How to be wise

@atmagaia Thank you. They’re pretty good. Keep up the good work.

@Beginner Mind Don’t get stuck in ‘feeling good.’ Spirituality usually involves huge suffering, because growth requires suffering. Although enjoyable, I doubt this technique will actually grow you.

@Ayoub If you search hard enough on the internet, I’m sure you’ll find it.

@goodjob Religion as taught today was created by the mind. It is the soul that decides how the illusory world will manifest itself, not the mind. Therefore heaven and hell, as taught in common religion, will not manifest itself in the material world.

@knakoo Most people don’t take psychedelics I’m afraid. Best to find something independent of them if you want to reach a sizeable number of people.

@StateOfMind Monks have claimed to speak with knowledgeable ‘entities’ all throughout history. What the nature of the entity is, is beyond me. In my book, you should be able to prove that your spirit actually has information that you presently do not have. For example, can your entity give me the exact location of one of the FBI’s most wanted, or give me the location of a sunken ship. Anything tangible that you simply did not know about before. I think it’s possible to channel such entities, but very rare.

You’re playing with form. Wouldn’t it be better to realise the formless.

@IamMystic Also Trump is gone now, and the US will once again have a sane president. Looks to me that all the action is tapering off.

How so? The vaccines are out now, so this should end within the year.

In ‘The Religion of Tomorrow’, Ken Wilber states that if 10% of a society reaches the next stage of ‘growing up’ (spiral dynamics), then that stage will be permeated throughout the entire society, meaning that the society will effectively be run by that stage, despite most of the citizens being at the lower stage. What do you think about this statement?

@nitramadas I remember Sadhguru talking about his yoga centre, when he started a program for serious yoga pursuit. He said that a group of young men who were determined to work hard in yoga came, but the women (also doing the program) were too pretty and the men ended up leaving to get married. Of course Sadhguru will not segregate men and women, but for stage Blue people (majority of the planet), the above scenario would be reason enough to ban all women.

Enlightenment and spiral dynamics are more or less separate. You can even be stage Purple and enlightened, for example some African medicine men.

Lack of power. Decisions are made for them. The vast majority of leadership positions are held by men. If women craved domination and aggression, this simply wouldn’t be possible.

Have you ever been outside the west?

This is very common outside the west. Men prevent women from attending religious sites because they don’t want to be distracted by a woman’s beauty and the sexual desire caused by looking at a woman. Classic stage Blue repression.

@Egodeathrow Entertaining for sure, but doubt it has any value for consciousness raising.

No such thing. If you contemplate for a while, I think you’ll realise this as well.

I’ve found that it is predominantly a male thing. You can have a look at history for proof of this. Even today, outside the west, it is male dominated. Men crave women’s bodies, and they crave power. It will be hard to find a woman that craves a man’s body. And although it may seem to you that women have a lot of power today, one glance outside the western bubble will show you how inferior women are to men.

Of course it’s not 100% accurate, but there is clearly some truth to it. Every man has a strong desire for sex and domination.

@LordFall Entire books were written about this theory. Most academic psychologists refer to it in their lectures.

Freud’s drive theory shows that a man has only two fundamental drives: sex and aggression “fuck it or kill it.” Those two drives are wired into him biologically. They will always be there.

@Mips Slow down. It won’t be the end after you drop the body. No doubt you will start life again in a different form.

@Mesopotamian Conspiracy theorist you are.

@seeking_brilliance Then what is the use of your spirit ‘Blue.’

‘Surely’ is just a way of asking a question.