Brittany

I focus on both survival and awakening at the same time. If I didn't focus on survival, I would have to go back and live with my parents. And because I REALLY didn't want to do that, it was enough motivation for me to focus heavily on money and building a savings account. hahaha

Death is very random. A 5 year old will die one week. And another week a 60 year old will die. And then another week a 30 year old will die. And then another week a 17 year old will die. And then another week a 95 year old will die. And then another week a 9 month old baby will die. And often times, death doesn't even care about someone's "health". Death removes healthy people from the earth all of the time. Eat healthy, exercise, avoid stress, go to the doctor, etc. to do your part, but then life will randomly do the rest.

I love Neville Goddard's work. The practice of "positive assumptions" and "living in the end" should be taught in schools as a fundamental class. This would give kids a superpower and make them no longer need external validation or external rewards to feel high levels of bliss.

I love this. Though, challenging the concept of stealing opens up a can of worms: "What is ownership for?" "Do humans need boundaries/personal sovereignty/autonomy?" "Is violence (aka protection of what one claims to own) ever necessary?" "Why does consent matter?" "Can the idea of Oneness increase our greed and entitlement tendencies?" "Does Oneness hold room for a person to say NO?" or honestly, the entire TV Show "Pluribus" on Apple TV.....like how much merging is too much merging? haha

Pluribus is fantastic. It opens the door to a lot of philosophical questions.

I am struggling with your usage of the word "Improve". "Improve" to look like what or who, exactly? If you could draw an image of the perfect human, what do they look like?

If you love something, you don't need to cut it out entirely. Just use Pomodoro and set daily limits. For example, "I can use Instagram for 20 minutes a day" and then set a timer.

I was raised in a Conservative environment and had many anti-feminist views in the past. But when I took the time to study more about it, I am realizing that feminism is a lot deeper and complex than I thought. I am starting to see that New Age versions of "Femininity" and the "Divine Feminine" are way less evolved than Feminist literature. The New Age religion's approach to women is more similar to Christian conservatism and has no interest in deconstruction work but instead focuses on maintaining the already existing structure. Feminism is hardcore and honest about how women have been programmed and conditioned mentally. It is a deconstruction and stripping of that programming. And it also shows how certain roles and behaviors required of Women aren't entirely innocent and have hidden motives behind them. It also deconstructs popular sayings or phrases used on Women to make them conform. And it is brutally honest about the way women have been hurt in the past by Men. For many women, this deconstruction process results in a form of Horror and Terror. This is actually a good thing, like a form of ego death. But what Feminism doesn't do well, is give women guidance on how to handle the Horror and Terror. It just leaves women there, in their Horror, and this is what leads to Misandry and women hating Men. And in this, you are right. Leaving women in a state of Horror, is not good. The solution is not to reverse or get rid of feminism. But continue to show women how to Deconstruct their programming while also Reconstructing in a way where Men's value and inherent worth is seen.

I never understand why people on the Layman path go into Enlightenment/Transcendent/Monastic spaces and try to preach to everyone about the goodness of the Layman path. Marriage and Kids are a wonderful and beautiful thing. But people on the Layman path need to stop entering Enlightenment spaces and flooding them with: "But it is bad to let go of all attachments." "You have to participate in society though." "Humans are social creatures" "You should give up non-duality and tend to your humanity" "Having kids and getting married makes you even more evolved than ego transcendence" "You are spiritually bypassing" "In the past, they taught detachment. Now, we need to focus on being aware while remaining attached" "Well you can't meditate all day, you got to go to work and pay bills" "I feel way more fulfilled as a mother than I did when I was pursuing enlightenment" "Nonduality is dangerous and it is better to focus on shadow work instead" There is a section from Autobiography of a Yogi from Paramahansa Yogananda: Ananta took me to their home. The son, a young man of ebullient manner, greeted me in the courtyard. He engaged me in a lengthy philosophic discourse. Professing to have a clairvoyant knowledge of my future, he discountenanced my idea of being a monk. “You will meet continual misfortune, and be unable to find God, if you insist on deserting your ordinary responsibilities! You cannot work out your past karma without worldly experiences.” Immortal words from the Bhagavad Gita rose to my lips in reply: “‘Even he with the worst of karma who ceaselessly meditates on Me quickly loses the effects of his past bad actions. Becoming a high-souled being, he soon attains perennial peace. Know this for certain: the devotee who puts his trust in Me never perishes!’” But the forceful prognostications of the young man had slightly shaken my confidence. With all the fervor of my heart I prayed silently to God: “Please solve my bewilderment and answer me, right here and now, if Thou dost desire me to lead the life of a renunciant or a worldly man!” I noticed a sadhu of noble countenance standing just outside the compound of the pundit’s house. Evidently he had overheard the spirited conversation between the self-styled clairvoyant and me, for the stranger called me to his side. I felt a tremendous power flowing from his calm eyes. “Son, don’t listen to that ignoramus. In response to your prayer, the Lord tells me to assure you that your sole path in this life is that of the renunciant.” With astonishment as well as gratitude, I smiled happily at this decisive message. “Come away from that man!” The “ignoramus” was calling me from the courtyard. My saintly guide raised his hand in blessing and slowly departed. “That sadhu is just as crazy as you are.” It was the hoary-headed pundit who made this charming observation. He and his son were gazing at me lugubriously. “I have heard that he, too, has left his home in a vague search for God.” I turned away. To Ananta I remarked that I would not engage in further discussion with our hosts.

