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I don't agree with this, humanity never really lived in harmony with nature, we have caused extinctions and destruction for tens of thousands of years, aswell as killing each other in tribalistic manners. Identity has expanded over time, and it is now more expansive than it has ever been before. It is precisely because of nature that we behave this way. Our fear, our selfishness, is informed by our legacy. Nature does not mind rape, murder, torture, selfishness, sexism, racism, speciesism. Nature thrives in suffering and ignorance. Nature's wisdom is of a different kind, the kind that made us what we are today.

And that you do by making humans care about animals, by extending their identity.

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That is precisely the trap of biased empathy. In a world in which white people prioritize compassion for white people, white people do not actually prosper the most, and harmony does optimally flourish. It is precisely the extention of compassion and identity that allows for completely new solutions to arise that were previously not accessible. Due to our lack of compassion for all individuals, we create harm in the world that directly effects us, as it has to be in a world that is interconnected. This is the counter intuitive nature of progress. When there is a school shooting, ironically to create more harmony and unity, we need to extend our compassion to the one who has committed the school shooting, and individuals who have the potential to do so in the future. It is precisely our lack of compassion here that perpetuates this problem, because our lack of compassion, our bias, is blinding us to the solution. A tremendous amount of suffering in the world, especially in the third world, is caused by our inability to extend our identity towards animals. If we did respect animals, we would have to respect nature. The current way we seek to motivate action towards sustainability and against the destruction of nature, is by self-interested fear. You will not solve these issues by that kind of means, as global failure to tackle and resolve existential threats has proven to us. However, by extending identity, we actually teach people to be less selfish, or in other words to have a more universal sense of self. We do not simply tell them to care about the environment because they might in the future potentially suffer from it if they live long enough, rather it can only happen if they recognize the immediate suffering that presents itself before them. You will never have people care about school shooters out of fear that more school shootings will happen, there has to be genuine compassion for that. Animals are humans, the only difference is morphology and slightly altered minds. Because of this, if you can show no compassion towards an animal, it is inevitable that this blindness will affect humans. The reason for this is that, that which you truly should care about, which is the experiencer, is equal in all individuals. Only once this is recognized will humanity be able to overcome the current issues it is facing. If it will not, it will perish sooner or later, inevitably, and so it should be. The issue is, to truly care about humans, you have to care about animals, because they are the same. If you do not care about animals, you do not truly care about humans. You do not care about the experiencer. And as long as that is the case, your society will be blind to it's own ignorance, to it the unnecessary suffering it is manifesting and perpetuating. If someone you love were to be turned into a pig, you would still care about them, every bit of suffering that pig would feel would be as bad to you as it would if they were a human. And once you realize that, you will realize why you need to care about everyone, no matter the shape of their body or state of their mind. To the degree to which you care less about animals, will be the degree to which you lack compassion towards humans. This is by the way why identity keeps extending. We see no difference between races, because there is no difference that is relevant. And so it is true for species. If you recognize that which is Truth, you will have complete compassion, not partial, biased compassion. And your idea that you could have ever achieved unity without first realizing this will seem silly to you. Here is a good way to showcase how distorted your viewpoint is: not prioritizing white people compassion is slower progress for black people, white people are the priority now, here

There is a time for everything, don't be a try-hard.

So I have difficulty imagining things visually and was wondering if anyone knows some techniques, maybe used in yoga or such, to train it to get better.

