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@BlessedLion Pleasure is a part of life as well. One should balance dopamine and serotonine. Although our society may be so out of balance with dopamine that the balancing tendency is to quit many sources of artificial dopamine. I like this quote from a sage man:

But you are the CEO and so is the shadow. It's really you. I am all of my inner pieces. It's just that we are all fragmented and seeking inner reunification. In the perfect world the CEO, the lover, the artist, the darkness, every figment of you gets integrated into a complete individual and hence you would complete the process of "individuation" as Jung stated or wholeness as I prefer to state it. Although in my view, there's no end to human development, as parts of my inner self just restructurate into higher holarchies of wholeness ad infinitum.

I'd say it's the adaptive process of harmonizing all forces to perform a desired task in a unified and efficient way. In my opinion, at every level balance happens because it's the interplay of polar opposites. Balance happens in multiplicity and it's a property of the intelligence of life. So the bottleneck of how we are able to properly balance our life and enhance our wellbeing may be intelligence and consciousness but it's balance what grounds it into action and life.

@Norbert Somogyi To me balance is not about repressing fragments of our psyche by the "CEO" archetype and to push further aside shadow work to keep the ongoing momentum. For me balance it's all about leting every part of my self and shadow to have a seat at the table of my mind. Maybe it’s not either resist or surrender, but a third path: relating. What part of yourself are you not letting speak in the table? That's what is causing the imbalance. And after so much resistance, that disowned part of you rebels and steers the wheel of your life for a while; next morning the sun shines and you say: Oh what have I done? And then back again the CEO kicks him out of the table. Does this sound familiar brother? You have to bring balance to your inner world and how to properly do that only you can say. Also consider shadow work is a very broad and personal subject and the metaprinciple of balance may not be detailed enough to handle all of its nuances.

I liked how you often describe Infinity as an object and then we finally get to Reality and the present experience. Although this time I shifted from object to subject and went through the logical steps and it certainly gives a nice personal twist to Infinity. The Infinite Subject

You can be extremely balanced. Certainly extreme unbalance is not desirable and must be corrected. Even if a simple parametre like your ph is unbalanced you die. So ironically if you wanna be extreme in a pursuit it's equally important to strike the right balance, otherwise you burn yourself and quit or torture yourself to success by destroying your health and other areas of your life. I'm advocating for a personal and sophisticated balance.

This episode feels like an introduction to Divine Logic.

Hey this is Leo from Vatican.org This would make for such a funny costume video like he used to do for Halloween, but Leo's not cool anymore

I read it all. I find it interesting to know about your journey. You feel more aware and complete now than in previous posts. Take care and continue integrating.

I'd add the word permanent. The permanent dissolution of the separate self.

Then why did you say Leo never defined states of consciousness? I'm puzzled now

I'm currently reading that book, it's good. In my view, seriousness doesn't mean grumpiness, you can be seriously funny!😂 For me it's about the quality of intention, the clarity of decision and its constant execution.

Nope, or maybe Leo already did a 2h long episode on that. Check it! Truly brilliant. See this is unserious. You haven't even bothered to check the main channel or previous responses from the search function in the forum.

Regarding you blog post on states I agree wholeheartedly. In fact, your video on States of Consciousness is Everything has been the most instrumental in making sense of the workings of consciousness. I would be so puzzled without such insight and it really is a muscle I've developed: to explore different states of consciousness and my ability to shift between them. Even I've started combining them, getting independently into states of at high definition consciousness and clarity; then getting into expansive states, where I expand into my room, the sky and so on; finally I discovered you can combine states into a new state. To merge panoramic consciousness & fine-grained consciousness into an aesthetic phenomenologically sublime state of consciousness. Thanks to states I know why I am not God Conscious all the time despite being God and all the weird corners of consciousness and Infinity that Reality can permute into. It's such a central aspect of consciousness and for me it displays the feminine quality or innate workings or the fabric of Consciousness & Infinite Mind. You can get Absolute Consciousness (masculine or the God-I-Infinity) but to grasp the mechanics of consciousness is equally important to make sense of the present experience and the spiritual path. From such understanding, one can easily see how religion, sex, sport or drugs are but doors for realms of states of consciousness, like keys opening the Infinite Mind of God.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/28/europe/spain-portugal-power-outages-intl/index.html Very weird blackout happening in my country. Almost 12h no electricity and no telecommunications. I'm writing in the brief time span that internet works.

Once in Vindhyachal Ashram Sri Anandamayi Ma was descending the stairs. I was with her, I saw that there lay a large round worm in the middle of one of the steps. Thinking this would cause Sri Ma inconvenience I pushed it down with my foot. Ma stopped immediately and said to me, 'Go and make your obeisance to it.’ I replied, "Mā, it's just a worm!' In a stern manner Ma said, ‘That God who dwells within you also dwells within that worm.’ I had to go and make my obeisance to it. Only after that did Ma continue down the stairs.

How can I be more balanced in my life? How can I be more balanced now? Am I too tense or too relaxed? What activities throw me out of balance? Why? What activities get me into a nice inner balance? How can my room be more in equilibrium? What parts of my life are more out of balance? What is the type of balance that I need in my life?

The Pizza Universe

Hi @Yidaki, Do you have any prior experiences with psychedelics? How does weed affect you in particular? I'd say that the ramp-up method is the sane approach towards the Salvia realm. Consider that the substance has various thresholds of experience, so one mini-hit more can mean breakingthrough into that state of consciousness, maybe in it you can take more hits till one breaks you through into a more bizarre world, at some point you won't be able to move and may lose body awareness and memory completely and be in non-human green zip universe. So it's a wide spectrum that going slow allows you to decide when to stop instead of getting catapulted to it. What I most like about Salvia is the nonhuman, alien, bizarre states of consciousness that presents, it allows room for very creative, nonconventional thoughts and new angles to reflect about oneself and life.

@ougyarg You seem very grounded. What was the Program like? Biggest lessons and insights? How was Peter Ralston as a person if you had the opportunity to interact with him.

The One has become Many without losing its Oneness.

@Sugarcoat That was funny though

Amish would be chilling though

Funny AI response. This poor AI mind trying to do epistemology in a lake of information full of crocodiles and still does fairly well.