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@Natasha Tori Maru congrats! Well deserved. @mmKay mmm. K! Congrats!

@Xonas Pitfall As far as the chicken egg problem think of God as the ultimate paradoxical strange loop. Thats a feature not a bug. Infinity can do the impossible because it has no limits. There's nothing outside of it to limit it. Anything outside of it is inside of it.

Is this AI trying to throw us off? Sorry just have my guard up.

Easier said then done. Does he have in depth steps to what to do when you wake up in sleep paralysis? Because the first thing you are going to want to do is to try and break out of the state. It's a terrible state for the ego. So if you can truly exit the body in this state you would first have to ask the question what is it that exits? Does the ego exit ot does Pure Awareness exit? (GOD). Does he address this?

I wrote this entire response and then the forum crashed. Ok. Well..let's start again. You don't have to burn everything down yourself via deconstruction. It will come down on its own with awakening. And it's life altering. Your entire reality is recontextualized (see Leo's video on recontextualization and I hope it's in the book) You will see life in a whole different way. A dream way. A magical way. This is the way of the guy from the 12th Ox picture..in which he is dancing through the village without a care in the world 😀 Your God realized friend is that..and should have a sense of inner peace that permeates through the day to day struggles of mortality. For to realize God is to make life's burdens..well, rather insignificant in the scheme of things. Yet when the rent is due those little things could loom large. So you may never truly know the God realized. Most remain anonymous 😀 And I agree the book is welcomed and needed. A framework by both Gura and Wilber are a breath of fresh air But it's up to one's self to pull the manuscript off of the shelf, dust it off..and open the first page. Welcome to the forum friend 😀

I've been in sleep paralysis many times it's not awakening. Although it's a different state of consciousness. Awakening is more akin to depersonalization but with a lime 🍋

He's a bad person so that trumps being a good President. No pun intended. Nothing good can come from a bad guy. Well..we will have to see. So far what has he really done? A whole lot of nothing. Life is still very hard for the middle class..there has been no stimulus for the economy and inflation is still through the roof. Any benefits from the tarrifs won't be seen for years to come. So what's good about him? Not much.

@OBEleri would agree but would say Hitler was a conservative thinker in some ways as an individual but as a whole the government he supported (fascism) conflicts with this because it conflicts with democracy, capitalism and the concept of free thought and the ability for the individual to get ahead? Here it was about strong dictatorship and this conflicts with conservative views. It was about one man controlling everything. This goes beyond liberalism as well. So I think you can say that although he had conservative thought his overall pattern of rule and being a control freak pushed him more to the liberal side which sides with government control rather than capitalism.

Of course a conservative would say that it's the liberals that I would think wouldn't because they are stuck in tradition. I wouldn't take the last part so political. He believed in his warped mind that you could be born better then someone else based on race. Thats just bigotry not a political stance.

But if you say it's something you can't imagine then does it really exist externally? Everything you have including what you imagine doesn't exist or could exist outside of you is in fact inside of.you. in other words what you imagine to be outside of Mind is within Mind. A Human is just one expression or state of Consciousness within Mind. Just as a dog or an ant. Or some alien. Or something you can't even fathom right now. But that is still Mind.

I disagree that you have to set everything on fire to reach God realization. You really don't You just need to start by realizing the self is an illusion. Materialism will shatter on it's own if you didn't hold onto it so tightly to begin with. If you did hold onto it tightly, like religion - fhen yes you will have to be willing to deconstruct it. The problem with.most materialists or religious fanatics is they have no desire or open mindedess to deconstruct anything because their beliefs are Truth. So in that way a book by Leo cannot help. The people that would benefit from a book don't really need it.

The biggest to me is neo-advaita

Even suicide wont get you enlightenment. You need suffering and Love brother. Stay here we need you. But if you want awakening just get some psychedelics and/or suffer your ass off for decades and lose a loved one or better the love of your life.. It'll come. With time.

No one can describe it you. You need an awakening. They're all excellent questions but you are trying to get logical answers to awakening and its not going to work that way. If it did i could just tell you the answers and you would be awake

Up until you sit. Honestly when it comes to meditation getting you to Absolute Truth, the less you know about spirituality the better because the more you know the less chances of the ego being SURPRISED. So if you even know there is a search that is a point in the ego's favor and subsequent defense. So I agree there. It's a fine line. There has to be a little bit of curousity to want to understand. But that line can easily be crossed into spiritual ego. Thats why I said meditation usually happens fast. Because it happens to the ones that don't know too much about spirituality yet and are just dipping their feet, getting curious. I'm not going to go as far as Leo's stance where he says it's hopeless. But I do agree with Martin Ball's assessment that psychedelics can just overwhelm and annihilate the ego. Both are tools to a different state of Consciousness. Of course there are always the ego's that really need to be burned before they wise up. Fool them once and the jokes on them. Fooling them twice is another matter.

M Suffice it to say its warm.

I pissed in my pool. I'm screwed i guess. Muddy would be good at this point.

You mean how does meditation work? I never got that granular about the distractions. I just didn't think. Thoughts appear. Let them go. Don't get too deep into why because I believe this just feeds the ego. Just shut everything off.

Maybe with Salvia you could experience being an actual dinosaur. But it won't last.

Wow. That's awesome.

The deconstruction is self inquiry. So you if you want to sit do that. Otherwise I recommend concentration meditation. Those are the only two that will do any good.

Bro you need to get off the high horse. Please. It's getting old now and I haven't even talked with you lately. I'm not sure what happened. I don't know If you got jaded . But this is weird.

Not a big fan of Osho personaliy but he's more like me than I want to know. But yeah these are good points i would say leave deconstruction completely out. Once you begin to bring science into the mix you might as well take psychedelics.

All this stuff. Yeah..I can't help that society corrupted it. But what is done is done. Mediation wasn't meant to be that. It was meant to be simple. It was meant to shut down the mind. Can you still do that? If you can then you have the essence of meditation. I'm telling you this not because it worked for me but because that's what it is.

It was that in the days of old and it should be preserved. So no. It's not a billion things.