Toby

There is no advanced. There is only what is.

Totally agree. The whole thing with "life purpose" in the external is pretty much a neurosis too imo. You don't need to solve anything to live your real purpose. 0%. It's easier if there is less neurosis to begin with though.

Why?

Enlightenment and Truth is and can not experienced. What can experienced are at best flavours / tastes of Truth which itself are not to be confused with It. At least that is how I see it right now.

He's been in the spiritual game a long time and has been friends with Eckhart a long time. I remember him seeing on Oprah's "A New Earth" Series back in 2008 or something. So nothing really surprising.

Yes, chop wood, carry water.

"I have to make reality flow" - is this true?

The technology of it is the future. The greed to make money is not the future.

It describes the states of consciousness that Ken Wilber uses in his map: gross, subtle, causal / "sat-chit-ananda" (turiya), nondual (turiyatia). And then different ways of perceiving spiritual "experiences" regarding to that states are laid out; and with that also the misconceptions people might have confusing spiritual experiences on the more superficial levels with deeper ones.

Does your experiences with psychedelics match with what is being said here (in german): https://goo.gl/serCqQ ?

Might also apply here regarding ego:

It's based on the assumption that there is something wrong. You cannot fight the wrongness-illusion with another illusion or agenda called "forgiveness". Just notice the isness. This is enough imo.

I've met many masters and the only one where you couldn't ask questions was Eckhart Tolle. - at least as I remember. Also, you have to see what a teacher really is. It is not a person. It is you. The teacher points you back towards you and calls you towards you. From spectator mode it is really easy to misunderstand their function.

@John Iverson my sense is that you had some insight and got a bit too high on it and now you are preaching what your ego turned that into. I could be wrong though.

It belongs to life. I just read about the possibility of transplanting a head. Assuming this is possible one day... are you the head with a new body or are you a body with a new head? Or is the body just the body and you are something else?

Don't mistake the type - probably an Enneagram 8 with psychopathic tendencies (like most politicians) - for the stage. Putin could very well be more orange than one might think initially. Russia in general I would say is more blue with red and orange elements.

This moment.

I'm pretty sure that there are some that don't drink or eat and just meditate - enlightened or not.

As I might reported before, I've been to a retreat where someone was advised by the teacher not to attend the meditation sessions and go into nature instead. Only you can judge if meditation overwhelms and destabilizes you in such a way that it would be good to take it a bit more easy. So there might be cases where the advise of the therapist is actually helpful.

That is not true. Byron Katie was in a mental institution and did a lot of therapy sessions. Eckhart supposedly did the whole ACIM before his awakening. Both needed time for integration. I think an awakening is possible for anyone anywhere but that is something different than enlightenment.

Sounds like the teacher of Shinzen Young but I guess he was "just" "abusing" adults. But here in Germany there is a Zen-priest that started his practise in 1977 and just got convicted for sexual abusing children and teenagers.

You could listen to this guided meditation. It's very much compatible with Ramana's approach and als examines feelings - what you are and what you are not.

so you don't even care to read people's signals and respect if they are not open to your eye contact and hugging? Regarding the topic I found that https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307345300/ as audiobook helpful for me.

Bitcoin is a fiat currency as well. I am personally not interested in making profits with trading but I'm excited about the possibilities such technologies could bring as a change in the world regarding politics.