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Well seeing as the human identity is the only thing that fears losing the human identity, and seeing as 5m removes the human identity at powerful levels...eventually you can become completely fearless fearing nothing. I think. I mean if you realise your literally immortal, what are you going to fear lol

I don't see this forum as wasting time. If we are answering people's questions, and getting our own questions answered, making friends and developing our knowledge together it's gotta be an all round winner. Not to mention we're supporting actualized by just being active on the forum

Yeah but being an actualised addict is better than being a Facebook addict. If I'm binging internet I'm Gona binge on actualized over tiktok

Fang looks like he's been hit by a fucking train

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Paradoxical. Only one thing can be known, yet it has many faces and features. It's so large that we need to attack it one aspect at a time. Sheer power is my second fave aspect. My favourite aspect is love. I love and I love and I love. I can't wait to enter a limitless supply of unfathomable love and bliss. I tasted it one time...it was so powerful that I had to do a full tactical retreat and recalibrate my entire life. But I seen it!!! I was enlightened for 20 seconds lol 20 seconds. I would say I can't wait to go back, but I can wait. I will wait until I'm fully ready to stomach the full blow

It's interesting because if you look at how meditation is meant to be practiced by an individual, the individual is essentially told not to reject or outlaw certain thoughts or any thoughts in fact even if they are extremely detrimental to the Central mind... As a rejection of the thoughts doesn't stop them from existing but merely pushes them into a state of unconscious existence where they still reside in full force perhaps even in fuller force because of the inability so apply conscious control over them. I haven't done a lot of research with drug decriminalization or legalization but my intuition tells me that the situation in relation to such is similar to that of a meditative practitioner and his relationship with dark thoughts. Rejecting and banning the dark and difficult seems to only result in a loss of control over them. Over the last number of years I have worked extensively to healthily embody the darkest most twisted aspects of my own self and I have found that it's like a vaccine... A little of something bad prepares you for the reality of badness. I know that Leo made a post on his blog about how there was a certain place that legalized or decriminalized all drugs and it ended in the worst epidemic they'd experienced in years. The general conclusion to that experiment was that decriminalization of drugs is not a fix all idea and can actually result in a drastic explosion of harm. I think the question should not be about the decriminalization or legalization of drugs but the education of drugs. And I don't mean implementing a nationwide safety protocol of education telling all teenagers that their brain turns to scrambled eggs whenever they're on drugs... I mean respecting the intelligence of teenagers and seeing that they're going to be able to see through that and even if they don't see through that they're not going to care because they're going to test it and they're going to find that that drugs feel good. What I mean is a deep comprehensive repeating educational format that stops bullshitting itself about the the fabricated notion that most people in their lives are not going to take drugs at some point. My perspective is that education and intelligent education is the real question of how to execute properly not merely decriminalization or legalization alone wxsx

@integral (<- can't delete) I don't Wana step on any toes here cuz I recognise that Ralston is valued by many members here, and I recognise that certain teachers have nice sentimental value with memories and core moments of development... But honestly, and I could be wrong here, it feels like Ralston is a bit epistemically lost himself...just a sense...he talks so much about not talking...you know. I can't even articulate why I feel he is lost in his own epistemology a bit...I just feel it a little

I am nowhere near enlightened or god realised (even though this all seems to come very naturally to me and I have been studying theology from the age of like 12 lol). But yeah I think I won't know for a while but all reports I've heard (which aren't too many) suggest consciousness expands and blows up upon death. Although don't get me wrong I intuitively sense that death feels 100% real. The degree to which the ego feels real is the degree to which death will feel real...so if you feel like a real person right now, death will still feel real. It's almost like there is a second being that is still literally you but it's separate, you essentially give your entire life to this second, way bigger "you" and it continues to live. I *think* ask me again in 20 years I'll have a more accurate answer lol. When death does come just know that it isn't actually bad...and as soon as It happens, theres nobody there for it to be bad for...plus you'll get the best sleep your life. It'll be good. Ps: also keep in mind that we are playing with metaphysical Lego right now. What Leo has done is built a metaphysical skyscraper. It kinda feels like we have no idea what we're actually talking about. At all. But it's ok, cuz we need to progress at our own rate. This stuff is all very theoretical, really we can't know without doing some stuff what Leo did like doing lots of trips and mega contemplation and stuff... Leo: Us:

Actually, now that you word it like that...yeah everything I say could be wrong, everything Leo says could be wrong, all of mysticism and spirituality might be wrong, consciousness work and enlightenment may be a load of dung. And you could go to Christian hell. Orrrrrrr you could trust the small sense inside you that tells you that people like Leo and hundreds of other teachers dedicate their entire lives to finding truth. So the question is, which one seems more realistic. Believe on jesus and you will be saved, or move towards awakening and increase in consciousness.

