Intuition is your HIGHEST feeling. It is the voice of your soul/spirit.
And don't discount feelings either! Feelings are faithful indicators of how things really are for you. Listen to your feelings more, not less. The problem is that you repress and judge your feelings too much. This is what gets you into trouble.
Feel your feelings without reacting to them or overthinking them. Just feel for the sake of feeling, not as a means to some end.

There is one thing which is impossible: for God not to be God.
Or, put another way: it is impossible for everything not to be as it is.
Another way to frame it is: possible/impossible is a duality which collapses into unity at the level of the Absolute. So actually it's impossible to distinguish between possible/impossible. Until you do. Until you don't.

Yes, just think of consciousness at the "stuff" of reality. So replace trillions and trillions of atoms with one field of consciousness. This field is like an LCD screen which can display any image: dog, tree, human, alien, etc. The screen is unlimited in what it can display. God is that entire screen and also all the images it displays. Image and screen are one. Right now you are one image. After this image dies, a new image will appear. And so on forever. So nothing actually dies, it just changes images.

I will talk more about that soon.
But in a nutshell, your work is be a Creator, embody the Goodness, Love, and Wisdom of God in your life. To truly be God is to live a God-like life. It's not enough to realize God and then go back to working at Starbucks. Your vision of your life must match that which a God would create. Would a God sit around while the Earth was raped and pillaged by devils? Guess again.
Of course you don't have to. But if you fully understood your power, you probably wouldn't squander your life as you now do.
See, right now you are not a conscious creator. But God is a conscious creator. You must take ownership of your creative capacity. Which is a distinct thing from enlightenment.
As the saying goes: You work towards "A more perfect union"
Today conscious creators are more needed than ever before in human history. Or civilization will collapse.

@arlin Reality is unlimited, so it is all things. It both is and is not self-conscious. Some parts of reality are self-conscious while others are not. A dog is not self-conscious but a Zen master is. The dog does not know it is God, a Zen master does.
The substance of reality is CONSCIOUSNESS, but be careful, as this does not automatically mean that all parts of reality are conscious of themselves. CONSCIOUSNESS is not the same a self-consciousness. Consciousness/God is so powerful it can imagine itself to be a dog, thus forgetting that it is actually God. When that dog dies it will realize that is was God the whole time, merely pretending to be a dog.
At the highest level, God is fully aware of itself as God. But as its various incarnations it can be deluded and unaware. Just as you right now are unaware that you God. You are conscious but not fully Self-conscious. You are playing the role of a dumb human Until you wake up.
Wakey wakey

Honestly, it's a real trade-off. I don't think you can do it all simultaneously. When I started my first business, I was working over 60+ hours per week for several years until things finally settled in. When I started Actualized.org, I had to abandon most of my social life and dating life. And that was 3 years ago and still continuing today! Just recently I started to dial back on the quantity of work I do and spend a little more time to myself. It will probably take me another year of work just to be able to get back into dating again.
In the book, The One Thing, the authors speak about the myth of living a balanced life. Life balance doesn't mean you do everything evenly all the time. Balance is a dynamic, not a static state. In reality, what effective living looks like is you're slowly swinging your pendulum strategically between various areas of focus. You might spend 3 years working really hard on your career with single-minded focus, then once that's handled, you spend 2 years dating really hard, then once you get your girlfriend, you might put your focus on lots of meditation and traveling, etc.
It's like spinning plates but you're doing it over the timeframe of months and years, not hours.
It's also very important to be crystal clear about your top values and priorities in life. Most people are so vague and indecisive that they can't focus on any one thing and so they get mediocre results across the board. You have to do very strategic long-term life planning. You should have a 5 year plan for your life at least.

@kamill Videos and courses will be much better than books for this purpose.
Better yet, consider hiring a dating coach or taking a bootcamp. Getting good a dating is extremely hands-on. You cannot learn it as a theory. None of the theory translates into real life. You need massive field experience.
50 parts experience to 1 part theory. Otherwise no results.
For cold approach to work you need to be doing 100s of approaches each month. At least until you develop some skill. Then you can ease up.

