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Yeah go ahead why not? You feel the calling Learn from as many teachers as you can, contrast and expose yourself to a wide range of spiritual experiences and paths. Each one reveals a facet of the beloved One

It's absence is also it's manifestation

He is indeed. I remember him saying once: you keep outsourcing your inner work to me because I do a good job. He has the ability to work in you as much as you are connected to him, anything can happen from kundalini awakenings, powers, changing your inner space, shifts in consciousness, brutal karmic cleansing... Moreover, all the work does not leave the system till it's completion. Years after having an initiation it suddendly starts unfolding again and ending the process. It kind of gets stored, the question is not "if", but "when". This has been specially touching. I'm happy that more people are sharing their personal experience

Trust the experience and work with it instead of against it. 5meo is a benevolent force

Yes there is a slope of development and maturity for religions also, as it is with individual stages it is with colective stages over time. It is the inability to mantain it's original subtance translated to the winds of each generation which ends up killing them. The oldest living tradition which is hinduism, more of a compilation of religions than a single religions, has this principle of: "Unyielding defense of tradition and tireless innovation." Which translates as preserve what has worked in the past and continuosly strive for improvement. Also older is not better but it has been more proof tested against the fire of experience and life. Religion unfolds in diverse dimensions, birthing from mysticism, encompassing sociocultural norms, and traversing through the realms of architecture, food and music. It's a very multifaceted and rich expression. Frorm the side of sociocultural norms, when it has been linked with authority and politics, we have seen many corruptions and evil making. About the science vs religion debate you should get very comfortable with development psychology models like Spiral Dynamics or Susanne's Cook-Greuter ego development research; to really make sense and put into proper context the science vs religion discussions. Try what calls you with a child like curiosity and playfulness. Don't get ideologic, just paths and tools you are trying. Religion is a technology made to access certain states of consciousness.

Happy new yeaaaaaaaaar!

@Princess Arabia You are femenine so take into account that you are waking up from a woman's biological and psychological system. This may include more emotional labour than a man waking up, which will have other areas of work. Take this into account when people answer you, as most people in awakening are masculine and as a matter of fact, we don't have direct experience of being consciousness manifessting through a woman's body and that certainly makes a distance in advice giving and life experiences. Specially in topics where femenine is naturally more involved like emotions.

I don't know anything about this topic but hope you make it through Lots of love man

Shadow Work is not done to repress feeling but to fully feel and process the most repressed and obscure feelings in one's psyche. THere's nothing wrong with being sensitive and empathetic, it's a blessing! but it has to be done in the proper context. It has to come from the space of powerfullness and not from powerlessness. Imagine feelings like waves, when your mind and consciousness is like a bathtub, when little waves come all the water starts falling outside and you can even drown yourself. Imagine this waves in a swimming pool, now in a lake, now in the beach, now in the middle of the ocean. In the same way, your empathy will be able to be expressed in the oceanic deepths of your being, you will not be shaken or want to avoid them as you said earlier, because you will be grounded in a sky like mind. It is not in being sensitive and feeling, it is in the triggering that comes from that ability. Being able to be empathetic and then focusing that tool on others pain and then that triggering inner pain and turmoil. It is when the triggering comes where there might be shadow work to do. In the future you will be able to live the pain and joy from others, without inner wounds spilling out. As it come it leaves the system, like images in a screen. Being empathetic is a huge gift you haven't mastered it yet, why? Because it may be triggering your shadow. I hope I made myself clear, ask if there's something hanging out.

It has been so. The Ruetir (US), OrientalDaily (Malaysia), TickerTV News (US), Koldanews (Senegal) have removed their newspaper articles. Republic World TV has also removed 3 defamatory videos from it's YouTube platform. In last two days, YouTube has taken down 17 more Deep-Fake content targeting Nithyananda, and thus now blocked a total of 100+ such false defamatory videos. It seems that finally things are turning around. We'll see how things continue to unfold in the future. This, if anything, can teach us how easily media can be biased and false, propagating arround the world from newspaper to newspaper. Fooling even the Washington Post, that after further investigation realised they had fallen in a Disinformation Campaign. From that point on, as the giant newspaper made a step back, all the other newspapers did so. It's just so low quality this whole media system it's honestly very sad. They create narratives and worldviews out of thin air and then people cannot distinguish that from reality. I'm pretty sure, you the one reading, is still very reluctant about all of these. The damage already done by the media is very hard to reverse. Just cultivate an awareness of these mechanics within yourself and the world.

Lol was going to write it. I still have not entered deeply in her teachings because I feel I still have to work through other things before, but she's very unique, extremely unique. It is said to be one of the few to go beyond God-Mode, she then had to be taken care of, otherwise she would have become a beggar and maybe also die. Also obviously Sri Anandamayi Ma: Honorable mentions: Hildegarda, Hazrat Babajan, helena blavatsky, mother meera, Sister_Mary_of_the_Divine_Heart, Lal Ded...

I think Yimpa was spot on here. I recommend you to do shadow work. This playlist can be a good entering point. It's good to remember that shadow work cannot be done with personal development nor with awakenings. It is its own unique area that needs to be worked on. This has been confirmed by Ken Wilber and many others. Shadow Work is a must, no matter how awake and no matter how SD advanced you are, you will be doing shadow work but in an extremely inneficient way, side effects of side effects. Shadow Work is the biggest bottleneck for the development of this forum and specially in the spirituality area. It is very much recommended to work on it directly and with appropiate tools https://youtu.be/RROQJYl2jo0?list=PLEOPJybHeNYymvytxsEZLWCcEGFZh4LTE

I was in the Vatican contemplating this two thousand years old statue: I looked at it. The artistic perfection, the pain and struggle in their faces, the vicious snake suffocating and bitting... Suddendly, like a lighting bolt, I stuttered: It's all the same stone, all the same stone... All the dramas in the world are made from the same stone. You're just too engrossed with the form, with your biased form of what you call love, then you think I am pointing to another form, but it's in the Stone the real love and freedom. Let's consider another case. Reality is a universal theatre play, God playing all the roles. In the same way, the actor seems to suffer and be happy and all the spectrum in the scale. But it's just a play, a play of the fluid Stone for it's own entertainment and sake. We are talking of Jesus Christ in the cross style of Love.

