Terell Kirby

@Leo Gura so humans have some value, eh? Thanks for your contributions to the forum

Has anyone here experienced the same? If you had asked me if truth and understanding reality mattered before discovering Actualized.org in 2020 I would hardly understand what you are asking. I didn’t know such topics were of interest to me - I hear others saying they’ve always been interested in truth - maybe that was the case for me but I didn’t know it at first. Now I can’t stop obsessing over it- i can’t envision what life would be like without doing consciousness work and truth seeking

Getting lost in sex isn't the way, but also repression of sexual needs isn't either. Strike a middle way until you transcend the need for sex entirely, otherwise you end up using false notion of truth/spirituality to deny your sexual urges and become dysfunctional. Same thing with sexually repressed orthodox fundamentalist.

No one knows the answer to any of this .. but trust you will discover the answers for yourself. Godspeed

What is your process for assessing what kinds of content are likely to be misunderstood? I don’t envy you- trying to teach what fake vs real spirituality is, what at the same time not giving the answer for what fake vs real spirituality is - is not easy feat. I intuit “real” spirituality is the process of admitting that I don’t know what it is, and going on a personal investigation to find out. Actualized.org is a great way to bootstrap, but it’s only part of the larger project.

Great video- just now getting around to it. Lots to contemplate from the one- thanks @Leo Gura !

Demonization coming from separation. Trump & Musk are indeed devils, but all devils are manifestations of God.

We can sometimes look down on religious people if you've developed yourself enough to see its limitations. At the end of day, what any human identifies as serves a specific niche in their survival programming, unique to each individual and the culture they grew up in. Some eventually transcend it as a result of higher consciousness, but even the ones that don't-it doesn't necessarily negate their inherent potential for higher intelligence. Cultural /societal programming can be a real and significant hurdle to reaching higher intelligence. Less about what that person identifies as, and more about what cultural and societal (maybe even genetic) factors that are limiting them transcending that identity.

@emil1234 Lovely, congrats. It's not easy to go beyond our indoctrination into materialism that has happened of the span of multiple decades. The concept of nothingness can be hijacked by materialist assertions, but Consciousness is beyond concepts .. just like God is .. just like you are

Identity- Aubrey is these things. To give them up would mean no more Aubrey .. at least as we know him.

I have a hunch of the difference between the two but I don’t think it an explicit distinction has been made in all my years following your work. If Awakening is only a facet of consciousness work and sense making, I would assume a deep theoretical grasp of self deception, bias and corruption would be at the other end. Awakening for me is state focused, consciousness work and sense making go into epistemology, metaphysics and hyper awareness of self deception mechanisms (a recipe for living properly— I’m not claiming to be correct, only a hunch/intuition). You can have one without the other, but in a way-each facet plays off of each other and intertwines nicely

Ralston doesn’t acknowledge God/Infinite Mind in his teachings- that’s at the heart of it. I find him to be more aligned with teachings of Zen. Where Ralston is spot on is his teachings on not knowing-clearly pointing out limitations of belief systems and self identity, distinguishing the difference between an idea and the direct conscious experience of a thing. This is highly valuable. If we asked Ralston about God/Infinite Mind-he would probably see these as ideas. For him Awareness of what IS, is the backdrop of conscious experience (ie state of Being). He’s not wrong about this, but there might be something more fundamental than Awareness itself, that is Infinite Mind, which is the sum total of all states of being (includes state of not knowing and state of knowing).

Great analysis-MAGA perversion is rooted in the disregard for Truth (literally killing democracy as we speak):

15 mins in and it's already blowing my mind..thanks @Leo Gura for this ..it helps to see God articulated from outside sources, Spinoza is amazing- and this guy articulated it so well: