Lyubov

Look, and it can’t be seen. Listen, and it can’t be heard. Reach, and it can’t be grasped. Above, it isn’t bright. Below, it isn’t dark. Seamless, unnamable, it returns to the realm of nothing. Form that includes all forms, image without an image, subtle, beyond all conception. Approach it and there is no beginning; follow it and there is no end. You can’t know it, but you can be it, at ease in your own life. Just realize where you come from: this is the essence of wisdom - Tao Te Ching, verse 14

Same, contemplating / self inquiry. Self inquiry if done correctly can deeply resolve anything. The issue with it though is that while it’s very effective when applied simply, there is a high degree of maturity and openness needed I think for it to culminate in inquiring away all the stuff in the way of living aligned with the Tao. Self inquiry brings you back to the center, the cause, not living from the effect or as a victim. Meditation is a different for me and from my experience. Meditation can be a sort of escape and actually deeply ineffective if you aren’t actually resolving these self created inner issues in the way. It’s sort of like trying to up hill with the break on. Meditating can sort of melt stuff away but I’ve not found it to actually resolve anything. It can help support self inquiry though, focus and it can lead to insights so I’m not saying it’s pointless. I try to meditate a few times a week. I actually have my own practice where I mix in my self inquiry questions while gently talking to myself with love, and I focus on my breathing and emotions while tracing back to their source. I’ve not found traditional meditation practices to be super helpful like vipassena for example. I think it’s just too dismissive of the inner stories we have which are so personal and require firm but precise handling to gently take them apart and I also think the teaching isn’t so relatable.

“European freeloading.” Bros are so dumb. They don’t realize the amount of clout and dictation the USA gets over these countries by supporting them. Be prepared to be weaker and poorer when your country gets demoted from world leader to regional power.

I’m not saying there aren’t any dangers or serious mistakes to be made when taking a psychedelic. A teacher of mine saw his high school friend jump to his death out of an 8 story building because he believed he was super man, kid took too much LSD. Did that turn out to be true? There’s nuance to what I’m saying, but im inviting people to inquire on this. What do you believe about entities. Why do you believe it. See for yourself.

I don’t think I’m taking it for granted, I’m grateful for it but this is my lived experience and I realize there are other people who are making the best with what they have, I don’t mean to downplay mental struggles and challenges people may be facing and this is just my lived experience where the wording may not resonate with anyone. I assume that most people here and most people in general who are trying to live honestly and better connect to their inner world will come to understand they create their emotions and are at the center, not a victim or at the affect of them or trauma or entities. You can cultivate a healthy and stable mind. And with that said I say this within the context that the forum here is comprised of people who have done the leg work to create a healthy and stable mind for themselves. I don’t believe anyone should be doing psychedelics if their mind is not healthy (even people with healthy minds need to be careful of the risks associated with these substances) and this especially applies to people with schizophrenia who I would never advise to use psychoactive substances. I am not entirely familiar with schizophrenia and I do think this teaching I am sharing is something that has to be sensitively given to someone with that condition. I don’t consider schizophrenia and demons from psychedelic trips to be the same.

It’s difficult to say. I don’t know any specific people like this who don’t eventually wake up from this trap, and when I experienced this myself from having radical trips on Ayahuasca I eventually realized I had my own finger firmly on this button (entires, demon voice, loss of control). I’ve said it here before, it’s impossible to be a victim. It’s kind of a pill that’s a bit hard to swallow for people because from where they may be in life or how they are choosing to view things, it may come off like a slap in the face to tell them they are creating their trauma, they are creating their emotions and they are creating entities. So I say that with compassion and understanding that with what they know and their current perspective that they may need to expand their perspective more. But I am able to share this teaching now. Maybe some will be ready to understand it and take responsibility for themselves, and of course there are people who physiologically should absolutely not take these substances, but it should be clearly stated that the entity experience is another creation through belief which if one wants to inquire on can see it can be let go of.

You give your power away when you believe an entity has any sort of power or control or authority over you. It’s as transient as a thought if you allow it to be.

Yep, they don’t like the worker rights and rules based order, transparency, accountability, democracy. Republicans have been splitting from Europe/democracy for the last 10 years or so.

I'm going to be doing some work inside some very dangers favelas in Brazil with a local guide who has an NGO there. Many pure stage red people with some blue forming in the evangelical churches in the area. Teenagers with guns, drugs, crack heads, a truly rough place unheard of in western countries. I am from a first world country (USA) and a safe area in it as well. I don't have much experience interacting with stage red. How can someone higher on the spiral communicate with people at stage red and keep themselves safe and also perhaps shine consciousness on the situation where red may benefit? I was thinking of taking a blue approach, interacting with them from a blue perspective so they can relate, for example talk about a theist god with them and display blue values that the church has.

Deeply incompetent cabinet.

Yeah this is what I think. You can go on Joe if you think it’s cool and I’m sure it would be nice to achieve that mainstream recognition but you will be known as the weird drug schizo guy with a sus logo and people will latch on to the woo woo and twist whatever you’re saying. It likely won’t help anyone or the few that it does it will just stir the conspiracy pot for most and yes, this attention will come back to this forum and controversial things you’ve said before so be prepared for things you might now see as inappropriate to say or taken out of context coming back at you.

