SeaMonster

From your description you're very close to a nondual awakening for sure. It sounds pretty solid, and you also have a pretty good attitude about the whole situation. So I wouldn't worry about trying to understand higher states, because whatever you're doing seems to be working. It's all about surrendering this idea of "I" as just another thought that you can discard. Edit: Let me rephrase that better - whatever your current conception of "I" is, treat it as another idea to be discarded, and you do this until there is no conception of "I." This may go through different states, from the separate self I through the infinite cosmic "I" etc. That's the basic journey.

I think this is called "claiming the moral high ground." If you simply claim you're on the side of The Good, then of course any collateral damage becomes justifiable (i.e. "you can't break an omelet without making eggs.") This is a common motif in witchhunts and moral panics throughout history.

This isn't really anything new and this suggestion that Zoomers are somehow unique in this regard is either journalistic ignorance or deliberate narrative humping. Gen Xers were said to have similar attitudes -- you can watch movies like Reality Bites with Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder from 1994. They were the "slackers." And some of them went to found start-ups or got involved in web 1.0 in the 1990s, to escape the corporate world. And before that you had hippies/Boomers. (Oh, and I forgot about punks in between/late Boomers.)

It depends how granular you want to make it and where you begin. But starting at stable "non-doer" let's say 5 stages with the 5th being the complete dissolution of the thought "I" or unity consciousness. Non-doer is like suddenly there is no separate self center -- but it's a bubble of localized consciousness where the center used to be. Then the localized bubble expands indefinitely, i.e. cosmic consciousness, e.g.

You have to simultaneously do psychotherapeutic work and spiritual work and not treat spiritual work as somehow superior (because it isn't.) Spiritual seeking is fundamentally spiritual bypassing. You can't be like "oh, getting enlightened will automatically solve all my problems." At best, it will make it easier to work on them.

There is no doer but it's sporadic? If that's the case, you're close to a nondual awakening. "No doer" has to become permanent to be in the "first stage."

Aren't you directing judgment towards those people? "Let's judge the judgmental, and that's perfectly ok and I'm not being judgmental" is not a logic I can get behind -- too much spiritual ego. Which is why I don't claim not to judge.

Polls don't necessarily have a lot of meaning because the people being polled aren't necessarily told all the implications stemming from a certain policy. E.g. "Do you think there should be universal free college?" vs. "Do you think there should be universal free college and we pass a 20% value added tax to pay for it?" People like free shit in a fantasy world where such a thing is possible, they don't like paying out the ass for free shit in taxes. So the point is mostly to attempt to bluff at there being more support for a policy than there actually is. The only thing that matters in politics is how the actual vote goes. Polls and news stories are mostly noise.

Green is fine in small doses. You need some environmental regulations and accommodations for the disabled, e.g. At a certain point Green becomes a monster that destroys everything in its path, making a society unlivable. It is notoriously bad at large scale social engineering, like attempting to mandate equality of outcomes (which exists virtually nowhere in nature.)

If you're saying you've reached the stage where there is no subject-object duality (unity consciousness) then the feeling of being out of control will pass after some months. You have to give it some time. There is a period of clean-up that happens and it's not always pleasant. Really, you need to give it a good three years to let all the crap drain out.

Seeing through the separate self is only stage one of the awakening process. And yes, your experience of feeling out of control is typical of reaching this stage. Now you have to see through the localized bubble "no-self" consciousness to go further.

I don't think Twitter is really entitled to the trust of the public after errors of this magnitude (after all the sanctimonious lectures we received for 4 years about "election interference".) What we need is what Musk is apparently offering -- algorithmic transparency, evenhandedness in moderation, and an end to creepy shenanigans such as shadow-banning -- as well as erring on the side of more free speech rather than more moderation.

Think of self realization as uncharted territory, an entirely different framework. So you don't even know if any of your questions make sense in the context of this new framework. Don't put the cart before the horse.

There are some traditions like Bwiti where after several supervised journeys, you can do iboga by yourself. But this is after proper initiations. First and second time experiences can be very frightening.

The most problematic case is the interference in the 2020 election by censoring the NY Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop which was recently confirmed. This is worse than anything "Russia" has supposedly done to interfere with US elections. In essence, a cover up of potential -- even likely -- corruption by a presidential candidate by political partisans. Then, there are cases of simply holding accounts in suspension until they delete "problematic" tweets (such as the Babylon Bee "Man of The Year" joke about the HHS secretary.) So jokes which do not toe the woke orthodoxy line are now an issue? Then there is the more subtle problem of shadow-banning accounts.

