, going out with friends, reading, sports, fishing, cooking, music, etc.

@Dodoster Yes, basically. But you're not likely to grasp this through karma yoga. Sit down and OBSERVE your DIRECT EXPERIENCE. Right now! Where are you? Who is observing this sentence? You gotta sit down and force yourself to observe direct experience. The selfless action is good, but it's purpose is different: to develop good character. All the good character in the world is very unlikely to get you to notice that you are Nothing. You have to grapple with direct experience. The best way for you to align yourself to this right now is by becoming conscious that it is TRUE. Then you can work more to embody it. But first you gotta realize it's TRUE! Taking it on faith DOES NOT COUNT!

@stevegan928 It IS intelligent though! Like pure free-floating intelligence. You gotta figure, if you consider yourself intelligent, this little "you" is just a sub-set of it, so in fact IT is the intelligent one. The part cannot be more intelligent than the whole. God is a perfect word, if you actually experience it. It's got a wonderful divine quality to it. It's like pure divinity. Worthy of bowing your head to. But of course, IT is YOU! There's nothing but you.

@Toby Yes, it has to be embodied by the parent. That's very important. You can't just lecture nondual theory at them. If, as the parent, all you did was meditate yourself for 60 minutes every day in the living room for the entire 18 years of your kids growing up -- without explaining anything to the kid -- you'd have a HUGE impact on them without even saying a word.

@Arman The craziest part is that space and time are just two of infinitely many aspects of infinity. Infinity is not subject to space or time. Those are finities. There is no waste in energy because the energy is infinite! You can't waste it because it has nothing to waste into. God is not powerful in the sense of "he intelligently arranges the right stuff". God is an infinite EXPLOSION in infinite directions. "He" can't help himself but to create everything. It's really not that intelligent. It's indiscriminate. Like splashing every color on the canvas without limit. Sort of a brute-force-of-love strategy. Imagine if you had infinite energy and infinite computing power. You'd just let the computer run without care. To the max. Nothing would need to be conserved. Or imagine if you had infinite money. You'd just make it rain 24/7!

@Emerald Wilkins Well, Absolutely Infinity means no limits. Everything you know or perceive is a limit or bound. That's what thing-ness is. It's limitation or finity. So in-finity is every finity or form possible. It's staggering to the mind. It's outrageous beyond imagination. But also it's formless. So at the same time you experience all the possibilities, and nothing at all. It feels sorta like looking at a cosmic slot machine spinning with an infinite number of rotating drums and symbols. Every possible state of the universe sorta flashes before your eyes, but there's nothing there! It's just like thin air. All of it amounts to nothing! So you can't put your finger on anything. But you get the gist of everything. And you understand that it cannot be any other way. The only possible mechanism of existence is an explosion of infinity. Nothing more is possible, because it includes all mores. Yes, it's an infinite fractal of infinity. There's no upper or lower bound. No smallest or largest element. No beginning or end. It includes all distinctions and no distinctions at all. Even the real and unreal, existent and non-existent become indistinct. It's a formless potential energy that contains infinite creative capacity when unfurled like a fractal flower. It's simultaneously furled up and unfurling. The ultimate paradox. It is unquestionably God. No wonder the mind cannot grasp it. It's infinitely beyond the mind. A billion minds working for a billion years will never even make 0.00000000001% progress towards grasping it.

@SBB4746 An important point to ponder for sure. But also keep in mind that even chimps already have a rich social matrix and language. So it's not like humans came into existence, lived for many years, and then one of them created language from scratch.

@Toby No, but I can show you principles of raising openminded kids that few others can, because I've spent a lot of time exploring the mechanics of epistemology. It has less to do with kids, and more to do with how the mind works in general. Conventional parenting advice you can read elsewhere. I don't profess to be experienced in that domain.

I'm planning to release a video on this topic in the future. Been gathering my notes for over a year now on this topic. There's a lot to say from all the psychology and nonduality research. In the meantime, to avoid making your kids closedminded ideologues, guide them towards openmindedness and investigation of direct experience. Teach them not to accept ready-made answers, but derive understanding from direct observation. Teach them the difference between beliefs and awareness. Teach them the difference between hearsay and direct experience. Teach them that not-knowing is better than knowing. And demonstrate all this yourself.

