@Ero Then we are on the same wavelength.
The sick irony is that if these logicians actually bothered to read Godel's writings on philosophy they would see that he himself was critical of people who do math and logic without any philosophical considerations. In fact, Godel attributes his theorems to his philosophical intuitions. And same goes for Einstein and many of the founders of QM.
Because to do groundbreaking work requires philosophical depth.
You cannot number-crunch your way into profound understanding.

Again, you make the mistake to equating these things with consciousness.
You have no idea what that guy was conscious of or not.
The transcendence of pain is a very narrow specialized form of consciousness. It doesn't mean you understand anything about the higher functions of God.
To reduce consciousness to such material tests and gimmicks is reductionistic and simple-minded. Consciousness is way more complicated than that and because be measured or reduced in such ways.

You (as God/Universe/Reality) is imagining the physical world into existence. This does to mean that you do this consciously or deliberately, or that you can change the doing of it.
Physical objects are your imagination. Just as they would be inside a dream.
The only difference between dream objects and material objects is that material objects are imagined with greater consistency.
Pick up any small object in your hand, like a pen, and look at it closely. And try to notice that you are imagining it as you look at it.
And of course when it comes to your inner world, your conceptual world, all of that is your imagination. And you have some control over that, over how you picture yourself.

@ElvisN If you find absolutely nothing fascinating or interesting about reality, it's impossible to help you.
It takes extraordinary arrogance, blindness, and ingratitude, not to find all aspects of reality deeply fascinating.
A miracle is happening all around you every minute and all you can do is shrug your shoulders and say, "Meh".

"Shared objective reality" is a sort of construction.
However, for human purposes there is much in common between our dreams so that's what makes "objective facts" possible.
How this situation looks really depends on your level of consciousness. If you have human levels of consciousness then things appear objective when they would be relative at higher levels. Objectivity depends on how deep you are dreaming, so some extent.

You are correct in that qualia itself cannot decay. But your level or state of consciousness, and how conscious you are, can decay.

The background Infinity is hidden from you unless you enter a higher state of consciousness where it becomes revealed.
The default human state hides Infinity in order to create the illusion of a solid material world.

Math works by self-definition. You set the definitions and then use them consistently.
1 x 1 means you have 1 group of 1s. Which is 1. That's the definition of multiplication we agreed upon.
Terrance is not being consistent with his use of definitions and units. He is changing it to suit himself whenever it is convenient to him.
We could could define 1+1=11, but then we have to apply that across all mathematics consistently.
You can create new kinds of mathematics depending on how you choose your axioms and definitions. Whether that will correspond to anything in the material universe is another manner.

It is a function of cognitive complexity and perspective-taking. Blue is less cognitively complex and less able to take more perspectives. Blue is really locked into an absolutist worldview while Orange can handle multiplicity of perspectives. That's what makes it more advanced.
It takes some sophisticated thinking to see that a government should not merely favor your religion, but allow for everyone to worship equally according to their needs.
Blue is fundamentalist religion and theocracy.
Orange is scientific method and democracy.
Science is more advanced than fundamentalist religion.
Orange realizes that you don't need dogma to be moral. You can be moral through secular humanist values. In fact, it is impossible to be truly moral via dogma.

Not really.
The way humans do love, family, and community is based on falsehood and lies.
The reason men go into a cave is to avoid the toxic, corrupting, and distracting influences of community. That's why the Buddha left his palace life to wander in the woods. You're not gonna find truth living in a palace with your family. All of that is a distraction. And women are distracting themselves all the time.
The #1 enemy of truth is survival. You are so busy suriving you don't have time for truth. And the more relationships you juggle the less truthful you will be.

David Hume or Charles Darwin are great examples of the intelligence of Orange relative to Blue.
Be careful not to caricture Orange as merely some greedy guy on Wall Street sorting cocaine off a stripper's tits. That is not a deep understanding of Orange.
Go read some David Hume or Thomas Jefferson or Ben Franklin.

@Hojo Just ask yourself what multiplication actually is, what is means to multiply two numbers.
Sit down and do it. Don't guess or theorize.
Your confusion comes from a basic lack of understanding of what multiplication is.
If you have 12 chicken eggs and you double it, how many eggs do you have?
And if you have 12 chicken eggs and you "single" it, how many chicken eggs do you have?
Just examine what is meant by multiplication. Multiplication is really a way of adding up groups of things. 1 group of 1 egg equals 1 egg, not 2 eggs.
In this case you don't even need any axioms. Just basic common sense.

What you describe are the problems of excessive capitalism and wealth inequality.
Trump is a corrupt toxic capitalist. So he will only make those problems worse. He has already promised all his major billionaire donors big tax cuts. So under Trump the rich will get richer at the expense of you and me.
If you think Trump will save you from the evils of toxic stage Orange, you are beyond delusional. Trump is the epitome of the problem you want him to solve. He has zero capacity to solve that problem. Or really any problem. Because all he cares about is grabbing as much power for himself as possible and using it to enrich himself. If you cannot see that you are a fool and you deserve him to scam you.
Trump's policies will easily lead to a big market crash, as W Bush did in 2008. That's how excessive Orange works. They run up the market until everything crashes and the rich walk away with the profits. The little guys, including all his MAGA supporters will end up screwed and worse off in the end. That is Trump's con. And it's obvious as day to anyone with a bit of wisdom.
Trump will deregulate all the markets, allowing giant Wall Street monopolies, banks, and hedge funds to buy up more and more houses, push up prices, and extract ever higher rents until home ownship becomes impossible for anyone other than multi-millionaires.
You don't care about anything other than money. And neither does Trump and his Wall Street friends. The only difference is, they will fuck you because they are large and you are tiny. So in the end they will steal your money. That is the whole Orange game.

