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I find that the spiritual community has a tendency to escaping many aspects of Isness, like suffering, evilness, despair and other fascets of reality. Sometimes I feel like there is a really immature discrimination towards what the ego finds most pleasant. For example, how many people are willing to take 5-MeO-DMT while watching slaughterhouse footage, or even better being in a slaughterhouse themselves? Notice that usually tripping is done in a way to make it a most pleasant experience. This kind of bias can lead us to a sort of blindness, because we can pretend to be at peace or grown up while we would not be able to handle much of the suffering that is happening if it was to happen to us. I think it is best not to look at this at flaws, or something being wrong with you, because this is not true. Focus not on what is wrong with you, focus on your brothers and sisters. What are they experiencing? If you want to focus on yourself, frame it as something like you having more potential within you than can yet be unleashed. There is no reason not to unleash that potential, other than procrastination really. And procrastination is a powerful force.

You are not trying to seek to understand my perspective, rather you are trying to create peace of mind for yourself. I am not the one suffering here, and I do not care about my own suffering to such a degree that I need to delude myself about the suffering in this world and the suffering I am causing. Enlightenment is not about the end of suffering for me. I am not trying to convince you or making you realize you are wrong. I am pointing out the things that seem to true me. You have a tendency to project upon me desires and feelings that you yourself seem to feel. I do not hate you, nor your ideas. I do not feel any hatred at the moment, I feel love and compassion for those that are exploited for nothing but wanting to keep up a certain standard of living. It is very easy to say the good and bad are necessities when you yourself are not subject to the torture and death you are inflicting on others. There is a great irony in calling the world a cruel place, and telling others to accept that, while being unable to overcome ones own egoic desires. You are so inable to face your own suffering that you are not even capable of giving up something as trivial as meat. Imagine if someone forced you not to consume meat, would you tell them they are wrong? Well, you are forcing someone not only to eat something they do not want to eat, you are forcing them to live an entire life of suffering and to be then disgarded like an objected so that you can have your packaged product that additionally contributes to the destruction of the very planet that gave you life. And then you say "Life is cruel, ying and yang! I am at peace, I am so enlightened!". How can you not see your own devilry? When you yourself are the one bearing the cross, then it is appropriate to say "Ying and yang, Life is suffering, I am accepting suffering!". This is embodiment, not some sort of reaction towards someone simply revealing to you what you are doing.

Drop the Spiral Dynamics stuff when I point out how you are misusing it to justify your own selfish acts? People enjoying being slaves in terms of SM is not the same actual slavery. Why do you point out that I am defensive when you have done nothing but reject everything I said and are actively dismissing it as "new age vegan stuff". Why is it me who has to do the serious shadow work? Would you tell the same to someone who is against slavery? Would you tell to someone who is against murder to "Let go"? In what context does this make sense? You should really self reflect on how easy it is to your the mentality you are displaying here to dismiss any criticism of the ego. I think you fail to see how big of a liar you actually are. Unless you criticize people for being anti-slavery (real slavery, not some obviously uncorrelated consensual idea of of) as being new age anti-slavery people who have some serious shadow work to do, I don't think you are in the place to criticize the ego of people who are against animal exploitation. You understand that any less evolved ego, namely an ego at stage orange, will use the same kind of mental gymnastics, excuses and dismissals that you have provided here? Transcend an include. A developing ego should expand it's identity, not dismiss the uncomfortable expansion in the face of having to change their lifestyle. You don't go from someone who keeps slaves to Jesus Christ or Buddha. You go every step, you transcend and include. You don't suddenly become an apologist for slavery once you are Buddha, you don't suddenly abandon the idea that we shall not exploit sentient beings. What you are doing is completely transparent to anyone who has themselves done the same in the past as a result of their neanderthal-esk egoic structures.

I'm sure a slaver owner had the same sort of excuses. It is very interesting, what do you call people who are against slavery? Do you call them out and tell them they have a stage orange ego because after all Life is cruel and there are good ways of keeping a slave? Yes, it is me who has the ego, who is stuck at stage green, who is incapable of expanding their identity to encompass other beings. The ego is so good at turning it's own devilry against those who point it out.

The selfish make up stories to make themselves feel better about what they do. This is the nature of the ego. In the end, you are the one paying for the torture and slaughter of yourself. You will become the consequences of your actions. This is by the way a very good example for why convincing people to stop consuming animal products for selfish reasons is bound to fail. The only way to abolish the animal agriculture is an actual shift in the identity of individuals and collectives in terms of including those animals as relevant brothers and sisters to be under the protection of their more intelligent brothers and sisters. When a person does something out of selfish reasons, like to stop eating meat for health, there will be selfish reasons which will override that selfishness, because it is selfishness against selfishness. If there is a love for your brothers and sisters, the capacity for self-sacrifice is far greater because it is genuine. This is a good video on this which highlights the unintuitive nature of creating true social change:

You have not really provided what I have asked for, I am aware of Dr. Gregers stance on this. I think you did not quite grasp the point of my post, as Dr. Greger is precisely one of the people I would criticize for what I mentioned in my previous post. For example: Consumption of coffeee and tea boost longevity in a population which gets most it's antioxidants from coffee. To frame that therefore we should drink coffee because it extends longevity is very misleading because there are many other sources of antioxidants. In my opinion you have a very simplistic view of what is healthy and what isn't healthy. For example, coffee can be good at surpressing depression and therefore elevating someones mood, and therefore lowering the risk for suicide. But it is interesting how you do not mention how for such people getting off of coffee is enormously difficult and that it can lead to them never addressing the root issues of their problems. You have a substance here which significantly affects the chemistry of your brain, what about all the effects on consciousness development this might have? Do you have a study on that? Of course you don't, because science today is so unconscious it is not even considering this to be an important aspect of health. With the methodology presenting in the studies you provided it is not possible to map high variance reactions or subtle phenomena which are not looked for or too dfficult to establish. What if different people have different reactions to coffee which have a detrimental effect on their ability to thrive, but do not effect all cause mortality? What if there are things that effect all cause morality positively but yet hinder the ability of the mind, body and spirit to thrive? Why don't you compare coffee to something like Brahmi? You are reading results without any context whatsoever, which I was asking you not to do.

If you were to become One with the Will of God, your Will would be the Will of God, it would be equivalent. All of Creation is already God's Will, exactly as it is. So you as God would do what you as God always did. The problem is that you think that your egoic Will will become the Will of God, when it is the other way around. Your Egoic Will is part of the Will of God. The Will of God is creating everything, including your Egoic Will. If you "become" God's Will, you will deem everything to be perfect as it is, because everything is a perfect manifestation of your Ultimate Will. The Egoic Will might not like that, but even that is part of the Will of God. The Will of God is already manifesting the universe, every particle that exists. If your Will would be aligned with the Will of God, you would do the same thing as God does. Creation. Christ is a manifestion of the Will of God resonanting through itself into itself, a reflection of the droplet within the droplet. The embodiment of God is not the Ultimate Union with God, because the Ultimate Union would dissolve your Form completely. That's how the theory goes, atleast.

If you are so well read, it would be nice if you could actually showcase that what you are saying is true. Show me the studies on all the possible negative effects coffee could have on an individual with respect to different constitutional types and in consideration of more subtle phenomena than all-cause mortality or specific disease occurance. Show me the studies that compare coffee, or general substances with caffeine, with other alternatives that provide similar benefits. Show me the peer reviewed paper which established whether or not there is a bias in the direction or pursuit of results on the current research regarding caffeine. There is nothing scientific about exclaiming that science says coffee isn't bad for you because there is not enough evidence to support that position. A lack of evidence is only relevant if there is evidence of a unbiased pursuit towards a whole picture that includes phenomena which are difficult to study. Imagine if all the research on exercise was to revolve around the negative effects of exercise, would you then conclude exercising is bad for you because there is no evidence to show it is good for you? This has nothing to do with science. You first have to establish that there is no bias within the overall research direction. And with an industry that funds most of studies on caffeine to be geared towards showing positive effects, having no obligation to release studies that would show negative effects, I am really curious what you will find in this regard. Under your epistemological standard, a few decades ago it would have been completely fine to say smoking cigarettes doesn't harm you because the evidence does not support it. And also, don't forget that with the reductionistic approach of the current scientific culture it is extremely difficult to map relationships and subtle phenomena which get lost in the play of averages and reductions. You are operating under the assumption that current western scientific methodology and culture is infallible or the most appropriate tool to map these phenomena. I can tell you when I drink caffeine I have to go take a shit within 5 minutes, no matter at which time I drink it. I don't need any research to tell me this is unhealthy and destructive.

Not sure about bat burgers, but if you want bat burritos instead, here you go:

12 days in, been getting sleepy progressively later these past few days. Today it started around 6pm, I hope that in a few weeks I'll be at 10-11pm sleepy.

Watch the video I linked if you want a different perspecitve.

Yes, but what do you think is the root cause of psychosis and bipolar disorder? How is that different from a spiritual crisis? Watch this, it takes a really interesting angle on the entire field of mental health.

Isn't this what Ayahuasca is known for? It confronts you with your shadow. It's like opening the door to the dungeon where you have locked up all the inner demons. If you are scared of something like this, do thorough shadow work before you take psychedelics. Psychedelics will force you to sit through in a few hours what you usually can work through over the span of years. If there is too much baggage and the ego is too fragile, this is the result.