No, you can master your emotions. Actors and actresses can literally cry and get angry on impact. You can also learn how to feel any "blissful" feeling you want, even the state of deep blissful Romantic Love, through Law of Assumption or Neville Goddard techniques. There are many spiritual practices that can activate good feelings and state of feeling HIGH. None of this is enlightenment though. It's just emotional mastery, which is a skill of it's own.

Most speakers mix good teachings in with the bad teachings. You have to decide what your tolerance levels are for corruption. Because most people aren't 100% corrupt. They might just be 97% corrupt. If you want to stay for 3% of goodness, that's your tolerance level. But not everyone is willing to sacrifice their mental health, for that 3% of goodness.

I agree with you. You can release dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphins through various activities that aren't spiritually related: - being raised by loving healthy parents - reading a good book - falling in love - getting likes on social media - listening to music - drugs - receiving affirmation, praise, applause, glory, compliments etc. - having sex - spending time with kids - a blissful wedding day - service to others - delicious food - playing with pets - watching a good movie - being privileged or being dealt a good hand in life - getting your dream job - winning a sports game - talking with a close friend - family vacation - exercise - worship service at church And most of it, is actually our thinking...not even an activity itself, that causes these chemicals to be released. It's often HOW we are thinking that generates them. Certain activities generate positive thoughts more naturally. For example, going to a tropical vacation isn't making you happy.....it's your thoughts while you are there, that are making you happy. It's a mental thing that generates happiness. Certain places or people just make it easier to think peaceful and happy thoughts. But the place or person isn't causing the chemicals, they never can or will. Our attachment, addiction and chasing of dopamine/oxytocin/serotonin/endorphins can lead us away from truth. Dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, endorphins are not enlightenment, just a byproduct.

Here is a list of my favorite lesser-known youtube channels. I put a fire emoticon on the ones that challenged some of my core beliefs recently. Challenging Systems in Society - Marina Karlova 🔥🔥🔥 - Timothy Ward Enlightenment/Non-Duality - Acharya Prashant - BKShivani 🔥🔥🔥 - Clare Dimond - Shar Jason | Awake Awareness - kenneth madden - The Nonduality Podcast - nkosiyazi Khwela - Louise Kay - Be Here Now Network - Anna Brown - Kate White - TheTimelessWonder 🔥🔥🔥 - Magdi Badawy - Zen BitchSlap - Amoda Maa - Lisa Cairns - Emerson Non-Duality - GP Walsh ~ OM School - Roger Castillo - Being Lived - Sounds True - Suzanne Chang - Samuel Jacob Spirituality/New Age/ACIM/LOA/Woowoo: - Danique - Amanda Flaker - Channel Higher Self - André Duqum - CircleofAtonement 🔥🔥🔥 - Edward Art - Aaron Abke - Kelly-Ann Maddox - Kyle Cease - The Perception Trainers PT 🔥🔥🔥 - Paul West - Sarah Hall Philosophy - School of Life - Unsolicited advice - No Nonsense Spirituality | Britt Hartley - Einzelgänger - Philosophy Tube Relationships/Psychology/Daily Living/Minimalism - Cup of Empathy - Daniel Mackler 🔥🔥🔥 - Dr. Amy Johnson - Robin Waldun - According to Nicole - Leo Skepi - Malama Life - Exploravore - Prof. Sam Vaknin - Heidi Priebe 🔥🔥🔥 - Michael Neill - Empoweress™ - Stacy Hoch

