Davino

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.

@Yimpa yoohooooooo!

What deity? I like Shiva & Kali

Okay, then I recommend you the works of Daniel Schmachtenberg Leo has also great videos. I love this one on epistemology: Ken Wilber also makes interesting contributions to the field. Check this video for more:

Consciousness is all that you see, hear, feel... That includes the sensations of the brain yes and all of the universe in complex interconnection and holism.

That's a good general principle for relative truths. Although, if you care about epistemology to reach Truth but then you don't have certainty, what is the use? Why do you care about Epistemology ? Is to understand the relative world (science, politics, art)? Or to understand the Absolute? Relative truths have a unique epistemology to them. Absolute Truth has a special epistemology.

You'll have to sacrifice to achieve world-class Espitemology, or any endevour. You'll have to ask in forums, read books, watch videos, independently contemplate, trip, do everything that is in your hand. So instead of giving you little advice I invite you to consider and decide what is your level of implication on Truth. If you wanna be world-class, it really takes time. It's like learning a new language, you need to ground your expectatives, it'll take long and it's rewarding.

Some people indulge in all of that and still are miserable. Some people are muslim and are happy. What determines happiness to the individual, what makes me most happy, that could be muslim, at least for Mahoma was. So maybe hedonism works most for you or asceticism or who knows. Life is very abundant in this sense. I just saw a dog with only three legs. Happy af

I don't know. All Knowledge is god but it's not about God, see? That's the insight in Holistic God Understanding To know God you'll have to experience. That takes what it gets. Yet God is truly omnipresent and is happening right now all over the place. In the present field of experience God is happening. In fact, it couldn't be otherwise. Existentially so, it's the fabric of Reality not dependent on particular states, but to get that you'll have to get into the stateless state, through silence if it's your preferred method and living in it every breath of life. Feeling into ever-present nature of God. Consciousness shining brightly anchored in a perfect Grid.

Assumptions, concepts and multiplicity still happen within consciousness, they "exist" By realizing the One that divides itself into all the multiplicity. Existence takes the form of this sentence, your present sensations and the 360 experiential field... If you look at the different figments, then there are many happening with complex and intelligent interconnections, yet if we look at the metaphysical essence we see it's the One Infinite Reality that fragments itself into all of that. In my experience, I'd say the one consciousness manifests through all beings. Even I could say there's only one Self or I-principle that manifests in each beings. Ramana used to say: Sri Anandamayi used to say: Actually the assumption is non-solipsism, the default present experience is Solipsistic, as you said: "you can only verify your own self awareness, through direct experience, not anyone else's. You're locked into The One Absolute Consciousness and our body and other people's body are happening as forms existence takes. So they can have experience yet we all are existing and this existence in wich duality and limitations co-arise is unlimited and Infinite and therefore Solipsistic (the one seed) from which all multiplicty (other trees) are born. This is the present Field of Experience.

Higher beings must not be confined to rigid physical cages but must posses properties of fluidity, self-transformation and metamorphosis.

Beautiful dragon illusion. I'd like to make one of those for my home.

No and they say it will take weeks. It seems to be a very technical process and people are quite impacient about it. There are many theories and our president has said it would be reckless to discard any of them yet in the same way it would be reckless to support any one of them yet. It seemed like a CIA statement actually ahahahha. But yeah, there is a chance it was an attack. In any case, the answer will take quite some time.

Oh yes, that was a big problem. Youngsters who only use credit cards where quite f*cked. I had to go help my girlfriend buy some essentials with the cash I had. Lesson learned, keep a good ammount of emergency cash.