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Oh, Leo! Let's cut the bullshit. Are you directly conscious of my bowel movements right now? Because I sure as shit am not conscious of yours. The light of awareness of the particular human I inhabit is limited. Isn't your experience limited? Can you, as a human being, experience my thoughts as I experience them? I bet not. That is the condition of 99.999% humans as well, so why not be honest about that? God is unlimited, yes. He is the love that shines through my shit-stained egoic prism and this particular human lives through it, I get it. I have even experienced it many times before, but any "state" or experience ain't it so I'm not going to pretend otherwise. It was a joke, my therapist advised me to practice humor. Humans aren't less than God just because God provides for them.

@Leo Gura That is why one needs the "elephant man".

@Leo Gura @Leo Gura Hey, love is blind. Stop judging me for my fetishes ?. At the end of the day, regardless of the practices we do, we still live in this limited human form. Why not cut straight to the chase? Because the human is prone to thinking that he has done it on his own, he realized the Truth! He has spoken with the Father face to face and lived! How many miracles have you performed recently, Leo? Any walking on water yet? Having a beloved one is not so bad, it keeps your ego in check and we both know that we need it.

Sorry @Leo Gura, my temper got the better of me yesterday. I appreciate your responses. I said that I don't care what most Christians think of their religion because I believe that they don't really know it. They have been indoctrinated into it since early childhood and I feel that my atheistic upbringing gives me advantage over them. I'm aware that atheism is a belief system that is no better than Christianity and I don't identify as an atheist anymore I can see its underlying dogma. I'm also under the impression that you as a teacher are against bhakti (on principle). Isn't it one of the most powerful paths to enlightenment?

@abgespaced I love you and all of your failures.

Awesome, thank you!

I was lying. I just wanted to end this conversation because I'm disappointed with it. You're not talking with me, but writing articles that summarize your teachings. You're even sprinkling them with your signature ta-daams. You're not even considering the points that I'm making. I find it insulting, to be frank (that's probably because I'm an ego that is threatened, right?). I'm familiar with your work and I don't find it to be contradictory with Christianity. It's just written from a different perspective with different symbols.

@Leo Gura What most people make of Christianity is of little interest to me. Have a good day.

@Leo Gura You addressed the "must" in my question, which is not what I was asking about.

@Leo Gura So, like a proper devil that I am, I will ask the question: since everything is already Love, why must the ego die (if it does not even exist)? Selflessness is selfishness, etc. Why not construct a version (story) of nonduality that factors the ego in instead of battling it? What if Christianity is like that?

@Leo Gura @Leo Gura We have a different definition of ego, but let's stick to yours. What is the reason for the existence of ego (in your sense of the word)? Doesn't it originate in God's love?

@Leo Gura I wonder where does love fit into your explanation. Doesn't God create everything selflessly? Isn't ego the veil that allows God to love itself? What's wrong with the illusory separate existence to love God the same way? I'd say it's pretty poetic, actually.

@Leo Gura It is not the ego that wakes up to God, but it is God waking up to God? Didn't you just say that Bobby fundamentally misunderstands ONENESS? God does not have to realize its own godhood. It is already one. It is the ego that needs to learn its proper place and mature. It needs to learn to affirm the existence of others through love. Missing how these two paths (death vs life) coincide is tragic.

When I stop systemizing my self-care, I feel like I'm not doing my 100%. I stopped scheduling, so my reading efforts are unfocused. I also stopped stretching so much because I strained the shoulder blade region of my spine. I need to be gentler with myself, but it's difficult when the effects feel so good. I'm still cooking for myself and sticking to my buying routine though. I am too critical of myself and of other people. I need to learn to relax, joke and have fun in other ways than satisfying my curiosity.

Within the individual mind, interpretation (thinking, feeling) of perception (senses, intuition) is subject to will. The way the objective world is, apart from what we judge it to be, is called LOGOS, the Word. LOGOS is the expression of will of THE ALL and objective world is happening in accordance with it.

The source of will is freedom itself. There are not many freedoms. Freedom that is the basis for individual mind is not imagined by THE ALL. Freedom is unitary and absolute. It is THE ALL. It is so free that it is free from itself, from being one. That is how individual minds of the world are separate.

The division of the human mind is four-fold: Sensing Feeling Intuition Thinking It has two perceiving (1 and 3) and two judging (2 and 4) functions. The perceiving functions are how objective, external, information is gathered. The judging functions are how subjective, internal state is created. The [subjective=internal]/[objective=external] dichotomy exists only in relation to will, or creation, of the human mind. Whatever we perceive exists outside of the influence of will of human mind and has to be acknowledged, accepted. (Yin) Whatever we judge exists inside of the influence of will of human mind and can be interpreted however one desires. (Yang) The human will is capable of creating subjective reality that is, or isn't, in accordance with the objective one. Since the objective reality along with human mind is created in the mind of THE ALL, the Hermetic principles can be studied both by studying subjective and/or objective reality. This is why self-knowledge derived from spiritual practices is useful and is the source of happiness - it is, at the same, the highest knowledge about the operation of reality. That is only possible because the human mind is created in the image of the mind of THE ALL and is equipped with the will to create: The mind of THE ALL is not impersonal because it creates.

THE ALL is not everything that is, the universe. The universe exists in, or through THE ALL. THE ALL is the mind that imagines the universe and everything that exists. THE ALL does not exist, as existence is grounded in its operation. It is nothing. THE ALL is an unknowable mystery.

First, there are the seven Hermetic principles: The Hermetic principles describe the rules of reality and I find them to be correct. The first two ones are of greatest importance here:

You really do. It's an awesome movie.

To share knowledge, answer questions and give directions. To find good learning resources, books and videos. To journal about how I put my knowledge to practice. To burn free time at work.

Please elaborate on what your definition of love is. What does it mean that she loves you and what does it mean that you don't love her? What does it mean that you loved your ex and that she did not love you back? Love is not something that just happens to people. It's also a choice that is made and maintained.

During the weekend I was unable to uphold my social media/youtube detox. A lot of emotional turmoil was happening, also between me and my wife and I felt drained. I did cook for myself, but I did not do any stretching and scheduling. I do not feel guilty because of this. What I do feel guilty for is that I did not read as much Bible as I would want to. I'm still 350 pages in. After finding out the importance in Christ in Holy Trinity, I gave in and decided to read the Book of Jon. The fact that I feel like I "gave in" speaks a lot about how critical of myself I am. I'm holding to my promises too tightly, but they are one of the few things that I find dependable.

I don't mind. With this kind of logic, I would have to restrict my options to people I know absolutely no personal details of. Not in my experience. Have a good day.

Hey @Buba. I'm under the impression that you think that this homosexual part of you is somehow going to derail your life, that you will partake in daily orgies or something. This belief is false. If this transition is too rapid for you, rest assured that you are still under full control of your faculties and will do exactly what you want to. You are not doing anything other than that - learning what you want to do. It does not mean that you have to do it. Imagine thinking that mint chocolate is disgusting and awful. Would you react so strongly if you learned that it is actually pretty tasty? Does the fact that mint chocolate is tasty somehow imply that you will stuff your face uncontrollably with it? Does it even mean that you have to eat it if you don't want to? No!