Most people are aware that their negative thinking causes distortion in their relationships. But what most people are not aware of, is that positive thinking also causes distortion...but it causes distortion in how we perceive reality itself. Women are using men to enhance their self image. Men are using women to enhance their self image. This is just normal relating. But within doing this, we create a foundation of "We are separate". To hold unto or create a "positive self image" is still a mindset of separation, even though it feels really good and blissful. The "positive self image" grasps and clings and attaches to gain something. It wants to become or be something. There are 2 kinds of Unity. There is the Unity of the shared happy dream. (which is what I think most people want). This is where the Man and the Woman hold positive self concepts for either themselves or each other. In this state, they are often gracious and loving towards each other's shadow and trauma states. But on a mental level, they see distinct self images ..... self concepts.... often positive about each other....and they believe these are real. They think the positive stories and self concepts are actually real. This state of Unity feels like an oxytocin soup of bliss. haha It feels like heaven. But then there is also a deeper Unity where [both] positive and negative self concepts collapse. This is where a lot of the mental differences between Men and Women shatter completely. Romantic Love, as a mental concept, shatters here. Relationships, as a mental concept, shatter here. Marriage, Kids, Sex, etc. might still happen but the mind isn't attaching to an image of self. The barrier and block to reaching this state is usually clinging to "positive self concepts" or specialness. This is not a highly desired state but it's still a state of Unity. It can be argued to be a deeper Unity state because you both collapse into nothing. The actual truth is that Unity, on the level of mind, is already the case. There is nothing to join....because nothing was divided to begin with. The title "Why unity between man and woman will never be possible" implies that division took place. It is implying Unity isn't already here. But division never happened to begin with. There is nothing to connect or join or unify or bring together......because nothing was separated to begin with. On the level of the body, yes, men and women are divided physically. (though certain people debate this as well) But division does not exist on the level of the mind. [There is nothing to unify, because nothing was divided to begin with] is only seen clearly in the 2nd form of Unity. The 1st form of Unity, where you are blissfully Unified with a lover/spouse....but still clinging to self concepts of either a positive or negative variety, won't reveal this.

Women and Men have a lot more in common on the level of the ego-mind than people realize. If you put the mind of a Woman on a mega phone , and blast it for all people to hear, Men would be shocked and appalled to hear the voice of her "ego" and "monkey chatter". Men would be flabbergasted at how similarly neurotic and insane the ego mind of a woman is to men. A lot of the "romanticized" and "metaphorical-poetic" ways we use to describe the feminine and masculine, wouldn't hold up so neatly, when the egoic monkey chatter of a woman's mind is on a mega phone and scrutinized and analyzed by a public audience 24-7. On the level of the body , is where the main difference and division between men and women is. The difference is not so much in the mind unless you go into the poetic/metaphorical/archetypal/romantic realms, which don't hold up so well in close examination...........And fall away from your grip once you let go of both your positive and negative self concepts. Letting go of the negative self concepts, but clinging to the positive self concepts (which is what most people do).....leaves you stuck in the metaphorical/poetic/romantic realms of viewing the feminine and masculine self. This realm is very important place to hang out in and we can't bypass it, because it teaches us a lot about how romantic relationships operate. All conversations around forming "healthy relationships" exist in this realm, so it is important to play around here. But letting go of [both] the negative and the positive self concepts, shows how similar the ego-monkey chatter-machinery is in both genders. Letting go of your positive self concepts, zooms you out to see the machinery from farther away. It is mental telescope from the void. Romantic Relationships, themselves, are dependent on our attachment and identification with our positive-self-concepts. When you start playing around and deconstructing the "positive self concepts" too much, romantic love at it's foundation, begins to crack. Romantic Love is a huge game of attachment to our positive-self-concepts. We get an oxytocin high off of our positive-self-concepts. Deconstruct the positive self concepts (which no one wants to do) and the whole game shatters. And when it shatters, you will see the Unity between both genders on the level of the mind/ego/identity. However; the differences on the level of the body, between men and women, will always be there. That isn't going anywhere. It is no different than a leaf and a branch will never be the exact same thing, though both are part of the same tree.