Just looked up the definition of clairvoyance. I think I'm clairvoyant

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Nice. Oh I can feel the blue in me twitching lol. Your situation seems incredibly genuine and authentic, very powerful. Nice. Very brave

@integral here's a twisty epistemic statement: > I am extremely humble <

The real epistemic scoundrels are all my childhood Christian teachers

Yes! lol although!!! i admit being an epistemic scoundrel to falsely appear humble and epistemically introspective...which only inflames my egotistical pride of false humility...which, however, only confirms what I initially said (that I'm in fact an epistemic scoundrel)...making that statement true, inadvertantly canceling the motivation of false humility resulting in the ultimate conclusion that I am in fact humble.

I couldn't imagine changing to a female lol. I'm raised in hard stage blue indoctrination so it's still quite an alien idea. What does it feel like?

That materialist science is a single, objective, unchanging ultimate authority! The assumption that science is not ideological, subject to core dogmatic alterations and has massive epistemic gaps (like not knowing what gravity is or only having explored around 20% of the oceans on earth...both of which are true). In reality science is a diverse, dynamic and decentralised collection of many disciplines, schools and factions, each with practicioners who often hold opinions that contrast and conflict with eachother and this collection of disciplines literally exists as ideas held in the imagination. The accuracy of these ideas when applied to the current state of reality changes nothing of the fact that what science literally is, is an idea...agreed upon by people. Check out the following notes (you'll forgive the typos):

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https://youtu.be/unfpnIF0OMo?si=OkfPWFCP4OBsHAHw (AI generated just for giggles )

The book I'm reading ATM is good on death (materialism is baloney)...its essential stance is that the brain moderates, modulates and manages the flow of consciousness, it doesn't generate or create it. Consciousness flows through the brain and manifests as different perceptions kind of like how light passes through a prism and manifests as different colours. The light is not created by the prism, nor is consciousness created by the brain. The book describes how, in neuroscience, a powerful experience isn't always correlated proportionally with an increase in neural network activation, but a decrease in neural activity. This observation suggests that the brain is more like a radio tuning out certain frequencies so that it can tune into and focus on one radio channel and receive the audio. Turning off the radio doesn't result in the death of the radio waves. In the same way, killing the brain doesn't result in the death of consciousness (which is of course what you actually are). The brain seems to localise the flow of consciousness (that is so powerful that it doesn't need a source or generator). According to some of these findings, the brain seems to tune out and mutes a significant portion of consciousness which flows from nowhere to itself. Like the brain is a valve that is designed to tighten and restrict the flow of water. If the valve were to break off it wouldn't result in a decrease of water flow, it would result in a completely unrestricted powerful release of the entire water pressure in a massive expansion of water flow. Similarly when the brain dies, it is theorised that consciousness expands exponentially and becomes unlimited as It was only being limited by the brain to localise a coherent perceptual experience and world. Saying you die when the brain ceases to exist, I think, could also be compared to saying that a knot dies when it is unraveled. Really, a knot is only a particular state of the true underlying substance: rope. You cannot die by being unraveled because you are the rope itself. There is nothing to fear and death is an illusion. In other words, chill homes, your immortal. (Side note: the above insights are dualistic and I don't think they are the actual ultimate structure of reality as the brains physicality also eventually comes into question.)

I'm an epistemic scoundrel !!!

Cuz they don't have a direct experience of God, they have a knowledge or set of ideas that they've installed in their minds to look at and call God. It's kinda funny because having certain ideas in the mind can in certain ways be beneficial and actually necessary because the ego doesn't know how else to try and get a handle on God. Pictures like Jesus can be useful in my opinion because it is a created symbol of God made manifest as a person. Someone who is dogmatically against symbols under all circumstances should check their logic... In a more relatable example it would be very appropriate and acceptable to put a picture of a dead relative on their casket at a funeral. The picture isn't actually them but it allows the mind to establish some form of an emotional connection. I think having ideas is perfectly acceptable, it only becomes deeply problematic when the holder of said ideas forgets that they are still just symbols and starts conflating them for the reality they represent.