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All spiritual beliefs aside, chelating mercury isn’t going to literally get every single particle out of your body. There very well could be a function for a tiny amount of mercury in the body — which is impossible to avoid anyway. One of the worst things you can do for your body-mind is consume any significant amount of mercury intentionally.

I know you're asking them something different, but just as an aside, you should be triumphant that you've been able to identify such a thing, because that's where the rubber meets the road in spiritual development. Any recurring intense fear, if it's of something you can't control anyway, is something you're repressing the underlying sensations of, which is concurrent with hiding something from yourself: the fact that you can't control whether it happens or not, and you're not even going to ultimately be harmed if it were to actually happen anyway.

I would not do it for very long. Those out-of-context time-lapse video compilations of vegans who look like walking death, with the ominous music in the background, are probably mostly of fruitarians.

I don't follow Teal Swan in any fashion whatsoever or even know what she's about. Before watching one of her responses to the documentary, the only thing I'd ever in my life seen of her was about the first 1-2 minutes of a video she did on spiritual bypassing, before I lost interest and exited the video because it was stuff I'd heard before -- and that was at least a year ago. But from watching both 1. the documentary's trailer and 2. Teal Swan's first video response to it, it does seem like the creators of the documentary could have been unfair. Maybe they know something I don't about Swan, and they figure their main concern is just getting the word out that she's bad news... but the trailer definitely seems to take her out of context and dramatize and problematize her in a hit-job sort of fashion.

That sounds like a very reasonable approach. That's probably all vegans need to do if they're having issues staying healthy, rather than insisting on consuming no animal products of any kind ever.

Look around at the whole world or universe you see around you, that appears in consciousness. Notice you feel you're inside the head. Just take in whatever view presents itself -- in your case it'll probably be that of being a human-being living in a universe. Notice all the information transfer happening in the universe. Besides the fact that you have eyes situated in front of where you know your brain to be, notice the only other reason you think you're the brain: you know it to involve a very high density of information transfer associated with your experience. But of course, there's energy transfer going on everywhere that also affects (and is actually completely interdependent with) your experience. So why would information-transfer-density imply that what you are is the thing with that high density, as opposed to everything else? And where is the boundary between the information transfer happening in the brain and the transfer happening at any location or any time? Can you at least see that a definite boundary is unfindable?

They are definitely different in effects. I've had both, but not with enough frequency to give a detailed rundown of the differences. What I do remember though is that my preference is both combined. And if I remember correctly, S-ketamine was quite a bit more potent.

Anyone who does self-investigation with authenticity can be far happier and less problematic to others. Research says that generally, when someone with cluster B PD (NPD, APD, HPD, or BPD) self-reflects successfully, if they are to eventually become PD-free, they make a stop on the way at avoidant personality disorder for a while. Makes sense. They're probably disgusted and ashamed by their behavior.

My ex almost certainly had BPD, and boy does reading that take me back -- I'd see her glaring at me and would immediately know: we must have just walked past an attractive other-woman... Without even having seen the other-woman, just seeing my girl's face! It wasn't necessarily just the PD, it could have also been the fact that she sucked and you stayed with her. My ex who almost certainly had BPD was wonderful for the most part, aside from some really, really bad jealousy. But she was on a spiritual path too. We managed to stay on good terms after I broke it off, but eventually stopped talking because we kept hooking up. Anyone with PD who has been on a self-reflective spiritual program/path for some time is probably going to be a bit easier to get along with than someone with PD who hasn't. According to some psychological research, eventually some PD's can actually go away -- for instance, if someone suffering from Cluster B PD (Antisocial PD, BPD, HPD, or NPD) hits the point of no return in self-reflection, they can naturally transition into having Avoidant Personality Disorder (makes sense if you think about it), at which point they can just deal with the Avoidant PD, heal further and eventually be PD-free. I saw her recently after years apart and she has totally different energy. Most people with PD who don't do any self-investigation are probably not worth talking to even for a second. At least that's what I've found in my life.

You’re welcome ?

Definitely. One can definitely go that route with Jim Newman, etc, but generally compromise (i.e. actual teaching ) is extremely helpful. Someone with a good balance in this regard is Nargis. I'll link her playlist of one-on-one's for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ybOLXOL8gw&list=PLCWf43MvphNlSRHFEFebwDR3KhAIJZp2G

A saint sees all as pure and benevolent. Bentinho is highly consciousness. But one of the ones I listed was not only simply awake, but very advanced with powers and such -- Rob Burbea. Go to dharmaseed and listen to his talks on soulmaking and jhanas. You might be surprised.

I would consider it radical nonduality, not neo advaita. With that said, yeah it is just like watching Netflix. Unless of course one is actually serious and is really grappling with the message to the point where fear is felt -- if they stay in the body with those sensations right in the center of where it's most painful, then that's as good awakening practice as any. Again though it's just like watching Netflix if they aren't actually serious about their practice, in which case they don't need radical nonduality.