@whatishappeningtome There's a time to learn and a time to execute on those learnings.

That is a goal when you're on a retreat with the intention of breaking through into deep states of samadhi.
But outside of that life must go on, and in fact you will need advanced types of thinking to act effectively in the world and help the world to awaken.
Be careful not to denigrate the mind. The mind is an important tool. Acting mindlessly will result in foolishness.
The trick is not to identify with your thinking and the conclusions of your thinking. Most people think about stuff and then they turn the end result of that into an identity.

That ego voice gets recontextualized as the voice of God.
That's God talking to itself!
The voice does not need to disappear. Thoughts serve a very useful function.
The goal is not to stop thoughts but to realize that thoughts are not your only identity. And to get peace from your thoughts when you desire it. The average person gets carried away by her thoughts, totally lost in them. An awake person still has thoughts but isn't dominated by them.
Be careful not to demonize thoughts, or judge thoughts as bad. Also be careful not to adopt an anti-intellectual form of spirituality, where advanced forms of thinking about the world are dismissed and denied. For example, systems thinking is still very important for resolving world problems and actualizing God's Goodness. Living in a cave is not a sustainable solution to world problems.
Spirit and intellect must be integrated. Your thought process must become multi-dimensional and suffused with spirit rather than suppressed.
Thoughts are really only a problem when they are egoistical thoughts: thoughts of selfishness, manipulation, fear, judgment, rationalization, criticism, blaming, greed, lying, jealousy, denial, etc.
Purify your thoughts of all that toxic stuff.

@electroBeam Until about 6 months ago, I meditated for no more than 60 mins per day, and I was seeing good results.
The intent and focus you put into your 20 mins is way more important than sheer quantity of minutes.
I said 10 hours per day in the very radical context of using meditation to fix all of life's problems.
You guys need to listen more carefully. I notice a lot of sloppy listening, where you listen without any nuance and your ego runs away with it.
Sloppy listeners are not cut out for spiritual pursuits.

You gotta understand that enlightenment is very serious business. It's not for the average guy looking for self-help. It requires a level of depth and commitment that most people aren't interested in. So don't expect someone like Tony Robbins to talk about it or understand it.
If you want true happiness, you will never find it outside of enlightenment. It's not possible to be happy living in delusion. But you can certainly trick yourself into thinking you're happy, in the same way you can trick yourself into thinking that McDonalds is good food.

@John If you expect meditation to fix all your problems, A) that itself is a problem because obviously you're looking for an easy way out, B) it is possible but will require MASSIVE amounts of meditation.
I would suggest two things:
1) Try meditating 1 week straight for 10 hours per day. Just so you get a true sense of what real meditation is about. 20 minutes per day is nothing. At 20 mins per day, meditation will not solve many of your real world problems. But at 10 hour per day, in a few years, your entire life could transform in unimaginable ways.
2) If you have tangible life goals like buying a house or getting a girlfriend, you work on those IN ADDITION to meditation.
Notice how you are looking for an easy way out. Meditation is not such a way. But it is a very powerful way.
If you want a remarkable transformation in your life, expect to pay for it with emotional labor. The reason you're depressed in the first place is because you keep avoiding emotional labor.

MDMA is more empathogenic than entheogenic. Try a true entheogen if you really want to open your mind.
MDMA will blow out your brain's seritonin, so you can't take it often. And eventually it should stop working for you because the brain adapts to it. In this regard it's more of a drug than a psychedelic. This is not the case with true entheogens, which you can take hundreds of times.
Also be careful about purity. I would never take MDMA without checking its purity first with a drug test kit. MDMA is notoriously impure.
Don't let bad trip reports scare you. You can always take a very low dose to prove that nothing bad will happen. Chances are mushrooms will make you feel more amazing than you've ever felt in your life, and they won't blow out your brain's seritonin.
Funny you quote Osho, who seems to have killed himself with a nitrous oxide habit.

