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@How to be wise The answer was stated by Adyashanti in his book "The End of your World" Once you become fully awakened, there is no where else to go from there except back into the dream. From there you make it the best dream you can actually make it. So yeah, you are right, but you are also wrong. We cannot escape the ego until we escape this humanly flesh. But notice, the ego is not all bad and we might as well make the best sand castle ever! We can still approach the dream differently than those who do not yet know it is a dream. We can approach it from the lens of pure consciousness and non-duality. From a position of unconditional love.

Yes i believe it is a great release of things that we hold inside or repress, sometimes for years and even decades. Men tend to repress things much more than women who wear their emotions on their sleeves. That's why crying is so healthy for the man because he needs to be in touch with his feminine side in order to grow. Becoming in touch with this side of himself he is able to move towards non-duality and if you are looking at it from the perspective of spiral dynamics, he is able to elevate into Turquoise.

Guys don't you see the problem? It can't be put into words - We can keep going round and round and round with talk and it won't grasp IT. Even saying IT isn't grasping IT. Once you are conscious of this you will become enlightened. He found it, I can tell - so he is on his way to becoming fully enlightened if not already there. Once there, though, as Adyashanti said in his book "The End of Your World" once you become fully awakened you realize there is nothing else to do but go back into the dream. That's where we must remain until we unzip and step out of our false selves for good.

@Viking what makes you think its OCD and not generalized anxiety disorder ? Do you have obsessions and compulsions or just obsessions?

@How to be wise to understand infinity is to understand that in fact there has to exist the possibility that both can be in alignment. But also to expand on Leo's point there is a stage of enlightenment in which the formless is fused back with the formed. At this stage you still pursue your life purpose but you pursue it through the lens of non-duality. It can be, but it may not be the way you imagine in it now.

@SoonHei yes brother you have it. Now have you been able to transcend and actually become the present within your direct experience yet? It is really something special when that happens. Language and concepts of it can only go so far and then you must leave those things behind and transcend. Actualize and be the strange loop. Have you reached that yet? I know you were trying the dark room?

This band is so awesome i am able to achieve mystical experiences while listening to them. If any of you are from the states you have probably heard of Rush. I don't know if any of them were enlightened but their music is pure brilliance and it would be a shame that they weren't. Their lyrics incorporate science and spirituality in such a wonderful harmony i encourage you check them out. There is a channel with all their albums and lyrics as well. If there are any Rush fans out there lemme know!

@TheAvatarState Yea awesome lyrics. Totally agree guys - Hemispheres is my favorite too especially la villa strangiato! But all there stuff is pretty awesome! I also like 2112 a lot!@cetus56 I will check out Dream Theater; i think i've actually heard of them. @ground Yeah I know - I usually do 30 minutes of the Do nothing or self inquiry/observation techniques with no music and then at time I will do 30 minutes with music if I feel like just blissing out

I'm currently reading The End of Your World by Adyashanti and it's amazing so far.

Thanks guys i will check these out.

@Pharion couldn't agree more..this guy had massive wisdom. And after reading his work the guy truly had a strong concept of non-dualism. I think he had the intuition just never experienced a true awakening or that would have propelled him into turquoise. The guy was clearly centuries ahead of his time. Reading his book was one of the most amazing books i have ever read.

Umm wait.. the best teachings talk about making millions of dollars and attracting women? Now granted i only listened to a minute of each video but if thats the case this guy is sitting at orange bigtime. Does he have any real depth to him? I mean i guess that stuff is good for you youngins trying to up your ego but does he have anything for the enlightened been there done that guy or do we have to continue to listen to zen masters cause that's working for me so far

@Leo Gura @Leo Gura No i get that. I became conscious of that but what i mean is that is something else. That is the divine love (or give it its own name) This involves what your next video is about in which the use of the same word in different contexts causes confusion and misunderstanding.

@Leo Gura Indeed. Love is absolute therefore the only thing that can define love is the emotional state. So you are either talking about the absolute or you are talking about love. The only way love can be love is as an emotional state. Otherwise it has no meaning. The absolute incorporates all things.

@Leo Gura And you shall never tame it yourself while you still give the unlearned a negative label such as newbie. That said i know you ate already aware of this ..we are our own greatest enemy are we not?

