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@Shin sure i get you Shin, but I haven't searched in the past, and I still dont find anyone. Like Faraday and Issac Newton had very deep passions, but they still died as a virgin. You still need to be exposed to women, and I struggle with that. I mean i find a few girls to be friends with, but girls that I want to potentially date, Ive only met 1 or 2 of them in all of my 19 years of life. And for me to gain experience and practice, I dont think finding 1 girl every 9 years is going to cut it lol.

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@Esoteric maybe there isn't hearsay evidence(well there is if you do contextual research), or scientific evidence, or any other evidence for it, but there is certainly visible evidence for it. Faking it is a possibility, but then again, you can say that the holocaust was faked/ was a conspiracy created by the jews as well, or that the twin towers was actually done by Bush, or that the pyramids were actually made by aliens or faked. You can fake virtually anything you want. But if you look at the back story of this video, and research the context, its highly unlikely that it was faked.

Seems almost unimaginable, I wonder why he was upset that the broadcasters showed the footage to the public. Was it because he was casted out and thought to be a witch? EDIT: if you read the comments in the video, its interesting how many people dismiss this video as ludicrous, even though there's visible evidence of it.

Yeah, I've studied epistomology extensively too, and covering a wide range of life experiences really does seem to be the only way of figuring out what roads lead you to the path you are looking for. There is no step by step instructions that work for every case, even science and philosophy. And do you use scientific or philosophical principles to filter out information that is within the wide range you are covering?

So even if your life purpose is personal development and enlightenment, you found it useful to study very different fields like business, because you can guage what is useful or real and what isn't. And then hope that, that makes you capable to avoid the traps of radical skepticism and open mindedness to the point that your brain falls out. I think the question here isn't whether some knowledge is real or not; leave that to contemplation, but whether something is useful advice to take or not. Because if we get all nit picky about the validity and realism of a piece of knowledge, we can forget its usefulness to us.

@Leo Gura What do you personally do to test if something is invalid or valid? If as you say there are traps with being skeptical too. I'm guessing you just trust your intuition, but maybe not.

Not everything can be proven, by looking at things through a scientific perspective. The fundamental beliefs of science(things have to be repeatable, rational and constant) are all just arbitrary beliefs(and we have constructed reality around them, and that's what has created the world we pretty much live in today). What evidence is there to back up the validity of scientific evidence or science itself? What proof do we have in repeatability, being constant and rationality? What evidence is there to back up that thing that proves scientific evidence is valid? and so on. distant healing is one of these areas. Its as provable using science as consciousness is. For example, how would you prove that someone is enlightened using science? How would you prove that god is what the mystics say he is using science? Like what you said, it depends on the answer being asked. Science can prove concepts to be true, because science is a concept itself (collect like terms). but not empirical observations. And healing in that context is not a concept that is based on the 3 commandments of science no is it based on the 10 commandments of christianity.

artificial insemination, and genetic modification is not as cool as you would think, you can't just clone stuff, only on things that are very specific, and even then, there's no guarantee. I know because I've been exposed to it as part of my degree. And people walked on the moon all the way back in 1969, genetic modification has only recently been a thing. Besides, we underestimate how weird and how different aliens can be. They would be nothing like humans, they could be a form of gass floating around reproducing, or maybe a bunch of matts that move by stretching. These gass and matts might have their own form of maths and science, or not maybe they use psychic abilities. Would aliens even have DNA. We understimate how different aliens are. The reason we haven't found any yet, is because we haven't recognised them, not because we don't see them.

@Lha Bho when you don't take your meds, and you start seeing aliens, what happens when you walk up to one and try to carry it, can you do it or does your hand go through it like its a hologram

so healing, you don't mean doctor sort of healing, you mean psychological or spiritual/enlightenment sort of healing. And where can you find an interview where they will spill all of their wisdom, or are they just quiet all together yeah bcos most people here are athiests, a reaction to the ludicracy of most people in religion.

but even the Dalai Lama doesn't believe in healing powers. Go to 0:30 of this video

man i don't agree with him, that's why im going back to actualized.org BUT I can't ignore your post without correcting you on something. His viewers aren't lazy people man.... they are people like me, who are sick and tired of getting caught up in fantasy and stories about enlightenment and the paranormal and (Sadghuru) psychic powers, that they just want something refreshingly realistic. Its so nice when you finally realize that what you are searching for doesnt actually exist, and that all that's real is reality. He attracts realists/non bullshitters. he has some pretty damn good points, especially his point that chasing enlightenment wont get you anywhere You are really good at judging before watching any of his videos and if you did research on him, he is definitely enlightened. Emerald Wilkin's video directly highlights it.

