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Much of that is just playing with concepts. That is the intellectualization. Looking at it from an “orange” perspective, pursuing a career is traveling a bumpy road and spiritual development gives you the shock absorbers.

I had a successful career and retired early since I had accumulated enough wealth. Looking back at it, I would have made more money and been much happier if I had put spirituality first in my life. When you think about it, it’s a real no brainer. One mistake from your lower nature can cause serious losses. But I am talking about a real spiritual path that transforms you and not intellectualization.

Anyone who is a good writer could dip into the vast Hindu literature and come up with a book containing borrowed wisdom and truth. But if it is written by someone of low character it will also contain unseen flaws for you to fall into. For example, if you read the Bhagavad Gita, you want to stick to one of the translations authored by self-realized masters like those of Yogananda, Chinmayananda, Sivananda, or Nikhilananda.

The problem they are having is revealed in the language. I hate the word “pick up”. It’s like picking up a piece of garbage. And “approach” reminds me of a lion approaching a zebra. This is predatory language. Why not just get to know someone?

Anyone who calls himself a "shaman" isn't a shaman. He is just appropriating a term from another culture. It also helps to dress up. Even Sadhguru has a robe and a turban.

This is more likely than enlightenment: Additionally, the DEA notes that high doses of DXM can produce various side effects, such as: confusion inappropriate laughter agitation paranoia sensory changes, such as the feeling of floating overexcitability tiredness slurred speech sweating high blood pressure nausea vomiting involuntary eye movements https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/dxm-trip#side-effects

I don't know why people are so surprised by grifters like Chopra. It's the normal. Finding someone who is real is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

I don’t like spiral dynamics and reducing serious discussions into how colors relate to each other. I think psychedelics are hugely overrated here and I don’t believe they can awaken anyone.

Shinzen Young couldn’t meditate until he practiced under a Vajrayana master in Japan. Tibetan Buddhists call it mind training. It takes dedicated effort to slow down the momentum of the mind. Most lazy westerners give up or fall under the delusion that taking a drug will do the same thing.

This is a highly simplified overview of the six realms teachings. Although the traditional teachings present them as metaphysical realms, in trantric psychology, they are closer to psychological states that aid in transformation. There are many version of these teachings, primarily in Tibetan Buddhism and Kashmir Shaivism. Since this is simplified and the complete teachings go into much greater depth, be cautious about using this simplified form of the teachings. For example, this is not personality typing. Use the teachings with the intention of liberating yourself from unskillful patterns. Focus on the underlying dynamics of the behavior, what is the motivation, beliefs, and intentions driving complex behavior. You want to catch certain thoughts and behaviors in the act (e.g., “That thought is how a hungry ghost thinks, but I am not a hungry ghost, I am a human being”). It’s best to receive the complete transmission directly from a qualified teacher. Tantric psychology focuses on transformation and alchemy, using the poisons of the mind as vehicles for liberation. Nothing is seen as bad. This is total inclusion and radical alchemy. Think of the beautiful lotus (liberation) that arises from the mud (the three poisons). Liberation is experienced in the here and now. The focus is embodiment and not on transcendental experience. The six realms: 1. Hell Realm A victim mentality with the emotion of hatred/bitterness. Blaming others is here. 2. Hungry Ghost Realm Insatiable searching outside oneself with the emotion of desperation. Drug addiction could be here. Searching for the next fashionable teacher but never satisfied. 3. Animal Realm Need for comfort and safety with emotions of fear and/or compulsive desire. Laziness is here. The comfort zone. A numbed-out state of consciousness. 4. Titan Realm Need for self-worth proven by accomplishments with emotions of jealousy, envy pride. Competitive American culture is here. 5. God Realm Believing one to be special and elevated with emotion of infatuation. Deluded spiritual teachers are here. 6. Human-mind Realm Need to feel in control through understanding with emotions of insecurity and fear. Conspiracy theorists are here. Each Realm has four levels of intensity going from weak to stronger: fixation, delusion, partial possession, full possession. It is interesting to note that in early psychology, mental illness was called possession. Fixation is where you develop a habit. Delusion is where the habit shapes your world view. Partial possession is where the energy of the realm speaks through you (e.g., “first you take a drink, then the drink takes you”). In full possession, awareness is extinguished and actions become purely compulsive and reactive. You can temporarily hang out in any one the six realms or there can be one of the realms where you tend to live. This version of the teachings is from below, but any errors here are stictly mine. Opening the Heart of Compassion by Lar Short Tantra Illuminated https://www.tantrailluminated.org/ The Wheel of Life Mandala The core contains the seeds of enlightenment, the pig (ignorance), the snake (hatred), and the rooster (attachment). The six realms are in the middle. As long as you are in the six realms you are in the wheel of samsara and you are suffering. The Bodhisattvas of Compassion and Buddha outside the wheel are guides for those seeking to exit the wheel. Yama, the lord of death, holding the wheel is meant to to shock practioners into realizing the urgency of seeking enlightenment before their time runs out.

There is a subcontext of power relationship going on here. There was a point where the guy was pushing and Vitality was threatening violence. It is clear to me looking at the two of them if Vitality had moved to blows he would have been missing his front teeth and both of them knew it. But in my opinion the man was highly skillful in telling off the asshole and pushing it while remaining calm and never threatening force. Telling him right to his face in a nice way that he was a low-life prick. And he was doing it for the right cause – confronting an asshole bully that was making a living tormenting poor working people. Also, people who watch this shit and are entertained are equally low life. They support it by making it profitable.

This is the best video I have seen on how to recover from this disaster. It gives a hopeful scenario.

He was good in maintaining his calmness while confronting a total asshole.

We are all Palestinians now. Why Israeli counterterrorism tactics are showing up in Minnesota https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-ice-minneapolis/#:~:text=ICE officers in particular have,the American public%2C including citizens. "ICE and CBP agents have since developed a close relationship with their counterparts in Israel, allowing them to trade notes on tactics and technology. DHS has organized conferences with Israeli security officials, held joint training sessions, and even given grants to Israeli officers in order to do research on areas like countering violent extremism, according to a former senior DHS official."

You are going to be bullied in boot camp. You may want to look at that part of you that is seeking out an environment where it can be bullied even more.