As was mentioned above, psychic inflation (i.e. "spiritual ego") is a very common problem and the more you take psychedelics without fully integrating the insights you have received, the worse it gets. At some point you may have serious difficulty functioning in the real world. Also, most young people are just too immature to fully handle the effects. Psychedelics DO NOT automatically make you more mature. This is something that has to happen where you accept feedback from reality, not merely escape into some kind of false sense of expanded consciousness. You still have to live in the real world after your trip, and the temptation for young or immature people is this "I know better than you because I've had cosmic insights on psychedelics" attitude (which is utter self-delusion.)

He is right, though. Taking psychedelics in the right set and setting (i.e. with a shaman) is much safer. LOL. Most people are not morons, they check reviews of others who have been to a psychedelic retreat. It's impossible to get away with that in this day and age. Nothing is a one-size-fits-all deal. Nevertheless smart people pick situations with much better odds of success. If you have a bad trip, you need someone to reassure you and make sure you know how to handle any extreme experience.

Yes, this is why I hate the use of the word "omniscient" on this forum. Like, wtf? You can't be using that word and then say there is more to explore. It's contradictory. (I'm not even saying "don't say omniscient unless you can tell me Monday's Powerball numbers" )

Sports? Relationships? Work? Learning useful skills? Not everything has to be intellectual.

I don't understand why people complain about censorship on the forum. Leo is the owner of the forum and is going to censor based upon his preferences and opinions of how things oughta be. This is not a free speech forum. Leo has particular political and philosophical beliefs and he wants to promote these beliefs. So people who think that's a bunch of crap should stop whining and either find another forum or start their own. Leo follows the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.

In my experience, IFS and "nonduality" are both necessary as far as holistic spiritual work. Here's the problem: IFS alone is very nice, but it's a delusion to think you can ever properly integrate the parts without dropping ego attachments. The ego construction means an inevitable preference and prioritizing of certain parts due to attachment. And nonduality is very nice, but without IFS you have not integrated, so you're in a let-go state but with many of the same issues that you had prior to enlightenment. It is best to do BOTH, otherwise your results will be limited.

There is nothing disturbing in the video. You are disturbed because you are taking snippets out of context and misinterpreting what he means. You are getting triggered by certain words, in essence. What he is saying is what anyone who is enlightened knows. First there is a self, a center, then there is a localized expanded self (i.e. a bubble), then there's a fully expanded self infinitely radiating outward, then there is bliss or God consciousness...and the last step is the cessation of any strand of self. So think about the logic of the process of becoming awakened: gradual expansion of self until all sense of self is lost and merges into a field of awareness. At that point, you can perform a test: look at something, like your phone, e.g. and mentally ask "who is the subject and which is the object?" The feeling that returns is that there isn't a subject or object, there is only one field of awareness. So stop getting triggered by words people use. Words have different meanings in different contexts. Stop subjectively assigning the scariest possible meanings to them.

LOL. Posting this, acknowledging this, puts you ahead of 99.9% of the people out there, and apparently many on the forum. Being aware of how your psyche operates is the first step to awakening. Hell, it may be the first step after awakening for some. You just have to understand that the reason for the distractions has to do with unmet needs or unprocessed pain. On the basic level, you may simply be tired or lacking in proper nutrition, or not enough exercise. More profoundly, there may be emotional wounds that keep getting triggered and are being masked by these distractions. So create a plan to change your lifestyle so you're proactively addressing these issues.

Congressmen got very close to being killed (Scalise was wounded) at that baseball game by a Bernie nut, and the media pretty much yawned and moved on. That was actually a much more direct example of what you're talking about, there is no need to speculate about it. Presidents have been assassinated several times (and others wounded) in our nation's history and there hasn't been an outright collapse. So with all due respect, get some perspective.

Seriously? It came nowhere close to collapsing, get serious. That's hyperbole of the highest order, and the reason why I can't take complaints about toxicity of Twitter seriously. At some point you can't keep going to the "everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi" playbook. A large majority of the country has opinions that, if freely expressed on Twitter, would get them banned (such as regarding transgender issues.) That's unsustainable for a "public square."