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@Holykael If anything, is the person that need to let go - only when the person does, it realizes it was God all the time and there wasn't anything to truly let go.

@Jo96 This is a joke right? This guy is mostly blue-orange. He supported Trump. Most of this conversations were historical incaccuracies, bad takes on society's problem and lack of integral thought in general that even the warm Lex Fridman had to hold back. A tier 2 would be someone like Daniel Schmachtenberger. See the difference betwen the two.

According to the esoteric western tradition, only those who dedicated atleast part of their life to a spiritual practice can "return" with a new incarnation on earth. A proper practice should couagulate some sort of "memory body" able to sustain the after-death process and a new incarnation. People whom interests are only materialistic literally end their experience with the first incarnation or even regress to the animal kingdom. A " very, very old soul"(on the bridge of total liberation, let's say) should realistically incarnate once every 500-600 years, so that things will be enough different for this soul to have a fruitful experience. on the contrary, the more you are attached to world dynamics the faster you incarnate, given that you were able to cement even germ of this memory body.

@RMQualtrough Yes i was hinting at this at this towards the end of my post @Jordan I would say IS reality everchanging but at they same time every moment/object appearing is in and of itself Absolute and eternal, holding the caracteristics of its creating foundation. Things appear finite when actually they are a whole by themselves.

So, this is my first topic opener and for the occasion i thought about an insight i'v never seen addressed in here (or if it has been i didn't catch it): Every object exist eternally and infinitly Notice that whatever object is present in your experience (a physical object like a phone, an abstract idea, even a whole circumstance) will be present eternally and infinitly. You might say: "But i think of many things during the day and have different experiences!", actually, this is a level of delusion higher though. Think of a unicorn. Soon you forget. Later, it seems to reappear if you think about it again, but actually, if you are perfectly present, you see that it is always there in your experience, and as is every thing else, even your frames of reference for saying that it wasn't. You might object: "but i clearly had another thought 30 sec. ago! "<------------------now, this thought (in the istance you have it, which is Absolute aswell) became you new infinite and eternal object!, and so on for eternity What we call memory is a particular experience that, in turn, exists Abosolutely and therefore doesn't have any correalation any other experience. Decostructing memory is one of the keys to deconstructing reality. You can notice this with all objects, and this what i mean when i say that every object is Absolute and exists Forever, you are just imagining they have links with each other (this aswell is another absolute thought-object)! Penetrate enough this fact and you'll realize all products of coscousness are essencially the same because they are Absolute, literally. Diversity is an illusion. This experiment points out that every bit experience, if investigated enough, loses its coordinates of time and space, and therefore its essence is revealed. Counterintuitively, after this further realization object don't stop being absolute and so they keep arising, conferming the rule Contemplating this will shatter many illusions, expecially those stricky related to the belief in the concreteness of Space and Time.

@Someone here if you deconstruct everything, then yes. My insight was a step behind this. no. You are ok with present and future being constructs but not the past? Whatever you call memory is experienced now. There was never a past. The past is a construct as much as future and present. Whatever is thought to have happened in a past is actually being created now, literally. @Osaid is on point here. This is a classic fallacy. If a construct exist, that doesn't mean you can bend its rules with your own limited will. This is about understanding the nature of a construct/creation rather then its manipulation. An Absolute kind of Will created those rules. In the waking state you cannot walk through a wall, but still the wall is a construct of imagination and isn't concrete (of course i'm also imagining that i cannot go through it)

@mr_engineer again, you just have a distorted picture of what pick up is. Most of is not shady. And it is not a trick. No amount of shadow work can prevent you from being attracted to some one if you genuinly are. Even if you meditate i think your dick still gets hard when you see a pair of boobs Same with with girls when good traits of a man are shown to them. You are not - tricking - anyone. You just learn how attraction work- Bro, if in youre life you are constantly having great realtionship full of love and joy then you don't need to learn pick up. Unfortunatley this is not the standard, and most poeple have never head a great relationship, let alone sustain it. Of course like in all areas you find poeple that try to exploit you. This doesn't mean that because of this you must discredit a whole movement. There are innumerable grifters in the spiritual community aswell. Does it mean that the whole of spirituality is a hoax? pick-up done right DOES work. i agree with you on the rest. You might not believe it or not, but social skills can be improved and there are ways to do that, and poeple teach it, and it works. What you said here can be applied everything then. You can eat the fish raw just took from the river, why cook it? The answer? Survival.