One of the most fundamental things you can be grateful for is the fact that you can make the Choice of being Grateful. Trillions of your brothers and sisters will never be able to decide to be Grateful, and those who are human, most will never reach the consciousness to consider to take this choice. Notice the power that was given to you, the miracle of choice, to determine your own perception. Truly, this is one of the things you can be most grateful for. Look at yourself, and the miracle you are. You have the potential to create Love and Harmony in this world and yourself, just by the power of choosing what you pay attention to. On the other hand you could create Hell, for yourself and others. Notice how many in this world do so. You have the capacity to think of only the negative things for every hour of every day of he year that you are awake. To contemplate all the negativity in this world, what is wrong with the world, with yourself with others. That infact is a very easy choice to make, to give in to your fear, to be defined by your fear, to let fear guide your thoughts and actions. What makes humanity special is not our intelligence, but our capacity to make a conscious choice between Love and Fear. And notice that this choice is your Freedom. That it would not be worth anything, it would not be a choice, if you were not given the opportunity to choose Fear over Love. The fact that Love has to be your free, conscious choice, is what renders it Love in the first place. If it was forced upon you, if it was not a result of Wisdom, if, well, it was not out of Love, it would not be Love. So, what you can be most grateful for is the fact that you can choose between Love and Fear. Between Gratefulness and Dissatisfaction. Get in touch with this gift you were given brothers and sisters. Connect yourself to it, realize how special it is, how it is not at all a given in this world, a given even in your own life. This Free Choice is a direct connection to True Free Will. Because whatever you will choose, that is actually you, God, making a choice out of pure Love. If you choose fear, it will be because you wanted it.

The concept of duality is used to serve a function. Dualities conceptually are extremely useful for humans, and most practical too. In most instances, fear and love will be in opposition. To deem a non-dual perspective to be more truthful or valid than that is itself a duality, and part of the same process of conceptualization. It is indeed very helpful to look at the world this way sometimes. You are still too focused on deconstruction.

This is an assumption.

You have no insight into what Will is and what Free Will is. You are confusing some fundamental aspects of reality. Your question is basically why Objects do not have Free Will, why Manifestations, why Creation, has no Free Will. This is the issue. Free Will is that which gives rise to all things, to all Creation, to all Manifestation. Free Will is the First Cause, the Groundless Ground. Your Humanity, your limitation, that is the Expression of your Free Will. You have all the Power, you have All Wisdom, you have All Love. And what you did with all this wisdom, with all this power, with all this love, is to create this. This very Moment, your state, your suffering, your joy, whatever it is that Is. That is what you are creating out of pure Free Will, out of Infinite Wisdom and Love, including the very issue you are struggling with. You are the Creative Process of God, you are Free Will. This is God proper. This is it. There is no more. That is what you can realize. You cannot look for it anywhere, because this is it. The tail you are chasing is attached to you, all you must realize is that it is already a part of you, that there is no point in chasing it. The Hiddenness you describe, that is it. You are looking at this all wrong. You think there is something special that is underneath all of this, that is behind all of this. That somehow, there is a hidden substance that you must discover. That beyond all of this mundane stuff, there is a core more Truthful, more Pure, more Real. It is precisely the opposite. That which you confuse for the most mundane, that which you call "being a human with 0 free will", that is the Godhead. That is Pure Freedom. That is the Ultimate, the Absolute, Truth, Pure Divinity, Pure Love. See, you look at the color red, and you go "Argh damnit, this boring color Red, I have seen enough of it. I want to get to the juicy stuff, I want to get to God, to Love! I want the special sauce! I want Strangeloops and Explosions of Infinity and Multidimensional Fractals!". But Redness is the Special Sauce. That is what you are blind to. You just have to realize that what you have is already all there is.

Anyone ever find evidence that he won a tournament in China?

Destiny stands out because he is a very quick and thorough thinker, and he definitely has a lot of yellow, integral and systems thinking. He is very careful about his own biases and is good at identifying and pointing out the biases of others. He is a good example of the push-back much of stage green needs at this moment.

It is interesting how human centric these perspectives are. In the eyes of the native animals outside of africa, all humans were invaders, including those we call native to the land. And unlike humans, we do not respect the true natives whatsoever. We do not give them rights to their lands, let alone rights to their lifes, because we do not care about them. We are selfish even in our compassion.

