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Curious: Whar role does your ancestry (grandparents, great greatparents) play in shaping your personality traits, charecterustics, deeply rooted idiodyncrasies e5c.

@Sugarcoat I will buy your book. Good work. Lol

@Leo Gura lmao this had me laughing my ass off on the toilet. Lol

@Sugarcoat lol, idk what that means. It is like me asking, if I have a toe, but my toe is attached to my body, does that mean that I have one body and one toe, or just one body of which the toe is a part? Then you remember, oh wait: I have 10 toes! But even this is wrong as you now remember that u are Every being in existence and thus possess all toes to ever toe This is the Ultimare TOE

Lol, exactly: just a thought 🤣

@jimwell lol I mEANt for my name to be "swamijiben" but fucked up and missed the W Like a yogi, dig it? Thx for your kind words HABIBI NAMASCAR

@jimwell thanks you for that. I think my ancestry affected me, beyond physical appearence, in terms of my general demeanor. Just the way I carry myself. But all of that programming can be easily overridden. If I stay in a foreign country like India for just a few months, I start absorbing their cultural tendencies and my personality and language is transformed just like that. I am very much a product of my enviornmemt. Otherwise, I see my reactive tendencies as stemming from cultural mannerisms of my ancestors. The middle-eastern in me is a direct, dry, politically incorrect side of me that has no respect for politness. The Eastern European in me is... IDFK. Whatever the case, I suspect that, as you said, these things do play some kind of role in our development. Otherwise it's all just imaginary lol 😛

@Carl-Richard lmao

@Clarence this is what I was thinking. My logic followed that it would be highly useful to study the predilections of your ancestors in order to gain a deep understanding of certain deeply-rooted fears and biases of your EgoMind

The problem with Christianity is the same problem of fear and guilt and shame, all of the reasons we dread existence and suffer like flopping fish. Christianity is only particularly prevalent in Western civilization due to the consequences of the dark ages which continue to persist despite the conscious recognition of its victims. The West is a vast, epistemic cesspool of verbose jargon and mental ejaculate. The Church constructs a lollypop world, replete with pedophiles and popes, clowns and clerks, bishops, baptisms, nuns and blasphemy. There are stories upon stories: enough for a lifetime. In it you can find Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. You can find the remnants of the Holy Ghost, or was that the Holy Spirit? Jesus Christ, am I right? These insights came to me after speaking with a version of myself that I consider to be a friend. In this case, I had reconnected with him after years. He began telling me about God. He told me that he had everything figured out and that he would show me the way. He told me he had found God through Jesus Christ. He made it sound so good, so real, so serious. I almost believed him In the end, I realized that the deception of Christianity is not the deception of Christians. It is my own deception. I am the devil. Me.

@jimwell yoooo, Well of Jimmy! What's happennin?! My grandmothers were also sweet ladies, albeit grumpy and conceited at times. I still have one grandfather remaining. He is 96 and sharp as a spade. I did not really mean to ask, however, what role your indivudal ancestors played in your development but rather what role ancestry itself plays. For instance, say your ancestry is Cuban, Syrian, & Hungarian. Does that significantly contribute, if at all, to the structute of your EgoMind? This was supposed to be the original question of this post

@xeontor "Below is a strictly epistemology‑focused autopsy of where (and how) Leo Gura’s method of “knowing” goes off the rails. Nothing here is an attack on him as a person; the same pitfalls can trap any of us when we lean too hard on extraordinary states of consciousness. I use “Leo” as shorthand for the pattern." Just to be sure, Leo does not propose a "method of knowing." He offers many in his line of work but none of them come even somewhat close to what the FUCK he is truly talking about. Truth is not about the best method. Analyzing and dissecting supposed ways to God will get you precisely nowhere. Good luck

Lol. That's a MouthFull

@Salariatu For sure, man. Will definitely give a go at the Shambhavi Mudra. Have you experienced any benefits from your practice? Please do share... Such possibilities make me excited. My cock is hardening at the prospect of reaching enlightenment thru this specific meditation.. @Breakingthewall 2 ug?? Lol you must weigh 20 pounds, otherwise you are floating in outer space! @PurpleTree Vat is Dat? (radical nonduality talks) @CoolDreamThanks Again, your admirable and passionate commitment to studying ACIM is worthy and noble.

