Toby

Peaceful Warrior, Revolver, Matrix have at least elements that have to do with the topic.

Krishna Das feat. Sting (yep, that guy from The Police) & Jai Uttal

I guess it doesn't really exist. It is mostly due to need that the guy isn't able to be clear what he wants and set clear boundaries. So he then wastes his time with a woman he is not really interested in but to whom he is due to horniness/need addicted to. The counterpart is mostly a socially retarded woman or some woman with deep issues with borderline/psychopathy/sociopathy/narcicism/histrionic personalitis. They are by default unable to respect you. Thats just who they are. It's your job to avoid them and not theirs to change.

@Nomad Thanks for posting. Do you know of resources where several developmental lines are shown? For example it would interest me very much how the sexual line/stages would look like.

No. He is actually very awake imo. His approach might be unusual that he fuses Advaita with kinda like Self-help and Channelings like Abraham, Bashar, Ra doesn't mean he is not awake. Also you have to consider his personality. He is most likely highly extroverted, maybe Enneatype 7 or 3, so his life looks different than Tolle or Shinzen Young. Imo he is very enlightened, but he may have some or a lot of unconscious stuff going on. As every teacher has.

Has nothing to do with you being black but with being a guy. That's at least my opinion.

You can even look at all the teachers that were leaving their bodies very early or developed severe diseases. Maybe that also doesn't fit how a "spiritual" person should be from peoples perspectives. There are at least 10 I can think of that didn't live 60 years or even comitted suicide. If you want to know the names, let me know. Edit: Yogananda, Chogyam Trungpa, Nathan Gill, Rama Tirtha, Thomas Merton, Radha Ma (suicide), Vivekananda, 16th Karmapa, Osho, Therese of Lisieux.

Nisargadatta Maharaj was selling cigarettes and smoked. David Hawkins smoked. Alan Watts was maybe even an alcoholic. Osho was taking drugs and had his rolls royces. And many many teachers abuse their power and have/had sex with students. I don't see anything wrong with Bentinho.

Jarrah

Janin Devi

Beautiful and famous pic. However, when I look at it, I get the impression that the artist just displays a otherworldly or heavenly realm - which is not the same as enlightenment. Would be interesting to know the story behind it and what the artist meant by it.

Jeff Johnson

Deva Premal & Miten

How altruistic and kind. It's a similar business structure like Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Why don't they put out a book or a video on DVD/YouTube? Has it really to be that secretive and exclusive?

So does a book/dvd or something like this exist where everyone can learn it or do you have to do a course?

I like Peter Levine's work (books / audiobooks). He has different books/audiobooks - also on how to work with children. He also has an audiobook on "sexual trauma" which I found to be very accurate. But I'm not specifically drawn to works dealing with "childhood abuse", so there might be a lot more books on that out there by other authors.

It really depends what the focus is. A lot of traditions do meditation/contemplation/mantras/recitation. You can find it in every religion. The question is, if the aim is dogmatism or liberation. Maybe you could tell what it means for you?

Another cartoon that's very beautiful:

@werlight many children have that. But they are unconscious of it and they loose it and fixate in ego. Born enlightened means that you don't fixate that much and are conscious of your being.

Please do a video where you make a distinction between the subtle/causal realms & the "spiritual" experiences and powers that come with it and a spirituality that is based on truth. There seems a lot of confusion between the two.

@The Son couldn't agree more. the funny thing is, even though I would like a forum with no ratings, my mind somehow even pays some importance to it. So funny. And insane. Even if I'm aware of it. I guess minds are addicted to approval and hurt by disapprovel, even if it's some random guy/girl in an internet-forum.