Not at all, I'm not saying that. There are so many degrees to the game, to each principle of reality. Love is not concerned or bounded to the DOING domain, this must be understood. To do good or to do bad, to question or not to question, to give love or not to give it. This is skin deep only, valuable at one point but superficial. Love operates in the BEING realm. Existance itself, reality itself, consciousness, aliveness, awakeness, direct experience, thisness... For something to BE it must be LOVE. Beingness=Love You are trying to deduce your way to it, but that's not gonna do it because this is advanced. You need to wake up to what existence is. Then wake up to what love is. Both at a deep enough level, then you need to have a simultaneous & glorious awakening of both facets, Love & Reality. Then make sense of the peak and follow to all of it's ramifications and implications in all domains. Clear your shadow and bias in a myriad of experiences that trigger you... Not your Rupert Spira stage green individual. Also consider this, if you did not have a sense of personal-human-separate "I", there would be no problem, at all.

“In God’s kingdom everything is possible. He is omni­potent. It is none of your business to question what He does for anyone. Why should He always do what pleases you? He is the Lord. What He does - whatsoever — is all for your real good: this is the attitude to be taken.” ~ Anandamayi Ma

If love doens't include pain and suffering it is not love. Love is all inclusive, so inclusive that it doesn't care to do what it wants. Unbiased love, loving both opposites. Simetrical Love, equanimous love, cold love, brutal love, merciless love. I mean this topic is such a huge entanglement of human psychology, shadow, ego, metaphysical understanding, existential love and awakening that it just can't be fully expressed in a few forum answers. You will have to discover it, beyond bias and for yourself, what love is. For the moment I have this quote for you: “In God’s kingdom everything is possible. He is omni­potent. It is none of your business to question what He does for anyone. Why should He always do what pleases you? He is the Lord. What He does - whatsoever — is all for your real good: this is the attitude to be taken.” ~ Anandamayi Ma

Warning: Take care of your survival, no matter how awake you are; your body needs to perform certain activities, which need to be done without omission. Having said this, write a book if you feel like it. I know a close friend which is doing it and has found great meaning in such a pursuit. Also don't worry about the pointlessness of writting a Magnus Opus about Reality. It came to my mind Saint Thomas Aquinas which one day after a mystical experience (awakening) abruptly stopped all writting. When someone asked why such a change in his behaviour he answered: So whatever, do what you want and enjoy this year my friend, be a leaf dancing in the wind of God

There is nothing in this universe that may be treated with disregard or contempt. He acts His divine play in infinite ways, through infinite forms, and in an infinite variety of settings. ~ Words of Anandamayi Ma.

The last sentence remembers me of the saying, if just a speck of dust missed in the universe, it would collapse. The above quote is very condensed, read it many times to get what is being said.

Yes please. Such a whole in his teachings. He's been promising for years to make the Shadow Work Video

It depends on what we say words are. Do you believe you are seeing this shapes and colors called letters or are you actually seeing them? Spirituality is direct consciousness, DIRECT But if we are talking about stage green or religious spirituality, that could fit. Also you need to understand that your whole worldview and sense making is a web of believes. Tonight, when you go to bed you believe so much that you are going to wake up next morning, otherwise you wouldn't be able to sleep in reflections of the uncertainty of death. You believe there is an earth and billions of other humans you have never seen, you believe you were born and so on. So believe is the bread and butter of constructing reality, so if believe can be used to destroy believe, whatever who cares? At some point you believed another human telling you that awakening and enlightenment is possible, and you believed it! Yet that believed destroyed many believes and ultimately will ground you in a state of full consciousness of your believe making. This is an age old concept that Leo has called going Meta. Whatever tool used in the end needs to be transcended but if we don't have tool to begin with because we know it's a limitation in the ultimate sense, we are stucked. Ramana Maharshi used the metaphor of making a funeral pyre. He suggested that just as a funeral pyre consumes everything thrown into it, the stick used to build it finally is also thrown into the fire. As Frank Yang also says, we use one ground to dissolve another ground. In the same way believe is it's own trap but can be used to liberate as anything else if taken to the last step of Meta.

As this body always speaks of the single self, where is the question of separation and distance? ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma "What fear is there for a man whose one and only object in life is the supreme quest? The One who is the goal of the journey is all-pervading. What is needed is His revelation. Nevertheless, the longing for Him must become genuine. If He manifests as longing, He will certainly also manifest as fulfillment. ” Question: What does Mataji consider to be the most essential thing in life? Ma: To try to find out “Who am I?” – the search after God. But first of all one must conceive the desire to know oneself. When one finds one’s own Self, one has found God; and finding God one has found one’s own Self I mean this is it, what else do you want? The Perenial Teachings, Know Thyself & Tat-Tvam-Asi (You are God)

@Carl-Richard shared this video in the topic: "What happens when you measure the brain of enlightened people?" and found it relevant to be posted here.

Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed it! Very impressed with Ken Wilber honestly, casually entering into Nirvikhalpa Samadhi in seconds is badass