Leo Gura

There are tradeoffs with each approach. Some people might benefit from a more traditonal approach that holds their hand. Others might get trapped in it. I went through Sadhguru's basic intitiation. But he wasn't even there so it doesn't count for much. I have had sprititual people try to do energy transmissions on me. None of it worked a damn bit. If you really wanna do the traditional approach, the biggest key is to find yourself a serious, hardcore guru who will be there for you. Not someone like Sadhguru who is mostly doing celebrity guru stuff. You have to look for a lesser known guru who can give you one-on-one attention. Basically this means moving to India. I would consider that a valid path, but it's not suitable for most Westerners.

That's interesting. I was gonna say, Scarcity Age was 5000 years ago. But which is really more scarce?

The majority of Nazis were simple people with basic conservative values like family, country, God, and traditional gender roles. Some Nazi lunatic mastermind might have a plan for global domination or whatever, but that's not what the base cares or even knows about. Yes, as you get more extreme right or left on the political specturm people start getting crazier and crazier ideas. Because the vast majority of people are pretty moderate and down the middle. They aren't looking for some ideological ideal. They have to be radicalized into the extremes through brainwashing.

Chems affect people in wildly different ways. So yes.

Depends on how you measure it and what you mean. If someone takes DMT after hearing me speak about it, does that count? I've had many people tell me they had awakenings from watching my content, but I have no idea how deep it was or if they are kidding themselves, or how much I had to do with it. That played a huge part in my understanding of things. You can parrot stuff, but it's really hard to speak coherently about God without direct experience of it. Laymen may be fooled, but it's very aparent to me who speaks from experience and who is just conceptualizing. This work is not clinical enough for such measurements. It's fly by feel. A technique by itself contains little human BS. The human BS is the whole intellectual system surrounding the technique. So I never worry about techniques themselves. I wish people would simply do more techniques and less talking. It's the endless talking and theorizing that's the problem.

Sure, that's possible. But what if he ignites your energies and it worsens your situation? The danager of yoga is not a lack of energy but an abundance of it.

It is hard to know anything about another's 1st person experience. But you can interogate them and get clues. You can ask them, What is God? And you can quickly see of they have any clue. No. It can happen.

Hitler was not such a deep thinker that we must strain to understand him. The notion that American scholars do not understand Hitler is silly. I already explained that. An ultra-conservative has to be revolutionary simply because relative to such a view all of society looks way too liberal. If I wanted to return to traditional American values of slavery and genocide of savages, I would have to wage a radical revolution that would make Ben Shapiro and Alex Jones look like weepy social justice warrior libs and care bears. A hardcore conservative would rape, execute, and enslave everyone outside his tribe. Don't kid yourself.

In theory anything could awaken you. But in practice few things will.

Many conservatives among that bunch. Especially 100 years ago. Especially when you felt your nation was shafted by the settlement of WW1. Many Germans were just pissed off and looking for scapegoats. You have some weird views on Nazis from what I recall.

Not usually. And it tends to work the other way around. It's state change which gives you the deep insight. Warning: Ralston has an usual definition of "state" and "contemplation". He doesn't use those words to mean the same things I mean.

@Vrubel My posts are not about you.

That's not enough. You need a shift in your state of consciousness. Awakening is much more than an insight, it's a state change. Of course curiosity is good and important. Although it can actually get in the way of stilling your overactive mind.

Sigh....

What you have to understand is that the far-right mind is full of shit. It talks out of both sides of its mouth. It's not an internally coherent intellectual system. It's a loose network of fears, hatreds, disgust, dogma, myths, and rationalizations. As I said, if you go far-right far enough you overturn your own traditions. This is not a mistake in my analysis. A far-right Islamic fundamentalist does not truly observe the tradition of Islam. Hitler was above all an ego-maniac like Trump. So of course he wanted to put his own stamp on things. It takes humility to blindly follow tradition as Mike Pence does. All you have to do to see that Nazism is conservative is to look at the kind of people who find it appealing, and the type of people Nazis consider their enemies. Who finds it appealing? Conservatives! Who are it enemies? Who did Hitler kill? Liberals!

My repsonses in these Israeli threads are quite sparse. Haha That's the rub. I don't ban people unless I am forced to.

@SamC No guru will save you when shit hits the fan.

Sure looks that way if you are cartoonishly biased.

I am planning to but had to hold off for weird health reasons.

@TheSelf And so how are you living with that energy today? What would a guru have you do differently to avoid that problem?

It could be a temporary stepping stone to something higher. The real problem here would be if there was something more meaningful that you could do with your life, and you gave it up in pursuit of something easy and profitable. But again, it is a valid strategy to earn some money to fund yourself towards something higher. Realistically you will get sick of streaming after 5-10 years and desire something more meaningful. But those first 5 years could be good and leave you in a nice financial spot. The trap would be to get stuck in streaming forever.

Even the largest sun cannot escape a black hole's love.

I would not chalk that up to autism.

Lol Zionism is cartoonishly biased. Your meme would be correct if the ones you were holocausting were not the grey peeps but some random squirrels on whose land you built your own place. "The attitude we adopt toward the Arab minority will provide the real test of our moral standards as a people. Should we be unable to find a way to honest cooperation and honest pacts with the Arabs, then we have learned absolutely nothing from our 2,000 years of suffering and will deserve our fate." -- Albert Einstein

If this is true, there's little a guru can do to help you other than pointing out the traps. Which could be written down in a book. And said book exists in my book list. In the old days you would live with your guru 24/7 and get constant one-on-one guidance. That is nearly impossible to find these days and not accessible to householders. In the end, yoga is designed to activate kundalini, which comes with risks. From what I understand the best way to minimize those risks is to not do too much yoga too quickly.