Spirituality is basically just impatience. If you want to be selfless, there are much faster ways to get to it than any practice or any tripping. So, basically, what you actually want to do when you do spirituality is just appreciate life, before it is replaced by the Ultimate. You will get the Ultimate anyways, there is no avoiding it, even if you tried! That's the funny thing about this. You couldn't avoid the highest stage of consciousness even if you tried your hardest at it, for your entire life. It will come, it is inevitable. Infact, all of you are actively avoiding it! So what are you actually doing here? You are playing a game, or a drama, or a horroshow, and that's what it is about. And Leo, you are playing a particular game, much like many others, feeling it to be more special than the other games that are being played. And even better, you already are the Ultimate. And you did this, from that position. You are literally chasing the tail you are have created for yourself so you can end up creating it again.

Yes, and conversly, that awakening is nothing compared to actual death. Ultimate Understanding awaits us all, and no 5-MeO will get close to it. You wouldn't be here talking to us if you reached the "highest levels of consciousness". And don't be arrogant, there a trillions of beings who reach the highest states of consciousness every single moment of existence, while you are here playing with 5-MeO pretending it's the shit because you can't let go fully. You are playing the same game as everyone else, desperately holding onto survival. I mean look at the comedy of this. You are going to death, and then you come back with it so you can tell everyone about how cool death is so you can avoid it and talk about how you reached the highest levels humanely possible. Well, good for you Leo, but it's not special. It never was, it never will be, you only imagine it to be. The ant across the street will go beyond all of that when someone steps on it. Fundamentally, you do not pursuit understanding. You pursuit talking about understanding. You know this yourself. I am not judgmental about this, but let us be clear that it is the same game as everyone else is playing. Delaying it just as much as those who meditate. You are exactly the same. You are so human, you just do this out of enjoyment basically. That's it. The same as the meditators do when they avoid psychedelics. You enjoy it this way, and that's why you do it. Nothing more to it. Again, you are no better than the ant, and the ant will get to the Ultimate much faster than you are. I would say their methodology is more effective than yours, and man, the depths, you have no idea! That level of consciousness you will not reach until you do the same as the ant does.

If you want a solid stage yellow perspective on this follow Destiny's commentary, he does a good job revealing stage green biases and bringing it to systems thinking.

That which resists the ego, is the ego. That which condemns, is the condemner. This is why Love is so effective as a practice. Because, the ego is that which is in control. If it fears itself, then that will simply create more ego. If it loves itself, the ego must let go of itself, to love. The issue here is, you have only one vehicle as an ego, and that is the ego. You can use it to drive towards Love or Fear. So, the practise doesn't have to be anything but love.

But this is what we do as a society. We test it on others, those who fear, those who cannot make the choice consciously. We ought to make the choice ourselves, it will cause less suffering, and it will cause growth.

Is it better to test the chemicals on someone other than yourself?

Be careful that you do not fall into the trap of wanting to make your fear of fear go away. "I do not want to be so afraid of the miseries of life! I want it to go away!". See, that very fear, that very suffering created by the attempt to run away, that is what can be accepted. You accept your vulnerability completely, that misery might come to you, and that it is okay to fear it, that it is okay to feel terror in the face of your Creation. That when you are tortured, it is okay to lose your mind, to be in agony, to be not okay with it. However, you have already accepted it. That is fundamental. You have already accepted all of this suffering fully, and your current experience is evidence of that. Your acceptence was so great and ultimate, that you would forget your own acceptance of it, so that the acceptance could be complete. Your shock, your fear, your suffering, that is your acceptance. See, it is both counter intuitive. Because to escape suffering, you must accept it. But when you accept suffering completely, you will completely surrender to it, as you already have. There is no beginning, there is no end.

Dead people.

