Anton Rogachevski

Is PC culture getting out of hand?

Have you read the article I posted just above? There's always a room for constructive criticism. If enough people understand the situation and credible people will talk about it, there might be resolution eventually.

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/03/22/jack-phillips-masterpiece-cakeshop-lakewood-transgender/?fbclid=IwAR3Ntm3aeNhoPi_9g3MuqKlLSCN1uodI3urPznUgKewg41l8pixAWB9IMcY

Great talk! Going deep on that subject.

Sorry you are right, it's not what my friend said it was.

@Preety_India A true warrior doesn't just attack at every chance, she is wise, she's not looking for confrontations. If need be she's defending what's right.

I would really be hesitant to call this stage green. I personally know people who I believe are stage green, they are sweethearts, just being in their presence is giving you spiritual energy. Political Left is the opposite of that. Taking Post-modernistic beliefs to extreme and being dogmatic about them sounds more like blue, yet a modern version of it. Blue Reborn, with a Green cloak. @aurum I myself have an understanding and empathy for those causes, being a minority and an immigrant, but I don't push it into peoples faces. @Flowerfaeiry Being patient with abuse is not the way to cure the abuser. There's a sickness called codependency which is busy doing exactly that.

@Opo Propagating what exactly?

@Flowerfaeiry Yes, of course it's exaggerated, to try and show a dystopic scenario of how things might get if we keep going the same way. I think they are trying to show that PC culture has infected our culture and it's dictating how things are done. If someone dares to say a different opinion than the mainstream consensus he's ridiculed and being silenced.

Hold my 5-Meo-DMT.

Does an awakened person not feel grief for the death of a loved one?

@LastThursday Good points. Perhaps it's the same as ego death grief. The fact that's it illusory doesn't make it less of loss. @No Self That's why I ask, since death is an illusion, does that cancel out grief? @Nahm Okay smartypants, does god feel grief then? @mandyjw Beautiful.

Is it possible to be absolutley authentic? How can anything in nature be inauthentic?

It can be, if misunderstood. In essence it's like antimatter to paradigms, it cancels all other perpectives and you remain in the void of an unexplained appearance. Nonetheless it is still kinda boring to use it to cancel all possible questions. "It's all just thought..." etc Non-dulity is the truth, but we can't live in that state, we have to materialize to have a sense of meaning and purpose, and in that interplay of illusions there are still interesting questions to ponder. Thank you for the great discussion dudes! Good to be here

@mandyjw It's more about not suffering because of in-authenticity.

@Nahm Yes, you may use the non-dual paradigm to solve all questions, but some questions are still worth asking. The question of being authentic is of the psychological domain, and I guess you may say that awakening is the ultimate authenticity. Or so it appears from a subjective point of view. There are just appearances, so how can we even tell? Are we back again to imagining that our subjective experience is the objective truth?

As an introvert for me all those are true, but i guess it's not a rule of thumb. Great and precise definition!

No idea, what's yours and how is it transcended? I like to think I'm not in any pardigm since it's not of any use.

True dat

Can't a person be authentically introverted and not very expressive?

@Leo Gura Is it possible to practice surrender sufficiently before the trip or is the trip necessary to teach you to surrender?

Can you really separate the spiritual from the psychological?

I mean you really can't question it. Any argument will be reduced to: "just a thought" or "everything is imagination" or "you are a materialist" or "you are thinking too much and over analyzing" or "who's asking?". Of course we are separating here the actual practice of non-duality from it's ideas. Please, don't get me wrong here, I'm a seeker myself, and a very diligent one. I've been on this path for more than 6 years, and my skepticism comes from a loving place. Speaking of Open-Mindedness this value got me very very far, and I believe that a healthy skepticism plays an important role in keeping an open mind. Why? Because in order to open your mind to new possibilities you must have the ability to question your current paradigm.

What troubles me lately is the function of a brain to turn off the ability to distinguish reality from imagination. It happens everytime we dream, because the weird things in a dream would immediately be recognized as not real in a conscious state, but in order for the dream to keep going we gotta have the ability to ignore the weirdness - to perceive it as normal and real. Guess what, the brain is activating that function using its own secreted DMT. Now who's to say that psychedelics don't do just that: turn off the brain's ability to distinguish imagination from reality. This is a scary thought because it threatens all the insights we bring back. Of course one may take enlightenment to be a purely subjective experience which affects one's own relationship to mental objects and still get all the cool benefits - wouldn't that be quite reasonable to admit?