@mr_engineer No one has ever said PA first goal is to find make you find the love of your life. This might be a product of it. As i already said you do coscious dating so that you become more authentic, leading, decisive, pleasent and fearless man. And this will make you good at attracting women, and you can't escape the attraction phase in relationship. Even if you find this hypothetical enlightened woman, you willl still have to attract her, make her curious about you, impress her. You will will have to go on dates with her. what do you expect? that she's going to fall for you just because you have spirituality in common? You see what i'm saying? how are you going to solve this? You might say "I'm going to be me and act naturally" but what if your natural you is an unattractive, unecperienced, fearful, boring guy? Chances are that clueless guy, but funnier and more interesting than you will take her away and you'll be left with nothing This is where conscious dating theory and practice comes in action. It seems to me that it is you the one that believes in in that steriotipical love you accuse women to believe in. You are basically asking to play a concert a the opera with little knowledge on how to touch a piano to make those beatiful melodies. What about all the practice you must do and lessons you have to take? Same with enlightenment: “Gaining enlightenment is an accident. Spiritual practice simply makes us accident-prone.” – Suzuki Roshi

@mr_engineer so: 1- You are making the error of thinking pick up is not ethical from God's perspective. If you want to make spiritual, look at it from this perspective: you do pick-up to gain abilities, traits and remove mental hindrances that will make you more authentic, centered, positive, and from this newly aquired place, then be really able to truly give and recieve LOVE. if for manipulation you mean - Behave in a certain way with poeple so that it will cause them to act in certain way - then, in every relationship you use some degree of manipulation (parents, lovers, friends etc.) Now, i understand you worrings, as some viscious poeple, including the majority of PUA's, don't hesitate to make poeple suffer in order to get what they want. But there is also conscientious and sustainable ways to use Pick-up techniques so that every one wins. So where should we stop then? The aswer is, as any rule on human decency would suggest, do not use your ability to hurt poeple psichologically and phisically. This requires us to try to be always in check with the emotional state of the (potential) partner. 2- keep in mind that most realtions fails anyway. You should be in relatioship to have a good time, experience intimacy, complity, to gain insight into your self and others and possibly, love. But even the greatest of love can end. This to say that pick up and relatioship in general are a way to meet you bodily and psichological needs. So don't make the error of searching spiritual completeness and satisfactoriness into another human being. Even though is safe to say that the dating game can help in the progress, the ultimate spiritual work must be done alone, indipendently of all the rest.

@mr_engineer Survival is not just having a roof over your head. What about her need to feel strong emotions, be led and dominated, stimulated mentally and sexually, the thrill of being with a player? How is she going to get that from a needy boring ass nice guy?

@SQAAD Actually, you are asking this from a dual point of view, see how you mention your psyche, your needs, your biases etc. Notice how humans repulse these concepts. Ask your self why. God on the other hand, cares for the well beings of all threads of imaginations it creates, so in its being, indifference, cruelty, viciousness, brutality, are allowed to be what they are, lovingly "but they are baaad!!!" - to you and from your tiny perspective, maybe "meaning" is a concept created by humans so they cam make sense of reality. God's POV doesn't nead ameaning or purpose to make sense of itself. If you get above your POV you could appreciate that without pain thre woulden't be pleasure aswell. without this duality the manifested universe wouldn't exist.

