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The problem is that the more information you gather by endlessly reading books, the more you have to let go if you want to awaken. It keeps you on the hamster wheel.

I'm waiting for Gaia to kick ass and return the earth to the living.

In 1953, Jacobo Arbenz become president of a democratically elected government in Guatemala. He was enacting a major land reform program. At the promoting of the United Fruit Company, he was removed from power by the CIA and a military junta put in his place. This is when Che Guevara decided to become a revolutionary. For him it was proof that meaningful reform could never be accomplished by a democratic system, because if a reformer were elected he would just be removed by the imperialist power. So, revolution was the only moral course to take. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara

That is because perpetual war is the establishment position. The foreign policy of the Republicans and Democrats is the same. Biden is no different than Obama, Clinton, Bush, etc. They all continue hegemonic policies.

Isn't that what you are doing? Jesus seemed to have a lot of patience with his disciples. Jesus went after the authorities who had real power. He wasn't being reactive, he was rebuking authorities who were doing real harm to others.

Jesus would tend to go after important leaders, like spiritual teachers or money lenders who were using the sacred for their own benefit and misleading people. But for anonymous posters he was more inclined to arrange a meetup and give them free bread and fish.

There is a spiritual interpretation of the differences which expands on the dictionary definitions. Judgment is a negative process that involves personal bias, emotional reactions, and imposing one’s own beliefs or values onto others. Discernment is a positive and conscious process that involves objective observation and clarity of thought. Discernment is objective, without the emotional component of judgment. Discernment allows for a deeper understanding of oneself and others and cultivates compassion. It avoids the destructive patterns associated with Judgment. https://www.awakeningself.com/writing/judgement-vs-discernment/

There is evidence that hunter gatherers used yopo thousands of years ago. Yopo is just as strong or a stronger psychedelic than LSD (which i can attest too). “Archaeological evidence, including the presence of yopo seeds and associated paraphernalia, suggests that yopo has been used by indigenous cultures for thousands of years. In some hunter-gatherer caves and rock shelters, remnants of yopo snuffing rituals have been discovered, providing insights into the ancient cultural practices of the people who inhabited those areas.”

The below video is a good example of someone who used Buddhism to live a happy life. If you are tired of the philosophical bullshit and actually want to reduce your suffering and be happy, check it out.

My Bufo journeys are mostly positive. But I know a spiritual teacher who said that he saw evil entities on Bufo and he insists that they were real.

He was punishing himself. I did cannibis a few weeks after taking black ayahausca, and the cannabis was laughing at my ayahuasca trip, and saying that anything that creates fear is a false path. It said: Take the path with no fear. Be calm. Doesn’t the “spiritual teacher” recognize that what he is seeing is himself? – the message come from himself.

You are coming from the assumption that you are an "individual".

I have also witnessed instances where a business is working because it has a good manager, but the owner is an alcoholic who just collects the money.

There are rent seekers who gain wealth without any reciprocal contribution of productivity.

It has nothing to do with providing value. It's about power. It's about having status in the hierarchy.

He learned to think logically and how to be a true public servant. This is extremely rare today.

Ayahuasca is more physical than something like LSD, which is more cerebral. When I was in the Amazon, I took Black Ayahuasca, which is like a super ayahuasca. Within a few minutes, I was shivering and freezing cold even though we were in the jungle. Someone else told me he felt someone punching him in the face. The medicine goes deep into your body and mind.

Most of the world doesn’t understand the fine distinctions of America’s domestic squabbles and see no difference between Obama, Trump, or Biden. It always ends up in some place being bombed.

You are always seeing yourself. There are no monsters or demons. It is you.

Robert Kennedy, Jr. would be the ideal president to reform the system. He grew up in a political family and knows the system better than anyone in America. When he was a kid, he was hanging out and listening to conversations between JFK and his father. And he has probably already met most of the world leaders. Based on his long experience, he has his own take on what is wrong with the system and he has a plan to fix it. Trump talked about draining the swamp, but Kennedy actually has the knowledge to do it. It should tell you something that the mainstream media won’t give him a platform and are trying to smear him as a “conspiracy theorist”. He will have to use the Internet to get his message out. The establishment with its forever wars bankrupting your future doesn’t want the system to change. It’s profitable for them. Is it profitable for you?

In foreign policy they are the same. They both support forever wars and a policy of hegemony. This is the establishment position. Biden is pro war. He strongly supported the invasion of Iraq and he is now using Ukraine in a proxy war with Russia, instead of using his influence to negotiate an end to the war. The only major political candidates that have pushed back on this warmongering policy are Trump and Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Robert Kennedy, Jr is not an anti-vaxer. He believes in vaccines. His issue with covid was safety. In his book, he argues like a lawyer and provides references to back up everything he says. I haven't heard anyone seriously argue his points with reason. Instead they call him names. The ruling class and media lackies don't want him to run on real issues and actually change the country, because the present system is very profitable for them.

He's the only politician talking about the real issue - the kleptocracy - rather than this fake culture wars left/right nonsense that diverts attention away from the bad actions of the ruling class. If Kennedy catches fire there will be no stopping him. He transcends the fake paradigm and will attract Trump voters as well as traditional democrats and even progressives.

All the spiritual traditions agree that a prerequisite to awakening (or connection with God) requires a purification process. This is the work of transcending the lower self. Sufism has the Tazkiyatun Nafs. In Christianity, there is sanctification. In Hinduism, Karma Yoga. In the Amazon, they equate purification with vomiting, coming from a jungle environment, and they have dozens of plant medicines to do this. It is considered to be even more important than taking ayahuasca. If you have a powerful 5-meo experience where you experience non duality, but then the next day you blow up because someone stepped in front of you in line, then what did you actually experience? What good did it do since you are still back in ego? Is this evidence that is was a false experience or a simulation? In a spiritual journey, the soul becomes more calm after years of letting go, transcending into higher vibrations. Can we shortcut the work with psychedelics? Is the ego that easily dislodged? Observation of humans tells us no. Psychedelics gives you a temporary “get out of jail” card, but in the morning you go back to prison. Getting out permanently has its own time and rhythm and can’t be rushed. I’m a completely different person now than I was four years ago, but it took time.

I see it like this. Medititation = long term neuronal change (i.e., rewiring). Psychedelics = add new memory to memory store. I have heard the claim from faciliators that there is a neuroplasticity in effect for a week after a trip which makes it easier to change ingrained patterns and habits. But the actual change work is being done after the trip.