Lol
In other words there is a record to hold your feet to the fire and check your ignorance.
The internet is already annoymous enough for devils to run rampant without consequence, and you want to take it one step further where nothing you say has any accountability so that you can say absurd thing without consequence!
In real life your friends remember every stupid thing you said. You cannot undo conversations in real time. So you watch what you say.
This forum gives you 48 hours to edit your posts. That's more than you get in real life.
Saying embarrassing things is part of growing up. I've said plenty of stupid things on record.

Consciousness is Nothingness.
And Nothingness is not other than Form.
Be careful not to over-emphasize Nothingness to the exclusion of Form. That is only half-enlightenment. You must go full-circle to realize that Form and Formlessness are totally identical. That is the highest realization.

@jim123 You not being asked to believe anything in this work. This is not a religion, nor an ideology, nor even a philosophy.
Everything I say you must discover in your direct experience.
If you carefully look at what "good" and "bad" are in your direct experience you will notice that they are thoughts of your ego-mind. So you are literally creating them. This is not an opinion or a theory. Look and see how your own mind works.
You must be curious enough to investigate your self's functioning. This is self-science.

Bro, that's old news. All of that is Trumps lies. It's well documented that Trump inhereted and lost over $400 million.
His net worth numbers are pure lies. Which is why he refuses to release his tax returns. They will show that he loses tons of money.
What Trump does is get large loans and wastes them while creating a public image of having used them to make money. He manipulates the system to get more and more loans. So he's always playing with other people's money.
It's a classic scam strategy. Which is why every US bank refuses to lend him money. Which is why he had go to Russia for loans. And the Russians are corrupt at fuck. Russia is a mafia state. They use him to launder billions of dollars out of Russia and into real estate.
That's how real business is done son. This is no joke. The Russians don't fuck around. They are stone-cold raqueteers, crafty as the devil. Way craftier than Trump. He is their pawn.

Haha, YES, you're "wrong". All that is judgment and ego.
You think God didn't invent everything you call evil? So you would call God evil?
There is no evil. There is only your judgment. Whatever you believe becomes true, but only for you.
Stop judging God. Stop thinking you know better than God.
The psychopath is the one who judges. You see how you've got everything backwards? The evil you see is the evil your mind creates.
So actually you are being a devil. A devil is one who judges God and calls Goodness evil. That's what you are doing. But of course you are not conscious enough to realize you are doing it. You think you are defending the Good by calling out evil. But that's precisely how you create evil.
You have to realize that morality is a delusion. Nothing is right or wrong. You have complete freedom. But there are natural consequences to all actions -- which also are never right or wrong.
All of this is very tough to swallow for religiously raised folks. What you have to understand is that religion has been corrupted by devilry from the very beginning. So everything you were taught about morality was actually the work of judgmental devils, who succeed in implanting a mind-virus into you which flips all truth upside-down. So actual Truth turns out to be the very opposite of what religion taught you about morality.
Ta-da!
The devil sure is sneaky! He's reading this right now and still he refuses to admit he's a devil. He is totally convinced he's an angel.
Before you go calling people fools, first check the mirror

@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.

If ya'll are seriously interested in astral projection or OBEs, check out the book: Mastering Astral Projection: 90-Day Guide To OBE Experience by Robert Bruce and Brian Mercer.
I'll be adding it to my booklist at some point.
But remember, enlightenment goes WAY fucking deeper than OBEs. So be careful where you invest your time and energy, given that it's your most precious resource.