I agree with you. It’s so easy to let things stagnate out of stories and beliefs based on limitations. Very easy to go back and forth on the pendulum. I am focusing on letting go and seeing how that most of the limitations in the relationship have been imposed by myself through beliefs. I mean we may separate if we choose different paths but any sort of incompatibility is largely due to holding back.

Anyone ever experience this in a long term relationship with a person you love and been together a long time? Things get sort of boring and stagnant, sex is less exciting with them and almost no longer something you really crave on one side you see yourself as trapped and create emotions of discomfort “I must leave this relationship” however on the other side when this person is gone and you see them out of your life you grieve, you see life as lacking and cruel without them and you realized you took them for granted, the possibility of losing them after a big fight actually brings the passion in the relationship back to life is there a way to strike a balance and breathe life into the relationship always so it’s always exciting and this pendulum doesn’t have to take place… ?

People always go to the worst case scenarios. It’s a component of that human side which I call the inner child, many call it the ego here, subconscious mind, etc. it goes straight to worst case situations and makes oneself miserable but have you noticed it never owns up to this when it turns out to be wrong? Why aren’t we talking about the best case scenarios and all the good that could come from a reordering in the world? It looks so minor in hindsight but people were freaking out this much in 2016. They were saying Trump would contest the elections which he did in 2020 and they said he would try a half assed coup, which he did and failed and we got a dem president that faced a lot of gridlock, but Trump is facing that as well. USA democracy by design is very hard for one guy to take over. You will see lots of unprecedented in democratic things happening and I wouldn’t be surprised if this leads to some big changes, maybe a revolution and all the scary stuff constantly brought up here, it’s a possibility but also a lot of other things are possibilities as well. We survived Trump 1 and this country will survive Trump 2 and I would bet my money there will be elections held in 2028 and a very strong democratic resistance and opposition built up to face whatever republicans conjure up next elections. We will need to vote for people who will get wealth back to the middle class and reign in the corruption.

I want to become a life couch and spiritual healer. I believe I am developed enough for this but I need to actually do the leg work.

My life has been affected by the shifting sands of politics. I can’t just blame it all on one person even though that would be convenient. Things are more expensive where I want to live in the USA and there are housing shortages, also changes in job markets which is somewhat due to politics. It’s not all a Republican thing, the entire political system included even decisions made by other countries has affected me. I think the main reasons to get out of the USA is how expensive it has gotten, you don’t get the same bang for your buck there. Also socially many people have become weird and reclusive, gun violence as well. It’s difficult to make friends in the USA compared to other places. It’s also incredibly competitive to date as a straight man. Weird culture shifts as well as economics have changed dynamics there in a way which makes it hard to date for men and in addition there is simply a lack of feminine and beautiful women as well there. So it’s better to go somewhere where it’s safe, affordable and lots of beautiful women. And I say that not as an excuse to be a creep and go somewhere to corrupt yourself with chasing foreign women. Go somewhere that’s amazing for culture, stability and beauty and where you can build a family.

It’s personal. I do love Brazil too but I also see there are massive problems here. I wouldn’t say it’s heaven for many people especially if you live in the favelas and earn reis. But there’s a ton of amazing culture here and it’s a good place to get inspired by nature, lots of adventures to be had here too. I find it much more inspiring than the USA but also I miss the safety and how clean much of the USA is, also service is much better and work situation is better. I wouldn’t move back though.

Where in Brazil are you? What state? What city? I’m in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro and I do agree this country has problems. It has a lot of crime, it’s dirty and there is a lack of education, but you also take for granted some amazing things about this place which the USA doesn’t have.

The pendulum will swing back left, even if it’s as an opposition party to a dictator. Keep in mind 15 million more people voted for Biden than Harris. She just wasn’t a good candidate, her campaign wasn’t good. Trump ran a very strong fear based campaign. Dems need a hero.

Upon reflection Musk is such a petty fool. Brainwashed himself badly. He could have stayed above all of this and actually did something good but he just couldn’t stand being mocked on the internet and had to go down the pipeline. I would not categorize Zuck or Bezos along with Trump or Musk. Of course the epistemic problems of corruption, capitalism and our collective society still have the shadow of Zuck and Bezos in them, I would consider them to value knowledge and innovation. Musk was somewhat in this camp until he made himself a celebrity through social media and rotted his brain. Trump was never an innovator or particularly smart. He had a large inheritance and grew his wealth through loans and real estate and also burned a ton of his wealth and went bankrupt many times as well. That’s not really comparable to basically creating social media or creating online shopping.

I don’t think Zuckerberg is entirely corrupted. Don’t get me wrong there’s many things I think he did were dishonest and he was quite immature when Facebook came out and he has been consistently irresponsible with how he handles his platform but he doesn’t strike me as entirely corrupted, he greatly values knowledgeable and education. Trump is in an entirely different class than the tech oligarchs.

One comment is right. Leo’s just saying what’s been said in the Tao Te Ching. In fact many of the things he has said on reality is said there poetically and with far more brevity but most people won’t ever read this text and if they do they usually won’t understand it much unless they set the intention to understand it. Only one comment seems to understand what’s being said.

Why is Trump even keeping Elon around? Just seems really unprecedented to have a really rich donor who hasn’t even been assigned to the cabinet sticking around the president constantly. Just bizarre.

Can someone screenshot the comments??? I don’t have a twitter and don’t wanna make one to read the comments.