His main message is, to not get caught up following a path, and to accept reality as it is, because there is no such thing as a path, and you are already enlightened, and chasing enlightenment is bad, because you are chasing a fantasy, etc.

Did you know that GPS and the thought of moving from one place to another in the first place or all just walls and ceilings of your matrix? Yeah concepts like measurement are great.... if you want to support your other concepts like the concept 'im moving from England to the US'. If you want to come out of your shell a little bit, and place any value on empiricism, you would agree with the book.

@jse "To reach the most distant star in our own galaxy would take 100000 light years. These calculations are made using the assumption that light has a speed." True. light doesn't have a speed. Really, speed is a mental construct, and when we say that nothing is faster than the speed of light, we are making a claim that isn't necessarily true. Sadghuru talked about this once, that time changes all the time. When you're having fun time goes fast for instance. In our western scientific view, we would say that no our brains just made time seem quicker, it didn't actually go quicker. BUT as sadghuru said, this view is inside out, because empirically speaking, purely empirically speaking, the sensory world is the only world we know, and the only truth, and hence our western scientific view that time doesnt change is flawed. And also, in my opinion, this is a very good point: ". In other words, everyone knows that if you drop something it will fall, but no one knows precisely why. Many people know that electric ch arges push or pull on each other even if separated in a vacuum, but again no one knows why. Although the phenomena are quite different, the equations which describe the force of interaction are quite similar: For gravitation: F=Gmm'r 2 For electrostatic interaction: F=Kqq'r 2 The attractive force between our planet and our sun is described by the gravitational equation. The attractive force between orbiting electrons and the atomic nucleus is described by the electrostatic interaction equation. Now each of th ese equations was determined experimentally. They are not apparently related in any way, and yet they both describe a situation in which attractive force falls off with the square of the distance of separation. A mathematical representation of an action at a distance effect is called a field, such as a gravitational or electric field. It was Albert Einstein’s foremost hope to find a single relation which would express the effect of both electric and gravitational phenomena; in fact, a theory which would uni fy the whole of physics, a unified field theory. Einstein believed that this was a creation of total order and that all physical phenomena were evolved from a single source."

The more books you read, the more likely you are to find a practice or technique that works the quickest, or resonates with you the best. And there's more to life then enlightenment. There's also personal development, and changing the matrix. Just because you're enlightened, doesn't mean you become undogmatic. Just look at Mooji, or Rali, there are both enlightened as fuck, and when you tell them something that they think is bullshit, they get all pissed off and frustrated. You definitely do not drop all beliefs definitely

@jse if you ignore all of the terrestrial bs and look at the philosophy on page 15 16 and 17, its pretty valid. You can't chuck out the baby with the bath water. Buddhism is 99% Bullshit as well, would you just neglect the whole thing together though?

@kurt you need to read books to learn teachings to 'get you there'. And yes, there is a path, regardless of what teachers say, you aren't already enlightened until you realize it.

@jse This book actually makes some good points around page 15 16 and 17

how do you know non-duality is real? Or that its bad to let dual stuff enter your head

lost me at this point: "researchers who would pretend to be able to understand the phenomenon completely. Dr. J. Allen Hynek has called this quality of the research the “high strangeness” factor and has linked the amount of high strangeness with the probable validity of the case."

This book is radical, but I know a book that's even more challenging and radical, its called the Qu'ran At least Ra's law of 1 makes sense, and somewhat values empirical evidence. Not some elizabethan, contradicting, paradoxical messy proposition, that talks about what god is, without actually saying what god is If you want to challenge your open mind, give that one a go, unless you're muslim. Or give the Bible a go, try accepting all those arguments that it disagrees with science in. btw I'm joking, but seriously, the bible and the quran are pretty challenging.

I'm watching Rali... and he says that it's preposterous that people can heal each other, fly through walls, etc. And then I listen to Leo, and he tells us that you need to be open to the possibility of everything. I don't know who to believe..... anyone else in the same boat? Are you guys just accepting the confusion?

As the title states, how do you deal with extreme undecisiveness? Ever since I was in high school, I lost my ability to trust myself, and I became extremely undecisive. To put the issue I have into context, I wasted 8 hours a day, for 6 weeks, deciding which university to go to. I also put my teachers and family in a spin, when I was told to choose what elective I should pick for high school. And now I am at another point in time, where I have a pretty important decision to make, and if I continue to do no shadow work, I'm going to waste weeks on this decision. I just can't handle the idea of missing out on a big opportunity, and the uncertainty of it all is too much for me to handle. What should I do? I can't really hear intutition(or the muse) and when I do, I'm just too scared to trust it. What shadow work should I even do? Is it advisable that I should go see a psychologist about this? Thankyou actualized people!