Mostly the only requirement I found necessary for coaching was that the client be at least 25 years old. Coaching people younger than that doesn't work so well because they are still young enough to just need the basic maturity that comes naturally with age.
Of course I wouldn't coach people dealing with serious mental disorders because addressing that require specialized theraputic training which I don't have and am not interested in.
Coaching drug addicts is also not something I would be interested in, since they need much more basic help.
The basic distinction for coaching vs therapy is functional vs dysfunctional. Coaching is not designed for dysfunctional people but functional people who want to do even better.

Breathing prana up the spine is the core practice and Ujjayi is just part of that. So that is essential.
I skip Nadi Shodhana entirely.
I am no yoga expert. I'm just telling what I do. It may or may not be right. But I strip everything down to the 20% that I believe gives 80% of the results.

You don't have to help people, but tying your work with contributing positively to society is a sure way to create meaningful work.
If you are not contributing positively to society in some way, what are you doing on this planet?

Have you noticed that the wisest sages and humans mostly keep to themselves. They don't particularly hate mankind, but they keep a distance from the human zoo.

Yes
Not particularly unique. All spiritual teachings have that personal dev component to some degree because all people gotta figure out how to live better.
All religions teach you about God, but then they also teach you how best to live to align with God. Because you'll never find God if you live like a pig.
What's unique about my work is the amount of practical stuff we interconnect with metaphysical stuff.

They are so idealistic that they would rather not vote for Biden than do what is practically needed.
Precisely because they are brainwashed with moral idealism, utopianism, and progressivism.
Progressivism is a mental cancer that makes people say and do stupid things in the name of social equality.
None of these people is thinking deeply about how society works. They are pushing their utopian agenda because they don't understand the complexties of human behavior and they just naively want a nice world.

That's actually an amazing story.
I did the 100 questions exercise from my Life Purpose Course, where you write down your top 100 questions you want answers to most badly.
My #1 question was: What is consciousness?
So the next day I went to Amazon and typed in What is consciousness? and Ralston's book was the first to appear. And as soon as I saw its title I immediately knew this was the most serious book on this topic.
And so it was.
That is the power of asking good questions.

Ahem.... Welcome to my life managing this forum
But I would not call what you describe about normies as intuition, it's just sloppy group-think. Few people deeply think about anything.
How do you deal with it? Pursue your own passions which yield depth and find other excellent people who value depth and thoughfulness. You are seeking a higher caliber of human.

What humans feel as love stems from a connection or union of identity with a finite thing, and the appreciation of its existence and inherent beauty.
Contemplate what human love actually means. What is happening when you love any aspect of reality? Really examine it!
What you will eventually realize is that when your appreciation of any aspect of reality reaches a certain height, you will say you love it.
But all of that is limited biased selfish human shit.
Real Love is to realize that absolutely every aspect of reality is infinitely beautiful and wonderful. And to recognize all of it as your own Mind. When Mind fully recognizes itself, it identifies with everything and falls in Love with itself. This is Love at a metaphysical level. Everything is seen as Love, you are One with everything, everything is your children, everything is infinitely appreciated.
The feeling of love that a mother has for her child is simply extended infinitely to all of existence. That's LOVE. The mother's love is just a tiny biased fragment of God's LOVE.
When you love a taco dinner, what's really happening is that you are tapping into 0.0000000000000000000001% of God's Love. But you are too unconscious to understand that, so you only see it as some shallow, fleeting human emotion.
If you realize that the difference between all the things you love and all the things you hate or feel indifferent to is purely imaginary human bias, you will enter a state of Infinite Love. Because there is no metaphysical difference between a taco dinner, your children, or Hitler. All of them are metaphysically identical. To realize this is one of highest attainments in this work, and it is NOT enlightenment. Enlightenment is horseshit next to this.
Most enlightend people do not understand what I said above.

@Loveeee When you appreciate a thing you are in a sense connecting with it. And connection of any two parts of reality into one is metaphysically what Love is. Love is the condition of unity. This unity is not physical, it is happening within Consciousness. Consciousness is recognizing its own nature as Unity.
God is Infinite Unity.
If your consciousness united with all parts of itself you would become Infinite Love and that would be the answer to all your stupid questions.

This is some silly bit of logic.
Science is also conceptual. Concepts can point to real patterns within a dream. Christianity could point to real phenomena. The problem is that is probably does. Jesus could actually have risen from the dead, but he probably didn't. In this sense Christianity is false.
And who knows, may Jesus dod rise from the dead. We don't technically know.
Just because something is conceptual does not make it false. Falsehood is the relationship between your concepts of the dream you're in and the actual dream.

They are wrong relative to their own dream.
Flat Earthers are wrong because if they take a flight out to space they will see a round Earth, not a flat one. In THIS dream. In some other dream the Earth may be flat. But we are not in that dream now.
Your beliefs need to match the dream you're in. Or else you are wrong.