@michaelcycle00 Why this negativity? Investigate gently, for what's possible. It already did, that's why you exist he was talking about a specificmstate of reality that you can get into, which doesn't contraddict Oneness

If you feel like it's too much to handle take a break and go do "normal" things, don't be to hard on your self. You need integration. Then come back stronger, starting to look at how you're finite identity is reacting to your contemplations. Next stop is digregating this identity, because it is the one your negative feelings and belief about reality hinge upon Look at your tendency to strumentalize any conclusions you get to. The answer is, whatever you want

@melontonin You can see how it works on a small scale: ex. You think of think of drinking water ------> then you actually go do it and have the experience. ------ So we can assume it can work on a bigger scale aswell. Harder to do and to prove but we can get some hints. Ex. Manipulating your feelings, beliefs and mindset is already a form of law of attraction applied. By having the right kind of feeling, right now, throwing in the bin limiting beliefs, replacing them with better beliefs, having a clearer and detailed idea of what you want, you are in a sense, already closer to your goal. If you apply this priciples, tied with visualization for example, you'll start to get syncronicities etc., and those are certainly real, and are not mistakable for "random coincidences". Look at Jung's work for referance. This of course doesn't mean that you should be sitting for the fruit to fall in you hand, work and action is still needed, so as it is said: "God helps those who help themselves". no magic, this is being logical. This is true, but doesn't disprove the law of attraction, because reality is impersonal, but still structured by laws. In the Dream, you know the laws well enough, you can know how to use them, an if you know howw to use them, you can get what you want faster.

@Vibroverse true true aswell -------- In general, don't take any religous scripture too literally, as it usually is stuffed with cultural bullshit of the time. You can certenly find encoded mysticism in the quran, but is often covered in allegories etc., and certanly not the main purpose of the book. If you want to spiritual interpretation of Islam, research Sufism.

@ThanksFrom Culadasa's book, The mind Illuminated: Attention: The cognitive ability to select and analyze specific information and ignore other information arising from a vast field of internal and external stimuli. Attention is one of two forms of conscious awareness. Peripheral awareness is the second: we pay attention to some things, while simultaneously being aware of, but not attending to, others. Attention isolates some small part of the field of conscious awareness from the rest so that it can be identified, interpreted, labeled, categorized, and its significance evaluated. The function of attention is discernment, analysis, and discrimination. I suggest you to read the whole book, expecially its explenation of the mind-system. It's a practice manual, but there's planty of theory aswell.

@CuriousityIsKey You are mistaking God's Love for human selfish "love". True Love is so loving that allows suffering and misery to exist and doesn't distinguish between things, like we humans do. Not attracting, nor rejecting.

@Salvijus this humbleness and honesty from a master struck me, you don't see it everyday

ok this is interesting, if you go to minute 19.34 , he discuss a possible method to discover if someone in NOT an Arahat.... then goes on to say that he doesn't claim to be fully liberated (i would say he is though).

@BlueOak because hate, like every personal feeling, reinforces the ego. And if you are born in this day and age, Ego-mode is the standard. When Ego is seen through enough, i don't think you are ever capable of hating someone.

@Spiral Wizard your biases. in more general terms, i think hinduist teachers tend to be more charismatic. But you can't boil down enlightment to a dick measuring contest, expecially at their level. Readiance. really??? Both dudes never gave me the idea that they are not awake, anyway.

@Spiral Wizard you don't find certan esoteric practices in books. We are talking of very advanced staff, that requires total control of the atral/subtle body. In addition, i suppose that to remain in the world after the death of the phisical body, you must possess remarcable power of will and an out of the ordinary amount of energy. @Leo Gura keep in mind the size of his audience

@Leo Gura This is sincerely out of curiosity, i'm not argumentative: What do you think Wilber would answer if asked "are you conscious that you are God?" ?

I get the feeling that we mean the same things, but we have different way expressing them..... What you call Pure consciousness i was calling Truth

@Someone here haha of course truth exists, but i explained afore that it won't reveal itself as long as ego/pov/perspective is active and percived as solid entity or activity. That is exacly the point. The aswer is: Truth is the Content of experience (perception or no perception) but become evident only when there is a shift in the Context of experience (awakening). So your last line si factually wrong, you CAN have no perceptions and still be coscious (countless material on this has been written, (expecially in Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, research the practice of Yoga Nidra) so no, Truth is indipendent of perception. Actually, Truth becomes self-evident without perceptions, sice sensory noise can function as a distraction. Good reasoning but wrong conclusion. True, the boundery between perciever and percieved is illusory. As i've said, you can have conscousness/awereness wothout perceptions.