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Yes, very tricky. Like trying to navigate a minefield haha. You step in the wrong place, shit blows up and it's now YOUR fault for the personal attack. The Blue person isn't conscious their own psyche is the minefield, or that they laid all the bombs. You have to lead by example (showing unconditional love, not by trying to change people), and through that inspiration, they must find their own path. They will only try to accept things when they come to you. One of the biggest realizations you can have is when you fully understand you can't change the world in a positive way by directing energy at it, but only by directing energy inwards to become your greatest version. A lot easier said than done...

This is a big shadow issue, you are repressing and denying yourself. You probably did want to have sex with your sister, everyone who has a sister thinks or fantasizes about it at least sometime. I mean, look (don't actually look lol, I'm just telling you) at all the brother/sister porn on the internet, it's one of the biggest categories! It's nasty imo, but there's hard evidence this is a natural tendency. So this is a natural, biological thing, and if you are shameful about it, it means you can't accept yourself. That can have big consequences. Wanting to have sex with your sister IS NOT shameful. Even acting on that isn't "shameful" from a higher perspective, nothing is, but that would obviously be a bad decision in today's society. Think back to ancient tribes, they had to have sex with family to survive, because that's all there was. In fact, it would be wise to delete the word "shameful" from your vocabulary moving forward. It's a harmful word for the ego (by strengthening it) because it enforces absolute morality, division, hate, etc. No one who's high-consciousness uses that word, towards themselves or others. I also have a feeling you may have not talked to your sister and apologized. You're not apologizing because you did something shameful (although taking too much acid in your parents house and losing your mind was pretty stupid ), you're apologizing for the pain you may have caused her, try to see her perspective on it. Please do that because it will really help to clear your muddy mental waters. Tension will release between you two.

People at stage Blue do not take kindly to anyone trying to redefine "God." Trust me, I know from personal experience. That's a no-go zone, you have to help shift perceptions in other ways. God is a very personal thing.

Yes, you have to understand who you're talking to, and their notions of God. For instance, I would not use the word God, ever, when talking to a stage Blue person, because I know they hold a narrow, dualistic understanding of the word God. So that means saying "God" to them would actually lead them further from the Truth, to confusion. Language has such power because of all our individual and collective stores surrounding the words. You have to be mindful of that.

Thanks, I was wondering about this

INTP, scary accurate. @Theta lil' Katara! How cute!

Such a beautiful poem on nonduality This is well worth your time, enjoy!

Rupert and Eckhart both communicate at a more broad, simple level to not only attract an audience, but to be understood. It isn't their purpose to dive too deep into the metaphysics and scare people off. However, that doesn't mean they aren't fully God realized. To me, it just means full embodiment of enlightenment, which they have undoubtedly achieved. What you are talking about is something else. Leo's whole channel is the pursuit to speak about nonduality using language (dualistic) as accurately as possible. He does this so well that if you're not already God realized (full enlightenment) it will scare you. It gives you as close a taste as you can to Nondual consciousness, without having to do any work. That's why it's so invaluable, but also why Leo cannot have a big audience (he did in the early days, but not at this level). Actualized is for a rare breed of people willing to turn their old lives upside down. That doesn't mean Leo "understands" it better than Rupert or Eckhart, because it goes beyond language.

Yes, Greg Braden has talked about this extensively. Our hearts ARE actually connected to the Earth's magnetic field. There was a recorded spike in the magnetic field the day BEFORE 9/11, and continued hightened activity for a few days after. Because it was such a catastrophic event, billions of people's heart-state shifted simultaneously. 9/11 was unconsciously foreshadowed by many artists in the years leading up to it. Check out Alex Grey's painting "Gaia" from 1989, and there's dozens more examples. Our hearts also have a bundle of 40,000 (If I remember correctly) neurons, that send tons of information to the brain. Scientists are still unsure what this mini "brain" in the heart does... But if I had to guess, it's to regulate the "field" around our hearts to subconsciously communicate emotional states to others. This would explain why emotions can feel palpable across a room, why we can correctly Intuit someone watching us, etc. We have an entire system of remote connection hardwired into us, and organizations like HeartMath are the first to research it. Exciting stuff! Listening to the heart and intuition ARE REAL.