You cannot escape Suffering by attempting to run away from it. There is no liberation. Forget about it. The only thing there is, is acceptance. See, in your liberated state, free of suffering, free of everything, you looked at reality, and you said "I will embrace suffering.". And then you made yourself suffer, as you are now. This suffering, this is your surrender. That is what acceptance means. Recognize this. This, all of this, all of the misery that you experience, that is ultimate acceptance. You accepted that fact that you would run away from your suffering, causing you more suffering. That you would seek liberation, resist reality, and suffer more. Nothing will ever work, because everything is the way it is supposed to be. There is no escape. You must LOVE this suffering, you must ACCEPT it. Then, the suffering will be a problem that you do not view as a problem. But you cannot ever solve this by viewing the problem as a problem, it will only cause more and more problems.

This is your sacrifice brother, your Love. You have put yourself to the cross. You were so fearless, that you accepted all of this. Every bit of suffering, the terror, the fear, the misery, the agony. Your heart was so open to every bit of Creation, that you said "Yes, I will Love this. and to Love it, I must experience it fully.". You have forgotten that you are untouchable, and that is part of your sacrifice. The illusion that all of this is touching you, yes the reality that it is touching you, that fear, that suffering, it is your seflessness. But the Truth is, nothing can touch you. No amount of Suffering can harm you, no amount of Misery can change you. You can endure it all, even the unendurable, you endure. What does too much mean? That you will lose your mind? And what then, what happens when you lose your mind? More suffering? And what then? More suffering? And what then? What could all of this suffering possibly do to you? You can resist your suffering, your resistance can be endless. But what would happen if it was too much suffering for you to resist? What would happen if it was so much that you could no longer resist, so much that resistance itself broke into it's pieces. What would that mean for suffering?

You underestimate God. God doesn't have the need to fake anything. Illusion and Reality are the same. It can create all things, and experience all things. There is no need to fake anything. This is why the concept of Illusion can be damaging. What you imagine to be Illusion is not what Illusion is. Illusion is precisely all of this, that you have right here. It is not something that constrasts "Reality". You are still creating stories here, you are just changing them. Forget about all of the story. Forget about both the story of the dinosaurs and the "instant" creation. Look at what is left. If you want to recognize what stories are, then you must clearly see them, with a distance. This means, look at the story, see what it truly is. Then, any story will be insufficient, because story is merely one fascet of Isness. Redness is not Story. And no story could possibly capture Redness, let alone anything else but stories. You are attempting to paint every color using one color. That is what you do, when you make up these story, when you seek explanation. Open your eyes to all colors, and stop obsessing over one in particular.

Science is the manifestation of the very infinite Intelligence you seem to thank. The Truth is, nobody can deny Reality, nobody can Deny infinite Intelligence. What you can deny, is not Infininte Intelligence. Anyone who denies Mystery, does not know mystery, and therefore his denial is simply of concept, not of Mystery. Mystery is Existence, it is that which the substance of Denial is made of. Any object of Denial could not possibly be Mystery. This means that if you want to protect Mystery, or fight for Truth, it is impossible. Because Truth is not touchable in that manner, as it is the Source of Touch itself, it is the Substance of Touch. Nobody in the Universe ever denied Reality, Mystery or Infinite Intelligence. What they deny are words and concept. And words and concepts is not that which Infinite Intelligence is. Science, as every other area in life, is the discovery of Infinite, the manifestation and exploration of Mystery. The scientist will be doing Divine work whether he is aware of it or not, as much as the ant is, and the bird and the sun. Science is unaware, like the ant. It does not see. But everything that any scientist has ever seen and described was Infinite Intelligence, they simply call it by a different name. Infinite Intelligence permeates all things so fully, that even what you call the ignorance of the scientists, is part of that Intelligence. Your complaining is like someone complaining about genetic mutations, because it gave them cancer. WIthout genetic mutation, you would not be here to complain about it. Surrender to the Wisdom of the Divine, as all things are part of. Recognize that your own ignorance is part of this Surrender, a part of this wisdom. And then you will recognize the purpose and importance of the ignorance of the other.