The reality is you need it.
Enlightenment without personal development work produces enlightened assholes and rubes.
Personal development without enlightenment produces polished egos who can never find fulfillment no matter what they achieve. This would be like the Tony Robbins effect (sorry, Tony, my projection )
After enlightenment you still need to master the following things:
Relationships Socializing Science Business/career Family Health Bad habits & addictions Bad cultural conditioning like sexism or racism Embodiment of unconditional love Old childhood traumas Ethical behavior

@Raffaella Takes LOTS of practice.
So get started!
You need to practice active ALLOWING! When a negative emotion comes up, just recognize it and try to allow it fully, rather than resisting it the way you normally do.
Yes, it ain't easy at first. After all, there's no one in control in that skull of yours. It's empty if you haven't noticed yet Nevertheless, it's still possible to open up and allow.
You can even actively ENJOY the deepest suffering. Like your dog dies, and your heart is broken, and you ENJOY it! That's the ultimate goal, but it will take you awhile to get there.
You do realize, right?, that you can ENJOY any suffering. You can do it instantly at any time simply by deciding to. The problem is, it's extremely counter-intuitive and you have limiting beliefs telling you its not right or not possible.
There is no HOW. You just have want to enjoy it and remember to do it.
Next time you feel terrible, simply ask yourself, "Can I allow myself to enjoy this?"

Dude...
When you abandon your entire lifestyle and go live in the woods or a cave for 10 years, living off one coconut per day, meditating 12 hours per day for years on end, for 10s of thousands of hours, begging for food, and eating it out of a bowl made out of a human skull -- THEN you can talk to me about seriousness.
No TV, no internet, no sex, no jerking off, no bed, no house, no fresh clothes, no money, no friends, no family, no A/C, no heating, no bed to sleep in, no sleeping bag, no tent, no health care.
I don't hold enlightenment nearly as seriously as yogis, Buddhist monks, or Zen masters.
You say such things not having done your research, and not having done any serious contemplation.
Try contemplating for 100 hours straight, non-stop. Then let's see how you feel. (That would still be newbie-level spirituality.)
And laughter or playfulness does not preclude seriousness. Those are actually by-products of it.
AFTER you've contemplated for 20,000 hours, then its easy to laugh. At that point, ISIS could be chopping your head off, and you could be laughing.
You, as you are now, have almost no capacity to laugh. As soon as you experience the slightest discomfort, insult, or even a minor calamity, you vent, cry, curse, get depressed, get agitated, etc. You can't even sit still on a comfortable couch for 60 minutes without serious suffering. An itch on your nose can send you into agony.

Hi. Yesterday i tried changa for the very first time. Gotta tell you that taking a full tab of LSD is like taking a cup of coffee compared to smoking changa. I did it in a wrong set and setting though. My apartment was a total mess (i-just-moved-in type of mess) and I didn't meditate.
LSD lets you know there's something more. Changa lets you travel between dimensions. 
LSD shows you that the spirit is affecting the matter. Changa is purely spiritual.
 
I started hearing a beep. Then i was in a place that was constantly morphing, colors were red, white and black, but mostly red. There was no up or down in that place. Colors changed to cream, blue and yellow it was beautiful, and very scary. When i tried to resist it, it stopped being beautiful, the shapes stopped moving and i felt like trapped by some other shapes. I didn't have a body, i was/am pure spirit, a ghost tops.
I saw the serpent everybody talks about, but it was drawn by the geometric shapes. It was not an entity. But it probably would have come alive if i would have stayed longer.
I never lost connection with the ''real world'' but i was definitely close to.
This material reality is just a curtain.
There are other (infinite amount probably) dimensions.
 
Insights:
-I am not my body. I no longer identify with my body.
-I am an infinite spiritual being that exists interdimensionally.
-I was never born, i will never die. I have never been alive. I just exist.
-I am nothing. I am pure spirit.
 
-I might be god. I might be living everything simultaneously-infinitely. But idk.
 
 
 Notes:
1. I can see the potential of this substance for addiction treatment.
2. I liked the smoke and the taste. I expected it to be harsh.
3. Minutes after the experience i told myself: -'' I might do this again in 10 years'' Now after integrating i understand that i want to go to that place again and more prepared.
4. ''Shamanic'' preparation is wanted. Like eating super clean x amount days before the experience and meditate during those x amount of days. That's for those of us who still don't have a daily meditation habit.
5. I was prepared but i could have been more prepared.
 
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