JosephKnecht

What is a "realistic understanding?" Oftentimes the biggest progress comes after the biggest regress. If you are unable to detach from your previous understanding, you will never gain a higher understanding. In that sense, regress can't be limited since it would also limit the progress.

I experience it a constant pressure on my forehead, but it is not pulsating but permanent. I think I started as a pulsating feeling initially. I don't have a complete explanation for it yet, but my experience is close to what the @Zigzag Idiot described... @Zigzag Idiot Thanks for sharing the work of A. H. Almaas. I will look into it.

Science aims to find patterns in physical reality. There will never be a pattern that describes infinity. Science will sweep infinity under the carpet until someone pulls the rug under science and science will have nothing to stand on.

There is no limit to regress nor to progress.

Everything = Illusion = Infinite But back to the original discussion. Once the world produces enough material abundance through technology, the evolution into a majority stage yellow should be relatively easy.

@FlowerNote Interesting commentary. Nice find. The video game display was appropriate.

The Spiral of Spiral Dynamics is Infinite. At some point in the future, the majority of the people will be turquoise but they won't call themselves people anymore.

If you have done it, how was it an accident? It is possible to alter "the dream" with a combination of different techniques. The technique that gave me the best results is contemplation through writing.

If rape is wrong, does raping the rapist before he rapes someone also wrong? @Gohabsgo If you raping the rapist saves an innocent person, does that make your action the right action or the wrong one?

I am glad you enjoyed it...

"Anyone who manages to experience the history of humanity as a whole as his own history will feel in an enormously generalized way all the grief of an invalid who thinks of health, of an old man who thinks of the dream of his youth, of a lover deprived of his beloved, of the martyr whose ideal is perishing, of the hero on the evening after a battle that has decided nothing but brought him wounds and the loss of his friend. But if one endured, if one could endure this immense sum of grief of all kinds while yet being the hero who, as the second day of battle breaks, welcomes the dawn and his fortune, being a person whose horizon encompasses thousands of years, past and future, being the heir of all the nobility of all past spirit- an heir with a sense of obligation, the most aristocratic of old nobles and at the same time the first of a new nobility - the like of which no age has yet seen or dreamed of; if one could burden one’s soul with all of this - the oldest, the newest, losses, hopes, conquests, and the victories of humanity; if one could finally contain all this in one soul and crowd it into a single feeling - this would surely have to result in a happiness that humanity has not known so far: the happiness of a god full of power and love, full of tears and laughter, a happiness that, like the sun in the evening, continually bestows its inexhaustible riches, pouring them into the sea, feeling richest, as the sun does, only when even the poorest fishermen is still rowing with golden oars! This godlike feeling would then be called - humaneness.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

Rather than seeing the fire burning outside yourself, you must see the fire burning inside yourself. The fire on the outside is easy to see, but the one on the inside can't be seen with your eyes. You must feel it with your presence.

Burning the world in order to feel better is not the best idea. I think rather than physical fire, you need to burn a metaphorical one. Give it a shot!

Yes, some videos offer more practical advice while others are more theoretical in nature. You need to integrate the theory with the practice for best result.

Life has meaning only if you give it meaning. Meaning has meaning only if you create the means.

I have been trying to figure out the reasons why people who attempt to actualize must spend some time in isolation. Some people go for the mountains in India and meditate for 20 years, while others isolate themselves from the world and attempt to create a better world inside their own mind rather than participate in the real world. My current conclusion is that daily interaction with others creates our experienced reality. When we share reality with others who are "less conscious" than us, they bring us down to their level of understanding since that is the only way we can come to a common understanding. "Less conscious" person can't understand a more conscious one, so it is always the more conscious one that has to be brought down to the level of the less conscious one. In these interactions, it is always the more conscious person that is at a loss since he fails to develop further. Therefore, if one becomes highly conscious, he/she becomes aware of this insight and decides to minimize his interactions with the general public to the extent this is possible. He might join a cult/ashram or seek other people who are at his level of consciousness. If he is unable to find others, the only other suitable option is isolation. I believe this to be a metaphysical truth, and the only way to prevent isolation/loneliness is to raise the general consciousness of the whole population. Your thoughts?

Yea, that is a trap. Once you fall into a trap, it is hard to get out.

@soos_mite_ah Nicely said. The Subject always needs Objects in relation to which the Subject could define itself. When there are no Others, there are no Objects, and the Subject/Object duality eventually collapses. Isolation is not a problem. It is part of the "intelligent design".

I don't think its just a belief. I think it is metaphysically true. If you believe its just a belief, try living in a poor African country and mix with the locals. Sooner or later, you must start dancing in a circle to invoke the Gods of rain. Either you believe that your dance will bring rain or you isolate completely from the tribe and live in isolation. I am making an extreme example just to make a point.

Are you me? This is exactly my current situation. To be a sailor, you must leave the port, but you must make sure you are sailing on the right sea.

If your environment is very unconscious, then you will choose not to engage most of the time. This makes you isolated. God is the loneliest ONE. But when we strive toward His Realization, we too become lonely as a test of endurance. Can you endure being infinitely alone?

Your personality is too focused on details. Try to look beyond the words and think more abstractly. Usually, videos that Leo makes are summarized in the quote he puts in the beginning. If you understand the quote, you don't need to watch the video

Perhaps... but you must respond to your immediate environment. I visited another country recently and was in contact with people who have not yet realized their survival needs. If you spend an extended period of time with these "types of people", there is a high probability that you will regress to their understanding of reality. There is lots of subconscious imprinting happening and if you are not fully aware of it all, you will regress. I am curious to hear from others who perhaps have been in isolation for extended periods of time. What has been your experience?

Solve your local problems before solving global problems. @Onecirrus When you focus on solving your local problems, you might notice how the global problems flow over into your local problems. When you have solved all your local problems, try solving global problems. To solve global problems, Politics is currently the most effective approach.

Music has its own vibrational frequency. You have your own vibrational frequency. When you grow, you change your frequency. If you have always liked the same type of music, you haven't grown much.