ExploringReality

Basically real teachers are (DD's) Dream Disturbers. Haha. The idea is that you are asleep, people are asleep and only a few people subscribe to Truth services which disrupt the dream you are in, the nightmare you take as reality. People want renovations or someone to make the dream a little bit more nicely. But no! A real teacher wakes your ass up from the dream entirely. Most people get defensive and say "go away! Let me sleep. Only reason you are attracted to this work is because you subscribed to truth to come to your door and create a racket to disturb your dream. You have to do the work also to subscribe to Truth. Beautiful teachings by him, cuts straight through ego defenses.

@Inliytened1 Nice. I am not this body while also pretending to be this body. You have to be careful not to fall into deceptions, spiritual bypassing, and dysfunction of survival. It can be destabilizing depending on the kind of psyche you have. People chase powers, experiences and siddhis but they never stop to notice who is the one that is experiencing. I have had ego deaths, the ego comes back online but only now I understand that I am dreaming reality in the same way I beat my heart. I love to push boundaries and to explore different states to go deeper and to challenge my self. For the purpose of self liberation

This is a beautiful question and it is possible to awaken from this dream. Not just our sleeping dream, but the waking dream. What is your current experience of this inquiry? Have you fully awakened from the dream of survival and life?

@Inliytened1 Your simultaneously in two states at once. Deep rem and conscious awareness. It's interesting because sleep paralysis can easily be co-opted by the ego as " I am experiencing paralysis" but sleep paralysis can be used as a launch pad for spiritual inquiry into the nature of ego, identity and self realization as pure unformed consciousness. It's easy to get sucked into content no matter what it is, lucid dreaming ect... But the main event is to pay attention to awareness itself, to wonder what is this awareness that is conscious of this? While everything is happening, what remains aware? Realize that it's all dreams. To awaken not just from the dream, but to be aware of the dream like nature of reality, the only real thing is consciousness itself without the contents of awareness

@Inliytened1 There are techniques to use while it's happening, just in case it feels overwhelming just mentally imagine pulling yourself up a rope and you will exit smoothly. You have to do it mentally because your body is dead weight and it's counter productive to fight it physically

Yes! My experiences are as follows • body is dead asleep, the body cannot move, cannot respond, consciousness is fully awake but unbounded by the body. • I experience paranormal phenomenon, seeing entities, projections of fear of the unknown, seeing behind my head, feeling a presence of an other. I describe it as the underworld of your psyche where all the creepy crawlers dwell. •fear of death and a clinging to certainty. Great resistance. •there is a book by osho on Leo's booklist with some meditative practices and there is a specific technique used by Ramana maharshi which resulted in him experiencing ego death as a young boy, he had a paralysis but he decided to just let the body die, remain alert and just look without panicking. He noticed the body became stiff and it resulted in his enlightenment. Powerful shit if you can remain conscious throughout a paralysis,

Tying in Leo's recent episode on exploring the nature of conformity, and looking at conformity through my own direct experience I realize that most of how people treat and experience Thanksgiving is pure conformity! Thanksgiving in of itself has a core to it that we can say is the essence of why Thanksgiving was created, the kernel of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is relative to any given culture, many subcultures celebrate it differently, different foods, different ways of celebrating it, but outside the tradition and norms within a family household, the point of Thanksgiving is to experience Love. Not just absolute Love, the Love of God, but to share ones personal love with another, albeit an ethnocentric form or maybe even a stage green form of love that extends beyond familiar people onto strangers or giving back to those not well off, sharing and giving are the main themes. Thanks-Giving! People take!!! It's for Absolute Love to bust through the ego and petty human survival at least once a year someone out of the billions on this planet, might let actual Truth and Love to shine through. It's not about the food, it's about Being Love. Being grateful of existence and sharing that love with another even if they can't see that, this is Thanksgiving. At least for me lol. Being in love, seeing through the social conformity machine and still washing dishes, serving food, sharing moments and giving to those that are moving in the machine is my state of consciousness at the moment. No superiority, no moral judgment, no guilt for not eating to make others feel comfortable, no looking down on those that are operating from conformity. Free from the craving and bad food heaviness after endulging. No craving for the foods I once splurged on. No Internal resistance. Sitting at the table with family is what is meaningful while paradoxically seeing it has no meaning is a beautiful thing, like an impossible shape. Knowing their are those that don't have a family, food. I give and extend my love to them and even further to the animals and further into all beings in the universe and finally further to God as my self. Self love.

Conformity really starts when we are children because that equals our survival and is necessary. But at a certain point in our own development and maturity you have to integrate and transcend conformity to sovereignty. The educational system is a conformity machine and we are taught to conform! Don't think for yourself, other authority figures are right and your own thinking is wrong, memorize test etc we're not taught to question everything, to trust our own experience, not just to study and admire great thinkers and figures of history but to self-actualize our own potential as unique sovereign individuals A very great quote by Terence McKenna "my goal is not to connect with the inner child, but to transcend culturally induced forms of neoteny".

Have him watch some of Leo's older episodes on the implications of spiral Dynamics and his episode stage orange of spiral dynamics

Holy fuck Leo, I've spent 3 hours rewinding and rewatching the first hour of the episode. Because a lot of this stuff slips in one ear and out the other and I'm very careful to not overlook every sentence you're saying. I'm not taking it on as dogma and just parroting you, I'm really listening. There's just so much and I appreciate you breaking down David Chapman's website and clarifying those four key distinctions

The intro quote; my first name is also Robert, cool. Also David's website is " in the cells of an eggplant"?

I totally see what you're saying. I never liked the smell of cannabis either, I acquired a taste for it just through pure conformity of seeing the people close to me praising the smell, using slang words that reflect their love of it but it was only because they were influence by hip hop, people around them smoking etc. If I'm completely honest with myself I don't mind the smell because I got used to it but at the same time it is very unpleasant. Knowing about the THC isolate being more powerful and potent I can use that sparringly instead of rolling up a joint like a copycat, although there's nothing wrong with smoking a joint in and of itself

All I drink is water from plastic bottles, what do you recommend? There's so much social media bullshit and nonsense that floods the information ecosystem that it's hard to know what changes to make.

People can smoke cannabis flowers habitually, I like to do it sometimes during the night, what do you mean don't use THC chronically? Why? Compared to smoking a joint chronically

Why do I get high? To socialize? To party? To talk shit with friends? No!!! When I get high, I see through the social delusions. I look at my phoniness and masks, I see through people's masks and personality. I see people hiding their pain and calling it joy, I see distractions everywhere. I want to be with myself, reality and face hard truths that scare my ego, sometimes a little distraction is okay, but ultimately this is a lifelong journey