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Focus on what you really desire most and become that.

If I saw a gray alien in physical reality in waking life, I’d have a large fear response at least in the first few moments. When I see them in dreams, I immediately go to beat their ass with no fear. It’s interesting that I always act this way in dreams. There is an intuitive knowledge kept in the dream that I can’t be harmed by them. There’s no difference between real and imaginary for the most part. There are different tiers of experience with maybe many more beyond just dreaming and this reality. Dreams are more open to mental control in practice if we look into lucid dreaming. Being more mentally flexible doesn’t make them fake or unimportant.

I never said it was trivial. It’s quite important.

I think grounding yourself in bodily sensations could help you in the short term. Wouldn’t the possibility that Jesus Christ is the one operating things be just as plausible as a demon btw? Maybe you’re an angel spiritually blessing all of existence with radiant love forever no matter what experience you’re having. Do you see where I’m going? What you don’t know is simply not known. Rely on direct experience to know what’s going on, and realize that even direct experience itself doesn’t explain itself fully or mean you 100% understand what’s going on. You’re going to have to make peace with the unknown at some point. Even a legit enlightened person has more unknown things in life than known things.

Directly helping people who are already interested to raise in consciousness will probably be more effective in the end IMO. The growth of more advanced and effective masculinity happens rather organically as consciousness goes up. It’s still not a bad project if you do your research. Good luck.

The new masculinity is to be confident enough in one’s masculinity to throw forced categories like masculinity out of the window and be what feels authentic to you.

There are definitely powerful and legit psychics. They choose to use the cards. I don’t think people with those abilities would use something ineffective so often. I’ve done a 20 or so card reading for someone when I was in a conducive state, and they were pretty sure I had really uncovered some good clarity and answers. I have to be in the right state for it to feel like I’m really connecting to give someone answers personally. You have to realize that even if tarot cards have zero spiritual legitimacy they can still be used quite effectively in a psychological sense. Just give it a try.

I can provide counter arguments, but I haven’t slept. I started typing it out and realized I am unlikely to change your personal opinion. I’ll give a quick answer. I qualified the first post a bit more to what I was meaning. My point was that your lack of results with psychedelics is the main thing causing your view. Go do some research on MDMA helping with PTSD done by the MAPS organization. Too many people thinking psychedelics are all bad is going to result in more harm than good. There are studies on cancer patients overcoming the fear of death so they can live out their lives in far more peace and acceptance. Serotonergic psychedelics clearly help depression in ways typical antidepressants can’t. Magic mushrooms help people quit smoking at higher success rates than traditional methods. It goes on and on if you’re willing to research it with an open mind. There are plenty of risks of psychedelics. There are plenty of people who probably shouldn’t use them. There are also miraculous benefits and people whose lives wouldn’t be nearly as meaningful without them.

Stop seeking enlightenment intentionally for now. Don’t repress old patterns to do practices which seem natural. It’ll just create unhelpful resistance. Mindfulness is your best friend right now if the insights are causing you distress. It will get you over the struggle if you’re able to rest into it.

This is deluded when expanded to the general population of people who want to use them for serious spiritual work. If they aren’t you’re favorite thing, don’t do them. There’s a reason they’ve been used for spirituality in many cultures for thousands of years.

I love taking spirituality to its limits in my own unique way. Teaching is also something I love. The bodhisattva vow is incredibly close to my heart. To impart something of tremendous value to people who desire it and are ready to work toward it is huge. My ultimate goal is to explore Divinity, teach the methods to reach it, and live in better and better accordance with what is discovered in those unfathomable realms.

This is the conclusion of what your contemplation/intuition is leading you to IMO. Fruition (phala in Pali) is the fruit of all the meditator’s hard work, the first attainment of ultimate reality, emptiness, nirvana, nibbana, ultimate potential, or whatever extrapolative and relatively inaccurate name you wish to call something utterly non-sensate. In this non-state, there is absolutely no time, no space, no reference point, no experience, no mind, no consciousness, no awareness, no background, no foreground, no nothingness, no somethingness, no body, no this, no that, no unity, no duality, and no anything else. “Reality” stops cold and then reappears. https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-iv-insight/30-the-progress-of-insight/15-fruition/ Please also note that, like Fruition, there is no experience at all during NS. There is no time, no space, no something, no nothing, not anything at all. Just as a desktop computer shuts down totally when you press the power button, so too with anything to do with experience in NS. I have friends who have talked about something they got into where they could still feel time passing, and that is definitely not it. NS is like the ultimate rest for the mind, something far beyond even deep sleep, as even a few seconds in it leaves one with a massive feeling of having gone extremely deep in a way nothing else can match. https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-v-awakening/37-models-of-the-stages-of-awakening/the-cessation-of-perception-and-feeling-nirodha-samapatti/

I see a lot of value in “….mystery….” as a pointer. Even “present moment experience” implodes on itself as soon as it’s examined. Why is present moment experience good or true? Well, let me “leave” it to tell you why it’s so great ? And yeah, I get that you can’t necessarily leave it, but you can only speak about it by pulling on past/future. Experience does run off distinctions as much as it runs off a lack of distinction. They’re both the same thing which is neither a thing nor a non-thing.