@cetus56 Ok, I thought about my question a little more, please tell me what you think. What we mean by infinite "knowing" is that reality is itself. This type of knowing is consciousness which is a post-rational type of knowing with no ground. When we say infinite "not-knowing," it is referring to rational understanding/thought grounded in a single viewpoint, the perceiver. Because this is fundamentally partial, relational, dualistic, and illusory, it's the same as not knowing anything True. When we say "infinite mystery," it is only referring to the fact that the universe cannot be "known" through the mind, just like I explained above. It's only a mystery to us. Reality doesn't need to "know" itself rationally, it can't, but it is "all-knowing" in the sense that it just "is." The mind can never grasp this. That's my take on why all 3 of these aren't contradictory and exist simultaneously... And really just shows you how inept the English language is at describing anything beyond physical duality.

Only to us How can you have infinite knowing, not-knowing, and mystery simultaneously?? Haha

It's a very powerful lens through which to view the world. I highly recommend it! But like with any new lens, you must practice looking through it in even the most mundane situations, that's where the real magic happens. Everyone is born with a pair of eyes, but how many people really see?

@cetus56 If in doubt, blame the bearded man in the clouds! Very true. Maybe not on the level of your child, but the blame game is something everyone has done, because it's the natural response of the ego. I guess blaming God for your own imperfections, such as a big nose or ADHD, is just as destructive. It's all too easy to fall into that negative thought pattern...

@isabel yeah, Rupert is a shining light. My best friend recently went to his 3-hour meeting on Nonduality in NYC, and said it balanced and centered him. From a certain perspective, every word ever spoken is God's poetry, just like every form is art.

@cetus56 I mean, I get it... I couldn't imagine having to raise a child that had to be babysat her entire life... I just couldn't. Just the fact he did that and still loves her is a testament to the power of Love. But calling your own child a "mistake" in any context is just plain ignorance and delusion. You know what's funny, I can't even criticize him because I know his deep seated feelings towards God and his daughter... Are also part of God's unfolding plan. And going even deeper, the belief she is a mistake could be rooted in a dualistic understanding of God vs. Devil. Now that's a mindfuck

Both simultaneously! Part of awakening is seeing the humor in everything. One of the most therapeutic practices you can do is to genuinely laugh at yourself, it releases tension and ego.

Jesus...

@pluto ??? But this gets even more profound when you remove the duality of "you" and "Creation!" You love yourself so unconditionally that you allow yourself to feel unlovable, lonely, and depressed. Because you are a Mastermind playing 5-D chess... It is from our weaknesses that we gather our greatest strengths. To feel alive, to exist, to love, requires no limitations. I love the part in The Matrix where Agent Smith discusses the origin of the matrix. "The first simulation was... Too good. It could not be accepted, and descended into chaos."

WEED WILL SET YOU FREE!! IT'S THE END-ALL SOLUTION TO ALL OF MANKIND'S PROBLEMS!!! DO IT, DO IT NOW IF YOU WANT TO LIVE!!!

By ultimatum, do you mean the capital letter absolute? Like life vs. death to Life? If so, then understanding this is EXTREMELY important and practical to your every day life. Understanding that there is only Life and only Existence means you can't fear death anymore (not counting biological fight or flight responses). This one alone will affect your relationship to life, therefore informing in at least a small way nearly every decision you make. You're just not conscious of it yet.

An enlightenment experience is... An enlightenment experience: a complete unveleiling into Nondual consciousness. They are all different with varying consciousness of facets of God and levels of impact (which come down to how well you integrate afterwards). My one enlightenment experience on sober meditation wasn't as impactful, just because of my many breakthroughs on psychedelics beforehand. It was more like connecting everything I had previously learned to the sober state, so it was just like "wow, this is it." Now, psychedelics are much easier and faster, so insisting on meditation or yoga-only enlightenment is basically like being attached to a fax machine.