"Questioner: Can you tell me how intelligent infinity became individualized from itself?" "Answer: The intelligent infinity discerned a concept. This concept was discerned to be freedom of will of awareness. This concept was finity. This was the first and primal paradox or distortion of the Law of One. Thus the one intelligent infinity invested itself in an exploration of many-ness. Due to the infinite possibilities of intelligent infinity there is no ending to many-ness. The exploration, thus, is free to continue infinitely in an eternal present." "Questioner: Was the galaxy that we are in created by the infinite intelligence or was it created by a portion of the infinite intelligence?" "Answer: The galaxy and all other things of material of which you are aware are products of individualized portions of intelligent infinity. As each exploration began, it, in turn, found its focus and became co-Creator. Using intelligent infinity each portion created an universe and allowing the rhythms of free choice to flow, playing with the infinite spectrum of possibilities, each individualized portion channeled the love/light into what you might call intelligent energy, thus creating the so-called Natural Laws of any particular universe." "Each universe, in turn, individualized to a focus becoming, in turn, co- Creator and allowing further diversity, thus creating further intelligent energies regularizing or causing Natural Laws to appear in the vibrational patterns of what you would call a solar system. Thus, each solar system has its own, shall we say, local coordinate system of illusory Natural Laws. It shall be understood that any portion, no matter how small, of any density or illusory pattern contains, as in an holographic picture, the one Creator which is infinity. Thus all begins and ends in mystery."

@Arman That's it! Except now imagine that video in infinite dimensions. Occurring simultaneously without time. And all the sudden you've got God. There's nothing to stop it! What could stop it? So it becomes an infinite chain reaction of being and love.

@Extreme Z7 You are the picture.

@Joel3102 Altered states of consciousness can definitely be scary, especially if it's your first time. To overcome the fear, you just gotta keep hammering at the meditation/contemplation over and over again until you slowly realize there's nothing to fear but fear itself. Wait till you experience all of reality disappear (including you) and reboot. Now that might make you crap your pants a little

@username Lol, touche

No, that is something very different. Dark Night of The Soul would be something like when you have a shotgun barrel in your mouth, wondering whether or not to pull the trigger. Anyone in that situation, please find a spiritual master to help you one-on-one.

That is true. But the subconscious mind is also responsible for a lot of sneaky shit, like maintaining that entire sense of individualized ego. So you're gonna have to develop massive amounts of self-awareness before you can assess other people fairly. People who are psychics, energy healers, and channels do this sort of thing. But I bet they do A TON of spiritual purification work on themselves so they can be "clean instruments" for intuition. I basically have to do that too as I teach. I find that I cannot be a good teacher unless I devote a lot of time to self-purification. Otherwise my self gets in the way and distorts the message.

@Beyond Words Sure it could. A lot more than you can probably imagine. It'll be talking about this topic a lot in the future. I have some very interesting research to share on this point.

@nima The universe LOVES dishonesty and robbery and cruelty. The universe loves everything, because it is. The distinction good/bad is something egos create to defend themselves. Notice that if you drop your attachment to self-defense, everything becomes good.

@Rahul yadav You gotta dig deeper and contemplate why you create those emotions. What purpose are they serving? Hint: negative emotions are self-manipulations to keep yourself being yourself. To change that, you have to stop being yourself. And to do that, you have to grasp how and why you are attached to yourself. And then drop all those attachments. This is serous work and takes a lot of commitment. You've got a lot of contemplating to do.

Success is no sign of growth or evolution. Being hyper-successful is actually much easier when you have loose ethics. You can be ruthless and step all over people and become mega-successful. Wallstreet is a perfect example of this. The most conscious people are almost never mega-successful. That's not an accident. We live in a cut-throat world. The richest people in the world are actually dictators. They're so rich they don't even get put on the Forbes list. Putin is estimated to have a net worth of over $200 billion, most of it stolen or extorted money.

@Progress Just be careful not to misread people. Just because someone appears quiet or shy doesn't mean they aren't very successful. People behave differently in different contexts and often wear many masks depending on the situation. Careful not to project all your assumptions onto them using this method.

Children, children, children. Can't leave you alone for 24 hours before a food fight erupts. Sigh... How long's it gonna take to become conscious that all this nonsense goes against everything I teach?