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From what I've seen from him... Yeah, he's a scientist, but he's implied many times that science might not have the ability to arrive at truth. I would agree though that he hasn't been a serious truth-seeker, considering he's meditated and "sought truth" for 20 years and apparently isn't awake. He could be now though (a serious truth-seeker). From the moment one becomes a serious truth-seeker, it's only a matter of time -- a couple years at most -- to awaken.

Veganism + physiology knowledge > standard American diet + lots of soybean and canola oil I'll concede that.

^^^ Seems obvious, but it occurs to me this isn't talked about a lot. First received this intuition from Culadasa years ago. This is extremely powerful -- for its purposes, anyway. In other words: Intentionally attend to what is just about to capture your attention anyway. This is a mind hack that trains it to be wieldy. And it cultivates presence, consciousness/mindfulness, and even gratitude. Or even: Don’t wait.

This is a mouthful, so read carefully: Intend to do exactly what intuition says that habit dictates you're just about to be doing anyway. That's basically it. Don't underestimate it -- At least for a time, that's the whole movement of consciousness expansion, and it can be done in daily life constantly. It trains the mind and character to do exactly what is intended, so "he/she/it" can then: apply that to the process of creation that you are.

There is no one who could ever leave perfection even for a single moment. All moments are appearances in THIS. (just THIS, DAMMIT! ) The lie is pretty incredible though -- from its perspective, it seems just plain real, in spite of not actually happening.

Whatever you call survival, if it appears, has no other. It's just not really survival. It's simply this. There's just this whole unmoving-yet-absolutely-transient timeless infinite, and it's Love, or whatever you want to call non-resistance. Absolute freedom.

Well... Having read this, it is clear that you have either misunderstood my words, or responded to the wrong person. No big deal. (You are preaching to the choir, so to speak.) Of course it's a pointer. I even stated as much. The wall that "I am aware of" isn't real -- that does not mean that on the same level there isn't a wall period. There just aren't any boundaries or separation. Nor is there an agent who moves through time -- that's illusory; an appearance which can stop appearing by virtue of never having been (simply the nature of the false). Of course it's real, obviously. It's just not true. Regarding everything of which you are aware as unreal or not-me or 'not what I'm looking for' is simply a technique (really a special technique that doubles as a pointer) to short-circuit the contracted/bound energy and open up boundless consciousness -- which is where direct insight can occur. That's it. Very simple. Yeah, there are people here who seem to attempt to tell others the truth about the nature of truth, but clearly that's a fool's errand and actually impossible anyway. I can just tell them how to enter territory where the direct insight is, but I can't actually show it to them or make them see it. It's entirely beyond belief or understanding anyway. The body will never transcend the body, obviously -- You're speaking as if you're under the impression that many people here are under the impression that the body can indeed transcend the body. But the body is not what I am. But even prior to awakening, one can cultivate so much samadhi, bodily pain is amazingly not an issue. In fact, if you can be with any sensation in the body with no problem, you're invincible. Because even emotional pain is actually just the mind's interpretation (via hiding) of sensations in the body -- not seeing that is one of the primary blocks to awakening. In other words, there is no illusion.

No, I'm not right. If it's believed, that's not the point. It's simply and only a pointer to boundless consciousness.

If it's something of which "you" (the apparent separate self) are aware, it's not reality -- since there is no separate self / duality.

I would forgive, but if she wants to raise the child it might have to be on her own. But I would prefer to be in an open relationship anyway, so the only way a woman would be able to cheat on me is if she didn't want me sleeping with other women and thus we did not have an open relationship, which would put the responsibility squarely on her shoulders -- so if she's the one who cheated in that scenario, that's a major breach of trust. If I'm okay with an open relationship and she's not, that's a scenario where she should be unlikely to cheat in the first place, in my experience.

A rare few of us who happen to have a very holistic overview of health in general, built-up over years of passion for the subject, could perhaps make veganism work for ourselves if we decided it's simply what needed to be done. But it would certainly be an uphill battle, at least in the beginning. Meat-exclusion already doesn't work well for me, but I can't imagine full veganism. I would not encourage people to give up veganism, but I also wouldn't encourage people to start -- and for people under age 18 or so, I don't think veganism is ever safe unless the person knows everything there is to know about nutrition and physiology, which is impossible. It's a maverick diet -- if someone wants to blaze that trail, go ahead, but leave your children out of it for as long as possible, so you don't stunt their growth. Vegan diet might not be guaranteed to stunt a child's growth (although it actually might be lol), assuming one does everything right (high in the sky), but it is certainly more likely to do so than a balanced diet.