Not necessary when we can get the same benefits without the negatives from other sources. You can get antioxidants from other sources fairly easily, which is most likely the primary reason why coffee is so beneficial for people who mainly get their antioxidants from coffee anyways. Then you add an entire industry which has no reason to publish studies on the negative effects of caffeine while having an incentive to publish positive results. https://www.foodpolitics.com/2019/01/industry-funded-study-of-the-week-coffee-protects-dna/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10333733 Notice how there is no nuance whatsoever, no dietary ward etc. In the end it's most likely that it is the antioxidants which have created this "DNA protective" effect, no miracle component in the coffee that somehow makes it super healthy compared to vegetables and fruits. Yet, nobody seems to be talking about any of the negative effects, and any such effect is dismissed as insignificant while any positive effect is interpreted as somehow relevant while obviously not comparing them to other food-groups. This is what the meat, dairy and egg industry commonly does. They talk about so called positive effects of meat due to certain nutrients found in said product, yet they fail to mention that there are food groups which contain these nutrients or positive effects aswell, sometimes to a far higher degree, while not coming with the negative effects that come with the consumption of meat. And then the headline is "Meat is healthy because X component is found in it!". https://www.banyanbotanicals.com/info/blog-banyan-vine/details/caffeine-and-your-ayurveda-practice/

Green tea contains caffeine.

Sadly censorship will not work in terms of solving any real issues, it might infact lead to a far greater amplification of the current climate. If people start seeing their conspiracy theories being censored on facebook, they will view facebook as part of the conspiracy and simply find another platform on which these ideas will spread even more easily. This will lead to a further split of society and a greater division in terms of these information-bubbles forming. Rebel Wisdom made some good videos on this lately. What we need is basically a good journalistic process in which all of these ideas are being tested, or some sort of democratic process in which these ideas are actually confronted. Otherwise a person can just choose to listen to whatever they want, they will find or create platforms on which this is possible. Don't forget, Facebook and similar Social Media platforms are the root of this issue, they are designed in a way such as to exploit the more primitive parts of the human mind, like fear, paranoia, hatred, confrontation and so forth. And now instead of solving the problem they decided to hide from it.

No, scientists, professors and Nobel prize winners making nuanced points about possible issues of 5G and Covid-19 policy are not conspiracies. However, theories that claim that Covid-19 was created to control us and to establish a 5g network that subsequently will enslave and depopulate us is indeed a conspiracy theory, which has a tendency to discredit any valid concern about 5G and Covid-19 policies. Nobody will listen to valid concern if everyone who is concerned about it is a complete nutjob. If I go to someone now and tell them about the possible issues with 5G they will dismiss it because of how many conspiracy theories are woven around that topic. The conspiracy theorists achieve the exact opposite of what the seek, they create an environment in which any valid concern is put into the box of conspiracy theory. This is for example true for the pedophile issues in Hollywood or other institutions of power. Nobody takes this serious because there are conspiracies about Mark Zuckeberg and Bill Gates drinking the blood of babies and somehow being part of some satanic cult. This hinders the genuine journalistic effort that would need to be made uncover actual problems that are actually real.

I have multiple family members who think Covid19 is a hoax and that 5g is a tool to enslave us. And when I also then come here and see so many people subscribing to these ideas, I just worry. Maybe it's just my subjective experience, so maybe this irrationality is not as prevelant as I think.

It's also problematic because of how much effort it takes to disprove a conspiracy theory. It doesn't take much time to create one, because most claims are made up from thin air and are not verfied at all, yet for the one who wants to disprove such a theory it can be enormous effort. Don't forget that this is an oppurtinity cost. The more non-sense there is, the more non-sense we will have to dismiss, and the less time we will be able to focus on progress. The amount of time, effort and attention that is lost on a global scale is just absurd.

Somehow it reminds me very much of the Witch-hunts tha happened, although I did not do enough historical research on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt It would not surprise me if something similar would happen as a result of this loss of foundation. The loss of authority during that time in history seems to be a big reason for why people fell into this kind of completey irrationality.

Loss of Faith in institutions/authority and loss of community is one of the main reasons in my opinion. This is what happens where there is no functional and healthy Stage Blue foundation within a society. As far as I can see this will only get worse, the internet amplifies these effects by a degree never seen before in history. Fundamentally people do not realize that stories are what holds together civilization. This is why stories were so important for constructing and upholding societies, whether it be religion, nation, race, tribe, family or anything else. Now came a time in which we have abandoned a unified story in the face of freedom of speech and freedom from consequence. The furhter and further apart the stories get, the more divided we will become. Because there is no outside pressure to keep us unified anymore. There is no threat to survival which is so urgent as to make community a necessity. And because noone thought it to be important to take this into their own hands, we now have more radically shifting world views, world stories. People are lost because they do not have the epistemic tools to navigate a world without indoctrination and authority. People are susceptible to any story, because they derive the validification of a story by means of emotion and ego. This is a clear regression, and I know nobody who knows how to solve this issue.

Interesting I just had a similar intuition, that reincarnation is basically a process of learning to Love that which one cannot Love. Therefore, what you hate most, you shall become, so that you shall learn to Love it.

The Circle. You will have come to see it yourself.