@Ishanga Thank you, Mr. Ishanga. Your words are juicy and insightful. You're the best @CoolDreamThanks Lol. This made me laugh a lot. It also humbly reminds me that, as I intuited, I did not ask the original question of this post for the sake of pursuing truth or pure understanding but rather because I was looking to fulfill another fantasy. FUCK! However, just as you are admirably and passionately studying ACIM in the hopes of reaching an ultimate end, or at least witnessing the positive development of your intimacy with Truth and Understanding, so I will set off on a journey of my own to eventually experience what I consider to be the best state in the world right now in this very moment. Amen. God Bless your Soulless Soul @Breakingthewall Everything you said seems spot on except for less empathetic. I would also add that I am not just talking about how I feel in a party or social event but also when sitting in the scorching sun of the slums of Delhi while watching flies whiz around me and rest on my limbs.

@Yimpa thank you. This video is most stupefying. What do you interpret the buttons to represent?

@Breakingthewall Right. I have considered that the answer I am looking for simply does not exist because the LSD state is a chemical induced state that is not sustainable in sobriety. In an earlier post I found about this topic, Leo made a comparison between accessing the psychedelic state sober and taking steroids; you just can't experience the benefits of steroids in sobriety: it's a drug, it's a chemical. That makes sense. But insofar as what I am looking for is personal benefits and not consciousness itself, it follows that I may need to practice social skills or some such. Yet, the solution is obviously not "practicing my social skills," since when I am SuperConscious (off a 1/3 tab dose or whatever), I realize that I have no social skills problems and I am the most socially skilled person... So, in that case, the only solution really is "consciousness." Right? I guess this ties into the concept of "baseline level of consciousness (definitely an obscure concept). Therefore, my question can be rephrased as: "How do I raise my baseline level of consciousness to that state which I experience off just a small dose of acid? Is it even possible? Surely it must be.. Thank you all for your time [insert big heart emoji]

@Sugarcoat Yes, there is definitely less insecurity. In the state that I am talking about, my charisma and sense of humor and overall social aptitude is through the roof. At work, I close every deal. At a party, I'll attract everyone. My presence is magnifying. I get high off laughing at myself. My grasp of language is utterly profound, and it comes out in riddles and cosmic jokes that play on words. My gaze is grounded. I feel unperturbed. In sobriety, when talking with someone, it feels as if my mental-emotional gets "tossed around" with them. I will enter a whirlpool of feelings in synch with whoever I am communicating with, plus my own mental baggage. In the state that I am talking about, however, it is as if when listening or speaking to someone, I am able to remain utterly unperturbed by how they are behaving, what they are saying, etc. I still intellectually comprehend the meaning of their words, but because I am so unreactive and do not take their words to mean more than they do, I am able to respond with such composure, confidence, clarity, etc.

Lol, this is funny. I was just contemplating today about the Value of Money What is the value of 5 Dollars?: the Million Dollar Question... Obviously, money aint worth shite independent of our collective consensus, value-making, blah blah blah — it's an illusion, isn't it? But intellectually understanding that is ALSO not worth shite if, when push comes to shove, and u drop $400 cash info the fucking ocean that u just made after slinging fish in the rain, or — somehow worse — you lose your LIFE SAVINGS bc of a market crash thing whayever, and YOU GET UPSET ABT IT! So, you have only transcended the illusion of money (which is a parriculary nasty bastard of an illusion) if u truly dont care or differentiate between the value of $5 and $92828×8×9×88 dollars... REALLY understanding this illusion would restore your dignity & make u infinitely aware of the reality that u are not only worth more than 80 million dollars, bur all the gdp of nations combined. That is because money is worth just as much as the wart on my fat toe that im looking at right now Prove me wrong!

All of yall talking about garbage and trash, vulgar this, vulgar that. That's fucking disgusting! Why don't we talk about rainbow unicorns dancing in the motherfucking spotlight?

What ur doing seems good. If ur going slowly, digesting and absorbing the material, it means u care abt comprehending and embodying it There is no need or rush or goal to "finish the book" Much better to understand & implement the significance of just one sentence in a given book than to read the whole thing and move on to the next one This ain't laying bricks, man Check out this video for how learning works.

Your most recent quote, "What was the most intelligent thing that has ever lived, and what did it understand?" Is the answer simply "You" or "Me?" Just like that? Simple? Or are you entertaining the notion of some three-eyed species in a galaxy far far away that somehow understands more than us? And about what?? Thank you

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If this is true, then I'll be damned. If I'm not damned, then I must be asleep! Yawwwwnnnnn, good morning! NOW WHERE'S MY FUCKING COFFEE??