I relate with this a lot, I was in the same boat for years, up until fairly recently. Played League 8 hours a day. Gained weight. Absolutely no female attention (and I'm physically handsome). Only a couple IRL friends. I could hardly speak to anyone. Some of the social aspects are still true, but it's getting better every day! "I am alone, but not lonely." See, we are all alone in this world, that's the bitter (at first) Truth. We are all one, and because of that, God is technically all alone all the time, it just created illusionary partitions of itself to experience friends, belonging, and love. There is only union. There is only Love. I'm going to say something that will sound absolutely crazy, but the only way you'll know is if you think about it and practice it. It would be unwise to dismiss it outright. The reason why you feel despair and loneliness is not because you "don't have friends physically" (which is bullshit, you do, you're just not appreciating them), it's because you feel like you are unlovable. You are in resistance to yourself. You only love part of yourself, but hate the rest. It's quite neurotic and self-defeating. The GOOD NEWS is that you can change how you feel about yourself by doing inner work. And here's where it might get confusing. You may believe that doing extra things "out there" like quit video games, work out, socialize, etc will fix you. And that's sort of half-true (and necessary eventually), but I want you to understand the real mechanism at play. The quitting addictions and working out should Not be the focus right now, because your inner compass isn't calibrated yet. Work on that, then everything else will follow. You have your paradigm backwards. You think your environment affects your inner state, but in fact it is the opposite. Because you feel unlovable, you receive little love. The things you don't like about your environment are just mirroring things you are not loving about yourself. There is no separation between inner and outer worlds, this duality collapses to just Inner. So my advice to you is this (speaking from personal experience that radically transformed my life over several months. This shit takes time and discomfort): don't change anything about your life just yet. Just observe, accept, then love, in that order, every part of you physically or mentally. This is a lifestyle change mentally (observing, accepting, then loving is always on), without changing a single other thing about your life. Despite how despicable, lonely, flawed, or unloved you may feel, if you cannot love yourself entirely as you are now, then you have no chance of being happy, content, or deeply satisfied for the rest of your life. You must realize that nothing can complete you; you are whole just as you are. I pasted the video on accident, but I'm going to leave it there because it was meant to be. Complete coincidence that one of my quotes above came from this. Take care, friend. If you need anyone to talk to, I'm here. We can talk about anything you need to get off your chest, doesn't have to be serious

Imagine a world if more people did? This is something that I and many other people here are practicing. I know this sounds absolutely crazy (yet another illusory category like good vs. evil), but bear with me. By loving hatred, evil, and violence, you do not support it or act it out. It is an acceptance that this is the way the world is, and it liberates you from inner resistance and turmoil. You are not aware yet how much hatred is built up in you simply from hating other things, even the things you believe are "evil." The Truth is that you are just hating part of Creation (Yes, God must be responsible for all of it), which means you cannot even love or accept yourself as part of that Creation. I believe if you try to quiet your mind and observe yourself, you could Intuit a little of what I'm talking about. So here is my challenge to you: Observe your conversations. Observe your interactions. Closely observe what you do behind closed doors. Closely observe your fear towards other groups of people. Closely observe your fear of yourself. If you are honest with yourself, there is an uneasiness, a resistance, a turmoil within, brewing just beneath the surface. And don't think you might be excluded here... EVERY person on Earth experiences this to varying degrees, yet most are either not conscious of it or won't admit it... So my challenge to you is to find and connect with it. Have a blessed day, my friend. "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Do you see an "only if they're good..." clause? Did Jesus say "Only thy neighbor who follows the 10 commandments?" Was Jesus not the embodiment of loving the entire world, even the thieves and scoundrels? Notice how put off you are by the notion of loving everything... And yet you call yourself a Christian. You've been cheated by your religion, by no fault of your own. (Yes, I'm writing the Truth here to rile you up, out of Love. I don't expect your understanding or love back, because I know how hard it must be to read this). God bless.