SeaMonster

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."

I would get a medical check-up to rule out any physical health issues, including vitamin deficiencies, but if everything checks out ok, just ride it out. The ego likes to play these games to get you to stop.

Kundalini awakening side effects of some type are normal. I had dizziness a few times. No big deal. It passes.

I think he knows what he is up against. He is creating a lose-lose scenario for Twitter, and a win-win scenario for himself. Either he buys Twitter and takes it private or he exposes Twitter for what it is to the normies, and takes it down in the process. Basically, Twitter position is that an elite group of people is going to unilaterally decide what good ideas are (i.e. as in Moses bringing tablets down the mountain.) Sorry, that's not the spirit in which the US was founded. Accounts are getting banned for politically incorrect jokes. That's not going to fly for long.

No offense, but posting a Will Smith graphic kind of defeats the argument, as he is clearly delusional if he thinks he has attracted the right people into his life. He hasn't attracted the right MAIN person into his life. But the thing is that the language and assumptions used to talk about this subject are really shitty, and confuse (perhaps intended to) people more than they clarify anything. There are a lot of platitudes being thrown around, as well as falsely simplistic thinking. To think that being attractive vs. not being attractive are fixed categories is insane. People can change for the better along many dimensions (being in shape, dressing well, learning social skills, maturing as far as personality, etc.) This is indisputable if you have actually observed people for a long time. The REAL issue is whether you are faking being different or whether you have actually done the real, often painful work of changing yourself for the better. The first is unsustainable and sooner or later you revert back to the old self, while the second is proper, desirable and necessary unless you want to stay mired in misery. It's pretty much get-rich-quick strategies vs. building wealth over time. Same idea.

Totally fair. Enlightenment is a meaningless concept to someone who is not enlightened. It simply means "something good" like having a Tesla or a million bucks.

It isn't done genuinely, that's the point. People here will not admit that they don't really give a shit about "spiritual enlightenment" but rather they are looking for benefits, a better life, less suffering, etc. - i.e. they don't like something in their lives or are missing something. In essence, they are no different than any other human being. They merely think "spiritual enlightenment" is the golden ticket. They can't possibly know what it is, they're merely placing a bet, so to speak. Well, that's kinda the point. Be honest and not afraid to sacrifice, i.e. give up what you cling to. That's the price to pay.

Through surrender. Spiritual seeking is self-deception -- it is finding more subtle and sophisticated ways to prop up the ego. It conceptualizes spiritual attainment as an object of desire and creates all kinds of toxic ego dynamics (e.g. spiritual ego, pride and status.) Spiritual "finding" is about letting go, not about getting or attaining.

This. Improve your diet.