8 years. The most profound single insight is probably that enlightenment and liberation can never be lost — as far as the process which drives this to occur. You realize that if you are truly Liberated at the moment of Liberation, your child self was Liberated. All past or future selves are. The process of enlightenment is so ever-present and True that there is actually nothing to reference enlightenment against. And in that moment enlightenment itself falls away and is seen to have been one of the biggest illusions on the whole spiritual path. But this doesn’t mean an appearance of enlightenment won’t still persist and that those spiritual techniques won’t still lead to an overall better life. You have to walk through the mist of enlightenment according to the best of teachings and methods to see that the mist was empty. Once you cross the threshold of the mist, you see there’s no mist in front of you, and you can no longer see any mist behind you. The work was already done, but you had to seriously prepare yourself to walk through to actually realize that the work was done.

I’d appreciate a video from your perspective regarding the misconceptions people have about awakening vs. the reality. Too many people both push and buy into a magic pill mentality IMO.

From the perspective of awakening & higher consciousness insights I’ve had, yes. What’s even more important is that your ego is in the captain’s chair for determining your direct experience and where that goes unless you’re in some horrific situation. The video you watch, the spiritual practice you do, how you treat others, it all impacts how far you can take things. You’re playing the game, and you are the game. Respect and love the game to level up in a pleasant way. The other choices have been tried, and there’s a reason humanity rejects them as ideals compared to spirituality done right.

You can become completely disconnected from thought and operate quite well in life. There’s also nothing wrong with thought itself. Think of it like this. Monkey mind is like leaving your weed whacker on in your garage making noise all night. When it makes sense to use it, use it. That might be 12 hours or 30 minutes. It depends. When it is causing more harm than good, learn to turn it off.

Is the answer to this question the answer that’s going to really settle things for you? It’s not a bad track to go down at least IMO whether it’s meant to be or just randomness and free will. Go for bigger fish.

Guide to Contemplation for Enlightenment Realizations in the 21st Century Why do I want realizations? Realizations change your core insight on the most important parts of “Present Moment Experience” as it occurs for you. This is done in a way that is deep enough to lock a certain level of permanent insight into you which you won’t really fall below unless we are looking at brain injury or serious survival conditions. This more or less permanent level of insight can help you to see some rather radical shifts in your baseline consciousness. Your natural potential for awakening and other abilities is linked pretty closely to the amount of insight you always have access to. The core of the guide is rather simple. It is best to start with a strong basis of nondual teachings. Next, you’ll want to meditate, use a light dose of a psychedelic (I prefer THC personally - the goal is not to have some giant trip unless you get there with your own contemplative skills), or do some other similar activity to generate a “fluidity in consciousness” before starting contemplation. If your method isn’t changing your consciousness enough, the chance you’ll have a deep realization decreases. If you have too deep of a meditative or psychedelic experience before you really get going, you probably won’t have what I personally view as a realization. You want to be in that middle spot between a tripping-level experience and normal. You can try contemplating aloud. This helps me get into “no mind” states easier which can be helpful. I had one of my most effective and important realizations this way. You can still get the main benefits of no mind if you’re the contemplation quietly in your head, so don’t worry much if you can’t try speaking aloud. The other parts of the video are focused on how contemplation has triggered two of my best realizations and how that transformed everything pretty much for me.

Enlightenment isn’t really definable, but I do see confidence as a huge factor. Not only will a stronger penetration of the illusion make one more sure in most cases, living as if you are enlightened makes you more susceptible to having that experience/life through Law of Attraction, psychology, and maybe other things. You also then have to go through examining yourself versus other enlightened people and standards if you’re going to try to be honest with yourself. You eventually will see that as much as an answer your flavor of enlightenment was, you have many places left to grow and improve. There are plenty of other systems which still see you as rather unskillful or even wholly unenlightened.

I never said I wasn’t using technology. I’ve realized that the hard formless aspect of J5 & J6 that people use to characterize them as actually being fully formless are not the most important part of the experience. I don’t have enough experience of J7 to say whether it follows this as well. I’m not good at cultivating the formless aspects of these intentionally. I have had a number of experiences which triggered J5 and especially J6 for me to show me the formless aspect of the experience too. I really enjoy the aspect of boundless space & consciousness while still having some form. It’s one of the most accessible interesting states for me. Within a couple seconds I can amplify and tap into the sensations of space and see it ultimately fall away in a sense and become boundless, and within 5-10 make the shift to feeling more connected to where it matches what I found in my hard J6 experiences just with form being there or not being there not affecting the designation of “boundless consciousness” still being true. I’m still interested in the hard formless aspect of Jhana, but I don’t look at Jhana as worth pursuing in the typical Buddhist way of doing them in a sequence for hours. J8 for sure and it might even be said J9 came to me effortlessly doing spirituality on my terms. There are many roads to these different outcomes.

I don’t think this is what Leo meant when he said to imagine your mom came from an egg. I’ve had stuff pretty much equally as crazy in my direct experience though, so who am I to judge?

Nobody knows most likely. There are those who think that they know. What will happen in your next dream? My challenge to you is to live a life and develop enough understanding to where it does not matter much to you. Then you’re finally free to live. An existence in the shadow of death is not life.

Spirituality does not cure many mental illnesses. Spirituality can even make many of them worse from a typical survival perspective. I’m sure plenty of those things you put in the top post can work to degrees, but I’ve been fooled into thinking I had cured something which others claimed you could cure just to find symptoms come back eventually. Many mental illnesses also function as spiritual gifts when some things have been cleared up. They are just characterized as illness as these people don’t fit well into modern culture and belief systems. This isn’t for all illnesses, just some.

Make some serious spiritual progress, and you will probably have some good run-ins with suffering. The shirt off in the winter thing is a good idea IMO if you’re already thinking about it. I did it too once. One time I recorded for like 2 hours outside when we had a polar vortex, and it was so cold the police pulled over to stop me. Good times.