@SpaceCowboy Intuition. Because he came back. Once you actually awaken you become...IT....no words will be able to describe it so all the fucking names they give it..awakening..enlightenment...consciousness..spirit..guess what? Those are all just labels. It's just fucking ....it. and its not right either. Because Its pure fucking being dude. When and if you actually return to the ego you can't unsee it. Ever. Your ego will try. Trust me it will. But the fact that you returned at all provides fhe intuition that there is more work to be done. Unless you are awaken you wont understand. Sad thing is that's where im at now and so i dont mean to come off as condescending but thats precisely why my awakening wasn't abiding.

A great book on post enlightenment is The End of Your World by Adyashanti which goes into more depth on what happens after awakening and the two types of awakening. One is the non-abiding awakening which is what most people have, vs an abiding awakening which is very rare. Most people (myself included) get a non-abiding awakening. This means you have a glimpse of the absolute, of total clarity and non-duality, but this glimpse can be a few moments or a few weeks, or even a few months. For me it was a week. It doesn't endure, and you return to the "dreamstate" as he calls it. This means there are still components deep within you that remain dual/divided in his perception. For these people the next phase is to do some serious, honest self inquiry and deep, sincere consciousness work and work towards an abiding awakening (one that endures for the remainder of your life) which can take years if ever. So for most, as Leo pointed out I believe earlier, to even get an initial awakening you have do a lot of inner work which would indirectly improve your depression/anxiety. While awake, you are completely one with reality and non-dual, so mental illness would not be present. But after you return to the ego - the very reason you returned to your ego at all - is that you still have some of these issues that need to be worked through.

@luckieluuke indeed. I actually had my awakening without any psychedelics. Mine lasted a week I gradually faded back into my ego...the opening closed but it is never truly closed once you have awoken. Anyway i would love to try this but i would probably lose my job and piss off my family if i disappeared into a dark room for a week LOL. I would not doubt that it could work though!

Umm yeah Im gonna leave this one alone...safe wasnt a real good word i was just not sure if it was legal in any of the states so thats what i was wondering.

Leo But isn't 5 MEO DMT illegal here too? How to address legality issues and even where to safely obtain and use in the states?

@Wisebaxter That's exactly right! It's the part after when you come back and say oh I had a thought, and become aware of WHAT the thought was, that's the essence of observing your thoughts!

Discuss Triggers and how they can alter your path quickly and send you spiraling in the wrong direction. I know it is part of self deception and illusions but triggers play such an important role in that - self awareness of triggers and when they appear can really help you in your daily life to keep the path.

He's right at the brink - he just needs a non-dual experience...like Leo said he is right where Einstein was...sadly it is said that none of the founding fathers of Quantum Mechanics were enlightened. The problem is these guys have been scientists there entire life, so to become 100% open minded to spirituality is nearly impossible for them. The only way you can discover the truth for yourself is if you are completely unbiased to ANYTHING. That you don't have any paradigms of your own or at least are open to others. I don't know much about Joe other than remembering seeing him host MMA fights - but he seems open minded and may just need to stumble on Actualized.org and actually mediate and maybe take some DMT LOL. I think he would be dumbfounded. Long term scientists might be a different story.

Yes, in a sense it does boil down to that. But self actualization, self development, self-awareness, etc, is an ongoing process and you are never really finished with it until your ego dies. That said, the more self actualized you become the more you become fulfilled being in the present moment - thus the happier you are as an individual.

@Krisena Krisena what i meant is that the root of OCD is uncertainty..thats why its also known as the doubt disorder. While enlightenment is complete certainty..its the paradox of OCD. Therefore they are one. I have had pure OCD my entire life so i know how debilitating it can be. My obsessions were with immorality and immoral thoughts though i have other forms as well. The guilt of my thoughts and not realizing it was OCD in my early life nearly destroyed me. So yes while his case might not be true OCD he can still benefit from the wisdom. That said..by dwelling on the fact that "oh its an illness" and not looking at OCD from the opposite side of the coin one will have very little hope of recovery. Afterall all that we are is our perspective. Its true that some are so crippled by the disorder that becoming conscious of any of this may be beyond them but for many they have more mild cases. Its a lot like the paradox of good and evil. If you take a non dual approach to evil you can never overcome it as you still look at evil as evil.